#whitemukade

@suckonmykagune

When Hide was little, she didn't think she work as a CCG Investigator, it wasn't something she was interested and it wasn't like she had a thirst for revenge against ghouls. She had her family, no one she knew had been lost to a Ghoul and even if they were, it wasn't like she would seek revenge.

She wasn't that type of person.

However she was curious. Very much so.

And sneaky and intelligent but no one knew cause she always played the clueless, easy going person. It was easy to look harmless which made it easy to collect information and observe.

So, no, she never saw herself working for the CCG till almost a few years ago.

Waiting in Akira's office, she was being paired up with another CCG investigator, one who was different from the others. It wasn't  widely known within the Bureau that this particular Investigator was indeed in fact a Ghoul. Half Ghoul, but it seemed the CCG may have grown desperate enough to use the very thing they were trying to extinguish.

It was the vey same person she had been looking for since three years ago.

All her hard work was paying off, finally she was going to be reunited with that very person she had been friends with so many  years ago. Though it was unknown to her just exactly why Hide was being paired with this particular Dove.

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      Sakarias tied off the last bag and turned off his music.  It was odd enough that he was being asked to deliver.  Usually people who needed to get their hands on illegal RC suppressants didn’t like the dealer knowing where they were.  Either his client was really stupid or he was walking into a trap.

     The young man wasn’t defenseless.  After taking public transportation as close at it could get him to the address, he made a quick check to see his syringe of liquid, fact-acting RC suppressant was full.  If that failed, there was always the gift his parents had given him, but that would always be a last-resort.

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Two days, and the kingdom  known for it’s library castle as well as the land of thieves and bandits was abuzz, with the noise of a vicious attack.

A murder.

Murder, nearly as right as law in this land, of a note that everyone seemed to catch word of, to notice.

The current Prince of Thieves sat in the library, conversing quietly with a number of investigators- normally ones so mistrusted in the city, their abilities would be used to find the murderer of somebody many citizens held in higher regards than even the king himself-

The Grand Librarian was dead.

Already, many in the capital had begun wearing cloth of mourning, black bands, veils, the traditional withered hydrangea which was the symbol of the Grand Librarian’s office.

Now, the investigative force was keeping distraught visitors in check- but the Prince only saw a mess of black-garbed citizens, reaching to break through to their prince if only for some reassurance, perhaps this was a lie, or perhaps the Librarian was off on a long trip and the body that had been found burned and beaten had not been a dear friend to the king, a mentor to his child.

Even for Uta, one so unshaken by death, was finding themself...

sorrowed, by these events.

It was very soon after their arrival to assuage their people that they had to find themself a quiet spot, away from everyone-

In a private room, dimly lit by only the glow of phosphorescent mushroom.

Idly flipping through a book that they could remember so fondly reading as a child, the Grand Librarian herself sitting beside them.

They were saddened.

Uta takes the other’s words, a smile touching their face- ever so faint.

Hide glance down at what she was wearing. Sure she was showing off more skin than usual, but it was a sports bra, not a t shirt.

"I am wearing clothes?" She shrugs before walking towards Kaneki stood, looking at the weights he was just lifting seconds ago. "I came to get some self defense lessons from ya." She looked at the other.

Karren’s official opinion on Master Shuu is that she wants nothing to do with him.  Her heart is a greedy, angry, wounded creature that neither observes nor understands official opinions, but last time she let let that thing take the reins she ended up jumping off a building.  She is officially done with Shuu.  Her emotions can catch up in their own time.

When she overhears a conversation at :Re with Nathanael, overhears that Kaneki Ken is working for the CCG as a ghoul investigator, she doesn’t know what to think.  Kaneki used to be a great friend of Shuu’s, before that Haise guy showed up and completely stole his attention.  She used to be quite jealous of Kaneki, used to dislike him, but after the whole Haise nightmare she honestly practically forgot he existed.  If she isn’t interested (officially isn’t interested) in Shuu anymore, is she still jealous of Kaneki?  ...If she’s not jealous of Kaneki (officially isn’t jealous), does she have reason to dislike him?  Because if she doesn’t dislike the guy?  She feels sorry for him.  Almost feels like she should maybe try to help him out if an opportunity ever presents itself.  He and Shuu were practically family at one point, right?  She isn’t loyal to Shuu or the Tsukiyamas anymore, of course.  Officially.  But it still seems like... somehow she feels like this is still relevant to her, or could be.  The Tsukiyamas used her, manipulated her into thinking serving them at the expense of everything was some lofty aspiration.  That’s why she isn’t loyal to them.  All Kaneki Ken ever did was make friends with Shuu.  He never hurt Karren.  And he used to fall into the category of people she should protect.

She considers that it would feel darkly satisfying if she ended up becoming esteemed by one Shuu used to idolize; if someone who didn’t seem to like Shuu that much chose her to appreciate....but that decidedly belongs on the list of opinions she shouldn’t officially have.

It’s curious to think about, certainly.  But weeks later, when she’s almost forgotten him again, he appears in front of her.  She and Nathanael are helping a minor ghoul organization pass out some donated books to ghoul families with children.  Doves must have found out about the event somehow because a whole group of them shows up, unexpected and murderous.  Nate tries to tell Karren to scatter with the event organizers; she has a hell of a lot to recover from, there’s no shame in running.  But that’s about the time Karren realizes that helping kids better themselves so they don’t end up getting jobs as servants at mansions owned by people who Do Not CARE is actually pretty damn important to her?  This isn’t an auction selling people for fuck’s sake...how dare these filthy humans?  She hasn’t fought doves in a while.  She tells her brother not to wait for her, tells her dog to shoo, and that’s the last he sees of her for a while.

The most vulnerable of the event attendees are long gone.  She’s pulling her kagune out of a sticky mess that was once a dove.  Her heart is pounding in her ears.  For all her anger, she has a deeply-ingrained fear of her traditional enemies.  She’s already killed a few of the brutes; it doesn’t feel prudent to try her luck for too long.  The simmering rage she feels at the injustice of it all remains unquiet, but she knows Nathanael and Arunolt would be very upset if she died.  She’s already eaten her fill, which is always a convenient development considering how tricky it is for a ghoul to get food.  She’s starting to think about turning and running.

And suddenly, there’s Kaneki, of all people, approaching her.  She looks at him in surprise; curious red eyes through slits of a mask covered in roses.  She makes no move to attack.  She doesn’t even know what to make of this development yet, she’s just surprised to see him.  A casual drop of blood falls to the floor, from her chin.

Wiping up the blood from Kaneki's wound, Hide stood up from kneeling to rinse the cloth. She hadn't expect Kaneki to look this injured when she came over to visit as usual even though he had told her he had been hurt on his job today.