THIS chapter was awesomely co-authored by my awesome bestfriend who doesnt have an account at the moment xD
thankyou Tara i would still be stuck with this chapter if it wernt 4 u :D
Disclamer : we do not own gintama. tho my friend likes to think she owns Hijikata *wink*
It was morning, and everyone at the Shinsengumi headquarters were getting ready to commence their training session. The sun was shining, birds singing. 'It's a beautiful day' Hijikata thought to himself as he took a long drag from his cigarette.
"Hi-ji-ka-ta-san!" A female voiced yelled. A second later Hijikata was tackled from behind. The force caused him to take a quick breath inwards, and he started choking on the cigarette butt he had just accidentally inhaled.
"Good...morning...Nanami," he gasped, struggling to regain his breath, as he turned to the woman that still had her arms around him. Nanami giggled and removed her arms from around Hijikata's waist.
"Careful Hijikata-san, wouldn't want you dying or anything," she teased, giving Hijikata a hard slap on the back. This made him cough even harder, which made Nanami giggle even more.
"Oi oi, stop laughing, it's not funny," Hijikata said, crossing his arms and looking away.
"Upset you were taken down by a girl?" Nanami asked, her voice still teasing. Hijikata turned back to face the girl, ready to snap at her, and then noticed the amused expression on her face. 'Of course, she's just playing around, it was a joke,' he realised. He gave Nanami a light punch on the arm.
"I had my guard down, you'd never be able to take me down in a real fight," Hijikata boasted, feeling a tiny bit depressed. He WAS taken down by a girl after all, he just didn't want to admit it. He waited for a response from Nanami, only her attention was no longer directed at him. She was watching the other men who were engaged in combat. The training session had commenced. 'She seems quite interested.'
"Their technique is all wrong," Nanami muttered to herself, eyes still glued to the men before her.
"Huh?" Hijikata asked.
"I said, their technique is all wrong," Nanami responded, turning her head to look at Hijikata.
"So you're an expert on swordsmanship eh?" He asked, quickly glancing at his comrades. He had to admit, their technique was a bit sloppy.
"I've done a bit here and there," Nanami replied, walking closer to the training area. Hijikata reached out and took her arm, pulling her away.
"What are you doing? You can't go in there while they're training."
"I wanna play! Can I play with them?" Nanami pleaded. Her hands were clasped together like she was praying and she looked at Hijikata with her big green eyes, eyes that had a spark of battle lust in them. Hijikata noticed she didn't look sad for once. She looked...happy. He didn't want that look to disappear, so...
"Fine, fine, you can join in I guess, but don't come crying to me if you get your arse kicked," he said, trying to sound casual. In reality, he was kind of curious to see how good Nanami really was. Nanami grinned.
"Oh thank you Hijikata-san!" she squealed, throwing herself at Hijikata and giving him a tight hug.
"Oh, um, er...you're welcome?" he answered, a light blush appearing on his cheeks. But Nanami didn't notice, she had already ran over to the area where Sougo and the others were. All heads turned to look at the girl.
"What is SHE doing here?" One of the men asked, pointing at Nanami, "she's not in our training sessions."
"Training's over, this is just for fun," Hijikata spoke, he wouldn't usually encourage the men to mess around, in-fact he would threaten any who did with death, but he really wanted Nanami to keep smiling, "I believe the correct term Nanami used was 'play.'" The other men laughed. Sougo, meanwhile, was eyeing Nanami curiously. 'What's he thinking?' Hijikata wondered. His question was shortly answered when Sougo spoke.
"Let her have a go."
Now everyone in the yard turned to look at the young Captain. A number of voices spoke up at once.
"Are you serious?"
"You've gotta be kidding."
"A girl can't fight."
"Let her fight," Hijikata finally spoke again, "it's not gonna hurt anybody."
"Well clearly," the man who pointed at Nanami earlier said, "she's a girl."
"Congratulations, you just volunteered to be Nanami's first dueling partner," Hijikata shouted. He walked over to Nanami and handed her a wooden training sward.
"Make sure you kick his ass," he whispered in her ear, "oh and don't break the sword."
'I've seen what a wooden sword can do,' he thought as he stood back out of the way, 'stupid permanent-permed-sugar-freak'
"Aye," Nanami said, saluting Hijikata.
"Oh, I should probably show you how to hold a sword," her duelling partner said, standing behind the girl in a suggestive way that made his comrades laugh and whistle.
"Oh, of course," Nanami whispered a little annoyed, as the man slid his arms around her waist and held the sword that was in her hands. He helped Nanami position her hands correctly and placed his on top.
"Ok, so now that you're holding it properly, it's pretty easy. You just swing and make sure you hit me. Ok girly show me what you got." He smirked.
"Ok, then," she grinned, "if you win I'll give you a reward," she winked suggestively.
She heard Hijikata choke behind her "Oi oi, don't go making promises like that!"
