A New World 6
The Improved Room of spirit and time.
By Gavinna

Goku disappeared with the others in a flash. "Don't be too long." Goten called out. "You have to make lunch!" I smiled at him and waved. "So what is it Dende?" Trunks asked politely. I relaxed a bit. My mind still focused on the upcoming year in that place with Piccolo, Uub, Trunks and Goten. One year of training with Abbot and Costello (Trunks and Goten) or as the more modern would understand Joey and Chandler like figures. The idea was enough to make me gag. I folded my arms as he led us inside. We all sat at a table and he handed us each a steaming cup. "I know Lupus, that you like Mocha Cappuccino and Trunks you like the same." He winked at us both. We glanced at each other and then back at the God and blinked. What was he saying? "And?" Trunks made a gesture for him to continue.

"Well," Dende went on, as I took a sip of the delicious drink. Even Starbucks couldn't make something as good as this. But... Chi chi's make was better. She still refuses to give me the recipe for it. :P "Two years ago," he began "you two-" Knowing where this was going I got up and headed straight for the door. "Where are you going?" Dende demanded.
"Nothing happened." I simply stated.
"Then if nothing happened you wouldn't have have a problem staying to chat." He spoke gently and patted the table. To prove my point of absolute nothing I sat back down and clutched the steaming cup in my hands. "I really doubt this is necessary. What does two years ago and I have anything to do with the up coming battle?"
"I see a cloud around you both." He looked at us with the utmost seriousness that burned into our eyes. "It had been there ever since you two had mated."
"You make it sound like we are animals." Trunks stated.
"Its part of Sayjin Instinct. Its all about when you lok at the full moon. The female produces certain scents that make a male sayjin... well...-" He coughed.
"Horny?" Trunks asked.
"Well you put it so bluntly. But basically. Hai."
"Well," I raised my brow, "I had my tail then. Why didn't I go *ape* so to speak. Is it because of my original human nature?"
"Yes. Absolutely." Dende continued. "Now Lupus. I understand that you were very much not ready. Although you have to believe that this was meant to be. You have to stop believing that Trunks doesn;t lo-" before he was able to finish I viciously got up and the chair behind me fell.

"Lupus-chan!" Trunks grabbed my shoulder. "You can't keep on running away from this? We have to address this situation before it's too late."
"Too late for what? I have no idea what you are talking about!" I screamed. Dende stood up. "Then answer for us a simple question, if you may."
"And that is?"
"Do you love Raion?" He looked straight at me. "Do you?" Trunks took me firm on the shoulders at my hesitation. I kept my eyes to the floor, my long bangs covered over my eyes. The cup in my hands broke as I clenched my fists. The delicious liquid mingled with from the cuts the glass gave me. I looked up. "Look into my eyes and tell me if you do." Trunks came to place his face in front of my own. I did then. I stood up tall and thought of my Raion. His soft lips. His black hair tinted in its purple shade. And those green eyes... I smiled with a blush. "Do you?" Dende asked once more. "Hai." I smiled dreamily with content. Or so I showed.... here I was looking into the eyes of this man and telling him I loved another. I forced myself to say it without falter. I then pushed away from him and disappeared. I sunk my hands in my hair and sat down on Goten's couch. I whispered "...but not as much as I love you."

"So you love Trunks then?" Goten asked. "You still do after all this time..." I whirled round on my seat to face him. "I have to forget." I told him desperately. "Don't tell him a thing I said. We leave in four days... and I have to prepare... and if he knew!" I started to cry. He touched my cheek, "Are you going to be able to spend a year with him?"
"You'll promise to keep me in check won't you?" I smiled. He nodded. "Let's go get some lunch. I'm buying."
"You really think its that easy to fall out of love?"
"Have to, hun..."
"Why?"
"Because how could he ever love me back?" He pulled me into his arms and hushed me as I cried into his chest. "Make no mistake. I do love Raion. But... its not... its not like how I love Trunks."

