I Was a Page "Boy"
October 27, 2005
By: SakuraSamuraiGirl
Disclaimer: Peacemaker and all its characters belong to the wonderful Nanae Chrono.
Summary: We all know of the story of Tetsunosuke Ichimura and his life with the Shinsengumi. But here's a what if! What if Tetsunosuke was a Tetsunami force to pretend she was a boy to stay within the walls of the Shinsengumi.
Tatsunosuke Ichimura walks through a busy crowd of shoppers and merchants with a look of pain and despair. He had just returned from his interview with the commander of the Shinsengumi of the job offer as a bookkeeper. Not that the meeting itself went wrong it was the situation with his younger sibling that became an issue. The job required of Tatsunosuke to live at headquarters. When told this Tatsunosuke went into a panic when he explained to them of his younger sibling that he was taking care of since their parents were murdered by the Choshu clansmen. There was quite a pause and the commander rested his chin in his hand and smiles. He made a suggestion. Tatsunosuke groaned and felled to the ground on his knees holding his stomach. Several people stared at him and began to gossip amongst themselves of the strange man. There was still one thing that Tatsunosuke forgot to mention to the commander about his sibling.
"OOOOOWWWIE!"
A boy screamed in pain his face eating dirt. Sitting on top of him was young girl in a short, light kimono. Her kimono was light blue with a light brown obi tied around her waist. It was covered with brown muddy blotches in several sections. The girl was sitting on his twisted hand on back. The girl had her back to his head and was holding his legs to her sides.
"Take that you bastard! That will teach ya' to mess with us girls!"
"Ooow! C'mon, that hurts!"
The girls snorts indignantly and pulls his legs towards her causing him to scream out in pain again. Two other girls on taller than the other was comforting a crying young girl on the ground. A bag of candy was spilled to the ground beside her.
"Say you're sorry!"
The boy grumbles something under his breath. This makes the girl growl to herself and pull on his legs even farther over the boy's back.
"Aaaaaah! I'm sorry! I'm sorry!"
The girl smiles satisfied and slowly gets off him. She kicks him the stomach.
"Get out my sight, you jerk!"
The boys scrambles away crying. The runs her hair through her spikey hair and smiles warmly at the two girls. She looks down at the little girl who was beginning to stop crying.
"You okay?"
The little girl sniffs and nods. The spikey-haired bend down and begins to pick up the candy and tossing away the dirty ones. She hands the bag to the girl and smiles.
"All better. Good thing I was passing by to get rid of that creep, huh?"
The little girl nods and smiles as she gets up.
"Thank you, Onee-san."
"Yes, thank you very much for helping. Bye."
"Good bye, Onee-san."
The two girls waved good bye at the spikey-haired girl. The girl waves back and turns and bumps into someone larger than her.
"Hey! What the hell...oh"
Tatsunosuke looks down at the girl and blanches. The girl smiles nervously and scratches behind her head. She then looks down at her attire and notices the dirty smudge marks and tears on her kimono.
"Oh...uh...heh heh...I guess I'm a little dirty, eh?"
Tatsunosuke's fist clenched tightly and strange sounds began to slip out of his stomach.
"Grrrrr...TETSUNAMI!"
That's right. Tatsunosuke Ichimura's younger sibling is a girl, Tetsunami Ichimura.
TBC