Chapter Ten

Pudding Mr. Kitty?

"Gah!" Goku gasped out as he forced himself up and above the waves of the ocean, forcing his body to fly high into the sky so that he could see Beerus. "You really…are…strong." Goku gasped out as his body jerked several times, trying to keep his flight. "I don't…think I can…beat you."

Beerus smirked and tilted his head at that, happily taking the compliment. "You are quite perceptive." He stated with a nod of his head. "Powerful for a mortal as well." He floated over towards Goku casually. "How about I help you back to that ship?"

Goku smiled at the god with a nod. "That would be gre…" He gasped out in pain as he was flicked on the forehead, sent flying straight at the boat.

Vegeta scowled at the Saiyan before dropping him onto the ship's deck. "I don't need Bulma shouting at me about how you destroyed her boat." He grunted out as he walked over to where Beerus was landing back onto the boat.

"Well, that was a nice little distraction." The god stated as he looked at the rest of the mortals, eyes moving back to Whis. "Did you get any more information about our Super Saiyan God?"

"None unfortunately." Whis stated as he kept his eye on a little child instead. "I did find something interesting though…"

"Well, since Goku got his butt handed to him." Bulma said as she walked up to the two. "Why don't you two enjoy the food and games I have here until we can find a way to scrounge up the information that you want." She offered as she waved her hand towards the food booths. "We have a bingo game later with all sorts of prizes too, you might have fun with that."

"Food you say?" Beerus questioned as he rubbed at his chin with a smirk on his face. He could already feel the drool pooling in his mouth. "I think we'll take you up on that offer. Food is always a good thing to have after all."

"Yep, and you'll enjoy everything we have! I only pay for the best after all!" Bulma claimed with a wink at the god. "So go ahead and enjoy everything that's here!"

"We will, thank you very much Miss Bulma." Whis thanked as Beerus had already taken off towards one of the food stands. "I'll try and stop him from gorging himself too much but I fear you might run out of food before long."

Bulma could only laugh at that and shake her head. "No worries. I have to feed five Saiyans, a bottomless Majin, and then there's all the others here that eat a ton. I wouldn't worry about running out of food any time soon." She explained calmly before walking away to talk to a few of the others here.

Whis sighed at that before turning to find the little boy again. It took only a second before he could see the little boy sitting at the table with ten bowls of white, brown, and gold stuff in them and then several other plates surrounding him as well. There was another boy sitting at the table with him, obviously much older as well.

Whis wasted no time at all hitting the buffet there and grabbing one of the little food filled bowls and walked back over to the little boy. He wanted to get information out of him and he felt the best way was by commiserating over the food they were eating.

"Ah! Hello there! You're one of the gods here looking for information, right?" Goten questioned around a mouth full of Beef Udon. "Join us! We're having a lot of fun here! I'm ahead on the plate count too!" He exclaimed excitedly.

"Only because you cheat!" Gohan shouted back as he gulped down a bun filled with meats and sauce. "You keep stealing my plates and putting them on your pile!" He accused easily before gulping down a large glass of milk.

"I am not!" Goten exclaimed as he returned to a plate of shrimp kabobs.

Whis could only watch as the two continued to gulp down food before he shook his head and sat at the table. He spooned some of solid liquid into his mouth before his face beamed and he swooned at the creamy delicious texture. "OH MY GOODNESS! THIS IS DELICIOUS!" He exclaimed as he spooned another blob into his mouth. "What do you call this delicacy?"

The two demi-Saiyans blinked in surprise before Gohan answered. "That's pudding, chocolate pudding from the color you have!" He explained with excitement, grabbing one of his own cups of the confectionary. "It's a dessert here on Earth and super good!"

"Yes it is!" Whis agreed as he continued to scrap the pudding into his mouth. "I think Lord Beerus would greatly enjoy this pudding." He stated and walked away to grab his lord. "Oh Lord Beerus! I found something exceptionally delicious!" Whis shouted and waved a hand at the purple cat.

