Flowers From Hell
Piano Black
Summary for this chapter: Sometimes the within is piano black / Piano black over cleansing waters
Dont own them
Above lyrics are from Song of Myself by Nightwish
So tired that I cant think straight
Sry its so short
Working on next chap of DWD
Kaneki Ken dies in a building fire protecting a child.
Kirishima Touka is outside of the complex, watching in horror as the young man she has grown to adore wraps himself around a small boy and a burning support beam falls on them.
It cracks against his back. His spine is snapped.
The boy is unharmed.
Touka drags Ken from the wreckage into an alleyway, away from suspicion. Any normal human would have died too quickly to know what hit them, but Ken is a ghoul, and even though he will die, he will not do so quickly.
Fueguchi Hinami is standing beside them, her eyes wide in horror. Her invincible onii-chan is laying there, dying...
"I'll kill him," growls Touka, baring her teeth in a snarl, her kakugan activating. As she moves to get to her feet, however, Ken grabs her wrist, weakly, and rasps, "No..."
Touka tears her arm from Ken's brittle grasp and hisses, "Why the hell not? He killed you—he hurt you!"
Hinami's fingers lace into Touka's sleeve. "Onee-chan... Why would you hurt the one onii-chan protected?"
Touka flinches. Her whole world has been tainted by doing what she wants and and killing those who oppose. She has lost what selflessness she had, and all she can think is Why not?
"Touka-chan..." Touka glares back down at Ken's prone form, and her expression softens ever so slightly, one of fear rather than the steel edge of hatred that she always carries on her like a shield.
"Please."
He dies that way, pleading for the life of someone he doesn't know. Touka cries buckets, screams at him for his stupidity, wonders why it wasn't the kid.
Kaneki Ken is a half-ghoul. He dies with Kamishiro Rize in his soul and Kirishima Touka clutching his chest.
Kaneki Ken dies praying for the life of a stranger.
Kaneki Ken dies selflessly.
And Touka hates him for it.