Hc that one time Kaneki-chan thought mama stomach is slightly bigger than usual.
Touka feels slightly uncomfortable when she feel two pair of eyes staring behind her back, following every move that she make and it’s been a good half an hour ever since she walks into the kitchen.
She look over her shoulder, glaring with a soft blush across her cheeks, “S--stop staring at me, you two!”
Her loud voice seems startled them, but only Kaneki makes an effort to look away, crumpling his open book to cover his own blush, putting the book in front of him to block from seeing her. Touka knows he had done it before and caught too many times as well.
Her eyes falls to the small figure next to him, with both palms under her cheeks, looking directly at her --no, on her stomach to be exact, eyes widen before she open her mouth.
“Mama looks so fat.”
It was lucky that Touka isn’t holding anything in her hands, her face is enough to show how surprised she was with the sudden statement. Kaneki was quick to nudge her shoulder, “Hey, you shouldn’t say that. That’s not very nice.”
“But papa --” she points this time, “Mama is so big.”, she said while making a big round circle with her small arms. Kaneki snorts, but quickly cover his mouth when he saw Touka is now pouting.
She only a few months in, of course it’s much more obvious now but she’s not that fat.
--
The next morning, Kaneki was in charge for breakfast, and after waking up his little bundle of joy, he walks back to their shared room when Touka didn’t come out to the table.
He found her in front of the large mirror, with only wearing her lace lingerie. He swallows, probably not the kind of thing he would expected to see so early in the morning.
“What are you doing ?”
Her shoulder jolted, was expecting him to walks in on her while she’s busy --examining her --umm--belly.
Touka turn to her side, rubbing her belly and this time, she sighs.
“I looked really fat”
Ah --so that’s what this is about. Kaneki chuckles, before walking towards her, “I think you look beautiful.”
Touka hissed, pushing him away, “Come on, be honest with me.”
He stares at her from head to toe, eyes resting on her belly, “Umm --maybe a little bit fat.”
“You’re unbelievable!”
Kaneki laughs, leaving a kiss on her cheeks, “It’s only temporary. Hurry up and put your dress on, both of you going to catch a cold.”
Touka gives up, and nodded.
--
It happened again when they’re watching tv that afternoon, “Mama, why are you so big ?” Somehow it’s annoyed her when the same question being thrown at her and making her more conscious about her body. Kaneki pat her head, “Mama’s not fat. There’s a baby inside.”
“Baby ? You mean, my little brother ?” she says, eyes sparkling.
Touka chuckles, “We don’t know yet if it’s going to be a girl or a boy.”
“Then, that means mama is not fat!” she said happily, “When the baby come out, mama will be skinny again.”
Touka sighs, smiling helplessly, “Do you want to feel it ?”
Hc that little Kaneki-chan have a crush on Uncle Hide.
Mama is the first one to notice the sparkles in her eyes, and the slightly tint of blush across her cheeks when she hear his voice. Her tiny feet quickly takes her to the kitchen, huffing and gasping, and hides behind her mama’s legs.
“Hey, what’s wrong ?”
She shakes her head, vigorously and grip Touka’s apron tighter. Just then, he heard Hide happy voice, greeting their family and exchange small talk with her husband. He have been visiting regularly than before, sometimes alone, sometimes with the others.
Touka was ready to leave the kitchen to greet their old friend, but she can’t seems to move with the little bundle of joy hanging on her legs.
“Mama --” she whines, “No, don’t go.”
Touka pat her head gently, “Uncle Hide is here. We have to greet him.”
“No --” she hides her face.
Touka dragged her nevertheless, walking out to the living room and welcoming Hide to their home happily. Kaneki instantly noticed both them sticking together --Touka trying to save her legs, and their daughter clinging and pulling on her apron. Touka chuckles, when her eyes meet Kaneki’s soft greys, “I think she’s a bit shy to see Hide.”
Kaneki stares, confused, “Is she scared of him ?” --the mask he meant, but it’s hardly scary especially with the smiley face printed on the fabric. Touka just shrugged her shoulder, not sure what’s bothering the small child. She’s usually ecstatic whenever Hide came over to visit.
She take a peak, looking at the tall man and Hide waves at her. She quickly hide her face again, blushing at the same time and whines.
“Come on now, Uncle Hide wants to play with you.”
She shakes her head.
Touka took her hands, pulling her a bit further away before crouching down, meeting eye to eye to her, “They can’t hear us right here, do you want to tell me what’s wrong ?”
Her tiny palm wrinkles on the hem of her shirt, pouting and she nods. Touka wait a minute or longer, and finally she open her mouth to tell her secret, “I --I’m not wearing a nicer dress.”
