Disclaimer: I still don't own Gintama, Sorachi Hideaki does.
A/N: I got this up as soon as I could since I'm still dealing with my health problems and also writing more of this fic and another fic. Enjoy!
Chapter 5
Things were a bit awkward for a bit but the morning of her birthday, Kagura was giddy!
"Wake up, Shinpachi! Gin-chan!" she shouted happily.
Both Shinpachi and Gin were just really tired but got up anyways.
"Hey Kagura, let's go see Ane-ue. Gin-san has a job to do, okay?" Shinpachi told Kagura after they ate breakfast.
Her face fell as she asked, "But...my birthday?"
"It won't take long, just go bug Otae for a bit," Gin suggested.
Kagura pouted a bit but left with Shinpachi. Before he left with her, Gin reminded him of when to take her to the tea shop. Once they left, Gin got ready and left to the tea house to prepare.
"Anego-chan! This isn't fair! It's my birthday and he's working!" Kagura complained to Otae.
"Don't worry, it'll only be for a few hours. Let's just relax, Kagura-chan," Otae said reassuringly.
Shinpachi smiled as he told Kagura, "Don't panic, we'll have a lot of fun later with everyone anyway."
"Really?" Kagura asked timidly.
Shinpachi smiled and said, "Yeah, a lot of friends want to see you since it's been so long."
As Kagura, Shinpachi and Otae sat talking and relaxing, Gin was just arriving at the house.
"Gintoki! Finally, we need to disguise you so we can start working!" Katsura scolded like a mother.
"Yeah, yeah," Gin muttered as he noticed a bunch of familiar faces: Tsukuyo, Hinowa, Seita, Kondou, Yamazaki, Tama, Catherine, Otose and more.
"Ah, so the punk who can't pay his rent is finally here?" Otose teased.
"Baba, stop getting on me so much," he said.
"Sakata-baka has arrived," Catherine mocked.
"Shut up, cat-lady," Gin said as he went with Katsura to get into a disguise.
Once Gin got a disguise, they all began decorating the tea house for the party at noon. By noon, Kagura started whining for lunch.
"Anego-chan! I'm so hungry!" she pleaded.
Shinpachi chuckled and Otae suggested, "Let's go eat in the tea house."
"Ok, but it won't be much fun without Gin-chan," she said sadly.
Grinning, Otae said, "We'll see."
While the three head to the tea house, Gin and the others are putting on the finishing touches. Tsukuyo and Seita were just putting the candles on the cake while Ayame, Kyuubei and Catherine put up some last minute streamers.
Just as they finished, they heard three knocks on the door, Otae's signal. They all hid until Otae, Shinpachi, Kagura and Sadaharu came into the dark tea house.
"Anego-chan, why's it so dark in-" she started to ask before the lights were flipped on and everyone shouted, "Happy Birthday Kagura-chan!"
Kagura cried a bit and smiled before she picked Gin out, just out of his disguise, and punched him. Everyone was shocked until she hugged him afterwards.
"Stupid Gin-chan! I thought you didn't want to celebrate my birthday with me," Kagura said through tears.
Gin smiled despite his bloody nose and just hugged her. Everyone cheered and Kagura marvelled at how just about all of Kabuki-chou was there: all the Shinsengumi, Otose, Tama, Catherine, Hedoro, Saigou, Kyoushiro. Hachirou, Katsuo, Pirako, Jirochou, Tetsuko, Tatsumi, Heiji, Haji, Nobume, Gengai, Hasegawa and Hatsu and many more.
"Yay, thank you all! This will be an amazing birthday, yes?" Kagura shouted happily.
Since it was lunch and Kagura and the rest were so hungry, they ate first. They had a whole banquet of food, courtesy of the Yagyuu family, that Kagura drooled over before digging in. Once everyone chowed down enough, Otae called for cake time.
"Since you're the birthday girl, you make a wish and then blow out the candles, Kagura-chan," Otae advised her.
"Hai," Kagura answered her as she thought of a wish. Once she made up her mind she blew all the candles out without blowing the whole cake away, just a candle up Gin's nose.
"Hey! Watch it Kagura!" he playfully scolded her as he dug the candle out of his nose.
Grinning, Kagura took the knife from Otae as she also had to make the first cut into the cake as well. Once the cake and ice cream were served, Otae figured it was time for presents.
