Here we go readers, my first Tokyo Ghoul story! Fair warning I haven't read the manga, only parts, so I'm mosy going off anime style. Mostly Au for the most part so forgive me if I appear to be wrong about certain things (times, dates, locations, etc.) I'll try and do my best with the main characters and their traits. This story is centered around a unique Oc ghoul who finds interest in the lovely binge eater we all wish we'd see more of, Rize! Also a random Oc ghouls or humans appear momentarily in some chapters simply for plot. Some might return. Drop a review and tell me your thoughts! Let us begin! Jai Xenoth

Prologue.

Tokyo. A place that seemed to host every sort of life and lifestyles, flourishing with a vast number of people in it's city compared to most around the world. But what was unique about this city was the large number of it's darker inhabitants, the predatory creatures that lived among humanknd in secret, blending in until it was meal time. The beings known as Ghouls, creatures who consumed human flesh in order to survive due to their biological nature.

Ghouls lived in secret from the eyes of the humans, many blended in so well you wouldn't know if the person sitting next to you was a ghoul until it was too late. Most ghouls didn't have any problem taking human life in order to eat, after all it was in their genetic instinct. Humanity seemed to despise them for such natures, and so the two species hated each other.

There were never talks of peace. It was a fantasy idea that many didn't bother even promoting.

But there were a select few among ghouls who choose not to kill in order to eat, instead satisfying their natural urges by consuming the dead or dying. A group of ghouls who lived by this code resided in a coffee shop in the 20th ward, a haven known as Antieku. Here humans and ghouls coexisted side by side without even knowing it, though that ignorance was entirely on the humans part. After all if such knowledge were revealed there was the high possibility of them alerting the CCG, who specializes in actively hunting ghouls in all the wards. But since the ghouls there were peaceful and content with their more mellow lifestyle, they chose to stay silent about it all in order to protect themselves.

However those individuals were far and very few, and unlike their counterparts who cared nothing for human life, that didn't stop some from being...sadistic or playful with their prey.

An example of this was a young man named Miche Kasineth, fresh from high school running with a limp in his recently sprained left leg. A young blonde haired guy who just 5 minutes ago saw a girl he was going steady with for almost three weeks now, Irae Hodiko, turn out to be a ghoul. Miche panted hard as he stumbled and grunted through the pain in his injured limb, but pushed through it and kept moving. After all, he was running for his life.

'Oh god why me?! Why Irae, why did she have to be a ghoul?!' Miche thought frantically as his mind quickly recalled how all this happened.

It started to go bad when he was dropping Irae off at her home, and her asking him to come inside. Irae said that she'd wanted to show him something, and he indeed had received quite a sight to make his blood freeze over. He saw the pinkinsh tinge of a tail-like kagune strike the wall near his head when he just stepped inside. As he saw the predatory organ retract to strike again he bolted out the door, slammed it shut and ran.

However in his haste he'd accidently stumbled down the steps leading to her house, and injured his leg. Since then he's been trying to reach a populated area where he can hide, maybe even find someone from the ccg to help him. So far he's been half limping through the outer edge of a shopping district, which was unfortunately empty at this time of night.

'Cmon let there be someone, anyone please!!' His panicked thoughts scream but he stays silent, he can't let her know where he is, if she was indeed chasing him like he thought. Miche slowed a bit out of pain, but still moved and took in his surroundings. There was a parking structure on his right, shops and other buinesses on his left, though there were a few stores on his right farther ahead. And much to the displeasure of his increasingly panicking mind, they were all closed and empty.

He panted and kept limping his way, but what really was screwing him up in more ways than one was his leg. When Miche initially sprained it on the steps, he also received a small cut which was bleeding out at a measly trickle but still, it was a trail. To those with the right senses, it was practically a flare in the sky to any ghouls who resided in the area, which was only 2.

Including the one who was chasing him, and the one who following the both of them.

Miche was just rounding a corner when he tripped on a divot in the concrete, and then to his horror felt something warm wrap around his sprained limb. He tried to grab something, anything close by but failed as he was dragged back hard and fast before being flung to into an alley wall. He yelled as pain shot up his back, and heard a voice that brought up good memories and recently terrifying ones.

