Hey everyone, as you may have noticed, I have decided to write a new story, featuring Tokyo Ghoul as the subject! I don't know how this will turn out, but I hope it'll be awesome to read. My other stories aren't abandoned, I just wanted some fresh material to write about, and Tokyo Ghoul and other animes I have watched recently really inspired me to start writing something again. I should warn you, this story is very much M rated for a reason, extreme descriptions, gore and all that good stuff will be featured in this story in abundance, also, I have made Kaneki even more mentally unstable in this story, courtesy of his backstory, which will be explained gradually in coming chapters, also, obviously, this story contains spoilers for Tokyo Ghoul, as I've read the manga and seen the anime, just in case you haven't fully seen Tokyo Ghoul yet, there may be spoilers in here for you. But then again, this story is also an AU, so don't think everything I write is a canon spoiler. Anyway, without further ado, let's start reading!

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Disclaimer - I do not own Tokyo Ghoul nor any of the characters.

Prologue

The massive city called Tokyo was shrouded in darkness, the moon shining brightly above, though it's brilliant white light was lost in a sea of artificial lights, created by street lights, illuminating the streets to help nightly wanderers find their way home. Though not all of Tokyo was illuminated, in fact, there was more darkness than light in the city, and in the darkness the darker side of Tokyo's inhabitants went about their unsavory business. Ghouls were such citizens, if one could even call them citizens. The one thing that the human inhabitants of Tokyo feared most of all, was seeing a black sclera paired with a red iris, also known as a Kakugan, as it was a sure sign of incoming death for a human. Ghoul attacks were anything but uncommon in the vast metropolis known as Tokyo, but, like with car crashes, no one ever expects it to happen to them, even though they are surrounded by such incidents. Of course it's natural someone would arise to try and fight the Ghouls, and that someone was the CCG, the Commission of Counter Ghoul. One could immediately distinguish members of the CCG from the normal humans by their suits and briefcases, which carried Quinques, weapons created by harvesting a Ghoul's Kakuhou, their predatory organ. As such, the Ghouls learned to fear the CCG, and the other way around. The Ghouls knew the CCG, more commonly referred to as 'Doves', carried quinques with which they could penetrate a Ghoul's skin, which is impossible to do with any other weapon. And the agents of the CCG knew that the beings they were fighting had supernatural powers, and they could be ripped apart at any time. As such, both sides feared each other, but there was one thing that the CCG feared most, and that was the Ghoul organization Aogiri Tree. Seemingly specifically designed to destroy the CCG, the fear was well-placed. Although much about the organzation was unknown, it was known that they had some powerful Ghouls among their ranks, or else they would have been defeated by the CCG long ago. They were said to be lead by an individual called the One-Eyed King, but the name was shrouded in mystery, nobody outside of Aogiri itself knew anything about this so-called One-Eyed King. The only thing certain about Aogiri was that they killed doves, citizens and rival ghouls alike with brutality that shocked many. As such was the case this particular night.

Two second class CCG investigators, one male and the other female, were walking down the streets of the 11th ward, one of the more turbulent wards in Tokyo. They were walking back home after staying at the office overtime to look into Aogiri and several high-threat ghouls. Coming up blank on the first subject, they then tried to gather intel on several high-threat ghouls, such as Jason and the Binge-Eater. Two S-class ghouls that have been very active recently. As they walked, they indulged in conversation.

"Ugh, I can't take all this paperwork, I'd much rather be out there fighting those bastards than researching." One of them said.

"Suck it up Katsuro, we need to research them before we can fight them, besides, we couldn't possibly handle someone like Jason or Binge-Eater anyway, they're way out of our league." The other replied.

"Tch, I know that, but there are plenty of B and A-rated ghouls wandering about, I wouldn't mind kicking their ass, I know that you can't take all this sitting around either, you're taking walks all the time, Sugaha." The one identified as Katsuro said. The woman, Suguha glared at her partner a little, before sighing.

"You're right, I can't stand this either, but that doesn't mean it isn't necessary, but I think it won't be long before we can start slaughtering ghouls in the field again." She said, grinning at the prospect. Before Katsuro could reply, a laugh originating from the rooftops interrupted them. Their widened eyes swiftly looked up to see a few figures wearing strange mantles grinning down at them. Both investigators gripped their suitcases tightly, alerted by the sudden appearance of the strangers, as well as their uncommon clothing.

