Oh my goodness! I'm back again! You definitely thought I stopped working on this one, right?? NO! I would never do that! Because of you guys, who favourite this story and read it I will not stop midway. Because I know just how stupid it is if you read stories from year 2003 or so and they still aren't finished and the last update was 2005….that's stupid…

So here is the next chapter! I hope I can update faster the next time, so don't be angry with me, when I actually need more time to update! But I hope it is not going to take longer than 1 or 2 months…

And before I'm going to babble your ear bloody, let's finally continue with FACE ME!!!

Cya

Red C

Coming to an end – chapter 9

They trained. Again. Chichi sighed in her head as she – again – blocked an attack from Kakarott. Somehow this whole training thing was going on her nerves. Not just because she had the feeling she was at her best but because since this one particular day they never ever got intimate like that again. And any further than kissing was momentarily out of the question!

'And it has been 179 days already…I think I dreamt that day when he…' She sighed again and looked at the concentrated sayajin. He never changed.

Kakarott was like always, a bit dump, a bit sweet, a bit too much into the fighting and a bit too slow into showing interest into her. And the odd thing was, that since that kiss he wanted to train more than ever…

'Coward!' Chichi pushed him away before she rubbed her forehead and asked "Could I take a break? It has been 20 hours already, I'm kind of tired."

"Sure." Was his only answer before he continued fighting. She got angry.

"I meant to say we should take a break, because you don't look that good to me, too! So swing your ass into bed and sleep for a while, you stubborn monkey!"

Kakarott frowned at her sudden explosion. "But Chi, we have to train! We only have 157 days to go!" She rolled her eyes. The same argument like yesterday, and the day before and the day before…

'Maybe I have to be a little nicer to him, so that he understands what I mean' She thought.

"Yup, and when we take two days to calm ourselves down we still have 155 days to go! So are there any problems to just lie down for a while and chill?" She looked at him with her eyebrows up high. Now she was interested in his response. He rubbed his neck – what a familiar gesture when he was at a loss.

"None." She answered for him before she grabbed his arm and took him with her. She couldn't see how deeply he blushed as she suddenly changed from his arm to his hand and held him there instead. She turned around, pressed him into the chair and commanded for him to sit. "Stay where you are or I'm going to open that door…" Her slender finger pointed to the blue exit. "… and your precious training was for nothing!"

He gulped. She was serious, and he was seriously in a dead-end. But if she knew why he wanted to train so badly, she wouldn't do what she was doing. His tail switched from one side to the other and his muscles started to shake. 'There it goes again…' he desperately thought as he tried to take control.

Ever since that kiss his body was behaving strangely. And the only solution for him to control his inner mess was to train and to fight. He had to momentarily forget just with who he was in here. And exactly that somebody appeared in front of him again, pressing her hand on his forehead and frowning.

"Something the matter? You look ill." He shook his head, and avoided her touch as innocently as he could. Chichi passed him a senzu bean and some water before she sat beside him still looking at him. Her gaze was roaming over him, making him uncomfortable, and at the same time too comfortable.

"What is it?" He asked, maybe a little too sayajin like – Chichi ducked unintentionally.

"Y-you don't have to be that mad, idiot!" She yelled back at him. "I was only checking your injuries…" She looked away. "Take the bean, and lie down already." She added almost in a whisper.

"I can't, we don't have much time left." He said and stood up again. He felt the end approaching, although he still wasn't sure just what was coming once they were out of this room.

As she saw him lifting his body from the chair, Chichi made a sound which almost sounded like a growl.

"And I told you, we trained a lot! One or two days doing nothing won't be that bad!" She yelled at him and stood up too. Why didn't he just understand that she wanted him to take care of himself?

"I feel the danger coming, Chi!" He yelled right back at her. "And I don't know if I am strong enough!"

His blood was boiling as he fought with her. On one hand because he wanted to be strong enough to protect her from this danger as he just somehow knew she was being targeted. And on the other hand because he just wanted to take those two days and bind her with him to the bed, to never let go of her, to treasure her, feel her, touch her, kiss her…God damn it! He wanted to mark and make her his forever!

Chichi became silent, as she saw the seriousness inside his eyes. He really was scary when he looked like that. Determined.

She looked down and felt tears dwelling up in her eyes. He was right. They didn't know what was coming, and they didn't know if they were strong enough. For god's sake, she didn't even know why it had to be her from the beginning! She didn't know why she was kept alive, nor why she was "the awakening" of some planet, nor why she felt this despair inside of her! To be exact, she didn't know anything at all!

And all she could do was fighting. And she was tired of it. Her determination was gone. She wanted to face nobody anymore.

She felt his hand cup her cheek, as he lifted her face up to look at him.

