Ch.4

Before Kagura got to the pod she heard Sadaharu's bark, "Sadaharu! You're alright, uh-huh."

Sadaharu tried to lick Kagura but was pushed back, "Come on Sadaharu, we need to get something for Sadist, uh-huh."

When they got to the pod, Kagura found the the first aid kit immediately, "I got it! Now time to go back." Kagura picked up the first aid kit and carefully held on to it as she ran out. When Kagura got to the small cave; she sees Okita with his eyes closed, "Sadist!" She kneels next to Okita, nudging his shoulder. She starts to slap Okita's face left and right, "Just cover my wound already China!" Okita whacks her hand away from his face.

"Oh, just checking if you're still alive! Hahaha... Uh-huh." Kagura scratches her head as she opened the kit.

While Kagura was taking out the medicines, she realized something and pauses to think, (Hold on a second... I have to cover his wound for him with his shirt off! Well, this is my chance to see if there is some disgusting wart on his chest or if it's hairy, heheh. Wait! Not only that, but our clothes are wet. Usually, in those movies I have seen with Gin-chan and Shinpachi back on earth; the two main characters had to take off they're clothes and dry them when they got wet, uh-huh!) Kagura smacked herself from thinking any further and slowly gazed at Okita who sat across from her staring. Kagura blushed and went back to taking out the medicines.

(No, no, no! I'm just imagining things... Gin-chan, Shinpachi, where are you two? Uh-huh.)

"Hey, give them to me already China." Okita reply angrily. Speaking after the long silence made Kagura jump up and scream, causing Okita to scream as well. "You scared me there for a second, Sadist! Uh-huh."

"I did? You did-" Okita fell forward. "Sadist!" Kagura crouch next to him and checked his pulse, "-sigh- He fainted... uh-huh." with no hesitation, Kagura decided she has no choice but to strap up Okita's wound. Kagura took his shirt off gently and was putting medicine to disinfect the bacteria that was in his injury by now. "Next is to bandage it, uh-huh." Kagura hastily patched the injury and put his shirt back on.

"Maybe it's best to dry our clothes… no, that'll be awkward… Uh-huh." Kagura was pacing back and forth anxious. Until, Kagura felt warm wind being blown into her face from within the cave, "Hmm? Warm wind was blowing from inside the cave, uh-huh." Kagura haul Okita onto her back.

"Let's go further in Sadaharu, uh-huh."

...

Hiromasa woke up and quickly rearranged his broken nose, "-Ugh- Damn that curvy perm hair man..."

Hiromasa's eyes almost pop out of his head when he saw a figure with a yellow beak glaring at him, "Elizabeth... what are you doing here?!"

"Welcome to our cave Hiromasa-kun and that's a good question. It's because we were following you! Ha-ha!" a man replied as he walks out from the shadows.

"… You were taken to prison precisely when I escaped." Hiromasa retort.

The man started to play with his long raven hair, "Ha-ha, no… maybe. Are you hungry? Elizabeth and I found these delicious mushrooms deep inside the cave." He took out some gooey olive looking things that looks like mushrooms with little bumps popping on them.

"Those look hazardous to eat and are those even mushrooms? …" Hiromasa replied.

"Nonsense, those three ate it and they're fine." Katsura points to Gintoki, Shinpachi, and Hijikata who were sitting with their head down, muttering words.

"You call that fine? Look at those two, Katsura-sama!" They slowly gazed towards Gintoki and Hijikata hugging each other. "Hm, they weren't like that earlier." Katsura muttered.

"What were they doing earlier then!?" Hiromasa runs toward them and tried to pull them apart from one another. "Their stuck like glue and they're acting like this because you gave them those strange mushrooms." Hiromasa started to stomp on Hijikata's head and smashing Gintoki's face into the wall.

"Ha-haha! Elizabeth, Hiromasa-kun, look at Shinpachi. He's suck at dancing!" Katsura watched and ate some of the mushrooms while watching Shinpachi dance.

"You aren't helping at all Katsura-sama!" Hiromasa couldn't keep his anger in and exploded, grabbing Gintoki and Hijikata by their hair and smashed their faces into each other, "Just kiss each other already, if you two want to be together so badly!" the moment Hiromasa yell, and their lips came into contact. Afterwards, Hiromasa turned around to kick Katsura's face, knocking him out, "Sorry, but you ate those mushrooms and I don't want to see you do some crazy things."

