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A/N: Yes, I usually keep them at the end of the chapter but I must warn you that this chapterhas some language and violence.
Mugen and Jin were kneeling both with a few scrapes and cuts. They were surrounded by about ten thugs with thick greasy hair and pit stains on their dirty wife-beaters.
"Any last words?" The smelliest goon asked as Mugen as he pressed the gun firmly in his thick hair.
"You're an asshole?" Mugen offered with a grin. The man struck Mugen
with the butt of the gun, Mugen spit out the blood in his mouth and
glared up at him.
"I think it's best we stay quiet." Jin warned Mugen.
"Do you have any other ideas?" Mugen asked Jin.
"I take the right, you take the left." Jin replied softly. Mugen looked around and his face twisted into a grin.
"I can live with that." Mugen agreed.
One Day Earlier
Fuu wiped the sweat off her forehead. It was the first day of summer and it would seem that the summer would be a terribly hot one. She tightened her pony tail and went to table three to take the order. It was a group of new graduates, she assumed, having a late morning brunch after receiving their diplomas.
"Finally school's out!" One boy cried and the others high-fived him. Fuu refilled their coffee. She had the habit of looking out of the diner window while filling drinks, to see if something interesting was happening in their small parking lot on the corner of Central and 36th. Her mouth dropped as she spotted Mugen, walking right into this diner, her diner.
"Watch out bitch!" One yelled. She looked down and realized that she spilt coffee all over the table.
"Oh, sorry!" She blushed and began to wipe away the scalding liquid with napkins, burning her fingers at the same time. She bit her lip in pain but still wiped away as fast as she could.
"You will be, whore!" One grabbed her by the neck and pushed her down on the table. She closed her eyes in pain.
"Leave her alone!" Joe, the sixty-year-old owner of the diner yelled at the kids.
"Shut the hell up, you old geezer!" One of the kids pulled out a gun and pointed it at Joe. Fuu squirmed underneath his grip, the bitter scent of the coffee burning harshly into her cheek.
"What should we take off? Finger? Thumb? The whole hand?" The punk with the earring asked, pulling out the dull butter knife from his silverware set.
"Mugen?" Fuu called out to him, praying that he was in the diner.
"You got yourself into this mess Pencil-girl." Mugen said as he looked over the menu from a nearby booth.
"Mugen, please." She begged in a shaky voice as the knife inched closer to her wrist. Mugen folded the menu and shook his head.
"You're lucky begging makes me sick." He said as he slid out of the booth and got his feet.
"Sit back down, asswipe!" One barked at him. Mugen's face contorted into a vicious grin.
"Love the insults, fucker!" He cried, laying a hard punch in his face. He picked up the gun and shot the punk in the arm that was holding Fuu's face down. She gasped as it rained blood on her face and neck. The punk staggered back and screamed in pain. The other guys pulled their guns and pointed it at Mugen. Fuu took this opportunity to shuffle back to the kitchen and watch safely from the window.
"Well now, I don't think that's very fair." Mugen scanned the room. Fuu watched the scene but Joe insisted that she wipe the blood from her face. Fuu waved him off and stopped breathing when someone else walked into the diner.
"Jin?" She asked softly. Jin was holding a gun as well, pointing it at Mugen.
"You." Mugen said in disgust.
"You." Jin said in mutual disgust.
"So you're with them, I guess I should just shoot you. But then I would get shot by all three of these punks, hardly fair, is it?" Jin didn't answer. "Fine, how about we take this fight outside, no guns, just you and me."
"What are we in, the middle ages?" Joe muttered but Fuu waved him off again.
"Shhh, I can't hear." She bit at her bottom lip. Jin nodded slowly and they both placed their guns on the ground. Mugen followed Jin outside. Mugen cracked his knuckles and his neck.
"You ready?" Mugen asked him.
"Yes." Replied Jin as they both ran toward each other.
"Hey!
Wait a minute!" Fuu cried as the scene pauses. "You can't just skip
over a month! I mean everyone will want to know what happened during
that month at school."
"Nobody cares." Mugen replies.
"Yes, somebody does care! I mean a lot of important things happened."
"Nothing that really contributes to the plot." Jin cut in.
"So you're on his side?" She cocked a thumb at Mugen. "I can't believe this! I thought you hated him!"
"I do hate him, nothing important really happened in that month. We didn't even walk at graduation."
"I'm sure something important happened."
"Like this?" Mugen rewinds and pauses at various embarrassing scenes of
Fuu blowing up the biology lab, blowing up the toilet, tripping,
falling down the stairs, and lastly blowing up a Drivers Ed car. Fuu
chuckled nervously.
"I guess you have a point."
"You ready?" Mugen asked him.
