touken drabble | the last promise kept in my heart [TG week: Day 4]
note: celebrities!au (to have a better understanding of the story’s context, please read this), english is not my first language, i’m trying my best, enjoy 🤗
p/s: for day 4 of @weektg the theme was alternative universe and i can’t believe i came up with something like this after watching several kpop contents recently 👾 welp this time i didn’t let the characters have a happy ending but rather an opening (?) or a sad (?) ending because i wanted to try something new but i created a mess instead 💀 so basically i wrote this drabble based on what was written in the link in the note (which were facts also), because i’m bad at explaining things 🐒
❝ please live well as you promised me, touka. ❞
touka pulled the curtains, the morning light shining directly into her eyes, she quickly pulled back, cursing out of anger.
stepping out of bed, touka walked slowly to the bathroom to clean herself, and then began her tiring day in the apartment alone. touka usually changed her clothes and went to kaneki’s apartment and asked him to eat out every morning. but not today. she got into a dating rumor with shuu tsukiyama, aish, she couldn’t understand why the paparazzis had to make up those bullshit rumors.
she opened her phone, scrolled through a few articles about her, somehow she liked reading those so much, even though what they said about her weren’t true. ayato once told her that when being too tired of rumors like this, absolutely don't read anything, and now she was reading them again and again, literally.
touka turned on the tv to see what was going on, switched from channels to channels, nothing, boringly tossed the remote over the sofa, she went to the kitchen to boil some eggs to avoid hunger.
her old cell phone vibrated on the wooden table, touka looked boredly at the screen. well, it's the manager.
"touka? what's with that article?"
"get dressed and go to the agency, the director needs to see you."
touka sighed, her face was devoid of any emotion. she stepped heavily on the floor, put on a simple outfit, a black hat and a mask.
she was right. the paparazzis surrounded the agency like a swarm of flies. hundreds of camera lens pointed straight towards her, the lights kept flashing. touka quickly entered the building, disappeared.
they got angry and quietly left.
"touka! what is this?" the director took the newspaper with touka and shuu’s dating news on the front page and slammed it on the table, shouting loudly at her.
"i don't know anything, tsukiyama and i never talked to each other!" touka hid her bored expression, receiving a glance from the manager, a glance that was not very friendly.
“you should remember, touka. even though your dating ban will soon be lifted, it will still affect you a lot!" the president rubbed his temples, wearily sat down on the chair, turning his back to touka.
"i'm just saying, the dating news is fake! there is no convincing evidence for me, i’ll take my leave."
touka coldly stood up and went out slamming the door.
she's really tired, wishing she had someone beside her to comfort her, how good it was. it could warm her long frozen heart.
walking slowly down the corporate corridor, step by step, she felt depressed again. she had known kaneki for 2 years, no one knew about this, except her younger brother. both of them rarely went out on dates, just sometimes seeing each other briefly backstage.
she stopped and turned her back. it's kaneki.
“kaneki.” he walked to her, then gently hugged her.
"it’s tiring right? i don't believe that rumor, because you and i are dating." kaneki said while stroking touka's hair, making her suddenly feel strangely warm. her heart that was frozen for a long time was now warmed.
"you can hug me at my house, if the manager sees us here, we’ll be dead for sure." touka pinched kaneki's cheeks.
the two of them quickly went to the parking lot, then drove back to touka’s apartment. she got out of the car first to see if there were any cameras. she should have brought ayato along from the start.
the two went inside, touka let out a long sigh, lying down on the sofa in the living room. ever since he met touka, her apartment seemed to be the place that kaneki hung out most often.
so was touka, always hung out at kaneki’s apartment.
“do you want to eat something? i’ll cook.”
“yeah. you know i still haven’t had my breakfast.”
touka was lying in the living room, smiling at kaneki. kaneki couldn’t help but smiling as well, thank god for giving him and her a chance to meet, so the two of them could go as far as they were now.
he wished everything would stay as it was now, so calm and peaceful.
kaneki stayed at touka’s house until night, then he had to go home because his manager was also going to check on him. sending kaneki to the door, he kissed touka on the forehead, then waved goodbye to her. she smiled and waved back.
