A few years had passed since Usagi met the Brief family and life was going rather smoothly. She now lived next door to the Brief's so that when her father was on business she could stay with them. She also started to be great friends with Trunks and his family. Vegeta was often caught watching them play. Goten would come over to play still.
One afternoon while playing in Bulma's flower garden Trunks and Goten decided to spar. Usagi still did not want to learn to fight and chose to pick a bouquet instead. While picking the flowers Trunks sent a ki blast towards Goten. Goten dodged at the last minute and neither looked at where the blast was headed. Vegeta had been watching and jumped in front of the blast right before it hit Usagi and Usagi started crying. "Why did you take that? Now your Hurt!" Vegeta laughed. "The brats can't hurt me." "But your bleeding!" By this point the boys had come over apologizing. "I'm sorry Dad! I will do 1000 push-ups or train 80 times Earth's gravity or or... I'll give up video games for a month!" Usagi reached to Vegeta's back as a warm white light glowed from her hand. Vegeta's wounds healed as she passed out.
Vegeta carried her to her room and laid her down. "You will start to remember now Hime. I just hope you don't remember the bad memories." Vegeta walked out after making sure she was comfy in her bed. "Brat, send Kakorats brat home and meet me in the gravity machine." Vegeta walked to his training room and waited. When Trunks arrived his head was down and he waited for a beating. He knew his father treated Usagi like a prized treasure, almost like a daughter. He knew he would get beat for this one.
"I want you to hear me out boy. I don't want to repeat myself. Usagi is about to have a hard time with merging with her past self. There might be things that will be emotionally hard on her. Her people were not known for violence. In fact, her former mother tried to shelter her from it as much as possible. We may need to help her to learn to get past the past. Do not let me catch you making her cry. I almost killed Nappa for it." Trunks looked shocked. His friend knew Nappa? He nodded and got up. After his father turned his back to start training he left.
Trunks went to his mother in her lab. "Mom, I have a question." She motioned for him to continue. "You have made lots of things but have you ever made anything to view dreams or to see old memories?" Bulma pushed her hair out of her face as she looked around for a hair tie. "I dabbled with one when I was younger. Why? Wanting to see what Goten dreams about?" She asked while laughing. Trunks smirked. "Something like that." She went to an old workstation and picked up a small device. "You draw up a tiny bit of blood like a diabetic machine. Then you view it through the projector. Be careful though. I was never able to figure out how to search through memories or how to pick which ones to view. You may wind up watching him bathe." Trunks glowered. "I'd gauge out my eyes mom. But thanks!"
He walked to where his dad had got his with his ki blast and found a little blood on a flower. The zinnia flower she had picked were of a mix. After scooping the blood drops into the machine he walked to his room and turned on the video.
Trunks stared at the viewer. The images started blurry then focused on Vegeta as a boy about 8 or 9 standing looking at a palace. Everything was a silver or white. There was very little color. Trunks watched his father walk around until a small 4-year-old ran at him and jumped into his arms. "Veggie you came! I told them you would but they said you wouldn't!" She hugged him tightly. He rubbed her long blond hair while saying, "Of course I came to your birthday celebration! I wouldn't be a good friend if I didn't. You want to go scare those girls as revenge?" The little girl giggled and nodded.
The screen changed to a girl about 10 walking to him and curtseying. "Help Vegeta-onnisan. I have missed you. Please tell me all about your most resent adventures!" They walked along the past as Vegeta talked about a planet he recently visited. He gave her a small necklace with a crescent moon dangling from it. "They made it for me saying that I had a dear friend that needed it. It will communicate with the one I am wearing that way if you are ever in danger you can tell me and I will rush over.
She giggled and let him help her put it on. "Thank you. I fear mother is arranging me a fiancé. I really wish she would leave it alone and let me choose myself. I am only 10!" He shook his head. "My dear Serenity. You are a princess and we royals do not get to marry for love. We must do what is best for our kingdoms even if it means our love is never truly shared." He watched as she teared up. "I wish I was a normal girl. Then I could find someone to marry. Like your friend Raditz! He is always so funny and sweet!" Vegeta stood quickly. "You cannot be serious Ren! I would never allow you to be with that womanizer! He is not good enough!" She laughed. "Then who should I ask would be worthy enough my dear Prince?" He sat down and thought a moment before finally looking up. "There is a convent I know of. It's an entire planet of them. They take women from around the universe who wish to pray and be celibate. I am sure I can get you in." The blond girl stood and started walking away angrily. Vegeta started chasing her apologizing.
The next memory was of Vegeta rushing to the moon in his space pod listening to a woman talk through the necklace. "I fear mother will make me go through with this dreaded wedding. He is in love with another and I know he has been with her. He tries to hide it but I know he is unhappy. I wish our parents would understand that it would be a fruitless marriage and possibly make this threat of war, a reality. I have not told mother that I keep receiving dead animals in my room nor about the letters I have found threatening me. Telling me about the chance of war. That the people of Earth would never except me. Please. What should I do?"
The next scene was of Vegeta lading on the moon and finding ruins. Nothing but fallen buildings and blood. Vegeta let out rage as he hit and kicked any and everything. He had lost his home, his freedom, his best friend. There was nothing left for him. He would get revenge starting with the one who cost him his freedom. That left him away from his best friend, his sister. Freeza.
When the memories stopped Trunks hid the machine and wrote what he learned down in a journal. He planned to figure all this puzzle out. He may be young but he knew he loved Usagi and would protect her. Even from her past.
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