Forbidden Love [Haise x Touka]

21

Haise first drafted his resignation letter and submitted it to his boss. The fact that he submitted it before carrying out the plan was to make sure it wouldn't seem suspicious if he looked like he was planning to resign for some time already, and not wanting to resign straight after he completed his task of 'killing' Touka.

His letter stated that he would complete his current job before resigning as it is his responsibility and last task as a vampire hunter. As for reason, he put it as settling down with a wife and family so he doesn't want to stay in a dangerous job anymore for the sake of his future family.

They waited for a week for the letter to be sent and processed before the three of them--Haise, Touka, and Hide made their way into the forest to make sure no one sees them.

Their plan was to create a situation where Haise indeed killed Touka, by making a wound on her torso which will require clothes tearing, the coloring of red and usage of fake blood. The boys borrowed her makeup and decided to add some scratches and bruises on her arms and legs to show signs of a struggle between Haise's and Touka's supposedly 'fight'.

Making her face pale white with the use of foundation was also needed to show death. To make her death more real, a trail of blood from her lips to her neck was added.

After the makeup and props were done, they made her lie down onto a pile of dead leaves in the forest, had her close her eyes and took pictures of her 'dead' body. The pictures were to be used as evidence in the report they would write afterward.

Haise and Hide needed to make sure that the reports they wrote were similar, in terms of facts not contrasting one another's to avoid suspicions.

After that, they moved on to make fake identities for Haise and Touka. This was to allow them to suddenly 'disappear' from this world and avoid getting tracked down. Haise changed his name to Kaneki Ken, while Touka changed her name to Kaneki Touka, as his wife and they went as far as filling in the marriage form and submitted it. She found the fact that she was his wife very amusing when he hasn't even proposed to her yet, and laughed quietly as he made the fake ids.

Haise being Haise, only smiled and squeezed her hand. "The proposal is in order. This is just for the ids."

She flushed, knowing that he had just hinted her that he was going to propose one day.

Everything they did up to now was easy. Now, this was the hard part. They needed to return to headquarters in the 20th ward and make a presentation on their latest vampire kill—about Touka and Haise was so afraid that he would mess it up because he was horrible at lying. When he did, he had a bad habit of touching his chin and stuttering words. But he had to do it, for the sake of both of them.

Holding her hands in his, Haise kissed his girlfriend and pulled back hesitantly. "I need to return now. When everything is settled and I have quitted my job successfully, I promise I'll be back to fetch you. Then, we'll go somewhere far away to live, okay?"

Touka smiled nervously. "Okay. I'll be waiting. Keep me updated by text."

He nodded. "I will."

And so, he left, leaving her alone in her now quiet apartment. She prayed that their hard work will pay off and they would soon be able to be together.

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At headquarters...

Haise's hands felt clammy as he walked into a meeting room full of higher-ups and his boss. Despite rehearsing multiple times with Hide and forcing himself not to show signs of deceit, he would be lying if he said he wasn't nervous.

Of course he was, his whole future—and Touka's—depended on this presentation. He would not screw it up. He cannot.

And the presentation began.

Haise had made it through the whole thing without stuttering or touching his chin. He was about to let out a sigh of relief when everyone started nodding at the end but his boss seemed to have a question.

"Where was the body disposed?"

"I-in the ocean, sir."

He stuttered!

His gaze turned suspicious. "Which ocean?"

"The one near 1st ward.."

His boss narrowed his eyes at him and he swallowed nervously. He knew why this question was asked. Their company was a private company, not acknowledged by the government. Despite how their basis of killing vampires was justified, the government just couldn't make the company a public one because it was still killing, murdering of a person.

Therefore, to avoid the public from questioning the government about randomly found dead bodies—even though they were caused by CCV—the government forced the CCV to make sure that the bodies of the vampire they kill are to be disposed of and never found. That meant that they were to use every and any method to dispose of the body.

After a moment of longgggg silence with Haise and Hide holding their breaths, the boss finally let up and leaned back against his chair. "Good job. You guys can rest now."

Exiting the meeting room, Haise kept his excitement in check and only brought his phone out to text Touka after he entered the bathroom.

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To: Kirishima Touka

Mission succeed!!

Haise

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A message to which she replied one second later:

To: Sasaki Haise

Come back and let's celebrate.

Touka