"Going somewhere Miche? We haven't finished our date yet." He looked behind him and saw Irae standing there, a expression on her face like a parent teaching their child not to run away. He tries to stand but his back is sore from the impact, and Irae just got closer and closer to him. Finally she was kneeling down on one leg before him, placing a finger underneath his chin. He was trapped, he couldn't run anymore.

"Irae why? Why Me? Was it all just a game to you? Tricking me, making me trust you, just so you could eat me? Was it all a lie?" Miche tried to get out, his voice cracking, and thought he saw pity in her eyes as she answered.

"Initially..no, it was actually very nice to be your girlfriend. If we were like each other, things would've been different, they could've been quite nice for us. But...I am a ghoul and your a human. It was only a matter of time before it came to this.

If only you'd taken the blow from my kagune back there, you wouldn't be like this, suffering, in pain. You could've avoided all that." Irae tells him, her pity actually showing visibly to him. But it wasn't enough to let him live, especially since she's revealed herself to him.

"Sorry Miche...it's just the way things are."

She stands up, readying her kagune for a quick, painless death, a simple stab to the head. She can at least grant him that for how he's treated her until tonight. She looks at him and sees his face full of defeat, despair, and even sadness. But she must push through, her last words to him resounding within herself.It's just the way things are", she's just higher on the food chain...

clack, clack.

A sound draws the two's attention, and Irae looks around for the source. 'What was that? An alley cat or something?' She thinks, looking around her. She doesn't smell or see any ghouls, so she's not in danger of being in someone else's territory. All Irae smells is Miche's blood, but nothing else, and now she's puzzled. Miche is also drawn to where he heard the sound, but with his normal human eyesight, he can't see anything in the darkness of this alley.

They hear it again, closer. But it's different, there's more to it.

clack...clack, clack...clack.

To them it sounds like someone tapping sharp against a wall or concrete, and with the echo of this alley neither of them can pin the source. Now it sounds like it's all around them, but still they see nothing. Irae doesn't like this, and she turns to grab and kill Miche when his eyes widen at something behind her. He's already saying that classic warning when she feels the air whoosh around her. She prepares to turn when something stabs her right through her right shoulder before quickly retracting.

"Ahhh!" Irae screamed and fell to the ground where Miche was crawling back against the wall. His eyes were wide with fear as she struggled to get up with the hole in her shoulder, bleeding out bad from the fist sized wound. 'What the fuck?! I don't smell or see-' Irae began frantically thinking as she searched around her, when she hears the rushing of air. She thought she saw a flash of white? Irae doesn't find out when she feels a shove from behind knock her to the side, surprising her. She hears a yell of pain "Gahhhh!!" and looks over to see Miche falling on his stomach, a slash mark lining his chest to collarbone. Hes grunting in pain as blood comes from the wound, and Irae looks at him in shock. 'Did he just save me?! After I was about to-' but she stops as they both hear a new sound.

It's something like a bird's call but it's also a whooping sound, but it's...different, more higher in pitch. Almost like a scream, but more like a echo of a scream. The sound makes them even more jittery as it echos off the walls of the alley. Miche painfully gets to his back and scoots toward the wall near where Irae is laying, and the pair is too injured to do anything. She turned to her ex boyfriend, asking "Why'd you do that? Take the strike, push Me out the way? Why?"

Miche pants hard through his pain, and raspily replies "Just...the way things are." Irae's eyes widen as she hears the words, but they both hear a sound they recognize, footsteps. This time they hear it's coming from less than ten feet from themThey see a man step out from the shadows before them, they can't really make out his features im the dark but his voice is clear to them.

"Well what do we have here? A ghoul trying to eat her lover, and said guy saved her from my slice despite her actions. And now their both bleeding out together. How romantic

Irae and Miche both look at the newcomer in fear and puzzlement, mostly Irae since she can't doesn't smell a ghoul. Coughing up a bit of blood she asks "What the hell are you?" The man steps a bit closer, a white pair of rinkakus coming from his body and brushing against their faces.

"I'm hungry, and you two look delicious. But...I'm willing to make an exception. Stay out of trouble and be a good little couple, no killing. Understood?" The pair nods in fear, and the tendrils retract as the man begins walking away, humming a tune they don't know. Miche begins to shake from blood loss, and Irae's heals enough to reach over and grab his phone. She dials an emergency number. "Hello? I need help, there's been a ghoul attack."

'Hold on Miche.' Irae thinks.