"Oi, who are you people, what are you even doing up there, you can get seriously injured if you fall!" Katsuro said, still cautious about the newcomers. They didn't say anything in return but grin even wider. They then swiftly jumped down from the building they were standing atop, a fall that would probably kill a normal human being, but they landed unscathed.

"I'm sorry, I just overheard your conversation earlier, about how you wanted to kill some Ghouls, and I have to say, you really amused me with your tough talk." The figure standing at the front of the group said. Katsuro and Suguha quickly deployed their Quinques, realizing these were Ghouls they were talking to. The lead figure merely laughed again.

"Oh, it was that easy to figure out? Damn, I should really be more careful, but then again, you won't live to tell the tale to your comrades." The figure spoke, unleashing his Ukaku Kagune, which took the shape of a two wings that looked like they were made from fire. The rest of the group also released their Kagune and got into a battle-ready stance, the two investigators followed suit.

"Bastard, what makes you so sure you'll win, your kind is good for nothing, there are two things I hate, Ghouls and cocky fuckers, you happen to be both of those, so do yourself a favor and die already! Suguha, I'll take this guy, the rest look pathetically weak, I'm sure you can handle the rest." Katsuro said to his partner. Suguha merely nodded as confirmation. With that, the two investigators charged. Katsuro brought up his Koukaku Quinque which had the shape of a sword and swung his Quinque diagonally, trying to slice his enemy in half right away. The Ghoul merely stepped to the left with amazing speed to dodge the strike. Katsuro recovered from the dodge quickly and followed up with some quick jabs, meant to run the other through. All of them were dodged with the same incredible speed, The Ghoul then jumped back, gliding through the air swiftly with the use of their wings and sent forth a hail of spikes towards Katsuro, who dove to the side to barely evade the spikes. He sprang to his feet, but his enemy was already right in front of him. It's right wing already descending on it's path which would have ended with Katsuro being sliced in two, had he not brought up his Quinque to block. Even though he was fighting an Ukaku Ghoul, who usually relied on speed and not brute force, Katsuro dropped to a knee from the force of the strike. He then redirected the wing towards the ground, and quickly sliced his Quinque upwards, but the Ghoul swerved to the right and used the momentum for another strike with his wing. Katsuro was forced to hastily bring his Quinque back down to block the incoming strike. But he wasn't so lucky this time as the force of the strike sent his Quinque out of his grasp and flying through the air, before embedding itself in the asfalt of the road a few metres away from the fight. Katsuro tried to make a break for it, but the Ghoul had other ideas as his Kagune quickly swiped at the investigators legs. The moment Katsuro wanted to run toward his Quinque, he felt a dull pain originating from his legs and he fell down into a puddle of water, no, it wasn't water, water wasn't colored crimson red. Sickeningly slow, Katsuro realized he was lying in a puddle of blood. He craned his neck to look at his legs to try and figure out why he fell. He looked at his legs uncomprehendingly for a moment, because he didn't see anything. Only when he saw his legs lying a stone's throw away from him, did he realize his legs were severed from his body, suddenly, the delayed pain reaction slammed into his mind, completely replacing his train of thought with pure, white hot agony for a moment. He screamed loudly, thrashed around with his remaining limbs and panted heavily, the pain burning and blood spurting out of the stumps were his legs used to be. Blinking away the tears of pain, he squinted, trying to see his attacker through his vision which had become blurry due to blood loss. He only saw the mouth of the Ghoul, which was fixed in a smile as he looked at the screaming investigator.

"Who... are... you?" Katsuro asked, between laboured breaths. If anything, Katsuro wanted to know the name of this Ghoul, the one who had defeated him so very easily, this Ghoul could easily be classified as S-class, yet Katsuro didn't recognize the Kagune from any of the files. The Ghoul merely smirked as he pulled down the hood of his mantle to reveal a rather handsome face, blue hair and two Kakugan.

