Chapter 9:

Riley's View

Me and Shin decided to take a walk through the huge garden I had behind my house. It was full of different flowers and roses, and then there were some different kinds of vegetables as well. Like tomatoes and some cucumbers along with peppers (I don't like peppers but Ryuu and Vegeta do) and things like that. Me and Shin had been discussing how we were going to tell Ryuu that Shin was the Supreme Kai. Also, there was Kabito, we had to find some way to break it to him that Shin had a son, we honestly had no idea about what we were going to do.

We were talking and all of a sudden Shin stopped. "I want to give you something and I also want to ask you something. And I hope when I do you won't, well as you would put it 'run away'." I also had a water fountain in the middle of the garden with stone benches on four sides of it.

I sat down on one of the benches and Shin just kept standing and he was looking at the fountain. I could tell that he was thinking of something to say, but couldn't find the words.

"Shin if there's something you want to ask me go ahead. I won't run away. I could never run away. I love you, remember?" I looked at him and looked so confused about things, it was actually kind of cute.

"Well… umm…" He stammered around words and couldn't figure out how to say them. Then he finally spit out, "Riley, I know you love me, and I know that I love you without a doubt in my mind. What I want to ask you is…" He stopped right in the middle of the sentence and walked over to where I had some white roses planted and picked one off the bush. He walked over to me and gave it to me, then he said, "I love you, and I want to spend forever with you, I wasn't allowed to love but I ended up falling in love anyways." He pulled a box out of his pocket and got down on one knee. "Riley, will you do me the honor of taking me to be your husband?"

He opened the box and I saw a huge diamond ring in it. It took me a minute to figure out what was going on and I couldn't help it, but I went insane.

"YES, OF COURSE I'LL MARRY YOU!" I threw my arms around him and kissed him. He put the ring on my finger and he kissed me again. Then I asked, "When did you get the idea of asking me?"

"The day I came back. I saw you and I knew right then and there I needed to ask you or I would probably lose my chance. You make me happy and I can't imagine living another day without you in my life." He took my hand and we walked back to the house where Ryuu, Saphire, Rori, Sabrina, Chika, Kenshin, Sakura, Trunks, Goten, and Piccolo were talking about my little announcement that I had made the day before.

Saphire's View

I couldn't believe that Riley was going to tell Ryuu everything. The kid just found out that his dad was even alive, but on top of that she was going to tell him that he was the Supreme Kai. It was going to be to much for him to handle. And what was going to happen between him and his friends, they were SO attached to each other, just like me, Riley, Rori, and Sabrina did.

"How are you taking it Ryuu?" Chika asked as she grabbed his hand to make him feel better than he seemed to be doing.

"Fine, I guess. I really don't know what to do or think about it. I always thought he was dead, but to find out that he's alive. It's… it's a shocker." He looked really confused and really out of it.

Then, about 30 seconds later Shin and Riley walked through the door and I could tell that they had a lot on their minds and were really confused about it. But they also seemed really happy at the same time.

"Hey guys, where have you been?" I asked in kind of a happy voice. I was trying not to sound scared, but deep down I really was.

"We took a walk through the garden and just talked about things. And we have some things that we need to tell all of you, and I hope that it'll all turn out alright." She sounded a bit shaky but I could also tell that she was trying to sound nice and confident.

"Ryuu…" she said softly. "Are you alright?"

"Uhh… I'm just trying to still process everything. But I do have a question." He looked at the table, kind of like he was waiting for the words to appear on the table for him, then he looked at his father and asked, "Why did you leave? Did you not care about me or mom?"

Shin kind of looked hurt. But he said, "Ryuu, I had responsibilities that I needed to take care of, and I didn't know about you. It's not that I didn't care, because I do care."

"Then why were you gone for SO long?" I could tell that he was trying to figure everything out. And Riley could tell that too.

"Ryuu, I'm…" Shin paused. Then he continued, "I'm the Supreme Kai." And when he said that, Ryuu looked like he was ready to fall out of his chair.

"YOU'RE THE WHAT?!" Chika asked. "Oh my god, my boyfriend's dad is a fricken God! This is unbelievable!"

"YOU'RE WHAT?!" Rori asked kind of in a pissed tone.

