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Ken Kaneki X Black.FemReader

One's Regrets

Warnings ⚠️: Blood, Mentions of flesh, 'I Hate You' Pain inflicted onto reader, Lover's Quarrel, Fight and Make-Up, Potential spelling errors!

Wordcount: 1,500 ♡

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"I hate you!" You sharply cried before you ran off into the rainy night.

You and Kaneki had gotten in a fight, over something so small. He only wanted the best for you, however you didn't want to hear it.

You thought he was being a bit unreasonable, he made you feel unloved, you thought he was falling out of love with you. Like he didn't consider your feelings about the recent deaths on the rise.

Always wanting to keep you indoors, and hidden from the world. It all escalated from there–

You cried, your eyes flooded with tears; naturally and with the help of the rain. Running to the nearest gas station you could find to get out of the rain.

You were drenched, stairing at your feet. Thinking to yourself,'Y/n- you idiot..why did you run out, at a time like this?'

You grabbed your skirt and twisted it to wring it out when you were approached by a familiar face.

"Y/n L/n? Is that you?" You looked up, though you couldn't see very well due to the dark sky, the voice sounded familiar.

"Who's there?" An laughter surfaced,"Seriously? You don't recognize me?" The voice soon, hovered into the light giving him a vessel to go with the voice.

"Oh! Nishio!" "In the Flesh~." The sophomore stood next to you smiling gently,"Why on earth are you out here in the rain and so late at night at that?"

You scratch the back of your neck,"Well I- I kinda got in a fight with my boyfriend. I guess I just needed some fresh air.."

"I see-",there was a mischievous glint in his eyes,"Do you need a ride anywhere? Back to your home? To the campus maybe?"

"What? Seriously! I'd really appreciate that, you don't have to! I'll give you gas money!"

"Oh no need, here just follow me my ride is a little over this way." He hand jesters his hand while walking ahead of you, to signal you to come on.

"Right.." You jogged to catch up to him, slowing down once you get beside him.

"Nishio, why are you out here anyway?" He looks at you,"Well I was drawn here by a sweet scent."

You looked around while the ground was still visible,"Nishio? I don't see nor smell anything. I didn't smell anything back at the gas station either-."

A quiet laughter surfaced,"Oh my dear, You wouldn't understand."

Your brow raised curiosity,"Really? I beg to differ, come on! What was it you smelled?" "I smelled...meat—"

"Oh? What kind?" You looked up at the sky as the softly falls upon your face. Something seemed off- why is this corner so dark?

It was like a wall?' You thought to yourself-

"O-Oh really? What kind of meat?"

"Nothing in particular, just Human Flesh~",He cooed. Your heart sank, you soon realized you couldn't see forward or rather in front of you anymore because there was an ally.

A dead end at that! You turned around to see Nishio standing there. His brown eyes changed drastically, from white sclera to black– And the brown of his Iris changed to a red.

"N-Nishio, y-you!" "Hm? Like it? You aren't scared are you?" He slowly walked towards you eyeing you, undressing you with his eyes.

"Y-Your a Ghoul."

"I am, is there a problem? Y/n?"

You shook your head telling him 'no' attempting to swiftly run past him, only to be thrown back against the wall by your waist. It was quite a hard collision between your back and the wall, thus causing the wind to get knocked out of you.

"Aw, look at you~ I wonder what it is with you today? You smell sweeter than usual Y/n! Im not complaining though!"

A sinister laughter echos and bounces off the walls of the alley.

"N-Nishio, Let's talk about this!"

"What is there to chat about? Im starving!" His Kagune's (ghoul organ) grip tightening against your waist as it pinned you to the wall.

You groaned in pain, attempting to push him off of you or at least loosen the grip.

"Aww, did you want me to be gentle? You could've just asked",he cooed.

His glowing kagune released you, letting you slide down the wall. You attempt to take off running, only getting so far before Nishio toying with you.

His blue tail slithered against the wet ground, wrapping itself around your ankle; dragging you to the ground. Dazed as your forehead makes contact with the ground when you fell.

"Did you really think Id let my food go? Especially after it smelling so delectable?"

The gound bloody from your gash on your forehead– he dragged you by your ankle towards him, along the wet cement.

You lookes for some sort of object to grab onto to keep yourself from falling even more into his clutches.

