DISCLAIMER: I do not own Tokyo Ghoul.

*WARNING! No explicit content today.

**Pardon OOC's (come on it's AU and I don't own them).

Scattershot98: Haha, yeah more about Kaneki. Subtle hints about what happened to him :D. Hmm, maybe when Kaneki will have actual flashbacks the girls will be visible. Yeeeeah Juuzou is so complicated that I can't tell if he likes them or not. Nashiro's death will be explained in Kurona's side of the story but a yes, compared the Juuzou in the present and the Juuzou in the past, he was not in control back then. Haha yes Amon has a tentacle girlfriend. She'll be around soon. Amon has this guilt I can't explain but I guess we'll see. Big Madam time!

detrametal: Thank you very much! Since the arc is about Juuzou, gotta show more about his improvement from a boy raised by tentacles to a boy taken care of by Shinohara. Arima is pretty hard to write haha but I prepared a backstory why he is as he is in this fic. Amon's girlfriend will appear once according to my drafts but she'll be introduced soon. And hehe, Kaneki is just very nice and his arc will come soon.

DarkFicAnimu: Hahaha yes she heard their conversation. Kaneki was too obvious in hiding Shinohara's presence xD. And yes I wanted Juuzou written that way so he can have a character development (hopefully). Lol Chigyou isn't a famous character either, but I'll need help from side characters to develop the major ones. Hehehe. Thanks again!

feedingfrenzy: I am happy you liked the twisted Juuzou yipee! And yep, she's ver shocked to the point that she wasn't excited much to enhance a quinque. Amon's girlfriend is around... she'll show up once in a flashback according to my drafts, but we'll see who she is soon! Ahahaha thank you. To be honest, Arima is very hard to write xD. And you're very welcome.

A/N: Finale on the next update then Aftermath.

TOKYO TENTACLE 08

[Abandoned Factory - 11th Ward, 2:15pm]

"Is backup coming?" Iwao Kuroiwa's member asked, his voice trembling in fear.

It's been almost twenty minutes since they called for backup. CCG Headquarters was located back at the 20th Ward and it was an unexpected cry for help. CCG was going to need more than 20 minutes to gather their troops and send them to 11th Ward.

Kuroiwa's team was wiped out almost immediately because of the trap that Big Madam had prepared for him and his team. Big Madam was a tentacle he underestimated. And now they are paying the price. They needed to hold the fort for as long as they could in order to survive.

"They're coming. They're coming.." he assured his comrade.

True CCG will send reinforcements but the question was how long it was going to take before their arrival.

&Shinohara: This is Yukinori Shinohara. Backup is on their way, four teams ready for battle.&

When Kuroiwa heard Shinohara's voice in the radio, he was able to breathe with ease. They're on their way and if they rush then they'll be here for another 20 to thirty minutes max.

&Shinohara: I repeat this is Shinohara. Backup is on their way, Investigator Kuroiwa and team please respond with your location.&

Kuroiwa takes the radio and responded with their location within the factory.

Hearing an explosion from the other side, after that it was nothing but noise. Shinohara cursed under his breath and passed the radio to Kaneki.

"Will they be okay?" Kaneki asked.

"No. We need to get there as fast as we can." Shinohara said to the driver of the car who floored the pedal to speed up. But what worries Shinohara other than Kuroiwa and his team's condition was Juuzou. "Juuzou..."

"It's okay. I will face Mama... and I will show her I've changed. I am no longer Rei. I am Investigator Suzuya Juuzou." Juuzou says with a smile and Shinohara was relieved to hear so.

It will be one one heck of a battle.

[Anteiku - 20th Ward, 2:26pm]

Touka was in her room, doing her homework on the floor. Hinami was also doing her own homework at the side. The two were grounded from leaving the promises until the heat has died down from the doves.

Since Touka goes to school like a human does, she had real homework to work with. Hinami on the other hand is reading her old books to learn how to read and write.

