A/N: All right my dear readers, I'm getting serious with this story, regular updates and stuff, doing a proper research for every little thing and carefully planing the plot- Hahahaha! Who am I kiddin?! Regular updates? Good joke! Hahaha! No. But honestly. I had this idea for a very long time in my head and am determined to write this story to the friginn' end. I know what I want to write, I know how I want to write it aaanndd... I have no idea when I'm going to write it. But I will! I promise. It's not really my first fanfic but definately the first one that I'm so serious about and the firs one that I actually felt like publishing. Hope you enjoy it!
P.S. OMG OMG ! Gintama is finally airing on tv! Ahhh I'm so excited, three episodes already watched and I so can't wait for the next ones I can't wait to see all those awesome OTP moments animated *insert crazy fangirling here*

Disclaimer:
I do not own Gintama, all rights belong to the gorilla, please give him bananas so he will draw more okikagu for us ^^

On with the story we go!


Imperial Palace in the West Kingdom of Yato was truly a magnificent view, long pavilions and high, multilevel buildings reaching for the sky, beautifully detailed columns with mythical and floral patterns, showing the fighting scenes of all kinds. Emerald roofs shining silver in the moonlight.

However the outer beauty of the place was misleading, inside a Yato clan residence the white marble walls were painted red and in the air there was a horrid scent of death; beautifully designed fabrics soaked in crimson and carefully weaved carpets stained with things one would rather not see or imagine for that matter. The everlasting rain washed all the blood away but was not able to cover that once magnificent civilization fell in ruin and formerly strongest clan on Earth was on the verge of extinction.

The cause of it was even more saddening than the effect, prosaic and almost laughable, if the outcome wasn't this horrifying one would probably snarl that you reap what you sow. The inhuman strength of clansmen came with sacrifices of every nature. The constant urge to fight, the craving for bloodshed that didn't fade away even when everything else did, even when it was already over, when other things were gone, the hunger lasted. And with a moment the last bit of consciousness faded it took over, completely and irretrievably. Yatos craved for many things, food, strength, glory and blood, the last being the strongest and deadliest. Not for everyone, though.

Most Yatos went with their instincts, being engulfed by them and completely consumed, but she didn't want that, she fought and struggled, she was a failure and weakling, disgrace for the whole clan. She was a princess. But the princess like that wasn't needed. And so the arrangements were made, the princess was to leave for another planet and marry the prince and live there for the rest of her life. She wasn't a real Yato, after all, she would go or die in here, because she wasn't strong enough and would never be.

Kagura threw a pillow at the wall of her room and growled with anger. She'd had enough a long time ago and now it got only worse. She hated this goddamned place, always rainy and gloomy, with the only excitement being killing off other clansmen. She had however a little different definition of fun, excluding words such as bloodbath and massacre. Since her mami died, she was always alone, her brother always doing something, somewhere far away, probably killing another "interesting" and "strong" person because that was his idea of fun. And her father either hunting monsters or being occupied by some important matters having something to do with ruling the country. And the last one of those "important matters" was her engagement and departing for a foreign country, the so-called "country of cherry blossoms".

The idea came from her idiot brother, who came to her room one day and announced that he decided for a political marriage between her and some lord-whatever-the-hell-was-his-name. Of course she was extremely angry at him for deciding about her life in such an important department, so naturally her first reaction was throwing herself at him with a full intent of harming him pretty badly. But that was Kamui. And for Kamui "harming pretty badly" was nothing more than a halfhearted try, he was strong and he always hit to kill. And so fifteen minutes later Kagura lay on the ground panting heavily and coughing blood while her brother with this sickening smile of his announced that she was to leave in a three weeks.

"That's the reason why you'll do it" she recalled him saying "because you're weak".

Because she was weak… There was no use for weaklings in the Yato clan, no use for those who didn't want to kill. To hell with it, she thought, she'd always wanted to leave this cursed place maybe it was a good opportunity. Somehow she would get away, she would run and no one would catch her; she would marry no one and would finally be free.


