Oh god... I don't have words for this. So just enjoy... by the way this story is also in archiveofourown.

Chapter 5 - Revelation

He was just passing by the train station….

When he first saw him.

It was like time has stopped.

Hair like the pure snow, eyes as grey as clouds that adorn the cold weather. His skin was smooth and bright. It was like God himself has been present on that train station where he currently was.

Though he swears he has seen this man before. Maybe with a different type of color. Kaneki was brought to reality when he heard some clicking noises like somebody was taking photographs of him. He looks around but saw nobody.

Kaneki was brought once again from his train of thought when Kooru was shaking him "Oi, kid wake up! It's not good to space out in the middle of the train station" Kooru shake his hands in front of him. Kaneki shakes his head and looks at Kooru.

"I'm sorry Kooru, hahaha" Kaneki scratch his head and smile.

"Damn, why are you this cute?"

"Eh, what do you mean Kooru sa?" Kaneki was cut off when a high pitch scream came towards them.

"KOORU CHAN!"

"Oh no, not this girl"

A girl with straight light pink hair cropped into an angled bob. She had very delicate features and a sleepy expression, with heavy-lidded eyes. She was wearing a purple trench coat, with black boots. She ran towards Kooru and hugs him from behind.

"Goddamit Hairu, can you stop hugging me"

"No, can't do Kooru".

Hairu made a kissy face towards the cheek of Kooru, at the exact same time, Kooru was distancing himself from her. Kooru, wrapped her arms around Kooru shoulders.

'She is beautiful, perhaps she is his girlfriend or ex-girlfriend' Kaneki thought.

"Ara, who is this young man?" Hairu looked at Kaneki. Kaneki bowed himself.

"I'm Kaneki Ken, Kooru's neig-"

"Boyfriend?"

"No, I'm his neigh-"

"In the process"

"Kooru, don't talk nonsense please"

Kooru, remove her hands within his shoulders and clean his suit. "This is a student of mine when I used to do tutoring"

Hairu, made finger guns at Kooru, and wink.

"Don't be so cold Kooru. I was your cute middle school student"

"Like hell"

Hairu pouted and bowed to Kaneki

"Well, hello there young man. My name is Hairu Ihe, I'm 18 years old. I'm a part-time model and I'm also studying medicine at University"

"Also might eat you up, if you aren't careful" Kooru's mocking tone said.

Hairu put her hands on her chest, sounding offended "Ah, excuse me sr. I will do everything perfectly, but if it gets one thing wrong might throw a tantrum".

Anger suddenly rises in Kooru's eyes and gritted his teeth. "I'm not dealing with a girl like you"

Hairu began twirling her body. "You just hate me because I AM this beautiful"

Kaneki just scratches his cheek, putting an awkward smile at them. He looks through the crowd, to search for the man he was looking at. But just he thought, he was gone. He sighed. Of course, somebody like that man, couldn't be real, but at least he saw him. It's like witnessing an earth miracle for just once.

*Ring ring*

"Aah, Jesus Christ my manager is always so damn annoying! Well, Kaneki kun!" She suddenly hugs Kaneki. "I'm so glad, I could meet you, but I must depart. My sweet lover boy". Hairu, move her head to look at Kaneki, while still hugging him. Kooru coughs in annoyance. Kaneki just takes a glimpse at her and blushes madly. "You're so cute, but I need to go!"

"GODDAMIT, THEN GO!"

She let's go of Kaneki, hugs Kooru, which Kooru just stare at her in annoyance, and just as she came, she was off. Kooru, puts his hand on his hips. "That girl… even though she is weird, she is kind. So don't get any bad impressions, alright?" "No, it's okay I have a few shares of people like that" he smiled.

"Well, I'm off, my train is already here, so Ummm…"

Both of them just stood there, looking at each other. People pass behind them.

"Goodbye, Kooru-"

Kooru hugs him and runs towards the doors of the train. When Kaneki wanted to say something. The doors suddenly closed, he looks at Kooru who was blushing madly looking away. Kaneki blushes and waves goodbye.

Ah, that man is sure is weird, but he likes him regardless.

As he was turning around, a group of kids came running towards him, and almost knock him over. Gladly, they just bump into him. Kaneki made sure, nothing on him was dropped off. Goodness kids these days sure are active. Wait, why is he sounding like an old man?

