Title : The Hearts Wants, What It Wants
Theme : horror/dark fantasy story
Pairing : Kaneki/Uta
TheIntriguingCollector - No problem i have fun making it and there more to come.
- I agree with you on that. I have changed some bits and pieces but everything is still the same in a way. Yea i wanted make Uta somebody who would protect Kaneki even if he is strong at times.
Chapter 4 - Secret Out
Kaneki and Nishio headed to the destination where the letter had said where Kimi would be. Kaneki hated the fact that guy had her, Kaneki knew that Tsukiyama wasn't somebody a nice guy, he might act nice and all but he has a hidden side that Kaneki didn't like.
The two stood in front of the church. Kaneki could see that Nishio was looking impatient.
"I'm here Kimi." Nishio walked inside and Kaneki followed suit. When the two entered they saw Kimi but her hands and legs were tied and her eyes were covered with a white cloth.
"Kimi!" Nishio yelled. Suddenly the guy that Kaneki hated appeared. He had that smirk on his face, he was enjoying this.
"You bastard!" Nishio yelled.
"How nice of you to join us?" He smiled. Nishio charged toward Tsukiyama but Nishio was still weak and Tsukiyama was giving him a hard time.
"Nishio-san, stop it!" Kaneki tried to stop his senpai but he wasn't listening. He was charging and charging but each time was the same and Nishio was getting hurt more. Tsukiyama was going to punch the hell out of Nishio but Kaneki stepped in and stopped his punch but Kaneki he had a hard time since he wasn't that strong, since he was still learning as a new ghoul.
Tsukiyama manage to punch Kaneki but him glad he was able to protect Nishio but the punch since he didn't know how much longer Nishio would last with his injuries.
"This isn't good."
"Kaneki, let me eat you up." This guy was creeping Kaneki out. The black-haired boy's one eye turned red without him doing anything.
"Stop right there!" Kaneki knew this voice, it was the girl from that café. Kaneki turned around and he was right that girl was there.
"Now she know who I am?"
"Touka-chan, why are you doing here?"
"I saw you and Nishio together." Touka thought something bad might happen, at the time she didn't know that Kaneki was a ghoul as well and thought that Nishio would eat him or something along those lines.
"I see." He spoke.
"You're a ghoul." She said in a surprised tone. Of course she would be shock since he acted like any normal human would. Well he was human to start with.
"Tsukiyama." Touka said when she looked up at the older man. She didn't like this man like many others like her including Kaneki himself.
Touka saw that Kaneki and Nishio was both hurt then she saw there was a human girl tied up and she knew that man had something to with this all.
"Kimi." Nishio kept repeated his girlfriend's name as many times but the girl didn't reply back to him.
"I would like if you didn't get in my way." Tsukiyama then attacked Touka. Touka got hit by him, she was weak because she had eaten some food that her friend had made her.
"Of all the time why now." Touka could have taken this guy out in second but because of the food that her friend made she was weak. Touka could have refused but because she cares a lot of Kosaka Yoriko.
"Now let me have you Kaneki-kun." Tsukiyama walked closer to where Kaneki was. Kaneki didn't like this one bite. Kaneki got up from where he was. He released his Kagune and attack Tsukiyama but he dodged all the attack Kaneki did.
Tsukiyama released his Kagune and was going to attack Kaneki but a hand had stopped him. When Kaneki looked he saw somebody had saved him.
"Uta-san." Kaneki said in a surprised tone.
"I'm glad that you're not hurt." Uta said. Uta then turned to stare at Tsukiyama, more like glare. Uta was really angry and his looks could kill. With one hand Uta took care of Tsukiyama who went crushing across the room on the ground.
"How come you're here?" Kaneki asked.
"I always know where you are?" He replied. Kaneki looked confused since he didn't understand anything that he meant.
Nishio hurried over to his girlfriend. He untied her and hugged her.
"Are you okay?" Nishio could hear the breathing of his girlfriend and smiled that she was alive and fine.
"Touka, can keep Kaneki's identity a secret?"
"Huh?"
"Uta-san."
"I know that you don't want other to know about you so I want to protect you."
Why did Uta want to protect him?
"Sure I guess." Touka didn't have anything else to say to Uta.
Kaneki had decided to go home with Uta since it was closer and he needed to get clean up. He kept thinking about how easily that Uta was able to stop Tsukiyama with just one hand. He knew that he needed to get stronger. Next time Uta won't be there to save him.
Kaneki looked in the mirror and looked at himself and saw his red eye had appeared once again. He can never control it that it makes him so mad.
"Kaneki-kun, I put some fresh clothes for you." Kaneki heard Uta shout from outside the bath room.
"Thank you." Kaneki yelled back.
Kaneki got out of the shower and saw the clothes that Uta had placed. It was a white t-shirt, Kaneki looked at it then changed into it. He got out and saw Uta having some coffee.
"How is the clothes?" Uta asked.
"It's a little big on me." Kaneki said.
"I think it suits you well." He smiled. "Come here I made some coffee." Kaneki sat beside Uta and took the coffee that Uta had made for Kaneki and himself.
"I'm glad that you were not hurt."
"Yea." Kaneki involved a human in all this and he felt bad. Plus Nishio was still weak from not eating anything which made it harder for him. He wished he was stronger and able to help them more than he could.
"Uta-san, there something I want you to help me with."
"Sure, what is it?"
Anteiku was running as normal but now Nishio was working there alongside Touka. Kaneki had asked Uta to help Nishio so he won't go weak again.
