Boy Meets Girls
Chapter 8: Gone...
Part One
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It was a normal morning at Tokyo, you could see several student walking 
to 
school, stores opening and the usual trafic jam that began around 7:00 
AM. 
This was indeed an every day routine. Except maybe, by the teenage 
couple 
that ran like hell through the streets of Tokyo. As a matter of fact, 
one 
was running, the other was being pulled off her feet as she screamed in 
fear. Most people got used to that. It certainly wasn't part of a 
*normal* 
every day routine, but it was a routine, and nobody made any questions.

"TRUUUUNKS!!!!! I CAN'T FEEL MY ARM ANYMORE!!!!" Shouted Usagi

"Don't worry! We're almost there!" he told her


A few hours later, during the school recess, we see Makoto and Trunks 
sitting by a well known tree where they usually had lunch. No need to 
describe Trunks' savages ways of eating as it is well known through out 
all of his friends what kind of appetite he has. 
During the last week, some progress has been seen in this couple. They 
spent a lot of time together, held hands and occasionally exchange hugs. 
It was pretty obvious to all the students that Makoto and Trunks were 
having a "boyfriend-girlfriend" relationship. The only student that 
didn't 
knew about this was (as a very sad case) Trunks. He might be a fast 
runner, 
but when it came to love he was slower than a turtle without three of 
it's 
legs (and man is that slow!).
Surprisingly, Ami and Usagi weren't with them. The reason was quite 
simple, 
Luna was having a word with both of them in one of the empty classrooms.

"Are you sure about what you're telling us?" Ami asked Luna

"I'm afraid so." Luna responded "Artemis and I have been investigating 
about the mater. There's no doubt about it now. Super Saiya-man is the 
reason why monsters have been appearing lately."

"Looks like Rei was right all along." Ami declared 

"I still can't believe that Super Saiya-man is behind all of this!" 
Usagi 
stated "It doesn't make any sense! There has to be some sort of 
mistake!"

"Sorry Usagi." said Luna "We've already checked twice."

"So he was pretending to be on our side the whole time?" Ami asked again

"I don't know about that." Luna explained "The only thing I know for 
sure 
is that Super Saiya-man isn't from this reality. I don't know how, but 
somehow he managed to enter in this world, and when he did, he caused 
the 
fissure I told you about a month ago. In other words, *he* is the 
unbalancement that's causing all the trouble."

"Minako is really going to have a hard time accepting this." Ami pointed 
out "Does Rei and her know what you just told us?"

"Artemis must be telling them now." she answered "I was hopping I could 
tell Mako-chan about this, but that's going to a little hard with Trunks 
at her side all the time."

"Don't worry, we'll tell her." Usagi said


Time went on and school was over for the day, Trunks and Makoto decided 
to 
go on a *date* (if this word is accurate enough considering the strange 
relationship these two are having). There was a fair at the park which 
arrived yesterday and Makoto insisted on going there. Trunks had time to 
change into his usual clothes, which can help us recognize him a mile 
away 
considering that he's the only person on Earth that uses such a 
ridiculously short jacket. The date started fine, Makoto really expected 
to receive that *first kiss* from Trunks that's been delayed for so long 
now. Having a date at the fair might help things a little (yeah right!). 
So far, they went on several rides and participated in several contests. 
Both of them seemed to be having a great time. Ever since Trunks met 
Makoto 
he's been smiling more oftenly, that was probably one of the most 
notable 
things that changed in him since he first got here. 

"Trunks-kun, look at that!" Makoto told him pointing at a teddy bear 
displayed on one of the fair games "Isn't it cute?"

"You like it?" Trunks asked her. Makoto nodded enthusiastically to him

Trunks searched into his jacket for his wallet. The game consisted in 
knocking down a pile of bottles with a soft ball. It was going to be a 
piece of cake. As he began to search in his pockets he suddenly felt 
something which he wasn't sure what it was. He took it out of his jacket 
and looked at it. It was a pillbox. Not just any pillbox; those were the 
pills he had to give Goku so he wouldn't die from a heart attack. 
Several 
images started appearing in Trunks' mind: Her mother giving him the 
pills, 
the androids, his father and friends, the enormous destruction that #17 
and #18 did, Gohan's body that lied on the floor, dead, as the rain fell 
on top of him...
Makoto noticed how Trunks' smile suddenly fade away as he took the 
pillbox 
in his hand. Something was wrong and she could feel it.

