Hey peps! I know, I know......It's been forever, and I am truly sorry, and I know that you all hate me now. cowards in corner while angry mob of readers comes after her with pitch forks, knives, porky pines and other assorted pointy objects But hey, it was for a good reason. I mean, I had two options, work on my fanfiction, get bad grades and do Summer school. Or delay the writings for a while, get good grades and not do summer school. So, at least I don't have to take Summer school. And I can work on my fanfiction all summer long! I've already gone on all my "planned" vacations too. So, I'm clear for the rest of Summer break......for the most part.
Oh. And I come baring good news! I'm about to have a big story up dating party, (because I am so horrible to my readers I want to do something to apologize and show my gratitude.) it will be sometime within the next week (or so) cough. I will update all my current stories at the same time; "Attack of the Killer Wiggle Chicken", I think it's titled "Saiyan Boredom and Depression, SUGAR and BEER!", and yes the long awaited and put off "Your Mom!" And possibly even have the first chapter to my new fanfiction about Videl and Gohan and what happened after the Buu saga. I know it's been done dozens of times before, but I've never read one that's really like mine, at least in any big ways. It will be titled "The Unexplained Love" or Romance. Which sounds better?.....
That was a long author's note, sorry.
This chapter focuses more on the Briefs family then anything else. And yes, it is kind-of boring......sadly...... -- ......
AC My End
Chapter 5
A little Mom and "Future" Son Time
Trunks knocked lightly on the door to his "past families" house. He heard a feminine voice coming from inside.
"Coming!" It sounded like his Mother.
The door was unlocked and opened to revel who he'd predicted it to be, Bulma.
"Hel......" She stopped mid word. She was surprised to see that it was Trunks at the door, she didn't know what he was going to do after the fight, whether he was going to go back to the future right away or come back to Capsule Corp. and stay for a while. She was also a little shocked that he didn't have any cuts, bruises, or broken bones.
Trunks smiled and said, "Hey." In a relaxed voice though he wasn't very relaxed, he was actually a little nervous. He was planning on spending the night with his whole family including Mini him and besides his Mother he didn't really know any of them and they didn't really know him either, he was a little unsure as to how it would all work out. Plus the dazed look on his Mother's face and the way he had been greeted by her seemed a little weird and made him feel almost uncomfortable.
Bulma stared at him for a moment before smiling back. She still wasn't completely use to seeing her son's future self, one reason she was a little dazed at first. Not to mention that the last time she had seen him was in the heat of battle on international TV. She was relieved to see that he was alright.
She casually leaned against the doorway and her smile turned into a smirk.
"Your hair grew again." She said playfully.
Trunks smile widened and he let out a chortle.
"Yeah, it did......"
There was a pause moment before Bulma asked a question.
"How did you manage to get away without any cuts or anything?"
He looked down at his body.
"A-O-Oh, well" He stumbled over his words a bit. "Actually I died." He said with a goofy smile and his hand scratching the back of his head.
"What?" Bulma asked with a cocked eyebrow.
"Well, it's a long story and I'll tell you the whole thing later but basically Cell caught me off guard and killed me and then after the fight was over they took me to the look out and I guess since I've never been brought back to life by the DragonBalls before they were able to wish everyone who'd been killed by Cell back to life, and that included me." Trunks got it all out in one breath. He looked at his Mom for the first time since he had started rambling, she looked like she was lost and confused
She stared at him in a thoughtful state for a moment and then looked at his feet .
"Whatever." She finally said with a smile while trying to brush away her slight confusion. "You can tell me later, like you said." One thing that had always been a little weird about Bulma, was that no matter what the situation was things never seemed to get to her, unless the "situation" or talk was in some way negative about her or embarrassing to her.
"Besides," She hoisted herself off of the door way and stood upright again. "All that matters is that you're safe......Welcome home." She said, while opening her arms to invite him for a hug.
Trunks was a little hesitant, but the thought of hugging his mom sounded so nice. She was the only real family he had in the future and he missed her a lot. How much different could a younger version of her be? Either way, she was still the same person, his Mother.
He gave in and tightly wrapped his arms around her. He was hugging her so tight though, that he was starting to squish Bulma. But she didn't do anything to break the hug, she knew that he needed it.
