AN: I decided that I wanted to change the last chapter around spend some more time actualy at school and introducing a new character, Rei. Rei isn't exactually my favorite character so if you're expecting Rei and Makoto to have the same amount of time in the spot light you are going to be disappointed. Sorry about taking so long to update, my mother forced me to get a job and I've been working most of my free time. 

Disclaimer: Just like all of my other stories I do not own or claim to own Dragonball z or Sailor Moon and I am making no money off of this. Just a bored high school student trying to pass time while ignoring my English homework…

OneWingedAngel6547- thanks for the encouraging review. You are right, writing a story is hard. So many people judge it before they try. Can't wait until you put the next chapter out for, Destiny of the Dragons.

Ange De Bleu : baby blu eyes- You're right there are definatly not enough Jupiter writers out right now, it's so hard to find good ones. You so often have to settle.

girl of darkness- I've always wondered about how some stories interduce new character who seem to know everything about there surroundings doesn't make it very believeable, them again people who can change the colors of their hair and eyes by powering up ::shrugs:: oh well. And hurry up with the next chapter of Pretty Demon out will you?

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The Great Seanman- Humm, where can I find this monkey exactually? I would love to have a few conversations with him.

Learning to Trust

Chapter 5 School House Blues Part 2

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"And this is Makoto Kino, she visiting from America so please do everything you can to make here feel at home." The teacher said bored. He was annoyed at having to find another textbook, learn one more name and worry about one more student so late in the year. Why Japanese people chose to visit American was beyond him

Makoto looked around at over 30 pairs of eyes stareing at her in interest. Makoto unable to keep their gaze dropped her eyes down to the floor. Fighting was where she felt at peace, her element, but being around people her own age wasn't. This was undoubtfully why she was a loner.

Trunks looked at her in interest with is blue eyes. Never had he seem her acting like this and it amused him. Who would have thought that take no crap Makoto was scared of people?

"You can sit next to Trunks. Trunks please stand up." The teacher said finally after looking around the room for an empty seat. 

Trunks stood up and had a strange look on his face that Makoto couldn't read. "So how are you enjoying your first day of school so far?" he said to her conversationally after she sat down.

Makoto only sighed before muttering one word. "Stupid."

*~*

The class was boring and all the people did was read out of a big red book given to them and write things down on other papers. Most of the students in the front of the classroom seemed content writing things down at a record speed. Others like Trunks spent their time gazing back and forth from the paper and the book writing verry slowly. Makoto on the other hand, after one look into the book slammed it shut and made a face in disgust.

She used her time staring out the window watching birds and any other form of wildlife that chose to pop up by the window for a brief second.  Makoto laid her head down on her desk, slowly falling to sleep.

Makoto suddenly found herself on a dance floor standing on a large ballroom floor. She looked down at her shirt and jeans that was suddenly changed into a long flowing green dress. Her hair was down and reached her waist. [What?] the brunette thought in confusion [What's going on here?] but before she could finish her thought she was interupted by a familiar voice.

"Would you care to dance?"

"Trunks." She mumbled.

Trunks look at her and raised his eyebrows in interest. Trunks opened his mouth to speak but someone beat him to it.

"Makoto." A voice thundered from behind her bringing her out of her dream. "I don't know about your old school but in Japan it isn't. Please join me after school in detention." He handed her a pink piece of paper which she looked at in bewilderment.

"Trunks, what's a detention?" she asked sleepily yawning.

*~*

Makoto, with the help of Trunks' directions and a few help from some strangers made her way to her next class. She handed her piece of paper to her teacher who looked at it before pointing to a desk in the back next to a black haired-purple eyed girl and few inches short than Makoto, but that wasn't big, Makoto discovered most people on this planet where shorter than her.

"Hi." The girl said once Makoto had sat down. "You must be new. I'm Rei Hino. Welcome to Orange City. You must be lucky, getting to disect a frog on your first day, I had to wait 3 months before I was able to." She smiled at Makoto who couldn't help but smile back for Rei's smile was infectious.

"I'm Makoto Kino." She replied leaning back into her chair a bit, getting comfortable. After the day Makoto was having she hoped that the girl wouldn't press on, regrettably she did.

"Makoto, that's a Japanese name, are you orginally from Japan?" The brunette raised her eyebrows in surprise to find out her name was also Japanese.

"Yes," she lied. "We moved to America when I was five."

"Do you have any brothers or sisters?" Rei pressed on. She had leaned forward to look at her closer.

Makoto shook her head. "'Fraid not, I'm an old child." Makoto couldn't figure out why she was sharing all of the information with someone a human no less, but somehow she found talking to Rei soothing.

Rei nodded in sympathy. "I'm an only child too, my parents died when I was little and now I live with my grandfather at a temple, I'm training to be a shrine prietess there." She explained. "That was until my grandfather shipped me off to this school so I could get a better education for myself. I visit him on weekends."

"You live by yourself?" Makoto asked in amazement. Living on her own wasn't a big thing, Makoto herself had been doing it for years, but someone like Rei someone so… Makoto couldn't put her finger on the right word, but wouldn't a figured someone like her had.

Rei sighed. "Everyone when they're a teenager want to live on their own but let me tell you it's no picnic, I have to do everything by myself, cook, clean, do the dishes, sometimes I just can't stand having to do everything by myself."

"I know what's like." Makoto admitted sighing. "It really does suck."

"Really?" Rei looked at her skeptically through her purple eyes.

"I've been on my own for a while. Since my parent's died." She offered a weak smile. "Heart problems." She quickly added so Rei didn't ask.

Rei shook her head. "How did you end up here?" she wasn't purposly being nosey but there was something familiar that she couldn't figure out.

