Dragon Ball/Z/GT Fan Fiction ❯ Make a fool of myself ❯ Chapter 1

[ Y - Young Adult: Not suitable for readers under 16 ]

Do not own Dragon ball Franchise.

Do not own "I make a fool of myself, by Frankie Valli


Title: I make a fool of myself

Author: Jester1979

Rated. R for strong language.

Pairings Trunks and Pan. Goten is with no one right now, he just broke up with Marron, but is looking at Bra but doesn't end up with her in story.

Ages: Pan 16 Trunks 29 Goten 28 Bra 17

Summary: Unrequited love on Trunks' half.. Trunks tries to find a way to tell Pan he loves her, however he gets tongue-tied everytime she is near him. Does she have feelings for him as well?

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"Hey, Pan Chan.” Trunks Briefs stood before the mirror practicing on how to tell Son Pan, the girl he loves how much he loves her.

"How you doing Pan Chan?" He smiled. "There is something I need to tell you...I love you Pan Chan, I have always loved you."

"No, that won't work Trunks." He chastised himself.

He took a deep breath and tried again, "Yo, Panny Chan, I just wanted to tell you that I love you.” Trunks tried a different approach.

He shook his head. "Yeah, right, Trunks."

'How do I tell her I love her, with out making a fool of myself?' Trunks thinks to himself as he sits down on his king sized bed.

"I love you, Pan.” He silently said as a lonely tear ran down his cheek. 'If it were only that easy.'

Trunks Briefs had loved Son Pan for as long as he could remember, he couldn't remember a time where he wasn't in love with her, however because of their thirteen year age different he was forced to keep his feelings hidden. Although when she had turned Sixteen, he was going to tell her, however everytime he got close to her, he would lose all courage and chicken out.

"Telling a girl you love her shouldn't be that hard, You have done it before.” Trunks laughed. "Yeah, but I never meant it. Telling a girl you love her and meaning it, is way different then telling a girl you 'love' her just because she fucked you.” He sighed. I wish telling Pan I love her were that easy, however it is not, I hate this. He got up and threw a book towards the door and screamed.

"Fuck why is telling someone I love them, so fucking hard.” He yelled as the door opened.

"What?” He was pissed, that the person did not even bother to knock, and that he was interrupted from his train of thought.

"Trunks?” Trunks turned around to see her, the one who stole his heart and refused to give it back. He just stood there not knowing what to do. His heart was beating a million miles a minute. 'Kami what do I do? What do I do?' A million thoughts ran through his head.

"Trunks?"

Trunks however could not get a word out, he tried to say something, but no words or sound would pass through his voice box.

"Hey, Guys what's up?” Goten Trunks’ best friend and Pan's uncle came in.

"Hey, Uncle G. I just came to say hi to Trunks.” Pan said as she tried again. "Hello, earth to Trunks, Jeez, Trunks, I never knew you to be the quiet one."

"I.I.uh.” Trunks stuttered. "I.uh.I.I have to go." He said as he ran out of the room. His heart was beating faster then before, he breathing was labored, and he felt as if he were going to pass out.

'Why do I feel this way everytime she's around?’ He thought. "Why do I love her so much."

"Trunks?” He heard Goten calling him. Trunks turned around.

"Goten?"

"What's wrong buddy."

"I love her.” He confessed to his bestfriend he loved Pan, however Goten being as clueless as ever did not know what he was talking about.

"Love who?" Goten asked innocently.

"Pan.” Trunks slid to the floor, he buried his face in his lap. "I love her more then anything, I can't sleep, I can't eat, I can't function at work, I lose my focus when she isn't around, yet I seem to lose it when she is around.

Goten sat and listened as his Twenty nine year old Bestfriend, the one friend he has all through his life, the one friend he could always count on no matter what, confessed his undying love for his sixteen year old niece.

"Have you told her?"

"I can't."

"Why not?"

"She'll laugh."

"No she won't."

"I don't deserve her anyway, she’s way to pretty to be with me.” Trunks said as he praised Pan, and put himself down in the process.

"Trunks, you and Pan would make a great couple, if anyone deserves her it is you."

"What do you mean?"

"No, human is worthy of Pan's love." Goten started but was interrupted by Trunks.

"I'm not worthy of her love either, I never will be."

"Trunks." Goten did not know what to do.

