Kaneki was in a strange place... The only way it could be accurately described is by saying that it 'was neither here nor there', because that's all it was. The ground underneath Kaneki was white and reflective, not so reflective as a mirror, but rather it looked as if some silhouetted figure was walking in sequence with him. The sky was calming, yet alarming; it was blue, but had many clouds, it was bright, but said clouds cast somewhat of a dark shadow underneath themselves. The air around him was still, but held a feeling of weight upon itself...

"Mr. Kanekiiiiiii!" a voice called out, echoing slightly before disappearing once more. Kaneki froze, he knew that voice, it sent chills up his spine and made him freeze. He knew that voice, but he couldn't quite place it. He knew he should've been able to, but he couldn't. "Kanekiiii!", i called once more, this time louder, and closer, but still far enough away to be small.

Kaneki turned to look at the creator of such noise, they were female, he could confirm that much. She wore a frilly white dress with a purple undershirt, her hair was long and flowing slightly because of a sudden small breeze passing through the area, her eye's were closed gently, and hidden behind a pair of red glasses. Slowly, she opened her eye's revealing a pitch black, with a red center, giving Kaneki a look of pure hunger filled lust. "How has it been, Kaneki?"

Hide sat in the back of Asian history class, boredom overtaking hi as he tapped the eraser of his pin onto his cheek, his headphones blasting music only audible to him, despite them laying on his neck. Normally in any other class, despite his laid back personality he'd be furiously taking notes, not here though. For Hide Asian history was simple, he hardly needed to glance at his notes to pass any exam or whatnot that may be thrown towards him. To be honest it was a matter of common sense more often than not, besides on written answers. and even then it was still no problem.

Sighing, Hide dug into his pocket and produced a phone, luckily for him, their professor(Kaneki has the same class also) knew of Hide's talent for the subject and let him get away with goofing off... most times. Hide, using only the hand he pulled the phone out of, pulled up his recent texts page, scrolled and found Kaneki's name. Sighing, he pressed it and a series of recent messages appeared.

'Really missing you in Asian history...'

'I can stop by and give you some notes'

'You're gonna die alone.'

Hide had begun to think he'd been a little too harsh on Kaneki with that last message, but it seemed as if Kaneki had been avoiding him, and that pissed him off to no end. If there was one thing the dirty blond hated, it was being ignored. True, Kaneki had been in a horrible accident, but if the hospital had let him go he was fine enough to pick up his phone... or maybe it was something else...

Eto opened the door into Kaneki's room, carefully using her body to make sure the door didn't creak and wake him up from his sleep(Which ,honestly, was kind of pointless considering that if he wasn't Eto would jump on the bed till he woke up). She slowly opened the door and peaked her head inside, in a manner similar to one of her favorite american poems 'The Tell Tale Heart' by Edgar Allen Poe. The only difference was that she wasn't planning to kill Kaneki.

With her head through the door she whispered his name. "Kaneki?" she whispered, purposely low, to see if he was awake. Her answer came in the form of a neatly made, empty bed, which looked like a demo picture you would see at a mattress store. Eto frowned, slightly disappointed at the fact that she couldn't jump on the bed, well she could, but what was the fun in jumping on an empty bed with no one in it... or if you're alone?

Still, the half-ghoul was happy that he was already getting so used to his new nature that he'd wake up this early. Eto, looked over to the clock on the nightstand, 9:02..., she repeated the clock, just as it changed to 9:03, Actually, I can't believe I'm up this early... She thought as she made her way into the empty room. Eto stretched, throwing her back in an arc and connecting her hands, also throwing them. She actually had just woken up herself.

Kaneki wrapped his lower regions in a soft, warm, blue towel, as he stepped out of the shower, careful not to get water on anything but the frilled rug below him. Kaneki stopped above the towel, letting the water that had not been absorbed by the now dampening towel. The towel, which had once been warm, was now growing colder due to the warm water meeting cold air and chilling it, and in turn chilling him. He looked over to the doorway, looking for perhaps a switch for some kind of heater.

