#jilu

Daisuke  Daisuki

I wrote a short scene to accompany this which you can read under the cut!

Everyone remembered when and where they were the moment they realised they were in love with Lupin the Third. 

Or at least Jigen assumed so, because how could you ever forget? 

Countless women had fallen for his charms, their lives irrecoverably changed forever. Whether they were young and impressionable or older and jaded, they all fell eventually. 

Maybe it happened to guys too, Jigen hadn’t really noticed, or looked the other way when it happened (Lupin and Pops sure seemed to have something going on there, healthy or not.)

Jigen had the tendency to think it took a certain naivety to fall for him, that if they knew how annoying the bastard was it wouldn’t last long. 

Then it happened; the night Jigen realised that there was some kind of piece missing in his life.

Lupin was standing at a table in wherever their hideout had been, somewhere with low hanging lampshades that filled the basement room with a soft orange glow. 

He had his jacket slung over a nearby chair to combat the stuffiness of the room, wearing his black dress shirt and his over the shoulder gun holster.

Jigen had been walking past the doorway with a cup of coffee in hand and stared. 

Because somehow he knew the kind of expression Lupin was making; the excited sparkle in his eyes as he thought over his plans, the confident smile as he tweaked a fine point here and there. 

He’d noticed how slender the V of his back was, how tiny his waist, how his clothes fit him so perfectly (and yeah, maybe spent a bit too long staring at his ass).

But everything aside, he realised that he would stay with this guy even if they weren’t working together. 

“Hey boss,” Jigen muttered, his tongue feeling thick and clumsy in his mouth, “it’s getting late, you’ll damage your eyes if you stare at your plans anymore." 

Lupin turned to him with that subdued ecstatic glitter in his eyes. Not the greedy glitter of a thief dreaming about loot, but of childlike excitement and curiosity. 

"Why Jigen my dear, what do you think these are for?” Lupin smiled and tapped the thick plastic frame of his glasses.

Jigen’s heart started to pound and his pulse had been beating in his throat. A pulse that thumped all the way to his lips until he was screaming for something to relieve it. 

Lupin nodded at the cup of coffee in Jigen’s hand. “I’m not the only one pulling an all-nighter?" 

"Someone’s gotta watch this place, I don’t trust the locks on that door. Any idiot with a hairpin could break in.” Jigen gruffed, taking a sip of his coffee which was quickly growing lukewarm and forgotten in his hand. He was surprised he hadn’t spilled it on the floor with how hard he had been ogling his partner.

“No wonder you’re always so tired during the day!" 

Jigen gestured at him with his cup. "Yeah well never mind about me. You better get some sleep." 

"My mind is too awake. There’s something about this job that’s stumping me.” Lupin turned back over to the table, shifting his hips so that his back was a perfect arc. 

Jigen couldn’t fucking take it anymore. 

He had taken a risk that night. Guys in their line of work didn’t risk a partnership by getting into it with their partners in crime. 

But boy had it paid off.

He hadn’t been able to stop himself stroking his hand over that perfect curve of back and sweeping down over Lupin’s crisp shirt. It came to rest on Lupin’s lower back where he stroked his thumb back and forth. 

His boss jolted and turned to look at him as he moved to Lupin’s side. Big eyes under his dorky glasses and lips slightly parted. 

Jigen’s voice hadn’t sounded the same, husky with unfiltered need for his partner. “You better go to bed and relax, or I’ll have to do something to make you relax.”

Lupin’s surprise turned to a big smile, almost relief, like he had been waiting  for Jigen to say it for a while. He grinned wide and lifted up his glasses to eye him cheekily. “That a promise?" 

Jigen leaned in for a kiss, Lupin turned his face to accept him. Their lips met like they had been doing this forever. 

As Jigen sighed into Lupin’s mouth, he thought he heard a small ‘click’.

Maybe I’m too busy bein’ yours to fall for somebody new