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: One Step Closer

"Ka-san! Ka-san!" little rose ran over to her mother hugging her leg. "We are going to the fair today!" Her mother looked down at her with a warm smile. "Hai, we are going. Go get in the car I'll be right behind you." her mother smiled as little six year old Rose ran out the door and went to the car. Lily was on top of the stairs watching as her daughter went through the gates and reached for the car. It was like slow motion as she watched a hover car's engine blow and swerve onto the side walk crashing right into her car and slamming against a building. "ROSE!" she screamed the most horrible scream a mother could use seeing their own child... Ah I remember, this is what started all her experiments on me Rose thought in her dream watching her mother run over to the accident. I was pinned between to cars and a wall she thought seeing her mother screaming for someone to help. Mother... she thought. "Tasukete! Tasukete! Onegai!" Help! Help! Please! her mother was in horror. Police and the ambulance arrives taking the person out of the car that crashed first. "Why are you getting him first my daughter is under those cars! My baby!" she fell to her knees. Rose walked over to her mother. She loves me so much, that's why she does so much Rose thought and turned her head to the wreck. I remember now this lead to my first surgery. I was crushed between the cars and crumbling wall behind me, slipping between two worlds. Ka-san is a doctor she took me to her hospital and totally removed my spine putting in an artificial one as well as transplanting the organs she had been making in her lab to sell to the hospitals. The first experiment and since then she has tried to make my body stronger and in doing so helping others as well. That's right... she still loves me right? Rose thought.

Everything seemed deafened out as she floated in the tanks light green liquid. Rose opened her eyes as she took a deep breath in through the mask. Through the glass everything looked stretched out as she laid there. Her lashes lift more seeing her mother bending over the tank writing on her clip board. This liquid Rose was in was suppose to soak through the skin and into the blood. The blood then travels through the bones like normally giving the bones more help to heal faster. Previously, Lily broke several bones in Roses body. Of course she put her daughter to sleep and now Rose woke up in this tank and the pain was excruciating. "Rose tell me what you are feeling now." Lily spoke through an ear piece she had and Rose had the identical ear piece connected to the mask. "Pain, lots of pain not only the cracked bones but, eh itai! Eh, my skin is burning." she whipped her head back letting out a muffled scream through the oxygen mask. Not only did she feel her ankle was broken her wrist and lift lower rib but her skin burned. She banged on the tank even with the broken wrist and ankle and kicked. "Ka-san!" she shouted. "Okay, okay, sweetheart I know it's painful but your vitals are fine just endure for a while longer. This is just the first stage the burning will go away soon." she spoke pushing a couple buttons on the tank then writing more on her clip board. Rose breathed heavily and bubbles from the mask increased flow into the tank. It hurt, this was one of the most worst experiments she's been in besides that accident.

Trunks watched the sensei walk back and forth as he explained the atoms of everything around them. His chin was resting in his hand with his elbow on the table. He looked half attentive but most of his mind was on Rose wondering why her mother told him she was sick and when he asked to see her Lily wouldn't have it and politely asked him to leave. Of course he left and went to school but now things rushed in his mind about her mother and how secretive she was. Rose surely didn't have a normal life, not compared to his, but still, her family was a bit on the strange side. He knows that her father died before she was born so she had no male figure in her life since her mother decided to go solo for the rest of her life. Maybe he should skip the next lesson and go over to Goten's place or something. Oh, he wasn't home schooled he went to a different school and Middle school no less since in his birth records he's still fifteen, secretly he's sixteen. Never mind then, Trunks wondered what he should do. All the things the teacher was going through he already knew. He looked down at his notebook. He should be taking notes for Rose now that he thought about it. He picked up his pen and started writing everything down and in a much better understanding. As always he was a better teacher than the one's here. Or so he thought that way and hoped that was true so he could keep his position as a math tutor for Rose.

