Between a Rock and a Hard Place
Chapter 7
"One… two… OHRAAA!" Kamui swings his arms up high one he felt his sister's small palm in his own. Kagura and Okita (who attached himself to Kagura's waist officially) flew up in the air and landed on the safe spot in front of the door with a loud thud.
"Ow… China, you are too heavy. Get off me."
"Is this the attitude you show to somebody you sticks to 2 seconds ago?! I saved your life!"
"And I risked my life trying to save yours before that. You should look over the action. It's the intention that counts."
"If intention was everything, then I would've kicked you down."
Once the weights were off his head, Kamui flipped over easily and walked along the tube towards Kagura and Okita who are still arguing. He can't help but quietly sighed in relief when he saw Kagura in safety. There were only few scratches on her pale skin.
"… My intention was as pure as snow."
"Pure? All you can ever be is a dark clump of energy, you Sadist! If it was me hanging off your waist, you would've kicked me down…"
"Now, don't waste your energy with this Earthling any further." Kamui said with a light smile and offered Kagura his hand to help her up. Kagura looks the other way, remembering the warmth she felt for but a moment and decided to help herself up without even looking back at her older brother.
Okita walks towards the door where the passed out Kumoto guy is still lying on the floor. The door that was supposed to be shut is still open; thanks to the guy's huge body that's blocking it.
Okita patted the body's shoulder. "As the gratitude of holding the door for us, I'll let you be with your friends," and threw the body into the hole.
"That's just cold." Kagura said as she walks past him onto the other side of the door. Kamui follows behind with a small smile on his face. Okita glanced back at the scanning machine and can't help but feel some sort of unknown hatred towards it.
"Bitch…"
"Where are we?" Kagura asked herself in a bored voice. They have been wandering around in this small hall way for more than 2 hours now, and there's still no sign of its ending. The view is the same, shiny metal. The ceiling is the same, square metal pieces. The floor is the same, hard metal. And her companions' faces are still the same old, Okita and Kamui.
"If I know, we would be out of here by now." Mumbled Okita. Kagura whipped around and found him in a half slumber state with his eye mask over his eyes. She gritted her teeth at his irritating face and threw her best punches yet.
"Shut up! If you have no answer, then don't even comment on my question!"
Okita dodged it easily with his eyes under the red mask. "Now, there's no need to be so agitated, China girl. Are you on your period or what? Has the hormones finally got to you?"
"Bastard! I've been seeing your face for 2 hours now. There's no way anybody can keep their cool when there's such an ugly thing in front of them for 2 hours straight!"
"Most people define your 'ugly' as 'a fine piece of art created by God', though."
"God and those people must need new glasses then!" Kagura shouted, very angry now. She raised her fist up high and flew to Okita. "Here, let me help that face look a little better, God!"
That's when they hear footsteps down the left way of the hall way.
Kagura's fist turns into a grab as she yanked Okita by his collar to a small space beside the hall way to hide. Kamui hopped in behind her and the two siblings poked their heads out from behind the wall.
"Why are the squads that we sent to Earth so late? They should be back by now, right?" One voice asks.
The other replied, "Nah. It's hard to tell with their shit-running Commander. He must be taking a dump in the bushes by now. I don't think they even began to invade Earth yet."
What should we do with these two? Kagura asked Kamui and Okita by sending a look of question after observing for a while. Okita looked a bit puzzled and looks back at her with a look that portrayed a massage of;
You need to go to the bathroom? Is it an emergency?
Huh? You left your stove on at home? Kamui sent that look to Kagura in surprise. Clearly, the three of them did not understand what each others are thinking at all.
What?! You want to leave them alone?! Kagura shouted with her eyes.
You are going to take a dump?! You are going to do it here and now?! Okita's eyes grew bigger.
Eh?! Not only did you leave the stove on, you also left the wet laundries in the washer?! Kamui's eyes opened, his mouth hung open.
We can't just let them be! They are heading this way! He who strikes first is victorious, isn't that right?
It's not a dump, but your period?! You are seriously on you period?! Well, I never would have thought!
Not just the stove and the wet laundries, but your door is also unlocked?! That's too careless!
