DISCLAIMER: I do not own Tokyo Ghoul.
Scattershot98: It's okay :D. Hahaha I was finally able to read a couple of chapters earlier. It's been a fun read! I'll catch up to the present soon. Ahahahaha I am very sorry Ukina I swear one day you'll have a good ending xD. Ahahaha, yeah good thing for Eto. Lol, according to my drafts the two will not be able to be equally romantic towards each other. Ahahaha, Uta's got that right xD. Yeah, I was contemplating whether Jason will name himself or CCG will. I decided to go with Kureo doing the honors. Hahaha, yeeeah maybe it was a bit of victory on ENji's part. Jason is young back then yes. Ahahaha leaders are just really jerks. Ahahaha, yeah probably Enji will. Hehe, mystery will unravel soon. Thank you for your review!
DAYS GONE BY TOKYO 10
Anteiku Opening Arc - EP2
Enji was in his usual spot on the roof, hugging himself while a blanket was wrapped all over him. The snacks he snuck out from the fridge wasn't touched. He was staring at the dark sky, the peaceful Tokyo.
He could no longer hear the manager's voice below, which means that he was done with his speech and probably went to sleep.
"She had a choice..." he mumbled.
He hugged himself tightly. It was still a cold season so staying out at this time of the night was too cold for him. But it was his personal time, his personal space. It makes him feel better just being there.
"Enji."
Enji turned to his side and was surprised to have a red mask thrown towards him. His reflex was a little rusty but he got it in time before it hits his face. "What is this?" he mumbled and lifted the mask to see a Devil Ape mask. "A mask?"
Irimi sits beside him, giving him one of the boxes she was holding. "This is yours too."
Enji quickly placed the mask down and was eager to see what was the contents of the box. He didn't know he was excited to see it but Irimi could tell by the look of his face. "A... costume? It's the same as my white hoodie." he said as he pulled out the white hoodie from the box. "Is this a thank-you for saving you from that guy?"
"No that's a gift from that guy." she corrected him.
His pride resulted for him to drop the jacket back to the box. "I'm not taking any gifts from them." he says. "What did the manager tell you?"
"He patted me in the head and told me to 'go be a girl' then dismissed me." she said, annoyed at the statement but amused Enji, caushing him to laugh.
"So it's clean then!" Enji takes the jacket again, allowing the thick blanket to fall of his shoulders and wore the jacket over his white shirt. "Wow that guy knows my size. Or... did you take my measurements while I was asleep?"
"He just guessed, I don't know."
Enji then takes the mask and was enthusiastic as he wore it. "How do I look?"
"Like the primitive you are." she commented, making him chuckle.
"What did he give you? I bet he knows your size as well. Unless you gave it to him?" he teased, causing her to hit him in his arm. A little too hard. "HEY!"
"Gave me a mask, with clothes fit for the mask." she tells him with a bored expression but Enji wanted to see it.
He takes a peek at the box beside her and snatched it from her side to see the black mask and the coat. "Wow he knows how to dress you up." he continued to irk her with his comments. "Why won't you wear it? Let's sneak out tonight and see how well we can move with it?"
"I'm grounded." she reminded him, making him laugh.
"I'm kidding! Go get laid with the guy." he quickly revoked his orders and she grabbed his jacket, glaring at him. "Easy on the new jacket!"
"We are not together, I only need him to survive." she wanted to clarify.
Enji pushed her away and carefully fixed the folds of the jacket. "Easy for you to accept him, he seems to respect you. That girl... she literally invaded my privacy and everything personal about me."
"You're making it sound like if she didn't do that you would've asked her out too."
Enji chuckled. "Maybe." he took the mask off his face and stared at it. "I want to love someone and take care of them. I know as tentacles we live by pleasure but if there's someone I want to pleasure, it's the woman I love."
"Never knew you were a gentleman."
"Bug off!"
The two were later startled to hear something creak behind them. The two turned around to see that Yomo was walking towards them, he froze when the two stared at him in wonder. "Sorry, can I join?"
Enji smiled and pats the space on his left. "Sit here buddy."
Yomo sat down beside Enji and noticed the mask in his lap. "You... have a mask now?"
"Irimi's boyfriend made it for me. She also has one, look!"
"I told you he's not-"
"Fine, he's a sex buddy of some sort." Enji corrected himself, not wanting his jacket to be the victim of her claws again. "You have a mask too right? Do you want to join us?"
