The three friends sat at a small round table in the middle of the restaurant, browsing through it's dinner menus.
"Ill take the Oyakadon Donburi and the Tempura, with a side of Tuna Sashimi, and a Amazake to drink! Got it?" Fuu exclaimed hungrily, slamming her menu down to eye the waiter, making sure he had understood everything she had ordered. The man just looked at her in shock. A girl that petite eating that much was very uncommon and quite un-lady like.
"Uh…y..yes …" stammered the waiter. "Ahem..and.. you sir?"
"The Yakatori and a herbal tea. Please," uttered Jin, handing over his menu to the waiter without giving him a slightest glance.
"Alright? And you?"
"I'll have what he is having, but I'mma have a saké instead of that fancy drink." Mugen noted, tossing his menu over to the waiter who was trying to scribble down all the orders.
"Ok! I'll be back with your drinks soon!" he stated in a croaky voice, slowly stepping back and accidentally stumbling on a few chairs.
Mugen smirked as he watched the clumsy waiter run embarrassingly back into the kitchen. He turned back towards Fuu and snickered, "Damn girly, I almost forgot you had an appetite of a horse."
Fuu shot Mugen a dirty look, ignoring his remark. She looked over at Jin, who was observing the scenery of the restaurant. Following his gaze she began to examine it herself. It was vacant, which made the aura peaceful and serene. The walls were painted with gold and red spirals, speckled with unique foreign paintings of nude men and women. (She tried her best to avoid those paintings). A small bar was a placed in the corner where a quiet bar tender stood, cleaning kettles and cups. He stole glances at them every so often, curious of these three new strangers in the restaurant.
Fuu peered down to notice that the table was the colour of Jin's hair, shiny and glistening like hot oil that fuels a lantern. They were made out of glossed wood, shaped into circles with a silky maroon cloth draped on top of all of them. The tables were accompanied with dark red squared chairs with no backs to them. A soft melody was playing in the background of the scenery, incorporating chimes and a gentle harp into a peaceful nonchalant melody.
"So… guys… why are you here in Kyoto?" Fuu asked loudly in the midst of the soft music.
"Mmm…" Jin uttered, his eyes flicked over to Mugent.
"… Uh…" Mugen stared at her demanding stare, his hands tensed. "Damn... well I just heard you were in town and all and decided to pay ya a visit…" he cut off. Fuu raised her eyebrow at him in disbelief. "Don't give me that look! You still owe me those hundred dumplings, ya know." Mugen scoffed, kicking his feet on the table and leaning back casually.
"As did I hear that you were here…." Jin added softly. Fuu looked over in surprise. Jin was blushing immensely, avoiding eye contact with her. Even Mugen was trying to look around the room, avoiding eye contact, pretending like that his comment to Fuu was no big deal.
"You heard that I was here? Do you mean that you guys were…. looking for me?" Fuu inquired, her lips quivering into a hoping smile.
"Well I as sure hell didn't know this bucko was here." Mugen jabbed a dirty thumb over to Jin. "Ya damn cock blocker." He muttered under his breath.
Fuu squinted at the two. "How odd is it that you two just ended up here at the same time." She sighed with a smile. "It must be fate that brought us back together again huh?"
The two just turned their heads around and began to whistle in a odd tune, avoiding her question.
"Jerks..." she grumbled agitatedly. But she did end up curving that smile all the way. "Even if they won't admit it, I know they agreed with me."
"What have you been doing for the past years, Fuu?" Jin asked calmly, quickly changing the subject.
Fuu blushed, she had loved Jin's soft tranquil voice, especially when he spoke her name. "Fuu…"
"Oh, well I have been traveling around a lot, trying to gather up enough yen to go to Europe." She informed them brightly.
Both of the men's eyes widened in shock.
"Europe?" Jin breathed suspiciously.
"Are you crazy? Why the hell would you want to go there!" Mugen shouted, spit flying on the table.
Fuu looked down ashamed "I have to find someone there." She sighed, in a regretful tone.
"Don't tell me that you have another sunflower man to go after?" Mugen moaned.
"NO!" she scolded, then paused. "I made a promise that I would go over to Europe when I turned 19 and meet someone there." The two across from her stared at her with inquiry. "Ah, but never mind that! Jin, what have been doing these years?" Fuu asked, ignoring the men's curious glares which were boring holes into her head.
"….. nothing." He replied, his eyes darting away from her gaze.
"Nothing? Oh come on Jin!" she pleaded, pouting her big brown doe eyes.
Jin grimaced, "Why does she have to do that, she is so… cute." He thought, restraining himself from feeling anything else.
"You had to have done something? Fight anyone? Do any odd jobs?" she asked encouragingly.
Jin just shook his head. "No." he confirmed.
"I don't buy it." Mugen interjected. "Every time you lie, you avoid Fuu's eye's. Come on four eyes, what have you really been up to?" He interrogated.
The waiter suddenly bustled back in with a tray of drinks.
"Thank you." Jin said, reaching for his hot tea and cupping it in both hands.
Mugen grabbed his saké thirstily and gulped it down in one swig. Fuu gagged at him in repulsiveness as she took a sip of her Amazake.
"Your food will be out soon." The waiter squeaked, hustling back into the kitchen.
"So come on, tell us what have you been doing?" Mugen demanded, slamming his empty cup onto the table.
Jin sighed in defeat. "Fine. There has been word lingering about, 'A Monstrous Samurai' heading toward Europe. It has been said that he is killing everything in sight. He is unstoppable."
"Monstrous Samurai? That's just a bullshit rumor man." Mugen derided.
