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Title: Chaos Is An Understatement

Chapter 1: Broken Trust

Author: EC-Chan

Rating: PG-13

Genre: Horror/Romance

Characters: Chi Chi and Trunks

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Disclaimer: Don't own it, don't sue.

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Pan-Chan: You know..the fact that I JUST put the story out and u review it kind of scares me.. *stares* Shanchan's actually the one who insisted on the pairing.. But I'm surprised- there actually IS fanfic for them, though it's mostly MT/CC -.-;. I'd rather write it a different way, but the idea for this fic.. *evil grin* Heh. Totally corrupted her idea ^^;;; Hope she doesn't mind. Um..you thought that was good writing? Yay! I thought it wasn't and I was kinda nervous about that. That and the plot idea wasn't very original.. I SERIOUSLY need to be reading more fanfics -.-; Oi- did I ever thank you for signing my guestbook? Gomen if I didn't;;;; I'm glad u like the webpage though ^^;

SomEoNe: ^^ glad you like the plot and chapter. Hope u still do; Thanks for reviewing ^^;

Sya-chan: *backs away fearfully* You wouldn't lock me in a closet..not again? Would u? Oi. I don't like this pairing much either..; Not my choice ^^; It's Shanchan's. Heh.. About Akki no Onna though- if I COULD just write a one shot then I would have included it as a next chappy or something -.-; or maybe not..I dunno. The point is- that what I want to do would take too long. And I really don't want to write a sequel. But I wanted to do what you asked and have Chi Chi end up with someone else. Tien to be exact -.-; I think I could write a one shot thing just with that? Um. but yay! You're reading this random insane story that sort of scares me; Oh and before I forget again- thank u so much for the award lol ^^; I wrote my reply to ur last review and it got deleted -.-; stupid baka ff.net *Shakes head*

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"Pan- tonight's the anniversary, remember?" Videl poked her head into her daughter's bedroom. Pan looked up, taking in her mother's plain black dress that cut off right about her knees along with her blurry red eyes. "We'll have dinner and then meet the Briefs' at the..place."

Pan didn't say anything- she wanted to ask so many things. Like why she had to be dragged to the same place year after year after year to mourn for two lost little boys that she never knew? And in all likelihood would never know? Why was she forced into a dress and forced to watch as everyone gathered around her cried their eyes out excluding Bura and Vegeta- Bura being just as bewildered as her? Why did she have to come to hate these boys who seemingly tore her family apart?

"The same dress as last time?" Was all Pan asked with a long sigh.

"I bought you a new one," her mother smiled thinly- forcedly. She stepped inside of the room, revealing that she was holding a matching plain dress, only it seemed by far shorter.

Pan glanced longingly at her closet where her longer more _comfortable_ dress hung, "Mom..could I just-."

"No," Videl snapped, shaking her head profusely. "You're wearing this. I can't deal with you today Pan. You're going to be respectful- end of discussion."

'And it's really "respectful" to have my ass hanging out of a dress?' But she knew better then to voice _that_ question aloud. Instead she attempted to calmly snatch the dress away from her mother, but her shaking arm betrayed her growing fury.

"Pan- I swear, we're not dealing with your crap today," Her mother warned before she whirled away and slammed the door, and Pan was able to hear her loud angry footsteps until she stopped in front of what she supposed was her father. And then came the voices. She groaned, hurriedly pulling off her loose-fitting clothing and slipping on the dress.

"Pan!" Her father's angry voice came.

She frowned, "I'm coming dad."

"You better be!" He warned her. On this day she could never do anything right, which was possibly another reason why she hated it so much.

She hopped down the stairs two at a time, and without warning slammed into something. Hard. Rubbing her head she blinked at the strange-looking gi that was her grandpa's only not and slowly- very slowly- looked up. "Who?" She questioned, finding herself staring at an almost replica of her grandpa only as a young boy and seemed to be about her age.

"Help me," His eyes were pleading with her own. "Please..save me."

And then he was gone and Pan found herself falling face forward towards the floor. 'What the hell was that?' She gritted her teeth and pushed off the ground, now finding herself face to face with her father.

"Pan- quit clowning around," He frowned at her. "You know better then to do things like this on today of all days. Go eat dinner. I don't want to hear one word from you for the rest of the day."

Pan frowned- she had yet to do anything and she was already in trouble. She sighed and entered the kitchen, sitting down across her mother. Who was that boy and why hadn't her father seen him?

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In Capsule Corporation Bura Briefs knocked on her father's gravity room door. Like Pan she couldn't understand why she was dragged to the same location every year to morn, but unlike Pan she understood how much of a toll loosing a son inexplicably had taken on her family and went gladly.

