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Manju: I really wish I can ride on a Kapibarasan and fly!

Gintoki: Capybara cannot fly.

Manju: Capybara jia nai, Kapibarasan da.


Kagura never expect herself to be the first to wake up that day. Ever since Manju came, the hard-worker has been the first of the three of them to wake up. When she saw Gintoki's futon is empty, she found it to be even weirder, only to find the samurai sleeping and drooling on his desk.

"Could it be last night...heeheeheehee..." Kagura grinned and walked to the table, hitting Gintoki's head. "Oi! Gin-chan. Gin-chan!" She careful not to wake Manju, who is still sleeping soundly in the room.

"What?" Annoyed, Gintoki lift his head a bit to see who is it. When he saw Kagura, he dropped his head back down and snored.

"Gin-chan...if you don't wake up...Your JUMP is going to get burned." Kagura smiled evily and whispered into his ear.

"No! My JUMP!" Gintoki jumped from his seat, awake. That triggered Kagura's laughing fit. It is a trick she learned from Manju, but had not got the chance to use it until now. "What is it?!" Gintoki scratched his head, annoyed and sleepy.

"How was it last night? Manju's skin is really smooth and soft right? Her lips are very soft too. Did you leave any hickies?" Kagura asked softly, excited for juicy news. Instead, she got a hit at the back of her head, and Gintoki's dead pan eyes as he dug his nose.

"Compared to me, you are the more pervert one." Gintoki yawned and said.

"Selfish." Kagura said unhappily. "Either way, I will see those hickies when we bath."

"We did not do anything you idiot." Gintoki scolded.

"No way. If you two have not do anything, why are you sleeping here? There must be something in your futon. It is wet isn't it?" Gintoki covered her mouth immediately.

"Consider the rating you idiot kid!" Gintoki reprimanded. "Ahhh!" Kagura bit his hand, causing him to withdraw it immediately. "Nothing happened between the two of us!" Gintoki hissed at her.

"Then why are you sleeping here?" Kagura asked unhappily.

"Cooling my back. The futon is too hot." Gintoki leaned back on his chair and close his eyes. "There is no breakfast. Go and buy some."

"Lies. It is still freezing today." Kagura refused to believe him. "If your futon is hot, that means you did something there."

"It is too troublesome to make you believe." Gintoki rolled his eyes and went back to sleep.

The room door slid opened and Manju came out. Unusual to the daily routine, not only she overslept, her smile really happily. "Kagura, want to eat out today?" She asked. It is too late to make anything now. She will call Fujiko to take a day leave later.

"Manju, why are you so happy?" Kagura asked.

"I had a dream." Manju beamed. "A very nice one. I am not sure it is my memory but...I dreamt that I have parents and a super huge Kapibarasan."

"O! How is you Papi and Mami like?" Kagura is curious now.

"I don't know. Can't see their face, but I heard their voice. " Manju beamed happily. "Father told Mother how I inherited her love for Kapibarasan."

"And?"

"There is no more to it." Manju went to put on her boots.

"That's all? That is so lame." Kagura complaint as she put on hers. "Gin-chan, you are not coming?"

"Just get a take away for me. I need more sleep." Gintoki said without looking at them.

"Come on Kagura." Manju was already outside the door. Detecting a change between Manju and Gintoki, Kagura went out with Manju, wanting to know what happened between them.

"Manju...did you fight with Gin-chan?" She is straight when it comes to asking questions.

"Something like that." Manju decided not to lie about it.

"Manju, don't be angry with Gin-chan." Kagura never thought Manju will get angry. "He is a pervert and idiot. He is disgusting and dirty, but he is a good man. You won't find another one as good as him ne."

"Kagura, I...Never mind." Manju had wanted to tell her everything, but decided against it for if she throw a tantrum in public area, it might be disastrous.

"Manju, if you have anything to say, just say it."

"I will tell you later." Manju smiled and nodded. "Lets get some food. You must be really hungry."

