Hey people! For starters I should say that this is a fanfic by me :D Its content is related to a romance between Trunks (Future) and Gohan (Present). It's a YAOI thing... I love this couple and I decided to write this for there's not that much fics about the emotional stuff I like... I used to write Naruto&Sasuke&Naruto stuff but I'm in a more GohanxTrunksxGohan thing... If you guys want I can update some of my SasuNaruSasu stuff...

As you're all going to figure out, I changed some stuff about the 'Present' Z-Warriors because well... I wanted to xD

I do NOT own any of the Dragon Ball Z characters, they're from Akira, which you all know... The plot written in here, however, is MINE.

Thank you for reading my story, I hope you like it, I'll be glad if you review it and rate and etc so I can know I'm heading the right way!

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I woke up and the sky was gray.

It wasn't because buildings, cars or anything was being destroyed by those two demons, no, since the day Gohan left us the sky was always gray. I used to picture my master, in front of me, with that unique red-blue uniform, smiling in a way only he could. That was the only moment I could see colors again, that I could feel something.

"Trunks? You up?" Mother, Bulma, entered my room, without knocking again "Trunks…" I had the impression she knew I wasn't the same after… that. But she didn't know me and Gohan were beginning to have a relationship beyond master & pupil.

"I'm sorry, I'll get up right away" I tried real hard to smile, I couldn't let her see how weak I really was, how childish "I was up all night yesterday, this time-travelling thing is getting to my nerves".

"Well, you shouldn't be worried, have you forgotten your mother's genius?" She winked at me.

"Not at all" I looked at her with a more serious look "It's just… Well, I'm going to meet father and…" My heart pounded heavily but my mom finished the sentence before me.

"And Gohan…" She got closer to me getting through all the crap it was in my room's floor but I tried to ditch her, although I'm sure it didn't work out, she really was a damn genius after all…

"And… A younger-you and Goku" I looked down "What if they figure out who I am?"

Clearly she understood I didn't want to talk about him, it didn't matter how long ago it happened, it still hurt as much as it did back then.

"Ohw… Don't be silly, how on earth would they find out you're even a saiyan?" She held my hand "Gohan did taught you how to lower your ki enough that even Goku wouldn't be able to tell that you know martial-arts, didn't he?"

"Yeah… He did…" Hearing his name stung my chest and I immediately wished that that conversation was over to "Okay then, let's have breakfast" I got up in a jump and led the way until the kitchen.

Mother and I had our breakfast like any other day and I managed to look at Gohan's empty chair very few times that morning… I've never been that sentimental but everything reminded me of him, his scent, his breath, his voice and his presence whatsoever. Which was weird, to say the least, we only crossed the line of 'friends' and became something more a few weeks prior to the incident; around the time when he'd lost his left arm to be accurate. How could this be? I didn't even have enough time with him!

But everything was settled. I would travel through time on that day.

I was already inside and the glass-made cover began to close when I felt something I had to do and so I climbed out of the machine, grabbed a pen in my room, while my mother yelled asking me if there was something wrong, and rushed back outside.

"What was that?" Mother asked me.

"This" I answer as I wrote Gohan's last word I had heard before blacking out by his own hand. I finished writing it and even though mother didn't know the real meaning that word had to me, she had her own meaning to hold on to, she was a strong willed woman.

H O P E

I got a little distance from the time-machine so I could see it better and as I saw the word I had just written all that happened on that day rushed back to me, like a flashback.

'My head hurts! What happened?'

As if in a snap I remembered it, number 17 and number 18 were seen nearby and me and Gohan would fight-

"GOHAN!" I screamed from the top of my lungs while I raised my ki and flew to the city I was seeing in front of me. I had to help him.

By the time I got there I already knew that my master's ki wasn't anywhere around to be felt but I had refused to think he was dead, Gohan couldn't die, he was much too strong for that. 'He should be resting, that's why he lowered his ki' I instantly thought. After half an hour looking for him in that crashed city I noticed a pillar of smoke coming up about a mile away from where I was. I flew on that direction, and the closer I got the more my chest tightened. It was a weird sensation; it's as if there was something taking the air out of my lungs. I wasn't hearing any sounds of any kind… Why wasn't I hearing them fight? Was he really resting?

