Bubun: Juuichi

"This is crazy! I'm not letting you touch my mind!" Trunks yelled at Hitomi. She smiled sweetly, like an innocent little girl.

You can trust me Trunks… just like the old days.

"I hope you know you're schizophrenic. One week you want to kill me and now you say you want nothing but to avenge me."

I'm avenging both of us.

Hitomi said coldly and came closer to Trunks. He froze. What could he do? He tried fighting her before… some help that did. Ended up with him in the hospital. However, it wasn't the full moon yet.

Sleep.

"What?"

Hitomi then put her hand over his face, before he could fight back or even move for that matter she was pushing him down.

He seemed to just go through the floor, or rather, into the floor. He was suddenly surrounded in something like a liquid, he couldn't move, he couldn't breath…

*

It was almost midnight March, Friday 9th. And Goten was annoyingly flying through the air looking for Trunks.

Despite Goten's cold exterior and obvious anger towards Trunks, he was still looking for him. He was hurt, really hurt, but he just couldn't give up on the person he had called his best friend for so many years. Something had to be really wrong or Trunks wouldn't have said that. Trunks wouldn't have meant that…

"You don't mean anything to me!"

The words still hurt, they pierced his mind and heart like glass, and yet he was still looking for him. He was still worried about him. Worst of all, he still cared about him. Deep inside he was hoping Trunks had gone insane or something and didn't know what he was saying.

Goten found himself passing over what they called 'Fort Henry' for about the fiftieth time since he had started looking. He could feel the others all around looking for Trunks, but he couldn't see any of them.

It was then when he noticed something, he had passed this place many times, and he hadn't yet looked on the shore. Some parts seemed to end in small cliff that had trees hanging over the sides, he wouldn't be able to see the shores clearly from his height.

He let himself fall towards the ground for a few seconds. It was a rush, letting yourself go like that. Just letting yourself fall at gravity's mercy… you were completely free from everything. About a metre from the ground he started flying again his ki touching the water making waves beneath him.

Then he saw him.

"TRUNKS!" Goten yelled suddenly.

Goten quickly flew over and landed on the beach beside Trunks. He was met with an odd sight. It looked like Trunks was sleeping ever so peacefully, but he was also floating about three feet off the ground.

"Trunks?" He started walking forward, towards the unconscious figure. Even though he didn't want to be, he was worried about Trunks. "Are you a- AHHHHHHHHHH!!!"

Goten screamed as he tried to get closer, he was suddenly met with something like an electrical pulse throwing him backwards. He smashed into the cliff wall making a dent, and then he fell to the ground in a crumbled ball.

"Holy shit man… are you fucking awake?" Goten mumbled as he got himself together. The though that Trunks was awake and hit him like that rather pissed him off, but as he looked back to Trunks, he was still 'asleep'. "What are you trying to pull…?"

What happened next was something Goten would never be too sure of, as he looked at Trunks, Trunks started to cry, or so it seemed. Well it looked like tears were rolling down his cheeks. Only the tears were blood.

"Holly shit…" Goten mumbled and tried walking forward again, he got past the point where the energy had hit him before and looked down at Trunks.

Goten reached out and brushed the blood of his cheek, he then stared at his fingers for a few seconds trying to figure out if it really was blood. Suddenly Goten got a very dark feeling in the pit of his stomach.

"Something's com-" Goten didn't have time to finish the sentence when suddenly a bolt of electricity reached out from Trunks and pierced his heart. He seemed to be hanging in the air for a few seconds before he fell to the ground unconscious.

*

Gohan and Videl stopped midair and looked at each other with worry in their eyes.

They were both flying around Grenadier Village, a few kilometres away from R.M.C. finding no signs of Trunks when they felt it. When they felt Goten's ki almost disappear.

"Is he-?" Videl asked.

"He's alive… might just be lowering his ki… or he's asleep…" Gohan said trying to figure this out, he wasn't too sure if he just wanted to rush over there. Something might be up, or he could just be taking a break.

"Think he's just mad over his fight his Trunks?" Videl asked, thoughts of anything bad having happened pretty much gone.

Gohan nodded thinking it could be the same thing.

