Worlds Apart Part Eight (Chapters 15 and 16)
A Vegeta- Mirai no Trunks Story
By SS4Vegito
DISCLAIMER:
I don't own DBZ or any of the characters except for the ones I made up.
Don't sue me all you'll get is my sick sick mind, a Japanese Dictionary, a notebook, and some music CD's 'cuz I'm broke.
Warnings and Disclaimer are the same as with the other parts.
NOTE: Otoshiyori means "Old Man" in Japanese, and Kashikoi means "Wise". And Seizon-sha means "Survivor".



Worlds Apart
Chapter Fifteen

In the quiet garden behind the Capsule Corp. building, Mirai Trunks sat on a rock, waiting to see if Otoshiyori would make another appearence, for he desperately wanted to ask him about these hidden powers he spoke of and how to unlock them.
Silently, the boy reprimanded himself for behaving this way, although secretely he prayed that the old man would appear to answer his questions.
Suddenly, a voice rang out.
"Mirai Trunks, stop praying now. I'm here." Otoshiyori said. Trunks blushed a little bit, as he always did when he was embarressed, but kept quiet.
"I need to ask you... What are these powers? How do I unlock them?" The boy asked, looking more confused than he usually did.
"You can only unlock your hidden powers by looking into yourself and recognizing and getting to know your own weaknesses, by becoming humble in a sense, not as full of pride and un-patience as you are now, Mirai Trunks." Otoshiyori chose his words carefully, "And the power I speak of is that of the Legendary Saiyajin, one who is stronger than all of the rest. I strongly believe that the legendary Saiyajin in this generation is a demi-Saiyajin, as you are, and I feel it is you. I think that you could become stronger than any before. Although, I don't know if you can surpass your father and Son Goku, although it is possible, but it depends on how successful you are when you test it. Don't tell your father about this though.. He will not be happy to know that I have returned."
"Why? Who are you, really?" Mirai Trunks asked, still a bit dazed by the speech the old man had given.
"My true name is Kashikoi, and I was the first person to tell him that he was not the Legendary Saiyajin of his generation. I believe that Son Goku was in that generation.. Although, I am old, and I might be mistaken.." Otoshiyori- Kashikoi, Trunks reminded himself to call the old man- told him. The boy nodded.
"Yes, I think that sounds right. Son Goku has always been extremely powerful." Trunks said.
"Now, listen to me," Kashikoi told the boy, "Don't let your pride control you! I will see you again when you have trained!"
The old man dissappeared into thin air, as Mirai Trunks had grown used to him doing.
Staring ahead, the boy walked calmly into the forest surrounding the Capsule Corp. building.
Walking deep into the forest, Mirai Trunks stopped in a clearing he recognized as a favorite place of his childhood in his time.
Sitting down on the huge boulder, a feat that had been hard for him when he was younger, he closed his eyes to concentrate.
He thought it out, remembering a phrase that he knew to be true, out of a book he had read: "The Heart Can See Things Invisible To The Eye".
He dove into his memories, starting with the earliest he knew.
The memory of his mother holding him when he was about three and a half, because he had fallen and scraped his knee. She sang to him quietly, making him feel better.
There were several important memories for him.
His first bike ride, when he had been five, had seemed magic then.
He laughed as he remembered his first training session when he was seven, when he had been training with Gohan, who had held him off with two fingers then.
When he was ten, he remembered, was when he first knew why the people in the city were so nervous. Because of the cyborgs, he had learned then, who had been attacking the world for about sixteen years already.
When he was eleven, when the cyborgs had first attacked the city where he lived, leaving it little more than rubble, when the Earth's Special Forces, not including Trunks, had attacked the cyborgs, who had in turn destroyed all of the ESF but Trunks himself and Gohan.
When he was twelve, when he and Gohan had fought the cyborgs alone and Trunks had been beaten badly by them, and Gohan had fended them off, losing his arm in the process, but both survived.
And finally when he was thirteen, when Gohan had gone to fight the cyborgs and had drugged Trunks to keep him out of the way.
And how when Trunks had woken up and gone to the battle-ground, all he found was his best friend and mentor's broken body, and how all the anger and rage he had built up for the cyborgs, now strengthened by Gohan's death, had built inside of him until it exploded, causing him to go Super Saiyan for the first time.
And when he was fourteen, when his mother completed the time machine, engraved with the word "Hope" on one side, how he had had to say good-bye to her, trying not to see that she was crying, trying not to notice that he was.
And when he had arrived in the past time, about two or three hours before Goku returned, and how that had been the first time he had ever met his father, Vegeta, and how he had given Goku the medicine for the heart disease that at that time in the past had no cure, and how he had returned to his time, only to return when, in his time six months had past, and in the past time (for Trunks it was past time) it had been three years. How he had tried to impress his father and gone Super Saiyan level 2.
And how he had returned once more to warn them of Ja-Aku, only to be post-poned by three years.
He thought hard, knowing already one of his weaknesses: His pride.
He quickly found another few: He was impatient, and lacked fore-sight.
He knew that he wasn't incredibly good at making plans, and he also knew himself to be a hot-head and he got angry far too easily.
These weaknesses he knew, but he had also sensed that Kashikoi hadn't meant only weaknesses of the body and mind, but those of his heart and soul as well.
He knew that it was wrong of him to try and sacrifice himself to impress someone else, and that he shouldn't try to take on battles he knew he would lose. He felt himself flawed for attempting to do these things, for the most part all for one person. And he felt that he was weaker, perhaps too weak to even attempt to master the powers within him.
But he strengthened his reserve, and looked deeper, finding the flaws he had now, and those from all of his life.
He found something out, also.
Everyone has flaws, it just depends on how deep you go to see them.

