After an admission of the heart, and a very sweet moment of silence shared between the two, Ryoko was feeling pretty damn ecstatic. She was overjoyed to say the least, and on top of the world. Her heart felt like it was going to explode from the exceptional amount of happiness flowing into it. She truly had not been this happy in awhile, whether it be because her mind was foggy, or because this is how she truly felt. She thoroughly enjoyed being around and with Kaneki Ken, she knew that much. Kaneki and her kept slowly swaying to the beat of the music engulfing the room.

It was a perfect moment, and then Kaneki ruined it. Every single thing that boy had consumed tonight was regurgitated onto Ryoko's shoes. She stood there absolutely still, if people hadn't seen her moving previously she was sure they would have thought she was a statue. Mostly because she didn't know what to do, or how to process this situation. Kaneki, the guy she had been with all day and haven't had anything but good thoughts about, was puking all over her feet. He was doubled over, holding onto his stomach gasping for much needed air.

He looked up at Ryoko with his beautiful brown, but very glazed over eyes. Kaneki wiped his sleeve across his mouth, and she looked around at everyone else to see that most of them hadn't realized what happened (or didn't care) except for the few that were closer to Kaneki and Ryoko. She finally managed to get out of her icy, statue like state, managing to back away from the mess on the floor, and peeling off her shoes immediately along with her socks. Going outside barefoot was something Ryoko would much rather do right now.

"Ry- I- I'm so sorry!" Kaneki starts panicking, she shakes her head then walks over to the bar to tell whoever they have a mess to clean up. They just sigh, Ryoko presumes this has happened before, and she almost feels bad for the guy if Kaneki hadn't just ruined her shoes. Ryoko walks back over to Kaneki after throwing her shoes and socks into the trash can.

She extends her hand to him, he looks up like a lost puppy, "Come on, Ken."

All Kaneki does is nod. She pulls him with her towards the exit, it opens up into the alleyway on the side of the building. Ryoko was trying to decide what to do with Kaneki as they stroll down the alleyway. The easiest thing to do would be to take him back to her apartment and let him sleep there, the poor guy probably doesn't have any clue where he lives right now. Not to mention she did know a shortcut to her house through this alleyway, so it would just be easier all together if she brought Kaneki with me. It's not like he was competent enough to actually try anything anyways. At least, that's what she told herself. Under any other circumstance she would never allow a guy she barely knew into her house, but she had a soft spot for Kaneki and this was her way of reasoning with that.

As they walk deeper into the alleyway, a hint of something hits Ryoko's nose spiking her interest. It had to be flesh.. she straightened herself back up, now was definitely not the time to be getting hungry. She needed to get Kaneki home and in bed. He desperately needed water, pain pills, and some sleep. The further they got into the alleyway the more prominent the smell became until the two came up on a ghoul tearing into a human. Ryoko knew it was flesh, it always smelled that way.

"Huh?" He murmurs lowly as Kaneki and Ryoko approach him. "Oh, you guys want some?"

She looks at the guy before her. His clothes are very tattered and there's an altogether disgusting aroma radiating from him. There's no way she'd ever share a meal with this guy, she's been a ghoul quite long enough to know better.

"No thanks, we'll pass."

She feels a jerk on her hand, and turn to see Kaneki practically drooling over the exposed flesh in front of him. Oh no, she hadn't even thought about the possibility of Kaneki needing to eat. Did he eat enough? What were his habits? He had just thrown up everything, maybe that's why he was drooling?

"I.. need.." Kaneki said in alien voice, it wasn't the cute Kaneki voice she had gotten used to. It was deep, and it sounded maniacal. "Flesh!"

"Kaneki!" Ryoko yelps, trying to keep her tight grip that she had on his hand but Kaneki was going absolutely crazy right now, even Ryoko couldn't keep a hold on him.

He shakes his head, squeezing it between his hands. "No, no, no! I'm not going to eat people."

