Disclaimer: I don't own Gintama, that honor belongs to the Gorilla author AKA Sorachi Hideaki.
Timeskip into the Future
It's been four years and we're back in Edo, where Gintoki and Shinpachi along with all their friends have been just living their lives and still having crazy adventures. Since Kagura left at fifteen to travel with her Papi, she's been gone until now and at eighteen, she's back! Many crazy things will happen now that Kagura is back with Gintoki and Shinpachi.
"Ah!" Kagura exclaims as she walks off the spaceship in the terminal with her Papi. She smiles as she looks around at the familiar place of her youth. Umibozou smiles at how much his young daughter has grown.
"Kagura-chan, you look just like your mother," he says endearingly before sighing.
She smiles as she replies, "Oh, Papi! I'm so glad to be back and just before winter sets in!"
She looks at a calendar in the terminal and sees it is October 11th. She stops and realizes what day it is as her Papi goes to pick up their scarce belongings. As he grabs the bags, he realizes she hasn't followed him.
"Kagura-chan, what's wrong?" Umibozou worriedly inquires.
Her face breaks out in a grin as she exclaims, "It's Gin-chan's birthday! Come on, Papi!"
Kagura grabs her father's arm and nearly sprints out of the terminal, barely dodging other people around them. They make their way down street after street toward Kabuki-chou. They arrive at Yorozuya Gin-chan's when Umibozou stopr her.
Confused, Kagura questions, "Papi, why are you stopping me?"
"Um, Kagura-chan? Do you know what time it is?" her father asked.
Not seeing what he means, she looks at the sky and sees that it's barely dawn.
"Oops but Gin-chan won't mind once he sees me!" Kagura rationalized.
Before he could stop her, Kagura ran up the steps and nearly broke down the door as she pounded on it. Grumbling in the hall to the door could be heard near the door and Kagura nearly jumped out of her skin.
"Who the hell is it?" Gin barely spoke before she jumped and wrapped her legs around his waist.
As she pressed her face into his neck, she kept saying happily, "Gin-chan, Gin-chan..."
Shocked, Gin was trying to register the situation as Umibozou came up the stairs.
Glaring, he demanded, "What are you doing to my Kagura-chan?"
After a few seconds of silence, Gin shouted, "This is Kagura?!"
Once the shock wears off and Gin wakes up, they sit talking in the main room.
Dazed, Gin asks, "When did you guys get in?"
"Not even an hour ago. Kagura here raced down here when she noticed the date," Umibozou explained.
Just as he finished, Kagura grinned and exclaimed, "I missed you, Gin-chan! Sadaharu!"
Sadaharu had run into the room as he heard Kagura's voice. Kagura hugged Sadaharu and cried with joy at seeing her beloved pet. Gin and Umibozou smiled at how happy Kagura was to see Sadaharu.
After Kagura sat with Sadaharu, Gin asked, "Do you guys want to stay here until a decent hour? Shinpachi will be here around 11AM or so and he'll be happy to see you too."
Since Kagura looked so happy, Umibozou accepted.
"Okay, I'll sleep on the couch and you guys can take the futons in my room," Gin proposed.
"No, I can sleep out here, Kagura can take the bedroom. We can talk anyways," her Papi reasoned.
Once Kagura went to sleep in the bedroom, Gin asked, "What the hell have you been feeding her? I saw her nearly three years ago and now...she barely looks like what I remember."
Abashedly, Umibozou explained, "It's a Yato thing, girls blossom around fifteen until they're about eighteen. She looks just like her mother."
He looks nostalgic as he finishes and Gin coughs to change the subject.
"So you both look good. I figured things were good from the letters but..."
Umibozou sighed as he said, "I felt a bit jealous at how much she talked about Earth, here, you..."
"Well, it just felt off when she's been gone. Sadaharu's been sulking and Shinpachi feels like...we're missing our third member so much. Even Okita missed her to fight," Gin mused.
"Let's go to sleep for bit, I'm tired. Kagura dragged me all the way here after all," he suggests.
Gin nods and they take a couch each and lay down. As the two spoke in the main room, Kagura was trying to get ready. She considered using her old futon but grabbed Gin's. She snuggled into the futon as she laid it down. She cuddled into the futon and fell asleep once they decided to sleep too.
Around 11:30AM, a knock was heard that woke Umibozou. As he went to answer the door, Gin stumbled to his room.
"Huh?" he said when he noticed that Kagura was sleeping in his futon.
Shinpachi was surprised to see Kagura's dad open the door.
"Umibozou-san, I didn't know you were here. Kagura's here?"
He nodded as he said, "Come in, I'll go get that baka up."
As Umibozou was leading Shinpachi inside, Gin ran into his room and shut the door.
"Hm, where is he?" he said as Shinpachi followed behind the alien hunter.
Meanwhile in Gin's room, Gin ripped the covers off of Kagura and picked her up out of the futon.
Kagura groaned sleepily as she said, "Mmm, Gin-chan?"
"Time to wake up, brat! And why were you in my futon?" he anxiously demanded.
"Missed you. More comfortable," she sleepily mumbled.
As that was probably the best answer he was going to get, he picked Kagura up to take to the main room. But just then, Umibozou opened the door with Shinpachi next to him. At first, their faces were blank until they formed a misunderstanding.
"You're rotten, Gin-san," Shinpachi stated dully.
Even though Shinpachi had some composure, Umibozou lost his head as he shouted, "What are you doing to my Kagura-chan!? I'll kill you!"
Umibozou smung his umbrella at Gin only for it to be caught expertly by Kagura.
"I thought you were still half-asleep, Kagura," Gin stuttered out.
Kagura just gave them all a look, as if to say 'Are you all serious?'
She sighed as she replied, "How could I still be asleep with all this noise?"
"Well, explain yourself you punk!" Umibozou barked in a rage.
"She was-" Gin started to answer before Kagura stopped him.
"Papi," she said authoritatively, "I wanted to sleep in Gin-chan's futon and he obviously found me in here a few minutes ago. He was trying to get me up since megane is here, duh."
Crickets could be heard as both Shinpachi and Umibozou felt quite stupid now.
Shinpachi cleared his throat and announced, "Let's go eat and talk later, okay?"
They all nodded as they left Gin's room. Shinpachi and Gin made rice and some other food that had been in the fridge. Kagura fed Sadaharu hile they cooked and Umibozou watched t.v. After they ate in silence, Umibozou clumsily said, "Well, sorry. Since Kagura's older, I jsut get more overprotective with her since she's still kind of naive."
"It's fine," Gin replied, "that isn't so different from when we first met, right?"
Kagura suddenly announced, "I want to see Anego-chan!"
They all sweatdropped at Kagura but they all agreed and left to the Shimura dojo.
Onto the second chapter!