"Goddammit, the director is sure is going to kick us from the school" A guy with light orange hair that was long almost reaching his shoulders with two strands of hair parted and tied up at the top of his head. Kicked at a nearby pole.

"It's Saiko's fault". A teenage boy with purple hair styled into an undercut said as he was taking off his headphones. A girl with two thick sections of hair worn in pigtails with uneven fringed bangs shook her around and pouted at the teenage boy.

"Ah! This is not fair! It was Hige Chan fault for challenging me into another battle in Overwatch!" The girl, signal his friend, a boy with short wavy, light pink-colored hair, who was dumbfounded by the situation, stared in disbelief at her. "Ha, but Saiko sama, you were the one told me to battle Ching Li and you in the first place".

A boy with bronze-skinned with dark ivy-colored tresses sighed. "Ha, this is the reason why I told you guys making a study session in Saiko's place during school days is bad." A tall young man with dark green hair and bangs that cover his eyes placed his hands on his cheeks, he pouted. "Maybe if I call my aunt, she can make an arrangement…" The same boy with purple hair, grab the little girl's cheeks. "Listen, here Saiko if I get a note for being late. I will end you". A dark-haired young woman of average height, grab the boy's hands and put them into each side of his. "Kukie, I will not stay silent as I see you disrespecting Saiko, or I won't hesitate to kick you as well".

"Ha, it looks like my rising and closed anger will be released today. Okay, let's go I have been trying to challenge you when I knew you were the victory in the Taekwondo female category, Hsiao". The boy took his school jacket and give it to the orange-haired boy.

Kaneki didn't like this. Up close, he could see these kids where from a private school and if the school knows they were fighting they might get into much trouble. So, Kaneki does as an adult would do. Kaneki slowly approaches the group of kids and tap the back of the orange-haired boy. The teenage boy looks at him with annoyance.

"Umm, I can help you"

The teenage boy frowned. "Help? Help me with what?" The other teenage boy with pink hair approached their situation with a curious face. "Ha, looking for a fight?" Kaneki waves his arms around his face. "No, no! I suddenly heard your situation about not catching the train, and the Ebisu bus station is down some streets from here. I'm guessing by the jacket you're wearing, you study at KAIS International School isn't it?"

The two boys look at him. Kaneki stared at them. "Well, the train won't be coming until 20 minutes more, and if my guess correctly you have about 20 minutes until your school starts, right? And the bus takes approximately 10 if you go right now. You may catch the bus."

The pink-haired boy left the older teen and talk with his friends. They look at him, the boy who took the jacket off and took it back from the orange-haired boy, stares at him. "So, you are saying if we go down from here, we will be on time?" Kaneki nodded. "Yes, that's correct!" The blue-haired girl bowed at him crying.

"Thank you, you saved from getting abused!"

"Saiko!" The purple-haired boy screams at her, while she put her hands on her ears. "Thank you um…" The boy with green hair bowed at him. Kaneki also bowed at him and blushed. He liked doing these kinds of things. If it wasn't that big deal, but he liked helping people "No need, now get ongoing, or else you will be late". They stare at him silently and bowed at him.

Kaneki put his hands on his hips and smiled. Oh boy, to be a teenager again. It is not that long ago, that Kaneki was in Highschool but he actually envied that group of teenagers, he would have loved been in a group of friends, just like them. I mean, don't get him wrong. He loves Hide, he always thanks the world for bringing Hide unto his life but there was sometimes, Kaneki wished he had more friends in high school to do more activities together. It is not like he would enjoy being outside very often since he was more a house-person but he would have loved to have more friends with different personalities.

As Kaneki was walking towards his job, he bumped into someone. The man with wide shoulders turns around and bows.

"Kid, good to see you again"

Kaneki lookup and the saw the police officer who helped him that day. He also bows. "No, officer Amon I was the one who should say sorry, I was the one who bumps into you and also my name is Kaneki Ken". Kaneki smiled and scratched the back of his head. The man just stares at him, he took his cap off.

"Kaneki correct? I have bad news for you. You know the man who sexually assaulted you?"

"Y-yeah?"

Amon puts his hands into a fist and closed his eyes.