“Eh ?”
Touka blinks, pause before a loud laughter gurgling from the pit of her stomach --too loud probably and she hits her on the shoulder, “Mama!” she screams, almost tearing up now when Touka didn’t stop laughing.
“Okay, okay.” Touka pull her into a big hug, snuggling on her cheeks, “We’ll change into a nicer dress.
--
They took good twenty minutes to change, and Kaneki looks surprised seeing her with a different dress than she had this morning. She seems satisfied, running up to Uncle Hide with her big bunny plush, and getting comfortable beside him.
“Isn’t that the new dress that we bought ?”
Touka chuckles, “I guess she want Hide to be the first one to see it.”
Please read this wonderful headcanon/answered from @coromoor before proceed with this 😂 I saw this and can’t help myself 💯👌🏻
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It’s been two weeks, 13 hours and 45 minutes --
He kissed her, hungrily, and listens to her soft whimpers, as she wraps her hands around his neck. Kaneki sighs, it’s been to long since they last --did it. He stares at his wife --his beautiful wife, and brushes his thumb on her cheeks.
Somehow, it feels slightly uncomfortable, when he keeps arching his back everytime he leans down to kissed her, and finally, he stops.
“Uhh --I don’t think we can --in this position.”
She looked at him, confused, until she noticed his eyes wonder down on her bumps.
“Oh --” she pauses, “Okay. Let’s switch position.”
It’s somewhat embarrassed, when they shifted on the wide king’s bed, and Touka pushes him down, straddling his hips. Touka adjusted herself few times, “Umm --maybe another one.” she says, feeling huge and exposed, and insecure to let him see her body.
She turns the other way around, giving her back at him this time, and rest her hands on his knees. This one is --good. Kaneki breathes, sharply --he can see her bottom fully but decided against it.
“I --I can’t see you.” he says.
“You don’t have to.”
--and he sits up, “I--I want to be able to see you.”
They shifts again, lying on their side, and he rubs her belly gently, leaving kisses on her shoulder. He lifts her legs --testing, and Touka gasps, embarrassingly loud. She look over her shoulder, “Kaneki, wait --!”
--and he lets go, and lifts himself up immediately, “S--something wr--” maybe he sit up too fast, at the same time when she’s turning her body, and her elbow hits his nose.
“A--aww!”
“S--sorry.” and they stops, staring at each other, before laughs together.
“Let’s try something else.”
They twist, and turns --rolling, standing, leaning --until they finally --she sighs, finally found what it seems a good position for both of them. She’s lying down on her back at the edge of the bed with her kness bent, and a pillow under one side, so she’s not completely flat on her back. He can kneel or stand, either way works just fine for her --and it keeps his weight away from her stomach. His hands rubs on her belly, soothingly --”Are you sure about this ? What if it hurts the baby ?”
Touka groans, annoyed, “J--just put it in already! H--hurry up, don’t make me wait anymore.” her face all flushed up, gripping on his arms. He chuckles, a swipe a quick kiss on her lips, “Okay.”
He moves slowly at first, and doesn’t stop thrusting until all of their frustration and pleasure are spend. He cleans her up with a warm cloths, spoiling and massaging her body gently. Touka smiles after he lies on her side, pulling the blanket over them, “That feels good.” --she says, and turning him into a spluttering mess, and he stumbles on his words.
I kept this in my folder for a while and totally forget about it. This one is for @catsoul2 because I saw her reading most of my writing and really love all the jealous Touka/Kaneki fanfic. I’m sorry for the grammatical errors, I tried my best 😅💪 I hope you like this.
Something had been bothering him, a feelings that he isn’t sure the reason behind it. His eyebrow creased, almost joining to each other, feeling slightly annoyed when he couldn’t find the answer that he wanted.
He saw a gentle side of her whenever she sit with the children –the Aogiri kids, the garden kids even with Hinami. Touka act differently, a softer interaction when she’s around them –or more precisely, when they surround her. Maybe that’s where his annoyance came from.
They were sitting next to each other at the moment, when the kids spotted them and calling “Touka-oneechan” and “King” from the ground, with one of them holding a story book. Kaneki wave at them from above, before Touka slowly withdraw her hands that had been underneath his own palm.
“I think it’s story time.”
His mouth turning into a pout without him realizing it, looking away as Touka ready to leave. He can still feel the warmth of her hands against his skin, sighing. He stayed for a while with them, watching and listening to Touka voice soothingly reading –and he found some peace just by being around them –until Fuka called out for the king, to have a discussion with Yomo and the rest.
