AN: I revised a lot of dialouge by all means please enjoy.
Always Someone There
Ch.1: Lost, left, and loved
Grey caught sight of Pycal who laid unconscious at the bottom of Emma Falls. The magician as they called him was now washed up so to speak. After his furious battle with Lupin he rested peacefully after being washed ashore.
Grey's mind burned terribly with the knowledge. That Lupin and his cohorts were now miles away from this original destination. Far away from Emma Falls to let anyone know that Lupin encountered Pycal.
Except for himself, trudging along the, trails that led, to the bottom, of the waterfall itself. Grey looked down upon Pycal whose eyes remained unopened. Squatting low to try and check for a pulse. Was met by a strong hand that gripped his arm. Quite strong for a man who just fallen a dizzying height to stop a man's heart.
Grey was startled but relieved by this action. Pycal's eyes fluttered open when he realized the man who was sitting right in front of him. He said nothing at first as he was still shaken by his brush with death. But rested his eyes upon Grey who happily smirked just to see him again.
"I thought you were dead."
Pycal spit out some blood before speaking. Rising steadily to his feet. Though his movements were shaky and uncoordinated. Pycal staggered to the young adult that wasn't sure how to react.
"Shut up and help me you damn brat." he mumbled to Grey. Frustrated from his recent defeat. Resisted the temptation to chase after Lupin so suddenly.
"I'm not a brat, I'm seventeen." Grey hissed out of anger. Letting Pycal rest an arm over his shoulder. Grey placed his right arm underneath Pycal's armpit. Steadying him enough so that he could walk a straight line.
Finishing his sentence he said. "I'm looking for someone and you probably know who he is."
Pycal knowing there was nothing more that can be done. Decided to heal his wounds for the time being.
Grey suddenly pulled out his cell phone.
Where Lupin was headed after Pycal's supposed demise. He didn't really know at the moment. Driving the compact yellow Fiat 500. Lupin hung his free arm out the window. While keeping his other arm on the steering wheel. Jigen was sitting on the passenger's side smoking another cigeratte. While Goemon decided as always to remain quiet during the long road trips.
Not too long the silence was broken amongst the thieves. As soon as Jigen flicked his cigeratte bud out the window. He noticed from his side view mirror was the ever determined Inspector.
"So what the hell type of goose chase is this?" Jigen said catching Lupin's attention.
"What are you talking about?" Lupin asked unaware of the danger behind them. Jigen pointed out the window. To a very angry Zenigata who so happened to leaning outside of the passenger window. Screaming every word imaginable through a megaphone ready for another day's chase.
"Lupin, damn you! Give up right now, ya hear!" Zenigata yelled.
"Oh, is that all your worried about, Jigen?" Lupin getting caught up in the moment. Pressed the gas pedal to the floor. Speeding down the road. The wind rushing through Jigen's window was enough to have him holding onto his fedora. As they were escaping the Zenigata's line of sight.
To the best of Lupin's knowledge after veering a hard left. Turning on an unforgivable blind spot. He decided that they get lost disappearing in a vast field. Deciding to stop when they came upon an questionable sight.
Lupin halted the small car to a stop. When they fully registered what exactly happened in the middle of nowhere.
"I mean should we really get involved." Jigen protested as Lupin got out of the car. "it was a shoot out. That Allard is riddled with holes c'mon!" trying to convince his friend to come back.
Back to the Allard as Lupin observed. One body was cold dead. Hands still on the steering wheel. Eyes open in terror even in death. His back filled with bloody holes. The passenger's door was open with no one occupying it's seat.
Just beyond the car lying in the field was woman. Cradling a body in her arms. She appeared to be leaning over the bloody corpse with her eyes closed.
"Homicide, homicide, homicide," Lupin concluded when he inched his way forward to the young woman. Pressing his hand against her back realized she was still breathing. His eyes lit up upon this discovery.
The woman's eyes peered open. Trying to visually capture everything that was in front of her. Namely the man being Lupin who so graciously decided to check if she was still living.
"Kaita…how could you die?" she whimpered, eyes moistening with tears. Her face and black dress was bloody from his gunshot wounds.
The woman still holding Kaita's corpse shivered. Then demanded the men prior to the shooting who might have come back yelled to Lupin.
"Come back to rape me and finish me off? Why are still standing there. Why aren't you doing anything!" she screamed ready to accept the same fate her friends shared before her.
Goemon who shortly caught up with his boss. Stood behind Lupin blushed red. The woman suddenly calmed down when she realized it wasn't the men who tried murdering her.
Jigen reluctantly got out of the car joined Goemon and Lupin. Now he was ready to sweat the woman that was the sole survivor of the deadly shoot out.
