Boy Meets Girls
Chapter 7: Daydreams & Nightmares
Part Two
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"I want to be with you too," she said to him "and have beautiful 
children with you." he smiled at her and returned the kiss.

"There's something else I wanted to tell you." he declared

"What is it my love?" she asked

"LOOK OUT!!" he shouted



Makoto fell on her butt from the blow, she held her forehead in pain.

"Are you all right?" Ami asked her

"Didn't you see the STOP sign right in front of you?" Trunks told her 
"I told you to look out, didn't I?"

"Wh... What?" she spoke. Usagi and Rei helped her up.

"How couldn't you see that sign Mako-chan?" Usagi asked her "Where 
were you looking?"

"I... I had my mind elsewhere." she explained a little embarrassed

A few blocks later, Trunks split up from the group towards his house. 
The girls went to another mall as they tried to reconcile Minako and 
Rei. After walking a couple of minutes, Trunks noticed that he 
started to enter the desolate part of town. Usually, there was no one 
from here to his house so he decided to have some fun.

"Hey Tetsuo?" he asked him jokingly "Can you keep a secret?" 

He grabbed the stroller with the baby in it an began to fly home. In 
a matter of seconds they reached Trunks' place. Tetsuo really enjoyed 
the flight as he didn't stopped giggling.

"Welcome to my humble abode!" Trunks said as he opened the door 
reveling the bachelor mess that his house was. It's been some time 
since Makoto last cleaned up, Trunks had time to *reorganize* his 
space. 

He put Tetsuo on the sofa once he removed all the pizza boxes that 
hid it. Tetsuo extended his arms to his sides as if they were wings 
and started hopping frenetically on his sitting spot.

"Voom voom!" he managed to say "Voom voom! Voom voom!"

"What is it buddy?" Trunks asked him "You wanna fly again?"

"Voom voom!" he insisted

"All right, all right." he spoke as he took him "Just don't go tell 
Rei you were flying or she'll call you a liar."

Trunks began to levitate again putting Tetsuo at the level of his 
stomach as he held him by the waist. The baby had his arms extended 
as if he was a bird. They began to fly around the house as Trunks 
made air plane noises.

"Base to Tetsuo-1. Base to Tetsuo-1. Please answer. Over." Trunks 
said "Tetsuo-1 here. Ready for action. Over..... Tetsuo-1 you must 
destroy the Red Ribbon’s northern base! Do you copy? Over.... 
Tetsuo-1, I copy. I can see the base just in front of me. Ready to 
shoot. Over and out."



While both of the boys were playing, the five girls were shopping 
once again. The situation between Rei and Minako didn't improve one 
bit. To be more precise, each time one of them took interest in a 
particular item in display, the other didn't even bother in entering 
the shop. Rei was inside a store trying out a dress at this moment 
and therefore, Minako was outside ignoring her. She started to take 
a look around to distract herself from her bad mood. Her eyes spotted 
a toy store that Trunks saw earlier this morning where the NEW Super 
Saya-man doll >>>with sword included<<< was on sale. She looked at 
the doll and sighed.

[He's really a babe...] she thought, and so began her day dream...

She pictured herself in a place filled with sparkling multi-colored 
lights. She was dressed in her Sailor Venus outfit as she heard 
someone approaching. When she turned around she saw Super Saiya-man 
flying towards her with a beautiful smile on his face (teethes 
shining and everything).

"Super Saiya-man!" she happily declared

Her beloved super hero gently took her between his arms and lifted 
her towards the heavens. Minako saw angels flying, bells ringing and 
cherry blossom petals falling upon her.

"You came back..." she finally said as she rested her head on his 
chest "Even after what happened yesterday..."

"It'll take more than *her* to drive me away from you, my dearest 
girl..." he interrupted

"I'm so happy you came..." she told him "I couldn't stop thinking 
about you, and I wanted to apologize for what Sailor Mars said."

"You have nothing to explain." he stated "I'm here because I couldn't 
take you out of my mind either."