Although he seems busy with his king duties, his eyes always searching for her presence. Whenever he passed by an empty room or a space fulls of junks where he heard giggles and laughter, Kaneki would stop to peek in –and find the kids playing around while Touka sitting silently watching over them. Touka often noticed him, but pretended that she didn’t, knowing that any little interaction with her will always drawn his feet towards her. It comes to his mind that they barely spend their times together –alone –anymore.
“King!”
He look over his shoulder, finding the three children walking towards him, smiling happily whenever they saw him –as if he was a figure that they looked up to.
“Do you know where Touka-oneechan is ? We’ve been looking everywhere for her.”
Touka-chan again ?
“Why don’t we look for her together ?”
Kaneki ruffles Yuki’s hair, before taking their hands, walking together towards the open space. Touka can hear them before she sees them, and only turn around when she feels a different voice talking over the kids giggles. She was sitting with Hinami, discussing something rather personal for anyone to hear.
The children started running towards them, hugging Touka and Hinami –commenting that she smells like coffee, a scent that he’s familiar with.
“Touka-oneechan, read us a book.”
“Again ?” Touka sighs, with a gentle smile still lingers on her face, “We already read all the books that we have.”
“We found a new one. It’s about a duckling.” They showed the thick hard-cover book, with a big picture of a group of yellow ducks with one being different from rest with a grey coloured feathers. They seems excited to learn about the stories, and Kaneki volunteer to read to them.
“You’re not allowed to read, king.”
“Why not ? I’m really good at it.”
“Touka-oneechan said you won’t stop when you start reading. We don’t want you to turn into a monster.”
He blinks, confused. He heard Touka snorting and Hinami giggling next to her. He frowns–Touka must’ve feeding these kids with fake stories to make sure they didn’t disturb him. Touka scoffs, “Your eyebag is getting worse, you know.” His hands quickly runs over his eyes, completely loss of words to argue –he force himself to smile, trying to find that small comfort in the circle, “I–I’m fine. It will only take a while, I’ll rest when it’s done.”
Touka stared at him, before shrugs her shoulder and passing the books. The children seems to be very excited to hear the stories. Kaneki take his seat next to her as Touka leaning her head slightly on his shoulder. He couldn’t fight off a big grin on his face, staring at the kids as if he had won something over them –they obviously have no ideas the meaning behind his smile.
“Once upon a time–” –and attentively listening to the stories.
:::
He slowly pulls her body closer towards him, brushing her hair back, exposing the creamy colored of her skin before leaning down and kisses that one particular spot on the side of her neck. Touka trembled as she pressed her face into his shoulder. His mouth sucking slowly on her skin and loving the soft whining that drumming into his ears.
Kaneki is never vocal about the intimate gestures, only using his action to send his messages. He loves marking her, but only leave a faintly red spots that could disappear within a day, after almost getting in trouble when he did leave a visible marks before. He knows her body very well, knows which button to push, knows which spots to loved and his grip tighten around her waist.
He gently kiss her cheeks, pushing her hair behind her ears and smiling down at her, “I feel like I didn’t get to see you much.”
His words only makes her flustered, turning her into a blushing mess. She was incredibly adorable –sometimes he couldn’t help himself. Kaneki was about to lean down to claim her lips when they hear voices calling out for Touka. He groans –annoyed and somehow guilty for having those feelings lingers around at the innocent children. Touka was quick to separate their bodies apart, before the children hesitantly pushed the cloth that works as a divider on the empty door.
“What’s wrong ?” she asked. The children looked worried, and reluctant to says anything when they saw the king is in the same room.
“A–are you in trouble, oneechan ?”
Touka followed their eyes, locking on the man standing behind her. She croutched down, holding their small hands, “No. The king just want to see me. Did something happened ?”
“ Well –” the girl grip her shirt, hesitated, “Hinami-oneechan and Miza-oneechan said we all should sleep together –like friends do when they’re at each others house. W–we thought we would like to invite you.”
Touka rarely participate much with this sort of things, Hinami doesn’t want to bother her, especially now that she’s not –entirely –alone. Touka considering their request, glancing at Kaneki briefly before agreeing with their request, “Okay.”
“Really ? Yay !”
Kaneki seems surprised with her decision, staring at her as if his eyes was pleading with ‘what about me, Touka-chan ?’
Touka gives her reassurance that she will be there and send them off. When she turn around facing him, Kaneki looks like a kid with his toys got taken away, “Touka-chan–” his voice seems down, earning a soft chuckled from her.
Touka pat his back, before leaving a soft kiss just underneath his jaw, “It’s only for tonight. I’ll sleep with you tomorrow”
It makes him flustered, “N–no, that’s not what I mean.” –but seeing her smiling with that soft gaze only meant to be for him, Kaneki says nothing more and nodded.