Though, nothing worked and you soon had to face the music– you were about to be Ghoul feed.

He lifted you up by your ankles as if you were shackles to a ceiling.

With blood drizzling from your head, your vision started to get blurred. Nishio's Laughter once more bounces along the walls of the alley.

"You'll make a beautiful snack, my precious Y/n–" Just then, you dropped to the ground.

Nishio's voice got cut off from what he was saying as he didn't finish his sentence.

There was a groan. There was a cracking noise, immediately what followed afterwards was ruckus of rumbling, falling and breaking.

After the noise died down the alley way was silent. You crawled to the wall in attempt to use it to help you get up.

You had succeeded at that, you looked around to find Nishio on the ground, and angrier than before.

This time blood trickles down his head as he huffs and puffs angrily. Howerver to your left, there was another being, who stood there in the entrance of the alley.

"A-Another one?",you nervously cried. There was a low tone which rang through the walls,"Nishiki, you should know better than to go after what I love."

"She's not yours, I found her! Finders keepers, Ken."

"Huh? Ken?"

You turned from Nishio, to face the other end of the alley. In whats left of a dim light, he looks at you and smiles softly. His left eye shows a red iris and black sclera as well as Nishio's.

His black hair which was black the last time you seen him, was now white. Your boyfriend, you'd been in a serious relationship with, had been non-human this whole time and you had no idea!

"Kaneki- Y-You...You're one too?" He didn't expect you to do more than scream and run at the sight, but you were still calm quite a good amount.

"Yes, Im sorry you had to find out like this, Let me get you to safety first." His eyes smiled softly at you.

Though you were scared shitless, you soon realized if Kaneki wanted you dead he would've done so a long time ago, instead of stringing you along this whole time.

Seeing him, regretting the words you said to him about an hour ago. Kaneki slowly makes his way to you holding his hand out to you.

You hesitated before reaching out your hand still using the wall as aid to keep yourself up.

"No, you're not taking my food away from me!" Nishio growls, sprinting full speed towards you, not knowing what to do– it was like your body froze from fear, you could no loger move!

Before you knew it, you were swooped up in familiar arms. Kaneki quickly moved you away amd out of sight, holding you close to him and pressed up against his chest.

That quiet, and shy gaze was no longer there—Like his personality did a whole 180°. He looked down at you, still though, that enduring look in his eyes remained.

"My dearest, I don't wan't you to see or hear what Im about to do."

Kaneki lowers himself before you kneeling down, arms wrapped around his neck pulling him closer to you, and Kaneki grabs you by the back of your thighs; hoisting you up onto his back and wrapping your legs along his waist.

He grabbed his earbuds,"Good Girl Y/n. I'll keep you safe, just keep your head down. Don't look princess."

He hands you the earbuds and to place in your ears.

You do and Kaneki turns up the music just enough to not hear anything. Past this point...everything was a blur.

You could only remember the weight of you left the ground, like gravity had left and you were in space.

Warm substance from Nishio getting impaled spashed on the both of you, though you didn't pay too much attention, for you thought it was nothing but the rain.

You didn't care what happened to Nishiki, you didn't care that Kaneki was a Ghoul– You were just glad to be back in his arms again.

I know! You may not like it! Im sorry– I've only read the first 3 manga's of Tokyo Ghoul that my college had. I came up with the plot during class lol, so bare with me!

Date Written: Mar 22nd

Ken Kaneki X Black.FemReader

One's Embrace

Warnings ⚠️: Mentions of human flesh, Lover's Quarrel, Fight and Make-Up, Fluff, a bit Suggestive (at the end leading into the 3rd part) potential spelling errors.

Wordcount: 770

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It was like you were sleeping in a soft furnace. So silk, so soft, so warm– you attempted to burrow down deeper into the covers.

There was a soft voice, almost like singing to you, like a serenade.

"Y/n?" Then something soft brushing your cheek ever so gently.

Your sight comes to, blurry and sleepy vision now becoming clear as day. The figure transforms into your charming boyfriend.

He sat by your bedside waiting for you to wake up.

"Kaneki...You're here.",you whisper oh so delicately. Your morning voice fragile, He grins then chuckles a bit,"Of course why wouldn't I be here?"

