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Chapter 49: Damsels in distresses need to save themselves

"GET BACK HERE, YOU BASTARDS!" Kagura screamed at the top of her lungs as she chased after the three cloaked intruders.

The bystanders saw her chasing them, and they had to admit, she was fast.

Kagura was about three feet away from their backs, but the trio forced themselves to run faster. They didn't want to be caught by some teenage girl, especially when she was pissed.

Gintoki – despite still being in pain – ran for Kagura, and yelled out, "Oi! Wait for me!"

Sean and Christine entered the concert once again. Christine managed make Sean feel better by comforting him.

The siblings saw Kagura storming after the bystanders. Both of them widened their eyes in shock; Christine piped, "It's those assholes who destroyed Otsu's last concert!"

Sean shouted, "Shoot! We have to get them before they ruin this concert!"

"I thought you weren't enjoying this concert," Christine snorted in amusement.

"I'm not, though I don't want this to be ruined by three guys."

"Touché," She clicked her tongue.

Christine noticed that the trio was getting closer to her and Sean. A wicked smirk crept up her face, and she widened her arms as she told her older brother, "Watch this, bro. I'm gonna catch them faster than a rabbit catching a cockroach. Wait, rabbits don't eat cockroaches…never mind that!"

She swiftly shook her head just as the masked men were about to pass her. Christine exclaimed, "Gotcha!" She was about to wrap her arms around one of the men, but he noticed her, and hurriedly ran around her. This caused Christine to wrap her arms around herself (So she was basically hugging herself), and fall down to the ground. A yelp parted her lips right before she hit the floor, face-first. Kagura passed her as well.

The girl yelled in anger, "Goddammit! Why am I always hitting the floor face-first?! Does god hate me or something?! Oh wait, I don't believe in god…"

Sean rolled his eyes, and grabbed her arm, pulling her off the ground. He muttered, "You just have to be more careful, and less clumsy."

"I am not clumsy!" She hissed, feeling insulted by his comment.

The brunette sighed, "Christine, we don't have time to argue. We need to get those guys."

"Of course." Although she was still pissed at Sean for "insulting" her, he was right. They didn't have any time to bicker; they needed to capture the masked trio as soon as possible. If they caused chaos for Tsu's concert a second time, then it would probably ruin the pop singer's career forever.

Tsu would definitely not be happy about that.

The Wardenhall siblings ran through the crowd. They began searching for Kagura and the bystanders.

Gintoki suddenly ran up to them, and complained, "Dammit, why doesn't Kagura ever wait for me?!"

"You're still in pain, Gintoki-san?" Sean asked with a furrowed brow.

Gintoki scoffed, "Yeah. I can't catch up to that brat when I'm in this much pain!"

Christine looked around, but didn't see Kagura or the intruders anymore. She kicked a random guy in the leg, and shouted, "WE LOST THEM!"

The dude yelled as he held his leg, "Ow! Watch where you're kicking, you brat!"

Christine paid no mind to him. She, Gintoki, and Sean ran towards the hallway. Sean accidentally ran into a man, but he apologized, and went inside the hall.

The trio glanced side to side; still seeing no sign of the Yato or those bastards.

Gintoki suggested as he groaned, "Okay…weirdo girl and I will go this way…" He pointed to the left. "…and Shojaro will go that way." He then pointed to the right.

"Okay!" Christine nodded. She darted in the left direction; Gintoki dashed behind her.

Sean sighed, and ran in the other way.

Meanwhile…

Kagura finally managed to catch the men. Or at least, two of the men.

One of the dudes ordered the third bystander, "Go get the pop singer! We'll try to distract this little girl!"

"I'm not a little girl!" Kagura snarled while grabbed two of the guys' heads.

The third intruder tentatively nodded, and ran away from the soon-to-be-fight.

Kagura gasped when she saw the man running away. She was about to chase him, but the other bastards grabbed her wrists, and growled, "Oh, no! You're going to have to deal with us first!"