"It's time brat?" She heard her father sigh, and she looked away from the door. She hated seeing her father like this- as if he were so incredibly broken, but somehow was able to hold himself together. Probably by pure pride.

"Yes," She said, knowing that he wouldn't see her nod. He came out of the gravity room a second later, clad in his usual spandex. Bura frowned at him. "Mom had the bots make dinner."

He nodded fractionally, the only action that told her that he had actually heard what she said, before brushing past her, heading towards, she assumed, the kitchen. Shaking her head at him, she headed in the opposite direction. She still needed to get ready and it was almost time to go.

Slamming open her door, she screamed, surprised to find herself face to face with a tall lanky purple haired boy. "Who the hell are you?!"

"Help me," His pale violet eyes were pleading with her blue. "Please..save me."

"..Aren't you.." She stared at him. Of course she had seen pictures, but.. "Trunks?" He smirked at her- her father's trademark smirk, and her eyes widened in surprise. "It is..but how?"

"Help me," He said, holding out his arm, but when she reached forward to reluctantly grab it, but she went right through. Blinking in surprise, she watched as he faded away, his smirk but tired..ancient eyes burning into her memory.

She fell to the ground, her legs giving out, and she simply sat there for a long while. It was him. Her brother. She had actually seen her brother face to face! Relatively... But it was impossible! For one he looked about her age and for another..it just wasn't possible!

She had heard about things like this- had watched them on television. Spirits appeared all the time like this to close friends or family members begging for their help. He was dead. They both were. And he was just pleading with her to give him release from this world. That had to be the explanation. Hadn't she seen this exact scenario played out on the Mystery Channel just a few days ago? Hadn't her mother become extremely agitated and forced her to turn it off?

"Honey- it's time to go," Her mother's voice came from over the speaker.

Bura's eyes widened- had she just spent all that time sitting here on the floor when she was supposed to be getting ready? Crap. Now what she was going to do? "I'm sorry mom- I'm not quite ready yet. I'll meet you guys there."

"Are you sure honey?" Came her mother's voice a few seconds later.

"Seriously sorry mom, but yeah," Bura glanced in the mirror. "I'm definitely sure. Can you please send Pan up?"

"Okay honey," came a loud sigh and then a click from the speakers. Bura opened her closet and pulled out her own black dress, frowning as she absentmindedly stroked the smooth material. She didn't have time to take a shower or redo her make-up. Or even do her hair. With an annoyed sigh, she pulled off her tight apparel and slipped the silky garment over her head. When she turned back around she found Pan standing in the doorway, staring out the window.

"I'm done," Bura yawned, walking into her bathroom and grabbing a brush. She could at least brush her hair, she decided with a frown. She saw Pan walk in to stand by the door from the mirror. "Did they yell at you again?" She guessed, seeing her friends extremely pissed off face.

"Yeah," Pan said, pointing to her dress. "That and they somehow managed to get me into this."

Bura turned slightly to take in her friend's dress and burst out laughing. "Pan- it's a bit short."

"Don't I know it," she growled, tugging at her dress nervously. She turned around slowly and then looked at her friend pleadingly, "Is it really that bad?"

"It looks great on you," Bura grinned. "But it's totally not you. Your MOTHER gave this to you?"

"Yeah," She wrinkled her nose, and then looked around nervously. "We probably should get going.."

"Pan.." Bura said, not really knowing how to ask this. After all it wasn't exactly normal to see a ghost of your probably dead brother was it? At least as long as you don't watch random shows that both girls had in the past deemed fake that is. "Did you see..anyone strange today?"

"Strange- what do you mean?" Pan asked nervously, and then after a moment laughed sardonically. "Actually- if you believe me- I think I saw Goten."

"I saw..my brother," Bura said, looking at the ground. "I think he was a ghost.."

"Why?"

"I tried to grab his hand...but couldn't," Bura frowned. "Why?"

"I bumped into him," Pan rubbed the back of her head. "Actually- landed on him. I thought that I was hallucinating- my dad didn't see him. He just thought that I was trying to act stupid."

"It's so weird- so we both saw one of them," Bura shook her head. "Did Goten ask for help too?"

Pan nodded. "You think..we should try?"

"Try what?" Bura asked, frowning at her friend. "I would help if I knew how.."

"We have to go into the cave," Pan breathed.

"The cave?" Bura cocked her head at her friend. "What cave?"

"I know that they found the backpack on the other side of the hill, but it could have rolled or someone could have moved it or something," Pan said, her mind going a mile a minute. Bura could only blink at her, not really comprehending. There was a cave? "It makes sense- the entrance IS kind of small."

