Dimension Cross

The Final Moment

By: Sailor Astro

Disclaimer: Look through chapters 1-6.

Author's note: *on the floor bowing* I'm am soooooooooooooooo sorry!!!!!! You must be mad that it's been a lifetime since I updated. Don't hurt me!

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"It's nice to finally meet you Hotaru." Chi-Chi laid some bowls of soup and plates of food in front of Gohan, Goku, and Hotaru.

Gohan looked at his father strangely. "Dad, why are you in a body cast?"

Goku was in a fully body cast except for his head sticking out. He looked at Chi-Chi nervously then faced down ashamed. "I wass ssweepwalking and I went to Capssule Corp and ate all their food. I even twied to eat Vegeta'ss arm. After that he wass mad of coursse… and now I'm in thiss body casst for a week."

"Oh dear." Hotaru tried to sound concerned but had a little chuckle at Goku's lisp.

Gohan shook his head sadly. "Father…"

Chi-Chi crossed her arms with a wooden ladle in her hand. "Yes, your father did eat all of Bulma's food and Vegeta was extremely angry. It took an hour to pry your father's teeth off his arm. Goku even lost a tooth while trying to take his teeth out."

Goku gave a big goofy grin showing them a big hole in the middle of his mouth.

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Trunks looked around to see if Rini was around. He took the thermometer from his mouth and read it. "92 degrees? It needs too be higher." Trunks pressed the mercury bulb and put heat on it with his energy.

"What are you doing?" Rini walked in.

"Nothing. Just checking my temperature." Trunks gave a fake laugh.

"TRUNKS! I'M NOT GOING TO DO ANYMORE THINGS IF YOU KEEP ON BEING MEAN!"

"RINI! I'M SICK! WHAT ELSE AM I GONNA DO! BESIDES I'M CAN'T HELP IT! I guess my dad's genes are kicking in!"

" Like hell are you sick! I saw you! Besides your real father is dead so that wouldn't make a difference," yelled Rini.

Trunks shoulders sank. "You don't have to put it that way."

"Oh Trunks…er well deal with it! You're some monkey race. Use your monkey powers and stop using me!"

"That's just going too far!" Trunks stood up with his face flushed and held an energy ball in his hand.

Rini ran to him and tried to push his hand down. "Trunks! Stop! Don't do anything rash!"

"Let me go!" Trunks pulled his arm up and accidentally let go of the energy ball. It flew up and blew up the top of half the house.

Trunks and Rini's mouth was wide open staring at the blue sky above them.

Slowly they turned to each other. "Look what you did!"

"Me!?" Rini shouted.

"It wasn't me!" Trunks resented.

Rini glared at him. "Oh yeah. It was me who made an energy bomb and blasted the roof!"

Trunks nodded. "There, you see. I'm glad you told the truth." Trunks began to turn away and walk to the couch.

Rini ran in front of him. "Nah uh Mister! That was my room. Now you have to pay! I get your room and I need an extra pair of clothes for blowing up my things!"

"No! That's my room! You have to stay in the couch and go get your own clothes!" Trunks glared at Rini.

Rini started yelling louder. "The next town is like 30 miles away! You have to fly me there then!"

Trunks's ears began to hurt. "I'm not bringing you. Use your Luna cat thing to pop up some clothes."

Rini took her Luna Ball out of her pocket. "These are my Millenium clothes! I don't want to get them messed up!"

Trunks sighed. "You can spare one measly dress for tonight."

"No." Shook her head. "I need your clothes. These dresses are very important."

Trunks felt like banging his head on the wall. "Fine you can have one pair of clothes and you stay on the left side of the bed."

Rini was quick to be happy again. "Thank you!" Rini skipped off to Trunks's room.

Trunks did bang his head on the wall. "What just happened!?!

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Rini looked through Trunks's drawer trying to find the smallest shirt and shorts. "Arg, Trunks is so big. Doesn't he have at least the smallest size for me at all?"

She rummaged deeper. Rini found a navy blue tank top and found it loose enough to look fine. "I guess this will do and I have to keep the shorts I have now." Rini began pulling up her shirt over her head while Trunks came walking through.

"What are you doing?" Trunks said in a monotone voice.

"Do you mind?" Rini yelled.

"Well excuse me? It's my room. I'm only letting you borrow it for the night. Besides, you should have closed the door."

Rini ran and shut the door at his face. "Humph!"

Rini sat on his bed. 'Doesn't he realize that tomorrow is my last day here. Why can't he be nice? I guess I have to be nice too.'

Trunks still stood facing the door. 'Rini should at least be nice to me about even considering sharing my room. How much longer is she staying?'

Trunks started to head back downstairs then abruptly stopped. "Tomorrow would already be four weeks since Rini and Hotaru arrived. Arg, maybe I should be nice to her since she will leave tomorrow. I can finally get her out of my hair."

Rini skipped past me on the stairs as a bell rang. "Come on. Time for dinner!"

Trunks looked at Rini. 'She wore one of my old shirts.' It hung just over her shorts and flapped around loosely.

