"I'm so sorry!!" yelled Namida clinging to Akaiken. "It's all his fault!"
"who's fault?" inquired Akaiken.
"Mr. Yamazaki!!"
"You mean Mr. Yaminami?" interjected Todou, of course Sano and Shinpachi weren't too far behind.
"No! Yamazaki!... T-the guy with almost no eyebrows… "
"Yamazaki? But on his missions he's usually so…oh what's the word I'm looking for…"
"Emotionless?" guessed Shinpachi.
"Not quite… but true…"pondered Akai.
"Uptight?" said Sano.
"Extremely cold!" shouted Todou. Akaiken stood with her arms crossed looking down,
"All true, but not the words I'm looking for!"
Namida was slightly confused, "What? But he was so pleasant to me…"
"That's only because you're related to the vice commander. Yamazaki only respects that demon."
Namida looked disappointed "So he was only nice to me because I'm related to Uncle Toei?"
The trio of jokers froze for a moment…"Uncle Toei?!?!" The trio started cracking up.
Akaiken sweatdropped "You guys really are trio of idiots…" The guys just continued laughing, suddenly Akaiken froze while Namida remained unfazed.
"What's so funny?" Came an all too familiar voice… the voice of a demon. The trio froze as soon as they heard it.
"Uncle Toei!!" Yelled Namida as she came towards him, Hijikata stared sternly at the trio.
"What's… so funny!"
"N…nothing Sir!!" they replied in unison. Akaiken kept repeating to herself 'I had nothing to do with this; I had nothing to do with this…'
"So… you were just laughing at… nothing?"
"Yes, sir, nothing at all!"
Toshizo simply rolled his eyes and walked away, Namida following after him.
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10 minutes later…
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Tetsu appeared out of almost nowhere, as usual. "Hey, who was that pretty girl walking with Mr. Hijikata?"
"Oh, that was just Mr. Hijikata's niece…"
"Wha-!! Mr. Hijikata has niece!? How can that angel be related to that demon??"
"We're still tryin' to figure that out ourselves, puppy-boy" said Sano.
"Yeah, she's almost as pretty as Akaiken--" Shinpachi clamped his hand over his mouth "…Did I just say that aloud?" Everyone else stood in shock.
"Wh-at!! You're comparing that butterfly to that… moth!?" Yelled Tetsu, pointing at Akaiken.
Twitch "Moth?…" Twitch
Tetsu saw that his life was in danger right away, and took off running. "I-I think I hear Mr. H-Hijikata calling!" He was gone in moments, as is true Ichimura style.
When Tetsu was only ant sized, the others turned around… Shinpachi was nowhere to be seen. Sano, Todou, and Akaiken sweat dropped. "Little guy runs fast…"
"You're one to talk shorty." commented Sano.
"Shorty?" Akaiken glared at him. Next thing Sano knew, he was being dragged off to the training hall.
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"My ankle is already felling better, I really should thank Mr. Yamazaki." said Namida. She and Mr. Hijikata were walking around within the complex. "You mean Susumu?"
"Yeah,"
"Okay, I'll summon him." Hijikata said "Susumu!" Susumu dropped down in front of them, Namida unsheathed a knife, and took a ninja-like fighting stance. When she realized who it was, she hid the knife behind her back. The two stared at her strangely for a moment.
Namida quickly re-sheathed it. "Sorry, reflex."
Reflex my kunai… thought susumu. "You summoned me, sir?" he asked, turning his direction to the demon.
"Yes, my niece wants to talk to you." Mr. Hijikata then turned walking away.
"I just wanted thank you for yesterday…"
"Susumu!" came a voice from behind Namida practically giving her a heart attack. She turned around looking at this new person, "Hello miss, are you Mr. Yamazaki's girlfriend?"
Okita was in shock for a moment "No! I'm a man!"
"Oh… I see…" Namida turned to Susumu "I didn't know you were into… that."
"No!" yelled susumu angrily.
"Susumu, you know you aren't supposed to bring women in here." reprimanded Souji, completely ignoring her second comment.
"What about Ayu and Akaiken?" interjected Namida.
"Well, Ayu cooks, and you could hardly call Akaiken a woman." Explains Souji
//X// Somewhere in the training hall, Akaiken sneezed and paused in her training "Why do I feel like I should be mad?" Akaiken shrugged and continued. //X//
"Now, Susumu. You know it's illegal to take women out of Shimabara, and then to bring her here to the Shinsengumi headquarters, For Shame!"
Namida stood slightly confused and pondered aloud "uh… Shimabara?" Susumu leaned over and whispered something to her. "WHAT! HOW DARE YOU!" she screamed and punched Souji as hard as she could in the stomach.
Souji stood there with an indignant look on his; he didn't even flinch when she hit him. "Well, that was rather rude!"
"Rude! Rude? What's rude is assuming that I'm from-from that kind of place!"
Souji paused for a moment, "You're not?"
"No, I'm Mr. Hijikata's niece." Said Namida still slightly annoyed.
"Wha-at? Cute little you?" he asked, in his normal Souji-ish tone.
"Yeah, he's my father's brother." said Namida.
"Oh, okay! So what were you two talking about?" pondered Souji, looking at Susumu.
"Oh I was just thanking Mr. Yamazaki for helping me the other day." Namida said happily, quick to forgive Souji for his previous error, as was well known. It's physically and mentally impossible to remain mad at Souji Okita.
" 'Mr. Yamazaki?' " Inquired Souji.
"Is there something wrong with that?"
"Well he's younger than he looks, how old are you?"
"I just turned sixteen, why?"
"Oh well that's just around his age, right Susumu?" Souji turned to where Susumu last stood; an empty void was now present. "Oh well," Shrugged Souji "So are you just here visiting Mr. Hijikata?"
"Uh… Not exactly…" Namida then began to explain her little… situation.
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Back in the training hall
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"What the hell did you just say?" Growled Akaiken.
"I'm Sorry! Okay!? I said I'm sorry!" replied Shinpachi, he had his hands over his head as though to protect from an attack, and there stood Akaiken with her bokken raised geared to strike.
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Later that day…
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As Namida walked around talking with Souji they passed an angry looking Akaiken. They walked a little further and saw a very bruised Shinpachi shaking his head and mumbling to himself. "Why did I say that to her?" he asked himself.
Namida looked over at Souji with a question " So just what did Shinpachi say to make her so mad?"
Souji looked up for a moment and shrugged, as is very Souji-ish "I don't know, but it had to be bad or she wouldn't have gotten that angry"
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