Kaneki sighed,stepping off the plane behind Hide. Old frustrations were already resurfacing.

"You okay?" Hide pulled him close, making their way through the airport with their bags.

"I'll have to be." Hide stopped, turning to face him.

"I know you went through a lot here, I know you still have a hard time, we'll be okay." Hide assured him.

"I'm not really worried about me. I almost lost you too many time. The worst feeling I've ever had was carrying you down the street, not knowing if you'd ever-"

"Hey, I'm still here, Kaneki." Hide took the ghoul's left hand. "This is our new beginning, yeah bad stuff happened but we're here and I love you no matter what. We need to move past it or we're just going to drive ourselves crazy."

"I don't think I know how." Hide embraced him.

"The only way that can happen is to deal with it together. That's part of the reason we got the headsets for the phones, so we can talk through the day. It doesn't matter if I'm working or just out at the store, you call me if you need to. As long as the battery holds out, we're good, even then I'll switch it back to the phone. You deserve a chance to be happy." After several minutes, Hide kissed him lovingly before releasing him.

"Let's go home, we'll enjoy our last couple days before we have to get back to work, maybe we'll invite Touka and Yoriko over to see the wedding video and some pictures."

"Do you have to go back there?"

"Kaneki, we've been through this, yeah I have to."

"I don't like the idea of you being more of as target for-"

"I know you don't. It's gonna be fine. I need you to trust me."

"It's not you, I trust you, it's everyone else." It seemed to take longer than usual to reach their house. Kaneki attempted to push the unpleasant thoughts from his mind as Hide unlocked the door. He turned to Kaneki with a smile.

"This will be our first time walking into our house as a married couple." He announced. Seeing Hide's eyes light up instantly, hearing the excited tone, filled the ghoul's heart with joy, causing him to return the smile.

"That right there," Hide said softly, placing his palm on his husband's cheek. "I want you to feel this way all the time. The best gift you could ever give me is to be healthy, be happy and know you're my whole world."

"Hide-" The blond placed the luggage inside the door.

"Let's go inside, together."

"You're not going to-"

"I think we should."

"No one does that anymore, it's not even a thing now."

"It can be our thing." Hide insisted. "Come on, it's a one time thing."

"The neighbors-"

"When they get married they can do it too. Please?"

"You seriously want to do this?"

"Yep." Hide lifted Kaneki off his feet and into his arms.

"I can't believe you're doing this." Kaneki rested his head on Hide's shoulder. He allowed Hide to carry him into the entry way. Hide set him down gently.

"That wasn't so bad, was it?"

"It- you didn't have to do that."

"I know I didn't." Hide nuzzled Kaneki softly. "but it's only fair, you already carried me home."

"That was-"

"nothing short of amazing. You didn't have to do that either."

"I did. I couldn't let it happen, I love you too much to lose you." Hide leaned closer, his palm resting on the ghoul's cheek. Their lips mere inches from each other. the soft buzzing of their cellphones forced them apart. The picked up their devices and read the opened the message. Kaneki's eyes grew wide his face turned an embarrassed shade of red. There in front of him was the image of Hide carrying him into the house, just below the image was the caption

this'll make for an interesting conversation at work...see you Monday.

"Touka." Kaneki whispered, bowing his head. Hide chuckled. "I'll never hear the end of it."

"It's fine, she's just messing you. Anyway, it's a traditional thing, something to show you how much I love you. Let's get our stuff unpacked and then we can relax for the day. I can think of a couple things for us to do together."

"like what?"

"you'll see." Hide smirked picking up the bags, Kaneki followed shaking his head.