There were three switches, two of which most likely connected to the double set of lights which ran on two separate circuits, He figured the one of them had to be the heater. Luckily he had been correct, the heater(which he was surprised he hadn't noticed above him before) roared to life, the wires heating up to a bright orange, a deeper shade, then a bright red. It took a moment, but Kaneki was delighted when a wave a warm, relaxing heat washed over him, freeing him form the goose skin he had developed.

The feeling was a familiar one, he remembered feeling it(though subconsciously) the morning he had woken up with Eto's body covering his own, and once again the same day when she had crawled into bed beside him and read to him, whilst curling his hair with her soft fingers, and whispering in a way that made the invisible hair that covered him stand up stiffen in pleasure.

But, it was only these times in which he felt this feelings of happiness... actually, that was not quite true, he also felt this once long ago, when his mother was still alive and she would help him learn the kanji in the books his father left behind. The feeling he spoke of was a warm rolling in the center of his stomach, that slowly, carefully expanded to encompass his entire being. It was something more than happiness, a feeling that he rarely ever felt.

Kaneki poked his head into the hallway making sure his host(roommate rather) was not around to see his half naked body. To his relief, the green haired woman was no where in sight. Kaneki sighed, relieved at her absence. Quietly, one leg at a time, he stepped out of the bathroom, into the hallway which held the guest room in which he would spend the next year(At least according to Eto).

Kaneki made his way down the hall, noting how cold his body had become cold the moment he exited the restroom. He now, slowly shivered his way down the hallway, hunched over, towel now curled around his upper body, just barley hiding his more private areas from the cold, or prying eyes... The latter of which should be something reserved for women, Kaneki thought, as he tried shrinking his body to make way for the towel to cover more of him.

Kaneki opened the door to his guest room, sticking his head into the empty, clean room. Yes, he had made sure it was clean, after all it wasn't his home, he was obligated to clean up after himself. He'd made the bed neatly (Or so he thought, it seemed still a little messy), He had picked up his clothing from the floor, which he had carelessly discarded the night before. He was actually quite surprised that Eto hadn't come in to wake him up, but, he'd supposed, considering her nature, that she was one to sleep in.

The artificial hybrid walked over to the nightstand that was positioned next to his bed and picked up his phone, which laid screen-down on the hard wood shelf. Kaneki rarely got any calls, texts, or e-mails(none besides offers and website subscriptions), so he didn't know what compelled him to look at the gadget... no, actually, he did know why... That text message from Hide, that he'd received a few day's ago. 'You're gonna die alone.'... When he'd first received it he felt a pain in his body... Kaneki wasn't mad at Hide, he knew that he'd been a lousy friend for ignoring his text's... but(now more than ever) he didn't want to go back to university. What if he couldn't control his hunger? What if he attacked someone? What if he attacked Hide? Kaneki shuddered at the thought, he didn't want that, no, especially not that.

Setting the phone down, Kaneki she his towel and walked to the closet that housed the clothes that he brought with him from his previous residence. He didn't really pack much, bu to be honest he didn't have that much to pack, all in all he packed around 10 pieces of clothing which meant he'd be doing laundry often. The half-ghoul picked out a white t-shirt, a blue hoodie, and black regular fit pant's. He often wore this combination, but he felt it looked best on him... it was simple and it described him perfectly, he felt. Well... he wasn't so simple now... as far as he knew Eto and he where the only two of their kind, half-ghouls. Sighing, Kaneki exited the closet and went to sat on the, what he thought originally, neatly made bed.

Kaneki stretched his arms, and decided(as long as Eto was still sleeping) that he would take a short nap. Suddenly a pair of arms wrapped around the boy's waist from underneath the covers and pulled him on his back, holding him down against their owners. "It's time to wake up, Kaneki!" a female voice told him, happily. Kaneki was still practically shaking from the scare and almost pissed himself, he was now being held against Eto, who had rested her chin upon his head, softly, letting out a warm closed mouth sigh.

