Dark cure

Chapter nine: Bulma's plan
Well, ok...I have spent so much time without updating but I have tons of work from university to do. So blame the teachers not me...

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"That my son WHAT?" said a furious Vegeta holding Goten by the neck. The child put his hands around Vegeta's in a poor atempt to free himself. Near them, an angry Chi Chi protesting about the treatment given to his son was being largely ignored. "I-I don't know, s-sir. There was...a black hole an it t-took him away". The Son repeated the story knowing that the pure saiyajin wasn't convinced by it. But it was what had happened! He hadn't done anything wrong! Bulma stared at the group for some seconds. Had it been under any other circumstances, the situation could have resulted funny. "Vegeta, release him" she said exasperated. The saiyajin looked at the blue-haired human slightly surprised at how she was taking the news. Even with that tone of exasperation she still sounded oddly calm. Having to suffer his daily outburts he couldn't believe he hadn't yell to everybody and everything about his son's lost yet. Something was within her mind...what was she up to? Without noticing he released a bit the pression over Goten's neck and the kid took advantage of it to put some good distance between him and the prince. " I think I may have some idea of what has happened to Trunks" she explained " Don't you think this incident is awfully similar to that of Gohan?" A general feeling of sadness crossed everyone at the mention of the warrior. It was always like this…The little demi-saiyajin disappearance, occurred six years ago, had been hard to accept. Chi Chi had been probably the most affected since she suddenly found herself without family and pregnant. However, she had not been the only one affected, everyone had, in some way, mourned for the child. Even Vegeta had to admit that he had regret the lost of the brat…after all, although it was painful to accept, he had been the strongest saiyajin alive, and after the Cell Game he somehow have earned his respect. And then…then he was gone. Like the other saiyajins, like Vejitasei…the only remain of his people being the half-blood brats, one of witch had suddenly disappear. Wait a moment…Bulma was right. This was almost the same case that that of Gohan. No explanation. No justification. No enemy. Just plain simply someone vanished. “What are you trying to say, woman?” he asked wanting her to go straight to the main point. “I think I had a theory of what is happening” she paused to take some air “ I think there is a perturbation in the dimensional space. “ What is a perturan in dimensions?” asked a confused Goten “Perturbation in dimensional space!” Bulma corrected “Probably something is unbalanced and the place where the Cell Game was celebrated has become an unstable place witch connects two dimensions! If we could just find a way of travelling back and forth this connection we could bring Trunks back!” she said excited. The others stared at her surprised. Vegeta was the first to react…that woman will never cease to amaze him “You think you could manage, onna?” he asked in a harsh tone. One thing was knowing the solution, the other applying it. “Well, I’m not sure” she said “ but I guess if I could build a time machine, I can try to build a dimensional machine…” “Do it quickly” he commanded. “Don’t order me, bastard!” Bulma bitched “Do you think is that easy? I don’t know how much would it take! It could be years! Months in the best case!” Vegeta visibly palled at the perspective of staying waiting for years to try to get his son back. “You’d better do it in short” he said dangerously soft and then left abruptly. Bulma stayed for some time middly shocked until looking back at Chi Chi and Goten witch stared there, surprised. Chi Chi looked at her friend for a moment and a hopeful shine reached her eyes “Bulma…do you…do you think that if you manage the machine…we…Gohan could…?” she asked in a confusing manner. Bulma took an expression of consternation. It had taken ages to her friend to cope with the whole Cell Games event and to accept that his son will no longer be by her side. If she got her hopes shattered again…”Don’t hope for too much…I really don’t know” she answered hesitantly, expecting that she would not result hurt from this hole thing. “Ok” she said weakly. “Goten, let’s go home” “What? I can’t go home…Trunks is missed, somewhere. I…” he protested. “You’ve got to get Bulma work if you want to see your friend again” she interrupted, wanting to leave before it became more painful. Goten nodded, following her mother and both of them get out of Capsule Corp. The blue-haired scientist thought a little more about her friend wondering if she was going to be ok before starting to work.
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Yusuke ran through the Makai lands swearing to the monk. How could someone be so tiring? It didn’t surprise him his father had never considered him quite his equal despite the amount of time in service to him. Hell, maybe it was because of the time spent with him. He was a coward, couldn’t understand the diversion in risking…always trying to be at good with the other ex-rulers…and blaming him when he felt threaten. He was only helpful in strategy. He should had known better and not spend the little time Keiko had allowed him in the demon lands going to visit his kingdom…At least, according to what the monk had said Gohan was patrolling with Hiei and fortunately wasn’t force to stand such a pest…He stopped suddenly when he spot the vary same being he was thinking of. The saiyajin was there, finishing off a dangerous plant. His energy somehow didn’t feel ok, however. But he couldn’t really why. He tried looking straight at his face and stood then paralysed. The man’s eyes were shineless and lifeless with dark wrinkles across them and his whole face was covered in mud and dirt, reflecting the picture of desperation. He hadn’t known him for that much but he knew it was not normal for the strange being. “Y-yusuke?” he asked, like a kid caught by his parent doing something badly. “Yeah. What the hell…?” he tried to ask but Gohan interrupted him “What are you doing here? I thought you were at Ningenkai” he said. His eyes turned wide. Ningenkai. He had to return now or Keiko will worry too much. But he felt that he shouldn’t leave Gohan there…something seemed quite wrong with him. “Hey, c’om let’s return there together, ‘kay? I will show you the Ningenkai” The other being looked at him belwildered. ‘His straightforwardness would never cease to amaze me’ he thought. “ Right…” he answered more for avoiding further explanation than from interest. Yusuke grinned and threw a power inhibitor at him “You have to put this on. Sorry man, I know it’s an annoyance but there’s no other way” Gohan put the strange thing in his stomach mimicking Yusuke. He had to agree with the hanjou…it was a highly unpleasant…like a horrid feeling of getting all your energies sucked off. Once they were ready Yusuke guided him to the place of the portal…Had it been a good or a bad idea accepting to the proposal of his irresponsible superior? he questioned himself before falling through the portal…