I can't believe he made me stay here with this jerk! Nakuyo thought as she watched Gohan running off to find Ayanei. She turned around and looked at Yamato. Stupid boy, tore up 23 and couldn't even keep watch of Ayanei!
She charged an energy blast and was about to fire it at Yamato when Mizu and Kaze came running down the street.
"NAKUYO! GOHAN TOLD US ABOUT AYANEI!" Kaze screamed. Nakuyo closed her hand causing the blast to cancel out. Mizu and Kaze stopped in front of Nakuyo, both breathing hard trying to catch their breath. Kaze noticed Yamato behind Nakuyo. She took another deep breath and walked toward the boy. She knelt down, picked up Yamato and put him on her back and walked toward the door.
"What're you doing?" Nakuyo asked. Both Mizu and Kaze looked at her funny.
"Gohan asked him to take care of him until he gets better!" Mizu replied catching up to Kaze. Mizu looked back at Nakuyo, who was just standing there and then followed Kaze in.
Nakuyo stood in the same spot for over five minutes, anger boiling in her stomach. Finally she went inside and stretched out on the couch. "Where ever you are, Ayanei, I hope you are safe," she whispered.
A few minutes went by and then she heard the doorbell ring. Nakuyo got up, and went to open the door. Standing there was Sakura and Tenchi.
"Watch over him I'm going to help Gohan and 23!" Sakura said then ran off.
"Hi, Ms. Nakuyo," Tenchi said smiling.
Nakuyo smiled back, "come in." Before closing the door she looked out. "Ayanei…"
"Make yourself at home, Tenchi," she said coming back in. Tenchi found a nice spot on the floor and sat down.
"Is Ayanei ok?" Tenchi asked after a long pause.
"S-she'll be ok… she's a strong girl," Nakuyo said slowly although the danger Ayanei was in was much greater than she expected.
"Gohan, any trace of her yet?" Sakura yelled to Gohan, who was flying over head. He came down and shook his head no.
"She couldn't have gotten too far!" Hikari replied. "Why would they want a wimpy 5 year old anyway?"
"What did you say?" Gohan asked about to punch Hikari.
"23?" Sakura looked at 23. Gohan turned away from Hikari.
"I think I've found something," 23 said looking up. "Come on!" 23 started running straight ahead as the other 3 followed.
Back at the house Nakuyo had made her way to where Yamato was laying. She gripped her sword and started to thrush it into Yamato's stomach. She stopped 5 centimeters from her target as she heard the door creak. She quickly dropped her sword and pushed it under the bed.
"Oh, Nakuyo, you're checking up on him too?" Kaze said entering the room. "We better get him to the hospital, he'd just die if he stays here."
"Let him," Nakuyo said under her breath.
"What?"
"Nothing"
Kaze looked at Nakuyo (who was now slouching in a nearby chair.) "Is something wrong?"
"No."
"Why don't we get him out of here then?" Kaze suggested. Nakuyo shrugged her shoulders. Kaze took this as an okay, and lifted the boy onto her back. She started walking to the door. "Are you coming?"
Nakuyo hesitated but soon got up and followed Kaze. Mizu was downstairs playing with Tenchi.
"Mizu, we're going to take Yamato to the hospital, I don't know when we'll be back. You're welcome to come with us if you'd like," Kaze said.
"I'd better stay here with Tenchi," Mizu replied. Kaze nodded her head.
Nakuyo and Kaze headed out to Nakuyo's car. Kaze lied Yamato down in the back seat and joined Nakuyo in the front. Nakuyo turned on the car and pulled out of the driveway. Nakuyo looked as if she weren't paying attention to where she was going.
"Watch out!" Kaze said 3 intersections from the house, warning Nakuyo of a car coming the other direction. Instead of slamming on the breaks, she slammed on the gas pedal, and swiveled around the other car, the back seat just barely missed getting hit.
"STUPID IDIOT! WATCH WHERE YOU'RE GOING!" a man in the opposite car yelled, passing them. Nakuyo pulled of to the side for a couple minutes to catch her breath.
"Are you ok Kaze? I'm sorry I hit the wrong pedal," Nakuyo explained.
Kaze nodded, "Nakuyo, I think you're the one that should be asked that. Something's bothering you, right? Ayanei?"
