You're not supposed to lose your best friend. You're supposed to grow old together, doing dumb things for nearly all eternity. You're supposed to be as happy as you were the day you first met, and laugh together until you cry. But that wasn't what Ryoko was getting. She would never get that. The feeling that she had in slowly bubbling inside her chest, indescribable. She could say it felt like someone tore open her entire torso, threw in sulfuric acid, then proceeded to pinch every single cardiovascular nerve that ran through her body, but it wouldn't even compare. She was in complete despair staring at the corpse in front of her. Corpse. He was dead. Her best friend was dead, and there was nothing she could do.

There was a brief moment where she had gone so far into her head that she felt like this wasn't real. It was only momentary lapse of relief, and as soon as she gathered her thoughts reality hit her like a semi truck speeding down the wrong lane. It smashed into every pore of Ryoko, she was broken. Ryoko knew all things in the world at that moment she did not want to remember, she wanted to forget this desperately.

She felt as though every single moment they had shared together, she had taken for granted. Everything they had done together, suddenly meaningless because Ryoko did not enjoy it to the full extent. She did not appreciate Ayato. Everything hurt, she imagined needles were puncturing into every follicle of hair in her body, being jammed through her skin. She ran her fingers mindlessly through his purple strands, they were always so soft. Ryoko regret everything that happened last night, because if it had went any other way she wouldn't be feeling this way right now. Of course it would be some version of this, but surely not this bad. Tears poured down her face, she couldn't stop them even if she had wanted to.

Ryoko begrudgingly pulled his bangs back and planted a soft kiss on his forehead. He wasn't cold, but he wasn't warm either.

"Please wake up," Her own voice is alien to her, it sounds nothing like Ryoko. It's someone totally different, this person sounds completely broken, absolutely shattered.

The open wound on Ayato's torso seems to look smaller than it had before. She squints at it, realizing it's definitely smaller than it was before. She lay her head carefully onto Ayato's chest, and heard a very, very faint heartbeat.

"A-Ayato," She was practically snotting all over herself at this moment. Ryoko can barely believe he's alive. She had just assumed that he was dead.

The knock on the door drags her out of the trance she was in, she hops up quickly. Everything is suddenly moving at a regular pace again, including her own two legs that felt like steel. Now was the worst possible time for someone to be here. She opens it, and is extremely surprised to see that it's Kaneki. What's he doing here?

"Ryoko-" He looks at the girl who was always so bright and cheery, she now appeared as if a flame had completely swallowed her and burnt out in a matter of seconds. As if every light that was once inside her was consumed, and demolished. Kaneki could only look her up and down with wide eyes. Her clothes are covered in blood, her hands are covered in blood. That was all he could see, blood. She can't even imagine that her face looks any better from all the crying she's been doing. "I knew it."

"What?" Is all she can muster out of her vocal chords that were once so chatty.

Kaneki pushes past Ryoko, and kneels down on the floor next to Ayato pressing his fingers into his neck. "He's still alive. We have to cut off a piece of my arm."

"What!"

"I heal a lot faster than normal ghouls, if he eats it then he'll heal faster too." Kaneki gets up and walks into the kitchen, returning with a large knife. She had one that was special made to be able to stab through ghouls just in case it was ever necessary to have. Ayato.. He was always so overly cautious.

She watches the scene before her, barely even being able to move. Ryoko was so frozen with an enormous amount of emotions she could barely make herself do anything. Kaneki reluctantly cut off a sliver of his skin, it was horribly gory and it was so hard for Ryoko to watch the other person she cared about be hurt. Kaneki shoved his skin into Ayato's mouth, and to her surprise he swallowed it. Kaneki helped Ryoko bandage Ayato's wound, both of them carrying him to his bedroom laying him carefully on his bed. After she had kissed his forehead one more time, they went back into the living room.

All she could do was stare at the puddle of blood that was in the middle of the floor. She took another look at her hands, still covered in now dried blood. Ryoko could not even process what the hell was going on at this moment, Ayato was dead and then he wasn't. Kaneki was here, and everything had seemed to go by so fast. She began crying again. Kaneki's arms around her in seconds. She never noticed how comfortable it was to be in his grasp, because she always felt so lucky to be in Ayato's.

His fingers ran through her unbrushed, tangled hair; surprisingly Ryoko felt okay.

