Chapter 21

Just WHO is The Dragon?!

It was a pretty day out, great to go and face the woman who had put bounties over their heads. That's what the two Shinsengumi officials and the yorozuya thought as they walked towards their enemy's temporal house in the country. Swallow was with them as a special counter measure keeping her distance and watching out for more assassins. Kagura, Shinpachi and Sa-chan were a few blocks behind them. It had been decided they'd be backup in case things went wrong. The Yato girl could bust in faster than lightning and the others would follow her trail of carnage, so no actual problem with that plan.

The group of men arrived at the place Swallow claimed was Katherine Frey's house, the Japanese styled mansion had three floors and seemed to be bigger in extension behind the fancy gates encircling it. Hijikata went up to the camera equipped intercom on the side of the gates and spoke their purpose and names. Soon the gates opened and two men dressed in black tuxes received them and informed them the lady was expecting them. They were guided through the house going down corridors and turning at hallways and corners until they finally reached The Dragon's den.

A wide indoor garden was guarded by the door the group came in through. A small pond lay in the middle of the huge room. A woman sat on a cushion by a round table on their left side, under the shade of palms and other trees not native to Edo.

"Why pleased to see you again Captain Okita, I believe I haven't formally met you other gentlemen…" The woman Sougo instantly recognized as Katherine Frey stood up to bow and smile tenderly at them. "I am Katherine Frey and I've been expecting you. Please come and sit, you're my special guests today."

Hijikata eyed the woman a bit surprised as he took in how beautiful she was. Gintoki just stared at her annoyed, both at the fact that he recognized her and the fact that his boyfriend seemed to be ogling her. They walked in and sat by the round table, Katherine sitting once more and pouring herself some tea. She asked if any of them wanted some and after they all agreed they'd take some, she poured them cups and then smiled away.

"Lady Frey we have come here to talk about Slash as follow up. He did make a great mess in the Kabuki District. I'm Vice Chief of the Shinsengumi Hijikata Toshiro at your service" The man had started out his sentence as he normally would but by the end of it he was red as a chili. Gintoki made a low angry growl noise and caught everyone's attention. "And this man here would be Sakata Gintoki, the man who helped us catch Slash."

"Ah, I see…" Katherine smiled at Gin and took a sip from her tea. "Now that your façade is up on the table, I think it's time we speak about what's really going on here between us. You're allergic to 'stupid senseless lying' are you not shiroyasha-kun?"

The atmosphere in the room suddenly changed to hostility. Sougo's aura was a murderous black, Hijikata's gunmetal eyes along with his face darkened, Gintoki's face showing off his ready to fight serious expression.

"Now, you guys took long enough to get here. I thought Swallow would tip you in sooner but I guess she must have run into my assassins too fast for her to do so. What do I want? Is that your question?" She asked maintaining her sweet tone of voice as well as her expression.

"Yes you damn slut" Sougo talked not minding his language and Hijikata lay his hand on his shoulder.

"Calm down Okita. Lady Frey, we are curious about the reason to why you went so far as to put a bpunty over this idiot's head when you could have just come to us for help."

"Hey! I didn't take anything from her! She's just a skanky old bat who believes I took something from her!" Gintoki replied raging about, upset that Hijikata seemed to have taken her side.

"Oh for old times sake Gin-chan, you didn't seem to be too bothered when you went ahead and ran away with my heart" Katherine's voice had lost it's sweet tone and her face showed off how annoyed Gintoki had made her. "Do me a favor and tell me where it is, or your boyfriend here dies"

The room fell silent, the reasons being Katherine had referred to the yorozuya as Gin-chan and because Hijikata had been called out hostage again.

"Danna… is she by any chance… your old exgir-" Sougo was about to say the thing when Gintoki shot him a death glare.

"Don't you'll unleash the puke kraken"

Katherine stared at the silver haired man with her own death glare as she tapped the table with her fingers. Gintoki just stared back at her and a death zone was created were their gazes met. Sougo stared blankly at the dark, dead spot while Hijikata just stared wide eyed at it. These two had some history, and apparently it was much deeper than what they had firstly presumed.

"Shinsuke told me you still had it inside you, I want it back. Slash got caught before he could take it out of you by force, I want my heart back or he doesn't get the antidote"

"Antidote? When did you…" Hijikata was speaking when he suddenly dozed off and his eyes lost their shine. "What…"

"Well it took it's time to take effect but it did, Swallow wasn't fast enough to notice one of my assassins shot you with a small poisonous needle on your way here, barely noticeable no pain to give it away after all." Katherine smiled smug as the vice chief seemed to be dozing off.

