Disclaimer: I do not own Samurai Champloo or the characters. Nor do I own the lyrics to these songs. But I do own Kai-Shin, Mizu, and Ayu.
A/N: I'm back! Sorry for the long period of you guys waiting, but the chapter 9 is finally here at last.I really hope this chapter will make up for the lost time. Thank you all for your kind reviews and patients. - everyone gets a beautiful butterfly pin given out by Fuu; pick any color that wish like - So if you miss this, well then, you're missing out! Here's Chapter 7 of 3 ripping a ya.! Enjoy!
Samurai Jin and His Butterfly Fuu
Chapter 9
"Oh, my goodness, Mizu!" gasped Ayu running inside the young lord's bedroom and found Mizu motionless body in his bed.
She picks up her body and held her in her arms, "Mizu! Mizu speak to me!" she calls to her but there was still no answer.
Ayu checks to see if she was still breathing and it confirms that she is alive.
"Oh, thank goodness," relieved Ayu. "Mizu. Mizu wake up, please?" she calls to her again.
Mizu eyes slowly open and then answers her, "Ayu."
"Yes, it's me, Mizu, what happened to you?" she asked.
"He...he raped me, Ayu, because he was getting…the feeling that I was...telling you too much about this place and him," she breathes hesitantly.
"Damn him to hell! Look, we have to get out of here, Mizu, right away before he comes back."
Ayu grabs Mizu's kimono and wraps it around her naked body.
In the background, Kai was calling out Ayu's name, but she ignores it while helping Mizu out of the bed so that they can escape.
Both girls was running down the hall for the closest exit door while Kai continues to groan in agony and pain from the stab wound in eyes that Ayu did to him at the hot springs.
Finally, they made it to the exit door, but it was locked. So, they move to the next door in another room which is the main entrance and that too was locked. They went to every door that they could find and all of them were deadlocked. However, they were thinking that both of them are trapped for good.
Ayu was getting both frustrated and scared for her life as well as Mizu's life, too.
"What the fuck! We have to get out of here! Let us out! Somebody! Anybody!" screamed Mizu banging on the door and sobbing.
"No! No! Mizu stop it! Stop it! He'll hear us!" Ayu whispered harshly. "Look, we're going to make it out of here, I promise," she told her in a calm voice.
Mizu started to cry profusely, "Do you have any idea how much I want to get out of this place?"
"Yes, I do, let's find another exit, okay?" said Ayu with a small smile.
"Um, I don't think that's necessary, ladies, because there's know escape and you both are going to take good care of me as well as you will keep me company," grins Kai in his bathrobe and covering his eye with a piece of white cloth. "Especially, you, my beautiful Ayu, I want you to take care of my eye that you've just damaged, you bitch! Come here!" he yells walking over then slaps her down onto the floor.
Mizu screams as she turns quickly to help up Ayu. Somehow, Kai grabs her by the arm twisting it behind her back, pushing her against the wall as her face facing it, and then he tries to remove her kimono so he can rape her in front of Ayu.
"No, let me go!" she sobs while struggling to break free from his grasp.
"Don't try to resist me, Mizu, when all I want is a bit a satisfaction," he whispers into her ear trying to unfasten his bathrobe's belt while struggling to keep her still against the wall at the same time.
Ayu blindly saw what he was about to do and wasn't going to let that happen to her friend. She slowly got up with every once of energy she had left and jumped on his back.
"Let her go of her, you bastard!" she screams and slaps his injured eye with her hand then bits his right shoulder hard.
Kai screams then moves backwards as he slams Ayu against the wall behind him knocking the wind of her. She slides down the wall slowly onto the floor and falls unconscious.
He turns Mizu around while holding her against the wall with his left hand around her throat then glances down behind him at Ayu, "Crazy, bitch!" he yelled.
"Mizu, go clean around the hot springs while I'll take care of Ayu," he ordered.
"Yes...yes, my lord," she stammers then he releases her. "Please, don't hurt her, my lord, please, leave her alone," sniffled Mizu.
"Go now and remember I'm not done with you yet!" he said getting pissed off. "So, when you're done, come to my bedroom so you can take care of the damage that your dear friend did to my fucking eye, got that?
She nodded and left the room quickly.
