"Whispers of the Willow"

This fic is set at a college in America. The following characters, (despite their age differences) are all juniors in college: Trunks, Goten, Pan, Bra, Marron, and a few other people that I'm going to make up along the way. They are all in what is called a family, basically it means that a certain group of people live in the same dorm house as each other, therefore they are considered family members. The particular family that all of the above are in, is called the Willow family.

So that's the low down, I know it's kinda strange, but it will hopefully grow on you. On with the first chapter.

Disclaimer: I kinda got this idea from a TV show that I happened to be passing, and it caught my attention. The show is called 24/7, and I don't own that, or DBZ, so you'll have to ask someone else for it.

Chapter 1: Dreams

Trunks awoke, drenched in cold sweat. He'd been having the same dream nightly now and no matter what he did, the dream still came back to haunt him in the darkness. He remembered his father's words right before he'd died. He couldn't put the dream and how his father died together, it just didn't make any sense. Yet whenever he awoke from the dream, he always found himself remembering that terrible night.

~ ~ ~ Flashback ~ ~ ~

Trunks raced around the corner as he lifted off the ground at full speed. He flew high up into the air and let the wind blow in his young, worried face. He'd just gotten word of his father's accident, and he was racing home from Goten's house to get to Vegeta. His lavender locks of messy hair blew behind him carelessly as he bolted through the air.

Trunks landed roughly and slammed open the door to his house on the Capsule Corp. compound. He skidded through the kitchen and up the stairs to his parent's bedroom, where his father lay silently in his bed. Bulma was at Vegeta's side, hunched over, sobbing into his chest.

Vegeta lay very still as though waiting to die ever so patiently. If it hadn't been so serious, Trunks would have laughed at this, for Vegeta was never patient. Trunks watched in fear, as though a moment in time froze and let him fully comprehend the situation. His father wasn't going to make it through this one.

Vegeta's eyes opened as he felt the presence of his son. He motioned for Trunks to come closer. Trunks moved quickly to his father's side, he was trying not to cry in front of his father. Trunks' chin quivered, for he knew that there wasn't anything he could do to save his father. When Vegeta spoke, his voice was low and raspy.

"Son, I have to tell you something. Fear her, fear her." Vegeta's last words were the strangest Trunks had ever heard.

Trunks watched in horror as the last of the life flooded from his father's body. Trunks bent down and picked the lifeless shell that once housed the prince of all saiyans up, and shook it roughly, as though trying to shake the life back into it. The once sturdy, powerful body, was now limp and lifeless in his arms.

The next morning, Trunks and his mother got Vegeta's autopsy results back. The strange thing was, there was no cause of death. It was like Vegeta just decided that it had been his time to die all of the sudden.

Trunks didn't believe this for one second, he knew that his father had been murdered, and he vowed to himself then and there, that he would avenge his father.

~ ~ ~ End Flashback ~ ~ ~

Trunks decided to get out of bed and study for the test that he had that day. He glanced at the clock and did a double take. He was all ready five minutes late to his first class. He hurriedly pulled a shirt over his head and grabbed a pair of pants.

He could smell the scent of bacon in the air, and ran into the kitchen where he found his roommate happily whistling Jingle Bells as he prepared a tremendous breakfast.

"Goten! We're going to be late for out last final!" Trunks yelled as he pulled his pants on and began to lace his shoes.

"Trunks, we don't have a last final. I would've woken you, but you looked so peaceful." Goten said with a knowing look.

"You're talking absolute nonsense!" Trunks said bewildered. 'Wait a sec, he always talks nonsense' Trunks thought to himself. "Of course we have a last final! It began five minutes ago."

"No, we don't. I heard it over the radio, finals were called off because a student past away last night, and the police want the students to stay in their own dorm houses." Goten said simply.

"Another person died? Wow, that has to be like, the third person this month." Trunks said wondering what this could mean.

"Yeah, sad huh?" Goten said as he began to devour his share of food.

"Did they say what the cause of death was?" Trunks asked as he too began shoveling food into his mouth.

"They said that they was no sign of struggle of anything. She wasn't sick either, she wasn't poisoned or anything. The school thinks it could be some biological bug from a distant country or something. That's why the finals were called off, they don't want anybody going out of their dorm houses." Goten said through bites of food.

Trunks stopped eating and began to ponder on what this could mean, but because Goten was such a good chef it didn't take long for Trunks to shrug it off and start eating again.

There was a knock on the door and three girls came in without waiting for either Trunks or Goten to come answer it. They came into the kitchen and sat down at the table where Trunks and Goten were currently too engrossed in their food to even look up and acknowledge their presence.

"Ahem?" One of the girls said, finally getting Trunks attention.

"Oh, good morning, Bra, Pan, Marron. How is life treating you this fine winter's morning?" Trunks said sweetly.

"Uh, fine Trunks. Goten, aren't you going to say hi to me?" Bra demanded.

"Hm? Oh, hello ladies. Ever heard of knocking?" Goten asked irritably.

"Is that any way to talk to your girlfriend?" Bra yelled across the table at Goten.

"Sorry, but you know how I get when I'm disturbed when I'm eating." Goten said back. "I'll make it up to you, I promise." Goten added as he got to his feet and held out his arm to Bra.

Bra immediately jumped up and hooked her arm around Goten's and he led them off to the make out balcony. It was called this, because during a spin the bottle game, that was where they had to go to kiss the person the bottle landed on.

"Have fun you two." Trunks said to their backs as he turned his attention to his girlfriend, Pan.

"I don't suppose you'd like to accompany us to the hot tub, Marron?" Trunks asked, secretly hoping she'd say no.

"That's ok Trunks, I think I'll just go back to my dorm room and pity myself for not being able to keep a steady boyfriend." Marron said sadly.

"Suit yourself. Pan? Shall we?" Trunks asked as he mimicked what Goten had done, and extended his arm to Pan.

Pan giggled and took Trunks' arm. Marron walked out the door, and back to her dorm.

"Little do they know." Marron said to herself. "Little do they know."

fin*

Well, what do you think? Oh yeah, I'm going away for Christmas and I won't have Internet access. That's right, I won't be able to update my stories for at least a week! Mwhahahahahaha! *falls to knees and begins to sob uncontrollably* I'm very upset about this, and because I left you at somewhat of a cliffhanger, I will try to update between today and tomorrow which leaves me with *pulls out calculator and begins to enter numbers* not that much time. If I don't get around to it, then you can't be mad, 'cause I warned you of my absence, so there! *sticks out tongue* Pleaz R&R!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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