Shining Friendship

A/N: Hello, what's up?! He, he... I'm trying to control myself. Ya see, I just ate a whole pack of Strawberry Pocky and I'm feeling kinda hyper right now. Muahahaha... I'll try to keep control of myself right now. But you guys... have to read chapter 3 NOW!! MUAHAHAHAHAHAHA... !!!



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Goten's shaky legs made it to his homeroom class in time. His other classmates, including Trunks, were chatting excitedly about Summer Vacation which was coming in less than a week now. Goten tried not to make eye contact with Trunks. Even though he wanted to have Trunks back, he was still mad at him for killing someone the previous day.

Goten quickly sat at his desk and pulled some books out. Last night, he was too caught with studying with his brother that he had forgotten to tell him about his homework too. He pulled out his pencil and homework sheets and quickly put himself into work. He was in a hurry trying to finish his homework sheets, when someone snuck up and snatched the sheets from him.

"What's this? Is this last night's homework? Hmm?" Goten looked up angrily to see Trunks holding his homework up in the air. "Hmm, well what do you know? Someone here didn't bother to do their homework last night."

"Give it back, Trunks. I'm warning you..." Goten struggled to get his sheets back but due to the fact that Trunks was stronger than him, he failed.

"Why should I?" Trunks grinned. "Destroying this will be such fun."

"NO, Trunks! PLEASE, no!!" Goten made another attempt to take his papers back, but again Trunks proved to be victorious. "Give it back, Trunks! I NEED it! I'll - I'll be in trouble! Please!"

"Your begging won't work THIS time, Goten..." Trunks prepared to rip the papers.

"Trunks, NO!!"

RRIIIIIIIIIP!!!

Trunks kept ripping the papers into pieces until they were no more. Hearing the sound of paper ripping, the whole class had put their attention towards them. Goten bent down to look at the bits of paper now laying on the floor. Just then his eyes felt watery and he held back a sob. Not wanting to make a show in front of the class, Goten angrily ran away from there and made his way to the door. Unfortunately, the teacher was about to come in and Goten had crashed with her.

"Goten!!" she cried. Goten apologized quickly and dashed off. The teacher stood up with the help of some of her students and was looking puzzled and angry. "What the heck's gotten into him?!"

While the eight year old ran, he cried. He snuck himself into the boys' bathroom and cried at one of the sinks. Many tears would fall from his face as he sobbed even harder. He looked at the small mirror in front of him. "No more!" he yelled. "Trunks can punch me in the face, he can push me back, and he can insult me in front of people, but he didn't have to rip my homework sheets!!" He wiped his face with his arm. "And what's gotten into HIM? I haven't done ANYTHING to get this from him..."

He sent his fists flying down into the sink, hitting it hard. The contact made the sink break off completely and fall into the floor, on top of Goten's right foot. "YEEEOOWW!!!" Goten gasped for air uncontrollably and was holding onto his foot with his two hands. "Darn...! That's it!! If Trunks doesn't want to be MY best friend anymore, then I won't be HIS best friend anymore!"

Just then another one of Goten's bullies came in. "Hey, punk! I've been saving a couple of fists for ya!"

Goten rubbed his foot and pouted. "What's up with all the bad luck these days... ?"



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Meanwhile someplace near Satan City, a new, big round shaped alien spaceship had just made a landing on Earth. Dust from the ground flew in the air as the ship's door was opening and a creature the size of Babidi made it's way out. Come to the thought of it, the creature had a LOT of resemblance of Babidi. "Now, you Saiyans... now I will avenge my brother's death..."



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Goten's day hadn't gotten any better since that fight at the bathroom. He had actually decided to skip school after that fight and had snuck into the classroom when the class was at lunch to retrieve his items. Now, he was on the air on his way back home. Along with a feeling on his stomach that wouldn't go away. He had thought that the bad feeling had to do with the incident at school that morning but instead it had just gotten worse.



"Hey, Trunks! How was school?" Bulma asked her son that afternoon when seeing him making his way to his room.

"It was fine, Mom. Why do you ask me that question everyday? It's getting annoying..." Trunks answered back.

Bulma laughed. "Aw, come on, Trunks. All mothers do that. And besides, it's a good thing to talk about your day at school some time."

Trunks just rolled his eyes but quickly straightened out when he saw his father making his way towards them. "Hi, Dad," he greeted. Vegeta ALMOST smiled but after seeing Bulma there, he kept it back.

"When's dinner gonna be served, woman?" he growled.

"Actually, Chi-Chi and I decided that maybe we should come over and eat with them," Bulma had to hold back a laugh at seeing Vegeta's face that moment. His eyes looked like they were about to pop out!

"Me... ? At Kakkarot's place?!"

"Aw, come on Vegeta. Do you want to come too, Trunks?" Bulma expected a huge 'yes' from her son but was surprised when Trunks answered...

"NO! I - I don't want to. Can't we eat here instead?"

Bulma's face looked so shocked at her son's answer. Even Vegeta was a bit shocked at him. Trunks would have LOVED to go visit the Sons. Especially since he and Goten were really good friends. But had he instead just answered a 'no'?

"Uh... Trunks... are - are you sure? D - don't you and Goten get along just great? W - wouldn't you want to come and play with him?" Bulma sputtered.

Trunks scratched the back of his head nervously. "Sure, Mom! But... it's that I have this extra credit thing for my teacher and I gotta finish it quickly and anyway... I just don't feel like going out. I'm, uh, tired," he lied.

Bulma straightened herself. "Uh, sure Trunks. W - whatever you say, dear. I guess dinner will be ready in about an hour."

"Great, thanks Mom. And... Dad?" Trunks almost giggled. Vegeta turned to him. "Uh... straighten out your face, you look weird."

Vegeta quickly turned away, blushing and cursing under his breath at the fact that he was still looking stupid after being shocked at Trunks's response of not wanting to go to the Son's.



"Hey, Goten! Want to study again, today?" Gohan entered their room while Goten was fiddling with his alarm clock.

"No, thanks..." he murmured. He continued fiddling with his alarm clock.

"Don't feel like studying today, huh? What's wrong?" Gohan didn't receive any reply from Goten who was still fiddling with his alarm clock. Goten suddenly felt someone pull away from his hands. Gohan put the alarm clock back to Goten's desk and repeated, "What's wrong?"

"Nothing's wrong. Just had a bad day at school." Goten sighed.

"Oh. Well, what happened?" Gohan repeated AGAIN.

Goten sighed again. "Got beat up again and accidentally crashed into the teacher at the doorway..."

Gohan couldn't help it but laugh at the young boy. "Well, wanna play outside with me and Dad?"

"No..."Goten replied and sunk himself lower in his seat.

Gohan looked puzzled. "Sure... okay. Whatever you say, sport."

Gohan walked out of the room and Goten reached out for his alarm clock again. What was I supposed to do with this again? he thought. Oh, well. And he continued fiddling with it again.



Goten woke up again to the sound of his alarm clock again. He groaned, pulled the covers away from him, and jumped off the bed to turn off the screaming alarm clock. "Be quiet..." he had mumbled to it while struggling to turn it off. He finally turned it off and looked back at Gohan's bed. Surprisingly, the bed was already made and there was no sign of Gohan there. Usually, Goten would be the first to wake up and then Gohan. Goten walked out of their room and walked into his parents' room. He was surprised, again, to see that the bed was completely made and there was no sign of either of his parents being there. "Where are they... ?" Goten was starting to grow scared.

He walked into the kitchen, where he was expecting to see his mother there cooking breakfast and his father waiting hungrily at the table with Gohan. But much to his dislike, they weren't there. He suddenly heard a TV being on at the living room. He made his way down the hall to the living room and found his mother and father sitting in a couch, his mother's face looking white and Goku looking... well, mad.

Gohan was sitting on another couch, resting his head on his hands. "Mom... Dad? Gohan? What's wrong?" Goten choked out. His voice seemed to have surprised his whole family. Chi-Chi was the first to look at her son and shakily pointed her finger toward the TV.

Goten obediently looked at the TV and gasped at what he saw. On was the ZTV news and the TV was showing a city that had been completely destroyed. NOTHING was left from it. "W - what... ?" Goten stammered.

Chi-Chi answered for him. "Satan City... had been completely destroyed last night, Goten... and that means you have no school now and neither does Gohan... and... it was just destroyed like that..."

"WHO DID THIS?" Goku was completely outraged. "There were so many innocent people living there!! WHY?!" Chi-Chi tried to comfort her husband. Goten was close to crying.

Gohan was still resting his head on his hands, tears were making their way down his cheeks but his hands hid them from his family. "Videl..."



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Ahh... another chapter down. Story's getting more interesting now, huh? Is Videl actually dead? Will Trunks and Goten ever be back as friends? And who's this strange new alien that looks a whole lot like Babidi? Was he the cause for the destruction of Satan City? Will I ever stop making such stupid questions? NO! Now, my young readers. I have a new mission for you... click that purple button down there and REVIEW!!! Bye!!