Bubun: Juukyuu
The whole thing happened very fast. Trunks wasn't too sure what had happened, but as he looked around the dreamscape, it started to come together. Not that he knew what had happened, but he knew there was no danger.
But... why the hell was that guy crying?
[Just hours before...]
He didn't have to think about where he was going, he just knew. He was going to a field somewhere... there would be a house. This he knew. He knew that by this house he would find Hitomi.
Vegeta was flying as fast as he could, despite his daughter; he was still going really fast. Bra was cradled in his arms, not really caring that she was flying at all. All she cared about was the fact that Vegeta was alive and holding her. Right now what's all she wanted.
It wasn't long before he found that field, and that little house either. The sun was setting, must have been late in the evening. Vegeta hadn't noticed if it had been day or night since Bulma, so he had no clue what day it was. Did it matter?
Glancing around he could tell that she wasn't there yet, but she would be there, very soon. It was maybe mere minutes later when Gohan landed, and then him. Kokoro Kurayamino.
The two had very solemn faces and he could tell they had come for the same reason, to get Hitomi.
"I don't need your help," Vegeta said in his cocky manner. Bra was a couple metres away watching on curiously.
"Yes you do," Kokoro said annoyed, he didn't need this, not now.
"I've already killed her mother, her daughter shouldn't be much more trouble."
Kokoro paused and stared Vegeta down, not in a cruel hating way, but more in a 'you ignorant bastard' kinda way.
"Manako is not dead..." he muttered softly.
"Oh is she? I'm pretty sure she is, nobody could have survived that blast."
"You know nothing about what we are," Kokoro scolded. "Think of it this way, we have two lives. One on the physical plain, and one on the mental plain, the dreamscape."
"What?" Both Vegeta and Gohan asked in unison.
"How do you think Hitomi is doing any of this? All of this! By dying she gained more power than we could imagine. Manako, I assure you, is alive, and most likely very mad."
"No... no way..." Vegeta sputtered out. How was it possible? He actually helped that bitch? No way... no fucking way.
"Just live with it!" Kokoro yelled back at him.
"You always have to be right, don't you?" The three of them turned around to see Hitomi leaning against a tree smiling cruelly to herself.
"You!" Gohan said, his fist at his side shaking. He wanted to hurt her, to kill her.
"Who me?" She asked almost innocently, then she laughed a horrible cold laugh and her white eyes shone. "I'm almost done here... isn't that great?"
"NO!" Gohan cried tasking a step forward. "I will kill you before you hurt anybody else!"
"All you have to do is let me kill one more person... I'd be gone forever after that," she moved away from the tree. Her face almost took on a sad tone. "You're really that stubborn?"
"You're not killing anyone else," Kokoro said, and before anything else could be said or any reactions could be made, Vegeta jumped from behind Kokoro and flew towards Hitomi.
"DIE!!!" He yelled.
Hitomi just smiled and as he tried to kick her head in, she put up her arm, blocking him in his tracks. Her eyes shone even more with the anticipation of the kill.
"I'm even more powerful then my Otousan."
Vegeta took back his leg and tried to go at her with his fist, which she gracefully caught inches before it impacted with her head,
"Even more so than my Okaasan."
Vegeta kicked up trying to hit her chin, but by pushing off his fist she jumped into the air and kicked the tree. She landed beside him.
"Unlike both, I'm smarter, more determined."
This time he tried a roundhouse kick, but she jumped up and he hit the tree. It toppled over and she landed on it.
"And I will win."
Then her palm shot out and hit his nose right on, he flew backwards, his eyes full of shock. How could she be more powerful than him? Gohan and Vegeta held their breath as he fell. Kokoro simply glared on.
Vegeta was quickly on his feet; he would get her this time. But before the punch could be delivered, she had already kicked him in the side sending him to the ground.
"Wanna know something else funny Vegeta?" She asked mockingly as he got back to his feet.
He launched himself at her again. She grabbed his forearm, keeping their faces close.
"You killed the only person who could have killed me."