Worlds Apart
Chapter Sixteen

Resigning herself to stay awake no matter what, Bulma waited in the living room for her future-son to come home.
She wondered if something had happened to him.
But then, as if in answer, Mirai Trunks walked in.
He looked terrible.
Not physically, actually he looked just fine, but there was an air of exaustion around him, and he looked as though his spirit was half-dead.
"Mirai Trunks-kun, what happened?" Bulma asked, her tone worried.
"I'm okay.." He said, dissappearing down the corridor to his bedroom.
"Oh, Trunks-kun, I wish you would tell me what is going on with you... I'm your... Your mother.. You should tell me." Bulma said softly, her voice shaking near the end, a single silver tear sliding down her cheek.
The next morning, when Mirai Trunks came into the living room, looking little better than he had the last night, Bulma waited for him.
"Trunks, what happened yesterday?" She asked him. He looked at her.
"I saw Otoshiyori again, and he explained some things to me that I didn't know before..That's all." He replied, but Bulma knew there was more, "I need to go now."
And with that he left, towards the woods again, leaving Bulma to wonder.
In the woods, Trunks went to the stone and sat again on it's well-worn surface, softened by over a hundred years in the forest.
He pondered the meaning of what Otoshiyori had told him.
The legendary Saiyajin warrior, a demi-Saiyajin like himself? It seemed impossible, at least to him.
"Am I doing the right thing?" He asked the trees, the creatures around him, and, most of all the spirit of his mother, who had been killed by Ja-Aku in his time.
He looked around, almost expecting an answer.
"Am I doing the right thing?!" He cried out, his voice echoing and dying in the cool morning air.
Delving into his deeper self once more, the boy of the future sought once again to find his weaknesses, get to know them, and prepare to face his fears once and for all.
Meanwhile, in a large clear field, two men traded blows.
The men were Goku and Vegeta, and they trained hard, exchanging attacks as each tried to find the others' weaknesses.
"You're leaving yourself open." Vegeta grunted, sending an attack at Goku's gut, sending the younger man flying backwards.
"Ugh.... H.. Hai, Vegeta.." Goku said quietly, flying back up slowely.
Vegeta saw only then the ball of blue energy that Goku had in his hands.
"Shimatta!" Vegeta cursed, leaping high but unable to dodge the Kamehameha technique as it flew into him,scorching him.
"And you wait for your opponent to get up way too often. Them laying on the ground as you wait for them to get up could be them tricking you while charging up an attack." Goku explained, a small grin on.
Vegeta cursed again, though this time the curse was directed at Goku.
"Kutabatchimae!" Vegeta told Goku, snarling as he fired his Big Bang attack at the younger man.
"Vegeta-san! Take it easy it's only training!" Goku called as he narrowly missed being hit by the attack, although it still seared his arm.
Vegeta answered him by throwing a Ki blast at him.
A while later in the forest where Mirai Trunks was..
Seeing all of the weaknesses inside of him, he knew that strengthening them would take a lot out of him.
He looked around, hearing something speak.
"All living things have the potential to change." The voice intoned. It was a feminine voice, soft as a leaf landing on the ground.
"Who's there?" He asked, half-expecting some person to come out of the bushes, but noone did.
"Not who, what!" The voice told him.
"What, then?" He asked her.
"A girl. My name is Seizon-sha. And you are Mirai no Trunks, the boy from the future." She said, coming out at last.
She was tall and thin, with blonde hair that came down to her mid-back that had dark-blue tips, and bright green eyes that reflected the color of the forest. She wore a kind of shift that was white and went down to her knees, and soft white slippers.
"Who are you?" He asked.
"I'm Seizon-sha, the girl of the forest. I watch you here and I thought I should tell you that yes indeed, you are doing the right thing, Mirai Trunks." She said.
"What do you want?" He asked.
"To tell you that the only way you'll be able to solve this problem is to defeat your father in a fight, Trunks-san." She said, dissappearing as suddenly as she had appeared.
"Defeat... My father?" He asked himself quietly.

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Konnichiwa minna-san! Bulma here! Next time on DRAGON BALL Z WORLDS APART! Mirai Trunks has a very crazy idea: that he must defeat Vegeta in battle! What is he thinking! And who, exactly, is that Seizon-sha girl he was talking to? And why would he want to defeat Vegeta anyway? Plus, Ja-Aku arrives in Earth's atmosphere! All this and more surprises, next time on Dragon Ball Z, Worlds Apart!
SAYANORA MINNA-SAN!!!!!!!!