Chapter 2

Patience

"No. I don't agree with you," Yamori raised up his hand disagreeing, "at least not yet."

Kaneki raised his eyebrow, confused by what his friend's meant.

"Why? I think it's the right time. Mukade is big enough for me to finally reveal myself. Don't you think so, Rize?" asked Kaneki, resorted to the woman beside of him.

"No." Rize shook her head which made Kaneki also questioned why.

"I agree with him. It's not the time for you to reveal yourself, Kaneki. We know you're strong, but your being needs to be the grand opening of Mukade to Tokyo. Right now is not the right time." Rize shifted her body away from Kaneki's side. She began to explain her reason.

"We are a ghoul organization that's liven up our name by rumors. Even though you are the leader, you are also a rumor among the ghouls. Only the ghouls in our territories truly know about you. We gathered our members by giving them our goal so they want to cooperate. In the end, lots of them came to Mukade without we're asking them." Rize cupped Kaneki's cheek and rubbed it with her thumb, "Why? Because of you, darling. They admire you, yet at the same time, they fear you. They will do anything you want as long as your goal is still the same."

Yamori nodded in agreement, "We're still expanding our territory, no? We have gained control over 6 wards. 7, 11, 13, 10, 6, and 12. Didn't you say that we still need the power from 20th ward?"

After hearing what his companions said to him, Kaneki began to think. Yamori was right, Mukade still needed to expand their territory to the 20th ward. The 20th ward was quite hard to take over since the ghouls there didn't like to find any problems. Fighting the CCG head on was one of it. But despite that, that place was said to be exactly where a lot of strong veteran ghouls stayed. Kaneki needed to take the advantage of that.

The leader began to think over his decision. To reveal himself that was. He was thinking maybe he was too hasty. But it couldn't be help, it had been 4 years since Kaneki, Rize, and Yamori built the organization. It's been quite a long time of waiting, hiding in the back.

Kaneki raised from his seat and slowly walked his way to the window. He touched the glass as he stared off to particularly nothing. His mind began to remember about his organization's goal, "Mukade... is an organization that is built solely to destroy the CCG."

Yamori and Rize put their attention to the tall figure that was standing alone in front of them.

"It was only for that purpose but... Honestly, never once I thought I would be able to live in luxury because of it. I wouldn't be able to stand here if not because of you both. I really thank you." said the young ghoul with sincerity. He put a faint smile, and it was a rare sight. You can say that the other two ghouls there were the privileged.

Rize smiled as she softened her eyes, "Anything for our revenge, Kaneki."

Yamori smirked without giving any comment. The squinted eyes man picked up the black cup in front of him and sipped it again, this time until it was empty. Silence began to embrace the atmosphere.

Kaneki was still standing there near the glass, his shoulder was rested against the glass. He bent his left knee, propping himself with the other leg as his left hand was stuffed inside his pocket. He used the comforting silence for thinking. Thinking over his decision.

Kaneki felt an itching sensation inside his heart. He wanted to come out. He really wanted the world to see him. To see the man behind the centipede's terrors. He couldn't wait to see the faces that were filled with horror and shock, especially from the faces of the Doves.

He was really eager to let them know that the monster would bite back.

But a long wait would surely give more satisfying result. Holding on that thought, Kaneki sighed after he saw some random helicopter news flying around quite far from his place.

"Right... I'm too hasty. Be patient, Kaneki. You surely don't want to ruin your 4 years of progress." scolded the white haired ghoul to himself. Kaneki turned his head away and leaned his back on the window. "I suppose I will wait longer. At least until we have allied the 20th ward." Stated the leader finally with his decision as he broke the silence.

"That's what I'm talking about." Yamori grinned, satisfied with the outcome.

Rize chuckled as she put away her glasses and put it on the table. "That's right. Don't worry, the right time will come sooner than you think, Kaneki," Rize stood up from her seat and fixed her rumpled shirt, "I'm going to take a bath. We have to get ready to go to the base, right?"

Kaneki nodded, "Yeah," Kaneki turned his attention to the blonde man after Rize walked away from them, "Yamori, you can go ahead if you want to?"

"Oh? Could it be that you want to join her? Am I disturbing you?" The big nosed man grinned widely again with a dirty look. Kaneki gave him an annoyed glare in return. It wasn't rare for Yamori to tease him with dirty jokes, but sometimes it could be really getting on Kaneki's nerves.

"Of course not, stupid. If you want to stay then you can stay." said Kaneki curtly. He walked away from his spot, letting the sunlight that was blocked by his back pierced through the room again. He went to pick up the remote to turn on the TV.

"Hahaha! That was a joke, leader. You're really uptight sometimes, you know that?" Kaneki ignored the blonde man and didn't say anything until he came back to the white sofa with the remote in his hand. He turned on the TV, skipping all the food channels.

Yamori stuffed his big hand inside his pocket to pick up his phone. He checked the time on his lock screen. It was 8:15 AM.

"Ah... it's past 8:10 already..."

Kaneki's eyes shifted their attention towards the psycho. He saw the expression that he knew too well. The face of a twisted man. It was like they had found something to prey on and couldn't wait to rip it apart. The leader knew what he was up to.

Having stuffed his phone inside of his pocket, Yamori stood up from the sofa. "Well, I should go. He's waiting for me." Kaneki thought his guess was true after he heard the nasty tone coming from the big ghoul.

"When are you going to finish your toy, Yamori?" Kaneki asked with a bored expression.

Yamori smirked, "When I found a new one." he replied and followed with his laugh. "Thanks for the coffee. See you later." Yamori waved his hand after he turned his back away from Kaneki. The leader only watched the man leave without bothering to see him out. The short digital tune was played and the front door was closed back.

"You surely are twisted, Jason." Kaneki whispered to himself as he continued tapping the remote with his black nailed thumb.

Suddenly, Kaneki heard the bathroom room door was opened. He had already anticipated the sound of his lover's footsteps, but he didn't hear anything. So the curious man looked to his behind and saw that Rize was pointing out her head.

"What's wrong, Rize?" Kaneki questioned.

"Want to join me?" Rize put a lovely smirk. The water beads were falling down flowlessly from the strands of her hair.

Kaneki stared at her for awhile. A startled stare that was. Well, even though they had done it a countless time, it still put the young man in daze whenever Rize asked him for it. Especially like this.

"Geez... Rize. We need to go to the base, you know? I need to shower too!" said Kaneki, showing his soft spot in his tone.

Rize pouted in response, which made Kaneki taken aback, "You perv. Let's make it faster by showering together!"

"I-I'm not!" Kaneki defended himself when he was accused as a pervert. "You planned this didn't you?"

"Oh come on... Does that even matter? Hurry up it's cold here!"

Realizing that he wouldn't get away with her demand, the young man sighed. "Can't be help..." Kaneki stood up from his seat even though he only just got comfortable.

Rize felt victorious and she giggled, "You're really sweet you know that, Kaneki~." She really loved it whenever the he surrendered to her. The Binge Eater was quite a sadist, indeed.

A/N

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REUPLOADED AFTER FIXING SOME GRAMMAR ERRORS. I STILL SUCK WHEN I POSTED THIS HAHA :'(