Hi, Murayama Tsuru here. I bring to you the final battle. This is the second to last chapter, I hope you like it…uh…sorry…I don't have too much to say this time, so I'll let you read this chapter now.

Disclaimer: I do not own Gintama; it is the property of Sorachi Hideaki-Sensei.

Kamui woke with a groan, a headache, and Gin and Shinpachi's voices conversing somewhere above him, "Gin-san, what are we going to do now? You didn't plan for this happening!"

"Don't worry about it Shinpachi-kun, the plan will still work…probably."

"Probably? What do you mean probably, Gin-san?"

"Uh…well, you see…they'll probably want to come down here kill us themselves. If they do, then the plan will probably still work. But if they don't…"

Kamui could feel Shinpachi's panic grow as Gin trailed off; Shinpachi then demanded an answer, his voice anxious and high "What will happen to us if they don't come down here?"

"Well, you know," Gin deadpanned, "We'll starve to death down here. That or we end up eating each other." Kamui figured that Gin said that just to tease Shinpachi, but what he said did come with a grain of truth in it. Kamui was slightly worried that they would be left to starve down here…wherever here was. Kamui then started reminiscing about what had happened moments before, during their fall down into this dark abyss of a room.

As the group was freefalling through the ceiling, they heard Jari…Jakumo's high, maniacal laughter. Hotaru interrupted the snake Amanto's triumph with a timid question, "Jakumo-sama, is all this really necessary?"

"Of course it is, you idiot," Jakumo hissed, "If we don't isolate them from the rest of their group, we'll never be able to defeat them."

"But Jakumo-sama, I doubt we'll be able to beat them even if—" Hotaru's voice turned into a yelp as Jakumo slapped him hard.

"How dare you question me, you worthless human! I tried it your way for a while and look where it got us. If you hadn't insisted on playing my role, we would never be in this mess!"

A small whimper issued from Hotaru's direction, but the rest of the conversation was lost as the group fell out of earshot. Kamui, straining his ears to, tried to hear more of the conversation. Concentrating solely on this task, he failed to notice how quickly the ground was approaching. When he did notice, it was too late. He landed with a painful thump and passed out.

Coming to the end of his memory, Kamui felt…different. It was as if hearing this Jakumo's voice had changed something. Before Kamui could reflect on it anymore, he heard a static-y voice from Gin's miraculously not-broken walkie-talkie, "Oi, Yorozuya, where the hell are you? We're in the room you said to come up to, but there's no one here."

Hearing the walkie-talkie, Gin jumped away from it like it was on fire. He then picked it up, after an awkward moment of silence and talked into it, "Well you see, the boss pushed a button and we fell into a dark room…What? No, I don't know what button it is. We were on the other side of the desk. Maybe Jiraiya-kun will know." Hijikata then said something that Kamui couldn't quite hear. Apparently, though, it was something that made Gin mad, and a typical shouting match began.

Turning away from the yelling Gin, Kamui looked around for his sister. He spotted her a little ways away and grinned at her. She grinned back and said, "Ah, Aniki, looks like your awake. You took a pretty hard fall, uh-huh. I always thought you landed on your feet, uh-huh. But, then again, you did lose your memories, so maybe the muscle memory hasn't quite back yet?"

Kamui nodded slowly, he was about to respond when he heard a loud creaking from above. The Yorozuya trio plus Kamui looked and were temporarily blinded by the light that came from the ceiling of the room above. After a round of intense blinking, the group could make out a faint outline of a person

At first they thought it was either Hotaru or Jakumo opening the ceiling to some attack them. But then a familiar voice called out, "Hey, I think you got the right button this time. I can see silver hair and light glinting off a pair of glasses." It was Hijikata, Shinpachi sighed in relief that someone was able to find them while Gin scowled that it was Hijikata who found them.

After a while, because of circumstances too hard to explain, both Hijikata and Abuto ended up in the room below (read: Sougo decided to push them over the, being the sadistic bastard he is…how he pushed Abuto, I have no idea).

Once Hijikata had finished grousing about how Sougo needed to be taught proper manners, he turned to Gin and said, "So, sugar-freak, you weren't lying about there being a room here." Gin rolled his eyes, but before he could make a clever retort lights suddenly turned on.

