September 9, 2042*
Shino: Mmmh! So good! Thank you gain for having me here Auntie, Uncle.
Atsuo: No need to thank us Shino, you're always welcome here in our home.
Aiya: That's right. You and your friends are all welcome to sleep and eat here in this house.
After sleeping in, Shino had joined the Higanbana family in breakfast happily eating with them at their table as if she was already part of their family.
Kotori: Hey Miku-chan say ahh~
Miku: Stop it. I'm not a child anymore, I can feed myself. Onii-chan!
Kaneki: Nom~ nom~ Onee-chan cut it out, if you continue to baby Miku she'll just hate you y'know?
Kotori: Hehe~ sorry~ by the way, why were you on top of Kaneki-chan earlier?
All 4: Hmm? Shino/Shino-Oneechan did what?
Shino: Eek!
Kotori: Earlier when I was going to wake Kaneki-chan up, Shino was sleeping on top of him.
Kaneki: Huh. I guess that explains why i was out of breath when I woke up.
Aiya: Oh my. Did you by any chance crawl onto him?
Shino: N-No! I didn't!!! I must've gotten there in my sleep! I'm so sorry Kaneki!
Kaneki: It's you were sleeping so you had no control over yourself.
The continued to eat breakfast while having a nice chat.
Many minutes later~
After a while they had finished eating. Kaneki, Shino and Miku got out of the house to go to school.
But first they had to get Sachi.
Kaneki: I'll go wake Sachi up and help her with breakfast and such.
Miku: Go ahead.
Shino: Just make it quick.
Kaneki: Okay!
Creak~
Kaneki: Sorry for barging in! I'm here to pick up-
Once Kaneki entered the Saki household, Shino and Miku had some small talk.
Miku: Hey Shino-Oneechan I think we shouldn't go with out aggressive plan.
Shino: You were rethinking it right?
Miku: Yeah... The way Onii-chan just fainted yesterday was very concerning and I think he is falling in love with us... But I think our love is a bit too heavy for him to handle.
Shino: That... Makes sense actually. Yesterday during the stream I could feel his heart beating faster and slower when he hugged me from behind and when I was sitting on his lap.
Miku: By the way, you had a chat with Tohru-Mama last night right?
Shino: Yeah and speaking about her, she actually gave me a better plan where we can be aggressive but not too much. I'll tell you and Yuuka about it later.
Miku: Sounds goo-
AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!
Shino & Miku: !!!
Sachi's sudden scream was so loud that people from outside could hear her.
Miku: What could have possibly happened in there?
Shino: Let's wait and see.
10 minutes later~
10 minutes after Sachi's loud scream, she and Kaneki had gotten out of her house with her fully dressed in her uniform.
Sachi:Yawn~ Good morning Shino, Miku.
Shino & Miku: Good morning.
Miku: What happened earlier? We heard you scream like you saw a monster or something.
Sachi: THAT'S BECAUSE I DID! KANEKI WENT INTO MY ROOM AND TRANSFORMED PARTS OF HIS BODY INTO MULTIPLE THINGS AND JUMPSCARED ME!
Kaneki: Haha~ Yeah I did. I am so sorry Sachi.
Sachi: Don't ever do that again!
Kaneki: I won't.
Shino: I see. We should get going now.
Miku: Yup!
And so the 4 walked to Mato High and met up with the others on their way to school.
1 hour and 20 Minutes later~
Shino: Girls let's have a talk
After arriving at their classroom the Shino summoned the Higanbana girls to her desk for them to talk.
Shino: You too Kaneki, I have something important to tell you.
Even Kaneki was included.
Kaneki: Okay I'm-
Emi: Kaneki-san! Ai-san! The President of the Public Morals Committee are calling for you.
But unlucky for them Kaneki and Kotori were being summoned by their cousin Azusa Shirogane.
Kaneki: Oh shoot I didn't even do anything why am I being called?
Kotori: It must be important Kaneki-chan.
Kaneki: Um... You guys?
Though he was being called he was worried about his friends since he was originally supposed to be talking with them.
Natsuki: It's alright Kaneki, you can go.
Shino: Yeah we'll talk later.
But seeing his friends allowing him to go, he left the room with Kotori to meet up with their cousin.
With him now out of the room, the Higanbana girls started their conversation without him.
Shino: Well we can talk about it with him later.
Natsuki: Yeah. I'm assuming we're all thinking the same thing right?
Chikao: About not doing what we did to Kaneki yesterday?
Shino: That's right, we should definitely stop that since it's too much for Kaneki.
Miku: Agreed I don't want to see him faint again like yesterday.
Keiko: Seriously you girls were very aggressive yesterday.
As they were talking about stopping their current actions towards Kaneki, Keiko had walked up to them alongside her childhood friend boyfriend Itsuki.
Sachi: Oh hey Keiko, Itsuki-san.
Itsuki: Yo. You girls having a talk about Kaneki?
Shino: Yeah considering how we acted towards Kaneki yesterday and how flustered he was and even the moment he fainted we all agreed to stop doing that kind of stuff to him.
