Now I know most of y'all must be confused about Kumiko, don't worry her story will be revealed slowly. MU HA HA HA! Ahem. I'm not crazy, I promise. "But crazy people don't know they're crazy Cliffhanger." Who said that? *laughs nervously and puts in headphones*
Shoutouts!
Crosswald! I'm sorry but that feels repetitive to me again! I'm sorry I'm really picky lol. But appreciate the effort.
I like the two last names ale.121 suggest so I think Imma call him Kaminari Ryuu. How's that ale.121? I hope y'all like his new (third) name. I'm going with this because it doesn't have the same two first letters and it just sounds good. I hope y'all approve!
WARNING! WARNING!
WARNING! THIS STORY DOES HAVE MAJOR VIOLENCE AND FOUL LANGUAGE! READ AT YOUR OWN DISCRETION!
WARNING! WARNING!
She leaned her head back sighing she smiled, this feeling very alien to her. "How about…"
"How about Kaminari Ryuu?" She asked, playing with his hair cutely.
He leaned back to look her in the eyes, "Sounds good to me." He smiled at her, his eyes held a twinkle for a few seconds before it faded along with his smile. "Do you hear that?" He asked her, turning to look out the corner of his eye at the busted window in the small bedroom.
"Hear what?" Sen asked, too caught up in the beauty of his eyes.
"Someone's outside." The newly named Ryuu stepped towards the window slowly, broken glass crunched quietly under his feet.
A shuffling sound came from outside and Ryuu burst through the boarded window into the small yard outside. He spun around, kicking his leg up and caught the eavesdropper in the face, knocking them to the ground. He stood above the person, obviously female and glared down ominously. Sen leaned on the window sill and looked down. Her anger rose when she noticed it was another female this close to her Ryuu. Her Ryuu? What? She glared down at the women as well.
"Kumiko?" Ryuu's questioned the women on the ground.
"Chimera, I knew you were here, I could smell you." She smiled up at him.
"What the hell are you talking about?" He extended a hand and helped her stand.
"Yea, who the fuck are you?" Sen asked, jealous that they knew each other.
"Ah, I am Kumiko Fujimoto." She smiled at the other women. "Nice to meet you."
"How do you know Ryuu?" Sen asked angrily.
"Ryuu?" Kumiko turned to him. "Oh he and I go way back. Isn't that right 'Ryuu'?" She teased.
He took a few steps back, trying to escape. He didn't know how Kumiko had found him or what she was doing here but he didn't want to find out. "Uh… Yea we first met when my foster mom.. uh died and well she was only eighteen when I was fifteen. That was five years ago…" He explained nervously, taking another step back. He shot Sen a look and mouthed 'We need to go!' She looked at him confused but completely agreed with him. She did not like this new women who had known Ryuu longer than she. This woman would have to die!
"Wait," Ryuu stopped trying to escape. "Why are you here?" He asked Kumiko.
Her smile turned devilish, "You stink of our own kind 'Ryuu'. You smell just like a cannibal, which I suppose makes sense, you were raised on ghouls to kill ghouls. But the humans were fools if they thought they could keep you under control. That's why I was so eager to take over and help turn you into the monster you are." She smirked evilly at him. "How much have you told her 'Ryuu'?"
Sen laughed, "I already know he was raised by the CCG to kill other ghouls. That's why I find him interesting you bitch. She cursed at Kumiko who spun around with a dangerous look in her eyes.
"What did you just call me?" Rage was evident in her voice.
Ryuu watched the scene, he was not going to get involved in this female quarrel. Mostly because he didn't seem a reason to; Sen gave off a much more powerful feel than her appearance would let on. He knew this battle wouldn't last long.
Suddenly Sen was on his arm, wrapping her own around his tightly. "He's mine slut." She taunted Kumiko.
Her eyes grew into slits and a kagune claw extended from her upper back in the shape of a grabbing hand. The hand like kagune flew towards Sen who shot into the air, releasing Ryuu's arm. The two females engaged in combat. Sen, who did not show her kagune, preferred to dodge and outmaneuver Kumiko's attacked. Sen landed several kicks and punches on Kumiko, who couldn't keep up with the faster girl. Kumiko backed off, breathing heavily, obviously not used to prolonged combat. Sen simply stood in front of Ryuu, not showing any sign of exhaustion.
