I Hate Everything About You
Chapter 4-
Disclaimer: Same as the ones for the first three chapters, wouldn't you think? Oh. And the song used in the last chapter is call Electric Cucumber, and it's by Hide. Just in case someone might wanna go download the actual song or something.
A/N: Hey, look I'm already at chapter 4 so I'm doing pretty good, eh?
Trunks returned to Ryn's house to find everyone gone. There was a note on the TV screen that said:
Trunks + Lynk,
We all went out for lunch. We'll be home at 6:00 for dinner. Kone is bringing Aya with her. So don't go anywhere after 5:30 or I'll kill you.
Love, Rynie
Trunks chuckled at the loving note from his sister. She was so sweet. Since he wouldn't be disturbed until Lynk and he puppy returned he decided he would get to plan on how to make Lynk show her true colors to Kokuseki. This should be amusing.
It wasn't until four o'clock when Lynk and Kokuseki returned to Gohan and Ryn's apartment. They had walked in laughing about something that had happened back at the studio after Trunk's departure. "I'll be right back." Lynk had said leaving Kokuseki in the living room where he plopped down on the couch. Lynk had moved off down the hall towards the 'girl's' room.
Trunks had been coming down the hallway himself and Lynk looked up to him as he neared her. Her eyes narrowed automatically in the way they always had when she had approached an enemy. Trunks had been an enemy years ago, when they first met, but he wasn't for a long time, and now he was again. It almost hurt to see those angry eyes narrowed on him, like a fog so full of heat and thick with loathing that you could swim in their depths. Putting on his game face, he moved right up past her and even managed to give her a cold stare as he walked past.
This was ridiculous, he thought. What could have made her hate him so much? Yes, they had a bad break up, but was it so much that she had to glare at him whenever he saw her?
Lynk entered her room. The items the girls had carefully placed around the room had been scattered everywhere. What the hell, Lynk thought. She searched through her stuff. Nothing of hers was missing. She wasn't sure about anyone else's so she picked only her things from the mess and left the rest for the others to go through just in case one of them had searched for something.
After cleaning all her things up she moved down the hall as quickly as she could while still seeming calm. "Hey." She snapped when she entered the living room to find Trunks sitting in the chair opposite of Kokuseki. The two males looked at her. "Do you know who went through the chicks room?" she asked in an icy tone.
"Huh?" Trunks asked, not sure what she was talking about.
" 'Huh?' " Lynk mimicked. "The chicks room was trashed when I walked in. Did you do it?" she glared at Trunks.
"No." Lynk continued to glare at him. He was fed up with this. She was putting the blame on him for something he didn't do. "Look," he said rising from the chair and towering over her small form. "I know you would love to blame the whole thing on me, but I swear I didn't do it. And I'm sick of you giving me these glares and putting shit like this on me. "
"That makes one of us." Lynk said sarcastically.
"That's exactly what I'm talking about." Trunks said.
"Uh huh." Lynk rolled her eyes.
"What the fuck is your problem?" he yelled.
"Isn't it slightly obvious? Or is it snowing too much up there for you see it?" she yelled up at him before storming away. As soon as she turned the corner she ran. She could hear Trunks moving quickly behind her. Taking a right turn, she ran into the girls room and locked the door. Leaning against it, she sighed. She almost told him, and in front of Kokuseki. Never would she allow that slip up again.
The door vibrated roughly against her back as Trunks pounded on the piece of wood. Knowing the door wasn't exactly a capable barrier between herself and Trunks she headed for the window. Pushing the sill up just enough for her slender form to slip out of she jumped. The apartment was higher up then Lynk had actually thought about, but not something she couldn't handle. Catching the solid metal pole of a flag holder she swung herself on top of it and hid in the crevice between windows of a lower apartment.
She could hear the door to the room push open and saw Trunks' head scanning the area for her. Thankfully, he couldn't see her. When he had pushed the window up all the way and jumped out himself, she made her move. As he flew out over the city, she dropped down the rest of the way to the ground. Her knees vibrated as she landed on the sidewalk. "It's been awhile since I've done that." She said aloud to herself.
Turning around she headed back inside the apartment. It would take him awhile to realize she had never left. Men are so stupid, she thought. In the elevator she thought about tonight. She would get to see, strangely enough, her half-brother Aya. Kone, one of her friends and old band mate, had dated her father. Lynk hadn't had a big problem with it, but thought it really strange, even more so when Kone told them she was having Goku's baby.
The elevator door opened and Lynk returned to the apartment.
Trunks stopped searching only twenty minutes after he started. She wouldn't run off into the city, he thought. I know her too well for her to something like that. She's probably back at the apartment waiting for me to walk in so she can glare at me and make more sarcastic remarks. Screw it. I'm not going back. He glanced at his watch, 5:15. Ryn would be made, he knew that, but he really couldn't go back and put up with Lynk.
