A/N: Hello, guys! So you've probably noticed the new title and summary. This will be permenent, and I'm glad it will be since I've managed to attract another favorite and two more follows. Thanks! I also realize how short this chapter is, but I'm no good at filler, sorry.

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


Apparently the doctor had been right when she said that Lily would feel better after some sleep. Shinohara had given her his coat and directed her to a corner of the office to rest in. Three hours later and she was capable of sitting up straight without holding her ribs, and her headache had dwindled down to a pinching throb that only annoyed her, not put her through life ending pain. At the moment Shinohara and Juuzou were finishing up some last minute paperwork, it was more Shinohara than Juuzou, and they hadn't noticed her existence yet. Juuzou was tapping a pen against some paper, his head on the desk and pouting while Shinohara tapped away at his computer. "Come on, these forms aren't going to fill themselves out. Didn't you want Lily-san to make you some food?"

Juuzou yawned and slumped even further in his chair, sitting on the very edge of it. "Yeah, but I don't wanna do this, it's boring."

"How else do you expect to get a promotion?"

"Killing ghouls!" He suddenly sat up, and leaned toward Shinohara. "I'll kill ghouls and you do the paperwork!"

Shinohara laughed and shook his head. "It doesn't work that way, now finish your work so you can go, Lily-san woke up."

Lily flinched and huddled deeper into Shinohara's jacket, she wasn't awake enough to deal with Juuzou's erratic behavior. As if someone had heard her prayers and denied them, Juuzou shot out of his seat and dragged her up by her arms. She wanted to whimper as pain shot through them and straight to her brain. "Let's eat cookies!"

"Don't you have paperwork?" She said, twisting her arms around so she could get away. "I'll just walk to a hotel-"

She squealed as he grabbed her, colors swirling in front of her eyes and warmth flooding her back. When everything settled down she found herself sitting down on Juuzou's lap, one arm wrapped around her torso the other scratching at paperwork. "I finish this and you cook."

"Yes, but could you let me go, it's uncomfortable."

"Hmmm...Nope~!" His grip tightened, her body moaning as his bones dug into her bruises. "If I let go you'll run away. I wouldn't want to hunt you down and drag you back kicking and screaming."

And even though he said it as if he was complementing the weather, it made a shiver run down her spine.


Lily was sure that this day happened to be cursed. First she was assaulted by a ghoul, then she was kicked out of her home, and now she was walking the streets in the middle of the night in the freezing cold. She snuggled into Shinohara's coat, as she followed Juuzou down the sidewalk. She didn't like this part of the Eleventh Ward, it was run down and you could smell the sewage no matter where you turned. On top of that there were a ton of small alleyways, dark gaps that looked liked they were made for hungry ghouls. Eventually they stopped by a small apartment building. It was standard fare with rickety stairs that rattled as they walked up to the second floor. They stopped at the first door, Juuzou fished for something in his pockets before dragging out a single key. He quickly unlocked the door and skipped inside his home. "Don't forget to take off your shoes."

"I've lived in Japan for eight years," She said, sliding off her tennis shoes. "I think I have the basics covered."

She set the shoes by Juuzou's slippers, and hesitantly walked further into the apartment. The living room had a round table sitting in the middle of it and that was it, there was nothing else in the room. There weren't even any curtains on the grimy window or paint on the walls to give the room some life. It really didn't seem to fit the owner, his colorful personality almost seemed to demand the use of red or splashes of yellow somewhere in the barren room. In a way it reminded her of a mental hospital, with all the bare necessities and lack of color.

"Ri-chan, in here!" Juuzou's head popped behind a corner. "Make me some cookies!"

She obediently went to the kitchen, almost dismayed by how small it was. There was barely enough counter space to put a large pizza, and the sink wouldn't even hold a whole gallon of water. There was an oven, but it was tiny and she doubted she could make a good size batch that would shut the inspector up. "Well, do you have the ingredients?"

He pulled on his lip stitches for a moment before going over to a cabinet right above the sink. It opened with a loud squeak, and from Lily's vantage point she could see that it was completely empty. "Huh, I don't think so."

He shut the cabinet and walked out the room. She quickly followed behind him, and watched as he slipped back into his shoes. Lily followed his example and nearly whimpered as they trotted back into the cold again. "What kind of cookies do you want, Juuzou?"

"Hmm...Oatmeal!"

So that meant two cups of oatmeal, one cup of raisins, a cup of sugar, two eggs, and a teaspoon of vanilla. That meant it was going to be expensive, but maybe she could get around that by skipping the vanilla. She could probably save a thousand yen if she did that. Cold hands suddenly grabbed her's, locking her fingers in an iron grip. She looked up at Juuzou, who was still walking and not even looking at her. "You're annoying."

"Huh?"

His grip tightened. "Your fingers were moving. I saw it happen to a corpse once, after I cut off the hand. It twitched and twitched just like your's, but Shinohara-san would get mad if I stabbed it to make it stop moving."

She yanked her hands back, curling them back up to her chest. "Do you have a point?"

"Nope, you just annoy me."