Your vision became grainy, remembering that ridiculous fight you had, regretting those words you chose that day. How you wish you'd never said those terrible words.

As you reach out to him, he takes your hand; curious as to what your motive was. He then realized once you pulled him into a hug,"Im sorry Kaneki. I didn't mean any of it."

In response Kaneki hugged you back, his hand rubbing your back gently,"You don't have to apologize, I was being ridiculous." His voice, soft in remorse; even though you felt it was your fault.

Quietly weeping, you nuzzled your face into his neck, coating his skin with your tears."Hey, hey, hey– look, its ok. I know you didn't mean it."

He pulled away, reaching for your face. Carefully dragging his thumb across your cheek. "I just feel like Its not, I could've really hurt you."

"Hurt me, huh.." Kaneki eye faded to a black color as his iris turned red. Kaneki takes your hands, interlocking with them before pushing you down. With your fingers still interlocked, your hands were pinned above your head. "Are you not scared of me, Y/n?"

"Should I be Scared?",you asked in a whisper. Kaneki chuckled, bringing one of your hands to his lips. His eyes close, placing kisses upon your knuckle. His breath was warm and steady.

"Y/n have you know nothing about Ghouls? I could eat you right now- nothing would be left."

Soft pecks left on the back of your hand. He moves to your cheek and even behind your ear a bit. Giving your face gentle kisses, you breathe out softly, placing your hands in his soft black hair to pull him closer.

"Ken, if you wanted to consume me, wouldn't you have done it already?",You asked in a hushed tone. In love with the feeling. You felt his lips move against your skin; speaking,"Still though—".

You pulled him into a hug, wrapping your arms around his neck. In the process, pulling him back down on top of you, while he had attempted to get up.

"Ken, I know what you're trying to do. Its not going to work."

Kaneki smiled,"Oh, should I try again. I don't think I was trying hard enough." He hovered above you, arms resting beside your head which kept him from crushing you.

You scoffed, staring up at him. Enchanted by his black and red eye. "Why did you try to hide it from me?"

"I didn't mean to– I just thought you'd think differently about me. "

"Now why on earth would I think differently?" He hesitated, letting out a slow and steady sigh;"I-..now I have no choice but to eat human flesh, and I'm one of them."

Kaneki's face grimaced with anger and sadness. "Hey, don't be like that. Neither of those things changes my opinion on you. Of course, when I found out, I was frightened a bit because– I didn't expect you to be a Ghoul."

Your hands make their way to Ken's face, cupping his cheeks as you spoke.

"You always spoke so ill about ghouls, when a report of someone who was found deceased by a ghoul, I noticed you'd distance yourself."

Kaneki's eyes scanned you with a slight tint of guilt,"I'm sorry, I wanted to protect you, I didn't need you to be put in danger because of me. There are dangerous ghouls who could use you to get to me, endanger you and vice versa."

"Kaneki, don't worry about me too much. Please. I'm fine! See? You've done such a good job protecting me, just no more secrets, okay?"

Kaneki's eyes began to flood with water,"Y/n, I almost lost you last night! Don't try and pass that over like it didn't happen. Starting now, I promise-",Kaneki pauses to press a kiss upon your lips,"I'll do better at keeping you safe, Darling."

Kaneki never let you take your hands off his face, but he leaned in pressing the both of your foreheads together.

'Just a little longer.' He thought, he wanted this moment to last. He was frightened one day you'd parish now that you knew the truth.

He knew that he'd have to do more than before to keep you safe and thats one promise he would keep. He took a deep breath, causing a loud Sign.

The silence was quite loud, Kaneki needed to gather his thoughts together before chosing his next move.

Wanting to set, the "danger talk" aside and do something special for you.

"Thank you, Y/n."

"Thank me? What for?" He takes your hand, dragging it to your lips, planting kisses along your palm.

"For taking a chance on me, for Accepting me."

"Ken don't thank me."

"I wish to take you somewhere, for making me happy." You give him– That look and say,"Rewarding me Kaneki?

He blushed a red blaze across his face.

"N-No..Not like that."

You reached up to kiss his head,"Whats wrong?"

He sat up and got off of you, finding a place to sit beside you.

Still embarrassed, he continued to speak,"You..The look and the voice- I-".

