Boy Meets Girls
Chapter 8: Gone...
Part Three
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Moments later, at Trunks' place, after he somehow managed to fly all 
five girls plus their cats to his house. Everyone was making themselves 
confortable, the Senshi turned back into their usual civilian clothes, 
but no one knew what to say at this point on. That is until Trunks 
decided 
to start the conversation.

"Well then Rei," he began addressing to her "I'm willing to answer all 
those questions you wanted to ask me a few weeks ago."

"Er... yeah... well I wouldn't know where to start now." she said

"Maybe you should tell us everything from the beginning." Luna told him, 
Trunks seamed a little surprised of seeing a cat talking, but somehow, 
he 
didn't make a big deal out of it.

"So you can talk." he declared "Okay then, I think I can start from 
telling you I'm not from this dimention. Although I think that's quite 
obvious by now. I come from a world very similar to this one. Things 
didn't go too well in my world, we constantly had to face powerful 
enemies that tried either to conquer or destroy the universe..."

"Er... sorry for cutting in," Ami interrupted "but who are the ones you 
call *we*?"

"Well you see," he began "*we* are a group of martial artists called 
"The 
Z fighters". We are determined to protect our earth mostly the same way 
you girls do in this world."

"Is everyone in your world as powerful as you are?" Minako asked "Does 
theirs hair take odd shapes like yours does?"

"Not really." Trunks explained "There are fighters stronger than me. 
Although you could say I have an edge when I turn Super Saiyan. But I'm 
not the only one who does that between the Z fighters... that is until 
recently."

"So what does Super Saiyan means anyway?" Usagi questioned

"I guess I should tell you about that too..." Trunks began

Time went on, Trunks told the girls the entire story about the 
Saiya-jins 
and how they ended up in Earth. After that, he told them about his 
friends, 
the Dragon balls, the androids and all the mess they did, and finally, 
his mission and how he ended up here by accident. Everyone was paying 
attention closely as Trunks narrated his story. Although, Makoto who 
seemed quite serious during the whole story remained silent. Luna had a 
chance to tell him about all the mess between the reality jump he made.

"There's still something I don't get about all of this." Rei declared 
"How 
come each time you turned Super Saiyan or made those huge blasts and 
things I detected some weird energy?"

"Define weird." Trunks said

"I'm not very sure." she explained "It seemed like something hateful, 
aggressive, maybe even a little evil." 

"Well this is just a theory." Trunks began "But Saiya-jins are natural 
born fighters, they tend to be a little evil. As a matter of fact, to 
turn 
Super Saiyan you normally have to get enraged. Even though I'm not evil 
for being only a half-Saiyajin, that among other things, maybe what you 
detected was that remote badness from my father's race. I think somehow 
you managed to detect that when I released my ki.... Or maybe, you're 
just 
able of detecting ki unconsciously."

"Maybe that's it." Ami pointed out "Although you really don't look like 
an 
evil being. You don't even act like one."

"You should've met my father." Trunks replied "He wasn't the kindest 
person around. Even after he married my mom his *good deads* weren't 
very 
exemplary. But he turned out to be okay."

"Trunks." Luna spoke "Could Artemis and I take a look at your time 
machine? We'd like to see if it can guarantee that the fissure will be 
fixed once you leave."

"Sure thing," he said "It's right over there. Take your time."

"Thanks." Artemis told him, then turned towards Ami "Ami could you join 
us? I think we'll need your computer to check some stuff." Ami nodded 
and 
followed them inside the room.

Trunks then turned and saw Makoto who remained seated in the living room 
since she got here. He felt he had a lot to explain to her.

"Um... girls..." he said addressing to Rei, Usagi and Minako "I... er... 
need to talk to Makoto about some stuff. Could you..."

"Sure thing!" Minako stated as she took Usagi and Rei's arms "We'll be 
in 
the next room if you need us." she started pulling her friends inside in 
spite of their protests.

Trunks smiled at them as the door of his room close behind the three 
girls. He then turned towards Makoto. She was looking at a picture that 
was next to her. In the frame she could see Bulma and Vejiita sitting on 
a 
bench; Bulma was holding Baby Trunks on her lap while smiling at the 
camera, she was dressed in a Summer outfit. Vejita on the other hand, 
was 
wearing his blue clothing with white body armor and had his arms crossed 
over his chest while giving the camera his very well known *I don't give 
a 
damn about the world* look. 
Trunks walked to her and took a seat at her side.

