Somewhere I Belong 2

By Freewater
For everyone who wanted to read a sequel :-)
Note: Even though the last story had a few Japanese names and words, I've decided not to do that this time by way of the fact that I'm not Japanese and suck at using the proper translations and pronouns. This will save people the struggle of having to deal with seeing the mistakes I've made if they do know Japanese, and for the ones who don't know any at all they won't have to reread what was written to know what was said

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"We've talked about it, but …"

"But?"

Amy flushed, wondering how the topic even came up. "We just haven't gotten to that yet."

Serena nodded and sipped her milkshake. Amy waited for her to say something, anything to make light of what she was nodding over, when she didn't Amy plowed on.

"I've read up on it, and I know how it works and all, but … I don't know, isn't it supposed to hurt?" She asked to no one in particular.

Serena shrugged. "The first few times it does, but after that it's fine."

Amy spun her head and stared at her blonde haired companion, hard. Serena, having realized what she'd given away, looked back at her, a dark line of red climbing up her neck and face until she was as bright as a stop light.

"You and Darien …? You slept with him?" Amy hadn't known that, in fact she doubted anyone did, and since they were both alone in the diner it was a great opportunity to learn more without the teasing of the others. Purely for intellectual purposes, of course.

Serena coughed and went back to her strawberry milkshake, not looking the blue haired girl in the eye. "Uh, maybe," she said.

"But I thought you were saving yourself for your wedding?"

Serena blushed brighter and glared.

"Okay, forget that," Amy faced her in the booth and lowered her voice. "you said it hurt though, how bad?"

Serena fidgeted. "I'm … not too sure actually. I've never compared it to anything before. But Darien was pretty good about it, he tried to make me like it, but I didn't at first."

"You didn't?"

She shook her head, the blush having left her face now that she was comfortable with the conversation. "Not the second time either, but then it got better and better, and it's pretty nice now."

Amy blushed at the dreamy expression on Serena's face and wondered if it would ever be that way with her and Trunks. It had been a whole year since she went into his world and brought him into hers because of the threat of Majin Buu.

She wasn't very helpful as a fighter but her way had done the job when she found him locked up inside the pink creature's stomach. Trunks' world was doomed, there was nothing either of them could do to save the lifeless planet, but when she got him out of there and he healed, they came into her world only to discover they both held feelings for each other.

"Hey Angel,"

Amy squeaked and spilled her drink, Trunks laughed from his spot behind her and grabbed the glass and righted it on the table.

"Sorry, did I scare you?"

"Uh,"

"You need to stop sneaking up on people like that, you're too fast for us to figure out you're there before it's too late."

"Darien!" Serena jumped up and went to sit next to him when he slid into the booth across from them, sitting close and leaning against his shoulder.

"I don't mind," Amy said, mopping up the mess with napkins from the dispenser, because the truth was that despite his speed and agility, Trunks had trouble sneaking up on her. She always seemed to know when he was there.

Trunks took the soaked napkins and put them in the trash. "A little preoccupied?" He asked, knowing she had to be in deep thought.

"Sort of." She said, making room so he could sit next to her and praying he wouldn't notice her heated cheeks.

"We were just talking." Serena said, turning to give Darien a look she didn't recognize before whispering something into his ear. Amy knew what it was when he gave her that same look, took her hand into his and slid out of the booth with her.

"You're not getting anything?" Trunks asked, startled by their sudden need to leave.

"Something's come up, I'll see you later." He said, holding Serena's hand out the door. The little meatball head even gave Amy a conspiratorial wink and smile on her way out the door.

"Later," Trunks said, turning to Amy. "We're still on for tonight, right?"

"Mmhmm," she nodded.

"What's wrong? You're so red."

ooo

Trunks and Amy giggled all the way back to her apartment. It was easy for her to bring Trunks home at any hour she pleased because of the hours her mother worked at the hospital and she was never more appreciative of it until now.

"Did—did you see the looks on their faces?" Trunks laughed, which prompted Amy to laugh harder. She nearly doubled over.

