All grown up
Vegeta and Bulma were out and Trunks was still on his tropical holiday. Which meant
Bra had the whole house to herself and nothing to do. It was a good thing Pan was
coming over to spar, nor else she would have been forced to go to the mall and melt
her credit card... again. Bra laughed to herself as she tinkered with her little pet
project. It was an extremely small, extremely sensitive hearing aide. It had the
capability to increase the wearers hearing by a stunning hundred percent. Though she
knew her reluctantly business minded brother would waste no time in turning this into
a cash cow for capsule corp. she was making it only for Uubu. Recently he had been
complaining about all his friends having super sensitive hearing and him being the
odd person out, this would give him Saiyain hearing. Although Bra was not sure she
really wanted her boy friend to have the ability to eavesdrop on her conversations but
it would stop him from complaining. So as far as she was concerned it was pretty fair
trade-off.
The bell rang. In moments Bra was at the door. 'Hey Bra.' Pan greeted her with a
smile, 'Ready to spar.'
But for a moment Bra just stood there looking at Pan, 'My brother,' she said evenly, 'is
still with his dolly. They might come back tomorrow. Are you sure you don't want to
postpone this till than?' she asked trying to keep the anger out of her voice.
Pan looked stunned, 'Bra!' she exclaimed, 'I came here to spar with you. What do I
care if Trunks is here or not?'
Bra shook her head, 'Why do you lie to me Panny?' she demanded. Pan was about to
answer when Bra interrupted her, 'I mean look at you.'
Pan looked down at herself. She was wearing a plain black pant and a simple white
top. 'What I have too much make-up on? Or is there a hole in my cloths that I can't
see? Isn't this how I normally dress?' she demanded thou they both knew this wasn't
exactly how she normally dressed.
'1. You are wearing make-up.' Bra counted on her finger, 'The last time you wore
make-up was at our high school graduation party a year ago.' She reminded her, '2.
While you do mostly wear pant and top you never wear hip hugger pants or tops
whose sole purpose is to highlight your curves. 3. Can you even remember the last
time you wore your hair down?' Bra's eyes were alight with anger, 'Obviously you are
here to see my brother and he is not here.' so saying she was about to slam the door on
Pan's face when she forced it open.
'Okay I admit it I dressed like this to get Trunks' attention. But can you blame me?'
she demanded, 'Bra I am in love and I just want a chance to make the person I love as
much in love with me as I am with him. Now Trunks sees me only as a little girl and
if dressing like this will knock it into his head that I am all grown up than so be it.' she
stated, 'You of all people should know what I am going through. I mean you feel in
love with Uubu while he was still indifferent to you and you went out and for a lack
of a better expression got him.'
'Uubu,' Bra pointed out angrily, 'does not break hearts as a hobby. Pan I would be the
first to encourage you to go after the man of your dream, the man you love but going
after my brother can only bring you heart break.'
'You don't know that.' whispered Pan, 'I have to try Bra. I love him so much.' She
informed her, 'I cannot, I will not go through my life without at least trying to make
him mine.'
Bra sighed, 'If this doesn't work out don't say you weren't warned.' With that she
headed for the gravity room.







They sat on the beach wrapped in each other's arms watching the sun set in the deep
blue sea. Marron held Trunks tighter than he was holding her. Perhaps the force of
their grip on each other indicated the measure of confidence each placed in the
continuous of moment like this. Despite Marron's constant comments on the contrary,
Trunks could never truly admit into his psyche the idea that he might ever lose her
forever. Marron on the other hand lived in constant dread of the very event. So
whenever she could she held him as tightly as she could in a vain attempt to keep him
by her side. But it was coming to an end. She could feel the restlessness kindle in him.
He was bored already. Marron laughed inwardly, it had been barely three days. But
looked at another way it could be a good sign. After all he had originally only
intended it to be two days. 'So when do we leave?' she asked.
'Leave!' exclaimed Trunks as look of surprise settled on his features. Silence,
'Tomorrow.' His face returning to normal, 'Am I becoming so damn predictable?' he
demanded.
'Yes.' Marron replied without hesitation as she extracted herself from his grasp. A
move not entirely appreciated by Trunks. He would have pulled her back into his
embrace if her poster did not strike him as being particularly sad and depressing, 'Are
you ever not going to be bored of normal life?' she wondered with a sigh.
'Sure.' Replied Trunks.
'Any time soon?' She wondered.
'Maybe. What the matter dolly?' asked Trunks, 'Why the sudden impatience?'
Marron just smiled, 'Nothing.' Getting up playfully, 'Now since this is the our last
night here I am going for a nocturnal swim.' So saying she ran into the surf.
Trunks smiled but for a moment remained were he was just watching her. Marron
dived into the sea. Sure that she would not hear him Trunks whispered, 'I am not
bored of you. I can never be bored of you. It's just that...' he couldn't say it. He
couldn't admit the truth even to himself. After all Saiyain Princes aren't supposed to
be afraid of anything, especially not of an emotion like love.








