Happy/Sad Birthday

Chapter One

Three Days Left

The day was very warm. Birds were chirping and families were taking walks around town. Kagura walked down the streets of Kabuchiko with her trade mark purple umbrella and a fresh piece of pickled seaweed. Despite the warm day, chirping birds and laughing children, Kagura was not smiling. In fact, her expression was a mixture of contemplation, fear, and down right fury. The happy attitude of the town only seemed to make her attitude worse.

The day she had been dreading was right around the corner. And man was it to be dreaded. For in three days, Kagura was going to turn sixteen.

Now, to most girls, a sixteenth birthday was the happiest day of her life besides her wedding day or the day he child is born. Kagura however was not most girls.

She was Yato and the sixteenth birthday of a Yato clansman was probably the single bloodiest day in their lifetime. It was the day when their blood would take control of their body. To most Yato this was no big deal, but for Kagura, who had fought against her blood for her whole life, the results were going to be catastrophic.

Kagura feared for everyone around her. She needed to come up with a way to seclude herself away from everyone she cared about. She couldn't even fathom what would happen if they saw her like that, let alone if they were on the receiving end of one of her deadly head butts. She even went through the trouble of threatening to burn Shinpachi's Otsu-chan CDs if he ever told anyone about what happened at Yoshiwaru. She was prideful of the fact that she could maintain her usual personality even with the ever looming boiling of her Yato blood in the back of her mind. There was no way anyone would find out.

Kagura wondered how the day had caught up to her. "Time really flies when you're having fun, uh-huh" she thought to herself. She came to earth when she was 13. Met Gin-chan and Shinpachi at 14 and since then she sort of just became unaware of the time. However, now she was regretting ever becoming so carefree and becoming so close to her friends. Not that she didn't love them; no it was the exact opposite. She deeply cared for all of them including the Sadist Bastard. They were like the family she never had, the family she always dreamed of and now they were going to be taken away from her. She really needed to get away.

Kagura continued on her walk not really paying attention to where he legs were taking her. After about an hour of mindless wandering, she found herself in the park. The sun was beginning to set and families were making their way out while couples on dates were making their way into the park. Kagura plopped herself onto a bench and brought her knees to her chest. She really needed to think of a way to seclude herself from everyone without telling them or without them finding out why she left.

She could get herself thrown in jail. The Sadist would make that easy. However, there was the ever going fact that when her sixteenth birthday came all her jail mates would be killed. Plus she could easily knock down the wall and escape thus creating more bloodshed and yet another battlefield she could die on. So that idea was immediately crossed off her list.

She could go to a deserted planet. Yea then there would be no one there and if anyone was there they could obviously be up to no good. So, if they died it would be okay. "But how will I get there?" she thought. "Gin-chan hasn't paid me in weeks." So she crossed that plan off her list too.

She could go to the desert. There aren't too many people out there so, not too many people would be in harms way. Plus, with the sun beating down on her and her umbrella she would be significantly weakened. This meant she couldn't possibly hurt a fly. It was perfect, except for one thing. With the desert sun beating down on her, if she even so moved the umbrella away from her exposing her sensitive skin…she would die. That, meant she would never ever see her friends again. Was that a risk she was willing to take?

Kagura sprang out of her sitting position and grabbed her umbrella which she had long since closed and set to the side. She looked around the park and noticed Otae and Kyuubi walking with groceries in hand. "The two of them look happy," Kagura told herself. She did not want to be the reason why that happiness would disappear, but she also couldn't stand the idea of them being killed by her hands. With her mind made up, Kagura left the park and returned to the Yorozuwa.

The next morning…

Shinpachi arrived at the Yorozuwa at his usual time. He couldn't help the feeling that something was wrong. Sadaharu lay in his usual spot, but he seemed sad, depressed even. It was weird maybe he was in love again. Shinpachi brushed it off as nothing until Sadaharu made a whining noise almost like he was crying. "Oi why is a dog that big crying!" he thought. "Maybe Kagura-chan will know what is wrong." Shinpachi made his way to Kagura's closet, but was surprised to see that it was empty.

"That's strange…" Shinpachi said aloud. Kagura never woke up before 8:30 and she never left without breakfast. "Maybe Gin-san will know" Shinpachi now made his was to Gintoki's room.

"Hey Gin-san, it's time to wake up." Shinpachi said as he opened the sliding door. Gintoki grumbled but otherwise did not wake.

"Oi you lazy samurai wake up!" Shinpachi now yelled while shaking the older man. He still did not budge.

"OI KETSUNO ANA IS HERE AND SHE WANTS TO DATE YOU!!!" Shinpachi screamed at the top of his lungs. Like seriously, he could have woken the entire neighborhood if everyone wasn't already awake. Gintoki of course woke up immediately and started getting dressed going on and on about how his dream was finally coming true. However when he finally stopped moving around he realized it was a lie and got depressed.

Shinpachi, of course, was not in the mood for this so, he immediately explained the situation.

"She's probably fighting with that Shinsengumi guy or picking on those kids at the park." Gin-san dismissed while he read his jump.

"But she left before breakfast." Shinpachi pointed out.

"She probably had a date with that shinsengumi guy."

"No way! Those two hate each other. They would most likely kill each other."

"What you didn't know? Now and days couples seem to express their feelings through name calling and picking on each other."

"That makes no sense Gin-san. If that were true then why would Sadaharu be so sad?"

"He's in love with his master, who is in love with someone else."

"What are you trying to do turn this into a shoujo anime/manga?"

"Whatever go pms to someone else"

Shinpachi popped a vein at that comment. After he rampaged and rambled on and on about how he wasn't pmsing but was concerned for a friend, he managed to get Gintoki up and out to search for their missing friend.

The two had searched everywhere. They went to the place where Kagura bought her sukonbuku and the shop owner hadn't seen her. They went to the park where she usually beat up kids and fought with Okita. For one, Okita wasn't even there and two the kids hadn't seen here. They went to Shinpachi's house, they didn't find Kagura, but they did find Otae trying to kill Gorilla-san. It was about four o'clock when the two took a break from their search.

"I think we should go get a parfait. I've deprived of sugar far too long." Gintoki said with a grim look on his face.

"We should keep looking. Besides your doctor said you should lay off the sugar." Shinpachi replied also with a grim look on his face.

"Where else could we possibly look?" Gintoki asked.

"Maybe we should get the police to help." Shinpachi stated. Gintoki smirked. Usually he would never agree for police help, but if it meant they got to annoy the Shinsengumi he was all for it.

"Yea let's go" Gintoki said right before he broke out in evil laughter. Shinpachi hesitantly followed and sweat dropped the entire way.

So how did you like it? Rate, review, and all that good jazz. Next chapter coming soon. =)

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Next chapter contains:

-Gin-san and Shinpachi annoy the Shinsengumi

And

-Kagura's first day in the desert.

Two Days Left coming soon.