Dragon Ball/Z/GT Fan Fiction ❯ The Little Warriors All Grown up ❯ Tell him I'm Sorry ( Chapter 30 )

[ X - Adult: No readers under 18. Contains Graphic Adult Themes/Extreme violence. ]

Disclaimer: DBZ and its characters belong to Akira Toriyama!

~-Z-~

Bulma tapped in the code to enter into Goten and Trunks' apartment. It was already heading for 3'oclock in the afternoon. Vegeta had pestered her all morning, asking her to wake up the boys for their daily training. She had put it off as she was busy fixing someone's air jet.

Half an hour ago Vegeta had burst into her lab, demanding that she do something. He had enough of waiting. She rolled her eyes, not too sure what he was complaining about, the boys needed their rest after partying the night before.

She chuckled as she saw the state of the apartment. The table tennis was out. Bottles were covering every counter top and the TV was still playing silently. She couldn't help but remember all the good times she'd have just as much fun when she was younger. She found Jayden and Sandy on the couches, still fast asleep. She first headed towards Goten's room, hoping to find him in there. She was disappointed and disgusted to see Desiree and Sunny in the bed with their clothes and extra drinks thrown to the floor. She would have to wash these sheets properly for Goten; or better yet, burn them for him.

Confusion covering her face, she took a wild guess and thought perhaps Goten was sharing a bed with Trunks just to be nice to their guests. She quickly unlocked Trunks' door, finding the two boys lying in the bed. Trunks was all spread out while Goten was on the side in fatal position. She chuckled.

"Boys!" She nearly shouted. No one responded. Trunks just shifted to his side.

"Trunks!" She raised her voice once more.

"Hmm, just a few more minutes, I don't want to go to college yet," she heard him mutter. She laughed.

"Goten! Goten!" She repeated, trying to copy Chi-Chi's voice as much as she could. Goten startled awake, sitting up. She had to hold in her laughter.

"Good, you're awake," she replied.

Goten looked around all confused. He was sure he heard his mother's voice. He looked up only to see Bulma at the foot of the bed. He nearly gasped, looking down to be sure that the bed sheet was covering his crotch. It would be a very bad scene for Bulma to see both of them naked in bed.

"B- Bulma!" He asked groggily as he felt the headache forming.

"Yes, it's me. Vegeta is calling for you two. If I were you, I'd hurry," she explained, opening up the curtains. Trunks shivered as he felt the cool air enter the room. He covered himself.

"He's giving you guys 20 minutes max. I would hurry, he's not in the best mood today," she explained further, walking towards the door. She couldn't help but giggle as she remembered back to all the years the boys would struggle to wake up. She knew Goten would always be the easiest one. With the mention of either food or Chi-Chi, he'd be up in a flash. Goten just nodded, sighing as she closed the bed.

He looked over to Trunks who was still sleeping soundlessly.

"Trunks," he called, leaning into his older friend. Trunks just groaned in his sleep.

"We have to go train," he whispered into Trunks' ear. Trunks shrugged his shoulder as he felt Goten's breath blow onto him.

"A few more minutes, please," he groaned louder.

Goten smirked, trying his best to ignore the banging in his head. Quickly as he could, he pulled Trunks so he would lie on his back. He climbed on top of his older friend, startling him as Trunks felt the sudden skin contact. His eye shot up to look into Goten's extremely close face.

"Good morning," Goten chuckled. Trunks blinked, trying to clear his eyes. He smirked, sliding his hands down to grab Goten's ass.

"Morning," he growled, giving his younger friend a kiss.

"Come on, we better wake them up and get to training," Goten broke the kiss.

"Do we have to?"

"Bulma said Vegeta's pissed," Goten explained. Trunks took a moment to try and remember back to the night before. He swore some part of the night Bulma had called their apartment.

"Dad must've been up all night because of the music," Trunks thought out loud.

"Yeah, so let's just try and not piss him off any more than he already is," Goten concluded.

They reluctantly got dressed and woke everyone else up. Trunks quickly called Vegeta explaining he first wanted to get rid of the guests. Vegeta growled, telling them that it would add an extra hour to their already long training session. Trunks just groaned, massaging his sculp. Today was going to be a nightmare for both boys.

-Z-

"Man that was an awesome party!" Jayden beamed, trying to sip some water.

"Thanks for everything," Desiree added, gathering her things.

"I'll see you guys Monday then?" Trunks asked.

"Hell yeah!" Jayden smacked Trunks' back before waving his goodbye. Everyone except for Sandy left.

"You sure you don't need help cleaning?" She asked, shifting her feet.

