School, the best place for Kida Chiaki, away from the hate and blood spilt canvas of the suburbs she grew up in that was also a notorious ghoul settlement, any CCG officer that went anywhere near there would probably never be seen again thanks to the ghouls that defended that place. School was also a place to learn, and a place to find her peace in the hectic life.
It was also a place she best looked forward to because of one special friend. Obi Mitayushi, he treated her as a friend and not some street kid who could barely afford the school uniform.
Although it wasn't always like this, he was a rich kid, part of the clique that bullied Kida at first. She was a mockery because she couldn't afford the nice things, like a new bag, or new clothing. Even stationary was hard to get but she survived with her cousin's old items because she was an only child. She was also bullied because people thought she smelled and couldn't properly bathe, when in actuality she did, every day, to get rid of the stench of rotting corpses down her alleyway.
One day, when the bullying got too much, Obi found her crying on the steps of the School entrance, the rain pouring down her face. He offered her the umbrella, with a sad smile on his face. She was so shy. So weak and defenceless. She looked up at him with big grey eyes, it was only now that he realised that her hair wasn't dirty at all, it was actually a mixture of blues, some dark and some light, creating this blue rainbow. 'Can I walk you home? This is no place for you to be crying... Especially with Juba Sieko doing his rounds' How chivalrous even though he was seven years old at the time.
Little did they know that this would be the start of a glorious friendship.
'You know Kida-Chan...One day, I'll be a CCG investigator' He said one summer night, looking onto the shoreline. The black haired boy said to the blue haired girl. The sun blazed down on them, casting their reliable shadows next to them upon the hill top. 'And you'll be there with me!' He pointed towards her, she smiled at him and laughed.
'Really, Obi-Chan!' She laughed taking a bite out of a snack he'd given her.
'You'll see I want to be up there with the top agents my father was!' he stood looking down at her, his face cast in shadow.
'Yeah you'll be as crazy as him too!' She sneered.
'Why you little-'
'Be careful about what you say to a lady!' she scolded playfully. He laughed, that smile littering his face, she'd never forget it.
'We'll wipe these ghouls away, you'll see! And then we can all have normal lives without the fear of being eaten' That determination was often subject for speculation and laughter, she knew as well as he knew that he'd be there. But the question in whether Kida followed him was for another day when tired eyes didn't droopily follow the conversation and when the sun didn't command them to follow their tails back home.
'Mother says that maybe tomorrow I can go to your house! wouldn't that be cool?'He said excitedly. No, her heart skipped a beat, he couldn't be seen there, he'd be eaten, or worse he'd tell his father about where she lived and all hell would break loose! Or...she could tell him
'Obi...there's something I need to tell you...' her expression suddenly became very serious. The warm wind suddenly became ice cold. She suddenly noticed that his grey eyes were on her. 'I'm...nevermind' She feigned a yawn. 'Oh, I can't have you come over tomorrow, it's my parent's anniversary and we're having a family reunion..'
'OK but you do know that I'll always be there for you. Let us both promise that this spot shall be for whenever we'd like to talk to each other about things. It shall formerly be known as the Mitayushi-Chiaki spot!' he pumped his hand to the air, making her laugh.
'Well, see you tomorrow, Kida-Chan!' Obi said to her, picking up his school bag and running down the park path. 'See you in school!' She waved him goodbye. She picked up her own bag, and ran in the opposite direction. The green grass rolled by into a grey murky colour as she ran from smell to smell until finally landing in the familiarities of her suburb.
That foul stench of human meat, detestable to the normal nose, but delectable to Kida's. She couldn't help but let her eyes resort to their odd Kakugan state. The left was blood red, but the right was electric blue. Other ghouls thought it was strange but her parents just put it down to mutation. Which it was to some degree, but it meant that her Kagune was a little off as well, thanks to her parents.
She was a Chimera, she got her Ukaku electric blue and blood red raven wings from her mother and her Bikaku matching her Ukaku in colour was a ribbon like tail that wrapped around her leg from her father. Because of the vulnerability between the Kagunes, she'd learned to forge a band of hard kagune flesh to protect the weakest spot she knew would be a prime target for CCG members if she ever came into contact with them.
She mainly liked to play cat and mouse with her prey. Her Ukaku pinning her victim down with crystalline feathers firing out at them, she also used this Kagune as a strong shield and she used her Bikaku to reach out like a whip and grab her prey. She also used this to spear the victim as little pores opened up and the victim's blood would be absorbed into her
Although at seven she'd never used them. One of her parents always hunted for her, and if they somehow run into a little trouble and it would take a long time for them to recover then she'd look for scraps anyone so happened to leave.
She adored her parents, her father, Suto Chiaki, was SS rated and so was her mother. she looked up to both of them. She didn't care if the whole world thought that they were monsters, she'd always see them as normal, loving and caring, didn't they have the same right to live as everyone else, or was it just the fact that ghouls had to eat human meat that made humans detest them so.
Her parents were part of a small group known as the Four Leafed Clovers. Taking on the meaning that the word for four is closely pronounced to the word death in Japanese. there were four factions, only about 4 members strong, but each one specialised in tracking, attacking, defending and trapping with rare detachable Kagunes.
