Thank you so much for your guys' reviews/comments.
Shout-outs:

BleachedWarlock: Oh, I get extremely board when writing just one prompt per chapter. Plus, why not kill four birds with one stone? I can agree with you on how the story will end. I'm a little scared for when that day comes, though.

Kelly M. Black: OH what really sucks is that Ishida already beat me to a christmas chapter. I had planned out for Haise to recieve his mask as a gift, but what do you know ISHIDA ALREADY DID IT (T_T). But yah, I really want to do a chapter on Kaneki's mask or Touka's. Oh well.

Remember to Forget: Thank you so much!

And addressed to all people: Katsuo's presence in the story will be minimal. His existence actually is because of something I noticed in Ishida's story that I explained in the end notes. But for those worrying, don't worry, Katsuo was mainly for that chapter only.

Amnesiac

They Die from Loneliness

Saiko nudged the man's shoulder once more. "Please?"

"No matter how many times you say it, the answer is no." Haise didn't even raise his eyes from the old newspapers laid out across the coffee table.

He had to give her credit in her determination, however. They'd been at it for two days now on this conversation. "Please?"

"No."

"But why?"

"You can't keep care of an animal. You work-"

"And tend to forget to feed them," added Shirazu, shouting from the kitchen.

Turning around on the couch, Saiko eyed the boy in the door frame."Are you still angry about that one time?"

"You neglected my hamster when I went to visit my family. For four days."

"It was fine."

"Chico nearly starved!"

"And that's why Ginshi doesn't have an animal anymore, either," said Haise dryly. "And like him, you lack time and capability with your job and mentality."

"Mentality? I'm old enough to drink."

"That's terrifying," Urie commented. Apparently his music wasn't as loud as it seemed. "She's bad enough without adding alcohol into this."

"Shut up! The point is I'm old enough to take on some responsibility."

Haise sighed. "We'll have to see. Just no right now." He crumbled four of the different pages of newspapers on the table into his hands.

"What exactly are you doing, Maman?"

He hummed. "Oh, just working on an old case for Akira," he lied. "Thought there might be something helpful in news stories, maybe something some news reporters saw that we didn't. It's common routine."

"It feels like Akira just gives you all the work she doesn't want to do."

"Well, you're not wrong," he laughed. "It's fine, though."

"Want any help, Sassan," asked Shirazu, the boy sitting on the chair beside the table with a plate and sandwich balanced in one hand and another he handed off to Urie who accepted without taking his eyes off his phone. He noticed the box beside Haise filled to the brim with old, crumbled and stained papers. "Looks like you'll be here all night."

"I'm fine, thank you. I'm just skimming, really."

Shirazu nodded and went back to his sandwich. Haise regretted bringing the newspapers out into the living room though sitting in his room during the day became all to suspicious in time. Shirazu had already commented before. He rubbed at his eyes. This tedious work was getting him nowhere. Reading every raid by the CCG or fire hardly narrowed his search for any of the names' connection to him.

He read from his list once more while tugging Saiko behind him. If not his hold, the girl would slip from their group and surely hide in the cafeteria until they finished shopping. "Urie, Mutsuki, head over to Nordstrom for suit and tie wear. Shirazu, new shoes. Check out that new store downstairs. Saiko and I will meet you in a few minutes."

Urie mumbled under his breath something about babysitting which Shirazu had none of. Mutsuki lacked any reaction to his snide comments which Haise never understood. The two were different after the auctino raid, but why they wouldn't tell.

"God, you're embarrassing," murmered Saiko as the group dispersed and the two headed towards their destination.

Her mentor sighed deeply, reading his list again as a nervous habit at this point. "It's not my fault you won't do it yourself." He spotted a map of the whole mall then moved in the direction of the nearest sky bridge. "Y'know, I didn't think when I signed up for this that I'd be forcing my kids into Victoria Secret."

"You're so awkward."

"Awkward because you make it so." After this, they need to go to the market and pick up some more bread and milk, maybe head by :Re and see where they get their coffee. While heading by, Haise just might be able to get a little more insight on -

"Puppies!" The girl yanked her arm out of his grasp and dashed for the window of the mall's many stores, crouching down in front of one with a litter of brown and black swarming to window. Of course. Of course they would pass the pet shop after their discussion just yesterday. He rubbed his eyes. Now wasn't the time.

"Saik-" She ran inside the store before he could finish. "Yonebayashi Saiko!" He groaned, knowing the only way he would get his shopping done would require dragging her out. Even before he stepped into the store, he smelt wet dog, that muck and a forest after rainfall and soiled towel. There were plenty of other things he wished he couldn't smell that reminded him of basic biology class during his training. One unit required dissecting a frog a cat and he nearly threw up. While he could eat humans, animals were disgusting beyond belief. He would know, the CCG had him test it at one point.