"On what?" Yomo asked, curious to know.
But Irimi didn't seem as excited. "I'm not doing that."
"Yes you are, I just un-grounded you." Enji reminds her.
"You have no right."
"I told you I'm the older brother."
"No you're not!"
'A gloating older brother and rotten younger sister... sounds like fun.'
"Okay, I'm in." Yomo says, wanting to be part of the fun. Enji and Irimi gasped at his sudden change of personality, causing them both to stare at him in wonder. "Whatever it is you are planning."
"What's with the sudden change of mind?"
"Well it's settled. We're all going out to test our new outfit!" Enji concluded the conversation. "The Raven, Devil Ape and Black Dober is out for the night!"
"Stop giving me nicknames." Yomo says but thinking about it, he actually didn't have a title the same way Uta and the others did. "And who named you guys?"
"It's a childhood memory." Enji says. "Now dress up!"
While Yomo and Irimi ran back to their rooms to change, Yoshimura exited the shop wearing his cloak and surprisingly, a mask in hand. Enji saw him wear that mask once when they were saved back in the 13th Ward.
"Manager!" he calls out.
Yoshimura looked up, surprised to see Enji wearing his new mask. "Enji, goodness, where did you get that?"
"A gift from the jerk." he answered and the manager got the idea. "Where are you going?"
"Perimeter check."
"Perimeter check? What is that?"
"Making sure the 20th Ward is a safe home for us." the manager replied simply. "Since you're ready, why won't you come with me? I'll show you around." he invited. Of course Enji wanted to but...
"What about Yomo and Irimi?"
"They can come another time. Someone needs to look after the shop."
"Then count me in!"
Raven and the Black Dober comes back on the rooftop seeing that Enji had left a note for them; Guard the shop, manager says so.
Yomo took his mask off, frowning. "Is he joking?"
"No." Irimi replied, crumpling the paper in her hand. "He probably left with the manager already."
[3rd Ward, 11:03pm]
"What are you doing? Stop following me!"
"Shh! Shh!"
The guy with yellow hair pulled the girl down and hushed her. Covering her mouth with his hand and he cocked his head forward. The girl slowly looked behind her, over the boulder, they see men in black were within the area.
All of them wearing white masks and black hats. All of them armed as well.
Out of fear, the girl quickly hid herself behind the boulder and kept herself quiet. When the guy knew she wouldn't make a noise anymore, he took his hand away.
"I'm getting you out of here." he whispered.
"How will you know the way out?"
"Do you trust me?"
Not knowing where to go or what to do, she nodded her head and the guy smiled. He takes her by the hand and leads her away from the men in black. Rain poured down and it would be a good cover for the tracks they left behind.
He led the girl towards the fence but she yanked her arm back.
"I can't climb the fence, we'll get caught." she says, afraid. The guy assumed she must've tried climbing it before.
"It's okay." he tells her softly and pointed at the small hole he dug under the fence. "Come on."
The girl followed him and he tells her to crawl through the small hole and she did, exiting on the other side of the fence. She was covered in mud thanks to that but it's okay. The guy followed after her and she waited for him to close the small hole, pushing the soil over to leave no marks.
"Help me." he says.
She dirtied her hands and they molded the wet soil together, closing the hole he made so the men in black won't have a clue.
"Okay, come on, follow me." he says as he got back up but the girl pulled his hand. "What is it?"
"Who are you?"
"My name is Naki. You and i are connected, that's how I found out who you are and where you are." he explained.
"What do you mean?"
"It's called 'two memories'. I'll explain on the way, we have to get out of here before they notice we're missing." Naki says. "Mayu, right?"
"Y- Yes."
"Mayu, trust me. I'm getting you out of here."
Mayu was afraid. She didn't know who he was or what he was talking about. But if he risked his life going passed the facility's fence and rescuing her, she knew she can put her faith in him.
She took his hand and the two ran together under the rain.
[Anteiku - 20th Ward]
Yomo and Irimi were waiting for Enji and the manager to come back. The shop was spic and span but they were extremely quiet. They were seated far from each other as well, wearing their normal clothes now.
When they heard a knock on the door, they raised to open it but Yomo was faster.
"Ah hello Renji."
SLAMS.