The girl scowled, "Fine, but I'm not gonna go easy on you, nope!" Kagura pulled her arms away from their grips; in a split second, she punched the duo in the faces. Both men yelled in agony, and held their faces as they lied down on the carpeted floor.

Kagura grasped the collar of their outfits, and quickly pulled them up before bonking their heads on each other. Another scream escaped their mouths as blood starting dripping down their heads.

As soon as Kagura let go of their heads, they shouted at the same time, "You little bitch! Now I'm gonna get a concussion!" One of them spat out blood. Obviously, they didn't care if there was blood on the floor. They were bystanders, not Terakado Tsu fans.

The redhead patted her hands together as she mumbled, "Well, that was easier than I thought, uh-huh."

She turned around, and was about to run away, but intruder #1 seethed, "Do you dare walking away from us?!"

Though his tone was dark, Kagura was not intimidated one bit. In fact, she was rarely ever intimidated. Rolling her cerulean eyes, Kagura asked as she placed her hands on her hips, "What're you going to do? Wipe your blood on this outfit? I don't like this outfit, anyway, nope."

"That's not what I'm going to do," He retorted. He pulled out a pair of small scissors from his left pocket, and smirked, "I'm going to cut your hair off! Red's my favorite color, plus I have a hair collection, so I'm gonna make sure I get all your hair!" Despite his head being in excruciating pain, he laughed wickedly.

Kagura held a disgusted expression. Who the hell kept hair as a collection? Definitely freaks like this guy. Furthermore, why would he cut all of Kagura's hair off? Did he want her to be humiliated by going bald? Apparently so.

He ran towards her, but before he had even attempted cutting her hair, Kagura dashed to the side, dodging him. The man plopped to the ground face-first. What was it with people and hitting their faces on the floor? Perhaps they were always careless.

Intruder #1 bellowed at the Yato, "God-fucking-dammit! My face already hurts from your punch, and now I hit the freaking floor! Do I seriously need to go to the hospital for this shit?!"

"No, but I can throw you and your buddies in the garbage bin outside," Kagura offered, still going with the plan she mentioned to Christine and Sean.

"That's not happening," He spat, glaring daggers at the young girl. "I'm not done with you yet, by the way. I still haven't cut your hair."

"You're not cutting my hair! If you try doing that, then I'll break your arms and legs, uh-huh!"

"Oh, I'm so scared," The masked man mocked. "You may have punched me in the face, but there's no way you can break my legs and arms that easily."

"Oh?" Kagura felt the corners of her lips curve up into a smirk. Little did these guys realize that Kagura had incredible strength, so she could break their bodies very easily.

"Now stop moving, so that I can have your hair!" He commanded.

Kagura scoffed while shaking her head, "You really are a freak, uh-huh."

He growled as he charged towards her again. Kagura avoided his "attack" like before, only this time, she snatched the scissors away from his hand, and without any warning, she bent his arm until she heard it snap.

The man hollered near Kagura's ear, "GAAAAAUUUGH!"

Kagura cringed at how loud he was, next to her ear. Her ears began to ring, but she did her best to ignore it.

Kagura held onto the scissors; without thinking, she stabbed the tip of it into his leg. He cried out for the umpteenth time; his legs started trembling, and in a matter of seconds, he fell, holding onto his now bloody leg. Pulling out the small scissors, he tossed them in a random direction. He was just lucky that the scissors were clean; otherwise he'd have some kind of infection.

The girl didn't expect herself to stab him with a pair of freaking scissors (Hell, almost nobody uses scissors for a weapon), but she was kind of glad she did it. The man looked like he was surrendering, because he whimpered, "Oh, god, make the pain stop already!"

Kagura glanced at the second bystander, who gasped at what she had done a moment ago. He pointed at her with his forefinger (Which was shaking), and exclaimed, "Wh-What the hell are you?!"

"I'm a Yato," Kagura responded in a flat tone.

