Black Goat's Nest [DRAFT]

Re:Familiarize

Hey guys! My new fanfiction is up! It's called A Tragedy (but not really) It's only on FFN but if enough people want me to I'll put it here too. It's a Hannibal x Tokyo Ghoul crossover. I'm not sure how alive the Hannibal fandom is so I'm hoping that people from the Tokyo Ghoul fandom see it. It would mean a lot to me if you could check it out.

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"How the hell did you do that mate!?" Ron asked in awe.

Kaneki laughed nervously. " Ehhh- umm it was nothing. Just a thing I learned back in Japan," He said, scratching his chin. They didn't need to know that he didn't actually know what he did.

"Could you teach me how to do that?" Hermione borderline begged.

"Umm- It's genetic like parseltongue. I'm sure that neither of you could do it but then again most people can't," Kaneki explained anxiously while holding his hands up in a placating manner.

"How do you know?!" Ron asked huffily

A dark expression fell over Kaneki's face "Because the gene has horrible side effects."

"Wait then why don't you have side effects?!" Ron asked tactlessly.

Kaneki laughed a sad, bitter, laugh that made Ron immediately regret asking. "Oh I do. In fact, I know the pain it causes intimately,"

"S-sorry," Ron stuttered out.

"It's fine," Kaneki responded with a small forgiving smile. "You two head-on without me. I'm going up to the Owlery,"

"Aren't you going to have lunch?" Hermione asked.

"Nah, I'm not hungry. I had a big breakfast," he explained as he scratched his chin.

"Oh, Ok. See you during afternoon classes then," She said as they split ways.

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Kaneki sighed after climbing all the way to the top of the Owlery. He wasn't really tired per-say since he did much more physically intensive things during his day to day life in Tokyo. Normally though he either took the elevator or scaled the building with his kagune and was therefore used to speed. The sheer amount of time it took to get up all those steps had gotten to him.

"Hedwig?" he called out, causing a few owls to give him the stink eye for waking them up. He scanned his eyes over the room for white but he didn't seem to see her. Right when he was about to call her name again though, he heard a soft, almost hesitant, hoot from above him.

In a nearly inaudible flutter of feathers, Hedwig flew down to sit in front of him.

Kaneki had a look of awe on his face as he looked into her beautiful yellow eyes again. They were filled with surprise and pain, almost like she thought he was a hallucination.

"Hey girl. I'm sorry I left you alone for so long. Could you ever forgive me?" He asked softly.

She nipped his fingers gently before leaning into his hand, prompting him to pet her. Kaneki was delighted to find that they could still understand each other in a strange uncanny way.

They spent the rest of lunch just having conversations that to an outside observer looked insane.

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The rest of the day had been pretty uneventful. He had met up with Hermione and Ron and done his packet for most of class.

Finally, dinner time was upon them and he really didn't have an excuse to skip since Hermione and Ron knew that he didn't have lunch.

When he walked into the hall there was a moment of unusual quietness before the hall exploded in a lot more chatter than before.

Kaneki kept his eyes to the floor as he made his way to the Gryffindor table. This was a hall filled with clumsy children, most of them had injuries that ranged from papercuts to skinned knees.

He hadn't noticed it before but magical people smelled so much better than normal people.

Fuck.

He made a note to himself to put perfume on his scarf next time as he sat next to Hermione.

"Blimey! Harry, is that really you?" one of the twins asked.

Kaneki looked up at them with an uncomfortable smile plastered across his face.

"Yeah, Umm uh I actually go by Kaneki now," He said awkwardly. He hadn't eaten anything but meat in so long and he wasn't sure that he could convincingly enjoy it. The stench coming off of the food really wasn't encouraging either.

His anxiety was eating him alive (pun intended).

Kaneki thought carefully about what he was going to eat since it would either make or break his act. He grabbed two slices of bread and just a little bit of soup with coffee on the side to wash the taste of food out with.

Bread was one of the easiest things to eat since it just tastes like cardboard. Compared to the sewage water some things tased like, bread was tame. Soup was a lot worse than bread but since it was so liquidy it made it easier to throw up later.

Kaneki smiled as he pretended to chew. The food burned his tongue with its horrible taste but despite his body's protest he bit back his gag reflex and swallowed. He laughed and talked with Hermione and Ron while fervently trying to ignore the horrible stomach cramps that were developing in his core, after all, hunger pains were still somehow worse.

Kaneki never thought he would be so thankful for sound proof bathroom stalls. Any of the stalls in the communal dorm showers were charmed so that no one could hear you from outside. It really was too bad that this only applied to the dorm toilet and none of the other bathrooms that peppered the castle.

Kaneki downed some water before shoving his hand into the back of his throat. Thankfully his choice of food had meant that he puked everything up on the first try. Kaneki still felt incredibly winded by the ordeal though since he hadn't done this in a while. Brushing his teeth he lugged himself into bed.

Hopefully the dark circles would fade after a good rest.

Too bad he forgot to take into account that today was his first day off dreamless sleep since coming back to Hogwarts.

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Poor Kaneki can't catch a break. I'm planning on having the CCG arrive right after the first task. The first task should be starting around chapter 13 or 14.

Again I would appreciate it a heck of a lot if you checked out my other story. So far only 2 chapters are up though. It's called A Tragedy (but not really) and it's Tokyo Ghoul x Hannibal crossover.

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Bye!