"I'm fine," Nakuyo replied getting back on the road. They finished the trip in silence. When they finally got where they were going, Kaze got Yamato on her back again, and the boy was immediately rushed to the emergency room.
Kaze waited outside the door to the emergency room for a while, when eventually she was tapped on the shoulder. She turned around, startled. A tall doctor was behind her.
"Oh sorry to startle you. Are you Miss Kaze Yukai?" the doctor asked.
"Yes."
"Your sister told me I'd probably find you here, you look so much like her," the doctor explained. Kaze smiled. "The boy, Yamato is it?" Kaze nodded. "Is he related to you? Your sister wouldn't tell me, in fact she seemed to get a bit offended and told me to come talk to you."
"No he's not related to me, just a friend. I'm sorry if Nakuyo did anything. She never really has gotten along with him, especially not now," Kaze explained.
"Oh, well can I get you to fill out these papers, she wouldn't even do that. Also he'll probably have to stay here for a while. You can wait in the lobby with your sister if you'd like. We'll let you know as soon as we're done," the doctor explained. Kaze took the papers from the doctor and walked out to the lobby. She sat down beside Nakuyo and started filling out them forms.
"Not that I care or anything, you seemed a little more annoyed with Yamato than usual. You probably could've filled these out, since you know more about him," Kaze said. Nakuyo shrugged. "What's Yamato's last name?"
"Tsutaya," Nakuyo answered, annoyed.
The 2 girls sat there in silence for the next two hours; finally the same doctor that had talked to Kaze came out.
"How is he?" Kaze asked.
"He's doing better than we thought, but he's still got a long way to go," the doctor answered. "He got beaten up pretty badly."
"Well, it's good he's doing better right, Nakuyo?" Kaze said. Nakuyo looked at Kaze, slouching in her chair, then looked back at the wall.
"If you'd like, you can go see him. He's asleep right now, however," the doctor said.
"Nakuyo?"
"Hmm? Oh, you go ahead," Nakuyo replied. Kaze nodded and the doctor escorted her to Yamato's room. Kaze walked into the silent room, and pulled up a chair to Yamato's bedside. The boy was covered in bandages. She sat there quiet for a long time, so long that she lost track of time and before she knew it, it was dark outside.
There was a knock on the door, and the doctor came in. "Your sister wanted to let you know she's leaving."
"Tell her I'm staying, and I'll see her tomorrow."
"Alright," the doctor said leaving the room.
The next day Gohan, Hikari, Sakura, and 23 were still looking for Ayanei.
"AYANEI!" Gohan screamed again, on the side of a cliff.
"I can't believe we just lost her signal like that," Sakura said.
"Yeah, I know. It's so weird," 23 replied.
"AYANEI! WHERE ARE YOU?" Gohan called out.
"Gohan, crying out to her probably won't help. Even if she can hear you, she's probably being restrained from calling back," Sakura said.
Gohan came down with the other 3. "I guess you're right. I hope she's ok, though."
"Same here," Sakura answered.
"Her signal's coming back!" 23 exclaimed.
"Where's it coming from?" Hikari asked.
23 looked at his tracking device, "What? Her signal is… is coming from all directions!"
"Huh?" Sakura said surprised, "How is that possible?"
"It's not possible!" Gohan replied, snatching the device from 23. He looked at it and was shocked to see that 23 was right. "Yet it's true anyway."
"And the signal is at its strongest point! She's around here, but where?" 23 added looking around.
Just then a hologram image appeared before them. One of the underlings was holding a sleeping girl.
"Ayanei!" Gohan screamed. Hikari didn't quite realize the image was a hologram.
"I'll get her!" Hikari said charging the monster. He tried to punch him in the face, but his hand went right through. "What the…?"
"It's a hologram, Hikari!" Sakura called out. She noticed a beam starting to form in the hand of the hologram. "WATCH OUT!"
"Huh?" Hikari said turning around. "What did you say Sa…?" Hikari started, but the beam extended and went through Hikari. The monster gripped the beam and raised Hikari 30 ft above the ground, the through him off.
"Hikari!" Sakura ran to him and just barely caught him. "You ok?"
Hikari got up his back hurting. "Yeah, thanks, Sakura."
"Do you still think I am weak?" Sakura asked running with Hikari back to the others.
"Yeah," Hikari replied after they had got back with Gohan and 23. Sakura punched Hikari in the face.
