Dragon Ball/Z/GT Fan Fiction ❯ Diary of A Prince ❯ Chapter 6 ( Chapter 6 )

Diary of A Prince

By: Nova Starlight

Chapter 6: It All Falls Apart

ENTRY

784 A.D.

Dear Journal,

So much has happened recently and I feel as if my life is like a setup of dominoes, when one is knocked down the rest of them follows. My family has drifted farther and farther apart from me, but I dealt with it because I still had the love and support of my best friend and boyfriend, Goten. Now, I do not even have that. After the last time I had pushed him away, I figured he would forgive me like always, but there had been a small nagging doubt in the back of my head. I pushed it all aside but now I can see that I was wrong.

We met in the woods like usual to train and when I arrived I saw him standing there waiting for me. I walked up to him with a smile on my face and tried to kiss him. He leaned away from my kiss and walked off. "Don't try to win me over with kisses and affection. I have made up my mind and I have something I need to say," he said angrily. I backed away as I realized that something was really wrong. All of my fears and pain caused by what he had said, hit him like a ton of bricks. I did not even realize it at that moment but I had started to cry.

"Please Goten," I pleaded. "Don't do this to me. I need you more than I can possibly explain."

Goten gave a bitter laugh at that and replied, "Oh yeah, you need me so much that you can push me away whenever you feel like it. You will not even tell your parents about me. I am sick and tired of being your dirty little secret."

The tears flowed faster and harder from my treacherous eyes. I felt the urge to give in to the uncontrolled sobs and my heart felt as if it had been ripped to shreds. So, I put forth the only emotion strong enough to cover my sadness, anger. Then I demanded , "Fine, Goten! If you don't love me anymore, say it to my face!"

Goten sighed and turned towards me. Our eyes met and neither of us spoke a word. After a few minutes, he said, "I do not have to explain myself to you." Then he flew off towards his house. I should have followed him, but I knew it was pointless. So, I brushed my tears from my face and prepared to return home.

As if things could not have gotten worse, the first person I saw when I walked in was, my obnoxious father, Vegeta. He started laughing the moment his eyes landed on me. "Oh what happened?" he teased. "Did that third class brat kick your ass?" While he stood there laughing, I seized the opportunity to punch him square in the face and knocked him through the wall into the next room. I walked right past him and up the stairs to my room. I slammed the door and lay down on my bed; the bed Goten and I had held each other on, kissed, and made love on. There I finally succumbed to the sobs I had been holding back.

The next day, my father had recovered from the shock of being knocked through the wall and demanded an explanation. He wanted to know how I had the strength to knock him through the wall. He did not even care why I had done it. I just told him that it must have been because he was not expecting it and walked back up to my room.

-Trunks

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Vegeta sighed deeply as he finished reading that entry and thought back to that night. He wished that Trunks had realized what he had done that night. He had been worried when Trunks had come in with his face tear-stained and had not realized that his teasing remarks would get such a violent reaction. He had mulled over it for a while after Trunks had went to his room.

In the middle of the night, he had left Bulma asleep in bed and went downstairs to the kitchen to get something to drink. While he was there, he saw that the television was on in the living room. When he went to turn it off he saw that Trunks was asleep on the couch. He grabbed a blanket that was hanging over a nearby chair and placed it over Trunks. He heard him whisper something but he had not been able to make it out. He had left him there and returned to bed still curious about his son's tears.

Now, he wished that he had woken him up, asked him what was wrong, he would never have that chance again. It was one of the rare moments when he had truly shown him affection and Trunks had never known it. With how depressing his son's journal had been so far, he wanted to hope that there was some light at the end of the tunnel.

ENTRY

784 A.D.

Dear Journal,

I have become more and more disheartened by my life. Everything has been going wrong, especially with my feelings for Goten. I tried to win him back when he came over to the house a few weeks ago but it did not work. His mother had thrown their television set out of the window, again, and he brought it over to be fixed. The saddest part being that it probably would have been easier to just buy him a new TV, but he was too proud to take it from me.

