Hello! This would be my first time writing a fan-fiction, hopefully It won't end up bad or discontinued, because of my lazy self '' hehe. And with all the confusion of learning how to use the text thingy's, hopefully I'll get it down by the week.

Also, the version of the female Kuroneki would be before she discover her kagune, but found out she could drink coffee. So, yes, that means she wouldn't know everyone in Anteiku or at least, not yet. The only person she would remember from Anteiku would be Touka, since she had ran into her from the ghoul side being hungry.

Side note: I don't own any of the characters.

Thump!

'I swear if it's Hide again, I won't hesitate to throw my books at him.'

Was the first thought that came to the black-haired girl mind as her nose scrunched up in distaste.

The bitterness of metal clung onto the tip of her tongue and her left eye twitched in confusion. Now that she thinks about it, she doesn't remember her bed being this hard, nor rough on the surface, she also couldn't feel the soft fabric of her blankets covering her body; feeling goosebumps appearing along her arms. Confusingly she tried to open her eyes; keyword "tried". It felt like her eyes are metal and couldn't seem to open, her body wouldn't even cooperate with her either; she felt numb.

'Am I dead?'

She panics, her brain suddenly coming up with death like scenarios. She doesn't know what's going on right now as fear slowly crept up within her, making her whole body shiver.

All she remember was waking up in the morning to hang out with hide, not without her dose of coffee and her eye-patch; having to hide the fact she was a ghoul now, then after that she went home to finish reading 'The black goat's egg' before falling asleep in the soft comfort of her bed with her newly changed clothes, consisting of a simple white T-shirt, and black shorts. After that, well, she's here, now isn't she? Laying on this unknown hard surface with no blankets and a body that won't even cooperate with her. Just when she suffered enough from turning into a ghoul, guess fate doesn't like her at all.

The fear that trickled within her slowly twiddled down and she deeply inhales, finally calming down from her mental situation.

'Okay, deep breath, calm and steady. Just like in books, you can do this. Now open your eyes.'

If there was one thing she regrets in her life, this would be one of it because as soon as she opens her eyes; the full force of brightness and pain made her snap her eyes shut, and a loud groan left her dry lips.

Laying still for a moment, she slowly urged her arms to move up towards her face; shading her eyes from the bright sunlight. Her tongue darting out to lick the rough skin of her bottom lips, before she willed her body to sit up from the ground she slept on; cringing at the burning sensation beneath the skin on the bottom of her back. Groaning, she leans forward and placed the palms of her hand on top her knee's, making sure to steady herself, before peeking from beneath her eyelids to see where she was.

"Huh...w-what?"

Right in front of her were kids playing soccer, kicking the ball around the field away from one another, seeing who could score the net first. Among them, were people walking along the sidewalks, chatting happily while some were walking their dogs, although some gave her some odd looks; seeing a girl looking scuffed up and basically (homeless) dirty looking, sitting on the ground near a bunch of kids. Apparently, she ended up in a park somewhere near her neighborhood, the park where she had first met, Hide.

How she ended up on the dirt ground instead of the soft cozy comfort of her bed, would be a question she wouldn't have no answer for.

Sighing, she forced herself to stand up, ignoring her screaming muscles that strained from the movement, and observed her surroundings. The walk from here to her apartment shouldn't be long, it would take her about 30 minutes until she reaches home, but, even so, she still wouldn't know who and why she was here. Maybe she sleeps walk to the park?

Shaking her head in exasperation at the thought, she took a deep breath and slowly raised her hand to touch the left side of her eye; missing the presence of her eye-patch. Biting the bottom her lips, she hurriedly started moving her legs to the direction to her apartment, away from the park.

'Crap, I better hurry before it turns back again.'

Not wanting to waste time, she pushes her legs to move faster into a small jog, passing by people as they move to the side, not wanting her to bump into them. Making sure to keep her head down, she turns down the right side of the street, and continued jogging, not seeing a familiar blonde headed boy ahead of her.

Before she knows it, she bumps into him, making the boy drop his phone with a loud curse from his lips.

"Ah! Shit!"

Hide Nagachika cursed, moving his body away from the impatient girl, and immediately crouched down to grab his phone; making sure to inspect it for any scratches and what not. Kaneki let out a small squeak, not looking up at the person she just bump into, and quickly bows down.

"I-I'm sorry, sir! But I'm in a rush, I can't stay for long. Gottagonowbye!" Her speech mumbles out at the end, and she turns herself around to continue jogging back to her assigned destination; leaving the dumbfounded blonde boy behind.

Standing in the middle of the sidewalk, the blonde raised his right hand to scratch his cheek.

"What the hell was that all about?" Hide mutters underneath his breath as he squints his eyes, watching the tip of girl black hair disappears around the corner of the street. For some unknown reason, he felt very familiar around her, but he doesn't know what. And as always, his feeling are never wrong, at least in some circumstances. A small downward tilt of his lips left Hide frowning as he looks away from the direction the girl ran.

'It was probably, nothing. Besides, I haven't seen her around before.' Hide feels himself shrug at the thought, before he continues walking towards his favorite restaurant, 'Big girls'.

A soft smile painted onto the boy's lips, as he shoves his phone into the pockets of his jeans, and makes his way down the street, where people buzzed in and out of the Big girl's restaurant. A hint of nostalgic shown within the warm chocolate orbs, as it scans the front of the building, observing the people inside, laughing happily while eating the burgers, that his missing best friend so used to love.

"Kaneki...Buddy, where are you?" A sense of wistfulness combined with his whisper left the blonde feeling lonelier than he has felt, as he stood there in front of the restaurant, the soft smile soon returning into a dejected frown, "I miss you..."

