By Trinity_Angel aka Chrissy
Rating: PG-13
Cutting through the darkest night with my two head lights
Trying to keep it clear, but I'm losing it here, to the twilight
There's a dead end to my left, there's a burning bush to my right
You aren't in sight, you aren't in sight
There was no breeze, although rumors were spreading like confetti on the wind. He'd returned, or at least that's what everyone was saying. They also said that he defeated the androids that had been plaguing their cities with the greatest of ease. Lifting her head from the work she was doing for Ms. Briefs, she let her blue green eyes rest on the extremely large picture window from the second floor lab. The out lying horizon seemed peaceful enough, considering that the world was under attack by two of the most powerful beings this earth has ever seen. The full white clouds danced lazily over the cerulean sky, as if they knew that time didn't apply to them but instead sped past them with out disturbing their lazy movements. Staring out she seemed captivated by a single molecule of air the way she focused on what seemed to be nothing from the eyes of the woman behind her but in reality she was playing a scene over and over in her head...
*Flashback*
"Kaori?" Trunks walked up behind his mother's assistant and deceased best friend's niece, a soft sigh escaped his lips. "I'm going now." Kaori nodded and looked up into his eyes. Turquoise clashed with ice blue as they stared at each other, both knowing the words, but neither knowing how to say it. They had been friends since Kaori first began working for Trunks' mother Bulma two years ago. Slowly but noticeably the two's relationship began to evolve and mature into something more. The friendly smiles turned flirty, the leisurely smile became one that hid a deep longing, but neither was mature or brave enough to speak up. Now Trunks was leaving. Leaving them unprotected. But only one pain seemed to surface over his worry, Trunks was leaving his best friend. and the lonliness to come seemed more then he could bear.
"A-alright.." Kaori nodded. Turning once more Trunks looked for any kind of sign, he hoped, he prayed but Kaori's eyes stayed focused on the console in front of her. Trunks entered the time transport machine and Kaori pressed the button to initiate the launch. The capsule sealed with a hissing sound signaling that the airtight lock had been sealed, giving Trunks the feeling of a sardine in a can. Kaori stared, half of her wanted to slam her hand on the abort button and throw her self into his arms, but that was weak.... she wouldn't shame her father's teachings, and so, she stood fast to the spot, her mind winning over her breaking heart. But all the confidence and discipline couldn't stop the next four words from falling from her full lips and dripping into the room.
"I love you Trunks.."
Do you want me
Like I want you?
Kaori whispered the words, but Trunks heard them clearly with his enhanced Saiya-jin ears and turned to look at her, his blue eyes wide with shock. He yelled her name trying to get her to look up, but the machine was as sound tight as it was air tight. Frantically he tried to tell her he felt the same but his voice only echoed in his own ears, unheard by the small girl standing at the console as he sped towards the past....
*End Flashback*
Or am I standing still
Beneath the darkened sky
Or am I standing still
With the scenery flying by
Or am I standing still
Out of the corner of my eye
Was that you
Passing me by
Bulma knew the young girl had good reason to be daydreaming, so she let her stay that way for a few more moments before pulling her back to the harsh reality of the real world. Walking forward, dressed in casual pants and a black turtle neck with her sea foam green hair pulled up into a bun, Bulma reached out her hand and set it gently on the girl's shoulder. Kaori didn't even flinch, it was obvious that she knew Bulma was there, and seeing on how the girl was a demi saiya-jin it wasn't hard to see how.
"Daydreaming again?" Bulma spoke, but kept her bottomless blue eyes focused outside. Seventeen year old Kaori Takahashi merely shook her head, as if to clear the cobwebs from her thoughts and smiled gently.
"I'm sorry Ms. Briefs, I just can't seem to foc-"
"It's alright Kaya-chan, I understand completely."
"You do?" Kaori turned away from the widow and looked up at Bulma, her eyes brimming to the edges with curiosity. Bulma laughed her soft laugh that usually comes along with the fond memories of her past, and closed her eyes as she gave a nod.
