You don't know what you got until it's gone

By

Hannio

Chapter Two

Come out, come out wherever you are Trunks

DISCLAIMER: No not mine

AUTHOR NOTE: Here we go chapter two, it's quite a long chapter so I'm proud of myself. The first three chapter are set in the present time, then from chapter four it will spring forward ten years so that's how its gonna run. It's split into different parts as in one part of this chappie will be Bulma, then it will switch to Veggie and then back to Bulma but it's kinda flows together. Anyway please enjoy it people

            Bulma felt as if her world had suddenly exploded around her, she groaned out loud and her knees gave way and the carpeted floor suddenly rushed to meet her, she never met the ground, and she knew before hand that she would never meet the ground. Vegeta had caught her holding her in powerful arms that were none the less gentle, his voice was rougher than usual but Bulma could detect the worry behind it, it tinged his words

            "Bulma now isn't the time for that" she blinked rapidly, he was right the only important thing was finding Trunks, he was probably around hiding in the bushes or something and when she found him she would give him the scolding of his of life before enveloping him into the biggest hug of his life. She made a push against Vegeta's chest and spoke

            "Put me down" she muttered and he complied, she turned to him a spark of determination in her eyes "Trunks is so dead when I find him" she said angrily relying on that to conquer her fear, though she couldn't understand it, she had a heavy feeling in her heart as if something terrible had happened to her baby. "Vegeta track his ki will you, I don't have time to look for him" Vegeta shrugged but complied, she knew he did because his eyes went slightly glazed, like people's eyes do when they concentrate on one thing and lock the rest of the world out. Bulma waited patiently but with each passing second, the feeling of dread grew leaving her feeling quite weak and faint. Was this how Chichi felt? She wondered vaguely to herself. She forced herself to speak as she saw some sweat run down her husbands face, he was frowning as even she had never seen him frown before "Vegeta" she whispered "Where is my son?" Vegeta looked at her allowing his usual mask of indifference to fall

            "I can't sense him" he said in a matter of fact voice "There's no way he could suppress it fully not at the age of 6 with only little training" Bulma almost laughed, little training? Vegeta had the boy in there 5 hours a day fighting and training, if that was considered little then what the hell was big?

            "Meaning?" she demanded, she sat down limply on the sofa, she was not going to disgrace herself again by fainting for the second time, Vegeta shrugged looking into the distance, his expression was closed, she stared at him blankly almost wishing she knew what he was thinking, was he worried as well?

            "I don't know" she swallowed deeply, then stood up

            "God look at us, we should be looking for him, I'll look in the grounds you look in the city ok? He can't have gotten far"

            "Bulma" there was a tone to her voice that she couldn't recognise but to her it didn't sound positive so she chose to ignore it.

            "No obviously he's more clever than anyone knew of and he mastered that technique you muttered about that's it, he did inherited my brain after all so it would make sense" Vegeta shrugged, he severely doubted it but it was worth a try, anything to keep her quiet and happy

            "Fine" he went to the door and took off leaving Bulma to follow, slightly more sedately. He was going to get grounded so bad that he wouldn't know what hit him, she began calling to him

            "Trunks sweetie where are you? Come out, come out where ever you are" no answer or sound other than the buzzing of insect and the chirping of birds was heard, she bit her lip and tried again "Trunks Gohan Vegeta-Briefs get out here right now, I mean it Mr" again no answer met her, she frowned normally her angry voice would get an answer "Trunks sweetie I'm not mad at you but dinners nearly ready than we can go and see Goten would you like that?" she carried on walking round the garden and even enlisted people's help but no one could find a sign of the lavender haired boy, Bulma felt tears well in her eyes she hoped Vegeta was having a better time then she was.

Vegeta growled as he looked around him, he just couldn't understand it all, if it was as Bulma said that Trunks had come out of the kitchen door then how the hell could they of not met? How come through the bond he shared with his only child he couldn't suddenly feel that his ki wasn't there? He shook his head; there was something definitely not right. If someone had taken Trunks then it would have had to be someone who was aware on how the bond between Saiyan father and son worked and knew how to disable it and only a few people did.

            He came to a stand still above the milling crowd and looked down allowing his superior eyesight to come into play, Vegeta knew that in the time limit Trunks had been gone this was the furthest he could reach on foot, the ki signal was gone and so flying was out of the question, for that there had to be life energy. Vegeta hands made themselves into fist as he thought about it. He never said it out loud but the Saiyan boy definitely had a place in his heart, even more deeply rooted than his mother had come, it was the two of them and the two of them only, which gave his life purpose. His pride was still there, it always would be but slowly his aspects were changing, that was probably why he was out looking for Trunks, before he wouldn't have cared if the boy were alive but things changed and he was aware of that.

            He turned in the air and heading in another direction, the air around him turning golden as did his hair, teal eyes stared out in concentration, either Trunks had been taken or his son had been killed, either way he was going to find out and there was only one person who could help him.

