I wish you could go to the viewing version without having to "Publish Changes...." Sometimes, I wanna read my comments!!! If I need to edit, I can just click Edit....

Hiding Smile.. eh?

Hide.. where are you..?

"Serpent Bat," the leader stopped beside me.

"Yes..?" I murmured, looking through what I'd found.

"... I don't care what you do outside of the Clear Dips, as long as it doesn't affect us. But you need to take better care of yourself at least-you're obsessed with this! It's not healthy, and I doubt our customers are very pleased either. And don't indulge in this behavior at work."

"What's it to you? We're closed."

"Serpent Bat." I looked up at her with a dissatisfied frown. "Work here and do other things on your own time. Leave if you want to search for Eyepatched Sun."

"..."

I knew the leader was only looking out for everyone. She was giving me a lot of leniency just letting me search (although she had tried to get me to stop until just recently). She cared for us, but more than that, she couldn't risk our organization. I got that.

But I need to search for Hide..

"Fine," I gathered my stuff and stood up to leave.

"... Good luck, Serpent Bat." I turned to her, and I could feel the piteous sympathy in her gaze, "Bring him home for us," she added, her voice just above a whisper.

"... I.. I will."

Hide was.. a member of the Cum Dealers and a prostitute at Clear Dips, regardless of what's been going on.. He's a prized member, and we lost customers due to his absence..

We need Hide back..

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"That new guy rubs me off the wrong way.." Ayato complained sourly.

Tell me about it..

I chuckled wryly, unable to stop myself, and Ayato looked at me weirdly.

"... Let's just say.. you haven't seen as much of him as I have.."

"Mm," Ayato nodded as if he understood, "I feel for you, man. Even if I do hate you."

"... Thanks.." I guess?

"As far as I'm concerned, that guy doesn't belong in Aogiri.. Something about how good of a killer he is.. but has such a secretly bright personality.. I feel like there's something off about that.. I don't trust him."

"Mm.."

Definitely...

"Well, I guess we better get working on our next mission..." he sighed, getting up.

"Yea..."

Hiding Smile... is definitely someone worth looking into.

{Hiding Smile, forever connecting people together. Enemies and foes turn to allies and friends. You know what they say, if your foe is your other enemy's foe, that foe is your friend. ... That's not the quote, but it says the same thing basically, so whatever.

No but seriously Kaneki and Ayato were weird in this scene.... I kind of rushed it because I had ideas for Fukushu and Amon after rereading, but I'd started some lame scene with Kaneki and Aya, so... yea}

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"Aren't you any closer to making that thing?" I hissed, hands on my hips. I'd discarded my own research beside them.

The woman - Mado-san - glared at me, "Why don't you help then? What we're doing is practically impossible, so of course it's going to take a while."

I scoffed, shifting through my own cr*p, "Whatever. Hey, did you know that Hide was into this freak?" I showed them.

"Ah yes, Kaneki Ken," Mado-san responded, "I believe Hide mentioned him once or twice."

So they do...

"... Hide had the hots for this twerp..." I scowled.

"How do you know that?" Amon-San looked up from his work.

"I kept thinking that the name Kaneki that chick mentioned was familiar to me, and then it came to me. It's what Hide would say if he was... into his sexual activities.."

Amon-san grimaced slightly and returned to his work.

"..."

I found it kind of odd. Amon-san was clearly only working at Clear Dips... for our other activities. He clearly wasn't into sex at all. And it wasn't in the way that Hide was.

He found out about Clear Dips through Hide. But why did Hide suggest it to him? Were they close? Amon-san and Hide insist they weren't like that, but...

I don't get it.

And what was with that talk of treachery he gave me? Does he think Hide's a traitor because he left Amon-san? Pft. What a wimp...

"What else do you know about Kaneki Ken? I'm thinking he must be involved in this somehow..." I waved the paper around, "That chick had been asking about Hide and this guy together, so..."

Something suddenly reached Amon-san apparently, because he shot back, "Ah!!"

"Huh?" I looked at him weird.

"Nagachika's best friend!!" he hissed, pointing his finger at me, "That must be Kaneki Ken!"

"Ah," I blinked in realization. "You're right!!" I pointed back at him.

"Now our threat really can come through," Amon-san leaned back.

"Yeah. But first you really do have to get that... cure or whatever."

"It's a substitute, Koumori. A substitute." He sighed, leaning his cheek on his palm as he stared at nothing.

"... You guys have ghouls to try your ideas out on, right?" I inquired.

"Yes, of course we do. We've been trying them on the ghouls that are apprehended," he responded.

"... Have you tried semen?"

He looked at me weirdly, as if I was insane, "What?"

"Semen," I repeated, "It's a bodily fluid, so wouldn't it work as a substitute? It's part of a human after all. And humans could donate blood to ghouls if they really needed or wanted to. Like, ghouls could go and steal blood bags from hospitals.... Even some skin honestly."

"... Koumori, you are a genius."

"Huh? I am?"

Suddenly, Amon-san was racing out the door, and Mado-san was following him calmly.

.

.

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"Wait, wait, wait up!!" I raced after them, "How am I a genius?!! What's going on?!! Where are you two going?!!!!"

Wtf is up with that title though

Add yet another CD Title to my list of horrible titles. Like, Hi was better than this....