"I'm Kirishima Ayato, not that it matters, you'll bleed out in no time, you won't be able to tell anyone about my identity." The Ghoul, now known as Ayato, said. Katsuro racked his blood deprived, agonized brain for the name Kirishima Ayato, but came up blank.

"I'm sure you're trying to figure out if I'm known or not, let me spare you the effort, I'm not very well known yet, I just recently started killing, but believe me when I say the CCG will see much more of me in the future." Ayato said, smirking again, he looked over to the other investigator, Suguha when he heard a scream of pure agony. Katsuro slowly looked over to where he assumed his partner was, and his mouth hung open in a silent scream. Suguha was still alive, as was evident of her flailing, but she wasn't able to form any coherent thought, she could only scream in pain as her body was torn in two, her intestines falling out and staining the street. A ghoul then used his Bikaku to hack of her arms, blood spewed everywhere and her screams turned into gurgles as blood entered her throat. She was soon silenced as the Ayato decapitated her swiftly with his wing. He then turned around to see Katsuro still in shock from the brutal dismembering of his partner. Ayato shook his head, excpecting more of a fight from a man with such big talk, he decapitated Katsuro as well and watched with fascination as the blood spurted out like a fountain. Ayato held the head of Katsuro in his hand, mouth still open in terror and shock. He then twirled around lightning fast and hurled the head at the pole of the nearest street light. As soon as the rapidly flying head made contact with the pole, it burst apart and showered the tiles with brain and gore.

"Well, hopefully the CCG will get the message when they find these two, or what's left of them atleast, because we're not taking any prisoners." Ayato said, before gesturing the rest of the group, after which they all scaled the building they jumped down from with ease, the back of their swaying mantles bearing the insignia of Aogiri Tree.

Aogiri Tree Main Base, 11th Ward

Somewhere in the 11th Ward, lay an unnamed building, it's architecture utterly insignifact and boring, though it's use was anything but insignificant and boring. This building was the Main Base of Aogiri Tree. At the rear end of the building, a rather large room lay, undecorated and unfurnished, except for a single throne, crudely made from concrete and stone. In the throne sat the figure of a man, he wasn't especially tall, he wasn't especially muscled, but he was exceptionally dangerous and terrifying. He was known to the members of Aogiri Tree as Mukade, and to the rest of the world as the One-Eyed King, altough his true name was Kaneki Ken, which only a select few knew. He was the mysterious, all-powerful leader of Aogiri Tree. If one could see his body and face, which were nothing exceptional, although he was rather good-looking, nothing about his body stood out but his hair, which was ghostly white, whiter than should be possible for hair to be, they would laugh and say how crazy it sounded to call someone so unremarkable the leader of Aogiri, but that all changes with a single glance at Kaneki's eyes. His eyes held so many emotions and yet, they were emotionless, as if his emotions had died off long ago. They held massive amounts of grief, agony, pain, bloodlust and insanity. One look into his eyes was enough to send most ghouls and humans a few steps back. The reason Kaneki was exceptionally dangerous, in fact arguably the most dangerous of all ghouls, was his incredible power. Before he came to Aogiri, there was no clear leader. But that quickly changed when Kaneki entered the stage.

Flashback

The Main Base of Aogiri Tree was full of activity, the organization was growing rapidly and as a result, all sorts of things had to be sorted out, such as the hierarchy. For now, it seemed as several Ghouls would take leadership of Aogiri, namely Tatara, Noro and Eto, those were the three strongest Ghouls and as such, the leaders of Aogiri. New members arrived quite frequently, so no-one looked up when a new face walked through the main entrance of the building, though everyone noticed this individual's scent was slightly off. The scent certainly wasn't human, it just wasn't completely Ghoul either, there was something mixed in. This managed to turn a few heads, but those that did turn their heads wished they hadn't, because as soon as they made eye contact with the new member, they were immediately forced to look away from his eyes, which were so forceful, broken, hurt and insane that eye contact for longer than a second was impossible for most. Although this newcomer was barely eighteen, none stood in his path as he was escorted by a much older Ghoul, who went by the name of Shachi (Orca). Shachi was unlike most Ghouls present and could maintain eye contact with Kaneki for a while, though Kaneki's eyes greatly unnerved even Shachi. The only reason he was escorting this stranger is because he asked to see the leader of Aogiri, for purposes unknown. One of the Ghouls called out to him.

