WHEN YOU'RE TIRED, EAT SOUR STUFF
Canarie exe. has stopped working.
The former assassin perfectly still in front of the Yorozuya where a package had been delivered, in the form of a big, ginormous white dog. Yet, despite the severity of the situation and the obvious case of it being an amanto...she found the strange beast to be absolutely adorable.
Kagura came up behind Canarie with her new sour love, sukonbu in her mouth. "What are you standing outside like this, Cana-chan? Did you find some porn magazines?" The sound of the dog barking caught her attention and her eyes lit up. "Wow!"
"We're back," Canarie announced and walked inside. Gintoki was on the couch sleeping with Jump over his eyes, and Shinpachi was sweeping the floor. "Kagura's back too?"
"Did you buy the toilet paper?" Shinpachi asked.
"Yup." She dropped the single roll in his hand.
A single...roll.
Shinpachi stared at the single roll in his hand. "Kagura-chan, you know...usually people buy these in a pack. This won't be enough for the next person that get's diarrhea." He looked up to his saving grace, the last person in this household who has enough common sense. "Cana-san...?"
"I'll go back out and get a pack." She answered like an angel.
Gintoki looked up with his sleepy eyes and dropped the j=Jump from his face. For a moment he thought his vision was failing him when he saw a big white dog standing behind Canarie and Kagura.
Shinpachi glanced over and finally noticed the giant beast. He shrieked out. "What is that thing!?" He cried like a girl.
"He was dropped outside our door." Canarie crossed her arm, completely cool and unable to understand how big the situation was.
"Isn't he cute, Cana-chan?" Kagura petted the beast.
Canarie smiled and nodded her head. "Yes. Yes, he is."
"Something like that doesn't drop. If you picked it up, then someone who knows it will come to pick it up." Gintoki said flatly.
"His name is Sadaharu." The girls said in perfect unison.
"You named it just now, didn't you!?"
"Calm down." Canarie reached into her sleeve and pulled out a letter. "This was slipped in between his collar." She handed it to Shinpachi."
Shinpachi unfolded it and scanned it. "Ah...'Mr. And Mrs. Yorozuya, I'm very sorry about this, but please take my pet.'"
Gintoki's eye twitched. "Why the hell are they speaking like me and Canarie are married? Is that it?"
Shinpachi squinted his eyes. "He also wrote 'Hehe'."
"What's so goddamn funny!?" Gintoki shredded the letter. "It's going to take a lot just to throw him out! I'm a freelancer, not a volunteer! Throw him out now!"
Canarie stepped between them and held her hand out. "Hold on. If you throw him out in the elements then he'll die!"
"He'll be fine. If he is a great one, then he can survive on his own." Gintoki tried to explain to the girls and stepped up to Sadaharu. "You understand, right?"
Sadaharu opened his mouth and chomped down on his head.
Sadaharu, the big white dog chased Kagura around the park in a seemingly friendly game of tag while Canarie worked on getting Gintoki and Shinpachi's injuries bandaged up. She was just fine because Sadaharu wasn't fast enough to actually hurt her.
"Canarie-sama." Gintoki let out a long dried out sigh that seemed to drain all the life out of his soul. "Why does it like her so much?"
"Knock it off with the sama, will ya?" She fastened the bandages around his wild white perm. Her eyes peeked up above his big ahead. "Can't you see? It's not like that. It's attacking Kagura, but for her it's nothing."
"Oh, I see..." Gintoki blinked for a moment when I thought popped up. "Canarie, why are you so attached to it?" He and Shinpachi have been through the wringer with this dog and been chewed up, spit out and chewed up again. Kagura and Canarie have been happily playing with Sadaharu just fine up till now because those two girls were monsters, really. "You don't seem like the type to have pets."
"You're not wrong on that." Canarie slapped her hand down on his wild perm and ruffled his hair before sitting down. "Kashira and I, we could barely take care of ourselves so having to take care of a pet just seemed to be impossible for us, despite how much we wanted one." She smiled sheepishly and scratched the back of her head, her face flushed red a bit with embarrassment. "Sadaharu...is my first pet."
Gintoki could feel his stomach twist when she said that. He bit down on his lips and looked away from her and at the two monsters playing.
"Cana-chan!" Kagura ran over to Canarie with the biggest grin on her face. "I forgot to buy some sukonbu. Do you have any money?"
