Disclaimer: I do not own anything DB/DBZ/DBGT related. I'm just using the characters to boost my imagination :). Oh, and on a side note, I wasn't sure what Raditz's style should be. So go with the flow for the choices regarding that issue that he'll make in later chapters if you can. Have a good night!


Overcoming the Past

Raditz lifted the unconscious girl from the ground by wrapping his tail around her waist and holding her at a reasonable distance from himself. He didn't trust humans after his half bred nephew humiliated him before. He looked over this example of the female species on this planet cautiously. There were some planets that the women were much more ferocious than the men and he did not want to take any ignorant chances on this one.

She is obviously weak minded. Her physical traits are not intimidating in any way that I can see…..odd colored hair but it is more pleasant than that blue color, she's also taller than that other female earthling I encountered when I first landed here. I wonder if these are similar to the lost females of my planet. Raditz continued thinking as he examined Lena and reached his hands out to grab the curves extending from her chest to get the answer to his last thought. His eyes widened in pleasure at the feel of the warm, round flesh.

Damn. These are way better than the tiny, muscle formed ones from back home, He concluded mentally. He also assumed that she would not act like the females from back home and throw herself at him with pure lust. He missed those days before he become a slave under Frieza's rule. None of that mattered now, though. Frieza was long since dead and Raditz could finally start anew.

He pulled Lena closer with his tail and smelled her loose hair so that he could get a scent from where she had come from and why she radiated the strong scent of his race. His sensed his old comrade among her, but if she were Vegeta's mate than he would have been able to tell that right off the bat. Most mates would have a white, disfigured wound somewhere along their necks or chest that would interrupt the thoughts of another male Saiyan if one were to get uncomfortably close and meant harm. Raditz was as close as he dared get and he would be harmful to the girl he was holding if he acted on his instinct to claim her right where he stood. He didn't see any scars and his thoughts continued to turn nasty, confirming that she couldn't belong to Vegeta that way. So, to make a livable life here on Earth like his dim witted brother, he would have to use this girl in a diplomatic way and think his actions through carefully. He inhaled Lena's scent one last time and focused on the trail behind her that she must have come from. He tightened his tail's wrap around Lena more securely and carried her at his side that way the entire journey back to the building she had started her walk from.

Lena regained her consciousness halfway back to her home and noticed that she was floating in the air by a monkey tail. A MONKEY TAIL. The two men that she knew for certain that were of the same species of alien as the guy that was holding her hostage was from, most certainly did NOT have tails. Prince Vegeta had definitely left out an important part of his family history at some point during one of Lena's "Twenty Questions" game she developed with him in order to get a backstory on his lost race.

She lifted her head when her kidnapper came to a stop and noticed that they were surrounded by powerful forces. Piccolo, Vegeta, Goku, Bulma's ex-lover Yamcha, and a super short man that she had only met once whose name she believed to be as Krillin peered at her and Raditz.

"You look like shit," Vegeta scolded as Raditz laughed viciously in response to the scrutiny he was being placed under.

"You would too if you drug yourself out of hell instead of fattening yourself up on this quaint mud ball planet, Plump Prince," Raditz responded. Piccolo laughed at the remark while Vegeta glared daggers at Lena like it was all of her fault that he, the superior of his dead people, was being ridiculed by this other Saiyan he must have known way before she, or even Bulma for that matter, had ever come into the picture. Lena accidentally made eye contact with Yamcha of all people at that moment. The eye contact gave him motive to speak up and refocused all the unwanted attention on her.

"Enough of the re-introductions!" Yamcha interrupted, "You better have a good explanation about why you are carrying Lena at your side like she is just a useless burden of a servant girl! If you harmed her I swear—"

"You swear what? Do you really think that a pathetic little earthling such as yourself could even put a dent in my already crumpled armor? Please, save me the poor attempts of heroism and shut the fuck up," Raditz sneered. Vegeta smirked at the insult fired at his most hated foe and immediately jerked it into a frown the moment Raditz tossed the so called "servant girl" onto the ground in front of him, forcing a small "oof" out of her. Lena took advantage of her freedom and scooted away from the Z Fighters and their target to hide her rising embarrassment.

'How dare he throw me down like I'm a sack of potatoes!' Her inner goddess scoffed.

"Yamcha is right. You have quite a bit of explaining to do 'Big Brother'" Goku replied, spitting out the word "Brother" in response to Lena's cry of hurt after she had landed on the ground seconds before. Piccolo had also moved in to attack after seeing Lena thrown aside. Both men stopped when Vegeta outstretched his palms at their opponent.

"No, we do not require any explanations at all. It's time to send you back to the bowels of hell that you should have stayed in. I will not tolerate another disgusting underclass Saiyan stinking up this planet," He said as his hands began to glow. A look of betrayal crossed Raditz's face as he twitched his eyes at the shorter alien that wanted to kill him and then at the girl he had hastily thrown away. Lena looked back at his regretful eyes and the feeling of compassion and familiarity at his situation took over. She pushed herself off of the ground and positioned her not-so-threatening body directly between the two black haired, lightly tanned, and very dangerous men.