"E-eto? he asked, still shaking from the sudden surprise. He could see his hands twitching violently, he could feel his chest rising and falling rapidly, due to the fast intake of oxygen that he'd just preformed.

"You guessed it..." she replied happily.

"D-do you need something?" He asked another question, the fear still in his voice.

"We need to talk, Kaneki..." She replied in kind, pausing to moved her hands to the top of his head. During her time with the younger boy she'd begun to notice that he enjoyed having the truffle of hair on his head played with, and Eto( who enjoyed the feeling of soft things) was more than happy to do it whenever she found appropriate, hell whenever she wanted to really, she'd doubt he'd mind. Or maybe, she mused, It wasn't the teasing of his follicles at all... Perhaps it was the touch of the opposite sex that he enjoyed so much? I mean, as adorable as he is(in his awkward, scared puppy ways) he isn't really a 'catch' as some call it.

"Why did you make the bed this mourning?" she asked, putting her mouth closer to his ear, eyes half open and a smile adorning her face.

"Well," he began, fear had left his body and now permitted him to speak normally once more, "I assumed since you were so nice to let me live under your roof, I could help clean up your house whenever I make a mess..." He explained, waiting for a response.

Eto simply sighed and re-positioned her shin at the top of Kaneki's head, "Kaneki... why do you always speak like you're beneath others?" Eto asked, a tinge of sadness in her voice. Kaneki was confused, the only people who ever thought of him as more than a face in the crowd were Hide and his mother, because of this, he'd lacked confidence, and eventually decided he was some second-class citizen.

He could have told Eto all of this, but he simply responded with: "I-I don't know..." It wasn't what he wanted to say, but all that he would allow himself to say.

"You don't know..." Eto repeated softly, starring at the ceiling fan above them, still gently playing with Kaneki's pitch black locks, rolling them on her fingers. She smiled and spoke up, "You wan't to know what I think Kaneki?" she asked, lightly.

"S-sure?"

"I think," she said, beginning her hypothesis, "That you have never truly been acknowledged before, therefore you assume yourself lower than everyone else, which simply speaking is not true." She paused. "I wan't you to listen to me now... You may be here for only a year, but don't ever think that this is just my home, It's yours as well... as long as you're here it will be..." She now whispered, her gaze still lingering on the twisting fan. "This room is not a guest room, it's your room... You don't have to make the bed... you should see my room..." she chuckled during her sentence, "You can barely move in there..."

They remained silent for a few moments staying in that position, both starring at the ceiling fan, as if it were a pocket watch wielded by a magician who was attempting to hypnotize them. Eto, massaging his scalp softly now and slightly humming to the quiet. Kaneki found himself nearly drifting off to sleep under her embrace, everything about her was soft, he thought. Her voice, her eyes, her skin... her brea-, Kaneki, realized what he was about to say. It wasn't like he'd felt her up or anything, but rather he could feel them pressing against his head, causing a light blush to form upon his face.

"Eto, I- should really get up, If i fall asleep again I'll sleep all day..." Kaneki told the green haired Author in an attempt to get up(despite the fact that nothing was restraining him).

"Hmmmm..." Eto pretended to think about it, still playing with his hair. "No."

"But-"

"Kaneki, you have to learn to enjoy life once in a while, and I don't know a single sole in the world who doesn't enjoy sleeping."

The boy was about to argue, but he decided that while it was a rather inappropriate position his head was in, Eto was right, he did enjoy sleeping, and as he decided that, he felt his eye's get heavy, his body loosen, and finally(thanks to Eto's new found tendency to play with his hair) fell victim to the experience known as sleep...

Bzzzz...Bzzzz...Bzzzz... The sound echoed in Kaneki's head, not painfully, or annoyingly, but more like a far away cry for him, one that he was trying his best to ignore. Somewhere in the time between when Kaneki had lost consciousness and now; Eto had wrapped her arms around him and now held him tightly and securely, but at the same time comfortably. It was a grasp in which he had absolutely no interest in escaping at the current time.

