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Hijikata wasn't a patient person. She hated waiting and she was sick of doing nothing. So sitting pointless alone at the Yorozuya place was getting on her nerve. Gintoki and kids were outside, probably at job, and they tell her just to sit tight and wait. Maybe she wouldn't be that mad if Kondo was there in time. He was supposed to meet her an hour ago to talk about the situation she was in.

It have been already three days since she changed, and during this time Yorozuya haven't found anything helpful. This was really frustrating, because she longed to come back to her normal form as soon as possible. Moreover, Kondo-san asked her to not going outside for some time. She knew he was afraid that someone would hurt her, but with her help, they'd find the answers faster. She was a policemen for fuck's sake, so she knew what to do. Making her sit here all day wasn't solving anything.

She leaned back on the couch, sighing hardly. She was mad at Gintoki for underestimating her. When he told her she would get in their way, she wanted to tear out his private areas. Just how much useless did he think she was?! They should be lucky Shinpachi calmed her down, saying that it's still too dangerous for her to go out and that they have to make sure the surrounding are safe enough for her, otherwise she would really hurt that perm idiot.

Something vibrated in her sleeve. She was surprised first, but then she remembered she was wearing yukata Gintoki bought her a few days ago. She didn't expected it to be so tight and so well fitting at the same time. She wasn't fat like the other time so she looked good in it. Hell, she knew she looked good in it, she saw herself properly in a mirror the first evening she stayed here. And she could tell why Gintoki was having fun of her all this time. She was actually very thin, so no wonder he was saying all this stuff about not being able to hold a sword and all. What the hell happened to her muscles?! She was a very muscled man, so why she's so fragile as a woman?

"Yeah?" She picked up her cellphone really pissed off. She didn't want to talk to anybody, she was just so mad at everything.

"Toshi, you're ok? I'm sorry I'm not there by now, but we're too busy with some aliens. Can you believe they climbed at the terminal again? As if they don't have anything else to- Oi! Sougo, put that bazooka down!"

"Mmm..." Hijikata murmured as she rolled her eyes. Sougo was doing something unnecessary. Typical.

"Toshi, I'll call you later. Maybe I could be there in two hour, so just wait."

"It's not like I have something else to do but wait," she muttered, getting up from the couch to stretch her legs a little. She moved to the window and opened it to have a smoke.

"Oi, don't be like that. I know it's hard for you to not work, but-"

Hijikata heard a big explosion and then Kondo-san was yelling Sougo's name. There was a sweat on her face, did Sougo blow them all up?

"Oi, Alien-san! Do you hear me? Get off! What would your mother say if she saw you destroying this?"

"Mommy is disappointed..."

"What the hell!" Hijikata snapped with slight disgust as she hung up.

She hid her cellphone in her sleeve and took a drag from her cigarette. Shit, leaving Shinsengumi in their hands wasn't the best idea, but she should believe they wouldn't do something more stupid.

Hijikata was finishing her second cigarette when Yorozuya came back. She threw a butt through the window and after closing it, she went toward Gintoki, who was lying on a sofa. She noticed some blood on his clothes and skin.

"What happened?"

"Nothing," he replied, evidently angry. "Just some motherfuckin' police officers couldn't do their job properly."

"Kondo-san was running around the town in alien's costume," Shinpachi explained with a sigh.

"And he was shouting something like 'Alien-kun, come back home with mommy!' all the time." Kagura mimicked what was Kondo doing, and then she cover her smirk with a hand. "Heh, who did he want to trick, anyone would know it was Gorilla, uh-uh."

"Seriously, I wonder when they stop acting as if they were still middle school students. So annoying."

"Gin-san, like you're the one to talk," said Shinpachi with bored expression. "And you should stop saying those things about them, at least endure yourself in front of Hijikata-kun."

"Don't care."

He got up, and then disappeared in a bathroom.

Hijikata tighten her fists. She knew Kondo-san lacked a common sense and often was being made fun of, but he had also many advantages. Like his big heart or the way he followed the bushido. Besides the time when Otae was in his view, he was a great person.

"Oh, by the way, Hijikata-kun, Kondo-san gave us some folders. He said, he'll come tomorrow, because there's some work he should take care of."

"Ah," she muttered as he pass her over the paperwork.

It was good to feel she could do something useful at last. Even though she only had to check Yamazaki's report and some other stuff, she was glad. And if only Kondo-san would have sent her the paperwork once in a while she could know how's the baracks and of course she wouldn't be so bored here.

Hijikata immediately started going through all the documents. There wasn't a lot of them, mostly the crimes causes and also one page with Tama's name all over it. So Yamazaki still had a crush on that robot girl of Yorozuya... At least the whole report wasn't about her like the other times.

