Well this is way earlier than planned. This is actually half what I planned to post next but I liked the cliffhanger it came to as I stopped writing for the day. Still over two thousand words though. Unfortunately there is no omake in this one but I got a big one planned for the end of this arc. has to do with the kaneki siblings' parents actually. so theres that to look forward too.

thanks Raikiri's edge for favoriting my humble story.


For the first few moments, nothing was said. The two, ghoul and half-ghoul, simply stared each other down; much like two cats. While their bodies were calm, their eyes as they met were both filled with venom as they sized each other up. The lone human cut this all short with, "Excuse me, but is there something the matter Nishio? You're really staring down poor Shiro here." Both man eaters broke off eye contact there. "No, just thought she looked familiar. Kinda like that bookworm guy I've seen you with," Nishio answered. He got up from his chair and walked over to Shiro. "So you're Shiro right? My name is Nishiki Nishio. A second year here in the pharmaceutical department. Pleasure to meet you." Nishio held out his hand to her. Shiro shook his hand and smiled before replying, "Believe me, the pleasure is all yours. And the name is Nashiro. Nashiro Kaneki."

The handshake between the two quickly became a hand crushing event as the two locked eyes again. 'Dammit,' Shiro thought, 'I only wanted to turn in big brother's paper. But instead, not only do I get stuck with following around Hide for who knows how long but now have to deal with this dick. You owe me big time brother. Big time!' Shiro's musings were broken up when the Hide ruffled her hair. "Come on now Shiro. Is that anyway to treat your elders after just meeting them? Keep doing that and you'll have a hard time finding a boyfriend. Guys don't like a bitchy personality you know," Hide teasingly chastised her. Her cheeks puffed out, Shiro thought, 'If you weren't my brother's friend I would end you! Besides no one but big brother is allowed to touch my hair! NO ONE!' Her irritation was further raised as she saw the smirk that Nishio had on his annoying face.

Nishio turned to Hide and asked, "You needed something from me right?" "Yeah I needed the data on the program from last year. The other sempais said that you were the one who held onto the disc."

"Oh yeah that CD. Hold on it's probably here; somewhere."Nishio started to dig around his the room for it and instructed Hide to check for it on some shelves. Shiro decided to just stand there and not help. She didn't expect this to take that long anyway. However, despite her growing frustration, they were no closer to getting the disk and leaving as the minutes ticked by. Shiro was thankful she had her phone with her. When Shiro was at level 37 of tetris, Nishio stood up and announced, "Well it's not over here either. Okay if we give up now?" Hide jumped up too and griped, "Nooooo, please keep searching." "I'm all for quitting," Shiro quipped. Hide turned to her and stated, "You didn't even try to help so you get no say in this matter." "Ah, I remember. I took that disk home yesterday. Sorry Hide," Nishio suddenly announced. After a few more gripes from Hide though, the ghoul brought about another proposition. "It might be a bother for you, but you want to go get it now?"

Something about this irritated Shiro. She didn't know if it was the way he said it or what she saw in his eyes, but something about this offer made Shiro feel instantly uncomfortable. As she tried to figure this out, Hide came over and started to nicely push her out the door. "Sorry about this Shiro, looks like I'm gonna be busy today. Why don't you go on home and we can figure out how to cheer up Ken-chan next time ok?" Instead, Shiro pushed Hide away. She had a feeling that it would be a bad idea to leave this man alone with a possibly hostile ghoul. Her brother was already suffering after Rize. She didn't like the possibilities that could come from another death of someone close to him. Even if he was just a human. So, Shiro put on her best little girl face. "But Hide. You said we'd do something fun today. It's not nice to break promises with girls. If you keep doing that then you won't get very far with Touka-oneechan." For now, she would just try to stick around. Hopefully it would work as a deterrent. At worst, she would just need to beat up Nishio. "Are you really sure? I mean we might start talking about some pervy stuff on the way. You know, the stuff that you might find offensive." Before Hide could continue arguing though, Nishio also offered, "It's okay if she comes along right? Not like its anything she has heard before. After all, she is a high school girl right?" With two against one, Hide was forced to concede to Shiro coming along with them. On the way out Shiro sent a quick text her big brothers cell.

Going with Hide and his sempai, Nishio, to pick something up from his house. Nishio Knew auntie Rize. Will be careful.


The journey seemed to be turning out to be uneventful. Shiro had been afraid that the moment they were outside the campus, Nishio would move them to a back alley and attack. Instead they had just walked on as previously advertised. Shiro was already regretting coming along. If she had just left, then she wouldn't have had to suffer through that dirt flavoured taiyaki. She had been able to get out of eating half of it at least by pulling the cliché diet excuse. "We're almost there," Nishio assured them as they headed further from the main street. Shiro sighed in relief. They reached a corner with Hide and Nishio in front as Shiro had fell behind a bit.