Mother's on the stoop, boys in souped up coupes, on this hot summer
night
Between fight and flight is the blind man's sight and a choice that's
right
I roll the window down, feel like I'm, I'm gonna drown, in this
strange town
"You forget I loved a man who fought as well...and he was twice as bad as my son. After all, he was his father." Kaori smiled sadly and reached her small hand up to where Bulma's hand was resting. Kaori touched the elder woman's fingers in a gesture of sympathy about her deceased lover.
Feel broken down, I feel broken down
"I'm sorry about-"
"No need to apologize for a past neither, you, nor I could change."
"Yes ma'am." Bulma frowned and opened her eyes. Tilting her head downwards she peered at Kaori over the thin frames of her glasses.
"You make me feel so old!" Bulma chided Kaori and she immediately burst out into giggles. Soon Bulma joined her and it wasn't long before the two were holding their sides in gales of laughter. It wasn't that what Bulma said was extremely hilarious, it was just the two needed an excuse to laugh, and it felt good to be able to do so. So good, that once they started they were unable to stop. Kaori closed her eyes, her arms wrapping around her stomach as the shaking motion of her shoulders seemed to be throwing off most of the pain and sorrow she was surrounded by, it was her sunshine through the clouds. For the first time in those two years of pain the air was light and the tightness from the tension of sorrow wasn't present. Slowly the two regained control and their breath. "As soon...as you're finished with that...you can go ahead and lock the place up."
"Alright." Kaori grinned and looked back down to the paper work she
still had to finish up. Sighing, Bulma looked one final time at Kaori's
young profile and was reminded of herself...
Turning her light blue eyes towards the sky again Bulma sighed silently and gave an almost unnoticeable smile towards the clouds, knowing he was watching her but wishing that she could have the physical part of their relationship back. A single tear found it's way to her eye and flowed over her long eye lashes leaving a smooth damp trail down her cheek as she turned from the huge picture window and exited to her quarters to take a warm bath and relax.
Do you need me
Like I need you?
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The sun was beginning to set sending red, gold, and orange rays of light across the room. Kaori paused from her work to reach up and open one of the panels in the window in front of her. Leaning forward over her small desk she rested her head against the cool metal pane of the window. She closed her eyes as the cool late summer breeze filtered in. Taking a deep breath she let the wind blow the loose strands of her luxurious blue hair from her face, the satin like strands tickling her extremely fair skin. Hearing the door open and then close behind her she sighed not yet willing to let go of her moment of utopia for the stark white walls of the laboratory.
Or am I standing still
Beneath the darkened sky
Or am I standing still
With the scenery flying by
Or am I standing still
Out of the corner of my eye
Was that you
Passing me by
"I've never felt a peacefulness like this over the earth since...since before the androids appeared...Was this what it was like before Ms. Briefs?" Kaori smiled softly awaiting Bulma's trademark sigh and then a night filled with stories of her childhood, she never bothered to sense the ki, but just noticed it was familiar. Had she not been mentally millions of miles away she would have noticed something was out of place. Still clinging to the small paradise she created over her office desk Kaori ignored the other person in the room, even as they moved closer.
"I wouldn't know for sure...you'll have to ask her sometime, but something tells me it was close." A soft tenor voice rang through the silence smooth as velvet, contrasting yet blending in to the peacefulness. Kaori's breath caught halfway through her exhale. The voice she hadn't heard in almost a year, the voice that haunted her nights with worry and despair, and filled her daydreams with girlish fantasies was right behind her, was filling her ears right now. She couldn't believe it, she wanted to..oh how she wanted to, but she wouldn't let her heart be fooled. Her hands tightened on the window sill, her already pale knuckles turning white as the blood was forced from them. The cold metal sill, her reminder of reality, dug into the palm of her hand relentlessly but not causing nearly as much pain as the confusion in her heart. The male voice behind her chuckled softly like a child who had just been told a secret. "You can turn around now. I promise I won't disappear."
A sweet sorrow is the call tomorrow
Her full and slightly glossed lips parted and fell open. How did he know? Did the same types of dreams haunt and tease him? Slowly and cautiously Kaori turned around. Her emotions went into overdrive at the sight she saw. A battered, dirty, and bruised Trunks stood before her, small scratches and spots of dried blood seemed insignificant compared to the small smirk that rested on his lips. Kaori couldn't help but grin as she stared at him and tried to sort though her endless sea of emotions. Her lips closed and then parted as she tried to think of something to say. The words I need you wouldn't come, the words I love you were no where to be found as well as all those other words she said to the mirror every so often, practicing her first words to him.
