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Chapter 2

I remember back until I was three years old. I had a good memory, why not put it to the test? I remember all about my trips to the coast and a lot of my horrible days in the park. I remembered my kaa-san and I remember my kitty, Mew.

I remember the ice cream shops we went to, and the best stores we shopped at.

And I remembered my dad.

My daddy was the typical oto-san*(1) you could get, a worrywart, an overprotective man who was afraid of me interacting with other boys, who called me his little hime*(2) and hugged me a lot. I loved him a lot too.

And then he just left. I was 10 at the time, young, but understood that he might've just...died and didn't show up at the time.

But he just left.

He could've at least said goodbye to us.

To me.

To kaa-san.

He just left.

2 Years After Kazumi Became an Investigator

The Ghoul. The ghoul that destroyed me.

He, it, was there.

It ripped me from part of my future, one of my suns was taken away from me. Right there, right in front of me, it was there. Why? Why did it kill for fun? Why did it want to kill? Why? What were their motivations?

Why?

All I was, the second definition of me, wasn't here anymore. The lit sun of my shadowed sky, the heart of my hollow body...was gone. Why? Its kagune pointed at me...then her voice rang through the street. No quinque, no nothing. Neither of us.

It destroyed me.

It wanted to consume me, the darkness that was the ghoul that was killed by the CCG that came one minute later.

One minute. And she would have lived.

Two hours earlier, we were enjoying the day off. Talking about ghouls...about us. Going to the market. Shopping for clothes. Just being happy, us.

Then it came, a ghoul. SS-rated. It was night, the stars flittering above, shining down on us. The moon offered light and peace. Bright lights of the city slowly turned off and some on.

"You two...look like some I could have entertainment in," it said, springing up behind us. "Hello." A wicked smile crept up his ever so pale face, waiting to pounce on his newfound prey. Us.

The lion waits for its prey slowly.

I whirled around, the streetlight illuminating his features, the red-and-black ghoul eyes we recognized so well...all in this man's eyes was evil. It was almost empty, as if there was nothing left in them. They showed dreams and...faintly of sadness and fury. Bursting out of his back, bulging red kagune, like a slimy, deadly tentacle, came. Then another. Two in total, they pointed me and one stretched so far as to stroke my cheek. "I like you." He said.

"Kazumi!" Her voice yelled. I turned back around. My eyes strained to see her darkened face, the flickering sparks of the ghoul's kagune providing almost no light. I stumbled backwards, falling to the ground as I tried to escape.

"Oh? And this must be the mummy! What great fun!" His demeanor grew unstable by the minute, his grin growing bigger like a watermelon slice. She walked small steps towards the ghoul. I was scared. "You two will be fun to kill!"

"Kaa-san?" My eyes widened ever so slightly. I could see her hair flowing in the breeze. "Kill?"

The lion stalks its prey delicately, hungrily, desperate for its needs.

"Kaa-san?" My voice shook. I could not see her. I could not see her. I couldn't. I couldn't. My feet stepped towards her.

" 'Kaa-san?' 'Kaa-san?' How pitiful! How...pitiful...!" It was insane. It. Was. The tentacle-like kagune recoiled back and he took sight of her. "Pretty eyes!" The kagune crept towards her body as he cackled.

"K-kaa-san...what...kaa-san...?" I was getting more nervous by the minute. My heart was beating like a bass drum, racing at 100 miles per hour. What would the ghoul do? My instinct was to run, but I could not do so.

"Get ready...girl," It said.

"Kazumi, run!" A voice said.

I ran away, hiding behind a bush.

The lion leaps for the prey after stalking it so.

I closed my eyes. The whirring of the wind in my ears was loud and angry. I was stopped in time.

Memories of laughs like butterflies fluttering in the air, licking ice cream furiously as it melted, new dresses bought, all rushed in my mind. Kisses on the cheek, "good nights", and snuggling with her when nightmares chilled my bones.

"HOW DO YOU LIKE THIS?! DOES IT FEEL SOOTHING? THInkING aBOUT yOUr NErVES?! LOOK, CHILD!" He cackled a disturbing cackle. Blood gushed everywhere, and I could hear her screams echo in the dark night. Screams wrenched in pain could be heard miles away. One arm, a leg, off the body and into the already-full body. More screams.

Ice cream...laughs...playground...toys...graduation...

I did not do anything. I didn't know what to do.

What to do...how?

More words. More screams. My breathing became hoarse. My eyes, snapped open, viewed the event. My hand reaching for her. I wanted to speak, but could not. She screamed more and more.

It must've gotten to me, because I couldn't take it anymore. It hurt. Clutching my hair, I yelled for it to stop.

"MORE! MORE BLOOD! I WANT! BLOOD! MORE! BLOOD! DON'T DIE JUST YET! HAhaHAHAAAa!" It was as if each time the kagune pierced her body, it pierced me. My heart started to shatter bit by bit. A piece fell off here, another there. Scream. Scream. Scream.

Scream.

"STOP!" I screeched. My eyes were closed, but the stabs were easy to hear.

Scream.

Another scream.

Silence.

The lion eats savagely, delicious meat reaching the mouth. It rips it apart piece by piece.

"HOW DO YOU LIKE IT?! HOW DO YOU LIKE IT, CHILD?!" He laughed and screamed. "THE BLOOD TASTES OH-SO-DELICIOUS, COME AND FEAST!"

Sick bastard. Sick.

The CCG came, including the one with the stitches and the white hair, whose name changed to Juuzou. "MAMA!" I yelled. He looked at me, eyes wide open. He said something I could not hear, and glanced at the body below. He shook his head like it was nothing and brought his attention to the ghoul.

"Guru-desu!" He yelled, with the slightest twinge of difference.

I fell down to my knees, not able to cry or do anything. I just stood there, pondering the scene that had just took place, my eyes all over the place, my whole body trembling not like ever before.

Suddenly, I just screamed for my life, at the top of my lungs. "KAA-SAN! MAMA!"

I reached out for her, running, screaming, but they held me back while they fought. "-KAA-SAN!"

I reached. I reached. I couldn't get to her.

I then took a view of her corpse, my sun, my mother...

I could not recognize this woman sprawled about, limbs deattached, eyes rolled back, blood all over, insides hanging out.

I could not recognize my mother. My mother, who had beautiful lavender eyes, silky black hair, a glittering smile...

I could not recognize her.

My own, previously beautiful, mother.

Only then could I cry.

Bitter tears streamed down my cheeks, making my dress skirt damp, my hands wet, and my mind changed.

AN: Short chapter. More coming soon. Review if you liked!

*(1) oto-san- dad
*(2) Hime- princess