Mailrebel: Well I find your username cool. Thanks, glad I'm not making the interactions weird or out of character, also very happy that you liked Mutsu, it was hard characterizing her as a mother, then I saw that she pretty much mothers Sakamoto anyway, and it got easier lol. Yeah Rie is gonna be the cuteness queen of this series, and Tokuyou, as well as Kenji and Kou, are eleven, which is the oldest age of the kids that will be featured here. Sorry about the confusion, that's my fault because I actually wrote him a bit older in the first chapter, but decided that it was weird for a 12 year old to have a crush on an eight year old Kanna, so I lowered his age, plus a dash of immaturity. Hope you enjoy this chapter as well!

C.A.M.E.O.1 and Only:Haha sorry that you find Sakamoto's laugh annoying, it actually makes me feel like laughing along whenever I hear it, but to each their own. Glad you like Mutsu and Shou. Also, don't worry, I promise to show many other pairings and their kids in the future, as for Shinpachi... Are pandemoniums and humans able to have a kid together? haha! Hope you like this one too!

ilhamblasterman: As much as I love GinTsu, I don't think I'll put a lot of focus on the parents and the pairings for that generation, this is a story mostly about the kids, but I might put in a small Ginstu scene here and there, don't worry. Hope you enjoy this chapter too!

Elfetrange: Aw thanks, glad you liked the story and enjoyed it. Makes me really happy. As for your questions, I actually thought about this stuff, but, I plan to address them inside the story itself, basically in a way that the kids discover more and more things about their parents and their parents' friends and past. That's why I don't put fourth wall explanations about them, so you gotta stay tuned hehe! (Good strategy too keep people reading right? lol) Hope you enjoy this chapter as well!


"Different Generation, Same annoyance."

"I'm bored." Kanna whined.

The kids were on a school field trip at the Edo museum and it was being a snooze.

The eldest Sakata child watched and waited until their chaperone was out of earshot.

With a hand, he gestured for the others to stop.

"Hey guys," the eleven year old menace began, "I just thought of something fun."

Rie gave her brother a look, every time he said that phrase, they always got into trouble.

"Nii!" She complained.

Tokuyou waved a lazy hand at her, "Don't worry, its not gonna be like the other times. This time its gonna be really great, and we won't be caught at all!"

The Okita siblings immediately brightened up, "Let's do it!" They chorused.

Kenji made a face as he watched his cousins get excited, "This won't end well." He sighed.

As quietly as their little feet could be, the brats snuck out of sight of their oblivious field trip group.

With a trollish smile, reminiscent of his father, Tokuyou turned to his friends, "Follow me."


"Woah!" Hikaru let out.

The kids had managed to find themselves at the historical wars exhibit.

There they stood in awe at the monument that was erected at the very entrance.

Little Rie came up beside her brother, pulling at his sleeve frantically.

"Nii, is that Mama?" She asked whilst pointing at the silver likeness of Tsukuyo, that was a part of the monument.

With his mouth hanging open, Tokuyou nodded.

His eyes weren't focused on his mother though.

There, at the very center of the display, surrounded by all the kids' parents and relatives, was his father, Sakata Gintoki in shining silver.

The boy's throat had ran dry, his eyes unable to leave the expression on his father's face, an expression so different from his usual dead-fish-eyed one.

Beside him, another son was also having a strange reaction to the display.

With the scar being very prominent in silver, Kenji couldn't help stare at it on his Father's face.

Next to him, looking elegant and strong at the same time, was his mother.

"They look so..." Kenji began, unable to find the words to describe all the things the monument made him feel.

"Amazing!" Kou exclaimed, completing Kenji's sentence for him.

The boy ran up to Sougo and Kagura's silver versions.

The two were positioned next to each other, Kagura's umbrella and Sougo's sword, held out by their owners, side by side, with powerful looks on their faces.

"Cool!" the boy let out, his eyes reflecting the sparkle of the silver.

"Mami and Papi look so strong." Kanna commented, appearing next to her brother.

"Right?" Kou agreed, excitedly.

Hikaru wordlessly made his way to his siblings as well.

He looked up at his parents, but his eye drifted to the man beside his father.

"Uncle Hijikata looks cool as well." He let out.

With a radio on one hand, and his sword on the other, the demon vice-chief looked like he was paused in a moment of danger, and was turned into silver.

"Yeah, he does look good in his pose," Kou agreed.

It was then that he spotted something in the monument.

His face went dark, "What's that though?"

