"Did you enjoy yourself?"
"Did you play any games?"
"Did you eat something?"
"You didn't dare just walk around for the entire night, did you?"
"I told you that if you didn't fully enjoy yourself, I wouldn't take care of you anymore, didn't I?"
"Oi, Sougo! Where the hell are you going!" Hijikata shouted at the top of his lungs.
But his voice was too far away to reach Sougo's ears as Sougo just kept pacing towards the darkness of the night, forcibly pulling Kagura along until they were both consumed by the darkness.
A Weak Beast made out of China
OkitaxKagura
~6~
The Sadist Surrenders
Only the sounds of two pairs of footsteps loudly echoed in the silent night.
It was too dusky and dark to distinguish the whereabouts.
Kagura felt the fear building up inside her as she got dragged further and further down to a section of the town where not even one soul seemed to be existent.
Whatever Sougo was thinking, was unknown to Kagura, but without having the time to actually ponder upon it for long the said Sougo suddenly came to a halt.
In front of Kagura, was a dimly lit place under the weak light pole that barely helped with the visibility, yet had shone enough light to allow Kagura to see the plastic tapes accessorising an entrance to a crime scene.
Sougo ducked under the warning ribbons and pulled Kagura along, inside.
Kagura started feeling a surge of uneasiness and a strong feeling of familiarity with the view of the scene set before her eyes.
Only the fear seemed to uncontrollably rise within her, while Sougo who hadn't noticed the slightest of how Kagura is feeling, or rather, not caring how her condition was at this point in time, just kept forcibly pulling her along.
Poor Kagura just tried her best to keep up with the fast pace of Sougo's and try not to trip over.
Where they reached, was the path that aligned with the Edo River, where a concrete wall separated the two levels of ground, connected by a stone-made stairway.
Sougo finally let go of Kagura's wrist, although there was still not a sign of him turning around to face her.
It was so dark now that it was hard to see, but there was a definite hand mark from Sougo's strong grip that he unintentionally left on Kagura's wrist.
"Do you remember... where this is?"
The Prince of Sadists finally opened his mouth to speak.
I don't know.
I don't know, but I don't want to find out.
Kagura's heart beat pumped faster, as if the rush of blood would stop her from hearing unnecessary input of information into her brain, while she furiously shook her head from side to side.
"This is where I found you."
Sougo finally turned around to face the small, fear-filled girl who kept shaking her head, not understanding-... not wanting to understand what he's saying.
His face was unemotional as he just stared at Kagura, who had tears welling up in her eyes as she daringly shifted her gaze towards the crimson eyes that had a look of disinterest and expressed not even a hint of worry.
"You said, right here, to just leave you alone. 'Don't get yourself all concerned about me, you can just leave me alone'.That's what you said to me, didn't you?"
Kagura shook in fear as Sougo's stern voice boom into her sensitive ear drums.
But the following words which were said with a much calmer toned down voice, gave her a much bigger impact.
"So... that's exactly what I'll do."
It pierced Kagura's heart and froze her spine, stopped her brain.
The only thing that had any movement was the tears that couldn't bear to cling onto the lashes any longer as the tears dripped down her cheek, her vision blinding and distorting.
The soft cries that uncontrollably slipped from her mouth cuts off all the strings that kept her upright as she crumpled to the ground like a broken puppet without strings.
To see Kagura weep like this in total despair started to crack Sougo's façade as he gritted his teeth so hard, to stop from breaking down himself.
"Say something, goddamit! Use your mouth! You can speak can't you! Why don't you say what you wanna say or I'm seriously gonna leave you behind!"
Sougo's shout in rage just fuelled Kagura's waterworks and Sougo just felt the irritation rising within him so much that he really needed to release a bit of that emotion by sending a strong kick against the concrete wall.
WHAM!
...Like that'd help him from calming his irritation.
He turned his back to the crying China girl as he took a few steps away from her to calm himself down.
But as if Kagura really thought that the sadist was actually going to leave her behind, she made a desperate grab towards the legs that were walking away form her.
"Don't go... don't leave me behind again... I don't want to be alone anymore... I can't stand it..."
Sougo widened his eyes in surprise and turned back to face Kagura on the ground, clinging dearly onto his legs as she looked up with such a distressful, tear-stained face.
"Please... don't go anywhere anymore...onii-chan*..."
Those words strike Sougo with pure shock.
"...I'm not... your brother."
That's the only reply Sougo managed to say as it finally dawned on him of how much Kagura must have loved her brother.
And his heart contract so tightly when he was to realise that Kagura was still so lonely and had only wanted to bring back her family together...
...but had just killed that loving brother... with her own hands...
Sougo scrunched up his fringe in frustration and despair as he deeply sighed at the sight before him.
The sadist-mode entirely drained out of his body as he dropped himself to the ground right in front of Kagura.
He had intended to bring back the Kagura he knew forcibly, without considering her own feelings, nor caring if she didn't want to remember anything.
It screwed his own pace so much to have that unknown girl, so much that he intended to get back his sparring partner with force.
But the Sougo who lacked consideration of others feelings, for the first time ever, put his feelings aside, and promised himself to think what was best for Kagura, making her feelings first priority before anything else, including himself.
She doesn't have to be back to the normal self, I'm most familiar with...
I just don't want to damage her very broken and fragile heart any longer...
To protect her fragile heart made of china...
Sougo turned around and picked her up, onto his back with one final word that had put Kagura to ease.
"Let's go home."
*onii-chan= Big brother
Cye: Totes sorry for the lack of updating this story! Really busy this year, with uni, being the Japanese Society club president, and all these shuhnanogens! So many requests on update, so I decided that I REALLY had to very soon, so here I am.
I hope I didn't disappoint you with my lack of vocab and bad writing skills from the blank I had for about half a year? Time sure flies faster as you get older...
I'm so scared that by the time I'm and old geezer, the years will pass at the speed of a Formula 1 car, since Ben Johnson's already here... no wait, make that Carl Lewis, because he's cooler! (*_*)
Anyways... another sorry note, yes I know this is Gintama and yes I know this is really depressing and it doesn't have any comedy in it or parody in it at all, but trust me, I WILL MAKE IT THIS DEPRESSING MY LAST! (For this series anyway).
I promise that it only gets better/sweeter/funnier from here onwards! (...or I could make this the last chapter... O_O! *Runs behind a brick wall to protect myself from readers who have murderous looks, holding sharp shiny things!*)
I do though, have literally 50 Gintama short story ideas (esp Sougo), so I'll try to finish those off and start putting them up as well. So if you are interested, please do check those ones out too (whenthey come out).
Oh, and btw? The more the reviews, the bigger the chance of seeing the next chapter sooner~ hehe.
