Hi guys! Another Ice and SSSS fic! I credit her with help with the idea for the story ;) So, This just covers some of Raditz's "friend" June's background. It takes place in a timeframe where Planet Vegeta was NOT destroyed, Kakarot was NOT sent back, but Bardock has psychic powers. Main characters would probably be June, Raditz, and Bardock. plz R&R!
SSSS Note: Ice and I roleplay a lot, and I mean A LOT, and this is one of them. Enjoy :D
And BTW, you should probably read "A Rusted Neglect" and "Firestorm" to understand this story, both are my, IceKat9494's, stories. On we go!
~Beta-Read by ProjectSSSS123, the Only Bardock Lover~
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The 15-year old girl pelted through the rainy streets. "Lenam!" She cried. "Brother, where are you!?" The girl's pleas went unheard, and finally she came to a wall. She flew over it, and on the other side was her brother, hanging limply by a rope, his head sticking out at an awkward angle. Next to him was the girl's mother, who hung dead as well, her curly dark hair fell into lifeless, staring eyes.
The girl collapsed on the ground in sobs. What had she done? Sure, she was a Saiyan of 15, so she was inevitably a murderess, but she hadn't always been such. Not when Amanita and Lenam had died, and not ever in her heart. It was her blood that cried for the feeling of lives crushed beneath her fingers, not her heart.
She stayed in the rain, and heard her name being called once again. "June, June, JUNIPURU!" At the sound of her full name, she rose to her feet and shouted to the sky, "What do you want from me!?"
She woke with a start, and took in her surroundings.
Her best girlfriend (not in the homo way T_T) Sorpha was looking worriedly into her eyes. Also, June was not in her familiar bed in the orphanage, but curled up in a heap against the back door.
"Night terrors?" Sorpha asked. June nodded.
As her friend left her be, the girl sighed. She had been 3 years old when her mother Amanita had been executed for failure to pay taxes. She had been almost 6 when her brother Lenam was executed for the same reason. Her father then took up drinking, beat her bloody and trained her violently. That was why she was in the orphanage, removed due to child abuse.
Brushing tangled shoulder length hair out of her face, she trudged back to her room, pulled gray-and-purple armor on over her head, and adjusted a purple scouter over her left ear. it was summer, so no Army school, and she wanted to train with her closest... friend? Boyfriend? Neither one of the young saiyans knew what to call each other, but anyways, she found him at the bottom of her contacts list, and called him.
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"...And so that's why I have a new scouter." Raditz's father finished, trying on his brand-new scouter, for the last one he had was now floating aimlessly through the vacuum of space, thanks to Tora. Arrogant bastard.
"It's also got a new ringtone!" He happily spoke. He hated that last ringtone. He pushed a button on his scouter, and Portrait by Kansas played on his scouter. "It fits me so well, haha..." His father laughed, turning his attention to his wife to yell his usual where-is-my-food rant.
"Cooooooool," Raditz groaned out loud, turning his attention and his mouth back to his food. He finished shoving it down in record time when he heard his scouter ring a familiar tone, Bleeding Out by Imagine Dragons.
Of course, Raditz knew that ringtone, and so did everyone else in the entire house. To break the silence, Bardock started snickering. "Ok, she calls you AND instant texts you at least three times an hour. She's got you bad, son."
"Shut up dad!" Raditz shouted, blushing slightly. "Let me speak, alright?"
"Yeah, yeah, go talk to her."
Raditz got up from the table, ran upstairs, grabbed the door frame, and spun on his heels, landing onto his bed in a rather soft way. He put on his scouter and picked up the phone.
"Hey, June, what's up?"
The girl replied over the line. "Oh, nothing. just figured we could get in some training." She yawned, exhausted from her restless night.
Raditz scratched the back of his head. "Uh, alright. I was just eating, so, um, meet you in the forest at 10:00?"
June smiled. "Yeah, see ya!"
She hung up and the teenaged dashed back in the kitchen to finish eating.
"Ok, so, I'm going out to train with June, so..yeah...see you later." He finished, taking the last piece of fish from his bowl and shoving it into his mouth, running out the door with the fish tail hanging at his mouth.
