As promised, here's another chapter to move the story along. And just as a heads up, this chapter depicts the characters of the White Suits being truly evil pieces of shit, way more than what some Naruto fans might be used to. I love Tokyo Ghoul and its dark themes, but try to be tasteful with what I write. With that being said, Yamoori and the new capo and his servant introduced are kinda fucked up on their own merit— especially the servant, which is one of the more uncomfortable characters to delve into from the Fate/ Grand Order series.
With that being said, let's dive into the start of our new arc!
With one capo in prison while the other was six feet buried in the ground, Yamoori wasn't all that concerned with the outcome of how things had panned out for him thus far— especially when he had Naki murdered inside of his cell by his servant. While Yamoori didn't think Naki had it in him to betray his blind loyalty for him, the boss of the White Suits hated loose ends, and really just wanted to kill Naki because he thought it would be funny.
However, learning of the young blond boy named Armin Arlet through his many informants who he still had power over through black mailing them, Yamoori couldn't help but to take an interest in the young seventeen year-old foreigner. Sitting down at his executive office desk, Yamoori had a cigar placed between his lips that he was casually puffing away at, as he emptied out the contents of a Manila envelope within his large hands.
Standing across from his desk while Yamoori was checking out all the secretly taken photographs of Armin was one his remaining capos, was a young slim-blond man with a chin-length bob haircut that covered the left side of his face— exposing his yellow eye, that had a black-streak of make up running up from the bottom of his jaw, to the top of his forehead. Hooguro, like Yamoori's best capos and himself, had sold their souls in order to have a servant at his disposal, and unlike Naki, Yamoori greatly respected Hooguru, who used to be the best-of-the-best within the Anbu.
Standing at attention with a sinister smirk on his face, Hooguro's white suit and black turtleneck were extremely unkempt, and the zebra-stripped muffler-scarf he wore was lowered to expose his face to his boss. "I've hacked into the library's servers and was able to view the chat logs left behind on the computer's temporary files… He'll be meeting up with another one of your 'fans' at the Ninja Academy within an hour or so. Shall I kill both of them? Make it look like an accident, or are you wanting to send a message to anyone else looking to play 'hero'?"
Raising his hand to dismiss one of his favorite capo from going through the hassle of assassinating Armin and his mysterious contact, Yamoori smiled perversely as he ogled one of the more flattering pictures of the blond femboy that caught his attention. "No, no, no… That would be necessary, yet. For now, I want you to shadow whoever his informant is, and get more information about this little faggot as soon as you can. I want to know who else he's working with, and where he lives… When all is said and done, I want him brought here to me, alive… And I want that little 'boy pussy' in one piece," Yamoori said with a grin on his face, which was enough for Hooguro to understand the reason behind why his boss wanted the femine young man to himself.
"Understood, consider it done, Boss," Hooguro said with a salute, before turning around to calmly march out of his boss' large executive office— leaving Yamoori alone to continue fueling his sudden obsession with wanting to sexually assault and break Armin's slender-small body and mind.
While Hooguro was on his way to scout and gather more information about Armin and his contact, Haise and Kaneki were blissfully unaware of the 'Assassin of Black', and his intentions of slaughtering innocent civilians. Instead, the two brothers were scouring the shelves of a cozy-little bookstore that the two of them had passed by the other night when it was closed.
The 'Monochrome Rainbow' was the name of the bookstore, and even though the inside beige walls and wooden-floorboards showed signs of well-kept aging, the white-banner hung outside of the shop claimed that the store had been still celebrating its 'grand opening week'. After being greeted by the shy young teenage girl working the front who went by the name 'Hinami Fueguchi', the two brothers were checking out the locally published novels from authors within Konoha.
Just being glad that all of Jiraiya's Icha Icha brand novels had their own separate shelf in the erotica section of the store, Kaneki was able to rifle through the surprisingly large selection of lesser known writers within the village. Out of all the various books that were on the shelf, the author who Kaneki found to be his favorite from the few pages of each book he had gone through was a writer who went by the name of 'Sen Takatsuki'— a name that the young man instantly recognized.