"Okay." Kagura led the way into a family restaurant. When it comes to food, the Yorozuya will not miss it. In the first place, Kagura did not think their fight is serious. "Gin-chan must have done something stupid. I wonder what is Manju like when she was pissed off." Kagura muttered and looked at her companion quietly. To Kagura, Manju feels really different today. Fighting with Gintoki aside, Manju seems less tense and happier. "Manju, you really feel so happy about the dream aru ne." Kagura actually felt happy for her. "Even though you are not sure that is really your memory." She watched as Manju ate a little wheat manju.

"Well...the dream gives me hope. Maybe...I am not as empty as I thought." Manju said thoughtfully. "Even though I am in the baby's point of view in the dream and there is no evidence that the baby is really me, I felt a very warm and fuzzy feeling, and that feeling persisted when I woke up. Even as of now... I felt the jitters of being in the dream."

"Jia...If you find your own family, are you going to leave?" Kagura prompted, leaning forward At that, Manju hesitated. If is normally, she should be able to smile and give her an unclear answer, but... "No way Manju." Kagura said sadly. "Yorozuya can't live without you anymore aru ne!"

"Kagura..." Manju smiled sadly.

"It is not that smile." This smile is so different from the one Manju had when she talked about her dream. Everything seems clear to the Yato now. Manju is always forcing her smiles. "Manju, do you not like Yorozuya?"

"I do. Of course I is just that it is not place for me." Manju sighed. "Kagura, I don't belong here."

"But why? I don't understand. Everyone likes you, and you are pretty and nice and kind" Kagura asked, upset. "Manju, don't leave. Gin-chan will be sad." Kagura looked at her, agitated as she held her hand. "I finally have a very good nee-san. Papi and baka aniki never care much about me. Only you." Her eyes grew watery and her voice loud enough to gather the attention of all the other customers in the restaurant.

"Kagura, calm down." Manju could not smile anymore. She felt really sad. She never want to make them sad. However, if she continues to stay with them, she doesn't know how long she can continue trying to stand her ground in the already full and sailing ship of Yorozuya. Manju felt stress, subconsciously, she was never able to relax, fearing that one day, she will just start attacking them for no reason. She had known it not long after she joined Yorozuya. It has always been her making her own life difficult. All she have to do is relax, do whatever she wants and say how she really feel, but she always held herself back. That suffocated her so badly, affecting her sleeps and her emotions greatly.

"Manju, you are super-duper idiot! You must have fight with Gin-chan over this." Kagura started yelling at her. "We took you in when you are at your lowest, and now you have a job, you want to leave us. You are so ungrateful. I hate you." Kagura ran out.

"Wait Kagura!" Manju stood up to give chase but bumped into a waitress. She did not mind that tiny pain the felt like an ant bite, but her world started to spin and she felt her legs weakening. "Kagura..." Darkness took over, plunging her into unconsciousness. The waitress caught her limped body and gets her towards the toilet.

"Customer, you should not drink so much in the morning." The waiter said with a smile no one saw. The table which previously only have two plates of noodles and two cups of juice now stood an extra bottle of empty beer.

This entire act is just to get the girl when she is finally alone. Kijima Matako threw the light girl over her shoulder after they are alone in the toilet and went out of the back door. Takasugi Shinsuke had ordered for her to be capture, but no matter how she asked her master, the Kiheitai Commander never answers to anyone.

"It doesn't matter. Shinsuke-sama is always right. He is probably just trying to target Shiroyasha by taking his woman." Matako thought aloud as she walked towards their ship.

Kagura stomped her way into Shimura's Residences and started complaining to the siblings about Manju. Initially, she thought that Manju would chase after her, and even slowed down her pace, but after waiting for a while, she did not see Manju at all. That angers the Yato further, thus deciding to give her the cold shoulder from now on.

Shinpachi got really sad when he knew about it. As for Otae...She is not really close to Manju and only heard about her mostly from Shinpachi and Kagura. They talked on few occasions, but are just normal friends.

"We got to talk to Gin-san and find a way to make Manju stay." Shinpachi said.

"Shin-chan, Kagura-chan. I know you two really like Manju, but Manju really miss her family. If she find them, is it really right for us to separate them?" Otae asked with a gentle smile.

"But! If Manju leave then we...are not Yorozuya anymore." Kagura said.

