Of Gunshots and Sorrow
Chapter 8
Save Me, Save You
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Moody1656: Sorry bout the delay but here it is.
Fuu's tennis shoes squeaked against the linoleum floor as she dodged a waitress with a tray in hand. "Watch it!" She hissed and passed Fuu as she stuck her tongue out and continued to the back to place the last order she'd been given.
"Hey new girl!" She groaned at the sound of her fat, smelly, sweaty, nasty mustached boss. "New table for ya," He said wiping off some sweat on his forehead and pointing to a table in a corner in the tiny diner. Three men sat there, not too friendly either she noted as everyone else in the diner tried to not mind them with scared looks.
Fuu felt an urge to run as her subconscious reminded her of her father's men and how these looked like they could very well work for him. She shook the thought and cautiously walked towards them, I can't think Mugen will always be there when there's trouble, so c'mon Fuu, put on that fake smile and try to remember there's a knife in your pocket for customers who order steak and fries. "Good afternoon!" She said with fake pep. "I'll be your server Fuu, what can I--"
The most normal looking one, the one with the eye patch, looked over at her immediately stopping her. "Two burgers, three glasses of water." She nodded trying to hide her fear and placed her pen against her notepad. "Leave."
Not in the mood to need the knife Fuu walked away while writing down the order. The waitress she passed earlier walked over to her, slightly shoving her with her hip, and rolled her eyes. "There's someone waiting outside for you." Fuu looked over to the glass entrance and glass walls/windows by it and saw who it was. Red hoodie, messy hair, gray shorts, and a leaning position that stated said person was ready for the devil himself and ready to beat him to a pulp. "Said it's something important."
Without realizing what she was doing, she glanced over to the table of three before looking back at Mugen, then at her coworker. "Uh, thanks." She walked over to the back to place the last order she took and looked over at her boss. "I'll be right back, I just gotta go outside really fast. I won't even be a minute."
The man frowned, "Taking off half an hour's pay if you do." Fuu sighed but walked outside anyway.
"Stupid Mugen," she muttered as she opened the door and looked over at him expectantly. Her eyes widened when she saw his expression. His eyebrows were knit together, his lips were set in a line, and his eyes looked down at the ground searching for something. "Wh-What'ss wrong?"
He stood up away from the wall and straight across from her. "I was over at a bar earlier and heard some things. Heard that there's a guy who sent a couple o' guys here for his step daughter. The idiot who said that was a drunk shit so I grabbed him and took him out back." He took a moment to study her expression and felt like if there was anytime where he needed to comfort someone it was this. He took out his hands from his pockets and crossed his arms behind his neck while looking off to the side. "I took care of 'im, so calm down a bit." She nodded but didn't seem any less worried.
"There's two other guys," he elaborated, instantly shooting down Fuu's thoughts that the three men inside were her other attackers. "Seems like that old bald guy we left back at the playboy's house is one. If he's one then this shouldn't be a problem, so relax."
Mugen looked down at the sudden extra weight he felt around him. He sighed watching Fuu hug him and cry against his chest. He patted her head with one hand waiting for her to get off of him, noting that inside people were staring. Of course. Just stare at the criminal getting hugged by an innocent and stupid girl. Someone took out a cell phone? Really? Mugen groaned and shoved her away from him. "Geez, kid, shut the whiny trap o' yours."
Fuu nodded, silently noticing the little red tints on his cheeks. "Thanks, Mugen." He looked down at her with a raised eyebrow and shrugged before pulling off his hoodie. He shoved it into her hands, only wearing a white wife beater now. "What?"
"Get it cleaned before meetin' up again." He stated as if it were the most obvious thing in the world. "Don't want some stupid kid's snot all over it."
She rolled her eyes, "I'm not a kid."
"Well you're still stupid." With that he walked away.
- - - -inside the diner
"Stupid kids and their boyfriends, think it's the end of the world if they don't see each other." Fuu's boss mumbled watching the scene outside.
The waitress from before shrugged, "Maybe she's working cause they got a kid or something."
"Who cares?"
"I do, if that tiny ugly girl got to lay in bed with that hottie while I'm still single." She got a warning glare from her boss and shut up going back to work.