"You want me to fight you Katherine? I don't beat up defenseless old hags!" Gin was doing his best to not worry about the vice chief, if he did they were all screwed. He was going to lose his cool and things would fail to go smoothly.

"Old hag, you should know that poisoning the vice chief of the Shinsengumi is enough to get you to jail for a few years right? I'll make sure you don't make it out alive"

"Careful with what you say Captain Okita, you might just start a galactic war… we wouldn't want that would we?"

"Listen up hag, just because you're a strange alien from another world it doesn't mean I won't screw you up. Okita might have ties but I sure as hell don't, and if me messing you up is all you want right now, then fine screw my no-beating-old-hags policy!" Gintoki was getting a bit desperate, besides him Hijikata sat silent as his eyes remained slightly open his head looking down. He was unresponsive to everything around him, just what kind of poison had this woman dosed him with?

"I have a proposal, now. We both know what I want and that is, besides getting what's rightfully mine back, to get revenge for what you despicably did to my heart back then. Now in exchange for that, I'll give you back your boyfriend's heart. We meet up in twenty four hours by the river side where we met and we fight things off there while the pipsqueaks you have outside my place and Okita-san watch real monsters fight as the witnesses." Katherine had gone from just serious to evil villain serious. Her eyes had taken a deadly sparkle to them and her face seemed to look different, more like a beautiful monster's face.

"What exactly are you?" Sougo was confused, even if he refused to show it. The woman stank like death, he knew that much but otherwise she seemed human and now he was told she wasn't.

"Well…" Katherine smiled, the darkness it emanated freezing Sougo and Gin on their spot as her pupils became slit like a cat's. "let me give you a clue~ Come here Toshiro-kun~"

The vice chief got on his feet and walked around the table to Katherine's side, his gaze as blank as his expression. He sat by her side and she took her hand to his hair softly stroking it as he seemed to enjoy the touch. That made Gintoki puff steam off him as his anger boiled inside him. Okita actually took advantage of the moment to record it with his phone.

"She's from that race of sex addicts that were once as well known as the yato. They're spread throughout the universe as they can't really get what they want amongst themselves. She's like that blue haired girl from that vampire with a necklace series."

"You mean she's a pervert?"

"The correct term on earth is Succubus you morons!" Katherine exclaimed slamming her hands on the table. She cleared her throat while she regained her composure and the continued. "So now that captain Okita has been informed, I think that my offer is quite generous considering that my poison can be quite permanent. A fight for your sweet heart's freedom… and if I want the vice chief as my sex slave believe me that there will be no legal problem with Edo letting me have him."

"Have him, let's go danna, a sex slave for peace doesn't seem that bad" Sougo was already standing up and ready to take his leave.

"Tch, Katherine… if your heart is what you want, then that's exactly what you'll get" Gintoki stood up glaring at her, carving a hole through her. "Just let him leave today, I know you and you won't give him back to me unscathed"

"Awww, the demon is wishing upon a star for his soul mate's safety~ Don't worry Gin~ I won't do much to him… although I sure wish I could have more than twenty four hours… he seems like a juicy one… and you know he actually is~"

"Can you not whore? That shit is disgusting to hear from you" It was hilarious how Okita remembered to care again. He had even gone on to point his sword at the woman who he was so disgusted with.

"Excuse me Captain Sougo, but if you couldn't defeat my half brother I doubt you'd defeat me, now I know for a fact you're quite a killer but against me… you're nothing but a puppy begging to be put out of it's misery. Leave this kinds of things to the adults, kid."

Sougo gripped his sword tight as he stared fiercely at Katherine. He looked demonic, that was for sure and his body seemed tense, ready to spring onto its prey. Gintoki lay his hand on Okita's shoulder and the young man slowly came to his senses. He put down his sword and calmly, to Gin's surprise, followed the yorozuya out of the room.

"You know very well what I'll do to you for this Dragon"

"Oh I'm waiting for that Shiroyasha"

"Oi… Swallow-chan… why is that lady called The Dragon aru?" Kagura asked as she took a bite out of her onigiri.

