Into The World Of Gintama Chapter 14, a gintama fanfic

Author's Note: Hiya everyone! How's it going? Hopefully well... Yep. Anyway, this is the 14th chapter of my awesomest Gintama story!

Question: Why does 90% of the Gintama community like OkiKagu (Okita x Kagura)? I guess they'd look cute together... But all I see is hate, hate, and more hate between them. And remember Kagura is NOT human. Whatever... Just wanted to say that.

Into the World of Gintama

Chapter 14: You just have to wash your armpits. Yes, just your armpits.

La la la

Ah ah ah~

Let's go out free up your mind

Sweet dream on the other side

I've finally opened my eyes

To see the world so wide

'cause when your thoughts fade to black

The shields you build start to crack

So change your plan of attack

I'm never going

Go back to

The days when I lost you

(Hey baby why?)

You left me

You said 'cause I had to

(I want to cry)

I broke my vows and ran but now

I've finally grown a backbone

So fxck your shxt

Throw down that's it

'Cause babe, you are not alone

Say it ain't so and tell me no

But baby, I'm here to stay

So throw your woes and I'll kiss your tears away

Livin' on the run don't scare me none

So baby, for you

I'll pray hard every day

The two of us will be okay

So come on out and let's play.

La la la

Ah ah ah...

A normal, random day in the Yorozuya...

Gin-san is sprawled across the couch, a manga covering his face. Kagura-chan is sitting on the couch opposite to Gin-san's, reading a newspaper for some reason. And I am sitting right beside her, reading a different manga than Gin-san with my Tea-kun on the table in front of me.

"Shinsengumi efficiently captures a large group of Nationalist Faction members," Kagura-chan reads out loud. "Shocking news of Shogunate official in cahoots with crime syndicate..." She looks up. "Gin-chan?"

"Yeah?" He answers, the manga still covering his face while he lays on the couch.

"What's In Cahoots?" She asks. I resist the urge to facepalm as I grab my Tea-kun off of the table and start to drink.

"You're so stupid, Kagura-chan. In Cahoots means that the Shogunate official was secretly working with the crime syndicate," I answer. "Idiot. Don't read if your vocabulary is as low as a 3rd grader's." Seriously.

She scowls at me. "What crawled in your ass and decomposed, Voca-Freak?!" And with that she pushes me off of the couch, making me drop my Tea-kun and hit my head on the floor.

It hurts. A lot.

Gin-san just starts to snore loudly; faking sleep.

[3rd Person POV]

The Kabuki District Park. A place where kids can play, associate, and sell each other drugs. Wait... No. That's partly true. They don't play nor associate... And there probably is a group that sells drugs. Who knows..?

But, right now, two boys decide to mess with a lone girl on the swings.

"I've never seen you around. Where'd you come from?" One of the boys, a chubby one, asks.

"This place belongs to the Kabuki District King; Yocchan!" The other one, a skinny looking boy, announces. "To play here, collect three dokkiriman chocolate wrappers, little girl!"

[Note: Dokkiriman is a man who scares someone to death.]

"What's bakkuriman? Something popular here now?" She asks, her pure mind not understanding that the two boys are trying to bully her.

[Note: Bakkuriman is a man who beats someone to death.]

"It's dokkiri, not bakkuri!" The chubby one, known as Yocchan, yells. "Actually, I suddenly feel that it may have been gessori..."

[Note: Gessori means becoming skinny.]

"You're wrong, Yocchan! It's Bats and Terry!" The skinny, nameless boy barks in.

"No, you're both wrong!" A random girl pipes in, eating sukonbu.

She's holding up a purple umbrella, shielding her skin from the harmful UV rays. A boy with messy blue hair is standing beside her, one of his hands in his pocket while the other one is carrying a bottle of sweet tea. He smiles cheekily at them while the red headed girl stares at them dully.

"It should be zakkuriman," She says matter-of-factly, and with that a giant white dog seemingly comes out of nowhere and bites Yocchan on the head.

[Note: Zakkuriman is a man who bites someone to death.]

"AAAHHH! I GOT BITTEN!" Yocchan exclaims, tears flowing from his eyes and blood running from his head as he runs around, frantically waving his arms around.

"Yeah, you did. Don't state the obvious," the blue haired boy says.

"Y-You bitch!" The skinny one exclaims, connecting the parts and instantly assuming that the white dog is their dog. He glares at the duo, earning another grin from the boy and a threatening stare from the girl.

