Chapter 2

"What do you want, Sadist?" Kagura asked when her rival had finally released her. They were outside in town now, quite far away from the Yorozuya. "And why aren't Gin-chan and Shinpachi allowed to hear?"

Sougo wished he had been allowed to stay at the Yorozuya and talk to her in front of the four-eyes and the Jump-addict because it must have looked weird for the other citizens to watch one of the Shinsengumi drag a young girl, who was biting his arm and occasionally letting go to shout things like, "Gin-chan, Shinpachi, HEALTH ME!" to which he replied, "it's help me, idiot!", down the street.
Sougo looked down at his tattered sleeve and sighed.
"You really wrecked my uniform, why would you bite me?" he deadpanned, clearly he wasn't at all bothered, however Kagura still allowed herself a small smile for she was happy she could ruin something that belonged to that idiot. Kagura then raised an eyebrow; he had just completely ignored what she had said.

"You didn't answer my question," she responded simply.

"And you didn't answer mine."

"You didn't answer mine first."

"So?"

"Ugh, you're annoying. I'm going home," Kagura mumbled as she turned around to walk away from the irritating policeman. She felt his hand grab her arm. "You do realise I am a Yato and much stronger than you. Let go of my arm before I rip it your arm off."

"As if I'd let a girl like you do that to me. Oh wait, are you a girl? No, you're clearly a monster," he retorted, with a monotone voice and an expressionless face. He knew he had struck a nerve because as soon as he had finished saying it, a leg had swung round and only just missed his face. It was a good job that he had such fast reflexes. He looked at the young Yato female, her face was contorted with rage. His lips curved into a slight smirk, he really loved to make her angry. Her other leg swung round in an attempt to trip him up but he jumped over it. "Calm down, China girl. I don't have time to fight with you. I'm here on business, remember?" She froze mid-kick and then dropped her leg. She had a sudden idea.

"Fine, buy me some dango and I'll listen to what you have to say," she grinned as she said this. Kagura really loved the idea of a free meal. Sougo sighed but eventually agreed to her proposition. Why couldn't Kondo-san have sent Hijikata to do this instead? Now, Sougo had to feed that monster.

The two of them sat next to one another. Sougo ate his first skewer of dango and then watched as Kagura started her fifth. He groaned and then muttered something about deserving a pay rise for having to do this. The red-headed Yato turned to him and looked up at him with her bright, cerulean eyes. She has nice eyes, Sougo thought and then immediately questioned himself. What was he thinking? That monster does not have nice eyes and even if she did, they certainly did not match her ugly personality. He'd even seen that beast pick her nose before. His mental rant was interrupted by Kagura herself. "So, what do you tax robbers want with me?" she asked.

"Have you been watching the news recently?" he asked in response, his almost-red eyes were now staring off at the sky. He was purposely avoiding looking at her to stop himself from having weird thoughts.

"Of course! Gin-chan makes us watch the news every morning, but Megane says it's so he can see the weathergirl that he loves though."

"So, you've heard about the new serial killer then?" he questioned.

"Yes, although, I don't know much about it, Gin-chan always turns it off there because he doesn't want to damage my innocent mind," Kagura said proudly.

"Innocent mind? You?" Sougo scoffed.

"Shut up, Sadist!"

"Look, China Monster, I don't have time to argue. Unfortunately, Kondo-san forced me to be the one to talk to you. I don't know why he didn't make that bastard, Hijikata do it instead but I'm here to talk to you about a job so just listen, okay?"

"You're the one who laughed at me and what if I don't want to do your job?"

"You're the person who has the best chance of being able to do this job. I would prefer not to involve a poor person like you but I'm being forced to. If you don't do the job, I could easily arrest you for you moving here illegally and for disturbing the peace by fighting with me. On top of that, people will die, China, do you want that?" The Sadist said all of this sounding extremely uninterested by the whole matter. The young girl stared at him. She could be arrested and she really didn't want people to die because of her… but she didn't want to do a job for that arrogant sadist.

"I'll do it," she said reluctantly.

"You don't know the full job yet."

"I don't want people to die for me." Sougo looked at her almost surprised. Even though she was a monster, she was compassionate and kind-hearted deep down. "Plus, I can't give you the pleasure of arresting me. What will my reward be?"

"The satisfaction of working with the Shinsengumi."

"Not good enough."

"The pride of ridding Edo of a well-known criminal."

"SADIST!"

"Fine. ¥37000."

¥37000? That was quite a lot for one job, especially if she was doing the job alone… She could keep all the money to herself as well. Kagura smiled at her rival, "and some more dango… and some sukonbu!"

"Okay, okay, but you have to wait until after the job."

"How can I trust that you'll pay me?"

"Because, unlike your beloved 'Gin-chan', I am not poor, therefore I don't mind paying people who do work for me."

"Don't talk about Gin-chan like that, he may be useless but he's much better than you."

"Tch, whatever you say, China," Sougo mumbled. For some reason, it annoyed him when she spoke about that stupid natural perm.

"So, what's the job?"

"Come with me to the Shinsengumi Headquarters, it will be fully explained there," Sougo muttered, at this point, he just wanted to be rid of his red-haired rival so he could go for a nap. Kondo and the rest of the Shinsengumi could explain the job to that idiot.

Hiya, thanks for reading.
A big thank you for everyone who reviewed the last chapter- I'm glad you enjoyed it, I know it was really short- and, please, review this one too and give me some ideas on how to improve. This chapter's not very long either, I struggle with writing long chapters. Sorry, I think this was pretty OOC for both Kagura and Sougo, it's really hard writing in character. I'm glad that some of the people who reviewed the first chapter said they were intrigued by it because that's what I was aiming to do.
The payment part was hard for me to write because I'm not great with money and I have no idea how much the Yorozuya would be paid for a job but I don't know, that seemed like an appropriate amount to me. Even if it isn't, I don't think Kagura would really notice because Gin doesn't pay her anyway. Haha. :P
Anyway, many thanks, everyone!
I will update as soon as possible.
I don't own Gintama or the characters. :P