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Title: Chaos Is An Understatement

Chapter 2: How It Happens

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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Sya-Chan- I don't think Tien's with Lunch (has no idea how to spell her name either). They make a good couple but doesn't she disappear after Dragon Ball or something? She's not in DBZ, and you see Tien kinda a lot.sorta. Well not later in the series; but still; I like the idea of Chi Chi and Tien..don't know why. Who did you want her to end up with? I know you had given me a few suggestions, but it was so long ago I forgot them; Hm. yeah Pan and Bura are around 14, but it's before GT. The boys were around that age too. I probably did a bad job with them both. Haven't watch GT yet and Pan's personality would be slightly off anyway so it confused me. -.-; Totally forgot they were that old when I was writing it too. And I didn't explain about Gohan and Videl.. Why am I always forgetting these things? v.v;; They aren't mean..it's just. arg. I'll explain it. Somehow.

Pan-Chan:

i want to picture vegeta in something .. or goten for that matter. heck, MAYBE even trunks, since he'll be scary and odd couple-ish (new word!) in this fic.

*blink* u want to picture Veggeta in a dress? What? I'm confused;;;; Um..um.. I dunno what they're wearing;;; I'll..tell you in the next chappy since.. I dunno. Um.um.stop staring..please? Ugh. but after this chappy I can tell you why I hate this pairing ^^; at least for this fic..unless u can tell just by reading;;; Odd Coupleish? Heh. poor Trunksy-kun. I messed with his personality;;; All of their personalities -.-; And I just realized.. I have no idea how to write Chi Chi..; Um..*rubs back of head* So many mistakes ^^:

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**Note To Shanchan** This is the chappy where you'll actually see you're idea in play. I doubt you'll read this ^___^ but in case u randomly do..;

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Bura frowned at the boy crawling through the tunnel in front of her. So what if he wasn't a ghost- she had seen stranger things then this! Well actually she had techniquely heard about them, but still! It's not like she was totally, completely, utterly lost or anything when it came to a situation like this. Of course she did have better things to do then track though a muddy cave ruining her brand new dress, but if this was going to help her mother and father..well she might as well try. At least that was her thinking until she realized that she and her companion would probably not get out of this position at all.

She frowned, staring at the black haired boy in front of her's back. It was strange to think that he was around her age..was a year younger then her at this point if she remembered correctly. She had always imagined him like this it was true, but if whatever happened hadn't then he would be thirteen years older then her, and that was a strange thing to think about when you're staring at someone's back, trying to keep your mind off of all the damage you were doing to your brand new dress.

'Kami- how do we get ourselves into these situations?' She frowned to herself. It wasn't the first time Pan had gotten her into a bizarre position such as this, and she was almost positive that it wouldn't be the last. Though this was probably the most bizarre position they've been in.

"How far is it?" Pan demanded, her voice hard and cold. Bura wondered absentmindedly if the other girl was ever scared- after all they would most likely die like these boys had. Wouldn't they? Or perhaps not die since they claimed they weren't, but she had a feeling that she'd rather be dead then be what they were.

"Not very," Goten said soothingly from up ahead. Bura frowned. That boy was the worst- how could they sit there and laugh at them like that and then all of a sudden change tracks and be extremely nice. Too nice. His voice seemed like it was laced in a delicate silk that if penetrated would contain callous laughter. She hated him.

There was complete silence for a couple minutes as they continued on, and then Goten stopped, and since Bura hadn't been paying attention to what he was doing, she slammed into him. She sat back- or at least tried to- and was slightly dizzy. She frowned. More then slightly dizzy.

"Damn it! That hurt," She half yelled, half whined, rubbing the afflicted area. "What are you trying to pull just stopping like that?"

"We're here," Goten said simply, and she heard him straighten and step away. Taking in a deep breath, she cautiously moved forward, not at all prepared for the sight that greeted her. There was a..a thing standing there in the middle of the cavern. It was facing the other way, but was slowly turning around to greet her, a silky gleaming smile greeting her.

"Welcome Bura."

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Pan climbed out of the tunnel slowly, alerted by two words that someone was waiting for her in the beyond chamber. She turned, just as slowly, to face the snake-like figure with a growing dread.