Trunks felt so good to be this close to someone and actually hugging them, it was the first hug that he had received in a long time. Even though he was and always had been close to his Mom, they often times weren't on the best of terms, and it was mostly because of stress, not agreeing with about each other's opinions and from knowing that the androids were out there somewhere, destroying homes and lives. And from knowing that you always had to be on guard, cause you'd never know where or when they'd show up next.
While Trunks was thinking about the future, his past, he realized that he was hugging Bulma a bit too tight and quickly released her.
She took a deep breath and sighed. Trunks blushed a bit,
"Sorry," he said with a small smile of embarrassment.
She shook her head, and motioned for him to follow her, "Oh don't apologize, I've had worse from your Father."
Trunks was confused and thought back on what his Mother said to make sure that he had heard her right.
"You mean......Dad hugs you?......" He asked while following his Mom into the large building.
Bulma stopped and turned around. She hadn't thought of the consequences when she had said it.
"Well, not quite like that, ya know what I mean?" She asked a little embarrassed.
Trunks stared at her for a moment trying to understand what she was getting at. Bulma kept motioning with her eyes for him to look over at the right wall. He looked over in the direction she was hinting at and saw a painting on the wall of tow lovers being kind-a "touchy feely"......And then it hit him.
"......Oh......" He said in a low voice.
Bulma smiled and continued walking. "And even at that, Vegeta and I haven't come into very close contact recently. Huh, I think the closest we've been to each other in the past couple months is like, 3 feet." Bulma said it all with surprisingly good humor. You'd think that a women would be mad from her "man" not wanting to come into close contact with her.
Trunks felt a little awkward about the conversation, but decided that silence would feel even weirder. So since they were already on the subject, he decided to ask her a question that had been in the back of his head for a while.
"So, a......" He started. "Did you and Dad I mean, Vegeta ever get married?"
They came to the living room and Bulma plopped herself down on a leathery white couch that was right by Baby Trunks, who was in a play pin. Baby Trunks let out a little squeal of delight and Bulma gave him a baby toy that had been lying on the couch cushion next to her. Trunks also sat on a white leather couch, but it was set at a different angel which, from an Arial view, the couches would make the shape of the letter L.
"Well, first of all, he is your father, don't hesitate to call him Dad. But, to answer you question, actually, yes we did." She finished and laid back against the couch , but she didn't understand why he had asked her. "Why do you ask?"
Trunks looked down at his hands and thought for a moment about what to say.
"Well, you never actually got married in the future, you just had me and......well, I actually don't know what happened after that. Except for that he was killed by the androids when I was a baby"
Bulma was a little surprised.
"Huh, I wonder why that is?" She said placing her chin in her hand and her elbow on the arm of the sofa.
"Well," Trunks said. "there's already some stuff that's come to my attention about this time period being different from mine. Like android 16 didn't exist in the future, and neither did Cell. And it all had to do with my coming back in time. But I find it kind-a weird, considering that I never came into contact with Dr. Gero or anyone he really knew. I probably caused some sort of chain reaction starting with Goku, Dad and everyone. They probably ended up doing something that they didn't originally do in my future and impacted someone in some way, and then that someone impacted another someone and so on and so forth. But it all turned out all right in the end, for the most part." He explained.
"Oh......" Bulma said. "That must be it I guess." She smiled and picked up a cup of coffee that she had been drinking since before Trunks got back.
"So......" Trunks said. "Do you and dad get along?" He had always wanted to know that. His Mother had always told him that he was a hard one to deal with, but that she could tell that he loved her. Even if he never showed it, and now that he had seen and talked to him in person, he had a little trouble seeing how anyone could get along with him very well, at least in such a close relationship.
Bulma put down her coffee.
"Well, yes, but at the same time no." She finished there with a smile, almost like she was trying to confuse him.
Trunks "was" again confused.
"Wha'dya mean?"
It's......" She started. "sort-a on and off, and it's been a little off for the past couple weeks, or months." She paused for a moment. "I know you've probably heard this from me before, but, it started out as more......an affair......" She smiled a bit, seeming to be thinking about something.
"Yeah,"Trunks laughed. "I've heard that before."
"Yeah, well......" She almost whispered while picking up her cup and just holding it in her lap and staring into the brown thickness of the coffee.
