Chasing an enigma

Author's note: Please people no more comments about the age difference between Bra and Goten and Trunks and Pan. Excluding the fact that couples with huge age gaps are not unprecedented (think Elvis, Prince Charles and Princess Diana or even Woody Allan), they are Saiyains. I seriously doubt that when you can live for a couple of hundred years are differences of fifteen or even twenty years seem like that big of a deal.

Incidentally, I have been running a poll on my website (http://student.uq.edu.au/~s354033/) to try and find out who people think is the love of Trunks' life. 22 votes had been cast the last time I checked. Pan got 2, Marron got none, Goten got 2, 2 people had no clue but guess who got 16 votes. (hint: read my epic Second Coming). Yes I know this is shame less self promotion but hey. By the way don't forget to go and cast your vote on the poll too.

Goten crawled gently into bed trying not to wake Bra. But as soon as he lay down Bra draped her arm over him and snuggled up to his side. Goten could not help but smile. It's not easy not disturbing a Saiyain even if you are a Saiyain yourself. 'You took your time.' She whispered. 'I was really, really cold.' She said as she snuggled even close to Goten.

Goten smiled a rakish smile, 'Well, we will have to see what we can do about that.' Purred Goten.

Bra slapped him lightly on one shoulder, 'Henti.'

'What?' whined Goten.

'Later.' Said Bra, 'I want to talk to you now.'

'You are worried about Trunks.'

Bra nodded, 'It's been almost two months since he broke up with Pan and all he does these days is scan the faces everyone he sees to find that girl he met in the cave. He is even began to ignore his duties as president of capsule corp. to try and find this name less girl.' Bra looked up into Goten's eyes, 'Think he will get over it? Think he will be alright?'

'He is going through a rough patch that's all. He will be fine as soon as he meets his next girlfriend.' Goten smiled rawfully, 'Which given we are talking about Trunks won't be that long.'

'Why do I not find that at all comforting?' asked Bra but without waiting for an answer added, 'Have you heard the poem?'

'Poem?'

'Yes some of Trunks' old girlfriends got together and wrote one, as a way of warning others.'

'How does it go?'

'Trunks Trunks the heartbreaker

Rich and famous, strong and smart

But watch out for that untouchable heart.

Trunks Trunks the heartbreaker

Mysterious and unforgettable, bold and beautiful

One you are with him you're spoilt for life.

Trunks Trunks the heartbreaker

You can give him your heart, your soul, your mind

But don't expect to get his in return.

Trunks Trunks the heartbreaker

Got with him and your heart will break

So save yourself and stay away from the irresistible

Trunks Trunks the heartbreaker.'

'Clever.' Commented Goten when she finished.

'And disturbingly accurate.' Bra pointed out.

'It's not his fault he can't find the right girl.' Goten pointed out.

'No, but it is his fault that almost every girl between the age of eighteen and thirty in and along Satan City has had their heartbroken. And now that he has finished the human stock he is starting on nymphs!' said Bra in a slightly angry tone.

'There is no such thing as nymphs, Bra.' Goten said quietly. Internally debating whether to remind her that she too had a similar reputation before they got married. He decided that it was to cold a night to sleep on the couch.

'Huh,' said Bra after a moment, 'for their sake I hope so.'

Trunks tossed and turned in his bed, unable to sleep, haunted by a pair of onyx black eyes. 'Damn' he thought as he sat up and threw his pillow across the room. 'Why can't I get her out of my mind?' he demanded, 'Feh, she must have been a nymph or fairy or at least a witch.' Trunks grumbled as he got out of bed. 'Well might as well go train.'

It was than the door of his room opened and his mother walked in and turned on the lights, 'Can't sleep.' Trunks grunted, 'Well quieten down you are keeping your father awake.'

'Saiyain hearing?'

'That's what he said but I think it's more the parental distress radar. Your are not only tripping mine any more but his too. Which means there is really something wrong with you.' Trunks looked away. Bulma waked over to Trunks' dresser and beckoned him to come and sit. Trunks complied. Bulma picked up his brush and began to brush his soft lavender hair. 'I haven't done this in a while, no?' Trunks made some sort of noise, Bulma grinned, just like his father can't admit when enjoying something. 'Well mind telling me what's going on? You have been distracted for almost two months now. I didn't think the break up with Pan would effect you so much. You two have been having problems for a while before you finally called it quits. I asked Goten and Bra but they mumbled something about a nymph. Mind explaining?'

Trunks sighed. He might as well tell her. 'It's just that,' Trunks stammered, 'I met this girl in one of my secret hideaways. I saw her for just moment. She was swimming and I startled her and she ran without even telling me her name. But I haven't been able to get her out of my mind.'

'Sounds like me and your mother.' Came his father's voice from the door. Trunks and Bulma both looked towards him in surprise, 'I couldn't forget her totally after the first time I saw her in Namek despite the fact that she had been acting like a total moron. Feh, fawning all over Zarbon, really how disgusting.'

Bulma glared at him but directed her attention back to Trunks when she spoke again, 'Sounds to me that the reason she is sticking in your mind is because she is an enigma. A mysterious stranger. No doubt she was one hell of a beauty.'

'She was.' Admitted Trunks, 'She had long raven black spiky hair that reached below her knees. Her eyes were as black onyx and bottomless. She had ki. She moved too fast to be ki less. But I couldn't sense her properly. In fact, I couldn't sense her at all.' Said Trunks frowning at his own inability, 'I have been looking for her ever since were ever I go, sub-consciously. I just feel this overwhelming urge to find her and I can't explain why I feel the way I do.'

Vegeta snorted, 'Quite the little mystery, this girl, and your are wearing yourself out chasing the enigma. Feh, brat get to sleep before you bring disgrace to your family by dying of fatigue.'

Trunks waited till his parents had left before whispered, 'If I die of anything I will die of loneliness.'