Tᴏᴋʏᴏ Gʜᴏᴜʟ Rᴇ:Cᴏᴅᴇᴅ

Requiem Pt. 03

Kaneki coughed up blood as he staggered forward, the spikes retracting into the ground and to the handle of the man in white's weapon.

He knew him. He was the one investigator that Tsukiyama had told him to avoid at all costs. Arima Kishou.

As his wound healed, he stood in front of Touka defensively and brought his kagune out. He was ready to die for her.

The White Reaper of the CCG stared him down and blinked with a dead look in his eyes.

"Eye Patch. Centipede. Ken Kaneki. All the same person. It's sad what happened to you but as a ghoul you are now an enemy of humans and must be destroyed."

"Just try it!!"

Kaneki sent his kagune flying towards the man who dodged the attack at the last second and cut off the tips of the tails.

"Too slow."

"Tch..stay calm. I have to stay calm. If I don't then I'll make a mistake and get Touka killed."

The fight went on with Kaneki trying to   lead Arima away from the area and save Touka but the older man was smarter than that and stayed in the same area.

What the hell was he? No human could be this swift and deadly.

As Arima cut off his tails again, Kaneki let out a growl and decided to settle this with hand to hand combat.

Big mistake. Arima simply jumped above him and thrust his quinque into the back of his head, the tip of the weapon coming out of his left eye socket.

"Huh?"

Kaneki's mind to get fuzzy as the searing pain spread throughout his body his body.

He was all over the place. One moment he was in the past and the next, the present.

He wailed and screamed like a madman as his kagune went wild and formed multiple tentacles, some of which removed the weapon from his head.

"OnE thoUsaND MInuS!!!! MAMA WHY CHU LEAVE?!?! I'M SO FUCKED UP!!!!"

Arima sat there and watched Kaneki as if he were intrigued before activating his weapon's defensive barrier as the young ghoul attacked him again.

Kaneki's body began to spasm as his kakuja mask formed over his face and centipede kagune emerged from his back.

"You're an interesting fellow, but that's enough."

Arima stuck his weapon into the ground, causing even larger spikes to emerge from the ground and impale Kaneki's body, driving the ghoul beyond the point of no return.

That was it, he'd lost. As his body fell towards the ground and mask dissolved, Kaneki took in the sight of the sky.

"Beautiful..."

He hit the ground and was immediately impaled through his other eye and then, there was nothing.

When he awoke, he was in a field full of red flowers slowly turning white. The same field he was in when Rizé first appeared in his mind.

"I'm back here...what happened?"

"You lost mister."

Kaneki turned and saw a small boy who looked just like him but with a little patch of black hair in the middle of his head.

"Heh so I did... Is this heaven?"

"If you want it to be."

"In the end I was useless. I couldn't protect my friends. My girlfriend. My child. Not even myself."

As he looked down towards the ground, he felt tears sliding down his cheeks.

He'd failed them all and now here he was in paradise. He didn't deserve it.

As he fell deeper and deeper into self loathing, he felt small arms wrap around his waist.

"It's okay, you don't have to hurt anymore. Why don't you take a rest and let someone else take over for a bit?"

Kaneki smiled at the boy as he knelt down to his level and placed a hand on his cheek.

"Yeah...I think I'll do that."

As his body began to fade away into a white light, Kaneki heard only one thing before he was gone.

"Haise."

END?