"How did you know?" She mumbles into the fabric of the striped sweater Kaneki was wearing. It felt like cashmere.

"Hide. He was watching the news and they mentioned a purple haired ghoul and a large one with a hockey looking mask had been caught in the ward. They said they had a run in with the CCG, but both managed to escape. I knew it wasn't Touka because she was working, so I assumed it was Ayato. I came over to help immediately."

Ryoko smiles widely through the tears, "I'll have to hug the shit out of Hide the next time I see him. I could never repay you for what you've done for me today, but I have something that I need to do."

"R-Ryoko?" Kaneki looks scared as he sees the expression across her face, but she doesn't care. The only thing Ryoko can think about, seeing as that Ayato is going to be okay, is going to see a certain someone.

"Can you please watch Ayato while I'm gone? I won't be gone long."

Kaneki slowly nods his head. She runs into her room to change. Ryoko slips on a pair of ripped jeans, leaving on the black t-shirt she had found last night. You couldn't see that much blood on it. She doesn't wash the blood off of her hands, because she was going to show them. Show them what they've done.

As she was about to walk out of the apartment, Kaneki grabs her forearm. The look in his eyes was desperate, "Please, please be careful Ryoko."

"I will."

Kaneki seems to accept this, and she charges out of the shared apartment. She knew exactly where she was going. She had been there so many times before, and Ryoko had tried to be recruited just as many times. Ryoko knew the leader, hell she knew all of the captains, and even would go so far as to say she knew everyone. Ryoko knew exactly who Ayato was with, and she did not give a fuck if he was the second most powerful one in the entire organization, he was going to pay for what he had done to Ayato.

The thing about her was Ryoko had never used her kagune. The one tool ghouls had against each other, and she had never released it. Of course she'd done thorough research on it, trying to guess what type she might be but never got very far. She knew it was from a ghouls overproduction of RC cells, and she knew what all types of kagune did, their weaknesses and their strengths. But Ryoko never, ever had a reason too. She didn't know if she was Rinkaku, Ukaku, Koukaku, or Bikaku. Rinkaku was a tentacle form where you could have up to 8 of them, at least that was what was known. Ukaku was normally wings that could throw shards, that was the type that Ayato and his sister had. Koukaku was a tail, and Bikaku was normally a heavy weight kagune that had concentrated on one side of the body.

Ayato and some friends he had at the organization made a bet on it once, what kind of kagune they thought Ryoko would have. But she had never had the opportunity, or felt the need to use it. But right now, seemed like it was going to explode out of her whether she liked it or not. A mass seemed to gather at the bottom of her spine, sending chills throughout her entire body. Ayato, he had always taken care of everything and she had seen how beautiful his kagune was so many times. Ayato, just thinking of his name brought tears to her eyes.

He was an Ukaku type. Kaneki had told Ryoko he was Rinkaku, as was Rize. She knew Touka was like Ayato. It ran in the family, but that was thing for her. When Ayato and Ryoko met she had been alone, because she had always been that way. Ryoko didn't know her parents. When she was very young she's been told she was just left on the person who took care of her's front porch. Ryoko was assuming her parents knew he was a ghoul, because he fe Ryoko as much as necessary and took care of her accordingly.

She was so sick of people taking care of her. She was so sick of feeling like she was weak. Ryoko could practically feel the bubbling in her lower back, start to pop. She tried to calm herself down until she made it to her destination because she only had five more minutes. Ryoko finally found herself in the abandoned building she knew housed Aogiri Tree members from time to time when they were in the 20th ward. She walked into it, immediately met with two people covered in a dark maroon cloak, and masks covering their face.

"Ahh, Ryoko. We were expecting you." One of them practically hissed.

She smiles condescendingly, "Then get the hell out of my way."

"Yamori is waiting for you," The other one said, and they parted ways as she stomped way down to the corridor where she knew Yamori would be.

There he sat, smug as ever. Yamori was a big guy, that's why whenever Kaneki mentioned it to me her she knew exactly who had been with Ayato when this happened. Ryoko knew Yamori had the capability of crushing CCG Investigators skulls, so she wanted to know exactly why he didn't. He got up the moment he saw her, a wicked grin plastered on Ryoko's face. There was two times previously when she had seen him, and both times she never gave him the opportunity to sense any fear on her. Because that's what he wanted. He thrived on it. Fear. He was a torturer.

