Entangled Strings

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The man nodded.

"Are you also here for coffee?" The girl asked him suspiciously.

"I guess you can say that. Since I still haven't settled completely in this place, I'll just need a few things."

"It's not really hard to find, just around the corner of the first row." The girl sighed as the gestured the man to follow her in which he complied.

"Your brother doesn't seem to be very customer friendly."

Touka blinked. "Ayato?" God what did the brat do this time.

"He took my order at the cafe." Kaneki explained.

"... Ah, I had to take care of something first. That's why he took over." 'That stupid brat, if he scares away the customers we'll get scolded by the old man.'

"The dove, I assume."

Touka didn't answer, which Kaneki assumed then as a yes. "So, where you able to find that person you're looking for?" The female ghoul asked. Hoping to quickly change the subject as she reached down to get one packet of coffee, which she inspected carefully, only to place it back.

"Not really, the people I asked don't know much."

The 17-year old nodded, her suspiciousness on the guy only increased. "Is he a friend of yours?"

"... Not really..."

"Why are you looking for him?"

"You ask a lot of questions."

Touka bucked to inspect one more coffee package, before she stood up; holding five coffee packets, she gave two to Kaneki. "The ghouls of this ward are very fond of their peace. It would be troublesome if some new guy disturbs it. We have no interest in the battles that take place at the other wards between ghouls and humans." She answered flatly. "Anteiku strives for peace in the 20th ward so we do our best to keep it that way." Her tone was cold and her eyes were narrowing.  "If anything suspicious occurs that may bring the doves attention to us, we get rid of it."

She turned around and walked towards the check point. "And one thing." Touka turned to face Kaneki again and pointed to the coffee he was holding. "That's the best brand you can get here. It's not the cheapest, but it doesn't give you the feeling as if you're tasting clumps of coffee powder or a cheap shit-flavoured coffee."

"Thanks for the advice."

She stayed silent and proceeded with pulling her hood on and opened her umbrella, until she felt a hand on her shoulder and turned around, glaring at the olive-eyed man. "Could you please refrain from touching me?" The rain was really fouling her mood, but then again her personality was just as lacking as Ayato's when she wasn't pretending to be human.

Kaneki held his other hand in front of her. "I thought you would want to borrow these, since its cold outside and you were shivering when you entered."

Touka stared at the pair of gloves. Her eyes narrowed in distrust. "Why?"

"Lets just say its a thank you for helping me." He explained.

"It's just coffee, even a cat can do it."

"You showed me the way to the cafe."

"You got rid of the dove that was chasing me." Not that she needed the help, but at least  it saved her from a scolding.

The man sighed. Women really were difficult to handle. "Then how about you'll borrow them now and repay me later?"

"What idiot would accept such a stupid offer? I'd be stupid to fall for that, for all I know you could trick me in any shady business!"