A/N: It's gonna get hetero all up in this fanfiction with what I'm gonna do, but it's technically still gay. Might as well call my story bisexual. Haah! Haah! *Clears throat*. Right onward with the story.
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Chapter 11: Getting a low grade at something you're supposed to have a talent for is worse than not being good at anything at all. (I honestly think my college writing professor is taking my skills backward.)
At the hospital. Takachin, Gintoki, Kagura, Hijikata, Kondo, Yamazaki, and Sougo were present.
Kondo informed them, "We've been informed that the bombs that was unleashed on the Shimura's estate were the bombs that were stored away from the missiles cult last month. Someone was able to trespass the security and set them to hit multiple areas all around Edo. The person who unleashed them escaped. There's a chance that this person wasn't a member of the cult, but was a fan of them. That's all we can tel you."
Everyone didn't say a word. They were too busy composing themselves with hopes that their dear megane was alright.
When the scientist came, everyone stood up. The man told them, "Your friend is safe and is not suffering from anything fatal." Everyone finally took a breath that they've been holding in. Then the scientist included, "But he did gain a side effect from the bomb's smoke. It appears that the bomb that hit Shinpachi had the same chemical effects that the Dekoboko cult had used on the Kabuki district before."
"Dekoboko?" That sounded familiar to everyone.
A feminine voice reminded them, "It's the cult that turned men into women and women into men, everyone." Shinpachi appeared before them in a kimono with his hair put into pigtails and the lenses of his glasses were pink.
"PACHIE?!" Everyone referred to him with his female name.
Shinpachi didn't look that different from his male body since he had an androgynous face and his chest was flat as Otae-chan's own. Yet something about him did seem more...delicate.
Though Gintoki said, "Wait, are you sure, doctor? Let me take a look for myself." The samurai was about to put his hand on Shinpachi's chest, but
BAMF!
Shinpachi had single-handedly crushed Gintoki's head against a wall that left a hole surrounded by intricate cracks all around it. The male turned female inquired darkly, "What look? Don't you mean feel? Eh, Gin-san?" He withdrew his hand. The scientist left after he told the megane that he will have weekly checkups.
"So cool, Shinpachi!" Kagura complimented him.
"I see that your female body has awakened the Shimura genes!" Otae complimented him with a hearty voice.
The men in the room had a shadow cast over their eyes.
Takachin shook off his shock to ask, "Captain, are you truly a woman?!"
Shinpachi returned back to his polite form. He replied, "I'm afraid I am, and the doctor told me that my condition can only be reversed when they can make up an antidote for me. But considering that it took three bombs to change my form, it'll take time to create an antidote strong enough to do the job. So it looks like you'll have to stick with a female general for our Otsuu-chan fan club. "
"Yes, ma'am!" The loyal childhood friend saluted.
With that explained, the shinsengumi approached him.
Sougo commented, "My, my, you're a woman now, and have a flat chest. Boring."
Hijikata smacked the back of his head. He said, "The shinsengumi forbid women from joining, but you only have a little over a month left, so we'll be lenient, so you can finish your community hours. However, you can't use the shinsengumi locker room showers for obvious reasons, so it looks like you will have to stay with your sister again."
Shinpachi was happy to hear that. A sweet smile placed on her lips. "That's good to hear. I look forward to continue working for you guys until my community hours are over."
Hijikata couldn't help smiling back. The two making sweet eye contact that neither of them showed to want to break it. So Kagura, Sougo, and Otae punched Hijikata. The officer clashed against a wall and just like Gintoki, he knocked out.
"Hijikata-san!" Shinpachi cried out, but then he was pulled by everyone to go celebrate Shinpachi's good health and new body!
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Shinpachi was supposed to go to work the next day, but then Otae requested for one more day off that wouldn't be counted to Shinpachi's community hours.
Now he was at his house and kneeling in front of Kagura, his sister, Sarutobi, Kyuubei, and Tsukuyo.
"Uhm...Anue-e. Is this really necessary?" The female megane inquired.
"Yes, Pan-chan." His sister said with withheld enthusiasm. "You have become a woman, so you must adhere to our culture's female customs."
