Ch7: It's a Love-Hate Relationship, mostly Hate!
"…." Hijikata remains quiet and stares at Hasegawa.
"Err…" Hasegawa hesitates to talk. This is bad, this is bad… What do I do…? Gin-san? Shinpachi-kun? Toshi? A little help here, I have no idea what to do now? Do I wait for a response? The only thing he's doing is staring at me. Wait, is he checking me out?! *GAAAASSSP!* This-this is… I have to-
Hasegawa's sunglasses shine as he stands straight in front of the quiet Hijikata. He starts making different poses. He started with poses that would expose his muscles a bit, his tiny muscles and started flexing. Making his chin bigger and occasionally striking a huge smile, nearly blinding the tied up man's eyes with its glint.
"Gin-san…. What the hell is he doing?" Shinpachi asked, completely giving up on scolding him. They were peeking inside the room through two very small holes they made on the sliding door, they'd have to fix that later and pray Hijikata doesn't sense them.
"I don't even want to know anymore…" Gintoki replied, giving up as well.
Hijikata blinks, now looking a bit curious or confused as to what the homeless guy was doing in front of him. Hasegawa noticed it and starts making cute poses. Making cat ears with his hands and placing it on top of his head while swaying his hips and raising one leg. How do you like that? Pretty cute, yes? How's that? Hurry up and tell me what you feel about me now! Hahaha Hasegawa convinced himself he was a adorable.
"Oi…" Hijikata finally opened his mouth. Shinpachi and Gintoki's attention completely shifts to the demon vice chief.
"Yes?" Hasegawa grinned with confidence.
"…who the hell are you and what the hell are you doing? I think I've seen you before with the Yorozuya but never bothered to remember what or who you are." Hijikata cruelly stated.
This time, Hasegawa was the one quiet like a rock, no, he turned to stone. After his effort of making those poses and actually trying to help this man with his problem, he didn't even know who he was.
Hasegawa gets enveloped with black aura and looks at the door where he knew Shinpachi and Gintoki were looking through with, giving them both a very pitiful look.
Shinpachi and Gintoki ignore the expression. "Yosh, now we have Hijikata-san's look on Hasegawa-san, he doesn't care whether he exists or not…" Gintoki concluded.
"Yes, it might be the same for Kagura-chan too… he just doesn't care for them… so… he doesn't particularly hate everything around him…hmm…" Shinpachi tries to think.
"What do you think Gin-san?" the teen asked, the two still ignoring the expression Hasegawa was looking at them with even when Hasegawa walked all the way to the door and peeked through the hole Gintoki was using. Hasegawa's dreadful face filled with despair was right in front of the silver haired samurai separated by a door and only seeing each other through a little hole. Gintoki saw right through the man, he doesn't exist, nor his cry of help.
"Well… next one then…" Gintoki stood up straight and slid open the door. "Ah! Gin-san, you can't! Wait till Toshi is back, he'll try to kill you!" Shinpachi warned. Gintoki ignores the teen and pushes Hasegawa away and outside the room as the samurai entered. He slides the door close and stands right in front of the demon vice chief.
The moment he entered, Hijikata had already started glaring and being cautious of the man.
"Yo! Could you stop looking like you want to gnaw on my bones already? It's really uncomfortable you know." Gintoki stated, he sat down a few steps away the tied up man, completely confident of his tying skills.
"I really don't like you… at all… if you don't want me glaring at you, don't ever show your face in front of me… " Hijikata hissed back. "…You freakin annoy me all the time…"
"That's great! I hate you too, a whole lot!" Gintoki countered with a grin, as always.
"…heh, that's great then" Hijikata smiled back, appearing a bit genuine yet fake at the same time after the death glare he was giving the other samurai.
"…hey, you really don't like me one bit? Not even a little?" Gintoki asked.
Hijikata took his time in answering after looking at Gintoki closely. "hmm… I… don't hate you so much-"
Gintoki's eyes twitched from annoyance.
"…but if it's between hate and like, then HATE wins by a huge margin, perm-bastard…" Hijikata glared with a beastly grin.
"Pft" Gintoki smiled. "That's that, then…"
"…why'd you laugh?" Hijikata asked.
"Did it bother you? Speaking of, doesn't getting tied up like this for a long time bother you at all or even the reason you're here of all places?" Gintoki replied with a question.
"..hm.. my body feels a little numb, but I don't particularly mind being tied up… this place.. Stinks of you, I hate it…" Hijikata answered properly. They were finally going somewhere.
