Samurai Champloo Fan Fiction ❯ Reflections ❯ Reflections: Mugen's POV ( Chapter 1 )

Disclaimer: How many times must I tell you that I do not own Samurai Champloo. I do own a set of fake samurai swords though.

 

Reflections: Mugen's POV

 

“If you must know, I've been up to no good my entire life.”

 

 

My goals in life used to be so simple: be the biggest bad-ass that ever lived and screw the biggest tits that I could find. Somewhere along the way I got sidetracked. Somewhere along the way I met the biggest pain in the ass in all of Japan. That same somewhere along the way I met Mr. No-Personality. I don't know how the fuck it happened but I have a feeling I was tricked into joining them.

 

I should've killed him when I had the chance. All this time, I've fought to be the best. I've killed everyone who just seemed tougher than me. But now, goddamn it, I don't even wanna kill him. What's wrong with me? Shit I'm even starting to feel bad about killing that Sara chick.

 

It's all her fault. She has too much goodness in her heart to be hanging around a guy like me. Fucking Fuu, and she doesn't even care about all the bad shit I've done. I guess that's why I've stuck around for so long. Everyone else only sees the badness in me, she can somehow see past it, past the rot to see what's good. And now she's got herself kidnapped again.

 

Those pricks have no idea who they're fucking with.

 

A few months ago I couldn't give a rat's ass what happened to her. What's a damn promise to a fuckin pirate? I started this stupid quest cause I thought I'd get fed regularly. Hah! That didn't even happen! I didn't understand it back then, what had stopped me from slitting her throat. I guess I know now, after last night, I won't ever forget.

 

I saw them, together by the riverbank. I saw her bury her face in his hakama. I felt something snap inside me and the same fire that used to flare up during a fight was banked by a new fire. Hotter, fiercer. I stayed in my sleeping roll cause I wanted to see what would happen next. I didn't even realize I had one hand on my sword.

 

After a few seconds they pulled away from each other. Jin walked over to me and sat down near his own roll. “Go to her.” He said in his damn quiet voice. I was confused up the ass. “Don't say I never did anything for you.” he says. What the fuck?

 

I don't know why I did it, damned if I ever did anything anyone ever told me to do. But I got off my ass and walked over to her. My palms were sweating and I walked slowly. Don't know what I was so fucking nervous about, it wasn't like she could hurt me. But I guess I knew that was bullshit. She'd hurt me when she hugged him. Fucking bitch, she was crying.

 

“What's with the crying and shit?” Why the hell did I say that? Obviously he'd rejected her. So it surprised me when she said what she said. “I guess it's cuz I don't want you to leave after tomorrow.” This was getting weird. I wanted to tell her that I would never leave her. But I knew that it was a promise I couldn't keep. “Pirate” remember. So I did what any other confused ass pirate would do: I kissed her.

 

She kissed me back. SHE KISSED ME BACK! Holy hell. What's going on here? I heard her say my name softly. I don't think she even realized that she said it. I had it all wrong. She was crying cause of me. Lot's of people've cried cause of me, but I suspect the reasons were different. Jin hadn't rejected her, she was scared that I would. I'm an idiot.

 

I was surprised by the kiss. I was even more surprised at how good she tasted. Not like the whores I've been with. Lifeless dolls who'd had their brains fucked out by the time I'd got to them. They tasted like every other dick they'd had in their mouths. It was a wonder I could ever get it up. But hey, persevere right?

 

Fuu was different. She was sweet and sour. Fire and ice just like her personality. It drove me fucking nuts. For once in my miserable existence, I wanted to please a woman. Not just any woman. I wanted to please Fuu. Ruin her for any other man out there. Of everything we'd been through; this, this was the greatest adventure. This was the thing I'd remember always.

 

When we were done I couldn't do much more than pull her closer and bury my face in her soft brown hair. I inhaled her scent. Fresh, like the woods we spent so damn much time in. I'll never again sleep in the woods without thinking about her. About this night.

 

In one stinkin night she'd changed me. Some people say falling in love makes a man weak. BULLSHIT. I'd never felt stronger even though I was too exhausted to raise a sword. She gave me strength, she gave me a reason for my existence. She gave me something no one else had seen fit to give me. And she did it without even trying. Goddamn.

 

Falling in love with her was so effortless. I fell asleep with her in my arms as though that's where she'd always been.

 

Why the fuck she'd tricked us to go see this smelly dude on her own's beyond me. But it wasn't like she could get in trouble on that tiny island right? Yeah fuckin right!

 

Jin and me were sitting on the shore looking at Ikitsuke Island eating the castela cakes she'd bought. We avoided talking about the favor he'd done me. Instead we talked about the baseball game we'd won a few weeks back.

 

Those Yankee bastards thought they could come here and jack us around. Fuck that. We kicked their asses back to that shitty place they came from. Wherever that was. I don't know where Yankee is. And who gives a damn anyway, they can't even win at their own games. Stupid shits. Jin was squashed flat by the fat ass catcher and couldn't finish the game. He told me that if he hadn't been paralyzed, he would've killed the guy.

 

Jin's an alright guy. I couldn't stand him at first. Couldn't wait to kill him. Now it's like we're brothers in arms. Fuu did that too. She pushed us into this friendship. I don't mind so much now. And I know that if I ever hurt her Jin would kill me and goddamn it I'd let him do it. Things got a little uncomfortable so we changed the subject to the time I learned to read. . .

 

I was eating the last cake when this dude walked up. Assassin. That was one tough sonuvabitch. It was like trying to fight smoke. One second her was there and the next he was gone. Jin was fighting him when the gimp showed up saying that Fuu'd been kidnapped on the damn island. FUCK! She couldn't stay out of trouble if I locked her in a freakin closet.

 

Shit now what? Should I stay there and help Jin. Or should I go save Fuu. When Jin said “take care of Fuu” I didn't bother arguing. We both knew. I had to get to her. I couldn't lose her now. No matter what, she was more important than my pride.

 

The gimp seemed familiar somehow. And he seemed interested only in me. I guess it's someone from my past. I'll never forgive myself if I don't get there in time.

 

I can't believe the situation I'm in. In a boat on the way to save the chick I love. On the way to kill the dumbass crazy enough to steal her from me. A year ago, if you told me that this was where I'd end up, I would have sliced you head off. Now, I might buy you a drink. It's a crazy world.

 

Cause somewhere along the way I realized being a big badass wasn't all that important. Life's about being with people who care about you. It's about Fuu and Jin, but mostly about Fuu. Somewhere along the way, I guess I found myself.

 

But first. . . heads are gonna roll.