"Yes." Replied Jin as they both ran toward each other. Mugen tackled Jin to the ground and swung his fist at him but Jin dodged it skillfully. Jin head butted Mugen in the nose, Mugen fell back and stood up. He wiped the blood from his nose using the back of his hand. He looked down at the blood.
"You had enough?" Jin asked. Mugen grinned savagely at Jin.
"No." Mugen unleashed a fury of kicks and punches, all which Jin dodged. He, however, lost his footing on a loose rock on the ground and when he tried to regain his balance, Mugen's kick connected with his abdomen. Jin staggered back.
"Lucky shot." Jin said but Mugen's grin grew wider. They came at each other but stopped dead in their tracks when they heard the familiar click of guns. Mugen and Jin looked up as the thugs had them surrounded. Fuu opened the door to the diner to stop them but Joe caught her waist and pulled her back. She landed on the ground and she looked up at Joe.
"Fuu, you mustn't!" He said sharply.
"But they're going to kill them!" She cried.
"They will kill you." His voice was hard and Fuu looked as if she was slapped in the face. Joe's expression softened. "Fuu." He said but looked out of the door when he heard the squeal of tires. A van came to a screeching halt in the parking lot. The door opened and Mugen was pushed inside.
"Hey, that wasn't very nice!" Mugen yelled from inside the van as Jin was pushed inside. The thugs climbed into the van and it peeled out of the lot. Fuu watched the van drive off and she turned to Joe.
"I have to save them." Joe turned to Fuu and frowned.
"I've seen those guys before. They work for a very wicked man, they probably took them to a warehouse near the docks." Fuu nodded slowly.
"Do you know which one?" She asked.
"No." Joe shook his head. "That's everything I know about them. Fuu nodded again and headed out of the diner. Joe caught her shoulder with his hand.
"Fuu, be careful." She nodded seriously and smiled brightly.
"Don't worry about me!" Her voice sounded so bright and cheerful as she ran off.
When Mugen came to, he saw that he was no longer in the van but in a hot, dark room. He rolled over and his eyes tried to adjust to the darkness.
"Mugen." Came a soft whisper. He recognized the voice of Fuu. "Jin."
"Am I in hell?" Mugen asked.
"Apparently." Jin replied nearby. Mugen looked around the dark to see Jin or Fuu but gave up.
"Shh!" She hissed sharply. "I'm here to get you two out of here, on one condition."
"What's that?" Mugen asked impatiently.
"You help me find someone." Fuu replied.
"Get us out of here, then." Jin said. Mugen and Jin listened to the soft clink of metal against metal.
"Someone's over there!" Yelled a scout.
"Shit!" Fuu cried and they listened to her footsteps as she ran off.
"What the hell was the point of that?" Mugen asked Jin.
"I don't know." Jin replied.
"Finally! They're awake!" Someone yelled and bright halogen lights
illuminated the whole warehouse, blinding both captives. Mugen
felt two
pairs of hands grab him and tie him up. "Let the fun begin!"
Fuu cursed under her breath as she found a place to hide and come up with a plan.
"I saw him go this way!" She heard and she ducked behind a crate. She held her breath and closed her eyes as she heard their footsteps come closer. They stopped and looked around.
"I guess he took off." They walked away and Fuu let out her breath. She got out from the crate and looked around. An abandoned car sat underneath a streetlight.
"It can't be that simple." Fuu muttered under her breath. She walked up to the car and tried to open the door but it was locked. She looked around the ground for keys but saw a brick. She picked up the brick and with all her might, she threw it at the back seat window directly behind the driver's seat, successfully breaking it. She carefully got into the driver's seat and looked at the steering wheel. She searched the car for a set of keys.
"It's times like these I wish I knew how to hot-wire a car." She angrily pounded her fist on the dashboard causing the ashtray to open and the sound of metal jingling caught Fuu's ear. She smiled as the keys gleamed up at her.
Mugen and Jin were kneeling both with a few scrapes and cuts. They were surrounded by about ten thugs with thick greasy hair and pit stains on their dirty wife-beaters.
"Any last words?" The smelliest goon asked as Mugen as he pressed the gun firmly in his thick hair.
"You're an asshole?" Mugen offered with a grin. The man struck Mugen with the butt of the gun, Mugen spit out the blood in his mouth and glared up at him.
"I think it's best we stay quiet." Jin warned Mugen.
"Do you have any other ideas?" Mugen asked Jin.
"I take the right, you take the left." Jin replied softly. Mugen looked around and his face twisted into a grin.
"I can live with that." Mugen agreed. They jumped up from the ground and tackled the men holding the guns to the floor. They got up and began running for cover from the onslaught of bullets. They jumped behind a large crate and tried to calculate a way out. Luckily for them, a car crashed into the wall nearby.