"I never felt this way with any other girl, I never felt it with Susan or Marron." Trunks explained, referring to his first and second long-term girlfriends. Susan Morrison and Marron Chestnut, sure he had told them he loved them, but he never meant it. No Pan was different he loved Pan with every fiber in his being.

"Trunks, Bro. I have no Idea what to tell you, except you have to tell her.

"I can't, she is too good for me, I can't risk making a fool of myself in front of her, she is too perfect."

Goten started laughing, Trunks looked up.

"What the hell is so funny?" Trunks asked his friend.

"You, I have never known you to be so scared of anything."

"Pan isn't anything, she is the most beautiful, Intelligent, talented, person on this green earth, and I love every fiber of her, with every fiber of me."


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When I'm away from you
I know what to say and do
But every time you're near
My courage disappears ah-ha
The words are on my lips
When my composure slips
While you're collected and cool
I make a fool of myself

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"Hey Bra?” Pan walked into her bestfriend room.

"Hey Pan, What's up?" Bra asked her friend.

"Nothing, but is there something up with Trunks?"

"What do you mean?"

"Everytime I go near him, he seems to have to be somewhere else, he doesn't even talk to me like he used to anymore, it’s as if he forgot how to talk."

"I haven't talked to him about anything, about what could be bothering him, then again he never talks to me anyways, so I'm sorry Pan I cannot help you."

"I mean we used to talk about everything, but lately he just avoids me like the plaque, I don't know what to do, I feel like I'm losing one of my bestfriend."

Bra thought for a moment. 'I wonder if Goten would know anything, I better talk to him later, once Pan leaves.' Bra wished she knew what was going on in her brother’s head, he never told her anything, she usually had to pry it out of Goten later.


"I'll see what I can find out, just don't worry yourself to much over it, I'm sure it's nothing." Bra said as Pan looked at the clock on Bra's wall.

"Oh, Kami, I have to go."

"Alright, I’ll see you later." Bra said as she said goodbye to her friend.

*A few hours later. *

Goten knocked on Bra's door. "Come in." Bra called from the other side.

Goten opened the door. "Hey B chan, Sup?"

“ Not much. You?” She said as she flipped through a latest teen fashion magazine.

"Well I got some very interesting news from Trunks.” Bra shot off the bed.

"You do, 'cause Pan was here and she was wondering what was going on with him, and frankly I would like to also what is going on with Trunks."

"He told me he loved her."

Bra's eyes went wide. "nani, he loves her?"

"Yeah, Bra I never seen him like that before, he however keeps putting him self down, saying he is unworthy of her beauty." Goten exclaimed

"Wow, Trunks said that, so that’s' what’s been buggin' him then?” Bra was shocked at the apparent revelation on her brother’s love for her best friend.

"Yeah, I guess so."

"What are we going to do?"

"Bra, You think Pan has feelings for Trunks."

"It's hard to say, I mean she never confides in me about her love life, and if she did I doubt she talk to me about my brother."

"Well all I know, is Trunks is head over heals for the girl and it's eating him alive."

"Maybe we should try to bring them together."

"You think that's a good Idea, I mean Pan may not feel the same way." Goten exclaimed again.

Bra closed her eyes and sighed. "I wish I knew what to do."



/Trunks' Room. /

'Why do I get tongue tied everytime she is around?' Trunks asked himself. Why is it so hard for me to tell her I love her? She is only Pan, Trunks the girl you spent an entire year with in space, it used to be so easy to talk to her. So, what changed?

"You fell in love with her, that's all.” He answered himself. "You fell in love with your bestfriend sixteen year old niece, the bestfriend of your little sister.” He explained to himself. He lifted up his pillow and pulled a picture out from under it.

"Why? Pan? Why do I love you so much?” Tears falling from his eyes. "Why is it so hard for me to tell you how I feel, I never had this problem before.

He took a deep breath. "Maybe I should just muster up my courage and tell her I love her."

"Then she can laugh at you and call you pathetic Trunks.” Trunks replied to himself how pathetic he would look telling a sixteen-year-old he loved her.

He looked at his wall clock. "Shit, I better get going, mother’s going to be pissed if I miss this meeting, Maybe it will take my mind off of Pan." He said as he ran into the bathroom where he shaved and showered. He put on a fifty-five hundred-Dollar gray Armani silk suit. He combed his hair just right, on the outside, he looked perfect, on the inside however he was a complete mess.

