Disclamer: I do not make or own Dragon Ball/Z/GT, some other dude does!

OCC: Thorn, Rose is mine! No Touchies nor Stealies!

My Nerdy Girl

Chapter: All Together Again

This morning was warm, warmer than usual, she had thought, and wondered why Trunks had called back in the middle of the night saying to wear a swim suit. She dismissed the conversation with one shake of her head and headed down the stairs, she wore her jean shorts that were just above her knees, hugging her thighs tightly and light gray tank top and under all her cloths she wore her schools swimsuit since she didn't bother to buy a fancy one when this one will do just fine. Her hair was in the usual two braids down the length of her back. Pushing her glasses up on the bridge of her nose she entered the kitchen to get a bite to eat. She couldn't eat much of anything but at lest her mother made her drinks that made her feel full. Opening the fridge she let her arm lean on it's door as she peered inside taking a pre-made glass of thick gray liquid slush.

"Down the hatch," she murmured pressing the glass to her lips and tightly closing her eyes. Oh dear sweet Mary this stuff taste like spoiled squid. She could feel it slowly going down, like it was protesting to go into her stomach. She placed the glass onto the sink counter and leaned against counter with her hands. It would take her a while to swallow all of this down and not have it come back up. This was all she could have and drink it every breakfast, lunch and dinner. Her mother gave her such a strict eating style but if she ate anything else it would get her so sick she wouldn't be able to move for a day.

Rose suddenly heard a low rustic meow. She smirked and looked down feeling her legs being rubbed against. "Whiskers, are you hungry?" she asked at the big, fat, orange cat. This cat was so fat, she wondered how the hell he even got that big. They fed him normal sized bowls, breakfast, lunch and dinner. Maybe he was just big boned. Pushing herself off the counter, she went to cupboard and opened it to take out a bag of cat kibble. His meowing increased in volume as he saw the bag. Rose knelt down grabbing the bowl and pouring the food in. Whiskers ran the best his fat body could with the swaying belly that rocked back and forth when ever he moved. Rose giggled and petted his body as he munched down on his food.

Standing up, she placed the bag back into the cupboard and closed the door before exiting out of the kitchen and into the den. Rose would always get up early in the mornings, she would jog then stretch before working on some weights then go into her moms lab and doing some tests that had everything to do with her body. She needed to be in top shape to help her mom but today was different and she didn't feel like doing anything and even slept in which felt very good. She was going to be picked up by Trunks sometime in the afternoon so she had some time to sit and relax herself for a while. Roses mom wasn't home today and wont be for quite some time, so she could get away with it.

Grabbing the remote and plopping onto the corner of the couch she curled up into a ball, hugged a pillow and turned the television on. Immediately the channel that the t.v. was previously on caught her eye. It was about capsule corporation again. She wondered what it had to do with and saw Trunks. The broadcaster said he would soon take over the capsule corporation once he turned the age of eighteen, that was in two years. Rose raised her brows and wondered if this was what he really wanted or was this what his parents wanted him to do, but then again, she was forced to do many things she didn't want to even try and yet she did them anyway, it was for "The good of the people" for what that's worth.

Staring at the picture of Trunks she had realized how much the boy had grown. She pressed half of her face against the pillow thinking about him as a child. It was fun being with him really. She remembered always being outside with Trunks and another boy, but she couldn't remember that boy's face, she did though, remember the outrageous colors of his clothes. She smirked against the pillow and closed her eyes. Those days, she loved how carefree they were, how fun it was to run around and play in the dirt, climb tree's anything having to do with the carefree life. She slightly opened her eyes looking at the t.v. She wondered what they were going to do today, knowing they were to old to do what they use to do as kids. Probably something boring like a restaurant which she couldn't eat anything anyway or shopping. She wasn't a big fan on shopping. She takes a deep breath and sighs loudly, which she would have been scolded on if her mother was here.

Rose had enough of the news on that channel and changed it to some music channel, placing the remote on the coffee table she watched the television and the girls singing and bouncing around in their music video. "Standards are so high these days," she murmured into the pillow seeing how skinny and fit the girls were in the music video as well as a bit slutty looking. "That sets a great example for the future younglings." Rose rolled her eyes, now to lazy to grab the remote and change the channel.