Ever since that incident with Nishiki, his best friend hasn't been around lately all these months, leaving the blonde to miss his bookworm of a nerd. Also, the fact that Kaneki started hanging around Anteiku, left the blond feeling even more left out than he already is.

Sure, he's okay with Kaneki having new friends, in fact, he was happy for his buddy; glad that his friend is getting out of shell to see more people in his life than himself, but he hasn't even seen him for a long while, he didn't even get a single text back from him! And that's what frustrate the blond more than ever.

He knew something was going on when Kaneki was discharged from the hospital, Cause' after he was discharged, Hide took him out to eat at Big girl's, and he noted how his friend turned a bit green when he took a glance at his own burger, and he knows for sure that he didn't believe his friend when he said something was wrong with his food; the fact that he touched his chin, was all the blonde needed to see to know the bookworm was lying. And he may, or may not, eavesdrop on his conversation with the manager while he was pretending to be unconscious after that hit from Nishiki; Hide was not stupid to believe that they got in a car accident, and he knew that he's been kicked by their fellow classmate. Hide may act foolish, but he was not blind nor deaf.

Knowing that his friend was now a ghoul, the blonde decided to keep that information to himself until the bookworm spill the secret to him, but now that his friend had disappear somewhere, who knows-where, he's now having second thoughts about it. He wasn't gonna tell the CCG, about him, nor about the incident with Nishiki, Hide would die, before he'll ever tell the CCG on his best friend, and the people that are important to him.

If only his friend talk to him at least once, a text even, just to put the blonde's mind to rest at his well-being.

"Who am I kidding, maybe Kaneki doesn't like me anymore, probably found some ghoul girlfriend and eloped somewhere. Not that I'm complaining, the guy kinda needs to get laid." Hide chuckles to himself, before steering clear away from Big girl's, changing his mind on eating burgers for lunch, and started making his way back home to his new apartment.

After a month or two, the landlord of Kaneki's apartment took out all of his belongings out while the blonde went to visit. After seeing that, the blonde boy decided to rent the apartment, and told the landlord to take all the things back inside; wanting to protect his best friends stuff from being stolen or thrown in the trash. He took all of his own belongings from his old apartment and arranged it inside his new apartment, who knows, maybe his friend might come back home; it's the least that Hide could do for his friend while he is away.

Puffing out a breath, Hide tilted his head back to look up at the clear cerulean sky, absence of the white puffs of clouds that follows it.

"Please come back home, Kaneki."

The bad new

is times flies.

The good news is

You're the pilot.

A certain white-haired boy sneezed, as he lay on the bed inside one of the rooms in the Aogiri hideout. A familiar book created by, Sen Takatsuki, spread open on his lap, as his black-nailed fingers linger upon the pages; touching the printed words. The only thing calming him down from the sounds of clicking noises, and the crawling of centipedes running inside his head, a faint whisper of wanting to devour-

Kaneki grips the edge of the book, and snaps it shut, before the door of his room slammed open, announcing the entrance of a black rabbit.

"Oi, get up." A voice growls out, and a dark blue-haired teen strolled inside the room, with hands shoved in his pockets. Using his left leg, he kicked the door shut, and turns his head to glare at the passive boy, holding his book. "We got another task to do, shithead."

Calmly, Kaneki set his book down on top of the drawer next to the bed, before glancing at the teen with a blank stare, "What's the objection?"

"Tch, we got to go scout some hide out of some ghoul called, Lecher." Ayato grumbles out, his face scrunching up in disgust," Apparently, he's a S rank ghoul. Known for leeching on woman and luring them in. Aogiri wants to recruit him, but I'll say, the guy is probably shitty. Just like his name is.

A small upward tilt appear on the other male lips, as he sat up from his bed, and cracked the finger that lay next to the middle with his thumb.

Crack

The blue-haired teen used all his will-power not to flinch at the sound.

"I'll be out, waiting. Don't take too long, shithead." Ayato hissed out and exited out of the room with a harsh slam of the door; leaving the white-haired boy alone.

The boy said nothing, standing up from the bed, and raising his lean muscled arms up in the air, stretching the strain muscles of his back that let out a loud satisfying pop that filled the isolated room, a small groan left his lips, before allowing the arms to fall back on his side. Licking his lips, he glances around the room at the gray colors, and the windowless walls. The image of his own apartment filled his thoughts, and he immediately shook his head; ignoring the longing feeling of his own home.

With long strides, he moved towards the table where his mask lies, and brush his fingers along the leather surface, before sliding his finger underneath it, and picking it up. Wordlessly, he slides the mask along his face, feeling the cold smooth fabric covering the bridge of his nose, and down. The eye-patch that connects to the mask covering the right side of his eye, leaving out his left; the ghoul side.

Standing there for a minute or two, he closes his eyes, the imagery of Hide, Hinami, Touka, and the rest of the Anteiku's employee's appearing within his mind, before his eyes snaps open. This time, filled with a goal he had set way, before he'd joined Aogiri. And with steady footsteps to the entrance, he grips the door handle and turns it, allowing himself to whisper one word, before he walks out of the room.

"For them."

A goal without

a plan is just

a wish.

And that's the end of chapter one. Don't worry, if you're wondering what the female version of Kaneki is doing, it'll be in the next chapter. And both of the male and female Kaneki will meet soon, so just stay tune for that one. And, also, thanks for reading! 3

Have my uwu's.

I also posted this story on Archive of Our own, So don't forget to check that out!