"OOPS… yeah… mom I was going to tell you." Rori looked ready to take her head off her shoulders.

"Well, we're not going to worry about that right now." She said sitting back down in her chair trying to calm herself down.

"So, you mean to tell me, that you're the Supreme Kai and my father?" Ryuu folded his arms on the table and rested his head on them.

"Yes Ryuu, I am both the Supreme Kai and your father." Shin stated. He was trying not to get irritated or sound hard, but he was just trying to comfort his son.

"I…" Ryuu stammered around his words for a minute. "I need to get some air." Ryuu got up from the table and walked outside.

"I think I'll join him. I could use the air too, and plus he could probably use a friend right about now." Chika said as she got up and went outside behind Ryuu.

Then Kenshin looked at Sakura and he said, "I think we'll join them. We're going to make sure that they're alright, especially Ryuu." Then they got up from the table and walked out the door.

Ryuu's View

I couldn't believe it. My father, the Supreme Kai. He's got to be like, the highest person in the entire universe. But if he is the highest being in the universe then, why didn't he know about me?

"Ryuu! Wait up!" I heard Chika call my name and that took my mind off of all the questions and thoughts running through my head.

"Hey, why are you coming after me?" I asked her as she caught up with me.

"I want to make sure that you're alright. And I also think that you shouldn't be alone either. Ryuu, I love you, I just want to make sure that you're okay with everything that you just found out. So, are you okay?" She asked me then she took my hand in hers and that made me feel a little better just to know that she was there and that she cared.

"I'm physically alright, but mentally I'm a wreck. I don't know what to think at this moment. I always thought that my dad was dead and that he was nothing special, just a fighter that had died in a battle. But he's the fucking Supreme Kai and I don't really know what to think of that." I looked at the ground and just thought for a minute.

"Ryuu, he may be the Supreme Kai but he's also your father. You need to give him a chance, and you need to get to know him. He may the best person you know, and you never know, maybe him and your mom will get married." She put her hand on my cheek and made me look at her, she had the sweetest blue eyes and the most adorable smile that would make you melt in an instant.

"Maybe, but I would like to get to know him before that. I think it would be kind of weird to see them get married. I've always thought that people get married and then have a family." I trailed off again into my own little world of thought, that was another thing that I got from my mom.

"Well, most people do that. But it just so happened that in this situation it didn't turn out like that. Your mom and dad mean well Ryuu, you need to spend time with him and let him know how you feel and stuff like that. I can tell that he loves your mom and he loves you. I know it sounds weird, but the connection that a parent has with their child is unbreakable, they don't have to know them long at all to love them." She put her hands on my shoulders and looked at me, and then she kissed me.

"You know you two should get a room." Kenshin said as he approached us with Sakura walking beside him.

Me and Chika stopped kissing and looked at him, "Well, what about you and Sakura? You two need to get a room sometimes too." Chika said in a kind of like 'fuck you' attitude.

Sakura giggled a bit and the said, "That's true."

"Yeah, I guess. Yeah, you got a point there." Kenshin agreed.

"Hey, let's get out of here. I need to get out away for a little bit. I think if I stay any longer I'm going to go crazy." I told everyone with a wicked look on my face.

"Sure, I think our parents are too wrapped up with everything right now to even realize that we'll even be gone for awhile. Plus, we don't even need a driver's license cause we can fly anywhere we want." Sakura sounded in without a question in her mind.

"I'm in. What about you Chika?" Kenshin asked.

"Sure, why not? It's not like we've got anything to lose anyways." Chika looked at me and smiled.

Then we took off from my front lawn. The four of us together, I swear we couldn't be separated. We were 16 almost 17 years old and we were in no rush to return to my house. We were gone with a snap of someone's fingers and were not coming back for awhile.

Riley's View

"I think he took it well." Shin said. He really had no clue how a teenager thought. It was actually kind of cute.

"Umm… honey, he didn't take it very well. He was in shock and I could tell he wanted to say something but couldn't. He's 16 and he has a very independent mind and who knows what he's thinking now." I told him. Then he kind of got a not so happy look on his face.

"Well, since we have Ryuu taken care of, do you think we should go tell Kabito?"

