Tᴏᴋʏᴏ Gʜᴏᴜʟ Rᴇ:Cᴏᴅᴇᴅ

Gamble

"My secret? The hell are you talking about?"

"The real reason why you joined Aogiri."

"There's no way you could know that!!"

Ayato ran towards him prepared to throw a punch but found both of his shoulders grabbed and held in place while as Kaneki thrust his knee into his stomach.

"You know it's rude to speak when someone else is trying to. Shut the hell up for once kid."

Ayato's eyes bulged out of his head as he felt the knee dig deeper and deeper into his gut. Shit this hurt.

Kaneki let him go and watched him fall on his ass while gasping for air. It was funny, when he was injured his features relaxed which made him look more like Touka.

"You're Touka's only remaining family member so I won't kill you. Because even after everything you've done and put her through, she still loves you. Having you die would just add on to the weight she carries."

"Why the hell should I care?!"

"Oh Ayato, you can act like that with the others but not me. As I said before, I know why you really joined Aogiri Tree."

"AND I SAY YOU'RE FULL OF SHIT!!"

"It was to protect her wasn't it? You knew you couldn't get the power you needed to protect her by sticking around Anteiku so you went somewhere you knew you could. And you did so to honor the promise you made to your father."

"..."

"Go ahead, tell me I'm wrong."

"I knew there was a reason I hated you."

"My dashing good looks?"

"You're just like my dearly departed father. Just pisses me right the fuck off!!"

"Such a dirty mouth, aren't you a little too young to swear? What would your mother say? Oh...that's right. She's sucking cock in hell."

"YOU SON OF A BITCH, I SWEAR TO GOD I'LL KILL YOU IF IT'S THE LAST FUCKING THING I DO!!!!"

Ayato jumped up to attack Kaneki again but found himself restrained by his kagune tails before being slammed through the rooftop into one of the rooms of the building.

As he sputtered and tried to stand up, Kaneki placed a foot on his chest and smiled.

"You're a naughty child Ayato, and naughty children need to be spanked. I know I can't kill you but maybe I can half kill you. Leave you on brink but not to the point where you go towards the light."

"Fuck you."

"I'm not gay."

"What?! I'm not saying that to-"

"Is that what this is about? You like boys?"

"DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE!!!"

"No wonder why you hung out with a bunch of fags like Yamori and Nico. Is that why you let Tatara step on you?"

"I'LL SEE TO IT THAT YOU'RE SKULL IS THOROUGHLY FUCKED BY EVERYONE IN AOGIRI!!!"

"You are but words Ayato. Idle threats from a scared little boy with a bad attitude."

Kaneki grabbed his arm and held it firmly in place while he sneered down at his victim.

"The body holds a total of 206 bones. That means I'll have to break 103 and trust me buddy, it's going to hurt."

While Kaneki dealt with Ayato, Tsukiyama, Yomo, and Uta were still dealing with their opponent when Nishiki entered the room carrying Touka.

When he informed them of Kaneki's comeback and who he was battling, their opponent swatted them all away like flies and headed in the direction of Kaneki and Ayato.

Once there, they found Ayato on the ground gurgling, looking like a mangled corpse. Kaneki was sitting down with his legs hanging over the edge of the building watching the Doves engage something large.

Ayato looked over and saw the other Aogiri member and called out to them.

"N...Noro..."

Noro didn't respond in kind, instead their kagune emerged from their back and coiled around Ayato's body.

Ayato groaned with pain as he was wrapped up and lifted but didn't have the strength to object or swear.

Kaneki never even looked in their general direction, his eyes transfixed on the battle taking place below him.

A number of Doves were getting taken out by a being what was way too large to be a human or a ghoul. So what was it? Then he remembered Yamori's transformation and sighed.

"Always something new I guess."

Nishiki and the rest soon found themselves standing behind Kaneki on the rooftop, the latter finally turning around to acknowledge their presence.

"It's time we head home."

"Yes but before we do, I have something for you."

Uta reached into his cloak and pulled out a box that he handed to Kaneki, the latter taking and opening it before smiling.

"Finally finished it huh?"

"Right before we came to save you."

"I appreciate it Uta."

Kaneki removed his custom made mask out of its container and placed it on his face before turning his back to his comrades looking down at the battle once more.

The mask was fitting for him, an eye patch over his one human eye, mouth area that could be zipped and unzipped that bore teeth and gums, and bolts in the neck area. Fitting for a monster. A monster that he knew he was.

"Let's go."

It took them moments to get downstairs and soon they were running away from the battle where they came into contact with a single Dove.

Kaneki and the Dove maintained eye contact for a good minute before he engaged him with his weapon that was no doubt made from a dead ghoul. Sick.

Kaneki made quick work of it and sliced it in half before dissolving his kagune, leaving the man stunned.

"You're not going to kill me?"

"No. There's no point in senseless killing. Keep that in the mind the next time you slaughter a family Mr.Investigator."

The man seemed taken aback and was about to say something when Kaneki just up and left with his friends.

"Amon. Come in Amon. What's your status?"

The man known as Amon tapped his comms device and spoke.

"I'm here Mr.Mado. I just engaged a ghoul who snapped my Doujima quinque in half like it was nothing. I believe he deserves an S rating at this time."

"Oh really? And what do we called this little S rated ghoul?"

"Eye Patch."