Dragon ball Z/Sailor Moon fanfic.

"Boy meets girls"

By Julian Soullard (e-mail: jnsoullard@hotmail.com)


	Warning: All characters from this fanfic are copy right from Akira 
Toriyama (Dragon ball Z) and Takeuchi Naoko (Sailor Moon) so don't sue me. 
Also worth noticing, this is my first fanfic and english isn't my native 
language (it's spanish and french), so if you don't like it, keep that in 
mind.

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	AND NOW ON WITH....

	Chapter 6: Weekend at the beach.



The five Senshi were sitting at a table in Rei's room, Artemis and Luna were 
on top of the table as the meeting began. It was the day after the last 
battle where Super Saiya-man made his appearance. There were lots of things 
that needed to be discussed.

"Well," began Luna "this Super Saya-man really turned out to be something 
unusual."

"Wasn't he great!!!" Minako interrupted abruptly "Did you see him fight?? 
He was incredible!"

"And really cute too!" Usagi added. 

"Ahem...." Luna brought out, noticing which way the conversation was taking.

"And how noble of him for saving me!" Makoto said "He risked his life not 
even thinking about it twice... What a guy..."

"Er... Girls..." Luna spoke.

"Hey?" Minako asked Makoto "Don't tell me that you're falling for him too? I 
saw him first. And besides, aren't you trying to get Trunks' attention??"

"I never said that." Makoto explained.

"GIRLS!!!!!!" Luna yelled "I'm trying to make a point here!! I for one think 
that we don't know enough about Super Saiya-man to trust him completely."

"What are you saying?" Usagi declared "You saw him yesterday, how CAN'T we 
trust him?"

"Luna is right." Rei stated, everyone looked at her confused "We can't trust 
him."

"Why is that?" Artemis asked her, suspecting that the young priestess knew 
something the others didn't.

"Do you remember what I told you a few days back about some weird energy 
being unleashed?" she began, everyone nodded in response "Well that energy 
comes from Super Saiya-man."

"Are you sure of what you're saying?" Ami asked her.

"Positive."

"Are you trying to tell us that Super Saiya-man is evil??" Minako asked with 
concerned.

"I don't know." Rei responded "When we last met, I could feel his aura. It 
was something... wild and aggressive. So... violent and filled with hatered."

"Surely you don't think that he's the one that brought all those monsters 
here." Makoto questioned "If he's behind all this he wouldn't have helped us 
yesterday."

"Maybe he's trying to trick us into trusting him." Ami suggested.

"Ami, don't tell me you think he's behind all of this also?" Usagi asked her.

"I don't want to jump into any conclusions," she explained "but he's been 
appearing ever since those monsters showed up. There might be a connection."

"Well I for one think that he's on our side." Usagi stated.

"That doesn't surprise me." Rei said hotly "First guy with a cute face that 
shows up is sure to make a thick headed girl like you think he's on our side."

"Are you calling me thick headed???" Usagi asked her angrily.
 
"Girls, don't start now!" Luna interrupted "This is serious, Artemis and I 
found out something about the crack in time and reality."

"What is it?" Ami asked.

"Well," Artemis began "we found out that the crack is a result of an 
unbalance between two universes, ours and another one which I don't know of."

"Any idea of what might of caused that?" Makoto asked.

"We're still trying to find the source of the problem." Luna answered. 

"Do you think Super Saiya-man could be the source?" Rei asked.

"There you go blaming him again." Minako stated upset "Why do you assume 
he's responsible for all of this? As far as we know he might have came 
through that crack when it was already there. Heck! He might even be from 
this world for all we know. "

"Minako is right." Makoto added "Why are you taking this so personally? You 
don't usually act this suspicious, what's wrong?"

"It's just that... " she explained "That energy of his gives me the chills, 
it makes me very uncomfortable."

"Well you certainly didn't look very uncomfortable when he was holding you 
in his arms while flying yesterday." Usagi brought out.

"What are you implying by that??" Rei asked angrily.

"Your face was the same color as your mini-skirt." Usagi pointed out "If I 
didn't knew better I would've thought you actually enjoyed your little trip."

"I was not blushing!!!" she declared enraged, although it was pretty obvious 
to everyone that she was lying.

"Anyway," Luna continued "until we find out more about the problem you girls 
better be careful around this Super Saiya-guy, he may not be what he appears 
to be."



				***


Friday morning, 7:58 AM...


"WWWWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!! TRUUUUUUNKS, SLOW DOWWWWWN!!!!!" Usagi 
yelled while being pulled to school by Trunks.

"We're almost there!!!" he answered as he jumped over a mail box "We're 
gonna make it! We're gonna make it!"

Once at school, the rest of the day went on normally. 
At lunch time, Usagi, Makoto, Ami and Trunks were sitting next to a tree 
while having something to eat. Both Usagi and Trunks were eating as if 
tomorrow didn't existed. It seemed as if they were competing against each 
other to see who finished his/her lunch first, it was a matter of status. 
Makoto and Ami on the other hand were witnessing how the "duel" went.


"You guys are incredible." Makoto pointed out "How can both of you eat so 
much and still live to brag about it???"

"Takes practice, dedication... " began Usagi.

"And a good stomach to do the job!" Trunks added as both of them finished 
what was left in their lunch boxes.

"So," Usagi said as she cleaned her mouth from what was left of the rise 
"what are you guys going to do this weekend?"

"I wanted to talk to you about that." Ami declared "Do you remember my 
aunt's beach house we went to last summer?"

"Oh yeah, I remember." Makoto stated "That beautiful house by the sea, how 
can I forget. So what about it?"

"Well," Ami continued "my aunt asked me if I could stay there this weekend 
and do some house-sitting while she's on a business trip. All of you are 
invited for the weekend. I know it's rather sudden since we should leave 
today after school..."

"Sure we'll go!!" both Usagi and Makoto interrupted simultaneously before 
letting Ami finish.

"Great!" she said "What about you Trunks? You're invited as well."

"Well... I don't know, I wouldn't want to impose on your aunt's 
hospitality." he replied.

"Nonsense." Ami stated "You're as welcome as any other of my friends."

A get away to the beach wouldn't be such a bad idea as Trunks began to think 
about it. It would break with the every day routine and there was nothing 
really that kept him from going, except...

"I'd love to," Trunks began "but there's a little problem."

"What is it?" Makoto asked.

"I was grounded for not doing my homework today." he explained.

"Oh that's right." Ami said "You're suppose to stay after school today, 
aren't you?"

"That's right," Trunks continued "I don't think I can join you girls at the 
train station, I'll be stuck here til 5:00, and I don't know the way to your 
aunt's house either."

"No problem!" Usagi told him "I have to stay after school also because of 
something like that, we can both leave together after detention, I know the 
way to the house."

"So what did you do?" Makoto asked her. 

"I was eating during class." she responded while scratching the back of her 
head "On top of all that I think that my sensei got dumped again, that might 
of explained her bad mood."



After school day, Ami and Makoto left to the train station where they were 
suppose to meet with Rei and Minako and leave towards the beach. Usagi and 
Trunks, on the other hand, were still stuck in school. They were doing 
exercises one after another as their senseis took all their frustrations out 
on them. Trunks found it all less difficult than before, all that training 
with Ami was starting to pay off after all. Around 5:00 PM, both of them 
left school.


"I think we should go get our stuff for the trip." Trunks suggested, after 
all they were still in school uniforms and didn't have any luggage ready.

"You're right," Usagi said "I still have to ask permission to go, I hope we 
can catch a train before it's too late." as she looked at her watch.

"Don't worry!" Trunks replied as he took Usagi by the hand "We'll just have 
to run to your house to make some time."

Usagi was looking worried, she knew what was going to happen next. 
Before she could make any complains she was already being pulled as Trunks 
ran down the street a la Project A-ko. 
A few moments later (and lots of screams from Usagi), they both reached 
the Tsukino's house. Trunks left her there and went home to pack his things, 
a few minutes later he came back for her and both of them left to the train 
station. Once there, they got on a train and departed.

"Well, that was one heck of a ride." Usagi said while massaging her sore arm.

"Hey, we made it in plenty of time, didn't we?" he responded.

"I guess." she stated "So, have you ever been to the beach before?"

"Once or twice." he answered "It's really sweet of Ami for inviting us along."

"Well you know Ami," she added "she's the sweet girl of the gang."

"I can see that." he affirmed "But I still can't figure out how all of you 
girls ever came together. I mean, you're all so different, except for you 
and Minako perhaps. How did you girls ever met each other?"

"Well....er.....we...uh..." Usagi began trying to make an excuse "I think 
you could say that we're all very opened minded."

"I see." 

