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The day of the full-out battle against the ghouls and Aogiri? It was a death wish, an indefinite death wish.I held my head high, knowing I had written that note on that single scroll of paper. Death. I had heard a rumor floating around that the Owl was getting stronger, Aogiri was ever more powerful. So many ghouls in the damn organization.

Why would they join? Why can't they just be off on their own?

But those small fry, they can't do anything without help, to even throw a punch at one of us. Would the CCG have enough people, power...hope? I had been anxiously waiting the announcement. I had healed a month or two [time skip] ago, and was waiting quite a while for the announcement of a major battle.

Since then, I'd had not much to give upon. It was just me against the ghoul world. Of course, Juuzou was my friend, but, he didn't very much care for anyone. Maybe he liked Shinohara, but, me? I was merely a friend to him.

Not to me.

I wish he'd pay more attention to me. That was a deep little secret of mine. If he actually loved me as more than just a person in his swell life...if he'd just stitch me up too...stitch up all my sorrows. I knew he'd never come to love me. It caused a considerable amount of heartache, but it was was okay. Right?

I watched him from afar, constantly following him, like a small puppy leashed to their owner.

Always.

But the battle would begin soon. The war. And I, though ready...could die. And I, though good to go...knew Juuzou could die too. There was no time to think about Juuzou anymore. Any notes I had made were for nobody, but the whole of humanity. There were no people who knew about the true danger, other than them eating humans.

I didn't know what was to come.

After the Aogiri battle

{These are always annoying-but as I lose inspiration in this story, I need to cut to the chase. There's still a long way to go.}

I woke up somewhere foreign. Where was Seidou? He was supposed to be there. My mind felt foggy- and there was an inexplicable hunger weaving its way through my stomach. The pain echoed, but it was not from injury.

I needed food. Imagining kaa-san's cooking was not enough. It actually made me...less hungry. A ravenous knot twisted and churned within, and suddenly, a door, I did not know where, I was too hungry to think correctly, creaked open.

A man.

He smelled horrible. I did not know why this sense was so keen all of a sudden, I usually couldn't ever smell smoke inside a kitchen too well. His glistening smile made me ever so disgusted. But as I tried to get away from him, I realized I was confined in a space too small.

"Well, you're not dead, eh?" He said, devilish grin spreading wide.

Was I dead? No, I wasn't. "Of-of course not," My words were a bit jumbled. Food. Hungry. Blood. Flesh.

Flesh?

"Food," I said out loud.

The man seemed interested. "Food...what kind of food? Human food? Or would you like humans?" He inquired.

"Of course I want human food- I'm not a ghoul," I retorted. Why would he ask me for humans to eat?

Hunger.

I bit into my lip, attempting to stifle the gnawing in my stomach. I bit on it so hard, it began to trickle out blood. Tasting it made me want more for some reason. It tasted...almost...like sweet, sugary liquid, like...soda. It was rich. Thirst-quenching.

"Don't drink your own blood," A high-pitched, sweet girl's voice ran through my mind. Looking ahead, I saw a girl. But it could have been a woman. Her whole body, covered in papery bandages and with a hood on her head...it seemed surreal. "Have this," she laughed and tossed some package towards me. It smelled...heavenly. I was like a dog. Looking for something to eat.

"What is it?" I asked. My tongue longed to visit it and my mouth watered.

"It's something you'll like..." She said and twirled.

Opening it, I immediately caught the sweet scent. What was it? I didn't pay attention, just wolfed it down. It tasted so good, better than any food ever tasted, so wonderful. So hungry...more. I needed more.

More.

She let me out, and I saw others. People...was in an experiment? Human experimentation? I tried to locate my quinque. "Your weapon isn't here anymore..." The girl whispered.

Without knowing it, I collapsed into darkness.

"Where am I?" I tried to speak. It didn't come out like I wanted to.

"Where am I?!" I tried to say again.

"Ghoul girl, you're alive!" said the bandage girl with a cunning smile. "We wanted to see if you would survive. And you did! But you'll need more food! And proper training. Kanou's experiment successfully turned you into a hybrid!"

What? I'm not a ghoul.

"So, join us. We'll help you," she said. "Aogiri will help you."

"Aogiri?" "I don't-"

"No? See what Tatara has to say, then. He'll give you a beating if you don't obey!" She laughed, almost in a sing-song tone.

"Then- I don't know. I'm...human...I'm not-" The man from earlier interrupted me.

"You're a ghoul, now."

"Get...no...food...no-no..." I trailed off. Ghoul?

Hunger.

Pain from hunger.

Eat, a voice said in my head. You need to eat.

"If I'm a ghoul..." I choked out, sickened by these words. "then why could I eat human food, like the food you gave me?"

"That was not human food," The man said.

Am I dreaming?

"That was part of a human you ate."

That sly girl seems too real in this world to tell.

A/N: I just had to cut to the chase. If I'm going to run out of inspiration, may as well write more chapters and get to Juuzou before anything else happens.