Bubun: Go

Most of the Z fighters were in the waiting room, Krilin, Juuhachigou, Goten, Goku, Gohan, and Yamcha. Marron, Pan, Bra and Videl came along as well. Vegeta, surprise, surprise, was a no show, something Bulma said she would likely kill him for later on.

Even though Gohan had only phoned his father, everyone had felt what had happened last night, it wasn't a matter of Trunks ki wavering or getting weak, it disappeared altogether. Gohan and Vegeta hadn't noticed that until Bulma pulled away with Trunks in the ambulance. Gohan decided to meet them at the hospital, Vegeta was still trying to contemplate what exactly had just happened to his son.

So after several phone calls to, well, everyone else, twelve people sat in the waiting room with worried faces.

Goku had taken a trip to Kurin tower to try and figure out why the senzu beans hadn't worked, but to no avail. Kurin had assured him that the beans should have worked, so a very puzzled and confused Goku sat there waiting to tell this mystery to Bulma, as she walked into the waiting room his face brightened a bit… then he remembered that Trunks was in the hospital and his face became solemn again. Goku got up to talk to her, but she was already in front of Goten glaring at him with a fiery gaze.

"What, did you do to Trunks?" She asked vilely trying not to lash out at him; she knew any attack would be futile if not suicidal.

"Huh?" Goten asked, his voice a mixture of worry and pure confusion, much like his father's.

"What are you talking about Bulma?" Goku asked.

Gohan suddenly remembered how Trunks had been yelling about Goten and looked away. He did not under any circumstances accuse his brother of something until he had a lot of concrete proof, and he meant that. Nothing circumstantial. Videl noticed him look away, she would have to corner her husband and get some answers out of him later.

"Last night, Trunks was yelling about you. You were hurting him or something, and I want to know what you did to my son," Bulma's voice had a calmness to it that Goten knew had to be fake, he wasn't that stupid…

"Bulma, I didn't do anything to Trunks-" Goten tried to defend himself and was suddenly cut off by Bulma slapping him. Her eyes began to tear.

"Don't fucking lie to me!" Bulma shouted, she wished the slap could have fazed him, but he was too powerful to feel that. About to lash out at him again Goku grabbed her wrist trying to calm her down. "Let me go!"

"Bulma calm down," Goku said gently. Bulma then pulled away from his not very strong grip (he didn't want to hurt her) and she shot a glare at him.

"I will not calm down until he tells me what he did to Trunks!"

"Bulma, I did nothing to Trunks," Goten said again rising to his feet, not to look more threatening, but simply because he didn't want to sit down as Bulma accused him of hurting his best friend.

"Mommy…" Bra said with teary eyes. She was only about six years old, but she knew something was really wrong if her mother was acting so violently.

Marron stood up to defend her best friend. "Bulma, why would Goten hurt Trunks?" She simply asked, as if it would knock sense into the woman.

"I don't know!"

"Bulma," Goten said, his voice was calm, serious and sounded like he was losing his temper. Who wouldn't? "Think."

"What does that mean!?!" Bulma yelled again wanted to hit him again, but once again Goku grabbed her wrist.

"He's stronger than I am," Goten finally looked at her directly in the eye. "I wouldn't be able to hurt him even if I wanted to, and I wouldn't want to hurt him because he is my best friend."

The words stung Bulma hard. She wanted to take the blame off her shoulders so badly, do anything to make her think that maybe she had done an ok job as a mother and that Bra wouldn't grow up and be as suicidal or more than Trunks seemed to be. She wanted to make the blame go away so much that she would pass it to the first person she could, even if it was Trunks best friend.

"But he was yelling at you," Bulma finally choked out on the verge of crying. "Why was he…?" Bulma fell to her knees; Goku supported her so that she wouldn't collapse completely. "Why would he…?"

She couldn't talk anymore as the tears completely overpowered her, Yamcha was at her side taking her off of Goku's hands and helping her into the seat beside Juuhachigou. Goten turned to Marron and took her hand, thank Kami that was over.