"Oi, Shachi, what're you doing with that newbie over there? Why are you escorting him like that?" A Ghoul from the crowd asked, Kaneki showed no reaction at being called a newbie, then again, he didn't react to much, he also knew that he'd show them that he was to be feared soon. Shachi glared forcefully at the Ghoul before answering.

"He asked to see the leaders of Aogiri, so I decided to give him an audience with them." Shachi answered, most of the Ghouls' eyes widened at Shachi's answer. Why would a complete newbie ask to see the leaders of Aogiri? There was only one way to find out, so soon there was a crowd walking towards the room where the audience would take place. When Shachi opened the doors, a room with hundreds of chairs, all facing a single podium was revealed. Kaneki smirked inwardly, this was the perfect stage for his entrance, everyone will be able too see it. Shachi calmly led him to the podium, and all the ghouls took a seat, waiting for the spectacle to unfold. Before long, two men came from behind the podium that Kaneki immediately recognized as Noro and Tatara. Tatara looked at Kaneki with annoyance and superiority, while Noro acted normal, which means saying nothing and just staring out of a mask with no eye holes, though this didn't unnerve Kaneki in the least, he'd seen too much to care about an intimidating individual with a creepy mask. Then, the small figure of a girl came skipping from the same door Tatara and Noro entered from. She stopped in her tracks once she saw Kaneki.

"Oh, who's this~?" She said in a singsong voice. Kaneki glanced her way, and consequently found her the most interesting of the three Aogiri leaders, Tatara was the typical ruthless commander, Noro the cliché silent mystery, but Eto wasn't any of that, she wasn't intimidating at first sight, though she was slightly mysterious with all of her bandages wrapped around her body. Nevertheless, Kaneki simply didn't care about appearance, but what lay underneath, and he could sense a great amount of danger radiating from Eto, more so than Tatara and even Noro. So Kaneki simply smiled at Eto, and she giggled.

"Well mister, aren't you lovely? But, why did you want to speak with us?" Eto asked, genuinely interested in Kaneki's reasons for seeking the leaders of Aogiri. He kept up the smile.

"I wish to usurp leadership of Aogiri Tree from you." Kaneki said with the same smile, at this, all the Ghouls in the room fell silent for a few seconds and then burst out laughing, some even falling of their chairs. Tatara looked at Kaneki in disgust.

"As if a newcomer like you could lead Aogiri, you don't have the strength, little boy, get out of my sight before I decide to kill you for even saying that." Tatara sneered at Kaneki, who's face suddenly turned deadly serious.

"Don't have the strength, you say? My, you have to learn to estimate your opponent's power before saying anything like that~." Kaneki said, radiating an aura of power that sent everyone in the room, including Tatara, Noro and Eto a step back at it's sheer intensity.

"Tell you what, I'm feeling particularly good today, how about we have a little fight, and we'll determine who is most fit to lead Aogiri, though I'll warn you in advance, I'm not holding back, and your survival is anything but guaranteed." Kaneki said with dead seriousness and sharpness. Tatara scoffed.

"Tch, we'll see about that, Noro, let's slaughter this idiotic insubordinate." Tatara said, gesturing Noro to attack, which he quickly joined as two of the three leaders of Aogiri rushed towards the newcomer with killing intent. Kaneki only smirked.

"Alright, you brought this upon yourself." He said, before charging towards Tatara and Noro, all three combatants barehanded, not willing to bring out their Kagune when they hadn't gotten a good feel for their opponent yet. Plus, Tatara had confidence in the fact that he and Noro outnumbered this upstart Ghoul, but he was very, very wrong in assuming that meant victory. The first attack was made by Tatara in the form of a right hook towards Kaneki's face, who ducked under the swing at the last moment with blinding speed. The only one in the room who was able to follow the movement was Eto, since she was used to being able to move at extreme speeds. But even for her, Kaneki was fast. Mid-duck Kaneki twisted his body upwards and grabbed Tatara's hand, which he swiftly pulled towards himself, dragging Tatara with the captured limb, before landing a solid punch in the middle of Tatara's face which held so much power that Tatara was sent flying backwards, past Noro, who didn't seem to notice or mind. As soon as Noro was within melee range, Kaneki attacked with a wild flurry of punches, aimed at all Noro's joints and bones, his fists were moving so fast, No ordinary Ghouls could follow their trajectory. Withing a few seconds, Kaneki's assault stopped abruptly when he thought he had done criitcal damage to Noro's body, but, to his surprise, Noro's body had almost fully regenerated from his strikes already, he had no time to further ponder on this particular Ghoul's extreme healing capabilities, as Tatara had picked himself up and was charging towards Kaneki at breakneck speed.