A long pause followed, Trunks didn't knew what to talk about so he looked 
out of his window admiring the view. Usagi on the other hand had quite a few 
questions in mind but didn't knew how to make an approach, until...

"Hey, Trunks." she said "Can I make you direct question?"

"Sure, what is it?" 

"What do you think of Mako-chan?" she asked.

"What do you mean 'what do I think of her'? She's been my best friend in 
Japan next to you guys if that's what you mean." he answered.

"You're trying to tell me there's nothing going between both of you beyond 
friendship?" she asked once more. She knew how Makoto felt for him, she had 
to know how Trunks felt for her as well. 

The purple hair boy on the other hand was beginning to get the picture, he 
already went through this with Ami.

"Well sure, we're only friends if that's what you want to know." he stated. That answer seemed to have worked with Ami the last time.

"Does that mean you don't find her attractive in any way?" she insisted.

"Hun?? I... never said that!" he responded obviously not expecting such turn 
of events.

"Well then answer me." Usagi asked yet again, there was a tone of 
persistence in her voice each time she made a new question "Do you find her 
attractive?"

Trunks felt completely off guard, he couldn't handle this like the usual 
problems back at home, this time none of his training wouldn't help.

"Well... er... I don't know... Yeah... I think... she is kinda cute."

"You just find her cute? Is that it?"

"No! I mean... er... she's not only cute," Trunks responded "I mean... she's 
fun to talk to, a great cook and very sweet also."

"She could make a great girlfriend, right?" she brought out. 

"Well... yeah, I think so... I mean... I don't know... maybe." Trunks 
explained, as he was really going through a hard time, this situation was 
out of hand. He never actually thought of Makoto as a girlfriend before.

"So, do you like her?"

"Like? What do you mean like?" He answered, he was getting irritated of her 
asking so many questions "Sure I do, I like all my friends. Why do you ask?"

Usagi noticed that Trunks began to look uncomfortable, she noticed she was 
asking way to much questions and decided to cut him some slack.

"Well, most people think both of you make a cute couple." she lied "So I 
just wanted to know what did you think about that."

"Well I think people talk too much." he responded coldly "You shouldn't pay 
much attention to all of those rumors you know."

"I guess you're right." she said.


A few moments later, there was another long pause, Usagi didn't want to make 
any other questions to avoid upsetting her friend. Trunks gradually began to 
cool down and decided to re-engage conversation, he knew Usagi wasn't a bad 
person and didn't meant to get him mad.

"Hey, Usagi?" he asked "How come you didn't bring along your boyfriend?"

"Mamo-chan is giving classes in Nerima for the next weeks." she responded, 
happy that Trunks was talking again to her "He's way to busy."

"Oh, yeah. That's right," he said "how are things going for him at Furinkan 
high?"

"Well I talked on the phone with him yesterday," she began "he told me he 
was okay but that things weren't as simple as he thought they would be. He 
sounded more worry that he said he was, I'm sure he'll manage to get along 
with the students eventually."


The conversation went on with no much trouble, both of them were more 
relaxed. At 7:00 PM they finally reached their destination. Usagi leaded 
the way to where all the rest of their friends were. Once there each one 
took a room, it was too late to go swimming. 
After a succulent dinner courtesy of Makoto everyone was talking and 
laughing until eventually everyone got tiered and went to bed.



				***


Saturday morning, 7:15 AM.

Trunks got out of bed ready to enjoy breakfast. He got dressed, only this 
time he was wearing shorts, sneakers and a white T-shirt with the word 
"Capsule Corp" written in pink at the front. As he went out of his room he 
noticed he was the only one awake, his five friends were still sleeping. 
Trunks went to the kitchen and took some orange juice, then stepped out at 
the balcony. It was quite a beautiful day, the sun was shining and there 
wasn't a single cloud in the sky. On top of all that, the view from were he 
stood was magnificent, he could see the ocean in all its splendor. 

[I think I'll go jog for a while, the morning sure seams perfect for it.] he 
thought.

He stepped back into the kitchen ready to leave when he heard a door open 
up. Rei came out of there on her pajamas, she was rubbing her eyes and 
yawning when she finally noticed Trunks.

"Oh, good morning, Trunks." she said "Up already?"

"Good morning, Rei." he responded "Yeah, I'll go jog for a while, I need to 
buy a swimsuit too. Anything you need?"

"No thanks. Have fun."

Trunks left the house while Rei was still struggling to wake up, she managed 
to take one last good look at him before he closed the door behind him.

