EH?! This is what the Shinsengumi's like?! (Gintama Fanfiction) [PART 1]

Arguments Don't Only Happen on Social Networking Sites So Get Ready and Steady

"Does your mouth hurt?"

"Tch, like something like that would hurt me."

Wearing a concerned face, Kumiko analyzed the bruise on the demon vice chief's lip. Being the tough guy he is, Hijikata would never succumb to the temptation of groaning & whining about the pain. She placed her fingers delicately on his injury.

"Wh-what are doing??!" he yelped as he stumbled back onto the Shinsengumi Base's wooden floor.

"Toshiro why is your face so red?"

He rushed his hand to cover his mouth-nose-cheek area. "I-it's just hot in here... A more important question to be asked is why are you so normal? Shouldn't you be moping over your break up?"

Kumiko's current smile flipped the other way at the reminder of that event. 'Oh, crap...' Hijikata thought. 'I said the wrong thing! Dammit, am I an idiot?! How do I change the mood?!'

"Ano... I mean, it's good that you don't hang onto past things and go on with your life! Stuff like that!" he told her nervously, holding his two hands in front of him.

"Yeah, I guess..." Her aura of self-pity didn't budge at all.

"Who's that? She's really pretty!" a Shinsengumi member from outside exclaimed.

"Is she someone's girl friend around here??" another one asked.

"I hope not!" a third party chimed in.

The sharp eyed man beside Kumiko got up from the floor and made way to the door to go outside with a glare. "Why the hell is it so loud out there? Shouldn't those fools be doing their work?"

The amber haired girl followed right after her sempai, trotting along behind him. "Oi! Get back to work! What's with all the---!"

Hijikata stopped midsentence and looked at the female in front of him. Kumiko did the same as well. Standing a few feet away from the two was an attractive girl around Kumiko's age, indigo shining hair that hung from her shoulders as well with a heart shaped face and sparkling gray eyes. Her small figure was just right for the salmon colored mini kimono she was wearing.

The girl presented a small wave to them. "Ah, hello! I'm Mari Nishikara and---!"

"And I'm the demon vice chief," Hijikata muttered, displeased that she was distracting his men from work. "What's your business here?"

"The 'demon vice chief?' Oh, I've heard all about you!" she said to him as if he was some known celebrity. "Your name's Hijikata Toshiro! You're super strict, always wearing a sneer, and take advantage of all your underlings in the Shinsengumi. In other words, you're a horrible person!"

Toshiro 'Horrible Person' Hijikata looked at her again with an eye brow raised. "Who's the asshole who told you that?"

"My boy friend's in the Shinsengumi, so he told me to visit him today!"

"Who's your boy friend?" Hijikata questioned. He was sure to get him fired after inviting such a distraction.

"Sougo Okita!"

Kumiko's heart skipped a beat.

'...Sougo?'

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'...Okita Sougo?'

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'...the guy I love?'

Kumiko's eyes opened widely, a large number of emotions entering her body faster than what she could hold at a time. Both her hands shook after hearing what the stranger in front of her had just said. There were so many things she could do right now: cry, yell, scream...but she held it all in. She needed to be strong.