A/N: Well here's another chapter. As for my updates, it will probably a weekly update on a Friday or a Saturday, so stay tuned. As I promised, this chapter is a little longer like 3k+ words, so I'll be aiming to about 4k or 5k words since I just want this story to be at least 10 chapters.

To StolenBook:Thank you for the critique/suggestion. I will try in the best of my abilities to achieve your expectations for this story. Thank you also for having the time to read this story of mine. Truly appreciate it!

To The Ice Heart Alchemist: Before I started writing, I originally planned to make Kaneki/Sasaki to be the son of Athena, but as I was doing some research about the greek gods in Camp Half-Blood wiki, a god peaked my interest and decided to choose him as the father of Kaneki/Sasaki. Also in the anime/manga, it kind of make sense of how his father died when Kaneki/Sasaki was still very young. As a result, I somewhat want to connect it to this story.

Anyway, enjoy this second chapter of mine and reviews are welcome :)

Chapter 2: A Second Home

Percy and I have set off to this place called Camp Half-Blood. We took a cab and Percy ordered the taxi driver to drive us to Long Island, New York, in which where the place is. During the ride, Percy keeps peering over to his left and right as if he is trying to remember where the place is or if he's only trying to be cautious. I, myself just stared out into my window watching the blue sky, looking for any signs of dark clouds that could ruin this beautiful and peaceful day.

"STOP. Stop right here," Percy suddenly said to the driver.

"Are we here?" I asked him.

"No, not yet, but we're very close."

The taxi driver observed his surroundings with a confused look on his face, "Uhh…sir, we're in the middle of nowhere. Are you sure this is the right destination?"

"Yes. Don't worry, the place we're going is just over the hills. We can take it from here," Percy replied.

The taxi driver tipped his baseball cap and retrieved his payment from Percy. Once Percy thanked him for the ride, the taxi cab drove on and out of our sights.

"Come on, follow me. The camp is just over those hills," Percy motioned me to follow.

With my backpack on my shoulder, I proceeded to follow him. We hiked ourselves to the top of the hill, and once we reached the top, my shoulders slumped forward and I was not surprised. All I see was a forest and a lake behind it.

"Percy, I don't see a camp," I said to him.

"I know, but once we step over this border line we're standing at right now, you'll see the beauty of the camp."

I nodded to him and Percy crossed over the border line first. Once he crosses, he suddenly disappeared. I blinked a couple of times, and then it was my turn. My right foot stepped over the line and my whole body submerged into the invisible force field. When I finally entered, Percy was standing next to me with a smile on his face. His sea-green eyes scanned over the place. I watched where his eyes went, and my big grey eyes came in contact onto a small community filled with young demigods, flying Pegasus, and happiness. To be honest, I was simply amazed and impressed, not just because it is a safe haven, but the place itself looks peaceful and beautiful like a paradise.

"This my friend is my second home. Welcome to Camp Half-Blood."

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We entered the entrance of the camp and many demigods greeted Percy as if an old friend has finally returned home from a war. Percy led me to the Big House to greet the camp director and for the first time, nervousness washed over me instead of relief. With a knock on the door, a tall half-man and half-horse stepped out and greeted the young hero of Olympus.

"Welcome home, Perseus," the creature said.

"It's good to be home, Chiron," Percy replied. "So that was his name."

"Have you eaten? If not, there is a buffet in the dining pavilion."

"Oh yes, I have eaten. Thank you for the offer though."

The camp director smiled for a moment and turned his attention to me, "And who is this?"

I smiled and stood up straight. I started to sweat profusely as I was being examined by the majestic creature. "This is a friend. His name is Haise Sasaki. I found him fighting with a Minotaur in an alley back in Manhattan."

Chiron continued to smile and put his hand out for a shake, "Well, it's nice to meet you Haise. Now I was wondering, you look awfully young to have a white hair like that. You look as if you're in your early twenties. Am I correct?"

I nodded and he proceeded, "You should be claimed by now."

Confusion struck me, "What do you mean?"

Chiron examined his surroundings, and motioned me and Percy to follow him inside the Big House. When we entered the dusty-looking cabin, the building itself looked quite sophisticated in the inside than the exterior of the building. There were many books filed in the bookshelves as if the building itself was a library. When the centaur settled himself in front of his desk, he offered the comfortable chairs for us to sit on.

