Are You Ready For Love
Chapter Two: How Did I Fall In Love With You
Disclaimer: you guys all know the drill. I don't own Lupin The Third. He is property of Pioneer Entertainment.
Author's Note: Please excuse me if this fic isn't that great. It is just that I don't know as much about Lupin The Third, like I do in my Harry Potter fic.
Chapter Summary: you get to learn more of Goemon's feelings for Fujiko. Also, why he feels the way he does about her relationship with Lupin.
BACKSTREET BOYS
"How Did I Fall In Love With You?"
I don't want to live this life
I don't want to say goodbye
With you I wanna spend
The rest of my What can I do, to make it right
Falling so hard so fast this time
What did I say, what did you do?
How did I fall in love with you?
Goemon Isikawa rolled over in his bed and looked at the ceiling. He could tell that Jigen was awake; he had heard the sound on a cigarette being lit.
"Why do you always smoke," he asked to the man across the room.
"It helps me think," Jigen replied.
"What are you thinking about," Goemon asked; more out of his need to keep his mind off Fujiko than interest.
"Nothing much," Jigen replied.
"Don't tell me you're thinking of that fool of a dancer who broke your heart," Goemon said.
"What gives you that idea," Jigen asked sharply.
"Because, since we left Spain you have been one cranky and unhappy person," Goemon said.
"To make you feel any better, no I am not thinking about her, I haven't thought about her in a while," Jigen said.
"Really, because it seems to me that you're constantly remembering her," Goemon said shaking his head. "Admit it Jigen, you fell in love with a girl at first sight and she tried to have you killed."
"Why do you have to constantly bring it up if you don't want me to think about it," Jigen asked him, putting out his cigarette.
"You refuse to admit it, that's why," Goemon said.
"Refuse to admit what?"
"That you had forgotten your mistrust of woman, and had been betrayed," Goemon said.
"Goemon, just drop the subject," Jigen told him.
"Fine, but you can't deny it forever, you have to let people know how you feel and what you're feeling sometime," Goemon said.
"You're certainly one to talk Goemon; you never let people know how you feel," Jigen muttered.
"Jigen, I know, you don't like becoming close to people, but in the last four years we have traveled together, you have become one of my closest friends, and I'm worried about you," Goemon said.
"You don't have to worry about me Goemon," Jigen said. "I'm okay."
"Still, you have closed your self off from everyone," Goemon said.
"I have always been a closed person," Jigen told him.
"But not to your friends you haven't," Goemon said.
"Well, maybe because I don't have many friends," Jigen replied.
"Well, if you need a friend, I'm here for you," Goemon said.
"Thanks for the sappy moment," he told him back.
"It was kinda sappy wasn't," Goemon said with a small grin.
"Sorta, so what's been on your mind, besides Fujiko being sucked into Lupin's every word," Jigen asked.
"Just that, I can't handle it Jigen, you know how I feel about her, how I've always felt about her," Goemon said.
"I know man, but she's in love with Lupin, you know that," Jigen told him.
"I know, and I want her to be with me," Goemon muttered.
"That's normal," Jigen told him.
"Am I just a horrible person for not wanting her to be with Lupin when she loves him?" Goemon asked.
"No, you're just a fool in love," Jigen told him.
"I am huh?" Goemon asked.
"Yeah, you are," Jigen replied.
"Then were you a fool in love," Goemon asked.
"I was more than a fool," Jigen muttered.
"Hey, don't be so hard on yourself, I would have fell for her act also," Goemon said. "Look at Isabelle she fooled me, had me thinking she loved me."
"True," Jigen said looking back out the window.
"I'm going to go for a walk Jigen, I'll be back in a few," Goemon said, he knew the Jigen was going into one of his serious moments.
Goemon didn't know what it was, but he had a feeling that Jigen has been hurt by more than women in his life. As he shut the door he saw Jigen light another cigarette as he was looking out the window.
Fujiko rolled over in bed and looked at the ceiling. It was no use, she couldn't sleep. She had too much on her mind. She looked over at Lupin who was dead asleep next to her. For once in her life, she envied him. She couldn't get to sleep in her life depended on it.
She tried to get up, but couldn't, seeing as Lupin's arms were wrapped around her waist. Finally she got free, put a robe around her nightgown, and walked to the window. It seemed to her as if she was putting on an act for Lupin. It seemed as if he didn't know who she really was. It's been like that for a while in her life. She put on this happy go lucky façade and it wasn't her at all. Her life has been a living hell since she was sixteen. The only constant thing in her life was her best friend, and she feared that she had lost him.
She loved Lupin yeah, but things were not great between them. It seemed as if she couldn't tell him things about her past. She knew that he would probably judge her for him, and she didn't blame him. Fujiko looked over at Lupin sleeping and sighed. No matter how many times her mind told her she should leave him, that things would be much easier that way. Her heart keeps telling her that she should stay. She looked back out the window and saw Goemon walking on the sidewalk. She almost called out to him, but she thought better of it.
That's when he looked up and saw her standing on the balcony. She saw him smile so she smiled back and waved. That's when he waved for her to come down. She didn't think twice about it, she grabbed some sweats and a t-shit and threw them on, then ran downstairs to the sidewalk.
"Hey," she said catching up with him.
"Hello," he said.
"Beautiful night, isn't it," she asked him.
"Yeah, it is," he told her, with a small smile.
"How are you Goemon? We haven't really had a conversation in a while," she asked him.
"I'm great, what about you," he told her.
"Well, right now, I'm great. How can I not be? I'm talking to my best friend," she told him, then hugged him.
"Are you okay," he asked her, concerned.
Fujiko shook her head into his chest then looked up, he could see the tears in her eyes.
"Fujiko, what's wrong," Goemon said.
"I'm just scared, scared that if Lupin finds out the truth about me, he will leave me," she admitted, crying now.
Goemon tensed, then calmed down. He should have known she was scared about her relationship about Lupin. Though she did seem generally glad to see him, he thought.
"It's okay Fujiko, if he loves you, he won't judge you on it," Goemon said.
"Your right," she said, and sighed.
Goemon put his arm around her and lead her to follow him.
"Come on, lets go somewhere to hang out, where you don't have to worry about this," he told her.
"Alright," she said.
Goemon and Fujiko made there way down the road, hearts feeling lighter than they did earlier.
Daisuke Jigen leaned out his window thinking. He couldn't help but think about what Goemon had said. It was true that he had changed since Reina had down what she did to him. That was the name of the dancer who tried to get him killed. She had seemed so innocent and so scared when he had tried to, or so he thought, help her get away from her crazy boss.
It turned out that she was working for someone that Jigen had known in the pas, and was trying to get him killed. Jigen lit his cigarette and looked out the window again. he had fallen for her, and he did feel really stupid for it. He had prided himself on not being tricked by woman, and the first time he had let his guard down, he had almost gotten himself killed. He wouldn't make that mistake twice. He knew now that he would probably never trust another woman in his life.
He let out the smoke from his cigarette and walked back into his room. He put his cigarette and laid down on the bed looking at the ceiling. He hoped that Goemon had better luck with Fujiko than he had with Reina. God knows that he deserved it.
A.N. Don't worry, the story gets happier, but it all starts out really sad and depressing, and serious. Please read and review my story. I hope you enjoy.
Thank you. LunasStar