Chapter 6

"Princesssss!" said Diana "Please stop yelling so much, it's not very lady-like."

"Oh, shove it Diana," Usa muttered as she began putting on her borrowed PJ's from Chi-Chi.

"Small Lady!" Diana exclaimed in surprise, "I've never known you to talk in such a way. I think you've been hanging around with these boys for too long and I also think it is time to seriously start thinking about a way to get home. You see, I think perhaps if you call upon your crystal and ask it to transport..." Diana looked at Usa, who seemed to be completely ignoring her, "Princess! Are you listening to me?"

Usa who had been combing out her damp hair had stopped at the mention of the crystal and her hand was actually shaking. Of course, she couldn't blame Diana for mentioning it, because Diana had no idea about her not being able to call upon it anymore. She could feel her eyes stinging with the on-coming of tears.

"Princess...?" Diana asked, realizing Usa was shaking. Diana leapt off the bed and patted over towards her.. "Daijobou?" but before she could ask Usa had gotten up from her seat and was heading towards the door.

"If you'll excuse me Diana, I'd like to be alone." Usa said, almost choking on every word, as she opened the door and stepped out shutting it behind her. Diana didn't understand what she had said to make Usa leave so quickly, but she decided it would be best if she respected her wishes to be alone.

Usa had heard the laughter of Chi-Chi, Goku and Goten in the living room, so she quickly slipped out the kitchen door. She walked out into the grass, until she found a spot that had a scattering of small, white flowers. She settled into the grass and pulled her knees towards her body. The moon was full tonight, 'of course,' Usa thought. 'Just remind me more of home and mom and everyone else...'.

The crack of a twig or something else of the like is what woke Usa from her light sleep. She hadn't realized she had actually cried herself to sleep. It was chilly out now and her damp hair wasn't helping the fact that she was freezing and her legs were stiff from being in their raised position for so long. More crackling of leaves is what made her spring to her feet and go into a defensive stance. "Who's out there?" Usa asked in as stern a voice, as she could muster.

"Whoever you are, I'll have you know I'm a warrior and am willing to fight you if need be, so you might as well step out here right now and get it over with." she said, sensing that the person or thing out there was indeed a stranger, but it had a somewhat familiar Ki. Similar to Goku's, Gohan's and Goten's energy. She couldn't tell what intentions it had, or if it had any at all.

"You don't look like much of a warrior..." a voice said from her left, she spun around and saw nothing. "You look like a girl... with pink hair." the voice said with a chuckle this time from behind her. Usa quickly turned around glowing with anger.

"You have no idea who you're pissing off buddy!" she yelled balling her hands into fists. Whoever this guy was, he was going to get it, if he revealed himself. And just as Usa was about to turn around a hand gripped her shoulder. In a flash Usa reached around and grabbed the person's arm and threw him, her or it over her shoulder and down onto the ground. Trunks yelped as he hit the ground and scrambled back up trying to remain cool, although he was very surprised at how quickly the girl had reacted and with immense strength as well. Usa took a few steps back and raised her eyebrow at the boy, he was standing in a defensive stance, as was she.

"Well," Usa growled, "Are you going to stand there or what?"

"I don't fight girls with pink hair." Trunks replied coolly, while straightening his jacket.

"Because you know I'll win?" Usa asked, smirking, placing her hands on her hips. She let her eyes sparkle at the boy. He wasn't bad looking after all, in fact he was very cute. She could tell he was definitely built, because of the tight white shirt he was wearing underneath the jacket. His lavender hair was long enough that it covered his face and eyes when he moved his head, part of it was tied back.

Trunks blushed at the girl's forward approach and the way she was looking at him. What was he? A piece of meat? But the girl was very beautiful. Usa giggled at the boy because he turned a deep red, she wondered if she could make him turn even more red... "What're you doing out here anyway?" the boy asked, regaining his composure, and gaining a different type of personality, strong and prideful.

"It's a free country," Usa replied in her stately princess manner, "I can be out here if I want to." Trunks crossed his arms across his chest and looked at this girl in wonder. First she tosses him over her shoulder, then she starts acting like royalty. For some strange reason she reminded him of his father. "Well," Usa said, interrupting Trunks thoughts, "What is your name?".

"My name is Trunks, that's all you need to know for now anyway. We'll just see if I can tell you anymore, after you tell me who you are and what you're doing here. You don't look like you're from around here and you certainly don't act like you're from around here."

"My name is Usa," she replied, remaining in her regal state. "And you're right, I'm not from around here. I'm staying with some friends, I'm visiting."

"All right, Usa, here's my next question, where'd you learn that move you pulled on me and how do you know how to hide your Ki?"

Usa looked at Trunks with wonder and amusement. "Why does everyone want to know how I know how to hide my energy?" she asked, more to herself than to Trunks.

"Well, it's a pretty hard thing to learn how to do and not just anyone can do it either. But I know you're hiding your energy level now, because when I came by this way I stopped, because I could sense a high energy level coming from this direction and then I happened upon you. So, quite obviously, it had to have been you that I was sensing the energy from." Trunks replied to her. Usa grimaced, so he knew she had a high energy level, might as well not hide it from him anymore.

"Okay, so you know I have a high energy level. What does that matter?"

"Well, it was an energy I had never sensed before, and a strange energy being this close to the Son's houses made me more than a little worried."

"Oh, you know Goku?!" Usa exclaimed, a little bit louder than she had meant to. Trunks face faltered at the outburst, but he regained his composure, "Hai... I know Goku..."

"And Gohan and Goten and ChiChi?" Usa asked. Trunks nodded. "They're my friends, the people I'm staying with. They're the nicest people I've ever met. I should have know you were friends of them!" Usa giggled and pranced up to the boy giving him a big hug. Trunks wrapped his arms around the strange girl that was hugging him. He couldn't believe what he was doing, he had always been so shy around other girls, but she seemed.. different somehow. Usa pulled away and grinned at Trunks, he blushed and let his arms drop to his side.

"Sooo," Trunks said with a little stutter, "I was on my way to get some homework help from Gohan. Is he at his house or is he mooching off his parents again?"

"I'm pretty sure he's at his house. He hasn't been around his parents house lately, only to train me and eat dinner.." Usa trailed off, now realizing that she had missed the presence of Gohan at the Son House whenever he was gone. Sure, he had been training her, but that was not time to talk or just hang out. It was always work, what little they said to each other was a friendly hello and goodbye and he sometimes asked her about his parents, but nothing more.

note- Weird place to end it, I know, and I'm sorry, but the last section of this chapter just isn't sitting well with me. So, what would have been the continuation of this chapter will just have to be the beginning of the next.