Beerus looked up from where he had just gobbled down a large bowl of Takoyaki and licked his lips. "What is it Whis? I was just about to get another bowl of this little balls." He stated grouchily.

"I found this delicious little morsel I think you should try. They call it pudding and it's so creamy. So good and sweet and so much more!" Whis exclaimed as he held out his half empty cup of pudding. "You must try this!"

"Oh?" Beerus said as he looked at the little cup and then took a sniff. His mouth watered as the scent of cream hit his nose. "I want one." Beerus stated as he looked around. "Where did you get it?" He questioned as he turned towards Whis.

"I got it right over this way." The butler said as he led the God to the desserts table where a large amount of pudding had been only a few minutes ago. "Oh…they were here." He said as he looked at the empty table.

"Well they sure aren't here now!" Beerus growled angrily. He looked around furiously, trying to find out where all the puddings had disappeared to. "There!" He shouted as he pointed at a table where a fat blob of pink sat, eating one cup of pudding after another. "Hey, you!"

Buu looked up as Beerus appeared next to him. "What you want? Buu busy." The Majin said as he took another bite of puddings.

"Would you mind sharing some of the pudding you have?" Whis asked nicely. "You have several and we'd only like to have two."

Buu frowned before shaking his head. "No! Pudding belongs to Buu!"

"We only want two of them! But we'll take only one if it's that big of a deal!" Beerus stated with a growl, hating to give any sort of concession to anyone or thing.

"No!" Buu stated as he grabbed his entire tray of pudding and began to run his tongue all over the confectionaries.

"Why you stupid blob of goo!" Beerus stated as his anger snapped and his energy began to swirl.

"Hey you two!" Goten came up to the two, instantly stopping Beerus's anger and getting the attention of one pissy god on his hands. "You wanted some pudding, right?" Goten questioned as he waved a hand at the table he was sitting at. "Why don't you two come and sit with me and Gohan. We have some and there's plenty to share." He explained.

"That would be much appreciated." Whis stated as he dragged Beerus over to the table with the child he wanted to investigate anyways. Now he could have more of that pudding he had finished and speak to this unique child.

"Hello Mr. Kitty!" Gohan exclaimed excitedly as he looked at Beerus with amazement. "I've never seen a kitty with pretty fur like yours before!"

Beerus frowned at the name but nodded at the compliment. "My name is Beerus, child. I am the God of Destruction in this universe." He stated with his nose rising into the air and arms crossing over his chest.

"Does that make you really powerful?" Gohan questioned as the two immortal beings sat at the table and Goten gave both two servings of pudding each. One chocolate and one vanilla. "Is that why you feel like warm sunshine Mr. Kitty?"

Beerus's attention went from the delicious pudding to the child in front of him. "Whis…did he just say what I think he just said?"

"He did indeed lord Beerus." Whis confirmed casually as he ate a spoonful of pudding, swooning at the taste. "He said something similar when you were facing against the Saiyan."

"I see…" Beerus trailed off as he took another bite of the pudding, purring as the creamy substance seemed to melt on his tongue. "That is incredibly unusual for a full grown mortal with a hundred times the power to sense anything of our abilities…let alone a child."

"Hmm." Goten hummed as he listened to the two gods. "What are you talking about?" He questioned after slurping down a bowl of ramen. "I don't sense a single thing from you two, just like I can't sense anything from Supreme Kai and Kibito."

"That's because us gods are on a whole different level than you puny mortals." Beerus explained as he settled his gaze onto Gohan, watching the little boy tear into a chicken leg covered in alfredo sauce. "You shouldn't be able to sense anything from us, no mortal should be able to."

"But you just said that Gohan can." Goten blinked in confusion. "So it can't be impossible to sense you."

"There is something special about this child." Whis chimed in. "He is the first mortal in a millennia that I've met that can sense a god."