"Ryoko," His grin spreads widely across his hideous face much resembling what Ryoko would label a toad. "How is Ayato? "

She abruptly shoves her hands toward him, "He is fine, no thanks to you. This is his blood. Ayato's blood is on my hands."

"Then what are you doing here, shouldn't you be attending to him? Yes, sorry about that. For the greater good." Yamori scratches his chin.

"Not at the moment, I thought I'd come to have a chat with you. Plus I have someone watching him, he'll be just fine I have all the time in the world."

Yamoris laugh is sinister, it sends chills through Ryoko's body. He was absolutely heartless. "So what? You came down here to kill me? Hurt me?"

"I haven't decided." She glares at him, feeling the anger inside of her boil; all of it concentrating into her back. She got the sense that something was going to rip through it at any moment. "I have a question. How exactly did Ayato get hurt?"

"The CCG investigators came at me, and I threw him in front of me. I honestly don't know how he managed to get away, I left him there to die." Yamori bellows, and everything she had been holding in is on the verge of combusting. "Your face! You look so angry Ryoko, usually you're so calm and collected. What happened? Did I push your buttons? This is a good look for you, you should get angry more often! I'm sorry I tried to kill lover boy, he's just so damn useless."

"I'm going to kill you," She was staring at the floor, her fists gripped tightly. Her nails were digging into the palm of her hand hard, but nothing was on her mind other than tearing through Yamori's throat.

Yamori lets out another loud laugh, "You kill me? You're barely even a ghoul. You don't even know how to wield your kagune. The only reason you are still alive is because you've been taken care of all of your pitiful excuse for a life."

The feeling of something of a large wire rips through her skin, but it's not painful. She can feel the kakugan in her blazing eyes activate instantly reacting to the kagune tearing through her exterior. Yamori laughs loudly, enjoying the sight. What happens next is almost a blur to her. Ryoko sprint towards Yamori, and see his own Kagune rip through his back. His is spiked, but she knew it was a Rinkaku therefore she knows his weaknesses as well. He charges back at Ryoko, and they spar each other off a few times before either of them gets a real hit in. She saw them ripping through his torso, but Ryoko didn't know how she was doing it. Her body seemed to know exactly what it was doing and what it was supposed to do. She felt Yamori hit her a few times, but she finally had him in her grasps. Ryoko's kagune was in the middle of tearing him apart when his consultants take him away after pinning her down. It takes seven of them to stop her.

At that very moment she finally could see what has been tearing through Yamori. Three tentacle like glowing, red, and scaled substances are on the ground next to her being held down by members of aogiri tree. She looked to her right side, and finds the same thing. Then there's the guy on perched on her back, she knows she isn't going anywhere but she's still furious.

"I may not have finished you this time but you can assure I will next time! I'm going to rip your throat out and shove it up your-" She shrieks angrily, hearing no response, but before she can finish her heads smashed into the concrete. Ryoko doesn't hear a response from Yamori though, not even his stupid fucking laugh. It brings a wicked smile to her face. Ryoko can only imagine how horrified Kaneki would be at this sight of her, a totally different side. The sadistic, horrible, angry monster within.

She can hear a clap in the distance, "Now, now. Let her go."

Ryoko knows that voice. Everyone who had been holding her down, was suddenly off of her and she jumped up immediately facing Eto. She was covered in bandages as usual, a cloak covering her body as well.

"What do you want?"

"Now Ryoko you know I've been trying desperately to get you to join us, this is exactly why! I knew you had so much untouched potential. Ayato has really been keeping you hidden away from us, thank goodness Yamori decided to pull that stunt. Your potential never would have been released!" She says giddily, and walks closer to Ryoko. "You are free to leave, but you might want to tame yourself before that. Remember, Ryoko, my offer still stands."

Ryoko takes another glance at the pulsing kagune that was excreting from her own body. She could feel herself calm down, and they all disappear into what feels like her lower back. Ryoko doesn't give Eto a second look as she leaves. While she's walking back home her adrenaline rush wears off, and she's definitely feeling every single spot Yamori hit her. Ryoko's ribs were on fire, and she knew her face had been bleeding at some point. Who knows how terrible she looked, but she didn't care. Ryoko needed to get back to Kaneki and Ayato. She felt her lower back, her shirt was definitely ripped. The events that just happened didn't feel real.

