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[lady_may_cry]

Characters: Lady and Sakata Gintoki
Location: Yorozuya May Cry
Rating: Uh, I don't even know. Let's go PG-13 to be safe.
Date: December 23rd, Late Afternoon
Description: Lady heads to Dante's place of business, and runs into a completely different platinum-haired idiot.

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[silvershamurai]

Heaving a sigh, Gintoki flipped the page of the magazine he was reading. Considering that Christmas Eve was literally right around the corner, every second page was some form of advertising, designed to lure in naive parents and anybody with any sort of relation to a child old enough to walk over to you and throw a toy catalogue into your face. Society was doomed, Gintoki decided, doomed to spend the rest of their lives spending money on overpriced toys that break as soon as your kid rips the box open.

He was about to toss the magazine over his shoulder when the door opened without so much as a knock. The only person who tended to do that was Dante, and so the offhanded comment came without Gintoki having to look up.

"I ate the rest of your pizza, by the way."

When the storm he was expecting didn't come was when Gintoki cast his gaze upward. And then he rose to his feet abruptly, his chair rolling backwards to hit the wall behind his desk. A customer? No. Someone likely far better.

Motherfucking Lady.

[lady_may_cry]

"Well, if you hadn't eaten it, I would have."

Pizza didn't sound so bad after the weird fare she'd had to deal with in Europe. Good ol' American Cuisine sounded pretty damn good at the moment.

She strolled up to the desk, half standing and half leaning against the corner of the heavy piece of furniture. That was a pretty good reaction on his part; she could get used to it.

"I take it that means Dante isn't here?"

She raised her eyebrows expectantly.

[silvershamurai]

"N-No." Was he stuttering? With a cough, Gintoki tried again. "No. He's taking a bit of a break. I'm his employer." If Dante were to catch wind of that, things would likely get broken. Hopefully, those things wouldn't be bones.

"Can I take a message?"

[lady_may_cry]

She just blinked once or twice at him. What the hell, couldn't he speak properly?

"Taking a break, I'll believe. But considering half of his shop's name is plastered outside, I have a hard time with the part about you being the boss." Dante didn't exactly take kindly to 'authority.'

"Nope," she said, pushing away from the desk to flop into one of the chairs. "I'll just wait."

[silvershamurai]

Gintoki shrugged, not caring too much his cover was blown so early; it was worth a shot. He rounded the table to half sit, half lean against its edge.

"I doubt Dante's gonna show, and as his business partner, it'd do me well to know what he's up to when a Lady shows up at the office asking for him." A casual namedrop, or so Gintoki thought. If she picked up on it, great, but on the other hand, it was no loss if she didn't.

[lady_may_cry]

"Still lazy, then?"

Not shocking, though the mission had been kind of crazy. She didn't really blame him for wanting the day off. "So long as it's not because he's stuck at the clinic." A bit of a smirk appeared on her face at the name drop, and she shook her head. "Glad to see he hasn't completely forgotten about me. Or remembered me enough to mention me."

Her eyebrows rose again. "I hope they haven't all been bad things."

[silvershamurai]

"Him? When isn't he lazy?" A question many have undoubtedly asked of Gintoki.

He gave Lady a thoughtful stare. Dante hadn't actually mentioned Lady to him at all. Rather, his knowledge of her extended from... well, the same place he knew Dante from; the video game. Not that he's ever played it himself, of course, so he knows her simply by name and face.

"He's not the kind of guy who plays nice. I'm sure you'd know this."

[lady_may_cry]

"When he's actually fighting something. And I'm not talking about any of this Weapon business. I wonder what you guys would think if you actually saw him in action back home."

That was directed mostly at Date, who seemed to do nothing but nag on him, even if he wasn't here.

"But yeah, most of the time, he super lazy." She wasn't about to go denying that. "About pretty much anything that doesn't involve kicking demon ass."

Lady rolled her eyes as she rather abruptly put her feet up on the desk, leaning back further in the chair.

"He plays nicer than most demons, I'll tell you that. Though, that's not really hard to do." She tilted her head to the side. "What about you? You play dirty?"

[silvershamurai]

"I'm not gonna argue with you there." Not only does he have a decent grasp on what Dante can manage, he also knows it isn't wise to judge a book by its cover; Kagura looks like a normal kid, but she's a damn monster. And well, Gintoki isn't the most motivated being himself.

"Me?" He shrugged. "I could if that's what a woman wants."

[lady_may_cry]

Lady just huffed a bit under her breath, shaking her head.

"What, you a wannabe lady-killer, too? Maybe you two really do belong together."

Must go along with the whole silver hair thing.

[silvershamurai]

Gintoki huffed a little at that. It wasn't the first time their similarities had crossed his mind. The only significant difference being that one was a true-blue demon. The samurai shrugged.

"Only when I keep my hands off his pizza and he keeps his nose out of my parfaits."

[lady_may_cry]

And Lady have been figuring out that even those with the blood or the title didn't necessarily deserve the connotations that came along with 'demon.' Still, that was neither here nor there.

"Or just learn how to dodge bullets." Or in Dante's case, take them in the face. Well, at home anyway. He'd probably kick the bucket if she tried that here.

[silvershamurai]

"Except for the part where dodging bullets isn't something you learn the way you learn to ride a bike. It's a lot harder for us normal folk."

But despite that, Gintoki's endurance is rather bewildering for someone who would otherwise be a 'normal' person.

[lady_may_cry]

Lady knew what that was like, having taken a blade to the leg and gotten up and walking away and continuing to fight. It was all a matter of willpower, in her opinion.

"There are benefits to being human."

Just not too many as far as physical ability went. Still, she didn't let it stop her.

[silvershamurai]

"The only one I can name off the top of my head is the ability to be stubborn idiots, and even then that's kinda pushing it."

No, he knew what people were capable of when they tried. He'd seen it before; back in the war, back in Edo. Hell, even in Death City.