How could he be so careless?? Here he was, having fun with a cute girl 
when he was supposed to be in another place instead. A place where his 
intervention was of great importance. A place where his help was needed. 
He never felt so ashamed of himself. After years of training, what was 
he 
doing? He was in a FAIR!! He couldn't believe it, the responsibility of 
setting things straight in his world relied in him, and he was ignoring 
it. 
He even forgot about it if he hadn't seen the pillbox to remind him. 
He's 
been turning his back on the ones that trusted him all this time.

"Trunks-kun?" Makoto asked a little concerned "Is everything all right?"

"No." he told her with a serious tone of voice "Nothing is right..." he 
slowly began to walk away from the fair. Makoto followed him

"Trunks-kun! Wait up!" she said, she managed to reach for his shoulder 
and turned him around so he could face her "What is it? What's wrong?" 
she 
asked preoccupied

Trunks looked at her. He was going to leave and he had to tell her. This 
wasn't going to be easy. But it's been more than a month since he 
accidentally got here, and he couldn't ignore his mission any longer. 
The 
fate of his world depended on the pills he held.

"Mako-chan..." he began "I'll be leaving very soon..."

Makoto stood still for a moment. Deep inside her heart she knew that 
this 
moment would arrive. She always tried to ignore the fact that Trunks 
might 
leave her, but that moment finally showed up.

"I... I see..." she said "It's been more than a month... You're going 
home, 
aren't you?"

"Something like that." Trunks responded, for some reason it was always 
hard 
for him to lie at her. This case was no exception.

"What do you mean by that? Where are you leaving?" she asked, it wasn't 
like Trunks to hide something from her.

"I... I can't tell you that." he responded again "The only thing I can 
tell you is that I'm leaving... for good."

Those final words were like gunshots for Makoto's heart.

"So... will I ever see you again?" she asked one more time with a heavy 
heart "Will you call me sometimes? Write a letter or something?"

"I'm sorry... You won't be hearing from me again." Trunks replied, he 
was 
making a big effort of looking at her in the eyes.

"What?? Why not? Why can't you tell me where you're going??" she 
insisted, 
her despair grew with each moment. Trunks answers weren't very 
satisfying.

"Makoto please!" Trunks stated, when he called her Makoto that meant 
that 
things were serious "This isn't easy for me either." he then took a deep 
breath "I... I want you to forget about me."

This was it. Makoto couldn't believe her own ears. She could feel a very 
familiar sensation, the one she felt each time a boy broke her heart. 
She 
once thought that might never happen again but she was clearly proved 
wrong.

"Wh... what?..." she softly asked in shock. If Makoto's heart was made 
out 
of glass there would be thousands of crystal bits scattered all over the 
floor.

"I want you to forget about me." he repeated "It'll be easier for both 
of 
us if we forget about each other..."

"How can you even ask me to do that???" Makoto shouted at him, her voice 
showed more pain than anger. Trunks could see tears coming out of her 
eyes. 
He didn't feel so hot either.

"Makoto try to understand..." he said

"NO!! I don't want to understand!!" she interrupted weeping "Why are you 
telling me this? How do you expect me to forget about you? After all 
we've 
been through! How do you expect me to act as if you never existed???" 
she 
began to punch repeatedly Trunks in the chest. Trunks didn't move 
however. 
After that, she buried her head in his chest and started crying.

"Makoto... I..." he began

"I really like you. You know that?" she interrupted again as she 
continued 
to weep on his chest "I think I'm in love with you..."

