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A/N: An OnKey oneshot set in a Tokyo Ghoul AU, I hope you like it.
Kibum was scared. He was fighting back tears. He had thought he was safe, he’d thought he would be fine when he left the apartment but now he was going to die.
"I wasn’t hungry," The man grinned, eyes red, "but then a delicious smell came just past me and what do you know you look delicious too."
"Please," He started his voice cracking, his legs felt weak, "Please don’t do this."
"Hey," The man scoffed, "Look at these shorts you’re wearing, they show off your legs so nicely." He closed in making Kibum take shaky steps backward. "They look just right, tender but the perfect amount of meat on them. You’re going to make a delicious meal."
Kibum shook his head, tears falling as he backed into the wall, “Don’t please. I won’t say anything. I won’t report you to the CCG or anything I swear. Please just let me go.”
"I can’t let you go," He smirked moving in closer until he’d blocked Kibum off. Kibum jumped when one hand slammed against the wall next to his head. "Not with your delicious smell taunting me." He leaned close licking his cheek, "Mmm, no I can’t let a meal like this slip through my fingers. I’m going to savor you. I’ll eat you slowly and really enjoy myself."
Kibum can’t control how hard he’s crying. He’s trembling with how scared he is. He never thought this could happen to him. He never thought he’d be one of those people who go missing or one of those ghoul victims that end up on the news.
"Stealing again Taemin-ah?"
They both turned to the figure lurking above them, “I thought I told you to find your meals outside of my territory. We had an arrangement and you’re breaking it.”
The ghoul in front of him growled, “I found him on my territory I just followed him here.”
"I don’t care where you found him, he’s on my turf now." He cracked his knuckle with a loud pop, "So I’ll ask this are you sure you want to break our arrangement?"
A fist slammed against the wall next to Kibum’s head, he whimpered afraid and trying to stop sobbing. “Hyung just cut me a break. I didn’t mean to wander into your territory. I was too focused on following him.”
"I’ve already cut you a break or did you think I didn’t know about that girl from last week?" He continued cracking his knuckles. "I give you breaks all the time but we have doves in the ward now and everyone’s got to keep to their territories so there’s no suspicions."
"Hyung, he’s already seen us. He has to die anyway. I’ll shared him with you." Taemin smiled. He pulled Kibum from the wall to display him, "Look at these thighs and tell me don’t want to take a bite out of him."
He was silent for a moment but then his eyes turned red even with Kibum’s vision heavily blurred by tears he could see the glowing red, “Let him go and leave, you’ve got ten seconds Taemin-ah.”
"Hyung-"
"Eight, seven, six-"
Then Kibum was shoved into the wall and the ghoul had jumped away cursing. The other ghoul landed before him and that’s when his legs finally gave out and he slid to the ground.
"Are you ok?"
Kibum shook his head, closing his eyes, “Just do it quickly, please don’t drag it out.”
It was quiet for only a few second when the laughter came. Kibum peeked at the other to see him laughing.
"I’m not going to eat you," He chuckled, "Don’t worry."
"You’re- you aren’t going to?"
He shook his head, “No, no, don’t you recognize me?”
Kibum wiped his eyes the blurriness of his vision clearing, “Oh my-” He stoppped stunned, “Lee Jinki-ssi b-but but we had lunch together? You invited me to dinner at your place?” He shouted pointing an accusatory finger. “Oh my fucking god you were planning to eat me!”
"Shhh, shh please keep your voice down." It was amazing how he’d gone from having the aura of a monster to the boy next door. He knelt before Kibum coaxing him to calm down, "I wasn’t planning to eat you."
"You’re a," He paused himself lowering his voice to an angry hiss, "You’re a ghoul. Ghouls eat people. I’m a person you invited me to your apartment so I could be your fucking dinner. Fuck, fuck, fuck, I think I meet a good guy but it’s just a ghoul planning to kill me."
"I wasn’t planning to kill you. I did invite you to dinner but I wasn’t planning to eat you," Jinki smiled, "Well not like that anyway."
Kibum slapped his shoulder without thinking, glaring, “Yah, is this a joke to you? You think this is funny? ”
"No, no," But his eye smile said otherwise, "Well a little but I swear to you I wasn’t going to eat you. Just come with me ok. Let’s talk somewhere private."