"Get in!" Fuu cried. Mugen and Jin ran over to the car and hopped in. Fuu immediately drove off. She swerved uncontrollably through the streets.
"Keep it steady!" Mugen yelled from the back seat.
"I can't!" She cried. "I don't know how to drive!" She slammed on the brakes causing both Mugen and Jin to slam forwards into the seat.
"Untie me, idiot!" Mugen barked. Fuu nodded and bent over the center console and untied Mugen quickly. He hopped into the passenger seat and Fuu blinked at him. "Move!" He grabbed her waist and threw her over the seat. Jin groaned in pain as Fuu used him as a landing pad. Mugen skillfully drove away, weaving through streets.
"Sorry Jin." She climbed off Jin and untied him. "Go to my place, Mugen." Fuu said from the back seat. Mugen nodded and drove off to the Garden Estates.
Once they arrived, Fuu gave Mugen and Jin rubbing alcohol for their wounds while she pulled out two small bags and a duffel bag.
"What's that?" Mugen asked.
"Your stuff." She replied.
"Why do you have his stuff?" Jin asked.
"I have your stuff, too." She ran her fingers through her hair.
"What's the meaning of this?" Mugen asked.
"You promised to help me find someone."
"How do you know where we live?" Jin asked with a raised eyebrow.
"Mugen told me where he lived." Jin looked at Mugen and Mugen rolled his eyes.
"What about him?" Mugen pointed at Jin.
"Oh." Fuu blushed. "I followed him home one day." She said softly and Jin's eyes bulged. Mugen coughed trying to cover up a chuckle. "Anyway, you two promised me."
Mugen and Jin looked at each other then at Fuu.
"There's no way I'll travel with this juvenile."
"I'm not going anywhere with pretty boy." They spoke at the same time. Fuu sighed.
"But you two promised!" She whined.
"How about we fight and whoever loses, goes?" Mugen suggested.
"No!" Fuu yelled. "Both of you are going, that's the end of that! Now load up!" She picked up the bags and threw them at them.
"And what happens if we don't?" Mugen asked.
"I'll make sure that the rest of your life is hell!" Fuu responded.
"How?" Jin said but did not get a response because the apartment was soon fired upon by the warehouse thugs. They ducked and dove into the kitchen.
"Won't they ever give up!" Mugen cried.
"There's a fire escape, follow me." Fuu ran to the other room and jumped through the opened with Mugen and Jin on her tail. They climbed down the fire escape and ran down the alley to a beat-up car. They opened the door and jumped in, Mugen in the driver's seat, Jin in the passenger, and Fuu in the back. Fuu looked out of the back window and saw the thugs climbing down the fire escape.
"Hurry Mugen!" She cried. Mugen removed the panel below the steering wheel and expertly hot-wired the car. "Mugen!" She yelled as they were approaching them.
"Shut-up!" Mugen yelled back. He relaxed as he heard the thunderous roar of the car.
A/N: Well, this chapter took FOREVER to write. Not really. But it's pretty long so I changed the formatting so the page wouldn't be like a million lines long. I changed the prologue to be a bit easier on the eyes by adding spaces. I left out a cute flashback at the end of this chapter because it was so long (my fingers are cramping). Anyway, I'm not sure when the next update will be, this weekend I'll be celebrating Independence Day at the beach even though there's red tide, yummy. This chapter is like the first episode but different. I thought it was a great way for them to start their road trip! Yay for road trips!
The Honest Reader: I totally envisioned her that way if she went to a standard, public high school. Sorry that the high school part is over, this mainly is about their road trip. However, thank you for the review!
Kill-all-flamers: Don't worry, I based David from a boy from my school...maybe there's a million David's in the world that match that description...hmmm...Thank you againfor your review and for the fact that you're David's friend.
me2200: Yeah, the chapters are a little on the skimpy side, I'm a real sloth at times. But this one is longer and I hope you enjoy it.
One-Mean-Rabbit: Thank you for your very kind words. It's always great to hear compliments about your writing. Thank you very much for your review.
Alaskantiger: Here's some more for you to read. I hope you enjoy this chapter as well.
Dead Red Head: There's no official pairings yet but Fuu def. has a crush on Jin right now. Thank you for the review.
Jin'sGirl6: Thanks for the review and I'm glad to know that I kept them in character. That's my biggest fear that someone will read and be like "WTF? That's not like them at all!" Again, thanks!
Scarlet Amaranth: No official pairings but a threesome does sound interesting. Lucky Fuu. Anyway, thank you for reviewing!
peeps: YUM! Sorry that there are no flashbacks for you in this chapter but look out for a v. cute interlude soon.
poornmiserable: Yeah, they played as kids but now they forgot. I hope you enjoy this update and thanks for reviewing!
Key The Theif: Thanks! I hope you like this chapter as well!