"We actually started out hating each other with a passion. But as time went on, things changed......" Bulma let out a snort for a short laugh. "In fact, the only reason really, we even got married, was cause we found out I was pregnant. And, I didn't want to tell my parents that I was pregnant with the baby of a man I had an affair with. It just, wouldn't have been fair to them, they'd raised and taught me better. So, it was all my idea, I, basically forced your father to marry me. And believe me, he wasn't at all in favor for the idea. But, even so......I felt that, there really was something there. I mean, if he really wanted to, he could have just, left, gone away or even have hurt me if he wanted to. But he never laid a finger on me......" She stoped for a moment and looked at Baby Trunks. He smiled with a line of drool starting at the right corner of his mouth and going all the way down to his chin. She smiled at her Baby, then at her future son and then back to her coffee cup.
"Really, as far as I'm concerned, he does care......he's just too Damn proud and stubborn to admit it, or show any emotion......yet." She felt very strongly about that, and she was right about it too.
Trunks was really amazed by this information. All these years, he had never known anything about his father, he had always asked his Mother and Gohan, but never got much out of theme, except that he was stubborn, arrogant and proud. And now here he was, getting all his questions about his father answered by a younger version of the same women that never was, for some reason or another, able to answer the same questions.
"Wow Mom." Trunks started. "I'm getting a lot more out of you then I ever got out of......a, you, before.....Well, the future you." Trunks said with a smile.
Bulma let out a giggle. "Gets a little confusing sometimes, huh?"
Trunks scratched the back of his head and let out a chuckle.
"Oh, just a little." He said sarcastically.
"Oh, but Mom, guess what Dad did after I died." Trunks said excitedly.
"What?"
"Yamcha said that he went completely out of controle and just attacked Cell! I didn't believe it when Yamcha told me, but it's true." He thought back to when he had died, and wondered just what exactly his father had done after that.
Bulma was a little baffled.
"My God......" She whispered. "Huh, I don't belive it, wow......
They laughed a bit for a few more seconds before Trunks decided to ask another question.
"So, uh, Mom?"
She took another sip of her coffee and set it back down on the coffee table.
"Yes?"
"Well, um, this is kind-a an awkward question and it's not really any of my business, but a......" He started doing weird things with his hands, like he was trying to pull the words out of his mouth.
"Gosh Trunks, what is it?" Bulma giggled.
"......If, you guys got married only after you found out you were pregnant with me......" He hesitated for a moment.
"What sweetie?" Bulma asked one more time.
"What was it that pushed you, the two of you, to have sex......" He stared at the floor for a moment before looking over at Bulma, she smiled, and looked like she was trying to hold back a laugh.
She did let out a slight giggle but it didn't last long.
"Lust." She confessed.
"Lust?" Trunks asked.
Bulma nodded. "Uhu. Pure lust, we just both found each other attractive. And we're both just horny. I have a high hormone level, the kind that can get girls into trouble. And Vegeta, Vegeta's just horny, like a lot of men are, but it's even worse when there're a Saiyan." She winked at Trunks, who blushed. He knew what the wink was for. He too was a half Saiyan, there for he will at times act like a Saiyan.
Trunks looked a little uncomfortable.
"A little too much info? Right." Bulma asked.
"Oh, just a little." Trunks smiled.
"Sorry sweetie. But hey," She said while getting up. "You asked, and I delivered."
She picked up Baby Trunks and started talking baby talk to him while she walked over to sit next to Future Trunks.
"Yeah," Trunks started. "I asked for it. But, I just wanted to know what it was......you know what I mean? Like, what did you see in him?" He asked.
"Well, nothing really, and I told you Trunks, it wasn't BAM! Love right off the bat, it was just attraction." She started bouncing Baby Trunks up and down on her upper legs.
"Well, that's not exactly what I was trying to ask, let me rephrase that. What I meant was, Dad just seems so, and is, just so like you said, arrogant and proud, stubborn, and aggressive. He doesn't strike me really as someone who would care for anyone other then himself. I mean, what did you ever see in him? Like, what came after that? What do you see in him now?" Trunks finished.
Bulma stared at Trunks for a moment.