"I was just teasing Ken, unless you'd like to see more of it",you say giving him yet again a seductive glare.

Kaneki stands up, blush still roaring across his face, grabbing his eye patch that lies on the nightstand, he quickly escorts himself out the room,"G-Get dressed! N-None of that just yet!"

"Oh? Just yet? Kaneki, my dear what was that you just said?"

You teased, chasing after him.

"Get dresses I said!"

Date written: April 1st (this is not a April fools joke smh)

Do you mind if I ask your top 10 favorite characters (can be male or female) from all of the media that you loved (can be anime, books, movies or tv series)? Thanks....

hmmmm let’s see

-Akaboshi Bisco from Sabikui Bisco -Kaoru Sakurayashiki from Sk8 the Infinity -Caleb Widogast from Critical role: Mighty Nein -Espresso Cookie from Cookie Run Kingdom -Marin Kitagawa from Sono Bisque Doll wa Koi wo Suru -Haise Sasaki from Tokyo Ghoul:re -Ellery Finch from The Hazel Wood -Heidi from Heidi, Girl of the Alps -Garry from Ib -Taako (you know, from TV?) from The Adventure Zone: Balance

i have a lot, lot more favorite characters, but these specifically are very near and dear characters to me, all for different reasons

Foreshadowing within the character’s given names in Tokyo Ghoul :re Sasaki Haise – Ihei Hairu – Washuu Kichimura

Hello everyone,

this is my first analysis about some things I noticed while I thought about Tokyo Ghoul :re.

Note that I’m not a native speaker of the Japanese language, I only took two years of classes so far and I still have so, so much to learn. English isn’t my native language either. I hope I express myself in an understandable way.

Nethertheless I noticed some small details about the names of some characters (namely Haise, Hairu and Kichimura) and I wanted to share them in case somebody finds them interesting or useful in any way.

I hope this hasn’t be done yet. If there are any mistakes, please feel free to correct me.  

 Sasaki Haise

Sasaki’s first name Haise (琲世) is composed of the Kanji for “string of many pearls” (琲) and “world” or “genereation” (世). Interestingly, the last Kanji is the same one that is used to construct Rize’s name showing the connection between both of them. I don’t want to ramble about the whole dimensions of meaning behind his name.  Rather I would like to focus myself on the first Kanji of the name Haise. As the wiki states, the choice of the Kanji  琲 is based on the fact that it is also used to construct the word coffee. This could be interpreted as a sign that his still holds the Anteiku very dear. Also “hai” is homophone to the Japanese word for ash, giving Haise’s name the implied meaning of “ash world”.

But there may be yet another dimension of that Kanji. Looking closely, it can be seen that the Kanji is constructed of two different characters: 王 and 非. Kanji are constructed of radicals (components) put together to gain a new character with a new meaning. Even though the “official” radical for 琲 is 玉 (tama – jewel), in this case, it more resemble the Kanji 王 (ou). Interestingly 王 means King. This may foreshadow Kaneki’s later role of the One Eyed King. The second character 非 may mean “wrong”, “incorrect” or “mistake”. This could be a hint how Kaneki performed the role of the One-Eyed-King, which eventually lead to disaster and death of thousands of people.

All in all Kaneki’s position as the OEK and the miserable outcome was yet foreshadowed by the first Kanji of the given name of his Persona of Sasaki Haise.

Ihei Hairu

There’s more foreshadowing when it comes to the Kanji of a character’s name. One example is Hairu’s first name. The name “Hairu” is constructed by a single character, which looks the following: 入. It takes diverse meaning, for example “to enter”, “to go into”, “to admit” but also “to invade”. Especially the latter is quite fitting since she was an outstanding investigator and also one of the CCG’s driving forces during the Tsukiyama Operation.

The Kanji for “Hairu”( 入) looks very similar to the Kanji for “human”(人). Actually, when seen written on paper, the two Kanji seem to be mirrored versions of each other and are not easy to be told apart at the first glance. This may be a hint towards the fact that at first glance, Hairu seemed to be a human, but was in fact a half-human. Like the Kanji of her first name, Hairu was extremely similar to a human, but there’s still a slight difference.

Interestingly, an alternative reading of the Kanji serving as Hairu’s given name is “shio”. This lets her relative Ihei Shio come to mind. Even though Shio’s Name is written with different characters, the connection may be still there (or it may be just a coincidence).  

