Disclaimer: me-no-own-Lupin...okay, so I don't own Lupin III...which is a good thing...because.... you know what would happen then...okay, so yah don't...so don't sue, you wont get anything anyways...except a killer cat, and well.... Kai...enough said there.

Well, let's get on with the fic!!! ~~~~~~~~~~

"Hn." A woman muttered to herself, as she sipped on a latte. She had been sitting in a quaint coffee shop in for quite some time now, watching a long lost friend, of whom she hadn't seen in more than ten years. 'I wonder how he is doing for himself lately. Doesn't look like he has had any problem getting along. I wonder if he even remembers me anymore. He couldn't have forgotten all of those nights by the lake, and the way the sun set the night he finally told her how he felt.' She looked back at him again, and noticed the brunette sitting next to him. He looked comfortable around her, like he had no past. No past with Sesshoutsu, no past with anyone. Sesshoutsu slouched down in her chair, and took another sip of her latte. She finally stood up, to approach the now stranger-like person.
"Arsene..." She sighed. Lupin gave her a confused look. Then suddenly his eyes warmed.
"Sesshoutsu." He replied. They looked into each other's eyes. Sesshoutsu saw something different in him, something she had never seen before. His eyes were cold, and dark, nothing like the boy she once knew. The regret of the time since he had last seen her flooded the part of him that was once innocent, and carefree. "Sesshoutsu, I thought we would never meet again. Where have you been?!" Lupin had a sudden change in character, and was now a boy again.
"Arsene, i have been right here the entire time. You never came back. Arsene, you promised. You promised you would come back." Sesshoutsu began weeping. Lupin stood up, and held her in his arms. Oh how good it felt to be in his caress again. Lupin stroked her hair for the first time in ten years, and for once, forgot about his life, about Jigen, about Goemon, and the most difficult, he forgot about Fujiko.
"Oh, C'mon Lupin!" Jigen piped in, finally bringing him back to reality. He snapped out of his trance, and remembered Fujiko, and the pain he had suffered because of Sesshoutsu. He pushed her to an arm's length, and reflected on what had actually happened.

~~ "Arsene!" a scruffy man yelled as he ran after the fifteen-year-old boy.
"Dad, why are you doing this!?" The boy questioned, as he tripped over a tree root that had grown above ground. He looked up to Sesshoutsu. "RUN SESSHOUTSU!" Lupin II grabbed her by the collar before she could even move. Just then he remembered what he had said just before he had left. 'Sesshoutsu, stay here, i will be back. I promise!'
"I thought I told you not to associate yourself with this little wench!" Arsene's father scolded, holding the girl nearly three feet in the air. He drew his gun, a Wather P36, and aimed it at her head. "She is going to have to pay for your action's Arsene."
"Dad! No!" Arsene III yelled, drawing a gun of his own, given to him by his grandfather. "Dad!" He cried.
"KAPOW!" The gunshot seemed to go on and on, as Arsene Lupin II fell to the ground with a loud 'thud'. Lupin III ran to his father's side, then fell to his knees. He sat there, crying over his father's dead body.
"Arsene!" Sesshoutsu cried as she hugged him around his back. He pushed her away, and fell onto his father. There he lay for nearly three days, crying over his father's body. Once he finally got up, and left, bringing with him his father's gun, something he would never let go of. Then he had realized that Sesshoutsu was gone, and so would be for ten years.~~~

"Father..." A single tear fell from the thief's eye. "How could you have just left me there!? I was all alone." Sesshoutsu didn't say a word, just looked down at her feet. "Tell me Sesshoutsu, why didn't you stay!?" He shook her, and yet, no answer.

~~~~~~~~~~~~ So...whadda ya think!? I know that Lupin's daddy wasn't really that mean...but hey...what can I say...and i am really, quite sure that it didn't go that way...but it could have...*raises eyebrows*...right!? Anyways...R&R please...i will love you forever!!!