Summary: An AU where instead of ignoring her blood Kagura follows it and takes pride in it. Not to mention that she's in the most fearful gang in edo called The Reapers. Her brother being the commander over it.
What will she do when a complete stranger just needs to destroy and forcefully get into her life?
How will this stranger react when she gains a place in his life?
Disclaimer: this fantastic anime and manga together with all the characters are owned by Hideaki Sorachi! I only own the plot of this story. Nothing else!
Warning: OOC Kagura (I'll try to keep her in character minus the 'not likes to kill' persona), I'm not good with Kamui's personality so I'm probably gonna fail good time. I mean, he's just an impossible character to... yeah. Also some slight gore in the beginning. It's not very detailed so I think it'll be alright. Probably high risk for more gore in the future.
I shouldn't upload anything more when I already have other unfinished works. I know! But… my… my feelings just won't let me… so here I am… with yet another one.
So sorry ;_;
Okita Sougo, the first division captain of Shinsengumi has never in his whole 22 years of life seen such a disaster before. Sure, he's seen pretty much everything throughout his years of being a police officer. But this certainly took the price.
Even if it weren't officially announced that it's them yet, only one solution crossed his mind upon seeing all of this, there was no mistaking it. After hearing all about them over the past four years. This mess (murder) can only have been The Reapers fault. The elite assassination group only the strongest can joins. It doesn't matter what or who you are, as long as you're strong, you're welcome. That's what he's heard. They are also the only ones attempting murders nowadays. That's not all, however, the Reapers always ends their murders with R marks made entirely by blood on the walls or out of body parts on the ground, disgusting.
This time, it was a bloody R mark on the right wall of the alleyway. He watched as the blood steadily yet slowly made its way down on the cold ground beneath.
The Reapers. The disgusting yet fascinating Reapers.
Blood Shattered walls and body parts scattered across the alleyway. Out gouged eyes and fingers detached from their respective hands. Scratch that, everything are detached from where it originally belonged. The metallic scent from the red and juicy blood are all too familiar for him. But that's just how it is when you're a bloodthirsty killer working for the Bakufu.
The other Shinsengumi officers that's been witnesses for this chaos before made entirely by one to five reapers before always talks about it. The gore, how disgusting it is. They always tells him that they still have nightmares of what they saw those times when they were at the crimes scenes; made entirely by loose body parts and blood. They say that they puke whenever they think about it, and they do. He always shrugs them off. Saying that he's seen it all already throughout the years. That it can't be that bad, they're just overreacting and has weak stomachs'. Looking at this now, with his own crimson colored orbs, he finally realizes how wrong he's been.
He may be a murderer, but these Reapers are total monsters. Not that he minded, the more inhuman and monstrous they are, the funnier they are to kill. The only thing bugging him, however, is that his coworkers haven't been lying. It's his first time seeing a murder caused by a Reaper. Or, more likely, officially seeing the aftermath of the dead bodies (humans, but could they still be called that?) caused by the reapers. Whenever he's gotten a real chance however, the bodies (or what was left of them) were covered in white sheets. The four latest years, he'd been assigned to take care of the princess Soyo-hime, the Kiheitai and other Jouinshi rebels. He had really missed something so much better than that! 'So this is how dangerous and aggressive they really are?'
If they can do this much damage to the elite Mimawarigumi police officers without that much trouble, (it certainly didn't look like they had any trouble disentangling them at all) then he just found himself some new worthy (soon dead) opponents to toy around with. He felt his sadistic side tingling. Tingling to finally meet these Reapers, once and for all.
Despite seeing all this gore. He couldn't help but smile in a sadistic manner. He feels how Hijikata looked dumbfoundedly at him; wondering what the hells wrong with him. He didn't care about it though. Because soon, he'd make sure every female in the reapers became M's. His personal M's. It doesn't matter that some of them are Amanto's. He won't lie with time anyway, just us them.
And as rumors said, there is this one special, totally untamable not to mention completely stunning and beautiful female Yato beast in the Reapers. His commander Kondou-san even told him that she's one of two suspects in this murder case. As all her murders always end in a similar way. Sure, almost all the members of the Reapers are savage. But only two members are this merciless.
The Leader of the gang, The Lightning Spear along with the Untamable Beast, are the totally merciless ones. He found himself innerly hoping that the one behind it all would be the Beastie. He wants to meet this mysterious female killer.
Wait, what was it they also called her again? Ah right, the Queen. The Yato Queen.
As if he'd drop low enough to call someone Queen.
Princess is okay, he often guards princes Soyo-Hime anyway. But not in a hundred years will he call anyone a queen. He'd just go with the Untamable Beast. Though she wouldn't be untamable for long, that's for sure.
Very, very exciting. Not to mention fun. For Okita Sougo that is.
His blood red eyes now gleaming with mischief. He's getting impatient, so he decided to ask (annoy) his superior just for the heck of it, and a little bit of his curiousity. "Hijikata-saan~, got any clues if it's the beast herself or not? I'm getting bored out of my mind."
"The hell Sougo! You're here to investigate just like me! The hell do you think you're doing slacking of and grinning like an idiot! I get that you're a sadist by heart but you can't gain that much pleasure from this! This is just straight out horrible, you wanna commit seppuku?!" Sougo looked closely as his vice commander Hijikata's cigarette almost fell out his mouth in rage. He really wants to kill the bastard.
"Ano, Hijikata-san, do you know why the Untamable Beast has two titles?" He decided to skip beating around the bush this time and straight out ignore Hijikata's "small" seppuku threats.
