Could This Be True: Chapter 5 - History With a Bit of Romance
DISCLAIMER: I don't own Dragonball, Dragonball Z, or Dragonball GT!
The plot and OG charaters and history of OG characters are creations of entirely my own.

*Pan's POV*

"Tru-Trunks gave mee aww-way." I sobbed into my hands. I couldn't believe it. Thats why he was acting so strange today, the kiss.. it was a goodbye kiss. He knew how I felt about him and he wanted to get me away from him. I should have known.

"Calm yourself, your going to hyperventilate." Artemis spoke softly from above me, his hand still resting on my shoulder.

I turned to face him. His face was illuminated by the window farthest up that shown down. I could see just barely, but I noted that he had long hair. It was to the middle of his back and was jet black. His eyes were a jade, like a cat's. But he wasn't human, nor Sayian. I could sense it. I didn't know what he was, he had the features of a human man, but he wasn't. His hands were cold on my shoulder, it calmed me slightly and I felt rather tired.

"Are you calm now, Pan?" he asked me softly, disturbing my thoughts.

"Yes, but no." I wiped my cheek.

He smiled and stood. Then offered his hand to me. I took it and stood up beside him, "I'm very sorry what they did to you. But I promise, we will treat you much better here. A beautiful woman such as you shouldn't be treated like they treated you." His arm hung around my shoulder and he helped me walk to the door to.. well I don't know where it went to.

*Trunks POV*

"If mom can make a device that can track down the dragonballs, I can make one to find Pan." I muttered to myself as I rummaged through her lab. Picking from broken experiments and gathering things I would need, I discovered a box shoved off to the side. I sat everything I had in my hands down and walked over to the box, my fingers ran over the top of it. I opened the top flap and the first thing I saw was a picture album.

By the black cover and the fancy embrodairy, I quickly realized it was mine that my mom had made me when I was a baby, of course I didn't remember it but she'd given it to me on my graduation night. It was a memoire of my life in pictures, she wanted it back after that night though. I gave it back and she'd kept it and had been adding more and more pictures to it since. This was the first time I'd seen it in years.

I opened the cover and there was a picture of me and my mother after she gave birth to me. She loved me, I knew it by the way she was looking at me. My father was standing just behind her, peeking over her shoulder. He may come off as the kind of man that doesn't care, but he does. He just shows it in a very strange way.

I flipped through the pages, remembering times that I was in pure bliss. A few of the pages were filled with me and Goten playing pranks on Master Roshi and Piccalo. Then as I got closer to the middle it was of me and the girls I dated in highschool, I skipped a few pages until I landed on one. My eyes glistened as I looked at me and Pan. She had her arm around my neck and my arm was around her waist, we were both captured in mid-laugh. I remember that day, it was the day of Pan's 16th birthday, I had just told her that she was going to find gray hairs soon. Then I called her a brat and she called me an old man. We were at each other's throats just yelling random insults. Pan was the first to crack up and thats how this picture was born. I smiled down at it, "Pan, I'll find you. I promise."

A hand on my shoulder startled me, causing me to drop the album. I turned around to face Goten. He looked pretty worried, I figured it was because of Pan so I didn't ask. I just stood there and waited for him to tell me why he interrupted my reminescing.

"Trunks. I need to-"

"Gotennnnn!" it was Bra, yelling from the top of the stairs, "Goten, are you down there."

Goten was shaking his head 'no' like a mad man. And his eyes were wide. I took the hint, "No, he's not down here Bra." My voice cracked.

"Oh." she shut the door and I'm guessing walked away.

"What was that about?" I asked.

"She's.. she.. I.." Goten mumbled.

"Spit it out, man!"

"She kissed me!" He looked at me and stepped back.

I just laughed.

"Its not funny! I thought she was going to rape me right there!" He looked down at his feet and I grinned.

"I'm sorry. But I knew it would happen, she's had the hotts for you for a long time." I shrugged and began packing the pieces of experiments into a box, along with the photo album. I sighed, Goten probably heard what I said about Pan. He probably noticed I was teary eyed too. "Goten?"

"Yea..?" he answered.

"Did you hear what I said?"

"When? Just then? No. I was kinda thinking about..." his voice trailed off, "When?"

I scoffed, "When you walked in. When you put your hand on my shoulder?"

"Oh, yeah." he looked over at me, then back to the table, "Your going to make something that will track her down? Like you wanted your mom to but she said it was too complicated."

I nodded and pointed to a box, "Can you help me get this to my room? She'd kill me if she found out I was making it instead of listening to her."

*Goten's POV*

Trunks was being surprisingly accepting of what Bra did. I figured he'd have killed me right there, I'm glad he didn't. I was starting to like Bra, but I wanted to talk to Trunks about some things before I spent time with her again. I sighed and sat the box down on his desk, beside the other two that he had carried up.

I picked up a tiny experiment, "So.. what is this-"

His hand pulled the ball of metal and wires from mine, "Don't touch it. I don't know what it does."