"This field belongs to Kagura; Queen of the Kabuki District," the girl with the umbrella, now known as Kagura, says with a condescending look. "If you want to play here, you'll need a year's supply of sukonbu!"

"A year's supply?! I don't even know how much anyone can eat in a day!"

"This field is also co-owned to Len; King of the Kabuki District," the boy with the blue hair, now known as Len, says with an equally condescending look. "If you want to even look at this place, you'll need to bring me a decade's supply of Louisiana Sweet Tea~"

"A decade's supply?! You're crazy!" Yocchan yells. "No one even drinks that stuff, dude! And it's impossible to buy a decade's supply; you'd be as dead as my shoe after drinking all of that, anyway!"

"Yaa!" Len jumps up and kicks Yocchan in the stomach, making the latter bend down in pain. "Did you just say no one drinks the Almighty Tea? You should be ashamed of yourself... Death is the only option left for you now!" He stops glaring for a second to smile at the bottle in his hand. "Isn't that right, Tea-kun~?"

"Gah! You're a fucking lunatic!" The skinny boy exclaims, rushing over to his beat up friend. "Damn you two... This ain't over..!" And with that he drags his friend away, leaving Kagura, Len, and the girl on the swing.

"Hmph, wimps..."

"Kabuki District Queen and King, you saved me there," the little girl on the swings says. "Thank you very much."

"It was nothing," Len says, smiling. "You should thank Tea-kun, too, though. He did most of the work." Len then stops, staring at the girl before saying, "Woah! You have the prettiest brown eyes I've ever seen!"

"Th-Thank you very much, Tea-san?" The girl says hesitantly. She then looks up at Len. "And thank you for the compliment, Len-san."

"On more important matters," Kagura cuts off their conversation, scowling at Len as she grabs him and throws him onto the big white dog. "You shouldn't come here anymore; Edo's a very dangerous town."

It's so dangerous that the only way I can leisurely take a walk is with Kagura-chan to protect me, Len thinks with a sheepish smile. Kagura jumps on the big dog's back, her umbrella now shielding both her and Len. The duo doesn't even spare the girl a goodbye as the dog begins to trek away...

"Please, wait!" The little girl exclaims, quickly stepping off of the swings. The big white dog stops walking (as if it understood the girl) and turns it's head around to look at the her, Kagura and Len doing the same. The girl continues, pointing at Kagura, "Um, may I know what you're eating?" She then looks at Len. "And I've never tried that kind of tea before... I'd like to try some, please..."

They look at the girl blankly, then look at each other, and then looks back at the girl, a mischievous smile on their faces.

[A Few Minutes Later]

"What in the world is this?! Sour!" The girl gags, holding the half-bitten sukonbu in her hands. All three kids are still at the park but are now sitting on a bench, the little girl sitting in between Len and Kagura. "Even more sour than an old man's armpits!"

"That's what's so good about it!" Kagura says happily. "Even an old man's armpits grow on you with prolonged exposure!"

"That's... That's disgusting," Len mumbles, his nose scrunching up. He then brightens up almost instantly. "Now that we've discovered Kagura-chan's twisted desire for old men's armpits, you need to hurry up and try some of my Tea-kun. You'll be baptized in tea on a Friday - the best day ever - and then you'll be a certified Tea-ist."

"That's if she likes it," Kagura says, scowl forming on her face. "And are you really going to let her put her mouth on that disgusting thing? You don't even let me drink any, Voca-Freak!"

Len just shrugs. "I let pretty girls take sips of my Tea-kun... You just don't make the cut, Yato. Or should I say cup in this situation?"

While Kagura and Len bicker, the girl in between grabs the bottle of tea and takes a sip. She instantly wishes that she didn't.

"What in the world is this?! Sweet!" The girl exclaims, gagging as she drops the tea out of her hands (that's swiftly caught by Len) and places a hand to her forehead. "This is way too sweet! I think I'm coming down in a cold sweat..."

"Is that even possible?"

"This must be what diabetes taste like! I don't even know what would have happened if I took a big gulp!" She continues ranting. "I think I'm gonna pass out..!"

And to think I called her cute, Len thinks unhappily, watching now with disinterest as Kagura and the girl (that quickly recuperates from the sugar shock) talk about various food items.

