Chapter 9: Planning

As soon as the cold winter breeze hit with Yoriko's face, her small weak legs started shaking, ready to collapse at any moment. But, Ayato kept running deep into the forest; he was trying to make some distance between the battle and themselves.

The girl could feel her body weakening every second it passed as they ran into the forest, but Ayato wouldn't stop… not yet. Some more minutes passed, and the fuss was barely audible by now; the ghoul stopped. "We'll be fine here for the moment, lest rest a bit." He turned around to see the exhausted girl already on the floor, throwing up after all the trauma she passed through. Ayato sighed and rested his back against a tree and looked away from the scene, giving the girl some privacy.

After some minutes, her coughs had stopped. Yoriko shakenly walked up to him but soon collapsed to the ground as her legs were still trembling like before. The blue haired guy sat beside her and patted her head "Rest for some minutes, you deserve it…" he said quite fondly. The ghoul was barely injured or tired, but he had been pretty worried for the girl. Yoriko closed her eyes and her breath seemed to calm down; soon after that her legs stopped shaking, the adrenaline disappeared from her body. "A-Are we safe now, Ayato-kun?" she asked in tired, yet relieved voice.

"No." He said simply, the girl looking up at him with shock. "We still need to get you out of here." He paused for a moment "We just need a plan…" Ayato stood up and started walking from one side to another, wanting to come up with something. Yoriko bit her lip as she also tried looking for a solution. "We can stay here until everything's over and then we run…" she suggested, her idea quickly being rejected.

"That won't do, the CCG probably will look all over the place or destroy everything…we'll both be dead." Ayato stated, looking at the cloudy night sky above them "Besides, I need to go back as soon as possible." Yoriko shivered at the thought of going back to that living hell, she covered up herself with the cloak to stay warm; she hadn't felt the cold all this time until now. The ghoul sighed and looked at the human before finally saying "I have an idea." Yoriko's eyes glimpsed with surprise and happiness as she asked for his plan.

"I'll take you with the CCG agents…" Ayato stated as he started to stretch his muscles, ready to continue their journey. Yoriko froze and quickly stood up "W-What?!" she yelled for the first time in ages, which surprised the ghoul. "They'll kill you in an instant, and I'll go to jail for helping ghouls!" her voice sounded desperate, she thought had turned crazy after all they passed. Ayato just sighed and gently hit her on the head "Idiot! I won't die that easily, and I have a plan!" he yelled quite annoyed.

Yoriko held her head after the punch, her confusion turning into curiosity. "What's your plan then?" she asked as he followed him. Ayato just turned around and took away the cloak from her hanging it on a tree branch. The girl soon felt the cold freeze against her body "What was that for?!" she asked as she hugged herself to keep the warmth of her body. The ghoul kept walking as he hadn't heard her "Listen, I'm going to be the bad ghoul who had you kidnapped you in the headquarters so I could eat you later, okay?" he said gazing back at her.

Yoriko shivered and startled at him in confusion "But-!"

"Okay?!" He asked impatiently to continue his plan. The girl sighed but nodded with a small 'okay' escaping her lips. Ayato nodded to himself before continuing "I'll act as if I had escaped so I could eat you, that way it will look like we I the CCG's base by accident." Yoriko analyzed the information before nodding once again. "When they start attacking I'll drop you on the floor and run away, and you're safe by then." The girl's eyes widened in surprise by the genius plan he had come up with. "But we have a problem…" the boy said before she could say anything, "You don't look like a kidnapped girl at all..." he stated. Yoriko looked at herself; her clothes were almost intact, there were just some ghoul's blood over her shoes and jeans, but that was all.

Ayato clenched his fists and looked at her determined "If we want this plan to work, we'll have to make you look terrible…" Yoriko swallowed, she understood what he meant, and she didn't like it at all.

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The snow started falling some time later. Yoriko weakly looked at the sky, she watched the snowflakes fell down to the ground.

"Can you stand?" The girl looked for the owner of that voice, she looked at Ayato's concerned face as she tried standing up but soon fell to the floor again thanks to the bite on her right leg. The ghoul looked at the girl, who had now several cuts on her clothes and body; and the bite on her leg had been her idea. Ayato had protested at first but…

"It's for the sake of this plan, right?"

Ayato had never felt so bad for a human in his life, and after taking that tasty bite from her leg, he had felt so guilty. It was all his fault… The ghoul picked her up, he needed to do this quickly before she lost more blood that now. Yoriko gave the boy an encouraging smile "It's okay, this is nothing!" she reassured as he blushed slightly, quickly looking away.

"S-Shut up….my human…" he muttered. Yoriko's eyes widened in surprise and confusion, her cheeks suddenly turning bright red "W-What did you sa-?!"

But her question was suddenly silenced by his lips against hers.

After some seconds, Ayato leaned back and started running towards the battlefield, with a confused Yoriko in his arms.

A/N: Yaay! The kiss! They finally kissed! :D hope you liked this chapter! Next one will have their goodbye, but I'm planning on continuing this fic up to Tokyo Ghoul:Re, do you think I should? Please tell me what you think!

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