HAPPY HOLIDAYS YOU CUTIE PATOOTIES. (ﾉ´ヮ´)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧ Please accept this chapter as a gift for being so awesome and amazing.
Let the Christmas party continue!
[A/N at the end]
"What do you say we get this Christmas party started?" Kaneki asked enthusiastically.
The chattering in the room stopped, every adult's face turned to look at the host. A split second later, the room was filled with excited cheering and movement. The twins, not knowing what was happening but felt the mood, began waving their arms and giggling loudly. Hinami and Yoriko stood up and placed the twins in their playpen to help Touka. They cleared the room of the dirty coffee cups while Touka picked up scattered baby toys. Dropping them into the playpen, she went to the kitchen to make fresh coffee while Hinami and Yoriko washed the used cups. When they were finished, the two women went to the entrance way to collect the presents. Touka sat a new tray of coffee on the kitchen table and told Kaneki to move the coffee table. He and Hide moved the table against a wall, Hinami and Yoriko piling the gifts in the center of the room.
While the others gathered around the colorful pile of boxes, Kaneki and Touka picked the twins up from the playpen and laid them on the floor. Miyu stared at the pile and began kicking her legs, making little frustrated noises trying to reach the closest box. Unlike his sister, Minoru simply looked around the room, fiddling with his hands and costume. Sitting beside his children, Kaneki began passing out the presents.
"Rule of the house: you have to say who it's from and open it before I will hand out the next," he said, picking up a small box wrapped in purple paper. After reading the label he said,
"First up is Touka!" He handed it to her and put the twins in his lap to watch.
"From Yoriko." Touka glanced at her beaming best friend. She carefully unwrapped the paper and found that it was a gift box used for jewelry. She lifted the lid and stared into the box, eyes wide. Inside the box was a necklace with two charms on it. Slowly lifting the necklace out of the box, Touka gasped quietly. The two charms were made of crystal and shaped like rabbit heads. One was light pink and the other light blue. Looking closely, she saw that the charms had the twins' names inscribed on the front. Touka looked at Yoriko in surprise and awe.
"Thank you," she said quietly. Yoriko giggled at her friend's reaction and turned to see who the next recipient was.
"Alright, let's see… Next is Hide!" Kaneki tossed a rectangular box at his friend.
"Cool! It's from Kaneki, of course." Hide grinned and ripped into the gold wrapping paper, throwing the pieces on the floor around him. Laughing, he held up his gift; a pair of noise-cancelling, wireless headphones. He punched Kaneki in the arm lightly and said:
"Thanks, man! Now I don't have to worry about wires breaking!"
"You're welcome, Hide." Kaneki smiled and picked up the next gift. "Ayato's next!"
"Hn. From Hinami," he grumbled, casting a side-glance to his girlfriend. He tore the blue wrapping paper and revealed another jewelry gift box. Opening the box, he saw a black metal earring inside. It was identical to the one he always wore, but smaller and a different color. Shrugging, he thanked his girlfriend and leaned back on the couch, mostly ignoring the others.
"Ah! This is to both Touka and I, from Hinami and Ayato." Kaneki looked up at Ayato who said nothing. I bet she got it and wrote his name on it too… Passing the twins to Touka, he opened the bag and removed the red and green tissue paper. From the bag, he pulled out baby clothes in sizes ranging from newborn to 12 months. He unfolded and a pair of onesies and held them out for Touka to see. Each set of clothing was matching, but neither were going to complain about clothes for Miyu and Minoru. Setting the gifts to the side, he picked up another present.
"For… Tsukiyama," he said, passing to the man.
"Thank you, dear Kaneki-kun." He read the label. "Oh? This is from Touka?"
Everybody in the room, excluding the twins, looked at Touka in shock. The woman simply shrugged and gestured for Tsukiyama to open it. Warily, Tsukiyama slowly removed the wrapping paper, expecting something to happen. When nothing did, he looked down at the items. He clucked his tongue and raised an eyebrow at Touka. In his hands were two books, titled "Italian for Dummies" and "French for Dummies." Touka snickered behind her hand when he gave her an offended look. He crossed his arms over his chest and looked away from the woman, gesturing for Kaneki to continue.
