Chapter 2
His kagune lashed out as Tatara swat it away without even flinching. Rin lunged back at Tatara with full force. Tatara shielded himself wrapping the kagune around him. Rin was on the verge of kakuja. He rammed into Tatara's kagune but simply bounced back.
The snow melted as the sun slightly peeked out the clouds. Snow scraped off the floor of the construction site showing green scars of grass.
His face cracked up as dark purple chi emanated from them. His sclera turned black and his right pupil glowed in purple. But his left kakugan was red.
"Let me go father!" He yelled at him.
"Who do you think you are to match up with the one eyed?"
Tatara didn't want him to face Eto.
He rammed his kagune into his father's shield. It cracked slightly. He charged again with his kagune wide open.
Rin went into kakuja. The kakuja covered his face. His kagune developed, bigger and stronger. He rained down continuous lashes on Tatara's kagune cracking with every lash. It finally shattered as he flew back because of the blast.
Tatara took stance as Rin ran at him with his rock hard rinkaku spread out. Rin's kakuja state was a demon. But... Tatara was his father.
His kagune regenerated in a second and ran into Rin's abdomen. Making a hole in him. When he took it out Rin started to regenerate. He wrapped his kagunei around Rin's neck throwing him out across the street. He hit a car, tumbled over and crashed into the wall.
They took the fight to the alley. Rin tried to stand, but Tatara swept him off his feet and slammed him into the ground face-first cracking his glowing purple-black kakuja mask. Tatara strangled Rin, suppressing his kakuja state.
"I told you not to cannibalize. But you never listen."
The darkness in his eyes slowly faded. His right eye turned back to red and completely white as his left remained an eerie red. He passed out.
Just as Aki passed by the alley Tatara disappeared over the roof. He walked further to get a look of the beat up ghoul. He dropped his bag and rushed to Rin recognizing his kakuja.
"Rin!" He slapped his face "Wake up you douche!"
He carried him up and ran to the street, hailing a cab. Aki pulled off the cracked mask and threw it as it turned to dust. Rin was bleeding from everywhere. The hole under his chest was half healed.
He asked the cab driver to get them to Asaki san's clinic. He pulled out his phone and flipped it to dial Ryouko sans number. The phone buzzed.

"Ryouko san! Rin is hurt! He...he... Went into kakuja and... There's a huge wound in his chest and... "
"Aki! Calm down! Where are you?" Ryouko said thru lough the phone.
"I'm in heading to the clinic right now. "
"All right. Calm down. I'll ask Asaki to be there by the time you get there. I'll be there too... as soon as I can."
"Thanks…" He stuttered as the line went dead.
Rin muttered something almost ghastly. "No-h-oo.." He coughed as he spit blood. Aki placed a hand over Rin's forehead.
"It'll be all right Rin, I'm gonna get you to a hospital."
"Norrroooo." He gasped.
"What?"
"Lost Eto…" He said with every last bit of energy. "Tell Yoshi."
Aki nodded. It would be all right. As long as Eto doesn't lose control over herself. She hasn't learnt to control yet.
They reached the clinic. He got out and carried him to the first floor. The ghoul staff came and put him over a stretcher. They took him to Asaki Fueguchi's room. He came down the corridor wearing his lab coat.
"He'll be fine. Don't worry."
"I know you're Hinami's dad." He held his hand. "And that is the only reason I trust you."
Asaki stuttered. He nodded and walked into the theatre room.
Aki waited outside. He grazed his back along the wall and sat on the floor. Lacing his fingers together and placing his thumbs at the corner of his eyes. Memories flashed.
Rin and Aki were always together. Rin was a ghoul. Aki never knew his parents. Yoshi took them both under his wings. And then Yoshi had a daughter. He lost his wife and the baby. Eto. Nobody knew about her. Tatara didn't want to raise Rin. But he cared about him. Rin would be dead if Tatara didn't care.
Yoshi trusted Noro with Eto. She's been learning to control herself under Noro and Tatara.
Aki and Rin were always ones who were with Anteiku. They were balance between humans and ghouls. One of the first after Yoshi and his wife. The guardians.
Fueguchi walked out. He was on his way to fetch something.
On his way back inside Aki stopped him. "Is he alright?"
"Yes but... his kagune is causing a problem."
"When has it not... " Aki muttered.
Fueguchi placed a hand on his shoulder. "Don't worry. He'll be fine. I'm here."
Aki nodded with a tear dancing on his eyelid.
Rin's kagune was... different. Ever since Tatara took him he noticed something peculiar. His kagune had grown its own life force. Rin survived a fall from the 7th storey when he didn't even know how to control his kagunei. It saved him.
The life force was said to be something astonishing by Fueguchi. It was nothing he'd ever seen before. He had to perform a surgery on him and his kagune as if they were two lives. The kagune had a different RC type.
Rin had always been by Aki's side protecting him from every threat. And Aki wasn't any less.
He felt a needle in his heart as Rin fought for his life. He called up Yoshimura.
"Rin… is in the hospital.." he said as every word as it faltered.
"Ryouko san told me. I'll be there. Rin is strong. Nothing will happen. At least have a little faith in him Aki."
The line went dead. Rin had never been this beat up before. Aki wanted to find out the cause. Wanted to know who and why.
Hinami came and hugged his leg. Ryouko san behind her.
"What happen to Onii-chan chan?" she asked in her ever so sweet voice. He placed his hand on her little head.
"Someone hurt him Hinami. And someone's about to pay for it."
"What happened Aki?" Ryouko san asked him.
"He was just lying unconscious and bleeding... He went into kakuja. I don't even know why."
Ryouko gasped.
"I think I saw Tatara but... It can't be him. Rin muttered something about Noro losing Eto."
"What? But Noro is really responsible."
"Something must've gotten out of hand."
"I'll look into that. Don't take too much on yourself. " she said.
He picked up Hinami and held her in his arm.
"Why'd you let him get hurt? "
"I will never again Hinami. Never."
The tear fell.