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Chapter V"Our Farewell"

Trunks scouted the city, 'now where did she go? She's pretty fast for a girl…' He didn't mean to yell at her, but somehow she just winded him up. He just wanted to grab her, hold her closely and kiss her. He wanted to be with her, in every possible way. But she kept this distance between them, it hurt him and it hurt her as well, he could see it in her eyes. His heart yearned for her, and he was about to lose control if it would go on like this a little longer.

He spotted her, she was sitting on a bench, behind a few big oaks. He softly landed in front of her and put the bag with the dress on the bench beside her. She didn't look up at him.

"You dropped your bag…" He started, but when she didn't responded he sat down next to her. "Renai…"

"Why can't you just leave me alone?" She suddenly yelled at him. She was standing up now, waving her fist at him.

"I can't leave you alone when you're crying!" He was standing up again.

"You're the one that keeps making me cry!" She wanted to hit him with her fist but he quickly grabbed her wrist and pulled her close to him.

"Why do you think that is?" He asked her.

She couldn't help but blush a little, being so close to him… "Because of the mean things you say!"

"No, Renai." He lifted her head and forced her to look at him. His blue eyes were flickering intensely. "It's because I am right…"

"I…" She couldn't say anything anymore, he was right…

"Renai, I know that you still remember me. I heard you whisper my name, when we were kissing on the balcony…" Renai's heart skipped a beat and Trunks could feel her tense up in his arms. "It made me feel fantastic, I was so happy that you hadn't forgotten about me, it gave me hope again."

"I can't recall saying that."

"Oh, Kami-sama!" Trunks was desperate, "why won't you accept the past, why do you keep repressing your memories!" He started shaking her by her shoulders, desperately trying to make her come back to her senses. "There was something special between us, Renai. Don't tell me you have forgotten. Why did you forget about me?" He stopped shaking her, tears were now appearing in his eyes. Renai was silent, she looked down, at the ground. But suddenly she looked up at him, her eyes were still moist.

"Because you left me!" She shouted emotionally, her tears flowing uncontrollably.

"Wh-what?" Trunks took a step toward her, but she moved away from him. She seemed to be surprised by what she just said as much as he was. She remembered, somehow everything she had bottled up for years came up…

"You left me, Trunks! Five years ago my parents were killed and I lost my house. If it wasn't for Bulma and the others, I wouldn't be the person who I am today. I thought that now that I had a new family, my life would never be a mess again. It couldn't go wrong!"

"Oh Renai…" Trunks whispered.

"You were there too, you helped defeating that horrible Cell, the murderer of my parents! And you never came to see me! I looked up to you! I believed you when you say you would come back for me as soon as possible… I though you were so handsome, strong, mature… I was just a twelve year old girl…"

"You weren't in my eyes, Renai… You never were…"

"That's where it went wrong, Trunks… You saw me as a woman, but I was a kid. My heart barely survived the loss of mom and dad when it started beating louder for you. But then you left me, and I never saw you back…"

"I told you that I had to go back to my own dimension… To save the people there!"

"How could I understand that, at that time? In my eyes, you were just another person that I cared about, that disappeared from my life. I couldn't deal with it, it was too much… So I decided to forget about it, and locked my heart away… So I wouldn't ever have to feel that pain again!"

"You can't live like that! It would make you only half alive!"

"I don't care, if it wasn't for the Briefs I'd rather be dead!"

"Don't say silly things like that, Renai…" Trunks reached out for her but she turned away from him.

"No, Trunks, don't touch me." Her voice was trembling, "will you please just leave me alone. Not just for now, but forever. I don't ever want to see you again, I want to continue forgetting… Leave my life, go back to you dimension and leave me alone!" She ran away from him again, but this time he didn't chase her.

He sunk down on the bench, his left hand on the bag that was still lying on the same spot as where he had left it.

'Because you left me!' Her words echoed through his mind… 'That's where it went wrong, Trunks… You saw me as a woman, but I was just a kid.'

Was it true? He had never realized how she would deal with it, to him it were definitely eight long years, but he just couldn't forget about her. He tried to relive the time they spent together, the first time they had met it was accidently. He was 17 at that time, and he was on an important mission to give an anti-virus to Goku. Bulma send him to the past, so he could hopefully alter the future! But his first attempt made him end up at the wrong place, near a forest…

***Flashback***

Trunks hopped out of his time-machine and took a look around only to realize that he was at the wrong place. He was about to step back into his machine when he heard a desperate cry for help. He tried to ignore it, there was no time for side-missions, he went back behind the control-panel, ready to go to the right location this time. Somehow he couldn't, it just wasn't in his nature to ignore cries of help, he changed his mind and stepped out once again.

