Chapter Five: Don't Fight it.
"Let me go dammit!" Fuu cried as two men dragged her into a small room.
"Get in there and shut-up!" One man said as he threw her small body into the dark cold room.
"Let me out of here!" Fuu shouted and banged on the wooden door, hoping they would give in and let her go.
"That's not going to help you any." A squeaky voice gave off in the darkness. The only light that was given was the light that shined through a small window that was blocked by bars.
Fuu turned to see a young woman resting against a wall. The moonlight did not show her well but Fuu could see her heavily painted face began to run from her tears. She wore a light blue kimono, and her short black hair was is dismay, on her leg was a deep cut.
Fuu was silent and a little frightened. She couldn't see her face well in the poorly lit room. Yet Fuu could see she was in pain, her kimono was stained with dark liquid. A little skeptical yet concerned Fuu crawled over to the girl.
"Were you taken from the village too?" asked Fuu. The young woman nodded…she too could barely see the soul she was talking to.
"You're bleeding!" Fuu said placing her hand on her leg.
"I was stabbed, while trying to get away." She said.
"What is your name?" asked Fuu as she tore off a piece of her kimono to tie around her leg.
Stricken with surprise from her act of kindness the girl kindly said, "My name is Satsu."
"GOD DAMMIT!" Mugen punched a wall knocking a large hole in it. "I told her watch out! Why is she so damn careless?" yelled Mugen. Although he did not show it well, he was worried about her.
"My Fuu…my poor-poor Fuu." Totomi said sitting on the ground wading in his self-pity
"POOR FUU! THIS IS MOSTLY YOUR FAULT!" shouted Mugen.
"There is no point of staying here and arguing…we have to go get her." Jin said calmly sheathing his sword.
"Yeah, lets go." Mugen said walking away angrily. The two samurai walked away leaving Totomi rocking himself.
"What? You're going after her?" asked Totomi getting up from the ground.
"We kept a promise to her…we must help her." Jin said.
"This always happens! Now we have to go bust our asses to save hers." Mugen said walking away.
"Wait! Do you know whom you are going up against? You are going to go up against The Ruzuki! The most feared gang in this land!" Totomi said.
Mugen and Jin looked at each other and then back at Totomi, "So." They said.
"I'm coming with you." Totomi stated.
"The hell you are!" said Mugen.
"Thank you for your offer but we can do this on our own. It is too dangerous for a kid like you." Jin simply stated.
"But I…" Totomi protested.
"Yeah, stay here where you belong, we'll bring your lover back in one piece." Mugen said sarcastically.
"I'm a Ruzuki Member!" Totomi shouted at the samurai. The statement stopped the samurai in their tracks. They turned to look at the young man in the eye.
"Look see! I have the mark, and the sword!" Totomi lifted up his sleeve showing the same mark that was branded on the horses and on Takishie. He pulled out a black and yellow katana sword with "Ruzuki" written on the handle in Kanji writing. "I know the Ruzuki clan territory like the back of my hand! I am coming with you to get back my Fuu." Totomi said.
Jin and Mugen looked at Totomi with distasteful looks on their faces.
"And you call yourself a man…" Jin said in a deep voice. Totomi's eyes were saddened and his heart sank within him.
"You betrayed your village, the old woman who cared for you, and your own love…you have no right to wield that sword in hands." Jin said angrily turning away from him. A long pause came between three. Then Mugen asked:
"Where are these bastards, Tomato?"
The moon was now dim and the clouds began to roll in, creating a colder atmosphere. The girls in the cells began to go hungry and cold. After talking a little while, Fuu became silent.
"What is the matter?" asked Satsu.
"I was just thinking…before I was taken, a dear friend of mine, was killed…she was more than a friend she was like a mother to me, she died before I got to say goodbye." Said Fuu sadly.
"And, I'm also afraid…that we may not make it back home." Said Fuu.
"Hey now…don't say that. I believe that my Totomi will come find me." Satsu said, with a squeaky cheerful tone. Fuu's head jerked up quickly.
"What did you say?" asked Fuu.
"I said, that my love Totomi will come find me soon…and he will save you too." Satsu said happily.
Fuu bit her tongue, "Totomi? He sounds great." Said Fuu. Having the urge to say something.
"Oh he is, he is handsome, helpful…and so many more amazing things. Except…" Satsu trailed off.
"Except what?" asked Fuu, following further with her act.
"Totomi…isn't totally all mine," Satsu said looking sad "He has a girlfriend…she seems real kind, and everyone really likes her." Satsu's praises made Fuu feel good about herself.
"Yet…there is something about her I just hate!" Satsu said slamming her fists down on the floor. Fuu then scooted away a bit from the angry Satsu. "Not only that…but that little floozy shows back up to the village and she come back with TWO men!" Satsu shouted.
Fuu felt a little irritated, from Satsu's rants…she felt like she was about to explode!
"Really? Two men? She must be really attractive." Fuu said curling her fists up into a ball.
"No not really, her hair is too messy, and her face is too plain, and that smell…she smells like a boy. She is a little too skinny…and she has no boobs." Said Satsu. Fuu heard her flaws and felt rather sad after hearing all that verbal abuse…and then angry from it being said to her face. "Uh, and her name…Fuu? What kind of name is that? Couldn't her mother come up with a better name than…Fuu?" Satsu said giggling.
Then after hearing about her parents…she wondered if Satsu would have said anything if she knew that she was Fuu, and what happened to her mother.
