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Oneshot 14: Fuu
by AshAnime
"I'm sorry. I'm afraid we're out of wasabi."
Fuu looked over her small scratch of paper and tried not to cringe at the glare she was met with. The women in front of her was not happy, and neither were her friends. It was already hard enough for Fuu to serve them. She felt so self conscience being in their red-lipped, well-endowed, pale beauty presence.
"No wasabi? Exactly what kind of business are you all running here?" glaring women, the ring leader, spat with annoyance. She leaned an elbow on the table, causing her boobs to nearly spill out of her kimono, and scowled. It was at times like this that Fuu finally understood why the crummy shop owner hired her. He was clearly desperate for cheap work.
The man didn't even have a proper supply of wasabi.
"I am truly sorry, ma'am," Fuu bit out, her eyebrow twitching. "Is there anything else you may need? Besides wasabi?"
The women turned to her friends, asking them with her eyes, and they all shook their heads. "No, we're good. Besides, you might not have it." Then the group was cackling through their painted lips, paying no further attention to the girl who stomped away.
"Ugh! Can't this day be over already?!" Fuu huffed under her breath. She shuffled through the curtain separating the kitchen from the rest of the shop and efficiently pinned the small scrap of paper unto a length of string that hung from the ceiling.
"Working hard Fuu?"
The young girl turned on her feet to see Mr. Crummy, as she liked to call the shop owner, walking through the dingy curtain. He gave her a lecherous grin, only to be met by a pinched expression, and promptly directed his attention to her small scrap of paper.
"Ah! The regulars!" he chirped, his acidic breath hitting Fuu's nose in waves. "Them women sure are a tough bunch to handle! Treat them right, Fuu. Without them we'd be closed down by now." Mr. Crummy chuckled a wet cough and turned his attention towards the haggard cooks.
Fuu had a soft spot for Goro and Hana. They both worked very hard and often slipped her extra dumplings whenever they could.
"Pick up the pace!" Mr. Crummy spat, placing his hands behind his back like some wealthy business man. "Don't keep the customers waiting!"
Goro and Hana wiped the sweat from their brow and bowed humbly. "Yes sir!"
Fuu gave them a sad smiled before scurrying out of the hot kitchen.
She was just dreading the fact that she had an hour more of work to fulfill, when she spotted a head full of unkempt hair seated at the table next to the cackling foursome.
"Mugen?!" his name flew out of her mouth, hitting the mangy pirate as his head jerked in her direction. The idiot still had drool hanging out of the side of his mouth. It was no secret just what table he had set his eyes on. "What are you doing here?"
Mugen wiped the corner of his mouth and smirked as Fuu made her way towards him. "Came to pick you up," he answered. "It aint safe for an annoying loud-mouth like you to be walking home alone at night."
Fuu rolled her eyes and took a seat across from him. "Why are you really here?"
Mugen subconsciously looked towards the table of four and grinned suggestively. "Heard you guys had a great menu."
"Ugh! Stop being such a pervert!" the young waitress reprimanded, reaching over and punching Mugen in his arm. He rubbed it and glared at her as if she had done some real damage.
"You're just mad you aint got what they got."
"Excuse me?"
Mugen's smirk returned. "You know? Cherry red lips and a big set of boobs."
Fuu's face turned scarlet, but before she could bang on him some more, Mugen's attention was being summoned.
"Hey you! Over there! Come on over here and join us!" The ring leader called, her glare from earlier completely gone. She now wore a flirtatious smile that was sure to get every guy's attention.
"Yeah!" her long-haired friend spoke up. "Ditch the kid and come see what a real women's worth!"
Fuu's mouth gaped in anger and embarrassment. If those witches weren't her customers she would have told them a thing or two. To make matters worse, Mugen was actually getting up and walking over there.
"Where do you think you're going?!" she cried, not so sure why she was so surprised.
Mugen shrugged. "You don't get off for another hour, right?"
Fuu nodded her head, glaring.
