Gintama is owned by the one and only Hideaki Sorachi-sensei and Nurarihyon no Mago by Hiroshi Shibashii-sensei.
Chapter Three: The Goddess of Luck
"Ojousama!"*
A little black and crow-like creature immediately propped out of her view as soon as she opened the door of a council room.
"Where have you been all this time! Everyone's been dead worried about you!" The crow-like creature croaked. Indeed, this cute creature might have been mistaken as the cute little pet of some pet-loving owner, had it not been for the fact that he was-
"Karasu tengu.", the woman tossed her long black hair and quickly tied it with a red lace. "It's too early in the morning, and you're being noisy."
"Mou, sodaishou!** Even your father has been bugging us all night, ordering us to search for you! Even Yuki-Onna and Aotabou are still out there, looking for a sign of you!" The crow demon flapped his wings hysterically. He looked as if he was about to have a heart attack any moment.
"Tch. Ano jiji...*** What am I, a five-year old kid who'll get lost on my way home? What, are you gonna call the police and search for me? And what, some bunch of delinquents will pick on me? And what, I'll get kidnapped and maybe have my father denounce me as the heiress to the commandership? Tanomu ze, give me a break.", the woman casually walked past Karasu Tengu, who followed her inside the room.
"When you were courting you fight, did you do it like this? Tailed her around like a stalker?"
"Ojousama!What worries us the most is the fact that you went hunting for souls again!"
The woman only let out a smile as she sat infront of the kotatsu, letting her back lean against the wall. "Oh...what do you think? Did I look like someone who has just gotten a good fill of some human soul?"
This time, the Karasu Tengu's half-moon eyes turned into a serious look. "Oujosama, your father has made it sure that throughout his leadership, humans will be protected. As demons, it is not our duty to terrorize them, and what more, to eat their souls."
"You say that. And it was a human who stole Nenekimaru."
Karasu Tengu only replied with a regretful look.
"'Tis a mystery, how I keep my demon instincts from running wild.", the woman spoke in a playful voice. "And it is a mystery, how humand could have outwitted our kind. Are we not bound to be the supreme masters of mischief? Of osore? But exactly. This trust of ours, it impedes our power. Humans, the way Chichiue perceived them, as if they formed a blood compact with our kind, an unbreakable vow of co-existing with us peace." The woman stood up, and the crow demon could not help but take a step backwards. He could Osore seeping through his feathers, yet her mistress have not yet even used Matou nor any technique which the generations of his masters' lineage have been known for.
"Karasu tengu, remember this. We may have been sterotyped as the creatures of evil, yet humans can be worse than us." Her eyes gleamed even under the morning sun.
The woman then sighed. "Ah, dame, it is morning and yet I still act like a demon. Dame." She then gently shook her head. "I am going to work."
"E-eh?! But you have not even slept since yesterday morning!"
"Anshinshirou." She then opened her cabinet, bringing out a pair of shirt and jeans. "I have energy for the whole day. I just had a great time last night. The memory alone made the woman laughed, which made Karasu Tengu looked even more worried, thus freaking out once again.
"Ojousama! You did not-"
"Of course not.", the woman began untying her sash. "Ah...will you watch me change?"
The poor little crow went red at once. "S-Shitsurei shimasu! I-I shall then inform your father of your return! D-Dewa!" In a snap, the crow demon bowed and rushed out of the young mistress' room.
The woman only burst out laughing.
***
"Oy. You've been smiling the whole time."
The man ignored the voice, which came from a guy dressed in blue-green, with blue-green shades, and with blue-green hair, tousled upwards. He had a guitar attached to his back, as if it was a soulmate he could not part with. What is more, rocking music can be heard from the earphones, which turned out to be of the color-surprise-blue-green.
"Did something good happen last night?"
The man's lips curved into a grimace. Just as the his companion turned out to be a blue-green spectacle, he, in turn, had purple hair, a bit wavy and yet tied in place by the bandage which covered his left eye. His kimono was purple, and it was adorned with golden butterflied. In turn, his soulmate turned out to be the pipe, which he had been smoking everyday, every hour.
"Let us just say that the goddess of luck appeared before me last night."
"Goddess? Goddess of luck?"
"Yes. And she turns out to be non-human. No, not an Amanto either."
"Oh...interesting. Then, just what is this goddess?"
"A demon."
The blue-green guy adjusted the volume of his headphones. "What?"
"A demon."
"Sorry, but what?"
The answer this time went in the form of a blade pointed right at the very center of his neck.
"Stop screwing, and continue on executing our plans." The man left.
"Always the hot-headed leader." The blue-green man sighed. It was just then that he noticed that the sound in his earphones had stopped playing. He then noticed that the cord had just been neatly sliced, which clearly came from the blade of a sword.
"Ano yarou..." The man had no choice but to removed his headphones. "Shikattanai, guess I'll buy a new one.
***
The bell hanging atop the door chimed, a sing that a customer had just entered the stoor.
"Do you have a headphone like this?", the blue-green guy spoke.
A beautiful woman came out of the stack of boxes.
"Oh...irasshaimasen."
The blue-green guy could not help but stare at the woman's eyes.
"Hm...certainly...we have this one. Wait a minute." The woman then quickly headed behind the counter, and searched or the location of the headphone model.
"Ah..here, this one. Try this."
The guy stared at the headphone. "This was not the one I asked for."
"Shitteru. But it will surely match the music of your soul..."
The woman smiled. "Try it."
He did.
"It was-"
"Great isn't it?"
The woman smiled again. "I told you."
***
"Please come back again!" The woman waved as he left the store.
The man looked up at the sky.
It seemed that he too, just met the goddess of luck.
Notes 101:
*Ojousama=Princess
**Mou, soudaishou!=Oh please, Supreme Commander!
***Ano jiji=That old man
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