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Love In A Different Time

Chapter 2

Mirai's POV

This morning I couldn't help but feel at least a little sorry for Trunks. He didn't want to look me in the eye, he barely talked to me. I'm sure that he was afraid that he would say something else to me that he didn't really want to say. He sat looking at his bowl of cereal for a long time, a truly un-saiyan like thing to do, not even bothering to start a conversation with anyone.

"So how did things go with Pan?" Mom asked Trunks.

Without looking up from the bowl, "Great. She made me buy her some clothes though. That's all right though I guess."

"Clothes!" Mom said, starting to remember something. "Trunks needs some clothes. He should have went with you."

Trunks glanced up at me, then turned his gaze back to the soggy cereal. I looked to Dad who silently watched the entire scene, not bothering to get involved, while chewing on a piece of bacon.

"Well," I said finally, "I didn't know how much clothes I needed. I needed to unpack first and see how many new things I should get. There's no sense in me getting so many clothes that I don't need."

"You can never have too many clothes! Besides, you can only wear something for so long. You always need to update to stay in style."

"Hmph. Tell that to Kakarrot," Dad muttered.

"You live in your training gear, Vegeta, so you shouldn't talk," Mom scolded. Turning to Trunks she said, "Anyway, Trunks, take Trunks with you to the mall today. I want you to show him all the stores you go to. I'm sure you both have the same taste in clothes."

Trunks nodded sullenly.

"Hey, Mom?" I said. "You can just call me Mirai so that no one gets us confused."

As Mom was about to say something, we all heard someone coming down the stairs. "Daddy!" I heard a girl yell. Suddenly a girl who looked exactly like my mother rushed into the room. "Daddy! Hurry! You have to drive me to North City! They are having a two for one sale at Too Cute!" She grabbed one of my father's arms and tried to pull him out of his seat. "Come on! You know they never have sales there. Get up pleasepleaseplease!" Dad didn't budge from his seat, he just kept shoveling pancakes into his mouth.

Mom cleared her throat. "Bra, dear, I'd like you to meet someone."

Bra sighed. "Do I have to? I'm really busy now, Mom."

"Well, I think it would be rude if you didn't, seeing as how he is sitting at the table right now." Mom got up and walked over to me and I stood up. "Bra, this is Trunks. He is your brother, but he is from the future."

"Eeeew, another Trunks? Why would I want another dorky brother like Trunks?"

"Hey!" Trunks protested, "I'm not dorky!"

Dad snorted and tried not to lose his look of disinterest in the conversation and start laughing.

"Bra! Say hello or no money to go shopping!"

Bra rolled her eyes. "Hi big brother," she said as she gave me a hug. As she pulled away, she brightened up. "Hey! You have more muscles than my brother does!" Turning to Trunks she said, "I bet he could beat you up really fast."

"He could do the same to you…and so could I," he threatened.

"Are you threatening my daughter, boy?" Dad asked in a threatening tone. Trunks sank back into his seat and tried to look as small as possible.

"Can you two act your age?" Mom scolded. "Honestly, I don't see why you two have to be at each other's throats all the time. Vegeta, would you talk to them-"

"Need to train. Must beat Kakarrot," Dad said quickly as he got up from the table. Ah, I see he knows when to stay away from Mom too. Apparently so did Trunks and Bra because they started backing away from the table towards the back door. Trunks motioned for me to follow.

"Vegeta!" Mom called after him.

Turning back to face her, he said, "I said, 'Must beat Kakarrot.' I must go now." Seeing us backing out of the door and also seeing his escape route, Dad pointed to us and said, "Woman! The kids are leaving! Hurry kill them!" Mom turned to see us and Dad darted to his precious sanctuary, the gravity room.

"Run!" Trunks yelled. We all ran towards his car and jumped in.

"You get back here!" Mom yelled running out of the house. "We need to talk about this!"

Trunks started the car and we were soon on our way out of the Capsule Corp. grounds.

"Oh, Trunks," Bra said as sweetly as she could to Trunks. "Sweet, lovable big brother of mine." Trunks eyed her suspiciously. "Since we're already in the car, can you take to North City? Pleeeeaaase?"

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Trunks' POV

Man, what a terrible morning! At least after I threatened Bra, Dad didn't kill me. That has to be a plus to my day right? Anyway, Mirai, Bra, and I had to run out of the house because Mom wanted to have one of our 'family talks.' I hate those things. So does Dad! He always tries to avoid those things like they are the plague. Somehow though, Mom always finds him hiding someplace and we almost always end up having the family talk anyway. Bra made me take her to the mall to this one store where they have a two for one sale, so Mirai and I went to some of my favorite stores. He ended buying mostly jeans, but he bought a few dress pants and some stuff to work out in. I'm amazed, but Mirai liked some of the punk clothes that they had at the mall. He ended up buying a pair of those wide-leg jeans, a white tank top, and an oversized shirt. But hey, he liked it! Mom is going to have a fit when she sees him wearing that.

Mirai said though, "Hey, all those punk people have their hair dyed and everything. I already have the purple hair, so why not? Besides I think it looks kind of cool."