Shinpachi found that totally unnecessary. "But I'll be turning back into a man."
"Nonsense!" Kyuubei stoically snapped. "You must take this as an educational experience, Pachie. You, as a man, have always wondered about the female's nature of things as I have."
"But you are a woman." He pointed out, but was ignored.
"And now you have the opportunity." She pointed out. "This way the next time you question a woman's action, you among a group of clueless men can be the messiah."
"Ah no, I think you're over thinking it. Plus, even if that is true, they will all use that information for their ulterior motives." Shinpachi reasoned from a man's point of view.
"This is also to train you to hold back your sexual urges!" Sarutobi declared on her own. "Not only will you step in the light of womanhood, but also the bloody sea of their sins, and then then the wet, soft cavern of quivering, nightly dreams!" The ninja embraced herself and swayed her body while he cheeks were flushed pink
"What the hell are you talking about Sa-chan?" Otae inquired with a smile of restraint.
"I am talking about how now this person who's practically stealing my character will now realize her dormant desires for Gin-chan!"
"LIKE HELL THAT'S GONNA HAPPEN!"
"But Anego," Kagura stepped in, "Now that Shinpachi is a female with his personality, he's obviously 'that type of girl'." She gave the stink eye at Shinpachi who didn't understand.
"That girl?" Otae was lost until she realized what the female teen meant. "Oh." She gave Shinpachi the stink eye along with the other girls. "THAT girl."
Shinpachi was completely confused and scared. "Wha-what girl?'
The women stood up, stepped out of the room, and then came back in with stacks of mangas and animes. They rearranged the room into a classroom with only one desk for Shinpachi to sit in. For some reason, he was also dressed in a school uniform that looked a lot like the uniform of the anime female character who otaku Toushi was into.
In front of him, the females were dressed as teachers.
"Pachie, there is something we must teach you!" Otae announced. "In the history of Japanese anime, there has always been one female type character who for some reason had stayed in existence of current anime."
Kagura roared, "THAT STUPID, ANNOYING, USELESS FEMALE CHARACTER WHO DOES NOTHING BUT CRY AND ACT AS THE MAIN LOVE INTEREST FOR NO OTHER REASON THAN SHE'S HOT AND EASY TO MANIPULATE!"
Shinpachi was shocked by this. "And you guys think that I could become this character?"
"No." Tsukuyo said. "We are afraid that people who dare to turn you into this type of character because of your type of personality. No offense to you or Kagura-chan, but it will be to no one's surprise if you act far more prim and proper which could be a problem."
Kagura growled, "Like those obnoxious bitches that we see in these!"
Sarutobi began naming them, "Sakura Haruno from Naruto, Orihime Inoue from Bleach, Lucy Heartfilia from Fairytale, Usagi from sailormoon! I love these series, but they're annoying as hell!"
"You see Pan-chan," Otae got to the point, "We have to protect you from being written into this role! And warn future writers to never do this to their male-turned-female characters! It's all fun and games to throw shameful stereotypes, but it's another thing when they make you become it."
Shinpachi began to understand his situation. He didn't want to turn into those girls that Sarutobi listed off! "I understand! What should I do to avoid this?"
The females looked to each other and nodded. The females, except for Otae, stood away from the chalkboard. "There are many rules to follow, but we will only instill you with five!"
She smacked the board with a elongated pointer. "The first rule is to keep your whining to a minimum and instead take action! How many times have we seen disappointing female characters do nothing but whine about their situation, and let the other people do everything! Of course, Pan-chan, your role during a battle is to make sure that the important person reaches their destination! There's nothing to feel ashamed about having that kind of job, but...but..." The woman tried to hold back her rage, but she ended up roaring, "DON'T INTERRUPT A BATTLE ONLY TO BECOME THE PERSON WHO CAUSED IT TO GO UP IN FLAMES IN THE FIRST PLACE! DO YOUR DAMN JOB AND EVERYTHING WILL BE FINE! DO I MAKE MYSELF CLEAR ALL YOU ANNOYING ANIME BITCHES! DON'T FUCKING INTERRUPT IF YOU'RE JUST GOING TO BE USELESS! I DON'T GIVE A DAMN IF IT WAS OUT OF GOOD WILL! HAVE SOME FUCKIN' LOGIC, YA DAMN BIG BOOBED OR LOLI-LOOKING BITCHES! AND I MEAN WHAT'S UP WITH THESE LOLI BITCHES! ALL YER MEN ARE GOIN' TA JAIL! YUR MAKIN' PEDOPHILES FER FUCKS SAKE!"