"I can’t trust you."
"Kibum if I wanted to kill you I’ve had several opportunities please I just want to talk."
"We are talking."
"Kibum," He sighed, "I didn’t invite you to dinner because I wanted to eat you I swear. I won’t lie and say I didn’t approach you because of that reason but after meeting you and getting to know you more I stopped thinking of you as a potential meal." He laid a hand to Kibum’s shoulder and looked to him serious, "Now if you don’t want to have anything to do with me that’s fine but I can only let you go if you promise not to go to the CCG."
Kibum gulped, “If I don’t?”
"Don’t be like that," Jinki squeezed his shoulder reassuringly, "I really like you Kibum don’t do this to me. Don’t make me have to be the bad guy."
"I won’t," He bit the inside of his cheek nervously.
"You have to promise," Jinki took a deep breath, "You can’t tell a soul. I mean it Kibum."
"I won’t tell anyone," Kibum said looking him in the eye, "I promise."
"I’ll take you home, just incase Taemin decides to try again," Jink sighed standing, "I should’ve expected this though."
"What do you mean?" Kibum asked standing up shakily.
"Your scent," Jinki said picking up Kibum’s dropped bag, "It’s just like Taemin said you smell like a delicious meal. Then of course with your legs out tempting people like that I’m surprised someone hasn’t gotten to you sooner."
"Are you saying this is my fault?" He glared at the older man snatching his bag from the hand holding it out to him.
"No, I mean it’s not like you can help the way you smell to ghouls." Jinki shrugged, "You can’t help being young, and it’s not like you were supposed to know you have the type of body ghouls like to hunt the most."
"The type of body ghouls like?" Kibum’s brows furrowed, "Like that guy talking about my legs?"
"The same way you talked about that chicken when we went to lunch." Jinki smiled, "Ghouls don’t just eat whoever, just like humans have preferences about the things they eat ghouls have preferences to."
"So I’m like a walking filet mignon to you guys?"
"Unfortunately yes," Jinki said as they exited the alley. "Lead the way."
Kibum frowned, “But what if that guy is following us? He’ll just break in and,” He lowered his voice leaning in, “eat me as soon as you drop me off won’t he?”
Jinki looked around, “If you want you can stay at my place for the night and I’ll talk to Taemin tonight so that it’ll be safe for you to go home in the morning.”
"Ok," He took a deep breath blowing out slowly, "Ok let’s do that."
So Jinki led him to his apartment. Kibum was anxious but for an entirely different reason that he thought he’d be when he first entered Jinki’s home.
"Um, make yourself at home," Jinki said leading him inside. "I have some drinks here water, wine, juice, coffee and I bought groceries because I’ve been practicing cooking so if you’re hungry you can have anything."
"Practicing cooking?"
"I said I’d make you dinner before all this so I was practicing." He chuckled, "It’s not easy for ghouls to cook food for humans since I can’t taste it but my neighbor said I did a pretty good job the other day."
Kibum blinked confused, “So you really weren’t planning to eat me?”
"Well," He looked away, "not since I started thinking of you differently."
"Um," He started not allowing an awkward silence to settle between them, "About that ghoul, if I go into his territory again…he’ll eat me?"
"No I’ll talk to him," Jinki smiled, "Don’t worry about it. I’ll make sure he doesn’t come near you again."
"And he’ll listen to you?"
"Well this is my ward so he’ll have to or else he’ll have to find a new ward to live in." He answered.
"Your ward?"
"I’m stronger than the other ghouls that live in this ward so they abide by my rules. That’s how wards like this one stay peaceful." Jinki explained, "Well I’m going to go find Taemin for a talk. I’m trusting you to stay here until I get back and not break our promise. You can use anything you like, I should be back in an hour or so."
Kibum nodded and watched him leave. He collapsed on the couch trying to take in everything that had just happened. He sat there for a long time trying to think of another reason Jinki was awful boyfriend material other than being a ghoul. He yelled into a pillow when the only bad thing he could think of was the horribly corny jokes Jinki told when he was nervous, but even that was a big stretch. He sighed wondering why of all people did the guy he wanted to get serious with have to be a ghoul.
"Ghouls," he shuddered remembering the other ghoul that had licked his face, "I need a bath."