"Trunks? Well I ordered pizza an hour ago cause it would be pretty hard to get here from the mainland." Rini jumped the last few steps and answered the door.

"Thank you." Rini paid the delivery boy and brought the pizza in the middle of the living room table. "Come on Trunks. I bet it's kinda cold after the long ride over here."

Trunks kneeled beside Rini on the floor in front of the table. "Rini?"

"Here Trunks." Rini held out a piece of pizza.

"Thank you." Trunks said as he took it from her hand.

Rini smiled. "Welcome." Rini got the remote from her hand. "Do you wanna watch anything?"

"It's your choice."

"Thanks." Rini switched the television on any random channel.

Trunks looked at Rini with the flashing lights of the TV. She sat cross-legged with her arms straightened out and her hands planted on the floor. Rini's lips her pursed and her eyes concentrated at the screen.

Rini's eyes adverted toward Trunks. "Yeah?"

Trunks shook his head. "What?!"

"You were looking at me!"

"I was looking at the kitchen!" Trunks lied.

Rini puffed and looked back at the TV screen. 'Don't get mad. Be nice.' Rini reached her hand toward the pizza box and tried to find a piece. She looked at Trunks. "You ate all of it…?"

"Oh of course not." Trunks held out a piece of pizza and handed it to Rini. "See I'm not such a pig."

Rini giggled. "Yeah sure."

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"It was a great dinner Ms. Chi-Chi. Thank you."

Chi-chi gathered all the plates. "Why thank you Hotaru."

"Hey guys, isn't time for you to go to bed now?" Goku said.

Gohan looked at his watch. "Yeah, it is late. Come on Hotaru. We can stay in my old room."

Gohan took Hotaru hand and led her to his room.

"Sleep well you two," Chi-chi said as they left. "Let's go Goku. We need to sleep too."

"Uh Chi-chi" I need help," Goku said with his grin.

Chi-chi sighed and pulled Goku over her back.

In Gohan's room, Hotaru sat on his bed and Gohan sat on the floor.

"It's so cute. It looks like what a real modern time boy would have," Hotaru commented.

Gohan blushed. "Yeah, my mom made sure it was how she wanted it to be. It's nothing special."

"Gohan?"

"Hm?"

"Well," Hotaru had her hands neatly placed on her lap. "Do you know that tomorrow is Rini and my last day here?"

Gohan sighed. "Yeah, I know. I didn't think it would be so soon. I tried not to say anything about it."

"I didn't think the day would come either. I'm gonna miss you, Gohan." Hotaru sniffed.

Gohan smiled and placed his hand on Hotaru's. "Hey, no worry. You can always come back with that Dimension Key of Rini's. Can't you?"

Hotaru looked at him with glassy eyes. "I don't know if we are allowed to use the Key again. It might be hard to come back to this dimension again."

Gohan took Hotaru's arm and pulled her closer to him. "If that's the case, don't think that tomorrow is the last day. There will always be a way to come back to me. I'm sure."

"Oh Gohan." Hotaru lunged toward Gohan and they fell on the floor.

Gohan hugged Hotaru. 'I wonder if Trunks and Rini will realize this too in time."

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"Well, it's late. Let's go to bed, Trunks." Rini shut the TV off and stood up.

Trunks stood up with her. "Ok. Come on."

Rini headed up the stairs with Trunks close behind. They both entered the room and both got stuck at the entrance.

"You first Rini," Trunks offered.

"Oh no, you Trunks," Rini said.

"Please you first."

"No you."

"Ladies first."

"That is why you should go first."

'That was mean!" Trunks yelled.

"We wouldn't be fighting if you would just go in first!" shouted Rini.

"Will you just go in!?"

"Fine!" Rini went in and locked the door before Trunks could go in.

Trunks banged on the door. "Hey! Open up!"

Rini smirked. "Sorry mister. You ain't getting in here."

Trunks prepared to blast the door.

"Oh, and I wouldn't blast your way in. I put in a special force field while you were downstairs so don't even try it."

Trunks kicked the door. "Fine. I'll be on the couch." Trunks stomped his way down the stairs. "I try to be nice but she gets mean on me." Trunks plopped on the couch and closed his eyes.

Rini sat comfortably on Trunks's bed. "Heh, cool I got this room for myself." Rini fell back and spread her arms and legs. "It smells just like him. A nice.. sweet… scent." Rini hugged herself around Trunks's blankets. "I guess I can put the force field out. I'm sure Trunks wouldn't come back up stairs."

Rini snapped her fingers and the field was off. She sat up and went in the bathroom. She looked at the mirror and untied the cones from her hair. Pink strands of hair down the sides of her shoulders.

"Maybe I shouldn't have had been to mean to Trunks. I know I'm usually always mean to some people but I don't know why I'm this mean to Trunks. I'll have to apologize to him tomorrow."

Rini jumped into bed and cuddled into the pillows and blankets. 'It smells so good and warm. Maybe this is what Trunks would feel like if I were cuddled with him. What am I thinking!? I love Trunks!'