"That son of yours is a piece of work." Bardock spoke to Naira, drumming his fingers on the table. "He gets it from you.-"
BANG!
Bardock was now nursing a bump on his face where Naira's fry pan had connected, still partially hot from being washed under hot water.
"He gets that sharp tongue from you!" She yelled, "Especially when you were drunk!"
"Mama..." Kakarot spoke up, "Where's Raditz?"
Both parents turned around to see Kakarot standing at the doorway. He seemed a bit taller today.
"Oh, well, he went to train with his girlfriend today, he'll be back in the afternoon."
Kakarot crossed his arms, muttering something under his breath.
"Kakarot, repeat what you just said."
"But mama-"
"NOW, MISTER!"
Kakarot was at the verge of tears. "All I said was that asswipe Raditz promised to train with me today, alright?" He looked at his father, winking, to see if his father caught the "new word" that Bardock had told him.
"Don't you REPEAT THAT WORD AT ME AGAIN!" Naira fumed, grabbing Kakarot by the tail, causing him to grow weak, and dragged him upstairs, letting his face hit the stairs one by one in a rhythmic pattern.
"You're next, Bardock!" Naira shouted from upstairs.
Bardock suddenly panicked. He looked at his invisible watch. "Oh, look at the time, better go see Tora!" He yelled, running out the door. "See ya!" Were his last words before he took to the sky.
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A man walked through the forest with a black cloak on, and under it, red and black old-style Saiyan armor. He carried with him a yellow stick with a black tip at the end. Every once in awhile, this man enjoyed nature, and loved to see it with different colors. Green, blue, yellow, red, all the colors. Even a vibrant fire color. Laughing to himself, he pulled out a match, lit it, and carelessly threw it onto the ground at the place with the most dried leaves he could find. He jumped up to a tree, hopping from one to the other. He kept the stick at his side, but then stopped, for he heard voices. He snuck out onto a branch and observed these two people.
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Both June and Raditz were laying on the ground, laughing and panting at the same time.
"Wow Raditz," June panted hard, "How hard are you training?"
"Well," Raditz began, "I train with dad, so..."
"Yeah, that sums it up." June spoke, giving him a friendly cuff over the ear, causing the two to laugh.
"The last time you tried so hard to defeat me you twisted your ankle!" cackled the girl, The two teenagers were seemingly high, although neither did drugs. They just enjoyed being around each other. It made them happy.
Suddenly, Raditz heard a crackle in the woods. He and June had had a frightening encounter with fire some years ago, leaving the highly receptive to it's sound and smell.
Raditz's gaze travelled carefully around, he brushed a hand down June's arm, to assure her of his presence. The girl jumped back into his chest with a wail of fear. Turning his head, The boy saw what petrified her so. Fiery demon tongues lapping at the sky. The two quickly took to the air and fled the scene, which they had been unable to do in the previous incident. "Fire! Why does it have to be fire!?" June questioned Raditz as they were running aimlessly through the forest.
"It's almost like it's planned," Raditz answered, "Like...someone wants us dead."
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The mysterious man was following the two kids, not in a stalker way. He needed to get them out of the forest, or his "master plan" would be ruined. He hopped down from the tree, landing on the stick, much to the tennager's surprise.
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"June, LOOK OUT!" Raditz yelled, tossing her to the side before something fell on her. In front of them was a man in a black cloak with red and black old-style Saiyan armor underneath. He was keeping the tip of his right foot on a yellow stick with a black tip on it. He hopped off and ran between the two kids, stopping a few feet away. He didn't want to speak, not yet. He made a hand motion, signaling the tennagers to follow him.
"Should we follow him? Maybe he can help us?" June questioned to Raditz.
"We have no choice. If he knows the way, then we'll follow him." Raditz finished, giving a head nod to the mysterious stranger. Quickly, this stranger ran through the forest as if he had lived there for his entire life. He knew every twist and turn, and if there was a fork in the road, he knew exactly which pathway to take. They were almost at the end of the forest when a burning tree fell in their pathway.
"Were trapped!" Raditz yelled, but, to his surprise, the man shook his head. He grabbed the yellow stick at the bottom and stabbed the log. Amazingly, it absorbed all the flames from the tree. The man took the stick back up and nodded to the tree. He jumped up, put one hand onto the tree, jumping over it, June and Raditz dead at his heels.