He's bored... Really, really bored. And while he knows that this girl is associated with the anime and is actually a main character (he just cannot remember her name), he doesn't remember this episode at all.

If it's an episode, he thinks unhappily. It's getting harder and harder to tell each day...

"...So, people in town eat those kinds of things?" She giggles.

"Did you come from outside this town, Miss?" Kagura asks a little too politely...in her own little way. "You seem different from Gin-chan and all the other poor people."

"Yes, I come from over there," she replies, pointing over yonder. Kagura and Len curiously follow her finger.

Len suppresses a gasp, eyes widening. Kagura doesn't.

"You have a really big house!" Kagura exclaims in amazement. And she's right. The castle is so big that you can see it from miles and miles away. "Gin-chan said that that was where the most powerful samurai in the land used to live! But after the Amanto took over, it was reduced to a mere castle and the samurai to the most pitiful."

"Yes, that's right. There's no longer anyone in this country who will look at that castle with reverence," she says, slightly looking to the ground. A hint of sadness infiltrates her bright brown eyes. "Since it's just decorative now, perhaps it would be better if it were torn down..?"

"Nonsense," Len dismisses quickly, giving the girl a reassuring smile. "You live there, don't you? If they tore it down then you'd have no place to stay, and I know I'd hate not having a place to stay."

She looks up and smiles at him. "That's true, but," her smiles twitches...slowly starting to fade away. "I'd have more freedom..."

"Miss, do you have problems?" Kagura asks. "We're Kagura and Len from the Yorozuya. You can talk to us about anything!" She says proudly.

The girl laughs. "You two sure do have a lot of titles..."

Len scratches his head sheepishly. "We gotta pay ta' bills, y'know."

"Hmm... Problems," the girl muses, closing her eyes in concentration. "...Ah, that's right..." She looks up and smiles at the two. "Would you guys be my friend for the day?"

[A Few Hours Later]

[Len's POV]

Be her friend for the day? Is she that lonely? I mean, we did save her from two bullies, and I guess I let her try some of my Tea-kun...but...

...

From my memories of the anime, I remember that she's a princess. And from what I know from just meeting her, she's very, very lonely. And I guess suffocated in responsibility, probably.

Still, we were being pretty friendly with her...and we did tell her to tell us her problems...so I guess it seemed right to her to ask that from us. It's entirely fine with me, of course, but...

Where am I getting at?

Whatever. It was just a little surprising for her to ask that of us. That's all.

And now, I guess we're supposed to play with her, or something. I don't know! I don't know what to do with a friend! Especially a girl! Gin-san's an old man for all I care, and Shinpachi-san and I are just both working for the same person, so I don't think you can call us friends. Not to mention he's four years older than me.

Kagura-chan is just living in the same house as me. We're more siblings than friends, and we're hardly that. It doesn't matter that she's just a year older than me...she's just...there.

God, now I'm thinking awkward.

Whatever. I'm overthinking things. I just need to...play Hide-and-Seek with her...or something like that. I guess.

...

Please tell me why Kagura-chan brought us to a gambling spot?

"Alright! Place your bets! Even or Odd?!"

"Odd!" Some man with an annoying squeaky voice yells out.

"Me, too!" The man beside him yells.

"Even!" Kagura-chan screams.

"Then, I'll also take even," the princess says evenly.

"O-Odd," I mumble. "Tea-kun picks Even, though."

"Odd!" The man beside me...

"Even!" The man beside him...

"Okay, here goes!" The proctor-type-person announces. He picks up the cup that has the dice hidden under it...and... "Snake Eyes! It's EVEN!"

"Ah, shit! I lost again!" The squeaky voice man screams in anguish.

"Shit! I can't go home!" The man beside me cries.

"Ah, I lost," I deadpan as I pick up my cards and place them in front of Tea-kun. "I know, I know... I should've picked Even, but Odd was the first thing that came to mind, and-"

"You can't do that, Voca-Freak! You're basically giving them to yourself!"

"Don't get mad that I- I mean Tea-kun has more cards than you, Yato."

"You just said I! You know you're a lying asshole!"

"Now, now... Why don't we just put all our cards together and get the prize money?"

"...Okay, that makes sense."

We ended up doing a lot more things with the princess, too. Like...buying candy at the candy shop. Oh, and playing at the arcade. We even fished up this weird alien fish and played badminton (which I sucked at). In the end, though...

