The battle was over. The survivors watched the clear sky, and smiled to each other. They had triumphed. The curse was over, and everything would be fine. Now they could go home. The victors were now gathered in a circle, looking forward to go home, to their time. The green-haired lady, the responsible of letting them travel through time, looked at them with new hope, happy of being helpful in the matter. It was thanks to Gengai too, since he was the one who contributed with the technology.

"No matter what future awaits us, I'm certain it will be okay with all of you in it. That's an important piece of data I'd discovered. And so, we no longer need the time machine!," she finally said, throwing the time machine away, and destroying it in the act.

There was silence through a moment, all looking at Tama with deadpanned expressions.

"Hang on," Shinpachi broke the silence. "Uh..."

"Oi! How are we supposed to get back withouth that thing, Tama?!" Yamazaki snapped.

"Put a sock in it, Yamazaki," Sougo said, not sounding very upset at all. "I know you didn't get any screen time, but quit trying to force your way in, just because you didn't get any screen time."

"Don't say it twice! And that's not the problem!" he complained.

"I'm pretty sure it is. See? You barely showed up, you're now half transparent," Sougo said looking at him neutrally.

"What?" he asked twitching. But he then noticed what he meant.

"WHAT, FOR REAL?! WHAT IS THIS?!" He panicked, seeing as his lower body had disappeared.

"By altering the past, the technology for time travel no longer exists. So we no longer exist," Tama explained. "We can now go home, as if nothing had happened. Think of it as saving energy!"

"Tama! This seems as a violent way to go home!" Yamazaki complained.

"Oi, hold on! I wasn't told about disappearing! I wanted to change the past to never meet Gin, so that I wouldn't get laid off!" Hasegawa squealed, pointing at Gintoki, who was now glaring at him darkly. However, before he could get him, he disappeared in thin air.

"OI! HE SAID SOMETHING VERY NASTY AT THE END THERE! HE LEFT EVERYBODY WITH A BAD TASTE IN THEIR MOUTH!" he furiously yelled.

"Dammit, after we went to the trouble of coming all the way back here," Hijikata started mumbling. Kondo captured what his thinking was going and tried to put a hand on his shoulder, but he was too late, as the Vice-Commander unsheathed his sword."Katsura! I'm going to bust you while I have the chance!"

Katsura simply laughed at his declaration. "Unfortunately, I will be disappearing before the rest of you! Adios! Til we meet again!," he saluted. Unfortunately for him, his lower body was just starting to disappear and Hijikata easily handcuffed him. "I'M SORRY! I KINDA STOPPED DISAPPEARING PARTWAY THROUGH! WHAT IS GOING ON HERE?!" he desperately tried to get free of the handcuffs without result.

"All right. You wait right here. In fifteen years, I'll be back to lock you up," Hijikata told him in a mocking manner.

"HANG ON A MOMENT HEREE, HIJIKATA! TAKE ME WITH YOU!"

Suddenly, a sword was nailed in Hijikata's arse, and he instantly felt. "All right, you rest here, Hijikata-san," Sougo said. "I'll be back in fifteen years to dig your grave," he saluted.

"YOU BASTARD! YOU'RE GONNA PAY FOR THIS IN FIFTEEN YEARS!" was Hijikata's last words as he, along with Sougo and Yamazaki, disappeared.

"That's it!" Kondo suddenly realised with a blush. "If this is all never going to happen anyway..."

"...Then now is my only chance!" Ayumu finished his line.

"TAE-SAN!" the Gorilla whooped, running to his loved one.

"YOUNG MASTER!" Ayumu copied the Gorilla's action.

"I PROMISE, IN FIFTEEN YEARS I'LL STILL LOVE YOU!" Kondo said, jumping on to kiss her.

"YOU MIGHT HAVE GOTTEN TALLER, BUT YOU'RE STILL BEST IN GOTHIC LOLITA-"

Both of them were rejected by a single kick, sending both to the dead end of the cliff. "If none of this is going to happen..." both girls said.

"Bye now!" Tae said gently to the others.

"YOU CAN'T TAKE MURDER BACK!" Shinpachi snapped. "YOU ALREADY KILLED THEM BEFORE THEY COULD DISAPPEAR!"

And the two girls disappeared in thin air.

"Nooo!" Sarutobi started sobbing. "After finally seeing Gin again, we have to say goodbye already?! ...That's it! Before everything's over at least give me a goodbye smooch! I'll quietly disappear If you do," she desperately said, imitating the long gone Kondo and Ayumu. She tried to jump on him. "That's okay, right? This is the Final Chapter anyway, RIGHT?!

Unfortunately for her, when she tried to kiss him, her head was gone.

"Your head's already gone ahead to it's final chapter, so can you just disappear completely?" Shinpachi deadpanned, looking at Gintoki's annoyed expression.

"WHAT HAPPENED TO MY HEAD?! THIS IS CRAP! GIMME MY HEAD BACK!" Ayame yelled, trampling the ground childishly.

"Don't worry, I have your head right here," Tsukuyo said. "So settle down, and let's head back," she looked away from Gintoki's eyes, and brought Ayame's head even closer to her.

"THAT IS NOT REASSURING AT ALL! I'M NOT DISAPPEARING! YOU'RE MAKING ME DISAPPEAR, FIGURATIVELY!"

"We'll go ahead," Tsukuyo informed the Yorozuya, ignoring Ayame's protests.

"This is jealously, isn't it?!" Ayame scolded at her.

"Do you want me to start selling your body down in Yoshiwara?" she asked her menacingly, with a tick mark on her head. "Goodbye."

"Hey, wait!"

And they too disappeared.

The Yorozuya were the last ones.

"So everybody's gone, huh?" Kagura said. "Gin-chan. Shinpachi. Sadaharu. Let me get a good look at you. There's no guarantee that we'll work as the Yorozuya in the new future," she said, positioning at herself in front of them. "So this might be the end. I want to get a good look at you all!"

"Kagura..." Shinpachi mumbled, and was silenced when Gintoki passed his arms between him, Kagura and Sadaharu, in a group hug.

"I see," he said. "All right, look close. So that we can meet again, some day. Look real close, so no matter how far we're separated, we can track each other down."

"Gin-chan..." Kagura whispered emotionality.

"I know we'll meet again. No matter where or when, I'll be in Kabuki-cho, working under the Yorozuya sign."

They all smiled and broke apart.

"It's a promise," Kagura excitely said.

"I'm sure," Shinpachi nodded. "I'm sure we will!"

"Arghf!" Sadaharu nodded.

"Yeah," Gintoki said, smiling in his old fashion. "It's a promise."

They all held their pinky, sealing the promise, and started to disappear each one of them, till Shinpachi was the only one left. He stayed a few moments quiet, crying pathetically.

"WHY DID ONLY MY GLASSES DISAPPEAAAAAR?!" he screamed to all Heavens. He knelt down, sobbing all the while and then, minutes later, starting to disappear as well.