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A/N: I'm BACK! Yay! I finally got Microsoft Word! How are all of you doing? Thank you Zangetsu50 for the suggestion, but I knew I was getting Microsoft soon! Thanks! (: Also, Cassie, I love your comments, you really do believe! Hopefully you don't hate me, because you said that a while ago… But thanks for the support. I recommend you guys re-read the last chapter, in case you forgot… Cause I sure forgot. Yes, I forgot what I wrote. Don't judge me! (; So, ENJOY! That is an order!

Chap. 37 Plans Come Together for the Worst

"Hm, what do we have here?" The man whispered. He pushes the body of Oboro lightly with his foot. Seeing no movement from Oboro's still form. He smirks. "Wonder who did this…" Kakeru walks over to a puddle of blood, getting down on his haunches he puts a finger in the puddle, twirling it around, he sticks the bloody finger in his mouth, rolling the taste of it in his tongue. "Wow… You taste good…" He grins. "Shiroyasha."

Gintoki leans against the wall, glancing down the alley for prying eyes. Finding none he slides his yukata sleeve down, so it hangs like the other always does. He slips off his black shirt, wincing slightly. He throws the sullied shirt on the ground. He glances down at the open wound in his chest. "It's pretty deep…" He mutters, poking around it slightly. Oboro's knife seemed to have down the job, but not the way Oboro wanted it to.

"Gintoki?"

Gintoki's head snaps up in surprise, but that feeling quickly diminishes. "Oh, it's you."

Kamui's eyes widen slightly, quickly walking over to Gintoki, hovering a hand over his wound. "Who did this?" He growls.

"It doesn't matter." Gintoki mutters, swatting Kamui's hand away.

"Abuto can patch that up for you." Kamui suggests, still looking at the wound an emotion lurking in his eyes that Gintoki couldn't place. Gintoki chuckles. Kamui narrows his eyes. "What?"

Gintoki shakes his head, smiling. "Nothing, just that it's weird sometimes."

Kamui raises an eyebrow. "What's weird?"

"When you act nice. It makes me think back when I first met you. You were a crazy, rude, and mean piece of shit. Now, you're a crazy rude, and nice piece of shit." He pats Kamui on the back. "You upgraded. Good job Kouchi."

"Kouchi?" Kamui mutters. He waves a hand. "Forget that. We need to take care of your wound. A guy told me that something was going to happen soon. He said they were targeting Kagura and that other kid with the glasses."

Gintoki's eyes widen slightly. "Who told you that?"

Kamui looks down, muttering something inaudible. He looks up quickly. "I think he said his name was Oboro or something."

Gintoki blinks a few times. "Well he might be dead now…"

Kamui's eyes widen. "Did you kill him? Wait, is that where you got that wound?"

Gintoki says nothing, quickly turning and running out of the alley.

"Gintoki!" Kamui calls, running after him.

Gintoki runs quicker, coming into the clearing where he fought Oboro. Suddenly he stops, looking at the ground in surprise.

"Gin-… whoa…" Kamui says, stopping. He sniffs the air. "So, you two fought here?" Gintoki nods. "Was he on the ground when you left him?" Gintoki nods again. Kamui looks at the puddle of blood that Gintoki was looking at. "So, where is he then?"

"Why did you call me here?" Zenzou asks, looking at the woman in the booth. Sarutobi looks up at him, her face grave. "Stop looking at me like that woman! You're so out of character! Everyone will be confused now of who you are. They'll think you're someone else! They'll think you've been recast!"

"Shut the hell up and sit down." Sarutobi seethes. Zenzou blinks, looking at the booth seat, patting it lightly. Sarutobi raises an eyebrow. "What are you doing?"

"This seat is hard." Zenzou mutters.

"Your point?"

"My butt hurts…" Zenzou mumbles.

"Sit your ass down!" Sarutobi screams.

"I've got something called hemorrhoids woman! It hurts like hell!"

"You want it to hurt!" Sarutobi threatens, raising a kunai. "I'll stick it so far up your ass, you'll never be able to get it out." Zenzou sits down quickly. Sarutobi lets out a short breath. "Okay. I wanted to tell you he's here."

Zenzou tilts his head. "Who's here?"

Sarutobi leans forward. "Oboro."

Zenzou sits up straighter. "Oboro? Are the others here?"

"I don't know." Sarutobi says. "But, I know Nobume is here and her new boss Isaburo is here, I believe he has yet to make an appearance. But, Oboro is after Gintoki for what happened I think at Yoshiwara."

