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All DBZ characters belong to Akira Toriyama.
The other ones belong to me :p
YELL
" Someone has taken the idea of revenge a little bit too far "
Chapitre TWO : "I Trust You"
23h11, Satan University Domain.
Goten took the bend, leading to the domain. He was a little bit drunk, but had judged that he was able to drive. He had taken with him 4 other students much more drunk, pretending to lighten Trunks' work.
The first thing they noticed was the revolving lights around the Fraternity house. Goten clenched his teeth and parked suddenly the car. "If they see me driving in that state, I'll get a nice night in jail and my driving license canceled…".
The others nodded, but wondered what was going on in the domain. They all burst out from the car and began to - try to - walk calmly as if nothing had happened, trying – hard – to hide their staggering steps.
They noticed unpleasantly the presence of two ambulances.
Goten moved forward carefully until the police cordon. He noticed two ambulance drivers who were closing a dark pack, containing someone who would never bother anymore of the hospital-bill, as the next 'house' of the person would be the morgue. He gulped with difficulty. Near the second ambulance, Goten noticed a shape curled up in a brown blanket as policemen around it were asking questions.
One of the cops moved away, and Goten recognized purple hair. *Thanx God, he is alive !*, he sighed with relief as he was passing beyond the police cordon.
"Hey ! You !"
A hard hand landed on his shoulder. Goten released himself rapidly from the grasp in a defensive position that the cop identified as a kind of king-fu. "I live here ! Lemme pass !! The guy there is my buddy !".
He managed to pass besides the cop and rushed near Trunks. The first thing he noticed was the completely frantic look his friend had. He didn't seem to hear what he was told, and his look was empty.
"Trunks ?"
Trunks blinked, without much leaving his immobility, but Goten knew Trunks had heard and recognized him. The almost-total lack of reaction in the young man exasperated Goten and he put his hand on Trunks' shoulders to shake him slightly : "Trunks !! What's going on ?!"
"Do you know him ?", a calm voice asked behind Goten.
Goten half-turned to the man, his hands still on Trunks' shoulders : "Of course not… I was just walking around ! I saw the lights, and I thought there was a party !"
He breathed deeply : "Of course I know him ! What a silly question !", he turned totally to the man, while putting a protective arm around Trunks' shoulders : "Who the hell are you ?"
The man in front of him seemed to be in his last forties, a thin face, brown angular eyes and gray hair. He was wearing along gray raincoat, and had an apparently relax attitude, but each of his movements seemed to have been carefully prepared.
"Sergeant Hayden, criminal section. Your friend is our main witness in a murder affair."
Goten turned back to Trunks, with an horrified look on his face: "… a murder ?… Trunks… are you hurt… ?"
Trunks had again the empty look. Goten's fingers contracted on Trunks' shoulders : "Trunks !! Are you hurt ?!", he almost shouted.
Trunks lowered his head, and shook it slowly. Goten considered him for awhile, then told with a voice that he wanted reassuring : "I think you'll have to interrogate him later, you can see he's not well." He leant over Trunks : "You need to see a doctor…", he took his cell-phone : "I'm gonna call Gohan…"
"It's useless…", Trunks whispered with a dull voice, "he's already there…"
A purely childish surprised expression appeared on Goten's face as he was turning his head from right to left, trying to locate his brother : "where ? I didn't see him when I arrived… Why he's not with you ?"
" "Why am I not with him" would be a better question I think…", Trunks sighed, looking away.
Goten watched him with an astonished face.
"He is … in the other ambulance", Trunks managed to tell, trying to find out how to announce it to Goten.
"Ah, ok, he's busy with the other hurt guy, right ?", Goten told quite. Then he seemed to think about it : "Hold on, I saw they were tossing a body fit for the mortuary in the other ambulance. What's my brother doing ? He's not a coroner… !"
"Gohan Son was your brother ?", Hayden asked then.
Goten frowned : " "was" ? How that, "was" ? Gohan IS my brother !", he told with a suspicious tone.
Hayden took his breath, then announced with an emotionless voice : "Gohan Son, doctor at the Satan City Hospital, is deceased this evening at 22h04."
"What ?", was all Goten managed to say with an unbelieving voice.
"I am sorry", Hayden told, even if no expression was shown in his voice.
Goten turned to Trunks : "What is this… ?!"
Hayden ignored Goten and talked to Trunks : "You're not in a hood shape to talk tonight… But I count on you to tell me more tomorrow."
Trunks raised his head, looking exhausted : "I already told you all I knew… I haven't seen who the guy was, I know neither what he used to kill Gohan, nor from where he was calling. I just heard his voice, and NO, I didn't recognize his voice, and YES I would be able recognize his voice with no problemo !!". He added, more for himself : "I've got the feeling that this voice is gonna haunt my dreams for the rest of my life…"
Goten was still, mouth open, seeming unable to say a word, apparently needing time to digest the information.
Hayden shook his head, with a pensive look, then added : "I'll see you tomorrow for more details… The night brings advises, and perhaps will you remember of a detail, even tiny, that could help us to progress."
He leant over Trunks : "but Trunks… if you're more than a witness – and even if you seem to suffer from his death – I'll discover it soon…". His tone seeming first almost comforting, had become transformed into a tone heavy of threat.
Goten and Trunks glared at him, mouth open… Trunks couldn't believe he could be suspected. Goten grumbled in Hayden's direction as the sergeant was moving away : " "main witness" or "main suspect" ?"
Hayden half-turned and slightly smiled : "In such an affair, it sometimes means the same…", he turned away and walked his way.
Goten had still an arm around Trunks' shoulder and felt he was completely tensed. He turned to him and whispered : "Keep calm… I know you didn't do it…"
Trunks frowned and turned to him a glare full of questions.
Goten gulped : "C'mon ! First of all, you're not a match for my brother…"
Trunks narrowed his eyes. Goten smiled. He had touched a sensitive string. Undoubtedly, the genes of the royal Saiya-jin family were tenacious. He went on : "And also… I know you had no reason to kill my brother. I trust you.", he added with a friendly slap on Trunks' shoulder.
Trunks almost smiled…
Almost…
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Okie, and here we are for a second chapter :)
Many thanx for all of you who recognized the story from the Future Trunks Domain, I was really happy ^___________^
*starts crying of joy* :,-)…
Yes, the story continues… By the time this story will here reach the same point than in the original website, chapter 14 will be done :)
(there are more than 20 chapters planned so the story is waaaaaaaay far from being over :p but you can still try to guess who is/are the murderer(s)... ;)
I'm thinking of something to send to the winners… :)