While the three of them are staring at each other with their eyes wide opened, there was a sound of a robotic woman that announced something for everyone on the ship to hear.
"Emergency, there are invaders on the ship. I repeat, there are invaders on this ship. Please assemble in the meeting room immediately."
"What?! Let's go!" The two Kumoto guys turned around and ran back. Okita and Kamui took this chance and both grabbed Kaguraarms, and then pull her opposite ways.
"ARGHH! This freaking hurts! What are you guys doing?!"
"Yes, what are you doing Earthling?" Kamui asked with a small smile on his face. "Let her go right now."
"What do you mean what I'm doing? I'm taking her to the nearest washroom, duh." Okita stated and pull Kagura's arm even harder.
"She doesn't need to go to the washroom. She needs to go home and let me teach her on how to turn off her stove, dry her laundries and lock her doors before any thieves get in!" Kamui said and yanked even harder than before.
Kagura who stands in the middle of this mess was more confused than any of them. "What the fuck are you guys talking about?! OWW!"
"Let go, China2! You wouldn't understand woman's stuff! It's a very sensitive topic!"
"It is, indeed! It is clear that the sliver haired Samurai has not yet taught my sister about household things! The only person left to teach her is me, her older brother!"
"OWW!" Kagura yelps in pain. She grits her teeth and with her inhuman force, pulled both her arms in at the same time, resulting Okita who was grabbing on one side and Kamui who was grabbing on another to fly in the air, and face-crashed into each other.
"What is wrong with you?!" Kagura asks the other two men who are now crouching on the floor with their hands over their faces in pain. Kamui slowly remove his hand to see a big bruise on his forehead and Okita's lower lip bleeding.
"What is this? I can't seem to remember anything that happened 5 minutes ago." Kamui said in amazement. It appears that the impact on his head has removed all of his memories from the event that had just happened.
"I don't want to remember it. It didn't happen. Let's forget about it. Kami-sama, I don't want to remember it…" Okita mumbled over and over again with his hands over his mouth. If that guy's forehead is bruised and my lower lip is bleeding… does it mean that I… I… I kis… kissed his forehead?!
"Come on. Get up and let's get moving before we lose them." Kagura told her other two companions and runs to the direction where the other two Kumotos were heading. Kamui and Okita got up, and Okita gives Kamui an awkward stare.
"What happened, Earthling? Why are your lips bleeding and why can't I remember anything?"
"Nothing happened. It was just a nightmare. Just a horrible, disgusting, twisted…" Okita replied and wipes his lips. Ignorance really is a fucking bliss…
The Kumoto gathered in their so call meeting room. But that room is really nothing more than pigs farm. It was dirty, smelly and filled with a group of muscles. Totally disgusting for a lady like Kagura, who is now hiding above in the air way.
"Ew, this smells even worse than Gin-chan's unwashed laundry piles." Kagura complains quietly and squeezes her nose. Okita glances up and smirks.
"We all know that it takes a lot more than this to disgust you. Don't try to be like a lady by faking it, China."
Kagura snorted at him and looks down small holes in the air way where a few rays of light pass through. She keeps her eyes on someone who seems to be their leader. He is very tall, muscular with tanned skin, which is a complete opposite of the Yatos who have pale, delicate skin. His hair was dark brown and his eyes are orange. He is wearing a Chinese like outfit and a dark green cape around his neck. Bloodlust from his body can be seen even from somewhere far away. Easily put, his bloodlust is like a different version of Kamui. He looks like a punk.
"Listen up, bastards!" He spoke up with a loud voice. All the murmurings in the room go quiet immediately. He is the ring leader, alright. Kagura thought and gulped.
"The squads that we've sent to observe Earth are completely defeated. They've been lured back into our ship and the West Gate is now destroyed. Without a doubt, there are invaders on this ship."
The sounds came up from everywhere in the room once again.
"Quiet!" He shouted. "It doesn't matter how many they have or how strong they are. They've stepped into our ship, and we'll kill them all. We won't let our pride as Kumoto be trample! Let's teach those scums lessons they will never forget!"
"YES BOSS!" The rest of the room yells. The ring leader lifts his hand up to silence them.