[He looks good in those shorts.] she thought [Quite a nice boy too, although 
there's something about him that gives me a strange felling.]

She then snapped out of her trance and headed to the fridge.

"I have to stop acting this way," she said to herself "the girls are right, 
I'm getting way too paranoid, now I'm even having doubts about Trunks."


About an hour later, all the Senshi were already awake and were sitting by 
the pool. Usagi had a pink swimsuit with a green bow on the back, Ami was 
wearing a blue one with white stripes, Rei had a red with orange one and was 
wearing sun glasses, Makoto was wearing a purple bikini and Minako had a 
completely black swimsuit with a white mini-shirt on top (All of them were 
looking VERY good if I may say so!).

"... and a guy with three fiancees?" Rei asked " Yeah, right! Are you sure 
you weren't half asleep when Mamoru told you all of this?"

"No I wasn't!!" Usagi told her angrily "I'm telling you the truth, that 
Ranma guy has four girls after him and he's engaged to three of them, 
Mamo-chan told me so and you know he's not the lying type."

"Well he has to be one heck of a stud to have four girls chasing after him." 
Minako joked "Any idea if he wants a fourth fiancee?"

"Well if all that you told us about that school is right," Makoto said 
"martial arts showdowns each day, people turning into animals when they get 
splashed with cold water, a lunatic Hawaiian principal who terrorizes 
students, and a guy with three fiancees that is mostly the cause all the 
trouble <phew>; well in that case, I wish Mamoru the best of luck to get 
out of there while keeping some of his sanity."

Suddenly, the girls heard the front door open.

"I'm baaaack!" Trunks said out loud.

"We're by the pool, Trunks." Usagi shouted back "Come on and join us."

"Be there in a minute." he responded.

Everyone turned to Makoto almost by instinct ready to interrogate her.

"So Mako-chan, tell us how are things going between you two?" Usagi began.

"<sigh> Things are really difficult," she said "I never had so much trouble 
getting a guy's attention before."

"What?" Minako asked "Didn't you get him when you went to see 'Romeo & 
Juliet' three days ago?"

"He fell asleep during most of the show." she explained, she then turned to 
Ami "I think your studding session left him mostly lifeless Ami."

"I'm sorry," she apologized while covering her face with a book she was 
reading "I never thought something like that could happen."

"But wait. Then you told me *he* invited *you* to another show." Usagi 
reminded her "Didn't you get another chance there?"

"Well... not exactly," she told her "he took me to see 'Fist of the north 
star', there wasn't much of a romantic opportunity there."

All four of her friends sighed in a sign of lost cause.

"Maybe you should give up on him, Mako-chan." Rei told her "It looks like a 
lost cause the way I see it."

"Rei might be right," Ami added "maybe it's not so bad having him just as a 
friend."

"No way," Makoto said determined "I'm not going to quit."

"Listen, Mako-chan." Rei brought out "He might be cute but you're getting 
nowhere like this, I for one think that a cute face just isn't enough in 
this case, not for all this trouble."

"I'm not giving up!" Makoto declared very determined.

"Mako-chan," Rei continued "it's hopeless, just give me ONE good reason why 
you shouldn't give up."

"Could someone pass me the suntan oil please?" said a voice behind them, it 
was Trunks who just got changed and stepped out of the house.

The five girls turned to see him. What they saw was quite a delight for the 
female eye; Trunks was wearing nothing more than a blue with green swimsuit 
while holding a towel in hand and with the other hand in his pocket. Each 
one of his muscles were shown out without him even having the need to 
stretch (or pose), his chest, thorax, shoulders, arms and even legs were 
very developed without making him look out of proportion for a guy his age. 
His body even showed muscles the Senshi didn't knew that existed. He was a 
fine example of manhood (if you want to put it that way).

(And to think that every caracter in the DBZ series is built like this or 
even better. If Goku would've shown up in a swimsuit, the Senshi would've 
died from a heart attack.)