The cry came from North-west, he flew up and tried to spot the person in need. After only a short moment he discovered a girl in need, she was being chased by bandits. She was desperately trying to keep them off her, by running as fast as she could. But she was getting tired, and the bandits were closing in on her… She looked back over her shoulder, trying to see how close they were, so she didn't pay enough attention to where she was walking. She tripped over the root of a big maple tree and hit the ground hard. The bandits quickly surrounded her.

"There's no way to go now, Missy. It's been a fun game of cat and mouse, but it's over now." The ugliest one of the lot, with a rough black beard, a crooked nose and small, dark eyes, grabbed her skirt and shirt and ripped them off her.

"A little young, not close to a woman… But you're sure a beauty" He grinned evilly and his mates started laughing along.

He was about to press his disgusting lips on hers when suddenly froze for a second and fell down on the girl. She screamed loudly, and one of the bandits yelled: "Get him, he's killed the boss!" It was Trunks, he had quickly showed up and stabbed the boss through his chest. After that he took care of the other three bandits, his sword clashed them to bits.

The girl tried to shove the dead bandit off her body, but he was to heavy. Suddenly he seemed to move on his own, and she let out a small cry, then she realized it was the strange boy with the sword that threw him off her.

"Are you okay, Miss?" He asked her, and helped her stand up.

"Y-yes," the girl stuttered, "thank you for rescuing me from those creeps!"

"No problem…" He wanted to turn away from her and return to his ship, but he couldn't move! He was looking into the most beautiful eyes he'd ever seen, they were like emeralds, hidden behind long, dark eyelashes. The girl must have been about twelve, but he couldn't care, in her eyes he saw something beautiful, she was enchanting.

"I'm Trunks," he whispered softly.

"Renai."

"I think…" He carefully started, "…that I just fell in love with you…"

She nodded, "I think I did so to, with you…"

He stretched out his hand and touched her cheek, she closed her eyes, then he slowly pressed his lips on hers…

***End flashback***

Somehow they had fallen in love the moment they first laid eyes on each other. After the kiss they shared he realized he hadn't much time to meet Goku and the others, and he had to beat Frieza and King Cold as well! He told Renai that he had something really important to do, and that he only landed here by accident. She seemed to understand, and let him go after he promised her that he would be back. At that time he wasn't at all thinking about the reality of that promise.

However he did return, after he beat Frieza and King Cold, talking with the other Z-warrior, meeting Goku and giving him the antidote. He said goodbye to everyone and left, but he didn't yet went back to his own dimension. He went looking for Renai, and when he found her he tried to explain to her that he had to leave. She asked him if he couldn't at least spend the day with her, and so he did. He stayed until the evening started. He went to the beach with her and took her out for lunch. They had a great time together, even though they hardly knew each other and even though Trunks was five years older. Then the sun started to set, and it was time for Trunks to say his farewell.

***Flashback***

"I don't know why, Renai, but it feels like I've known you all my life…"

"I feel the same, Trunks."

"I know it's not right, because of our age difference." She nodded in agreement. "But I can't help how I feel." She hugged him and they kissed each other once again.

"I have to return to my own dimension, the androids are destroying my home town even more as we speak."

Renai nodded again, "and you have to go, I will wait for you…"

"I am not sure how long it will take, but I will promise I will be back soon!"

After one last, long kiss, Trunks went inside the time-machine, it flew up and he waved at her one last time, then he disappeared.

***End flashback***

She thought he had never come back in those eight years, but he had. After three years he had returned, by that time Bulma had baby Trunks.

He then trained twice with Vegeta in the Time Chamber, at Kami's Lookout, one day training in the Time Chamber is equal to a year. So by that time he was 22, while Renai was 15. His visit wasn't for pleasure, and his mind wasn't on love at all. Of course he hadn't forgotten about her, he just needed to focus on fighting Perfect Cell. He got killed, but luckily the Z-warriors had wished him back to life. After that he quickly returned to his own dimension, and he was able to defeat the androids with ease. Yet he had to help rebuild the city and make sure everything was okay again. His mother had caught a strange disease though, so he just couldn't leave yet. When she finally got better and he returned, two years had passed since then. Yet something had gone wrong with the time-travelling, he ended up in the right dimension, but three years too late. Renai was now 20 years old, only four years younger then Trunks. Maybe it was better that way, since there wasn't that big of an age difference anymore, but Renai had thought that he had left her. After all, eight years was an awful long time if you were waiting for the one you loved that you had only seen one day…

He jumped up from the bench, he had to do something! He had to explain the situation to Renai somehow… But first thing's first, he had to give her this beautiful dress back! He held on closely to the bag and flew towards Capsule Corps.

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