It's been a year and a half since Mugen received his sword from Junsuke. He's been training with it non stop. He's actually gotten a bit good. He left the village he was in a week after the events with the Red Kyuubi. He has been "following the wind" ever since then. Mugen just recently reached a new village. Actually he's only been in it for a few minutes. Since he was so small, the sword really stood out.

Three teenagers, around the age of fourteen and sixteen, saw Mugen and their eyes were caught by the sword.

"You guys see that baby?!" the guy who looked like the leader of the group said. "He's only a little kid and he's holding a high class blade like that. It's practically telling us to take it. Lets follow the kid!". The group of three then started following Mugen around town until afternoon turned to evening. Mugen went into an alley to rest a bit, since the hot sun was killing him. He needed some shade. The group stood around the corner grinning.

"Okay, lets sneak up on the brat and take the sword. If he tries to fight…well you know what to do!" the leader said. "Ready…Get Set…G-". He wasn't able to finish his sentence since he punched in the face by someone. He fell on the floor with a trail of nose bleed flailing in the air. "Hey!" he yelled. When he looked up he saw a smirking kid with a bruised fist, Mugen.

"This kind of reminds me of something that happened awhile back, except for that I was the one on the floor" Mugen smirked. He didn't even un-sheath his blade yet.

"What are you guys waiting for, get that punk!" the leader said still on the floor. The other two quickly snapped and threw punches at Mugen. Mugen ducked and pantsed both of them with opposite arms. He the rolled backward and smirked. He saw the two guys quickly pulling up their pants in embarrassment. He took this advantage of them being distracted and ran to the two drop kicking both of them in the face with opposite feet. They all fell to the ground. Only Mugen was unharmed. Mugen quickly got up and dusted himself off.

"You guys are pathetic. Three against one and I hardly broke a sweat!" Mugen said ending it of with a scarce look on his face then faking as if he was going to attack them. The group got scared and got up from the floor quickly running away.

"We'll get you back for this!" the leader said. All of a sudden a group of kids around the age of six and nine circled Mugen with smiles.

"You took 'em down! You actually took those big meanies down!" one kid said.

"Yea, I faced tougher" Mugen replied.

"Those punks always took our stuff and beat us up! Finally someone is actually here to take care of them-"the boy stopped noticing Mugen was meters away now. His eyes widened and quickly ran infront of him blocking Mugen from moving.

"Whadd'ya want?" Mugen asked

"Well you didn't let me finish thanking you, that's pretty rude mister!"

"I didn't beat those guys up for you. You was just lucky I was here" Mugen then started to walk again.

"Wait!" the boy called, "Where are ya going?"

"None ya"

"But what if those guys come back!?"

"That's not my problem. Besides I need to get some sleep."

"We'll let you stay at our hangout!" the boy yelled. Mugen turned around. He then put on a thoughtful expression. He hated sleeping in the forest.

"Alright. So where is this hangout?" Mugen asked.

"Follow me!". The group of small kids and Mugen then traveled to a less populated part of the village and entered a broken down shack. It had a bed and a window. Nothing else, but it was still better than the forest floor Mugen observed the room carefully.

"Better than nothing" Mugen said.

"I knew you'll see it my way" the boy smiled, "By the way the names Poktu. Whats yours?". After Poktu introduced himself so did the others.

"Mugen".

"Nice to meet you Mugen!". About two hours past and while Mugen laid on the bed the kids were talking. Mugen was kind of getting irritated since their consistent chattering didn't let him go to sleep.

"When are you guys leaving?" Mugen asked rudely, "Won't your parents get worried or something if you stay out too late?". Poktu turned around with a depressed expression.

"Were all orphans…" Poktu explained. Mugen then turned facing the ceiling. A lot of kids Ryuukyuu were orpans. One being Mugen. Mugen then sighed.

"What else is new?" Mugen asked.

"Well Mister Mugen we were wandering, since your strong and all, if you can kill something for us". Mugen started it get interested.

"What?"

"Its super strong…"

"Yea…"

"Its super big…"

"Yea…"

"It is a cold hearted beast…"

"Yea…?"

"It kills anyone it sees…"

"Yea….!?". Mugen heart started pumping quickly. He then sat up on the bed, wanting to hear more.

"It even killed a whole village of people…"

"Tell me what it is already!!!"

"It is the Giant Owl Monster!"

Mugen's head turned red with rage. They were only young kids so it wasn't hard to believe that they'd believe in that kind of things. Mugen got pissed and quickly laid back down.

"You guys are retards! I'm going to bed!". Poktu and the other's eyes started to water, and their face turned red. All of a sudden a fountain of tears flew out all of their eyes.

"Bu-but if you don't hel-help us then the monster will get us!".

Mugen tried to ignore them. "There's no such thing as monsters. Trust me just go to bed!".

The night went by and the kids slept restfully, like babies. Mugen did too. All seemed to be peaceful until something banged on the wall from the outside. Mugen slowly woke up rubbing his eyes.

"What the heck was that?" he asked then yawning. The kids were already huddled next to the feet of the bed.

"Mister Mugen it's the monster!" Poktu exclaimed. All of a sudden ghosts sounds were heard and you could feel the shack rock back and forth. It sounded like it was about to collapse. More knocking came from outside. Then they heard screams, loud screams! Even shrieks. "believe it now?" a kid asked with teary eyes. Mugen was still a kid and was a bit scared.

"T-trust me. I-it's nothing…" Mugen said. The banging then got louder and everyone cuddled on the bed next to Mugen. The screams got louder too. Mugen then gulped.

"Okay, I'm gonna got outside now." Mugen whispered to the kids with an uncertain expression. He got up from the bed and grabbed his sheathed sword and strapped it around his back. "I'll t-take care of this thing". He slowly opened the door and walked outside. He saw nothing but the sounds were louder. He then went to the side of the house and didn't believe what he saw…

It was the same three teenagers from the earlier! Mugen was enraged. He un-sheathed his sword. The three heard it and looked towards Mugen.

"Boss…it's the guy from before…" one teen said.

"I-I know…RUN!" the leader said. The three then ran as fast as they could through the forest. Mugen's speed was amazing so he quickly caught up to the group. He threw his blade. It caught the shirt of the teen the farthest and made him fall making the other two trip over him.

Back at the shack the kids were stilled scared beyond reason. They then saw someone step to the door. They couldn't see the person completely, it was covered in shadow. But the figure let off that it was a large demon beast. When the person stepped from the shadow it revealed that it was Mugen with one teen under one of his arms knocked out and the the other two teens under his other arm also knocked out. He then them on the floor.

"These are your monsters!" Mugen said. He then looked down at the three on the floor. "If you guys ever mess with these kids again, I'll make it so you can't even move!"

Night turned to morning and you can see Mugen and the kids at the exit of the village.

"Well I guess I better go. I doubt those bastards will bother you guys again" Mugen said turning around and walking away.

"Mugen wait!" Poktu said. He quickly ran infornt of Mugen. He had watery eyes. He quickly gave Mugen a big hug.

"You'll come back right?" Poktu asked grasping tightly.

"I don't know, but become strong and whatever so when you get older you can come find me and we can spar" Mugen stated with a smirk. Poktu nodded letting Mugen walk away.

Mugen walked and waved his right hand.

"Later brats" he said. Poktu smiled waving back to Mugen with more tears flowing down his face. "I'll definitely come find you Mugen!" Poktu thought.

This one was a bit long. I was thinking about splitting it in two parts but I changed my mind since I really got into the story. I hope you enjoyed this and stay tuned for my next one, it's about how Mugen developed the basis of his fighting style.