All of the girls stared at him, Makoto knew that Trunks was well built, 
especially after all the times she grabbed his arm by dishonorable ways, but 
he always wore a jacket and therefore she never saw his arms. She certainly 
didn't expect something like this. One picture says more than a hundred arm 
holds.
Rei lifted her sun glasses to have a better look scene. She had to addmit 
this guy's body could really compensate for all the goof ups he pulled out 
with Mako-chan.
Ami's book fell from her hands the moment she saw him. He was anatomically 
perfect the way she saw him. She made an attempt to close her eyes while 
repeating in her head [think pure thought, think pure thoughts, think pure 
thoughts, think pure thoughts, think...].
Usagi and Minako had both the same reaction, they were both making goofy 
smiles while their eyes examined Trunks from head to toes.
Trunks... noticed that no one was passing him the suntan oil, all the girls 
for some reason were looking at him. He started examining himself to see if 
there was something wrong, it's not as if he forgot to put his swimsuit on.
The five girls snapped out of their daydream trying to regain composure, Ami 
took the initiative and handed him the bottle.

"Thanks." he said, he began to pour the stuff on the palm of his hand and 
rubbing it against his chest.

No need to say that by doing so it didn't help much the Senshi to ignore 
him, they were really making a big effort to keep their eyes away from him.

"Could someone please put some oil on my back?" he asked.

Everyone was now even more nervous, Makoto was the first to answer, there's 
no way she could stand a scene of one of her friends rubbing oil on the guy 
she liked, she took the bottle and began nervously to caress his back with 
her oiled up hand. Trunks noticed that all of the girls' faces were deep red 
and they were still staring at him.

"You girls should use some sun block." he told them "Your faces are very 
red, if you don't take care you'll end up having sunburns."

All the girls noticed that they were indeed blushing and tried to regain 
composure once again, although Makoto couldn't while her hands were 
traveling along Trunks' back.


Moments later, once all the Senshi became more used to the idea of having 
their male friend around in a swimsuit, a volley-ball match was started. On 
one side, were Usagi, Trunks and Rei. On the other, Minako, Makoto and Ami. 
The match began. Minako and Makoto were quite good at this sport, Minako was 
good at the defense but even better at making passes. Makoto took advantage 
of her height and spiked the ball easily. Ami wasn't very good at this sport 
but she managed by passing the ball to her team mates who could obviously do 
better than her. 
On the other side of the court it was a different story. Trunks was good at 
this sport no doubt about it, but Usagi was VERY sloppy, she missed half of 
the passes he made her, the other half when she actually touched the ball, 
she send it off court. Rei spent most of the time insulting Usagi than 
hitting the ball which wasn't much of a help either. Trunks had to do mostly 
everything and on top of all that he had to deal with the constant conflict 
between the two of his teammates. 
The outcome of the match was obvious: Minako, Makoto and Ami practically 
killed their opponents.

Once that disastrous match was over, all of them headed inside the water to 
play with the waves and stuff like that. Trunks didn't reminded the last 
time he had so much fun. As the day went on, they made sand castles played 
frizbee and other sort of beach sports/games. 

A few hours later, everyone was exhausted except for the young Sayan hybrid. 
He was like a little boy who just wanted to play more and more. 
Unfortunately, everyone was too tiered to do anything more beyond sitting 
down. Makoto was less tiered than the rest when suddenly she had an idea.

"Trunks-kun," she said "how about if we go rafting?"

"Sure, that sounds great." he responded "I'll go get the raft."

Moments later, both were in the ocean on a rubber raft. Minako, Rei, Usagi 
and Ami went inside the house to get something to eat. 
Trunks was joyfully rowing while Makoto sat in front of him, she was 
preparing her next move.

[I finally got him alone with me,] she thought [it's time to make my move. 
I saw this once in that 'Oh! My goddess' anime Usagi lent me. This time I'll 
get him.]

She took a fast look around, there was no one to disturb them, her friends 
weren't here and there wasn't a single boat from where they stood. It was 
just him, her and the ocean. She only had to do this right.

"Trunks-kun..." she said

"Yes?"

"Could I take your place and row?" she began "It looks like fun."

"Sure, go ahead."

Makoto slowly got up and moved towards him, then she pretended to twiddle, 
it was pretty easy, the waves helped her cause. Trunks saw that she was 
about to fall into the water and quickly got up and tried to reach her. 
Step 1 was completed. Makoto let him grab her hand and then launched herself 
towards him, fortunately the current helped once more. Trunks received her 
against his chest, lost his footing and fell on his back with Makoto on top 
of him, his head harmlessly hitting the border of the rubber raft.

"Are you okay?" he asked her.

"Yes..." she answered with her enhanced-female-seducing-voice.

Trunks' brain switched on informing him of the compromising pose he was in.

"Oh my God! She's all over him!" Usagi said while holding a pair of 
binoculars in front of her eyes.