The tank started to drain. Lily got the results she was looking for. The liquid she created was making bone cell reproduction faster, much faster. Rose was almost healed completely, this was a great breakthrough. Once everything was drained Rose took off the mask and the tank shield opened letting out a loud hiss. She slowly pushed herself up on the table, the gray sports bra she wore and gray short shorts were soaked with the liquid. "Can you stand?" her mother asked as she typed up her report in a close built computer. Rose slipped off as her bare feet touched the cold floor. She stood there for a while moving her foot around as well as her wrist. "Sore, but not painful anymore." she spoke and looked up from her wrist at her mother who was still typing things in. "Can I go and clean up now?" she murmured putting her glasses on and saw her mother nod her head. Rose walked past her as she held her side with the lower rib. There was one bone that didn't seem to heal very fast. Ribs are one of the hardest to heal and most of the time have to be healed naturally.

Walking up the stairs away from the underground lab her mother had built for herself she opened the door closing it behind her. She felt so tired she was in there for eight hours. Pushing herself off the door she headed down the marble floored hallway and walked to another door opening it she closed it walking out from under the staircase and walked around it, up the stairs.

Once in the shower she washed vigorously getting off the stuff that was now numbing her body. She needed to tell her mother that as well. Putting her head under the shower head she dug her finger nails into her scalp quickly scratching her head all over. Well at lest her hair is easier to take care of since it's short now. She placed her hands flatly above her breasts lifting her head up feeling the hot water of the shower head pelt her face.

Once school was over Trunks got out of there as quickly as he could. He had an excuse to go to Rose's house and see her because of the homework she now has. He also wanted to see what he could do for her sickness. He didn't quite exit the school like he usually did he stood on the roof looking around before soaring off into the skies.

Rose saw her bed once entering her room and flopped onto it curling under her thick blanket. Oh, how much she loved her bed. Snuggling under it she sighed about to fall asleep when she heard the door bell ring. She snuggled deeper into her blankets hoping her mother was done and was going to get that. The doorbell rang again, then again- then it just wouldn't stop. She burst from her blankets and onto her feet. "Alright already! Jeez!" she stomped out of her room and down her stairs and quickly went to the door swinging it open with a woosh of air making her hair float around her face. "Who the hell do you think you are ringing like tha—Oh it's you."

Trunks blinked for a while seeing she was perfectly fine just paler than usual. "Uh-hm, well nice to see you too." he spoke. Rose stared for a moment not wearing her glasses and not bothering to squint and make herself look like an idiot. She knew by the color of his hair who this person was. "What do you want?" she asked and he handed the books and notes over. "Thought you might not want to get behind in school so I brought it over for you." He watched her blink in surprise and look down at his hand holding out the book and notes. "Ah, Arigato." she reached out grabbing them.

"I see you're doing well. You're mother said you were pretty sick when I came to pick you up this morning." He spoke stuffing his hands into his uniforms pant pockets. He watched as she shifted through the papers. She was wearing short, thin, black cotton shorts that hugged her hips and thighs showing the curves of her hips. He noticed they might actually be girl briefs underwear now that he got a better look when he tilted his head to the side before straitening it again. Her shirt was a thin strapped tank top, gray in color. He swallowed when he noticed she wasn't wearing a bra and shifted his eyes to the side when she looked up at him after looking through the papers.

"Yeah, I was feverish and couldn't get up from bed so I stayed home." she spoke thinking of some random excuse. She was good at lieing since she's done it most of her life because of her mothers secret profession. "Do you need help with anything?" he asked looking over her and into her home. Rose thought about it but didn't really think he should stay much longer. But he came all this way, why not a little tea before he goes. That wouldn't hurt right? And she did see math as one of the homework's sadly. "Math." she murmured looking down at the papers stubbornly. He smirked and walked right in. She shut the door behind him and walked quickly past him to the living room putting the notes down on the glass table and quickly went into the kitchen. He quietly followed and peeked into the kitchen seeing her making tea, putting the kettle on the stove and turning the fire on. He slipped in watching her silently. He just wanted to watch. Rose seemed so free right now in her thoughts. He gave a soft smile as his lashes lower.