A couple of hours passed and it was almost time fore Trunks to pick her up. Looking up at the clock she sighed and wondered if she should go as she looks like now or jazz up. Not like she had a whole lot of things in her closet to really jazz herself up with anyway. Pushing herself up and placing the pillow back she folded her fingers together and stretched out her arms in front of herself before plopping them down in her lap and looking around. There really was nothing to do around here but her choirs and daily routines. Standing up, she walked around the couch and out of the den, entering the entrance of the house were the stairs were and jogged up them and into her room. Maybe she could try something with her hair. Looking into her full length mirror she took out her braids and glasses off, revealing her long, wavy, navy blue hair and big onyx eyes. She spun around and made some face she would never make, a happy, fake, pretty face she saw the teen girls do at school, her face falls flat. Nope definitely not her. Sighing, she placed her glasses back on herself and placed her hair in two braids again. She knew she was an average looking girl, more fit than the average though she thought, lifting up her shirt to see some healthy ab muscle on her but barley visible, through her swimsuit. She patted her tummy with her hand giving out a big sigh. Suddenly Rose heard the doorbell ring and she placed her tank top down and exited out of her room, heading down the stairs only to see Trunks had let himself in. She strait-lined her eyes. "Feel at home?" she murmured heading to her red and white sneakers and slipped them on, tapping the front of her foot against the floor to get a good fit.

"The door was unlocked so I thought I let myself in." he spoke looked down at her as she placed her shoes on. Rose stood up strait and motioned him to head out first so he did. She pushed a couple numbers against a keypad before exiting herself and locking the door behind with a key card. Trunks was already out of the gates waiting for her. Rose was only halfway down the stairs when she stopped in mid step, seeing what they were going to go "riding" in.

Trunks grinned placing his hands in his pockets. All the girls that had seen his street bike, or what they call, crotch rockets, praised him and thought it was just awesome.

"No."

He opened his eyes to see the door slam shut. "Eh?! Wait!" he ran up the stairs and tried opening the door but it was locked. "Come on Rose! All the girls love these bikes!"

Her muffled voice came through the door. "I'm not like all the other girls!"

"I kind of figured that by now, but come on, I'll go slow and I wont let anything happen to you... I swear." he whispered the last words with a small smile, looking at the door. There was a long pause before he heard the door unlock. He smiled even more and stepped back seeing her peek out.

"You swear?"

He nodded his head with a calm smile as he watched her come out and lock the door behind her once again.

"Come on, I'll help you on." he grabbed her wrist and dragged her down the stairs.

"I've never ridden on one of these things before!"

"It's okay," he spoke as he got on and gave her a helmet after he put his on. She placed the helmet on and he helped her on.

"Just grab onto my waist."

Rose blushed, such close contact was not on her agenda. "No." She only grabbed a little of his shirt.

"Don't be a baka, it's dangerous."

"I'm fine."

"No you're not."

"Yes, I am."

"Don't be shy."

"I'm not shy!"

"Oh yeah?" His voice became low a devious. "I'll reveal to my mother that you were the one who broke one of her very expensive experiments when we were kids."

Her eyes widen before they narrow angrily and she wraps her arms around him tightly, digging her nails into his chest before he takes off into the streets with a sudden jolt.

"Hey! Retract you claws already!"

I 'm!- So!- MAD! She thought, growling.

The ride was not slow at all, it was faster than to her liking.

"Briefs! Slow Down! You're going way over the speed limit!" she shouted only to hurt her own ears since the helmet tended to enclose everything around your own head. Apparently he didn't hear her over the sound of his "crotch rocket" and kept his speed.

Since Rose didn't put her braids into her helmet they flapped wildly around and against her back and sometimes it hurt. Suddenly he takes a sharp turn and she holds on tighter by holding onto her wrists. I don't feel to good she thought watching things zoom by so fast she couldn't consider this normal speed for a bike.

Now what felt like forever she started to notice that there were fewer and fewer buildings which got her thinking. Where the hell are we going? The ride begins to slow and he turns into a fenced area and speeds up again. Her eyes start to focus on the trees in the distance; they weren't moving as fast. Soon the bike slows down once more before it completely stops. Rose felt so stiff at this moment she thought she couldn't move her arms. Slowly, she lets go of him and tries to get off the bike but only falls to the side when her foot catches onto the seat.

Trunks quickly takes off his helmet and gets off the bike to aid poor Rose. Her muscles were so stiff from holding on so tight her arms and legs started to shake once he helped her up and took off the helmet. He lowers his head to see her face properly only to see she was furious.

