Catch
"Gin-chan, Shinpachi, let's play catch!" Kagura invited the two as she nearly took out the sliding door from its hinges. Gintoki didn't bother to notice her as he continued to stay lying on the couch, a jump magazine covering his face. "Catch?" Shinpachi asked, he was at the middle of cleaning up the office, dusting its cabinets and wiping the tables. "Yeah! It's a really nice day today and a lot of people are playing at the park! Let's go-aru!" Kagura insisted, jumping high enough to land on top of Gintoki, right in the gut. "guwoooh!" the weird sound coming from Gintoki's covered mouth and Kagura's critical hit.
"Gin-chan! Let's go! Gin-chan Let's go-aru!" She persisted. She punched the jump magazine enough to keep it stuck on the lazy man's face and grabbed him by the shoulder, shaking him as she kept on insisting them to go outside. "Uskfdjooppppdsfjjk~!" Gintoki tried to speak, his hands trying to reach for the jump magazine and take it out. "Just go with it Gin-san, it's not like you have anything better to do." Shinpachi comments, he was already used to the violence. "That's right Gin-chan! Stop being a pathetic excuse for an adult and at least entertain your master! And Shinpachi you'll be going too!" She continued to order. Gintoki snaps and kicks Kagura off of him, who land safely on the floor.
Gintoki sits up and grabs the jump magazine on his face and removes it. "You Brats! Catch? How old do you think I am? Wait, I'm not that old! I have better things to do too rather than playing in the park! Just go get Sadaharu and have him catch your balls!" Gintoki scolded, not that he was taken seriously by the two. Gintoki stood up and walked to leave the place. When he opened the door, Kagura and Shinpachi kicks his back and makes him fall from the balcony "UUUURIIIIYAAA!". Gintoki screams, then he felt soft fur below him, he fell on Sadaharu. "Arf!" Sadaharu barked. Shinpachi and Kagura also get on top of the huge dog and with another bark Sadaharu rushes toward the park. "NOOOOO~!" Gintoki's protest ignored.
Now at the park, Kagura as the leader holding the ball while Gintoki, Shinpachi, and Sadaharu stood a few feet away in front of Kagura. "Ready?" she screamed loud enough for the others to hear. "Yeah!" Shinpachi replied, loud enough as well. "…such a bother" Gintoki yawned, now that he was there, he didn't feel like the day was any different from the other days. There was a normal number of people around, the brat probably saw some kids playing catch too that's why she insisted on them playing along with this. "Okay!-" Kagura gripped the ball. "-Here-" She holds it up above her chest with both hands, hard. "-It-" She stretches her arm as much as she can behind her while lifting one leg. "-GOOOOO!" And she finally launches it. "IMPOSSIBLE!" Shinpachi screamed, running away already and covering his head. Gintoki wasn't paying attention and just stood there watching the other people in the park. Then, the ball passes him, with incredible speed, mere inches from his cheek. Half of his face turns black and snaps again. "HOW THE HELL ARE WE SUPPOSE TO CATCH THAT?"
"THAT ITSN'T CATCH AT ALL! This is some sort of death game isn't it? You have more balls don't you? Some of them explode don't they? What are they? Trackers? Crackers?" Gintoki snapped and continued on scolding the girl. "What are you talking about? You can't even catch that? Look at Sadaharu!-aru" Kagura pointed at the dog… who was able to successfully catch the ball. "SERIOUSLY?!" Shinpachi and Gintoki both screamed. "Good boy Sadaharu! You're nothing like those weaklings!" Kagura petted the dog as he returned the ball.
While Sadaharu was heading back to where Gintoki and Shinpachi was, he looked at both of them… and somehow, from Shinpachi and Gintoki's point of view, smirked. What's with that dog? Are you challenging us? Are you seriously challenging us to catch that thing? BRING IT ON! They both thought. "Okay here comes another! This time I'll make it a bit slower!" Kagura screamed. "Yeah! Bring it on! Give it all you've got Kagura-chan!" GIntoki screamed back, now serious. "Yeah! I'll definitely catch it somehow! Like hell I'll be losing to a dog!" Shinpachi added. "Arf!" Sadaharu barked!
