Find Your Castle in the Sky
Time frame: Between Dragonball Z and Dragonball GT : Trunks - 20
Goten - 19
Disclaimer: It goes for the entire damned thing - If I owned it I wouldn't be here typing up a fan fiction about it. I own the plotline, if anybody else wants to take it and put it on their site, go ahead. I would just like you to tell me first. It's only polite.
Notes - this does contain non-lemon yaoi , I don't give a flying fu(k if you have a problem with that. That doesn't dominate the story, in fact after this first chapter it takes a backseat to a very harsh war. So just sit back relax, get past the first few pages if you disagree with my words and watch as Goten gets into major trouble very quickly. If you really feel strongly about it still, let me know. I love to open up dialog with people like that. After all I love confrontation.
Chapter 1: The End
Now:
Glaring, he listened to the frantic words of his best friend. His brother was just sitting there silent, guilt and sorrow written upon his face like a book. Goten gave them a few more minutes, then he couldn't keep his face still and devoid of emotion. He came back after several years of pure hell and found the two he trusted more than any of the rest of those he knew and loved. Gohan, his elder brother, tangled in the arms and sheets of his best friend and lover, Trunks. Even now he could still hear the sounds and smell the heavy hot air, it disgusted and hurt him more than any of the hopeless and one sided battles that he had seen and been on the wrong side of. Unshed tears blinded him as he shouted at Trunks to shut up and ran out. Anger, hate, pain, envy, and a host of other emotions coursed through his veins as he flew as fast as he could away from the place that he at one time called home. He finally landed abruptly on a cliff half way around the world.
He was curled into a tight ball, his white knuckles hugging his knees to this chest, shaking uncontrollably. He was regretting not getting healed before he had returned. Between his wounds from beating himself up and the drain of negative emotions his ki was draining fast. But he didn't think about that for long.
'How could they? Trunks and Gohan.' Thought Goten. They were the ones he would and did go to war for. Trunks had been his best friend since he found out what a best friend was and was the only person he had never even thought about saying a harsh word to. Gohan was the one who noticed his attraction to Trunks and helped the two get together. 'What did I do wrong? Is Trunks happy with Gohan? Is Gohan happy with Trunks? They look like they were meant to be together, both are way smarter than I ever will be. Should I go? I could go back to train some more. I don't deserve them. Why me? Why did they betray me like that? Why do I always end up like this? First it's Pole-sai, now this. What god did I piss off?' he thought franticly.
His ki plummeted again. Cursing vividly in the four alien tongues he knew he fought off the urge to pass out. It was one of the lessons he had learned in the war that he was told to forget happened, passing out was one of the worse things you could do. His fear was irrational now, but he subconsciously knew that they were waiting for him to be vulnerable. He needed to escape.
He had only once before been in so bad a condition emotionally. Now the ones who had pulled him out last time were the ones who damaged him. He needed to rest. He needed to get rid of the pain. "I just want to make it all go away! I need to get rid of my weaknesses. I need to be perfect, Gohan's perfect, why can't I be perfect as well?" he asked the world with a shout. The empty whistle of the wind was all he got in answer.
Sobbing, he found his ki was waning fast, soon he would die unless the drain stopped. He had reserves, just enough. Just enough. One last burst of ki. One last chance to help the world by leaving. Resolve crept into his heart. The pain and torment was still there but the resolve stopped the drain as he focused on gathering the last of his ki in his heart. Concentrating, focusing, forming it into a ball within the organ. He collapsed, his limbs lacked the strength to hold his body in a fetal position.
Smiling cynically at the light bright blue sky that seemed to scream joy and happiness, he knew he should do the cliché 'Good Bye Cruel World' speech but decided against saying good bye to a world that he hadn't seen for a year until this afternoon. A thought popped into his head, 'How do clouds stay aloft?' deciding that now was the time he let the ki explode in his chest, destroying his heart, lungs, and what ever else was in that area, all as he thought about why the clouds stayed in the air.
Death wasn't so bad as everyone seemed to say. In fact it was almost too easy. Goten muttered two last words, "The End."
Trunks and Gohan arrived not long afterwards and found his lifeless body. Gohan held his little brother and cried as Trunks looked at the sky blinking back tears.
"What the hell could have changed him so much?" asked Gohan. Trunks shook his head.
"I don't know. He was just training, right?"
Two Years Earlier:
Bulma adjusted the frequency again, no luck. She knew at one point an encrypted message did come in, but it seemed to be fading.
"Dad?" she called out. The old man came over quickly with his ever-present cat upon his shoulder.
"Yes Bulma?" he asked, she never asked for his help now. So something had to be wrong.
"There was a message that was heavily encoded that came in on this thing this morning but there's no shadow of it now. I have a feeling it is very important." She explained.