He'd stay somewhere else tonight. Who all did he know who lived in Tokyo? Only one name came to mind, Natsumi. He had dated Natsumi along time ago. She was pretty, had red hair and brown eyes. If he remembered correctly, she lived in the neighborhood he was currently hovering over. Being careful so that no one would see his landing, he landed in an alley. Walking out onto the sidewalk he found the familiar house. It was a small flat above a CD shop that she worked in. Through the window he could see where she was standing at a cash register chewing on something. Score!
He walked across the street and into the shop. "Trunks!" Natsumi exclaimed. "Oh my God! It's been years!" she ran around the counter and threw herself onto him.
He gave her a hug and smiled down on her. "How's it going?"
"Good. But, what are you doing here in Tokyo? I thought you hated this place."
"I do. But I was visiting my sister and some old …friends…But I had a problem with something and was wondering if I might be able to stay over at your apartment for tonight?"
"Of course you can." Natsumi smiled up at him. "Who did you have a problem with?"
How did she know it was a who? Well, he always could tell Natsumi everything and she seemed to know how to handle most of his problems. "Well, it's…. Lynk…"
"Oh." Was all she said. "Yeah, you two had a really bad break up didn't you?"
"Yeah." He sighed.
"Don't worry. Go on up and make yourself comfortable. I'll be done with work at six."
Ryn walked into her apartment and immediately knew someone wasn't there. "Lynk, Trunks, Boy!" she yelled. Lynk and Kokuseki sauntered into the living room. "Where's Trunks?" Ryn asked glaring at the two.
"I don't know." Lynk shrugged. "But someone went through all of our stuff in our room and threw everything all over the place. I already picked up my stuff and nothing was missing. I didn't touch anyone else's cause I didn't know what would be missing."
"What?" Ryn looked at her like she was dumb. "Where's Trunks?"
"He took off about a half an hour ago." Kokuseki answered with a shrug.
"Did he read my note?"
"Yeah."
"I'll kill him." Ryn sighed. "Later. But first let's go see if anything's missing."
All the girls moved down the hall together and cleaned up their little room. "I'm not missing anything." Elise said packing away her last item.
"Me neither." Said Ryn looking quizzically about the room. "That's what's so weird. Someone was obviously looking for something specific, but it wasn't here. Does Trunks know who it was, did you ask him?" Ryn turned to Lynk.
The silver haired child looked up from her perch on the bed. "Yeah, I asked him. He said he didn't know."
"Oh." Ryn raised a questionable brow.
"Yeah. He said that he didn't even know someone had been in here."
"Did you blame it on him?" Ryn asked knowing her friend too well.
Lynk looked straight into Ryn's eyes. Grey meeting black. There was no spoken answer needed. Even Elise and Koneko understood what was being silently passed through the two. The four had an unbreakable bond, even with Elise and Lynk's constant bickering, there was a defensive side to the two that was as solid as a steel.
"Do you know where he went?" Ryn asked the youngest.
"No." Lynk said. "He flew off that way." She pointed straight out the window.
Another quiet silence took over the room. Then the door opened and Gohan filled it. "Hey, so is anything missing?"
"No." Ryn said, shaking her head with a sigh. "Nothing's been taken. It's all accounted for."
"Nothing has been taken from anywhere else around the apartment either." Gohan said nodding affirmatively. "Trunks is here. He said he was sorry for being late. Um…" Gohan cleared his throat and glanced slightly at his young sister before looking at his wife. "And he brought a lady friend."
Lynk looked over to her oldest brother. She shrugged and went back to fiddling with the loose piece of string on the bed spread.
"Well, let's go have dinner and play with the baby then." Ryn said, she shrugged.
Gohan left the doorway to put an arm around his wife's shoulders. They let everyone walk out before them. When they were alone he kissed her forehead and asked, "Is this going to be too much for you? Maybe it was a bad idea."
"No, no, no." she shook her head slightly. "I'm just tired today that's all." She smiled one of her big brilliant smiles at him. "Did you get the recording times?"
"Yeah." He smiled down at her. "We start tomorrow."
"Have we decided on the vocalist?" Ryn asked.
"I think we have an angsty guitarist and a angsty short little vocalist that need to rip some of their same talents separately." Gohan chuckled.
"I see. You don't want them trying to outdo each other while working on a song." Ryn smiled. "Sometimes I really like to think that you are the dork I always loved." Ryn smiled again and ruffled his hair. The two made their way down the hallway to the ½ kitchen ½ dinning room.
Everyone was gathered around the medium sized table. Koneko was showing off her baby. Aya Shoju Son. "He's so cute." Elise smiled happily at Koneko. "I can't wait to have kids of my own."
