We're Just Roommates
Part 1
By Presea

This is my first fanfic! It's a romance about Trunks, Pan, Goten and Bra. And just so you're warned, there WILL be lemon chapters later on in the story, but I'm going to make non-lemon versions of them too so anyone who doesn't want to read that sort of thing won't have to.

I don't own Dragonball Z/GT or any of its characters, they belong to Akira Toriyama. I'm just writing about them, I'm not making money off it... you get the idea.

I'm not sure when the next part is going to be out, because I'm busy working on my upcoming website, the Trunks and Pan Archives, scheduled to go online October 1st. If anybody out there has any T&P stories, poetry, or art please feel free to send it to me at presea@starmail.com but please read my submission rules first, found at http://geocities.com/tparchives/submit.htm. Enjoy the first part of my story!


Trunks groggily woke up at the sound of his alarm beeping. Hitting the snooze button for the tenth time, he buried his head under his pillow. UGH. He did NOT want to get up.

"TRUNKS!" he heard his mother call from the hallway. "Come on! You should've been up half an hour ago! You're going to be late for the staff meeting if you don't get up!!"

Damn, Trunks thought. This was torture. It was just as bad as being in high school and your mother having to force you out of bed on a test day. No, it was WORSE. Because he wasn't in high school anymore. He was a grown man, not a teenager. 'You're 32 years old now Trunks,' he thought somberly. 'So why the hell are you still living with your parents?!'

He rose and got ready for work, taking his time despite the fact he was already running late. 'Why DO you still live at home, Trunks?' he wondered thoughtfully. He was one of the richest men in the world. It wasn't like he couldn't afford his own place. Once he had his suit and tie on, it was decided.

"I'm moving out!"

~ * ~


"SON GOTEN! GET OUT OF THAT BED BEFORE I DRAG YOU OUT!"

Goten cringed at his mother's howling voice. Oy, he couldn't take this anymore. He was 30 years old and his mother still treated him like he was 13! It wasn't fair. Not wanting to suffer any more of his mother's wrath, Goten put on jeans and a shirt and trudged downstairs. Everyone was already eating breakfast.

"Well, glad to see you're up! I have some errands for you to run this morning, Goten," Chichi said as she placed his breakfast in front of him.

"Looking forward to it, Mom," Goten mumbled. He then looked at Pan and smiled. "Well, if it isn't the graduate herself. How does it feel knowing this is the last day of high school for you, Pan-chan?"

"It feels great!" she laughed, biting into another piece of toast. "I'm a little nervous about college, though. But I guess after the first few months I'll get used to it."

"How about I walk you to school, Pan-chan?" Goten offered.

"Sure, Uncle Goten!"

When they finished breakfast, Pan and Goten left the house. As they headed for Pan's school, a magazine fell out of her backpack.

"What's this?" Goten picked it up and looked at the front cover. He squinted his face in confusion. "Pan-chan... this is an apartment guide!" he said. Pan snatched it out of his hand.

"Yeah? So what?"

"Pan-chan... are you thinking of moving out?" he asked her. She sighed as they started walking again.

"Well... yes. Bra-chan and I were thinking about sharing an apartment once college starts."

"Do your parents know about this?"

Pan shook her head. "If I do decide to leave, it's going to be hard telling them. You know how strict Grandmother is."

"You don't have to tell me that. Sometimes I wish I could move out too."

"Well... why don't you, Uncle Goten? I mean, you've been an adult for quite some time, right? Maybe it's time you got out on your own," she told him.

"Believe me, Pan-chan, the idea is very tempting. There have been lots of times when I've wanted to move out. But I always felt like my mother needed me, and now that Dad is gone..."

Pan felt her heart grow heavy at the mention of her grandfather. "I understand. But if you really want to move out, Uncle Goten... that's something you should really think about." They arrived at the school gates when they heard a familiar voice behind them.

"Hey you two, wait up!" Pan and Goten turned to see Bra running towards them.

"Morning, Bra-chan," Goten said in greeting.

"Good morning, Pan-chan, Goten," Bra said. "Pan-chan, since today's a half day, Trunks says he wants to take us to lunch to celebrate our last day of high school. Why don't you come too, Goten?"

"Sure, sounds like fun. Where and when?"

"School lets out at noon, so just meet us here. Trunks is picking the restaurant so I'm not sure where we're going."

"All right, I'll be here. I guess I'd better go run those errands for my mother now. Ja ne!"

"See you later, Uncle Goten!" Pan said, and she and Bra walked to their class.

"So, have you thought anymore about it, Bra-chan?" Pan asked her.

"Yes. I want to, but... I just don't know how my parents are going to take it, that's all."

"You and me both. But we're adults now, Bra-chan. We have to learn to be independent. I don't want to end up like my uncle and be living with my parents when I'm 30," Pan said.

"Well, look at my brother! He's 32! I don't want to end up like him, either!"

"Then it's settled? We move out sometime during the summer?"

"We have to find a subtle way to let our parents know. My father won't take it too lightly, that's for sure," Bra said, thinking about her father's temper. "And what about Chichi? She'll hit the roof, you know she will."

"Yeah, especially when she finds out Uncle Goten wants to move out too."

"He does? Since when?"