"Well she's called The Dragon because of her skills, she's kinda like this man-eater woman and she's actually an alien too… umm she has this funky tail she hides and it looks like a lizard tail, also if she bites you, you get poisoned" Swallow explained as she herself took a bite out of her own onigiri.

"Why does that sound like something taken out of a manga or an anime?" Shinpachi was hearing the girls out as he sat on the same bench the girls were so comfortable on.

They were a few feet away from Katherine's house as they waited out the time limit or for the group of major idiots to come back.

"WAIT A SECOND! If Katherine is your sister, doesn't that make you an alien too?!"

"Not really," Swallow took another bite of her onigiri before she continued to explain her answer. "We're half sisters, we share the same mom and with Slash, we share the same dad. We're a very varied family~"

Shinpachi stared at Swallow with a blank expression as Kagura just ate her onigiri ball joyously, apparenting dismissing Swallow's family story as something that usually happened all the time. Not that it didn't but they were talking about a criminal's family tree and that just seemed to call for a bit of awkward silence.

"Anyway, the time limit is coming up soon right? You guys ready to charge in? Sa-chan is already in position just need to give her the signal" Swallow happily finished her rice ball and stood up to stretch.

"Ready to burst in and kick some butt aru!" Kagura stood up herself her mouth covered with rice grains.

"I sincerely hope we don't get arrested for this" Shinpachi didn't seem to like the idea of going in but if it meant rescuing the idiots, then he had to right?

Fortunately Gintoki and Sougo came out through the main gate before Swallow gave the signal to Sa-chan. Both men seemed exhausted, yeah even Okita, for the first time in his life he felt defeated. Hopelessly defeated. Not even the fact that the Vice Chief position might be available soon could cheer him up. That woman was a thorn to his side and he couldn't do anything about it.

"Looks like we have another showdown on our hands you guys. This time you're all invi-" Gintoki was going to finish explaining but Sa-chan jumped on him before he could.

"Gintoki-sama! You're alright! That beast of a woman didn't touch you did she?! DID SHE? I'll slaughter her if she did! Gin-Chan~!"

"GET OFF ME YOU PSYCHOPATH" Gintoki kicked Sa-chan away and went on to stand up and shake the dirt off him. "Anyway, this'll all be over once I fight The Dragon in twenty four hours… I already know what she wants."

"Which is something I didn't quite get, I know she's a pervert but I think her heart is not something you would run away with considering how much she hates you" Sougo spoke and seemed curious to know the rest of the story.

"Okay, I fought that old hag once during the Joi war, and one thing led to another and since her I haven't had any luck with women at all. When she said her heart she probably meant the best fuck of her long miserable sex- driven life" Gintoki explained as his face started turning green just thinking about it.

"Oh" They all said at the same time, safe for Sa-chan who was too far away for her to hear.

"Oh shit, here it comes…" And the curly haired samurai spilled his guts by a nearby patch of grass as the others stared at him and judged him.

"Well, we could sum up all of his failures in his love life to that one youthful mistake" Shinpachi said plainly.

"To think citizens got hurt and died because of a horny woman and her quest for revenge" Sougo followed in on Shipachi's words.

"You're a disgrace to your mother Gin-chan, go pack your things you're disowned" Kagura was just looking at him with a plain expression until she just turned away dramatically to cry as if she had really lost her son.

"My brother got caught by that snake of a woman because of your little mistake back then. I'd kill you both off myself if I could" Swallow was just as surprised and disappointed as the others.

"Where's Hijikata-san?" Shinpachi finally asked Sougo as the yorozuya was still puking his organs out.

"He's been caught in the The Dragon's trap, he's a hostage until their showdown tomorrow." Sougo explained. "We can't do anything about it because of her powerful buddies up on the Bakufu… but have it assured that if Gin loses tomorrow… the Shinsengumi will take action even if it means going against the Shogunate… that slut of a woman doesn't deserve to get away with her stupid revenge on danna."

/ / Now you know more about Slash and Kat. Aliens that I based up on succubus, just based up though. These guys feed a little differently although they are still fellows that depend on lemons. Anyway, another showdown is coming up and this time it's a demon against a dragon. GinHiji has had more love from the readers~ Soooo next time it's gonna be GinHiji~ And I should tip you I have the sweetest thing planned out for them~ Thanks for reading you guys~ Questions to keep you all thinking, what exactly do you think is going to happen here now that it is known that Slash and Kat are half siblings? What about Kat's heart? / /