After my first OkiKagu fic someoneasked for more and since I have fallen in love with these two I thought I would make one more story. This will AU and multiplechapters, smut and lemon will appear (a lot) later on so I hope you'llenjoy. (^-^)
All credit of the cover art to the amazing artist.
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Kagura pulled her tired body up the stairs, not even bothering to press replay on her phone so instead of music she was now only accompanied by the sound of her dragging feet echoing against the concrete walls. She was really looking forward to throwing herself on one of the couches after a relaxing bath, maybe even with a nice cup of tea. The thought helped her reach another floor. Stupid elevator always breaking down...
The building she lived in was not well kept. It wasn't horrible, the apartment was nice and warm and she had managed to make it quite cosy after living there for a while, but things often broke down. Her new roommate was good at getting a hold of the building manager though and after he had moved in repairs had always happened a lot quicker. Perhaps it was because he was a police officer?
Kagura glared up the stairs. Normally she would also take the broken elevator as a challenge and normally she would run up the stairs but today she was too exhausted. Her work at the Yorozuya differed a great deal ranging from finding lost pets or acting like marketing mascot to building houses or even private investigations. The reason for her exhaustion right now was due to a marketing campaign where she and her colleague Shinpachi had walked around all day dressed as teddy bears at a children's carnival. The racket from the children still pierced her ears as she reached her own door. Sometimes she regretted to have an apartment on the 7th floor.
Oh how amazing the bath and couch would be! But as she entered the entre she was hugely disappointed. A roar came from the living room and she knew she would not see the TV remote for the evening. Apparently her roommate had invited friends over. On a Thursday... Without telling her... Yay… Kagura fumed inwardly but maintained a polite façade when she entered the room and was greeted by a bunch of rowdy men. No one would believe her if she said that all of these were police officers.
"Kagura-chan!" called a voice belonging to one of the lesser noisy men. The others looked up, gave a nod and then returned their attention to the TV.
"Hi Sagaru." She gave a quick wave of her hand to the smiling man.
"Sit down baka!" came another voice, this from one named Toushirou. "I can't see the game."
Kagura couldn't even see the coffee table between the couches. It was filled with opened and probably empty soda cans, chips bags, leftovers from some take away and it was just a complete mess. And it wasn't like she had cleaned everything in the morning so she was ready for a girl's night the day after... It got harder to control her anger as she caught sight of her roommate.
Sougo's hair was messy like he had recently been showering but not done anything with his hair. He was sitting with his feet upon the table leaning back in the couch looking like he had no actual interest in the game the others were intently watching. He hadn't even greeted her as she had arrived home. Bastard.
She was even more annoyed by the fact that he was so sexy, and it wasn't in comparison to the other men who were also good looking, he just had something special about him. It annoyed her that she found him sexy even now. He was wearing a pair old sweat pants and a t shirt. Damn it.
Her irritation got the better of her and she walked up behind him and started poking him with her finger on the top of his head.
"Yo." She said. "Got a minute?" He looked up at her and reddish brown eyes caught hers.
"Stop pestering me. We're watching a game." Like that explained anything.
"Then you better get your ass up from the sofa and talk to me or I'm gonna stay here and pester you." To prove that she meant it she continued poking him. He gave a big sigh as if it was a tiresome exercise he was about to do but he did get up and followed her into to kitchen section.
The apartment had two bedrooms, one bathroom and one living room/kitchen. They each had their own bedroom, and then they shared the rest. The living room furniture and cooking utensils were leftovers from the previous tenant but the rest was separated into his and hers.
"So?" A bored expression met Kagura as Sougo faced her with his arms crossed. "What did you want?"
Kagura scowled back at him, remembering to keep her voice down so the other men wouldn't hear her.
"So? So I hope that you plan on cleaning this mess up by tomorrow." She waved and indicated the whole group of men. "You said you would be out of town this weekend so I invited guests, hence why it was so clean before you dragged all the gorillas in here."