"Do you love me?" She asked hopefully

"More than anything in the world." he stated. Minako started to blush 
as he told her that.

"You do??" she asked cheerfully "Then... could you take off your 
mask... for me?"

"For you... I'll do anything to make you happy." he declared "But 
could you answer me a question before that?"

"Anything for you!" she told him "What do you want to know?"

"Could you please tell me the way to Furinkan high?" Super Saiya-man 
asked her with a different voice.

"What?" Minako asked surprised as she snapped out of her daydream

"The way to Furinkan high..." said the teenager with a yellow shirt 
who carried a rather big backpack with a red umbrella tied to it. He 
wore a yellow and black bandanna on his head and gave the impression 
to be totally lost. "Could you give me some directions?"

"Hun... That's in Nerima district, isn't it?" Minako pointed out once 
her brain switched from dream to reality "If you're looking for the 
train station you have to get out of the mall, walk down the main 
road for two blocks, then turn right and walk till you see a traffic 
light, then turn left and follow the road. You can't miss it."

"Er... right, thanks..." the boy said to her not very sure if he 
understood. He then left her searching his way out of the mall.

"Hey Minako!" Usagi asked her once she joined her "Who was that cute 
boy you were talking to?"

"Just some guy who wanted to know the way to Furinkan high." she 
responded "Isn't Mamoru giving classes there?"

"Yeah he is." Usagi affirmed "Talk about coincidence."


Moments later, back to Trunks' place. Trunks was dealing with the 
difficult part of baby-sitting. Tetsuo had a little *accident* and 
Trunks had to change dippers. He was practically wrestling Tetsuo in 
order to getting him changed

"Stop moving will you!" He told him trying to remove the dirty 
dippers "Aww man! What a mess! Let's see where Rei put the spare 
dippers."

Trunks took the talcum bottle and began to apply some of it on 
Tetsuo's butt after going through the disgusting *cleaning* part of 
the job. The bottle cap went lose and the talcum was poured all over 
the room.

"Great!" he said blaming himself "This is the last thing I needed 
now!"

After cleaning the mess the best he could, Trunks finally managed to 
hold the baby still and poured what was left in the bottle. The hard 
part was over (or so he thought). Trunks lifted him to inspect if he 
was completely clean. That proved to be a big mistake as the baby 
peed on his jacket the moment he had him at range (of course he 
didn't avoid that! It's not an attack that requires ki, he couldn't 
have detected it!).

"Hey!!!" he said as he moved him away "That's my favorite jacket!!" 
as he took it off and threw it into the washing machine.

"Okay!" he declared "No more mister nice guy! I'm going to put you in 
that dipper even if it kills me!! [I can't believe I'm being beat up 
by a boy who can barely walk!]"

After dealing a couple of minutes with the unrestrainable little 
Tetsuo, Trunks managed to change him into clean dippers. He then 
proceeded in feeding the child with one of the milk bottles Rei 
prepared. Tetsuo was definitively a lot more cooperative when it came 
to eating. Trunks held him on his lap while the baby sucked the 
bottle dry. In spite of the previous challenge with the dippers, 
Trunks had to admit he was actually having a good time taking care of 
Rei’s little cousin, he only wished his father lived long enough to 
give him a brother or sister to fill the hole he left behind.
Once Tetsuo finished gulping the rest of the milk, Trunks took him to 
the sofa and turned on the T.V. 

"So what do you say kiddo?" he asked him "Feel like watching T.V.?"

Trunks began changing channels searching for something interesting to 
watch. Unfortunately, Tetsuo had different preferences than his, and 
therefore, each time Trunks chose a certain channel that Tetsuo 
didn't like he made his disapproval  quite clear by crying. As a 
result, in order to keep him happy, Trunks ended up watching some 
stupid show about a purple dinosaur who was singing nonsense about 
him loving everybody and everybody loving him (?). The show was so 
boring that Trunks began to fall asleep on the sofa. Tetsuo didn't 
took long to do the same and snuggled up at his side.


