Thank you all so much for all lovely the reviews! And for those of you who've wondered and asked, no I am not a fan of the Uub x Pan shipping. I only paired them together cause it was necessary for the plot of the story and Uub will not be coming back cause he died a natural death and there for can't be wished back with the dragonballs.

So without further ado, here's the next chapter hope you all enjoy

Chapter 2: Grieving and Remembering

Pan stood in front of her husband's casket, trying with all her might not to collapse on the floor and cry. It was just so hard. For the past three weeks she wanted to deny that it was true, that Uub was really dead. But seeing him in that casket made it all true. Videl came over beside her and wrapped a loving and comforting arm around her daughter's shoulder and they stood there like that for a while.

So you're Uub?

Pan sucked in her breath as a memory flooded her mind. She was six and she was looking on curiously at the eleven year old boy who her grandfather had taken under his wing.

***FLASHBACK***

Goku was over for a visit after he been gone for two years and had brought Uub along with him and after Goku got reacquainted with everyone, Chichi sent the kids outside to play and to get to know each other but this boy was so shy and Pan was getting frustrated.

"How old are you? I'm six!" Pan grinned proudly as held out six fingers but he still wasn't talking. "Do you wanna play a game?" she asked but he shook his head and looked away.

Pan huffed in frustration and sat on the grass and try to think of a way to get him start talking.

After two minutes and nothing Pan let out a low growl and stood up. "Hey do you even talk at all is it something about me? Cause you're really starting to bug me with all this quiet and I just like to know if it's something I did!"

Uub looked down at the grass and starched his upper arm. "It isn't anything you did," he mumbled. "I just…kinda get nervous around girls."

The angry glitter in Pan's eyes disappeared and she smiled at him. "Oh, is that all? Well you don't have to be nervous around me, It's not like I'm gonna bite you!"

Uub start laughing which caused Pan to laugh as well and after two minutes of hamming it up, Uub grinned at her. "I'm eleven and I think I'd like to play that game now."

"How about sparring instead?" Pan smirked and got into a fighting stance.

Uub looked a bit nervous again. "Oh…I don't know. My parents always told it's not polite fight with girls."

Pan rolled her eyes huffed. "You wouldn't be fighting with me. It's just a spar. I'm strong you know, it's not like you're gonna hurt me."

"Well…."

***END FLASHBACK***

Pan wiped a tear from her eyes and smiled a little at the memory. It had taken five whole minutes to finally convince him to spar with her and when they did it had been so much fun. She had thought Uub was very strong…for a human and had been surprised when he beaten her in the spar. He had given her a hammer blow to the back that sent her face down to the ground. He had gotten into a panic and kept shouting he was sorry and asking if she was okay. Remembering the scarred and shock look on his face when she had gotten up from the ground and dusted off the dirt from her close chuckle a little. She had told she was find and that was a great spar.

They had become friends that day. So whenever her grandfather would come back for a visit once or twice a year, she always looked forward to seeing Uub again. They would play, spar and talk about silly things. Then one day her grandfather stopped visiting and Pan lost touch with Uub and see didn't see him again until that day on Planet Plant when she had almost gotten killed by her father had been taken under Baby's control. She had been glad to see him again even considering all the circumstances.

Then it wasn't until she was fourteen and in high school when all the drama of Baby, super 17, and the shadow dragons was taken care of did she see Uub again. He had become a student at her grandfather Hercule Satan's dojo and when she had bumped into him on her way to the locker rooms, they caught up and rekindled their friendship. After that they did almost everything together, after she got out of school she would head over to her grandfather's dojo and spar and hang out with Uub. Then, he would fly her home. On the weekends, she would take him over to Capsule Corp so he could hang out and get acquainted with Trunks, Goten, Marron and Bra. Pan had been amazed how Uub had fitted into the group right away. Then, a year passed after that and Pan feelings for Uub started changing.

***FLASHBACK***

Pan was coming out of school and was quite surprised and pleased when she saw Uub standing there at the bottom of the steps. She made her way down quickly and gave him a hug.

"What are you doing here?" she asked him.

Uub was grinning from ear to ear, "Well I thought we could skip going to the dojo today and I take you out for ice-cream instead, what you say?" he asked.

