Touka Week
Day 2 - lost
More Kirishima siblings! (613 words)
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Touka ran frantically through the alleyways, desperate. She had just turned her back for two minutes, and Ayato had disappeared. Her breath was wild, ragged, what if he disappeared like father? They were alone, and she was the big sister - she needs to protect him, and teach him all sort of things. What if those people with the nets found him? Later she found him wondering with a hung head, crying. ‘Onee-chan.’ He whined, Touka moving to embrace him. She clutched him tight to her, stroking his untamed hair. 'You scared me.’ He bawls into her chest 'don’t do that again.’ The second time they were older, and Ayato had simply walked off, wanting to see the 20th ward without looking at his sister’s back. When Touka arrived back from school he wasn’t there, and Touka was reminded of the same incident. All these intricate systems, and Touka was lucky she knew every single one, but they were so big it would be hard to search. What had her father told her - if you get lost, stay put. But recently Ayato had started growing bitter, and as much as she wanted to deny it she couldn’t. He wouldn’t be listening to father ever again, she thought, downcast. She’s worried all over again because even though Ayato had grown, he had enemies. When she had found him he was fighting with another ghoul, so Touka quickly stepped in and helped. 'I could have finished him off on my own.’ He breathed, Touka doubting that. They walked home, and Ayato doesn’t mention the incident again. The third time he had told her he was leaving, and after her mind recovered from its blankness, he was gone. Touka had run everywhere she could think of, all night, no matter how her legs and throat burned and body protested. When she stumbled to an empty apartment, she fell against the door, silent tears encasing her. Waiting at the door for days on end, with useless hope for his return, she didn’t eat, or sleep. She knew it was her fault, and couldn’t bring herself to move even when Yomo warned her of a young ghoul rampaging the 14th ward. He had been going around, claiming several feeding grounds. Of course she instantly knew it was him, the bond they had wouldn’t just disappear. Anteiku noticed. Touka didn’t talk much any more, too sad to throw any insults. She had to lie to Yoriko, first saying her father went overseas, and now that her brother had joined him. The fourth time it was metaphorical. Her brother had joined an organisation with more bitterness than him, further tainting his once innocent mind. She heard about all his violent acts through Yomo. The Aogiri Tree was a bloodthirsty organisation, and the name left a bad taste on her tongue. When Hinami came into her life, she had doubts - could she be a big sister to anyone, without driving them away? Obviously not, she thought, when she ran away, but she got her back, and that was all that mattered. Then Hinami left, and Touka was left to an empty apartment once again, colder too. After she lost her true home, she found out her dear younger sister had joined the same organisation that stole her brother. A lot had happened since then - she got her brother back, and her sister, and the king. She even got Koma and Irimi back. Her family was almost complete, save Yoshimura. But she had to live while losing things, and would have to survive. The fifth time it was Touka who was lost, Ayato running through the confusing levels of the underground 24th ward.