Three men, boys really since they were all in their early teens, had tried hitting on Amy in front of Trunks. Nothing to be too worried about since they were in a public place, just some kids trying to prove themselves to each other, but Trunks had wanted to teach them a lesson by, "disappearing" and, "reappearing" all around them. Realistically he was just moving too fast for them to see, and any other passerby didn't notice because they were too caught up with their own things.

By the end the boys were convinced Trunks was a demon and had run for the hills screaming for Sailor Moon.

"You, sir, are evil." Amy said, still laughing and waving her finger at him.

"I know." And then he kissed her, something they both had difficulty with since they were both still smiling.

Despite their moods Amy's grin soon melted from her face as she seriously kissed him back, wrapping her arms around his neck and tilting her head so their noses wouldn't bump.

Trunks used the opportunity to slip his tongue in her mouth and put a large hand in her blue hair.

Amy wasn't sure if it was the dim lighting or her own dim witted mind brought on by Trunks' kissing, but she wasn't aware he'd been backing her into the wall until she hit it.

"You okay?" He asked when she squeaked. He rarely lost control of himself around her, knowing she could be hurt if he misused his strength even if by accident.

"Fine," and she pulled his face down to kiss him again, and this time it wasn't slow but fast and full of want.

When they pulled away Amy was out of breath, and she was pleased to see that he was as well. His face was still near hers, their noses touching, and that's when Amy moved herself closer and felt something firm through her jeans on her thigh.

She knew what it was and blushed, he did too. This was about where he would wait for her decision to send him to the couch, and Amy was always grateful for that patience, but after talking to Serena she didn't feel the old nerves coming up to tell her that it wasn't the time. The nervous ones were still there, but …

Stop thinking, she told herself, raising herself up to kiss him again. A tiny thrill shivered through her body when he groaned against her.

Amy pulled away and lifted her shirt over her head, letting it fall to the floor. She stood there before him, in the dark, wearing only her bra and jeans, and somehow she forgot to feel foolish.

Trunks smiled down at her with what she was offering him, and he touched her bare shoulder with his rough knuckles. "You sure?"

No, she thought, but wasn't that the point? She didn't think she would ever be sure, but she knew it was something she wanted to do.

She smiled back at him, and he took that as his answer.

He reached a hand out, hesitated, and then cupped her breast through her bra and kissed her again.

This time Amy groaned. She really liked that.

Trunks slid his arm around her waist and lifted her into the air. He found her bedroom in the dark and was inside before he put her back on her feet. She took his hand and led him towards the bed, but not before he nudged the door shut with his foot.

ooo

Amy was brought out of her delicious dream by a high pierced scream, and she jerked up to see her mother standing in her room, pale as a ghost. Trunks woke up next and saw her, and then the look on his face mirrored hers.

Uh-oh.

"A boy! What are you doing in here with a boy!" She screamed.

Amy grabbed the blanket and ran to her mother, pushing her out of the room.

"Amy!" Trunks yelled. She'd left him naked without the blanket, but she had the door closed behind her soon enough so it was alright. She needed to give him time to change into his clothes and leave.

"Amy, you tell me what is going on this minute." Her mother said, none too pleased. "You're supposed to be studying, not having sex. I didn't even know you were dating!"

She gave her daughter a hard, suspicious look. "You are dating him, right?"

"Of course we are mom!" Amy exclaimed. "And I told you about him two weeks ago." Amy knew her mother tended to forget things that happened at home because of the stress she had to deal with at work, but thought for sure that she she'd nodded and said, "alright" over dinner those weeks ago then it meant it was alright for her to have a boyfriend. Yet there she was, only her blue blanket for cover and defending her actions to her mother.

Amy shivered. If this was how her mothered acted to just having a boyfriend then she wasn't very thrilled with the idea of telling her that she and Trunks had been engaged for some months now. Ami crossed her fingers to hide the ring she was wearing so her mother wouldn't see it.

Suddenly a purple head zoomed out Amy's door, fully dressed, and ready to leave. He kissed her cheek, and ran so fast for the front door she thought he was flying. "See you later, Amy!"

"You! I have a word for you!" Her mother screeched, but he was already out.

Amy didn't blame him for retreating, but wished she didn't have to deal with this all alone.