"Anego!" Kagura called out to the raving woman. "I understand you! But this is about Pachie!"
The woman felt ashamed for her outburst. "You're right. We must continue on." She gave Kagura the stage.
"Now it's my turn." The amanto cleared her throat, and used the elongated pointer to smack the chalk board. "Pan-chan! You had just learned from Anego to not be a whining, useless bitch. Now I am here to teach you not to be a whining, useless whore! You act like a prude now, but even though you're personality might become shitty for some reason, the men will fall for you. We are both now female heroines, but the difference between you and me is that I can defend myself while you are easy to knock down and make dubious consented love to!"
"What do you mean dubious consented?!" Shinpachi really didn't like that 'dubious' part. She wants to give through full consent!
"It cannot be helped, Shinpachi. These men may have been your friend while you were a man, but like many animes and mangas, at some point they cannot hold back their hormones, and because most of them are dumb fucks, the only way they can think to approach you is through pushing you down against anything convenient and act as if it is okay to act like a criminal."
"You're really looking down on our male friends." Shinpachi muttered, and then pointed out, "Besides, I think you're overestimating my appearance. I still look like Shinpachi, and putting on makeup doesn't do anything special. If one of our guy friends fell for me, wouldn't it be weird?"
Sarutobi joined the stage! "That's where you are wrong! To men and even women, as long as their friend is even a bit cute, and totally open to sleeping with them, then it's okay! You're bisexual, aren't you?!"
"Uh, yes."
"Oi! Stalker, it's still my turn!" Kagura yelled.
"Don't worry, Kagura-chan. Our lessons are somewhat the same. You were to teach Pachie to not let these men take advantage of her while I was to teach her to not take advantage of the situation!" She continued her lesson, "You see, Shinpachi. Even if you are plain, men are not as shallow as you would believe. Some of them actually have the ability to look beyond your looks and see the beauty behind it! Gin-chan is one of them!"
Everyone had blank expressions on their faces. Otae decided to intervene to make sure that this lesson didn't get out of hand. "You may consider yourself plain on the outside, little sister, but you must remember that beauty can be enhanced by your charms. And like me, you have these charms that will please your male friends. And since you are a heroine who can be defenseless at times, you are most likely to be either paired with the male protagonist, his arch enemy, or the one who resembles or is related to him closely."
Sarutobi added, "So you see, what your sister is saying is that either you are destined to be paired up with my Gin-chan, his archenemy who everyone knows is Takasugi Shinsuke, or one of the other males who either resemble or is closely related to him in someway!"
Shinpachi looked doubtful. "Well, if that is the case then Gintoki and I won't end up together. We're like brothers even in this form. And there's no way at all that I could end up with Takasugi-san since we don't know his fate at the end of the Gintama manga yet, and our author prefers to keep him and Kagura's older brother out of this story. For those close to Gintoki, then that would list out the other two who've been with him in the war. But then I highly doubt Sakamoto-san will ever make an appearance. Katsura-san is a definite no."
Kyuubei included, "But if you consider those who resemble Gintoki, there is those two from the shisengumi. Hijikata-san shares similar goofy mannerisms and appearance while Okita-san shares his sadistic nature."
Kagura roared, "THERE'S DEFINITELY NO WAY THOSE TWO WILL EVER END UP WITH SHINPACHI! THAT SUPER SADIST IS A BASTARD, AND THAT MAYONNAISE BASTARD IS THE WORSE! SHINPACHI! I WILL TRAIN YOU TO FACE THOSE TWO BEFORE YOU GO TO WORK TOMORROW!"
