Chapter 26: Fireworks

Warning: Lemons and plenty of fluff.

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A brief smile flitted across Mugen's lips before his look went blank again. "How does it feel to be married?" She whispered as she pulled away from the kiss. Looking down at her he seemed not to see her for a moment. "I dunno. Different but the same." Then he shrugged and fingered a few loose strands of her hair. "It don't feel much different than it was before. Except now your ass is hitched to mine." He grinned. "How 'bout you? Have any regrets?" He half teased. She shook her head vehemently. "It is strange being somebody's wife, even yours. Especially yours." He raised an eyebrow. "But I'm happy. I'm happy to be yours." The look in her eyes make warmed him up. He didn't really understand why she felt so much for him, but when she looked at him like that, any doubts he had, any anger at her melted away. It used to worry him when she did that. It had made him feel like bad things were sure to happen next, because how could there be anything that could make him this happy if it weren't going to be taken away? Her death and Rie's had been proof of that. But he found himself feeling that what she had said about making the most of whatever time they had together was the thing to do. Somehow, she had come back to life. He didn't know how in hell it had happened. He didn't know if it was a coincidence, or kami answering his plea, or just her own will that had brought her back, but it had been…for lack of a better word…a miracle. He didn't want to run from her anymore. He didn't wholly trust this happiness she kept making him feel, but by Kami, he was going to enjoy it while it lasted.

He kissed her, softer than he had kissed any woman, including her. Then he ruined the moment by ogling the view of her cleavage and whispering. "I want to rip off that smoking kimono and run my tongue all over your skin." Fuu flushed as red as her kimono. "Oh my god." She moaned. He grinned at her instant response. "Not here. Back in our room." She told him breathily. "What's wrong with up here?" His gaze bore into her. "It's dirty." "But we can see the fireworks at the same time." He whispered into her neck and grinned. "Mugen." "Fine. Killjoy." He picked her up and leapt off the roof quicker than she could process. She let out a shriek just as they landed on an awning below and Mugen hopped down to the roof of a shed and then to an alley. Laughing, he was off like a shot. "I can walk you know." "Too slow." Mugen told her. Before she knew it they were back at the hotel. "Someone's motivated." She teased as he rushed her to their room, set her down on her feet and slid the door shut. He turned to face her, grinning; his look like that of the big bad wolf about to devour little red riding hood.

"You could try going slow, you know." She backed up a little, her body quivering with anticipation at the thought of what he could do to her. "Maybe later." He mumbled as he closed the space between them in a few long legged steps. Then he had her in his arms; her lips, breasts, stomach and legs crushed to his, as he greedily delved into her mouth with his tongue, with one arm snaked around her back and his other hand cupping her ass as he pulled her still closer. She winced a little as he squeezed her cheek. "Be careful with that area, remember? No anal." "Shut up. I know." He frowned. She licked his neck at the base. He grinned. "Look at you and your bad self, Mrs. Katsumi." She blinked up at him. Then she shook her head. "You're pretty bad yourself, Mr. Katsumi." She teased, stroking his collarbone. He froze for a second. "Kami. I forgot I have a last name now." The concept was so weird. It was as if he no longer was a bastard child with no family. Now he did. It was mind boggling to think she was his family now. "Geez Mugen, you're acting like you've seen a ghost and its killing the mood." That snapped him out of it. "I am so sorry." He smirked and pushed her down onto the futon. Caressing her side through the layers of silk, he trailed his lips over the soft flesh of her neck and up her jaw before licking her bottom lip. His hands untied the obi as he kissed her softly. He reached into the folds of cloth to stroke the bare skin of her side as he kissed her soundly, his tongue delving into her mouth to stroke hers. She used her knee to stroke the side of his manhood which was already hard. He sucked in a breath. He knew what she was saying with this. "Not yet." He exhaled. He pulled off his haori and shirt ant the same time, while she pushed at the hem with him. Before he had completely tossed them to the side, she was already running her fingers up his muscled torso, nearly distracting him from the action. He grinned and kissed her, running his tongue over her lips as he pulled away. The vagrant helped her out of the kimono and the rest of her clothes. Then he cupped her breasts before licking the nipple of each. He sucked on them slowly and she moaned. He brushed feather light kisses down to her navel before drawing away. "Do you want me?" He teased, thoroughly turned on by the glazed look in her eyes. She was definitely ready for him. "Yes. Please Mugen." God, that's all he needed to hear. He stepped out of his shorts and lowered himself over her. He let his hands skim down her front, over her breasts, down her midriff and belly before he lightly skimmed over her lower lips. She gasped. "How much do you want me? Say it." "I want you bad. So bad. Come on Mugen! Stop teasing me!" He grinned. "Ok then." Then he rammed his full length into her unmercifully. She sucked in hard. "Oh. My. God." "God can't save you now." He teased, before pulling out and ramming into her again. God, she felt good. "Fuck." "Yes. Fuck me. Fuck me harder. Oh god." Fuu moaned. She felt him get bigger in her as he thrusted his dick into her hard at her words. He rubbed her until she felt the tension, the electricity between them get too intense to take. "Mugen, I'm coming." "Come with me, babe." Her body tensed and her mind blanked out as she came hard, the feel of him climaxing into her making it that much more intense. When he collapsed on her, spent, she barely noticed for a minute. Then she smiled at him peacefully. He rolled off of her and just lay there for a bit until she snuggled up to his side. He put his arm around her. "We're not done you know." "I know. When are we ever?" She grinned. He looked down at her. "If you're tired we can stop. For now." Fuu was surprised he offered to not continue for her sake. Mugen kept popping up with new surprises. "No, I'm good. A brief rest and I'll be ready for the next round." Mugen grinned. "Ok."

