Its been a little while since I last updated, my apologies! And for anyone who cares, Im going to college in about a month so I cant guarantee my uploading rate will be bimonthly or monthly so please bare with me! Enough of my chitter chatter, I hope you guys enjoy!
Amidst the clamor of the cheering crowd, Yamazaki admitted to the high levels of distractions and the difficulty to concentrate, that is, if he was concentrating on kendo. But at the moment, an unimaginable scenario played before his very eyes and no amount of noise could pry them away. He stared with a mixture of sheer shock, an unsettling happiness, but mostly an over whelming fear as he continued to observe the dirty blonde male and the vermillion haired teammates of his. To outsiders they simply appeared to be chatting before a match, but that, in and of itself, was an anomaly. Yamazaki easily could name an infinite amount of reasons why the scene before him should not exist.
Number one: those two hated each other's guts, well publically anyway. It's common knowledge that his sadist and stoic taichou had an unhealthy, if that is the appropriate word, crush on the China girl. And understanding his Taichou as well as he did, Yamazaki firmly knew that the possibility of his taichou admitting his feelings were slim to none. On the flip side of the coin, it was also common knowledge that the China girl held his taichou in very low regards. She hated him, loathed him with all the fiber of his being, well that was the impression that all bystanders observed. They greeted one another with insults during every one of their encounters, and if no one stopped them, then the two would be ripping each other's faces off. In the dojo we labeled them as the cat and dog duo, a duo fated by the heavens to forever scorn each other and refuse to cooperate with amity. That is until now. Taichou and the China girl were calmly talking to each other, CALMY. Yamazaki held uncertainty about a majority of things in his life, but the brunette was certain about one, Okita Sougo and Kagura Yato . . Alone, each individual was akin to a ticking time bomb and together they were like a nuclear bomb, on the verge of detonating; nothing calm exists about their personalities.
The second reason why Yamazaki believed that his eyes deceived him was the fact that his taichou smiled at the china and she smiled back. The finishing blow happened when Yamazaki, reluctantly, watched his taichou took the China girl's hand into his and gently squeeze it before she went to compete in her match. A dizziness overcame the brunette, his mind completely shattered due to the shock. Although well known for being a bisshouen, his taichou also earned himself a reputation for never initiating contact with women. For him, it worked the other way around, the ladies flocked to him like bees to a flower and they were more than eager to initiate any form of intimacy, which the taichou loathed. What was happening to the world?! A panic attack overwhelmed the brunette.
Firmly grabbing the wrist of the nearby Hijikata-san, Yamazaki looked at the second in command with pleading eyes. " Help me Hijikata-san, I think I'm going crazy!"
The ebony haired man wanted to shake his needy teammate off, but after seeing the paleness of his skin and the frantic look in his eyes, a surge of worry washed over him. " Yamazaki, get a hold of yourself man! What happened? It looks like you saw a ghost?"
"No." the brunette replied grimly," I saw the end of the world."
Hijikata furrowed his brow, "What nonsense are you sprouting, get yourself together! Your match is going to start soon."
"But is true!" he said, now shaking Hijikta as if he needed to show his desperation." Look over there." He pointed while averting his eyes. Yamazaki stared in the other direction, the shock not subsiding and his mind not prepared for another round.
Hijikata looked over to where Yamazaki instructed, the ebony haired man narrowed his eyes in concentration. He blinked one, then twice, thinking that the image before him was a mirage." Is this real, Yamazaki?" still dubious of the authenticity of the image. The Sougo he knew would never smile unless tormenting another poor soul, unluckily him a majority of the time, but Kagura in no way appeared to be tormented. Strange, something was definitely off, the word was on the tip of his but it still eluded him.
" Hijikata-san I really don't know myself if this is reality or not. It can't possibly be, right? Taichou doesn't believe in romance and that lovey dovey atmosphere they have screams, 'I'm in love!'"
Bingo! The epiphany came at last. Hijikata smirked, well,well, looks like Sougo grew up and found himself a girlfriend. Konda will break into tears of joy when he finds out, who knew?
"Yamazaki, they're dating." The ebony haired man bluntly said to the brunette," And I'll add a finally to that statement too, the sexual tension was so high between them, its best for us that they settled it."
"Do you care to elaborate on that, sir?" came an unknown voice. The second in command turned around to see two men, one eerily smiling and the other deeply frowning, at him. The smiling man very closely resembled the China girl, not a far fetch from a carbon copy to be exact. The vermillion haired male stepped closer, now mere inches away from the two competing Kendo members," I would very much like to hear more."
