Great story, but I felt like the love triangle was never fully resolved. When Fuu says at the end that she loves both of them, does she love them only as family, or does she *love both* of them? Maybe it's open for interpretation. At any rate, I did enjoy it, and I think you did a great job staying true to each of their personalities and characteristics. Is it wrong that I felt a little glad when Shino died? It was terribly tragic and I felt horrible for Jin - he was so broken, but I also felt the same way as Fuu. Shino is kind of in the way when it comes to the dynamic of the trio. Your writing was realistic enough that I empathized strongly with both Jin and Fuu. Nice job on this!

elegant, realistic and so much love. All of them matured in the end and the future you painted, while not picture perfect, is very heartwarming.

This was so heart-achingly beautiful, I don't know what to say. Well-written, funny, and in character, it evoked so many powerful emotions. I've read and favorited A LOT of SamCham stories, but this one in in my top three. Please continue to utilize your talent in writing and in life :)

Oh this fic is perfect. I love their bicker-squabble bicker-squabble, all the way through to the end, and how seamlessly they came together. Although I was a bit, um, eager... to see Shino booted off, I appreciate how she wasn't forgotten and how the three of them manage to be good parents to Kennin. So, um, yes. Thank you so much for writing this fic all those years ago. It's so very VERY fulfilling and the perfect way to end their story.

Wow, that was quite the story. I really enjoyed it and I liked the length of the chapters a lot; not too long, not too short :) The dialogue was just so perfect, you have no idea! I could see every word coming out of every character's mouth, you, my good author, have quite the talent when it comes to witty and realistic dialogue! I can't even tell you how many times I laughed or thought what an awesome sentence that was. GREAT job! I have to admit the ending had me a bit confused just because I wasn't sure what Fuu meant by "love" per se, but perhaps this is a "think what you want" meaning to the word. Overall though I loved this story, I thought Fuu's motives and actions were very realistic and surprisingly complex for a fanfiction, not to mention the plot twists that were just awesome. You are a great author, I can only hope some day you write another SC fic :) Also, best ending line for Mugen ;D

I'm in the midst of reading this right now and I love it. The plot is actually quite different from your normal run of the mill Fuu wants to find Mugen and Jin fics on here, and the dialogue is great too! I can hear everyone saying these lines. So far, so good, can't wait to finish it :)

Awww that was really sweet! I think it's hard to find the right balance for these characters and not take too much license. You did really well. I had a hard time finding SC fictions that caught my interest by discription- so this was a nice surprise!

I love the ending- it left me w/ a same sense of the characters we all know as well as thinking I could see it happening in the SC universe- or maybe I would just like to see it happen in the SC universe! lol Anyway I'd be very happy if you continued w/ this! Please consider it! And thanks for a good read!

woah!woa!woooaaaahhhh!

words connot describe the epicness of this storie

woah

:)

Yay

This is a great story.

I’m a FuuJin fan, so I felt all the jealousy Fuu felt and I understood her dark feelings, probably to a larger extent even. Don’t underestimate how scary fangirls can get.

I’m also into idealism and romance, and that Fuu has to deal with the darker sides of life at last was depressing and grotesque to me. This fic started out kind of pretty much painful and difficult to read.

But it was very well-written. The characters were in character. The situations all seemed so plausible and believable. There’s something lovely in this “realistic simplicity” although I feel those words are prettying your story. I’m not saying your story is ugly, more like raw.

And it is raw but in a refined way, as I’ve said that all the characters seemed so in character. Given the darker episodes of the series, Fuu went through so major crap without getting a single hair touched, and that is some major pluck. Mostly luck though. So to see that you made her “dirty” her hands, god it was hard to accept that our pure little girl was married and widowed and now a whore. But in this context, I mean a whore is not an ugly thing. She has to fight to survive with all her available weapons after all and lets face it Fuu didn’t have many.

Back to the FuuJin and Shino jealousy thing I was going on about. So I’m into romance and having the bishounen ending up with the main girl all the time, and yeah, I personally wished that Jin forgot about Shino. But I have to face him being in character—he is a better than that, and he loved her, and love is, it’s like everything sometimes. All of Fuu’s decisions, I feel, were so right. I wouldn’t have made all the right decisions if I were in her place, but I felt that as I read the choices that she made—with the paths she took and the secrets that she kept, there was absolutely nothing to criticize. It was easy to understand.

