Just a heads up, this chapter contains heavy shit later on down the page, so just be ready for that lol.

Anyway, this is the pre-chapter to the two lemons I have in mind to read, more details on that in the author's notes. Also as a side note, I've misspelt Yasuhisa, and been accidentally typing it as Yashiro, which I think is that one teenage girl from that anime series, 'Toilet-Bound Hanako-Kun'. I'll have to fix that later, lol.

Anyways, might include her too idk, she's pretty cute. She could be Hinami's friend, idk. Anyways, onto the meat and potatoes.

Please enjoy this chapter, thank you!


Sitting beside Hide's hospital bed within the medical bay of Vault 079, Kaneki couldn't help but think back to a couple days ago, when Haise was the first one to visit him when he had awoken from his coma. Kaneki was glad that Hide's injuries weren't as serious as his, back when he had been attacked by Rize. A matter of fact, Kaneki couldn't have hoped for a better outcome: Hide was wide awake and was taking the news of his missing limb extremely well, and although there were injuries that needed to be treated, Kaneki's soldiers all came back from the cavern alive.

Having caught Hide up with everything he missed, along with showing footage of the battle they fought against Darkside by using his Pipboy to remotely access the Vault's mainframe, Kaneki was mildly amused by the look of astonishment plastered on his best friend's flabbergasted face. "Holy crap, dude… Since when were you such a badass?!"

Chuckling softly by how amazed Hide sounded, Kaneki smiled softly while furrowing his brows; his thoughts still pondering over the repressed memory that had recently been awakened within him. "Longer than what I have guessed myself… Everything seems so different now, yet… Yet I think I'm still the same person, aren't I?" Kaneki asked aloud more so to himself than Hide, as he was still wondering just how true his vision was.

Snickering at Kaneki's existential question, Hide rolled his eyes playfully before fanning his hand down to dismiss his best friend's concern. "Hey man, the past is the past, isn't it? You're still my best friend, and still sort of awkward when it comes to socializing; no offense, fam," Hide apologized casually, which didn't bother Kaneki much; in fact, the young one-eyed ghoul had actually missed Hide's banter, and found it comforting more so than annoying.

"No, I understand what you're trying to get at Hide," Kaneki said with a patient smile across his thin lips. "But… I think you're right, Hide. I suppose overthinking the past and getting obsessed with it won't do me any good; what's done is done. Still, I think it's pretty interesting to talk about, don't you?"

"Oh, definitely, man; I still think it's crazy that I met you only a year after all that crap went down with the dragons, huh? And to think, you were rescued from the epicenter of it all…" Hide mused with a curious look coming over him, as he thought of Kaneki's newfound brother. "Makes you wonder what your life would have been like if you never got adopted, huh? Think you'd like your life as a, what was it again…? A 'raper'?"

"'Reaper', Hide, not 'raper'," Kaneki corrected with an amused smirk on his face that fet guilty for finding it slightly funny, due to the nature of the misconception. "Anyway, uh… I don't know? I think I wouldn't to be honest, Haise has… Well, I'd hate to sound judgmental, but… I see that he does have a lot of unresolved trauma that was probably caused by that lifestyle, so… I really don't think being a 'reaper' would be all that it's cracked up to be."

Nodding at Kaneki's answer and agreeing with his explanation and assumptions, Hide let out a quick chortle beneath his breath before saying, "No kidding… Still, even if what you told me makes him seem like a basketcase, he seems like a really cool guy! Speaking of which… How does it feel, Kaneki? You got yourself an older brother now: an older brother who's got money and can kick ass?"

Still being new to the idea of having an actual living member who he's close to, Kaneki let out a dry laugh as he shook his head softly. "Honestly? I'm still getting used to the whole concept myself… I… I had my suspicions earlier, when I first met him, but… I don't know, I guess given his background, I suppose Haise didn't want to complicate his life or my life with that truth. Even so, it's… It's really comforting to know that I have someone else— other than you, of course— who I can count on now," Kaneki said, while making sure to include that he saw Hide as a brother in a way.

"Right on, right on… I'm glad you've gotten to do some networking with the right kind of people, because uh… Seems like there's lots of people who are counting on you now, 'Boss'," Hide said half-playfully, as he nodded over to all the other hospital beds that were occupied by those who had decided to make the vault their new home. "So much for Kami, right? You've got your own underground city, soldiers, and faction to run… An overnight millionaire, am I right bro?!"