As the two men turned the corner, Nishio sprung his trap. Hide, stunned by the dead end in front of them, was caught off guard by the kick Nishio landed. Hide was launched into the alley way slammed into a pile of trash. "Hide!" Shiro shot forward in a panic; completely caught off guard by the attack. She had expected she would be the first to be targeted as the greater threat. As she got to the corner, Nishio grabbed her and she barely had enough time to roll into the throw to offset the attacks impact. "Sorry there Hide, I just needed you out of the way for now," the full ghoul stated as he snapped his neck. He now turned to appraise his second victim. "Now as for you, imagine my surprise. Not only to find another ghoul on campus, but a family member of that bitch. Hahaha. I don't know whether to be irritated that another one of you, no two of you counting your brother, thought it was a good thing to barge into my territory or be happy that I have someone to finally bring all my grievances to bear on." Shiro grinned back. "Your territory? I distinctly remember auntie Rize owning pretty much the entire ward. It's pretty hilarious to hear a beaten dog like you bragging. Acting like you own the place. If you were so strong then you should have held onto it in the first place, dumbass." She was rewarded with Nishio grinding his teeth. "You bitch. I'll make sure you regret messing with me."

Nishio made the first move. He shot forward and tried to round house kick the young girl. Shiro quickly brought her left arm up to block it while reinforcing it with her right arm. The kick shot her back a few feet and broke her arm. She however ignored the pain and let her rapid healing take care of it for her. With her left side momentarily out of commission, Nishio pressed his attack. Shiro was forced to dodge over and over and was not able to get a clear chance to counter attack. Even after her arm had healed enough to be usable. Shiro cursed her stupidity in letting Nishio take control of the fight. As a rinkaku type that was where she excelled. Instead now she was stuck playing defensive and being worn down by the bigger, stronger enemy. Her greatest weakness in this fight, her inexperience, could have set her on the path to ruin.

Luckily though, Shiro saw her out. Maybe underestimating the speed of her healing, Nishio was not keeping as tight a form on her left as he should. Taking a chance, Shiro dove for one of the more obvious openings. She put as much as force in her fist as she could and connected. She felt her foe falter under her deceptively diminutive fist. Nishio was thrown up by two inches and back half a foot while one of his ribs painfully cracked. Now with his offensive streak broken, Shiro pressed her own attack. She decided to ignore Nishio's counter attacks as that would put her back on the defensive. Instead she placed as much as she could on damaging her opponent while letting her rapid regeneration take up most of the slack. The battle soon became pitched as while Shiro got more hits off and connected more often, Nishio was able to better aim his and put more power in each strike.

Feeling worn down, Shiro jumped back a few feet to rest for a bit. She was still trapped by Nishio in the dead end and she also was too far from Hide for her liking. Also using the chance to catch his breath, Nishio whipped away the blood that leaked out of the side of his mouth. "Dammit. To think a cheeky little girl like you was able to push me this far. First Rize and now you. I can't believe that I have to deal with such a shitty family. Damn it." Nishio suddenly gained that same pretentious smirk that made Shiro's skin crawl again.

Nishio casually walked over to where Hide laid. Shiro felt her muscles tighten but didn't move. She knew that he was baiting her. If she moved to carelessly, then they would both be dead. Nishio stomped his foot on Hide's head. He then forced himself to throw up the taiyaki all over his hostage. "Ugh, taste like shit doesn't it Shiro-chan? Yet you always see these humans happily nibbling away at it all while judging us. Tell me what's so special about this human that you risked yourself to protect him? Why did your big brother let this one get so close to him? After all despite acting like a complete idiot, Hide's actually quite dangerous. You've felt it to right? That when he looks at you, it's like he's breaking down all your facades and seeing you for what you are; a ghoul. You should have been thankful to me. For getting rid of such a threat. Nah? Nah? NAH?" Several times during his "speech" he had slammed his foot on Hide's head. Shiro raced to formulate a plan. She needed to get him away to Hide; possibly she could grab Hide and make a run for somewhere with people or at least cameras.

Unfortunately, Shiro ran out of time. Nishio unleashed his kagune. The tail like organ wrapped around his leg as he brought it up for one more stomp. "So long Hide." Shiro leaped at Nishio while her own kagune popped out in the form of three tentacle rinkaku. She swung them down in a slashing move. But Shiro forgot an important rule of fighting with kagune. That a rinkaku shouldn't attempt to take on a bikaku of equal or greater power head on. Nishio's Kagune tore through the looser configuration of Shiro's and slashed across her arm and torso. Shiro screamed in pain as she crashed onto the ground rolled to a stop. Before she could get her bearings, Nishio kicked her hard in the solar plexus. Shiro was now starting to black out as she cough up blood. She felt like a fool. How could she have made such a rooky mistake? "I'm sorry Big brother," Shiro whispered as a tear formed in her one kakukan eye. However she then felt another presence behind her. "Oi! What the hell do you think you're doing to my sister?"


Im gonna try to more incorpirate the strenghs and weaknesses of the four types of Kagune have against each other. I dont really think that they showed that as much in the manga despite it being point out about it being like rock paper scissors.

I hope that all the other plot points make sense. If not just say so in the reviews or pm me and Ill explain what I did.