[A/N: Okay, it's time to edit this story now! Very little has been changed. Mostly some bad grammar here and there has just been fixed. I'm pleased that people enjoyed this story, and to those of you who are just tuning in, I do plan on writing a sequel or something of the sort as soon as I sort some other things out. :) I think this is one of my favorite things I have ever written. I hope you like it, too!

DISCLAIMER: I do not own Majin Buu or anything else created by Akira Toriyama. I do, however, own Cranberry Evil, Id, and this story. The rest speaks for itself.]

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Buu: A monstrous mass of pink flesh and muscle as well as a mass of evil. He kills anything that moves and revels in the horrified expressions of his victims before he kills them.

Could such a creature befriend anyone? Or rather, the question should be: Did his heart allow him to have friends? Most would answer "no" to both questions. But I am here to tell you a story that contradicts what most people would have answered to the aforementioned questions.

Buu had a very special friend. Her name was Cranberry Evil, and she had been spawned by the fat Buu's imagination long ago. We're talking way before the chubby child-like Buu had been released from his prison within the egg by Gohan. No, this imaginary friend of his had been created by Buu's brain when he was first created and controlled by Bibidi, thousands of years ago.

See, when Buu was a child (or what would be the equivalent of a human child), he sometimes got very lonely and bored, as any child would. When he wasn't busy destroying planets and turning people into various sources of sugar, the young Buu liked to create games to eliminate that sense of boredom. He would race himself, dissect animals and people and count how many organs each of them had, and sometimes he would play dominos with buildings and trees.

But he never did any of these things alone, so to speak. One day Bibidi had shooed him off because Buu had been getting a wee bit on his nerves, and Buu, loyally obeying his master, had skipped off, singing to himself. He was happy to be alone at first, but after a while, he got quite lonely and bored. Any expert on the psyche of villains will tell you that when an evil dude is bored, he or she is at least three times as dangerous as he or she is when they're occupied, even if it is in a destructive manner.

You know how when you get bored you start pondering unusual things and you do weird things? Well, that's the point little Buu got to that day. He had gotten sort of tired of the monotonous sounds of people screaming until their vocal cords split open and bled. Yes, that's right; I said "sort of" tired. Study the psyche of children and you'll find that they have very short attention spans, which means that they cannot focus on or stand the same thing for an extended period of time. There's no reason the child Buu should be any different.

So on this day, which passed thousands of years before any of us can even begin the fathom, the little Buu imagined someone to play with. At first he started out with a rather ugly beast that resembled a basilisk and named it Bloodfist. After about two hours of play with Bloodfist, Buu got bored of him and discarded him from his "imaginary friend bank."

The second imaginary friend of Buu was one that was a talking bar of chocolate; it was hurriedly named Choco-Blood. It seemed perfect for the chocolate-loving pink beast, since he loved chocolate so much, that is. Buu ate it five minutes later.

It was the third imaginary friend that proved worthy enough to last for such a long time. You can guess who that was. Yep, Cranberry Evil. Buu was aiming for someone who looked a little more pleasant to him. The pink child had once seen a girl who belonged to a race that resembled humans very much, and he had thought she looked rather pretty. So, when Buu imagined Cranberry, he had this girl in mind. The result was a girl who appeared to be in her mid-teens (although her age is indefinite; in fact, she has no age), who had blue eyes, who had a cranberry-colored head of hair (hence, the origin of her name) that was perfectly straight and that went to her shoulders, who was about a foot shorter than he was, and who liked to wear dark, baggy clothing. She was an instant best friend to Buu.

The duo would never stop laughing as they destroyed planets, ate victims who had been turned into candy, and did evil things in general. Even though she wasn't tangible, Buu could see her clearly with the mind's eye and would talk to her both aloud and in his head. Sometimes he would forget that Bibidi was there and would talk to her out loud, extracting bewildered gazes from the deranged gopher dude. Cranberry was as real to him as God is to a religious follower.

Nothing could tear the two friends apart, not even the imprisonment of Buu by a distant ancestor of Shin. While inside of the contraption, Buu still talked to and played with Cranberry. And then, thousands of years later, he was suddenly released, free to destroy and wreak havoc with his friend again. He was never happier.

Then suddenly, the relatively innocent Buu was hideously transformed from a playful creature into a beastly, sinister, and much skinnier version of himself. Buu wasn't the only one who had transformed—Cranberry went through a change herself. Her once-bright blue eyes were dyed a disturbing yellow and the black pupils gave way to a soul-piercing green. She grew pointy fangs and her hair spiked up a bit in the bangs. She became inhumanly powerful, whereas before she had just possessed normal human-like strength. Lastly, she developed a taste for flesh as opposed to just candy and other junk foods, although she still loved to eat those, mind you. Perhaps it would've been easier for me to just say that she had transformed to suit the new Buu's idea of a friend. Her name and overall personality remained the same.

Buu didn't know that, along with all his other powers and strengths, he had the ability to bring things to life—dead, fantastic, drawn, or what have you, he could bring it to life at will. And that is exactly what he did with Cranberry. After Buu had absorbed Gotenks, Piccolo, and Gohan, he got bored again. That's when he brought his long-lived, now physically changed, best friend to the world of flesh and bone.

And this is where our story begins…