"Haise, hey! Look at this: Sen's been writing all these books! Do you remember him?" Kaneki asked with an excited smile on his face, while Haise stared back at him with a teasing smile.
"Ah, of course I remember Sen! I'm pretty sure at one point you and him were gay for one another, if my memory serves me right," Haise said with a playfully tone in his voice, as he took the book from the embarrassed black-hair young man that smiled bashfully at the accusation.
"I-I don't think… I mean… It's, uh… It was a complicated friendship between us, that was all," Kaneki said, while trying his best to justify his past with Sen, to which Haise of course didn't believe for even a second as he quickly flipped through the pages of the book.
"Mmmhmm, sure— if that's what you want to call it, then yeah, sure, I suppose your relationship with Sen was 'complicated'," Haise snickered with a mischievous grin, while shaking his head as he continued to speed-read through all the pages he was flipping through at an unreal pace that would have been impossible for most people.
Crossing his arms just as Haise was about to be done with the five-hundred page novel, Kaneki's mouth curled into a mischievous smirk. "Oh? For argument's sake then, would you consider your relationship with Juuzou back then to be 'complicated' as well?" Ken asked teasingly, and watched with an amused look in his eye as Haise's smile disappeared the moment he shut the book closed.
"… We don't talk about Juuzou and I— he looked like a girl, okay?! Okay," Haise said with an unserious frown on his face, as he handed Kaneki back the book before letting out an annoyed sigh. "… Anyway, I liked the book a lot— the whole 'centipede' transformation of the main character made for an odd reading experience, but in a good way."
"I see… Did you happen to give Juuzou your 'centipede' back then?" Did that 'transform' something deep inside you, too? In a 'good way', one might say?" Kaneki asked teasingly with his amused grin growing even wider, which earned him a playful fist to the shoulder by his older brother.
"Pfffft…! Shut up, hehe…" Haise said in a low and embarrassed voice, as he snickered quietly at the way Kaneki was joking around with him. "I'm gonna go get some printer paper and colored ink for my resume— be right back," Haise said with a friendly smile on his face, before turning around to make his way over to the office supplies section of the bookstore— leaving Kaneki behind to collect more of Sen's books, before finally getting what he could afford to get.
Taking the six horror novels to the checkout counter, Kaneki waited in line until it was his turn. Once it was time for him to step up to the white pine-wood counter, Kaneki dropped the books he wanted to purchase on top of the counter and smiled back at the cute brown-haired teenager who was scanning the spines of each novel she held up from his pile.
"… Excuse me, Fueguchi-Chan, I had a question about the local authors section," Kaneki asked slowly, after finding the courage to try and look deeper into the whereabouts of his old academy team-leader.
Looking back at Kaneki's singular exposed eye with a curious expression on her youthful face, Hinami blinked a few times before smiling shyly once again at the young man. "Of course, sir… I'll… I'll try my best to answer whatever questions you have," Hinami said while trying her best to maintain eye contact with Kaneki.
Knowing right off the bat that Hinami was trying really hard to step out of her comfort zone, Kaneki couldn't help but to momentarily wonder why the young girl took up a job in customer service. "… I used to be really good friends with that particular author, Sen Takatsuki, and I was wondering if there was a way I could possibly… Get in contact with him?" Kaneki asked with a slightly uneasy smile on his face, after realizing just how off putting his question must have sounded.
Frowning slightly, Hinami silently stared back at Kaneki while doing her best to judge his character from what little her chakra senses would allow her to perceive. It wasn't a lot to go off of, but Hinami sensed that he didn't have any malintentions of wanting to get a hold of the author. "… Unfortunately, in order to protect their privacy, I can't provide you with their contact information. But, if you want, I can take your information down and hand it to the bookstore owner— that way, she can give it to them."
While it wasn't exactly the response that Kaneki had been hoping for, it still was far better than simply being told 'no'. "Thank you, I… I would really appreciate it if you could do that for me. Do you, uh… Do you happen to have a pen and something I could write on, by chance?"
