Waiting for Love
By
Starfire Grace
*Chapter 1: An unexpected visitor*
Trunks flopped onto his bed. He was eighteen and had just graduated from high school. His mother had wasted no time and started training him to be the new owner of Capsule Corporation. His day had become routine, waking up at 5:00 a.m. sharp by his father to do training. Just in case some threat came to the world again, then at 8:00 a.m. he was working in the office with his mother then there were board meetings and more paperwork. When he got home at 6:00 p.m. or later he was exhausted and miserable.
Trunks cellphone began ringing and he checked the caller Id; Goten. Goten was still in high school and having love problems with his off again, on again girlfriend Kaitlin. With a diluted sigh, Trunks answered the phone, "Hello Goten."
"Kaitlin broke up with me, it's for good this time."
Trunks didn't respond, he didn't have the patients for his best friends love problems when he didn't have a girlfriend himself.
"I got a date with this new girl, you remember Renée?"
"Uh, yeah," Trunks said lying.
"Yeah, so… I'll have to cancel our spar for tomorrow," Goten said you could tell he was scratching the back of his head.
"Alright, have fun," Trunks said.
"Okay man, we'll spar soon though, bye."
"Bye," Trunks hung up the phone and began changing into his PJs. He and Goten had always been the popular guys that every girl wanted to date. But Trunks never found a girl that caught his interest. He was only eighteen and already starting to feel the pressure to settle down from his mother and it was frustrating. He went under the covers and fell asleep.
A large crash woke Trunks up, he figured his seven year old sister Bra and Gohan's four year old daughter Pan had something to do with it. Pan was over for a sleep over and they both could be hyper active sometimes.
He heard footsteps coming to his door and Bulma walked up to his bed, "Trunks come down stairs now!"
Trunks looked at his clock groggily, "Mom, its 3:00 in the morning," Trunks said rolling to his side and putting the covers over himself.
Bulma pulled the blanket off him and pulled her by the ear, "Now!" Trunks reluctantly followed her in only his boxers. Bulma led him to the lab where she had been experimenting on some sort of time machine. Bulma turned and whispered to Trunks at the bottom of the steps.
"I turned on the machine to test it, and instead of making myself younger, some black haired teenager popped out, she looks so much like Chichi did at her age!"
Trunks yawned and peeked through the door. Sure enough, a girl with black hair and dark eyes was wandering around the room casually, unaware that they were watching her.
"So, who is she?" Trunks asked.
"I don't know, but she did call me Bulma," she started.
Trunks sighed and opened the door and met the girl in the middle of the room. The girl stopped for a moment and looked at him before shock went over her face, "Trunks?!" she asked astonished.
Trunks and Bulma were taken back and Bulma spoke first, "Excuse me, but how do you know Trunks?"
"Because he's your son, Bulma, just like Vegeta is his dad."
Trunks looked at the girl curiously, there was just something familiar about her, "What's your name?" he asked.
"I'll give you a clue, if I'm guessing right you're eighteen and that would make me four here and my grandpa has been friends with Bulma since he was five years old," the girl said grinning.
Bulma and Trunks' mouths dropped open. That grin, that was Goku's grin, "Holy Kami! Pan?!" Trunks asked wide eyed.
Pan smiled and nodded, "You guess it right, so how did I end up here?" Pan asked curiously.
"I'm sorry, my machine brought you here," Bulma apologized.
"Don't be sorry, I don't mind," Pan looked at Trunks then started to blush.
"What?" Trunks asked.
"Um… you're not wearing a shirt and you're in your boxers," Pan blushed even redder.
Trunks looked at himself before blushing a little too, "Oh."
Bulma spoke up, "So sweetie how old are you?" she asked.
Pan smiled, "I'm fourteen."
"So then you're from ten years into the future. This is bad, what if her family see her. We need to get you home," Bulma said.
Pan looked at the destroyed machine that had brought her there and then at Bulma, "Wow that looks like scrambled eggs."
Bulma sighed, "Then, you're stuck here until I can get this fixed."
Bulma examined the machine and sighed picking up the loose and broken parts, "This could take weeks, maybe even a month," Pan nodded, "That's okay don't worry about it, this is way too cool! To think one minute I'm sparing with uncle Goten in the GR and the next I'm back ten years in the past too awesome!" Pan said grinning.
Bulma smiled, "Well your stuck with us for a while Pan, but I think it would be best if you if don't make any contact with your family. It could corrupt the timeline, Trunks can help you find a room upstairs to stay in," Pan nodded and turned to Trunks who led her up the stairs to a spare bedroom next to his.
"Here we go," Trunks said rummaging through a drawer and found a small set of PJs that would fit Pan.
Pan blushed and smiled at him, "Thank you, Trunks,"
Trunks nodded, "Mother and I will get you some clothes tomorrow when we go shopping," Trunks told her.
Trunks was curious what everyone would be like in the future, but knew that learning such details could alter the future. He checked to make sure everything was alright with Pan one last time before telling her goodnight and slipping back to his room.
Pan was restless. In her timeline, Trunks was twenty-eight, he wasn't married but because of his saiyan blood he could easily have passed for a teenager. She had always had always had a crush on him for as long as she could remember. Now only a few feet away he slept soundly as a teenager like her. Pan heard Bulma coming up the stairs and quickly snuggled under her covers. She tried not to remind herself what was happening. In only a few minutes she had been sparring with Goten and the next she was in the past with a Trunks four years older than herself. It excited her and at the same time made her heart skip a beat. Without another thought she drifted off to sleep, waiting the next morning when her and Trunks would go shopping.
