A/N: I'm sorry if people think I forgot about this story, I've just been really busy. Not to mention now I'll have to be doing all my work on the schools computers during my off period because I don't have my own computer when I'm living with my mom. But I promise I will not give up!
Day 4
Taking life wasn't hard, in fact it was really easy. In Mugen's experience all you needed was a sharp blade, a good looking face, and enough hatred in yourself to not care about anyone but yourself.
Mugen once had a theory that if taking life was so easy then saving one must be hard. Killing and saving were complete opposites and he had no intentions of finding out what it felt like to be on the more moral side of life.
First time he saved Fuu it was because he was hungry and wasn't going to do anything that didn't benefit him. Technically that didn't even count as a saving because it was about his needs, not hers. After she had hired Jin and himself as bodyguards, that's what he kept telling himself, it was about his needs, it was only a job and nothing more.
However, each time he saved her ass he found that rationalization fading. His theory was back firing on him. Saving a life wasn't as bad as it seemed even if it was annoying. It was funny because he didn't even get his needs full-filled since they were always out of money for good things like food and women. He was always so close to just ditching her and yet somehow fate wouldn't allow him that…not even after 2 years.
Mugen's last theory that was also broken by Fuu was that no one would ever be dumb enough to try to save his life, but Fuu did. If she hadn't been there the night he and Sarah were fighting by the river he would be dead right now. Fuu had thrown herself on top of his bloody body and begged Sarah not to kill him. He couldn't even recall if anyone had done that for him. Even if his stomach was empty and he was horny as hell he found himself feeling my whole than ever at the end of their journey, and even though he would never tell her, he was glad Fuu tricked him into traveling with her.
"Hey you. Wake up!"
Mugen's head flew backwards as it received a sharp kick to the face. His vision was blurry but he could make out the light of morning.
"The fuck do ya want?" he croaked in a raspy voice.
He could hear giggling around him. "You have a visitor."
Mugen couldn't make out what the man had said. His arm wound was still bleeding and the assholes had beaten him to a pulp last night. 'A visitor?...Wonder who..' He blacked out again.
Fuu was a gambler by heart and she had acquired some skills along the way by going to gambling houses. Her teachers weren't exactly the cleanest or the nicest, but they were willing to teach a cute little girl a few tricks. It was amazing how fast she caught on and her dice skills were equal to that of any male dealer. She knew if there was one way to deal with men it was by getting on their weak side. And all men had a weakness for gambling.
Fuu sat on the heels of her feet as the men of the ship dragged Mugen's unconscious body in. It took all her will not to jump up and catch him as they let him fall carelessly to the floor, but the captain had ordered her not to move and she knew she had to do as she was told or else she may jeopardize his life even more.
She heard the captain give a throaty laugh. "So this is the filth you want to save. Tsk. Pathetic, you have nothing to save."
'Save? Save who.' Mugen wasn't sure if he was dreaming or not but he knew whoever was talking was right, he was nothing to save.
"He's everything worth saving to me."
His head was playing tricks on him. 'Fuu? Fuu shouldn't be here…she should be off the island marrying some fucking hubby.'
"Huh? You have some balls girly. Not many fools would challenge a bunch of pirates to a game of luck."
Mugen heard what sounded like a dish being slammed on the floor, the sound vibrated in his head.
"We'll see who's lucky today." Fuu shot back. "Odds?"
More chuckling. "You win you get your man back, if I win…I get you and your man dies."
Mugen would laugh if he could. Fuu agreeing to a bet like that, not a chance.
"Deal."
'What!'
"Let's begin."
Mugen didn't care if this was a dream anymore, there wasn't a chance in hell he was going to let her do something as stupid as this. "Fuu…"
Fuu almost didn't hear him, it was so faint she had to call out to him. "Mugen?"
"Hey!" the captain snapped. "Are we going to play or not?"
Fuu glanced at Mugen one last time before nodding. "Yes we are." She took hold of the two die and little bowl. She remembered her skills and prepared to toss.
"Fuu don't." Mugen was now awake and realized what was happening, she was risking herself for him…again.
Fuu only smiled gently at him. "Don't worry." She never thought she'd be the one telling him that.
Fuu tossed the dice and kept her focus as the two die went bouncing off the walls into the bowl.
Mugen's eyes almost popped out of his head. 'The hell she learn that?'
Even the captain was shocked by her skills, he didn't like it one bit and came up with an idea to guarantee himself a victory.
He placed his bet and Fuu placed hers. Now was the moment of truth.
Fuu took a deep breath as she lifted the bowl. She had faith that she could win, if they didn't have luck in getting out of all the dangers they got into, she didn't now what they had.
Bad luck.
She held her breath as the dice came into full view and almost exploded with happiness at the sight. She won!
Mugen gasped slightly. 'She won! I don't fucking believe it!' If Mugen could he would jump up now and hug her and kiss her. Yep it's true, Mugen actually wanted to kiss her. However his thoughts were interrupted by the captain's foot smashing the little dice to pieces.