And as Kaneki was providing Hinami with his contact information, Armin Arlet was on high alert as he paced around the white-cement staircase leading up to the ninja academy's front entrance— the spot where 'BigTitanGirl_79' wanted to meet him. Shifty eyed and feeling sweaty beneath the white-crop top he had on with his blue denim-jeans, Armin was beginning to second guess his decision coming to the nearly vacant location.
'Nobody comes here on Sunday, what was I thinking…?! This was a mistake! After that demon-looking thing almost killed me, why on Earth did I think coming here was still a good idea?! Damnit, I-I'm over my head! I should just stop while I'm-' Having gotten too overwhelmed with the regretful thoughts brewing within his head, Armin was completely caught off guard by the strong hand that grabbed him from behind.
Hearing Armin screaming, the strong young blond-woman behind him raised her hand up to clamp her palm over his mouth to silence him, before using her other hand to put him into an armlock while wrapping one leg around his. Feeling how fast Armin was breathing while he was within her hold, the blond girl stared at him with an unimpressed gaze in her cold-blue eyes.
"I'm going to lower my hand away from your mouth, and you're going to tell me your username, understand?" The woman asked in an intimidating voice that reminded Armin of the way Mikasa spoke to others who she didn't trust. "Try anything with me, and I'll kill you… Okay, I'm lowering my hand now— scream again, and I'll choke you out until you stop breathing…"
Nodding fearfully while trying his best to remain as calm and composed as he could manage to be under such a stressful situation, Armin swallowed back the lump in his throat before speaking in a shaky voice. "I… I-I'm 'CoconutHead_83'… A-And what's your username..?" Armin asked, while remembering the specific instructions that were given to him yesterday afternoon.
Taking a few moments to finalize her assessment of Armin, while looking over her shoulder and at their surroundings, the blond woman let out a sigh before reluctantly releasing her grasp on the feminine young man. "… I'm 'BigTitanGirl_79', but you can just call me 'Annie', if you want," Annie said while introducing only her first name to Armin, before taking a second look at him and his slender body with a mildly surprised look in her steel-blue eyes. "… Oh? You're a man… From behind, you looked like a woman."
Still shaken up after being threatened twice by Annie, Armin tried to play off how anxious he was by letting out a nervous laugh. "Y-Yeah, I-I get that a lot… I'm sure my voice or hair doesn't help either, huh?" Armin mused with a joking voice, which was lost on Annie who shook her head at what she thought were words of self-deprecation.
"On the contrary, I actually prefer men who are on the feminine side of the spectrum… It's a refreshing breath of air to be in the presence of someone who isn't trying to push their masculinity on others around them," Annie mused, while softening her hardened facial expression a bit the moment she saw Armin blushing at the compliment to his beauty. "… What's your actual name, by the way? I gave you mine, and I would like yours in return."
"O-Oh! Ye-Yes, of course," Armin said with a bashful expression on his face, after accidentally being entranced with the masculine features on Annie's face, along with seeing how buffed her arms were— her sleeveless black-shirt and biker shorts gave her an edge that the femboy couldn't help but to find attractive. "My name is Armin… Armin Arlet. It… It truly is a pleasure to make your acquaintance, Annie," Armin greeted back, while smiling nervously at Annie, as his heart started to race within his small chest for a completely different reason than before.
"Likewise, Armin, likewise," Annie said in response to his formality, before tucking her hands into the shallow pockets of her black thigh-high biker shorts. "Why don't we move this meeting to somewhere more secluded? Does that sound like something you would be interested in, Armin?" Annie asked with a mildly enthusiastic voice, as she took her small leather backpack off to open it in front of Armin.
Upon seeing a black blindfold being taken out of the unzipped bag, Armin was finding himself growing uneasy as he watched Annie sling the small leather backpack back over her shoulder. "I… I agree that privacy is vital for what we'll be needing to discuss, but… Is the blindfold really necessary?" Armin asked with a worried look on his face that made Annie feel oddly sorry for him.
