First of all, thank you for the great responses to this story. I'm glad there are people interested in reading it.

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C.A.M.E.O.1 and Only: Nice username! And IKR? the father's are probably strong like they are because they survive their wives eveyday. Thanks and hope you enjoy this chapter as well!

Guest: Like requested, prepare for some Mutsu and Sakamoto and their child! I dunno if I will make the other two couples though, especially since this is the first I heard of Hijikata X Nobume, but we'll see. Hope you like this one as well!

Mailrebel: nice username! Yay I'm glad you found it funny, I wasn't sure how to do the humor at first since it involved kids, but glad it worked out! here you go, Spoiler alert: Sakamoto and Mutsu! And since I was actually considering those two others you mentioned, look forward to their kid debut as well! Hope you have fun in this chapter again!

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"New friends can either be a blessing or a curse, old friends are just a pain in the *beep*"

At the Terminal:

"Oi, Stay still will ya?" Gintoki scolded his son.

Tokuyou gave him a blank look, before pulling down on one eye and sticking out his tongue.

"Make me old man!" He snided before running off again.

"Nii!" Rie squealed at her brother, attempting to go after him, but unable to due to her mother's tight grip on her hand.

"Rie, if you stay put, Mama will buy you an ice cream later." Tsukuyo offered.

To which the girl immediately responded to with a determined look, putting herself in an almost statue like stance.

"You don't have to stay that still, though." Tsukuyo commented, noticing her daughter's reaction.

Beside her, Gintoki sighed, "Should I get the run-away brat before they arrive?" he asked his wife.

From a short distance away, they could spot Tokuyou playing in the decorative fountain, splashing couples sitting nearby.

Tsukuyo found herself smiling at her son's antics, "No, it's okay, let him be for now. He'll probably just come back on his own when they arrive. You know how much he adores his uncle Sakamoto."

Gintoki let out a 'Tch!' as he cringed at Tokuyou got chased off by a terminal guard, he did not move to get him back, though.

"That Sakamoto better bring back plenty of gifts and souvenirs, after what he did to our place on his last visit." The stressed-out father muttered.

His wife let out a small laugh before caressing her husband's frowning face.

"You say that, yet you actually can't wait to see your friend again, right?" She chortled.

Unable to keep his face looking angry under his wife's touch, Gintoki begrudgingly smiled.

"As long as he at least brings the kids something, I'm good." he declared.

Watching her parents converse, Rie couldn't keep in her curiosity any longer.

"Mama, Is Uncle Sakamoto nice?" She asked, having been only a toddler the last time the merchant had come to Earth.

"He's nice, but also very...How do I say this?" Tsukuyo replied, trying to think of the right word.

"He's very weird." Gintoki suggested.

In an instant, he found himself on the ground, after a hard kick in the rear.


"That's mean, Kintoki! Don't believe him kid, I'm cool, just look at my sunglasses! Ahahaha!" A very familiar voice said with a very familiar laugh.

From the ground, Gintoki grumbled, "Shit, its here."

Earning himself another kick.

"Who are you calling an 'it'?" a hurt Sakamoto asked.

"You, You're definitely an 'It'." A deep female voice replied.

There, standing behind him, sporting a slightly more feminine outfit than her previous ones, was Mutsu.

Clutching her hand and looking at Rie with wide eyes was a little boy.

Tsukuyo spotted him, "Oh, I see you've grown up quite a bit, Shou." giving the boy a smile.

To her surprise, the child let go of his mother's hand and gave her a deep bow.

"I know we already met before, but that was when I was a small child. Allow me to introduce myself again. I am Shou, It's very nice to meet you!" The boy said in a firm voice.

Stopping herself from smiling, Tsukuyo bowed back to him, "It's nice to meet you too, Shou, I am Tsukuyo. You can call me Tsukki if you wish."

At this, Shou gave her a bewildered look, "No, I cannot! Please, may I call you Aunt Tsukuyo?"

"Oi oi, Relax Shou-kun, You don't have to be so formal, Tsukuyo, Rie and Tokuyou are family! And their pet Kintoki, Aahaha!" His father joked, giving his son a few pats on the back.

Gintoki immediately gave his old friend a kick in the face, "Who are you calling a pet? If anything, Mutsu and Shou are the family and you're the piece of bubblegum that got stuck under their shoes!"

"B-bubblegum!?" Sakamoto shrieked, "You're the stray hairs that get stuck on the drain in your family's shower!"

"H-hair!? Oi, it's not that curly, in fact, It's actually become more tame lately!" Gintoki replied, completely straying off topic after his insecurities were revisited.

The two old friends immediately began to squabble.

Passers by began to stare at their group and the two wives started to feel more and more embarrassed of their husbands.

The children, on the other hand, just stared with the 'We're used to it' look, at their fathers.

"Mutsu, help me!" Sakamoto yelled as Gintoki got the upper hand and put him in a headlock.

His wife gave him a glare, "Die, annoying bubblegum."

"Ha! She just gave up on you!" Gintoki laughed.