"Y-Yato?!" He repeated in utter shock. "Y-You mean the kind of a-amanto that have incredible s-strength?!"

"Yeah," Kagura rolled her eyes at his reaction.

She suddenly heard a voice behind her.

"Kagura-chan!"

Kagura turned around, seeing Sean with a puzzled expression.

She asked while picking her nose, "Grumpy, were you just following me?"

Sean frowned, "No. I was actually looking for you, since you ran out of the concert, chasing the intruders. And would you please not pick your nose in front of me?"

"Nope. I have too many boogers in my nostrils, uh-huh."

Sean groaned, but quickly changed the subject, "Anyway, I can see you…defeated these guys. Though…" He looked around as the frown on his face deepened a bit. Nervously, he asked the redhead, "…where's the third guy?"

Kagura widened her eyes when she had forgotten that the third guy ran away. She answered by practically yelling, "The third dope is going to capture that dumb pop singer, uh-huh!" She pulled her index finger out of her nose.

His jaw dropped in disbelief, "Are you serious?!"

"Yeah, I'm serious!" She piped. "And this isn't the first time she's been captured!"

"She's been captured before?" Sean questioned with a raised brow.

"You really don't know anything about that dumb singer, do you?"

"Apparently not," He confessed as he scratched the back of his head.

Kagura shrugged, "Well, honestly, I don't quite care."

The second bystander cried, "Young girl, I-I'm going to beat the crap out of you for hurting m-my acquaintance!" He pulled out a tanto from his sash, and held it up, ready to attack her. But he was still shaking. Kagura was beginning to think that he crapped his pants, due to how much he trembled.

Sean peered at Kagura, who was in a karate position. He whispered, "Kagura-chan, do you really think we can defeat this man?"

Kagura snorted at his question, "I have more strength than you do; of course we're gonna defeat him, uh-huh…and then we'll throw him – plus his two 'friends' – in the garbage bin."

Sean sighed, "You're still going along with your plan?"

Before Kagura had the chance to answer, the third bystander stormed towards them. He yelled furiously with a hint of fear lacing in his tone.

Intruder #1 grumbled, pressing onto his fresh wound to stop the bleeding, "D-Defeat those kids!"

"I'm not a kid," Sean told him.

"Whatever!" He wheezed.

Intruder #2 lifted his tanto up, ready to cut both Kagura and Sean up. A gasp escaped Sean's lips, and hurriedly, he pulled out his own tanto (Which was behind his vest, along with his book). After unsheathing it, he blocked the witness' attack. Both tanto's clashed onto each other; Sean tried his best to not let the other man's weapon injure him. If he was injured, he'd have to go to the hospital. And since Sean was deathly afraid of hospitals, he would try to avoid the bystander's tanto blade as much as possible.

Sean was no fan of violence, but since this masked man started this battle, Sean would have no choice but to fight him. He realized that he needed to use his weapon for once, anyway.

While Sean was having a bit of trouble blocking the attack, Kagura ran behind the witness, and grabbed a handful of his hair. The man snapped his eyes wide, and shouted, "Hey! Let go of my hair!"

"Nope," Kagura refused. "You know, maybe your hair should be cut off, uh-huh."

"WHAT?!" He screamed, suddenly feeling petrified.

Kagura picked up the scissors from the floor as she gripped onto his hair. Tears were beginning to form in his eyes; he dug his teeth into his lower lip to prevent himself from crying in pain. Just how much pain was he going to receive before he surrendered? He didn't want to give up, but he also didn't want to look weak in front of his apparent leader.

Without wasting any time, Kagura cut his hair. The man accidentally dropped his tanto while hollering, "IT HURTS! IT HURTS!"

Kagura ordered, "Now, grumpy!"

"Huh?" Sean frowned in bewilderment.

She clarified, "Cut this bastard up while I chop all of his hair off!"

For a moment, Sean hesitated. He never cut anyone before. A gulp went down his throat as he tightened his grip on his weapon.

