It was several months later and Zara was still on Earth. At least that's what Trunks had thought. She had been almost hiding in that small cottage for weeks now, just training.
He could remember what had happened that day when she decided to stay. They had all flown to capsule corp. where everybody had been waiting for them, even Goku. He had gone back to the tournament to get some answers from the others and since the Budokai was in shambles they had all gone back there. When Trunks and the rest of the group had arrived then everybody had fussed over them and given out senzus. Zara had stayed quite the whole time and it had been mainly Goten telling the story.
That was until Tank, Sam and Nitara showed up. It appeared that with the Lord gone Sam had been completely restored and now the little family wanted their daughter back. Tank had even threatened setting Nitara on them all. Not that it worked. Zara had gone into another room with him and they had argued for hours. Finally Sam told them to fight it out and they did. Apparently that's what they did when they had an argument; they fought it out and who ever won the fight won the argument.
But this fight had been roughly even all the way through. Neither had gotten an upper hand at least not until Zara had gotten truly frustrated with him and had thrown him through the wall of the GR. Zara had offered to help fix it and she did. That was the only time he had seen her for a week then afterwards he got nothing. She wasn't seen by anybody.
That's why Trunks was now flying at high speeds towards a certain mountain village. She lived in the forest around it so he was going there to check if she was still alive.
Finally he reached the little village and noticed two clearings in the forest. In one clearing was a cottage and in the one further up was a building that must have been the dojo. He went to the dojo.
There she was, just closing the place up and looking exhausted. Trunks smiled, thinking of startling her when she looked up at him.
"Don't even think it." She called up to him as he landed.
"Don't think of what?" he asked innocently. She just folded her arms across her chest.
"You know what. Besides, it wouldn't have worked anyway. I sensed you a mile away." She told him and started walking up the hill. He smiled and bounded after her.
She was silent going up the hill. Trunks decided it was because of her recent encounter with Kyaku. Something must have happened but he wasn't sure what. So he decided to just break the ice.
"So…how's training going?" he asked her as they walked. Zara glanced at him.
"The usual. I still can't seem to get back to that level I was on before. It's frustrating me to no end." She told him, her face contorting in frustration just thinking about it.
Right after she had powered down after her fight with Kyaku she couldn't power back to where she was before. All those anger spikes had completely gone. It seemed that she had some even when she had levelled off after Kyaku's attempt to get into her head and steal some power because now she was roughly at the same level as Vegeta. He may even be stronger then her now and that was just annoying.
"It must be. But I'm sure you'll get it back and probably a lot more as well if what your dad and that Kyaku guy are right." He told her as they came to the top of the hill. All that was up there was a single tree with an ancient tyre swing hanging from a branch. Zara sat on the edge of the hill where the slope was incredibly steep. Trunks joined her.
"To be honest I don't know if I want to get it all out." She told him. He looked slightly confused by this.
"How come?"
She sighed and the vision she had seen when Kyaku had been doing what he had intended. She stiffened at the thought and looked away. Trunks watched her with worry.
"It's just…something I saw when…you know. It just got me thinking. What if I do get everything out? What if I get all this power I'm supposed to have and I can't control it and become like how he wanted me? What then?" she asked. Trunks watched her then smiled.
"That all?" he asked. She turned to look at him and he continued.
"You may not have much control over your temper but you can still control yourself. When you were fighting that Lord guy you showed some of the best control over your powers that you ever have. And if you couldn't then I know that you'll train until you could. I'm sure that you have nothing to worry about." He told her she stared at him then at the beautiful view of the fields and forests below.
"Maybe," she said, "but I think I'm more afraid of this then anything else." She laughed at herself. Trunks shook his head while smiling and pulled her closer.
"It'll be fine." He told her. She smiled weakly at him.
I sure hope so…she thought as she remembered the vision that was going to haunt her forever. She sighed and pushed it out of her mind and the two settled into a different conversation about work and school. Trunks was expected to go to university next autumn and Zara needed a job.
"I got some money that we had been storing back in the old house. Mum had been emptying certain accounts that she couldn't get into until her 21st birthday and had been keeping the money in her room but I think most of it's gone. I can go without food for a long time thanks to a certain late adaptation but I'll need to spend the last of the money on food eventually." She explained and sighed. Trunks thought and came up with an idea.
"Why don't you work at C.C. You'd be able to get enough money until you find something better. Besides mum knows that you can do the job because of the job you did on the GR. She's been wanting someone to help her fix that thing when ever dad breaks it as well as other things in the lab anyway." He explained. She thought about it then smiled.
"Maybe I will. There's not exactly much I can do jobwise any way…but if I do get the job then it better not be because I'm a friend of the family." She said. Trunks laughed.
"I think she'd be more interested in what you learnt in space then the upsetting you." he told her. Zara smiled and agreed.
They talked for a little longer then eventually settled into watching the sunset as the evening reached the border into night, each wondering exactly what was in store for them in the near future.
End.
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A/N: ok, I'm done. So review and I might post some responses or something. Well I'm off to further plan my next story that will have a better over all plot then this. I'll probably be back sometime this week with it. Ja'ne!