"Kagura-chan, this party was part of mine and Shin-chan's present along with Gin-san but there's more!" she explained.
Excited, Kagura sat as people brought her gifts. First was Hedoro who brought a beautiful exotic plant.
"Thanks, it's beautiful Hedoro!" she said.
Hedoro blushed a bit before the next person came up. Next was Okita who gave her a dvd case.
Puzzled, she asked, "Hm, what is this?"
"Watch it later along, it's something really funny," he whispered before the next person came up.
This continued for a good while until everybody was eating, talking and laughing till late. Many of the Shinsengumi left to keep an eye on HQ and work, all except Hijikata, Okita, Kondou and Yamazaki. Yamazaki stayed mostly for Tama and Kondou for Otae. Okita stayed to mess with Kagura and Hijikata while Hijikata stayed to watch over the boneheads who stayed. Everyone partied till late until most everyone left except for Otae, Kagura, Gin, Shinpachi, Kondou, Okita, Hijikata and Otsuu.
"Um, do you mind if I walk you home, Otsuu-san?" Shinpachi asked sheepishly.
Otsuu smiled and agreed as she took his hand to go.
"I had a great time and Happy Birthday Kagura-chan, corn poop!" she said before leaving.
"Thanks, Otsuu-chan!" Kagura responded with glee.
Kondou and Otae left for home but not before Kagura hugged Otae and thanked her. Hijikata decided to take Okita back to headquarters as he was pretty drunk.
"No I'm-hic-not Hiji-hic-kata-san," Okita stuttered before he fell on Hijikata.
He sighed and dragged him out of the house.
"Well, time for home then Kagura," Gin suggested.
Kagura grinned and grabbed his arm as they left to the Yorozuya.
While they were leaving, Okita and Hijikata were driving back to headquarters. Hijikata was trying to drive when Okita put his hand on Hijikata's thigh!
Shocked, Hijikata asked, "What the hell are you doing?"
Before he answered, Okita started rubbing his thigh and replied, "What, don't like this? Come on, Hijikata-san."
He shuddered before grabbing Okita's hand and took it off his thigh.
"Let's just get back to HQ, okay Sougo?" he said as they went on back to driving.
Once back there, Hijikata took Okita back to his own room. Before he could leave, Okita grabbed him around the waist and kissed him full on the mouth. Too shocked to react, he kissed Hijikata sloppily after he said, "Aishiteru Hijikata-san."
Okita passed out on Hijikata after that and Hijikata was speechless.
"Alright," Hijikata spoke aloud in the emptiness of the room.
He laid him in his futon before leaving to go to bed himself. He figured that changing him for bed would bring trouble so he had left him in his normal kimono.
While this was all going on there, Gin and Kagura are back at the Yorozuya.
"I'm going to bed, you should too birthday girl," Gin said as he went to change for bed.
Once he did, Kagura popped the dvd into the player and started to watch. It started from the park and she was getting to the ice cream parlor when Gin came out to brush his teeth. She blocked the screen and he thought that was odd.
"Ypu're not watching my porn, are you?" Gin questioned suspiciously.
Kagura gulped and couldn't answer.
Gin just said, "Don't stay up too late, okay?"
He went and brushed his teeth and went to sleep. Once he left again, she unpaused it and continued where she left off. She giggled at how Gin and Hijikata acted but really cracked up at the movie theater. Both Gin and Hijikata were so stressed out over that date! She was interested how he reacted so differently but kept watching. The end was both horrifying and hilarious as they kicked both those idiots' butts after that stupid kiss.
She turned it off and put the dvd where it would be safe, before she went to bed. She hadn't been asleep long when she woke up because of a nightmare. She stole into Gin's room and slept there. Kagura hadn't noticed that he had been awake from his own nightmare when she came in. His sheets were a bit soaked from his sweating but they had dried by the time she'd gotten there. He let her stay there and they ended up still alseep by noon.
The weeks passed by with not much change except Gin being a bit uneasy with Kagura and Hijikata avoiding Okita like the plague. One day in mid-December, Hijikata was eating lunch when Kondou came to his room.
"Toushi, can we talk?" he asked as he came with his own lunch.
Shrugging, Hijikata said, "Sure, Kondou-san."
As he sat down, Hijikata layered on mayonaisse on his own food like always.
