Chapter One: Angel From the Past
Under a cherry blossom tree, a young boy stood. He was dressed in baggy dark blue kimono shorts and a white shirt, he had shaggy black hair that he let hang in his face; his skin was a light brown color. He had solid brown eyes and a muscular built. He was a handsome boy, which all the girls seemed to chase after. Yet he was waiting for someone…
He thought about a girl, and how he had fallen for her. He could recall her goofy personality and her silky brown hair, and her light soft skin. He could remember her rosy cheeks and her bottomless stomach. He thought about her a lot now a days. Since they rebuilt the teahouse that she worked at, after it had burnt down. He came back to it almost every day, hoping maybe he would see her again…and finally tell her how he had felt about her all this time.
He smiled as the wind blew the love blossoms down from their tree. He stained his tongue with her name:
"Fuu." He let a cherry blossom fall by his feet.
He walked to the teahouse saying hi to everyone who passed him by. He was known around his village. Not only for his looks and charm but his helpful hand and kindness.
He walked into the teahouse taking a seat near the entryway, watching everyone who walked in. Praying one day she would come through that curtain.
"Good morning Totomi. The usual?" An old woman asked him.
"Yes Ma'am." He said leaning back comfortably.
"I don't know why you're still sticking around this poor old village." She joked.
"You know why I stick around here, Mejia." He said sadly.
"I'm telling you Totomi, it's time to move on. Fuu will probably never come back." She said in a motherly way.
"I believe one day she's gonna walk through that door, and when she does…I'll be here waiting for her." He said with a grin.
Mejia smiled and walked into the back. He thought back on the first day he had met her.
It was snowing heavily that morning. Totomi traveled a lot back when he didn't know Fuu. He had been walking all that night in the blistering cold. He walked into the only teahouse opened. When he walked in only Fuu, Mejia and her husband Genskui sat at a table.
He looked at them with intense sick eyes. He shivered and walked as far as he could.
"I'm sorry young man but we're closed." Said Genskui. But Totomi kept walking towards them, to cold to let words escape his mouth. He landed on his knees and sat there, he breathed heavily and passed out from exhaustion.
When he woke up a pair of beautiful brown eyes stared down at him.
"I think he's waking up." Her voice was small and sweet. When his vision came to focus he saw her innocent angel like face glow in the fire's warmth.
"You took quite a fall there young man." Joked the old man puffing on a pipe.
"You're running a fever!" said Mejia putting her hand on his forehead. "Fuu, go fetch me a warm wet cloth." She said.
"Fuu…" he said to himself. He watched her with stunned eyes. Was she truly an angel? Fuu stepped on her Kimono and fell to her knees as she tried to get up, she blushed embarrassed and got up again. Yes, she was an angel…to him.
"Fuu you stay here, and watch after him. We have to do some errands." Said Genskui.
"Okay." She said with a smile. She dumped the rag into hot water and ringed it out. She set it on his forehead and rubbed it a little.
"So do you have a name?" she asked sitting by the fire. Totomi's heart beat faster, and his face turned even hotter.
"To-Totomi." He said stumbling over his own words. Fuu smiled, and said:
"Totomi huh? Where you from Totomi?" she asked.
"A small little village in Nagasaki." He said. She smiled some more.
"Are those your parents?" he asked. Fuu looked away in sadness.
"No, they just take care of me, my mother died not to long ago. And I barley knew my dad." She said sadly.
"Oh, I'm sorry…I didn't mean to make you upset." He quickly said.
"My parents are gone too. They both had become sick and died by the time I was 8." He said less sad than she sounded.
"I'm so sorry." She said with empathy in her voice.
Totomi began to cough hard.
"It seems it runs in the family to die sick." He cruelly joked.
"I think you need some rest." Fuu said taking off the warm cloth.
She smiled to him and said: "Night." He said back.
"Goodnight."
That first time they had met was about a year ago.
"Hi Totomi!" a squeaky little voice drew him back from his memories. In front of him stood Satsu. She was a quirky little girl, who had a huge crush on Totomi.
"Hey Satsu." He said nicely. Satsu was a skinny girl, quite pretty but nothing like Fuu. She had short black hair and dark brown eyes. Her make up was always applied a little too much, making her look like a geisha. She usually wore silky kimonos, which showed off a lot of cleavage. She was not a shy girl, she was the girl who all the boys wanted and all the girls loathed.
"So what brings you here?" she asked, even though she knew. Everyone in the village knew he waited for Fuu's return.
Totomi didn't say anything, he just smiled. Satsu just fluttered her eyes at him. She leaned on him a little close.
"Oh Totomi, one day I would like to get away from this sad old little village. Run away somewhere big." She said in a distressed voice.
"Yeah that would be nice." He said.
"Would you come with me?" she asked.
"Uh, maybe…I'm not sure." He said.
As the sun began to fully rise high in the air, three weary travelers began to feel their pressure points being pushed to the limit.
"Need food." Complained Mugen.
"Need bath." Nagged Fuu.
"Need sleep." Whined Jin.
The three dragged their feet along the dirt road as they began to make their way to the village. Fuu raised her head a little and saw that the scenery looked really familiar.
"Hey…I think I know where we are." She said happily. She walked faster ahead of the samurais. She looked out over a hill and saw a golden field of sunflowers. Her eyes widen with happiness.
"I'M HOME!" she cried running down the hill toward the golden beauties.
Jin and Mugen watched her dance through the field like a little child.