"What do you want with Ayanei?" Gohan screamed.
The demon snickered, "don't you know your daughters own powers?"
"So why are you practically tempting us to get her back?" 23 asked.
"I need to know how to use them… so how, maybe…" the monster started.
"We don't know!" Gohan said.
"And even if we did we wouldn't tell you!" 23 added.
"You either tell me or…" it started as it pulled out the beam it threw Hikari with, and pointed it to Ayanei's neck.
"I told you! WE DON'T KNOW!" Gohan yelled.
"You have 3 days to find out, or else we won't have any use for her," It said edging the beam closer to Ayanei's neck. The hologram then disappeared.
"AYANEI!" Gohan screamed. "23, Hikari, go home and let Nakuyo know what's going on, and please stay there and keep Hikari out of trouble."
"Keep me out of trouble?" Hikari questioned.
"Why don't you let Sakura go back instead?" 23 begged.
"Hikari, we can't have you getting in the way," Gohan went on ignoring 23. "You act too quickly without thinking!"
Hikari looked at Gohan angrily.
"WHY ME?" 23 screamed.
"Please, 23, just do it!" Gohan said, 23 hesitated but agreed. "Come back here in 3 days!"
23 grabbed Hikari, "come on baby." Hikari rejected by pulling his arm away, but 23 regriped him by the collar of his shirt. 23 and Hikari then left.
"Come on Sakura!" Gohan said. Sakura looked back once more then caught up.
Mean while back at the hospital, Kaze was awakened by the sound of footsteps entering the room.
"Oh, I'm sorry, did I wake you?" the doctor asked.
"It's alright," Kaze replied. She looked down and noticed Nakuyo's over shirt. Nakuyo came by here last night? She thought to herself.
"Huh? What in the world?" the doctor said.
"What is it?" Kaze asked, getting out of the chair and walking to Yamato's bedside. Yamato was back to normal, except for a couple of scars, his arm was still cut off, and his jumpsuit was torn. Kaze gasped
"I-I guess he just recovers fast huh?" the doctor said.
Kaze was in total shock. It was a couple of seconds before she noticed a broken bottle on the floor. Nakuyo? Can it be that she helped Yamato out? She thought, then looked at Yamato, who was still asleep. Must have been her.
"Looks like he's about ready to go home. I'll have a couple of tests done just to be sure, if everything's okay then he can go home," the doctor explained, Kaze nodded. The doctor opened the door and motioned for her to leave, and she did.
Kaze waited in the lobby for a while. Finally the doctor came out.
"Everything is fine as far as we're concerned, except for his arm. It should be okay for him to go home," the doctor explained, Kaze nodded.
"I'll go call my sister," she said, then digged in her pocket for some change, put it in the payphone, and then dialed the number. It rang for a while, then finally someone picked up.
"What do you want?" Kaze heard Nakuyo saying from the other line. Kaze was sure it wasn't Mizu, she could very well tell the difference between Mizu's friendly greeting and Nakuyo's rude one.
"Hi, Nakuyo," Kaze said.
"Oh hi Kaze, what's up?"
"You should know."
"Oh, him," Nakuyo replied, her interest in the conversation suddenly took a major dive.
"Nakuyo? Did you come by his room last night, before you left?"
"To check up on you."
"Yeah, I noticed your overcoat, and one of your bottles… Yamato's better and ready to go home and I thought…"
"I'll be there soon to pick you up," Nakuyo said then hung up her phone. Kaze hesitated, then hung up hers. She turned around and leaned on the phone booth. She stood there a couple minutes then took a deep breath and headed toward Yamato's room. She gently knocked on the door.
"Come in," Yamato said from the other side. Kaze was a bit surprised then remembered and went in. Yamato was sitting up in bed eating.
"Oh, it's you," Yamato said.
"Um… Yamato, I don't think we've ever been introduced, have we?" Kaze asked smiling, and trying to be as friendly as possible. "I'm Kaze," she went a little closer to Yamato holding out her hand.
Yamato stared at her hand, waiting for some kind of beam or blast to come out. After a while he just realized she was just trying to be friendly, and shook her hand.
"Nakuyo will be here to pick us up any minute," Kaze said still smiling.
"Okay," Yamato replied. "I-I'm… well sorry about Ayanei."
"It's ok, they'll find her, I'm sure," Kaze said as she helped Yamato out of bed.