"I'm afraid that man didn't pay for the thing he did. He belongs to a rich family, so as soon as my chief saw him, he told him to leave. He didn't want the father of that man, come and complain. I told him, it was corruption what he was doing, and he just handed me some dollars to keep my mouth shut."

Kaneki didn't know what to say. I mean, is bad the man didn't even have jail time or just a paper of what he did, but what really concerned him, is that Amon looks so nice and wants everything to be equal. Not many people have that quality nowadays.

"Officer Amon, don't worry even if he didn't get anything. I will make sure to never crossed paths with him." He stretches himself to reach Amon's head, but he failed so instead he patted Amon's shoulder. "Don't worry about me officer, you did a great job and don't let anybody tell you otherwise, alright?" Amon, grab Kaneki's hands on his shoulders, he lowers their hands and intertwined them. They both stare at each other. Kaneki blushes as Amon just stares at him solidifying his gaze at Kaneki's eyes. Kaneki didn't mind the situation he was in. Even though this is quite embarrassing, but something inside knows he can trust Amon.

"Policer Amon, in the Shibuya district there's being a 43 in a local Candy store."

Amon's radio soon activated while both of them wake up from being in a gaze battle. Amon cursed, he shakes his head, immediately did a cross and kisses his hand.

"Are you catholic Officer Amon?"

Amon grabs the hat that was accidentally tossed down on the floor, wipes it and puts it on while staring at Kaneki. "Yes, indeed I am. Well, boy-I mean Kaneki. It was a pleasure of meeting you, but I have to do some duties." Kaneki bows and waves him goodbye, immediately Amon stops his tracks and walks in his direction. He grabs a small notebook he had on his front pocket as well as a pen and writes something. He hands it to Kaneki.

"Kaneki, if that man ever harasses you. Please never hesitate to call me on my personal phone number okay? I will be there for you, got it?"

Kaneki blushingly takes the note and waves him goodbye.

It was his lunchtime. If he could describe today, it was like a normal day. Yes, just putting aside the weird encounter with Kooru's old student. Irimi and Koma flirtatious pickup lines to mess him up, everything seemed totally fine. So he decided to visit the food trucks where he saw once Touka that time. Apparently, that one truck he had seen her. It was from her family's friend Yoriko, but unfortunately, he didn't want sweet things he wanted something salty today. Scanning over the food trucks, he decided to grab some Indian food.

As he orders some curry food and sits down on the nearby tables they had. Amon was there choosing some sushi food nearby the Indian food truck. As he grabs his food, scanning over the seats, his gaze encounters Kaneki waving at him with a smile.

"Good work today Amon san!" Amon takes a seat next to Kaneki, he puts his food on the table. "Good work to you as well". He puts his hands together and began praying. Wow, he never has seen a catholic in person and this is the first time encountering one. It is not like he had never seen a religious person before. Is just rare seeing somebody believing in God nowadays. Most people in Japan are not religious. It is not like Kaneki didn't believe in God himself, but he wasn't moved or touched by the beliefs of some of those religions.

"Ha, goodness, gracious why should I buy food for you again?" A man with short brown hair with long parted bangs and brown eyes, wearing a professional blue suit, frowns as he grabs two boxes and carries them in front of a woman with pale blonde hair styled in braids and purple eyes, she was wearing a formal suit. "Hmm, you were the one to suggest to fight again, so don't come crying again". The man just frowned and click his tongue. The woman looks at them, especially at Amon.

"Is that Amon Koutarou?"

Amon looks away from his food and sighs. Oh, are they problematic people? Perhaps people from Amon's past. "Amon, did you say Amon?" The man having the two boxes of sushi, look to the side and rush over them. "Amon is so good to see you again!" The woman looks at Kaneki and then stares at Amon. She slams her hand in the table. "Inspector Amon Koutarou, why don't you answer your phone calls?" Perhaps this woman is Amon ex. Amon just stood there quietly eating his sushi. "Seidou, you have grown up it seems" The young man overjoyed, he puts his boxes on the table, sat down and pointing at himself. "You think so? Thanks Amon san!" "Shut up Seidou!" Seidou surprised and look down. "I'm sorry Akira…. Wait no, you need to stop pressuring Amon!"

