Hi, Murayama Tsuru here. School has started again for me, so this chapter took longer writing it than I wanted. But here it is, and I got it posted at the time I normally would too! On a slightly unrelated note, I want to thank Kaito Kitsune-san. Your review really made me smile, thank you so much. Well, that's enough of this crane's babble; I hope you enjoy this chapter as well.

Disclaimer: I don't own Gintama; it is the property of Masashi Kishimoto…wait…that's wrong. Ahem…Excuse me, I meant it's the property of Sorachi Hideaki (Again, sorry, I needed to put in my Naruto reference for the week).

He had finally done it. He, Hasegawa Taizo, age 38, had finally found a job. And, it was a job that let him keep his sunglasses on. Too! Although he had heard a few bad things about the NCIS, he didn't really care as long as he got paid.

As the sunglasses clad Madao stepped into the NCIS building on his first day of work he looked in awe at how modern the building was. Once, when he was working for the Immigration Bureau, he had been inside; it looked incredibly shabby in comparison to the sleek building it was now. Feeling confident, Hasegawa walked over to his assigned spot in the security's hut (he may have just gotten a security job at NCIS, but it paid damn well).

After working for a full day at NCIS, Hasegawa regretted taking the job. There was a whole lot of nothing going on; no one ever tried to get in or out without checking with the security guards first. Hasegawa wondered if the night guard's duties were any more interesting.

So, Hasegawa spent the next few days in abject boredom, until, one morning, these two Amanto came out of the building. One looked like a weasel while the other had snake-like features. The two exited the NCIS building according to the proper protocols, but as the two were walking away from the building, Hasegawa heard snatches of their conversation.

"So, Jari-chan, why do you think Hotaru-sama wants us to cut the Shinsengumi's power?" the weasel Amanto said in a not-very-quiet voice.

'Jari-chan' shushed the other Amanto. She then looked around to see if anyone was listening in (Hasegawa pretended to be asleep as to avoid detection). Thinking no one was listening in, the snake Amanto turned to the weasel Amanto and said in a low voice, "You need to be more careful, Okojo, what if there wasss a Harusssame ssspy around? We're going to ssshut off the power to Ssshinsengumi becaussse Hotaru-sssama heard that the Harusssame leader isss ssstaying with thossse thieving tax police. Ssso, we're going to sssmoke the Harusssame admiral and hisss group out by cutting their power." 'Okojo' then nodded enthusiastically and the two kept walking.

Once the two Amanto were far enough away, Hasegawa sat up. What he heard couldn't be good. But the Madao wasn't sure whether or not he should do anything. He wasn't quite up to getting fired, even though he didn't really like the job. So Hasegawa opted to monitor the situation from his security desk, and do something if the need arose.

As the day wore on, the two Amanto and their conversation worked their way to the back of Hasegawa's mind. It was only when the snake girl Amanto, Jari, came back alone did Hasegawa think it was cause for concern. But since he still didn't think he could do anything about it, he let the girl return to the building without raising a fuss.

Later that evening, when Hasegawa's shift was over and he had returned to his small apartment, he got a call. He picked it, wondering who would be calling him at was considered a normal dinner time, when he heard a familiar voice intone, "Hey, Hasegawa, I heard you got a new job. Congrats, man.

Hasegawa chuckled and responded, "Thanks Gin-san. It's a pretty entry level job, but the pay is great. Soon I'll be able to take Hatsu out on a date."

Hasegawa heard Gin chuckle, then there was a pause as if Gin was debating something. After what seemed like a long time, Gin asked in an uncharacteristically hesitant voice, "Hey, Hasegawa, can I ask you a favor?"

Hasegawa thought it odd that Gin would actually ask for something rather than just take it, so he answered, "Sure, Gin-san."

