Yo. Sorry for not posting the chapter sooner but I've got shit to deal with... life sucks.

Gonna be a short chapter, only around 2600 words. I hope you guys enjoy the moment with Touka.

Now onto questions:

Descendant of Artorias: The Black Magic itself will be a combination of different types of spells from random places. (Bleach Kido Spells, Black Rites, etc. Maybe some more offensive-oriented spells later on. Any suggestions on spells is always welcome and much appreciated.) And yes, Black Rites are from Soul Sacrifice.

tHe ultimate demon dragon lord: I hope this chapter satisfies your question about what happened to Hinami, Touka and Nishiki.

And for those who PM'd me about it; the Harem list in sequence. (So far): Touka (Alpha, Will not be part of Rias' peerage for those who are concerned) Akeno, Asia, Rias (not main as promised) and Xenovia soon. Taking any suggestions about future Harem candidates.

Enjoy.

Several years. Its been several years since I've seen Nishiki, Hinami and Touka.

Shortly after the fight with Arima we took the three back to my house. Asia quickly went to heal Touka as she had the worst wounds among them. Thankfully, Asia managed to heal her before they became life-threatening. Nishiki was slightly better though he was still pretty beat up. Hinami didn't have very many injuries other than a few burn marks.

They were resting for a couple days and eventually Hinami and Nishiki woke up. Upon seeing me, Hinami cried hysterically and Nishiki nearly cried as well. However after they vented their sadness they told me about everything that happened.

While I was fighting Arima the CCG had attacked Anteiku. According to Nishiki, Yoshimura-san managed to fight off the majority of the Ghoul Investigator's. Shortly after defeating me, Arima had showed up and fought with Yoshimura-san. They fought and after a hard fight Yoshimura-san was struck and wounded heavily. This ultimately ended with the real "Owl" showing up and devouring Yoshimura-san which "Owl" regurgitated later. Yoshimura-san was then taken away by CCG.

Afterward's the CCG started using captured Ghoul's and their organ's to make One-eyed's, much like they did with myself. Using these One-eyed's, they continued their fight with Aogiri Tree. Eventually Aogiri Tree and CCG fought each other on a grand scale, which included all of their forces. CCG had an overwhelming advantage with all of the new One-eyed's on their side, however the real "Owl" stepped in. Apparently "Owl" had managed to convince a few artifical One-eyed's like myself to defect from CCG and brought them to Aogiri Tree. It was there that "Owl" starved them until they were going insane and let them run wild. In the end it resulted in the One-eyed's killing many investigator's as well as themselves. The last two standing were Owl and Arima, and Arima finally defeated Owl. Whether Arima killed him or whether Owl survived like myself is unknown by Nishiki.

Of all the original Anteiku and Anti-Aogiri members, only Nishiki, Yomo-san, Hinami, and Touka-chan and Banjou-san are alive. Nishiki as of now does not know where Banjou-san is. Yomo-san is now manager at a rebuilt Anteiku, where they offer jobs to any surviving Ghoul's.

After we talked for a bit it was Nishiki's decision to go back to Tokyo and continue working at the new Anteiku, and after a long period of convincing Hinami went back as well. Touka has yet to wake up from her healing.

(Present)

I'm currently in my pocket dimension that Ddraig taught me to create, studying this book. During the fight with Arima I was left with no other choice than using one of the spells I read in here, Gorgon.

The spell is one of seven, called Black Rites. Along with Gorgon, there is also Infernus, Gleipnir, Excalibur, Vulcan, Berserker, and Angelus. All of them do something incredible, however they come with a price.

Infernus; Offer your skin to gain the power of inextinguishable flame. Fire blankets surround your enemy during rite. Pay the price with absolutely no defense left after casting.

Gleipnir; Offer your right arm for a powerful cursed chain to bind all enemies. Chains will bind the enemy and subdue them permanently, however if the opponent proves to be much stronger than you the chains will have no effect. Pay the price with a loss of self-modifications. In my case it would suspend the use of my Boosted Gear, as well as the use of my Kagune and Kakuja.

Excalibur; Offer my heart and unleash the power of an Imitation-Excalibur, similar to Arondight, that can cut through anything, even the most powerful defense. Pay the price with half your lifespan.

Vulcan; Similar to Excalibur, I make an offering of my heart to create a sword usable by any ally. The sword is forged from the soul itself. Pay the price with half your lifespan. (This price and Excalibur's are bypassed by being either A) An infinite being, or B) Strong enough in Senjutsu to manipulate your soul freely. [Soul Manipulation is far more challenging to do than Life-force Manipulation and Touki])

Gorgon; Making an offering of an eye (either) and unleash a magical light that petrifies your enemy. Very similar to Medusa's eye though it comes at the cost of my eye. Using this in the fight against Arima did not seem to be very taxing, and I can use it often as my eye can grow back. However, I find that my sight in the eye that grew back is slightly inferior to my other eye. I hypothesize that frequent use of this ability may result in permanent blindness.

