Chapter 10
Trunks and Juu walked slowly back to Capsule Corp both of them cracked up laughing upon hearing Joe shout to Amano another reminder to retain his virginity until he was married.
"He is gonna have 'hot sex' like Joe said or propose to her. I'll put money on it." Juu said with a giggle.
"How would you know...?" Trunks asked.
"Womans intuition. Believe it or not there is some feminity in me."
"Oh I believe it."
"What?"
Trunks froze upon realizing what he had just said. Slowly he met Juu's gaze and wondered why she had to look at him like that. It only made this moment all the more awkward to have her shockingly gorgeous, cat like eyes looking at him with such a stunned and confused expression.
"Uh... Nothing." He replied dumbly. "Baka!" He shouted at himself. "Lets go inside. I am cold."
Juu was about to press further on what he just said but though better of it upon seeing the embarassed look on the boys face. She felt a little flustered herself at the comment. He clearly hadn't thought about what he was saying but he clearly wouldn't have said it had he thought about it. "Or maybe he is just to embarassed to admit he is attracted to me." she thought. "Thats just wishful thinking. Wait a minute. Why the Hell would I wish that?" She shivered. That had to be the weirdest thought pattern to go through her head in a while. Although some part of her didn't find it strange and paid special attention to her longing that Trunks would have gone farther with what he had said.
"Juu did you just shiver...?" Trunks said. He seemed to have regained his composure. "I didn't think androids got cold."
"Oh I am fine... I don't know why I shivered. I wasn't cold."
Trunks smiled at her and the small part of her that had enjoyed the thought that he may be attracted to her was screaming with joy in response to the sweet smile he now gave her.
"My mom is going to want me to show up at her Christmas party at some point. Want to come with me?" He asked his voice seemed somewhat hesitant though.
"Uh sure. So long as it isn't a formal affair." Juu commented.
Glancing down at her clothes Trunks couldn't help but be glad that it wasn't formal. Her white tank top was slightly tatered and almost see through and her beat up black pants were rolled up almost to her knee. Never mind she had just been sparring with Trunks. He also couldn't help but be glad that the outfit revealed much of her figure and the incredibly attractive curves...
"It isn't formal..." He said blushing upon coming to his senses after the last thought.
"Are you feeling okay Trunks...? You're acting a little strange. Zoning out, blushing for no reason etc."
Trunks felt at a loss for words. He didn't quite know what to say to her. He didn't really know how to say how he felt about her. "Uh... It's nothing like I said before." He couldn't help but feel his knees go weak as she scowled at him. There was something terribly cute about her face no matter what the expression. Except the sad one which he was practically in mortal combat with.
"You're not much of a liar Trunks. Now what is going on? If you don't tell me I am going to tell your mother your sick and you know what happened when she think you're sick."
Trunks shuddered remembering the time he had been sick and his mother had forced him to stay in bed for a week. Juu had found no end to her amusement at the sight of him stuck in bed, thermometer stuck in his mouth except for when his mother took it out to check his temperature. All in all an unplesent experience for him "No... No don't tell my mom I am sick..."
"Then tell me whats going on?"
"Please Juu..." Trunks thought in despare. "You can't be so blind as to not see how I look at you and care for you...."
"Fine then. If you're not going to tell me I am going to go tell your mother you puked." Juu said with a grin and then she turned on her heel in to go down the hall leading to the party.
"No!" Trunks blurted out grabbing her from behind.His left arm was around her waist and his right arm was slung over her right shoulder hugging her body close to his. Suddenly his heart felt like it was in his throat and his primary fear was she would push him away. After a moment he began the pull his hands away from her. His hands seemed to fight the command to leave her body. After a moment he managed pulled his hands from her and stepped back. "I'm sorry... Juu I-"
He stopped. She hadn't turned around and seemed to shrink at the sound of his voice as if frightened. Trunks felt almost hollow. "She won't even look at me now..." He thought bitterly. "Anyways I am sorry." Trunks said not even trying to hide the disappointment he felt.
