Theme/Prompt: Food

Rating: T

Author's Notes: This is the last prompt!

"Time to eat!" Kagura said scarfing down her egg over rice.

Sougo looked at his bowl, "What is this?"

"Egg over rice." She told him with her mouth still full.

"I know, but this the fourth time we're having it. We had it yesterday for breakfast, lunch, dinner and now again for breakfast."

"What is wrong with that? I can eat this all the time."

He pushed his bowl to Kagura's side of the table.

"Boss, how do you eat this every day?" The officer asked Gintoki.

"I've grown accustomed to fill myself with liquids that I don't have room for Kagura's cooking." He sat there drinking his strawberry milk.

"Does it matter? You should be enjoying anything your girlfriend makes!" Kagura directed her remark to Sougo, stuffing the last bits of rice into her mouth.

The officer got up from his seat heading out to the door.

"Where are you going? You can't go to work without a proper breakfast!" She shouted to him.

He slipped into his shoes.

"Come by to headquarters, I'll teach you how to make dinner later. Shinpachi and the Boss are invited too." He left the Yorozuya, shutting the door behind him.

The officer caught the Natural Perm's attention, "What free dinner? Say, Kagura, Okita-kun seems like a decent human being after all."

Kagura scoffed, "He's only good at one thing-", taking her boyfriend's bowl.

"Hey, I don't need to hear your illicit sexual affairs with that boy." Gin scolded her.

"Get your mind out of the gutter!" Pointing at him angrily. "He's good at pissing me off. He's doing this on purpose just to get a laugh. He has something up his sleeve." She shoved half of the egg over rice in her mouth.

"I don't care much about your relations with Okita. I am just happy for free dinner." Gin gave the stupidest smile to her. "Oh I wonder what we'll be having tonight…"

She gave him aggravated look stuffing rice in her mouth.

"Kagura-chan, are you sure this is what Okita-san said to you?" Shinpachi asked her nervously.

She picked her nose, "Uh huh."

"He said we were invited to have dinner, not for dinner, right?" He repeated.

"Shinpachi-kun, I don't exactly remember what he said. All I know is that he wanted to teach me how to cook." Kagura flicked her booger at him.

The human wearing glasses jumped avoiding the snot. "I need to know to tell my sister that I love her if I am going to die tonight."

"Stop whining, you're not going to be eaten. Die, maybe." Gin said to him.

"That doesn't make me feel any better at all!" Shinpachi said grimacing.

"Oh, Yorozuya, what brings you here?" Kondo greeted the trio at the Shinsengumi entrance.

"Okita-kun told us there was free dinner." Gin bluntly said to the Gorilla.

"Sou-kun wanted to show me how to make a proper dinner." Kagura said apathetically.

"You are actually are in for a treat. Sougo is a talented cook as a well as a swordsman. He only cooks a few times a year for the Shinsengumi." Kondo led them to the kitchen.

"Say, do you have a separate oven?" Gin asked the Gorilla. "I didn't have time to pick up a gift, so I thought I'd make something, do you mind?" He showed a white bag to show Kondo.

"Ah, sure, sure." Kondo leading Gin to another part of the kitchen.

"China-san, Shinpachi-kun, Sougo will meet with you shortly. In the meantime, you can take a look at the photos of Sougo cooking." He handed them an album.

"I guess Okita-san is really talented if Kondo-san made a photo book." Shinpachi said to Kagura before opening up the album.

The first picture was a photo of Sougo crouching next to a large pig, giving a victory sign with a big smile.

"What is this?" Shinpachi remarked.

The next photo was the pig hung up with from its hind legs, with a visible shot in the head. The following with a photo of Sougo slitting the throat of the pig with a bucket catching its blood.

"Kagura, this isn't normal." Shinpachi said nudging Kagura.

"This is what everyday people do all the time. Us city folk are not used to seeing how meat gets to our table." Kagura justifying her boyfriend's actions.

Shinpachi turned the page.

The photo showed Sougo with his crazy sadistic face with thick lines of blood on his nose and across his cheeks and hands covered in the pig's blood while others were descaling the animal.

"This isn't normal, this isn't normal at all!" Shinpachi's voice began to escalate.