Chiron sighed and crossed his arms, "Please forgive me for my sudden intrusion. What I mean when I said that you should be claimed by now is that your god parent should have claimed you at the age of 13. Tis' one of the main policies here at Camp Half-blood." Oh.

I slumped back into my seat trying to sink in the information into me. Silence enveloped the atmosphere, but Percy broke off the tension, "This is why we're here Chiron, to look for answers."

"What do you mean?" The centaur asked.

I piped in, "Sir, when I was young, I was told my father had died in a car crash. I couldn't remember anything of him or what he looks like, but when I came here to America from Japan – "

"Wait, you're from Japan?" Chiron suddenly interrupted me.

I nodded. Chiron started to pace back and forth trying to think of something.

"Percy told me that there is no way that my father could have died, but simply disappeared," I continued, "This is why I came here, sir, to look for answers and my father's whereabouts."

Chiron finally stopped and turned his attention to me once again. His face is filled with sorrow as if nostalgia slapped him in the face.

"There is a reason why your father disappeared when you were very young, but I cannot reveal it to you because only your father will explain everything," he said very softly.

When Chiron said this, I was disappointed. I looked over to Percy and he too was also disappointed with the response. "I'm sorry" was all I heard afterwards.

"Haise, you just have to be patient. When the time has finally come, your father will tell you everything."

I nodded at him. I excused myself from the time being and stood outside for a moment. I looked up once again into the blue sky and peace overcame my mind.

"You will meet me very soon, my son. Have patience," A calming and soothing voice said. I looked everywhere to find the source of the voice, but with all the efforts, I found nothing. I overheard Percy talking to Chiron about my current situation of being a ghoul, and all I see is Chiron listening to my painful past with sorrowful expression on his aging face.

When I thought everything was going well, I thought wrong. Loneliness once again clouded this cruel head of mine.

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Percy and I continued to talk with Chiron and eventually, the centaur gave me a tour of the whole camp. Seeing everyone having fun and training for their quests reminded me of my time with my Quinx squad. I considered Arima being like Chiron while the whole squad is like the young demigods here at Camp Half-Blood. After seeing the training grounds, the Pegasus stables, and all the other important stations, we finally came across to where all the demigods reside.

"Here are the cabins for our young campers. Each cabin here represents an Olympian god to where a child is destined to be," Chiron pointed out, "Over there, you will see the first three cabins: Cabin 1 is Zeus, Cabin 2 is Hera, and that is Percy's cabin in which you already know the god that is represented there."

I examined the cabins and I noticed that the Zeus cabin is larger and grander than the others. I also realized there were thunderclouds over the roof that produces lightning to make it so dramatic. In contrast with Percy's cabin, the Poseidon cabin looks more like a shore house with the overview of the lake in the back. Right now, only Percy is the head of the cabin.

I turned my attention back to the Zeus cabin. For some reason there were no campers reside in that cabin as well as for the cabin of Hera. Well it kind of makes sense since Hera cannot have any children to any mortal, but I was curious about the cabin of Zeus.

"Uh sir, why are there no children residing in the Zeus' cabin?" I asked Chiron.

"Well, there are children residing in that cabin but there are only two of them," Chiron replied, "Thalia Grace, the eldest daughter, sometimes reside in the cabin, but most of the time she would be with her Hunters. Jason Grace, the younger brother of Thalia, would sometimes come here at camp, but he currently resides in Camp Jupiter since he's the son of the Roman counterpart of Zeus which is Jupiter."

I remembered Percy did say that there was another camp, but I never thought two siblings have the same parent yet at the same time different in form. My eyes went back to the cabin while trying to digest all the information about the camp that Chiron told me.

"Oh, I almost forgot," Chiron said while trying to pull out something from his burgundy pocket, "Percy told me you are a ghoul and that you only eat human meat. Here's a magical necklace that will prevent you from eating such and instead of craving for human flesh, this necklace will allow you to crave human food."

My eyes widened with surprise and for the first time happiness was the only thing I'm feeling right now. For almost five years, I would never have thought I would be eating human food again. Tears started to form around the rims of my eyes and I saw Chiron smiling down on me.

"Thank you sir. Thank you very much," I said with a bow.

Chiron just nodded and sighed with relief when he saw the content of my face.

"You are very welcome child. I assume you know Yoshimura-san. Well, that necklace once belonged to him," The centaur continued.