            Bulma was sitting down, her face had long been drained of colour and her eyes were heavy and full of tears. Beside her were her parents trying to give her comfort, but it was impossible to have comfort given by two people who were crying themselves but trying hard to appear as if they weren't

            "Bulma sweetie" her Dad mumbled at her, "I'm sure young Trunks is going to be fine, don't forget he has his father's strength and your brain power, he'll be fine"

            "He's 6 Daddy" she said interlocking her hands together "6 he should be out playing and having fun not being in this situation, he should be here"

            "Well Vegeta is looking for him and he'll find his son I'm sure" her mother said as brightly as she could then ruined it by dabbing her eyes with her handkerchief. Bulma placed her head in her hands

            "This is all my fault" she said quietly "I sent him out to Vegeta, if I had only kept him in, perhaps even a few minutes longer than…"

            "Don't blame yourself" her father snapped, surprising Bulma into looking up at him, momentarily brought out of her self pity, he glared at her "We don't know what happened to Trunks" he went onto explain "He could be hiding, this is a huge house, who knows how many rooms in contains, the garden has many hidey holes anything" her mother nodded

            "He's right dear," she said in agreement "Perhaps he's even at Goten's "

            "Exactly" her Dad went on "We don't know now lets not assume the worse until Vegeta gets back, probably with him, there is no point in fearing the worse until then" Bulma nodded what they said made sense, she was being over dramatic, Vegeta would walk in with a sorry looking Trunks and then they'll laugh over how worried they were

            "Thanks Mum, Thanks Dad" she muttered scrubbing her eyes with her hand, they nodded

            "No problem dear, all we can do is wait" Bulma nodded

            "Right wait for Vegeta"

            Vegeta landing on the soft springy grass outside the small house and looked at it, there seemed to be no sign of movement from it but Vegeta knew better, as much as he hated it, he needed help and he needed Kakkarot's help, he lost his patience's a few second later

            "Kakkarot get out here" he yelled, sure enough the door opened and the curious looking face of Goku looked out, by his knee was his son Goten looking exactly the same with exactly the same look on his face

            "Vegeta" Goku said, opening the door fully "What a surprise, did you come here to spar with me" Vegeta almost smirked at the suddenly expression in Kakkarot's face, it was clear he wanted a fight but as much as Vegeta wanted it there was something more important at hand.

            "No" the smile from Goku's face dropped and he looked at him seriously for the first time, he rose his eyebrow and spoke quietly

            "What's wrong?" he demanded. Vegeta dropped his eyes to Goten who got the message

            "All right Mr Trunks's Dad Sir, I'm going" he turned and walked into the house leaving the two full blooded Saiyans alone with each other

            "What is it?" Goku asked again as the silence went on, Vegeta took a few long breaths; he couldn't believe he had to do this

            "I need your help," he muttered lowly and quickly, a quick frown came across Goku's face

            "What was that?" he asked, Vegeta closed his eyes and clenched his fist as he spoke loudly and clearly

            "I need your help Kakkarot" Goku nodded

            "Anything, what do you need?" Vegeta looked at the other straight in the eye

            "Can you sense Trunks" Goku's frown darkened

            "Trunks, shouldn't you be able…" Vegeta cut him off midsentence

            "Just tell me Kakkarot can you sense him?" Goku shrugged and closed his eyes searching through the crowd to pick the ki of Vegeta's son; he frowned and opened them in confusion

            "No Vegeta, I can't get a trace of him" Vegeta's face closed for a minute as he turned inwards. Goku bit his lip looking at the proud Prince "What does this mean?" Vegeta seemed to shake himself out of his thoughts and glare at the other man, though the worry was beginning to become more evident in his black eyes

            "It means Kakkarot he's either been taken by someone skilled or else he's dead" Goku nodded his head

            "I see" Vegeta sighed

            "Let's go, I need your help" Goku nodded

            "You have it my friend, let's get to Capsule corps the easy way for once" he said walking to the smaller man and touching his arm, Vegeta growled but it was lost in the wind as they disappeared.

            Bulma was pacing the floor looking at nothing in particular, this was a nightmare she had concluded a long time ago, there was no sign of Trunks and now no sign of Vegeta, she was worried sick, it just wasn't like Trunks not to be back especially since the young Saiyan would be starving by now, even when he was playing a prank he never missed dinner, she knew when he didn't turn up that something was seriously wrong. She turned and bit back a scream at the sudden appearance of Vegeta accompanied by Goku. She looked at them both

            "Where is he?" both looked at her and Vegeta shrugged

            "I couldn't find him and nor could Kakkarot", Bulma took a minute to allow that piece of information to settle in her brain than she spoke surprisingly calm

            "I see, I'm sure you tried your best, so now that we've stopped looking for him what do you think happened?" she went on in the same dreamy tone "Is he dead? Blown to bits? Captured? What?" Vegeta took a few steps over to her and shook her roughly

            "Bulma this is no time for hysterics" he gave a final shake that brought her to her senses just as Goku spoke

            "Vegeta's right Bulma" he said stepping forward a single step "We don't know what happened to Trunks but we'll get him back I swear" Bulma looked up

            "And how the hell are you gonna do that? We need to find him first" Goku smiled at her

            "Why the Dragonballs of course"

There you go, hope you enjoyed it, do any of you think Veggy is OOC or have I got him right? Please Review and let me know what you think but no flames ok, I have no interest in things which try and put fellow Authors down, I think it's spiteful and mean, you should encourage them not rip them to shreds after all. Apologies about grammar or spelling but it's late and quite frankly I'm tired. Hope you enjoyed Hannio xxx