Disclaimer: I do not own DragonBall Z, so please do not sue me.

Ages: Pan: 15 Trunks: 16 Uub: 16 Marron: 15 Roaue: 17

Before You Read: Bra isn't even supposed to be born in this story, because it will just screw up my whole idea! Sorry for Bra fans! But Goten's in here...and he's not related to Pan, it's confusing but hopefully you'll figure it out.

A/N: I have posted this story before, but as I read over it recently, I realize that it had terrible grammatical errors, and the plot was not as good as I first remembered it as being. So, here is a new version of:

LOVE WILL FIND US
Chapter 3

Pan screamed loudly as Roaue's hand made contact with her face. It looked as though her jaw might have been dislocated. Clutching onto her mouth, she watched as a few of the classroom doors opened, heads peering out to see what the ruckus was all about. Before she could try to sucker punch the bully back, Trunks took a strong hold of her upper body so she wouldn't lose control. It was a good thing he did that. Turning her head around, she finally questioned her friend,

"Trunks? What are you doing?" she quietly asked, pulling a little to try to get out of his grasp.

"Making sure you're alright. I won't let him hurt you again." he responded. He strengthened his grip around her waist and snarled up at Roaue. "Get away from her, what did she do to you?"

"Live." the bully responded with a smug expression. In anger, Trunks let go of Pan in order to fight him, but by doing so Pan got the first hit in. Her smooth hand smacked him dead on the face, causing a small welt to form. Roaue's eyes filled with frustration as he lunged toward the raven-haired girl, but since he was so bulky and Pan so petite, she managed to sneak out of his attack. "Get back here you coward!"

Without a word, she continued running down the hallway. None of the classroom doors were open anymore, and she knew there was no way she could get in one. The first bell for class had already rang. Her only alternative was to go to the nurse's office to get an ice-pack, because she knew her first hour teacher did not take anything unexcused. Taking a sharp right around the corner, she didn't notice that she ran into someone.

"Don't touch me!" she yelled in defense, her fists raised high ready to attack.

"Woah, Pan. Calm down, it's just me, Uub." the person reasoned. Uub placed his hands up, as if admitting defeat. Pan immediately felt her body melting into a pool of water beneath her, but managed to give him a feeble smile. "You alright? You don't look too good."

"That jerk Roaue punched me. I was trying to get away from him." She began. "At first, I thought you were him. Sorry for scaring you."

"Don't worry about that. I'm more worried about you getting punched." Uub gently took a hold of Pan's hand, causing her face to turn cherry red. "You want me to help you to the nurse's office? Your cheek is starting to swell."

"Yeah, that'd be nice." Pan said. She glanced down the hall she came from quickly, making sure Roaue wasn't following her. Yet, what caught her eye was the lavender hair of Trunks. Guilt rising in her gut, Pan forced herself to turn her attention back to Uub. She didn't want to think about Trunks when she had the boy of her dreams in front of her. "Let's go. I'm already late for first hour."

"Ha, me too." Uub said, smiling at her. The two began walking down the hallway toward the Nurse's Office, but they were stopped short when a teacher on hall duty stalked them down.

"Where do you two think you are going?" he inquired, glaring mainly at Uub in lieu of Pan.

"I'm helping Pan to the nurse's office, Mr. Gouvin." Uub said defensively.

"Hmm, well if you had a better attendance in your first period class, then I might allow you to take her to the nurse. But, since you don't, I suggest you go to it before I write you up." Mr. Gouvin stated, his arms crossed over his chest. Uub knew it was best not to test the teacher, and he merely nodded his head. "Do you need any assistance to the nurse's office Miss Son? I currently couldn't help you, but I could pull a student out of class to do such."

"I'm alright. Thank you Mr. Gouvin." Pan said. She lowered her head, so that he could not have a good view of what happened to her. She continued down the hallway, hoping there would be no more interruptions. Yet, there was another one!

"Pan," Trunks whispered behind her. She squeaked quietly, startled at the noise. "Sorry, didn't mean to frighten you. Just want to make sure you get to the nurse safely."

"I'm fine, Trunks. I know how to get to the nurse's office. Sheesh." she said, exasperated. This was starting to get old pretty quickly.

"That's not what you were telling Uub." Trunks retorted. He fluttered his eyelashes while cupping his hands together before saying, "Yeah, that'd be nice Uub! Help me to the nurse's office!"

"Oh, shut up!" Pan exclaimed. She stomped on his foot in anger. "I've had a crush on him for like forever Trunks. You idiot!"

"Oww! I get it! You didn't have to kill my foot! Now are you going to let me take you to the nurse or not?"

"I guess." Pan said, rolling her eyes. Trunks took a hold of her hand for a second causing Pan to eye him queerly,

"What? Uub's allowed to walk hand-in-hand with you, and your own friend isn't?" Trunks appeared to be offended. Rolling her eyes once more, she made it known that it wasn't a fuss for him to hold her hand to lead her to the nurse. "That's what I thought!"

"I wanted to tell you...thanks." Pan muttered, rubbing her head with her free hand. Trunks quirked an eyebrow and beckoned for her to continue. "I really appreciate you standing up to Roaue for me like that. He probably would have pummeled me to a pulp."

"Any time Pan." He said with a smile. "I hate to see you getting hurt."

Blush reached Pan's cheeks and she turned her head so Trunks couldn't see her. The remainder of the walk to the nurse's office was completely silent, neither daring to speak another word. When they finally made it, Pan was able to receive the elusive ice pack that she had been needing to place on her face. The two friends separated afterward, the day going by fairly fast. Before she knew it, it was already lunch time.