"So," Makoto brought out not very thrilled "Are these your folks?" 
pointing 
at the picture, Trunks nodded in response.

"Now I see from who you got that serious expression." she added

"I guess my father and I do have some things in common after all." he 
said to her "Er... I wanted to talk to you about what I said earlier 
this 
morning..."

"I thought you might." she pointed out. Right now she was the one who 
couldn't see him in the eye.

"Mako-chan," he began "I'm sorry. I shouldn't have said all those stupid 
things back at the fair. At that moment I thought it was the right thing 
to say... I was an idiot. I'm sorry, I didn't want to hurt you."

"Well you did..." she told him "It hurt a lot too."

"I know..." he stated "I wasn't feeling too proud of myself either. 
That's 
why I came back to you. I wanted to tell you everything about me." 
Makoto 
rested her head on his chest and wrapped her arms around his waist.

"I never told a guy I loved him before." she said "I guess what hurt the 
most was the fact you didn't feel the same way I did..." 

She began to feel tears coming out of her eyes. Even if Trunks didn't 
have 
the same feelings towards her, she still wanted to be close to him and 
hug 
him, just like they did before what happened at the fair. Trunks put his 
arms around her and held her tightly.

"You're... wrong." he claimed, Makoto raised her head in surprise and 
saw him straight in the eye, he was looking nervous "I... I... I feel 
the 
same way for you... I... l... lo... I... lo... loo... I loooo [Damn it! 
Why 
is this so HARD??] I loooovvvv... ... I love yuu...you!"

"Do... do you mean that?" she asked "You... you really feel that way?" 
Trunks nodded in response, he was speechless at the moment, he already 
used all of his willpower to say what he just did. 

A prolonged kiss didn't wait long to come. That was the only answer 
Makoto 
needed, and it was the only one Trunks could give her.

After a couple of minutes, they broke the kiss (due to this little law 
of 
nature that demanded that both of them started breathing again otherwise 
they'd die). Right now, Trunks' face was redder than ever, this was due 
either by the lack of oxygen or by his natural nervousness (I leave the 
reader to decide which one it was). Makoto was blushing as well. After 
so 
long, she finally had him, only to lose him afterwards.

"You'll be leaving anyway, won't you?" she sadly pointed out

"I wish I could stay Mako-chan..." he explained "But I can't. Not only 
I'm needed in my world. But I'm also endangering yours only by staying 
here. I wish things could be easier."

"I know, I know." she said "It's just that... this is so unfair! Why do 
I 
have to lose you like this??" she began to weep "I know this sounds 
selfish... But I wish you could stay. I mean... tomorrow morning you 
won't 
be even at school. You'll be gone just like that. And I'll never see you 
again!" she started crying but she couldn't let Trunks see her like 
this.

"I know..." he stated "I don't like it either... You know... When I left 
you at the fair, I wished for a moment that we never met. If that was 
the 
case I wouldn't known what I would be missing... But that was stupid. 
Even 
if I leave now, I'm happy I met you. I never felt like this for anyone, 
and I'm not regretting falling in love with you."

"You always knew how to make me feel better." she pointed out "I'm 
really 
going to miss you... Would another kiss be too much to ask?"

"Of course not." he told her, both of them started kissing once again. 
And of course, as you might of imagine, the rest of the Senshi were 
spying 
on the couple (things wouldn't be right if they weren't pepping).


Moments later, outside Trunks' house. The time machine was ready after 
Artemis, Luna and Ami made their final inspections. Trunks turned his 
house into a capsule once again (much to the surprise of the rest of the 
cast) and stored it with his other capsules. Now came the moment to say 
good bye. He was never good at that. In front of him stood the five 
girls. 
They weren't looking too happy for seeing him go. Trunks approached 
Usagi 
who was the closest one at the moment.

"Usagi," he said to her "thanks for everything. I'd like to thank your 
parents as well but I don't think that'll be possible."

"Don't worry." Usagi told him "I'll make something up...... It's too bad 
you're leaving. We'll really miss you."

"I think you'll be getting late for school from now on, without me 
around 
to rush you." 