We are sitting in front of a dumpling shop, Kagura-chan eating dumplings while the princess and I are drinking tea.

"You two're really amazing!" The princess exclaims. "Queen, King... Even though you're younger than I, you seem to know a lot more!"

"Ah, that reminds me," I say aloud. "We haven't really gotten your name, nor your age."

"Ah, where are my manners?" She giggles to herself. "My name is Soyo Tokugawa, and I'm fourteen."

"Soyo...Tokugawa-chan," I mumble. "...Soyo-chan... Yeah! I'll call you Soyo-chan!"

Her name definitely rings a bell now. I'm pretty surprised that Kagura-chan never asked for it, but now we know...and that's good. She also looks way younger than she really is, too!

"You have a very pretty name, Soyo-chan," Kagura-chan says, eating the last of her dumplings. "You should watch out for perverts, because all kids these days just wanna have fun and make sweet love. Or at least that's what Gin-chan told me."

Soyo-chan looks at Kagura-chan thoughtfully, a small smile on her face. She then looks at me, and I can see the drop of sadness beginning to wash over her features.

"Queen...King... You two are really lucky to have so much freedom. I've almost never left the castle, I have no friends, and I know nothing about the outside world," she stops smiling, looking to the ground thoughtfully. "The only thing I can do is watch the town from afar...and dream of what I'd do... Wishing I can be a simple city girl, to run around and play all day, and know what freedom feels like."

...That's...sad. Really, really sad...

"I wanted it so badly, before I knew it, I'd run away from home," she finishes, and I have to forcibly stop myself from gasping. She...ran away from...home..? And...we're with her..? We've been with her all day, even..?

Oh, no...that's not good. Two poor folk hanging out with a princess.

...Oh, no...that's very, very bad...

"But I also decided to do this for only one day," She adds quickly. "Because if I'm gone, then I'll be creating trouble for many people."

Maybe I can make up an excuse before the police comes. Sure, Kagura-chan would get arrested, but that's a small price to pay for my freedom. Now...I just need to get away before something like-

"That's right." We all look up to see...Hijikata-san standing over us. "Well, shall we get going, then?"

-like this happening.

Damn it!

Soyo-chan looks at Hijikata-san absentmindedly before slowly nodding her head. I hate it...I really hate to see her go, but there's nothing that we can do...

She gets up from her seat and takes a step towards Hijikata-san...before Kagura-chan suddenly grabs her wrist! There's a dark look in her face, though I can only see half of it 'cause of her umbrella.

"What the hell are you doing, bitch?!" Hijikata-san and I scream at the same time. What what what could she possibly be thinking?! We're lucky that this is Hijikata-san and not some random officer! If Kagura-chan makes a big scene and more officers come..!

Oh, no... Ohnoohnoohno...

Before I can protest, Kagura-chan grins and spits out her dumpling stick at Hijikata-san (who professionally blocks the attack) and starts running away; Soyo-chan being pulled behind her!

"Hey, wait!" Hijikata-san and I scream at the same time. We both look at each other, and realization dawns upon his features.

"You're..!"

"Uh... Bye nii~!" I grin nervously, and then take off right after Kagura-chan. I forgot that Hijikata-san and Kagura-chan don't technically meet until now...so he's just a random officer to her. That doesn't just mean she can go off kidnapping princesses and junk, though, and now I'm in this mess, too!

"Aaaugh! We're all going to jail! What was I thinking running away like that?!" I exclaim while running at top speeds behind Kagura-chan. "I should have just stayed and explained the situation, but Hijikata-san wouldn't listen, though...and-and-and-!"

"Stop them!" Hijikata-san yells from behind me, and up ahead we see a bunch of Shinsengumi members beside a cop car! Oh, no! How are we going to get past them?!

"YYYYAAAAAHHHHHHH!" Kagura-chan uses her umbrella and freaking swipes through all of them! "Get out of my way!" They all fly away in different directions, Kagura-chan (with Soyo-chan behind her) and I jumping on the hood of the car. She grabs Soyo-chan and I by our waists and jumps super high in the air, landing on a random house!

Oh My God, this is going too fast and getting too extreme for me!

We start running atop the house, Shinsengumi member below looking on in awe. We keep going and find a big water steel-gallon-contraption-thingy and hide behind it. This way we can't see the Shinsengumi, and they can't see us.

