"Uhm, Captain Okita?" Olivia mumbled, staring at the Captain who was sitting with his back against the porch with an eye mask on. "Captain?"

Light snores were all she got.

"Captain?" She lightly kicked at his foot making him snort and turn in his head, but not waking up. "… Captain, you need to wake up…."

Just then, Hijikata turned the corner with a snarl on his face and ran up to them, getting in Sougo's face and screaming, "Sougo! Get up before I slice up your face!"

Sougo seemed unfazed by the yelling in his face. He stretched his arms up and eventually put his eye mask on top his head. "Toshi, can't you go scream at cars coming at you at full speed on the highway instead?"

"Captain Okita, I'm sorry to bother you while you were, uh, taking a nap," Olivia quickly chimed in before that conversation could get any more heated. "But, it's time for us to go on patrol around the city."

"Oh, it is?" Sougo sighed. "Mmm, can you go by yourself?"

"You know that's against the rules, Sougo!" The Vice-Chief fumed. "New members must go with an upper rank on their first few patrols! She's under your command! Go with her!"

"But, that's cutting into my sleep," Sougo replied, putting his eye mask back over his eyes. "Come back in like, an hour."

The Vice-Chief mumbled something under his breath and walked past the two, hands shoved angrily into his pockets. "Come on. I'll go with you if your lazy Captain won't join you."

"Oh, uh… okay." Olivia bowed to Sougo, even though he couldn't see, and ran to catch up with Hijikata as he walked out of the Shinsengumi headquarters.

They walked in complete silence for a while. Again, Hijikata took a slight lead as they walked. Hands in pockets. Cigarette in mouth. Head high. Back straight. Olivia analyzed his movement and how he carried himself, and did the same, but a hand at her side and a hand on the handle of her sword. She wasn't quite as quick at unsheathing her blade like everyone else, so just in case, shouldn't couldn't afford to keep her hands in her pockets.

"So, uh," The Vice-Chief broke the silence. "How is your uniform? It's not tight, is it?"

"Mmm," Olivia hummed, pulling gently at the fabric. "No. I don't think so. Does it look tight to you, Hijikata-sensei?"

The Vice-Chief peered behind him to check, but his face quickly turned red and he looked forward again. "N-No! It looks fine! I was just making sure that you felt comfortable in it! A member of the Shinsengumi has to have well-fitting, comfortable uniforms!"

Olivia jumped at the booming of his voice, but then covered her mouth with a hand to not let her giggles escape her mouth. Some giggles must have slipped since Hijikata started to distance himself from her. She clamped her lips shut and trudged on up to his side. He didn't flinch when she accidently brushed his arm with hers. He made sure to keep his eye straight ahead, and his face was about his normal skin color again.

"You humans get flustered so easily," Olivia said, spurting out the giggles she was holding in. "It's cute."

His face turned red again and he looked slightly away from her. "And amanto don't get flustered?"

The question was unexpected coming from someone who was avoiding all eye contact with her. "Well," Olivia tapped her chin with a finger. "We do get flustered, but just not as easily as humans do. I mean, you blushed just from looking at me!"

"I didn't blush nor was it just from looking at you," He huffed and put his cigarette out in one of those public ash trashes. "It's just hot out today."

"…It's just… hot…?" Olivia snickered some more, but left it alone. She knew he was lying. That bluff wasn't good at all.

"So, uh, how do you like Edo so far?" Hijikata asked, not letting the silence between them set in again.

"Hm, well… amanto are hated more than I expected…." Olivia pursed her lips and looked down. "I couldn't even find a hotel that would let me stay a night no matter how much money I gave… Odd Jobs were the only ones that let me stay. I am grateful for them."

"Tch." The Vice-Chief mumbled something that she couldn't hear and took out another cigarette, lighting it with his custom lighter.

Olivia stared at the lighter in wonder. "What's that?"

Hijikata arched an eyebrow, then looked at his lighter. "It's just a regular lighter."

"But why is it shaped like that?"

"It's just shaped like a bottle of mayonnaise."

Olivia scrunched her nose up and Toushirou stood there waiting for her to make fun of him like everyone always did. However, she proceeded to take the lighter from him and examine the design some more.

"What's mayonnaise?" She asked.

"… You didn't have mayonnaise back on your planet?" He was a little surprised, but it wasn't that strange to have an amanto not know what human food was. He took the lighter from her and put it in pants pocket. "It's about time for lunch anyway, so I'll take you to a place with the best mayonnaise dish there is."

Toushirou started walking again, with Olivia right behind.

"So, is mayonnaise a meat, or a vegetable?" Olivia asked.

"No… mayonnaise is a condiment."

"A… a condom?"

Toushirou seemed to choke on his cigarette's smoke. "N-no! A condiment! It's like ketchup or mustard."

Olivia clapped her hands together with a smile that had replaced her confused expression. "Oh! I know those things! Yes!" Then, her smile faded and began to rub her chin with a finger. "How does one make a condiment the star of the dish?"

"Well, um…." Hijikata started scratching the back of his head. His face turning a slight shade of pink again.

"Oh!" Olivia giggled, pointing to his face. "You're turning red again! Is it still 'too hot' for you, Hijikata-sensei?"