"Yeah. I got some." Canarie got up before looking back to the guys. "Kagura and I are going out for a bit, so can you two take care of Sadaharu while we're gone?"
Gintoki and Shinpachi watched with horror-struck eyes as Kagura grabbed Canarie by the hand and began to drag her out of the park.
"Hey! Wait a min..." They were already gone...leaving them alone with the white beast panting behind them.
Shinpachi and Gintoki jumped the fence out in the middle of the street and screamed out in the voice of pure terror as Sadaharu chased after them.
"Watch out!" A car wasn't able to stop in time and ran right into them.
Lo and behold, it is the idiot prince himself, Prince Hata and his retainer Jii who stepped out of the car after running over all three of them.
"Old man! What's going on here!?" The idiot prince shouted and looked upon the murder scene.
"Please calm down." Ji then proceeded to stuff himself into the trunk. "W-we just h-have to find a t-time machine!"
"You calm down!" The then finally noticed Sadaharu lying unconscious on the ground. "This...how can this be!? Look at this!"
"Did you find a time machine!?"
"No, you idiot! This is an Inugami? Old man. Get me the rope!"
The hit and runners then started to tie Sadaharu up on the roof of their car as fast and took off, driving away from the mess they made and right past Kagura and Canarie who were now returning from the store with their sour and sweet snacks.
Canarie looked over her shoulder as the care drove by and saw a familiar white bluer on the roof. She blinked for a moment as her mind tried to make sense of what was just happening. "Isn't that...?"
"I really got something special this time around." The idiot prince said. "I had such a horrible experience the last time I was here. Right, old man?"
The hit and run driver nodded. "Of cours-Gyaahhh!" He screeched when Gintoki suddenly appeared on the windshield with an annoyed and pissed off grin plastered to his face.
"Yo. How about stopping the car, Mr. Hit and Run." Gintoki said while laying on the hood of the car. "Please forgive my dog. He'll be a good boy now on."
"Move it! I can't see the road!' Jii stuck his head out the window hen this howling shout started to get louder and louder from behind them. He looked back and saw a frightening Canarie and Kagura running at an inhuman speed at them. "Two girls wearing a chine dress and a pink hakama is running towards us super fast!"
The ran like the demon was right behind them, or maybe they were the demons themselves with how terrifying they looked. Their faces twisted with for the smell of blood and murder. It was even impressive that Kagura was mad enough to keep up with Canarie who was slowly reaching for the hilt of her sword.
"Give back Sadaharu!" Kagura barked.
Jii whipped out a gun and aimed it at the girls. "G-Go away!" He pulled the trigger and the bullet was fired. It ripped down it's twirling path as Canarie made a quick draw of her blade and sliced the bullet in two. "H-how the hell is that possible!?"
Kagura held her umbrella up and screeched at them at the top of her lungs, slamming it against the side of the car and sent it flying into a lake. She stopped when this chill ran over her when she realized that Sadaharu was still on the roof.
"Sadaharu!"
It was too late though and the car disappeared below the lake. She collapsed to her hands and knees and started to cry. Yet again she lost another pet.
"Hey. Little girls." They looked up and saw Gintoki and Sadaharu sitting up in the tree. Safe and sound. "What are you crying about?" Sadaharu chomped down on his hand and he screamed. "Gyraaa! Canarie-sama!" He pleaded for her help.
Sadaharu jumped down right into Kagura's open arms. It immediately started to chew on her head.
"Enough with the sama already. It's starting to piss me off." Canarie tried her best to frown by the corner of her lips threaten to twitch upwards. "Fine, fine. Get down here and I'll give you another patch of bandages."
Gintoki clicked his tongue and slumped down on the floor as Canarie kneeled down in front of him. "Damn white beast." He complained as Kagura hugged her new pet. "Why the hell are you smiling?" He noticed from Canarie.
Damn. She thought she was hiding it but must have overlooked it. "Nothing really...I was just thinking..." She pulled out her bandages (That she always keeps on her now). Her eyes crinkled a bit and a smile stretch ear to ear. "You're not so bad as you probably think yourself to be."
There was something about that smile just now that made his heart swell and fill his whole body with warmth. For a moment he just wanted to smile along with it and feel the way she felt.
And you know what..?
He did smile back.
Author's Note:
As promised. Here is the next chapter, but remember, this story will no longer be posted weekly. It will be posted randomly.