They eventually made it to a small grocery market. Only one checkout was open, and the poor cashier looked like she was about to fall over. Lily wasted no time in going down to the baking aisle. Unlike the ones at home, this one was small and didn't have a variety when it came to sugar, vanilla, or even icing types. Everything was very basic and looked like it belonged in a dollar store not a market. She sucked on her bottom lip and searched for the sugar first debating between the white sugar and the white powdered stuff they claimed to be 'natural sweetener'. After a few moments she picked up the sugar and held it under her arm before walking down a way to find the vanilla. A woman was standing close by looked up from the box she was reading to stare, it was something Lily was used to and had long ago stopped questioning. However she was surprised to see Juuzou walk past the woman and bump into her, disrupting the box and causing it to fall to the floor. The woman blushed and quickly picked up the box and walked away. Without further ado he opened up a small grey wallet and began digging inside of it, a happy hum coming from his chest. He dragged out a handful of crumpled bills and waved them around in Lily's face. "Will this be enough, Ri-chan?"

She took the bills away and counted them out. It barely managed to add up to sixty thousand yen, what was he doing carrying around that much loose cash in the first place? "Maybe. It could be a little more though."

He opened the wallet back up and shook it, some loose change and cards fell out. He knelt to the floor and began sorting out everything before a frown pulled on his lips. "Nope, that's it. I can get some more though, that last lady was too easy anyway."

Lily pulled the rest of her attention away from the shelf to stare at Juuzou. "You stole that?"

"Yup!" The boy nodded, clearly proud of his actions. "She was too busy staring at you, she didn't even notice when my hand went in her purse. I should take you with me more often, especially when it's time to eat."

Lily knelt down next to him and carefully picked up the woman's ID card, insurance card, and the few other items on the floor before snatching the wallet from Juuzou. The boy watched in confusion as she began stuffing the things back into the wallet neatly, albeit violently. She then shut the wallet and hurried the direction she had seen the lady go down. She managed to find the woman in the dairy section, putting a jug of milk into her cart. Not wanting to cause trouble, Lily tossed the wallet on top of some packaged fish before hurrying back down the aisle where Juuzou was still waiting for her. When she came back she yanked him by the arm and brought him close. "Why in the hell would you do that? You realize that she probably works hard for every penny she gets, right? You can't just steal stuff from people because you don't wanna dig money out of your own funds. If you can't afford this stuff then you should say so, not steal from another hard working person."

"But I can afford it."

"Then why'd you steal?"

"It was fun."Her grip on him tightened and at that moment all she wanted to do was throw him across the room. Hell, even that wouldn't be enough to satisfy her irritation. She pushed him backwards and turned back to the baking goods. "What wrong, Ri-chan?"

She opened her mouth to respond, but found that no words could come out. She wasn't sure she could explain to him exactly what she felt without inflicting violence on him.


It took an hour to shop for the supplies, and then another half hour to blend all the food together. By the time everything was shoved in the oven, it was already midnight. She was covered in blood, cold, tired, and more than annoyed by Juuzou's flippant attitude towards everything. At the moment he was sitting at the table, yanking his thread out of his arm and humming a little tune. She sat on the other side of the room, her biology book on her knees and was reviewing her notes. She felt so behind with her work, and now her brain was working double time. She mouthed the words as her eyes glanced over them, doing her best to remember a sentence that would need the information. She then filed the card away and read the next one, and repeated the process all over again.

Plantae. Phylum. Cells. Nucleus...

A shrill ring sounded from Lily's cellphone, grabbing both her and Juuzou's attention. The boy shot up and went over to her, his bloody hand picking up her cellphone. "Is it done? Can I eat?"

She snatched the phone back and stuffed it in the coat's pocket. "Yeah, let's get it out of the oven first."

She followed Juuzou to the kitchen, and took down a dingy white towel. The boy yanked the oven open and a sugary sweet smell hit her straight in the face. She knelt down and gripped the flat pan and shimmied it out carefully. The cookies were a golden brown, while the raisins were a plump dark purple. She set the pan on the counter and gingerly picked up a cookie between her fore and thumb finger and handed it to him. Her eyes widened when he picked it up casually and bit into it, ignoring how hot the cookie was.

"Juuzou!" She snatched it from him and flung the cookie on the tray. He just stared at her as she grabbed his hands and jerked the water on. Once it was running cold she shoved his hands into it, gently rubbing at the inflamed skin. His fingers didn't so much as flinch, it was just his usual stiffening reaction due to being touched. "You have to be careful when they're hot, you'll burn yourself if you don't."

"I don't feel pain," He said. "so it's okay."

She looked up from his hands and stared at his face. His eyes were their usual strange mixture of dead and alive, but his eyebrows were furrowed as if he was trying to understand something. Did he seriously not understand any basic human decency? Was he honestly confused why she would plunge his hands in water?

"Juuzou..."She shook her head and turned the water off and carefully took his hands in her own as she dried his hands. "Look, be more careful next time. I'm not going to be here to bail you out every time you hurt yourself."

"You sound like Shinohara-san."

"Then listen to what's coming out of my mouth." She let go of his hands and picked the now cool cookie up. "Here, it shouldn't burn you now."

He took the cookie and bit into it, his face lighting up. "Thanks, Ri-chan!"

"Yeah, you're welcome." She wondered back to the living room and brought her book and cards back onto her lap. Her mind once again doing its best to remember every detail as she studied for her test.