"How do you love him then?"
"I love him like... I would kill myself if something ever happened to him. I would give my life in return for his. I just love him so much... that if he found true happiness in somoen else... even if it wasn't me. I would still be very happy in all my heart. I just really love him. I can't explain the feeling... but I do."
"You do what?" Raion had entered the door that was slightly a-jar. "Are you alright?" he asked. I wiped a stray tear from my face and kissed his lips, locked in his embrace. "Yeah i'm fine." I wiped a stray tear from my cheek. "So how's my widdwe bunny wabbit?" he said in a cutesy little voice. I growled, "How bout I give you a widdle punch in yow chinny winny?" I waved my fist in his face. "Your so violent, tiger!" He pulled me closer calling me by my nick name. "I like it when you are vicious!" He pulled me into a deep kiss. For a second I had forgotten Goten was there. "Oh sorry Goten... Raion darling. Do you mind having Lunch with us? My treat!"
"Sorry tiger. I can't. I just came to tell you that I am on a vacation slash business trip for a week."
"I have to go on a misson for days from now..."
"Nani? Does Goku have to save the world again?" He joked.
"Raion this is no joke. I have to be in the room of spirit and time for a day... well a year." I seriously looked at him. He pulled me close and huged me tight. Then it hit him. "Honto??? You don't fight... do you?"
"Baka!" I put my hands on my hips. " I am being trained by Piccolo-san, Goku-san, Vegita-san, and Gohan-san!"
"Geeze." He scratched his head. "I don't think I like you fighting. But I wanna know what tight sexy outfit you wear when your covered in warm sweet sweat... your heart pumping rapidly" with each comment he kissed down my neck, "You breath heavily panting from all that hard work... your sweet thighs workin with your arms..." My love kissed my lips as I blushed furiously, giggling. "see you in a few days." he kissed me passionately once more. A tear rolled down my cheek. "See you in a year." I pressed my lips to his one more time. He wiped it away and kissed my forehead.

"Lupus-chan!!!!" Trunks burst in from the balcony door panting. He powered down. "We need to talk!"
"I'm going to have lunch with Goten now. So I can't."
"Like hell you can't! You can't just disappear like that from Kami's palace, we have to talk about that night! You can't run away from you and-"
"Don't you dare talk to her that way!" Raion stepped in front of him boldly. The two stared daggers at each other. "Raion this doesn;t concern you." Trunks growled at him.
"Raion-chan." I kissed his cheek, "he's right. This is between Trunks-kun and me... Its nothing I can't handle."
"Bullshit!" Trunks blurted. I glared and Grabed Goten and Raion's hands. We disappeared...

..Arriving at Goten's fave restaurant...

"See you sweetheart." he said to me.
"I miss you already." I responded and we parted ways.
"Are you alright?" Goten asked. I shook my head. "Let's just eat. I'm starving."

"So right after we get out of that room, its your birthday." He smirked, "You turn eighteen. Finally an adult." He sipped at his milk shake.
"hai."
"So you have how long till you get out of high school?"
"One more year."
"Lupus-chan?"
"Hai?"
"Trunks is right. You can't keep running away."
"I'm just not prepared to talk about it right now."
"Well what excuse can you give him while you spend a year with him?"
"I don't know."
"I'll help you out."
"Arigato Goten-kun."
"Hey, what are friends for?"

One by one. Our friends returned all buff and looking more powerful than ever. Right when Bura returned she hugged Trunks and Bulma so tightly then went a shade of blue. Marron did the same. Although pan was much gentler. Gohan had taught Videl a great deal and was quite strong now. Chauzu and Tienshin improved much as well. Then Goku, Yamucha, Krillin, and Juuhachigou returned. Goku as always made the most impressive Imporvement. And Vegita, jelous as always, but now not so much.

Then came our turn. Bulma handed me two full suitcases of her newest invention: mini capsules. (Just whne I thought capsueles couldn't hold anymore or get any smaller. We went in and gawked at the imporvement of the *no more white space* It was nearly like the real world only more so forrest like. There must have been enough land as much as a conservation area! Although after the few miles of woodland, lake, clearing, and grassland there was the white space again. *shudder* white space... freaky. The air was much heavier than before Vegita had warned us about it after coming back out.

"Ok Lupus! Now we have to talk!"
"Not in the mood Trunks!" I yelled.
"What the hell are-" I cut him off in the middle of his sentance.
"I'm not in too much of a good mood. You caught me at a *bad* time! Ask to talk to me in... oh let's say... a few days at the least! Cause i'm *really* PMSing right now got it!" He gulped at my furious eyes. He sighed and walked over to a tree and talked to Piccolo on how Dende and Mr. Popo even were able to simulate real weather in the room now." Uub backed away slowly.
"Are you really?" Goten asked me.
"No... I just can't stand him right now." I sighed. He laughed and patted me on the back. "well that's one way to get rid of him... but you can't exactly say you are having your period every week. Trunks isn't that stupid."
"I wish he was." I muttered.
I took out a capsule and opened it. Out popped a small cabin. In it was a washroom with shower, toilet and sink, a shelf , bed, and a few pull out drawers underneath with an extra matress.

