Author's note: Hiya all! This is my first fan-fiction, so hope you like it! I just want to say that the first chapter might be a little confusing and mysterious, but that's on purpose.. all will be explained in the progress! Enjoy the story!

Disclaimer: I do NOT own Dragonball Z or any of the characters, except Renai!

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Through a Mist of Memories

Prologue

In a bright flash the trees lid up, for a moment it seemed like midday, then the darkness took over again. The black velvet sky that covered the forest was decorated with tiny diamonds, flickering like candles in a sigh of wind. In the light of the semi-full moon, a shadow fell over the tall grass. A dark figure stepped out of a strange sphere looking object. The moonlight reflected in his eyes, it gave him a dangerous look. There was a certain air about his appearance, something strange… He walked away from the sphere and stepped into the rays of moonlight that shined through the branches. A gust of wind made him tense up as he leaned forward, his hair dancing wildly along his head and shoulders. His appearance was not completely visible; he was still partly covered in the shadows of the trees.

The wind calmed down again and the sound of rustling trees stopped, his lips curled into a smile as he moved further away from his sphere.

"Honey, I'm home…" He mocked, "did you miss me?" He bent through his knees a little, then he suddenly lifted up into the air quicker than the blink of an eye and he disappeared in the night…

Chapter I"In the black velvet night..."

It was a clear night with many stars and even though the moon was half-full, it still shined as bright as ever. From the borders of the main city, a soft singing sounded, it came from a young girl that was standing on a white concrete balcony. She looked pale, her skin was almost see-through, but her voice was steady…

"Far beyond the silver moon

The fairies dance 'till noon

Their eyes like stars they shine

They're always fine"

"Far beyond the silver moon

There's life in every spoon

So a girl as small as you

Can live there too!"

She abruptly stopped singing and let out a long sigh, her eyes gazed upon the many trees in front of her. The old forest had always fascinated her, but she never once dared to enter it. It was told that the most furious creatures roamed free there; once you would go you would never return…

'It's not that I'm scared,' she convinced herself, 'I'm just being careful, that's all.'

A sudden bright flash rudely interrupted her thoughts; it came from inside the forest…

"Oh my, what was that?" A perky voice sounded behind her, she turned around and smiled at the lady in front of her. "Don't worry, Mrs. Briefs, it's nothing to worry about."

"No, Renai, I think curious is a better word for it." Mrs. Briefs winked at her and left the balcony, leaving a slightly confused girl behind.

Suddenly it hit her, 'Mrs. Briefs is right, curiosity killed the cat, I know that. But I am not a cat!' She ran inside her room, grabbed her red, leather jacket from the chair next to her bed and left the house. She dashed through the front door and sprinted towards the luring trees, her heart pounding madly in her chest. She hesitated when she reached the borders of the forest, then she regained her courage and entered…

It wasn't very long before she reached a small open spot in the forest. Just as she was about to step out of the bushes, she noticed a tall man standing at the edge of the open spot. He was awfully close to her, his face only a few inches away from her. She studied his features, he was terribly handsome, no doubt about that. He had long, dark purple hair that hung over his shoulders, and sharp blue eyes, hidden below thick eyebrows, the same colour as his hair. He was overwhelming, manly... Her heart skipped a beat and she couldn't help but blush a wee bit, here she was, hiding in the bushes in the middle of the night and staring at a strange, handsome man. 'Who is he? No, more importantly, what is he doing here?'

She was about to move closer when he suddenly shoot up into the sky and disappeared before she even realised it.

"Wh-what?" She managed to bring out, "did he just fly?" She jumped out of her hiding place and searched near the spot where the stranger had been standing just a second ago. There was no proof that he'd ever had been there at all. Disappointed and excited at the same time she was about to head back when something odd caught her eye… a strange looking object, it seemed like a large sphere. She slowly walked up to it and started circling around it, trying to figure out what it exactly was. She discovered a yellow button and without thinking much she pressed it. The sphere started vibrating and beeping loudly, she covered up her ears but just as she did a door appeared in the sphere and opened. Renai tried to dodge it, since it opened to the outside, but couldn't evade it in time, the heavily iron door landed right on her leg. Her eyes almost popped out of her head and she let out a long, agonizing scream, then she fainted…

When she woke up, fluttering her eyes, she thought it was all a dream, but then she felt the dreadful pain in her right leg, and she knew it wasn't…

"Where am I?" She wondered, her vision was still blurry. She was lying on something soft, and she couldn't feel the wind anymore, 'I have to be inside… somewhere…'

"I'm glad you're awake." A gentle voice, definitely male, sounded beside her, she turned her head. Her vision slowly came back and she discovered she was inside the sphere, together with the purple headed stranger.

She rose from her bed, trying to ignore the continuing pain in her leg, but she couldn't help but bite her lip. He was there, next to her, in an instant, holding and softly pushing her down on the bed.

"Don't force yourself, girl, your leg is injured, please lay still."

"Renai," she panted, somehow she was sweating like an otter, it was certain that her leg wasn't doing very well if it made her body temperature rise.

"Excuse me," the man looked at her with a confused look in his eyes.

"My name- is – Renai," she managed to bring out, before she drifted off again.

He smiled sweetly at her, stroked her hair and said softly, "I know…"

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Author's note: Ohh cliffhanger, how is it possible that he knows her name? And I wonder who the purple headed guy is, I guess we know ;). Please Review!!

~Areyasha