Fixed Mistakes

Chapter 18: Decisions

Chapter 18: Decisions

His eyes opened and it felt like he just woke up and stared directly into a light bulb, the migraine in his head synced itself with the throb of the pain all over his body and the beat of his heart pushing blood out of countless slits and holes across his body.

Kaneki was lying on his back in a grass field, the air had the smell of gasoline and blood, the odour woke him up and he sat up and clutched his head, it was soaked with blood, his hands were stained red with enough blood to drip off his fingers. He could see the tip of his hair as blood dropped down from the now white hair. It wasn't dark out yet, it was almost evening with the cooler air and the darker shade of sky.

He looked from side to side and he felt like passing out again once he saw the other man in the area. Shachi lied on the ground unmoving, his chest still heaving from his laboured breath. He seemed to be in worse condition than Kaneki with slashes all across his body and a hole through his thigh the size of a fist.

The surrounding grass and pavement were as crimson red as it could be, the few trees that were nearby were cut in half and marked with sharp grooves that could only have been created by the centipede.

He struggled to move over to Shachi and stood next to his head, he released his kagune and positioned it to pierce him through the head. Countless thoughts streamed through his head as he looked into the face of his abuser, tormenter....saviour, caretaker, and mentor. For all Shachi had done to him, he found it hard to rid the world of the person who took him in when he was an abandoned child.

He took a long cool breath and quickly thrust the kagune downwards, into the ground next to Shachi's head, he collapsed onto his knees as he held his head.

"Why can't I do it...Why?" He mumbled slowly.

He took a good long look at Shachi and got up slowly and muttered, "I'm sorry." He limped painfully in the general direction of Anteiku, he could only hope he wouldn't be too late.

Unbeknownst to Kaneki, Shachi sat up and look at his adopted son's figure walking into the distance, he grumbled and muttered, "Weak brat."

But after a few minutes of taking in the atmosphere and contemplating he sighed and muttered, "I'm sorry too."

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Kaneki bit into the arm of a human he just killed in an alley that was very close to Anteiku, he didn't like to do it, but it needed to be done, he needed to heal before the CCG arrived. It was nearing evening as it was a task for him to get to the 20th ward quickly whilst not being seen with a hole in his stomach and him looking like he took a bath in blood.

The human revitalized him and he muttered a quick apology before jogging slightly less painfully towards Anteiku.

He arrived in good time and broke through the window in the only room that was accessible without too much effort, Touka's room. There was a surprised yell as he fell into the room painfully onto his back.

Touka scrambled from her desk where she was doing homework and immediately rushed over to fight whoever it was that broke into her room. She stepped over and prepped herself to strike the intruder whenever the moved.

"Touka, don't hit me yet please." Kaneki moaned in pain and fear.

Touka gasped and stood over the person who she now recognized through the blood and dirt to be Kaneki, he looked like utter shit, and he looked like he was dying painfully. She picked him up and walked to the medical room to place him on the bed.