Disclaimer: I don't own Gintama.
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Katsura Kotaro couldn't believe it. Shinpachi had told him that he wasn't needed in this f*nfic because this story was leader and that shinsengumi brat centered. He was furious. How could someone so admirable like him be left out? He wanted some appearance too.
But how?
Maybe if he became their sort of matchmaker, he would be written frequently. But that wouldn't be suited for him, it should the role of some plain character like Shinpachi and Yamazaki.
Or the Joui patriot could be the villain that harassed the girl and the police boy would come saving her, then he could have his grand entrance. But that criminal act would be Takasugi's thing, not his.
He kept of thinking and then, "Aha!" An imaginary light bulb suddenly lit up. Hey, why hadn't he thought about it first. Being the third party had almost equal appearance as of the protagonists in a romance story.
He chuckled viciously as he let out a mischievous grin curved his face.
He immediately went to Yorozuya.
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Sakata Gintoki was in the midst of a deep meditation. For almost a year he hadn't won in the pachinko parlor. So why now? He knew that when good things happen there were always be a bad one will follow. That's how he thought.
He was sitting on his usual seat in the yorozuya residence. His foot was idly dangling at his desk when out of a blue a shouting voice invaded his lazy ears.
"OH MY LEADER, WHERE ARE THOU MY DEAR?" Katsura's voice resounded. He was standing in front of the 'Otose snack bar' building. He was wearing his Katsurap outfit. He was clad in his trademark thick hoodie and there was a music box he was holding that was placed in his shoulders playing a horror song.
Otose, Catherine and Tama were disgusted at the sight of him. While the neighborhoods were already used in the frequent crazy uproar that always happened around the Yorozuya building. They just shrugged it off.
Gintoki hurriedly went to the porch to see that it was the dumbest comrade he had. "Zura?"
Zura glanced at the perm. "Oh, Gintoki. I'm a here to see Leader." Elizabeth was with him and was holding a bunch of roses. "I want to give her these precious roses." Gintoki wanted to gag at his statement. "Is she in there?"
The shiroyasha never thought that Zura's foolishness would come this far. He knew that he just want some appearance. There was a vein popped at his perm head. Zura was rambling crap about how beautiful and gorgeous his surrogate daughter was. He couldn't take it anymore. Gintoki jumped in. His deadly kick harshly met Katsura's face sending his head smashed at the ground.
Shinpachi who had just arrived saw the epic moment. He could hear Gintoki yelling how bullshit Katsura was.
"YOU IDIOT! ARE YOU THAT DESPERATE TO SHOW OFF YOUR STUPID FACE?!" He was rapidly kicking Zura at the ground. Some of the audience just sighed and a few were shocked at the insane display. "Wait Gintoki.. I..wait," Zura was struggling to speak something. Shinpachi went towards them.
"Gin-san" He spoke making the white haired samurai looked at him, halting his assault to the Joui patriot or better called idiot rather.
"Oh , Shinpachi you're back." He told him in his usual deadpanned tone.
"Did Okita-san come here?" Shinpachi asked. He was holding a bag of groceries in his hands. "I saw him a while ago and I think he wanted to see Kagura-chan."
"Yeah, he told me about some danger might be just around." Gintoki felt a sudden uneasiness.
"So the shinsegumi were aware of it too." Katsura rose up as if he wasn't beaten up a while ago. Gintoki and Shinpachi both stared at him waiting for him to continue what he was saying. "Recently I heard some information about a terrorist group wanting to kidnap a certain princess."
"Oi Zura, is that terrorist you are saying a group of amanto?" Okita Sougo had told Gintoki about an amanto group that might target Kagura. He wanted to know if this certain people Zura was talking about was the same as that shinsengumi brat had said.
"They're not amanto. That's what I heard." Katsura said in a serious tone.
"Things sure are getting dangerous" Shinpachi added anxiously.
There was a moment of silent until Gintoki spoke. "Shinpachi, where did you last saw Souichiro?"
"Eh, Okita-san? I last saw him near at the park." He had a bad feeling about this. He was certain Kagura was with the young captain. Gintoki abruptly ran to direction of the park. Zura and Eli confusedly followed him but they knew something was wrong when the white haired samurai act like this. Shinpachi gave the bag of groceries to Tama as he also dashed off with them.
After some minutes Gintoki could see that the nearby civilians at the park began to scamper away at the sound of gunfires. He was very anxious. His instinct was right.
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Okita Sougo could feel his blood started pooling at his back. He was losing his consciousness. Damn! China was still being embraced by him. The rapid gunshots were slowly fading. And to his relief, he could hear the yorozuya boss' voice. He was shouting their names. Megane's too. His eyelids felt heavy but at least she was safe. Danna had arrived.
"KAGURA!"
"OKITA-SAN!"
"LEADER!"
Kagura was utterly perplexed. He lost his consciousness. His head slowly rested at the crook of her neck. "Sadist! Sadist! Sadist!" She repeatedly called him but he was not answering. What if he died? NO. Her heart seemed like to jump out from her ribcage. She had mentally imagined many ways to kill him before. But she wasn't aware that the thought of him being dead could squeeze her heart this hurtful.
She placed her palms to raise his head to take a view of him. He was very pale and there was a dribble of blood flowing at the edge of his lips. "Oi Sadist! Wake up!" She wasn't the type to cry over something but this time she couldn't stop the tears gently flowing at her cerulean eyes. He was faintly breathing but he looked lifeless.
"NO! Don't die on me. I still haven't gotten my revenge at you for killing my Sadaharu 28.." She was quivering. "Hey, you know how hard to find the dragon balls. I need to travel in the entire galaxy to revive you if you just die here." She lifted themselves at the ground. She gently tapped his face but still no respond.
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A few hours later at the old storage house along the unpopulated spot in the district, a green-skinned amanto was walking back and forth. He was shouting at his cronies.
"You fools! I told you to capture her alive and I never ordered you to kill her!"
"It's okay boss, she wasn't dead. Someone protected her when we tried to shoot her." A no-name dull amanto replied. He was one of the hoodlums who fired rapid gun shots at the female Yato.
"SHUT UP!" Their leader was furious. He wanted to avenge some of his clan members. Apparently the bunch of amanto that were killed by Kamui recently was his relatives. They planned to capture the girl and use her as a tool to get their revenge at him. They knew that she was his sister.
But they hadn't captured the girl earlier. Some of the samurais appeared at the scene this afternoon saving her. But next time they will make sure to get the female yato.
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While unbeknownst to anyone, another troupe was also planning to kidnap someone.
The Kihetai was hired by a terrorist group from Edo. They were now staying in an isolated place somewhere around the land of samurai. Takasugi Shinsuke collaborated to the said terrorist faction. It seems that the group wanted to kidnap a certain Tokugawa princess in order to run havoc among the royal family. He wanted to destroy everything and doing criminal acts like this made his blood quenched.
He was sitting on a window. The moon was shining brightly. He was holding the picture of the princess they were going to kidnap. Then the door opened revealing the person or better called his partner in crimes.
"Say, Shinsuke when are we going to the palace?" Kamui was itching to kill someone. There were always a nice kill when he was around with the black haired samurai. He was certain that many people would be involved if the princess of the country was their target. He would have his fun slaughtering them.
"Soon.." Takasugi glanced at him with an evil smirk plastered on his face.
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-to be continued
