Disclaimer I don't own Tokyo Ghoul and Gate jieitai kanochi nite kaku tatakaeri. All rights belong to their repective owners.
I have been this idea since I watched Gate. I immediatly asked myself. If this would be Tokyo Ghoul, were would be Ginza and what Kind of Impact would ghouls as humanity's natural predators have on the story if they were involved. So this was the basic idea. It took me a lot of time to find the Ginza district in real life and to compare it with the location in the Tokyo Ghoul world. Of course critics and reviews will be appreciated. Your suggestions and opinions help me to improve the story.
Hope you enjoy it.
"test" - speaking
'test' - thoughts
*test* - Sound effects
Gate - and so a Neuntöter fought
Chapter 1: A ghoul in the JSDF?!
It was a calm night in Tokyo, well as calm as it can be when human-eating creatures roam the the same city. Just imagine it like a calm before a thunderstorm. The city of Tokyo was illuminated with the bright and colorful lights of street lights, cars and buildings. When you would look out of distance Tokyo looked like a shining jewel in the night. But in reality it was like everywhere else in this twisted world. Why else should the CCG have here there most efficient agents in the first ward? But even the investigators could stop an entire species to fight for it's own survival nor their terrorist group aogiri tree. But soon the people of Tokyo, humans and ghouls alike, will face something that will change their world forever.
Location: 17th ward 22:00
The streets of downtown were always a place of criminal activity. Since the population of Japan skyrocketed the city had to deal with a lot of Problems. Too less Apartments, not enought Money, Problems with sanitary and disposal Systems. One of the biggest Problem was Money. Even today People that have a Job don't have enough to live and are forced to live on the streets as homeless People. Those persons are just one step away to either become criminals or to throw their lifes away.
In both cases the ghouls in Tokyo were a solution for that Problem. Since the existence of ghouls became common knowledge humans saw ghouls as the cause of all evil. The gouvernment is using this to distract the People from other social Problems the Country has. In the end it's always more important to kill humanity's natural predators.
Right in the middle of the downtown, a scared woman was cornered by a person that dragged her into the alley out of nowhere, just moments ago. She was somewhere in her 30s, was tall and had blonde hair that reached her shoulders. She wore a black suit and brown leather shoes. Her brown eyes widened because the guy in front of her smiled down at her like a pervert. She would have called for help, but something prevented her to do so. The man's eyes had both pitch-black sclera and a crimson Iris, while crimson veins crawled from the eye over the Skin that surrounded the eyes. The kakugan is a ultimate proof that someone is a ghoul. The man was somewhere in the mid-40s, his black hair was short and spiky. He wore black shoes and a red cloak with the image of a bird, whose tail looked like the roots of a tree. A member of aogiri tree.
"Well well well, what have we here?" he said in a voice like a creep. "What a nice figure you have. So you wouldn't mind to let me see more of it?" he slowly approached the woman.
"No please stay away from me!" she shrieked as she pressed herself even more against the building's wall, like in a attempt to break it. She was scared to death. She heard that some ghouls prefered to rape their victim, since the anatomy of humans and ghouls is nearly identical, before eating them.
"Oh~, stop being a naughty girl, will ya? I'm sure you're going to enjoy it as much as I will~." he said and now was just a lenght of his arm away from the woman. He tried to reach the woman, before his senses picked up movements close by. He turned around just to dodge a Long red shadow. The ghoul grinned but then noticed that he wasn't the target of the suprise attack at all. The shadow retracted in less than a second, then dissolved and leaving the ghoul without the woman.
The woman waas placed gently to the ground when she eyed her savior. The figure was about 1.80m high and wore a black cloak. The hair was short and dark blonde, almost brown. The figure wore a strange mask. The jaw and the nose were covered by a gas mask, The upper half of the face by a visior like a knight helmet with just a slid to look through. Behind the visior to crimson eyes shone in the darkness. Another ghoul, but why did he save her? The woman was confused, but a suprisingly Young male voice snapped her out of her Trance.
"If you want to live you should better start running." he said. The woman just nodded quickly before running off.
"Dammit, you will pay for that!" the perverted ghoul screamed when his kagune erupted from his back. It formed two red spirals, which were wrapping around the arms of the ghoul. With a primal scream he charged at the younger ghoul. He swung one of his blades at the Boy, but missed. Again and again he tried to hit the intruder, but missed every time. His attacks soon grew even slower and the man started to breath heavily. He sweated and had barely enough strenght left to lift his koukaku blades. Then he felt a burning pain in his chest. The youth had plunged a rusty steel pipe in the older ghouls chest.
"Curse you!" the adult roared, but his arms got stabbed right in the joints with smaller pipes, preventing him to use his arms. Then a kick send the ghoul to the ground. Before he could stand up again the youth approached him and snapped the upper section of the pipe in the man's chest, making him groan in pain.
"So you are a member of phoenix tree? What a disappointment." The youth stated coldly. The last thing the adult ghoul saw was a rusty steel pipes sharp edge before it was driven in his head.
"Well I guess it's dinner time." the young ghoul sighed as he pulled out a butcher knife out the cloak.
The next morning
Hitoshi Mori woke up in his bed. Hitoshi glanced out the window, nothing unusual in the 8th ward. He stood up and glanced at the alarm clock, 7:27. Yup there was still enough time for what he planned today. Hitoshi, 20 years old, short dark blonde hair, green eyes, a rather slim body. He became a year ago or so a Trainee and soon after that a full member of the JSDF, because of his great qualities in physics and in use with firearms.
