Erin sat up on the bed in her temporary room. She had finally gotten some
food last night after Vegeta's little episode, so she was content when she
woke up. She had really stuffed her face. Erin stood up and scratched her
stomach, a very unladylike thing to do, but she didn't care. Erin walked
over to her door and was about to turn the handle when a loud thump on it
made her jump back.
She stared at the door dumbly before her groggy mind registered that someone had knocked. "Yes?" she called to whoever was outside her door.
"Erin? Are you awake?" the voice asked.
"No, nope. I'm not awake. You're really talking to my answering machine."
"Ha, ha, very funny," the voice replied sarcastically. Well this definitely wasn't Goten or Goku, otherwise they would have left a message.
Erin opened the door and came face to, um, chest with Trunks. Damn that boy was tall. Erin looked up at him expectantly. Trunks smiled down at her pj's. Erin looked down.
"What?" she asked him curiously.
"I like your pajamas," he said, a smile still on his face. Erin knew that smile. He was laughing at her on the inside.
'I can't believe that she sleeps in men's boxers' he thought.
"So what if I sleep in them. They're comfortable," she pouted. "So, anyway, what is it that you wanted?"
Trunks attention was suddenly brought back to the situation. "Oh yeah. Do you like kids?"
Erin gave him a blank look that said what-the-hell-are-you-getting-at? He seemed to read her mind. 'Oh please just answer before I have to get to the actual point.'
"You remember that I can hear you right?" she asked, a smile on her face.
"Um. Oh yeah. So, anyway. DO you like kids or not."
'La la la la la la la la....' she heard him chant in his mind, trying not to think about what he wanted her to do so that she wouldn't hear.
"Could you kindly stop that?" she asked, exasperated, his la's beginning to annoy her.
"Oh, sorry."
"To answer you, yes I like kids. Kind of. It depends on what kinds of kids they are. Why?" she narrowed her eyes at him.
"Bulma wanted me to ask you-" he was cut off by Erin holding her hand up at him.
"Wait a second. Anything that Bulma wants me to do, that she has to get YOU to ask me, is not good."
Trunks looked at her for a moment before continuing. "Bulma wanted me to ask you if you could baby sit for us." He looked at her intently, waiting for an answer. Erin's face lost its suspicion and she laughed.
"Is that all? Sure, I'll baby sit for you guys," she stopped laughing. Who is it that I have to baby sit exactly?" From what she recalled anyone who she might have to baby sit was all grown up.
"You would have to baby sit Miki and Aki."
Erin gave him a blank look. "Who are they?" she asked, completely lost.
"Juhaachi gou's and Krillins twins."
Erin never knew that they had any more kids. Oh well, they couldn't be that bad right? "How old are they?"
"They are each four years old."
Four year olds. They couldn't be too hard to handle. They were past their terrible twos and weren't quite at that pesky five year old thing yet. Erin nodded thoughtfully. "Ok, that's fine. Just one question."
"Yes?"
"Why can't one of you guys baby sit them?"
"Well, you see, that's the thing." Trunks scratched the back of his head nervously. Hmm, she'd only ever seen the Son family do that. She guessed that he had picked it up from them. Erin waited for him to continue. "We're all going away. Everyone except for you and the twins. They're too young to go where we're going. We're going to a kind of training thing."
Erin put a mild glare on her face. "Oh. I see how it is. You all want to go off to train and leave me and the twins here because you think that we can't do it! Well let me tell you something, I think that I could handle it for one think. And for two, if the twins are Krillins and Juhaachi Gou's children, they could probably kick my ass right now!" Erin placed her hands on her hips. Her and Trunks stared at one another for a few seconds before both of their faces cracked, smiles spreading across them.
They both burst out into laughter. Erin's laughter began to subside first. She looked up at Trunks and smiled at him. "That's fine. I probably wouldn't be able to do half the stuff you guys could do anyway. But what about Bulma and Chichi? I don't think that they would want to train very much."
"They're going on some sort of cruise. Don't want children with them, you know how it is with them."
"So when do you guys leave?"
