Chapter 23
Trunks was catching on pretty fast, but didn't think she was going on a big diet. Trunks did really notice something was deadly wrong, when he saw her training in the gravity room, and suddenly she collapsed. He quickly flew inside the gravity room, it wasn't more than 1000 time gravity as he would have thought, but it was only 4 times gravity. That made him think a while so as he tried to pick her up, his hand touched her gi when he tried to help her up, and he swore he could feel her bones protruding from her ribs. So quickly he lifted a part of her shirt up(Trunks is not a pervert!!), and was beyond belief when he saw that she was so skinny. It was so bad, that he thought she was going to be on the venge of dying. When he questioned her, all she could say was that she did it for him(Trunks). "But why?" "Because you*cough* like those humans more than me, I know that, it reminds me of just like when I tried to win you from Cansea, remember? Anyway, *cough*like everyone says, you should go and marry another girl, marry Cansea, anyone, you don't want me.", Shiroke whispered in her almost horse voice lying in a bed.
"Why didn't I see this coming?!", Trunks yelled to himself in his mind. He should have known she was up to something. She was fine until they went to Eastside Beach. She wanted him to marry someone else, because she thought....... he didn't love her anymore and that he would be better off with a human. He couldn't blame her, after all he started it. She had tried to win his attention for so long but he just ignored her. No matter what he and everyone else did, she refused to eat anything or even drink anything. Vegeta was quite impressed with her endurance but he was forced to try and help Shiroke open her mouth. Although saiyans could last a pretty long time without food, they didn't have too much time to live if they didn't drink water for a long time. It was already a week and she had a hard time trying to say anything. But Trunks had a plan in mind already, he was going to invite Cansea over and maybe envy would persuade Shiroke to do something. It was a big risk but it was worth a try.
Shiroke was staring at the cealing, mumbling some prayers in saiyan and there were 3 words that Gohan had picked up, "mate", "compition", and "heaven" out of the prayers. "Was she going to free her spirit?", Gohan thought, he didn't know. In the middle of saying a word, Shiroke took one glance out of the window, she couldn't believe her eyes. Cansea was waving "bye" to her smiling while Trunks was with her, "HOW COULD HE??!", Shiroke thought furiously to herself. True, she did say that he could marry Cansea or anyone, but not when she was alive!!! The monitor that checked up her heart was speeding up fast, Gohan noticed. Also, her ki was going up higher than they thought she could, in her state.
Somehow, she just got knocked uncouncious from the lack of energy she had and fell back on the bed. "There was only two things she could do, burn herself out, or just kill herself from starvation",Vegeta though to himself. If she did die, it would probably the end of the saiyan race soon, first she was the only female half saiyan. Second, the saiyan blood would die quicker because Pan was only 5 months old( the only 1/8 saiyan now). In a 100 years they guessed, there would probably be no saiyans left.
The next day, she barely could move, she was torturing herself trying to shut her mouth from the delicious smells of food that surrounded her. Videl was watching in shock when she found something that caught her eye, on her neck, it was the stone that she used for casting, it was turning black. The last time it turned fully black was when Shiroke died when Tpar killed her in the portal world. But somehow, as of miracle, when it turned black, Shiroke was looking healthier. Videl knew that the stone had healing properties but could it prevent Shiroke from dying? The media was already on their heels, with their theories on what was happening to Shiroke. With most of the energy she had so little of, she casted a spell which made a clone of her( that was as healthy as ever), and had it say a message to everyone. " I'm so sorry for any trouble I have caused you but this is my own choice, why I am doing this? To begin with, I have always been with envy for humans, no, not you, Bulma and Videl, and certainly not Deuio. But, the temptation in this time is too great for me to bear. First, Trunks goes and does something that I won't mention in fear of the media, which makes me mad. Second, yesterday you saw him with Cansea. This leads me to my conclusion maybe, I'm not worth living for. Saiyan race or not, I wasn't suppose to be in this time. Ahh... Vegeta, I have to tell you something too, your saiyan race isn't over yet too, I hope you like a present I'll be leaving YOU with. Well that's if Trunks will acually believe it or not.", her clone said. Right in Vegeta's arms was a baby, it was a girl and it had black eyes and hair. It looked exactly like Veggi. The little half saiyan(as everyone concluded) was acually Trunks and Shiroke's daughter. But why would Shiroke leave her daughter like how Vegeta had left Trunks to Bulma?? Shiroke was far more responsible and there wasn't a way for her to leave her child, right? "No, I don't want to abandon her but I have no choice. You see, half of the reason why I'm dying is because I am suppose to. This is part of the saiyan female life cycle, Videl I'm positive you don't have to worry about Pan dying. Her name is Veggi, which is because this is the real Veggi who I wanted to name her from the start. In about hmm.... 3 minutes, I'll die, you will have to wait 2 years before you can wish me back to life. I don't know why but it states that in my spell book, if you wish me back any earlier, you'll just get your wish unapproved. I do love Trunks, that I cannot deny, but I want him to be happy still, while I'm gone. Remember I will make some occasional visits back to Earth if I can, and I'll keep in touch. Bye.", the clone concluded. With one final breath, Shiroke just went limp. Trunks, who was trying to keep Cansea away, didn't hear any of it. It was until he came back, a minute after Shiroke died, that he found out the news. She would have to be buried but what about the media??
Trunks was looking straight into Shiroke's face, it looked very relieved. After he collected himself to say something, he said, " Ok... we better go and get a casket and--". He was interrupted by a small cry coming from a blanket in Vegeta's arms. Vegeta handed IT to Trunks and said Trunks was the father. Videl slowly told everything that she had remembered the clone had said and said it wasn't his fault. So after everyone left, Trunks rushed upstairs to take care of "Veggi". It was once he heard Veggi crying, he realized she was hungry. But what could he do? Shiroke knew what to do whenever Veggi(the disguised one) was hungry. Before he could think anymore, he saw Veggi with a bottle of milk in her mouth. It had to be one of the helping things of Shiroke, he thought. When it came time for her funeral, Veggi somehow realized who Shiroke was, even thought Veggi only saw her mom two times in her whole life so far. Shiroke was in a white casket with REAL gold on the handels of it. She had her wedding ring(of course) and her prized necklace(the heart shaped one that Trunks gave to her when she was six, remember?). She was wearing a dark purple dress and a thin white veil looking cloth was put over the frount part of the casket. Everyone attended(family and close friends, ONLY) except Deuio, who they didn't want to inform because when she was alive again, Deuio would think of Shiroke as a demon. It was all very sad, and alot of people were crying, even Goku, but it was a mystery if he was crying that he didn't eat any food since he woke up or because Shiroke was dead. Trunks took a closer look at the casket while holding Veggi in his arms, he kissed Shiroke one time when only a few people were there and they weren't looking and whispered," I love you". Then he closed the white casket that held his beloved wife.
Chapter 24