"Umm, sir," began Yamazaki nervously, the vibes given off by the strangers causing him to be on edge. They emitted a similar aura to his taichou, and in all the wrong ways. His guts told him that these two, particularly the younger male, were on par in terms of being unpredictable and volatile as his taichou. Yamazaki shuddered, was this the calm before the storm? " This area is reserved for members of the participating teams only."
"Don't worry, son, this will only take a second, just tell us who Kagura is dating and we'll be gone before you know it." Answered the previously silent older male.
"Well I don't think it's really my place to tell others….." the brunette meekly said under their piercing stares. The vermillion haired male grabbed Yamazaki's arm, smiling that unwavering smile. The brunette broke into a cold sweat, his fear exponentially escalating as he realized that he was prey caught in the claws of a terrifying predator. "Ummm….." The male tightening his already death like grip, if not for the numbness caused by the overwhelming fear, the pain that surged through him would have been unbearable.
"You can tell us, really. We won't tell another soul." The vermillion haired male hissed out. Hijikata, noticing that his distressed friend was on the verge of fainting, decided to intervene.
" We'll tell you, but let go of the poor man's arm, he's a tender soul." He said with a sigh. The male did as instruct and released his crushing grip.
" Now tell us who is so that we can kill….no eradicate, his existences on this auspicious day."
Hijikata pointed to the left, at the other set of benches," the man sitting right next to the girl who looks exactly like you. Related?" he asked, unaffected by the man's previously malicious comment. Spending more time than he would care to admit with Sougo, Hijikata developed an immunity to violent remarks, it was a daily routine to hear from Sougo how exactly he would die. After the constant dosage of morbid and cruel killing techniques Sougo would gladly recite to him, few things shocked him.
"My beloved sister to be exact." He answered, becoming impatient with the situation. But Kamui forced himself to be patient, the utmost attention to detail was necessary when conducting an operation of this sort, it did involve his little sister after all. And currently Kamui thought of a myriad of methods to depose of the body, but none of them without making Kagura angry. It was a technicality that could be dealt with later on.
"And my precious daughter." added the balding man. Umibozu turned to his son, " Kamui, we've found our target, commence operation Laceration of the Testicles!"
"Ughh." Yamazaki peeped after overcoming the paralyzing fear and hearing the incredibly dumb name of their plan, " if you plan to harm the taichou I think I'll need to call security."
Both men stopped their conversations and directed their attention to the brunette.
"Aha, your funny, sonny." Umibozu said with a devious smile," We don't plan on harming him, we are 100% going to pummel the son of a bitch to the ground. How dare he take the chastity of my daughter!"
The brunette pleading looked at the second in command but Hijikata simply shrugged his shoulders. From experience Hijikata had learned to not meddle with the mentally unstable, it wasn't worth the effort he needed to expend to even slightly calm them down. " Sougo had it coming, the china girl wasn't normal from the beginning and I didn't expect her family to be either."
"Lets call security then!" Yamazaki tried to reason. Although his taichou did rub him in the wrong way too often for comfort, the brunette did not want to see him dead, no matter how much he wanted the taichou to stop torturing him.
" That won't be necessary." answered the male addressed as Kamui, " the security guards here wouldn't possibly dare touch me, let alone ask us to leave."
Yamazaki stared at the male as if he was crazy, which he most likely was!" Yeah, I'm definitely going to call security." The brunette gestured for a nearby guard to quickly come. Kamui nonchalantly waited alongside his currently brooding father who keep urging him to take action immediately.
"Whats the matter?" asked the uniform clad man. Yamazaki pointed to the two men.
"Them!" he yelled, " they're insane, get them out of here before they go on a mass murdering spree!"
"We only intent to kill one person, ok, get that right, sonny."
The guard dubiously looked at the balding man, " ok I see you point. Im going to have to ask you kindly to leave or ill have to use….." with his peripheral vision, the guard caught sight of the all too familiar vermillion hair. He reflexively saluted. "Kkaamui-taichou!" he stammered out. " Whhhatt are yyouu dooinng hheerre?"
Again Kamui smiled that unwavering smile, " It's a personal day cadet. I came to see my sister, you wouldn't kick me out because of that now would you, cadet?!" he said more as a statement then a question.
The guard began shaking, "No! Of course not, taichou. What officer would ever dare do such a thing, ahhhaha."
"At ease then, its good you know your place, return to your post."
"Yyesss!" the officer stammered one last time before running off as far away as possible from the captain of the police force.
Yamazaki stared dumbfounded, how would anyone ever considered making a morally unjust and outright deranged man like this a captain, and of the police force?!
"Hijikata-san, this is an abuse of power, an abuse I say!" he whispered.