There was another pause, as if Gin-san really hadn't expected Hasegawa to say yes, "So, I know that you work at the NCIS…You see they're actually trying to take over Edo. I've come up with a plan to sneak in and take them down as quietly as possible. To do that we need someone on the inside to help us in without arising suspicion. We did manage to capture an Amanto by the name of Okojo who apparently works closely with the boss. But, he's somewhat of a flight-risk and we need someone from security to let us in without any trouble. So we'd like you to help us."

Hasegawa listened to Gin talk, thinking how apt the timing was. He already hated this job, and here came Gin asking a favor that would most likely get him fired from this job if he accepted. Were Hasegawa to accept, it would once again be Gin's fault that he got fired from a job. But, this job at the NCIS was one he'd gladly give up, so he responded, "Sure, Gin-san I'll help you. Just tell me the day and I'll be ready."

Hasegawa could feel Gin smile from the other end of the phone, "Thanks Hasegawa, I knew I could count on you."

"By the way," the Madao wondered aloud, "How did you know I was working for the NCIS anyway?"

"Uh, actually…" Gin said rather sheepishly, "one of the Harusame Space Pirate spies in the NCIS told me about a new security guard who looked like he just came out of a dumpster. At first I wasn't sure, but when the guy described how your sunglasses took up most of your personality, I knew it was you Hasegawa."

"Leave it to Gin-san to find me in even the most obscure locations", Hasegawa thought to himself, almost not registering where Gin got this information. After a second, though, Hasegawa's brain caught up with his ears and he shouted nervously, "Wait…did you say the Harusame Space Pirates?"

"Uh…yeah I'm also working with the Shinsengumi. And, I guess I should mention this now as well, the plan is being put into action tomorrow."

Hasegawa panicked and almost dropped the phone, he was starting to rethink his assent to Gin-san's plan when Gin continued, "Now I know you probably want to back out of this now. You can if you want, we can probably bribe or threaten another guard. But before you say no, I want you to think of the people of Edo who will suffer if our plan fails…"Gin trailed off there, forcing Hasegawa's imagination to go in directions he did not want it to.

Unable to stop his rampant imagination from imagining the suffering the people of his city would go through (even though he didn't like at least half of them because they ignored the penniless Madao); Hasegawa hung his head in defeat, "Fine, Gin-san I'll work with you. But you owe me one. So, what time does this plan of your start tomorrow?"

The next morning, Okojo lead the Yorozuya trio plus Kamui in the direction of the NCIS building (read: was forced to show them the way at Bouken point). Okojo knew that he had no other choice but to do what they said…actually he did have another choice, but it was far less savory than helping them with their crazy plan.

While Okojo was resigning himself to his 'fate', Shinpachi was thinking about Gin's plan. More specifically, he was thinking about all that could go wrong with Gin's plan. Shinpachi was confident in Gin's plan itself, but he was worried that the Shinsengumi and the Harusame wouldn't be able to get along well enough for everything to go well.

Gin watched at Shinpachi sighed again and chuckled. It was so like him to worry about all the small details. He should take a page out Gin's book and learn to just not sweat the small things. Everything would probably work out in the end; and if the plan didn't go perfectly, all that mattered was that NCIS fell in the end.

Kamui watched Gin chuckling to himself, every time Shinpachi sighed. He thought it was rather funny because every time Gin laughed, his Bouken would poke into the weasel Amanto's back, making the poor guy wince a little. Though Kamui was enjoying the distraction Gin was providing him, it really was just a distraction. Kamui felt apprehensive. Well…that's not quite the right word. It might be that he was feeling anticipation for the fight to come.

Kamui wondered what would happen when he met the leader of the NCIS; would he regain his memories, or would everything just stay as it was now. In the back of his mind, Kamui could hear an arrogant voice telling multiple guards to poison him. It made him bristle in anger to think someone could actually manage to get away with poisoning him. But the thought of finally putting this to an end brought both pleasure and a profound sense of loneliness. Kamui, in a small corner of his mind, knew that he wouldn't be able to stay with his sister or the other two if he regained his memory. That wasn't a very pleasant thought, but he couldn't expel it from his mind.

