Hinami ran down the stairs straight to Kaneki with tears in her eyes, "I knew that was you, I knew it". He turned to her direction only able to respond by putting his arms around her. "Hey" with a smile on his face. "You're all grown up now how are you?" She looked at him with tears streaming down her cheeks "I'm okay, but I'll be better if you could stay for dinner" she spoke in a childish tone pleading for him to say yes. "That's no really up to me" Kaneki and Hinami looked where Touka was standing for her approval. When they finally got a nod from her, Hinami face brighten up.
"So where have you been brother?" "Ummm", he looked over at Touka who was now behind the counter cleaning glasses trying not to listen. "Let's just say I was out getting my life together". A smiled crossed his lips and he looked in Touka's direction. Crack glass fell to the floor and Touka had cur her hand, Kaneki moved to where she was," I'll get it", he started to pick the pieces up. "No I got it", she grabbed his hand and took the glass and dropped them in the trashcan.
"Why won't you let me help?" he stood up staring her down. "Because I said I got it I don't need your help", She turned around staring him down "then why are you mad at me?" She tighten her fist. "Ugh, you want to help so bad, you finish cleaning up then". She took her apron off trying not to make eye contact with him as she made her way to the stairs. Hinami moved to the broom closet, she brought Kaneki the dust pan, and she started to sweep. "You don't have to do that Hinami", she continued to sweep, "You don't get it do you?" "Get what?"
She lift her head and looked him in his eyes, " After you decided not to come back, everything went wrong, yeah we moved the café' got back on our feet, but we were missing you and we worked around the fact that you weren't here. Even though we were happy and we smiled and laugh a lot it didn't change the fact that you weren't there. And now your back, our world is flipped again, going from no Kaneki to you standing at the door. It's a lot to take in, and you won't explain anything." The pain was too much for Hinami that she just turned around and went upstairs. Kaneki stayed downstairs beating himself up, "Stupid, It's not just about you, tsk".