The ebony haired man stood up, " Well, it looks like today Sougo really is a goner" he calmly stated, " and by the looks of it these two can get away way clean with murder."
"Do you not even care the slightest bit that taichou might actually die?!"
"Pshhh, the brat tried to kill me enough times, this is a taste of his own medicine. Although I've personally never felt the wrath of a sis-con and a crazily overprotective dad, it'll be an interesting show."
"but, " Yamazaki tried to protest but Hijikata gestured for him to shut his mouth.
"He's all yours boy." Hijikata said almost too willingly to the two strange men.
Never once in her life had Kagura touched a sword, let alone a wooden one. She preferred to use her trusty fists in a fight. The feel of flesh pounding on flesh was exhilarating, nothing like the dullness of this kendo match. A true fighter would never keep their distance and wait for an opening, true fighters charged at their prey with both fury and passion. However, none of that applied to kendo, she instead was circling around her armor clad opponent, waiting for, as her Angeo said, "the prime moment". The meaning of those words still eluded her, what exactly was the prime moment? She had idiotically circled around this person for a solid minute already and yet the prime moment never appeared. Her patience wore thin. Screw it. Kagura bolted forward, her boldness surprising her opponent and allowing the vermillion haired woman to land a clean body hit along with an advancement to the next round.
The crowd cheered in the background as she took off the stuffy mask, well I guess kendo isn't that bad after all, she concluded.
Walking back to the bench, Kagura's joyous mood quickly vanished as she saw the sadist talking to the two males who she least wanted to see at the moment. God, she wasn't ready for another round of migraines, and by the looks of things, her brother and father were about to make a scene. Kagura just prayed that they wouldn't break anything or critically injury anyone, but who was she kidding, they were a race of incredibility strong, alien fighters, breaking things were imbedded in their genetics. Bracing herself for the worst, Kagura pushed her way through the crowd of teammates congratulation her and slowly made her way to the battle grounds.
"Papi, Kamui, what a surprise." She said, eyeing the two suspiciously, " I don't remember ever telling you about the match or where it was going to be, how did you know then? Huh?Huh!"
Umibozu rocked back and forth, uncomfortable with the scornful glare his daughter shot his way, he stole a glance at his calm son, damn, if only he could be like that! "Weelll Kagura, it is your first Kendo match ever, we had to come!" he stammered nervously, the murderous intent emitted by his daughter only increasing by the second. He had quietly wanted to murder the bishouen sitting before him, and Umibozu foolishly hoped that Kagura would forever remain ignorant to the fact that they committed the crime, it had been a simple wish. But now that she knew, the plan would not progress as smoothly as he hoped, well that is to say if the plan would have progressed smoothly from the beginning. The balding man was willing to bet that he would leave with a broken arm at best, Yato women were frightening when angered, he sure learned that lesson thoroughly with his deceased wife. " This is all your fault, Kamui!" he whispered not so subtly to his son, " If only we didn't waste so much time with that brown haired idiot!"
" Not to worry father, our time was not wasted with that buffoon. He provided us very useful information about sister dearest and this abomination."
"Did he just call me an abomination, china?" the sadist asked, still unsure of his own predicament. One moment he was leisurely watching the china's match and thinking of date plans after this, and the next moment he was being interrogated by two weird men about his love life. Did he forget to mention that somewhere along that time frame the words "dick" and "cut off" were mentioned five times. Okita knew he had more than a few enemies in his lifetime, he was a notorious sadist and heartbreaker, it couldn't be helped, but this was the first time someone threaten to lacerate his private parts. And somehow when China revealed that these two lunatics were related to her, he wasn't in the least bit surprised. Craziness must run in the family. But seriously?! People had called Okita a variety of unethical names, like psychotic and a heartless, but never an abomination.
" That's right, scum" Answered Kamui, " how dare someone unworthy of being in Kagura's presence latch onto her like a leach, be gone you vermon!"
Okita stared at Kagura dumbfounded while the female facepalmed herself due to the embarrassment." He really just said that to me?" the sadist asked.
"Yeah, sadist, I know, they're a little bit on the looney side." She placed her hand on his shoulder and gave it a reassuring squeeze. Kamui yanked her hand off a millisecond later.
" How dare this abomination steal the chastity of my sister! Death! Death! He deserves the severest of punishments! Father prepare yourself." He shouted.
Kagura began turning red as a tomato, did Kamui even understand the meaning of the nonsense he spewed out? And with the attention of the whole audience now on them, Kagura grew increasingly more embarrassed, god, how could this be any worst?
She spoke, once again, too soon, it could always get worst.
