(It's been about a month)

"Hide, no." Kaneki nearly wailed.

"Hide, yes!" Hide replied with a blinding smile, waving the disc in front of his friend "Pleeeease, Kaneki? Horror movie nights are what normal friends-slash-families do!"
"But we're not normal."

"Pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaase?"

~oOo~

"Hey, Rin!"

Rin looked up from the stove he was currently slaving over, slightly irritated and ready to snap and set the whole kitchen alight if someone asked him to make one more onigiri plate.

He was wearing casual clothes, with an apron over the top and his hair pinned back. His tail twitched under the fabric, irritated by its constant confinement.

"What?" He bit out, turning up the burner.

"We're having a movie night!" Hide said cheerfully "You comin?"
"I live here."Rin deadpanned "Do you think I have a damn choice?"

"No, you don't. You are coming to this movie, and you will get that stick out and enjoy yourself!"

The living incarnate of sunshine left the kitchen, leaving Rin to realise that he'd just been insulted.

~oOo~

"Movie night!" Hide yelled through Touka's door.

"BUZZ OFF!" Touka shouted back over the sound of whatever video game she was playing "Yoriko, stop beating me!"

~oOo~

There was literally no way that Hide was approaching Nishiki about a movie night.

Not in a million years, a hurricane, or a zombie apocalypse.

~oOo~

Kaneki curled up on a single-seater sofa, looking dubiously at the cover of the disc that Hide had chosen to watch. He held a cup in his left hand, filled with clear liquid that he knew from experience wasn't really water.

Touka and Yoriko (one of Touka's friends from school) took the sofa. Yoriko was peering suspiciously at her cup, while Touka was sipping hers delicately. Hinami sat on the floor, hugging a random pillow to her chest and looking like she was about to fall asleep. Loser was pecking at her ear, occasionally chirping out strings of words that would make a sailor blush.

Hide put in the disc and the opening screen turned on, accompanied with some creepy-as-hell music that Kaneki would not want to hear late at night.

The door creaked open, and Rin poked his head into the room, a green plastic toothbrush hanging out of his mouth.

"Whassha doin?" He asked, mouth full of toothpaste.
"Watching a movie!" Hide said cheerfully. The teenager withdrew from the room. Then there was the sound of pounding feet, a door slamming, a tap running, and more feet running.

Rin threw open the door and sat down on the floor next to Hinami.

"What genre is the movie?" he asked cheerfully, wrapping his arms around his knees.

"Horror."

"I think I'll get the fire extinguisher."
"Why does he need a fire extinguisher?" Yoriko asked Hide in a hushed whisper.

"I don't know." the blond whispered back "Touka, why does he need a fire extinguisher."
Touka smiled an evil smile that had everyone leaning away from her.

"Oh, you'll see."

"Hey Rin." Hide said, holding out a cup "Here you go."

~oOo~

The twenty-minute mark had barely passed before a really bad jumpscare hit and Rin somehow set himself on fire. Everyone reacted in varying degrees of surprise, with Hide and Yoriko both screaming and almost overturning the furniture, Kaneki scrambling at incredible speeds and falling off the sofa, and Hinami somehow managing to cling to the roof.

Touka, the only person to retain a mild cool head, grabbed the firefighting implement before hitting the flaming boy over the head with it. The flames dimmed and extinguished.

"Oooww." Rin complained, holding his head "Touka, that is not what a fire extinguisher is for!"

~oOo~

Rin felt a little bit incredibly wasted the next morning. He stumbled out of his room with a huge amount of effort, still in his pyjamas, tail loose for the first time in days, and bumped into Touka, who looked equally wasted.

"For some strange reason born from the depths of this headache," She grumbled "I believe that Hideyoshi Nagachika did not actually give us water. Do you agree with that, Okumura?"

Rin's eloquent response was a groan as he tramped past Touka, not seeing the startled look she shot at the furry item swishing behind him.

"What was in that drink?" She mumbled, scrubbing her hands over her face "I am going to kill Nagachika as soon as I can see straight."

"There's no problem with seeing gay!" Koma yelled down the hall.

"SHUT UP!" Touka screamed back, the volume making her head pound.

The older ghoul wisely shut up and let her continue her odyssey to the couch.

Downstairs, Hide was giggling his head off while Kaneki was beginning to give up on him.

"You sound like a schoolgirl." The dark-haired waiter was admonishing "Please, Hide, be quiet."

"This is too good!" Hide hooted "Did you see Touka! She looked-"

"Like she was going to murder you at the first given chance." someone interrupted from the staircase "And she's going to have help."

Kaneki and Hide turned to face the speaker, and saw a very sleepy Okumura Rin who looked about as furious as they came.

"I don't like being drugged against my will." He bit out through teeth that both boys noticed were extremely sharp "A lot of crap happens, and I don't want anyone getting hurt! Not again!"

"Sorry, man." Hide raised his hands in surrender "I didn't mean to upset you like that. It was just a joke."
"Just don't do that ever again."

Kaneki bowed his head, feeling slightly ashamed, and starting cleaning an already-clean cup just to give his hands something to do.

"DUDE!" Hide screeched as Rin began to turn away.

The cup slid out of Kaneki's hands, and only some very hasty fumbling caught it before it shattered on the immaculately clean floor.

"What?" The younger boy asked, blinking blue eyes "Is there a spider or something?"

"Dude." Hide repeated, at a lower volume "Did I accidentally drink some of that stuff, or do you have a tail?"
Rin stiffened, hand flying to catch the appendage that Kaneki now realised really was a tail.

"Dude."

"You sound like a broken record." the unidentified non-human huffed "Yes, it's a tail. Stop making a big deal out of it."

With that, he spun and marched up the stairs, the limb swishing behind him in a decidedly annoyed fashion.

"Dude."

"Ya finished yet?" Rin hollered from the top of the stairs.

"Dude." Hide said, just for good measure.

A shoe barely missed his head.
"THAT WAS MY SHOE, YOU IDIOT!" A male voice roared from upstairs.

Of all the times for Nishiki to show up early, it had to be today.

~oOo~

"Little brother!"

Rin thought he was justified in screaming.

He was half-asleep, moderately defenceless without Kurikara (which was under his bed in its kendo sleeve), and Amaimon had literally appeared out of nowhere, right in his face.

Touka apparently thought that he was being murdered, kidnapped, or just felt the need to smash something, because she kicked the door down and leaped into the room with kakugan blazing.

"Who the hell are you?" the purple-haired ghoul yelled, air shimmering the way it did just before she released her ukaku.

Amaimon tilted his head and widened his eyes, sticking a lollipop in his mouth.

"Little brother didn't tell you about me? I'm hurt."

"As if I would admit to being related to you." Rin mumbled, tail curling around his leg as he remembered the Earth King pulling it in their last fight "Please tell me you don't want to play again."

"Of course I want to play!" Amaimon leapt up on Rin's desk, curtains billowing around him "Samael is always too busy, and everyone else is back home in Ge-"

Rin struck with a kick to the abdomen, sending the king of Earth tumbling out the window.

"AND STAY OUT!" He shouted, slamming the window.

Touka wondered if she was still dreaming, and left the room to lie on the couch and contemplate the meaning of life.

~oOo~

I had these typed in "Human later chapters", so I went why the heck not and decided to use them now.

I have had no W-Fi for three days.

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