Nanami giggled, "don't worry that offer is available for you too."
He choked again.
"Okay then lets do this!" She stated. "You better not underestimate me"
"Awesome time to get me a reward!" The man smirked again.
*smash!* *whack!*
The dual was over in a flash her opponent was on the ground out cold. Nanami was standing spinning her sword playfully.
"I told you not to underestimate me." She spun around to the rest of the men, "any of you boys wanna play with me too? Oh if you do I suggest you come at me in groups," she said, "about three or four, no wait maybe groups of five would be best."
"Don't underestimate us! You just caught him by surprise!" A man said pointing at his fallen comrade, who was being dragged away for treatment. "Just because you are the vice-commander's woman doesn't mean you get to boss us around."
Again with the choking.
She ignored that last part. "You don't need to worry I wont be as harsh on you. That guy really pissed me off and I got a little carried away," she turned to look at her defeated opponent, "I must apologize to him when he wakes up, I didn't intend on breaking that many bones."
"You fucking bitch! Come on guys!" There was a roar of men's yelling as they all charged at her.
"This is more like it." She grinned darkly.
She danced around the courtyard blocking and dodging all their attacks. Then she was on the offensive.
*slice**smack**thwack*...
"Is that all you guys have?" Nanami sighed as she sat atop a pile of defeated Shinsengumi. She got up and started skipping over too the very stunned Hijikata.
"Helloooooo!" She waved her hand in front of his face. After getting no response she shrugged and started going through his pockets and stole a cigarette. As she lit it she heard a clapping coming from nearby.
"Bravo!" Sougo said with a blank emotionless face. "You seem like fun," his face was then distorted into a evil blood thirsty grin.
"Wow, you seem like you would almost be a challenge," she mirrored his expression, "I assume you're my next opponent. I sure hope you'll be more fun than these guys." She motioned at the defeated men who were clearing out of the way of the coming battle, they knew this fight would be dangerous to watch from a close proximity.
Both combatants took their positions on the field. "Wait a moment, I gotta get serious," she said as she removed her kimono, "this would get in the way."
Hijikata finally came to his senses.
"WAIT THIS IS A BAD IDEA. SOUGO I-" he was shocked at what he saw. Nanami had removed her kimono. She stood there with fitted shorts and her chest bound in bandages. But then he noticed the scar it stretched across most of her stomach and curved its way around he side and on her back just stopping before reaching her spine, 'she told me she nearly died but, holy fuck, that's a massive scar!'
They heard the men nearby gasp and say things like "wow" "shit, she is for real" "is she a demon?"
Sougo just smirked, "lets do this!"
*slice* *smash* *thwack* *crash*
Both fighters seemed evenly matched, giving and receiving blows. The fight lasted for ages until Nanami flinched, she still hadn't fully recovered from her beating by her boss. Sougo used this opening and easily overwhelmed her.
"NANAMI!" Hijikata yelled as he ran to her side, "are you ok?"
"Yea I'm fine," she said with a grin, "I haven't had a good work out like that for ages."
"Ah, fun's over," Sougo said as he walked away, "I'm gonna take a nap," he yawned.
"OI GET BACK HERE SOUGO! I'm gonna KILL you!"
"Hijikata-san now you've seen what i can do will you let me join?" She asked with a serious expression,
"What? Why would you?"
"Originally the Jouishishi had the purpose of protecting this country, but now they use it as an excuse to rebel against order and commit terrible crimes," she looked down, "I want to stop them, no I NEED to stop them I-"
"No way!" He said sternly, "this is no place for a woman."
"But-"
"Just coz you can fight isn't a good enough reason." He insisted.
"Why not?" He heard a voice behind him. He instinctively rolled to the side as a sword came down where he was sitting, he looked up to see Sougo. "The Mimawarigumi's vice commander is a woman"
"What the fuck!? Why did you do that!?" Hijikata yelled.
"Well I thought if I killed you, then we wouldn't need your permission for her to join."
Nanami burst into fits of laughter. "Are you guys always this brutal?" She said wiping away the tears that had formed.
"No usually its worse," Sougo answered
"Come on Toushi." They turned to see the gorilla-commander walking over, "Shes a strong girl, there's no need for you to be so protective." He chuckled.
"I'm no-*COUGH*cough*" Hijikata choked again "I'm not being protective."
Sougo sighed, "Dammit Hijikata choke properly."
"THAT'S IT!" Hijikata yelled.
Nanami watched as the two men started chasing each-other around. She felt a warm hand on her shoulder, she turned to see the commander.
"Welcome aboard!" He said with a grin.
AWESOME ITS DONE
now i gotta do the next one xD
ok a couple more chapters before the reuniting of the 2 lovers ... kyaaaaaa i cant wait to write it :D
EDIT: ive reread and edited this like a million times and im STILL finding mistakes D:
