Disclaimer: I do not own Hakuouki characters. If I did, Meiji era will be overthrown and all my shinsengumi beloved members will live in peace. Umm... of course, I only owned my OC character which named Heiwajima Hotaru…

**god, I am soooo obsess with Okita Souji! I even read the whole real life history about him in the Edo era Wikipedia. Well, here's my fanfic about him, my cute little Souji :DD the OC's name shall be Heiwajima Hotaru. (Hotaru= Firefly, Heiwajima is a family name I got from my favourite character from Durarara!)

**New A/N (from the 2015 me xD):I have done editing from chapter 1~14… (who the 16 y/0 me wrote!) D clap clap clap! Although I have no guarantee that the story will get more interesting, or getting worse as I am continuing this after 2 years -.-…. I hereby sincerely thank you everyone's support so far (new and old fans) and will continue this story to the finish!

Chapter 1

Under the brightly lit sky, in the Shinsengumi base, the First Squad unit of the Shinsengumi members were dismissed from their training for the day, but this particular kid, have to do more training afterwards as he is new to the group and have zero talent in swordsmanship.

"is it the fifth time already that I tell you this…?" Okita Souji, the captain of the First Squad unit, was teaching one of his members how to swing a sword, a newly recruited member. "You should swing it this way, do it right or I'll kill you." Heiwajima Hotaru, the said member, has a small build, smallest in the whole squad and is the shortest among them all. Some members sometime joked that he was actually a girl! His hair was yellow and was tied in a rather long ponytail that positioned on top of his head. And, they have been training for a whole day. Still, it seems that this kid have a long way to go before he was able to join the troop on battlefield. Okita closed his eyes and let out a sigh, 'Why the heck Hijikata-san scouted this weakling anyway…?'

An image of Okita sitting in Hijikata's room discussing the recruits flashes into Okita's mind. "How do I know the Heiwajima actually DO have a son…?"Hijikata scratched the back of his head and sighed. "But then again, I believe that you can help him to be a man that fights protecting our country, I trust you, Souji." The redhead captain sighed at the vice-commander's words and snapping out of his thoughts, he looked at the extremely exhausted Hotaru swinging his bamboo sword, "Alright, let's stop for a break." Almost immediately, Hotaru collapsed to the ground, panting and rubbing off some sweat off his fore head, "yes…sir…"

Chizuru lighten up the mood, bringing in some dango and warm tea to the training field. Most guys in the shinsengumi blushes when Chizuru did so, but not for Hotaru. He is a weird guy who won't fall for Chizuru's charm for some reason. Ignoring that weirdo, Okita thanks Chizuru and sees her smile back in reply. That girl is really something, being able to help out in the mansion full of nothing but guys everyday.

Hotaru was trained until sunset before Okita let him go to have his dinner. Another strange thing about Hotaru is, he seems to wears his haori a bit higher, unlike Shinpachi, maybe because he doesn't have any six-packs to show off. On his way to his room after dinner and a quick shower, Hotaru flinched as he felt a shadow followed him.

"So, how's the day?" Hotaru turned to the speaker, and was relieved to found out it was only Saito Hajime, the one that got closest to him for after a few days they met.

"Saito-san!" Hotaru cried tear of joy, "you wouldn't believe how harsh Captain Okita is!"

"Now, now… " Saito sighed, "you shouldn't give up this easily, Hotaru. You are to protect this country in the time to come." Saito put a hand on Hotaru's head, "want to go patrolling together for a while?"

The air outside the mansion is far cooler than the shinsengumi base; Hotaru regretted that he didn't bring anything extra to warm himself up. To other Shinsengumi captains, Hotaru is usually shy and scared of them, even though the friendlier ones like Heisuke. But Saitou gives off a vibe that allows Hotaru to get close to him.

"Cold?" Saitou asked, looking down at the shivering kid. Hotaru looked up and was about to answer no, but he sneezed. Saitou just silently smiled to himself, before taking off his scarf for Hotaru.

"T-thanks… Saito-san… Are you sure this is okay…?" Hotaru blushed, slightly caressing the scarf that was put onto him. They, patrol around the town, sightseeing for a bit before heading home. Nothing much happen, except Hotaru gets to meet a few new people that live in that town like a pretty lady called herself Kaoru, a princess-like woman called O'sen and a some others.

"Daddy, you can't!" Hotaru argued.

"Don't tell me what I cannot do!" Shizuo, the head of the Heiwajima family, also Hotaru's father, walked to the room where he keeps his katana with the aid of a stick. As he opened the cupboard, Hotaru grabbed the katana and run for the exit.

"Hotaru come back!" Hotaru outrun Shizuo as he was unable to run that well.

"Sorry, daddy, take care!"