"Usagi... you really shouldn't be peeping on them." Ami told her.

"Are they kissing?" Rei asked Usagi "Let me see!"

"Hey I want to see too!" Minako spoke, then she turned towards her host "Ami, 
does your aunt have another pair of binoculars in here?"

"Come on hand them over!" Rei declared while fighting with Usagi for the 
lenses.

Minako was searching frenetically for another pair, Usagi and Rei were 
shareing the same binoculars, they had one eye on each different side, Ami 
stood there with a hand over her face.

Meanwhile, back at the raft:

Trunks laid there speechless, he was well aware of the current situation, he 
noticed that his hands were accidentally holding Makoto's waist while hers 
were over his chest and shoulder. Both of their legs were crossed with one 
another. 
The purple hair boy didn't know what to do or what to say. He looked at 
the girl on top of him. She was far from unattractive and had quite an 
adorable face, not to mention figure. He could fell her soft oiled up skin 
pressing against his. 
He was paralyzed with fear for the first time, he suddenly began to hear 
Usagi's voice in his head.

"Do you find her attractive?..... She could make a really great girlfriend, 
right?....... So, do you like her?....... Most people think both of you make 
a cute couple..."

Makoto looked him deep into the eyes, for the first time ever she saw him 
blush, it was nice to see him lay there completely defenseless way too 
nervous and showing the timid guy he was under that controled appearance he 
always gave, she had him all to herself. Time seam to stop for her, she 
wished they could stay like this forever while gently being rocked by the 
currents of the Pasific Ocean. 
Her hand that held his shoulder slowly moved towards his neck. This only 
helped to enhance Trunks' nervousness.

"Trunks-kun..." she said.

"<gulps>Er... y... y... yes?" he answered.

Makoto's face came closer to his. Usagi, Rei and Minako (who found a 
telescope) were watching the entire event as well. They were blushing and 
drooling, this was better than the movies.

Suddenly, Trunks' face took a serious expression. He quickly turned his head 
towards his left side with a concerned look in his eyes, then he grabbed 
Makoto tightly into his arms.

"Mako-chan, take cover!!!" he shouted as he jumped into the water with 
Makoto in his arms.

Just as they hit the water, a huge shark-like creature came out next to the 
raft and caught it between its fangs, bursting the watercraft into rubber 
parts. 
If they had stayed there another second they would've been that thing's 
lunch.

"What on Earth was that??" Makoto asked still recovering from the shock.

"What on Earth was THAT????" Usagi asked as she saw her friends almost 
killed by the creature.

"Oh no!" Minako spoke "It must be another monster!! We've got to help them!!"

The four girls took out there transforming artifacts and so began the 5 
minutes multi-colored transformation scenes.


"Are you okay, Mako-chan??" Trunks asked her while they were both floating.

"I think so." she responded "We have to get out of here fast."

Just after she said that, the creature jumped out of the water and launched 
itself against both of its victims. Makoto and Trunks could clearly see it 
now. It had the body of a shark but had a pair of arms and legs as well, its 
eyes were replaced by a pair of robotic lenses which focused from time to 
time. If it wasn't for those sharp fangs it had, it would look very 
laughable.

"Look out!!" Trunks shouted as he submerged Makoto into the water by 
pressing on the top of her head.

A glowing sphere appeared from the palm of Trunks' other hand right after 
his friend disappeared from the surface. Trunks hurled the energy ball right 
in front of the creatures' face. It made contact and blew up sending the 
threat spinning back into the water.
Makoto came out to the surface just after that, she didn't see anything 
after being pushed into the water but noticed that the monster wasn't there 
anymore.

"Wh.. what happened??" she asked confused.

"Let's get out of here, it might come back!" he responded [It might still 
alive. I didn't had enough time to charge too much ki in that attack, but I 
hope I bought us enough time to get out of here!]

"Right!" Makoto said as they both began to swim towards the shore. 

Suddenly, Trunks felt the thing's presence again.

[That's weird!] he thought [It's not attacking. It's just circling under us. 
What is it doing?]

Soon, his question was answered, the water began to stir up. In a couple of 
seconds they were both trapped into a huge whirlpool. The creature was still 
circling with great speed under them, feeding the whirlpool by it's constant 
movement, it probably was trying to drown its victims before eating them. 
Makoto and Trunks were separated from each other while caught by the crazy 
current. 
The purple hair boy held his breath to avoid from drowning; the tall brunette 
wasn't so fortunate, she was already very tiered and couldn't keep her 
breath as long as her friend. In a matter of seconds she fell unconscious 
from all the water she gulped. 
Trunks felt disorientated inside the whirlpool but manage to see that Makoto 
was in trouble.