"You...you..your hair is longer.." Kaori stumbled over the first sentence that dripped from her still parted lips. Trunks blinked his aquamarine eyes a few times and stared at her, bewilderment written all over his now chiseled features. Mentally Kaori slapped her self finding it amazing how the stupidest things could come from her mouth at all the wrong times.
"Um.." He found him self at a loss for words. He had practiced what he would say to her, over and over as he made the journey home from his completed mission of destroying the androids. But what she said had caught him off guard. "I um... yeah I guess it is." He laughed softly and reached one of his dirt tinted hands up to push his lavender hair from his eyes in a single, smooth motion.
"Oh..man I didn't just say that did-...I mean well, I mean it's just..you're here..and I didn't-"
"I know." Trunks stepped forward towards the slender figured female directly in front of him.
"I-I really don't know what to say.." Kaori nervously pushed her hand through her shoulder length blue hair, the strands sitting on top of her head for a moment before falling back down and re-framing her slender face.
"Shh..." Trunks took another step forward.
"I mean you were gone for so long and-" She looked down at her hands sheepishly.
"I know." Trunks took another step towards her, chuckling softly at her girlish actions... She was almost within his grasp now...
"I don't know...anythi-"
"Kaori-chan..." He reached his hands out, grasping her waist with both of his large hands and pulling her swiftly but gently against his body. He noticed the tears threatening to spill over the long lashes, even if she was too busy babbling to. "Shh."
"I mean I'm not the same girl...I've grown and.." Trunks sighed and smiled at her, his blue eyes darker then she remembered, older and wiser and something more... The rest of the words she was going to use to explain were caught in her throat and she merely stared into his eyes, lost, submerged in the blue irises.
Finally she noticed the tears in her own eyes and blinked a few times raising her hands to wipe them away before they could spill over onto her pink tinted cheeks. Turning her head downwards she closed her eyes, took a deep breath and let out a choked laugh.
A sweet sorrow is the call tomorrow
"I'm being such a girl...Crying over...over.." Trunks slid one of his arms around her narrow waist and pulled her against him, her petite body resting against his battle worn blue, yellow and white armor. With his other hand he reached down and pressed his index finger under her chin. Pushing upwards with the utmost care and gentleness, he tilted her face to his.
"Over what?" He smiled softly at her seeing how her lower lip was beginning to tremble and the tears were becoming too much for her closed eyes to handle.
"Over you..." Her voice was soft and nothing more then the smallest whisper seeming more like an exhale then an answer. Trunks' Saiya-jin ears heard her just fine and he lowered his own face, taking her lips prisoner in a soft kiss. His lips barely rested against hers, the hesitation evident and obvious from both parts. Disappointment washed over Trunks as Kaori didn't respond and he about pulled away when Kaori's lips slowly but surely responded, her own lips tugging gently at his lower lip. Trunks smiled behind her lips as he felt a dampness between their faces. Kaori was amazed at how such a small gesture could be as powerful as life itself and at the same time sweeter then the richest chocolate in the world, she was amazed and definitely in love. Slowly the two pulled apart, neither wanting to let go, so they didn't.
"Trunks..I-I..well I think that I-I'm not the same girl anymore..Trunks I think..that I'm...that I-"
Do you love me
Like I love you?
"Shh." He slid his index finger up from under her chin and pressed it against her still tingling lips adding to the new sensation.. She shook her head and parted her lips to speak. "Kaya-chan. I know, but some words are better left unsaid. Just know I'll always be here with you..."
Or am I standing still
Beneath the darkened sky
Or am I standing still
With the scenery flying by
Or am I standing still
Out of the corner of my eye
Was that you
Passing me by
And slowly Kaori understood as she looked into his eyes and was met with the same emotions that reflected in her own eyes. Trunks blinked his own eyes a few times trying to keep the wall up around his emotions, but her vivid blue eyes seemed to gaze right through his wall as if it were nothing more then a wall of glass instead of a carefully built barrier between him and his emotions.