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Mugen walked around the small city they were at trying to find some food to buy with his recently acquired money, courtesy of Fuu's most recently dead stalker. Even with these extra perks she still owes me big time. He stopped suddenly realizing he could've taken advantage of her new job for food. Shit. Well I ain't goin' back now. Those damn idiots inside definitely didn't think I should be allowed inside. Plus I need her to get some good pay for later tonight... He smirked thinking of how long it was since the last time he got some good shag time.
This taking care of her thing is taking up too much of my time. He stopped seeing a burger place up ahead. Well that'll work. Just as he finally found his destination a bark stopped him. Fuck. He turned his head and pinched the bridge of his nose. Not again.
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"Mugen, I'm back." Fuu called setting down her room key on a nearby coffee table. They'd managed to afford a motel room. It was actually pretty big considering the cheap price. It had a living room area and then a separate bedroom. She looked around and noticed his shoes on the floor so she knew he was at least back. "Mugen?" She called out worried at the lack of an answer.
A bark caused her to almost jump out of her skin and let out a scream. "Mugen!" He came out of the room chuckling with a black lab following him. "Why's there a dog in here?" She asked him with a glare.
"Hell, I thought you more than anyone would like this stupid mutt." He smirked flopping down on the couch, pushing the dog off right after it tried to get on too. "Hey! Don't think I won't take out another one of your teeth!"
The dog whined but stayed down.
She protested, "It's just that we can get kicked out!"
Mugen looked over and smirked maliciously, "That's only IF we get caught."
The dog went over to her and sat down in front of her feet happily. "Well, he is kinda cute." She bent down and pet him behind his ears. "Where'd you find him?"
"He found me," He said with a shrug. "Thing fought with me when we were over at the one guy's wrestling thing."
"It was boxing."
"Whatever," he said laying down on the couch. "He left when you got back and I guess the mutt's been following me since then. Barked at me today when I was going to eat."
She laughed, "So I guess he took a liking to you cause you're both strays."
"Haha, very funny." He whistled getting the dog back over to him. "I only brought him with me cause I figured he'd keep following me and you'd like him or something."
Fuu stood up and watched as he lazily pet the dog with closed eyes. She smiled at the somewhat caring side of Mugen he hardly ever showed. "What's his name?"
"Choose."
"What about Momo?" She asked and the dog wagged its tail excited.
"Stupid name, for a stupid dog. Sounds good 'ta me." He smiled crookedly.
Fuu smiled and dropped a bag with her work clothes on the floor, "Well, I'm gonna go change and head to bed. Goodnight."
Mugen opened one eye and watched her walk away to the bedroom, and no doubt connected bathroom to change. He sat up and swung his legs over the couch before getting up and trudging over to the room. As walked he shouted, "D'ya clean my jacket?"
"Yeah! It's in my bag!" She answered back turning on the sink faucet to wash her face, her backpack full of clothes at her feet.
Mugen kept walking and got into the bedroom and spread himself out on the bed. Momo watched with his head to the side curiously. A few seconds passed and Fuu came out wearing a pair of gray work out shorts and a pink tank top. She glared, stuck out her hip, and put a hand to it; "Mugen!"
He smirked, "Whoa, girlie, didn't think you'd dress up for me." Fuu looked down and remembered how short her shorts were and blushed crimson.
"Pervert!"
"But you insist on stickin' around." She frowned and folded her arms across her chest expectantly. "What?"
She glared hard at him, "Get out of my bed."
"Hey I put my fair share for this room, I deserve this bed as much as you do." His closed eyes were enough to tell her he wasn't gonna get up.
"Your share was stolen, again!" Fuu pointed out walking over to the bed. "I earned my money and worked hard for this bed, so get off!"
"Make me," He countered calmly, the smirk never fading.
Her glare intensified and she jumped up on the bed, falling on her butt on Mugen's stomach. He jerked up and opened his eyes to a triumphantly smiling Fuu. "Fine," She laughed and began jumping on his stomach, causing him to jerk continuously. She stopped for a second and saw his glare, quickly turning scared and pale. "Mugen?"
"That's it!" He exclaimed pushing her off of him and pinned her to the bed before laying face down on top of her. "Now you either leave the bed to me alone, or we can sleep like this for the rest of the night."
She struggled trying to push him off. "Mugen! Get off! Do you know how weird this is? How it must look!"
"'Course I do," His eyes glinted with mischief. "I wouldn't of done this otherwise."
"Pig!"
"Brat!"
"Jerk!"
"Bitch!"
"Ugh!"