"Didn't you hear what I just told you brat!? Go commit seppuku, The Beast's titles are no big deal anyway, the people who admire her calls her The Yato Queen. While those who fear her calls her by The Untamable Beast. It's as simple as that. Now go back to work already!"
Sougo yet again ignored Hijikata and grumbled for a minute after hearing the answer; quite disappointed. 'Is there seriously people admiring her? It must be other Yato's or sick Amanto's out there with sick fetishes or something, but I can't help but feel curious about who she is. She's certainly stronger than the average yato. I'd really like seeing her dropping down before my knees and pleading. Still... is there no title for in between or something?'
After staring at the young adult before him for a straight minute; in complete dead silence, Hijikata simply scoffed at him and told him to get back to work, which Sougo gladly ignored and continued to sorting out his thoughts, when he was done with his slightly sadistic dreams he asked yet another question."Is there no title for in between. I neither fear her nor do I admire her."
"No, there is none in between. As there are only people who either admire or fear her. If you'd like you can just make a new title for her to call her by, but I doubt anyone would understand who you're referring to as you interrogate, now go do your job and ask around for witnesses already, or commit Seppuku!"
"Geez, what you talk today Hijibaka."
With that, the flaxen-haired officer turned around and started to walk down the eerie alleyway and out to the streets with his long sandy haired ponytail swaying by the small breezes and a slightly enraged Hijikata screaming after him. "You were the one who asked me from the very beginning! And don't call me Hijkbaka! Come back here and do your job already you punk!"
"So, Kagura-chan. Why did you need to kill those people from the Mimawarigumi so roughly? They may have gotten hand of some small information about us Reapers, but they was still innocent people, they clearly didn't deserve it!"
Blue eyes looked up from a bowl of rice and landed on a guy with black hair and glasses; clearly in a bored manner.
"But Shinpachi! They almost found out about the Reapers hideout! We can't have that! Or that's what Gin-chan, Takasugi, and Kamui-nii told me. I just did my job, yes!? Even you told me that! Besides, aren't we Reapers well known for being brutal already?" She said it with such a monotone and bored tone you could think she's actually a robot. Which, (un)fortunately she's not. No robot could possibly have that much bloodlust. But who is he to judge? Everything!
"That is true, but we didn't mean that you should torture them coldly to their demise, besides, we may be brutal and savage. But not heartless! You do this all the time! At least show them some mercy. I'm sure Takasugi-san and Gin-san would agree with me on this one, but I'm not so sure about your brother…"
Kagura nodded her head in agreement with that last comment before speaking in her defense. "You're boring yes, Megane!" Wait, is that even a defense?
"Oiiiiii! Don't call me that! I'm more than just my glasses you know!" Shinpachi forcefully pulled up his glasses that had dropped down his nose to show off how irritated he was getting at the redhead before him.
Kagura rolled her eyes in annoyance and ignorance when she suddenly got a craving to tease the 20 years old."Yeah, you're right."
*Finally, someone who understands!"
Blue orbs glinting with bad intentions and stupidity. "A virgin. You're also a virgin."
"Oiiiiiiiii! I said stop it!" Shinpachi felt as if he just shouted his lungs out at the girl. They may be childhood friends, but she sure as hell didn't know how to treat them right. And with such a sensitive subject too. She surely were a younger female version of her brother all right.
Kagura shrugged off his little panic attack and screaming behavior, getting back to eating her egg on rice.
Shinpachi, clearly tasting his defeat (once again) stood up to leave while thinking to tell her something. Hesitating he then calls out to her. "Ah and Kagura-chan"
Kagura yet again switched her attention from the food before her and towards the glasses stand. A little annoyed over disturbing her twice already. "Yes?"
"You know you're an adult now. You can make your own decisions. You don't need to follow the Reapers if you don't want to. I get that you want to follow your brother bu-"
Kagura quickly interrupted him, feeling slightly annoyed, did he really think that she's following her brother 'just because'? Because she has nowhere else to go. That's so not it, she has plenty of other places to go to. Damn Megane. "-Shut up Megane. I'm following my brother because I want to and I admire him, I don't have anything against killing anyways, yes. It's easy and satisfying. All my friends are here too in the Reapers. You, Gin-chan, Takasugi, Zura, Sakamoto, Mutsu and the rest."
Shinpachi heard the annoying tone in her voice loud and clear. That, however, didn't stop him from sending a wondering glance her way with clear dissatisfaction from her answer. The girl is like a like sister to him after all. In the end he gave up when she glared back at him and walked out the meeting room and into the kitchen to make some snacks to the redhead and their soon to arrive guests. "If you say so Kagura-chan."
When Shinpachi left she could finally eat her egg on rice in peace. She couldn't help but smile as as she thought about all her friends. She happily munched at her food while wondering when Gintoki would return. They had apparently gotten an odd jobs request and he had asked her and Shinpachi to meet up with him as quickly as possible at the Yorozuya office while he took their guests to the office with him.
'I wonder what it could be? I'm sure it's about a runaway cat or something, uh huh.'
She soon would get to know, that it's not.
- Authors Note -
Please send a review if there is anything I should or can improve. Or just send a review if you liked it, or didn't like it.
So, I decided to write with " instead of - this time. Mostly because I felt that it matches the story line etc. And I may switch back to using " instead of - in my other works too. I have decision-making anxiety with small stuff like this… I always have. So I may in the future change back to - if I decide to change to " because I can't chose. I can never chose...