"I hope so."
"Sit!" Kaze said pointing to a nearby wheel chair.
"I can walk!" Yamato replied. Kaze gave him the "look". He hesitated then sat. Kaze wheeled him out into the lobby. She signed him out and went outside with him and waited for Nakuyo.
"Kaze…"
"Hmm?" Kaze said as she took out her camera.
"Why were you so nice to me? I thought you'd hate me because of what my Grandfather did to you family?" Yamato said as Kaze took a couple pictures then put her camera down.
"What the fact that your Grand father killed my Great Grandfather?" Kaze started, Yamato nodded. "I'm not saying that I don't appreciate great-gramppie, but you didn't kill him so why should I care? Even if you did, my mom always taught me about this phrase 'forgive and forget'," Kaze explained.
It was about 2 minutes later when Nakuyo pulled up; Kaze got up and helped Yamato into the car. She then joined Nakuyo in the front.
The way home was very quiet but when they got home, there was an unexpected surprise. Hikari was standing outside. Nakuyo parked the car and got out.
"Hikari?" Nakuyo said.
"Oh, you're home crybaby, 23 is inside, he wants to talk to you," Hikari replied. Nakuyo looked at Hikari funny, then went inside, Kaze followed. Yamato just got out of the car when Hikari noticed. "Hi wussy
"Wussy got beat up again?" Hikari said. "Ooh, this time wussy lost an arm!" He continued.
"Shut up you idiot!" Yamato yelled.
"Ok, Wussy," Hikari replied. Yamato punched him in the face, breaking his nose and knocking him unconscious.
"Wussy," Yamato replied
Meanwhile inside the house, 23 had just got done explaining the situation to Nakuyo.
"Nakuyo, I meant to ask you. Were you the one who helped Yamato?" Kaze asked. Nakuyo nodded slightly.
"I'm going to look for Ayanei, and I'm gonna need all the help I can get!"
Just then Yamato walked in. 23 instantly noticed this and stood up, "Why you little…"
"Not now, 23, I've got a job for him remember?" Nakuyo said holding 23 back.
"What're you talking about Naku?" Yamato asked.
"You're gonna help me find Ayanei!"
"Alright," Yamato replied. Nakuyo was a bit surprised at his reaction. "Just hold on a minute," Yamato said charging some kind of energy blast in his good hand, and fired it at the arm that was cut off. A greenish-see through outline of his arm appeared and slowly returned to its original form. The others stared in amazement at his strange ability. Yamato lifted his new arm, looking at and bending the fingers. He put his hand into a fist. "Let's do this!"
Nakuyo smiled slightly and walked to the door.
"Nakuyo!" 23 called trying to stop her.
"I'm gonna find her, 23!" Nakuyo replied leaving.
"Is acting too quickly without thinking a trait in your family?" 23 asked Kaze, who just shrugged.
Nakuyo and Yamato headed off to find her and after a while…
"You again?" Yamato yelled.
"Again, what do you mean by that?" Nakuyo asked.
"He took Ayanei," Yamato replied.
"Let's get him!" Nakuyo yelled going Super Saiyan. "Why aren't you powering up?"
"I'm going to get revenge! YOU'RE MINE!" Yamato shouted. His hair started to stand up, it flashed yellow, and his muscles bulged. "This time you're going down!" Yamato yelled, his hair turned yellow, his eyes flashed pure white, then turned a blue green, a golden glow surrounded him and his power level surged.
He drew his daggers and Nakuyo drew her sword. Yamato darted behind the giant, he swung his daggers. The Behemoth avoided the attack. Nakuyo flew at him, and swung her sword. He caught it. Yamato kicked him in his spine; Nakuyo kneed him in the stomach. Then Yamato put his fists together and slammed the demon into the ground. Yamato put his daggers away and charged his enemy.
"MASENKO!" Yamato yelled, firing a massive blast. The giant avoided the blast, dashed behind Nakuyo and grabbed her. He threw her at some jagged rocks. Yamato ran to the rocks and caught her before she hit them.
"Thank me later, girl," Yamato said. The evil giant appeared right in front of Yamato, and punched him in the stomach. Yamato coughed up blood. The giant grabbed Yamato by the neck, and did the same with Nakuyo, then slammed their heads together.
"Ka-me-ha-me-ha!" Nakuyo yelled.