Ooo

When Trunks was outside the building, he found a secluded spot and took to the air, hovering outside of Amy's window and trying to feel the Ki's within the apartment. They were both high, indicating anger and stress, but Trunks was confident that Amy was safe with her mother, and if anything the conversation they were about to have would take a while, so he flew back to the Temple and decided he might as well get to work while he waited for the fire to burn itself out.

Ray was already outside, sweeping the dirt and leaves from the steps when he landed. He was in no mood to notice the smirk on her face.

"You didn't come home last night," she said, her eyes still on her broom. Trunks had been working for her grandfather and living at the Temple ever since he came to this world. Something he greatly appreciated considering the piece the Hino Temple offered him.

"Uh, no," he replied. He was already late and decided to get changed and help Grandpa Hino with his students before the man even noticed he was gone. There was a good chance he wouldn't know he was late because of his poor sight, but Trunks didn't want to risk that Chad would open his mouth and let something slip, even if by accident.

"You okay?" The dark haired girl said, noticing his foul mood on a morning she expected him to be happy, if what she sensed was correct.

"Fine, fine," he said quickly before half turning towards her. "Actually, have you meditated yet?"

She blinked at the odd question. "Not yet, I woke up late. Why, did you want to join me?"

"Yeah, that'd be great, I need to ask you for some advice," he said before quickly disappearing.

Ray blinked, shook her head, and went back to her sweep, muttering about the strangeness of men.

Trunks ran to his room and tried to dress quickly in his uniform, his room spread out with a variety of things that had previously not been there when he first made the Hino Temple his home. Text books for business classes he was taking at the college, new clothes that fit his style were in the closet, and framed pictures of all sorts were either hanging from the walls or sitting on his nightstand.

Trunks was a big believer in pictures, the one with his mother, father, and all their family and friends in it while he was still a baby held a special place in his heart and hung just over his bed and out of the sunlight to keep it in good condition. But now he had new pictures of himself and Amy on one of their many dates, Amy held her hand out for the camera to see the ring Trunks put on her finger when he proposed to her earlier.

There was a picture of Lita stacking another plate of her home cooked dinners in front of him and Serena while they both stuffed their faces in an eating contest. He won. There was a photo of himself, Darien, and Artemis just hanging out together, away from the girls. He had a picture of Rini sitting on his shoulders with Dianna on his head, the three time travelers posing for the camera before the pink haired girl left for her own time. There was even a picture of him and Ray meditating together before her sacred fire.

He had something in common with everyone and had made good friends since he'd been brought into this world, but Trunks was still late, so he didn't dwell on the pictures in his room. He changed his clothes and ran out to meet his students before Grandpa Hino and Chad could chase them away with their clumsy techniques.

ooo

Trunks sat with Ray sometime later, a vein in his forehead ready to burst with the fury he suppressed. Despite Ray's rule to be serious while her sacred fire burned, she laughed with a carefree spirit that annoyed him to the teeth.

"It wasn't funny." He grit. He expected Serena or maybe even Lita to laugh, not Ray. Perhaps he should have gone to Darien. He wouldn't have betrayed him like this.

Ray waved her hand, tears streaming down her cheeks. "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, but … her … her mother …" And then she laughed some more.

Trunks sighed. "I've never dealt with someone's mother before, aside from my own and Gohan's, but I love Amy, doesn't that mean I have to like her mother?"

Ray coughed and wiped her eyes. "No, not really. You just have to act like you do," she said before giggling. "Took the blanket and left you naked did she?"

It was a miracle the woman hadn't spotted his tail. Trunks blushed and was about to reply something nasty when a spark of energy flitted over his senses.

They both turned to the door to try and decipher where it had come from.

"You sensed it too?" Trunks asked, and Ray nodded.

"I think it's a big one, it has to be because I can sense it all the way from the middle of town."

Trunks nodded. Even though what was left of Chaos and Majin Buu had been destroyed, small monsters tended to pop up every now and again. A product of the jealousy and hatred of everyday normal people, something he'd been assured was normal, but still dangerous. "Did you want me to take care of it and come back?" He asked. He always asked.

