A/N I've learned that having four ongoing stories, school, and homework is not working out very well…so I hope that people understand that I can't update as much as I want to.
Pan
I held my breath and slowly turned to face the man behind me…though I kinda wished I hadn't. He wasn't much taller than I was, but his hair stood up adding about a foot to his height. He had a lot of muscles…so I figured he wasn't someone I could easily beat in a battle…though the feature that pierced my courage was his eyes. They were pure black and seemed to be set in a permanent glare.
I gulped and tried to sense Trunks' energy, hoping he could help. I flinched when this man pushed his question again.
"Why are you on my property female? Do you have a death wish?" He asked in his deep, gravely voice, slowly stalking closer with every syllable that passes his lips. Thus I step back with every step he takes closer. I tried to yell for help, but his gaze seemed to freeze the words deep in my throat.
"Dad what are you doing?" I heard another voice call from behind me. I whirled around and was more than relieved to see that it was only Trunks. I ran behind him and peered over at the shorter man.
"What does it look like? Scaring away pesky earthlings." He said.
"Dad…this is Pan, Gohan's daughter." Trunks told the other man who huffed.
"Oh yes, that brat. She's bigger than the last time I saw her." He grumbled before turning and heading inside.
"Sorry about that Pan. I warned you my dad is grumpy." Trunks laughed weakly, trying to improve the mood slightly.
"Grumpy? That seemed more murderous than anything." I said, still trying to slow my racing heart.
" Really? Huh…I guess I'm just used to it…anyways, lets go in. My mom would love to see you again." Trunks said, grabbing my hand and pulling towards the door of the huge Capsule compound.
Trunks
I led Pan inside and quickly searched the compound for my mother. I found her in the kitchen and dragged Pan there.
"Hey Trunks, how was school? Oh! Who's the girl?" My mother asked smiling suggestively at the last question. I sighed before answering her question.
"This is Pan, Gohan's daughter." I told my mother this time.
"Oh my, well haven't you grown up wonderfully. How are your father and grandfather?" Bulma asked Pan, who was quite frankly surprised to see Bulma Briefs being so friendly.
"Oh…well they're both doing fine…" Pan answered my mom, blushing slightly.
"That's good. I won't keep you two, go ahead and have fun, but not too much." She giggled, before turning back to her blueprints.
"Mom…seriously…" I said well humouredly before grabbing Pan and myself a snack and leading her up to my room. "Sorry about that…my parents are strange, as I've told you before." I told her, sitting on my bed.
"Well…mine aren't much different." She chuckled as she sat next to me.
"Yeah…aren't all parents weird?" I said, causing her to laugh at the sometimes true statement.
"I guess so. Though I don't think any are as scary as your dad is. I think he has them beat by a ton." Pan said, making me laugh.
"My dad is pretty scary." I agreed with her.
The rest of the afternoon went by rather fast for the both of us, and before we knew it, Pan had to return home. Though I was impressed she managed to survive through dinner with my mom and dad.
Pan
I was sad to have to leave Trunks' house, for it was really cozy there and I enjoyed hanging out with him. Though my mom had wanted me home by nine and it was already eight-forty. I said good bye to Trunks' and Bulma…though I wanted to avoid Vegeta…I still hadn't forgiven him for earlier.
I landed on my front lawn and went inside.
"Hi mom." I greeted my mom as I walked inside.
"Hi Pan. How was your day?" I knew she wanted to know about how my Capsule corp visit went.
"It was fun. I got to meet Bulma and Vegeta…who scares the living daylight out of me, and Trunks and I talked for most of the time…though dinner was…interesting to say the very least." I told her, not noticing the giant smile plastered on my face.
"That's good. I have to agree, Vegeta can be scary, but deep down I know he's like a fluffy teddy bear." My mother laughed slightly, remembering back when she and Bulma (and Chichi) had talked in Heaven.
"…Really?" I asked confused…he surely didn't seem like the teddy bear type.
"Yeah. I knew Bulma back when Gohan and I were about your age, and we talked and she would tell me all these funny stories about her husband. He's a totally different person once you get to know him." Videl told her daughter.
"Oh…" I wasn't sure what to say to that, but I was saved when my dad walked in.
"Hey Pan, how was everybody?" He asked, giving me a hug.
"They were good. So is what mom says true about Vegeta?" I had to know whether or not my mom was telling the truth.
"Well…what was your mother saying about him?"
"That he's really a big teddy bear." I repeated, making my dad laugh.
"Well…I never thought of it that way…but I guess so. Granted he used to be evil, but now his daughter has him wrapped around her little finger…and he really has mellowed down a lot." My dad told me, still chuckling slightly.
"Maybe we should all get back together…you know like throw a party and invite all our friends…we haven't seen them in forever." Videl said excitedly.
"Yeah, that sounds nice." My dad agreed.
"What sounds nice?" I turned and saw my uncle Goten walk in and-believe it or not- he wasn't on his phone. I know…it's shocking, but here he was.
"A party with all our friends." My dad told his younger brother.
"Yeah! That would be totally awesome and Trunks and I could…" He started off excitedly, but trailed off after he mentioned Trunks.
"Forget about your best friend in the whole world?" Gohan asked almost coldly.
"No, he's my best friend in the whole universe…" Goten said quietly, regretting ever trading Trunks for a girlfriend.
"Did you know that Pan and Trunks are now friends and may one day date." Gohan asked my uncle, who snapped his head up to look at my dad in disbelief.
"No way! Pan is that true?" He asked, turning to look at me.
"Well…I'm not sure about the dating part, but yeah Trunks and I are friends." I told him.
"He's a cool guy…though he would always get us into trouble." Goten reminisced.
"Hey, don't blame just Trunks, you would follow his lead, so you're equally guilty." Videl laughed at the now blushing half-saiyan.
"It's going to be nice to talk to him again." Goten said seriously.
I yawned and was caught by my mother.
"I think it's time for you to go to bed Pan. I think we'll have a busy day ahead of us." My mom said, hugging me good night.
I said my goodnights and heading up to my room and lay on my bed.
"It's nice to finally know who Trunks is, and knowing he knows who I am…though it's strange to think that both of our families were once best of friends. Maybe it was fate that led up to each other…" I thought as I drifted off to sleep, knowing that- maybe not tomorrow, or the next day, one day- I'll become Pan Briefs.
Trunks
After Pan left I talked to my mom, before the phone rang. I kissed her cheek and told her goodnight and headed off to bed.
From my room I could hear my mom's voice, she was saying something about a party and it would be great to be back together again. I chuckled slightly, knowing that soon there was going to be a party with all our old friends. It surely would be interesting to get Goten me back together again. We used to be hell on wheels for a lack of a better term.
I rolled over and as I drifted to sleep a single thought passed through my mind, "One day I'll ask Pan to be my girlfriend…and then maybe…just maybe, I'll ask her to marry me…" but that day wasn't today, and it may not be tomorrow…but I knew it was in the near future.
A/N: First off I want to apologize for two things, 1) For being so late with this update and 2) the shortness of the final chapter. And yes the words final chapter are not typos. I needed to finish this story 'cause I can't think of any ideas to make it go on and TrunksxPan are not my passion. I did enjoy writing this story though and I want to thank everyone who read and reviewed , you guys (and gals) are really the best.
Within the next few weeks or so I'm going to be starting a dbz highschool fanfic (it'll have B/V, G/Cc, and K/J).
Until our next meeting my fellow earthlings
~MellowDragon