"So what exactly happened here anyway?" the lone gunman asked with curiosity.
The woman wasn't shy with dispensing information. Seeing they looked just as seedy as herself.
"We were making a deal with money as always." she started, her eyes half closed. Not being able to bear the thoughts that plagued her mind. She licked her lips then continued after drawing a deep breathe.
"Romany and the man I'm now holding the late Kaita. Our lives were being sought after. It's stupid I know. A deal wasn't met and I refused to sleep with a man. Which they decided to deal with afterwards. Kaita defended me with his bare hands to make sure I was safe!" she sobbed her last sentence. Letting go of her deceased friend's corpse. Buried her face in her hands.
"May I ask what your name is?" Lupin asked intrigued by the turn of events.
"Nami, pleased to meet you." she said in a breathy voice. The brunette went on to tell him with sincerity. "I must bury my friends now…thank you for your comfort strangers."
Nami wearily stood up and bowed thanking them. She was just about ready to try to pick up Kaita. Not minding the fact Lupin and his friends were still watching her. Goemon stood by Lupin in deep thought.
"To think that someday our good luck will run out. It might turn out like this poor woman sobbing over her dead partners." Goemon said assuming what might be the inevitable.
"Were pro's man, we'll have to be off of our game before this happens to us." Jigen replied to Goemon.
Nami dropped the body she was holding. Rushing to Jigen with a finger to his face. Casting an angry expression to the arrogant sharp shooter.
"Like hell we were off our game!" Nami yelled. "Things like this happen all the time!"
"Yeah, sure looks like it." Jigen snorted with contempt. "Your men have holes through them."
"Shut up already you a-" Nami's sentence was cut off. Right after Lupin intervened between the both of them.
Lupin always taking up the women's side of the argument. Decided to stand up for Nami despite Jigen's disapproval.
"You never acted like this before, Jigen! What's your problem?" he shouted. Jigen tipped his fedora to the front of his face. Then walked straight back to the car. He didn't feel like dealing with any of this at the moment.
The woman sounded like trouble.
"He seemed upset." Goemon added.
"So is he hiding something." Lupin said under his breathe.
"Out for more revenge again?" Grey asked. "I'm out to find my brother. I have no idea what ever happened to our sister…" his voice trailing away decided to leave this thought. Not sure what else he should add to it.
"How are our interests the same if it's not revenge you don't seek?" Pycal replied. . Both of them standing outside on the balcony. It had reached night fall when they began they're discussion.
Grey displayed a sword he carried with him. Unsheathing his sword he hold for Pycal to see in the moonlight.
"He is a great gunman and I want to show him that I have also become great!" Grey admittingly told him. "But I am also after someone who evaded my grasp. The only reason I found you was because I got lost from my comrades." Quickly he withdrew the sword returning it back into it's sheath. Grey returned to the living room where he immediately found a seat on the couch.
"You're a hit man also?" Pycal questioned Grey.
"Yes," Grey curtly said.
"What if I show you some magic tricks to help you?" Pycal insisted.
"How will magic tricks help me?" Grey was curious by his methods. "I mean they are fun to watch, but if you have seen it all then it's boring."
"It doesn't exactly work like that." Pycal replied reassuring that his partnership would aide him in his investigation.
"No, I'm sorry but I need to get back to my duties. It was a pleasure meeting you." Grey bowed respectfully before leaving his seat. Before he could touch the doorknob a flame stretched across the room that almost burnt him.
"What the hell?" Grey shouted. Turning his back to the magician saw Pycal. The finger that was once lit with flame. Was now harmless smoke rising into the atmosphere. He was determined to make Grey an offer he could not refuse.
"The thing is Lupin already knows this skill as well as myself. So we will both create new tricks and improve the old." Pycal said waving his hand in Grey's direction. "We will find what you're looking for as well what I am looking for." Pycal finished.
Grey's cheeks started to burn red as he saw Pycal's smile. His shirt and tie was loose around the neck exposing his scarred chest. Pycal looked to Grey with hungry eyes. Grey focused more on his beautiful lips afterwards and how they might taste.
"I…I…need a glass of water." Grey nervously told Pycal. Grey stood in the kitchen. Feeling his heart palpitate quickly in his chest.
Looking at the stars that burned brightly. Nami who graciously accepted Lupin's help. Was captivated by his chivalry as a man. Men like him were far and few between. Yet somehow he reminded him of her Kaita.
She was sitting outside when Lupin called to her.
"Nami," yet it didn't stop her imagining Kaita's voice in his place.
"Nami, are you coming in already?" Kaita yelled from a window. Romany would become giddy from the clothing she wore that day. Kaita would then remind his partner just whom she belonged to. Right after the friendly brawl they played between each other. It was now just a distant memory.
