Me: I'm here with a Gintama fanfic! Please enjoy!

Hijikata: She does not own any characters from Gintama. The OC that she makes are what she owns.

Me: R&R!

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This is the story of Kumi Fujisaka and her relationship with the boy who is known as Thorny. Ever since these two had met, Kumi felt that she has to stay at his side no matter what happens to either one of them. This is how she met and became friends with him.

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I grew up in the town where the boy known as Thorny also lives. Everyone I knew hated him. My parents even hated him. I just didn't know why. I asked them many times, but they would just keep quiet. Their silence made me irritated that I decided to visit him one, particular day.

My family lives right next to the house where he lives. I only saw him once. It was when his mother brought him there to meet his father. During the night, as my parents were sleeping, I sneaked out of the house. I went towards the boy's house and found him sitting on the front steps. I slowly approached him.

As I walked towards him, his head moved and he looked towards at my direction. Knowing that there is nowhere to hide, I just walked towards where he is sitting and sat next to him. He did not say anything. We both sat there for a few moments until I spoke up.

"So, what's your name?"I asked him with a smile.

He didn't look at me until I heard him spoke quietly. "Hijikata... Toshirou."

I grinned. "I'm Fujisaka Kumi. I live right next to you!"

Hijikata looked at me. "Really?"

I nodded. "Is it okay if I call you Shirou-Chan?"

He looked at me in surprise and looked back down. "Sure."

"Great!" I stood back up again. "You wanna meet up at the same place tomorrow?"

He looked at me again. His eyes were full of happiness and joy. I started to go back while saying, "See you tomorrow!"

"Yeah!" He ran back inside to his house as I quietly went back into my own house.

We continued to meet at night after that night. One day, my mother noticed that I have been sleeping late into the afternoon. She demanded me to tell her what I have been doing during the night. I couldn't tell her that I was meeting up with Hijikata, so instead, I told her that I stayed up late to read. She didn't ask me anymore.

Without knowing it, 4 years had passed until the day of the incident.

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On a Tuesday afternoon, my father came home drunk. My mother tried to ask him what had happened but, he just pushed her away. In his drunken state, he started to destroy everything. My mother screamed for him to stop but he still continued to destroy. The commotion brought me downstairs to find him stabbing my mother to death.

I ran over to him and tried to pull him off. He flailed his arms wildly, causing the knife to slash deep into my right eye. I cried out in pain and fell to the floor. My father started to rage about how he lost everything and how he can't support us anymore. He continued to stab my mother.

She told me to run. I just couldn't. I didn't want her to die. But her eyes pleaded me to go. Holding back my tears, I ran out of the house, leaving my mother to die in the hands of my deranged father.

The blood started to drip heavily, causing my vision to blur. Without a destination in mind, I ran towards Shirou-Chan's house. As I walked up the stairs, my legs began to grow heavy. I reached the front door and banged it loudly as I could. The door opened and a man looked down at me in surprise. I collapse to the floor from losing too much blood. He carried me in without a word.

I couldn't remember how many days that I have passed out or how many days since the incident had happened. I only remember seeing Hijikata's face as I drifted in and out of consciousness.

Somehow, I managed to snap out of it. There were people all around me. They all had thought I couldn't survive. Shirou-Chan pushed himself through the crowd of people and hugged me tightly. He wouldn't let go no matter how many times I tried to shake him off.

After my recovery, the news came. After the man called Tamegoro carried me in, he called on or two of his brothers to come with him and they all went next door. There, they found two bodies in a pool of blood. They tried to find a pulse but there was none to be found. They said that he committed suicide after killing his wife.

Now, they didn't know what to do with the house. They all decided to destroy it because they know that the daughter, the only survivor, wouldn't live there anymore. I was brought into the Hijikata household after the death of my parents.

A year had passed after that...

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I managed to get along with the members of the Hijikata household during the year. Whenever Shirou-Chan isn't around, Tamegoro-san would tell me that he is the son of his father's mistress and he had never met him before. He was sick after meeting his son.

He took me out for a walk. He brought me to the fields and we walked until the sun is about to set. He told me a bunch of funny stories along the way home.

As we got home, I thought I smelled something weird. Tamegoro-san saw flames on the roof and ran into the house. I followed him. We tried to find the source of the fire until I heard Hijikata's cry for help. I ran off and found the room where he is crying for help. I flung the doors open and found him cowering from two men, one of which is holding a knife in hand. Bad memories of my father murdering my mother flooded into my mind. I became afraid that he will be killed like how my mother was killed. Without thinking, I ran towards the one nearest Shirou-Chan and tried to push him away. He wouldn't budge. He grabbed the front of my kimono and threw me at the wall behind him.

The one holding the knife slashed and Tamegoro-san blocked it. The slash took out his eyes and Hijikata enraged. He somehow managed to obtain the knife and started to beat them up. I watched in horror as Tamegoro-san wiped the flowing blood from his eyes.

As he was finished, Shirou-Chan stood there, panting. I went towards him and hugged him. He seems to have calmed down a bit. I couldn't smell the smoke anymore. Someone must have put the fire out.

We continued to stand there until voices could be heard somewhere near the entrance. I found everyone whispering among themselves. They were probably talking about him and hating him even more. I squeezed his hand, assuring that I will be at his side.

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After what had happened, the three of us, Shirou-Chan, Tamegoro-san and I left the Hijikata household. Tamegoro-san decided to leave because he knows that Hijikata did not truly belong among the members of the Hijikata household. He decided to build a new life with the three of us together.

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Me: Yay! It's finished!

Kumi: That's quite long...

Hijikata: Hurry up and bring us to the present.

Me: Alright, alright. See you all in the nest chapter!