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Chapter 2
After he laid Yui down in the Infirmary, Gohan gestured for Trunks to follow him out into the hallway. Bulma was waiting anxiously for them, and she grabbed her son's arm.
"Is she alright?" she asked.
Trunks looked up at Gohan, who nodded to Bulma's question.
"She'll be okay. She just needs to regain her energy. But I think we need to talk about what happened." He looked at Trunks sternly.
"I don't understand…" Trunks said quietly.
"Why don't we head down to my office to talk about this?" Bulma interrupted. "We can talk privately there.
Nobody was around, but they all headed to Bulma's office anyway. In such close surroundings, rumours tended to spread quickly. As far as anyone knew, there had been a relatively short attack by the Androids, and Yui had been injured. They didn't want anyone to know that Yui had caused the explosion that totally destroyed one of the labs. These people lived in fear. If they thought Yui was a danger to them, they may kill her.
Luckily, there were no casualties, so the incident was being brushed over.
Bulma closed and locked the door behind her. The last thing she needed was an officer barging in. They could learn to knock.
Gohan walked around Bulma's desk and sat down. He placed his head in his hands and sighed.
"What were you doing out so late?"
Trunks glanced over at Gohan and clenched his hands.
"We train at night sometimes. But we never used Ki blasts. We would just spar."
"What happened this time that changed that?"
Trunks flinched at his hard tone, but he wouldn't be intimidated.
"I was going to try a Kamehameha, like what I saw you do yesterday. It didn't work."
Bulma gasped. Her son had tried to achieve a Kamehameha blast. She had seen the destruction they wrought when she had travelled with Goku when they were young. That would explain why the building was almost disintegrated. Yui had done that.
"Why did Yui try it?"
"I don't know! She was in some sort of trance!" Trunks burst out. "She just released this massive explosion of energy! But I don't understand how! She's not nearly as strong as I am and I couldn't do it at all!"
Gohan lifted his head then and looked at Trunks for the first time since they entered the room.
"It's in her blood. I also found it easier to master because of my father. I should have expected this."
Trunks stared wide eyed at Gohan. He ran over to the desk and slammed his hands on the table.
"What are you saying Gohan!"
Gohan carefully righted an inkwell that had tipped over on Bulma's desk.
"I'm saying she was able to use the Kamehameha because she is my sister."
Trunks slid down to the floor in a heap. He stared at the carpet for what seemed like a long time. Yui was Gohan's sister?
"Does she know?" he said finally.
Gohan sighed and stood up from behind the desk.
"No. And I don't want you to tell her."
Trunks leaped up.
"Why not!" He yelled. He turned around and glared at his mother.
"Did you know about this too?" he ground out. Bulma nodded sadly. Trunks clenched his fist and slammed it into the ground.
"How long have you both known?" He said quietly, but with restrained anger that both Bulma and Gohan heard.
"Since she arrived." Gohan said. He walked around the table and stood over Trunks.
"I have my reasons for not saying anything to her, and you shouldn't concern yourself with them. I don't want you to say anything to her. Understand?"
"Don't you think she deserves to know she has a family?" Trunks said angrily.
"What family?" Gohan retorted. "Her Father and Mother are dead and she has a brother that can't be a family for her because he's too busy trying to keep her and the rest of the world alive!"
Bulma reached out her hand to stop them. But pulled back when Gohan hauled Trunks to his feet.
"And on top of that, the family that raised her, her real family, are all dead. Do you think she deserves to have lost two families?" He asked Trunks.
Trunks didn't look up, but he pushed out of Gohan's hold.
"I think you're wrong. But I won't say anything. For now."
He ran out of the room and slammed the door behind him. Bulma looked over at Gohan who was slumped over in a chair. She walked over to him and put her hand on his shoulder. He gripped it and looked up at her.
"Am I wrong Bulma?" he asked quietly.
Bulma smiled down at him.
"Listen to your heart Gohan. It will tell you if you're right or wrong."
Gohan nodded and stood up. He gave her a brief hug and walked out the room, leaving her alone. She placed her hand over her heart and closed her eyes. She prayed thing's would turn out well, but there was a niggling feeling in her heart that this would turn out badly, for all of them.
She watched the woman's flowing movements before her. They were so graceful and she couldn't resist the urge to mimic her. She felt an immense calm as she stretched her arms out with the woman. She formed the Ki ball and prepared to let it go, but it wouldn't release. It continued to build in power. Yui frantically tried to realise the power but it continued to grow and grow until everything exploded in a fiery haze…
Yui sat bolt up-right on the bed, a scream stopped just short in her mouth. She looked shakily at her hands, but they felt fine. There was no sign of burns, and she could flex them easily.
'Just a dream'
She sighed and lay back down, pulling the covers over her head.
'What happened before? Why am I in the infirmary?'
She sat up again as she remembered what she had done. The strange vision of the woman performing the Kamehameha Kata, and the irresistible compulsion she had felt to do the same.
She wiped a shaky hand over her brow. 'Had anyone been hurt? Oh Kami…had she killed anyone?'
Yui leapt out of the bed to find out, but stumbled as her legs hit the floor. It felt like she had no energy left at all in her body.
She was trying to haul herself back into the bed when Trunks walked in. He scrambled over to help her when he saw her on the floor.
"What are you doing? Is the floor more comfortable?"