Feeling impatient, Kagura snapped, "Come on, grumpy! Cut him, already!"

The 19-year-old man scowled, admitting, "I'm uncertain about this, okay?!" As Kagura continued cutting the bastards' hair, Sean heaved a sigh, "Look, can't I just cut his clothes?"

"You want to rip his clothes off?" Kagura asked.

"That's not what I said!" He barked. "I meant just a few tears on his shirt…or something!"

"No. At least cut his arm," She commanded.

Sighing heavily, Sean decided, "Alright, fine! But do know that I'm not the…cutting type of guy." He stepped in front of the intruder, and grasped his wrist. The older man gasped in shock as Sean pulled his sleeve up.

The brunette positioned the blade over his skin, and despite trying to be brave, Sean was still tentative. He tended to be grossed out whenever he saw something very bloody, so it made sense as to why he was hesitating.

Sean squinted his green eyes as he pressed the tip of the blade into the bastards' forearm. He pressed it until he saw blood coming out of the man's skin.

He instantly pulled his tanto away, and weakly said as he placed his hand over his own mouth, "There, I did it! Are you happy?"

Kagura shrugged, "Meh, close enough." She finished chopping all of the masked man's hair off, making him go bald. Dropping the scissors, she gazed at the shiny head, and grinned, "His bald head looks so funny, uh-huh."

Sean's eyes rolled at her random comment. Bald people didn't look that funny. What the heck was Kagura even saying?

The man waved his arms around, and wailed, "I give up! You win! Just don't cut me anymore!"

"I've only cut you once," Sean murmured. "But even then, it makes me cringe a bit."

"Remind me again why you got yourself a weapon," Kagura folded her arms over her chest.

"For self-defense," Sean responded.

Kagura only gave him a blank stare before grabbing the back of the witness' clothes. She then grabbed the wounded man, and announced, "Now that these two have surrendered, I can toss them into the bin outside."

Sean sighed for the umpteenth time, "You know what, go ahead. I don't even care anymore." He rubbed his forehead while Kagura dragged the men through the hallway.

Sean sheathed his small weapon; eventually, he ran in the opposite direction, now looking for Gintoki and Christine.

With Christine and Gintoki…

"I'm definitely going to put an ice pack on my hip when I get home," Gintoki mumbled, feeling yet another ache in his torso.

"Will you stop complaining about your hip?" Christine asked nonchalantly. "You've been complaining about it since you got off the roof."

Gintoki glared at the teenage girl, "That's because I'm in serious pain, you brat."

Christine snorted, but didn't reply.

All of a sudden, they could hear Tsu pleading, "Let me go! I swear I won't tell anybody about this! Stinky babies' diapers!"

Gintoki and Christine halted in their tracks. Wasn't Tsu supposed to be backstage? Apparently, she was taken away…and nobody saw it.

Christine cupped her hand over her earlobe, and arched a brow up as she questioned, "Isn't that Otsu's voice?"

"It sounds like it," Gintoki turned his head to one side. "Though I'm pretty sure it's Otsu's sister."

"Otsu doesn't have a sister," Christine pointed out.

The duo heard Shinpachi voice coming towards them. He cried, "Gin-san! Christiko-san! Otsu-chan was yelling backstage! She must've been kidnapped!"

"I think she has been, because Gintoki-san and I heard her voice just now," Christine abruptly informed him.

Shinpachi's eyes were as wide as saucers. He insisted, "We need to find Otsu-chan right this second!" No sooner after he said that, he sprinted pass them. He called out Tsu's name, but Tsu didn't respond immediately.

The trio heard Tsu speak again, "If you don't let go of me right now, I'm going to have to call my mother! Sparkles in crap!"

Gintoki bored his crimson eyes on one door – which said "Terakado Otsu's Dressing Room" – and guessed as he pointed his thumb at the door, "Oi, I think the singer's in there."

