This will be a love story b/t Kaneki and Rize because sadly their is an ungodly lack of them on this site so I have decided to take it upon myself to do so. I'm not sure whether or not I will add a lemon to this story but I do know this if I do it will be graphic but I am new to this so the first couple of scenes may not be so good but they will improve over time I can guarantee that.

Chapter 1: When you walk through hell you don't come out the same.

Kaneki POV

My life was as normal as could be I was a University student, I read books, and I hung out with my best friend Hide. So what could have happened that in one night my life went from normal to a living hell I was stupid in a judgment call by asking a women I thought was beautiful out who only turned out to be a Ghoul and tried to kill me.

I'm not sure whether or not it was a good thing that I survived the encounter after I lost consciousness I was taken to a hospital to wake up and to find out that the Ghoul was dead but that in the process I had been made a Half-Ghoul by "accident."

I did find some hope met other Ghouls at my favorite coffee shop Anteiku they taught me how to cope with my new reality and for a time my life seemed ok again until the day Aogiri came for the Ghoul that almost killed me but took me instead.

I was tortured by this psychotic and sick bastard Yamori for days he would make use of my regenerative ability by cutting of my fingers and toes over and over again to satisfy his sick habit. In that time I was visited in my mind by the Ghoul and somehow she opened my eyes showed me how my way was that of a coward and that I needed to fight for what is mine and for what I love.

I break free of my binds and in the ensuing battle I Butchered that sick fucker and ate his Kakuja taking what he was for myself and saved my friends from the Aogiri Tree only to do the hardest thing I have ever had to do. I turned my back on them telling myself that I was protecting them when in truth I was selfishly acting for myself. I joined the Aogiri Tree thinking to myself "I will kill anything that tries to take my place so I can protect everyone and everything I hold dear for once I will be eating the Ghouls."

But I was so wrong I lost sight of myself and I did horrible things before I finally realized that I wasn't the one eating Ghouls I was the one being eaten. It was after that did the Raid on Anteiku happen and with it the worst day of my life I fought Amon for the last time we both collapsed when I came to he was gone. So I made my way to Anteiku for whatever reason that is where I met the person I thought I would never see again.

My best friend Hide was waiting for me even in the middle of a war zone he still kept up his joking personality. Caught up over some poorly made coffee for me to learn he knew what I was all along and he still wanted to help me that touched my heart so much thinking to myself I don't deserve a friend like him. The touching reunion was cut short though with horrible news while on the battlefield Hide suffered from serious wounds and would soon die.

I did not want to believe it or did I want to keep going on like this not after what my friend had gone through to get to me before he left me he told me the thing I should have done to begin with "Let's go home."

I took Hide got him out of the Burning Anteiku and did what I thought was best I took his body over to the CCG mobile base made it look like I killed one of their own so they would in turn do the same to me. That is where Ken Kaneki was sealed and Haise Sasaki was born I worked for the CCG as the mentor of a Ghoul squad Quinx over time I saw them as I did the people of Anteiku or now :RE.

I denied who I was for so long the real me was inside trying to break free I would deny him at every turn until the day I met the Owl again. I was forced into a corner in that time I met the child again and finally after so long Ken Kaneki and Haise Sasaki realized they were one in the same the body they inhabit cannot be without either. I was finally awake again I cut that psychotic bitch above the waist leaving her Kakuja and half of her plummeted off the building back to earth. Then I had to think fast to save Tsukiyama from death while I still looked like I was an investigator so I shoved him off the building knowing he would survive then went on to consume the Owl's Kakuja.

Over the course of the next six months I would build a reputation among the Ghoul community as The Black Reaper plotting my intentions carefully as there was a promise I had to keep to a lot of People. So when Ayato and his Ghouls attacked Cochlea I did what I needed to do I betrayed my new family for my old one I opened every cell I could until I found her Hinami.

She looked at me with tears in her eyes happy and joyful that her Brother was back to save her I got her on my back and I made my way up the prison at incredible speed around the first floor though I encountered something that needed my attention. A lone Ayato fighting Arima my first thought was he insane fighting the Death God of the CCG and my second was he was important to Hinami so he was important to me.

I dashed into the fray momentarily stopping the fight I looked Ayato in the eye and told him to get Hinami back to where she belongs :RE and for once he didn't argue. Hinami was however insistent on staying with me afraid that she would lose me again but I was able to quell her fears and let her know that I would never leave her like that again.

Ayato left sprinting up the levels of the prison I turned to face Arima a look of disappointment in his then went to say how I was his best man but now that I remembered everything I would need to die and so it began. The battle surrounded by several others was bloody to say the least neither could the other and I thought that I could wear him down but I was wrong.

Somehow I am still not sure how but he was able to get me from behind I was disabled with my Kakuja cut I thought to myself "Hinami I'm sorry." Then I'm not sure how but someone grabbed me it was another Ghoul that much was certain given their Kakugan it looked like a Rinkaku. This mystery Ghoul lept at unbelievable speed we were out of the prison in no time at all on a distant roof in even less time.

Surprisingly the Ghoul told me to eat a bit of them to regenerate I did so and they were able to regenerate almost immediately I stood to thank them but they said "No need to thank me my dear Kaneki." My eyes sharped with surprise and caution with a stern voice I asked " How do you know my name?" The hooded Ghoul laughed and said "Ha ha ha….. Don't you recognize me after our fun little date?"

I stood with confusion on my face "What are you talking about?" The reached for their hood and what I saw next shocked me to my core a figure I thought I would never see again the Ghoul that started my journey through hell "Rize."

A/U This is my very first story on this sight so I ask that u are little leniant with me I really hope u guys enjoy the story the next chapter will be up by April first if not sooner thanks for reading.