A/n: Thank you to all of you!! Now, finally, our two protagonists are going to meet already!!!
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I woke up that night with a throbbing pain at my back. I don't know what actually is happening with me. 

I'm trying to endure the pain but I couldn't. I let my kagune out but I could feel that there is something more than that. My eyes open up. In an instant, I sat on my bed. I knelt down on it until I screamed loudly. The pain is too much.

What's happening with me?

Mado Akira entered my room and I asked her to go out or else I might hurt her but she never showed any fear. I noticed that her shoulders are already bandaged. 

"I think it's already time to give you this, Kousei," she calmly went closer to me. 

I jumped out of my bed when I saw her holding an injection that contains the RC Cells suppressant and begged her, "No... no... please..."

She kissed me again. In that way, I felt distracted while she inject me the RC cells suppressant straight at my lower back.

I lost control of my kagune and the pain at my back disappeared. I took it back inside me and once again, I felt so weak, and limp. Right now, it's worse than feeling like broken glass shards. My body seemed disconnected in so many ways that I began vomiting. I was kneeling down on the floor already.

I hugged myself. When I stopped vomiting, she went closer to me.

"Kousei?" 

"Stay beside me... here... please?" I asked her. 

She stayed and she laid down my head on her lap.  I slept on it until I lose my consciousness again. 

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When I woke up next, I feel lighter and better. Also, I'm back on my bed. I sat up and noticed that Akira's beside me. A smile crept on my lips. I'm thankful that I have her. When I touched her hair, she opened her eyes. She stared at mine. I blushed. 

She sat up and asked me, "I heard you whimpering in so much pain yesterday before midnight."

"It's my first time I felt like that without being given a suppressant," I told her.

"You have to stop eating ghouls, Kousei," she told me which shocked me. 

"How did you know that I am eating them?" I asked. 

She looked straight at my brown eyes and she worriedly replied to me, "I told you about a kakuja, am I right?"

"Yes," I answered. 

"I don't know what could happen to you if you become one, Kousei. You might lose your sanity," she answered me. Tears were flowing down her eyes as she cry on my chest.

What will I do? My uncle had always asked me to eat them whenever I finish defeating them. What does he want to do to me?

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I went back at school like always. Everything went smooth and normal until Watari surprisingly visited me at my college. 

"Hey, Kousei!" he told me. I tried to ignore him. 

Mado Akira looked at me worriedly. "He's still  a friend of yours," she told me. 

"Not anymore," I answered her. 

I walked away from him but he followed me. I lost control of myself. In my annoyance, I held his neck and pressed him on a wall. Due to the strength I'm slowly gaining due to the harsh training with my uncle and eating a lot of ghouls, the wall suddenly had a crack on it which shocked me. 

I did free him afterwards. He coughed and asked me, "I was stronger than you before. You're like a different Kousei."

"I'm not the Kousei you knew for seventeen years. You don't know me anymore," I screamed at him as I grab Akira with me. 

Akira just followed me until we reached Seto Hiroko's tutorial room. When I'm with her, I'm calm and I feel like I am the Kousei I was before I was transformed into a ghoul. We finished without any interruptions or a surprising mission from my uncle. 

Now, it's time to go back to my apartment. I walked on the narrow path leading to my apartment. I never knew that this narrow path is actually where some ghouls actually attack humans and kill them in secret. 

If not because of my uncle who saved me, I could have been a pile of blood and hair lying down this street. Even so, I still felt that I am being watched. 

We were just a distance away from my apartment when I noticed that Mado Akira disappeared beside me and so, I looked all around to find her until I saw a large ghoul holding her hostage. 

His whole body seemed like a white armor.

"You shouldn't have come, Kousei! You're the one he wants!" she screamed. 

"What are you talking about?" I asked her. 

I was able to prevent myself from the huge punch of his big, right hand. My kagune are out again. In my surprise, he took off his kagune releasing Mado Akira who became unconscious. I quickly caught her. 

I noticed that after he took off his kagune, he shrank and he looks like a normal, average Japanese.

"What do you want?" I asked. 

"You. You ate my sister while most of Miki's organs are inside you," he told me. 

"You want to kill me, then?" I asked him. 

"Yes. Before you die, I should introduce myself. My name's Kenji," he told me. "You're Arima Kousei, the infamous traitor and ghoul eater. A puppet of Arima Kishou."

While I'm holding Akira, I took my six tails to pierce him but his large kagune coming from his chest made him big and large, again. I felt myself frozen on the spot. 

