[Gintama] Keep and wait

When the white giant dog suddenly broke into the room of Sakata Gintoki and others, and hung him in his mouth after being awakened, it caused a very big commotion.

However, when Katsura Kotaro and Takasugi Shinsuke raised their swords and were about to start a fight with the uninvited guest, it kicked them onto itself, and then rushed to the depths of the green forest at its fastest speed.

"You guys move a little bit, I'm about to be eaten, eaten, eaten!" Sakata Gintoki, who was hung in the mouth of the white dog, shouted, he could feel the cold saliva flowing from his forehead .

Takasugi Shinsuke held on to its fur tightly, and there were scenes of rapid changes in his sight, "Shut up, Gintoki!"

"I think it should be harmless." As for Gui Xiaotaro's ability to adapt very quickly, he sat cross-legged on it in less than a moment after being thrown on his back, and stroked its chin lovingly. Back, a suspicious blush appeared on his face, "And don't you think, it's cute?"

"..." Silence x2.

They don't know where they will be taken, but since they have been forced to board the boat, even if it may be a thief boat, there is no reason to get off the boat halfway. Even if they want to get off the boat, the white dog must nod.

So they remained anxious until it stopped slowly and threw them to the ground.And as they stood up, they could smell a slight smell of blood in the air, followed by someone's faint panting.

Sakata Gintoki's line of sight was absorbed by a big tree in front of him. That's because there was a girl with akane hair leaning against that old tree. She was wearing a kimono with red background and golden flowers. The gorgeous hanger was torn into short skirts, the bright red clothes were stained with circles of bright red bloodstains, and there were many scars of different shades on her body.

"God... happy!?"

Sakata Gintoki immediately rushed to her side and held her weak in his arms. If he touched her blood-stained forehead with trembling hands, the temperature of the cold liquid really chilled his body. Heart.

And the other two rushed to their side immediately after hearing his voice.

They finally got their wish to see her under the cloak, but they didn't expect it to be in such a bad situation.

Shinsuke Takasugi frowned, he looked at the girl with an unusually pale face, "How could it be...?"

"Let me see!" Gui Xiaotaro squatted down to look at her wounds, some of which were even deep enough to see the bones, he immediately tore off his clothes, and put it around the heavily wounded right foot.

The girl whispered, "Woo..."

At this moment, the white dog growled, "Aww!"

Gradually feeling warm, Kagura heard the voices of the boys and the pet dog in a semi-conscious state. She forcefully opened her tired eyes, and what she saw was the magnified face of the light blue short-haired boy, and the scarlet scarlet that reflected her distressed state. eyes.

At that moment, Kagura overlapped the boy in front of her eyes with the decadent man in the future who always picks his nostrils and looks at JUMP. She slowly stretched out her hand, grabbed his hand that seemed to be hallucinating, and said softly, " Ah Yin..."

Sakata Ginshi paused, maybe it was because of the scars all over her body or the intimate name, there was a stuffy feeling in her chest, he couldn't tell what it was, but it made him very concerned.

He bit his lip, hugged the girl who fell into a coma again, and then jumped on the back of the giant white dog, "Hurry up and go back!"

The white dog roared, and then immediately headed back.

"Bastard Yinshi, wait for us—!"

the next day.

Kagura slowly opened her eyes, and she saw the wooden ceiling. She sat up slowly, but found that her whole body was in pain. She looked down and saw that the gorgeous kimono she was wearing before had been replaced by a comfortable white one. There are also white bandages on the hands and feet.

Takasugi Shinsuke half-chaired on the wooden pillar, he folded his arms, "Are you awake?"

"Short shirt?"

Sure enough, the words he hates the most in his life are small and short!

"I just heard a piece of news." Shinsuke Takasugi touched his favorite knife hanging around his waist, and his dark purple hair ran across his ears. "Last night, a woman suspected of being a celestial being tried to assassinate Tokugawa by pretending to be a geisha." It’s fixed, but the sneak attack failed, and now it’s missing.”

Kagura was stunned, she seemed to hear the sound of glass breaking and shattering in her ears, gradually devouring her heart.

Sure enough... it was discovered.

She knew that she was a celestial being, and she would be discovered sooner or later, but she didn't expect it to be so soon.

Takasugi Shinsuke's "Ghost Soldier Team" is really powerful.

