A/N: Ok I'm here at my dad's house and I have time to write this. I hope you all look forward to a special guest dropping in on this chapter. Here we go!
Night 5
Mugen wasn't sure what to say to her. Like 'Gee Fuu it's no big deal!' That wasn't true for her. Unlike him she was purely innocent in this world. She was a fighter but not a life taker. Given a choice to save someone or kill them she'd choose to save that person without a moment's hesitation.
Mugen was just the opposite which was probably why he felt like he needed to be around her so much. Despite the fact that he knew he was going to hell, Fuu was that small piece of hope he held onto. It was the only good he had left in his life. In a weird way she kept him human. Mugen always use to believe that made you weak, but here he was, still alive when he should be dead. There was once a time he wouldn't have cared, life or death for him was all the same, but when Fuu had showed up he suddenly wanted to stay, he had to stay. Who else was going to help her, protect her ass, what was she going to do?
Fuu had stopped crying after an hour and was now helping him rowed silently. He never thought he'd want to hear her start babbling and running her mouth, but damn it! Why wasn't she saying anything? If she was in shock or something he didn't like it. She was stronger than that right! Where was Fuu?
"Ok look!" he yelled standing up causing her to jump. "I would've died if you didn't do what you did so stop crying over someone who would've killed you if you hadn't killed him! I'm sorry you had to do that but if I could've killed him I would've. So I'm sorry for ruining your fucking life!" Mugen finally sat back down and started rowing furiously. Unfortunately he was the only one doing the rowing so the boat was doing nothing but spinning in circles being he could only use one arm.
Mugen didn't stop he was just too pissed at himself for making her do something like that. He didn't even feel the tug on his shoulder.
"Mugen."
He kept rowing, maybe if they span fast enough they could go back in time and he could kill all of those bastards.
"Mugen!"
Something hit him hard across the cheek. Did she just slap him? Mugen was getting ready to call her every name in the book when it struck him that she actually slapped him like she would before. He was suddenly looking at the old Fuu again.
He blinked a few times before she was the one yelling at him. "Now look! I understand that you would've died if I hadn't killed that scum! But he's not the reason I'm crying. The reason I'm crying is because I almost lost you jackass!" Fuu's eyes went steamy and she had to sit herself back down before she broke down.
Mugen was speechless and could only stare at her. "What do you mean? I've come closer to death than that time and even if I died I'd think by now you'd be ready for that."
"How could I be ready for something like that?" Fuu asked her voice cracking.
"Fuu I'm not going to go straight one day and say I'm going to stop looking for danger and never use a sword again. It's going to be the death of me one day and you should know that by now."
Fuu inhaled deeply before talking more calmly and evenly. "Mugen…just because I've almost lost you before and just because I know you're going to die one day doesn't make it any easier. The only reason I'm so upset about killing that guy is because if I hadn't you might have actually been done for…It would've been my fault."
Mugen felt like such an ass. 'Duh she would've preferred to save someone. She was saving you idiot!'
Mugen dropped his oar and crouched down in front of her and lifted her chin so their eyes met. Fuu stopped breathing. "I would never blame you for my death," Mugen told her seriously.
Fuu smiled weakly at him. "That doesn't mean I wouldn't."
Mugen sighed frustrated and took her face in both of his hands. Fuu had to grip his wrists to keep herself steady. "You don't need to blame yourself. Shit happens and I'm not asking you to mourn for me when I'm gone. You don't need to have my life affect yours."
"I think it's a little late for that," Fuu whispered.
Mugen felt like he was going o choke on his words but he went for it anyway. He was usually blunt but never this honest. "Yeah it is a bit late for that...but if I did have any affect on you I would hope it wouldn't be to drag you down into any real shit with me. If I was ever going to…leave you." He felt her wince under his hands. "I would want you…to...move on…to be happy. Like you always fucking are."
Fuu started to laugh softly. It was the sweetest thing she'd ever heard from Mugen and he managed to throw a "fucking" in there.
Mugen suddenly felt weird after saying that and began to pull away, but Fuu's hold on his wrists wouldn't release him and before he could even ask Fuu pressed her lips agianst his and wrapped her arms around his neck. Mugen melted into the pleasure but forced himself to pull away. He didn't want to be lead on or anything.
"Whoa wait, wait. You don't need to do this."
Fuu kissed him again before answering. "It's not that I need to Mugen it's that I want to. And it's not just because of what you just said, it's just …for everything Mugen."