"I think the sooner we tell him the better. And who knows what he's going to do. Also, I think I should start training Ryuu a little bit more. Most of what he knows he's got from watching someone but he's still an amateur at some things." I told him.

Me and Shin instant transmitted to his planet and as we approached a couple of huge doors, Shin waved his hand and they opened. We walked down a hall with brown, wooden doors on each side and the ceiling was SO high you I couldn't see were the top was. We finally arrived to a couple of golden doors that looked really expensive. We walked inside and there were two more doors on the other side of the room and Shin didn't stop to look at anything and just walked toward them. I guessed that we were in his room because I saw huge book cases filled with books (I still couldn't believe that he loved to read that much, that would drive me insane.) that lined the walls, then I saw what looked like a grey pedestal in the middle of the room and it had a ball of kai floating on top of it but it was empty. I looked a little closer and engraved on it was, 'Life Crystal,' I gripped the heart shaped crystal around my neck and looked at it.

Shin stopped to turn around and look at me when he got to the doors and he could tell I was confused kind of. Then he asked, "Didn't I tell you what that was or did I forget?"

"You may have told me and I forgot, or you didn't tell me at all. But it doesn't matter anymore, all that matters is that I still have it and you're with me now." I told him when I smiled.

Then, I looked at my ring; it was SO pretty I couldn't believe it. It had three diamonds, the one in the middle was the biggest and it had to be at least three karats, and then the two on the sides of that one were a bit smaller, they had to be at least one and a half karats on a whit gold band. Also, the diamonds were princess cut, (square) it was the prettiest ring that I had ever seen.

Then, after I took my mind off of my ring I followed Shin through the double doors in his room. We walked down a dark hall for a few minutes, then we came into a light and we stepped onto a platform. I walked to the edge of the platform and I could see the entire universe. Then, a few seconds later Kabito walked onto the platform.

"Master?" He wasn't to sure if Shin was himself or not. "Master! I'm sorry, I didn't recognize you in the dark. And what is SHE doing here?" Kabito looked at me and then back at Shin.

"We got some news for you Kabito. And I hope it don't be a to big of a shock for and trust me, everyone knows that I'd really like if you fell over from a heart attack." I couldn't help myself, but I giggled at that little remark.

"Riley, you don't need to be speaking about Kabito like that. After all he is my bodyguard and I do respect him. But Kabito, we do have news for you and it may as a pretty big shock. So, be prepared, and that's a fair warning." Shin told him and Kabito got a scared look on his face.

"Please tell me you two aren't getting marr..." He stopped talking and looked at me a little closer, kind of like he was studying me. "Is… is that… is that your life crystal master?" He finally spit out in shock and awe.

"Yeah, you got a problem with it?" I was trying to give him as much attitude as possible. To me it was pretty funny but Shin didn't think so and neither did Kabito that's for sure.

"Why do you have it? Mater, why did you give it to a mere human? Is there a certain reason?" Kabito was really going bizerk. He didn't know what to think or how to act.

"Kabito, Riley and I have some big news to tell you. I don't want you to freak out or anything like that, but it may come as a big shock to you." Shin stated. Kabito was really losing his nerve.

"Well, what is it? I've been waiting!" He was going insane and he was going to go nuts when he found what we were going to tell him.

"Kabito…" Shin stopped for a minute to think, then continued. "Riley and I have a son together. And we're also going to get married."

Kabito fell over in shock. He had this look on his face like, 'Oh my God, you have to be joking, and was that a ghost?' Shin helped him up into a chair and he just looked at me and then at Shin and then back at me. The way he looked at me was kind of like that I had done something wrong. Kind of like I had seduced Shin into sleeping with me. Then, I read his mind and his thoughts weren't pretty at all.

'She did something to him, she mush have. He wouldn't have done something this stupid. The Supreme Kai is WAY to intelligent to get mixed up a stupid human girl. This couldn't be happening, there's no way in hell. Could there' As Kabito thought to himself I eased dropped and Shin walked into another room and that was my chance.

"You know, there's nothing wrong with me. Shin loves me and he loves our son. I didn't do anything to him and it was one night, we didn't know that something like this was going to happen. So, don't sit there and get ideas when you don't know the situation is, okay?" Okay, maybe I lied about the one time deal, but come on, I couldn't stand that he was thinking those horrible things.

