The next time Hide spoke with Kaneki, he'd changed considerably. Hide was now used to being a ghoul. He wasn't expecting to hear Kaneki's voice in the slightest, but there it was.

"Hide?"Kaneki sounded exhausted.

"Kaneki?"

Hide had paused in the middle of the street,then forced himself to keep walking as to not look suspicious. He almost hissed when Kaneki began speaking again.

"Are you okay, Hide? I'm so sorry I haven't-"

"I know."

Hide had pulled his phone from his pocket and was trying to make it look like he was talking to it instead of to the person inside of his head.

"I wanted to come back but I couldn't sleep."

"I get it."

"Haise wouldn't let me go either. He kept arguing. I just wanted my body back,"Kaneki spoke quietly. "The CCG has Hinami."

"What?"

Hide halted in his tracks. He knew Hinami. She was a friend.

"You have to help her Hide! I can show you where they're keeping her!"

"Yeah, I got it. We'll go save her."

Hide turned into an alleyway and broke into a run, removing his phone from his ear and pressing a few keys. It was a disposable phone, like you could buy at any electronic store. He dialed a number rather quickly, pressing it to his ear.

"Hey,"A gruff voice sounded on the other end of the line.

"Ayato,"Hide spoke quickly. "You know the CCG has Hinami?"

"Of course! I just don't know what to do about it, dumbass."

"I have Kaneki with me again,"He took a breath. "I won't be of much use, but lets go get her. And Kaneki's body."

"What-"

"His name is Haise Sasaki,"Kaneki spoke.

"Haise Sasaki."

"Fine, we'll go get her. I'm not guarenteeing anything about Kaneki's body."

Hide hung up the phone and threw it into a dumpster, praying that it broke. He continued running, having much more stamina as compared to the last time Kaneki was with him. He still tired quickly, however, and was panting by the time he reached their destination.

"You know Ayato,"Hide said quietly, pushing the door open. "If you need to say anything, tell me."

"Gotcha,"Kaneki replied.

"Come on!"Ayato didn't give them time to enter the room. He already had his mask on, along with a heavy black jacket, fur lining the hood.

"Right,"Hide pulled a small black cloth from his pocket and slipped it over the bottom of his face.

Almost a copy of Kaneki's, only shaped like a mask a doctor would wear in the operating room. Kaneki knew that if he was actually in his own body, he'd cry.

"Let's go,"Ayato rushed him, rounding into an alley.

"Hide, you can get into the CCG's prison from the back gate."

"Kaneki says we can get in through the back gate."

"I already knew that."

"The code is 3345678762."

"Worry about that when we get there."

"I'm warning you,"Kaneki suddenly became rather quiet. "There's another me inside Sasaki. He's terrifying."

"Right, we'll watch out."

Kaneki went silent for the rest of their running time. He was terrified, frankly, because he'd seen Sasaki Haise in action. He'd seen how his body wanted to remember who he was but it just couldn't. He couldn't even remember how he'd lost his memory.

Hide, however, was just tired. It'd been a while since his body had housed Kaneki's mind as well, and for some reason, it exhausted him. He had two Kagune to manage. One, a rinkaku, and a kakuja, according to Uta, who had met with Haise and his team before.

'We're here,"Ayato spoke, startling both Kaneki and Hide.

They broke into the dorms, Kaneki guiding them to Haise's dorm, none of them bothering to hide from the security cameras. Breaking into the Quinx dorm, Kaneki showed them to Haise's room. of course, Haise wasn't asleep. He almost never was.

"Sasaki Haise,"Ayato glared. "Also known as Kaneki Ken."

"What the hell?"Haise turned around, reaching to his side for his briefcase, holding his Yukimura. "I already told that girl, I'm not Kaneki Ken."

"Right, because he's with me,"Hide muttered, batting the side of Sasaki's head with his fist.

The investigator collapsed, only to land on his hands an knees. He looked up, smiling, flexing his hands as if he hadn't been able to in a long time.

"Hey,"He said. "It's Kaneki."

Kaneki stood up, appreciating his body.

"Haise says that if we want to get out of here alive, we should grab his ID from the third drawer on his desk,"Kaneki said. "He swears he isn't lying."

"Ayato,"Hide nodded to the other ghoul.

"Yeah, yeah,"Ayato fished through the drawer, finding the card and handing it to Kaneki.

"He says he'll lead us to where Hinami is."

"Then lets go find her,"Ayato growled. "She didn't deserve this."