Chapter 22

Untitled. Part 2

"Damn... this kid's not even heavy. Ain't really sure if he's gonna made it for them." JB said while he carried Kaneki's body on his shoulder. They both were inside a storage, it seemed to be that man's house. The inside didn't look comfortable and kind of damp.

JB put the body on top of the carpet. The next thing he did was sitting on the couch near it and lit up a cigarette.

"Pssh, I'm getting tired with this job. I hope you will be the last but... Hhhh. They better give me a break after this." JB said complaining to himself. After he puffed out his first smoke, he turned his gaze down towards Kaneki's body. "But damn, he's pretty big now, eh..."

Then without anybody seeing it, the man's eyes turned softer.

"If only they're done with everything... You wouldn't need to be the next..."

Soon after JB heard someone was knocking on his iron door.

"Finally." He raised from his comfortable couch and walked towards the door to open it.

It revealed two men in white coat that seemed to be residing in the lab.

"Good evening, JB." One of them greeted. His hair looked like a mushroom and the bangs completely covered his eyes.

"Good evening, gentlemen. Here to take the loot?" JB asked even though fully known well of the answer.

"Of course. You have him? Or her?"

"Over there on the carpet. Still fresh and healthy." He beckoned with his chin.

"14 year old right?"

"Of course."

The man walked closer towards the body. He observed the raven haired boy for awhile. He used his finger to force opened his eye and closed it a second later. Then he gave an okay sign by nodding his head.

"JB," the mushroom head spoke as he stood up, "You said that he still have his family? What do you mean? What happened to them? You didn't kidnap this subject, did you?"

"Ah that," JB shifted his gaze away from his cigar. "Long story short, his family and I made a deal." Then he added. "And for the countless time please stop calling every kid I give you as a 'subject'. Jesus."

That immediately made the scientist in perturbed state of mind. "D-deal!? JB, whatever is that, nobody can know what we're doing! Dear God, what have you done!?"

The scientist's other friend was just standing still with a poker face and the suit case still held tight in his hand.

JB blew out his smoke. "Chigyou-san, he's under a different circumstances. Let's just say that his family is pure evil." JB answered nonchalantly. "We made a deal 4 years ago that I would take him away after he turned 14. He had his birthday 2 weeks ago."

"That doesn't make any sense! Why would you go that far for this one!? You could've searched for an another subject!"

"Classified reason. Rather than that," the man's eyes turned into serious behind that the deep blue shade he was wearing. "How about you start by gettin' a successful result of your illegal experiment by not accidentally killing your subjects? It's been 16 fucking years. I don't mind the money, but the reason why I've been helping you is for the sake of humanity. If this one fails too, I'm fucking out."

Chigyou didn't say anything on his defense. Because it was true. They had been in problem for searching the right subject. For 16 years they had failed for doing that. Hundreds of young lives had been taken away in a waste. "...Then pray for this subject to be the last. Goumasa-san, give him his payment."

Goumasa didn't say anything but only walked closer towards the two. He opened his suitcase and picked out a thick brown envelope. He then gave it casually to JB, without any exchange of words.

"Before I leave, JB, about his family that you talked about. If something unpleasant from the outside disturbs our project, you will be responsible for that first."

"I know." JB clicked his tongue before he threw away his cigarette to the floor. "Now scram. Wish you luck with him. Hope he meets your requirements."

The two adults exit through the big iron door then closed it again, leaving the man who was in charge of finding orphaned children for their illegal experiment alone. He was contemplating. Was what he had been doing helped the society? Was the illegal experiment the answer for keeping humanity safe? He could only believe it.

"...I've kept my promise, Ida." JB muttered for the last time that night.

Kaneki slowly opened his eyes. He blinked several times and he was quick to realize that he was in a very unfamiliar place. However, he couldn't react to it. He felt sluggish. The drug that made him unconscious made his head dizzy and it took him long enough to get his focus back. His body had been sleeping on top of a white tiled floor, so he felt kind of sore.