It was too late for her to be still in bed and too early for her to be in the gravity room.
She had to be having breakfast. With that bit of deductive logic Uubu did a Ki search
of the capsule corp. main building as he landed in the front yard. Sure enough Bra was
in the breakfast room with, too his surprise, Pan. Vegeta was already in the gravity
chamber and Bulma in her underground lab. There was no sign of Trunks. Well the
setting was almost perfect. He supposed he could tolerate Pan's company for a little
while. Uubu sighed, he didn't mean to be nasty or anything but he hadn't seen Bra for
awhile and really wanted to spend some time alone with her. Just hearing her talk of
what she had been doing she loved the sound of her voice. Maybe he would be able to
make her laugh. He loved the way her face lit up when she smiled. A look of
contentment came over his face as he realised that she, with all her perfection, had
chosen him, with all his flaws. The content look changed into a smile and with that
adoring his face he stepped into the house.
He found Pan playing with her cereal dressed... well dressed quiet unlike herself. She
had her hair flowing freely down her shoulder, the light purple top she was wearing
seamed ready to burst at the seams and the pants... Uubu wondered since when Pan
owned a pair of hip huggers. He glanced at the Bra, she looked away. Uubu sighed,
'Hello girls.' He said as cheerfully as he could. 'Not interrupting anything am I?' he
asked as he went over to where Bra was sitting, silently sipping her hot chocolate and
eating her chocolate biscuit. She had such a weak spot for chocolate. Probably why
she liked the chocolate skinned Uubu so much.
'No.' replied Pan readily, as she watched Uubu give Bra a soft peck on the cheek. Pan
knew that had she not been there that peck would have been a soft, slow but
passionate kiss that barely contained all the fire that each of them had inside. She had
seen them kiss like that once, when they thought they were alone. Words could not
explain how jealous she had felt that day. She had retreated from that place as soon as
she could and than she had screamed so loud she was sure that she had scattered every
glass within a ten-mile radius. It was not fare, it simply was not. Why could she not
have that kind of love from Trunks? Why was she destined to love from a far? Why?
In the back of her mind she felt Trunks' Ki. But than again maybe she wasn't destined
to love from a far.
Within moments the door to the kitchen was flung open, 'I am back.' Came Trunks
voice from behind Pan as the Saiyain Prince stepped inside, Marron's scent
completely disguising his own. 'Umm... something smells good.' He said as he flung
his bag to the nearest servo bot. Coming to the table Trunks wasted no time in
grabbing a fork and spearing on an empty plate a stack of pan cakes that sat on the
table.
'Hey leave some for me.' Cried Uubu as he hastily retrieved two of the pancakes just
as their comrades fell victim to Trunks' deadly fork. 'Stupid Saiyain appetite.' He
grumbled.
Bra laughed, 'Don't worry Uubu, I'll make some more.' As she said that she patted his
back in a comforting manner.
'Yes Uubu dear don't worry, your darling Bra will make you more tasty pancakes.'
Trunks teased him. It was than that he glanced at Pan, 'Wow... someone looking
different.' He commented off-hand.
'Thanks.' Was all Pan said, looking up only briefly at him but unable to meet his eyes.
Trunks turned his attention back to his pancakes. But found himself glancing at Pan
from time to time.
Conscious of his attention Pan forced herself to speak although she had hitherto sat
enjoying Bra's company in total silence. Bra who was not one to encourage her
brother tried in turn to distract Trunks from Pan with Uubu's help. But their attempts
were in vain. When Trunks noticed someone he knew within moments if he was
interested in them and if he was nothing short of the world ending could distract him
from them. Pan it seemed had finally succeeded, 'Pan are you doing anything this
afternoon?' he asked off-hand when a suitable opening presented itself.
'Not really.' She replied trying to keep the eagerness out of her voice.
'Would you like to than go see a movie or something?' he asked, 'I hear there is a
really good Kung-fu movie out.'
Pan smiled a bright smile, 'I would love too.'
'Great.' He said, 'I'll pick you up at six.' With that he left the table.
'I guess I'll leave the two of you love birds alone.' Pan chirped, as she started to get
up, 'Mind coming to the mall with me later?' she asked Bra.
'Why not.' Replied Bra indifferently. Pan was in too good a humour to notice. When
she was out of earshot, 'He still smelt of her.' She whispered. Uubu did not comment.
'She's my best friend.' She stated.
'And the niece of his best friend.' Said Uubu, 'He will be careful how he treats her...
I hope.'






Trunks would never have left her had she shown him the true depth of her depression.
But when he kissed her and took his leave she showed no more sadness than normal.
But as soon as he was out of sight she dropped to her knees on the balcony where he
had left her and started to cry out an ocean. High above right Goten watched her in
silent agony. O how he wished he could fly down and comfort her. But alas! He
attention would not be welcomed. Suddenly he saw her get and start to fly up, straight
up till she was far above his head. Than she stopped, just hung there for a moment and
than she dropped her Ki as low it would and began hurtling towards ground like a
human sized rock. 'MARRON!' screamed Goten. Instinct taking over he powered up
just below Super Saiyain as sped towards her falling form. Within seconds of Marron
starting to fall she found herself caught by arms as powerful as Trunks.
'WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING?' demanded Goten as he turned her to face
him.
'Nothing.' Said Marron meekly, 'Just practicing free fall.' She informed him.
'Why?' he demanded.
'O you know...' she said lamely.
'No, I don't.' Goten said flatly, 'Why don't you explain it to me?' he demanded.
Marron held his gaze for a moment. A tear rolled down her cheek, 'You wouldn't
understand.' She said calmly. Even as more tears followed the first. 'You have never
been in love with a person you just can't have and certainly can't get over.'
Goten started to laugh, 'You think that do you Marron?' he asked, 'You would.
Wouldn't you?' he said almost to himself as sad note crept into his voice. 'Fine, I
guess I'll have to show you.' He said. With that he kissed her. The kiss itself thou
passionate was of no importance. It's what Goten was doing while he kissed that
matter. He was opening his mind to her. Touching the deepest darkest recesses of her
mind with his own. By the time the kiss ended she knew exactly how he felt about
her, 'Still think I don't know what it is to love?' asked Goten softly. Marron shook her
head as she gently kissed his lips...






*Imagine corny DBZ narrator voice* So Trunks is now dating Pan and Goten has
finally told Marron how he feels what will happen next? By the way kuro_enzeru
aren't you suppose to be sick of T/P?