All in the Past
Chapter Seven:
Funny how everything changes after one decision
She sat down outside on the garden admiring her surroundings, she was just beginning to get used to seeing through her eyes and she found every minute of it amusing. She could hear footsteps approach her as the vacant space next to her was occupied by another.
She looked to the side the only for her eyes to be met with olive green ones, she recognized the boy somehow, though they hadn't been properly introduced yet. Her expression remained stoic as her eyes analyzed the boy before her, "You sure do got some strange eyes,"
"You sure do have a strange approach," She retorted, her gaze moving from the boy to the sky.
"You must be the Zura's friend that he's been sparring with, the blind one,"
"As you can see I'm not blind anymore, but I am," She said, "And you must be Shinbaka, the one that Gintoki keeps beating,"
"That bastard," He growled under his breath, "It's Shinsuke and the one getting his assed kicked is Gintoki himself,"
An amused glint came over her eyes when he said that, "Gintoki has always been the one to boast about battles that he had never won, it was quite obvious,"
"I hope he picks his nose hard enough to make him bleed to death," The dark headed boy stated, his relationship with the white headed boy was evidently a close rivalry.
"That day will come soon," She said, enjoying his company with her. The both of them grew comfortable with one another, creating a great bond. They had similar thinking and it's what made them encounter with one another.
She wondered what could have happened if she had never met him.
She sat in a café near her house sipping on a glass of milk, lately she's been developing a preoccupied behavior, her mind being elsewhere. Also lately she hasn't been seeing the Yoruzuya, which seemed like an odd behavior as the silver perm stated.
The reason to her absences and out of this world thinking was from that one offer, given by non-other than Shinsuke Takasugi. She rested her head on the palm of her hand, staring into nothing in particular. Should she join him, should she not? That's what she had had on her mind for weeks.
She let out a sigh, finishing her glass of milk and leaving the café. Her expression remained stoic, as she walked down the streets of Edo, still deep in thought on what she should reply with.
She finally decided to let that slip her mind slightly, and walked towards the Yoruzuya, that place was sort of like her comic relief, everything that happens there, is just so… Random, but she enjoys going to that place a lot.
After that couple competition last chapter, she also managed to make the Shinsengumi her other form of comic relief. Truth be told she was sadistic; she enjoyed her time the most when the other person is in pain, or is on their knees begging. It brought satisfaction to her, despite keeping a straight demeanor. Which kind of got her into teasing them with her harsh jokes, and torment.
She reached the entrance of Yoruzuya and opened the door wide open, as if it were her own home, which she herself declared it was. She walked into the usual room only to see no one there, finding it a little odd, and stupid that they would leave their front door unlocked. But then again it was a normal behavior for the Yoruzuya, since the members aren't that bright.
Since the lot weren't here she decided to go 'borrow' a jump comic from the silver headed man's stack. Once her hand touched the top of the book the door slammed open, she looked towards the door to find a rather peculiar looking dog. The dog stared at her his tongue outside panting, she stared back at the oversized dog.
That must be Sadaharu, the dog Kagura keeps on talking about, she thought.
He just stared at her, he didn't attack, didn't growl, nor did he move. She turned her eyes away from the dog and picked out one of the recent Jump Comics. She walked towards the dog and pet it on the head, "Arf!" He yelped.
She looked back at the dog and noticed how fond the dog was towards her, she tilted her head, "How strange… I'm quite fond of you as well."
She sat at one of the couches and opened the book and began to read it, she noticed the large white dog sit near her. She glanced at him the two of them stared bluntly at each other before the door slid open, "We're home, Sadaharu!"
[Name] could hear the voice of the vermillion girl through the house as she sat indifferently on the couch. When they walked into the room, the stood still on their tracks, the glasses wearing boy, and the vermillion yato turned around to see if the white headed man didn't run off somewhere. All they saw a puff of smoke so they knew that he– "Don't take my Jump Manga without permission!"
"What happened to 'What's mine is yours', didn't you say that when we went on our first date." The [Hair Color] girl said no emotion shown on her voice as her eyes continued to scan the comic.
