a/n- oooh! I'm sory happy =D I posted the summary of this about two days ago and I already got a review!! Thank you so much!! I hope it's actually as good as you say it is =/ Well, I already have a lot done, so go ahead and read it and please review!!
1
"You're such an idiot!" Mai yelled, hanging up the phone on their friend Kotori. "Uh! He makes me so mad!" Ryoko laughed.
"You're so mean to him. What did he say?"
"He's like 'uh I have to go'. He's so annoying." Mai folded her arms and shook her head. Her face lit up when she looked out the window, seeing the next door neighbor's garage door open. Mai had dark brown hair and brown eyes, and she had sort of a childish personality. Ryoko had black hair and black. "Noel's home!" Mai cried. Mai had liked Noel since she was twelve, but on and off, between hating him and liking him.
"Mai…uh…" Ryoko started, not wanting to tell her what she had to say.
"Come on!" Mai jumped out of her chair and ran out the front door. Ryoko sighed and walked out after her, slowly. Mai stood transfixed in the neighbors' driveway.
"Who's that?" She asked.
"That's what I had to tell you." Ryoko started. "Noel and Sophia moved over there." She pointed across the street and a couple houses down.
"Then who's that?"
"I dunno. My new neighbor." The boy standing in the driveway had lavender hair and blue eyes. He was tall, and well built.
"He's hot." Mai said. The boy looked at them, blushing a little; he looked like he had heard the two. Mai and Ryoko's eyes widened, and they walked back in Ryoko's house.
"I think he heard you." Ryoko said. Mai looked angrily at Ryoko.
"Why did you let him move? Now I can never look at him from your pool deck anymore!" She sobbed. Ryoko laughed.
"How would I have stopped him?" She asked. "We have another new person on the street, too. He lives across the street. He's kinda cute."
"Really?" Mai asked. "Okay, two hot boys. Noel lives on this street still, so it's okay." The doorbell rang. "Oh no…here we go."
Ryoko got up from the couch and opened the door, Kotori was standing there.
"Kotori!" Mai cried, jumping up and running to the door. She had also liked Kotori for a while, along with Ryoko, but like Noel, Mai's affections had been on and off.
"Yo. I'm hungry." Kotori walked into the house and immediately went to the fridge. Kotori had dirty blonde hair and icy blue eyes. He was a little shorter than Ryoko, but taller than Mai. He had a sense of humor, and was one of Ryoko and Mai's best friends.
"You can't do that." Mai said, closing the door. "You can't just walk into Ryoko's house and eat." Kotori shrugged and took out the Pepsi and poured it into a cup. Kotori was over Ryoko's house a lot, like Mai, and they didn't hesitate to do things. "I wanna go outside."
Mai walked outside, Ryoko following, then soon Kotori.
"Whoa, what the hell?" Ryoko asked, looking in her neighbors' yard. Running around
the yard with another small boy, was a boy with lavender hair and blue eyes. He looked exactly like the one that Ryoko had seen in the driveway, except younger.
"Whoa…" Mai said.
"Whoa what? It's just some little kids." Kotori said.
"We just saw an older one that looked exactly like the lavender haired one." Ryoko said. A woman with blue hair and blue eyes walked out from the back yard and walked to Ryoko and her friends.
"Hello, you must be our new neighbors." She said, smiling.
"Yes, hi." Ryoko said, smiling back.
"As you must know, we just moved here three days ago." She sighed. "It's good to get out of the city." The woman outstretched her hand. "My name is Bulma Brief."
"I'm Ryoko." Ryoko said, and shook Bulma's hand. "These are my friends, Kotori and Mai." They said hi. Bulma smiled.
"How old are you?"
"Kotori and I are sixteen, and Mai's seventeen." Ryoko said. "I'm turning seventeen next month."
"Really? My oldest son just turned seventeen the beginning of this month." Bulma
said. "Do you go to SCS?"
"Yeah." Ryoko said. SCS was their school; it stood for Satan City School.
"Oh, that's great, my son will be starting there in August, with you, I guess." She said, smiling again.
"Wait." Kotori said. "Bulma Brief? The Bulma Brief, owner of Capsule Corporation?" Bulma smiled.
"Yup, that's me." She said. Ryoko, Mai, and Kotori's eyes widened. "We moved here to get away from Capsule Corporation for a while, to live like normal people would." She looked at the three, they were in awe. "Uh…you want to come in and meet Trunks?" Ryoko blinked.
"Uh, yeah, sure." She said, and they followed Bulma inside the house.
"Trunks?" Bulma called. The boy came down the stairs, and Ryoko and Mai stared at him, and had the same thoughts going across their minds.
"Yeah?" Trunks asked, standing in front of his mother.
"This is Ryoko, she's our new neighbor, and these are her friends, Mai and Kotori." Bulma said. Trunks smiled.
"Hi." He said, sticking out his hand to shake Ryoko's. She shook his hand, also saying hi, but the two quickly pulled away when an electric shock shot through their body.
"What? What's wrong?" Bulma asked. The two were rubbing their hands, staring at each other awkwardly.
"We got shocked." Trunks said. The little boy that looked exactly like Trunks walked into the house with the other little boy. The other little boy had black hair and large, black eyes.
"Hi." The little boy said. Bulma introduced them.
"This is Goten." One said, pointing to the one with black hair.
"Hi!" Goten cried.
"And I'm Tru-" The boy started, and then put his hand behind his head and sweat dropped. "Yup, that's my name, Tra."
"Hi, Tra…" Ryoko said. Tra looked angrily at Trunks.
"Tra…" Bulma started. "And Trunks are brothers." Ryoko nodded, not sure what to say.
