DISCLAIMER;; I own Kohaku and a bag of rice.

A/N;; I'm not sure if this fails or not, but I decided to thrust an OC I've had for an abnormally long time into the world of Dragon Ball Z. As per usual, out of my fangirlish whims, she's a girl from our world that is thrust into the world of her favorite anime. I sincerely hope she won't be a Mary Sue and if she is, I also hope that she's at least tasteful enough that she doesn't fail completely while I tangle her life with the canons in this series. Now, without further ado, enjoy!

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"Huh... Wha-?," Kohaku groaned as she sat up. "... Coulda' sworn..."

Instead of being in her backyard like she had originally thought she had fallen asleep in, she was in a vast desert with many plateus. Rubbing at her face she slowly stood up and brushed off the sand from her back and hair. As she looked around, slowly, taking in her surroundings, she was desperately trying not to have a panic attack. Confusion and fear were the deffinate feelings she had at the current moment. She couldn't shake them off.

Breathing in, she closed her eyes then as she attempted to calm herself. What she needed right now was a cool head so she could figure on what to do. The lack of a compass, cantine and food held her off of this and she found herself flapping her hands on her thighs. The cool headed-ness was short lived though as she heard laughter beginning to come her way. It echoed like a song into her ears and she looked around, eyes darting in every direction until she took note of a rather large trail of sand flying up.

A little boy came into her sight then, he was running. Almost falling over in shock she then gasped as she saw on what he was running from. A dinosaur that was about as big as a three story house was rushing after him, dipping down every so often and chomping down in an attempt to get the child into his mouth. Screaming, Kohaku then began to run in the direction the little boy was going... Which was away from the dinosaur.

As the little boy still kept laughing, Kohaku could';t help but feel the panic within her rise to an incredible height as she ran for her life from the creature who should of been extinct. Adreneline pumped through her veins as she followed the little boy, who jumped high in the air multiple times before completely leaping over a boulder. Skidding and swerving to the side Kohaku found herself smacking into a plateu. Twitching, she fell over and her eyes swirled within her skull before she found a small shadow overcast itself over her person.

"Hey," the little boy inquired. "You did a good job out running that dinosaur. It took me a week or so to get past him without him actually nipping at my back."

Looking up at the child she couldn't help but take in his appearance to the full. He wore a tattered old orange gi with a symbol that seemed partially familiar. He also had a short sword upon his back and unruly black hair, warm eyes and tan skin. It was at that point that he looked so utterly familiar to her that it was no mistaking that in the back of her mind she just knew that she knew who he was.

"My name is Gohan," he said then, a large grin upon his little face. "What's yours if you don't mind me asking?"

Sitting back up, shifting to her knees, Kohaku stared at him for a moment longer. To say that she had been surprised was an understatement of the year.

"O-Oh... I'm Kohaku," she shakily grinned back at him. "It's nice to meet you Gohan... Say, why is a cute little kid like you out here in such a dangerous place?"

Gohan's cheeks flushed then. "Mr. Piccolo dropped me out here. He said that I need to learn on how to be out here by myself before he trains me to fight a -," and he cut himself off, looking a tad alarmed.

She blinked. Kohaku already knew on what time stream she was on. In her world this would be the time when Vegeta would make himself known and make a complete fool of himself. Sighing lightly she grinned; just barely though.

"Well... Would this 'Mr. Piccolo' guy mind if I join you? I'm not exactly sure on where I am and I'm afriad that I have no sense of survival skills." Wasn't Gohan only five right now?, she thought curiously. He spoke like he was an adult...

The little hybrid laughed. "I'm sure he wouldn't mind... Well, ok I'm not completely sure but I'd think he wouldn't mind if I at least taught you some basics if you need to go and try to find a place to live out here..."

Kohaku stood then. I'm going to stay with him, she thought as she looked down at him. "How about I just stay, neh? I bet it gets really lonely out here on your own."

"W-Well, it does but I've gotten kinda used to it," Gohan scuffed his foot in the dirt. "I mean, it'd kinda nice that I don't have to my homework that Mommy gives me..." He then went silent and looked up at her, eyes big and watery. "Will you actually stay with me Kohaku-chan?"

"Of course!," she reached down and smoothed out his hair. "I'd feel too bad if I left such a cutie alone for too long. Plus, I don't actually have anywhere to go."

A huge smile came to Gohan's face then. So far they had only known eachother for about ten or twenty minutes and Kohaku could already tell that this would be a great friendship.

"Heh heh, let's go get breakfast then! I bet you're hungry after wandering out in the desert that long. I know a tree that has GREAT fruit on it!" Gohan then began to run towards a large tree. Kohaku followed after and watched in fascination as he took a bowl off from his hip, ran at the tree, kicked it and then ran around to catch purple berries that fell at rapid pace to the ground. He then came back over and offered the bowl to her.

Sitting down onto the ground, she motioned for him to set the bowl down. Kohaku took a handfull, then pushed the bowl back towards him. Gohan looked at her curiously, offering more berries, but she declined and just watched as he devoured the entire bowl like a champ. Munching on her own handful she couldn't help but smile lightly.

The only doubt in her mind at this point was that Piccolo would leave her for dead when he came to collect Gohan. Yet... couldn't she prove to him that she had power too? Did she even have power? Did she have ki? Was she just human here? Was she sayian or just part? All these questions plagued her mind, but she kept her ears open as Gohan then began to excidely tell her how glad he was to actually have company. At some point though he had begun to sniffle lightly. Not wanting to see this she opened her arms to the boy and just blubbered on how lonely he had been for the past month or however long he had been out here.

This had been the only emotional time they had because soon he was showing her on how to do simple tasks. Heck, as the day progressed he had shown her on how easy (and yet how utterly difficult) catching lunch and dinner were. Gohan had even shown her the small training ruteen he had gotten down for himself.