Downstairs, Trunks couldn't sleep. 'I need a pillow or something!' Trunks went upstairs to his room. "I hope she put down the force field."

Trunks carefully turned the knob and opened it slowly. He found Rini wrapped around his blankets. "Well at least she looks prettier when she's not yelling at me."

Rini started to fidget around.

Trunks shut his mouth with his hands hoping not to wake her up.

Rini opened her eyes and sat up. "Trunks? Do you need something?"

Trunks was nervous. "Oh me? No, of course not."

"Then why are you here?" Rini rubbed her eyes still tired.

"Nothing. No reason."

"Oh well, come on. Let's sleep." Rini sleepily got up from bed and took Trunks's arm. She pulled him on the bed.

'What is she doing!? I thought she hated me.' Trunks shakily sat on the bed beside Rini and laid back.

Rini happily sighed and hugged Trunks's waist and laid her head on his stomach. "Trunks, I know you're wondering what I'm doing."

Trunks nodded. "Yeah."

"Well, I just noticed that I like you. Hotaru and Gohan already realized that we should be together too. My short temper got in the way of getting closer in a nice way. I'm sorry."

Trunks smirked and pulled Rini up to meet his face. "Rini, I'm sorry as well. It's just too bad that we didn't realize it sooner since tomorrow is your last day in our dimension."

"Trunks." Rini looked at his face and his deep but bright crystal blue eyes.

"Rini." Trunks placed his hand under her chin and lifted Rini's face. He leaned his face in and his mouth came closer and closer to Rini's.

"I love you Trunks," Rini said as his mouth was so close in meeting hers.

"Rini, time to wake up."

"WHAT!?"

"RINI!! Wake up!! Come on! Hotaru and Gohan is here!! Time to go!"

Rini pushed the pillow against her face. "ARG! IT WAS JUST A DREAM!!!!"

Hotaru opened the door. "Rini! Come on! We have to go before time is up!" Hotaru pulled Rini out of bed and helped her dress.

Gohan and Trunks stood in front of the Kame House.

"So tell me again why you blew up half of the top of the house."

Trunks crossed his arms and looked down. "Rini and I were fighting while I was holding an energy ball and I let go of it."

"We're ready!" Hotaru and Rini ran out of the door.

Gohan and Hotaru hugged and kissed as they said their good-byes.

"Bye Hotaru. I'll miss you. Remember, I'm sure that you'll come back."

Hotaru nodded. "yes, I know. I trust your judgement."

Rini hugged Gohan. "Bye Gohan. Thanks a bunch for letting us visit."

Gohan hugged back. "No problem. We had fun."

Trunks faced Rini. "Bye cone-head." 'I still haven't told her.'

"Bye underwear." Rini replied. She looked at Trunks intently. 'I have to tell him.'

"See ya," Trunks said.

Both of them shook hands and turned away.

Rini and Hotaru faced the ocean.

Rini got her key out of her pocket and held it into the air.

'It's too late. I couldn't tell Rini.' Trunks watched as Rini prepared for the incantation.

"Chronos, guardian of time…"

'I love him.'

"Hear my call…"

'I have to tell him.'

"In my land so far and tall…"

'It will be too late'

"Bring me back to….."

'I can't!!'

Rini dropped her key and ran to Trunks in tears. "I can't do it!! I'm sorry! I'm sorry I couldn't tell you sooner!"

Trunks wrapped his arms around Rini. "I know. I couldn't tell you either."

Rini was wailing in his arms. "I care about you. My stubbornness would always get in my way. I'm sorry! I love you! Please, forgive---"

Trunks planted his lips on Rini's. "You are very loud, you know that?"

Rini's eyes gathered more tears and gently laughed. "I know. But I love you and I wish we could have been together longer."

Trunks hugged Rini tighter with his face in her hair. "I love you too, Rini. Just don't forget that you hold the power to come back. I might even get the chance to go to you." Trunks pulled Rini away to look at her. "Now go along home. If we keep this up Gohan might start crying."

"Hey!" Gohan resented.

Rini wiped her tears away and nodded. She walked beside Hotaru and smiled at her. Rini picked up the Dimension Key and raised it up.

"Chronos, guardian of time. Hear my call. In my land so far and tall. Bring me to my home!"

A pink shield surrounded them once again and lifted them up.

Hotaru waved to Gohan with tears.

Rini smiled down at Trunks and mouth an 'I love you.'

In a ripped portal Rini and Hotaru was gone.

Gohan and Trunks turned to each other.

"I'm gonna miss them," said Gohan.

Trunks whacked Gohan on the head. "Sheesh, you know they're coming back."

Gohan smiled. "Now all YOU gotta do is fix the roof."

"Me!? Aren't you gonna help!?"

"Sorry, Trunks. I gotta help my mom take my dad out of his body cast."

"What happened?"

Gohan put his arm on Trunks's shoulder. "Let's just say my dad likes to eat even if he's asleep."

Trunks chuckled. "Heh. Talking about eating, is there anything to eat? I'm starving."

THE END