Welcome again Readers, here is yet another update today, I just have a lot of plot bunnies for these wonderful prompts. I hope you guys are enjoying reading these as much as I am writing them because I have to admit I am having a lot of fun!

This one takes place in a Modern AU, something different from the earlier 3 stories.

Depending on what kind of reaction I get from this particular story, I might continue this with a second part.

Disclaimer: I do not own Gintama.

Moments

Prompt #4: Touch

Life was odd.

One moment, you're bored out of your mind because your life is so mundane and pointless that you are doing anything and everything possible to find something to do just to make things a little interesting. Then, before you know it your life is thrust into a dramatic disaster all soap operas are about and just when you think life is about to give you a break, an even bigger plot twist revealed.

Tsukuyo was an average 21-year-old.

She attended classes at Edo University during the day and worked part-time at a renowned café just off campus, she attended classes 3 days per week and worked 4 days, most usually getting Friday and the weekend off to do idle things and spend some time with family.

Her family consisted of her older sister, Hinowa and 8-year-old nephew Seita. Though she never showed it, she cared for both very much and felt guilty sometimes not being able to spend time with them for school and other reasons.

Tsukuyo jolted awake at the sound of her alarm, she quickly snatched up her phone and shut off the alarm system before it woke the entire neighborhood. She flipped the covers off of herself and walked in a sluggish pace to the bathroom which was thankfully empty. She placed her phone to the right of the sink after checking the time and the date.

It was a Thursday which meant she would only have 2 classes today and worked a shorter shift at the café. Happy with the sudden realization, she took a quick shower and did her bathroom duties in record time and made it to the kitchen, where she saw Hinowa trying to coax a grumpy Seita into finishing his breakfast.

"But mooooom, I don't waaaannaaaa..." whined Seita, while staring at his bowl of oatmeal with distaste. It was common knowledge in the household that Seita hated oatmeal, when and where his hatred for the delicious and nutritional food started no one really knows. According to Hinowa, it had a lot to do with this one babysitter he had, who told him to try it with mayonnaise, the boy naïvely did just that and the rest was a long story that included food poisoning and firing of aforementioned babysitter.

Tsukuyo shuddered outwardly at the image of Seita throwing up everywhere, that's a memory she honestly never wanted to relive, so they opted to never buying Mayonnaise ever again. Much to Seita's Dismay, they still bought oatmeal.

"Seita-kun, I made it just the way you like it with milk and honey." Hinowa gently told him, hoping for the boy to cave and just eat the damn thing. Seita didn't budge, he crossed his arms across his chest and looked the other way pouting. Hinowa frowned, so she'll have to use that trick again...

"Ano...Seita-kun, it's okay I guess I will just have to cook you something else again... and here I woke up so early so I could cook you something nice and have some extra time to talk with you before you have to go to school, but I guess I will just have to cook you something new..." she trailed off, looking at the table with a sad expression, before standing to get up.

Seita's quickly grabbed her wrist to stop her and looked at her with a kicked puppy expression. "Don't mom, I will eat it. I am sorry I was being such a brat." With that said, Seita quickly shoveled the oatmeal down his throat and demanding seconds afterwards. Tsukuyo could only watch in surprise, she to this day, could not get him to eat oatmeal ever since that incident and here he was eating away like he was in a sweet buffet.

Hinowa looked triumphant as she smiled up at Tsukuyo gesturing her to sit down, while she prepared a bowl for her. Tsukuyo sat down next to Seita in the 4 person dining table, and dug into her own bowl with slightly less vigor than that of Seita.

After breakfast, the three of them walked to Seita's school. It was his first day of third grade, unlike most kids who would be nervous about their first day, the boy excited chatted away to his mother about all the cool things fight moves he was gonna show his new friends.

Arriving at Seita's school, Tsukuyo waved a goodbye to her sister and nephew as she continued walking to the bus stop. It was only a short distance away from the school which made it convenient for her to pick Seita up when her sister had an emergency at work. While waiting for her bus, she listened to music and looked over her notes to kill the time.

Soon enough the bus arrived, it was slightly packed due to it being rush hour, but Tsukuyo managed to find a private place to stand as all the seats were unavailable. Since she had no music to listen to, she opted to study her notes, her professor had hinted that they might be getting a quiz today and Tsukuyo was a stickler for maintaining the perfect grades and she took great notes, so a few glances at the notes before getting to class would do the job for her.