"Before that," Otae returned them to their original subject. "Maybe you won't end up with anyone, Pachie, but if you ever do end up in a love triangle, please don't take your time deciding who to love, but in the same time don't choose one, but then end up still considering the other one. Nobody wants a Yuki Cross or a Bella Swan. The latter is not an anime character, but she's the best example."
Tsukuyo entered the stage with Kyuubei. The other three left them to their lessons. Tsukuyo started, "What the others said was true. There has to be a balance between your whining and your actions. And that you must keep an honest love, and also a way to protect it and yourself."
Kyuubei nodded. "My lesson for you to avoid becoming these useless, annoying characters is to not fade into the background. The greatest horror in animes and mangas is when a good or even tolerable character degrade themselves to nothing more than a background character who has been weakened for the sake of the plot."
Tsukuyo agreed, "Yeah, there's been many strong, admirable female characters who have had their roles stripped of them, so the other characters could shine."
"You have your rare shining moments, Shinpachi. Don't lose that shine!" Kyuubei advised him passionately.
Tsukuyo then said her piece of knowledge, "The last lesson you will be given for today is that despite our advice to not become degraded, we also advise you not to try to become perfect or put up a very haughty, princess-like front. Those characters are just as annoying as those who are dumb-witted."
Shinpachi understood. He smiled as he summarized, "So what you are all is saying is that I should remain the way I am, and stay true to myself to the end."
The females gathered at the stage with encouraging smiles. Otae spoke, "So you understand now, Pan-chan. No matter what in this new world you enter into, you must always stay true to yourself."
Shinpachi began to feel pride swell in his chest at becoming a woman now. "Yes! Thank you everyone."
They remained silent to bask in the bliss, and then Otae informed him, "Now it's time for you to learn about the natural wonders of a woman's body! Such as the monthly coming of blood and cramps!"
Shinpachi felt his face turn pale. "What?"
Once he was informed, he immediately felt that pride turn into regret. The next thing he did was run to the hospital where the lab to find his cure was being produced. He desperately begged them to find the cure before his twenty-eight days were up!
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"Okita-san, is it necessary to wear a skirt?" Shinpachi asked flatly, not at all amused. She wore the new shinsengumi suit tailored for her physique, despite having a lack of it. All that really changed was that she wore a thigh length pencil skirt with black laced stockings, and knee high jet black boots on. "Why did you also give me a whip?"
"No reason." Sougo said as he tried to put on a weird, familiar mask on Shinpachi that the teen always saw on those leather wearing women that Gintoki just happened to have around.
"Wait! Are you trying to dress me up as a dominatrix?!" Shinpachi backed away and threw the whip at him. "I already told you that I don't want to be a part of any of your weird hobbies!"
"But now that you're a woman, how do you plan to gain the respect from your fellow officers? You don't have your sister's scary demeanor, so you should resort to this." Sougo reasoned bluntly.
"I don't need to gain their respect! They know I'm the same Shinpachi as before! You're the only one treating me different!"
"Haaah, noisy." Sougo said, and Shinpachi felt his pride take a hit from that indifferent tone of his.
"I-I'm not noisy!" He cursed himself him for cracking.
Sougo retorted, "You definitely are. You were noisy before, but it's worse now that your voice is this high. Banshees like you should seriously learn to use their indoor voice."
Another hit to his pride. "Don't call me a banshee!" He turned away since he felt his resolve withering away. "I can't help it that I am loud. Especially when I'm surrounded by idiots." He said that but his loud voice became lower and lower until it became a mumble.
Sougo smirked wickedly. He went up to him while he spoke with his hypnotic words that made Shinpachi look at him with this kicked puppy expression. Just as Sougo was about to go in for the kill, he found two fingers in his nostrils and thrown out of the room.
"LIKE HELL I'LL BECOME ONE OF YOUR MASOCHISTS!" Shinpachi yelled at him, still remembering what he did to his penpal's sister*. "Kagura told me that you'd pull a stunt like this, so told me the best strategy to face you! I consider you a close friend, so please don't pull something like that with me again." She was somewhat disappointed by the old man for trying to do this to her even if it may have been for fun. She walked away to find some decent pants and shoes.