[I've got to get her out of here or she'll drown!] he thought. 

Another sphere began to form out of the palm of his hand, Trunks tried to 
regain balance and shot the bolt right in the center of the whirlpool 
causing an explosion similar to a water geyser. All three were thrown out 
in different directions. 

Trunks was sent right by the shore and managed to land on his feet. Makoto 
landed on the ocean which was the best thing that could happen to her being 
unconscious. If she had landed on the beach, she would've fallen head first 
causing a certain death. Unfortunately, the shark fell into the ocean as 
well. That put Makoto in danger. 
The monster began to swim towards it's unconscious victim.

"CRESCENT BEAM SHOWER!"

A considerable amount of yellow blasts cut the sharks route towards Makoto. 
The four Sailor Senshi appeared next to Trunks.

"My friend is still in there!!" he told them "You've got to get that thing 
out of the water while I get her out!!"

He wasted no time in heading towards the ocean, the Senshi didn't even had 
time to answer him.

"Is he insane??" Rei asked.

Sailor Mercury gathered both of her hands creating a foggy blue sphere 
between them.

"SHABBON SPRAY FREEZE!" she shouted.

The water around the shark began to freeze. In a matter of time it found 
itself caught inside a block of ice. The current did most of the rest and 
threw the creature by the shore still cought in it's frozen prison.

"MOON PRINCESS HALATION!"

Sailor Moon stood in front of the monster pointing at him with her scepter. 
The blast struck her foe and turned it into moon dust in a matter of seconds. 
Everyone was now looking for Trunks and Makoto which came out of the water 
not long after. Trunks held his unconcious friend in his arms. She was in a 
bad shape and wasn't breathing. Sailor Mercury was the first to check on the 
brunette as Trunks laid her over the sand.

"She took a lot of water!" she said "She'll need artificial mouth breathing 
or she won't make it!"

Sailor Moon, Sailor Venus and Sailor Mars looked at each other. 
Putting their lips on a girl's mouth was not something they usually though 
about, it wouldn't be a pleasant experience either but if it was for 
Mako-chan's sake then...

"What do I have to do??" Trunks asked Sailor Mercury as he put himself next 
to Makoto's head.

The Senshi looked surprised at him.

"Well... er... you'll have to hold her head back by the neck, press her nose 
and blow into her mouth while I apply pressure on her chest..." she responded.

Trunks began to do so. Ami applied pressure in Makoto's chest while the 
other three Senshi could only watch. After a certain time, the blue senshi 
stopped making pressure and put her ear where Makoto's heart was, then she 
resumed to make pressure. Trunks kept blowing into her mouth according to 
Sailor Mercury's indications. 

After a while, Makoto started coughing and spitting out some water, her 
throat burned and felt dry as she regain consciousness, Trunks raised her in 
a sitting position.

"Are you all right??" he asked still worried.

"Yeah... I...<cof cof> I think so...<cof>" she spoke with a hoarse voice 
and still desorientated.

"Thank goodness!!" he said while hugging her tightly "I was worried sick..."

The Senshi gazed upon the couple, Trunks was tenderly holding Makoto between 
his arms while they were both seated, it was time to leave, the four of them 
didn't have anything else to do here, it was best to leave them alone.
Trunks heard them leave, he didn't mind. Mako-chan was all right and that's 
the only thing in the world that matter to him right now.
Makoto felt his arms around her, still not sure of what happened or how did 
she get here, she only knew that Trunks was holding her and she really 
didn't mind that he did. She put her arms around his waist and leant her 
head over his chest. They stood like that for a little while until they 
decided to go inside and join their friends.
Minako, Usagi, Ami and Rei acted as if nothing had happened.

Later at night, all of the Senshi were interrogating Makoto again, awaiting 
for details while Trunks was taking a shower. This was strictly girl talk. 
Makoto managed to find out by her friends what happened while she was 
unconscious, although no one actually manage to see the whole thing or 
explain how that geyser went off in the middle of the sea.

"So does it counts as a kiss??" Minako asked her.

"I don't know, I wasn't even conscious." she responded.

"Did it feel good while he was holding you?" Usagi asked, her friend only 
nodded in response.