As soon as Kaneki was in punching range, Tatara threw another right-hook at Kaneki's face, which was dodged again, unsurprisingly. But when Kaneki tried the same trick twice, Tatara drew his hand back to his side and used the momentum to roundhouse kick Kaneki into a wall, which shuddered and shed plaster from the impact. Kaneki stepped out, wounds already healing, and charged back into the fray. Eto looked at the battle with the same childlike interest she seemed to display for most things, though her thoughts were running wild on the topic of Kaneki, mainly the fact that he seemed to be holding back immensely, and that was something that worried Eto greatly, because, if he was holding back right now, what could he do when he went all-out? For the first time in her life, Eto felt a little bit of fear, which was something she never felt from anyone, not even Arima, and yet she was feeling it right now. Kaneki was a blur that anyone would have trouble following with their eyes. Tatara was barely blocking everything Kaneki threw his way, from punches to roundhouse kicks, small amounts of blood began to flow from various parts of Tatara's body due to the sheer power behind the strikes he blocked. Tatara then jumped back and unleashed his long kagune, which immediately poised to impale Kaneki, and flew forward to do just that. Kaneki had other ideas however, and simply swerved to the right and unleashed his own six Rinkaku tentacles, with which he immediately propelled himself forward. Tatara dashed forward, his Kagune coming in from the side to slice Kaneki in two, but it was effortlessly blocked by four of the six Rinkaku tentacles that belonged to Kaneki, whilst the other two flew forward toward Tatara's face and stomach, at the last moment Tatara turned his head, but wasn't able to move his body in time, and thus his stomach got impaled with a dull sound. He flinched ever so slightly which would've been unnoticeable if one hadn't been as sharp as Kaneki. Noro was still looking at the scene, taking absolutely no action.

"Impressive, you managed to wound me quite severely, but don't think it's over yet." Tatara sneered at a calm-faced Kaneki.

"Where would the fun be if it was over already?" Kaneki asked, smiling eerily. Tatara smirked.

"Where would it be indeed?" He answered a still smiling Kaneki, wiped the blood leaking from the corner of his mouth away and charged at Kaneki once again. Kaneki quickly sent two of his tentacles to impale Tatara, but he rolled under them and sprang up, breaking into a sprint once again. Kaneki sent another two tentacles from the side, trying to cut Tatara from both sides. One tentacle was easily batted away by Tatara's own Kagune, whilst Tatara leaned over backwards to evade the other. However, Kaneki used the two tentacles Tatara rolled under and his remaining two to succesfully pull off a four way attack. Tatara stopped dead in his tracks, the four tentacles closing in, and then used his Kagune to propel him upwards, the attack missing completely. Kaneki used the remaining two tentacles, placing them under him, to reach Tatara's height. Tatara and Kaneki engaged in hand-to-hand combat in midair, throwing wild punches and kicks, from which Tatara received major damage, as was evident of all the blood on him. Then, as all four of Kaneki's unused Kagune closed in on him, Tatara suddenly dropped down, once again evading an otherwise deadly attack. As soon as Tatara landed on the floor, he wrapped his Kagune around the two Rinkaku tentacles keeping Kaneki suspended, and, using them as leverage, swung Kaneki around and threw him towards Noro, who was waiting silently at the side lines of the battle. However, as soon as Kaneki came flying towards Noro, Noro's Kagune suddenly appeared, in the form of a tentacle with a large mouth on the end, and bit a huge hole into Kaneki's back. Kaneki dropped to the floor, his Kagune dissapeared when Noro took an enormous portion of his back, what was left of his backside was a waterfall of blood and excruciating pain shot through Kaneki, but he had felt worse, and his vision only blurred in the slightest from this amount of pain, Kaneki grit his teeth and balled his fists. Tatara walked over, smiling triumphantly despite being covered in cuts, bruises and blood.