"You Baka! I hate you! You're so mean! I hate you! I told you to slow down but you sped up! You swore you would be slow! Rrrr I hate yoooou!" she began pounding on Trunks and even kicking him as he laughs trying to grab a hold of her wrists and blocking her kicks which just made her more ticked.

"Whoa what fury." a new voice traveled to Roses ear making her stop in mid strike and turn her head to see who it was. She blinked and studied the person. He seemed to be the same age of Trunks, at lest as tall as him anyway. Black hair that was a little spiked and tied up in a low ponytail in the back of his head. His eyes so dark she couldn't even see the pupil. Once he saw her catch eyes with him he grinned. "So you must be Thorn, Rose, It's been a long time since I've seen you."

Rose placed her arms at her sides and starred at him. "Gomenasai," I'm sorry "but who are you?"

"You don't remember Son, Goten? He use to play with us at Capsule corp." Trunks spoke smiling down at Rose seeing her eyes give a familiarity to them.

"Son?" the memories of the boy in the orange gi came back to her, this time his face included. "What happened to your hair?"

Goten just grinned and placed his fingers through his hair. "Yeah it was hard to tell me and my to-san apart from behind sometimes when I got older, so I just decided for a total new do." Goten spoke as he got closer to Rose and Trunks placing his hands in his pockets. Rose knew she never really met Goten's parents, now that she thought about it, she can't even remember ever meeting even one of them. "How about we go inside so you can meet my ka-san and even next door to meet my nii-san and his wife." Goten spoke up once again. "Ka-san's been cooking lunch."

Trunks stiffens thinking about the last time he ate here. "Um well we already ate. Right Rose-san?" Trunks nudged Rose. Rose nodded her head knowing she couldn't eat anything anyway so she went with it.

"Aw to bad, well dozo ohairi kudasai." Please, come in. Goten went ahead and opened the door. Trunks began to walk and so did Rose. "Why did you lie?" she whispered to Trunks as they approached the door. "You'll see." he murmured and allowed Rose to enter before he had. Once everyone was inside Rose noticed the smell in the air and sniffed some more. It was actually nice to her nose and looked over to Trunks to see what his expression was and it was a normal tone like nothing special was happening. Okay she thought before hearing a womans voice and looked back foreword.

"Is this Thorn, Rose?" The woman looked kind but also looked like she went through a lot. Rose bows and looks up again. "Hajime mashite Son-san." Nice to meet you Mrs. Son. Rose closed her eyes happily and smiled tilting her head to the side.

Chichi smiled back thinking how cute Rose was and turned back to the kitchen. "Goku-sa will come back soon, he's training our magomusume." Granddaughter.

Rose blinked. "Wh-what kind of training."

Chichi looked over her shoulder from mixing the liquid in a big pot with her ladle. "Well, Martial arts of course."

Rose just stared, that did make since why Goten was so muscular then. She knew Trunks and his father also did martial arts. I'm I some magnet for martial artists? They're everywhere. She thought her eye twitching nervously. "Eh..."

"Goten-chan could you go and get your nii-san and his wife, lunch is almost ready. Will you two be eating here as well?" Chichi looked back to the pot and mixed it some more. Trunks spoke up before Rose could. "Kekko desu," No thank you. "we already ate."

Now this made Rose all the more curious as to why Trunks would be so against eating this womans food so she walked over and looked around seeing all sorts of weird things she had never seen cooked before. "What is that?" Rose wasn't particularly grossed out easily when it came to food. I mean she had to drink stuff that tasted like spoiled squid for heavens sake. She could handle this. The food looked like lizard tails and turtle shells with fish, fruits and vegetables. Well that's interesting. She would actually love to try this stuff but knew she would get sick. Putting her finger to her mouth she looked closer.

"Oh I cook what ever is around home pretty much since the grocery store is so far away. Would you like to try?"

"I would love to... but I can't." Rose gave a disappointed look and Trunks caught that. "Well, why not?" Chichi asked. Rose turned and looked at Chichi. "Oka-san put me on a strict food diet. I can only eat what she makes me. And if I eat anything besides what my mom give me, I get really sick."

Trunks stood by the door as he thought of what reason why her mother would be that way. Rose wasn't able to eat anything but her mother's cooking. What was going on?

