Okay, first, I would like to say how sorry I am. I AM SOOOOOOOO SORRY!!!!!!!!!!! clears throat well, I am, really. My life's been really busy, especial since it's the last few weeks of school (so you know, they give us double the homework so its two tons instead of one --). I even had to do a project the night before it was due at 11 at night with three other band events that day, and I didn't get to do my homework, and I'm not the one to hold off on that. Well, maybe I am, but just a little! Okay, enough excuses and now the story… what you really want.
Ren (Again): Gah! I really am sorry for keeping you from the story, but I just want to say that I did send out the picture to the people that asked for it, and I hope it got to them. My email sent it back to me saying it wasn't the right address, so I don't know if you got the picture I drew of Pan. I am really sorry if you didn't get it. If you want to see it, tell me and I'll try to email you. If you have AIM, I can send it to you then, but I have to transfer it onto a different computer (my family computer, thankfully not mine, got a virus and we had to clear out a lot of stuff, including AIM and probably my scans, but I still have the original. But the computer is all better now!)
Ren: Notes was intended to be a one-shot, but I guess I can do a few more chapters since everyone loved it so much. I'm so happy that people reviewed! Thank you so much! I love you guys so much! (Don't worry, I'm not some crazy stalker I'm just really happy that you like my story). It was hard to write this chapter for two reasons 1) I have no experience with romance writing it or reality and 2) I'm not good at romantic stuff, but I try!
Summary: Pan and two of her friends are in Algebra class. It's a usual day, which is boring, so what can they do to pass the time? What are the reactions and after effects of what they did to pass time (nothing bad!!). The characters may be a bit OOC, sorry, and they are all in eleventh grade together. There isn't a lot of reference to Saiyans or the regular series, but it isn't A/U.
Disclaimer: I don't own DBZ/GT or anything related to it, unfortunately, though I wish I did. What a wonderful world it would be if I did. I'm not that imaginative to come up with an anime this awesome, sorry --.
Started: 4/24/049
Finished: 6/4/04 (Okay, I'm reediting it to put Vegeta more into character, and again, I am EXTREMELY sorry for the wait)
Notes:
Written notes
"Talking"
Thinking or stressed words depending on the context
Yup, I think that's it.
Notes: The Day of the Hidden
The bushes rustled slightly before becoming completely paralyzed.
The air was still, the wind not daring to present itself.
The crickets that would normally chirp in the night were immobile and speechless.
All in all, it was quiet, too quiet.
The purple haired demi-Saiyan breathed in a deep breath of the crisp air. He nervously looked around at anything and everything but the girl next to him.
"I'm glad we went to your house instead of Capsule Corp. Mom probably has a lookout party waiting for us to arrive back there," Trunks said, trying to start up a conversation. As peaceful as everything was, the deafening silence was eerie, especially in Pan's presence.
Trunks' decided to add to his reasons, as embarrassing as it was. "Of course the humiliation would be worth it. But I really just wanted to take you home, like a normal date," Trunks whispered with a slight tint of red on his cheeks.
Pan nodded in agreement, looking up the teenage boy with a distinct love in her coal black eyes. A slight blush creeping up on her cheeks as she did so, not realizing it was there. The girl was too absorbed in the moment they were sharing.
She still couldn't believe Trunks was her boyfriend, even after the date. After all these years of her crush on him, watching him change before her eyes, she was unable to decipher that this was true. It was too perfect.
There was a horrible thought! It was too perfect to be true. What if this wasn't the date she thought it was? What if he was playing with her feelings, or knew of her fondness for him and wanted to break it to her gently that they were just friends? What if they were just hanging out as two best friends? Andy could have dared him to do this and thought she was the perfect target, being his best friend and all. Maybe it was just a date that he made when he wanted to escape his fan club and used the girl for an excuse for the obsessed teens to back off. Not that that made much of a difference, after all, Trunks was the most sought after guy in the school besides Goten. And no way was she going to go out with her uncle! It wasn't like she went out with him because of his status at school, she really did like him, but what if he saw this night as nothing? There were so many possibilities! Doubts muddled her brain and she was overcome with insecurity.
Trunks finally looked at the face of the worried girl. Her dark eyes were clouded over with worry, a frown appeared on her mouth instead of the blissful smile that had shown itself all through the night, her featured slightly tense from horrid thoughts, and she was clearly spaced out by something.
He gently shook her by the shoulders.
Pan blinked. She looked into the eyes of the demi-Saiyan standing next to her. They were filled with concern for her. He looked as though he wanted to ask what was wrong, but didn't want to intrude incase he had one something wrong.
She sighed and made up her mind. She would do this for him.
Pan decided to speak her mind, and though this happened often, this time it took the teen a lot of courage to do so.
"Trunks, I was wondering," she started, staring at the damp ground the whole time. It must have been a lot more interesting then looking into the ocean blue eyes that intently gazed at her in question.
"Go on," he encouraged.
Pan looked up for a brief moment. Trunks could see the unsure and confused look in her eyes that presented itself once again. Pan was not usually timid, and this worried the hybrid Saiyan immensely.
