Maid prompt inspired by the cutest okikagu doujinshi I've read.
This is gonna be short, but I'll cut it up to shorter chapters because I can.
Disclaimer: I do not own Gintama. It belongs to Sorachi Hideaki.
Of Flyers and Frills
{Part 1} of 5
It all started when he and Yamazaki were being productive members of society by roaming around the streets of Edo to do their daily patrol.
One random maid hanging about by the street corner had handed them a flyer about a maid cafe that had just opened, which was a few blocks away from the compound. While Sougo found the flyer too girly and did not even bother reading it, Yamazaki was all smiles. "Sir! Why don't we try to have lunch here?!"
"Are you serious, 'zaki? You wanna go to a maid cafe?" the whole police force knew that whenever Hijikata would channel his inner otaku, the first thing Tosshi would do was to head for the maid cafe in Akihabara.
Sougo was not gonna go to a maid cafe just to eat overpriced food. He likes to eat, sure, but he knows that cafes like that are very notorious for overpricing their food and drinks
"Why not? At least we can see for ourselves how it goes!" Yamazaki said it so casually that Sougo found no reason to object to what he had just said.
... If anything, he could always torture 'zaki for making him sit through a torturous lunch break in the silliest place to be.
Little did he know that he would get a surprise of his own.
"Welcome home, my masters! For two?"
What greeted them was China, speaking in a very polite manner (how the hell did she learn keigo?[1]), who was also clad in a short skirt baby blue maid outfit, complete with those thigh high white socks and rather tall black-colored heels. The sleeves of her outfit are short and puffy, and a head piece that matched the color of her outfit was placed on top of her head. Her hair, no longer restricted by those disgusting penis cups, is left hanging loose over her shoulders.
Oh, and did he mention the frilly white apron she over over the maid outfit?
Since when the hell did she start working here anyway?
"Oh, Chi-" before Yamazaki could complete his sentence, she had forced a palm over his mouth, effectively silencing him.
"I'm... Maiko [2]. And I'm the head maid for today." she said as calmly as possible, all the while gripping Yamazaki's face quite tightly, a vein threatening to pop on her forehead. "Please, won't you have a seat over at the corner?"
Notes:
[1]keigo - polite Nihongo. Used by most Japanese in the service industry when talking to customers. Also used by people who need to be really formal to the person they're talking to.
[2]Maiko - as far as I know, a lot of those who work as maids in cafes don't give out their personal information, so they go by nicknames. I chose the name 'Maiko' because it literally means 'dancing girl', and 'kagura' is a type of a Shinto ritual dance. Closest thing I can come up with, yep.
Thanks for reading! Part 2 will be out shortly.