"Pffft, I wish," Kaneki chuckled sarcastically at Hide's assumption, as he thought back to the talk he had between him and Kuzen. "This place has a lot of potential to grow, and well… The research done here is too important to let go to waste. I'm going to put Rio in charge of this vault when I'm not here, sort of like a manager. The people who I freed, the ones who are wanting to stay here, are going to have their hands full cleaning up this place and getting it in order. The only thing we got here to make profit out of are all the dragon material we can extract from the cave; which, uh… Will take a lot of time and hard work to do, so…"

"… I'm not rich yet, but that's okay, these people here aren't looking here to line my pockets. They're here to rebuild this as a new settlement, and get more good people here from out of the wasteland," Kaneki explained to Hide, who was proud to hear that his best friend was still selfless and noble, despite having power that would have corrupted most people. "Once we get back to Tokyo though, I'm going to have to get in contact with whoever runs TSC. I'm going to convince them to provide this vault with the resources it needs, and in exchange they can have access to our research and purchase the dragon materials first… That should provide this vault with everything they need to thrive."

Whistling out an impressed tune, Hide clapped his hands as he raised an eyebrow at his best friend. "Wow, look at you Mr. Bigshot! Already got the plans to get this show on the road! You're gonna be making waves out there Kaneki, the wasteland won't know what'll hit them!" Hide congratulated Kaneki, while hyping the young man up with his enthusiasm alone.

"Thank you, Hide, but I have to give credit where it's due," Kaneki said modestly, as he raised a hand out to stop Hide's hands from clapping longer. "Mr. Yoshimura was the one who formulated the plan, and actually sort of guided me on what I should be expecting from my role as a leader," Kaneki explained, before suddenly remembering something that he wanted to tell Hide.

"Speaking of Mr. Yoshimura… It's coincidental, and the odds are astounding, but… I found out after I helped him back into the vault that he actually owns Anteiku. You remember, that coffee shop we went to where I got yelled at by that waitress?" Kaneki asked with a slightly embarrassed look on his face, as he watched Hide's confused expression slowly transform into becoming shocked.

"No shit?! Really?! You're telling me that not only did you end up killing a dragon and an army of its little goons, on top of establishing a new faction within a fully-operational underground city that you now own, but you also managed to find the missing owner of that place, AND helped your new older brother find the missing girl he was searching for?!" Hide asked with an excited and amazed voice, as his jaw fell down from the sheer luck that his best friend ended up having.

Not wanting to blow air into his own horn, but being unable to deny the amazing feats he had been able to achieve within a day, Kaneki closed his eyelids and rubbed the back of his head with one hand as he nodded. "I suppose I did, didn't I? Not alone, of course, but… Y-Yes, yes that all happened because of me."

From the sheer ridiculousness and absurdity of it all, all Hide could do was let out an amused howl of triumphant laughter, as tears of joy rolled down his tickled-pink cheeks. "Holy shit dude, we should get kidnapped more often! Screw Kami University, you and I should be expanding our group to the rest of Japan! We'll be enacting our own manifest destiny on those stupid ugly dragons!" Hide cheered with a confident look in his eye, while Kaneki couldn't help but look pleasantly shocked to hear.

"Oh wow… I'm actually, uh… I'm happy to hear that you're on board, Hide; I was actually nervous about wanting to ask you if you wanted to join my faction," Kaneki admitted with a wavering smile on his face, as his grey and red eyes glanced down over to the white blanket that was covering Hide's missing leg. "I… I wanted you to be with me on this, because I really… I really need you with me, Hide; you're great with people, and always know what to say… I-I wasn't sure how well I would have done if you… If you didn't say 'yes'."

"Well thankfully for you Kaneki, you don't have to know what you have done in that hypothetical scenario, because I'm ready to be your 'second-in-command' when you're ready to give me the honors!" Hide said with a cheesy grin on his face, as he immediately made it clear to his best friend what position he wanted within his group.

"Of course Hide, I wouldn't have had it any other way," Kaneki replied back with a warm look on his face, as he reached up over the side-railing of the bed to shake hands with his eager best friend. "Your duties as my second-in-command start now: I don't know what to name the faction, and I need help picking out a good name."

Retracting his hand away from Kaneki's after their friendly shake was over, Hide crossed his arms over his chest and smirked slyfully as he closed his eyelids. "Oh man, oh man… I haven't even gotten out of bed yet, and I'm already getting bossed around by you…! You're a pushy boss, Kaneki!"