"In about," he looked at his watch to check the time. "um, five hours?"
Erin sweatdropped. "You waited until five hours before you left before you asked me if I would do it? What if I had said no?"
"I knew you wouldn't."
Erin sighed at him. "Fine then. But you have to make this up to me. You have to train with me for at least two hours before you leave. Okay?"
Trunks smiled at her. "That sounds fair to me."
"Ok. Now get out of my room so I can get dressed will ya? And go snag the gravity room, k?" she asked mock sweetly. Trunks sighed and walked off, no doubt to go reserve the gravity room, that was, if Vegeta wasn't already in it.
Erin opened the door to the gravity room, now fully dressed and ready to train. Her eyes fell upon Trunks, who was standing against a wall, waiting for her. He looked up at her as she entered.
"Ready for some real training?" he asked.
"Real training? What do you mean?"
"Have you ever taken martial arts before?"
"Sort of, but not a whole lot. Why?"
"What were you doing yesterday then?" he asked, ignoring her own question.
"I was working on my actual strength mostly."
"I guess I'll be teaching you martial arts today."
Erin smiled, this was going to be fun.
Trunks stood above Erin who was, once again, on the ground panting. (not that!) "You have to execute the round house properly, otherwise I can block it without even trying. Right now you are not doing any damage to me, meanwhile you're tiring yourself out."
Erin looked up at him from the ground. They had only been training for forty five minutes and already she was exhausted. They had worked on her form mostly, not even trying complicated things yet. "Can we." she stopped and panted a bit more. "Move on to something else yet? I'm never gonna learn if we keep doing the same boring things. I need something new for a little while."
"Sure, we can do that. What would you like to work on?"
"I want to learn how to block a ki attack."
Trunks looked at her warily. "I don't think you're quite ready for that yet."
"I can do it. Just give me a chance. So far I can only dodge them, but that's only barely when no one is trying to do any real damage to me."
"Had a run in with Vegeta did you?" he asked, a smile on his face.
"Yup, I sure did." Erin dragged herself up off the ground. She dusted herself off and looked back up to him. "So then, can you teach me how to deflect a ki blast?"
"Maybe. But you're going to have to learn how to use ki yourself, and that could take a while."
"Isn't there any other way to deflect some ki? It will take to long to learn how to use it right now," Erin half whined. Trunks got a half thoughtful look on his face.
"Well, I can teach you how to deflect a small one with your arm, but you could get hurt."
"I'll be fine, just teach me, will you?" Trunks nodded.
"Okay, this will take a lot of concentration. You're going to have to put all of your focus on the arm that you're going to deflect it with. When it hits you it will feel like someone just threw a baseball at you, except it will also burn," Trunks tried to explain it clearly, hoping that she wouldn't get hurt.
Erin nodded that she understood what he had said so far. "When it hits you, you want to use all of your strength and push it away from you, kind of using your own arm as a bat. Keep in mind this isn't the best way to deflect one, and it will hurt, but not as much as it would if it were to hit you in the stomach."
Erin nodded again. "Okay, throw one at me," she said, a look of determination on her face. She guessed that she probably shouldn't block it with the palm of her hand, because that was much more sensitive than the rest of her arm. She would use her forearm. She watched Trunks closely as a small ki blast formed in his hand. He held it there, waiting for her to indicate when he should throw it. She gave him the signal and he threw it.
Trunks aimed it towards her forearm so that she wouldn't have to worry about where it would hit. Erin raised her arm up just as the ki blast reached her. Then it hit her. Erin nearly screamed out in the pain it caused. It did burn, very badly. She wasn't used to this kind of burning. Erin pushed with all of her might against the thing, but couldn't throw it. She wasn't used to something pushing like this before.
It was almost like a ball of water. It wanted to roll off either side of her arm and hit her body. She was having to keep it in the center of her arm, and most of her focus was on that instead of pushing it away. The thing began to roll again, but this time she couldn't stop it. It hit her square in the stomach and sent her flying backwards. Erin screamed as the thing burned her intensely and entered her body. That was most definitely going to leave a mark.
