A/N: Hey everyone! I deeply apologize for not updating on time, but I was enjoying the Thanksgiving holiday with my family. However I will be updating again tomorrow, so be on the look out for it. Once again thanks for the follows and favorites, I love seeing them in my email!

Title: The Bloody Files: A Ghoul's God

Summary: Shinohara and Juuzou are assigned to a case involving a cult full of humans that worship ghouls as 'angels'. Within the cult is the disillusioned daughter that's more than happy to sell them out for a price. Matters become worse when a binge eating ghouls breaks loose, and human cannibalism becomes common place. Tokyo is beginning to burst at the seams, and time is running out.

Characters: Shinohara Yukinori, Suzuya Juuzou, Oc

Pairings: Eventual Suzuya Juuzou x Oc


Lily and her family were at the church by dawn that Sunday. The putrid smell of exhaust and the cold were the only things that Lily could concentrate on as she slowly helped her parents set up the chairs, pin announcements to the bulletin board, and put the sheet music on the piano. She understood everything had to be set up perfectly so the church looked presentable, but she didn't know why they got up so early. It was only eight in the morning, the service didn't start until ten. A yawn escaped her lips, echoing off the old walls of the church and making her mother cluck her tongue. "I thought I told you to go to bed on time last night."

"I did." She rubbed her eyes, enjoying the slight stinting sensation. "I just kept having nightmares."

Her father looked up from his bible, a yellow highlighter poised above the book. "Do you want to talk about it?"

"It was just a nightmare."

She didn't like telling her parents about her dreams or nightmares. A lot of the time they tried to tell her that they meant something deep and wonderful, and Lily wasn't in the best of moods to entertain them that early in the morning. She grabbed a stack of bibles and began putting them on the neatly arranged chairs. As she did the door opened with the obnoxious squeaking, and an elderly lady came in. In her arms was a wrapped up package that she held so close to her chest, Lily thought it would merge with her. "Pastor Mc'Knight, may I speak to you for a moment?"

Her father nodded and led the old woman to his office. " Of course, anything for an Angel."

The lady gave a gravely laugh as she followed him, even giving her mother a polite nod as she passed by, she then dained to do so to Lily as well. Lily averted her eyes, the hairs on the back on end as she caught the metallic scent of blood. She wondered if the 'angel' had just eaten a person, or did she bathe in blood to stay youngish looking? She snorted at the last thought, that sounded like something Juuzou would say. Speaking of which, she looked up from the bibles and towards the door, she wondered if the CCG were coming today. Shinohara had said they found what they were looking for, did that mean they'd stop coming by the church? She didn't feel particularly sad about it, as long as Shinohara signed her recommendation form they didn't have to ever come back.


Before she even knew it, church finally got started. Her mother played the piano while everyone sang an upbeat hymn under the gaze of the three 'angels'. It almost felt like she was taking some kind of test, and the ghouls were the ones who decided if she would fail it or not. The notes began to pile together to a crescendo, the voices of the church becoming louder, you could practically feel the excited energy leaking from everyone there. As the song ended there was a loud screech from the door and almost everyone craned their necks to see who came in, Lily included. Down the aisle came Shinohara and Juuzou, both their faces flushed and their breathing labored. Shinohara claimed a free chair next to her, and consequently Juuzou took the one next to him. Lily's mother instructed everyone to turn to a page in the hymn book, before she began to play another song, this one a bit more rambunctious than the last.

"Have you noticed anything off with your father since the last time we spoke?" Shinohara asked in a hushed whisper.

Lily didn't take her eyes off her hymnal. "Why are we discussing this now?"

"You'd be surprised how safe people feel in their own territory."

Maybe that was true. She highly doubted her father expected two CCG investigators to attend his church. Even further down that line of thought, she doubted that he would even imagine that they would be investigating him. So they were probably safe discussing this type of thing in the middle of praise and worship. Sighing, she went over her father's behavior in her head, trying to think of anything odd. "Well...He's been working at the church a lot more."

