"Are you insane like me?
Been in pain like me?
Bought a hundred dollar bottle of champagne like me?
Just to pour that mother f***** down the drain like me...

Lightin' matches just to swallow up the flame like me...
Do you call yourself a f****** hurricane like me?
Pointin' fingers 'cause you'll never take the blame like me..."

-Halsey, Gasoline

Sasikiko waited by the door, a snow leopard by her side. The door opened and Uta stepped in. He carried with him a fresh jar of assorted human organs and eyeballs. Every month, he would smuggle enough food for the two of them. Sasikiko had lived with Uta ever since she was 10. He was 12 at the time and wanted to take her in because they were both ghouls and both alone. Now he was 20 and she was 18. They were best friends and never saw each other as siblings.

"Uta!"

Sasikiko threw her arms around him and buried her face in his hair.

"I was only gone for 23 minutes!"

Uta sighed playfully.

"23 minutes too long! I was worried you were attacked, you were 10 minutes late!"

She complained. He pretended to shove her off and playfully rolled his eyes.

"I got more food this time!"

He responded.

"How's my little Kuraudo?"

He knelt down and asked the snow leopard.

"Oh, sure, greet the snow leopard before me!"

Sasikiko playfully complained.

"Well, sorry, jealous."

Uta joked, smiling. He stood up and hugged her. He wrapped his fingers with her magenta hair and ran his fingers down to the part where it faded from hot pink to light pink and rested his hand on her back, the other hand on her shoulder. She blushed madly, thankful he couldn't see her blush with the contrast of the light. He stroked the bottom of her hair, the only part she ever curled. This caused her to blush even more, and she was certainly not thankful that Kuraudo's long tail had flicked the part of the switch that turned the light from pink to a natural artificial light color. Uta, noticing her blush, laughed.

"No need to be embarrassed, Sassy."

She grinned upon hearing her nickname, thankful Uta, with his calm voice, could be comforting in any situation. He was the type of guy who looked like a punk that you'd avoid, but when you got to know him, he was the calmest person ever. He was normally expressionless, but with Sasikiko, he showed his playful, funny side. She liked that.

Sasikiko was designing another mask, this one for herself. She carefully etched a grin for the mouth and a long wolf's snout.

"Boo."

Uta said in a normal tone, coming up from behind her.

"AHHHHHHHHH!"

Sasikiko screamed, instinctively activating her kagune and flinging the pencil and journal across the room. Her kagune was special, never seen before. Different. It was one she never could activate around investigators or hunt with. The investigators would swarm her, they'd have every investigator kill her and examine her and take her kagune. Personally, Sasikiko wanted to fight, but Uta wouldn't let her. Uta stared at her kagune: It came from her shoulders, back and lower back, and one leg. The two tentacles coming from her shoulders circled around both arms, like Tsukiyama's, but doubled to have one more. The kagune coming from her leg circled around her left leg like Nishiki's. The four on her back were like Kaneki's. Overall, her kagune was purple that faded to blue. Uta smiled and reached out to touch her shoulder.

"It's just me."

He stated calmly. Sasikiko loved his calm voice and his soft touch. She smiled inside and her kagune slipped back, retracting hesitantly. It was like a cat sheathing it's claws. Sasikiko sighed, looking off to the side.

"I wish I could control my kagune."

She murmured.

"It's too powerful for even the best of ghouls. You'll learn, though."

Uta comforted her. Tears threatened to spill from her eyes. Uta slipped his hand behind her back and forced her to sit down next to him. He moved his hand to curl it around her neck. This was a long discussed subject. "I want to fight." She stated.

"L-."

He nearly called her love.

"Sassy, you can't. I care about you. I can't have you die. And a less important reason, if they had your kagune, they'd kill us all."

Uta stated calmly, worry etched on his face. Sasikiko sighed.

"Maybe you're right." She sighed.

"You know I am."

Uta responded, smirking playfully.

Sasikiko watched as Uta designed her mask. He was adding detail and color, the small things that made her mask different from every other. Most had just some color. Her being nicknamed Glitch, her mask looked like a glitch. It had a special material that made it show different images when she moved. If she was still, it was a black wolf. Move slightly and it had a smile. A bit more, the smile began to glitch. More, even, and the colors turned from black to hot pink and orange with green spots within a second. Move even more and black lines appeared and the smile glitched way more. Sasikiko loved it, the mask was perfect. Uta worked without expression. Sasikiko sat next to him, watching, waiting.

