Tokyo Ghoul: The Other Path

Plot: Set three years after Tokyo Ghoul, Kaneki, Hide and Hinami have been living for three years in a small town without any trouble with ghouls or the CCG until four mysterious students are enrolled in Kaneki's class and not only that there are rumours of a Ghoul auction… (Small ToukaxKaneki but nothing that takes over the plot).

Note: This is the sequel to my other Tokyo Ghoul Fanfic, Untold Tale but you don't need to read it to understand this fanfic.

Also this fanfic is kinda based of a request from a guest, Faith. I was going to do a fanfic like this anyway but I'm going put the name there because it encouraged me to start writing this fanfic.

Chapter 1: New

The constant clicking noise was getting louder and louder in his ear, closer and closer…His hands were tied tightly behind his back, his legs chained to the legs of a chair, a blindfold covered his eyes, he had no hope of escaping the room or the agitating little noise of the centipedes tiny legs hitting against the walls of his ear begging for freedom. His breaths were laboured, he tried not to scream in pain or fear to give his torturer the satisfaction. It was maddening. It was dirty. It was painful but his torturer thought it wasn't enough now he felt the painful twist on his toes as the pillars brock in to his bone and twisted as the toe fell off then only to grow back again, a feeling he had grown too familiar with.

But there was no screams, only crazed laughter, his torturers laugher and his own as he felt the madness swell inside him, so why did his throat feel so sour? There was a sudden jerk, a bright flash of light that only lasted for a second and then comforting darkness.

Kaneki felt himself shot up, out of his restrains, his arms and legs were free and the only thing he could feel on his skin was the warm comfort of a mattress under him and a large duvet over him. The pain in his ear and toes where now gone expect the rawness in his throat as if he had been screaming, which he probably had…

He felt as if his heart would lunge out of his chest, his breath coming out his deep gulps, his skin and hair were drenched in sweat and his face was covered in tears. It's a good job that he doesn't wear a t-shirt to bed anymore or he would probably feel dirtier than he already did.

He pushed his black fringe away from his eyes and face as he tried to get his breath back into his body and slow down his hammering heartbeat. The scenes of the nightmare played on his head like a broken tape recorder, he tried to push them back into the darkest corners of his mind but he could still hear the distant memory of the centipede's legs clicking in his ear. Like every night when this happened he rubbed his ear to scratch out the noise, to remind himself that nothing was in there, he had to wiggle his toes to see if they were still intact just to ensure that it was all a bad dream.

A long forgotten memory that gets out of control sometimes.

Suddenly he felt a comforting light knock on his door he turned towards the noise, he had cover his eyes though when the door opened and a dim yellow light of the hall shone through his darkened room and a figure stood there with a worried smile on his face and glass of cool water in his hands.

"You had a bad one tonight didn't you" The figure said, he stepped into the room and shut the door bringing back the welcoming darkness. Kaneki could now look at the figure of a man about his age with orange blond hair and king chocolate coloured eyes, he wore PJ's hanging loosely over his body.

"Yeah" Kaneki mumbled as he took the glass of water into his shaky hands and took a sip. "It was the most realistic I've had for a while" That was true, the pain he felt in the dream felt the same as it did back all those years ago. Whoever said that you couldn't feel anything in dreams had obviously not met Ken Kaneki, he watched the figure of his best friend sat down on the bed next to him and place a comforting hand on his leg.

"Hide" Kaneki addressed the figure "I thought the dreams where finally fading away, why have they come back now?"

"Well I'm not a physiologist" The Hide with a hint of sarcasm and humour in his voice "But what you went though is not an easy thing to get to over, honesty if it were anyone else they would be ten times insane than you!" Hide gave a little chuckle and Kaneki couldn't help but smile, Hide always seemed to know the right thing to say in these situations, how to make Kaneki smile and how to make the bad dreams disappear.

"But in all seriousness" Kaneki said as he took a gulp of the ice cold water, grateful as it watered down the dryness of his throat. "It's been three years since that incident and still it hunts my sleep, sometimes when I feel like it's going to fade way it come back at me just as strong and real than before…" He watched as his hands shook, tightly gripping the glass, will this anxiety ever disappear? He thought, no matter how strong he had gotten or how strong he was going to be will he ever get over his memories?

Suddenly two warm hands folded on top of his. Hide's face was now closer to his their foreheads where almost toughing. They would of never have done this three years ago but lately Kaneki had come to accept comfort and a human touch if he was ever going to keep hold of his sanity.