"We'd better get going." Ryoko said, smiling at Trunks. He blushed a little, but smiled.
"Okay, see you later!" Bulma exclaimed as the trio walked out of the house and back into Ryokos'.
"I like Bulma." Ryoko said.
"I like Trunks." Mai said.
"You like every guy you see!" Kotori cried with disgust.
"Yeah, Trunks is really hot." Ryoko added, ignoring Kotori.
"Ugh!" Mai cried. "There are too many boys!" Her eyes widened. "I wanna go meet that other new boy."
"Okay. I already know him, so it won't be too awkward." Ryoko said as they went back outside. "His name's Gohan, and now that I remember it, Goten is his little brother."
"I didn't come over here to go see boys." Kotori said.
"Then you can leave." Mai snapped. Kotori gritted his teeth and mumbled under his breath, but followed the girls.
Ryoko rung the doorbell and a man with spiky black hair came to the door. He yawned, and then smiled widely.
"Hey Ryoko! You looking for Gohan?" He asked.
"Yeah, is he home?" She asked.
"Yeah, hang on." Goku walked away from the door.
"How do you know him?" Mai asked.
"Goten was playing with Eric the other day, and Gohan came with him." Ryoko said. Eric was Ryoko's brother. Gohan came to the door, and came outside.
"Hey, Ryoko." He said.
"Hi." She said. "These are my friends, Mai and Kotori. Mai, Kotori, this is Gohan." They all said 'hi'. Kotori sighed.
"You know, it is hot out here. Can we go in the pool or something?" He said to Ryoko.
"Yeah, sure. Gohan, you wanna come?" She asked. Gohan smiled.
"Sure! I'll meet you over there in about five minutes, I have to get changed." He said.
"Kay, bye." They turned and went back to Ryoko's house.
"Oh my God, oh my God." Mai panted. "They're all so hot! Hey, where are you going?" Ryoko was walking towards Trunks' house.
"I'm inviting Trunks. You guys go in the pool; I'll be there in a minute." Kotori and Mai shrugged and went into Ryokos' back yard. Ryoko rang Trunks' doorbell, and he came to the door. "Hey, do you wanna come over my house and go in my pool? Gohan's going." Gohan had told her before that he and Trunks had been friends for a couple years.
"Sure, I'll go get changed, I'll be there in a minute." Ryoko smiled and nodded, then went to her backyard. Gohan was already there, standing on the deck. Mai and Kotori were in the pool.
"Is it cold?" Gohan asked.
"No." Kotori said. Ryoko took off her shirt; she had her bathing suit underneath. Trunks came in through the gate, and blushed when he saw her with just her bathing suit top on. Man… Ryoko thought. This boy is going to faint from all this blushing…but it's cute. She pulled off her shorts. She was wearing a red bikini. Gohan took off his shirt and jumped into the pool, creating a large wave.
Trunks walked up onto the deck with Ryoko, and she pulled an elastic of off her wrist and put her hair up in a high pony tail. She stepped into the pool, on the steps, and was surprised at how warm it was. She went down all the stairs, and waded in the water next to Mai. Trunks followed her in.
"I wanna play football." Mai said.
"We don't have enough people. We'd need at least one more person to get teams of three." Ryoko said. Mai sighed.
"No, I can have Trunks and Gohan, and you can have Kotori."
"That's not fair."
"Yes it is." Mai giggled; Ryoko shook her head, smiling.
"Let's play a game." Gohan decided.
"Like what?" Ryoko asked.
"Marco Polo!" Mai cried.
"No, shark." Ryoko said. "Same thing as Marco Polo except you don't say anything." She looked at Gohan. "Whoever suggested the game is it." Gohan blinked a couple times.
"Okay…what do I do?" He asked.
"You go under and count to ten." Mai said.
"Under where?" Gohan asked.
"Under ground." Kotori said, rolling his eyes. Gohan scratched his head.
"That would be kinda hard…" He said.
"Under the water. You have to keep your eyes closed and look for us when you come up." Ryoko said, laughing. Gohan said 'okay' then went under water and counted to ten. He came back up, and started searching around for them. He immediately found
Ryoko and tapped her.
"How did you find me so easily?" Ryoko asked when Gohan opened his eyes.
"You're all so loud." He said. Ryoko blinked, she hadn't heard anything from anyone.
"Okay…" Ryoko said, then went under water and counted to ten. She came up and took in a deep breath, then let it out. She started walking around the pool blindly, searching for someone. She didn't hear anything, unlike Gohan.
She heard a small splash, and pounced to where she heard it from. She landed on a body, and, thinking they would both fall under the water, the body didn't move. Even so, she had touched him, and he was it. She opened her eyes, and blushed to see that her body was pushed tightly against Trunks. She jumped back.
"You're it." She said, nervously smiling. He was blushing a little, also. It was dark out, now, and Ryoko looked at the sky, smiling. She loved the night sky. Everyone looked up with her, and Kotori gave her a puzzled look.
"What are you looking at?" He asked. Ryoko laughed lightly and shook her head.
"Nothing." She said.
"Well, I gotta go." Kotori said.
"Kay, bye." Mai said, and Kotori and Ryoko looked at her awkwardly. Usually she'd whine and cry when Kotori had to go, but now she was preoccupied by looking at Gohan.
"See ya." Kotori got out of the pool. Ryoko looked at Trunks, and then followed him.
They stood in the yard, near the door.
"Bye." She said, and then hugged him. Kotori was a little surprised by this; usually she was too shy to do something like that. Kotori hugged her back, then left. She smiled to herself then went back in the pool. She was wondering how much longer she was going to love Kotori.
