A break in the case

"Give me a push Kaneki" Suzuya demanded from his spot on a nearby swing. Kaneki looked up from his book and saw his long time partner and friend cheerfully kicking his feet back in forth on a kids swing set. He took a look around and couldn't help the peaceful smile that graced his usual expressionless face. He saw kids running around the playground without a care in the world while parents sat on nearby benches chatting with one another. It was peaceful, something he seems to experiencing less and less as of late.

"Kaneki come ooon" Sadly he couldn't enjoy it for too long due to his overly childish friend asking him to push him on a swing. Kaneki calmly placed a solid black bookmark in his book then placed the book back in his bag. He made his way over to his friend who was smiling stupidly as a walked behind him and gave him a light push.

"Wheeeee!" Suzuya yelled causing the kids and some parents to stare at the duo. Kaneki noticed the strange look they were getting and came to the conclusion that Suzuya wasn't worth this level of embarrassment. So he quickly retreated back to his bench to continue reading his book. "Awww you no fun" Suzuya said as he hoped off the swing that was hardly moving.

"Well we aren't here for fun." Kaneki said as he flipped the page in his book. "Yea yea I know, it just seems stupid to come to a park and not have fun." Suzuya said with a sigh as he plopped down in the bench beside Kaneki and threw his head back with his arms resting on the back of the bench. "Suzuya use your head, what did all the abductions have in common?" Kaneki asked while he peeked over the top of his book and saw the children playing once again. "They were all children"

"Right, and if your a ghoul that only targets children where is the most likely hunting ground?" Kaneki asked Suzuya in attempt to see how well his friend was in the detective portion of their profession. "Umm..." Suzuya hummed as he thought about his answer. Kaneki looked to his right at his friend's laid back expression, he couldn't tell if his friend really didn't know the answer or just didn't care. "Come on it's not that diffi.."

"A daycare" Suzuya said interrupting Kaneki. His once lazy position on the bench was replaced with him sitting straight up and his fist slammed into his hand to top it all off he had a smirk on his face that made it look like there was no way he could be wrong.

That was until Kaneki's book quickly met his face. Suzuya's body went limp with his head sagging to his shoulder. Sure Kaneki may have hit him so hard his soul was trying to fly away, but this just seems to be the same song and dance for the duo so they got used to it and moved on.

"No a damn park, Why do you think we're here?"

"..."

"Don't answer that" Kaneki said as he stood up grabbing Suzuya's limp hand and pulled him to his feet.

"Alright, alright I get it time to actually work." Suzuya said as he stretched his arms behind his back and then placed his hands inside his pockets. "So how do we go about this captain"

"Go to the play ground and..." Kaneki paused mid way as he stared at his friend using his pinky to pick his nose without a care in the world. "Be you." He finished.

Suzuya removed his mining tool from his nose with a little bit of loot stuck to his pinky. "And where will you be?" Suzuya asked as he flicked the substance off his pinky using his other hand.

"I'll be under that tree" Kaneki said as he pointed to a huge shady tree up on a hill over looking the playground." with you at the playground and me under the tree we should be able to spot anything out of ordinary and not seem suspicious.

"Alright then I'm off" Suzuya said as he ran off towards the playground and began playing tag with a group of children. Kaneki smiled at the scene as he watched his friend seamlessly join the children like he knew them for years. Many people saw this trait off Suzuya's useless and off putting, after all he is seventeen and acts just like a child with out a care in the world, but for Kaneki that makes him a great partner. Even through all his antics Kaneki knows he takes his job as an investigator serious...well parts of it at least.

Kaneki turned away from Suzuya and made his way to the tree knowing that the children couldn't be safer with his odd friend around. After he made it to the tree he took a seat just below it and pulled out his book he's been reading. "Guess all we can do is wait, hope Suzuya has enough energy to keep it up" Kaneki said quietly to himself as he flipped the page in his book.

Kaneki looked up from his book and noticed that the large amount of shade he had had now withered away and only covered the upper section of his body leaving his legs to bathe in the sun.

Three hours have passed since their stakeout began and it has been the most uneventful thing Kaneki has had the pleasure of doing. It wouldn't be as bad if he had something to do, like his partner who was still going strong playing in the park with a whole new set of kids since the ones who were there originally have long since left.