"Here it comes!" And the leader releases the ball, with seemingly the same speed and force as the first one. "GAAAAAAAAAAH!" And so, it continued. The second ball was caught by Sadaharu, smirking at the two again. The third one was caught by Sadaharu, this time looking at the two with pity. The fourth ball went a bit off course and nearly hit an innocent bystander, but she was able to dodge the ball. But she wasn't able to dodge the huge dog and the angry samurai trying to chase the ball. After the first accident, more accident happened. Innocent bystanders would not get hit by the ball but by the ones chasing after it. Shinpachi had already given up and is sulking at the corner.
From hitting bystanders, Kagura tried to make the ball spin and add curve to the ball as it flew, now flying pass the park's fountain, which gets destroyed by the samurai and huge dog. "OUT OF THE WAY!" "AAAAAAAARF!" There were less people around. Hasegawa was screaming in the background already to stop them from destroying his…home(?) and ended up sulking at the corner where Shinpachi was.
"Ahahah! Gin-chan hasn't caught a ball yet!" Kagura cheered as Sadaharu brought back the ball for the 38th time. "Yeah! Yeah, just keep it coming brat. This is after all good exercise for Sadaharu, and with me acting like I'm serious will add to his motivation right? Yeah, yeah! We're taking good care of Sadaharu!" Gintoki nearly snapped. "YOU LIAR!" Shinpachi at least tried to do his role.
"Oi, oi, What the hell are you guys doing?" They heard the familiar voice. Hijikata appeared behind Kagura, dressed in his casual clothes, not working as of the moment. "Ah! It's Toshi-aru, Wanna join?" Kagura invited. "Join?" Hijikata asked. "Yeah! We're playing catch!" Kagura explained. "Catch? That's what happened here? Well… I'm not really surprised anymore…" Hijikata looked around, a destroyed fountain, some craters, injured people, and a ton of dirt and pieces of the park's concrete all over the place. "Ah! Shinsengumi vice-chief! Stop them, stop them please!" Hasegawa begged. "…I'm off duty tough…and I don't really want to get involved with these guys" HIjikata declined coldly.
"Then you can join-aru!" Kagura invited again. "Yeah, yeah Hijikata-kun, let's play~!" Gintoki sang, teasing the man into playing with them. "Please don't mind them HIjikata-san, it's okay…" Shinpachi tried. "No, I don't have anything better to do anyway, okay, I'll join in but…" he surprisingly agreed with Kagura. "but what?" Kagura asked. "…how about we add some proper rules so this place doesn't end up any more worst than it already is…" Hijikata pointed out.
So the five of them, Hijikata, Gintoki, Sadaharu, Hasegawa, and Kagura were all positioned far away from each other forming a pentagon to play catch. "SO THIS AUTHOR IS LEAVING ME OUT OF IT? DO YOU HAVE A GRUDGE ON ME? IS it because I keep being paired with Gin-san and you prefer GinHiji? It's not like I want to be paired!" Shinpachi cursed… so an invisible force placed him back on the gloomy corner.
"Okay… let's do this!" Kagura started, throwing the ball toward Gintoki. It was headed directly toward the man. Gintoki puts both hands on his chest ready to receive the extremely fast ball. Once it made contact with his hand, as if on super saiyan mode he nearly buried his feet on the ground below him to keep himself from moving and receiving the ball with all his might. "UUUUWOOOOOOH!" he groaned as the ball kept spinning in his hand till it stopped, smoking and revealing the ultimate redness Gintoki's poor hands. After that, he sucks in the pain and releases the ball in full speed, toward… Sadaharu. It was the strongest he can manage. It went nearly as fast as the one Kagura threw. Sadaharu's eyes change in a more fierce and serious way and opens his mouth.
