Tokyo Ghoul x Avengers One Shots

First Meeting

This was requested FoxyAtTheCorner on fanfiction who wanted to a first meeting between Kaneki and the Avengers. Unfortunately, he/she didn't tell me how they wanted it so I used a depressive Kaneki. This may have extra chapters.

3rd Person's P.O.V. 

Kaneki was in a bar, downing another drink. He forced the disgusting liquor down his throat and ignored the burning sensation. While alcohol tasted sickening, it still had the same effect of getting him drunk. It's been 3 months since he arrived in America, since he arrived in another world.

He failed. He failed to protect his precious people. Everyone was killed during the raid at Anteiku. Touka-chan, Hinami, Yoshimura-san, Koma-san, Irimi-san, Banjou and his friends who had come to help, Tsukiyama-san and even Hide. He went straight to Kishou Arima to die and he thought the White Reaper did in fact kill him but here he is, alive and well, in another world.

He didn't want to live. He tried everything to end his life but his regeneration prevented him from dying. He drank a bottle of acid, he clawed at his throat, he impaled himself on his own kagune, he even jumped off a skyscraper (1). Nothing worked. He was forced to live in this world all alone.

While he was brooding, he hadn't noticed that the whole bar had gone quiet when a stunning red-haired woman entered wearing a long black dress with a slit on the side. She struts to Kaneki and sits next to him, he glanced at her for a second before focusing back on his drink.

"Hello," Natasha purrs, throwing him a seductive look as she rests her arms on the table, she leaned forward slightly, exposing more of her cleavage. Kaneki turns his body away in response. "Oh, don't be like that," Natasha replies.

"Get lost," Kaneki glares but it has no effect on her, she just smirks at him. She asks the bartender for drink and takes a small sip, studying him. She has to abandon her current plan since seduction obviously won't work on him.

"September 7th, Bloomberg Tower, quite a tall building don't you think?" Natasha hints, her seductive demeanor changing into a deadlier one.

Kaneki flinches before he spins around and grabs her arm, holding it in a tight grip and hisses, "What do you know?"

"I'm here to offer you a deal, Cannibal," Natasha tells him, her tone growing sharp, she brings out a file filled with photographs of mutilated bodies. "At the end of each month, you scavenge for the bodies of overdose or suicide victims. Anyone you find dead, you eat. I can have you arrested for your crimes."

Kaneki snorts and Natasha looks amused herself before asking what was funny, "You can't arrest me since, technically, I haven't committed a crime."

"What do you mean?"

"You may consider cannibalism a crime but there is no law which says it is illegal to cannibalise a human," Kaneki taunts, enjoying the flash of annoyance that flickered in her eyes.

"I can't argue with that," Natasha acknowledges, "but that doesn't mean that you're off the hook. You're too dangerous to be left unchecked that's why I was asked to recruit you into the Avengers. You have the necessary skills and abilities to join."

"What skills and abilities?"

"A strong healing factor," Natasha stated, "7 known attempts of suicide all of which you survived without any scars or injuries, you're stronger and faster than the average human. You meet basic requirements."

"So you want me to join your band of freaks?" Kaneki asked, rhetorically. "As interesting as that sounds, I decline. I got better things to do."

"Like what?" Natasha inquires.

"Finding new ways to kill myself!" Kaneki cheered, not a hint of shame laced his voice even when he grabbed the attention of every single customer.

"You know you'll be doing a lot good for the sake of humanity," Natasha declares.

"I don't give a flying f*** about humanity anymore," Kaneki retorts.

Natasha raises a brow at that statment, "Really? What about little Riley?" Kaneki freezes before looking away from Natasha.

"I-I don't know what you're talking about," Kaneki replies, touching his chin without realising it.

"Riley Thompson, 10 years old, lives with both her parents on 6th Street. She was kidnapped straight after school and missing for 5 hours but was returned safely to her parents. She said that she was rescued by a handsome white haired man who wore a scary mask. Care to explain?" Natasha questions.

"She was just a kid," Kaneki tells her, "an innocent kid who didn't deserve to be in the hand of that pathetic, perverted psycho."

"You rescued her because you cared what would happen to her, despite not knowing her," Natasha theorises the truth. "You say you don't care about humanity, but you believe life is precious which is why you always kill as a last resort."

"Partly correct, I use to care and there are times I still do, but I never spare anyone I deem my enemy. I slaughter them down like the dog they are," Kaneki corrects as he kicks his dry lips, craving his next meal. "Why do you want me to join anyway? I'm a cannibal."

"You are but that doesn't mean you're evil, it's obvious that you can't control your eating habits so you always search for corpses. Never after the living, that's why S.H.I.E.L.D wants you," Natasha explains.

Kaneki ponders on this, joining the Avengers means that he'll finally have a purpose in this world. There's no point in trying to commit suicide again since it'll never work. However, he doesn't know how the other members will react, will they loathe him or will they be understanding like this woman?

'I... I don't want to be alone,' Kaneki remembers the sorrows and aches he suffered from, he is still suffering. He can't get attached to these new teammates, everyone he cares about leaves him. He's learnt his lesson, no more caring for people and no one should care for him.

"Sorry but I have to decline," Kaneki tells her, regretfully.

"Unfortunately, you can't decline," Natasha responds immediately, "my mission was to recruit you no matter what. If you decline to join the Avengers then you'll forcibly be taken into custody where experiments will be made upon your body. Remember that you're too dangerous to be left unchecked."

"I'll join then," Kaneki quickly agrees, he may have an extremely high pain tolerance but he doesn't want to become experimental material, "but I should warn you that I don't trust easily."

"Excellent," Natasha states, "come on."

"What? Right now?"

"Of course," Natasha replies, getting off the seat and walking out the bar with Kaneki trailing beside her. "My name is Natasha Romanoff, also known as Black Widow."

Humans were the same. They don't care about others as long as they get what they want. Kaneki was starting to regret taking up her offer, but he couldn't change his mind.

First part done! Part 2 will be started immediately.

(1) I'm making Kaneki's regeneration even stronger like Noro's. Kaneki could be decapitated yet still be alive and completely regrow his head which is why he was still alive even after falling off a 55 storey building.