"You lost, I told you, little children aren't fit to lead. Too bad you learned your place only moments before dying, say your last goodbye." He said coldly to Kaneki, who still lay on the floor. Eto looked on, betraying no emotion in her stance. Noro did nothing either, but then again, he never did much. A soft giggle was heard, emanating from Kaneki, before the giggle became louder and morphed into maniacal laughter. Despite missing most of his back, Kaneki stood up straight, blood pouring out of his exposed flesh, even some bones poking out here and there. However, Kaneki didn't seem to mind, if anything, he seemed to enjoy it all of a sudden. His eyes were different too, even more disturbing than before, if that was possible, they no longer held any emotion beside insanity, all semblance of humanity and emotion disappearing, and now everyone could get a clear look at his eyes without his hair framing them, they noticed with a start that only one eye was a Kakugan, the other was still simple grey. Gasps and shouts of disbelief rang out from all Ghouls present except Eto, Noro and Tatara. Tatara's eyes widened slightly but narrowed just as fast, and made no other sound. Noro showed no reaction of course, and Eto simply stared at the one-eyed Ghoul in wonder, though that couldn't be discerned by anyone else, since nobody could see her face or even body, which were wrapped in bandages.

"Another one? Another one-eyed Ghoul, could it be that he's the same as me?" She wondered silently, careful not to say anything out loud. Kaneki's insane laughter soon died down, but was replaced with a grin that may have been worse.

"Ahahaha, that tickles, could you do it again? No! Wait! I have to say please first, Mother told me that! Could you please do it again? Haha, why did I eat everyone Mother? Am I bad?" Kaneki said to himself, giggling to himself between words.

"One thousand plus seven! Nooo, now I don't get any good boy points, a hundred good boy points is the... Pliers! fifty is... Fifty is... Oh yes, the scissors, right? Isn't that right?! One thousand minus seven is nine hundred ninety three! DID YOU KNOW THAT?! AHAHAHA!" Kaneki screamed the last part, all except Noro shuffled in unease at Kaneki's absolute insanity. Kaneki meanwhile twirled around, looking absolutely harmless. Tatara decided to make his move and sent his Kagune to impale Kaneki, however it never connected as Kaneki was suddenly right next to him.

"MOTHER? CAN I EAT HIM?! THANK YOU! I LOVE YOU SO MUCH I WILL EAT YOU LAST! OH NO! WAIT! I ALREADY DID!" Kaneki screamed in Tatara's ear, before actually biting into the ear and dragging out the eardrum and bone. Tatara hissed in pain and fell to one knee while Kaneki spit everything out.

"That didn't taste nice, why is there no bread anymore? Do I have to work again? I don't want to work anywhere!" Kaneki whined to himself while stomping on the ear bone, crushing it. Tatara held the bloody side of his face in one hand and sent his Kagune towards Kaneki's back, which had already healed almost fully, while he was occupied. Yet, Kaneki was anything but occupied, as right before Tatara's Kagune connected, something burst out from Kaneki's lower back, and blocked the Kagune strike without much effort, as Kaneki was still rambling nonsense to himself. A closer look at the thing guarding Kaneki and Tatara saw it was an armored tentacle that vaguely resembled Kaneki's Rinkaku tentacles, but only vaguely, as this tentacle had pulsing red lines among armored scaled and impossibly sharp, serrated, knife-like hooks covering the sides. This brief view of Kaneki's fearsome new weapon was cut short when it moved so fast it dissapeared, and Tatara's Kagune fell to the floor, hacked in two by the tentacle. Everyone looked at the thing in fear, before, as one, they realized they were looking at a Kakuja, their suspicion was confirmed when Kaneki suddenly screamed as something suddenly burst through his skin all over his body, forming a crude set of armor around himself, and creating a mask, with a downturned bird beak and a large eye on his forehead, on his face. The sole black and red eye was constantly twitching and it seemed to look everywhere at once. When his Kakuja had fully enveloped Kaneki, five more Kakuja tentacles burst forth from his lower back. Kaneki sent four of them shooting towards Tatara at speeds impossible to follow, even for Eto, who was watching from the sidelines, and the next thing that was seen was Tatara with four tentacles resembling demonic centipedes through his stomach, chest, and shoulders. Tatara was lifted into the air and smashed against the wall rapidly, blood flying everywhere, before he was thrown to the far side of the room, making a crater in the wall and dropping to the floor, bones crushed, skin torn and blood spurting out of four gaping holes in his body, even with his advanced Ghoul healing rate, it was unsure whether Tatara would survive this. Kaneki, meanwhile, wasted no time in charging at Noro , all six Kakuja trailing behind him, poised to strike. Noro made no movement, but sent his Kagune flying towards Kaneki, who didn't even bother to dodge, and took Kaneki's right arm, ripped clean off. This did little to slow Kaneki, who's eye twitched and briefly grit his teeth, showing that he certainly still did feel pain, before laughing it off as if it was a minor scratch.

