I don't own Tokyo Ghoul
Touka hurried along the sidewalk. She was almost at Anteiku. Then, she was stopped. Someone had grabbed her wrist. Slowly, Touka turned around and looked down. It was a boy about the age of 7.
"Do you have any money? I'm homeless." The boy had black hair and a innocent face. He smelled like a ghoul.
Touka was reminded of when she was homeless and had Ayato to take care of.
Touka bent down until she was at his eye level. "Do you have anyone to take care of you or are you alone?"
"I have him." The boy pointed at another boy leaning against a wall. He was about Touka's age and he had white hair. His scent... His scent was like a human and a ghoul. His eyes were closed. When two high school girls walked past and stared at him, he opened his eyes and glared at them. They giggled and walked away. The white hair boy shot a look of disgust toward Touka.
"Minato. How many times do I have to tell you? It's not going to work." He said, obviously disgusted by Touka.
What did I do?
"But Kaneki, this nice looking lady might give some money. Right, nice lady?" Minato asked.
"I'm sorry! I forgot my wallet!" Touka had left it at Anteiku.
"See. What did I tell you." Kaneki sighed. "It's been a month. Tomorrow I'm finding a job."
"Excuse me, the place I work at is looking for people to hire. You can come and get the job. We help your kind anyway." Touka risked saying "your kind" hoping he would know she was talking about being a ghoul.
Kaneki scowled. "How did you know?" His eyes were narrowed.
"I'm one myself. Anyway, I work at Anteiku. You could come today." Touka offered.
Kaneki looked at Touka, then he looked at Minato.
"Please Kaneki? I might be able to finally go to a school!" Minato pleaded.
Kaneki's expression softened. "Fine. Let's go."
Touka led them to Anteiku and seated them at a table.
"You have to order something."
"We'll take coffee. Whatever you have. Don't care much about coffee anyway." Kaneki said.
Touka brought them black coffee and went upstairs to find the manager.
"I found two ghouls and offered them a job. They were homeless. The older one, could work for us." she informed.
"Ah, Touka. You managed to remember our policy. Very well. Send both of them in and i'll see for myself." Yoshiruma nodded.
Touka went down and sent them in. She waited out the door, listening to the conversation.
"Sit down." Yoshiruma ordered. "Do you know who I am?"
"I think you're the manager." Minato answered for Kaneki. "The nice blue haired lady said you would give onii-san a job. Will you?"
Yoshiruma was silent. Suddenly, Kaneki stood up. "I know that blue haired lady was a ghoul. You're a ghoul too, old man. I can tell. I can also tell that everyone that works here is a ghoul and you have some ghoul customers. Explain."
"We take care of ghouls that are too weak to hunt. We give them meat from suicide victims. We also have some human customers." Yoshiruma explained.
"If they're too weak, then they shouldn't live. This world is a place where only the strong can live. If they're too weak, then they should die. I might as well as turn you into the CCG. Weak ghouls should die, including this shop!" Kaneki snarled. "Come one Minato. This place isn't for us." Touka wondered about what he meant.
I found you old man. I won't let you go. You deserve to die!
Minato got up and they walked out. Touka grabbed Minato's wrist.
"What did Kaneki mean? Did he mean what he said just now?" Touka asked.
"Onii-san... Every word that onii-san said was very well meant..." Minato hurried after Kaneki.
"What are we going to do manager?" Touka was worried. "We could get turned into the CCG."
"Ah. Don't worry Touka. He didn't mean it. I have a feeling that he will come back."
That night, Touka was taking out the trash when a disgusting old human attacked her.
"Disgusting." Touka muttered. She sliced his head and he died immediately. "I wasn't hungry... I guess i'll take an arm."
Touka heard a scream from a nearby alley. She raced toward it, but when she neared she slowed down. Touka peeked around the corner. It was Kaneki and Minato. Their backs were facing toward her. There was a human in front of them.
"Minato, look. The human fainted. What do we do now?" Kaneki quizzed.
"We eat the human while it's alive. If the human is in pain, then the meat will taste better." Minato's innocent tone was gone. Instead, it was replaced by a voice filled with hate, sadness, and anger.
"Good job." Kaneki praised. "What is better for us. Human, or Ghoul?"
"Ghoul."
"So we should eat-"
"Ghoul." Minato's shoulders sagged.