As time went on, the "female five" finished there shopping and headed 
towards Trunks' house. In spite of all their efforts, Usagi, Makoto 
and Ami were unable to appease the situation between Minako and Rei. 
The more they tried to solve the problem the more it seemed to worsen 
things. Both of them had really big egos and would never apologize 
unless the other one did first, and of course, none of them did that. 

"It's so nice of Trunks to take care of Tetsuo." Rei told Makoto 
trying to open a conversation "They really seem to get along fine 
with each other. Tetsuo isn't usually so cheerful around strangers."

"Sure seems that way." Makoto replied proudly

"You're so lucky for finding a guy like that." Usagi added. Makoto 
only smiled to that remark.

"I wonder why he was so eager to take care of him." Minako brought 
out "I would of thought he'd rather spend the day shopping with us."

"Well," Makoto began "maybe it's because he's an only son and the 
fact that he was never very close with his father."

"I see," Ami stated "he must be developing a paternalistic instinct 
to compensate for his grievous childhood."

"Since when did you became such an expert psychologist Ami?" Usagi 
teased her

"Is this the place Mako-chan?" Rei asked her pointing at the weird 
spherical house with the number 6 written all over it.

"Yhea, this is it." she stated

"Weird looking place." Minako declared


The door was open, so they didn't bother to knock and went right 
inside. The place was a real mess as the surprised girls traveled 
their eyes around the room  to emphasize that. Makoto couldn't 
believe it. How could Trunks make such a mess after she *personaly* 
cleaned up the place?

"Did Trunks' wardrobe exploded?..." Minako asked to no one in 
particular noticing the scattered clothes all over the room "Or is it 
usually this messy?"

"It's usually this messy..." Makoto responded not as proud as before.

"Hey! I think something is moving over there!" Usagi declared pointing 
somewhere near the T.V.

The girls went to the sofa avoiding to step on the big variety of 
stuff Trunks had all over his floor. Once they reached the sofa, they 
saw Tetsuo and Trunks deeply asleep on the furniture. The baby was 
sucking one of his own thumbs while holding some of Trunks' hair with 
the other hand. Trunks was holding Tetsuo in his arms as if he was a 
teddy bear (Yes, this was another Kodak moment). All the girls smiled 
at the pretty picture.

"Oooooooh! Both of them look so *cute* like that!" Usagi spoke in a 
low tone of voice trying not to wake them up

"Does anybody have a camera?" Minako asked

"He actually does look kinda cute when he's not snoring." Ami stated, 
she was after all the one that saw him (or herd him) asleep during 
class most of the time.

"Should we wake them up?" Rei asked 

"They look so peaceful..." Makoto said "Maybe we should wait."

"What are we suppose to do in the meantime?" Usagi asked 

"How about if we clean up this mess." Ami suggested "It's the least 
we could do to thank him for taking care of Tetsuo."

The girls started cleaning up the place as silently as they could 
trying not to wake the boys.



He was holding her between his arms while both of them stood in the 
middle of the hall. It felt nice having her near him, her hands were 
around his neck while he held her from her waist.

"If it makes you feel any better," she began "I promise you I won't 
let myself get killed."

He smiled at her. She was so sweet and caring, he couldn't remember 
having a happier moment in his life. He saw her face approaching his 
as she kissed him.

"What a touching scene." said a voice behind him

Trunks immediately turned around, he knew that voice very well and he 
didn't liked it. #17 stood there laying against the wall. How on 
Earth did he get here? He didn't have time to think about that. He 
had to face him now.

"So do you really think you can save her from dying?" he asked 
mockingly "Unlike your friends and father?"

