A/N: I'm back with a new okikagu story!
Wanted 2 try 2 make this pretty emotional…I guess
DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT OWN GINTAMA IT BELONGS TO SORACHI HIDEAKI
Italics r 4 sudden flashbacks
Enjoy~
Umbrellas and Swords
Ch. 1: Past
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The autumn breeze whirled away at the colored leaves. It had been at least five years since they fought here. On their bench. Supposedly, the people of Kabukichou thought they would continue their fights forever. But forever was just an exaggeration. The normal clashes of sword and umbrella flew away with every passing year. Now the park was just something to indulge in. No mp3 swords, no umbrellas, no broken property, and no Sadist nor China girl.
Kagura watched as her pet dog leapt from leaf to leaf, attempting to catch one in the air. Fortunately, the big colorful tree that she was sitting under offered her enough shelter against the sun. Just enough so she wouldn't burn alive. Oh how jealous she was of humans. Being able to touch the sun, but she would never be able to do that…..or else she would end up like Housen. Cooked in the sun with peeling skin and blisters.
And Kagura wanted to retain her youthful looks.
Dabbling into her thoughts for some inner peace before leaving to move back into her surrogate family, a certain one managed to find its way into her mind.
"China."
She stopped, her umbrella inches away from pummeling his face. After a long, intense battle, the victor emerged. "What, sadist?"
"You love me."
She remembered that cocky smirk on his face as a flush of pink invaded her milky white face.
"What the hell! That's disgusting!"
'Lies,' she thought. She stuck with denial 'til the very end. To think that the most annoying pest walking the Earth could make her feel this way. But of course, she didn't voice it out. The guy who was a tax-robbing bastard, the one who always put laxatives in Mayora's food, the one who always annoyed her out of her red Chinese dresses, the one who always infuriated her to no end. To think that he was the one who saved her from getting pummeled by a yagyuu retainer. To think that he was the one who covered for her and Kirie-chan.
To think that the man she hated so much was the one that saved her from herselfthat night.
It was ironic.
And she loved him.
Okita Sougo wasn't really one to show his thoughts so openly. Unless it was pertaining to skipping work, slaughtering people, or expressing frustration over failed assassination attempts on Hijikata. Either way, all those things were just a distraction. Yes, both were just barely a distraction from when she left.
Sitting on the bench was her in all of her glory. The China girl, basking in the moonlight, highlighting every one of her childish features.
"What are you doing, China?"
She waited, and then picked her head up from her knees to look up at him. "Thinking."
No cursing, no war cries, no weapons being thrown at him.
He poked at her with the sheath of his sword and sneered. "I never thought a gluttonous monster like you could use her brain."
An umbrella was thrown at him, a hand grasped his arm. "You sadistic shithead." She snarled, irritated at her rival. "What the hell do want?"
"I'm on patrol China~, and no loitering in the park. You're polluting the place with your existence." He deadpanned, making an attempt to lighten to mood. Okita Sougo never attempts to do that. But something was wrong with the China girl sitting there, all curled up in a ball.
And she looked so fragile, like pieces of china.
He poked her again with his sword, wanting her to move. Wanting her to do something.
She didn't budge.
Sougo walked up to her, and sent her flying with a kick to the stomach. She landed on the floor with a sickening thump, and several cursed flew from her mouth.
"You damn Sadist! What the hell was that for!?"
She shot him glares, but never bothered to attack him.
Boring.
If this didn't go as he planned, he would just take her umbrella and leave her. That plan worked. On his way to her purple umbrella, a whirl of air swept under his feet and knocked him to the ground. He observed the China girl, glaring at him with her beautiful sapphire eyes as she took hold of her umbrella. It stabbed a hole into the ground, right next to his face.
She won.
"Oi China," He saw her struggle to take out the umbrella and pummel it into his face. The guilty look in her eye. She was restraining herself for a long time, and that was the reason they met up less and less. He didn't want that for her.
"I won't break."
Those words made a small glint pass through her large, doll-like eyes, and she let go of her restraints.
And so he fought her.
And she won.
"Oi, China."
She stopped her umbrella from pummeling his face.
"You love me." He smirked. He himself didn't even know where that came from. The contents of his sick mind already knew. But he rejected it. Denied it with every fiber in his twisted body and soul. His stomach did some unexpected, and nervous flips and turns before he mentally composed himself again. He wanted the China girl to fully retain the cheerful, and yet powerful demeanor she had before. He didn't like the gloomy atmosphere from her as they gradually stopped fighting each other.
And it seemed to have work.
"What the hell! That's disgusting!"
The obvious coating of pink on her cheeks made him inwardly smile.
So the China beast had the same unknown disease as him too.
It was ironic.
His very own rival. A gluttonous, sukonbu eating monster who is the very reason why he couldn't sleep at night. Always mooching off of her employer, and shooting curses at him in the park. A purple umbrella always by her side as she annoyed the hell out his sadistic mind when they held their daily squabbles at said place.
She was just a property breaking china monster that he despised the most.
And he wanted her more than anyone else.
A/N: I'm back with okikagu again (gosh I just ship them sooooo much xD)
So this starts off 5 years later, kanketsu-hen appearances all that good stuff xD
Oh the love disease xD everyone has it xD
Any critiques?
Til next time~