Kagura-chan just sits down in silence while I'm panting heavily, cursing my un-athletic drive. Soyo-chan sits in between us, looking very...thoughtful.

"Kagura-chan...you've...really done it...now," I pant, clutching my chest. "Do you know what...country we're in? They'll...kill us for this..."

She doesn't reply back, and Soyo-chan says nothing; so we're all just quiet for a while.

And then we hear Hijikata-san screaming up at us from below.

"Hey! Foreigner! Blue Haired Boy! Get your asses out here!"

I sneer at the nickname. Don't they know our name's by now?

"I don't care how you got to know the princess, but she's very important to this country! If you continue to interfere, I'll have to arrest you two, too! Are you listening?!"

It's too late for us. Kagura-chan probably severely hurt one of the Shinsengumi members when she swung her umbrella around, and I'm pretty sure we messed up the car when we jumped on it. We're fat like that. We're going to jail regardless...and it's all my fault because I didn't think about this situation sooner.

Why would a princess just by lounging around the park anyway? It was obvious she ran from home!

"Queen, King, it's alright. I'll go home now-"

"Why?!" Kagura-chan quickly demands. "Didn't you want to become free?! I'll help you become free now!"

"I do want to be free, but I'll be troubling you two if I continue on with this..."

"It's no trouble at all! We made a promise to be friends the whole day, after all," Kagura-chan insists. "You don't need a reason to save a friend. It's what we Edo girls do! We can still teach you many interesting things!"

"And...I guess I was kinda expecting this to happen anyway," I tell her. "It's not like the Yorozuya hasn't had a run-in with the law before...actually, I'm sure everything will go back to normal after all this. So, really, it's not troubling us at all to help you become free." I grin at her, taking a sip of my Tea-kun. "It'll actually put wrinkle lines on Tea-kun if we don't do this...'cause we're friends."

"...Yeah, we're friends," Soyo-chan smiles...but she then stands up. "But...because we're friends, I cannot trouble you anymore." She turns to us. "Thank you very much, Queen, King. It was only half a day, but you two made me feel like a real girl...it was wonderful." She bows.

I...start to feel tears in my eyes.

"Well then, I'll be going-"

"Wait! That's so unfair!" Kagura-chan screams in protest. "How can you so easily break a promise?! I still want us to play together! I want us to know each other better! It's so unfair!"

"Y-Yeah! M-Maybe you couldn't fully taste the richness of Tea-kun, so you gotta try again some other time! You can't just leave us and never see us again...you can't!" I shake my head furiously. "Y-You still didn't get baptized in t-tea..."

"Yeah, I know. I'm selfish like that. So please, let me be selfish one more time," she turns around and smiles at us. The setting sun shines behind her, but it doesn't even come close to the amount of shine is in her smile. "Even though it's only been one day, let's be friends forever."

[A Few Days Later]

Ketsuno Ana brings the microphone to a little child with a sukonbu stick in his mouth and a bottle of tea in his hands. The camera man moves to look away from Ana and to the little kid.

"Why are you eating sukonbu and drinking sweet tea?" Ketsuno Ana asks.

"Because the princess said it was delicious, and she's been eating it," the boy answers. "And the princess loves sweet tea, too...she said it was the best drink she's ever had."

The screen switches to a picture of Soyo-chan with a sukonbu stick in her mouth and a bottle of sweet tea in her hands.

"It seems like the current sukonbu and sweet tea craze is due to the Shogun's little sister, Soyo-hime," Ketsuno Ana explains. "There are witnesses who's seen the princess at a recent song festival chewing sukonbu and drinking a bottle labeled Tea-chan. Sources identify this drink as sweet tea."

"Hm? So the princess likes to eat sukonbu and drink sweet tea," Shinpachi-san says with wide eyes.

Gin-san, chewing on a cookie, scoffs. "Are you stupid or what?! It's obvious that's a lie! That's just acting like a commoner to cheat people into thinking that the royalty can blend in!" He holds up the cookie in the air, closing his eyes dismissively. "I bet that when she's back at the palace, she's back to eating pounds and pounds of sushi and drinking that rich, savory hot tea!" He looks over at Kagura-chan, who's taking a nap on the couch beside him. "Now look over there at the real sukonbu-girl. You can tell she's poor even from her sleeping figure! That's the real thing."

He then looks over at me, who's silently seething at his ignorance.

