Haise enjoyed the movie with Yoshi more than he thought he would. The movie itself was plain, but he found Yoshi's bad commentary and the expressions that crossed his face as the killer, a sadistic ghoul, murdered the cheerleaders boyfriend, or the look of surprise that consumed him as the cheesy film revealed the cheerleader was a ghoul herself all along.
'He looks kinda cute.' Haise thinks to himself before giving a slight slap to his face to pull him out of such a thought.
'You barely even know him.' The dark voice of his subconscious calls forward to him.
'It doesn't mean he isn't handsome.' Haise retorts back, before focusing back to the movie to see the cheerleader stand over the corpse of the other ghoul, mournfully look at a photo of her and her, now deceased, boyfriend before looking up to face the horde of CCG officers that awaited her fate.
"I'll be with you again soon, Yuki." She whispers as the theater screen fades to black, and a feminine scream echos through the theater as the credits begin to roll.
"Damn Haise," Yoshi turns to him, eyes wide and slight tears in them. "That's so sad, what happened to her."
Haise is surprised with Yoshi's empathy for a ghoul, if it wasn't for Yoshi's amputated arm he would have been a little suspicious of Yoshi's humanity. Not many humans openly empathized with ghouls to people they barely knew. Haise feels himself warm a little.
"I guess, but she was a ghoul after all, and the CCG was called."
"Yeah," Yoshi pouts and rises from his seat, Haise following quickly as they began to exit the theater. "But I can't help but feel sad, ya know?"
"I guess, the story itself is sad. A girl cant protect her lover and he dies, and after she attains her revenge she rejoins her lover in the afterlife. A bitter sweet tragedy." Haise muses to Yoshi as the exit the theater into the cold night air. Yoshi shivers.
"Oh?" Haise notes the shiver. "Do you want my jacket?" He asks, preparing to slide of the jacket he was wearing.
"Oh no, it's not the cold… it's just… I hate tragedy's." Yoshi confesses, surprising Haise just a little, albeit he soon realized the fun-loving man probably wouldn't be into tragedy. He shrugs his jacket back on as they each continue on the walk a block away to the car park they both parked at.
Continuing to talk as they walked neither of the two noticed the intoxicated woman stumbling towards them until she latched onto Haise's arm.
"Helllllllo handsome~" She slurs, as she tugs on Haise's arm. "Wanna go somewhere, just you. And. Me!" She pops out her words and tugs harder on Haise's arm, but he can see through her game. A ghoul scouting out her next meal. It fills Haise with an uncharacteristic anger when his subconscious pipes up with the thought, 'She could have just as easily picked Yoshi.'
"Yoshi," Haise speaks up, giving a tight lipped smile to the blond next to him. "I'm going to make sure she gets home okay, or at least to a phone. You go on home ahead. I had a great time tonight. I'll text you later yeah?" Yoshi looks hesitant to let Haise go on, as if he could almost sense the bad intentions behind this ghouls intoxicated ruse. It made Haise's heart skip a beat.
"Uh… yeah, sure man. Get home safe then..." Yoshi finally concedes before giving Haise a wave and continuing to the car park.
"Now… lets get you home." Haise's tight lipped smile never moving from his face as the ghoul lets out a "For suuuuuure." and grips Haise's arm tighter.
"Oh~." The ghoul says a short while of walking later "I just remembered its muuuuch quicker through here honey~" She pulls Haise into an alley and Haise instinctively knows whats about to happen. Further into the ally he hears the familiar sound of a kagune releasing, and hears the wisp through the air of it rushing towards him. In turn Haise releases his own kagune to deflect her attack.
"Oh?" The ghoul says, her voice amused. "I picked another ghoul. What a silly mistake I made. I wonder why I couldn't smell you?~"
"Well would that be," Haise folds his glasses into his jacket pocket and flashes his solitary kakugan. "Due to this?"
"Ew what kind of mutation is that? And put those rinkaku away, I'm not here to play today~"
"Well..." Haise cracks his fingers. "Neither am I."
"Such a shame really~" she coos. "You were such a handsome boy after all. Really hard to find ghouls like you~" She releases her koukaku, it forms into a thick, sharp rod, and lunges forward at Haise. He dodges magnificently with grace.
"Is that all?" He mocks, only to be met with another lunge from the koukaku wielder. One of Haise's rinkaku stabs itself into her leg and she screams as she collapses to the ground.
"You'll… regret that." She grits out as Haise raises another rinkaku to finish her off. He instead hears fast foot steps running towards him. Haise turns his head and braces himself for an attack from a ghoul, but doesn't meet one. Instead, he sees a rush of blond before he is pushed to the floor. The female ghoul lets out a blood curdling scream as she yells, "Hinoka you fucking idiot! You hit me!".
Haise first sees a panicked looking Yoshi, sitting a top him with his hand on Haise's chest pushing him up and off of the CCG investigator. The Haise sees the female ghoul, with a shard of kagune sticking out her chest. Fast approaching her is another woman, with a look of concern splashed across her face.
"Umi!" She cries out before kneeling besides the injured ghoul. She then turns to look at Haise with death in her eyes. "I'll kill you!" She cries out before running towards him with all the speed a ghoul with an ukaku could muster. She then lets the shards of her kagune fly as she approaches Haise. Haise crushes all that were aimed for him, but some weren't. Yoshi lets out a sickening cry as his knee buckles from the pain of his leg being impaled with shards.
"Shit," Hinoka huffs, hard out of breath. "I wont miss next time." She warns, but Haise isn't listening. His heartbeat slowed and his blood ran hot at the sight of Yoshi in pain.
"We've got t m." Both Haise and his subconscious speak aloud at the same moment in time as Haise starts to walk forward. He then, viciously impales the ukaku ghoul, killing her.
"NOOOOOOOOO." The injured koukaku ghoul screams as she stands, to make a weak attempt at attacking Haise before he decapitates her.
Haise then looks over at Yoshi who look a little green but not afraid of him.
"Ah, Haise, can I get a little help please. I cant walk."
"You're not scared?" He asks, and steps cautiously towards Yoshi, who only grins back at Haise.
"I'm not, I knew all along. I'm pretty perceptive you know." Haise begins to laugh as he reaches towards Yoshi and lifts him up bridal style to carry him. Yoshi's arm wraps around his neck and Haise ignores the thought that tells him Yoshi's arm feels nice around his neck.
"Don't worry," Haise says to Yoshi. "I'll get you help."
"Alright…" Yoshi says, his eyes starting to droop and his arm starting to loosen. "Thank you Kaneki..."