It was then when Juunanagou flew over to them, he stopped right next to them. They weren't the people he was looking for, but they might know what the hell was going on.

"What's wrong with Goten?" He asked, more worried about Goten then he was Trunks. He had only come on this search because Juuhachigou had asked him too, not saying he had no compassion, but there were better things to do, like play Nintendo.

Basically he didn't think Trunks was going to do something crazy like commit suicide, he was pretty sure he didn't have a death wish.

"We think he might be taking a rest or something," Videl answered.

"Maybe he found Trunks, I was a bit closer and I felt a small energy surge… maybe it was just him… or maybe-"

"It wasn't Trunks," Gohan said. "We would have felt his ki, you can only do a ki blast if you raise your ki."

"Yeah, guess I'm not thinking… kinda tired," he mumbled annoyed that he was out here.

"We're all pretty tired," Videl said.

They had been looking for Trunks for over 48 hours (with short breaks for food, sleep and other… necessities); obviously he didn't want to be found. Probably the only good thing that came with not being able to find him was that way they knew he was alive to be running from them. So… what if they found him and he was dead?

The question was the worst anyone could come up with.

If he killed himself, they couldn't bring him back with the dragon balls. You don't bring a suicidal person back from the dead; they just go and kill themselves all over again. And what's the point of that? Even if you can somehow keep them from committing suicide again, wouldn't they be completely miserable?

Nobody would be happy then.

"Well, I was on my way to find Juuhachi… so… I'll just be going," then Juunanagou flew off in the other direction, trying not to be rude, but most likely came off as being rude anyway. Not that he cared though…

"I say we go check it out," Videl suggested. "He might just be resting, but I'd feel better if I knew."

"Yeah, I know what you mean, let's go."

*

Vegeta sat on top of the bell tower in R.M.C. and thought. He would never admit this to anyone, but he was actually scared. Not for himself, hell no. He wasn't scared to die; he'd done that before, not so bad. He was scared that Trunks would die… or was dead.

He could have easily left this city and then… well… you know. Then they really wouldn't find him for a while, no, instead Bulma would just get a phone call while they were out. Maybe she had gotten that phone call already.

No, he may not be able to sense his ki. But he sensed something else.

People have said that you are connected with your relatives, with your close friends. That you spend so much time around them that a bond forms. You just know when something bad is gonna happen, maybe it won't be obvious, but you'd know.

When Trunks 'slit' his wrists that first time, Vegeta knew it. Couldn't explain how, but he could tell something was very wrong. So if Trunks were dead, he'd know right? Made enough sense. But if there was a bond… wouldn't he be able to find Trunks?

This was horrible. It was unfair. He didn't want to sit here and think over whether or not Trunks was dead. So why didn't he just get up and go look for him? He had been…

Then Vegeta felt Goten's ki almost disappear. He turned his head to the left, Fort Henry at the top of a hill coming into view, that's where Goten was. But so was something else… he had felt it maybe seconds before. It was like a ki blast, but so much weaker.

A blast without using a ki…? So if he did feel it, and it had no ki. Then just how powerful could it be?

Vegeta stood up looking in the direction where Goten was. Could he have found Trunks? Even if he had… what was it that he had felt?

He thought perhaps it'd be a good idea to check it out.

Just before he could get away from the bell tower, the bells went off. It was midnight already. Then Vegeta got that feeling of something very bad happening.

Seconds later, as he flew towards the beach Goten was on, Trunks was lost to this world.

*

Hitomi's eyes opened, or rather, Trunks' eyes opened. Either way, Hitomi was seeing out of them. She didn't actually want to hurt Trunks, in a way, she wasn't, but he'd probably be really mad at her later.

But this was something she had to do, for herself, for her mother, and even for Trunks. Trunks wasn't dead, far from it. He was in the depth of his own mind though, reliving lives or just watching them. It didn't really matter much to Hitomi. He was safe down there.

She took a moment to look down at her legs and hands. It was so weird. She was used to being a skinny little girl… and well, she was now far from it.

"I wonder what my powers and his strength could do… I might have Vegeta dead in… holy shit…" Hitomi said as she saw a boy curled up by the cliff wall.