"Then I'll entertain myself 'till your ready."
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Fuu poured the last of the sake into the giggling women's cup and shook it, showing the annoying drunks that there was no more left.
"Keiko, your kimono," the long haired girl hiccuped, pointing to the ring leader's revealing attire. Her bust was barley covered now. Fuu noticed Mugen's reaching hands and promptly stepped on his foot.
Hard.
"Ow!" the pirate grumbled, rubbing his foot. "What was that for?!"
Fuu simply glared at him.
"Thanks Mio," Keiko slurred, sloppily fixing her clothing, "I hadn't even noticed."
One of the others yawned into her hand and sighed. "I'm tired, maybe we should start heading home?"
Fuu inwardly shouted that that was a wonderful idea. Sure she had another ten minutes of work time, but she didn't want to spend it waiting on these buffoons. All they did was order her around and annoy her with degrading comments.
Keiko, Mio, Mugen and some other women Fuu had yet to learn the name of, laughed. "What's wrong Takara? Can't hold your liquor?" Keiko giggled, causing everyone to burst into another bout of laughter.
Takara huffed and pretended not to hear them.
"So little miss waitress… how do you and the rogue know each other?" the girl who Fuu still didn't know the name of asked. So far Fuu had been calling her Mole Lady because of the black speck above her lip.
"Yuuko don't waste you're time on the girl," Keiko reprimanded.
Oh, Mole Lady had a name.
"I'm not wasting my time," Yuuko drawled, cup of sake in hand. "I'm asking a question."
"He helped me," Fuu spoke up, before Keiko could open her plump lips.
Mugen's bloodshot eyes looked up at her as she continued to talk.
"He helped me find someone and we've been… traveling ever since."
Despite the liquor, Keiko sat up a little straighter in her seat. "You're just traveling companions?"
Fuu briefly glanced down at Mugen, who was studying her in a way she wasn't quite used to. "Yes," she answered bluntly. "We're traveling companions."
Keiko raised an eyebrow, an intrigued smirk on her lips. "Nothing more?"
Fuu swallowed. Why did it suddenly feel so hot? "Nothing more."
"I want him first!" Mio suddenly bellowed, startling Fuu.
Keiko glared at her friend. "I called him over!"
Mio growled. "So did I!"
As the two girls argued Yuuko and Takara simply shook their heads at each other and shrugged.
Fuu was sure Mugen would have his eyes set on the fight going on. After all it was about him! But instead the Ryukyu's red rimmed eyes were set on her and her alone. She felt like her whole skin was crawling.
"Fuu-"
"My shifts over," she cut him off. "I'll go put away my apron and head home."
She quickly turned on her feet and didn't make it far before hearing, "Meet you outside."
She kept walking though. There was no way that was Mugen. Mugen had two girls fighting over him. Two girl who would gladly sleep with him, maybe even take turns. He didn't have to pay for a brothel and his liquor intake was already taken care of.
There was no way he was waiting for her.
Sighing, Fuu headed for the back kitchen, untying her apron as she went. Pulling back the dirty cloth, she nodded at Goro and Hana who were cleaning up, before placing her apron neatly on a hook in the far corner.
Her shoulders always felt a little lighter after doing so.
"Fuu?!" someone called, followed by a set of gurgling coughs. It didn't take much for Fuu to recognize her boss's voice. Huffing in annoyance, she headed farther back where his 'office' was located and parted the filthy curtain leading inside.
Mr. Crummy sat on a crate behind a giant slab of wood, which he stupidly called a desk. He had a mangled piesho set atop it. It was what he did every day. Instead of actually doing work he played piesho.
With himself.
Mr. Crummy looked up from his 'intense' game and smiled. That slow and creepy smile that always caused a shiver to run down Fuu's spine.
"What did you want Mr. Kurosawa?" she asked as humbly as possible. There was no way she could use the nickname she had given him in her mind. Unless she wanted to get fired.