I got there.

I lowered my body on air until I hit the ground and there he was, Gohan, dead, his eyes were still opened, a deformed torso due to the hits he must've taken, a broken leg, the left one.

'No…'

I got closer to him.

'No, it can't be'

I couldn't look anywhere else and I couldn't feel anything I just couldn't assemble what was going on.

'You can't leave me!'

I continued to get closer until I got a foot away from him.

'I love you, you can't…'

I crouched near him and then it hit me, that awful pain.

'You were… Everything to me.."

It hurt so that I could actually feel it, physically. That's when the rain began to fall.

"Gohan… I had to have helped you" I whispered as my legs's strength faded away and I fell next to him.

I looked at him once more

"I had" I punched the ground "... To have…" I punched it again "…HELPED YOU!" I screamed the last sentence while I hit the ground for the third time with a lot more strength, breaking my left hand.

With my right hand behind his head I lifted it up until his empty eyes met mine and I felt vulnerable; Gohan used to be always there… What now? I passed my hand through his scar, on his face, opened my hand above his hollow eyes and slid it down, closing them. After doing that I put my forehead onto his and as I held his hand I waited, not sure what I was waiting but I did, maybe I was waiting for Gohan's warmth to leave him, I wasn't sure of anything by then.

A bolt of anger came through my body an in the moment I got up a golden aura involved me together with the rain and my blood rushed in an indescribable way.

"GOHAAAAN!" It came out unwillingly at the same time I looked up to the rainy sky.

I could feel my ki being raised in a ridiculously high way and it feed me more memories from Gohan. I got both my arms beneath his body and lifted it up I went home with it and me and mother buried him, by the yard, along with the others. Mother cried inside the house that night but I didn't want to go in so I stayed outside staring deep at the swing he used to push me on when I was a child and I wanted to play.

Crying didn't define what I was doing, my eyes didn't seem to need blinking so I just stared at that rope with the tire on its end while loads of water came falling from my eyes, I wasn't sobbing and I wasn't screaming, I'm not even sure I was sad, it was as if I could see him pushing a younger Trunks sitting on that tire and we were both laughing and it felt good, so I just stayed like that. After some time, I went back to the house and tried to sleep, well, I couldn't so I waited for the morning to arrive. It was a new day and that new day definitely required a new me, determined to do whatever it took to bring those mechanical sons of bitches down. I remember wondering if I'd be able to do that without his help.

That occurred about three years ago but I could still vividly remember it. I managed to snap out of those awful memories by the time mother got closer.

"Are you okay? You look pale…"

I gently nodded

"Well then… Here's Goku's medicine" She gave the pills to me and immediately hit me in the arm "Don't you dare losing them" and smiled.

"I will protect it with my life" I would.

"Good luck, son"

The time-machine had already been programmed by mother so all I had to do was to get in.

I jumped in, the vault closed and the machine started floating and shake very intensely. I knew it was a matter of seconds before my departure so I waved at mother while I read her smiling lips: "Enjoy his presence". It got me by surprise, but who was I fooling? It had to be Gohan she was talking about... She knew me so well… She absolutely knew I had been suffering a lot for the past years.

That was it, I was going to see Gohan once again.

No matter how hard it will be, I was going to be indifferent to him, he wasn't my master, he wasn't my friend, he wasn't my tutor, he wasn't the most important thing to me. That Gohan is gone and I should be man enough to shut up and put all that sensitive crap aside while I try to save my world as well as theirs.

A tear hit my right knee and I realized something was in my eye… I wasn't crying, not again…

"BYE MOTHER" I yelled right before everything vanished from my sight.