After a few days, the mask was ready. Sasikiko loved it. The mask was just as Uta had described. She was only to use it if she had to. As she was sitting with Uta, Tsukiyama walked in. Uta was laughing, choking and coughing as well.

"Arragjieraaaa"

Uta tried to say Tsukiyama while he coughed, laughed, and choked. Sasikiko burst out laughing. The provinence of this situation went back far, and it started with Tsukiyama. He had coughed while sneezing and trying to say Uta, and it sounded hideous. After a while, it was Sasikiko, then Kaneki, then Touka, then Banjou, and finally, now it was Uta. Tsukiyama saw it as revenge, for Uta had laughed when it happened to Tsukiyama, and he'd never let Tsukiyama let it go. This time Tsukiyama was the one laughing. Uta coughed repeatedly, straining for air, clearly choking. The grin on Tsukiyama's face changed to horror that matched Sasikiko's as Uta was clearly choking. Hesitantly did Sasikiko activate her kagune and hit Uta in the chest. Immediately Uta stopped coughing and was able to breath. Sasikiko smirked inwardly as Tsukiyama's eyes widened upon seeing her kagune for the first time.

"The investigators would be all over you for that. Be careful."

Tsukiyama warned.

"S-see Sasikiko? Even Ts-sukiyama says you should be careful."

Uta stuttered, coughing.

"So, Uta, that was payback in a way for laughing at me when it happened to me."

Tsukiyama stated slyly. Uta smiled.

"Give me a while before you tease me, my throat feels like someone just stabbed it."

Uta said calmly. Sasikiko slipped an arm behind his neck and rested the other on his right shoulder. She held Uta's neck as if to choke him. She pressed her fingers against his skin and tightened her hold. Uta could barely breath, but it didn't hurt as much now. Tsukiyama felt awkward there, but he stayed. Sasikiko looked up at him.

"You're here because?"

She asked calmly.

"I was going to ask if you two would have a child."

Tsukiyama stated slowly. Uta coughed suddenly and Sasikiko stared at him. Tsukiyama was serious.

"Why us?"

She asked, almost traumatized.

"I heard from Touka your kagune was extraordinary."

Tsukiyama redponded, staring at Sasikiko. Sasikiko cursed under her breath. Touka and Tsukiyama had shared a room the day Touka became one of the few to have seen Sasikiko's kagune. Touka talked in her sleep.

"Tsukiyama, did you hear that when Touka was talking in her sleep?"

Sasikiko asked.

"Well, yes, mm, but I see it's true!"

Tsukiyama rushed.

"Impossible, me and Uta will never have a child this young!"

Sasikiko threw back.

"Besides, if you're asking for us to have a child for my kagune and that only, you can leave."

Sasikiko's voice cracked. Tsukiyama was her best friend, but sometimes she wished he'd think before he said things. Tsukiyama, understanding it took all her power to say that and that Sasikiko didn't mean it, he looked at Uta. He signed to her "She needs time alone". Tsukiyama understood the sign language and signed back "With you, correct?". Uta playfully rolled his eyes. Tsukiyama stared at Sasikiko one last time before he left, a silent agreement that they were still best friends boring through Sasikiko's eyes. Tsukiyama walked out sadly. Uta turned to Sasikiko.

"I wish he'd think before he offends me!"

She spat.

"I don't want any child to have to deal with not being able to control their kagune."

Sasikiko stated, her voice cracking and tears falling fast. Uta was concerned, Sasikiko never cried more than the tears that filled her eyes. Now he understood why she was getting weaker: She was hiding her depression from him. He slipped a hand under her knee and the other under her neck and carried her to the couch. She shifted and rested her head on his right shoulder, her left hand on his left shoulder.

"You've never told me you were depressed before."

Uta said, sounding wounded. Sasikiko sobbed in response.

"I thought you might think I'm weak."

She admitted. Uta was astonished and hurt that she'd think of him that way. She'd hide depression from me because she thinks I'd think she's weak? Uta thought. He pulled her closer and rested his chin on her head and Sasikiko relaxed into him.

This took a long time! Along with Peace is the Same as War, I will be doing this fanfic, but all my others are on hold.