Disclaimer

I do not own Dragon Ball Z. This is a work of Fanfiction using the Dragon Ball Z world. Dragon Ball Z is owned by Akira Toriyama. This work does, however, contain OC's.

Kairi awoke in the cave she shared with Kakarot. She groaned as she pushed herself up. How long was I out? She was still a little light-headed, but she could function.

Where's Kakarot? She looked around the cave, trying to spot her little brother.

"Kakarot! Kakarot, where are you?!" She looked around wildly hoping to catch sight of something that could point to his location. She sniffed the air, attempting to catch his scent. It was there, but it was a few hours old. She followed it to the edge of the cave and out onto the side of the mountain.

It led her down the mountain path to a curve, then abruptly stopped. Where did it go? Scents don't just disappear like that. And I was getting closer. She looked around and kept sniffing, trying to catch sight, or a scent somewhere.

I'm not getting anywhere like this. I'll try to spot him from the air. She jumped into the air and flew a little ways up, then stopped and surveyed the land below her. Ugh, he's so small I'll never find him up here. I'll have to go down there to look.

She dropped back to the spot where she'd lost Kakarot's scent, and created a blast big enough to leave a burn mark on the rocks, but not to destroy them, and fired on the rocks. Then she took off to search the rest of the mountain.

The first thing she did was establish a search area, the way some the warriors on Planet Vegeta did when they were looking for something. Then she proceeded to search inside of that perimeter.

As she searched she noted several spots that looked good for hunting and gathering, but she never caught any sign of Kakarot. When it started to get dark she began to grow frantic.

She abandoned any idea of a search area and started to randomly fly around. I'm not getting anywhere! I need to calm down. She took several deep breathes. "Where was the last place I knew he was at for sure? That would be that cliff that I marked. I'll go there."

She flew to the spot where she'd lost his scent earlier that day, and looked down at the cliff. I guess he could've fallen off. That thought terrified her. Depending on how he landed he could've died. She took a deep breathe and leaped off the cliff.

She fell headfirst with her arms pressed against her sides. She loved the sensation of free fall. Raditz had always called her insane for leaping off really high cliffs for fun, but what did he know. She performed a backflip and landed on one knee, a long way down from the cliff she'd leaped from.

She sniffed the air again, and grew excited. Kakarot's scent had pooled here, meaning he'd stayed here for a while. But that wasn't all, the scent was fresh, he was close. Very close.

She looked around and saw she'd fallen into a small clearing rimmed with trees that had lush green tops, and some bushes bearing strange red berries, she'd have to remember to come back and harvest those later.

Her gaze fell upon two wolves, and she gasped. She couldn't see past them, but she could see some black hair sticking up in front of them.

She leapt into the air and slammed landed with her knee crushing the throat of one wolf. The other Leapt at her, but she dodged to the side and kicked it's head clean off. The head rolled to the side of the clearing leaving a trail of blood behind it, but Kairi was already kneeling over her brother.

He was laying on his back with blood matting part of his hair to his head. She touched the spot where blood seemed to be coming from, and her hand came away with a coat of blood.

She grabbed him, and the two wolves, and flew them back to the cave. She left the wolves at the entrance, and rushed Kakarot inside to the place where she'd left the supply crate.

She laid him down on the ground next to her armor and grabbed some cloth from the crate. She then wrapped it around his head in a rough bandage, and leaned against the cave wall next to him.

She stared at him, fervently hoping that he would live. He has to live. But if he doesn't… He will live, he has to.

She watched over him for a while then went and cooked the two wolves, being careful to drain the blood into the lid of the crate so she could give it to Kakarot.

Kairi sat next to Kakarot after the wolves were done cooking and ate methodically, barely tasting the wolf. She had to hold Kakarot's mouth open so she could feed him the blood she'd gathered from the wolves.

After she fed him, she leaned back, staring at the opposite wall. Her thoughts turned to her childhood, and inevitably, to the destruction of Planet Vegeta. She tried not to think about it, but she did anyway.

After a few minutes, she walked to the center of the cave, and started doing push-ups and sit-ups. More to keep her mind from wandering than anything else. She kept her eyes on Kakarot as she was working out, so she could see if he awoke.

She ended up going on until she couldn't see, and was keeping track of Kakarot solely by scent. She stood and walked over to where Kakarot was. Then she sat down next to him, picked him up, and held him tightly.

"I'm never going to let you get away from me like that again, Kakarot." She allowed her head to fall back against the wall, and she was out in seconds.

That night Kairi had nightmares, again. She had the usual ones about the destruction of her home and family, but then there was a new one. One that she remembered as clear as day. It hadn't felt like a dream, however. It had felt more… real.

Kairi was standing in a field on a strange planet. This planet had green grass, a beautiful green sky, and sparkling emerald green water.

She was standing on a medium sized island with her arm drawn around someone's shoulder, and her tail wrapped around that person's waist.

She turned and saw a short man dressed in white and brown combat armor, with white gloves and boots. He had lightly tanned skin, with black eyes, and hair that stood up like a black flame.

She looked around, surveying the rest of her environment. There was a short man in orange and blue, and two children, one in blue and white combat armor. The other in black and brown combat armor.

