Are You Ready For Love
Author's Note: Looks Like this story is going to be long than I thought I would be. The Sequel will be up as soon as this one is over. It will be called Open Arms, and its Jigen's story. I hope you guys will like it. I'm already working on the first chapter.
Disclaimer: Not Mine
Chapter Title: I Wanna Know What Love Is
Chapter Summary: The Sleight Before Christmas
I wanna know what love is
I want you to show me
I wanna feel what love is
I know you can show me
I Wanna Know What Love Is, Foreigner
(On With The Story)
Jigen woke up the next morning and felt Alex still sleeping beside him. He rolled over and smiled at her sleeping form. It was amazing how close they had become in so short a time. He had never thought he would feel this way about anyone, and it shocked him. Alex woke up and looked up at him.
"Morning," she said yawning.
"It is a good one," he replied leaning down to kiss her.
"Jigen, did you ever consider giving this life up," she asked him when he broke off the kiss.
"What do you mean," he asked looking at her.
"I mean quit being a thief," she replied.
"Not possible unless I want to go to jail for twenty years," he told her.
"Oh, well then, would you ever consider turning yourself in, like is there anything that would make you want to do that," Alex asked him.
"Like what?"
"Like being with me would you ever turn yourself in so you could be with me," she asked him.
"No, because if I did that means you would have to wait twenty years to be with me and miss your chance at having kids, trust me you would want to do that," Jigen told her.
"How do you know," she asked. "What if I don't ever plan on having kids, some women don't want to have kids."
"Trust me, I know someone who couldn't have kids and it hit her big time when she found out, you'll want kids, maybe not know, but in a few years you will," he told her.
"I guess you're right," she told him.
"I just know right now is one of the best moments of my life," he told her.
He was telling the truth too, waking up beside Alex made him feel as if everything was right in his life and he didn't know why.
"I know what you mean, if I didn't know better I would think I was," Alex broke off and looked away like she didn't want to say it.
"You would think you were what?"
"That I was in love with you," Alex told him softly. "But that's crazy talk because we haven't known each other long enough for that."
Jigen looked at her and smiled slightly.
"I know how you feel, only known each other for a few days and already I can't stand being away from you," he told her and leaned down to kiss her.
"Do you think we're completely crazy for jumping into a relationship so soon?" she asked him.
"Maybe, but what's life if not a bit crazy," he asked her.
"True," Alex replied and kissed him.
Jigen kissed her back and smiled at her again.
"What do I smell," she asked him.
"Someone's cooking, which means someone is in a good mood but I can't think of who," Jigen told her.
"Well come on, I'm hungry," Alex said jumping up.
"I'm not sure you want to go out there like that," Jigen replied raising an eyebrow at her.
"Right," Alex said when she looked down and realized she was completely naked. Alex hurried up and got dressed then looked at him.
"Aren't you getting up," she asked him.
"I guess so," he said getting up and getting dressed.
They walked out his room to see Fujiko in the kitchen cooking breakfast.
"What are you cooking," Alex asked her.
"The usual, eggs, bacon, hash browns, toast, and sausage," Fujiko replied.
By the time Fujiko got down listing what she was cooking, Alex looked ready to start her very own river with drool.
"Okay, I don't want to have to buy a rain coat, quit drooling," Jigen told her.
"Sorry, I'm just starving," Alex told him with a shy smile.
"So I can see," Jigen told her.
"What smells so good," said Goemon's voice from the doorway.
"Breakfast," Fujiko replied.
"Looks good too," he told her with a rare smile.
"When did you start cooking?"
"When I started traveling with three guys who don't know a skillet from a pan," she replied.
"Very funny," Goemon replied and kissed her.
Jigen looked at Alex in shock and smiled. Finally he wouldn't hear anymore complaining about Goemon wanting to be with Fujiko.
"Now go sit down," Fujiko said after they broke the kiss off. "I almost burnt the food."
"Not my fault you got distracted," Goemon said with a chuckle.
"If it isn't then I wonder who the stranger who came in and kissed me was," Fujiko replied dryly.
"Right," Goemon replied and sat down at the table next to Jigen and Alex.
"You guys finally hooked up I see," Jigen said looking at him.
"Yeah," Goemon replied.
"I'm glad you finally got together, now you can quit talking my friggen ear off about how much you love her and would never get over her," Jigen said.
"You look like hell," Alex said looking at Goemon.
"What do you mean," he asked her.
"You look like hell," she repeated.
He did too, his hair was a mess sticking every which way and his clothes looked like they had been through a storm. Fujiko looked at him and laughed.
"Goemon, haven't you heard of a brush," she asked him.
"Does it look that bad," he asked her.
"It looks like someone took a used mop and put it on your head," she told him setting the plates of food on the table.
"That's not good," he said as he started eating.
"I don't think anyone cares what they look like this morning," Jigen said to Fujiko.
"More than likely not, too good of a morning," she told him.
"For all of us I suppose," Alex said.
"True," Goemon replied.
After that they all ate in relative silence until Lupin walked in the room. He sat down and looked between them.
