Let's get this non existent party started!
Admin: I own nothing-
Ayato: She really only owns her imagination
Admin: Thanks for that =-=
Admin: Now let's get onto the writing!
Ayato: No one reads this shit anyway, so why bother-
Admin: That's it young man no more going out to Aogiri for the next year
Ayato: *Flips me off and mutters about how terrible I am while angrily stalking away*
Souske and I had finally found Rize and Kaneki sitting in a restaurant. We found a empty three story office building across the street, so we did the obvious thing and scaled it.
"Race you to the top, asshat." I said, already climbing the fire escape around the back.
"No fair! You got a head start!" he yelled, clambering after me. I paused, letting him catch up a bit. I didn't let him catch up too much before I resumed climbing. To get over the top, I pulled myself up and rolled over the ledge. I landed soundlessly on the rooftop, while Souske opted for landing with a whump and going 'oof'. Now past the ledge in the back, I went and sat behind the raised ledge in front, with only my gold eyes peeping over the top of the ledge. Souske clambered up after me, and handed me a handful of yen. He sat down next to me, his gray eyes reaching the same level as mine.
It's scary how alike Souske and I look, twins or not. Same face with sharp features, except the slight gender differences, same wavy raven black hair, same slender figure (although I was a little bit hourglass shaped, thanks mom.), same skin color, and we're even just about equally tall. Except when our eyes were different colors than each other, and he had a pair of glasses. I don't even know why he has them, he can see pretty well without them.
We could conveniently see Rize and Kaneki's table, and they were happily chatting. Eventually Souske got bored of stakeout duty.
"So what's the plan?" he asked, about forty minutes in.
"Wait here until they leave. Kaneki walks Rize home, and when he leaves I convince her to take a walk with me. We walk her to the rendezvous spot, and we let them take her. Sound simple enough for you?" Souske nodded.
Twenty minutes later, I had gotten bored. I started pulling out one knife at a time, and polished it with the hem of my dress. Souske realized what I was doing a good ten minutes later.
"Taka, what are you doing?"
"Polishing my new knifes."
"With your dress? You're going to end up cutting it if you're not careful. Maybe even your fingers." I smirked at his comment.
"Oh, like this?" I said, purposely running the knife over my finger. Blood welled up and ran down my finger, and I snickered at Souske's face as I licked the blood off.
"You idiot." he grabbed my hand and brought it up to his face, inspecting it. "I told you earlier, that knife's made of quinque steal and Arata. You aren't going to heal as fast as usual."
"Oh I don't mind. I was just proving a point to you; that I don't mind cutting myself. Even if it's with a weapon that's meant to kill people like us. Also that you're not Mom."
"Yeah, well who will be? She died years ago, and now you don't have a parental figure."
"I thought we talked about that." instantly, I regretted cutting my finger. "We'll talk about this later, alright?"
"Where we can scream and yell all we want, and punch as many trees until we tire out. Where we won't hurt people if one of us says something out of line." Souske and I had a thing for whenever we got way too pissed. We just head out into the forest behind out house, and punch trees until the fall over or scream and yell out there. No one goes into it anymore, because when we first moved in Souske and I had done that when our father was killed. Rumors got around, saying that there was a band of ghouls living in the forest.
"Hey, Kaneki and Rize are leaving. Let's go." however, Souske pulled my hair out from its side knot ponytail it was in before getting up. "What was that for?"
"It was already coming undone." he vaulted over one of the sides of the building and into the alleyway. I looked down where he had jumped, and saw a lady cowering in the corner of the alleyway, and a mugger flat on the ground. Souske was next to him, and dusting off his clothes. I jumped off the side of the building, and ran my fingers through my wavy hair as I plummeted the three stories to the ground. Narrowly missing the mugger, I turned to my brother.
"Hey, Sou, did you see which way they went?" I asked, looking out to the busy streets. Souske nodded, and pointed to the left.
"They went that way, and I can still see her hair. C'mon." he walked out into the crowded sidewalk. I quickly followed after him, and grabbed his hand to keep from losing my brother.