"And that's the real tea-boy. You can tell he's poor from how he opens up his bottle to get any last remaining drops of liquid. Pitiful."

I sigh as I put the lid back on Tea-kun, holding it in between my legs. I start blocking out Gin-san's ranting and focus on the little, hardly recognizable picture on my bottle.

It has Kagura-chan, Soyo-chan, and I making a funny face at the camera. It reads 'The Kabuki District...Queen, King, and Princess.'

I smile at it.

I'll always, always remember you as my first friend here...Soyo-chan.

Mr. Raindrop, fallin' away from me now

Do you know how much you mean to me?

Why must you leave?

I'm just a flower on a tree.

Why must you leave?

Mr. Raindrop, fallin' away from me now

Kagerou Days: Gintama Style~!

Hibiya woke up from his slumber with a jolt (Len: Yay! That's me! I'm gonna be the main character! / Kagura: Tch. Damn it, Voca-Freak! / Gintoki: Maa Maa... Let's get on with the story.). He quickly sat up and looked around the room, searching every inch for his white IPhone. He couldn't find it (Len: Who cares about that piece of garbage? Where's my Tea-kun?). He looked to the window and winced when the bright sunlight hit his eyes.

He was late. And the sound of a cricket was giving him a migraine.

He jumped out the bed and quickly did the morning rituals; taking a quick shower, brushing his teeth, putting on deodorant, and putting on his clothes (Kagura: Voca-Freak doesn't do any of that in real life.). He walked over to his bed to hurry and fix it up when he saw his IPhone slightly hidden under the covers.

He picked it up (Len: Yay~! Tea-kun~!) and checked the time and date. It was August 15th, 12:00 noon. He cursed under his breath. He really needed to sprint to the park in order to make it to his date. Or, that's what he was hoping it was (Gintoki: Ah~? Little Len-kun has a date, does he? Man, they grow up so fast. / Shinpachi: ...He's just twelve years old. / Len: Ha! Even Shinpachi-san hasn't ever been on a date before! I'm fast for my age! / Shinpachi: WHAT?! YOU LITTLE-!).

He left the house and made it to the park at top notch speeds, making it there at 12:15. His childhood friend, Hiyori, was sitting on the swings, a black cat in her lap (Kagura: 'Dat me? / Gintoki and Shinpachi: *Holding in laughter*).

Hibiya apologized for being late (Len: Sorry. Had ta' do meh Tea Rituals.) and Hiyori accepted (Kagura: You're pathetic. But, I'll let ya get off if you buy me some sukonbu. / Len: Ehhh...no.), softly petting the cat as they made small talk. They talked about plenty of things; topics ranging from school (Len: They really need to stop with the milk and start with the tea, y'know? / Kagura: And they need to add sukonbu to the list of items to get. / Gintoki: Don't look down on Strawberry Milk, brat!), family problems (Len: My mom isn't buying much tea these days...she's really pissing me off, y'know? / Shinpachi: ...I'm done.), and what they wanted to be in the future (Len: An official Tea Preacher. / Kagura: President of the World! / Shinpachi: THOSE ARE SOME REALLY UNREALISTIC DREAMS, YOU TWO!).

And suddenly, the topic of discussion shifted.

"Hey, but I don't really like the Summertime," Hiyori whispered softly (Kagura: What? I LOVE Summertime!), looking at the cat with what looked like longing. Hibiya didn't question anything (Len: Freak.), instead, he took out his iPhone and checked the time. 12:28pm.

After a minute or so, they decided to get off the swings and walk along the sidewalk path. They talked a bit more, the black cat in Hiyori's arms and Hibiya walking with his arms behind his back. Suddenly, the cat jumped out of Hiyori's arms (Kagura: Come back, kitty cat! / Shinpachi: HEY! Why am I the cat?! / Kagura: Oh, Glasses is the cat? Never mind, then... / Shinpachi: HEY!) into the street beside them, and Hiyori went after it (Gintoki: Don'tcha know, Kagura-chan? Always look both ways before crossing the street... / Len: Yeah. What if you get hit by, like, a truck or something?).

