The day went by slowly. Satori and Trunks only talked when he needed her to do something and they barely talked then. When the end of the day came, the usual horde of fan-girls crowded around his office. This would usually make Satori laugh, but today it didn't help. She pushed past them and walked inside the office, closing the door quickly before any of them could get in. Trunks was preparing to jump out of his window.
"Go. I'll distract them…again." Satori had her back facing him.
He stared at her for a moment before stepping down from the window's ledge. He walked over to her and grabbed her arm, much to her surprise.
"Iie. You're coming with me this time, Hotaru."
With that, he levitated in the air a little and flew out of the window, still holding onto Satori's arm. She allowed herself to finally let him pull her along after two failed attempts to get away from him. Her eyes stayed down to the ground below her, not once looking at the man pulling her along.
"Satori, do you have a capsule with comfortable clothes in it?" Trunks pulled her out of her thoughts.
"…yeah." She said. They were nearing a cloud.
"Good. Pull it out." Trunks let go of her arm as they went into the cloud.
A 'popping' sound was heard and clothes fell from the cloud as the two Saiyans flew away. A laugh actually came from the female, making her male companion smile. She looked so much more relaxed now that she was in comfy black sweatpants and blue tank, her black hair pulled up into a ponytail.
"So is that what you do when you're too lazy to just go home and change?" Satori asked Trunks, smiling.
"Basically." He shrugged. He was happy that she was smiling, but…he knew her too well. She tended to hide her feelings behind her smiles. "Satori, are you still upset with me?"
The question brought a frown to her face and her eyes darted down. They both stopped in mid-air, Trunks watching her intently. If she was still upset, he could understand why; he had been somewhat mean to her.
"No…I'm not upset with you anymore, Trunks. You did what you had to, and I got angry." She looked up, a goofy smile on her face and her hands moving to her hips. "Mom and Dad always did say I have a bad temper."
They both laughed. "Come here." Trunks held his arms out.
She flew into his arms, hugging him tightly as they spiraled down towards the city below them. Trunks held her as they shot back into the air, smiling at her as she laughed in amusement. As they flew over water, a confused look crossed her face.
"Where are we going Trunks?"
"Wild guess." He smirked.
"Master Roshi's?"
He shook his head again. "Guess again."
"Um…" from her position, she could see a few islands. "Are we going to one of the islands?"
"Yes. Why are we going to the islands?"
"Um…" she blinked and a look crossed her face. "Trunks! I don't feel like sparring!"
"Aw, pwease Satori? You don't spar with me anymore!" He gave her puppy dog eyes.
The raven haired girl held an unsure look. She didn't want to admit it, but she hadn't sparred since Christmas of two years ago and that's only because her Grandpa Goku made her. She'll admit, she was a little rusty and he wouldn't get any good training sparring with her.
"Satori?"
"I can't Trunks. I haven't sparred in two years…" she admitted, blushing.
"Oh, come on. It's like riding a bike. You never forget how to spar, Satori."
"Well, I did." Her temple twitched.
He decided to leave it alone; he would get her to spar with him another time. "Fine…" he sighed.
Pretty soon, they landed in forest of one of the islands. Trunks sat in a tree, Satori sitting with him. He held her as she rested her head on his shoulder, legs swinging over the side of the limb they sat on. From the way she laid her head on his shoulder, he noticed a cut on her neck. His eyebrows furrowed in concern.
"Satori, what happened?"
"What do you mean?" She opened one eye to look up at him.
"This cut on your neck."
Her relaxed body suddenly tensed and she didn't reply. Her hand only went to the cut and she covered it up.
"It's nothing."
"Yes it is…what happened?"
"Don't worry about it." She was so tense now.
When he touched her hand, she flinched as if she had been hit. His concern for her only deepened when she suddenly moved, levitating down to the ground. She then began walking away from him.
"Satori, wait up." He followed her. "Come on, tell me what happened."
"No, Trunks! Will you just drop it?!" She snapped.
Now I know something's up. Trunks thought to himself as he caught up to her and grabbed her arm. "No, I won't just drop it. What happened?"