"Yes I see you Pan," It smirked. "And you're just as welcome. Perhaps even more so."

Pan frowned at it- how did it know her name? She looked sideways at Goten, trying to see if his face would reveal anything. She wasn't quite sure what she was looking for..anything or everything. But she jumped when the thing spoke again, completely taken by shock.

"Do you like them?" It asked, waving to signify the two boys. "After all of these years they're finally ready to carry out my plan. And I have a feeling both of you will be extremely helpful as well."

Pan stared at him uncomprehendingly and then froze when she felt strong arms pull their own behind her backs, she risked a glance at Bura only to see that the same things had happened to her. A bit panicked, Pan attempted to kick backwards in an effort to free herself, but the boy- Goten- just chuckled and caught her leg, and she now had to balance precariously on the other. She knew it looked ridiculous, but it didn't help hearing both boy's quiet laughter.

"You're not going to get away with this!" Pan shouted the..creature, trying to yank her foot from her uncle's gripe. "They'll come looking for us eventually. And then you'll be sorry!"

"I've heard this before," the creature laughed. "It's an empty threat. And there's not much they can do about me anyway. They were the one's who created me. You are the children who can feed me."

"F-feed you?" Bura questioned, taking a step backwards and bumping into Trunks.

"I suppose I should explain. After all it will be so much fun seeing your terrified faces right before I land the decisive blow," he laughed. "I was created by your parents- I've said this already. More specifically- I was created by your parent's dark side's."

"Dark sides?" They both stared at him, uncomprehendingly.

The being smirked, "Each individual has a negative and positive side. At least this is how it should be. A man years ago wished it was possible to be pure of heart on the dragon balls, thinking that it would solve many of the world's problems. He was mistaken. If a person isn't born with a "dark" side, then it obviously has to go somewhere. And that somewhere, my friends, is me."

The girl's stared at him, completely still. So that is what this thing is? Pan frowned to herself. But why then would he take Goten and Trunks and what was he going to do with them? It didn't answer anything! It just made her even more confused! She gritted her teeth.

"So you're pure evil," Pan snorted. "That doesn't really explain much of anything. Vegeta claims to be pure evil too and he's not so bad."

Laughter racked its body, "Vegeta..Vegeta," He shook his head. "It took me a while to get him. He fought so valiantly even though he didn't know what he was fighting. It's amusing really to think that after all these years he lost anyways only for me to repay him by taking his son."

"W-what are you talking about?" Bura asked, her voice slightly wobbly but full of anger. "What did you do to daddy!?"

"Well it wasn't techniquely me," He smiled at her. "It was this planet."

"What?"

"To put it in laymen's terms it's like a virus," He grinned. "Earthlings are born with it, but only some are affected. Those that are are considered pure of heart, but in reality they would have been the worst humans alive if they hadn't been affected. Beings that come here are also influenced by it, but in a different way. This planet has an affect on them- it slowly seeps into their core and sucks their "dark" side out until they are pure of heart. Gokou, since he was a child, had his dark side completely taken away at an early age."

"But I thought that it was the bump on his head," Pan frowned at him. He wasn't making any sense. It wasn't logical at all!

"So it would seem," he said easily. "But the bump only made him loose his purpose. He was pure of heart long before that. You're mistaking the definitions."

"So you can still be pure of heart if you're destroying the whole human race?" Pan asked, making sure she had heard him right. This freak of nature definitely was a bit Looney. That made even less sense.

"If you were given the purpose and were not acting on your own free will," He smiled. "You doubt me. That's fine. It will only make your death better in the end."

She didn't say anything, suddenly remembering her situation.

"Silent now, are we?" He laughed.

"Just tell me what you did to my dad," Bura gritted her teeth.

"He's changed has he not?"

"My mother's influence," Bura frowned.

"No," He smirked. "But I won't ruin that preconception any further. To put it simply I am now powerful enough to take on this shape and leave thanks to your father. I only have one matter of business to finish before it will be set in motion."

"What are you going to do?" Pan asked.

