'W-where am I?'
'Where am I…This time?'
I cracked my eyes open an take a look on my surroundings; I was feeling warm and comfy, I sit up and looked down to see myself wrap in a blanket, I realized that made body was also wrapped but in bandages, I looked around and the room I was in was simple; across from me was a closet, to my right was a night table with a glass filled with water and to my left was a window filling the room with light I could see the threes and the clear blue sky.
"Oh you're awake" a voice called.
I turn around and saw a person-A woman- standing at the door; she had black in a hime cut with two long bangs reaching her cheeks, a purple long sleeved shirt with pink pants, she was holding a stray with a plate on it.
I cowered against the wall I was startled by her sudden appearance.
She obviously saw my reaction an calmly got close.
"It's ok, you don't have anything to worry about, and how are you feeling?" she asked as she placed the tray with food in my bed.
"I'm-err…ok?" I said not sure what to answer to her 'cause I didn't know how'd I feel, the only thing I feel was… safety.
"Glad to hear it, you must been starving" so I bring you some food.
I looked at the plate; It has a steaming rice bowl and a plate with meet fried with sauce on it, I could feel myself gaping at the food, I reach my hand out to grave it just to be stopped by the woman
"Wait! You had to use this" she showed me a spoon, a fork, and a knife. I eyed them curiously before I grabbed them and start using the spoon to try and grab the meet to eat it.
"Y-you actually don't know how to use them do you?" the woman sweatdroped while watching me trying to eat the whole piece of meat that I managed to get in the tiny spoon.
She then calmly explain me how to cut the meat with the fork and the knife, and how to eat the rice with my spoon.
Once I got trick on it I start to eat the rice at first I was calm but once I start eating I start doing It faster and faster, with the meat while I was eating a piece of it I was already cutting my next piece.
"Whoa it seemed you have something else in common with my husband goku besides the tail" The women giggled.
"Goku?" I asked.
"The man who found he's at the forest but he'll should be coming soon, I also should present myself as well I'm Chichi" The woman-Chichi-presented herself.
"And what's your name? She asked
"My… name?" I asked curious about the word.
"Yes, I'm chichi, what's yours? She asked again and I wasn't sure what to respond.
What was my name? Who I was? The only think I remember is waking up on "That Room" and escaping and then waking up here, I didn't know even if I had a name, but She was waiting for an answer so I had to tell her what I only could.
"I don't know…" I responded kinda tired.
"You don't? Oh dear… this is worse than I thought" at that moment a voice rang all across the house
"I'm Home!" the voice said.
A moment later a man with spiky hair and orange and blue clothes came out of the door with a smile of his face
"Chichi I'm back- huh? Oh hey you're awake that's a relief" The man-Who I assumed was goku-said to me
"Goku we have a problem!" Chichi said alarmed
She then explained goku about my condition and how I didn't know my own name.
"Oh man, I guess that crash on that mess him up really bad, huh? Goku said scratching the back of his head.
"Should we call a doctor?" Chichi asked.
"Actually I was thinking to take him to bulma" Goku said.
"Bulma, why with her? Chichi asked.
"Well I was thinking of getting the thing here he came out from so that we'll know where he came from" Goku explained.
"Oh! Good idea, I wanna go along to, I want to see bulma and present gohan to her!" Chichi said excitedly.
"Well then, think you can walk? He asked me.
"Umm… I think so?" I got out of the bed and get up at first I need to support myself in the night table but then I got to stand by my own.
"Well then I'll get gohan, you two wait outside" Goku said leaving the room.
Once outside we waited for goku to come out, I got dressed up and I was wearing a short sleeved black shirt and dark blue pants and white shoes, goku came out carrying a small person in his arms, it was asleep and was wearing a white shirt, diapers and a red hat with a golden sphere on top, but what called my attention was the furry brown tail on his lower back
"He has a tail like me" I said in surprised.
"Yep, boy this is gohan our son, and is no surprised he has a tail I use to have one when I was a kid too" Goku explained.
"Really?" I asked in awe.
"Yup, it really surprised me to see you with a tail too kid!" Goku laughed.
"We have to find him a name we can't just keep calling him "kid"" Chichi frowned while goku gave gohan to her.
"We'll think of something later, for now Nimbus!" goku call out and a golden cloud appears in front of us.
"You guys ride nimbus I'll just fly along" Goku said while starting to levitate.
"Oh right I have to take this thing" goku flew to some nearby bushes and pull out the ship I land to carrying it on one shoulder.
"I want bulma to analyze this to know where you come from, are we ready to leave?"
"Yep" Chichi said, while I looked surprised between goku and nimbus both of them floating.
"How are you doing that?" I asked still surprised by the man's ability.
"Oh well I just use my Ki to fly, but not everyone can do it" Goku replied.
"That's why we'll have to use nimbus, but again not everyone can use it, just the good at heart" chichi explained me.
I looked at the cloud and touched then I start to climb on it until getting on.