Akira glares at the man. The tension was so heavy, all the hunger Kaneki had. It was immediately gone. "Pressuring him? He was the one, who… made all this mess! Amon, if you weren't this stupid you could be with us, in our department! Right Seidou". Seidou looks at her, he tries to speak up but refrains himself. "Amon, if you apologize to the chief… perhaps you will…"

"¡I WON'T!" Amon slammed his fist in the table, almost knocking their food. "Akira, Seidou, I appreciate your help for defending me but Akira you know I only did was best, and your father knows it and that's why he puts his position at risk, so at least I could become a police officer and not lose my job". The woman grabs Amon from his seat and pushes him upward. Her fists staying on Amon's chest, while she gritted her teeth.

"Don't fight you two!" The three of them look at him. All this time they ignore his presence and finally acknowledge him. "I don't know what's going on between you three, but I can see that all of you are hurt. I don't think is wise to fight when you're this hurt…"

Seidou looks down. "You sure a cute kid". Kaneki looks at Seidou surprised. He grabs his sushi boxes, he began walking away. "I'm going to eat all this sushi Akira and I don't care if you get mad." The woman tears up and slightly punch Amon's chest. She stares at Kaneki, and extended her hand. "Give me your Id" Kaneki stare both at Amon and Akira. He reaches down on his pocket and handed her his id. "Kaneki Ken, this information you just heard it's classified. If I hear this conversation going around, I will personally arrest you". Akira looks at him blushing and went away, muttering. "Stupid cute nosy kid".

Amon looks at him and bows. "I'm sorry Kaneki". He shakes his hands in front of him. "Don't worry Amon san". Amon sits down, he puts his arms resting on the table. "The people you met are Mado Akira and Seidou Takizawa. I used to work alongside Akira's father Mado Kureo. We were both supervisors…." He glances at Kaneki with a worried face. Kaneki patted his shoulder and gesture him to "go on".

"You know that I'm a devoted catholic person. I value justice always wins in the end. I don't know if you know about this case, but there was this case -The hanged man-". He shakes his head to the side. "Well to put in short, there was a professor of a university who was found dead in his apartment by his student. Apparently the student who found him was working alongside with him uncovering a mysterious fruit"

Something inside Kaneki wanted to ask about the name, since the story connected with a story that Nishiki and Kimi had told him, but he wasn't sure if it was polite to him.

"The professor Kijima had much research and apparently he-"

"Is the student name Furuta?"

Something inside Kaneki clicked. The name and the story all connected with Nishiki and Kimi's rumor.

Amon slightly frowns and looks at Kaneki. "So you know about the case then?"

"Oh no, I don't. It's just a rumor about a friend who I have that is circulating in the university he goes to"

"Hmm… well, those rumors are true. Well… at first, we investigated the student, he was our first suspect but he said he was just delivering some photos for the professor. Then they did the autopsy, and It reveals that it was suicide. Believe me Kaneki, it wasn't suicide. The man had two shots, one on his head and the other one on his knee. Not also that, but there were some marks of rope in his neck. Somebody who commits suicide often leaves a note, but of course, that was dismissed since that man had any family. The one tricky thing here, it was that all the information that the student said, they were working with. It wasn't in his apartment, it wasn't in his university locker. His computer had none of the data. At first, I thought that the student blackmailed him but apparently, he only handed him photos with the same structure of this mysterious fruit. He never learned how this fruit was called, or where it was located. In addition, he was working for him for extra points in his classes. One thing is certain, the professor Kijima told him, that this fruit was researched by the government, and if they come after him, he should delete all the details of the photos he has."

"But… if Furuta said that the government might be after them. ¿Why did the police never look up to that?"

"Because the case was closed as a suicide and the boy told me this in confidence. Apparently, the man was this close with him, that he became his parental figure. Tell me Kaneki, did your friend told you about this?"

"No, he did not". Kaneki looked down, and his chest felt heavy. He didn't know what an awful past his friend had.

"I became more invested in this investigation because something similar happened to me when I was a kid… somebody who I considered as a paternal figure also lost his life protecting me…. his death was never investigated"

Amon reaches inside out of his uniform and took out a cross. "Hence the reason why I became a devotional catholic person and also a police officer. I began searching for more clues in many places but in the end, the higher-ups knew my infiltration to the system. I was about to lose my job when my partner Mado Kureo insisted, that I was a good police officer and instead lower my rank as an inspector and become just a normal police officer."