"I have encountered him before." Jin interjected. "… we brawled once, but he disappeared into thin air before anything else could happen." He took another sip of his tea.
"What does he look like?" Fuu whispered in shock.
"I don't know... it too was dark to see when we fought." he stared off into the distance, as if seeing the memory being replayed in front of him.
"Pft… what ever… monstrous samurai my ass." Mugen retorted.
Fuu growled. "Alright Mr. High and Mighty. Why don't you tell us what you've been up to?" She sneered at the egotistical man across from her.
Scratching his head, he leaned back his chair closing his eyes and smirking cockily. I've just been hitting it up with some hot mamma's and fighting any bastards that get in my path." He smiled.
"Your lying." Jin murmured, placing his lips again to his hot beverage.
Mugen opened his eyes in dismay. "Your calling me a liar? What the hell do you think I've been doing these past years!"
"Mmmnn" Jin mumbled, refraining the conversation from proceeding into a fight.
Suddenly, Fuu stuck her nose in the air and started to sniff like a dog. "Our foods ready!" she exclaimed ecstatically, watching their server trot out from the kitchen, juggling seven trays in his arms. As four plates were placed in front of her, she dug into her dinner hungrily, shoveling it all down her throat.
The two samurai and the waiter watched in in disgust, noses wrinkled up and mouths dropped. It was incredible how much she could swallow in just a small amount of time. Lifting her eyes, she watched them gaze at her with strange faces.
"What's your problem?" she asked in a gurgling tone, muffled by all the chewed up rice and sushi grinded inside of her mouth.
"Uhh…" Jin stuttered, not being exactly sure on how to be polite in this sort of situation.
"Your eating like a god damn pig!" Mugen exclaimed, digging down into his own food. Thankfully Mugen was there to say something for him.
Fuu glared but continued to dissipate her food. The three ate noisily: slurping, munching, and chewing on their meals. Finishing first, Mugen kicked his legs up on the table and rubbed his hands over his huge stomach, burping loudly.
"Damn that was good." He sighed.
"Ahhhhhh! I'm soo full!" Fuu cheered happily while laying down her chopsticks in content.
"Uh…here..here's your bill." The waiter appeared, stammering nervously. He shakily handed Mugen a piece of paper. "I'll let you finish up. I'll...I'll be back soon." The waiter eyes dropped down the two men's swords. This made him tense up and back off, not taking his sight off the swords.
Mugen scanned the paper in front of him, his eyes widened as he dropped down to the total. Nudging Jin, he shoved the paper in his face. Jin's jaw dropped slightly as he also read the bill. Mugen leaned over and whispered something into his ear. His companion nodded in agreement but didn't say anything in reply.
Fuu eyed them carefully. "What's going on? You guys can pay for this right?"
Suddenly it struck her "Oh no… Of course they can't. What was I thinking?! They've done this before!"
"One…Two.." Mugen chanted.
"Three," They both cried, lurching out of their chairs and making a dash for it. Jin grabbed ahold of Fuu's hand as they made a run out the door.
"Hey! You didn't pay!" cried out a voice from behind them. "THIEVES!"
The three ran all the way out of the town onto a vacant dirt path. Stopping to rest, they all slumped down on the ground breathing heavily.
"I…thi..think…no..one foll…followed us." Fuu heaved, holding her hand to her chest to gasp for air.
The two nodded in agreement, exhaling with great difficulty.
"So as fun as that was…I'm guessing you guys are going to be off now.." She sighed sadly, slumping lower to the ground and lowering her eyes depressively to the gravel.
Mugen yawned "Well, I don't really have anywhere else to go."
Fuu raised her eyes up with encouragement.
"I am heading towards Europe.. I may as well join you also..." Jin added, looking at Fuu cautiously. He was surprised, she had grown a lot since they saw each other. She had filled out her kimono. Her breasts had gotten a lot larger and perkier for that matter. (He didn't mind that at all.) Her face had changed from a child's face to a grown woman's face. Her cheeks prominent and blushed with pink, and her eye lashes long and majestic as they batted seductively over to him. It made his body shiver. Her hair had grown longer too, it was down and it cascaded down to her butt, which was round and tighter under her outfit. She blinked innocently at him, making his heart skip a beat. Jin was having strange feelings for Fuu all of the sudden...but he shook them off as immediate a they arrived.
"No, this will not be suitable if we are to travel together."
"So we are going to be traveling together once more!" She smiled the largest smile she could give off..
Jin nodded while Mugen just mumbled in agreement. They both secretly smiled though, happy to unite the crew back together.
"Great!" she cheered. "So come on! Get your lazy asses off the ground and let's go!" She instructed them. Scooping her self off the ground she began to trot down the road.
Rising up secondly, Mugen checked out Fuu's backside.
"Damn, the girl's got some nice ass now." He commented, while gawking at it some more.
Jin scrunched his brows and grabbed ahold of the backside of his sword, jabbing it on the side of Mugen's head.
"Ow! What the hell man?" He yelped in pain, while Jin walked ahead smirking slightly at his friend's affliction.
"Come on you guys! You are lagging behind!" the girl called out slightly annoyed. Pulling out a small notebook and writing utensil from inside her kimono, she quickly wrote down a hurried entry in her diary.
Well you'd never guess, my two old friends are back... and we are traveling together again! I'd never thought this day would come! So it is day one, and we are off to Europe together! Yup, they decided to come with me! Isn't that great, although the two jerks got me fired today from the Tea House. That was my only chance of money! Although they normally got me in some kind of trouble anyways... Ohwell, I think this journey will be so exciting! THE END
P.S. The Tempura today was yummy! (: