Here's the end of the not-so-mysterious two part "Mystery" arc. Please review and enjoy! ^-^
Odd Jobs Gin walked down the street, looking for any stores selling discount mayonnaise and badminton courts.
"This looks like it could be it!" said Shinpachi, pointing at a man with an eye-patch, who was serving. Gin rushed toward him. Now that he was closer, he realized the man had two eye-patches. He looked familiar.
Okita walked up to where Kagura was watching Gin interrogate the man.
"Is that your suspect?" he asked, turning to her.
"Yes," she replied, "Highly suspicious, uh-huh." Okita pulled out his bazooka, aiming it at the man, and pulling the trigger.
When the dust cleared, both Gin and the man were laying on the ground.
"What did you do do Gin-chan?" demanded Kagura, grabbing him by his collar.
"They look alright," observed Shinpachi.
"Aw." Okita was looking detachedly at Kagura, hanging by his neck. "I missed."
"What are you talking about you idiot?" Kagura yelled, swinging him left to right, "You could have killed them!"
He simply observed her explosive fury calmly, flopping back and forth as she shook him violently.
The man with the two eye-patches sat up, and Shinpachi sighed.
"That guy's from the Shinsengumi. We got the wrong guy. I'm awfully sorry about that," he turned to the man.
"Ah." Okita looked over at the man, Kagura following his gaze, enraged. "Yamazaki. Sorry about that." He didn't sound sincere in the slightest.
"We're awfully sorry about that," Shinpachi echoed, "But we were searching for a pirate, and, well, with the eye patches, you looked very conspicuous."
"What kind of a pirate wears an eye-patch in this day and age?" asked Yamazaki.
"Captain Katsura," answered Gin, coming to.
"Gin-san!" Kagura dropped Okita in her happiness to see him alive. Okita rubbed his neck.
"That name sounds familiar," Yamazaki said, trying to remember where he had heard it before. "But I wear these eye patches because I often get hit in the eyes while playing badminton. Well, really, it happens when I'm on the bench, but.." he trailed off.
"Who ever heard of that?" demanded Gin.
With a thwack, two birdies came soaring towards them and hit Yamazaki square in the eyes.
Rubbing his eyes, Yamazaki moaned, "Like that."
"I believe you." said Okita, who was holding a racquet.
Gin, Shinpachi and Kagura were back on the streets of Edo, Okita tagging along, to look for the disappeared criminal.
"Maybe we should look at that picture again." suggested Shinpachi, "You said it was a criminal, right?" Okita looked at the envelope.
"Oops." he said, "My bad, I think the one we're looking for was actually someone's escaped pet."
"How do you mix those two up?" Kagura wanted to know.
"If you looked at Sadaharu, what would you think?" Okita asked.
"Pet" from Shinpachi.
"Criminal" from Gin.
"And there you are."
"Sadaharu is my friend!" Kagura smacked Okita upside the head, "But let's look at the picture anyway."
Okita removed the picture from the envelope, and held it so they could all see.
"It appears to be some sort of gorilla." deduced Detective Kagura.
"Indeed." agreed Detective Gin.
"That's Kondo!" exclaimed Shinpachi, exasperated.
"Any new ideas where he would be?" asked Okita, not sounding interested in the slightest.
"At my house." Shinpachi had no doubt about this. What a waste of an afternoon.
They proceded in the direction of the dojo.
Shinpachi's theory was confirmed by the shouting and crashes emerging from the dojo. Okita looked curiously at the dojo. Kagura looked over at him, and patted him on the back.
"Don't worry, that's normal. He probably might make it out alive."
"I wasn't really worried." he replied.
"I'm worried about your sister," Gin was saying to Shinpachi, "It must be hard having been raised by gorillas."
"She wasn't raised by gorillas!" Shinpachi exclaimed, for the fiftieth time, and walked toward the house to see if he could rescue Kondo before the Shinsengumi sued them off the face of the earth.
"A hopeless case," shrugged Okita.
"In case of emergency, send in Shinpachi," explained Gin.
"Case closed," added Kagura.