Queen Luana: Here we go, final chapter. It's gonna be short I know. I'm still sad about that last chapter... HOW THE HELL DID I COME UP WITH THAT! I know! It must've been senseless Vegeta! VEGETA! You wrote that part, didn't you?
Vegeta: No matter what I say, it'll always be 'yes' in your ears, won't it?
Queen Luana: Ha! Didn't I think so! Well, since I'm the author, I'm gonna make you EXTRA-ULTRA-MEGA-sensitive in this chapter! MUAHAHAA!
Vegeta: You're freaking me out, woman.
Chapter IV
Like father like son
When they arrived at home, Bulma didn't even bother taking her shoes off, something she almost killed Vegeta for once. She just stormed upstairs, sobbing loudly, smacked her bedroom door shut and locked it. Trunks stared at the stairs then slowly pulled out his shoes. He then sauntered to the living room, where his father was sitting watching football. He sat down beside him and stared at his knees. Vegeta barely noticed he was crying.
He turned off the tv after a couple of minutes then stretched. Trunks assumed he had been sitting there for quite a while. "But they are your parents. You can talk to them. You still have them. You can hold them, kiss them, play games with them, sometimes you can even tease them a bit. They are real." Heh, did she even know him? The thought of Luana and how he was probably never gonna see her again made him cry even harder. His silent crying turned into a loud sobbing. This time his father did look at him. Now what's he gonna do? Trunks thought. Nothing probably. Vegeta scratched behind his ear. Trunks just kept crying. "You uh, wanna watch tv?" Vegeta tried holding out the remote control. Trunks quite simply shook his head. Vegeta patted him on the back. Well, at least he's trying. He never tried before. "Okay, kid, you oughta help me out here." "You mi-ight ask 'what's the matter?" Trunks proposed. "Okay, what's eating ya?" Trunks sniffed and peeked at his father. "You can talk to them." Could he really? Vegeta sighed as Trunks did not answer. But how could he answer? What was eating him?
"I see dead people." His father looked up one eyebrow raised. "Huh?" Trunks turned as he saw the blackhaired woman standing there, smiling. Vegeta looked as well but saw nothing at all. Trunks smiled back. "They act like normal people, really. But, they don't realise they're dead." "Damn tv..." Vegeta grumbled. "They're not from movies," Trunks said staring at his father intensely. "And they aren't nightmares either. I see them during day, before I go to sleep. Gohan said it was some sort of sixth sense." "Uh, look kid, Gohan's dead for about a week now..." "Yes, but I talked to him", Trunks continued with calm voice. "But I can't talk to him anymore. He has moved on." "Moved on?" "Yes, that's what eating me." Vegeta sighed deeply and peeked at his son now and then. He's looking so bloody serious! he thought. "You believe me, don't you, daddy?" Trunks asked. Vegeta sighed again. Trunks thought deeply then smiled. "You know what grandma and grandpa say?" "No, what?" He smiled at his father. "That you shouldn't be ashamed of crying yourself to sleep."
Vegeta's eyes widened and he turned pale. "Who told you that!" "Grandma and grandpa. They say they don't care about whether you did beat Frieza or not. They say they're proud on having you as a son, no matter what." Tears sparkled in his father's eyes. "They are dead." "Didn't I just tell you I can see the dead!" Trunks said, glad he had finally got his father's full attention. "And they talk to me. They asked me to tell you that they truelly are proud of you and they have always been." A tear rolled down his father's cheek. "And that they love you."
As Bulma arrived downstairs, still slightly crying, she found the most rare sight in the world. Vegeta was sitting there on the sofa, holding his son and crying. Bulma smiled whiping away her tears. She couldn't believe what she was seeing! Still smiling she went to the kitchen to prepare dinner. Trunks peeked over his father's shoulder at the people standing there. First Gohan and Luana who were both raising their thumbs, then Chi-Chi and Goku, smiling as well. Then his granddad, a tall man with the same haircut as Vegeta, only brown and with a beard. And next to him his grandma, a woman with long knee-length black hair and dark eyes, wearing a long white dress. She whiped away a tear as well. Trunks smiled and raised his thumb. Then he tightened his grip around his father's neck, who was still crying.
"They are your parents. And they'll always love you."
-The end-
Queen Luana: That's it. I know the ending looks a LOT like the real Sixth Sense ending, but I didn't know any other way to make Vegeta realise his son was speaking the truth. Oh, and in case you didn't notice, that Tommy the blackhaired woman was dating was also a reference to the real movie. There was a little boy who was so full of himself named Tommy. Okay? And one more reference at Trunks saying: "You believe me, don't you daddy?" That's from 'Hide and Seek'. It was my intention to copy such things.
Vegeta: Puh, like I cry.
Queen Luana: Of course you don't, Vegeta. Of course you don't.