"Yeah well, I think my arm needs some rest." she replied jokingly 
"Although 
I think I started to strengthen. I might even have a strong punch now." 
as 
she raised her arm.

"Take care of your friends. You're the leader, remember that." he 
pointed 
out, they gave each other a hug. After that, Trunks moved next to Rei

"Well I think this is good-bye then." she declared "It's really a shame 
things had to end up this way."

"Yeah I know." he said "Bye the way, I'm sorry I had you worried about 
all this Super Saiyan thing. I'd never knew it had such an effect on 
you."

"You don't have to explain anything." Rei told him "I'm the one who 
jumped 
to conclusions. I'm sorry if I gave you a hard time lately."

"Just take care of yourself, okay." he stated, he then gave her a hug

"I really hope that everything turns out all right in your world." she 
added "Good luck."

"Thanks."

Next to Rei stood Minako. She was looking a little embarrassed.

"You're still angry at me for what I did this morning?" he asked her 
jokingly

"Er... No, not at all." She timidly responded "Sorry for yelling at you 
earlier, I really wasn't myself at the moment..."

"You don't have to apologize." he declared "I should even thank you for 
interfering. Mako-chan is your friend and you had the right to be 
worried 
for her."

"Yeah... well... this is a little embarrassing to say..." Minako began 
"But I was kinda having a crush on you..... On Super Saiya-man that is."

"Sorry to disappoint you like that." he said

"Don't worry." she told him "It's something I just had to say. You don't 
have to feel bad about that... Now gimme a hug and go say good bye to 
the 
rest of the girls." he did so.

Next in line was Ami, who somehow seemed to be the most serene one of 
all 
five.

"Looks like you won't be studding any time soon" she replied amused

"Looks that way." Trunks said "Thanks for helping me at school though."

"Liar." she sarcastically pointed out "I know you hatted it, you just 
couldn't tell me that."

"I certainly can't fool you." he mockingly declared "But I want to thank 
you anyway for everything you did. Take care." 

"You too." they gave each other a hug

The only one left was Makoto. Trunks arranged everything so he could say 
good bye to her at the end. Both started by giving each other a hug.

"I'll never forget you." he told her

"I wish you could stay." she said, she promised herself she wouldn't cry 
but she started to feel it wasn't going to be possible any longer "At 
least 
you'll get a chance to see your parents and friends again."

"You won't be alone... even if I leave." he softly stated "Your friends 
will always be with you. I don't want you to stay shattered like me when 
I lost my friends. You still have friends who care about you. In my 
case, 
I'm not even sure if my future will be fixed even if I succeed in my 
mission. That's why you can't let yourself end up the same way I did."

"I love you." she whispered into his ear, they began to kiss again. The 
other Senshi pretended to be looking elsewhere as the couple made out.


After those painful good-byes, Trunks jumped inside the time machine. He 
set his destination several years before his own time. He only hoped 
there 
wouldn't be anymore accidents. He turned his sight outside. The girls 
were 
still watching him. He waved good-bye to them as his ship began to take 
off. He was really going to miss all of them, especially Makoto. If his 
mission wasn't so important he might have decided to stay. But that was 
hardly the case.

The five girls waved good-bye as they saw how the time machine 
disappeared 
in a flash of bright light. He was gone. Gone for good.


Meanwhile, in another universe. Another kind of group stood in a field. 
Right now they were all looking at the sky. A ship approached. A very 
big 
ship. Inside of it was Freezer and his father Cold. Hungry for revenge 
and 
with a new body, Freezer swore to take revenge on the one that defeated 
him, only this time he didn't came alone. Too bad Goku didn't seem to be 
here. Instead he'd have to take care of his friends first. He could even 
see Vejita between the group. He still had a thing or two to teach to 
that 
arrogant Saiyajin.

"This doesn't look good." Krillin stated. 

Piccolo remained silent. He knew well what was Freezer capable of. He 
certainly didn't came back to check if they were doing okay. Another 
fight 
was about to begin. Only this time Goku wasn't here and Freezer had 
returned with some backup. Things were going to get messy.

But suddenly, something else caught his attention. Another ki. Someone 
else 
just arrived. He turned around to see who it was. It was a teenager. He 
had lank purple hair and wore a blue jacket. He was standing a few yards 
away from them as he carried a sword on his back...

THE END


End of Chapter Eight, Part Three
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