"What the hell is this?!" Piccolo yelled at me.
"You don't expect a girl to spend her time sleeping outside." I folded my arms over my chest.
"And why the hell not?"
"Don't ask, Piccolo-san." Trunks sighed.

I changed quickly and unpacked. Then mase my way outside. "We really should have gotten you something else to wear, when you fight." Uub suggested. "Those clothes will tear easily when you fight." He, Goten, and Trunks all blushed. I looked at my current attyre. Tight spaghetti stringed tank top, and a pair of tight spandex shorts. "I always fight in this stuff!" I argued, "Besides," I answered quite smigly in a tease, "Its good distraction to the enemy... if ever my clothes tear in just the right places in the middle of a battle." I winked, and laughed at their red faces. Then Piccolo began screaming at them all while I chuckled at the three.

I powered up and flew up as high as I could, fighting against my limits. I screamed harder and strained to fly even further, and noticed Uub was doing the same but he was more sucessful than I was. I decided to power up into Super Sayjin and caught up to him then went even further when there was no more air. Then letting go of my cling on the atmosphere, I dropped to see how much I could take in the fall. Caught by suprise, Piccolo caugth me "Nani? Piccolo-san?"
"You wouldn't have done too well surviving that fall." He placed me down on the goround, "And it's too much of a good waste of a senzu. Try it agian in a month and you will make it walking."
"Hai." I obeyed and powered down. I decided just to warm up by practicing throwing some ki blasts and making them hit myself. I did this the whole day. Piccolo said that we only had two senzu each to use per day. He gave me one to take but I refused and told him I would take it in the morning.
"Uub-kun!"
"Hai Lupus-san?"
"Eww! Call me Lupus-chan like everyone else! 'san' makes me sound old or sumthin."
"Hai Lupus 'chan'."
"I fight you tomorrow! I won;t take no for an answer." I winked.
"But you are a girl!"
"You didn't see me turn Super Sayjin back there did you?"
"Nani? You're a Sayjin?"
"Hai." I nodded to his suprised reaction.
"Well that makes all the difference!" he was now quite excited.
"You won;t get any less of a battle from me. I'm not just a sayjin, but apparently full bred as well."
"What do you mean by 'apparently'?"
"Goku-san never told you how she came to be?" Trunks asked. The mohawked boy only shook his head, "No, he just said he was teaching someone new."

I sat him down by the fire that star studded night and told him how I came to be in this realm. We went to bed early and of ocurse goten got his goodnight hug. (A tradition we started after one night when he got dumped. From then on we promised to give each other a hug every night to remind us that we were always going to be there for each other.) Uub stole a hug from me as well and Piccolo just glanced my way as I waved back to him. I offered goten to sleep inside but he said he wanted to be under the clear stary sky. Then I offered Trunks on one condition, that he didn't say anything about what happened. I slept in the bed and he took the spare. I slept quite soundly that night... more soundly than ever. Strange...

I woke up that morning to find Trunks sitting up in bed, on the other side of the room and staring at me. Was he watching me while i spelt? I yawned, ignoring him and lifted the covers. My nightgown streached out to the ground. I ran my hand through my short hair and streched doing a few flips. By accident my gown flipped up half way. It an attempt to keep my skirt down I fell over blushing. trunks was blushign as well. "Morning workout backfire?" he laughed.
"I'll pound you to pieces!" I screamed.
"Why?" he asked.
"Your nose is bleeding!" Gave a bit of a loud screech. I beat him out of the room actually.
"Hey why are you kicking me out?" he asked picking up his stuff.
"I have to change."
"Can;t you do it in the bathroom?"
"The door has no lock and I don't trust you."I closed the door, took a shower, changed, ate breakfast with them and left for the training.