Following the direction he was pointing at, the others found themselves also grimacing.

"Is that who I think it is?" Kenji asked.

The rest nodded solemnly.

There, behind the breathtaking figures of the main heroes of the war, was a huddled, beat-up, dressed in cardboard, Madao.

"Why the hell did they add him to the monument in the first place, if they were just gonna put him in such an embarrassing position!?" Kenji yelled.

"Somehow I feel really sorry for Uncle Hasegawa." Tokuyou muttered, rubbing at his chest uncomfortably.

Hikaru made a face, "I think everyone feels sorry for Uncle Madao."

"Don't call him Madao then if you feel sorry, Oi!" Kenji scolded.

The Okita siblings shrugged, "It's what Mami calls him."

"What are you teaching your kids, Aunt Kagura!?" Kenji exclaimed.

Tokuyou tapped the stressed out boy on the shoulder, "Relax Kenji-yo. If you keep straight-manning like that, you're gonna end up like Uncle Glasses."

"Your father is not teaching you good things either!" Kenji snapped at him, "It's uncle Shinpa-"

The boy paused, realized what he was saying.

In an instant, he was on his knees, his hands covering his face, "Wah! I'm turning into Uncle Glasses!"

"Its okay, Kenji-kun, I like Uncle Glasses." Rie said while patting his head.

"That doesn't help." Kenji sobbed through his fingers.


The others grimaced at their sobbing friend.

"Kenji, tone it down a bit, will ya?" Tokuyou told him.

"Yeah, You're being too loud." Kou agreed.

Just as he said that, the chaperone that they had snuck out on, appeared around the corner.

"There you are!" He shrieked.

The kids gasped.

"Run!" Tokuyo yelled.

The kids immediately began to flee.

"Kyaa!" Kanna let out, though she looked more like she was having fun, than scared.

"Aaah, It's the plain face!" Kou shouted.

"Stop calling me that, Oi!" Their chaperone whined.

"Go choke on some anpan!" Hikaru snided.

"That's not something a kid should say to an adult!" The poor guy cried.

"What adult? All I see is a forty year old virgin!" Tokuyou replied.

"I'm not a virgin! Stop spreading around that I am!" The man shouted.

"What's a virgin?" Rie asked.

"Gyaah! Don't say that word Rie, your father will kill me!" The chaperone screamed.

Just as the kids were about to out run him, The chaperone was blessed by the passing by of a tour group, whom blocked the children's path.

"Move!" Tokuyou desperately yelled.

He was almost through the crowd of tourist, when a hand grabbed him by the collar.

"Got ya!" The chaperone said triumphantly.

Tokuyou turned to face him, an angry look on his face.

With one hand, he gave the chaperone the middle finger, "Fuck you, Jimmy."

The chaperone's eye twitched, "That's Uncle Yamazaki to you!"


Yamazaki sighed, "Seriously, I only did this chaperone thing as a favor to your parents. Cut me some slack will ya? I'm not enjoying myself here either."

Tokuyou made a face at him.

"You know you shouldn't tell the kids you want to get along with, that you aren't enjoying their company." The brat retorted.

"You're the ones who ran out on me though!" Yamazaki replied.

They were outside the museum now.

After that chase and disrupting the tours, their group had been kicked out.

Six kids and one Jimmy sat on the outside steps, with solemn faces.

"What are we gonna do now, Uncle Yamazaki?" Kanna asked, her chin resting on both hands, looking bored again.

The spy looked around them at their surroundings.

His eyes lit up when he spotted something nearby.

"Hey, you kids hungry?" Yamazaki asked, enthusiastically.

Waving a hand at him, Hikaru replied, "What's there to eat?"

Yamazaki pointed behind them.

"Pick what you want." He said as the kids' eyes widened at the sight he indicated to.

There, in the midst of being set up, was a food fair.

"Yay!" They chorused, immediately getting up.

"I want something sweet!" Rie squealed.

"Me too! You think they have candied apples?" Tokuyou added.

"I just want any food that isn't burned to oblivion." Kenji muttered.

"I'm gonna eat everything!" Kou declared.

"You mean that metaphorically right?" Yamazaki asked, worried.

"Meta-what-what? And I mean it like I'm gonna eat everything!" Kou replied.

"Everything!" Kanna repeated.

"Everything!" Hikaru said a third time.

With that, the kids ran off towards the stalls.

"Gyaah! Wait, your parents didn't give me enough money for 'everything'!" Yamazaki screamed, "Wait!"