"I remember on how Daddy would go into the yard and start to punch the air like this," he would say and begin to lash clumsily out at an invisible opponent.

Impressed was not the word she could say for what this kid already knew. He was about five and already he was a pro at figuring out on how to do things that would probably take her a much longer time to learn. Which from that moment, she decided that she would try to learn as quickly as possible on how to spar with him while also trying to learn on how to do what he had shown her for the day.

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A few hours later they were leaning against a boulder, a small fire roaring in from of them. Two rather large fish were cooking in the orange flames. Kohaku was cleaning a few scratches Gohan had managed to give himself during his own sparring session with himself.

"You're so klutzy!," she laughed lightly at him. "Once I start to get the hang of sparring too, I'll start to train hardcore with you Go-chan."

She watched as his cheeks flared with a blush again. She faintly wondered if he got this type of treatment from his mother... No, wait, all ChiChi had ever done was just coddle the boy to death. ChiChi had also said that training is a waist of time. But look at it now! It was the most important thing EVER in the history of this kids life!

Snickering at the irony of that little fact Kohaku then patted Gohan on the head. "I think the fish is done." And she grabbed both of them, handed him one and then began to pick of the burnt skin. She had actually been the one to do this for them both (Gohan had caught the fish though). She had killed it, gutted it and put the poor little creatures onto good sticks and put them over the fire.

Thank god for cooking lessons! She had had to do that type of thing more then once (and on many different types of small edible animals).

After they had finished the fish, they threw the sticks into the fire and sleep quickly over took them. Although, Kohaku had taken longer. She couldn't help but still feel completely lost at the current moment. This morning she litterally could of sworn that she had gone out to her backyard, laid down in the morning sun in the dew soaked grass... dreamed of a large dra- AH HA! That was it! That weird dream she had had!

A very large, green dragon with glowing red eyes had shown itself to her. It had not said it's name but it had told her that she was needed elsewhere in another dimmension. If she did not accept it then the dimmension she did not help would be in jeopardy because of this. Reluctantly she had accepted it... and now she was here, with Gohan... waiting for her first possible death.

Tears filled her eyes then as she cried softly. Gohan was dead asleep and she scooped him up from besides her and brought him to her and began to hug him like he was a stuffed animal. His soft little body, his careful breathing, it was the only thing that helped settle an on coming panic attack.

And he was the only that helped her sleep that night.

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Piccolo was deffinatly not pleased at the current moment as he glowered down at the sleeping pair. The pink hair female that cradled Gohan like her own child had litterally shown up out of nowhere. When he had been following Gohan early that morning, he couldn't help but notice a new, fairly powerful ki come to existance out of the blue. Lo-and-behold it was the female.

He then continued to monitor her through out the day with Gohan and took down mental notes of her. She deffinately had a higher ki then normal human females, she knew on how to at least gut animals, but she semed to be lost on everything else. Heck, when she had been watching Gohan 'train', she had had a blank look upon her face that only told him on utterly stupid she probably was.

Closing his eyes then, he began to meditate while listening to their heartbeats. After about four hours the female woke up. Cracking an eye open he watched as she then set Gohan down besides her while standing up. She then walked at least several feet away from the flame and looked up at the sky.

"Heeeeyyy!," she suddenly called out. "Piccolo-saan! I know you're out there and I just want you to know I KNOW on what's going to happen in a few months. I want to help so when the time comes, please, please, PLEASE train me! I'll try my best to be a student you can be proud of... Well, if you ever find that I'm worthy of that..."

His eyes widened then. This girl knew on what was going to happen? She knew that Saiyans were going to come here? Snarling, he fazed in besides her, grabbed her and brought her to a plateu that was just half a mile away from Gohan. Dropping her, he stood there, arms crossed as he glowered down at her.

The girl was too stunned for a moment before she looked up as she rubbed her back. "Well...," she grunted as she stood. "This is a pleasant way to meet you." She then looked at him in amazement. But she did not scream, she did not look at him like he was a monster. Yet her heart began to beat faster and her eyes widened like saucers.

Yet he was still curious, though it did not show on his face.

"You know on what is to come," he stated bluntly, eye ridges furrowing even more. "Tell them to me now or suffer death before you can 'help'."

Before she even began to speak again though her breathing began to become labored and she clutched at her chest. Piccolo wasn't exactly sure on what was happening but the girl fell to her knees then. The salty scent of tears hit his nose and he felt his eye twitch. What the hell was he supposed to do now? And what in the hell was happening to the girl? Only, this stopped after just a few minutes later.

"So-Sorry abo-about that," she began. "I-I'm wa-was in shock all of th-the sudden..." She then took a deep breath. "As I was about to say before that happened, I can't tell you. I may know on what's to happen but things must go as they are planned. If not, then something of a chastrophic nature could occur." Looking up she gave him a hard look.

At that moment she looked as if she was a seasoned warrior. Almost as if she had seen things that no other human should. The look was gone though and replaced with a tired one. Piccolo understood on what she was going at. He felt foolish then that he was even asking. This child could be from the future for all he knew; she could be help that the someone thought would do good.

Grunting to himself he then powered up and grabbed her again. She yelped and flailed a bit within his grasp. ("HEY! I AM NOT A SACK OF RICE YOU FREAKIN'-") Bringing her back to the campsite he then dropped her besides Gohan, zapped the fire back into existance and then left for a platue to watch them again.

His decision had been made. That look she had given him just a few minutes ago, that had been the only thing that let him know that she wasn't just a human with extra power. She was an asset and burden, just like Gohan was.

Closing his eyes again, he began to meditate.

He would have about five more months to asses them both before the real training came.