"Toushi" Kondo Isao called his fellow underling taking some sheets of paper from his pocket "Come here for a second"

"Huh?" a mildly interested vice-commander puffed a cloud of smoke and turned to his superior "What's with that, Kondo-san? You seem awfully nervous."

Truly, the gorilla-like commander of the infamous formation called Shinsengumi was shaking and sweating like crazy whilst looking anxiously from side to side. So much for building a good reputation. If people were to see the commander of the police, that were meant to protect them, at the moment, their opinion would drastically decrease, as if it wasn't low enough already. Sighing at the unappealing view before him Hijikata walked closer to his commander, he might as well get to know why he was acting as if there was a bunch of gorilla hunters chasing after him.

"I? n-nervous? N-n-no way!" Kondo stuttered "You must have had some hallucination. Hahaha nervous? Me? No way!" he laughed awkwardly and the uncomfortable silence took over the room

"So…" Hijikata coughed overwhelmed by the awkwardness of the situation in which his commander was desperately trying to seem less distressed than he really was, with a tragically bad outcome

Trying to loosen the mood and get back to the conversation he asked "What is that you wanted from me Kondo-san?"

"Oh! Right" the gorilla came back to life and gratefully began explaining to his underling the case of a new job they had.

Apparently they were to assist with the welcoming of a princess from the Yato empire and protect her royal ass as she was about to be married into the current shogun's family. Nothing extraordinary and specifically hard but if something went wrong their heads were sure to be impaled the next day and eaten by crows. Not quite the honorable death every warrior dreamt of. And to add to their misery they were also assigned to guard the soon-to-be-married royal couple until the bitter end of an oncoming ceremony to make sure everything would go smoothly and there would be no attempts to assassinate any of them little lovers. Sweet. Not that they hated marriages or any of that sort, however it would be nice if they didn't have to babysit them for the whole month before they were finally united in the holy knot of matrimony and bounded to each other for the rest of their royal life.

"Oh! And Toushi, have you seen Sougo, anywhere?" Kondo exclaimed, suddenly remembering something

"No. That brat, probably is slacking off the job somewhere again" came the curt answer "I swear I'm gonna make him commit seppuku one of this days'" and he went away mumbling some threats under his breath


Sougo, was in fact slacking off on one of the benches in the park, taking a nap. He was rather uninterested in keeping peace of Edo and patrolling the streets, as there was never anything interesting going on in this era of relative peace. From times to times he would disband one of the gangs that were popping out of nowhere quickly as the mushrooms after rain and could be compared to the annoying little flies that where always around, equally unnerving and weak. He didn't find any pleasure in defeating such pathetic opponents but he had to keep the act of a hard working policeman so his superiors wouldn't shout at him too much for not doing his job. And by his superiors he meant Hijikata-san.

Honestly this man was such a pain in the ass, always yelling at him for sleeping on his duty and threatening him with seppuku. But the most annoying part about him was that he was still alive after Sougo's oh-so-many well prepared tries of assassination. He was like a cockroach clinging to his pitiful life with all his might, being smacked and trampled, shot and poisoned was apparently not enough for the demon vice-commander to do everyone a favor and finally drop dead.

Waking up from his slumber Sougo stood up and with much better mood then before (killing Hijikata in his sleep was really refreshing after all) headed to patrol the streets. Time to do his job properly and destroy a few buildings while catching criminals. Public property was a necessary sacrifice to be made while catching joui patriots.


A/N: Soo... do you like it? Pleas, do tell me how I did and if you have any suggestions or critique don't be afraid to write it! Ugh I had a few problems with deciding if Kagura should be a princess of a country on Earth and do non-aliens AU or make it a whole universe and write about Yato planet, but in the end I decided to go with the first one as it was easier for me to write. And please, I know that I made Umibozou hunt monsters whilst being a king of the earthly country, but sorry my AU, my rules, logic doesn't apply and there ARE monsters on Earth. And sorry if there wasn't any okikagu yet in this chapter, but I promise you'll get a whole lot of it in the upcoming ones. You can treat this chapter like a prologue to an actual story ^^ R&R please!