(Gintama) Love Me Again, Gin-san!

They say that Matsuyo-sensei is just a smile worn by Utsuro, who has spent five hundred years drenched in blood and slaughter?!

They say that Utsuro is actually Gintama's final boss?!

They say the final chapter of Gintama is a huge showdown between master and students?

Are you kidding me?

That Matsuyo-sensei in plain clothes, with long hair, holding an ancient scroll and tirelessly devoted to his work; that Matsuyo-sensei who thanked Gintoki in his final moments...

So I'd rather give Matsuyo-sensei a soul of his own, making him a separate, independent individual from Utsuro, so he can protect his students.

Reader advisory:

If we follow Sorachi's setting, this story is doomed to be a bad ending!! Matsuyo-sensei and Utsuro share one body. To save the world, Utsuro has to be killed, but if Utsuro dies, Matsuyo-sensei can't survive either, since he's just a personality split off from Utsuro.

I started this Gintama fic for a simple reason: the later parts of Gintama were just too tragic. I wanted to add a different Matsuyo-sensei so those tragedies wouldn't happen again, and so Gintoki, who carries the pain of killing his master, along with Shinsuke and Katsura, who watched their teacher die, could have a happy ending. After all, our pairing is right here, and if Sensei is dead, who am I supposed to ship? ...Don't worry, so what if he's Utsuro?! Taking on one is work, taking on two is work too. I'll use my golden finger and ignore what Sorachi thinks. I'm giving him a happy ending, no matter what! Consider it compensation for changing what happened to Sensei in the original story~

The story is on hiatus for a complete rewrite. Updates during winter break, so stay tuned.