"Oh, well......now......now, I guess, I see that......Well, I don't really know......But see, this is gonna sound really stupid but, what I see I guess is that, he's like a great strong headed, aggressive, proud and wild Stallion. He wants to be the head of the heard, and wants all the other horses to know that it's either his way or these gonna be hell to pay. But, at the same time, I know that Stallion can be tamed. I just need to real him in, give him a place where he can feel comfortable, break him in and show him that he doesn't need to be the "almighty and powerful leader", ha......" Bulma's analogy was true, but it did sound kind-a funny and stupid like she said it might.
Trunks found it rather amusing and let out a small chuckle.
"Stop laughing!" Bulma demanded as she picked up a couch pillow and gently hit him with it.
"I told you it would sound stupid." She said.
Trunks grunted. "Yeah but, it's just kind-a funny that you'd relate Dad to a horse. Haha, a great stallion." He was rubbing it in, but it was all in good humor.
Bulma whipped some drool off of Baby Trunks mouth.
"Well, it's true, and it's a perfectly good analogy, even if it is a little stupid." She smiled at future Trunks, who smiled back and brushed a hand through his long purple hair. But he didn't make it very far, his fingers got stuck halfway between the beginning and end of his hair.
"Oops......" Trunks said to himself.
He struggled to get them free but they only got more tangled in the purple mass of hair. 'I should have brushed my hair.' He thought.
Bulma watch with amusement while Trunks struggled. Even Baby Trunks seemed to be watching him.
"I think you could use a hair cut." She said with a giggle.
"That wouldn't be a bad idea." Trunks said with a little humor but frustration at the same time.
Bulma got up and set Baby Trunks down on the couch.
"I'll go get the scissors. Will you watch Trunks, a, Trunks?" Bulma asked.
"Oh, sure no problem I'll just sit here." He smiled and Bulma walked into the kitchen.
Trunks could here a drawer opening.
"Do you want anything to drink or eat? You must be starving." Bulma asked as she got out the scissors and closed the drawer.
"A, yeah sure, why not? I am pretty thirsty." Trunks yelled back.
"I thought you'd say that." Bulma opened the refrigerator door. "Ya know, it was up in the hundreds today, and that was just here, it must have been scorching hot out in that open dessert, and in those body suits. Not to mention you were fighting and working up a sweat. Must have felt awful." She got out a large pitcher of juice and some left overs and put it all on the counter and began to prepare them for serving.
"Yeah," Trunks answered back. "It was pretty uncomfortable. But when you're in a life or death situation like that, you just gotta ecnor it." Trunks looked down at mini him, who was about to fall over the edge of the couch. He reach his "free" hand out and stopped him from going any further. He then gently pushed Baby Trunks back into the couch so that he'd land on his bum.
Once the task was complete, future Trunks continued.
"But, I felt more sorry for Gohan then anyone else. He fought longer then any of us did. And not just heat, I mean, he's just a kid too." He was trying to work his way up to telling her that Goku was dead. But he didn't know, that she already knew.
Bulma came out into the living room with a big platter of assorted foods, a pitcher of juice and a pair of scissors.
"Yeah," Bulma said. "How's Gohan taking it?"
Trunks was a shocked. 'Does she know that Goku's gone?' He asked himself.
Bulma set the platter down on the coffee table and moved it closer to Trunks so that it would be in arms reach of him.
"I mean, how's he taking......Goku's death?......" She asked it in almost a whisper.
"How'd you know about that?" Trunks asked surprised and curious. "I thought the camera broke before any of that happened."
Bulma stood still infront of Trunks for a moment before saying anything.
"I went, over to Roshie's to watch the "Game". And after we couldn't watch any more on the TV, the only way possible we could even have a sense of what was going on, was for Roshie to feel out everyone's Energy. And, Roshie said that Goku's disappeared......so......" Bulma sounded quiet and almost apologetic, almost like she was going to cry.
"Mom?" Trunks asked concerned. "Are you okay?"
"Oh yeah I'm fine......" She picked up Baby Trunks, walked over to his play pin and put him back in. She placed her hands on the bar handles of the play pin and leaned against it, her back facing Future Trunks.
Bulma sniffled a bit. "He just didn't deserve it. Neither of them did." She stood there a few seconds longer, getting her bearings.
"It's just not fair." She said while turning around and walking towards Trunks. She stopped at the coffee table and looked up at Trunks, who's hand was still tangled in his hair.
Bulma smiled and looked down at the scissors on the table.
