Well here is another attempt at my hunting dogs oneshot as a full series. I felt like reworking some things and dropping/adding some others.

I don't know how good this is though. Since while I have been thinking of it for a while, it is a bit rushed from when I started actually writing it.

It was late at night when the people in one small neighborhood in the twentieth ward were woken up by lights and sirens. Curious neighbors came out to see what was going on. They soon discovered that one of the families in the second floor now being handcuffed and led down to the waiting cars. But what was particularly interesting about this arrest was the fact that a CCG capture unit was in charge of the arrest which could only mean that these people were ghouls. It was shocking to realize that ghouls had been hiding amongst them. Once friendly eyes soon turned to the three in fear, anger, disgust, curiosity, or a combination of them all; causing the youngest to shrink in on himself in an attempt to hide while the father took a protective position over his two loved ones.

The CCG had located this family a few days ago and decided that they were not an immediate threat. SO they watched them for a few weeks to access their temperament and capabilities. Eventually, due to their observations, it was decided to attempt a peaceful capture. And so faced with a full complement of police, armed CCG investigators, and couple "tamed" ghouls, the father ghoul surrendered while the other two, a human female and a young pup, were not a threat. Everything was wrapped up neatly within a couple of hours and the police who had helped now had a tale to tell their friends at the bar about taking down a pack of rogue ghouls; with a bit of embellishment.

And so this was how the young Ken now found himself detained in the back of a CCG van with his father. For the little boy, this was extremely traumatic. At first his family was enjoying a quiet night at home and then suddenly a bunch of scary men with weird smelling suitcases came in and took them all into custody. He did not know what was going to happen next. He thought back to the warnings his parents had given him about these men. That they had the ability to decide if he lived or died simply because of what he was. Now he was surrounded by these boogeymen that he used to hide under his blankets from.

He sniffled a little. Both due to fear and missing his now absent mother. Being human, she was taken away by the police instead. He could only cry in his father's arms as she was led away despite all his begging to the scary suitcase men not to take her from him. He was then led into the back of the van and forced to sit in the far end away from the door alongside his father. With the CCG officials and the ghouls who had come with them now between them and the exit.

In the van, he was given his collar. The black ring of metal felt weird and heavy around his neck. It also smelled weird to him. Not to mention his sensitive ears could pick the subtle sounds of the mechanisms inside the mechanical restraint device. He found himself multiple times tugging at it or trying to look at the strange green light on the end of it. He also kept looking at the handcuffs around his wrists made of quinque steal. He didn't understand why he was force to wear these things or what they were made of to be so hard to break out of. Trying to satiate his curiosity of these things on his wrists, Ken sniffed at them a bit and even experimentally bit at them. But all he found out from that was how disgusting they tasted. He heard a couple of the CCG officers near the door now laughing at him and one even saying, "Fucking animal," just loud enough for him to be intentionally overheard by all those present. He stopped messing with his cuffs and lowered his head; now embarrassed.

He then felt a kind hand rub his head comfortingly and looked up to see the smiling face of his father. "It's okay. I promise you we'll all get through this and be one big happy family again. Trust me." Hearing those words warmed the young half ghoul's heart. Since his father never lied to him over anything this important. Ken slid over to snuggle closer to his father's side. The older man's warmth and scent comforted the child. Ken closed his eyes and blocked out everything around them. Almost wishing that he could just go to sleep now and wake up in his bed; finding out that this was all just a bad dream.

But when he opened his eyes he only saw the same depressing scene of the inside of the back of the van with way more people than the normally shy boy was comfortable with being in such close proximity with. Most of them were in some sort of body armor and carrying the scary silver briefcases. But two of them were wearing rather normal clothes.

While he looked over them all, the only woman in the van smiled at him and waved. Her scent and the collar around her neck that was just like his revealed to him that she was ghoul. "Hello, what's your name?" she asked in a warm voice. Still a bit shy, Ken mumbled, "M…my…my na...me is Ken… Ken Kaneki." She giggled at his cute response before she introduced herself. "I'm Kaya Irimi. I know it seems scary now, but I think in the end you will come to enjoy the reservation. It's really not as scary as it seems at first. You can live with others of our kind and you don't ever have to hide who you are there either. Not to mention the coffee there is really great. I actually work at one of the more popular places there when I'm not on assignment. I promise I'll give you a cup of our finest when you come over. On the house." To be honest, that did sound nice to the young boy.

Eventually the truck stopped and everyone got off. Ken found himself looking in wonder at the large wall in front of him. It had to be larger than many of the skyscrapers he'd seen around Tokyo. They were in front of the large main gate to the ward; richly decorated for attracting guests during business hours. Right next to it was a more business looking employee only door.

"Welcome to the twentieth fifth ward."

And so that was the first chapter. How did you like it? I want the first few chapters to be based around Ken's early life and getting used to the new ward. Maybe meeting Hide during this time.

I will warn you, I still plan to have trials of the Kaneki family be my primary work. So this series will probably have an irregular release schedule with possible long periods between releases.

I also don't have a real idea where this is going. I don't even have the names of Ken's parents set up yet. So ideas for this series are welcome.

So please review.