 Washuu Kichimura 

I always wondered why the name “Kichimura” was so different from the usual namesake of high-ranked Washuu, who are using “Yoshi” as part of their names (Yoshitoki, Tsuneyoshi etc.). But then I noticed that the name may be not so different: Kichimura is written as 吉福, while Yoshitoki is written as 吉時 and Tsuneyoshi is written as 常吉. The character for yoshi 吉 (meaning “good luck) is present in all the names, even in Furuta’s. The reason it is read different is, that there are serval readings for the same Kanji-character. The readings are divided into “onyomi” (sino-japanese reading) and “kunyomi”(japanese reading) (there are some more classifications of reading, but that’s not important here). In short, there is more than one way to read a Kanji and the way a Kanji is read depends on the context and the Kanji it is combined with. The Kanji looks the same, regardless how it is read. Especially in names may the way of reading not always be distinct. But this is important when it comes to the name of Kichimura.

Let’s take a look at Kanji 吉. One possible reading is “yoshi” as in Tsuneyoshi and Yoshitoki. Another possible reading for the same Kanji is “kichi” – as in Kichimura. Furuta’s name still uses the same Kanji as his father and half-brother did – but with a different way of reading. This tells us a lot about Furuta.

It seems to be a tradition among the Washuu-family that the name is changed the moment a member enters a major position. For example, Yoshitoki was formerly named Chika (時) before he became Bureau Director. Presumably after that, he added the Washuu-Clan’s signature Kanji 吉 in front of his given name, creating the name Yoshitoki (吉時). The new name seems to be created the following: The Kanji 吉 read “yoshi” is added in front the given name, while the Kanji of given name is modified to have a different reading than before. “Chika” and “toki”, as in Yoshitoki, are alternative readings of the same Kanji. The Kanji stayed the same – the reading altered.

At the surface, Furuta added in line of the Washuu’s traditions. Furuta as well put the Kanji 吉 in front of his given name Nimura( 二福, meaning “two happiness/good fortune”, which is a very ironic and bitter name to have considering his fade. Maybe it can be interpretet as “to be twice as happy/lucky” or  simply “very happy/lucky”. Maybe the “two” could also represent him and Rize? In the end none of them found happiness. Either way, the name has a tragic irony in it. But I digress.), which led to the Kanji combination 吉福. So far, so traditional.

But Furuta wouldn’t be Furuta if there wasn’t a twist.

Instead of altering the reading of his given name-Kanji, Furuta changed the reading of the Clansman-Kanji. He changes the traditional “Yoshi” into the alternative reading “kichi” while he keeps “mura” of his given name “Nimura”. This may be a subtle sign of his rebellion against the Washuu-Clan. It may be a traditional Washuu-name by the look of it, but it is read differently. This shows Furuta is not giving in to the clan. It is expected to change the “mura” of his name to another reading “in favor” of the clan’s Kanji. This may be a symbol of the clan undermining the identity of its members. But Furuta doesn’t change the Kanji’s reading of his given name. Instead he modifies the “yoshi” into “kichi”. Doing this stays true to himself. At the same time he breaks with the tradition of the Washuu-Clan, showing everyone in the CCG that he is the key of a new era. It may also be his way of exercise power over the Washuu-Clan once again. While the Washuu-clan had the power to altering the names of its members, Furuta has now the power to alter the character that symbols the Washuu-Clan. Also it may be a sign of alienation towards the Washuu-Clan he hated so much. That he simply didn’t want to carry a similar name as Tsuneyoshi and Yoshitoki did.

Intriguingly, if you read the name Kichimura differently (using the reading “yoshi” instead of “kichi”, as usual for the Washuu-Clan), it can be read as “Yoshimura”. Even though Eto’s surname is spelled differently (芳村 Yoshimura, meaning something similar to “fragrant village”), it is still very ironic because of their hatred for each other and the way they contrast each other. But despite their differences both of them are connected on serval levels (for example: both of them being one-eyed ghouls, were rejected by their parents, both share relationships to V, both of them plot to destroy the current world order etc.). So it fits them to have a similar name, even if the similarity shows in such a subtle way.   

I will just leave this here. Thank you very much for reading!. :D