"What happened to that child?"

"He's sitting at this table with us." The butler pointed at Beerus, who was now stealing plates of food from the two Saiyans, Gohan squawking in annoyance as his food began to disappear before he could get to it. "Beerus was that child that sensed us Gods and so he was made into a god."

"That can happen?" Goten questioned with a tilted head and a frown. "Does that mean Gohan will be turned into a god?" The half Saiyan turned towards his once older brother in worry.

"He could." Whis agreed as he stood up from the table to go and gather more food, mostly for himself, but he might be nice enough to grab a plate or two for his lord. "But that is entirely up to him and whether he wants to go through the training required to become one. It is hellish and harsh, it has turned kind hearted beings into cruel monsters that have done nothing but destroy one planet after another. Whelp, I'm off for more food!"

Goten could only watch in horror as the blue being walked away with a cheerful hum, wondering if he should have asked at all.

"Hey! Stay away from my food!" Gohan exclaimed as he snatched back a plate of tuna roll sushi from Beerus. "This is my food! There's more for you to go and get!" He pointed at the food stalls while his tail fluffed up behind him like an offended cat.

"But why go get my own when I can just steal yours?" Beerus questioned with a chuckle as he snatched a plate of Takoyaki and began to gulp them down one after another. "Tastes even better that way."

"Mr. Kitty is so mean!" Gohan gasped out before pouting, realizing that all of his food and Goten's own, had been consumed and they would have to go and get some more. "Goten! Let's go get some more!" Gohan stated as he got down onto his feet but wobbled and fell to the ground.

Goten chuckled before nodding his head. Beerus had been able to steal all of his food while he had been distracted by Whis. "Sure kiddo, let's go and get some more food." He agreed as he stood up and then picked Gohan up in his arms. "Would you like to come with us and pick some things out for yourself?" He questioned the god, who was picking at his fangs with his claws.

"Sure, why not." Beerus muttered as he stood up and began to walk over to the stalls with Goten and Gohan. "So kid, tell me, what do I feel like to you?" He questioned Gohan, swatting at the kid's tail halfheartedly.

Gohan scowled as he tucked his tail around his waist before glaring at the god. "Sunshine." He stated bluntly before turning his head away with a huff. He really wasn't liking the Kitty now. He had stolen his food and now played with his tail as if it was a toy. He wasn't and he didn't like it.

The God of Destruction scowled at the description but understood that the heat he held could be compared to the sun when he was calm. He also knew that it could turn into a blazing inferno when he was ticked off. He wondered if this child would be able to feel that as well and then feel as if he was burnt. It would be interesting to see but it would have to wait until he was truly ticked off. No one here had managed to really annoy him fully yet but he knew it was only about time, mortals were fools after all. "What else is there to eat here child?" Beerus questioned instead and the three soon became consumed with picking out foods to eat.

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"He's ridiculously strong." Goku said from where he was laid out in a beach chair. His hands were covering his eyes as he recovered from the beating he had taken from the god. "I've never think I've ever come up against someone as strong as him before."

"Of course you haven't, you idiot." Vegeta barked at the younger Saiyan, his own nerves frayed as he kept an eye on the god of Destruction. He had yet had the being leave his sight since he had arrived. "He's literally the God of Destruction! He'll be able to destroy you with his pinkie if he really wanted to." Vegeta growled angrily.

"I doubt you'll ever be able to defeat him." Piccolo stated next. "We've never come across something like this and from what I get from Kami's memories, he has only ever come into contact with this God once…The fear he felt is unbelievable."

"Oh man! I just want to fight him again!" Goku exclaimed in excitement as he sat up, only to groan a second later as all the pain in his body came to the forefront once more. "Why won't you guys give me a sensu bean?"

"Because you're an idiot that doesn't know how to stay down." Bulma stated as she walked up to the three males. "If we give you a sensu bean then you'll just go after the guy again and we don't need to have the earth destroyed because you can't leave well enough alone." She glared at him knowingly.