"You wanted the job, didn't you? Kaneki asked jokingly with a playfully smug look on his face, as he crossed one leg over the other to get comfortable while he began brainstorming with his new second-in-command about what they would name their new and growing faction.

Meanwhile, being only twenty minutes away from the medical bay of the vault, the Yasuhisa twins had decided to bunker down and lay claim to one of the thousands of apartments available within the residential sector of the underground city. While Kurona got off easy with healed injuries that she had been able to walk off, her white-haired twin, Nashiro, was still extremely sore and fatigued after having healed from her critical injuries.


Sitting by her sister's bedside on one of the blue-and-yellow metal dining chairs she had taken from their retro futuristic kitchen, Kurona reached over with one arm to interlace her fingers between her sister's, as they held hands to comfort one another. Although Kurona was glad and eternally thankful to Kaneki for saving her and her sister from certain death, the black-haired twin felt weak for having let down her sister and herself; something that her twin sister was quick to pick up on.

"Why do you frown like that, dear sister? You and I survived battling an army of monsters, and have quite the future ahead of us. You should be thankful that we still have one another," Nashiro said in a tired voice, as she fought the urge to let her heavy-eyelids get the better of her.

Correcting her frown into a small smile, Kurona gazed into her twin sister's beautiful eyes and sighed longfully. "Oh dead sister, I am beyond grateful for how things ended the way they did; don't mistake my disappointment for sorrow or bitterness. I'm just… I'm just ashamed that I couldn't save you myself, dear sister; and I hate the feeling of being indebted," Kurona admitted with furrowed brows.

"Ah, I see now… You're upset, because you feel like you can't pay back our new boss for what he's done for us?" Nashiro inquired, while nodding her head to show that she too felt obligated to show her appreciation for someone as heroic and selfless as Kaneki. "I too feel the desire to give him a personal reward for his act of valor…"

"Then you understand the frustration I'm feeling, dear sister? After all, how can we pay him back for not only saving our lives, but making sure that we're well taken care of once we enter through the gates into Tokyo?" Kurona asked, while staring at her sleepy sister with pleading eyes, as she felt Nashiro rubbing her thumb lovingly over the top of her hand. "You and I don't have anything worthwhile to give him, and the thought of needing to wait long enough until we've racked up something good enough to give him makes me… It makes me feel weaker than I already feel."

Flashing a promiscuous smirk at her perplexed sister, Nashiro softly released her grip from Kurona's hand before reaching up to her twin-sister's shoulder. "But dear sister, have you forgotten so easily? You and I do have something special to give onto our savior…!" Nashiro said with her cheeks becoming a deepening shade of red, as she softly lowered her slender hand away from Kurona's shoulder, and glided her palm over the black-haired woman's vault suit until lowering it down on her right breast.

Kurona's breath fled through her agaped lips, as she let out a soft moan as she felt Nashiro's hand cupping over her right boob through her skin-tight vault suit. "D-Dear sister…! Are you… Are you asking me to give my body to our boss?" Kurona asked with a lustful look coming over her face, as she reached up with her hands to unbutton her suit's collar, before zipping it down open to give Nashiro better access to her bare chest.

Running her fingers over the sensitive skin that covered Kurona's C-Cup breast, Nashiro raised a brow at her sister while pinching down on her erect pink-nipple. "Oh no, dear sister, I cannot allow that… For I too need to give my penance to our dear leader, and I'll be damned if I put such a burden on you alone…!" Nashiro said cheerfully while biting down on her lower lip, as she squeezed down on her sister's nipple while gently pulling on it.

"Mmmm, my lovely sister…! You have such high ambitions for us, b-but in your state…?! How do you expect t-to pleasure our boss, when you're still recoverin— mmm~!" Kurona moaned out suddenly, as she arched her back the moment she felt Nashiro's hand brushing down against her abdomen, before slipping down past the zipper of her vault suit to cup her palm over her pantyless womanhood.

"Dear sister, I might be bound to this bed for the rest of the night, and true, I feel myself slipping away into slumber," Nashiro admitted, before letting out a mix between a seductive giggle and a yawn, while she felt Kurona's body tensing up the same time as she started to insert a finger into her tight and peach-fuzzed covered snatch.

"But I have you to take care of me and our boss… Bring him to our bedroom, seduce him and show him his way onto my mattress. I'll do my best to stay awake, but if I'm too tired, then you'll have to guide him," Nashiro instructed, as she started to feel her own pussy beginning to get excited and wet, as she watched as Kurona's medium-sized breast bounced as she thrusted herself on-and-off of her fingers.