"Hey ka-san I heard we had guests?" Gohan walks in with his wife right behind him. "It smells good." he grins and looks over to Rose. Rose bowed. "Hajime mashite." Nice to meet you. Gohan just smiled. "No need to be so formal, I'm Son, Gohan and this is my wife, Son, Videl." Rose blinked and saw big blue eyes from a woman behind him. She's pretty Rose thought placing her hand to her chest.

"Hey ka-san, I'm going with Trunks and Rose for a while and be back later." Goten spoke exiting through the door. Trunks placed his hand behind Rose and showed her out as well. "It was a pleasure to see you guys again." Trunks spoke looking over at Gohan for only second, seeing Gohan smirk. Trunks foreword his brows and looked ahead wondering what that was for before he spotted his hand on Roses lower back, almost on her hip and quickly pulls his hand away. Trunks whips around. "It's not what it looks like!"

Gohan just chuckled and waved. Rose on the other hand just blinked, confused. Poor Rose. "Hey To-san! Pan-chan!" Goten shouted waving his hand in the air. Trunks eyes widen and quickly looks over to Rose seeing she was turning her head back. Shoot! She can't see this! He thought.

Rose turned to look foreword again but only felt a hand slap over her glasses against her eyes. "Hey! What the hell!" Goten looks over his shoulder as his hand slowly goes down from waving. "What are you doing Trunks?" then Goten realized that Rose was an ordinary human and knew nothing about what they were and what they could do and looked away. "Papa how was Pan-chan's training?"

"Oh it was great! She went around the wor-" Goku was cut short by Goten, who waved his hands franticly and then pointed at Rose who had slipped from Trunkses grasp and elbowed him in the side, intending to hurt him but put more damage to her own elbow than Trunks. What the hell is he made of?! She thought rubbing her elbow and looked foreword seeing a man with funky looking hair. What's with these guys and hair that defies gravity?

Goku understood and nodded his head. "Hi!" Goku spoke walking towards Rose. Roses eyes widen, although the guy had a very friendly face he sure as hell had enough muscles to intimidate you. "Ma'names' Son, Goku, This young one here in my arm is Son, Pan, my magomusume." Granddaughter. Rose quickly blinked pulling her head back. Magomusume? He looks nothing like a Oji-san! She thought and quickly shook her head. "M-my name's Thorn, Rose. Hajime mashite, Son-kun," Nice to meet you Mr. Son. She bowed.

Goku put Pan down and Pan held onto his pant leg. Rose looked at Pan and smiled. Kawaii!

"It's alright to just call me Goku." Goku spoke with a little chuckle.

"To-san, ka-san's done with lunch and waiting for you." Goten spoke. Goku's mood completely changed. "Really?! I'm starving! Lets go and see Oba-san, Pan-chan!" Pan nodded and smiled following her grandfather into the house. "It was nice to see ya Rose, Hope to see ya again!" Goku had his last words before entering into the house. Rose watched for a moment before looking foreword again and seeing Goten and Trunks staring at each other with serious expressions. Rose wondered what they were doing and cleared her throat. "You guys angry?" They both blink and look at Rose. "Nan demo nai!" It's nothing. Trunks waved his hand and Goten smiled. "Where are we going?" she asked kinda flatly as she looked at the bike, dreading to go back onto the thing.

Trunks smirked and put his arm over her shoulders. Rose quickly looked up at Trunkses face, which I mind you, was very close. He turned his head to look at her and grins. "Remember when I called you last night?"

"Yeah... one 'o' clock in the freaken morning. I think I'd remember it." she growled which in turn, made both Goten and Trunks chuckle. He looked away to Goten. "We're going for a little swim in a swimming hole Goten and I use to dip in when we were little. Just thought we also share it with you since you missed out when your oka-san took you away." He pats her upper back and smiles down at Rose. Rose, actually looked excited which surprised Goten and Trunks. Was she this easy to please? Most girls these days were much harder to please and had to give them expensive things and amusement parks, but not her. She was different from the other girls.

Rose looked back at the bike and her smile disappears. "Are we riding there?" Trunks and Goten laugh. "No, it's walking distance." Rose suddenly looked happy again.

Getting there was an adventure she loved. Having been in the city all of her life she had never been in a forest. She always stopped to look at something, wishing she had brought her camera.

Trunks and Goten were just amused by her expressions with the forest. Always asking questions. Then there was the fumbles she would do, which one time, when she fell head over heels on a root, made Goten laugh so hard the birds flew from the trees. Of course the next thing Goten knew, he had a lump on his head from Roses rage which got Trunks laughing.