"Hey Bulma…" Goku said when Bulma had calmed down a bit. "About the senzu beans."

Bulma looked up to meet his gaze with red eyes, she didn't say anything, but Goku figured he had her attention.

"I was at Kurin tower, and he said the beans should have worked fine and well…" Goku didn't know what to say. The beans should have worked, but they didn't. Now that he said that, what would he say now???

"How the hell…?" Krilin trailed off and becoming as speechless as the rest of the room.

"But… there were three times..." Bulma managed to say and then became quiet again.

"Three times when what happened?" Goku asked really confused.

Goten eyes went wide as he figured out what Bulma was saying. "Trunks got hurt three times in which we gave him the senzu bean, but neither times it worked," He explained quickly hoping that made a shred of sense.

"So the beans didn't work on Trunks three times?" Gohan asked, translating and making sure that's what Goten had said. Goten nodded and Goku sat down.

"What does that mean? Are the beans not working on Trunks for some reason?" Goku asked a question not realising he was actually answering it.

"The senzu beans aren't working on Trunks. But why?" Juuhachigou asked finally joining the conversation.

"Maybe there's a medical reason or something," Krilin added.

"What medical reason would make the beans not work?" Yamcha then asked.

"I can't think of any…" Gohan being the only person who knew anything about medicine answered.

"Maybe there is some kind of disease like that," Videl said in a reassuring way, but either way it's bad.

Goku and Goten looked absolutely confused and Bulma simply cried to herself.

"Aren't the beans magic?" Bra suddenly asked.

Everyone looked at her puzzled, and then Pan clued into what she was saying. Must be a kid thing.

"So maybe someone's using magic to hurt Trunks," Pan said and Bra nodded.

"Magic?" Gohan asked. "Who would use magic against Trunks?"

"Who knows magic?" Yamcha asked.

"Wizards know magic," Bra said and then walked over to her mother. "Don't they mommy?"

Bulma nodded her head and pulled Bra up onto her lap hugging her. "Yes they do honey, they know all sorts of magic."

Bra and Pan smiled feeling they had solved the mystery and now everything could get back to normal. Kids weren't stupid; they were just too full of hope and innocence.

Everyone but Bulma, Bra and Pan looked at each other in complete confusion, the same question on their minds. What do wizards have to do with anything?

"Kids these days…." Yamcha mumbled with a bit of a smile patting Bra's head. Juuhachigou looked at the two kids intently for a few minutes before speaking up.

"I don't think wizards actually exist, but they may be on to something. Trunks never did strike me as the suicidal type."

Everyone nodded and Goten cringed at what she had said. He didn't think Trunks was the suicidal type either, but he hadn't made that very clear to his friend.

*

Trunks was sitting on a dock looking out onto the lake, you could see an island maybe one or two kilometres away, when he had been a child he used to swim there with his friends, back when they had been friends, Goten. But all that was a memory, maybe the only nice one he had of Goten.

Suddenly Trunks shielded his eyes as sunlight was reflected into them, ho turned to his left where another dock was, probably a couple feet longer than his. She was here. She had told him to meet him here. It was odd because he used to meet all his friends at this point.

"Ne, are you alright?" She asked in her usual voice, her long white hair fluttering around her in the soft wind.

"Nani?" Trunks asked wondering why she would ask that like a greeting.

"Well you were looking off into nothingness… You were out of it," she replied with the most beautiful smile. "I just thought that something might not be right."

"Everything's fine," Trunks brushed off the question and stared at her eyes. He loved her eyes, they were so dark and the rest of her was so light. It was a contrast, but such an amazing one. It worked so beautifully.

"Do you like swimming Trunks?" She asked with a grin.

"Uh… yeah, sure," he gave nervous laugh and looked down at the water. "Used to swim all the time, but I didn't bring a bathing suit or anything so-" Trunks was interrupted as he heard a splash, he turned his attention back to her and saw the girl naked in the water, her blue jeans and grey sweater abandoned on the dock. "What are you doing!?!" Trunks asked covering his eyes, he wouldn't mind staring but he wasn't sure if she'd sock him or not.

