Chirp! Chirp! Chirp!
It's really Spring…
Man… I will have to start working again…
Ah! I'm tired! Why do I have to sit here? On a park bench? On my day off!?
I could be reading Jump right now! Or watching Ketsuno Ana on tv! Or even—
"Gin-chan! Gin-chan!"
I look up to where that annoying voice was coming from only to meet bright ocean blue eyes. "What?" Knowing full well who the one speaking is, I place my hand on her face and push her back. "And you're too close!"
Kagura tries to pry my hand off her face, which with her strength, hurts like hell. "Ow! Ow! Gin-chan! You're grip hurts!"
"You're the one talking! I'll let's go okay! Just stop pinching my hand!" I quickly let go of her head to save my poor hand. "Geez! Control your monster strength!"
Kagura sniffles, with her head hung low, "…sorry Gin-chan…"
Ahh… geez… my right-hand scratches the back of my head as I grumble, "Okay, what do you want?"
The vermillion haired girl instantly brightens and goes straight to the punch, "Gin-chan! I heard from Zura, uh-huh!"
I dug my pinky into my nose. "You heard what?" What would Zura tell her?
"Gin-chan is it true you had an affair with your new housemate on his first night?!"
Right when I was about to fling my booger away, it drops by itself after hearing those words.
Affair? Huh? What affair? With Oogushi-kun? What does he mean by an affair?
Then I remembered that night two days ago when I had accidentally stumbled into the mayora's room. I was just really tired from being dragged around by this brat and her imaginary glasses friend. And then we got into an argument, woke up Takasugi, and I got hit by the door.
Ahh… right.
After that, I was falling.
Two warm arms embraced me.
And we fell—
I was laying on top of him…
Would that even count as an affair?
"No—no—no no no NO! Kagura-chan!" I put my hands on her shoulders. "You should never trust gossip! That is just some gossip Takasugi made up!"
Kagura seems a bit disappointed, "Oh… tch! I thought Gin-chan had finally got laid."
"Oi! Who taught you those words!" I try to change the subject, "Anyways, where is Patsuan?"
"Part time job~" Kagura skips away from me, then turns around. "Come on, Gin-chan! You said you would play with me today!"
I sigh before rising from the bench and walking next to the hyper high school girl. No—this is not pedophilia of any sorts! We don't have that sort of relationship! I swear! It's just her bald father left her to me, and now I'm her guardian! That's all! AGAIN THIS IS NOT PEDOPHILIA! I may be a young, handsome 25-year-old, but I would never stoop so low as to go out with a high school girl!
Anyways, Kagura and I walk down the sidewalk through the grove of sakura trees.
"Let's go to the parlor. I'm craving for a parfait."
"Hijikata-san~" Sougo calls out to me.
I take a drag from my cigarette. "What?" I exhale the smoke.
"I heard from Kondo-san. Congratulations on losing your virginity!" Sougo claps his hands.
"HUH?! Who lost their virginity?! Plus, I'm not a virgin anyways!"
Sougo blinks. "Really? I didn't think anyone would want to sleep with you after seeing your eating habits. Ah! Wait! You slept with them before you showed them to dinner!" Sougo nods, "I can see why you would be dumped after a one-night stand."
I crush my cigarette into the mobile ashtray. "Besides, what do you mean anyways?"
"Ah, Kondo-san said one of his housemates caught you and another housemate doing the do."
Doing the do? With who? My mind wanders towards that event two nights prior. Ahh… with that silver perm...
…
HELL NO!
"Kondo-san is just spreading gossip. I didn't sleep with anyone." I light another cigarette.
Sougo gives me bored eyes, "Aww… But I already spread the news to all the troops."
"Huh?! Why would you do that!?" I shout at the brunette. "Haven't you ever heard of privacy! Privacy!" I was boiling with anger and irritation. Why do I have to be on patrol with this brat?
Well, because Kondo-san says so, of course,
I sigh and take another drag from my cigarette. My gaze shifts to the side where there is what looks like a parlor. As my eyes pass by, something catches my attention.
A streak of silver.
I felt my eye twitch. No—It can't be…
I quickly turn my head back. It is! There he was, silver perm and everything, digging into a strawberry parfait. Across from him is a younger girl with vermillion hair.
Wait! Wait! Wait! What is that?! A date?! Is this pedophilia?!
I suddenly park the car in the nearest parking space. Sougo looks at me with curious eyes, "Hijikata-san?" I ignore Sougo's question and exit the car. Sougo follows me, curious about my sudden actions.
As soon as I enter the parlor, I walk straight to that silver perm bastard and the vermillion haired girl. Hearing the footsteps, he looks up and makes a "Geh!" sound.
"Oi." I start, "What the hell is this?"
The perm head blinks at me as if he is confused. "What is what? And instead, I should be asking you why you are here Oogushi-kun."
"Don't 'Oogushi-kun' me!" I growl, "And I was on patrol when I saw you—you! With such a young girl, do you not have any morals?"
He blinks once again before getting into a fit of laughter.
"What are you laughing at!?"
"Pff…! You! Hahahahah! Thought I was on a date with this glutton girl! Ahahahahah!" The silver perm head couldn't stop laughing which just pisses me off more and adds to my embarrassment.
Suddenly, a voice comes from beside me, "Yeah 'Oogushi-kun'. You shouldn't be accusing other people like that!" Sougo moves me aside and sits down next to the silver perm.
"Who are you calling 'Oogushi-kun'!"