When Jinki returned Kibum was fresh from his bath, “You said to make myself at home so I took a bath and borrowed your clothes.”
"No problem," Jinki replied but it was very much a problem to have a wet delicious looking Kibum alone in his apartment.
"Did you talk to that ghoul? Taemin?"
"Yeah he’s not happy with me right now."
"Because you won’t let him eat me?"
"No," Jinki sighed, "Well not just that but because I’m letting you live with only your promise not to tell. That’s dangerous, if you break your promise it’s trouble for the ghouls in this ward. He thinks I’m being stupid to let you live. When I told him we almost started dating steady he called me an idiot and told me to snap your neck."
"Oh."
"Yeah oh."
"Then what should I do?"
"You don’t need to do much," Jinki smiled taking a seat on the couch, "Just stay low for a bit. I just need him to have some time to cool off and see that you’ll keep your promise. I’ll make sure you’re safe."
"But why? It’d be safer if you killed me right?"
"But," His eyes widened, "we were almost boyfriends Kibum.”
"Don’t look so scandalized this is why he called you an idiot," Kibum sighed sitting beside him, "This is horrible I just wanted to get see my friend’s show and drink some beer. I didn’t mean for all this to happen."
Jinki sniffed reflexively and instantly apologized, “S-sorry sorry.”
"No, it’s not your fault I guess." Kibum groaned leaning against him, "I do the same thing at grilling restaurants." Kibum sighed again as it became silent. Jinki sat rigid, trying not to move the tiniest bit while Kibum’s head was against his shoulder. "Hey?"
Jinki was startled, “Y-yeah?”
Kibum sat up, “Do ghouls normally date people? I mean non-ghouls?”
"Not really for obvious reasons," He shrugged, "I know some do as a cover but I don’t know any serious ones. I know people who have human friends though, like real friends who know they’re ghouls but don’t talk. That’s more common. I think with dating, you there’s more contact there’s more opportunities for a mistake to happen."
"So you’ve never dated someone like me?"
He shook his head, “No but I thought, you know, I thought I could make it work if you didn’t know about me.”
"But," Kibum moved closer to him, "But what if you got hungry?"
"I wouldn’t eat you." Jinki looked at him firmly, "I don’t want to hurt you. I’m not going to hurt you ever and I won’t let another ghoul hurt you either."
"You know other than being a ghoul, I think you’re a perfect guy," Kibum gulped nervously but mover closer again. "So if I pretended that I came over here because you fed me an awesome dinner, that none of that other stuff happened, and I did this," He leaned to press a gentle peck to Jinki’s lips, "You’d be ok?"
Jinki sniffed again following Kibum as he leaned back. “You smell good.”
Kibum let out a shaky breath, “Sorry.”
Jinki wrapped his arms around his waist, “Not like that.” He leaned close to whisper in his ear, “I said I wanted to eat you in another way remember?”
He felt Kibum shiver in his hold, “You won’t really eat me?”
"I won’t hurt you," Jinki breathed in his scent before pulling away to look him in the eyes. "I’ll never hurt you Kibum."
Kibum swallowed, feeling hot under the intense stare, “Never?”
"Never."
His eyes lowered before catching Jink’s gaze again. “You can…I will…I don’t mind if you only want to eat me in bed.”
"In bed?"
Kibum nodded shyly avoiding his eyes and then was surprised to be hoisted off the couch. “For now we’ll start with the bed.”
-
It was 4am when Jinki called him but he knew that he would answer.
"Yes hyung?" Came the groggy answer.
"Don’t worry about last night, I’ve settled everything."
Taemin groaned frustrated, “I knew it you just wanted him to yourself. You owe me a meal hyung.”
"I explained to you earlier I wasn’t interested in that type of meal."
He held the phone away from his ear as his subordinate yelled, “So you just killed him and wasted it?”
"He’s not dead," Jinki responded, "but he is claimed you make sure your gang knows that. If he runs into any trouble in your territory I’ll expect answers from you."
"You can’t be serious."
Jinki kissed the back of Kibum’s shoulder as the human slept peacefully, “He’s really delicious.”
A/N: I hoped you enjoyed this one shot. Thanks for reading and if you like this and haven't read or watched Tokyo Ghoul I highly recommend it.
