Are You Ready For Love
Disclaimer: Not Mine
Author's Note: I just realized that I have only like four or five more chapters to go on this story before the sequel. Wow. Oh and this chapter should have been Now Museum and Now You Don't if I was following the story right, but I just don't feel like that one is important to the plot. Sorry if I offended any fans of that episode.
Chapter Title: I Need You Tonight
Chapter Summary: Zenigata-Con.
And I need you tonight
I need you right now
I know deep within my heart
It doesn't matter if it's wrong or right
I really need you tonight
I Need You Tonight, Backstreet Boys
(On With The Chapter)
Fujiko was sitting in her room thinking. She had just spent the last two weeks ignoring Goemon because she didn't want to admit that she enjoyed the kiss that they had shared. It had made her feel special; she knew Goemon didn't just go around kissing girls like Lupin did. She didn't want to admit that she wanted to know how it felt to be kissed by Goemon Ishikawa again.
If she admitted that she would have to admit that she preferred him over Lupin which she didn't know if she did. She was in love with Lupin, but for some reason she couldn't stop thinking about Goemon. These feelings were way to complicated for her. Goemon was her best friend; she wasn't supposed to want to be with her best friend. Was She?
She also wanted to know what spurred the kiss on by Goemon. Was it the fact that she was so close to death that he wanted to kiss her, or was it something else? She remembered one thing about when they were sixteen that she pretended not to remember. It was a month after the night Goemon found out about what her dad did.
She had a scare that day to where she thought she was pregnant, and people spread it around that it was Goemon's kid. So when she got home her dad went off on her for being pregnant with "That Samurai's kid," as he put it. She wouldn't put up with him accusing Goemon of that so she fought back and got hit for it. She ran to Goemon's and he let her spend the night with him. It was nothing new; she stayed at his house all the time.
But when they were asleep they somehow wound up kissing each other. She woke up to the feeling of Goemon wrapping his arms around her waist pulling her closer and kissing her. She played it off that she was still asleep, but she knew he wasn't. When he realized what he was doing he stood up and went downstairs. She waited a few minutes then got up and walked down the hall to see him coming towards her. She pretended nothing happened and they went to bed. But she still carries the memory of that kiss in her head.
Goemon had been willing to claim the kid she was afraid she would have as his own. Luckily it was a false alarm and she was able to carry on life as normal as hers got.
That's when Lupin barged into her room; he was holding an envelope in his hand and grinning from ear to ear.
"What are you so happy about," she asked him raising an eyebrow.
"Remember that millionaire you are so found of, Mr. Marcel I think his name is," Lupin asked her.
"Yeah?"
"We've been invited to his party," he told her.
"Are you serious," she asked him.
"Yes I am," he told her. "So are you going to thank me now our later, because I was really hoping for now."
"This is so great, I can't believe it, the guy is absolutely amazing," Fujiko said staring at the invitation.
"And once again, I am ignored," Lupin muttered to himself.
(In another room)
"I thought you said you gave up on her," Jigen asked Goemon.
"I have," Goemon replied.
"Then why are you closed up in your room thinking about her," Jigen asked.
"Because I can't help it, trust me, I will get over her, I just need time Jigen," he said.
"What for," Jigen asked.
"Because for the better part of my life she has been my best friend, since I was twelve I haven't spent a single day out of her sight, and I have been in love with her since I was twelve," Goemon told him.
"Poor you," Jigen muttered. "I seriously don't see why you waste your time on a girl who barely spares you the time of day anymore."
"I am not wasting my time, anyways, pops is looking for us, better if we stay inside and avoid sight," he said.
"True, but come on, at least down to dinner, we all have some big surprise Lupin wants to tell us," Jigen muttered.
"Great," Goemon muttered.
"I know how you feel, but I am not missing a good dinner," Jigen said with a grin.
"Always thinking with your stomach," Goemon chuckled.
"I am a man," Jigen replied.
"Right," Goemon said standing up. "Come on, let's get out of here."
"Alright," Jigen replied and they walked out of the hotel room.
(Later on that day)
"Come on Fujiko, we're going to be late," Lupin said.
"Haven't you heard of being fashionably late," she asked him.
"I have, and I don't care to be," Lupin told her.
"Alright," she sighed and walked out with him.
Jigen and Goemon were downstairs when they left. Apparently Jigen had talked him into actually going somewhere which was new to the samurai he was used to staying in all the time.
"Do you think they'll have fun?" Jigen asked him.
"Nope, she has a thing for the Millionaire guy," Goemon told him.
"The one that's throwing the party," Jigen asked.
"Yep," Goemon replied.
"This ought to be good," Jigen said chuckling.