The next photo was more photos of the farmers removing the hair from the pig. However, behind the farmers, Sougo was kneeling in front of a demonic shrine with arms spread out, blood dripping off his hands. The center of the shrine was a voodoo doll with Hijikata's photo pinned to it.

"KAGURA, YOUR BOYFRIEND IS A PSYCHO, ABSOLUTELY A PSYCHO!" Shinpachi pointing yelling at her pointing to the photo.

"Pats-san, you shouldn't make fun of other people's religions." Kagura said.

"DON'T YOU SEE HE'S USING THE PIG AS A SACRIFICE TO THAT DEMON GOD?" His eyes bugged out. He kept poking to the photo.

~Context Background: Sougo Okita sacrifices animals every few months if he doesn't make his monthly kill to the Sadist God. The Sadist God gives him his Sadist Powers and keeps the nicotine curse on Hijikata. He disguises his actions by cooking for the entire squad of the Shinsengumi.~

"I see you are admiring my craft, Shinpachi-kun." Sougo said monotonously, behind him. Shinpachi jumped from his seat.

Sougo watched him scurry to across the kitchen witch his sadistic expression, lips curving to a slight smile.

"O-Okita-san!" Sweat profusely rained down Shinpachi's face.

He walked over to Shinpachi staring him down, grabbing something next to him. The glasses flinched.

He picked up a few kappogi1, distributing it to Kagura and Shinpachi. Sougo leaned his face closer to his, "I hope you can keep up with today's lesson." He lowly chuckled.

Sougo put on his bandana and apron and tying it himself. Helping Kagura's with hers.

He stood in front of them beginning the lesson.

"Today's lesson is fairly simple meal, fried pork cutlet." He said, taking out a two packages of pre-cut pork chops from the refrigerator.

"We will be preparing for six people. One person gets one cutlet, along with two vegetable side dishes, a bowl of soup, and rice." Sougo explained. "But, in your case Kagura, multiply that twice, and we'll have enough for your meal."

"Why do you have to single me out?" Kagura looked at him.

"That IS enough for you to eat, if you don't get enough, you'll start complaining you're hungry five minutes after. When you cook for other people, you have to include a portion for yourself too." Sougo replied to her with a small annoyance in his voice.

She pouted, knowing he was right. Perhaps this cooking lesson was just to expand her palette and learn to cook other things than just egg over rice. Cooking was love after all right?

Sougo took his time teaching his girlfriend the basic steps to making the perfect pork cutlet to making an egg wash and breading the meat. He even separated bowls with the ultra-spicy cutlets with the non-spicy cutlets.

He explained the importance of a balanced meal to her. A fried main dish should be accompanied by a palate cleanser, teaching her how to thinly slice cabbage accompanying the cutlet, along with a simple salted cucumber as a side dish.

Shinpachi was in charge in making the miso soup and preparing the rice, something he already knew how to make. As he carried out his duty, he observed the couple. The captain teaching the Yato was strangely endearing. He watched them laugh and bicker with each other to what was the proper way to prepare dinner. He had his doubts and had a hard time approving the sadist swordsman as Kagura's love interest as he viewed them more as rivals than a couple. However, this was the first time he saw them as a normal couple.

After long preparation, dinner ready to be served. Thankfully, nothing caught on fire nor was anything burnt to a crisp.

Kondo, Hijikata, Gintoki were called to into the dining room for dinner.

"Amazing! Another good job by Sougo and China-san!" Kondo laughed.

"…I had some credit to this dinner too you know." Shinpachi added.

All sat down for the meal.

"Time to eat!" All said in unison.

Hijikata added an ungodly amount of mayo to his dishes. He took a bite of his cutlet, his face started to turn red. "T-This is spicy!" He said with a hoarse voice.

"Oh? Hijikata-san, I thought you liked your foods with robust flavor." Sougo snickered, before eating some rice.

The vice-commander looked at him, "You bastard…"

The dinner went on without a hitch, and everyone enjoyed their dinner, in exception of Hijkata, who tasted nothing beyond the spiciness of his dishes, even the mayonnaise did not help much. He kept quiet trying to be thankful that he had a complete dinner in front of him.

Gintoki and Hijikata argued over little things over dinner conversations.

