Hello.
"Alright, do you guys got your equipment?" I ask my team as I put on a vest. "Usui, you're with Mabuchi, remember that."
"Yes, ma'am." She says, heading out of the door. "Arita and Kishimoto, you're in my formation." I instruct them. "Amano, Toyama and Naito, you're on your own together."
"Yes ma'am." Toyama says.
"Why do I got to team with this loser?" Arita groans.
"At least I actually have a sense of humor." Kishimoto says.
"HEY, MARUDE!" Kaneki shouts as we start to head into our car. "Yeah, Kaneki?"
"I forgot to mention that I'm fighting too, with your formation, because I want to see your potential in your squad." He says.
"Yes, sir." I tell him. Arita looks flabbergasted. "Arita, I heard that you are the most promising, do you best, you too Kishimoto!" Kaneki smirks. "Yes, sir!" They both shout.
"This is it?" Arita says. "Wheres the entrance?" She tells me.
"Since it's underground, let's look for anything that sets off." I tell her.
"SQUAD, RIGHT THERE!" Kishimoto shouts to a manhole cover. I lift the manhole over and discover a lit up walkway.
"HEAD IN!" I shout. We get in and start to walk towards a light. "Kishimoto, lead the rest, me and Arita will go alone." I instruct him.
"Let's go." Kishimoto shouts to the rest of the peacemakers.
"What the hell are you doing, we're going to get killed!" Arita shouts.
"Arita, this was a plan I'm doing, some day, you're going to lead your own squad, so this is a test I'm doing." I tell her.
"I'll probably be dead because of you, you're reckless!" She shouts.
"Shut up,I hear something." I cover her mouth. We get to a place with two doors.
"You take the left, I take right." I said.
"Alright, if you don't hear from me, it's your fault." She says, pulling out her gun. What a brat, does she realize that I'm testing her leadership. "Shhh." Someone hushes as I hear the door closed quickly.
A guy wearing a dog mask runs at me. I release my kagune and I dodge his attack. He releases his kagune, a Rinkaku one, like mine.
"You're Boss' desire." He says. I send one of my tentacles at him, he misses it and I take out my gun and shoot at his kagune, which pierces it, but quickly regenerates sturdier. He had really long white hair, and wore a trench coat
"YOU'RE A TOUGH ONE!" I shout at him. He grabs me with his kagune and throws me at a wall."You filthy peacekeeper!" He shouts. "You're worse than the CCG, I wonder how they didn't even kill you due to this human alliance bullshit." He gets up in my face.
"Oh really?" I ask him, taking a pole that was near me and impaling him in the stomach. He goes down on the floor as his kagune decays. I stood on top of him. "Let's see who you really are since you're a shit talker." I tell him, ripping his mask off. I froze up.His white hair comes down on his face. His eye glows up a blood red. I freeze a minute.
"Haruki?" I whisper softly. I thought he died in the accident, how did he become a ghoul?
"Who the hell is Haruki?" He chokes me against the wall.
"It's your sister!" I shout as he releases me, dropping me to the floor, as he starts to shake. "No, she's dead, she told me she was dead!" He starts to cry, as he starts to run away.
"Now, now, Ozamu, don't target the lady, I don't want to kill her squad members." A woman says as my eyes start to shut, I smell gas, it must be sleeping gas. "Oh, Reina, what a poor soul, thank you, Kin." I hear as I start to fall asleep. My head feels heavy.I wake up chained to a chair, as lights burn my eyes.
"Oh, you're awake?" The same voice of the lady tells me. "You probably don't know who I am, I won't spill it for you soon." She pulls my head up.
"You're an associate special peacemaker, but you lost to your brother, how pathetic."
"You poisoned me." I shouted to her.
"Don't get harsh, you probably don't know who I am, plus I am not the one who poisoned you, I don't have that special ability." She says.
"My name is Kinuko Washuu, I'm one of the last remaining members of the Washuu family, they don't know of my existence since I was just abandoned as a baby." She takes out a knife. "Then why do you know my name?" I growled.
"Because you're my niece." She reveals as she cleans her knife carefully, grinning from ear to ear.
"You have to be joking, my uncle is Itsuki Marude, he's my only family, it's impos-"
"You seriously are clueless." She cuts off one of my thumbs. I scream in pain.
"Your father is Hayase Washuu, my brother, he died many years ago, and left you and your brother alone with a broken mother." She says as she puts my finger in a bucket, as she cuts off more.
"YOU MONSTER, WHAT DID YOU DO TO MY SQUAD?" I scream.
"Oh, they're fine I didn't touch them, they are going ballistic looking for you." She says. "Open your mouth." She asks me, holding up a finger.
"No." I quickly respond.
"I said OPEN IT!" She screams at me, opening my mouth forcefully and putting my finger in my mouth.
