Dragon Ball/Z/GT Fan Fiction ❯ Truthfully Yours ❯ Another woman ( Chapter 24 )

Disclaimer: I don't own Dragonball Z/GT. Any other characters mentioned below are mine.

A/N: Yes! It's me again. I'd like to thank those few who review and those who even look at my story. Doesn't mean that I don't want the reader to not review, I do. I just wish that if people like it they would keep coming back to see it and read it and maybe one day review and tell me what they think.

By the way, you should check out the following stories called:
"Forgotten tears of a Warrior" by: Star Spangle Mistress,
"The Story of You and Me" by fusionHA
"The story between you and me" by Akemi
"Puppy love series" by Slyhterinette
"Love's Labor" by Ryukodomo
"Fractured Fairytales" by SaintMe
"Caught between Two Worlds" by alfarrar
"Shattered and Scarred" by alfarrar
"The Kakarotte factor" by Echelon "The Moon Travelers" by Cinead (This one is finished, though she promised
a sequel).

Maybe by doing this they'll write more and I won't have to wait till next month for an update.

Ch. 24

The wind blew softly through Pan's hair. She had awoken naked in the middle of a deserted field with nothing around her except water and some fruits. She ate the fruits and drank the water still expecting to wake up from the bizarre dream that she had suddenly woken up in. But it never dissipated and the alarm clock never rang indicating the obvious: it wasn't a dream at all.

She tried to walk but her tummy hurt so badly and she was sitting naked amidst a place she knew nothing of. Then a figure became clear and she gasped. It was Sakura. Or at least it looked like Sakura. Her long hair was something that should have tipped Pan off, but it didn't and then it stroke her as odd that Sakura had long hair. unless it was Lee in her oldest shape! She tried to rise but was oddly brought back to the earth without the usual pull of gravity.

"Who are you?" - she asked and was suddenly surrounded by a horde of females all of which look very much like Sakura it was almost scary.

"We are ancestors of a friend of yours. We came because she bid us to do so and we will be gone as soon as your mate comes back."

"Wait a minute?! What? Where and why?!" - her spunky bratty style coming back as soon as she realized that this was a really bad dream.

"It is not a dream." - they said all at the same time but their mouths barely moved and it scared Pan more than she could ever want to show.

"Why am I in the middle of nowhere without a stitch on and my tummy feels like I've been hit there one time too many?! It's because it has to be a dream!" - she tried to hiss at them but couldn't because her fear of them was too great.

One of them knelt by her side and tried to soothe her fears away by petting her hair. The others were soon to follow and there she was being groomed by nine Sakura-look alikes trying to soothe her fears away. When her breath came out even, they stood up and the one directly in front of her said.

"We are Sakura from every time she was about to die and now she has died for real." - that was a riddle in itself 'cause Sakura - as far as Pan could tell - was seemingly immortal.

"We came because you owe us a favor and we intend to use it right now."

"I owe you nothing!" - she sprung up into her feet and even though every fiber of her being fell ill, she stood in a fighting stance and they gave her space.

"You owe me a favor." - and then all nine females were gone replaced by Sakura herself. She was naked. Her hair appeared disheveled and it seemed to be longer than it used to be. Her eyes darker & her brown tail wrapped around her thigh.

They stared at each other and when Pan dropped her stance, she fell to the ground exhausted.

"Why are you gone? I know that this is just a projection." - her gaze falling to the floor and not to the 'projection' in front of her.

"Iie, I'm not a projection. I'm really here but in a way I'm not. It's confusing and complicated and I don't have the time to explain it to you right now."

Pan started to cry and it made Sakura curse out loud.

"Don't be a pain in the ass Pan. I have virtually no time for your pathetic whimpers." - she sat down right in front of her and Pan still cried.

"It hurts." - Pan cried out and Sakura didn't feel the least sympathetic about it.

"Of course it hurts. Did you honestly think that your first time with a super saiyan wouldn't hurt?" "Besides the first time you do it with your bonded partner, I have been told it hurts like hell."