"Did someone die? Why is it so quiet," he asked.
"We were just enjoying a quiet meal," Fujiko replied.
"Yeah baboon, quiet, as in no talky talky," Alex replied.
"What the hell kinda talk it that," Lupin asked.
"Alex talk," Jigen replied. "She does it for fun sometimes."
"And let me guess, you think it's so cute," Lupin replied in a sick voice.
"I don't comment on it, I usually ignore it and go back to what I was doing before she started talking like that," Jigen said shaking his head. "And what the friggen hell is wrong with you?"
"Nothing," Lupin snapped.
He grabbed a plate of food and sat down and started eating. They went back to their quiet meal while Lupin sat there eating with a scowl on his face.
"What the friggen hell is wrong with you Lupin, you look like a kid who was told they couldn't have candy," Jigen said.
"Nothing is wrong," Lupin told him.
"And why the hell did you bring your girlfriend here when she could tell pops where we are? You know your track record with women, she's probably another traitor."
"Because I happen to trust this one, and she won't tell pops where we are," Jigen told him.
"Who's pops," Alex asked confused. "A very ugly, annoying, stupid, obsessive inspector," Fujiko replied. "Oh," was all Alex said.
"Of course, you trust her so we all should, well I don't," Lupin said and walked out.
"What's up his ass," Alex asked the others.
"Fujiko," Jigen and Goemon said together.
"What's that supposed to mean," Fujiko asked offended.
"How many times have you guys broken up?" Jigen asked her.
"Millions," Fujiko replied.
"And how many times has he left you alone and not chased you afterwards, or at least not pouted until you took him back," Goemon asked.
"Never," Fujiko said.
"He already wants you back and that's what's wrong with him," Jigen told her.
"Well he's not getting me back," Fujiko said.
"We know, but he doesn't," Goemon told her.
"Well he will soon enough," Fujiko told them.
"Alright, the baboon gets dissed," Alex said.
"I like this girl, she hates Lupin as much as I do, why do you hate him," Fujiko asked.
"Well I never told Jigen this, but one day at practice for the race he was hitting on me, so I beat him us," Alex said.
"No wonder he had a black eye the day I met you," Jigen said chuckling.
"Of course, Amber taught me how to stick up for myself," Alex told him with a grin.
"Well I'm glad she did," Jigen told them.
"You guys, I have our next heist," Lupin yelled from the living room excitedly.
(Meanwhile at a Hotel in Paris)
"Cheap wine and bread to break your teeth, it's no wonder they can't win a war," Zenigata muttered trying to eat.
"Why don't you quit complaining," Lorraine muttered from a chair across from him.
"I just hate France," Zenigata told her.
"I don't they have a city with my name," Lorraine said with a smile.
"That must make you feel important," Zenigata said.
"Of course it does, I'm sure you'd like it if you had a city with one of your names," she told him.
"Uh huh," he said and went back to trying to eat.
"Why don't you ever talk," Lorraine asked him apparently very bored.
"I don't have much to say," he replied.
"Really, well you could tell me about your daughter," she said.
"Well Aria just turned to five, that's why I called her the other day to wish her happy birthday. She has straight black hair and brown eyes," he told her.
"What's she like," Amber asked him.
"Hilarious, she'll do the silliest things," Zenigata said with a very rare smile. "Her mom called me one day and told me she tried to wash a fish with the water in the fish tank."
"How'd her mom react to that one," Lorraine asked.
"Told her that a fish lives in water, it doesn't need a bath," Zenigata said.
"Well at least you know she wants to take care of pets," Lorraine said with a giggle.
"Yeah, she said after that she made her watch Finding Nemo to show that fish doesn't need a bath, she regretted it later. She asked her to get a fish that looked like Dori," Zenigata told her.
"She sounds funny," Lorraine told him.
"As I said, she's hilarious," Zenigata said. Lorraine looked at him and smiled a little.
It was obvious he loved his daughter very much; it must be killing him to be away from her so long. She thought back to her son in New York with a pang. She had called him the other day, but her parents told her he was taking a nap so she wasn't able to talk to him. She had already missed his second birthday; she wondered how many more she would have to miss before they got Lupin behind bars.
"What about your son, what's he like," Zenigata asked her.
"Well he looks like his dad; he has blond hair and brown eyes. He doesn't do anything strange yet, he just turned two so right now he's driving my parents up the wall with his antics," Lorraine said.
"Where's his father?"
"Christian left right after I told him I might be pregnant. His father was working with the Italian mob I think it's called. I'm not sure, I just know it was dangerous for me to be with him, especially working at the Academy," she told him.
"Oh," Zenigata replied, he couldn't think of anything else to say.
That's when they saw the letter slip under the door. Zenigata's eyes quickly scanned over the contents of the letter and he jumped up.
"Lupin," he yelled and tripped, his bread falling out the window landing on a car and leaving a pretty good sized dent.
"Out the window before they charge you for damage," Lorraine hissed pulling him out the way. "What'd the note say.
