And I'm back! I really really want to get my ideas out as fast as I can because after TG is over, I'm going to get out of the fandom pretty soon I think. This chapter will be told in Juuzou's POV (3rd person of course) and will include his past for a lot of the chapter.

Juuzou

"Rei-chan, love isn't real! Love is fake..." He giggled. That girl didn't know what she was talking about, obviously! What a baka*(1)! She didn't know anything. Besides, instead of standing there, she should have lunged! That would have been so interesting! But...no, she had to stand there, frozen like a block of ice.

Baka.

He switched his thoughts around because he was getting tired of this. "Juuzou..." He started. He thought of his mama. His precious mama.

"Rei!" Mama called out in pride.

"I have to be a good boy! Good-boy points! 20-30-40-60-80-don't die now! I still need more! 120-140-don't-DIE-YET!" Rei-chan called to his agonized victim. "More! MORE!" He yelled as the screaming victim went silent. The burlap sack tied on his head was covered in crimson red.

Dead he was, the man, the whole crowd cheering, his mama coming, no, running down to see him and give him his good-boy points. "Good boy!" She smiled as Rei was dragged away. Rei was so very happy today! He had gotten so many good-boy points. Good boy, she had said.

What a good boy he was.

He did not want to do this.

The gleaming knife in his hand shone in the bright lights, his mask sweaty and moist over his nervous eyes, which could not be seen by his mama. His mama...a guru*(2)...was he one too? A ghoul? The ones who wanted him most...were ghouls...they couldn't be that bad...

The human, one like him. It made him sick. Sick to know that in a few minutes, Rei would have to slash at the man with his little tiny killing machine, called a knife. The knife was for killing. Killing his spirit, his humanity, his newfound victims.

"1...2...3...GO!" The gourmet said in English. Rei almost ran away, but if it weren't for the ghouls, the hundreds of them, he didn't.

He didn't, for his mama.

He would be killed if he ran anyways.

There was no escape.

So what he did-sickeningly-was kill the man. The man couldn't see anything, so after being stabbed a few times, he realized what was happening. Rei was horrified...blood everywhere...so many things around him...no, the ghouls...stabstabstab. Dead. Tears streaming down Rei's face, his mama came down, and said, "Good boy!" and smiled.

Good boy?

Was he just a pet now?

He wanted to escape right now. He couldn't endure the onslaught of pain, emotional and physical. The daily abuse by his mama was sadistic and painful. He didn't remember his parents or his name anymore.

It hurt so bad he forgot in the first few months within.

She had named him Rei, and that was his name. She did things to him that he couldn't take much longer but had to go through. Carvings all along his arms, leaving him covered in scars. Needles through his bled-white skin, poking out and in.

It was too much.

Every day, he waited for another human to come. His parents. Someone. Someone. His arms reached through the bars, wanting comfort and even death to come.

It never came.

It became a habit to smile until his cheeks throbbed. It became normal to kill. It became faint, the pain.

What had he become? He didn't care. He had his mama. His everything. His whole life. Who styled him in dresses and skirts, gave him wigs to wear, and smiles to smile.

That was him, and he embraced it warmly.

"Rei-chan, do you think that's love? Mama? Maybe so!" Juuzou smiled.

Love? Maybe love, but he wasn't going to think about that now.

There were better and more interesting things to do, and besides, he was going to get his nightly ice cream with Shinohara-san in a few hours.

How was this chapter? Did I get Juuzou on point? Thanks for reading, and, of course, review.

*(1) baka- idiot

*(2) guru- ghoul (as pronounced in Japanese)