But, as he felt one arm move away from him, almost reluctantly, then the move back over him, elbow lightly digging into his chest using it as a support, his eye's fluttered open, revealing grey irises that looked up in confusion. Said eye's were met with an aggressive bright light which forced the to squint. "Eto?" he called, his voice gruff from a deep sleep, which made it sound almost alien to him. "What is that?"

A moment of silence greeted him before he got his reply in the form of a tired female voice. "Your cellphone..."

Kaneki nodded and fell back to sleep on Eto and was about to let himself drift to sleep once more when her words full registered. "What!?" he squeaked as he shot up abruptly and tried for his phone. To which Eto simply raised her arm higher and let Kaneki fall over face first in the pillow next to her head, landing softly. She then pressed her hand on the top of his head, keeping him stationary while she examined the phone.

"Eto..." Kaneki said, muffled by the pillow, defeated, "Please return my phone to me... I would enjoy some privacy..."

"I'm just reading a text..." she yawned in reply, shortly after smacking her lips together, "besides I think, for your sake I should be the one to read this first..."

"Why's that?" Kaneki asked, still muffled by the pillow.

"Because I don't think you would've even acknowledged it..."

Kaneki somehow managed to get his head turned to look at the side of her's her face illuminated in the dark by the light of his phone. It's dark already? No... I slept late. Kaneki's face as a pout as he asked her a question. "What?"

"Your friend, Hide, says he misses you at university. Asian history in particular... Why don't you go back to school soon?"

Kaneki looked away, turning hie head to the other side of the bed, "I can't..." he said, subconsciously lowly, almost as if to hide his weakness.

"Why?"

"Because I'm afraid..."

"... Of eating him..."

"Of eating everyone..." He replied(almost shot) back.

"Fine, I won't make you, but you're really only hurting yourself by not going..."

A moment of silence befell them, Eto couldn't tell whether Kaneki was mad or if he fell asleep, but she decided to break it. "The way your positioned on my arm is making it go numb." A completely unrelated statement, but she felt it needed to be said.

The boy then climbed back on top of her muttering a "sorry" as he re-placed himself the way he was, and in turn, she replaced her arms over his torso.

They were silent once more, trying to get back to sleep which was much easier for Eto than Kaneki; who now felt a strong weight of guilt upon his chest. He let it sit there, and fester before finally submitting. "Actually, Eto..." he spoke up.

"Hmm?"she replied back

"I think... I'll go back tommorow..." He said, still slightly unsure of the decision.

Eto moved her hand's up to Kaneki's hair once more and began to run the through it, smiling, her eye's closed. "Yeah... I think that's best..."

Kaneki felt the ground underneath him shift, it wasn't an earthquake nor a tremor but something organic, a body, trying to slide out from beneath him. Kaneki found himself not wanting that to happen for some reason, whoever this was they were soft and warm, even beneath the blanket that separated them. Kaneki would have tried to grab them, and hold them, to keep the contact between them there, but he was far to tired to preform the action, instead he let out a small whimper that sounded more like a crying dog.

"Alright, Kaneki, get up you're going to university in a bit." a voice said, as the body underneath him slid out from underneath him. Kaneki recognized the voice, it was Eto. That's right, he thought, I agreed to go to school today... If only to meet Hide and apologize for my absence. Kaneki opened his eyes to reveal the ceiling staring back at him, he then turned his head to the door, just in time to see Eto walk out.

Kaneki laid there for a few moments staring at the ceiling and wondering what exactly he was doing. I can't go back to Kamii... I'm already hungry enough, what happens when I can't take the hunger anymore? He felt his stomach squeeze in anger at his lack of eating and Kaneki placed a hand on it, And I'm so hungry as it is...

"Kaneki, come here, I have a surprise for you!" she called to him, her voice distant and happy. Kaneki sighed, not to excited about having to get up from the bed(or go to Kamii) but he did, and he followed the sound of Eto's voice.