When she decided to stay, I was like, why, Fuu, why be such a masochist? Nothing can be the same anymore. Shino is so lovely and nice but Jin’s so in love and Mugen’s so bent up and beat up perhaps he’s broken this time. Perhaps. And it’s like, Shino is having a baby and I’m like to myself, hey this is it, being any more jealous of her for Fuu is simply inhuman. She’s not even a real character. Come on. I have summer assignments I have been procrastinating on. Why bruise my own delusions any longer? So it was hard to read. Everything felt like it was messed up and slightly wrong, uncomfortable and just not “animated”. Like happy, though not quite, just … more … right. Around that time of the story where the four and a half of them were together, the feeling was like something between assurance, dejection, and content. Assurance because they were all together now and they were safe, dejection because nothing was like before, as Fuu and I have been looking forward to, and content because oh well, days are days, and there’s some pleasance in a slice of life. But mostly, it was rather boring. So why did I keep reading? I have happy happy romance/adventure/comedy stories waiting for me—and homework, more important things. Why did I keep reading?

Because this was well-written. And the writer was sane and patient, and above all, mature.

So then Shino gets sick and Fuu’s trying so hard to take care of her for Jin because Jin loves her and she is everything to him. What would happen if something happened to Shino? Fuu cares so much for Jin she doesn’t even go there. And plus Shino was so nice to Fuu and perhaps they can become sisters some day. Perhaps this story can become “animated” again. But then Shino dies, and Fuu had tried so hard, and she continues, she doesn’t have much to offer, she’ll offer what she has and I am not desensitized to it, I have understood it, I have understood how … empty Fuu is in terms of “advantages” or “weapons” or “bargaining chips”. So during Shino’s sickness, I simple couldn’t want her to die. But I did consider that this story was “offing” Shino, and then Fuu and Mugen and Jin could be a family again. Horrible. It is easier to think of “offing” someone in stories. I do not think such thoughts as easily in real life. But even if our favorite trio get together again because of Shino’s death, they won’t be “animated” like I really wanted from the beginning. I would rather have Shino alive and Jin happy and Fuu happy which would make me happy. I hope there’s a happy ending. I hope that everyone’s bent and beat up but not broken.

This was really how I felt as I read the story—good stories tend to make a delusional me, eh, but now that I’m typing this I’m embarrassed how emotional I got over fictional characters …

So yeah. I actually have way more things than that … *weakly points above at huge slab of text* on my mind, (because I didn’t even talk about your Mugen that much D: OMG there was so much to say about him…) but I feel I have to say *points at slab* that to you. Sorry if this was too incoherent ... euhh I wrote this review late at night.

You did a great job on this. Great story, great characters, great writing, and easy on the eyes grammar/spelling (I don't really notice grammar/spelling mistakes that much).

Thanks for writing.

This is the best story i read in a long time. Good work

i wont critise your story because i am no author or have higher knowledge about this stuff and my actual languadge is german so i might have missed some puns or errors.

All i can say is that i had the feeling this was a good story and i think i would want to read more of your stories because i think you have a feeling for it

so gone on with your work

AWESOME STORY, AND BEST ENDING EVER.

"A threeway?"

"No a family!"

Hahaha, splendid!

I'm quite fond of this story. As I'm not overly familiar with the anime I'm not sure how in character it is, however I found it tasteful and well written.

This was the perfect ending to Samurai Champloo. Thank you so much for writing it until the end, and I'm so glad that there is such an absolutely wonderful, in-character, thought-provoking, and true-to-the-spirit fanfiction in the Samurai Champloo category. The ending left me feeling totally in LOVE because that is exactly the way I pictured Samurai Champloo to end. I'd love to stress on your layout, your punctuation, your plotline, your USE OF SHINO! and heck, even having Mugen in jail; but the whole story was just SO AWESOME.

Thank you, really, truly. This really ended the Samurai Champloo series perfectly for me. And I was so happy when Fuu finally got a family of her own~

Lux,

Dreamz

I really loved this story. The way you captured the personalities of all of them-Mugen, Jin, and Fuu-was spectacularly done. Shino played her part and I'm kind of happy she didn't stick around, because without her they worked so much better.

I loved the subtle transformation of Fuu from naive 15-year-old of the anime to slightly jaded yet still innocent-seeming Fuu of your story. I really liked how you did that, and what lengths she was willing to go to for Jin and Mugen.

The camaraderie between Jin and Mugen was really well done, too, and some of the lines were positively laugh inducing. I especially like Mugen's last line-that had me giggling aloud.

Overall, a really well-done piece. I loved it. :)