"Kagura-chan, Manju going back home does not mean she is not part of Yorozuya. Just like Shin-chan, she can go back and fro every day." Otae explained.

"If Manju is not living with us... I will need to sleep in the closet again." Kagura sulked. "She will not be able to wash my back, dry my head and tie my hair anymore."

"She can always wash your back and dry your hair before going home."

"Ane-ue...Manju might not be living in Edo." Shinpachi said.

"I am sure she will come visit." Otae tried to comfort the two of them. "You don't want Manju to be unhappy too right?"

"I got it Shinpachi. Muhahahaha." Kagura was thoughtful for a moment before she started laughing.

"Got what?"

"Manju just have to marry Gin-chan ne!" Kagura said proudly. "If they get married, even Manju's parents cannot separate them aru ne."

" Kagura-chan, what makes you sure that they are really in love with each other? They don't look like it. In fact, Manju don't talk to him as much as she talk to you right?" Otae asked.

"They talk a lot." Kagura smiled teasingly. "I woke up in the middle of the night sometimes. Manju and Gin-chan are always chatting in the living room. It is interesting to peek." Kagura grinned, remembering how Gintoki held Manju to keep her warm when she fell asleep on him. She thought Gintoki is just going to take her there.

"Well...I am not sure if talking is all. Gin-san is a pervert, and Manju is pretty. Could it be that he just want to sleep with her? This is Gin-san we are talking about." Otae cover her mouth with her sleeve and said in an exaggerated manner.

"It is different when they talk." Kagura laughed, remember how Gintoki sometime blush when Manju laughed and chuckled. "Gin-chan steal looks at her, is protective of her and a little helpless when it comes to her. I can assure you Gin-chan is in love with Manju."

"It is so for Gin-san, but what about Manju?" Otae nodded in understanding and asked another question.

"I think Manju likes Gin-san too." It is Shinpachi who answered. "I was cleaning that day and I managed to get a peek of Manju's sketch book. There are drawings of Gin-san. She drew Gin-san's sleeping posture, reading JUMP, eating ice-cream or just lazing around. Manju drew them inside and has that happy expression when she looked at them."

"I see..." Otae giggled at how cute they are. Otae started imagining the two of them chatting with Manju chuckling lightly and Gintoki scratching his head with a blush on his face. "It is great Gin-san finally have a woman to manage his messed up life. Shin-chan, Kagura-chan. I will help with the wedding plans too. It is going to be fun." Otae announced.

"Then let's go and talk to Gin-chan." Kagura cheered and they made their way there.

Gintoki is now sleeping on the sofa with a weird dream. He is eating a cake on a mountain top, overlooking the biggest moon he had ever seen. Then, something flew past. He had to strain his eyes to see a giant Kapibarasan with someone riding on top of it.

Manju? Ehhh? What is this?!

Then he heard someone calling him as his dream faded and he found himself looking at the big fat face of Shinpachi's. "Took you guys long enough. I am so hungry that I passed out." He yawned and sat up. Immediately, he is sandwiched between Kagura and Shinpachi, with Otae seated opposite him. Seeing that Manju is not back, he assumed that she had went to work.

"Ne ne Gin-chan, do you want a wife?" Kagura asked.

"No." Gintoki took that bag of buns on the table and started eating them.

"Gin-san, you are of the age for marriage. Any later, no one will want a useless man like you." Shinpachi commented.

"What? This is some kind of arranged marriage between Otae and me?" Gintoki took another bun. "I told you, I only like Ketsuno Ana, or at least someone with boobs." For that, he got a kicked on his face by Otae.

"Who the hell want to married a loser like you?" Otae hissed.

"Gin-chan, do you not want to patch up with Manju? If you keep flirting like that, Manju will really leave when she finds her family." Kagura said disapprovingly.

"Even without her family, she had wanted to leave." Gintoki finished all the buns and said with a stuffed mouth.

"Huh? Gin-san? What do you mean? Manju want to leave even though she had not find her family?" Shinpachi asked.

"That's right." Gintoki dug the gap of his teeth as the meat from the bun got stuck in between. "If I had not stopped her from leaving yesterday, Kagura, she will not be here this morning."

"That is why you got into a fight with her aru ka?" Kagura asked the obvious.