"Masenko!" Yamato said as the two fired their blasts, knocking their opponent out cold.
She charged an energy blast and was about to fire it at Yamato when Mizu and Kaze came running down the street.
"NAKUYO! GOHAN TOLD US ABOUT AYANEI!" Kaze screamed. Nakuyo closed her hand causing the blast to cancel out. Mizu and Kaze stopped in front of Nakuyo, both breathing hard trying to catch their breath. Kaze noticed Yamato behind Nakuyo. She took another deep breath and walked toward the boy. She knelt down, picked up Yamato and put him on her back and walked toward the door.
"What're you doing?" Nakuyo asked. Both Mizu and Kaze looked at her funny.
"Gohan asked him to take care of him until he gets better!" Mizu replied catching up to Kaze. Mizu looked back at Nakuyo, who was just standing there and then followed Kaze in.
Nakuyo stood in the same spot for over five minutes, anger boiling in her stomach. Finally she went inside and stretched out on the couch. "Where ever you are, Ayanei, I hope you are safe," she whispered.
A few minutes went by and then she heard the doorbell ring. Nakuyo got up, and went to open the door. Standing there was Sakura and Tenchi.
"Watch over him I'm going to help Gohan and 23!" Sakura said then ran off.
"Hi, Ms. Nakuyo," Tenchi said smiling.
Nakuyo smiled back, "come in." Before closing the door she looked out. "Ayanei…"
"Make yourself at home, Tenchi," she said coming back in. Tenchi found a nice spot on the floor and sat down.
"Is Ayanei ok?" Tenchi asked after a long pause.
"S-she'll be ok… she's a strong girl," Nakuyo said slowly although the danger Ayanei was in was much greater than she expected.
"Gohan, any trace of her yet?" Sakura yelled to Gohan, who was flying over head. He came down and shook his head no.
"She couldn't have gotten too far!" Hikari replied. "Why would they want a wimpy 5 year old anyway?"
"What did you say?" Gohan asked about to punch Hikari.
"23?" Sakura looked at 23. Gohan turned away from Hikari.
"I think I've found something," 23 said looking up. "Come on!" 23 started running straight ahead as the other 3 followed.
Back at the house Nakuyo had made her way to where Yamato was laying. She gripped her sword and started to thrush it into Yamato's stomach. She stopped 5 centimeters from her target as she heard the door creak. She quickly dropped her sword and pushed it under the bed.
"Oh, Nakuyo, you're checking up on him too?" Kaze said entering the room. "We better get him to the hospital, he'd just die if he stays here."
"Let him," Nakuyo said under her breath.
"What?"
"Nothing"
Kaze looked at Nakuyo (who was now slouching in a nearby chair.) "Is something wrong?"
"No."
"Why don't we get him out of here then?" Kaze suggested. Nakuyo shrugged her shoulders. Kaze took this as an okay, and lifted the boy onto her back. She started walking to the door. "Are you coming?"
Nakuyo hesitated but soon got up and followed Kaze. Mizu was downstairs playing with Tenchi.
"Mizu, we're going to take Yamato to the hospital, I don't know when we'll be back. You're welcome to come with us if you'd like," Kaze said.
"I'd better stay here with Tenchi," Mizu replied. Kaze nodded her head.
Nakuyo and Kaze headed out to Nakuyo's car. Kaze lied Yamato down in the back seat and joined Nakuyo in the front. Nakuyo turned on the car and pulled out of the driveway. Nakuyo looked as if she weren't paying attention to where she was going.
"Watch out!" Kaze said 3 intersections from the house, warning Nakuyo of a car coming the other direction. Instead of slamming on the breaks, she slammed on the gas pedal, and swiveled around the other car, the back seat just barely missed getting hit.
"STUPID IDIOT! WATCH WHERE YOU'RE GOING!" a man in the opposite car yelled, passing them. Nakuyo pulled of to the side for a couple minutes to catch her breath.
"Are you ok Kaze? I'm sorry I hit the wrong pedal," Nakuyo explained.
Kaze nodded, "Nakuyo, I think you're the one that should be asked that. Something's bothering you, right? Ayanei?"
"I'm fine," Nakuyo replied getting back on the road. They finished the trip in silence. When they finally got where they were going, Kaze got Yamato on her back again, and the boy was immediately rushed to the emergency room.