Shinpachi darted back towards him; in a matter of seconds, the boy faced the door. Tsu cried from inside the dressing room, "You broke my phone! Worms eating dirt!"

Shinpachi, who was now in rage, turned the handle, opening the door. He spotted one of the bystanders holding Tsu captive. His arm was around the pop singers' neck. The man wasn't choking her, but Tsu tried to push his arm away. Unfortunately for her, it wasn't working. The man was too strong.

The 16-year-old exclaimed, "Otsu-chan!" He scowled at the intruder holding her, and ordered in a growl, "Let her go."

Intruder #3 had to admit that he was a bit terrified at Shinpachi's expression, but he shook his head, refusing, "No can do, kid."

Two veins popped in Shinpachi's cheek. He questioned, "Why are you kidnapping her, anyway?!"

"Eh…" He peered at Tsu; then gave Shinpachi a sheepish smile. He muttered, "Honestly, I don't know."

"What do you mean you don't know?!" Shinpachi demanded.

"My leader just told me to get Otsu! He didn't bother to explain why!"

Shinpachi grumbled inaudible words under his breath. The masked man raised his voice, "But that's not important!"

Shinpachi frowned as he thought, Actually, it is kind of important, because we all want to know WHY you're kidnapping Otsu-chan!

The man continued as a drop of sweat rolled down his cheek, "I'm taking this girl to my leader!" He glared down at the purple-haired girl, "Let's go, pop singer."

He started walking, forcing Tsu to walk as well. Shinpachi, however, stepped in front of them, and ordered like before, "I told you once before. Let. Her. Go." He empathized each word in a growl. Shinpachi was definitely in fury.

The other male gulped in fear, but tried to be brave by stammering, "M-Make me!" He immediately regretted it, because Shinpachi punched him in the face. He grunted as he let go of the singer. He hit the floor by his butt.

Shinpachi grabbed Tsu's shoulders, and exclaimed in worry, "Are you alright, Otsu-chan?!"

"I'm fine, Shinpachi-san. Running headless chicken!" Tsu assured.

Shinpachi sighed with relief, "Good." He looked into Tsu's brown eyes, and commanded, "Otsu-chan, head back to the stage while we deal with this bastard. The audience, including my club, is terribly worried about you getting hurt."

Without hesitation, Tsu nodded, and stormed out of the dressing room.

The bystander gasped when he saw that Tsu left. Shinpachi violently stomped on his foot, making him scream in anguish. He snarled in a deathly tone, "You're going to get your butt kicked for kidnapping Otsu-chan."

As the bastard shook tremendously, Shinpachi turned his head to one side, and told Gintoki and Christine, "You two, I'd like to be alone with this man for a moment."

Gintoki and Christine looked at each other for a moment before obliging. They stepped out of the room; Gintoki closed the door behind himself.

Almost instantly, the intruder began to scream like a girl. They could hear Shinpachi whipping the shit out of that guy (Apparently, Shinpachi found a whip in the dressing room).

A few beads of sweat formed on Christine's face. She knew Shinpachi was angry, since he was a die-hard Tsu fan; she just didn't expect him to actually torture the kidnapper.

The girl looked at Gintoki out of the corner of her eye, and asked quietly as she held a crooked smile, "Gintoki-san…you don't think Shinpachi-san's really whipping that guy, do you?"

"It sounds like a whip," Gintoki replied, unfazed at the cries coming from the dressing room.

Christine frowned at Gintoki's blank expression, "Okay, how're you not intimidated by what's happening in there?"

Gintoki shrugged his shoulders, "I'm not the one getting whipped by Patsuan; that's probably why."

The duo abruptly heard Sean's voice, "Gintoki-san! Christiko!"

They both glanced to the side, seeing Sean run in front of them. Sweat dripped down Sean's face as he panted heavily in exhaustion. Christine believed, He must've been running a lot.

He informed them, wheezing, "I'm so glad I found you two."

