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.
Hesitant a bit Yatsuha sat next to him and looked down at the water as she moved her legs gently in the warm waters, "What was it like when you were a kid?" her question was a simple one.
"What was it like...?" Mugen felt like he was transported back to a time where all he remembered was blood shed. "Don't remember my parents, be killing since I was thirteen, I hated everything and everyone on that damn island," he said coolly before looking at Yatsuha.
She felt lost looking into his eyes, firmly she pulled away from his gaze, "How many women did you have before me?" she knew these questions are just prying into his past but she needed to know for herself.
Mugen sighed and rested his forearms on his thighs and exhaled noisily, "I had women before you Yatsuha, I'm not going to lie to you about that but I can't remember how many," he told her but he knew none of this was going well over her, "Yatsuha do you still want to leave me?" he asked suddenly.
Lifting her legs out of the water and pulling them up to her chin and wrapping her hands around her legs to keep them in place, "The more I listen to you the less I realize that we have in common, Mugen...The only thing that we have going for us is love, nothing more, and the more I think about it, love can't cushion everything that goes wrong in our relationship," slowly she slipped back into the water and dipped her head under water for a bit. When she came up Mugen was gone, Yatsuha sighed and thought maybe it was better that he left rather than watching her walk away, her heart pained to leave him. "What choice do I have?" she questioned herself.
Hoisting herself out of the water she was confronted by Mugen, "I thought you left?" she was shocked when he appeared in front of her.
"You're wrong about us not having anything in common, we do have things in common!" he spoke with emotions filling up in his chest. "I love you and only you Yatsuha, and yes it's enough to keep us together!" he merely grabbed her, gasping at his bold attempt, Mugen crushed her nude body against his naked frame and kissed her. Yatsuha felt her body respond to him almost immediately, she felt Mugen slipping his tongue past her lips and deepening their kiss into a hot pleasurable one, "That's what we have Yatsuha... We have this, we have a special something between us that makes my blood run hot and I know you feel the same way too,"
Mugen lifted her up effortlessly and felt her encircle her slim legs around his waist, Yatsuha kissed Mugen demandingly and passionately needing more from him she dug her nails into his back. Mugen held Yatsuha by her firm small buttocks, surprised, she felt his fingers curiously opening her secret folds to already hot and leaking womanhood, moaning around his lips, Yatsuha felt him slipping his strong fingers into her sleek velvety flesh. With his free fingers he massaged her wet nub, Yatsuha shut her eyes closed as she felt pleasure washed through her body, Mugen knew exactly what she wanted and he planed to give it to her and more.
Yatsuha broke away and moaned in Mugen's ear as she enjoyed him slipping his fingers in and out of her, while he playfully pinched her nub before he rubbed his thumb on it in a smooth back and forth motion. Yatsuha mouth was parted due to her moaning but Mugen looked up at her and smiled and she finally understood that what they have is indeed special.