Ray had already pulled out her communicator. "What kind of warriors would we be if we let someone else do all the dirty work every time it came up?"

Trunks sighed. "Right," He couldn't help it, but he didn't like seeing Amy or the others put themselves in unnecessary danger when he could just point his finger, shoot, and then it would be all over. But then, there was always the chance that the monster could really be a human trapped in a form that needed the healing powers of Sailor Moon. Trunks knew they could handle themselves, but he went anyway to watch that they all stayed safe, Amy especially.

"Hey guys, suit up, I can sense one causing trouble in the middle of the shopping mall."

ooo

Everyone arrived quickly, they always did, but Amy was nowhere to be found, and for that, Trunks was glad. He guessed she was still preoccupied with her mother and couldn't get away, which left him more time to concentrate on tracking the monster.

"I sense it by the clothing department," Trunks said, his hair spiked towards the ceiling and glowing gold, sword in hand and ready should the monster try and surprise attack them or should there be more than one.

Sailor Mars nodded. "The ladies section."

When they got there, Venus squealed and ran to the table with a big red 50 per cent off sticker hanging above it. "They never have sales!" She said, fingering through the clothes, Jupiter quickly joined her.

Eternal Sailor Moon took one eager step forward and then two hesitant steps back. "We have better things to be looking out for." The words sounded forced, and they were all the more noticeable by the pout on her face.

Tuxedo Mask chuckled in good humor, knowing how much not looking at the table full of clothes was killing her. "I'll take you here later today."

"You guys!" Trunks and Mars hissed. Venus and Jupiter guiltily stepped away from the table, and Sailor Moon bristled.

"I didn't go near the table!"

A monster jumped out from the racks of clothes, and Trunks threw a hand out to shove Mars out of the way before diving in the opposite direction. He heard steal cutting the floor where they once stood.

'The bastard,' he thought, 'Coming after us when our guard is down.'

It was a woman demon, two long swords in her hands and clothes it had stolen from the store hanging from hooks attached to the skin on her arms. Her face looked like a hissing cat without hair. She glared at them all from within the circle they stood around her, but she hovered in the air which took away the advantage.

"Definitely a possessed human," Venus said.

Trunks blinked, usually only Mercury and her computer could tell for sure. "How do you know that?"

Venus pointed to the clothes the cat creature had stolen. "Those are designer names, I doubt whoever this woman was couldn't afford them and the negative energy must have just eaten her away."

Jupiter nodded her agreement. "That makes sense."

"What?" Trunks said. "That's a stupid reason to let dark energy take hold of you! For clothes?"

Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Sailor Moon all gasped their shock at him. Tuxedo Mask shook his head with two fingers pinching the bridge between his eyes, as if he knew what was coming.

"Do you have any idea how long I've been saving just to get a pair of shoes from that place?" Sailor Moon said.

Mars leered. "If you'd stop buying junk and games you'd have those shoes by now, you meatball brain!"

"Finally!" The monster wailed before Sailor Moon could retort, floating to the floor on her knees and clutching the stolen clothes to her chest like children. "Someone understands my pain!"

Trunks' eye twitched. 'Unbelievable,'

"Of course we understand," Jupiter said, taking a cautious step forward. Trunks kept his eyes on the swords at the monster's feet while she worked her way closer. "I love clothes shopping, every girl does."

"I work so hard, so hard and it's never enough. I'm trapped to forever wear knock offs!"

Sailor Moon gasped, preparing her crystal for the healing process. "Now that's wrong. Every girl has the right to look good, so do you."

The cat woman looked up at her, eyes alight with tears. "Thank you,"

Trunks rushed forward to grab the feline lady and hold her still while Sailor Moon healed her, but her ears twitched and she leapt out of the way before he could wrap his arms around her.

"What the--?" He'd underestimated her speed and she was away from him now.

"So!" her face mutilated in rage and tail thrashed as she hovered above them in hissing indignation. "None of you really care at all! You're only trying to take away my good new wardrobe!"

Trunks wasn't sure how it was possible, but her cat face twisted even further, and her eyes turned into tiny slits as she hissed at them with her claws out.

