Hello there!

I've been wanting to do something like this for a while and what better couple than the sadist duo? This is a 3z-verse based setting so some of the ages may be different to canon: Shinpachi, Kagura and Soyo are all older to be in their third year (characters like Sougo and Nobume will just be older by months instead) and Tae is a little older so she isn't the same age as Shinpachi.

Note: Kagura calls Gintoki 'Gin-chan' for a lack of me finding a better replacement in English, Gin sounded too friendish rather than familial and Gintoki of course is too cold so any suggestions let me know!

It's a set of drabbles in chronological order (you probably won't really notice it's moving forward in time until later chapters) based off prompts and I'd say it's fairly in character.

This is inspired by A1y-puff's 'The Walk'

Disclaimer: I do not own Gintama nor it's weirdly wonderful characters

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Failure/Lesson

Dust wafted off the whiteboard in the shape of a ominous cloud for the umpteenth time as Kagura scrubbed at the fading white surface. She sneezed as some drifted into her nose and the sudden noise seemed to surprise the other occupant in the room, judging from the loud crash of broom hitting the floor.

"Dammit, China! You scared the shit out of me!" Came Okita Sougo's loud reply as he bent down to retrieve the escaped cleaning utensil.

"I can't help it you brat!" She snapped in reply, wiping her nose with her sleeve, "it's not my fault the rooms as stale as Gin-chan's sex life!"

The flaxen haired man showed no signs that he was listening to the small girl apart from a flicker of amusement in his eyes at her dirty vocabulary.

Kagura returned to scrubbing at the board with the sponge, cursing her fate that she ended up on cleaning duty with the one person she couldn't stand. Gin-chan why? She thought bitterly at her guardian who also happened to be her homeroom teacher. You'd think she'd get some special treatment from the sweet loving man who doubled as her father, but clearly she didn't.

She heard a loud sigh behind her and ignored it. When she heard it again, two, three more times she turned in annoyance demanding, "what?"

Sougo leaned against the broom, hands under his chin, "just wondering what god I pissed off to be stuck here after school with a flat chested China brat."

Kagura's right eye twitched as she hurled a whiteboard marker at the boy, "I'd like to know the same thing! It's not like I wanted to be stuck with you either!"

"Tell Boss to stop putting us in detention then," the man said emotionlessly, dodging the speeding marker as if it was merely a fly, "it's not like we did anything we don't do normally."

She felt irritation bubble up in her, "maybe if you didn't pick fights with me all the time we wouldn't be stuck here!" Kagura yelled venomously.

Sougo simply sighed and said blankly, "that's impossible. Plus, you're the one picking a fight with me."

"Did not!" She snapped back furiously.

"Did too. 'Sadist stop writing so loudly it's annoying'," Sougo mocked in a high pitched voice, "I was simply trying to do my work before I was rudely interrupted by a pig."

Kagura yelled out in frustration and flew across the teachers stand towards the boy, "shut up you annoying brat! You make me sick!"

Sougo grinned as he retaliated towards the girl; soon a full-scale brawl broke out with the two kicking and punching all the while yelling curse words at each other.

It was almost ten minutes later when Gintoki Sakata walked into the room, took in the aftermath and exclaimed, "I put you on detention for fighting in the first place." The two teens looked away sheepishly, not before shooting each other a hard glare. The silver haired man sighed and muttered as he walked back out of the room, "damn kids and their damn hormones never giving me a break."

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Complicated/Unbreakable

"Oi, Sougo, stop making a racket!" Hijikata Toshirou groaned in annoyance as he glared at the two bickering teenagers.

Gintoki sighed next to him wearily, "these kids these days with their fighting and their flirting, back when I was a kid we had to gel our hair to get girls to talk to us!"

The dark haired man stared at his 'friend' with a look of confusion mixed with disgust and replied, "oi, oi, I don't know what girls you were talking to but they probably ran away as soon as your curls escaped the gel."

