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And the voices, if not then pay a little more attention!

Chapter 10

Cut, burn, hurt+ Mirai woke up in the middle of the night to the sound of Joey chanting in his mind. He covered his ears and began to whimper in desperation. He wanted Joey to just stop. Then Jesse came up, Do it if it makes you happy Trunks shortly followed by Mira, &Oh find that nice boy again, I want him, to feed into desire, to have what I need&. Mirai thought he was going to start crying, he wanted to please them all but they all wanted something different. They all began to talk at once in his head+cut+ &fuck& happiness DO AS I SAY TRUNKS. Mirai sat began to sob. The tears fell like a rain of fire ready to burn through him like acid. He wanted someone to be with him to make the voices go away, anyone capable of giving him relief. He tried to call for his mother but found that he had no voice, then he remember that his mother, father, and grandparents went out of town on account of business for a week. King Vegeta was invited but he felt it was too soon to have him and Vegeta spend time with each other for that length of a time.

Mirai couldn't stand it anymore, he would turn to his wretched grandfather for comfort. He detested the man but could think of nothing else. He cried out in desperation. "MAKE THEM SHUT UP PLEASE!" Right on cue, King Vegeta burst in threw the door to see what was wrong with his grandchild. He didn't know why but when he heard the cry for help every bad thought began to run threw his head. He rushed to the boys bed and began to question him.

"What is it boy, what is wrong with you?!" He was clearly agitated that there was no visible danger and he was woken up in the middle of the night. He turned on a light and walked back toward the bed. Mirai tried to hide his face behind his arms with his hands in his hair, what got into him? Why did I even consider crying to him for help? King Vegeta was growing annoy and forced his hand past the boys arms and turned his head. His looked at the boys blood shot eyes and it hit him that he was crying. He pulled the chair from the desk and sat in front of the now embarrass boy. Mirai did not intend on King Vegeta seeing him cry. "What is wrong," he said in almost a whisper. Mirai was taken aback. He had no idea how to answer this without sounding like a liar or a crazy person. He did something he had not expect he would ever do. He didn't even think about it he just did it.

He fell to the floor in front of the King and wrapped his arms around his waist and began to cry again. King Vegeta stiffened. Mirai berried his face in the Kings waist just above the tail with his own tail wrapped around the Kings leg. Vegeta had no clue as to what he should do! He put his hand on the boys head and relaxed a little. When Mirai had finally cried himself to sleep, Vegeta lifted him up and placed him in the bed, he would question him tomorrow, but not now.

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"What was that all about last night," asked King Vegeta when Mirai had come down. Mirai dreaded he would ask but didn't feel the need to hide it from the King if the prince was already aware and so was his mother. He sighed and sat across from him and began to explain everything, well almost everything, only what part prince and computer queen knew about. He didn't tell anyone about his maker, and didn't intend to. King Vegeta looked shocked, he didn't know if he should believe him or not.

"I just couldn't handle the voices last night, I can't handle it at all when they all make demands at once."

"What do they demand?"

"What are you, my therapist!?"

"I ASKED YOU A QUESTION!"

"AND I REFUSED TO ANSWER! WHY DO YOU CARE?!"

"I DON'T!"

"THEN WHY ARE YOU ASKING!"

"BECAUSE I WANT AN ANSWER AND YOU WILL ANSWER ME BECAUSE I AM YOUR KING AND YOU WILL DO AS I SAY! I AM ALSO IN CHARGE OF YOU UNTIL MY SON AND THOSE OTHERS COME BACK!" Mirai had had enough of this for the morning. He got up and left the table with no interest in eating breakfast, at least not here he didn't. King Vegeta was about to yell at him for just leaving when he was in the middle of talking but realized that he was only screwing this up even farther. He didn't like the kid and the half bred brat didn't like him but they had agreed to pretend for Princes sake. Then it hit the king that prince wasn't there. He grabbed the boy by the shirt collar. Mirai was shocked by the sudden jerk and even more surprised when he was yanked back to the table. King stalked off into the kitchen and pulled a frying pan and six cartons of eggs out and began to fry them. What was he doing? After about thirty minutes, the king returned with two plates loaded with the 'light' breakfast. "Ok," he said, "from my observation people here tend to talk better when they eat together so you and I will have breakfast and get a few more things out in the open."

Mirai was shocked that he was making and effort to get to know him! True he was his grandfather but they hated each other. Then he realized that he had questions that he knew he would have no other chance of getting an answer if he didn't ask now. "Ok," he said, "we are going to play a game called twenty questions. I ask a question and you answer truthfully. After I ask my question and you answer then you ask one question and I answer truthfully. After I answer then I get to ask you a second question and so on and so forth." The King nodded his head and gave him a gesture to ask his question first. "Ok, why did you agree to work for Freiza?"

"I had no idea that he would betray us all and take my son. We needed the intelligence he had as far as economy. Although we may have had some saiyans that were brilliant scientists, all in all we are not inventors we are fighters and worriors. My question, who are these voices?"

"Jesse, Mira, Joey, Jester, Jugular, there are also some I don't recognize but I get names when they appear in my head. What did saiyans do for Freiza?"

"We were mercenaries and planet purgers. What do the voices tell you to do?"

"Jesse just tells me to only do something if it makes me happy, Mira wants sex, Joey wants me to hurt myself all the time, Jester likes to play pranks, Jugular likes to kill, and other new voices want other new things. What is a planet purger?"

"We destroy all the life forms on the planet and sell it to other races. What do you want from these voices?"

"I want to please all of them. What would someone do with an empty planet?"

"Some races like to expand so they grow there own life forms and continue to colonize on other planets, some like to use it for economical reasons, some like to use it in trades of there own, the list is endless for things you can do with an entire planet. Why are you so eager to please everyone?"

"I have no one who is ever pleased with what I do so I try to give them a reason to be. How many planets have you purged?"

"None, I was a mercenary. Doesn't it make it a little difficult to please all those voices if they all want different things from you?"
"Only when they are all demanding at once. What is the difference between a mercenary and a bounty hunter?"

"Bounty hunter works for themselves, low lives just above criminals, mercinaries work for a steady pay and for only one."

"Hey watch it, I'm a bounty hunter."

"Just another reason for me not to like you, you're a gypsy and a bounty hunter." Mirai and King exchanged deadly glances, obviously it was time for the game to end before it got a little over board. "You may leave," said King. Mirai sat for a moment then got up and left the room. King sat at the table feeling like a jerk and didn't even under stand why!

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Mirai needed to blow some steam off, he needed to beat up on some poor unsuspecting fool. He stormed into the living room and turned on Big Shots (Cowboy bebop owns it not me) to get a pretty good bounty here on earth. The young sexy blond and older black man both dressed up like a cowboy and cowgirl came on the camera and showed a few pictures and names of a few lower bounties then showed the real big fish Mirai was after to fry. They stopped on one picture of a vicious looking man who was wanted for murder, that was Mirai's victim and he was going to make a nice amount off him. He was leaving the room when for some reason Kings insult rang in his head. He didn't work for Malkavians when he hunted bounties, he did it for his own purpose and he wasn't being paid for it, he was just a part of the clan and was given the task. He knew what the king said was probably true, but he wasn't a lowlife and was above proving it to anyone like HIM!