"How would our deaths even help you?" Bura added, extremely pissed off.

He laughed, "I would say that you'll see, but I guess you won't. But don't tell me you haven't figured out that Trunks and Goten could not possibly be your age when they should be so much older. It was my mistake- I pulled them out too soon, but you won't have to worry girls. I fixed the problem. You'll both still be around the same age, and you're parents won't even be able to tell the difference."

"What are you talking about?" Pan asked, frowning at him. "I though you were going to kill us."

"Hm. I did say that didn't I?" He smirked. "Don't worry. You won't die. At least not right away. You're usefulness to me will end, however, as soon as your new selves come out."

"You're still not making any sense."

"I'm not exactly intending to," The being shrugged and motioned to Goten and Trunks. "Boys- dump them."

Pan frowned and decided enough was enough- she didn't have time for this bullshit. She took a step back, or rather hop since Goten was still holding onto her foot, and twisted around, gritting her teeth in pain since her foot was still turned in the opposite direction. Levitating into the air, she kicked him in the stomach as hard as she could.

Surprised, he let go and Pan used the force of the blow to propel herself away from the group, and suddenly found herself floating over water. 'Where did that come from?' She wondered, transfixed by the crystal clear substance underneath her. 'What is it about this stream?' She frowned, trying to get a little closer.

It looked like there was a..school down there? And were those little black things people? It was..amazing!

"Pan!" Bura shrieked. Pan's head shot up, but her friend's wanring came too late and she felt herself crashi into the water below.

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"Pan! Pan!" Bura fought against her brother's gripe, tears streaking her face. She kicked and thrashed, her nails clawing the air, groping for human flesh. Her head went back, and slapped her brother hard on his own and she was free- running towards the water, groping around frantically for her friend's body.

"Push her," was the last thing she heard an annoyed voice commanded, before she fell head first into the clear spring.

She was drinking water for a moment, and then she suddenly found herself in the air. For a brief second she was hanging there in suspence and then yet again she found herself falling- gradually picking up speed. Confused, Bura stopped herself in the air. 'What the heck just happened?' she gritted her teeth, and then frowned. Her dress..seemed different. Looser. As in- blowing up because of that slight breeze loose.

She glanced down, frowning at the short plaid skirt and matching white top.

"A school uniform?" She frowned questioningly, and looked down. A few hundred feet bellow her stood a plain brick school..complete with barb wire and everything. And if that wasn't an odd enough sight- when she looked around she realized that there didn't seem to be anything near it for miles. How did the students milling amok get there? And better yet- where did they sleep?

"Bura," She saw Pan frowning at her a little further away. The blue haired girl swooped gracefully to her friend's side, knowing that she probably would be a better judge of the situation.

"What's going on?"

"They pushed you in too?" Pan asked. Bura nodded, rolling her eyes. The other girl waved her arms towards the school. "I don't understand this. I don't like it."

"Pan?"

"Yeah?"

"Why do you have boobs?" Pan looked down and Bura could just imagine the shocked look on her friend's face. She giggled and pointed to her own. "Mine got bigger too," She smirked. "And adding in the new clothes..I think we didn't come out of this deal half-bad!"

"Bura," Pan groaned. "Let's just go down and see what we've gotten ourselves into now."

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Trunks frowned at the girl standing in front of him. "Chi Chi- I have girl's BEGGING me for datesall the time. Why should you be any different? Just because we're childhood friends?"

"Because we're already married Trunks-kun," She said, resting her head on his shoulder.

He knew that she was being slightly sarcastic, but still! "That was when we were little. You forced me to anyway."

"Trunks-kun," She pulled away from him, looking up into his eyes. "I know I was a child when I first came to love you, but-!"

"No," He shook his head and she sighed looking at the ground. He hated this, but..he had grown up to this woman acting as if she were his mother! And no matter what, even if he grew up the second time differently, would not corrupt that image. "I'll walk you home latter?"

She sighed. "If you want."

"Come on- it'll be fun," He said, trying to cheer her up. "We can go out for ice cream.!?"