"I still can't believe he went back for you even if that thing was still in 
there." Ami stated "He really must care for you to do that."

"And what about you, Rei?" Usagi brought up "Now do you think she has enough 
reasons to go after him?"

"Hun?" Rei asked snapping out of a trance "Er... right, I guess I was wrong 
about him. You sure have one heck of a guy there Mako-chan..."

The chat went on between the girls, Rei wasn't participating much in the 
conversation though, she was lost in thought.

[That energy...] she thought [I felt it today when that monster showed up. 
That means that Super Saiya-man was here also... But why didn't he appear 
during combat? What is he up to? Is he really on our side?... I wonder if 
Trunks saw anything while being there?]

She didn't want to bring that up at this point. After all this wasn't a good 
moment to talk about it, Mako-chan almost died today and it wouldn't be nice 
getting everyone in a bad mood like the last meeting about Super Saiya-man.

Meanwhile, Trunks was in the shower. 
He was cursing himself for almost letting Makoto die this morning, if Sailor 
Mercury didn't show up there's no way he could've saved her. Maybe he 
should've saved Makoto using the Bukujutsu technique while it was still 
time, even if that meant revealing his powers to her. He began to crush the 
soap in his hand in a sign of frustration. He was too familiar with this 
feeling... guilt. It felt horrible the time he lost Gohan, and now, guilt 
was chasing him even in another world.


Moments later, once Trunks finished bathing, he walked towards his room (No! 
He wasn't naked or just wearing a towel if that's what you were thinking!). 
He found Makoto standing next to his door.

"Mako-chan... What are you doing here?" he asked.

"I think I didn't thanked you for saving me today." she responded.

"I wasn't the one that saved you." he stated "It was the Sailor Senshi."

"But you're the one who got me out of the water, weren't you?" she asked.

"If Sailor Mercury hadn't shown up you would be dead by now." he sadly 
replied.

Makoto looked at him, she knew him quite well since she became friends with 
him. He was having another of his guilty moments.

"Don't tell me you're felling guilty again?" she asked.

"Hun??" he was surprised how well she knew him "Guess I can't fool you."

"Listen," she said "you don't have to feel this way, you know you did okay, 
and I'm still alive, so stop felling guilty."

"Kind of a close call the way I see it..." he replied.

Makoto put her arms around his neck and gave him a big hug.

"I promise you I won't let myself get killed." she told him while she held 
him tightly "Does that makes you feel any better now?"

Trunks didn't answered, he still wasn't convinced about that, and still felt 
sad even though she was hugging him, he knew she meant well by trying to 
comfort him. His guilt was something hard to get rid of. 
Taking him by surprise, Makoto gave him a fast kiss in the lips. Trunks 
stood there completely paralyzed. Makoto then let go of him and headed 
towards her room.

"You'll be okay." she told him as she entered her room "Sweet dreams..."

"Er... right... er... Good night..." he said once his feet reached the 
ground again.

Makoto's door closed behind her leaving a confused Trunks standing alone by 
the hall. He touched his lips with the tip of his finger still not sure of 
what just happened; once he noticed he was standing alone in front of his 
door he went inside his room and laid over the bed. 
He wasn't felling guilty anymore, now he was confused beyond belief.

"What was that all about?" he asked himself while looking at the ceiling, 
still not very sure as how he felt for Makoto and still couldn't get out of 
his mind what Usagi told him in the train.

"Makoto Kino..." he said in a low tone of voice as he slowly began to fall 
asleep.




End of chapter 6.
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Author's notes:

There it is, chapter 6 is completed. You certainly must be asking yourself, 
Why Trunks is unable to find out that the Sailor Senshi are the girls he 
spends most of his time with and vice versa? (actually you surely must be 
asking yourself that question since chapter 2, but it just hit me to answer 
that until now). Well for one thing, things are a lot more entertaining this 
way and I really wanted to give Trunks a secret identity to showoff his 
skills in combat. Let's say that Trunks can't identify them because the 
Senshi doesn't use ki but magic instead. I don't know, maybe that makes 
thing more difficult for him............but then again, this might just be 
another of my lame excuses.
Okay, let's put it this way: Trunks won't ask the girls how come when they 
transform they become irrecognizable even though they look EXACTLY the same, 
as long as they don't ask him why his mother named him after men underwear 
and why he doesn't have a last name ^_^.


See you in chapter 7...