2
"I call Gohan." Mai said later that night. It was eleven o' clock, and Gohan and Trunks had just left. Ryoko laughed.
"Well, then, I call Trunks."
"No! That's not fair!" Mai cried, and then sighed. "Okay, I'm only going to like Gohan."
"You really do like every guy you see."
"Nuh-uh! Only Gohan, now." She said. "He's so cute! And did you see his muscles?"
"Yeah, did you see Trunks'? I wonder how they got so strong." Ryoko said.
"What was Kotori's' problem?" Mai asked.
"What do you mean? He was fine." Ryoko said.
"Maybe to you he was, because you were too busy staring at Trunks." She said. "But he kept looking at you, and he looked like, mad, maybe even jealous."
"Sure he was." Ryoko said. All she ever wanted was Kotori to be jealous of Ryoko talking to another guy, to care for her.
"I'm serious!" Ryoko raised an eyebrow. "I swear to God!"
"Okay. Anyway, I have to make my list of who I'm inviting to my party." Ryoko said.
"That's easy." Ryoko got a pen and a notebook. "Kotori, Gohan, Trunks, Me, Amy, Caitlin, Mike, Noel, Sophia…um…"
"Meagan, Lauryn, Bryan, Kaylyn, Kim, Kelly, Madeline, Kate, and Mike." She said.
"Why are you making your list now? Your party isn't until next month." Mai said. Ryoko shrugged.
"I'm bored." She said.
A week passed, and Ryoko had been seeing Trunks every day; sometimes with Gohan, and sometimes they were alone.
Ryoko was sitting on her roof, now, staring at the night sky, thinking of Kotori and Trunks. Her parents were out, her mom at college, and her dad at work. Her brother and sister were sleeping over their cousins' house, and her Grandma was at their aunts' house.
"I feel like Mai." Ryoko said with a laugh. She didn't know who she loved now; Kotori and Trunks were both so great.
"Hey, Ryoko." Ryoko jumped and looked down at Trunks, who was standing in his driveway, looking up at her.
"Hey." She said, smiling. She felt that she didn't really miss Kotori, she hadn't seen him for that week, but she was still unsure if she loved him or Trunks.
"What are you doing up there?" Ryoko laughed.
"I come up here every Wednesday night, it's when no ones home. I get some time to myself, you know, to think things out." Trunks bent his knees slightly and jumped up onto the roof, Ryoko gasped and her eyes widened. "H-how did you do that?" She cried. His eyes widened for a second, and then he sighed.
"Well, secret's out, I guess." He smiled. "I can fly. So can Gohan, and Goten, and-
Tra." Ryoko's eyes widened even more, and she stood up next to him.
"How?" She cried. Ever since she was a little girl, she had always wanted to fly. Trunks looked the other way, and then gave her another smile.
"You want me to take you?"
"Where?"
"Flying."
"Really? You could?" She asked.
"Of course." He said, and then lifted her off her feet and took her into the air. She cried out in surprise, and was a little frightened at first, she had always been afraid of heights. But she soon got used to it, and was not afraid at all.
He took her to a field (it took about fifteen minutes to get there), and then set her down.
"How did you do that?" She asked.
"It's pretty easy to learn." He paused. "You want me to teach you?"
"Now?" She asked.
"Well, no, it's a little late, now. Maybe I could take you here again tomorrow morning." Ryoko smiled.
"That would be great!"
Ryoko jumped on her bed. Trunks had just flown her back. It was late, but she didn't feel tired at all. In fact, she felt anything but tired. She knew now that she loved Trunks, and not Kotori.
"…he's teaching me to fly." She said to herself, still amazed. She laughed to herself and squeezed a pillow. "I've got to get rid of some of this energy; he's coming for me at ten tomorrow morning. Ugh…early, but it's worth it."
Ryoko went into the living room and turned on the TV, and starting jumping up and down, trying to get rid of her energy. She started getting tired about an hour later, and went to bed.
3
Ryoko woke at nine thirty, and took a shower. The shower took her about ten minutes, and she had dressed in comfortable clothes, as Trunks told her to do. He said to wear something like stretch pants or spandex, not jeans. So she put on black stretch pants that flared at the bottom and had white stripes on the side, a black tank top, and white sneakers.
She walked into the front room, and sat on the couch to wait for him. The phone started to ring, so she jumped up and picked it up.
"Hello?" She asked.
"Hi." It was Mai. She sighed, hoping it was Trunks saying that he was on his way, but he had never said that he would call.
"Hey."
"Can I come over today?" She asked.
"Uh…no."
"Why not?" She asked, angered and annoyed. "I haven't seen you and Gohan in like, forever!"
"I'm not going to be home today."
"Where are you going?" Ryoko sighed, she knew that Mai would be mad that she was going somewhere with Trunks.
Ryoko heard footsteps outside her door, and then someone knocked. Ryoko could tell it was Trunks, she saw the outline of him through the door.
"Come in!" Ryoko cried, and Trunks came in. He closed the door behind him and put his hands in his pockets.
"Who's there?" Mai asked.
"Trunks."
"Why is he there?"
"Because! I gotta go, see ya." Ryoko hung up and walked to Trunks. "Is this alright to wear?" He nodded.
"You ready?" He asked. She nodded. They walked out the door, and Trunks picked her up and jumped into the air. Ryoko was still amazed by his trick, and couldn't wait to learn.
They landed in the same field as the night before, and Trunks sat down on the grass. She sat down in front of him, they were facing each other. Trunks scratched his head.