"What exactly are you talking about?" Bura asked, getting a bit annoyed. She knew exactly where her father had found the "famous" accessory, but it was in the middle of the woods. There was a hill facing where they always stood, but she had never been up there let alone seen a cave entrance.

"You haven't seen it?" Pan asked. Seeing the bewildered look on her friend's face, she sighed. "Well there's a cave up there and it's the only logical place for them to have gone to..maybe they got trapped somewhere or something?"

"But the dragon said that they weren't techniquely dead," Bura reminded her.

"They summoned him only a few days after they went missing," Pan waved away her friend's concern. "They could've been trapped in some sort of cave in- and since that's a natural disaster that's why he said he couldn't do anything about it."

Bura shook her head, "I don't like it. If they got trapped in there, then why should we go in? For all we know the same thing could happen to us."

"They want us to help them," Pan reminded her. "And do you really think that they'd come to us if we'd be in any danger? They could have gone to anyone, but they chose us."

"Do you have any guess for the reason why that is?" Bura asked dryly. Pan shook her head, and she sighed. "I'll go get a flashlight."

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The two girls crept cautiously up the rocky hill, hoping against hope that their quiet footsteps would go unnoticed by the morning parents on the other side of the hill. Pan tried not to wince as a cold breeze blew up her dress and wondered once again why she had to be subjugated to such nonsense. She looked back at Bura, who was having a harder time climbing up the rocks in her black high heel shoes. Sighing, Pan motioned for her to take them off, and without a word Bura did so, smiling sheepishly.

When they finally made it to the mouth of the cave, Pan motioned for the younger girl to go first, but she shook her head profusely. The raven haired girl let out a small sigh and climbed through the small hole, making sure Bura was following behind her.

It took only a few minutes for the girls to crawl into the first chamber, and Pan slowly climbed out of the tunnel, and took a good look around the room. It was strange- it didn't seem like there could be light in this cavern- even in the daylight. But somehow the room was bright as day. She turned questioningly to Bura.

"Don't look at me," The other girl shook her head and threw the flashlight disdainfully to the ground. "At least I don't have to keep lugging that thing around."

"Do you think they can hear us?" Pan asked, trying to judge how far away their families were.

Bura shook her head, looking around. "What is that?" She pointed to some strange doodle on the wall. Pan stared at it, frowning slightly, and before she knew it she was on the other side of the chamber, he hand stroking the odd design. And then Bura screamed and Pan jerked her hand away from the wall, whirling to see what had her friend so spooked.

"The-the-the," She stuttered pointing her shaking arm up into the air behind Pan. With a sinking feeling the other girl turned around and slowly looked up.

They were sitting on top of a ledge watching them with an identical amused expression, their arms entwined together and their feet dangling over the edge. They looked like two forest nymphs- the image was perfect. Except that they seemed so incredibly sinisterly evil.

Both girls were now openly gaping at them. Pan frowned up at them, stepping back into ready position. They laughed in unison at her. It was a breezy eerie laugh that seemed to fill the entire chambers and echoed down the long tunnels.

"This isn't funny, you guys!" Bura frowned at them, crossing her arms. "Are you TRYING to freak us out? How rude! We came here to help you- like you wanted."

"Yes," They grinned, laughter still evident in their voices. "We're aware of that."

Suddenly Pan was aware of a soft rumbling steadily growing louder. She concentrated on it for a moment, trying to figure out what was going on and then she realized what it was and her mouth went dry. They were going to be trapped in this- this place! Just like those two boys sitting up there they were going to die. She turned slowly towards her friend, wondering how she could possibly tell her what she had just realized. But there was the same horrible shocked look of realization echoing on her own face.

"Why?" Pan turned back to the boys. She was too young to die! "WHY?!"

They laughed at her, and then the black haired boy smirked down at her. "Don't cry Pan-Chan! I'm sure you'll be just fine. Really. In the 'other world'."

Both boys looked at each other and erupted into laughter. Pan's lip trembled- she couldn't help it. And of course her tears only made them laugh harder.

"I'm not related to you!" She pointed to Goten and pouted childishly.

He frowned at her and jumped to the ground, and she trembled as he came closer, placing a hand comforting on her shoulder. "I'm sorry Pan-chan. I don't know WHAT I was thinking. Come on- we'll bring you to safety. Don't be afraid."

She looked at him distrustfully, "You're not a ghost are you?"

He smiled and shook his head.

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Um..; I hate to say it but I don't think I like this story too much. I dunno why either. it's sad. I think..I'm having problems *rubs back of head* Oh well;;;

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