"Where... am I?" He asked his mind. Then he tried to recollect the memories from today. "I was kidnapped... JB... I was supposed to be home early. We were supposed to be going to the mall. I... it was supposed to be my first time going out together with them..."

His mind was full of regret and sorrow. Kaneki sobbed silently, trying to convince himself that this was all just a nightmare. The boy tried to open his eyes, it seemed like he wasn't alone. There was someone else there who laid weakly with her back facing him.

Slowly, Kaneki tried to sit. It felt heavy at first but he managed bring up his back. He looked at his surroundings, there were two other children in the room. One of them, a boy, was sitting against the wall.

"Where is this...?"

The boy that was sitting against the wall shifted his gaze towards Kaneki. His face was really calm yet cold at the same time.

"I don't know. I just woke up."

"Did you get kidnapped too?"

"It doesn't really matter anymore, does it? We're all stuck here and we don't know what'll happen to us. Might as well be dead."

"N-no way..." What the cold boy had said to him made Kaneki thought countless worst scenarios. He was afraid. He was trembling. Tears began to formed on his eyesockets. It wasn't supposed to be like this. He was supposed to be with his family who finally recognized him. He was supposed to continue his daily life as a junior high school student, then he could play soccer with Hide again. Kaneki even promised to play again with him, but it seemed impossible to do so now."No... way..."

"Nnggh..." Another child also woke up. She rubbed her eyes like she just woke up from a deep slumber. "W-where am I...?" She asked as she looked around the white room. When her pink eyes saw the other two boys in the room, her eyes widened. "Who are you guys?"

Kaneki who was still crying didn't say anything. Meanwhile the kid who seemed really calm closed his eyes but he answered anyway. The girl's attitude kind of surprised him.

"My name's Shiki. Oi, you, what's your name?" Shiki asked the sobbing boy.

"...K-Kaneki... Kaneki Ken..." Kaneki replied. He was in the point of trying to stop letting his useless tears pouring out. But he couldn't do it. He was a crybaby. A weak boy.

"I'm Nami. Well, can somebody explain where we are? This is a weird white room, it feels eerie somehow."

"We don't know." Shiki said. "By the time we woke up, here we all are."

"Nami-san... how did you get here?" Kaneki asked.

"I'm from an orphanage in Tokyo. Then someone came... Saying that I would be adopted. When he took me out, he... Oh my God, I got kidnapped!" She shouted when she realized. Her reaction was comical.

Despite being in this situation, Nami seemed to be far from panic and scared. That made Kaneki questioned himself. What was wrong with those two other kids? Was he the one that's not being normal here?

"How about you, Kaneki?"

"I... got kidnapped too by a man. He said he'd pick me up and take me home. Then the next thing I knew, he put me on drugs and got me unconscious..."

"So you're saying a stranger picked you up and you just went along with it? Are you stupid?" Shiki asked in disbelieve. He couldn't comprehend the logic.

"N-no! My aunt said that-"

It suddenly hit struck his mind like lightning.

"My aunt... my aunt said... that... someone would pick me up... after school..." Kaneki hanged his head. His eyes were staring dead to the floor. He immediately understood what she meant. His aunt did all of it on purpose, being nice to him because she knew that she wouldn't see him again ever. In the end, it was all just an act.

Before the other two people could react to Kaneki's shock state of mind, the iron white door thay had been locked suddenly opened surprising them, making a way for four men in a lab coat.

Kaneki, Shiki, and Nami put all of their alarmed attention towards the strangers. From their looks, the first word that came to their mind was 'scientists'. They didn't say anything but to wait for the strangers to speak first.

"Good evening, children." The middle-aged man that stood in the front greeted them with a casual smile. "Welcome to CCG Laboratory Division. My name is Akihiro Kanou, the head researcher of this division. You may call me Doctor Kanou. If you're asking where you are right now, we're in the basement of the building." He included his introduction in his explanation without stopping and his smile still attached on his wrinkled face. "Any question before we proceed to the next stage?"