"Just who do you think you are?" Kumiko shouted. "That ghoul is property of organization V and you will hand him over to me immediately."
'Organization V?' Ryuu thought, the name not ringing a bell.
"You little bitch." Sen ground her teeth together.
Kumiko fell to her knee as something began to wrap itself around her. Ryuu looked past Sen's shoulder and saw what appeared to be form of detached kagune. The thing seemed to move on it's own and slowly imprison Kumiko in itself.
She struggled against the self forming prison, trying desperately to escape. But it was too late she was already trapped.
"Gah! What is this?" She growled.
Sen looked up, a single kakugan could be seen from her right eye. "Detached kagune. Sorry Miss, but Ryuu and I are leaving." She took his hand and pulled him away.
"You can't be seriously leaving me her Chimera." Kumiko pleaded, using the name the CCG assigned him.
He looked up, Sen could still see nothing in his eyes. He had no emotion, something that intrigued her. How could someone have no emotion and yet still find the drive to do things? She felt hand slip from hers as he turned and walked to stand in front of the other woman. Jealousy panged at her heartstrings. But why?
"My name is Haminari Ryuu now." His voice sound cold, like steel. "And no, I won't leave you here." He faked a smile and it was not lost on Kumiko.
"What's organization V?" His voice had no emotion behind it other than the simple question.
Kumiko scoffed at him, "You're cute when you try to hide your feelings Ryuu." She smiled flirtatiously at him.
His stare didn't falter and she pulled away as much she could, "Oh, you're not hiding them are you?" She toyed with him. "You know what happened to your parent's, don't you? Let me explain it: Your father and mother were two outrageously dangerous ghouls who fell in love. Your father was a member of V but he defected when he met your mother. But he was too good for the organization to lose so they tried to persuade him to join again. He refused, apparently because he's wife was pregnant with you." She recited the words like she had studied them. "A few months later you were born and the returned, they threatened to kill both his wife and newly born child if he did not join and he refused again. V's leaders were outraged and CCG investigators were sent to kill your parents." She frowned, noticing she still hadn't seemed to faze him.
Sen watched from the sidelines, relating his life to her own. It was strange, they were so similar to each other, yet he was a hybrid of two ghouls and she was a hybrid of a ghoul and human. It felt like they could connect on this similar past though. And no doubt he would support her in her goals.
"You were taken under the organization's orders back to a secret facility and raised to kill ghouls that threatened the 'balance'. Which meant you were put up against ghouls much stronger than yourself, and the whole time raised in the dark. I was going to eventually get you out and reveal who you were truly working for but then you decided to go and run away! You were supposed destroy Aogiri! Not join them!" She screamed.
Finally emotion broke onto Ryuu's face, but it wasn't what either women had expected. They both thought he'd be either crushed or angered by the news. But neither were the case as the man simply smiled, a genuine smiled that had them both flustered. He ran his fingers down Kumiko's cheek but snuck a peek at Sen who was angry until she noticed his eyes and she nodded. Kumiko had leaned into Ryuu's hand and closed her eyes.
"Ahh, 'Ryuu' I knew you wouldn't-" A painful sensation exploded in her chest as she was launched into the air, and ripped from Sen's kagune trap.
A thick rinkaku tail was growing out of her chest, blood had splattered all over her body and the pain of the still moving, large kagune in her chest flooded her thoughts.
"You are nothing more a pathetic whore Kumiko." Ryuu's words ripped into her deeper than his kagune. "You joined V by flirting your way in, no doubt in an attempts to gain power and good standing so they wouldn't kill you off. Then accepted the task to help me because you thought I would fall for you and you could become even safer and more protected. While still fucking your way to the top of V. I could smell it on you everyday you came in to work. The strong smell of sexual acts, you reeked of it." His words cut her deep, forcing a tear. "You call yourself the Vampire because you drain your victims dry from their carotid artery." Her sad face turned to one of shock. "That's right," Ryuu smirked. "I know, I always knew you were a ghoul. I didn't know why or how you were helping me though. Now it all makes sense. Too bad that it's too late now. You really were, quite pretty." His smiled dropped and his singular, thick kagune split into separate tentacles and ripped her apart.