:::
Kaneki rubs his face, staring at the ceiling as the surrounding getting colder. He’s behaving like a kid now –he almost didn’t let Touka go earlier, just because the children get to spend more time with her than him. He turn to his side, hugging himself and missing the warmth that always there to accompany him sleep.
The next day, he leave earlier to hunt for the food and supply–and coming back just in time before the sun set. They managed to gather more food that would last for the whole months, thus taking a break for a few weeks before starting over with their new plan. Kaneki was agitated and somehow excited –as he make his way to her cot, only to find her sleeping peacefully on her bed.
She must’ve been waiting for him until she fell asleep. He sit beside her, brushing her hair as his hands trails down on her lips. Sighing, he smiles to himself –he had been trying to kiss her since yesterday. He leaned down to steal a kiss on her lips, before her eyes slowly open just few inches away from her lips, startling him as he let out a silent shriek.
“You’re back ?”
Kaneki cover his mouth, quickly nodding his head, unable to make out any words when he’s almost caught red-handed. Touka sits up, smiling at him, “Welcome back.”
He sighs, knocking his forehead gently against her, “I had enough.”
“Huh ?”
He pouts, hiding his face on her shoulder and mumbling, “The children can’t seems to leave you alone.”
“They just looking for someone to play with them.”
“They should find someone else to play with –they always end up finding you all the time.”
Touka snorts, when she finally get the ideas behind his pout, “Are you jealous of them ?” –chuckled, “They’re just children. Why do you want to compete with them ?”
He feels like his pride being trampled when he saw her laughing.
“I thought the king isn’t some pouty little brat.” Touka playfully poke his cheek, still giggling when he suddenly pushed her down on the bed, trapping her with both of his hands on the side of her head, silencing her immediately. That side of him always send shivers down on her spine –a darker side that she seems to love to provoke and let it appeared. Touka circled her arms around his neck–
Touka pitied him, going through a normal life by day and drowning himself in sorrow at night --maybe that’s why she let him kissed her. His tongue taste like alcohol, but the kiss makes her felt like she was in heaven.
He was a good kisser.
:::
Touka vaguely aware of the light blue paint spreading all over the ceiling and realize it wasn’t the same colour that she always wake up to. She’s not familiar with the room and the soft mattress that she kept her head resting against it, her body limp with fatigue and soreness on her thighs.
Her head felt heavy but she wasn’t drunk. As though she were in a dream, she seemed to feel strong arms around her waist, turning slowly to her side and noticed a stranger --a man is sleeping next to her.
She would’ve screamed if she didn’t recognize him, and memories from last night come back in a flash. Her face feel slightly warm --did she, really ?
She’s not the type of girl who would randomly pick someone out to sleep with --in fact, she could never picture herself to be in this kind of situation. How did she end up here, anyway ?
Touka would never want to admit it, but last night was her first time. It was surprisingly --good. She didn’t realize her hands gently caressing his face, he was really gentle with her. It makes her chuckle remembering how many times he apologize and asked if she’s okay. He was being really careful, as if she was made of glass. She won’t say she loves it but she certainly doesn’t hate it.
She still remember the stories about his past, he was probably drunk by then but he told her everything that she needed to know about him. His childhood is not the prettiest one, growing up in an abusive household had break a part of him and how it would never be the same again. He had always live in lies, manipulating his view for him to see good things in something worse.
Touka pitied him, going through a normal life by day and drowning himself in sorrow at night --maybe that’s why she let him kissed her. His tongue taste like alcohol, but the kiss makes her felt like she was in heaven.
He was a good kisser.
Her finger trace on top of his pulp lips. The more she look at his face, the more she realize he’s a really handsome man. His body isn’t too thin and he have a nice body as well. There’s a minor scars around his body, slowly fading through time and only a few is really visible on his skin.
How could anyone throw away someone so kind and gentle
As she as observing his face, he stirred from his sleep and meeting his half-open eyes with her own, “Why are you still awake ?” he asked.
It took her by surprised when he suddenly pull her closer to him, covering her body with the blanket and snuggled her to his chest, “Your body won’t recover properly if you don’t rest. Get some sleep.”
Touka nodded and sighs, who is she kidding, he must’ve done this before, that’s explain everything, doesn’t it ? He knows what he’s doing, unlike her who have it as a new experience. She’s never a fan of one night stand, although there’s no string attached, it makes her feel cheap and worthless.
:::
Touka wakes up before he did the next morning, and quickly get out of bed when she realized it’s almost noon. She need to open her shop --how do you explain when the manager itself is late for work. Touka curse herself for not setting her alarm or at least remember that she still have a job and a home to go back to.