The three children who were taken aback by his presence and voice were still trying to process everything that the doctor said in 5 seconds for them. They were confused, much less understanding. CCG? You mean THE CCG?

The raven haired boy decided to ask first.

"CCG? Y-you mean... The Commision of Counter Ghoul?" He asked stuttering. He still couldn't believe the situation he was in and by this point, he really wanted to wake up for this nightmare which he was still trying to believe.

"That's right." Kanou answered simply.

"Why are we here? What do you want from us?" Shiki angrily asked. He didn't like this man and whoever the other three guys behind him already. He didn't like the way he talked carefreely, looking guilty free for locking the three of them in the middle of the night.

"I'll make it straight to the point for that question since we don't have much time. It's 7:05 right now." He began before answering the second question. "We are conducting a secret experiment, a project, classified from the civilization and even the CCG on the other divisions themselves aside from the current director."

"S-secret experiment!?" Nami asked worriedly. She didn't like that word at all.

Kanou chuckled. It looked like the part where he got to say this part would always be his favorite. "A human half ghoul project. Making a human to have the ability of a ghoul, to have a kagune as its weapon, becoming the most powerful ally of the CCG. A revolutionary project for the future of humanity." He paused, looking at the children's reaction for a second. "And you three will be a part of this. If this is successful then you will be stronger than ever."

"What are you talking about!? Half ghoul!? You want to turn us into monsters!?" Shiki finally snapped. He really disliked the idea. Just thinking about it made him sick and horrible.

"Maybe. But you will have the power of a ghoul, and wouldn't that be enough?"

Kaneki mustered up his will to speak again. "Is this... is this supposed to be illegal?"

Kanou nodded. Again, it really seemed cold. He might be smiling but it clearly showed his lack of sympathy.

"That's why it's a secret don't you think?"

"Why us?" Nami asked. "What do we have in common? Of all children out there, why us?"

Kanou nodded. "A good question." He held up his hand and raised his index finger. "First, you are all orphans. We need children who don't have any connection with their families to avoid leaked information." Next his middle finger. "Second, you all have AB blood type. We need that blood type for this to work." Then his ring finger. "Finally, you are all 14 years old. An ideal age for development to see how things go. Still young and easy to handle. Also, the perfect age to receive the transplantation. You all have these three things in common."

"What transplantation!?" Kaneki asked horridly.

"Liver. A ghoul liver transplantation. We will do the operation tonight." Kanou brought up his left wrist to take a look at the time. "The time is up. Let's do it!"

On his cue, the other three men that had been standing behind Kanou walked briskly toward the children. They forced them to stand up, pulling their hands to their backs and handcuffed their wrists.

"What the hell-let me go! I didn't say I agree with this!" Shiki yelled as he tried his best to resist.

"NO! NO! This is supposed to be illegal! Why is the CCG doing this!?" Kaneki resisted with teary eyes.

"L-let me go! I don't want to be a half-ghoul or whatever you were talking about! Aw! That hurts!" Nami winched when the stronger man behind her managed to handcuffed her wrists.

After that, the three doctors were pulling out a syringe from inside of their lab coats. They injected the syringe to their shoulder. The effect only took seconds to work, and they finally fell unconscious.

"Carry them to operation room 3, 4, and 5. I'll work on the raven haired boy. Let's go."

"Understood."

With hasten march, the four doctors walked through the bright white corridors, carrying each of the bodies on their arms. Kanou led the team with confident steps, certainly hoping this time would be successful than before. Kanou couldn't possibly keep doing the same mistakes.

After 15 minutes of preparations, Kanou was ready to do his job. With Kaneki on room 4, Kanou proceeded to enter the operating room. He was ready with his scrubs, green plastic gloves and mask. The tools were set neatly on the portable metallic work table by his assistance. Kaneki's body was put on top of the operating table, the body was covered with green sheet and only revealed his liver part. And then there was the most important part of this operation, a ghoul liver that was put on top of a tray. It was straight out from the freezer.