With her last breath she cried out, "I love y-" Her body fell to pieces in the dead grass.
Ryuu turned to Sen, "Hello, Owl."
Her expression went from one of smug to that of shock. "How did you…?" She trailed off.
He smiled at her, "I knew the whole time. Aogiri is under the control of the Owl and since everyone listens to you and does what you say it was obvious who you were. So fess up and tell me your real name."
She smirked, amused by his confidence. "Eto. My name is Eto."
He matched her smirk and she felt her cheeks heating up. "Nice to officially meet you Eto. Now come on, I promised you a whole day. And seeing as that little investigation only lasted about two hours I say we go get lunch." He extended a hand for her to hold. "Would you like to accompany me Miss Takatsuki?"
She giggled childishly and took his hand, "Sounds lovely!" She exclaimed and they walked down the road hand-in-hand.
Eto and Ryuu sat together in a booth of a small coffee shop. Several customers had come over and asked her if she would sign copies of the books she had written. Which she did, always apologizing to Ryuu afterwards. He simply smiled at her and watched, sipping his coffee. She turned to him as the last person left smiling.
"It's seems there is something other than torture and murder that brings you joy." He teased her playfully.
She smiled dangerously at him, "Keep talking like that and you'll see how much joy torture actually brings me." She joked back.
"You wouldn't kill me. As I recall it was you who was clinging onto my arm claiming me 'yours' earlier." He laughed, pressing two fingers to his lips.
She blushed, not used to these emotions. "Yea well I-"
He cut her off with the same two finger against her lips and she blushed darker. He simply smirked and pulled his fingers away slowly. She looked down in an attempt to hide her face. He rubbed the back of his neck sheepishly, smirking at her embarrassment.
It was odd, neither of them were used to these feelings. Ryuu having grown up in captivity as a slave to organization V while he thought he was CCG's pet. While Eto had grown up in the twenty-fourth ward, having to fight to survive. Neither had a good life or the proper bringing up. Never having friends nor family that they knew. Eto had Noroi/Noro who helped raise her while Ryuu had the two operatives in charge of training him and punishing him if need be. Neither of them knew how to express feelings other than hunger, anger, and loneliness. Eto did have her personality of Takatsuki Sen and was a writer who had human interaction while Ryuu had only the slight bit of freedom in the past two weeks. He was only a year older than she was, him being twenty-five, her being twenty-four. Yet these too adults didn't even know what feelings was enveloping them. So they both shook it off and turned to each other.
"We should get back to base, we'll need to make plans, not only based on what we learned today but a few other things I have in store. Will you stand by my side no matter what, even if you do not agree with my ideals?" Eto asked Ryuu.
He nodded, "I will. But I can assure you I won't have too many problems with what you've got up your sleeve." Her smile grew sinister and they got up to leave.
Keeliro Doshi had just gotten out of the hospital. His bones had healed up and scars were what was left of the wounds inflicted upon him by the Cannibal. He carried both metal briefcases, one in each hand. The quinque weapons hand been by his hospital bed when he had awoken, returned to their briefcase style. Only one thing had been on his mind since that night and that was why the ghoul let him live? Was it so he could feel the guilt of failing his entire squad? Or perhaps because the ghoul simply didn't care enough to kill him? If the ladder then why kill the others and why bring him to a hospital. None of it made any sense. Cannibal or not that ghoul should have either killed him or left him dead. Yet here he was, back at the CCG's main office, still breathing while all his companions were dead: ghouls had eaten the remains the Cannibal had left behind.
Doshi gritted his teeth angrily, he wasn't going to let that monster get away with anymore murders, be it against a ghoul or a human. 'He said '...my parents…' What did he mean by that?' Doshi wondered. Where the two weapons Hiro wielded against the ghoul make from both the ghoul's parent's. It was sick if you thought about it like that: Parent's being forced to fight their own child. Doshi shook his head, that wouldn't shake his resolve. He needed to get stronger and to push himself everyday. He was going to defeat the Cannibal.
He sat in his desk, setting down both briefcases, another ghoul had reportedly been murdered today in the thirteenth ward. 'No shocker there.' Doshi sighed and looked at the report. It was a female who had been ripped to pieces. Her arms and legs were strewn across the side of the road nearby an old abandoned house. Her head had rolled down the street and apparently startled two young children who went home crying. The kids' parents were the ones who called in. And another eyewitness said to have seen three young adults: two female and one male, talking outside the house. When the old man looked back about thirty minutes later there was one woman's body scattered along the sidewalk. The other man and woman long gone.
