Kuri slammed the door and reached for Kaneki. He snarled and nipped at her. She misunderstood, thinking he was trying to eat her.
Kaneki ripped her sleeve off with his teeth and nearly missed her skin.
Kuri yanked him into the bathroom, and he started to thrash. No! Not the tub, anything but that!
Tears fell down Kaneki's cheek as he was overtaken by memory. His parents hands thrusting him into the water, slicing him with a knife as they shoved him deeper.
Kuri looked down at him as he quivered and shook, his limbs thrashing as the water spilled over the tub, his screams filling the room, echoing in the bathroom.
She watched his eye open and turn red, and dodged his kagune as it shot out and aimed at her, trying to grab her and do who knows what to her.
Kuri had never seen one before, but she thought it was beautiful. Honestly she thought any part of Kaneki was beautiful.
Kaneki came too slowly as the warmth of the water surrounded him. He blinked up at Kuri. He could still taste her scent on his teeth.
Had he been about to eat her? No…he had been about to mate her.
Wordlessly, Kuri pulled her from the tub, wrapping him in a towel, holding him. She was doing things his parents had never done, stroking his hair, making soft shushing sounds, nuzzling him.
Kuri was comforting him.
The panic and fear slowly faded away as he curled his shaking body into her soft warmth.