"Is something wrong?" Christine asked with a raised brow.

Sean shook his head while still catching his breath, "No, but I found Kagura-chan. She managed to beat up two of the bystanders."

"Really?" Christine rose her eyebrows up, though she wasn't too surprised.

Sean added, "She threw them in the garbage bin after that."

Shinpachi opened the door, and walked out of the room, dragging the man. From the looks of it, he was unconscious. Drool dripped down the corner of his mouth; blood was also on his face, and his mask was off.

Christine gave Shinpachi a what-the-fuck look, and decided to question, "Jesus Christ, Shinpachi-san, what did you do to this man?"

"I don't know how, but I made him unconscious," Shinpachi confessed. "I didn't do it on purpose, though. I just wanted to give him a piece of my mind."

Sean crackly smiled, "You must've been incredibly angry, then."

"I was," Shinpachi sighed. "If he kidnapped a different singer, I wouldn't be as angry as I was a moment ago."

A few seconds later, Taka-tin appeared at the scene. He offered in English, "I'll take him out."

Christine smiled happily as Shinpachi said, "Thank you, Taka-tin."

The foreigner picked up the unconscious man, and placed him on his shoulder.

Gintoki ordered blandly, "Put him in the garbage outside."

Taka-tin couldn't understand what Gintoki had just said, though he gave him a brief nod before walking away from them.

Shinpachi breathed, "At least he didn't harm Otsu-chan."

"Have you finally calmed down, Patsuan?" Gintoki asked.

"I think so," He whispered. "I think Otsu-chan's intermission is over. I better head back to the concert." With that, he headed back to the actual concert.

Christine released a sigh, and ran her fingers through her light-brown hair as she whispered, "You know, I learned something today."

"Oh?" Gintoki gazed at her. "What's that?"

"Catching an intruder is harder than it sounds. I thought it was going to be easy, but…I was wrong."

Sean slightly smiled, "At least you understand now, sis."

Two and a half hours later…

The concert finally ended. Gintoki, Kagura, Christine, and Sean changed back into their normal clothes. Shinpachi, on the other hand, already headed for home.

The group of four was backstage, talking to Tsu.

Tsu held her hands together as she began to speak, "I'd like to thank all of you for looking out for those bystanders. Mud splattered butt cheeks!"

"It was nothing," Kagura waved her hand up and down. "Those guys were huge losers, uh-huh. Hopefully, they won't plan on ruining your concert ever again."

Tsu chuckled, "Well, I need to get going. My mother's going to buy me a new cellphone, since the man who kidnapped me broke my last one." She turned around, and started towards her mother as she cheered, "Bye, everyone! Messy toilet bowls!"

Gintoki sighed, "It sucks we didn't get paid."

"Hey, at least Otsu's concert wasn't ruined," Sean said.

Gintoki pouted, "She still should've paid us."

Sean rolled his eyes, and the group exited out of the building.

While they were heading back to Gintoki's apartment, Christine asked Kagura, "Kagura-chan, what did you and Gintoki-san do, besides play rock-paper-scissors?"

"I accidentally broke the roof door, and threw it at a random person, uh-huh," Kagura answered with no hesitation.

Christine and Sean stared at her in disbelief, "What?"

"You heard what I said," Kagura replied.

Christine only sighed quietly. At least Kagura didn't get arrested for throwing a small door at a person's head. Then again, nobody except Gintoki, Christine, and Sean knew that she was the one who did it. Hopefully, though, nobody else would ever find out.


And thus concludes the "Concert Disaster Arc".

Honestly, I had trouble ending this chapter. ^^; And Tsu's "kidnapping" totally reminds of the time she was kidnapped in episode 56, where she dressed herself in the Shinsengumi uniform.

My answer from the previous question: I'm afraid of a lot of things, but the most I'm afraid of is getting flames (Which I generally despise) and dying.

Question of the update: Do you have any siblings?

Hope you enjoyed chapter 49! :)