Suddenly, the traffic light turned a blazing red, and both Hibiya and Hiyori heard a screech (Shinpachi: Oh, no...). They both turned their heads...and saw a big truck zooming down the road. Hibiya screamed. Hiyori froze and screamed...but the truck heard the scream a little bit too late and rammed Hiyori's body head on (Kagura: (⊙o⊙) / Gintoki: D-D-Don't worry. There's gotta be a t-t-t-time machine somewhere...). Blood splattered everywhere, all over the road and also on Hibiya (Len: O_o), and a passerby screamed the choked up air when they saw the sight (Gintoki: AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!). Hibiya put both hands over his mouth and stared down at Hiyori's blood-drenched, unmoving body...and violently regurgitated all over himself.

Hibiya got on his knees and vomited some more, tears rushing down his face. This couldn't be real...this couldn't be real...but it was. In the corner of Hibiya's eyes, he saw what looked liked himself sneering down at him (Taker: It's me~!)...and heard these chilling words before he passed out.

"What you see is exactly what you're gonna get..."

Hibiya woke up in his bed with a jolt, sweat wetting himself and the area around him (Len: What what what what the fuck was that?). He took a moment to get all his senses together (Len: Oh, God.. I need tea. T-Tea-kun...) and out of panic mode before he sat up and found his phone...under the covers of his bed. Like in his itbetterhavebeena dream. He looked to see the time and date... August 14th at 12:04 noon.

The only sound he heard as he stared at the date in bewilderment (Len: Wasn't it supposed to be August 15th? And why is it later than when I first woke up?! Whatisthisidonteven-) was the sound of a cricket ringing loudly in his head.

He found out with growing confusion that the exact same things that happened in his dream happened again. Hiyori was sitting on the swings, petting a black cat (Kagura: You're late, Voca-Freak. / Len: A-Ah...sorry...)...they talked about the same things they talked about in the dream (Kagura: I wanna be President of the World! / Len: Y-Yeah...)...and Hiyori, just as she did in the dream, even suggested that they walk on the sidewalk (Kagura: All you do is sit around. Let's walk around some! / Len: Oh, no... / Kagura: What? / Len: ...Well, actually...).

As they were walking, Hibiya told Hiyori about his blood curdling dream (Len: COME ON! I HAD A FREAKING DREAM ABOUT THIS ENTIRE DAY WITH YOU, AND EVERYTHING THAT'S HAPPENING FUCKING HAPPENED IN THE DREAM! IT'S NOT FUCKING NORMAL! / Shinpachi: What are you talking about, Len-kun? Calm down!). She didn't really seem to question it at all (Kagura: I know he's a nut. It's not really surprising.), but Hibiya noticed the slight frown on her face.

And then the damn black cat, just like in the dream, jumped out of her hands and ran in the street (Kagura: Finally. I hated carrying Glasses Cat around. / Shinpachi: HEY! / Len: Oh, noo...).

Before she could run after it, Hibiya grabbed her wrist and told her they should leave and to follow him (Len: Bitch, if you're not gonna take me seriously, I should just let your ass die. But, I'm a good person, so follow me. / Kagura: I'm gonna break your neck.). He didn't want to risk what happened in his dream to happen again...just too paranormal. She let him pull her away from the whatwouldhavebeena car crash, and when he was certain that no trucks would be coming...led her to cross the crosswalk. He noticed she was abnormally quiet.

And then they heard loud gasps and, with a quick look around, saw people gaping, struggling to keep away a scream (Gintoki: Oi, oi, oi...watch out…).

A construction crew that was working on a large building accidentally dropped a construction beam...and it was falling to the ground. To be more precise, it was falling towards Hibiya and Hiyori. Before Hibiya could even look up and see the death made of steel, Hiyori pushed past the boy (Kagura: Get out the way. You don't pull me wherever you want to go.)...

Stabbing holes and splitting her in two (Kagura: (⊙o⊙)？), the beam made a scene as it dropped from the sky. Hibiya's eyes widened, and he screamed in surprise and horror (Len: AAAAAHHHHHHHHH!). Blood splattered everywhere. Hibiya choked on the smell of blood. The birds flew away as another scream hit those park trees.

The black cat watched the scene in silence (Shinpachi: Tsk tsk tsk. / Len, Kagura, and Gintoki: SHUT UP, GLASSES!). Hibiya tried to run up and do something to help his friend, but just as in his dream, he saw what looked like himself sneering at him (Taker: Hello~!). The copy pushed Hibiya back, and said these hair-raising words...

"Bet you wish you were asleep, but it's not a dream..."

The last thing Hibiya saw before blacking out was Hiyori...a beam sticking straight through her...blood drenching her skirt...and what looked like a dark smile on her face (Len: Masochist?!).

