OWNERS SHOULD TAKE CARE OF THEIR PETS TILL THE END
The morning was filled with everything but happiness and peace. Instead of the birds chirping, the morning was filled with the sound of bickering between Gintoki and his landlady, Otose where once again arguing about the rent that he hadn't paid in 5 months. Turns out that Gintoki was infamous for this.
Otose barked at him with a cigarette between her fingers. "If you don't have the money, sell your liver or your balls, you shithead!"
"Stop bitching about the rent, old hag! I fixed your TV so that should cover the rent!" Gintoki face sneered while scratching his the back of her head.
"No excuses! It's five months worth of rent! And the TV broke again anyway!"
Canarie and Shinpachi looked at the chaos unfolding while they climbed the stairs and saw Otose strangling Gintoki in a headlock.
Shinpachi sighed. "Haa...They're at it again..."
"Let's just...leave it for now." Canarie stopped at the bottom of the stairs to wait until it was over.
That was his problem anyway he really had no room to talk since he hasn't paid either her or Shinpachi. It's already been half a month since they started working here, but since a freelancer business, they don't make much of a profit. Canarie had to leave the place she's been living if because it was sucking her money away and reluctantly had to live at the Yorozuya. It's like their life hasn't changed one bit, still a poor life. Shinpachi was even starting to wonder if he and Canarie had made the right decision in following this man.
Canarie looked up to the sky, seeing the ships flying around above Edo. No matter the years to pass, it was something she still can't get used too upon seeing.
"I wonder if we'll have a client today?" She muttered and looked back, seeing Gintoki literally being thrown down the stairs at them. Canarie's eyes widen and she quickly ducked down. Gintoki sailed over her head and crashed into Shinpachi behind her.
"GYAAAH"
The Inside of the Yorozuya was rather simple and nice if it's clean, thanks to Canarie though. Since she's been living here she's been having to take care of the chores in place of rent. There were two large couches and in between was a table. At the back of the room were a desk and chair that Gintoki usually sits in, and right above his head was a sign that said 'Sugar Content', for some reason.
Shinpachi powered himself a cup of tea. "What are you gonna do. Owing money like this..."
Canarie grabbed the kettle and powered herself a cup of tea too. "You do realize that we are counting on you, right? Shinpachi's family and me."
"Y'know," Gintoki rubbed his chin and though. "Having two kidney's is very troublesome."
"What are you thinking?! You can't have ours!" Shinpachi shouted.
"Don't be selfish. Money doesn't come to people who work hard." Gintoki flipped the TV on, but there was only static. "Damn reception." he knocked on it a few times.
"You can't use yourself as an example because you hardly work." Canarie spat back. She got up and clenched her fist, slammed it down on top of the TV. It shook before the picture finally come up. "Here."
Gintoki blinked. He looked to Canarie then back to the TV a couple of times as his peanut brain tried to process what just happened. "How'd you do that?"
Canarie pointed down to where she hit it. "Smack it on the right side, not the center."
Gintoki nodded. "I gotta remember that."
The TV was on special alien attack alert. "At the moment, the creature is thought to be heading towards the Shinjuku area, If you live in that area, please make sure to evacuate quickly..."
Gintoki stood right in front of the TV. "Hey, another alien report from the terminal."
Canarie sat back on the couch. She crossed her legs and leaned against her hand. "There sure been a lot recently."
Shipachi shook his head at those. "Right now, how we're gonna life is more of a problem to us then aliens."
Just then to doorbell rang. Gintoki suddenly sprinted to the door and broke it down with a fierce kick. "I told you we don't have the money right now you rotten old hag!" His foot made contact with an unknown man right in the face. "Eh?"
The man collapsed to the floor.
"Captain!" One of the other men shouted.
"Hey! What do you think you're doing?!"
Canarie poked her head out the door. "Is it Otose-san?" She asked, but looked down and saw the man passed out on the floor. "What the?"
"It's my bad." Gitoki started to walk back into the house, pushing Canarie with him. "Please excuse us?"
"Wait, stop!"
Gintoki felt a barrel of a gun pushed at the back of his head. "You two are the Yorozuya, right? I'm gonna need you to come with us." One of the men ordered.
Gintoki looked at him from the corner of his eye. "No thanks. My mom told me never to follow strange people."
"Don't you need to listen to your landlady?" The man who was passed out before got up, fixing his sunglasses on his face.