"Begin operation." Kanou spoke his command. This would be a long night.

Kaneki fluttered his eyes when the next morning came. The breathing tube was worn inside his nose, helping him breath after the long surgery from last night which probably he wouldn't remember. All of the equipments were there, beside of his bed, maintaining his health and making sure he didn't die.

The white ceilings were the first vision Kaneki saw that day. His body felt weak, and he could feel a slight pain on the lower part of his abdomen. He tried to shift his gaze towards his left and right, no one was there. He was alone with a single bed in that room.

"Shiki and Nami... where are they..."

Suddenly, Kaneki could hear a clicked sound coming from the slide door. He saw a nurse was coming in with a tray of food. The nurse smiled along her way, then she sat on the plastic stool beside of the boy's bed.

"Good morning, Kaneki. How are you feeling?"

Kaneki gazed upon the nurse. She had a short black hair, a little bit taller than him, he couldn't tell whether her smile was just for show or not. However, the food that she brought was enough to make him hungry.

"...What happened to me?"

The nurse only smiled. "Excuse me." She said before she put the tray on top of the boy's lap. Then she pressed on a button of the bed which made the bed slowly making Kaneki's body to sit straight up to help him eat easier.

"Are you hungry?" The nurse asked.

Hesitantly Kaneki nodded. There was a plate of sandwich and a glass of water. Also, a brown paper bag which Kaneki didn't understand why it was provided. He checked on the inside, there was nothing inside.

"What is this for?" He asked.

"Just in case if you want to puke, the bag is there to contain it."

Kaneki didn't answer. Not knowing what the nurse meant, Kaneki proceeded to eat the sandwich. He took a bite, chewing it normally. However, something strange happened. It didn't taste right. It didn't taste like a bread. It tasted like a sponge, and basically everything inside of the sandwich tasted like something that wasn't edible at all.

"URMMHP!"

Immediately Kaneki threw the sandwich back to the plate and grabbed the paper bag. He puked it all out until there wasn't anything left.

"Ahha... hah... you... you put something in there!" Kaneki accused the nurse. He was mad.

"No I didn't. It means the operation was successful."

"Operation...?" That word seemed to be the trigger to recall his memories back. His face turned pale over the fact, and be already wished that it was all just a dream. "Liver... ghoul liver transplant!?"

"Correct." The nurse answered. "Your liver is no longer your own. It is belonged to a female ghoul whom we still kept inside here. You may meet her sooner or later."

"N-no... you're joking! You're lying!"

The nurse only smiled again. It really seemed cold. There was a small standing mirror on top of the side desk. She took it into her hand, then she gave it to the subject.

"Take a look of yourself if you don't believe me."

Kaneki shifted his worried gaze onto the mirror on his lap. His trembling hand reached out to the mirror, slowly lifting up, afraid of whatever changed on his face. When his reflection was finally seen, Kaneki had seen something that he wished he would never know.

"M-my left eye... My left eye is... N-no... No..." He couldn't understand what was happening. How could he turn into the monster that was reflected on the mirror? He wasn't himself. That boy on the mirror wasn't him, and he'd like to make his brain believe that. Even though his attempt was useless.

"You're a half-ghoul now, Kaneki-kun. You can't eat human foods anymore." The nurse began to talk despite of the boy's shocked state of mind. "You will have to consume human flesh from now on. I will provide-"

"NO! NO! THIS IS NOT ME! GET THAT AWAY FROM MEEE!"

Kaneki threw the mirror away to the floor, shattering it into pieces. He forced himself to descend onto the floor. The nurse only stood still, standing quite far to make a space between her and the mad boy, as if she had experienced this a countless time. Kaneki picked up a shard of the mirror. His trembling hands held the shard in front of his face.

"I... I had enough..." He spoke with a bitter smile and teary eyes. "I can't take this anymore... Everything is just wrong... I had enough... My family hates me, I'm becoming a monster, I'm not going to be able to chase my dream, I will never see Hide anymore, everything is wrong..."