Kai picks up Ayu and carries her into his bedroom then places her in his bed. After that, he locks the door and went into the back to look in the mirror so he can take a look at his eye and then growls angrily when he removes the cloth from it, "That Ayu, hmm, she something else to do this to me. Ha! But she'll get what's coming if she keeps this up because next time, she won't be so lucky because I will fuck her, kill her, then get rid of her body for good just like the others," he thought chuckling evilly.
-the next day; Jin and Mugen arrives at Tagawa as the morning sun slowly rises behind the horizon-
Jin wakes up Mugen from his loud snoring splashing water at him with an oar.
"Hey, what the fuck, Jin!" yelled Mugen woke up surprisingly in shock from the cold water splash upon his face.
"We're here," said Jin as he continues to row the boat.
Then he pulls the two oars inside boat once they saw land and they both stepped out to bring the boat ashore.
"Well, it's about time we're here, now let's go find the girl and get the hell out of here," yawned Mugen then puts his shirt back on.
"Wait, not yet," said Jin around the area and then up.
"What now?"
"Do you here that?"
"What?"
"In the trees?"
"I don't hear anything, perhaps, maybe I'm still sleep," Mugen grins looking up in the trees.
"There! Falling above us!" yelled Jin.
"What is that thing?" wondered Mugen.
-chippit, chippit,-
-SLOMP!-
Mugen yells, "Ahh, Jin, what the fuck! Get this shit off my face! Ahh, get it off, I'm awake! I'm awake, fuck!" he muffles.
Jin snickers then laughs out loud at him.
-chippit, chippit-
Momo jumps off Mugen's face and lands on Jin's right shoulder.
-chippit, chippit-
"Calm down, Mugen, it's just Fuu's little friend."
"Well, keep that furry ass thing away from me, will ya?"
-chippit, chippit!-
Then she jumps on his face again, "SLOMP!"
"Ahhh!" screamed Mugen.
Jin looks down on the ground and found a big leaf which seems a bit unraveled with a written message on it, "Perhaps, her furry friend had dropped this," he said. "It's a message from Fuu whereabouts. She changed her name to Ayu and she wants us to come as soon as possible at this location. Well, we're on our way Fuu," he said with a small smile on his handsome face.
Momo jumps off again than lands back on Jin's shoulder while Mugen's body lay out on the ground still.
-chippit, chippit-
"Thank you, Fuu's friend," smiled Jin with a nod.
-chippit-
Then Momo left the scene.
"Mugen, get your ass up, I know where she is now!" said Jin getting a head start in the search for his butterfly Fuu.
"I'm coming," said Mugen tiredly getting up. "Ugh, I got fur in my mouth," he said spitting out bits of Momo's fur.
"Come on!" called Jin.
"Coming!" he shouts back. "Maybe next time I just keep my big mouth shut about that furry ass thi...I mean furry animal, damn!" he snarled then follows the path which Jin had walked.
-rips record back at Kai's place-
Ayu wakes up and found herself naked in Kai's bed underneath the sheets.
"Oh no!" she thought then looks over next to her and there was Kai lying down naked as well with a black patch covering his injured eye. "He couldn't! Maybe? Did he...please, let this be a dream!" she panicked in her head closing her eyes tightly and then opens them again. "Oh no, I'm not! This is real!"
She got out of bed feeling the stiff pain in her back from when she got slam against the wall as she slowly grabs her bathrobe, unlocks the door, slides the double doors open, and heads out closing it back gently.
"Mizu. Mizu. Mizu where are you?" she whispered searching for her.
Mizu whispers back from the next room, "Over here in the kitchen, I'm cooking breakfast."
Ayu walks into the kitchen, "Wow, that smells good."
"Thanks."
"Um, Mizu, where did you sleep last night," she asked.
"I slept in my lord Kai's room, why do you ask?" she wonders.
"Well, did you see him do something to me while I was lying unconscious?"
Mizu answers, "No, he said to me that if he sees you up to any good that next time you won't be so lucky. I'm positive, that's all he told me."
"Oh, thank goodness, but why was he naked?"
"He always sleeps naked, that's him."
"Were you naked, Mizu, since you slept in the same room?"
Mizu giggles, "What kind of question is that?" she said then begins to cry covering her face.
"Mizu, he did it again, didn't he? Right next to me?" worried Ayu.