All this was raising red flags for Doshi. Not only did the story not make sense but neither did the outcome nor the victim, who had been identified as the Vampire. A ghoul who would kill her victims by drinking their blood from the artery in their neck. Doshi shook his head, his mind immediately blaming the Cannibal for the attack. If it was him why hadn't he eaten her, and who was the other woman with him? Goshi sighed exasperated. And grabbed tucks of his hair thinking hard.
Ever since the Aogiri had interrupted a near capture of the Cannibal nothing had been heard of either had been heard of since. It had been four days now, normally the Cannibal would've killed another ghoul for food or something but there had been nothing! And better yet Aogiri had gotten involved and had most likely taken him under their wing.
"That's just great!" Doshi muttered to himself. "The Cannibal works for Aogiri now!" He slammed his fist down on his desk in anger and frustration.
There was no way for sure for him to tell if he was right unless Aogiri made a move and the Cannibal was apart of it. He gnawed on his lip thinking. Would it make sense for a ghoul who cannibalizes his own kind to work for a group of ghouls who was trying to take over Tokyo? It might if he owed them some sort of gratitude, like if Aogiri had saved his life.
That was it! The night Aogiri had interfered with the capture of the Cannibal the report stated that a bullet and blood trail were found on the scene. The bullet was brought in and blood tests were done and two types of Rc cells were discovered in the blood. This information was given to him by Dr. Watanabe earlier this morning. Since he and Doshi were the only two still alive on the case. The bullet with both the Cannibal's blood and Rc type found on the bullet that meant he was injured that night and Aogiri rescued him. So he could be working for them now. And if today's attack was him perhaps the other woman he was with was another member of Aogiri, testing him. Doshi nodded to himself and began to get his theory down on paper.
"Investigator Dohsi." A voice called him.
He turned in his chair to see Dr. Watanabe standing there. "Oh hello doctor. Anything new?"
The doctor shook his head, "We've been trying to keep this whole matter under wraps for a long time Doshi. That monster has been eating his own kind for years. The very first case I was assigned was one for the Cannibal. And not until recently had only targeted ghouls so the CCG never acted upon it. We thought he might have been trying to strengthen himself to face the CCG but after years of ghoul on ghoul crime and no attacks led back to him we dropped the case. I've been monitoring him the entire time though Doshi. It is my life's work to make sure he doesn't cause trouble to the people living in Tokyo and I failed. I got a report of an attacked civilian and i traced it back to him. That's why your squad was called in. Unfortunately he has grown too powerful. Being both a chimera and a cannibal. His Rc levels are extraordinarily high even for a ghoul. I'm not sure if he is a kakuja or can become one though. He's never been sighted at one. How did facing him in battle feel? What was it like?"
Doshi looked at the doctor, taking in everything he said and paused a few seconds, thinking back to the fight he had with the Cannibal ghoul. "I wouldn't really call it a fight. He slaughtered Investigator Hiro before we even got there. And the other damage I was able to inflict was a slash on his upper arm, it healed up so fast he didn't even realize I had landed a hit. He sent large scythe like blades into my shoulders, he grazed me along the cheek, leg and side. I didn't stand a chance against him. And none of the others even touched him. Hiro was dead when we got there and the bastard hadn't even broken a sweat! He's more dangerous than you could imagine Dr. Watanabe. There's no doubt in my mind he's an SS rated ghoul." Doshi explained in detail.
"Hmm, I see." Watanabe rubbed his chin. "I'm afraid you're wrong Doshi, he's easily an SSS rated ghoul. In my records of him he's eaten SS rated ghouls from breakfast, literally. And that was ten years ago back when he was considerably younger. Based on records, appearance, and blood health he seems to be in his mid-twenties now. Which means he was at least fifteen killing and eating SS rated ghouls. The CCG might want to update his rating." And with that Watanabe walked off down the the row of cubicles.
Doshi's eyes followed him for a few seconds before turning back to his work. 'An SSS rated ghoul? That means there's two of them! And if I'm right, they're both apart of Aogiri!'