Quick Intro. This is a story about Krillin being a little different than his normal self though it won't start off that way. Plus it takes place after Cells defeat. Krillin is one of my favorite characters so this should be fun. Oh yeah I put this story under Crime and Drama but it has some humor in there to and as for the title Don Krillione, Krillione is Krillin's name but with an Italian style I added to it. So you can pronounce it like Krilly O Nay. Enjoy.

I don't own Dragonball Z or any of its characters.

"Are you kidding me?! Thats just impossible!" Krillin screamed in disbelief

"There is just no way that just happened! I knew they made a big mistake trusting you! All that hard work for nothing!"

"Krillin! Are you going crazy again? What have I said about yelling at the TV?" 18 was in the next room over as she could hear Krillin's whining.

"But you don't understand honey, its the playoffs, win or go home. And every year we go home I want to be on the winning side for once."

"Oh so all this time you've been a professional football player huh? Wheres all that money then, cause god knows we can use it on the bills that seem to flood in on a daily basis."

"Hey I make plenty of money down at the office to take care of the bills."

"Oh really?" 18 walks over to the table to grab a stack of letters and tosses them over at Krillin one by one. "Light bill, Cable bill, Phone bill, Gas bill, Water bill, should I keep going."

"Yea but at least none of these are shut off notices right?" Krillin said jokingly however he noticed that 18 wasn't in the joking mood.

Meanwhile as the two argued a commercial flashed onto the screen that caught 18's eye. It was Hercule boasting on about how he saved the world from Cell and that anyone wanting to challenge him would have to do it in the Worlds Martial Arts Tournament.

"Hmm that reminds me Krillin did you already sign up for this years tournament?"

"Tournament? Why would I do that?"

"Cause we could use the money Krillin. Besides the bills, Marron is going to need money for school clothes come the fall."

"Whats wrong with the ones she already has?"

Again 18 gave Krillin a look that sent a chill down his spine.

"Ah come on 18. Look, we can get the money some other way."

"Like How?"

"Well next month a managers position is opening up down at the office and I here theres a pay raise with it. If I can get that spot we will be all set."

"Yeah Krillin about that. First I hate it when you say down at the office. Its Office Max not some corporate office job. Secondly what does this make it, the fourth or fifth time you talked about getting this manager position."

"Sixth time, but I feel good about it this year."

"Krillin not to downplay your job but manager position or not, I still don't think its going to be enough to cover all are debts. I'd get a job myself but then that leaves no one here to watch Marron."

"Theres always Roshi."

"Now I know your crazy. I'd feel safer with Vegeta watching Marron over that perverted old man."

Krillin laughed as he then went back to watching the television only to anger 18 even more.

"Excuse me isn't there somewhere you should be going now!?"

"Its Saturday I don't have to be at work until eight."

"Krillin! What the hell have we been talking about this whole time!?"

"Money? My job? You know I hate when you do this especially during the games."

"The Martial Arts Tournament you idiot! So hurry and get your butt of this couch and get down there to sign up."

"Surely you know by now Piccolo, Vegeta and maybe even Gohan are all signed up for this thing. I'm not trying to get my head smashed up for no reason."

"Your gonna get your head smashed in here if you don't get your ass of this couch and down to those sign up tables."

Krillin could see how serious 18 was so he immediately got up and headed out for the door.

"You know theres times I wish I hadn't destroyed that remote." Krillin said running out the door before 18 could have a chance at swinging at him.

Unwillingly Krillin finally made it down to the arena. As he waited in line he noticed a huge monitor in front of him. Slowly it scrolled down through the names of all the registered fighters and to no surprise Piccolo, Vegeta and Gohan were all on the list.

"What the heck am I doing, theres no way I can beat any of those guys." Krillin said to himself as he walked out of line and then accidentally bumped into someone.

"Oh sorry about that guy." But then Krillin soon noticed that the person he ran into was an old friend.

"Hey Krillin whats up I didn't know you were going to be entering this years tournament." Yamcha said.

"Yeah I didn't know either till this morning."

"Whats that suppose to mean?"

"Well to make a long story short, 18 thinks we could really use the prize money and so I was kinda forced into this."

"Whoa good luck with that Krillin. I already ran into Piccolo and Vegeta earlier and even Gohan got Chi Chi to let him sign up this year. Most likely you'll have to go through them if you want to win, but don't worry Ill be rooting for you."

"Thanks Yamcha I feel so much better now." Krillin sarcastically said as he scratched his head at the thought of fighting those guys. "But anyways Yamcha I thought you gave up fighting."

"I did give up fighting, trust me I'm not interested in turning into someones punching bag."

"Ok then why are you down here? Nothing but fighting takes place here."

"Thats where your wrong my vertically challenged friend." Yamcha turned Krillin's head to look at a registers booth all the way in the back. "You see all these years we've been entering the tournament and I never had a chance to see it before but, thats where you place your bets."

"Betting!? Your here to bet on the fights?"

"Hey why not when I know who the best fighters are. Nobody really knows about Vegeta and Piccolo or Gohan, but I do so hell why not make a little money on them."

"Well you have a good point there, but then again its kind of like cheating isn't it?"

"Krillin Krillin Krillin, you can't always be nice to get the things you want. And besides look at it this way, that clown Hercule took all the credit for defeating Cell. Because of that he has this town in the palm of his hand, ready to do anything he says. This is just a little payback for what we did for the world."

"Thats true to but shoot, I don't have money to be making bets. Plus if 18 ever found out about it I'd never be able to live that down."

"Suit yourself Bro." Suddenly Yamcha's cell phone rang and he excused himself.

Krillin moseyed on his way back to the line but couldn't help but notice Yamcha getting into a heated conversation on his phone.

"They what!? What do you mean there was to many of them!? I sent you because you said you could handle it! Where are they now? No, don't worry about it I'll take care of this mess, just meet me back at the shop asap." Yamcha hung up his phone and then made his way back over to where Krillin was standing in line. "Hey Krillin what are you doing?"

"I told you already what I'm doing here."

"I know that but, I didn't think you were going to still go through with it."

"What other choice do I have. Its either get my butt kicked here or get my butt kicked at home."

"Ill tell you what Krillin, forget this tournament crap. How about you meet me down at my shop at around eight."

"No can do I got work at eight tonight, and their strict down at the office about me being late."

"Office? I thought you worked at Staples or something."

"Office Max!" Krillin said as his face frowned.

"Same thing, but back to what I was saying you can forget about that Staples job and come do deliveries for me. I bet your only making minimum wage at that place, you come work for me and I'll triple that."

Krillin's eyes grew bigger as he knew that was even better than any managers position. "So what your saying is all I have to do is make deliveries and you triple my pay? Whats the catch?"

"You hurt my feelings bro. Why can't I be just helping you get back on your feet. I know you got a little girl now to. So why not go for the extra cash to get her the things in life she needs."

"Damn I know 18 is going to have a fit but heck its her who wanted the extra income in the first place."

"So you'll do it."

"Yeah why not."

"Great! You know already where my car shop is, so just meet me there at eight. If I happen not to be there just tell the guys up front I sent you there."

"See you at eight." Krillin said as he made his way for home. But at the same time was trying to build up the courage to tell 18 about the decision he just made.