"Kaito, what are you doing?" Hitomi screamed.
He did not seem to hear his sister. Kaito's body shook. The flesh had filled him with renewed energy. He lunged at Nenyoti, who was screaming.
Nenyoti tried to throw Kaito off, but Kaito hd found inhuman strength in the chunk of meat he had swallowed. The teal haired boy brought the older boy down onto the ground, so that he was laying on his back. With an eager look in his eye and a smile on his face, he aggressively pushed Nenyoti's head back, so that his throat was exposed.
Nenyoti's screams grew louder and louder, and then became choked as Kaito wrapped his teeth around his exposed throat.
"Kaito, stop!" Hitomi shouted, eyes wide with fear.
The hoarse screams became silent. Kaito threw his head back, and a sickening rip filled the air. Kaito held Nenyoti's windpipe in his mouth. The seven year old boy laid on the ground, lifeless.
When the windpipe had been ripped out, blood had splattered all over Hitomi. The crimson fluid stained her white hair and ran down her pale face. A single drop dripped from her nose onto her lips. Still frozen in shock, she managed to part her lips. The blood dribbled into her mouth.
It was sweet. It tasted better than anything Miss Akashinshi had ever given them to eat. Hitomi sucked at her lips to get more of the flavor.
"I'm hungry," she groaned, and then looked at her brother, who was tearing apart his victim's throat, shoving down all the meat. His one black and red eye was not enough to scare Hitomi away.
This is meat. This is what I'm supposed to eat. This is food. My meat. My human meat.
Hitomi's instincts took over, and she scrambled over to her brother. She grinned at him, and he paused eating for a brief second to return the smile. The white haired girl began tearing at the stomach.
She gobbled up the little muscle and then ate the baby fat, and then allowed herself to indulge in the organs. They were soft and squishy, and were much like jelly. Hitomi ate most of the organs, but her brother ripped the intestines away from her for himself.
After a good hour and a half, nothing was left was bones. Kaito, eye still black and red, took a rib bone and returned to the maple tree. He sat in the branches, and he cracked it open. He contently relaxed and proceeded to pull out the marrow.
Hitomi stood up from next to the skeleton and then joined her brother in the tree. She leaned against the trunk. Her eyes were wide and she trembled. She watched in horror as her brother ate the last of the marrow and then dropped the bone fragments out of the tree.
After he stopped eating, a thoughtful look came onto his face. Then one of discomfort. His black and red eye returned to its normal state.
"Kaito," Hitomi said, voice shaking. "W—we just a—ate him."
Kaito said nothing.
"We ate him! Why? Why did you kill him?"
"Honestly?" Kaito said, looked scared. "Because I was hungry… And he looked… Tasty."
"Kaito, I think I know why we ate him," Hitomi said, shifting against the tree trunk.
"Why?" Kaito snapped, hands shaking.
"I—I think we're…"
"We're what?"
"Ghouls."
Kaito stared at his sister. "Are those even real?"
"Yeah," Hitomi said. "Kuroshi told me so."
"What does Kuroshi know?" Kaito asked, scrubbing blood off from around his mouth. "He's just another kid stuck here at this ugly orphanage."
"Yeah, but his Dad was killed by a ghoul," Hitomi explained. "And then his mom was so sad that she didn't want him anymore and gave him to the orphanage. But he saw the ghoul kill his dad, so he knows."
"What do they look like?"
"Well, Kuroshi said they look like normal people, but to kill people, they have stuff that comes out of their backs."
"See," Kaito said. "We're not ghouls. Nothing came outta our backs."
"You didn't let me finish," Hitomi scowled. "Their eyes turn black and red. Like yours did. Well, one of yours."
"So did yours."
"It did?" Hitomi asked, hand shooting up to right next to her eye.
Kaito nodded.
"Well, that makes sense," Hitomi said. "And that's why we can't really eat people food."
"We can't eat food for people, but we can eat people for food," Kaito said grumpily.
The twins sat together in silence for a couple of hours. The tree creaked a little in the wind, and the pink flowers swirled about, most of them respectfully falling onto the skeleton below. Hitomi took her rock, and then added to her family drawing.
She drew lines coming out of the Dad's back. Kaito peered around her to see what she was drawing.
"What are those lines?"
"He's a ghoul," Hitomi said.
"Wouldn't it being coming out of the mom too?"
Hitomi, silently enjoying that Kaito wasn't being mean about her family drawing (for he usually was rude when it had to do with anything family related), explained her drawing. "You see, I think we're half ghouls. Cause we only got one black and red eye."
"Makes sense," Kaito said. "But how do you know it wasn't the mother who was a ghoul?"
"I had to guess," Hitomi mumbled. "Kaito, we can't stay here."
"In the tree?"
"At the orphanage! We're ghouls! What are we gonna do, go around eating the other kids?"
"I wanna leave this place," Kaito said. "I would wanna even if I wasn't, well, whatever I am. But where are we gonna go?"
"Don't know," Hitomi said. "Away from here."
Kaito gave Hitomi a cautious look. "Like… Run away?"
The green eyed girl nodded. "Tonight."
"I don't know if that's a good idea."
Hitomi sighed. "Think about it. No more of the older kids hurting us. No more Miss Akashinshi hits and punches. We can eat."
"How are we gonna get human meat?" Kaito asked.
"We killed Nenyoti, didn't we?"
"I killed him."
"Whatever. The point is, is that we could hang out by a park or school and eat kids our age."
"I don't wanna kill humans," Kaito whined.
"I don't either," Hitomi said. "But if we get starving, then we could maybe hurt each other, and I don't want that to happen. We're the only family we got, so we have to stay together. Are you going to run away with me or no?"
Kaito hesitated. "Yes," he finally said. "Because I'm your brother, and I have to protect you."
Hitomi gave a curt nod, and then began to climb out of the tree.
"Where are you going?" Kaito asked when her feet hit the ground.
"To the stream, to wash off," she said to her brother. "We gotta go back to get ready to leave. We can't let Miss Akashinshi see us all bloody.
Kaito jumped out of the tree, and then followed his twin deeper into the woods to find the stream, not giving the skeleton a glance.