Over the past month, Takasugi Shinsuke has really been implementing his words. Relying on his past status in the samurai family and his resourcefulness, he has low-keyly called on some young samurai who are against the shogunate and heaven and man, and initially formed the "ghost warrior" he founded. Army".And it is divided into intelligence group and attack group in an orderly manner. Since the manpower and material resources are not up to the ideal, only the intelligence group is active in action. As for the armed attack group, it is temporarily frozen, and the strength is stored until it is enough to fight back. that moment.

Because of the activity and efficiency of the intelligence team, a lot of useful information was quickly brought in.

But now, it only took him one night to roughly know what happened yesterday.

"You, what's your explanation?"

Kagura opened his mouth and was speechless for a while, but finally he just said lightly, "...I'm sorry."

Sorry...she lied to them.

I'm sorry...she failed to take away Dingding's head, and failed to save Mr. Songyang.

In response to this, Takasugi Shinsuke just looked at her with his dark green eyes, which seemed to contain a lot of unclear words, and finally he didn't say anything, just turned around and left.

And not long after Takasugi Shinsuke left, Katsura Kotaro came in with porridge and side dishes.

Katsura Kotaro put rice-flavored porridge and side dishes in front of her, and then handed her the wooden chopsticks, "Let's eat something first, Miss Kagura."

"...Thanks, little wig."

"It's not a small wig, it's Gui!"

"Pfft——" Kagura smiled, seeing that the young man in front of her was still the one she knew well, she immediately felt a little more at ease. She took the chopsticks and asked casually, "Where's the brat?"

"Is it silver time? It seems to be practicing in the backyard?"

"That's it..." Kagura half-lidded her eyelids to cover the loss in her eyes, then she looked up at him with an unusually serious face as if she had thought of something, gritted her teeth and squeezed out a few words, "This clothes Who replaced it?"

Katsura Kotaro blushed, and only said that he didn't know, and left in a hurry, leaving Kagura in a daze.

So... whoever changed these clothes, Alu! ?

Kagura has not seen Sakata Gintoki and Takasugi Shinsuke for several days in a row. During the three days of her recuperation, only Chiaki Sorayama, Kuroya Lieya and Ling Huo Chiye who were close to her came to visit occasionally, and were in charge of Gui Xiaotaro, who serves her three meals a day, came to deliver food to her.

Kagura moved her body a bit, because the physique of the Yatuchi clan allowed her to fully recover in a short time. She put on the white-bottomed blue-striped dress that symbolized the house of all things, and put on Yoshida Matsuyo's three-year-old clothes. He took the cloak he found for her years ago, and hung her purple-backed gold-rimmed love umbrella around her waist.

She quietly jumped out of the window, and finally took a longing look at the private school where she had lived for three years, then put on her hat and resolutely left.

She can't stay here any longer, and it's probably their limit to let them take care of a celestial being of the same race as who took away their mentor for three days.

Kagura came to the small stream in the forest, looked at the fish swimming in the stream, remembered that she always caught fish here and then roasted them and swallowed them, and remembered that Yoshida Shoyo taught her how to make tea, I think of her wit and play with the little kids, the soft touch on Katsura Kotaro's face, the way Shinsuke Takasugi quietly reads the book in his hand, and... think of those scarlet eyes and dark blue figure.

She squatted down, her eyes were slightly wet when she recalled the past.

At this moment, the young man's slightly panting voice came from behind her, "Where are you going!?"

Kagura paused, not daring to move or turn around.

Sakata Gintoki looked at the back of Kagura squatting silently by the stream, the warm and sultry fire slowly surged into his heart, and he couldn't help but uttered a bit of anger, "You want to leave everything behind What about Mr. Songyang’s request? What about your promise!?”

Kagura clenched her fists tightly, trying not to let the tears in her eyes fall, "I am a celestial being, soulless!"

Sakata Gintoki was silent for a moment, he walked slowly behind Kagura, grabbed her arm with one hand, and forced her to face him.Then, Kagura's expression of sadness and astonishment, which was holding back tears, caught him off guard.

Looking at the face that hasn't changed much from when he first met, I felt a different feeling in my heart, just like the moment when she was held in his arms and called his name intimately that day, that stuffy feeling The eerie feeling in general.

He wanted to hug her very much.

So Sakata Gintoki followed that strange but not annoying feeling, followed his own will, and hugged her into his arms.Since the young man was standing at the moment, while the young girl was squatting, her forehead that was hugged by him was against his abdomen, while his hand was holding the back of her head.

"We...are not blind."