"It should shouldn't it," Goemon replied.
"So, you want to wait it out and see what happens," Jigen asked. "I mean I wouldn't mind finding out what happens."
"Yeah, it's like a train wreck, you want to turn around but you can't," Goemon told him.
"That it is," Jigen replied.
(Later On At The Party)
"I can't help it, I'm under a spell," Fujiko said dreamily walking up the stairs.
"Under a spell, oh great," Lupin whined.
They walked up the stairs to a room in the house that belonged to Mr. Marcel. When they got in there Fujiko started searching for anything on Marcel when a gas started shooting out from the walls.
"Fujicakes," Lupin exclaimed when he saw her faint.
It wasn't long after that he passed out from the gas also. When Lupin opened his eyes he saw Fujiko still out beside him.
"Fujiko, wake up," he whispered.
"Hmm," she said opening her eyes.
"I got good news, and I got bad news," he told her.
"What's the good news," she asked.
"I don't think we're in hell," he told her.
"Not a far cry off though," she muttered. "What's the bad news?'
"The bad news is that's just about it for the good news," he said.
"Well, well, well, I see you have awakened," said an annoying voice from the doorway.
(Back At The Hotel)
"How long till you think he gets tired of Fujiko drooling over Marcel and comes back," Goemon asked.
"I dunno, he puts up with a lot from her, makes me wonder why you're both in love with her," Jigen said. "I personally would have dumped her long ago if she treated me like she does him."
"There is nothing wrong with how Fujiko treats people," Goemon said, and then receiving a look from Jigen conceded. "Ok, maybe she has gotten a little disrespectful, but hey, makes for life being interesting doesn't it?"
"And makes it a living hell sometimes," Jigen told him.
"Nothing wrong with it," Goemon said.
"You're never going to get over her are you," Jigen asked.
"Yeah I am, right now I'm speaking as a friend, she's always been like that," Goemon told him.
"She has, how did you put up with it?" Jigen asked interested now.
"Ignore her," Goemon replied.
"Sounds like a good plan," Jigen replied.
"It used to be," Goemon told him.
"What happened to it," Jigen asked.
"Fell in love," Goemon replied.
"Oh," Jigen replied.
"You guys," said a voice from the doorway. "I need you're help."
Goemon and Jigen looked up to see Lupin standing in the doorway as if hell was following him.
"What happened," Goemon asked him.
"Fujiko's been taken hostage," Lupin gasped.
"What?" Goemon practically yelled jumping up only to be pulled back down by Jigen.
"Yeah, Marcel has her chained up saying if I don't get a file from Scotland Yard, she's dead, along with me, I have a bomb strapped to me," Lupin said.
"How'd you get into the predicament," Goemon asked.
"Fujiko got us in it, she wanted to find out more about Marcel and went up to one of his rooms and got us drugged," Lupin told him.
"But isn't it true that if you hadn't been trying to impress friggen Fujiko you wouldn't have gone anyway," Jigen said. "You're like a friggen teenager."
"You're right, I was thinking with my friggen pants, you guys going to help me or not," he asked them.
"No, you're like a kid Lupin, you have to grow up," Jigen said, and Goemon and him walked out.
"I am not, you guys suck, I don't need you," Lupin said crossing his arms. "Why is everyone being mean to me?"
(Down In The Lobby)
"Do you think we were too tough on him in there," Goemon asked.
"Nah, he needs to learn that other people are affected by his actions, especially when they are on the brink of death," Jigen told him.
"Are we going to help him anyway," Goemon asked.
"Of course, but we're going to wait until he thinks we're not," Jigen told him.
"Alright," Goemon replied.
(Later At Scotland Yard)
Lupin walked in pulling at his overcoat. He hated this particular costume but if he was to sneak into Scotland Yard he had to look like a detective and what better detective than Zenigata. The chief looked up at him and started a conversation until the door opened.
"Excuse me sir, but there's another Inspector Zenigata here to see you," he said and Zenigata walked in the door.
"Ha, thought you were slick dressing up like me didn't you, didn't realize I would be here did you Lupin," Zenigata said.
This continued on the same vein until two more Inspector Zenigatas walked in. Lupin could have jumped for joy, Jigen and Goemon came through for him. He was in shock when the chief had them all lined up and was pacing back and fourth between them.
"Mister Zenigata?" he said.
"Yes," they all said.
The chief groaned and went back to pacing.
"That's enough of this," said one of the Zenigatas and pulled one by the arm walking out with another.
They were both pulling off their masks as they left.
"Come on Lupin," said one.
"You hear that, they called him Lupin," Lupin shouted. "Arrest him."
"Yes, arrest him," said the chief.
