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Chapter 3

The two brothers exchanged glances, and hesitantly Goku followed the taller and slender man. His mind was clouded by grief and excitement and all because he was minutes away from meeting the Princess. He was so caught up in thought he didn't even notice when he had arrive.

"Just take a seat on the couch, and it is rather dim but just have a seat," informed the man.

Goku pulled open the door and was greeted by bleak darkness the only thing he could see was a dim light on a small couch. He glanced over to the man and then entered the room and made his way to the couch hoping he wouldn't hit into anything. As he was about to take a seat the subtle draw of air made him aware of someone else' presence.

"I didn't know someone was in here," he spoke aloud.

"You have good ears," sound a soft sweet familiar voice. "I heard that in the city there is a beautiful water fountain built for a woman by her love. I've tried to visit it so many times and yet I haven't gotten there yet. Why guard a woman whose shadow you will have to walk in?"

Goku was taken off guard by the question, but his anxiety fade as he remembered his Grand. She always had a way with words and knew exactly how to calm anyone down. "My Grand once said a shadow is a very beautiful thing because it's the closest thing to someone, and in it is all their mystery." Goku took a seat on the couch his eyes roaming the darkness searching for even a glimpse of the beautiful princess.

"It sounds like your Grand is very thoughtful."

"The food was wonderful," interjected Goku.

Laughter filled the room. "There is something about you that seems..."

There was a pregnant silence that left Goku uneasy about the mysterious princess. "Are you okay?"

"I...um...How old are you?"

"Eighteen, "he answered.

"I am seventeen," uttered the princess. "I've heard that they say a lot about me in the city. Have you heard?"

"Yes," replied Goku.

"Tell me," she urged, her voice dripping with curiosity.

"Some say you're a skillful fighter, a kind princess, others say you're mean and thoughtless. And some..." Goku's cheeks flushed.

"Say what?" she asked.

"Your beautiful," he finished.

Silence fell in the room. "You can leave now."

"Did I say something wrong?" Asked Goku.

All he could hear was her breathing. The door swung open and Goku deplorably made his way out of the room. "You were asked to have a seat in the room just beyond these halls. Follow me."

"Okay," he answered.

Goku sighed for the umpteenth time, and tossed yet another neatly crafted paper airplane at the beige wall. It seemed forever that he had been in the room waiting to hear word from someone, and for the first time he was growing weary. If it wasn't for the stacks of paper that sat neatly on top the oak varnished table he would have gone completely out of his mind.

He grabbed for another sheet and begun to fold it into yet another plane, and turn upon the ball of his foot he thrust it forward. It would have hit square in the center of the room door had not the beautiful woman from earlier stood were the door once had.

"It would seem you love to make me a target," humored the raven haired beauty.

All of the color flushed from Goku's face and his insides were yet again in twists. "I'm sorry," swiftly, he apologized.

"Relax I was only playing," she stated. She walked into the room and took a seat on the long black couch in the center of the room.

"I still feel bad about hitting you so hard," he added.

"Well let's just say I allowed you to hit me," she interrupted. "The princess and I have discussed and have made the choice for her guard."

Goku took a seat next to the smaller woman, and he couldn't help but to smell her sweet honey scented perfume. Her tiny fingers pushed back strands of loose hair behind her ear and he couldn't help but wonder how they'd feel against his skin. She looked fragile as a snowflake in the summer air. Her onyx eyes caught his gaze and in fear he turned away.

"Who is it?" he asked, timidly.

"Your brother Raditz," she answered.

It felt like a kick to his stomach. He should have never listened to the voice...his voice that had rung in his head. He should have known better then to think that he would be selected on the count of a cry from his own mind. "Okay."

"I...um...would like to ask you something," she continued.

Something about what she had just said sent off alarms in his head, but he just couldn't understand why. There was something very odd about the woman and he couldn't grasp what. "Ok."

"If you will accept: I would like to have you as my guard," she informed. "It's not the same pay as the princess' the hours are just as long but the pay is good."

Had it not been for the life that danced in her eyes, and the curiosity that burned inside of him he would have declined. However, something inside of him was pleading for him to accept the offer and he wouldn't defy that request. "Ok, I will."

She threw her arms around his neck and hugged him tightly. "Thank you, the guard outside will show you to your room. You will have a day to go home and say good bye. Also you will receive your first months' pay, but you must return at the end of the week. Okay?"

"Okay."

