A Twisted World

Unraveled

"Take off your mask." The white-haired man, Tatara, instructs.

I do what he says and I stuff it into my pocket.

"She looks like a girly Kaneki!" Giggles the girl clad in gauze, Eto.

"Kaneki, we found you a girlfriend!" Tatara shouts to a boy who's sitting on a couch reading.

He looks up and his dark gray eyes meet my dark brown ones.

So this is Kaneki...

He looks back down to his book.

"Now, now, Kaneki!" Eto chides. "Why don't you test her?"

Silently, Kaneki gets up and makes his way towards me. I slide my eyepatch part on and ready myself to fight.

Kaneki raises an eyebrow curiously before putting an identical, excluding the red stitches of course, black eyepatch.

"Aww, they're twins!" Eto laughs.

I clench my fists at my side as I prep to fight.

"Begin." Tatara says emotionlessly.

I walk towards Kaneki, ready to fight. He looks back at me with an amused look. As I get up close, I quickly sidestep and punch his temporal lobe.

Kaneki stays in place and laughs.

"Trickster." He says evenly.

I come up right behind him and I grab his shoulder as I place my foot against his neck. I pull back quickly and I listen to the crack of his neck.

Kaneki suddenly spins around, his neck already regenerated. His fist comes swift and quick, sending me flying in the air.

I pick myself off the ground and I jump upwards and I land on his shoulders.

"KAWAII!!" Eto claps as Kaneki flips me off.

With him directly over top of me, I punch him hard in the liver. As he barely bends over, I put all my force into a punch under his jaw.

He falls to the ground, unable to get his balance. Suddenly, he vomits.

"You're good." Kaneki smiles as he stands up, wiping away the vomit and flicking it on the floor.

With that, he sprints at me and starts punching my face. Blood rushes out my nose and mouth when he suddenly sidekicks me in the neck.

"Trickster..." I choke out, mimicking him.

My neck quickly cracks into place.

I think about what Tsukiyama said. I am stronger than I believe. Sasabe made sure of that.

I run towards Kaneki and I jump straight at him and, surprisingly, he catches me.

I quickly punch him in the eyes. In the process, I accidentally knock off his eyepatch. A regular looking eye stares at mine. I gasp and temporally stop.

He reaches forward to rip off my eyepatch as well, so I snatch his wrist and I begin snapping it back and forth.

While I'm distracted, Kaneki angrily swings his elbow up and into my temporal lobes. A sickening crack bounces off the walls as I fall off him.

As I lay around, I focus on Kaneki. He stares back at me, slightly concerned. I can't seem weak. I can't.

"I can't." I whisper quietly as I begin to stand.