We tailed Rize and Kaneki in the shadows as they walked to wherever Rize was taking them. When they came across a crossroad, they paused for a second. There were two paths. A dark, ominous, and narrow alleyway, or the brightly lit, wide, path with Touka and her friend Yoriko coming up. Rize being Rize, walked down the dark path with Kaneki in tow. Touka caught sight of the pink ends of Rize's hair, and the gold of one of my eyes from the shadows in the tree my brother and I were perched in. She brushed it off, and continued walking with Yoriko. I jumped out of the tree with Souske, and plunged into the darkness.
When we came out, I darted up to a construction platform about 30 feet into the air. It overlooked the area where Kaneki and Rize were, and was a great place to watch. Souske climbed up soon after I did, and went to stand at the edge, trying to listen to what Rize was saying.
"The truth is, I noticed," Rize said, barely above a whisper. "I noticed...you were watching me. Kaneki-san...I too...was watching you!" and with that last word, she bit down into Kaneki's left shoulder.
The sound of teeth sinking into warm flesh woke me from my thoughts. Kaneki stumbled back from Rize, and I could see the crimson stain slowly spreading across Kaneki's sweater, and smell the metallic tang of his human blood. The smell tempted me, to get up and drink from Kaneki, and watch as the life drained out of his eyes. But I held myself back, knowing that he was a friend. I could go eat later. Souske was having the same problem as me, and even almost jumped off the ledge.
"Takara..." he said, hugging his arms.
"I know. No snacking on friends. Humans are friends, not food, am I right?" I said, trying to lighten the mood. A small smile graced Souske's lips at the line, but vanished just as quickly. "Oh come on, that was comedy gold!"
"Shh. There's something going on down there." he pointed down to Kaneki and Rize. I craned my head toward them, trying to hear what they were saying.
Rize was smiling like a madwoman while Kaneki sat on the floor, stupefied. Rize advanced, and Kaneki tried to scuttle away,but ran into a wall.
"You know, Kaneki-san...there's a scene in The Black Goat's Egg that I really love...where the black goat catches a man who's running away in bewilderment...and rips out a~~ll his entrails...no matter how many times I read that part..." she looked down, as if she was changing moods. "It always makes me shudder!" she took small steps towards him.
At this point, I noticed the silhouette across the plaza, over by a crane holding tons of steel girders. I rushed to my feet and pulled Souske up with me.
"Hey, what about Ken-" I made a shush motion.
"Both of them are in danger if that wacko over there does what I think he's going to do. C'mon, Kaneki's one of the few decent people we know." I tugged on Souske's sleeve and pointed to the half finished buildings on his right. My brother understood what I wanted him to do, thank god for 'twin's intuition'. He took a running leap off the platform and started to freerun to the crane across the way. I did the same, but on the left, to box the person in.
Flipping and twisting and jumping from scaffolding to material suspended in the air to construction equipment, Souske and I made our way around to the stranger. The person had a masculine figure, with pale skin and dark brown hair. He wore a white mask, which has a pink heart on his right cheek and had a red clown nose. It was a Clown, like the caller said.
"Souta?" I hear Souske ask. The clown looked up from the wires he was cutting, startled to see two people standing in front of him. Before he could get away, I leaned forward and snatched the knife from him, and chucked it to the ground. Rize and Kaneki were too busy entwined in their deadly dance to noticed the knife hit the ground. I was so determined to get the best of the Clowns, that I didn't hear the sound of heels clicking on the metal of a girder.
"The ones who get the last laugh is us, the Clowns." Souske and I heard. I could see Souta, the clown, continue to saw away at the steel cables until they split. The sound of metal hitting flesh was sickening, and I saw the red spill out even more from their bodies. Shortly, and ambulance arrived. It's too late, for Ken and Rize both, I thought, before the world blew away in the scent of chloroform.
"Hmm. How much do you think these two'll fetch?" the ghoul known as Nutcracker said.