"Eliza-" Hiromasa stops to notice a mushroom by his feet. "…" He got down to his knees and took a closer look why it was moving. Hiromasa saw one scrawny black leg popping out and then millions from the mushrooms that Katsura discovered.

"S-s-s-spiders! Those were baby spiders, not mushrooms and all of you ate them!" Hiromasa covered his mouth the instant he was about to vomit. (Must get Katsura and Elizabeth out of this cave; even those three.) Without delay, Hiromasa used his strength to grab and carry every one of them, including Elizabeth, "Now time to get out of-" The ground below Hiromasa broke from all the weight they had together, "What the!?"

One by one, they fell underground, onto a wide gray bridge with Hiromasa being the first to land on solid ground and then the rest landing on top of him, "This again!?" Hiromasa pushed everyone on top of him off. After tossing everyone off of him, Hiromasa observed the new surrounding, "raw materials and spaceships that aren't even used now? And where does this lead to?" He looked over the bridge and felt wind being blown upward from the unfathomable darkness below.

Subsequently, Hijikata regain conscious while Hiromasa was still looking around, "Why does my mouth taste like strawberry milk?" Gintoki woke up next, wiping his mouth, "Yuck! I feel like I just kissed someone who smokes!" Shinpachi, Katsura, and Elizabeth woke up next.

Shinpachi screamed the moment he woke up, "Uh… Gin-san, look at those spiders!" Everyone turns to look above themselves and saw millions of small spiders crawling on the ceilings and falling onto the old spaceships, "It's best to run away!" Gintoki got a head start and ran.

"Hold it right there you insects!" Everyone lost their balance when a spider big as a house dropped onto the bridge they were on.

"Whoa! It talks!" Katsura holler.

Shinpachi commented, "And it's gigantic, Katsura-san…"

"How dare you eat some of my children and try to leave!" The spider angrily replied.

"What?" Hijikata replied.

"Now die!" the spider ran towards them.

Gintoki and Hijikata knock Katsura and Shinpachi into the ground and started to run the opposite direction while Hiromasa ran under the big spider looking for something that he saw earlier, "Keep her distracted!" he said. "How so!?" Shinpachi bellow.

"Like this!" Hijikata and Gintoki started to stomp on the baby spiders surrounding them.

"That only made the mother angrier! Ah!" Shinpachi yelled.

They all started to panic when the mother spider was about to slash at them, "Good job distracting the big mama!" Hiromasa swing an enormous pole at the mother spider with his strength, pushing it off the bridge, "Kya!" it's scream echoed.

"Now move! I'll open a way out of this tunnel." Hiromasa threw the pole at the baby spiders blocking their way out of the room. As they ran pass the dead spiders corpses, they heard the baby spiders that were still alive being crushed and Cerulean blood being splattered every where.

"I'm very confused with what just happened and why my mouth still taste weird." Gintoki spat onto the ground.

"Just be quiet, until we get somewhere safe you dead fish eyes!" Hijikata retort.

"Huh? I didn't hear you idiot?" Gintoki retort.

"Why you."

Shinpachi interrupted their conversation, "Gin-san, Hijikata! Just be quiet for just this once!"

Gintoki shout in the quiet tunnel, "Shinpachi!"

Shinpachi stuttered, "Wh-what?"

"Shh! Be quiet." Gintoki grinned and walked ahead. "That's was it Gin-san?!"

…

They entered another area where a gap was opened at one of the corner ceilings with light and rain drops coming in; with sky blue crystals that were growing out of the soil and walls, "I think we'll be fine here…" Shinpachi muttered.

"Does anyone know anything about this planet besides the fact that it's isolated?" Katsura sat down next to a pile of vegetation.

Scaring Katsura and Shinpachi, the vegetation spoke, "This planet was once prosperous with all the materials we had…"

Gintoki poked the vegetation, "Look at this! A body is here!" the person's body was crinkly and green with moss growing on the it's face.

"Oh, who are you and why is the planet like this now?" Hijikata asked.

