A/N: ideas kept on coming on my mind that's why I'm going to write it before I could forget about it, for those who encouraged me up until now Thank you very much! :D You don't know how wide my smile was when I read all your comments! ^^ Thank you very much!
Disclaimer: Gintama was entirely not mine, All rights reserved for Sir Hideaki Sorachi *salute!*
A Different Beat
Chapter 7 – Chances
*Normal P.O.V*
The very thought of unable to return to your own body and stay as a ghost forever gives Kagura a series of chills, she doesn't like that idea at all;
She decided to search for that old woman just after she woke up, Mitsuba understands and volunteer to go look at the opposite direction,
While floating at the midair in the streets of a city outside Kabukicho, she saw her reflection on a cracked mirror on a building that seems to be abandoned,
She collects her hair using her left hand and looked at her tattoo, she touched it with one of her fingers and trailed the feather on it, she sighed as she saw the two circles with one of it becoming less vivid;
"…When will I go back?"
She stared at her reflection and looked at her own two eyes,
"Will I still be able to go back?"
She was deep in thoughts when another face showed up just at the opposite side of the mirror, she was surprised and took a leap backwards,
When she look closely it was a guy, around the age as of Madao, he has lustrous hair, black eyes and is similar to Hijikata, he wears a blue kimono and has a broken pipe on his left hand, seemingly familiar but Kagura has doubts pointing it out;
"Hmmm? You're kind of familiar…" the man asked her, "Wait, was that a tattoo on your nape?"
Kagura stepped back as the man tried to approach her, She tried to shook her head but when she was about to do that the man was already behind her and lifted some of her hair,
"Ahh, so I was right…" he muttered, "You're still an 'undead'..." and he smiled,
"I wouldn't let you get on my way…" Kagura said,
"Eh?" the man was dumbfounded, "Go on your way? Who? Me?" he pointed at his self,
Silence filled of the background as they stare at each other,
"Pfft!"
Kagura raised an eyebrow,
"AHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!" The man laughed with his hand holding his stomach, "You're funny little girl!" he exclaimed, making Kagura's veins popped out off of her forehead,
"I'm contented the way I lived my life…" The man's face became serious, Kagura stared at his face, he really does resemble someone!
"Have we met before?" she asked,
"I don't think we have, but somehow I think I've seen you before…" the man confessed.
Perhaps in a pachinko parlor? A vendor? No, no, maybe one of the customers we have then? No…
Kagura thought, she was about to give up when a certain picture appears on her mind,
"Are you perhaps related to Otose-san?" she concluded,
The man choked as he tried to smoke on his pipe, "You know my wife!?" he blurted out with his eyes shining like gems,
"She's our landlady-!" the man flew closer to her,
"Was she doing well? Have she been eating a lot? Dos she still have friends? How was she!?" his questions were many and there is this enthusiasm right after he asked another.
"She's alright-!"
"Well, How about my old bud Jirocho? Is he still in Kabukicho? Has he been doing well?"
"Well that's-!"
"Oh I've missed already! Otose and Jirocho-!"
The man was cut off when Kagura gave him an uppercut,
"JUST ATLEAST LET ME SPEAK!" She exclaimed,
Kagura was panting as her eyes glared to the guy lying on the ground,
"hahahahahahahaha!"
She stopped when she heard him laughing once again,
"I see, so this is what kind of friends my wife has, Thank goodness…" he smiled,
"What do you mean by that jii-chan?"
"Jii-chan!? Call me Tatsugorou-san! That'll be enough! Jii-chan makes me feel so old!" he demanded,
Kagura laughed, but she rides it still,
"Then, What would that mean Tat-san?"
"Tat-san?"
"Tatsugorou-san was way too long,"
"Ahhh, Well, I see the laughing face of my wife when I think about people like you surrounding her, she may look tough, but she's a lonely person inside, she's a woman who will say whatever on her mind when she's angry though; but the very thought that she's doing well, it made me happy… so happy."
Kagura looked at him as he was speaking, his eyes mirrored an affection Kagura herself couldn't describe in words, he looks so solemn, and her heart could feel the fluffy feeling of admiration and truthfulness on his words,
He really does love Baba…
She smiled at what she thought.
"Well setting that aside, what are you doing here acting carelessly showing that tattoo out in view?" he pointed at her,
"I was just looking at how much time I still got." She answered, "I was looking for an old woman, but I don't even know her face, that's why I don't know how to start…"
"Then you must be in luck!" Tatsugurou said,
"What do you mean Tat-san?"
"Well…" Tatsugorou lit his pipe and fixed his kimono, "This old man here is a former cop."
Kagura's eyes glimmered for what she just heard,
-#-
Sougo left his post for his morning duty to the poor Yamazaki like usual, and continues to search for the old lady, but before he take the streets he went to the library and pulled out some old data with regards of Oehara-san, he spent an hour searching and when he finally found it he didn't wasted a time to gather some information about her,
He sat on the floor and read the file, half an hour has passed when he finally conducted a plan,
I see…
He muttered, closed the file and walked away from there.
-To be continued…