"Really? Wait, Yoshimura-san was a demigod too?" I asked with confusion.

"Yes. Kuzen Yoshimura was the son of Athena. Since he's a ghoul like you, I asked the god of blacksmithing, Hephaestus, to forge a necklace with a blessing from Hecate. Oh, you should have seen the face of young Yoshimura. He had the same expression as you."

"But sir, he is not a human. Yoshimura-san himself told me," I explained.

Chiron scratched his beard with a smile, "It seems my young pupil tried to keep a secret. Well, I'll tell you the real story of Kuzen Yoshimura."

I blinked a couple of times and I turned my attention to Percy, who seems to be in deep thought of something.

"Chiron, is it possible for a ghoul and a god to fall in love with each other?" Percy asked with curiosity.

Chiron seemed shocked when Percy asked him of this, "Huh, I never really thought about it. All I can say is that only Haise will answer that question."

Chiron glanced at me and I know that my father will tell me the answer once I meet him.

"Alright then, if you insist," Percy sighed.

We resumed our walking and Chiron began his story of when he met the young Yoshimura.

"One faithful morning," Chiron began, "I was taking a walk like I normally do towards near the boundary line where you and Percy happen to cross by. At the time, I was doing border patrol to see if the mist, which is like a force field that surrounds the camp, is strong and stable. While examining, a young boy at the age of seven happens to cross the boundary line with a blood stain on his shirt, his kakugan eyes were activated as well as his kagune.

"I realized the boy himself was a ghoul. When the boy turned his attention to me, there were tears on his eyes and told me, 'Help me sir. I can't control this power. I don't want to eat people.' That was when the goddess Athena appeared before me. With those grey eyes of hers, she pleaded me to take care of her son. She also told me that young Yoshimura was once a human, but a cruel organization captured Yoshimura to perform experiments on him. That was when he became a ghoul like you yourself."

Chiron was quiet for a moment when I looked at him, but he continued, "I remembered Lady Athena kneeled at the level of her son and said, 'Kuzen, look at me.' Yoshimura seemed to refuse at first then his mother spoke once again with her hand upon his cheek, 'Zen, look at me.' The young boy finally looked at his mother with those eyes of hers. Lady Athena appeared to be sad when she told him of his situation, but young Yoshimura just nodded at his mother and embraced her. My heart melted at the sight of the two, and from that day, I took in Yoshimura and trained him to be a strong fighter. His mother would sometimes visit him and she also presented to him the necklace I requested from Hephaestus. Yoshimura was really happy with the gift he received. By the age of 16, Yoshimura was considered a hero for fulfilling a prophecy that almost annihilated the whole camp. There were a lot of sacrifices and destruction that happened here, but with Yoshimura's intelligence, he rebuilt the camp. To this day, the Athena cabin honored him as one of Athena's successful children."

And from that point on, Chiron ended the story with a smile on his face while looking up to the sky.

He turned towards me and asked, "How is Yoshimura-san?"

I winced at the question for I was about to tell him a very tragic news.

"Sir, a lot of things happened back in Tokyo," I began, "The CCG, an anti-ghoul organization, almost killed Yoshimura-san. From that point, I was unable to save him and he disappeared out of nowhere. I don't know where he is. Once I got my memories back, I have been trying to look for him. There were rumors that he was captured by Aogiri, another ghoul organization that will perform experiments on ghouls to create more artificial ghouls like me. I heard he was captured by his own daughter who was working for Aogiri."

Once I finished, Chiron seemed crestfallen. "I'm sorry sir."

Chiron sighed sadly, "It's alright child, it was not your fault, but I assume he lived a very good life. Am I right?"

"Ah yes he did. He told me. Yoshimura-san had been taking in ghouls who seemed alone and hopeless, and takes very care of them well. I was one of them," I replied.

The majestic creature chuckled at this, "It seems my star pupil has inherited my gracious hospitality for young people who are also considered alone and hopeless. Well, that's good to hear."

After Chiron had told me of this, the sound of a horn was heard throughout the camp. Percy nudged at me and told me it was dinner time. I put on the necklace Chiron had given to me, and I felt a tingling sensation coursing through my veins. And for the first time, I was craving for human food. "Yes it worked!" I thought.