Pan smiled and walked ahead of him before she turned around to face him with a grin on her face. "Well what are we waiting for? Let's go get some ice-cream." She winked playfully at him, making them both laugh as they made their way their way down the five blocks to the ice-cream shop.

Pan got a double scoop cookie dough cone and Uub got chocolate when everything was paid for they made they made their way outside and sat at the tables outside the shop.

"So is there a reason you want to play hooky from training?" Pan asked as took a bite of her cone.

"Well…" Uub cleared his throat fidgeted in his chair a little. "Well, we been hanging out a lot over the past year and we're good friends wouldn't you say?" he asked.

"Yes I'd say were good friends," Pan told him with a smile.

"Well, do you think you would like to take things to the next step?" Uub's cheek had tinted red and stared at his ice-cream cone.

Pan just stared at him a bit stunned. Was he telling her that he had feelings for her too?! "Are you trying ask me if I want to be your girlfriend, Uub?" she asked as she gave him a little smirk.

"Yeah, I guess I am." He looked up at her and when saw the glittery look in her eyes he smiled. "Will be my girlfriend, Pan?"

Pan put a hand to her chin, "Well I'll have think about it." She was just teasing him but he took it seriously.

"Oh, okay." He looked so disappointed.

"I was just kidding Uub, of course I'll be your girlfriend, silly!" Smiled at him before giving him a kiss on the cheek and giggled when she saw the blush in his cheeks. "I'm glad you asked cause I've been really starting to like you a lot," Pan told him as blush tinted her cheeks.

Uub beamed at that and laughed. "Really? Well I've had a crush on you since we were kids and I just thought now was good as time as any to finally ask you."

"Well I'm you did." She gave him another kiss on the cheek.

***END FLASHBACK***

Pan broke from her mother's hold and leaned over the casket. Slowly she took off her wedding ring and placed it into his hand then clutched a hand to the chain around her neck that had her husband's wedding band on it.

"Now you'll always have a part of me with you and I have a part of you." She let out shaky breath as she felt the stinging her eyes. "I love you, Uub," She whispered softly. Videl patted her back and they walked over to their family. Gohan opened up his arms Pan leaned into her father and let the tears fall silently.

After the funeral, everyone went to the Son's house to pay respects. Pan couldn't take it anymore. So many people telling how sorry they were for her and that they knew what she was going through and that everything was going to be okay. But it was wasn't okay, her husband was gone and she was on her own now and she didn't want hear anymore condolences from people she hardly even knew—Uub's extended family and friends—so she snuck out the back way and sat on a wooden swing that was hanging from a tree by the river by her parents' house. Her father had made her that swing and put it up for her when she was a little girl. It was also on that swing, near that river, where Uub had proposed to her. She wiped the tears away with her left hand as she clutched onto her husband's wedding band with her right hand.

She heard someone walking towards her and looked over her shoulder and saw Uub's father, or Papa Majin as she liked to call him. He sat down beside the swing and gave her a sympathetic smile.

"How you feel, Daughter?" he asked her. She smiled at him wobbly as she bit her bottom lip and wiped more tears from her eyes, he was the only one in Uub's family that called her 'Daughter' instead of by her first name. It was his term of endearment for her.

"Not so good, Papa," She told him honestly.

He nodded, understanding. "It get better, Daughter. I promise you. My son loved you very, very much and he never die when he be in your heart." English was never Mr. Majin's strong suit but Pan understood what he was saying and tiny smile formed on her face.

"Thank you, Papa Majin," she told him.

He stood up and smiled down at her. "I better get to An'ge. She be worry about me. Don't worry, Daughter. You be happy again." That seemed hard to believe, Pan thought, being happy again. She was a twenty-three year old widow who didn't know what to do with her life anymore.

As she stared into the river, she let her mind flood with all the wonderful times she and Uub had shared together. The first time he had asked her out on a date, the first time they had kissed, their first quarrel and make up. She let out a choked laugh as she remembered him flying outside her bedroom window with a bouquet of red roses and begged her to forgive him. She opened her window, had given him a peck on the cheek and had told him all had been forgiven. Her memories were once again brought back to the swing and that night Uub had proposed to her.

***FLASHBACK***

They had just both slipped out of her parents' house where a party was going on for Pan's eighteenth birthday.

