Double Identity

This story is based on Bura and Trunks' relationship more. It takes place roughly at the end of Dragonball Z, Bura still being a very little girl and Trunks being in his teenage years. The story also contains the future Trunks, he's come back but no one knows it until Bura sees him but who believes her? No one does...

Chapter 6: Interference

"I know what I heard!" Trunks yelled at his mother as she continued to try to work.

"Hmm..." Bulma sighed in return, giving no real verbal response to her teen son. Why was her son bothering her at a time like this? It was the major project's deadline coming up and all her son could think of was bothering her.

"Mum. I need you to listen to me, really." Trunks frowned, seeing that Bulma wasn't really paying any form of attention on him.

"I heard it, Trunks." Bulma snapped in annoyance. "I've heard things from Bura, you and your father."

"Then why won't listen to me?" Trunks shot back with the same kind of annoyance.

"Because I really haven't got time for this Trunks!" Bulma letting her temper boil over a bit. Lack of sleep was a often component of letting tempers get the better of you, and Bulma hadn't had much sleep at all. "You know that I've got this massive deadline, Trunks. Do you honestly think I'd be slaving away day and night over it if it wasn't important?"

"No..." Trunks muttered, a little stunned at his mothers short temper.

Bulma glanced over at him and felt a pang of guilt, that wasn't really a reason for her to get that angry at her child. "I'm sorry, hun... Just so stressed at the moment..."

"I know... But I wouldn't have come and bothered you if it weren't important."

"Yes, yes. I already heard all about your sister's big imagination." Bulma rolled her eyes.

"It's not in her imagination!" Trunks said in a high toned voice, trying to get his point across to his mum. "He's real. The person she talks about is real."

"Not all of this again. I've heard enough of this from your sister and Vegeta, I don't really need it from you as well." Bulma sighed and rolled her eyes again.

"Don't you care about Bura enough to realise what I'm saying to you?" Trunks scowled while watching his mum continue working, as if she didn't have any other obligation in the world.

"Hmm?" Bulma just pursed her lips.

"I'm telling you that there is a man hovering around your daughter, without any of our permissions." Trunks reminded her sternly. "A person that's obviously got a high skill level, even I haven't sensed him or anything. But you don't care."

"Your just imagining it, Trunks." Bulma brushed off. "It's nice that you've finally been playing with your sister. Hope you're being nice to her."

Trunks just stood there for a moment gob-smacked as to what he'd just heard. It was like he said something to her and it went right out the other ear without absorbing information. He just told her one of those things that a normal parent would go ballistic over but she didn't show anything, like she hadn't heard it. Plus just virtually accused her of not giving a thought about her daughter.

Trunks didn't bother to continue with this conversation, it was just a waste of time and breath. He quietly left the lab with just small good bye on his part, didn't feel like adding much else. What else was there to say? For once he was more concerned for Bura than their own mother.

Trunks finally decided to go back up to his little sisters bedroom and try to talk to her again, hoping that she had finally calmed down from her little paddy that she had when he stormed in there. He wasn't well... Comfortable with letting this stranger hover around his little sister. Such a strange turn of events that he was actually caring. Before, he didn't care whether she was abducted by aliens.

"Bura?" Trunks called softly into her bedroom and lightly knocked on her bedroom door. He frowned when he didn't hear anything from inside.

"Bura?" He called again and grew impatient of waiting for her to answer.

Trunks opened the door and glanced all around the girlie bedroom, his search getting more and more frantic when he couldn't see the little aqua haired girl he called little sister anywhere. Where on earth could she have gone? He had only just talked to her a bit ago. He suddenly heard laughter from outside and stormed over in annoyance to the bedroom window. He saw his little sister playing on her personally made swing, out in the garden, by herself.

Trunks stormed out of his little sister's bedroom and quickly wandered to downstairs, going to go outside and talk to her. But as he got to the front main door he was stopped.

"And where do you think you're going?" Shot a familiar but scary voice, Trunks already knew who it was without looking. No one else would scare everything in sight.

"Just out to the garden, dad." Trunks answered simply.

"Why? What's out there that would be so interesting to you?" Vegeta almost demanded, raising an eyebrow. "You do nothing in the garden, ever."

"I... Saw Bura out there, playing alone." Trunks replied, unsure whether he should say something. His dad could so go into meltdown quickly.

"She's what!?" Vegeta snapped, almost bursting a blood vessel. "She knows not to go outside by herself!"

"I tried to tell her..." Trunks lied, trying to make himself looking innocent.

Vegeta just looked furious and then pulled the front door open to leave, nearly pulling the door off it's hinges. He didn't want Bura playing outdoors by herself, he'd said it a million times. Plus he didn't want her by herself while this person was hanging around her.

Trunks trailed slowly behind his father as Vegeta stomped furiously around the large garden grounds. Vegeta looked extremely annoyed at Trunks when they had scoured the area and there was no sign of his little girl. He couldn't sense her out here either, she couldn't be out here.

"And what was she doing when you 'saw' her playing out here?" Vegeta demanded, clearly not happy.

"She was here!" Trunks tried to defend but couldn't really say much since he also couldn't see her anywhere in sight. "She was sitting on her swing, playing."