Said voice led the hybrid to the kitchen, in which Eto now stood holding a black cylinder. She had a happy, excited smile on her face and anticipation in her eyes. Kaneki kept his eye's on the black cylinder as she shook it, he could hear the sounds of many tiny objects inside. Kaneki watched in confusion as Eto began to somewhat dance towards him, shaking her shoulders as she repeated her words in the form of a song. "I h-a-v-e a s-u-r-p-r-i-s-e for y-o-u!"

It was only just now that Kaneki got a good look at what Eto had been wearing when she'd pulled him into bed and they fell asleep. The half-ghoul wore a tan pajama suit instead of her white gown. Her top was hardly a top at all, it's not that it was very tight, nor that it was small, it was actually quite baggy, it was actually more so that the only place she bothered to button was the chest area, revealing her soft stomach. Kaneki noted that her skin looked incredibly smooth, in fact he felt a strange urge to touch it(as much as that made him feel like a serial killer), in fact he had been having a lot of strange feelings towards Eto recently, it made him feel uncomfortable, but at the same time it felt good.

His admiration towards her was interrupted as she shook the black cylinder right in front of his face. "Still asleep, huh?" she teased before pulling it back. Eto popped the top off the black cylinder and motioned for him to come closer. "Come here, take a look at this..." she ordered, her smile turning into a grin.

Kaneki peaked into the cylinder, almost nervous about what could be inside, fingers, eyeballs, something round that could be a bit more private? But no, to his further confusion he found many tiny brown cubes inside of it. He didn't know what to make of it, he couldn't see why this was a cause for excitement.

"Ahhhh, Sugar cubes?" he asked, confusion evident in his voice.

"These sugar cubes are special..." she said picking one up out of the container and examining it, "They will help you curb your hunger through out the day..." Eto plopped one into her mouth chewed and swallowed. "Here, try it." she ordered extending her palm with another sugar cube.

Reluctantly Kaneki took the sugar cube, uncertain of whether or not he should eat it, if his stomach had told him anything in the last few weeks, it was that it did not like the food of humans anymore. Still, Kaneki ate it and much to his surprise it tasted delicious, his eyes widened, his mouth exploded, and his stomach grew happier with him.

"Good, right?" The author asked sure it would be, after all everything that ghouls can taste good to them. "My father makes them, just in case a ghoul has trouble finding food..." She explained, before pausing. "But the wont keel your hunger forever, eventually you'll need to eat a human..." her voice turned suddenly dark.

Kaneki shuddered at the thought of eating a human, the thought of eating feet, hands, arms, eyes and liking it... it was enough to make him gag. Kaneki then realized something, he can only eat humans so what exactly was in theses sugar cubes? Kaneki decided it best not to think about that... for now they let him eat without killing so he was thankful.

"Now today, you'll show me around the university, because I-"

Kaneki interrupted her, surprised with a swift "What?"

"Oh sorry, I haven't gone over this with you yet..." She trailed off, sitting down. "You see I want to visit this Kamii school of yours..." she explained, bringing a single hand softly to her chin and staring off into space. To Kaneki, it seemed as if she was fantasizing about something, the way she looked over to the wall was one of intrigue. Kaneki deducted that there was something about school, something that she envied... she was a half-ghoul after all... The manager, her father, more than likely did not let her attend any institution of learning.

"T-that's fine..." Kaneki said a little reluctantly. He watched her face light up in elation and look at him, her smile widening, "Really, I thought I was just being hopeful..." She paused, "I've always wanted to go to a school, even for just a day... I was denied an education because when I was younger I couldn't quite control my hunger... I ate alot... so it was my fault I couldn't go to school..." she began to look into nothing once more... "So, in an act of rebellion I caused trouble... Even though only I bore the blame..."

Kaneki frowned, He knew what she meant by 'caused trouble', Eto used to be a murderer. Kaneki, since he'd realized what he'd become, had taken t not calling any ghoul related deaths murders, as they only wanted food, but the way Eto described it... made it seem like she killed for fun... and regretted it.

