I stared at the purple headed person with a blank expression. The rumor has been true. My brother was with Harusame. But my question was... why have I not been seeing him.
"Shineko-chan? You know him?" I heard Kamui ask from behind me and I just nodded. My eyes didn't leave the figure in front of me and neither did my brother's.
"What a way to have a family re-union..." Tak-kun said, being the first one to break the silence. His voice was cold. Nothing like the warm, loving voice I had heard few years ago.
I kept a straight face and I had also tried to keep the cold voice as the look I had been giving him turned to a glare. "What are YOU doing here? Why were you trying to kill my captain?"
He pulled a smirk on his face, and my glare hardened. "Looks like he's more than a captain to you."
My eyes twitched. "Ew. Please. I wouldn't even start to like this creep."
"Thanks. Neither would I," Kamui mumbled from behind.
"Shut up."
Shinsuke let out a laugh. "And you said the same thing about Gintoki."
The grip on my katana tightened as he said those words. "Don't bring that up in front of them."
He just smirked than snapped his fingers. Immediately, Kamui and I were swarmed by Amantos.
I scoffed. "What's this? Shinsuke, I know you know that I'm not that weak."
"Never know, would we?" was his answer before an Amanto jumped at us. I slit the Amanto in two with ease.
I ignored Kamui's wolf whistle as more came at us. I slit each and every one of them until a yell came from behind me.
"Shineko-chan! Behind you!"
I immediately turned around but a figure stood right in front of me almost after a second I turned around and the figure's shoulder was stabbed with a katana.
"Kamui!" I cried as the Amanto pulled out his sword out of Kamui's shoulder. "Are you all right?" I asked as he stood on the ground and putting his right hand over his wound on his left shoulder.
"Before you worry about me, I think you have to start worrying about yourself," he mumbled than brought up his right arm and it slashed above my head, side ways. A agonizing cry escaped from something behind me, following with loud 'THUMP' on the ground.
I turned around to see a dead Amanto with his head rolling by the side of his body. He was headless.
"I'll guard your back while you slaughter the others," said Kamui as he took his place behind me.
I smirked. "Never thought I'd be doing this with you."
"Neither did I."
As more Amantos came at us, we just killed each and every one of them with ease. This had brought a memory back into my mind.
The blood. The screams. The strength of each Amantos.
Joui War.
Kill them.
Kill each and every one of them.
Slew each and every one of the figures in front of me.
Kill them.
I let out a battle cry as more came.
Kill.
Kill.
Kill.
The only word that was swarming in my mind.
Kill.
Shinsuke stared as his crazed little sister.
She had lost it.
Her pupil was blank but the evil smile on her face was something else.
He stood in the shadows as he watched Kamui and Shineko kill the Amantos.
Kamui wasn't supposed to be able to move after getting shot. Yet, he was slaughtering all the Amantos like they're nothing.
'And I was supposed to have a fight with that Samurai...' Kamui thought as he split one of the 12th Squad members with his bare arm.
Shinsuke narrowed his eyes at Kamui as he watched him fight. 'He was supposed to be dead.'
Then his eyes turned to his sister. 'Only if she didn't interrupt...' He first didn't believe that his little sister was alive, but after seeing how she had gotten crazed after seeing blood and dead bodies and how she had lost her mind, he immediately knew that it was her. But how could she be alive? He had seen an Amanto kill her right in front of him and the others. He had remembered how he had cried his eyes out over her dead body. He had remembered how they all had a funeral for his sister and burned her body. He had remembered how he saw Gintoki cry in Gintoki's room, alone, at the night after the funeral. He had remembered Shineko's last words before her soul left her body. Well, that was supposed to happen. But was this possible? How could she come back to life? What happened during the years he haven't seen her? Had Katsura not told him about something? Were his ex-comrades hiding something from him?
What happened to her?
A battle cry was heard from behind him, snapping him out of his thought. He turned around to see Shineko coming at him. He raised his katana (sword) and blocked her attack.
"Kamui! Now!" she yelled and suddenly, he felt a presence behind his back. He turned his face around to see Kamui right behind him, his hand raised.
