Edo Daigaku
Hello everyone, since it's my first fanfiction, please be nice ^^. And I'm French so please excuse my English if I make mistakes.
It was a beautiful day of April, and Gintoki has just finish making a strawberry cake which looks delicious. Working at Katsura's bakery was always one hard labor considering the fact that Katsura-san was really strict, but also generous. When Gintoki said he would like to work in order to help his family at the age of 14, Katsura-san agreed after a long discussion. He was really grateful to the man. He needed the work and Katsura-san was always here to help him. The cake he just finished was one of his creations and he was preparing himself to deliver it.
"Katsura-san, I'm going to deliver the cake now" Gintoki said to his boss and friend.
"Okay, take care" Katsura answered.
And the young man was walking down the road in direction of Edai, the well know school reserved only to the elites of Japan. The name is actually the contraction of Edo and Daigaku, and is one of the best schools in the whole world. She was funded by the head of the Hijikata family, Hijikata Mitsuki, one of the richest women in the world. The school was made for sons and daughters of wealthy families in order for them to have the best education. Gintoki thought that a system of privileges was not really a good idea when you knew how much people die every day because of starvation, war and sickness.
"The world really is unfair" he sighed noticing the school a few meters away. "Well, it's not like I can't change it, I can barely manage to feed everyone at the orphanage."
Gintoki lived in an orphanage directed by a gentle man named Yoshida Shouyou, who everybody called Shouyou-sensei. He was a sword master and the surrogate father of Gintoki who lost his parent when he was 5. He didn't even remember them. They were just a blurred memory. He arrived in front of the school, and start looking for a certain Shimura Shinpachi when he heard a commotion near the school gates.
"Hey, looks like Shinpachi is on the roof. Do you think he is going to jump?" a student said.
"Wouldn't be surprising considering the state in which he was a moment ago. He had blood on his face. Well, that's what you gate after deceiving the F4!" another answered
'F4? What is going on? Well he is apparently on the roof so let's go.' Gintoki thought before taking the stairs to the roof. When he arrived he was surprise to see a student near the edge of the school's roof. 'What is he doing? If he isn't careful, he is going to fall.'
Gintoki cleared his throat, "Hum…Excuse me?" he said and when the young brunet turned his attention to him he continued, "Are you perhaps Shimura Shinpachi-san?"
"Yes it's me. What is it about?" He nodded while looking at the silver head with a strange look on his face clearly saying "What do you think you are doing at a moment like that?".
"Well…Hum…Do you know that you have blood on your face?". Okay, Gintoki was definitely embarrassed, because it was obvious the other young man knew it, considering the fact he was crying, his glasses were broken and his school uniform was torn. What happened to this young man, he looked like he was assault by a gang.
"Yes, I know. But thank you for your concern." He replied. "By the way, who are you?"
Gintoki woke up from his reflecting state. "Ah, yes I forgot to introduce myself. I'm Sakata Gintoki from Katsura's Bakery. I'm here to deliver the birthday cake you asked for you sister, Shimura Tae-san."
"Ah, thank you. Please bring it to my sister and tell her I'm sorry to be such a pathetic brother but now she won't have to worry about me." The brunet finished while looking at the landscape in front of him and coming closer to the edge.
Gintoki took a step closer to him, sensing something was really bad. 'My God, don't tell me…'
"What do you mean? I can't deliver it for you. You have to give it to your sister, it's an important event, and she wouldn't like a stranger taking place of her brother." Gintoki said as he walked closer to the brunet.
"She doesn't need me. I'm a bother to her, she would be so much better without me around her." He cried back.
"Don't say that, you know it's not true." Gintoki declared as he took another step.
"Who are you to say that? You don't know me, and you don't know her. Stop pretending you know what you are talking about. This school is hell. I can't bare it anymore. I just can't" He snapped back and new tears were forming in his eyes.
"And you think this is the solution? Do you really think this is going to make it better? Do you want your sister to cry at her birthday?"
"I just don't know anymore" Shinpachi finished as he took a final step to the edge and jumped of the roof.
Gintoki ran to him and took his arm as he pulled him towards himself. Soon enough, they were both of them on the roof, both shaking slightly. Gintoki took a deep breath and picked up the cake he put on the floor in order to help the brunet, and gave it to him.
"Tell your sister Happy birthday yourself" he said while looking at the other.
Shinpachi began to cry again and whispered a "thank you". Gintoki took back the stairs and has he was heading to the school gates, he took notice of the people gathered taking pictures at him. Wondering what was happening; he paid them no mind and took off. Tomorrow is a new day.
