OH MY GOD.

“Pleasure-chan?” Kaneki smiles at the silly nickname as his daughter slowly pushes open the door. Is she planning on scaring him again?

“D-D-Daddy.” His little girl hiccups and steps into their apartment, tears streaming down her face. Her knee is scraped deeper than her healing cells can cope with. 

“What happened?” he squeaks, freezing.

Touka cries out her daughter’s name and races over to them. She picks up Pleasure-chan as the little girl sobs into her mother’s hair.

“The older kids say they don’t like ghouls.” Pleasure wipes her eyes. “And I t-t-tried to be their friend, and they said okay, but only if they could push me because they wanted to see if I healed.” She gasps. “And then they did but they still didn’t want to be my friends!” 

Touka and Kaneki’s kakugans emerge. 

“Okay, well, first we’re gonna clean up your knee, hmm? Then we’ll talk to the older kids.“ Touka glares at Kaneki.

Half an hour later, Pleasure is happily munching an apple with Uncle Yomo and Uncle Uta, who promises her a temporary tattoo, and Touka and Kaneki are on their way to the park.

Touka sniffs. “I smell her on the kid in the gray T-shirt.” 

“Me too.” Kaneki stomps closer.

“Hey, are you the ones who beat up the ghoul?” Touka asks brightly.

“Yeah, so?” asks the kid in the T-shirt. His accomplices, two gangly girls and a chubby boy, look ashamed.

“Don’t you know you shouldn’t hurt ghouls? They can eat you,” says the taller girl.

Touka looks crushed.

“Please. He only did it because he likes her and wants us to think he doesn’t,” says the smaller girl, pointing at the T-shirt kid.

“What?” he lurches back. “No I don’t! Girls have cooties!”

“They only do if they don’t like you,” Kaneki says, fighting for calm. “Just don’t give girls a reason to dislike you. Whether ghouls or humans.” 

“And if you hurt her again,” Touka adds, “she might just get her parents involved, and that would be scary. Remember the dragon? He’s her dad!”

The kids gasp. Touka smirks at Kaneki, who is slightly red in the face, and begins to stride away.

An hour later, the door to their cafe opens. Gray T-Shirt Kid stands there, with a bouquet of dandelions in his grubby hands. He bursts into tears when he sees Pleasure-chan.

“I’m sorry!” He holds out the flowers. “I think you’re really nice and I wanted to be cool, I guess. Can we be friends? Can I have a cool ghoul friend?” 

Pleasure-chan claps her hands to her cheeks in delight. 

“Oooh,” Uta teases, as Touka and Kaneki hide momentarily behind the counter. They wink at each other.