"You've got no room to talk, disgusting hairball, join him in the afterlife." Tsukuyo told her husband.

"But Honey!" The two simultaneously whined to their wives.


By the time the two idiots stopped fighting, Tsukuyo had already convinced little Shou to call her 'Aunt Tsukki' and Mutsu had gotten the approval of Rie, by letting her play with her long hair while they waited for the two immature men to stop fighting. Since Rie's whole family had short hair, this was definitely a treat for her.

The two husbands made their way back to their wives, exhausted.

"You two look like hell." Mutsu commented as they arrived.

"No, Gintoki always looks like that." Tsukuyo replied, eyeing her husband's messy hair, and dirty, bored face.

Rie, on the other hand, showed more concern for her father's condition and ran up to him.

"Papa," She began, cupping his face with her little hands, "You okay?"

This immediately made Gintoki smile.

He grabbed his daughter and gave her a hug, "Yeah, don't worry, Papa's good."

It was at this moment that Tokuyou arrived and, after seeing his father's messy appearance, rushed to Gintoki's side.

"Papa, what happened?" He asked, looking worried.

Gintoki let out a sad sigh, "The guard that chased you away from the fountain came looking for you," Gintoki began, getting a gasp out of Tokuyou, he continued, "But I couldn't give up my own son so I told him," changing his voice into a pleading tone, "'Please sir, if you want someone to punish, punish me instead! Just not my boy!'" back to his normal voice, "And so he beat the shit out of me." he finished with a shrug.

Tokuyou instantly burst into tears and hugged his father, "I'm so sorry Papa!" he bawled.

"What the hell, Gintoki!?" Tsukuyo shrieked, hitting her Husband in the back of the head.


At a restaurant at the Terminal:

"Nii, This is Shou-kun, introduce yourself, Nii!" Rie told her brother, poking him with his untouched chopsticks.

Tokuyou ignored her and continued to pout in his seat.

They were having lunch, but Tokuyou refused to eat, let alone talk to anyone.

Rie turned back to Shou, "Sorry, Nii is just shy that you saw him crying."

"I am not!" Tokuyou immediately defended himself, "I'm just still mad at that damn old man for tricking me like that!"

"Well you did disobey Papa and ran off." Rie replied, as she tried and failed to grab the food on her plate, with her chop sticks.

"I gotta get him back somehow." Tokuyou muttered, rubbing at his chin, "Oh! I should put curling formula in his shampoo! Ha! He'd have a cloud-head."

Rie grimaced at her brother's idea, "Nii, Papa won't like that, You'll get punished."

"Tokuyou-kun, you don't like your papa?" Shou suddenly asked, interrupting the siblings' conversation.

Tokuyou looked at him with surprise, "I-Its not like I hate him or anything, Just he gets on my nerves and we argue a lot, b-but-"

"But Nii still loves Papa and looks up to him! That's why he always starts a fight with Papa, he wants to be as strong as him!" Rie finished for her brother.

Blushing, Tokuyou growled at his sister, "Like heck I am! What gave you that idea!?"

Rie dropped her chop sticks and, with her bare hands, grabbed the food and ate it, "Mama told me!" she said while chewing.

Shou immediately burst out laughing, "You two are interesting!"

Then, catching himself doing something he deemed improper, Shou covered his mouth and tried to act like he did not just laugh at his new acquaintances.

"Oi, you don't have to be so uptight all the time, ya know?" Tokuyou told him.

"Uptight? But Okaa-san taught me to always be behaved and, to quote Okaa-san, 'Don't be like Otou-san.'" Shou argued.

"Is that so?" Tokuyou began, picking his nose, managing to look disinterested in a conversation that he himself started, "If you ask me, that's a boring way to live your life. You're a kid, How old are you? Eight? Act like a kid!"

Totally absorbed with Tokuyou's talk, Shou leaned in closer to the boy, "Like a kid? How?!"

Tokuyou flicked a booger away, "Simple, do what you want, say what you want, laugh, cry, make mistakes, be stupid." he told the bewildered boy, "You've only got a limited time to act like this so make the best of it."

Shou stared in awe at the boy picking his nose, his eyes had been opened.

"Shou, you done eating? Let's go wash your hands." Mutsu called to her son.

With a determined look on his face and a wild twinkle in his eyes, Shou got up and faced his mother, "No, I like it when my hands still smell like food, that way when I'm hungry again, I can just lick them."

Mutsu made a face, "That doesn't even make sense." But she sighed and let him be.

Breathing hard, Shou turned back to the Sakata siblings, "I did it!"

"Yeah, you did it, You made yourself look like an idiot." Tokuyou told him, "Licking your hand when you're hungry again? What the heck is that?"

"Shut up! You can't tell me what to do! I'm a kid so I can be stupid!" Shou yelled before stalking away.

As he passed by his father and Uncle Gintoki, whom were both enjoying a parfait each, the boy knocked both glasses to the ground, stuck his tongue out at them and ran off.

Tokuyou watched on with horror, as his father fell to his knees and cried for his parfait, while Sakamoto kept muttering 'My son, what happened to my son?".