All she could do was watch as Kaneki argued with himself, "But it's so easy, and I'm so hungry!"

Kaneki outright sprinted towards the body. She knew this wouldn't end well, so Ryoko did the only plausible thing she could possibly think of in such a short amount of time. She rushed after Kaneki, she had to be faster than him. She ran in front of the body throwing herself in front of it, and the ghoul who had returned to eating it. Kaneki's teeth tore into the skin on her exposed shoulder, and he ripped that bit of flesh off swallowing it. She was a ghoul, and she did have regenerative powers but it still hurt like hell whenever she got impaled or anything. Her shoulder was burning like a bitch, Ryoko reached over and places her hand on it to stop the blood from spurting out of the newly exposed skin.

She looks up at Kaneki, to see that his face has twisted into something that would be most recognized as horror. She could tell that he had already regretted his actions, but it didn't seem like he had a very good hold on himself. Therefore she dismissed the incident, and forgave him immediately. There was no way the regular Kaneki would flip a switch like that so effortlessly, there was something seriously wrong with the guy. It sort of scared Ryoko, but mostly excited her. He was so unpredictable.

"Ryoko-"

"We need to get you to bed. Let's go, it's fine. It should stop bleeding in a second." She frowns letting a bit of air escape her mouth as she looked at her shirt getting soaked with more blood each second; she lifts her head up walking away from the ghoul devouring whatever unfortunate human had been the target of his meal.

A few more minutes of silent walking, and they were on the street where her apartment building was. Once they rounded the corner it was close by. The two of them walked inside the building and went up the elevator to the third floor. Kaneki was dead silent the whole time, but he also couldn't stand very still indicating that he was still very intoxicated. He would stumble over his own footing every few moments, almost landing on Ryoko a couple times. The elevator dinged, and the doors opened up onto her floor. Kaneki followed her very clumsily to Ryoko's room, she was pretty sure he ran into the wall a few times before they managed to get there, but nonetheless arrived at 304 quickly. She dug around in her back pocket for the key, finding it quickly, however she fumbled unlocking the front door for a few moments, clearly all the alcohol hadn't left her system completely either.

Kaneki followed her inside, flopping onto the couch while she went into her room and threw her bloody clothes into the wash. Ryoko changed into a T-shirt and shorts to sleep in, after bandaging her shoulder to the best of her ability. It would definitely scar for a bit. She returned back into the living room where Kaneki was sitting on the couch slowly falling asleep.

"Kaneki get up," Ryoko says loudly, and he jumps up quickly from his spot on the couch.

"Ryoko! I-"

"Sh," She shakes her head at him and places her pointer finger over his lips gently. Ryoko helps him up, and proceeds to help him in the task of pulling off the sweater he had on. "Just be quiet. I think I have some clothes from when Ayato lived here, you can wear those okay? Can you get your button up off?"

"I think so," He nods, and she travels back into Ayato's room where she knew held a few articles of Ayato's clothes stashed in his closet and drawers. It wasn't like he could just up and bring everything to Aogiri with him, Ayato barely changed while he was working. He always smelled awful when he got back home. She manages to find a black T-shirt and some sweatpants, so decides to grab those and walk back into the living room to give them to Kaneki.

When she walks into her living room, Kaneki is almost completely naked, he's stripped himself down to his boxers. He could have at least waited until she wasn't in the room! Or gone in the bathroom; something.

"Kaneki," She sighs, and averts her eyes as she hands him the clothes that she's gathered hands.

He has a wicked grin on his face, "What you like what you see?"

"You're drunk. You need to go to bed." She rolls her eyes, a scoff coming out of her throat. Ryoko picks up his disgusting puke clothes throwing those into the wash with her blood stained ones.

Sadly at this point she had for the most part sobered up, but not enough to deny Kaneki sharing the bed with her. If she was completely sober there's no way she would have agreed to it, right? Not to mention she was extremely tired and still somewhat had a buzz. Kaneki's incessant whining about how he didn't want to be alone right now was more than a little exhausting, because for some reason he thought something was going to kill him in his sleep, she thought it was ridiculous but he insisted. There she lay, in her bed with Kaneki by her side.