"I like you Armin, I really do, but that doesn't give me an excuse to jeopardize the safety of those within my group who are trying to accomplish our mutual 'goal'," Annie explained with a somewhat apologetic tone in her deep-feminine voice, all while still trying to remain vague. "I understand that you don't have a reason to trust me enough to do this to you, but you truly want to be part of something greater than yourself, you'll have to start taking leaps of faith… You understand, don't you?"
Had it been any other stranger other than the attractive blond woman standing before him, Armin would have called it off right then and there. However, there was something more about Annie other than her looks and the domineering presence that made Armin want to obey her instructions— he could tell by the way she was staring at him that she meant well, and her blue-cold gaze had enough of a glimmer in it to signal to Armin that she saw him as worth protecting.
Taking the leap of faith that was called upon him, Armin thought back to what Eren and Mikasa said, and felt determination seeping into his beating heart as he nodded his head. 'I… I've already crossed the point of no return. I've made myself known to him, surely I must have… This is personal now, and I won't allow that monster to harm my friends or family… I can't afford to be scared anymore.'
"… Go ahead, I'm ready," Armin said with a nod, before turning around to present his backside to Annie so she could begin to tie the knot behind his head full of blond hair. While she was behind him, Annie took a moment to look down to admire Armin's butt that fitted snugly in the tight pair of jeans that he had on.
'My, my… Despite your slender size, you're kind of thicc down there, aren't you, pretty boy~?' Annie thought to herself with her cheeks growing slightly flushed, while staring up further north of Armin's body to admire his exposed lower back and the glistening skin that was visible beneath where his crop-top shirt ended. '… I shouldn't be thinking about wanting to grab him like that… Focus, I need to… Shit,' Annie thought to herself, while being able to remain calm on the outside.
"… Here, let me know how this feels, Armin," Annie said in an unsuspecting voice, while using one hand to pull gently down on the backside of his tied up blindfold. However, with her other hand, Annie had her index finger extended and was quietly using her finger to trace 'katakana' symbols on his clammy palm— hoping that Armin would have a high enough perception to understand what she was trying to alert him of.
Blindfolded, Armin was at first feeling smitten from the way Annie was gently running her finger against his palm beside his slightly-wide hips. However, it didn't take Armin long to finally recognize the pattern and symbols Annie was making, as she kept repeating the message 'We are being followed. I can not see them. I can only barely sense their presence. Trust me. I will protect you. Do not make it obvious that you know.'
"… The blindfold feels good Annie, thank you," Armin replied out loud while still trying his best to remain seemingly oblivious to the unnerving news that he and her were being stalked by an invisible man or woman.
Gently squeezing Annie's finger to reassure that he got the message, the two young adults pretended to be cluelessly smitten by the presence of Hooguro. The assassin would have been completely undetectable had it not been for Annie's revelation that both she and Armin were under the effects of genjutsu— which was just subtle enough to make everything surrounding them seem normal and unsuspecting.
Such a discovery had been a stroke of pure luck, and it was only because of Annie checking Armin's body up-and-down did she notice that the dust her shoe prints left on top of the concrete pavement beneath her weren't accurate to the boots she had on. The generic and easily missable print would have been unnoticed by even the most experienced of ninjas out there, and Annie deep down was terrified of the fact that whoever was behind the illusion was knowledgeable enough to almost get her shoe print accurate.
And as Annie pretended to be playful as she led Armin down the path toward the police station, it was then to her silent horror that she noticed that her shoe prints were now one-hundred percent accurate to the boots that she had on— right down to the long-gash on her left sole, which was how Annie was able to figure out the inconsistency in the first place. 'Shit! They're onto me— if they corrected that, then they know what I know! Goddamnit, goddamnit!' Annie thought to herself with dread crossing through her veins.