She hadn't noticed him before because he had probably been unconscious and therefore wasn't moving. Now, however, he was waking up.

"Aw… fuck…" Goten said and stumbled back off the ground. Whatever he had been hit with, it had hurt like fucking hell. He actually had been out for about a couple seconds there.

What Goten had been hit with was Hitomi entering Trunks physically. It had taken about two tries. Hitomi had never possessed anybody before so…

Goten finally struggled to his feet and shot a glance over to Trunks, his eyes went wide when he saw him standing there… his ki was gone and his eye were white. Not just the part that should be white, but also the whole eye.

"T-Trunks?" Goten chocked out.

Hitomi glared at him and Goten took a step backwards. Something was wrong. Eyes aren't normally white. And he was feeling this power from Trunks... but no ki. That wasn't possible? Was it?

"You." Hitomi snarled at him. Her voice was echoing in his head.

"That's not your voice…" he mumbled still in shock.

Hitomi let out a laugh, a cruel and cold laugh.

"Of course it's MY voice… just not Trunks'." Hitomi started to walk forward towards the shocked boy.

She could get revenge on Goten for Trunks. Maybe even that girl that hung around him… what was her name? Marron?

Yeah, that was it.

"Eh?" Hitomi said looking towards the sky, someone was coming. Someone more powerful than her… at the moment.

She could deal with Goten in a bit; right now she had to get something from her mother. In the flash of an eye Hitomi jumped at Goten and punched him in the face, he flew back into the cliff side, and then she jumped up into the air and disappeared from sight.

Goten winced in pain as for the third time in the past ten minutes he was flung into that fucking cliff. He was starting to HATE cliffs with a small passion. Goten got back on his feet, his jawbone would definitely be bruised come morning… which was in about six hours.

"What happened to you?" A cold, sarcastic, arrogant and very familiar voice asked.

"Uncle?" Goten asked trying to hide the pain he was in, it got easier and the pain started to go away anyway, come a half an hour and he wouldn't remember it. "What are you doing here?"

"That same thing everyone else is," he said almost rolling his eyes, almost. "Now what happened to you?"

Goten grinned a bit, it was funny how Vegeta could act concerned about him and yet not act concerned about him all at the same time. It was times like this that Goten knew Vegeta had to be one of those kind loving people… and if he ever said that to Vegeta's face, Vegeta would kill him.

Then Goten's mind got back on subject. What to tell Vegeta?

"Uh… well… I found Trunks and-"

"You found Trunks?" Vegeta cut him off, trying to hide his concern.

"And uh… he attacked me." It may not have been true in reality, but it sure as hell was true as far as Goten was concerned. He didn't know who Hitomi was anyway.

"Trunks? Attacked you? Trunks?" Vegeta asked, just then Videl and Gohan landed to the left of Goten.

"Goten, are you alright?" Gohan asked seeing his brother's ki was back to normal.

"Yeah I'm fine…" Goten said quietly. He wasn't too sure if he wanted Trunks to get into trouble… wait a sec. Why not? Trunks was being an asshole to him.

"What happened?" Videl asked touching his cheek, he pulled back in a bit of pain. That was the hardest of the blows he had gotten that night, for Trunks though, it was only half as hard as it could be.

"Trunks happened," Goten said just as silently, only bitterly.

"Trunks?" Videl asked.

"Trunks did that?" Gohan asked, just as shocked as everyone else, if not even more. He had known Trunks just as long as Vegeta and neither could understand why he would attack Goten like that.

Vegeta then powered up and flew off leaving the three standing there a bit stunned.

"Where do you think he's going?" Videl asked, worried that he might be looking for Trunks. Vegeta could be quite unpredictable at times…

"Maybe we better follow him," Gohan said and then turned to his brother. "Goten, go get back to dad or something."

Before Goten could protest Gohan and Videl flew off after Vegeta, Goten stood by the cliff alone once again.

He sighed. Should he go after Trunks too? Or was Vegeta even going after Trunks in the first place. Then he realised they wouldn't find him.

"His ki was still gone…" he mumbled, but what he had felt definitely had it's own signature. Goten looked up towards the sky. "This isn't over yet Trunks."