Desperate to change the subject, Kaneki cleared his throat and spoke up, "But you'll have to make yourself look the part..." he began, getting the green haired girls attention.

"Oh?" she replied, "How so?"

"Well... make yourself look like a college student... In other words a nervous wreck." He laughed at his own joke, earning a smile from Eto.

"I think I can do that..." She replied, smirking.

Now the two walked together in the courtyard of Kamii, Eto actually pulled off the college girl look fairly well. She tied her hair back into a ponytail, a single curl fallng in dront of her face, her big red glasses, shielding her eyes from it and slightly reflecting light off the lenses. She was dressed in a stripped, form fitting shirt, that wrinkled in places, ending just before her waist, tan, slim, Cargo pant's which stopped at the ankles, and normal flat footed shoes... in fact she more than passed for a college student.

"It's so big..." She gawked twirling around to see the many building surrounding her.

"Yeah, I suppose so... I mean it is called a mega university so..." he explained, simply, also looking around. "Each building is different... some house dorms, other are used for certain subjects." He paused to look around for a certain building, finding it fairly easily, and pointing to the structure. "Like that one is for science and tha-" Kaneki was attacked from behind by a heavy object, which caused him to lurch forward.

"KANEKIIIIII!" It called into his ear, using a familiar energetic voice, then picked him up off his feet and twirled him around once, twice, three times, before setting him down and letting him spin like a top. Kaneki saw the world turn into a fish eye view as he spun, trying to get his barrings, a single thought ran through his head: Hide.

The blond boy laughed as he watched his friend spin around like a confused kitten and then laced his fingers behind his head. "Welcome back, Kaneki!" he exclaimed smiling brightly. Kaneki stopped himself and steadied his head.

"Hello, Hide..." he managed out, weakly, still shaken from the sudden spinning.

"So, you've finally come back to school, huh? Or did you just miss me?"

Kaneki merely laughed and looked back at Hide, "Well I've been feeling much better lately... so I decided to see how I'd fare at school..."

Hide was about to say something in turn before an unfamiliar pair of hands cupped his face. His head was jerked to the left to see a pair of big green eyes, with matching hair, and a mouth in the shape of an O. "So you're Hide... I remember you..." She said, tilting her head slightly.

Just like with that Uta-fellow, Kaneki felt a small tinge of jealousy inside as he saw Eto cup Hide's face and pull hers close to his. Again he didn't know why, Eto was not property, she was a person, she was not his... not Hide's either... Thankfully(for Kaneki) Eto let go of the dirty blond's face and rested her arms at her sides. "Actually, I remember you, you were with Ken here at the shop, the day of the accident."

Hide, still confused by the strange woman, nodded. "Yeah... I was..."

"You know I find it interesting..." she said walking back to Kaneki.

"What's interesting?" Hide asked, still confused.

"How opposites attract... You who have a bulling personality and Ken here is quite the introvert... yet you have become best friends...", she paused, "It's just interesting..."

"Ahhh, ok..." Hide said, slightly off put by the strange green haired girl. "Hey, Kaneki, want to come with me to get some class material?" Hide changed the subject from her, throwing his thumb over his shoulder. The person he was planning to see was some smug-shit upper class man who thought of himself so high that he felt like a god, He pissed Hide off, but he alway's had things that were important for class, so Hide put up with him.

"S-sure." Kaneki responded before turning to Eto, who had now focused her attention on a large building with a board above the entrance with the word 'library' above it. "Eto... do you want to come?" Kaneki asked, subconsciously knowing that she'd rather spend her time at the library being the author she was... as expected, the half- ghoul declined.

"No, no... go ahead without me... I'll meet up with you later," she began walking towards said library, "Or maybe back home..." Kaneki and Hide watched in silence as she made her way to the library, torso leaning slightly forward as if her legs weren't carrying her fast enough. Once she was inside the library and out of sight, Hide plopped a hand on Kaneki's shoulder, "'Back home'", huh?" he teased, "You know I wen't by your apartment once or twice to see if you were there, so that's where you've been, huh?"