"Lupin is going after the famous Napoleon Bonaparte wine tomorrow, so I guess we are going to have to guard some old wine," Zenigata told her.
"Why would he go after some wine," Lorraine asked confused.
"My guess is Fujiko and him got in a fight and he wants to get her back," Zenigata told her.
"Do they do that often," Lorraine asked.
"Do birds fly?"
"Let me take that as all the time," Lorraine asked him.
"They say more goodbyes than Cher," Zenigata told her.
"Wow, why don't they just break up for good then?"
"Because Lupin's a dumb ass and chases her all over the world to keep her," Zenigata told her.
"Of course, he can never give anything up can he," Lorraine asked.
"Why do you think I'm still chasing him," he told her.
"Good point, come on, we better go save that wine," Lorraine muttered.
"I know," Zenigata replied.
They quickly left the hotel and met up with the security guards watching the wine. "Hello Inspector Sanitation," One of them said to him.
"It's Zenigata," Zenigata said annoyed.
Lorraine set back as Zenigata posed his trick on Lupin, forcing them to take him to the wrong brewery. She couldn't believe Zenigata was actually smart enough to do this. She could tell he was getting annoyed with the guard however; he kept screwing up Zenigata's last name. She actually found it funny that the guard remembered hers and didn't remember Zenigata's.
She just sat back and enjoyed the ride while Zenigata butchered the French language. They got to the brewery and sat everything up waiting for Lupin to show up. They watched as he rolled three barrels into the room and take off the tops. He was shocked when Fujiko, Jigen, and Goemon stepped out of them. They heard Lupin say something then all started looking around as if looking for something.
"Alright Lupin we got you, little did you know I lead you right into a trap," Zenigata yelled from the rafters.
Lorraine shook her head and put it in her hands.
Why did he always have to announce he was there? Didn't he know better? That's when she saw Goemon jump up and slice to tops of barrels of wine.
"Oh shit," was all she said before running out of the brewery, she wasn't about to be swallowed in a wave of cheap French wine. After a few minutes Lorraine walked back in too see Zenigata getting drunk with the French guards.
"Great," she muttered grabbing him by his trench coat and pulling him out. She got him back to the hotel and sat him down in a chair where he passed out.
(The Next Day)
"You guys are a bunch of friggen light weights," Jigen said from his chair.
"Could you not talk to so loud," Lupin whined.
They were all sitting in the living room with ice packs on there heads, save for Alex she had to go home earlier for a Christmas party he dad had planned at their home in New York.
"Just for the record, I had never gotten a hangover from Saki," Goemon told him.
"Gee, could that be because it tastes like your wrung it out from your gym socks," Lupin snapped.
(Meanwhile)
"If I promise not to throw up on your shoes do you think you could get my name right," Zenigata said to the French guard.
Lorraine couldn't help but laugh it was his fault he had the hangover, and now he was having an extremely bad day. They sat down in their seats and a few minutes later Lorraine found herself falling asleep. When she woke up, she heard Zenigata being congratulated on saving the wine. As they were getting off the plane she looked at him.
"That's not the wine is it?"
Zenigata shook his head.
"Are we dead," she asked him.
Zenigata nodded.
"Great," she muttered, being insulted by her own president wasn't on her to-do list. That's when they found out that Lupin had taken a bunch of toys that were meant for needy children. They made their way to the White house dreading what was going to happen once they found out it wasn't the wine.
(At A Hotel In Washington DC)
The Lupin gang was sitting in front of a TV watching the White House dinner waiting for the president to realize it was juice instead of wine. They were a little shocked when the president liked the juice. But they were pissed when they tasted their wine and it tasted like crap. Then they heard what Zenigata was saying on the TV.
"It's despicable I tell you, stealing from needy children, and I thought Lupin could sink no lower," he was yelling.
They all looked at each other and sliced open the crate; they were shocked when a bunch of dolls fell out.
"Hey I had one of these when I was a kid," Fujiko said looking at them.
A few minutes later Zenigata's broadcast was interrupted by Lupin.
"We all make mistakes pops, at least I make up for mine," he said over the TV. They looked out the window to see dolls falling in the air and Lupin throwing them out a helicopter.
"Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good heist," Lupin yelled.
"Alright Lupin, you've made your point, now get back in the helicopter, I have some place I want to be," Jigen told him.
Lupin got back in the helicopter and sat down, too all appearances it seemed as if he enjoyed playing Santa.
Well time for my thank you's.
Thank you Psycho-Katrina15 for your kind reviews. You know it means a lot to me girl, and I am going to mention your story here. People, check out Love Will Find A Way, awesome story, and it has Jigen and Alex in it, YAY. It's all about them really, the girl I stole Alex from.
And J. Lucy-Daisuke, thank you so much for you awesome review. It means a lot. Don't worry there will be a whole lot more of Alex and Jigen to come. And of course a whole lot more of Fujiko and Goemon, I hope. Oh, and I'm seriosly considering that Inuyasha fic. I should have it done in a few months. I think it might be a chapter fic, I dunno. It should be started soon though.