"My name is not important, what's really important is what about to happened if all of you don't stop it. My people who once lived here, were to supply raw materials to the other planets and one day, we dug deep into the ground where a great beast was not to be woken. But we didn't know that, our ancestors never told us about this beast."

"And so, your people were either killed or escaped to Earth?" Hiromasa respond.

The old stranger gradually closed his eyes, "Yes, and now that there are people here making ruckus, the beast may become active again. So I request that all of you, please defeat the beast… I know you can do it."

"Wait a second." Hijikata walk closer but realized that the stranger was already dead. "... It appears to me that he was waiting for someone to come back to this planet to kill the monster. But that's none of my business." Hijikata replied.

"What about us Gin-san, are we going to do it?" Shinpachi glance over to Gintoki.

Gintoki scratched his head, "…Right now we should just focus on leaving this underground tunnel and get back to the surface."

"Let's build a fire; it's getting darker by the minute." Katsura replied.

...

Once a fire was made, everyone sat around it except for Hiromasa who sat far away, "Um, you're going to get cold over there, come sit with us." Shinpachi replied.

"Don't bother Shinpachi-kun, Hiromasa is like this on rainy days. He says he get sick, but in reality he's just grumpy just like a woman being grumpy when-"

"Katsura-sama, don't compare me to a woman!" Hiromasa retort.

Katsura quickly went to Elizabeth for comfort, "Elizabeth! Hiromasa is being mean to me!"

"Hey Zura." Gintoki retort.

Katsura comment back, "It''s not Zura, it's Katsura."

"Whatever, how did we end up here anyway?" Gintoki asked.

Katsura avoided Gintoki's question and passed it onto Hiromasa, "Uh... , Hiromasa knows!"

Everyone turn to look at Hiromasa bandaging his nose, "What? Oh no, Katsura-sama was lying, he was the one who brought us here. Blame him for making you three eat the baby spiders earlier too."

"Oh?" Gintoki, Shinpachi and Hijikata cast a shadow on their faces, "Well, now that makes sense that the huge spider was so angry. But making us eat it while we weren't aware?" they jump towards Katsura and Elizabeth.

"Well, goodnight to all of you." Hiromasa immediately lay down on the ground and faced the wall.

"Wait, don't go to sleep just yet Hiromasa!" Katsura was hiding behind Elizabeth as the others tried to get him. "Now, repent for what you did Katsura!" Gintoki pulled out his wooded sword, "Never! Go Elizabeth." Katsura replied.

"Well, it's three against two!" Hijikata retort.

With all the yelling and fighting, Hiromasa couldn't get any sleep, "Just go to sleep already you idiots!"

Suddenly everyone got quiet, "Okay..."

(got to get away from these people soon.) Hiromasa thought as he went back to sleep.

"See, he's like a angry woman. But that's a good thing." Katsura whispered.

"How so?" Shinpachi reply unsure.

"It's because he starting to open up. Well... , he was the angry type from the beginning." Katsura mutter as he slowly closed his eyes.

"Just go to sleep... I'll be on watch tonight." Gintoki replied quietly.

"Thanks." Hijikata and Shinpachi quickly fell asleep.

"Ah! I was just kidding! Oh well." Gintoki sulk as he put his hands out towards the fire.

...

It was quiet and peaceful with everyone asleep, until Hiromasa quickly sat up, gasping for air. At the same moment Gintoki opened his eyes, "I wasn't asleep!" he mutter. he notice that Hiromasa was struggling for air, "Hey!" Gintoki swiftly jump off from the rock he was sitting on and went to pat Hiromasa's back. "Are you alright?"

Hiromasa pushed Gintoki's hand away, "I'm fine, I just had a nightmare."

Gintoki smiled, "-Pft- You still have nightmares?" Gintoki was hit in the face, "So what if I still have nightmares? That's normal." Hiromasa quietly replied angrily.

"Sorry, ... is your nose okay?" Gintoki was covering his nose bleed.

"For now yes..." the long silence made it even more awkward for Gintoki and Hiromasa, "So, do you have any family members like Kagura's brother or father?"

Hiromasa became curious, "Kagura has a brother?"

"Uh, yeah." Gintoki looked down and scratched his head.