"I ask that you make sure that he releases himself inside of me, and on top of me. Waking up, covered and filled with his love from the aftermath of our night of celebration… Wouldn't that be quite the 'magic' morning, my lovely~?" Nashiro asked lustfully, while sliding her free hand down her blankets and in between her exposed inner thighs. Without any panties herself, Nashiro was able to freely rub her two fingers up against her own throbbing clit, as she began panting while watching Kurona going cross-eyed as she continued to ride her fingers like she would be doing later for Kaneki's cock.


Within the same residential area where the Yasuhisa twins were sharing a moment of intimate passion to prepare themselves for their boss, Haise had found himself his own apartment to take for the night. Unlike most of the other people in the vault, he had no intentions of taking up permanent residency within its pristine corridors. Far be it, he was there for a mission, and he only allowed himself to stay the night for the purpose of being asked to help Kaneki and his friends return to Tokyo safely.

Burdened with the safety of so many people, the steam that was heavy in the bathroom air felt refreshing for him, as he rested with his bottom sitting down on top of the closed lid of the metallic and automated toilet. Dressed in only his black turtleneck sweater that he had been wearing underneath his now-broken armor set, Haise made sure his sleeves were rolled up as he reached over to help scrub shampoo into Rize's wet hair.

After having his body crushed underneath his riot-armor as giant teeth grinded his bones to fragments, Haise acted immediately the moment he found that he was able to free himself from the dragon's enormous mouth. Haise didn't bother addressing his own pain or injuries after freeing himself, he immediately took command and organized Kaneki's able-bodied men and women to begin assisting him with bringing in the wounded back into the safety of the vault.

Knowing that Kaneki and Roma were alive and well, Haise made sure to wait until he was alone with the ex-gang of the clowns before having her show him where Souta had been hiding the capsule containing Rize. It didn't take long for the two to search underneath the unsuspecting cargo room beneath the catwalk that led to the elevator platform, and it was there underneath a tarp blanket Haise discovered the coffin-like prison that Roma had informed him of.

Having expected to find Rize either dead or feral, Haise made sure to keep his hunting revolver in one hand when he unlocked the capsule before opening it up. It was then and there that Haise was surprised to see that Rize's body looked just as normal as it should have, despite how her journal warned him of how she was turning. It was then that Roma explained that Souta made sure to do several treatments of RC-cell flushing, such as to purify Rize's body from the Dragon-Mutation cells that had infected her.

Despite all the good news that he was met with, that didn't prevent Haise from seeing Rize covered in her own filth and bodily fluids; a grotesque discover that Roma chalked up to no one having been able to reach her capsule to clean her, like how Souta had been doing himself. Having used the same tarp that Souta had placed over her prison capsule to hide her, Haise wrapped Rize's body up to give her naked body privacy before having made the trip to the residential sector in the first place.

And now that she was awake and staring back at him with the same purple eyes that he remembered being fixated on when they were children, Haise found himself feeling uncomfortable as he couldn't help but relieve the past within the confines of his head. Closing his eyelids shut, Haise did his best to push the disturbing thoughts of his past out of his head, which wasn't made easy due to the unique 'condition' causing him to fidget while he was suffering from a headache.

While Haise was pampering her by washing her hair for her, Rize— for once in her life— actually had a valid reason for stuffing her face. Having been brought a mixing bowl filled with artificial food that was prepared to look and taste like spaghetti with meat sauce, Rize shoveled large portions of the nutritious food into her gullet; only pausing to take a long swig of the large bottled glass of iced-cold coke-a-cola that Haise had managed to nab from the cafeteria before anyone else could see it.

Using whatever forms of meditation he could remember from the self-help magazines he had managed to secure from his time spent out in the wasteland, Haise tried to keep his eyes away from the tops of Rize's plump DD-sized breasts, which were floating above the top of the bubbly-surface of the hot-steaming water of the bathtub.

With the sounds of slurping and moaning coming from Rize as she scarfed down on the wet-noodles like it would be the last meat of her life, Haise's high-lido effected mind began painting mental images inside of his head that didn't quite sit well with the young man who couldn't help but to still imagine the woman who he had rescued as still a prepubescent in his head.

"Kamishiro, do you mind practicing some of the manners that your father taught you? You're slurping down those noodles so fast, I'm afraid that you might choke," Haise said with his eyes furrowed while forcing a smile on his face, as he did his best to play it off casually.