Juu managed to get her body to move in time to see Trunks heading up a nearby stairwell. She couldn't manage to get her body to move after that. She could only helplessly watch as he left her there alone. Juu was unsure of how she got to her room she felt as if she wasn't in control anymore and even more noticable was her helplessness. How could she not have been able to say something...? He hadn't really said anything either... It seemed clear what emotion he felt though and she had just stood there like an idiot. Upon reaching her room she sat down on her bed unable to think of anything other then what had just happened.
Bulma struggled to keep her cool as she said her good byes to her guests. Trunks was supposed to come down at least for a few minutes to say hello to some of these people. Many of whom were very fond of him. When the last guest had finally gone she started for the stairwell. He was probobly in his room and if he was asleep he was in for a rude awakening. When she came to his room she opened the door, her already open to yell at him when she stopped. He was sitting cross legged on his bed, head cast downward. She had seen Trunks upset before but she had never seen such a terribly morose look on the boys face before.
"Go away, Mom..." Trunks growled as he looked up at his mother. His eyes seemed to darken as he spoke.
"Trunks..."
"Nothing is wrong! What don't you get about me wanting to just be left alone?" He screamed.
Bulma fought the urge to yell back at her son. While she was furious with him for talking back she couldn't help but feel he should be forgivin when she looked into his eyes, which showed a very deep pain within the boy. She sighed and left the room closing the door behind her. She shivered. When Gohan died was the only time she had seen him that hurt. She slowly began to wander through the building. It helped her to think to walk a bit. After she had been walking a bit she started to hear a small sound. Turning to the door it was coming from she discovered it was Juu's room. Opening the door she discovered Juu curled up on her bed, facing the wall. Her body trembled more with ever sob that escaped her.
"Juu...?" Bulma said softly, "Is it a coincidence that Trunks is in his room seemingly as hurt as you at ths very moment...?"
"No ma'am..." Juu sobbed hoarsly, her voice muffled by her pillow.
Bulma queitly closed the door to the room and walked over to Juu's bed and sat on the side next to Juu. "Could you tell me what's going on...? I couldn't get anything from Trunks..."
Juu let out a very shaken sigh and slowly began to tell Bulma what had happened with Trunks and added on what an idot she was for not saying anything back to him.
"But he didn't say anything to you did he...?"
"He didn't officially... He sent a pretty strong message anyway..."
Bulma sighed. She was getting a pretty strong message from Juu that if she could do it over again she would said something with the same meaning as what Trunks had "told" her.
"Could you just leave me alone..." Juu whispered.
Bulma sighed and left the room. As soon as the door was closed she immediatly started for Trunks room. She didn't bother to knock at all she simply barged right in.
"Haven't you figured it out yet that I don't want to talk to you?" Trunks snapped.
"Juu just told me what is wrong, Trunks. Just thought i'd see if that made a difference in anything."
Trunks face faultered at his. He hung his head, "God why did you ever have to find out of all people..." He said, his voice almost a whimper.
"Could you tell me how all this started?"
"Fine if you're going to force me..." He replied unhappily.
"If you're okay with telling me could you go tell Juu?"
"What...?"
"I was just with her. I think you should go talk to her. She'd like to hear it from you." Bulma said. She then turned and left Trunks alone in his room.
It was about fifteen minutes before Trunks will his body to get off his bed and see Juu. When he got to her room he slowly pushed the door open. When Juu sat up and looked at him he felt his insides turn to lead. Her lip quivered slightly and she bit it to make it stop trembling. Trunks took a step towards her and slowly his hand touched her cheek causing a tear to fall, it obvouly wasn't the first one she had shed since the incident in the hall.
"Is it my fault you're cryng...?" He whispered.
She shook her head slowly, refusing to meet his gaze as he sat down on the bed to face her.
He sighed, "I guess there is nothing I can say to change what happened back there huh.?"