"Well," She said, sounding a little more cheerful. "If I know Goku, I know that he wouldn't want us to be morning over him. He'd want us to be celebrating, celebrating the good part of what happened....." She bent over and picked up the scissors, and held them up to her face. She turned it side to side looking at her reflection in the shiny metal. "He always did look at the Bright side of everything......I just hope Gohan and Chi-Chi can find the bright side of it too." There was a moment of silence, even Baby Trunks was quiet, and he had been babbling all night.
"Well, let's not dwell on unhappy thoughts." She said with a smile. "Let's get to cutting the big purple blob that's eating your head, down to size."
"Sounds good." Trunks said with a chuckle.
Bulma grabbed a towel off of the couch hat she used to burp baby Trunks with and wrapped it around Future Trunks. Then she went behind the couch and began to cut his hair, starting with the rats nest that Trunks' fingers were caught in.
"Mom, do you know where Dad is?" Trunks asked. He knew that he had started heading home long before he did.
"No." Bulma said. "I haven't seen him for quite some time."
"You mean he never came home?" Trunks asked. "Ow." Bulma had accidentally tugged on some hair.
"Oops. Sorry Trunks. But, yeah. I haven't seen him at all today, at least in person."
"That's weird. He started home before any of the rest of us even did. He never even went to the look out with the rest of us. He should have been home at least 30 minutes before me."
"Huh," Bulma pondered the situation a bit. "I bet he probably just went somewhere to think for a while."
"What do you mean? Why would he need to go anywhere?" Trunks knew that a lot of people went places where they could be alone to think about things, he had done it himself quite often, especially after Gohan died. But he didn't understand it in this situation.
"Well I told you that you father's stubborn, and proud and doesn't much like to share feelings with anyone, or share anything really. But, he does that a lot, he'll just leave without saying anything and will come back later, and I'll ask him what the heck he'd been doing, and he'd say that he needed some time to think, get away from us. So basically, he's just going to get some alone time, and somewhere where he can think and sort things out and what not." Bulma thought back on all the times Vegeta had done that to her and smiled, but at the same time felt a little hurt that he still couldn't share his true feelings with her.
"He's probably thinking about today. About Goku dieing and about Gohan and how he's reached another level above and before him." Trunks said.
"Yeah, that'd do it. Roshie felt a big plus of energy come from Gohan shortly after the TV went on the frits. So you mean Gohan's reached another level of Super Saiyan? That's possible?" Bulma asked a little amazed.
"I guess so. And yeah, Gohan was amazing! He took out all 7 of Cells, little, minions, by chopping em all in half!" Trunks was really into it, and was excitied cause he knew that he could also do it. He had already done it once before, but he had done it wrong, he was all bulk and no speed, he just had figure out the proper way to do it.
"Oh......How nice." Bulma said a little discusted at the thought of sweet little Gohan chopping things in half.
"Anyway, the thought of a half Saiyan eleven year old being stronger then your father is probably madding to him. He's always said how he was a direct descendant of the first Saiyan to ever go super, and how he would one day surpass "Kakarot" and rise up and claim his rightful place as king." Bulma laughed a bit at her words and started thinking back on all the times that Vegeta had told her that.
"Wait a minuet," Trunks said. "What do you mean, King?" Trunks was once again confused and wondering if he had heard her right.
'Did I hear her right?' He thought.
"Didn't you know?" Bulma asked. "Your father is prince of all Saiyans. Even though it doesn't really matter anymore, don't tell him I said that." Bulma was surprised that he didn't already know this, did the future her not want him to know for some reason?
Trunks was undergoing a bit of shock.
"How come Mom never told me this?" He asked no one in particular.
"Well," Bulma started. "Maybe she just didn't feel the need to tell you or want you to know too much about him. And why that would be, I don't know. You should ask her when you get back to your own time." Bulma said reassuringly.
"Yeah, I think I will. I mean I don't hold anything against her for it, I just don't understand why she never told me, or Gohan even. He'de always tell me more then my mom ever did." He smiled thinking of all the times Gohan had playfully whispered behind his Mother's back. "We were brothers."
"You miss him a lot, don't you." She asked.
"Well, of course yeah." Trunks said. "I just wish I could bring him back."
"Can't you wish him back to life in the future? Or has he already died before?"
"No," Trunks corrected her. "DragonBalls don't exist in my time. Kami was still guardian of the Earth back when it all started, and when the Androids killed Piccolo, he took Kami and the DragonBalls with him."