I was so shocked that I don't know what to do. I just held on Akira. 

I'll die here... I know it... 

I have escaped death for so many times already. This time, I'd really die.

"One thousand minus seven?" someone asked. I stared at him. His hair's stark white, his right eye does have an eye patch and he seemed to be a waiter somewhere. 

Kenji just looked at him and it seems, he felt afraid of him. I wonder why but most of all, he seemed grateful that he appeared before him. "The kagune of the two sisters are both here. What a lucky day for me!"

He took off some of his waiter clothes until he just have a shirt and shorts. He jumped high and kicked his big face without any problem. He didn't stop there. He opened his kagune and when I looked up, I was shocked to see that he seemed to have the same kagune as mine. Only that, his is four while mine is six. 

Kenji's kagune couldn't even protect him as he is filled with blood clot and bruises. His eye patch was discarded from his right eye. When he opened it, his ghoul eye appeared. 

A one-eyed ghoul like me?

Who is he?

Remember this name if you survive. His name is Ken Kaneki. 

Someone like you acted the same way before but when he accepted the truth that he's not human anymore, he became strong and respected by all ghouls. Do the same thing and I ensure you strength to survive as a ghoul!  

As I watch him right now, I realized that everything they said is true. He's strong and powerful. What am I to him? Even I have more tails than him, I am sure that I'd lose in combat if we fight.

With one strike of his four tails, the shield of Kenji broke. Kenji's kagune was cut in half and in the middle was him who's bleeding profusely. 

I laid down Akira as I stand up and ask him, "Why... Why did you save me?"

He just smiled at me. My kagune are also still out and he looked at me, "I've heard of you. They said you're strong but I found you here as if you're also a human hugging himself in fear. You've seen enough of the CCG. Isn't it time for you to see the world of ghouls?"

I looked at him and I remembered my uncle. "I can't betray him."

"Let me show the other side of this world to you, Arima Kousei," he gently told me. 

I stared back at Akira. "I'll just carry her back home."

He followed me. I laid her on the couch after I got home. After that, I went with him. He brought me in a coffee shop named 'Anteiku'. 

The coffee shop seemed closed. "You seemed to have brought a friend, Kaneki," a girl with a very short, purple hair told him. There were also other employees inside who were cleaning the tables, sweeping the floor and dusting. 

They have introduced themselves as Nishiki Nishio, Touka Kirishima, Enji Koma, Kaya Irimi, Renji Yomo and of course, the oldest introduced himself as Yoshimura. He really looks old. 

I wonder... are all of them ghouls?

"Kaneki, where did you find that boy who almost smell the same as you?" asked the man with a messy, yellow hair. He said that his name is Nishiki. 
"Him? I found him almost killed by Kenji," he told them. All of them looks like a big, happy family like what I imagine what ghouls are really when I became a one-eyed ghoul. 

"What's his name again?" asked Touka. 

"Arima Kousei," spoke Kaneki. It made them all stop working. They just stared at me. All of them seemed to have heard of my name.

The oldest of them uttered, "A relative of Arima Kishou who's being used as a living quinque. Forced to kill and eat ghouls."

He went closer to me and they seemed to pity me rather than get angry with me for killing a lot. They may know that I am only following orders. "What do I have to do? I owe my life to him!" I cried. 

"Why don't you try and work here as a part-time waiter? We'd help you know the reason why he's forcing you to do what you don't want," the old manager explained to me. He hugged me and that was the only time I truly felt warmth since the day I have become a one-eyed ghoul. 

He took me to sit on a couch. Most of all, he put a towel over my shoulders. "We have heard your name for months already," he told me. "Since the day we have heard of you, I knew that we have to get you in our side and save you from the fate of being a puppet."

"I allowed myself to be a puppet," I told them. "I have always been. I'm used to it." 

I was a puppet of my mother. Now, I am a puppet of my uncle. 

While I was making the towel cover me whole, Touka slapped me hard. "You shouldn't have allowed yourself to get used, you know? He could have saved you through making you a ghoul but you should never lose your own identity!!!!"

When she said that, I felt like a lightning struck my mind. She's right. I shouldn't force myself to what he wants me to be. I stood up from my seat and I saw them smiling at me. 

"If you join us, I assure that everything that is vague to you will be transparent," Kaneki promised me. "You will also know how to properly live as a ghoul."

"Thank you for accommodating me here!" I said. I accept his offer.

"Welcome home, Arima Kousei," they all said in unison.

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A/n: Now Arima Kousei is in two sides. Where do you want him to stay??? My choice is still secret!

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