Kaneki passed out the rest of the presents. He and Touka had decided not to give each other presents, considering Miyu and Minoru as their precious gifts. He looked around the room at the remains of wrapping paper and bows. Kimi got a promise ring from Nishiki, who tried and failed to hide his discomfort. Nishiki received a black steel watch from Kimi, Hide gave Kaneki a gift card to a bookstore -because only Kaneki knows what books to buy for himself. All of the ghouls pitched in to buy a new coffee maker and new brands of coffee for the manager. The manager gave Miyu a stuffed rabbit and Minoru a stuffed dragon, causing the twins to coo with delight and begin chewing on their new toys. Kaneki got a preserved rose and some sort of poem from Tsukiyama, who was rewarded with a death glare from Touka. And lastly, Touka gave Yoriko a new cookbook and a new set of baking utensils. Yomo had said he didn't want any gifts and he wasn't the gift-giving type either. He simply nodded at everyone and watched them with their gifts.
Kaneki clapped his hands to get everybody's attention. "Okay guys! It's picture time!"
There was a flurry of activity in the living room as Hinami and Yoriko picked up the discarded wrapping paper, bags, and boxes. Kaneki went to his bedroom to get the camera and its stand while Hide and Ayato moved the furniture back to its original arrangement. Kaneki came back with the camera attached to the stand and set the timer before taking Minoru from Touka.
The first picture was a group photo of all of them. Men in the back, women in the front, with Kaneki and Touka standing on either side with the twins. The next was Kimi and Nishiki, who was not pleased with having his picture taken. Then it was Hinami and Ayato, Touka and Yoriko, and then Hide and Kaneki. Finally, the last photo was a Kaneki family photo. Kaneki held Minoru in one arm, his other wrapped around Touka's waist, and Touka was cradling Miyu. The twins looked surprised at the flash, Touka had a small smile on her face, but Kaneki's smile was the biggest and brightest. I finally have my own family… What could be better than this?
"Sorry guys, but it's time for the twins to go to sleep," Touka said after the picture. "I don't want to deal with extra fussy babies tomorrow."
They all laughed and began collecting their things to leave. Hugs, and kisses from Yoriko and Kimi, were exchanged as the group slowly filed out of the Kaneki household. All except Hinami and Ayato, who were held back by Touka.
"We have something to tell you two." Touka glanced at her husband, who nodded.
Ayato looked annoyed at having to stay later, but Hinami was looking at Kaneki with extremely worried eyes. The two younger ghouls sat down on the couch again and waited as Touka and Kaneki put the twins to bed. When they returned, Hinami spoke up.
"What is it, big brother? Is there something wrong?" Kaneki shook his head, smiling softly.
"We decided to make you two godparents to Miyu and Minoru," he said.
Hinami and Ayato looked surprised, the Ayato much less than his girlfriend.
"But what about Yoriko and Hide?" Hinami wondered.
"Because they're human and we aren't," Touka stated. "If something happened to Ken and me, we want somebody that knows how to raise ghouls take Miyu and Minoru."
Ayato sighed. "So basically, if you and your stupid husband die, we have to adopt your kids?"
They nodded.
"Do you have a problem with that?" Touka raised an eyebrow at her younger brother.
"No, we don't!" Hinami answered before Ayato could. "We'd be happy to raise them in that situation, wouldn't we, Ayato-kun?
Ayato looked towards his girlfriend to find giving him the "this is happening and you don't have a choice" look. He groaned and scratched his head, turning to his older sister and saying:
"Fine, whatever."
"Thank you, that means a lot to us," Kaneki said, giving them a grateful smile.
