"What do you mean you 'gave them up'," Juuzou asked, whole body shaking. However, his voice remained calm.
"The Kochucho Orphanage," Eto said, tearing flooding down her beautiful face. "I—I thought they'd be safer there."
"You gave my children to an orphanage?" Juuzou said, expression blank. "You brought ghouls to a human orphanage?"
"I don't know how ghoul they are!" Eto yelled, spit and tears running everywhere. "Would you rather have our children be in Aogiri?"
"Don't you say those words!" Suzuya screamed. Somehow, he found the inhuman strength to get to his feet. "They are not 'our' children! You gave them up! They're not yours at all!"
"Don't think for a moment I don't care about them!" Eto screamed. "I love them!" Her voice broke and she crumpled to her knees. "I love them with all my heart."
Juuzou limped over to her. She was on her knees and her head was hanging. Suzuya looked down at the ghoul in disgust. He sneered and yanked her hair so that he could look into her teary eyes.
"You know," he said, getting so close to her face that it was all to familiar for both of them. "How you hate your father?"
"Don't talk about him!" Eto cried out. Suzuya only yanked her hair harder, causing the half ghoul to cry out in pain.
"He abandoned you, didn't he?" Juuzou sneered. "Because he wanted you to be 'safe', right? Because he wanted you to have a 'better life'?"
"No no no," Eto said, closing her eyes. However, they reopened with another sharp tug to her hair.
Suzuya's voice dropped to a whisper. "But you and I know the truth, don't we. He never wanted you. Neither did your Mommy. You weren't meant to be."
"Don't say that," Eto whimpered. She went to put her hands up to her ears, but Suzuya smacked them away.
"Look at you," Juuzou said, giving Eto a disgusted look. "How do you think Kaito and Hitomi feel?"
"Don't tell me that!" Eto shouted. She tried to struggle away, but Suzuya had a grip like iron.
"You know, Eto Yoshimura," Suzuya said. He got so close his lips ghosted over her's. "You're just like your father."
Those words threw the half ghoul over the edge. Her pitiful cries became wails, and her body shook with her violent sobs. Suzuya rolled his eyes and released her hair, and Eto curled up in a ball on the ground.
Juuzou staggered over to his scythe, picked it up, and limped to the end of the hall, and looked back over his shoulder at the sobbing ghoul.
"Now, if you'll excuse me," he said, a cruel smirk on his face. "I have ghouls to slaughter and a pair of twins to find."
Eto stayed where she was on the ground. She had no motivation to fight. An hour or so later, she faintly remembered someone picking her up. The next thing she knew, she was awake in her bedroom.
Juuzou's words echoed through her brain. She truly was just like her despised father. How could she have let this happen? Eto decided to get up out of bed to find Naki; she needed to talk to him.
She looked out the windows as she wandered down the hall. It was pitch black out, not even the moon lit the night sky. Eto knocked softly on Naki's door, and was answered by a gruff 'come in'.
She slowly entered the room. The blond ghoul was laying in his bed in nothing but a open black robe, as usual. However, the sheets covered his lower half.
He looked away from the tv he had been watching. "You're up."
Eto nodded. She notice that she was still wrapped in her bandages, and that she still was still wearing her magenta dress and scarf. Eto pulled the scarf and dress off, and went into the bathroom to take off her bandages.
When the bandages were unraveled and the floor and she stood naked in the mirror, Eto examined the stitched heart on her arm. For reasons she was not sure of, the half ghoul had never considered taking it out.
Eto sighed and walked back into Naki's bedroom. He looked up at her naked body from where he lay in his bed. The blond ghoul raised an eyebrow but did not comment. Eto climbed into bed next to him and snuggled up close. Naki wrapped his arm around her and pulled her close.
"Naki," Eto murmured, burying her nose in the crook of his neck and inhaling his seductive scent.
"Hm?"
"I'm going to get the kids tomorrow," Eto said.
Naki's eyes widened. "Really?"
"Yeah. Will you… Will you help me?"
"Of course!" Naki said, tone bright and cheery.
Eto nuzzled closer, and Naki frowned.
"What?" Eto asked, worried she had done something wrong.
"His smell is all over you," Naki said. "Wh—what exactly did he do to you?"
"I don't want to talk about it," Eto said, trying to block out the pain of what the investigator had said to her.
"I really hate him," Naki scowled.
"Well, you have reason to," Eto said, running her finger along the thick white scar that was across Naki's chest.
"Yes," Naki said, nodding.
"So I smell like him, hm?" Eto asked, her tone changing.
"Yeah," Naki said, not picking up on the change in the woman's voice.
Eto realized the blond ghoul had not gotten her subtle hint, and she let out a huff. She would have to be more obvious. The half ghoul rolled onto Naki's chest, pressing their naked bodies together. "Wanna get it off?"
Naki's eyes widened and he blushed. "G—get what off?"
"His scent," Eto said, dragging a finger across the male ghoul's lips. "And replace it with—," Eto paused and leaned over so she could whisper into his ear. "Your scent."
That was all Naki needed to hear. He pulled her close to him, and their lips met. Eto dragged her mouth down to his jawline, which she began to nip and kiss.
Naki let out a moan and rocked his hips. Eto let out a small moan herself and then smirked.
"This gonna be harder to do when the kids are here," Naki commented.
"If there's a will, there's a way," Eto said, echoing her past self.
Naki rolled his eyes.