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This if my fist Mirai Trunks Fic...hope you like it
Chapters Revised…
Chapter 1: Watch Over You
She has been watching him ever since he was only five years old. Like a guardian angel, she is there whenever he is in need. Well, only away from prying eyes. Ever since he was young, she has taken a liking to him. Even in the battles she and his mentor would fight, whenever she look at him, he would blush and turn away. But if his master was in trouble he would have the guts to fight her one on one. Not that he ever win. He impressed her though, the pride and arrogance to match his dead father. You would think that Vegeta was the one who raised him. No, it was her who brought him up. When her brother was out terrorizing the surviving earthlings, she would be down by the lake watching him play while his master train, or watch them both train.
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Little Trunks sat by the pond watching the fishes swim around. He silently wishes he could swim so he would swim along with the fishes, but he remembered his mentor's words. 'Don't go in the water. If you drown, your mother would kill me.' That's why he dreaded the fact that his master has yet to teach him how to fly or any cool fighting techniques. He was six and he knew he could do it, still his mother wouldn't it. So little Trunks kneeled down over the pond, watching the fishes swim. He unaware of the pair of ice blue eyes that was transfixed on his small form.
He reached his hand out to grab one of the fish that was nearest to him, but he missed. The fish swam out a little to the deep end. Trunks put his full arm length into the water trying to catch the retreating fish. He must have stretch out too far because before he knew what was happening, he was neck deep into the water. He tried to keep his head above the water and screamed.
"Goo…" He sank and came back up. "…haan" He screamed for his mentor but the rescue never came. The pair of blue eyes hesitated to go to the boy immediate rescue because she thought that his mentor is nearby and would come to his rescue. She was getting anxious and agitated so she dove out from her cover and scooped the boy up. His eyes were closed and he was still. She feared the worst, he can't die now.
She sat him down on the ground and proceeds to resuscitate him. She put both her palms together and brought it down on the boy's gut and push. She then closed his nose and blew the breath of life into his mouth. He jumped up and started coughing up water.
She sat him up straight so he was leaning up against a tree. When he was done coughing up water, he open his eyes and saw the coldest pair of blue eyes he had ever seen. Eighteen stood and crossed her hand below her chest when she saw the boy staring at her.
"Wh...(cough)...wh...(cough)...who are you?" He said in a slight panic while franticly looking around for him mentor.
"No cause for alarm, I was just in the neighborhood and heard a distress call." Eighteen said and walked over to a tree and leaned up against it with a scowl on her face. She saw the look on the boy's face, a look like said she was a freakish alien from another planet. Well that was only true in part. "You were drowning, and I saved you. Okay." She gave him an irritated look, but on the inside she was admiring his ignorance, he looks adorable when he was confused.
Eighteen watched him intently as his confused look turned to a smile as he got up off the floor and walked over to her; he reaches out his right hand.
"I'm Trunks." Her expression softens and she grabs his small hand and shook it.
"Nice to meet you Trunks." She retracted her hand and placed them on her hips. She attempted a smile but failed miserably because in turned into a smirk. He might not know her but she defiantly knows him.
"Have you seen my master Gohan?" The boy sat on the floor Indian style. Eighteen sat on the floor and leaned up against the tree. She didn't want to explain to the boy how she knew his mentor and to him, she would have better off be dead; so she played dumb.
"Who is Go...han?" She looked away. She couldn't look in his innocent eyes and lie.
"My master. He was training over there." Trunks said and pointed over the tree tops.
"That guy in the orange suit?" She watches him from the corner of her eyes as his expression turned into a sad one.
"I expected him to save me. Now I'm thinking what would have happen if you didn't save me." She gave the child her full attention. The sad look he gave her made her want to hug him but she kept her distance. "My mom would really be mad at me if I had died." Eighteen attempted a genuine smile, he was adorably naïve. Good thing he was staring at his feet, or else he would have saw her smile for the first time in her existence.
"That only shows you that you can't always depend on the ones you care about." She touches his cheek when tears began to fall. She wiped them away with her thumb. Her brother would kill Trunks on the spot and give her a tongue lashing that would last weeks if he ever found them like this.
He looked up at her with teary crystal blue eyes. "Do you have someone that care about you?" Trunks ask as he wipes away tears from his damp cheeks. Eighteen ruffled his hair a bit and he smiled up at her.
She thought of the irony that, if she wanted to, she could kill him right now. It would be so easy, he was unprotected, un-guarded and he trust her already. It would save her the trouble of killing him when he's older and much stronger. "Well my brother, he can be an assszz…..a pig sometimes, but when I'm in trouble, which is very rare, he would come to my rescue no matter what." She said that last part under her breath. She didn't want to tell him she was the most feared creature on the planet. The subject of every earthling's nightmare.
"You have a brother. Wow I wish I had a brother, or a sister. I don't always have anyone to play with. I heard my Mom and Gohan talking and she said my dad died some years ago, and after him she would never have any more children. She feels that she would betray him or something." Trunks held his head low. He started playing with the muddy puddle his wet hair was making.
Eighteen felt her heart clench. Emotions were washing over her that she never felt before. And a very foreign one, regret. She thought Dr. Gero removed all human emotions from her programming. She knew that she was the one that delivered the final blow to his father. The cocky saiyan ripped up her new clothes, so she killed him. She was going to kill him anyway; he just sped up the process. Eighteen smiled and kissed him on his cheek.
"Trunks...Trunks." Trunks turned and saw his mentor walking out of the bushes. "Who are you talking to?" Gohan ask as he approached the 6-year-old.
"Oh I was talking to my friend..." Trunks pointed to the tree to see that the girl he was talking to, was now gone.
Gohan cocked an eyebrow. "Your friend is a tree?"
"Of course not silly. She was just here. Where did she go?" Trunks got up and started looking in the bushes.
"Who...who was just here?" He asks and he stood over Trunks looking to confirm if the boy is just lonely so he created an imaginary friend.
"My friend." Trunks stated with a disappointed look on his face. He touch the spot on his cheek that still burn from her kiss. "You scared her off Gohan." Trunks yelled at Gohan. Gohan held out his arms defensively.
"Sorry Trunks, I didn't know..." Before Gohan could finish, Trunks charged at him. Gohan ran away. Trunks started throwing ki blast at him knowing that with Gohan superior speed, he would never catch him. When one hit a tree next to him and exploded with great magnitude, he flew up in the air.
"No fair Gohan, you know I can't fly." Trunks yelled from where he stood. Gohan look down and chuckled.
"Wow Trunks, I didn't know you had power like that. Wow. Sheww." Gohan wipe the sweat from his forehead. "Hear what, how about tomorrow you and I start some real training?" Trunks couldn't contain his excitement. Gohan landed and Trunks jumped in his arms. "Trunks? You're wet. Didn't I tell you not to go in the water? What if you had drowned? Your mother would kill me. Wait till she finds out."
"But I didn't...I f..." Gohan cut him off.
"I don't want to hear no excuses. You will be punished. No video games for a week." Gohan led Trunks out of the clearing. He stopped and look back, he suddenly had the oddest feeling he was being watched. He turned and kept walking, thinking he was being paranoid.
Eighteen jumped out of the tree and watch them walked away. She wanted to jump to the boy's defense so badly but she knew she couldn't. The nerve of his mentor! Left the boy unsupervised and let him almost drown, now he is punishing him. The damn nerve! He is the one that should be punished. She would have to wait till their next engagement. Till then she make a promise to herself that she would always watch over him...
Chap 2 soon.