She swam over to the dock he was on and grabbed the side with her slender fingers. She stared up at Trunks and smiled seductively, something he had never seen her do before.

"We're past the formalities Trunks, let's just go swimming like people used to," she garbed his wrist and nagged at him to come down. "What does it matter if we see each other naked?"

Giving in to urge and temptation Trunks started to take his clothing off and finally slipped into the water blushing madly, she giggled.

"You're so shy Trunks," she said with a huge grin.

He decided to be daring and wrapped his arm around her slender waist. She felt so small and fragile; he was scared he would break her. She smiled back at him and the two kissed.

"Hey Trunks?" Goten's voice brought Trunks awake and he looked up at his best friend trying to shake away the images which had been going through his head. The memories had been good this time, he was almost annoyed that he had been pulled out of them.

"Yeah?" Trunks asked back seeing Marron standing beside him.

"I was just checking up on you," Goten said and the two pulled up chairs to sit beside him.

Trunks wasn't strapped to the bed anymore, that was a good sign. The only reason Trunks was still there was because of the burn marks on his arms and the right side of his face. It was a complete mystery to everyone how they got there, and as mentioned before, when they gave him a senzu bean, it didn't work to heal him.

"Everyone's worried about you," Marron said. "Me, and my parents are here, same with Goku, Gohan and Videl, you know."

"Vegeta?" Trunks asked, he had decided last night that he didn't want to call him 'dad' or 'father' untill he started to act like one.

"No…" Marron trailed off and Goten shook his head.

"Bulma's going to be after his head," Goten said trying to lighten up the mood, he grinned but nobody else really moved.

"Hey Trunks?" Maroon asked. "What happened to you arms?"

"They got burned," Trunks answered. Marron knew they were burnt, everyone did, but how it happened was something only Trunks could know.

"How?" Goten asked before Marron could. Trunks looked away.

"She did it," Trunks mumbled.

"'She'?" Goten and Marron asked in unison.

"Yume Mi," Trunks finally said.

*

Everyone who had come took about five minutes to check up on him, before going back out to the waiting room. Finally visiting hours were over, Yamcha had to go and get back to Puar; Goku, Gohan, Videl and Pan were off to find out more about what could be causing the beans to not work. That was all very simple in Trunks mind.

The beans were magic, Yume Mi was more powerful. She cancelled their effect out. Trunks may tell this to Goten or Marron, but anybody else would probably think him to be crazy. It was funny, because after saying her name, neither Marron nor Goten continued on that subject, they changed it and talked about school and such.

He looked at the clock and saw it was almost midnight. He sighed; he had to go back there again, against his will, again. He didn't have much more time to think about that before he found himself lying down in a completely different landscape.

Everything was white, except the ground around him was charred. Obviously it had been from the fire.

Trunks sat up ignoring the pain in his arm and wrists. Where the hell was that bitch? He looked around in all directions but couldn't find her anywhere. He could move now, he wanted to find her and kill her. So in complete pain Trunks stoop up on shaky feet and started to walk forward, the direction just seemed to be the one to follow.

After a few minutes, which seemed more like hours to Trunks, the ash and soot on the floor disappeared and everything was white. He couldn't find any source of light, but everything was amazingly bright, that's probably why he didn't see Yume Mi at first.

She seemed to blend in with her white hair, eyes and dress. Her pale skin just helped it even more. She was sitting on the floor in front of him humming something.

My tea's gone cold; I'm wondering why I got out of bed at all. The morning rain clouds up my window and I can't see at all. And even if I could it'd all be grey, but your picture on my wall, it reminds me that it's not so bad, it's not so bad

Then she noticed Trunks and looked up.

I see you've found me; it's a wonder you can still walk. I guess you didn't get any burns on your legs.

She put a hand on his leg and he pulled back.