Erin hit the ground hard and didn't even try to get up. Trunks was by her side in an instant. Erin didn't open her eyes, but could feel a shadow pass over her. She guessed that Trunks face was right above hers, but she still didn't open her eyes.
"Erin? Are you alright?" She didn't respond, mostly because she didn't have the energy at the moment. 'Kami, I hope she's alright!' he thought. Erin gathered what little strength and spoke.
"I'm alright Trunks." Erin didn't attempt to sit up yet, but opened her eyes. She could see concern on his face.
"Let me see your stomach," he said, not taking no for an answer. Even if she had wanted to, she didn't have the energy to resist. She could feel Trunks tenderly lift her shirt up over her stomach. He stopped right below her breasts and examined her stomach.
It was a sickly red where the ki blast had hit her. Her stomach almost looked raw from the burn. No blood seeped from it, but it looked moist. That blast had most definitely eaten away some of her skin. Erin sat up slowly and winced, sucking a sharp breath in through her teeth.
"Don't get up, I'll carry you to one of the regeneration tanks." He bent over, ready to pick her up. Erin simply put a hand on his shoulder and used it to help herself stand up. Trunks stood up next to her.
"Come on, let's go to one of the tanks."
"No, I'll be fine. I'm not going to die from one little burn." Erin looked down at her arm, it was also burned, but not as badly as her stomach. Trunks looked at her, unsure if she was really okay. "Hit me with another one," she said quietly.
Trunks's eyes widened. "Nani?! No! I'm not going to let you do that again until you've recovered!"
Erin looked into his eyes. He could see determination in her eyes again and knew that she would not give up. Was this girl crazy?
"Hit me with another one," she said again, more sternly this time.
Trunks shook his head, defeated. "Fine, get ready."
Erin got back into her previous stance and held up her arm again. Trunks formed another ki blast in his hand and waited for her to give him the signal. She did and he threw it at her.
Erin nearly screamed again when it hit her already throbbing arm. This time, instead of worrying about it rolling off her arm, she put everything she had into her arm and pushed. The force was enough to send the ki blast towards Trunks. He easily deflected it and let it hit a wall, where it disappeared after a thud. Trunks looked at Erin, trying to see if she was still alright.
Erin smiled at him, a look of triumph on her face just before she felt her legs go limp beneath her. Then things were black. Trunks ran over and caught her just before she hit the gravity room floor. That last one had used what little strength she had left in her.
Erin awoke in something wet. It wasn't cold, nor was it hot. It was at a perfect temperature. She could feel the liquid slowly emptying from wherever she was. She recognized this. She was in a regeneration tank. That meant that....shit..Erin looked down at herself now that the liquid was emptied. She pulled the mask off of her face and sighed. Yup, she was naked.
Erin looked around for any clothing that might be in her immediate vicinity. There were none. Erin stepped out of the tank and walked towards the door to the room. She opened it and peered outside carefully, searching to see if anybody was around. Nobody was there. Making her decision quickly, she threw open the door and stepped out into the hall, shivering at the breeze upon her nude body.
Where in capsule corps was she? She regained her bearings quickly, remembering that she could be spotted by somebody at any moment. Erin recognized this hall. She just had to go down it and to the left to find her room. Erin took a deep breath and began to sprint down the hallway. This was easy when she wasn't wearing clothes. She should go running naked more often. Erin passed closed doorway after closed doorway. Just a little further. Erin looked ahead of her. Oh no, there was an open doorway.
She didn't have time to stop before she reached it. She looked in the door as she passed and nearly had a heart attack. Trunks was looking out of his open door when she ran by. She just barely caught a look of shock on his face and the beginnings of a nosebleed before she passed. She also her a fragment of a though from him. 'Oh my Kami.' Erin bolted into her room and slammed the door. She dug around her drawers for something to wear quickly. She examined her burns before she got dressed, and was surprised to see that nothing was there, not even a scar.
Erin got dressed and stepped back out of her room. She wondered how long she had been out of it, and how long it would be until everyone left. Erin timidly walked back to Trunks doorway and knocked on the inside frame.