"What was that?" The white haired man snapped, slamming his fists on the table.

A loud sigh was heard from one Shinpachi Shimura as he cleared the table in the Sakata's kitchen for dinner.

To say their family situation was complicated was an understatement. The fact that Gintoki was their teacher made it much more so. Shinpachi and his sister were practically siblings to Kagura and Gintoki; this had been a fact since she was a child.

She still, however, could not see the necessity of the Gorilla that stalked her big sister, the idiotic mayonnaise lover and the damn Chihuahua. Especially not the Chihuahua.

The fact that they were neighbours with the idiotic Gorilla and Chihuahua probably had something to do with it, and that the mayonnaise king seemed to practically live at their house didn't help.

"Toshi!" Said Gorilla yelled in panic as the dark haired man slammed onto the table the glasses had been trying to clear earlier. This had then resulted in a cry of anguish from the distressed boy at his precious dinner. It only got worse as Tae, Shinpachi's older sister, entered the mix yelling about manners as she smacked the stalker Gorilla, Perm-head and Mayonnaise lover together.

Kagura sighed, shooting a glare at Sougo as he watched the scene in amusement, just another normal day in the Sakata house hold.

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Rivalry/Vengeance/Seeing Red/Breakfast

Sometimes when Kagura fought the Sadist she saw blue. Blue for the bright sky and summer days. Sometimes she saw green, like the colour of the grass as she slammed him into it. Today, however, she only saw red.

Their rivalry had reached an all time high as of late as she sought vengeance for the packet of chips Sougo had stolen from her room a week ago. She wasn't going to forget the wide grin on his face as she shoved the last seaweed flavoured chip into his mouth anytime soon. Not until she literally saw red, like the colour of his blood.

And as she watched the flaxen haired man haired man reach out with his fork and steal the last egg from the communal plate at the breakfast table she knew she wasn't going to forgive him anytime soon.

Not until his blood covered her hands.

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Dead Wrong/Excuses

The first time someone had mistaken Sougo and Kagura for a couple they had ended up in the infirmary with multiple bruises and a sprained wrist.

Over time people had gotten the idea and stopped asking the two rivals who seemed to always be together, even before and after school, about their relationship. No, no one wanted to get him or herself beaten up by the school's most notorious sadist accompanied by the volatile girl.

That was until the new student had decided to take his chance hitting on the red haired, but dangerous, beauty.

Kagura had many admirers, but they were only that, admirers. If whatever lovesick fool was after the girl's look hadn't been turned off by her personality and vocabulary, they normally stayed a ten-metre radius away from the girl out of fear of a certain sadist. While people didn't ask about the two anymore it didn't mean they didn't watch.

"China, stop touching my stuff with your grubby hands." Said sadist grumbled as he leaned back in his chair.

"Shut up, Sadist, I'm trying to find a pencil, mine broke." Kagura grumbled back as she sifted through his pencil case, chair directly beside his.

"Go ask the glasses or the princess, I don't want mine to get diseased."

Kagura ignored his jab and replied shortly, "Shinpachi's late and Soyo doesn't have a spare." She pulled out a pencil and exclaimed, "ah ha! Thanks Chihuahua!"

Sougo went back to ignoring his surrounds, or that's what it seemed until the new boy approached Kagura and said, "hey Kagura!"

Sougo snapped to attention, listening intently on the conversation as the surprised China girl said, "Uh? Who are you?"

The flaxen haired man allowed himself a short moment of smugness before listening in again. It seemed he wasn't the only one as everyone in the vicinity had gone dead quiet as the nervous boy asked the question, "I'm Kou, I just transferred here. I was actually wondering if you maybe wanted to go watch a movie with me this weekend?"

"A movie?" Kagura repeated dumbly.

"Yes! That new Space Wars one everyone keeps talking about!"

A collective breath was held by the class as a pen came flying out of nowhere and hit the shocked girl in the back of the head.

