Chapter 1: Oh my god, is this a Gintama romance fanfiction!?
My name is Kurumi Kobayashi and I ran away from home. The reason? I don't want to become an orthodontist. My family is very rich, they have given me whatever I wanted. We currently own over 10 mansions all in different countries. But, our family is made of orthodontists. Each child born into the family must become a professional and famous orthodontist. But, I don't want to become one! It's like my family's trying to make all the kids in the world have braces!
Currently, I live by myself in a run-down house that I rented with the little money I took. In order to earn more money, I began to work at multiple places. Tomorrow I have to work at the convenience store in the morning, construction work in the afternoon, and a hostess club at night. Today is my free day, in which I like to call Walnut Day because I'm addicted to walnuts. I sit down on the couch, turn on the television and begin to watch before becoming ultimately bored. I pop a walnut in my mouth as I open the door and decide to walk around the town I recently settled into. I don't know much about the outside world so I hope to know more. I hope that my family hasn't sent people out to look for me. As soon as I set out, people in black outfits lined with yellow appear before me.
"Do you know a girl named Kurumi Kobayashi? She's the daughter of the Kobayashi Orthodontists and her family hired us to find her because she ran away from home."
Speak of the devil.
"I don't know her."
"You little brat, you better not be lying!" The man shouted, grabbing my shirt. As he lifted me up, I noticed his black hair and the cigarette in his mouth. He was also rather tall.
"Calm down, Hijikata-san. I'm sure that if I torture her enough, she'll spit out any information she knows."
What is wrong with these people? Like I'll let them torture me.
"Hey now, could you please let go of me? You're starting to piss me off."
The whole crowd stared at me like I was the one who had done something wrong. Or perhaps they were just scared. Everyone quickly fled from the scene. The man let me down but he looked rather angry.
"You sure have some guts to oppose the Shinsengumi, kid!" He suddenly took out a sword and swung it near me.
"Whoa, calm down. Now what would you have done if that actually hit me? Jeez, you destroyed my walnuts."
He stared at me like I was crazy and the other boy seemed impressed. He whistled with a perplexed grin on his face.
"You know, I've never seen a sword before because my parents are, well, they're health freaks so they're kind of wimps so we don't have any weapons in our house." I continued, inching forward to the man but he took a step back.
The other boy came in front of me and held out his sword.
"This is a katana." He pointed to the sword.
"Katana?"
"Yeah, it was used by the samurai in the Joui Wars."
"Samurai? Joui Wars?"
"Just how much don't you know?" Black-haired man cut in.
"Hey, Toshi, Sougo, hurry up and get your dirty butts over here!"
"Shut up Kondo-san."
"Your butt's definitely dirtier than mine will ever be." The other boy said, the smirk never fading.
"Well, we've got to go, twerp. We're the Shinsengumi. Stop by anytime and we'll give you a sword for free since it's dangerous outside and you seem to know nothing."
"Aw, that's so sweet Hijikata-san."
"I'll kill you Sougo!"
"No, I'll kill you first Hijikata-san."
Just like that, the two "gentlemen" left. Either way, I need to find a good place to buy walnuts. That person named Hijikata just destroyed all of the ones I had on me. I decided to ask the people around.
"Excuse me, can you do me a favor?"
"What? A favor? If you want someone to do something for you, go to the Odd Jobs."
"Odd Jobs?"
"You don't know them? They're a group of three that will do anything for you as long as you pay them. They're located in that building over there, second floor. But they're kind of hard to handle so good luck." The pedestrian said and soon hurried off.
I stared at the large red building in front of me. The first floor said Otose Snack Bar. I walked up the stairs until I reached the second floor, which was the only floor left. The door was like one of a normal house, it didn't look like it belonged to an office of any sorts. I rung the doorbell and soon heard a loud noise before someone came to the door. He had silver hair and was picking his nose.
"If you're a newspaper man, we already subscribed." He said, with his eyes closed.
"Do I look like a man to you?"
He opened his eyes, shock soon filling them.
"It's a pretty girl!"
"Why thank you."
The man stood there, shocked. This is the Odd Jobs, right?
"What, let me see! Shinpachi, Gin-chan's not lying! She's got pink hair!" Another person came to the door and called for the last.
The last one came. He wore glasses and had black hair.
"Whoa, Kagura's right." He said, appearing behind the red-headed girl.
"Excuse me." I said, interrupting their conversation.
"Ah, please come in." Glasses said, instructing me to come in.
I followed after him and was soon seated on a couch as two of them sat in front of me. Glasses Man soon bought me a cup of green tea and stood behind the other two.
"My name is Gintoki Sakata and I'd be pleased if you accepted my hand in marriage." The silver-haired man began until Glasses Man punched him. After recovering pretty quickly from the punch, Gintoki continued.
"Welcome to the Odd Job's office. We'll do anything for you as long as you pay us."
"We'll find your lost pet!" The girl, assumingly named Kagura, continued.
"We'll do anything for a sum of money!" Glasses man finished.
"Ah, I want to know what-" But I stopped.
Was it really worth it to trouble these people with good intentions on something as low as walnuts? Not at all. I decided to change the job they would soon receive.
"I want you to help me make a friend."
They stared at me like I was crazy but, it's the truth. Ever since I was young, I was bullied by the kids and teachers in my school because of my family status. I had no friends and instead always ran away from my problems. I wanted just one person to understand me. I wanted someone to accept me.
"Please, I'll pay you anything. I want a friend who will accept me for who I am. I want to be friends with someone who doesn't care about my status."
"Status?"
"Oh, it's nothing."
"Gin-chan, you should take the job! She only needs a friend! It'll be easy!"
Gintoki looked at the boy with glasses and then nodded his head.
"Okay, we'll take up this job offer."
I grinned as I handed them the money.
"As I said before I'm Gintoki Sakata, this girl is Kagura, and that boy is Shinpachi Shimura."
"My name is Kurumi. It's a pleasure to meet you!"