"I did it before with my uncle and it didn't hurt and with Trunks and it didn't hurt and I was bonded with both!" - she cried out to it for this was not Sakura. This was a demon that was not the least like her friend, her father's only love, and her surrogate mother.

"Lies. Bonds are not what you make them of by physical desire. Bonds are created only when you feel three main traits deeply in your mind, body and soul. You might not believe me, but it is true. When you feel another come into your mind and you don't feel intruded and annoyed by it, the bond has started. The scar in the hollow junction between your shoulder and your neck is a mere familiarity, something for others to see that you are with someone else and not to be pursued. And your soul feels complete with love for the other when you realized that what you didn't wanted to happen has happened finally and you know it is irreversible. That is when you are bonded. There are no such things as partial bonds."

Pan cleared her smeared face and looked up at the demon in front of her and then it hit her. She had bonded with Bra! Of all people?! She loved him. Bra, was after all supposed to be a boy in the beginning. Was it not? So she was mated with Bren. That was Bra's new name. She didn't wanted to admit it but it was true. Trunks had merely being a distraction for what she really felt.

"Is that what uncle Goten and Trunks have?" - she whispered at the demon in front of her.

"I suppose so. I wouldn't know, as I haven't really read their minds. They are not my concern though, they had never been. I never came to this stupid mud-ball of a planet to set you guys straight."

"Then what is the favor that you want from me? I acknowledge the fact that I was lying to myself. Is that what you wanted to hear? That I accepted the bond with Bren?"

"I didn't come all the way over here to hear that. It does not concern me. I am unfeeling to your words of love and caring and true mate stuff. That is human lingo that I could never understand if I ever really tried. I know that there are rules and that some rules shouldn't be broken. I didn't understand that until it was told to me as I lay dead in the fields of nowhere. That is why I found myself here in the middle of nowhere."

"What of Lee? Am I never going to see her again?"

"Lee does not exist. She is I when I truly die, when the gods pass judgement on me and my being disintegrates into her soul, then she could come back. This is all part of the space-time continuum bull crap even I cannot begin or end to explain to you. It does not matter, you will see her again when the time comes and until then you'll have your own business to deal with, so you will not feel alone."

The explanation did not assuage her feelings of being left in the dark about what was really going on. She raised her face to Sakura's and found Sakura's eyes a bit too cool for her own taste.

"When is my mate coming back to me?"

"As soon as you wake up, as you'd soon find out this is not Earth but some common ground I'd like to call hell. There's no one here but myself and there's nothing but the ground in which we are seated and the sunless sky we have above our heads. I don't need food or water to live as unlike your grandfather I am really dead, so there is nothing but this barren ground and no night and no water fountains or trees or birds or anything else you can think of. So yes, this is hell for me; but for the gods this just a mid-ground afore I am judged."

"You talk in riddles Sakura and you puzzle me so much more than you did before."

"I say in plain standard earthman language that this is void. A void where those who are not judged as of yet end up in. More or less like a waiting room for the inevitable judgment you fall upon once they decide if what you did was right or wrong throughout your life. And the only reason you fell here is because you are asleep and I've let you come and visit me for the sole reason that of you owe me a favor."

"And what is that favor that of which you want to ask me?" - her tone showing a flippancy she was nowhere near feeling for the moment.

"I want you to tell your father to stop pinning after me. I am not coming back. He cannot even turn to those stupid dragonballs to revive me. But you have to be convincing, otherwise it won't count as a favor. I know you want me as your surrogate mother, but I'm not worth it. Not for you, not for him. He'll have to get himself another woman."

All Pan could do was gasp. This was coming from the demon's mouth, but after looking - really looking - at Sakura she realized it was true and as she was not used to lying to a supreme being such as the woman before her, she nodded. She tried to hug her, but then she opened her eyes to stare at a younger version of her grandfathers' mate. Bren. Her mate was back or rather she was back to the side of the living. She blinked one time, two times, at the third time she smiled and reached up to his dark spiky mane to get a kiss leaving her mate a bit startled at first, but in the end he and her were kissing each other with fervor.

