AFSOM (Tokyo Ghoul/Twilight Saga Crossover)

Chapter 5

"Yorika called."

"Thanks," Touka said, taking the device and going on the messaging app she used to keep in contact with everyone in Japan. International calls were pretty expensive, they realized.

She'd revealed that she was a ghoul to her highschool friend before they left. As much as she loved Kaneki, she didn't want to make the same decision he'd made when dealing with Hide. Just disappear with no possibility of seeing that person again. Touka would rather have Yorika know the truth and hate her for lying to her for all their years of friendship than disappear without a word and leave her to worry, wondering what had become of her best friend.

Yorika had surprised her. Her instant reaction, after she'd sat and listen to Touka explain everything, was to start rapidly apologizing for having Touka eat the food she'd make when it only ended up making her sick. There had been a massive burst of relief exploding in her chest as she reassured her dearest friend that it was fine.

Last they'd spoken, a few weeks ago, she believed, Yorika was had been accepted into a culinary school that coming fall. Touka got her friend on a video call, and she and Hinami chatted with her as they worked around the cafe.

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Kaneki slowly woke from the inky, dead like sleep to squealing traveling through the house. It took a few minutes for his brain to bring itself out of its foggy state and caught up to what he was hearing. He jumped out of bed, tripping over the blanket wrapped around his legs. Out in the hall, he didn't find anyone upstairs, so he went downstairs to find Hinami and Touka crowded together at the counter. They were jabbering with someone on the phone that was propped up against a salt shaker.

"Is everything okay?" He asked, making the two girls jumped.

"Oh, Kaneki, did we wake you?" Hinami asked guiltily as he walked up to them and peeked over her head at the phone screen. Yorika's face greeted him.

"Kaneki, hello!" She waved with a wide grin on her face.

Kaneki waved back, rubbing the sleep out of his eyes. He was calmer now that he saw that nothing was wrong.

"Why all the ruckus?"

"Yorika's engaged!" Touka stated happily, bouncing on the heels of her feet.

"Ah." Kaneki turned back to the phone and smiled. "Congratulations."

"Thank you."

The girls were back at their excited chatter. Kaneki, who wasn't really into the whole wedding talk, slipped away into the back room and into the walk-in fridge. In the far back, placed away from the human food and hidden away in a container, they stored the human remains they collected. They were wrapped in their individual packaging. They didn't want to just have a whole human body lying around.

It had been a while since he'd eaten. Once he was done, eating only as much as he found necessary, he returned to the cafe. He started making himself a cup of coffee when Touka approached him. Kaneki glanced over her shoulder at Hinami, who was still having a conversation with Yorika.

Touka watched him start the process of the coffee. "You were sleeping like the dead," she stated bluntly, leaning her hip against the counter.

"Was I?"

"Yeah, you were. What happened? Yesterday."

Kaneki sighed, pouring the liquid in a circular motion, and pushed down his instant reaction of saying 'nothing.' He explained everything as he'd done with Yoma.

"I agree with Yoma," Touka said once he'd finished. "If they don't bother us, we won't bother then."

Kaneki nodded.