Hey everyone, been a long time since i've posted anything, because Life and all that. This probably short fic will touch and go into some sensitive and close to home topics like Suicide, just a fair warning.


The sound of gushing blood and ripping flesh seemed to echo into the crowded streets, and echoed even louder in Hinami's head. Watching Yomo, their quiet protector push her and Touka out of the way of a cannon type Quinque, and being hit by what looked like a spiked cannonball, it seemed to stopped time for a moment for the teenage ghoul.

As that hefty projectile hit Yomo, it's detonation finished the job, his brutalized body all but exploded with it in a shower of viscera, sending those sharp projectiles outward. It all happened so fast, all of it...


Hinami knew something was going on that day as she was sent away with Yomo and Touka out of the 20th ward. Her fears were confirmed as she stopped seeing traffic into the ward, and even saw some cordons they had to try and slip around. The explosions back in the distance near Anteiku just drove her worries further up.

None of them dared speak as they kept up with Yomo's breakneck pace. Their evacuation started out calm, until the fighting started, and turned into a near mad dash as they were being followed now. The trail of Doves and gunfire coming in multiple directions got to be overwhelming as they were backed into an alley.

Once Yomo guided the two girls into the alley they barely had time to blink as that Quinque hit him in the back, showing them in gore and shrapnel. Hinami got the least gore or wounds from the explosion, while Touka didn't seem to be doing so well, with several spikes lodged in her arm and side, blocking the younger ghoul from harm.


"Keep... running!" Touka yelled more at herself than at Hinami, both girls exhausted from the efforts. They could hear the Doves getting closer behind them, catching a bullet in her shoulder Touka fell to a knee. "Hinami... Keep going...Get... underground...I'll catch up to you.." She gasped as she pulled out some spikes, the investigators cautiously getting closer now that they stopped.

Hinami stared into Touka's eyes as she tried to make sense of the situation, her mind racing to find a solution ~Yomo...Yoshimura...Onii-chan...~ Her mind was stalled as Touka shouted at her, only picturing the moment when that skeletal dove had come for her own life after taking her mother's, leaving her very head as a trap, she couldn't see that happened again to anyone else she loved...

"Live Hinami! RUN!" Touka yelled as she pushed her and turned back, her mist like Kagune forming a barrier to block the bullets flying at them again, and to shoot at the building above the doves, causing them to move back as rubble and building rained down, forming a small barricade and dust cloud.

And so...Hinami began to simple-mindedly run, only focusing on not tripping as her vision blurred, and her Kagune shielding her back to help her get away. She did everything to block out sound as the gunfire stopped behind her before she got even a block away. Her mind refused to process it yet and what it might mean.

She seemed to find her way out of the incomplete barricade as forces were diverted to fight the Owl, wrapping up their operation. It didn't take her long to see the river coming into view, the alley leading rid to the side of a bridge and it's many dark places to hide.

She found foot traffic was still non-existent even this far as people huddled in their homes, fearing the ghouls that were being justly purged. She carefully hooked herself with one of her extendable Kagune and clumsily Swung down. Her gamble paid off as she clung herself between the bridge and a curved support, encased in darkness for now. In exhaustion her Kagune faded away, and the adrenaline faded with it.

The beating of her heart didn't slow as her mind started to catch up "O-onee-chan...Y-yoma-san...Onii-chan...! I...I left them... to d-die..." She mumbled to herself as her mind replayed Yomo's brutal death, there was no living from that, even if he had Kaneki's healing speed...Touka was already on death's door when she threw herself at all those Doves...

It was all she could do not to rush back to grasp that impossible chance someone, Anyone was alive...Her quiet and throat crunching sobs barely made a peep through the thick concrete of the bridge above her.


The first thing Hinami noticed as she woke up from a restless slumber under that high bridge alcove was notice the sound of cars above, and the light shining near her hiding spot, yet keeping her well hidden. The lack of gunfire and fighting shocked her nerves as she wondered where she was sleeping, her tired mind taking it's time feeding her back the details of the prior night.

"Its... morning? What was I do-" Her mouth gasped like a fish as the events hit her like a truck, nearly sending her into another sobbing fit. "No no no no NO! They can't all...I have to.. have to find s-someone..."

She would slowly start to crawl back to the edge of that support beam, enough to see through some of the cracks in the latticework that held the actually road in place. Enough to see a screen at the end of the bridge welcoming people back to the 20th ward, and listing stats on their 'operation', showing a picture and data on their Ghoul Victims that had been eliminated.

She stared at that screen for hours, dreading seeing anyone she knew, and being relieved she hadn't yet... And then the universe decided to destroy any last hopes she had.

About 2 hours into that moving pictures of Ghouls and their danger level she saw that familiar white hair of her Onii-chan...Then the kind face of Yoshimura...Yomo...Irimi...Koma...Touka! She crumpled down as she just... stopped, the tears flowing steadily, but her throat unable to scream her grief.

As the sun began to set Hinami noticed she had started to get hungry, her body having healed the minor cuts and punctures she had, yet that hunger felt mild and distant, she didn't care..."Everyone...Gone..." As she looked around a bit she peered down, entranced by the water beneath herself. She could just... tilt right over if she wanted...she felt that call of the abyss more than ever...


Okay next chapter I wanna get to the meat and potatoes of poor Hinami's suffering. If I like characters I tend to want to make them suffer for some reason... I''ll be writing the next chapter up tonight and see how it goes from there, and if I will instead attach some other ideas I have into it.