The day had gone by so quickly and now with a sack of money in his pocket he walked through the large castle doors. His brothers and Eunice stood outside waiting for him a smile on their faces aside from Turles. Eunice was the first to step forward and with a quick look over for any type of injuries and smile when she had only seen a few small scraps.

"Your brother is the new guard to the princess!" cheered Eunice.

"I was told," he answered.

"Well it looks like you're a little disappointed," Raditz noted.

"Well...no I just want to get to see the princess," he answered. "I was given a position as well."

"What?" Turles shouted. A few people turned their heads to the group wondering what the excitement was.

"Turles," Eunice warn.

"What I meant was...what did you get offered Goku?" he asked, through grind teeth.

"As the guard for the right hand," he answered.

"That is amazing!" Eunice cheered. "So two of my boys will be leaving me it seems."

"Not for long," Goku added. "I received my first pay already."

Radditz arched a brow and taking the rein of his horse from his Grand looked over to Goku quizzically. "You have already received your first pay?"

"Yes. Didn't you?" Asked Goku.

"No," he answered.

"Did you see the princess?" Goku inquired, averting the previous conversation.

Raditz had a smile as wide as the horizon, and got onto his horse. "Indeed I did."

Turles and Goku were now interested in hearing of their brother's finding. "And?" Turles urged.

"And what?" he teased.

"Come on you know exactly what we want to hear!" Turles spat.

"Now boys," Eunice interrupted. "You need to settle down everyone is looking at us and I'm sure the princess." She looked around till her eyes fell upon a few towns people walking by and raised her voice in pure joy and pride. "Our princess wouldn't want you my SWEET grandson to have TOO many know who the new guard is! My sweet little grandson!"

A few girls that were passing by stopped and waved at them, and instantly Eunice looked over to the girls. "Hey you wayward girls you don't come batting your eyes at them...they have more beautiful women to tend to!"

The three boys face felled at Eunice's antics, and quickly they sped forward on their horses in shame. When they had reached back to the small farm and after a long bath each of them sat at the table to enjoy their last meal at the table as a family for a while.

"So are you going to tell us about the princess?" Turles asked.

Radditz only smiled and crossed his arms over his chest, until he felt the dagger of three pairs of eyes on him. "Alright...alright!" he sighed defeated. "She is beautiful."

"Can she fight?" interjected Goku.

"Hush why don't you! How can you ask me to talk and the moment I do your in my throat." Radditz took a sip of the fresh glass of apple juice placed before him. "As I was saying she is beautiful and graceful...her voice is a bit squeaky though."

"Squeaky?" Goku asked.

"Yes, didn't you talk to her?" he asked.

"I did but she didn't sound squeaky and I really didn't get to see her," he answered.

"All I know is that it was squeaky and she is tall, and in my opinion it didn't look like she was a fighter. However I was only with her a little while," he said.

"What did she look like?" Turles asked.

"She is really beautiful, but in my opinion her right hand is much prettier than her," he added.

"Boys, boys, boys how about we stop talking about the princess and have dinner. It's our last night together so let enjoy each other's company." Eunice sat a plate of food before each of them and then took her seat at the table and they began to eat.

The night had gone by rather fast, and before he knew it he was back at the castle after a long farewell to his Grand. Goku placed the last pair of pants he had into his newly inherited closet. In his entire life he had never lived in a house as big as his new room, alone! The closet was the size of his room back at the farm and the bathroom doubled it. In the center of his room was a king sized bed that was neatly spread with blue satin sheets, and decorated with over ten chocolate colored pillows.

There was a large dresser against the wall across from his bed end, and a large book shelf near the bathroom door. Adjacent to the book shelf was an arm chair and a small coffee table that was dressed with fine blue linens. The room had an abundance of space even with the end tables and large vases of flowers that sat in every corner.

"I hope it is to your liking," sang song the woman. She held a bowl full of sweets in her hands and stood inside the frame of the opened door.

"It's bigger then I had imagined," he said, astonished.

"I thought I'd bring you a bowl of my freshly bake cake biscuits," she said. "May I come in?"

"Of course," he answered.

She handed him the bowl and took a seat on his bed. "I guess it's because I'm use to everything being this large that I don't see it the same as you. So did they explain everything to you?"

"I think so," he replied.

"Try one," she insisted.

He set the bowl on the dresser and took biscuit and then took a fearful bite. The moment the flakey sweet roll touched his tongue he was in love with it and scarfed the rest of it down. "Wow! That was amazing you made them?"