"No, he abused and raped me in his bedroom's bathroom right after I had helped him stitch up his wounded eye and then he placed a black patch over it to protect it," she sobbed to herself.
Ayu embraces her and the rediscover the mark on her right shoulder again when she slightly rubs it, "Mizu, tell me about the mark on your right shoulder," she asked. "Please, don't tell me it just scratch because I know that's not the real answer, so please, tell me?"
"By my lord Kai," she answers. "He stabbed me once with his own weapon because I didn't obey him of fulfilling his wishes and desires," she said stirring in a pot.
"I'm so sorry to here that and I can't stand the fact of him hurting you this way, Mizu!"
Mizu sighs heavily, "I know, but hey, there's something else that I think you should know."
"What's that?" wondered Ayu curiously.
"Long ago, when I was a young girl, there was this samurai by the name of Jin, who I used to spar with a few years ago in my father's dojo and my father was our master," she started. "Jin was very young like I was but a few years older than me. He has slick, black hair that he always put in a ponytail," she describes with a small smile. "I had a crush on him once, but it died away after I found out about my father's death."
"Jin? I have a boyfriend named Jin, too, and he's also a samurai," said Ayu. "I hope she's not talking about my Jin," she thought.
"I see, but this Jin was different because he killed my father who brought him in and trained him in his dojo," said Mizu sadly. "I always thought if I wasn't in this place that I would avenge my father's death and make him pay, but you see, it's like I've lost who I am inside and out," she sniffles as she places the stirring spoon down on a small table.
-Ayu's flashback from a few nights ago-
Jin: Both of my parents died when I was younger and I didn't have anyone to look up to. I was pretty much alone for awhile and then later, I was taking into a dojo by a man that was well known there and he became my master. He taught me what he knew and the way to fight. Though, one night, I killed the same man that taught me how to wield a sword and I was driven away from the dojo. I never return since then and live walking and searching for something but don't know what I'm searching for. There's students that I lookout for who are from that dojo of the late master that had taught me and wants to kill me for what I've done to him. Now I'm happy because I'm not alone anymore once again.
-End of flashback-
"Jin could've done this to her and her father, not my samurai," she thought again. "I hope not, I don't want her to kill him to avenge her father's death. If that time comes, then I have to both protect him and stop her."
"Ayu, are you okay?" worried Mizu setting the table for herself, Ayu, and her lord Kai.
"Um...yes, I'm fine," said Ayu with a sigh.
"So, I'm lucky to be alive today because you'll never know what tomorrow will bring. Each day since I've been here, I'm so afraid of my lord and what he has done to me, it's like I lost who I really am. I feel dirty, disrespected, and a nobody. I was like you once Ayu, full of spirit, confident, and pride, but now, I feel like I want to give up and just die. To me, it's the only way out of here," she sobs again.
"Don't say that, Mizu, because we are going to get out of here alive, so just you watch, I promise remember? A promise is a promise, so never to give up, okay?" said Ayu wiping away her tears. "I'm not going to let you die here because you're beautiful inside and out, and you can be strong again. You shouldn't let this stop you from being who you are. We can get through this together, right?" she said embracing her gently.
Mizu answers, "Yes, okay."
Ayu let's go of her and begins to wonder again curiously, "Can you tell me what really happen to those geisha women that once lived here with you? Were they kidnapped like us or what? I know you know something, Mizu, don't be afraid to tell me.
"Well, you won't scream if I tell you the truth?" she asked.
"Of course not, why would I?"
"Like what he did to me when you found me, is what had happen to some of them when they don't obey. Some were killed after he finish raping them, though, not in his bedroom, just in his bathroom where it's easy enough for him to clean up the mess that was made," explained Mizu clutching her kimono tightly. Like I said before, I'm happy to be alive today," she sniffles some more. Normally, he has his way with me mostly in his bedroom and not the bathroom.
"Supposingly, he probably would have done that to me, too?" she thought. "My goodness, Mizu but why -," said Ayu confusingly.
Mizu interrupts, "Why did he do me in his bathroom this time and not his bedroom?"
"Yes, why? I don't understand?"
"Because you were in the bed and it was the first time that he did that to me in there. He didn't want you to wake you, so can try to stop him."
