DETERMINATION OF A GIRL

PT. 4

In the last part of my story, Trunks told Vegeta his plan to train Mimi, who was not keen about the idea. Mimi got packed and ready to spend a year of intense training and lied to ChiChi about why she was going out with Trunks for the day. Gohan came to the conclusion that Trunks and Mimi had a thing for eachother. The couple arrived at the lookout, where Mimi was doubted again, this time by Piccolo, before entering the Hyperbolic Time Chamber.

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Mimi stared out into the emptiness, bewildered. She collapsed to her hands and knees, with her eyes fixed in front of her, mouth open in amazement.

"It's…it's so…overwhelming," she stuttered without blinking.

Trunks walked over to her and placed his hand on her shoulder. "Come on," he said. "You'll get used to it."

Mimi slowly pulled herself up. "Maybe, this was a mistake," she mumbled to herself.

"HEY! Don't be like that. If you want to fight alongside your brother and friends then I suggest you stop thinking negatively!! I agreed to train you because I know you're no quitter!" yelled Trunks.

Mimi stared at Trunks, stunned by his sudden mood swing. Well he definitely got that from Vegeta, she thought.

"I'm sorry," he said turning around. "But Mimi, we just got here and already you want to give up? That's so not like you."

"I never said I wanted to give up. That would be the last thing I want to do. You know nothing about me!" she said folding her arms.

"Oh my God Mimi!" yelled Trunks, angrily spinning around again to face her. "You are no different! You haven't changed at all. You're the same in the future. At times you can be so ARROGANT!"

Trunks looked at Mimi and saw the tears well up in her eyes, even though she was trying to look tough. Trunks let his angry expression fade and replaced it with a look that said, sorry please forgive me.

They stood silently.

"Mimi…I…"

"Save it Trunks," Mimi said tearfully. "I'm not giving up. I'm not leaving until a whole year has passed and I hope that you will train me." She knew that she shouldn't fight with someone who she was going to spend a whole year with. It would be too awkward. She took a few steps into the white emptiness, so that Trunks wouldn't see her cry. She felt like an idiot, becoming upset over such a dumb conversation. She wasn't sure why exactly she became so upset. She was naturally a tough girl. Things like this never made her upset. It might have been because he hurt her feelings or maybe because he yelled at her. Or maybe it was because she liked him and he just made a fool of her.

Trunks wasn't sure what to do. Give her a hug and apologize? He took a couple of steps closer and reached his hand out to her, but something made him pull back. Knowing what he wanted to do, she quickly dried her eyes and spun around.

"I'm ready to train," she said firmly. She walked past him to where the beds were and bent over to grab something out of her bag. She stood up and walked over to Trunks while putting on a pair of fire red gloves which matched her pants.

"Let's go," she demanded, dropping into a fighting stance.

Trunks hesitated before doing the same. She attacked first, throwing two swift punches. Trunks dodged them easily then gave her a low kick to the back of her knees, which sent her to the ground. She jumped up quickly then flipped backwards. As soon as she touched the ground, she produced three yellow ki blasts, one after the other. Trunks dodged the first two and produced a blast of his own which blew up in Mimi's third blast. She cried out in frustration and jumped into the air towards him, aiming a flying kick at his head. He jumped out of the way. As soon as Mimi hit the ground, she hopped forward on her left leg and gave him a swift kick to his chest and then to the head on her right leg, without putting it down.

"Not bad," Trunks said with a smile.

Mimi returned an arrogant smile.

"You're very quick. But not quick enough. You have great flexibility though," Trunks complimented.

Mimi stood up from her fighting stance.

"Thanks, but I want to be better," replied Mimi. "Teach me."

The two trained together for the whole day. Trunks showed Mimi some fighting sequences and show her how to kick properly while using her flexibility as an advantage. She learnt quickly and mastered those kicks in no time, but they dedicated that day to perfecting them

After a long hard day of training, they decided to call it quits for the night. They went to sleep looking forward to the next day of training. The first day had passed.

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Trunks arose the next morning, still exhausted. He got dressed before opening the curtains around his bed. He walked over to Mimi's bed and peered through the curtain. To his amazement, she wasn't there. Then he felt her energy. He followed it to the emptiness where she was punching and kicking the air furiously. She did some flips and other great moves, which would be perfect to get her out of sticky situations. He smiled, thinking that her flexibility and maneuverability was her specialty, which will make her into an excellent fighter. She was moving along faster than he thought she would.

Mimi caught sight of Trunks and stopped immediately.

"Oh, hey Trunks. How long have you been there?" she asked, a little embarrassed.

"Long enough to see how good you are! I mean, as in, good fighter, you know," replied Trunks, his face reddening.

Mimi laughed then asked, "So do you think that you can teach me to become a Super-Saiyan yet?"

"Yeah," replied Trunks.

Trunks walked over to Mimi, noticing that she had a whole different outfit on. She wore purple sweat pants and purple sweatbands on each arm, which went from her wrists to her elbows. Her halterneck top was navy blue and was short enough to show off her navel. Her sneakers were white with dark blue. She probably brought a different outfit for everyday, thought Trunks. He stopped a few steps away from her.

"Now," he began. "Stand in a comfortable yet solid position."

Mimi did as she was told.

"Now Mimi, I want you to imagine the day when your father decided to take Gohan training. He forbidded you to go with them didn't he?" he asked, raising his voice.

Mimi's face began to screw up into a frown and she started to grit her teeth together. She pictured that day and thought, Dad was so happy that day, the day he took Gohan on his first lesson. She stood at the door as Goku and Gohan walked outside laughing together.

"Dad, what about me. Can I come?" asked a twelve-year-old Mimi.

"Um, honey, it's much too dangerous for a girl to be fighting," was his excuse. " I don't think your mother would like the idea of her little girl fighting now, would she?" he said laughing, while rubbing the top of her head.

Mimi thought, I stood there like an idiot. He just made up some pathetic excuse so that I didn't have to train with them. All my life I had to live with the burden of not being good enough.

Blue energy started to rise out of Mimi creating a strong wind around her. Quiet growls turned into screams as she tried to make herself angry while trying to channel her energy at the same time.

"He always made you feel that you were too weak because you were a girl, therefore you weren't good enough to train with them!" yelled Trunks over the top of Mimi's screams.

She was furious, thinking of that experience which was seven years in the past. All of a sudden, her long, black hair became spiky. Trunks' eyes widened. She let out a high-pitched scream and collapsed to the ground. Her spiky hair, blue aura and the wind quickly vanished. She sat on the ground, trying to get her breath back.

Holy shit, she almost had it, thought Trunks with a smile. I knew she could do it!! She'll do it, very soon. I just need to think of another way to bring her anger out.

"Mimi, you almost had it. You're in there," yelled Trunks, laughing.

Mimi lay on the ground panting, not thinking about what Trunks was saying.

"Come on, let's take five," Trunks suggested.

THE END

Be sure to read DETERMINATION OF A GIRL PT. 5