"H-Hide, n-no! I-"

"Hey, she's nothing to be embarrassed about, buddy..." he paused, "no, definitely not..."

"Hide, it's not like that!" Kaneki called as the two began walking, Kaneki following the dirty blonde to an unknown destination, set by Hide.

"Oh, then what is it like?"

"I-I don't know... but not that!"

Moments later, the pair arrived at the door of an upper class man that Hide described simply as 'a prick', Kaneki was not to excited to meet this person... He did notice, however, a smell... a musty smell, a smell that lingered deep in his throat which felt like a thick cover being laid almost denying his lungs air, it wasn't particularly gross, but it wasn't pleasant either... "Hide, do you smell that?" Kaneki inquired.

"Smell what?" Hide asked, raising an eyebrow, Kaneki deduced from this that he might possibly be smelling this due to an enhanced sense of smell caused from Rize's organs. He cringed, he was losing his humanity more and more everyday.

"Nevermind, It's gone now..." Kaneki lied, the smell was only growing more and more aggressive as it forced it's way into his airway and latched itself in. He'd never smelt anything like this... He figured it wasn't a dead body since it didn't make him hungry, whatever it was though, A small part of Kaneki wanted it.

Hide then rudely opened the door without warning, and without consideration, something he should have used... Kaneki first heard the light shriek of a female ring out, then the ruffling of clothes, and finally felt her push past him and run out into the hallway... Kaneki then knew what that smell was, as it left as she did, Kaneki was smelling sex. he wasn't so much disgusted by that than by the fact that he wanted it... and the first thing, or person rather , his mind turned to was Eto.

"Hey, Nagachika haven't you heard of knocking?" a voice pulled Kaneki out of his thoughts, and caused him to look at the source of said voice. What he saw was a boy who was barely older than him(around 22 if Kaneki had to guess), he also had short curled hair and glasses similar to Rize's in the way they were shaped. But the way he spoke, the way he looked at Hide... Hide was right, Kaneki could already tell, He was a prick.

"Sorry, Nishiki, I just needed some material for class." Hide, replied, he wasn't actually sorry, but he needed that material.

"Yeah..." Nishiki looked over at Kaneki and his mouth dropped, "Who's this?"

Hide, looked over to Kaneki, curious, "Oh him? That's just Kaneki, he wanted to tag along, he won't be a problem..." Kaneki gave a nervous smile and wave to ease the obvious tension.

"Uh-huh..." Nishiki replied before turning back to hide, "So what material did you need again? Last years?"

Hide nodded.

"I think that's at my place, not to far from here, why don't we go get it?" Nishiki suggested, Kaneki noticing a slightly suspicious smile on his lips.

"Ah, sure... can Kaneki come too?" Hide asked, not wanting to leave Kaneki. Nishiki looked over to the smaller boy and studied him up and down, his gaze was peircing and Kaneki even noticed his nose slightly twitch before he smiled. "Sure..."

The trio now walked under a low bridged, on the way to Nishiki's home, Which(Kaneki had noticed) was rather far away, considering he lived there and not on campus, but he shrugged it off, Maybe he has a bike, it's practically the only way to stay in shape in college, unless your part of a sport, but there are other reasons to stay fit rather than sports... like what this Nishiki guy was just doing... Kaneki shook the memory out of his head and looked onward... just in time to see Nishiki kick Hide, with great force, down into an alleyway.

Kaneki froze, he nearly forgot to breath, and the only thing he could do was scream the name "HIDE!" before Nishiki had pinned him against a concrete pillar.

"What's the matter, Where you gonna eat em?" he mocked, "Well asshole, he's in my territory so piss off!" the older ghoul yelled as he punched Kaneki in the stomach hard, knocking the air from his lungs, then grabbing him by the neck and throwing him into the alleyway, making him land right next to Hide.