Jin…being the smart one noticed it before either Mugen or Fuu.
"If Fuu is home, then that means we are right back where we have started. Correct?" Jin said pushing his glasses up with his eyes closed.
Mugen thought about for a moment. When he finally processed it, his eyes grew wide with anger.
"ARE YOU SERIOUS!" he shouted. His hollers were so loud that birds flew out from trees.
"YOU LITTLE BITCH! YOU SENT US IN ONE BIG CIRCLE!" Mugen shouted at Fuu as she was picking sunflowers from up on the hill.
"Oh stop your complaining! We'll just turn back around." She shouted back.
"Fine! Then lets go, stop picking daisies and lets go!" Mugen shouted.
"THEY'RE NOT DAISIES THEY'RE SUNFLOWERS YOU IDIOT!" she barked back.
They're shout battle continued for a little longer before Jin stepped in.
"ENOUGH!" he shouted.
Mugen and Fuu stopped and looked at Jin and saw that he had raised his voice for once.
"Hey dude there's no reason to shout." Mugen said.
"Yeah, Jin stop being so loud." Fuu joined in.
"Can we just go before we loose sunlight." Jin said turning away from the two.
They began to walk down the path they had come. When Fuu looked back at the sunflower field she saw white smoke coming from behind trees and remembered the old couple she used to stay with. She wondered if they were okay, she had been gone a long time. Maybe she should just see if they were still around, she never really did get to thank them for taking her in.
"Hey you guys…How about we go into town for a moment. You know gather up some strength. I know this couple in the village maybe they can help us out." She said trying to convince them to stay.
"They got food?" asked Mugen.
Fuu nodded.
"Yeah I don't see anything wrong with that." He said walking down the hill. Fuu began to walk with him, but Jin stopped them in their tracks.
"Aren't you forgetting something?" Jin asked. "We were nearly put death last time we were at this village." Jin said calmly.
Mugen thought back, then began to chuckle:
"Oh yeah. I forgot about that." He said.
"What do you suppose we do?" asked Jin.
Fuu thought for a moment…she looked at the Samurai and got an idea.
"Just disguise yourselves." She simply said.
"What?" the both of them said.
Fuu walked over to Jin and took off his glasses, and untied his hair. She was done with Jin and then she walked over to Mugen she shook his shaggy Afro, making a lot of it cover his eyes. She took off his red shirt and was done.
"There full proof." She said smiling.
They began making their way through the trees into the village.
When Fuu saw her old village she just had a large smile across her face.
Fuu walked down the pathway that led to the old teahouse. When she turned the corner to where the teahouse used to be, she was stunned in shock. The teahouse was up and running.
"T-They rebuilt it!" she said with a smile as she ran inside. Jin followed. A young geisha stood outside the teahouse, she was quite lovely and had caught Mugen's eye.
"What's up?" he asked…which was his line that got all the girls. The geisha giggled and said:
"Nothing…what's up with yo…" She topped once she saw his big curls hanging in his face. She looked away in disgust.
He then knew it was his hair that drove her away.
"Damn Fuu." He walked in the teahouse.
Fuu took a look around the new teahouse. Everything seemed to change a bit, but it was defiantly the old teahouse. She looked around for either Genskui or Mejia that took care of her.
She searched the teahouse and saw Mejia serving tea.
"Please Satsu…I have a hurt shoulder, don't rest on it please." Totomi was having trouble with Satsu's "flirty" behavior.
"Then let me massage it!" she said grabbing his shoulders.
Then a sound so sweet rang through his ears.
"Mejia!" Fuu cried as she saw the old woman, and she ran to her.
Totomi then looked toward the entry way for he thought he heard Fuu's voice. When he did he saw Mugen standing there with his hair in his eyes.
"What are you staring at?" Mugen said angrily. Totomi focused his eyes away from Mugen quickly. Mugen walked over to Fuu and Jin who were visiting with the old woman.
"Mejia!" Fuu said again. The old woman looked up and saw Fuu's shining face.
She was stunned and dropped the tea in her hands.
"Fuu?" she said almost breathless.
Fuu hugged her, and had a wide smile on her face.
"Fuu…you came back. YOU CAME BACK!" Mejia cried with happiness.
"Totomi! Totomi! It's Fuu! Fuu has come back." Mejia cried!
"Fuu?" Totomi said to himself.
Fuu then saw him; it was as if he was from a dream. He was handsome and staring her way with longing eyes.
"Totomi?" she said out loud, her breath was nearly stolen out of her.
Everyone stopped in the teahouse, they looked up to the starry eyed teens staring back each other.
Totomi nearly knocked Satsu over as he ran from his seat to her. Fuu saw his eyes brighten with happiness, she thought he was dead; it had been years since she saw his face. She couldn't move, she couldn't breathe, all she could do was cry with happy tears rolling down her face.
"Fuu…you've come back. I knew you would!" Totomi said picking her up in his eyes.
"To-Totomi? I thought you were dead." Fuu said still shocked.
"I have been, but now you're back. Fuu I've missed you so." Totomi said hugging her tightly.
"Hey…I'm still hungry." Mugen interrupted.
TO BE CONTINUED…
Hey you guys well my sick little mind did it again. I made this new story for you guys, yeah well there isn't much action in this one, JUST ALOT OF YEEEELLLLLING! lol but I promise there will be some sword fights in the next one. So please please I beg of you! give it a chance. Thanks