When they finally got there, Rose looked around in awe. "Sugoi!" Awesome!

"Yeah, this is where me and my dad get fish all the time." Goten spoke as he slipped his shirt off. Roses eyes widen and quickly look away only to see Trunks taking his shirt off as well. Lord have mercy! Her face went completely red as her glasses fogged up so she decided to just look at the ground. It seemed to be the safest bet. Goten notices Rose acting weird and walks over. "Hey Rose, do shita no?" What's the matter?

Rose quickly steps away and waves her hands in the air still looking at the ground. "Genki desu," I'm fine. "go ahead and go in I'll be right with you."

"Hm okay." he walked away to Trunks. Trunks knew why she was looking at the ground. She's probably never seen a half naked man. He just smiled and walked with Goten to the water. Goten jumped right in and Trunks dived in. Rose slowly looked up seeing their heads pop up from the water. She walks closer seeing that there was no shallow end. Her eyes widen, she couldn't go in, she thought there would at lest be a shallow end but she could clearly see the bottom and it was going to be way over her head. She falls to her knees and looks over the edge. Trunks swam over to her and looked up. "The water's fine go ahead and get in."

Rose stared at him, her expression didn't look right. He furrowed his brows. "Do shita no Rose?" What's the matter? Goten swims over as well, hanging onto the edge on the other side of her. Rose leans back sitting on her butt and crossing her legs as she held her ankles. "I..." She closes her eyes tightly. "I don't know how to swim okay! I thought there would be a shallow end!" Goten and Trunks eyes were wide, blinking. Trunks then bursts out laughing and Goten just grinned. "It's not funny! Asshole!" Trunks calms down and sighs. "How about this, I'll hold you and we will teach you how to swim."

"Yeah it's easy." Goten chirped in. Rose bit her lower lip looking at the two before standing up and walking away. Trunks and Goten looked at each other before back at Rose and saw her taking her clothes off. So she was going to try. She walks back over putting her hands on her hips. Trunks raised a brow and Goten smiled, seeing that she had also took her glasses off and realized how cute she really was. Trunks was right she had grown into a woman. "You're wearing our school swimsuit?" Trunks said flatly.

"Yeah! Got a problem with that!" she shouted at him, who just shook his head chuckling. Goten thought it was okay, he had no problem. Rose slowly got down on the rocky edge and put her legs in the water. Trunks got in front of her and held his hands out. Her body began to shake, not because of the cold water, but fear. She almost drowned once in her life and it was all coming back to her. Goten watched, being right next to Trunks ready to catch her if she slips.

Rose scooted on her butt until she was on the tippy edge and slowly lowered herself with her arms. Feeling the water reaching above her hips her body was, diffidently, reacting to the water in more ways than she wanted it too. Goten stared, thinking that the female body was great! Trunks only smiled knowing that was a normal body reaction and placed his hands on her hips, her eyes widen not liking his hands there. He liked the feeling of her hips in his hands, like they fit perfectly but pushed that out of his mind knowing she was scared right now and needed all of his attention on teaching her how to swim. He helped her lower more into the water so she wouldn't use her arms anymore and brought her to himself. She didn't like the skin on skin contact, but there was nothing else to grab onto and apparently she was getting farther and farther away from the security of the rock wall . He leaned back slightly and Rose freaked on the inside.

"Ch-ch-chotto matte!" What a minute! "that's not normal!"

Trunks held in a laugh and took a deep breath. "It's normal, it's easier for me to swim when I tilt my body like this as I hold someone." Rose felt bad once she heard it was easier for him this way. "Gomenasai." I'm really sorry she spoke feeling helpless. Trunks shook his head. "There's nothing to be sorry for." Rose looked from the wall to Goten, who was following as Trunks swam with only his legs. Goten randomly glanced at Roses back only to be surprised to see a big long scar along her spinal cord. He furrows his brows not believing what he was seeing. That scare was at lest two inches wide and was from the top of her neck and even looked like it went further and all the way down and might have been even past below were the swimming suit showed.