Kibum was scared. He was fighting back tears. He had thought he was safe, he’d thought he would be fine when he left the apartment but now he was going to die.
"I wasn’t hungry," The man grinned, eyes red, "but then a delicious smell came just past me and what do you know you look delicious too."
"Please," He started his voice cracking, his legs felt weak, "Please don’t do this."
"Hey," The man scoffed, "Look at these shorts you’re wearing, they show off your legs so nicely." He closed in making Kibum take shaky steps backward. "They look just right, tender but the perfect amount of meat on them. You’re going to make a delicious meal."
Kibum shook his head, tears falling as he backed into the wall, “Don’t please. I won’t say anything. I won’t report you to the CCG or anything I swear. Please just let me go.”
"I can’t let you go," He smirked moving in closer until he’d blocked Kibum off. Kibum jumped when one hand slammed against the wall next to his head. "Not with your delicious smell taunting me." He leaned close licking his cheek, "Mmm, no I can’t let a meal like this slip through my fingers. I’m going to savor you. I’ll eat you slowly and really enjoy myself."
Kibum can’t control how hard he’s crying. He’s trembling with how scared he is. He never thought this could happen to him. He never thought he’d be one of those people who go missing or one of those ghoul victims that end up on the news.
"Stealing again Taemin-ah?"
They both turned to the figure lurking above them, “I thought I told you to find your meals outside of my territory. We had an arrangement and you’re breaking it.”
The ghoul in front of him growled, “I found him on my territory I just followed him here.”
"I don’t care where you found him, he’s on my turf now." He cracked his knuckle with a loud pop, "So I’ll ask this are you sure you want to break our arrangement?"
A fist slammed against the wall next to Kibum’s head, he whimpered afraid and trying to stop sobbing. “Hyung just cut me a break. I didn’t mean to wander into your territory. I was too focused on following him.”
"I’ve already cut you a break or did you think I didn’t know about that girl from last week?" He continued cracking his knuckles. "I give you breaks all the time but we have doves in the ward now and everyone’s got to keep to their territories so there’s no suspicions."
"Hyung, he’s already seen us. He has to die anyway. I’ll shared him with you." Taemin smiled. He pulled Kibum from the wall to display him, "Look at these thighs and tell me don’t want to take a bite out of him."
He was silent for a moment but then his eyes turned red even with Kibum’s vision heavily blurred by tears he could see the glowing red, “Let him go and leave, you’ve got ten seconds Taemin-ah.”
"Hyung-"
"Eight, seven, six-"
Then Kibum was shoved into the wall and the ghoul had jumped away cursing. The other ghoul landed before him and that’s when his legs finally gave out and he slid to the ground.
"Are you ok?"
Kibum shook his head, closing his eyes, “Just do it quickly, please don’t drag it out.”
It was quiet for only a few second when the laughter came. Kibum peeked at the other to see him laughing.
"I’m not going to eat you," He chuckled, "Don’t worry."
"You’re- you aren’t going to?"
He shook his head, “No, no, don’t you recognize me?”
Kibum wiped his eyes the blurriness of his vision clearing, “Oh my-” He stoppped stunned, “Lee Jinki-ssi b-but but we had lunch together? You invited me to dinner at your place?” He shouted pointing an accusatory finger. “Oh my fucking god you were planning to eat me!”
"Shhh, shh please keep your voice down." It was amazing how he’d gone from having the aura of a monster to the boy next door. He knelt before Kibum coaxing him to calm down, "I wasn’t planning to eat you."
"You’re a," He paused himself lowering his voice to an angry hiss, "You’re a ghoul. Ghouls eat people. I’m a person you invited me to your apartment so I could be your fucking dinner. Fuck, fuck, fuck, I think I meet a good guy but it’s just a ghoul planning to kill me."
"I wasn’t planning to kill you. I did invite you to dinner but I wasn’t planning to eat you," Jinki smiled, "Well not like that anyway."
Kibum slapped his shoulder without thinking, glaring, “Yah, is this a joke to you? You think this is funny? ”
"No, no," But his eye smile said otherwise, "Well a little but I swear to you I wasn’t going to eat you. Just come with me ok. Let’s talk somewhere private."