Kaze waited outside the door to the emergency room for a while, when eventually she was tapped on the shoulder. She turned around, startled. A tall doctor was behind her.
"Oh sorry to startle you. Are you Miss Kaze Yukai?" the doctor asked.
"Yes."
"Your sister told me I'd probably find you here, you look so much like her," the doctor explained. Kaze smiled. "The boy, Yamato is it?" Kaze nodded. "Is he related to you? Your sister wouldn't tell me, in fact she seemed to get a bit offended and told me to come talk to you."
"No he's not related to me, just a friend. I'm sorry if Nakuyo did anything. She never really has gotten along with him, especially not now," Kaze explained.
"Oh, well can I get you to fill out these papers, she wouldn't even do that. Also he'll probably have to stay here for a while. You can wait in the lobby with your sister if you'd like. We'll let you know as soon as we're done," the doctor explained. Kaze took the papers from the doctor and walked out to the lobby. She sat down beside Nakuyo and started filling out them forms.
"Not that I care or anything, you seemed a little more annoyed with Yamato than usual. You probably could've filled these out, since you know more about him," Kaze said. Nakuyo shrugged. "What's Yamato's last name?"
"Tsutaya," Nakuyo answered, annoyed.
The 2 girls sat there in silence for the next two hours; finally the same doctor that had talked to Kaze came out.
"How is he?" Kaze asked.
"He's doing better than we thought, but he's still got a long way to go," the doctor answered. "He got beaten up pretty badly."
"Well, it's good he's doing better right, Nakuyo?" Kaze said. Nakuyo looked at Kaze, slouching in her chair, then looked back at the wall.
"If you'd like, you can go see him. He's asleep right now, however," the doctor said.
"Nakuyo?"
"Hmm? Oh, you go ahead," Nakuyo replied. Kaze nodded and the doctor escorted her to Yamato's room. Kaze walked into the silent room, and pulled up a chair to Yamato's bedside. The boy was covered in bandages. She sat there quiet for a long time, so long that she lost track of time and before she knew it, it was dark outside.
There was a knock on the door, and the doctor came in. "Your sister wanted to let you know she's leaving."
"Tell her I'm staying, and I'll see her tomorrow."
"Alright," the doctor said leaving the room.
The next day Gohan, Hikari, Sakura, and 23 were still looking for Ayanei.
"AYANEI!" Gohan screamed again, on the side of a cliff.
"I can't believe we just lost her signal like that," Sakura said.
"Yeah, I know. It's so weird," 23 replied.
"AYANEI! WHERE ARE YOU?" Gohan called out.
"Gohan, crying out to her probably won't help. Even if she can hear you, she's probably being restrained from calling back," Sakura said.
Gohan came down with the other 3. "I guess you're right. I hope she's ok, though."
"Same here," Sakura answered.
"Her signal's coming back!" 23 exclaimed.
"Where's it coming from?" Hikari asked.
23 looked at his tracking device, "What? Her signal is… is coming from all directions!"
"Huh?" Sakura said surprised, "How is that possible?"
"It's not possible!" Gohan replied, snatching the device from 23. He looked at it and was shocked to see that 23 was right. "Yet it's true anyway."
"And the signal is at its strongest point! She's around here, but where?" 23 added looking around.
Just then a hologram image appeared before them. One of the underlings was holding a sleeping girl.
"Ayanei!" Gohan screamed. Hikari didn't quite realize the image was a hologram.
"I'll get her!" Hikari said charging the monster. He tried to punch him in the face, but his hand went right through. "What the…?"
"It's a hologram, Hikari!" Sakura called out. She noticed a beam starting to form in the hand of the hologram. "WATCH OUT!"
"Huh?" Hikari said turning around. "What did you say Sa…?" Hikari started, but the beam extended and went through Hikari. The monster gripped the beam and raised Hikari 30 ft above the ground, the through him off.
"Hikari!" Sakura ran to him and just barely caught him. "You ok?"
Hikari got up his back hurting. "Yeah, thanks, Sakura."
"Do you still think I am weak?" Sakura asked running with Hikari back to the others.
"Yeah," Hikari replied after they had got back with Gohan and 23. Sakura punched Hikari in the face.
"What do you want with Ayanei?" Gohan screamed.
The demon snickered, "don't you know your daughters own powers?"