"As expected! Gin-san is getting some answers! Hasegawa-san what do you think?" Shinpachi asked with much eagerness and relief.
"…who cares, I don't exist anyway" Hasegawa miserably replied as he appeared nearly transparent to the teen.
"Yeah, who cares-aru… we don't exist in his eyes…. After confessing to him and everything too-aru…." Kagura sniffled, contaminating the atmosphere outside the room with despair and shattered hearts.
"Please stop that, we're finally getting clues here on what's changed about Hijikata-san…" Shinpachi tried to ignore the two nearly ghostly creatures next to him.
"heh, so you also don't LIKE how Gin-chan smells so sweetly, okay, okay… now…" Gintoki purred a bit, very amused with the reply for some reason. "You hate mayonnaise and smoking too, right?"
"I hate it!" Hijikata immediately replied.
"You hate the Shinsengumi?" Gintoki continued on.
"HATE it!" a quick reply again.
"Kondo-san?" the silver haired samurai went on.
"kill…" Hijikata hissed. His eyes excited and lips beastly smiling like he was imaging the dead Gorilla's body right in front of him.
"….then, what about clingy girls?" Gintoki asked after a short pause.
"…like them" another quick reply.
Gintoki stood up and whacked Hijikata in the head. "Come out of there Toshi… go on report to Hijikata what just happened… we're probably on the same track now…" Gintoki ordered, he walked to the door and slid it open to see the shocked Shinpachi and transparent Kagura and Hasegawa.
"Don't overwork your brain or it'll slime down your ears Shinpachi… you understood it somehow right?" Gintoki asked, not bothering with the other two.
"Gin-san…" Shinpachi looked at the samurai with a blank expression.
"He's become the most troublesome thing I could ever imagine, he was awful with it from the start and I really didn't like it whenever he acted that way… what do you otakus call it again? He's become that, the ultimate form of THAT!" Gintoki lightly smacked the teens head.
"…err… I don't understand what you're saying Gin-san. All I know now is that Hijikata-san hates the stuff he used to like and likes the stuff he used to hate…right?" Shinpachi replied, rubbing his head where he was smacked.
"Yeah… something like that… geeeeez…" Gintoki scratched the back of his head, ruffling and messing his silver strands in the process.
"Hey… doesn't this mean…" Shinpachi started.
"…what?" Gintoki asked.
"…originally, Hijikata-san actually kinda likes you?" Shinpachi finished and receives another smack in the head. "…that hurt Gin-san"
Hi-hijikatashi?
'…'
Hijikatashi?
'…uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuurgh'
'Hi-Hijikatashi? What's wrong? This is great right? We know what to be careful of now! You hate what you originally liked! Now we just need to find out when it started! Ah! It started with the training probably… since you really hated Shinsengumi from them on and stuff! Hmm… did anything significant happen before that? Hijikatashi?'
'..uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu, damn it damn it damn it'
HIJIKATASHI? What's wrong? Please talk to me! Hjikatashi?
'TOSHI!'
'YES?!'
'I…I…most definitely HATE that Yorozuya-bastard with every fibre of my being! NEVER FORGET THAT!'
'Eh? …..yes?'
'I most definitely HATE his stench! Earlier…earlier… he's just… I respect him! I RESPECT HIM A BIT! A BIT! A microscopic BIT!'
….hijikatashi?
'And that small amount of respect must be the reason why I hate him so much right now! That's gotta be it!'
….yes
'At least sound like you believe me! NO, BELIEVE ME damn it!'
…yes, the amount you used to like somewhat, say Kondo-san which you respected a lot and would be willing to die for, is the same amount of how much you hate him now, where you seriously wanna end his life… I believe you… truly
'Shut up already….. So I let's say I respect the bastard a lot, would you be happy and satisfied then huh?'
No… I don't really care and it doesn't really matter Hijikatashi… its completely fine for me… its fine if you like Sakatashi that much… and his sweet smell…
'…'
….its fine
'...you know, there was that one answer I said that I didn't hate him that much, that if I were to choose between hate and like-'
It would be HATE by a huge margin
'….just shut up'
Author: Ugh… I'm sorry for making you imagine Hasegawa with the cute poses, really… I really hate it for some reason…. Yayayayaya… and sorry, I didn't mention in the summary but this IS GinHiji in the later chapters ahaha… yeah… summary sucks… randomly did it ahahaha… err… thanks for reading down to here/ bothering to read this and sorry for the mistakes up there ahahaha…jya~