Chapter 6 is here! No lengthy intro this time, I'll let you guys get to reading, enjoy!

DISCLAIMER: I OWN NOTHING

Fiddling with her fingers, Kagura desperately tried to avoid any form of eye contact with the man leisurely sprawl out on the foam mat adjacent to the crate she sat on. Although the Yato was blinded by the darkness, she could ,nonetheless, feel his piercing gaze. And the stillness of the room only caused the awkward atmosphere to escalate. Even the tiniest stirs rang loud and clear in this god forsaken room, subtly was a nonexistent luxury at this point.

Kagura exhaled a sigh, as the saying goes, if life gives you lemons, make lemonade. She hopped down from her makeshift seat and scooted onto the mat. Positioning herself in a comfortable spot, Kagura, for the first time in the last maelstrom of a week, relaxed.

" I can see why you like being lazy, sadist. Its calming to say the least." She said, breaking the stifling silence. The dirty blonde slightly shifted his body, now facing the female.

" I take offense to that comment, China, I'm not lazy, just unmotivated. You need to use the correct terminology or else rumors will start, god China, idiotic as always." He blurted out. Those words had come out unintentionally harsh, Okita hated himself. He had not meant to be sarcastic in the least, he would have rather engaged in a serious discussion about their current "relationship", if that is even the proper word to describe their bizarre behavior towards one another. Okita seriously considered punching himself in the face just so he could shut up and prevent any further harm. He did not need to be a fortune teller to know that sooner or later some very regrettable words would leave his mouth, and Okita already regretted too much in his brief twenty three years. " Now shut up, China, I want to catch at least a wink of sleep before those soon-to-be decapitated teammates of mine come get us."

The blonde bite his lip in frustration. Only seconds ago he promised to try and control his language and yet spiteful words keep leaving his mouth. God, he was such a tsundere! Why couldn't he act natural? Not like some asshole douche bag! This was a very probable representation of himself in Kagura's mind. How was going to dig himself out of this grave now? Okita blamed Yamazaki, damn that Apan freak! While he could blame a majority of the day's misfortune on Yamazaki, Okita knew better than to act delusional. He played a bigger role in causing this predicament than he cared to admit. Shit, he, in simpler terms, took the shovel, and dug his own grave and jumped in.

"Sadist, have you ever heard of being polite? Or does that word not exist in your vocabulary? I honestly don't think its too much to ask of you. I'm not asking for a miracle or even for you to act nice, just courteous." She said exasperated. Here she was, attempting to have a civil conversation with a very irritating man, why couldn't he have been a nice, mild manner man? But if Okita Sougo was even a fraction of that pleasant of a person then he would not earn the nickname sadist, some things are simply set in stone.

"Then can I ask you to stop being the gluttonous monster you are? Or is that also not in your vocabulary?" There he went again, and the spiral of self loathing only continued.

Kagura shook her head in defeat, what was the use of preaching to a person who clearly had no intentions of changing for the better? " Spiteful as always, Sadist. I hope you know that someday you are going to regret the things that come out of your mouth."

"I know. I already do." He said in barely a whisper. Okita, in that brief moment of embarrassment and vulnerability, realized exactly why he said the opposite of what he thought. The answer was simple: it is easier to act hateful than it is to be truthful. The wall that his cold and violate demeanor created protected him. It kept at bay the people he dread from worming their way into his heart, it hid his inner weakness, and it prevented him from being emotionally hurt.

Fear, that was what prompted him to build up his defense. The fear of losing any more loved ones- the death of his family already bore an unfixable hole in both his heart and soul- and the fear of showing the big, bad world, exactly how fragile of a human he was, consumed him to the point where he unconsciously fought back. At the moment, that was exactly what he was doing, running away from reality in fear. His body reflexively spat out harsh comments and acted the way it did because it wanted to protect him. No, it was not Okita's body that wanted to protect him, he wanted as much as his body did to remain in a safe bubble, isolated from the dangerous outer world. But now, Okita began to question whether this method was the correct choice. Before it may have been the best solution, but things have changed, many things to be exact and the number one change to his life sat a couple feet to his right. " I'll get serious now, China. We are going to finish that talk, no more interruptions."

Kagura stiffened her posture, no longer slouching in her comfortable position. " Finally we agree on something." She said, her voice an octave higher. Mentally face palming herself, Kagura desperately tried to hide her nervousness. " I'll be blunt about this before anyone else interrupts."

Okita's nails dug into the foam mat as he anxiously waited for her to spit it out whatever was on her mind.