"As a whole or as parts?" a male voice said. I couldn't see anything, but I could hear them talking.
"Aogiri said that they would turn up at the auction for them, but not as parts." A rough hand grabbed my chin and dragged my head upwards, and made a low whistle.
"At least 15 million yen for the girl? She is quite a looker, plus her..." I snorted.
"Really? And I thought my brother was the pretty one."
"Quiet you. If you keep acting up, you're going to be sold as parts." the male sneered. One female paused for a second, as if she had a small shred of sympathy for me.
"You know, I personally know some people who would fuck you up for kidnapping us," Souske supplied. "Well at least my sister does."
"Yeaaaah, you know of that rag tag team with the natural born kakuja? I'm with them, so if you could let my brother and I go-"
"Those pathetic excuses for ghouls? I doubt that they would even try to kill us." Only if you knew half of what I do...
"At least take the blindfolds off."
"Not a chance. They'll be taken off later." I could hear the two walk away, and heard the click of a door closing.
"Souuuskeeee?" I asked my brother, sugar coating my voice.
"If involves risking my life, the answer is no."
"You know me so well. But it's your lucky day, all I want you to do is take a bobby pin from my hair." he muttered something about poking my eyes out but reached up with bound hands to card through my hair. When he found one, he handed it to me and I shifted around, feeling for a lock. Bingo! I felt the cold of a metal lock, and shoved the pin into the keyhole. After probing around the inside of it, I deduced it was a simple double plunger lock. Easily unlocked.
"What about the rope and blindfolds?"
"Shoe knife!" I said, almost excitedly. I had modified my shoes just for something like this. I had slipped two of my new knife blades between the rubber on the side of both shoes holding it together, and I flipped it up and cut the cables tying my hands together. Next was the cables around my knees and my ankles. Once that was done, I ripped my blindfold off and worked on Souske's.
"Thanks, lil sis."
"I am the same age as you," I poked the side of his head. "So don't call me your 'lil sis'."
"Fine, but let's get out of here before the bickering starts." he said, while I looked around the room.
It was spacious, and was filled with cages. Except ours was made of steel bars lined up, like the ones in cartoons. The other cages were crates with six, blank, gray side without windows or anything. The majority of them though, were all a good fifty feet away from ours. There were people in all of them, both human, ghoul, and animal. But what freaked me out the most, was that I could hear a crowd of people on the floor above this basement.
"You hear that too, right? The people?" my brother nodded. "What is this place?"
"It's the abandoned auction hall." I mentally cursed myself. This was the rendezvous point that my 'employers' had picked. It all came together in my head. They had planned to get me to bring Rize here, and they would put her in the auction. At the same time, they would drug me and put me in the auction, too. If my brother tagged along like he actually did, they would've taken him with me.
"I'm so stupid, I'm so stupid, I'm so stupid..." I said as my brother and I ran down the halls. I was dimly aware that Souske was asking me to help him make an escape plan, but I was in lockdown mode, where I'm virtually useless. I ran into someone's chest, and I looked up, seeing an unfamiliar red mask with black stripes.
"Little Doll, you should've stayed inside today~" the man said, looking down at me. I made a sort of squeaking noise as my brother dragged me backwards. He grabbed my hand and started sprinting down the hall in the other direction with me in tow. The guy snapped his fingers, and four other men in masks were on us. They caught us, and put us back in the storeroom, gagged and bound. This time, however, we were separated into a steel cube of our own.
I heard a faint knocking noise, but I didn't bother to think about what it was. I just stared into oblivion, thinking about what I could've done to avoid this. When the banging got louder, my fragmented thoughts finally shoved a possibility in my head. Is that Morse code? Who the hell would be saying button? When the knocking stopped, it changed to faint screaming. Whoever it was, they were screaming...for me to call mom? Right, my brother and I have these little emergency buttons. Whenever something like this happens, in the event it happens, we're supposed to push it. It'll send a pre recorded message, telling Ayumi to rescue our asses. Where did I put my call button, anyway? Oh, in one of my breast pockets.