"I am the one who should want to change something," she blurted out, "I wish I had at least done somthing or said something..." She said with a short sob.
"What would you have said?" Trunks felt his heart pounding in his chest at the thought that there just might be some hope she felt the way he did.
"What you refused to say... How long have you been refusing to say it...?"
"That I love you, you mean?" He noticed her eyes dart up and meet his gaze for a brief moment. That was what she meant alright. "Certainly didn't happen when we first met. You were only trying to kill me." He laughed slightly at how in contrasted to their present situation. However the laugh seemed tainted with a sob of his own. "I don't know... Maybe it started when I found you in the lab... I remember I despretly wanted to pretect you from anything that might hurt you when I saw how helpless you seemed and so alone... Could have started when for no reason I defended you when Kaede said you might repeat what your brother and sister did. I know it really dawned on me how I felt that night you hot wired the robot though... Just to see what I would do Joe started making comments on your body. He saw I was staring to get mad and just for fun he pushed the little joke of his a step further and said you were just a thing. I threatened to kill him if he ever said anything like that about you again..."
Trunks was started when he was interrupted by a stragely lilting laughter he recognized as Juu's. He looked at her and saw he laughing. Tears still were on her cheeks but she seemed genuinly amused by something. "Y-you," her voice faultered slightly because of her giggles and her voice seemed hoarse from sobbing, "you realized you loved me because you threatened to kill someone?"
"It's not that funny!" Trunks said, but was soon laughing himself. Suddenly he moved his head forwards and pressed his lips against hers. He felt her giggles vanish and he slowly, and very reluctantly pulled his lips from hers ending the simple, innocent kiss. He stopped pulling away a few inches from hers. "Sorry again."
"You don't have to apologize for something I liked, Trunks..." Juu whispered softly as she wrapped her arms around him pulling herself closer to him. "I want us to stay like this forever..." she told him as she returned the kiss only wasn't nearly so innocent as Trunks had been. The two never left eachother that night and remained together forever in a happiness neither knew, or dared to hope, was even possible before.
The End
Trunks and Juu walked slowly back to Capsule Corp both of them cracked up laughing upon hearing Joe shout to Amano another reminder to retain his virginity until he was married.
"He is gonna have 'hot sex' like Joe said or propose to her. I'll put money on it." Juu said with a giggle.
"How would you know...?" Trunks asked.
"Womans intuition. Believe it or not there is some feminity in me."
"Oh I believe it."
"What?"
Trunks froze upon realizing what he had just said. Slowly he met Juu's gaze and wondered why she had to look at him like that. It only made this moment all the more awkward to have her shockingly gorgeous, cat like eyes looking at him with such a stunned and confused expression.
"Uh... Nothing." He replied dumbly. "Baka!" He shouted at himself. "Lets go inside. I am cold."
Juu was about to press further on what he just said but though better of it upon seeing the embarassed look on the boys face. She felt a little flustered herself at the comment. He clearly hadn't thought about what he was saying but he clearly wouldn't have said it had he thought about it. "Or maybe he is just to embarassed to admit he is attracted to me." she thought. "Thats just wishful thinking. Wait a minute. Why the Hell would I wish that?" She shivered. That had to be the weirdest thought pattern to go through her head in a while. Although some part of her didn't find it strange and paid special attention to her longing that Trunks would have gone farther with what he had said.
"Juu did you just shiver...?" Trunks said. He seemed to have regained his composure. "I didn't think androids got cold."
"Oh I am fine... I don't know why I shivered. I wasn't cold."
Trunks smiled at her and the small part of her that had enjoyed the thought that he may be attracted to her was screaming with joy in response to the sweet smile he now gave her.
"My mom is going to want me to show up at her Christmas party at some point. Want to come with me?" He asked his voice seemed somewhat hesitant though.
"Uh sure. So long as it isn't a formal affair." Juu commented.