As Kamui brought his hand down above Shinsuke's head, Shinsuke grabbed hold of his sister's arm that held onto her katana, twisted to his left then ran his katana halfway through Kamui's already-wounded left shoulder. Kamui winced in pain then jumped back, grabbing hold of his wounded shoulder.
Amantos immediately surrounded them as Shineko took her stance next to Kamui after getting out of Shinsuke's grip. Kamui stood up next to her, keeping a smile on his face as he glared at every single of the Amantos.
"They keep coming and coming won't they? Like ants..." he whispered.
"Just kill them," Shineko mumbled then they began their continuation of an bloody massacre.
After a large amount of time of shedding Amantos' blood, Kamui suddenly dropped onto his knees and Shineko ran to beside him.
"Shineko...chan..." he said between breathes as his head began to pound and his whole body began to grow heavy, "I think I...can't... make it...' then he passed out.
"Tch," she mumbled under her breath as another group of Amantos began to come at her, "useless wart."
"Siblings?"
I glared at Admiral Asshole as I sat next to my supposed-so-be brother. We were in the dining hall with Admiral Asshole sitting at the end of the table/beside to me and the leader of the 12th squad Kourou sitting on the opposite to me and my brother.
The out of the four of us stared at me and my brother, amazed; and one out of the four of us just ate in silence; and the last just glared at the food that sat right in front of her.
I just glared at the pile of food sat in front of me.
I was mad. I was mad at myself for losing myself. I was mad at myself for letting Kamui end up in prison. I was mad at how I had to meet my long-lost brother like this...as a criminal, myself.
I was supposed to be happy that I had been able to meet my beloved brother but... fate was being mean to me... us.
Even if I had known my brother was with Harusame, I just didn't want to meet him like...like that. That was a horrible way to have a family reunion.
"Takasugi and Shineko are...siblings?" Admiral Asshole said, pointing his pointer finger at either of us.
"You should have realized that," I grumbled under my breath, "we have same last names with same Kanji's."
"Oh! I d-did! I just didn't get my mind to believe it," he stuttered, "I mean, there are people who has same last names..."
"Not in this story or neither in Gintama except for us and two more..." I mumbled.
"Did you say something?" the admiral asked.
"Nothing," I grumbled.
"Anyway, Takasugi," Admiral Asshole looked at my brother, "you did an amazing job!" More like he failed, completely to me. "There are no longer any rogue elements that would oppose to me!" Hey, there's one right here. "You also performed admirably, Kouro."
"No, sir, Admiral Assho- I mean, Abo. I was simply performing one of the duties as the 12th squad captain. Now that Kamui has made an example, the captains who have been supporting Kamui will come to their senses and swear to serve you and only you."
"Although, it was kind of a waste..." Shinsuke spoke up for the first time, "that kid took enough poison to instantly leave an elephant incapacitated, but he was able to fend off an Amanto's blade and also mine, then kill another scores of Amantos...and smiling the entire time. I have a feeling that his absence will be far more damaging than what he did to your men."
"I won't matter. It won't matter," said Admiral Asshole, making my eyes grow large, "your Kiheitai can fill the place he had left behind."
What the hell?
Kiheitai? Which means... My head turned to my brother as he stood up from the chair.
"Sorry, but I'll pass," Shinsuke had said, "it's better to be the head of a cat than the head of a lion. I'd rather be a bandit chief than a pirate or a bigwig." He began walking towards the exit, and I followed him from behind. "Besides, I'm not giving up the name of Kiheitai."
"Then allow me to compensate you," Admiral Asshole called.
"I don't need anything," Shinsuke answered, "let's keep it simple, just like before."
"Shin-"
"Shineko."
I was abruptly interrupted by my brother as soon as I called for him after we had exited the dining hall.
"...what?" I said.
"Why are you here? Why are you alive? What happened while I was away? You're supposed to be staying on earth. Not in the space where its filled with danger."
"That's none of your business," was my answer.
I heard him sigh then say, "We're going to earth."