"..."

She spared him a glance. "That's not something incriminating, is it?"

"It depends. When we came down here a few night ago, we were looking for anything that would tip him off to our investigation. The only thing we managed to find were some video cameras."

Her gaze shifted top the old surveillance camera in the left corner of the room. It was connected to a computer in her father's office and the feed was grainy. No one took that piece of junk seriously and was the subject of jokes around the dinner table. The only thing it was mean to do was scare off anyone who wanted to steal from the offering plate. "That camera's the least of your problems."

"I wasn't talking about that one." He said. "There's over twenty in this room alone. All of them as small as your pinky finger."

She was almost impressed with the new information. "Do you know where the feed is being sent to?"

"Not yet, but we're working on it."

The piano music stopped, and Lily turned the majority of her attention to the sermon. Considering what usually went on in the church, she didn't think her father would be stupid enough to have such incriminating evidence against himself set up. However all videos needed to be streamed somewhere, they had to be too small to keep all the information on themselves and still run. And how long had these cameras spied on everyone in the church? If the CCG took the information, what exactly would be found that would be considered illegal? She hugged herself, eyes narrowing as she scanned her thoughts for anything that could break the deal she had with Shinohara. The worst that she'd done was fall asleep on her father's New Year's sermon, and if that was a deal breaker then recommendation be damned. She had a good excuse to fall asleep anyway, her boyfriend had kept her up the night before and...-Her eyes widened as she remembered something, her fingers balling up into fists, and her heartbeat accelerating.

It was clear that the CCG needed the information, but what parties were they looking for? And just laws were they expecting to be broken? If she had done something that was considered 'illegal' would she be dragged into the same trial that her parents would be apart of? One thing was certain: she couldn't let Shinohara get his hands on the footage, not before she got a peek at them first.


Lily ended up leaving the church before her parents. Normally all three of them would stay and clean up the church after everyone left, but Lily claimed that she didn't feel well and wanted to go home. Her mother had checked her temperature with her hand, and determined that she was far too warm and should 'go straight to bed and stop studying'. And for the first time in a long while, she actually followed some of her mother's advice. She was spread out on her bed, day clothes all over the floor, and her night clothes on. Her blanket was tucked firmly around her as she lightly breathed, her curly hair tickling her nose as it moved. It had been a long time since she had voluntarily stopped studying, not since she had hurt herself with her boyfriend.

She flipped onto her back, a small smile curling onto her lips. She had hurt her leg and had been in so much pain that all she did was sleep. It was the only thing that blocked out the pain, not even medicines were all that helpful since they hurt her head. She could remember her boyfriend gently stroking her head as he held her, telling her that she would be okay, that it would heal. She opened her eyes and stared at a small picture in a metal picture frame on her bedside. In it was a picture of Sana holding up a v with her fingers, next to her was Lily who was squinting thanks to the flash, and towering over the both of them was a boy. His violet hair was cut short and a smile was pasted on his lips that managed to go all the way to his blue eyes. One of his arms was wrapped firmly around her waist, as if he was attempting to bring her closer to him, even though she was already leaning against him. In this particular photo, the three of them were taking on last picture before summer vacation started. It was exactly three weeks before her leg injury, and everything seemed a bit easier back then as an idiot freshmen in high school.

"Yukimura...Your ass is still haunting me."

She flipped around and stared at the ceiling again. If her father put in the cameras then the feed had to go back to a place that he would check. There was a computer at the church, but that one was terribly old fashioned, it could barely process a game of solitaire. The one in his home office, however, had the RAM and processing power to keep up a twenty-four hour feed of the church. She sat up and kicked her legs over the side of the bed, her blanket falling to a pile on the floor. usually her parents went out to lunch after cleaning, so she could expect them back in at least an hour, two if they decided to make the most of it with her gone. She padded her way out of her room and down the hall where her father's home office was. She opened the door and the fragrant smell of lemon flooded her nose, coupled with a cool breeze from the open window. The room was as tidy as it usually was, with no papers on the desk, all the books stacked neatly on the shelf, and a cup of half gone tea sitting beside his black laptop. She pulled out the chair and sat down, her fingers already pressing on the keyboard to type in her father's password. The screen lit to life, a picture of her family on vacation as the background, and a few program shortcuts lined the bottom of the screen. Most of them were just note keepers, the internet, and a free bible program. She logged into the internet and checked his history, just to find some Youtube videos, a few weather sources, and his e-mail which he had yet to log out of. She clicked into that and went through the mail, most of it whining from the church members, a few coupons to some stores, her mother, and some named Dr. Kasegawa.