In spite of the stench, Haise did not hold his breath and instead acted calm and collected as best as he could. The store was much bigger than he expected, filled with cages and petting areas, small isles for food, leashes, and toys. And of course, Saiko was no where in sight.

"Aye, is that girl yours? The one that ran in here?" The clerk behind the counter glared at Haise with a cigarette in his mouth.

"Yes, just point me to her and we'll be on our way."

The clerk did so and went to the back room. After asking the clerk, he made his way to far end of the shop, passing the caged dogs, cats and lizards without even batting an eye.

And there was Saiko between the rats and and goldfish mumbling to herself about the length of fur. "How is it even breathing?" She pointed to the speckled guinea pig with fur reaching past its feet.

Haise sighed, his mood only worsening. God, he hated shopping."Come on, Saiks, we don't have time."

"But can't we just-"

"No." Haise pulled her by her ear back towards the entrance and nagged over her pleas. "For the last time, you don't need a pet."

And he almost missed it, just by a hair. However, from the corner of his eye, he spotted the gold-orange fur among the black cages separate from the others. Coming to a halt, Saiko bumped into him. The girl only continued her "what ifs" as he focused elsewhere to the lonely body caged alone from anything else.

"Excuse me, they're not meant to be alone."

"I beg your pardon?"

"Rabbits." He pointed to the mass of orange fur in the corner, even kneeling in front of its cage as the rabbit shook. "They can die form loneliness."

The man laughed.

Haise's eyes narrowed at the clerk. "It's true. They need a companion with them at all times. It's considered animal cruelty for them to be alone."

"Just keep talkin', sir, if you plan to buy it, or you could just leave." He nodded to Saiko. "Buy a little gift for your lonely darlin' perhaps?"

Haise rolled his eyes. "Just make sure you put him near other animals."

"Sure sure."

"Why don't we buy it," voiced Saiko at Haise's side. "We could keep him from being lonely.

At that, Haise laughed, but smiled genuinely before declining. "You just want me to let you get a pet. Rabbits need to much attention that you and I simply can't give." His smile faltered. "I couldn't keep care of one." He stuck his fingers in between the cage bars for the rabbit to sniff.

"So are you saying I'm too irresponsible to keep care of anything?"

"Well . . . "

Shirazu, Mutsuki, and Urie sat in the cafeteria waiting for their mentor and companion, the three focusing on their smoothies rather than making eye contact. That is, until Urie spoke up.

"The hell is taking them?"

Mutsuki hummed. "Probably in a comic book store. Saiko's been going on and on about some new novel, too."

"Novel?" Shirazu said baffled.

"Manga."

"Oh." The boy went back to eyeing Bob's Burgers, debating on it's worth. They still had grocery shopping to do . . .

"I won!" All three heads turned instantly to the familiar voice moreover for the fact her pitch and volume. The whole of the cafeteria eyed Saiko, who held clear bag tied in a knot at the top. They three stood suddenly with mouths open, amazed at her persuasive skills with Shirazu even murmuring a "wow."

Inside of her clear bag was an orange goldfish.

In the safety of his room, Haise pulled the board and added a line between Hide and Touka, then added beneath their notes something he dreaded to write. Under Touka, he wrote "Rabbit," and Hide "Black Rabbit."

I wanted this to just be short and sweet. Did it work? I'm also going to go over and fix a lot of chapter "Child Enemy." I wrote it so quickly and forgot to do so much stuff. So later on, please check it out.

I had my wisdom teeth pulled and have no idea what the quality of this chapter is. . . I'll care some other day.

Question: (or more of I just want to hear your thoughts on this) So I noticed back while rereading through TG:Re something interesting about how Ishida pulls reactions from his audience. Going back to where Urie insulted Haise as being just a ghoul, we became so angry that Urie deemed Haise under him because he was a ghoul. We all got so furious along with Shirazu for saying that him being part ghoul made him less of an honorable person. But then I realized during the Auction Raid Arc that what I thought was humans empathetic to ghouls was completely wrong. With Nutcracker, we see Shirazu tell her to stop acting like she's human. I realized that in spite of how close the Quinx are to ghouls in a sense, as they have quinque like Kagunes, kakugans, lived with a half-ghoul mentor, the war between humans and ghouls hasn't changed. In spite of their power to see both the human and ghoul world, nothing has changed. Basically, I'm just curious if you guys agree or disagree, or maybe you noticed something I haven't. I think Ishida is just an amazing writer as he forced us to react in a certain way then make us feel guilty later.