Kagura looked at her brother, and what she saw troubled her. He seemed…off. She couldn't quite tell, but for some reason he didn't have his usual smile on. Kagura couldn't actually read her brother, but it seemed like he wasn't looking forward to what was to come. She wanted to ask her Aniki what was wrong, but she wasn't sure if he'd actually answer her. As they walked along, Kagura kept glancing at Kamui and wondering whether she should talk to him or not. When she finally made up her mind, it was too late; they had already arrived. "Oh well," Kagura thought, sucking on a fresh piece of Sukonbu, "It's probably nothing too important. It can wait 'til after we've kicked some NCIS butt."

Hasegawa watched the Yorozuya trio plus two more arrived. He recognized the one 'leading' the group as the weasel Amanto he saw the day before yesterday, but he didn't think he knew the red-headed boy. He looked very similar to the girl on the Yorozuya team, so they must be related.

As the group got closer, he saw the weasel Amanto look at, a pleading expression in his eyes. It dawned on Hasegawa that this Amanto didn't actually know most of Gin's plan, so he was hoping to stop anything from happening by having the guard turn them in. When the five were close enough, Hasegawa gave Gin a large grin and let them in without a second thought.

Okojo watched in horror as the sunglasses clad security completely ignored his pleading look and let them in. It was then that he realized that this was another part of the Silver-haired Samurai's plan. Okojo groaned inwardly, and gave the security guard a vicious glare, which was met with a small wave of good-bye from the guard. Okojo then stopped and stared for a little while, which was too long for Gin. So with a sharp poke in the back, the weasel Amanto was forced to keep leading the group into the building.

Once they were inside, Okojo smirked in triumph. There was no way they'd be able to make it to the elevator that would lead them to Hotaru-sama's room. The weasel Amanto turned his smirk toward Gin, but instead of looking worried, the silver-hair returned Okojo's smirk with one of his own.

Just then a large argument started between two (very unfortunately in Okojo's mind) familiar voices, "Hey, wait your turn in line, chain-smoker!" a tall, sandy-haired Yato yelled

"Why bother, Jiraiya, your invention is just a copy of mine anyway!" a civilian-clothed Hijikata yelled back

"Yours is the copy, Oogushi. But if you want to debate that, I'd be more than happy to trade a few blows with you." and this went on for a while until the security guard that had let them in stepped into stop the 'fight'.

After a while, though, the sunglasses clad security guard was involved in the fight as well. Soon other NCIS workers joined in to stop the fight as well. But it didn't work very well, and the lobby dissolved into chaos. Okojo stood, mouth agape, at how much the silver-haired Samurai had planned for.

Okojo suddenly looked around to find that he was completely alone. He looked up when he heard a secretary yell in a high, indignant voice, "Hey, you can't ride that elevator unless you have an appo!"

Once Kamui, Kagura, and Shinpachi were in the elevator, Gin turned and grinned idiotically at the secretary, "Don't worry, I have plenty of apples. Which does your boss like better, Northern Spy or Fuji?" he then turned and entered the elevator. The elevator doors closed, leaving both Okojo and the now red-faced secretary feeling like fools.

Upon exiting the elevator, Kamui's sense of Déjà vu became stronger. It had started when they arrived in the building. Flashes of past events were occurring more often. Kamui got the sense that if he indeed met the boss of NCIS, his memory would return. He wasn't quite sure why, but that's the weird sense he was getting.

As they were walking down the hall, Kamui remembered something important about the leader's room. So, he caught up to Gin, who was whistling merrily because the plan was all going accordingly.

"Gintoki-san, there's something I need to tell you."

"Yeah," Gin looked over to Kamui, grinning, "What is it?"

"There's a button in the leader's room that closes off all the exits. It probably won't be too much of a problem, but I figured I'd just warn you. Also, I think there might be more to the room that meets the eye."

