"Mommy?" A young boy said quietly begging to get his mother attention. The young woman turned around and looked at her son questioningly while wiping her hands on a towel. Dinner had just ended and she had just begun the task of cleaning the dirty dishes. She briefly thought back to when she first had the pleasure of cleaning dishes and cleaning a house. It wasn't her own home, she was a princess, and princesses didn't clean their own home. Her mind wondered back to her mission to find the bansho fan. That house had been filthy.

"Yes Gohan?" The young boy looked down and drilled his toe into the floor completely embarrassed to ask his question.

"I have studied really hard and…."

"Yes?" His mother smiled at her son's embarrassment and wanted nothing more than to run up to him and embrace him in a huge hug and tell him how cute he was.

"I am studying about the lunar cycle and I was wondering…"

"What is it hunny?" She was curious now and was interested in hearing what he had to say. It didn't seem to be something that was common for a child to ask.

"I was wondering if it would be ok for me to view the full moon tonight." The mother frowned slightly not willing to allow her son to venture outside after dark.

"Gohan, you are three years old. You know that your bed time is 7." Gohan looked up at his mother with a slight pout and a puffing lip almost on the verge of tears. He didn't like the idea of being rejected when he asks for so little. So he went in for the kill.

"Please mom just this once? The full moon is visible now. Please mom just this once?" His expression deepened turning into an almost perfect pout with puffing lips wide eyes that were on the verge of tears and shaking hands and then suddenly a single tear fell from one eye.

"Oh ok hunny, I guess both your father and I can make a trip out of it." She fell for it. It wasn't that hard, she knew her son knew her weakness. It was something that she had to work on. She really thought that she had a handle on her son's pouts but when that tear came down she couldn't say no any longer.

She walked towards the door and opened it wide, "Goku! Please come inside!" She didn't have to wait long for her husband to arrive at the door.

"What's up ChiChi?" He looked at his wife and then at his son. He looked closer and noticed the drying tear stream on one eye and smiled slightly. His son asked for something and had broken his wife's resolve with a single tear. He wished he knew this worked when he was a child. His grandfather never broke down. He would ask to go out after dark all the time and he would always say no.

"To further Gohan's studies we are going to watch the full moon." Goku was surprised at first it was the very thing that he wanted to ask his grandfather for but was always denied. His son was good if he got his wife to concede. His wife was even harder to convince than his grandfather. He always had a reason for him not to venture out.

"I don't know Chichi my grandfather Gohan told me of a monster that comes out on a full moon." Chichi looked at her husband with amusement. Sometimes her husband could be so clueless. But then other times he would say things that would only be expected from a scholar. The type of man she could see her son becoming.

"Don't be silly Goku. There are no monsters that come out during a full moon."

"But Chichi, my grandfather was killed by one." He remembered the destroyed forest, the crumpled body of his grandfather. He remembered the helplessness of never finding his grandfathers killer.

"I don't know what happened to your grandfather but I am sure that it was not a monster." She didn't want to admit that she was doubtful about the monster but still felt that she should still take her husband's words seriously. He was not one to exaggerate events. The events that he had told her about were things that she could not ignore but would not force her into hiding.

"We are going and that is final. Besides if there is a monster then we have the most powerful person in the world to protect us." Chichi and Goku relaxed with the idea that the most powerful person in the world was there. Chichi felt she could be safe anywhere and Goku felt a little foolish. He started to believe that the only one that posed a threat was Piccolo and he felt him nearby but he always felt him nearby. Strange habit Piccolo seemed to have, he always seemed to stay close as if to make Goku feel unsafe. Goku felt confident. He didn't see Piccolo as much of a threat anymore more of a rival.

"I guess your right…" He was still unsure but his wife had a way of convincing him to do and believe what she wanted him to. He was sure this was what this love was that everyone talked about. He knew he would do anything to protect his wife and child. With is rival in the area he felt the need to stay put to protect them. He looked down at his son. He was beaming with pride and love that only a little child could portray.

"Come on Gohan lets go up on the roof." Gohan's face turned to immediate joy.

"Yay! I get to see a full moon! I get to see a full moon!" He couldn't help but jump up in the air repeatedly. The glow on his face made both his parents feel they made the right decision. His mother composed herself.

"Gohan, what do you say?" He may have gotten his way but he still had to maintain his manners.

"Thank you mommy. Thank you daddy."