Vegeta gave a quick glance over at the empty swing and then focused back on Trunks. "Well she isn't. It's not like she can fly back to her room, not to get caught by me."

"Now are we show sure of that..."

"Trunks, what are you getting at?" Vegeta snapped. "We both know that Bura is miles off learning to fly yet. She isn't big enough and hasn't been trained or taught in that field."

"She also didn't have training to chat with people inside her head either." Trunks pointed out.

"Are you sure you're alright, son?" Vegeta raised an eyebrow at Trunks, thinking he was acting a little off.

"No... Actually I'm not. I need to say something." Trunks sighed and rethought the wording, he didn't want to make his dad more annoyed at him. "He's real."

"Who's real?"

"That guy. The one that Bura's been saying is real."

"I knew it!" Vegeta exclaimed from the comment, looking like he'd won some sort of battle. "Did you see this creep?"

"No but I heard him." Trunks replied and went on to explain himself when Vegeta raised an eyebrow. "I was looking in on Bura and..."

"Spying on her, you mean?" Vegeta butted in.

"Well... Yea. But I wasn't only doing it because I wanted to see whether I could catch this guy out." Trunks quickly explained his reasons, wanting to defend himself. "And I did! She was mind talking him before she got tired and then asked to speak out loud. And that was when I heard his voice and I knew there was someone else in there."

"What did the voice sound like?"

"Like... Myself. It was freaky." Trunks answered, he hadn't really thought of the voices sound till now. It was giving him the creeps now that he thought about it. "It's got to be him. The guy that you were talking from before."

"And you didn't bother to go into her room and see the guy?" Vegeta snapped back, thinking that he hadn't and it was stupid that he didn't.

"I did! But I couldn't find him!" Trunks shot back. "Bura just said he was moving to fast for me and he didn't want to be found."

"Well we'll see about that." Vegeta scoffed at that. "I''m Vegeta, no one sneaks behind my back and hovers around my daughter."

"Good luck finding him, the guy's extreme quick." Trunks also scoffed but just got a dirty look back from Vegeta, not liking being told that he couldn't do something.

"You're just lucky that you're my kid." Vegeta shot back in a threatening tone.

"Bura?"

"Yes daddy?" Bura replied as she watched her dad come into her bedroom.

Vegeta walked totally in and sat at the edge of her bed. "Bura... Is the... Man that you've been talking about... Is he still here?"

"He sure is daddy." Bura beamed back. "He's much better than my brother, I wish that Trunks would just disappear."

"Don't say such things, Bura." Vegeta snapped. "I know he can be mean and horrible at times but there's no need for saying that."

"He's horrible, daddy!" Bura cried back, wanting to get her message across loud and clear. "He just ignores me and when he isn't ignoring me he just speaks horrid things to me! I hate him! Can't I just have somebody else?"

"It doesn't work like that, Bura." Vegeta said firmly. "You can't choose who you're related to and you can't have a new one just because you don't get along with your current brother."

"It doesn't matter, daddy. I've already found a better replacement." Bura shrugged off.

"I don't know who you think he is but that isn't your brother." Vegeta tried to tell her softly, which was very hard for him.

"He is!" Bura protested in annoyance.

"Stop it Bura." Vegeta ordered. "He is not. I don't know why he's back or what he wants but I want you staying away from him."

"You just don't understand!" Bura huffed with a massive pout on her face.

"No, I understand very well Bura." Vegeta replied with extreme firmness. "He's a threat, not a friend. I need you to stay away from him till daddy has things sorted."

"No!" Bura shook her head in protest. "He's good daddy."

"Bura! This is not up for discussion!" Vegeta shouted at her. "You will tell him to leave you alone. And I will catch him, I will not tolerate this kind of behaviour!"

"Daddy! You're scaring me!" Bura yelled back with extreme worry on her little face. "It's fine, daddy. He's a good guy. There's nothing to catch!"

"I said tell him to leave you alone!" Vegeta scowled but tried to tone it down to a certain degree because he didn't want to petrify his daughter to death. "And good that you're scared. You're supposed to be scared when a stranger won't leave you alone! It's not a good thing, Bura."

"He's only a stranger to you, daddy! He isn't to me!" Bura continued to protest.

"Tell him to leave." Vegeta instructed in a deadly serious tone and crossed his arms over his chest."

"No." Bura protested for the millionth time.

"That's it." Vegeta growled at the continuing reaction. Bura for a second pulled a confused face at her dad, not understanding what he meant. Vegeta in turn just reached forward and grabbed his daughter, picking her up with ease.

"Daddy! What are you doing!?" Bura exclaimed, trying to kick out a little but soon realised that it wasn't going to work.

"Well you won't be a good girl." Vegeta replied simply. "So you're coming with me and sleeping in my room tonight."

"I'm not a baby!" Bura frowned.

"Well you're sure acting like one." Vegeta shot back. "And since you won't do as asked then you're staying with me. I'm not leaving you alone with him."

With that he carried the screaming and yelling girl out of her bedroom and walked off with her. Bura trying to put up a small fight but of course it was like fighting tree...