Because of this factor, there was a strict rule in the house that only one meal per month was allowed, but if there was any meat left, she'd help her mother bake Ghoulish Cakes, a little flour, eggs, butter and milk to help it set but it was all meat so it drowned out the other components. making a delicious mid-month snack. Her father used to own a renowned Ghoul Gormet restaurant Agaru Restaurant in ward 11. But it failed in the few short years it was running for by the CCG. Many Ghouls were lost that day, but there were many more doves that never returned also.
Skipping a few uninteresting years, She and Obi had gone through school together, becoming the closest of friends. Sharing great memories and moments, but Kida always refusing his requests to stay at her house. In the end he didn't ask and just thought it was because she was embarrassed to show him her home. But she would often stay at his plush home. Blood red velvet carpets that almost made her drool, and the plush seats that she could sink in and be lost in a world of her own.
His parents liked her as well. His father too although that was to be expected, He was a top ranked agent of the CCG, and Obi fell head over heels and wanted bask in his father's title. Him being the inquisitive agent he was, he asked her what his parents did for a living, to which she replied 'My parents work in a bakery in ward 9. Obi's father found it almost amusing that as cancerous as that ward was with the ghouls, this girl looked almost unfazed.
Obi's father always talked about this new invention, the Quinque. The details of it were almost horrifying to hear upon the young ears of Kida, but Obi listened in delight.
By the time Kida was fifteen, she'd noticed that Obi was spending more and more time away from her. Leaving her utterly alone, but she was also spending more time away from him also, sometimes skipping school to catch her monthly meal. But she'd noticed that he was gaining more friends and his ambition to join the CCG and become a dove became all the more scary for her. With the new Quinques friendly ghouls whom Kida had known all her life were dropping like flies. And her unhappiness was made worse by the fact that she feared she was being stalked. Every move was not without question, and soon it would become even too risky for her to go to school.
Every moment she spent at the weekends was solely for training, Specifically in Ward 11. She liked to train near the outskirts especially in derelict buildings and also in her father's restaurant. She felt that by training there she was paying homage to the many ghouls that were lost that day.
But now with the threat of being stalked. How could she explain that to the principle? 'Hi, i'm being stalked, my life is constantly in danger because I'm a rare Chimera ghoul, I'm not going to eat you, I just want to have time off of school to get these doves away from me' like that conversation was ever going to happen.
One night while walking up to the bakery she could sense something was wrong, and that stalking feeling disappeared.
If this ever increasing threat of stalking was to do with anything it might be to do with the Four Leafed Clovers. They were fighting each other, that rumour had spread around the ghoul suburb like wild fire. The leaders, her father included, thought it too dangerous to play this dangerous game of Robin Hood with the CCG, the fear of their own organisation getting too cocky for their own good ran rampant in their minds. But still they tried to protect the ghoul settlement, but this night was particularly quiet, there was no nice smell of human meat wafting through the houses and not one bird stirred. Even the familiar ambiance of Ward 9 did not filter through her ears like a familiar mantra.
On the road up to the bakery, she could finally hear sound, a loud crash. Albeit unfamiliar she was glad to hear any sound that came her way.
She opened up the creaky door nervously, everything in the bakery looked just as she'd left it that morning, not a lot had been sold but that was to be expected, Mondays were slow days in these parts of the wards but even then they lived in ghoul country and what ghoul would have need of human food accept coffee, and they didn't sell coffee.
She almost jumped up the creaky stairs, opening the landing door when she caught part of a scream and a wince. 'Suto, Suto! Please tell them!' it was her mother's voice.
'Listen to her, Suto Chiaki. Or I have a feeling, my Quinque might slip and then it's bye-bye to your lovely wife' That voice, It was Obi's father! The cheek of it! How could he...this was all Kida's fault! If she'd have stayed away from Obi maybe this would have never happened! Maybe her heart wouldn't be breaking like it is now!
'Tell me the location of the Ghoul named Jason! We know that he's hiding somewhere so you better start talking!' his voice screamed at them.
'Please tell him!' Her mother begged, wincing and squealing.
'Leave them alone, you don't need her!' Her father called out.
'You're right I don't!' an impaling sound followed a stomach throwing crack and cackle of blood, and the sickening sound of blood dripping down. Kida's hands flung to her mouth as her now electric blue and blood red Kakugan eyes pooled with tears falling down her cracked skin. Her father agonisingly screamed, 'All right, I'll tell you! The One Eyed Owl resides in Ward 11! In the Agaru Restaurant!'
Ward 11, her father was offering her a free meal. She nearly smiled, but she couldn't think about swallowing even an inch of that monster's flesh. She then heard a blood curdling grunt and a pool of blood streamed through the crack underneath the door.
'You see, Mr Chiaki, you can be co-operative...' She could see the door knob turning, she made a dash into the nearest room, she left the door just ajar to see Obi's father waltzing out. A sick smile on his face, a dove agent ran up the stairs puffing and panting. 'The daughter, she was spotted in the vicinity of the bakery!'