"HahahaHAHAHA! More, more! I'm so happy I can still feel it! It makes me feel ALIVE~!" Kaneki laughed, now right in front of Noro. He quickly severed Noro's Kagune, much like Tatara's and impaled him with two Kakuja. Noro showed no visible reaction whatsoever, so Kaneki sent a third Kakuja through his body, sending grey sludge-like matter flying through the air, instead of blood, Kaneki cocked his head to the side and his Kakugan scrambled about, seemingly seeing everything at once. Noro still didn't move, but his Kagune had already regenerated, but Kaneki easily held it at bay with his three remaining Kakuja, whilst he studied Noro intently. Eventually he pouted.

"This isn't fun! Could you maybe scream a little, that always makes me happy! AHAHAHA, SCREAM LIKE I DID FOR SOOOOO LOOOONG! THEY DIDN'T STOP! NONO THEY DIDN'T~!" Kaneki sang, somehow, Noro's Kagune managed to break free from Kaneki's Kakuja by severing one. It sprang forwards, knocking Kaneki off his feet and sending him flying backwards, Noro then tried to sever one of Kaneki's legs mid-air, but Kaneki twisted around and sent two of his Kakuja through the Kagune, pulling himself back to where Noro stood. His two Kakuja still wrestled with Noro's Kagune, but Kaneki sent the remaining three through Noro's abdomen and chest again, whilst his last Kakuja tentacle was still regenerating, along with his right arm. But Kaneki didn't stop at simply impaling Noro, no, his Kakuja started stabbing Noro all over his body, the serrated hooks doing devastating damage, tearing Noro apart and staining the ground, walls and ceiling with gray matter, courtesy of Noro. Ripping Noro apart with a smile on his face was an image that all the Ghouls present would never get out of their mind, no matter how hard they tried. Eventually, when only pieces of the Ghoul known as Noro littered the floor did Kaneki stop, slowly, the several limbs, organs and body parts that made up Noro's body started piecing themselves together, before Kaneki went to work again, chuckling and grinning. This process repeated itself several times before Noro's half regenerated body held up a hand, and as soon as his entire being was pieced back together, Noro took a step back, a universal sign of surrender.

"Awww, we were having so much fun! Could we play more often? I want a new friend!" Kaneki said, interspersed with mad chuckles, his Kakugan twitching madly. He turned around once he heard a female voice behind him speak up. Once he got to see who was speaking to him, his insane mind barely registered it was Eto talking to him. She cocked her head to the side slightly.

"You're pretty strong mister~!" Eto said in her usual childlike yet distorted voice. Truthfully, she had no idea if she would win against Kaneki. Kaneki showed no visible reaction to her words, every Ghoul in the room waited with baited breath to see what was going to happen. Then, to everyone's immense surprise, Eto merely smiled at Kaneki, swung back and forth on her feet and spoke words that would change Aogiri forever.

"You'll lead pretty good, I think." She said, and with that, Kaneki's reign at Aogiri began.

