Hey I'm back! So first part of chapter ten is up and it's just part one because you see, my dog chewed my fast draft of chapter ten, and I can only save this part. I'm so pathetic. –sigh-
So please don't stop reading now, I didn't abandon the story. I love Gin Tama too much for that. And I got a little hooked with this Korean drama and J-drama I was watching. You know, I think I need to revise some Gintoki POV so I did my research by watching… -drum roll- ta-da!
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GTO!
Jace is weird for almost two weeks now. Sometimes she had this unsure look whether to tell me she wanted to release a bomb in the comfort room, or she lost her virginity to the weekend party she dragged me over. Too bad, I refused. She even asks me questions about things that don't make sense, or maybe it's just me who couldn't comprehend. I'm starting to think that one day she'll ask me if cows fly or something.
"Yo." I attempted a surprise greeting, like popping behind her back.
"Wha-! You scared me!" Her muscles tensed a little, and peeked over her shoulders.
"What? You used to pull pranks like this."
"It's not funny. Stop it." She said, but she's almost laughing. I guess she's fine today.
"What's gotten into lately? You're like dreamy and jumpy…" I hope she can also read the changes of suspicion and concern in the crinkling of my brows.
"It's nothing." Her tone dismissing. She sighed like she missed the TV show she's been hurrying for hours just to get home and watch. Don't worry, there are reruns, honey.
"Okay." I can just be patient until she can tell me how bad her diarrhea is. We're walking to go to the cafeteria, its lunch, and I figured I might as well try that detox smoothie Jace had been ordering so much lately. I guess, that's why she has a bad case bowel movement. Oh my, I'm such a good friend.
"That's all you're getting?" I recognize that voice. Of course I do.
"Ah, Bakasugi." Jace turned around.
"Yo, Taka-jerk." I said, sipping a newly invented drink that is a sure way to cut someone's appetite. "Jace, I know now why you're so thin…" I cough it in her face, but she wasn't looking. She was looking at her weird, unstable prince in eye patch.
"Maybe I should go…" I said, awkwardly and happily exiting the love-love scene in front of me.
"We can talk, Jace?" Oh? First person basis now?
"E-Eh? Why?" She said, almost dropping her miserable lunch that Takasugi saved from falling.
"Nothing. Just longing to talk to you." I saw Jace's mouth open where flies can enter and leave a free as Independence Day.
"Lo-Longing? Sure." They exited the cafeteria, Jace turning her head towards and I gave her a thumbs up.
-Jace-
"You didn't tell her yet, did you?" Bakasugi asked, as our eyes bulge out with the distance they are seeing. After all, we are at the rooftop of a school building annex.
"I didn't, but I think she needs to know." I quietly said, without raising my eyes who in return aren't also looking at me.
What happened:
Chi was sleeping like a log beside me. I had the urge to pee that I woke up and drink some water. Oh, shit. Ginpachi-sensei! I looked under the bed and found that he wasn't' there anymore. I looked at the glass doors and saw the rope Chi is always using everytime she needs to get out of the house and have a walk. She always liked those things, cheesy, crappy, romantic shit. But that makes her serene and beautiful at the same. She's not the party animal with hair extensions and all that larger-than-the-original-cup-size-push-up bra wearing female. She's boring, all right, but she knows how to be fun and genuine at the same time. She's refreshing to be with. I am the opposite, but she doesn't have anything bad to say because she knows me better. Oh gosh. I'm tearing up; enough of this sappy shit. Then I heard someone talking.
"Zura. You knew?"
"I think the former lover of my newly found sister should experience a little pain." Former lover? Newly found sister? I almost thought Zura and Gin-sensei is in that relationship. But as I heard the whole thing… Gin-sensei and Chi had a relationship?! And what is with the newly-found sister? Isn't it that Zura was adopted long ago?
"Will you come with me?"
"No one broke up. She just forgot." They are talking about the accident two years ago… so Chi and Gin were…. Oh. My. :O
"You should be hungry, Gintoki." Gintoki? It's Ginpachi, right? What is that, a weird endearment or something?
"Chie asked me about you. She found out that we are related." Oh, that would be my fault.