They lay like that until Fuu found herself blinking in the early morning sun. She realized she must have fallen asleep. She hoped Mugen wasn't annoyed she had fallen asleep when he had wanted more.

Then she looked over to see Mugen sleeping as soundly as she had been, and she just grinned. She gazed lovingly at him, observing the way his raven hair fell over his eyes and how he looked so peaceful and how much younger he looked when he slept that it was hard to believe he had ever had to live though hardships growing up that she couldn't even imagine. And even though she had lost her child, it was his child too. For a time he had lost her as well. She didn't even want to think about what it would be like losing him, though she felt it must be worse for him, as he'd had no one until he'd met her and Jin. She was careful not to move much, so as not to wake him. But these thoughts brought up the time when Sarah had stood with her weapon, ready to kill him, and Fuu had thrown herself across him and begged the assassin not to kill him. She shuddered. And to think she had spoken so flippantly about Rie, when he had seen them both die in front of his eyes. How could he forgive her for that comment? But he did. He had surprised her when he did. Mugen kept surprising her. She gently pushed a strand of hair out of his eyes.

Truthfully, she didn't understand why he had begun to see her as a woman at all, when two years ago he couldn't stop telling her that she was as flat as a board with no sex appeal. Had she really changed so much in two years? Sure, she was a little taller and her boobs had grown a little, but her body was still about the same proportionately as she had been at fifteen. She still couldn't understand it.

"What are you thinking about?" Startled, she looked into Mugen's sloe eyes which were fixed firmly on her. "'Morning. It's nothing." He gave her a look. She shrugged. "Why did you suddenly start seeing me as a woman when we met up again?" He knew she meant after the two years. Mugen thought before answering. He grinned at a memory. "I would have said it just happened and I dunno why, but that ain't true. I just…didn't want to acknowledge the truth." She cocked her head. "What truth?" He gazed at her over his arms, which his head was still propped on. "I saw you as a woman long before that. Remember when you said clothing made you look slender so I told you to show me what you got, but you backed down in the end?" She nodded. "A man doesn't ask you to take your shit off if he doesn't want to see you naked. And you know me; I only liked to see what I wanted to see. It's not like I would have asked a granny or a little girl to show me her goods. That's just gross." She grinned. "So your saying…you wanted me back then?" "I'm saying I wanted to see you naked back then. I dunno about wanting to fuck you back then. Shit was complicated, and I didn't really have a plan you know. Maybe I would have tried if you had gotten naked, but I dunno. I never wanted to let you get as far as this with me." "As far as what? Sex?" she interrupted. "No." He rested his head on his arms so it looked like he could be sleeping; his eyes hidden from view by his arms. "Love?" He didn't answer for a minute. "That thing." Was his muffled reply. Then he propped himself up. "See, that was the fucked up thing. You kept throwing me through a loop and I didn't know why back then. I didn't want to know why. Remember when we were back in that hut after the first time I fought Sarah? I cut you off when you were talking." "You remember that?" Fuu was surprised that he remembered anything that 'small'. He shrugged. "Yeah. Didn't want to, but I did. Point is, what you were trying to say to me didn't make sense. It still doesn't. You were saying you loved me however you did and I didn't want to hear it. It freaked me out. I had given up on ever having something like that. I didn't want it anymore. Nothing good would come of it. And it was worse because you threw yourself over me to save me. That freaked me out that anyone; that you would care that much that you'd throw your own life away to save mine. Why? Why would you do that?" He was staring at her intensely, but didn't wait for an answer. "And she might have killed you anyway. I hated that." He glowered at her. "I wasn't worth doing something so stupid for." It was her turn to glare at him. She sat up. "Not worth it? Of course you were worth it!" "You're not going to do it again." "Like hell! It's my life. You don't own me!" "I'm your husband so I do." "Don't you dare! This was exactly why I didn't want to get married to anyone to begin with! Besides, our contract says nothing about that, so good luck trying to enforce it anyway." She huffed. Getting up she went to pick up her clothes. He followed her. "I'm not gonna force you to do anything. I didn't marry you for that. I just don't want you jumping under any weapons for me okay? I lost you once; I don't want it to happen again." He said this last so softly she had to strain to hear. She turned to face him. His face hadn't betrayed any sadness, but those whispered words had. She put her hands on his cheeks and spoke solemnly. "It might happen. You might lose me for good. But if it does, there isn't anything you can do, and I don't want you to waste time worrying about that, or being bitter about it if it happens. I lost my parents and Mrs. Anno. I nearly lost you several times. Don't you think that's hard too? I don't want to lose you either." There. She had finally said it. Tears welled in her eyes at the very thought of him dying, of the memories of Sarah and the brothers, of the moment she thought he died with the explosion at the beach and the one on the boat. She made to move her hands but his large hands grabbed hers to keep them in place. He tilted his head forward so their foreheads were touching. "Don't cry. I hate it when you cry." He brushed her tears away with his thumb.