"Yes, so I see. This is an old one, huh? I included a recorder of everything that passed into this radio. Let's see, press play honey." Dr. Briefs went around the other side and started to play around with the innards of the old communications device. "Got it."
"That's it thank you daddy!" Bulma jumped up and started to type on her laptop as she carried it across the room. As she fiddled with it she got past the encoding and other protections put around the message.
On her screen an S.O.S message appeared. The two scientists didn't even notice the new addition to the room until he spoke.
"Wow, that sounds pretty bad." Said Goten, making them jump.
"Oh, Goten don't do that. What do you want?" asked Bulma. Goten grinned, looking like his father's twin.
"I was bored, you think I could go and help them out?" asked the teen, it was summer and he had just graduated from high school. Bulma really didn't think that Chi Chi would like the idea, nor would Trunks. Lately their relationship had gotten more serious and the Vice-president of Capsule Corporation was very protective of his Goten.
"You sure?" asked Bulma with a frown.
"Yeah. It could be like a training trip. I've been slacking off and I can't really learn anything new anymore on Earth. So this is like a godsend for me. It's not like I'd actually go to collage anyhow. I mean really, my mom is nuts to think that I'm going to be a business man or something. I just want to go fight and have fun." Said Goten still grinning. Bulma sighed.
"Of course. If I didn't know better I'd say you are Goku. Well it's not like I could stop you. It would be safer if I helped you. Well you better start packing up and telling everyone, they'll want to see you off. Any excuse to party at Capsule Corp. I'll break it to Trunks. He's going to blow a gasket." Bulma grinned with slight amusement as Goten laughed.
"Nah, I'll tell the Prince myself. He can handle not being on the same planet as me for a little bit."
"Okay. Good luck you'll need every bit of it." Said Bulma as she cracked open her old fashioned address book. Goten shook his head and left.
Now:
Gohan looked at Trunks, who was holding back his emotions and trying to think at the same time. It was a very hard task to do.
"The letters." Said Trunks after a long pause. Gohan raised an eyebrow at the two word answer. Trunks sighed and decided to illuminate on his cryptic statement, "Goten promised to keep immaculate records of every detail of his trip in a letter form on a digital notepad I gave him. Goten, no matter how messed up would always at least keep a diary. He even did it when we were in the hyperbolic time chamber before Buu. That will have our answers."
Gohan nodded. They needed to find that notepad.
So how do you like it? Leave a review and tell everyone you know to come and do the same.
Thanks for reading and have fun reading my other stories, which I'm sure you will be doing. . . right?
P.L.S.
Time frame: Between Dragonball Z and Dragonball GT : Trunks - 20
Goten - 19
Disclaimer: It goes for the entire damned thing - If I owned it I wouldn't be here typing up a fan fiction about it. I own the plotline, if anybody else wants to take it and put it on their site, go ahead. I would just like you to tell me first. It's only polite.
Notes - this does contain non-lemon yaoi , I don't give a flying fu(k if you have a problem with that. That doesn't dominate the story, in fact after this first chapter it takes a backseat to a very harsh war. So just sit back relax, get past the first few pages if you disagree with my words and watch as Goten gets into major trouble very quickly. If you really feel strongly about it still, let me know. I love to open up dialog with people like that. After all I love confrontation.
Chapter 1: The End
Now:
Glaring, he listened to the frantic words of his best friend. His brother was just sitting there silent, guilt and sorrow written upon his face like a book. Goten gave them a few more minutes, then he couldn't keep his face still and devoid of emotion. He came back after several years of pure hell and found the two he trusted more than any of the rest of those he knew and loved. Gohan, his elder brother, tangled in the arms and sheets of his best friend and lover, Trunks. Even now he could still hear the sounds and smell the heavy hot air, it disgusted and hurt him more than any of the hopeless and one sided battles that he had seen and been on the wrong side of. Unshed tears blinded him as he shouted at Trunks to shut up and ran out. Anger, hate, pain, envy, and a host of other emotions coursed through his veins as he flew as fast as he could away from the place that he at one time called home. He finally landed abruptly on a cliff half way around the world.
He was curled into a tight ball, his white knuckles hugging his knees to this chest, shaking uncontrollably. He was regretting not getting healed before he had returned. Between his wounds from beating himself up and the drain of negative emotions his ki was draining fast. But he didn't think about that for long.
'How could they? Trunks and Gohan.' Thought Goten. They were the ones he would and did go to war for. Trunks had been his best friend since he found out what a best friend was and was the only person he had never even thought about saying a harsh word to. Gohan was the one who noticed his attraction to Trunks and helped the two get together. 'What did I do wrong? Is Trunks happy with Gohan? Is Gohan happy with Trunks? They look like they were meant to be together, both are way smarter than I ever will be. Should I go? I could go back to train some more. I don't deserve them. Why me? Why did they betray me like that? Why do I always end up like this? First it's Pole-sai, now this. What god did I piss off?' he thought franticly.
