Sunflower Fuu

Chapter 2

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Recap: My eyes widened, and I clenched the paper in shaking hands. "Hiro…" I growled, that little, lying bastard! And he was so good looking. Not to mention the sweetest guy I've ever met! It just wasn't fair! Why do all the hot guys have to be damn rapists! Ugh!

I then seemed to notice how dangerously close Mugen was at the moment, his arms braced around on opposite sides of my head, his face dangerously close to mine…

Fuu

As his breath washed over my face, the door to the room rattled as Hiro returned. Jerking up in what seemed to be agitation; Mugen ran and sailed out the window, giving me a quick look behind him. My eyes widened as he left, and I cursed vehemently in my mind after him.

'What the hell does he think he's doing! Leaving me all alone with this bastard! Oh, I'm going to nag his ass off so bad when I get out of this situation. Oh please, please have a plan to save me…'

As my thoughts raged inside my head, I suddenly noticed that I still held the paper in my hand. Hiro's back was to me, and I took the ultimate sacrifice so as not to get caught, and have him rape me before Mugen and Jin even had a chance to save me. I stuffed the paper into my mouth, and ate it.

I ate it. Two certain people are going to owe me for this. Big time…

Composing myself, I smiled shyly as Hiro turned toward me, and climbed slowly off the bed so as not to arouse suspicion. But it already seemed that I had aroused someone… Namely, Hiro.

"W-would you like something to drink, Hiro?" Aiming my sugary-sweet smile at him I grabbed a few glasses, overflowing his glass with sake and mine hardly a drop. If Mugen and Jin failed to save me, which they better not, those jackasses, I was hoping the sake would make him pass out or something.

A stupid idea, but I was desperate.

"I think I'd rather get something else to drink…if you know what I mean…" Hiros' voice was low and husky, and I couldn't help but shiver a bit.

"Could he get any cornier?" I heard Mugens' disgusted voice; as if he's had anyone be so sweet to him they turned out corny. But then again, neither have I. Rapists don't count on my list. If I even had a list…

"What was that?" He seemed alarmed, his head popping up from its downward plummet to my lips. I shivered again, but not from delight. It was more from disgust, knowing he's kissed many an un-willing girl with them. EW, gross!

"Uh, uh, nothing! I bet it was just some couple walking under the window, you know. Yeah, yeah, that's it!" I could hear Mugen as he swore when I stumbled with my explanation. It had holes in it, and I stammered, and my voice was an unusual pitch, but I couldn't help it! I was about to be raped for damns sake if these two bozos didn't hurry up!

"C'mon," Hiro growled in a very, very menacing voice, "We're getting outa here!" Grabbing me by my middle, I screamed shrilly as he hauled me through the door and out the Inn, running fast and hard.

I could tell by the screams behind us that Mugen and Jin were hot on his heels as we left the Town, running out across the bridge. Panting, Hiro threw me down on the ground as he turned around, just as Jin and Mugen skidded to a stop at the other end. I looked up from my feeble position, crying out to Mugen before Hiro kicked me.

"Shut up, you damn broad. And don't you worry, I ain't gonna rape ya. I'm gonna sell ya, then have some other unlucky guy rape ya!" His grin was malicious and his eyes shined with twisted glee. Clutching my heart, I drew myself into the fetal position, as Hiro drew two heavy balls out of his shirt. Bombs!

Before I had a chance to scream out, and before Mugen and Jin had a chance to get even halfway across the bridge, BOOM. My screams were drowned out by the explosions, and other screams from the Town…

After the explosion…

My head was throbbing in pain, and I groaned as my eyes flittered open to bright, piercing sunlight. 'Fuu…'

I shook my head harshly, ridding myself of the pain as I propped myself up, still a dull throb in the base of my skull. 'Goddamnit…how could we lose her?'

My mind was ready and revved to go after that bastard who took Fuu, but my body was not. So I contented myself to lying back on those soft sheets, and got a look around. I was on a futon near a crackling fire, in a very small hut. Jin was lying next to me, his face still in a peaceful sleep. The rest of the house was regular, two stools and a table, and another two futons. Very boring, all-in-all.

"Wake up, you damn bastard!" I roared in Jins ear, grinning with misplaced satisfaction as he jumped awake, sending one of his death glares at me.

"He got away…" It didn't take a genius to figure out whom, and my quick feeling of satisfaction fluttered away, leaving me with anger and a strange sense of hollowness. I figured Jin was feeling the same.

"Who do you s'pose took us in?" I questioned of him, knowing full well he didn't know the answer, but for some reason I needed to hear someone speak besides myself.

He shrugged his shoulders, and shook his head low. "I do not know. Hopefully, someone who does not expect something in return." Nodding my head in a rare sense of agreement with him, I tensed up as the flap to the hut was pulled open.

In stepped a kindly looking old woman, and a small girl clinging to her leg. The old woman was dressed in simply peasant clothes, and the girl in a ruffed up looking kimono.

'Probably just an old hag who took us in out of kindness. She isn't going to expect anything off of us, that's for sure,' Jin remained silent as she walked in, the young girl staring at us through her eight-year-old eyes. Fuu'd like her…

It was hard not to bash my skull into the wall when I though of her, thinking of our own stupidity. We should have gotten her right then and there when we warned her. Goddamn.

"Yo, Grandma." I snapped out, not in the best of moods. As if I ever was, "Who the hell are you and where the hell are we?" Although I was sure Jin didn't agree in the manner I was speaking in, screw him, he nodded his head in agreement.

