[all that one will hear is the sound of someone and... something trudging through tall, wild grass, inaudible mutters that slowly grow in volume until whatever communicator in the vincity manages to pick up the murmurings from a certain silver-haired (and currently annoyed) freelancer]

--wasn't as if the whole island disappearing gig was enough, now they just randomly decided to somehow get me into another forest and subsequently make me lost yet again. Even as a running gag, this isn't funny now, oy. This anything isn't like Jimmy living out his Prince of Tennis fantasy or everyone quoting Haragen like nobody's business--

[Gintoki pauses when a yelp comes from behind, courtesy of one Shiroi. He then snorts.]

Well, at least you're with me this time, boy. Life would otherwise be pretty lonely without you now, eh?

[Shiroi barks once in agreement, and then the shuffling stops as the freelancer stops to look around his surroundings.]

Oy, owls. Mind actually letting me out of this place now? In case you forgot I'm a guy who needs his very human needs. While I admit living out the wildlife has its good points, I think I'd very much rather sleep on something that vaguely resembles a bed rather than the cold, hard earth that takes in all my sweat and tears and my bones when I die.

[OOC: So in order to cover up my fail... Gintoki was just once again stuck in the forest. Again. Yeah.]

...if anyone needs me, I'll be in my room.

[loads of rumbling and shaking is heard, along with thumping sounds as things fall over and drop off and with Shiroi yipping and whining in a mix of confusion of fear.]

A-Anyone mind telling me what's going on now? Everything's starting to fall apart and there's something about the giant hole in the ground getting bigger?! What is this, some science fiction movie about the world dying out or something? Like that one movie where the Earth gets sucked into a black hole now, hah?! Oy oy, isn't that a bit too early then? I'm still too young to die, yanno! I've still got my future kids to take care of and stuff!

...this joke is getting old.

Oy owls, do you hear me? I have a few things to say about the situation I'm in. Firstly and lastly, I do not need to be stuck in here again. This is just as lame as Goku having to power up over and over again whenever he's defeated! Its an overrated plot device! The fans will get bored if this keeps happening, yanno! THINK ABOUT THE FANS NOW!

[OOC: ...yeah, he's lost in the forest again. Pretend I didn't fail.]

A-Ahahahaha. Why kami-sama why.

S-Someone tell me what's going on now please. Are we transported to another place again? Are we? Did I do anything to wrong you owls? I take back what I said earlier about Sieben being a terrible horrible place to live - t-that place was certainly a lot better now. I don't know what I did to deserve this...

[OOC: ONCE UPON A TIME IN EDO (in my headcanon) Gintoki once watched a show like this. The results were... somewhat scarring. It was a horror movie so durr.]

. . .

Those owls are going to die.

[OOC: l-lol, Paako. OTL]

Next time you owls want to do something like that, I think we'd all appreciate it if we had some sort of warning in advance. I know you guys like to take pleasure in our pain but seriously—do something that's less destructive than flooding the whole damn place and making us freeze ourselves at the mountains. Now I'll have to go gather everything that I've lost from the forest again and everyone knows what happened the last time I was there.

Can't life be any easier?

Well, that last somewhat entertaining curse aside...

Happy birthday to Ogichi, Oogushi, and Ogtaka-kun~ trees were a little short on gifts this year, so I made the best out of it. Hope you enjoy~ and remember to be as less grumpy as before now, eh? Its bad for your health, that unending line of grump.

[OOC: Each of the Hijis get a bag of tobacco! ...except that the tobacco doesn't really work, and it puffs out rainbow clouds with sparkles instead. Have fun.]

Prom night... dunno if I should go or not, since either way nuthin's gonna change anyway. Nothing to do except gank the food there and maybe spike the punch if I feel bored enough to see entertaining results and just watch people enjoying themselves while I lounge in the corner of the place and possibly miss my anime shows. And then I'll have to buy the DVDs instead to watch them and those cost money which I need to buy Oogushi-sensei some mayonnaise for my studies.

Decisions, decisions. Always so troublesome. What thou shalt thouhst do without thy need for makin' zeese zings thoust call'd decisions?

...possibly a lifetime of boredom.

And oh, make sure you guys vote Zura as Prom Queen. He'll appreciate it, really.

Maaaaaaaa, its going to be such a boring, annoying day again today. Nothing but going into classes that I all don't like at all, seesh. What happened to free will? Rights of choosing? This isn't school damnit, its torture! All the teachers are so boring since they do nothing but go on and on and on and on about how important education is and blah blah blah. Get some new lines from that pick up book of yours. Its gonna get repetitive at this rate.

Maaaaaybe I should go over Oogushi-sensei later...

At least this is better than those bunnies from last year. ...sure feels odd to be making comparisons like this.

Let me see... I've got eggs that exploded in my face (ow), eggs that burst into flames when I opened them (ow), eggs that had fleas in them (ow), eggs with red ants in them (ow), eggs with rotten socks in them (ow), eggs that had mosquitoes (ow), eggs with miniature rabid chocolate bunnies that got eaten by Shiroi (still ow) and eggs that sprayed salt in my eyes (OW) and... you guys get the message. Where are the eggs with the strawberry milk?! Even candy would do just fine, damnit.

...and oh, Oogushi-kun! I've found some eggs for you. I'm pretty sure you'll like them, so don't turn me down on the spot now.

...well that was different.

For once I have to say I'm kinda glad to be back here instead of there it would drive me really crazy if I stayed there any longer. Edo wouldn't be Edo if the people who lived there weren't all there after all. 'sides, home would be boring if those two brats weren't there to be annoying or there wasn't Ketsuno Ana to watch on the televisions...

Ah well, that's something for another day at any rate. S'been a while since I chatted with people around here. How's everyone out there? Doing well, I hope. Make sure you get your required sugar intake, since a lack of it will be baaaaaaad for you. The more sugar the merrier!