"Yes?" came a reply. Erin stepped into view and tried not to blush. She could see a slight blush on Trunks's features, but decided not to mention it.
"When does everybody leave?" she asked nonchalantly, trying to pretend that he had not just seen her naked.
"They already did."
"Nani?! But I thought that you were going!"
"I still am. I'll just meet them there later."
"Oh." Erin looked down guiltily. "It's my fault that you couldn't leave yet isn't it?"
Trunks smiled at her. "Don't worry about it. It won't be difficult for me to catch up to them. I probably have to leave now that you're up though."
"Where are the twins?" Erin asked, remembering the two children that she was supposed to baby sit.
"They're downstairs watching tv."
"You left them alone?" Erin asked incredulously. "No wonder they wouldn't leave you alone to baby sit."
Trunks scratched the back of his head nervously. Erin laughed at how Goku like this action looked on him. Erin began to walk downstairs, eager to meet the two children. She came the bottom of the stairs and saw the two kids, sitting happily in front of a tv. They turned around when they heard somebody enter.
Trunks walked in front of Erin. "Miki, Aki, this is Erin. She will be watching you guys for a couple of days. You be nice to her ok?" he said. The twins nodded at him. Erin couldn't help but think that they were cute. She noticed that the girl, Miki, had black hair, and that the boy, Aki, had blond hair. She would have thought that it would be the other way around. Oh well, it didn't really matter.
Erin walked forward, ready to greet the twins. She extended her hand so that she could shake hands with them, but was surprised when they leapt forward and hugged her, their tiny arms wrapping around her neck. At least they were tiny compared to what she was used to. She hadn't been around four year olds in a while.
Erin hugged them back and looked back up towards Trunks, who was smiling down on them. "Sure are friendly," Erin stated.
"Yeah, they sure are. I have to go, but here's my cell phone number in case you need to get a hold of me for something. Bye guys!" Trunks waved at them.
Erin walked him to the door and closed it behind him. She wondered why he didn't have any suitcases with him, then she almost slapped herself on the forehead. Duh, capsules. She turned back to the twins.
"Okay you guys. What kind of trouble do we want to get in to?"
The twins smiled. "Yay! Erin is fun!"
She stared at the door dumbly before her groggy mind registered that someone had knocked. "Yes?" she called to whoever was outside her door.
"Erin? Are you awake?" the voice asked.
"No, nope. I'm not awake. You're really talking to my answering machine."
"Ha, ha, very funny," the voice replied sarcastically. Well this definitely wasn't Goten or Goku, otherwise they would have left a message.
Erin opened the door and came face to, um, chest with Trunks. Damn that boy was tall. Erin looked up at him expectantly. Trunks smiled down at her pj's. Erin looked down.
"What?" she asked him curiously.
"I like your pajamas," he said, a smile still on his face. Erin knew that smile. He was laughing at her on the inside.
'I can't believe that she sleeps in men's boxers' he thought.
"So what if I sleep in them. They're comfortable," she pouted. "So, anyway, what is it that you wanted?"
Trunks attention was suddenly brought back to the situation. "Oh yeah. Do you like kids?"
Erin gave him a blank look that said what-the-hell-are-you-getting-at? He seemed to read her mind. 'Oh please just answer before I have to get to the actual point.'
"You remember that I can hear you right?" she asked, a smile on her face.
"Um. Oh yeah. So, anyway. DO you like kids or not."
'La la la la la la la la....' she heard him chant in his mind, trying not to think about what he wanted her to do so that she wouldn't hear.
"Could you kindly stop that?" she asked, exasperated, his la's beginning to annoy her.
"Oh, sorry."
"To answer you, yes I like kids. Kind of. It depends on what kinds of kids they are. Why?" she narrowed her eyes at him.
"Bulma wanted me to ask you-" he was cut off by Erin holding her hand up at him.
"Wait a second. Anything that Bulma wants me to do, that she has to get YOU to ask me, is not good."
Trunks looked at her for a moment before continuing. "Bulma wanted me to ask you if you could baby sit for us." He looked at her intently, waiting for an answer. Erin's face lost its suspicion and she laughed.