"Rie," the boy began, "What have I unleashed?" he asked in a small voice.

"Apocalypse." Little Rie replied.


Kabuki-cho:

"I'm so sorry!" Shou cried, bawling against his mother.

After her son's behavior, Mutsu had gone and tracked him down, talked to him for a bit and, by the time they got back, Shou was back to his normal self again, much to Tokuyou's relief.

"Sorry about that," Mutsu apologized to Gintoki, whom was still teary eyed after mourning his fallen parfait.

"Being surround and raised by the whole Kaientai, Shou can be easily influenced by others' behaviors, depending on who he is with. He's very well behaved and clear minded with me but he can also be very loud and noisy with his father, as well as adopting the crew's personality when he's around them." Mutsu explained whilst hugging her crying son.

Tsukuyo looked at the boy with wonder, "Well then, what is he like when he's just by himself?"

At this, Mutsu smiled, "By himself, he's a quiet boy that really cares about the people around him. In the ship, he has his own room where he invents things to make some of the crew's job easier for them, Most don't work though, but its the thought that counts."

Hearing this, Tokuyou's interest became peaked, "You invent stuff, Shou?" he asked, excitedly.

Peeking from behind his mother's arms, Shou gave him a small nod.

"What about it?" The boy croaked, still sniffling.

"Cool!" Rie exclaimed.

"Yeah!" Tokuyou agreed, then a thought occurred to him, "Oh! You've got to meet Kou! He's smart like that too! Though he mostly does pranks, its still kind of the same thing."

At the word 'pranks' Shou's parents instantly looked concerned.

"We're actually gonna meet Kou and his brother and sister now, you wanna come?" Tokuyou continued.

"I don't think that's a good i-" Mutsu began, only to be stopped by her son.

"Okaa-san, please can I go? I promise I won't pick up anything, I'll be good." Shou pleaded, giving his mother a dose of puppy dogs eyes.

Behind Mutsu, Gintoki and Tsukuyo became indirectly hit by it and immediately began voicing their opinions about Shou's going.

"Maybe you should let him go, he looks sincere about behaving." Tsukuyo commented.

"Yes, Okaa-san, I swear I'll behave! Please Okaa-san!" Shou begged.

"Yeah, Please Okaa-san!" Gintoki repeated.

With a punch, she sent the idiot samurai flying, then, with her other hand, she caressed her son's cheek.

"Alright, Just be careful, okay?" Mutsu told him.

Shou dived at his mother with a hug, "Thank you, Okaa-san!"

Sakamoto stepped forward and patted his son's head, "Be back by dinner, or else Otou-san's gonna eat your share, ahaha!"

"I will, Otou-san!" Shou replied, giving his father a hug as well.

Then, remembering his manners, he gave the four adults a bow.

"Well then, I'll be off." he told them.

"Yeah, see ya!" Tokuyou said, giving a bored wave.

"Bye Mama! Bye Papa! Bye Uncle Sakamoto! Bye Aunt Mutsu!" Rie shouted.


On their way to the Okita's, Tokuyou began giving Sou his own version of the low down on his friends.

"So Kou, Hikaru and Kanna are siblings. Kou and Hikaru fight all the time because that's their thing. While Kanna is cute all the time because that's her thing. Kenji has glasses and a sword and he's normal, that's his thing. I'm the cool one , that's my thing. Rie is not as cute as Kanna, that's her thing. Got that?" immediately earning himself a small bite on the arm from his little sister.

"Stop lying, Nii!" Rie scolded.

Shou gave them both a face, "I'm confused."

"Don't worry, Shou-kun," Rie told him, "Kou likes to prank people but he's good inside. Hikaru is the nicer of the two brothers, he likes learning how to use a sword, Kana is my best friend and she's very nice but she can also be super strong and when her brothers fight, she stops them. Kenji is smart and very polite, he's the one that stops the rest of the boys, especially Nii, from doing stupid things. Nii is the one that gets everyone to do stupid things but gets lazy halfway and stops. He's nice though." The little girl filled Shou in.

"Wooow, thanks Rie. And what are you in the group?" Tokuyou snided.

"I'm the sweet one that looks after everyone after Nii makes them do something stupid!" The little girl said with a smile.

This got a small laugh from Shou.

"You guys all sound like fun." He said, "I hope I can fit in as well."

"Don't worry," Rie told him, "You will, Because you're nice too!"

Shou turned red all over, this being the first time he had ever been complimented, by someone other than people in the Kaientai.

"Thanks." He said, genuinely.

"Oh," Tokuyou began, remembering something, "Just to warn ya, Kanna is off limits. She and I sort of have a thing."

"No you don't! You're too shy to even talk to her sometimes." Rie argued.

Tokuyou turned redder than Shou, "S-shut up!" He cried.


About Mutsu and Sakamoto's kid's name: I chose Shou because it means to fly or to soar, which seems fitting for the son of space merchants whom have soared far and beyond.

*If you guys have name suggestions for other couple's kids I have not introduced yet, feel free to say them.

Til next time~!