Jane |UTA|

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"You're seriously doing this?" Yomo said, his words meaning to have a shocked tone yet his expression was lacking.

His words were spurred by watching Uta stare into a mirror while carefully placing coloured contacts in his eyes. They made him look human with the advantage of the heightened sense. For the first time in forever, when Uta looked back, he saw himself with black irises and a white sclera.

"I thought you'd go for something crazy. Like orange or bright blue" Yomo commented.

"Well, she's human. I want her to think I'm normal and not a...-",

"Not a?",

"You know... A ghoul".

At those unfamiliar and surprising words, Yomo sat back on the sofa in the back room of the mask shop.

"I never knew a girl could make you so stupid-" he thought aloud before adding,
"- How long has it been since you've eaten?"... "a few days?... A few weeks?-" Uta's silence lasted in the thick air.

"A month and a half" He then spoke up to then run his hands through his blonde hair.

"This isn't you Uta" Yomo sighed with concern (even if it was masked).

"What if it could be? I could be so much more than the strongest in the forth Ward",

"But, that's what you wanted. You fought for it... And I'm not gonna let some human beat fuck this up for you, she can ruin your life!" Yomo exclaimed with a boiling anger building in his gut. And he knew he pissed off Uta when he found himself pinned to the wall by his Kagune. The long, boney rinkaku had the ghoul internally shivering.

"Don't... Just don't" Uta growled with his eyes wide with a sadistic malice.

"Fine... Don't say I didn't warn you".

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Walking out of school was like a gulp of fresh air to Jane. She was a new person after last night, a woman you could say. Even if Uta barely touched her in such a manner, the maturity of their circumstance had Jane buzzing with pride... However, the sight of her sister waiting at the gate made her thumping heart drop. It was mad to expect she was getting away with that little act of rebellion.

When she was before her older sibling with her body vibrating with fear. Jane was hardly able to get a word out due to the hard slap she had received. Her whole head turned at the harsh impact and she tried to ignore the unwilling tears as a white heat erupted under her skin. Never had anyone laid hands on her like that. And she didn't expect her sister to land the first blow.

"What were you thinking!" Amber screamed amongst the other students. Of course she caught their attention but only few could understand.
"I set strict rules, be home straight from school and what do you do? Spend the night with some random guy I don't know!-" She continued with a rising volume, "- we aren't in England anymore. This place is dangerous and you think you would get away with me not knowing where you were?... What we you doing!".

"I just... I don't want to be caged for a year" Jane mumbled out to hear her sister scoff.

"I was being lenient",

"How can you call those rules lenient!" Jane exclaimed.

"They were there to protect you, not suffocate you. I would rather you had no social life than no life at all!",

"What's the point then?" Jane questioned, with an eyebrow raised at Amber's awestruck expression.
"Let me have this... And if I do get hurt or something does happen, trust me to be on the next plane back home",

"Is that another one of your famous promises?",

"Nothing less for my favourite sister",

"I'm your only sister" Amber chuckled.

"That's the point".

And with that, both siblings walked to the car park for Jane to only turn around. She shouldn't have, she really shouldn't have but she did anyway.

She saw him, with his eyes no longer hidden behind those glasses. Jane had missed the chance to look into those eyes and bask in his warmth all because of those famous promises.