Kaneki brought the shard high over his neck. He pointed the sharp end towards his vein, and then he smiled bitterly.

"Mom..." He muttered before he closed his eyes. Without thinking anymore, Kaneki used the shard to stab his own neck.

But he didn't feel anything.

"It's useless."

Instead of the shard penetrating his flesh, the shard was broken in two over the contact with his skin. Kaneki was bewildered. He looked at the broken shard again, there was no blood at all. He dropped the shard onto the white ceramic floor, slowly stepping backward and fell seated on the bed.

"Nothing in this room can hurt you, Kaneki-kun. Please do understand that you are not just a human anymore." The nurse explained. She squatted down to pick up on the broken shards. She had already brought a napkin beforehand. "For now, you have to stay here for constant check up for 5 days. I will give your supplement everyday."

"...Are you telling me I have to become a cannibal?" Beneath his fallen bangs he asked even though fully known well the answer.

"...Again, please understand. This is for the sake of humanity, Kaneki-kun. I'm very sorry that you have to go through all this." After she finished picking up all of the shards, she stood back up on her heels. "Doctor Kanou will come soon so let us wait."

Kaneki didn't reply. He just kept hanging his head low, hands on the edge of the bed, feet hovering over the floor. Nothing could possibly bring his smile back for a while. He had been treated so unfair until the end. His life, he had no freedom since the day his mother died. Everything just went on only for this day where he would become a lab rat of CCG in their illegal experiment.

Suddenly the locked door opened again. Doctor Kanou came with stethoscope hanged around his neck.

"Good morning, Shizuku." The doctor greeted.

"Good morning, doctor." The nurse greeted back.

"Good morning, Kaneki-kun." He greeted again towards the wretched boy. Of course, the boy didn't reply. "Did something happen before I came?"

"He tried to kill himself with a glass shard from the mirror." Shizuku said stoically.

"Haha! That's the countless time someone do that." Kanou laughed, feeling amused. "Well then, now lay down, please." He instructed.

"Where are... Shiki and Nami?"

"The other two? I've just finished checking up on them. They're fine."

"...Where are they?"

"In the other room beside yours, Kaneki-kun. Now please, lay down."

Kaneki was reluctant. He didn't want to hear any orders from the man's mouth. He wanted to just die. His life was pointless. He had suffered enough. CCG's name had just been sullied in his mind. He couldn't look at them the same way anymore.

Kaneki glared at the doctor through his bangs. "Stay away from me."

The doctor was silent. It didn't flinch him a bit. That was only like a kitten's meow. Kanou didn't have the all time in the world and he'd very like not to waste his time on this boy alone. So enough facade. Kanou's eyes turned into a cold glare. They stabbed sharply into the boy's eyes like a dagger.

"Lay down."

Kaneki felt immediate shiver running down on his spine. Grudgingly, he laid down his back onto the bed.

"Good boy."

Kanou used his stethoscope on top of Kaneki's chest. He felt cold over the metal's touch on his skin. It seemed like the heart beat was normal, so he moved on to where the liver was at. Kanou pressed his fingers on it slightly and asked,

"Does it hurt?"

"...No."

"Have you felt any pain before the nurse came?"

Kaneki shook his head.

"Describe to me how the sandwich tasted like."

Kaneki furrowed his eyebrows. He recalled the disgusting flavour he tasted, he still couldn't believe that he rejected a mere sandwich and just how disgusting it was. Totally inedible.

"The bread tasted like sponge. The cabbages were as if they were made from papers. It was bitter. The ham too, it tasted like rotten lard."

"Well, that's an interesting way to put it." Kanou said amused. "Anyways, after checking up on your condition right now, the surgery made it. However, we still can't call it a success yet."

"What do you mean? Aren't I a half ghoul now?"

"Yes you are. By not being able to consume human foods, you are no longer a human. Instead, you need human flesh to keep on living. Shizuku will give you that later on twelve." Kanou briefly explained. "Do not reject it, do you understand me?"