And this amazes me even more, Bra liked his clothes too! Now, if it were me, and if I bought something like that, Bra wouldn't hesitate to make fun of me. Is it just me, or does everyone seem to like Mirai better?

Pan was at the mall with Videl and Pan wanted to come back home with us. Videl let her, so then we had another person tagging along. Yet again, Pan liked Mirai's clothes too, but I'm not too surprised since she wears that kind of stuff anyway.

Finally, once we were back home, and Dad had helped get Bra's 20 bags of clothes out of the trunk of my car, Pan and I were alone. We walked to this one place by my house where there is a huge garden with many trees and flowers. It's almost like a secret garden because there are walls surrounding it. For some reason, that is Pan's favorite place to go here at Capsule Corp. We sat down on one of the many benches in the garden and talked for a while.

After we had been sitting there, chatting of a whole bunch of stuff, I leaned over and grazed my teeth on her neck. Pan shivered. I nipped at her neck, but this time she slapped me.

"What the hell do you think you're doing, Trunks?" She stood up and backed away from me, then got into a fighting stance, daring me to piss her off.

"Hey! Calm down!" I said.

"You're not marking me yet."

I laughed. "Why not? You're my girlfriend, aren't you? We're bonding and everything."

She got out of her fighting stance and crossed her arms over her chest. "Yeah, I'm your girlfriend, but that doesn't mean that I'm going to let you bite me. I'm not so sure at the moment if I want you as my lifelong mate."

At sat staring at her in shock. I knew she had not been very happy lately, but I thought it was because of something else, not me. "Why not? Don't you love me?"

Pan looked up at the sky and sighed, exposing more of her neck to me. Her neck was all I could think about at the moment. "Yes, I do. But you haven't been a very good boyfriend and I'm not sure you will be right for me."

"But Pan," I argued, "We're bonding. We can't bond with just anyone! Our bodies know who our mate is, even if we don't. Once we find our mate, then we begin bonding. We're right for each other."

She glared at me. "That's not the point. You are so much different from when we first started dating. You're just protective now and it seems like you don't even think of me. You piss me off more and more and I can't take the way you treat me. I want thing to be the way they were before."

"Baby," I said as I stood up, "I don't know what you're talking about!" I put my arms around her and kissed her forehead. "How do you want me to be? I haven't noticed that I've changed at all, but I'll do whatever you want. I don't want to lose you."

"First of all, you don't pay as much attention to me. All you think about is keeping other guys away from me. But do you ever try to be romantic anymore? No. Do you whisper that you love me in my ear anymore? No. Do you hold me, not in a protective way, but in a loving way and kiss me passionately? No. Now, all you do is give me a quick peck on the cheek or on the mouth. Nothing big."

"I don't pay enough attention to you, huh?" I kissed my way down to her neck again and tried to nibble her neck.

She tried to push me away, but I just wouldn't let go. Any other time, I would have let her go, but this time I kept her locked in my arms.

"Trunks!" she cried. "Let me go!"

"But honey, I just wanted to kiss you."

"No! Let me go!" she screamed at the top of her lungs.

For some reason, I still held on to her. My body just wouldn't let her go. I was hoping that she wasn't thinking I was going to rape her or anything. I would never do that! But to anyone else, it would have looked like I was about to. But I wasn't going to! I swear!

Suddenly I felt something hit my face and I was thrown 50 feet away from where Pan was standing. Apparently I had let her go, but there was Mirai, holding on to her shoulders, asking her if she was all right. Pan nodded and glared at me before storming off back to her house. Mirai watched her go, then turned to look at me. I was still laying on the ground, just watching everything happen. He walked over to me. He looked sorry for hitting me. It must have been strange seeing his double punched in the face and lying on the ground.

"Hey, Trunks," he said. He didn't seem to be too mad. He held out his hand to help me up. I took it and stood up and dusted myself off. "I'm sorry that I had to do that, but why were you holding onto her so tightly?" I could tell he was thinking I was trying to force myself on her. Kami, what an idiot I am.

I explained what had happened. Trunks listened to my every word and seemed to believe me.

"Did you try to mark her because I'm here?"

I stood silent. Mirai seems like such a nice guy, but I don't want to tell him the truth. "I guess so," I replied looking down at the ground. I looked back up to see Mirai nodding.

"That's what I thought. Listen, Trunks, I'm not going to go after Pan. I realize that she is your girlfriend and all, but you have to treat her right. It's not my fault if she is getting bored with you or you are doing something wrong. I can't help that. But hey, why don't we just call a truce?" Mirai held out his hand. I shook it with a smile and we walked back to the house.

As we were walking back to the house I saw Pan talking to my dad. When she saw me coming, she turned away and flew back to her house. Dad turned around and watched me walking before he went into the house with a scowl on his face. Dad thinks of Pan as a daughter already, even though he probably won't admit it to anyone. Pan always comes and talks to my dad and she's the only other person, other than Bra of course, who he will stop his training for in the gravity room. I think he likes her because she can fight and she acts the same way he does sometimes. I sigh and look down at my feet. I've let her down. She probably hates me now. And she has probably turned Dad against me even more. I'll have to tell Mom about everything now so that she can keep Dad from locking me in the gravity room with him…

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