Giggling at how irritated her childhood crush sounded, Rize made sure to be as loud as she could as she swallowed the last noodle from her fork before swallowing it. "Hey, ease off Sasaki! You weren't locked up in some metal coffin and trapped inside your own shit and piss for— I don't even know for how long I was stuck in there!" Rize laughed while feeling frustrated and still hateful of her recent circumstances. "If I want to pig out and make up for all the food I was deprived of, then how about you do your girl favor, and let her eat, huh?!"

Opening his eyelids half way to glare at her with disbelief and annoyance, Haise let out a low sigh as carefully lowered her head down to rinse her head beneath the faucet. "You're my girl now? Since when?" Haise asked with a frown, all while reaching one hand up to take the half-empty bowl of food from Rize, so he could set it down on the sink's counter space beside him.

Letting out a relaxed sigh while closing her eyelids shut, Rize raised her arms up to rest them along the tops of the ceramic tub, as the much needed hot water cascaded down her soapy lockets of hair. "Pffftt, don't pretend like you don't know… I was literally born, and made, to be your 'girl' specially, Sasaki. We were a match made in heaven, according to what those bastard scientists thought…" Rize said with a sneer, while also smirking at how she once used to dream as a little girl of being with Haise.

"'A match made in heaven'? Oh please, it was more like 'a match made in Dante's inferno'…" Haise grumbled beneath his breath, before reaching down to pinch Rize's nostrils. "Hold your breath, please," Haise instructed, and gave Rize a moment to take in a deep breath before he submerged her head gently beneath the surface of the water.

Upon pulling her back up from the soapy water, Haise made sure to gently push aside the wet-long strands of purple hair from her face, before wiping her closed eyelids free of any water. Smiling from practically ear-to-ear, Rize found it hilarious just how Haise was trying to downplay the history between them, and as she turned her head over her shoulder to stare up at his exhausted eyes, she smiled smugly at him.

"If Sunlit Gardens was akin to Dante's Inferno for you, does that make Arima the 'Vergil' to your 'Dante'?" Rize asked sarcastically, while making sure to point out how Haise blindly followed Arima and took his word as the undisputed truth.

Deadpanned with a mildly aggravated look in his grey and red eyes, Haise took in a deep breath and let out it slowly before saying, "Excellent comparison you just made, but I think I have a better one: I think you fit the character description of the Devil at the climax of the story. You know, the one that's trapped in ice, or some other literal symbolism?"

Finding Haise's sass to be almost as amusing as just how much she was getting under his skin, Rize snorted and laughed as she rolled carefully onto her side within the tub of hot water. Resting her cheek against his arm while cuddling his forearm with her wet arms, Rize closed her eyelids and nuzzled herself against Haise. "Oh no, sweetheart, I'm more like the beautiful maiden who was waiting for Dante at the end of the story, when she finally is reunited with her lost love within the sanctuary of Purgatory itself…"

"Aren't you clever…?" Haise muttered sarcastically with a frustrated voice, as he used his free arm to reach behind Rize to pull the plug that he had used to cover the tub's drain. "Here, I'll help you out; I don't want you to slip and get hurt," Haise announced, as he got up from his spot on the closed-toilet lid to kneel down beside the bathtub.

"Thanks, I try to be," Rize replied back with her own smart-ass attitude, as she brought herself closer to Haise to help him out with his next task.

Reaching out with his kagune to carefully take one of the large towels off of the bathroom hooks mounted on the white-tile walls, Kaneki retracted his tendril back into his kakuhou the moment after he reached back to take a hold of it. Carefully, Haise tucked one arm beneath the back of Rize's knees and the other he let her continue to caress and cuddle up against, as he carried her out of the tub bridal style before wrapping her body in a towel.

Reaching up from his forearm to allow Haise to reach over for another towel to wrap it around her wet hair, Rize reached up and hooked her hands behind his neck to pull herself closer to him, just so she could be closer to him as he skillfully continued to hold her bridal style while taking care of her wet-hair.

"Oh come now, Sasaki; don't pretend like you're oblivious to the special connection you and I have, and always will have… After all, you were my first, and I was your first too; we have a bond together that no other woman will ever have with you," Rize said with a proud look on her relaxed face, as she continued to nuzzle her face against Haise's chest while resting her eyelids.

Still irked and suffering from his headache caused by his sex-drive, Haise blinked in rapid succession for a few moments, as he grimaced at the mental image painted by Rize's shameless words. And although he wanted to deny the bond that he shared with her, Haise knew that Rize was right, but unlike her, Haise found their relationship to be more like a scar than anything beautiful, like how she thought it to be.