But she felt powerful. For the first time in her life, she had justified herself. She stood up for her best friend.

"I did it," She mumbles softly to herself, a sense of accomplishment washing over her.

The walk to the apartment is short while she's lost in her thoughts. Once she gets there she finds Kaneki sitting on the couch watching some random tv show. He didn't really seem like he was paying attention though. His attention was directed right at her as soon as she walked through the door. She was sure her dark green hair was in an array of crazy strands everywhere. She knew her shirt was ripped and she can't imagine how she looked even somewhat decent.

"Thank goodness you're okay," He sighs of relief while he throws his arms around me.

She nods slowly and hugs him back, pulling back grinning at him hugely.

"Ryoko? What happened?"

"I finally proved myself." She says, and Kaneki looks extremely confused, but doesn't question her at all.

Finally.

It took a whole entire week. She called Kaneki constantly because she had thought Ayato was going to relapse and die at any moment. Ryoko felt bad because she hadn't actually made the time to go see him, but she felt like she had to have her eyes on her best friend or he would just deteriorate. But this time, he had woken up. Ryoko was sitting next to him staring down into his familiar blue eyes.

"Ryoko?" He coughs and she helps him drink out of the glass of water she had put by his bedside every day for a week. "What happened?"

"You came home, and passed out. I thought you were dead," Ryoko smiles at him with tears in her eyes, "Kaneki saved you. He made you eat his flesh because he has serious regenerative power, you've been out for a week."

Ayato nods, "Yamori. He threw me to the CCG like I was meat."

"I took care of him."

"You what!" Ayato chokes on the drink of water he has taken at the current moment.

"I was so angry Ayato, I couldn't hold myself back. I went to Aogiri Tree, Yamori was waiting for me. I don't really know what exactly happened to me but all I remember is my kagune practically erupted from my body, and Yamori and me were fighting. I tore through him, it took seven guys to hold me down! Eto let me go, and told me her offer for me joining was still on the table," Ryoko explains and Ayato's eyes are wide the entire time that she's telling him all of this.

"You took Jason down?" Ayato asks. She forgot they normally refer to Yamori as Jason. The 13th ward gave him that name after he killed and tortured so many people there. She nods her head, and Ayato smiles big. "You finally used your kagune? What type is it! What does it look like?"

She laughs loudly, "Rinkaku. Six bright red tentacles."

"Holy shit six? That's so amazing Ryo! I'm so happy for you, I mean the circumstances suck but I'm so proud. You finally kicked someone's ass, I knew you could do it. I mean, I didn't want you to have to do that but I knew you were capable of it!" Ayato tries to sit up as best as he can and holds his arms out for Ryoko to hug him. She practically crawls on top of him and lays in his grasp, this is all she had wanted for a whole week. To be able to hug her best friend again, and have him hug her back.

"Ayato?"

"Yeah?" He asks, resting his chin on the top of her head.

"I love you too." She digs her head into his chest, and feels him rub her arm with his hand.

"I know you do," He chuckles. It makes Ryoko so happy to hear that laugh, and at that moment she realizes she has no idea what she would do without him. She would be lost.

She can't help the smile on her face, "How do you feel?"

"Good. Can we take the bandage off? It's making me stiff," Ayato says and Ryoko nods leaning off of him. She starts from the bottom, and slowly takes off the bandages wrapped around his entire torso.

Whenever she pulls all of them off, the only thing shown is a slight pink sliver on his skin.

"Kaneki saved me huh?"

"Yes he did."

Ayato scoffs, "Guess I can't hate him then, can I? Next time he comes over we're going to have to throw him a party."

He decides that he needs some fresh air, so both of them decide to go for a walk in the park. Ayato puts on his normal attire combination of a thick black v-neck sweater, black jeans, and of course his black boots. She went with her normal ripped blue jeans, and white t-shirt combo. Both of them were pretty plain in their attire now that she thought about it. As soon as the cool breeze of the evening hits her face, she could feel a sense of relief. Ryoko literally hadn't left her apartment since her encounter with Aogiri. It's about to be December, so it's starting to get a lot colder these days. She suddenly regrets not grabbing her jacket.

"How's it feel to be outside?" She grins up at Ayato, he looks down at her matching her grin. Ryoko links our elbows together as they begin their stride down to the park. It was at least 15 minutes from the house, and there wasn't too many people out so hopefully it would be an easy walk.