"It's going to take time" Hide said softly as he could "just be patient, you can't rush these things"

Kaneki nodded in agreement then turned to his digital clock that sat on his nightstand, it almost half four in the morning, he need to be at the college by eight and get ready for his class. He remembered his supervisor telling him that he had four new students coming into his class who came all the way from Tokyo, he need to be fresh and ready to welcome them but he didn't think he could sleep at the moment.

"I'm going to make some coffee, you should go back to bed" Kaneki said as but his glass down on his nightstand and swung his legs over the side of bed, Hide got up from his seating position as he watch Kaneki get up a move towards his wardrobe to find a shirt.

"You sure Kaneki?" Hide said "You have a class to teach tomorrow and you don't want to look tired in front of your students".

"I'll be fine" Kaneki smiled as he pulled his shirt over his head "I'm a ghoul remember, you however need your beauty sleep if you're going to impress the woman with your Sherlock Holmes skills"

"Hey!" Hide cried out "I'm only a trainee detective I'm nowhere near as good as that fictional character yet!"

"Whatever say Hide…" Kaneki sighed as he moved out of his bed room into the dim light of hall, he quietly tiptoed passed Hinami's room and down the stairs to the kitchen.

As he made himself his cup of coffee he wondered what awaited him today….

Xxx

At half seven Kaneki was dressed and ready for work, he checked his folders and bag ensuring that he had everything, Hinami was just finishing off her morning coffee and Hide was finishing of the last scraps of his breakfast.

This was a practically normal morning for the trio, later Kaneki and Hinami would walk to the collage and Hide would drive to the police station where he worked they won't join up together until the evening where they would do work, hang out or watch a movie then after that they would go bed then start the day all over again. It was a relaxed and treasured routine for them, it something that the trio never thought they would have again and they didn't take it for granted.

"Are you ready Hinami-chan?" Kaneki called out as he put his shoes on ready to leave the house,

"Coming Onii-chan!" Hinami called, she quickly put her mug in the sink to wash later and swung her college bad over her shoulder and ran to the door and quickly slipped her shoes on as her brother waited.

"Good luck with your new students today Kaneki!" Hide called out from the kitchen, he didn't have to be in work till later "And you to Hinami, do your best on that art exam!"

"Thank you Hide-onii!" Hinami called smiling and the two brother and sister left the house together and made the ten to fifteen minute walk to the college, times like this they would chat on the way…

"So onii-chan" Hinami said starting up the conversation as they strolled past the normal look houses with it's neat little gardens, the town they lived in now was a quiet and modern looking place with western looking houses, it had a church, a temple, a school, a collage and a small shopping centre and supermarket, they also had market days. It was quite a nice place and it seemed that Kaneki and Hinami were the only ghouls in the town, not that anyone knew that of course they didn't even know that Kaneki was his real name.

"What is it Hinami-chan" Kaneki asked smiling,

"I was wondering if knew the names of new students starting your class" Hinami said "I mean they starting a little late aren't they? The new school term starts in April yet its mid-June?"

"They are only a two months late" Kaneki said with a slight chuckle in his voice "Don't worry I will catch them up, with me as their teacher they will be a head of everyone else soon enough!" Of course that was only self-wishing, Kaneki had only been a qualified teacher since May and had only started working in the collage since April but he had to keep optimistic! He found that techniques like joking, puns and being an optimist helped when he wanted to look like he was ok and not having nightmares or having dark thoughts, sometimes he even fooled himself.

"I'm sure you will onii-chan" Hinami said with a big smile on her face "I wish I doing literature so I can be in your class and see how good you are!"

"I wouldn't say I was good…" Kaneki said rubbing the side of chin in nervous habit,

"Of course you are!" Hinami said "I've told you that my friends in your class think you're best teacher in that collage and you explain things really well, I'm off Wednesday so do you think I could sit in on your class and observe"

"Really Hinami?" Kaneki sighed "Girls like you should be studding or going out their friends on days off but I don't mind…."

"Thank you onii-ch…"

"But on condition!" Kaneki interrupted as he up his hand up to Hinami's face before she could thank him anymore "You must try you're hardest in that exam today, I want to hear that it went well promise me?" Kaneki tried to keep his expression serious but he couldn't help the slight smile on his face.

