I do not own Tokyo Ghoul, this is a fan fiction only.
Tokyo was a wonderful and peaceful city to live in but that was before a plague began to spread and caused the weirdest of things to occur. The plague did not affect the living or as they believed and reanimated the bodies of the recently dead. These reanimated corpses began to mix with each other and before long a new species emerged.
After a very long time the human species was divided into two separate classifications. Humans or Homo Sapiens and Ghouls or Homo Necros. Looking these two together you would never be able to tell them apart. There were several things that were different among them.
The most well known fact is that unlike humans ghouls could not eat normal human food. The taste of human food was so foul and disgusting that any good would either throw it up or make himself throw it up. It wasn't only a matter of taste either for human food was actually poisonous to a ghoul and could in fact die if the ghoul digested the human food.
This would mean that they had nothing to eat right? Well sadly that is not the case. The only thing a ghoul could eat that would provide him with nourishment was in fact the flesh of a human. A single human corpse could feed a single ghoul for an entire month. The other source of food was not as nice but if a ghoul could not find a human corpse to eat there was always the alternative which was to eat another ghoul.
This last choice was particularly unwelcome and socially unacceptable in ghoul society. The practice however had another benefit other than feeding the ghoul. Through the ingestion of ghoul flesh the ghoul would actually grow stronger and in rare cases would undergo a mutation.
The plague was of course cured and by now the only means for the ghouls to reproduce was the old fashion way but unlike humans ghouls do not die from old age. So the population of ghouls slowly became numerous enough that the fearful government created an organization to eliminate the ghoul menace. The Commission of Counter Ghoul was created to eliminate the ghoul threat.
Tokyo was then divided into separate and clearly numbered sectors or wards each identified by a number. This is where our story begins in the ward called the eleventh ward. The thing that distinguished this ward from all the others was that this was always a particularly poor and violent ward compared to the rest.
It was in this ward that something strange happened again. A young beautiful black haired woman who grew up in that particular ward eventually married her childhood sweetheart and the two loved each other very much. What is strange about a happy couple like that you ask? It seems perfectly normal by most standards even ghoul standards.
The strange fact was while the black haired beauty which we shall call Yoko, was indeed human. Kenichi the young man who later became her husband was not, he was a ghoul. The first ever marriage between a human and a ghoul happened or so the young couple believed. They were the picture of marital bliss and everyone that knew them where quite happy to see the two love birds be so happy together.
Kenichi always controlled his hunger by eating the corpses of suicide victims and sometimes ghouls who tried to harm his wife. His wife ate normal food and was very health conscious as she kept her family tradition of practicing the old family style of swordplay. She was the last survivor of the practitioners of the Hiten Mitsurugi style.
Yoko eventually taught this style to her husband and thus her husband was better able to protect himself and her. This was specially true when one day she told her husband that yet another thing happened that they did not expect happened and like the previous case this too was a happy occasion.
Yoko told her husband that she was pregnant with their first child. Kenichi was overjoyed to learn they would be the parents of a baby boy. It was a difficult time the time of her pregnancy and it was particularly difficult for Kenichi. The smell that his wife's body produced during her pregnancy was something that ghouls found simply mouth watering.
Kenichi resisted the urge to take a bite out of his wife through sheer force of will. The situation got so bad that he killed dozens of ghouls by himself and ate their flesh to keep strong to continue to protect his wife and child.
After a very long and painful birth their child was born. The couple name him Ken and received his father's family name of Kaneki. This was the happiest time for the young couple as they feared the child would not grow strong enough to be born. This was often the source of much laughter between the couple as Kenichi of then joked that how could Ken not grow up strong being born from a monster woman like Yoko?
It was a happy time for the family and Ken grew up learning about ghoul and human society. He also learned to use the family style from both his father and mother. Why would a child need to learn about both human society and ghoul society you ask? It was because Ken Kaneki was different from most ghouls and humans. That was because he was both a human and a ghoul otherwise called a one eye ghoul.
His training was not the only thing he had life however, he had a love of reading which fed his hunger for knowledge. He also had a dear childhood friend by the name of Rize. He often told her that she really needed to improve her atrocious eating habits, he warned her that all that binge eating would eventually be the cause of her doom.
"Rize all good thing in life in moderation. There is no benefit in eating too much in a single sitting. I can barely finish my meal once a month. I simply don't see where you pack it all in. "
Rize was at most time a pleasant girl but sometimes she was sadistic and some would say cruel." I am a growing girl Ken, I do need my nutrition or else I won't be the beauty that can keep you attracted to me. I fear one day some other bimbo trying to steal that which is mine. "
Ken could not help but to tell her he often felt like she treated him like her personal property. Rize told her he was her property and she was his. It was an arrangement of mutual ownership for an unlimited amount of time.
