Through the Rain

Chapter 2

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Chapter 2

Trunks walked slowly around in his room. His face was sunken and his hands were shaking. I hate it when I go nuts, he said to himself. He looked around and out the window where the rain was pounding selflessly onto the windows, making a sound of footsteps on the walls. Trunks sighed. "I had to do that. I had to burst out." "Caught the culprit." A voice said from the doorway. Trunks turned quickly to see a smirking Bra there. "Bra, I swear-" "Trunks, don't swear. Secondly, I finally got it out of you. Now I just need to get it out of Marron and Goten." Trunks glared at his sister. "You were in on it, too, you know so don't go blaming everything for something that you probably planned." Bra sighed and let her smirk drop into a disappointed look. "It was pretty mean I guess. But, I had the idea, you guys just, let's say, modified it a bit and put it to life." Bra said and walked into the room and closing the door behind her. Trunks nodded. "It was mean." "Yeah. Let's call Marron and then go three-way with Goten." Bra suggested and walked over to Trunks' telephone. She picked up the receiver and dialed Marron's number. Trunks just watched as his sister did all the work. "Hi Krillen. Is Marron there? Okay, thanks." Bra waited scant seconds before she started talking 24 km a second again. "Hi Marron, Trunks confessed, so confess otherwise I will tell Trunks that time-well of course he's in the room. Hold on a sec, Trunks, say hi to Marron!" Bra gave her famous, "Say-something-or-die glare." (Courtesy of Vegeta.) Trunks sighed and grimly took the receiver. "Hold on a second, Marron." He gave the receiver back to Bra and pushed a small blue button, which lead to speakerphone. The phone conversation floated around the room. "Hi Marron." Trunks sighed and Bra took over again. "Bra, I'm not confessing anything." "Of course you are, Marron!" "Bra, no way." "Trunks already confessed." "Oh well. Hold on a second, I've got something that will make you confess." There was a short silence before a voice came into the conversation, a new one. "Hello?" "Goten, it's Bra. Trunks' confessed and Marron won't. Make her confess." "Um, well." "Goten, if you don't I can always tell Marron about the time-" "No, Bra, no!" "Okay, fine, Marron, confess!" "Fine! I admit it, but you helped out too!" "Goten, now it's your turn." "What?" "Come on, confess." "No way." "Goten, desperate times call for desperate measures. Marron, there was this one time and it was a few months ago I guess and Goten-" "Fine! I admit it!" Trunks smirked at his sister who had handled the conversation well, but not well enough. "Now everyone, it's time for Bra's unmasking." Bra whirled around and had a horrified look on her face. "I don't have to confess, I already confessed to you, Trunks." She said quietly. "Get her, Trunks, make her confess!" "Marron, shut up!" "Goten, you're not helping." "Whoa, this conversation is way out of hand now. Bra, confess!" "No!" "There was this one time a few days ago and Bra was walking past this bar with hot serving guys as she says and she-" "I confess! I confess, leave me alone!" She cried and said her good-byes before hanging up the phone, disconnecting Marron, Goten and herself from the conversation. As she put down the receiver, she looked at her brother, her shoulders hunched and her face red, her hands balled into fists. "I. Hate. You. Trunks. Vegeta. Briefs." She breathed angrily and stormed out of the room. Trunks laughed, but only for a while.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Flashback~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Trunks and Bra, along with Marron and Goten were talking at the Capsule Corp. living room one-day when Pan was sparring with Goku. (This was a few days before Pan left, about a day before Goku died mysteriously.) Marron was looking at Trunks as if in a trance. She sighed and leaned back on the couch beside Bra. "What should we do?" Bra complained. "There's absolutely nothing we can do." Goten reasoned. "Why?" "Because there's nothing to do." "Oh." Marron kept her gaze on Trunks. "I've got an idea. Trunks, ask Pan on a date." Marron said. Trunks raised an eyebrow. "Why?" "Just do it, Marron told you to." Bra said. "Why do I have to listen to a blonde?" Bra stood up in protest, realizing it was an insult. Marron took it as a compliment. "Ask Pan on a date, once you do, tell me." Trunks agreed there was nothing else to do, right?

