Title : The Hearts Wants, What It Wants

Theme : horror/dark fantasy story

Pairing : Kaneki/Uta

A/N Thanks for all reviews.

Chapter 6 - Attack

Hide couldn't believe that Kaneki had started working at Anteiku. After saying that from his best friend Hide went there often to see Kaneki. He probably saw Kaneki there working then at the university. It was noticed by Kaneki what Hide was trying to do and he couldn't blame his best friend since he became so distance toward him.

"Well I have class to attend to." Hide said. He got up waved goodbye to his best friend and the others employee like Touka and their senpai. When they had continued to work Hide looked one last time at his best friend and then left.

"Is he a close friend of yours?" Touka asked.

"Yea. He's like family to me." Kaneki said. And that family was somebody that Kaneki didn't want to close. The reason he kept his distance was probably to keep Hide safe. When Hide come to the café it's no problem since he's safe.

"Do you have somebody like that too?" Kaneki asked.

"I guess I do." Touka replied. Touka then though of her best friend and classmate.

"Senpai don't you have to leave soon." Kaneki said. Nishio took a look at his watch and realize that Kaneki was right.

"Thanks for reminding me." Nishio hurried and changed into his casual clothes. He had a date with his lovely girlfriend.

"It's funny that you even have a girl friend." Touka commented on.

"I don't want to hear that from you!" With those last words Nishio headed out the door and headed to the direction he was going to meet Kimi.

Just then Hinami walked in through the front door. She looked a bit different looking so cute.

"Why are you dressed like that?" Touka asked. "It's kind of cute."

"No reason." She blushed.

"You look very cute." Kaneki said, which made Hinami blush. She was glad to hear such things from the two but mostly Kaneki since Hinami admired her onichan a lot.

"Did you come from somewhere?" Kaneki asked.

"Yea I just went out with Yomo-san." She said. Kaneki then noticed a book that she was carrying and from the looks it looked like she went to buy that with Yomo.

Speaking of Yomo. He wasn't somebody that Kaneki thought that highly of since he rarely talks but when Kaneki asked to get stronger the older man said he would train him. Kaneki was grateful to him for that.

"Another book?" Touka realize just how much of a nerd Hinami is just like a certain half-ghoul.

"You just insulted me didn't you?" Kaneki said looking at Touka.

"Of course not." Touka laughed.

"Ken there's somebody I want you to meet." Yomo had arrived at Anteiku.

"Somebody?"

"Is this a bar?" Kaneki didn't understand why they were at a bar. The bar was called Helter Skelter which said when they first entered the bar.

"So you're the infamous Kaneki-kun, are you?" The person Yomo was speaking was a woman that Kaneki was sure he had passed by one time while leaving Uta's shop. Speaking of Uta, he was also there.

"I'm so glad you came to see me." The woman named Itori was very lively person. "Ren-chan and Uta told me all sort of things about you. I'm Itori, the bar owner. Nice to meet you."

"Th-The pleasure is all mine." Kaneki didn't know how to deal with this kind of person. She talked a lot and was staring at him which made him feel uncomfortable.

"Oh relax, no need to be formal! Loosen up, Kanekicchi!"

"Um…how long have you guys known each other for?" Kaneki asked. Itori went on about how Uta and Yomo didn't get along at all and so on.

"Didn't you have something to tell him?" Yomo spoke.

"Ah, that's right." Itori then got a drink for Kaneki.

"I'm still underage."

"It's wine, silly." She said. Itori then threw the glass of blood at Kaneki and then took the eye patch off of the boy's eye. Kaneki's ghoul eye appeared red. "This is amazing I never seen a one-eye ghoul before!"

"Sorry about that." She said. Itori then handed the boy some coffee as apologize. She also gave Kaneki an towel to dry of his hair. Itori went on again but this time it caught his interest, she spoke about another one-eye ghoul. Kaneki wanted to know more so asked, then their talked changed when Kaneki asked about Rize the girl who made a mess of his life.

"I heard that when the accident happen that somebody was watching the whole thing." Itori spoke. This made Kaneki more interested. Yomo had to step in and stop Itori from talking about it more.

All this time Uta didn't speak much but he watched a confused Kaneki. The boy was thinking really hard about what he had found out.

That night when Kaneki got home. He couldn't forget his talk with Itori.

"Another one-eye ghoul like me, huh." Kaneki kind of wanted to meet another like him. He also wanted to know more about Rize since he knew nothing about her, she was the cause of all this in the first place.

Sometimes Kaneki would feel something horrible inside him that he can't stop. It's like the part of Rize but he won't let her control him. This is his body and he will do with as he like and won't anybody control it.

