Remember...

(A/N: oh yeah if you haven't watched the anime nor read the manga then you're gonna have a massive spoiler down below, so yeah if you don't mind the continue reading :) I'm feeling much better today so I'll most likely have 2-3 chapters out tomorrow.)

A barrage of bullets forced me to dodge out of the way and run to the dorms where everyone had already gathered with their masks and thick clothes to hide their body and to ward off the cold. I looked toward Kaneki and saw him wearing a black mask that left his kakugan uncovered while everything else was hidden. The mask featured a wide, lipless grin with a zipper on the right side and two bolts on the side on the mask near his neck. I nodded to Kaneki and then glanced at Emily and Touka, who were both in their rabbit masks, Emily with a black mask while Touka has the white mask.

I activated my kakuja and I heard Yoshimura say in a clear voice "The CCG have found us out haven't they...they're outside and armed with the intent to kill, so do not hold back...I want all of you alive after this, ok?" a loud 'hurrah' rang out and we scattered. I heard what sounded like a monkey howl and then a loud dog bark, and both were answered by hundreds of different similar calls and howls. I myself was in the midst of sowing chaos within the division in front of Anteiku. I refused to let them in and destroy my precious home.

I swat, stabbed, and mutilated without mercy because they want to kill us, so why should I hold back? I felt myself slipping into the repeated cycle of killing without mercy, of killing for what felt like years. A slash across my back knocked me out of my sick state and I berated myself as I turned to face the black haired young man, who was now with two other investigators.

There was the same man from last night named Shinohara, and another boy that I haven't seen before. He had white hair that was shoulder length with red hairpins to keep his bangs out of his eyes, with stitches across his right arm, neck, and lower lip. All three had a serious expression on their faces as the sounds of battle echoed through the night with the screams of the dying mingled within. The young black haired man spoke out and said only four words.

"My name is Amon..."

All three charged me and I was forced on the defensive as I blocked, parried, and dodged. I got low to the ground and spun so my kagune would hopefully create some distance but the white haired kid jumped and slashed one of my tentacles and plunged his blade into my back. I grit my teeth as I grabbed the kid by the neck and slammed him into the ground before tossing him a few 100m.

I turned my gaze toward Amon and the middle aged man and I saw them freeze as they resolved themselves and accepted the possibility of death. I lowered my stance for a split second and muttered "I'm sorry, if we met under different circumstances, then I'm sure I would have liked to enjoy some coffee with you two..." before clashing with them once again.

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Meanwhile, Touka was reaping the lives of the CCG without descrimination, while Emily was fighting an internal struggle on if it would be right to actually kill a human. Emily was forced to dodge a quinque and jump back as Touka barraged the investigator with spikes from her Kagune.

Emily was about to thank Touka for the save, but she looked back in time to see the latter get sliced across the back and get surrounded by investigators. Without thinking, Emily pierced the closest investigator with her kagune before using the other one to whip several men and kill them almost instantaneously, giving Touka the opportunity to escape and slowly regenerate. They both fell back and a group of Ghouls with ape masks jumped off of a building and slammed down on the ground and slaughtered the investigators. The ground was littered with bodies of both human and Ghoul. It was an absolute blood bath...

Yomo was engaged in a fierce clash against a white haired man with glasses when Yoshimura appeared in his complete kakuja and almost leveled the playing field. Almost. The white haired investigator had an almost bored look as he easily blocked, parried, and countered the two's vicious attacks. The man kicked Yomo in the jaw and sent him flying while he swat Yoshimura's attacks away like he was merely a fly. Yomo sent a barrage of spikes into the ground and created a giant smoke screen and fled with Yoshimura. The white haired investigator stood there with an expressionless face before walking off toward another battle scene.

Kaneki was fairing decent as he disabled the humans without killing them. Yomo soon joined him and decimated the forces with ease. Touka and Emily had joined up with me and Enji was prowling about with his gang of ape masked Ghouls with Irimi was doing the same with her gang. I disabled Amon and lost the other two during the battle so I was currently keeping an eye on everyone while fighting.

My body moved like water and I was in a state of total concentration. I moved my body with little wasted movement as I danced a dance of death. I felt a searing pain in my back that I hadn't felt in a while as a fourth tentacle sprouted from my back. The third tentacle that was white and black split apart to make the fourth, making it to where I had a black and white tentacle on both sides.

