"Ready?"

Ria looked up to Trunks and without a word stood and followed him up the stairs. Trunks stopped a few doors down and gestured with a sweep of his arms to the door next to him and grinned hoping at least to get a smile.

"Your room milady"

Ria smiled slightly and took a deep breath and looked at him, he really was trying, she smiled sadly.

"Thanks……don't mind me it will take a while for me to adjust to this" she stepped inside and closed the door leaving Trunks staring after her in the hall.

Ria sighed leaning against the door as she heard his steps retreating down the hall, and the sound of a door opening and closing.

So I'm now a genetic Saiyan instead of human, why am I even here! When did this all start?! Her last memory before all this was the strange rumbling in the temple and everything turning red then black.

"Dammit" she muttered and turned on the light in the room. On her left was the bed and a night stand, in lined with the head of the bed was a window and to her right a closet and next to the door a desk and another door that she presumed belonged to a bathroom. She went to the window and opened it. The night air was warm and welcoming; she breathed it in and let all her worries drain out of her. Sighing happily, she sat on the sill and looked out at the starry sky through the branches of the tree. A swishing of the leaves in the tree caught Ria's attention since there was no wind she focused as best she could and made out a form. She folded her arms irritated.

"So since I didn't let you in your gonna watch me from my window!?"

The figure stumbled a bit and came into the light just a few feet away from Ria and sat cross legged on the branch.

"No that's not what I was doing in here!" he blushed

"Oh so you where just watchin out for me a'? he nodded furiously "So then what were ya gonna do if I started to undress?" she ventured knowing full well he would probably fall out of the tree for that one or at least turn several shades redder.

"I wouldn't have looked" he sputtered turning redder

Ria giggled he's just too much fun to tease "Well then get in here" she moved away from the window. Trunks gave Ria a wary look and slipped through the window with ease.

"So what's on your mind then?" Ria asked eyeing the poor youth who was still trying to get his face to return to normal.

"Just worried about you…" he averted his eyes looking about the room as if trying to find something else to talk about.

"About me? ……why? I'm not that special" Ria laid back on the bed and stared at the ceiling let her eyes go unfocused till a blur of lavender caused her to blink and focus.

"You really think that?" he seemed hurt that she didn't think highly of herself. Yet this was the future version of Trunks who never known his hard as nails father and was raised by both Gohan and Bulma each with compassionate hearts. Ria propped herself up on her elbow and stared at him, his hair coming out of the pony tail, his blue eyes staring intently back at her.

"Its not that I have a low self esteem right now its just...eh I dunno maybe my brain finally snapped and I can go live in the padded room" she smiled weakly hoping that didn't go too far over his head.

"heh I doubt your crazy, but I would like for you to at least think of me as a friend, you can tell me anything"

"To many deaths" she whispered she didn't want to talk about it because it would cause tears and she didn't want to cry in front of him, even though a part of her pleaded to her to tell him. She looked over to the window hoping he wouldn't press it anymore.

He stood and looked back at her as she continued to look out the window.

"Death isn't an easy thing to deal with I had my share of it"

Ria sat at the edge of the bed looking up at him his eyes seemed veiled and dark she started to feel a tinge of guilt since she knew what he spoke of.

"Sorry……I didn't mean to hit a tender spot"

"Don't worry about it I was the one to start prying"

"Guess its one way to get to know someone" she mused.

Trunks nodded unsure of what to say he looked towards the window. Ria followed his gaze and an idea struck her and she grinned.

"Hey why not take a walk?" Trunks looked at her pondering the idea. "It's almost a full moon so we can see a little better"

"Alright then shall we take the window or the door?"

Ria shrugged and hoped the distance between the sill and the branch wasn't too far.

"Window it is" she grinned and crouched on the sill and lunged for the branch holding onto it.

"You know I could float ya down"

Ria looked at Trunks and stuck out her tongue "I'm fine" and swung to the next lower branch until she was on the ground.