"What are you talking about I'm Inspector Zenigata," shouted Zenigata as they drug him out.
The cops cuffed Jigen, Goemon, and Zenigata and drug them to a cell.
Lupin made his way to the records room and picked the lock.
"Souta, what are you doing in here," said a voice softly behind him.
No way, Lupin thought, there's only one reason a woman would use that voice.
Lupin turned around to see the blond they saw with Zenigata while in Italy standing in the door way in hip huggers and a tight sweater. Lupin practically drooled at the picture. He quickly glanced at her tag that way he knew her name.
"Lorraine Adams," it read.
"I told you to wait for me at the hotel," she said walking forward.
Lorraine couldn't believe she was doing this. She had heard the argument going on in the hallway about the other Zenigatas. She was going to make sure this was Souta and the only way for her to do that is to lie and see if he agrees.
Lupin took a deep breath and she made her way to him.
"Don't you remember me telling you that," she said stopping not even an inch from his face.
Oh god, this woman has a thing for pops, Lupin thought; this wasn't in the Job description; just agree and kiss her and everything will be fine.
"Of course I do baby, I was just getting something so we have a longer time together," he said and leaned forward and kissed her.
SMACK!
Lupin was shocked when he felt the hand land across his face.
"Alright you baboon, you're under arrest," he heard before he had a chance to look up.
Damn, it was a trick, he thought.
Lorraine could barely keep her lunch down. To think, that disgusting baboon had kissed her. Oh well, all in a days work, she thought grimly.
"You can't arrest me," he told her.
"And why the hell not," she asked reaching for her cuffs.
"Because you don't have an arrest warrant, you're only Zenigata's partner, he has to arrest me," Lupin told her.
Dammit, Lorraine thought. He was right, her legal jurisdictions go only to helping Zenigata track the master mind down. One day, she vowed, this man would go down.
Lupin ran from the room before she thought of a way out of the predicament and got Jigen and Goemon out of the jail, leaving Zenigata safely behind bars of course.
It wasn't until they got to the airport that they realized they were being followed.
"I got a pair of pretty bracelets with your name on them Lupin," Zenigata yelled jumping out of the car.
"How the hell did he get out," Jigen asked.
"The blonde, she found out I wasn't Zenigata, she must have got him out," Lupin replied.
"How'd she find out who you are," Jigen asked leading them to a helicopter.
"She tricked me into thinking her and Zenigata were dating and waited for me to fall for it," Lupin said.
"Smart woman," Goemon replied.
After a few minutes of air travel they realized Zenigata was following them in a helicopter of his own.
"Pull this thing over," Zenigata said on intercom.
"Why don't you role me in the clover, over," Lupin replied.
"You're going to HELL, over," Zenigata yelled.
"Souta, calm down, what's wrong," Lorraine asked from her seat.
"I hate this guy," he replied.
"Well we know this, but you also respect him, and we're about to crash so don't let you're emotions get the better of you," she told him.
"Right," he replied and started to pay more attention to where he was going.
It was then that Goemon got on top of Jigen's helicopter and stared at Zenigata and Lorraine.
"This isn't going to be good," Zenigata warned Lorraine.
"What do you mean," she asked, but when quiet when she saw him take out his sword.
When they got close enough, he swung out and slide right through the metal. Zenigata got up and pushed Lorraine out of the way to make sure she didn't get cut. Too late though, he had cut the wing of the Helicopter and it was going to crash.
The helicopter landed in a field a few miles away and they had to hurry up and get out before it blew up.
"Thanks, you saved my skin back there," Lorraine told him.
"Don't mention it," Zenigata told her.
"Why do we hate each other," she asked him.
"I wasn't aware that we did," he said looking at her confused.
"Well, you never say more than two words to me on a regular basis, and well sometimes I can't stand to be around you," she admitted.
"Really, well I don't talk much because I'm used to being on my own chasing him, I've been at it for five years," Zenigata told her.
"Doesn't you're wife mind," Lorraine asked.
"Wife? Who said I have a wife," Zenigata asked, clearly not having any clue as to what she meant.
"But the ring," she said confused.
"This ring," he asked pointing to it.
"Yeah," she nodded.
"This is a ring from a marriage that has been over for almost five years, I had a wife, but yeah she minded me being gone so much and it ruined our marriage," he told her.
"No wonder you hate the guy, he ruined you're life, well your job did," she said.
"What about you, what makes you want him gone so much," Zenigata asked her.
"I have a son waiting for me back home, being a single mom and not being around you're kid is really hard to deal with," she told him.
"How old is your son," he asked her.
"Two years old," she told him.
"Really, I have a daughter like two years older than him, almost three," Zenigata told her.