"Why do you do this to me Trunks-kun?" She looked up and he was startled to see tears in her eyes. He'd never seen her cry- at least not since middle school! "You bring me places. Buy me things! You hold me when I have a bad day and ALWAYS know what to say to make everything instantly better. You do everything a boyfriend would do, yet you say you won't be! Why?"

"Chi Chi," He tried to grab her hand, but she yanked it away.

"Don't touch me!" She shourted and immediantly Trunks felt all conversations stop around them- all eyes were on them. "Either you treat me like I'm just a friend or you date me for real! I can't deal with this anymore!"

And with that she whirled away, leaving an incredibly confused Trunks in her wake. He felt someone pat him on the back. Knowing it was Goten, he didn't turn. It was even more embarrassing now that he knew his friend had witnessed that scene.

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"It's so obvious that you love her," Goten laughed as they walked over to their usual place.

"I don't," Trunks said, looking at the wall they were walking past.

"You do," Goten frowned at his friend. "Why would you be so upset about her saying those things if you didn't?"

"She's your mother Goten," Trunks frowned, leaning back on the wall. "If anything you should be disgusted that I could ever possibly think of her in that way!"

"She isn't my mother and the moment," Goten shrugged. "And it's not like we'll ever get back anyway."

"Or know for sure what happened," Trunks added with a sigh. When they had arrived thirteen years ago both had been completely baffled at being thrown back into two year old bodies. They had the conscious of fourteen-year-olds (or in Goten's thirteen), yet had to relive their childhood in a strange house. Worse they had to pretend to be little children and could only act freely around each other.

You would think that they would have formed a special bond under those pressures like siblings only closer. They shared a secret they could tell no one, because a they would not be believed and b it would do know good for then to know. This was much the case- they acted like siblings, but Trunks had almost always also had Chi Chi to rely upon as well. Even at two and three he was able to talk to her freely, though she had never realized that there was anything strange about him. She idolized him and then spent her elementary school years forcing him to do embarrassing things- like the marriage- and now they were finally on equal footing she was annoying him with her want to be his girlfriend.

If he didn't know that she was Goten's mother then he would agree in an instant. To him Chi Chi was the perfect woman. Even though she was only fifteen, he stubbornly thought of her as such. A woman. Someone to hold in his highest respects. He would not give into his emotions though, he refused. He wouldn't even allow himself to start to think of her in that way, because he knew he would loose all rationality in such thoughts.

Not that this dimension wasn't screwed up completely relationship-wise anyway.

"Hey you guys!" Gokou said cheerfully, joining their solemn party. "There's these two really weird girls asking for you both. The blue-haired one mistook me for you Goten. She looks just like Bulma! And the other looks like Chi Chi!"

"Why would they want us?" Trunks stared at his friend in confusion. "Do you know who they are?"

"Um..wouldn't say," Gokou rubbed the back of his head. "Bulma's yelling at them. Like usual."

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"You can't expect to just waltz in here and demand things," Bulma crossed her arms, and frowned at the two girls. "Who the hell do you think you are?"

"Well I'm sorry Miss Priss, but this is kind of an emergency," Bura frowned at her in disbelief. This couldn't possibly be HER mother after all- her mother had a mean streak, but she wasn't THIS bitchy. "Kami- what cat crawled up YOUR ass?"

Bulma swung her hips on her daughter. "You did not just say that."

"So what if I did?" Bura asked, raising an eyebrow at her. "What are you going to do about it?"

"Why are you so uptight about just telling us where they are anyway?" Pan frowned at the other woman. "It's not like it has anything to do with you."

Bulma turned on Pan. "I think I have a right to know about it since I'm Trunks' older sister and am dating Goten's twin brother!"

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Gomen people for the lateness of this chappy!; I've been working on coloring in this stupid picture and it took so long it isn't even funny.. -.-; But it's done so I'm happy ^^; Even though I probably shouldn't have wasted my effort since my friend is coloring it in anyway and it will be a million times better then mine -.-;;;; I hate colors.

And just to tell you I wrote most of this out in a notebook first and for some reason my writing's ten times crappier when I do that, but I was so bored at school that I did anyway -.-; So..sorry for the crappiness of this chapter.

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