Angelus; Make an offering of your bones to gain power that heals allies (much like Asia's Twilight Healing) and weakens enemy's. Pay the price of greatly reduced speed.

So far these are all the spells I have learned. I noticed that when I used Gorgon I could hear a voice that didn't belong to myself, Rize, or Ddraig. It seemed to echo what I was saying, and sounded very raspy. I entered my mindscape earlier to see if Ddraig or Rize had heard or seen someone else in here, but they thought I was going crazy... which might not be too far from the truth, I'm pretty fucked up you know? Getting tortured and having your head impaled does some shit to you.

*Beep Beep Beep*

!

The alarm that I set goes off. I was told by Rias-buchou to meet her at 4:30 this morning so she could check my physical abilities, which is rather pointless if you ask me. But since she wouldn't stop nagging me about it I finally gave in and complied. Rather than going to sleep though I just stayed up all night reading this book.

I exit the pocket dimension, and leave the book in there. Normally I'd take a shower but if the crazy redhead is just going to make me workout it'll be for nothing, so I just head downstairs. However when I get to the hall—

A beautiful young woman is standing in the hallway, glaring at me. It's Touka-chan. She must have woken up only a few moments ago... Her blue hair, now down to her back, no longer covers her right eye as she glares bullets at me. She's wearing a T-shirt that hugs her body nicely, and shorts. Her... *cough* assets... have gotten larger over the last few years, and slightly taller.

"Hey..."

"...your injuries heal?" I really don't know what to say to her. She continues to glare at me as she takes steps towards me.

"Yeah, they don't hurt anymore... but more like— WHAT THE HELL DO YOU MEAN HEY?!" She yells at me as she plants her fist into my stomach.

*Cough*

I cough when she impales me with her fist. She still can hit rather hard...

"I suppose I deserved that..." I said as I lean back up from cringing. Contrary to what I was expecting next, she grabbed me and pulled me into a hug.

"Kaneki... Kaneki..." she cried into my shoulder while squeezing me. I smiled softly and hugged her back.

"Sshh, don't cry..." I whispered into her ear. I really am happy to see her again, moreso than I thought I would be.

And she wasn't hitting me anymore.

She then pulled herself back.

...

SLAP!

...

...

So much for not hitting me...

"I'm sorry Kaneki but you deserve it..." she said with a sob as she glared at him with eyes still wet from tears.

"I know..." I said sadly. She then tackled me into a hug again.

"And I'm sorry." she said with regret in her voice. Huh?

"Huh? I'm the one who should be apologizing to you... first I abandon the coffee shop and then I go and die on you..." I spoke confused.

"No. Do you remember the last thing I said to you? I called you an eyesore... trash... I told you to never come back to Anteiku..." she began to cry again.

"I called you selfish... for being afraid of being alone..." I hugged her tighter as she vented her emotions into my chest, soaking it with tears. We stayed like this for a couple minutes.

"Ever since that day... I've regretted what I said to you. I tore you down, treated you like garbage... but you were simply protecting us... Then one day I hear from a shitty investigator that you had been killed... I tried to kill myself... It took Nishiki and Yomo to keep me from killing myself..."

"Touka..."

"I regret what I said to you because I meant none of it... I wanted to apologize but I couldn't, because you were dead..." she spoke her true feelings.

"Then one day Nishiki, Hinami, and myself get attacked by Arima and I wake up here... in your house... and now I finally have the chance to say..."

"I'm sorry." she apologized.

I simply stared at her for a few seconds. I then brought my lips towards hers. As I closed my eyes I could see images of her before I left Anteiku. She seemed so much happier when I was around.

I snapped out of my thoughts and returned to reality. Touka's lips were pressed against mine, her face wet with tears. After a few moments we broke off from each other

"Why... why would you kill yourself over me?" I cried

"Isn't it obvious? Because I love you!"

"But..."

SLAP

I was slapped.

"But you were right... I'm nothing more than a selfish, power-hungry, emo..."

SLAP

"Enough. You are nothing like that... you were never like that... and even if you were, I would still love you..." she then hugged me tighter than before.

"Ha... to think that you loved me... I thought that you hated me."

"I could never hate you." she said into my chest

"Then you should know, I love you too." I confessed my true feelings. She slammed her lips into my own and we kissed.

Touka suddenly deepened the kiss and shoved her tongue into my mouth, exploring every bit of it. I grabbed her hips and pulled her closer, and her eyes widened, but she closed her eyes and brought her arms around my neck.