When I found it, I pulled it out and pressed the red button a few times. A loud screech came out of it, and it showed no signs of stopping. I threw the button against the wall, but it just bounced back and hit me square in the face. I took out the knife from one of my shoes and started to pry the metal paneling open, but the device started smoking. Did we program it to explode? Aw shit, we did. I threw it to the opposite corner of my crate and scrunched myself into the corner behind me. After five seconds, it blew. I screwed my eyes shut to keep any shrapnel from getting in my face, forgetting about the blindfold. When I opened my eyes, the blindfold was slightly askew and the gag was blown off. I could see that the whole crate was blown up, besides the metal behind my back, and all the air was pushed out of my lungs. Part of Souske's crate was also ripped apart. Alas, it was only big enough for a squirrel to squeeze through. Sadly, my bindings were still intact.
"Takara?" I gasped, trying to force air back into my deflated lungs. After a few minutes of that, I looked at the hole in my brother's crate. I could see one of his eyes, framed by his glasses. "You alright?" Souske probably rubbed the edges of his gag against the jagged metal edges that were imploded to get it off.
"Yeah," I spit out. "Why did we put a nitroglycerin bomb in those buttons again?" Thanks to the call button, I was out of my panic daze. At least for now, I suppose.
"It was your idea. I tried tampering with mine, but I can't get it to detonate." I heard loads of yelling coming from the area outside this room. Not a good sign.
"I shoved a knife into the wiring, that's why."
"That is the stupidest idea I've ever heard. But hey, it worked."
"I wasn't trying to. I just wanted the detonation noise to shut the hell up." Souske made an 'oh' noise. "Well, I guess we wait here until they come get us."
"Ladies and gentlemen, the moment you've all been waiting for! This is the special human auction for the ghoul world!" one person said.
"We have lots of rare people here today, so don't forget to take one home!" another exclaimed.
"Do be careful on your way home tonight, as you don't want to end up like the goods you bagged today. Now, let's finally start our introductions."
"Your hosts, as well as auctioneers!"
"We, the Clowns!" they all chorused. The one in the center of the stage seemed to act like he was running the show. His mask was awful, and would trigger trypophobia in people. The girl off to the side had a mask that was half the face of a wide eyed clown, with a red ball nose and small buck teeth. The last one had face paint instead of a mask, with a star over his right eye and a large clown nose.
"Feel free to enjoy this auction to your content," he said.
The clowns began with their auction, starting with famous people. There were a few singers, a couple actors, and authors. #1, Big Madam, frowned at this auction's spread. She really wanted that novelist, Takatsuki Sen, but she never turned up as an item at auctions.
A loud 'BOOM' was heard at this point. The audience started to talk amongst themselves.
"Oh dear," Trypophobia Mask said, "It seems like we have a small problem."
"I'll go see what happened. Ehehe, it's been a while since I've had some fun." Half Clown Mask said. She disappeared into the silo onstage, to go check the auctionees. She pushed through large swarms of Aogiri guards until she got to the storage room.
What she found was one of the unlisted items in the Specialty catalog had her cage primarily blown to shreds somehow.
"You've been naughty, little human."
"Who're you calling human?" the item retorted. The clown didn't like the tone of voice the cargo was saying. After all, she had the last say in what happened to her.
"NOOOO! YOU CAN'T TOUCH THAT ONE!" Nutcracker screamed, running over to the clown girl.
"Well why not?"
"I brought her in, she's my 15 million yen!"
"Oh boo, you big bore. What about the brother? I can see him through that hole in his box.
"Not him, either." the clown looked at the scrunched up girl.
"What was that loud noise?" the clown asked sweetly.
"None of your fucking business," the girl in the remains of the crate said.
"I'll ask again. What was that noise?" she said, with fake honey in her voice.
"A nitroglycerin bomb."
"There's no way you could've have one on you, because we took your weapons from you earlier." Nutcracker said.