Now it was Trunks turn to feel the pain. Those words came as a sudden 
blow 
for him, it was like receiving a stab on the heart. He had to leave, his 
mission had to come before anything else. Even his own happiness. It was 
ironical, he made this trip in time to avoid everyone from his world to 
end up dead and therefore regaining his happiness. And now, he had to 
sacrifice his new happiness in order to save his old one. There was only 
one thing that he could tell Makoto.

"I'm... sorry..." he said, he detached Makoto from his chest and turned 
his back on her. He didn't have the courage to see her in the eyes 
anymore.

"So am I..." Makoto responded completely shattered. She turned her back 
on 
him and ran to the opposite direction Trunks was.

Trunks took one last look at her as she ran through the fair. She was 
certainly crying. But he didn't had a choice. (Boy was he feeling like 
hell at the moment!)

"I'm sorry..." he repeated one more time even though Makoto couldn't 
hear 
him. He began to walk away from the fair.



Not far away from there, Usagi, Ami, Rei, Minako, Artemis and Luna were 
walking towards the fair (no, they didn't run into Trunks. Strange isn't 
it?). Surprisingly, Minako took the news about Super Saiya-man quite 
well. 
The six of them were searching for Makoto so they could tell her the 
news.

"So what are we supposed to do?" Ami asked Luna "How do we fix this 
problem now that we know who's responsible?"

"Well," Luna began "as long as he's here, monsters will still show up."

"I hope you're not asking us to kill him!" Usagi pointed out "I really 
don't think I could do that, responsible or not for all this mess."

"I don't think that'll be necessary." Artemis informed her "If we can 
send 
him back to his own reality, the problem will be solved. The balance 
between both worlds will be regained."

"And if we do that, those monsters will stop from appearing. Right?" Rei 
continued

"There's an 82% probability that the crack in both worlds will be 
repaired 
if Super Saiya-man returns to his own reality." Luna explained

"And how do we send him back?" Minako asked

"That's a little more complicated." Artemis told her "You see, we're not 
sure how he managed to get here in the first place. Our only hopes are 
that Super Saiya-man knows how he made that leap into our world and is 
willing to go back to his own."

"I really do hope he's willing to cooperate." Ami declared "If he's not, 
I 
don't think we stand a chance against him in battle."

"Somehow I'm quite sure he'll understand." Minako told them "I bet the 
only problem is he doesn't know what kind of trouble he has caused..."

"I really hope you're right." Usagi stated

"Hey, I think Mako-chan is over there!" Rei said pointing out at Makoto 
who was sitting on a bench "Why isn't Trunks with her?....... Wait, I 
think she's crying!"



Meanwhile, in another part of Tokyo. Inside an electronic shop to be 
more 
precise.

"Excuse me sir," Trunks told to one of the guys who worked there "I 
ordered an adapter about a moth ago, I was wondering if it already 
came."

"Oh yeah, I remember you." the salesman said "You're the boy that wanted 
that fancy adapter, aren't you?"

"Yes that's me." Trunks replied "So, is it here?"

"It's been here for a couple of weeks now," the guy responded "I was 
wondering if you were ever going to show up and claim it. I thought you 
need it badly."

"I still do." Trunks explained "I just had a few... complications 
lately. 
Sorry for keeping you waiting."

"No need to worry." the guy declared "Since you paid in advance it 
really 
doesn't mater. Wait here, I'll go and get it." as he left behind the 
counter


Around that same time, Makoto was with her friends after explaining them 
what happened between her and Trunks. Everyone was trying to cheer her 
up 
with no great success.

"I'm sorry Mako-chan," Ami said to her "I'd never thought things would 
end 
up like this..."

"I can't believe Trunks said that!" Minako declared, she was really 
pissed 
off "What a jerk!"

"Take it easy Minako." Usagi told her calmly "It won't do her any good 
bringing that out."

"I just don't get it ." Makoto said during her weep "Why every 
time 
I find a decent guy something like this always happens? Am I cursed or 
something? Everything was going so well and suddenly, BOOM!! Out of 
nowhere he tells me he has to leave and wants me to forget about him! 
Just what did I do wrong???..... It's not fair..."