"Now, we were able to obtain a few information pieces about them through the camera above our scanning device. Listen and remember this voice well. It belongs one of to our intruders."
With that said, the video clip started to play on a big screen. It shows the image of the Kumoto guy being smashed into the scanning device over and over again, but no image of Okita was captured. He stood out of the camera's range.
"… Scanning process failed. There's an unknown substance in the way. Please remove the…"
"Scan, bitch!"
"Please do not call me a bitch. Scanning process failed. The user was impolite. There's blood in the way of scanning. Please remove dirty language and…"
"Fuck you. I can call you anything I want."
The clip ended with a sudden uproar from the enraged guys below.
"Oh, damn." Okita whistles.
"That bastard, how dare he insult our Kurumi-chan! I'll make him pay!"
"That's right! He used such foul language in front of her!"
"He called Kurumi-chan a bitch!"
"Who the hell is Kurumi-chan?" Okita asks in wonder. "They named their own computer system Kurumi? They treat her like a real person, even though her voice is beyond robotic? They are even more of an Otaku than Toshi!"
"We've seen more than enough. These guys are pathetic beyond help" Kagura said once the rest of their conversations turn into useless things about Kurumi-chan. Kamui nods in agreement and the three of them slowly crawl back to where they came from. The crawling went on for a long time when there was suddenly an interruption.
"Uh…" Kamui let out a groan when he suddenly stops moving. The air pipe seems to have narrowed down especially on this part. "I think I'm stuck, sis."
"Huh? Then back out!"
"That's the problem. I can't go forward or backward at all."
"You're kidding me." Kagura spat out. She looks behind at Okita "Hey, Sadist, push me and I'll push him."
"What?!" Kamui let out a sound. "No. You will not get to grab my sister's butt, weakling."
Okita smiles sadistically. He finally gets to see something interesting after lying down in the smelly air pipe for so long. "Oh, really now." And then he put his hands on Kagura's lower back and pushes her forward.
"Stop it." Kamui said, slightly louder.
"What are you going to do about it, big bro? You're stuck!"
"I don't need your help. I can get out by myself!"
"Clearly, you can't." Okita smirks and pushes Kagura harder. Finally, Kamui pops out of the air pipe. He crawls forward a few steps and decided to leave this brat some message from the bottom of his heart.
"I'll kill you someday when this is over, Earthling." Kamui said as he turns around with his black smile glued on his calm-face mask.
"I would like to see you try." Okita smiles back.
Kagura sighed and feels her head twirling. This place is so small, there's barely room to breathe. "Hurry up! I'm suffocating in here!"
Once they got out of that small, cramped place, all three of them inhale fresh air into their lungs. Then, they all started to look for a place they can rest for the night.
"In the bathroom?" Kagura suggests.
"That's disgusting. How about we just kill one of them and steal their room?" Kamui tries.
"They are well aware that we are on this ship. That will only attract them and we don't have the energy left to fight them for the rest of the night." Okita points out. He looks around him and saw a small room which seems to be keeping many empty boxes in there. Looking at the dusts; it appears that nobody has stepped in that room for a long time. "How about there?"
Kagura peered inside. It isn't that dusty, and there is air circulation in the room. This room is far away from the main hallway and is in total isolation.
Then she notices something terrifying once she sweep her eyes across the room once more; the size of the room. It is so small that if they were to sleep in there, they would probably have to share the same breathing air in there.
"Oh, heck no…"
"This is just fine. We don't have other choices." Kamui said as he walks into the room, not wanting to show any weakness or pickiness in front of the Earthling. Okita walks in also, even though he feels that this might be the last night of his life with two moody Yatos. Both have intentions to kill him. Kagura made a suffocating face, but she was too tired to argue any further. In Okita's room, they had a much, much bigger space and almost can't see each other at all. But in this tiny room, there's no doubt that conflicts will occur.
Kagura sent her last prayers to Gin-chan and Shinpachi, before she will close the door in after her.
This, without doubt, is her very own personal hell for the night.
Well, that was so long!
Here's a new update. In celebration of Gintama new Arc ! The opening was so awesome!
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I would love for you to traslate it! Please just also credit me and please, please tell me once you are done. I am so excited right now! THANK YOU SO MUCH!
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