Are you passing me by
Passing me by
Do you want me
Passing me by
Even though he strongly resembled his apathetic father Vegita, Kaori was putting cracks in him with nothing more then her intense gaze. Slowly the emotions he hid for so long, raised to the surface. They floated around in the blue of his eyes like they were small pieces of paper floating on the sea of his life. Kaori just watched him, on her face and in her own eyes showed nothing but compassion, love, and understanding but in her mind fascination at what she was able to do to this warrior who killed two machines with his bare hands. She knew he needed her presence more then any words, so for once in her life, Kaori remained completely silent.
Do you need me
Like I need you too
And do you want me
Like I want you
(Passing me by)
And his wall shattered, that same wall that he tried to put together after a man that he barely knew, came crashing down around him each piece reflecting a piece of his life. The loss, the pain, the longing, the need, everything he tried to hide for so long was evident in his eyes. Kaori gazed into his eyes for a moment more before she just leaned forward and rested her cheek against his shoulder. Trunks instinctively held her tighter, feeling a sense of possessiveness that he'd never experinced...that he'd never allowed himself to experience. Such a small gesture had a thousand meanings and a million comforts. For Trunks it was solace, a peaceful beginning where he could start to put the shambles of his life back together, for her it was the feeling of tenderness, this man, the strongest man in their world was holding her as he would a china tea cup, protectively, yet as gentle as possible. Trunks slowly closed his eyes and when he opened them he was faced with a future that wasn't so unbearable after all. As he looked up still holding the slender girl against his armor, reality didn't seem so harsh, the sunset's fading glow wasn't just an end, it was now a beginning, the stars shone brighter then diamonds in their velvet sky, the breeze was of birth and peace instead of death and destruction, tomorrow didn't seem to be hundreds of miles away, it wasn't so hard to breathe, it wasn't so hard to believe that things would be okay. Trunks liked the sound of this tomorrow but it sounded even better now the he had someone to share it with. The two of them would move forward, there would be no more waiting, no more standing still.
Are you passing me by
Or am I standing still?
*Owari*
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YO O_O ANOTHER ONE! God I am such a hopeless romantic anyway now for
the lovely disclaimer
Angel: I Chrissy do *eyes Thalia warily* not own Trunks nor any of the other DBZ characters
Thalia: I do!! *Flashes a huge grin with a peace sign*
REl: LIIIIES ALL LIES _>
Angel, Nina and Thalia: Moooooooooo
Angel: *coughs* Anyway back to the owning?
Thalia: *ruffles around in her purse and pulls out a contract, she skims over it and points to a place.* Yep I own Gohan
Angel and Nina: O_O THE CONTRACTS!!!! SCORE!
Angel: *Busts a move* I OWN TRUNKS THANK YOU GOD!!
Nina: VEGITA IS MAHN!! AWL MAHN!! *cackles*
Angel and Thalia: o_o;;;
Nina: ehe...he..>.>;;
Angel: riiight...
*The four girls begin to dance in circle*
REl: WOOOOO *from nowhere REl is smacked in the head with a random snacky cake* AAAHH CHARLIE IN THE TREES!!! FIRE IN THE HOLE!!
Thalia: Huh? *looks up and sees three men in black suits holding boxes of snacky cakes*
Nina: Dude...Aquafwah... *the man in the middle pulls out a box of twinkies*
Angel: O_O NOOOOOOOOOO I GIVE I GIVE JUST DON'T HURT THE TWINKIES!! *he unwraps the twinkie and holds it above his head*
Nina and Thalia: WE GIVE!! O_O;;
REl: *twitches like a freshly squished bug*
*The girls hand over the contracts*
Angel :DAMN THEM!! ;_; there goes my dreams..
Nina: Turds the whole lot of em a bunch of TURDS!!
Thalia: *looks over at REl and pokes her with her foot* Um...who's gonna get the r_Reltard?
Nina: . ;;
Angel: *whines* But I got her last time ....
Moral of the story: I don't own DBZ or any of the characters n stuff. I don't own the song either, it's actually "Standing Still" By Jewel. Kaori however was a creation of mine so pleeeease ask if ya wanna use her, I'll probably say yes but ask anyway. Thanks.
Love you all
~*Angel*~