His father heard that and he decided to simplify it for his boy. "what she is trying to say you two are practically married. I never figured I would one day call Rize my daughter in law but then again Ken could have had worse."
This made both of them glare at him and that made him laugh some more. If they only knew that this was going to be the last day Ken would see his father ever again. Several highly ranked ghouls actually demanded that he trained them in the Hiten Mitsurugi style but so far he had denied every one. He told them the style was a family tradition and thus could only be thought to blood relatives.
The ghouls figured if the was not going to teach them, then they would make sure he never taught anyone else. They ambushed him thinking he would be easy prey. The style he used was designed for fighting multiple opponents single handedly. It was child's play to evade the attacks of the ghouls.
The fight was not going their way so they did the single most cowardly thing ever they held his wife hostage and with his wife's life in danger he was eventually killed. The ghoul who was holding her prisoner was supposed to let her go free as soon as he was dead, but he had other plans. He first raped her, washed her clean with a pressure hose and finally when she could think he could do worse to her he ate her while she was still alive.
Yamori never had such a delightful dinner since that day and would often smile as he remembered her. The death of one's parents can be a traumatizing thing for children. Ken was no exception to this fact.
He heard that ghouls have been the ones to kill both his parents so from that day on Ken hunted ghouls every chance he got to try and avenge his parents death. He would look for ghouls that would attack the defenseless and weak. When they appeared he would follow them while hiding his presence. Once he had proof that they were the type he was looking for he attacked without mercy or restraint.
He killed the ghoul regardless of gender or age and he always did the same thing to the ghoul as they begged for mercy. He devoured them and left not even a finger left. To eat ghoul flesh would sometimes cause a mutation within ghouls. In half ghouls like he was it was certain to happen.
His Kagune had been much like his friend's Rize. The seven blades that formed from his back were deadly in their own right but thanks to the family style they made him almost impossible to defeat. The second ability he gained was a blood red armor that covered his entire body. This and his Kagune ability continued to grow stronger the more ghoul flesh he devoured.
The only reason he would not devour a ghoul if he or she was an innocent. He in fact saved so many of them while covered in the red armor that the surviving ghouls came to call him the Red Knight.
After years of continuing to grow strong Rize and Ken lost track of each other. Her binge eating had eventually caught the attention of the CCG and specially of the Ghoul Investigators otherwise called the doves.
Ken became a good friend with another boy who was also an orphan he just called him Amon. In the years of his training and push to become stronger Amon eventually invited Ken to join with him the CCG. Ken laughed at his friend and asked him if he would still invite him if he was a ghoul. Amon said that he fought for justice and nothing else.
As Amon joined as showed up one day as an investigator Ken could not help but to smile at his friend. "So you did join after all. I guess that means I should avoid you from now on doesn't it? I mean is thanks to you Doves that my lover had to leave this ward. I wonder where my beloved Rize is now?"
Amon smiled at his friend. "You are half ghoul it is true Ken, but you are also half human. Maybe I will just focus on your human half from now on. As for your missing Lover I think I heard reports from higher ranked investigators that she was spotted in the 20th ward. If you really want to be with her. I would head over there I think she might need her Knight in red shining armor. "
Ken looked at his friend and smiled." I guess I will do that, hope you have a nice time here in this ward. Do tell Mado I said hi. I guess this is goodbye for now. " Ken began to walk and as he was half a block away he heard his friend tell him to turn around which he did.
" Better than saying goodbye, how about I will see you when I see you. Keep sharp Ken don't go soft living in that peaceful ward now. There are plenty of criminal ghouls out there and we wouldn't want you growing to weak to take care of them now would we? You know my offer still stands you can join us any day you wish. The chief investigator Arima is actually wishing you would take me up on the offer. "
Ken left telling him to tell Kishou that he would spar with him anytime he wants. Just like he did always, but since he was going to be in the 20th ward to be sure to call him before hand. He needed to find a suitable place for the spar after all otherwise they might hurt some innocent bystanders and they both would not want to do that.
Amon asked him if he needed a lift to get to the ward and he simply smiled and told him not to worry he had his own way of getting there. Amon wondered what his friend meant by that until he saw him disappear in the showdown a pillar was causing on a wall. "Guess he hasn't shown me all his tricks. I guess that is fair since I haven't shown him all of mine either."