The word I was looking for is "Odd", it was odd to time-travel, I had the impression it was very few seconds but also long hours. That damn shaking was exhausting, mother had explained me that it was necessary so the molecules of my body wouldn't turn into butter or something, but it sure was irritating. I couldn't see anything either, it was all black, it made sense actually, the machine's speed was much faster than the speed of light so how would I be able to see anything without light?… It all seemed to make sense so it probably was working, I cheered.

All of the sudden it stopped shaking, a ridiculously bright light met my sight and I was in the past. It was a forest, it was day-time and it appeared peaceful. So different from my era.

By the time I got out of the forest I felt something, bad. A malignant presence was approaching the Earth in a very high speed, judging by the time line it could only be… FRIEZA! Darn it, Goku should've killed him, right? Something went wrong! Could I have disrupted this time line? Shit! I hurried up for I knew Goku wasn't on Earth just yet and only a super-saiyan could defeat Frieza, it had to be me…

What was I doing? I didn't know either but something had to be done…

I flew during approximately two hours and I could tell Frieza had just landed. I flew some more minutes and I finally was able to see his spaceship, there was someone else by his side with a ki even stronger…

Both of the figures were talking to each other, it was best to finish this fast, before Gohan and the others come.

"Frieza!" I landed on a very large rock close enough for him and the figure beside him to listen to me.

He stared at me for a while:

"Who are you? Another insect from Earth?" He shouted arrogantly

He responded to Frieza's name, so it really was him…

"Leave or I'll have to exterminate you" It was best for me to interfere the least possible so I gave him the opportunity to leave, although I knew he wouldn't take it.

"You mean you'll try to do so. Good! I need a warm up" He stared at me a while longer.

"Damn" I whispered, I was going to have to finish them both.

Since I had already crossed several lines I shouldn't have, I might as well do it quickly. I raised my ki as fast as I could and I continued to do so, I saw Frieza's eyes widen as my hair turned blonde and my eyes, green. It was depressing; I didn't like to kill others and to feel their despair but sometimes I had to. He didn't see neither my blade get through his body nor myself sliding it up to the top of his head, parting him in half, then in various little pieces, and finally vaporize them with an energy attack. It was all very fast.

"Now, it's your turn" I turned to the other creature that walked beside Frieza "Who would you b-"

'Gohan!' I thought as I looked back

It was his presence, Gohan's ki and it was coming towards us and not only his but other's ki as well, they must be the ones that died on my time… Yancha and etc… I panicked… They were very close and I didn't have time to finish Frieza's friend in time so I thought it was best to hide, and so I did. I quickly flew some distance away, lowered my ki and hid behind a massive rock letting the creature live some more. They arrived.

Immediately, I looked for young Gohan but I could only see two of them, a green-being and a guy with a third eye, Piccolo and Tien. Some other rock was blocking my vision.

"Who are you?" Piccolo spoke up "Why did Frieza's ki vanish?"

The creature didn't say a word; he was very confused I guessed, he spoke after a moment though.

"I don't know what's happening in here but it seems that strong earthling is gone and you're all weak" He laughed out loud and started charging a great amount of energy with his hands "I'll kill you all before he comes back and then I'll leave this planet!"

SHIT! How could I be so dumb? He was stronger than Frieza himself, he would kill every single one of them, I had to go back. I flew in a very high speed hoping I'd deflect that energy in time. When I realized I overestimated his speed. I was already halfway through and he was still charging the energy, I could sense he'd take some more seconds to finish, we'd be fine.

I took my sword out and prepared myself to hit Frieza's friend when I noticed… Him… Gohan… Not just the Gohan of that time but… My Gohan… A grown-up man with the same expression mine had, the same clothes and even the same scar on the left side of his face. I froze, I couldn't believe that, could it be? Was that him? I was in a trance, I was trapped back in the day when I flew Gohan back home and during 47 miles I held his body while I felt it going cold, slowly going cold.

Something hit my body and I started falling, that "something" also fell with me. I saw the energy blow an inch from my head and I realized that "something" that had hit me was Gohan saving me from the creature's energy blow. We reached the ground, he on top of me. I crawled towards a rock and I sat on the ground with my back against it, my mouth was open and my eyes gazing at him.