Fuu jumped in surprise and her happiness quickly evaporated. "Cheater!" the captain declared.
"What!"
'What!'
"I won fair and square!" Fuu yelled.
The captain laughed. "No way in hell a woman could do that, the dice are obviously fixed! To hell with it! Kill them both!"
Mugen had been beaten and shot and was feeling weak as hell, but he had been through worse and wasn't about to die now.
Fuu gasped at Mugen's speed, he grabbed the gun in the captain's holster and shot him square in the shoulder. The other pirates were beginning to draw out their guns but Mugen was fast enough to shoot a couple of them down and scare the rest off. Fuu had her head down and her eyes scrunched shut too scared to see the outcome. She was snapped out of her fetal position when a hand roughly grabbed her arm and yanked her up.
"C'mon! We need to get out of here!" It was Mugen yanking her out of the room onto the main deck. Fuu noticed his limping and heavy breathing, she knew he was running on adrenaline right now and that it could die at any second. Using all her strength she acted as a crutch and slung his arm over her shoulder.
"Bitch get off! I can carry my own weight."
Fuu ignored him, she had gone through all this trouble to save him and wasn't about to lose him to stupidity. "Let me help you, you stubborn jackass."
Mugen grunted under his breath but didn't push her away, he figured the closer she was to him the better.
They ran over to a hanging life boat ready to get in when a crazed maniac came running at them with a dagger. Mugen spun around to face the man and stopped the swing of the dagger with his steel plated sandals. The attacker's mouth dropped ever so slightly when Mugen connected his head with the base of the pirates face, he made a reach for the dagger before it hit the floor.
"Whoa!" Fuu gasped.
Mugen was proud of his strength and skill but he could already feel his energy rush leaving. "Get in the boat!" Mugen commanded Fuu who was still supporting most of his weight.
"Not without you!" Fuu protested dragging him in with her.
Mugen wanted to yell at her but couldn't bring himself to muster up the will; he could hear others on the ship coming towards them.
Using the dagger he had won over, Mugen cut the ropes holding the up the boat and they landed in the water with a hard thump.
Mugen gritted his teeth from the impact, his wounds still hurt like a bitch. He was going to tell Fuu to row them the fuck out of there only to see she was already rowing with all her little strength and might, he wanted to get up and help her or just plain do it himself but he was done for. Luckily they were near the shore, unluckily the little life boat they were on wasn't the only one on the ship. Fuu looked back to see other boats being lowered and big muscled men catching up to them.
"Fuck," Fuu hissed.
Mugen arched his eyebrow and looked at her baffled. 'Did she just say the f-word?' He couldn't help but think she said it kind of cute.
"Mugen c'mon!"
Mugen was surprised again to see they were already on the shore, she was really putting everything she had to help him escape. Mugen felt a small rush of adrenaline again and began to run as fast as he could with her, this time he didn't fight when she put herself under his arm and by his side.
He could hear the pirates shouting in the distance and gunshot whizzing past them, he knew they couldn't run forever but he couldn't fight them all either. They needed some real luck right about now.
They both halted when they came to the edge of a cliff dropping down to the waters. It reminded Mugen of when he had jumped from the cliff on the Ryukyu Islands, only back then he was alone, now he was going to have to take someone with him and hoped they both survived.
"Oh my god what do we do now?" gasped Fuu.
Mugen shook his head readying himself for the fall. "We go on three."
"What!"
Mugen began counting. "1…2..."
Fuu suddenly grabbed his arm and looked at him scared as hell. There were a lot of things she could do, but jumping off the side of a cliff into dangerous waters wasn't something she could muster up enough courage for. She had almost died like this one time and didn't want to see if she'd die this time around.
"I can't, just go and save yourself."
Mugen's anger nearly doubled at her words. Of all the things she was thinking she honestly thought he was going to jump and leave her to die with a bunch of pirates. 'She's out of her fucking mind!' Instead of slapping her like he so badly wanted to do he opted for his second strongest desire.
Fuu's eyes shot open and her entire body went numb with shock. Mugen had grabbed her face and was now kissing her!
Mugen wanted it to last longer but there was no time for fucking around he broke the kiss and looked her dead in the eyes. "I'm sorry."
"For kissing me?" Fuu asked still shocked and bewildered. She was hoping he wouldn't be sorry for the kiss, it was a real good kiss.
From the corner of his eye Mugen could see one of the pirates aiming his gun at them. "No for this."
He pushed Fuu of the edge of the cliff and followed in after her.
All the pirates looked on in shock as they heard two splashes at the bottom.
A/N: Hey if someone doesn't want to get in the water you fucking push them in. I'll be down my dad's this weekend so I should be able to get another chapter up by then. Hope you liked because I could get in trouble for typing up stories on the school computer… (Tight asses)