Kaneki pushed himself up, with weak arms, one eye, his right one, closed due to blood leaking over it from a cut on his forehead. "But, there's something I want to know... Kaneki..." Nishiki said as he appeared, silhouetted from the light behind his back and a blue appendage coming from his tailbone area. "Why is it that you smell like that whore Rize..?" he paused, "Have you been fucking her?... no you still smell like a virgin..."

Kaneki, in an attempt to defend hide, removed his messenger bag and tried swinging it at Nishiki, who merely smacked it out of his hands. "Using your bag?", he mocked, "What are you, a woman?" He asked as he kicked Kaneki once in the chin probably breaking his jaw, and tossing him to the side. "Now if you'll excuse me... I've grown quite famished..."

Kaneki once again found himself on the ground... The cut above his eye was now gaping open and spilling down his cheek onto the ground. "Why?" he asked shakily, "Why do you want to eat Hide? I thought he was your friend..."

"My friend? No, he's only that to you, Kaneki. Other ghouls medley eat humans, I hate them." He paused, to place a boot onto hide's unconscious form, more specifically his head and curl that blue appendage down his leg just grazing Hide's face. "But, Nagachika just plain annoys me... always asking me for shit... he's a nuisance..." He paused "Which is why I'm going to make you watch me kill him... so you can see just how much of nuisance he can be! The annoying high pitch of his voice as I peel his skin..."

"No..."

"His Pathetic crying face as I impale him repeatedly..."

"NO..."

"And his organs spill out as I split him open..."

Kaneki felt a bubbling in his lower back accompanied by a crackling sound and the sound of his coat tearing. It was hot, almost unbearably so, causing him to sweat beads and groan in pain, his mind was filled with him and Hide enjoying life together, when they first met, when they went to college, and when they went to the coffee shop... there were more, but those stood out the most. Finally the feeling exploded, leaving his body and branching out into four tentacles, each as big as Nishiki's own. "I don't want to see that..."

Kaneki then lifted him self up unstably and looked at Nishiki, left eye black and red with hate, "I don't want hide to die!" he said quickly before rushing the older ghoul.

Kaneki felt the new appendages bend almost like boneless arms, they weren't heavy, but light... and angled at the other ghoul. Said other ghoul then brought the blue tail up and threw it towards his attacker, who simply latched onto it.

"Little fuck!" he yelled out. "Let go!" Nishiki pulled Kaneki closer to him, to beat him with his fist, but Kaneki quickly adapted to the attack and used his red tentacles to pierce Nishiki through, causing him to let out an animal-like howl of pain. Kaneki, not satisfied with just that, began thrusting more appendages through his stomach, smacking him into the air and quickening the pace of the impaling, until finally Nishiki's head got stuck between a metal rod and a concrete walkway, blood sloshing down from his gut.

Kaneki calmed down, his once rapid breathing, turning into a steadier rhythm. He then looked over to Hide, to see his body surrounded by blood... delicious blood. Kanek felt himself grow hungrier, the sugar cubes wearing off... also being forgotten... he looked at Hide and his mouth began to water. I'm so... hungry... he thought as his drenched mouth began to smile... It's only natural right? Ghoul eats man, man dies... that's how it works, right?

He felt a pair of soft arms wrap seductively around his neck and a head of purple hair appear to his left. "Yes, Kaneki, that's right... that's exactly right..." she said as her hands traversed Kaneki's body grabbing him all over. "You're so hungry aren't you, huh? Go head, eat, he won't feel a thing..."

"Yeeessss... I'm so hungry..."

"So the manager was right... You did become a ghoul..." A feminine voice said, as a small girl, about his size, with dark blue hair appeared before him. The waitress. She now dawned a school girl uniform but he recognized her.

She's a ghoul too... She want's to steal him from me! Kaneki told himself as he growled at her.

"I see you've starved yourself beyond reasoning..." she said, "Jeez you're gonna be a pain to work with..." Touka began loosening the tie on her school uniform, letting herself breath as he Ukaku ripped out of her back. "Fine, I'll help you this once..."

Ok, this has to be the longest chapter I've written for anything ever... I really don't know what else to say but uh... Please, Review!