The face for the short man and the kid in white and blue were blacked out to where she couldn't see them. But the face for the other was clear as day.

She was a girl, of equal height to the kid in blue and white, but more slender. She had black eyes, and a light skin tone. Her hair was styled so that it reminded Kairi of Raditz. It was bushy, fell to her waist, and had two bangs on the front.

Kairi's eyes swept past the girl and focused on a figure that seemed composed entirely of white light. She couldn't exactly tell, but it seemed like his hair was styled like her father's, and Kakarot's.

Kairi continues to scan the area and she saw a cloud of darkness gathering above a cliff. The darkness seemed to get blacker as it got closer to the top of the cliff, until it was pitch black. And this seemed to be creating a black figure.

She heard someone scream something, and saw a purple light shoot out of the darkness, engulfing her, causing her massive amounts of pain.

She woke up with a shout, panting, and in a cold cast a fearful glance around the cave, then sighed in relief.

"Only a dream."

She saw that there was light streaming in through the cave entrance. I'm glad it's daytime. Maybe now I can make some clothes out of those skins. I've been wearing the same clothes since I got here and I don't want to wear out my spandex.

She looked down at Kakarot who had fallen out of her arms while she was sleeping, and now rested quietly on the cave floor. She noticed he was shivering slightly with a slight cold.

"It's not that cold is it?" She stood and walked around in the cave getting a feel for the temperature.

"Nope it's not cold at all." She crossed her arms and tapped her foot thinking.

"Could he be running a fever?" She walked over to him and felt his forehead.

"Nope not that either." She frowned thoughtfully at him.

"Maybe he's just cold? I guess it could be possible. I did stay on that icy planet after all, maybe I'm just a lot tougher than he is." She removed her sleeveless spandex jumpsuit, and wrapped it around him.

"There that should work for now." She said as she surveyed her handiwork.

"Now, I'm going to go get some food. Don't go anywhere, okay?" She turned and walked out of the cave.

Once she was outside she grabbed a boulder and placed it in front of the cave entrance, blocking him in.

"That should keep him in, if he does decide to disobey my orders."

She flew through the forest in search of animals to eat and claim the skins of, and things to make containers for holding water.

Kairi returned to the cave a few hours later, carrying a bear, two wolves, and a coyote to skin and eat. And several good sized tree stumps and rocks that she could shape into containers later.

She removed the boulder and walked inside, throwing all the things she'd gathered in the center of the cave.

She went to Kakarot and fed him the leftover wolf blood from the night before, and took care of his other needs, few though they were, then ate the leftovers from the night before.

After she was done she sat in front of the things she'd gathered and sorted them. She created a pile for animals, then started to sort through everything else.

She took the larger rocks and wood, and set them aside to make larger containers to hold the days water, and hide for mending, as well as whatever other things they happened to find. She set the smaller things to the side to make things like a small knife, more for Kakarot since she could make a blade with her energy, a fire pit, and wood for a fire.

As she worked the sun went down, and when it went down she went to sleep, her work not yet done.

She woke up the next day, hunted for food, and then picked up where she left off. Even though she worked quickly, considering what she had to work with, it was still a very slow process. She had to pick up each new item, assess what she currently had, then decide what she could best do with the shape and size of the item she had in hand.

She was also forced to work with her energy, and her telepathic abilities. She was skilled at telepathy, not to the same degree as with energy manipulation, but it was tiring, and slow. She had to make everything precise, which made it even slower.

She was grateful for the work though, it kept her from thinking, and thinking always led her to thought's she'd rather avoid.

She did this for two more days, then Kakarot awoke.

She'd just finished the fire pit, which was the last thing she had to work on that wasn't animal skin, when she heard some crying behind her.

She turned around slowly, barely daring to believe that it could possibly be Kakarot. Then she saw him lying next to the cave wall, crying his eyes out.

She dashed over to him and picked him up cradling him in her small arms.

"Why did you go and do that?! You might've died! Do you hear me Kakarot, died! I promised dad I'd look after you, but I can't do that if you're running off cliffs, understand?! Don't ever do that again!"

Kakarot just stared up at her, quietly, while she yelled at him. Obviously not terrified at all by his sister's yelling.

"What're you looking at?" She asked as he continued to look up at her. He burst into a fit of giggles. Kairi huffed angrily and stomped over to where she'd left the skins and started to sort through them.

Kakarot stayed by her side, calmly, with an innocent look in his eyes. Kairi stopped her work to look at him.

It was then she decided that no matter what her little brother was not going to fight Frieza. Those innocent eyes, those eyes that hadn't seen the horrors of Frieza, that hadn't seen their home be destroyed would not be seeing Frieza in combat.

It was then, that this twelve year old girl, decided she would die for her little brother. Not because her father had said to look after him, but because she loved him. Those innocent eyes, and that calm demeanor so rare in Saiyan babies, had awoken some sisterly feeling inside of Kairi

She would lay down her life for Kakarot without thinking twice, with no promise needed this twelve year old girl would die for her little brother, Kakarot.

This is the second chapter of the rewrite, and I think it's a lot better than the original. Reviews are always appreciated. Thanks for reading.