Hotaru jolted awake as his father's scream echoed in his ears. Hotaru panted, and then slowly realized that it was just a dream. After all, it's been 2 months since he was brought into the shinsengumi base with Hijikata. He breathed a sigh of relief and went out from the tatami room.

"Wow… the night air feels so great…" Hotaru closed his eyes and tilted his head a bit as he felt the cold wind breezed through his face.

"I know right? I like the night air here too." Hotaru's eyes flew open as he looked around and saw Okita sitting in front of him by the stair, "O-O-Okita-san? What are you doing there?"

"Nothing, just sitting… why don't you have a seat too?" Okita suggested with his usual huge grin. When Hotaru does nothing but standing there unmoved, Okita's grin faded. "Sit down or I'll kill you."

Hotaru gulped, debating for a while in his head whether he should do so or not, but he ended up sitting beside Okita, keeping quite a distance though. Okita sighed, pulling Hotaru close with a hand over Hotaru's shoulder, "sit closer will you?" Hotaru gaped, heart's rate increasing by every second, "umm… Captain O-Okita…"

"Hmm?"

"You can let go now." Hotaru stammered. Okita laughed and let go of the blonde. "Gee, how can you get into battle field like this…? You will only end up being killed."

"Captain?" Hotaru called, trying to get rid of the who-knows-where-it-come-from red flush on his face.

"Now what?"

"Why do you like to kill so much…?" Hotaru asked, and flinched when he saw Okita looked down at him. "I-I mean… it is fun to kill people with sword?"

"Well, it depends." Okita sighed, leaning back on the wooden extension. "Of course, for some little kids or women who don't know about fighting, they will think fighting and killing is wrong." Okita stopped for a while then continued, "And us, guys, who learn how to fight and protect our loved ones of course, would think battle is fun. As for us the more enemy we killed, the safer our loved ones would be."

"Wow…" Hotaru can't help but smile to himself. "I never knew you would think as far as that. Here I thought you only kill people for fun…" Okita smiled at Hotaru's compliment. "So… Okita-san… who's your loved ones?"

"Me?" Okita thought deep in himself for a while. "Well… for now, I might say it's Kondo-san. He raised me since I was a kid after all. How about you?"

"Umm, I don't know… maybe my mum… and my… d-dad…?"

"You don't sounds so sure…" Okita's looks softened, "did something happen?"

Hotaru sighed, "It's nothing… I just… nothing really…"

"Okay… if you say so," Okita looked bored then come up with a question, "say Hotaru, before I actually be strict with you that you are way passed your bed time…" He grinned, "why was your name Hotaru again?"

Hotaru flinched, "w-what? Wh-where do that come from?" Hotaru began to fidget with both of his index fingers. Okita continued, "I mean, Hotaru is a girl's name right?"

"Are you kidding me?!" Hotaru gives his captain a quite a hard punch on the back, making the captain chocked, "Okay, I admitted, I got this name, a girl name because my dad always wanted a girl since I was in my mummy's womb. But it turns out I was a guy. As they getting used to call me Hotaru, I get this name, there ya go!" Hotaru stood up and back away, laughing sheepishly while scratching the back of his head, "by the way, I am not even a teensy bit look like a girl, remember that!" Hotaru ran into his room and slam closed the tatami door.

Okita stared blankly as the light in Hotaru's room went out. "What's up with him…?"

The day was so hot, everyone were in the dining room eating their lunch. Hotaru just finished his training with Okita on his 1000 swings practice. Hotaru went into his room and saw Chizuru making up his bed.

"Ah, Hotaru-kun..." Chizuru greeted, "Hijikata-san asked me to clean up rooms after I finish with my lunch, and I was here on my second last room." Before Hotaru was able to say anything, Chizuru asked again, "Where's your laundry?"

"Oh, it's in the drawer..." Hotaru replied, sitting down while drying his hair with a towel.

It's in the drawer... it's in the drawer... it's in the drawer...

The words echoed in Hotaru's mind like there were no tomorrow. He was wondering what's wrong when suddenly...

"What's this?" Hotaru's eyes snapped opened. He turned to see the thing that Chizuru have in her hands. Too late, it's just too late to change it all. In Chizuru's arm are small white pads that women used when they're having their menstruation period.

"Wait a minute!" Hotaru dashed over to grab the pads, crimson red blush formed clearly on the blonde's face. Chizuru was speechless as she examined Hotaru up and down. They were silenced for a while until Chizuru decided to speak up, "don't tell me... Hotaru... you're a girl?"

To be continued...

**I know, I know... it's a typical cliff hanger... I will try to improve the whole thing. But for the time being, I need inbox or reviews! I have to know if I need to continue it or not. '