"I win!" Suddenly an extra weight was on them both and they groaned.
"Momo get off!" Fuu grunted trying to not suffocate from so much weight.
"Stupid mutt!" Mugen spread his legs on either side of Fuu's and sat up, taking the time to push him off them both and the bed.
A gunshot went off in the distance when the dog fell to the ground, the noise was almost drowned out by the busy city noises. Both Mugen and Fuu stopped fighting and scolding Momo.
Mugen was the first to react and stood up. He grabbed Fuu and pulled her up. "Go grab our stuff." He sure as hell wasn't gonna go back for it again if they had to leave town again.
Mechanically he took out his hand gun and loaded it while the girl scurried to put all their stuff away and bring their backpacks over to him. She put her work clothes' bag in her backpack and strapped it on. Mugen put his shoes back on and strapped his own backpack on.
He then went over to the window in the room and opened it widely, "C'mon." Fuu silently followed his orders and passed through to the fire escape. He followed, closing the window behind Momo.
They were just one story up so he picked Fuu up on his back and jumped off while she held on to him for dear life and tried to suppress a scream. Momo jumped down after them and Mugen looked down at him warningly, "Stay quiet or I'm gonna have to shoot you." Mugen turned, satisfied with the attentive look the dog gave him and started to run. Some screams were audible as Mugen ran down an alley to avoid going out through the front, followed by three gunshots.
Fuu got scared and though she knew Mugen would get mad or call her a baby or something she held onto him tightly, ignoring the awkward feeling of his back pack between them, and buried her face in his neck. Surprisingly, Mugen said nothing, he just kept running.
He kept his senses on high alert and followed his instincts to the dot. He stopped for a second feeling an odd sensation overcome him. He ignored her questioning and shushed her. There's two of them, don't forget that.
The alley they were now in connected with another small alley with three dumpsters. There were two cars in the alley, one beat up, the other had been raided and some of its parts had been stolen. There was a screech of tires from a long distance behind them. But not long enough. Shit. He ducked into the connecting alley and set Fuu down between the two furthest dumpsters, tossing his stuff down with her. Four minutes at most.
When he turned his attention back to the girl he was saving he noticed her quite worry. "Don't doubt me now, girlie." With a smirk Mugen turned to Momo and kicked him with Fuu. "Make sure he stays quiet no matter what, you too." She nodded pulling Momo between her legs and keeping her back as far back to the brick wall behind her as she could. "Promise me," He said gruffly taking out his gun again and putting a dagger in his shorts' left side securely, "You won't move or do anything, no matter what happens."
"I promise." She whispered.
Mugen smiled crookedly feeling the adrenaline, Three minutes. "In my backpack there should be an extra, loaded gun. If anything does happen just fix the safety and forget about me, ok?"
At this she seemed to struggle. Mugen glared at her. "I," She thought about how it'd be selfish to not follow his instructions. "Ok."
Two minutes. With that Mugen took off out of the alley and went over to the beat up car for protection, holding his gun steadily. Headlights. He adjusted the safety and smirked ready. Now. His eyes didn't need to see much so he just aimed and fired. The sound of something popping then metal scratching pavement met his ears.
Momo squirmed in Fuu's hold but she held onto him from behind and changed her position so her back was pressed against the corner made by the heavier dumpster to her side so she could have an even better hold of the dog. He looked at her and quieted down when he saw the fear in her eyes.
Mugen took another pull at the trigger of his gun and heard glass shatter and then the car shriek to a stop. Here they come.
Car doors opened and then shut. The man on the driver's side took out a shot gun and shot at Mugen from his hiding spot.
Fuu held Momo's snout gently but firmly to stop him from giving them away. She silently whispered shushes and put her face against the back of his head, trying to calm him down.
Mugen waited as he heard seven shots from a barrel and the shot gun reload and shoot then peered out from his spot and shot a man with brown, slightly red, hair in the leg. He groaned and fell to the ground.
Unfortunately, he was the guy with the shot gun and the other guy, the bald guy from before, had already reloaded his gun and shot at Mugen, grazing his shoulder. Mugen went down and ignored the pain, "Shit," mostly.
Fuu shut her eyes shut in fear as she heard groaning and yelling. She knew it wasn't Mugen, though, so that was somewhat reassuring. Please don't die. She opened her eyes feeling Momo move his head and saw him put his nose against Mugen's backpack. She opened it as quietly as possible, though nothing could probably even be heard over the repetitive gunshots, and pulled out the gun Mugen told her to get.
