"I can't have you doing this every day," Suzuya said sternly.

Kaito and Hitomi sat on the couch, looking guilty as hell. The apartment had been wrecked once again while Juuzou was at work, and the culprits were obvious.

"But Mister Suzuya," Kaito whined. "It's not fair! I wanna go outside! There's no games we can play in here."

Juuzou sighed. "I can't let you outside," he said. "Something could happen to you."

"We lived in a box," Hitomi reminded him.

"And I wish you hadn't," Suzuya said. "You will stay here."

"I bet our mother would let us play outside," Kaito said, scowling.

"That's it!" Juuzou snapped. "Go to your room, Kaito!"

Kaito pouted and trudged into the guest bedroom that he and Hitomi shared. Hitomi looked up at her father and made a funny face. Suzuya sighed. Honestly, he wasn't sure what he was going to do with these children. He cared for them, yes, but he wasn't sure those feelings were reciprocated.

He gave Hitomi a sharp nod, grabbed his quinque case, and walked out the door. Just as the door was about to slam behind him, he heard Hitomi mutter something. It was faint, but the investigator was sure he heard it.

"Bye Dad."

Juuzou pondered those words as he walked to work. He was their Dad, but it was never really mentioned. The children referred to him as Mister Suzuya, and that was that. He didn't have a clue on how to raise kids; the past couple days he had just left them at the house.

He had nothing at the house to entertain them. It was nice that he didn't have to feed them on a daily basis, but what worried him was that he knew that eventually he would have to get them food. Suzuya had discovered that the twins had a singular kakugan and no kagune, which posed a problem for when they got older.

His thoughts drifted to the servant ghoul he was now familiar with. They had made a deal, and he still had yet to follow through with his end. He would need to get into the computer database in the basement and delete the file, and then throw away the paper file. The thought of it made his stomach churn; he was risking so much to do this.

He sighed and walked into CCG's building. He found his desk and grumpily flopped down in his chair next to Kiniko.

"Someone looks grumpy," Kaito chuckled.

"Shut up," Juuzou muttered.

"What?" Kiniko said. "Got turned down by someone?"

Suzuya shot the brunette a glare. "No."

"Hello!" Nanami said, bursting into the room.

"Hello, Nanami," Juuzou muttered.

The young girl climbed onto Suzuya's desk as she always did and sat down. "What ghoul you looking at?"

"A ghoul named Tsukikawa," Juuzou said. "He's completely crazy. He escaped from Cochlea."

Nanami picked up the case file and flipped to the Cochlea mugshot.

"He doesn't have any friends, does he?" she asked blatantly.

Kiniko laughed and Suzuya rolled his eyes. "Ghouls can't have friends because they don't have feelings."

Juuzou had told Nanami many times that ghouls had no feelings, but now, he had started to lose faith in that statement. As a matter of fact, the truth behind many phrases he used to live by had also begun to slip away.

"Do you have any money?" Nanami asked, and Juuzou let out an inward groan.

That afternoon during break, Juuzou snuck down into the basement. He logged into the computer base under Takizawa's name; for the tech people had still not gotten around to deleting his account. He quickly found Naki's file.

Suzuya's heart pounded in his ears. His hand trembled over the mouse. He grit his teeth and clicked, and Naki's file disappeared. Juuzou let out a sigh. He had just betrayed the CCG. Well, techincally he had betrayed them several times: not killing Eto, not killing Ju San, making a deal with a ghoul, and harboring ghouls. Now this. It made him sick to his stomach.

Suzuya walked into the library of files, and quickly found Naki's paper documents. He sighed and held out the paper stuffed manilla folder, and then took a cigarette lighter he had stolen from Kiniko out of his packet.

Suzuya stuffed the folder in his jacket and then went into the basement bathrooms. He went into a stall, and once again held out the papers. He lit the corner on fire, and the papers smoked and blackened, burnt pieces falling into the toilet. When there was no documents left and the toilet was full of ashes, Juuzou flushed the toilet. He scowled as he watched the burnt pieces get washed away, and he felt as if his career was going along with it.

"I should not be doing this," he said to himself.

He then went back upstairs, and the rest of the day was business as usual.

Hitomi and Kaito sat in Juuzou's apartment on their bed in the guest room. Hitomi flipped through her kanji book, and Kaito flicked pencils and pens at the ceiling.