"I don't think I've ever taught someone to fly before." He said. "Well, I guess all you really need to do is push your energy below you and you just lift into the air." Ryoko blinked her face blank. "But I guess I would have to show you how to bring out that energy, first." He sighed, and Ryoko thought that this was going to be harder than she thought.
Trunks put his hands in front of him, and spread out his fingers. Slowly, a ball of light formed in his hands. Ryoko's eyes widened and she stared at it, the light glistening in her eyes. The ball of light disappeared from his hands, and he looked back at Ryoko.
"Okay, put your hands the way I did." Ryoko put her hands out, slowly, and then spread her fingers. "How do I say this…listen to the center of your body, try to bring all of your energy there. Clear your mind, and concentrate of just that spot." Ryoko sighed, closing her eyes and concentrated on the middle of her stomach, figuring that that was the center of her body. After about five minutes, Trunks spoke again. "Now try to bring that out into your hands. It might be a little hard since you've never done Martial Arts." Ryoko tried to push it out, and she felt like an idiot. If she hadn't seen Trunks fly, she would have thought that he was crazy.
Ryoko and Trunks had been working on pulling out her energy for about two hours now, they were starting to get hungry, and Ryoko was no closer to flying.
Ryoko sighed angrily and put her hands down, opening her eyes. Trunks smiled.
"You did great." He said. "It doesn't take a day to start flying."
"How long did it take you and Gohan?"
"Uh…a week, but we had been doing martial arts." He responded.
"I see." Ryoko looked at the grass; she had hoped that she would be flying home.
"You wanna go get something to eat?" Ryoko looked back up at him and smiled.
"Yeah." She said, standing up. Trunks stood up, picked her up, and flew into the air.
Trunks landed in near a mall, where Ryoko suggested they go to get something to eat.
He followed her in, not knowing his way around. She led him to a restaurant, and they went in and were seated.
Man… Trunks thought as a waitress took their order. She is really tempting. But mom wants to keep our life secret. He felt like he could just spill out his whole past to her, his world being destroyed, saving the future, then returning home only to find that his mother was going to die in three years. Future Bulma had caught a disease that was going around that was caused by the Androids destruction, and she had told him to leave after about a week after his returning. She didn't want him to catch it, so she wanted him to live in the past, where she was still alive and healthy, where Gohan was, and his father.
Even though Trunks had only known Ryoko for a week and a half, he felt like he'd known her much longer. He sat in the booth of the restaurant, now, twisting his napkin below the table, trying not to just blab out his horrifying past.
"Trunks, you look upset." Ryoko said, concern filling her deep, black eyes. Trunks put the napkin back on the table (after he had flattened it out from all his twisting), and smiled.
"No, I'm fine." He said.
"You sure?"
"Positive." Ryoko smiled.
"Hey, can you keep a secret?" She asked. Trunks smirked and nodded. "Well, you know Mai?" He nodded again. "Well, she likes Gohan."
"Really?"
"Yeah. He's all she talks about." Trunks laughed.
"Well, she's going to have a hard time getting him with Videl around." Ryoko blinked.
"Videl Satan?"
"Yup."
"What is that supposed to mean?"
"Gohan doesn't like to admit it, but Videl and Gohan like each other." Trunks said.
Ryoko laughed.
"Mai wouldn't like that." She said. "You want me to keep it from her?"
"Yeah. Gohan turns red whenever someone mentions Videl." Ryoko laughed. Trunks smiled, and also laughed. "So, how's your fried Kotori?" Ryoko blinked and looked to the side, her smile gone.
"Good."
"I thought he came over your house like, everyday?"
"He used to. I haven't seen or heard from him since the day when you all came into my pool." Ryoko sighed.
"What's wrong?" Trunks asked. Ryoko shrugged.
"I'm just a little confused."
"About what?" She again shrugged.
"I dunno." She sighed and looked back at Trunks. "Kotori, and-" She laughed. "It's nothing, forget it." Trunks blinked a couple of times, and then decided against nagging her for the rest of her explanation.
Ryoko walked into her house, slightly frustrated, but also excited. She was frustrated that she had not mastered the art of flying (even when Trunks tried to show her after lunch, they spent five more hours at it and Ryoko could not even get a little light in her hands), but she was excited to go to her next lesson with Trunks, which was scheduled for Saturday, two days from today.
When she got in the house, the phone started ringing.
"Hello?" She asked, picking up the phone.
"Ryoko!" Mai cried. Ryoko sighed.
"…what?" She asked.
"Why was Trunks over your house? And where were you today?"
"I went somewhere with Trunks, okay?!"
"Where?!"
"Why do you care?!" Mai grunted angrily.
"Calm down!" She cried. "Can I come over please?" She whined. Ryoko sighed.
"Yeah. Fine."
"Really?! I can! Thank you! Okay, my mom's takin' me there now, bye."
"Bye." Ryoko hung up. All Mai would want to do was go over Gohan's house, but that was okay to Ryoko, she could just spend more time with Trunks.
After a few minutes, Mai walked in the front door and put her back pack on the floor.
"Can we go to Gohan's?" She asked. Ryoko sighed, laughing.
"Sure. But I want Trunks to come out, too." Mai sighed.
"Fine."
"You go get Gohan, I'll call Trunks." Mai walked back out of the house, so Ryoko picked up the phone and dialed Trunks' number.
"Hello?" Bulma asked when she picked up the phone.
"Hi, Bulma, is Trunks there?"
"Sure, hold on one minute, Ryoko." In the background, Ryoko heard Bulma yell 'Trunks, pick up the phone!'.
"Hello?" Trunks asked, picking up another phone as Bulma hung up her phone.
"Hey." Ryoko said. "Mai just came over, and she went to get Gohan, so do you wanna come over?"