"Nah, we got the cleaning bots for that," Goten replied, dropping all the bottles onto the floor so the bots wouldn't miss them.

"It's fine, you can go," Trunks added.

She sighed, feeling somewhat a bit awkward and guilty. She shouldn't have come onto Goten the night before. She was amazed she could even remember half of the stuff she said and did.

"Hey, I'm... Really sorry about last night," she apologised as she took hold of Goten's arm.

Goten looked at her, trying to smile as his head screamed at him in pain.

"It's fine, don't worry, nothing came of it," he shrugged off. "Just don't let it happen again. I don't think..."

"Yeah, your girlfriend probably wouldn't like it. I'm sorry," she smiled once more, giving him a quick hug before making her way to the door.

"See you Monday Trunks," she waved.

"Bye," was all Trunks replied.

Goten rubbed his eyes, while Trunks made sure everything was in a good place for the bots to clean. Curiously he looked over at Goten who seemed to be struggling through his hangover.

"You okay?" He asked, wrapping his arms around his younger friend.

"Yeah," was all Goten replied before giving Trunks a kiss.

"Don't worry about her. She's a little weird like that," Trunks explained.

"But she likes you..." Goten mumbled.

"Kami. She still does? I thought I told her yonks ago that it won't work," Trunks pondered.

"Apparently she didn't quite get the message, or at least took it to heart,"

"Don't worry, I won't let stupid things like that interfere between us," Trunks wrapped his arms even tighter around his friend.

"That's good to know," Goten smiled, resting his head on his older friend's shoulder. He enjoyed having Trunks' scent fill his nose as his arms was wrapped around him tightly. He could stay in this position with him forever.

"Guess we better face reality and train with dad,"

Goten chuckled, hugging Trunks once more. "Yeah."

-Z-

Wednesday, the following week rolled by quicker than anything else. Trunks tried his best to make his way to the library for some quiet study. He was avoiding his friends as he really just wasn't in the mood to be with their pestering questions and silly jokes. He couldn't believe how different they were to what he could remember them being.

He bumped into something without noticing, hearing a high pitched "sorry." He looked up, surprised to see Abbey, Goten's ex girlfriend standing in front of him.

"Trunks?" She stuttered, just as surprised.

"Oh... Hey," he gave his best smile.

"Wow, nice to see you here!" She beamed a smile at him.

"Yeah, you too. I didn't know you came here," he scratched the back of his head.

"Yeah I do. I would've thought Goten would tell you," she giggled, but quickly stopped when she remembered perhaps he wouldn't have because of what happened next in the bar. "Are you on break or something?" She quickly asked.

"Yeah, two hour gap," he shrugged.

"Oh wow, neat! Want to catch up?"

Trunks groaned inwardly as he couldn't help but agree. He really wasn't in the mood to talk to anyone. What did he have to do just to get some peace and quiet?

"Sure, why not,"

"Awesome! Let's go to the library cafe hn?" She suggested, already walking off. Trunks reluctantly followed.

-Z-

"So how's Goten?" She eagerly asked once they were seated with some food.

"He's doing well," he replied, taking a bite of one of his 10 sandwiches he ordered.

"I remember he told me he's moved into West City,"

"Yeah, he moved into Capsule Corp,"

"Really? Wow? Is he working with your family or something?" She was taken aback. She didn't know Goten had interests in working with one of the richest families on the planet.

"Yeah, he does a few jobs for my mum," he shrugged.

"And he gets free accommodation in return?" She wondered out loud.

"Exactly," Trunks replied, finishing off his second sandwich. He didn't realise how hungry he was until now. Silence lingered as she tried to think of what to talk about. Small talk was already over and done with when they were making their way over here. She had one thing in mind though, but she didn't know how to bring it up.

"He... He looked happy at the bar," she quietly spoke. Trunks looked up at her once all his food was gone. He furrowed his brows at her statement.

"Maybe it was because he was drunk or whatever, but he truly looked happy," she sighed.

"Yeah, he's been pretty good lately,"

"Does he have a girlfriend?" She wondered. Trunks could see hope in her eyes. Suddenly he knew what she was trying to lead into.

"No not a girlfriend," he replied sternly. What would happen if she found out? Would Goten be happy to finally have the score set straight or wasn't it his place to tell her? He figured she'd make her own assumptions at the reply he gave her.

"I see you guys have gotten even closer than before," she spoke quietly. He looked at her as she hunched over. Trunks frowned, wondering why the sudden mood change.

"We've always been close," he simply replied.