"Not today, Prince Vegeta. It's a Sunday and I'll be damned if you kill someone that just acquired a second chance at life," She claimed as she spoke in a voice no louder than a whisper. The surrounding warriors looked at her hesitantly. Vegeta raised his eyes to study her face and the arms she held out in defense of herself and the weakling excuse of a fighter behind her. Raditz held his arms across his chest as he allowed the strange girl to act as his protection.

At least she will take the worst of the damage and give me just enough time for an escape, Raditz half-heartedly thought.

Vegeta eventually lowered his hand and shot a blast of power into the ground at Lena's feet. Everyone jerked in surprise including Raditz; all except for the girl it was intended to scare. Vegeta acknowledged her bravery and spat on the burnt mass of land in front of her.

"Fine. He can be your responsibility for your act of nobility," Vegeta said to Lena and then turned to shout at the blue haired woman that had long since poked her head outside to see the commotion that her friend had created. "Woman! We will be having yet another ungrateful bastard to shelter! You will need to start cutting the paychecks of your incredibly stupid friend to cover the costs of how much food this fucker is going to consume!"

Lena and Bulma exchanged a look of blunt irritation.

"Lena, I know that you haven't been the most outgoing girl in the world and that you refuse to go out and find a man whenever I beg you to; but for Kami's sake why did you start now and why is that the thing you bring home? What the hell were you thinking?!" Bulma shouted at Lena who had yet to lower her arms from the defensive stance there were in.

"What?! Why are you and Vegeta blaming me for this? I was just on an innocent stroll in the park when this massive man dragged his monkey ass out of the ground; a little fact that everyone seems to be ignoring! If the danger from the earthquakes caused by that was as serious as it was, Vegeta shouldn't have let me go! All he did was push me into going on my nice little walk by pissing me off with his usual sarcastic warning about the 'dangers of walking unprotected' speech he gives me every time I leave the house! I didn't think anything was different about his comment today then on any other day damn it!"

All the Z Fighters looked aghast at her crazed bout of ranting. They each had been around Lena at some point in time since her arrival at Capsule Corp. and none of them had heard her speak so loudly or even speak with so many words. Fortunately, Raditz saved her from their comments and the brutal verbal bashing Bulma was about to inflict on her for calling Vegeta out.

"No shit. So that's why you smell like Vegeta. You live here with him and that blue haired girl. Wait…that would mean that the loud mouth you are arguing with is Vegeta's mate?! Tell me Kakarot, since you and Vegeta have both lowered yourselves into finding this species suitable for mates, does that mean that all of the females on this planet are as pleasing to the eye and fuckable as they are? If so, I think I might just enjoy Earth after all," Raditz laughed out evilly as he stepped closer to Lena.

"No no no no no, not all the woman on this planet are that at all," Lena stuttered quickly before he got any other ideas similar to the one he was implying while he examined her. She pointed to the ground before speaking again, "in fact if you try anything like that without the girl's consent you will be sent right back down there."

Raditz rolled his eyes and ignored the threating movements the Z Fighters had arranged themselves into and around Lena.

"Um, are you sure about this arrangement Vegeta? I think it might be a bit more…safe…if Raditz stays at my place," Goku spoke up as he eyed Raditz eyeing Lena.

"Do not question my decisions you third rate idiot. Lena spared him his life and now she will oversee that he doesn't do anything worthy of being sent back to the pits of Hades. He will still be under the same roof as me so I do not appreciate you assuming that I can't handle your piece of scum brother. Do you really think my woman would let me live another day without nagging if anything happens to her foolish friend? No she will not, so do not second guess my unquestionable intentions about the situation. My commodities are far superior to yours," The Prince of the Saiyans concluded his rant and marched back to where Bulma was leaning outside of the house.

"Listen Lena, you don't have to go through with this," Yamcha reassured her once Vegeta was farther away. Raditz glared at the human and dared him to say anything else at all; thus silencing the man once more. Lena looked at the remaining Z Fighters around her and released a pent up sigh.

"Follow me Raditz, I'll show you to your room," She said as she held out her hand for him to take. The giant looked at it wearily before she eventually dropped it. Human gestures were only going to be a small part of the many unfamiliar things she would have to teach him.

Oh Kami, please let him be as quick to adapt with Earthly life as Vegeta was. Bulma said Vegeta didn't have to be shown anything twice, so let the same apply to this one too! Lena prayed to herself.

