Steam rose from nearby hot springs but a group of boisterous people shared a room in a hot spring inn dinning the evening away. As group quieted down for the night everyone separated into their own worlds, Fuu and Yukimaru were in a corner, cheeks all flushed as they spoke in whispers holding each others hands. Jin and Shino one of the newly weds in their group cuddled and looked out the huge windows and into the starry night's sky. Mugen sat with his back against the wall absent mindedly and also absent of his mate, grimly looking towards the door and thought about his new wife as he drank heavily from the sake jug.
Yatsuha on the other hand sat in the hot spring alone completely naked and away from Mugen, sighing to herself she rested her head back on the rocks behind her and too looked up at the starry night sky. "Why does he have to be such a jerk?" she questioned herself, since their meeting he told her that he loved her, and not too long after they were married, and not too long after that ensued a rash of quarrels and deadly glares at each other from across the room. "Does this mean we weren't meant to be?"
A very sarcastic voice rose in the back of her head, "Yatsuha, the creep tried to make you jealous by trying the get two girls to have sex with him in the bushes! Of course you're not meant to be!" the shrilling voice quarreled.
"Yeah but... I love him... And it's my fault," she answered back in her head, the other voiced sighed irritably, "Look I only egg him on, he's not the type of man who enjoys his leg being pulled!"
The voice increased her tone, "So you're just going to excuse him for doing whatever he does, so what next time if you refuse him sex? Then what are you going to forgive him if he tells you, in retaliation he slept with a hot woman to get back at you for refusing him?"
Yatsuha eyes widened, "Mugen will never do that!" her voice seemed a little unsure.
"Humph... That's what I thought, you are unsure yourself, so don't give me he'll never do that! He's from the Ryukyu Islands for crying out loud! Do you even know how much people he killed or for a matter of fact how many women he slept with? You don't know anything about this man and you handed your heart over to him with no complaints!" her own mind taunted her.
Yatsuha sniffled, "I... I... I guess your right..." she said softly as she stood up in the water and looked up at the sky, her long wet hair trailed down her back leaving her body exposed to everything, while tears streamed down her face.
"Who's right?" she heard a voice behind her and she knew it was Mugen apparently he got tried of waiting for her in the room. "I don't want to see you right now Mugen," she stifled back her tears and the emotions in her voice.
Mugen walked up behind her and placed his big hands on her shoulders and turned her around to face him. He too had stripped off his clothes and everything was exposed to Yatsuha, "I don't care if you want to see me now, I want to know who's right!" he demanded from her.
Wiping her eyes she looked up at him and noticed the "I don't give a shit" expression on his face and sighed, "I was talking to myself Mugen, I want to be left alone," she said softly but Mugen wasn't budging, "Are you deaf Mugen?"
"You really think I'm stupid don't you, you little bitch?" he questioned her but enough was enough for Yatsuha, she couldn't deal with that kind of abuse from him, with all her strength she pulled back her hand and punched Mugen in the gut. "Son of a b..."
"I tired Mugen!" Yatsuha cried out to him as he doubled over and held onto the rocks, "I'm tired, we haven't even been married for three weeks and we're always fighting, you're always cursing me and I'm always cursing you and you... And you trying to sleep with other women I can't take it anymore!"
Dejectedly she sat in the hot springs and cried, "I want a divorce Mugen, this isn't working," she cried, tears spilled down her face immediately she covered her face to hide her shame, sorrow, heartbreak and troubles.
Mugen patted his stomach lightly and sat behind her and tenderly pulled her in his arms but she merely pulled away, "I'm sorry Yatsuha, didn't mean to upset you like this," he said lovingly, "It's just that I love you so much that I forget myself sometimes,"
Yatsuha looked up at him, "Mugen I don't know anything about you, what you like what you don't like, I mean I know you don't like anyone telling you what to do it puts a bug up your ass... The point is that I don't know anything really about you."
Mugen sat at the edge of the hot spring and sighed, "What you want to now about me Yatsuha?" he asked seriously.