"So why'd you want to talk to me out here for, Uub?" Pan asked as she sat on the swing and Uub grabbed ahold of both the ropes of the swing and pulled them back, lifting her feet off her ground. She pulled her head back and smiled at him.

He smiled back. "Well, I wanted to talk about the future and what that's going to mean for us. With you going to college and everything."

"Oh, well you could always come and visit me whenever you want you know and if you're worried I'm going fall for some American boy while I'm in the states I'll put your mind at ease and tell that's never going to happen. I love you."

"It's not that, Pan. It's just maybe I don't want to just visit. Maybe I want to come with you." His cheeks had tinted red and he looked over at the river.

"Come with me?" Pan asked confused.

"As your husband."

"W-what?"

"I know I'm not the richest man in the world, I'm a pauper compared to most, but I love you with all my heart and there's no other girl I'd rather spend the rest of my life with than you, Pan." She gasped and her eyes glittered as Uub reached into his pocket and brought out a ring. He bent on one knee and took both her hands into his. "Son Pan, will you do me the honor of becoming my wife?"

"Yes," she got out when she could speak again and looked into his eyes. "Oh, Uub yes, yes, yes, yes! A thousand times yes! I'd love to marry you!"

They both laughed for joy and Uub placed the ring on Pan's finger and they shared a loving kiss.

***END FLASHBACK***

Why was fate so cruel? Uub had been the strongest human on the planet! All the countless enemies they had all encountered and had defeated and it was a drunk driver on a country road and telephone pole that killed her husband! Why? WHY?!She put her hands to her face as she burst into tears as she wished for the millionth time that this was just terrible nightmare and if woke up, everything would be back to the way it was and Uub would be alive and standing right in front of her and giving her one his wonderful smiles. But this wasn't some awful dream and he was never, ever coming back.

—Four Months Later—

She was lying on her back, on a sloping hill covered with little white flowers and lush green grass as she watched the clouds flow by in the bright blue sky. She sort of felt like the clouds. Always slowly going around in circles, never going anywhere but in its same routine. That's what her life had been like since the funeral and coming back to Japan. She was a twenty-three year old widow living back with her parents who had no clue what she was going to do with her life now.

When she and Uub had gotten married she was just starting college and was trying to earn her degree and she never had to work cause Uub had taken care of that and had always insisted she should stay home and take care of finishing her education. Now she had no income and no work experience to speak of. That made her chances of finding a decent job very, very doubtful.

Her father had told that maybe she should call Bulma and see if she could get a job at Capsule Corp but she sort of felt like that would be special treatment because she knew Bulma would hire her without batting an eye. Goten had even offered her a job as a martial arts instructor at his dojo. She knew her father and uncle meant well but Pan wasn't even sure if she was even ready to go back into cold hard world. Uub had been her world, her everything. And without him there by her side any longer, nothing seem to matter anymore. Life didn't seem to matter anymore.

It was late in the afternoon when Pan came back from the hillsides of Mt. Pazou and to the house. Her parents weren't home yet so she had the house to herself so she sat on the couch and turned on the T.V. She wasn't really paying any attention to what was on the screen as she curled up into a ball on the couch and let her mind wonder and it didn't take long till sleep took over.

At the sound of a loud knock at the door, Pan woke up. She must have been out for a while because it was now dark outside. The knock sounded again. Pan knew it wasn't her parents, they wouldn't be knocking on the door. They would just open it and all Pan wanted to do was ignore whoever was knocking and block out the outside world as she had been doing for the past three months since Uub's funeral.

But the continuous rapping at the door was making that impossible.

"Go away!" Pan shouted.

The knocking became even more insistent.

"I SAID GO AWAY!" Pan screamed.

The knocking continued and Pan couldn't take it anymore. She flew off the couch in a rage, muttering curses under her breath and made her way for the door, ready to chew out whoever it was that was so rudely banging on that door.

She flung open the door, with her face red and full of rage.

"Dammit it hell! I told you to go—"

Pan cut herself off and stood there frozen as she looked up at the person she hadn't seen in years.

I know I'm a monster, right? Leaving you guys on a cliff hanger but it wouldn't fun otherwise LOLz so who do you think is at Pan's door? Hehehehe review and tell me what you think ;)