"Ryoko?"

Ryoko covers her face with her hands, dragging them down then turning her head in Kaneki's direction with a scowl on her face, "Yes, Ken?"

"I-" Kaneki lets out a really big sigh, and turns to face her as well. She can barely see his face in the darkness, but she can see the silhouette of it and feel a faint heat hit her face indicating he was breathing awfully close to her face. Ryoko imagined her face would be red right now, if the lights weren't off. "I'm really sorry about puking on your shoes, and uh, I'm really sorry about ripping off your, um skin. I can't control myself very well, part of me thinks eating humans is bad but the other part of me knows I have to in order to stay sane."

She just smiles to herself not even imagining Kaneki could see it, "That's why I didn't get mad. I didn't think you had control over it, it must be hard for you. You've been a human for the majority of your life eating human food, and suddenly you have to eat other people. It's a hard concept to wrap your head around, sometimes I even have issues with it. I don't feel like what I do is right, but it's what I have to do in order to survive."

"You're really so amazing." Kaneki yawns, and moves closer to Ryoko wrapping his arms around her as her exterior went stiff in his grasp. Kaneki was never the one to initiate anything, he must really have to be drunk. "I haven't had this much fun since I became a ghoul, honestly it seems like everything's just went to hell since then, but not this. I like being with you, it makes me feel happy again. And I am so sorry it took me a whole month to call you, I really feel awful about that. From now on I will message you everyday to make up for it."

"Kaneki! What are you doing!" She yelps, blushing at his kind words. He didn't even stutter.

He yawns again, and squeezes Ryoko tighter as if he's attempting to loosen the stiffness in her muscles. "Cuddling. Thank you for everything today Ry, goodnight."

She decides it's useless to protest anymore, she just wanted to get sleep and had already accepted her feelings towards him were complicated. "Goodnight Kaneki."

She process the situation she was in, and almost ends up bursting into laughter. If anyone else had puked on her, and bitten her she would have lost her temper very quickly. But for some reason, she made excuses for Kaneki. She didn't want to write him off so easily. Ryoko wanted him to stay around, so she forgave him quickly for the stupid things he did. Plus, she was the one who got him drunk enough to this point. Not only had she let the guy come to my apartment after the first date, she let him sleep in her bed and cuddle her! What was Ryoko even thinking? She didn't want to admit that it felt nice to be in this position, so she wrote herself off as being too intoxicated to deal with the problem. She heard Kaneki let out a small snore, and decided she herself needed to sleep. Ryoko's mind was racing, and it definitely needed to be put to rest. Because she could not figure out what Kaneki Ken was doing to her.

Two weeks. Ryoko had known Kaneki for two weeks now, and there was one major thing that she had learned about him. His smile was not genuine. Throughout the past two weeks, she had seen Kaneki in many different situations, but in none of them did he ever give off a genuine smile. Ryoko had seen Kaneki's real smile and heard his real laugh the morning after their first date. She remembers it vividly because Ryoko remembered thinking about how beautiful it was. She had explained to him the events of the night before, because of course he didn't remember hardly anything, and he had bursted into laughter out of how embarrassed he was for his actions. He also apologized, but seeing him smile and laugh so beautifully would've done it for her was the first time she really saw Kaneki comfortable with her, he hadn't laughed like that or seemed so calm the entire day before.

Every time she visited Kaneki at work, aka Anteiku the coffee shop, he was very sweet to the customers but he never genuinely smiled at them. Any time that Kaneki and her went out anywhere he had thanked people for things, and smiled at them but it was fake as well. Even when Kaneki talked to his friends, he did not genuinely smile at them. She pondered why for days, but eventually came to the conclusion that Kaneki had learned to hate himself somewhere along the way of becoming a ghoul. Of course Ryoko understood why, but she just didn't think that Kaneki was bad in any way. In fact, she thought he was one of the most perfect people she had ever met.