As she’s fumbled with her clothes, his sleep was disturbed from the noises, and saw her rushing herself getting ready, “Where are you going ?”
Touka almost let out a curse word, and hissed at him for startling her, “I need to go to work.”
“Oh.”
Touka stop for a while, looking at him over her shoulder --he sounds disappointed. Isn’t it supposed to be like this? One of them will leave and never going to see each other again ? That’s how it works, right ?
When he didn’t say anything else, Touka quickly pack her stuff --the moment she walk over to the night stand of take her phone, he grab her wrist and pull her back down on the bed. She yelped as her body fall back down onto the soft cold cotton.
“Kaneki --”
“Stay with me.” he mutters, “Stay -- a little longer, please.”
Touka sighs, “I can’t --I’m going to get in trouble.” She would love to, but she really need to go.
He hugs her tighter before finally letting her go, as he look deep into her eyes, making her knees weak. She swears those eyes going to be the death of her. Touka was about to say something, before his lips pressing against her.
“Touka-chan, I love you.”
Her eyes widen, what the hell is he--
“Let’s get marry. I’ll take responsibilities for my action.”
She would’ve forgive him if he had said it last night --he was partially drunk. Right now, he is sane and sober --and no matter how many times she try to convince herself, it sounds insane.
Is this some kind of joke ?
“A--are you kidding me ?” Touka didn’t realized she was screaming when she kicked him to get herself off him.
“Touka-chan.”
“Don’t called me that!”
“I’ll give your anything. Please stay with me.”
Touka run towards the door, terrified and disgust. Is this what he always did, fucking someone and promise things to make them stay ? Throwing them away afterwards to find someone else ? Touka couldn’t stomach the idea, quickly rushing out of the room despite hearing Kaneki calling for her.
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I might continue this if you guys want more. Any headcanon for this au are mostly welcome ( ´ ▽ ` )ﾉ Hope you guys enjoy reading this.
Long distance Au - I’ve been thinking about this for a while, and finally I wrote something about it. I guess it’s a bit cliche (?) Hopefully it’s not out of characters ¯\_ಠ_ಠ_/¯ Leave a comment/tag and tell me what you think about this.
Touka nervously pinching her fingers together while waiting at the train station. She wore a white blouse matching with her navy blue skirts and white wedges. She also let Ayato braided her hair. She wonder if he would be happy to see her again. The thoughts makes her face warm.
She heard the announcement, notify her that his train have arrived. It didn’t take long for him to show up at the opposite side, waving at her the moment their eyes met. Kaneki quickly make his way towards her, smiling widely.
“Y--yo--!” She couldn’t even finish her sentence when he pull her straight into his arms. Touka yelp, and hear him laughing.
”I missed you, Touka-chan.”
Touka sighs, wrapping her arms around his waist. She wanted to say something, but her words was caught inside her throat. Touka nuzzle her face against his chest, inhaling his scent, mixing with his cologne that she loves, “You smell -- nice.”
:::
How many months have it been ?
Three months ? Maybe four ?
Her heart still beating fast even after few hours have passed since she move her phone away from her ears. She can almost still hear his voice whispering to her. Touka couldn’t fight the smile that slowly curving on her lips.
She still remember the last time he visited her, he suddenly showed up in front of her door. If she wasn’t too surprise from the sight, she would’ve punch him straight to his face. He knows too well that she doesn’t like surprises but that’s exactly one of the thing he loves to do. Lesson learned from the past, Kaneki would called her as promise whenever he got breaks from his studies to see her again.
Touka wasn’t really fond of the long distance relationship ideas -- most of the times, she feel inferior, just thinking about all the girls that would clinging on him makes her veins popped. Sometimes she wish he would always be that timid boy when she first met him, too shy to open a conversation except towards his best friend, maybe she feel safer that way. He have grown and mature a lot throughout the years, taking over the role that she used to have and looking out for him.
Now that role have been reversed.
She doesn’t hate the attention that he given to her -- maybe she want to have some kind of control over him as much as he have it against her.
Nishiki even mentioned few times before, “What if he find someone cuter than you ?” He laughed. Her neck almost snapped when she turn to glare at him, before she sighed and her brows soften, “I’m not worried.”
“Are you sure ? I mean, look at him now. Anyone would fall for him, don’t you think ?”
If she could wipe that smirk on his face with the dirty cloth that she used to wipe the table, she swears she would done it in a heartbeat.
“I believe in him. So, shut up and get back to work, shitty glasses.”
She trust him. There’s nothing more important than having someone believe in you, that’s the one thing that matter to them.
