Shinpachi, Kagura, and Otae felt betrayed when Gintoki attacked Hajime. What would have happened if they never knew the full truth to his actions?

Disclaimer: I do not own Gintama. Hideaki Sorachi does.

"Shin-chan!" Both Shinpachi and Otae took off in a hurry. Kagura trailing behind them.

"Sorry, big guy." Sougo clenched his fist. "I can't tell them after all."

A red flash illuminated the whole room as the half-cyborg walked away from the smoke.

He didn't reach far as a wooden sword appeared beside his neck. He was flung to the far wall as a lone figure stood among the smoke.

"You're still alive?" Hajime groaned as a sword impaled itself to his shoulder. Crimson eyes stared back at him in the shadows.

"If I can't bring you back alive, I just have to beat you half to death until you come back." He shivered as he felt the weight behind those words. 'He isn't kidding at all. He plans to kill me!' The half-cyborg tried to unleash another explosion when his arm was amputated from his body. He took that moment to run from the figure. When did he took the sword from my shoulder?

"Oi, oi. Don't run now. I had to do dogeza to those bastards just for this." A lazed voice echoed. The smoke cleared up as it showed a man with a silver perm, covered with blood with his sword hoisted up his shoulder. That, alongside the moonlight shining down, made him look like a white demon sent from hell.

"Your brother figure is really crumbling down." He murmured as he summoned another sword. In an instant, the man before him disappeared. 'Where did he-?!'

"I told you, neither Shinpachi nor I am interested in being brothers!" He barely managed to block against a barrage of attacks, grunting from the sheer force from each swing. His machines screaming from its constant distress. Then and there, he knew he wouldn't last long.

A blow slipped to his defenses before long, successfully incapacitating him. "What's wrong, Obi-one? Need more gasoline?" Positions switched, he tried to spur the emergency defense system inside him to work, not noticing that it was already destroyed.

The demon stood still among the shadows, his eyes piercing through his soul. "They'll never forgive you for this..." The half-cyborg whispered.

Gintoki raised Gengai's sword. "We were never brothers, anyway." He simply said before swinging it down, only for it to collide with another sword. His eyes widened as he noticed the figure who stopped him.

"Shinpachi...? Why are yo-" He never finished as the boy before him wildly swung his sword at him. He could feel his rage at his actions. Two more joined as he found himself on the other side of the room.

"Otae, Kagura..." He mumbled before hanging his head down.

"I'll never forgive you for this, Gin-chan!" Kagura shouted as she pointed her umbrella at him. The other girl glaring daggers at him, promising imminent death if he dares come close.

"Gin-san, I trusted you." He glanced back to Shinpachi. His hands tightly gripped at his sword. Gintoki met his eyes as they blazed with pain and hatred.

Gintoki clenched his fist. 'This is for them. This is for them.' He chanted like a mantra. 'This is why I'm playing the bad guy-' A small voice interrupted his thoughts.

'But they don't even realize that you're doing it for their sake, do they?' Suddenly, he found himself in a battlefield, surrounded by countless corpses. He was standing alone, his sword dripping with blood.

'Their siding with the person that may very well kill them and opposing the one who's trying to save them' His grip on his sword tightened.

'Give it up, Shiroyasha. You can't protect anything. Everyone around you are bound to die.' He can't say a word in response.

"Gin-san..." A voice interrupted before lifting his sword up to block an attack. For the first time, he saw Shinpachi for who he truly is. A samurai fighting to protect his friends. He continued to defend himself as Kagura joined in on their fight while Otae tended to Hajime. His thoughts were blank. He can't feel anything. He can't see anything.

'You're just a demon who kills everyone for his own selfishness!' His sword felt heavy as he fought back. Both of them continued to look at him as if he's a menace.

"Gin-san!"

"Gin-chan!"

They didn't stop. They wouldn't stop. For them, I'm the bad guy. Realizing that thought, he rushed forward to the half-cyborg, ignoring the cries of grief that loomed in his heart, and completely obliterated Hajime's left eye and what remained of the core in his chest. He briefly glanced up as he noticed a flicker of brown emerge from the remaining eye.

'Even if I'll be gone, at least they still have their big brother'. He smiled at the thought as he retreated back to the hole on the wall he created earlier. Shinpachi and Kagura stood back.

"Kagura," He called. "I know you'll fit well with the three of them." He looked up and let a smile form on his face. 'The last smile that they'll ever see...'

"Have a happy life, all of you. Goodbye and thank you." and with that, he escaped. Ignoring their calls of his name, and steeling himself to another life of desolation.

Edited: November, 1, 2015