That is why she dedicated their day together to ensure that she would get Kaneki to genuinely smile. Because it was beautiful, and he needed to know how perfect he actually was. We were supposed to visit a town close by, and visit the shops that they had there because apparently there was some new bookstore that Kaneki just had to see. Right now they were headed towards the bookstore.

The perfect opportunity to try to make him laugh, "Hey Kaneki?"

"Hmm, what is it Ry?" He looks over at the green haired girl next to him, and she stares at the two's conjoined hands for a moment. Ever since Kaneki slept at her apartment, they had been pretty close. He texted her everyday like he promised, it was even at the same time. Even if he was at work. There were very few days that she didn't see him, and they had honestly just grown more used to each other through the two weeks.

"Where do animals go when their tails fall off?" Ryoko asks, and he looks at her with a very puzzled expression. "The retail store!"

Kaneki puts his hand on her snowy skinned forehead, "Are you feeling okay Ryoko?"

She heaves a large sigh, letting her shoulders slump in defeat. "I am fineKaneki."

He nods his head in agreement, and focuses his attention back to watching for what road they were supposed to travel down in order to get to the book shop. She kept running through ideas, trying to think of what would make Kaneki laugh. Maybe he something embarrassing would make him laugh? Ryoko quickly formulated a plan to make herself fall in front of all of these people walking the streets heading towards whatever destination awaited them. She waited for a few minutes before fake tripping over nothing, and falling face first into the pavement of the sidewalk everyone was on. People around them giggled a bit, but Kaneki did not.

Kaneki quickly scoops her up, and grabs her shoulders with a worried expression on his face. "Oh my gosh are you okay? Be more careful Ry! You scared me."

Nothing. He didn't crack a smile or anything. We continued on to the bookstore, until they finally reached their own destination. Kaneki pulled Ryoko inside with him, and looked through the books while she tried to think of more things that would make Kaneki laugh or smile. She had decided to go with the making a funny face option, because come on, everyone's a sucker for funny faces! They made Ayato laugh every time he was in a shitty mood, surely it would work on Kaneki. She grabbed a book off the shelf and held it over her face.

"Hey Kaneki!"

As he turned to look at Ryoko, she pulled the book down to reveal her cross eyed tongue out face. Kaneki narrowed his eyes at her once more. Well that was more than unsuccessful.

"You're weird." Kaneki sighs, and continues to search through the books. Ryoko finds a couple books for herself, but she's still focused on ways to make Kaneki smile.

She absolutely failed miserably all day.

She had made another attempt after the bookstore, by trying to tickle Kaneki while they were headed towards the park that was near the bookstore they were at. It turns out Kaneki isn't ticklish whatsoever. After they visited the park, the two decided to go see a movie. She of course picked a comedy in hopes that some of the humour in it would make him laugh, but he sat there like a statue the whole time. Even she laughed a few times, of course it was an extra loud laugh in hopes that Kaneki would join in but it was still a laugh dammit! When the movie was over, Kaneki and her stopped to get more coffee and water. She tried to be funny by missing her mouth completely and spilling the water all over the front of her shirt, but Kaneki just took off the sweater he had on over his button up shirt and gave it to Ryoko to wear.

Now we were walking home, and she hadn't done the one thing that she was deadset on doing today. The pair stopped in front of her apartment building and the once long day seemed short without her accomplishing anything, her being a little bit more than upset about the string of dumb actions that got no reactions.

"Tell me something," Kaneki speaks looking down at her, and she looks right back up at him. "Did you start doing drugs or something? Are you okay? Is there something wrong?"

She shakes her head exasperated, he really thought something was wrong with her because of what she had done today. "What are you talking about Kaneki? I'm fine."

"Okay then. Why the hell have you been so weird today? I can't think of any other reasons. You're normally weird, but today you have been extra weird. I mean the tripping? The bad jokes, and the funny faces?"