Flashback End

Thus Kaneki became Mukade the One-Eyed King, leader of Aogiri. The leadership in Aogiri lay with Kaneki, and his direct subordinates were Tatara, Noro and Eto, the so-called Top Executives. Beneath the three Top Executives there existed many Executives, such as Ayato Kirishima, the Bin brothers, Yamori (Also known as Jason), Miza (Also known as Three Blades) and Naki. Beneath the Executives were the hundreds of normal members of Aogiri. Kaneki, meanwhile, sat atop his crude throne, lost in thought.

"The CCG still know nothing about us, save from a few rumors they overheard from ghouls. They are taking no measures against us, we will soon show them the severity of their mistakes, we shall begin with the 11th Ward, and move on from there." He mused to himself, he was so lost in thought, he didn't even notice someone approaching his throne. But the Ghoul's voice brought him back to reality.

"Mukade-sama, we have intercepted and killed the two CCG agents that were researching Aogiri." The voice which Kaneki recognized as Ayato, one of the Executives, spoke.

"Good, good, with those insects dead, research into Aogiri will stop almost completely, they won't see us coming, not in a million years. Now is the time to act." Kaneki thought.

"Very well." He spoke to Ayato, he never talked much to anyone, except the Top Executives. Ayato bowed slightly and left the room, leaving Kaneki alone again. He then stood up from his throne and exited the room too, walking through the halls of the Aogiri Base, as he walked, all members in the halls suddenly realized that the One-Eyed King was here, hastily bowed to him. Kaneki barely registered the normal members bowing to him, he was used to it. He ascended a few flights of stairs, until he reached the roof of the building. After quickly scanning the rooftop, he spotted a small figure sitting on the edge of the roof, which he immediately identified as Eto. As he was walking towards her, he thought about his decision. When he sat down next to her, his legs dangling over the edge, Eto seemed to notice him.

"Kaneki-kun~!" She said enthusiastically, bringing a smile to Kaneki's face, something that rarely happened. In fact, the only one who made him smile on a regular basis was Eto. Kaneki and Eto just seemed to understand each other, Kaneki and Eto also shared a luxury apartment, which was paid by Eto, with her books under the alias of Takatsuki Sen. They were often seen together, both in Aogiri and outside the ghoul organization.

"Eto." Kaneki spoke simply, nodding at her. Eto's legs swung back and forth as they were hanging in the air. They sat in silence for a few moments, until Kaneki spoke up.

"I assume you know Ayato's mission was a success?" Kaneki asked her.

"Yes." She answered.

"Very well then, since the research on Aogiri has been halted, I believe this is the time to strike." Kaneki said, Eto immediately understood.

"Which Ward?" She asked, already knowing what Kaneki wanted.

"The 11th Ward." Kaneki said, Eto smiled.

"Alright, Kaneki-kun~." She said, still smiling.

"I trust you to bring the message to Tatara and Noro, and the three of you will inform the others." Kaneki spoke, Eto nodded.

"Okay~!" She said. Skipping away whilst humming, to deliver the news to Tatara and Noro. Leaving Kaneki alone with his thoughts on the rooftop, looking at Tokyo by night, lights illuminating the vibrant metropolis, which was booming even at night.

"Soon, I will kill every last one of them, I'll make them pay, I will tear them apart, don't worry, CCG, Mukade is coming back for a reunion." He thought to himself, his mouth forming a grin of pure bloodlust and madness, and his eyes orbs of rage, set on the skyline of Tokyo, more specifically, the 11th Ward CCG base.

Ok guys, that concludes chapter one of my new story! In case some of you are wondering why characters are slightly OOC in the flashback (actually just Tatara and Noro I think.) that's just because it's just impossible to write about those two like they are in the anime/manga in the flashback, since they usually don't talk much, but they had to talk. Also, it's hard to write Eto when she realizes she isn't by far the strongest Ghoul, I plan on making Kaneki a tiny bit stronger than Eto, so you guys can kinda estimate his power. Anyway, I think (and hope) everyone will stay relatively in character for the rest of the story. As I've said before, I am taking this new path as a writer, because I need some new inspiration to write about, and I've found it in Tokyo Ghoul. I hope this story lives up to your expectations (if you even have expectations), and you guys'll enjoy reading it! Feel free to review and tell me what you think!

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