:::
Touka cleared her schedule for the day. She would probably pissed shitty Nishiki off but she wouldn’t care less hearing his constant whining. It was too early for her to digging through her closet, pulling out a few dresses, skirt and shirt -- somehow none of her favourite clothes standing on her side that morning.
She open her door when she heard noises from the kitchen, “Do you want coffee, Ayato ?”
His hair was a mess, clearly he just woke up. She can still hear his grumbling underneath his voice. Touka hands quick getting all the ingredients ready, brewing the coffee in minutes. Ayato loves his sister’s coffee more than anything, but his pride stop him from admitting that hers was better than his own brew.
“Aneki, you’re up early.”
His statement makes her smile, “Kaneki got one week breaks. He’s visiting today.” Ayato rolled his eyes. He doesn’t hate that guy but surely he doesn’t like him either. Touka give the mug full of warm coffee to her brother before running back to her room. It only took a few seconds before she turn back to the kitchen, peeking from the wall.
“Ayato.”
“What ?”
“Can you help me --” He raised his eyebrows, it’s such a rare sight seeing his sister asking for help from him. Her face heated up slightly, she got no choice to throw her ego away for once. Ayato have a better sense of fashion than her and she really need help.
“I need help with my clothes. I’m meeting -- with Kaneki today.”
He snorts.
“Shut up. Just help me out -- p--please.”
“Yeah, whatever. Let me finish my coffee first.”
Touka almost jump, hugging her brother briefly before running back to her room.
“You better not bring him back home!” He screamed.
:::
Touka nervously pinching her fingers together while waiting at the train station. She wore a white blouse matching with her navy blue skirts and white wedges. She also let Ayato braided her hair. She wonder if he would be happy to see her again. The thoughts makes her face warm.
She heard the announcement, notify her that his train have arrived. It didn’t take long for him to show up at the opposite side, waving at her the moment their eyes met. Kaneki quickly make his way towards her, smiling widely.
“Y--yo--!” She couldn’t even finish her sentence when he pull her straight into his arms. Touka yelp, and hear him laughing.
”I missed you, Touka-chan.”
Touka sighs, wrapping her arms around his waist. She wanted to say something, but her words was caught inside her throat. Touka nuzzle her face against his chest, inhaling his scent, mixing with his cologne that she loves, “You smell -- nice.”
:::
“I feel like I haven’t hold your hand since forever.”
Touka clicked her tongue, “Don’t be so corny.” He laughed, bring her hands to his lips and kissed it gently. Her face already burning from his affection, Touka pouts. It’s embarrassing for her but he loves it.
He loves her too much.
They walked around the city, visiting the Tokyo Tower, enjoying the view while he taking her picture and piling up his memory card. They went through some of the shops around, and head for the cinema to watch the latest movies. Although they have fun spending time together, Touka wasn’t too pleased seeing him texting and spacing out almost half of the time.
They stopped at one of the restaurant for lunch, when Kaneki received a call. Touka frown seeing him discussing and talking about work during his free time -- but what bother her the most is the voice at the other end.
It’s a female voice.
“I’m not -- really free right now.” He said, the voice on the side was whining, calling him ‘Kaneki-kun’ affectionately.
“You’re the only one who could help me. I really need it now.”
“Can you ask Hide for help ?”
“Please, Kaneki-kun. I won’t bother you after this. Please. Please. Please.”
Kaneki sighs, “Okay. I’ll see what I can do. I’ll check it first. Then, I’ll email it to you.”
Touka saw his expression changed as he scroll through his phone, maybe it’s something important ?
“What’s wrong ?”
He look up at her briefly, giving her a bitter smile, “Just some group work. I already did my part and told them not to bother me -- but I guess I really need to help out.”
The air instantly changed, Touka wasn’t happy with the outcome. When she finally have him here, his time somehow was meant to be for someone else. They eat their lunch in silent, while he constantly tapping on his phone.
Kaneki asked to borrow her phone to work faster, but they end up in the computer cafe while he tried to finished his work. The calls keeps on coming and Touka feel like she’s a bystander. She sighs, if he have this much work, he should’ve just stay over at Nishiki’s and finish it.
“Thank you so much, Kaneki-kun. You really owe me one.”
At this point, the voice is getting on Touka’s nerves, especially with those cute voices she’s trying to make. He ended the conversation after bid his goodbye and a small warning not to disturb him for the whole week.
“I’m really sorry, Touka-chan.”
Touka have completely lose her mood for the day to go anywhere.
“Where do you want to go next ?”
Touka sighs, “Home.”
