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 4
Fuu groaned and opened her eyes, "Did I fall asleep again?"
"Hell yeah. You fell asleep. For two days now." Fuu turned her head and saw that Mugen was sitting to her left on his futon. He had been watching her. She could tell.
"Two days?"
"Yeah, I was wondering when you would wake up and start taking care of your own damn self."
Fuu narrowed her eyes and looked at Mugen. She had decided that she would be nice to him but he was pushing his luck, "Well I'm awake so it's no problem. Go and I'll just handle this by myself."
Mugen grunted as he watched her use her right arm to lift herself up. He couldn't see her like struggling to get up with one arm so leaned forward and pulled her up into a sitting position. When she was property situated he sat back down on his futon. Fuu gave him a questioning look but he just turned his head away and looked at the shoji doors.
He had just denied that he wanted to take care of her and there he was helping her up. Mugen was acting weird and he was actually being nice to her. In the only way that Mugen knew how to be nice of course.
'Let me not push him.'
Fuu looked away from Mugen and looked down at herself. The blanket that was covering her, was now by her waist. She had a very thin robe on that covered her body. Blushing she opened it up and looked down and gasped. Her body was covered in bandages.
When Mugen heard her gasp he turned quickly in worry. He calmed down when he saw that she was just examining her wounds. She had finally realized how bad it was.
Fuu looked over to Mugen, "Can you please remove the blanket. I want to see."
With one hand Mugen pulled the blanket completely off of her. Tears welled up in her eyes as she saw that her legs were also wrapped in bandages. They weren't as bad as her torso but she could tell that she would be a little stiff when she finally started moving about.
"Trust me there not as bad as they look." Mugen whispered as he covered her up again with the blanket and stood up and walked to the shoji doors. He couldn't look at her right now. It hurt him a little too much. With his back turned to her he walked to the shoji doors and slid them open.
Her voice sounded strange and strained as she asked him where he was going. She didn't really want to be alone.
"Don't worry chickie. I'm just gonna get us some food."
"Ok, well…..hurry back."
And he was out of the room without a reply.
As soon as Mugen got out of the room he made his way down the hallway and exited the building. He really needed to get out of there. He couldn't handle being in the same room with her. He had cared for her before but to what extent he wasn't sure.
One thing that he was sure about was that something had changed. The moment that he saw her hurt and he couldn't stop her bleeding had made him realize that he was afraid to lose her.
Mugen reached the food stand down the street and ordered some food for himself and Fuu. With a nod the attendant told him that his food would be done in a few minutes.
'Shit. I even know what the hell she eats. This girl is driving me crazy.'
And that was the truth. Fuu was driving him crazy. And in a way that he never thought before. He couldn't understand how a petite brunette could make him want to protect her so bad and annoy the hell out of her at the same time.
"Damn Fuu."
He snapped out of his thoughts as the attendant told him that his food was done. Paying for his food he made his way back to Fuu.
'Fuu.'
"Shit. I can't get that girl out of my head."
He had never dealt with something like this. He had never had someone take so many wounds for him. Mugen knew what Fuu had done for him. He had felt the on-coming doom as the man in the forest blinded him in the face with some sort of strange powder.
But before he knew what was happening he felt someone press something to his lips. At first he was hesitant until he heard Fuu's voice. After he had drunk the antidote his vision started clearing and he was surprised to see the condition that Fuu was in. When he saw the new wound on her shoulder he realized that she had taken a hit for him. She had taken the killing blow.
No one had ever done that for him.
As he reached the inn that they were staying in he thought about what he was going to do. When he was right outside of their room door he stopped and thought about Fuu. Things were changing between them. He knew it and she knew it.
Setting the food in one hand he used his other hand to open the shoji door to their room.
'Let's see where this thing leads us.'
Her eyes met his as he entered the room.
"That was quick," Fuu said with a smile, "When you left you didn't even give me a chance to tell you what I wanted."
Pushing his futon away from Fuu's he sat down in on the floor, "Here. I ordered something for you."
He placed a small bag on her lap and watched her give him a sly smile, "And how would you know if I'll like it?"
Opening his bag he pulled out his food and started gobbling down his food. With his mouth full of food he replied, "Because after seven years of watching you stuff your face I learned what you liked to order."
"I do not stuff my face."
"Yeah, you do."
"Whatever." Fuu turned her head away from Mugen in annoyance.
"Just eat," he said more gently before he started eating again. Fuu looked at him and then at the food down in her lap. She was a little stiff but she managed to pull her right hand up and open the bag. With a little difficulty she realized that this was going to take forever.
Steadily she brought the food to her mouth but right before it made its destination it fell out of her hands and fell on her lap. With a yelp she tried to get the steaming hot piece of food of her lap with her right arm.
Before it burned her she saw a hand pluck the piece of food off of her lap. Looking up she met the amused face of Mugen.
"You can't even feed yourself."
"Well, it's kind of difficult with one arm."
Guilt grew in him as he saw that she had a point. She had injured herself for him and now she wasn't even able to feed herself without making a mess. Taking the bag away from her he took some of her food and placed it right in front of her mouth.
To say Fuu was surprised was an understatement. Mugen was actually feeding her. Opening her mouth he slipped the food into her mouth. After chewing a little her face brightened.
"You did know what I wanted," she said as he feed her another piece of food.
"Don't get used to this treatment."
"I know. I know. But…"
"Yeah?"
"Thank you Mugen," they both stopped as those words slipped from her mouth. Fuu had thanked him before for saving her ass many times but this time it was different. She was thanking him for taking care of her. Fuu didn't exactly say it but they both knew what she was thanking him for.
"You're welcome," Mugen replied in a daze. Fuu was looking at him with such love and thanks in her eyes that he didn't know how to react. So he just said you're welcome and sat there like an idiot with a piece of food dangling from his chop sticks in her face.
She broke the daze by smirked slightly before saying, "Well come on." She opened her mouth again.
"Bitch," he grunted as he fed her.
"Jerk," she replied with a mouth full of food.
They sat there for 15 minutes. Mugen eating with one hand and feeding her with another. When they were done he actually leaned towards her. Fuu's eyes widened and she backed away a little at the closeness but was relieved when he just wiped her mouth clean.
"You know I could get used to this?"
"Well….I'm glad you're enjoying this because I sure as hell ain't."
"Sure……..," she gave him a skeptical look, "So where's Jin?"
Mugen cleaned up the mess that they made before pushing his futon back to its original spot, right next to her. He plopped down on his futon before replying, "He's gone for a couple of days."
"Doing what?"
"There's some medicine two towns away that will help heal your shoulder wound quicker. He went to get it."
"So I have to spend a couple days with you."
"Yeah. That's gonna be fun."
"You're such a jerk," Fuu said with a smile on her face even though he didn't see it because he was lying on his futon staring at the ceiling.
"That's part of the package," and then as if it was an after-thought and an automatic reaction and with a smirk on his face he said, "Bitch."
To be continued….
Author's Note: OHHHH. I hope you guys liked it. I decided to do something light for this chapter and it came out exactly like I pictured it would. Remember review, review, review.
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