Running Together

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Title: Running Together
Author: browneyedmami
Fandom: Samurai Champloo
Characters/Pairings: Mugen/Fuu, mention of Jin
Summary: Two years after they separate at that road, Mugen settles in a tea shop and tries to run away without paying. But who is running after him?
Notes: Written for my Christmas exchange 2009 for furousha


It had been nearly two years since I walked away from them. Two years since I heard his loud voice. A part of me wishes I hadn’t walked away. Wishes I would have turned around and followed him. But I knew better. We each had our own lives to live, and while we were part of each other’s lives for a short while, perhaps it wasn’t meant to be.
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I decided to take a break from all the fighting I’d been doing and settled myself into one of the local tea shops. Sitting in there reminded me of my first meeting with her. Stupid girly, always invading my mind. I wanted her to be with me, but I knew I wasn’t right for her. Maybe Jin would find her again someday. I sipped my tea, and was about to wander out of the place. I was already out the door, when some girl hollered after me about not paying my tab. I laughed and started running. I looked behind me only to see the bitch running after me!

“Hey! I don’t give hand outs!” she shouted.

“Damn bitch!” I shouted back. Before I knew it, she was in front of me. And instead of some dumb chick in front of me, I saw her face. The sunflower girl that had been on my mind since that day.

“I told you I don’t give hand outs. You should have listened” she said with a smirk on her face. She held out her hand. I was ready to run again, but she used my name

“Mugen”

I had to stop then. I looked at her, I mean really looked at her and wondered how the hell she had gotten so hot in just over a year! I smiled at her, my perverted grin spreading across my face.

Without another word, I pinned her to the wall behind us, ready to kiss her. I was almost successful when she suddenly had me turned around and pinned to the wall myself. She smirked at me and said

“I picked up a trick or two from you all. Don’t think you can fool me”

With that, she descended her lips on to mine, and I couldn’t stop. My hands started to roam her body and I knew things were going to go further if we didn’t stop. She broke away and said

“Mugen, we have to stop. I get off in just another hour. Meet me behind the shop at that time”

I said nothing else, and watched her run from me, yet again. I went to meet her that night, much to my own surprise. I said all the right things to her, I laid her down in her bed, and we made love. When the morning came, I knew I had to leave. I was ready to go, when I saw her blocking the door with a small bag at her feet.

“I’m not letting you run from me again. If you’re leaving, I’m leaving too.”

“Stupid girly, you know I ain’t good for ya. Go find Jin or some other smart dude to marry you.”

She threw one of her shoes at my head and shouted back at me

“Stupid! Jin is with Shino, and she’s probably pregnant by now! I don’t want Jin, and I don’t want some other man. I know we won’t have all the best things, and I know we might have to run sometimes, but as long as we’re running together, I won’t mind. So, you either keep your ass here, or we run out of this door together, do you understand?!”

I looked at her in awe. I wanted her in my life too, I couldn’t deny it. And I knew she wasn’t going to take no for an answer. Even if I did outrun her, she’d only continue to track me down. So I let out a sigh, and put my sword down. She smiled at me and walked over.

“I love you Mugen. And you’ll have to try really hard to get past me again.”

I grunted and looked down at her small form. Yeh, I could imagine having a life with her. I leaned down and kissed her again. And though I knew she and I would never have a perfect life with all those extra nice things, as long as she was by my side, it didn’t matter.