Amon looks up to the sky. "But you know, I don't regret it. If you need to sacrifice yourself in order to have justice, then I will gladly sacrifice myself." A wind blow against Amon's face, he looks to Kaneki, his hair dancing around the rhythm of the wind.

This man is sure is pure.

Kaneki was packing some used books on the shelves. They were books some customers have left on the tables. Even though this genre doesn't appeal to him that much. But the books section of "poetry" had always such amazing and beautiful covers. You almost feel like the poetry itself was being described just by looking at their cover.

The ring bell of the front door rang. Kaneki was sitting on the floor since the books where place on the first shelve, he glances up. He saw a towering, stout man with short flushed hair, He has a cross-shaped design for a beard, with three teenagers coming in.

The man searches around the shop as if he was searching for something. He spotted Ken sitting down on the floor placing the books, while Ken was watching him. He smiled at the man. "Hello, welcome". Kaneki rises above the ground. The man ignored him and lookup. The teenagers who were around him, look to Kaneki.

A girl with a bob cut that has light auburn hair bowed at him. "Hey cutie my name is Jiro". Kaneki flushed. The other twins surround him. "Oh no, hottie alert!" a boy with spiky black hair, wearing a green hoodie shouted. "The name is Ichimi, nice to meet you hottie!" Suddenly a boy with his black hair tied into a short ponytail, grab Kaneki by his shoulder and swings him to look at him. "Hey…. My name is Sante". The boy blushed and bowed at him. Kaneki didn't know what to do, so he only bowed. "My name is Kaneki ken".

"Guys! We don't care if this guy is cute or not… we came here for a reason!" Jiro swings Kaneki and pinches his cheeks. "But Banjou, look at him. I never saw a boy this cute before." The man named Banjou, look at him and flushed.

"-I mean… yeah, he is cute, but we have an important mission". He grabs a photograph he was carrying from his pocket and show him a photograph of Rize.

"Hey, according to some people it seems that she was spotted here, did she say anything to you or something".

Kaneki widens his expression. Why are they looking for Rize? Did she do something? Was she in trouble? Maybe this is the reason why she couldn't come the other day. He stood there silent. The man scratches his head and put the photo inside his pocket. "I knew it, this is useless"

"Why? Did something happened to her?"

Sante appears close to him and whisper. "She disappeared".

"WHAT?! Since when?!"

Banjou looks at him, frowning and turns his hands into a fist. "I was close to her… and I haven't seen her for a while so I got worried".

"Correction, you develop a crush of her…" Ichimi said.

"No, I did not. This guy right here is cuter than her".

Banjou looks at Kaneki, whose gaze was looking down. Banjou opened the door.

"I'm sorry for disturbing you but I really need to go. Let's go, guys!" The three teenagers went after him, Kaneki grabs Jiro by the shoulders.

"How much tell me?"

Jiro stiffens her shoulders and enters the shop. She looked to the side and close her mouth. As she wanted to say something, but couldn't do it. "She has disappeared two weeks ago"

Two weeks ago? Is the exact same time, he hasn't seen the girl before. Could it be, the reason why she couldn't attend to her date with him is that she was kidnapped?

Kaneki started crying and sat down on the floor.

Thank God, there were already in closing hours. People actually don't frequent their place this much.

Jiro started patting Kaneki

"Oh boy, this is the reason why Banjou didn't want people to know. Hey, Kaneki this is not your fault!" The doors of the store open.

A man with a gray coat and black hat appears by the door. Irimi who just burst from the staff room, "Kaneki somebody just came and you didn't greet them, you" Irimi suddenly stop her tracks when she saw the man, putting his coat on a nearby seat.

"Manager, you came earlier!"

Kaneki with tears in his eyes, look up ignoring the girl patting his back. The old man, just look at Kaneki and smile.

This work took time since it was hard for me to find an inspirational song to set the mood, but I found it.

If you liked hearing songs while reading fanfiction, I recommend reading "Billy Joel - Piano man" Or "Arai Tasuku - 0 ft Itaru Baba" those two songs can be fitting when reading Amon in this story. Cannon Amon was really precious, so I really enjoyed writing this chapter I hope you had like it.