Carrying her to the destination he had chosen for her within their two-bedroom apartment, the automated metal door slid close behind Haise, as he made his way to the edge of the neatly made bed. "Kamishiro, you and I…" Haise tried rejecting the idea that Rize had been holding onto the two of them since she was a baby, and as Haise laid the fully grown young woman down on top of the bed sheets, it was then that he realized that he didn't have an excuse ready for her: the one woman who had always been able to see straight through him.

On her back was laid against the soft mattress and comforter sheets, Rize didn't mind straining herself as she pushed herself upwards so that she had the pillows angled behind her lower back. Staring at Haise's delirious eyes with confidence and love in hers, Rize smiled to welcome her other-half as she slowly raised her knees up to her chest. "Must you fight everything in your life, Sasaki? Surely even you know that you cannot overcome destiny itself," Rize cooed with her heart racing in her chest, as she tossed the towel off her body before parting her thighs open to present Haise her unshaven genitals to him.

Frustrated, horny, exhausted, and unable to think straight, Haise did his best to ignore the tightening going on down in the crotch area of his slacks, and averted his gaze away from Rize's beautiful bare body that she was trying to use to seduce him. "Why… Why are you doing this? Why now?" Haise asked while raising his hand up to block his vision, as to avoid giving into the temptation of staring at the ghoul who was so eager to achieve what she thought was her life's purpose.

"Because Sasaki, I know what it's like to try and fit into this false world that they forced us into… I know your pain my love, I know how difficult it is to be someone you're not; to pretend to be happy and conformed, when in reality it's the opposite," Rize explained in a comforting and soothing voice, and like the call of a siren, she beckoned Haise to join her on the bed by curling her finger at him; motioning him to climb between her legs.

Cursing himself for being too weak to resist any longer, Haise gritted his teeth behind his closed lips as he did as he was led to do, and soon he knelt down between Rize's legs as she reached out with her hands to caress the sides of his face. "You and I? Weren't not them, and will never be them, no matter how much we try to lie to ourselves that we are. Trust my love, I've tried for ten years, and when I left the safety of the life that I was forced into, when I made my pilgrimage back to our home, just so I could make sense of it all…"

"… It led me back to you. How can you explain that as anything other than the work of whatever sick and twisted god is out, who allowed for our existence to continue. You and I, Sasaki? We're the only ones who ever made each other feel truly accepted," Rize said with an amorous voice, as she pulled Haise closer to her so that his body was pressing up against hers. Combining her fingers through the back of his thick lockets of white and black hair, Rize pressed her forehead against his, and smiled sorrowfully as she watched as tears slowly trailed down his cheeks.

"Y-You're wrong… That's wrong…T-That can't be true, it's… It's not fair, it's not r-right…" Haise choked out in a hushed whisper, as over a decade's worth of repressed emotions and tears began to unravel themselves from within the broken fortifications developed within his head. "I… I don't believe you, I don't b-believe you," Haise continued to repeat again-and-again, all while Rize continued to smile sadly while gazing into his heartbroken eyes, where she saw her own reflection staring back at her.

"… How ugly we are…" Rize mused aloud with a humorless chuckle leaving past her lips, as she finally said the words she had been meaning to say to him for over ten years. "It's fine Haise, I've… I've been saved by you countless times, right? You've been protecting me since I came into this cruel and beautiful world… You did what you had to do back then, and I've never held it against you, no matter how many times they made us do what no child should do; not once have I ever held any resentment toward you for tha—"

"—SHUT THE HELL UP ALREADY!!!" Haise suddenly snapped, as his crying eyes widened at the unflinching ghoul who had been trying to get into his head since the moment he was forced to consummate with at a very early age. Furious and going into a hormone and traumatic-induced fury, Haise practically threw himself off of the bed and fell on the floor. As he scrambled up to his feet, he could hear Rize giggling at his panic-attack as he stood up to press his back up against the wall.

"Ara, ara! This brings back memories, doesn't it?" Rize teased sadistically, as she recalled the times when Haise would try to fight back and resist being told to breed with her. "If only Arima was here to stab some sense into you like he did back then, maybe then you'd finally let me show you just how right I am about us!"

Baring his teeth at her while he side-stepped toward the bedroom door, Haise and Rize locked eyes with one another. "Y-You're not right in the head, Kamishiro…! What we had between us, the thing you're romanticizing? That wasn't love, Kamishiro… It was wrong!"

