Disclamer: I do not make or own Dragon Ball/Z/GT, some other dude does!

OCC: Thorn, Rose is mine! No Touchies nor Stealies!

My Nerdy Girl

Chapter: The Meeting

A young girl was sitting on a bench under a tree reading a book closely to her face. Her navy blue hair was tied in two very long braids. The breeze felt nice against her skin as it gently road through the air. It had been the first day of entering this Academy for her and the accessibly had just been over with and soon she would have to go to class. She wasn't much for socializing and never would have been until today.

A short cut lavender haired boy had just gotten out of his classroom after finding out there wasn't much to do. Placing his hands in his pockets he looked around and spotted someone on the bench near a tree. That hair color and style were familiar so he took a closer look walking around the bench and in front of the girl. Flashes of a small girl he use to play with flooded into his mind.

"R-Rose? Is that you?"

The girl looked up from her book adjusting her big heavy squared framed glasses. Who was this kid and how did he know her name?

The boy blinked a couple times and gave a big smile. "It is you! Do you remember me?"

Rose gave him a blank stare. "No." that tone couldn't have been any more flat.

"Uh, my names Briefs, Trunks, we use to play together when our mothers were working together in the lab at Capsule Corporation. I know it was a very long time ago and you'd probably not remember me-"

Rose blinked a little. Trunks could see the recognition in her eyes now. "Oh! Yeah, now I remember."

Trunks smiled in relief.

"You're that bratty kid!"

Trunks tripped slightly and gave a nerves laugh. Yeah he knew he was a bit of a brat when he was a kid and she got the worst of it. "Ah- Gomenasai for my past self." He scratched the back of his head. Rose snapped her book closed and stood up. Her black school uniform was similar to his with the exception she was wearing a skirt. He took a step back watching her as she gathered her things.

"Class is about to start." she spoke turning to face him again. He wanted to see her eyes again but the glare from her glasses prevented him from doing so. Now that he thought about her glasses when they were little she didn't wear any. Her sight must have gotten bad over the years he'd guess.

She turned to the side and walked away. Trunks blinked a couple times before catching up. "So finally in high school huh?"

"Shouldn't you have been in collage by now?"

"Oh yeah that. I still am, I just felt like I didn't want to miss out of high school since I skipped all those grades."

Rose's lip twitched she never did like him. Even if his personality suddenly changed from bratty to proper he's still naïve about other people's feelings. Great now she wasn't the top of her class anymore she had to have this Einstein in her school now.

I'm glade we're in different classes she thought walking up the steps of the academy.

"So what class are you in?"

"1-A"

"Ah! That's cool me too! At lest I'll know someone in the class now."

Rose tripped up the stairs, she had forgotten the top students would be in the "A" classes and since they were both first years it would be in class "1"

"Yeah well don't come near me in school okay?"

Trunks looked at Rose, puzzled. "Why?"

"Just- don't. I don't want any trouble."

Trunks furrowed his brows in confusion and looked foreword again as they entered the first floor and into the class. Rose walked up two steps before slipping into a chair behind a long table like some colleges have since this academy use to be a college but got turned into a high school they kind of reminded her of a really long booth with individual chairs and the table behind her was higher and so on and so forth.

Trunks stood there for a moment before squeezing behind Rose and sat in the chair next to her. "So you like the front huh?" He saw Roses bewildered expression. "What?"

"I don't want to get in trouble with you around me!" she whispered harshly to him. He became a little angry. "I'm not like I use to be-"

"That's not it! Never mind!" rose opened a book and stuffed her face into it.

"Rose..."

"Oh my god Trunks is in this class! I didn't know that!" a girl spoke placing her hands on the table. Her eyes flicker over to Rose then to Trunks. "Hey these are where the extreme nerds are, how about you hang with us in the back?"

Trunks looked at rose who was hiding behind a math book. Why was she hiding? He turned to look at the girl again and she batted her eyes.

"No, I'm okay up here, I'm kind of an extreme nerd myself," he smiled which milted the girls heart. She sighed, "Well, if you need anything I'll be in the back waiting for you." she winked at him and walked off up the stairs in the classroom.

He was slightly confused and looked back to Rose wanting to go back to that conversation about him having to leave her alone. "Rose... Rose... Hey Rosie."

Rose whipped her head to his direction with glaring eyes of 'Kill'. "Don't you ever call me Rosie!"

"Well it got your attention didn't it?" Trunks chuckled. "Now why do I have to stay away from you?"

"Why didn't you go with the girl?"

"I'm asking the questions. Answer mine then I'll answer yours'."

"You wouldn't believe me even if I told you."

"Try me." There were no glare from her glasses blocking the view of her eyes. He remembered her eyes well. A beautiful Onyx color. Her eyes were telling him she really didn't want to answer but he wanted to know why he had to stay away from a childhood friend. Her eyes lower before she turns her eyes away.

"I get bullied enough as it is and having you around would just make things worse," she mumbled looking down at her lap, her hands closed together.

"How would I make things worse?"

Rose quickly looked at him like he was stupid. "Are you really that naïve?"

Trunks's look explained that he really was that naïve. She looked away placing her elbow on the table and comb her fingers through her bangs. "You're beautiful, talented and wealthy. Did it ever cross your mind that girls would be after you?"

Trunks thought about it. "Well, yeah but I stay clear from girl's like that."

"If you hang around me the girls in this class... no the school, will become jealous and drag me off to some deep dark corner and rip me to shreds. Do you get it now? I'm not mad at you and sure I'd like to be friends with you again just not in school. I'm not fond of pain, mentally nor physically ."

Trunks's eyes stared at her for the longest time while seeing her in such turmoil. Now he understood. He hadn't been in school much, with all those grade skips, so of course he wouldn't understand how the female's worked around here. "Gomenasai."