Questioning whether or not that they were even going in the right direction or not, Annie did her best to not rely on her senses but instead her memory of the village's inner workings— which only then made her question whether or not the genjutsu was even still active. Perpetually going back-and-forth questioning her own judgment, Annie was becoming more paranoid of what was real and what was false by the passing second.
Silently smirking while under the veil of his genjutsu, Hooguro continued to follow alongside his servant who was an avatar of 'Jack the Ripper', who had the appearance of a white-haired loli with stitched up skin and red eyes. Just like him, Jack the Ripper was completely undetectable to both the naked eye and to any chakra sensing abilities that would have otherwise given their position away.
Keeping distance from her master, while sporting the black-hooded cloak that covered her scantily gothic-sports bra, black thong, and thigh-high boots, Jack the Ripper was practically salivating at the mouth at the thought of plunging her knives deep into the abdomens of her two targets. Composed of wraiths of all the aborted fetuses of aborted fetuses, Jack the Ripper lacked any qualities of humanity, such as empathy and love, and only lived to serve her purpose of feeling 'born' upon taking the life of another.
And in that moment, both Jack the Ripper and Hooguro both shared the same desire of taking the lives of their enemies, as to tuderher their own agenda and goals. The servant, which essentially was just an unholy amalgamation of children who were never given the chance to born, had her yellow-green eyes transfixed upon Annie, who she saw as the perfect candidate to disembowel before crawling inside of her to pretend to be given birth through a mutilated groin-opening.
Hooguro wasn't any less cruel than Jack the Ripper was. All the ex-Anbu agent could think of while eyeing Armin was how badly he wanted to see him scream while being tied up against a tree in the middle of the forest. Wanting to penetrate and violate Armin with his knife, especially when it came to the art of gential mutilation, Hooguro smirked perversely at the thought of raping the blond femboy and hearing him scream for help while getting castrated with a rusty dagger. The way Hooguro saw it, he would only be giving Yamoori an extra hole to stick his cock inside of Armin.
With their stalkers fueled by dark deeds that they had planned for the both of them, Annie and Armin were both unprepared for just how outmatched and in danger they truly were— their only hope rested with the Konoha police station, who Annie hoped would be able to ward off their invisible pursuers before it was too late for them.
Poor Armin, lol. He attracts bad attention. Let's hope that Annie will be strong enough to defeat both a servant and one of the best agents of Anbu, who left the black ops group only because Minato ruled out the group's history of commiting assassinations. Again, the White Suits in this fic lack any sort of redeemable qualities to them like Madara and the Akatsuki, who at least had somewhat noble goals of their own. But no, Yamoori and his gang are cruel for the sake of sadism, and to take what they want and exploit others to their advantage. Hopefully none of them are relatable lol.
I gotta include Eren more, lol— Armin's always been Attack on Titan's true main protagonist anyway, it's not his fault that he gets more screen time than Eren in this lol. Hopefully after whatever happens, Armin and Annie end up getting together, once she shows him more of her friends who have gathered in hopes of trying to stop the White Suits and whoever is behind the missing women's cases. And who is leading them? None other than Tsunade, who is willing to break the law in order to protect her village.
Oh, also I have decided right now that 'Arima' is just a false persona of Haise, Kaneki, and Ichika's true father. Their true father, at least for now I'm planning on this, is Toneri Ōtsutsuki— who was Zetsu's back up plan, in case he failed to kill Madara and resurrect Kaguya. Being the last living Ōtsutsuki member, Toneri came across Zetsu after being signaled to where he had been fatally wounded by Gilgamesh. Having stolen the Rinne Sharingan from Madara after failing to kill him, which was the main reason why Minato was able to win at the last moment, Zetsu continued to exist out of pure determination, and only died once he transferred the Rinne Sharingan to Toneri.
Knowing that the world would hate him because he was an Ōtsutsuki member who wasn't Kaguya, Toneri would have used his new power to create a new life for himself, and to attract the attention of a woman to secretly spread his clan's genes. His children were half human, and didn't inherit any horns, markings, or ghost-white skin, but instead just white hair and the Rinne Sharingan. Even in this fanfic, Kaneki/Haise/Ichika are half-hybrids lol.