Kondo, who had been passing by, walked up to his long time friend. "Sougo, we still have a meeting at nine."
"Yeah, yeah." The young man sat up and rubbed his sore nostrils.
"I've been meaning to ask Sougo, but what are your feelings towards Shinpachi-kun?" Kondo inquired curiously. He had been noticing the attention that the sadist had been giving Shinpachi more of than before.
"I'm just playing around." The sadist told him as he stood up. "It's not everyday when the megane is the protagonist."
That made sense. "That's true. Though your actions can be a bit hard to read. Are you really just playing around, Sougo?" Kondo knew better than to pry, but he would like to understand if he was entering into a fanfiction with a love triangle.
"Who knows." The sadist left it at that. "Oh, it's almost time for the meeting. I better get going, gorilla."
"Eh, gorilla?! Me? Oh, wait Sougo! What do you mean by the first thing you said! Sougo!" The hopeless commander chased after his 1st captain.
Before the meeting, Shinpachi was able to change into his own uniform. He then met Hijikata on the way.
The vice chief cautiously inquired, "Shinpachi, how's your body?"
The younger samurai honestly replied, "It's strange. On my day off, anue-e and the others told me a lot about how a woman's body works. I'm honestly scared because they told me that once a month, women would feel great pain and bleed a river from their own private areas." Shinpachi's kind smile faltered into a downcast grimace of doom. "I really hope that they find an antidote before then."
Hijikata couldn't think of anything to say to that specifically since he didn't understand women and their private areas. But he did say, "I'm sure they'll find a cure, but its impressive that it took three tons of doses to make you change gender entirely. You have quite the genes there."
Shinpachi couldn't stop the blush that crept on his cheeks. She felt a soft pain pressing on his chest, but she pushed his discomfort aside to act natural. "I should say the same to you. You're smoking everyday, and you don't look a day over thirty." She teased.
"Heh." Hijikata stifled a laughter with a smile.
The two stared at each other without saying another word. Shinpachi hated how they fell into soundless comfort between them. This seriously needed to stop. He quickly withdrew and broke eye contact. "We should be getting to that meeting."
Hijikata felt disappointed by that obvious rejection. However, he reminded himself that staring at each other was not normal, even if it did. He let out a loud sigh before heading to the meeting room.
During the meeting, Hijikata didn't address Shinpachi's current status of sex change. It was more simple to keep it a secret, and excuse Shinpachi's actions of being allowed to go home after work from now on due to the bombs having injured her, and only his sister could help treat him. He also ordered his men to not question her about it. They were all to focus on work strictly.
After that, Shinpachi went to Hijikata's office to work as his assistant again. She looked through the folders that was sent for him, and discovered one folder that held the new profiles that Director Matsudaira had sent him. It was filled with dozens of beautiful photos and great background data on them. She also happened to stumble upon Matsudaira's daughter's photo in there. "Ah, so he is planning to do that."
"To do what?" The very man set up to be married inquired.
Shinpachi quickly replied, "Nothing! I mean Director Matsudaira had sent the new folder for your omiai. There's plenty of women looking forward to seeing you. I believe that you like the modest, traditional type of woman. Human preferably, too." She began taking out profiles from the folder, so her vice chief could save time on picking who he'd like to see.
Hijikata hated the sight. He was sure that Shinpachi told him that she loved him, but with ease, she was picking out the best bride for him?!
"What is the meaning of this Shinpachi? Are you trying to throw me into a marriage so you can move on?"
"No. That isn't like him. Shinpachi is only thinking of what's best for me, and I don't have any choice but to attend this omiai. What he's doing is trying to lessen the stress on me."
"Plus, I'm the one who rejected him. I should stand by my word, and not question his motives in the first place."
Shinpachi finished separating the profiles that were either good or not for Hijikata. She made sure that all the women were human with clean backgrounds and good personalities that respected traditions, but still had an open mind to changes. It helpfully removed over sixty percent of the candidates.