Canarie's small figure peeked out from behind Gintoki. She narrowed her eyes slightly upon seeing the gun. "Are you guys from the Shogunate?"
The man's nose still dripped with blood. "We're from the immigration office. We've got a job for you Mr. Yorozuya."
The three were then transferred in a black car and drove down the highway with them in the back seat.
The man from before looked over his shoulder. "I'm Taizo Hasegawa from immigrations, a section of the Shogunate that controls the entity sites of Aliens."
"Hmm." Canarie raised her hand. "What do you want from us?"
"You're the Yorozuya, right? I heard there was a guy that would do anything for money. So, I would like you to do something for me." He obviously explained, not exactly telling them what it was.
"A job?" Gintoki asked. "I did know you guys have jobs. Seeing how the Aliens do whatever they please in this city." He said rather harshly.
"That harsh." Hasegawa smoked his cigarette. "We're doing everything we can, you know? It's because of them, Edo has advanced so far ahead. Plus, they seem to love it here, so we can't disrespect them."
Canarie huffed and rolled her eye. She leaned back in her seat and crossed her arms. The amanto. They come in with their big guns, threaten the people here, take over and is now trying to make this place their new home. All the while screwing up other people life's in the process. You can't fight back or you'll be obliterated.
"Even the Shogun is starting to get along with them. To drive them out of this world is like a dream. But all we do now is adjust and get along with them."
Gintoki leaned back and having his hand on the back of his head. "Adjust...So what do you want me to do?"
"We can't really move around flexibly. That's just how this job is. If we do anything stupid, we will lose the Shogunate's trust. Actually, the Shogun is having problems trading with the outside world. There's something so bad that it can turn this country into chaos. The price is here with us right now, but he had problems as well."
The prince that Hasegawa was referring too was a short, purple colored amanto who wore flashy clothes and had this strange antenna coming out of his forehead.
He petted a small kitten in his hand. "My pet 'Pesu' is gone. Can you catch her for me?"
The Yorozuya imminently started to walk away.
"Hey! Wait a minute!" Hasegawa called to them. He grabbed Gintoki's shoulder. "You're the Yorozuya, right? You'll do anything, right!?" He desperately asked them.
"Shut up. I should break your glasses, baldy!"
"Ok! I'll let that slide. Just take the job!" He suddenly draped his arm around Gintoki's and Canarie's shoulders. "This is bad. We borrowed a lot of things, like money, from this country."
Canarie gave the man a blank stare. "It's your own dang problem. If a country's gonna fall over a stupid pet, then let it fall. It'll probably be better off."
The stupid price cut in. "What do you mean 'stupid pet?' Pesu is part of my family."
Both Gintoki and Canarie turned their heads towards the prince. "Find it yourself, dumbass prince."
Hasegawa quickly covered both of their mouths. "Hey! Hey! He may be stupid, but he's a prince! A prince!"
"You do realize he can hear you, right?" Shinpachi bluntly stated. "If it's something that simple, you guys can solve it yourselves."
"No! It's not that simple! Because this pet is..."
Suddenly the building behind them collapsed. Something immersed from the wreckage, a large monster with tentacles and sharp teeth.
Canarie started at if with a very dead expression as the idiot Prince cheered for it and asked for one of them to catch it.
She slowly turned to Hasegawa and pointed to the monster, Pesu. "You're screwing with us, right?"
"I'm not, honestly!" Hasegawa frantically pointed to Pesu. "You see what I'm talking about now!?"
"Thanks for giving us details!"Canarie stomped her foot on the floor repeatedly and screamed at him. "Ain't this the Alien who's been causing a fuss on TV recently?! And who the hell in their right mind would keep this thing as a pet?!"
"Pesu is an unknown creature that I found on Planet Hikyo." The idiot Prince explained. "It liked me, so I took it back in my sp-!" Pesu whacked the idiot with his tentacle and sent him flying.
"It doesn't like you at all!" Shinpachi annoyingly shouted. He looked to the monster and saw it was starting to move away. "Oh no! It's heading back to town!" Shinpachi looked and saw Gintoki and Canarie standing in its way."Gin-san! Cana-san!"
The two got their weapons ready.
"Shinpachi, go get the soy sauce." Gintoki gave a lazy smile. "Canarie. How does octopus sashimi, sound for dinner?"
Canarie gripped her sword tightly. "It sounds marvelous."
The two ran to the monster but Hasegawa tripped their feet and they immediately plunged to the ground, landing in their heads. "I won't let you!" He screeched at them.