The ball was directed at his mouth, he closed it the millisecond it was in to bite the spinning ball. Just like Gintoki, his fur somehow turned golden and electrocuted, super saiyan mode. He clutched the ball with his teeth until it stopped spinning. He smirks again at Gintoki with the ball inside his mouth, Gin smirks back. What the hell happened between those two earlier… Hijikata thought. "Nooo! I don't want to play, Why did I get added in this? I didn't want to join! No one invited my anyway! Why am I here? Also, how it that dog planning on throwing the ball?!" Hasegawa cried, after seeing the fierce throwing Kagura and Gintoki did.
Eh? Now that I think of it, how is that dog going to throw the ball? Hijikata thought, like the world had paused he had a bunch of ideas run in his mind. Some of them being, picturing Sadaharu putting the ball on top of his head and making it bounce, while it's still in the air, Sadaharu would hit it using his tail like a baseball bat. Another way would be to simply throw it with this mouth, but that would lead to a really weak throw, so he'll be good at catching but the worst in throwing? Another way, also using his mouth, he would put it in his mouth and spit out with all his might, and it would be covered in dog saliva! Hijikata's face turned a bit blue and he stopped thinking, instead watched intently on how Sadaharu would throw.
Sadaharu stood up, EH? He released the ball from his mouth, Eh? The ball fell on his paw, he positioned it to where the ball would fall, below his chest(?) Eh? And threw the ball like a normal person, only as strong as Kagura or Gintoki. EEEEEEEEHHHHHHHHH?! Unfortunately, Hijikata was caught off guard and wasn't ready to receive such a fast ball. Instead, the ball hit him directly on the gut and carried him off to the wall behind him, letting blood out of his head and losing consciousness.
"Hijikata-kun!"
"Hijikata-san?! Are you alright?"
"Toushi!"
"Arf!"
"Oogushi-kun!"
"Demon Vice Commander!"
"Weird Hair Style Guy!"
"Mayo-freak!"
"Tsundere-kun!"
"Die…"
What the hell with those names?! And that last one? Die? You want me to die? How did Sogou get here? And who the hell are you calling a tsundere?
At Odd-jobs Gin-chan's office the group had decided that they bring back Hijikata there to rest. It was already very late. Hasegawa sighed and sat at the park bench, left by the others, he laid down. He covered himself with newspapers for a blanket, a tear seemed to appear from the side of his sunglasses as the camera view backed away and showed him lying on the bench, the only thing not destroyed in the park, basically he was in the middle of a place that seemed like an after earthquake sight.
"See you tomorrow Gin-san!" Shinpachi waved goodbye from the front gate of his family's dojo. Gintoki only nodded and continued walking, carrying Hijikata on his back. "Damn it… That Sadaharu, Kagura-chan too! Not even coming with me or even helping me carry this guy back to the Shinsengumi…" Gintoki grumbled as he continued walking. Hijikata mumbled something he couldn't hear properly and the former Joi turned to the side to look. "What?" He asked, knowing he wouldn't receive an answer. Hijikata's face was right in view, his sleeping face. Gintoki continued walking and continued staring at that face.
He trips on a small rock but was able to fix his balance with his other foot, reminding himself he has to look where he was going, it seemed he missed a turn. "Tch… that was close… Oi! Did you see that? I nearly tripped; my handsome face would've been damaged if my face the ground you know! It'll be your fault!" he softly scolded. He hears the vice-commander whine a bit and sees that his eyebrows furrowed within a second. "We're finally alone but you just have to be asleep… And today was your long awaited day off too… those brats just had to ruin it…" Gintoki sighed as he smiled. He gives the sleeping demon a peck in the cheek and continued walking.
Author: I didn't reread… I'm sorry for grammar errors, misused words, OOC chars, awful tsukomi lines, aha(I tried…); characters are not mine, first Gintama fic! YAAAAAY! I'm completely addicted! Yay for no more reruns and new arc weeeeeeeeeeee! And GinHiji! Yes GinHiji! XDDDD