"...I'm not a cannibal."

"No you're not. You're not a human anymore, so eating a human flesh wouldn't make you one."

Kaneki angrily tutted. Tears began to form on his grey eyes again. "How could you say that!? There's no way I would have the heart to eat a human flesh!? After all this time living as a normal person among a human society, do you think I'd just casually devour them!?"

"You never know that one of them might be a ghoul." Kanou shrugged. "You will understand when your food served in front of you. Until then, don't do anything useless like trying to kill yourself." Kanou stood up from the bed, now letting the boy crying on his bed alone. "Let's go Shizuku."

"Yes." The nurse nodded. Together the two of them walked outside of the room.

The door was locked with a card, and there were no windows. There was no escape even if Kaneki wanted it. Everything was white, it made him feel sick. But knowing that him being not a normal human anymore made him even sicker. The only thing that could maybe make him entertained was a small TV that was nailed on the wall. But the boy didn't want anything to do with it as of watching that TV might poison him in some kind of way.

"Mom..."

The hours after check up, Kaneki only spent his time by sleeping. He felt kind of weak and even though he hated to admit it, he felt hungry. He didn't want to eat human flesh no matter what. With sleeping he could forget his hunger. Not like he had other things to do. He wanted to see the other two who suffered the same fate, but that wouldn't be possible right now.

"...Hold it in, Kaneki..." Kaneki convinced himself for the sixth time that he didn't need to eat at all.

As if the world wasn't agree with him, the locked door opened again, revealing Shizuki with his supplement.

"You must be hungry." Shizuku said. The tray she brought served a plate of a warped item. It seemed to be the meat. "Here is your food."

Kaneki opened his eyes. His nose twitched, and for the first time in his life he smelled something so sweet, enticing, delicious. He shifted his body to see the nurse was standing by the bed behind his back. When he saw that packaged thing, Kaneki could tell the smell came from there.

"Is that...?"

Shizuku nodded.

It was too tempting. The food that was warped inside there really invited his internal desire to eat. But knowing that his supper was a human flesh, Kaneki suppressed his desire as hard as he could. He kept on telling himself that it was wrong and disgusting, even though his nose told him the other way around.

"I'm not eating it!" Kaneki threw his face away to the other side, backing Shizuku again.

The nurse sighed. She knew this would likely to happen. She could bet the other two nurses who attended Shiki and Nami experienced the same problem right now.

"As I expected. I will leave this here then." Shizuku put the tray on the side table. "You may not eat your supper now, but I have to inject you with medication now."

Kaneki turned his attention back to the nurse again. She was holding a syringe with a blue liquid inside of it. Sense of fear thrust into his nerves. He wasn't one that like syringes and any kinds of sharp things.

"W-what are you going to do to me?"

"A suppressor that will hold in your kagune."

"Ka... gune?" A foreign word he had never heard of.

"An authentic ghoul's weapon that grows from a part of their bodies. You don't have any idea how to control them for now, but we'll see about that on the fifth day. So for now, we will have to suppress your kagune with this."

"Wouldn't the syringe get broken?"

The nurse smiled. "This is specially made of course."

The nurse proceeded to inject the syringe inside of Kaneki's crook of elbow. Kaneki didn't fight it off, but it'd be a lie if he was scared of the brief pain. When syringe penetrated his skin, Kaneki winched. He shut his eyes, hoping that by the time he opened them it'd be over.

"Done. See you tomorrow." The nurse cleaned up the syringe and put it back onto the metallic tray. Before she walked away she said, "Eat your meal." Then she proceeded to the door. When she swiped her card, she could hear a faint whisper.

"...Never."

Shizuku was thinking about not paying attention to it. But she turned her head anyway.

"You will understand just how hellish it could be when a ghoul is hungry." She paused. "You could be a monster, for real."