Hibiya woke up in his bed again, but he didn't waste any time realizing his situation (Len: Oh, shit. I'm screwed. I'm so screwed.). Hiyori would either get ran over by a truck (Gintoki: Look both ways before you cross the street), or get skewered with a pole (Gintoki: Oi, oi... Watch out...). So, to prevent that, he needed to do something else entirely.

Nothing would work.

No matter what he did, she would die somehow (Kagura: You're obviously not trying, Voca-Freak. / Len: At least I'm not the one constantly dying, Yato. Pathetic.). One time he managed to keep her from getting ran over and skewered by grabbing her as soon as he saw her and just running somewhere else entirely. She would be quiet through all of this, which was unnerving but easier for Hibiya, but nothing stopped her from screaming when something happened.

They ran up a flight of stairs to get away from death...

And then he saw the evil copy of himself, just nonchalantly looking at them with a sneer (Taker: Don't let go of her hand or she'll die, okay?). That's when something would go wrong. He accidentally let go of her hand...and she slipped and fell down the stairs with a sickening snap (Taker: I told you! / Len: Oops. / Kagura: YOU BASTARD!). This actually happened twice, cause he was too shocked and hopeful to just try it once...but the same thing happened regardless. The first time she broke her neck and died instantly. The second she hit her head and painfully bled out, with Hibiya crying over her dying body in angst (Gintoki: Don't run up the stairs, kids.).

Time and time again.

For the past ten years.

She died and died and died. It would go from things to tripping and falling in a sewer (that was randomly left open) (Shinpachi: Really?) or having a random heart attack (Shinpachi: Really?!). No matter what he did, she would die, and the day would reset with him mentally traumatized and her not knowing anything about it.

It got so bad that when she would be choking on her blood, he would just stare at her dully, not even flinching (Len: Yawn... Can't you die in a more exciting way?). The face of confusion, shock, and hopelessness would haunt him.

Before he knew it...he couldn't take anymore. It was too much for him to bare.

They were at the first scene again. Hibiya and Hiyori, just walking along the sidewalk, black cat in her arms. The black cat, as it always did, would jump out her arms and run in the street (Len: I think Glasses wants you to die, Kagura-chan. / Kagura: Yeah. This all started with him constantly running away from me. / Gintoki: Yep. This is all Glasses' fault.). He could either stop her from running and start the second scene (being impaled with a beam), or just let her run after it and get hit by the truck.

He paused.

And grabbed her arm, pulling her back and running for the cat instead (Len: THAT CAT TOOK MY TEA-KUN!). Crashing in and hitting him instead of her, the truck heard the scream a little bit too late (Len: Ah.). He smiled (Len: No I didn't! I'm dying!). The pain was nothing compared to the pain of watching her die each and every day. Hiyori put both hands over her mouth and started to cry (Kagura: -In happiness! I'm alive!), blood spraying everywhere and the smell choking her.

The evil copy of Hibiya watched the scene in silence (Taker: Oh, Jalen, my boy...), and Hibiya had to sneer at the doppelganger's confused face (Len: They see me rollin'...they hatin'...). Hiyori was on her knees at this point, crying and vomiting relentlessly. And then...

And then he saw a copy of Hiyori, sneering down at her (Matsurika: I am Matsurika. I am going to relentlessly traumatize you for ten years and then act surprised when you think of suicide. Any questions? / Kagura: ...). His eyes widened, but that was the last thing he saw before he blacked out.

And he didn't wake up the next day.

Author's Notes: I'm...I'm ready for my Death Penalty, faithful fans and reviewers. I've...I've failed you all. I'm not fit to do anything else...just...punish me. Anyway, that little Omake was a parody of Kagerou Days, a Vocaloid Song, you should search it on YouTube.

Oh, yeah! I have a tumblr, y'all! I'll be posting things on there about this story (and some of my other stories), so it would be wise of you all to follow me, y'know. Oh, and I'll be posting the song Kagerou Days on tumblr, too, so please follow me~!

Anyway, here's the link. Just delete the spaces, and there you have it~!

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Anyway, I'm very, very sorry for not updating in a long time...and I want to apologize. I actually have a schedule for all of my stories now(you'll see when you follow my tumblr), so there shouldn't be a GIANT hiatus like this anymore.

Well then...bye nii~!