"If you're inside me then I'll just have to control you." Kaneki spoke but it was hard on his body. This usual happened often to the boy.

Kaneki was half-ghoul and could eat normal food but it didn't mean that those would help him. He wouldn't be able to survive without human flesh and he knew that very well but he tried to suppress it. He wasn't going to let Rize as she like.

"Damn you!" Whenever he thought about eating human flesh it made the boy sick to his stomach. He wasn't going be like those kind of ghouls. He shouldn't be saying that when he knew that people he had become friends with had no choice.

"I'm sorry." He felt sadden for saying something so hurtful. He couldn't help it since he was original a human to begin with. Sometimes he wonder what is a ghoul. Ghouls are just like human trying live in the world but human try to kill them off, he recalled the memories with Hinami's mother. He couldn't do anything to save her mother and ended up killing a human man. Kaneki felt sick but it made Kaneki wonder who really the bad ones are?

"I should get some rest." Kaneki went to his bed and closed as then he drifted to sleep. In his dreams, he saw his lovely mother. He was living with her and he was happy to be with her but then image changed to that of her death and cause was because of his aunt.

"You couldn't do anything for her." Rize appeared in his dreams. She had that smile on her face. She was right and Kaneki couldn't argue with her. "You wanted to be stronger didn't you?"

Kaneki woke up the next day not feeling well. He had a horrible dream and of all the things Rize had to appear and say the things he didn't want to hear. He knew that very well without her telling him.

Later that day Kaneki decided to go see Uta at his shop. He was there and making masks as usual.

"Is something wrong?" He asked when he saw that Kaneki looked a bit tired from his eyes.

"You could say something is." Kaneki said. The boy then explained about his dream and seeing Rize there.

"It kind of makes since she is part of you." He said. Uta was right but he didn't want to see her.

"I'll pour you some coffee." Uta said as he stopped what he was doing.

"I can do it myself." Kaneki said but Uta refused and continued. Uta came with cup of coffee for both Kaneki and himself.

"Thank you." Kaneki smiled.

"Coffee always makes things better." Uta smiled. He was right it always did. The coffee is the only things that ghouls can drink without getting sick but it wouldn't help that much compared to real flesh.

"You're looking a bit pale." Uta said.

It couldn't be helped since he hasn't had human flesh. To live he needed to have a little bit of human flesh but there was no way he was going to do that. Nobody knew about that condition a half-ghoul like Kaneki had.

"It's nothing." He smiled.

Kaneki liked being with Uta and talking to him compared to others. Uta was always nice to him and whatever he said Uta would listen to him.

"I hear that you been training with Renji." Uta said. "How is that?"

"It's alright. But he's a strict teacher." Then Kaneki's thought went to Touka, she was as strict too.

"Things are starting to get interesting." Uta said. Kaneki didn't understand what Uta meant when he said those words.

Later that day Kaneki went to Anteiku since he was working today. He arrived at Anteiku all ready for work but something was wrong when he got there. The place had been damaged and he saw Touka and others with injuries.

"What happened?" He asked.

"Ayato." Touka spoke a name that Kaneki didn't recognized.

"Kaneki-kun you're here." Koma said.

"What happened here?" Kaneki asked.

"Aogiri tree was here." Another name that Kaneki didn't know.

"Let me explain." Irimi then explained to Kaneki what happened. Kaneki didn't know that Touka had a brother and he was the cause of this and some others.

"They were looking for you." Koma said. "But of course we wouldn't let them have one of our family."

"Family?" Kaneki didn't think they thought of him that way but it made him happy.

"The manager isn't here."

"He had to do some errands but we called to let him know." Irimi said.

"Ayato." Touka speak that name again. Kaneki couldn't believe that somebody like her own family member would do something like this, to injure his own sister.

"Are you okay?" Kaneki bent down to where Touka was.

"Kaneki." She looked surprised. She was so deep in thought that she didn't realize when the one-eye ghoul had appeared.

"I have a feeling they will be back." Koma said.

"You may be right." The manager appeared at the doorway with Nishio. He helped everybody with their injuries.

"Why are they after me?" Kaneki asked.

"They probably know that a one-eye ghoul have been working here." The manager said.

Kaneki didn't know much of these things. Were one-eye ghouls like himself that important? He didn't think much of it but Itori did say there were others like him.

"For now let's clean this mess up." Yoshimura said.

Everybody fixed the place up like it hadn't even been attack by those Aogiri. This event concern Kaneki a lot. He didn't like that everybody got hurt and it was because of him. He wasn't there to protect them.

Suddenly Kaneki got an idea. Of course he wasn't going tell the manager or anybody about it. He wanted to protect them to do so he was going keep them out of it.