acts of kindness
by: darkestbeforedawn
summary: fortune was not something mugen knew of. mugen x fuu
disclaimor: i don't own samurai champloo.
Fortune was a word he never uttered. Never spoken of, and never used to describe him.
He would've laughed at you if you said he was fortunate. Laughed at you, then skewered you with that weird shaped sword of his.
Fortune was never a friend of his, never laid her kindly eyes on him and pitied him. Growing up, the only kindness he knew was when the skies did not rain the day he got into a fight, body beaten so badly that the very breath he breathed was bloody.
The day he obliged to that girl who had sunflowers in her mind and trust in her voice, he had sealed his fate. With a rival like the stars that he yearned to reach, and a goal that wasn't his, and seemed just as distant.
When he laid on that sandy beach, faces that seemed familiar and yet he did not recognize called to him, he knew this time, he couldn't escape.
Waking up to Fuu, eyes red from crying and voice hoarse from screaming, he accepted Fortune's first, and last act of kindness to him.
-owari-