" I think I love you." She blurted out, already regretting her unplanned confession. But could she be blamed? Kagura arrived at this epiphany moments ago, and realizing the impeccable timing of her inauspicious situation, she stuck while the iron was hot. Perhaps too soon, nonetheless though, her words had been spoken and now she awaited his answer with low expectations. When expectations are set low, the pain inflicted by disappointment is slightly lessened, just slightly.

If either of them could see properly in the inadequately lit room, then the duo would be staring at each other with equally tomato red faces. This was not the first confession Okita heard, heck it wasn't even the most impressive, yet this was the first confession in which his mind drew a blank, his heart wildly thumped within his chest, and butterflies filled his stomach. This was the first confession that the bishounen and eternal bachelor Okita Sougo took seriously. " China…" he managed to say after forcing down the hard lump in his throat. " I…..I…"

Kagura immediately hid flaming red face in her lap. " I understand…. I'm not your type."

" No, China, that's not it."

Tears began welding her eyes, " You don't have to explain anything, I really understand, ok? It was stupid of me to have said anything at all, lets just go back to hating each other."

" China listen." he tried saying again.

Kagura covered her ears, the sting of an expected rejection hurting ten times more than it should have."Please, just let it go. Pity me this once, ok, Sadist?" she said, the rawness of her voice becoming more noticeable with every word.

He pried her hands away from her ears, but being the Yato she was, Kagura resisted his "attack", struggling to break free of his grip. " Let me go! I don't want to hear your answer! Please, just let me be the ignorant monster you always tell me I am! Please." She cried, the tears streaming down her cheek and her voice completely hoarse.

" No, you listen, China!" he said in a stern voice, surprising her. " I never gave you my answer so why are you acting like I already said no."

"But.."

Okita released his grip, reaching instead to cup her face in his hands. Kagura hiccupped. With his thumb, Okita wiped away her tears. " I never said no, stupid~" emphasizing the last word.

"But.."

"There's no buts, I said we were going to have a serious discussion, and it begins now." She stared at him with wide, swollen cerulean eyes." You aren't the only one conflicted by their feelings, China. For goodness sake, my own team members locked me in a storage closet with you because they knew just how head over heels I was, even if I didn't want to admit it myself. But I will right now." He moved closer to her and gently pulled their heads together, their foreheads now touching. " I KNOW I love you, China." He said before leaning in for a kiss.

A jumble of thoughts clogged Kagura's mind to the point where she could not form a coherent thought, but she was able to do one thing, recuperate the kiss. Tears continued to fall as she closed her eyes and enjoyed the moment, a moment in which the world stopped and only the two of them existed.

Okita pulled away from the kiss reluctantly, "Why are you crying now, China? Are your hormones so messed up that you can't tell if your happy or sad?"

Kagura let out a chuckle, " I'll forgive you rudeness this once because I'm so happy."

" Well I don't think I need to apologize if I'm the reason why your happy, you should apologize instead for ruining the moment."

Kagura playfully pushed him in retaliation, " Over my dead body." She said.

"That can easily be arranged." He replied, pulling her with him as he fell backwards on the mat. " And by the way China, I never knew you liked to be on top."

The heat crept up her neck, " You're a pervert, I hope you know that."

" If its mutual, that makes you as big of a pervert as me. After all, what would someone think if they saw us in this position? It does take two to tango."

A millisecond later, the door to the storage room fly open and in front of the halo of light stood a tall man with a head of silvery hair. " Gin-chan?" Kagura asked, taken aback by the appearance of her friend/professor.

"Kkkaagguurra" he stuttered out after seeing the position she was in with another person, specifically a male, " Im sorry to interrupt!" he quickly said while slamming the door shut.

"I blame you." Kagura hissed at Okita.

"Gin-san, did you find Kagura?" asked Shinpachi as he entered into the main dojo, " Kamui-san is breathing down my neck with phone calls, he says we have ten more minutes before..." he gulped, " well you know.." unable to even speak of the horrendous punishment awaiting them.

"Ohhhh Shinpachi!" wailed the clearly older man, "Our innocent Kagura has treaded into the adult world! What are we going to do?! Not only is Kamui, but also her insanely protective father, going to put all the blame on our heads! Shinpachi!" he continued to wail.

"Wwhaat?!" the megane stuttered out, " Are you saying what I'm thinking? And in there?" he said pointing to the room behind the wooden door.

Gintoki nodded while wiping the snot from his face, " And I just happened to interrupt."