I smirked and hopped onto his bed. I didn't want to play with his invention anyway, "So about Bra."

"What about her?" he asked as he began trying to piece things together.

"Well I.." I sighed, "What would you do if I told you I liked that kiss?"

"Thats you man. But if you hurt her, I'll kill you." he smiled over his shoulder at me. "Simple as that."

I sighed, in relief and in boredum. Pan going missing had really took away everyone. Not that I didn't miss her, I knew that she'd be back soon. Afterall, it had only been atleast a good 10 hours. Well, when you thought it like that it sounded bad. But Pan was a Sayian, everyone was just overreacting. I mean, Pan's window was wide open when me and Trunks got there, it was an obvious sign that she ran away. We hadn't went in there, neither had my brother or his wife. We didn't see the use in it because she wasn't in there.

"I'll be back." Trunks muttered as he went out his door.

I fell back and sighed. I closed my eyes and thought about what happened today in the resturant.

*Flashback*

Bra was holding my hand when we walked in the doors. She was right, I did like it. And I wasn't going to stop her. If she wanted it then well, that was okay by me. Of course I'd have to hear from Trunks about how she was his sister and all that. But I couldn't help it. I've been around her since I was young, and that just grows on someone. I'd always hoped that a day would come that she would hold my hand or make a move like this, or that I would be the one to do it. I felt like a chicken, I needed to start acting like a man. Take control of the situation. As I went over this in my head, we took a seat and waited to be served.

"Goten, what do you want to eat?" She smiled over at me from across the table. She looked heavenly, all she was missing was the halo and wings.

"Surprise me." I chuckled and looked around.

She ordered for both of us and our food came back quickly. It wasn't enough for a Sayain dinner, but it was enough to keep me full until dinner. We both ate in silence, I always wondered why Sayians didn't like to talk much while they ate. But hey, I wasn't complaining, this food was amazing! I finished my food off before Bra and I just sat there and admired her, she was still beautiful when she didn't try to be. She was beautiful when she was distracted. She was... looking at me. Oh no I was caught!

"What is it Goten?"

"Nothing." I shook my head and laughed then looked away. She bought the excuse and finished her food. We payed and left.

We ended up walking to a park, she wanted to sit down so we did. I felt her warm body cuddle next to mine, I looked down and smiled at her. I put my arm around her shoulder and pulled her closer. That obviously startled her because she looked up at me. Before I knew what I was doing,I cupped her cheek and bent my head down to hers. My lips softly met hers. I pulled back and smiled at her and she watched me, wide eyed. At first I thought she didn't like it, but I was wrong.

I was pushed off the park bench and Bra was pounced on top of me. Her hands tangled in my hair and she was softly tugging on my lip. I smiled and wrapped my arms around her back and kissed her, I let my tongue dance around her lips.

*End of Flashback*

"Goten?" It was Trunks.

"Huh?" I raised up and looked around his room.

"I leave for a couple minutes and you take a nap.." he rolled his eyes and shook his head, "Nice."

My hand went to the back of my head and I laughed softly, "Sorr-"

"No bother," he held up a hand to stop my appology. He grinned, "Look what I have."

*Pan's POV*

"So what are Discennians?" I frowned, "I mean, what do they look like?"

Artemis smiled, "They look like me, only most males cut their hair. I like mine too much to cut it. Females, have medium length hair. Like you. But they look different than you." He nodded his head toward me.

"My tail?"

He chuckled, "Yes, they don't have one of those. The main significant thing about a Discennian female is her voice. It is soothing, it can calm anyone. Males have a power as well. We can change your mood with just a touch. Some males can see into the future, which is very rare. Some can give a cancer with just a touch. It all depends on the type of friend or foe they are."

I shuddered involentairly and laughed nervously.

"Don't worry, my dear." he smiled appologetically, "I'm the type that can change moods. And I wouldn't let anyone harm you."

I blushed internally, "What about the females? Is that all they have the power to do?"

He nodded, "Its sad actually. The Queen, she could do almost everything that the males could," he paused and looked at my expression, "but the King had her murdered because he was in fear that she would overthrow him." When I didn't say anything he continued, "Its said that the Queen concived a child, and before she was murdered she beared that child. No one knows who it is. Or who it belongs to. But it most likely got the powers she possessed before she passed on."

I bit my lip, "I'm sorry that your planet was so.."

When I couldn't finish my sentence he nodded, "Its okay. Everything is different now. King Duleca has ruled that their will be no un-just murder of anyone. I've heard that he was the nephew of the Queen who was murdered."

We sat in silence for a while before I sighed, "I'm scared."

His expression changed, "Why? Well I can understand that you don't know where your going or anything, but trust me. We will treat you better than you were ever treated on Earth."

"I miss him. I miss my family." I felt I could trust Artemis so I was ready to tell him everything. "I loved him. I love him." I sighed and looked down.

"You trusted him, then he betrayed you. And you still love him?"

He had a point. It was kind of stupid for me to still feel so strongly for Trunks, but I couldn't help it. It was like we were made to be together. "Yes." I sighed.