What the JSDF of course didn't know: Hitoshi was a ghoul.
He had to fight and run for as long as he could think back. Like an animal he was found at the Age of 16 by Yomo ,a ghoul that worked at the Anteiku a coffee shop at the 20th ward, when he was eating from the body of a suicide. The last 3 years he trained under Yomo's and Yoshimura's care and worked at the Anteiku. It became something for him he never had: a family. But like everything else the happy time at Anteiku had an end as well. At the age of 18 Hitoshi was confronted by a few ghoul investigators at the 17th ward. He had to kill them, but the guilt was heavy on the Young ghoul's shoulders. He decided to leave the Anteiku and joined the JSDF as far away from the 20th ward as possible, so even if he would be caught they wouldn't be able to track him down. Since then he lived in this small apartment and had never seen someone of Anteiku ever since. He didn't know if his Rc-Level was low or if those guys at the medical checkup just slept.
Hitoshi shook his head as he felt tears form in his eyes. The whole city was already paranoid, because of those aogiri idiots. Hitoshi got dressed and made himself a Cup of coffee. 'Guess I have to thank the old Yoshimura for that.' he thought to himself, when his thoughts returned to his human friends. Yōji Itami, a lazy otaku who had a few things in common with the ghoul for example the Preference to doujinshis. Shino Kuribayashi, a rather small woman with a big (A/N:*cough* huge *cough*) upper chest area. Hitoshi once made the mistake to make a joke about her 'puppies', which quickly escalated in a 1v1 hand-to-hand combat. However being a ghoul helped him to win the fight by pinning Shino to the ground. (A/N: And she's a close combat specialist, if this doesn't have a meaning, I don't know what has.) And there was Mari Kurokawa, a paramedic just for the case of injuries. Hitoshi himself thought she was too soft for a job in the army, but she was a paramedic and not front soldier, because she wants to help those people who need mediacal treatment.
Ah yes, he liked that funny bunch of people. Too bad they wouldn't stand a chance when they would fight a ghoul serioulsy. The ghoul yesterday was easy to kill because he was already starving, so the pipes from the junkyard worked. He had to hurry in the last night, because not a even a quarter of an hour later he CCG was already at the crime scene. The method leave the impaled bodies of his victims gave Hitoshi his nickname by the CCG: Neuntöter. (A/N: what is german for shrike)
Hitoshi finished his coffee and prepared himself for today. He walked out of the apartment and locked the door behind him. The sun shone bright a few clouds were in the sky, it seemed like it would rain in the next days. Oh it was good that he had today a day off, because today he wanted to meet Itami at a doujinshi sale. Hitoshi put sunglasses on and a blue hoodie over his head. He wore also a pair of jeans and white sneakers. Yes nothing could possible ruin this day.
Oh how wrong he was.
Location: Ginza district, 2nd ward 13:00
The second ward was a place ghouls usually don't go. It's close to the CCG headquarters it was always filled with people, so the doves could do suprise attacks and the security was normally a bit higher than average. However Hitoshi went there because of his friend Itami and he didn't want to be the last one at the doujinshi sale. The security was lower than most times, as far as Hitoshi could judge here and there a police officer, which were busy by helping tourists. Hitoshi made his way to the mess hall, where the sale would take place. He wasn't suprised when he couldn't find Itami swarming the book shelves like a swarm of angry bees. He chuckled, while leaning at a pillar, remembering what happened last year.
Flashback
Last doujinshi sale, one year ago
"Come on the sale is closing." "But I couldn't see anything yet." "Stop be a such crybaby Itami. Let's go home." "NO!" Hitoshi was busy dragging a certain otaku by his feet over the floor out the mess hall in the evening. Itami however didn't want to leave yet, so he embraced a pillar of the building to Keep him at his beloved books. Then a police officer came along and helped Hitoshi to drag the 33 years-old man out.
Flashback Ends
Hitoshi was jus a bit of self control away to unleash his kagune to drag the idiot out. Luckly it never happened. Hitoshi wasn't even sure if he should tell him and his friends that he is a ghoul. On one hand they were his friends, but on the other hand they were both humans and military. He sighed 'If I could just be normal...'
*WAM*
The thought was never, when he saw his idiot of a friend running directly in he pillar he was leaning on. A mobile phone went flying through the air, before Hitoshi quickly caught it (thanks to ghoul reflexes). Itami now sitting on the ground rubbed his head. 'Yup still the idiot I know.' Hitoshi thought. When he approached Itami he spoke up.
"You know you really should stop looking at your phone all the time Itami." he said dryly. That caused Itami to look at his friend, who now offered him a hand, which he gratefully took. Now on his feet Itami decided to speak.
"Yeah yeah. Sorry for waiting Hitoshi." he said while scrathing the back of his neck. When he noticed his phone was gone, he desperatly looked around only for a certain ghoul to hold it like a snack for a dog.
"Are you searching this?" Hitoshi asked. Itami took the small phone back, then making sure it was unharmed. With a sigh of relieve he put it in his pocket. The two then made their way trough the hall. But then they both suddenly stopped. They looked out the window and were shocked what they saw.
And on this day, their fate should change forever.
- Phönixbaum (Phoenix tree) is the name of aogiri in the german anime Version. I think it's more fitting due the logo aogiri has.
Cliffhanger. I'm sorry, but I think that is enough for the first chapter. Please write your opinions in the reviews. I'll try to upload soon enough again.
'Til then, so long.