He took a deep breath and headed out the door.
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I want so much to be
The only love you see
I fall each time I try
To look good in your eyes ah-ha
Don't know if I'll get through
Being destroyed by you
While you're collected and cool
I make a fool of myself
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The meeting had taken longer the Trunks would have hoped for. He sat on a rock next to a waterfall him and Pan used to go when she was younger, it was their secret spot, no one even Goten or Bra knew of this place.

"Trunks?” Trunks turned around to see her. Again, he felt as if his heart was going to explode.

Seeing that he wasn't going to talk. Pan decided to ask him something. "Trunks, I’ve been wondering lately, is there something wrong?"

Trunks turned to look at her, he kept quiet, "I mean lately you have been acting so weird, and I was wondering if I did anything to make you hate me or something."

'Hate you Panny Chan, oh how can I hate you when I love you so much, that I wish to Kami that I hated you.' He thought.

"I don't hate you." He said barely a whisper.

"Then why do you avoid me?” Pan asked, trying to know what was going on in Trunks' mind.

"I have to go Pan Chan, I’ll see you later.” Trunks took off, only to have Pan call after him.

"Trunks, wait.” Pan said she tried to catch up to him, but he was to fast for her.

"Trunks what happened to us?" She asked quietly. "We used to talk about everything.” She sat down on the rock Trunks was sitting on and sighed. "Why won't you talk to me anymore?"


Trunks landed on his balcony and entered his room. He sighed as he looked at the picture he had of Pan.

"She'll never love me, I need to stop chasing the impossible and just accept the fact that she is completely unaware of how I feel, and that she will never love me.

He felt as if every part of him inside was dying, he felt as if the love he had for Pan was eating him alive from the inside out.

He felt tears, oh how he hated to cry. He would never show his emotions to Pan, he dared not to. He dared not to show his emotions to anyone, he would bottle them up inside. Letting them eat away at him, in every since of the word.

"Pan.” He said her name as he went outside to talk to dende.

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Hey little girl
How could you care
Little girl, you're unaware
Of the love I have to share
Inside me dying
Oh I'm crying
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"Dende Please help me to forget, I beg of you Dende, make me forget about Son Pan.” Trunks pleaded to the green god. Trunks closed his eyes, he took a deep breath and sighed, he hoped the prayer had reached Dende, he hoped it would make him forget all about his raven-haired beauty.


A few months had passed since his pleading prayer to Dende, Trunks however was still insanely in love with Pan.

He looked at his desk calendar and noticed the date was December 23rd, only two days until Christmas.

He got up and left his office. "Michelle, I’m going shopping."

"Alright Mr. Briefs." Michelle was shocked. She usually did Trunks' shopping for him; he never went on his own.

Trunks however stopped and turned towards her. "Michelle, can you pick up something for everyone besides Pan.” Michelle chuckled an exasperated laugh and shook her head.

"Of course Mr. Briefs."

"Thanks." Trunks said as he left the building.

He hopped in his car and drove to a place where they specialize in glass making with Austrian Crystal, he entered the shop.

"May I help you." A small elderly woman asked.

"Yes, I was wondering if you could make me a glass heart with a dragon inside of it, holding a glass ball with four stars on it."

"Yes, we can but it will cost you."

"Money isn't the problem, can it be done by Christmas."

"I can get it to you by this afternoon."

"You can, Great."

"Come back around 3pm and it should be done."

Trunks smiled, "Great thanks, 3pm it is."

3pm came rather quickly and the shop owner showed Trunks the item he had ordered. The Heart was made of clear crystal, the dragon inside, the crystal was tinted a bit to give an emerald color to it, and to the heart as the light gleamed off it. "It's perfect."

The shop owner wrapped the item up as Trunks paid the cashier. "That will be, $5, 890.09.” The cashier said as she rang it up.

"Charge it to Capsule." The cashier nodded as she pulled up the account for Capsule Corp.

"Thanks." Trunks said and left. "I hope you like it Pan.” He whispered as she got back into his car and headed back to his office.

Trunks walked into his office only to find the object of his affections standing in front. "Hey Trunks." Pan said smiling.

Trunks again couldn't get any words out.

"I just came to tell you, that I’m going to make an important announcement on Christmas, and I hope you will be there to congratulate me."