"Kaneki," She looks at the ground, a pout forming on her face. "I was just trying to make you smile. I want you to be happy, and you never genuinely smile so I planned to make you do it today."

Kaneki seems to be very surprised by this, but ends up belting out into full on laughter. Seriously! She couldn't make him laugh all day, and now he can barely breathe! After Kaneki gets over his laughing fit, he pulls Ryoko close to him. "You're so ridiculous, Ry."

"What's that supposed to mean!" Ryoko shoves Kaneki away from her, the look on his face almost priceless.

He regains his once playful exterior, placing a hand onto her shoulder making sure she knew he was being sincere. "You make me happy. You've been trying so hard to do something you've already succeeded at all day, I thought it was funny. What brought this on any way?"

She lets out a sigh mumbling something incomprehensible under her breath, and wraps her arms back around Kaneki. "You just have a really beautiful smile, and laugh. I want to see more of it because you don't do it often."

Kaneki places a kiss on the top of her head, "Just you being around is good enough for me. Even if I don't always show it, I'm, uh, I'm really happy." She stayed in Kaneki's embrace for a few moments before he speaks again, "Oh, um, we're hanging out with my friends tomorrow by the way."

Ryoko pushes herself out of Kaneki's arms once more and glares at him; saying in the most menacing voice possible, "What?"

He scratches the back of his head, a nervous tendency Ryoko has learned that he does. "Hide's been bothering me about it for the last two weeks since I got home from your apartment and he grilled me with questions! Nishio AND Touka don't think you're real. Hinami is the only one that is neutral."

Ryoko could definitely see why they might think that. Every time she went up to Kaneki's work neither of them had been there. Hinami was always locked up in that room. It's not that she didn't want to meet Kaneki's friends, she was just nervous because she didn't feel like she was a very likeable person and Ryoko needed them to like her. Kaneki had become an important person to her; whether she liked it or not, and if his friends didn't like her then it would be a lot harder for them to be around each other. There was no questions about it, she would make his friends like her.

However she was worried about Touka. The only things she ever heard about the girl was when Ayato was slandering her, or talking about how much he disliked his sister. She wasn't sure if Ayato had ever informed her of Ryoko, so she was worried that Touka would already know Ryoko and have some preconceived bad idea of her.

"Alright Kaneki, fine. What time?"

"1 PM we're going to the zoo! Nishio's bringing Kimi too. I'm pretty sure Hide thinks he's going as Touka's date, but, uh, I doubt that will go over well with her," Kaneki lets out a sigh, and Ryoko can't tell if it's out of relief or worry. "Anyways, I'll see you tomorrow."

"See you tomorrow Kaneki," She waves and he hugs her close to him one more time before running off in the direction of where his own apartment is. Kaneki was so weird. This was for the most part a daily routine for the two of them, and she was sure a lot of people would think they were spending too much time together but she really couldn't get enough of him.

Kaneki was picking her up at 12:30 PM. They were meeting everyone at the zoo, and taking a cab over there since it was a lot further than most places the two had traveled most of the time. She pulled her long, dark green wavy curls up today, knowing that they would be outside for a majority of the time. Ryoko wore a plain white t-shirt along with a pair of blue jean shorts. She also had on the new pair of sneakers she had to buy considering that Kaneki threw up and ruined her other ones. She would never let him live that down. At exactly 12:30 there was a knock on my door, she yelled for him to come in. Ryoko was still trying to tame her wild hair into a ponytail.

"What if I was some creep? You just invited me into your house." Kaneki leans against the doorframe of her bathroom and shakes his head, Ryoko rolls her eyes.

"But you're not," She said through grit teeth, she had her hair tie in her mouth while she was trying get all of the thick hair into one place.

He holds his hand out for Ryoko to give him the hair tie, and she hands it to him as he easily does Ryoko's hair for her. She couldn't even do that! What the hell?