He couldn't even continue his favorite hobby since his book has been finished in the first hour of this adventure. So he decided to relax under the tree and day dream, he would occasionally sniff for the scent of a ghoul nearby but he never noticed any thing that would cause alarm.

He stood up from his spot and made his way to Suzuya who was lazily swinging back and forth on a swing set. He noticed how Suzuya had a faint smile on his face as he watched the children play with cosplayers that arrived shortly after he stood up from his spot on the hill.

"Any luck down here?" Kaneki asked as his gaze turned to the laughing children. Most of the cosplayers were dressed up as princess and princesses. They had a cart near by filled with little dresses and wigs for the kids to dress up in. It seemed as if everyone had a roll in the game, boys would be worriers and try to save the helpless princesses while girls would play the role of the helpless princesses. Well most would, some girls would say they didn't need to be saved and started to fight with the boys.

"No, everything is fine on my end" Suzuya stopped his swinging walked over closer to Kaneki. He stopped about three feet away from his partner to lean on a pole that was holding up the swing set. "I just dont get it" Kaneki turned to his friend after hearing his frustration. "Get what?" He asked

"I've been looking at every possible way to kidnap someone, but every thing I come up with would just leave you ending up caught." Suzuya kicked the dirt under his feet in an attempt to not freak out from the frustration of not knowing. After all part of catching a killer is getting into the mind of a killer, with is something both Suzuya and Kaneki have been having trouble with.

"Yeah, I was thinking the same. The areas too open to make a clean get away and even so the kidnapper still managed to only get caught once." Kaneki held his head down and pinched the bridge of his nose. He was beginning to grow tired of all this, the mission, lying to his family and fucking Arima. Kaneki was never a drinker unlike his sister, but he could really go for something right about now, just to calm his nerves.

"I suppose we should head back and think this over again, maybe there's something we missed." Kaneki said as he began walking towards the exit of the park with Suzuya behind him. Once they reached the gate of the park Kaneki noticed a woman with black hair walking up from behind them. The woman was probably in her thirties and quite beautiful in Kaneki's opinion. She was wearing tight white jeans paired with a yellow sundress. Her hair was in a braid and hung over her left shoulder and to top it off, beautiful emerald eyes. There wasn't to much notable about her son however he was wearing tan cargo shorts and a red shirt with a strange leaf looking design on the front. He had his mother's hair but he assumed his father's eyes since they were blue.

Kaneki moved to the side will pulling the back Suzuya's shirt so the mother and son could pass. The woman smiled at the duo and thanked them as they passed. Kaneki returned the smile and was about to follow them out until he got a whiff of something strange. It was faint, extremely faint, but it gave off the scent of blood and it was coming from that woman. It was almost as if she was drenching in it, but she has long since washed it off.

"Excuse me miss" Kaneki followed her quickly while also making sure he wasn't running so he wouldn't scare her off. The woman heard Kaneki and turned her head while still walking and noticed the two following her. She tightened her grip on her son's hand and started walking faster.

"Miss stop I'd like to ask you a few questions" As soon as Kaneki finished his sentence he saw the woman pick of the boy and take off running.

"SUZUYA DON'T LET HER GET AWAY" Kaneki yelled to his friend as they took off after the woman. She began to push and shove the pedestrians in front off her out off the way as she ran down the sidewalk in a panic. "PLEASE HELP THOSE MEN ARE CHASING ME!" The plea of help from the woman caught the attention of most if not all men on the side walk. They turned to Kaneki and Suzuya and attempted to stop them by talking, grabbing and out right fighting.

"MOVE THIS IS A CCG INVESTIGATION" Kankei yelled to the men crowding them as he pulled out his wallet flashing his badge for the world to see. Some backed off immediately, but the others either didn't hear him or just didn't care. That was when Suzuya lost his temper and began brawling with the civilians. "Wee, this is so much fun" Suzuya said as he punched and kicked his way through the crowd.