"Sure."
"Okay, I'm going into my front yard. See ya."
"Okay, bye."
1
"You're such an idiot!" Mai yelled, hanging up the phone on their friend Kotori. "Uh! He makes me so mad!" Ryoko laughed.
"You're so mean to him. What did he say?"
"He's like 'uh I have to go'. He's so annoying." Mai folded her arms and shook her head. Her face lit up when she looked out the window, seeing the next door neighbor's garage door open. Mai had dark brown hair and brown eyes, and she had sort of a childish personality. Ryoko had black hair and black. "Noel's home!" Mai cried. Mai had liked Noel since she was twelve, but on and off, between hating him and liking him.
"Mai…uh…" Ryoko started, not wanting to tell her what she had to say.
"Come on!" Mai jumped out of her chair and ran out the front door. Ryoko sighed and walked out after her, slowly. Mai stood transfixed in the neighbors' driveway.
"Who's that?" She asked.
"That's what I had to tell you." Ryoko started. "Noel and Sophia moved over there." She pointed across the street and a couple houses down.
"Then who's that?"
"I dunno. My new neighbor." The boy standing in the driveway had lavender hair and blue eyes. He was tall, and well built.
"He's hot." Mai said. The boy looked at them, blushing a little; he looked like he had heard the two. Mai and Ryoko's eyes widened, and they walked back in Ryoko's house.
"I think he heard you." Ryoko said. Mai looked angrily at Ryoko.
"Why did you let him move? Now I can never look at him from your pool deck anymore!" She sobbed. Ryoko laughed.
"How would I have stopped him?" She asked. "We have another new person on the street, too. He lives across the street. He's kinda cute."
"Really?" Mai asked. "Okay, two hot boys. Noel lives on this street still, so it's okay." The doorbell rang. "Oh no…here we go."
Ryoko got up from the couch and opened the door, Kotori was standing there.
"Kotori!" Mai cried, jumping up and running to the door. She had also liked Kotori for a while, along with Ryoko, but like Noel, Mai's affections had been on and off.
"Yo. I'm hungry." Kotori walked into the house and immediately went to the fridge. Kotori had dirty blonde hair and icy blue eyes. He was a little shorter than Ryoko, but taller than Mai. He had a sense of humor, and was one of Ryoko and Mai's best friends.
"You can't do that." Mai said, closing the door. "You can't just walk into Ryoko's house and eat." Kotori shrugged and took out the Pepsi and poured it into a cup. Kotori was over Ryoko's house a lot, like Mai, and they didn't hesitate to do things. "I wanna go outside."
Mai walked outside, Ryoko following, then soon Kotori.
"Whoa, what the hell?" Ryoko asked, looking in her neighbors' yard. Running around
the yard with another small boy, was a boy with lavender hair and blue eyes. He looked exactly like the one that Ryoko had seen in the driveway, except younger.
"Whoa…" Mai said.
"Whoa what? It's just some little kids." Kotori said.
"We just saw an older one that looked exactly like the lavender haired one." Ryoko said. A woman with blue hair and blue eyes walked out from the back yard and walked to Ryoko and her friends.
"Hello, you must be our new neighbors." She said, smiling.
"Yes, hi." Ryoko said, smiling back.
"As you must know, we just moved here three days ago." She sighed. "It's good to get out of the city." The woman outstretched her hand. "My name is Bulma Brief."
"I'm Ryoko." Ryoko said, and shook Bulma's hand. "These are my friends, Kotori and Mai." They said hi. Bulma smiled.
"How old are you?"
"Kotori and I are sixteen, and Mai's seventeen." Ryoko said. "I'm turning seventeen next month."
"Really? My oldest son just turned seventeen the beginning of this month." Bulma
said. "Do you go to SCS?"
"Yeah." Ryoko said. SCS was their school; it stood for Satan City School.
"Oh, that's great, my son will be starting there in August, with you, I guess." She said, smiling again.
"Wait." Kotori said. "Bulma Brief? The Bulma Brief, owner of Capsule Corporation?" Bulma smiled.
"Yup, that's me." She said. Ryoko, Mai, and Kotori's eyes widened. "We moved here to get away from Capsule Corporation for a while, to live like normal people would." She looked at the three, they were in awe. "Uh…you want to come in and meet Trunks?" Ryoko blinked.
"Uh, yeah, sure." She said, and they followed Bulma inside the house.
"Trunks?" Bulma called. The boy came down the stairs, and Ryoko and Mai stared at him, and had the same thoughts going across their minds.
"Yeah?" Trunks asked, standing in front of his mother.
"This is Ryoko, she's our new neighbor, and these are her friends, Mai and Kotori." Bulma said. Trunks smiled.
"Hi." He said, sticking out his hand to shake Ryoko's. She shook his hand, also saying hi, but the two quickly pulled away when an electric shock shot through their body.
"What? What's wrong?" Bulma asked. The two were rubbing their hands, staring at each other awkwardly.
"We got shocked." Trunks said. The little boy that looked exactly like Trunks walked into the house with the other little boy. The other little boy had black hair and large, black eyes.
"Hi." The little boy said. Bulma introduced them.
"This is Goten." One said, pointing to the one with black hair.
"Hi!" Goten cried.
"And I'm Tru-" The boy started, and then put his hand behind his head and sweat dropped. "Yup, that's my name, Tra."
"Hi, Tra…" Ryoko said. Tra looked angrily at Trunks.
"Tra…" Bulma started. "And Trunks are brothers." Ryoko nodded, not sure what to say.
"We'd better get going." Ryoko said, smiling at Trunks. He blushed a little, but smiled.