"He told me this morning that he's been thinking about it for a long time. But he's afraid to leave my grandmother because my grandfather's not around anymore. But I think he's starting to get really frustrated, especially since he can't really have women over late at night," Pan said.

Bra stiffened at those words. Pan noticed this, and smirked. She knew Bra had it bad for her uncle. Just the same, Pan had been head over feet for Trunks ever since their trip into space to search for the Black Star Dragonballs. But both men were oblivious to their feelings. It's not like either girl had a chance with them anyway. Trunks didn't see Pan as anything more than a little sister, and to Goten, Bra was just his little niece's best friend. Not only that, but the age difference, too.

"I guess we can talk about it more this weekend," Pan said. "We'd better hurry, homeroom starts in five minutes."

~*~

Goten made his way to Bra and Pan's school around noon, still thinking about what he'd been pondering all day. Should he move out? He really, really wanted to. He loved his mother, but he was tired of her constant nagging and getting him up so early every morning. Couldn't he ever be entitled to sleep in once in a while? And what about his social life? Who would want to date a guy his age that still lived with his mother? He didn't want to be single forever!

"Hey, Goten!"

Goten looked up and saw Trunks waving at him. "Hey, Trunks."

"What are you doing here?" Trunks asked him.

"Well, Bra said you were taking her and Pan to lunch, and she invited me to come along. If it's okay with you, that is."

"Sure, it's no problem. I know just the place where we can go to accommodate all of our Saiyajin appetites," Trunks chuckled.

The school bell rang, and all of the students rushed out cheering and screaming. Pan and Bra saw the guys and rushed towards them. "Hey, guys!" Bra said, waving.

"Where are we going, Trunks? I'm starving!"

"Nice to see you too, Pan-chan," Trunks laughed. "Come on, I'll show you."

~*~

"Trunks, is something wrong?" Bra asked as they were seated at the restaurant.

"Eh, no. Why?"

"Because you're acting weird. What's going on?" Bra asked him.

"Well... it's not a big deal, really. Okay, maybe it IS a big deal... but I decided this morning that... I want to get my own place," Trunks told them.

Everyone just looked at him in shocked silence. "You mean... move out?" Pan asked.

"Yeah."

"For Dende's sake, is this the topic of discussion for today or what?!" Goten exclaimed.

"What do you mean, Goten?" Trunks asked.

"Maybe you should ask your sister," Goten said, smirking at Bra.

"OY! Pan-chan, I thought you hadn't told anyone yet!" Bra cried.

"Well, I had to! The apartment guide fell out of my backpack and he saw it," Pan explained.

"Okay, now I'm confused. What are you all talking about?" Trunks said.

Bra sighed. "Well... Pan-chan and I... were thinking about moving out and finding our own place too," she confessed.

"What? Bra, you know how protective Dad is of you! He'll never allow it!" Trunks told her.

"Well, I hate to say this, but it isn't up to Dad. We're adults now, Trunks. We need to start living like we are," Bra stated firmly.

"Well, you're not the only ones. I've been contemplating all day if I should move out, too," Goten said.

Trunks was shocked. This was too weird. All of them, having thoughts of moving out. Pan furrowed her brow as she thought about the situation. 'It's a wild idea... but they just might go for it.' she thought.

"I know!" Pan said aloud. "What if... the four of us... moved in together?"

"WHAT?!?" they all cried, looking at Pan as if she were insane.

"If we did that, we'd be living with family still, technically. I think, Bra-chan, if you stayed with Trunks, and I stayed with Uncle Goten, our families would be a lot cooler about it. I mean..."

"Pan-chan, THINK about what you're SAYING! Me, live under the same roof as Goten? My father would DEFINITELY kill me!" Bra said.

"Yeah, and I don't think Gohan would be too keen on the idea of you living with Trunks either, Pan," Goten added.

"Oh, come on! It's not like you guys are evil incarnate or anything! It would just be more economical that way. And as much as Trunks works, it's not like he would be there a lot of the time anyway," Pan said.

"I don't know, Pan-chan. Our parents aren't going to approve of it so easily," Trunks said.

"Like Bra said before, they don't have any say in it," Pan told him. "I think that's what we should do. We have to get our parents out of that overprotective state they're in and let them know that we're mature adults and that we can make decisions for ourselves. I can't think of any better way to do it."

"She does have a point," Goten sighed. "I'm tired of still getting treated like a little kid. I want some freedom in my life, and to be able to sleep in if I want to!"

Bra and Trunks looked at each other, then at Pan and Goten.

"It's too abrupt for me to decide on this now," Trunks sighed. "I'll have to think about it."

"Yeah, me too," Bra said.

"Well, you do that then. But I don't need any convincing," Pan said.

"I still think the whole idea is absurd," Bra sighed.

"Well, I have a feeling that by tomorrow, you'll be feeling a little differently, Bra-chan," Pan said with a smirk, looking at Bra and then at Goten. 'Like Bra would really pass up the opportunity to LIVE with Uncle Goten. She's already agreed to the idea secretly even though she won't admit it,' Pan thought.

"What's that supposed to mean?" Bra demanded.

"Oh, nothing. I just think you'll change your mind, that's all. Now, can we order already? I'm starving!"

~*~

Well, that's all for now. Please R&R!

- Presea