"First thing's first. We need to find a way to hide our faces before we go hunting." Eto declared once the pair was fully recovered and back on their feet.
"You mean like masks?" Kaneki asked, blinking. He's seen other ghouls wear masks to hide their faces from the CCG's Doves.
"Yeah, and we also need to change clothes, since both of ours are kinda...gone." Eto added as she looked at the tattered state their clothes were in as a result of their fight. Kaneki's shirt was torn up, to the point where he barely had one. His shorts were just as bad as his shirt.
Eto wasn't any better, her dark red dress torn down her mid-line just past her belly button and flapped in the wind, causing Kaneki to turn beet red and turn away from the girl.
Said girl just busted out laughing at the meek boy. She noted that he was a pretty vicious fighter, yet outside of battle, he was pretty shy and adorable.
"C'mon, I think there was a mask on that ghoul we were fighting over back there." Eto said while taking the boy's hand and jumping off the roof back into the alley that they met in.
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Just as Eto said, Kaneki found a mask on the dead ghoul that he was eating. It was a black leather half mask that wrapped around the face with a strap of leather crossing between the eyes. Strangely enough, there was an eye patch that could cover Kaneki's right eye and display his kakugan while hiding the fact he was a one eyed ghoul. On the "mouth" of the mask was a grotesque grin with a zipper that could be opened.
"Oo~ pretty spooky. but there's one thing i don't like about it..." Eto said as she looked a the mask...and promptly tears out the eye-patch to Kaneki's horror.
"If you tear out the eye patch, everyone's gonna know that i'm a one eyed ghoul!" Kaneki cried out in protest. The green haired girl chuckled and shook her head.
"We don't wanna hide the fact that we're special, Kaneki. We're both half ghouls, and we should be proud of it!" Eto said while handing the "modified" mask back to Kaneki, who sighed and put the mask on.
"How does it look, Eto?" Kaneki asked his partner as he zipped open the mouthpiece.
"Yeah, that definitely suites you," Eto giggled at her masked companion.
"What about you?" Kaneki asked the girl by his side.
"I'm sure we'll figure something out" The green haired girl said while thinking. She then grabs Kaneki's hand and runs to a department store nearby that was closed down for the day.
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"I'm pretty sure we can find something here, as well as some clothes too." She giggled at the small squeak Kaneki made, having been reminded at their current clothing predicament.
About 30 minutes in, Eto finally said screw it and grabbed several rolls of gauze wrap from the first aid kit under the front desk and ran over to Kaneki, who found new clothes for the two.
"Couldn't find a mask, so we'll settle for the next best thing" She said, holding up the rolls of bandages to him.
"You're gonna wrap yourself up in bandages?" Kaneki blinked at the unorthodox suggestion Eto gave him.
"Yup! Which means, you're gonna have to help wrap me up" She told him cheerfully as she unshamefully began to strip off her tattered dress and was soon as naked as the day she was born, much to the young Kaneki's distress.
"E-E-Eto?! Why are you taking off your clothes?!" Kaneki shouted at her in his flustered state.
"Just shut it and wrap me up, you big baby." Eto stuck out her tongue at him playfully and tossed him one of the rolls of bandages.
Kaneki fumbled with the roll of bandages and wisely started with her private parts first. After her decency was covered, Kaneki began to relax a bit and proceeded in wrapping up her whole body from toe to neck.
"Cover my face too. Or else this would defeat the purpose of a mask." Eto told Kaneki who nodded and wrapped up her face too, making sure there was room for her to breathe too.
"There, perfect!. Now that wasn't so bad, now was it?" She giggled at Kaneki as she inspected his handy work. "Hey, you did a pretty good job actually." Eto gave Kaneki a thumbs up in approval as the got dressed in their new clothes. Kaneki, a plain black shirt with long khaki pants. While Eto put on a crimson red hoodie and black dress over her bandaged body.
"Now" She began, stretching with a sigh as she pulled the hood of her sweater over her head with a grin. "let's raise hell, partner." She took his hand and they walked out into the night together, hand in hand.
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And raise hell they did.
The two were like pack animals, double teaming their prey with deceit and blind siding tactics taught to Kaneki by Eto.
The young ghoul never realized how efficient it was to hunt with another. With the two little predators working together, they took down prey larger than themselves, both ghouls and humans alike.
As Kaneki and Eto devoured their latest meal, both children jerked their heads up, a new scent alerting them.
Eto relaxed, seemingly recognizing the scent. "Noroi's here!" She exclaimed, looking up to see a tall figure wearing a blank white mask with only a creepy wide smile present.
Kaneki blinked at the tall figure as he loomed over the children. Eto ran behind Kaneki and latched onto his back in protest. "No, Noro! I don't wanna leave. I'm having fun with my new friend." She stuck her tongue out at the man and hid her face into the back of the boy's shirt.
Noroi didn't say anything as a massive crimson bikaku with a row of sharp teeth grew out from behind him and stretched out and simply swallowed up Eto from behind Kaneki effortlessly.
With Eto in his possession, Noroi politely bowed to Kaneki and lept up to the rooftops and vanished into the darkness, leaving Kaneki by himself.
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Kaneki, now alone, wondered the streets of the 20th ward at a lethargic pace.
He missed Eto already.
Not too far up ahead, the young one eyed ghoul could smell something...strange. It was pleasant, yet it didn't smell like meat at all. It was aromatic with an earthy scent.
Drawn to the exotic smell, Kaneki rushed up ahead to the source of the scent, a small building with the name "Anteiku".
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Inside the coffee shop of Anteiku, Kuzen Yoshimura and the two staff members were about to finish closing shop, when a black haired ghoul child entered the building. He was young, around seven years old wearing a black half facial mask with a hideous grin. The most peculiar feature of the boy was that he had only one human eye and one kakugan.
He was a One Eyed Ghoul.