Prologue
"I wonder how Konzen's life would have differed if he had found Goku in the river as well," Kanzeon murmured.
It was night time at Shangri-La, so Kanzeon knew she had plenty of time before dawn. She stood up from her throne and headed to her friend, the Kami of Fate. They met in a rather large room. There were two couches and about a meter behind them was a projector which the Kami of Fate used. A blank screen was set up about ten meters to the front of the couches.
"Is it ready?" Kanzeon asked. The other Kami nodded.
"What do you want to know?" the Kami of Fate asked with curiosity.
"Just to see how things may have changed," Kanzeon shrugged, "Mind, it's only for tonight, and perhaps may help to see things more clearly."
The Kami of Fate nodded again as she turned the projector on to see what the world may hold if Konzen had sent Goku 500 years into the future. At time where he would be eleven years of age and Goku would have been a newborn baby, growing into a second childhood... when they next meet. And be together again with Tenpou and Kenren... as a family.
A picture of an eleven year old boy with amethyst eyes and golden blond hair came to view. He was sweeping the autumn leaves that had fallen around the temple which was his home ever since the head monk, Koumyo Sanzo, had found and rescued him from drowning in the river eleven years before. He was listening to the Sanzo as he swept the leaves...
Koumyo Sanzo was talking to young Kouryu about how beautiful autumn was. The boy was trying his best not to snort at his master's opinion of beauty. To him, Autumn simply meant more leaves to be swept. Suddenly, a sound... A soft sound, almost within his own mind entered his consciousness...