Hinami smiled back and stood up, declaring it time to go. She hugged Kaneki tightly and gave him a kiss on the cheek, which he returned. She hugged her big sister, who ruffled her hair afterwards. Hinami grabbed Ayato's arm and walked to the door, stopping to hug them one last time. Ayato rolled his eyes and waved at his sister slightly as he opened the door, ushering Hinami through.
The door clicked shut and Touka locked up behind them as Kaneki checked on the twins. She moved to the living room and groaned, rubbing her face with her hand. There was still wrappings on the floor, many coffee cups stacked on tables, and what looked like the wrapper to the candy Hide had eaten. Ugh, now I have to clean up this mess… This is why I don't like parties. Lost in thought, Touka didn't hear her husband sneak up behind her. She jumped when she felt his arms wrap around her waist and rest his chin on her shoulder. She sighed,
"Next time, we're having a party anywhere but here. Look at this mess!"
Kaneki chuckled. "So just leave it until tomorrow; it's not going anywhere."
"Yeah, but if-" She started to argue.
"Come on, Touka. It's just trash, you can wait one night to clean it up." He nuzzled his face in her hair, kissing her ear. "Besides, it's Christmas. You're supposed to have fun on Christmas."
"Is that so…" She turned and wrapped her arms around his neck.
"It is." He moved his hands to cup her face, gliding his thumbs across her cheeks. Tilting her head back a little, he leaned down and kissed her forehead. She closed her eyes, eyebrows relaxing as he kissed the irritated wrinkle from between her eyes. He worked his way down, lips brushing the length of her nose and kissing her cheeks, before finally hovering over her mouth. Kaneki stared down at his small, stubborn wife and smiled softly. He covered her lips with his, kissing her deeply. He ran his tongue along her bottom lip and smiled when she sighed and softened against him. He lifted his head, breaking the kiss, and grinned cheekily as she opened her eyes to look at him. She raised an eyebrow and he chuckled,
"So let's go have some more fun!"
Touka yelped -thank goodness Miyu and Minoru were heavy sleepers- when Kaneki lifted her from the ground, holding her princess-style. She glared at him as he silently laughed at her surprised reaction. He pecked her lips lightly and she sighed, wrapping her arms around his neck again as he carried her to their bedroom.
Sliding into bed next to his wife, Kaneki wrapped an arm around her waist, turning her face to face with him. He ran his thumb over her cheek again as he looked down into her eyes. Laughing to himself, he kissed her again as he rolled so that she was under him. Yep, definitely the best Christmas so far…
*crawls from the abyss* I know, I know, the babies are barely in this and that's probably not how Christmas parties go... It's based on my own family's "party" minus the eating and drinking.
I also know that these two Christmas chapters are totally out of place considering the main focus is family moments. I don't have any other explanation than "it's Christmas, so why not jump on the bandwagon and write about it?" Consider these filler chapters, if you want an official name for them. I'm really sorry about that and I promise it won't happen again. I'm turning this into a collection of oneshots (some inter-connected obviously) that will be 95% baby/family centric and 5% parental fluff.
I hadn't thought of this until recently, but what do ghoul babies eat? Do you bottle feed them human blood or something? Is there a ghoul version of breastmilk? I need to know.
And to that recent guest review: I'm sorry, but what are you even trying to say? I write fluff because I want to, not because others want it. I get that this is Tokyo Ghoul we're talking about, but come on. The point of it being fan fiction is that the writer can create whatever plot they want. And who doesn't want Kaneki Ken to be happy?
What else, what else... Oh! If any of you want a specific situation for the twins, feel free to request. Or else they'll all be based on my own childhood experiences. So just PM me, leave it in a review, or send an ask to either of my blogs (links on my page). I'll definitely try to make them happen! c:
As always, a huge thank you for reading this! :3 Feel free to leave comments/questions/concerns in a review! [if the Christmas chapters get a decent amount of negative feedback, I'll take them down. I won't even be mad if you tell me you hate it.]
And with that, I hope all of you enjoy your holidays! (ʃƪ ˘ ³˘)
Tschüss!