Blood-thirsty, savage, predatory, vicious...
Hungry
These are all synonyms to humans when asked about ghouls. Some believe that they were originally once cannibalistic humans that adapted to the taste of flesh, like a form of natural selection. Whatever their origins, there's no question about one fact.
Ghouls are higher up on the food chain.
However, there are beings even stronger than ghouls.
Cross breeding between a ghoul and a human usually yields stillborns and deformed fetuses about 98% of the time. Yet, in that 2%, a miracle happens.
A half ghoul is born.
At peak performance, they are more resilient, stronger, and faster than full blooded ghouls.
This is the story of two such half ghouls, Eto Yoshimura and Ken Kaneki.
And how together, they change the world as we know it.
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Ken Kaneki was born from a ghoul father and a human mother. Three years after Kaneki was born, the CCG caught wind of Kaneki's father's whereabouts, and raided the apartment that they lived in at the 20th ward. Kaneki's father was a A ranked ghoul classified as "Fox" for his nine fox tail-esque rinkaku. Both of his parents were killed in the raid, leaving the now orphaned Kaneki to fend for himself in the streets of the 20th Ward. He is now seven years old.
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Eto Yoshimura was the daughter of Kuzen Yoshimura of the Organization, V. Left alone as an infant by her father, Eto grew up on the streets, feeding on human and ghoul alike. The green haired half ghoul child grew infamous among the ghoul population once she moved on from scavenging to hunting in the 24th Ward. Eto extended her hunting range to the 20th Ward, sneaking out from her caretaker's eye back in the 24th Ward. She is now nine years old.
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Ken Kaneki, having lived on the streets for about four years now, has gain a limited amount of knowledge of living life in the backstreets of the 20th Ward. Human, ghoul, it didn't really matter to him.
Food was food after all.
Ken was busy scavenging on a ghoul corpse in a shadowy back alley, tearing limbs from it's sockets and eating the bitter meat, when he heard an animalistic growl from behind, alerting him from his meal. He silently scanned his surroundings when he saw girl, around his age, with matted green hair crawling out from the shadows towards him on all fours. She was a ghoul, but had only one kakugan in her right eye and had an olive green eye in her other eye, in contrast to Kaneki's left kakugan and his right smoky gray right eye.
She was like him.
But before he could continue staring any further, the girl lunged at him, nearly taking off his arm. Kaneki retaliated, a tiny sapphire blue and jet black rinkaku poking out of his back from the excitement of battle.
Kaneki's kagune was thin and long, like a spider leg as it aimed at the green haired girl, who didn't bother pulling out her kagune.
The two half ghoul children exchanged no word to each other. Though they were young children, they knew that the other was a threat to their life. Kaneki retaliated, slashing at the girl with his kagune. Eto darted to the side, avoiding the blue limb and closed in on Kaneki, sinking her teeth into his arm, literally tearing it off.
Kaneki howled in pain, sinking his teeth into her neck and tore off a chunk of her flesh, causing the girl to cry out in pain as well.
Both devoured their claimed flesh and regenerated their lost parts.
""You taste really good"" They both declared in unison to the other.
Both then blinked, not expecting the other to say the same exact thing.
Before either could continue their assault on the other, both turned their head to see two white cloaked humans carrying briefcases rounding the corner. This alerted both hybrids, temporaily calling a truce before bolting out of the alley, away from the Doves.
Both of the ghoul children sat down on the rooftops of the 20th ward, looking over the setting sun.
"That was pretty close." The black haired boy sighed, his kagune sinking into his back as he calmed down.
"Yeah, it was." Eto responded with a sigh as she sat next to Kaneki and watched the sun sink down together.
Before Kaneki knew it, the green haired girl had tackled him to the ground and straddled him, staring deep into his mismatched eyes with her own.
"I wanna taste you again~" Eto said in a sing-song voice while pinning his arms to his sides.
"No way! That hurts when you bite me!" Kaneki protested, pulling out his kagune and the deep blue tendril wrapped around the girl and throwing her off him.
And thus the two lunged at each other, continuing their fight from before, taking off chunks off of the other with bites and kagune attacks.
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Their skirmish lasted a little over an hour, both collapsed onto the rooftops, bloody and exhausted.
"Truce?" Kaneki called out to his opponent laying down not too far away from him.
"Truce." The girl replied while panting, recovering from her wounds.
Night fell on the two children, shrouding them in darkness.
"I'm Kaneki, what's your name?" The boy asked his new green haired companion.
"I'm Eto." She returned with a weak grin. "You're pretty good even though you're just a kid." Eto stuck her tongue out at the black haired boy.
"Hey! I'm not that younger than you!" He retorted, trying to get up, but stopped due not being fully healed.
"Hey Kaneki, wanna go hunting together?" She grinned at him, already warming up to the younger boy.
"Sure. That fight of ours made me even hungrier than before." The boy complained.
And with that, the boy and the girl became fast friends.