Black Goat's Nest [DRAFT]

Re:Connaissance

lazyandbitter

I understood that the jerky is human meat. What I meant was, how long would it take for someone at Hogwarts, student or teacher, to notice that Kaneki is only eating this jerky and nothing else. Or if he would pretend to eat the same food as everyone else and throw it up later. I can imagine Pomfrey giving him a lecture on how he can't live off of jerky and how he needs to eat a proper meal.

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Oh! Sorry :P Ok so Kaneki is going to try and avoid eating anything for as long as he can before it's suspicious. At some point, Tsukiyama starts sending him more food only this time its ghoul meat. Someone will indeed force him to eat things other than meat sometimes. Will people think he has an eating disorder? Yeah probably, it's more likely than someone you knew was human turning into a ghoul.

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"Tout le monde! Look who's here!" Tsukiyama announced.

Everyone turned to tell Tsukiyama to bugger off when they noticed the white-haired boy next to him.

"Kaneki!" Banjou exclaimed in happiness.

"Oh thank god! I thought the rumors of you facing Arima were true!" Nishiki said, a wave of relief washing over him.

"They were," Kaneki said seriously.

"N-no way! You actually weren't planning to survive!" Ayato said wide-eyed.

Kaneki shook his head no and the atmosphere in the room dropped as everyone tried to process the fact that Kaneki had basically admitted to trying to kill himself (because anyone who faced Arima had to be suicidal).

"H-how? How did you escape the reaper?!" Banjou choked out.

"We don't have the time. Tsukiyama will explain everything later but right now we need to figure out how to find the girls," Kaneki said, taking charge of the situation like usual.

"Nishiki-senpai is Kimi-san Alright?" Kaneki asked.

"I'm not sure if the CCG knows that I used to work at Anteiku but we've been careful about how we communicate. We think they're interested in her but it could be paranoia. She was almost so nervous that she tried to take a sudden trip to her grandparents' house but I convinced her not to since it would make her look more suspicious," Nishiki told him.

"Ayato-kun, Banjou-san are the CCG on either of your tails?" He asked.

"Nah they're not interested in me," Banjou said.

"Since they're after white rabbit they're interested in me too but they don't really have any lea- wait! What's up with your shirt?! ," Ayato response devolving into laughter.

Once Ayato pointed it out everyone started laughing. Nishiki didn't bother to hide his laughter and Tsukiyama's fufufu was clearly audible in the background. The only one seemingly apologetic about finding the situation amusing was Banjou who could honestly say he tried his best.

"Shut up or you'll regret it!" Kaneki said through anger that was significantly less effective thanks to his blush.

"But I didn't -hic- take you for the type- haha- Masochiststic Bi-?" before Ayato could finish Kaneki sucker-punched him right in the stomach leaving him incapacitated and in pain.

"Alright, Nishiki-senpai don't contact Kimi-san or leave the Estate unless you absolutely have to. Make sure Kimi-san knows to act normal and eat food outside. Banjou, have your gas masks look for them, I don't mind if you go out sometimes. Ayato, don't do anything stupid-" Kaneki continued like normal until he got cut off.

"Oi! Shitty 'neki!" Ayato interrupted but Kaneki ignored him and kept going.

"- don't do anything that could get the CCG interested and take care to make sure nothing can be traced back to you. Other than that you're pretty good at reconnaissance so try and get more info on them. Don't do anything rash- actually, scratch that- don't do anything not on the plan without asking. Tsukiyama is handling things while I'm away," Kaneki quickly explained.

"Wait! You're going away?! Where?!" Banjou asked.

"I'm going to be stuck in Britain for a while," Kaneki confessed.

"What?" Ayato asked, confusion apparent on his face.

"Tsukiyama will explain later. I leave in a few hours and I still need to pack so I have to leave." Kaneki said apologetically as he opened the door to leave before remembering something.

"Hey, would any of you happen to know the father of a young, peppy, little ghoul with blond hair named Rin?" He asked.

"Oh! That sounds like Takamaki's daughter! He's one of my gas masks. Why?" Banjou said.

"Ah, do you think you could tell him that I'm sorry for scaring him? I did his daughter's hair but I forgot how many people are scared of me and I probably freaked him out," Kaneki asked sheepishly.

"Sure. Bye Kaneki-kun," he replied which prompted the other two to say bye as well. He walked out of the room with Tsukiyama next to him. Tsukiyama pulled out his phone and rang up Kanae to let her know that they were heading back to the entrance.

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When Kaneki saw McGonagall again she looked positively radiant. She looked years younger, relaxed, and just overall very happy and Kaneki was shocked. Kanae was most definitely a witch because magic had to be involved to do all that.

"What did you do?" Kaneki asked Kanae in awe.

"The poor woman hasn't had a spa day in years. I just helped her relax a little," Kanae said rolling her eyes.

"Professor, is there any way Tsukiyama can mail me while I'm at school?" Kaneki asked her

"Oh sure! Just address it to Inverness, Scottland (a town in the Scottish highlands not too far from the lake Loch Nis) with the words "Special Delivery" and the intended recipient's name somewhere visible and the postage system will do the rest," She said with a smile that looked odd on her usually stern face.

"Alright then, we should get going," Kaneki said, grabbing ahold of the doorknob.

"Ah Kaneki! just a question before you go," Tsukiyama said, stopping him.

"Hmm?" Kaneki asked while tilting his head.

"If you crossed a Parrot with a centipede what would you get?- A walkie talkie!" Tsukiyama joked.

"Make another centipede joke and I'll stab you." Kaneki threatened with a smile.

"Oui oiu. Au revoir!" Tsukiyama said, ignoring said threat.

Poor McGonagall just stood there confused and not understanding what just happened. Why had that of all things gotten a rise out of him when a slap hadn't done anything?