Then Goten powered up and flew after the power signature.

*

Trunks walked into Harmony and looked around. Same as always, except for the board over the window, which Trunks had successfully broken, the store hadn't changed at all… well the name did anyway.

"Ne, who's there?" Manako's voice came from the back, Hitomi smiled at the sounds of her mother's voice. It had been a while.

"Kaasan…" she said quietly and then Manako stepped into the room.

"Oh, Trunks… no… not Trunks…" she said looking into his white eyes, and then her own went wide. "Hitomi!?!"

Hitomi's smile widened and she ran forwards grabbing her mother in a tight hug. Tears clung in her eyes. She was so happy, so relieved to see her mother again.

"What happened… how are you here?" She asked Hitomi pulling away and holding her tightly by the shoulders, as if she didn't want to lose her again.

"Gomen nasai, I can't stay for long. I just came to get something." Hitomi explained, not wanting to exactly leave her mother's side.

"Nani?" She asked her daughter. Hitomi almost didn't answer, hoping she could stay here for a little longer.

"The katana…" she said glancing towards the display case.

"Why do you need that?"

"Do you remember Goten Son?" Hitomi asked and let go of her mother's shoulders, taking a step back. The Son family wasn't a favourite in the store.

"He was here… him and his brother…" she whispered back.

"What were they doing here?" Hitomi asked, her eyes narrowing, not really at her mother but more so at the prospect of Goten and Gohan having been to the place she called 'home'.

"Looking for Trunks… or should I say for you?" Manako said, finally acknowledging the fact that Trunks was in fact standing in front of her rather than her daughter.

Hitomi clenched her fists in anger.

"That asshole dare come to my home looking for Trunks?" She asked trying not to lash out at anything, and she didn't know how strong she could be when angry.

Hitomi calmed herself down and started walking towards the display case. She looked down at it.

"Would you have sold it?" She asked, a bit of sorrow showing in her voice.

"Never… but it was like it belonged there…"

"It belonged on Trunks wall…" She said and then touched the glass, a power came from her finger that made the glass shatter. She reached in and picked the sword out. "I have to be going now Kaasan."

Manako smiled back to her daughter. She knew a lot about the future, but every time she tried to look into her daughter's future it was always full of mist, whether she would ever see her daughter again, she didn't know.

"Sayonara… come back soon…" she answered with a meek smile.

"I'll be back once I have revenge…" Hitomi answered and then headed towards the door, before she got out of the door however, they both heard him.

"TRUNKS! GET YOUR ASS OUT OF THERE!!! I CAN FEEL YOU HIDING!!!" Goten yelled from outside.

The rage returned to Hitomi. Still in this life Goten refuses to let Trunks live in peace. It wasn't fair… it wasn't fucking fair.

She slowly walked outside and as if on cue rain started to fall. The darkness was absolute, except for the glowing coming off of Goten and from Hitomi's eyes.

(HAHAHAHAHA!!! I leave you all in suspense. Ok, I haven't been keeping up in my translations and I think I've confused people. I'm just losing my mind dammit *bangs her head a couple times with a frying pan*. Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. Where was I? Oh right! 'Juunanagou' is none other than 'Seventeen'. Right, and I'm not too sure if I translated it before, but 'Gomen nasai' means 'I'm very sorry'. Ok, and just because I know you probably don't care, but I'm finally half way through. YAY!!! Isn't that great? Of course it is… Hey I wonder, do you people even read these? I'm gonna do a test *I'm reeeeaaaaaaaaally hyper right now*, ok, for those of you who write reviews *AND I KNOW THERE AREN'T MANY!!! GIVE ME REVIEWS!!!!* must write, only after reviewing this chapter, 'ZIGGY BOOM NA' at the end of your review. Got that? 'ZIGGY BOOM NA'. I'll tell ya all about that later, but for now. I must get this chapter up *insane laughter here*. Oh wait, that reminds me, because I've seen maybe five episodes *maybe less* episodes with Seventeen in it… I'm not too sure how well I did his character. But I'm thinking I did an ok job, sorry if he's OOC in the least. Um… so yeah. Gotta go reviews my sisters' *Sonya* stories. Sayonara.)