'No matter let her come, we have the required information that we need, inform Mado that I was successful and that I'll be heading towards Ward 11 now.'
'Yes Mr Mitayushi!' and the thudding steps retreated again.
She stayed in the shadows, seeing that the doorknob to the room she was in was turning. She hid under her bed. watching drips of blood spilling onto the floor. He was wiping some sort of weapon with a white cloth, the blood perversely spilling onto the virgin white of the cloth. he looked around the room. Then closed the door again leaving Kida in darkness once again.
She could hear a car engine burst into life, fixing her petrified state, she ran through the bakery, using her Kagunes to bounce from building to building, across the city streets through the different wards until finally halting at Ward eleven, her eyes bursting with anger but also a strange tranquil sadness.
When finally jumping onto the roof of the renowned ghoul gourmet all you can eat Restaurant Agaru. she waited on the roof, for the familiar engine to chug along through the dimly lit street. An ant-like figure stooped out of the car. She wanted to grab him there and then, make him squeal and wince like her parents did under him. She slipped down the side of the building into a small alleyway where she waited for him to come nearer.
She calmed herself down, and dismissed her Kagunes as she went back to her human state. She stepped out of the shadows, she was all ablaze with anger. He would pay!
'Ah, Kida, what a pleasant surprise!' he said, 'Obi's getting worried about you, you know?'
'Cut the crap you murderer!' She shouted at him, her Kakugan eyes revealing themselves.
'I wouldn't say murderer what would it matter anyway that two ghouls died when hundreds of people are dying every day?' he walked along the path, a briefcase in hand. 'But you have to understand that I didn't want to do it, they made me do it! don't you see humans and ghouls are just two types of the same monster!' he smiled at her, something in her could always trust that smile, but now, she felt nothing trustworthy to it, just hate and sadistically cast memories.
'I can't believe you...' She said dejectedly,
'Then it's a good thing I brought a little persuasion!' His briefcase opened and he grabbed a weapon from it before throwing it away. It flashed and cracked open revealing a Bikaku, type weapon that was a yellow and green colour almost like a whip. he swung the weapon towards her which she jumped away from, releasing her own Kagunes
'Amazing! you're a Chimera ghoul!' She used her own Bikaku kagune, to whip him off of his feet, which he quickly rose from. He quickly swung as she swung her own Bikaku swung, the two locking into place as he flung her from one end of the street to the other until she finally, without struggle, dismissed the Bikaku kagune leaving her falling to the ground.
'You should have heard them scream and beg for me to stop!' She grunted getting up, engaging both Kagunes. While he was laughing she let her Ukaku Kagune throw feather-like shards at the man, injuring him, knocking him to the ground while he stumbled her Bikaku kagune grabbed him, and flung him around the street, She let him go, flying into the restaurant.
Feeling that the Quinque was ready to attack she used her two great Ukaku wings to crystalize around her form, protecting her like a great shield, she could still the whip-like tail Quinque pound against her shield. Feeling a presence near her, she burst out of her crystal shell, jumping onto the presence, using the crystal feathers to pin him down, while her Bikaku kagune ripped into his arm, the pores opening, draining his blood. It was so warm, as it entered her mouth so she could get a taste of it. But it was bitter also as he winced underneath her. She could sense that this was all wrong, she shouldn't be doing this.
But it felt so good!
'I want more!, you taste so good!' She greedily joked. He fidgeted under her hold using his quinque to batter her, The quinque caught a hold of her leg to which she clambered off him. She winced, patted her leg as it began to heal. She used this chance while he was grappling up to use her Bikaku to knock away the Quinque. It sliced through Mr Mitayushi's arm. He screamed in pain, falling to the ground.
Clouded with anger she pelted him with feather shards and the ribbon like Bikaku Kagune, not caring if she absorbed any of his blood, as he screamed in pain, finally stopping when she could her the onslaught of engines coming her way.
She could feel that his strength was weaning, so she dragged his body into the abandoned restaurant. The shame hung high on her shoulders as she cradled the officer in her arms, He used his only arm to reach into his jacket pocket bringing out a bloody letter.
'P-Please...Give this to O-Obi... Your name shall bring death on both sides. Blue Death...' His hand shaking as he placed it in Kida's own hand. Her Kakugan eyes were no longer and now he was staring into the big grey eyes his son had come to love.
'I promise...'His breath now quivering, she nodded her head. She stayed like this for some time, carefully listening to his breathing until it stilled, and there was no sign of life, she peeled herself away from his body, grabbing the dismembered arm along the way.
She did fulfil that promise. She placed the arm in a plastic bag with his CCG identity and placed the letter addressed to Obi on top of the bag and left it on the doorstep. She rang the bell and jumped up on their rooftop. The scream and sobbing that followed was her fault. She shouldn't have gotten carried away, never should have tasted his blood that still slightly resounded on her lips.
She was a ghoul, with no home to call her own, no family to tell her troubles to and no friend to apologise to. How could she face him.
It was on that night that she would disappear from Ward 9. And try to better her actions whether that be mercilessly or justly. She would do it aware of her explosive nature and try to keep that unrelenting demon contained.
'Your name shall bring death on both sides. Blue Death'