Touka kept Yomo and Irimi's relationship secret as she promised.

"Can we talk?"

When Hinami was fast asleep, Irimi nodded at Touka and closes the door behind her. Then Touka takes a deep breath before saying to Irimi her opinion about their relationship. The woman just listened until she finished.

...

"Well? What do you have to say?" Touka asked when Irimi didn't say a word after listening.

"Yomo is a complicated tentacle. But I learned to understand him." Irimi began. "He doesn't want anyone's help and will certainly not ask for any favors from others." Touka crossed her arms and nodded.

"Yes that's exactly him." she confirmed.

"Things between us developed when Manager sent us on a far scavenge in the 3rd Ward."

"That was years ago! So you've been keeping it for that long?!"

Irimi chuckled and motioned for Touka to keep her voice down a bit. "After we got back, it wasn't 'us'," she snapped her fingers, "like that. It... advanced a little later when Renji asked to talk to me in private, bringing up the events at the 3rd Ward that he forced me not to tell anyone about."

"He's secretive about what happened? What happened?" Touka asked out of curiosity.

"It's a story for another night." she teased. "But I can tell you that he confessed first, I turned him down and he didn't give up."

"Y- You turned my uncle down? That's harsh." Touka says but was surprised to hear about it. She never knew Yomo could be so... sweet? "I guess you really like him too since then huh?" then she paused. "Whoa wait, weren't you jealous when he and Hinami..!?"

"He apologized probably five minutes before you two arrived." Irimi says and Touka went red when she remembered what they witnessed.

"Please don't remind me!"

Being grounded also means no school for Touka. She'd be absent for a while so she'll need to study in advance. And do the activities so she has something to submit if she has to.

"Touka-neechan... what is school like?" Hinami asked all of the sudden.

"It's full of people." replied the teenager. Hinami didn't say anything else, Touka wondered what the random question was about and turned to Hinami and saw that she was writing what Touka said. "What are you doing?"

"I am trying to write a story." she answered happily.

"That's not what you're supposed to do." Touka mumbled, thank goodness Hinami didn't hear it.

"No but I can learn new words if I write. It helps me remember." Hinami says with a smile. "'School is full of people'. What else is at school?"

Touka just smiled and scoots next to Hinami. "There's also the gym and the cafeteria, top two of everyone's favorite hangout." she added and watched as Hinami tried to write everything she said. "Their least favorite subject is English."

"'...least favorite...'"

"English." Touka repeats and points at Hinami's writing. "No you write 'Ei' as in 'English' or 'brave'." Touka teaches and Hinami erases the character in the paper. "Then this isn't 'five', it should be 'go' like it's a language or a saying."

"How do I write that?" Hinami asked and Touka writes it on the side of her notebook.

"Like this." Touka says and Hinami beamed as she learned a new word. "There's a slight confusion with the real meaning of 'ei' but let's just say it means 'English'."

"Okay, thank you nee-chan!"

[Abandoned Factory - 11th Ward, 2:43pm]

As soon as CCG's reinforcement had arrived, there was a bloodbath within the factory. It had four floors all in all and the place was very big. Investigators have scattered per team and one of the teams include Shinohara's team that consists of Juuzou, Kaneki and two other investigators.

"Over here!" one of Kuroiwa's members called.

They were at the fourth floor when they found the remaining survivors of Kuroiwa's team. "How many?" Shinohara asked.

"Five. Including Investigator Kuroiwa."

"Where is he?"

The soldier leads them to their hideout where the wounded Kuroiwa was lying down. He had cloth wrapped all over his wounds but the cloth was already dyed in red. Shinohara motioned for the others to stay guard while he checks up on Kuroiwa.

"Hey." Shinohara greets and Kuroiwa coughed heavily. "We're getting you out of here old friend. We're not losing another friend."

"S..ave... my t..eam."

"Iwao-san..." Shinohara held on Kuroiwa's hand, gripping it tightly until Kuroiwa had breathe his last.