Rose felt weird and looked over her shoulder to see Trunks standing in the middle of the kitchen staring at her or what she thought he was staring at. She couldn't see very well without her glasses. "What? What are you looking at baka ka." Asshole He blinked before smirking and stepped closer, which made her jumpy and turn around leaning against the counter. He got so close that he wasn't blurry to her vision anymore. She could clearly see him, his ice blue eyes that seemed to show an emotion she couldn't understand. Suddenly the thought of what he did to her at the nurses room flashed into her mind and felt her cheeks heat up. "Wha-what?" she murmured turning her head away and placing the back of her wrist against her lips. He wasn't going to steal another one of them kisses. They made her feel weird. His eyes shift to her hand seeing her palm. He furrowed his brows and quickly, but gently grabbed her hand. She looked at him as he studied her hand. "How did this heal so fast? I swear that cut was deep." he spoke and looked at her with narrow eyes. Her eyes widen and she opens and closes her mouth trying to find a way to explain something that seemed very unexplainable.

"O-oh, It's healed?" she pulled her hand away, curling her fingers against the palm and placing it against her chest. He leaned forward, trapping her between his arms as his hands were now against the gray marble counter top. She leaned back more trying to keep her face away from his. "Rose Look at me" His voice was so quiet and low it gave her chills. "Your hand. How did it heal so fast?" He knew that his saliva had healing components but it didn't make things heal that fast he knew that from experience. She couldn't look at him and closed her eyes. He was so close she felt a little cornered. She thought of something, she thought really hard to come up with something to explain. Then her eyes snap open. That was it that's what she could tell him. She turned her head to look at him strait in the eyes. In the art of a lie, if you avoid eye contact, it shows you're hiding, if you look them in the eyes strait on then they have no reason to suspect. "My mom was making an experimental paste that could heal wounds faster and she was testing it out on the animals." She watched his expression seeing it hasn't changed in the slightest, his eyes narrow in thought and the expression hard like a mask, he was really concentrating on her words which made her heart beat fast because if he's good at interpreting lies she would be caught red handed.

Trunks did concentrate hard and his ears picked up the beat of her heart. It was fast, meaning she lied. He learned this trick from his father. His father told him he could catch others in a lie if he concentrated on the heart. If it was fast it was a lie if it was calm it was the truth. His eyes narrow as she continued. "I was in pain and since it's my writing hand I wanted to use the stuff since it seemed to work and it healed my hand quite well as you can see. Please don't tell my mom she doesn't know I've used it." she spoke putting her hands together in a clap showing she was pleading. His expression relaxed and he sighed dropping his head and dropping one arm off the counter but the other hand still leaned. "Rose." he spoke.

"Yeah?" she replied.

"The kettle is screaming."

She quickly looked over to the stove seeing the steam shooting out as it whistled. "Oh jeez!" she quickly went over turning the fire off and taking the kettle off setting it on another burner. He lifted his head watching her through his bangs and slowly leaned his waist against the counter as he crossed his arms watching her. Why, why was she hiding so much. This made him more suspicious about her mother. This was it, he had to find out what was going on. He had a sinking feeling that her mother wasn't using animals but how can he prove something like that would the one being experimented on is protecting the experimenter. He sighed again running his fingers through his hair.

"Alright tea's ready, want to help me with my math?" she asked walking out of the kitchen and into the den where the white couches were and the glass coffee table right in the middle and the TV off against the wall. She placed the tea down on the table and sat on the carpet, crossing her legs. He walked in and over to her sitting on the couch when something on the TV caught his eyes.

"Briefs Trunks, the number one bachelor in West City now has a girl friend? Find out at four."

Rose looked up to see a photo right beside the anchor man. It was a photo of Trunks that had a laughing expression with his arm around the shoulders a girl who had the same hair as her's as well as uniform but a black bar over the eyes. "Oh. My. Kami."

