Author Notes: This is my first Samurai Champloo fic and probably the only one you'll see out of me. I had never planned on writing one, leaving that to more capable writers, but this idea literally wrote itself in my head and I just had to put it down. As always concrit is more than just welcomed but very much appreciated.
Disclaimer: Sadly I don't own Samurai Champloo.
Summary: Because maybe it was never fate at all, maybe it was all a set of coincidences. Or just maybe that was all fate had in store for them.
Enigmatic Endings
By: AShauni
"See you guys" She called casually over her shoulder. Heaviness in her heart but also a great feeling of relief. She was going to miss them terribly but fate had always brought them back together. So she had faith that one day she would see them again.
Fuu opened her eyes as the morning sunlight shone through her window. A wistful grin made its way to her lips as she remembered those days, the little naive girl she had been at fifteen. Even though that was almost forty years ago she still remembered everything, remembered them as if it were yesterday.
And somewhere between leaving those men at the crossroads and this futon, the smell of sickness in the air so much so that it is almost suffocating, she grew up. She became a wife, a mother and she had never seen them again. In a way she was grateful for that, she would always remember them the way they were that day. Jin looking as if the weight of the world had been lifted off his shoulders and Mugen looking almost wistful. And in their eyes she remained that fifteen year old girl, the one that had tricked them into following her in the first place.
And as the crowmen came for her, surrounded her aged and frail body, it was that image that she would take with her. Who knows? Maybe, just maybe fate would bring them back together when this life was over.