"EAT IT!" She shouts. I vomit on my clothes. "You really do suck." She says. "I should've revealed your true identity earlier, maybe V could've killed you since you are weak, but, it was really hard tracking you down, they practically wiped everything from your file." She says, as she takes off her gloves. "I'm really got to get going and evacuate, I'm having Katashi make you escape." She says, closing the door. Arita, Naito, Kishimoto, Toyama, Usui, Amano, please, if I die here, help others."SENSEI!" I hear a faint noise. "We got to get her out of here, she looks like shit!" I hear another voice. They lift my blindfold and I open my eyes slowly.
"SENSEI!" Kaito shouts in my ear.
"WE HAVE TO RETREAT, CAN YOU WALK?" Kishimoto shouts.
"Father." I say exhausted, smiling softly. "Let's get her out of her, help me get her up." Kishimoto instructs Arita."REINA, REINA!" I hear shouting, which makes me scream and jump up.
"You've been out for a day, how are you?" Uncle Marude asks me.
"I have, what happened?" I ask him. "Wheres my squad, where are they?" I ask frantically.
"They're in the other room with Nagachika." He tells me.
"What happened with the mission?"
"It failed, they were too powerful, a lot of men had died." He says somberly.
"It's my fault, if I wasn't too weak, we would've won." I ponder. I play with my black hair. My brother is alive.
"What does Kaneki think of this?" I question.
"He is fine with it, Reina, you got to stop worrying about everything." He says, sighing.
"Who is my father?" I ask him, which makes him surprised. "He didn't die of cancer, didn't he?" I give him a scary look.
"You were told, weren't you?" He asks me. "I had to keep this a secret to protect you." He says as I get in bed. I look at my hands, which my finger has regrown back.
"He was a colleague of mine back in the day, I still don't know the details of his death but, I think one day we need to have a nice chat."
"Why did you not tell me this when I joined, are you fucking insane?" I exploded on him.
"Reina, you were a child, you would've died in that massacre Furuta had done on the clan." He says to me. "I had your file altered."
"I am a monster." I started crying.
"You are not a monster." He grabs me and pulls me in. "You are my family, Reina, everything that happened to you was not your fault."
"I want to see my squad." I said as I got up to leave the room.
"Reina, you're still healing." Marude shouts to me. I get into the room my squad is in, and they light up.
"SENSEI!" Amano and Naito shout. "Wheres Arita?" I ask them as they hug me.
"Oh, she left." Kishimoto says. "She didn't want to be here."
"For what?"
"I'm not sure." He responds.
"Hide, I'm so sorry." I tell him.
"We're just glad you're alive." He says, smiling."Reina Washuu." I kept repeating in my head as I walk down to go to the meeting. "Sorry, I'm late, I slept a bit late." I tell Urie as I sat down.
"It hasn't even started yet." He says. "Why are we even having this meeting?"
"Because of a huge discovery." Kaneki comes in.
"How did we not know that Reina is a Washuu?" Saiko says.
"Because it wasn't known." Tsukiyama responds.
"There are two more members, my brother, Haruki, and Kinuko." I somberly told them.
"I thought Haruki died in that car accident years ago., that's what I was told." Kei asks me.
"I thought he did as well, but I guess not, he looks unrecognizable." Kaneki scratches his chin.
"Hayase Washuu was considered a disgraced investigator in the CCG." Kei informs.
"He supposedly died of Cancer."
"But, I didn't see my father die." I stuttered.
"I think we have our newest threat." Suzuya comes in.
"Reina, you will be put on watch, we don't know if you will rebel." Urie tells me.
"That's fine with me." I quietly said.
"And by the way, dye your hair, you're turning white." He says as he leaves, as I touch my hair, noticing a white streak. "Freaks me out.""Arita?" I ask her as she goes to the vending machine. "You been ignoring me all this time, what's wrong?" I question.
"It's my fault you got taken, if I was there with you, you wouldn't got hurt, so, I'm sorry." She pouts her lips.
"I thought that as well when you almost got killed by that ghoul a few years ago." I lean on the vending machine.
"What ghoul, the one that tried to send me as a toy, how do you know that?" She asks me.
"I was the one that saved you." I tell her. Her eyes light up with tears.
"You were the investigator that saved me?" "Yeah." I tell her. "I couldn't save your sister, who was with you, and I dread that if you find out, you'll hate me." I bite my nails.
"You were a kid." She says, her voice cracking. "I'm sorry." She cries and falls to the floor.
"Arita, I got you into this squad so you have another family, not because I wanted to take advantage of you." I kneel by her. "Come on, let's go hang out with our family." I grab her hand.
"Okay."
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Tokyo Ghoul: Regina
Horror6 years after Humans and Ghouls finally coexist, they are stepping up to new challenges. One of them, Rei Marude, a former investigator of the CCG, and leader of the Marude Squad, is looking for new hope and finding her past and mysteries about her...