"Really? If it was so wrong, then why does your cock say otherwise, hmmm?" Rize asked mockingly, as she crossed her legs over one another while nodding over at the visible erection that was bulging in between Haise's crotch. "You aren't fooling me, Sasaki; you never have, and you never will, no matter how much you lie to yourself, you'll never be able to lie to me…"

Stopping in his tracks only when the sliding door opened the moment he stood close enough to activate its motion sensor, Haise remained silent as he glared back into the perplexing gaze of the young woman who saw him as her destined partner for life. "… I'm going to sleep in my room, away from you. I'm going to take you back to your father's tomorrow, and then that's it; we're done, alright? I don't want to see you again…"

Unmoved and unphased by what she saw as an empty proclamation made by Haise, Rize mocked him by forcing a yawn, as she began tucking herself beneath the comforters of the bed. "If that's what you need to tell yourself to feel better, then so be it; it doesn't change anything. Our souls and flesh are intertwined, Sasaki; in life and death, you will never get rid of me, no matter how hard you try to deny us…" Rize said in a voice that was far less cheerful and feminine than her usual pitch, and instead sounded menacing and ominous as she glared intensely into the eyes of the man who she saw as her birthright.

That split moment where she allowed herself to drop her promiscuous and careless persona left as soon as it came, and soon Rize was back to being as cool as a cucumber as she flipped on her back and rested her head down on the pillow. "Okay, goodnight Sasaki! Turn the lights off on your way out, mmkay~?" Rize instructed in a cheery-carefree voice, as she began drifting off to sleep as though what had just transpired between her and Haise didn't have any mental toll on her.

With all the stress he had accumulated from healing from his injuries, from relieving the dark part of his past that he wanted to distance himself from as soon as possible, and to the fact that his overactive libido was beginning to cause a hormonal imbalance that was giving him a debilitating migraine, Haise was finding it hard to distinguish reality from the ongoing hallucinations that were plaguing him once again.

'Shit, shit, shit! Fuck, fuck, fuck, not now! Not now!' Haise thought frantically to himself, as he began seeing the ghostly image of an eight-year old Rize running over to him down the hallway. Whimpering and seething in agony, Haise felt his vision becoming tunneled, and found it harder to take anything more than shallow breaths as he stumbled out of Rize's bedroom before catching himself on the wall of the corridor.

'Haise, Haise! It's time! They said I might be ready this time!' The child hallucination of Rize announced cheerfully to him, which instantly made Haise sick to his stomach as he pushed himself to head toward the kitchen, to seek out anything he could use to help him.

Following behind him, the hallucination of Rize tried waving her arms at him to stop. 'Haise, no! Why are you running?! Don't you know that Kishou is just going to hurt you again, and then I'll have to do all the work by myself!' Rize scolded with the sass of a corrupted child who didn't know she was brainwashed.

Unable to control the contents of his empty stomach, Haise collapsed onto his knees and immediately vomited onto the metal floor of the living room. "F-Fuck you…!" Haise spat out at the fading ghost of Rize, and felt his body violently trembling as he tried to get up from the floor. The moment Haise got up to his feet however, he immediately let out a muffled cry of agony as he hallucinated IXA's lanced blade tearing through his abdomen, just like how it always did when he tried to fight Arima.

Although his injuries weren't real, the phantom pain left behind by his past was enough to send Haise toppling over the carpet in the living room, and slamming the side of his head against the metal coffee table; denting in the process. The pain in his head was sharper than it ever had been, which made it only that much more real to Haise when he tried rolling over to get up.

Standing over him, Haise saw Arima when he was young, back when he had blue hair. Laying on his back like he always did when after he would inevitably lose to his future mentor, Haise became paralyzed with fear as he stared at the tip of IXA hanging above his left eye.

Before being reminded just how agonizing it was to have a quinque blade rammed through his eye and out from the other side of his head, Haise saw the hallucination of his tormentor looking back at him with that stoic expression that he had become infamous for. It reminded Haise of the reality of his relationship with Arima: no matter how much he tried to take control of his own destiny, Arima would always be there to correct his course back into the one he saw fit for him.

'You shattered IXA, Haise… I'm going to need a new quinque,' Arima said with a cold and heartless tone, before plunging the blade of his lance straight through Haise's head; or at least that's what Haise hallucinated before beginning to seize up as his vision started to fade into black.

