home is where the heart years to be ★ Completed!

Characters

Kagura, Patsuan, Gin, Sadaharu, etc.

Description

Kagura had spent her entire childhood wanting to grow up.

Now, she just wants to be a kid again.

Foreword

Excerpt:

To be honest, she didn’t want to grow up, no, she just wanted to sample being an adult, to feel how Gin and Shinpachi felt (although Patsuan was only 19 and technically he wasn’t an adult but he’s more mature than Gin was) because she was always labeled as a kid who couldn’t take care of herself. She resented being called a kid because she wasn’t, she knew how to fight, she ate well and would have been taller than Shinpachi, and she’s sure she’s more mature than Gin, even though that doesn’t mean much.

She wasn’t a kid, but now she misses being one. Now she wants to be one. They’ve drifted so far apart, no more Odd Jobs, just a wandering Kagura, a settled Shinpachi, and who knows what Gin is doing besides running the snack shop. She had been so used to sleeping in that closet, Sadaharu drooling over her, Gin snoring in the room next door. She misses greeting customers, misses Shinpachi’s tea (even though it was terrible and cheap), misses fighting alongside with the Shinsengumi (or rather fighting with the Shinsengumi, mainly a certain Sadist), misses Zura and Elizabeth’s random visits, misses fighting for something worthwhile and living in near-poverty but still enjoying life while doing so. Sure, she’s well off now, she’s nowhere near rich but she lives a happy life, Sadaharu likes sleeping in the living room and the bedroom isn’t the closet and it’s just too big.