We stayed like this for several minutes, not wanting to pull away. However, oxygen deprivation had won in the end.

"Touka, I love you." I said once again

"I love you too, Kaneki." She smiled happily

"It's Shiro now." She looked at me confused when I said this.

"My new name, it's Shiro. And I'm going to a new school now, a highschool to be exact."

"A highschool? But you're like 22 or so..." she looked at me weird

"But do I look 22? not really... so I decided that I should just enroll in highschool." I then got an idea

"So what would you say to going to highschool with me?"

She brightened up once again. And almost instantly she replied

"Yes!"

(Outside. Third person POV)

"Where the hell is Shiro?!" Rias shouted outside, sitting on a bike in a track suit. Its currently 4:45 and a certain [Pawn] of hers is late.

Deciding to take matters into her own hands, she gets off her bike and goes towards the door. Jumping up in the air, she extends her leg to kick the door down HOWEVER...

"—?!" The door swings open just as her foot reaches the door and she slams right into Shiro.

"Gah!" She impales him with her leg and falls on him.

"WHAT THE HELL?!" he screams as the red-haired beauty lands on her ass, on top of his back.

"EEP! Sorry Shiro..." She apologized as she quickly got up and offered him a hand. He couldn't help but note how soft her butt felt...

"I'm late by 15 minutes and end up getting kicked by my master..." he complains as he gets up.

"I said I'm sorry..." she apologizes again.

Straightening out his outfit—

"Sorry Rias, but we'll have to do physical training tomorrow or sometime later." he told her as he shifted his shirt back into place.

"Oh? And why's that?" in that instant Touka walks into the room and glances between Rias and Shiro.

"Kane... erm... Shiro... who's this?" she questions looking at Rias

"Ah Touka... this is um... Rias Gremory... my devil master..." he confesses and she looks at him funny

"Devil master?" she said confused.

"Oh? Did she not know about us?" Rias questions.

"No, she's a Ghoul but most Ghoul's don't know about the other supernatural creatures out there..."

"I see... well I guess we should explain it to her then." Rias suggests and Shiro nods in agreement.

They then go on to tell her about how Shiro became Rias' servant devil, and explained about how angels, fallen angels, devils, gods, youkai, vampires, werewolves, elves, goblins, pretty much any supernatural entity you can think of, exists. And that Shiro is now one of them. And how he survived his fight with Arima using Ddraig.

"So let me get this straight..." she begins

"First you get attacked by Arima and nearly die, just to be saved by this "Ddraig". You then move here to recover and hunt in safety. Then you get asked on a date by a random girl, go on the date, find out she's trying to kill you, eat her, and then get turned into a devil?" she clarifies

"Yes." Shiro nods at her assessment

"I can understand all of that... but why get turned into a devil?" she asks, and he puts on a thinking face while touching his chin.

"Hrm... at first I thought it was because they would be able to protect me from investigator's and would give me a "family" type of thing... while I'm content with my new friends... the whole "protection" department seems to be lacking..." he points out

"It's your fault for getting attacked by a Longinus possessor!" Rias points out, and Shiro shrugs.

"Well, regardless. I'm happy with where I am and now you're here with me Touka-chan." he smiles at her. Rias can't help but feel... jealous? at his his genuine smile towards the other female.

"So you said you'd like to go to school with me, right Touka?" he asks again

"Yes." she nods

"You think you can make it happen Buchou?" he asks her and she nods.

"I can. Allow me to contact Sona and Onii-sama, I'll have her registered by the time school starts." Rias then teleports away to do whatever she needs to do.

Shiro then gets up and Touka does as well. She then hugs him again, tightly. She finally gets to go to school with the man she loves...

She then brings down his T-shirt and... bites his shoulder.

"WHAT THE HELL?!" he yells in pain as she pulls away, swallowing a piece of his flesh.

"That's for having other girls in your house. Plus you taste good." she smiles playfully and walks upstairs.

His new girlfriend is an abusive one...

I hope this chapter was satisfying, despite being short. Next chapter will be the start of the Riser arc, and may or may not include the fight itself. I'm shooting for it including the fight though. Also Kaneki hears voices?! He's going crazy again, onoes.

How should Kaneki deal with Riser? Wreck him alone, Rating game, or something else? Help me decide!

Riser Fight Poll So far: It's about 60/40 Fighting Alone:Rating Game. If it stays almost tied I may do a combination of both, like a Kaneki challenges Riser's whole peerage to game, type of thing.

Also I'm gonna ask now, should I do lemons or naw? I know some like them but others find them disturbing or just simply weird to read sex scenes.

Lastly, give me names for Touka! Kaneki got a name change so it's only fair Touka gets one as well.

Review, Favorite, and follow please! Flames welcome as well (Raging and Hate makes me better I've found).

Peace.