Alright guys! This is my first and I'm so excited to get this baby going! For awhile now, I've wanted to contribute my own work to the Gintama fanfic community, and it's all thanks to Jeimii-chan2009 for inspiring me to write this! So I decided to make this fic, based of my all time fav Disney movie, Mulan. The plot of Mulan is still there, but there are some changes because I didn't want the characters too OOC, and I wanted to keep that classic element of Gintama humor. So I hope you enjoy it folks!

BTW i do not own Gintama, the great Sorachi does. Gintama is too awesome for me.

All is quiet on the Great Wall of China. A lone guard is in the middle of patrolling, when the quiet, peaceful night is interrupted by a screeching falcon that knocks the guards helmet over.

"Huh?" The guard is bewildered to see a creature like that in these parts. As he continues to gaze at the bird, the bird lets out another screech, and as if on a cue, a grappling hook from the dark side of the wall, attaches itself to the wall's side.

The guard cautiously peeks over the edge, and from the abyss, thousands of more grappling hooks are launched into the air, attaching themselves to the wall's side.

The guard panics in sudden realization, "We're under attack! Light the signals!" Before he can make it up the ladder, two militia men attempt to attack him, but fail. As the guard is about to light the signal, a dark figure jumped onto the top of the watchtower. The figure stood up, revealing himself to the guard. The guard, despite his fear, lit the signal. Soon all the tops of the watchtowers were burning a bright yellow.

"Now all of China knows you're here!" the guard said staring straight into the Kiheitai's leader's eye.

The leader, took one of the flags and placed it in the fire, watching it catch fire with a maniacal smile on his face. "Perfect."

"Your majesty, the Kiheitai have crossed our Northern border," reported General Kondo Isao, and he knelt before Emperor Shige-Shige.

"Impossible!" No one can get through the Great Wall!" cried the one-eyed man?

The Emperor raised a hand to silence his frantic advisor.

"Shinsuke Takasugi is leading them." The Emperor immediately understood how extent of the situation. Kondo then continued, "We'll set up defenses around your palace immediately."

"No." The Emperor stood, "send your troops to protect my people." He then turned to his advisor, "Kyuubei."

"Yes your highness?" answered the one-eyed advisor.

"Send conscription notices throughout all the provinces. Call up reserves and as many new recruits as possible," he ordered. The Emperor then headed towards Kondo.

"Forgive me your majesty," Kondo started in concern, "but I believe my troops can stop him."

"I won't take any chances General," the Emperor tried to reassure Kondo, " a single grain of rice can tip the scale. One man may be the difference between victory and defeat."

"Quiet and demure," said a girl with vermillion hair and bright blue eyes, that stared down at the complete writing on her arm.

"Graceful. Polite," the girl repeated. The girl then stared at her breakfast, which was a bowl of rice, and began to viciously chow down.

"Dericut…...rehined…...poiys….." she said in between chews, attempting to actually remember.

The girl finished her bowl and finally shouted, "Punctual!"

COCKADOODLEDOO!

"Uh oh." The girl quickly sprang up from her bed and ran to her threshold, "Sadaharu!" she called out. She kept running around the halls of her house while calling out, "Sadaharu! Sadaha–" she immediately stopped as soon as she spotted a large white fur ball, we all know this to be her one and only monster dog.

"There you are!" The girl called out in a cutesy voice and held her arms open as the larger than life size dog leaped into her arms with joy. "Who's the smartest doggy in the world!? C'mon smart boy." The girl looks at Sadaharu in a loving way and pats his head "Can you help me with my chores today?" The girl attaches a bag of feed to Sadaharu, "Sadaharu, if you run all the way around the farm and feed the animals, I'll tell Papi to buy 5 bags of your favorite food for you!"

The dog was immediately convinced and sprinted out of the house without looking, ending up in another large hole in the wall by none other than the girl's monster dog.

Meanwhile, a very bald, and familiar man was on his knees praying to the ancestors in the family shrine, "Honorable ancestors…..please help Kagura impress the Matchmaker today."

Suddenly Sadaharu runs by, jumping over the shrine and making it rain animal feed on the shrine. As if on cue a herd of chickens come from nowhere and eat at the feed scattered on and inside of the shrine.

The baldy looks around at the destruction while wearing a distressed look. Sweat drop and desperately looks back at the shrine and is bowing and begging at this point "Please! Please help her!"

Umibouzu gets up and decides to find Sadaharu and stop him from littering the garden with animal feed, and run into none other than the most likely cause of the chaos, "Papi I brought you some…..oops!" Before the teapot could hit the floor, the baldy caught it on reflex, but he couldn't get the cup in time and watched it crash to the floor.

"Kagura…"

"I brought a spare," Kagura said patting herself on the back for being so prepared.

"Kagua," Umibouzu tried to get a word in, but Kagura remained oblivious.

"Remember, the doctor said three cups of tea in the morning …" Kagra said in a motherly way as if lecturing her husband, while she poured him tea.

"Kagura," the baldy tried again, but still didn't work.

"... and three at night." Kagura finished pouring the tea and smiled ever so angelically at her Papi.

"Kagura, why are you still here? You should be in town…..today is the day…" the baldy trailed off knowing what reaction he'll recieve from his daughter.

Kagura stared at her Papi as if she had no clue what he was talking about and pulled a piece of sukonbu from her sleeve and began to chew on it, "Well Papi, you weren't exactly clear on the directions….I thought this whole 'meeting with the matchmaker was optional." Kagura stated with pure and utter nonchalance as she turned away and began to balance on the bridge's side that went over her pond.

Her father stared at her back for a while and sighed, "Kagura…..we've been over this. You're already sixteen, and I'm getting close to the age where I can't take care of you anymore. You have to find a husband soon so he can take the burden off you. He'll take care of both you and your Papi! Won't that be nice Kagura!?" Umibouzu tried to say in the most convincing way possible. Sadly for him, it won't work on his strongly independent daughter.

"No! That sounds like years and years of torture! Why can't we stay like how we are now?" Kagura was beginning to get teary eyed and looked at her father, "Mami said I'll never need a man because I'm strong like her and Papi!"

"Kagura…" Umibouzu started, "I know this is difficult…...but please, it's our only option I have left…..If we stay like this….we'll be in a tight spot because people with think badly of you if you can't find a husband. I don't want to push such responsibility on you, but I don't want you to be looked down upon. I just want you to be happy…."

Kagura looked at her father's pleading look, 'People aren't that cruel right? I mean I have Anego and them...They won't think badly of me and think of me as dishonorable right?' She looked deeply into her father's eyes and finally gave up seeing how desperate he was, 'I just have to see the matchmaker right? It's not like she'll match me with anyone. I'll just meet her so Papi won't be sad…'

"Ok Papi," Kagura finally said, "I'll meet with the matchmaker."

Umibouzu finally sprang up and hugged his daughter tightly, "Thank you Kagura! Now get to town! We're counting on you!"

"To uphold the family honor….. I know," she stuck her tongue at her father and began to head in the direction of town, "Wish me luck Papi!" And she was off.

Alright…..so how was it :)? Sorry if its not like completely true to Mulan, but I didn't want the Gintama characters to become the Mulan characters. It felt too OCC for me, so I tried my best to keep true to the movie while also keeping true to the character's of Gintama. If you liked it, look forward to the next chapter! its coming soon!