Kaneki looked around in an attempt to find a way out of the crowd and saw the woman running across traffic with the child in her arms. "Ah damn it" Kaneki said to himself as he pushed his way out of the crowd and onto the busy street. He heard car horns blowing at the woman and saw many slamming on brakes trying to avoid her. She was almost at the end off the street when a speeding car came through. The car attempted to slam on brakes like the others, but wasn't able to in time. Thankfully the cars mirror was the only thing that hit the woman. The hit to the womans side caused her to stumble and fall with the boy in her arms.

Kaneki took off after being able to easily weave around and jump over the pile up of stopped cars. He watched as the woman got up with the child still in her arms. He thought maybe she would give up and end this, but was proven wrong when ran into a nearby alleyway.

Kaneki turned to look for his friend to see how he was fairing with the rowdy crowd and to his relief Suzuya was making his way across the street. He looked behind his friend who was smiling and waving at him and noticed a huge pile of bodies. "Please tell me they're alive."

"Those lazy bones are fine, now let's go catch us a ghoul" Kaneki nodded his head and took off into the alleyway with Suzuya following close behind. They heard the faint splash of water ahead of them as they chased after the woman. They continued through the alleyway the sun was beginning to be blocked out by the hight of the building. The ally just seemed to go on and on until they arrived at a dead end.

The dark and wetness of the ally seemed to be something out of a horror movie. The feeling was amplified when they caught the sight of the woman they were chasing on her knees and her teeth clamped down on the boys arm. It was strange that the boy was a live, but he was having no reaction to having a part of his arms bitten off. The boys blood was pooling out of the womans mouth as she chewed his flesh with a look of euphoria on her face.

While woman appeared to be distracted with the taste of flesh Kaneki made his move and with in human speed he used the sheath of his sword to quickly get her away from the boy. He unsheathed his blade and readied himself for her counter attack, but strangely she didn't. Sure he put a lot of power behind his attack but that would only stun a ghoul.

"Suzuya patch the boy" Kaneki said while keeping his gaze on the woman. "Already on it" Suzuya said as he began wrapping the boy's arms. Kaneki walked up to the drowned woman hesitantly and checked to see if she was even alive. He checked her pulse and was able to feel the rythm of her heart beat. "Just unconscious, but still strange" Kaneki said to himself as he began to sniff the air around them, it had the strong stench of blood obviously, but it was missing something important.

"Hey Kaneki come look at this" Kaneki turned to his friend and saw that he patched the boy up and was now shining a light in his eyes.

"What is it?" He asked as he squatted down beside his stitched up friend.

"I noticed that this kids eyes seemed strange so I took a look and found this." Suzuya shined the light at the child's eyes and nothing, they had the appearance of a dead fish.

"She drugged him?"

"Yea I assume so" Suzuya picked up the child and walked over to the woman with Kaneki. "She went down rather easily"

"Yeah too easy" Kaneki walked back up to the woman and inspected her body. Her shirt and pants were splattered with blood. Kaneki gave the air another taste with his nose and couldn't help but feel something was off. He held his head down as he thought about everything hes been through today.

"Captain, what's wrong just kill the thing and be done with it" Suzuya said impatiently

"Give me a damn minute"

"..."

Kaneki thought back to the chase and remembered her getting clipped by that car she fell to the ground and appeared winded. "Wait a minute" Kaneki said as he raised his head and lifted um the womans dress to reveal a nasty bruise that went from her hip to the top of her rip cage. The impact from the mirror back a little skin which caused the wound to not only bruise but bleed as well.

Kaneki was beginning to piece things together, but he needed to be sure so he discreetly used his fingers and wiped some of the women's blood on them and then moved his fingers to his lips and gave a quick taste. That's when he was sure the lack of smell the wound and the taste. It could only mean one thing

"She's not a ghoul"

Wo.. wo.. wow what a terrific audience.

anyway finally another chapter am i right. i hope you guys enjoyed it and as usual id like to say a few things. first off can we please get some more good tokyo ghoul stories out their. im not saying mine is the best or even good but im trying and i would like to read some of your stories too. and if you enjoy the story please let me know with a follow a favorite and better yet a comment.

Well i think thats it so i would like to think everyone for your support and i was also thing on getting someone to proof read my stuff so let me know if your interested

well im off to hide away for another three months.

catch ya next time