"Trunks-kun!!!" she shouted 

Trunks turned towards where Makoto stood only to see that she wasn't 
there now. Where was she? He heard her scream his name again, it came 
from below. They weren't indoors anymore, the ground turned blue and 
wet, they were in the middle of the ocean. #17 and him were 
levitating. There was something underneath him, it was a whirlpool, 
and Makoto was caught in it. Trunks tried to reach her but two pair 
of arms held him still. It was #17 and #18... no... wait that wasn't 
#18! That was Ami! But she was dressed like #18 and was LEVITATING!!!


The girls began to hear Trunks mumbling something during his sleep. 
All of them dropped what they were doing and gathered around him 
trying to figure out what he was dreaming about. Who knows? Maybe it 
was something about Mako-chan? (At least that was what most of them 
expected/hoped/supposed.). Trunks wasn't really a very open guy, he 
never said how he felt and this moment could be of immense importance 
in discovering his true feelings. 

".... Ami....let go of me!...." muttered Trunks as he swung his head 
from side to side

Everybody glared at Ami, especially Makoto. Why was Trunks dreaming 
about her? And what WERE they doing in that dream? Why wouldn't she 
let go of him?
Ami blushed as she nervously noticed that her friends were staring at 
her. She was just as surprised as everyone, she didn't do anything 
wrong. But how could she convince them that she was innocent, Trunks 
put her in a very difficult situation.

"Ami... Is there something you haven't told us between you and 
Trunks?" Usagi asked distrustfully

"I... I haven't done anything!" she tried to explained, although her 
friends didn't look very convinced "Really!"


Meanwhile, back in Trunks' dream. 
He struggled to get himself free, but he couldn't. What was wrong 
with him? Why couldn't he turn Super Saiyan?
The twins held him as they laugh perversely. He couldn't do anything 
just watch as Makoto desperately tried to swim to safety. She was 
drowning slowly, almost as if the current made it that way to cause 
Trunks more suffering. He could still hear her call out his name in 
despair. He couldn't bear it.

The girls saw how Trunks was starting to become more agitated. His 
facial expressions showed that he was in extreme discomfort. Rei took 
the precaution of taking a hold of Tetsuo before Trunks accidentally 
hurt him. The rest of them weren't so sure of what to do next, until 
Trunks woke up with a big scream. Makoto was the first one to 
approach him to see if he was okay. 

"Trunks-kun! Are you all right?" she asked worried "Calm down! It was 
just a nightmare!"

Trunks took a look around to situate himself, he was back at his 
place and his five friends were facing him with concerned looks on 
each one. His hand could feel the sweat all over his face and he was 
breathing very fast. He slowly stood up.

"I have to go to the bathroom." he said as he began to walk away

After washing off his face he stepped inside the room once again, his 
friends were still looking at him as if they were expecting an 
answer. He didn't say a word however, until Makoto made the obvious 
question.

"What was that all about Trunks-kun?" she asked 

"Just a bad dream." he answered

"It surely seemed to be more than just a nightmare." Usagi said "Care 
to tell us about it?"

"It was nothing, really." he declared 

Makoto, Minako, Usagi and Rei stared at him with a very suspicious 
look in their eyes. Then the four turned towards Ami giving her that 
same look. Usagi was the first to make a comment.

"You yelled Ami's name during your sleep." she pointed out "What was 
that all about?"

"Well," Trunks explained "she was in my nightmare."

"What were you two doing in that dream of yours?" Makoto asked, she 
seamed to be the most disturbed one between the girls.

"What do you mean by that? Nothing happened." he said obviously not 
getting the message "What were you thinking we were d......(brain 
gets the idea now.)... AWW MAN!! YOU GIRLS ARE SICK!!!"

"Well?" Rei asked still not convinced

"No!" he answered rather offended "There was nothing sexual and/or 
romantic going between us. I can assure you that!"

"Then what was she doing in your dream?" Usagi added

"She...er... had me tied up in a chair and was forcing me to study to 
death." he lied not wanting to tell them that she actually helped in 
killing Makoto.

"Oh!" said the four girls, they seemed satisfied with that answer. 

