The whole day was full of Hide and Hideaki babbling to confused workers and Amon and Mado Akira translating their babbling to make sense. In the end..

Hide had gotten me all of this stuff.. and more.

He had an eyepatch custom-made, a rather simple design. It was all black aside from the white dots on it. Nine white dots.

He got me a different eyepatch as well. It had an orange rabbit on it with a white background. The string that tied it around my head was black. I swear, I don't know what Hide is.

He also got me a bunch of clothes.. including black dresses, beige turtlenecks, normal pants, black skirts, and other stuff that I don't even want to mention. He even got me shoes like high heels.. -_-'

I am seriously confused. What even is Hide? Is he innocent, or does he think of me as a crossdressing sex doll?

"Ken, Ken!!" Hide ran into our room as I was looking through his many, many toys. I'd been chained to the bed so that I wouldn't leave. According to Dragon's whining, so was he, only to Hideaki's bed. "Oh? Do you like them?" he grinned, seeming to have forgotten whatever he had left to do and was about to announce.

"...I'm organizing them," I said quietly.

"? They're fine. Anyway though, me and Hideaki's birthday party for this year is all planned out now!"

"..."

Birthday party?

"Oh, while we're talking about it, when's your birthday, Kaneki?"

"...D..December.. 20th.. I think.."

"December 20th? Cool! That's only five days before Christmas! Mine's June 10th! Two days ago was June 10th, so that was me and Hideaki's birthday! Our birthday party is this coming Saturday! You have to come, okay?"

"..."

Right.. I have to 'come'.. He knows that I'm wherever he wishes, right? Is his party not being held here? Is that why he's saying to 'come'?

I've heard about parties, but I've never really experienced one.. I guess it'll be nice.. Since Hide's only five, it'll probably be a lighter party.. not one with drugs or sex or inappropriate dancing or anything but just.. enjoying yourself. Talking. Playing. The sort. Hide probably enjoys those things beyond belief.. I'm not a very social person though..

"Of course I'm coming, Hide. I'm wherever you want me to be."

"Great! Anyway, as I was saying, I wanted to share the schedule with you beforehand!"

"?"

Hide pulled out a piece of paper, walking towards the bed and setting the paper on the bed, smoothing it over.

"See?"

"Hmn.."

Saturday 11 a.m. to 8 p.m.

Brunch!

Play time!

Speech!

Dance!

This is a.. very elaborate, descriptive schedule, Hide.. -u-'

"So, so, remember that dress I got you yesterday? That was for Saturday! Can you wear it during the dance for me, Ken?"

"...Auh.."

Not like I have a choice.. Urh, it disgusts me to think I'll be crossdressing..

"Yay!" he hugged me tightly, "I LOVE you, Ken!"

Hide continued to babble a little bit longer, talking about what would happen during the party. Supposedly, there was a more elaborate plan somewhere else. ..Or maybe the elaborate plan is in Hide and Hideaki's heads.. rather than on paper.

They even have all of the songs planned.. Hide says the songs are going to go from light to hardcore and back to light again, gradually.

Knock, knock.

"Hmn?" Hide looked over his shoulder to the door, "Come in!"

"Hideyoshi-sama, it's time for your lessens," the scary lady from yesterday provided.

"Ehh?!! But I thought we weren't doing any 'til Sunday!!"

"The plans have changed. Since it's only Wednesday, your parents thought it would be neglective if you and Hideaki didn't study for an entire week. Plus, knowing you two, you would probably forget everything from the week before."

"But I won't have study time on SATURDAY, would I..?" Hide gave puppy dog eyes.

Akira Mado stared at him with impassive eyes, "Hideyoshi-sama, you know those do not work on me. But, no, you do not have study time on Saturday. You do have plans for half the day after all, and setting up will probably take quite a bit of time as well."

"Yay!" Hide cheered, putting his hands up.

"Since we studied in your room last time, Hideyoshi-sama, we're studying in Hideaki's room today."

"Okay!" Hide got up and pulled me along.

"..You.. don't like to study, Hide?" I murmured. I half-wished he didn't hear me, but if I really wanted that, I shouldn't have spoken at all. He may be naive, but he can be really observant..

"What's that, Ken?" he looked back at me.

I brought my hand to my chin, "No-Nothing.."

"Do you like to study, Ken? Nee, Mado-san, Ken'll study with us, right?"

"Yes. Unless you ask otherwise, Hideyoshi-sama."

"I bet it won't be as boring with Yuuta and Ken here!" Hide grinned as we walked into his brother's room.

"Oh," Hideaki turned to us, "Hi, Brother, Ken!" he waved with a grin. I was horrified and ready to puke out all of my intestines.

"Hm? What are you doing?" Hide walked over to them, letting go of me. If that scary lady wasn't in the doorway, I just might've run.

"? I'm fixing up Yuuta's hair, isn't it obvious? Do you think this is a good style, Brother? Mado-san? I'm trying to figure out how to fix his hair for Saturday.."