"Okay, see you later!" Bulma exclaimed as the trio walked out of the house and back into Ryokos'.
"I like Bulma." Ryoko said.
"I like Trunks." Mai said.
"You like every guy you see!" Kotori cried with disgust.
"Yeah, Trunks is really hot." Ryoko added, ignoring Kotori.
"Ugh!" Mai cried. "There are too many boys!" Her eyes widened. "I wanna go meet that other new boy."
"Okay. I already know him, so it won't be too awkward." Ryoko said as they went back outside. "His name's Gohan, and now that I remember it, Goten is his little brother."
"I didn't come over here to go see boys." Kotori said.
"Then you can leave." Mai snapped. Kotori gritted his teeth and mumbled under his breath, but followed the girls.
Ryoko rung the doorbell and a man with spiky black hair came to the door. He yawned, and then smiled widely.
"Hey Ryoko! You looking for Gohan?" He asked.
"Yeah, is he home?" She asked.
"Yeah, hang on." Goku walked away from the door.
"How do you know him?" Mai asked.
"Goten was playing with Eric the other day, and Gohan came with him." Ryoko said. Eric was Ryoko's brother. Gohan came to the door, and came outside.
"Hey, Ryoko." He said.
"Hi." She said. "These are my friends, Mai and Kotori. Mai, Kotori, this is Gohan." They all said 'hi'. Kotori sighed.
"You know, it is hot out here. Can we go in the pool or something?" He said to Ryoko.
"Yeah, sure. Gohan, you wanna come?" She asked. Gohan smiled.
"Sure! I'll meet you over there in about five minutes, I have to get changed." He said.
"Kay, bye." They turned and went back to Ryoko's house.
"Oh my God, oh my God." Mai panted. "They're all so hot! Hey, where are you going?" Ryoko was walking towards Trunks' house.
"I'm inviting Trunks. You guys go in the pool; I'll be there in a minute." Kotori and Mai shrugged and went into Ryokos' back yard. Ryoko rang Trunks' doorbell, and he came to the door. "Hey, do you wanna come over my house and go in my pool? Gohan's going." Gohan had told her before that he and Trunks had been friends for a couple years.
"Sure, I'll go get changed, I'll be there in a minute." Ryoko smiled and nodded, then went to her backyard. Gohan was already there, standing on the deck. Mai and Kotori were in the pool.
"Is it cold?" Gohan asked.
"No." Kotori said. Ryoko took off her shirt; she had her bathing suit underneath. Trunks came in through the gate, and blushed when he saw her with just her bathing suit top on. Man… Ryoko thought. This boy is going to faint from all this blushing…but it's cute. She pulled off her shorts. She was wearing a red bikini. Gohan took off his shirt and jumped into the pool, creating a large wave.
Trunks walked up onto the deck with Ryoko, and she pulled an elastic of off her wrist and put her hair up in a high pony tail. She stepped into the pool, on the steps, and was surprised at how warm it was. She went down all the stairs, and waded in the water next to Mai. Trunks followed her in.
"I wanna play football." Mai said.
"We don't have enough people. We'd need at least one more person to get teams of three." Ryoko said. Mai sighed.
"No, I can have Trunks and Gohan, and you can have Kotori."
"That's not fair."
"Yes it is." Mai giggled; Ryoko shook her head, smiling.
"Let's play a game." Gohan decided.
"Like what?" Ryoko asked.
"Marco Polo!" Mai cried.
"No, shark." Ryoko said. "Same thing as Marco Polo except you don't say anything." She looked at Gohan. "Whoever suggested the game is it." Gohan blinked a couple times.
"Okay…what do I do?" He asked.
"You go under and count to ten." Mai said.
"Under where?" Gohan asked.
"Under ground." Kotori said, rolling his eyes. Gohan scratched his head.
"That would be kinda hard…" He said.
"Under the water. You have to keep your eyes closed and look for us when you come up." Ryoko said, laughing. Gohan said 'okay' then went under water and counted to ten. He came back up, and started searching around for them. He immediately found
Ryoko and tapped her.
"How did you find me so easily?" Ryoko asked when Gohan opened his eyes.
"You're all so loud." He said. Ryoko blinked, she hadn't heard anything from anyone.
"Okay…" Ryoko said, then went under water and counted to ten. She came up and took in a deep breath, then let it out. She started walking around the pool blindly, searching for someone. She didn't hear anything, unlike Gohan.
She heard a small splash, and pounced to where she heard it from. She landed on a body, and, thinking they would both fall under the water, the body didn't move. Even so, she had touched him, and he was it. She opened her eyes, and blushed to see that her body was pushed tightly against Trunks. She jumped back.
"You're it." She said, nervously smiling. He was blushing a little, also. It was dark out, now, and Ryoko looked at the sky, smiling. She loved the night sky. Everyone looked up with her, and Kotori gave her a puzzled look.
"What are you looking at?" He asked. Ryoko laughed lightly and shook her head.
"Nothing." She said.
"Well, I gotta go." Kotori said.
"Kay, bye." Mai said, and Kotori and Ryoko looked at her awkwardly. Usually she'd whine and cry when Kotori had to go, but now she was preoccupied by looking at Gohan.
"See ya." Kotori got out of the pool. Ryoko looked at Trunks, and then followed him.
They stood in the yard, near the door.
"Bye." She said, and then hugged him. Kotori was a little surprised by this; usually she was too shy to do something like that. Kotori hugged her back, then left. She smiled to herself then went back in the pool. She was wondering how much longer she was going to love Kotori.
2
"I call Gohan." Mai said later that night. It was eleven o' clock, and Gohan and Trunks had just left. Ryoko laughed.