"Tsk. It's your week to clean the shared rooms. You know I'm gonna start work too early to clean this up." She knew that and this was exactly why she was mad at him. He obviously hadn't thought this through.
"House rules state that 'your guests' equals 'your mess'!" Kagura wanted to punch him. "I don't have to time to clean up after you, brat."
Sougo knew she was right but for some reason he couldn't get himself to admit it to her. The reason that he liked annoying her could be because of her cute expression of annoyance or the fact that that was kinda the only expression other than indifference he could influence her to. Both had work that could run across the weekends and both were often too tired for any socialness between roommates and mostly stayed in their own rooms, so they didn't see much to each other. Sougo shrugged his shoulders.
"Your minute is up." He tried to walk past her but she stepped out in front of him. She could sense how he tried to start an argument, which she, more often than not, was willing to join, but not tonight. She stared into his eyes.
"Make sure it's clean before you leave tomorrow." Then she turned on her heel and walked into her room not allowing him a comeback. Sougo frowned. Who would have thought that living with a woman could be so troublesome?
The next morning Kagura woke when her alarm rang. Slamming her hand down towards her phone she tried to remember her dream. She had gone straight to bed after her bath the previous night listening to music on her headphones to leave out the sounds of the men in the next room. She remembered having malicious thoughts of how to irritate Sougo with little things like changing his shampoo for something smelling of strawberries, signing him up for magazines he would never read like "country and gardening" or cover the living room in flowery patterns. She had mostly considered the first two options as she wasn't a flowery type herself but the thought of his face when he realised his punishment made Kagura fall asleep with a smile on her lips.
But the thought of Sougo's face had made it into her dreams and when she woke up there was still that lingering feeling of something… She closed her eyes again trying to remember. She had been close to his face in the dream, and then… Oh right! They had kissed!
Suddenly wide awake the whole dream came back. They had been kissing in the dream and touching… a lot. She even remembered having half woken up in the night feeling turned on, but then continued to sleep. Grumbling she got out of bed. That bastard. She picked up some clothes she would change into in the bathroom but then froze as she opened her door to the living room. She was met by a disaster. Sougo hadn't cleaned anything. That fucking BASTARD!
Knowing that he would likely not being his room Kagura still marched up to his door knocking so hard she wouldn't have been surprised if it had broken. No one answered. It was as she suspected, he had already left for work. Damn that man. Now she had to go to work herself and also clean this mess up. It wasn't just that he had left the place in ruins, it was also the stress that Kagura would be visited by her friend Soyo in the evening. Soyo came from a prestigious family and had been taught etiquette and manners Kagura had never even heard of. Because of this Kagura wanted Soyo to feel welcome in her apartment, it was a refuge from the predictable life but should nonetheless be clean. It wouldn't even surprise Kagura if Soyo was escorted the whole way because the neighbourhood seemed rough.
She sighed as she picked up her phone so she could call her boss Gintoki, or Gin-chan as she called him, and tell him she would be late. Better get this done with and come home to a tidy apartment than come home to a pigsty after a hard day's work.
She tossed her phone on the kitchen counter; Gin-chan didn't pick up his phone, so he was probably still sleeping. He was blessed by having the office in his apartment, making it easy for him to go to work, though it often meant that Kagura had to wake him up when she got there.
Kagura left a message and then slowly started picking up garbage from the floor. Men could be such pigs. She considered leaving all the garbage in front of Sougo's door but decided not to as the smell would most likely be too much since he wouldn't be back until Sunday. And she couldn't put it in his room as he always locked his door. She had also done that in the beginning but now she was just too lazy to care.
She knew what living with a man meant. Gin-chan was her guardian and she had lived at his place since she was a child. Her dog Sadaharu still lived there since pets weren't allowed in her building. But even living with old man Gin-chan has not prepared her enough for this. Looking around the room she had soon filled a couple of plastic bags with the trash. She hurried so she could meet up with the Yorozuya and her beloved dog as fast as possible.
Sougo so owed her big time.