"I could teach you to fly ya know" Trunks said just behind her causing Ria to jump.

"I like my feet firmly on the ground thank you"

"Oh so your afraid of heights then?

"I am not!"

"Are too!" he stuck out his tongue

"grrr why you!" Ria swung at him as he ducked and began to run after him as he continued to taunt her. This continued on into a small forest and the chase turned to more of a game of hide and seek. Ria perched herself in a high tree and watched the floor below her tail twitching. Somewhere along the way they had found a mud puddle, neither one escaped that clean. Ria chuckled softly as she remembered getting a nice size mud pie in Trunks face. Lost in thought she didn't notice Trunks near by till he pounced sending both flying out of the tree.

"Hey that was a cheap shot" Ria pouted as she tried to latch on to a branch but found herself free falling. But Trunks had planned on this and caught her easily.

"See you need to know how to fly"

"I'm being blackmailed here" Ria mock growled folding her arms

Trunks simply smiled and set them both down

"Oh alright then……you win"

Trunks smiled smugly. As Ria brushed off the dried mud and pulled out a few baby leaves that had gotten in her hair.

"So then were to now?"

Trunks shrugged and continued in a random direction Ria followed gaping slightly

"So then how would we get home?"

"Fly"

"sigh This is a walk not a midnight flight"

Trunks chuckled and continued on to a small clearing, there on the other side half lighted by the moon's light was an old building that looked strangely like the shrine she was in just before she came here.

"…"

Trunks looked back at Ria's questioning and surprised look and chuckled.

"I remembered you had said something about a shrine, and the only building that looks remotely like one is this one"

They continued across the clearing as they got closer to the shrine, Ria was starting to get an eerie sense of déjà vu, she followed Trunks inside and there in the center was the dragon statue that had been in the other shrine.

"I had an idea that the shrine had something to do with this"

"Still not sure exactly how though right?" asked Trunks as Ria ran her hand over the familiar brow and stared at it it cant be Shenlong he's dead in this timeline……isn't he?

"Maybe, you guys have something about this shrine at your place"

"Maybe….mom has a lot of things on file"

Ria stepped back out into the opening and continued to the edge of the woods when Trunks picked her up.

"I have a faster way" he stated and blasted off towards the house, with in a few minutes they were back at Capsule Corp. They went inside and found Bulma at the table sipping a cup of coffee. She stared at them a tad startled and then a devilish grin spread a crossed her face.

"And where were you too?" she asked sweetly

Poor Trunk's cheeks pinked and as did Ria's, but she still had her voice at least.

"Checking out a shrine that Trunks thought might be related to why I was falling out of the sky"

"Oh?" Bulma had obviously not thought that that was all they had done eyeing the both of them. Ria's hair was messed and had bits of twigs in it her cloths were ruffled and mud smudges scattered about. Trunks seemed to be in the same state, but was blushing even more then before now that he noticed he was under his mother's scrutiny. Ria looked from Bulma to herself to Trunks and laughed.

"Wow we really look bad……we just got into a mud fight along the way"

"Uh huh if that's what you kids are calling it now"

Both Ria and Trunks sighed

"That's not what happened" they stated at the same time, they blinked and looked at each other

Bulma gave them that look that clearly stated sure I believe you, "alright so what did you want to know about that shrine"

"Basically everything" Ria shrugged

"Well at one time it was place for young women to commit Seppuku just in front of the statue of Shenlong in order to keep honor in the family"

Ria cringed "That would be quiet the mess"

"Actually no, the odd thing was that after the act was done their bodies disappeared"

"Strange……well thanks a lot…..now I think I should get some sleep, night" she grinned nervously and jogged up to her room. Not wanting to answer any of the questions she knew Trunks would ask and to escape from the odd looks in their eyes. They probably think I was committing suicide and that Shenlong brought me here as part of the powers the shrine has