"More or less." Gintoki yawned, leaving out the part about the DNA test and the misunderstanding they had. "I had wanted to take her back here and we can all sit down and talk things out, but to think she went straight to work after breakfast."

"Manju did not go to work." Kagura shook her head. "She said she is going to call the shelter and take a day leave."

"Then where did she go?" Gintoki dug his ears and asked. Besides Yorozuya and the shelter, he did not think she have anywhere else to go. Did she managed to trick Kagura and ran off? "Kagura, are you not with her?" Gintoki eyed the yato.

"I...left her in the family restaurant." Kagura sweatdrop and said with certain level of guilt. "Maybe she is angry and do not want to see us yet."

"What? You have a fight with her too?" Gintoki stretched his back and stood up to get his strawberry milk. It was freshly made from yesterday, sealed in air tight container to maintain its quality. Manju had been doing that for him since she treated him that special strawberry milk. The cold press juicer stood at a corner, clean and dry. Things like these are expensive and sometimes, require slightly more time to clean, but when it comes to food preparation, Manju like to do her best.

In fact, she does her best in everything.

If she is to leave, who is going to make his strawberry milk? After drinking these freshly made ones, Gintoki no longer find those packet ones tasty.

"Gin-chan..." Kagura went in and called out. "I will go search for her. Think of how to propose when she comes back." The yato grinned and ran off before Gintoki could scold her for talking rubbish again.

"Gin-san, I will go too. Please think of how to apologise to her." Shinpachi went off after Kagura. Gintoki said nothing more and went back to the sofa, turning on the television.

Otae sighed and turned it off, much to Gintoki's dismay. "Gin-san, what is with this cold attitude? Manju have nowhere else to go beside Yorozuya and the shelter. Are you not worried?" She asked.

"That is enough already." Gintoki put the cup on the table and looked at her. "Everyone just keeps assuming we are lovers and all. Both of us are not interested." He looked at her with dead fish eyes.

"Not interested? Really?" Otae smiled and asked.

"Do I look like a boyfriend material to you?"

"It does not matter how I see you. What matters is how the person you like see you." Otae said. "Besides Sarutobi-san, only Manju can stand you. Are you saying that you are fine with her not coming back?"

"I am in no position to stop her if she really wants to leave." Gintoki took the cheque out from his pocket.

"I am not asking you about position now. I am asking you if you ok with her leaving." Otae started getting a little impatient. "In the first place, you are denying yourself of the position. If you make her your woman, you have every rights and position to make her stay."

"Oi oi...Is this what an elder sister figure should encourage?" Gintoki frowned and asked. "Making her my woman? That brat is not mature enough for that. Manju only have one thing in her mind and that is her memories. Are you implying that I should force myself on her?"

Face palming; Otae threw a sketchbook at him. She had not seen what is inside, but she assumed it is the one Shinpachi had said. "Take a look inside and reconsider your judgement."

Gintoki took the sketchbook and started going through, but closed it immediately when he reach the third page. "Why are you showing me this shit?" His eyebrow twitched and threw the book on the table. "Why did Manju even drew these?"

"Shit?" Otae raged. She took the book and looked. Third page shows Gintoki kissing Hijikata. Angry red aura disappeared. Otae got shocked and closed the book. "This is the wrong book! There has to be another one somewhere."

"She only have one sketchbook." Gintoki said.

"That means Shin-chan misunderstood. All the drawings Manju drew were incomplete when Shinpachi saw them. Manju had been drawing yaoi fandom!" Otae opened the book and look through them again, admiring how good the drawing is.

Gintoki took the book from Otae and flipped to the last page. Coughing at it, he went to a corner, ripped it out of the book and burnt it, then the second last, then third last...and the whole book. Who cares if the owner will get angry. He is angry now.

Just what is this girl thinking?

"I have something to take care of. Either you go home or just sit there." Gintoki took his bokuto and headed out, searching for Manju. He Katsura, Tama and even Hasegawa frequently, but none of them saw her.

It is not like Manju will be assault again. Her fighting skills are good, but Gintoki just could not relax when he could not find her anywhere. "It is not like she can ride a Kapibarasan and fly off." Gintoki muttered in amusement as the sun started to set.