"No I'm not," Kaneki chuckles lowly, pulling her hair to tighten the ponytail. "But it could've been someone else."

"Whatever. Where did you learn to do that?"

Kaneki raises an eyebrow at me in confusion, "Pull up hair? I don't know. It's simple enough. Let's go."

I nod my head, and follow Kaneki outside after locking the door to my apartment. We make it downstairs and outside to the cab waiting for us. The ride there is practically agony for me, all I can think about is how these people are going to be judging me the entire time we're there. Were they okay with cursing? I wasn't sure I'd be able to hold that aspect of myself back, Ryoko truly had a dirty mouth. She had tried once before and completely ended up exploding and saying every curse word to ever exist at least five times.

"Stop bouncing your leg, it's going to be fine." Kaneki puts his hand on her knee, and glares at Ryoko.

"I'm sorry! I'm nervous, all they're going to do is judge me. What if they don't like me and-"

Kaneki puts his hand over her mouth, "They're going to like you, because I like you. Everything is going to be fine. I'm supposed to be the one who gets nervous about stuff, right?"

Ryoko nods her head without saying another word. It seems like they make it to the zoo a lot faster than they should've but she was probably over exaggerating again. Kaneki paid the cab driver, and took her hand leading them towards the entrance to the zoo. She anticipated what was to come, where were they going to meet the others? How soon would it be? She was making herself so nervous to the point where she felt sick. Normally Ryoko was so calm, but meeting Kaneki's friends had driven her absolutely mad. She had never worried about something so trivial, but then again she'd never had a boyfriend type thing, Ryoko wasn't quite sure what to call Kaneki yet.

And then she heard it.

"Hey Kaneki!" It was another boy's voice, he sounded enthusiastic so she guessed it was Hide. Before she knew it there was an orange haired boy running towards them, along with a girl with blue hair resembling Ayato's who was clearly Touka, Nishio and Kimi followed shortly behind walking to their own beat.

Hide was the first to meet up with them, throwing his arms around Kaneki who yelled in surprise when Hide picked up and twirled him around in the air for a moment.

"H-Hide! Don't do that." Kaneki starts pouting, a frown forming on his face.

"Sorry bud," Hide claps Kaneki on the back, and then turns his attention towards Ryoko. "Woah, you're Ryoko?"

She nods her head, and smiles at him. Waving my hand a bit, "Yes. Nice to meet you, Hide."

Hide picks her up and twirls her around just like he did with Kaneki, "Nice to meet you too! I've heard a lot about you! It's so great to actually see you!"

"Hide put her down!" Kaneki groans, making Ryoko laugh as Hide sets her back down. Kaneki was not kidding when he said this guy was overly energetic.

"Alright Kaneki, where's your fake girlfriend? Did she find some reason not to come?" Nishio laughs, and Kaneki sends him a death glare.

Hide's the one to speak up. He puts his arm around her neck, dragging her down with him a bit. Ryoko looked a little distressed. "Nope! She's right here."

Nishio, Kimi, and Touka all direct their full attention at Ryoko at the same time. She didn't like being stared at, and honestly wished that Kaneki still had a grip on her hand. If it weren't for Hide she probably would've been hiding behind Kaneki right now. Ryoko didn't know when she got so shy, but this attention was smothering her. The only thing she could think of was escaping.

"Wow, she is real. Nice to meet you, I'm Nishio." The redhead with glasses blinks a few times, before reaching out to conjoin hands with Ryoko. She happily took his hand, and smiles brightly at him.

"I'm Kimi!" The girl under Nishio's arm smiles at her sweetly.

"Touka." She says bluntly, it makes Ryoko feel like running for the hills. Was Touka all too aware of who she was? Did she know Ayato was her best friend? Was Ryoko completely doomed already?

She waves at them as Hide lets go of her, finally, "Nice to meet you all as well. I'm Ryoko."