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~End of Flashback~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Trunks sighed and sat down on his bed. The rain started raining harder as he looked out the window. 'Why did I? Why did I have to do that? Why did 'we' have to do that? She thinks highly of us, since we're her only friends practically, Trunks said to himself. 'I hope she can forgive.' He said to himself. Sadly though, he stood up and opened his sliding glass door onto a balcony connecting his room and Bra's. Something inside Trunks' head told him Pan didn't forgive easily.

Pan was walking along the highway and as she started walking, she tripped on a rock. She cried out in surprise and landed squarely on her left side. She groaned as she lay there, pain rising up her left side of her body. She also groaned in protest at the cold rain that was pounding against her body, making her feel cold and forgotten. "Why?" Pan cried out as she started getting back to her feet. "Why?"

When you keep crying out.and you feel so far away.

Pan got back to her feet and started walking, but she only got about 5 feet ahead when a car zoomed by, splashing water all over her.

And if you keep, falling down.

Pan cried out in protest at the vehicle and she was about to shoot it, but she held back. "I hate cars." She said under her breath and kept walking. She kept walking on the side of the road and every so often running in the middle of the road when there were no vehicles in sight. She even found herself running in the rain as if she was running away and finding herself lying on the highway, looking up at the clouds and rain. "What did I do to deserve this?" She asked herself as she found herself walking along the shoulder of the road.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Flashback~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

"Hey Pan, wait up!" Trunks called out. Pan was in the mall with Bra and Marron, well, she was holding their bags for them. It was all she did when she went to the mall with them. Pan turned around and smiled. "Hey Trunks." She blushed. Marron and Bra were inside of the store, so they couldn't see what was going on with her and Trunks. "Um, Pan, do you think that maybe, since tomorrow is Friday, we could possibly, go out on a date maybe?" Trunks asked, blushing slightly and bringing one hand behind his head. Pan tried to say something, but she was smiling so much that it was hard to talk, and she was speechless, so she just nodded. Trunks beamed. "That's great!" He paused. "I'll pick you up at 7:00, okay?" He hugged her tightly and pulled away smiling before leaving. Pan blushed a dark shade of red and jumped up and down squealing. Marron and Bra walked out from the store, bags in their hands. "Pan, hold these." Marron said, as if she didn't notice Pan's happy mood. Bra smiled at her best friend. "You seem jumpy, what happened to you?" "Trunks asked me out!" She squealed. Bra jumped up and down, hugging Pan in pure happiness. Marron, on the other hand, was glaring uncontrollably at Pan, but underneath her glare, was the hint of, what shall we call it, the hint of cleverness, but not the, "Used-For-Justice," kind, more like the, I've-Got-An-Evil-Plan," type.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ End of Flashback~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Author's Note: For just this small last part of the story, I'm jumping back and forth from Trunks to Pan's P.O.V, just so you know. Thanks.

Pan sighed with tears threatening to fall down on her cheeks, but of course, she held them back.

Trunks sighed as he finally felt the rain, it matted his wet hair to his head, making his clothes stick to his muscular body, he finally felt, how shall we put it, defeated, somehow.

Pan stopped slightly and looked at a family picture of her and her family. The picture took place in the foothills with a river running through in the background. It was fall and colorful leaves were floating around everywhere, flying diagonally past the people in the picture.

Trunks gazed into the sky, trying to remember memories of when the last time was, that he, Marron, Bra, Pan and Goten were best of friends. He couldn't really find a time, so he decided to look harder at this situation.

In the back of the picture, from left to right, were Goten, Gohan, Goku, Chichi and Videl. In the front, in front of Goku, was Pan. In the picture, Goten, Goku and Pan wore the famous Son grin.

Trunks found that special time, but it was long ago, a few days before Marron tried stealing Pan's friends away from her, calling her a snobby brat and a show-off, a few days later, he recalled Pan finding out and punching Marron squarely in the face.

A car in the distance started slowing down a good 20 yards in front of Pan.

Trunks sighed and started walking back into his room.

When Pan looked up, her ki rose.

Trunks cried out in surprise as he felt Pan's ki rise increasingly high.

Arms reached out.

Trunks took to the sky.

Pan screamed in surprise as strong arms pulled her into the car and pulled off.

Trunks got to the highway, to find no one there, but he did find a picture of the Son family on the ground.

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