She looked at him and gave a small smile. "It's not your fault." she whispered and that's just when the teacher walks in.

The teacher writes down in chalk what his name was and what he taught. The name on the board said Saika sensei and he taught math.

This is going to be a long day Rose thought.

And it was, by the time lunch rolled around she had felt the glares on her back already. Still, Trunks wouldn't leave her side. It was nice to have someone she knew but at the same time she wished it was someone else. She was an average ugly nerd at high school, always having her nose in a book. Even at lunch she didn't even eat. She reached the bench under that same old tree and opened her book bag. There was this book she was really interested in. Of course it was fantasy and about a girl and boy falling in love. She didn't like romance stories but this one didn't show you it was romance until about the middle to the end of the book which was nice and a big surprise to her.

Opening the book she only read a couple of words before she saw a shadow over her book. She slowly closed it and looked up to see a girl with crossed arms tapping her foot on the ground.

"How do you know Trunks?" the girl asked. It was the same girl that went up to him in the beginning of class. Rose swallowed her lips parted to speak but nothing came out. Another girl walked up to the blond one that had asked the question. "Is she the one who is hogging up all of our Trunks's attention?"

"Yeah, she's the one, no one could mistake this ugly thing for anyone else." she giggled.

Trunks on the other hand had just gotten out of the building and was heading towards the bench seeing two girls with Rose. He became a little worried remembering what Rose had said. Suddenly he saw her bolt up shouting at the girls.

"Trunks isn't anyone's! Don't talk like you own him! He's a human being not a pet!" Rose shouted with her fists straining at her sides. Though she hated the kid she wasn't just about to shrug off that remark they made. Roses eyes widen when both the girls raised their hands one to punch and one to slap. Rose closed her eyes to bare for it but it never came.

"Hey, hey, two against one isn't all that far ladies!"

Rose felt an arm around her shoulders. She snap opened her eyes and quickly looked up to see Trunks. His arm tightened more pressing herself against his chest. Her eyes shook in disbelief. She was in for it now. There was going to be the first murder in West City Academy. She was dead. Her hand that was pressed against his chest gripped his uniform a little before she tried to push away but that didn't work, he didn't even seem to notice her trying to push away as he spoke.

"She's a good friend of mine. Can you try to be a little nicer to her?"

Oh Kami I'm dead!

"Oh just a friend?" the blond said looking at Rose suspiciously.

"We were being nice! She was the one who started it. Gomenasai Trunks." the other girl spoke trying to look hurt.

"Kudasai, call me Briefs, I don't think I've given you two my permission to call me by my first name." Trunks smiled kindly at them and the girls shrunk back a bit and one of them nodded.

"Kudasai, Tr- Briefs-san. Sit with me in class after lunch it would be an honor." one of them pleaded.

"Trunks." Rose murmured. He looked down at her when he heard his name. "Sit with them."

The girls looked at her with a bit of shock. They thought she wanted him all to herself but apparently she wasn't nothing to do with him. One of them smiled thinking this girl was quite smart and looked back at Trunks, who's expression was unreadable. He loosened his grip on Rose knowing why she wanted him to sit with them. And he didn't want to see her in another fight so he nodded. "Okay" he murmured and looked back at the two other girls with a small smile. Slowly he let Rose go and Rose plopped onto the bench happy to finally get away from his tight grasp.

The blond girl squealed and grabbed a hold of Trunks's hand and dragged him off as the other girl followed with delight.

Rose sighed in relief. She would need to thank Trunks later for the save. Adjusting her glasses by pushing them up she resumed her reading on the bench but about five minutes later the bell rang for everyone to go back to class. She hung her head thinking today was so not her day.

By the time class was over she was by herself in her row except for a few people at the other end that wanted to sit next to Trunks but once trunks moved those people moved as well. She didn't mind being alone really. The thing she wasn't use to was being with someone and talking to someone. She would rather be alone than anything really. She thought of her future about taking over her mother's medical company once her mother couldn't work anymore and living out her life helping the sick and hospitals with their medical needs all by herself, with of course, employee's. She didn't need a mate to love and didn't need a blood tied child to carry on her company. She could always adopt but then again she hated kids. So loud and annoying they were.

"Rose?"

She tensed hearing her name and quickly looked at who said it. There, Trunks, again.

"The bell rang aren't you going home?" he asked leaning against the table on the other side of her. She blinked but shook her head. "I have to go to Cram class next. I need help with my math I'm still at an eighty-five percentage rate and I need to be at one hundred." She spoke gathering her things and stuffing them into her book bag.

"I can help you with that, Rose."

"I don't need your help."

"Hm, let me help you with your math just one time and you'll see you'll get more out of it with me than you can with any old cram class. I promise."

Rose stared at him for the longest while. Trunks could see through her eyes she was debating it. "You can rival against the cram math teacher?"

Trunks nodded his head with a smirk before parting his lips to say something more when he was interrupted.

"Briefs-san why don't you come with us to Karaoke? It'll be lots of fun!"

He turned his head to see the blond he knew as Sora, Trinity, with two guys and three girls behind her. Rose didn't look at them as she pushed herself up and walked away.

"Uh, uh," he looked back at where Rose was suppose to be and saw she was gone. "Ah- Rose wait!" he looked back at the group. "Arigato for inviting me but I got to go!" he wheeled out of the classroom and down the hall seeing she was already almost at the end of the hall.

"Rose!" his voice echoed down the corridor.

Rose whipped around and shushed him. "Don't shout my name so loud baka!"

He just smiled thinking she was cute the way she shushed him like she use to when they were kids. So she still does it. He thought with a warm smile.

*

The girl walked out of the classroom with her arms crossed watching those two walk off. "I have to get her out of this school. She's to close to him." she murmured.