There was a long pause until Hiromasa spoke, "My mother, was the yato and my father was the earthling... I don't remember my father too much; but he was with us until I was 6 years old. After that, we had to survive on our own."

"What happened to your father?" Gintoki respond.

"He was kicked out from a stupid fight with my mother. Heh, after that he went back to earth leaving my mother with two hungry kids to take care of." Hiromasa clutched his hands tight as he sat down next to Gintoki.

(Two?) Gintoki wondered as he waited for Hiromasa to continued, "What's wrong Hiromasa? You don't have to tell me if you don't want too." Gintoki replied.

"No, I should tell someone... then maybe my nightmares would stop."

(So you have nightmares because of your past...) Gintoki patiently waited for Hiromasa to talk, "Before I tell you more, why are you willing to listen?"

Gintoki started to pick his nose as he explained, "-Sigh- because before all of this crap happened, a man in his late 30s came to my place because of the work we do. So that old man asked me to look for his two sons who happened to be in Edo, the older one was name, Hiromasa, and the other was Shima. But I didn't think I would find one of his sons so easily."

"I see, so my father is doing well, I bet that bastard has a new family to take care of..." Hiromasa made a disturbing look just by thinking about his father. "Gintoki, once you get back to earth tell that bastard that if he wants to see me to say sorry, then it's too late, because there is no way I can accept his apology when my brother and I suffered so much."

(So you have a brother, and aren't you being to harsh on your father? He really wants to see you Hiromasa...) Gintoki thought. "I'll tell him... but what happened to your mother and brother?"

"I'm getting there; once my earthling father left, my mother had to find food to feed us and one day she didn't come back for hours. But it was because she was fighting against another yato and this may seem out of topic but when I looked at Kagura it made me think of the yato who killed my mother. Don't worry Gintoki, the only thing they had in common was their hair color, but besides that, I already killed the man." Hiromasa's eyes glimmered.

Seeing Hiromasa's expression made Gintoki uneasy, (Even if you're half yato, it seems to me that you still have the thirst to fight and kill just like any other yato, besides Kagura.) Gintoki spoke after the short silence, "If you're still here, then what happened to your younger brother Hiromasa?" Hiromasa suddenly stopped smiling, "Oh yeah... that."

...

"Abuto, what happen?" a young man with braided orange hair, came walking into the room where Abuto was sitting, bandaging his wound. "I was-"

"Now you better not lie to me because I went to the cliff just a minute ago and I saw this just lying there." The young man took out a lime umbrella.

"I wouldn't lie to you, obviously an intruder was there and spotted the ship." Abuto replied. The young man dark expression lighten, "I know that Abuto, but give me the details!" his tight grip on the umbrella made it snap. "Aw, I broke it... whatever." He tossed it to Abuto, making him catch the broken umbrella. "I know it wasn't anyone ordinary Abuto, just tell me who was it?" The young man slammed his hand onto the table next to Abuto, "Well?"

"Hmm, interrogating your subordinates, Kamui?" a man with bandages covering his left eye in a light purple yukata came walking into the room. "Ah, Takasugi, you're still here? Great, I can still kill you." Kamui smile contently.

"Heh, we can fight after I get to see the monster that reside in that ship you're hiding by the cliff." Takasugi replied.

"Ah... how did you find out about that?" Kamui smiled.

Takasugi blew smoke out before he spoke, "Don't act stupid... you let that information leak out so that I'll stay here longer. Well, what are you going to do with that monster?"

"That's a stupid question Takasugi, I'm going to fight and kill it." Kamui replied. The atmosphere around them became intense, as Kamui and Takasugi glared at each other. (What a waste... I would use that beast to destroy Edo and maybe I will... but the problem is Kamui...) Takasugi thought.

"Well, time for me to go." Takasugi replied.

"Are you going to see the ruins Takasugi? Be careful, because the entrance to the ruins aren't stabilized." Kamui waved goodbye until the purple hair man was no longer in sight. Kamui immediately leaned towards Abuto, "So who was it Abuto?" waiting for a answer, "It was your sister."

"Kagura?" Kamui swiftly step back and made a malevolent grin, "If she's here, then that means that the silver hair samurai is also here. Oh, this is going to be great."

To be continued...

Soory if i did't get the personalitly of Kamui and Takasugi right.