Yet again, another chapter, from yours' truly, Kitaka-sama. Why do you even read this stuff anymore!? I mean, seriously! Well, if you insist on reading it.I wont make you stop.plus, reviews are fun.thanks for all the good reviews!!! Yay for me!

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"Show me what you have got!" Sesshoutsu demanded. This was the tenth game of poker she and Jigen had played so far, and most likely the tenth she had won. Jigen laid down two queens, a jack and two aces. "He, he, I have you beat again!" Sesshoutsu announced, throwing four kings and an ace in front of the gunman.
"Damn it! Well, I guess this will be the last game for me." Jigen added.
"Oh, c'mon Jigen!" Sesshoutsu persuaded, with her uncommon childlike innocence.
"Sorry Sessh. You cleaned me out."
"Er! You are no fun!" Jigen looked up, and paused.
"Err.." He mumbled.
"What!?" Sesshoutsu had noticed that Jigen had not taken his eyes off of what he had been looking at. She turned around. "Lupin." "Sesshoutsu, I am sorry." Lupin stated, apologetically. She turned, and started walking.

'Wait, isn't this how it ended last time!? No, It isn't going to happen again. That stupid wench is going to pay.' Sesshoutsu thought to herself.
"What do you say we go back up to the room!?" Jigen offered, trying to comfort the now dumbfounded woman.
"Uhm, sure." Sesshoutsu replied. Jigen lead her to the room. Every step she took made the pain a million times worse. Scenes from her childhood with Arsene flashed through her mind and she was about to scream. The thought of losing Lupin again mentally killed her. She wanted to tell him why she couldn't stay the day his father took the fall, but she couldn't. She couldn't put him in that sort of danger. Like she was, and still had been. She broke down, and fell into Jigen's arms, sobbing.
'Lupin, you asshole! How could you have done that!?' Jigen was usually loyal to his friend, but this time, Lupin had crossed the line. It wasn't like him to do that sort of thing. Fujiko must have done something to him. There was no other way. 'Damn wench!'
"C'mon Sessh." Jigen lead her into the room.

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'Sesshoutsu.' Lupin felt the same pain as when his father died all over again, seeing her leave. How could he not!? He had been in love with her almost all of his life, or at least all he could remember of it. Maybe he had chosen the wrong woman. He looked at Fujiko, and noticed how ecstatic she was to "belong" to Lupin. 'How did I get myself into this!?'

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The sunset seemed dark and cynical to Sesshoutsu that night. She had nothing to look forward to, except her morbid thoughts of the death she had been planning for her only rival; Fujiko Mine. She had such antipathy for the woman. What had she done to Arsene? Sesshoutsu and Jigen had been sitting outside; Jigen smoking one of his trademark bent cigarettes. Both Jigen and Sesshoutsu felt how cold and dark the night could be.
Jigen had lost his best friend to a wench that he pretty much despised. He hated Fujiko as well, but somehow had managed to tolerate her up until they had met in the casino. He glanced at Sesshoutsu, then back at the sunset. She was in pain. Lupin wasn't worth her time. None of them were. Jigen knew that, but for some reason he could not shake his feelings for her. There had been something inside of him ever since the car ride. 'A woman like that,' Jigen thought. 'You would be lucky to find in a million years.'
His eyes found their way back to Sesshoutsu. 'Hum.' he raised his eyebrows. She was beautiful in the sunset. Her black hair flowed, and reflected the pink/purple sky. Her entire body did. The colors set on Sesshoutsu's skin like they belonged there. The blue shown in her eyes now more than ever before and the entire sunset shone in her tears. She might as well have had wings and a halo.
'Er, I really have to stop this.' Jigen thought to himself. He slid his hands into his pockets, and passed in front of Sesshoutsu, on his way back to the room. "Jigen." Sesshoutsu placed a hand on his arm. "Yeah?" His heart paced faster, but he still kept his cool facade. "Where are you going!?" She questioned, fresh out of her trance.
"I have to talk to Lupin." Sesshoutsu let go of his arm, and placed her hand back on the bench. Jigen took one last puff of his cigarette, then flicked it as he entered the building.

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And so ends another chapter in the pathetic story I made up.and from what I have gathered, you love it.and I love you too which is quite frightening! In both aspects. Anyways, Peace out! :P ~~ Kitaka-sama