I walked with Chiron and Percy, and I noticed I was the only once wearing my usual black dress shirt with my white tie as well as a pinstriped dress pants like I wore when I'm working in CCG. My eyes scanned at the people and I noticed they were all wearing orange shirts with the initials of C.H.B. Chiron left our side and proceeded to walk towards the front of the whole crowd. Everyone cheered at the sight of their mentor, and Chiron eased their cheering when he used his hands to lower it down.

"Demigods! It is now the time for feasting. As of tonight, we welcome a new guest to our family, and very soon we will expect a very important turning point of someone's life."

I smiled when Chiron glanced at me and the centaur continued his announcement, "I expect each of you to show respect to this new camper as well as to the god who will claim him as his own. LET THE FEASTING BEGIN!"

The wooden doors of the dining pavilion opened and everyone rushed in to get their food. Percy nudged to me again and said, "Come on, I'm starving."

I laughed at this and for once, my stomach grumbled when I smelled the scent of my favorite food: Hamburgers.

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While I was devouring at least five hamburgers, Percy who was sitting in front of me seemed amazed by my appetite, "Man, you sure are hungry."

When I gulped down my last hamburger, all I could respond was with a huge burp that escaped from my mouth. Everyone in the pavilion looked at me, and I muttered an apology. The young man in front me just laughed and said, "It's alright dude. Everyone here in Camp Half-Blood do it all the time. Mr. D even approves it."

"Mr. D?" I asked.

Percy looked past over me and pointed out to the man who was talking with Chiron, "That's him over there."

I turned around to get a full glimpse of Mr. D. The man himself was wearing a tiger-striped Hawaiian shirt, purple running shoes, and his eyes seemed bloodshot red as if he was drinking all day.

"Let me guess, he's Dionysus, the god of wine and drunkenness," I said the last part jokingly. Percy smiled and gave me thumbs up.

"Yup, he's our other camp director. Everyone here in camp was not really a big fan of him these days. That's because he keeps forgetting our names or saying them incorrectly. So, watch out for him," Percy replied.

"Wait, isn't he supposed to be in Mount Olympus since he's one of the Olympians?"

Percy scratched his cheek and grinned, "Well about that, Mr. D got punished by his father, Zeus, by putting him in charge of Camp Half-Blood for a hundred years. Also, Mr. D is not allowed to drink wine or grow grapes for wine. He normally drinks several liters of Diet Coke."

I chuckled at that. I never knew it was possible for a god to be punished or not drink your favorite drink for a hundred years. It must be painful. Out of nowhere, a blond-haired girl that was about the same age as Percy walked over to our table and sat down next to the young man.

"Hey there Seaweed-Brain, who's your friend?" The girl asked while holding her book.

"Oh, Annabeth, I would like you to meet Haise Sasaki. He's new here and he came from Japan," Percy replied.

"Hello," was all I said.

"Nice to meet you Haise. As Percy said, my name is Annabeth Chase and I am a daughter of Athena." I nodded.

I looked at Percy, "Is she your…"

"My girlfriend? Yes. Our parents does not approve of our relationship because, you know, my father and her mother are not exactly in good terms."

Annabeth piped in, "I keep telling my mom to let go of the past, but she still held a grudge against Percy's father."

"Ah, like Romeo and Juliet," I laughed. After I have said this, I heard the sound of hooves coming to our direction. I turned around to see Chiron walking towards us along with the god of wine, Dionysus.

"Sorry to intrude your conversation Haise, but I would like you to introduce to you our other camp director of this camp, Mr. D," Chiron said, "I assume you already know of him?"

"O-Oh yes, Percy has told me everything about of him," I replied only to see the god glaring at Percy. Percy seemed to be frozen at his spot with fear etched into his face. Annabeth was just holding back a snicker.

Mr. D turned his attention to me, "So you're Harry Styles?"

Percy face palmed when the god said my name incorrectly, "Uh sir, my name is Haise Sasaki."

"Whatever kid, I don't really care," Mr. D waved it off, "Anyway, as a director of the camp, I need to welcome you. Well, you know all the rules as well as the rest of the camp and such. So my job here is done…blah blah blah."

An awkward silence filled the atmosphere, but Chiron cleared his throat and said with a roll of his eyes, "Alright then. Uhh, oh yes, Haise for now you can reside in the Big House. I have an extra spare of bed room since the Hermes Cabin is packed with new campers this year."

"Ok. Thanks Chiron," I replied.

Mr. D looked bored for a moment and then he spoke once more with a little enthusiasm, "Welcome to your new home."