An Eye For An Eye

Chapter Twelve

I woke up with a pounding headache and my chest pulsed with pain, I slowly sat up and found Suto sitting next to the bed with his head bent backward. He was looking to the ceiling but his eyes were closed, I chuckled then looked around the room. All the Demon cats were scattered around the room, even Mei and Fei and made their way here. Which meant that the powerful families were free from the facility, I tried to slide out of the bed but the moment my feet hit the floor my chest heaved and shot bullets of pain throughout my body. I screamed and Suto shot up and pulled me back into the bed, everyone was awake now and watching Suto carefully put me back into the bed. 

"You can't get up, The wound in your chest hasn't healed and it doesn't look like it will anytime soon," Suto said placing the blanket over the lower half of my body.

"I should be healed by now," I said in a hoarse voice.

"Well you're not, Kitty thinks it has to do with the fact that you weren't eating properly," Suto said as he walked over to a table and popped some pills into his mouth.

Everyone kept their distance as they shifted around the room, it was like they were afraid to disturb me. Suto sat me up and gently replaced the now bloody bandages, the whole building was way too quite. Suto seemed to read my mind because he grabbed my hand then smiled as the door opened.

Arima walked in and spoke coldly, "I see you are alive, I can't wait to recommission you as a special class investigator with your own division."

"Wait what?"

"I want to make a whole division of ghouls, where you are in charge of them. I thought it through and well ghouls aren't respected enough so this is one way to show them that ghouls are allowed to work with the CCG. You won't be the super secret elite squad sent on missions that no one else wants to do. You may pick someone else from the CCG to work with you, that person will stay by your side at all times and help teach your ghouls how to live in this world as a human."

"That sounds like a utopia, how will you make it happen?"

Suto was sitting on the edge of my bed unwrapping the bandage on his arm, I slowly nodded then Arima quickly left with an assistant joining him at the door. Kitty was sitting on the floor next to the door when it opened again, it was Juu and he seemed different.

"CHESHIRE," He did not look much older than me but he was around twenty-five but acted like a child.

I smiled as he ran to the bed with something in his hand, he seemed different though. The man who had lost his leg and arm then forced out of the CCG by medical discharge was gone. He had a fake leg but his arm was a different story, he left it as it was. Never got a prosthetic or tried to cover it up, he just let it hang there. I smiled as I realized he had an arm, a working arm and he had those stitches all over his body again. That wonderful smile and white hair, it was all back and it reminded me of the first time I had met him. He was an associate special class at the time and I was on a mission against an Aogiri tree group. It was a small branch hidden out in the thirteenth ward which Juu's squad was working in. I had stopped at the building to get some info on the situation and ran into him, he was a happy person who no matter what made me smile. We became friends quickly and seemed to take a liking to Kiowa's cooking, they bonding over the food....mostly cook to a consumer relationship but it was good. 

I remember breaking the news to him about Kiowa and how he reacted, it was so unexpected. It was like he didn't understand death or why it was a bad thing Kiowa died, I looked to Shinohara but he just shrugged it off. He was like a little child but he was also so mature in many ways, people always wrote him off as unpredictable but it ended up helping me take out the branch and an SS rated ghoul named Nora.