"Chi…I know you are tired. But we just have to do it. If we want to be together, we just have to do it." He said in his soft voice and Chichi's eyes widened at his words. He wanted to be together with her?

A little sniff escaped her lips before she pressed her face into his chest and welcomed his arms crossing behind her back and pushing her further into him. He felt so good. And safe. She could stay like that for ages!

And then suddenly as she looked up to see his face he bent down and brushed lightly over her lips, touching her sweetly like the last time. Chichi thought this moment would never happen and she closed her eyes as the pressure of his lips became more and more. His hands were sliding down her arms, only to capture her hands and to bring them behind his neck. She unintentionally pressed her body more into his, as his hands landed again on her back and slid after some seconds to her hips. She played with his hair in her hands and was astonished that his extraordinary spiky hair could be this soft! When she felt his tongue sliding lightly over her upper lip she flinched and opened her eyes in shock, only to melt again as he cupped both her cheeks with his hands and gave her one final sweet kiss before he moved away from her mouth to her jaw, down her neck. She leaned her face against his palm and gave him the opportunity to successfully observe her slender neck, her white skin and her pulse…her sweet, sweet pulse. Pumping under his lips like the movement of a butterfly…her blood rushing through…

Kakarott knew he lost his control, but he couldn't stop his desire. His inner beast was screaming as he gently sucked the delicate spot on her neck. It was too inviting! He wanted to rip her out of her clothes, lie her down and finally bite her! And making her completely his. Chichi moaned quietly as she felt his tongue licking down her neck and kicked herself awake with the sound she just made. What was she doing? What was he doing?! Didn't they just argue about not stopping the training? And here they were, doing stuff they shouldn't do!

'Well, maybe she should do…' Chichi thought. "But maybe not now?'

She pushed him gently away and looked into his surprised face. Only by then she noticed her quick breathing and his eyes, which were filled with something ominous. But his look didn't hold on too long, and he quickly looked away, saying "Sorry!" She thought he was embarrassed and smiled to him, before she pecked him on his cheek.

"I think we have something to do." She noticed as neutral as she could and was surprised about his sudden change of attitude.

"Right!" was his only answer as his seriousness came back. They had something to do.

***

Chigo landed on green grass, which was waving around him in the caressing blow of the wind. As he looked up, he noticed three moons in a triangle, looking down on him in a dangerous way, as if they wanted to sign him to leave for his own good. He smirked as he switched his gaze from the sky to ground again. Somehow those moons told him, that there was something they wanted to protect. And he was curious just what that was, sensing it only had to be the girl he was searching for five weeks. He knew Freiza was at his limit, that pink guy never was patient anyway. But Chigo was not the thinker, to be exact: His loyalty to Freiza was bigger than his loyalty to his own folk. That was one reason why he was cold enough to kill his own family without hesitation. The other was his hatred to those weaklings. They were too friendly for him. He wanted to fight, to kill. He liked the sound of bones breaking, of blood spilling and those dying screams. He loved them all. So, when he met Freiza who came to destroy his planet, Chigo was more than just happy to see the blood mass Freiza created, and he immediately swore him his loyalty till eternity. He probably would die if Freiza just said so. But before he could do that he had to find the girl. Pushing himself from the ground he started to search the planet for any living form, and was surprised that he – even after blowing the ground almost completely up – couldn't find anything. He searched the whole planet and landed after two hours on the same spot again. Frowning he made sure that he was right in feeling life on here. There couldn't be a mistake, he felt them. He looked up again and those three moons still were hovering above him, and than he suddenly started to laugh. He laughed so hard that he bent down his head and up again. His eyes focused on a little thing, right in the middle of the triangle.

"Found you." Was his only sentence before he lunged into the air and rushed to the floating thing high in the sky.

'So the silent guardians become the loudest peculators.' Chigo thought grinning before he reached the flying island and fired on it mercilessly without a warning.

'Now let the fun begin.'

***

"What the heck is happening out there?" Bulma asked furious before she stomped out of her workshop, oil over her complete face and blue boilersuite. As answer the ground shook again and Bulma lost her balance and landed on her back, very unladylike. Krillin came up behind her, on his side the best fighters they had: Yamcha, Tenshinhan, Chaozu and Piccolo. As Yamcha helped Bulma up he winked wickedly at her, but she only ignored him and asked Krillin again why the ground was shaking like that. Krillin looked seriously to her, before he said "It has begun."

Bulma's blue eyes widened at his words and she gulped her next words down. 'So it started.' She said to herself before she grinned. 'I did it!'