"So why are you practically tempting us to get her back?" 23 asked.
"I need to know how to use them… so how, maybe…" the monster started.
"We don't know!" Gohan said.
"And even if we did we wouldn't tell you!" 23 added.
"You either tell me or…" it started as it pulled out the beam it threw Hikari with, and pointed it to Ayanei's neck.
"I told you! WE DON'T KNOW!" Gohan yelled.
"You have 3 days to find out, or else we won't have any use for her," It said edging the beam closer to Ayanei's neck. The hologram then disappeared.
"AYANEI!" Gohan screamed. "23, Hikari, go home and let Nakuyo know what's going on, and please stay there and keep Hikari out of trouble."
"Keep me out of trouble?" Hikari questioned.
"Why don't you let Sakura go back instead?" 23 begged.
"Hikari, we can't have you getting in the way," Gohan went on ignoring 23. "You act too quickly without thinking!"
Hikari looked at Gohan angrily.
"WHY ME?" 23 screamed.
"Please, 23, just do it!" Gohan said, 23 hesitated but agreed. "Come back here in 3 days!"
23 grabbed Hikari, "come on baby." Hikari rejected by pulling his arm away, but 23 regriped him by the collar of his shirt. 23 and Hikari then left.
"Come on Sakura!" Gohan said. Sakura looked back once more then caught up.
Mean while back at the hospital, Kaze was awakened by the sound of footsteps entering the room.
"Oh, I'm sorry, did I wake you?" the doctor asked.
"It's alright," Kaze replied. She looked down and noticed Nakuyo's over shirt. Nakuyo came by here last night? She thought to herself.
"Huh? What in the world?" the doctor said.
"What is it?" Kaze asked, getting out of the chair and walking to Yamato's bedside. Yamato was back to normal, except for a couple of scars, his arm was still cut off, and his jumpsuit was torn. Kaze gasped
"I-I guess he just recovers fast huh?" the doctor said.
Kaze was in total shock. It was a couple of seconds before she noticed a broken bottle on the floor. Nakuyo? Can it be that she helped Yamato out? She thought, then looked at Yamato, who was still asleep. Must have been her.
"Looks like he's about ready to go home. I'll have a couple of tests done just to be sure, if everything's okay then he can go home," the doctor explained, Kaze nodded. The doctor opened the door and motioned for her to leave, and she did.
Kaze waited in the lobby for a while. Finally the doctor came out.
"Everything is fine as far as we're concerned, except for his arm. It should be okay for him to go home," the doctor explained, Kaze nodded.
"I'll go call my sister," she said, then digged in her pocket for some change, put it in the payphone, and then dialed the number. It rang for a while, then finally someone picked up.
"What do you want?" Kaze heard Nakuyo saying from the other line. Kaze was sure it wasn't Mizu, she could very well tell the difference between Mizu's friendly greeting and Nakuyo's rude one.
"Hi, Nakuyo," Kaze said.
"Oh hi Kaze, what's up?"
"You should know."
"Oh, him," Nakuyo replied, her interest in the conversation suddenly took a major dive.
"Nakuyo? Did you come by his room last night, before you left?"
"To check up on you."
"Yeah, I noticed your overcoat, and one of your bottles… Yamato's better and ready to go home and I thought…"
"I'll be there soon to pick you up," Nakuyo said then hung up her phone. Kaze hesitated, then hung up hers. She turned around and leaned on the phone booth. She stood there a couple minutes then took a deep breath and headed toward Yamato's room. She gently knocked on the door.
"Come in," Yamato said from the other side. Kaze was a bit surprised then remembered and went in. Yamato was sitting up in bed eating.
"Oh, it's you," Yamato said.
"Um… Yamato, I don't think we've ever been introduced, have we?" Kaze asked smiling, and trying to be as friendly as possible. "I'm Kaze," she went a little closer to Yamato holding out her hand.
Yamato stared at her hand, waiting for some kind of beam or blast to come out. After a while he just realized she was just trying to be friendly, and shook her hand.
"Nakuyo will be here to pick us up any minute," Kaze said still smiling.
"Okay," Yamato replied. "I-I'm… well sorry about Ayanei."
"It's ok, they'll find her, I'm sure," Kaze said as she helped Yamato out of bed.
"I hope so."
"Sit!" Kaze said pointing to a nearby wheel chair.