Yui huffed and leaned on him for support. She turned to make a smart comment, but when she saw how close he was to her, she just blushed. Trunks helped her back into the bed and arranged the covers.
"So. What were you doing anyway?" Trunks asked.
Yui grabbed his hand and looked up at him.
"Did…did anyone get hurt yesterday? Did I hurt anybody?" she whispered.
Trunks smiled at her and patted her hand reasuredly.
"No, nobody got hurt. The building was empty."
Yui smiled in relief, but it soon faded.
"How did I do that Trunks?" she whispered.
They didn't say anything for a long time. Trunks kept holding Yui's hand, and she didn't mind. It felt good. He made her feel safe.
"I honestly don't know. But I do know it was pretty powerful. I think even Gohan was shocked at the size of the hole it made in the lab."
Yui winced at the thought of what Gohan would say about what she'd done.
"Is he mad." She asked tentively.
Trunks frowned and looked away from her.
"No, and who cares if he was? It was an accident, simple as that."
Yui stared shocked at Trunks. This was the first time she had heard him say anything bad about Gohan. Gohan was Trunk's hero, the person he strived to be.
"How are you feeling?" Trunks said suddenly.
Yui looked at him for a second, and then frowned.
"I don't know. I…I keep having these dreams…they seem strange."
"What sort of dreams?" He asked curiously.
Yui shook her head. "I can't explain it. It's sort of like a vision, of a woman I don't know. She talks to me about my father, like they were really close. I…I don't know why but I feel like she's my mother, but I know she's not…" Yui smiled and shook her head. "I'm not making much sense am I?"
Trunks had a disturbed look on his face, and he didn't answer for a while. But suddenly he smiled.
"Hey, dreams don't make much sense do they? I had a dream where I was batting in the World Series, and then all of a sudden I was eating ice-cream on an ocean liner." They laughed then, and Yui giggled as Trunks explained more of his dreams to her, and he made her forget her troubles. For a short time anyway.
Trunks was getting up to leave when Yui told him.
"I'm going away as soon as I feel better."
Trunks stopped and looked down at her.
"Why? Where are you going? You're not going alone are you?"
Yui nodded. "I'm going home."
Trunks sat down on the edge of her bed and ran a hand through his hair. She smiled at the boyish gesture.
"I need to find some answers, by myself. I want to know why I'm having these dreams now, and who the woman is. I know I'll find the answers at home. I don't want you to tell Bulma or Gohan either because no doubt they would try to stop me."
She watched Trunks as he seemed to want to say something to her, but he stopped himself and just sat there, shoulders slumped. He grinned wryly at her.
"Nothing I say's going to make you change your mind is it?"
Yui grinned back at him.
"Nope."
He sighed, then leaned over and touched her cheek. Yui stared wide eyed at him and placed her hand over his. They looked at each other for a long time. Neither one saying anything, then Trunks smiled.
"Promise me you won't go for long, and you won't go until your fully healed."
Yui blushed harder, but nodded.
"I'll only be gone for a week or a little more. And I wont leave until tomorrow."
Trunks nodded, apparently satisfied. He removed his hand from her cheek and brushed a strand of her hair behind her ear.
"Goodnight Yui." He smiled.
"Goodnight Trunks." She blushed.
When he left the room Yui let the smile she'd been holding back spread across her face. He'd touched her cheek! And not to wipe off a smear of dirt or something!
She blushed bright red as she remembered how he had looked at her.
She pulled the covers off, as the room had suddenly got very hot. She placed a hand to her brow dramatically and giggled.
"Verily I do declare!" and flopped back on the bed.
Trunks ran a hand through his hair, and turned to enter the infirmary again.
'No. You promised. No matter if it was a stupid promise that should be broken.'
He leaned on the wall and slammed his fist into it, which left a dent in it. He knew he couldn't tell her. He thought for a moment then headed to his mothers office.
'I'm sorry Yui. But I just can't let you go. I care about you too much to see you get hurt.'
Yui secured the backpack tightly on her back, and checked to make sure she had all the capsules she would need. It had been an hour since she had seen Trunks, and by then she had felt heaps better, which had shocked her. So, technically she wasn't breaking her promise. She knew that despite his promise, he would tell Bulma or Gohan that she was leaving, but she wasn't mad. He was just trying to take care of her.
She opened the window of her room and jumped up on the sill. It was almost dawn, but it was still dark enough for her to make her escape. She jumped into the air and flew off into the direction of the mountains which she once called home.
'Not long now. I'll find my answers at home. I'm sorry everyone, forgive me…'
Authors note:
I'd just like to say Hello to Badman, Minako-chan067 and Nique. My very own fan base! YOU GUYS ARE THE BEST!!!!!
Thanks for reviewing you guys! I hope you keep tuned in, because I've got so many ideas for this story they're literally jumping out of my brain and clubbing me to death!
I'll just let you know that this story is going to expand into the past time-line (just like in the series) And it's going to follow the same basic plot, just revolved around Yui and Trunks.
One more spoiler (^-^) Yui is going to have some serious issues with her Dad (Yes Minako-chan, Goku is her father ^-^ ) and don't be surprised if there's a showdown…involving a certain someone's sword.
P.S I love cliffhangers, so expect more!!!!!! BBBWAAHHH HAA HAA!
LOz