"As long as her father wouldn't know, she'll be fine." What? What about her father? I drank too much to understand… I think I need to call Chie but why does her father shouldn't know?
"That is what concerns me. He will come back here in Japan. That person didn't even say anything about coming back or when will he come back." Her father is coming back?! Oh, my gosh, this is fricking huge. I want to see how his father would look like.
"Is that why you came back out of the blue? Does Sada-Sada know you're even here?" I remember, Sada-Sada is her father, but I don't know what kind of man he is… but somehow, it feels like I've heard that name somewhere….
"I said there's a minor problem in the headquarters and that I have to go back."
"He's on the move. I'm relieved he already stopped the hunting for your head, but in any case-"'Stopped hunting for your head'?! Is that what I think it means?! I almost couldn't take of it all. I felt my knees weakened that I almost couldn't stand up with the help of the kitchen counter. What happened two years ago?
"Zura, I'll definitely protect the people that matters to me."
"I already know that, Gintoki."
"It's Ginpachi until everything is over." Ginpachi? Is Ginpachi-sensei planning something? What do you mean until it's over? What should be over? What should I call him then, Ginpachi, or Gintoki?
-End-
"Bakasugi." That's how I call him nowadays.
"Wha- stop calling me Bakasugi." He said, a second of being flustered, then back to that low blood and always irritated Bakasugi. It amazes me how he can constantly act like he's on PMS. Surprisingly enough, he handed me a Yakult. (A/N: Yes, that yummy, short-lived bliss probiotic drink. There should be some way of making it a liter, but you see, it's not possible.)
His knuckles and the cold drink touch my cheeks an attempt to maybe… punish me for calling him Bakasugi or to tell me to snap out of trance. It was nothing painful, just surprising. "You know, you can be kind sometimes." I said, snatching the Yakult from his hands. I extended my hand, asking me for some straw.
"What?" I glared at me. Like he's expecting me to run away.
"Straw." I simply said.
"Just flip the foil."
"I can't, my nails aren't that long." I reasoned, showing him my nails.
"Why do you need every single thing done for you?"
"I didn't ask you to wash my ass after I poop." I teased and reasoned. He snatched the Yakult back, lifting the foil and giving it back. He didn't need to pay me back a glare, seriously. But he looks so cute now. Like a tiger turned into a cute little cat. Kawaii!
"You know what a good friend would do in this situation, right?" I said, after finishing the drink in three gulps. "I'll tell her."
"And will you be responsible of her after?" there was pressure in every icy word he let go of his mouth. "You don't even know what happened."
"Why do talk like you know Chie all this time?" I don't know what this is. But there begins a rush in my every vein; like every corner of my system are on fire, and the only way to extinguish the rabid feeling of curiosity was to hear him speak. But there was… danger in the glint of his eyes, a warning that I want to ignore because every minute he delays in speaking the truth, the more voluminous my anger becomes. At first, there was surprise, and then it was my desperate curiosity that made me want to meddle with this mess. And now, anger that I can't know anymore than what I want to know. Takasugi was the first to talk to me about this matter, and I was glad he did open the subject to me. If I was to keep it to me in a long time, and knowing there is more to it than the shocking things that I heard, I could've died from curiosity.
I really want to help Chi. It was a wish of hers to know who she was before that accident. But maybe another reason was I'm trying to look for an explanation why Takasugi is so interested with Chi.
" Just… who are you?" I noticed the weight of my words and I saw lips opened and closed until it curved into a slimy smile.
"I also want her to know. We'll make her remember and you'll have to help me on that."
"How do I know I can trust you? At least tell me something!" I demanded. I also need to know, I want to know.
"Why don't you just come out and say it-"
"Say what?!" anger was so evident with my breathing and my sudden change of tone.
"That you can't help but wanted to dip your nose in this to get my connections with her. That your actions are not as pure as it looks. Then tell me, how can I trust you?" He easily found me out. All the dread and anger building in my body just leaked out to pure embarrassment. He was right, halfway right.
I can just stand there and look at the ground. I'm trying not to cry because it will hurt my pride because I knew he's right. He's right that I'm trying to take advantage of this situation to know him better. I'm such a bitch.
"What do I need to do?" I just said quietly and I know that once I agree to this, there was no chickening out.
[End] Part One.