"Well…" The old lady began, smiling a toothless smile at us, "Me and Kuriko here, we were taking our daily walk down by the river…"

Fuu

It was hard for me too sleep as Hiro ran. He obviously held much endurance, as he had been going for two days straight with no rest and only an occasional three-to-five minute bathroom and food break. It was very tiring, and I had too say I would have much rather continued my journey with Mugen and Jin. At least we stopped to sleep.

Oh, why didn't I just leave with them when they asked me? I could feel the tears threatening to spill over from my eyes and down my cheeks, but I fought them back. What were tears going to do to help, anyway?

As these thoughts ran through my head, I began to notice that Hiros' pace was slowing down, now he was jogging, walking, and stopped. We stopped in the middle of no-where, literally. Nothing was to be seen for miles and miles, except flowing plains grass, forests, and the occasional lake. I would have like to come here, under different circumstances. It was very beautiful.

"W-what are you going to do to me?" I managed to choke out as I caught my breath, leaning against a tree. I brought my head up defiantly, not being the kind of girl to just sit give in.

Hiro gave me a piercing look, and rolled his eyes. "I'm gonna sell you. Into slavery, bondage, it doesn't matter to me. Whoever gives me the highest price, and bingo! You're gone!" He laughed merrily at that, and I couldn't believe that just a few days ago I thought that was the sexiest laugh I've ever heard. Yuck.

I shivered, and pulled my kimono close to me as a strong breeze flitted passed us. I had a strange feeling that he wasn't going to do anything to me, outside of selling me. I didn't know why. Maybe virgins cost more on the market?

'Oh man, what the hell have I gotten myself into…?' I kept thinking to myself as my eyes sleepily closed, my body against the hard-bark of a tree. It was going to be a long night. A long and unpleasant night.

Back at the Hut…

"So you're telling me that we washed up alongside the bank of the river? But how?" My memory failed me from the point when Hiro made off with Fuu, and we wound up in this hags hut. Goddamnit.

"Yes," She said kindly, and I had learned her name was Motoko. "Apparently, there was a big explosion at that bridge you were at. My guess is that someone set of a bomb and it flung you into the river, knocking you out. Very lucky I and Kuriko were there at just the right time and place to catch you. You'd be dead by now." Her smile was kindly, and she placed a cup of tea in each hand, while Kuriko fidgeted nervously behind her.

"I doubt that." Jins' voice was low, as he sipped from his tea. His face was dead set, I guess on finding Fuu. Mine was too. We had kinda grown attached to her in the month we had traveled together. Ugh, she was still an obnoxious little bitch.

"W-what were you doing at the bridge anyways?" This was Kuriko, and she had blurted it out all of a sudden. Her voice was very fast and sounded a lot like Fuus' did. I swung my head in her direction, and I guess my expression scared her, for she hid behind her Grandmother.

"A companion of ours has been kidnapped. The man who took her must have set of the bombs, allowing him ample time to escape." Jin explained in as few words possible, but I could see the woman wasn't going to accept that.

"Who is this friend, and this man? And might I add, that it has been two days already. She is mostly likely dead, or being sold into slavery at this moment." Her voice wasn't rude, nor mean, simply stating the facts. And although it pained me to admit, she was probably right.

"Her name was Fuu and the man was named-" I cut Jin off, growling low.

"We better get going; if we're ever gonna have a chance of finding them." Standing up, my headache had succeeded, and my strength returned. Shouldering my sword, I lifted the flap to the hut, Jin close behind me. "Thanks, grandma."

"Wait!" She shouted, hurriedly standing up. "Wait! I need you to promise me something before you go! This Fuu seems like a lovely lady, and I want you to promise to come back here when you find her! After all, I did rescue you…" Her tone was sly, and we couldn't argue.

"Whatever," I growled out, eager to get moving. "Yeah, fine. See ya whenever!" I shouted as we left, both me and Jin hitting the ground after the bridge at a dead run. We had no idea of where we were going, simply running as hard and fast as we could.

Fuu

"Oh, Momo, I wish you were as big as a wolf, and could just tear this little asshole to pieces!" My captor had left, stating that he was going for a walk in the woods. Leaving me all alone with the cries of wild animals. It made me shiver over and over again, every time I heard the howl of a wolf or scream of a fox.

Currently, I was bound to that very tree I had slept on the night before. Momo was crouching on my shoulder, scared himself that something was going to gobble him up. I was gently whispering to him, he needing more consoles then I did.

"It's okay, you know. Nothing's going to eat us! I'll just scream at them until they all go away, right?" I finally managed to get Momo to stop shivering, and he crawled down the front of my kimono, to warm himself. His warm, furry body against my skin helped me to stay calm as well, not to mention comforted.

I waited for a while more, and started to actually believe that Hiro wasn't going to return. Urging Momo from his sleep, he set to work gnawing at my bounds. In a matter of minutes I was free, and I gathered myself together, and set off in the opposite direction of where Hiro went. I had been walking along for a while, tripping and stumbling along the way, before the strap of my sandal caught and snapped, sending me straight to the ground.

'Goddamn this! I can't believe, of all times, my strap would break! The tailor said it was the strongest material of them all!' And after that, I couldn't help myself. I started to cry. Big, salty tears slid down my cheeks and plopped to the ground as I sobbed. I just lay there, not caring anymore. I just wanted to see Jin and Mugen again!

A strong breeze of hot air blew into my face, carrying the smell of sweet breath and meat. Another and another came, making me cringe and hold my nose, before I looked up, and screamed. Standing before me was the biggest monster I had ever seen before in my life.

"Somebody help me!"

And here's the conclusion to our 2nd chappie! Yaay! Well, I feel good about this one, and don't worry, more will be coming! So, R&R, and Toodles!