Kasajima Akihiko found out Asami, the woman he had been dating for 10 months was in fact a ghoul, despite the negligent boundaries between them he accept her into his life sheltering her from the CCG. He had previously been involved with creating the enzyme solution for ghouls two years ago, hoping the results of his work could bring ghouls and humans together to avoid unnecessary bloodshed. His job made him difficult to juggle between his ghoul lover and his work, after all he was a special class ghoul investigator. In order to help her fit into human society he fed her his enzyme solution that allowed her to to eat human food. The enzyme solution was still in its prototype stages and possibly contained multiple side effects for ghouls. Their relationship soon became intimate.

Asami fidgeted around the house as she started to move her belongings into his bedroom just as her boyfriend asked her before leaving for work this morning. She paced back and forth alternating between her and his bedroom placing her copies of Takatsuki Sen's novels on the shelf. Asami was scared of his fragile life as a human, unlike her who could only be harmed by a quinque. Nevertheless, she still loved him.

It was already evening by the time Akihiko came home from work , they both fell asleep when he was suddenly awoken by Asami's cries. She covered her eyes and mouth with her blanket the muffle the sound of her cry as nothing seemed to deceive her sleeping boyfriend next to her.

"Asami...Don't Cry...Tell me what's wrong" He asked, gently swiping her tears off her cheeks with his thumb.

"I-I-I don't want you to die, Akihiko" She said, sniffing in between her words. Her voice was so muffled by the sounds her cries it was barely auditable.

She was right. Asami and Akihiko were both orphaned at a very young age and they both feared the day that they would lose each other despite their political differences. She wanted to protect him the best she could.

"Idiot" He scoffed "I'm not going to die until I'm able to marry you"

She stayed silent turning her head to meet his gaze, pressing her soft lips against his as he tightly wrapped his arms around her sharing their romantic moment.

A few months later Asami had been feeling ill in bed, Akihiko had called in sick in order to take care of his sick girlfriend.

"I'm going to Anteiku to get you the food" He told her, trying not to panic over her sickness.

"No Akihiko it's not that" Asami explained as she glanced down "I'm expecting" -Not impossible since the side effects of the solution was still unknown.

Akihiko felt a lost for words as he glanced down at the bulge in her abdomen. She roughly took his hand gently placing it on her belly as he felt the warm heartbeat of his unborn baby.

"If it's a girl I want her to be named Azumi. After this safe house you've given me" She laughed as she touched the bulge on her belly hoping the child to be born. "If it's a boy I want him to be named Tetsuya"

"W-w-wait Asami I want to do this officially so...here it goes"

"Wait official what?" Asami looked startled by her boyfriend's odd behaviour. She slightly clocked her head sideways confused at her boyfriend's actions.

Akihiko knelt down on one knee raising a shiny ring towards her exclaiming on the top of his lungs "Will you marry me?"

A smile curved on Asami's lips as she didn't hesitate to reply with a "Yes" following a nodd. She loved him, no questions asked and she didn't care about the consequences that went with it.

That day Tetsuya made Akihiko and Asami the happiest parents holding their prized newborn infant son at home. The paired were due to be married after a few months after the birth of their son.

They were able to hold a small wedding at a tiny local marriage registry, signing and reading each other vows and their marriage certificate.

Time passed quickly as Asami and Akihiko raised Tetsuya to toddler age, feeding, bathed him, taught him how to read and write for his age. Tetsuya was their world and often become a common topic between the two.

But late one night, Akihiko felt a rough tug on his pajamas as he closed the door after placing his son to sleep, he heard Asami confessed something to him that made him cringe to the stomach. A secret she had been hiding from him since the day she first met him.

"I-I-I'm actually an u-u-undercover Aogiri Tree Associate" She silently whispered, crying as she buried her head in his chest "sent here to investigate you for degrading the supremacy of ghouls"

He slightly pulled her away lightly gripping his hands on her shoulders "What are you talking about , don't even joke-" he nervously laughed, refusing to believe the truth that he just heard from his wife.

Asami widened her eyes in anger of her husband's stupidity, her eyes still filled with tears activating her kakugan and kagune "Don't you get it!" She yelled in his face, "I'm supposed to kill you" slashing her kagune at his shoulder immobilizing him on the floor.

"Asami, I don't care about that that-" Akihiko told her in the most calm voice possible, Asami interrupted his sentence as she dashed forward pointing her kagune in his face unable to complete the finishing blow as she looked into his eyes.

Asami's eyes again filled up with tears as quietly whispers muffled by her cries as she stabs her kagune into the wall next to his head "I can't…"-her feelings about him were bottled up inside, confused and agitated. She couldn't bring herself to kill him and their son. She leaves as Akihiko hugged her from behind tightly, digging his face in her back.

"Don't go, for Tetsu" He muttered. His voice was weak and shaking, slightly muffled against her back.

Asami slashed her kagune at Akihiko yelling at him for being so stubborn "I said don't come any closer. I can't" She added "A white haired male dove has also been investigating me" Akihiko's cheek was slightly lacerated by her attack, he slumps on the wall for support sliding down his back and he sees Asami leave shutting the door behind her.

"Daddy?" Tetsuya asked, sleepily rubbed his eyes "What's all this noise"

"Nothing Tetsu…" Akihiko quietly whispers to his son, hugging him as he closes his eyes.

Tetsuya innocently looked around but had noticed his mother wasn't there, the absence of his mother had lit up a concern in his mind.

"Where's mommy?"

Akihiko hugged his son tightly in response "Mom left us she's not coming back"

"w-w-Why...is it because mommy hates me"

Tetsuya's eyes already filled up with tears by then, after knowing his mom left him.

"Tetsu I'll always be with you"

Akihiko had hoped Tetsuya was a stronger key to bridge the ghoul and human world together, evidence that love between humans and ghouls existed.