Trunks, The Schoolboy
Chapter 1, First Day Blues
21/11/02

Trunks walked through the gates of his new school and checked his timetable to find out where his first lesson was going to be. As he made his way to the block another pupil of the school noticed him.
"Hey new boy!"
Trunks turned his head to look in the direction of the call.
"Yeah, you with the long pink hair! You look like a girl, did you know that?"
Trunks decided that it was in his best interest to ignore the comments made, he gathered his hair together and fixed it in place with a bobble before continuing to walk to his lesson.
"Nobody ignores me like that!"
"Go show him boss!" Another boy called as the first boy walked after Trunks.
The boy grabbed hold of Trunks by the arm and stopped him from walking.
"Did you hear me or are you deaf? I said you look like a girl!" The boy yelled down Trunks' ear.

He must have been at least a year older than Trunks, he was the leader of a gang and he was known as Ryuu Sensei or RS for short. Trunks pulled his arm from RS's grasp and continued walking.
"I have no time to stop, I don't want to be late for my first lesson."
RS was angered and he ran after Trunks, blocking his way into the block and pushing him backwards so that he fell to the ground.
"I'm going to be nice to you and let you go to your lesson for now, I wouldn't want you being sent home before the end of the day because that is when I'm going to kick your ass."
RS and his gang left Trunks and headed off in the direction that they had come from. Trunks stood up and dusted himself off before heading to his lesson at a fast pace in order to not be late.

Trunks went the whole day looking over his shoulder to make sure that RS was not following him, he wasn't scared, it's just that he didn't want to fight inside school time.

Soon enough, the end of the school day arrived and Trunks headed to the gates to begin his journey home. He noticed that he was being followed so he took a different route and avoided flying. It wasn't long before the three boys made their move and tripped Trunks up. Trunks could have avoided the attack but he chose not to because he wanted it to look as though he was a weak pushover. He was making sure that RS kept his interest in the fight.
"Trying to get away? Forget about it, we followed you all the way from school, you never had a chance of escaping!"
Trunks clambered to his feet and smiled. He took up a defensive stance and stared down his opponent.
"So, you want a fight? Ok then, I'll give you a fight!"
Trunks dropped his stance and walked up to RS, he delivered a damaging punch to RS's gut causing the bully to drop to his knees in pain. The two other boys ran away in fear that they may be next. Trunks laughed and continued his journey home.

It took Trunks less than two hours to get home and as he walked up the path his father was sitting in the garden.
"Konnichi wa Trunks!" Bejita called as Trunks passed him.
Trunks raised one hand in the air and replied, "konnichi wa Tousan!"
Just as Trunks was about to open the door there was a loud screeching of tyres, which drew the attention of Bejita. A car appeared at the bottom of the path and the driver's door flew open. Bejita watched closely as a large muscular man stomped up the path towards Trunks. He stopped before Trunks and pulled his arm back, preparing to pound the half Saiya-jin into the ground. Bejita swiftly acted and zanzokened in-between the two before they had a chance to exchange blows.
"Are you that punk kid's father? Ya little midget!"
Bejita grunted at the man and grabbed him by the wrist. The man was not pleased, he yelled for his son and the passenger door of the car opened. Slowly but surely, RS stumbled out from the car and headed up the path.
"See what your kid did to my son! I'm gonna teach him a lesson for you."
Bejita laughed and released the man.
"I'm sure that my Trunks had a great excuse for kicking your son's ass. If you don't leave then I'll have to kick your ass. It'd be a double victory for us."
The man roared with laughter and began to point at Bejita. RS joined in with his father and both began mimicking Bejita. Bejita snorted and calmly walked closer to RS's father. RS's father threw a punch at Bejita's face but Bejita took the blow and then delivered his own, slamming his gloved fist into the man's jaw. The force of the blow sent him backwards and he ended up halfway down the path. Both RS and his father ran back to their car as fast as they could, swearing revenge as they went.

Bejita clapped his hands together to clean his gloves and then returned to his seat. Trunks, amazed by his father's reaction although not too surprised about the result, entered the house and greeted his mother and sister who had been watching through the window.


And so, Trunks' first day at his new school had started badly but ended on a higher note. All that was left for him to do was his homework, which he decided to get help with from Son Gohan. How will Trunks do on his second day at school?