Authors Note (To clear up some misconceptions): I might not have written the story to the best of my extent since I left details about the first part out. So I owe it to the reader to clarify some things first.
- Most of Anteiku believes that Kaneki is not in the "right" state of mind (but especially Touka) for going to Aogiri, which is why he's being contained in a ghoul suppressant suit.
- Every day, someone in Anteiku has to watch over Kaneki. Both as protection and to see to his daily needs.
- Kaneki was hiding low and under Tsushmikiyima's pants, while he was also facing the other way. So you couldn't see really him unless Tsushikiyima turned around.
- Touka's 2 hour lecture was incredibly boring because the instructor had forgotten his notes and had to recall the information from a another source via "wikipedia." So she decided to record it and fall asleep while she was at it.
P.S My stories are a bit "different" from what other readers are accustomed to reading.
For one I hate writing descriptions, they're simply "boring," something I don't want my readers to feel my story is after they finish reading. I tried to find a workaround to it but realized that it was the same (boring) result no matter how it was written.
My second dislike? "details!" Anyone with a bit of imagination can imagine the setting in his/her head. I don't want to drag on the story in comparison to what other writes have done, which is a potential risk if readers begin to lose focus on the actual story.
What do I like? "dialogue!", compelling informative dialogue that drives the plot and the characters. So expect to see half of it cover the entire story.
~ Tsushikiyima ~
Seated against a soft velvet sofa in the lounge of the Ghoul Restaurant, Tsushikiyima looked towards Kaneki sympathetically with worried eyes.
For this it was unlike him, seeing how Tsushikiyima's façade was rarely broken even in circumstances more serious than this.
Speaking to Kaneki, Tsushikiyima found his voice, "I would say that it would be rather unhealthy for a young ghoul like yourself to have to go on functioning your day to activities like this." Peering close is if anyone were to hear.
So to break it to you, I've decided against the judgment and consensus of the Anteiku. "To eventually let you off the hook, and free yourself from this shell chained against your body"
Kaneki found the convincing enough, but that didn't mean he still didn't have a pressing question. The sentence made sense to Kaneki, but why did Tsushikiyima leave out the word eventually. "Why not now?" Kaneki asked gently.
Tsushikiyima fiddled with his thumbs before responding, "The ghoul suppressant suit is a tricky thing you see, it leaves wearer unbearably weaker following its removal". A countermeasure if the ghoul chooses to retaliate".
"Speaking of removal", it seems someone isn't supposed here". Tsushikiyima finished.
Without glancing back, Kaneki already guessed who the figure was.
Tsukiyama did his best to regard her but treated her closer to a customer than an acquaintance. "Miss Touka, please understand that we are unable to provide any service at this moment, and would hate to leave you unintended if you choose to stay."
"Since the Ghoul restaurant had been closed regarding the special reservation, meaning that nobody should've entered. Well, should." Tsukiyama fumed, but left the rest unsaid.
I didn't come here for your 5 star service."Touka snapped. I came here so I could check up on Kaneki, and to second guess that your idea of dragging him away from Anteiku was so you could finally get to eat him." Touka stated, her fingers throbbing against her temples.
Touka continued, "I would've come sooner if I didn't spend all morning trying to convince Yoshimura in my care, but since he is so adamant in placing his trust over the rest of us. I'll have no choice but to tag along. Even if it means I'll have to spend the rest of the day with you." Touka grumbled, "her eyes glaring menacingly at Tsushikiyima as she choose the seat the farthest away from him.
Kaneki and Tsushikiyima exchanged glances as to say, "now what"?
Sitting in silence for a while, Tsushikiyima suddenly asked Kaneki, "Kaneki do you happen to have a need to visit the bathroom?" Kaneki caught on quickly, replying with, "Yes I really do". Upon hearing this Tsushikiyima lifted Kaneki to a standing position while they made a beeline for the toilet. All in all, it really did look like they had contracted diarrhea.
Touka's sat there was an expression between curiosity and disgust. Kaneki certainly has changed in more ways than one," she thought. Following them would undoubtedly be creepy but Kaneki needed Touka and she wasn't going to let Tsushikiyima have his way with her. No matter what demented game he was trying to play.
"Change of plans," Tsushikiyima told Kaneki as he released him from the hold of the Centipede's-jackets restraints with a few sudden movements of his hands. Like Tsushikiyima warned, he immediately felt weak from the withdrawal symptoms from removing the suit.
It wasn't long before Touka's voice rang from behind the restroom door, "You better not be screwing Kaneki", Touka yelled. Where did she get that idea Kaneki thought with a groan as Tsushikiyima eyes widened at the prospect. If he didn't have the idea before, he did know, Kaneki thought glumly.
Luckily Tsushikiyima snapped to his senses and whispered to Kaneki," Call it a change in plans, now we'll have to move much more quickly. Involving these he said procuring a thick band of black rubber band that was meant for binding his arms and legs together.
It seemed Kaneki had escaped his restraints only to return to another. "No, there's no way Shuu…. there's no way I'm going on with this." Kaneki stammered.
"It's the only way out of here," Tsushikiyima told Kaneki. It's either that or Touka finds out. Kaneki closed his eyes, praying that the few seconds that he spent in hell with Tsushikiyima would be worth it. "Do it" Kaneki groaned.
"You've been in there for an hour," Touka screamed." What could possibly have gone wrong?"
"It seems I've have lost Kaneki", Tsushikiyima cried, standing on the verge of tears. "We have to find him".
