Chapter 2
A nurse came in and changed the flowers.
"Thank...-" Sasaki added noticing that the middle aged nurse didn`t even bother to look at him. "...you." He returns to his book fixing his glasses. He was already healed but for some reason Arima asked him to rest. It wasn`t a bad thing. He received good books last time Torou visited him... and snacks from Saiko, which he couldn`t eat, but forced himself. Everything taste nasty and sometimes he wonders how she can eat those candies.
"Mhm..." He drops the line in the book and looks on the window. The silent drip drop of liquid perfusion was melting with the silent rain outside the window.
Two weeks ago.
A sad evening. The sky was blood red over the grey buildings.
Noise.
Street noise mixing with screams and cries.
"Hurry up!" Shirazu was holding Sasaki on his right shoulder and Urie on his lower left one. The difference of height wasn`t a big problem for them, as long as Sasaki was half fainted and his inspector suit was socked with blood.
"Maman!" Saiko`s drawling voice was fallowing the fast feet guys, though only the peak of her hair could be seen.
"Sasaki-san!" Torou was cupping her arms in their back worried the most.
Still Shirazu played the strong hearted one, while Urie was nothing but present there. Nothing really bothers him except the eyes of the others who were definitely worried about Sasaki`s condition.
A few hours ago.
"Roger." Urie nodded from the top of a building looking towards the target.
It wasn`t the first time they were on haunting ghouls in the middle of the day, but this time it was different. An Aogiri member enterprises something in a public building. They were not sure how he passed the Rc gate, but he was going frequently there for a couple of months.
Uries was placed in front, waiting for the ghoul to leave the comercial building.
Shirazu and Saiko were pretending to be normal costumers, while Sasaki was waiting at the other exit.
Torou was the missing one from the view.
Noise.
"We saw him..." Noise. Costumers talking loud near the cashier. Noise. "Saiko! Don`t...!" Shirazu was arguing with Saiko who was distracted by the candy shop. After a long moment of fight with Saiko, Shirazu reported to Sasaki back. "Sassan. We saw him. A tall looking like man wearing a hoodie like coat..." His description was fuzzy but it made an appropriate idea to Sasaki. "He looks like he changed his clothes in the men toilet..." Again Saiko saw something and Shirazu had to drop the report through headphones.
Sasaki sighed from where he was receiving the audio report.
Noise.
He appeared.
"It`s here!" Urie said landing from the roof in a mater of second, didn`t waiting for any answer from Sasaki.
Eventful noise.
The grey haired young inspector run in Urie`s direction after ordering the other two to leave the store and come at the first Rc gate. He was setting everyone for the moment when the ghoul will show off himself.
"It`s been a while..." The hoodie ghoul lets his face to be seen, taking the coverage off slowly. He knew the other ghoul investigators surrounded him, yet he closed his eyes for a long moment. His voice didn`t reach Sasaki, but when he opened his eyes, the older investigator took a step back.
"Tch." Urie rises a disrespectful stare at Sasaki, before stepping in and showing his quinque. Any of the Quinx squad were not allowed to use kagune in public places like this.
The ghoul`s eyes were proving the duality. Half ghoul. Half human.
"Are we supposed to judge him as ghoul or as human...?" Shirazu was standing somewhere behind the target holding on Saiko to not do anything.
Nothing happened till Sasaki gave them orders. Though the half ghoul man was standing there fixing his eyes on Sasaki, he almost got his half voice back. "G-guys..." They looked at him, mostly hearing him through headphones. "I know this man..." Sasaki`s face was pale white searching for sustain from behind.
"But he`s a ghoul!" Urie thought for himself not being affected by the circumstances and goes in anyway.
"Damn..." Shirazu hurries to stop Urie, leaving Saiko behind. He was the only one really worried about Sasaki who looked like seeing ghosts.
"You go as Sasaki now, huh?" The tall half eyes ghoul dodges Urie pushing him away and as Shirazu belated the op, he got the chance to see the ghoul from close up before getting a strong punch. "It`s been two years, right...?"
"Who..." Sasaki was speechless trying to remember the ghoul`s name. He was sure he met him somewhere and the link was broken because of the different worlds they live in.
"Did they erase your memory?"
"Who are you...?"
"You asked me two years ago..." The ghoul comes closer.
"A-Amon... K-..." Sasaki was mumbling something taking another step back as the man was coming closer.
"I`m disappointed you remembered my name while you forgot yours, Kaneki-kun." He places a hand on Sasaki`s shoulder, who lost balance and collapses.