"Is that all? Sure, I'll baby sit for you guys," she stopped laughing. Who is it that I have to baby sit exactly?" From what she recalled anyone who she might have to baby sit was all grown up.
"You would have to baby sit Miki and Aki."
Erin gave him a blank look. "Who are they?" she asked, completely lost.
"Juhaachi gou's and Krillins twins."
Erin never knew that they had any more kids. Oh well, they couldn't be that bad right? "How old are they?"
"They are each four years old."
Four year olds. They couldn't be too hard to handle. They were past their terrible twos and weren't quite at that pesky five year old thing yet. Erin nodded thoughtfully. "Ok, that's fine. Just one question."
"Yes?"
"Why can't one of you guys baby sit them?"
"Well, you see, that's the thing." Trunks scratched the back of his head nervously. Hmm, she'd only ever seen the Son family do that. She guessed that he had picked it up from them. Erin waited for him to continue. "We're all going away. Everyone except for you and the twins. They're too young to go where we're going. We're going to a kind of training thing."
Erin put a mild glare on her face. "Oh. I see how it is. You all want to go off to train and leave me and the twins here because you think that we can't do it! Well let me tell you something, I think that I could handle it for one think. And for two, if the twins are Krillins and Juhaachi Gou's children, they could probably kick my ass right now!" Erin placed her hands on her hips. Her and Trunks stared at one another for a few seconds before both of their faces cracked, smiles spreading across them.
They both burst out into laughter. Erin's laughter began to subside first. She looked up at Trunks and smiled at him. "That's fine. I probably wouldn't be able to do half the stuff you guys could do anyway. But what about Bulma and Chichi? I don't think that they would want to train very much."
"They're going on some sort of cruise. Don't want children with them, you know how it is with them."
"So when do you guys leave?"
"In about," he looked at his watch to check the time. "um, five hours?"
Erin sweatdropped. "You waited until five hours before you left before you asked me if I would do it? What if I had said no?"
"I knew you wouldn't."
Erin sighed at him. "Fine then. But you have to make this up to me. You have to train with me for at least two hours before you leave. Okay?"
Trunks smiled at her. "That sounds fair to me."
"Ok. Now get out of my room so I can get dressed will ya? And go snag the gravity room, k?" she asked mock sweetly. Trunks sighed and walked off, no doubt to go reserve the gravity room, that was, if Vegeta wasn't already in it.
Erin opened the door to the gravity room, now fully dressed and ready to train. Her eyes fell upon Trunks, who was standing against a wall, waiting for her. He looked up at her as she entered.
"Ready for some real training?" he asked.
"Real training? What do you mean?"
"Have you ever taken martial arts before?"
"Sort of, but not a whole lot. Why?"
"What were you doing yesterday then?" he asked, ignoring her own question.
"I was working on my actual strength mostly."
"I guess I'll be teaching you martial arts today."
Erin smiled, this was going to be fun.
Trunks stood above Erin who was, once again, on the ground panting. (not that!) "You have to execute the round house properly, otherwise I can block it without even trying. Right now you are not doing any damage to me, meanwhile you're tiring yourself out."
Erin looked up at him from the ground. They had only been training for forty five minutes and already she was exhausted. They had worked on her form mostly, not even trying complicated things yet. "Can we." she stopped and panted a bit more. "Move on to something else yet? I'm never gonna learn if we keep doing the same boring things. I need something new for a little while."
"Sure, we can do that. What would you like to work on?"
"I want to learn how to block a ki attack."
Trunks looked at her warily. "I don't think you're quite ready for that yet."
"I can do it. Just give me a chance. So far I can only dodge them, but that's only barely when no one is trying to do any real damage to me."
"Had a run in with Vegeta did you?" he asked, a smile on his face.
"Yup, I sure did." Erin dragged herself up off the ground. She dusted herself off and looked back up to him. "So then, can you teach me how to deflect a ki blast?"
"Maybe. But you're going to have to learn how to use ki yourself, and that could take a while."