Kondou asked, "Why are you avoiding Sougo, Toushi?"
He stopped eating and hesitated before he answered, "Um, no reason. I'm just busy is all."
Perplexed, Kondou continued, "Even when you see him in the cafeteria, you run from him because you're busy?"
Gulping, Hijikata said, "I just forgot some paperwork that I had to do at that moment. It's nothing, Kondou-san."
"Then why has this only been since China's birthday party? Did something happen after I left Toushi?"
A little too quickly, he answered his boss, "No, no. I'm going to quickly finish eating and do some more paperwork, okay?"
As Hijikata finished his food, Kondou wondered if he knew the whole truth.
Before he left after eating, Kondou put his hand on Hijikata's shoulder and said, "If there's anything you need to talk about, you can talk to me, Toushi."
Once Kondou left, Hijikata sighed heavily. He got his paperwork ready and started on it when another knock came on his door.
He sighed as he asked, "Who is it?"
"Me," Okita responded in his usual bored tone.
Shocked but trying to hide it, Hijikata said, "What then? I'm doing paperwork."
Okita slid open the door and said as he stepped in, "Can we talk?"
"Sit down and close the door when you come in. Now what?" he asked a bit roughly.
"You're avoiding me. Why?" the sadist asked bluntly.
"You and Kondou-san are in sync today, huh? He just asked me that," the mayo addict replied.
"Well? Did I do something happen? It didn't start until after China's birthday party. I was pretty drunk so I can't remember what happened. i woke up in my futon still dressed from the party with a hangover. So what did I do?" he asked.
"If you don't remember, then it doesn't matter anymore. It's water under the bridge now," Hijikata clumsily responded.
"Why are you acting like we-" Okita started to say before he stopped suddenly.
Silence followed for a minute before Hijikata denied, "No, no! You just...kissed me and said something stupid," as he blushed just a tad.
Okita blinked before saying, "Kissed you? What did I say exactly?"
"I'm not repeating it. It was something you say to a spouse or something but let's forget about this. Go back to work and I'm going to do my paperwork," the mayo lover quickly told his subordinate as he pushed him out and shut the door.
Confused, Okita decided to go pay China and Danna a visit.
A knock was heard and Kagura decided to get up.
"Kagura, where are you going?" Gin asked as he rubbed his eyes.
She kissed him on the forehead and said, "Gin-chan, go get some food. I think it's noon since I'm so hungry, I'll get the door."
Gin nodded as he reluctantly got up and trudged off to the kitchen. Kagura went and opened the door and, to her surprise, it was Okita.
She blinked and said quizzically, "Sadist?"
Kagura let him in and he sat down on one of the couches but not before Gin gave him an odd look. She told him that her and the sadist needed to talk for a minute.
"Alright, lunch will be a bit of time anyways," Gin said as he waved her off.
She smiled before running to see what Oktia wanted to talk about.
"Um, China, how drunk did I get?" he asked vaguely.
Confused, Kagura replied, "Drunk enough that mayo samurai had to carry you back. Why?"
"He's been avoiding me since then and I confronted him today. He said that...I kissed him and, well, I think I might have slipped my secret," the sadist clumsily said.
Kagura was surprised but chuckled a bit too.
"What?" he asked sharply.
"Nothing, maybe you should just go confess and get it over with," Kagura suggested.
With a bewildered look on his face, the sadist thought about it.
"But he's my superior and he loved Ane-ue. Besides, Kondou-san will freak out and why would he like me? I try to kill him all the time," Okita rationalized.
She rolled her eyes and smacked him on the face lightly enough to get him to shut up.
"Try him before you give up besides you never know. he did act pretty jealous with the date and all, yes?" Kagura pushed him.
"Maybe but you too China," he quipped before he got up and headed out.
As he was leaving, Gin asked him, "What, not staying for lunch?"
"Nah, I skipped work to come here, Danna. Another time," the sadist said before he left.
Gin finished up lunch and as he set up the table, he asked, "So I happened to overhear-"
"You eavesdropped," Kagura stated blandly.
"Whatever, you were trying to make mayo samurai jealous?" he asked pointedly.
Knowing that she couldn't lie anymore, Kagura confessed, "Yes, but Sadist didn't know about it till we were on the date. He wanted to ask me just now about what happened at my birthday party."