"Sure thing" Hinami said give her brother a mock salute they carried on walking for a while until they came sight of the college, although they were a little early there were still cars parked outside and a few people in the building. Hinami and Kaneki waved goodbye and went into their separate ways to class, they wouldn't see each other until lunch time.

Xxx

"Oh you're the four new students" The receptionist said as she flicked though the four young adults files, then she handed the four students a time table each,

"You're first subject is with your main course leader" She said to the students as they read though their timetable expect the blue haired chubby girl who seemed to concerned on her bag of cookie's to notice "He will be waiting for you at room 3.023, just go up the lift to the third floor, don't keep him waiting!" And the cheery receptionist waved the four off as they nodded there thanks to her, then the group set off passed other students and teachers going about their business and headed for the lift.

"Its they nice here" the smaller boy in the group said, he had short dark green hair cut into a bob, green eyes and tanned skin, he walked behind along the cookie eating girl who just nodded in agreement.

"Well it is a new college Mutsuki, what do you expect!" The orange haired boy said who was second in front, he was grinning wildly showing off his pointed shark like teeth that people passing by had to double take, those teeth weren't normal.

"We are not here to enjoy the scenery Shirazu" The young man in lead said, this one had short purple hair and a serious look on his face, this was defiantly the group's leader because they all went quite when he spoke "We are here on a mission so let not get distracted…"

They got inside the lift and pressed the button '3' on the panel, the lift shook a little as it went up to the third floor, the doors slid opened and the group stepped out of lift and turned the corner where doors the class rooms ran along the wall. The green haired boy whose name seemed to be Mutsuki pulled out the timetable from his pocket.

"Room 3.023…" He said looking around sudden taking the lead and walked on as she read the number plates on the side of each door "room 3.017, 3.018, 3.019…" he mumbled and the group followed until they came to Room 3.023.

"Do you think the teacher in there is the guy we are looking for Urie?" The orange haired guy, Shirazu asked quietly as the group stared at the door feeling anxious, if what the CCG said was true then one of the most dangerous ghoul in existence could be behind that door.

"Well he better be" The purple haired man, Urie said "Or would be taking these boring lessons for nothing" Then before any of them could react the leader opened the door with ease and walked into the room with an air of confidence around him, ready to show this teacher who's he's dealing with but he needn't have bothered because there was nobody in the room…

"So much for your big entrance Urie!" Shirazu laughed as he took in the layout of the class room, it was basically you everyday collage lecture room with rows of wooden desks going up from the back and at the front an open space and an interactive white board where the teacher would of course…teach.

"So this is our Japanese literature class room?" Shirazu said his smile fading from his face "looks boring, it's not much different to the class rooms back at the academy…"

"But that's a good thing isn't it?" Mutsuki said smiling looking at the rows of desks as if he was deciding where he was going to sit. "What do you think Saiko?" He asked the pigtailed girl at the back, she was looking at her bag of cookies with a sad look on her face, it seemed that the bag was finished finally she did look up to the group.

"It's empty…" She said but the group weren't sure if she was talking about the class room or the bag of cookies so they just left it at that.

One of the group must have shut the door because it was suddenly pushed open and the whole group turned to face a young man who was probably about twenty-two or twenty-three, he was of average height and was wearing a black shirt and pants showed off his thin but healthy build. He had pitch black hair cut short around the sides but had a long fringe almost covering his right eye showing off his left silver grey eye and if this was person the group thought he was then the left eye is where jis Kakugan would be…

"Hello you must be the new students" He said and big welcoming smile formed on his face and had a hot mug of coffee in his hands. If the four were normal students they would have felt at ease right away in the man's presence expect they weren't normal students and they knew this guy wasn't a normal teacher.

If the CCG were right the man front of them was one of most dangerous SS ranked ghouls known.

"I didn't expect you four to be here so early so I ran down to the staff kitchen to make myself some coffee!" He said cheerfully he walked over to his desk and placed down the mug and he turned towards the students with a gentle smile on his face and said in a confident tone "My name is Haise Sasaki and I will be your form tutor and literature teacher for the year, I hope we can get along just fine…"

Just to clear some things up yes Haise is Kaneki's alias and NO Quinx squad are not Quinx…yet.

I will only continue this if people will read it and review it, the chapters will get gradually longer ALSO Please point out of you notice any grammar errors or mistakes, thanks!

Also the numbers of Kaneki's class room 3.023, 3 meaning empress and the number 23 is the Key Number of The Hanged Man (according to google).