Finally, after what seemed like an eternity, they were out of the forest, panting heavily, while the stranger was balancing himself on the stick, waiting for the children to catch their breath. Once they did, he hopped off the stick, and tapped the tree burning the most furiously. Gradually, the flames disappeared, leaving a short trail of smoke and a coarse smell of ash in the air. The man then walked up to a pile of leaves and picked up a small, used match. He observed it carefully.
"You were lucky that I was in the forest at the time," He finally spoke in a neutral voice, "You guys could've died."
"Y-Yeah, thanks, mister," Raditz spoke up, "But we still would've survived, even if you hadn't come."
The man looked a bit shocked. "How so?" He questioned.
"See, last time this happened, my dad came to save me. You may have heard of my dad, he's kind of the strongest Saiyan on the Planet." He finished, rubbing his head.
"Yes, yes," The man spoke, "I know about your father, Bardock, and how he's a great low-leveler. So, you must be his son?" The man questioned.
Raditz was surprised that this man knew so much. "That's me. I can't thank you enough. What's your name, just so I know?"
The man was silent for a few seconds. "Kasai." He spoke up. "I'll be taking my leave now." He finished, turning on his heels and walking back into the forest, clenching his fists.
Damnit, I was SO close to killing that boy! I don't want the girl dead though. She'll be a key player in my enjoyment...AND the boy's father. Hehehe...
"Oh, before I go..." Kasai added, turning around to face the kids, "D'you think I could meet your father, Raditz? At Sunrise Hill perhaps?"
Raditz rubbed his head in confusion.Why has he taken an interest in my father? And how does he know my name? "Yeah, sure...I guess." Raditz spoke, "But why would you want to talk to him?"
"Oh, you know...scientific business and all..." Kasai spoke, flicking a piece of dirt off of his stick.
Finally, June spoke up. "What is that weird stick you're holding?"
"Oh, this?" Kasai spoke, holding out the stick, "It's called the Argo Stick. It can control any type of fire, and even produce it. It was given to me by my father, passed down from generation to generation. I take good care of it. I'll be taking my leave now." He repeated, striding back into the forest.
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Raditz sauntered into his home, his eyes bleary with exhaustion. Kakarot stomped up to him.
"Raditz, you promised you'd train with me! Ass-" He was silenced by a glare from his mother.
"You, um, jerk!" he finished.
Raditz, who had been staring blankly into space this whole time, moved his gaze-and only his gaze- to his small brother. "Umm I'll train you in an hour." He coughed. Naira got up and walked over to where her sons were standing.
"Now Raditz," she began, "You know better than to treat your broth-" she broke off when she smelled a faint trace of smoke. Without saying anything, she gripped her firstborn's wrist and pulled him closer. Sure enough, he smelled like he has just emerged from the fires of hell itself, and his face was sooty.
"Where were you!" Naira cried.
Raditz scratched the back of his head. "I got caught in another fire, but I'm fine now, thanks to a mysterious stranger named Kasai, but I'm safe now." Looking down, he noticed that his mother was still holding on to his wrist. "Can you let go now? It's not like I was beat half to death and left to die." (Oh, the irony!)
"Never mind that!" Kakarot shouted, breaking the two up. "Onisaan! I wanna train NOW!" He put his hands at his side with a glare in his eyes. He looked just like his father.
Both Naira and Raditz sweatdropped. Good Kami, what has dad done?
"Alright, come on Kakarot. Oh, before I go..." Raditz turned to his mother, "Can you tell dad that his friend Kasai was looking for him?"
"Kasai?" Naira seemed surprised. "Why, he hasn't made contact with your father in years! I wonder what he wants...Sure, I'll get the message to him."
"Thanks mom!" Raditz chirped, racing Kakarot outside to the backyard.
Naira put both hands on the table wearing her scouter. Her finger was lingering softly on the button. Kasai!? It can't be; there must be some sort of mistake. The last time he met up with Bardock...they tried to kill each other! Oh Raditz, I hope he isn't planning to...kill you for revenge!"
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