Ryu: Hello all! I'm back! Finally....sorry it took so long I just had no time to write and when I did I just couldn't decide what to write! I had a couple of ideas but I didn't know which ones to use! Lol....

Responses to reviews: Sry, if they're a little short, I know you all want this chapter sooner!

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Treana- No, that's not it...There's more!! Well...here's the update! Wow, I'm so happy you like my fic! And I'm happy you updated your fic "Forever"! I'm gonna review it after I post this, cuz I know everyone wants to read what happens! Thanks a bunch for the review!

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Ryu: Well...that's done! THANKS FOR ALL THE WONDERFUL REVIEWS!!! That's said, so, what will Trunks say? Hmm...Any ideas? No? Well...you're in luck cause here's the next chap! Not a lot of an intro, so one with the chapter!

Last time:

He cuts me off, "It's not that. It's who I like that's the problem." I can see something shining in his eyes, hope, maybe? "Trunks, I.....I love you." he whispers forcefully as he buries his face into my shoulder again. "I can't live without you!" He pauses for a moment, "Please tell me you feel the same?" he pleads.

This One Thing

Chapter 5: Responses

Stunned, I open my mouth, but I can't seem to find anything to say. I know he just said what I think he did, but it just seems impossible! My love has just declared his feelings for me, and here I am, with no idea what to say, my mouth moving but absolutely no sound coming out. I feel my shoulder dampen slightly, meaning he's started crying again, and it's because of me! I gently grab him by the shoulders and push him back slightly, so that I can see his face. He refuses to look me in the eyes so I gently reach out my hand to lift his chin up. I pause mid-reach, my fear of scaring him off or making him hate me still strong. He seems to notice this and grasps my hand with his, brushing his cheek against my palm lightly. My heart jumps at the contact, every cell in my body electrified by that simple touch. Relishing in the feeling of his skin on mine, I gently tilt his chin up with my hand so that I'm staring directly at his eyes. He looks up at me, straight into my eyes, and it seems as if I can see straight into his soul.

I'd always dismissed those rumors and stuff, about how a person can look into another's heart just by staring them in the eye, and in a way I think I was right, but I was wrong also. It takes someone special, someone that you know you can spend the rest of your life with, someone you can trust, love, and cherish with all of your heart. And right at this moment, I feel all of those things, and more. I feel like I couldn't live without him....no, I know I couldn't. So right now, as I gaze into his eyes, it's as if I'm falling into an obsidian lake. Just falling and falling. I see his eyes shimmering with hope, and trust, desperately declaring his love and hoping that I return it.

I gently brush my thumb across his cherry lips. They're so smooth....Unconsciously I find myself leaning into him, enjoying our close proximity, and I feel as if he's doing the same. My eyelids gently slide down over my eyes, allowing me to savor the feeling of my hand under his chin. Of his arms gently snaking their way around my neck as I wrap my free hand around his waist. A small shiver courses it's way up my spine. The seconds seem to last forever, but that forever seems unimportant as my lips graze his. At the contact I feel him shiver in my embrace and he deepens the kiss instinctively. For moments that last for an eternity we simply float here, feeling the warmth of each other's bodies pressed together, of our minds linked closer than I once thought was possible. Uncertainty clouds my mind for a brief second, but I roughly push it away as I lick his upper lip. I have no idea what caused me to do so, on our first kiss, but I did anyway, and I was rewarded with his parting lips. I push my tongue into his mouth, enjoying the warm, moist interior of his mouth as my tongue roams about...... And all too quickly the kiss is over and we part from each other, opening our eyes. We're both panting slightly, and I can't stop myself from pulling my hand away from his chin to brush my fingertips across my lips.

"T-Trunks....I-I...ummm," Goten began, stammering, rather unsure of what to say. I gently place one finger over his lips, successfully silencing his words.

"Goten, Chibi, I love you," I know it sounds pretty rushed, blurting it all out like that, but I couldn't stop myself. I've held these feelings inside for so long, I felt as if I couldn't keep a leash on them any longer. "My heart is yours, it always has been and it always will be, and you may do with it as you wish." I started out talking forcefully and strong, but my voice had diminished into a whisper by the end of my little speech.

A little voice inside my head reminded me that committing my love to the other demi-Saiyan would mean that I would be the last Saiyan Prince. I countered that accusation with the simple fact that there was still my younger sister, Bura. The voice put up a last argument that by giving my love, my heart, to Goten, I was allowing someone to have complete control over my life forever, that I would always have that one weakness, and that there would be nothing I could do about it once it was final. I simply ignored the voice. So what if I had to live the rest of my life with Goten? Not having someone who could utterly control me isone thing I would sacrifice easily. It would be a small sacrifice if that was all I needed to achieve a life with my Goten. This whole conversation took place in seconds, but that seems to have been enough time for Goten to break down into tears again.