She clicked into it and a short email popped up. "Dear Mc'Knight-san, I have determined that your request to increase your wife's medication must be denied. She is slowly making progress in her sessions, and could in fact decrease her medication again by the end of summer."

She clicked out of the email and went through, deleting the day's history and logging out of the email. She knew that her mother went to a therapist, that's why she was gone every Thursday, but she never knew that she was also on medication. She'd have to ask about that later, for now she needed to find the streaming program. She logged into the computers search, and typed of 'video' hoping to find anything that would look suspicious. Almost immediately videos popped up, all of them at least ten minutes long and with a time stamp from last month to yesterday. All of the thumbnails depicted the church's chapel, but her father seemed to be standing over someone who was kneeling before him. She clicked into one that was labeled for yesterday and brought up the volume loud so that she could hear what was happening. The video buffered for a moment before it began, showing her father reciting a quote from the bible and a young woman kneeling before him with her hands pressed to her chest. "Do you want forgiveness for your sins?"

"Yes!" The woman choked out. "Please, I've done so much..."

Her father slammed his bible shut and knelt down. "Then you realize what you must do? Cast off the sins of humanity and take up your true calling. You are not like us of the pasture, instead you are a higher being, a heavenly being, one that will purge humanity of their evil and protect the righteous!"

The doors of the church opened and two men brought in a young man, he was weakly struggling against them but laughing at the same time. When they reached the woman he was pushed forward, nearly hitting his head against the floor. The woman ducked her head, a low wail escaping her lips. "But Mc'Knight-san-!"

"He stole money from school girls, and raped two of them in secret." Her father said. "You will be cleaning this world of his filth."

Lily's eyes widened when she saw a flare of red in the darkness before the man screamed. Only seconds later the man let out a high pitched scream and blood splattered everywhere, some droplet even managing to hit the dominant camera that was capturing the footage. It continued on like that for ten minutes, high pitched screaming that quickly became hoarse, wet crunching followed by a loud snap, slurping that descended into bloody gurgles, and the occasional tearing sound that made her stomach churn as she imagined the man getting eaten. When it was finally quiet she could hear her father sigh. "See, now you have embraced your true calling and have provided justice for those poor girls. Now go forth and continue to purge this world of its sins."

The footage stopped there, showing the thumbnail once again. She quickly exited out of the entire program and brought the computer back to the start page before getting up and slowly walking back to her room. She shut the door behind her and slid down it, her hands lacing themselves into her long curly hair as if she was trying to hold back a headache. She had never seen a ghoul eat a human before, the worse she had seen was the barely recognizable corpses from the news, and even those were censored a good chunk of the time. The way the man had begged to be let go was pathetic, screamed in between wet coughs and a sniffling nose; however her father had said that the man had raped two girls. With that said didn't that mean he deserved what he got, that the ghoul was just giving those girls justice? She wanted to laugh at herself, why was she getting so worked up over this? Wasn't her policy to stay neutral until she got something out of it? The CCG was keeping her out of prison, plus she would get a recommendation once everything was said and done, that outweighed any false sense of 'justice' that the video tried to preach.

She stood back up, her shaking now stopped and her confidence back in place. She went over to her low table and grabbed her phone, looking through the contacts for a moment, before clicking a certain number that had been added earlier that morning. "Hello, Shinohara-san, I've got something interesting to show you."