Gintoki was sitting on some random bench drinking his strawberry milk. For more that he gulped down his sweet goodness he couldn't bear the heat of the day. Just another damn annoying hot day in Edo. Kagura and Sadaharu had gone off to walk around town while Shinpachi was with his sister Otae doing things at the dojo. It appeared to the yorozuya, that today was going to be one of those long, boring, jobless days he would love to enjoy sleeping on. Then again, the damn heat was freakishly unbearable.
"Tch, if only I had bankai I wouldn't need to go through these kinds of things." He talked to himself taking a sip from the remainder of his strawberry milk.
"Well look what bad karma decided to reel in on me, the fucking useless yorozuya" Hijikata was never actually fond of seeing Gintoki under any circumstances, if anything he was fond of the time he got to be away from the silver haired man.
"If it isn't the biggest shinsengumi baka asshole, who would have thought you'd be stalking me so much lately"
"WHO THE FUCK WOULD WANT TO STALK YOU FUCKING SILVER PERM" Hijikata replied with a bulging vein on his forehead. Gintoki always knew how to piss him the fuck off in an extremely successful way.
"So what'chu been doing bakufu dog? Hunting some panty thief again?" Gintoki wasn't much fond of Hijikata either, but he had to admit he enjoyed the idiot's company.
"As a matter of fact I've been hunting a slasher… you haven't heard strange rumors have you retarded perm head?" Incredibly enough, HIjikata was asking seriously even if he had insulted Gin in the end.
"Not even a whisper mayonnaise freak" Somehow the silver head had lost interest. He wanted to get out of this heat and inside his apartment with his friend the fan.
"Tch, that sounds about as useless as you are sweet toothed baka," Hijikata walked past Gintoki after saying those words but stopped as he felt he needed to tell the perm head something. "Be careful Sakata-san, you never know what could happen with that damn slasher around"
Gintoki could have sworn Hijikata sounded worried but he dismissed it as the blue eyed moron being a nice policeman for once in his damn career. Gin stood up from the bench and walked off to his apartment and for a second, as he walked farther away from the vice commander of the shinsengumi, he felt the need to tell the other to be careful as well.
"tch, as if the world won't be a better place is he's gone."
Kagura had gotten home safely along with the ridiculously huge dog named Sadaharu. Who hadn't actually shown up to nag about how they didn't have money to pay rent or food was Shinpachi. He assumed the kid had been doing things with his sister, but soon he started getting a bit worried. No way he was going to show it off to Kagura, but he truly was worried about the slasher thing the idiot Hijikata had talked to him about. What if Shinpachi had run unto him? They were that unlucky afte rall. By the time Gin was decided on going out, thankfully Shinpachi arrived to give out his daily nag.
"Gin-san! When are you planning to stop wasting money on strawberry milk?! We have to get proper food around here and we are short for rent! We need a job and urgently!"
"Shin-chan, you shouldn't bother Gin-chan about his milk, a man needs his strength and-" before Kagura could end her sentence she was glomped by Sadaharu and whatever she wanted to say came out as a bunch of jumbled words.
"As a samurai I need my strawberry milk, it is out of the question I stop drinking-" As he spoke knocks were heard on the door.
Kagura randomly popped out of under Sadaharu and went to tend to the door. The hissing and yelling from her part told Shinpachi and Gintoki who had come for a visit.
"Yo. How's it yorozuya party" The sadist Sogou had just walked in followed by a grumpy Hijikata.
"Shinsengumi? What do you guys want?" Shinpachi asked with an annoyed expression on his face.
"Help. You guys might be unlucky enough to help us catch the slasher." Hijikata said, moving around the unlit cigarette between his lips. "How about it? We're willing to give you some compensation for it…"
"Let us find this criminal" Kagura and Gin had both said at the same time while making some kind of special hunter pose.
"ISN'T THAT A BIT TOO DANGEROUS?!" Shinpachi over dramatically screamed as he flailed his hands all over as if to underline his already exaggerated reaction.
"A samurai always take risks for what is right" Gin said with a cool smile.
"And I want pickled seaweed" Kagura added in her own straightforward direction.
"Then it is settled, we'll split into groups and search for the slasher" Hijikata said as he humphed and looked as annoyed as ever. He hated all so much to ask for the former shiroyasha for help, he felt as if he could barf all over.
"Let the hunt begin"