"Oh, Trunks! Really?! You really mean it!?" His eyes were filled to the brim with tears and he was beaming one of his brightest smiles at me. "You don't entirely hate my guts right now? I was so worried!" He throws himself at me, wrapping his arms tightly around my waist and burying his face in my shirt, and I'm pushed back slightly at the force at which he's hugging me. Without thinking, I respond by encircling his shoulders with my arms, hugging him and knowing that this is perfect, nothing is better than holding him right now.

"Yes, baka, I mean it! I wouldn't have said it if I hadn't meant it!" I tell him playfully, hugging him tighter.

"I know, I know...It just seems too awesome to be real!" he sighs, a content smile resting on his lips. I can't help but let a smile rest on my own lips, the pure joy I'm feeling finding a small way to get out into the open. For a second we rest here in each other's embrace, savoring the feel of his chest rising in falling as he breathes and the sweet scent of the shampoo he uses in his hair. There's a gentle breeze blowing around us and the cotton-candy clouds that are so close above us lazily float by.

"Goten?" I ask softly.

"Mmm?" he responds, seemingly either too lazy or content, I'm guessing both, to form complete words let alone sentences.

I lean my head down to whisper in his ear. "Now that I know for sure your feelings about me, I have absolutely no excuse to post-pone asking you this; Will you go to the dance with me?"

He shivers a little as my breath brushes past his ear, tickling him. "Of course. I was hoping you would ask me!" he responds automatically without any hesitation whatsoever.

"Thank you," I state simply.

"For what?" he questions, puzzlement clear in his words.

I smile as I answer, "For your love."

By the time we had flown back to Capsule Corps. it was about 1:00, meaning we still had a couple of hours before we had to go to the dance. We had to walk through the kitchen to go upstairs to my room so that we could talk, since Mother had the 'bots cleaning up a gigantic mess in the other half of Capsule Corps' living quarters. I look over at Goten and he looks over at me.

"Umm...I guess your Dad must've gotten out after we left! Heheh...." Goten states, laughing rather nervously. The rich smell of many different foods drifts to use through he open door leading into the kitchen, meaning someone was cooking. The only problem with that was that the only one of my parents that could cook was Father, and he was one Saiyan that I wasn't sure we wanted to see. I slowly tiptoe over to the kitchen entrance and peek in, Goten right behind me. The sight that meets my eyes causes me to back up suddenly knocking Goten over and gaining a yelp of surprise from him. I cringe at the noise, praying that Father hadn't heard it. No such luck.

"Brat, what are you doing?!" I hear him grumble from his position in the doorway, since I couldn't see him due to the fact that I was lying on my back with my head on Goten's chest. "That's also the second time today I've found you two in an..interesting....position!" he adds, smirking. Ok, we really didn't need to run into him if it was avoidable, considering we did eat all of his food this morning. Just now, the second comment he made sinks in and I scramble away from Goten, quickly standing up and making a show of brushing some imaginary dust off of my shirt.

And then Goten decides to put his two-cents into this conversation, "Aww, Trunks-kun! Why are you leaving me? Don't you want to stay near me anymore?" I nearly smacked myself, nice Goten, nice. Father just smirks.

"Vegeta?" I hear a voice call from behind the doorway. "Who's out there? Are Trunks and Goten home?" A face very similar to Goten's pops out from behind Father, and a smile appears on this man's face as he spots us. "Goten! Trunks! You're finally home!" he exclaims.

"D-Dad?" Goten stutters out. "What are you doing here?"

"Oh nothing..." Goku-san responds, sending a quick glance over to Father, "Just visiting." I look over at Goten and we exchange looks, saying the same thing silently with our faces 'Huh?! What's going on here?!' I tilt my head quickly toawrds the kitchen, silently saying we should get going up to my room.

He nods his head and turns to face Goku-san and father, saying, "Umm...well me an' Trunks, we hafta get going...Y'know, with all of our homework...and...stuff!" And with that we rush past Goku-san, who I notice is giving us a funny look and Father who's simply laughing.

We make it into my room, Goten just ahead of me, and I shut the door quickly behind us We both collapse next to eachother on my bed, our nerves buzzing. "Whew...that was....weird, to put it simply."

Goten laughs slightly, "Do you think that, well....y'know?"

I stare at him for a moment, my eyes wide, and then quickly shake my head, "Nah....they couldn't they?"

"No, you're right, I must just be imagining things....." Goten responds, laughing again. I'm not so sure, though Goten. If I've learned anything in the last couple of hours, it's that anything can happen, including falling in love with your best friend, and having them return that love back to you, full force. I think to myself, rolling over and resting on my side, my head on Goten's chest, and I feel his fingers gently running through my hair.

Ryu: The end!

Random person out there: But they still hafta go to the dance, and what happened to the whole mind-reading thing going on?!

Ryu: Don't worry! I just meant the end to this chap! Theres' more coming! I couldn't end it there with all of the reviews I've been getting! BIG smile THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THE REVIEWS YOU GUYS! And thanks to those of you who are reading this anonymously! I still need a beta-reader folks! Please? Anyone?

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