O-Nigiri Lady
A DBZ fanfiction by LadyRivka
Chapter 1: Maternal Fires
A/N: Before I get started, this is a lil' Kibito/Nishi piece. Basically my excuse to a.) put West Kaiooshin in a fic and b.) do some het stuff with Kibito, for all the peeps who can't (or won't) read my East Kaiooshin/Kibito stuff. ; ) Also an excuse for an A/U- in this piece, West is East's MOM and not his sister or girlfriend or what have you. Also a spinoff from Neko-chan's piece, so I'm using some of her ideas. SOME.
Thank you. Now enjoy the first chappie.
-Rivka
She sighed, looking over the crib, knowing she could do nothing to help her infant son.
Never before did any Kaiooshin, not even a baby, get this sick. Nishi felt her son's head.
"Dear Universe, Shin-kun, you're burning up! At this rate, you could probably become dehydrated, poor thing." Again, Nishi sighed in defeat as her son slept in his crib.
She had had him a little over three months now. A year if you counted the ki-pocket that had followed her around for nine months, probably a result of some fluke one-way bond with one of the many men she had flirted with. In Earth terms, Shin-kun would be a bastard, uncared for; here, he was his mother's pride and joy. She would become royally pissed off, to say, the least, if she had her son die on her.
Please, she thought, please let him survive until morning, until I can see Dai Kaiooshin-sama about this.
A single tear of Nishi's trickled down her son's cheek, evaporating against his hot skin as it went.
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Nishi awoke the next morning, to feel her son's ki gradually fading…
She had to do something. NOW.
She ran to the Dai Kaiooshin's quarters as fast as she could, frantic to get her son some help. She burst through the doors, and there sat the fat, kindly God of All Gods, with the Kaiooshin of the South at his side.
"Dai Kaiooshin-sama!" she yelled in a huff. "My son is very sick, and I don't know what to do about it…"
"Don't worry, there's an herbalist in the next village below the palace. Journey there in disguise. There is a very powerful remedy for all aliments they peddle down there."
"A sick Kaiooshin! Ha!" Minami snorted.
"Minami…just because you found out Shin-kun isn't your son doesn't mean you can't care about him! He is VERY ill, and if I don't act quickly, he will surely die!"
"But I'm bonded to you!" The tall Kaiooshin put a look of pity on his face. "You kissed me…" He started daydreaming.
"Minami, we were six, and just starting our Kaiooshin training! I didn't mean anything!" Nishi left, folding her arms over her chest. "Hmmph. Men. Just when you find the good ones in the Universe, they go berserk on you and you have to find more…"
A single tear rolled down South's cheek. The Dai patted his back, saying, "I doubt she was ever yours. West likes men too much…"
The both of them sighed.
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Nishi went into the village, covered in a floor-length black cloak. She kept looking for this herbalist who was supposed to let her son live...
But a violent fray between two teen-aged boys kept her out of the open-air market. She just stood there, watching the hellish carnage ensuing before her. Before she knew it, the smaller of the two boys was unconscious, his mouth covered in blood, after the larger one had picked up a produce stand and threw it at him.
A tall man with reddish skin and long white hair was also a witness to the event. He was afraid to even be here, to even show up at the fight. People in other villages had seen what he could do, and they were afraid. They had the village elders ban him, again and again. Sometimes, they sent him to other planets, to no avail. His only real home was the road.
But he shook his head. He knew what he had to do. Slowly, he went to the boy, lifted the friut-stand off of him, and laid a hand on his chest. A yellow glow engulfed the boy, and people started running away from him, especially when the boy got up and announced he was fine.
The villagers ran every which-way, trying to get away from the man…
But Nishi stood there in amazement. She did not know of many mortals with healing powers, or a ki as strong as this man's.
"Pardon me, sir…" she asked him.
"What?" he answered in an annoyed tone of voice, his face sour.
"I was wondering…could you do that for my son? He's very ill."
"Why should I? I'll probably get kicked out of your village as well!" he growled.
Nishi looked around, seeing if the coast was clear, before she removed the hood of her cloak.
"NOW will you help me?" she asked.
The man was very surprised. Before him stood a very beautiful, elfin female with deep black eyes that shone green in the sunlight.
It couldn't be!
"Madam…are…are you…?"
"Yes, I am the West Kaiooshin, and my son is very ill. Please help me." She got on one knee. "I beg of you!! Come back to the palace with me!"
The man was moved but before he could say anything, nay, before he could think, she grabbed his arm and whispered the two words he thought he would never hear in his whole life:
"Kai-Kai".
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They returned to her quarters, where they found a purple-skinned baby, going in and out of consciousness.
"Please, sir," she whispered.
"Hai." For a Kaiooshin, the man felt like no was not an answer.
He touched the baby's chest gently, and infused him with some healing energy and a slight bit of his own ki. He removed his hand, and the baby opened his wide black eyes, and smiled.
'Thank you, sir!" She gave him a hug, or attempted to, anyway, since her arms would not go around his massive frame.
The Kaiooshin looked him in the eye and said, "What's your name?"
"Kibito," he replied monotonously.
With an expression of pure joy on her face, Nishi repeated her last statement, but slightly changed.
"Thank you…Kibito-san."
Kibito smiled as best he could.
"Now…I sense a lot of ki coming from you…"
"Ki?"
"Life energy. You're very strong."
"Oh."
"…And I know you're kind of a persona non grata on the rest of this planet…"
"So?"
"My last bodyguard was a pain-in-the neck. He HATED Shin-kun and he didn't have respect for me. Not to mention, he wasn't the LEAST bit attractive AND he hated my rice balls…so I fired him." Nishi gave Kibito a flirty smile. "So, are you up for protecting a Goddess of my caliber?"
Kibito flushed slightly, and stuttered, "H-hai!"
END CHAPTER 1
CHAPTER 2- How's Minami going to take this? And the rest of the Kaiooshin's? etc. etc. etc.