NEWS: ACTRESS TOUKA KIRISHIMA WITH SINGER KEN KANEKI GOT EXPOSED FOR ACTING INTIMATELY AT THE ACTRESS’S APARTMENT.
NEWS: THE DATING RUMOR BETWEEN ACTRESS TOUKA KIRISHIMA AND SINGER SHUU TSUKIYAMA IS NOT ENDED, YET THE ACTRESS IS NOW RUMORED TO HAVE TWO-TIMED WITH SINGER KEN KANEKI.
"touka, touka, wake up!" ayato ran from the living room into touka's bedroom, constantly calling her to wake up.
she opened her eyes and looked at ayato.
“the things between you and kaneki are now exposed.”
touka jumped up from the bed, eyes widening at ayato. she panicked and went to the bathroom to change her clothes quickly because she would be called along with kaneki sooner or later.
“be careful. do you want me to come with you?” ayato standing at the door nervously.
"just stay at home. i’ll go with the manager."
touka quickly left the house, slammed the door, and got into her manager's car. he looked scary.
"touka, get in the car." the manager frowned.
she quietly got into the car, next to her, there was another person, it was kaneki.
"kaneki, touka. why are you hiding from us?" the manager asked while driving the car.
“well...” touka hesitated.
“touka, let me do this...” kaneki took a deep breath. “we've known each other for 2 years, only ayato knows this."
"two years? which means when both of you started your career?" loud was the manager.
she closed her eyes, this was exhausting.
"how long have you two known each other?" the director once again called touka, this time with kaneki also.
“2 years...” both said in unison.
"so you've known each other since both of your dating ban hasn't ended yet?"
“ugh... my head...” the director complained. "all secretaries and managers, contact the journalists, confirm the news... and you two, i’m not finished yet, especially you, touka.” the director glared at touka and turned his face away.
"let's go home, let's see how everyone reacts."
the two bowed and walked out of the room together. kaneki saw touka looking very tired and asked her.
“you’re back. how was everything?” ayato stood at the door and contemplatively asked.
“looks fine. but the president seems to be very angry when he found that kaneki and i dated when the dating ban hasn't ended. i'm afraid the president will ask me to break up.." she said, sighing and entering the room.
NEWS: AGENCIES CONFIRMED ACTRESS TOUKA KIRISHIMA WITH SINGER KEN KANEKI’S DATING RUMORS. THEY’RE HAVING A GOOD AND STABLE RELATIONSHIP.
comment #1: are you kidding me? just quit acting already. she dared having a relationship with my kaneki while dating shuu tsukiyama at the same time?
comment #2: such a bad person!
comment #4: i found them a perfect match, wish them all the happiness!
touka sighed, tossed the phone away, tiredly closed her eyes. she knew that this was bound to happen, and it would never be peaceful.
“manager? is there anything?”
“the president requests you and kaneki to see each other.”
she turned off the phone, confusedly staring at the tiny screen of her phone. seeing kaneki? what for.
“yeah, my manager said so. you can come to my house.”
from a distance, he saw a familiar figure standing at the door. touka gently walked over and hugged kaneki from behind.
“can i hug you for a while?”
kaneki said nothing, let touka wrap her arms around him. kaneki already knew that touka would meet him, mentally prepared.
kaneki removed touka's hands, then he turned around, looking her straight in the eyes.
“can we... stop doing this? i know this is going to be difficult for you. but things have come to this, i'm afraid, you will be affected.”
touka held kaneki's hands.
"why? why do we have to be celebrities? otherwise now you and i-"
kaneki didn't let touka finish, he kissed her, a kiss instead of words of comfort, the last kiss ending a beautiful love story of the couple.
"touka kirishima, listen to me. in the future, live well. become a famous actress, i will be very proud of you. promise me, don't suffer because of me."
"yes, i promise." touka's eyes shed tears as she looked at kaneki. “kaneki, i love you.”