"What's her name," Lorraine asked interested.
"Aria," he replied.
"That's a pretty name," she replied.
"Yeah, what's your son's name," he asked her.
"Caleb," she replied. "Common, but I like the name."
"Well, glad to get to know more about you, but we have to get somewhere, we can't stay out in this field forever," he told her.
"True, come on," she said and they walked towards the nearest town, at least what they hoped was the nearest town.
Lorraine was in shock, she had never guessed he had a family. He had a daughter he probably didn't know too well because he boss wanted him to spend all his time chasing Lupin around. That was bull crap and she knew it, it was killing her to be away from her son for a few months. She had no idea how she would react if she had to stay away from her son for five years. She only hoped that Souta could see his daughter soon. She would try and make it to where he could.
(Meanwhile on the street)
"Summer's here, and time for racing in the streets," Lupin said as he drove a car he stole through a bunch of cops.
"So the bomb explodes if I do this," Goemon said poking it with his sword.
"Stop," Lupin replied but froze as it turned red.
"Umm that's not good is it?" Jigen asked him.
"You guys, you should run for it," Lupin told them.
"No," Jigen and Goemon said together
"I just don't get it, you guys said you didn't want to come and now I can't get rid of you," Lupin said.
"That was the request of a boy, this is the request of a man," Goemon replied. "It was once written that the way of the samurai is in death."
"I can't think of anyone else I would rather die with," Jigen told him.
"Thanks guys," Lupin said.
Lupin pressed the gas harder as they approached the gate to the house.
"Who wants chicken nuggets," he yelled.
Fujiko looked up in shock as the car crashed through the wall. She smiled when she saw Goemon jumped out and pull out his sword. She wasn't as happy when her bonds where cut and she fell on the floor.
"Couldn't you cushion the fall a bit," she asked him as they ran out.
"Sorry," he told her.
Not even five seconds after they left the house it blew up.
"I don't get it, what happened to the bomb," she asked Lupin.
"I slipped it off in the car," he told her.
Fujiko and the others walked off after seeing what Marcel really looked like. He looked like a bug in Fujiko's opinion. Goemon looked at Fujiko and gave her a smirk knowing what she was thinking.
"The mask had to have been bewitched," she muttered as they left.
They were all standing at the balcony of Lupin's room when Jigen handed out a note.
"Lupin this invitation came for you," he told him.
"What invitation," Lupin asked ripping the paper up.
"That was from the queen asking you to have tea with her," Jigen said.
"Oh man, I could have been knighted, hey it could happen," Lupin said glaring at their faces.
The others walked out leaving Lupin to his moping, and Goemon walked Fujiko to her door.
"Night Fujiko," he told her.
"Goemon, thanks for saving me today, I mean you always happen to be there when I need you and I want you to know it means a lot to me," she told him.
"I know Fujiko, as I told Jigen, you're my best friend, and I will always be there for you," he told her.
"You will be won't you," she asked looking into his eyes.
"Yes," Goemon replied looking her in the eyes.
It was like time had stopped for the both of them. Standing there looking in her eyes, Goemon wasn't able to deny the fact that he was still very much in love with Fujiko. No matter how many times he said he was giving up on her. His heart never truly will, and almost losing her tonight didn't help matters much anymore either.
He leaned down and kissed her for the second time. This time she when she kissed him back, it didn't stop at a single kiss. He felt her reach back and open the door to her bedroom, and him, knowing where this was going to lead didn't try to stop her. In fact he picked her up and carried her into her room closing the door behind him.
(End Of Chapter)
Well there you go, Chapter Numero Nuevo, (Number Nine). I hope you guys liked it. And I'll tell you this now. For those of you who didn't get the last few paragraphs. That was just an edited way of saying that Goemon and Fujiko were going to have sex. Sorry to put it so bluntly here, but I hope you like the chapter.
Thanks to all my reviewers. You know who you are, but I'll say it anyway.
Whitesepulchre- Thanks for you're review. I would read one of your stories and review, but well, you didn't leave your pen name if you have one so I couldn't.
Psycho-Katrina15- Of course, thank you. And hey, don't worry about the notes. Got the chapter out didn't I. I even got this one done without notes. The next one is going to be a chore though. Like always.
Fox Xanatos- Thank you for you're review. I know you told me that the one in New York was the next episode, but you see, it didn't fit into the plot at all and I wanted to get this story on the ball. I always knew what would happen between Fujiko and Goemon in France. This chapter by the way. I had always planned that they would sleep together in this chapter. Sorry if that isn't you're cup of tea bye the way. But hey, it's human and it's going to happen, at least I didn't go into detail. I hope you liked this chapter.