"Don't get too excited about it." Koneko warned. "It's a walking hell. But I do love the little bugger." The dog-eared girl smiled down at the baby sitting on the table. Aya was looking around his family. Everyone there was pretty much related to him one way or another. He giggled and everyone did too.
Lynk watched from the corner where she sat, her knees tucked up to her chest on the tall stool. When Aya had looked at her and called her "miow-mom" Lynk had smiled. Trunk had watched Lynk interact with the baby. Smirking when she thought no one was looking. Exchanging glances with the child when he called her by the new name she acquired.
"Lynk, does this mean the kid likes you?" Goten asked in a teasing tone.
"Shut up." Lynk retorted giving her older brother a good slap on the arm.
"Hey! That hurts!"
"Let's you know you're alive." She retorted in her smart alec little sister tone.
She glanced at the baby and Aya giggled like there was no tomorrow. Then he started to cry. "Look what you did, Lynk, you made him cry." Elise taunted.
Koneko lifted the child into her arms. "Shhh." She shhed. Yet the child was unwilling to stop his crying. "Lynk , here, hold him while I get his bottle." Koneko shoved the child into Lynk's arms.
Aya immediately stopped crying. Lynk stared down at the small child in her arms. Aya giggled and cried out, "Miow-mom!" Lynk smirked and shook her head.
"Lynk." She said. "Lynk."
"Miow-mom-Lynkuu!" the baby cried.
Trunks couldn't help but chuckled. This got him curious looks from everyone, include Natsumi. He quieted immediately and went back to silently watching her like everyone else.
"I think he likes you." Ryn said. "Maybe you are meant to be a mom."
"No thanks." Lynk said shaking her head. "That's for you and Elise. You guys even have the mom haircuts. I'm just the little rocker that doesn't stop." Lynk said with smirk. "I'm the baby…well, was the baby of the family and there for it is my duty to raise all hell and do everything you guys wished you could have done but were too busy making babies to do." Lynk gave her speech with her chin stuck proudly in the air. She was the baby and the only girl, until Aya was born, but she was still the only girl.
"Yes," Goten said. "But as the only girl, including little Aya-chan, here. You are expected to be the first settled down, or at least to pop out one kid with out having a father figure around to raise it with."
Lynk looked at Goten with a sarcastic eyebrow raised.
"Just kidding." He said raising both hands palm up to show that he called a truce.
There was another awkward silence until Aya screamed out at the top of his little lungs, "Miow-mom-Lynkuu-Baaaaabaaaaa!"
Lynk was caught off guard by this sudden burst from the small package that she nearly dropped him when she jumped. But her quick reflexes allowed her to keep him settled in the crook of her arm. "Man, you got a powerful voice, kid." She said. "Hey, Kone, you got that bottle yet?" she called out.
"I'll be there in a sec." Kone yelled back from the living room.
Trunks watched in painful silence as Lynk held the child in her arms. She was so beautiful holding that baby. He'd always thought, every night that he held her in his arms, that she would be the mother of his own children some day. Not any more. She wouldn't have it. He couldn't handle her. But the way she was able to make that child smile with just smirking at it or the way it cuddled into her arms as if it was supposed to.
Koneko returned a moment later and took the baby from Lynk's arms. She placed the nipple of the bottle into the child's mouth and sat down at the table.
There was a moment of silence before Gohan announced, "Tomorrow we start rehearsing at the recording studio."
"Cool. Cool. " was the collected reply and some nodding of heads.
"Who's doing what for the most part?" Elise had asked.
"Well, Koneko's on synth, of course." Gohan said. Everyone nodded. "Both Ryn and I will be playing base." Again everyone nodded. "Elise and Goten will take turns on the drums and Elise will do back up vocals. Trunks you do guitar and Lynk will do vocals."
"How come Lynk gets to do vocals?" Elise asked in a prissy tone.
"Because the songs I have written coincide with her style of singing." Gohan said, staring at his sister-in-law with a not too happy expression.
Elise sighed and rolled her eyes. Lynk nodded. "How many songs are we recording and how much time do we have?"
"Three singles. Two weeks."
"Two weeks?" everyone exclaimed.
"Yeah, that's all the time they could give me."
"No problem." Lynk said, again her knees curled up to her chest in her child-like state. Trunks nodded after her statement.
"I can do it." He said.
"Yeah," Goten and Elise both nodded.
Koneko nodded while rocking her baby. "We can do it, right Ryn Ryn?"
"Right." Ryn nodded. "Just like old times."
"Just like old times." Everyone agreed.
A/N: Okay, yeah, well, that went well enough, so um…after rewriting over half of that chapter it's time to move on to chapter 5…