Shinpachi wanted to shoot himself hearing Kondo's long-winded reasons why he is a good match for Tae.

Sougo stared blankly watching Kagura chow down her dinner. He sipped on his tea, "What did you think of today's lesson? Fairly easy right?" He asked her.

Kagura gulped down the food down her throat, "It wasn't bad." She continued to shove a few cutlets in her mouth.

"Do you want to continue cooking dinner for me forever?" Sougo asked her.

She spat her food, "What did you say?"

The other side of the table became more rowdy.

"JUMP is the superior magazines of them all!" Gintoki stepped onto the table with one foot, pointing at the vice-commander.

"You're just as blind and dumb to realize MAGAZINE is the better of the bunch!" Hijikata did the same, retorting to the silver-perm.

"You want to fight about it, hah?" Gin pushed up his sleeve, gritting his teeth.

"Bring it on."

"W-What did you just say?" Kagura repeated the question, loudly. Everyone's attention turned to her.

"Oh, where's my manners?" Sougo realized he forgot to do something before asking the Yato. "Boss, I'm going to take Kagura as my wife. Got it?" He didn't exactly ask Gintoki, but rather told him.

"Okita-kun." Gin stared at him intently. "In exchange for Kagura, yuinou2 is needed for acceptance. I want at least ¥27,000,000."

"Deal." Sougo agreeing to his terms. Gin rushed over to shake his hand.

"Welcome into the family."

"I don't remember practicing that type of tradition here in Edo." Kagura deadpanned.

"We do now!" Gin said triumphantly as he rushed out to bring in a beautiful two-tier cake, decorated with strawberries and piped expertly by Gin himself.

"Gin-san, you did this by yourself?" Shinpachi asked.

"Of course!" Setting the cake down on the table.

"Oh, this is interesting, the Sweet Tooth has talent." Hijikata lit a cigarette.

The other men were intrigued about Gin's cake than anything else and brought out the alcohol for the good news, even though no answer was given by Kagura with the proposal.

Gin distributed slices of the smaller tier of the cake while he kept the larger bottom of the cake to himself.

Sougo grabbed Kagura from her seat and led her out of the room.

"Just wait a minute, where are we going?" Kagura fumed, Sougo still dragging her along.

They stopped in front of his room.

"You said you didn't want to be like your parents and wanted to fall in love properly first, before doing it in the bedroom. We're getting married now, so let's have sex." He lifted her up, placing her over his shoulder, sliding the door with his free hand.

"W-Wait, I didn't even say 'yes' to your proposal yet. Goddammit let me down!" Kagura struggled to free from his grip.

They entered his room, closing the door shortly after.

Author's Notes: Marriage proposals in Japan are asked indirectly by the male asking the female to continue to make something forever or do something together until they die. But it seems to be the modern trend is like western proposals where it's direct and the person gets down on one knee.

Wow, it's been weeks, or rather months that I said I would finish this OkiKagu Month prompt. I would like to thank all of you wonderful readers for the continuous support. I read all your reviews and it makes me incredibly happy about all the feedback, especially from my very long absence from writing ANYTHING.

I will be continuing that AU fic and start it from the very beginning. I'm outlining the story now, and hopefully things play out well depending how canon the manga ends up. As much as I want to reply to all those questions people had, I can't tell you, you just have to read it! I feel like this will be a very long story will end up evolving a lot characters, yes, it's just that complicated.

I will be writing an Okikagu anthology from my headcanon.

Also, I will be writing an angsty fic which I hope isn't too long.

Lots of things going on, and I hope can continue to improve and be more creative with what I write.

Thank you again! Please support by writing reviews and please give critiques! It will motivate me to update more.

1 Kappogi (割烹着, 'literally cooking wear') is a type of gown-like apron, originating in Japan. First designed to protect kimono from food stains, it has baggy sleeves terminating just after the elbow, and is as long as the wearer's knees.[1] Its strips of cloth are tied at the back of neck and waist. It is particularly used when cooking and cleaning. – Wikipedia

2 The yuinou (Betrothal presents) is a ceremony of the match of both houses where the marriage is decided. It's like a dowry consisting of foods symbolic for a happy marriage, and of course money. You can find more info here . But it's a tradition of the Kanto and Kansai region.