Hello and Welcome to Chapter 2! I'm trying to do one a day (hopefully I can keep this schedule) Sorry if Touka is a bit OOC

Touka sighed, nothing had been the same since they had rescued Kaneki from the clutches of Aogiri and that sadistic Yamori bastard. For starters his hair had turned from its original black color into a snow white, that while it suited him, was a constant reminder of what he had to go through at the hands of those fucking bastards. His nails had turned a black that, while the envy of many a teenage girls, was a yet another reminder of whatever he had gone through.

Touka never said it aloud, but she could see Kaneki's inner turmoil. She was more attuned to the former wimp, but still current idiots feelings. Whether she liked it or not she could feel the demons clawing at his mind, wanting his body for all sorts of horrible things. It hurt her to see him like that, the idiot she was so used to seeing as a happy innocent boy, the one she hated seeing as a weakling half-ghoul. To see him crumbling from the inside, his morals being twisted as he continued to run around with Tsukiyama, that sick Gourmet, and the rest of his unsettling gang.

She had to text him. She just had to. She knew where he was going between his shifts, everyone knew. She knew it wouldn't stop him, asking for help on a test that, thanks to Kaneki's earlier tutoring, there was no chance she would fail. She couldn't explain the pang in her chest that she felt whenever she thought of Kaneki's predicament, she couldn't explain the genuinely happy smile that appeared every time she thought of the old Kaneki, or the new more melancholic one that appeared when she saw the new him. Her heart ached as she remembered him breaking 103 of Ayato's bones, him massacring Aogiri ghouls, eating them, relishing in every moment of the bloodshed. She almost vomited as she remembered the glint in that one ghoul eye of his, the genuine enjoyment of murder and everything the old Kaneki would have hated.

Touka put her head in her hands, she loved that idiot. Everything about him. From his caring for Hinami, his helping her study, his warmth, his smile, even his morality which before was just a burden now keeps her grounded when she had to be the moral one and stop him from losing himself to the growing persistent darkness that threatened to swallow him whole. From hungrily eyeing Yoriko, to running to her home and crying as he had considered eating Hide again.

Even through all that, Touka smiled as she thought more, he had managed to put others happiness over his own. Making others happier while he fell into the depths of despair and madness. It was for that reason that Touka had decided to be there for Kaneki. To make sure that black haired boy didn't disappear, to make sure that wouldn't happen. She would do anything. Absolutely anything.

To protect the one she loves. She'd do anything.

Touka smiled a sad smile as she heard a knock on the door. This time, she would help Kaneki, and show him he didn't need that damn Gourmet Tsukiyama.

"H-Hey Touka-chan, what do you need help with?"

That white haired idiot. He was the one that needed the help, not her.

But if he really wanted to know….

A smile broke out on her face, "Just come inside you idiot, I'll make some coffee."

And he smiled, and she saw a small bit of dried blood at the corner of his mouth.

And he smiled

And she broke inside

CHAPTER 2 DONE! WOOOOOOOO PLEASE READ AND REVIEW!