One-Shots

Ghosts of the Past: Different Circumstances

What if Ned had come back to the dorm later in the night during Chapter 7?

"Kaneki?" Ned asked slowly. "Are you okay?"

Kaneki didn't answer, head down, eyes averted.

"Kaneki?" Ned repeated.

A quick crack echoed in the room, and Ned flinched as his eyes watched the finger bend.

"Come on, dude. You're scaring me. Quit it already." Ned pleaded.

There was silence, and then Kaneki lifted his head, eyes locking with Ned's.

Ned realized Kaneki didn't have his usual eyepatch on, and he quickly realized why he usually did.

The eye was pitch black, the pupil and iris a blood red, and small, red veins on the outer skin of the eye.

Ned's breath hitched. "Kaneki..."

"You were supposed to be home a while ago," Kaneki murmured.

"I...got back late," Ned said, his tone shaky, quiet.

"You should've called and told me ahead of time," Kaneki said, tone quiet with the slightest hint of anger.

"I didn't..." Ned swallowed thickly. "I didn't really expect to come back to..."

"This?" Kaneki finished Ned's thought. "You didn't expect to come back to your roommate looking like a monster? I'm sure you didn't." His tone was not mocking, only sincere.

Ned wished Kaneki was mocking him.

"Why does your eye look like that?" Ned asked cautiously.

"An accident. It looks like that when I'm hungry," he answered.

Ned laughed nervously. "Then eat something. It's not going to kill you."

"No, but it's going to kill you."

Ned didn't dare scream when Kaneki was suddenly in front of him and ripping his shoulder apart with his teeth.

Ned just shut his eyes and desperately tried to muffle his sobs.

He wished he hadn't come home at all.

Okay, slightly dark. This is one of the ideas I had for a Ned reveal, but I cut it out and changed it a bit to use for Lily's scene. This scene is kind of short and has a bit of a cliffhanger, but this was as far as the idea had gone until I decided to change it. Bye my doggies!