"I'll keep that in mind." Gin nodded. The rest of the walk was spent in almost silence, except for Gin's whistling. Shinpachi was still worrying about what might go wrong at this stage of the plan, Kagura was sucking on some Sukonbu, and Kamui was trying his best not to show outward signs of the major headache that was coming on as the flashes of memory became stronger and more frequent.

When the group arrived at the leader's room, it stood open, inviting them in. The Yorozuya trio plus Kamui were greeted by s hooded man in a large black chair with Jari hanging a little behind him, looking scared.

When Gin saw Jari, his eyes narrowed and he growled, "So there you are Jari, I was wondering where you ran off to after cutting the power like that. It really hurt to have you betray my trust like that."

Jari quivered hearing Gin's voice, "I-I'm ssso sssorry Sssakata-sssan. My massster, Hotaru-sssama forced me to, I h-had no c-choice. "

Gin rolled his eyes, "Don't give me that crap. I saw the look in your eyes; you did not look like you were sorry."

The snake Amanto huffed, her eyes narrowing dangerously. She looked like she wanted to bite Gin, and Kamui suddenly got the sense that he had heard her voice before. He wasn't sure why, though, because this was surely the first time they had met. For some reason, the leader then decided to take his hood off (Kamui had a strange sense it was to relieve some of his stress). The hood fell around Hotaru's shoulders, revealing a young teenager with shaggy black hair and nervous black eyes. The Yorozuya trio plus Kamui took one look at the boy and thought how unfit he looked for the job of leader of NCIS.

After a short, tense pause, the leader finally spoke, "So you are the people who are disrupting our plans. I had no idea there were so few of you."

Hearing the 'leader's' voice, Kamui knew this person wasn't the leader. He wanted to tell Gin this, but before he could, Hotaru continued,

"I commend you for getting this far If you think you can unhinge our plans with so few of you, you're sorely mistaken. I'll have you know we have an entire arm—"

Gin laughed aloud, cutting Hotaru mid word, "No, I know fairly well how large your security measures are. We didn't come unprepared."

Gin then took out a walkie-talkie from his Kimono sleeve and spoke into it, "Jiraiya-kun, Oogushi-kun, how are preparations on your end?

Soon, two static-y replies came in, "Yeah, Silver-hair/Yorozuya, everything's going according to plan. Ready to move on to phase two at any time."

Gin then looked up at Hotaru and Jari and grinned, "Looks like my friends came through for me. Both the Harusame Space Pirates and the Shinsengumi have the building surrounded. They've probably taken care of much of army you have…oh, excuse me, had I should say."

Once Gin had finished speaking, all the color in Hotaru's face drained and he looked toward Jari. The group thought it strange that the boss would look toward the subordinate for help. But before anyone could say anything about it, Jari spoke up, not a trace of hiss in her voice, "How very unfortunate that we underestimated you this much. That will not be happening again. But this must end now, so I hope none of you mind a slight change in scenery."

Kamui's eyes narrowed, that was the voice that he had been hearing in the back of his mind whenever Jari talked. He hadn't noticed it with the hiss, but the snake Amanto was the person who had him poisoned.

"No, Jakumo-sama, you can't mean…" Hotaru was cut off by a glare from the snake Amanto. She walked quickly over to the desk and pushed a button. Kamui expected an alarm to sound, but he was disoriented when he felt the ground below his feet fall away. He looked down to see that the floor had opened up beneath them. Kamui then looked around at the Yorozuya trio who looked as surprised as he was. He looked to Kagura last as they all plummeted through the now gone ceiling.

And that ends this chapter. You know how I said that there was going to be 1-3 more chapters a while ago? Well I lied. Writing this chapter, I just couldn't find a way to wrap up the final confrontation. So, the next chapter will end the final battle and the chapter after that will be an epilogue of sorts. Well, until next chapter. As always, reviews are greatly appreciated and I hope to see you all again.

-Murayama Tsuru