Title : The Hearts Wants, What It Wants
Theme : horror/dark fantasy story
Pairing : Kaneki/Uta
Mr. Ghoul - Thank you and i wanted to try to make this Kaneki different from the weak one but that doesn't mean he doesn't have a weak side.
Jen - Thanks i'm glad to hear that.
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Chapter 3 - Help
"Kaneki-kun, you live alone." Uta asked. Kaneki didn't know why he went back with the ghoul to his shop. The man had come to his college surprising the boy and telling him they needed to talk, they were talking alright but it wasn't anything important.
"I do." Kaneki replied.
The two were in the back of the shop where Uta really lived in. The shop was also his home which Kaneki didn't know. The boy was also wondered why Uta even bothered to talk to him, what was so interesting about him. Uta gave the young boy some tea to have while he do some things, Kaneki rather go home but it didn't seem like Uta would let him leave anytime soon.
"Looks like the mask come in handy." Uta said holding the mask that he had made for Kaneki. He looked it up and down to see if anything was rip. "I was right to choose this kind of mask for you." Uta then sat beside the young boy and saw the boy hadn't touch the tea that he had made for him.
"You don't like it." He asked.
"It's not that." He said.
"You'll have be careful with the ghoul investigators going around the city."
Kaneki the recalled the guy he took out and the one he let live. Kaneki didn't think he had it in him to kill somebody but he did it, he still regrets it since Kaneki has never killed anybody before and it was surprised to him what he was doing, the ghoul inside him took over.
"You're half-human, I see." Uta said. Kaneki didn't even tell the ghoul yet he already knew about him.
"How did you know?" He asked.
"I know a lot more than you know." Uta then saw the stare that Kaneki gave him. The boy wanted know more even without the boy saying anything. "You want to know, am I right."
Kaneki didn't want to admit it but what Uta said was true. He wanted to know the things that he didn't know, about the ghoul in him and much more.
"Do you know about Rize?"
"I know that fact that you were with her before she died."
"How do you know that?"
"I just walked by you and her and I have to say you have bad tastes."
"I don't want to hear that."
Kaneki was naïve to believe that all people were not ghouls. He never thought he would meet a ghoul in the first place. He never dreamed that the girl he fell in love with would try and eat him but look like luck was on his side when the building came crumbling down, but what Kaneki didn't like was he himself turned into a ghoul without a ghoul what to do, he had to live his life like everything was fine. He even skipped college because of it.
"Kaneki-kun, you don't have to worry so much." Uta could read the boy like a book. Kaneki knew there was something the older male was hiding but he could find out those things later, right now he had live his life like it was normal.
"Uta-san, when you speak I can't take you serious since you speak like you normally do."
"Normal?" Uta just stared at Kaneki. The boy couldn't help but smile since Uta was unlike anybody that Kaneki has ever met before. Uta's expression doesn't seem to change much when he says things.
Kaneki was walking around town with Hide. They were going to go to the café again but something made the college stop in his tracks.
"Is something the matter?" Hide asked.
"I forgot that I have to go do something." Kaneki waved to his friend and head to the direction where he could smell the blood of a ghoul and a familiar one. The smell led him to a certain alley and there he found him.
"Nishio-san." Kaneki called out. Nishio couldn't see clearly but he could recognized the voice. The voice of another ghoul.
Kaneki manage to drop Nishio to his apartment that he lived but he wasn't looking so good. It was the first time that Nishio looked so bad, he looked nothing like when he first met the guy. Was this the same guy as before?
"Why did you help me?" He asked.
Kaneki didn't have an answer since he didn't know himself but his body moved on his own and his mind was telling him not to leave his senpai alone in that state. The door to his apartment opened and a girl appeared.
"Nishio-kun." The girl called out to Nishio. She had a hime-cut hair style. Nishio fell on the floor of the apartment but the girl caught him into her arms. She then looked at Kaneki and glared at him but he didn't care.
"Kimi, stop it, it wasn't him."
So Nishio told him how Kimi knew about him being a ghoul and how they ended up living together. Kaneki didn't know what to think, he never thought of such things, a human and ghoul.
Kimi then told Kaneki that she decided to stay with Nishio even those he eats human flesh and such. That she would stand by it if he didn't eat her friends or family. Nishio looked really in bad shape that it worried her.
"Is there a way to save him?" She begged Kaneki. To be honest Kaneki didn't know what to think. He didn't know how to help others like Nishio, he meant have with Hinami but that was a different story.
"I want to save him, please." She begged.
Kaneki left Kimi and Nishio, his thoughts went back to see the two together and he couldn't forget the look on the girl's face. She would do anything to be with Nishio, even if it meant to let him eat her.
"How stupid?" Then Kaneki realized something, he didn't know but when he saw Kimi and how hard she was trying he wanted to help the girl.