"I can't be I have to work with you." Touka looked annoyed.
"Right back at you." Nishio countered his words.
It wasn't a good start for the two but it was the only way that Nishio wouldn't go hungry again since the shop would have food for people like Nishio.
Touka was surprised that Uta had come talk to him about getting Nishio a job. He said it was Kaneki's idea and he wanted what best was for Nishio and make Kimi happy now. Touka had also promised Uta to keep Kaneki's secret, but the teenager wonder why he was hiding it.
Since Touka came the next day with a wound and a new part-timer, it's no wonder that the owner would ask her the reason and plus Nishio was hurt also.
"Just pretend like nothing happened."
"Did you know about Kaneki?" Touka asked Nishio when they both had break together.
"Yea." He replied. Nishio pretend not to see him at the college but it was hard not to when he could tell right away he was a ghoul. "You didn't know about him being a ghoul."
"That's why I'm asking you, dumbass." Touka was annoyed.
"What a pain?" Nishio didn't like the way that the younger girl was treating him.
"How wasn't anybody else able to tell he's a ghoul?" Touka wonder about that, she was sure that her manger would have picked it up but he hasn't said anything so that means even he didn't know.
"He's a half-ghoul." Nishio said.
"How is that possible?" Touka looked surprised.
"I don't know the answer to that."
"Uta-san seem to know more about Kaneki, to even protect him." Touka let out a sigh.
"Kaneki-onichan is a nice guy." Hinami entered a room holding a book in her hands.
"You know about him." Touka said.
"He told me not to talk about it but since you already know." Touka then realize what the little girl was trying to say. She recalled that day she found a dead body and not to mention that Hinami had come home.
"Was it Kaneki who saved you?"
"Yes." Hinami said.
"If he saved you then how was he not able to attack Tsukiyama."
"Touka, I told you that he is a half-ghoul so he probably has a weakness." Nishio said.
"How the hell did you even meet him?"
"I would like it if you respected me." Nishio couldn't believe this girl, she was being so rude to him the moment they met. "He attends the same college as me."
"I guess half-ghouls don't have food problem but something else."
Kaneki was at the college in the library. He was reading a novel rather than studying. He came to the college even those he didn't have classes. He wanted to be where he felt like himself and that was the library.
There wasn't many students so it was peace and quiet. Kaneki thought how he ended up getting involved with many people even those he tried to avoid them. He wanted to ignore them and live a life like a normal human but it was impossible for him.
"I need a way to get stronger."
"I wonder how Nishio is doing at Anteiku café." He didn't think that Nishio was the type to work in a café since he's kind of scary sometimes.
Kaneki felt a vibrate and took out his phone from his jacket pocket. It was text from Hide. The text didn't say much but saying that Hide has been looking for a new job. Sometimes it was hard to speak to Hide when he always gave him a strange look and said things like "You seem different" And things like "If you want to tell let me know"
Kaneki couldn't tell Hide the truth. The day he got into that accident, Hide was there when he saw him in trouble and tried to help but he couldn't do anything in the mess. Hide was the first person to visit him, maybe the only since Hide is like family to him since his mother.
"Sometimes I think that god hates me."
Kaneki packed up his things and started to get up. He didn't feel like reading anymore. He wanted to do something else, maybe this was a good time to see how Nishio was doing at his job.
Kaneki arrived at Anteiku café and saw Touka and Nishio arguing. When he entered the shop the bell announced his arrival and the two stopped fighting and saw the black-haired college student.
The first one to approach the boy was the little girl. Hinami looked so happy to see Kaneki. She looked at Kaneki a bit shy but she was happy. She couldn't thank him enough for saving her, if it wasn't for him then she would have been gone.
"Oni-chan, you're here."
"Hinami, right." Kaneki said recalling her name.
"That's right." She smiled. Kaneki was glad that he got her name right.
"You look better than before." He smiled and patted the little girl on the head gently.
"Kaneki, you finally show up!" Nishio didn't look all that happy to see him for some reason.
"Is something wrong?' Kaneki asked in a gentler tone then the one Nishio was giving him right now. He even gave his senpai a smile, even those it was a fake one.
"How dare you leave me here alone with this wiles girl?"
"I can hear everything you say, you damn brat!"
"They don't get along do they?" Kaneki mumbled.
"They been like this since they started working together." Hinami said when he heard Kaneki's small mumble.
The manager came out and saw that Touka, Nishio even Hinami was talking to a certain boy that always came back. He remember this boy, he saw him sneak here before, and even without the mask Yoshimura knew who Kaneki was now. He did wonder why the boy hid about himself.
Later that evening Yoshimura confronted the college student. Kaneki had a feeling the shop owner knew about him so he didn't try to hide it.
"Is there something you need from me?" Kaneki asked as he turned to face the old man. The man smiled seeing this, the boy wasn't stupid.
"Why are you running away?"
"What are you saying?"
"I can see that you don't want anything to do with people but you already are involved with them." Kaneki couldn't deny what Yoshimura said was true. He liked interacting with these people.
"Are you the reason why Touka came with injuries and brought Nishio-kun?"
"You're smart." Kaneki said. "I won't deny it since it's the truth."
"I can help you." Yoshimura said.
"What?" Kaneki didn't know why the shop owner suddenly asked him some questions and tell him he can help somebody like him.
"I can tell you want to improve." Then again what the man said was true. But that didn't mean that he was going to do as what the man said.
"I'm sorry but I decline." Kaneki started to walk away, he then heard Yoshimura speak.
"If you ever change your mind Anteiku will be waiting for you."