Kurosawa's grin grew as he stood from his seat and made his way around the crudely made desk. The unease in Fuu's stomach grew. "Oh I just wanted to voice my appreciation Fuu. Without you this place would be mess right about now. I'm sorry you had to handle those nasty women today."
Fuu was taken back. "Thank you?"
Kurosawa nodded, his smile never wavering. "You're very welcome. A hard worker is exactly what I needed this year. Now… how should I repay you?"
Fuu was already shaking her head. "No Mr. Kurosawa, it's fine. You pay me enough."
The greasy old man took a few more steps towards Fuu. "Oh come on. There's got to be something you want…"
Fuu shook her head again. Of course there were things she wanted. There were plenty! But Mr. Crummy and his dirty shop couldn't give her any of them. These days she was beginning to think that no one could.
"Are you sure?" Mr. Kurosawa was awfully close now. Fuu could smell the raw onions on his breath. "I don't have much money, but I've got plenty more to offer."
It wasn't until his grimy hands were reaching for her leg that Fuu realized what was going on. Her eyes widened as she slapped his hand away and stepped closer towards the doorway.
"What are you doing?" she demanded, giving him a wary glare.
The crummy shop owner wheezed a nasty couch and lunged forward faster then Fuu thought was possible. Was this really the same man that shuffled through the shop like a slug? "What does it look like I'm doing?" he chuckled, his grip on Fuu's arm tightening as he backed her up against a wall.
"Let me go!" Fuu spat, struggling against his iron grip. Mr. Kurosawa may have seemed frail before, but the strength he was showing now told a completely different story.
"Did a lot of street fighting in my youth," was all he had to offer as an explanation.
"I said let me go!" Fuu cried, scratching her nails across his leathery skin.
"Shut up!" A slap crashed across her face, stunning her. "Shut up or you're fired! This is the only job you'll find around her missy so I'd shut up if I were you!"
"Let me go," Fuu whispered, her cheek pounding with pain. Was that blood she tasted?
"I'm afraid I can't do that," Kurosawa breathed, his hot breath causing her nose to wrinkle. "It's been a while since I had such young flesh beneath my touch."
Fuu swallowed a whimper as the old man's hand slid underneath her kimono and caressed her trembling legs. His beady eyes gleamed with lust as he retracted the hand and began shrugging the fabric off her shoulders.
"My samurai is out there!" she warned, voice frantic. "He'll-"
"What? Kill me? I saw this so called samurai and he definitely aint the type. All he's worried about are the big breasted whores surrounding him. The idiot doesn't even appreciate such innocence right under his nose," Kurosawa leered, tightening his hold on Fuu's wrists.
Fuu felt a tear spill over her eyelids.
"He'll come."
"We'll see about that."
"Get the fuck away from her."
Kurosawa stiffened and Fuu couldn't stop the slow smile that graced her quivering lips.
Mugen.
Stupid, reckless and very-much-drunk Mugen was standing behind Mr. Kurosawa with bloodlust in his eyes. Mugen's sword was raised to the old man's back and Fuu wondered how he knew to come…
And why was he here?
Didn't he have two, beautiful women to tend to?
"You heard me you old piece of shit!" Mugen spat, pressing his sword further into the man's back. "Let her fucking go!"
Mugen couldn't see Kurosawa's face, but Fuu could. At the moment it held an overconfident smirk. "Why should I?" he brashly retorted "Who said you're the only one who gets to have all the fun?"
Mugen leaned his head back, his dark eyes catching the light of the lantern in the room. He was pissed, but also enjoying himself. "So you aint letting go is what you're saying?"
Kurosawa's smirk widened as he turned his head slightly and nodded.
"Sucks for you."
The scream was in Fuu's throat but it never reached the surface as the head that was just nodding rolled off it's shoulders and tumbled to the ground. Immediately the pressure around her wrists loosened and she stumbled out of the way before the body could fall on her.
"Mu-"
"Let's go."