" Ehhh." said the sadist now over the initial surprise," so we've done this and that already huh? I really wished I remembered, maybe you should remind me again, China." He teased, reverting back to his usual aggravating ways.
Oh god, the sadist would very soon regret his words.
"YOU!" Both men screamed.
"What? Little old me? Don't look at me as if I have done anything wrong. After all, it is normal for couples to go to second or even third base rather quickly nowadays."
Kamui pounced first, his initial attack missing as the rage blinded him. Okita luckily survived but the deep indent in the wood flooring showed how close to death he had been. If Kamui aimed a few centimeters to the right, the punch would have directly hit the sadist's face. Then Umibozu attacked, also missing his target and instead splitting the bench in half. Two improbably strong and enraged men against one bishouen male, the odds were not in Okita's favor. Okita began seriously dodging their attacks upon the realization that they really did intent to kill him, or critically maim him anyway.
The rest was a blur of Kagura trying to pry Kamui away from the Sadist, officials feebly intervening only to get thrown some meters away by either Kamui or Umibozu, an angry Otae about to murder the people ruining her dojo's chances at winning a championship, Yamazaki and the other teammates panicking because their taichou might die, and Hijikata nonchalantly sitting in the corner, smoking a cigarette he knew wasn't allowed inside if not for the commotion. The raven haired man expected no less, and he thought the scene before him to be rather amusing, but amidst watching the chaos, he spotted within his peripheral vision another individual enjoying the performance of the idiots. Hijikata removed the cigarette from his mouth and stopped to stare at the ebony haired male clad in a butterfly kimono. The other male directed his gaze to the second in command, their eyes locked. A shiver ran down Hijikata's spine, there was something off about this person. The man in the butterfly kimono smiled at him, sending another shiver through Hijikata's back. He pointed towards the chaos; reluctantly Hijikata forced himself to look away from the queer man. He saw nothing peculiar about the tumultuous scene, those imbeciles continued on with their rampage as usual. Hijikata glanced back upwards towards the man but discovered that in the lapse of a few seconds, the man disappeared. Looking left and right in search of him, Hijikata's endeavors bore no fruit, the man in the butterfly kimono was gone. Hijikata crumpled the lit cigarette in his hand, the ashes sending a surge of pain throughout his body. He did not release the cigarette though; Hijikata needed to feel this pain to ensure that what he saw and the eeriness he felt was indeed real. An imminent storm approached and Hijikata prayed for the best, it looked like it was going to be a wild one.
Omake
"Hey, Megane." Called out Gintoki." Don't you think this is a little unfair? I mean I'm the main character of Gintama and yet I didn't make a single appear in this chapter, heck I wasn't even mentioned in the stupid chapter."
Shinpachi unsympathetically looked at his friend, "Welcome to my world Gin-san. This is what it feels like to be underappreciated, sucks doesn't it?"
"Oii, oii, don't lump me together in the same group as you, that's just sad."
"Too late now, your already in the same group as me. We had to appear in the omake to even get any screen time even though we technically were in the chapter the whole time."
"I know" Gintoki melancholically answered," being in the bleachers is awful, no one notices you."
"Yeah, they're even having the fight without us." Shinpachi said with a sigh while he watched the chaos down below. He came to support Kagura and the dojo but he never imagine that he really would become part of the background.
"We could go join in! Photo bomb the scene you know, what do you think Shinpachi?"
"Ha! So that we can get pummeled by Kamui and Umibozu? No thanks, let's just leave Gin-san, this is starting to become very pathetic."
" Tell me about it, we got even less screen time than Yamazaki, what has this world become!"
"Let's not talk about this anyone, Gin-san. We'll leave with a shred of pride." He said with a sniffle.
"Damn right, the author can't take that away from us. Take away our screen all you want but we still have a shred of dignity you know." He also began sniffling, " But I really wouldn't mind screen time, don't listen to anything I say, please let me at least be in the next chapter, I'm the main character!"
"Gin-san! way to throw me under the bus!"
"A man's got to survive, fandoms are a hard world to live in and if I have to beg then I will. Don't give Kagura all the lime light, share some with poor old Gintoki too, please, please?!"
Oh Gintoki, way to break the 4th wall. But jokes aside I do hope Gintoki can be in the next chapter, well see how it works out. At this point I'm just winging it and hoping that my work isn't a total mess. And how many of you like sis-can Kamui? I personally think its adorable. And was there too much Yamazaki in the chapter? I think his character type, the straight lace ones, are necessary to keep the story grounded, you can only have so many crazy people before everything becomes crazy. One last thing, I hope I didn't make Hijikata too OC. Feel free to vent frustrations or opinions. I hoped you guys enjoyed!