Ayato pulls Ryoko closer to him, "It feels great. I feel like I've slept for a year. I barely remember coming to the apartment."

"I thought you were dead," She mumbles again, it's still in the back of her mind that she could've seriously lost him.

Ayato's face stiffens, and he tenses up. "I'm not going anywhere, but I need to tell you something."

"What's wrong?" Ryoko starts to panic, feeling her heart beating in her chest more prominent.

"Nothing! Nothing is wrong, it's just," Ayato lets out a heavy sigh, and drags his free hand down his face. He looks absolutely exasperated. His face changes, and he seems to shift from exasperated to defeated. "I'm starving."

She narrows her eyes at him, knowing that's not what he was going to say but dismissing it because he looks really distraught right now. "Let's get something to eat then."

Ayato nods, and when they arrive at the park they sit on a bench observing their options for food. She never really had went and killed someone for food. Before she met Ayato the person who used to take care of her would just bring it back, and Ayato never let Ryoko do it either. Ryoko wanted that to change, she had a fully working kagune and she wanted to try it out.

"How do you normally pick them out?" Ryoko asks out of curiosity.

Ayato shrugs his shoulders, "Normally see who seems like an asshole. I'm not heartless you know,"

She glares at him and he gives her a cheesy grin, "Yes I know you're not heartless, I mean, you did admit your love for me first."

Ayato and her had never actually said I love you, it was kind of a competition between them to see who was going to break first. It just so happened to be him. Before that both of them just had a mutual understanding.

"Yes, sorry, I thought I was going to die. But I apologize." He scoffs, and rolls his eyes.

"Ouch. Pulling the death card already huh?"

"Him." Ayato nods to our left, and Ryoko sees a guy talking on his phone completely disregarding everyone around him. "He has no regard for anyone. He probably won't even notice us,"

"Okay," She grins, actually a little excited about finally getting to join Ayato on a hunt. "Let's eat."

Ayato and Ryoko casually follow this guy, who is still on his phone. Luckily for them he ventures off into the trail that leads into the trees where there's a lot of coverage. Ayato's kakugan is activated and she places her hand on his chest, and shakes her head at him. He's still just woken up, and she doesn't even want him to risk something bad happening at this point. Ryoko activates her own kakugan, and everything else feels natural. She can feel the kagune tear through the back of my shirt, again, while she lunges at the man one of the tendrils covers his mouth. The other five pin him down, and she rips the flesh from his shoulder with her bare teeth swallowing it whole. One of the tentacles breaks his neck for her, before she knew it she was tearing into this guy like she hadn't eaten in days. She honestly couldn't remember the last time she ate, so it might've been true.

"Someone was hungry," Ayato chuckles, bringing her out of the complete ravenous state. Ryoko glances up at him, feeling the kagune bubble into her back again. "By the way, your kagune is so awesome! It does everything for you, so badass, Ryo. I always knew you were awesome!"

Ryoko lets out a giggle as Ayato picks her up, swinging the both of them around a few times. She can almost see herself in the reflection of his eyes, blood all over her mouth, a murderous look in her eyes. She felt sadness. Was this really who she was inside? Was Ayato the only one who would accept her this way? Kaneki didn't even know her at this point, she had spent so much time with him but it was like he didn't know anything. But despite that, he helped Ryoko save Ayato, he introduced her to his friends, and he even went so far as to allow her to be his first kiss. She was conflicted. Ayato sets her back down, and goes to eat himself. He has to be starving.

Ryoko sighs. Did she want to stay with the more comfortable option, the one she knew cared about her, or did she want to go completely off edge and choose the complete mystery. She heard in movies, and books she's read that once you kiss someone you just know that they're the one. She didn't know if either of these boys were the one, but she did know that she needed to solve this right now. She wiped her mouth on her t-shirt not caring that she practically just smeared blood all over it. She waits for Ayato to finish eating, and both of them to continue their stroll in the open air. It's getting dark outside now, it was already late when the two decided to leave the apartment anyways.

"Ayato?" Ryoko mumbles, looking over at his purple hair cascading just above his his shoulders. He turns to look at her with a questionable look on his face. She had planned to lean in and kiss him, but she couldn't make herself do it. She couldn't do that to Kaneki.