"Kabito, Riley and I have to go back to Earth now. I will be back soon. And don't worry about anything I will be fine." Shin told him, then we instant transmitted back to Earth.

Ryuu's View

The four of us flew to a plain that was part of a cliff that over looked water. I loved the water and I never knew why. It's probably something that I get from my mother. Chika also loved the water, if you let her she would swim in it every day all day. There was just something about it, it seemed so peaceful and sometimes it looked like glass.

"Hey Ryuu," Chika hollered. "Lets got for a swim. That would be fun right about now."

"But we don't have any swim suits with us. What would we swim in?" I really was hoping that she wasn't going to say skinny dipping. I would really freak out if she said that's what she wanted to do.

"Well, our underwear of course. They would be kind of like swim suits, they cover about the same amount of areas." She told me as she started to take her shoes off, then her shirt.

"But what about…" I stopped and noticed that Sakura and Kenshin weren't anywhere in sight. "Where's Kenshin and Sakura?"

"They went off to do their own thing. You can probably guess what that means." She took her jeans off and ran and jumped off the cliff and into the water below.

Then she yelled out, "Are you coming in or are you just going to stand there all damn day? Oh, wait a minute, I forgot, you're a chicken!" Then she laughed.

"You know what," I said as I started unbuttoning my shirt. "You're sorry and for that I'm coming in after you. So, be prepared." I took off my shirt and then my pants and jumped in.

Kenshin's View

Me and Sakura walked off into the woods and left Ryuu and Chika back at the cliff. As we walked through I kept looking at Sakura. She was so pretty and perfect. Yes, she had green skin and orange hair but that didn't matter to at all. I mean come on, look at Ryuu and Chika. Ryuu's purple and has a white Mohawk going down the middle of his head. So, me and Sakura weren't that odd of a couple. I loved her and I'm pretty sure that she loved me back. I've never told her that I did, but that's why I wanted to bring her out here, so we could be alone and plus, I knew a really romantic spot. Also, it was getting dark and the stars were coming out. We finally arrived at a clearing in the trees, brought a blanket with, so we spread it out on the ground and lied down on it to look at the stars.

After looking at the stars for about a half an hour I sat up and said, "Sakura, I want to tell you something. And I don't know really how to say it." Then she sat up next to me, she didn't say anything, she just looked at me.

"Oh God," I was shaking something terrible then it came out like word vomit. "Sakura, I love you." And she looked happy and confused at the same time. "I love you, I always have, I just didn't know how to tell you that I did." She looked even more happy after I said that. It gave me a little more comfort.

"Oh my gosh! Do you know how long I have been waiting for you tell me that? Kenshin, I love you too. I've always loved you even when we were little I loved you. But I always thought that you would end up with Chika." She seemed to get kind of sad when she said that last part about Chika.

"Nope, I always knew I would end up with you." When we were younger I did have a crush on Chika, but she was way to busy with getting Ryuu's attention to notice me. So, she ignored me and continued on with Ryuu. Finally, she grew to be no more than a sister to me and then when Sakura started to mature and grew out of her awkward faze. I became interested in her and been ever since.

"Yeah, some where inside of me always knew we would end up together. And I'm really glad that it happened because for as long as I can remember I have always loved you with every beat of my heart and every breath that I take." She responded just the way I wanted her to. She was like a little kid at Christmas time with a new present she just opened. And it was something that really wanted.

Ryuu's View

When it got to dark to see, me and Chika got out of the water and put our clothes back on. I couldn't help myself but, as she dressed, I noticed that she did it with such grace. I couldn't help but think that I wanted to spend the rest of my life with her. She was everything I ever wanted and SO much more. She was perfect and wonderful in so many ways; I wouldn't be able to name them all.

"What are you doing Ryuu?" Chika asked as finally finished getting dressed and realized that I was staring at her.

"Oh, nothing. I was just thinking." I smiled at her and I saw a sparkle in her eyes.

"Thinking of what exactly?" She asked as she walked a little closer to me. "Were you thinking of me? Or were you thinking of how bad you wanted me naked?"