"Then how did I explode this pathetic box?"
"That's why we're asking! Now tell us!"
"She did have a bomb. I have one two, but I can't get the little shit to detonate." the boy in the slightly blown-up crate said.
"Our friend's coming to get us, too."
"Your blue haired friend was kicked out. She tried to bust into the auction, and your lucky all we did was give her the boot. Well, we literally gave her a black boot then made her leave, hehe." the girl looked up, and gave the two auctioneers the finger. "Rood much?" The clown looked at the girl, and heard muffled words.
The clown skipped back up to the stage, and they resumed with the auction.
"Everything's alright~ The loud noise was an explosion, I guess~" the female clown told the leader.
"Alright then. Moving on, we have the next category in our catalog! The Specialty Items!" Down in the storage room, Nutcracker directed the workers to unbind and bring the unlisted girl and her brother. "Now, the first item is unlisted in the catalogs you are all holding. So take a good look, and make sure you really want it! The starting bid is...shall we say, 15 million yen?"
Ganbo lifted a raven-haired girl and a boy with the same raven hair as the girl from the silo and placed them next to the lead auctioneer. They both had half masks on, though the crowd didn't know why.
"These two come as a pair, which means that the starting price has raised another five million yen." Murmurs broke out in the crowd, wondering why these two apparent humans were unlisted in the specialty section. Upon inspection, all could see that the two weren't actors, models, novelists, artists, or anything worth paying 20 million yen for. A small ghoul in a burgundy cloak rushed onstage and whispered something to Trypophobia Mask.
Murmurs turned to whispers and whispers turned to shouts.
"They aren't human?"
"Are they ghouls?"
"What's so special about them?"
"Why are they in this category?"
"How come they aren't in the unlisted gender category?"
And then there were the ones that praised them.
"Ooooh! Their figures are absolutely perfect!"
"Her skin looks flawless!"
"His jawline is to die for!"
"They look like matching dolls!"
"Ghouls, please calm down. Hmmmm~ These two, they don't smell right. Show us your secret, little birds?" The two kneeling humans turned their backs to the crowd. The girl took her red jacket off, and the boy took his hoodie off. They seemed to communicate with their eyes.
After a few silent moments, heavy with anticipation, something happened. Twin holes appeared above each of their shoulder blades. Each now sprouted a pair of green-gold wings that shimmered in the low lamplight. The two paused for a moment, hesitating about something. But then something happened. More holes appeared in their clothing. The female grew a pair of red tentacles from her lower back while the male grew a second set of snow white arms from under his shoulder blades, right under his wings.
The crowd made no noise as the two turned back around and faced their audience with closed eyes. Their eyelids slowly opened, revealing the treasure they hid. The girl's right eye and the boy's left eye were the red iris and the black sclera of a ghoul. Now the crowd gasped, and the items on stage willed their kagune away.
"As said before, the starting bid is 20 million yen." The bidding wars began, until one person bid 1 billion yen. The items onstage looked up, to see a purple haired ghoul with an unsmiling face holding up a placard that read #912.
"Alrighty then! After the auction, come to the reception with your payments, and the merchandise will be shipped out later."
The big clown picked my brother and I up after Big Madam bought us for the highest bid. When we got out of this, I'd be sure to push the elimination of the ghoul auction. I looked at the silver ring on my finger, remembering the boy who gave it to me all those years ago.
"You saw him, right?" Souske asked me.
"Duh. I dunno why he bought us though. It's not like he wants something from us," I responded.
"Or does he?"
"Pffff. Like Ayato Kirishima wants something from us."
So yeah. Originally it was going to be Kanae buuuut I changed my mind, because Kanae doesn't have any ties with Aogiri that I know of. Anyway I finally finished this thing. On a completely unrelated note, I have lots of stories to update and not enough imagination, so don't expect this to be updated really frequently.
And if any of you did review (which I highly doubt) I'd probably dedicate a chapter to you.
Admin out! *Jumps out window* Okay maybe that wasn't a good idea...