Gin was a bit surprised but then chuckled and said, "You little minx, I should have known."
Embarassed, she asked sheepishly, "So what now?"
Gin just hugged her to him and kissed her on the head.
"Let's eat first and talk later," he decided before they ate lunch.
After they ate, they discussed how she felt about him.
"Since when?" he asked.
"Hm?" Kagura asked in confusion.
"When did you start to, you know, fall for me?" Gin asked, embarassed.
"To be honest, I think I always loved you for most of the time I knew you but i didn't realize it for a while. I think it was when I left and was gone from Earth for a few months that I started to realize it as love," she attempted to explain.
With a stunned look on his face, Gin couldn't say anything for a bit.
"Gin-chan? Are you okay?" Kagura asked worriedly.
In answer, Gin kissed her full on the mouth. She was shocked and, as she opened her mouth in surprise, he slipped his tongue in her mouth. Before she knew it, she bit his tongue.
"Sorry, Gin-chan," Kagura apologized profusely after the kiss as Gin put ice in his mouth.
"It's fine, I shouldn't have done that. It was your fir-no, second kiss so you didn't know about that. Relax," Gin said as he kissed her softly.
She kissed back eagerly, albeit inexperienced as she was.
When they parted, Gin sighed, "What can I do with you now?"
Just then, Shinpachi came in unannounced and froze.
"Gin-san, Kagura-chan, what are you doing?" he asked.
"Time to explain, Gin-chan," she urged him.
Gin sighed as he started to explain alongside Kagura. Stunned, Shinpachi couldn't speak.
When he could speak, he shrieked, "What?"
Later at the Shinsengumi, things were winding down while some were out on patrol. Oddly enough, Kondou put Okita and Hijikata out on patrol together. Hijikata sighed as Kondou was trying to get them to make up. While they were silent in the car for a bit, Okita broke the silence.
"Hijikata-san," the sadist said.
He looked at him out of the corner of his eye and went back to driving. Most people would think he was ignoring you but Okita knew he was silently telling to say something then.
"Can I tell you something?" Okita asked.
Hijikata sighed and said, "Yeah, I guess."
"I told you something when I was drunk and-" he started but the mayo addict grabbed his arm.
"Forget it," he said but Okita continued, "Let me finish."
Hijikata relented and continued driving.
"Well," Okita said with a flush on his face, "I didn't mean to tell you but I meant it."
Trying to hide the shock on his face, he smoked a cigarette and continued driving. They continued on in silence until Okita grabbed Hijikata's hand. Stunned, he tried to grab his hand back but Okita held firm. He kissed the mayo addict's knuckles and seemed a bit shy about it.
When he released it, he sheepishly said, "Sorry, I probably freaked you out. Why would you like someone who's tried to kill-"
Hijikata stopped the car and kissed him on the lips. Both were shocked st the action but were silent. They went back on patrol and as Hijikata went back to his room, Okita looked at him before going to bed.
Hijikata went and changed for bed. When he went to lay down, after going to brush his teeth, he was shocked to find Okita in his bed.
"Sougo, what the?" he asked as he stumbled for words.
Okita seemed a bit embarassed but asked, "Can I stay here tonight?"
"What about-" he tried to ask but Okita put a finger to his lips.
"I'll sneak back before work," the sadist decided.
Before he could protest, the sadist kissed the mayo addict and all protest died on his lips. They kissed and Okita led him to the futon. As they made out, Hijikata was amazed at all of this but just went along swith it all. When Okita started to undress, Hijikata just stared. He chuckled at his superior's reactions and undressed him as well. Weirdly enough, they made love and slept in each other's arms.
Oddly enough, Gin and Kagura ended up in a similar situation.
Gin had gone to brush his teeth for bed and came back to sleep and Kagura was already hidden in his futon.
"Kagura, time for bed-" he said until he pulled the covers back and found something shocking.
Before he could protest, Kagura kissed him and dragged with her in the futon. She shed his clothing until they were in the same state and made love. They fell asleep in each other's arms. Both slept so peacefully that the consequences weren't even thought of.
A/N: I hope you enjoyed this chapter and were satisfied with the lime. I am really not so good with this stuff so that is the maximum I will write. I might be helping my friend again in the future with her fic so please be patient for the next chapter along with my stupid health problems. See you all next chapter!