"Was it the manager?" she asked Yomo who grabbed her wrist and pulled her away from the door. "Hey!" she tried yanking her arm back but he did not let her go until they've reached the door to her room. "Hey what is your problem!? I'm going to join Enji and the manager when they get back!"
"It's Uta." he spilled and released her hand.
Irimi crossed her arms and stared at him. "So?"
"Enji strictly told me not to allow you two to interact." he says.
"You didn't strike me as the type to follow orders to someone you can literally kill with your tentacles."
"Well you didn't strike me to be a cheeky whore either." he retorted. "After all he's done, you're just going to jump to bed with him. Really? Or maybe it's just a dog's manners? Don't you care how worried the manager was?"
"The manager allowed it." she said and attempted to walk passed him but he blocked his arm so she couldn't go anywhere.
"The manager is being too soft on you because you're a rebel."
She swats his arm and pushed him to the side. "If I were a rebel, he'd be a little harsh with his treatment."
When she was about to walk to the stairs, Yomo spoke. "You know what, maybe I should just go ahead and tell you. The only reason why anyone would want you around is because you're an easily manipulated whore. Enji is just being nice but actually had secret motives, I can bet even the manager only has you around so he could toy with you."
Irimi stopped walking, clenching her fists.
"Of course you wouldn't notice that if you haven't noticed Uta is doing the same thing." he continued and she turned to face him with a glare, tentacle eyes activated.
"Regardless of their reason for wanting me around, at least they actually want me around. Unlike you...your team kicked you out, manager picked you up from trash to make use of you for the remaining of your pitiful life."
Silence.
Staredown.
Both their tentacle eyes were activated and their tentacles appearing from their backs, ready to attack. "I won't be mind-controlled the second time I will leave you to die." he says.
"Good, wouldn't want you to blame someone else for your failure."
CLASH.
[Unknown Location - 3rd Ward]
Naki was waiting for Mayu to finish showering by the lake. His suit was stained by the mud but he could always wash it another day.
"Naki.."
When he heard her voice, he looked up at her and sees that the clothes he stole for her fit just right. That pink dress was okay. He blushed and quickly turned his attention somewhere else. "It looks good on you."
Mayu sat beside him, registering the quietness around them before she spoke. "Thank you. For everything."
"It was nothing."
"About what you said... two memories. What is it about? How do you know of it?"
Naki took a deep breath. "Just like you, I was in the facility. Same building but they never allowed us to meet." he says. "They'd torture me for months and bring me to different sorts of situations everyday. They were studying how I'd react to it. the simulations change everyday. sometimes it's about pleasure, sometimes pain, physical or emotional."
"They do the same thing to me." Mayu confirmed.
"In my time alone, whenever they'd give me a break, I'd fall asleep to rest. And then my nightmares would come." he continued. "But as I observed these nightmares, I noticed it changes as well. Sure it's still about me suffering and such but I saw my hands were smaller like it belonged to a woman's. And the person torturing me wasn't a woman anymore, it was a man."
"Mine was a man, but in my dreams it was a woman." Mayu shared in contrast of what Naki was saying.
Naki chuckled. "Exactly. It was because, for some reason, the nightmares I have is your memories. And the nightmares you have are my memories." he finally tells her and she gasped.
"How is that possible?"
"I don't know. But when I realized the person in my nightmare was an actual person, I needed to save you. You and big brother that is."
"I wished to be saved too. Me and my friends, Mori-kun and Mi-chan... we've been dreaming to escape but they left me. They didn't have a choice, I don't know. But I believe they didn't intend to leave me."
Mayu forced a smile, wanting to believe on what she was saying.
"What are they doing to us anyway?" she asked.
He shrugged, unsure of it himself. "Probably creating some sort of mentally broken person to follow their bidding without having to trouble themselves with evidences leading back to them. I saw the others who also had partners, part of the project. One of them would lose it and will be bound in some sort of mission until he's dead. The remaining one would later lose it as well and continue the mission of the first one."
"Because they share memories?"
"I think so. But I'm glad I did not break down." Naki said with a grin. "I wouldn't want you to end up being a psychopath doing the killing for this wretched facility."
Mayu blushed and turned away. "Thank you."
"We should get some sleep. We need to cover more ground before the men in black catches us."
[Anteiku - 20th Ward]
The manager comes home, seeing that the wine shelf had fallen, the wine bottles shattered and the wine itself spilled on the floor.
He glared at the two who froze when he entered the shop.
"You. Two. Are. Grounded."