She was wearing a blood-stained kimono that night, and her skin, which had been hidden under the clothes for many years, was terribly white. She looked at the people who had been with them for three years, took care of their food, clothing, shelter, and devoted themselves to training them and protecting them as if they were about to die. Leaning against the tree, the heart is filled with the same grief and indignation as when the teacher was taken away.

"Who is good to us and who is not good to us, we know in our hearts." Sakata Gintoki rubbed her head, and he said seriously, "We are not a group of white-eyed wolves who can't distinguish right from wrong or black from black."

It's not that they don't want to see her, it's just that they hate their own incompetence and weakness. They are afraid that God will take her away, and with this mentality, they wave their swords crazily.

"Kagura,"

His voice was light.

"Let's stain our hands with blood together."

His hand took hers and pressed against his chest.

In an instant, Kagura's already crumbling city walls collapsed immediately, and transparent tears fell one by one like broken strings of a pearl necklace, wetting Sakata Gintoki's dark blue kimono, she held him tightly The clothes are like a drowning man grasping the only life-saving straw in the sea.

【He understands what she is afraid of. 】

Sakata Gintoki looked at her with unconscious tenderness in his eyes.

"go home."

"……it is good."

[Let them get their hands dirty together. 】

The wind by the stream is damp and cool.

Blowing up their clothes, it flutters and dances like a beautiful painting.

…………

When Kagura and Sakata Gintoki returned to Matsushita Private School, three figures immediately approached and hugged her, while other boys were also standing in the courtyard waiting for her.Afterwards, I saw Shinsuke Takasugi sitting casually leaning against the window eaves, and Katsura Kotaro half leaning against the wooden pillar.

"came back?"

Kagura took off her hat, revealing her blue eyes and long slender hair. She straightened her back and raised her jaw slightly, "The queen is back, Aru!"

Everything seems to be back to the way it was before, still taking care of their basic necessities of life, and occasionally fighting with them.The difference is that there is a giant dog named Dingchun in the private school. Sometimes the youths with excess energy will fight with it. The number of victories gradually increased.

At this time, Kagura would sit leisurely on the tree, holding her face and watching the fierce fight between the teenagers and their pet dogs. She watched them master the skills little by little and gradually become stronger.

Run, defend, jump, counterattack.

The three teenagers exhausted their energy again and knelt down on the ground, while the white dog did not know whether it was excitement or something else, and let out a low howl at them.

Then she would see the pet dog biting the silver-haired boy's head, as if he was tasting some delicious food, and at this moment, the boy would freeze and just say to his two companions,

"You can still move, right? You still have physical strength, right? If so, hurry up and save me, Ah Yin. If I'm going to be eaten, I'm definitely going to be eaten. I don't want to die young! Why does it only like to bite my head, Hun Dan!"

The two ignored it.

And the girl sitting on the tree will also laugh out of time.

After that, the bond between the four of them seemed to become deeper than before, and some things changed unconsciously.

So, when Shinsuke Takasugi invited Kagura to go down the mountain with him as an assistant to call for more samurai with the heart of a child, she was really taken aback.

You know, he never lets anyone take part in his call-ups.

Takasugi Shinsuke raised his eyebrows, "What? Don't you want to?"

"It's just strange why you don't go to your two gay comrades, but you come to me, who has different genders and loves." He changed his expression and spit out words that could irritate people to death.

"..." Takasugi Shinsuke tightly clenched his fists, took a deep breath, and calmed down the urge to kill people, "You often go down the mountain, and you are one of the few people in the private school who knows a lot about the mountain."

"When will you go down the mountain, Aru?"

"Now."

"Didn't you, Little Shan, see the full ramen? Don't you, Little Shan, know that it is very rude and shameful to interrupt a lady from eating?"

Shinsuke Takasugi rubbed his painful forehead, "...Hurry up."

Down the hill, a poor suburb to the east.

Shinsuke Takasugi and Kagura stood on the roof of a certain wooden house, looking around at the crowd that had gathered due to the commotion caused by the former. The poor people all looked at them with eyes full of vigilance and doubt.

One of the youths who seemed to be the leader stood up and asked calmly, "Who are you? What is the purpose of coming here?"

Shinsuke Takasugi stood upright, against the light, so that people could not see his face clearly, "Because of being occupied by heaven and man, the environment is harsh, but you are still working hard to live, don't you hate such an incompetent shogunate ?"

