Note: Sorryyyy...
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Chapter 7.
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Two weeks later, the Harusame spaceship dropped by Earth to pick up their Captain. Kamui was seen being dragged off kicking and screaming, ranting delusionally about not having killed someone yet. Abuto also popped into the pharmacy to grab more headache medication.
Luckily they left relatively quickly, the sight of the familiar spaceship caused widespread panic among the populace. People ran around shrieking and frothing at the mouth. Kagura, walking to the park saw the destructive scene of her brother, pirates, mayhem and all, and waved her brother a curt goodbye.
She spent her time hanging out with everyone again, easily re-integrating back into the yorozuya and carrying out mundane jobs, completely disregarding her father's struggles. She would go and visit Yoshiwara or Katsura often. Otherwise, she'd be sitting with Madao or fighting with the sadist. It's like she'd never left.
When she felt like it, she also helped out Otae at the cabaret club. Otae had been promoted to manager/bouncer and saw to the removal of unwanted customers. Kagura would happily help out with the same task, following her anego's instructions on who to pulverize.
The other hostesses loved to dress Kagura up to suit the venue, which helped to bring in a little more revenue to the club. Her unique look attracting all sorts of customers, can't say they lived very long though. On top of having Kagura herself as the point of interest. There was also the scary bald man that popped out from dark corners, the beast woman manager, Gin-chan and the new regular, whom is now often seen tagging along with the cabaret's #1 loyal customer, Kondou Isao - first division captain of the Shinsengumi, Okita Sougo.
The ladies would giggle and squeal as they watched him steal all of Kagura's attention as soon as he enters by insulting and picking fights with her. They even had the popcorn machine ready for instances where another patron got a bit too interested in the new girl, grabbing front row seats to enjoy the show.
Meanwhile, Umibouzu was at his wits end. For 3 weeks now, he has not found hide nor hair on this self-proclaimed Tendoushuu-X group. Trying to gain more information had proven fruitless. The Shinsengumi waved him off, stating they had more dire cases to tend to, such as multiple child kidnappings happening around town. Umibouzu concurred, he was ready to throw in the towel.
Ironically, the group of amanto he's searching for were only in the next building; in a littered apartment, with Anpan packages and milk cartons strewn everywhere and a telescope focused on the Yorozuya household next door. Their eyes were blood-shot, their bodies were sore, their stomachs gurgled alarmingly, probably from all the anpan and milk they had consumed (they heard it was what spies use). They had been trailing this girl day and night for 3 weeks. Knowing every move, every sneeze and every strand of hair to prepare for their next move.
The problem was that she was hardly ever alone and contrary to their previous belief, this girl was a monster. When she wasn't lazing with the Shiroyasha and some glasses stand, she would be fighting with the infamous swordsman of the Shinsengumi. She frequently met up with the most wanted Joui terrorist or else visited the deadly Hyakka in Yoshiwara. And in the rare times that she wasn't beside people that a little girl really shouldn't be beside, she would have her gigantic monster of a dog glued next to her.
But after all this watching and study, they had a plan! Now to put it into motion.
Kagura yawned as she jumped out of her cupboard at 12 noon and wobbled to the living room. Gintoki was lying on his reclining chair, feet up on the desk with Jump covering his face. Sadaharu was sleeping next the couch and she could hear Shinpachi cleaning the bathroom. She blinked twice and asked.
"Hey Gin-chan, did you take Sadaharu out for a walk today? Cause there's a big pile of shit in front of the TV."
Silence for a while, until a sluggish reply "Ah, really?" No movement from his previous position.
"Hey Gin-chan, where's food? I'm hungry."
"Ah, really?" No movement.
"Hey Gin-chan, why are you such a sorry excuse for a human being? Are you really gonna let a poor girl starve under your very roof. You should die, idiot, die a horrible painful death, idiot, dumbass, dumbass."
"Ah, really?" No movement.
Until, Finally! Movement from the man! He was now hanging outside of the window, held on only by his hair, his life in the hands of his youngest charge.
"Hey Gin-chan, are you listening to me?"
"AH, REALLY? OWOWWWWWWWW AHAHAHAHAAH, KAGURA-CHAN, SWEET SWEET KAGURA-CHAN, THAT'S SO INTERESTING! WHAT WAS IT YOU WANTED AGAIN? YOUR DEAR GIN-CHAN WILL GET IT FOR YOU!"
Shinpachi could hear the ruckus over his otsuu CD. Grumpily, he opened the bathroom door to peer outside and caught Kagura dangling Gin-san out of the window. Rolling his eyes, he closed the door again and turned up his volume.
Kagura narrowed her eyes and tsked. "Fine, I'll go find food elsewhere." She released her hand and stalked off, Gintoki's scream of death fading into the background.
The purple umbrella fluttered open as soon as she stepped outside, but not 3 metres from her house, she stopped at a pop-up stall selling sukonbu.
"SUKONBU! Wow Mister, what a coincidence. I just wanted these! And they're so cheap too!" Her eyes sparkled but then dimmed. "Moh, but gin-chan didn't give me any money and I don't know where that baldy went.."
The amanto cursed themselves, they failed to calculate her complete lack of money.
"Oh, ojouchan, how about we give one on the house, since it's such a perfect day." Handing her one packet.
"Really? Sugoi!"
Hook, line, sinker! It worked! She took the packet and opened it immediately, taking one out and started to suck on it. Excellent! Target has taken the bait, now to wait for the drugs to kick in and the kidnap procedure to commence.
There was one moment, one moment in which they worked out they could get away with the kidnapping. The 3 weeks had paid off. They gave just enough sedation to kick in at the time it takes to walk form the crowded street to the empty back alley, before she meets up with the first division captain of the Shinsengumi at the park. Factoring in her stature and Yato metabolism.
The Amanto all kept an eye on her while she walked. Praying against prayer that no distractions would befall her on this day. Fortunately for them, once she reached the predicted alleyway, she started drooping, just as they hoped, and soon collapsed. Fist pumping, they all scurried out and carried her back to their hideout.
Sougo knew something was wrong. At 10 past noon, China would always meet him at the park. Always. From waking at midday, then finding that Danna had no food in the house, China would make her way to demand food from him. There were no exceptions! She would not not be here.
Slipping off his red eyemask, Sougo decided to make the trip to the Yorozuya household.
Upon arriving, he saw the crumpled body of danna at the front door but paid it no mind. At the side of the house, he noticed two amanto graffiti-ing the wall, snickering then running off.
The graffiti'd words were:
"HAHA THAT'S WHAT YOU GET! HAHA signed: Tendoushuu-X"
Thinking up a thousand curse words for his idiot of a rival, he followed after the two amanto.