"I'm here visiting some of my relatives." She answered before looking at the frog that laid on the table before them. She had forgotten about the frog, but Rei hadn't

"Don't worry it's already dead." Rei told her laughing. "But I can understand cutting open a dead frog, is pretty discusting."

Makoto nodded her head in agreement. "I'm visting some of my family" Makoto replied staring at the poor dead frog in front of her. Has anyone of them been alive she thought before staring at the frog in front of her. She shook her head thinking about how much it would hurt to be chopped open alive.

"So who are your family? Maybe I know them." Rei asked picking up a knife and twirling it around her fingers, obviously not wanting to touch it.

"My cousin goes here." She said finally. "His name is Goten."

"Really?" Rei almost squealed in surprise. "Goten's my boyfriend. Who would have thought?"

"No, who would have?" Makoto agreed.

*~*

Upon exchanging schedules with Rei she found out she had 3 out of 7 classes with Rei, including lunch. Makoto carefully holding her bag of lunch so that the 'humans' wouldn't touch it she followed Rei outside to the courtyard she was looking at earlier.

"Come on." Rei pushed her through the crowd. "We have to hurry before someone takes our spot."

"Spot." Makoto asked wanting an explanation. She had by now gotten used to this and decided she would never completely understand these Earthlings.

The spot was located under a tall tree in the middle of the courtyard. Apparantly the men had decided. To eat without them and Rei and Makoto happened upon one of their normal eating behaviors stuffing their faces very quickly and often without remembering to chew, but occasionally they would remember their manners and mutter 'sorry' before stuffing their face again. Makoto smiled faintly.

"There you both are." Rei announced putting her books down and sitting by Goten. Makoto did the same.

"Wow that looks delicious!" Rei said once seeing Makoto's lunch. "All of it looks so good. Chi chi made this didn't she?"

"Actually I made this myself." She answered embaressed.

"Who would have ever know that miss attitiude was a cook?" Trunks muttered thinking no one heard him, but Makoto did.

Trunks received a carrot in the face. "Shut up idiot boy."

"Idiot boy?" Rei asked Goten.

"It's her pet name for him. It's their little term or endirement." Goten started laughing as both Makoto and Trunks turned bright red.

"Is that true Makoto?" Rei asked her. "I didn't realize that you and Trunks were a couple."

"We are not a couple." Makoto growled.

"Really you two fight like you are." Rei insisted. "Hey, Trunks why don't you invite her to the dance?"

"How was your first day of class Makoto?" Goten asked interupting seeing the situation brewing.

"To many people in to small of a place. Trunks was right."

"Surely you can't hate it that much." Goten insisted. "It can't be all bad."

Goten had no idea how bad it really was.

*~*

"Would you care to dance?" Makoto turned around quickly to find Trunks staring back at her. Instead of his usual short capsule corp. jacket that no one in their right mind would wear, and long baggy pants, she found Trunks dressed in a dark black suit with a shimmer of blue in it that brought out his eyes.

"Trunks." She mumbled surprised. She looked around at her surroundings. She was located in a giant ballroom with flawless carvings of angels and goddesses. All of the men were dressed just as Trunks was and the girls were wearing the same style of dress as she was. A band of musicians played on the side next to a table full of food.

"Would you like to dance Lady Makoto?" Trunks repeated himself, he stretched out his hand with Makoto hesitantly took.

"You're a good dancer." Makoto stated once Trunks started leading her across the floor.

"Thank you." He responded politely. "You are excellent as well."

*~*

Makoto suddenly woke up, the dress she was wearing had melted away and was replaced by a bra and some pj bottoms, and although sweat was running down her face, she felt strangly cold. A quick look around the room my Makoto found the problem. "Damn." She muttered before unraveling herself from her covers. Makoto hardly even dreamed but when she did she knew it ment one thing. No more sleep for tonight.

*~*

"You don't look so good." Trunks commented in the car the next day.

"Yeah." Goten agreed glancing at her from the rear view mirror. "Did you not get enough sleep."

"You could say that." Makoto said yawning.

"Did you dream something awful?" Trunks teased. "Remember the boogie man doesn't exsist."

Makoto would have made a face at him but she didn't feel she had the energy to. This school of his really wiped all of the energy out of her. "I wasn't scared of this 'boogie man' you speak of, maybe it was you who is scared of him." She told the person sitting next to her.

"If it wasn't that then what was it?"

Makoto looked at Goten embaressed. She couldn't very well say that the reason she couldn't sleep was because she dreamt of the certain person sitting next to her. Or that she spent the rest of the night trying to push I back into her mind. No way. "I just couldn't sleep." She lied. "Maybe it's because I couldn't wait until my second day of school."

Both Trunks and Goten knew that the green eyed girl in the car was lieing but they didn't press on further.

[Maybe it has something to do with the dream she had yesterday in class.] Trunks found himself thinking. But he pushed it back dismissingly, why did he care what she dreamed?

*~*

"Dreams are wishes your heart makes when you are sleeping." Rei told her later on in the day.

"Aren't you a little old for fairy tales." Makoto asked her. "And what brought on that little thought?"

"You were staring off into space and I assumed it had something to do with a special someone."

"Rei!" she yelled at her blushing.

"I knew it." Rei explained smiling. "Who is it? Someone I know?"

"Rei shut up."

"I'm not shutting up until I get something out of you. Or maybe I should just go ask Trunks about it." Rei knew from the color of Makoto's face when she mentioned Trunks that she was right. "Just watch out." Rei advised her. "Trunks is a little flighty if you know what I mean."

"First of all I don't want Trunks and second why do I care how flighty he is?"

Rei sighed. Makoto and Trunks would be a cute couple, but she was realistic.  She just wasn't sure if Trunks could stop being so flighty and devote some actually time to this relationship or that Makoto could stop being stubborn enough to admit that something was actually there.