"Oh......" Bulma said sadly. "No wonder why your future is so horrible. No matter how bad things get, you can never get things completely back to normal." She paused for a minute, realizing for the first time, just how horrible life was in Trunks future. She then remembered that there were still Androids in the future, and that Trunks would have to go back and do almost the same thing over again. She would pray for him long and hard tonight.
"Well, when you get back to the future you tell me the good news." Bulma smiled, and Trunks nodded back with approval.
"When are you going back anyway?" She asked, she wanted to through a little party before he left, to celebrate a new beginning and Trunks going back to the future to save his time.
"Oh, well actually I'm leaving tomorrow sometime." Trunks told her, knowing that she wanted him to stay longer.
"Tomorrow? That soon, are you sure you want to leave that soon?" She asked double checking and hoping that he would change his mind and stay a few more days.
"Yeah," He started. "I have to get back to my "Mom", she'll be worried about me. I just need a little rest before I go back, I could end up fighting the androids first thing for all I know. Besides, I still need to stop Cell in the future from coming back in time again."
"Yeah," Bulma said a little sad that he wasn't staying, but knowing that he was the one making the right decision. "I'll" be worried. But you take care of yourself, K. And kick some android butt!" She wasn't asking him she was demanding him.
Trunks smiled.
"Okay Mom." He replied.
It was then that she looked over at the food that she had brought out for him and noticed that he hadn't taken a signal bite or sip of anything.
"Now then you just sit back and relax and have some food for Havens sake. You haven't touched any of it."
Trunks gave in, he didn't really want any food in the first place, just something to drink.
"Okay," He said, he reach for the open pitcher.
"Am I supposed to just drink right out of it?" He asked making sure that it really was okay to do that.
"Why not?" Bulma smiled. "I didn't bring any cups out did I?" She asked a little sarcastically.
Trunks smiled and took a big swig of the juice, and it felt so good on his dry throat.
"Ah, that was good. I felt it go all the way down to my stomach."
Bulma's smile widened.
"Good. Now eat some of that food!"
For the remainder of the time they were awake that night, they talked. About nothing in particular. Just chit chat really. They were sharing some good quality Mother and "Future" son time.
(Wiggle-Chicken Note:)
HA HA! There! I made it longer like you wanted me to......A......whatever your name was who wanted me to make my chapters longer. That was a pain in the arss to write though, at least in the beginning. Tell me what ya thought, PLEASE! I think that this wasn't one of my better chapters. It was kind-a boring, to me anyway. I'm sure I spelled a lot of stuff wrong and what not, if you found something that you think needs correcting please tell me in a review, it really helps me. Anyways, some of you have asked to see my drawings from my stories and I'm sorry that I haven't shown any to you yet. It's just that I only have one pic from this entire story in my computer, I have more, my scanner is just retarded. But my Dad finally took a look at it and said the he should have it fixed soon. So, just tell me if you want to se them and by the time I get the next chapter or so up I should have them to all of you out there. They really do help create a better sense of where they are and what things look like in the story. You know what though, I just got a bright idea. I should just create a website and post all my pics and what not on it, so that way I don't have to e-mail them to you? Tell me if you agree with this, and I'll try to do it. I think it sounds smarterer.
Oh, and yes, I know it was a little boring, all of the chapters in this story have been rather boring up to this point, but it had to be done. But I've noticed a good thing comeing out of it, sort-of, my writing is developing more with every chapter to every story I write, so they will become more and more interesting to read and as a story. And, yes okay, so I lied in the fourth chapter, it's within the next couple chapters that things really start to pick up. Okay, so I lied, it's within the next couple chapters that things really start to pick up. I just had to do the boring recaps and get them all over with.
Oh! More good news, I'm sure a lot of you already know this, but I found out a couple months ago that the 9th DragonBall Z movie comes out in a month! Augest 17th! Yay!
P.S: If you really want to see one of my pics or just have an idea of what they look like to see if they are wroth your while. Go look up the story "The Beginning of the End" and click on the author's pen name to go to her Bio page. On it you'll find a pic from that story that I drew for her. I don't like the pic all that much, but you should read her story, it's great. You'll find it under Drama, Gohan, and rated R.
Next time: Gohan has a dream, or is it a vision?