"Shinohara-san, we gotta move." Kaneki says when they heard the loud screams from the first floor. "Four more people to save."

Shinohara gently closed Kuroiwa's eyes and lay his old friend down on the floor carefully. He lost two good old friends for the past week. He will not lose anyone else in this fight. "Juuzou, get ready. We're getting out of here." he instructs.

"Aye aye sir!"

Juuzou turns to Shinohara who was walking outside, holding on his quinque when suddenly there was a crate that came crashing towards him, pushing him towards the railings. Immediately, the investigators within the area were alert.

"Shinohara-san!"

One by one the investigators had to dodge crates being thrown at them by a small woman with a fat body and her tentacles were no joke, they were also full of life. "It's Big Madam!" one of them screamed as a crate smashed on his face, pushing him over the railings to fall.

Hearing her name, Juuzou turned behind him to see Big Madam smiling as each of her tentacles were carrying crates that she threw towards the remaining investigators. "Mama..." he whispered.

"Everyone retreat!" Shinohara shouts and everyone scattered in all directions as the woman threw the crates at them.

Kaneki jumped to the side to dodge. He rolled over under the table, trying to calm himself down.

"SHINOHARA-SAN!" Juuzou ran towards Shinohara in an attempt to catch his hand but he missed Shinohara's hand by an inch. "NOOOO SHINOHARA-SAN!"

Big Madam's tentacles wrapped around Juuzou's hips and pulled him away, carrying him like a doll and ran from the scene. Kaneki jumped back to action and Big Madam slapped him with one tentacle. It was too strong that it almost felt like he was punched. "Suzuya-san!"

"Kaneki! Please take care of Shinohara-san!"

"I-"

"GO!"

"The blonde one!" he picked, pointing a finger towards the blonde kid.

"Alright my little Rei, go for it. Break her my little Dragon General." Big Madam encouraged and patted the boy in the head, a sign that she was permitting him a short moment of freedom while she gets busy.

Rei runs over to the girl, pretending that he'd sneak her out, the same lie he'd sell to his previous victims. Of course in desperation to escape the wretched place, everyone would fall for it almost immediately. No hesitation, just take his hand and wish for independence.

But all of them... all of them would end up...

"Won't you get in trouble for saving me?" the girl asked.

"No. Mama would never know if one is missing." again he lied. He said those words like it was the truth and the girl easily bought his lies. "Can we kiss?"

"What?"

"Like this." Rei pulled her by the hand as he leaned close to her lips. It touched shortly. "You feel anything?"

"My heart throbbed for a moment there." the girl said with a chuckle. "I thought you were going to-"

"-hurt you?" he finished for her. He's done this so many times that he knew already how it flows, what he had to do, what makes them tick. "No, I wouldn't. A kiss doesn't hurt. In fact, you'd enjoy it!"

"Then kiss me again!"

Amidst the battle, Marude was in a pinch with several other investigators with him.

"This was a trap!" he yelled. "They knew we were coming."

"Turns out Kuroiwa's team was bait..." Houji muttered.

"Darn it...!" Marude held on his quinque tightly, trying to figure a way out when he saw that he was having goosebumps in his hands. "This... it's that-!"

Chigyou appears in a frenzy, cross-slashing tentacles nearby and behind him were the last batch of reinforcements. Houji quickly joined the fight and ended any tentacle within the perimeter. Marude buffered for a minute before jumping into action.

"So you finally arrived." he tells Chigyou.

"Sorry, took a while to convince Mado to use her quinque."

"Mado?"

"She tagged along."

When Houji heard this, he grabbed Chigyou by his coat and asked, "Where is she?" Marude pulled their savior away from Houji and kept himself in between them before anyone gets hurt.

"Whoa easy there pal." Marude says.

"I lost her on the way here. She's fine, she's a grown investigator." Chigyou replied as he fixed his coat.

"That's not what I'm worried about."