Then her head went forwards hitting his nose, and he stumbled back holding his face in pain, and anger.
Unable to watch anymore from the side, Kokoro ran forward. Hitomi wasn't Vegetas' problem, she wasn't Gohans' either. She was his problem. His responsibility. He would kill her once and for all.
The action took her by surprise; he gripped his hands together and hit her neck. She fell to her knees in pain, and then turned her head to glare at her 'father'.
"No..." Kokoro mumbled softly and took a step back. "Nin isn't there..."
"Hell no," Hitomi said jumping up to her feet. She grabbed Kokoro by the neck and threw him up against a tree. His face winced with pain. "I killed that bitch, like I'm gonna kill you."
"A vengeful soul... is a prisoner to themselves. You aren't free are you?" He asked quietly.
She pressed down harder on his throat. He could barely breath.
"I have more freedom than you will have when I'm done."
Suddenly her grip on his neck loosened and she fell into him, then two then fell to the ground. As Kokoro gasped for breath he looked up to a smiling Gohan with his hand out.
He took it and soon the he was on his feet again.
The three men looked down as Hitomi started to get back on her feet, anger surged through her blood. Didn't matter, they weren't letting her get back up.
Vegeta was the first to strike, kicking her in the stomach. The action sent her flying into the air, Gohan flew up and once he got before her, hit her with both hands sending her flying back down to Vegeta and Kokoro.
Before she could hit the ground Vegeta kicked her once more, this time in the head. And she went flying face first into a tree trunk that promptly spilt in half and she continued on until hitting the next tree where she slumped to the ground.
She looked unconscious. The three began to walk over to her body, and then she was suddenly on her feet. Her eyes filled with rage and tears or blood.
"WHY!?! WHY CAN'T YOU JUST LET ME DO THIS!?!" She cried out to them, then her hands flew up and a bright light surrounded them and they flew back. "I WANT TO BE FREE!!!"
Kokoro was the first to hit the ground, and as a result, the first back on his feet. His body really hurt, it felt like his ribs were broken. It hurt to stand, to breath, to talk. But all he had to do. He couldn't afford to loose.
"Free of what!?! You were free to begin with! You gave it up!!!"
"I fell in love!" She yelled and before Kokoro could do anything he felt her foot impact with his chin. That was it, that was the hit that put him out. Then she grabbed a hold of him before he could get back up.
*
He tired, and tried to not fall asleep. He looked through his room, and then cleaned it up. Listened to music, but Manson was too much now and everything else simply annoyed him. Videl, Chichi and others would check on him, tell him to sleep, and against his will, he finally did fall asleep.
He regretted falling asleep instantly.
It was all my fault. In the end, it's all because of me.
*
Gohan was thrown against a tree before he could get near her. She was done playing around and now they really stood no chance at all. Especially if Kokoro was unconscious and the katana lost. He was just so damned frustrated.
Vegeta was holding out. His hate kept him going, his pride drove him to succeed. No matter how futile it was he always felt like he was winning until he actually lost.
He managed to punch her stomach, but then she was on him, sending punch after punch into his face, stomach, his whole body. And she made each one count. He found himself unable to fight back, and then he was on the ground, unable to get back up.
She simply stopped punching him, she wasn't out of breath, in fact she was smiling. Taking the time he got back on his feet, and then he felt a sharp piercing pain go through the left side of his stomach.
As he looked down, he saw her arm, and his blood. She had stabbed him, gone right through him, with only using her arm.
She ripped her arm out, blood going everywhere, and then he fell to his knees. But he didn't fall over. She has holding his face.
"Gomen nasai Vegeta... I tried to avoid this... all of this..." she mumbled and let him fall over onto his face. His breathing shallow, he was still alive.
Gohan was on his feet then, his eyes filled with hate, anger and a want for revenge. She had gone too far, killed to many. She would pay.
His arms to his sides he began screaming to no end, and then the red aura flared around him, his eyes glaring and wanting blood. Her blood.