After another round of blinking, a door slid open somewhere behind Gin and Jakumo and Hotaru walked out. Hotaru was looking a little worse for the wear as if he'd gotten further beatings from his boss. Jakumo, wearing glasses now, sneered at each group member in turn, and then she smirked, "So these are your forces? I commend you for getting this far, Sakata Gintoki and others, it seems I underestimated you. From now on you are in for a—"

"Guys, look, it Kabuto!" Gin interrupted, making everyone in the room sweatdrop. Yes, he knew Jakumo wasn't actually Kabuto, but he just placed the memory he had when he first met her.

"Yorozuya, what the hell are you talking about? This person looks nothing like a Kabuto beetle." Hijikata answered with derision. Gintoki then Tch'ed and looked scandalized that Hijikata didn't know who Kabuto was.

"No, Hijikata-san," Kamui said after a few moments, "Gintoki-san means the character from Naruto. Y'know, the doctor dude, who's Orochimaru's henchman."

"That's right Kamui-kun. Y'know, Oogushi-kun if you just read Shonen magazine you won't understand what kids these days are talking about. Try reading Jump sometime." Hijikata glared at Gin and was

The group then turned back to her, to see that her face had become extremely red in incomprehensible anger. Jakumo leveled a malevolent glare in Gin's direction. She hissed again, and Gin not seeming to notice this walked up to Jakumo and said enthusiastically, "Hey, Kabuto, could I get your autograph? I've always been a big fan of yours!"

"Since when have you been fan of Kabuto? You always complain whenever he shows up, Gin-san." Shinpachi said. Gin shushed him and turned back to Jakumo expectantly.

Hotaru watched this exchange going on and sighed internally. Every time Kabuto was mentioned, Jakumo-sama got a little redder in the face. He knew it wasn't long before she eventually lost it and tried to kill them. Not long after he thought that did she snap at the expectant Gin, "I am nothing like that brat Kabuto! He gives us Snake Amanto a bad name! So I wear glasses look a little like that beetle. Why does everyone keep comparing me to him!?"

"So, I guess that's a no to the autograph then, Kabuto?"

Hearing herself called Kabuto again, she exploded, "That's it! You all die now. I was willing to let everyone except the Harusame go. But now, you've forced my hand! I hope you all rot in hell!" She then clapped her hands in one loud, sharp beat. Many doors suddenly opened and a multitude of guards marched out of them.

Out of nowhere a platform raised Hotaru and Jakumo up, out of the way of the ensuing fight. The guards then surrounded the group, cutting them off into groups of two.

"Great, I'm stuck with silver hair. You better not slow me down." Abuto growled

"That's my line, Jiraiya-kun." Gin growled back

"Well," Hijikata sighed, taking a drag on a cigarette, "You're certainly not the worst person to be paired up with. Just don't make me do all the work, Megane."

"Don't worry about me, Hijikata-san, I'll do just fine."

"Ne, Aniki, it's been a while since we've been in a situation like this, uh-huh. Shall we compete like we did last time?"

"You're on, sis. I'm pretty I won the last time we did this." Kamui smiled

"Wait…Aniki…Did you memories…" Kagura's voice was drowned out as the fighting started.

Hotaru watched on nervously as the elite NCIS guard fought the intruders. He was anxious because the guards seemed to be losing. While they greatly outnumbered and forced the intruders into small groups, the intruders were overpowering the guards easily. Especially the group of two short red-heads; they seemed to work flawlessly together, and the guards surrounding that group seemed to fall quicker than the other groups'.

That's not to say that the other groups were having a hard time, unfortunately to Hotaru. The group with the silver-haired person and the tall Yato were slaying the guards almost as fast as the red-head pair. They also seemed to work well together, though it seemed more like they were trying to get in each other's way more than anything else.

The third group of the two black haired guys was the slowest at their task of fighting off the guards. The one in glasses seemed to be able to hold his own most of the time, but there was the occasional guard that would almost slip past his defenses. To Hotaru's disappointment, though, the cigarette smoking guy would come to the glasses guy's aid whenever this was the case.

