Taking Care of You
By the Alternative Source
Disclaimer: I don't own anything when it comes to Samurai Champloo. Except my story of course. Lol.
Summary: Fuu gets seriously injured when she saves Mugen during an attack.
Chapter 2
"MUGEN!!"
Mugen immediately sprung to his feet and had his sword out in front of him in a defensive stance. He had been sleeping peacefully when someone had yelled his name and woke him up.
'I'm gonna kick someone's ass.'
Looking around he saw that Jin was still asleep against the cave wall. You could barely make out his form because the fire had died down. Straining his eyes he looked for the annoying girl. His anger disappeared as he pieced things together.
'Fuu's not here. She must be the one who called out my name.'
Mugen ran out of the cave but before he exited the cave he yelled at Jin, "Wake up you idiot. Fuu's missing." Jin immediately woke up and sprung to his feet in surprise before he realized that the person that had wakened him up was already out of the cave. Jin unsheathed his sword and followed Mugen.
In less time than it took for Fuu to get to the river bank Mugen arrived at the battle scene. In a matter of seconds he processed everything that was happening before him before he sprung to action. Fuu was standing on the side of the river bank 20 feet away from a man. Both of them were panting and both of them look tired.
The only thing that set the scene wrong was that both of them were bleeding and looked hurt. The man had a lecherous look on his face even though he was slashed and bleeding on his legs and torso. But Fuu looked a little worse. She also had a couple slashes on her legs and torso but she also had a long slash down her back.
And Fuu…she was standing there looking weary but determined. He had never seen the look on her face. She was determined to take this man down. He had threatened her life and now she was reacting in the most feral way. She was reacting with her sword, which was now in her right hand by her side drenched in the man's blood.
'This man had hurt Fuu and he would pay.'
"FUU!!"
Fuu turned her eyes towards Mugen momentarily. A smile spread over her lips.
"Mugen. I was out here and this man came to me. He wouldn't leave me alone," Fuu stopped as her breathe came in short pants, "What kind of body guards are you guys anyway?" she questioned and Mugen watched as her knees gave away and she started to fall.
Before she hit the ground Mugen caught her in his arms. He felt her pulse. It was faint. He looked at her face and saw that her eyes were still open and were looking up at him.
"Don't worry girly. I'm here to guard your ass."
Mugen looked up from the girl in his arms and saw that Jin was standing in front of them. He couldn't see Jin's face but he could tell from his rigid stance that Jin was pissed. His right hand held his sword and he was ready to take down the man.
Mugen placed the Fuu down on the ground and stood next to Jin ready to kick the man's ass.
"Ohhh, look at this. The cute little girl has body guards," the man grinned as he moved side to side and slurred his words slightly. He had the same style of clothing as Jin except they were completely black and the edges of the clothes had white trimmings. His face was covered in his own blood from a cut on his forehead. His short black hair was matted on his head from sweat, dirt, and blood.
Mugen looked back at Fuu in surprise. Fuu had kicked this guy's ass. Now he was happy to have taught her how to fight. Jin and he had always been there to protect her when she got in trouble so they had never seen her take care of herself.
'Shit girly. If she knew how to take care of herself when she threatened to kick my ass now I can believe that she will do it.'
Jin took a step forward to be the first to attack but Mugen beat him to it and was instantly on top of the man. The man blocked Mugen's first attack but couldn't block Mugen's second attack and was knocked a couple of yards away. Mugen never stopped his attack as he kept on coming towards the man stronger and stronger with each attack.
Jin stood there and watched in question as Mugen viciously attacked the man. He had never seen Mugen attack with such passion. Jin turned and looked at Fuu and back at Mugen. Mugen was protecting Fuu. He was protecting her and he was mad.
Jin reacted quickly as he felt another person come behind him and attack him with his sword. Jin repelled the man's attack and slashed the attacker's waist. The man backed away and held his stomach while looking up at Jin.
"Well, look here. Two young men with a little girl in the woods? I see my brother has already injured one of your own," the man looked behind himself and looked at Fuu who was picking herself up from the ground with some difficulty.
"Who you calling a little girl? Have you taken a look at your brother. I can say that I kicked his ass didn't I?" Fuu looked back at the man that first attacked her and saw that Mugen had knocked the man down and now was alternating between using his sword and just beating the shit out of him with his fists. With two more punches the man was down on the ground and Mugen held a smug look on his.
