Kaneki's heart raced as Eto's familiar soft fingers brushed his cheek.

T-Takatsuki...s-san? With a spinning mind, Kaneki gasped as Eto looked up at him again, her right kakugan flushing desire. Sen Takatsuki was undeniably one of his idols, because he can always find the hidden message that she infers in her books. The horror stories always controlled Kaneki and forced him to continue reading past midnight.

Furthermore, memories of the manager came back. He vaguely remembered the manager talking about the one-eyed-owl as his own child. Releasing another small gasp, Kaneki realized that the manager's daughter stood before him. Eto... the one-eyed-owl... Takatsuki-san...

His tense rinkaku kagune quickly softened, and disappeared from his back. His posture became less bleak as well. Eto secretly smirked at seeing Kaneki's shocked face, knowing that Kaneki is extremely vulnerable to being broken down.

"Oh how I've missed you so much, Ken Kaneki." Eto softly whispered as her fingers trailed along his cheek towards his neck.

For an instant, Kaneki actually revealed a small blush on seeing Eto's bare body.

Realizing this, Kaneki looked away in anger. Anger towards her for being able to bring out his soft side.

Eto then wrapped her other arm around Kaneki's neck, and brought herself closer to Kaneki's body. He is still as cold as a stone. I really broke him back there. Pleased with herself, Eto brought Kaneki down a little, to which Kaneki tried to resist. However, Sen Takatsuki had a special charm on Kaneki, and Eto's devine touch prevented him from retaliating.

Impatient as she is, the petit Eto tippy-toed, and slowly bought her lips up to his.

As if finally waking up, Kaneki jerked his head to the left in disgust, unable to look directly at her. Then, he realized that the leader of Aogiri Tree was standing before him. He had been dragged into this room by a mysterious will. A will to get stronger. Aogiri can make him stronger. Kaneki froze for a moment, and suddenly tensed as he felt a soft lip press against his right cheek. As if struggling to make a sound, Kaneki's mouth opened and closed.

The touch of her lips were so tender, caressing, and so hypnotising. How could the cruel leader of Aogiri carry such sweetness in her kiss?

Her lips were like the touch of an angel of death, soft enough to calm its victim down before dominating its prey.

Eto licked his cheek a little, and giggled at seeing the effect.

Frustrated against his softness towards her, Kaneki growled. He was supposed to hate her. She made him eat his own best friend. She tortured him inside that eerie and dark room.

Then, it was the moment he knew how hard it was to hate her.

He slowly turned his head back, and gazed at her right kakugan.

Eto smiled, and bought her lips to his again, which Kaneki backed up from in surprise.

"Stop trying to resist, my Kaneki. Stop trying to escape from me. That's not what you want." Eto whispered with an enticing voice.

Kaneki shuddered. "You have no idea what I want." He growled and looked down, not convinced entirely of his own words.

"Everyone wants to be loved," Eto said softly as she took one finger and brushed his cheek from his ear to his chin, "and you are no different, my Kaneki."

Kaneki's eyes bulged.

Gritting his teeth, Kaneki stared at her with a blazing kakugan.

I want to get stronger... that's what I want. She doesn't know anything about me... I don't need to be loved. Kaneki incessantly reminded himself, struggling to retain his calm.

"We are calls to like, Kaneki. You need me. You desire me. You worship me." Eto leaned in closer, and breathed into his ear. "You want me." She revealed another smirk as she felt Kaneki shaking under her touch.

"Shut up! Leave me alone!" Kaneki desperately shouted, hoping to keep his pride. He squeezed his eyes shut in irritation. He realized that he has fallen into her grasp. Kaneki tried to escape her powerful grip, but his body didn't move an inch, as if it didn't belong to his thinking mind anymore.

"You don't want that, don't you?" Eto held his chin with one, long finger, "If I leave you alone, who else is going to love you?"

He cried out in his mind, trying to exile new feelings that Eto planted inside of him, but to no avail.

"Kirishima-san?"

Kaneki's eyes shot opened.

He saw Touka's furious face as she blamed Kaneki for not saving Ryouko. Then, he saw Touka's passionate face when she stopped his rampage towards Cochlea. Suddenly, Touka faded away, replaced by the one-eyed-owl. It transformed into Eto, and she ran towards Kaneki with open arms and a smile. Her right kakugan gazed into his left, and he felt a bond coursing through their bodies.

"Shut up! I'll kill you! You have no idea how much I want to kill you right now!" Kaneki yelled, his voice scratching for the first time since his breakdown.

"You can't kill me, Kaneki. You still need me, because I love you." Eto whispered seductively.

Instantly, Kaneki's entire body softened like a marshmallow.

Love... Eto read his heart. Inside all of this cruel, cold-blooded, and murderous ghoul, there was a boy who simply wanted to be loved.

Not only to care for him, but to love him.

"I am the only other one-eyed-ghoul. There is no one else that truly understands, and empathizes you. No one has experienced the same isolation from both humans and ghouls that you experienced, except for me." Eto said gently.

He only wanted someone whom he could relate to, someone who went through what he did.

Eto pushed him onto his knees, and pressed her lips down to his passionately.

She didn't release the kiss, but started to explore her tongue further into his warm mouth.

Her kakugan flared in excitement as she felt Kaneki return the kiss with equal passion.

She wrapped her arms around the back of his head, gaining her height advantage now that Kaneki was on his knees.

Kaneki opened his eyes and looked into Eto's face.

Infinite green hair surrounded them as they fell from her head, and covered the two.

She's beautiful...

Kaneki gazed up at her as if she was his god. Contrarily to his time in the dark room, this time, he showed determined royalty towards her. He was willing to light the world on fire for her.

They only broke the kiss to catch breath.

Eto rested both her hands on Kaneki's cheeks, and slowly bought his head into her chest.

Kaneki closed his eyes as he was mesmerized by his comfort inside her embrace.

Eto slowly caressed his hair.

He belonged to her.

Yes, indeed. The one-eyed-king belongs to me now. Eto smiled ambitiously.

To be continued...