Gintama: It Is Love!

The One (Hijikata Toshirou)

Love was never easy.

It wasn't something you can choose at any time when you feel like it. It was something that you just all of a sudden stumble into.

You can't choose who you fall for.

Once you fall— you just keep on falling for them.

That was what happened with Hijikata and (Y/N)

And this is—  the story of their love.

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"Let me tell you this—" (Y/N) huffed, her eyebrows furrowedly deeply as she pointed to the stoic man sitting opposite of her.

"I have no intentions of marrying you— not now, not ever!"

Hijikata's face remained emotionless, he wasn't even fazed by her declaration.

After all— this was just one of those marriage prospects Matsudaira had forced him into. This time, (Y/N)— Hijikata's marriage partner was the 4th cousin of the current shogun and was a workaholic businesswoman.

"...That's great," Hijikata rolled his eyes, taking out a cigarette, "Same here."

(Y/N) narrowed her eyes at him, she still couldn't understand this man.

Sure he was handsome, he was polite, had great manners and had quite a normal background but— she still didn't like the idea of being forced into a marriage with someone she didn't even know existed until just the other day.

Yet— she somehow still found herself intrigued by him.

So, from the very first day they met— they hated each other.

"(Y/N)-san, you can't!! Y-Your grandfather is old and he says he will collapse if you don't get married any sooner!!" Ayato, (Y/N)'s personal secretary cried out.

"....Ayato, I can deal with grandfather alone. You may not know it but that old man is a great actor."

Hijikata looked at her with a calculating gaze for quite a while before he spoke out.

He was doing all the thinking in his mind— if this failed, Matsudaira would surely set him up again with someone else.

How long would it be until Hijikata gets sold off to a different planet like what happened to Kondo-san?

He couldn't have that!

"If you don't mind....." Hijikata cleared his throat, "Why don't we fake date so that they'll both get off our backs?"

(Y/N) blinked her eyes, caught off guard by Hijikata's suggestion before she broke out into a laugh.

"Ayato, did you hear that?" (Y/N) laughs, turning to Ayato. The man's face was blank but he nodded.

"...That's interesting. Sure, show me what you have— Hijikata Toshiro." She says, leaning her chin on her palm, narrowing her eyes softly at him as she smirked weakly.

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"Why are.....you here???" Hijikata sweat dropped when he sees (Y/N) standing outside the shinsengumi compound, leaning against her car.

She was dressed in formal attire so she must've gone straight from work.

"Honey, it's cold out tonight." She smiles softly as she wraps her scarf around his neck. A loving gaze in her eyes.

(Y/N) and Hijikata started their fake dating to fool Matsudaira and (Y/N)'s family. However unexpectedly— somewhere along the way, it started turning real.