Grr, this is later than I wanted it to be. My mind is evil and also I was in the most horrible mood for a couple of days. And once I got over it, I didn't feel like writing much. Until today, that is, when I was finally able to sit down and write this. Ghost Hunters International... :o -gets all excited and such- And a new Ghost Hunters episode! -dances- And we got snow! Three things to put me in a great mood. x3 Anyway, enjoy the very odd end of this story. :3 It kept changing as I was writing it. And Goemon's part was hard to write. And the end came out a lot differently, but I suck at endings. xD

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A Piano in the Museum

By D. Ant

Goemon looked up, turning and glaring at the piano. "That instrument...it's too evil to leave lying around." He gripped his sword, turning his body to destroy it, when the song started.
Lupin sighed a breath of relief. He then waited and watched.
Goemon looked around, his eyes resting on Fujiko, a slight smile coming to his face.
"What's on your mind, Goemon?" Lupin asked.
"She's so beautiful," he sighed. "Like most women in the world."
"So, you do like women?" Lupin was kind of surprised, the way Goemon always acted around them.
"I love them. I want to just...walk up to them and tell them how beautiful I think they are. I want to hold them, I want to have my way with them."
Lupin was more afraid than he was amused. He now regretted going further. "Um, you can destroy the piano now, Goemon."
"But why?" Goemon asked. "This song, it's so beautiful. It's like women. Although, unlike women, you can't fuck music."
Fujiko and Jigen looked up at Goemon, their mouths hanging open at what he was saying.
"Wait, what?" Jigen asked. "You...really want to sleep with women? Lupin told me you were gay!"
"I did not!" Lupin said, glaring at Jigen.
"Did too!" Jigen yelled back.
"Oh, so is that why you always hung around him?" Lupin grinned.
"And just what is that supposed to mean?!"
"I don't know, what do you think it's supposed to mean, Yellow?"
"What did you call me?!" Jigen reached back and grabbed hold of his gun.
Fujiko sighed, rolling her eyes at the childish bickering of the two. She then looked over at Goemon. "Why don't you ever open up to women, Goemon?"
Goemon looked down in shame. "My master, he told me women were evil. He told me that they were demons and should be avoided."
"We're not all evil demons, Goemon." She stood and walked towards him flirtingly.
"No, but you have shown me that you are one. You are what my master warned me about, but..."
"But what?" She moved her hand across his chest as she walked around him, leaning against his back as she wrapped her arms around his waist. "What do you want to say, Goemon."
By now, Lupin and Jigen had stopped arguing and were staring at Fujiko and Goemon.
"I wanted to say that...that..."
"Yes?" she asked.
"I..." He turned his head to the side. He wanted to say the words, but they were so hard.
Lupin and Jigen stood, waiting, wanting to scream at him to just spit it out.
"Do you want to fuck me, Goemon?" Fujiko asked, the thoughts starting to turn her on.
Lupin was now quickly depressed, as Fujiko never asked him that in all the years he knew her. He sighed and went off to sulk, leaning against the piano and staring off.
"Yes," Goemon finally forced out.
"I would like that," Fujiko purred, moving to the front of him and gently kissing his lips.
He returned the kiss with one of his own, the two caught up in the passion as the music stopped.
Goemon opened his eyes. "Augh! What are you doing?!" he screamed, shoving her away from him. 'Wait, did that all just happen? Did I really say...?' He looked at the three and then turned and ran off.
"Oh great," Jigen sighed. "He's gonna try to kill himself again." He walked off to where Goemon ran, once again performing his task of preventing Goemon's death.
"Why don't you ever talk to me like that?" Lupin pouted.
Fujiko scoffed. "Oh please, Lupin. I was just seeing what he'd do. Do you think I really meant all of that?"
"I'm not an idiot, Fujiko," Lupin said. He stood and began to pace, rambling on about love while he did.
'Hmmm, what's that?' Fujiko eyed an object laying on the floor near the piano. Wandering to it, she saw it was a narrow elongated box, picking it up and lifting off the lid. 'Another music scroll? Hmmm...' She looked over at Lupin and smirked.
Lupin was too busy rambling to notice Fujiko inserting the reel. But when the music started, he stopped talking, taking a moment to soak in the melody.
"How do you feel, Lupin?"
He looked at her with sad eyes. "I feel worthless. I always feel worthless. I don't...I don't know why I even continue on. Life just doesn't seem worth it, anymore."
Fujiko gasped. She thought he would make a complete fool out of himself. She didn't expect him to be the suicidal type.
"I never wanted to be a thief," he continued. "I had to be one, though, for some reason. I mean, what's the big draw to stealing things? It's all so pointless. Everything is pointless. Do you ever feel that way?" He looked at Fujiko as tears rolled down his cheeks.
"Lupin..." She walked towards him and held him in comfort. She had never seen him this pathetic, this easy to just give up on everything he had built for himself. "I'm sorry to have put you through this. I didn't know..."
"It's okay, Fujiko," he said, wrapping his arms around her and holding her tightly.
"Lupin, you're squeezing too tight." She struggled to get away, but she couldn't escape his grip. "Lupin!"
"Don't leave me, Fujiko. Who knows what will happen if you do..."
"Huh? Wh-what do you mean?"
"I'll kill myself if you leave me," he said, a serious look on his face. "Do you want that, Fujiko?"
"No...I don't want you to die, Lupin. I love you..." She began to cry, her head rested on his shoulder. "I'll never leave you. Never."
"Good," Lupin said, a smile coming to his face. "Be sure you don't or else..."
The music stopped, Fujiko backing away from Lupin and staring him in the eyes.
"Fujiko..." His voice was shaky.
"Shh, it's okay," she said in a low voice. "Why don't we go somewhere? Just the two of us? Does that sound good?"
Lupin nodded, a blank look on his face. "Yeah..." he mumbled.
"Come on, let's go." She wrapped her arm around his and led him out of the room.
Lupin looked back at the piano and smiled. 'You made it all too easy. But I wonder, what would I have said if the music really affected me? Probably nothing as good as I came up with.' He laughed on the inside, he and Fujiko leaving the store room, the good times of what he was sure to come running through his mind, making his childish horny self salivate.