"Nothing happened, damn it!" She snatched her arm away and flew into the sky, flying away from him.
Usually, guys would take the hint and leave her alone, but not that hardheaded demi Saiyan named Trunks Briefs. He took to the sky as well and followed her. She sensed him behind her and she turned in the air, eyes narrowing.
"Why are you following me?"
"Because I wanna know what happened and why you won't tell me."
"One: Nothing happened. Two: Even if something did happen, it's none of your business! Now leave me alone!" she flew away quickly, not taking a second glance back.
Satori sighed as she walked into her house sometime later, going straight upstairs to her room. Pan was home already, sitting on her bed. She looked up when Satori walked in their room.
"Hey Hotaru. What's wrong? You look…mad."
"Hi and you better bet your ass I'm mad." She huffed as she sat down beside her sister.
Pan closed the magazine she had been reading and sat up, looking at her twin with curious eyes. "What has you mad?"
"Well, has Uncle Goten been here yet?"
"Iie. Doushite?"
"I wanted to be the one to tell you what happened and not him. Today, I was in Trunks office and Julie came in. We gave each other dirty looks and she began talking to Trunks. Now you know how big in the chest area she is right?"
"Uh huh."
"Well, she leaned forward to talk to Trunks and one of her buttons came undone. I told her in the nicest possible voice I could muster that she should button up her shirt and she looked at me. I gave her a meaningful look and she buttoned it up and left. After I left Trunks office, she came behind me and placed this sharp object to my throat and said she didn't "appreciate the look I gave her in his office" and I warned her to get away from me. She pressed the object to my throat more until I bled and I got angry. Out of anger, I grabbed her and threw her to the wall."
"You did what?!"
"Let me finish. Anyway, Goten grabbed her before she hit the wall and Trunks was holding me back from going after her. We then went to his office where he proceeded to find out why I threw her and I told him that she irked me. So that got him mad and he said that he's putting me in anger management classes."
Pan snickered at this but stopped when Satori looked at her. "Gomen. Continue."
"I protested and he said if I don't take the classes, I'm out of a job. I got all upset that he was taking her side and I left his office without another word. Then lunch came around and I went out by myself."
"Were you two supposed to go out to lunch together?"
Satori nodded. "When I came back, everyone saw me and started looking at me somewhat frightened and whispering things behind my back about how they wouldn't want to talk to me in case I threw them. Trunks sent a secretary of his to tell me he wanted to talk to me and I reluctantly went to his office, not really wanting to hear what he had to say. We talked for a while then I left again."
"Long story short…"
"We went to the forest after work and he asked me what happened and I got mad because I didn't want him to know." Satori concluded.
"Wow…you know, you should tell him." Pan said.
"Why? I don't want him to know; he, like everyone else, thinks I need anger management classes and if I don't take them, I'm fired. Sucks huh?"
"Pretty much." Pan hugged her twin tightly. "But it'll get better." She thought for a moment. "Hey, I know what would cheer you up. Mom's almost done cooking. A good home cooked meal will make you happy."
"I hope so." Satori sighed. "I'm going to go take a shower."
"Okay. I'll be downstairs." Pan said, getting up and going downstairs.
"Is that what really happened?"
"That's what she told me, Trunks."
Pan was outside. She had been planning to call him right in their room, but Satori could hear really well. She figured Trunks would want to know what happened, knowing that he was probably worried about her twin.
"So don't tell her to tell you."
"I won't. By why would she not tell me, Pan? You know your sister better than I do."
"Because of that Saiyan pride all of us have. Besides, she's kinda upset that you took Julie's side, but I figure she's over that now."
Trunks sighed on the other line. "Thanks for telling me Pan. I gotta go. Let me know if Satori says anything else about what happened, okay?"
"I will. Sayonara."
"Sayonara…"
Pan hung up and looked up at the sunset. I hope nothing comes between those two… she thought, sighing.
Author: Yeah...it's been a while since I've updated, huh? Anyway this is the next chapter (and the one that took longest to write; mostly because I was being lazy...again) so I hope you enjoy it. R&R if you don't mind...smile