Are You Ready For Love

Chapter One: Complicated

Chapter Summary: You meet my characters, and you find out about the problems in their lives.

Disclaimer: Lupin The Third is property of Pioneer entertainment.

Author's Note: I think these chapters will be the names of songs; I have a few songs that go with this couple that I am hoping to use on them.

Goemon looked over as he watched Fujiko as she talked to Lupin. For the past two years he has watched her waste her life on that man. Last year he had thought he had moved on, only to have his heart crushed. He has been working with Lupin for going on five years now; Fujiko has been dating him for the past two and a half.

The only person that knew how he felt was his friend Jigen. Jigen has been even more closed since that Spanish dancer tried to get him and Lupin to kill each other. He had fallen for that girl as soon as he saw her, and she crushed him. She was working for a guy in the Mafia that he had been running from when he joined Lupin. Goemon sighed and walked out of the room.

He couldn't stomach the way Fujiko was looking at Lupin. It was becoming harder and harder to hide his feelings from Fujiko. He didn't know how much longer he could hold them in. He didn't understand this, things between them used to be so simple, and now their not.

"You okay," he heard a gruff voice ask.

Goemon turned around to see Jigen standing, leaning against the way with a cigarette hanging out of his mouth, and his hat pulled down low.

"Yeah, just can't stomach that much," Goemon said.

"I know what you mean, he has her literally eating out of the palm of his hand," Jigen muttered.

"What are you complaining about, you don't trust woman, remember," Goemon said.

"I know, and I don't, I haven't since I was a teenager, and I never will again," he said, throwing his cigarette down and walking into the building.

Goemon wished he felt the same way.

Fujiko looked up when Goemon walked out of the room. Things with him had been so tense lately. He had been her best friend and confidant when she was twelve and older.

When she was a teenager she went through some tough times and he had been there for her. Now, she wanted her best friend on her side, and he isn't talking to her. She had no idea why, and she had no idea how to get him to talk to her again. He was the most important thing in her life, and she really wanted things to be right with him.

"You okay Fujicakes, looking a little down there," Lupin said to her cheerfully.

"Yeah, I'm okay," she told him, with a fake smile.

"Alright, wanted to make sure my girl was happy," he said.

"She's happy," she told him.

She noticed Jigen come in, and gave him a small smile. He had helped them on some many occasions. Even though she knew he didn't like her personally, she couldn't help but respect the man. He had been hurt so much, and he had barely let it show. Unless you call becoming more withdrawn and gruff showing that you had had your heart broke.

"Are you listening to me," Lupin asked her.

"Yeah, I'm listening," Fujiko lied.

"What did I just say then?" he asked her.

"Sorry, I can't remember, I was too busy looking at you," she said, knowing he would fall for it.

"Oh," he replied.

As Lupin went back to talking, (more than likely about the next heist), Fujiko's thoughts once again drifted back to her best friend Goemon. She didn't know when it happened, but she needed him in her life. She would always need him. He was her rock and she wanted him to be there for her.

She didn't know when her relationship with her best friend got so complicated but it did. She only hoped things worked out.

Author's Note: I know the first chapter wasn't that strong. But it was only to introduce the characters in my story. This chapter's title came from the song Complicated by Caroline Dawn Johnson. A song about a best friend in love with another friend, I thought it fit. Please review, next chapter will be up soon.

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