"I can’t trust you."
"Kibum if I wanted to kill you I’ve had several opportunities please I just want to talk."
"We are talking."
"Kibum," He sighed, "I didn’t invite you to dinner because I wanted to eat you I swear. I won’t lie and say I didn’t approach you because of that reason but after meeting you and getting to know you more I stopped thinking of you as a potential meal." He laid a hand to Kibum’s shoulder and looked to him serious, "Now if you don’t want to have anything to do with me that’s fine but I can only let you go if you promise not to go to the CCG."
Kibum gulped, “If I don’t?”
"Don’t be like that," Jinki squeezed his shoulder reassuringly, "I really like you Kibum don’t do this to me. Don’t make me have to be the bad guy."
"I won’t," He bit the inside of his cheek nervously.
"You have to promise," Jinki took a deep breath, "You can’t tell a soul. I mean it Kibum."
"I won’t tell anyone," Kibum said looking him in the eye, "I promise."
"I’ll take you home, just incase Taemin decides to try again," Jink sighed standing, "I should’ve expected this though."
"What do you mean?" Kibum asked standing up shakily.
"Your scent," Jinki said picking up Kibum’s dropped bag, "It’s just like Taemin said you smell like a delicious meal. Then of course with your legs out tempting people like that I’m surprised someone hasn’t gotten to you sooner."
"Are you saying this is my fault?" He glared at the older man snatching his bag from the hand holding it out to him.
"No, I mean it’s not like you can help the way you smell to ghouls." Jinki shrugged, "You can’t help being young, and it’s not like you were supposed to know you have the type of body ghouls like to hunt the most."
"The type of body ghouls like?" Kibum’s brows furrowed, "Like that guy talking about my legs?"
"The same way you talked about that chicken when we went to lunch." Jinki smiled, "Ghouls don’t just eat whoever, just like humans have preferences about the things they eat ghouls have preferences to."
"So I’m like a walking filet mignon to you guys?"
"Unfortunately yes," Jinki said as they exited the alley. "Lead the way."
Kibum frowned, “But what if that guy is following us? He’ll just break in and,” He lowered his voice leaning in, “eat me as soon as you drop me off won’t he?”
Jinki looked around, “If you want you can stay at my place for the night and I’ll talk to Taemin tonight so that it’ll be safe for you to go home in the morning.”
"Ok," He took a deep breath blowing out slowly, "Ok let’s do that."
So Jinki led him to his apartment. Kibum was anxious but for an entirely different reason that he thought he’d be when he first entered Jinki’s home.
"Um, make yourself at home," Jinki said leading him inside. "I have some drinks here water, wine, juice, coffee and I bought groceries because I’ve been practicing cooking so if you’re hungry you can have anything."
"Practicing cooking?"
"I said I’d make you dinner before all this so I was practicing." He chuckled, "It’s not easy for ghouls to cook food for humans since I can’t taste it but my neighbor said I did a pretty good job the other day."
Kibum blinked confused, “So you really weren’t planning to eat me?”
"Well," He looked away, "not since I started thinking of you differently."
"Um," He started not allowing an awkward silence to settle between them, "About that ghoul, if I go into his territory again…he’ll eat me?"
"No I’ll talk to him," Jinki smiled, "Don’t worry about it. I’ll make sure he doesn’t come near you again."
"And he’ll listen to you?"
"Well this is my ward so he’ll have to or else he’ll have to find a new ward to live in." He answered.
"Your ward?"
"I’m stronger than the other ghouls that live in this ward so they abide by my rules. That’s how wards like this one stay peaceful." Jinki explained, "Well I’m going to go find Taemin for a talk. I’m trusting you to stay here until I get back and not break our promise. You can use anything you like, I should be back in an hour or so."
Kibum nodded and watched him leave. He collapsed on the couch trying to take in everything that had just happened. He sat there for a long time trying to think of another reason Jinki was awful boyfriend material other than being a ghoul. He yelled into a pillow when the only bad thing he could think of was the horribly corny jokes Jinki told when he was nervous, but even that was a big stretch. He sighed wondering why of all people did the guy he wanted to get serious with have to be a ghoul.
"Ghouls," he shuddered remembering the other ghoul that had licked his face, "I need a bath."
