"Ok, so your telling me, he's ME!?!" a bewildered Trunks asked, pointing from Mirai Trunks to himself.

"Yup," Gohen said with a grin. "I'm personally looking forward to having someone my own age to spare with."

"That's the reason I came back to this time period. So we'd be the same age, anyway, I like the idea of being older then my other self," M. Trunks grinned as he looked down at the seven-year-old copy of himself.

"Will you be going to school with my brother, Tru- umm… What do I call you?" Goten scrunched his face up in confusion.

"Mirai is fine," M. Trunk supplied, "and, yes, I will be going to school with your brother."

"So where are you staying? M-Mirai?" Trunks asked, feeling out his other self's nickname. He decided he like it. This is majorly weird! Another one of me, older and totally different!

"At Capsule Corps, silly."

"I guess that cool, although it'll take some getting use too, having another me around and everything."

"Same here, bro."

"Hey! I was here first!" Trunks laughed, maybe this would be fun after all.

"Of course, you were. But you know, were not really the same."

"What? I thought you said you were me?"

"I did, but I've had different experiences then you, so I came out differently. The core stuffs the same, but what we went through made us unique from each other. It almost like we're twins."

"TWINS! Yah, twins! With a ten year gape between us."

"True," Mirai grinned.

"Do you feel that!" Gohan piped up.

"What?" the Trunks said in unison. Goten gave his brother an inquiring look. He was pretty smart for a six year old and always wanting to learn more.

"I thought I felt a weird energy signal. But as soon as it appeared it was gone."

"I did too," Mirai Trunks responded, "but I think it was just my dad, I've been checking his key signiture since I've been here. I didn't want him to sneak up on me by accident."

"If it isn't, he'll call us if we're needed," Goku assured everyone. He had explained to M. Trunks how if any of the Z-fighters were in trouble they would send out a special ki pattern the fighters had all agreed on.

"Ok."

They all decided to go out and spar. Gohan and Goku took this opportunity to teach Goten some new tricks. M. Trunks sparred with his brother and purposely let him win the first time, but when Trunks became furious at Mirai for 'treating him like a baby,' Mirai decided against doing that again. Trunks seemed to be exceedingly happy when Mirai asked Gohan to spar with him. He was probably so happy because Mirai went Super Sayian. Gohan agreed and went Super Sayian also. They took high into the stay and started a friendly spar.

Trunks flew over to Goten as they all turned and watched the spar,. "I bet you my bro can beat your bro!" he challenged. Trunks had taken to calling the other Trunks his brother.

"Are you kiddy me? My bro could beat yours any day!"

"Oh yeah?"

"Definitely!" came the staunt defence.

"If your so sure, let's make a bet!"

"Sure, but it'd be your loss."

"Yeah right!" Trunks excliamed in disbeleif. "Whoever's brother wins, he get to have the other's desert next time we have dinner together. Deal?"

"Deal!" With that they sat back and watched the spar each rooting for his brother.

( O O O )

Vegita woke up again, slightly groggy and confused as to where he was. A pair of purple eyes were staring down at him framed by a mane of short dark hair. As his vision cleared, he realize it was a girl. Then what happened hit him like twenty of Goku's ki attacks. Oh heavens, he groaned, why me?

"Hey," came a tentative reply, "are you all right?"

Vegita spoke, his voice slowly rising, "Who the hell are you? What the hell is going on? Who the hell was that-"

"-woman is your mother, Vegita." she interrupted him. "I'm not exactly sure what happened. She doesn't like to talk about it much. She fell in love with your father and, during an unrepeated lapse in judgement, disguised herself and went to your planet, Vegita-sei. She continued to come down for short periods over the next three months. You have to understand, she was so lonely; none of us were awakened yet. She'd been alone for so long. King Vegita fell in love with her. After one night with him, she realize this was stupid. She couldn't interfere with this world-it was against the rules. So she left. Cronus had found out and was waiting for Setsuna when she got back. He gave her quite a talking. King Vegita was devastated, he called for a planetary, then interplanetary, search for her. But nobody could find a clue. It was two months later that Setsuna realize that she was pregnant. Cronus allowed her to go back and have her baby, but she would have to leave after she gave birth. By this time Vegita had given up all hope of finding her, so when she suddenly appeared in his chambers he was overjoyed and extremely suprised. Seven months later she had you and had to 'died' in child birth. She's watched over you ever since, although she's not able to directly interfere with your life. She taught Chibi Usa and I all about Sayian culture since we found it so interesting.

Anyway, what's going to happen with me? Your are going to take care of me, right?" She asked, stressing the 'are.'

Before he could answer her, Bulma came into the room blissfully unaware of what had happened. She and Chi Chi had gone shopping to celebrate her pregnancy. After her initial shock, she was actually quite happy to be having another baby. But she did hope it was a girl, she already had a boy. She had fixed the gravity machine to say thanks to Vegita and sorry that she'd blown up at him, but it really had been a shock first thing in the morning to be told you're having a baby! A girl was suppose to know that before her husband. Darn him and his ki-sensing ways!

"Oh, hello!" she exclaimed just then noticing the living rooms occupants. "Vegita, you should have told me. I didn't know we were having company!"

"Neither did I," Vegita muttered. Bulma gave him a funny look. "This is Hotaru. I have been charged with her welfare until she is able to return home. We're not exactly sure when that is, it could a few days or a few years."

"A few years!" both woman cried together.

"Surely it won't take that long will it?" Hotaru pleaded.

"How in this world am I suppose to know!" Vegita demanded.

"Anyway, ma'am, it very nice to meet you," Hotaru smiled pleasantly. "I made dinner. I hope you don't mind me using your kitchen. I was getting hungry and I thought Vegita might be wants some food to too. It's ready, so if you all want to sit down and eat, we could talk about this further in more comfortable surroundings."

"You made dinner? How sweet!" Bulma seemed delighted. "Great idea, let talk about this on a full stomach."

It ended up being a very good dinner, well that is until it was suddenly interrupted….

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