She pulled some of the empty coat hangers from her arms and turned them into daggers. "Take this!"

Tuxedo Mask grabbed Sailor Moon and pulled her out of the way while the others were left to jump in all directions to avoid the blades.

"She's stronger than the usual ones," Jupiter muttered, crouching in case she needed to attack.

"We have no choice," Mars replied. "We have to attack her until she weakens."

"Fine with me," Trunks raised his hand, ready to blast her.

"Wait!" Tuxedo Mask yelled.

"What? It's just a little one, it won't kill her."

He smirked. "I have more respect for you than that, but you'll still cause a lot of damage if you start shooting in here."

"Yeah, you might hit the clothes." Jupiter said, horrified.

The cat woman yowled. "No one's touching my clothes!" She threw more daggers and leapt around the store, moving up a floor and hissing and clawing at the plastic tree that got in her way.

"We have to get up there!" Tuxedo Mask jumped to the next level to follow the cat, and the rest of the group followed.

'I'm glad Amy isn't here.' Trunks thought.

Like a machine gun, daggers flew in at them from all sides without warning, and Trunks hurried and brought up an energy shield around everyone before they could be hit.

It wasn't a strong attack, but the daggers were so sharp and their points so precise that some of them even stuck into the shield, and the girls screamed. Tuxedo Mask held Sailor Moon close to him in case he needed to shield her.

The daggers eventually stopped but Trunks didn't lower his shield, fearing a trap.

Then the cat woman appeared before them again, just outside of the shield and laughing. "That's an interesting trick, I doubt it will save you though."

Trunks smirked, knowing very well he couldn't win a fight by hiding inside a shield. "You're right, it won't."

He lowered it and the daggers that had been stuck fell to the floor with heavy clangs.

Venus bristled. "I've had just about enough of this kitty, VENUS LOVE ME CHAIN!"

Tuxedo Mask screamed. "Venus, no!"

She sent her chain out and it was right on target until the monster transported herself out of the way, and the chain traveled into another clothing store. For a split second they all held their breaths, waiting for the explosion and damage that would be caused, instead the chain bounced off a mirror and came back the other way, straight for Mars.

The golden chain had passed where Trunks had been standing by the time he realized it was going to hit her, and had to move faster than he ever did to beat it and push her out of its path. Instead it caught him in the head, and he could only remember hitting the wall before everything went black.

000

His shoulder was shaking, and distant voices called to him to wait up. He swatted the hands away, wishing to go back to sleep, but they persisted and eventually he groaned and opened his eyes.

Eyes bluer than his own stared down at him, and he smiled.

"He's waking up!"

"Hey Angel," he said.

The girl above him looked confused, though he didn't understand why.

"Angel? But I'm not … That's what you call Amy, isn't it?"

Trunks blinked his eyes several times and truly saw the girl in front of him. Blonde hair instead of blue. He was looking at Mina. The fight had apparently ended, and they were no longer in the mall.

He sat up quickly and looked at all the smiling faces around him. Amy was nowhere to be found.

He shook his head to clear his thoughts, slightly embarrassed with himself. "It's over?"

Ray nodded and Darien helped him to his feet.

"I healed her when she was … eh … laughing over your banged head." Serena said. "We left her at the mall."

Trunks grumbled. Gohan would be disappointed if he knew Trunks had been taken out by a demon a hundred times weaker than himself. He wondered why Venus' blast had such an impact on him. Probably because the attack hit his temple. Yeah, that made sense.

He turned to Mina, and the sight of her jogged something, and he faltered.

What was wrong with him? "Uh,"

She frowned. "You okay?"

He looked at her. Really looked at her, and he felt a strange swelling in his chest that had happened the day that he met… who? Amy? No, not her. Why would he be thinking of her when there was such a lovely vision in front of him?

Wait a sec, did that thought really just pass through his head?

"Uh, Trunks? You sure you're alright?" Mina asked, and it was only then did he see his hand on her cheek.

He bristled and backed away from her. What was happening to him? He looked to everyone else, as if they could provide him with some answers, but they were all giving him the same strange look Mina was.