"I know. He always made sure I knew that. You and family always came first," she sighed. Trunks just nodded, allowing her to say whatever she wanted to.

"I really didn't want to start rumours about him... Honestly," she whimpered, her shoulders slightly shaking. "I was just so happy to see him over it. I have felt so bad for so long for ever starting it up."

Trunks wanted to rub her shoulder in comfort but kept his hands in tight fists at his knees.

"I really wish things worked out between us. I honestly thought we were going to be together for so long. As far as I knew I was the longest girlfriend he ever had..." she drifted, tears building up in her eyes. "I got so annoyed in the end that he never went further than making out. I know stupid of me. I seem to be fitting the stereotypical cheerleader frame. But believe me, if I had more patience I would've waited. I never bothered to ask him why he was so frigid. That's the thing I regret the most; my patience running out and ending up breaking up with him. My anger caused me to spread nasty rumours which weren't true," tears ran down her eyes. "I couldn't believe how he took it in his stride. But I knew deep down he was upset. I could see it in his eyes. To get Goten upset was truly something and I knew I pushed the right button," she paused, wiping her tears away.

"That's when I knew something was up. Why would he get so offended by a simple lie? If it wasn't true he wouldn't have been so upset. Although granted, he never showed his sadness to anyone, including the group he hung out with." She paused once more, letting the information sink into Trunks. He noticed then his palms were sweaty. He wasn't too sure if he was angry or guilty. Angry that this girl spread rumours he barely knew of in the first place or guilty for being the cause as to why Goten never gave her a proper chance. –No, scratch that. He did give her a chance. I'm sure he did love Abbey at some point. If not, he wouldn't have stuck with her for that long.- Trunks thought back to two years ago when they went to the tournament. He was so happy and never showed signs of anything ever like that happening. If anything, he looked happy that he was going on more dates.

"Last year I kept thinking about him. I was still trying to get over him. I knew something was up. The fact that it upset him ate away at me until I stayed up late at night wondering what was going on with him,"

"That isn't good," Trunks muttered.

"Yeah, I know. What a way to spend my first year of college," she chuckled. "But anyway, when I saw you two at the bar the other day... It gave me a thought I never paid much attention to,"

Trunks gulped. Did she figure it out? Did she know that something was going on between them? He tried to let it slide as so far it seems like most people was slowly figuring it out too.

"It was you, wasn't it?" She questioned, looking over at him.

"In what way?"

"He's in love with you, isn't he?" She nearly whispered. Trunks didn't answer though; instead he kept staring into her eyes.

"He wasn't frigid at all was he? He just didn't want to go any further because he was figuring himself out, wasn't he?" She asked.

"I think so," Trunks finally answered.

"You think or do you know?"

"I don't really know. He hasn't spoken much about it. Heck, I only found out rumours were spread at the bar. He never spoke much of you or about it," he explained.

She laughed dryly. She was amused that he never told anyone about it. Maybe it was the for best anyway.

"Is that the real reason he's living at Capsule Corp then?"

"No. Well half I guess. He is doing work for my mum."

There were a few minutes of silence as she collected herself and gathered up a few more questions.

"So what is going on between you two?" She managed to finally ask.

Trunks sighed. He guessed she ought to have a proper explanation, even though it wasn't his place.

"Goten and I are together,"

"For how long?" She wondered.

"Start of summer really," he estimated.

"Probably longer if you count how many years you guys must've liked each other," she guessed. "I find it somewhat amusing that you guys only eventually confessed your feelings. I was quite shocked myself when I figured it out, I'll admit to that. Suddenly all those moments of when Goten had spoken of you or the times you guys were together popped up and it just seemed natural in the end. But I was still upset. He shouldn't have kept it away from anyone. If he told me I would've helped him... I wouldn't have spread rumours," she sighed.

"Hey, whatever has happened is in the past. It's no use crying over it," Trunks tried to comfort her.

"I guess so," she tried to smile. "As long as he's happy, that's all I care about. A guy like him deserves it. I'm just simply jealous it's not me," she giggled.

"You don't need to be jealous. Why don't you concentrate on finding your own happiness instead?" He asked her, trying to drift the topic elsewhere.

"Do you think you'll ever get married?" She asked him after a long pause.

He sighed, unsure of what to reply. Marriage and all that ritual things were out in the far off future. He has never thought about it nor about that so called *mating* his father once spoke of. He didn't feel ready nor did he ever see the point. Perhaps it was his parent's influence. They only got married when he was young. He had thought that was a good enough excuse for him to not care about it. Why did it matter now though? He was still young. He still had his whole life ahead of him. Marriage sounded old to him, something he definitely wasn't ready for. Goten and he first had to sort out other things before the slightest mention of marriage would ever pop up from their mouths.