It seemed quite a logical answer too, especially knowing that Ami 
was one tuff tutor. Everyone regain their previous behavior before 
that little misunderstanding went off, except for Ami that is. Her 
face was as red as a traffic light, one couldn't tell if it was from 
shame or anger, although she didn't say a thing. 
Trunks suddenly had this disturbing feeling, something wasn't right. 
He took a look around and noticed that all of his clothes (*not* the 
ones he had on! You dirty minded person you!) weren't where he last 
left them. He didn't see that pair of pants he always threw over the 
couch, or the shirt that usually was on top of the T.V, neither the 
extra underwear he always put on the magazine rack. That between 
other lots of things. Where did his stuff go?

"We cleaned up while you were asleep." Ami told him as she noticed 
his confused expression "Isn't it a lot cleaner?"

"Er... yeah, it sure is..." Trunks responded "But....... where's all 
my stuff now?"


After some time, everyone was doing something. Ami was helping Trunks 
to find all of his clothes, Usagi and Makoto were in one of the 
bathrooms trying to change Tetsuo who just had another *accident*, 
while Minako and Rei were left alone in the living room still turning 
their back on each other and not saying a word. Trunks finally came 
out of his room and saw the two of them in their *I'm not talking to 
you!* attitude. He approached them.

"Hey girls, is there something wrong?" he asked

"Everything is fine with me, thank you!" Minako said in an 
indifferent tone of voice

"Same here!" Rei added in the same tone of voice

"Why aren't you talking to each other?" 

"I'm not talking to miss Aino until she says she's sorry." Rei 
explained still looking away from her.

"Trunks, could you please tell miss Hino that I won't apologize until 
she does first." she stated

"Well... could you fill me in on what made both of you get angry at 
each other?" he asked

Both of them looked a little uncomfortable, they didn't want to tell 
him about Super Saiya-man. How could they explain they knew him 
without revealing to Trunks their identity. They had to do this 
carefully.

"Miss Hino made quite a good job in scaring away a boy I had my eye 
on." Minako answered, trying to be as brief as possible.

"That guy is dangerous, we don't know a thing about him and you're 
throwing yourself to him just because he's good looking!" Rei stated

"You can't even prove that!" Minako declared "The only thing you have 
is your hunch!"

"A boy?" asked Trunks "All of this is because of some guy you barely 
know?"

Both of the girls looked at him. No one actually ever told them how 
stupid this quarrel was, and all because of a boy. Both tried to 
explain the problem as swiftly as possible.

"Well, it's not just any boy!" Minako pointed out "He's become very 
important in our... er... daily life."

"Even if he turned out to be the coolest thing that ever walked on 
earth, I'm sure that he's not worth that you two never speaking to 
each other again." Trunks said to them "You girls are good friends, 
you should be able to solve this, shouldn't you?"

"Good friends don't insult each other." Rei brought out as she turned 
her back on her again. Minako didn't take long to do the same thing.

"I'm sure neither of you meant what you said to each other." Trunks 
told them

"After what she said to me... I think this is a friendship I can well 
do without!" Minako replied.

"The same goes for me!" Rei added

Trunks sighed, this was turning to be more difficult than he thought. 
He wished he didn't had to do what he was about to do.

"Minako, Rei..." he began "Have you ever wondered how many friends I 
have?" 

Both looked at him confused. What did that had to do with what they 
were talking about? Trunks held his hand in front of them showing all 
five of his fingers.

"Five!... Five friends." he continued "Mako-chan, Ami, Usagi and both 
of you. It's actually six if you count Tetsuo....... Have you ever 
wondered why I only have you guys?"

"Well... now that you mention it..." Minako started

"Well it's quite simple." Trunks interrupted her "All of my other 
friends were murdered... All of them. And I couldn't do a thing to 
save them. I see Mako-chan didn't tell you about that, did she?"

The two girls looked surprised not to mention sad for him. Makoto 
never told them about that. Both of them moved their heads from side 
to side as a response for Trunks' question.