With that last forewarn she gave to the boy, Shizuku left the room. If she thought that warn would make Kaneki think all night, she wasn't wrong. That made Kaneki afraid even more. The warped meat on the desk made it look like even more tempting than before, it was really enticing him. But Kaneki steeled his mind. He would not give in to his hunger.

"I will... I will never eat this!" Kaneki sat up from his bed and threw away the meat harshly into the corner of his room. He then curled up on his bed, shutting his eyes with force to sleep.

- 2 hours later

"It had been 2 hours since we last gave them meal. None of them had taken any of it yet."

In the room where monitors thay shown CCTV's records were kept, the doctors and three main nurses were there to see the activities of the three new subjects. None of them had eaten the only edible food they gave them. The subjects were struggling to suppress their hunger, and each of their attempts to forget about it was different.

"Subject one, Nakamura Shiki, had been spending his time working out." The man who seemed in charge of supervising the activities said. "Subject two, Nami, had been watching the TV all day and she refused to eat." He continued. "Subject three, Kaneki Ken, had been sleeping for the past hours. Their conditions are still stable."

"Good." Kanou nodded. However, he was still far from satisfied. He never had been. "I hope those three will made it longer than the other failures from the past."

"I sure hope so." Chigyou agreed. He was there to see the progress.

"Oh yes, Chigyou, about Kaneki Ken." Kanou raised his eyebrow for the upcoming question he wanted to ask. "What did you mean about him still having his family?"

"O-oh, that. Uh... JB said that himself. He said something about him having a deal with the adopting family. The subject's aunt adopted him."

"...A deal?" Kanou asked again in disbelieve.

"I don't know what is the 'deal' JB talked about. But whatever it is, it allowed him to take Kaneki Ken away to become ours." Chigyou said as he scratched his scalp. "But I already warned him that if any word about this experiment spilled out in the society, even just a rumour, we'd take him out first, then the kid's family."

Kanou began to contemplate. The first word that came into his mind was 'interesting' then 'cruel'. Basically, the family just sold away their nephew into their custody. JB might have given them some money. But why for that one child? Thinking that something different might happened in the future, Kanou decided to keep an eye towards that boy whom he had operated himself.

- 5 hours later

"The subjects are all curled up in their beds. They seemed to have reached near their limit." The man in front of the monitors reported.

"They will eat soon." Akane, the nurse who was in charge of Nami said with a smirk.

"Then it's dangerous to go inside their rooms for now." Said the nurse who was in charge of Shiki, named Nanako.

"Look," Shizuku pointed her finger towards Shiki's room, "Subject one is beginning to reach out towards the meat."

"Subject two too." Nanako added.

"It seems like subject three also couldn't take it anymore, fufu." Akane grinned.

"Meat... no... meat! Mea... NO! Meat! Mea-NO NO NO!" Kaneki had been muttering the word over and over again. He was too hungry. Way too hungry. His stomach had been begging him to be refilled soon.

His eyes which uncontrollably turned different colors had been looking back and forth towards the meat that was left idly in the corner of the room. He couldn't take it much more. His mind was fucked up by a storm of decisions. If Kaneki ate that meat, there would be no turning back from whatever he was. He despised that idea, but his stomach kept pounding him again and again.

"...Shit...!"

With a rare word of curse he spat out, Kaneki ran desperately to take the meat. He looked like a hungry dog but he couldn't care less. His hand took away the packaged, teared the wrapping away, and suddenly a wave of even more heavenly smell thrust his nostrils. His mouth watered in an instant.

"Meat... MEAT!"

With the last derived insanity he had, Kaneki gnawed on that meat like an animal, like there'd be no tomorrow.

A/N:

I'm not so sure that the Kaneki we know is still there in these latest chapters lately. He really changed, man. I mean, he can't even smile naturally anymore. Total transformation damn...

Ah, btw, I will try to check on the past chapters to fix up any grammar errors. Sooo there will be some reuploads in the future! Once again, sorry for being such a late author ;w; Thanks for your interest to follow and favorite!

Disclaimer: Any foreign names that you read are made up!