"Nami, it's getting cold out are you coming in?" Lupin asked. Nami looked back to see Lupin. His head was still stuck outside the window wondering how long she would be.
"Yeah I guess." Nami said then came in after a quick glance back to the sky . Nami came in then sat on the couch with her legs crossed. This was because the dress was about a half inch shorter than the last dress she wore. Lupin found it from the last visit from Fujiko. But she had no choice not to accept it.
"Sorry for earlier." Jigen apologized now with a cigarette pursed in his lips. "I wasn't in the best mood at the moment." Jigen stopped when he noticed that Nami now leaned against Lupin. Half asleep with his red jacket hung around her shoulders.
"You guys are the nicest I've met in awhile. Sort of in a way did I meet Kaita and Romany. Very likable people..." Nami trailed off in a soft mellow voice ready to fall asleep. Her eyes slid closed then fell asleep.
"I guess goodnight." Jigen said then walked to his bedroom. Goemon sitting in a chair started to prepare to clean his sword.
Lupin looked down and sighed. "I tend to forget that not all women are like Fujiko." Lupin stated.
"You know Lupin; she might still have hit man after her and could be hazard to keep around." Goemon replied in a placid tone.
"This is nothing I couldn't handle. You know that Goemon." Lupin proudly said.
"Tending to Fujiko's mistakes was practice for things like this, huh." Goemon once again pointed out. Lupin's features became tense then saddened. He squeezed Nami's shoulder gently in reassurance.
"I hope to hear those certain words; I only hear them when we think we were done in." Lupin said ending with another sigh again.
Goemon just sat there still cleaning the sword.
"What, you think I was kidding those many times when I said I wanted to settle down? That damn woman only thinks of herself, but on the inside I can't hate her…" Lupin's eyes settled on his friend.
Goemon got up and patted off his hakama. "Those are problems that you can solve on your own. Right now we have others." He replied promptly.
"What do you mean?" Lupin asked.
"While you guys were off digging. An unusual young man was here. He knew Jigen was here. But I told him he wasn't going to be around for a couple days. After that he glared at me and left." Goemon explained.
"You mean we have two things to deal with?!" Lupin questioned. "Does Jigen know he was here? Did you tell him?"
"He was upset, he nearly forced himself in to get to him." Goemon responded truthfully.
"So there is no doubt that he will be back." Lupin digressed deciding to depart from the subject at hand completely.
The doorbell rang.
"And he is back!" Lupin yelled with his gun behind his back as he walked to the door. Nami woke up when Lupin moved her. Goemon readied his sword. Lupin opened the door only to discover it was Fujiko.
They put away their weapons disappointed.
"Oh Fujiko we were just talking about you!" Lupin mood perked from the pleasant sight. The woman he praised as a goddess yet betrayed him like a Judas so many times.
"Oh missed me already lover?" Fujiko lustfully jeered. "I just came to warn you. Pycal was not killed." Fujiko seriously told him.
"Are you kidding me, man some people just don't die." Lupin mumbled from frustration.
"I came across this when I stayed in the same hotel as them. It seems he isn't ready to come after you guys yet though. His burns seem to have him in the position where he can't do much just yet." Fujiko said with some relief in her voice.
Nami then stood up giving Lupin back his jacket.
"I'll be going now Lupin." Nami said to him. Stopping at the door when Lupin gripped his hand in hers. Nami told him again in a tempered tone "You have done enough for me as it is. I'm not going to ask to you to do anymore."
"I want to do this for you." Lupin replied sternly. Nami blushed to be around another man other than Kaita like this.
"Thank you!" Nami whispered. Her left hand came up to Lupin's face softly caressing his cheek. Lupin's eyes were closed, but his lips were puckered. Fujiko could tell he yearned for it badly.
Nami tapped his face and stopped before she did something she would later regret. "I'm sorry you're so sweet Lupin…I don't wanna get into anything right now!" Lupin's jaw and arms dropped in disappointment again.
Fujiko just rolled her eyes crossing her arms. Watching Nami disappear into the hallway of the house they all shared.
It was another morning when Nami walked down the street to meet with Romany's girlfriend. She was about to tell her of the bad news. When a thin man wearing a lavender suit and messy black hair passed her by. He stuck out like a sore thumb. Nami thought to herself. Looking to see if there was anyone else watching. She ran after him like the stalker she was in the past.
The man in the lavender suit could hear her heels clacking against the pavement. Just right behind him, came running a, young brunette haired woman. He decided to run away from her despite not knowing what motive she actually held.
Nami turned around a corner when the stranger ran into an alley.
"You've been following me so what do you want?" Pycal yelled short tempered from her interference with his plans. He gripped her hands tightly in his. Pycal noticed that it was the same woman from before. That was in the picture that Grey had shown him with two other men.