When Jinki returned Kibum was fresh from his bath, “You said to make myself at home so I took a bath and borrowed your clothes.”
"No problem," Jinki replied but it was very much a problem to have a wet delicious looking Kibum alone in his apartment.
"Did you talk to that ghoul? Taemin?"
"Yeah he’s not happy with me right now."
"Because you won’t let him eat me?"
"No," Jinki sighed, "Well not just that but because I’m letting you live with only your promise not to tell. That’s dangerous, if you break your promise it’s trouble for the ghouls in this ward. He thinks I’m being stupid to let you live. When I told him we almost started dating steady he called me an idiot and told me to snap your neck."
"Oh."
"Yeah oh."
"Then what should I do?"
"You don’t need to do much," Jinki smiled taking a seat on the couch, "Just stay low for a bit. I just need him to have some time to cool off and see that you’ll keep your promise. I’ll make sure you’re safe."
"But why? It’d be safer if you killed me right?"
"But," His eyes widened, "we were almost boyfriends Kibum.”
"Don’t look so scandalized this is why he called you an idiot," Kibum sighed sitting beside him, "This is horrible I just wanted to get see my friend’s show and drink some beer. I didn’t mean for all this to happen."
Jinki sniffed reflexively and instantly apologized, “S-sorry sorry.”
"No, it’s not your fault I guess." Kibum groaned leaning against him, "I do the same thing at grilling restaurants." Kibum sighed again as it became silent. Jinki sat rigid, trying not to move the tiniest bit while Kibum’s head was against his shoulder. "Hey?"
Jinki was startled, “Y-yeah?”
Kibum sat up, “Do ghouls normally date people? I mean non-ghouls?”
"Not really for obvious reasons," He shrugged, "I know some do as a cover but I don’t know any serious ones. I know people who have human friends though, like real friends who know they’re ghouls but don’t talk. That’s more common. I think with dating, you there’s more contact there’s more opportunities for a mistake to happen."
"So you’ve never dated someone like me?"
He shook his head, “No but I thought, you know, I thought I could make it work if you didn’t know about me.”
"But," Kibum moved closer to him, "But what if you got hungry?"
"I wouldn’t eat you." Jinki looked at him firmly, "I don’t want to hurt you. I’m not going to hurt you ever and I won’t let another ghoul hurt you either."
"You know other than being a ghoul, I think you’re a perfect guy," Kibum gulped nervously but mover closer again. "So if I pretended that I came over here because you fed me an awesome dinner, that none of that other stuff happened, and I did this," He leaned to press a gentle peck to Jinki’s lips, "You’d be ok?"
Jinki sniffed again following Kibum as he leaned back. “You smell good.”
Kibum let out a shaky breath, “Sorry.”
Jinki wrapped his arms around his waist, “Not like that.” He leaned close to whisper in his ear, “I said I wanted to eat you in another way remember?”
He felt Kibum shiver in his hold, “You won’t really eat me?”
"I won’t hurt you," Jinki breathed in his scent before pulling away to look him in the eyes. "I’ll never hurt you Kibum."
Kibum swallowed, feeling hot under the intense stare, “Never?”
"Never."
His eyes lowered before catching Jink’s gaze again. “You can…I will…I don’t mind if you only want to eat me in bed.”
"In bed?"
Kibum nodded shyly avoiding his eyes and then was surprised to be hoisted off the couch. “For now we’ll start with the bed.”
-
It was 4am when Jinki called him but he knew that he would answer.
"Yes hyung?" Came the groggy answer.
"Don’t worry about last night, I’ve settled everything."
Taemin groaned frustrated, “I knew it you just wanted him to yourself. You owe me a meal hyung.”
"I explained to you earlier I wasn’t interested in that type of meal."
He held the phone away from his ear as his subordinate yelled, “So you just killed him and wasted it?”
"He’s not dead," Jinki responded, "but he is claimed you make sure your gang knows that. If he runs into any trouble in your territory I’ll expect answers from you."
"You can’t be serious."
Jinki kissed the back of Kibum’s shoulder as the human slept peacefully, “He’s really delicious.”
A/N: I hoped you enjoyed this one shot. Thanks for reading and if you like this and haven't read or watched Tokyo Ghoul I highly recommend it.