"Well, then, I call Trunks."
"No! That's not fair!" Mai cried, and then sighed. "Okay, I'm only going to like Gohan."
"You really do like every guy you see."
"Nuh-uh! Only Gohan, now." She said. "He's so cute! And did you see his muscles?"
"Yeah, did you see Trunks'? I wonder how they got so strong." Ryoko said.
"What was Kotori's' problem?" Mai asked.
"What do you mean? He was fine." Ryoko said.
"Maybe to you he was, because you were too busy staring at Trunks." She said. "But he kept looking at you, and he looked like, mad, maybe even jealous."
"Sure he was." Ryoko said. All she ever wanted was Kotori to be jealous of Ryoko talking to another guy, to care for her.
"I'm serious!" Ryoko raised an eyebrow. "I swear to God!"
"Okay. Anyway, I have to make my list of who I'm inviting to my party." Ryoko said.
"That's easy." Ryoko got a pen and a notebook. "Kotori, Gohan, Trunks, Me, Amy, Caitlin, Mike, Noel, Sophia…um…"
"Meagan, Lauryn, Bryan, Kaylyn, Kim, Kelly, Madeline, Kate, and Mike." She said.
"Why are you making your list now? Your party isn't until next month." Mai said. Ryoko shrugged.
"I'm bored." She said.
A week passed, and Ryoko had been seeing Trunks every day; sometimes with Gohan, and sometimes they were alone.
Ryoko was sitting on her roof, now, staring at the night sky, thinking of Kotori and Trunks. Her parents were out, her mom at college, and her dad at work. Her brother and sister were sleeping over their cousins' house, and her Grandma was at their aunts' house.
"I feel like Mai." Ryoko said with a laugh. She didn't know who she loved now; Kotori and Trunks were both so great.
"Hey, Ryoko." Ryoko jumped and looked down at Trunks, who was standing in his driveway, looking up at her.
"Hey." She said, smiling. She felt that she didn't really miss Kotori, she hadn't seen him for that week, but she was still unsure if she loved him or Trunks.
"What are you doing up there?" Ryoko laughed.
"I come up here every Wednesday night, it's when no ones home. I get some time to myself, you know, to think things out." Trunks bent his knees slightly and jumped up onto the roof, Ryoko gasped and her eyes widened. "H-how did you do that?" She cried. His eyes widened for a second, and then he sighed.
"Well, secret's out, I guess." He smiled. "I can fly. So can Gohan, and Goten, and-
Tra." Ryoko's eyes widened even more, and she stood up next to him.
"How?" She cried. Ever since she was a little girl, she had always wanted to fly. Trunks looked the other way, and then gave her another smile.
"You want me to take you?"
"Where?"
"Flying."
"Really? You could?" She asked.
"Of course." He said, and then lifted her off her feet and took her into the air. She cried out in surprise, and was a little frightened at first, she had always been afraid of heights. But she soon got used to it, and was not afraid at all.
He took her to a field (it took about fifteen minutes to get there), and then set her down.
"How did you do that?" She asked.
"It's pretty easy to learn." He paused. "You want me to teach you?"
"Now?" She asked.
"Well, no, it's a little late, now. Maybe I could take you here again tomorrow morning." Ryoko smiled.
"That would be great!"
Ryoko jumped on her bed. Trunks had just flown her back. It was late, but she didn't feel tired at all. In fact, she felt anything but tired. She knew now that she loved Trunks, and not Kotori.
"…he's teaching me to fly." She said to herself, still amazed. She laughed to herself and squeezed a pillow. "I've got to get rid of some of this energy; he's coming for me at ten tomorrow morning. Ugh…early, but it's worth it."
Ryoko went into the living room and turned on the TV, and starting jumping up and down, trying to get rid of her energy. She started getting tired about an hour later, and went to bed.
3
Ryoko woke at nine thirty, and took a shower. The shower took her about ten minutes, and she had dressed in comfortable clothes, as Trunks told her to do. He said to wear something like stretch pants or spandex, not jeans. So she put on black stretch pants that flared at the bottom and had white stripes on the side, a black tank top, and white sneakers.
She walked into the front room, and sat on the couch to wait for him. The phone started to ring, so she jumped up and picked it up.
"Hello?" She asked.
"Hi." It was Mai. She sighed, hoping it was Trunks saying that he was on his way, but he had never said that he would call.
"Hey."
"Can I come over today?" She asked.
"Uh…no."
"Why not?" She asked, angered and annoyed. "I haven't seen you and Gohan in like, forever!"
"I'm not going to be home today."
"Where are you going?" Ryoko sighed, she knew that Mai would be mad that she was going somewhere with Trunks.
Ryoko heard footsteps outside her door, and then someone knocked. Ryoko could tell it was Trunks, she saw the outline of him through the door.
"Come in!" Ryoko cried, and Trunks came in. He closed the door behind him and put his hands in his pockets.
"Who's there?" Mai asked.
"Trunks."
"Why is he there?"
"Because! I gotta go, see ya." Ryoko hung up and walked to Trunks. "Is this alright to wear?" He nodded.
"You ready?" He asked. She nodded. They walked out the door, and Trunks picked her up and jumped into the air. Ryoko was still amazed by his trick, and couldn't wait to learn.
They landed in the same field as the night before, and Trunks sat down on the grass. She sat down in front of him, they were facing each other. Trunks scratched his head.
"I don't think I've ever taught someone to fly before." He said. "Well, I guess all you really need to do is push your energy below you and you just lift into the air." Ryoko blinked her face blank. "But I guess I would have to show you how to bring out that energy, first." He sighed, and Ryoko thought that this was going to be harder than she thought.