"Rei! My little Dragon General, why are you resisting a kiss from Mama?!" Big Madam says as Juuzou rolled away from her, daggers in hands ready to strike.

"You hurt Mr. Shinohara!" he shouts.

Big Madam wouldn't care less who he was but she remembered he screamed that name once or twice back at the scene. "Ohh, what did they do to you? Should Mama teach you a lesson again for being a bad boy?"

"This isn't right! I don't want to corrupt humans anymore!"

"But you're my pet! You're supposed to follow my orders!" Big Madam declared and tried to approach her pet but Juuzou raised his daggers towards his Mama. Big Madam frowned. "I'm not liking this rebellion, Rei."

"I almost raped a colleague because of what you taught me! I like her but I respect her, Mama!"

"'Respect'?! That's a funny word. We don't treat humans with respect! We destroy them!" she tried corrupting his mind but Juuzou gritted his teeth. All along he grew thinking she was his Mama, but she wasn't even close to being one.

"I am human!"

He slashes at Big Madam, grazing her tentacles and Big Madam was enraged by this. Her little Rei never raised his blades at her and never dare to hurt her. Never. "Rei-"

"My name is not Rei anymore!" Juuzou shouts. "My name is Suzuya Juuzou!"

Dashing towards his Mama, Big Madam had no choice but to take on the offensive as well. With her three huge tentacles, she shielded herself from his blades and attempted to smack him as hard as she could.

"You're not human Rei, I raised you! You're my PET, you're MINE!"

She allowed his daggers to sink into her tentacles until he was forced to retreat and reload. He took another set of daggers from under his clothes, and growled. He knew he's never faced against his Mama before and he was afraid because when he was young he'd be punished whether or not there was a reason. She just enjoyed hurting him but enjoyed pleasuring herself with others.

He didn't understand what a parent was, until he met Shinohara.

"Did you really think they'd accept you again?! After all you've done?!" she continued to state. "All the lives you took?!"

She was now the one sending a barrage of attacks while Juuzou was in the defensive, daggers trying to block off the tentacles from harming him. "I did all that for you!"

"Exactly, for ME!" Big Madam surprised Juuzou with a punch directly from her fist. "Even if you're with the humans I know you've been secretly doing your job, taking females and corrupting them! Just the way I taught you. For the humans it's a crime to betray their own, they will execute you!"

"I already told Shinohara-san, he said he'd help me!"

Fighting back by slashing off the tip of one of her tentacles, Big Madam screamed in anguish and angrily slaps Juuzou in the face. "Because they want to use you! They don't really want you- you Rei. They need you to hunt because that's how I trained you to be!"

As Juuzou fell on his side, he thought about her words and realized that she was right. The reason he wasn't executed the day they picked him up from the den was because Arima said 'We could use him'. But he didn't care that time because he needed to survive and see his Mama again.

When he lost the will to fight, Big Madam knelt down, leaning close to him. "My dear Rei... no one can understand you but me. Your Mama."

"Mama..."

"That 'Shinohara-san' is their asset. They needed someone to get close to you the same way I tell you to get close to our victims." she continued to fill his head again with her lies. He cupped his cheek and his heart softened. "Dear Rei, please come home with Mama. Home, isn't that what you want?"

"I... I want to come home."

Kaneki was running down the stairs to go find Shinohara who fell on the first floor. But as he was running, he tripped and saw a set of prisoners in the second floor. All lined up just kneeling down and staring blankly at nothing.

All of them were dehydrated and forced to wear ragged clothing. Kaneki looked at their eyes that no longer had hope, their sorrowful aura... "Prisoners..." he tried pushing them to follow him but none of them moved. "Come on I'm getting you all out of here!" Trying to drag another prisoner, he fell back as the prisoner fell on the ground, not moving a muscle. "What is wrong with you people?!"

By the corner of his eye, he saw someone familiar.

He froze for a moment there but as he looked closer... "Takizawa-kun?"