Goku pouted at the group of people before sighing and settling into the beach chair a little more. "Then what are we going to do? He wants to know what this super Saiyan God is after all, but we don't have any clue what he's talking about."

"First smart thing you've said all day." Vegeta mumbled before turning towards Bulma. "We have the dragon balls, right?" He questioned next.

"Yeah, we do. I was going to use them for the bingo contest. First place gets them and gets to use them for whatever they want." She explained as she took a sip of her drink, ginger ale, to help settle her stomach a little bit.

"Forget about the contest." Vegeta stated as he turned to walk away. "We're using them to get answers for Lord Beerus. The sooner we find out what he wants the sooner we can get rid of him and hopefully have the Earth intact afterwards."

"Oh, I see!" Bulma exclaimed with a nod of her head. "I'll go and get them then. It'll only take a minute to do." She stated and walked off, swaying a little bit.

"I think she might have just had too much to drink." Goku muttered as he watched his oldest friend walk away with worry. "Which is odd because she knows how to hold her alcohol."

Piccolo only grunted as he turned to see where his son was, blinking in mild surprise when he realizes that Beerus is sitting with the two Son Demi-Saiyans. It seemed as if Whis was heading in that direction as well. His nerves instantly began to chatter and so to stop it from becoming worse, he walked over to the table and stood behind the child he had taken guardianship over.

"Oh, a Namekian? What are you doing here on Earth?" Whis questioned from his yakitori. "It's rare to see a Namekian outside of its own kind."

Piccolo grunted at that. "I've been on Earth since I was created." Piccolo looked down at where Gohan was now sipping at Miso Soup with a small smirk. "My being here is also due to this kid here. I take care of him and have been raising him."

"I see." Beerus said as he looked up from a plate of sashimi. "You have been training him I take it?" He questioned next, feeling out the two beings in front of him and trying to figure out what makes the child different from all the others here. He seemed one of the weaker ones if not the weakest so how was it he could feel his ki?

"Yes." Piccolo agreed.

"That's right. Piccolo has been training Gohan for years now! Since even before I was born." Goten put in with a proud smile, ignoring the soy sauce on the sides of his face.

"Years?" The two immortals questioned as they looked at the child in front of them and at Goten. It was horribly obvious to them that Gohan was the younger of the two demi-Saiyans but why would Goten say something like that then?

"Yep. Though he doesn't look like it anymore, he was actually much older than I am." Goten whispered at the two, glancing at Gohan to see him digging into a banana split. "There was an incident and well…" he shrugged helplessly.

"I see." Whis muttered as he held his chin in thought, thinking about what could have happened. He summoned his staff and pulled up everything that he could on Gohan right then and there.

"Whoa, the kid faced some pretty powerful people, for mortals at least." Beerus said as he watched the pictures flash across the sphere of the staff. "He even went up against that upstart Freiza."

"Yes, he did." Whis agreed as he watched the child closely, noting the increase in power when rage overwhelmed him. It was obvious that the child was much like Beerus had been as a child and still was to this day.

They continued to watch the screen for several more seconds, watching as the boy helped his mother while his father was gone, the training with the Namekian, the return of Freiza and Goku and the arrival of a lavender haired boy, the battle against the androids, watching as the androids got eaten by a bug of some sort that grew stronger from them, and then the training with Goku in a chamber of some sort, and then Gohan exiting out of the chamber with golden spikey hair and teal eyes.

Beerus raised a hand and Whis stopped the picture on Gohan just after Piccolo had given him an outfit much like his own. "What is it Lord Beerus?" Whis questioned as he looked at the picture and then back at the purple cat.

Beerus stared with narrowed eyes, taking in the spiky hair and the posture of the child, his mind ringing at him to remember something, something important. He wasn't sure what though and scoffed as he motioned for Whis to continue.