"Stop that!" Hitomi scolded. "When they fall they hit me."

"No," Kaito said, flicking another pen.

"I said stop you ugly brat," Hitomi said, swatting at her brother.

"You're stupid," Kaito said, scribbling on a page in Hitomi's book with a pencil.

"You wrote in my book!" Hitomi screamed, smacking her twin.

"Buttface," Kaito said in a mocking tone, sticking out his tongue.

"I know you are, but what am I?"

"Ugly."

"You're a fat dumb pig!" Hitomi yelled.

"I'm rubber you're glue, whatever you say bounces off me and sticks to you!" Kaito said, taunting his sibling.

Hitomi smacked Kaito again.

"Ow!" he said, putting his hand up to his eye. "You hit me in the eye!"

He jumped onto his sister, pulling her hair. Hitomi screamed, and she clawed at her brother. Kaito howled in pain when his sister dug her nails into him. Angered, he dug his teeth into sister.

"That hurts!" Hitomi screamed, her singular kakugan activating. She wriggled out of his grasps and flailed her feet.

At the sight of his sister's ghoul eye, Kaito's eye also turned black and red. He lunged at her, but the white haired girl's sharp kick caught him right in the gut, sending him flying off the bed and crashing into the wall.

Kaito began to cry, and Hitomi rushed over to him. She knelt at his side. Both their eyes had returned to normal.

"Kaito, sssshhhh," Hitomi said, petting her brother's hair. "Someone will hear you."

The red eyed boy's sobs soon quieted, and the twins sat together against the wall in silence.

"Mr. Suzuya will be back soon," Kaito said, hugging his knees.

"What do think of him?"

Kaito shrugged. "He's okay I guess."

"I like him," Hitomi said.

"He doesn't love us," Kaito said sadly.

Hitomi blinked. "Yes he does."

Kaito said nothing, and soon the door clicked and opened.

"Mr. Suzuya!" Hitomi said, running out of the bedroom to greet the investigator at the doorway. Kaito trudged behind her.

"Hi there," Juuzou smiled. He looked around the apartment in surprise. "Nothing's broken…"

"We were good!" Hitomi beamed.

Suzuya put away his work things and settled on having a piece of pie and some ice cream for dinner. He sat on his couch watching television, when suddenly the twins, who had been playing in the kitchen, came and sat down with him.

"Mister Suzuya," Kaito said softly. "We're hungry."

Juuzou's stomach flopped. "Um, I don't really have anything you can eat."

"We've been hungry for days now," Hitomi whined.

A bead of sweat rolled down the back of Suzuya's neck. "I'll get you food tomorrow," he said, unsure how to keep that promise.

"Yay!" Kaito said, climbing up onto the arm of the couch.

"Oh, and what about school?" Hitomi asked.

Juuzou blinked. He had not even thought of that. "School?"

"Yeah," Hitomi said. "It's middle of summer. Soon we can start kindergarten!"

Suzuya's heart pounded. He had no idea how he would get the twins to school. They were both considered 'missing', so he couldn't sign them up for school. If he took them back to the orphanage, he would have to adopt them, and he couldn't have that show up on his file at work.

"I'll figure things out," Juuzou said awkwardly.

"I'm going to bed," Kaito yawned. "Goodnight."

The teal haired boy walked away, leaving Juuzou and Hitomi alone. The young girl stared at the investigator for a second, and then crawled into his lap. Suzuya was surprised at first, but he allowed the small child to sit in his lap and lean her head on his chest.

"What are you watching?" Hitomi asked when she got comfortable.

"News," Juuzou said.

"Boring."

"I know."

Hitomi eyed the remains of his cherry pie. "Can I have a bite?"

Juuzou stared down at his daughter. "You'll get sick."

"Not if it's just one bite," Hitomi said, giving the investigator puppy eyes.

"Fine," he sighed. "One bite."

Hitomi greedily snatched the fork from her father's hands and took a large bite of pie.

"Mmmmmm," she said. "Yummy."

"That's all," Juuzou said, taking the fork back. "You'll get sick."

Hitomi mumbled something and sunk down against the man, and she was soon fast asleep. Juuzou stared blankly at the tv. He knew what he had to do. He didn't want to, but he didn't have much of a choice. He needed to find the twin's mother. Eto Yoshimura.