blood for love - hq x tokyo ghoul

Chapter 14: New Additions

In the aftermath of the battle, Sugawara and Kenma cleaned the gym as best they could while Kuroo dropped the bodies of the Aogiri Tree members off of the mountain. The same place Shoyo had dumped the investigators all those months ago. The event that triggered everything.

Many of the volleyball players were still in shock after everything that happened, though they still gave Hinata the time alone that he needed to bury Tobio. The half-ghoul had found a small patch of grass in the woods behind Karasuno High School. The ground was hard due to the winter temperatures, but with the help of his rinkaku, Shoyo was able to dig a shallow grave to place Tobio's body.

Once the hole was done and Tobio's body was buried, Shoyo sat next to the mounted earth. Not caring about the dirt on his face and hands, his tears making lines down his face. He had been crying ever since Tobio had died, though it was like he didn't even notice the stinging behind his eyes.

Shoyo rubbed the small wound on his left shoulder, not yet healed enough to be a scar. "You promised..."

His eyes, once filled with joy and hope we're now void. Months of killing and trying to survive had dulled his irises. Tobio was the only one who could bring that light back. But now Tobio was gone. Shoyo looked to the horizon, seeing the inky blacks and blues of night being replaced with the bright oranges and pinks of a sunrise.

Orange and blue. Day and night.

"I'm sorry."

Shoyo stood from Tobio's makeshift grave and watched as the sun reached the sky. He looked behind him to the gym rising over the trees.

It was time to go.

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"I have seen three pictures of the man. The first, a childhood photograph you might call it, shows him about the age of ten, a small boy surrounded by a great many women (his sisters and cousins, no doubt). He stands in brightly checked trousers by the edges of a garden pond. His head is tilted at an angle thirty degrees to the left, and his teeth are bared in an ugly smirk." Shoyo's head hung low as he read the first page of the book Tobio had bought him. "No Longer Human" the title was truly fitting.

Kenma and Kuroo stood in the aisle beside him, putting their bags in the overhead carry. They were on a plane. They were leaving. They were escaping. They were leaving everything behind. Karasuno, Nekoma, Miyagi, Tokyo, volleyball... They were leaving Tobio behind. Kuroo and Kenma both had a sigh of relief as they sat in their seats in the row behind Shoyo.

In the back of the plane, against the window, sat Sugawara. He looked out the window with a heavy sigh, watching as the sun rose completely. It's fine. It's fine. It's fine. Daichi will be fine. He kept reciting in his head.

Sugawara could feel someone sitting next to him, he expected another person to be sitting in his row. Though Sugawara didn't expect to hear the man's voice.

"You aren't going to lose me."

Sugawara turned to see his boyfriend sitting next to him, "Daichi? What the hell are you doing here."

"I'm coming with you." Daichi took his sunglasses off of his face. Turning towards Sugawara.

"What about your family?!" Sugawara whisper-shouted.

Daichi shrugged, "Asahi agreed to tell them I just 'ran away'" making air quotes.

Sugawara was dumbfounded, "I- ... why?"

"Because... I sold my soul the day I said I love you, and I will sell it a million times over just to be with you."

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The lights of the hospital room burned the boy's retinas as he awoke. His dark blue eyes take in the room around him, including the two people at his bedside. The teen saw two men both with white hair staring down at him.

One of them bent down and his features came into focus. He had cropped white hair and glasses.

"Good to see you're awake, we thought we lost you there."

"Who are you? Where am I?!"

"You're in a CCG lab. The quinx surgery seemed to be successful." The man replied.

"Surgery?!" The boy started to get up.

"Don't worry... I think you'll make a great addition to the team."