"I'm borrowing your desk, Yorozuya," Hijikata said, when she heard Gintoki exited bathroom. She immediately moved to the desk and sat behind it, documents in her hand. She wanted to read them all properly this time and give some advices how they could improve their work.

"But don't sit there for too long, I don't want to have my chair smell like mayo when I'm working."

"Working my ass," she snorted.

"It's enough to have your smell in the bathroom..."

Hijikata looked up suddenly. She wasn't sure she heard right, because Gintoki said that so quiet, but didn't he just said that the bathroom smell like her? But was it good or bad?

Hijikata sighed, she wasn't going to ask him what did he mean, it was Gintoki anyway. She was sure he was just complaining.

She looked at him once again, he was wearing his pajamas, but he didn't even wipe his hair, the water was dripping from them. She wondered how being wet they seemed to be so fluffy at the same time. Were they so soft as they looked?

Her fingers twitched as if they wanted to check that. She just sighed again and rested her head on the desk, feeling tired already.

And was that her imagination or the room got suddenly warmer?

"Eh? I can go with you?"

Hijikata lowered the chopsticks with rice and stared at Gintoki and Kagura, who were sitting on the other couch, eating their portion.

Kagura stuffed her mouth with a big amount of rice and then she started to speak, almost spitting this all. "Oi, don't think we need you or something, Mayora. It's just for the time Shinpachi's out of Edo, uh-uh."

Kagura, busy with the food, didn't even wait for a reply, so Hijikata didn't bother herself to give her one. Instead, she busied herself with the food. Maybe she could do some paperwork before they go. Last time she couldn't stay focused for more than five minutes, so some of the report was still unread.

Suddenly she felt something nudging her in an arm. She looked in that way immediately to see a bokken and Gintoki's hand on the end of it. When Gintoki send her a certain move with his head, she grabbed the wooden sword and looked into red eyes.

"Aren't you attached to it? You know, I can fight with my old sword."

"And hurt someone in process? Don't make me laugh." Gintoki picked his nose as he looked at Hijikata with his fish dead eyes. Then he disappeared somewhere to return with the same sword as she was holding. "Get up, we're going outside. I don't want you to destroy my living room by accident."

"Ehh? What are you talking abo-"

He cut her in the middle of the sentence by grabbing her arm and leading her out of the apartment. She barely put on her sandals by the way and Gintoki grabbed his boots, but didn't put them on at the moment.

Kagura was shouting something behind them, but she couldn't catch a word and she wondered why Gintoki didn't want to bring her along.

"Okay, now when there's noone to disturb us, I can finally see if you can do anything," Gintoki said, now wearing his boots, as they were on a lea near a river. She knew this place pretty good, mainly because Sougo has been coming here to have a nap, and she was always there to yell at him.

"Don't treat me like I was a girl, who can't even raise a sword," she snapped, feeling irritated.

"You're a girl, actually..."

"Shut up! I was a police officer, don't think I can't beat you!"

"Indeed, you were." Gintoki's smirk grew wider as his position changed a little bit. His grip on a bokken tightened and he led it in front of himself, pointing at Hijikata. "Come at me, Ms. police officer. We're outside, so you can use as much strength as you can bring out."

"My skills haven't change a bit, so watch it, bastard."

"They haven't? Then I'm not holding back."

When their swords crossed, Gintoki was taken aback by Hijikata's power. He didn't use a lot of strength, but for her to nearly overcome him... He snorted with a slight smile and then strained his muscles a little. As he thought, she started to shivering a bit, so he withdrew his bokken to pay attention at her legs. When he stroke a blow at them, she neatly jumped up and then hit him in an arm with one of her legs.

Hijikata landed on the ground with a triumphal smile, when suddenly she felt a pain on her chest and she was send a few inch back by Gintoki kick.

"Tired already?" He asked, and Hijikata noticed they were in their starting position.

She looked at him, narrowing her eyes. The drops of sweat started forming itself under her v-shaped bang, she could feel it. "No way, it was only a warm-up."

"Good."

"You're not that bad as I thought."

She smiled lightly to herself, hearing those words. At last, she could show that bastard that she wasn't weak. By the way, what way he thinking? That she couldn't fight, having that big experience in real battles?

In truth she also thought that she was a weakling, she felt like one, but she wasn't going to tell him that.

They were resting under the tree. The fight ended with Gintoki's win of course, but she wasn't disappointed at all. The perm bastard was too damn strong, she knew she barely kept up with him as a man, so let alone in this form.

"I told you, you moron," she replied, getting up.

And when Gintoki got up from the ground as well, they headed back home.