A Weak Beast made out of China
OkitaxKagura
~7~ Padlock and Paperclip
"So? Where the hell on earth did you take the poor little girl?" Hijikata asks early next morning while the other party is eating his breakfast.
"Where I found her," Sougo replies simply.
Hijikata's eyes widen in shock.
"Have you totally lost your mind!? What the hell on earth were you thinking!?" Hijikata howls.
He didn't know if Sougo was either an exceedingly insensitive bastard, or a strikingly selfish asshole, or both, but his actions were unacceptably wrong even for a Prince from the planet of Sadists.
Hijikata roars his lecturing at Sougo while glaring millions of daggers at him accompanied by a murderous aura, meanwhile all are ineffective to Sougo who keeps scoffing down his breakfast peacefully at his own pace, totally wiping Hijikata's existence from his mind = hearing and vision = Hijikata does not exist right now.
But the hazardous ambiance spreads among the whole room, making Kagura sense the murderous feel in the surrounding atmosphere and brings her to bawl loudly.
"See!? Now she's crying because of you! See that, Sougo. Can you see!? This is the outcome of your retardness of taking her there. Oi! See that? See what you have done!" Hijikata growls at the ignorant Sougo who doesn't even spare a second to glance at the bawling girl.
"You're so noisy, Hijikata-san. What's wrong with your brain? Constantly saying "see, see, see, see, see". Are you a seagull for fucks sake," Sougo complains in monotone.
"Seagulls don't say "see"! They say "mine", dumbass!" Hijikata corrects, totally forgetting the main point of the argument they had been holding only 5 seconds ago.
Realising this, Hijikata sighs and regains his posture.
"Anyways! If you can't baby-sit her properly, there is no choice but to make Yamazaki baby-sit her instead," Hijikata says, making his words final.
...or at least had planned to have it final until Sougo speaks up again.
"Yamazaki is no good, "minegull"-san. 'Cause she starts bawling just at the sight of him."
"Huh? Why?" Hijikata asks genuinely with a purely confused look, before realising something more important, "...wait! Just because they say "mine", doesn't mean they're called "minegulls"! No, wait! More importantly! MY NAME IS NOT MINEGULL-SAN!"
"How should I know what the hell the girl's thinking, Mine-san," Sougo says as he places his palms together before him to thank whoever for the meal he had.
"WHO THE FUCK IS "MINE"!? MY NAME IS HIJIKATA! STOP MAKING UP WEIRD NAMES!"
Ignoring Hijikata's usual rants, Sougo stands up and kneels before Kagura who still weeps continuously.
"Hijikata-san is always like this. He's known as the Demonic Vice-Commander and looks real scary and shouts at people a lot, but in reality he's really cowardly and won't ever, not even mistakenly, kill his comrades," Sougo starts explaining with a softer voice than previously.
"What nonsense are you blabbering now!?" Hijikata growls, but then sees that after Sougo's words Kagura had immediately stopped crying, making his eyes grow wide in surprise.
She had been sobbing so much until now, until Sougo's words.
Now those watery eyes just widely stares into those crimson pair of eyes.
Hijikata can't elucidate what's going on, for he had completely assumed and believed that Kagura had been crying 100% due to Sougo's fault.
"He's always thinking and looking out for his comrades and worries for us. He's actually a really nice guy once you get to know him," Sougo continues, "and he even said that he'll retire from his position as a vice-commander and let me take ov-"
"WHO THE HELL SAID I WOULD HAND MY POSITION OVER TO A MORON LIKE YOU!?" Hijikata bellows over Sougo's words before he can finish his sentence," It would NEVER happen even if the world gets destroyed twice and recovers for the third time! Or if there's a second big bang, and only you and I somehow manage to be the only ones alive, I'd still not hand it over!"
Hijikata explodes with a mass of words shooting from his mouth, angry at himself for feeling touched at Sougo's words which had been no more than just empty words without any feelings conveyed within them.
He should have known that this is Sougo, he's talking about.
"Jeez, hold your horses, Hijikata-san. You know I was only joking (?)"
"What's with the "(?)", huh!? You're saying you aren't sure if you were joking or not!?"