"What is it," he quietly asked, trying to help her to say what was bothering her so much.
"Well, I was wondering," here goes nothing, she thought as she spoke the next sentence, "What you saw this night as. I guess we never specified if this was as two best friends or a real date or something else entirely. I don't think you would do this as a dare, because… you're Trunks. The truth is, I really like you Trunks, and I want this to be a real date, but I'm not sure how you see it…" she trailed off, uncertain of what to say next.
"As good as that is to know Pan, I thought you saw this the same way I did," Trunks started. He now knew what ran through the worried girl's mind, ready to clear up the confusion.
Oh great, I just admitted all there is to say and now I'm going to see I was just leading myself on, Pan thought to herself in utter humiliation and despair. Unbeknown to her, tears started to well up in her eyes and slowly fall down her cheek.
Trunks saw the tears immediately and hurried his explanation.
"Of course I like you. I like you a lot. What I meant was, I thought you already saw this as a date, which is what I thought it was: a date between a boyfriend and his girlfriend. That is, if you would give me the honor as having you as my girlfriend and I your boyfriend," he said with a slight tone that hinted the mocking of chivalry. "
Now, get ride of those tears," Trunks said softly, brushing the few spilt tears of Pan's cheek with his thumb.
He cupped her face in his hands. With one hand he wiped away the remainder of the tears off of Pan's cheeks. Her skin was so soft as he unconsciously began to caress her cheek. They stared into each others' eyes for what seemed like an eternity before their faces slowly inched towards each other.
The emotionally worn out girl glanced at Trunks' hand and smiled weakly, though she was beaming inside.
Gohan abruptly got up from his chair.
"Videl, do we have to wait any longer?" the demi-Saiyan whined.
Videl sighed. He was getting more impatient by the minute. She grinned cheekily with a fake smile. She was anxious to know what happened, as a mother it was her right. She was no overprotective parent, but Gohan was, and to an extreme. Videl knew that Trunks would never harm Pan, he cared for her too much. In fact, he would protect her at the price of his own life if need be. Of course, no one had attack Earth or threatened her daughter's life recently.
It was bad enough that everyone, including Vegeta because this was his son, had followed them home to greet Pan and Trunks when they came home, well, they wouldn't go to CC, that was obvious, and Chichi and Bulma started a stakeout in their front yard in the shelter of a couple of trees and bushes.
"Fine dear, but if anything is happening don't you dare disturb them!" she warned.
Gohan, being the naïve person he was, didn't understand that to its full contents.
Videl rolled her eyes when she saw the puzzled look that appeared on her husband's face as he tried to understand the words to their complete meaning. It was a difficult task.
One moment he was an impatient man, the next an overprotective father, and now, well, the naïve Gohan she loved so dearly. She decided to try to explain what could be happening a little more clearly.
"Don't interrupt them if they are doing anything. That includes anything from talking to kissing," she explained bluntly with a tone of command.
Gohan stood there surprised for a minute. Then it hit him. Pan could be kissing Trunks or Trunks could be kissing Pan! Ah, what's the difference? It was contact that Gohan did not approve of. Everything about approving Trunks to go out with his daughter had now vanished from Gohan's mind.
Gohan ran to the door at full speed and practically knocked it off its hinges to get outside, ignoring the fact that his wife had said for him to do the exact opposite and stay inside.
"That's what I get for explaining an overprotective, naïve father what his teenage daughter could be doing," Videl sighed in irritation.
She calmly walked over to the doorway where Gohan rigidly stood. His breaths were of short intakes, his mouth was hanging open, and he glared angrily at Trunks, who was cowering behind Pan while trying to look remotely brave. The façade Trunks tried to attempt was poorly done, and didn't work very well.
Videl sighed again.
"Sorry guys," Videl directed at the couple. Her voice was much kinder than her facial expression was. Obviously she was looking at her husband.
"You," her voice was dangerously quiet and monotonous as she glared at Gohan, "Need to learn a bit more about privacy and letting her grow up. Come on, I'll teach you. And maybe with the help of that frying pan Chichi gave me a few years ago."
She grabbed Gohan's ear and pulled him inside. The furious expression was now replaced with an evil smirk. Gohan grimaced. He looked pleading at the couple for any sign of help before being dragged into the house once more.
"Well, he deserved…" Pan started. A few whimpers were heard from the Saiyan hybrid. The two cringed as they heard a hard metal substance hit an even harder head. "…it?" she finished unsurely. That was one kitchen utensil you never messed with…
"Did you see that?!" Bulma exclaimed in a rather loud whisper. She was barely able to keep her excitement 'contained'. Otherwise, she might have been jumping for joy, and that would blow their cover.
Chichi nodded her head vigorously in excitement.
Both women were watching the two teen Saiyans with such concentration that their yells of happiness for their children disturbed the silence. After all, they were the only ones who created any noise.
Goku and Vegeta exchanged glances. This was going to be a long night, not to mention the very sore ears they would get in the morning.