"We... we're sorry..." Rei told him "We didn't knew that..."

"You don't have to feel sorry." he interrupted again "The point is 
that when they died, I was completely destroyed. Now tell me Rei... 
How would you feel if suddenly Minako died. And you Minako... How 
would you feel if something happened to Rei."

Both of them remained silent for a moment, Minako was the first one 
who spoke.

"I guess I'd be feeling like you did." She responded sadly

"Yeah, me too..." Rei added

"Friendship shouldn't be taken for granted you know." Trunks declared 
"And as for that boy who seems to be the trouble of all this... Well 
I think that's something both of you will have to work out."

A long pause followed, the girls were looking at each other again. 
Judging from their faces they felt guilty and stupid for what's been 
happening this day.

"Trunks...could you please give us some time alone?" Minako asked him 
"I think we both need to talk things out."

"Sure thing." he responded as he smiled, he then turned towards one 
of the walls "You can come out now girls. The show is over!"

Three surprised voices were herd behind the wall. Into the room came 
Makoto, Usai and Ami looking a little embarrassed for being caught in 
the act. 

[I hate it when he does that.] Makoto thought, although she couldn't 
hide her smile. The four of them left inside another room. Once they 
were left alone, Minako was the first to talk.

"I'm sorry Rei!" she said "I really am, I shouldn't have said all 
those horrible things to you."

"No, I'm the one who should be sorry!" Rei replied "You were right! 
I shouldn't be such a grouch all the time. Can you forgive me?"

"Only if you forgive too." Minako declared, they gave each other a 
big hug "So what are we going to do about *him*?"

"About Super Saiya-man?" Rei asked "Well I for one can cut him some 
slack, until we know for sure who he is and what he wants."

"Then you won't mind if I... you know." she told her

"Don't worry!" Rei stated "I won't stand in your way. He's all yours."


Meanwhile, in another room of the house. Makoto, Usagi, Ami, Trunks 
and Tetsuo were sitting on a bed while talking.

"I think you handled that quite well Trunks." Ami said to him "Good 
job."

"It was nothing really." he replied as he continued to play with the 
baby. 

Makoto snuggled next to Trunks and put her arms around his waist. 

"You're too modest, you know?" she told him

Ami and Usagi saw that Trunks wasn't complaining, he even looked 
happy that Makoto held him. His arm moved behind her back and grabbed 
her shoulder. This time Makoto was the one surprised, Trunks didn't 
say a thing though, he kept on playing with Tetsuo who was sitting on 
his lap, he still held her however. He didn't knew how to express it 
but he deeply cared for Makoto, more than just a friend that was 
certain. For the first time, Usagi contained herself from making any 
slight remarks.

"I think we can go outside now." Ami suggested

The five of them left the room. Makoto still had an arm around 
Trunks' waist while he held her shoulder, he was holding Tetsuo in 
the other hand (now they really looked like a married couple). 

"Well I guess we'll be going now." Rei brought out "Thanks for 
everything Trunks."

"My pleasure." He said to her "If you ever need someone to take care 
of Tetsuo you can always count on me."

Everyone started leaving. Makoto was the last one to say good-bye.

"I'll be seeing you at school tomorrow, okay?" she told him

"Til tomorrow then." he responded

They stood there for a moment without saying a word, they were just 
staring at each other. Trunks took a good look at her, she was really 
beautiful, he was surprised he didn't noticed that before. But 
somehow he felt something different for her than his other friends. 
A feeling he didn't quite understood.
He snapped out of his trance figuring that Mako-chan would certainly 
be asking herself why was he staring at her. He didn't want to look 
like an idiot.

"Er... the others are waiting for you." he declared, pointing out to 
the girls 

"Er... right. Well, bye now!" she said [For a moment there I would've 
sworn he was going to kiss me].

His five friends began to walk away, Trunks stood by the door until 
they dropped out of sight. He then closed the door and went to bed.


End of Chapter Seven, Part Two
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