Trunks stiffened. He knew this would happen just not so soon. He forgot that everything he did outside of his home was always watched by others. "Well..." he spoke and saw her quickly whip her head around looking at him with eyes of flame. He lifted his leg and his arm up in defense as he leaned more into the couch. Her expression was scary. "What the fuck!" She bolted up, jumping on him with flailing arms, punching and slapping him before long her fingers curled into his hair and began to pull, so far, bodily injury seem to never get through his thick skin. She knew a way to inflict pain on a guy like him. Go for the ears and hair. "Ow Ow Ow Rose! Stop! You're going to make me go bald!"

"GO BALD!"

"Ow Rose why are you freaking?"

"I'm never going to be able to go to school again!" she started pulling on his ears.

"IIIEEEEYOW!" He finally got a hold of her wrists pulling her deadly fingers away from him before she got any more idea's on how to use them. He was laying on the couch practically, with her straddled over his stomach. There was little tears swelled at the corner of her eyes as she pouted with her hair falling in her face. He stared at her seeing how upset she was. "I- I'm sorry I should have been more careful about hiding us from the paparazzi." he spoke hearing her give small sniffles. He knew what she meant by not being able to go to school, the girls would kill her but he got a good idea and wondered if she'd except. "Rose." his voice deepened and even sounded sweet. Which made her stiffen. "I like you." he spoke in a whisper.

"No." she started pulling away but his fingers around her slender wrists were like shackles that connected to him. She couldn't have this! She looked away shaking her head. "Rose please! Listen!" he pulled her closer by pulling her arms above his head, making her foot, that was are the carpet that was keeping her from falling on him, slip. Her face was only inches away from his. Her cheeks went completely red, to close! "Just listen to what I have to say please." he pleaded

"You can't." she spoke quietly, her face turned away as her hair hides her face.

"Why? Why can't I like you?"

"You will only bring me trouble."

That was another sting he didn't like the feeling of. He has never had a girl refuse him. In a way he just felt as though he wanted her more because of her refusal but he didn't want her to hate him either because of his pushiness. "You don't understand Rose I—"

"No you don't understand!" she looked at him with anger. "I can't! Don't you see? Don't you know? Not only do I not suit you my mother wouldn't allow it and I don't want to!" her face was only an inch away as she spoke angrily through her teeth, he could feel her breath on his lips making him swallow unconsciously. He closed his eyes and breathed through his nose. Her smell was so close in a way it made him dizzy. Why she smelled so good to him he would find out sooner or later but right now he needed to convince her to be his girl. He couldn't even start to think some other guy being with her. For some reason that just raised an unknown anger in him whenever he thought about her being with someone else. He snapped open his eyes, determined to have her as his. Her scent, body and strength, even her personality it all attracted him in the oddest way. His fathers words about how a saiyan find's their mates also ran through his head. He knew she was the one and didn't care if he had to fight his own friend to get her, he would. "Thorn, Rose." he spoke in a serious tone. "I care about what is happening to you. To me you're everything I look for not only in a friend but someone for more than that. When I said I'd take all your firsts I meant it. And no other male will have you." he started speaking quietly as her eyes widen not believing what was coming through his lips. His face drew closer and she jerked trying to move away. "Stop it!" she shouted. "You're scaring me!"

"Rose!" he blurted to get her attention. "I'll protect you!"

Her struggling became weaker as she sniffled. "I'll protect you." he repeated more calmly. "Please, allow me this one." he slowly pulled himself up still holding onto her wrists but both their arms relaxed in his lap where she sat. Her face was still turned away, her hair hiding her face. "Do what you want." her voice cracked. "I don't care if you get hurt." She turned her head now looking at him with an expression that sunk his heart. She looked hurt, confused and most of all, weak. His hands slipped into her's bringing her fingers to his lips as he closed his eyes. He wouldn't let her regret this.

"Arigato."

Sorry it took so long but here it is. It's getting dramatic isn't it? Will this get better or worse for the two? Find out in the next installment!