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"I'm sorry. My ears seem to have stopped providing their services for a few seconds. Cause I'm a what now...?"

"A ghoul, Naruto-san. You're a ghoul just like me."

"And would you just maybe, kindly umm hopefully explain... WHAT THE HELL DOES THAT SUPPOSE TO MEAN?"

"It means we're of the same species."

" Wha-?"

"Sigh... I find your stupidity mildly amusing."

"And I find your pretty little ass extremely annoying."

"EXCUSE ME? What did you-"

"In the name of the holy god Fartass SHUT UP WOMAN!"

Namikaze Naruto put away the kunai and sat at the chair just beside the hospital bed making a large sound. His eyes were closed and one of his hands rubbing his temple. Touka seemed to use the opportunity to take some deep breaths. For a few minutes this blissful silence reigned.

"Alright." Clearing his throat the blonde continued. "Explain, please."

Kirishima Touka was waiting for this exact moment as without saying another unnecessary word she started her lecture that was about to change the fate of the entire elemental nation unknown to the both of them.

"Humans are thought to be at the top of the food chain. It's not a ridiculous claim as we all know even while they're not the strongest, they make it up for it with lots of other advantages they have over other species. But that's not entirely true. While they've always been populated with numbers and technically reigning over these lands, there is another specie that was always meant to take the place of the humans. This specific specie's creation, I do not know when. But... The thing I do know is that we were always destined to rule over these lands. While we are not large in numbers, our strength and body system far surpasses the human beings. If their strength lay on numbers and weapons or this...chakra, our strength lay on our name. For we are ghouls!"

Naruto listened, mesmerized by the way Touka talked. She had such a magnificent amount of charisma which he honestly had never seen before. Even though a weak, frail girl she seemed, she radiated such a confident aura that was very intoxicating. The girl continued her speech seeing no interruptions came so far.

"Let me give you a brief explanation on what we are and what we can do. We ghouls are a carnivorous and cannibalistic species that are only able to feed on the flesh of humans and other ghouls. Our stomach was not meant to digest anything other than that. And as you've already guessed, we can also drink coffee and wat-"

Naruto's face turned green,"D-Did you just say I can never eat anything other than h-human meat?"

Touka smiled, "That's correct. Although, we usually don't need to eat more than one or two times in a month, some still feed on humans just for pleasure. And NO!" Seeing Naruto about to speak something she cut him off,"Trust me, once you get the taste of some nice juicy flesh you'll know what you had been missing."

Naruto uncomfortably moved his head to the other side. The lecture went on.

"As I've said before, our body is extremely sturdy and can take a good darn amount of hits. Provided you use the 'right tools' that is." Smirked the girl.

"Right tools?"

"Our body can not be harmed by mere weapons. It is completely useless against us. For example- Ah! It's better to just show you. Try to cut me with that, knife-y thing of yours." Touka pointed at his kunai.

The Namikaze uncomfortably came closer to the girl and with uncertainty tried to cut the girl's hand. To his great amazement it didn't do a thing! Gripping the handle tightly this time he applied a lot of pressure and tried to stab the hand but the result was same. The kunai refused to go further.

Touka looked up,"If I didn't know any better, I'd think you were trying to cut one of the arteries." At which the blonde remained silent.

Rolling her eyes the raven haired female spoke up,"Should I continue?"

"...yes."

"Let's talk about something more interesting. Kagune...is our greatest weapon, Naruto-San. When it is used a ghoul's physique is strengthened, they are more resilient and their mobility heightens. The kagune are voluntary muscles as we can control them however we want. For example- we can repeatedly harden and soften them at our will. While the size of a kagune depends on the Rc cell's quality and quantity, the shape actually depends on the CREATIVITY AND INTELLECT of the user... Are you coming up with me this far?" Touka asked noticing a confused look on Naruto's face.

"Ah..." The informations was hard to believe for Naruto which was very natural. After all, how often did you get to know one of the most confidential secrets and mysteries of the world from a teenage girl. "I get that this K-Kagune, right? Is very powerful and uh...it's the prime weapon for a ghoul but where is its location? And Rc cells? What is that?"

Touka calmly replied back seeming she was expecting this.

"Firstly, you don't need to know more about the description of Rc cells, at least for now. As for the location, well, there are 4 kinds of kagunes. They are respectively Ukaku, Koukaku, Rinkaku and finally Bikaku. They are located in four different places on our body starting from the shoulder area to the tail-bone/coccyx."

Touka stopped for a moment and drank some water from the jug. Clearing her throat she started again.

"Don't think that one of the kagunes are the most superior. Each of them has their own strengths and weaknesses. These are just the basics. I believe you don't need to know all the advanced stuffs right now. Does that satisfy you hunger for knowledge, Naruto-San?" Kirishima Touka asked in a sing-song tone.

Naruto ignoring the jab nodded in approval. All this...stuff might gonna take some time to be completely understood. But he couldn't help asking," So, a Ghoul can't be hurt be normal means but surely there are things which migh-"

Touka interrupted him and nodded,"Our healing ability is second to no one even if we are injured. So unless the injury is on a whole different level which means in a massive scale, you really don't need to worry about dying. And these kind of injuries can be performed using a kagune. Because a wound inflicted by a ghoul's kagune takes a lot of time to heal. So listen to me very closely Namikaze Naruto." Touka's voice was grim and she dropped all hints of playfulness i.e. calling the blond without an honorific. "No matter what happens, once injured in a battle take your sweet little time to recover or the . . I learned this the hard way so you can be damned sure that it's not a mere warning, is that understood?"

Naruto visibly gulped and nodded in affirmative. This girl could be scary when she wanted that's for sure.

"Brilliant." Touka grinned, suddenly her attitude taking a 180 degree turn. "Please give me my coffee and get the hell out of my room. I'm exhausted giving that huge lecture about our kind and you can bet your pretty little ass that I'm so severely hungry that if you don't disappear from my sight In the next ten seconds, I'm gonna make you my lunch."

"Sorry wha-?"

"Just get out."

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Let me be clear about one thing. While I've sure made this fic a cross-over by now, I'm certainly not gonna follow too much plot of Tokyo ghoul. It'll strictly be Naruto and Shippuden only! TG will have its moment but hopefully not much.

I decided to stop right here despite the chapter being quite brief. Cause digesting all the informations about ghouls, kagune, quinks etc in a SINGLE CHAPTER is definitely unhealthy and hard for both readers and the writer. So take your time and memorize a little bit at a time. I'm sure if I included the more advanced stuff like Rc cell, kakuja and such in this chapter you would have felt very bored and uninterested. So even while giving a lecture, I tried to use humor at its best. Do you think that's reasonable? Or in the future should this kind of situation arise I'm to finish a particular topic by making the chapter longer than usual...

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