Gintoki grabbed his throbbing head. "Oww! What the hell? Canarie, is my brain leaking out?"
Canarie rubbed red chin. "What the hell are you doing!?" She roared to Hasegawa.
"No swords. The prince told us to catch it unharmed," he ordered the impossible mission.
Gintoki got up. "Unharmed? You can't do that!"
Canarie lost since lost her cool. She pointed to the monster with her eyes demented with extreme annoyance. "How in the hell do you expect us to do this then, huh!?"
"Uwaah!" Shinpachi was suddenly lifted in the air by the tentacle and started to be pulled towards its open mouth.
Canarie's eyes widen in terror. "Shinpachi?!"
Gintoki and Canarie started to run towards it to save their glasses. "Damnit!"
They were forced to skid to a halt through when the sound of a gun clicked behind them. Hasegawa held them out gunpoint and stared at them with threatening eyes, despite the coldness radiating off of Canarie's anxious body.
"Don't be stupid." Hasegawa threatened them.
Canarie slowly turned her head over her shoulder and glared with the fury of a blizzard. "You little..."
"Ok. It's obvious we can't catch it unharmed. But if we don't make some sacrifices, the stupid prince won't be happy." His look was as hard as stone and with no remorse in his sunglasses.
"You're gonna let our partner be food so the prince will be happy?" Gintoki scoffed with disgust.
Canarie slowly reached for the hilt on her sword and cracked it open a little. "I see. So you guys are already rotten."
"I told you, we have to adjust to them. Even if this way is rotten, I'm gonna save this country, my way. This is the path I chose."
"Your way, huh? It's too bad that our roads clash." She snapped her sword shut and the barrel of Hasegawa's gun was split in two before he could even see her blade. There was no glimmer of silver or any indication of a striking motion from her hand at all. Her speed was absolutely unreadable.
Gintoki and Canarie took the chance to pull away from Hasegawa and to run to the monster as Shinpachi wrestled with its jaws.
Hasegawa reached his hand out. "Stop! Just one person or the whole country! Think which is more important!"
Gintoki and Canarie dodged the tentacles that came crashing down, repeatedly trying to squish them. Those two more in total syn without falling behind one another. It was as though Gintok had seen Canarie's moves before and was able to keep up with her speed.
"How the hell should I know!? Gintoki shouted back at the top of his lungs.
Canarie jumped to the side as a tentacle slammed down beside her. She ran up it towards its mouth. "Shinpachi! Don't die yet!"
"Whether the Shogun or this country falls...I don't care. Until my body shatters...until her body breaks...we're gonna stand straight and live our own lives!"
Gintoki and Canarie leaped into the monster's mouth and seconds later the amanto monster threw up blood like a fountain and crumbled to the ground. Dead. Hasegawa stared up as the blood rained down upon him, realization overcoming him and he froze in utter defeat.
"Shit! Those bastards went crazy on it." He sighed.
The idiot prince screeched like a banshee. "Ahh! My Pesu! My cute Pesu! She's bleeding like a fountain! Hasegawa! I ordered you to catch it unharmed! How will you take responsibility for this!? This will be the country's problem! Are you listening to me!?"
Hasegawa casually lit a cigarette and watched as Shinpachi pulled Gintoki and Canarie out of the mouth of the beast. All of them covered in its blood.
"I'm gonna report this to my father, Hasegawa!"
"Shut up."
"What!?"
Hasegawa suddenly swung his fist up and uppercut the idiot prince. "I said shut the hell up, you mudskipper alien!" The Idiot prince fell over with a large bruise on its chin.
"Ah!" Gintoki grinned and walked u to him with a mocking laugh. "Is it really okay to do that?"
Hasegawa breathed out a puff of smoke. "How the hell should I know? This is samurai country. You can do whatever the hell you please."
Canarie blinked for a moment still a grin spread across her lips as she began to snicker uncontrollably. "We're definitely screwed now though." For once she had this sense of freedom and can't help to laugh at how screwed they were now.
Gintoki large hand ruffled Canarie's blood-soaked hair. "That's stupid. Someone who gives up when it counts is the one truly screwed."
Canarie's stared up at him before her lips broke out into a smile. His comment only made her laugh more. She hunched over and held her stomach while laughing until abs began to form. Gintoki looked at her from the corner of his eyes and very faintly, a small smile crept to his face.