"I never said that!" He refused, but she decided to go along with it anyway, "Are you sure? It was our 'First Time' doing it together, and you said that at the end of it all."
The boy with glasses placed his hands over Kagura's ears, "Kagura-chan, they are talking about adultery stuff, maybe we should leave them alone before they do something in front of us."
"Oi! Shinpatchi, Kagura wait!" The door was slammed shut, as the white headed man turned around and looked at her, "This is your fault you know."
"Is it? Good for me then," [Name] replied indifferently. She closed the Jump Book she was reading and looking into the red eyes of the white headed perm, "You know they both expect us to do something…"
He looked at her before saying, "I'm sure my silver rod would disapprove of such an event from happening."
"So you do want it." For the very first time in a while she grinned, which shocked the silver perm for a minute.
He shook the thought out of his mind before saying, "If I wanted it I would have gone downtown."
"Oh? But not with your girlfriend?" She stated with a fake pout on her face. She placed the book down and book marked the page she was reading.
"You mean 'Pretend Girlfriend'." He stated, feeling uncomfortably weird about her being his girlfriend, especially after what happened last chapter.
She stood up and walked up towards him with an amused glint in her eyes, she pressed her body against his, "Are you sure you want to keep it that way, Gin-tan?"
She brought her face closer to his face, leaning in for a kiss, before the door slid open the vermillion girl walking through it with a blank stare with a little shade of pink on her cheek, "Sadaharu, let's go on a long walk, we're sleeping over at Shinpatchi's today."
She looked at the two adults and bowed quickly with a slight blush on her cheeks, the door was slammed shut. The two stared blankly at it for a while, "I think you destroyed the innocence of a little girl."
The silver perm jumped back from the woman, about to say something before she said, "Well, this was fun, but I should get going."
The [Hair Color] woman walked towards the door with the book in hand, "Oh, yeah, I'm borrowing this, alright? I'll see you around darling."
She gave him an amused grin, before walking out. She left back to her house, entertaining herself with the Jump Comic, seriously though, these comics were seriously addicting, no wonder a grown man like Gintoki was reading all these comics.
She stared down at the book, getting into the one-shot that she was currently reading. Then she took quick notice of an envelope on her coffee table, she knew for sure that it was not hers, and that she did not get it through mail.
She examined the envelop and knew exactly who it was from. She didn't waste time on opening it, once she read what was inside she knew exactly what was coming next,
'I expect an answer soon.'
Closing the jump book in her hand she knew what she was going to do, she didn't need to have an answer now. Her answer would come to her the moment she would see him, and she knew that once her decision came to her, there would be no turning back.
A stressed sigh escapes her lips, maybe she should wait until tonight, just maybe then the decision would come to her.
Right after a carton or two of milk.
Arriving at a rather large ship, she knew that this was the place. As she looked up at the vehicle, she could feel his presence aboard. After thinking about it for a quite while she finally decided on her answer, it was so obvious, it was right in front of her this whole time.
She put pressure on her left leg as she jumped up creating a dent on the concrete ground, she landed lightly on the surface of the ship. Her heterochromatic eyes made contact with his olive green eye, a never leaving smirk on his face as he stared at her. He was beginning to grow impatient. He had purposely given her more time to think about it even though he knew that he would be aching for an answer. Despite signs of it not being visible on his face.
"I see you're keeping yourself busy here in Edo, Shinsuke," The [Hair Colour] woman spoke, her expression remaining stoic and unreadable.
"And I'm expecting an answer," He replied, a hint of his irritation evident in his voice.
"An answer, huh?" On her once stoic face, was an amused smirk very similar to the man before her. He was certain about her reply, it was very obvious on his person.
The answer was decided.
"I agree to your proposal,"
The smirk that was once dominating her face was replaced by a cold, bloodthirsty expression, "Though, I'd prefer to go by my own set of rules when it comes to it,"
A sadistic grin came across the bandaged man's face. He could never grow sick of her choice of words, "You never cease to amaze me,"
That night ended with just that. Shinsuke got the answer he wanted, and [Name] brought an even more amusing addition into her life.
Just how deadly will those two be paired together?