AN: Welcome! This is my first OkiKagu fic. Setting is from after the Farewell Shinsengumi Arc. I hope you find my interpretation curious and sensible. Enjoy!
CHAPTER 1
Princess
He hated her. The annoying way she talks, her crazy antics, her tactless actions, and that mouth which speaks of obscenities in this world. She was also crazy strong and temperamental as a broken fuse. Which was why he always took his lovely time annoying her everytime they met, coincidental or not.
He will always remember it well. The rosy shade of her cheeks in contrast to her flaming hair. Her fumed, flushed face always made his day. To him she was a routine, a simple game of crude verbal mockery to rile up his favourite playtoy. He always seemed to know where and how to push her buttons.
So when did she start to occupy his thoughts? He silently asked in his mind as he sank into the bed in one of the ship's cabins. They were currently airborne. He never gave his rival much thought before. It was only when the ship unanchored when her whole being started to etch itself into his brain.
She was a Yato, one of the most fearsome fighters in all across the galaxy. It was in their blood and genetics to fight like cold-blooded monsters. Yet she was more humane than he could ever become. Ruthless, but she could be most sensible as a flower. She looks as fragile as a China doll, but stronger than a hundred good men combined. Her weakness was the sunlight, but hiding from it only made her standout and brazenly shine at any dark day. And had the biggest heart compared to anybody else knew.
Most of all, she never judged. She never saw people from where they came from, or what they did, but instead of what they believed and how compassionate they live up to their principles.
He will always remember how she beguiled the naive and curious Tokugawa Soyo, the previous princess of Edo. Or how she thawed the heart of stone cold Miwaragumi Vice Captain, Isai Nobume. Her warm and friendly approach to the ruthless and suicidal killer and beheader, Ikeda Asaemon. She even considered herself the younger sister of the most scariest woman in Edo, Shimura Otae.
That was probably the reason she had her eyes on Yorozuya Danna. And that was probably also the reason why she never made him feel like he was the killer or manslayer that he was. But instead she saw him as a befitting rival.
Maybe he should start considering himself lucky. At the very least of his sadistic existence, there once was a China who thought of him as a lazy policeman who held his sword and protected their city with all his might. And as she said to him before they had to leave today, he protected two princessess from her crazy older brother.
Just once, just this once, was he be able to think of her as a princess of any sort. But never again. He said so to himself as he slipped his infamous eye mask right down to cover his eyes and drift off to sleep. It was going to be a long ride ahead of him.
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