"That'll teach you to attack a defenseless girl," Mugen kicked the man one more time in the side.
"Hey who you calling a defenseless girl?!" Fuu yelled with her hands on her hips. Mugen smirked. Even hurt and bleeding she still wanted to pick a fight.
"What have you done you insolent idiot?" the other man yelled at Mugen as Mugen walked closer to Jin.
"Looks like I kicked your brother's ass. Whiney little bitch if you ask me. All he gave me was a bruised cheek and a slice threw my shirt," Mugen replied in disdain as he held his sliced shirt in one hand.
Mugen and Jin stood in front of the man that was blocking their way to Fuu. The man smirked as he realized what he had. He turned and looked at Fuu and then looked back at Mugen and Jin.
In a matter of seconds he placed his hand in front of his face and blew a white powder in Mugen and Jin's face.
Both men backed away slightly as the powder stung their eyes. When both men opened their eyes they could barely see. The powder had somehow created an after effect and all they could see was white.
"How do you like that?" the man smirked and kicked the disoriented Mugen and Jin. They both landed on their knees. The powder was making it harder for them to breathe.
Fuu picked up the sword from the ground beside her and watched as her two guards were losing consciousness. She would not them get hurt.
The man raised his sword. He was going to kill these two insolent men from messing with his brothers' fun. First he was going to start with the ill mannered man who had beat his brother up. His sword slashed down in a killing blow.
But when he looked down it wasn't the two men's blood that was seeping down the blade of his sword. It was the woman's blood.
Fuu had seen the man's moves and with her slow and tired body responses she swung herself in front of Mugen. It was a hard task but she managed to slide her sword threw the man's chest effectively killing him. The man's body weigh shift and fell backwards.
Fuu touched her shoulder and withdrew the sword that had gone cleanly through her shoulder. The man would have killed Mugen if it wasn't for her. Fuu's breathing was becoming harder and harder as she lost more blood. She looked over at Mugen and Jin and saw that they both were still wheezing and were now on the ground not moving.
Painfully and slowly Fuu moved towards the man she had just killed and began to search his pockets and clothes.
'He has to have some sort of antidote.'
Her hand grasped a little green flask that ironically said, "Antidote."
'We've got some luck.'
She walked back over to Mugen and Jin and sat in between them. She turned to Mugen and pulled his head back and his mouth open. She carefully poured the antidote and coaxed Mugen to swallow it.
"Mugen please," his head turned towards her. He still couldn't breathe, "Please."
Just the pleading sound of her voice made Mugen swallow the antidote. He started coughing and his eye sight started clearing immediately and his breathing was coming back to normal.
Fuu turned over to Jin and poured the antidote into his mouth. Unlike Mugen he held complete confidence in her and swallowed it without hesitation. His eye sight and breathing started clearing immediately.
Fuu sat there and watched as Mugen and Jin slowly got up. Her eye sight was becoming foggy and the pain was dulling down. She placed her hand on her shoulder and brought it back to her face. It was drenched in blood.
"Mugen."
He turned to Fuu and immediately saw the damage that was inflicted on Fuu. He looked away from her for a second and saw the bloody and dead body of one of the attackers.
'She had saved him.'
"Fuu," he moved over to sit in front of Fuu and pulled the kimono away from her shoulder to examine her wound. The sword had cleanly gone through her shoulder and she was bleeding profusely. He placed his hand against her wound and tried to stop the bleeding.
Her body started sagging and her eyes started closing.
Mugen held her up with his other arm and slightly shook her.
"Fuu listen to me. You can't fall asleep."
"I'm so tired Mugen," Fuu could feel herself fading away. She opened her eyes again as she heard Mugen speak to her.
"Come on girl. Stay up," his voice held something different. He was actually concerned and worried about her.
A small smirk graced her face as she finally felt sleep over take her, "Oh, Mugen. I didn't know you cared."
Mugen shook her, "Fuu!" When she didn't respond he shook her again and shouted her name trying to wake her up.
"Fuu!!"
End of Chapter 2
Author's Note: OH, NO!! What has happened to Fuu? She's injured!! Until the next chapter!!
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