Finally figured out a title but there's only so much room in the title bar. Music brought up the title in question but this'll have to do. Music speaks in many ways if you really listen but other than that...its a wonderment of guesses. God, my mind is like a rushing river this chapter.
With the wiki not giving info on eye color changes for Kaneki, my dumbass mind assumed human form had black eyes with black hair and unsteady ghoul form shifted to snow white hair with brownish gray eyes. Stupid freaky masks got in the way. Masks on Tokyo Ghoul make everything creepier and make Kaneki seem like he was always insane.
Hide's school attire is an idea off Amazon. Going by altered anime style.
"It'll be up to the timing of whether or not Ken has the courage to tell his friend his true to heart feelings. It's hard figuring out a good timing when you're stuck replaying scenarios in your head." says Yuki looking at the staircase.
"Let him adjust to this version of his world so he can prepare how to tell Hide-"
There was a sudden jiggle of the doorknob shifting the duo's eyes to the door.
'Hello in there! For the longest time, I've known this apartment to be a friend of mine's! His name was Ken Kaneki and as far as I knew he was killed just by being around a ghoul!' says Hide's voice.
"Ken's friend came to us sooner than we expected!" think Yuki and Yuno keeping their eyes on the door.
"What do we do? We can't leave a guest outside." whispers Yuki sweat dropping.
'I want to see if my suspicion is true! Earlier, myself and another CCG worker noticed a white haired ghoul with you and he reminded me of Kaneki!' says Hide, switched into his usual attire consisting of a I want to be a sunflower shirt that read 'So that even in the darkest days I will find the sunlight' all uppercased, noise isolating foldable lightweight orange headphones, a yellow and black slim fit sleeveless zip-up hooded vest with zipper trim, slim fit track pants with side taping that were the same color as the sleeveless hooded vest and orange and black athletic running tennis walking shoes instead of his other hooded attire he usually wore on outings.
Yuki slowly walked to the door and slightly opened it to peek out to see a concerned Hide wanting answers.
"As much as I'd love to see you two chat like really good friends, the ghoul isn't in the best of moods right now. Seeing you may give him a mental breakdown." says Yuki.
"Who gets breakdowns around strangers?" wonders Hide.
"Its something only he can tell you another time. See it from his point of view. If you want to be friends with the ghoul, you can't come here as a CCG worker. The ghoul in question, can't say he will ever warm up to us." says Yuki.
"Its gonna be fine mister..."
"I don't really like formalities. My name is Yukiteru but my girlfriend calls me Yuki. My girlfriend and I are new to ghoul to human ratios within this area." says Yuki nervously chuckling.
"Don't kid around about taking in a ghoul. Humans who act like normal around ghouls have to be killed by the CCG after finding out about the ghoul they thought was human." says Hide annoyed.
"Keep a calm mind. When we came into contact with the albino ghoul, we mistakenly got it in our minds that he was actually our son. Sounds foolish since we could never have kids. He acts more like a human than he does a murderous ghoul and we finally got him to agree to living with us. If he were human, we'd pretty much be adopting him and become his new more welcoming parents." says Yuki looking serious opening the door wider.
"A parentless ghoul who acts human unless provoked? That makes me wonder... ghouls without families get defensive when humans come in contact with them yet you say the ghoul with you has more human habits than ghoul." says Hide pondering.
"Don't think to into it kid." says Yuki wanting to close the door on the ghoul killer in training.
"The ghoul you're harboring, his eyes...were the strangest I've seen. I've seen a lot of photos of ghouls and this is a first I've seen a albino ghoul when I was with an expert ghoul hunter who goes by Amon." says Hide looking up in thought.
'Should I grab a knife for self defense?' wonders Yuno inching toward the knife rack in the kitchen.
"He's not in the house yet Yuno! I'm trying to get some information out of him!" says Yuki looking at the kitchen.
'Is he friend or foe? If he's a foe, I'm coming after him!' says Yuno.
"No-one in this house is going to keep a calm mind at this rate." thinks Yuki shaking his head sighing.