Hitomi only had time to look up when he punched her. She didn't go flying, but rather doubled over. She didn't get to hit the ground, Gohan kicked her and she flew into the air. He went after her.
In the air he delivered kick after kick, punch after punch, each blow finding its target and giving her immense pain.
"REVENGE IS A BITCH ISN'T IT!?!" Gohan yelled and delivered a final blow to her neck sending her flying down to the earth.
*
"Who's there?" Trunks asked the void, but got no reply. Instead he saw the dark outline of a man stepping towards him.
Once he was close enough for Trunks to make out his features, the man put a finger to his lips signalling for him to be quiet.
"She's out there," he whispered silently.
"She?" He asked whispering back.
I.
The womans' voice came again and suddenly and they were surrounded by sakura petals that slowly formed into a woman right beside them.
She had long blond hair, let loose about her. She had white eyes and wore a white skirt and a white blouse. Trunks first thought was, Hitomi. But as he gazed at her, he realized she was older.
Manako Yumemiru.
"What do you want!?!" Trunks yelled at her, wanting to lash out, but the man held his shoulder fast.
"Why are we here?" He asked silently, his face dark with anger and sadness.
To watch my dear Kokoro.
"You lost privilege to call me that Manako," he spat back.
"Watch what?" Trunks asked, deciding to ignore the 'lovers' tiff.
Watch Hitomi... she'll be here soon you know.
"You're the one who said you were to take the blame for this," Trunks muttered figuring it out finally.
Yes... I am.
Her voice sounded morbid suddenly.
"Why take the blame?" Kokoro asked, almost interested.
I gave birth to her... and I... I told her how to get revenge. She's a vengeful soul because of me.
"And you... you are a regretful one," Kokoro replied almost happily.
I would have stopped her. I would have...
"Come," he said pulling Trunks away.
"Wait," Trunks tried to protest.
KOKORO!!! DON'T LEAVE!!! SUMIMASEN!!! SUMIMASEN!!!
He continued to walk on, Trunks looked up at him confused.
I WAS BEING STUPID!!! YOU WERE ALL THAT MATTER!!! SUMIMASEN!!! KOKORO!!!
"Your eyes..." Trunks mumbled.
Kokoro brought a hand up and wiped away the tears that almost came.
"She's crazy," he mumbled and continued walking away. "And she's no threat to us."
Her cries soon cut out, and for a few seconds, the sakura continued to flutter around. Then they were gone... with her.
Gone, hopefully forever.
*
Hitomi began to crawl back onto her feat, a small crater around her from her impact into the Earth. Didn't matter, this body was dead anyway, soon it would begin to rot, but not before she got Ronald and killed him.
Maybe she was luckier than she though, because at that moment, none other than Ronald walked through the trees, and ran up to her.
He held her, careful not to move her because of her wounds.
"Are you ok?" He asked.
She nodded and smiled, her eyes closed. Soon...
Gohan landed behind him, the man looked up accusingly.
"What have you done to her!?!" He demanded to know, Gohan stammered.
"I... I..."
Soon...
"Sayonara..." she softly mumbled, and then she reached up and grabbed Ronalds' collar.
(Yes, Bra is still there looking on in fear. I can't have a little kid running around in a fight anyway. Well then, sorry this took so damned long to get out, sorry it isn't as long as it could be, and sorry that you have to wait for yet another week to discover the thrilling conclusion of "Yume Mi". SAME BAT TIME!!! SAME BAT CHANEL!!!
MOOWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Heh........ think stress got to me? Well... what to say? Dunno. Yeah, dunno about you, but I almost feel sorry for Manako. I mean, I hated her before, but now she's all fucked up like Hitomi, only she can do nothing but live with regret. No motivation... no love... course, she did bring it on to herself. Oh, I just can't hate one of my creations I guess. Anyhoo, I'm a wasting time writing this. Congratulations to Akiko-Chan for being to only one to give the correct answer, or even give an answer, as to where I live. Go you go!!! Here's a good quiz. Who is the Marquis de Sade? And what fun past time was named after him? Sayonara!!!)