Behind the two Saiyans was the Z Fighters. Their families came to laugh at their pitiful excuses and moral support, but because of the former reason they came to spy on Trunks and Pan, they weren't very helpful. You see, Chichi and Bulma had threatened everyone with blackmail, and to everyone's horror, and Bulma's denial, the threat of eating Bulma's cooking. For the Saiyan members of the group, their food was to be taken away if they didn't arrive at the stakeout promptly at eight o'clock. The two women wanted to be prepared, and of course, wanted everyone to witness the important night of that very special day for Pan and Trunks. The two would thank them later, much later.
Next to the group sat Bra and Goten. Both were sitting with their legs crossed on the damp grass. Bra had not complained about ruining her new shorts from grass stains. It was she who suggested the slightly secluded spot to video the pair.
So there sat another couple, being ignored by the overenthusiastic women, while watching the video camera Goten borrowed from Sharpener play back the scene that had just occurred.
On the dimly lit screen the two could barely make out their siblings figures.
Trunks had just wiped away the tears on Pan's face away. Slowly, their two heads got closer and closer until Pan and Trunks' lips met in their first, and definitely not last, sweet kiss. The tender moment lasted all of five seconds. But in those five seconds, it had managed to make everyone who saw it react in a spectacular show of emotions whether it be excitement, future blackmail, annoyance, or severe overprotective-ness.
Now that Pan's tears had completely dissipated, Trunks' gave her one last kiss goodnight and prepared to fly off.
"See you tomorrow in school," Trunks said while waving to his girlfriend.
Pan smiled and nodded. The moment they just shared together was well worth the troubles of doubt she went through.
Pan's eyes became glazed as she smiled dreamily and swayed back and forth, thinking of Trunks by her side, standing so close to her. It warmed her skin and a wistful smile laid itself upon her lips.
It was such a shame that the moment was ruined, yet again, by the somehow unknown onlookers. This time it was not an overprotective father, but a blissful Chichi, who fell out of the bush due to the fact that she was leaning out too far from lack of awareness because she was so excited. Big surprise there. Bulma just rolled her eyes and shook her head in disappointment at her partner in crime as if she had not been doing the same only seconds before the bush gave away.
In the background was the whole Z fighters gang and their families watching their every move. For a few seconds no one moved. Goku, now lying on the ground next to Chichi twitched a bit. He had tried to save his wife from leaning too far over the bushes to watch the couple. He had tried to stop her fall, but ended up falling face forward beside her, and might I add, was nothing close to graceful.
Trunks and Pan both blushed a dark scarlet hue while everyone snickered quietly at the pair of humiliated teens. Well, most were containing their laughter. Krillen, on the other hand, was rolling on the ground while clutching his side as if he was in pain from laughing so hard, glad that he had come. Gohan and Videl couldn't be his victim of teasing, so Trunks and Pan could fill in for them instead. Eighteen just smirked at the couple while Vegeta and Piccolo frowned at the display of affection. Goten, who was sitting close to Bra and holding her hand, obviously where Vegeta could not see, smiled slightly while shaking his head as if he was scolding his best friend for being caught.
Pan and Trunks looked at each other after a few humiliating moments of silent laughing from their bystanders.
"I guess… we should get used to this?" Pan said doubtfully.
Trunks just nodded slowly. He turned back to look at the group of spies he had known his entire life. A sweatdrop rolled down the back of his head.
Ren: Fortunately for you, this is not the last chapter. The last chapter is the next chapter and an epilogue (maybe), or so I plan it to be. Remember, this was supposed to be a one-shot, so I had to come up with these ideas on the spot. And I have so many other ideas that I need to write before my brain explodes or something from lack of writing them. The next chapter will probably be extremely short or extremely long (compared to what I write) if I write detail to detail. I plan on it being the epilogue, going back to school. Poor Trunks' fan club, they can't have Trunks because he is Pan's boyfriend now. And you don't mess with Pan… oh well, more humor for us!
Okay, I know this is DBZ, but for any Harry Potter fans, I suggest you check out GinnyPotter384's work, she is great! Especially her story Say It To My Face. That's my opinion, but hey, I'm just suggesting a great story. It's my first time at doing so, so if anyone knows if I'm supposed to tell the person that I suggested it, can you tell me .
And, as people call this, here's my shameless plug . Okay, since everyone loved this story, and if you like Gohan/Videl, or Gohan and Goten brotherly moments, check out my story (which I changed the name) Listen to your Heart. Thanks! Enjoy.
OH! I almost forgot… MY BIRTHDAY IS TODAY!!!!!!! YAAAAAAY!!!!! PARTY!!!! Well, not really, cause I got some band stuff to do and graduation parties to go to!! But I love band, so it's all good! Okay, I've had enough rambling about my weekend and you all better have a good one too! But don't forget… I love to get reviews. How awesome would it be to see that I got reviews (cause there's email alerts and everything) on my birthday? Niiiiiiiiiice. I'm joking, you don't have to or anything. And Snug, thank you for pointing out Vegeta wasn't in character. He has gotten soft, but just for Bra, so I fixed it. And I forgot to explain why everyone else was there, I really appreciate you pointing that out to me! Seriously, no sarcasm or anything. Okay, NOW I'm done. Later .
Ren