"Gin-san!"

"Gin-chan!"

Kagura and Shinpachi ran to him, clearly worried. They could not find her anywhere. "Could she have left Edo?"

"It must be that. Run away from home. Girls her age always do that." Gintoki scratched his head and said.

"Manju is not that childish." Shinpachi shook his head.

"Ara...Kintoki jia nai no? Ahahahaha ahahahaha." The most annoying companion came at the wrong timing, with a ship hovering over them.

"Sakamoto-san and Kaientai." Shinpachi greeted him.

"Shut up. I don't have the patients to put up with you now." Gintoki did not even want to correct his name anymore.

"Sakamoto-san, your ship...Did something happen?" Shinpachi looked at the smoking ship that is covered with holes as it slowly lands.

"We got robbed by spaces pirates, Harasame and are lucky to be able to escape with only this level of damage. Ahahahahaha, ahaha ahaha."

Gintoki have no mood for all this. He spotted the Shinsengumi and called out to their devil-commander. "Hijikata-kun, have you seen my third brat?" Gintoki asked.

"Third brat? Manju? No, have not seen her for the whole of today." Hijikata crooked a brown at how Gintoki got his name right this time.

"Where is Okita-kun then?"

"He is station at the terminal today." Hijikata took another puff of smoke.

"Did something happen?" Gintoki asked. Any information is valuable now. Shinsengumi are the police force after all.

"Why do you care?" Hijikata looked at him and folded his arms.

"Come on Ogushi-kun. We had shared information numerous times already. What is the harm of doing one more exchange?" Gintoki grinned and said.

"It is Hijikata! You managed to call me that just now! You are doing that on purpose!" Hijikta hissed at him. This perm never fails to get on his edge, but he will not deny that they had helped each other out numerous times. "What? Did your brat run away from home? Sogo told me about what happened last night."

"Just tell me what is happening around. Is it the Harasame?" Gintoki dug his nose.

"Anonymous leads came in. Harasame have some activity here today. " Hijikta light another cigarette. "How do you know about Harasame?"

"That Loud Mouth there just got attack by Harasame." Gintoki stretched his back and rotated his right arm. "Thanks for the info." Gintoki walked back to where Kaientai is and grabbed the back of Sakamoto's collar.

"Kintoki? What are you trying to do?"

"I want you to track down the Harasame." Gintoki threw him up the broken ship and jumped onboard while Shinpachi and Kagura followed.

"This ship is in no condition to fly." Mutsu rejected Gintoki's request.

"Then find me a ship that can." Gintoki said flatly.

"Chouto Gin-san. Where are we going? We are supposed to look for Manju." Shinpachi asked in confusion.

"Manju? There is a good manju shop in space?" Sakamoto asked, wanting to try.

"Yes yes. That manju must have been taken by Harasame. If we don't hurry, it will be eaten." Gintoki looked at the damage on the ship. He do not know ships well to decide on its ability to fly. He just need to leave the flying and tracking part to that laughing idiot.

"Gin-chan, are you saying the Harasame kidnapped Manju?" Kagura asked, rolling up her sleeve, ready to punch some faces.

"It is just a guess. Manju is not irresponsible. Even if she wants to leave without the two of you knowing, she will at least tell me." Gintoki is sure of that. "She might be strong, but going against Harasame alone is a suicide. I don't know what they want with her, but for now, any lead is worth investigating."

"You heard that Laughing Idiot! Hurry up and start flying!" Kagura scolded the Kaientai founder. All along, Sakamoto was looking at Gintoki. The last time he saw his comrade so serious was during the Joi War. Ever since that, Gintoki has that lazy face every time he saw him. "Oi!" Kagura hit his head hard, causing him to fall and smashed his face on the ground. Crawling up, he laughed and ordered Mutsu to get their backup ship.

Sakamoto asked Shinpachi about Manju. It is definitely not food when Gintoki said about her not being irresponsible. To think that a girl can make Gintoki serious. Sakamoto just got interested in her.

Things around Gintoki always get interesting.

Sakamoto smirked as he looked at the radar that blinks the position of the Harasame ship. He will get revenge for his ship too.