Vegeta punched, kick, punched, kick at the coarse punching bag located inside the gravity room and went on with it wondering what the heck was wrong with him. He should be happy. He should feel content after the fierce lovemaking he had just had a few hours ago with his mate, his Kakarott. Yet, inside he felt like a dummy being used only when Kakarott needed him. Only when he needed to be cuddled, only he had the rights of his caring while he himself had no right to ask for anything in exchange. He was beginning to tire and he was sure he would collapse soon enough if he didn't do something to stop the stupid cycle in which he was included.

Only the gods knew how much he suffered, how much even after climaxing he couldn't help himself to bite off any endearings to his mate, because he knew Kakarott wouldn't appreciate them. He had to stop this soon and fast, otherwise he wouldn't be able to go on.

"Father?" - it was Trunks. He would know that voice anywhere.

"What!" - he might have been angry at his predicament and teeny bit about to cry, but he'd never treat his boy different for that would be his downfall. If he talked to him different, then Trunks would know that something was amiss and he really didn't want anyone else poking into his affairs.

"It's past midnight."

That sentence brought it up to him that he was sore and hungry. He stopped his training in favor for some time alone in the kitchen with a lot of food. But as he came out, Trunks fell into step with him and he was suddenly reminded that he was not the only one dealing with a Son.

Once they were seated one in front of the other, Trunks cleared his throat as they waited for the food to arrive. Vegeta took this as a way of communicating something so he waited for his son to speak albeit not so patiently as someone else might've had.

"I wish to ask you about something father."

"Ask away." - came the noncommittal response.

"I know me and Goten are going to be fathers once he gives birth. I am currently the president of mom's company, but when Vegeta-sei is back on its own two feet, am I to go with you, or will I stay here on Earth?"

"You will come with me and the rest of our family. Your mother is not staying here as she has chosen a mate already." - while they had spoken, the food had been brought out to them and they finally dig in.

About the time when they were nearly done, Pan and Bren erupted into the room wearing saiyan armor and they seem to be ready to spar. Trunks was at ease with his brother and once he saw Pan's mark, he smiled as if saying 'It's about time'. But Vegeta was not totally ready to face his daughter turned son. He growled and suddenly there was an all out war between Bren and Vegeta as they left the kitchen space in favor of the patio.

"What is going on!" - Kakarott suddenly growled out. He had woken up experiencing the pains of being pregnant and found his way to the kitchen. He was not feeling particularly itchy or annoyed until he saw Vegeta launch himself to his other son; Bren.

No one answered him and he was starting to feel annoyed. He watched with detached fascination at the improvement Bren had made and then looked onto his son-in-law Trunks and his granddaughter Pan cheering Bren on. He noticed the bond-mark on Pan's pale skin and grunted out what might have seemed for someone standing very close to him a 'It's about damn time' and then he switched gears and plopped himself down on the grass to watch father and son hash it out on each other.

Meanwhile, the fighters in the air were soon beginning to tire out. Surprisingly, it was Vegeta who was the one who halted the fight.

"Enough. I am not in my utmost shape, so unless you desire to kill me; I will not continue this now."

"I don't wish to kill you Papa." - Bren said falling back to his past endearment for his father.

"." - when he received no response, Bren rushed on to say.

"I know you disliked my decision for turning back, but guess what. I have inherited both your stubbornness and your will to fight for what you want despite everyone else and I have gotten what I wanted in the first place. Pan loves me. She truly loves me as I am now and was before. So there. I Don't care if you won't accept me, but I will fight you anytime and anywhere you want to. I'll prove you I have not done this just short out of being a brat, I am saiyan and I have achieved the impossible." - his breath evened out and he waited for what seemed for hours but was actually seconds for any sort of response from his father, truly hoping that he would answer.

The response he got was something he would never have expected his father to do-not in a million years! Vegeta hugged him right in front of Trunks and Pan. He murmured in a soft tone of voice that he accepted him. And they hugged each other on not even minding the stares of Trunks and Pan.

Vegeta then decided that he should go on and fight for his hearts' desire whether Kakarott wished it or not.