Chapter 3

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'This is awkward.' Kagome thought as she sat next to Trunks, who was between her and his mother, while Yamcha sat on her other side. Vegeta and his men were across from her and Bulma. Fortunately, his attention wasn't on any of them but on Ox King who was welcoming everyone formally. After they were done eating Trunks nudged his mother.

"Can I go." He whispered to her. She nodded.

"Kagome." Bulma called.

Kagome gave turned her attention to her friend. "Yeah. Take Trunks."

Kagome nodded.

"Let's go Trunks." The pair practically ran out of the room, not seeing one of Vegeta's men follow.

A little way down the hall Kagome stopped.

"Kagome?" Trunks asked.

"Your rooms are near ours? Gogeta, Right?" Kagome asked their tail.

"Nope. Vegito, were in a different wing"

Trunks stood I front of her and challenged the man.

"Then what do you want?"

"Trunks…."

"Well, someone has to keep you from running." The Man said.

"What That supposed mean!" Trunks shouted, taking a defensive posture.

"Trunks!" Goten interrupted as he came running. "Are you done with the boring stuff?"

You want to play?"

Trunks eyes widened and he turned to Kagome with wide eyes.

"Kagomee, can I?"

"Not in that." She stated.

Goten and Trunks ran off to the suite, leaving Kagome to fend for herself.

"My hero." She stated flatly before following him at a slower pace.

"What's your relationship with the Prince?' Vegeto asked her walking alongside her.

Kagome shrugged. "Basically, I'm a nanny."

"And the Princess?"

"Friends.."

Trunks ran out of the room as they arrived dressed in his gi. Kagome stopped him and told him when to be back. Vegetto followed them. Kagome took off her business suit and put on her pink sports bra and black short under an oversized Tee. She texted Bulma then went to find a place for the portable GR. She had to work out some anxiety

After about a half an hour, and a suggestion from a staff member, Kagome found herself a safe distance away from the palace. Satisfied, she pulled out the capsule containing the ship and activated it. When the smoke cleared the spherical vessel stood before her.

After warming up, Kagome turned on the gravity and activated the droids who immediately attacked her. She dodged blast after blast, dancing away from the laser bolts until she decided to go on the offensive. With a cry she attacked. slamming her fist into the metal body of one, then she spun around and landed a blow with her elbow on another.

Before Kagome could make another move however, she sensed an unfamiliar presence. She told the program to stop and went to greet her visitor, who left before she got to the door. She was suspicious now, she ended her training session early. Instead of cleaning up, she tossed a towel over her shoulders, and went outside.

She circled the GR slowly, looking for something different, something she felt was there. She found it near the door and recognized it immediately.

A bomb.

She was barely able to rise a barrier before it went off and knocked her back some. Stunned, she stared at to rubble.

"Why would…"

She was interrupted by the the person she sensed earlier and as she turned, she was punched in the face, then kneed in the stomach. After she was hit a couple ore times the was tossed into the air, were she caught herself.

Despite the pain, she was able to block the two-handed punch and counter by using her attacker's momentum to strike him into the ground.

"You jerk! Your trying to kill me, aren't you?!"

The man, tall, tightly braided hair, dressed in traditional Ox Kingdom garb, which closely resembled Chinese style, answered her, his tone was arrogant.

"Obviously, why else would I be here."

'Why, who are you?"

"Money, of course. You should be honored, your going to die at the hands of Tao Pai Pai!"

He launched himself at her, she ducked under punch and used her forearm to block the knee to stomach. As this was done she stuck out with the heel of her palm into his nose and clawed down his face.

This earned Kagome a punch to the side then another knee slammed into her face. She was pretty sure something was broken. Kagome used her energy to push Tau away from her hard enough to slam him into the ground. She followed him into the crated feet first, slamming him down farther, then punching him in the stomach and face.

Tao shoved her away and jumps from the hole they made.

"Who payed you?" Kagome asked the now beat up man.

He smirks, showing off now missing teeth.

"I'm not telling."

He attacked her again only for her to blast him the face and follow behind with an uppercut to his gut. He tried to punch her but she moved to the side and grabbed his wrist, shoved his elbow the wrong way with a his from her palm, then threw him.

"You bitch!" he snarled at her while he climbed to his knees.

"You attack me, and I'm the bitch?"

"Miss Higurashi?"

Kagome flinched but didn't take her eyes off Tao.

"Mister Tao?"

"You know this guy Gohan?"

"He's a wanted criminal."

"Dodon Pa!"

A sudden influx of power from Tao and Kagome found herself in Gohan's arms, a beam of energy hitting were she was standing. Then Tao was flying away on a dark cloud.