Sougo ignores me and turns to the silver perm head, "I'm Oogushi-kun's ex-roommate, Okita Sougo. I have a feeling we will get along, Danna."
"Oh! So you are the one who kicked him out!" the silver perm chuckles, "I heard from the gorilla that you are going to college at G Uni! You know, Souichirou-kun, there is a professor by the name Takasugi! I think he is a literature professor or something. But, if you have him or see him, be sure to annoy him. He's just like 'Oogushi-kun' over there, really amusing." He pats Sougo's shoulder before taking another bite from his parfait, then raises his hand towards Sougo.
"Oi! Will you two quit it with the 'Oogushi-kun'! Who is Oogushi-kun?!"
Sougo takes the silver perm's hand and shakes it. "My name is Sougo, Danna, and I take it you are one of Hijikata-san's housemates." Sougo's face suddenly twisted into a sadistic smirk, "No— you're the one he had an 'affair' with."
"Oh! So this is the one Gin-chan had an affair with!" the girl finally speaks up. However, her face is really close to mine, as she stands on her tip toes to reach my height. She nods her head with her hand resting under her chin. "At least you have standards with who you choose, Gin-chan. I thought it was some macho gorilla or something."
"Oi! Would you drop it about the 'affair' already! There was no affair!" both he and I yell at the two kids.
Sougo walks up from his seat next to perm head and moves to sit next to the girl. He put a hand up, acting like he is whispering to her when he was actually just saying it out loud. "Hey-hey China. Did you hear them, they're so in sync!"
She replies in the same way, "Uh-huh! Just because they slept together once, they have become in sync—aru!"
"Wah~ Gross!" Sougo whispers.
"Right-aru! It makes me want to hurl-aru!" The girl covers her mouth.
The silver perm head's eyes twitch. "Oi, Kagura? What are you doing? Why aren't you listening to Gin-san?" Suddenly, both the girl, whose name is Kagura, and Sougo stand up simultaneously. "Kagura?"
"Sougo?" I question the brunette's sudden action. He looks at me with half-lidded eyes before walking towards me and pulling out something from his breast pocket—handcuffs. I start to back away, but I was too late, as I hear a clink.
I blink. Eh? He didn't just do what I think he did, did he? My thoughts were thrown out the window as I felt the cold smooth metal on my wrist. My eyes travel down the chain of the handcuffs only to see that perm head's right hand was also chained. He did!
I quickly look up only to see Sougo's sadistic expression and that China girl's smirk. Sougo digs through my pocket, taking out my wallet. Then, starts walking to the cashier. "Don't worry, Danna, I'll be taking care of the bill and your girl"
That China girl starts to follow behind him after smacking the back of his head and shouting a, "Who says you are taking care of me!"
He turns around to give me one last sadistic smirk. "Have fun~"
"Gin-chan, have fun~" China girl waves to the perm bastard who was in too much shock to respond. The two teens leave the parlor.
Wait! They have my wallet! I twirl around about to run after them when I am suddenly jerked backward. I give my left arm another tug, but then I remembered the predicament I was in.
Gintoki's usual poker face was off, his face filled with a pathetic panic look. "Oi, Hijikata-kun! Don't you have the keys to these things!" He raises his right hand to point out the metal handcuffs which currently bind us together. They give a small clinking sound as perm head moves his arm. I grumble as I dig through my pockets, however, something is strange.
I don't feel the key.
I freeze up.
Sougo… he didn't…
My blue eyes shift to meet Gintoki's own red eyes.
Seeming to have read my eyes, his face pales and mouth twitches in disbelief. "You've got to be kidding me…"
I bit my lip.
"I'm afraid so…"
"Hey~ China~" My eyes slide towards the vermillion haired girl next to me who was walking beside me.
"What, sadist?" Her ocean blue eyes meet mine. I have to admit…
They're beautiful…
Not that I care very much. Woman are woman—they're all the same— I mean look over there for example.
A swarm of chicks all caked up with too much makeup pass by us, giggling. I let my eyes follow them for a second before continuing on. They just giggle behind my back huddling together as they whisper stuff like, "Oh! Wasn't that guy like super hot!"
"Totally!"
"Omg! I think he looked at me!"
And they continue to giggle about the most useless things.
Then a poor homeless guy passes them. All this guy has is his sunglasses, and yet he won't let go of them. As soon as they pass him, they jeer at the dirty guy making him want to kill himself.
—Not that I care.
The two of us—China and I—stay silent as we continue to walk down the street.
Ahh—this atmosphere is getting tiring… I might as well hurry to get rid of this girl.
"Hey, China." I stop in my tracks. There came no response. Huh? I turn around to where the girl should have been.
But she wasn't there.
Instead, I see her down the road looking at the arcade with focused eyes, as if she as never seen one before. I stare at her for a bit longer, and then my feet move. As I take more steps, the closer I get to her, and soon I am standing beside the china girl. I stay silent for a few seconds before opening my mouth. "Do you know how to play?"
"Huh-aru?" She quickly turns to look at me, her eyes big.
I give a silent chuckle, "So you don't…" I also turn to look at her as a smirk spread across my face. "—Lame!"
China snaps. "I do know how to play! I'm even the Queen of Games!" She taunts, "I bet you can't even beat me!"
Huh? Somehow I feel excited. "Is that a challenge?"
"Yeah, it is! I will beat you and wipe that cheeky smirk off your face!"
Hah! This girl isn't like those other girls.
I find another smile crawl into my lips.
She's way more interesting.