Kaneki nodded. "You can eat this human. You deserved it. We've been eating ghoul for a long time."
"What about you?"
"I'm gonna find a ghoul to eat. Eat all you want. When you're done, go to Kurosaki-sans house." Kaneki darted out of the alley. Touka barely had enough time to dive under a pile of trash bags.
It smells so bad.
She followed Kaneki to another alley. There was another ghoul in this alley. He was eating a human.
"You know what? Eating a ghoul after the ghoul has just eaten a human makes the ghoul taste like a human! I think i'll just eat you. You don't mind, do you?" Kaneki asked.
The ghoul turned around and Kaneki lunged forward. Touka let out a small gasp. He was so fast. Kaneki finished killing the ghoul by cutting of the head. He devoured the ghoul, catching every drop of blood in a cup.
Why would he catch blood in a cup?
Once Kaneki was done eating, he set the head on the ground and took out a paintbrush.
A paintbrush?
He dipped the paintbrush in the blood and spelled out CLAW in front of the head.
So he's the famous Claw that's been on the news?
Kaneki drank the rest of the blood and walked out. Touka followed him again. She soon found Kaneki in front of a house. He ringed the doorbell. The door opened.
"Kaneki. Welcome!" It was a blue haired man. About three years older than Kaneki.
"Hi Kuro-san. You said I was always welcome here, right?"
"I'm sure I did. Come in. Minato is already inside..." Kurosaki closed the door.
Just who is this Kurosaki person? I can tell that he's a ghoul...
Touka shook her head.
I should head back home.
One Week Later
The door opened. "Welcome!" Touka yelled.
"Get me a coffee. I don't care which type. Just give me one." Kaneki said. He sat down.
Touka brought him a latte. "So. Where's Minato?"
"He's at Kurosaki-san's home. I know you know who he is. You were stalking me last week."
"I know I stalked you. Just what do you think you're doing to that kid?" Touka snarled. "You shouldn't be teaching him that stuff."
"I'm preparing him for the world." Kaneki snapped. "Don't judge my methods."
"Fine. I don't really know who that Kurosaki guy is." Touka admitted.
"Kuro-san... He is my friend... My only friend actually. When I was three, my mother died. My father had left when I was born. Kuro-san saw me on the street, alone. He was 7 at the time. He was homeless, like me. At age 3, I had already learned to get rid of the baby me, and toughened up for the hardships of surviving by myself. He was there though, and he took care of me until I was 10. By then, he had taught me everything he knew, and I was ready. We stayed friends afterwards. Sometimes I had information or he had information." Kaneki spoke of Kurosaki fondly, as if he were a older brother.
"Oh..." This was the only piece of Kaneki's past that Touka knew about. "I'm going to get the manager ready to see you."
Touka left Kaneki and went upstairs. She came down shortly after she had alerted the manager. "He's upstairs. Same room as last week."
Touka waited outside the room.
"Ah Kaneki. You came back." Yoshiruma smiled. "What brought you here?"
"Every job I went to didn't work. So eventually I came back, knowing you would accept me."
"If you accept this job... Be prepared. You will have to help weaker ghouls." Yoshiruma warned.
"Anything else I need to know?" Kaneki sounded bored.
"You will get your own apartment to live in with Minato."
Kaneki was suddenly angry. "NOW YOU OFFER ME A HOME?" he shouted. "WHAT ABOUT ALL THOSE YEARS AGO? WHEN YOU LEFT ME? YOU DIDN'T EVEN CARE ABOUT ME! INSTEAD, YOU WERE ASHAMED OF YOUR ACTIONS AND FLED LIKE A WEAKLING! YOU DIDN'T CARE ABOUT WHAT HAPPENED TO ME! I COULD'VE DIED, AND YOU WOULDN'T HAVE CARED! AND NOW YOU OFFER ME A HOME! FINE!"
"Kaneki i'm sorr-"Yoshiruma was cut off.
"I'll work with you, I'll see you everyday. But, I will continue hating you!"Kaneki's voice had gotten suddenly soft.
"So. Is it settled?" Yoshiruma asked.
"Yes. It's settled, otou-san." Kaneki spat out the last part. "I'll work for you starting tomorrow."
In my other fanfic, I made Yoshiruma his uncle. In this one, I decided to make Yoshiruma his father.
First chapter. DONE.
