Jane |UTA| [ Re-Write ]

touka's investigation ✍︎

Touka Kirishima laid awake every night for days and curiously recalled the human woman. She seemed to know Uta extremely well from her observations and the male ghoul put his feelings dangerously on his sleeve as he hung off her every word. Touka had never seen a man so entranced as Uta watched Jane take small spoonfuls of cake between her lips. The way she looked through her lashes, the forests that sat in her irises, the waterfall of red falling down the spine of the chair, sexual appeal practically dripped from the human.

Maybe that's why Uta liked her so much Touka assumed, not able to comprehend a romantic relationship between her race and theirs.

For the three hours of Uta's date, Touka
-like Nishiki- couldn't pull her eyes from the two. They were out of this world and positively beyond their years as they chuckled into one another's existence.

With the tossing and turning, Touka forced herself downstairs to grab a cup of coffee; she hoped that would calm her nerves. But, instead of meeting comfort she was confronted with her uncle Yomo.

"You're up late" the older ghoul stated as he watched his niece enter the kitchen.

"I couldn't sleep" she simply replied.

"You want to talk about it?".

The teen considered it for a moment before sighing out her stubbornness.

"You've been close friends with Uta for years, right?" She questioned as she received a warm cup of coffee. Yomo was stopped still against her mysterious and inquisitive words.

"What's with the sudden interest?" Yomo shrugged.

"Uta appeared in Anteiku earlier this week, with a woman... a human woman".

Yomo paused his pouring of the beverage, stilling at the announcement.

He thought she was long gone by then.

"Who was she?" Touka continued before Yomo shook his head and dismissed her questions.
"Please... it's been playing on my mind" she added honestly.

Who would it hurt? What was the harm? Yomo considered it deeply before he exhaled in relent.

No one, that's who.

"I thought she was gone, she didn't leave Uta in the best frame of mind the last time she visited" Yomo admitted as he sat with his niece at the dining room table.

"She was here? Why did she leave?".

"All I know is they were pretty close years ago, she appeared out of no where and he was set on killing her-",

"What changed?",

"I don't know. But soon enough I saw them on a date, I knew he'd gone too far then. Then the next day, she ended it and disappeared to who knows where",

"Why would she do that if they were involved like that?" Touka continued to interrogate as she unconsciously leaned closer over the table toward her uncle.

Yomo shrugged, "found out he was I ghoul I guess. Her old man was CCG as well, wouldn't go down well with the family I guess".

"CCG? She must still be mixed up in all that I'm sure, why's she back in Japan anyway?".

"Who knows, I'd just be careful around her" Yomo warned before watching Touka deeply yarn.
"Interrogation's over, get to bed".

_________ ✍︎

Touka walked to school like normal as she wondered about Uta's date. Before she entered her room she gathered the woman's name was Jane Fraser. It was pretty and very English from Touka's standards.

All day her mind was trapped in thinking about the mysterious figure, the teen even went as far as to attempt writing her name in the corner of her English notes.

Nothing bad could spur from the practice, however, once her teacher paused over her shoulder she felt somewhat naughty for even trying to sound out each syllable of Jane's full name.

"I'd like to see you after class Miss Kirishima" her teacher announced before returning back to her desk to continue marking their papers from first term exams.

While she listened to the lecture playing on the board, Touka kept her gaze firm on her teacher until the bell abruptly rung and jogged the ghoul into a flinch. Never had she had that happen to her and Touka wouldn't let it again as she approached Miss Kurokawa.

"There's something you wanted to talk about?" Touka announced to capture her teacher's attention.

"Yes-" Yui confirmed while placing down her red pen, "- I wanted to know how you know that name: Jane Fraser".

Touka almost stiffened in front of the woman before exhaling a calm sigh. How the hell did she know Uta's date?

"She a friend of a friend, how do you know her, Miss?" The teenage ghoul questioned.

"We went to high school together for a period of time. She left quite abruptly if my memory serves me right- of course it was warranted, the girl's dad died from a ghoul attack after a month of arriving" Yui almost scoffed in frustration; she lost a good friend that day.

"A ghoul attack?",

"Her dad was CCG, apparently they were really close. She was even gonna be work in their laboratories, last time I spoke to her she was promoted to Special Class Investigator. She was smart that girl, don't let looks fool you. More people should aspire to have that kind of ambition" Yui chuckled.

"What!" Touka accidentally gasped.

"I know, it's a hard feat, she was always frighteningly arrogant, I'm not surprised. If you could, tell her I'd liked to see her eventually if she has the chance-",

"What might she be back for though?... I-I mean, I would be reluctant to return after that" Touka corrected to try pull more from her teacher unknowingly.

"When she came to Japan her dad was transferred to handle our ghoul problem. I'm guessing with Tokyo getting so restless lately the CCG are pulling all the stops" Yui theorised to suddenly look up from her papers to notice the student had disappeared from the classroom.
"What the hell was that about?".