His ki plummeted again. Cursing vividly in the four alien tongues he knew he fought off the urge to pass out. It was one of the lessons he had learned in the war that he was told to forget happened, passing out was one of the worse things you could do. His fear was irrational now, but he subconsciously knew that they were waiting for him to be vulnerable. He needed to escape.
He had only once before been in so bad a condition emotionally. Now the ones who had pulled him out last time were the ones who damaged him. He needed to rest. He needed to get rid of the pain. "I just want to make it all go away! I need to get rid of my weaknesses. I need to be perfect, Gohan's perfect, why can't I be perfect as well?" he asked the world with a shout. The empty whistle of the wind was all he got in answer.
Sobbing, he found his ki was waning fast, soon he would die unless the drain stopped. He had reserves, just enough. Just enough. One last burst of ki. One last chance to help the world by leaving. Resolve crept into his heart. The pain and torment was still there but the resolve stopped the drain as he focused on gathering the last of his ki in his heart. Concentrating, focusing, forming it into a ball within the organ. He collapsed, his limbs lacked the strength to hold his body in a fetal position.
Smiling cynically at the light bright blue sky that seemed to scream joy and happiness, he knew he should do the cliché 'Good Bye Cruel World' speech but decided against saying good bye to a world that he hadn't seen for a year until this afternoon. A thought popped into his head, 'How do clouds stay aloft?' deciding that now was the time he let the ki explode in his chest, destroying his heart, lungs, and what ever else was in that area, all as he thought about why the clouds stayed in the air.
Death wasn't so bad as everyone seemed to say. In fact it was almost too easy. Goten muttered two last words, "The End."
Trunks and Gohan arrived not long afterwards and found his lifeless body. Gohan held his little brother and cried as Trunks looked at the sky blinking back tears.
"What the hell could have changed him so much?" asked Gohan. Trunks shook his head.
"I don't know. He was just training, right?"
Two Years Earlier:
Bulma adjusted the frequency again, no luck. She knew at one point an encrypted message did come in, but it seemed to be fading.
"Dad?" she called out. The old man came over quickly with his ever-present cat upon his shoulder.
"Yes Bulma?" he asked, she never asked for his help now. So something had to be wrong.
"There was a message that was heavily encoded that came in on this thing this morning but there's no shadow of it now. I have a feeling it is very important." She explained.
"Yes, so I see. This is an old one, huh? I included a recorder of everything that passed into this radio. Let's see, press play honey." Dr. Briefs went around the other side and started to play around with the innards of the old communications device. "Got it."
"That's it thank you daddy!" Bulma jumped up and started to type on her laptop as she carried it across the room. As she fiddled with it she got past the encoding and other protections put around the message.
On her screen an S.O.S message appeared. The two scientists didn't even notice the new addition to the room until he spoke.
"Wow, that sounds pretty bad." Said Goten, making them jump.
"Oh, Goten don't do that. What do you want?" asked Bulma. Goten grinned, looking like his father's twin.
"I was bored, you think I could go and help them out?" asked the teen, it was summer and he had just graduated from high school. Bulma really didn't think that Chi Chi would like the idea, nor would Trunks. Lately their relationship had gotten more serious and the Vice-president of Capsule Corporation was very protective of his Goten.
"You sure?" asked Bulma with a frown.
"Yeah. It could be like a training trip. I've been slacking off and I can't really learn anything new anymore on Earth. So this is like a godsend for me. It's not like I'd actually go to collage anyhow. I mean really, my mom is nuts to think that I'm going to be a business man or something. I just want to go fight and have fun." Said Goten still grinning. Bulma sighed.
"Of course. If I didn't know better I'd say you are Goku. Well it's not like I could stop you. It would be safer if I helped you. Well you better start packing up and telling everyone, they'll want to see you off. Any excuse to party at Capsule Corp. I'll break it to Trunks. He's going to blow a gasket." Bulma grinned with slight amusement as Goten laughed.
"Nah, I'll tell the Prince myself. He can handle not being on the same planet as me for a little bit."
"Okay. Good luck you'll need every bit of it." Said Bulma as she cracked open her old fashioned address book. Goten shook his head and left.
Now:
Gohan looked at Trunks, who was holding back his emotions and trying to think at the same time. It was a very hard task to do.
"The letters." Said Trunks after a long pause. Gohan raised an eyebrow at the two word answer. Trunks sighed and decided to illuminate on his cryptic statement, "Goten promised to keep immaculate records of every detail of his trip in a letter form on a digital notepad I gave him. Goten, no matter how messed up would always at least keep a diary. He even did it when we were in the hyperbolic time chamber before Buu. That will have our answers."
Gohan nodded. They needed to find that notepad.
So how do you like it? Leave a review and tell everyone you know to come and do the same.
Thanks for reading and have fun reading my other stories, which I'm sure you will be doing. . . right?
P.L.S.