{-Blue Ghoul-}

Demon |Chapter 8|

- Rin's POV -

'Where am I...?' I thought, looking around, but all I could see was darkness.

I clearly wasn't in the real world, because that guy who had stabbed me through the chest was gone, and the fact that there is literally nothing here. No walls. No floor. Just blackness.

'Hello..?' I tried to speak, but nothing came out of my mouth.

"Hello..?"

'What the!?' I thought, as what I had tried to say was repeated.

"What the!?"

Once again it had repeated what I had said! This was actually really trippy, but at the same time it also freaked me out. Wait a minute....am I inside my conscious...? I looked down at my bloody clothes, a giant red stain was by my chest still from yesterday....at least I think it was yesterday...I don't even know what time it is, nor do I remember.

"Rin!" I heard a new voice yell, it sounded like Kaneki and I tried to turn to where it was coming from.

'Kaneki!' I once again failed to speak and it echoed through my consciousness.

I turned and saw a break in the darkness, then I realized....Hey, I can see the real world! I was about to run but then froze, I saw myself running at Kaneki, but I wasn't in control. Before I could try and run up to the break, I was surrounded in a circle of blue flames, which slowly crept towards me.

'No!!' I thought, once again it echoed and it made me get frustrated....but what frustrated me the most was the fact....I couldn't control my flames again...

- Kaneki's POV -

I felt myself get thrusted into the ground, with the force which felt like a truck ramming into me at high speed. I spat out a large amount of blood....and drool of course, I think I may have lost a tooth as well. Rin was on top of me, pinning me down, the blue flames around him threatened to scorch me.

"R-Rin...!" I spat out forcefully, as blood still dripped from my mouth, "Snap....snap out of...it...p-please...!"

Was this even Rin...? I mean, I know it's him but....it's just....not him. I started getting punched in the face by him several times, also getting scratched by his nails that looked much more like claws now. Rin was making harsh growling sounds, as he picked me up by the throat and threw me at a wall.

"Agh..!" I choked out, my body slammed into the wall, leaving this crater in it, I'm pretty sure I broke a bit of my jaw

I stood up, standing my ground, I will not hurt him, even if I never get to see the normal Rin ever again....but....what if this is the normal Rin...was it all just a fake..? No...I won't let myself believe that, until I see it with my own eye....eyes.

"Rin, I know you're not like this-ack..!" I choked out again, struggling to speak with my jaw which hadn't healed yet, it took slower since once again I was still hungry....oh god, I'm still hungry....this can't be good.

I felt my eyepatch get ripped away from my eye, and I closed it, I wasn't ready for it...not yet....

- Rin's POV -

I was forced to huddle, the blue flamed circle was so close I could practically breathe on it, probably not a good idea but still. I sighed, I didn't want to give into the fear that I would always manage to push away.

"Come on...just tear him apart....he's scared of you like everyone else is..." A new voice had appeared, coming from behind the blue flame circle, but the flames were too high to see anything.

'Who's there..?!' My thoughts echoed off the walls, and suddenly the circle got bigger, enough to fit two people in it.

A kid, that appeared to be very young stepped into the circle, unharmed from the flames....Hey wait a minute, that's me! Except for some reason I'm a lot younger, maybe like eight. Why was a younger me here....and....why is he crying, he looks more mad than sad.

"It's all your fault, you drew the Kurikara sword and now you're Satan's son...!" The younger me was yelling, but he sounded a bit high pitched, probably because his age, "You left me alone to rot in your consciousness....I don't wanna be a demon!"

The younger me had tears streaming down his cheeks, his clenched teeth trembled as if he was on the edge of breaking. I legit felt sorry for him, so I looked him straight in the face, as our eyes connected.

"All I wanted was friends, but they all called me a demon and ran away!!" The younger me cried more, shaking his head a bit so that his tears dripped onto the flames, "If you never drew that sword, we could've been human still....I hate you!!"

I froze, those words hit home for me...it dug up some memories....like when I attacked students at school, and even Shiro, my foster father.

"Why...you took away my happiness...now I'll take away yours!" My younger self cried even more, his eyes lit up to the light blue colour, like the flames.