She giggled and nodded. "Yes I did."

Goku took the bowl and scarfed down everyone last one in the matter of a minute. "These are the best roll things I have ever had."

"Sweet biscuits," she corrected. "You will see that I love to cook or train I do nothing else beside that."

"That is all you do?" perplexed he asked.

"Well...of course aside from the things I do for the princess that is," she stammered out. She turned away from Goku eyed his room carefully till she seen a small dusty book on the top of his night stand. She looked back to Goku who started to put his stuff away again, and with curiosity she ran her fingers over the cover. A streak of blue was revealed where she had freed it from dust, and she picked it up. She was very curious about the contents of the little book and what it held inside. As she was about to open it she came to a lock that was in need of a key to open it.

She glanced over at Goku again who was still busy with unpacking, and a playful idea came to mind. "Goku?"

He glanced back over to her and seen the little book in her hands that she now held above her head. "What are you doing?"

"Just having fun," she informed. "Do you want this?"

"It is mine," he stated.

"Catch me!" She shouted, making a mad dash out of the room.

Goku was a bit blown away by what had happened, but it didn't take long for him to run after her. All he could see was the length of her hair as she turned a corner and he made a mad dash after her. He listened closely to her giggles that echoed through the halls as he ran after the raven hair damsel.

"Have you given up," she shouted.

Goku turned yet another corner in the large castle in search for her, and yet again she had managed to increase the distance between them. How had she been able to outrun him? He turned another corner and this time at the end of the long narrow hall way was light and the beautiful frame of the woman standing in the middle of it.

"It seems that this book is mine!" She teased.

Propelling forward he attempt to close the gap between them, but she somersaulted backwards. "It looks like I still have the book," she said, waving the little book and leaping in victor.

No thought to the hill she stood upon he leaped forward with immense speed and pinned her down beneath him. Only the elevation of the hill and her attempts of freedoms from his hold sent them rolling down the hill. They tumbled down the shallow hill till they reached the water bank of the castle manmade pond and Goku was tossed into the small pond.

The freezing water was like thorns to his body and just as he was about to swim up he now seen the blur image of the woman towering over the bank. He quickly sped up to the surface when she leaned forward and quickly grabbed and pulled her in.

"Ahhh!" Her shouts were muffled by the water and Goku burst into laughter as he made it to the surface. She came up shortly after her plunge a frown on her face and a deadly glare aimed at Goku. "How could you?"

"Well you did say to catch you," he stated, assuredly.

"I guess I did," she agreed.

He pulled himself out of the pond and then extended a hand which she gladly accepted. The moment he pulled her out they both lay out on the cool grass allowing the sun to dry them. "So what's in the book?"

"I don't know," he answered. "My Grandpa had given it to me he said that it was from my father."

"You said was?" she probed.

"Yea, I don't know him or my mother only my Grand. They said they died when I was just a baby and seeing that was something from him I jumped to have it for some reason. I just haven't been able to open it yet, because we can't find the key for it." Goku placed his arms behind his head as he stared up at the blue sky and clouds.

"Well why don't you just break it open?" she asked.

"I haven't worked up the courage to do that," he answered. "Why are you staying in the castle with the princess?"

"I've just been here since I was born," she replied, ambivalently. "My mother has been sick for a long time now. I've never gotten to go outside these walls since I was little girl. My father is a little skeptically of what could happen, but I'm seventeen now so he knows he can't keep me locked away forever."

"It's never a good feeling to be locked up," he added. "Well are you and the princess best friends then?"

"Not really," she informed. "I just kind of met her."

"Do you have any siblings?" he question.

"No," tersely she stated. "I know that you do though, and you two look exactly the same." She turned on her side and propped her head on her left arm's folded fist and looked down at Goku. "It might sound weird to you but it feels like I've known you forever."

"Princess!"

ChiChi looked up at the shouting guard at the tops of the hill and quickly jumped to her feet. "You can go and look around the castle it seems I need to go and look for the princess."

Goku was perplexed he couldn't understand why she had to look for the princess when his brother was her guard. However; he didn't dare to ask he only wave good bye to the amazon beauty as she made her retreat to the towering guard. He would have to ask her why she was the princess keeper again later when they became more familiar.

A/N: So I hope that everyone enjoyed this chapter- because I did enjoy writing it! As always I do ask that you give me an honest review, and let me know what you think might happen. I want nothing more than to know what you want to happen or what you think will! Till next time, have a blessed day!