"Uub you're mine!" I yelled at him as we hovered over the lake.
"Not a chance!" He readied his stance.
"Ok now take it easy Lupus-chan. Don't get too wrekless!" Piccolo cautioned.
"Don't hurt hur too much Uub-kun." Goten joked lightly, "She's fragile."
"Fragile this!" I stuck my tongue out at Goten and yelled, "Vulcan flames!" he was instantly charred. He coughed out some smoke, "You are *caugh* my opponent next!"

"Ready!" Piccolo raised his hand. I took on stance and redied an invisible ki blast. Nothing like an unexpected attack t throw off on a start. "Go!" The Namek yelled. I lunged throwing the invisible ball. It became seen as it came half a metre in front of him. Uub was suprised, but he easily batted it away.

(He and I hadn't met till a month ago when Goku took me to meet him. In all honesty he hit on me quite a bit. I flirted with him juts a little teeny bit as well, just to mess with his mind. Marron said it was mean, but Bura and Pan agreed it was quite funny. Soon Marron came around though.)

Uub was quick too! I dodged one of his own ki blasts and caught him with one of my own. Water splashed as he raced for me. He was certainly coming for me quickly. I had no idea what to do. I thoguht in despertaion, then spontaniouslu screamed "Tatsu thunder!" The electric blast hit him face first as my hand closed in on him. He dropped rapidly falling. Realising I had won, although mostly by a panicked fluke I rushed to catch him before he hit the water. "Wha- what wus...that?" he stammered weakly, "I felt no ki in... in that blast..."
"Its an element attack. Just like, ice, thunder, fire, and rain. Some people have element attacks inside their ki blasts to combine them, but I use the full element instead. Absolutely pure."
"Why... ca-can you only do ...that?"
"Shh..." I hushed him and landed to stand him up a bit. Then holding to him he felt a strange energy entreating his veins. He almost flinched. "What are you doing?"
"I'm healing you."The green glow convered us and by the time the light from our bodies departed there he stood on his own with full energy. My knees grew weak and he caught me when I wavered. "Lupus-chan!"
"Is she ok?" Trunks asked and took me from Uub.
"I'm fine." I weakly sqeaked trying to yell.
"Stupid girl!" Piccolo yelled at me. "We have senzu to heal Uub, you did't have to heal him! Now look at you!" I cringed at the buzzing in my ears.
"I'm fine!" I managed to finally voice and pushed him away with a growl. I knew I was weak, but I didn't want him treating me like a sickling child. I fell to the floor again. trunks was about to lift me in his arms, but I stood stubbornly on my own again.(Is stubbornly a word? Oh well it is now! Yes I know I'm stubborn!) "So who do i fight next? Goten?"
"Nani?? Baka! You are'nt fighting me! Bit in that condition!"
"Let's get you a senzu." Piccolo went for his pouch by a tree, I stopped him, putting my hand on his arm. "I want to see how far I can go with handicaps." he seemed to look at me with some disapporval and asked, "Are you sure?"
"It will make me stronger. Sayjins gain an intense amount of power when we are on the brink of death."
"If you really want to." he responded to my reminder. I nodded, "Yes Piccolo-san, I do-"
"No way!" Trunks cut me off.
"This is my training! You should stop treating me like a child! You may be ten years older than me but you have no right in treating me that way! I know what I am doing Trunks." I said his name coldly and with great disrespect. His ki raised a bit, "You know I care about you! So sue me! it's too risky!"
"Bulshit!" I spat, "Piccolo-san, tell him I can do this!"
"If it's you doing it... I know you are a smart." He backed me up.
"Ha!" I said smugly.
"But..." he added in.
"Ha!" It was Trunks' turn to say it.
"But you are insane too." Piccolo came out with it, "Trunks she has a right to her decision. And she is correct about the great strength she will aquire near death."
"It is your decision," Goten agreed, "but what if you don't make it to a senzu quick enough? I'm not saying that I will agree to you doing it, but... well yeah..."
"I have full confidence in her." Uub sided with me.
"Arigatou, Uub-kun." I smiled his way. Piccolo could tell my knees were still quite weak so he offered his arm to me. I only glared. I didn't need any help. If I accepted his point would be proven that I wasn;t strong enough and being babied. He sighed and insisted, "Just for now." he was being truly curtious... It took me a second glance into his eyes to determine it. Then deciding not to hurt his trust and feelings I complied with my green sensei.

"..I know I have the body but of a weak and feeble woman; but I have the heart and stomach of a king..."- Queen Elizabeth the first.