Ayato did it for her, before she knew what was happening his mouth was against her own. It felt nice, but it didn't feel like Kaneki. He simply wasn't Kaneki. Ayato pulls away, and looks down at Ryoko. "I just needed to know."

"Needed to know what?" She raises an eyebrow at him.

He smirks at her, her confused face always drawing a smile to his own. While pushing a strand of hair behind her ear, he knew exactly what was gone forever. "If I've lost you to him."

"What's the verdict, judge?" She half smiles, already knowing the answer. They both knew, Ayato and Ryoko practically had telepathy.

"You're so far gone," Ayato shakes his head. "I lost you the moment he called."

"You should've told me Ayato, there was a time-"

"It doesn't matter. We're just better off friends," Ayato looks sad, but he portrays a smile on his beautiful face anyways. Ayato has always been beautiful to Ryoko, his dark indigo hair, along with his blue eyes and smoldering look he always wore on his face. He was deadly and ethereal at the same time, and if it weren't for Kaneki Ryoko was almost certain that she would have been infatuated with him waiting for him to come home constantly. "I still love you, that doesn't mean I'm giving up my best friend title!"

She rolls her eyes, embracing him hard. "I love you too damn loser, I never thought of having anybody else as my best friend anyways!"

"That's what I thought," Ayato and Ryoko start walking again, arms still linked together. "Come on, we're going to go visit my friend."

"You have another friend besides me?"

"I'm very hurt by that Ryo! I associate with people all the time, maybe we aren't friends though.. Acquaintances." Ayato rolls his eyes as they step out of the park and start heading down main street.

She has absolutely no idea where they could be going. She doesn't know what friend he could be talking about, so she is completely in the dark on this one. Ayato talks the whole way there, about completely random things. She hasn't been paying attention to where they were going because she was engaged in the random conversations he would spike up. Ryoko was just so happy he was okay, but as soon as the pair arrive she knew that this was exactly his plan. He wanted her distracted so she wouldn't realize where they were going. She had to stop letting Ayato trick her so easily! First bowling, now this. The door swings open, and right in her view is the coffee shop. Anteiku. And there, leaning over the counter trying to clean something, was the familiar black haired boy Ryoko had come to enjoy so much. She also saw Touka talking with Hide who was also sitting at the counter, she only could wonder how she would take seeing Ryoko with Ayato.

"I'm going back to the apartment. I am exhausted, physically and mentally." Ayato rubs Ryoko's back, and she averts her eyes up at him almost in a panic. "By the way, you can wear my sweater since you got blood all over your shirt. Messy eater," Ayato shakes his head, making a tsk noise.

Ayato proceeds to take off his thick sweater, revealing just a white t-shirt under it. She slides it on covering her own blood stained attire. Ryoko smiles big at him and he kisses her forehead, walking out of the coffee shop. Well, at least they didn't have to deal with a sibling feud in the middle of this peaceful coffee shop. She walks over to the stool and sits next to Hide, he's about to yell but Ryoko puts her finger over her mouth and shushes him. He nods his head, a big cheeky grin on his face. He's so giddy, it makes Ryoko want to laugh.

She hit the bell that's on the counter, without looking at her Kaneki asks, "What can I get for you?"

"Coffee. Black." Ryoko grins mischievously waiting for him to look up at her. "And, maybe, a hug and a kiss? Or is that only for people who actually make time to see their," She is stumped. What am is she supposed to call Kaneki? Her lover? No that's lame, "special person."

Nailed it, Ryoko.

Kaneki looks up from the spot that he just can't seem to get cleaned, a huge smile on his always cute face as well, "I think you not seeing me for a week doesn't really compare to me not calling you for a month, so I'll forgive you this time."

She gasps, a sarcastic expression written across her face. "I'm so honored. I'm so grateful, I can't believe-"

Kaneki has came around from behind the counter, and outright grabbed Ryoko's face with no hesitation. He kisses her hard, right on the mouth; he doesn't even make her nose bleed this time! The only thing she can do is smile into it, kissing him back. It felt so right with him, unlike Ayato where it just felt normal. Who knew all those romance novels were right? You really did know when it was the one. Kaneki let's go of Ryoko, and she glances over at Hide to see his mouth completely wide open.

"Coffee," Kaneki says, running hurriedly back behind the counter starting to prepare a cup for her.

Ryoko really did miss him. Damn Ayato was right, she was lost as soon as he called.