A/N Hello, everyone! This is my first Gintama fic. I haven't read the whole series yet, so if you notice something that it wrong according to the latest volume/chapter, please just ignore it! I will be updating with a new chapter every week. Please review and I hope you enjoy!

Chapter One

Tae was feeling rather good. She had made quite a few sales the night before at the club and for once she would have extra cash left over after paying all of the bills. She walked leisurely to the post office to retrieve the bills she could actually pay. At the post office, she waited in line, one which was short for once. After only waiting a few minutes, she received her mail and went home.

Once there, she brewed tea for herself as she went through the various bills. One letter stood out from the rest. It was larger, heavier, and stamped with the seal of the government. Tae stared at the letter in confusion. Why would she be getting letters from the government? She slit the envelope open and slid out the letter.

As she read it, her blood pressure began to rise to an extremely dangerous level.

"I'm being SUBPOENAED?"

Tae clenched her fists in an attempt to not slug the man sitting in front of her. The letter she had received from the government required her to appear at court. However, it had not specified why, but the judge sitting across the table from her did.

"I'm sorry, but I don't understand. How could I possibly be trespassing on my own property?" Tae asked in a sweet voice that terrified the judge.

"I'm afraid that you do not legally own the house and dojo where you are currently staying."

"Of course I do. My father left me the house and the dojo in his will," Tae growled. The judge paled at the words ground out from between the lovely young girl's teeth.

"The law states that a person cannot inherit property until that person is twenty-one years of age. Although the house was left to you in the will, it cannot legally pass into your ownership until you have reached the proper age. Because the house does not belong to you, you are trespassing and squatting on private property. I'm afraid we have no choice but to arrest you."

Tae shot to her feet, determined not to go without a fight.

"Please wait!" the judge cried out as the bailiff got to his feet as well. "I certainly don't want to throw a young woman out onto the streets or arrest her for something out of her control!" Tae remained in a battle stance. "I have a daughter at home, and I would hate to see her in a predicament like this should anything ever happen to me," the judge said softly. "I cannot overlook this, but I can offer you this: I will wait for three days to take action so that you have time to arrange for a place to stay."

Tae leaned on the table. "There's no other way around it?" she cried out. The dojo meant everything to her and losing it would be like losing a limb. Tae needed something else, anything else, so long as it let her stay close to her home. The judge scratched his chin.

"I suppose things would be different if you were married."

"What does that have to do with anything?" Tae shouted and leaned over the table at the judge. Terrified, he raised his hands in an attempt to block whatever attack Tae had planned. "I meant that if you were to get married, the property would transfer to your husband as long as he was over twenty-one and everything would be fine."

Tae leaned back away from the judge who breathed a sigh of relief, a thoughtful look on her face. She wordlessly walked out of the room and the judge collapsed in fear on the table.

Tae wandered Edo, not particularly caring where she was headed. She was going to be evicted, possibly even arrested if she couldn't find a husband and fast. She quickly scrolled through a list of men she knew in her head. No one at the club, that was for sure. They would all think she was serious about the marriage. Not to mention the fact that most of them already had wives. No, she needed someone who would be fine with a scam. Someone who wasn't serious about her. She continued to think.

"OTAE-SAN! MARRY ME!"

Without even thinking, her fist collided with Kondo's nose as he leaped out from behind a bush. He sank to the ground slowly and Tae continued on her way, still thinking.

"Ane-go!" Tae shook herself from her thoughts to see Kagura running toward her with a piece of sukonbu hanging out of her mouth. Sadaharu followed and pounced on Kagura, who laughed and wrestled the dog to the ground. Tae looked up and realized she had walked to the yorozuya. And then, she had an idea.

Tae walked into the yorozuya somewhat hesitantly. She had passed Kagura playing with Sadaharu on her way there, and Shinpachi was attending another Otsu concert, so she had some time alone to talk to Gin. However, seeing how her day was going, it wasn't unlikely that one of them would burst in while she tried to have a serious conversation with Gin. The hero was currently lying on the couch, snoring away, with an issue of Shounen Jump covering his face. Tae pondered briefly whether she should wake Gin up by punching him or kicking him.

"Yeoow!" Gin shouted as he sat up, the magazine falling off his face and onto the floor. Tae sat on the other couch as Gin spluttered with indignity.

"What the hell? Why did you just kick me in the stomach?"

"I didn't kick you," Tae replied with an innocent look on her face. Gin raised an eyebrow.

"How could you forget, it only happened a few paragraphs ago!" Gin shouted, still massaging his stomach. Tae's innocent face turned serious.

"I need to ask you a favor," she said quietly. Gin started an angry retort but was stopped by the troubled expression on Tae's face.

"What is it?" he asked in a surprisingly gentle voice.

"I'm getting evicted." Tae went back and told Gin the whole story. "And now the only way I can stay at the dojo is if I get married," she finished. Gin was silent for a moment.

"What about the gorilla?" he asked. "He'd marry you in a heartbeat!"

In exactly one heartbeat, Gin found his face smashed into the coffee table.

"Don't be stupid, I can't stand him," Tae said as Gin held back multiple swears.

"Well, what do you want me to do about it?" Gin cried out in exasperation, rubbing his bleeding nose.

"Will you marry me?"