That's when it started to happen, the pulsing in his head, and it hurt. He tried to clear his thoughts but the headache only worsened. And then with a sudden jolt of horror did he realize what was happening to him.

"I … I need to get out of here." He said before taking off into the sky, not entirely sure of where he would go but knowing that he needed to fix it.

000

Amy sighed and closed her door for the night. Her mother had finally seen fit to allow her to go to her room after several hours of talking. Amy thought that if she had to bare her soul anymore she would die of embarrassment, not to mention her communicator had been vibrating in her pocket for a while, but she just couldn't get away to answer it, much less go out as Sailor Mercury.

She was about to pull it out and ask how the fight went when a breeze of fresh air drifted through her hair. She looked up and saw her curtains blowing in the wind. She hadn't left the window open so she knew Trunks had been there.

She smiled and went closer, and she saw a small wildflower on her pillow, a little yellow note stuck to it. She picked it up and put the flower in her hair. He didn't do it often, but Amy loved it when he left her flowers.

It read simply:

I'm sorry, I love you.

She blinked. That was confusing, but she shrugged and lay back on her bed, wincing with the soreness still between her legs, but content with the fact that it was a good kind of pain.

She couldn't wait to tell Serena.

000

They found him several hours later, Sailor Moon and Tuxedo Mask. He was in the park, sitting under an old tree and away from the street lamps. Sailor Moon gasped at the sight of him, head down and not moving. She ran and knelt down, terrified until he jerked his head up.

"Where've you been! We've been looking for hours, and Ray and Grandpa Hino are going nuts!"

He grit his teeth. "Does Amy know I'm gone?"

Tuxedo Mask came closer. "We didn't want to worry her." He then looked at Trunks' posture and really noticed how tense he was. His fists were clenched and shaking, sweat gathering on his forehead.

He was fighting something.

"Are you alright?" He asked, taking his mask off to have a better look at him.

They were both startled when he answered, still through clenched teeth, "No."

Sailor Moon blinked and touched a gloved hand to his forehead, only then noticing the sweating herself. "What's happening to you?"

Trunks gasped. "It was Mina's attack," he clenched his eyes shut, as if he had to force himself to go on. "It got into my head. Every—Every single memory I have with Amy … She's being replaced with Mina,"

Trunks had a flash pass through his brain. The time when he woke up in Capsule Corp and saw Mercury playing her harp next to his bed, the image was replaced with Venus playing the blue harp. The time when they both went into a deserted mall for clean clothes, and Amy walked up to him wearing a new shirt and skin tight pair of jeans, once again the image was replaced with Mina.

"All I see is her,"

Sailor Moon turned to Tuxedo Mask. "What should I do?"

He worried his lip, unsure himself until going with the only solution possible. "Maybe your crystal can stop it."

She pulled out the crystal, the silver flower glowing in the dark, and Trunks stared at it, weary of having someone use their powers on him.

"Will it work?"

Sailor Moon touched his shoulder. "We'll try it and see, then we'll ask Luna what's happening."

He continued to eye the crystal skeptically. "She—she'll know what's happening?"

"She always knows what's happening," She quipped with a smile.

Trunks hesitated for five more seconds before another headache pain took him. He winced and nodded for her to go ahead with it.

She placed the crystal closer to his face, and if possible it glowed even brighter. Trunks stared into it, his nerves calming when the headache stopped, and the vibrating pulse of the crystal in front of him seemingly hypnotizing him until he fell asleep.

Sailor Moon stopped and pulled the crystal back, shocked. "He passed out."

Tuxedo Mask sighed, knowing perfectly well that there was no way he could carry Trunks' weight. "Change back into your normal form. I'll call a cab."

To Be Continued...

A.N: I'm writing this because even a few years after it finished I'm still getting requests for a sequel, and because I like the story the best of the one's I've written and still think the characters have some room to grow. I will try to make updates as frequent as possible, but I'm still working on another story, a book, and have a full time job for the summer, so try not to expect them to happen within the week or anything. Sorry, but I'll try to keep them regular.

Also, this story is only vaguely outlined, so suggestions are welcome and will be considered, not necessarily used, but considered with thank you's for the suggestions that fit in with the story.