The young man lowered his eyes, as if recalling something, "What's the use of saying this? We just want to live a carefree life, and don't want to get involved in your war!"

"That's right! We're tired of fighting and killing, and now we just want to live a peaceful life in the village!"

"Get out! Don't bring disaster to this village!"

I don't know who was the first to pick up the stones on the ground and throw them at them. Anyway, the poor people who were led by that move picked up the hard stones lying on the ground and threw them to death.

Seeing this, Kagura immediately rushed to Takasugi Shinsuke and opened the purple umbrella.

However, Shinsuke Takasugi pushed away the umbrella in front of him, endured the angry stones thrown by the poor, and looked at the crowd under the house calmly, as if what fell on him was just cotton, "Could it be... ...Have you forgotten the lenient regime sweep?"

Seeing him like this, Kagura immediately understood what he meant, and she silently put away her umbrella, bearing their grief and anxiety with him.

"I believe that you have participated in the confrontation with the Celestial Man. Do you think that the shogunate who has become the lackey of the Celestial Man...will let you go?" Takasugi Shinsuke took a step forward and glanced around the crowd.

"Will they...will treat your relatives and friends well?"

And Kagura also jumped down immediately, and swung her bare hands to the ground. A hole was opened in the ground, and then she stood up slowly, pointing to the boy on the roof, and she said, "Don't look at him as a dwarf, but he has abilities. The resourcefulness that compares with Haagen-Dazs, coupled with the powerful strength of this queen...you, what are you afraid of?"

"..." Takasugi Shinsuke was dumbfounded for a while, and a deep sense of powerlessness hit his heart. He took a deep breath and continued, "The Ghost Soldier Team I founded maintains its innocence in this troubled world. Formed by true warriors of the heart."

Shinsuke Takasugi wiped the blood from his forehead, "Do you want to be a person who only lives for life, or a samurai who lives for himself?"

"This war...is not a fight to protect myself, but a fight to protect my soul!"

Kagura is silent, she has heard this sentence before, this is what Yoshida Matsuyo once said.At that time, holding the teaching book in his hand, smiling, he told the children who were serious in class that no matter what difficulties they encountered in the future, they must protect their souls.

The crowd gradually stopped what they were doing, looking at the boy with the entire sky as the background, and the girl standing on the ground.

At this moment, a hearty voice came, "Ahahaha, isn't this very interesting!"

A boy with brown curly hair appeared next to the leading youth in dark green clothes, and then he patted the man on the shoulder, "Isn't this your long-cherished ambition, Mr. Coke?"

"It's Bi Le, Bi Le, Hun Dan, Sakamoto Tatsuma, at least remember other people's names!" The young man named Bi Le shouted.

Sakamoto Tatsuma scratched his hair, "Ahahaha, Xuebi-kun, are you really not going to join them? Although I hate fearless wars, if you can only look new after making a big fuss, why not ?”

"I told you that my name is Bi Le, Hun Dan!" Bi Le raised her forehead and complained unconsciously, "By the way, why do you, a forgetful young master from a rich family, come here again?"

"Of course it's because my friends are all here!" Tatsuma Sakamoto gave a thumbs up.

Everyone was silent.

Bi Le sighed helplessly, and then he looked at the boy in the black and purple clothes, "If that idiot is willing to go crazy with you, then I will join too."

"Ah, it's okay, Aru," Kagura walked up to Tatsuma Sakamoto, grabbed his head with one hand, and pressed down hard,

"Look, isn't this a very straightforward agreement?"

"Ahahaha, I don't know why I always feel heavy on my head—"

"........."

"If Bi Le-kun and Sakamoto also join, then I will also participate!"

"Me too, I don't want to continue to live in vain!"

"Although we are poor, we have the heart of a warrior and the swordsmanship of a warrior!"

Shinsuke Takasugi pulled out the sharp knife from his waist, the tip of the sword reached Xiyang hanging in the air, a dazzling reflection flashed across the blade, and the young face was somewhat similar to the dangerous man in the future .The only difference is that in the future, there is a sadness and madness hidden in his eyes, but now there is only expectation and hope in his eyes.

"I am the ghost army!"

Kagura, who was pressing Tatsuma Sakamoto's head, looked at the crowd who were booing because of the boy, and she laughed when she heard the unique ahaha laughter coming from her ears.

He was very active in the late stage of fighting barbarians, and Megatron's four-person team was assembled.

The author has something to say: The next chapter, if I remember correctly, should be about war →_→