IMPORTANT! --------> I'm sorry of the lack of undate but I've been really busy lately. Anyways here is chapter 11. Oh and by the way, if I don't update before the 2nd, that means I'm really busy (hopefully not!). And I won't be updating from the 2nd till the 18th or 19th, I'll be on holidays! Well again, for your reading pleasure... Chapter 11.

"Thank you, sir." Fuu took a sip out of the cup of tea that had just been served by Mugen's father.

The man sitting in front of Fuu nearly spat out the coffee he was drinking. "No need to call me for formally!"

"Oh…" Fuu thought hard on what to actually call him. "…Thank you… Mugen's dad?"

"Ho! Ho! Ho!" He sounded like Santa Clause. "Just call me J."

"J? Um, okay…" Man this guy just gets weirder and weirder, as Fuu thought uncomfortably.

Silently, Fuu sipped her tea until it was finished dry. She looked up from the cup and spotted that J was staring at her. Feeling embarrassed, her face reddened and she looked back down.

"What are you so shy about?" asked J.

"Oh, um, well nothing, really." Fuu replied still with her head lowered. She then fiddled with her thumbs.

"Oh, come now." Just as J was about to reach over to lift her head, a kick of the door disturbed the action.

"What the fuck are you doing?" asked an angry voice.

"You're still full of energy aren't you?" J glanced at Mugen.

"And what the hell are you still doing here?" He directed this at Fuu.

"Well, you see, I was…" Fuu mumbled on.

"Oh, Mugen. You scared her out of her wits! Be nicer to our guest…" J reached over the table and graced her hand with a smile on his face.

"FIND SOMEONE YOUR OWN AGE, YOU FUCKING OLD TIMER!" Said Mugen.

Mugen punched J across the face, and he fell down backward with a bloody lip.

"Mugen! Quit that! How can you do that to your father!" Fuu perked in.

"It doesn't matter. He's not my dad anyways." Mugen released J from his clutch and sat on a chair in the kitchen.

"What! How can that be?" Fuu was shocked.

"How can it not be? He's only twenty six-" Mugen began.

"Twenty five actually." J said proudly.

"-Whatever. Anyways, he married my mother two years ago."

Fuu didn't know what to say. She was so shock that she stared as Mugen so intensely, it was as if he were some kind of masterpiece. Mugen quickly realized what she was doing.

"What the hell are you looking at?" Mugen snapped at Fuu.

"Nothing." She replied back, not surprised at what he asks anymore.

J popped back into the scene. "You two should head back to school now. So run along. Here, I washed your uniform. It's nice and clean."

"Hey! What the hell? You never do that for me!" Mugen said ferociously.

J just ignored Mugen's reaction. "Here, hurry and get changed." He glanced at his watch. "Lunch is almost over."

"Oh! Thanks… and about the dress…"

"Like I said, you can keep it." J grinned.

Fuu hastily got changed in the bathroom and headed out the door, with Mugen following behind. But before they stepped out the door, J spoke to Fuu.

"Remember you can come back after school!"

"Thanks!"

Fuu happily walked away. She was starting to feel better, but then again, Mugen was with her so her mood just lowered.

"What does he mean after school?" Mugen asked curiously.

"It means…" Fuu clarified. "That I get to stay over at your house for one or two more days."

Fuu skipped to school, while Mugen stood on the sidewalk in awe.

When they arrived at school, Mugen was still in awe, while Fuu gloomily sauntered into class. All the students stared at the two while they walked in.

"Ouu, where have you two been? Off having se-" Jaime said arrogantly.

"Shut it, or I'll break every single one of your pretty fingers of yours." Mugen snarled back.

Jaime pouted and shut up-ed.

"Fuu," The teacher said as she noticed her in the classroom. "I need to talk to you. After class."

"Yah…" Fuu mumbled back.

After class, the teacher gestured her finger towards Fuu to "come here" Obediently, Fuu strolled over to the teacher.

"Uh huh?" Fuu asked as she was right in front of the teacher.

"I'm a bit worried. You seem to come to class now and then, and you haven't been here for a full week yet!" The teacher said.

"Well, you see…" Fuu began to tear up. "It's my grandfather… He's been to sick! And I try and I try, and I can't seem to keep him un-sick…"

"Oh dear…"

"So…after school, as much as I can and, of course, after detention, visit him as soon as possible, it's just that sometimes I wish I saw him RIGHT after school." Fuu lied.

"Go on."

"Huh?"

"Go on! Must I say it again; your detention after school is to go visit your grandfather. Visit him while you can."

"Thank you so much!" Fuu said guiltily.

The teacher took a napkin and dabbed her wet eyes. Such a sweet soul, she thought.

In the hallway, Fuu ran into Mugen.

"Don't you have detention with me?" Mugen questioned Fuu.

"Nope!" Fuu stuck her tongue at Mugen. "Got out of it with my cunning wits!" Fuu ran away not wanting to hear a reply.

"Hey! Wait!" Mugen began but gave up when she was out of sight. "That bitch. She's supposed to suffer with me."

Fuu reached outside, only to find Jin sitting on the steps of the school. Fuu tapped his head.

"Hey you."

Jin looked up and saw Fuu hanging over him.

"Hello."

"What's wrong with you?" Fuu asked bluntly.

"Nothing."

Fuu was puzzled. "C'mon, let's go."

"What? Where?" Jin asked.

"Out. You look depressed."

Jin just sighed and stayed exactly where he sat. "Let's go…" Fuu tried to say as she was tugging on Jin shirt.

Fuu was so clumsy that she leaned back and accidentally let go of Jin shirt and fell backward knocking into an unknown body.

"Oww…" Fuu uttered as she rubbed her head. "Sorry…"

Fuu looked up only to have her heart skip and beat. With great courage she managed to blurt out. "…Tom?"