She turned instantly, "what the hell, Sadist?"

He stared ahead nonchalantly, "I just thought a pen would be better for writing calligraphy. Figured your stupid little brain wouldn't have been able to work that out."

"What was that?" She snapped in return, ignoring the flustered boy behind her.

Sougo shrugged, "just trying to do you a favour, don't have to get your panties in a twist China."

Kagura made a move to attack Sougo when the waiting boy interjected, "um, Kagura? Did I make a mistake asking you?" He gestured towards to the boy she was currently holding by the front of his shirt, "I didn't mean to cause a fight with your boyfriend."

Then chaos erupted, "boyfriend?!" The two yelled in sync, equally horrified by the statement.

"Eh, he's not?" Kou asked in confusion, quickly realising he'd stepped on a land mine.

"Who the hell would want to date that annoying brat/flat chested pig?!"

"Um… I'm sorry!" The boy yelled backing up.

"We are not dating!" Kagura emphasised, dropping Sougo and clutching onto the arm of the terrified boy.

"Yes, if I ever date that sorry excuse for a girl please just kill me because I've clearly lost my mind." Sougo deadpanned.

"Oh yeah?" Kagura challenged, "well if I ever date him chop me up and feed me to Sadaharu, uh-huh!"

A fight ensured and the terrified boy was caught up in the midst.

Shinpachi sighed only just entering the room, staring at the two with exhaustion, "they realise the more they deny it the more suspicious it looks, right?"

Soyo giggled behind him, "they don't, nor do they realise that they're not denying it to others they're denying it to themselves."

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Sleep/Online

A very angry red haired girl stalked into Okita Sougo's bedroom; phone in hand as she shoved it into his face. It displayed a very embarrassing picture of said girl sleeping with her mouth open on the couch in the living room of the same apartment.

"What the hell is this?" She demanded, eyes blazing with fury.

The boy took his time examining the picture wordlessly, he studied it as though it was an extremely interesting piece of art before turning to the girl and saying calmly, "I believe, it is a picture of you sleeping on my couch yesterday."

Kagura bristled, "yes," she said slowly, "but what the hell is it doing on your Facebook?"

"Oh, you saw it did you?" He replied as calm as ever.

"Of course I did you damn brat!" She screeched, thrusting the phone in his face again, "why do you think I'm here?"

"To visit me? You used to come in here to play all the time." The way he dragged out the word 'play' irritated Kagura and she found herself hurling her very expensive very new phone straight into his face.

Sougo let out a yelp of pain as he clutched his face, "what the fuck, China?"

Kagura picked up her beloved phone to find the screen had cracked, "now look what you made me do!"

"Don't blame your anger issues on me!" Sougo shot back, rubbing his bright red cheek.

"Take the damn picture down now!" The red haired girl screamed, waving her fist wildly.

Sougo seemed to consider the order for a moment before deadpanning, "don't want to."

Kagura took a deep breath to regain some composure, "and…" she spat out, "why the hell not?"

"Because I like that picture." Sougo said simply, completely ignoring the bloodthirsty aura coming from the girl.

"Oh, do you just?" She said menacingly, "Well do you know what I like?"

Sougo stared at her blankly, "dog food?"

"Chihuahua head, served on a platter."

That was why when Kondou came home two hours later he found the living room in shambles, not to mention Sougo's room, which looked like a bomb had gone off, and two very tired teenagers fast asleep on the boy's bed.

They won't be fighting or hostile towards each other like that every chapter so don't get too used to it :)

Also, just in case you were confused to clarify Gin is Kagura's adopted father who lives next door to Kondou and Sougo. Hijikata doesn't live with those two he just spends a lot of time there hence being included in the little 'family'. Shinpachi and Tae live together somewhere in the neighbourhood and have the same sort of connection to Gin and Kagura as they do in canon verse.

Thanks for reading!

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