Chapter 1 – It was only the beginning.

Nako Yamaguchi, the 19 year old university student was unable to feel her fingers as she made her way to her part time job at Anteiku coffee shop. As she opened the door, the little bell jingled and her colleagues smiled in her direction, each expressing a warm 'Good afternoon Yamaguchi-san' to which she replied with a mirrored warm smile and a 'Good afternoon to you to.'

As she was changing into her uniform, she heard a ruckus from downstairs followed by an angered Toukas shout of frustration. Eyebrows furrowing, she finished changing and headed downstairs for her shift.

Upon opening the door to the staff only area, she was greeted with a humorous sight. It seemed that, once again, Kaneki, the spirited student had messed up whilst making some coffee and was now being grilled by the blue haired girl about it.

"Aw, lay off him Touka, he's just having a bad night." Nako joked, flinching slightly when the irritated glare fixated on her. "You're one to talk Miss I can't even wear my apron properly!" Nakos eyes widened and she followed her pointing finger, looking herself over. She spotted the aprons label instantly and her cheeks flared up in embarrassment as she rushed to fix her blunder.

She heard a chuckle from the table across from her and recognized it as Kanekis friend, Hide, who was sitting there drinking a freshly prepared cup of coffee with a sandwich in front of him. He waved slightly and went back to speaking to Kaneki who had been seemingly excused from Tokas vengence.
Nako walked behind the counter and, upon tying her dark red hair up in a high ponytail, started her 4 hour shift.

Her shift flew by very quickly, as they were having an unusually busy day it seemed and before she knew it, it was time for her to go home.

She hated having to leave early but, as Mr Yoshimura stated, her studying came first, to which she had to agree. It wasn't too big of a problem at the moment anyways as the café had once more become quiet.
As she set off upstairs to change, she heard the bell jingle once more. Thinking it just another customer, she turned to smile and greet them with her co-workers but stopped short when she noticed his bright red suit.

It seemed every one but Kaneki had been too stunned for words as he was the only one to greet the tall man.

The red suited stranger held out his arms, and sighed, earning a confused expression to form on Nakos face.

"My, what is that delicious aroma?" his voice was soft, with an air of privilege and class to it.

"Tsukiyama!" groaned Toka as she went back to cleaning the counter.

The man grinned and sniffed the air before replying as he fiddled with his strange purple hair.

"Oh come now, I'm a customer. Then again, I can't expect much from someone with your charms, can I?" he chuckled.

"You're lucky I'm working." Toka glared at him from her position but it seemed only to amuse him further.

It was at this time that the 19 year old decided to further explore this man in greater detail, taking in his strange appearance and faint cologne.

'He's certainly has an interesting style to him I suppose. If you're into that...' She hadn't realised that she she'd been staring until the man known as Tsukiyama directed his attention to her and their eyes locked.

"My my. And who's this lovely creature?" he complimented as he began to slowly walk over. He didn't get too far however as she found Toka now standing in-between the both of them, halting his progress.

"Keep away Tsukiyama. From her and Kaneki both. And take your traveling freak show elsewhere."

He smiled, but for whatever reason, said smile caused a slight shiver down her spine, as if behind that smile lay a cruel second meaning.

"Honestly Toka, I simply wanted to know the young fille's name. Surely there's no harm in that?"

He made to step around her but she remained steadfast.

"Toka..." Nako began. The other girl turned towards the voice, a stern expression on her face. "Go and change Nako. Now."

Nakos eyes widened in shock at the order, both stunned and a little annoyed at the order.

"Nako eh? Ah, a beautiful name for a beautiful lady." Your cheeks involuntarily reddened at the remark and before you knew what was happening, you were suddenly wrapped in a smothering embrace.
"Nako!" She heard a cry from her co-workers as they stood on edge, ready to pry her from his arms.

"Let her go Tsukiyama! I mean it!" cried the blue haired girl as she clenched her fists.

Tsukiyama paid no heed to the threats as he simply shortened the gap between their faces which, due to her shocked nature, didn't prove to be too difficult. It was the sound of him sniffing and the tensing of his body that finally snapped her out of it. Trying her best to move her arms, she placed them on either shoulder and pushed as best she could, though it proved useless.

Tsukiyama once more had his nose almost touching hers as he opened his eyes slowly, gazing upon her with desire.

"You have the most amazing scent mi amore. I do hope you'll allow me to indulge in the future."

Her hand moved without her evening realising it.

SLAP

The arms dropped and she took a few steps back, face on fire and eyes narrowed with anger.

Her victim, the previously cocky and flirtatious man stood with his head lowered to the side, unmoving as a hand slowly reached up to inspect the mark.

"My, that's quite a hand you've got there my dear."

Slowly he moved his head to its original position, looking at her with an unreadable smile as his right hand stroked the slowly fading mark on his cheek.

"If you hadn't of been such a disgusting pervert, you wouldn't have had to feel it." She replied before turning on her heel and heading off to change, ignoring the shocked expressions coming from everyone else.

As the door closed with a resounding slam, Tsukiyama smirked and chuckled.

"What a feisty creature. Nevertheless, I do have business to attend to. Am I to take it that Mr Yoshimura isn't here?"

He got resounding silence and his smirk widened.

"Well then, you'll have to give him my best. Chao see you soon." He spoke as he turned and walked out of the café, a sinister smile wide on his face.

'Ah, what a truly fine morsel she was. Fear not my little Nako, we'll be seeing each other very soon.' He chuckled to himself, rubbing his cheek lovingly as he finally left the building, scheme hatching in his mind.

AN. Welcome to my story. It's me, grievousorvenom here. First of all, thank you so much for reading this, I hope you enjoyed it. Please review and let me know what you think, it means a lot and helps me grow as a writer.
Anyways yes! I'm now into Tokyo Ghoul and, I'll be honest, I've fallen in love with that pain in the ass Tsukiyama. Thus after letting my fingers loose on the keyboard, this was created. I hope that you like my little love child haha.

I'll be putting the translations at the bottom of the page (as I've detailed in chapter 2 because the AN was written first before I'd realised it. Woops) just in case you get lost in translation.

See you in the next chapter my friends :)