He mumbled, putting his hand straight back into his pocket with his cheeks getting redder. "You don't have to call me sensei. Hijikata-san will do just fine… and I requested that they make the dish special for me."

Now she was the one to blush slightly. "Hijikata-san…." It felt weird to her being so casual to a superior, but if he said it was okay, then it was okay… wasn't it?

There was a sudden disturbance in Olivia's energy field that made her stop and whip her head to the right. The disturbance… she had felt it before. It was a pure evil presence. Had they found out where she had gone? Had they followed her to Edo? But there was nothing that she could see. Only humans and other amanto roaming the streets, being good citizens. She must be imagining the feeling.

"Something wrong?" Hijikata's voice had broken her daze and brought her back to look at him.

"No. Just nerves I suppose."

"Nervous? There's nothing to be nervous about. You'll always be served while you're a part of the Shinsengumi. Even after, you'll be fine," Toushirou said, stopping in front of a restaurant front and moving the curtain aside. "You first. Pick a table."

Olivia obeyed and walked in first, picking a nice table in the corner next to the window. Hijikata picked up an ash tray from the front counter and sat down with it in front of him. They both took their swords off their belts and put them next to themselves right by the window. Olivia proceeded to look around the shop. It was very small, and not very packed, but it was cleaned and kept properly, so it must be busy at different times.

"Ah! Hijikata-san! How nice to see you! It's been a couple of days!" A man with an apron came up to the table. "Oh! And you have a friend with you! Dare I say… a girlfriend?"

Hijikata choked, twisting his face and turning a darker red than before. Olivia clamped a hand over her mouth and laughed silently.

"N-no! No. Olivia is a new recruit! It's nothing like that!" He exclaimed, his face only becoming a darker shade of red.

"Oh, alright, sure," The man gave him a wink. "So, what can I get for you?"

"Two Hijikata Specials," He replied, putting out his cigarette and concentrating on staring at the ash tray.

"Alright! I'll be back shortly with those!" The man bowed and left the two in silence.

Olivia eyed the Vice-chief's every movement. His tapping on the table. The way his eyes darted back and forth between the table and the ceiling. His chest rising and falling with every breath he took. Eventually, he took out another cigarette and lit it with his mayonnaise lighter. Once lit, he put his lighter back in his pocket and noticed Olivia staring at him.

"What?" He asked, puffing on the cigarette.

"Oh! Nothing! Sorry if I… freaked you out with my, uh… staring." She grinned and chuckled awkwardly.

He shook his head and then tapped the tip of his cigarette in the ash tray. "So, where did you learn to wield a sword?"

Olivia's awkward grin turned into a soft smile, tilting her head down and closing her eyes as she remembered. "Well, most of the Akemi tribe know how to wield a weapon of some sorts. We can't always rely on our magic. I grew fond of anything with a blade. Daggers, short swords, long swords, scythes, anything. I also dabbled in spears, but I never… finished my training."

"Mastering all those weapons must have taken a lot of dedication."

"Well," Olivia's smile now turned into a slight frown. Her eyes opened but they didn't look anywhere else besides the table. "I lived kind of a sheltered life. My mother died because of tourists visiting our planet. My father didn't want to ban tourists, so he never let me out of the house without certain conditions being met."

Toushirou's face softened at her words. "Did you have friends?"

Olivia pursed her lips and slightly shook her head. "Not really. When I was very little I did, but no one wanted to try to socialize with me once my father shut me in… but that was okay… I had a couple of pets that were my friends and I loved my father. We would hang out a lot. He taught me basically everything I know about fighting."

"Two Hijikata Specials!" The man had come by and slipped the dishes in front of them. From his sleeve, he took out a white bottle and put it on the table. "And here's more mayo in case you need it."

"Thanks," Hijikata nodded and the man buzzed off somewhere else.

The dish was weird looking. It looked like rice with ice cream and whip cream on top. Olivia sniffed the top part and made a face. "Smells… odd." She took a spoon, scooped up some of the mayo and rice, and put it straight into her mouth. For a while, all that could be heard was gurgles, thoughtful noises and sucking of her teeth with her tongue.

"How do you like it?" Hijikata asked, downing half of the dish in a matter of minutes then squeezing some more mayo on to it.

"The texture is… funny and it's a bit on the vinegar-y side but all in all… it's good!"

The Vice-Chief stopped squirting the mayo on to his rice and stared at Olivia; mouth gaping open. "You… you like it?"

"Certainly! Why?"

"…Everyone that knows me usually makes fun of me for liking mayo so much." He began squirting the mayo on to his meal again. "But to find someone who likes it- even a little – is a nice change."

Olivia stared as he ate the rest of his bowl. Eventually, she gave the rest of hers to him. Not because she didn't like it but because all the mayo was making her full quicker than she had expected. Then, the bill came. Olivia went through her pocket for her wallet, but Hijikata shook his head and put his money down on the table.

"If you weren't good company, or if you were Okita, I would have made you pay for your own. However, you were… are more than good company. It's on me today." He explained, getting up out of the booth.

Olivia did the same, bowing to him when she stood. "Thank you, Hijikata-san. You are good company as well."