The Land of the Samurai ; 侍の国 (Gintama x Reader)

When Someone Doesn't Celebrate Their Birthday, Do It For Them

You've spent the whole morning at the Shinsengumi walking back and forth, thinking about the special event Sougo had recently informed you about. Now, you weren't one to butt into affairs, such as this one, however, you had to stick your nose into this birthday!

"Sougo!" you called out to him from your office. "You are seriously so annoying. You just had to choose to tell me on the day before Hijikata-san's birthday, huh? Why didn't you use your brain to even think of the fact that I would've liked to know a bit earlier?" The boy was laying on his back outside in the nearby garden chewing on some bubblegum.

"It's not that important," he sat up and blew a bubble. "Don't even stress about it."

"What do you mean?" you stormed out of the room to grab his collar. "It's Hijikata-san's birthday, tomorrow. Look, I know how you feel about him, but it wouldn't hurt to celebrate a little." You could already feel a headache coming on. "Oh my, on such short notice, what can we do?"

"What do you mean 'we'? There will be no 'we' in this. Besides," he pulled your hands away from his shirt, "from the years I've spent with him, he's hardly ever celebrated it. There's no reason to start now."

"Sougo, just admit you're a bad friend and get over yourself." He scoffed at your words and rolled onto his to side, ignoring your words. If he was going to give you the silent treatment, so were you! You had better things to do anyway.

The first thing you did after you went back into your office was use your phone to call up a... not very reliable friend, but a friend nonetheless. "This is Yorozuya Gin-chan. Shimura Shinpachi speaking, how can I help you-"

"Yeah, yeah. Shinpachi, I have a favour to ask of you... and the other two. By the way, this is [name]. Anyway, come over to the Shinsengumi as soon as possible! It's very important, you got that? I'll see you later."

"What's the job-? Huh? She hung up on me... Gin-san! Get up from the couch, we have a job! You too, Kagura-chan!"

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With all your spare time, you gathered up all the Shinsengumi officers on the premises and had them sit in an orderly manner in the large training hall within the headquarters. Of course, you forced Kondo and Sougo to sit at the front just for fun. According to a few other people, Hijikata was stuck in his own office doing some paperwork so he shouldn't find out about this meeting.

"Alright!" you clapped your hands to get the attention of all the men in the room. "Since basically everyone is here, let's get straight to the point. Tomorrow is-"

"[last name]-san!" Someone called out to you from the back of the room, "These three people said that you called them here." The Yorozuya trio were roughly pushed and shoved onto the floor.

"Oh, finally! I was waiting for you guys."

Gintoki clicked his tongue, "You'd better be paying me good money."

"You mean us, Gin-san. So, [name]-san, what's this all about?"

"As I was saying before, tomorrow is Hijikata-san's birthday and I want to do something special for him. I want to thank him for getting me this job here at the Shinsengumi and if it weren't for him, I never would've met any of you." Cheers then erupted from the crowd.

"Ah! She's so cute!"

"For once Vice-Chief has done something right!"

"Thank you, Vice-Chief!"

You shook your head at all the noise and got them all the settle down, "First of all, Kondo-san, you need to tell Hijikata-san that he should have a day off tomorrow. While he isn't here, the rest of you guys will be decorating this hall for a party. I'll be with him to make sure he doesn't come here or suspect anything. Got it?"