"I can walk!" Yamato replied. Kaze gave him the "look". He hesitated then sat. Kaze wheeled him out into the lobby. She signed him out and went outside with him and waited for Nakuyo.
"Kaze…"
"Hmm?" Kaze said as she took out her camera.
"Why were you so nice to me? I thought you'd hate me because of what my Grandfather did to you family?" Yamato said as Kaze took a couple pictures then put her camera down.
"What the fact that your Grand father killed my Great Grandfather?" Kaze started, Yamato nodded. "I'm not saying that I don't appreciate great-gramppie, but you didn't kill him so why should I care? Even if you did, my mom always taught me about this phrase 'forgive and forget'," Kaze explained.
It was about 2 minutes later when Nakuyo pulled up; Kaze got up and helped Yamato into the car. She then joined Nakuyo in the front.
The way home was very quiet but when they got home, there was an unexpected surprise. Hikari was standing outside. Nakuyo parked the car and got out.
"Hikari?" Nakuyo said.
"Oh, you're home crybaby, 23 is inside, he wants to talk to you," Hikari replied. Nakuyo looked at Hikari funny, then went inside, Kaze followed. Yamato just got out of the car when Hikari noticed. "Hi wussy
"Wussy got beat up again?" Hikari said. "Ooh, this time wussy lost an arm!" He continued.
"Shut up you idiot!" Yamato yelled.
"Ok, Wussy," Hikari replied. Yamato punched him in the face, breaking his nose and knocking him unconscious.
"Wussy," Yamato replied
Meanwhile inside the house, 23 had just got done explaining the situation to Nakuyo.
"Nakuyo, I meant to ask you. Were you the one who helped Yamato?" Kaze asked. Nakuyo nodded slightly.
"I'm going to look for Ayanei, and I'm gonna need all the help I can get!"
Just then Yamato walked in. 23 instantly noticed this and stood up, "Why you little…"
"Not now, 23, I've got a job for him remember?" Nakuyo said holding 23 back.
"What're you talking about Naku?" Yamato asked.
"You're gonna help me find Ayanei!"
"Alright," Yamato replied. Nakuyo was a bit surprised at his reaction. "Just hold on a minute," Yamato said charging some kind of energy blast in his good hand, and fired it at the arm that was cut off. A greenish-see through outline of his arm appeared and slowly returned to its original form. The others stared in amazement at his strange ability. Yamato lifted his new arm, looking at and bending the fingers. He put his hand into a fist. "Let's do this!"
Nakuyo smiled slightly and walked to the door.
"Nakuyo!" 23 called trying to stop her.
"I'm gonna find her, 23!" Nakuyo replied leaving.
"Is acting too quickly without thinking a trait in your family?" 23 asked Kaze, who just shrugged.
Nakuyo and Yamato headed off to find her and after a while…
"You again?" Yamato yelled.
"Again, what do you mean by that?" Nakuyo asked.
"He took Ayanei," Yamato replied.
"Let's get him!" Nakuyo yelled going Super Saiyan. "Why aren't you powering up?"
"I'm going to get revenge! YOU'RE MINE!" Yamato shouted. His hair started to stand up, it flashed yellow, and his muscles bulged. "This time you're going down!" Yamato yelled, his hair turned yellow, his eyes flashed pure white, then turned a blue green, a golden glow surrounded him and his power level surged.
He drew his daggers and Nakuyo drew her sword. Yamato darted behind the giant, he swung his daggers. The Behemoth avoided the attack. Nakuyo flew at him, and swung her sword. He caught it. Yamato kicked him in his spine; Nakuyo kneed him in the stomach. Then Yamato put his fists together and slammed the demon into the ground. Yamato put his daggers away and charged his enemy.
"MASENKO!" Yamato yelled, firing a massive blast. The giant avoided the blast, dashed behind Nakuyo and grabbed her. He threw her at some jagged rocks. Yamato ran to the rocks and caught her before she hit them.
"Thank me later, girl," Yamato said. The evil giant appeared right in front of Yamato, and punched him in the stomach. Yamato coughed up blood. The giant grabbed Yamato by the neck, and did the same with Nakuyo, then slammed their heads together.
"Ka-me-ha-me-ha!" Nakuyo yelled.
"Masenko!" Yamato said as the two fired their blasts, knocking their opponent out cold.
