Chapter 4

[A/N: I apologize for the short uneventful previous chapter, but I wrote it in between Lol games.]

Saiko was nagging in her room playing on her console. She could hear the others talking about Sasaki`s return home. Even if her fingers were busy framing, she was listening outside the room.

"Hey, guys! Did ya hear that? Kaneki is back...! " This was Shirazu`s alarmed voice mixed with the speed rate of air coming through his sharp teeth. "Is... Kaneki...our Sasaki...?"

"It`s not like any of us own him." Urie`s voice could be heard so low as Saiko imagined him crossing his arms already pissed off by Shirazu`s rumbling.

"Guys! Why do I think that Akira was really worried today when she took Sasaki home?" Shirazu was talking loud again and Saiko couldn`t hear Torou at all. Probably the eyepatched female member was just keeping herself quiet.

"Oh, please..." Urie growled again.

"Shaddup, punk!"

"Guys, please, stop..." Torou`s fainted voice could be vaguely heard.

If Saiko could hear, then Sasaki could hear their loud talk too. The blue haired girl realized that from the start and chuckled sadly. She wasn`t mixed in their business, but maybe this wasn`t the best thing for Sasaki after he returned from hospital.

"...idiots..." She sighs rolling on the other side and continues playing her spacial horror game.

In the other room, on the stairs, Sasaki was reading a gifted book from Torou. He didn`t deserve it. He felt guilty even if he can`t remember biting her arm in his lack of stamina. He doesn`t remember anything, but the sudden wake into an hospital bed. Then their visits and now he`s finally home.

Shirazu was pretty loud in the living room.

No matter how hard Sasaki tries to keep reading, from time to time he covers his ears. He felt so guilty and those pages he was reading were like a blank gap of time.

"P-Please... Make it stop." He leaves the book on the other side of bed, burying his face in the pillow and imitating desperate sobs rapt by the flakes. Somewhere, not far away from his current state, Kaneki was ready to give his aid.

"Sa-... Sasaki... I`m here... Sasaki... Let me take care of it... S-... Sasaki... Sasaki... You won`t allow yourself to get hurt again... right... Sasaki...?"

These watery noises were messing around with his will since their last ghoul mission. Since then, he was retired and forced to spend a week in hospital. The certain name "Amon Kotarou" was spinning in Sasaki`s head and a lot of other questions.

"Mamaan!"

One of his tired eyes opens and he realized in surprise that Saiko was watching him for a while shaking him violently. "Saiko-...chan."

"Are you okay?"

"Y-Yeah, I`m fine... Sorry." He turns around and fixes his pillow. For some reason his eyes were already dry and this helped his pride more than he thought. It might pass long minutes fighting with his inner self and his tears run dry.

"I`m glad you are home now, Maman." She hugs him like nothing happened outside his room. Yet she was lying nicely making him forget about what he heard. Shirazu was a loud idiot, but Saiko knew he was actually worried. They all were really worried about Sasaki`s health, but they expressed it differently. Torou`s book was a visible evidence.

"It`s alright, Saiko-chan. Don`t worry." Sasaki`s ego was patting her twin tails with the same parental love of a real mother. This delights Saiko, but she understood his crying in despair. It had nothing to do with the noise in the living room. Kaneki could take over Sasaki build up personality anytime and even if Sasaki wasn`t real, she didn`t want to loose his attention.

The short girl hugs him holding on his shirt with a fainted smile. "Maman, did you know that I got an appendicitis surgery two years ago in the same hospital?"

"Eh...? Really?"

"Yeah... I was kinda scared to be left alone, but I got over it..." She started to mumble with indifference. He had to listen anyway, so it was just a matter of time to make him forget about Kaneki.

Yet he rubs his chin in silence.

"What is it, Maman?"

It doesn`t work well for Saiko. Sasaki was already matching things up. No matter what, he was pretty cerebral and he sensed that hospital wasn`t an ordinary one even if he couldn`t remember many things as Sasaki.