Lolis are now in this fanfic, granted the first example of one is a fucked-up amalgamation of evil aborted fetuses who wants to disembowel women, but a loli nonetheless.
Will I ship Haise with Tsunade? Not romantically, probably not, but maybe have them occasionally flirt and maybe sleep with each other once? Perhaps, but I still want Haise to be either with Rize or Ryouko. Haise more so said the 'put out' thing as a joke than anything serious, but we'll see. Tsunade is a hot MILF, and perhaps even a GILF… Yeah, I don't see why she and Haise can't fuck lol. Just as long as Haise keeps the eyepatch on though— I doubt she or any of her friends who were alive to fight Madara would trust Haise or Kaneki if they saw that they had the same Rinne Sharingan he had.
Speaking of sex, I think I'm gonna make it offical that Eto and Kaneki fooled around in the shower and in the tents in their past— hence the banter between Haise and Kaneki earlier. Subsequently, it's now offical in this AU that Haise mistook Juuzou for a girl and it's hinted that he had sex with him while under the impression that he was a she.
The way I'm planning for it to go then for Kaneki and Eto is that she calls him later that night to talk to him, and pretend to not be Sen while asking him personal questions about what Kaneki thought about 'Sen'. After getting the answers she wanted to hear from Kaneki, Eto will tell him that she'll 'arrange' a meeting for them to meet at her book store, and that Hinami will show him to an office where they can finally meet.
It's only then when Kaneki sees Eto that he puts the pieces together in his mind, and at first he thinks that Sen had a sex-change. It's only after Eto admits that she's actually Sen, and faked being a woman back then to get through Amegakure's all-male ninja academy. Kaneki is somewhat relieved that all the sexual acts they did in the past didn't mean that he was secretly gay, and they catch up and hit it off before Kaneki hears about how Eto is struggling financially, ever since she lost her main source of income at the library and that she'll have to move out of her apartment by the end of the month.
Kaneki invites her to stay with him, and says that Haise will be cool with it— stating that they're not financially sound themselves, and that her extra income for helping out with bills will be enough for her to live there pretty much rent-free. That's how it starts, and Eto and Kaneki start to hang out more and grow closer— flirting and getting touchy. It's only when Eto meets Mikasa through Tsunade, after she agrees to join in on the illegal crime-fighting ring through Haise and Kaneki do they talk about how Eto can make it official between her and Kaneki.
So all in all, by the end of this arc, hopefully, Tsunade's group will be how all the heroes meet up together and start working with one another. This includes, so far, Naruto, Boruto, Sarada, Sakura (She was always in on it, and tells Naruto about it), Sasuke, Kakashi, Fugaku, Itachi, Minato (Both of them are executive members who try to cover up their actions), Jiraiya (Sometimes), the Anbu, Konan, Haise, Kaneki, Eto, Armin, Eren, Mikasa, Annie, Historia, Sasha, Levi, Zoey, Zeke (He's a good guy in this lmao), and that's it for now lol. Maybe Gaara too? Maybe. Lee might be there too, idk.
Again, all of this is just me rambling, and could change at any time.
Thank you for the inspiration for how I can have Eto and Kaneki's 'first' time having sex be! I say that with semi-quotation marks, because they technically already did a lot of dirty things in the past, but all of it was so that Eto still had her non-transparent underwear on, and it was always imitated by her. So we got handjobs, blowjobs, dry humping, anal sex, hot-dogging, footjob, and even eating Kaneki's ass out.
Kaneki is nineteen in this btw, Eto is twenty-three (was twenty-two, but now it's twenty-three), and Haise is twenty-two.
Anyways, that about does it. Gonna have to write at least one more Naruto x Sakura chapter somewhere in this arc, might include a flashback of Kaneki and Eto, and keep it ambiguous in the details. Only those who read the author's notes will reach the truth.
Anyways, that about does it for now! I'm gonna get a head start on chapter eleven. Have a good one!