"Isn't there any other way to deflect some ki? It will take to long to learn how to use it right now," Erin half whined. Trunks got a half thoughtful look on his face.
"Well, I can teach you how to deflect a small one with your arm, but you could get hurt."
"I'll be fine, just teach me, will you?" Trunks nodded.
"Okay, this will take a lot of concentration. You're going to have to put all of your focus on the arm that you're going to deflect it with. When it hits you it will feel like someone just threw a baseball at you, except it will also burn," Trunks tried to explain it clearly, hoping that she wouldn't get hurt.
Erin nodded that she understood what he had said so far. "When it hits you, you want to use all of your strength and push it away from you, kind of using your own arm as a bat. Keep in mind this isn't the best way to deflect one, and it will hurt, but not as much as it would if it were to hit you in the stomach."
Erin nodded again. "Okay, throw one at me," she said, a look of determination on her face. She guessed that she probably shouldn't block it with the palm of her hand, because that was much more sensitive than the rest of her arm. She would use her forearm. She watched Trunks closely as a small ki blast formed in his hand. He held it there, waiting for her to indicate when he should throw it. She gave him the signal and he threw it.
Trunks aimed it towards her forearm so that she wouldn't have to worry about where it would hit. Erin raised her arm up just as the ki blast reached her. Then it hit her. Erin nearly screamed out in the pain it caused. It did burn, very badly. She wasn't used to this kind of burning. Erin pushed with all of her might against the thing, but couldn't throw it. She wasn't used to something pushing like this before.
It was almost like a ball of water. It wanted to roll off either side of her arm and hit her body. She was having to keep it in the center of her arm, and most of her focus was on that instead of pushing it away. The thing began to roll again, but this time she couldn't stop it. It hit her square in the stomach and sent her flying backwards. Erin screamed as the thing burned her intensely and entered her body. That was most definitely going to leave a mark.
Erin hit the ground hard and didn't even try to get up. Trunks was by her side in an instant. Erin didn't open her eyes, but could feel a shadow pass over her. She guessed that Trunks face was right above hers, but she still didn't open her eyes.
"Erin? Are you alright?" She didn't respond, mostly because she didn't have the energy at the moment. 'Kami, I hope she's alright!' he thought. Erin gathered what little strength and spoke.
"I'm alright Trunks." Erin didn't attempt to sit up yet, but opened her eyes. She could see concern on his face.
"Let me see your stomach," he said, not taking no for an answer. Even if she had wanted to, she didn't have the energy to resist. She could feel Trunks tenderly lift her shirt up over her stomach. He stopped right below her breasts and examined her stomach.
It was a sickly red where the ki blast had hit her. Her stomach almost looked raw from the burn. No blood seeped from it, but it looked moist. That blast had most definitely eaten away some of her skin. Erin sat up slowly and winced, sucking a sharp breath in through her teeth.
"Don't get up, I'll carry you to one of the regeneration tanks." He bent over, ready to pick her up. Erin simply put a hand on his shoulder and used it to help herself stand up. Trunks stood up next to her.
"Come on, let's go to one of the tanks."
"No, I'll be fine. I'm not going to die from one little burn." Erin looked down at her arm, it was also burned, but not as badly as her stomach. Trunks looked at her, unsure if she was really okay. "Hit me with another one," she said quietly.
Trunks's eyes widened. "Nani?! No! I'm not going to let you do that again until you've recovered!"
Erin looked into his eyes. He could see determination in her eyes again and knew that she would not give up. Was this girl crazy?
"Hit me with another one," she said again, more sternly this time.
Trunks shook his head, defeated. "Fine, get ready."
Erin got back into her previous stance and held up her arm again. Trunks formed another ki blast in his hand and waited for her to give him the signal. She did and he threw it at her.
Erin nearly screamed again when it hit her already throbbing arm. This time, instead of worrying about it rolling off her arm, she put everything she had into her arm and pushed. The force was enough to send the ki blast towards Trunks. He easily deflected it and let it hit a wall, where it disappeared after a thud. Trunks looked at Erin, trying to see if she was still alright.