Glancing down at her clothes Trunks couldn't help but be glad that it wasn't formal. Her white tank top was slightly tatered and almost see through and her beat up black pants were rolled up almost to her knee. Never mind she had just been sparring with Trunks. He also couldn't help but be glad that the outfit revealed much of her figure and the incredibly attractive curves...
"It isn't formal..." He said blushing upon coming to his senses after the last thought.
"Are you feeling okay Trunks...? You're acting a little strange. Zoning out, blushing for no reason etc."
Trunks felt at a loss for words. He didn't quite know what to say to her. He didn't really know how to say how he felt about her. "Uh... It's nothing like I said before." He couldn't help but feel his knees go weak as she scowled at him. There was something terribly cute about her face no matter what the expression. Except the sad one which he was practically in mortal combat with.
"You're not much of a liar Trunks. Now what is going on? If you don't tell me I am going to tell your mother your sick and you know what happened when she think you're sick."
Trunks shuddered remembering the time he had been sick and his mother had forced him to stay in bed for a week. Juu had found no end to her amusement at the sight of him stuck in bed, thermometer stuck in his mouth except for when his mother took it out to check his temperature. All in all an unplesent experience for him "No... No don't tell my mom I am sick..."
"Then tell me whats going on?"
"Please Juu..." Trunks thought in despare. "You can't be so blind as to not see how I look at you and care for you...."
"Fine then. If you're not going to tell me I am going to go tell your mother you puked." Juu said with a grin and then she turned on her heel in to go down the hall leading to the party.
"No!" Trunks blurted out grabbing her from behind.His left arm was around her waist and his right arm was slung over her right shoulder hugging her body close to his. Suddenly his heart felt like it was in his throat and his primary fear was she would push him away. After a moment he began the pull his hands away from her. His hands seemed to fight the command to leave her body. After a moment he managed pulled his hands from her and stepped back. "I'm sorry... Juu I-"
He stopped. She hadn't turned around and seemed to shrink at the sound of his voice as if frightened. Trunks felt almost hollow. "She won't even look at me now..." He thought bitterly. "Anyways I am sorry." Trunks said not even trying to hide the disappointment he felt.
Juu managed to get her body to move in time to see Trunks heading up a nearby stairwell. She couldn't manage to get her body to move after that. She could only helplessly watch as he left her there alone. Juu was unsure of how she got to her room she felt as if she wasn't in control anymore and even more noticable was her helplessness. How could she not have been able to say something...? He hadn't really said anything either... It seemed clear what emotion he felt though and she had just stood there like an idiot. Upon reaching her room she sat down on her bed unable to think of anything other then what had just happened.
Bulma struggled to keep her cool as she said her good byes to her guests. Trunks was supposed to come down at least for a few minutes to say hello to some of these people. Many of whom were very fond of him. When the last guest had finally gone she started for the stairwell. He was probobly in his room and if he was asleep he was in for a rude awakening. When she came to his room she opened the door, her already open to yell at him when she stopped. He was sitting cross legged on his bed, head cast downward. She had seen Trunks upset before but she had never seen such a terribly morose look on the boys face before.
"Go away, Mom..." Trunks growled as he looked up at his mother. His eyes seemed to darken as he spoke.
"Trunks..."
"Nothing is wrong! What don't you get about me wanting to just be left alone?" He screamed.
Bulma fought the urge to yell back at her son. While she was furious with him for talking back she couldn't help but feel he should be forgivin when she looked into his eyes, which showed a very deep pain within the boy. She sighed and left the room closing the door behind her. She shivered. When Gohan died was the only time she had seen him that hurt. She slowly began to wander through the building. It helped her to think to walk a bit. After she had been walking a bit she started to hear a small sound. Turning to the door it was coming from she discovered it was Juu's room. Opening the door she discovered Juu curled up on her bed, facing the wall. Her body trembled more with ever sob that escaped her.
"Juu...?" Bulma said softly, "Is it a coincidence that Trunks is in his room seemingly as hurt as you at ths very moment...?"
"No ma'am..." Juu sobbed hoarsly, her voice muffled by her pillow.
