True Love Always Finds a Way

Disclaimer: I don't own Dragonball Z or any of the characters.

This is my first romance fic so don't expect too much from it right away. But I'm good with Trunks and Goten, so I don't think it will be that bad. This story is loaded with lots of sappy, fluffy, and sad moments with a healthy helping of Truten yaoi and very graphic descriptions of such things. There is also some yaoi/shota between Chibi Trunks and Goten, because I seem to be good with that as well. With that, you have been more than amply warned, but don't let it scare you away! Read on, you never know what you might find...

Prologue: Wishing on the Same Bright Star

The last remnants of the sunset faded and the first stars twinkled in the sky above New Vegeta-sei. The lights on the streets blinked to life, triggered by their attached photoreceptors and activity in the cities slowed. Amid the general bustle of the royal palace, a lone figure marched silently in a single direction. A pair of guards walked in the opposite direction, off to greet a returning raiding party. Another planet's inhabitants erased, another enlargement to the growing Saiya-jin Empire. Vegeta would be pleased. The guards suddenly stopped and bowed to the young prince marching past. He scarcely noticed their respectful gesture and honestly couldn't care less. A nearby light fell on his face, illuminating his lilac hair and shimmering cerulean eyes. His purple cape, replicated perfectly from traditional royal Saiya-jin garb, flowed about his familiar brown boots. He reached his room and shut the door before melting the lock with a small Ki blast. No interruptions this time. Seventeen-year-old Trunks walked to the open window and picked a bright star to make his wish on. One-hundred-thousand light years away, sixteen-year-old Goten picked out the same star from the other side of the galaxy and breathed a wish of his own.

Both of them wanted the same thing.

Both of them wanted to be together again.

Trunks choked back tears as he stripped out of his clothes and put on a Gi that he had made in secret. It strongly resembled the Gi he wore and fought in as a child and was designed just that way. It was his only reminder of his past, of happy times with Goten. Trunks thought about his arranged marriage to a Saiya-jin princess, but he wanted nothing of it. He was traveling light, the only thing he had besides his Gi was a half of a silver amulet on a chain around his neck. He knew exactly where the other half was: on the neck of his best friend. His one love. His companion for life that he hadn't seen in six long, painful years.

Goten.

His father would be furious if he knew what it meant. Or if he knew what his son was doing. The same two guards that had bowed to the teenage prince now lay dead, necks expertly broken. The door they were guarding slipped shut and a few seconds later a single Saiya-jin spacepod streaked to the darkness of space. Unnoticed.

The small, rocky planetoid so far away had lain unnoticed for a long time. The single colony thereon was lit by only a few lights in one building. Inside, a protective father that time forgot tried to comfort his one remaining son, but was unsuccessful. He walked off to start their dinner, leaving the boy at the window. Goten's hand moved down his ragged shirt to touch the half of a silver amulet on a chain around his neck. He knew exactly where the other half was: on the neck of his best friend. His one love. His companion for life that he hadn't seen in six long, painful years.

Trunks-kun.

The small spacepod kept its rapid heading, while inside the half Saiya-jin boy closed his eyes. It was going to be a long and dangerous journey with only his memories to comfort him. That and the knowledge that somewhere Goten might be thinking the same memories, which indeed he was.

Trunks and Goten. Friends, and so much more, forever. Their love had broken all boundaries, crossed all lines in years past. They were still children when circumstance and the cold hand of fate separated them. The power of their unending love was the only thing that could ever reverse that, and bring them together once again.