Kaneki couldn't believe what he was doing. He snuck into the café late at night of course wearing the mask that was repaired by Uta. He knew that the café had dead corpse hidden away inside for them to manage to live. He couldn't believe what he was doing.
There was nobody around and nobody caught him so he manage to get the things he needed and escape, but he didn't realize a certain café owner was watching the whole thing.
Kaneki gave the food supplies to Kimi who gave it to Nishio but there was something on his mind.
He couldn't just steal again. He didn't even want to in the first place.
Kaneki was sitting outside in the sun of his college. He was reading a novel so he could get some things off his mind. He then noticed a scent that he didn't really like and it was of a ghoul. This ghoul was somebody that Kaneki didn't like that much.
Tsukiyama Shuu is not a guy that Kaneki likes that much, he's weird and creepy. Kaneki met the guy in the café that he always goes to. He always gave Kaneki that weird stare. Touka didn't seem like she liked him very much either.
"I see you're reading." He spoke as he sat down across from Kaneki. Kaneki choose to ignore the man but it wouldn't help since the guy kept on talking.
"Why is here?"
"I'm also a novel reader." He said. Kaneki heard this before. The first time Kaneki was probably impressed but not now anymore. This guy used Kaneki and he hated him for that, he also knew that Kaneki was a ghoul too.
"I have to head out." Kaneki quickly packed all this things and rushed out. He didn't want to be near that guy any longer. Kaneki didn't know when he walked out that Tsukiyama was giving him that stare once again.
Somehow Kaneki ended up at Uta's shop. He wasn't even planning to go there but somehow he just ended up there. He walked in and for once Uta didn't pop out of nowhere and surprise him. This time the ghoul was what looked like working on a mask, it was a mask of a rabbit.
"This is unusual." He said. Uta looked up and saw Kaneki.
"You're here." He said. Uta then notice a familiar smell on Kaneki and he didn't like it. Not many people like Tsukiyama Shuu for he did many bad things that made people hate him and Uta was one of them.
"You were with Tsukiyama Shuu." Kaneki could tell the hate in the tone of voice he used, it was kind of scary, scarier than anything.
"You know him too." Kaneki said.
"Somewhat." Uta replied. He continued to stare at Kaneki and make the mask in his hand. Kaneki was sure that he saw that rabbit mask before then it hit him he remember he saw it at the café when he stole the supplies.
"You shouldn't go near that guy."
"I try but it's him that comes after me." Kaneki said. The college student told Uta about how he met Tsukiyama and how he was at Kaneki's college. Uta didn't like the things that Kaneki said. To think Kaneki met that psycho before him made his blood boil but it made it more boil that he was near the boy in first place but he wouldn't show it on his face.
"Kaneki-kun, you did something stupid, didn't you." Uta said in a gentle voice.
"What do you mean?" He asked.
"I know that you snuck in and stole those food supplies." Kaneki didn't know what to say since it was true he did steal but he had a reason for it. "I know that fact that you can eat normal food so why need those?" Uta continued to question the boy with many questions.
"How did you know?" Kaneki asked dodging Uta's questions.
"I know a lot about you that even you don't know." Uta finished the mask he was done repairing and put it down on the table and turned to Kaneki once more. "If you're not too careful you might end up dead."
Uta wasn't speaking like his usual self. He acted more adult like trying tell Kaneki what he should do or not. Why did he suddenly care anyway?
"Why the change?" He whispered.
Kaneki was heading home after leaving Uta's shop. Their talk wasn't the usual and it felt awkward around Uta since he kept asking a lot of things that Kaneki ended up leaving and headed home. Kaneki was going to take a shower when he heard footsteps getting closer to his door.
"Kaneki." It was Nishio's voice that was calling his name. Kaneki opened the door to his apartment and there Kaneki saw him and he didn't look so good. He looked healthy but there something else that made his senpai look sick. This didn't look like the guy he just saw yesterday who was about to die. He looked more worried and pale. What had Nishio been doing?
"What are you doing here?" Kaneki asked.
"Kimi, she's missing." He spoke with a dreadful expression on his face.
"What?" Kimi the girl that Nishio was living with suddenly disappeared. Why did Nishio come to him of all the people?
"I know it's strange for me to come to you but I need your help to find her." He said. "I found the scarf she always wore on the foot of our apartment."
Kaneki didn't promise Nishio anything but that he would look into it.
The next day when Kaneki woke up there was a letter outside his door. Kaneki had a feeling this had to do something with Kimi. He picked the letter up and read it, that's how Kaneki found out who had taken Kimi.
"It just had to be him of all those people, huh." He sighed. He didn't want to do anything with that psycho but he didn't have a choice since a human was involved in all this and this is one things Kaneki can't stand is a human getting hurt in all this.
Kaneki told Nishio about the letter and who had Kimi. The black-haired boy told the weaker looking college student that he would bring his girlfriend back safe and sound but Nishio didn't agree on it.
"I'm coming too." He said with a serious expression on his face. He looked like he was willing to anything for that girl.