He looked surprised, knows very well from her silence that she’s not happy, “Can we just go home, please ?” she repeated, and he doesn’t have a choice. Kaneki wonder if she’s mad, her hands was away from him and he couldn’t hold it like he used to. He knows something was wrong.
“Are you mad at me ?”
“What for ?”
“You looks like it.”
Touka shakes her head, “I don’t want to talk about it.”
This one behaviour of hers is one of the thing he doesn’t like. Touka always keeping things for herself, she’s having a really hard time to open up unless he pushed her to. Sometimes, it ruins her and she still won’t admit that it’s hurting her. He want to understand her, but she making it hard for both of them.
“Touka-chan, we talk about this. You don’t hide it. Tell me.”
“Who’s that girl ?” her question sounds like a sharp knife through his chest. It’s about that ? He couldn’t hold back his laughter. Touka doesn’t find it funny for him to laugh it like that.
“Is that it ? Are you jealous ?”
“I’m not.”
He pulled her closer to him, “She’s just one of my classmates, along with Hide. She knows about you.”
“
He chuckled, he knows what’s going on, “Touka-chan, you’re jealous.”
“I’m not! Stop saying that!”
“Touka-chan --”
“I don’t have to be jealous of that bitch just because she make that cute voices when she’s talking to you.”
Kaneki lose it, he was laughing again. Touka was turning red, from annoyance and embarrassment, “I--I’m going home! Don’t show your face in front of me again, idiot!”
:::
The loud slammed of the front door, startled Ayato and Hinami who was studying in the living room.
“Idiot aneki, don’t slammed the door.”
She huffed, “If that shitty idiot come over, told him to get lost.”
“What ?”
Touka only managed a small sorry to Hinami before heading to her room. They hear a loud crash, something being thrown against the wall.
“I wonder what’s wrong with onee-chan --”
It doesn’t take long before the front bell rings. Ayato knew who’s infront of the door, and lazily stood up with a loud groan.
“Umm -- is Touka-chan home ?”
Ayato doesn’t look amused. Why all of the people out there, it have to be him ? He was about to open his mouth when a loud shout echoes inside of the house.
“Tell that idiot to fuck off and die!”
“Onee-chan! That’s not nice!”
Kaneki sighs, there’s really no hope for him, isn’t it ?
:::
Nishiki was surprised to see Touka at the back of the counter when he punch in his cards on that day. He doesn’t need to ask what’s going on just from the look of her face. She could murdered someone with that glare.
“I thought you going to take a few days off.”
“Shut up.”
Touka purposely keep herself busy, until the cafe was left empty after the customers have their morning brew. Nishiki sit by the counter, staring at her.
“If you don’t want me to dig your eyes out, you better look away.”
“After meeting each other after months, the first thing you did is get into an argument ? I can’t believe you two.”
“It’s none of your business.”
“Did he finally cheated on you ?”
“Do you want die ?” she was holding the knife in her hands, and Nishiki hold up his hands, surrendering.
“What happened ?”
“Didn’t I just say it’s none of your business ?”
“Just tell me. I’m not going to let that guy stay at my house with him whining about you. Please spare me.”
Touka sighs, feeling as if she have no choice but to share her stories. As soon as she ended, Nishiki was laughing so hard, he have tears in his eyes, “Are you serious? You’re so dumb, shitty Touka.”
“Stop laughing!” She feel like she regretted telling him -- he’s not helping.
“Why won’t you admit that you’re jealous ? I mean, trust is a different thing. It’s normal to have that kind of feelings.”
Touka pout, she doesn’t have to hear this from him. She knows it -- she just doesn’t want to bring down her pride.
:::
By noon, the cafe is filled with customers again -- one of them end up being the one person she doesn’t want to see.
Kaneki.
He tried to start a conversation with her, but Touka dodge it with her, “I’m busy” excuses. He sits near the counter, to keep his eyes on her which annoyed her. She warns him almost three times that if he keeps staring at her, she will kick him out.
It makes his lips twitched to smile.
He borrowed one of the books from the cafe while he let the time passed. He noticed one of the customers have his eyes on her, completely distract him from the book. Touka seems like she’s enjoying it, being flirted and she was smiling -- the biggest smile he ever seen today.
This guy really doesn’t know his place.
“You look really cute today, Kirishima-san. When are you going to go on a date with me ?”
She chuckled, “I’m busy today. I’m sorry, maybe next time.”
“Come on, you said that everyday.”
Kaneki bite his lips, she seems charmed by him. He was planning to keep his mouth shut, but Kaneki end up glaring at him, “Can you please not disturb the manager ?” His voices startled both of them. His eyes doesn’t leave them, he might burn a hole through them with his glare.