"Interrupt!? Gin-san, we have to stop her from doing something she'll regret!" And he needed to stop Kagura from inciting her family members to inflict harm on him. Imagine the megane's surprise when a bald man and a carbon copy of Kagura showed up at his door. Gintoki meekly standing besides them did nothing to help subside his anxiousness, his fight or flight instincts were sounding off, and every muscle in his body urged him to run. Shinapchi reflectively slammed the door in the younger males face and proceeded to escape like a prey running from a clearly stronger predator, but before he was able to move a step, the younger who went by the name of Kamui, from what Shinapchi heard Gintoki stutter out, ripped opened his front door, and firmly grabbed his arm. Two thoughts went through his mind at that moment, number one, he was going to die at the hands of this psychopath, and number two, he was going to die when his sister came home and saw her front door unhinged.

And that's how they got into this situation now. A wild goose chase to find Kagura and prevent her from having any contact with the male race, excluding them for some odd reason. But as Gintoki said, they arrived too late. " Kagura! How could you do this to us?!" he cried out.

" I can hear you guys!" Kagura screamed through the door. " It's a misunderstanding! We weren't doing anything!"

"Thank goodness." Shinpachi said, fearing for a second that his life, which hung on whether Kagura still had her chastity, was over.

"China, its not nice to tell lies, its not like we didn't do anything." Came a deep male voice.

Gintoki and Shinapchi exchanged shocked looks. This time Shinpachi broke out into horrific sounding sobs, " We're going to get decapitated for sure!"

"No, Shinpachi, only our goods are getting decapitated." Gintoki said, also on the verge of a mental breakdown." There's no more reason to live, lets commit sekupu together, megane!"

Kagura was seconds away from murdering the man next to her.

" Don't listen to anything he says! Open the door and I'll tell you the truth!"

"Yes, the truth about what we really did." He added.

Kagura turned around, leering at the dirty blond in the dark. " Sadist! Why are you doing this to me?!"

" Because. I think your angry face is the cutest one out of them all." He said with a smirk. Okita agreed to being a tsundere, he just couldn't help but tease her, no matter how much she would hate him for it later.

As the argument within the storage room continued, the two men standing outside, long ago fainted and now lied motionless on the ground.

"Why do our lives suck, Gin-san?"

"I cant answer that question, Megane. Maybe because she's the main character and our well being is far below hers, I mean very far below."

Sigh~" I'm simply tired of being threatened with my private parts, its always us."

"Blame Kamui. It gives me a good chuckle to think how that sis con will act when he finds out about that boy."

"Then why are you crying, Gin-chan?"

"Let a man grieve for his soon to be missing balls, Shinpachi, I think I deserve that much."

The members returned from lunch to discover two unconscious males lying on their floor, one of them being the boss lady's younger brother, and also a thoroughly pulverized Okita.

Kondo knelt besides his brother-in-law, " looks like he saw death." he said to his wife.

She smiled one of her demon smiles, " Oho, if Shin-chan didn't see death now, he will soon. The insurance company called me about the door, I don't appreciate that .bit." Kondo stared at her wife with wide eyes, he loved her and all, enough to eat her deadly cooking everyday, but moments like this made him wonder if he married the love of his life or a devil in woman's clothing.

"I aagrreee." he said. Mentally the head dojo instructor apologized to his brother-in- law, but he needed to save his own hide first.

Kagura stomped out angrily as Yamazaki unlocked the door. " You better get him checked out." She said pointing to the limp and motionless man. The brunette nervously looked at the female. " What?" she snarly answered, " He had it coming."

"Maybe it wasn't the best idea to lock those two in an unlit room and then leave for lunch." Yamazaki said as Kagura stomped away.

" Phsssh, wait until Sougo wakes up. You better be prepared, Yamazaki."

"How can you say that, Hijikata-san? He'll be mad at you too!"

" That's a given, but the kid already tries to murder me on a daily basis, it won't change much to my routine. You on the other hand…..just don't eat anything he gives you, I learned from firsthand experience."

Yamazaki paled considerably, " I hope my sacrifice was not in vain then."

The raven haired man shrugged, " Who knows, the little lady seemed quite peeved, but who wouldn't be when they were forcefully locked in a confined area for two straight hours. But what do I know about woman, don't take my word for it."

" Lets hope then, Hijikata-san, that something good came out of the sacrifice of what will soon be three lives."

"Don't worry Yamazaki, I'll come to your funeral."

The brunette began hysterically laughing, what had his good intentions gotten himself into?

Yes, progress! They admitted they love each other, that means they can be lovey dovey now, just kidding, or maybe not? Well stay tune for the next chapter. I hope you enjoyed!