"I thought you were going to kill me," Trunks hissed ready to burst into SSJ.

I will, but you see Trunks. I have until the next New Moon. I want to enjoy every moment of this.

She began to rise, not by standing up, but simply rising in the air. Her white eyes stared into his and he remembered his daydreams, her eyes were dark brown there, almost black… what had happened to make them so pale?

It took me so long to find you again, so this will be fun.

Trunks woke up and looked at the clock again. 6:30 am. It was morning now. Had he been in the Dreamscape for that long?

"I should have killed her right there and then. Kami, why didn't I kill her?" Trunks may have wanted to kill her, but it seemed that when he was around her he just couldn't bring himself to it. Why the hell was that? In the daydreams they were so close, really close… but, now he hated her more than anything. She had said that he had killed her. Was that true?

He looked around the black room, it was so damn dark here, and he could barely see the room. The Dreamscape had been so bright, before it had been almost a blue or something. Probably from the water, but the water was gone now and it was simply white, reflecting nothing but the whiteness, the emptiness, of Yume Mi.

Suddenly the door opened pouring light into the room, Trunks shielded his eyes for about a second and then concentrated and the figure moving towards him. It was a woman about 5'5", she had long white hair done up in a bun and baby blue eyes. Her resemblance to Yume Mi went beyond the hair; they had the same facial shape and expression.

"Who… who the hell are you?"

"Manako Yumemiru," she replied curtly. "I've been trying to find you for quite some time now Trunks. I wasn't able to until now, the First Quarter."

"The First Quarter?" Trunks asked, the question of who she was still on his mind seeing it seemed like she avoided it a bit.

"Yes, you see, like my daughter, my power is defined by the moon," her voice was showing a bit of irritation at the questions.

"Daughter?" Trunks asked, the resemblance suddenly fitting into place. His heart clenched at what this could signify or not.

"Yes, it seems she wants to kill you again."

(Ok, I'm stopping here for now. Good news, I'm finally done the first quarter of the story, if you're following your calendar you'll know when this ends, of course I'm behind be about three days *sweat-drop*. Ok! *Comes back after doing the dishes* I'm going to write this and then go eat pie. First I'd like to say this is the first chapter that I actually had planned out from beginning to finish, normally I just know that I have to do so much, but the pages constrict what I write, I don't like going over nine pages. I got a review being asked if Yume Mi was Juuhachigou (Eighteen), she isn't, obviously she's in this story, but anyway. I guess I did a bad description of her; I pictured her as a mix between Kotori from 'X' and my friend Kelley who has long straight white hair. Anyway, it's time for: Elise's corner of pronunciation! Yay!!! I've been contemplating how some people might be Americanizing the story's name. It's pro. 'Yumeh Me'. Now that that's out of the way, 'Z' pronounced 'Zed'. In the Japanese version it's something like 'Zedo', but that's only because they can't have a silent 'd'. So pronounce it right when you read this story and other ones!!! Um… yeah, the number 'go'. I was looking up other translations and the most prominent one I found was 'honourable', I found this interesting because of 'Goku', 'Gohan' and 'Goten'. Of course those also mean other things *just on the side, 'ku' means 'bend over', among other things. So that's 'Honourable Bend-Over*. Um, yeah. 'Manako Yumemiru', recognize anything in the last name? Hint: 'Yume Mi'. If you put the words in the Japanese order it would be 'Yumemiru Manako' and *once again using 'X' to translate* that roughly means 'Dreaming Eye' or 'The Dreaming Eye'. I suppose it could also mean 'The Dream-Watching Eye', but I suppose we all get the point. 'Nani' means 'what'. Um yes, I used the lyrics to Dido 'Thank You'. I dedicate this to my lovely unnamed Cheshire cat, who stood by me grinning the whole time. I should name the cat. Give me some suggestions people. The date in the story is March 3rd. I love them reviews, make them long and don't be afraid to tell me I suck!!! So, arigatou to sayonara.)