She led the new member of planet Earth into the home and down the hall across from Trunks's room. "You will be staying here. Next door to you is Bulma and Prince Vegeta's son's room. You will be seeing him a lot since he doesn't attend school during the summer and likes to hang out with me more than his parents. He's a lot more fun to be around than his dad at least. I sometimes have to watch him when Bulma and Vegeta go out on business trips which I guess you'll be stuck doing from now on too, but he's a good little worker and is already strong enough to turn into a super one of you," she winked as she tied to make small talk with the most terrifying person she had ever encountered. He gave her a look of disbelief but didn't make any remarks or interrupt her. The sound of her talking was intriguing him.

Her vocal cords sound like they're made from the sweetest berries in the universe or some sweet shit like that, he decided since he couldn't think of a better description for the way her voice rang in his ears. And since when the hell did I get stupid thoughts like that? I'm starting to sound like woman. Ugh! Earth is already draining me of my manhood. He snapped his attention back into what she was saying and less on the way she made her words sound as she continued to show him his room.

"….this bed is also the largest one in the entire house since no one really needed one this big. I bet you're tired and need to rest after what you have been though! You can stay here…or follow me…or whatever you prefer to do while I get something for you to change into for the time being." Raditz remained in place while Lena exited his bedroom. He was having a difficult time comprehending everything that had really just happened in a matter of a single hour. He couldn't believe how fortunate he had been to stumble upon her of all people. If she had been anyone else, he would probably be back in hell by now.

He slowly removed his damaged armor and tossed it across his room. He then found what he believed was the washing room within his new residential area and turned on the shower. He relaxed under the steaming water and rinsed off the dirt, blood, and grime he had accumulated during his trials and tribulations. He figured that the purple stuff in the bottle was meant to bathe with, so he used it help scrub off the remaining nastiness on his aching body. Once that was complete, he searched for anything that could be used to dry himself with. Raditz was very much naked with only a dark blue towel wrapped around his waist when Lena reappeared 2 hours later.

"Oh! Oh my God! I'm so sorry, here!" She exclaimed as she tossed him some clothes that she had run into town to buy after discovering that no one had anything to fit him. She turned to leave the room as quickly as she could when he grabbed her right wrist with his tail and pulled her closer to his chest.

Why does he have to smell as good as he looks? Lena asked herself, as Raditz smirked at her bashfulness. Look at him, just gloating his effects on you! You are acting like you have NEVER been in a room with a Greek God of a man before. Surely you haven't forgotten that night you graduated high school... Her inner goddess cooed. Raditz popped her back into reality as he spoke,

"This is the shirt, right?"

"Right," she mouthed. He pulled the black t-shirt that read "Guns N' Roses" over his head. The band was a personal favorite of hers and she planned on torturing the alien with it if he dared to question the logo on his shirt. Lena was then forced to relocate her stare to his arms and away from the abs that were now hidden. She fought off the instinct to trace the biceps that were obvious and didn't need to be flexed to show.

"And these are my under garments and pants, I'm guessing?" he questioned again, noticing her ogling. He looked over the deep blue colored jeans speculative; not positive that they would fit.

"Uh huh," Lena whispered. He was about to drop the towel right there when she figured out what he was doing soon enough to jolt herself out of his tail grip and away from his line of view. She hurriedly closed the door behind her and sighed in shock.

What the hell is wrong with you, stupid girl? Quit acting like you have never seen a sexy beast before!

'But he isn't just a man.'

The hell do you mean he is not just a man? Sure, he is a super race of pure power, but he is still male and he still thinks like every other MAN in the universe. If you keep acting like that, he's going to go full ape on you (if that tail is any warning) with your hormones screaming for him and then what are you going to do?

'You're right. I wonder if he is as large there as he is everywhere else. Do you think he would really get pleasure from this body like all the other men you have had the unfortunate luck of exposing yourself to? After all, selling yourself to him would actually be worth paying your rent; unlike the losers you had to put up with like the bad old days.'

Stop that, missy!

Lena inwardly screamed, ending her argument with her inner goddess* as she stomped her way back up to her room. She smelled the wonderful aroma of steak and vegetables in the meantime once she had climbed into her bed.

I bet he can smell the food too. Dinner tonight is going to be rough and awkward. I know it.

'Rough... I like the sound of that.'

Will you please go back into the shadows of my deepest desires already?! I don't need to be thinking about that. He's really just another responsibility to add to my list.

'As you wish, but I'll be back when you're ready to listen to me.' Lena's heathen half retorted as she turned on some music to ease her mind into a nap that she honestly needed before the feast she would be forced to sit through that night. Her dreams were more vivid than usual, but they felt so real…and familiar.


*A/N—Lena's inner goddess is like every woman's inner goddess. Her subconscious brings up the sexual tension and hopes that most women fight away so that we can be good, modest, citizens of femininity. Lena's character is reserved, but that doesn't mean that she doesn't want to have fun. This is mainly why I have included this inner goddess battle so that I can allude to the fact that one day she may act on her irresponsible side ;)