Characters: Hijikata Toshirou & Chi [
mayovice &
gokigen]
Content: Our favorite grumpy boatswain returns from the infiltration mission and is greeted by his surrogate-pet-cat-thing. Yes.
Setting: Hijikata's quarters upon the Victoria II.
Time: Post-Rockgala
Warnings: Shameless fluff. Loads of it, and more than enough to give you people a cavity.
A loud series of clanking echoed in the hallway as Hijikata stumbled down the path, completely tired out and exhausted from the events of the mission. Those monsters really weren't the best things to go up against anytime soon. Thank god at least that everything was over. The man paused in his stumbling, leaning against side in order to catch his breath; his lungs hardly helped in the situation as well. He supposed he should really cut down on his smokes one day... though really, it seemed that didn't seem likely anytime soon.
As soon as the boatswain managed to get his erratic breathing in control, the man pushed himself upright once more, continuing his way down the hallway with more stability in his footing. The mission had been pretty... disastrous, for a lack of a better word. After all, who the hell would even suspect monsters like those even existed? This was just unbelievable. And really, the man had enough of 'unbelievability' to go on with his life.
Finally managing to get to his cabin after what seemed like forever, Hijikata fumbled with the handle of his door, unlocking it after remembering that he had locked the door prior to leaving for the mission and twisted open the handle, pushing the door open from inside and stumbled tiredly into his room, closing the door behind him with a rather loud slam as he leaned against the door for support.