Itsuki: Good Kaneki is definitely confused with what you all did.
Yuuka: At least my actions was the least aggressive. Holding his hands underneath the desk was so great!
Natsuki: Oi! Don't show off Yuuka.
Yuuka: Hehe~ Sorry.
Itsuki: Sigh~
Keiko: Hmm? Is there something wrong Itsuki?
Itsuki: No not really. I just can't believe these girls still aren't dating Kaneki.
Itsuki's little comment was overheard by all their classmates in the room and their reaction is what you'd expect.
Everyone: Ehhhh?!
And seeing this Sachi said.
Sachi: What do you expect? He was practically raised around girls all his life. For him getting romantic feelings for anyone is near impossible.
Some of their classmates nodded in agreement as they thought it made sense.
Natsuki: Actually Sachi, he was in love with us at some point but he had forgotten his own feelings.
Sachi, Shino, Yuuka & Chikao: Wait really?
Itsuki & Keiko: What?
Natsuki: As you all know I have the ability to see the colors of other's souls and Kaneki was in fact slowly falling in love with us.
Miku: I can confirm that, last month Kane-chan was rather flustered around me when I visited his home after the whole situation with Millie was resolved.
???: Really? If he was in love with you guys then why isn't he now?
Yuuka: The most likely explanation was due to trauma.
Miku: Yeah that makes a lot a sense, after the whole Millie situation me and Kaneki-chan's Sister was kidnapped by the Clad of Black wings and we all know how he took it.
Chikao: Not well...
Natsuki: And he started hating himself a lot more.
Shino: We're getting sidetracked, let's not talk about the past and talk about the present and future.
Nod~
The Higanbana girls all nodded.
Shino: Okay so since our aggressive approaches are out of the question, we could go out on dates with him.
All 5: Eh? Ehhhh?!
The five were very surprised by Shino's suggestion, but she then said.
Shino: You guys don't need to overreact you know? We eat at his house, sometimes have sleepovers and we technically went on two separate dates with him since the start of the month.
Natsuki: Y-Yeah we did but wasn't Kaneki the one who invited us?
Shino: That's the thing if Kaneki does it, to him it's just casual hangouts. You know very well he doesn't have any feelings for us as of now.
Natsuki: Oooh... Good point.
Yuuka: Yeah you're right, but what gave you this idea to go on dates with him Shino?
Shino: His Mom, Tohru-san gave me advice yesterday when I slept in.
Chikao: His Mom?!
Shino: Yeah she told me about dates we could do with Kaneki, so I want to talk about where we could go with him on our free time any suggestions?
Miku: This is quite difficult... We already went to eat out and to the Onsen, where else we could possibly go?
???: Wait you guys haven't heard? There's going to be autumn festival tomorrow.
All 6: Tomorrow?!
Natsuki: Since when? We haven't heard anything about it.
Chikao: Yeah!
Itsuki: You guys were way too focused with Kaneki, the festival was already announced shortly after the W.S.S.F.
Yuuka: Wait... But we haven't heard anyone talk about it.
Kaneki: You guys wanna go to the festival tomorrow?
Everyone: Kaneki?!?!
Kaneki had suddenly returned seemingly from thin air.
And upon returning he heard them talking about the autumn festival which made him very excited.
Kaneki: Yo! I heard you guys were talking about the festival? Do you guys wanna go? I could make you all Kimonos if you want to.
Natsuki: Wait Kaneki you knew about the festival?
Kaneki: Yup!
Sachi: Since when?
Kaneki looked at Sachi with a mildly disappointed face.
Kaneki: Don't tell me you forgot Sachi? We used to go to the festival every year since we were kids.
Sachi: Wait we did?
Kaneki: We did! Seriously I can't believe you forgot! We literally went there last year!
Sachi: I'm so sorry Kaneki! I didn't mean it!
Pout~
Kaneki: Sigh~ Well it's alright. I'm just messing with ya.
Yuuka: So you actually knew about the festival?
Kaneki: On our way to school I saw a flyer about the festival so yup! I'm surprised non of you actually noticed anything about the festival. But it's alright since most of you only recently moved to Shimotsuki.
The Higanbana girls only stared at him confused until Shino broke the silence.
Shino: So you wanna go out to the festival tomorrow?
Kaneki: Obviously! I could even help you guys out with Kimonos and stuff.
Natsuki: Sounds great!
Kaneki: So you all want to go?
With Kaneki inviting them the Higanbana girls tooked the opportunity and agreed to his invitation.
All 6: Sure!
Kaneki: Awesome! Well then I'll be right back.
Splash!
Kaneki suddenly turned into a puddle of blood until the blood evaporated.
Itsuki: Oh it was a blood clone.
Shino: Well our planning didn't go exactly how I thought it would, but at least have a date now.
Chikao: It would have been better if we had invited him though.
Natsuki: Well what can we do now?
Yuuka: Prepare that's what.
With a festival date with Kaneki now decided, the Higanbana girls will now prepare themselves for the festival.