So their argument goes on and Kagura, who is totally back to her normal self, quietly eats her breakfast while Vice-Commander Sougo and Ex-Vice Commander Hijikata in front of her no longer seems to interest her in any kind of way.
"Oi, you! You damn writer! Don't go doing whatever you like and change people's statuses without permission!" Hijikata squeaks in a small, mouse-like voice and is pitifully ignored by the writer.
"Don't you fuckin dare change the volume of my voice!" He goes on as the volume shrinks down and down and down, "This is totally favouritism! You think you have the right to-…" until the voice dies and is barely heard, "…h,hey! Oi!"
BEEP!
(Tama's voice)
The power has died and system has automatically shut down.
To restart, please recharge 'Hijikata Toshiro' and press the "Jinsei (Human Life) Reset" button
Writer=snickers
Tama=expressionless
Hijikata=Furious
Even after meals, Kagura would follow Sougo like a duckling following straight behind the mother duck, and would put away the dirty dishes to the cleaners.
Seeing such a sight as they pass by at the hallway, Yamazaki beams.
"Ah, so Kagura-chan can eat now can she? That's a relief," Yamazaki exclaims.
"But what I don't get is, why the hell is she so magnetized to that son of a sadist?" Hijikata sighs as he puts a cigarette in his mouth and lights the end with a mini mayonnaise-shaped lighter.
"Apparently after taking her to that crime scene, he came back carrying her behind his back. And moreover, he didn't come straight back to the headquarters but instead walked around town until Kagura-chan calmed down and fell asleep. It seems like she's the first person since Mitsuba-san, that captain has ever truly cared about someone other than himself. I really was worried of what will happen to captain Okita when Mitsuba-san died. I wonder what or who was supporting him and got him back up onto his feet. And by the way, after all this, are you going to take Kagura-chan to an orphanage or hospital or like the sounds of that? And here I was thinking… etc etc etc"
"Seriously, shut the fuck up, Yamazaki!" Hijikata finally cuts in, irritated to infinity and beyond, "is that all you talking to yourself!? Are you trying to be a fuckin narrator of this story!?
"But I'm Jimmy (jimi= plain, boring) in character and I seem to be despised by Kagura-chan and I might not even come out in this story anymore! So this is my final chance to say as much as I can!" Yamazaki bursts crying as he continues to cry about how he couldn't even end his sentence and was pitifully shortened with a few "etc"s.
"Well, forget about you, we won't send that girl anywhere. She's only just one fragile girl we can't not handle."
"That's true," Yamazaki agrees, "and if we try to send her away, captain Okita would most likely try to stop at all costs."
And it seems like Vice-Commander is also worried about Kagura-chan too, although he won't admit it out loud.
And so time flies, the autumn leaves nothing behind while winter awaits just around the corner.
Time and future continuously moves on, but unfortunately, the time inside Kagura stays frozen from since "that day".
Her true self is frozen inside hard diamond where no one can get through to her and she's doubled her guard with a padlock locking her heart.
Sougo has tried to punch and grind that diamond, but soon after gave up, realising his efforts are as useless as an alarm clock that doesn't ring on time.
And as for the padlock, he knows well that the key to the padlock is only within the person's grasp who had locked it in the first place.
It's true that Kagura holds the key to the lock.
But sometimes just a paperclip has its usefulness when it comes to opening the door to the school rooftop where it's been sealed with a no-entry sign.
And Sougo has still yet to realise, that he possesses that paperclip in his pocket that may give him a hand to open that padlock of Kagura's.
Perhaps the old Sougo, who would most likely to be one of those students to bunk classes and take a nap on the school rooftop, may be the one to be able to find Kagura who is waiting for him at the rooftop.
"To change people, first change yourself"
While Sougo still thinks Kagura is a weak and fragile china, he won't be able to bring back the old Kagura he's looking for.
He has yet to realise that if he breaks that fragile china on the outside, the inside isn't empty and that he has to deal with a stronger and harder diamond which is where his starting line would be.
But to realise this, perhaps more time needs to pass by…
Cye:
Hello to this fan-fic after like what, more than a year?
Ah~ time really flies.
Well, there had been quite a few requests about continuing over the year,
so here I am updating this story again.
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