Fuu nodded, her heart hammering in her throat as she shakily followed Mugen out of the now empty shop. Her head was spinning and to a stranger she probably looked like the drunk one. Outside the moon hung full and bright over head, and for a second it just felt like the end of a normal workday.
"You done shittin' yourself yet?"
Fuu snapped her doe brown eyes towards Mugen and fought the urge to throttle him. She just witnessed the decapitation of her boss mere inches from her face and that was all he had to say?
"What happened to Keiko and Mio?" she mumbled, refusing to answer his ridiculous question.
Mugen shrugged. "Who knows? I came out here waiting for your slow ass and decided to see what the hell was taking so long…"
Fuu's brows crinkled, the soft light outside the shop outlining Mugen's features. "You waited for me?"
"You deaf now? I said I would."
Fuu quieted, not sure exactly how to respond to such a statement.
"Ready?"
She nodded, and the two started walking down the dark and lonely street.
Well, this night it wasn't so lonely.
"Jin's going to get a kick out of this," Mugen muttered, hands behind his head as he leisurely walked.
"Please don't tell him," Fuu whispered, staring up at the moon. "I don't want him to-"
"Know you nearly got raped? Sure."
"Mugen…"
"It is what it is," the pirate grumbled, an edge returning to his voice. "You got the red cheek to prove it. The bastard nearly raped you."
"Can we just stop talking about it now?"
Another fit of silence.
"You could have left with them you know?" Fuu said, glancing wearily at the vagabond walking next to her. "You didn't have to stay. You could have left but…"
"But what?"
"You didn't."
Mugen snorted and shrugged his shoulders.
"Mugen?"
"Yeah?"
They were in front of the inn now. The one they were staying in until Jin's friend was ready to take them in. He had a wife and kids to worry about and needed time to make room.
"Those girls…" Fuu started, not exactly sure how to word her thoughts. "They were right weren't they?"
"About what?" Mugen asked, staring up at the stars with a slightly bored expression.
"I'm just a girl," she found herself whispering. "I'm not a women like them. I don't have a big set of hooters and cherry red lips. I don't know how to flirt and smile pretty. My skin isn't perfect, thanks to all this traveling. I'm just…"
"Fuu."
The young girl looked up at Mugen in surprise.
"You're just Fuu," he reiterated, stretching his arms and lowering them to his sides. "Who cares if you aint got all that shit. All those bitches know about is flirting, drinking and how to get a man in their bed. They've never traveled or been outside of this dumb-ass town."
Fuu closed her gaping mouth, marveling at what must be a rare compliment from Mugen.
"They told me themselves that they wished they could travel," he finished, looking towards the inn's front doors. This unnaturally civil conversation between them was obviously making him nervous.
"Really?"
"Yup."
Fuu smiled softly to herself. "Thanks Mugen."
"Whatever."
Before he could slip inside she deftly grabbed his arm and reached up to press a quick kiss on his cheek. Quickly, she slid by him, taking this moment of shock to escape. Mugen probably didn't like flat-chest, annoying teenage girls kissing him unexpectedly.
But before Fuu could reach the doors an arm was grabbing her waist and spinning her around. For a second she had a horrible memory of a grubby old man pinning her wrists down, but the fear evaporated when she came face to face with Mugen. They were so close their noses brushed.
"Mu-?"
His mouth came down on her so hard, she wondered if she had gotten enough breath in. Fuu had experienced a few pecks and kisses from boys over the years but never anything like this. She felt inexperienced and small as Mugen's long fingers caressed her sore cheek, bringing her closer. All of her senses were completely overwhelmed by him in that instant and she didn't know why she hadn't done this sooner.
"Bet those bitches wish they were you now," Mugen snickered, his voice ragged as he pulled away from Fuu's swollen lips.
The samurai's daughter simply stared at him with shocked, innocent eyes.
"Quit staring at me like that, girly…" Mugen kissed her again and pulled away, heading for the inn's front doors.
"…and get used to it!"
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