"Enough introductions! Let's go, I'm ready to see some animals!" Hide yells excitedly, and drags Touka along with him as he runs towards the entrance. Nishio seems unimpressed, but follows the two. Ryoko feels relief wash over her as Hide drags her only obstacle away from her.

She could feel Kaneki's hand slip back into her own, and her heart rate finally went back to a normal steady pace. That was absolutely the most nerve wrecking thing she had done in awhile.

"See! That wasn't so bad. I'm sure worse has happened," Kaneki grins at widely at her.

She sighs, remembering the few weeks ago when she took down a whole ceiling.

"Oh yeah, Kaneki, I've been meaning to tell you something." She says both of them follow his group of friends to the ticket booth up front.

He glances over at Ryoko arching an eyebrow, "What is it?"

"Well," She scratches the back of her head, looking at the ground. It still wasn't something she was proud of, honestly it was one of her bad moments. She lost her temper a lot, but that was definitely top 5 on her list of moments of going completely overboard. "Remember that bowling alley ceiling that got completely destroyed those few weeks ago?"

"Yeah. They never found the people who did it."

"It was me. I got mad."

Kaneki starts cracking up at this new information, he has to stop mid-stride because he's laughing so hard. "Oh man I should have known. Don't worry, your secret's safe with me."

Everyone paid for their tickets, and all of them wandered inside. The first exhibit they all decided to see was the monkeys, because let's face it, monkey's were boring and not all that fun to watch. Unless they were doing something ridiculous, which most of the time they were just lounging around or not even roaming around. The group all stood in front of the glass watching as the primates swung around on some trees in their habitat. Ryoko was always fond of animals, so she was excited when Kaneki had told her they were going to the zoo but the fact that his friends were here had made her so nervous the excitement had completely vanished.

Throughout the day Hide had asked her many questions, and the only thing Nishio kept asking her was why Kaneki. She never had a real answer, Ryoko just told him that she really liked Kaneki to which he would shake his head. Kimi was really nice, and she seemed almost as nervous as Ryoko was. She complimented her hair, and told Ryoko how she met Nishio while they were walking to the reptile exhibit. She really enjoyed Kimi's company, so she could see why Nishio was so overprotective of her. Hide kept asking her a million questions, he wanted to know everything because Kaneki wouldn't give any major details about Ryoko. He said he even doubted that Kaneki had a girlfriend, a word Ryoko had still not grown accustomed to but that's what they had labeled her with anyways. She decided she would have to talk to Kaneki about that, you don't just start dating someone after two weeks. Sure, they had spent a lot of time together but that wasn't the point.

Everyone visited quite a few small exhibits, seeing some interesting looking animals. But the whole time they were there she couldn't help but feel a certain set of eyes glaring into her back every time Ryoko was turned around. She knew it was Touka, but she didn't know why the familiar indigo haired girl kept glaring at her. It made Ryoko uneasy, so she stayed as close to Kaneki as possible. They had finally made it to Ryoko's favorite exhibit that held the tigers. She watched as they paced back and forth, while some of them laid on the rocks set out for them.

"They're beautiful creatures aren't they," Kimi says aloud everyone nodding.

"Not as beautiful as you," Kaneki says in a hushed tone, making Ryoko blush. Ryoko smiles at him, and he smiles back quickly reverting his attention back to the tigers. Clearly he was embarrassed by his comment, Kaneki really wasn't the one to say things like that. But every so often he would let what he was truly thinking slip and Ryoko was truly thankful for that.

She looks over to Touka, and sees that she has her arms folded across her chest. If looks could kill, Ryoko would most certainly be dead right now. So that's what it was, she had a little thing for Kaneki and Ryoko was clearly getting in the way of it. She had no idea who Ryoko was, she was just jealous. She was relieved. Ryoko took the opportunity, and she quickly stuck her tongue out at Touka. The once pouting girl gasped catching Hide's attention. Ryoko took her chance and leaned into Kaneki, he reflexively put his arm around her.

Ryoko was victorious this time.