She looked back at Trunks. She couldn't believe he didn't need to use his arms to swim. Once they were in the middle, Goten smiled, maybe she had an accident and needed surgery that was the most obvious answer. "So what are we going to teach her first? How to lay on her back?" Both Trunks and Goten looked to see what her expression was, and of course, it was a funny one. Her eyes were wide looking at the two of them. "You're crazy if you think I'm going to be on my back in the water." Both of them chuckled and she hit Trunks lightly on the head before splashing Goten with one kick at the water. She wasn't happy at all and they weren't making things any better. They were like two older brothers teasing the hell out of their little sister. Trunks gave a warm smile and slipped one of his arms under her legs which in turn made her tense and snake her arms around his neck. "It's okay, I wont let go." he spoke quietly to her. She stared at his eyes for a moment before loosening her arms. Goten swam closer placing his arms under her as Trunks laid her out. "Jeez girl, relax or you'll sink." Trunks spoke and Goten chuckled and charmed in, "Yeah like a rock."

"How can I relax?!" she shouted not to happy at the moment. Trunks sighed and Rose heard that making her inwardly flinch. He's already frustrated of me! She thought feeling bad. Goten spoke seeing she had become uncomfortable again. "Place your hands at your sides and be as flat as a bored but as loose as a … as a jelly fish. That's right, a jelly fish." Rose imagined a jelly fish. She had never been to the ocean so she hadn't seen a jelly fish before, only in pictures. "Jelly fish..." she murmured. Trunks and Goten helped her lay her body out. Trunkses arms were under her neck and the middle of her thighs. Goten had his arms under her back and legs as well, smiling down at her. "Relax a little more, your ears are suppose to be under the water." Trunks spoke looking down at her calmly. Now that she was practically laying down, she couldn't see their faces anymore, too blurry, maybe she should have kept her glasses on? Rose relaxes a bit more and soon her whole body was floating with the help of the boys. "Good job Rose-chan!" Goten became excited for his friend. She could barely hear him because of her ears being under water. Trunks looked at Goten and Goten nodded they both slowly let her go knowing she might freak. Roses eyes widen, she couldn't see their faces so she couldn't read what they were thinking but soon she realized that she was floating without their help. Oh my Kami! I'm floating without any help! Soon enough she felt two arms wrap around her once again and pulling her head up from the water. She could see their faces again, she saw how happy they were which made her give a smile. "I did it!"

Trunkses smile became bigger. "You did. Now to show you how to kick in the water." She stared at him for a moment before feeling his arms change position making he go on her stomach, she curled up a little bit not knowing if this was safe. "Don't scrunch up like that, making your body as strait as a bored and place your arms in front of yourself." He paused for a moment as his eyes shook. Is that a scar? That scar was huge. Was she in an accident?

She swallows and straitens her body out feeling his arms under her thighs and right under her breast; that felt extremely unnecessary but he was showing her how to swim, she can't complain. Trunks quickly blinked and looked up at Goten and saw he noticed as well. Shaking his head he continued on with her lesson. "Hold your arms strait out in front of you, like you're flying." Trunks spoke, studying her body, seeing she was still okay, though a little tense, but still okay. "Now start kicking."

Rose started kicking, both Trunks and Goten smiled happily. "See you're doing it right!" Goten cheered Rose on raising his fist into the air. "Heh heh." he smiled before suddenly seeing a shadow under the both of them and his eyes widen. "Um Trunks-san..." Goten swallowed. Trunks looked up at Goten seeing him looking down and pointing. Trunks looked down seeing a shadow coming closer and closer to them. "I forgot the fish in this water aren't normal!" Trunkses eyes widen and quickly pulls Rose to his chest. She yelped being yanked so hard and heard what he said. "The fish?"

"Goten! Grab her!" Trunks quickly handed Rose to Goten and Goten swam quickly away. "What's going on?!" She shouted, her arms tightly around Goten's neck. She couldn't see anything without her glasses! Then there was the sound of rushing water, her eyes widen only seeing the blur of water rising up, Trunks right in the middle, being swallowed whole.

"Breifs!"

"Trunks!"

They both shouted, Goten saw the wave of water coming at them. His eyes narrow and out of reflex jumped out of the water and onto the land. Rose felt herself flying and a hard landing. She whimpered closing her eyes. That wasn't normal, what did he just do? She couldn't see, so she couldn't determine what happened. Goten was still holding her tightly as he stood, knowing all to well what was going to happen. Rose opened her eyes looking over at the body of water seeing it so still. Suddenly the water exploded. Rose screamed turning her head against Goten's shoulder, feeling the water sprinkle on them.

"Trunks, Dijoubu desu ka?" Are you alright?