Erin smiled at him, a look of triumph on her face just before she felt her legs go limp beneath her. Then things were black. Trunks ran over and caught her just before she hit the gravity room floor. That last one had used what little strength she had left in her.
Erin awoke in something wet. It wasn't cold, nor was it hot. It was at a perfect temperature. She could feel the liquid slowly emptying from wherever she was. She recognized this. She was in a regeneration tank. That meant that....shit..Erin looked down at herself now that the liquid was emptied. She pulled the mask off of her face and sighed. Yup, she was naked.
Erin looked around for any clothing that might be in her immediate vicinity. There were none. Erin stepped out of the tank and walked towards the door to the room. She opened it and peered outside carefully, searching to see if anybody was around. Nobody was there. Making her decision quickly, she threw open the door and stepped out into the hall, shivering at the breeze upon her nude body.
Where in capsule corps was she? She regained her bearings quickly, remembering that she could be spotted by somebody at any moment. Erin recognized this hall. She just had to go down it and to the left to find her room. Erin took a deep breath and began to sprint down the hallway. This was easy when she wasn't wearing clothes. She should go running naked more often. Erin passed closed doorway after closed doorway. Just a little further. Erin looked ahead of her. Oh no, there was an open doorway.
She didn't have time to stop before she reached it. She looked in the door as she passed and nearly had a heart attack. Trunks was looking out of his open door when she ran by. She just barely caught a look of shock on his face and the beginnings of a nosebleed before she passed. She also her a fragment of a though from him. 'Oh my Kami.' Erin bolted into her room and slammed the door. She dug around her drawers for something to wear quickly. She examined her burns before she got dressed, and was surprised to see that nothing was there, not even a scar.
Erin got dressed and stepped back out of her room. She wondered how long she had been out of it, and how long it would be until everyone left. Erin timidly walked back to Trunks doorway and knocked on the inside frame.
"Yes?" came a reply. Erin stepped into view and tried not to blush. She could see a slight blush on Trunks's features, but decided not to mention it.
"When does everybody leave?" she asked nonchalantly, trying to pretend that he had not just seen her naked.
"They already did."
"Nani?! But I thought that you were going!"
"I still am. I'll just meet them there later."
"Oh." Erin looked down guiltily. "It's my fault that you couldn't leave yet isn't it?"
Trunks smiled at her. "Don't worry about it. It won't be difficult for me to catch up to them. I probably have to leave now that you're up though."
"Where are the twins?" Erin asked, remembering the two children that she was supposed to baby sit.
"They're downstairs watching tv."
"You left them alone?" Erin asked incredulously. "No wonder they wouldn't leave you alone to baby sit."
Trunks scratched the back of his head nervously. Erin laughed at how Goku like this action looked on him. Erin began to walk downstairs, eager to meet the two children. She came the bottom of the stairs and saw the two kids, sitting happily in front of a tv. They turned around when they heard somebody enter.
Trunks walked in front of Erin. "Miki, Aki, this is Erin. She will be watching you guys for a couple of days. You be nice to her ok?" he said. The twins nodded at him. Erin couldn't help but think that they were cute. She noticed that the girl, Miki, had black hair, and that the boy, Aki, had blond hair. She would have thought that it would be the other way around. Oh well, it didn't really matter.
Erin walked forward, ready to greet the twins. She extended her hand so that she could shake hands with them, but was surprised when they leapt forward and hugged her, their tiny arms wrapping around her neck. At least they were tiny compared to what she was used to. She hadn't been around four year olds in a while.
Erin hugged them back and looked back up towards Trunks, who was smiling down on them. "Sure are friendly," Erin stated.
"Yeah, they sure are. I have to go, but here's my cell phone number in case you need to get a hold of me for something. Bye guys!" Trunks waved at them.
Erin walked him to the door and closed it behind him. She wondered why he didn't have any suitcases with him, then she almost slapped herself on the forehead. Duh, capsules. She turned back to the twins.
"Okay you guys. What kind of trouble do we want to get in to?"
The twins smiled. "Yay! Erin is fun!"