"You think he's mad that Gintoki could have killed Sada Sada?" Zenzou asks.

"I don't believe Gintoki did…" Sarutobi says. "They said that Sada Sada was stabbed and cut mercilessly." She smiles. "My Gin- chan wouldn't do something like that. He likes to show mercy. But not to me. He likes to get me all dirty and begging for-"

"Enough!" Zenzou screams. "I don't want to hear about that…" He mutters, feeling nauseous.

"We need to find Gintoki. But, I hate saying this, but more importantly we need to find Isaburo."

Zenzou nods. "Where are we even-"

"Well, what do we have here?" A voice cuts in, interrupting Zenzou.

Sarutobi's eyes widen. "You!"

Isaburo flips his cellphone shut. "It seems you two have business with me? Or more importantly my subordinate." Isaburo's monocle flashes slightly as the light hits it. "But, there's one thing I would like to know, like how the two of you tie into all of this mess."

"Ow! Bastard!" Gintoki screams.

"Just shut the hell up!" Abuto screams.

"Why are you freakin sticking that thing in there?"

"Shut up." Abuto screams, pulling the tweezers out of Gintoki's wound. "I have to make sure there's nothing in it that will infect it!"

"Well I told you there was nothing in there!"

"Fine…" Abuto mutters, setting the tweezers down. He picks up a spray can, spraying a substance on the wound, causing Gintoki to grimace. Abuto picks up a white pad placing it over the wound. "Captain! Can you hold this?"

Kamui comes over holding the pad in place as Abuto wrapped gauze around Gintoki's chest.

Gintoki sighs. "May I ask how the hell you two got a place right across from where I live? And how long you've been here?"

Kamui smiles. "Abuto found it after my fight against you."

Gintoki narrows his eyes. "Seriously?" Kamui shrugs.

"Okay, done." Abuto says, sitting down next to Kamui.

"We have to go." Kamui says, looking over at Gintoki. "Oboro said that something bad would happen to Kagura and that other kid."

Abuto raises an eyebrow. "So, you sent him to me to get patched up so he can go back out to fight?"

"Yep!" Kamui says with a big smile. He gets up going out the door. "C'mon!"

"Dammit…" Abuto mutters.

"He sure is energetic. Just like Kagura." Gintoki says.

Abuto's eyes widen. "They act alike?"

Gintoki nods. "They both stuff their faces, both are rude, energetic, freakin crazy, and strong. They really are siblings."

Abuto stares at Gintoki in amazement. "I really wish Captain would understand that they are the same."

Gintoki smiles. "Actually I think he's already realized it."

"Akira?" Souchi whispers.

Akira turns around looking at Souchi's face, emotions he couldn't place. "S-Souchi…" Akira sees it, the pain welling up in his chest as he sees Souchi's eyes start to water. "I…" Akira doesn't finish, realizing he had no idea what to say.

Suddenly, a scream resounds.

"The hell?" Akatsuki mutters, walking past Souchi and Akira. He looks into the distance, seeing tons of amanto walking towards them. Akatsuki realized the scream came from an amanto that was shot from one of the approaching amanto's gun. But, that's not what he really notices. "Get down!" Akatsuki screams.

The people that were fighting instinctively duck and cover. Akira without even thinking grabs Souchi, throwing him to the ground and throwing himself over Souchi to cover him. Akatsuki's the last to go down as a huge crack screeches.

When the sound passes everyone looks up to see what caused the noise.

"A cannon?!" Akira exclaims.

Akatsuki glares over at the crowd of amanto approaching. The cannon still had smoke coming out of the barrel. But, he's focused on someone in particular.

"Hey! Nice to see you all again!" Kakeru says, grinning.

"What the hell do you want?" Akatsuki growls.

Kakeru smirks, looking over at Shinpachi and Kagura who were still on their knees from the duck and cover. He laughs, his eyes brightening. "Nothing in particular."

A/N: I'm back people! Hell yeah!

How are you guys? Did you eat a lot of cookies when I was gone?

Okay, now to talk about this chapter. Sarutobi and Zenzou… Nobume used to be part of the organization called Naraku, which Oboro is a part of as of now. There isn't much information of Oboro's job except that he's an assassin and is affiliated with Sada Sada. So I'll try my best with his job and his… colleagues. (; *Cough* Hint *Cough*

What do you guys think Kakeru's going to do? Muwhahahaha. I did say that he will need to give a little motivation.

Until next chapter! (;