"Mister uhhh Yukiteru was it? It's gonna be night time soon and ghouls love to prowl at night. Is it ok if I stay the night before heading back to work?" says Hide tilting his head confused.
"You can handle it if you are a CCG hero ghoul killer." says Yuki raising an eyebrow.
"You're mistaken. I only run errands between my superiors! Amon mostly BUT STILL!" says Hide.
"Then head back to your apartment. Shouldn't be that far away. You'll be just fine." says Yuki.
"A paper boy is easy pray. I'm never armed since I was never in battle with one despite being in the CCG a few months." says Hide unamused.
"You just met us and already you're asking the impossible. You're better off heading home where you belong." says Yuki turning around to head inside.
"I'll leave you to your business once I see the ghoul's face and see for myself if he is a good ghoul or not." says Hide grabbing the collar of Yuki's over shirt.
Yuki sighed an annoyed sigh before ushering Hide into the apartment and onto the couch.
"I'll keep my girlfriend from lunging at you with a weapon. She doesn't take to people who seem to fake their way into being our friends. Stay put and I'll get the ghoul to come down." says Yuki looking at Hide.
Hide shuddered in fear of being sliced to bits just for coming in contact with the newcomers.
"Be right back." says Yuki patting Hide's shoulder before heading upstairs.
It took almost an hour for Yuki to bring Ken downstairs and already it felt like a horrible idea. Yuno had tossed a knife at a wall before setting Hide's cap on it to dangle upside down from the opening in the back. Ken was twisting his body away from Hide wanting to rush back to the only safe place he had.
"Hey." says Hide waving to Ken.
Ken froze in place shifting his eyes to look behind him despite not facing the boy.
"What's your name albino ghoul?" wonders Hide.
There was no response making Hide frown as he leaned forward wanting to get a better look at the ghoul's face.
"You can trust me." says Hide smiling.
"At least this is a better way to meet up again. Not how I pictured it but it's a start." thinks Ken repeating the first sentence in his head.
"I understand this is out of the blue so thousands of scenarios are going through your head for you to figure out a way to get away." says Hide the brief smile fading.
"...it's not that I don't wanna see you. I detest the ghoul killers but I can't fully hate all of them. As things are now, I can't handle bloodshed and chaos. I can adapt all I want but death doesn't bring back the ones who are cared for." says Ken.
Ken looked at Yuki who nodded reassuring him of doubts before slowly turning around to face his long time friend. Ken's snow white hair and Taupe eyes(brown-gray shade; a middle point for gray and brown) staring with mixed feelings at Hide's blond hair and brown eyes.
"You should know better than to come here. It's a rare case when humans and ghouls can mingle like nothing's changed whether out of friendship or love. And if you are one of those cases, you'd eventually get thrown into a cell or die before you could live out your days on earth." says Ken looking down shaky eyed.
"Looks like someone's getting defensive." says Hide staring blankly.
"Kenny...watch what you're saying." whispers Yuno looking at Ken.
Ken went silent going up to the couch to sit by Hide, keeping his eyes covered by his bangs.
"Albino...?" wonders Hide glancing at Ken.
It took some time before Ken could speak again with the 3 humans staring at the mute ghoul racking his mind on how to word things without giving himself away.
"I've seen the actions of both ghouls and the CCG. It was hell becoming insane to make a point. You can't trust either species when you are the one who has to hear from both sides, constantly hearing everything horrible from both points of view. Feeling like you are human yet knowing your fate is sealed forcing you to see more from the ghoul's eyes than you can the human's eyes." says Ken tears coming down his cheeks.
All Hide could do is stare letting what Ken was saying sink in before turning his head to look at the floor with clasped hands.
"From what you're saying, you were born a half ghoul unable to linger around either species because of your unique situation and never really knowing about your parents." says Hide gloomily.
"I should've stayed in my room while you chatted with my soft hearted anxiety ridden foster father and sweet yet psycho foster mother that took me in without a doubt in their minds." says Ken heading back to his room.
