A/N: Sorry for the long wait. I have been very busy with work and school. I'll update as soon as I'm done with my schoolwork. Enjoy! ;D

Chapter 3

Love Starts with a Simple Crush

Three days after the wedding, Tae and Shinpachi are in Gintoki's room. The Shimura siblings are busy drawing on a piece of paper using big crayons, while Gintoki is reading the latest issue of Shounen Jump.

"Gin-niichan, I need to pee…" says Shinpachi.

"Okay, wait! Hang on, Pattsuan! Don't pee on my Jump again!" Gintoki shouts as he rushes to carry the young boy to the bathroom.

After a few minutes, the two boys are back. "Thank you, Gin-niichan!" says little Shinpachi. Gintoki puts down the little boy on the bed.

"Gin-niichan, Oboro-niisan is leaving your house?" asks Tae.

"Yup. He's going back to Tohoku with his wife. That's where his work is…"

"So if you get married, you need to leave your house?"

"Well, it depends, but most of the time, yeah, couples have to live on their own."

"Ah! So if I marry Gin-niichan, we will leave your house and my house?"

Gin almost spits the strawberry milk he is drinking. "Arggghhh! Tae-chan, stop that already! You are a hundred years early to be asking that question. Kids like you should not be thinking about that stuff; I already told you."

"Okay… Uhm, Gin-niichan, do you have a crush?"

"Huh?!" Gintoki is startled by Tae's question that he violently rises from his bed. "Oi, oi, oi! What has gotten into your head, Tae-chan? Geez, you ask weird questions these days. I told you to stop watching those dramas Aunt Otose and Aunt Haruko are watching."

"But do you have a crush, Gin-niichan?"

"Oi, do you understand what you are talking about, girly?"

"Oryou-chan asked me yesterday if I have a crush. She told me crush is someone you like. I told her I like you, so you are my crush. Is that right, Gin-niichan?"

Gintoki rolls his eyes and lets out a heavy sigh. "There you go again. Is that what you learn in school? Ahhh… are we both reading too much shounen or shoujo manga? Oi, from now on, I will stop reading Jump for you. We'll only read Doraemon and Chibi Maruko-chan."

"Do you like me, Gin-niichan?"

"Of course! You are like a sister to me, and I like Shinpachi-kun, too."

"So Shinpachi and me are your crushes?"

Gintoki shuts his eyes tightly and lets out another heavy sigh. "Tae Shimura, I don't know what to do with you anymore!" The silver perm teenager pinches the cheeks of the brown-haired little girl who shrieks and retaliates with a kick on his stomach.

A/N: Once again, thank you for the favorites, follows, and reviews. :D Next chapter, we'll see Tae and everyone else grow up a little bit... ;D