Important information for those unfamiliar with the Gintama/Naruto:
- The Yorozuya is the home and business where Gintoki, Kagura and Shinpachi live.
- Sunrise is the animation studio that produces Gintama.
- Konoha village is the main setting in Naruto.
- Naruto possesses the ability to clone himself.
- Most episodes of Gintama end with a short episode of ‘Ginpachi Sensei’.
The episode starts at the Yorozuya.
“Doof! Doof! Doof!”
Gintama wakes to a violent knocking at the door,
“Gyaaah, who’s pounding at my door so early? What a pain, Kagura?”
Silence,
“Kagura!”
More silence.
The knocking returns, slightly louder this time,
“..KAGURAAA!”
“WHAT!?”
“Get the door you lazy idiot!”
Neither notice Shinpachi get the door as they are too busy fighting.
Shinpachi opens the door to see a Sunrise company official towering above him. He looks at Shinpachi with disapproval.
Shinpachi’s face fades to white. The white then spreads across the rest of his body as he becomes a crude pencil sketch.
The official mutters words of disgust to himself, Shinpachi hears nothing.
Shinpachi snaps back to reality and quickly starts talking,
“I’m sorry, I tried, I really did but before I knew what was happening Gintoki had already set fire to the...”
“That's not why I’m here” interrupts the official,
“Of course, I mean, I’m sorry that Kagura attacked the...”
“That's not why I’m here either!”
“You mean the incident with the boat and the chainsaw?”
“NO SHUT UP AND LET ME SPEAK!”
Shinpachi stands shocked,
“I’m here to remind you that this show is being taken off the air today and that your timeslot has been given to the show ‘Naruto’. Of course you are aware of this after the multiple warnings we sent you?”
The official looks back at Shinpachi’s empty face,
“llletters?”
“I am a very busy man; you have received more than enough warning. In fact, from henceforth you have 10 minutes to clear your belongings before this show legally becomes Naruto.”
The official leaves as Shinpachi stands frozen.
Shinpachi turns to Gintoki and Kagura who are deep in a wrestling match in the now ruined living room. Gintoki stops and looks at him casually over the choke hold he has on Kagura,
“What’s wrong otaku?”
Shinpachi erupts into a fit of rage and leaps into the wrestle landing a square punch in the faces of both Gintoki and Kagura.
The group fight until there is very little left still standing in the room.
After about 10 minutes they become tired and stop fighting. Shinpachi and Gintoki lay on the floor panting,
“I’ve almost forgotten why this fight even started, also, Shinpachi, what do you have to do with all this?
“Letters, letters!” Shinpachi pants,
“Letters?” Gintoki pants back,
"Yes letters! What happened to all the letters from Sunrise?"
Kagura butts in, on her feet,
“They looked so boring, so I used them to light the fire.”
Shinpachi stares speechless, at the unfazed Kagura. His face starts to swell and turns red with anger.
Gintoki quickly butts in,
“What!? We don’t even have a fireplace!”
“You’re so fussy. I just made one on the floor over there”
Kagura lifts up a rug to reveal the remains of a bonfire amoungst burnt skirting boards.
Shinpachi’s briefly passes out and falls down. Neither Gintoki nor Kagura pay it any attention.
Upon returning to consciousness Shinpachi sits up, out of breath.
“The man at the door was an official from Sunrise. He said in 10 minutes our show is being taken of the air. I saw it coming but to that that stupid yellow haired kid?”
“Um, how long were you two fist fighting for? “Kagura asks with a face of innocence.
The three stop in thought as the back wall of the room they are sitting in is removed by a sunrise employee revealing the main high street of Konoha.
Shinpachi notices, he screams and points. Gintoki turns around and screams similarly.
Gintoki and Shinpachi both stand and walk towards the set as another wall is taken down by Uzumaki Naruto displaying the Ichiraku Ramen shop.
Gintoki turns around,
“Ka..”
He notices that Kagura is no longer there.
Characters from Naruto start to walk around carrying lights and props. Naruto walks in carrying a large light, another carries a tree. 3 more walk in carrying between them a large statue of Naruto grinning furiously. Various other clones remain, hammering walls and placing scenery.
Gintoki runs over to one of the clones hammering at a tree and grabs him,
“Oi! Stop hammering, this is my show; take your shadow clones and your stupid voice to another time slot!”
“This is our show now, believe it!”
“Aaagh” Gintoki covers his ears “Shut up!”
“Never, it’s my way of the ninja, you better believe it!”
“GO AWAY!” Gintoki screams pulling out his wooden sword.
Upon seeing Gintoki draw, Naruto starts weaving seals with his hands, performing various impossible to create shapes. He takes a little while to do so.
“Are you swearing at me or something?”
“Annoying technique!”
There is silence as the two characters stare at each other awkwardly.
Gintama screams,
“Ooooww! Ooh man that stinks! You stupid yellow headed freak, why would you do that? If I were some kind of..” Gintoki pauses to think “dog-man... thing, I would not be happy right now.”
Gintoki crawls away disgusted,
“Shinpachi? Shinpachi!.. Kagura?”
Gintoki crawls down the street until he reaches Ichiraku Ramen. Seeing two familiar pairs of feet under the blinds, he storms in seeing Kagura and Shinpachi wearing Konoha Ninja headbands with their faces in bowls of ramen.
“What are you doing you sell outs, can’t you see we’re at war here? “ “Oi listen to…”
Gintoki is interrupted by the commencement of the Naruto ending theme; the theme is very similar to the original except Kagura and Shinpachi are included.
The episode ends with an episode of Ginpachi-Sensei.
Gintoki stands looking unenthusiastic at the front of Naruto’s class at the Konoha ninja academy.
He says nothing.
Episode Ends.
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