Yea, bored. But 4 chapters in one day is good…^ ^;;

Chapter4: A talk.

Trunks and his family had barely been home for an hour. Trunks did not know what to make of what he had seen that day. He kept getting flashes in his mind of Zara pinned to the wall of the dome shield, crying out in pain.

He sighed. He knew his father was rough and if his mother was not there then he would have a similar training regime but Sam was Zara's mother. She was supposed to stop that kind of thing from happening.

He heard a small cough and quickly looked up. Nobody was in his room but he had a feeling he was not completely alone. He turned round and looked out the window. There he could just about make out a figure in the opposite house. It was dark out side so he had to strain his eyes to get a clear view until they adjusted but he could definitely make out a small figure hunched over in the window. And was that crying he heard?

Then it dawned on him.

"Zara?" He asked, loader then he had intended. She looked up, obviously startled and wiping the tears furiously away.

"Who's there?" she asked the darkness. He stepped into view and her intense gaze was immediately on him.

"Hi…are you alright?" he asked. She simply stared at him, not sure what to do.  He took a step towards the window and she stepped away from hers.

"Um, are you ok?" he asked again. He could feel her eyes sweeping over him.

"Why?" was her response. Trunks sighed & jumped onto his windowsill. Zara backed up more, getting closer to the door. Once her back was pressed against it the doorknob started to turn.

"No! Wait!" he called. He had to talk to her.

"What?" she said fiercely. She did not like people finding her crying.

"I…I just wanted to know what was wrong…" Trunks muttered. She stared at him, questioning his reasons. Finally she spoke up.

"Why do you care?" it was now his turn to stare. Why did he care? Because what he saw wasn't right. Because it scared him. He was trying to work out how to tell her this when he remembered what he had seen and he paled.

"You were there?"  Came her panicked voice.

"Erm well…" he started.

"With a friend?"

"What? How did you…" he asked blinking.

"And then you told your family? So what? Haven't you ever seen a real training session or something?" she sounded angry. But why would she be.

"I…it didn't seem right and-"

"That's what we do! What's wrong with it?" she demanded.

"Your just a girl!" he cried. She blinked.

"Just a girl?"

"Yea…what I mean is your so young and…"

"Don't. I've had to put up with this for a year now. I can handle it…" she said, stroking a bruise on her face. He stared at her.

"But that means…" her nodding cut him off.

"I'm strong. I can do things. They said I needed training."

"What kind of things?" he asked. She sighed and her light turned itself on. She walked to the windowsill and sat down on it, staring in to his room. Then an action figure on one of the selves behind him came flying out of his room and into her fist.

"That kind of thing. And there's the mind reading thing…"

"Mind reading?" he asked. She looked at him as if he was stupid.

"Yea…you know. Hearing thoughts and stuff. Like how I knew you were there…"

"I know, I'm not stupid! I just thought that was kinda…"

"Impossible? Nope. Both my mom & me do it all the time. Everyone I've ever known has been able to do it." She said matter-o-factly. Trunks stared at her in disbelief.

"Wow, really?" he asked. She nodded.

"Uh-huh, father, Talius, Grund, then everyone else seemed to at least know how to send TP messages…" she trailed off thinking for a second. Trunks stared at her, not sure who she was talking about. Now she just seemed kind of sad.

"I'm fine." She mumbled and looked at him again.

"Where is your dad? I haven't seen him."

"That's because he's not here!"

"Why not?" he asked curiously. She shook her head.

"Because he is. I can't tell you why." She got down off her perch and walked towards the door.

"Hey, where are you going?"

"To eat." she said bluntly before leaving.

He stared after her. He was tempted to follow and question her some more but decided against it.

"After all, I don't need her mom biting my head off…" he muttered before heading downstairs.

~~~~~~

The next day Bulma was on the warpath. She had been trying to get Sam's attention for several hours and was now steaming mad.

"Why won't she talk to me?" she half yelled as she paced the kitchen.

"Maybe she wasn't in." Chichi mused. She had come over to help Bulma out when it came to talking with her neighbour.

"No, she was in." Bulma said, still pacing. That's when Trunks and Goten came running in and over to the back door.

"Hey! Where do you think you're going?" Bulma questioned. Trunks gulped.

"Erm, backyard." He said, not turning.

"Oh no you don't! Not with her next door!"

"Aw, but Zara's out there and I want to meet her…" whined Goten. Naturally Trunks had mentioned last night to him so now he was curious.

"Wait, the little girl is out there?" the boys nodded and Bulma ran out, followed closely by Chichi. The boys looked at each other then followed as well.

Bulma walked to the fence and looked round the garden. Sure enough there sat Zara. She had her back to them and seemed to be concentrating on what was in front of her. Bulma coughed but was ignored.

"Excuse me. Zara is it?" Bulma asked, trying to sound nice. Still no response.

"Hey! We're talking to you!" Bulma cried, obviously still peeved that she was being ignored.

A pencil that had been in front of Zara slowly spinning suddenly flew into a tree, getting stuck half way. She turned her head and stared at Bulma.

"Is your mother in?" Bulma asked, taking this as a queue to speak. Zara shook her head.

"She's out training." Zara said bluntly before looking over at her pencil.

"What? She just left you here alone?" Chichi asked in surprise. Zara sighed and nodded. Chichi and Bulma stared at each other and started whispering.

"She would leave her alone?"

"She can't be very responsible."

"We should watch her until she gets back."

"I wouldn't if I was you." Zara's voice said. She had gotten up and was now floating so that she was eye level with them. "Besides, I can look after my self."

"But you're so young…" chichi said. Zara was about to say something else when someone coughed behind them. It was Vegeta.

"She won't mind. I need to discuss something with her anyway." Vegeta said and looked over at the women who stared back confused.

Zara sighed and closed her eyes. A moment later she reopened them and floated over the fence.

"16 minutes."  She said before walking towards the back door with Vegeta. The boys followed leaving the women on their own, confusion set on their faces.

~~~~~~

A/n: ok, not as good as my others but I'm running out of steam for today. I know I was going to have Bulma and Chichi yell at Sam but I thought this better.

So, what did Vegeta want to talk to Sam about? Find out next time! R&R plz!