After seriously depleting their uncle's personal funds.

The kids and their now depressed uncle, were walking back to their homes.

"Thanks uncle Yamazaki!" Kanna said with the sweetest smile, patting her satisfied belly.

Trying to smile back, Yamazki replied, "S-sure, anytime Kanna-chan."

"Hey Uncle Yamazaki, are you crying a bit?" Kou asked, noticing a slight shine around the spy's eyes.

"N-nah, I just finished yawning, that's all. Hih!" Yamazaki let out.

"If you're not crying, what was that sobbing noise just now?" Hikaru asked.

Kenji patted him on the shoulder, "Guys, I think you should drop it, The man is barely keeping it in."

"I don't know what you're talking about!" Yamazaki shouted before covering his face with his arms and bursting into tears.


"What's up with him?" Tokuyou asked, pointing at the still teary Yamazaki.

"To-kun, have some tact, weren't you following anything that was going on just now?" Kenji asked.

The boy shrugged his shoulders, "Not really."

Kenji sighed, deciding not to pursue the matter further.

"Sorry," Tokuyou apologized, "I was thinking about something, I didn't realize."

"What were you thinking about, Nii?" Rie asked.

Tokuyou scratched at the back of his head, "I can't get that monument out of my head. It's just really unbelievable."

"I mean," He continued, "How come they looked so amazing, strong and whatever in that monument, but so different in real life?"

The other kids silently nodded in agreement, it was quite puzzling to them.

The parents they had grown up with seemed nothing like those hardcore heroes portrayed in the monument.

Their silver versions exuded power, beauty, bravery and, in the kids' opinions, looked super cool.

Yet, in their everyday life, all their parents exuded were boogers, laziness, violence, dumb jokes and outright goofiness.


Deep in thought about their parents, the children failed to notice that Yamazaki had stopped crying.

"They're different in real life because that's how they really are." The spy said out loud.

six confused eyes stared back at him.

He gave them a small smile.

"Your parents, the way they act now, that's just who they really are, and who they have always been." Yamazaki continued, "Sure, that monument caught them, caught us, in a moment where we looked cool or amazing, and then you compare that to what you see everyday and it looks really different. But its not. That part depicted by the monument, and the part you kids are exposed to at home, makes up your parents' whole selves. The reason why you don't really see the previous part that much is because we don't need to pull it out of ourselves right now. We live in peaceful times nowadays, and your parents are happy and living a great life because they have you kids. They may not have to take up weapons now to protect what they love, but they still do it in different ways, They protect you by teaching you what's right and wrong, they protect you by scolding you even if you feel like it's unfair, they protect you when they act like total idiots because you know, by their stupid antics and actions, that there is nothing to worry about. Because that part shown in the monument is not surfacing, then that means all is well."

The kids continued to stare at him.

He made a face, "Er, do you guys get what I'm saying?"

The children simultaneously tilted their heads to the side.

"Kinda." Kou replied.

Yamazaki sighed, finding it both amusing and exasperating.

"Just don't worry about it, is what I'm trying to say." He said, he looked up at the now orange and red sky, "twelve years ago, Your parents fought in the war for Earth, so they could protect and save what they love. They fought so that you kids, and the rest of the future generations, are able to act like absolute idiots and be carefree. They fought, so that your only worries now, are who has a crush on who, and how late are you allowed to stay up. They fought, so that they themselves can be carefree and act like idiots, like they do now, along with the brats they love. So kids, don't worry about it and...well, just appreciate your parents from time to time, okay?"

The kids, though still looking slightly confused, nodded.

"Okay." They replied.

Somehow, they felt like their uncle had just said something really important, and, even though they couldn't really understand it right now, they would try their best to follow what he told them.

"Thanks, Uncle Zaki." Tokuyou told the spy.

Yamazaki found himself grinning at them, he still couldn't believe that those ragtag bunch of weirdos, produced great kids like these.

"Let me pay you back with advice as well. You want to get rid of your forty year old virgin status right?" Tokuyou added.

The kid just couldn't let his uncle rest.

"You little brat! I'm not a forty year old virgin!" Yamazaki screamed, as the kids began to ran away from him, laughing their heads off.

"Papa said lying is bad, Uncle Zaki!" Tokuyou teased.

"Yeah, just accept that you're still a virgin, Uncle Jimmy!" Kou added.

"What's a virgin, again?" Rie asked.

"Gyaah! seriously, stop it you brats!" Yamazaki screamed.


Hope you guys enjoyed it.

Til next time~!