A Day at the Mall

Trunks' Morning

"Darlin'
Just for me matte 'ru wa
Kokoro ni zoku-zoku agetai
Anata no yubisaki ga izanau romansu
Unmei-goto kitto fallin' love"

Trunks sang at the top of his lungs as he showered. It wasn't a type of song that he would usually sing, but Bra had been watching television two days ago and it had been stuck inside of his head ever since. Unfortunately he was the type of person who had a good memory so the words were actually there and not reduced to humming.

As he got dressed he sang and he reached the final words just as he reached the downstairs hallway. "Unmei-goto kitto fallin' love."

He poured himself a large bowl of Frosted Flakes and found himself humming the song as he ate. "Damn Bra and her stupid TV. shows," he muttered to himself between verses.

Bra came in as he was half-way through his third bowl and her inane phone conversation made him roll his eyes. "You are impossibly shallow. Did you know that?" She only stuck out her tongue and, after exchanging a few more words, Trunks was off to work.

"Tonight mitsumete hajimete tsuketa kuchibeni
Demo anata wa sotto koi wo sorasu no
Ima taisetsu ni omotte kureru no nara
Dakishimete hoshii"

"I have to stop singing that song!" He groaned and searched for something on the radio as he waited for cars to begin moving again. Trunks saw a familiar car pass by him and he blew his horn only to cause a chain reaction among the other cars. "Gohan! Hey!" He tried to get his attention, but the elder man was on his cell phone. Giving up at amusing himself for a little while by talking to a friend, Trunks resumed his search for a good radio station.

I just feel rhythm emotion
Kono mune no kodou wa
Anata e to tsuzuite'ru so far away

"Oh no!" he wailed. "Not this song!" It was another that tended to get stuck inside of his head.

"Mou kisutsuite mo ii
Hitomi wo sorasazu ni
Atsuku hageshiku ikite itai

"Akiramenai tsuyosa wo
Kureru anata dakara dakishimetai"

Trunks found himself launching into the second chorus automatically and he sang songs on the entire ride to work.

"Moshi moshi," he answered. His cell phone had rang in the middle of "Hitoshii Romansu".

"Ohayo, niichan!" Bra said brightly. "I have a proposition for you."

"I don't like the sound of that," he frowned. "Go on."

"Benjiro's otousan needs people for his game show. It's called BFF, which stands for best friends forever, and it's all about how well you know your best-friend. Pan and I are going on the show and I need to know if you and Goten will too."

"Well, did you ask him?"

"He said to count him in because he knew you would say hai."

He glanced at the upcoming building. "When do I have to be there?"

"It's almost ten now so around eleven. The show doesn't start until noon."

Trunks made his decision and changed lanes. "I'll be there in a few. A guy has to look good for the cameras, you know."

"You're gonna skip work again! You are soooo irresponsible, niichan."

"If you had the weight of the world on your shoulders, you would be too."

***

Trunks was a few blocks away from the mall when he sensed something that made the hair on his arms raise up. Frowning in concentration, he soon figured out that it was Gohan who was emitting all of that energy. "Why is he so pissed? There's nothing I know of that could make him feel that way."

He found a parking space after circling the lot by the main doors several times, and entered the mall just in time to feel Gohan power up to level two. Trunks was starting to become more than a little worried. It wasn't often that he felt Gohan's ki at such a level. He followed it and the trail of nervous ningen to the second level where a confrontation was just ending.

"What in the world is going on here?" he asked, noting the relieved look on Pan's face. "Or should I say: what in the world *happened* here?"

"Tousan thought that I was pregnant and he got pissed. He tried to kill Takeji who, by the way, *isn't* my boyfriend, but Goku-ojiichan stopped him. I told him what happened and now Vegeta-ojisan is after Bra's boyfriend."

"My little sister is going to have a baby?!" Trunks was shocked. "Wow. I hope papa doesn't kill Benjiro."

"That's the thing," Goku said, "He's headed off to find him so he can do just that."

Trunks groaned. "Papa would kill a crippled man for looking at him funny. Let's go."

-End of Trunks' Part-

I have a challenge for the readers: Can anyone identify where the two song came from? I'll give you a few hints: they're from two different animes and only one of them comes on television.