I felt a tingle on my spine and I whipped my head around to see the white haired investigator inches away from skewering my head when time slowed to a crawl. A familiar girl with pink hair walked out from behind the man, but instead of looking like she was 10, Naomi now had the body of a beautiful woman in her early 20's.

She must've felt my gaze because she pushed her breasts up as she crossed her arms and gave me a big smile as she said "I see that you're getting used to your bodies powers...but sadly this isn't enough to beat this guy." She looked back at the white haired investigator with a hate filled glare as she continued "This man's grandfather was the one who slaughtered my father and my younger brother...I wish I could have seen the man suffer during his last moments, but he's long gone now." Naomi turned her gaze back to me as she smiled once again and said "I can give you the power you need to win, to protect your friends and your home...just call out to me."

Her words felt tempting and I could feel myself about to cave in, but I want to win with my own strength, yet I also wanted my family to be safe. I grit me teeth and silently swore as I said "Naomi Varenth...give me power...!" in a voice that echoed through the night and struck an instinctual fear in anyone unlucky enough to hear.

I felt a pain all over my body as it felt like my mind was shattering into small fragments. I could feel what was left of my memories fading away as the power in my body increased in size. I screamed out in agony as my kagune twisted and 4 more tentacles sprouted out of my back. My kagune's tentacles began to elongate and got slimmer while the scales began to twist upwards and made my kagune look like the thorn filled branches of a rose.

The tentacles began to slowly turn darker than the night sky while a faint red pulses underneath. I let out another long, pain filled scream as I felt my back getting torn open repeatedly by something. Black wings with the appearance of two large scythes sprouted from my shoulders as blood poured out from my back.

I felt like a husk of my former self as I continued to flail about in pain. My memories were close to being erased when, suddenly, I saw a perfect picture of everyone that I've grown so fond of at Anteiku. I saw Yoshimura, Touka, Kaneki, Yomo, Enji, Irimi, Hinami and her family, and especially Emily. I saw all of us laughing and drinking coffee as Enji told us stories of his days as the Devil Ape and how Yoshimura reigned both him and Irimi in.

I also remembered stories of how Touka used to be hopeless until she went to school and met her bestfriend, but I also remembered the kindness that everyone showed me and Emily when we first arrived, and that was a debt I still needed to pay back...

I laughed at the pain and willed my body to move as I pushed my powers to the max and clashed with the now mobile white haired investigator. He saw my smile and tilted his head before asking "Are you going insane because you have an incomplete kakuja, or are you just a battle maniac...?"

I laughed and said "Probably the latter. Hey, what's your name...?" The investigator brushed his shoulder to rid his outfit of a small speck of dust before responding "Arima...Arima Kishou..." I nodded my head in respect before propelling myself forward with my rinkaku kagune as I swiped downward with my newfound ukaku kagune. I missed my swipe so I sent a barrage of red-gold spikes out to keep Arima at bay.

I darted around and tried my best to continue looking out for everyone else while keeping pace in my battle against the almost too strong Arima. I bat his quinque to the side and kicked him in the stomach, but I didn't go unharmed myself. Arima wasn't even using his quinque to its full potential and even just a casual punch to my stomach sent me flying back with a small hole in my stomach that healed almost instantly.

I flipped in midair and landed on my feet to see Arima in front of me with his fist raised. I blocked his punch and grabbed his ankle when he tried to kick me before slamming him into the ground. I picked him up by the throat and stabbed him in the stomach with two of my tentacles. I let him drop to the ground and watched as the blood poured out of his rapidly regenerating wound.

From the start I could smell the scent of Ghoul from Arima and, now that I was seeing his regenerating wound, I figured that no human would be as strong as him, so it only makes sense that he was a half Ghoul...

I looked into Arima's kakugan and smiled slightly as I turnt my back and said "It's my win, Arima. If you ever want to drink some coffee just stop by, alright..." before dashing off into the direction of the heavily pinned down Irimi and Enji. I arrived within seconds and cleared a path for them to escape and heal as I continued to slaughter the investigators with ease. I swat away a large explosive fired from a quinque before piercing the wielder with my kagune as I barraged a mass of investigators with spikes. The platoon was wiped within minutes.

I was breathing heavily and was struggling to stay on my feet when the two that I had lost during my fight with Amon and a large sticky man with a square face and large, round eyes began to slowly walk toward me with their quinque's and the two middle aged men were wearing what appeared to be armor made out of a kakuja.

I stumbled back to my feet as the man who was drinking coffee at Anteiku merely hours before the attack said "Now, let us finish our little dance...Grim Reaper..."