They watched as the child did chores and relaxed at him with his parents, saving a town from a greedy human, and then as a tournament took place. They watched Goku face the bug that had changed forms from the beginning and then they watched as the child stepped up and faced the same creature.

He was losing.

Only for a power to take over after an android's head was smashed and for the child to completely lose it. He was winning and was even smirking at the bug even as he was covered in blood.

Beerus had the stream stopped again as he took in the tall spiky hair and the lightning crackling around the little figure. There wasn't a tail but Beerus was sure of it now.

He motioned for the picture to continue. Both watched with frowns as the bug began to inflate like a balloon and how Goku quickly transported the thing to King Kai's planet where it blew up. They watched at the child defeated the bug after he had regenerated and the hug battle of energies clashed.

Then they watched as peace reigned for a time and the boy grew into a man. He helped take care of his brother, went to school, met a girl, and then threw on a ridiculous ensemble that did nothing for him.

There was a darker side to him as well as he grew up. Neither knew of the reason for the self-mutilation or what the significance of it was, but they figured they could ask if it didn't show on the staff.

From there the tournament where he was completely drained and then the battle against Majin Buu. Only once the defeat of Majin Buu occurred did they realize that the boy was much weaker than he had been when he went against the bug.

Peace reigned again and Goku returned to life with Vegeta and everyone else who had perished against the Majin, Gohan included. They watched him propose and get married. They watched as he refused to use the knife again and instead became excited as his wife's stomach began to expand. A baby would come soon.

Then they watched as everything fell apart.

The starvation the set in after the loss of his family. The self-mutilation started up again and soon the once proud and powerful boy was reduced to a weakling waiting to die.

Only his little brother refused to allow that to happen and instead used the dragon balls to return his brother to a child.

They watched as he trained with the Namekian again, becoming stronger and stronger, until someone attacked again. The Black Water Mist was spread across the world just as the child unlocked the form of Super Saiyan and then fell ill.

The new threat was defeated but the child was weakened even more and then to now.

"I see." Beerus said as he leaned back in his chair and crossed his arms over his chest. "I see now, that's very interesting."

"Lord Beerus?" Whis questioned with a raised brow. "Did you see what I did?"

"I did."

"Do you think then that you should…"

"No. I'll leave it for now. The brat is too weak anyways. There's no point in me doing anything to help him now that he's like this."

"So you'll just wait until he's stronger then?"

"Back to that level he was when he faced that insect. That's where he needs to be for me to do anything with him."

"Alright, we shall wait then, as you wish Lord Beerus."

"Hey you two!" Bulma called out as she carried over a large pillow. "I think I know of a way to find out the information that you two want!" She stated happily as she came up to the two thoughtful gods.

"Oh, and what might that be Ms. Bulma?" Whis questioned politely as he looked at the pillow. "Are those Dragon Balls?"

"Yep! We got them all here, so I thought we could use them to help you two out." She explained as she settled them onto the table once Goten had moved some plates out of the way. "Originally these were going to be the first place prize for the Bingo contest but I think you two could use them more than us."

"That's a wonderful idea! Not to mention so kind of you to relinquish their use to us as well." Whis exclaimed as he clapped his hands together, staff disappearing into thin air. "What do you say Lord Beerus? Shall we ask the Dragon if he knows?"

"That would be more useful than waiting around here for the information. It's obvious that these mortals know nothing about what we want." He stated with a frown. He stood up from his chair, ignoring how Vegeta appeared behind his wife with a protective stance. "Let us summon the dragon and see what he has to say."

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A.N. Okay, we're so close to where I want to be. Just so you guys know, I'm just going as far as Freiza returning to life. That's as far as I'm willing to go with this. Also know I'm so sorry this took so long to update! Between school, homework, work, and family I've been so busy that I'm dying here people! This is the first week I've had off in like ever! I slept most of it when I could so sorry about that. Also review and tell me what you think! I can't wait to see!