"There you go." She handed the skinny folder to Hijikata.
The man stared at it, and liked the light feeling, but still hated what was inside. He took a look to see only about twenty-five candidates. He looked over each one to see that Shinpachi did good work at picking the best ones. Yet, he stopped when he saw who else was in the folder.
"Oi, Shinpachi. Why is she in here?" He asked as he showed the picture of the Matsudaira girl.
"Matsudaira Kuriko was in the folder. Shinpachi knows what happened between us. He was there, and played a part in me getting away from her! He told me that he didn't remove it because Kuriko-chan held up to all my standards. What do you know about my standards, you bastard! If we're talking about my standards, then you might as well be in my folder since you're a woman now!"
Hijikata quickly sketched over that last sentence. He wasn't thinking straight. Right now, it was night time and Shinpachi had gone home.
"That came out wrong. I don't care what gender he is, and I can't deny now that I
Hijikata willed himself to write the rest.
have these feelings for Shinpachi. I don't want to say they're romantic. There's not a romantic bone in my body. What I feel for Shinpachi...I only want what's best for him without us having to drift apart because of that. Will me marrying someone else make it easier for us, Shinpachi? As long as one of us is available, everything will remain awkward. Maybe even unbearably painfully so."
A few days passed, and Shinpachi's change of gender barely made an impact that everyone around her forgot about the gender switch until she spoke with her feminine voice.
Hijikata omiai came before the end of August once he finally agreed to meet with one of the candidates.
"She was nice and beautiful. She showed great potential at being a wife. The bento she made was delicious, but I couldn't bring myself to enjoy it. The rice didn't taste like Shinpachi's own. The eggs didn't take like his either, that I ended up drowning the whole thing in mayonnaise. I obviously showed that side of me in front of her, and it turns out that the old man had told all of them beforehand about my habits. Dammit, I really wish he'd enter the grave soon."
"What else can I say? The omiai went great, but the problem is that I can't remember her face or her name. I just know that she's beautiful because Shinpachi made sure I met women who looked as such."
"Are you alright, Hijikata-san?" Shinpachi asked her vice commander after he zoned out during his paper work. "Was yesterday's mission difficult?"
"Huh?" The man woke up from his empty thoughts. He was simply feeling the moment instead of thinking. "Uh, no." He cleared his throat and straightened up his back. "I'm just tired with this omiai. I turned down twelve from the profiles, but that still leaves about ten, and they all wear me out."
"Have you picked out the ones most suited to be your wife?" Shinpachi asked without a sign of jealousy or force. Just a very friendly question from a friend.
Hijikata didn't want to answer, but he believed that he needed to act as a friend. "No. They are all great, but what's bugging me is how this is all done. To meet a stranger, and then spend a certain amount of time with them before it's decided that we'll get married without any care that eventually we might get tired of each other, and my wife might actually be the type to have affairs since we haven't learned how to communicate well enough before the marriage."
Shinpachi gave a pity smile. "You're really pessimistic about marriages. If something like that happens, don't you think you should try harder in your marriage? I'm not saying that when your wife is having an affair that it is okay. A divorce should be issued depending on how terrible the situation is, but at the same time, you should also learn why it happened to make sure your second marriage is far more successful. Love is a trial and error process after all." She reasoned.
Hijikata stared at her for a bit. Not sure how to feel or think. Instead he commented, "You really have thought about marriage for someone so young. When I was your age, the only thing I was thinking about was where the hell my sword will take me."
Shinpachi pointed out, "You were growing up during the Joui war where samurais had to decide whether to give up the sword, fight with the sword, or serve under a greater power to keep it. I grew up trying to get through the changes with only Anue-e. The sword meant nothing to me before I met Gin-san."
Hijikata somewhat knew about that from the teen. Though he realized he didn't know that much about his childhood. "No care for the sword huh. How did you and your sister scrape by to keep the dojo running anyway. You two had a loan shark amanto always on your backs, right?"
