AN: Here some more of this. In addition to having my laptop on the fritz my computer is also going to be fixed. That means more new stuff for you guys. So enjoy!
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"Well that does clear up some things." Toran listened intently to what Pan had to say about his families history as he cleaned the last dropped of ice cream sundae from it's bowl. He leaned back into the semi-circle cushion seat, in heavy thought. Some things like his strength, speed, and the tail.
After talking with Matsuri's uncle Tosei, he'd found Pan asleep in her office, deciding to let her rest he had take a seat and nodded off as well. They'd slept most of they day away, and she was a pit peeved that he hadn't just woken her up, but nothing serious.
Pan had taken him to a near by ice cream parlor so the could sit for a while and have a snack too.
It's shocking to learn you're part alien but for some reason it didn't surprise him as much as it should have. It explained his love of fighting, his appetite, and his unnatural speed, among other things. Definitely the tail. He decided to keep that bit of info to himself.
"An here I thought there was something wrong with me for always eating so much."
Pan licked her sticky fingers clean, the impish look back on her features. It was way better than the sadness she had had around her earlier. She should smile more he hated causing her sadness.
"Just wait till you see our families eat all together. Limbs have been known to be lost in such a frenzy." She said laughing.
"Tell me more about my family," he asked shyly.
"You have a younger sister Bra, she my best friend, who looks exactly like your mother just younger. You definitely have your parents good looks." She told him, looking down at the empty bowl in front of her.
A slight blush crept across his cheeks. Good thing she wasn't looking. 'Cute ' he thought with a small grin.
"Your mother's a genius, technology wise as well as a good business woman. Your father is the same only he excels in fighting strategy, he the strongest person on the planet, no doubt. He's as stubborn and as proud as they come. They both are in some ways. It's funny they're always arguing but it's the way the are, they love each a lot and they always express themselves loud and clear."
"Your best friend was my uncle Goten, you two got into so much trouble when you were younger. Your moms use to call you the Terrible Twosome when you were growing up. He owns a small dojo near here, the best one in a Sataan city." Pan added proudly.
She stopped to think a bit, biting her lip, as if debating with herself." You did have a fiancée before you left," She paused to she his reaction, a blank look. "Her name was Marron, she was a good friend too. She waited for two years waiting for you to come back but she gave up hope. She got married eventually, tried of waiting."
Pan fiddled with the edge of a napkin unable to look him in the face. "Bulma, your mother, gave up too, she was so heart broken... After that the police stopped searching too. And then one by one all our friends stopped too. Th-they didn't think you'd come back. I kept searching, your father too." She was on the verge of tears again, he hated himself for bring such pain to these people, to the sad angel who sat in front of him. "It was like you were dead." she continued voice trembling, she turned her face away but he could see a tear slipping down her cheek. "They missed so much, I missed you."
Feeling the need to comfort her somehow, he gently reached out to wipe away her tears. "I'm sorry, Panny."
What ever it was he said, it just made more start to silently fall from her soft brown eyes. He moved over closer to her and let her cry on his shoulder gently hugging her delicate frame. He'd just met her this morning and it was already killing him to see her in pain. "I'm here, Panny. Please don't cry, your gonna make me start." He joked
She giggled through her sniffles she wiped the rest off her tears away. "That's better," he said coaxing her into a better mood.
"I'm sorry Trunks, here I am bawling all over you and you barely even know me. You have nothing to be sorry about." She chuckled, "I don't cry this much normally, in fact I've never cried twice in the same year much less day, till now." She blushed slightly after saying that.
He laughed at her cute blush, "I must be pretty special to make a girl like you cry twice in the same day." he glance down at her.
Their eyes locked for a moment, those beautiful brown eyes had trapped him in a hypnotic spell, and it made him quite aware of how close they were; his arm was still wrapped around her protectively.
She was so beautiful, but so sad...those eyes gazed at him enticingly; his eyes flickered momentarily to her soft pick lips...
He mentally slapped himself, calmly backing away from the siren.
What was that? He thought removing his arm and scooting over back across from her. This intense feeling had washed over him before he'd even know it, taking him by complete and utter surprise.
Breaking the moment he struggle for words, "S-so what about you?"
You didn't tell me about your self, Pan."
He asked half wanting to break the awkward moment, half curios wanting to know more about the dark haired woman.
"Me? I'm nobody special. We were friends, good friends. We'v- I've known you since I was a little girl." She said forcing a smile. It didn't quite shine like the others. It was sad again.
'Only friends? Hmm... Just a friend huh. Must have been some fiancée if I ignored this girl.' Toran's blue eyes narrowed a bit thinking deeper into what ifs and whys he didn't know (or remember).
An awkward silence fell between them for a moment.
"Do you want to meet your family?" Pan asked a little nervously, he'd gotten so quiet for a minute. Toran if possible got even quieter.
"I...I don't think I should." he said turning away, when he finally answered.
"What? But why?!" Pan demanded more than a little shocked. A determined look came over her features. "This is your family we're talking about? They'd love to have you back, why don't you want to see them?" They've been missing him for five years not knowing what had become of him and he refuses to go see them. He'd better have a good reason.
"Pan let me explain before you jump to any conclusions. I've been gone from their lives for years, and from what you've been telling me, everybody seems to be moving on if I came back now I'd only disrupted everything they have been putting back together.
I'd love to get to know my family, but I can't remember them, I think it'd just be more painful to have a loved one come back and them not remember..."
"Trunks..." He raised a hand to stop her.
"I'll see them again someday soon, I know it. But for now I'd really appreciate it if you didn't tell them I'm here. Just for now?"
Pan reluctantly nodded, then something dawned on her, a nagging sensation that had been pulling at her since see sat down for ice-cream with him, "Your ki!" she blurted suddenly.
"My Wha?" he got this confused expression that made him look terribly adorable. She giggle at the cute expression, "It the energy signature that each individual has, it's how our families would locate each other, no matter where they were."
He nodded; He must have still known how to find ki's. It was the first thing I did when you disappeared, trying to find your ki signature. I just realized now that it's suppressed so low it blends it with human one, that so odd."
The confused look again, " Yours is or was one of the highest on the planet, it being this low technically should have killed you by now."
She frowned, and then shrugged "Oh well."
Trunks look at his watch, "It's getting late, we should get going. Do you want me to walk you home?" She laughed envisioning them walking all the way out to her parents house, she abruptly stopped seeing his confused face.
"That's sweet of you, but I'm suppose to go see my parents this weekend, they live really far out."
He stood up, "Okay then Panny, see you later." He walked off giving her one last wave as he exited the ice cream parlor.