"Don't worry Mako-chan..." Rei told her as she held her shoulder 
affectionately "You'll get over it, you always do. None of this is your 
fault. You'll find the right guy sooner or later."

"This isn't like those other times!" she responded (still crying) "I 
really 
liked him... I even told him I loved him... For a moment I would've 
thought he could love me back... Looks like I was wrong. Why did things 
had to end up this way???"

[Trunks you BASTARD!] Minako thought. Most of them were disappointed, 
some 
of them were feeling sad. But not Minako. Minako was enraged. [Don't you 
even think that I'm going to let you walk away just like that after 
hurting my friend! You owe her an explanation! And you're going to give 
it 
to her, you JERK!!] She began to walk away from the group in search of 
Trunks.

"Minako?" Usagi asked her "Where are you going?"

"I'll be back in a couple of hours!" she said "Wait for me here!"


After an hour or so, the four remaining girls were still in the fair in 
a 
desperate attempt to make Makoto feel better. Although she managed to 
stop 
crying, Makoto was far from okay. Luna informed her about the Super 
Saiya-man situation as she tried to distract her from her grief. That 
didn't seem to work either.

"Hey girls!" Usagi implied in her I'm-always-happy mood "How about 
another 
spin at the carrousel?"

"Again??" Rei asked annoyed "It's been fourteen times now!"

"Don't be such a spoilsport Rei!" Usagi declared "Mako-chan, you want to 
go back in, don't you?"

"Sure... if you want to..." Makoto said with a lifeless voice



"What was that???" Ami asked confused

Several screams could be herd from the other side of the fair. The four 
Senshi plus Artemis and Luna ran towards the noise. Many people were 
running in the opposite direction in panic. It was another monster. And 
this one looked mean.

It was some sort of lizard like humanoid. It was about eight feet tall 
and 
was covered with green scales. Its tail was twice as long as its body, 
and 
its claws... well, since it had six arms it definitively had lots of 
claws 
and they really looked sharp enough to make serious damage on a human 
body. 
Its long teeth weren't half bad either. The Senshi really didn't want to 
know what that thing had for meals, because judging by the size of those 
teethes, it could be anything.
The four girls immediately powered up to confront the monster.

"You there!!" shouted Sailor Moon "Don't even think you'll be hurting 
all 
these people!" as she began to strike a silly pose "Monsters like you 
have 
no business in this world! I'm Sailor Moon and I shall punish you in the 
name of the moon!!!"

"Enough talk!" Makoto said angry "It's time to fight!!" 

Right now, Makoto had a lot of hate, sadness, and other mixed up feeling 
going through her head. As a mater of fact, if Makoto came from the 
Ranmaverse she could make one big "Shi Chi Hokodan" as a way to speak. 
But 
since that's not the case, she released all of her emotions in a way she 
was quite good at. In betting up someone.
She launched a series of punches and kicks towards her opponent. The 
monster dodged each one the attacks. In spite of its great size and 
weight 
it was surprisingly agile, most to the disappointment of Sailor Jupiter. 
The monster then counterattacked, with a powerful blow from one of its 
six 
hands Sailor Jupiter was sent a couple of yards away. She could feel the 
pain in her stomach as the monster's muscular arm struck her. She tried 
to 
regain her breath after painfully crushing on the floor. Sailor Moon 
went 
to her help

"Okay! My turn!" Sailor Mars stated

"FIRE SOUL!!"

Rei's fireball flew with great precision. The monster managed to cover 
his 
eyes with two of its arms avoiding any serious damage as the fire struck 
him. The rest of its body didn't look too wounded in spite of the 
attack.

"This one's though!" Rei spoke "It's going to take all of us to take him 
down! Sailor Jupiter are you ready?"

"I'm ready... Let's get him!" Makoto stated as she was being helped up 
by 
Sailor Moon

"FIRE SOUL BIRD!"

"SUPREME THUNDER DRAGON!"

"SHABON SPRAY FREEZE!"

"MOON PRINCESS HALATION!"


End of Chapter Eight, Part One
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