"Just tell us where she is, kid!" The bald man shouted ducking behind the hood of his car.
Mugen grit his teeth pushing himself up and tried to shoot the man behind the car. "Miles away from your sorry ass by now!"
Fuu peered over the edge of the dumpster and saw the bald man grimace. "Guess I'll just have to settle and kill you."
Mugen narrowed his eyes and moved, ready to shoot again. His opponent did the same.
The gunshots sounded behind her and all Fuu wished was that she could move and do something, anything, to help Mugen. He had done so much for her and during the one time she could help him in some way all she could do was what she did when they first met: hide in an alley behind an old dumpster.
Mugen scowled as just dodged another bullet from the stupid bald idiot he should have shot before. "What does that girl even have to do with you?" The idiot shouted behind the parked car he was using as cover from Mugen's bullets.
"The hell does it matter to you?!" Mugen shouted angered more and more by the man speaking and walked out from his hiding. "If you're holding onto her cause you've slept together you've got pretty bad taste in ass, no way is that scrawny little bitch good in bed."
He chuckled trying to reload his hand gun. Before he could he felt cold metal at his throat though. "Does it seem like I'd be that desperate?" With that he finally killed the bastard.
As Mugen smirked triumphantly the man with red hair began to get up and pointed his shot gun at Mugen from behind.
Fuu's eyes widened and Momo squirmed out of her hold charging forward towards the man just as he pulled the trigger, causing the shell to fly upward. Mugen turned to see what was happening and his eyes widened, glancing over at the alley he left Fuu at and saw that she was still hidden.
"Why you stupid--" The man got ready to shoot the dog but Mugen pushed him away with his hands on the gun and pushed the dog away with his foot. Another shot was fired in the air and Mugen pulled the gun away throwing it to the side with a glare.
The two men glared at each other intensely, both trying to breath but keeping their instincts on high alert for each others' movements. Not a second passed and Mugen swiftly palmed the man in the face, breaking his nose effectively. The man spat some blood out from biting his tongue at the same time and punched Mugen's grazed shoulder causing him to widen his eyes and wince at the impact.
At that moment the man took out his own dagger and Mugen round house kicked him with the most force on the leg he'd previously shot. The man groaned falling to the ground, but as he did so he managed to scratch Mugen from his chest down to his stomach, getting it stuck through his side.
Mugen hugged himself with one arm and moved to kick the man on his forehead. He barely moved out of the way and reached up, grabbing a hold of his groin. He groaned and without a second thought pulled out the dagger and chucked it in the man's chest.
Fuu felt like she could just faint as she watched the last one die. Then she noticed Mugen was swaying, about to fall, and Momo was whining nonstop. "Mugen..." She breathed and pushed herself up off the ground. Taking all their stuff with them out of habit, placing the gun in Mugen's back pack without realizing what she was doing and zipped it up.
When she reached him she dropped the stuff and ducked under his uninjured arm, hoisting him up and steadying him. He turned to her weakly and smirked, "Thought I told you to not move."
She smiled back and wiped the tears she just noticed off of her face. "Idiot."
Mugen laughed, "Yo, mutt," He whistled weakly and Momo walked over to him worried. "Grab our stuff, stupid." He brightened up and barked before going over to their bags and carrying them in his mouth.
"C'mon," Fuu said, her voice cracking slightly. "We gotta get you somewhere away from here before you pass out."
All he did was chuckle and limped by her side, as they tried to hide, again.
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Moody1656: Well there it is. I lost this chapter what? Three times? So I decided I was tired of it and all day today I worked on this. Hope everyone enjoyed it and sorry for the insane wait. Love you all! So without further a due, here comes the preview.
"That's why, right?" she whispered. "When you see me you—"
He grabbed her wrist and glared, "You're not her, I know that." She waited as he looked on at the distance confused, "I mean, at first it was because of her. I know fish face is wrong though, 'cause I ain't doin' this 'cause of her anymore."
Fuu watched him patiently. He looked like he was fighting with himself. She knew she shouldn't be pushing him, but there's no way she could ever bring it back up again and she'd been waiting for answers for so long. Her eyes softened, and she asked as comforting as possible; "Then why?"
Moody1656: Look forward to the next chapter cause I'm planning on posting it soon. So please review! And happy holidays!