Into The Rose Garden (Seidou x Kanae/Karren)

Chapter Sixty - Unexpected guests

The entire household and family members gather around, to 'impress' these supposed guests. Puzzled and astonished by the different appearances of each one. One was an old man, another a rather petite lady, another a tall foreign male wearing a health mask and the last was a mature-looking teenage boy who was taken to standing up.  

The petite female giggled as she sat, coffee in hand. "Oh ho ho, isn't this nice everyone?" They all slowly nod, before the female bounced. "Oh, where are my manners?!" She extends her hand out, allowing for Mirumo and Shuu to shake it. 

"Hi, the name's 'Eto Yoshimura', though I also go by the penname 'Sen Takatsuki'~!" Shuu nodded. "Ahh, indeed! So that means you really are one of the best selling authors in Tokyo?" She smiles warmly. "Glad to have a fan~!" "I'm not a huge fan, but I had a very close friend who quite was." Eto nodded softly. "Yes indeed..."

Kanae goes over to the old man, offering a cup of hot joe, upon which he politely declines. "I am more of a tea person, myself." And for a moment, Kanae looked into his eyes. They were brown, like Seidou's, but there was a coldness and emptiness  within them. Much like a void, and it scared him.

Kanou is the next to introduce himself. "Hello, I am Akihiro Kanou...Dr. Akihiro Kanou." Kanae scoffed, sensing something a little, well...'off' with the elder male. 'His energy feels weird, yet he's completely human. What's going on here...?' The young male thought before shrugging it off and moving to his masters' sides. 

"I am Tatara, just Tatara." The teenage boy scoffed, annoyed by this charade. "And I, Ayato Kirishima..." Both Ayato and Shuu were fully aware of one another, but chose to remain silent on the unrelated subject. 

Eto begins conversation. "Anyway...let's cut to the point. Yes, we're all ghouls here, well...most of us." Kanou turned his head to the female for at least ten seconds. "And...we don't want things to get messy, unless it's with someone getting in out way. We're here because we're in search of a...missing comrade of ours." 'Bullshit...' Kanae thought to himself silently.

Kanou took this time to chip in, putting on a concerned expression. "That's right, and we were hoping  to ask for help. His name was 'Seidou Takizawa', sound familar?" Shuu thought and thought, on how to respond correctly, until his father speaks up in a confident and unknowing tone.

"Can't say we have, can you explain to us what he looks like?" Kanou rolled his eyes, and Tatara is the first to list out basic descriptions. "He has brown eyes, a lot like what humans consider 'milk chocolate'. And his hair is also has brown, like that of hazelnut or something." Kanou whispered towards Tatara, with Eto in the middle of the two men.

"Tatara...you're not very good at this..." Tatara groaned. "What do you know, you old-?" Eto cleared her throat, raising her index finger up. "And his hair is fairly short, with long parted bangs, with a cute little cowlick on the top~! And he had slightly thicker eyebrows." Kanou nodded, slightly impressed .

Kanou chipped in. "He is 171.5 centimeters. And-!" "What's his body-type figure?" Matsumae asked in a mildly joking mode, trying to be somewhat rude about this whole thing. Just trying to toy with them. Causing Aliza and Kanae to muffle their giggles. "Pfft-! M-Matsumae, did you actually do a joke...?" Kanae had asked in a whisper, causing the female to smile. "Impressed...?"

Kanou cleared his throat, hesitating to speak. "Can't see why that's important, but...I guess he held up to an hourglass figure or perhaps a reverse triangle, I'm not fully sure."

In the background, Aliza and Kanae are keeping to their wheezing yet silent laughter as they began to cry from it. They were dying. "Oh my god, he actually went with it-!" Aliza shushes Kanae, still holding onto her gut as she kept it under control. "Sssssshhhhh! Kanae, you can get us into trouble...!"

Everyone cleared their throats, with Mirumo gasping suddenly. "Oh, him! Well, we barely met him from a visit from an old friend. They came here for some coffee, but...from I remember, our friend said that they would be leaving for Hawaii. Gosh, they must have flown yesterday!"

Tatara stood up instantly, with Kanou and Eto both stunned with shock. "What?! Dammit, I knew we should've gotten here earlier E-!" Eto looks up at him, a glare in her eye. "Finish that sentence, I dare you..." 

Causing Tatara to gulp as he sat back down. Eto sighs, turning her head back to the hosts. "I'm deeply sorry, but could you please tell us the name of this 'friend'? Unless you-!" "I don't know her real name, but she lets me call her 'Koiko' if that helps you out."

What these guys didn't know, was that this 'Koiko' had been dead for years...

Eto smiled warmly. "Oh wow, you really ratting your friend out here?" Mirumo just nodded. "She has a kidnapped young man, that isn't very nice of her." Eto chuckled playfully. "Oh, I see~! Misbehavior can mess things up, and confuse the situation. Thank you for your cooperation."

Kanou raises his hands, stopping anyone from moving a single action. "Hold on, how can we know that...you're giving us the full truth?" Everyone froze, including the Aogiri members. It was so sudden, and even his pals hadn't expected it.

"I'm sorry, but why would I hide anything? There's nothing to gain from doing so." Kanou crossed his arms. "Sure, there's nothing that you could gain from it, that we know of. However this is your friend you're telling on, and we offer nothing in return either. So..."

Kanou did have a strong point, and it was hard to balance that fact out. However, Kanae quickly stepped in. "Mirumo got into a huge fight with her, it had turned out that she had negative thoughts with his son. Master Shuu." Kanae had stated this, as if it was the truth. And somehow, they bought it. "Y-Yeah, she um...she said that he was a shame to have as a son, and I told her to never come back. Our friendship is dead. Sorry I forgot to bring it up..."

Eto giggled softly. "It's understandable, that's personal even with this situation." Kanou scoffed, shrugging, appearing as if he had lost interest. "Yeah, I was just checking." 

However, before anyone could get off from the seating, Eto commented something. "After all, you would be screwed if you didn't give the full truth to Aogiri..." Causing everyone from the household to tense, but held these emotions on the inside.

The other members stand up, walking towards the exit, only for Kanou to get up last. Kanae walks over to the elder male, squinting his eyes at him. Kanou gets weirded out, raising an eyebrow. 'What is with this guy?! Why does he give me the creeps?' "U-Um...hello, excuse me?"

Kanae scoffed rudely. "Are you really human, Mr. Kanou...?" Kanou chuckled softly, finding the question useless...unless this young male was trying to make a point. "Of course, you can smell that, can't you?" Kanae scoffed, putting on a fake smile as he gently closed his eyes. 

"Of course. It's nothing, with no reason whatsoever." Kanou rolled his eyes. "Al...right...? Well, thanks for letting us inside. We appreciate your...cooperation." Kanae puts on a mild yet passive aggressive smile. "Sure...!"

Letting the elder male go off, it was all over...but...

'Why do I have this sickening feeling that...he's capable of some questionable shit...? Wait, what am I even thinking?! T-This old man...it doesn't seem all that possible, right?!' Kanae snorts at himself. 'Questionable shit? Yeah right, as if right?! But than why does it feel like-?'

Matsumae coughs, causing Kanae to snap right out of it. "Mirumo's seeing them out...it's over, it's actually over." Kanae smiled warmly, knowing what that meant; Seidou was coming back earlier than expected.

However hid his excitement, clearing his throat. "So it is, but we should still wait a little while. A few hours shouldn't hurt." Matsumae winked. "That works perfectly, Kanae."

Kanae smiled warmly, as he watched the front door close in front of their faces. 'Seidou is finally safe!'