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~ Earlier Chapter ~

"He's mine to cut down", he says in a deep furious, yet calm and collected, voice. All five Shinsengumi got taken back a bit by the dead serious voice that could promise many things; death and harm among them. Hijikata exchanged glances with the two Shinsengumi guards guarding Gintoki, telling them to go back to their initial posts and as such they stand up quietly and leaves. The three Shinsengumi still in the room look after the two leaving; making sure they do actually leave. When a few minutes has passed with the four souls left in the room, Hijikata decides to continue.

"And? What has he done to become your target?"

Yorozuya, where have you been?

II

"He spilled my chocolate parfait", Gintoki deadpanned, obviously not intending to tell any more about the matter and instead going with blunt lies. Hijikata nodded, looking calm for once.

"So he spilled-.. LIKE HELL HE DID! I WAS THE ONE WHO SPILLED THE DAMN PARFAIT!" Hijikata snapped suddenly and stod up. Gintoki's eyes got a dangerous light in them.

"So you were the one.. WHO SPILLED MY PARFAIT? I thought it was the sadist over there!" the silver soul roared and pointed to Sougo who did not look bothered at all, only looking up at Gintoki and then going back to writing in the notepad. This seemed to only anger the Yorozuya leader even more however.

"And why the hell did you people have to pull that stunt for?" he then asked in a loud, irritated voice. Hijikata sighed and calmed down.

"We did't want any casualties, although I doubt we'd get any.. You being you after all." the vicecaptain said in a much calmer voice and sat back down. "So, we decided that drugging the chocolate parfait that we got the anpan idiot to treat you was the better alternative. Although, since the drug took effect sooner than we expected we arrested you before you finished the parfait. The drug drained your strength to move but you still resisted, clumsily, and I accidently spilled your dear chocolate drugged parfait. The end", Hijikata continued while the other glared daggers, or laser beams, at him. The vicecaptain got a "tch" from Gintoki after a minute without anything being said.

"Since we both want to get this over and done with I'll keep it short and just ask about incidents we're truly interested in", Hijikata said and continued without waiting for an answer. "The first incident we want information about is regarding the day when one of Takasugi Shinsuke's ships sank. The reason seemed to be several explosions, we arrived just in time to see the ship hit the sea. Witnessess also spotted Katsura Kotarou's men in the area. There is also words about the Harusame Space Pirates being there. Do you know anything about it and are you willing to share it?" Gintoki thought for a long time before replying, he was no friend of Takasugi anymore but Zura was another matter. Maybe if he went around it that way..?

"Can I tell you just enough that you don't have anything clear enough to arrest anyone but just enough so that you can understand what happened?" he asked in a serious manner when he had finished thinking. The three opposite him exchanged some glances and nodded.

"Everything you say will stay here, however we attend to arrest Takasugi Shinsuke and Katsura Kotarou if we get the chance but currently we're only after Takasugi. Katsura has remained calm lately hence we're going after Takasugi", Kondo announced in a honest voice. The Yorozuya leader nodded; he could accept the logic, their logic. 'Just this time though', Gintoki added to himself and smirked.

"Then..", he began but stopped and looked at Sougo who was writing in a ridiculous speed. "Are you noting this down?" he asked as he would not want to repeat himself half way through the story. Sougo stopped writing and looked around with an expression that screamed "Huh?", alarming the two other Shinsengumi. Hijikata made the mistake to take a look at what the younger male was writing. It read: 'Die Hijikata, die Hijikata, die Hijikata, die Hijikata, die Hijikata, die Hijikata, die Hijikata, die Hijikata, die Hijikata, die Hijikata, die Hijikata...' And it seemed to continue in an endless evil little circle. Until he hit the last written part: 'Hijikata died.'

The vicecaptain slowly turned to his gaze from his left side where Sougo was sitting, to his right side and asked Kondo: "Mind if we change seat?" Kondo did not seem to mind and they changed seat. Kondo looked at the notepad as he thought that it was the reason that Toshi now looked really pale then he laughed. "You're both the same as ever, hahaha!"

Hijikata did his best to not pale even further when he saw the smile Sougo gave him behind Kondo's back, and the knife he put back in his pocket... Sighing he took a deep breath and turned back to Gintoki who looked oddly amused. 'That bastard...' Hijikata thought. The vicecaptain sighed once more and glared at the one on the other side of the table, only making that amused smile wider.

"I believe we'll do this without taking notes", the darkhaired shinsengumi said and bit down on the last word. Gintoki agreed in silence and began:

"Since you know that I know that you know that I know Katsura... I suppose I'll say a few words about him too and not only Takasugi. It all began with Zu-, Katsura, getting beat by a fellow called.. Nizou I think. W-, I, began searching for Katsura but didn't find him and then I took on a job. To find a katana namned Benizakura. Soon I got attacked and lost, he cheated though. It was the same who attacked Katsura. I survived and got a blade made and tracked Katsura to Takasugi's airborne ship. There I battled Nizou and won. I also found Katsura who blew up most of the inner parts of the ship, he succeded with destroying weapons powerful enough to destroy Edo which they were actually made for. Takasugi had intended to bring Edo down with those weapons... Soon the Harusamy Space Pirates arrived, a troublesome bunch of Amanto. Katsura and I dealt with a few. Then we declared the following to Takasugi: 'The next time we meet, we'll cut you down.' After that we jumped off the ship and escaped." Gintoki finished.

To be continued...

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