"Maybe... One day," Trunks spoke hopeful. Maybe. That's all he could reply. He could be hopeful that Goten and he would find their happy ending eventually within all this big mess that it seemed to create.

"Be sure to invite me okay," she chuckled. "But... anyway, thanks for listening," she smiled, extending her hand to give him a handshake. He nodded, taking hold of it.

"And if you wouldn't mind, could you pass on a few words to him for me?"

"Sure, anything."

-Z-

"Hey," Goten beamed, leaning over Trunks to give him a tight hug. "How was classes?"

"Boring with a capital B," Trunks yawned, giving his boyfriend a hug in return.

"Typical," Goten laughed, grabbing a few snacks to eat before they would head over to the gravity room for their daily training.

"You'll never guess what," Trunks spoke once he was changed in some track pants and a tank top. On his way home he'd been trying to figure out a way to break the news to Goten. He would have to try and make it light as he didn't want Goten to get angry.

"What?" Goten mumbled with a few potato crisps in his mouth.

"I walked into Abbey today,"

Goten choked, quickly taking hold of his drink. "You did what?"

"I walked into Abbey and had some lunch with her since she asked,"

"And?" Goten's eyes bulged, wondering what could've gone down.

"She spoke mostly of you..." Trunks started. He hoped he wasn't going to go too deep, "And explained her motives and all... But I was actually sort of shocked when..." he gulped.

"When what?" Goten's curiosity got the better of him as he straightened his body.

"When she asked if we were together... She said she thought about it once she saw us at the bar,"

"Crap," was all Goten could reply. That's the last thing he needed! Abbey knowing and spreading more rumours!

"But Goten, she asked me to say a few things to you. She was pretty serious about it," Trunks quickly added.

"Let's just hope it's not about spreading more fucking rumours," he growled.

"No. She wanted to apologise,"

"Whatever," Goten rolled his eyes.

"She told me to tell you that she's sorry she ever did such a thing. She was angry and upset that nothing ever went further. She truly wanted things to last between you two but her patience drew thin. She could tell you were upset by the matter, but never bothered to fix it. She told me to tell you that she regrets it,"

Goten scoffed, taking a huge gulp of his drink.

"And she said she hopes you're happy now with me. She isn't mad anymore. She should've seen it coming earlier on but now that she knows and understands, she's happy for you," Trunks finished off, ticking off his mental list.

Goten stayed silent, eyeing his now empty glass. Memories flooded his mind of the times he had with her; of all the times he felt guilty for leading her into things. He had to admit, he loved her at one stage, but it never mattered. He truly loved Trunks more and nothing could ever surpass it. He would have to make a point of apologising to her as well sometime. She deserved better too.

"I guess we've both messed up pretty bad huh?" Trunks nearly whispered.

"Yeah," Goten agreed. They have. They well and truly have. They were so sucked into liking each other that they never bothered to stop for a minute and realise what they were actually doing. Goten had thought he was always happy, which he was, but he could see that perhaps it wasn't his full potential in the end.

"All just because we were too afraid to admit the truth," Trunks sighed.

Trunks was right. It was just because they were scared in the past. They were scared people were going to go against them. But they were also worried that the feelings weren't mutual. Trunks never knew Goten even had feelings like this for him and Goten had figured that perhaps Trunks had moved on or felt it for someone else.

"But we're not anymore," Goten looked up to his older friend. "We don't have to be afraid anymore Trunks. We haven't been at all for the end of these past holidays. We were finally happy. Gohan, Videl, and even the other Z-Fighters all took in their stride. Maybe we shouldn't have ever been afraid in the first place. They all made a point that it was never a big deal, so let's stick with it and make things run its natural course," Goten tried to speak some wisdom.

"Yeah, you're right. We don't need to linger in the past anymore. We're finally happy with each other and that's all that matters now. So why don't we start where we left off? Let's sort this thing out with my friends so then we can finally concentrate on the people who really matter. Mum, dad and Chi-Chi," Trunks concluded.

"I couldn't agree more," Goten smiled at his older friend.

Yes, it was time to stop lingering in the past and all their uneasiness. All they needed to do was learn from their mistakes and build up from it. Though, Goten knew he still needed to sort one thing straight. Gohan. He needed to explain to Gohan. His brother deserved that much. He had avoided it for too long. To let go of the past fully, he needed to set things right with Gohan. It was time to be honest.

~-Z-~