"So do you have anyone?" asked Satsu like if saying those crude things weren't anything.
Fuu was silent…and she thought of Totomi.
"Yeah." Fuu said still picturing his face in her mind.
"So…tell me about him." Said Satsu elbowing her.
"He is handsome, strong, sometimes loyal…he isn't much of a talker but he tells you everything through his actions…he always seems to surprise me in someway." As Fuu was describing 'Totomi' that image of his face had slowly turned into…Mugen.
"Wow, he sounds dreamy…what's his name?" asked Satsu.
Without thinking in the slightest…Fuu turned her head and blurted out: "Mugen!" She wanted to gobble his name back into her mouth! She could feel her face get hot and her heart beat wildly. Fuu was embarrassed that his name was even said; yet Satsu didn't know the difference.
"I can tell you love him deeply." Satsu said in a squeaker voice than normal. Fuu just smiled, not as if Satsu could see it.
"What is wrong with me? What the hell am I thinking?" Fuu thought to herself.
Yet Fuu felt deep down inside, she did know what she was thinking, and it seemed as if everyone else could see too.
The three rescuers walked slowly up a large hill, aching in exhaustion and frustration.
"The Ruzuki campsite is right above this hill, hurry!" Totomi said filled with energy and worry.
"About damn time." Said a tired Mugen.
"I was beginning to have my doubts." Jin joined in.
The three men marched up the hill with high spirits and adrenaline rushing through their bodies. They stopped before the reached the top of the hill. "On my count." Said Totomi.
"1…2…" Before Totomi could finish his count Mugen sprung into action.
"Ahhh!" He cried as he jumped over the hill with his sword drawn.
"NO! WAIT!" Totomi pleaded, yet Mugen had frozen himself stiff.
Jin and Totomi made it to the top, standing next to Mugen looking down at an abandoned campsite. Smoke from the fires and hove prints were all that were left.
"What the hell is this shit!" Screamed Mugen in anger. "There's nobody here!" he shouted again throwing his hands up in the air.
"They must have moved out." Jin suggested.
"Now it will be harder to find them…but I think I know where they are headed." Totomi said, following the horse tracks with his finger. "I believe they are headed out toward one of the smaller villages, that's where they usually go when the boss returns." Totomi explained. "Hurry we must move before sunrise." Totomi ran down the small hill following the trail.
"He's as annoying as the girl." Mugen whispered to Jin. Jin nodded in agreement.
Satsu had fallen asleep lying next to Fuu, yet Fuu could not sleep. She stayed up thinking about Totomi, and sadly she also thought of Mugen. She didn't know what she was doing when his name came flying out of her mouth. She was stupid to even consider being that close to him, she hardly knew the guy. She moved her knees up to her chest and rested her chin on them, she kept her mind on that one thought. She and Mugen together...it just sounded so right in many ways, but it was pictured wrong to her.
"Mugen and Fuu." Fuu repeated the shocking words in head many times over and over again. It seemed childish yet it felt somewhat right to her.
Fuu smiled to herself about the thought, and she began to think of him. She pictured him in her mind, how strong he was, and although he wasn't bright he did make the best out of a bad situation.Yet aslo could make the worst out of a bad one. She closed her eyes drifting to sleep next to Satsu.
"SLAM!" Thewooden door opened loudly; waking the girls. Two Ruzuki members stood in the doorway and smiled perversely to the girls.
"Get the one in blue, I'll get the one in pink." Said one hideous skinny man. He was tall and rather pale, he looked easier to break than a twig. The other man was large and very strong. He didn't look easy to take down.
The skinny man took hold of Fuu, his hands were as cold as death, and he smelled of pigs. He was a lot stronger than he appeared. Satsu didn't even get a chance to fight back before being taken away out of the cell by the massive man.
"Satsu!" Fuu cried trying to reach her hand…yet Satsu was already over the huge man's shoulder. When Fuu stepped into the light Satsu got a glimpse of her face, and saw that the young girl she had shared the room with all this time was Fuu.
Fuu would not be taken away without a fight. She kicked and bite and screamed at the thin man, yet he would not let go. He finally got a blindfold around her and threw her over his shoulder as well, and once again Fuu was helpless.
"Thud." Fuu landed hard on the ground. When she felt no one restraining her anymore she removed the blindfold from her eyes. She was sitting in a small circle; colorful curtains made of silk surrounded her. She sat on hard wood, a little stunned and quite confused. She stood up from the ground and once she did the curtains pulled back quickly. Drunken men hollering and whistling surrounded her, they tugged at her kimono and shouted perverted comments at her. One man came up to Fuu rubbing her back with his ashy hands.
"Ew!" Fuu pushed him away, "Pervert!" Fuu shouted at. Fuu heard extra footsteps, the men brought Satsu up on the table. Her hands were tied behind her in a discomforting look, her bandage that covered her wound had fallen off, and in Satsu's eyeshad a terrified look.
Satsu was at the end of the table, the men began to rip and tear at her clothes.
"Satsu!" Fuu cried running about two feet before feeling her obi unwind off her body. Fuu quickly closed her opening kimono. She bent down to the ground and felt herself blush. She turned her head around to see a man holding her maroon obi. The man took down thechopsticks in her hair, making her brown hair fall at her shoulders. Fuu turned away from his glare. The man grabbed her face and said:
"Hehe, don't fight it baby."
TO BE CONTINUED…