He let go of her hands.
"I can give your freedom for a price." Pycal blindly said to her.
"Wha...What?" Nami asked with confusion.
"Give me what I want and I'll make sure those hit man don't get to you!" Pycal said and threw his leg up between her knees. Things became very awkward between the both of them.
"You know the person who killed my friend and lover!" Nami said and thrusted her gun to his forehead. Quickly he pried the gun from her fingers. She tried to scream, yell anything, but he soon muffled it with his lips on hers. When that was settled he grabbed her hand and they both ran past the crowd.
Nami started to panic the longer they ran through the crowd. Nami somehow grabbed back her hand when she couldn't bear what would happen. No what could happen. Pycal stared at Nami who stood frozen to the spot she stood on. He became irritated until Grey spotted them while shopping on the corner of town.
"Of all the places to find her was here, huh?" Grey laughed with bemusement. Nami tried to run because she knew what he was there for. Pycal grabbed her hand again before she could leave.
"Please don't kill me I'll do anything!" Nami pleaded.
"Surrender everything," Pycal said and forcefully pulled her closer to him. She slid down to her knees trying to escape him.
Grey pulled his sword out quickly to have it shot out of his hand.
"Brother," Grey yelled to Jigen. Jigen became confused to the man who refered to him that name.
"I don't have a brother!" Jigen shouted. Pycal ran with Nami while Jigen was occupied by this stranger.
"I don't think so." Goemon gracefully ran in front of Pycal cutting off his exit with Nami in hand. The crowd started to get excited. Police cars trailed through the city at a fast pace. The sirens that signaled their existence.
"Lupin, I know you're here damn it show yourself!" Zenigata yelled searching for Lupin. He got out of the cop car wading through the crowds of civilians. Just above the poor Inspector was Lupin himself. Looking down from the top of the buildings.
The bird's eye view gave him the upper hand. From afar Jigen was battling Grey with a spray of bullets. Pycal was taking blows from Goemon with his superhuman tonic. Not too far from Jigen was poor Pops. Having no choice to settle the public with the rest of his police men that was startled by Goemon seconds earlier.
Lupin charged along the roofs of the buildings. Stopping where Goemon had trapped Pycal he called attention to himself shouting. "Hey, Goemon finish up and save Nami!" Pycal looked up to Lupin.
"It's time to heat things up Lupin!" Pycal announced to his adversary.
"It's getting old already I think it's time you came up with some better material!" Lupin taunted.
"I was hoping you would say something like that." Pycal said only with his usual smile. Water started to flood the streets as his hand lifted giving his signal.
"What the hell!" Jigen questioned when the water had come knee deep. Grey jumped on the glass plank already planted by Pycal earlier.
"Grab my hand," Grey held out his hand desperate to help Jigen. "The water will stop before it gets this high you'll drown if you don't grab my hand!" with great urgency he declared.
"Why help me?" Jigen replied unable to reason with the enemy.
"You're my brother that's why!" Grey calmly said. "I don't know where our sister went to, but I'm not risking your life." He pulled his hand back after Jigen made his decision. If he decided to stay in the water so be it.
"Stop saying that because you're not my brother damn it! He was killed, my sister was kidnapped! There is no way you could know!" Jigen yelled. He so sure that he comprehended those facts long ago. Anyone claiming to be his brother was an imposter.
"Hey Jigen, need a lift?" Fujiko asked from the helicopter. Just in the nick of time. Right after Grey had made his escape dashing away from him. "Where are Lupin, Goemon, and Nami?"
"Not sure," Jigen said as Fujiko tossed down a step ladder to him. Boarding the plane they headed to find the rest of their team.
Zenigata was not so lucky as he was swept away by the flood. He maintained his buoyancy by clutching to anything that would help him stay afloat. Momentarily he caught a glimpse of Lupin above him. Battling Pycal on his glass planks he laid out. Nami was following Goemon as they ran atop the roofs of the buildings.
"Where are we going?" Nami gasped barely able to say those words.
"Anywhere at this point really." Goemon stated. Nami stopped. Something felt wrong to her inside. She ran the other way again toward Lupin and Pycal.
"What are you doing?" Goemon asked.
"I'm going to stop this fight!" Nami declared when Fujiko spotted Goemon and Nami.
"Hey guys over here!" Jigen yelled catching their attention. Goemon grabbed Nami as they jumped on the helicopter. Nami stared out of the window depressed. Fujiko pointing out Lupin. Saw that he was knocked unconscious with Pycal nowhere in view.
"Better pick him up." Jigen told Fujiko as the helicopter made it's way toward him as they were ready to grab him on their way.