Trunks smiled and nodded. 'Kami, what could she be announcing?' A million thoughts raced through his head.

"Alright Trunks, I’ll see you on Christmas. Ja ne."

"Ja ne." Was all Trunks could muster up to say?

He watched Pan leave as he plopped himself in his overly priced leather office chair. He closed his eyes. "Dende, can’t you see, she is the reason I live and breathe, with out Pan my life has no meaning."
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Lord above please let me see
She's the life and breath of me
How my heart is breakin'
When I'm sleepin', wakin'
I keep making a fool of myself

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The next two days went by fast and the annual Christmas party at Capsule was underway.

Everyone was laughing and talking. Everyone seemed happy, everyone but Trunks, for he would never be happy until Pan was in his arms where she was suppose to be. He was going to tell her tonight. He was going to tell her he loved her.

"Time to exchange Gifts." Bulma Briefs, Trunks' mother yelled. After everyone exchanged gifts, Trunks had noticed he didn't have Pan's gift that it was still in his car. He went out of get it. Once he had it, he prayed that she would like it.

He walked back up the steps and opened the door. As he was about to enter, he heard her voice saying something.

"Everyone can Uub and I have your attention."

"Uub and her?" He questioned. "What could Uub and her have to announce. He listened.

"We would like you all to be the first to know, that Uub and I are getting married." Pan said happily as everyone cheered everyone except Trunks, Goten, and Bra.

Trunks stood there dumbfounded as the words Uub and I are getting married cut through his heart like a knife to butter. He couldn't breathe, he watched everyone congratulating the couple on their engagement, however it was like he was watching a movie, it didn't seem real, the girl he loved did not announce her engagement to someone else. She was only sixteen for Kami sake.

"No.” Trunks shouted as his present dropped to the floor. Everyone turned to look at him.

"Trunks, are you alright?" His mother asked. His eyes were wide with shock. She walked towards him as he backed away.

"No.” He said again. He could feel tears in his eyes, however refused to let them fall in front of everyone.

"Trunks?"

Trunks blinked his eyes as he turned to leave. He stood out in front of the house. He still couldn't believe the one girl he loved with all of his heart was marrying someone else, not just anyone else. She was marrying one of his bestfriend.

Pan went up to Bra and Goten, and asked. "Can either one of you tell me what is going on with Trunks?"

"You really want to know Pan?" Goten asked.

"Yes, Uncle Goten what is going on."

Goten took a deep breath. "He loves you."

Pan didn't think she heard right, did Goten just tell her that Trunks loved her. "What?"

"Trunks is in love with you Pan.” Pan thought was Goten was joking and started laughing her head off.

"Funny Goten, now tell me what is really bothering Trunks."

"Pan, Goten is right, Trunks loves you."

"He loves me? When? Why? How long?” Pan was shooting off a million questions.

"For the last two years." Goten said.

"Two years, he loved me for Two years, I don't love him, I love Uub."

"Are you sure?" Goten asked his neice.

"Yes, Uncle Goten, I can't imagine my life without Uub in it."

"Just like Trunks can't imagine his life without you in it?"

"He can't love me, I have to make myself clear to him." Pan said. "I have to make sure he knows he is like an older brother to me, nothing less and nothing more, I do love him just not in the way he wants me to."

Bra took a deep breath, as she listened to her bestfriend let out her feelings on Trunks, Pan was telling the truth Bra could hear it in her voice, she had only sisterly feelings for Trunks, she loved Uub and him only.


Pan sighed as she noticed the gift Trunks was going to give her. She bent down and picked it up. "What's this.” She opened it to find the heart and dragon. "It's so pretty."

She saw a envelop with a note. Which read. 'You'll always be the dragon in my heart, I'll love you till the day I die and beyond."

Pan had tears in her eyes as she ran out the door after Trunks.

"Pan?" Bra called after her, Pan turned around.

"I have to tell him, I have to tell him what is in my heart Bra, I have to tell him I only see him as nothing more then my Nii Chan."

Bra smiled as Pan took off into the air.

"Pan?” Uub called after her, he was about to fly after her but was stopped by Goten.

"Goten, she’s my fiancé I have to go and see if she is alright."

"She's fine, just let her go.” Goten exclaimed.

Uub nodded. "Alright."