"I see, but you said, "mostly in his bedroom" that he has his way with you, how's that?"
"Remember when I told you that he said that I was "special" to him?"
"Yes, I remember?"
"Well, that's because...I'm...I'm married to him, Ayu. I'm his wife and he is my husband," she sadly, but angry inside. "We've been together for a few years now and I want to break free from all this! I can't stand it anymore! I'm sorry that I lied to you, please, forgive me!" she cried.
Ayu eyes widen in shock and left speechless for a few moments then she finally spoke, "Oh no, Mizu, he forced you into marrying him?
"Yes, he did and I must obey everything that he says in order to keep my life."
"But you two don't sleep together much, don't you?"
"Yes, you're correct; he rather calls me into his bedroom most likely to do whatever he wants me to do with him or to sleep with him. I rather stay in my room and locked the door, but most of all, I want to get out of here!"
"And we will together. I'm truly shock to hear all of this from you and I forgive you, but you don't deserve to be with a person who abuses you or disrespect you in anyway like that."
"I know, Ayu, I know, but I'm afraid of him remember? What you did to him last night was of a strong young girl like I was and I didn't do anything to help you out. I...I just froze."
"Hey, I know you still have it, Mizu! Therefore, you should stand up to him and then show him whose boss. Do you know where he had kept the keys to open the doors around here?"
"Yes, he keeps it in his bedroom underneath the floor right under his bed, why do you ask?"
"Because today we're busting out of here, though it won't be easy, but it's worth a try."
"Ayu, I...okay, let's do it!" she agreed excitedly.
"That's the spirit! Now let's start eating our breakfast and talk about our plan."
"Yes, alright, but don't forget to put on your kimono. I've clean it first thing this morning."
"Thanks, I make sure that I do," smiled Ayu as they begin their planning.
-rips record back to Jin and Mugen traveling up along a trail through a forest-
"Ah, Jin, are we there yet?" asked Mugen tiredly. "I'm hungry, I'm thirsty, so I'm going to take a break, if that's okay with you, ahh," he said leaning against a tree then decides to sit down a bit and sighs heavily.
"You do that while I go and look for Fuu on my own," he replies.
"On the message, you told me that she changed her name to Ayu, so why would she do a thing like that? Is she trying to confuse us or help us?"
"Perhaps, to hide her identity from the stranger that had captured her," explained Jin.
Mugen stomach growls, "Ah, I'm so hungry, fuck!" he shouted out loud looking up at the light blue skies. "It's strange to see those buzzers in the sky like that which makes me want to throw a stone and hit one of them."
While Jin looks down at message again, Mugen got up slowly, grabs a stone, and then gathers the strength he needed then threw it straight into the air at one of the buzzers.
-ACKK!-
The stone kills the buzzer right at the chest where its heart is and it begins to fall.
"Yes, I got one! Come to papa!" he called looking up.
"Mugen, let's go, I don't want to waste anymore time. We're getting close," said Jin leaving him behind.
"Damn it, I'm coming, just wait a sec!"
The dead buzzer continues to fall in his direction, "Here it comes! I got it, I got it!" he shouted while waving his arms up about to catch it, but he had failed.
-SLOMP!-
"Ahh, now a buzzer landed on my face, what's next!" thought Mugen then took the bird off his face than catches up with Jin. "Damn it! Now have to eat this damn bird later. Hey, Jin, wait up, will ya!" he called to him.
-rips record to Kai's place again-
Kai shows up yawning loudly and stretching.
Mizu got up and fell down to his feet, "Good morning, my lord. Your breakfast is ready."
"Why, thank you, my sweet Mizu, you can get up and join it with me," he smirks.
She got up and bows to him, "Yes, my lord, I will like that very much."
Kai glances over and saw Ayu eating in her butterfly kimono then decides to walk over to sit next to her, "Mmm...You smell nice, Ayu. I hope you're not thinking about last night because I was thinking of doing something to you last night, so instead I just remove your clothes, that's all. But however, I did discover money that you've been hiding all along that you had on ya," he whispered in her ear.
Ayu gasps, "Hey, give that back, you jerk, that's mines!" she yells as she raises her hand to slap him, but he caught it."
"Whoa, calm down, it's in safe hands. Besides, it's my money now and whatever in this house you have is mines, got that, my beautiful Ayu?" he grins evilly.
