Reflections
By Sugar-chan
06'04'00
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Author's Note:
I wrote this as a Language Arts Project, and (at that time) I only knew vague parts of the time-line, so I just wrote about what I knew. Don't get mad at me, alright?
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Kuririn smiled at me and out newborn daughter. So many things have changed, so many people once thought to be enemies are now friends. I've heard the stories of Piccolo, and Vejita-no-ouji. Then there were us.

Funny, it didn't seem all that long ago that my brother, Juunana, and I were artificial humans. That we were trying to destroy the Chikyuu-jin; the people of Earth. Thanks to my husband, Juunana and I are human. Finally.

At first, Juunana and I stayed away from the Z Senshi. We did not understand why Kuririn had asked Shen lon to make us human. Why they showed us kindness when we tried to kill them. Juunana still feel that was, he still does not understand. I think I know why; why Kuririn and his friends were, and still are, kind to me, to the both of us.

I think I'm a better person now. Kuririn has had a profound effect on me. Showing my emotions is still hard to do; I was created to be a cold-hearted killer after all.

I guess it helped that Mirai-no-Trunks-no-ouji, which means, oddly enough, Prince Trunks of the Future, knew who I was. In his timeline I killed his family. I killed his world, because of unwanted feelings. I understand that Juuhachi-gou, I understand why she hated humans.

She wasn't one.

That's probably not a wonderful reason to destroy people, but when you used to be human, and can not remember it, reasons are not a priority. I still don't remember my birth name, so who is to say I will in twenty years time? The timeframe in which Mirai Trunks came from. I will still be Juuhachi-gou, Artificial Human Number Eighteen, for that is the only name I can remember.

When Kuririn wished me human, he rid me of that pain. The pain of not be a human, and hating every part of myself and others because of it. I am not an Artificial human any longer. I truly am human, as my husband and daughter are testimony to.

Kuririn told me that he wished Juunana and I human because he didn't want us to harbor that hate against the species that spawned Doctor Gero. Doctor Gero being the pone who 'created' Juunana and I. Kuririn told me later that he wished that I was human for another reason. He loved me.

Funny, that a man of whom I was created to destroy would love me. Funnier still, is that I love him as well. Perhaps it was the wish, or perhaps was just lonely. But whatever it was, I did, and still do, love him.

He kept me from destroying all he held dear, now he is a part of me, a part of my life, and my daughter. Marron has a good father, and I can only hope that I'll be as good a mother to her.

--Juuhachi-gou