“I--I’ll see you later, Kirishima-san. T--thank you for the coffee.” The man quickly exit the cafe after making his payment.
Kaneki was about to continue his reading after the distraction have left, but instead he received a loud smack on his back, “What the hell do you think you’re doing ? You can’t come here and scared the customers.”
“He was -- all over you.”
“He’s a regular here.”
“So you like being flirted ?”
“What ? What is your problem ?”
“Exactly that! I don’t want anyone other than me by your side because you’re mine!”
By the time she realize it, the people around them already start whispering, some of them are giggling. Nishiki have that smirk on his face. Touka quickly grab and dragging him to the back room.
“Are you an idiot !?” Her face was burning.
His eyes was intense, sending shivers down to her spine, “You need to know that.”
“I already know it! I can’t believe you.”
He moves closer to her, “I want to know -- why are you so upset with me ?” His questions startled her, Touka looks away, “It’s nothing. Just forget about it.”
Touka was about to turn the doorknob, but his hands was faster to stop her.
“Kaneki --”
“Tell me.”
Touka steps back until her back hits the door, she’s completely trap. He hold her hands, bring it to his lips before tangled it together.
She hates this -- he makes her weak to her knees.
She look away from him, “If -- you’re too busy with work, you don’t have to meet me yesterday.”
He blinked, confuse. “We haven’t seen each other in months. I just want --” she swallows, “--to be close to you.” Her face already in crimson red, her lips was trembling. Kaneki sighs, gently cup her face and kissed her lips, cheeks, nose, eyes and ears earning a soft whines from her.
“I’m sorry. I’ll make it up to you.”
“F--fine but later, okay ?” She quickly untangled herself from him before he starts getting ideas, brushing her hair back and open the door. “I got work to do.”
“Uhh--”
“I guess you’ve to hold on until my shift end.” She touch his nose, and stick out her tongue before exit the back room. Kaneki rubs his face -- he almost got her.
When she returned back to the front, Nishiki have that wide smirk on his face, “I thought you going to take a long break.”
:::
Kaneki stayed until the cafe closed, helping out around with cleaning to close the shop. Nishiki passed the keys to Touka since she took over to close up the shop -- obviously with something in her mind, which he knows to well.
“Please don’t make a mess anywhere in the cafe or I’ll locked the cafe for good.” Nishiki said.
“Ha--ha-- N--Nishio-senpai--”
Nishiki waved his goodbyes, with a grin and a groans of disgust.
They finish up with the cleaning, arranging the cups and wiping the counter. Both of them were in silence, before turning to stare at each other. Kaneki scratch his cheek, “M--Maybe -- we should locked the front door now ?”
Touka snorts, “You’re unbelievable.”
--and he did. Door locked and lights off.
They tumbled around the back room, lips latching against each other as his hands fumble with the her apron. His hot breath brush on her face, followed by a whisper of her names. Touka rubs her hands against his waist, grinning when he hissed on her lips. She knows every spots that keeps him going.
They fall on top of the couch, he deepen the kiss as she circled her arms around his neck. His lips trailed down on the expose chest, kissing from the side of her neck down to her chest. The beauty marks that he loves the most, he pressed lightly with his lips. His hands grope the side of her breast, breathing against her skin.
“Kaneki.” she moans his name softly.
“Hmm --”
Touka stare at the ceiling, “Nishiki said we couldn’t make a mess here.” she breathes, and she can hear him sighs. Kaneki drop his head on her chest, whining and groaning. He hugs her tightly, listening to her heart beat.
“Can we go to your place ?”
Touka hands gently brush his hair, “Ayato is at home.”
He lift up his head, pouting. Touka chuckled, titling her head to kiss his cheeks.
“M--maybe we can go -- to the hotel --”
Touka laugh at his ideas, not a bad one though. Her phones beep, a text messages. She took it out form her back pocket. It’s from Ayato.
She smiles.
“I guess we can go to my place.” She show the message to him, and he stare at her for a while, before lifting her up from the couch.
:::
Ayato open the doors, yawning -- clearly staying over at his friends house to play video games is not a good idea. Aneki would probably scold him if she knows about it. The house was abnormally quiet. Was it him or there’s something feels different around here ? Or is there something weird in the air ?
He heard clattered in the kitchen.
His sister already awake ?
“Hey Kaneki --” Touka suddenly walk out from the kitchen with a buttoned up shirt that obviously too big for her, covering her small figure, down to her thigh.
Ayato groans in annoyance.
Kaneki followed behind her with two mugs in his hands. Ayato was glad he actually have his clothes on. Kaneki was surprised to see Ayato standing there, “G--good morning, Ayato-kun.”