Mugen didn't know what to say to her. He couldn't promise that he wouldn't fight anymore. Besides; people were after them, so he couldn't stop even if he wanted to. And not fighting was like telling him not to breathe. It was the only thing he was good at and liked. They both knew he was going to keep fighting, and that she was going to keep trying to save him, even though he told her not to. He sighed. "Dumb broad." She reached up a kissed him. "I suppose. But you're as bad as me, trying to save me all the time." "Hmp." At least he didn't deny it.

He reached up behind her to pull out the chopsticks that were somehow still keeping her hair mostly up, except a few renegade tendrils. The comb was nowhere to be seen. Her hair cascaded down her bare shoulders to caress her breasts. "I wish you'd keep it down." Mugen commented. "It's easier to get caught on stuff down, particularly when we're traveling." "Keep it down where we're alone then, or something. The only thing it can get caught in is my hands that way." He smirked. "You think you're soo smart, don't you?" Fuu retorted, walking her fingers down his mid torso to his navel, each finger accenting a word. She dragged her finger a little to highlight the stressed word more. Mugen growled. He grabbed a handful of her hair and tilted her head back by pulling on it firmly but gently. "Told ya so." He kissed her deeply and ran the pointer and middle fingers of his free hand between the lips of her vagina. "Mmph!" His kiss muffled her squeal of surprise, but Mugen was far from done. As he stroked the top side of her tongue with his, his fingers rubbed deeper into her soft and now wet folds, reaching a wall and a nub almost simultaneously. She moaned as he moved his mouth away from her lips and nipped at the skin of her neck and licked the spot before moving down and doing it again several times. Pushing her down to the futon and releasing her hair, he trailed his tongue down to her collarbone as he rubbed her clit with sweet and agonising slowness, evoking a slowly stoking fire within her. "Mugen. Please." She began to writhe. "Not yet darlin'." His breath on her skin almost tipped her over the precipice. She sucked in a breath hard. He kept going slow for a few more seconds, before suddenly rubbing her clit hard and fast. Her back arched upward as she came hard, moaning.

Fuu lay there panting as Mugen withdrew his hand and licked her juices off of it. Her whole insides felt electrified, but the sensation was fading a little. Grinning at her thinking it was over, he watched her eyes widen as his fingers reached in her to rub her clit and set off the intense electric feeling in her nethers again. His manhood straining with the pressure of watching Fuu's reactions to his touches, he rammed it in her with full force. She cried out and tightened so severely around him as she came again that he came hard into her, gasping her name. "And you wanted me to go in fast." He breathed when he could articulate words again. He pulled out and lay back. She just shrugged as he put his arms around her.

This is the honeymoon chapter. I just didn't want to call it that. lol. The next chapter will see more action.

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