While I was working on the television, he sat in the living room playing with my little sister Bra. When I came back into check on her I heard her say, "You know, one day, you gonna marry me Goten."

"Maybe I will," Goten replied with a big smile on his face. I stomped off back into the other room to finish repairing the television, what I really wanted to do was pull Chi-Chi's stunt and send it flying out of the window. Maybe I am crazy to be jealous of my, five year old, little sister but I was.

A few moments later, he came in to see how it was going and I took the opportunity to talk to him. "Goten is there any way that you can forgive me? I have been missing you like crazy."

"Are you prepared to go tell your parents about us?" he asked calmly.

"No, I am not ready to tell them," I argued. "That has nothing to do with us."

He shook his head and said, "If you will not tell your parents, then we have nothing to discuss. I need to be getting home." I put the outer casing back on the TV and he took it home with him. As I watched him leave I felt like crying all over again. With increasing family stress and the looming prospect of being stuck as Capsule Corp. CEO, everything seems so bleak. I have decided to not wait around for things to get worse. I have decided to commit suicide.

My father and I sensed a power level tonight while we were sitting around at dinner. My dad thinks it will be an easy battle, but I am not so sure. I will probably write one last entry and then end my life.

-Trunks

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Vegeta was so shocked that he was gripping the journal and sweat was forming on his hands. He felt and anger and sadness waging their final battle inside of him. This entry had been written the night before Trunks had died and he had never been given the chance to say his last goodbyes. His only son had been planning to die, by his own hand, all along. It made him wonder if anything had been gained. He finally took the air and flew off to the east.

A few minutes later, he landed outside the Son residence. He banged on door until a very irate looking Chi Chi opened it. At seeing him she seemed to instantly remember his recent tragedy and her facial expression softened. "Can I help you?" she asked.

"I need to speak to your br-, I mean Goten," he said in a voice that was barely above a whisper.

She pointed upstairs and replied "Goten is in his room, first door on the right." He said nothing else and walked right past her and up the stairs. He did not knock on the door just opened it up and walked in to the room. He saw Goten lying on his bed looking at picture of him and Trunks.

"Go away mom!" he exclaimed. "I just want to be alone right now."

He nearly jumped a foot when he heard Vegeta's voice reply from behind him, "I'm not your mother." He snapped around just in time to see Vegeta close the door behind himself. He held out the journal to Goten and did not say a word. Goten was not sure what was going on so he took the book and held it in his hands.

"What is it?" he asked.

Vegeta took a deep breath and said, "It is Trunks's journal. I read it already, so I know all about you and my son." Goten's eyes widened to the size of dinner plates as he listened. "I think you should read it," he continued. Then he turned, opened the door, and walked back out of the house, leaving behind a very stunned Goten.

Vegeta flew without really having a destination in mind he was just flying. He was just as surprised as anyone else would have been when after about an hour he found himself hovering over Capsule Corp. He landed and walked inside, as he entered the house he had an idea of what he could do to make up some of the hurt he had caused his son. He walked right past Bulma and Bra, who were eating breakfast in the kitchen, and walked up to the gravity room. He raised his hand and delivered a controlled chi blast that destroyed the entire thing. As his hand dropped to his side he turned around to see Bulma and Bra just watching him. Bulma rushed forward and hugged him tightly. "Where have you been," she asked. "I have been worried sick about you." He did not answer, just held onto her tightly.

Trunks had died believing that his life had no bearing on this world, he was wrong. If it had not been for Trunks, Vegeta and Bulma would not even be together and Bra would not have been born. Trunks would be missed by many; the friends he made, the family that loved him, and his lover who had broken his heart. He wrapped his arms around his wife and daughter, hugging them as tightly as he could and came to a resolution. He would spend the rest of his life showing his family the love he had never given Trunks and hope that one day Trunks would forgive him.

The End