Fuu went back to kissing him and before Mugen could even think about the dos and don'ts he pulled her into his lap. Fuu's naked torso met his and she gasped under the kiss and trembled slightly. Mugen held her securely and tenderly and Fuu's muscles melted into him. He kept kissing her gently but passionately as he pulled his injured shoulder out of his sling. Fuu panicked slightly when she realized he was moving his damaged shoulder, but he didn't stop kissing her, so she couldn't talk. He brought his hand up into her hair until the pins barely holding it up fell out and the rest of her hair came falling down. Mugen continued to tangle his fingers in her hair while Fuu started to lightly pull at his. This caused the kiss to become more fevering and Mugen knew right then and there that he wasn't going to be able to leave her ever again.
Before either one of them could realize it, a huge canon ball had been fired at their boat barely missing them by a few inches. Mugen's head whipped around to see the pirate ship facing towards them. He knew they were getting ready to fire their canon again.
A few miles away one of the islands ships was carrying a few new refugees to the island and one of the passengers looked out to the waters. He had heard that this island was an ideal place to start a family and he wanted his wife to have the best. If only his friends could see it as well.
Suddenly there was a faint sound of an explosion and off in the distance he could see a ship firing at a little boat. As he squinted his eyes to get a better look, his breath went short. 'It can't be.' He ran off to find the captain.
Another blast and this time the shot was only off by a few milliliters. Fuu knew they couldn't possibly outrun the ship or its huge canon. Mugen and her were rowing as fast as they could but it was useless. Mugen heard the canon go off and knew this time it wasn't going to miss. He grabbed Fuu by the arm and jerked the both of them off the boat before it went shattering in a million tiny splinters. Fuu and Mugen began swimming but Mugen found it impossible to stay above the water with his damn shoulder. Fuu turned around to help him but he kept pushing her back.
"Just go!" He demanded her.
"No!" Fuu yelled back. She grabbed his good arm and pulled him towards her.
At that moment there was a split second of understanding between the two. No matter what, they were always going to be saving each other, no matter what, they keep coming back to each other, no matter what it was always going to be this way.
Mugen heard a canon going off only he realized it wasn't the pirate's, it was someone else. Mugen and Fuu looked towards the ship to see another firing at it. Fuu noticed it was one of the ships from the island.
The two of them stared to swim toward the ship while the pirate ship continued to get destroyed. There were screams coming from the pirates trying to flee the firing shots of the other boat. Mugen could hear the splashing of bodies hitting the water. Mugen didn't notice that the captain of the pirate ship was lowering a boat into the water and had spotted the both of them.
Fuu and Mugen came round the edge of the boat and called up towards the deck. A small wooden ladder was dropped for them. Fuu started to climb when a small dagger struck the side of the ship barely missing her, out of shock Fuu fell off the ladder and back into the water. Unfortunately Fuu had fallen a few feet away from Mugen and the pirate captain had a gun aimed at Fuu's head.
If Mugen could've had a sword, a gun, anything he would've killed the bastard in a second. Now all he could do is watch as time seemed to stand still and paralysis claimed him. He couldn't throw himself in front of her or anything he was too far away and yet he continued to swim closer to her and all for nothing as he saw the captain's finger begin to squeeze the trigger. It was the first time in his life Mugen felt fear; it was the most horrible feeling in the world.
He expected to hear a gun shot, he expected to see Fuu in a pool of her own blood and her brown eyes go lifeless. It was an image so ingrained in his mind that he believed what he was seeing now was a hallucination. But the captain's body was actually spitting out blood and falling into the water from some lash of an incredibly fast blow, Mugen knew only a few people capable of using a sword so fast and he only knew one guy that wore those stupid glasses!
"Jin!" Fuu cried.
'Yep old fish face.'
Jin smiled at his two old friends. "It's good to see you two again."
Mugen groaned. "Yeah, yeah, real nice to see you too, now can you give me a fucking hand?" Jin nodded and pulled Mugen forward by his good arm and helped him onto the ladder, Mugen only took one step before looking back. "Wait don't forget Fuu."
Jin wasn't sure he had heard Mugen correctly but saw that Mugen was completely serious. He reached out to Fuu and helped her up the ladder. Jin smiled as he realized that his two companions were they same individually but different together.
Once they were on the dock Mugen heard someone's voice.
"We took down those pirates. Nothing is left of their ship either"
Mugen finally relaxed and felt himself going unconscious, the whole thing had drained him completely and his body needed rest.
"Good we can continue on and get these people home."
'Home? Wait Fuu…Fuu's new home. ..Almost didn't make it, almost couldn't save her.'
Before Mugen knew it, everything went black and he could've sworn someone was calling his name
A/N: Two days left. What will become of our lovely couple in those couple of days? Wouldn't you like to know? Stay tuned and please review.