Black Goat's Nest [DRAFT]

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"Hey Kaneki! Time to wake up," Ron called, opening the canopy on his bed.

"Hmm? Ok ok, I'm up," He said groggily, shading his eyes from the bright sun light as he sat up in his bed. He'd just been about to get up when he froze, it hadn't been Ron who had woken him up.

"H-Hide?" Kaneki stuttered. He felt terror and pain rise in his chest at seeing his face again.

"Yo 'neki! How have you been?" He asked like he wasn't supposed to be dead. Kaneki didn't move, he couldn't.

"Hey? Did I taste good? When You ate me?" Hide asked as his body began to corrode in front of his eyes.

"N- No!," Kaneki yelled as Hide's guts spilled out of his half-eaten stomach. The dorm room lost clarity, turning into a muddled black as he was surrounded by all the people he'd killed. Most were ghouls, but some were human too, Their faces were indistinct but Kaneki didn't notice as he clutched his head while hunched over in the center of all this.

Slowly the people were gone and the room began to fill with blood. He was drowning, drowning in guilt and the blood of his victims. He was about to die, to give up and take his final breath when he woke up still in his bed, safe and sound.

Then he moved his hand to try and grab some water from the nightstand when, from where his hand had previously been, a familiar white flower bud sprouted. They kept sprouting around him, faster and faster until he was back again in that familiar field of white. As the flowers bloomed they went from spider lilies to a checker tiled floor with a chair and a bucket in the center. A boy with black hair was strapped to the chair begging someone who wasn't there to not put a centipede in his ear.

But Kaneki knew how this ended. He'd read this story before, it was his.

Kaneki bolted awake with his screams still ringing in his ears. He looked at the clock and sighed. It was only 4:23, breakfast didn't start till 6:00. He was tired, so very tired. But he wasn't just about to go back to sleep after that.

Finally, he decided to go for a walk before class. The lack of physical activity was bothering him since he was used to regularly fighting so finding a private spot to practice would be nice.

Slipping on his invisibility cloak, Kaneki walked through the quiet castle. The sun still wasn't out but it didn't really bother him. He softly moved through the halls until he was outside. It had only been a few days but he still became a different person as soon as he was doing something familiar.

He hadn't really been focusing on where he was going since it was less about the destination than the journey but soon he found himself at the edge of the forbidden forest. He hesitated for a second as he contemplated if it was a good idea to enter. It almost didn't feel like his choice when he did decide to though, something about the forest was intoxicating.

He let his instincts take over as he walked further and further into the forest. For some reason he expected it to be lifeless and silent even though forests weren't ever like that unless someone was very wrong.

As he walked he noticed cornish pixies buzzing around fairy circles and small ashwinder slithering through the underbrush. It was different from the concrete jungles of Tokyo, the usual habitat of ghouls, but not something he would mind getting used to.

He got so caught up in the beauty of his surroundings that It took him an embarrassing amount of time to realize that he could finally stretch out his kagune.