"Am I good at heart?" I asked
"It seems so; well let's go to the west capital!" Goku said excited as he flew off with us following behind
Flying was something else entirely I could feel the wind in my face and looking down everything looked so small so simple and really beautiful.
We follow goku to a great city, it was a great view with tall buildings, I grimace a bit remembering the look on the building at "that place" I shook my head, this was different this buildings weren't meant for hurt me to capture me
We keep flying until we spotted a yellow circular building with a great yard in the back, we land in front of the building it was bigger looking it from the ground than from the sky, and I could take that had sign with the words "Capsule Corp." written on it.
"Bulma, Hello!?" goku called out.
From the front door a woman with turquoise hair reaching her back and yellow shirt with a lab coat on top of it and blue jeans came out.
"Goku, Chichi? Oh my god what a surprise how'd you been-"Bulma cut herself up while noticing me standing beside them and gohan in chichi's arms.
"Who are those kids?" Bulma asked surprised by our presence.
"Well this is gohan our son, while he… well we don't know his name but for now we'll calling him "kid" Goku replied casually making chichi frown at how he keep calling him that, while making bulma yelp in surprise while congratulation them for gohan and asking where do I fit in this.
After explaining to her about what happened to me, we gathered in the backyard with bulma examining my ship.
"So your saying that the kid get out of this ship?" she asked.
"Yup it was really strange" Goku replied while holding gohan who began laughing when he saw a butterfly.
I however was watching silently at everything it was very impressive seeing the city from across the fence with cars pacing and the all kind of people walking
"And you haven't asked him where he come from or what's his name" Bulma asked absently while testing the control panel of the ship.
"I do asked for his name but… he seems to have amnesia" Chichi replied.
"Really? Huh poor kid, he's been through a lot" Bulma said while casting a look at me while I was still looking around at nothing in particular.
"We have to have to find a name for him we can't call him kid forever" Chichi said.
"Why not? it may be a good name" Goku said casually while making faces to gohan to make him laugh.
"Goku please take this seriously" Chichi snapped furiously at him.
"What, what did I do?" He asked clueless.
While the two of them start bickering I keep wonder around until-without realizing it-I leave the capsule corp. and start walking along the sideway.
While walking around I looked at everything; the buildings, the people the cars it was all so new to me, maybe because I wasn't looking around that I bumped into someone
"Hey! looked where you're going brat!" a man in green jacket a white shirt under it and black pants yelled at me.
I absently keep walking ignoring the man's rant, he grab me by the shoulder and turn me back,
"Aren't you gonna say somenthin'!?" the man snarl at me.
"Let go…" I said blankly.
"Not until you learn a lesson brat" The man snickered.
"Let. Go." I said while looking at him fiercely, a push of invisible energy sending him flying to the other side of the sideway unconscious, people gathered around him oblivious of what just happen… except for one.
"How'd you do that?" I turn around to the person who asked me and saw a girl around my age, she had brown hair long to her back, it was hearing a black shirt and dark blue jeans, she was wearing a blue glove on one hand and was wearing red and black shoes.
"Do what?" I asked curiously, looking at the girl confused.
"You push him away at least tree feets away! How'd you do that?" She asked incredulously
"I don't know I just want him to keep him away and to let me go and… that happen" I replied with a shrug like it was no big deal as I start to walk again.
"Wait, so you have powers or something?" She asked me.
"Powers?" I asked.
"Yeah like can you fly, lift a car, do that when you want, fire laser beams?" she keep asking
"I can do the last thing -I think- why?" I asked again
"You can!? Can you show me?" She asked. I shrug and held my hand out, I start to focus and-
"Wait!" she said
"What?"
"There's many people out here, let's get somewhere else so you can show me" she grabbed my hand and dragged me to an alleyway "ok now you can show me"
I nod and start focusing remembering how it feel the last time I make it, then a ball of blue energy appear in my hand.
"Woaaa, so cool!" She squealed.
"You can't do it?" I asked
"Of course not, no one can do that but you! How you'd do it? Did a spider bite you? Did a alien give you your powers by a ring, are you a super soldier? She keeps asking me while getting closer and closer to me.
"No, to any of that, why?" I asked yet again.
"'Cause that's normally what happen in comics…" She said scratching the back of her head.
"Comic?"
"Yeah yeah laugh like all the others for a girl passing her time reading a comic"
"What's a comic?" I asked with my head titled at the side.
The moment the words left my mouth her eyes grew to impossible sizes as she grab my shoulders and start shaking me.
"You. Don't. Know. What. A. Comic. Is?" She asked while shaking me back and forth.
"No-oh" I said while being shake, she let go and I feel the world around me spinning.
"Where have you being leaving? Under a rock?" She asked incredulously.
"Nope on a thank" I responded but she didn't hear me while continuing her rant.
"Well, don't fear since I am here!" she exclaimed while smiling and grabbing my hand.
"I know the perfect place to take you" she grabbed my hand and take me out of the alleyway.