Before his mind could welcome him back into the dreamscape it had conjured up for him to find comfort in during his latest 'episode', Haise could vaguely make out the silhouette of a small-framed person kneeling over him. Unable to make out any distinguishing features of the figure huddled over him, Haise could feel whoever it was hovering over him wrapping him up in their small arms, as he finally slipped out of consciousness.


The next chapter will be Kaneki x Yasuhisa twins, and the one after that will be Haise x Roma. I honestly didn't expect for Haise and Roma to have such good chemistry, which is fine I suppose, but it sucks because I know that they can't be a monogamous couple, but maybe they can have an arrangement where she stays upstairs, and she takes the role of a mother for both him and Juuzou, while scheduling herself in to have sex with Haise when it's her turn. She's kind of a freak like that, so I can't imagine her not being flexible.

Anyways, onto the reviews lol.

Yes, Roma is a fifty-six year old virgin who was too afraid of men to ever allow herself to be vulnerable enough to sleep with one, so Haise being her hero and the only person who's ever stood up and watched out for her means a lot to her. She honestly would probably be fine with Haise seeing other girls, just so long as she gets to stay with him… Sort of like Juuzou, lol. The only person who doesn't know that they're the side-chick is Mutsuki.

Kaneki was kept away from the reapers, and it'll be explained why later in detail, but just know it was because he was human, and wasn't allowed to train with the likes of half-ghouls and ghouls, with the exception of Arima, who was in a league of his own. His memories were suppressed by his mother, who will be shown later in the fic as dedicating herself for the first year of being Kaneki's mother to 'fix' him.

But yes, with everything she's seen done for her by Haise, Roma's motivation for wanting to have sex with him isn't strictly because she finds him extremely attractive, but more so because she actually has feelings for him. Roma might be safe from being pregnant because of her age, I haven't decided yet tbh, because Haise's got that 'enhanced bioengineered NUT', lol.

Definitely going to have Kaneki and the Yasuhisa twins have vanilla-protein like orgasms, that taste good to them. Not sure how much nutrients would be in said magical cum, because it would probably be something else that they can drink, other than coffee, water, coke, and maybe tea? I don't see how or why ghouls wouldn't be able to drink tea, if they're able to consume coffee just fine.

Love the details of the suggestions you given me to use for the lemon, definitely going to be face-riding and no limits, due to the Yasuhisa twins being fine with incest. I would say that they would be loyal to him afterward, and not think of themselves as anything more than his loyal concubines.

With that being said, I'm sure with the whole dragon-apocalypse having wiped out a good majority of Japan's population, I think the mentality would be different if Kaneki and Haise were to have children with multiple women? With how the world is, where only the strongest would survive, it's not unreasonable to think that women wouldn't be opposed to sharing a man if he was the best candidate for them.

Especially since Kaneki will be later known as the One-Eyed King, and of course Haise being his older brother just gets wrangled into being 'royalty' by association of nepotism. A way to look at it is that Kaneki is becoming an alpha male, while Haise is and has always been a sigma male.

But thank you for the suggestions for Kaneki x Hikari being multiple sessions instead of just one long one. Who doesn't love lemons? The more the merrier! I think it'll be hot, and having Kaneki have someone to fill the role of a mommy dom for him will be perfect. Plus he could always shove it in Touka and Ayato's face that he's fucking their mom lol.

I could see Roma willing to dress up for Haise, sort of like how Juuzou cross dresses for him. Might include Haise having a thing for legit femboys who are feminine enough to pass for a woman. Haise's not exactly all there in the head usually, so anything's possible. Although, it's hard for me to imagine Haise being capable of rape, considering his past and how he found it to be sickening when Roma told him about what happened to his mom. Besides, as shown in the chapter, it's not like Haise could do much to someone when he's going through an episode of psychosis; if anything, he's the one vulnerable to being taken advantage of when he's like that.

And please keep looking for tomboys for you ol' pal, Scooby Doo. They don't even need to be just from Naruto or Attack on Titan, I'm open to any and all ideas! Hell, even femboys like Astoflo are golden here (Especially Astoflo). Hell, I'm even open to hearing other suggestionsat this point, but uh, you know, keep it classy lol.

And finally thank you for reviewing again Volta, I'm glad you've enjoyed Haise and Roma's dynamic thus far.

Okay homeslice, that about does it for now. Until next time, take care, and prepare to read a threesome and the first lemon of this fanfic that's about Kaneki lol. Okay, that about does it for now, if you have any requests for what you'd like to be seen done in the lemons ahead, hit your ol' pal up. Thank you, and have a damn good day!