"Hey Pan," Trunks stated, coming up behind her in the lunch line. He picked up a tray for both of them, "If you want, I'll sit with you today at lunch. My girlfriend isn't here today, and well, I know that Marron still hasn't made it back from her trip."

"Thanks Trunks." she said with a smile. The duo sat down together at an empty table, only to be joined by Goten.

"Hey you two. What's up?" he asked goofily.

"Not much," they answered in unison.

"Okay. That usually means something is up." Goten retorted as he shoved some of the mashed potatoes in his mouth. Eyeing the two, he slowly chewed his food. "I'm going to figure out what you two are hiding by the end of the day. Mark my word. I have my sources you know."

"Haha, whatever you say Goten." Trunks laughed.

The lunch hour went by relatively fast, the three friends laughing the entire time. A few hours later, the bus was making its routine stop at Pan's home.

"Hey grandpa." Pan chimed. She shut the door behind her and waited for a response.

"Hey Panny, how was school today?" He greeted back. When he turned to face her, his expression soon changed from happiness to anger. "My goodness, what happened to to?"

"Some jerk punched me in the face." she responded. Clearly, she did not want to speak about her encounter at school. Pan quickly made haste to cover up that it wasn't as bad as it looked. "Don't worry about it though, I've had an ice pack on it all day. Okay?"

"Well, will you put some more ice on it for me? It looks like a big plum about to bust off your face." Goku said. He opened the freezer door to pull out an ice pack to force Pan to put on her cheek. "Speaking of plums...I'm kind of hungry!"

"Grandpa!"

"Heh, heh. Well, here. Keep this on your face for a couple more hours. It will help the swelling." the silly grandfather stated. He could see that his granddaughter was not very happy about it. "It will feel better if you lay down too."

"Yeah, yeah, yeah..." Pan said, ripping the ice pack out of his hands. She headed to her bedroom to lay down with the ice pack, but ended up falling asleep, not waking until the morning.

The next morning when Pan woke up she saw that her ice pack was gone.

"Hm, grandpa Goku must have taken it off." Pan said, reasoning with the only possible answer. She pushed herself out of the bed and glanced around momentarily, "Oh well."

After taking her morning shower, she met her grandpa in the kitchen. He was lazily making some pancakes and sausage for breakfast. Feeling her stomach growl, Pan realized how hungry she was, and sat down at the dining room table to wait for Goku to finish making breakfast.

"Thanks for breakfast grandpa." Pan said as she quickly stuffed her face. That was a quality both of them shared, they both enjoyed eating. What most couldn't fathom was that neither seemed to gain weight from the immense amount of food they ate. Merely five minutes later, Pan and Goku had cleared out all the pancakes and sausage. Patting her stomach, Pan pushed herself out of the dining room chair and picked up her schoolbag. "I gotta head down to the bus stop! I'll see you later today grandpa!"

She had to wait in the mild weather for the bus to arrive, after all, she was a few minutes early. This was a rare occasion for Pan, she was usually rushing to be there on time. She lazily kicked the granite rocks around from her street while counting the seconds in her head. After what felt like an eternity, the bus finally arrived. When she got on the bus, she automatically sat next to Trunks, not realizing that her best friend had finally gotten back from her week-long trip.

"Ahem," Marron coughed, catching the attention of her best friend. Pan looked up at blinked for a response. "Why in the hell are you sitting next to him instead of me?"

"Uh..." Pan said, drawing a blank. She glanced at Trunks for an answer, but he merely shrugged his shoulders as if her sitting next to him was no big deal whatsoever. Smiling at him, she turned back to her friend and finally replied. "We're friends, you know."

"Whatever..." Marron said and faced the front of the bus. She thought that by ignoring Pan it would make her feel guilty.

"Does your face feel better?" Trunks inquired quietly, not wanting Marron to hear what they were talking about. Apparently he wasn't quiet enough for Marron's large ears to ignore.

"What happened?" the blonde haired girl was suddenly interested once more.

"Did you not hear?" Goten asked as he popped out from behind Marron.

"Where did you come from?" Marron asked, raising a quizzical brow.

"I've been on this bus before you know. Anyways," Goten said. He purposely paused to aggravate Marron, it worked. "I heard that Trunks and Pan got in a fight with Roaue. Apparently, Pan hit Roaue - in self-defense I presume - and Roaue punched her back."

"Is that true Pan?" Marron asked.

"Yeah..." Pan murmured

"Go Pan!" Marron exclaimed, pumping her fists in the air.

"I wouldn't exactly be cheering for her." Goten said.

"Why?" Marron said.

"The teachers believe that Pan acted unprovoked, and it doesn't look too good on her end. For some odd reason, teachers will believe Roaue at times. If it doesn't get settled, then all three of them might be suspended for all the excitement it caused around the school yesterday." Goten stated matter-of-factly. "Well, that's what I hear at least."

"How do you know all of this anyways?" Marron asked.

"I know people."

"Whatever..."

"Suspension? Are you serious?" Pan asked. Trunks had a look of disbelief on his face as well.

"Yeah." Goten said. "Sorry guys."

"I've never been suspended! Or even in trouble! My dad's gon-" Pan stopped her sentence and lowered her head. She realized what she had just said. No way her dad would do anything, he wasn't with her anymore. Shaking her head, she felt two arms wrap around her shoulders to comfort her, then a low whisper.

"I'm so sorry."

It was Trunks. Pan couldn't have asked for a better friend in him.