Welcome back, everyone, to my final chapter of Introspection! Yay! This chapter I've been trying to re-style and re-fit so many times in my head, but now I give up and I'm just gonna freestyle it. Woo Freestyle! This chapter is for everyone's favorite straight man, Shinpachi! This one's gonna be a bit hard to write, as I don't think I can ever fully capture Shinpachi's I'm-sane-but-everyone-else-around-me-is-retarded-and-crazy spirit, but I'll give it my best! And as said, this will be his thoughts on the war survivors, Kagura, and his boss, Gintoki. So let's start this thing. Scribble?

Scribble: We aren't even working right now, so there's no way we'll ever be able to own it, and someone, now that their job is over, needs to go find a new one!

Me: I told you, I'm working on it! Anyway, here we go!

Props to What2callmyself for beta-ing for me!

Introspection

Bonus POV 2: Shinpachi Shimura

I sometimes wonder how I ever got myself into so many messes.

I mean, I wouldn't mind if it were once in a while. That's fine, that's just how life is. But EVERY SINGLE DAY?! It's just too much! My life just seems to have gotten so crazy lately.

I mean, look at the people I know!

First off, there's that guy who won't stop laughing. He's Gin-san's old war ally, and now is a business man. He told me that it was profit that moves people, and in a way he was still fighting the war, but on his own terms. It actually sounded pretty cool, but he was such an idiot! He flies through the stars, but gets motion sickness! How does that work?! And he nearly stranded us on a desert planet! Sometimes my brain breaks down wondering how he can manage it. It's more than anyone can comprehend.

Then there's the other ex-ally of his, the dangerous one- Takasugi, a well known terrorist, first one on the wanted list. So far we've only run into him once, and that was more than enough for me. Even fighting his subordinates I was frightened. What I want to know is why he's so angry that he would try to kill Gin-san and Zura, why he wants to destroy the world, and why is he teaming up with the amanto he hates so much just to do this? He actually made a pact with the Harusame pirates and the amanto, just to get us! If he hates them so much, why is he accepting their help? There could be a piece in their somewhere that I'm missing, but I doubt I'll ever find it.

Then there's the other idiot who always comes around- Zura, or, as he loves to correct us all, Katsura. He often comes around asking Gin-san to be a terrorist, but he also manages to get himself captured by the Shinsengumi several times. And he says ridiculous things with a straight face! How does he do that? And what IS Elizabeth? I still haven't figured it out! Why hasn't he?! But he's stayed Gin-san's good friend through all these years and always has been there to help him out, just as Gin-san will stand by his side and help him as well. Just so long as it involves nothing terrorist related, because Gin-san refuses to go back to that. I'm glad he does too. Living the way we do is stressful enough, I don't think my heart could take it if we became terrorists as well.

Then there's my colleague, Kagura, working with me and not getting paid at the Yorozuya. She gets crazy sometimes and is super strong without realizing her own strength, but she really does get what's going on, more than we do sometimes. She is definitely a much-needed powerhouse for our team, and she always speaks her mind, despite what might (or might not be) on it. Although sometimes I am scared she and my sis will one day go off on a conquest to take over the world. I know that I can always trust Kagura to be by my side, and together, we work as great backup for our boss.

That's right, our boss. Gintoki Sakata. Gin-san. The one who never paid me, and who framed me when we first met, but then helped me save my sister from a brothel. That's him.

He amazed me when he first met, then aggravated me, then surprised me, and in the end I could see something in him all other people seemed to have lost- a samurai soul, a bright silver light, seemed to shine out of him whenever he was fighting earnestly for what he believed in. I don't like it when people call him Shiroyasha, because it doesn't fit him at all. Sure, his eyes get scary, and his fighting is amazing, but he is in no way a demon. His eyes shine and burn with passion, and a demon could never feel so passionately about anything. Those eyes are just the eyes of a true samurai. And whenever I see them, I know that's what I aspire to be. I want to be someone strong who protects those close to me.

He showed me even if the land of samurai had changed, the spirit of a samurai never did. And he let me believe that I could find it in myself, and so I stay with him and work for him, and I know one day I'll find that same spirit in myself.

BUT WHY HASN'T HE PAID ME YET???

Scribble: Ha, that was some way to end it!

Me: I couldn't resist, it was getting too serious for Shinpachi, so I needed to end it humorously. Well, people, here is the end! Yay! I'm working on another one-shot, so be sure to look out for it! And let me know your thoughts, since I obviously can't read minds yet. Worthless flames suck. Con crit is helpful and appreciated. And good reviews rock! Long Live the Yorozuya!

-titangirl161

What2callmyself: Ha ha, Shinpachi and you are in the same boat, even if he does have a job. O.O In that case, so am I.