"Un, Genki desu." Yeah, I'm fine.

Rose slowly turned her head to look over her shoulder seeing the blurry figure of Trunks, standing there with his hands on his hips. "Kudasai," Please. "put me down Son-san." Goten looked down with a clueless face. She looked so childish right now he just wanted to hug her but knew she wouldn't like it, she doesn't know him very well.

Slowly putting her feet down she placed her fist to her lips as her other hand when under her chin, her body shivered from the cold as well as the emotions building up in her.

"What happened?" she asked, her voice trembled a little, looking up at Trunks. Trunks and Goten look at each other then back at her. Trunks placed a hand behind his head and scratched it, looking up towards the sky. "Ano, well," he looked back down at her. She looked worried, wow. "There's some fish that are quite big but I was able to get away."

"Did you have an explosive with you or something?! The water exploded! EXPLODED!" she didn't understand what happened. Trunks and Goten look at each other again, but Trunks, being the genius that he is, thought of something up. "Well the fish was big so it must have made big splashes and since you don't have your glasses on the splashes probably appeared bigger than they really were." He stared down at her, studying her expression, thinking about whether she fell for that or not.

Roses face stayed suspicious but slowly softened into a more relaxed expression after a moment of thinking. Trunks seemed to relax the muscles he didn't know he was tensing, seeing she took the bait of his words but that backfired when she began to glare. Quickly as a defense he raised his hands up waving them slightly as he circled around her to Gotens side.

Her eyes follow him as she slowly turns around herself to face the two. "Yeah right! I'm onto you bub! You're a freak and I know it! Who else—!" she punches him in the gut, he doesn't even flinch and she brings her hand back to her chest rubbing the fist with her other hand from the pain she just felt. "Has a body so hard it's like punching a boulder!" Her eyes dart to Goten and he stiffens. "And it's probably the same with you too isn't it!"

"Awe, Rose come on, we just work out more than the average guy that's all." Trunks reached for her and placed his hands on her shoulders.

"Why don't you guys just tell me the truth, I'm going to find out sooner or later if I keep hanging out with you two." Rose said knowing exactly what she was doing, she needed to use this situation to her advantage while she had the chance. If she intimidated them enough they would back off and leave her alone and Trunks would never talk to her again. Though it was fun being together again with the both of them she just wasn't use to having friends and these new emotions were scaring her. She also doesn't want Trunks finding out about her mother's tests and the closer he got to her the more he would understand what was going on. She wouldn't underestimate how smart he was, not ever.

Trunks and Goten stared at her. Trunks took a deep breath and let his arms drop to his sides. "Lets get our clothes back on okay?" He didn't want her to find out what they were. He was to afraid she would run away. And just thinking about that made the pit of his stomach turn. Goten nodded his head with a big smile agreeing with Trunks about the clothes and stepped beside him. Both of them gently pushed her over to the clothes. She wasn't happy. Her plan wasn't working.

"Nan da?" What? "Changing the subject now?" she smirked over her shoulder to look at Trunks but saw his expression and her heart sank, the smirk on her lips dropped. What was with that look, the look of sadness? No it wasn't sadness, was it worry? Looking over her other shoulder at Goten he didn't look too happy either. Well, I got one to dislike me but Trunks is going to be harder than I thought. She thought, though hearing her think that gave her heart a twitch of empty pain but she would just have to shove that emotion back. She needed to be strong.

Taking her clothes and putting them on she turned around and noticed that they had their clothes on already. Her eyes study their expressions and it seems they had completely forgot about the conversation and back to their cheery moods. What the hell? She walked up to them about to push more on the matter but Goten wrapped one arm around her shoulders and grinned. "How about we hang out at Trunkses place for a bit? His place is a whole lot more entertaining than mine."

Rose tilted her head away from his looking at him oddly. He just chuckled and Trunks smirked. "I've got a couple new video games in that haven't been released yet in stores that we could try." Trunks was up for it. Rose quickly looked at Trunks. "Eh, but-"

"Just like old times!" Goten placed his other arm around Trunkses shoulders bringing both their heads in close with his. Roses eyes shift away and held her nose. "Briefs-san, you smell like rotting fish." she spoke, her voice muffled from the hand that was over her nose and mouth. Goten let go of Trunks and held his nose as well. Trunks strait-lined his eyes. "You guys suck!" Goten and Rose both laughed.