Trunks put his hands in front of him, and spread out his fingers. Slowly, a ball of light formed in his hands. Ryoko's eyes widened and she stared at it, the light glistening in her eyes. The ball of light disappeared from his hands, and he looked back at Ryoko.
"Okay, put your hands the way I did." Ryoko put her hands out, slowly, and then spread her fingers. "How do I say this…listen to the center of your body, try to bring all of your energy there. Clear your mind, and concentrate of just that spot." Ryoko sighed, closing her eyes and concentrated on the middle of her stomach, figuring that that was the center of her body. After about five minutes, Trunks spoke again. "Now try to bring that out into your hands. It might be a little hard since you've never done Martial Arts." Ryoko tried to push it out, and she felt like an idiot. If she hadn't seen Trunks fly, she would have thought that he was crazy.
Ryoko and Trunks had been working on pulling out her energy for about two hours now, they were starting to get hungry, and Ryoko was no closer to flying.
Ryoko sighed angrily and put her hands down, opening her eyes. Trunks smiled.
"You did great." He said. "It doesn't take a day to start flying."
"How long did it take you and Gohan?"
"Uh…a week, but we had been doing martial arts." He responded.
"I see." Ryoko looked at the grass; she had hoped that she would be flying home.
"You wanna go get something to eat?" Ryoko looked back up at him and smiled.
"Yeah." She said, standing up. Trunks stood up, picked her up, and flew into the air.
Trunks landed in near a mall, where Ryoko suggested they go to get something to eat.
He followed her in, not knowing his way around. She led him to a restaurant, and they went in and were seated.
Man… Trunks thought as a waitress took their order. She is really tempting. But mom wants to keep our life secret. He felt like he could just spill out his whole past to her, his world being destroyed, saving the future, then returning home only to find that his mother was going to die in three years. Future Bulma had caught a disease that was going around that was caused by the Androids destruction, and she had told him to leave after about a week after his returning. She didn't want him to catch it, so she wanted him to live in the past, where she was still alive and healthy, where Gohan was, and his father.
Even though Trunks had only known Ryoko for a week and a half, he felt like he'd known her much longer. He sat in the booth of the restaurant, now, twisting his napkin below the table, trying not to just blab out his horrifying past.
"Trunks, you look upset." Ryoko said, concern filling her deep, black eyes. Trunks put the napkin back on the table (after he had flattened it out from all his twisting), and smiled.
"No, I'm fine." He said.
"You sure?"
"Positive." Ryoko smiled.
"Hey, can you keep a secret?" She asked. Trunks smirked and nodded. "Well, you know Mai?" He nodded again. "Well, she likes Gohan."
"Really?"
"Yeah. He's all she talks about." Trunks laughed.
"Well, she's going to have a hard time getting him with Videl around." Ryoko blinked.
"Videl Satan?"
"Yup."
"What is that supposed to mean?"
"Gohan doesn't like to admit it, but Videl and Gohan like each other." Trunks said.
Ryoko laughed.
"Mai wouldn't like that." She said. "You want me to keep it from her?"
"Yeah. Gohan turns red whenever someone mentions Videl." Ryoko laughed. Trunks smiled, and also laughed. "So, how's your fried Kotori?" Ryoko blinked and looked to the side, her smile gone.
"Good."
"I thought he came over your house like, everyday?"
"He used to. I haven't seen or heard from him since the day when you all came into my pool." Ryoko sighed.
"What's wrong?" Trunks asked. Ryoko shrugged.
"I'm just a little confused."
"About what?" She again shrugged.
"I dunno." She sighed and looked back at Trunks. "Kotori, and-" She laughed. "It's nothing, forget it." Trunks blinked a couple of times, and then decided against nagging her for the rest of her explanation.
Ryoko walked into her house, slightly frustrated, but also excited. She was frustrated that she had not mastered the art of flying (even when Trunks tried to show her after lunch, they spent five more hours at it and Ryoko could not even get a little light in her hands), but she was excited to go to her next lesson with Trunks, which was scheduled for Saturday, two days from today.
When she got in the house, the phone started ringing.
"Hello?" She asked, picking up the phone.
"Ryoko!" Mai cried. Ryoko sighed.
"…what?" She asked.
"Why was Trunks over your house? And where were you today?"
"I went somewhere with Trunks, okay?!"
"Where?!"
"Why do you care?!" Mai grunted angrily.
"Calm down!" She cried. "Can I come over please?" She whined. Ryoko sighed.
"Yeah. Fine."
"Really?! I can! Thank you! Okay, my mom's takin' me there now, bye."
"Bye." Ryoko hung up. All Mai would want to do was go over Gohan's house, but that was okay to Ryoko, she could just spend more time with Trunks.
After a few minutes, Mai walked in the front door and put her back pack on the floor.
"Can we go to Gohan's?" She asked. Ryoko sighed, laughing.
"Sure. But I want Trunks to come out, too." Mai sighed.
"Fine."
"You go get Gohan, I'll call Trunks." Mai walked back out of the house, so Ryoko picked up the phone and dialed Trunks' number.
"Hello?" Bulma asked when she picked up the phone.
"Hi, Bulma, is Trunks there?"
"Sure, hold on one minute, Ryoko." In the background, Ryoko heard Bulma yell 'Trunks, pick up the phone!'.
"Hello?" Trunks asked, picking up another phone as Bulma hung up her phone.
"Hey." Ryoko said. "Mai just came over, and she went to get Gohan, so do you wanna come over?"
"Sure."
"Okay, I'm going into my front yard. See ya."
"Okay, bye."