A/N: Festivals are nice. Especially when the Yorozuya is involved. Everything becomes messed up. But there's always this one thing that remains the same: I don't own TRC or Gintama.

Best Quote at a particular game stall: "I got your nipple!"

Sun was setting when the group reached the Park. On the way, Mokona had looked around the streets, occasionally reporting that it did not sense any type of magic source. There was a main stream of people moving in the general direction to the park.

"Those people in the same uniform… are they the police?" Fai asked, pointing to a pair of men across the street.

There were similar men who wore black uniform, each of them had a sword with them. Some walked along with the crowd while others looked on the street behind the shadows.

Fai's gesture attracted one of the men's attention, who then proceeded to approach them.

"Danna," Okita Sougo called out, walking to them nonchalantly. He had a fox mask on the side of his head, and held a bottle of soda.

"What's this? The Shinsengumi are going to the party as well?" Gintoki commented based on Okita's slack attitude.

Okita just shrugged and said, "I wish I could, but this time we have serious stuff going on."

"You wish you could… aren't you having fun?" Kagura said, discontented at the presence of the blonde Shinsengumi captain.

Okita ignored her and instead gave the Travelers his attention. He looked at them generally, stopping slightly longer at Sakura. "Friends of yours?"

"Yeah, they've just arrived Edo today," Gintoki replied casually.

"What's with the tight security?" Shinpachi asked, attempting to distract Okita, in case he developed a further interest in the Travelers.

Okita's sight left the Travelers as he explained, "It's mainly for that stupid prince, but we don't care much about him anyways."

He then pulled two crumpled pieces of Wanted notices from his pocket. "In fact, we received information that these two wanted men were spotted around this area a few days ago."

One of the notices had a picture of a strict looking man in a plain kimono with long black hair. Another had a picture of a man with short hair in a colorful kimono with an eye patch covering his left eye. The notices read Katsura Kotarou and Takasugi Shinsuke respectively.

"Oh…" The Yorozuya simply said.

"Anyways, Danna, be careful tonight. You have a cute young lady to take care of… in case the monkey girl bit her," Okita commented, eyeing Kagura purposefully.

"Who the hell is a monkey girl? Sadist freak," Kagura retorted loudly.

"It's you, of course. Or is the monkey brain malfunctioning today?" Okita countered.

Five seconds into the teenagers' staring contest that somehow had begun without warning, Hijikata Toushiro came over.

"Sougo, why are you taking such a long time? It's time to report to Kondo… oh, it's you," Hijikata said when he saw the Yorozuya.

"Die off, Hijikata," Okita said coldly as he continued the staring contest with Kagura.

"Wha… What do you mean by that? We're on a job, you sadist freak," Hijikata replied angrily, and reached out, dragging Okita away.

He then eyed the Travelers momentarily, his eyes settling on Kurogane a little longer then warned, "Don't give us any trouble. If we find you acting suspicious, we'll arrest you."

Kurogane returned Hijikata's stare, showing that he was not at the least intimidated. Both captains of the Shinsengumi then turned around and returned to the row of patrol cars parked at the further side of the street.

"Whee…" Fai faked a whistle and said, "Those men are tough, right? Kuro-rin…"

Kurogane just gave a grunt in response.

"Fai said that they're the police," Sakura thought out loud, in which Shinpachi nodded in agreement.

"They're a bunch of men with balls and nothing else," Kagura spat, still unhappy at her encounter with Okita.

Both Syaoran and Sakura blushed slightly at Kagura's embarassing comment while Shinpachi reprimanded, "Kagura-chan! How many times do I have to tell you that girls do not speak of such like this?"

"You know those Wanted men?" Kurogane started. "Your reaction showed it all, though I have no idea why that young man did not notice."

"Well…" Shinpachi tried to explain about the Jouishi shi but was interrupted by an explosion behind the group.

Strong warm wind blew at the group as orange light lit up the street. They turned and found that the patrol car had exploded and soon there were shouts of "It's Katsura! Get him!" Soon, the Shinsengumi started running down the back lane and disappeared within a few minutes.

"They are people that we don't wish to associate with," Shinpachi concluded without a doubt.

The Park was very lively. A huge crowd had gathered under the stage, waiting eagerly for the Opening ceremony to begin. At one corner of the stage, there was an evil group of audience chanting, "Baka! Baka!" A particular purple alien would probably have been sneezing away in his limo on the way to the Park. The rest of the crowd was chatting excitedly among themselves.

Behind the stage were stalls selling food and drinks. Game stalls were placed in between them. Kagura was already looking excitedly at one of the nearer target shooting stalls. The Travelers were delighted at the lighter atmosphere as compared to the previous countries that they had traveled to. It was such a happy event that Syaoran was momentarily distracted, absorbing the sights and sounds of the festival, Sakura's eyes sparkled with curiosity and excitement and Fai smiled warmly for once in quite a while. Mokona danced on Syaoran's shoulder happily. Gintoki and Kurogane were generally expressionless, with only both men's dead fish eyes being a little larger indicating how much the event is affecting them. Just a little larger.

"How about we get some drinks first?" Shinpachi said, bringing out his wallet.

As the Travelers nodded in agreement, Mokona suddenly opened his eyes wide, showing them to be dark purple and announced, "Mekkyo! I sense Sakura's feather!"

"Where is it?" Syaoran asked urgently.

The magical being frowned as it tried to focus on the magic source. Before it found an answer, Sakura pointed behind Gintoki. Her eyes were distant, her subconscious taking over her. The group found themselves looking at the woods behind them.

"My feather… it's over there."

Elizabeth runs in pace with Katsura and in its mind, created a new song, "Ah... the orange glow as beautiful as the setting Sun... It consumes all who does not R&R..."