Otae is walking nervously, feeling a bit anxious as to wether the silver headed samurai will accept her love.
But she couldn't take her mind off of his face.
"Oh! Otae-chan! good timing! I just needed to test Tama's new function on other people to know if it works consistently!" said Gengai.
Otae looked at her clock and thought it wasn't really that late, so she can still take her time before continuing to the yorozuya.
Noticing that Tama has an implant on her head that looks like an antenna kind of freaked Otae out, but she remembered there was another one in this anime who has an antenna sticking out of his head. "umm, so whats Tama's new function?" Otae curiously asked.
"Well, I made it specially for her job, it can keep track of people's emotions as long as the person is in front of Tama! Hahaha! I'm quite proud of this one!" bragged Gengai.
"So, I want you to think of something and Tama here will sucessfully guess what you are feeling." the mechanic explained
Tama then proceeded to stand in front of Otae
" If possible, I would like a strong emotion, like anger, frustration or. . . . love?"
quiikk. . . . a nerve on Otae's head immediately appeared.
'Does this old man think I'm only made up of hate?!'
"Anger!" Shouted Tama, successfully knowing Otae's emotion
"hmmmm, that one was kind of a bit too easy, even I can tell that Otae-chan desires to burn a house full of children. Think of another emotion." Ordered Gengai
Because of this, Otae's bloodlust submerged and Gintoki's face suddenly appeared in front of her.
"Yo!" greeted Gintoki
Because of his sudden appearance, Otae doesn't have a chance to react appropriately
"LOVE! . . . wait, or maybe more like flustered.." Tama brusted out
"Huh? what are you talking about? and whats that antenna sticking out of Tama's head? Old man, what did you do to Tama this time?" said the confused Gintoki
"My only intention is to help her in her job! nothing more!" defended Gengai
"So, whats this all about?" questioned Gintoki
Gengai then explained to Gintoki what the antenna on Tama's head is capable of doing.
"Oh, so what's Otae doing here? arent you supposed to be somewhere else?" questioned Gintoki
"You sound like you dont want me here,HUH?!" replied Otae
The female gorilla then started to punch the life out of the white and black punching bag
"TIME OUT! TIME OUT! I have my reasons okay?!" pleaded gintoki
She was taken aback by what the guy in front of her said. 'reasons? hmph, might as well hear him out'.
"So, care to share your reasons to us?" Otae demanded
Gintoki hesitated and glanced at Otae then showed a barely noticable a huge light bulb appeared on his head
"Ah! the reason is that you barely even stood in gengai's workshop! I mean, I think I've never even seen you at all in here!" said an unsure Gintoki
'what was that blush then? was it just my imagination?!'
'phew, I'm quite proud of that reason. Considering I only thought of it on the spot. AGGH! this is so awkward! why'd Tsukuyo even had to say that?!' thought an irritated Gintoki
*FLASHBACK*
In Yoshiwara
Gintoku ran a few kilometers due to being lost fortunately, he's famous enough to be guided towards where Tsukuyo lives
"Hey hinowa, is Tsukuyo here?"
"I'll go get her, just a second" glad that Gintoki is visiting her beloved friend. Lately, hinowa noticed that tsukuyo has been patrolling a lot more than she used to
"I'll come with you"
Hinowa went to Tsukuyo's room followed by gintoki who is still getting used to the designs in the house even though he already went there a number of times, She slid the door open to reveal Tsukuyo's sleeping figure fixed on a desk piled with a ton of papers which seemed to be newspapers of Yoshiwara
"Gintoki. . . tha. .nk you f..or letting me Fe. . el Love" murmured Tsukuyo in her sleep
the two individuals we're pretty much shocked by what the lady in front of them just blurted out but one is more amused than shocked.
"Oh my, an unknown confession is it? so gintoki, what do you say?" Hinowa said excitedly
"Wha? I dont know, I never knew she loved me all this time, Its probably the only reason she wanted me to pose as her boyfriend. How can I be so stupid to not realize this?" The perm head admitted
even though he's gotten some clues that she might like him, it never crossed his mind that she would love him
"Oh, is that so?" saidd hinowa while attempting to wake Tsukuyo up
"Wai- wait!" gintoki protested, it was a bit too late and ended up being the reason of tsukuyo's waking
"Hinowa? whats the matte- Gintoki? what are you doing here?" straightening her posture at the sight of her most beloved samurai
"uh wa no, its" Gintoki stuttered
"Well, we might or might not heard a confession from a certain blonde"teased Hinowa
She then left the room leaving a blushing samurai and a confused Tsukuyo
"What confession is she talking about, Gintoki-"
Horror slowly came into her eyes as she remembered her dream about Gintoki hugging her under a tree and the things she said
"I-Its not what you think!" tsukuyo tried to deny the accusation but realized it was pointless to do so
"Okay, maybe its true. But its not my fault okay? I just suddenly felt it. . .!" confessed a madly blushing Tsukuyo
"I actually tried telling you, but everytime I try, theres that lingering fear of rejection. Its totally okay to me if the feelings not mutual, I feared that you'd ignore me because of the awkwardness" said a teary Tsukuyo
She realized she'd been too emotional lately in front of gintoki. Before, she would've just shrugged it off but she eventually soften whenever gintoki talks to her
"Even if you told me before, I wont change just because of something like that, I value my friends more than I value myself." It was true, his love for his friends has been tested multiple times, but gintoki still remains adamant in prioritizing his friends more than himself
"Really? thats a relief, I guess theres no point in crying to it now." Tsukuyo said wiping her tears "So, did you come here to announce our break up? or should I say, to end our contract?"
Tsukuyo is obviously sad, their contract would be invalid and her main goal would be null
She promised to herself that she's willing to take the bad guy role as long as she manages to get into gintoki's good side and eventually, become a couple
"Yeah, well, I or she told me you're more than capable of defending yourself" explained Gintoki
Tsukuyo thought Gintoki would eventually figure out her small little scheme after a while but turns out, he needed help to reach that thick skull of his
"She?"
"Otae"
'Otae huh? She's already making her move. I guess I owe her an apology for what I did.' thought Tsukuyo
She regretted hurting Otae for the benefit of herself, Tsukuyo had to do something to get back at her
"Now that all of this is cleared, I guess I gotta leave now. I've got something to do"
"Can you tell Otae Im sorry? its just something between us" said Tsukuyo
"Sure, why not"
Gintoki then started running
"Oh just a quick tip, Otae may have some sort of attraction towards you!" teased Tsukuyo
THAT statement was the most confusing thing that gintoki had heared.