OH G*D NO, PLEASE DON'T PUT ANY FUNNY IDEAS INTO HIS HEAD, HIDEAKI!!!

"Oh, that's a good idea. Maybe I'll try to figure out what looks best on Ken too."

NOOOOOO!!!!! {<-- already understands his master and habits}

"So? What do you guys think?"

"Hmmn.. I'm fond of pigtails."

"So no? This doesn't look good on Yuuta?"

"It doesn't look BAD. I'm just fond of pigtails. I think this fits Yuuta though. Picturing Yuuta in pigtails.. it doesn't fit."

"Huh.. What about you, Mado-san?"

"...It's fine."

"Ken, do you like this hairstyle?" Hide turned to me, "Do you want to look like me and Hideaki?"

"...n.." I stopped there. "..Wh-Whatever you want.. Hide."

"Hmn.. then I think I'll try pigtails on you later."

OH G*D NO!

"O-On se-second tho-thought, I really-" I hurried to say, but Hide was already resuming his conversation with Hideaki.

"Do you think Ken would look good in pigtails, Hideaki?"

"I think he'd look fabulous!"

DON'T ENCOURAGE HIM!!! I'M ALREADY GOING TO HAVE TO WEAR A DRESS AND PROBABLY HIGH HEELS!!! AND GOD KNOWS WHAT ELSE HE'S PLANNING! OR WHAT HE'LL COME UP WITH IN THE NEXT FEW DAYS, D*MN IT! I WISH IT WAS TODAY!

"Then, I'll try that."

"If you want to try any others, I brought a picture book from the library," Hideaki picked up a book and showed him, "I was trying all of these on Yuuta, but I think I like him with our hairstyle anyway. Are you going to fix up your hair for Saturday, Brother?"

"Huh? Oh, I didn't think about it.. Maybe! But probably not. Hmn~ these are all big pictures! I like this book. Can I borrow this book tonight?"

"Sure! I decided on our hair anyway."

I swear..

I glanced at the trio again, noticing that Dragon was glaring straight at me.

"..."

"Hey, Hideaki, did you know Ken's birthday is December 20th?"

"Huh? Oh, what a coincidence! Dragon's birthday is January 3rd! I wonder if maybe we could do a joint party for them since their birthdays are so close."

-_-' I swear, both of them are idiots..

"Oh, that sounds nice! It's too bad their birthdays aren't close to ours though."

"Yeah, if that was the case, we could have a CONFUSED PUDDLE birthday party!"

"You mean quadruple, Hideaki-sama," Mado corrected, finally walking over.

"Yeah, that.-"

HOW STUPID CAN THEY BE?!! EVEN I KNOW THAT, AND I'M NOT EVEN EDUCATED!!

"-So, what's on the menu today, Mado-san?"

She turned to me and Dragon, "You two have been educated, correct?"

I shrunk into myself, but Dragon answered, "Hardly! Oh wait, you humans call submissive ghouls educated, huh?!! Well then, that idiot over there is 'educated'! F*cking wuss!" I only shrunk further into myself at his words.

The twins gasped, "Yuuta! Don't say something like that!"

Hide hugged me tightly as Hideaki scolded 'Yuuta', "You're not like that, Ken. You're an amazing person, just don't listen to him, okay? He's being rude."

Mado turned to me, "What about you? Are you educated?"

"...A.. a little.. I pick up things here and there.. a-and they.. taught me a.. few things.."

Like how to count down from 1000 by 7s. How to count how many of my limbs were on the bench. How-

"Ken?"

"! ...nothing.." I mumbled, rubbing my chin.

"... But, if you're not educated, how can you like books?"

I looked up at him, "I've always.. wanted to read them, but.. some people would.. read to me.."

"Oh. Well, me and Hideaki and Mado-san can teach you how to read, Ken."

"Hideyoshi-sama, I doubt you know how to even read your own name again."

"How rude!! I didn't forget!!"

"Then write it."

Hide paled at this. He laughed nervously.

"W-Well, I can't do that if-"

Already one step ahead, Akira placed a piece of paper and pencil in front of him.

"Write it," her forehead was shadowed. See? This is why I think she's scary!

And I think Hide just p*ssed his pants..

Hide shakily picked up the pencil. I could hear his heart pounding in his chest. {..I just realized- I SHOULD'VE MADE DRAGON BAT! DANG IT!! (sighs) No changing it now.. Should I come up with this triplet that they never knew about..?}

His hand shakily moved against the paper. He handed the paper back to Akira with a wary smile.

"Good?"

Akira looked over the paper before her eyes settled back on Hide. She stared him down, and Hide was sweating bullets. He only got more nervous by the second. Suddenly, she slammed the paper down and hissed into his face.

"This is your brother's name."

"GAK!"

"And it's messy as sh*t. I could barely read it. Rewrite it."

"NOOOOO!!!!!!"

Pretty much, the whole day was just Akira strictly reteaching Hide and Hideaki.

Ridiculous..

But at least this way, I get to learn what they've been learning.