"Touka's face was beaming". For a second she wanted to nail Tsushikiyima across the head but decided that she was losing her composure (while I'm going OOC) and would hear him out before overreacting
So taking a deep breathe she calmly asked Tsushikiyima "How in a hundred centuries did you lose Kaneki in a restroom?"
"I cannot explain it myself, see what I am seeing and you would understand for yourself." Tsushikiyima insisted.
"There's no way I'm going in there if some people happen to stop to stare and see," Touka insisted. Although she later recounted him saying that the Ghoul Restaurant had already been closed. Still, Tsushikiyima was still a person although a vulgar one at best.
Following a long pause, a sound finally came out. "Do it for Kaneki," was Tsushikiyima's response. They were just 4 words, but they shook her far enough to convince her.
"What hasn't been for Kaneki", she thought. "All of this: the absurdity involved in this situation, the compromises we made in watching over him, and the safety and safeguard of Anteiku, had all been done because I was afraid that I might lose him again."
Compared to everything else, this would only be a small price to pay she decided. Sighing Touka pushed the door open to find Tsushikiyima staring directly in front of her, moments before he slid past her.
With a corny, "I just don't want to make the situation any more uncomfortable then it has to be." Which made Touka sorely tempted to floor him.
Touka realized that something off with how Tsushikiyima was reacting but wasn't ready to blow the whistle until she found exactly what. Scanning the bathroom, Touka didn't seem to see any figure resembling Kaneki or more importantly anyone for that matter.
She even lifted one toilet seat up only to regret it moments later (please remember to flush folks).
After washing her hands, Touka soon stepped outside to find a mournful Tsushikiyima covering his own hands against his face. "Well," Tsushikiyima sobbed.
"The toilet must have grown a mouth and decided to eat Kaneki," Touka mocked. But in spite of her tone, Touka was actually growing worried.
"If that's the case, then we'll have to search somewhere near the sewers for him, who knows where he's ended up!" Tsushikiyima said as he continued to sob.
"That was meant as a joke numb nut." Touka said.
"I'm sorry" Tsushikiyima cried, "I couldn't comprehend humor without my Kaneki". "But I know we'll find him, that is if we go completely separate ways".
Touka caught on, he's waiting for me to turn around, she thought but I won't let him. "Turn around," she commanded.
This caught Tsushikiyima off guard as his sobbing immediately receded. Taking a few leaps back, he quickly met her gaze. "Miss Kirishima what are you possibly suggesting," Tsushikiyima said with a gasp.
With a quick sprint, she slid right under him and kicked his legs from under him with a 360-degree sweep. As Tsushikiyima collapsed to the floor with a groan, she found Kaneki slide out from under him. Red faced and bound with what seemed to be a black rubber tape holding his arms and legs together.
"Kaneki was in Tsushikiyima pants all along"? The mere thought made Touka want to regurgitate.
Her disgust was replaced with fury, "You sick demented freak, I should have had you killed the moment I heard that you would be given care over Kaneki"! "With Yoshimura and all his wise thinking's, but no more after I finish beating you to death. I'll be done with you for good!"
"Wait, no Touka"! Kaneki screamed he yelled before she landed her fist. "It was, uhhhhhh our idea". Kaneki said trying to deliberately take part of the blame.
Regretting the words, Kaneki knew their plan would soon be over. "Our idea?" Touka said standing next to him, "So you agreed with what Tsushikiyima was doing." Kaneki managed a tiny nod and was met with a slap across the face. Cringing, Kaneki braced for her next question.
"Why?" Touka insisted. Kaneki didn't want to say that he wanted to leave behind the ghoul restraints in fear of hurting her, knowing that it would mean that he wanted to leave Anteiku.
So he said the next best thing, "Because we thought it would be fun," words that he would later come to regret.
The rest of the day would undoubtedly drag on even slower.
~ Touka ~
"Are you trying to drive me insane Touka!" Kaneki screamed against the restraints that tugged against the legs of her bed. Hearing the dull monotonous sound of a speaker drag on about the life cycle of a plant in his ear.
"Consider it a fair compromise for what you put me through today, now that I'm also behind on schoolwork." Touka replied in her normal lazy voice. Her body and face shifted toward her desk.
Unfortunately for Kaneki he was in no position to argue. Uta, disappointed that Kaneki had gotten free, worked on a restraint even more inescapable than the first, the ghoul leash, which Touka had bound him hand and foot against the bed with. To make matters worse, she had recorded a 2-hour lecture in one of her classes and was intent making him listen to it all over again despite his pleas.
"Please Touka," Kaneki begged, "I can't listen to this". It was comparable to watching grass grow only that it was with your ears and not your eyes. Reminding him of the centipede that Jason had once put inside of him. "At - least play me some music as well," Kaneki moaned.
Unable to deal with Kaneki's complaints any longer, Touka suddenly moved to where he was laid to corner him. Touka began, "You can endure this and you will. Don't believe that I'm doing this just to see you suffer, I need it for the 3-page summary that you'll recite for me later. So don't just think you can fall asleep on me". Touka said, as she knelt next to him to turn the volume on her Ipad even higher, before leaving him on his own.
This torture wasn't pure physical or mental, it was sheer boredom. Kaneki thought closing his eyes as he heard Touka's faint voice call out from under him, "I don't want anymore distractions, shut it or I'll forget to turn it off and keep it running all night. If you enjoy reading so much, maybe you'll even learn something that's actually useful".
"I just hope Hinami didn't learn from Touka," Kaneki thought painfully, his mind drifting off.
