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Kazumi

Juuzou turned around as I smiled, and he looked beyond annoyed at all my actions. "I would do more to you, but I've got ghouls to kill..." Juuzou stated.

"I don't kill for fun. I do it for the sake of exterminating-" A hand clamped around my mouth. Namely, Juuzou's. What a freak.

"Now I really wish I had brought thread..." Juuzou said. Blood was flowing down my neck and there was most likely a small bruise or two on my jaw. He examined my face. "Sch." He let go and stared at me, the tears on my face now dried. "You're so useless."

"I wonder if I can punch you in the face and inflict multiple bruises on it," I sneered.

"Too bad. I can't feel it anyways," He stuck his tongue out at me like a kid.

"Who're your parents?" I asked.

"..." He paused for a moment. "I don't really know. I have a very good second mama, though," He smiled, expression changing in a matter of seconds. I stood up, trying to keep my balance. He buttoned up his shirt again and picked up his scythe quinque. Step after step his feet went to me. "...Your mama was kind. To someone like me, even." Bending down to where I fell again, he sat there next to me.

I hung my head, not caring about the blood dripping across my forlorn cheeks. "That's what love is. She loved everyone in the CCG, whether it be you or Amon," I said softly.

"Why do you go on and on about something like that?" He looked up at the sky.

"Have you ever even been loved or been in love?" I asked.

"...I...don't know," He replied. "I don't pay attention to stupid things..."

He stood up and offered to take my hand. "I pay attention to killing ghouls, like we need to right now," he said. Looking at his pale white hand, I carefully took it as he lifted me up from the bloody ground. "And I'm sorry for what I did..." He said.

"I-it's okay," I mustered. "I don't really...have anything to...live for..." I worded my words carefully and smiled a bit just so he wouldn't get worried, not like he would.

"Oh. Well, let's go," He waved and laughed.

Funny how he could just amend things and throw them aside just like that.

One Week Earlier

[AN: I don't want this story to actually be that long, so there are huge timeskips. Please cope with this xD]

"Hey, would you go in that room and monitor Takizawa and Juuzou for me? They don't get along very well," Shinohara had asked. I reluctantly said yes and went into the room.

Clearly, he did not realize I had a shaky relationship with the both of them, with Juuzou's insanity and Takizawa's arrogance, though I barely even knew or spoke to the latter. As I opened the door, Juuzou was stitching himself. The red thread made its way into his skin, with no bouts of pain coming from his mouth. There were stitches almost everywhere on his body, including one on his huge eye and one right under his lips. It made his unkempt appearance ever so eerie and it was, in fact, scary when you looked at it.

Takizawa looked very annoyed. "Kazumi? What are you doing here?" He was surprised when he saw me and a slight blush crept up his cheeks.

"Shinohara asked me to monitor you both because you two don't get along very well," I replied.

"Shinohara-san? Ah," Juuzou said without looking up at me. Without making any more conversation, I pulled up a chair nearby and sat next to the both of them. After Juuzou was finished and Takizawa was examining his papers, I started to talk.

"So, Takizawa...how is being an Investigator for you, a Rank 2?" I asked.

Before he could answer, Juuzou exclaimed, "Done! Ha-ha-ha!" He giggled loudly, and now his arm was swirled with stitches down to his middle finger.

"Would you stop that?" Takizawa yelled, the blush displayed on his cheeks growing evermore, looking back at me and him.

"Stop what?" Juuzou replied, clearly annoyed by his interruption.

"Stop your...stitching! It's so gross!" Takizawa replied to him.

"You're so annoying. How about..." He smiled. "I sew your lips together so you can't be annoying anymore...?"

"I can't believe you got promoted to Rank 2 without even joining the Academy. What a freak!" Takizawa said.

"Hey...I've got thread right here..." Juuzou grinned an even wider grin and leaned in close to Takizawa. "How about I sew you right up now?"

"Juuzou, sto-" The door opened as I was speaking.

"...Kazumi..." Taiki looked mad. "...you were supposed to be watching them-"

"Hey Taiki. It's okay, eh? We all know these three don't bond very well," Shinohara stepped into the room as well and smiled.

"Erm, sorry, K-Kazumi," Takizawa turned to me and smiled. "I know I can be difficult, at-at times." The blush on his face was unmistakable and ever so red.

"Heh, it's okay," I smiled back, his cheeks turning even redder. He might be arrogant and prideful, but he did graduate second of his class (Akira was Kureo Mado's daughter. Of course she would top) and he was nice when he wasn't bickering.

Everyone is.

It's just a matter of perspective as to where you put it.

How was the chapter, everyone? This story's updating is very fast for what I normally do right now, so thank you! Also, I change the cover a lot. I just can't find one to my very preference. What do you think of this cover right now (3/17/15) and the kind-of-filler chapter?