/Waterfall/

"She's getting married?” Trunks still couldn't believe his ears. Pan had just told everyone she was getting married to Uub. Uub of all people.

"WHY?! DENDE?! HUH?!? WHY, WHY IS SHE MARRYING HIM, YOU KNEW, YOU KNEW HOW MUCH I LOVED HER, AND YET YOU GAVE HER TO ANOTHER MAN.” Trunks yelled at the top of his lungs as he chastised Dende.

Trunks let the tears fall as the image of Pan and Uub plaqued his mind. He didn't care anymore, he wanted to forget the pain. He wanted to forget about that night, it had to be the worse Christmas of his life. He wanted to crawl into a hole and die.

Pan had found Trunks leaning against a rock by the waterfall. Her heart ached for him. She sighed as she saw him, he looked miserable. "Trunks?"

Trunks turned ot see the girl who stole his heart. He blinked his eyes. "Pan." Trunks had acknowledged her presence.

"I came to see if you were alright."

"Why should you care, shouldn't you be with betrothed."

"Trunks, stop." Pan didn't like the way Trunks was acting.

"I love you Pan." Trunks had finally told her his feelings.

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I want so much to be
The only love you see
I fall each time I try
To look good in your eyes ah-ha
Don't know if I'll get through
Being destroyed by you
While you're collected and cool
I make a fool of myself
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. "Trunks."

"I love you so much, It hurts." Trunks confessed his feelings as he sat on the ground not daring to look at Pan, his voice was full with emotion. "I can't sleep, I can't eat, my every thought is of you, my every dream you are in it. You plague my very mind and soul Pan, I can't live without you in my life. When I try to imagine my life without you, I get scared, scared that it will happen, and now it has. I have lost you to Uub. There is no longer a reason for me to live." Pan listened to every word. She could hear the emotion dripping from his voice as he confessed.

"Trunks?" Pan asked.

"You are the only reason I live for." Trunks explained.

Pan didn't know what to do. "Trunks I.."

"I wished I didn't love you, God my life would so much easier if I didn't love you, Do you have any idea how much I love you? Do you have any Idea the extent of my love for you?"

"Trunks?" Pan could feel tears threatening her eyes. Pan's heart broke when Trunks looked at her. His face wet with tears.

"I love you so much, I wish I was dead, I love you so much, I wish I hated you. In fact I do hate you, I hate you for making me love you. I hate you for not loving me. I hate you because I love you and you don't love me." He shouted through his tears.

Pan gulped as she listened to every word Trunks had said, she didn't know he felt like this. "Trunks, I'm so sorry." She put her hand on his shoulder. "Is there anything, I can do."

"You can say you love me." Trunks replied.

"I cannot do that."

"Then leave."

"Trunks." She couldn't believe what she had heard, Trunks told her to leave.

Trunks looked up at her, she wasn't going anywhere. "I said 'leave' Now." He said in a voice that she had never heard before a voice that had every emotion he was feeling in it. She could sense hatred and grief, and yet love and compassion as well.

"Trunks." She wouldn't leave though.

"Pan, I don't want you to see me this way. I try so hard to look good in your eyes, so would you just LEAVE" He shouted.

Pan didn't say anything, she turned and left without a word. She however stopped for a moment to hear Trunks utter the words. "I love you Pan."

"I'm sorry, I just don't love you Trunks." She said to herself. Tears falling from her face, flying back hitting her eyes as she flew home.



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Oh little girl
How could you care?
Little girl, you're unaware
Of the love, I have to share
Inside me dying
Oh I'm crying
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Pan landed outside Capsule Corp. She was shaking. "Pan what happened?" Bra asked.

"What have I done?" She asked her bestfriend. "I hurt him, I broke his heart." Bra held on to her friend as she cried on to her shoulder. "I never seen him like that, It tore me up inside."

"Pan, where is he?" Goten asked.

Pan was hestitant on telling them where Trunks was. "Why don't you look for his Ki."

"I can't feel it, it disappeared about 2 minutes ago."

"What, Uncle G. tell me, He isn't." Pan stood there dumbfounded. Goten didn't say anything, he didn't want to believe himself.

Pan looked at her uncle she shook her head. "No, oh my god this is all my fault." She blamed herself.



a/n: how is it so far? Is Trunks dead? Does Pan actually love him, but won't admit it?"