Bulma queitly closed the door to the room and walked over to Juu's bed and sat on the side next to Juu. "Could you tell me what's going on...? I couldn't get anything from Trunks..."
Juu let out a very shaken sigh and slowly began to tell Bulma what had happened with Trunks and added on what an idot she was for not saying anything back to him.
"But he didn't say anything to you did he...?"
"He didn't officially... He sent a pretty strong message anyway..."
Bulma sighed. She was getting a pretty strong message from Juu that if she could do it over again she would said something with the same meaning as what Trunks had "told" her.
"Could you just leave me alone..." Juu whispered.
Bulma sighed and left the room. As soon as the door was closed she immediatly started for Trunks room. She didn't bother to knock at all she simply barged right in.
"Haven't you figured it out yet that I don't want to talk to you?" Trunks snapped.
"Juu just told me what is wrong, Trunks. Just thought i'd see if that made a difference in anything."
Trunks face faultered at his. He hung his head, "God why did you ever have to find out of all people..." He said, his voice almost a whimper.
"Could you tell me how all this started?"
"Fine if you're going to force me..." He replied unhappily.
"If you're okay with telling me could you go tell Juu?"
"What...?"
"I was just with her. I think you should go talk to her. She'd like to hear it from you." Bulma said. She then turned and left Trunks alone in his room.
It was about fifteen minutes before Trunks will his body to get off his bed and see Juu. When he got to her room he slowly pushed the door open. When Juu sat up and looked at him he felt his insides turn to lead. Her lip quivered slightly and she bit it to make it stop trembling. Trunks took a step towards her and slowly his hand touched her cheek causing a tear to fall, it obvouly wasn't the first one she had shed since the incident in the hall.
"Is it my fault you're cryng...?" He whispered.
She shook her head slowly, refusing to meet his gaze as he sat down on the bed to face her.
He sighed, "I guess there is nothing I can say to change what happened back there huh.?"
"I am the one who should want to change something," she blurted out, "I wish I had at least done somthing or said something..." She said with a short sob.
"What would you have said?" Trunks felt his heart pounding in his chest at the thought that there just might be some hope she felt the way he did.
"What you refused to say... How long have you been refusing to say it...?"
"That I love you, you mean?" He noticed her eyes dart up and meet his gaze for a brief moment. That was what she meant alright. "Certainly didn't happen when we first met. You were only trying to kill me." He laughed slightly at how in contrasted to their present situation. However the laugh seemed tainted with a sob of his own. "I don't know... Maybe it started when I found you in the lab... I remember I despretly wanted to pretect you from anything that might hurt you when I saw how helpless you seemed and so alone... Could have started when for no reason I defended you when Kaede said you might repeat what your brother and sister did. I know it really dawned on me how I felt that night you hot wired the robot though... Just to see what I would do Joe started making comments on your body. He saw I was staring to get mad and just for fun he pushed the little joke of his a step further and said you were just a thing. I threatened to kill him if he ever said anything like that about you again..."
Trunks was started when he was interrupted by a stragely lilting laughter he recognized as Juu's. He looked at her and saw he laughing. Tears still were on her cheeks but she seemed genuinly amused by something. "Y-you," her voice faultered slightly because of her giggles and her voice seemed hoarse from sobbing, "you realized you loved me because you threatened to kill someone?"
"It's not that funny!" Trunks said, but was soon laughing himself. Suddenly he moved his head forwards and pressed his lips against hers. He felt her giggles vanish and he slowly, and very reluctantly pulled his lips from hers ending the simple, innocent kiss. He stopped pulling away a few inches from hers. "Sorry again."
"You don't have to apologize for something I liked, Trunks..." Juu whispered softly as she wrapped her arms around him pulling herself closer to him. "I want us to stay like this forever..." she told him as she returned the kiss only wasn't nearly so innocent as Trunks had been. The two never left eachother that night and remained together forever in a happiness neither knew, or dared to hope, was even possible before.
The End