"The only other option is if mad scientists took Kaneki's body and experimented on the slowly dying body by put...ting ghoul organs in a human bod...dy. But that's ludicrous. Who'd be insane enough to fuck over Ken in such a way while staying in a normal everyday...hospital?" says Hide turning his head to face Ken.
Hide's eyes widened at the pale skinned ghoul who was now shaken up by what Hide remarked, standing halfway up the steps, more so looking like he had one foot on the upper step with the other below him.
"There are possibilities like that!?" wonders Hide horrified.
"I said to much. How you see me is up to you. What humans don't realize is better left never talked about. I knew it'd be to soon but Yuki insisted and now I screwed myself over just by telling you all I've seen. At least the parts I haven't blocked out." mumbles Ken continuing up to his room.
Hide was left on the couch staring at the stairway, unable to speak or move. Yuno waved a hand in front of the stilled boy as his brain came to terms with what the albino kid said.
"Thanks to you letting him in, we broke the kid before the ghoul was ready to talk. You should've shooed him away. Oh yeah...you'd need me to scare everyone away. Your conscious would pray things would end well before thinking the worst is still around lingering in your head. Definitely like Kenny." says Yuno looking at Yuki unamused.
Yuki just shrugged.
"Timings are finicky like that." says Yuki.
"It wouldve been wiser if Kenny was his usual self before spouting out whats been ailing him. Now its gonna be more likely he gets the CCG to break down our door and confront us. We don't know Hide as well as Kenny does so there's another more risky possibility but Hide will have to fake his way around his work schedule." says Yuno setting her fingers on her chin in deep thought.
"Hey, Yukiteru?" wonders Hide shadow eyed frowning.
"Yes?" wonders Yuki.
"Is that really Ken Kaneki up there or a doppelganger? Ken was butchered by the purple haired Rize. The news proved it the night he took her out for a date. I can accept that to a point but now there's a ghoul who not only looks like Kaneki but has his personality and emotions. Only thing different is his hair color and maybe eyes...can't remember if Ken had brown or black eyes. Everything up to the mutilation feels like a blur of him and me being the best of friends. So what gives?" wonders Hide not once facing the duo.
"Its all up to interpretation. He could be the Ken you knew but his life and the life you live are parallel worlds with different scenarios mirrored together with differences the other world wouldn't be able to fathom." says Yuki sitting on the couch.
"Who'd be dumb enough to believe in other worlds that have different interpretations of everyone here? You'd need godly powers to let a being from another world enter another perspective of the world they knew while hoping the other version of the being doesn't spot them." says Hide shaken up.
"Us for starters. We've gone through the same thing. Going through cycles until we found eachother again. Now Ken is going through the same turmoil and only recalls how his version of earth turned his life upside down from the moment that Rize girl went out with him on a supposed date. You heard what he said, brief but to the point. He can't lie about what his eyes were seeing as if he were Batman standing atop a building watching over everyone going about their lives with many dying in the process due to ghoul killings. Would it be wise to put it down as that? Would Ken fit the Batman persona? Either way, no-one can choose how their lives come into play, you can only know how the world views you before you can tell your story if someone actually listened. Going into hiding wasn't the greatest of choices but he did it and when he found his best friend by luck of chance, the person's side was injured during a ghoul raid. They mingled for a bit and before he could say anything revolving around his disappearance, that person lost consciousness and never woke up. He was a frightened mess when we saw him and now we're attempting to mend his heart." says Yuki gloomily.
"You wanna know who the person was that died in his arms?" wonders Yuno looking at the confused boy.
"I'm good. I have a pretty good hunch." says Hide getting up.
"Aren't you staying here?" wonder Yuno and Yuki looking at Hide.
"A person would have to be a prick if they see a ghoul showing emotions like a human would and left them thinking it was a ploy." says Hide heading upstairs.
"How do you think this'll play out?" wonders Yuno.
"God only knows why things end up the way they do." says Yuki.
