After some time on the train, Touka arrived at the 20th ward's shopping mall as she looked at her phone and noticed a flaw in her schedule.

9:45

A sigh escaped from her mouth. She got here 15 minutes too early. Maybe waiting in the nearest coffee shop can kill the time until Yoriko arrives?

After walking by several stores she noticed a little shop called 'café blanc'. The wooden tables and counters created a nice and rustic interior for the shop. The walls were decorated with antique coffee blenders sitting on a number of shelves, matching with a coffee themed clock with the text, 'there's always time for coffee'. Touka swiftly grabbed her phone after taking a seat near the counter to start texting Yoriko.

I'm at a little coffee shop called café blanc. I'll wait for you here.

At the exact same moment a waiter came to Touka's table. "Are you ready to order, miss?"

Looking up from her phone, Touka saw the waiter. He was quite a handsome young man around her age with green eyes and black, short hair that was longer at the back of his neck.

"Ah, yes. I'd like a regular black coffee, please."

He put away his notebook since it was an easy order to remember. "Alrighty, one black coffee coming up." said the waiter as he immediately started working on Touka's order. "Quite the simple order. Usually girls come in here and order Frappuccino's or milkshakes with some fancy cake."

"Well, I guess I'm not like the ordinary girls then. Shouldn't you focus instead of chatting up your customers." Touka answered.

"Ouch, cold!" the boy chuckled at her response, not taking it too seriously. "What's a pretty lady like you doing here all alone on a Sunday, anyway." He walked up to her table and set down the coffee.

"Thank you." She said, taking a sip of her hot drink. "And I won't be alone that long anymore, I'm waiting for a friend."

"Of course! Girls are never alone. Always together. Like a pack of animals." He laughed and Touka couldn't help herself from smiling a little. "Victory! I made the lady smile!" Grinning at his achievement, the waiter introduced himself. "I'm Kenji, by the way."

"Touka."

"Nice to meet you Touka" Kenji heard another customer calling for him and that was his queue to go back to work. "Hope I'll see you around again."

At that moment the door opened and a familiar looking girl entered the shop.

"Aaaah! Sorry that I'm late Touka. I hope you didn't have to wait too long for me." Yoriko sat down and put her bag next to her while practically screaming her order at the waiter, since he was at the other side of the shop. "One banana milkshake please!"

Going back to the counter while taking a glance at Yoriko he said, "coming right up, miss." Before he rolled his eyes at Touka saying, "I told you so." Referring to their previous conversation topic.

"What's he talking about?" Yoriko asked.

"Oh nothing. Let's just say I wasn't bored waiting for you."

Touka could see by Yoriko's expression that she was a bit annoyed by the fact that she wasn't telling her what it actually meant. Smiling in someone's direction and making them clueless is the best way to tease in Touka's opinion.

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"How much can two girls buy?!" Kaneki said in suprise while opening the door of Anteiku for Touka and Yoriko. They were both holding at least 3 bags in each hand, making them not even able to fit through the door together.

"We just got a little carried away…" Touka answered.

While sending a big grin towards her friend, Yoriko said "Well I set you up to it, didn't I Touka? Seems like your boyfriend is gonna have to blame me for it."

"Yes you did! ...Wait Wha-? He's not my boyfriend!" She made an angry face at Yoriko, which looked strangely cute in her own sort of way.

Kaneki's cheeks went all red after hearing Yoriko's remark. "Hehe.. You shouldn't make jokes like that Yoriko."

Kaneki walked away awkwardly to the counter, ignoring the wink Yoriko sent in his direction, while the girls went to the little living space the shop had and put their bags down. After buying all of the many contents which stuffed their bags they definitely did not have that much money left, but it didn't seem to bother them that much. "I'll make you a coffee Yoriko. I'll be right back."

"Thanks Touka!" She took off her jacket and put it down on a chair. "You drink a lot of coffee though. Too much caffeine is not good for you."

Touka let out a sigh. "I don't really see the problem. I mean, you only live once right? You put that on so many of your pictures, so it must be true!" She hoped that this would make her stop lecturing her. Criticising Touka's eating habbits was starting to turn into a bad habbit of Yoriko. Not that she would change them after hearing it so many times though. After all she was still a Ghoul.

Yoriko puffed up her cheeks. "Of course it's true! It's my life motto!" It seemed as if Yoriko couldn't stop laughing today, a laugh escaping from her mouth at almost every little remark she made. "I absolutely adore the taste of your coffees though. If I had the money, you'd be brewing them for me, as my lovely assistant Touka."

"Even though I enjoy making coffee, I don't think I'd be working efficiently on your demand. Brewing correctly takes a lot of patience that I don't have working for you!" Touka jokingly said while starting on Yoriko's coffee.

As Touka wanted to deliver the girl's order, she got interrupted by her. "Hey Touka, I'm really sorry but my mom texted me that I need to go home. I guess time flies when you're with a friend. Could I take the coffee home with me? I'll return the cup another time."

"Yeah sure, no problem." Touka returned Yoriko's jacket after taking it from the coat rack. "Here you go. Be careful on your way home!"

"Thanks. And I will be, you know me!" Yoriko waved Touka goodbye and walked out of the store. There was no presence in the little shop outside of Kaneki and Touka.

"Must be nice to have a good friend like that." Touka turned around and noticed a sad looking Kaneki. The atmosphere suddenly turned gloomy and she knew exactly why.

"Don't worry, I'm sure that one day you'll be able to see Hide again."

"Thanks…" He said as he tried to fake a smile in Touka's direction, failing, as acting is not Kaneki's strongest suit. "Sorry for ruining the mood."

"Don't worry about it." A sudden silence had fallen between them.

While trying to change the topic, Touka remembered what she wanted to ask. "Oh yeah! I know it's my turn to close the shop today, but I'm pretty tired after going out with Yoriko all day. Think you can close it up again?"

"Yeah sure, you can go home and sleep for today. I'll take care of it." Kaneki answered as Touka grabbed her coat together with his attention, before waving him goodbye and leaving Anteiku

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An anxious secretary walked through the halls of the CCG heading straight for Arima Kishou's office. As she kept her formal status, she strongly knocked on the office door, making Arima notice her presence. "Sir, I'm sorry for intruding, but we have received a very important message."

Arima sat down in his chair clearly not feeling interested, since he already had enough work piling up. "If it's so important then maybe you should go to the director?"

"I did sir, but Mr. Washuu has left on an important business trip to the American commission of counter ghoul office. I contacted him and he told me to deliver any important information straight to your office." She said as she confidently hands over a brown envelope to Arima.

"And what is this exactly?" He asked, opening up the envelope.

"It was delivered by a strange individual this morning along with a letter. It's from the pigeons, sir."

And chapter 3 is finished :D. Thank you for all the reviews everyone, It makes me happy to know that people like my story. This chapter was a bit harder to write in my opinion, but I think it turned out alright. Hope to see you all in the next chapter!

Peace!