"Yes. We were only kids when my father died. Anue-e had to work odd jobs as a child while making sure I stayed at temple school, so I was able to get a job afterwards. But that ended after meeting Gin-san. And now instead of a cashier, I am a person who works odd jobs and has a very creative criminal record, and yet here I am with my head on my neck, and only working for community hours for the men who were supposed to be responsible in arresting me."
"I can still arrest you. I'm sure we still have evidence to convict you of something." Hijikata joked.
Shinpachi played along, "Then I'll answer to the reporter who visits me in prison about why it took you this long to do that. I'm sure the shinsengumi will have a great day trying to fix that up."
"Then I'm sure we can pay someone to keep you quiet."
"Then I'm sure that I can turn the tables on that someone. Remember, I've been trained by the most vicious people who can rule a prison in a few days."
"Oh ho, now you are just making me want to arrest you."
"I'll be out of here before you can get those handcuffs on me."
"Wanna bet?" Hijikata challenged. Both of them were inches away from each others faces with mischievous grins.
"UUUUHM?" Tetsu who was still in the room decided to interject into the very interesting conversation. He really didn't know what to do in this situation with his boss and his (fe)male coworker, so he reminded them. "You two have a meeting within an hour."
The two realized what they were just doing. They blushed, and cleared their throats as they tried to continue their work without another word.
After an hour of that awkwardness, the two of them with Kondo and Sougo met up with Matsudaira at a hotel over a new mission.
"Huh? You want us to infiltrate a high school?" Shinpachi was surprised that police missions extended to going undercover in such a place.
"Yes. But I must ask first, what is a little miss like you doing in the shinsengumi? I thought the shinsengumi forbid women from joining."
"Wha-what are you talking about sir?" Shinpachi deepens her voice a bit. "It's me. Shimura Shinpachi."
"Shimura?" The man foggily remembered the man who was in the wedding gown at Toshi's birthday. "Ah, right. Shimura. Sorry. Now where was I. Ah yes, the high school gig. As all of you should know, high schools have become a cover up for drug deals. A source of mine tells me that the current drug lord in the school is a female who goes by the name 'Blue Rose'."
Kondo hummed to this. "It saddens me that even the female youth are being influenced to act like criminals. How are we to infiltrate this school?"
"This undercover mission needs people on the inside, so the four of you and that spy of yours will infiltrate the school as students since teachers are not allowed to get comfortably close to their students."
Sougo pointed out, "But director, Kondo and Hijikata-san look too old to get back into high school. They will surely be suspicious."
"Don't worry. I already have a crew that can help you with your appearance so you five can blend in. Oh, and there's also something else that you have to do. You have to create a new after school club that will help you lure Blue Rose out."
Everyone looked at him curiously, but they all felt the same gut feeling that it wasn't good.
A few days later, Shinpachi was dressed in a brown sweater vest and jeans unlike the other females students who wore a yellow fitted-bodice dress with a bell-shaped skirt, puffy sleeves and a white collar with a loosely tied blue bow. Men wore purple jackets with a white inside shirt, black tie and trousers. Apparently, she were put into a high school for rich people, and she got in through a scholarship.
The megane truly felt uncomfortable because the school looked like a castle, and everything was so clean, beautiful and high tech inside! She really wanted to get to the others soon. She looked at the paper that she was given, and found herself in front of a music room.
When she opened the door, rose petals were flown around with a white, shining background. Behind that opening scene was the shadowy silhouette of several people in school uniform with a gorilla. There silhouette was given color to reveal Hijikata, Yamazaki, Sougo and Kondou in a gorilla mascot suit. Yet, it was not only them. There was also Gintoki, Kagura, his sister, Tama and also the #1 host Honjou Kyoushiro.
They greeted him, "Welcome to the Gintama Host Club."
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A/N: So yeah, Shinpachi's a woman now! I had this planned from the start! But he'll turn back into a dude when I'm done with him. It's not going to be smooth sailing when I'm over!
Warning: Shinpachi and Hijikata will date other people, so love triangles?, probably some angsts, jealousy, betrayal, broken friendships, and also there's a woman coming after Shinpachi, but what for? Hmmmm?
Read on!
*Kirara from episode 126.