Shortly, the battle ended and all of the guards were on the ground either dead, unconscious, or injured. Hotaru spared a glance at Jakumo and did not like what he saw. Jakumo was gripping the handrail so hard, her knuckles turned even whiter than they normally were. Her lips were set in a hard, thin line, her eyes in an almost emotionless stare. Hotaru knew better, though, than to think she wasn't angry. He had only seen her like this once before, and she was at the angriest he had ever seen her then. It was when they first learned that the Harusame had learned of their plans and were coming after them. Hotaru wasn't sure what was going to happen next, they didn't have anything else up their sleeves…at least Hotaru didn't think they did.

Once the battle was over, Gin looked around to survey the damage. He was relieved that the battle was over, he wasn't sure he could take fighting alongside with Abuto, if felt too much like a competition than he wanted. He then heard Kamui and Kagura arguing good-naturedly about who won their contest and smiled. It was good to see those two getting along.

As soon as the group gathered together again, Jakumo glared down at them and started speaking. "So you manage to defeat my elite guard, hm? Well that's nothing compared to what I have in store for you ne—"

"That's enough, Jakumo-sama. We've lost, there's nothing else we can do. Why don't we just turn ourselves in quietly?"

Jakumo then turned her glare on Hotaru and hissed, "How dare you say that to me. After I took you away from your wretched father, this is how you repay me?"

Abuto looked up at the arguing two in deep concentration. After a moment, he tapped a fist on his palm in recognition and turned to Kamui, "Admiral, I forgot to tell you this earlier. That Hotaru guy is the son of the former president of NCIS. When Jakumo overtook the company, she kidnapped the previous president's son." Kamui nodded, looking at Hotaru a little differently than he did before.

After some more arguing from the two on the balcony, Jakumo ended up pushing Hotaru over the edge in what seemed like extreme anger. Hotaru's eyes widened and he whispered, terrified, "Jakumo-sama, why…?"

Kamui and Gin suddenly looked at each other, and a silent conversation passed between them. After about a second Gin and Kamui jumped up toward the falling Hotaru. Gin launched Kamui passed Hotaru once they were halfway up in the air. Gin then caught Hotaru and landed safely back on the ground.

Kamui then made a catlike landing on the balcony in front of Jakumo. He turned and faced her and smiled. The snake in Jakumo suddenly started cowering in fear at the bloodthirsty animal she saw in Kamui, "W-what are you going to do to me? I-I can give you money if that's what you want…No, if that's not enough I can give you the company. I'll do whatever you want…J-just don't kill me…"

Kamui's smile only grew wider, "Y'know I think I should kill you. I mean you are the one had your guards poison me, electrocute me, and whack me on the head with a cast-iron skillet." He started advancing toward Jakumo and she started backing up trying to escape him.

Soon, Jakumo had backed up to the edge of the balcony and Kamui's smile grew vicious and his eyes narrowed into a cold glare. Seeing she had no escape, Jakumo sunk to the balcony floor and started shuddering uncontrollably.

"But," Kamui said, sparing his sister a short glance, "I'm not going to kill you. It doesn't seem worth it to kill you in front of my sister and her friends. Plus, because of you I got to spend time with them. It was, in the end, an altogether fun experience."

"Wait…You've regained your memories…?" Jakumo asked, looking at him in horror.

"Yes, I have. All thanks to you, Jakumo-san." Kamui replied smiling beatifically.

Jakumo, still shaking violently, said nothing. Kamui, glanced at his sister again, knowing this was probably the end of his fun times, he sighed, "So this is what I want you to do. You're going to surrender and we're going to let you escape. If you ever show your face in around here or you cause trouble for the Harusame again I will personally end you. Do you understand?"

Jakumo simple nodded and slipped into shocked unconsciousness. Kamui then picked her up and with another sad smile picked her up and leapt off the balcony.

And that ends the final battle. Now I know what you're thinking, I left you in another cliffhanger. But don't worry. Everything will end next chapter. I might (I emphasize might here) write the next chapter over the long weekend. I'm a little sad to see this story end, I really enjoyed writing it. And thanks everyone for the wonderful support you've all given me. As always reviews are greatly appreciated. See you next chapter.

-Murayama Tsuru