"Fine! You can have it!" she yelled.
"Good, that's all I want to hear," he told her placing his hand around Ayu trying to make her feel comfortable.
Mizu begins to eat some more of her breakfast. She watches Ayu with a disgust look on her face as Kai places food into his mouth and then tries to place food into her mouth with his chopsticks, but she refuses to eat it from him.
"No, stop it! I don't want any, you bastard!" Ayu whimpers turning away from the chopsticks with food on it.
Then he places his chopsticks down angrily, "What was that! You dare not to obey me!" he said embracing tightly and hurting her around the waist up against his body.
"You bastard, that's what are and what I said, now let go of me!" she yelled in his face.
Kai smiles pervertedly at her then licks her neck seductively in front of his wife. Mizu didn't like it at all of what he was doing to her, but she knew what she had to do while Ayu is playing her part of her plan.
She interrupts and asks, "My lord, may I be excuse, please?"
He looks at Mizu, "Where is it that you need to go?" he wondered.
"I'm going to your bedroom to make up your bed," she answers him.
He grins, "Sure, but come right back to wash the dishes, you understand?"
"Yes, my lord," she said with a nod and then left the table. "I got to get those keys and the Ayu's money from his bedroom," thought Mizu rushes into his bedroom, closes the door behind her then locks it, and begins to dig for the items that's hidden underneath the bed under few loose boards.
While that was going on, Ayu was buying time for Mizu to get the keys and the prize possession that he stole from her. Kai continues to flirt with Ayu and thought that he will like to go a bit further with her, so he moves his hand down rubbing all over her thighs and legs. She didn't like the feeling from the total stranger, so she slaps his hand away and then he got upset again.
"What's the matter with you!" he yelled at her holding her face with his right hand.
Ayu had frighten and terrified look on her face, "Mizu, come on! What's taking so long!" she thought.
"Yeah, I like that look on your face. Fear, is it not?" he chuckles scaring her even more and then he forces a kiss on her then she begins to whimper again.
Mizu was still in the room and found Ayu's money underneath the loose boards, but the keys wasn't there, "Oh no! Fuck! Where is it! I don't feel it nor do I see it in here! What now!" she whispered angrily to herself in frustration. Then she glances over at the wall and discovers something that she knows what's dear to him and left the room to return with it.
Back to Ayu and Kai, he was becoming a bit aggressive and she was sick of it. She kept on wondering what was taking Mizu so long. Then shortly after a few moments wait, Mizu shows up with Ayu's money in her kimono and his beloved weapon - the kusarigana. She quickly stabs him in the back with it like he did her, but she buried it deeper into his body that she could then let's go of it. He let out a loud scream reaching behind him try to pull it out, but didn't have the strength to manage of pulling it out, so he collapsed on the floor unconscious. Ayu got up in a hurry where she was, but Mizu runs over to her husband body to see if he got the key on him.
"Mizu, what are you doing! We got what we wanted, come on!" cried Ayu.
"I don't have key, all I got is your money," she told her still searching for the keys.
"What!"
"I got it! Let's go!"
"Good!"
Mizu got up and ran with Ayu to the entrance door. They gone through five keys, but only one can fit through the lock. In the kitchen, surprisingly, Kai woke up again moaning painfully and felt a bit paralyze for the time being. While they were still going through the keys, he begins to cry out their names loudly in both agony and for help. Then finally, the last key and the door was unlock. They both ran out of the house and into the field.
"Yes, we're free! We did it!" cheered Ayu.
"Yeah, we're free! I'm free!" cheered Mizu along with her.
"I have a really good feeling that Jin is nearby because I can feel him freely, freely like a butterfly," thought Fuu running with open arms through the field wildly in her butterfly kimono with Mizu along by her side smiling happily.
To Be Continued...
Note: kusarigana – it's a chain-like weapon with a sickle at the end as the head; most likely used for throwing to attack or capture an object.
A/N: So, my viewers, I hope that clears some of your questions. As in the next chapter, finally, I will reveal the straw hat samurai that loves to be in the shadow and now will come into the light, so you don't want to miss that.However, he will also explain what his motives are and much more. -mew!- Well, you know what to do my lovely viewers, review! And thanks for reading and come again.