"Oh, I don't know." She walked a little closer and put her hands on her hips and just looked at me with a mischievous look on her face.

"Really? Are you sure you don't remember? Or do you just need a reminder?" She asked as she lunged at me to tickle me.

I tried to get away, but she just ran after me. We ran around in circles for a few minutes before she caught me. She grabbed me by the waist and put me on the ground. I tried to squirm my way out from underneath her, but it didn't work.

"Do you remember now, huh?" She asked as I squirmed a little more and laughed my ass off. I was really ticklish and I couldn't help it all. That was a huge disadvantage when we would wrestle for fun.

"Okay, OKAY! I'll tell you. I promise." (Saying 'I promise' was a huge thing with me.) I told her as she got off of me.

I stood up and brushed myself off. "Okay, I was thinking of how much I love you…" I paused and just looked at her because I didn't know if I should tell her that I wanted to be with her for the rest of our lives.

"And what? C'mon, spit it our. What were you going to say?" She was anxious and I could tell she wasn't very patient.

"Chika," I said as I took her hand in mine. "You know I love you. You know I would do anything for you. But one thing that I haven't told you is that…" I paused again, and then I continued. "What I haven't told you is that I want to spend the rest of my life with you."

She looked like she didn't hear it, but she asked, "Seriously, you want to spend the rest of your life with me?"

"Yes, yes I do. I love you and I want you to be my wife, and I want us to spend forever together." I smiled at her and then she got weak in the knees.

As she fell I caught her and she said, "This is amazing! I really can't believe it. It's like a dream come true or something like that. Or a fairy tale that's not supposed to be real. But being here with you it IS real and it's the most wonderful thing in this entire world. And you are the most wonderful person in the world. I couldn't live without you."

Riley's View

When me and Shin got back to Earth we knew that Ryuu had to be out with the others still because there were no lights on in the house. We went into the house and went to my room. Of course we had to go there.

"You know, Kabito really needs to get off his high horse. I mean, we both know that he doesn't like me and he defiantly doesn't approve of us getting married." I told Shin as I washed up in the bathroom.

"He'll get over it. I mean, he's going to have to because I love you and no matter what it takes I will be marring you." He sat at my computer desk in the chair and smiled at me.

"Wow, that amazing." I said and I could tell by the look on his face he didn't know why I said what I said.

"Huh? What did you mean by that? Was there a certain reason for it?" He was SO confused and it was SO cute in a kind of strange way.

"I said that because you have an amazing smile. I don't understand why you don't show it all that much." I told him as I grabbed some shorts and a big t-shirt our of my dresser drawers.

"You think I have an amazing smile? I don't think I ever noticed. And the only time I like to smile is when I'm with you because you make me the happiest person in the world." He was still at the computer desk when I came back into my room and threw my dirty clothes in the laundry basket.

"Yes, I do, it's amazing to see you smile. And every time you DO smile it makes me weak in the knees." I sat down on my and looked at him and he looked at me back.

After about 30 seconds of silence between us he came over and sat down next to me on the bed. He looked at me and I could tell that he was seeing the real me. He took my hand and put it on his chest and then did the same with my other hand. Then he put his hands on my chest where my heart was and just looked at me.

Then he said, "Where your hands are is where my heart used to be. And where my hands are is where my heart actually is. My heart belongs to you and only you and it has belonged to you ever since we met."

I smiled and I couldn't find any words to reply to what he just said. And all I could was, "My heart is where my hands are. It has always belonged to you."

He smiled again and then he kissed me. He put his hands on both sides of my neck and just kissed me more. His lips were SO soft and wonderful against mine. I loved it when he kissed me and I loved it just when he was around, it didn't matter if we were in an argument or if we were just talking shop talk. He was everything I ever wanted for the longest time, we had great memories and then there were the bad ones, but we still had a wonderful son and our love was unconditional.

He stopped kissing me for a second and looked at me and said, "Riley, I love you. I didn't know what love really was until I found you. I had always heard about it and everything but I didn't know how it felt until you came along. You're my everything and you and Ryuu are my life and even though I'll always be the Supreme Kai, you two are my only care in the entire universe now." He combed his fingers through my hair and kissed me again.