We got to an arcade/bookstore where many other people were playing eating and reading it was kinda big, there was a bar in the right just entering the place with two boys and one girl serving food to the customers, the tables were in the other side with people eating and chatting, the video games were in another room to the left were people get in and start playing while the comics were in the another room in the other side.
"Amazing isn't it? I'm Rin by the way, what's your name?" she asked me.
"I don't know" I said as I walk around the place towards the bar, she followed me.
"Har har, really funny, seriously what's your name?" she insisted.
"I don't know my name" I told her blankly.
"W-wait, are you serious?" she asked in disbelief to which I nod "So what about your family?, parents? a dog?" She keep asking.
"I only know Goku, Chichi, and gohan-and recently bulma-but they call me "Kid"" I answer as the bartender got close and ask for our order.
"Umm, bring me a steak and salad and you?" she asked still shocked about what I tell her.
"Same" I answer with a shrug.
As the bartender left our conversation resume.
"S-so you mentioned goku as in "The goku" the champion of the last martial arts tournament" She asked but sweatdroped at the clueless look I give her.
"A tournament were fighters reunite and test their skills against each other" she deadpanned "the last one was legendary but almost no one saw the climax, everyone run scared when some Piccolo guy appear, many says that they were using a bunch of tricks, but I think it was real! And if you know goku that explain why you can do that with your hands!" she squealed as the bartender came with the food.
As we start to eat she suddenly sneeze when she was about to take a bite on the salad.
"Something wrong?" the bartender asked.
"D-does this has pepper?" Rin asked.
"No, no, but I think I know what the problem is, this is an Arugula salad we used leaves from a plant called Arugula as main ingredient and has a scent similar to pepper, we can changed it if you're allergic" he explain
"Yes please" Rin said as they took her plate away, she then noticed that I was snickering.
"What's so funny? my allergy?" She snapped angrily at me.
"No, it's just that it has a funny name" I responded
"What the salad? T-the arugula?" she said as I snickered again.
"Well then No-name-kid, maybe we should named you arugula so you laugh all the time eh?" She joked, but I took a contemplative look
"Why not?" I asked much to her confusion "Why not named me arugula"
"W-wha? Are you serious? What kind of idiot named himself after a vegetable?"
Some were else in the universe…
"ACHOO"
Three men clad in armors sneezed at the same time
"But I liked it, There's no reason to not do it" I said
"Its nuts!" She shrieked.
"No it isn't" I said
"It is" she said
"No"
"Yes"
"No"
"Yes"
"No"
"Yes"
"Yes"
"No"
"No?"
"NO!" She yelled.
"See it's not nuts" I said to her
"Exactl-waiiiit" the realization hitting her hard as her new plate arrived.
'He just trick me like a child! And here I thought he was kind of an idiot' she thought with an twiching eye.
"Ugg, fine but can you at least leave it in Aru? It sounds less weird" she said
"Aru… I like it" I smiled
"Great nice to meet you aru" she said
"Umm nice to meet you rin? I responded suspecting that I was supposed to say that.
We finish our plates and she show me some comic books, then we realized that I didn't know how to read so she explained what happened in the story, we played a bit in the arcades until it the sun start to set so we decide to leave, just as we leave we encounter with a familiar face.
"There you are kid, where have you been?" goku asked while riding nimbus
"I just go for a walk, and now I'm aru!" I said with a smile.
"Aru, you got a name? Sweet! Then we can stop calling you kid" Goku smiled.
'That's goku! The martial arts champions' Rin squealed in her mind.
"Bulma finished examining that thing a long ago, and then we noticed you were gone so I start to look for you" goku explained "Ready to go"
I nod and start to levitated.
"Whaaa?" Rin gaped at the sight of me floating.
"You can fly!?"Goku asked surprised
"I just figured out how" I explained innocently.
"Ok let's go"
"Bye rin I really had fun today" I said while flying off with goku
Rin just keep looking at us go-just like most of the people around the street.
"I wonder if he could teach to do that" she whispered in awe.
Back at capsule corp.-and after getting scolded by Chichi-bulma explained that most of the ship was damaged, but nothing beyond repair, she asked me where I get it but I grimaced at the memories of 'that place' I just shook my head and she sighed, after a while we bid our farewells and go back to the .
"Well it seems we'll have you with us for a while Aru" chichi said while serving dinner.
"And because you can control ki, maybe we can train together" goku said while digging his face in his bowl of rice
"No sir we have to teach him the basics of knowledge we don't know how much or how much he don't know so we have to educate him"
"Awwww, Chichi come on!" goku wailed and they started discussing
"Actually" I call out their attention "Why not both?" I asked
"What/Huh?" they asked.
"Today rin show me some books and I didn't know how to read them and that frustrated me, but she also told me about the martial arts tournament and it sounded like fun and I wanted to tested it, I wanna have knowledge and train with goku!" I said with that smile.
Both of them looked shocked at first but both of them smiled and agreed.
"Well I think it's settled you are now part of the family" chichi giggled while goku laugh
That was my first day with my new family, and the day I became one of the Son of the Sons