Entangled Strings

A Turn of Events

He kept his attention to his book, but from the corner of his eye, he took notice of the cities that passed by. The majority of what he heard was the usual daily chatter you hear in conversations and the fear of the ghouls."

"That investigator went missing I heard, I think he became the victim of a ghoul!"

"What's going to become of us? Even the investigators aren't safe from them. "

"Let's look it from the bright side, there were more kills in the past. People didn't dare to go out for long. All those dangerous ghouls, there used to be at least 20 kills a day on the news and now we have at least they find one body within a week or two."

The white haired man shut his book, as he decided that he had heard enough. The man stood up and headed towards his home, but stopped when he spotted some strands of blue, further up and the two sibling walking quietly, both covered in bruises and from their expressions, Ayato was getting scolded by his sister. Kaneki continued his way towards his home; an idea popped up. "Maybe there is a way..."

Upon entering his home, he noticed a letter on his doormat. The man frowned as he picked it up and eyed it carefully on his way to the living room. He sat quietly by his table and opened it carefully. Scanning its content and let out an amused sigh. "Talk about luck. He mumbled as he went to his room to change, leaving the note on the table.

23.59 PM 16th ward, northern abandoned building.
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After the training, Ayato and Touka sat in a café, wrapped under some bandages due to the beating they got from Yomo, enjoying their day off with some coffee and her homework, or at she least tried to, since she wasn't the smartest and there were quite a lot of subjects that seemed to hate her. Ayato didn't seem to do any better, but then again, he didn't even put any effort in his work.

"You sure got quite the beating." The boy smirked.

"Go, look in the mirror first. We both got defeated. " Touka answered.

Ayato only let out a snort, to show his annoyance. "I seriously don't see the point in homework. Why are you even bothering?"

"Because, unlike you, I don't peek or rely on luck by filling in random answers." The girl pointed out as she took a sip from her drink. "Besides, you are also struggling with some subjects."

A silence befell between the two siblings, after a few minutes they both returned to what they were doing in silence; Touka continuied her literature homework and Ayato scratching on the table to diminish his boredom and watching how his sister tired to focus on the subject they both hated the most.

The scratching sound continued and slowly Touka was getting annoyed by it, until, Ayato suddenly stopped. "Just put the stupid book down, no matter how long you stare at it, it won't make a difference."

"But at least I tried! And maybe if you stop making that annoying sound." The girl gritted her teeth.

A smirk crossed the boy's lips as he repeated the action. "What noise?"

Something snapped inside Touka's head and without thinking she threw her literature at her brother, who obviously evaded the flying object and instead landed on someone else.

"Ouch!"

Ayato burst into a mad laughter, while the girl glared fiercely at her brother before checking up on her victim. "I'm sorry I didn't mean to..." Her expression because annoyed again when she took note of the olive eyes and white hair. "Are you stalking us or something?" She grumbled.

"If I was, I would let myself get hit with a book." Kaneki answered as he rubbed the back of his head. He glanced at the object and picked it up, inspecting the cover carefully. "I've read this. The story is very interesting."

Touka felt herself shuddering at the thought of reading for pleasure. "It's for school. I don't really read much aside from homework."

The man glanced at the girl and back at the book. "If you have trouble, I can help you."

The female ghoul froze. Not only from the unexpected suggestion, but also from the oddness of it and the fact, that she felt like a blow was dealt to her pride. She glanced at the man suspiciously and eyed her brother. His expression had changed from humorous to serious and expressionless. Something popped in the girl's head. "Tell you what, since I can't guess if you really can help me with my homework, how about you help my idiotic brother here instead. My brother has even more trouble with understanding, since he's not even putting any effort into it."

"WHAT?!" Ayato coughed as he almost choked on his coffee. He quickly glared at the girl, who smirked at him.

Kaneki blinked, surprised and glanced at the younger male, who glared fiercely at him. Daring him to accept the offer. "Sure..." He mumbled.

"And if he improves, I'll ask you for your help." The girl shared a glance with her brother again, who seemed to be ready to kill her.

"Alright then, when are you free?" The white-haired male asked.

"Ayato skips his classes often, so the majority of the mornings is fine. But he has to work during the afternoons." She quickly took out a piece of paper and wrote down the acceptable times. "These will be fine."

Ayato is too speechless at the sudden turn of events, so he just stares, blankly and frozen, when he finally blinks it was over. Kaneki took the paper and handed over one to Touka. "Take him tomorrow to my place, my address is on the paper. He turned to Ayato and smiled. "I'll be waiting for you tomorrow." Without further ado Kaneki left.

Touka smiled, satisfied at the turn of events. While she was looking at the paper she felt an intimidating aura coming from her brother.

"WHAT THE FUCK DID YOU DO?!"
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Chapter 4: A surprised turn of events isn't it? XD I bet no one saw that one coming. Yeah, let's use Ayato for Kaneki and Touka's relationship because:

1. Touka still doesn't trusts Kaneki.

2. Ayato needs some discipline in like everything.

3. He finally does something for school.

4. He can keep an eye on Kaneki, since he's even more suspicious of the man.

5. He doesn't need to act like the jealous over protective brother that is getting on her nerves.

and his reaction is hilarious!

I had another name for the chapter, but I decided that, after the change I made, it wouldn't fit that will.