Disclaimer: All rights and credits for the masterpiece Tokyo Ghoul go to Ishida Sui, not this chump. This is purely a fan work based off of the dark story Ishida-san weaves and its characters; made solely for the authoress' enjoyment. Besides, the Manga would never ever have the same amount of class if I owned it.

Now then, please enjoy. Flamers will be eaten by ghouls.

Prologue

"Look at her." Someone whispered, pointing to a black-haired girl. Her shoulders were slumped forward, making her even shorter than she already was; her eyes were clouded and puffy from crying. Overall, her disposition was very gloomy and morose, so everyone tended to avoid the girl.

"Yeah, she looks even worse today." Another chimed in.

"Well, what did you expect? She just lost both of her parents."

The girl tensed, hearing all of the group's conversation. Her dark hair covered her face, hiding any tears about to fall. She trembled and could barely hold up the book she was currently reading.

"I'm gonna go talk to her!" A blonde boy declared loudly, puffing out his chest like some valiant savior.

"What? Hide, no."

The blonde, Hide, deflated. "Whaaa?! Why not?"

"Well," the other person sputtered, "It's Kaneki." They stated as if that would clear up everything.

Hide frowned and looked around his group of friends to find them all nodding in agreement. His eyebrows crinkled and he said, "So?"

"Sooo, one, she's a loner. She doesn't talk to anyone, and especially not you! Not to mention she's a girl! She's like a completely different species from us guys!"

Hide continued to frown and opened his mouth to justify her—she could just be shy or something—but, he was cut off by his other friends who would hear no more of his nonsense.

"Hide, just drop it. Anyway, it's lunchtime and I'm starving! Let's go eat outside!"

The group chattered as they left the classroom, leaving the sullen girl behind. Hide looked back briefly and gasped as his vibrant brown eyes met the girl's saddened gray. One thing was on his mind as he left the room:

I'm going to help her.

Now, several years have gone by and he hasn't even lifted a finger.

A/N: Alright, I know I have ultimately signed myself up to commit to this story by publishing it, however, updates will be...scarce. If any of you have read my most recent story, you know that this one was coming up. I had imposed August 3rd to be my deadline, even though it's the 6th but whatever...Anyway, August 3rd was when school started up for me and I thought I'd have this story all finished up by then.

I had gravely overestimated my abilities.

Procrastination lead to zero work being done and this story is virtually only 10% finished, if even that. I hope you'll have patience and know that the time between updates will be a month at best. Probably the first Friday of every month. Thank you.

Sincerely,
Krazypeople