Suddenly the bus came to a halt, and a stream of people had entered making the bus ever more crowded than before. Tsukuyo looked up from her notes and shuffled out-of-the-way for one reason only, to give them room so they don't end up 'accidentally' touching her. As it was rush hour and a crowded bus, most men take their chances at grabbing young flesh as they are given the opportunity, much to her disgust.

She was standing all the way at the end of the bus, where the exit door was and unfortunately for her that's where the crowd of people chose to go. She quickly put away her notes, in her duffle purse, as she had no chance of getting any last-minute studying done. She was being sandwiched by a teenage girl in a sailor fuku and ridiculous spiral glasses and a teenage boy who had less ridiculous glasses. The boy out of politeness tried to give her as much space as possible all the while not speaking to anyone over her. The girl however seemed to not be bothered by her situation, as she took out a red box and taking out a dark green strip of something, which she quickly placed in her mouth, all the while talking boisterously to the glasses wearing boy whose name was Shinpachi. She only wished she could reach her destination quicker.

During the next few stops, the bus got a little emptier much to Tsukuyo's relief. The glasses duo sat down quickly in the seats they found and left Tsukuyo with much more room which she happily used as getting more studying done. A few more stops had gone by and the bus was slightly full again, but not as much as last time. Tsukuyo didn't even notice that there was someone around her until the bus sharply halted, and she was caught off guard almost falling back only for her wrist to be caught by some guy, who was unknowingly to her had held the same pole as her for the past five minutes.

Hew eyes widened in surprise as she felt slim fingers wrap around both her wrist to steady her. She looks up at her savior only wishing she hadn't, the guy was hot. He had wind tousled silver hair, that curled slightly at the ends and a pair of sharp wine colored eyes that looked bored for some reason, he was in a white button up shirt, dark pants and white blazer and he was most likely a head taller than she was, and she was tall for a girl.

"You okay?" asked sex-on-legs, looking at her boredly.

Tsukuyo only nodded, all the while pulling her hands from his grip. He let go in what seemed like reluctance, his fingers uncurling and slipping away from her wrist in almost slow motion, as if he was trying to prolong the informal hand-holding (well wrist-holding really). It must have been her imagination, but just that one brief touch had caused her to freeze up and send small jolts of electricity shooting through her. She had been touched before by people, guys even but nothing ever felt like that. It was innocent and insignificant, so why was she still thinking about it like some love-sick teenager?

She didn't realize that she was staring at him, only when he snapped his fingers in front of her face did she realize. Suddenly embarrassed, Tsukuyo tried to quickly walk past him to get to the front of her bus. She however didn't realize that she had dropped her spiral notebook full of notes. As the man tried to reach for Tsukuyo, who was clearly trying to walk a marathon in a medium-sized bus, said transportation once again made a sharp break which caused Tsukuyo to turn around to hold something and the man to also reach for something to hold.

Unlucky for them, Tsukuyo got to hold nothing yet somehow managed to not fall but the man was able to grab one full and rounded globe sized appendage attached to Tsukuyo's body.

Suddenly, everything got quiet.

The teenagers stopped having their conversations, the old people turned their gaze from out the window to the center of the bus and even the bored businessmen/women looked up from their smart phones in shock. Standing right there in the middle of the bus was a man who openly groped a woman in a non crowded area in a very indiscreet way. Tsukuyo went from being surprised to really, really angry and the man looked like he was staring death right in the face.

Hasegawa 'Madao' Taizou was having a good day, he believed he was going to get a raise as his boss had told him yesterday that he wanted to speak with him about something private, his lovely wife looked more beautiful than the day he met her and he even found yen on the street. So when his bus came, he couldn't help but wonder why a pretty blonde woman, clearly red in the face stalked past him angrily muttering about 'perverts with wandering hands'

And he was even more confused when he found a man in the middle of the bus with his head buried in the floor, while the other passengers looked a mix of mortified and amused.

He brushed it off as some freak event, because oh well, at least he was going to have a great day.

So guys, what do you think? PM or review your thoughts!

I was trying something new and thought 'why not something set in the modern universe?' and that's how this came about.

As always, reviews are very much appreciated!

Next Prompt: Forever

Until next time sexy readers and even sexier reviewers! ;)