"We have to go, or this place is going to crumble down before we even started fighting!" Piccolo grumbled. The namekian was not the friendly looking one, but he was trustworthy. Although he was only temporary staying here, he didn't oppose the fight. To be exact, he welcomed the chance and was more than just delighted to fight in this. And Bulma was more than just delighted to have him help.

"Piccolo is right!" Tenshinhan added before he looked to Krillin and waited for his reply. Krillin nodded and all except him flew out of the palest. Bulma looked to him with a glint in her eyes – was it triumph? Krillin didn't know and only said "Send Kakarott and Chichi as soon as they come out. How long will they stay in there? I have to make sure to give them enough time!"

"O-only one and a half more hours to go." Bulma said, as she realized just how serious the situation was.

"Good. We try to do our best!" With that he flew away from her and Bulma was alone again. Yes, she changed the prophecy. She was right in her thought. But she didn't consider the problems which could occur when she changed the future. But here they were. Three days earlier than expected. If it goes bad, it would be her fault.

She closed her eyes as she prayed that her calculations weren't wrong and sprinted to the room of spirit and time. One and a half ours to go…'Hopefully it is not too late!'

***

The last days in the room of time and spirit were – you could say extraordinary. We trained, of course. I didn't know why Kakarott was this concerned but it made me worry. I knew that something big was awaiting us, but I couldn't figure just how big! And he looked as if he exactly knew. But as soon as I tried to squeeze some information out of him he just took me off guard and kissed me lightly, only to shut me successfully up, leaving me in trance. He treated me like a different person! And he was different than ever before. He showed a side I didn't expect.

To be short, he really was sweet in those last days, but the oddest thing was the way he treated my neck. When we stopped our training for a while and slept, he snuggled himself onto me – without my knowing, although I didn't really mind – and kissed my neck or brushed over it with his rough fingertips, which felt like pure velvet over my skin, making me hot and unable to sleep anymore. But further than that, nothing happened, although I had those particular dreams which left me unsatisfied every time I woke up. My head was spinning, my stomach felt like after a rollercoaster and a weird but somehow sweet sensation was sneaking down my body. I was embarrassed when I looked Kakarott in the eye and felt heat coming to my face every time he gave me a look.

God, I loved the way he was teasing me while training. When he pushed me down, he actually brushed his lips every time over mine, or blew softly in my ear. He was like a little boy, exploring. And I was like a little girl, letting myself being pushed down. God, I loved his sudden playfulness so much that I actually started to forget the reason why we were in here. But at some point we had to face bitter reality again.

At the last day, he was extremely sweet to me. As I walked that day out of bed and stretched myself I said sarcastically to him "Now let's train for the last time, before doom is going to come!" But he only came over to me without a word and hugged me like a drowning person, what leaved me scared.

"W-what is it?"

"Let's not train anymore." He simply said and hugged me harder, if that was possible. I couldn't believe my ears. Did he just refuse training?

"But it's the last time!" I added surprised before he took my face and looked smiling to me.

"I know. So let's just use the time and calm ourselves down." He pecked my nose softly before he released me and walked over to the still broken bathroom. I looked to him, surprised. What did he just say? Calm ourselves down? My eyes wandered to him, as he settled himself before the "bath-hole" he created as a substitute for the broken bathtub.

"We should take a long bath to relax our muscles, don't you think?" I couldn't answer him, so I walked over and touched his forehead to check if he had a fever or a serious injure on his head. But there was nothing. He laughed a bit, as he took my hands from his head and asked me what was wrong. He asked me what was wrong?

"I should be asking you that! You don't want to use the time we have?"

He laughed, as he pulled me down to him, our knees touching as he waved his fingers with mine in an intimate way, making me blush and feeling quite embarrassed.

"I am using the time, aren't I?" He whispered to me but before I could say anything to that, he pushed – or more like threw – me into the bath-hole, grinning widely. As I came out of the water with my head, I screamed to him "What did you do that for, idiot?" and pushed my heavy hair from my face, as it covered my eyes completely.

"Relax, Chi!" he chirped before he jumped in too.

"What the heck! This is not a swimming pool! And now my clothes are wet! And why did you jump in, too? Ah, I'm going out!"

"No, you stay!" And with those words, he just pulled me back and actually sat me in his lap. He. Sat. Me. In. His. LAP!! I was confused! I was happy, a bit irritated and intimidated like a little lamp gazing into the dark wilderness. I felt his arms sneaking around my torso, and his nose snuggled itself like every time into the shape of my neck. His breathing tickled up to my ear and I just had goose bumps all over my body!

"What are you doing?" I asked with a shaking voice. I felt how he smirked into my skin and for some seconds I thought I felt his teeth scratching lightly over it, too. And as he spoke I stopped breathing.

"I'm relaxing…"

"That's what you count as relaxing?" 'Because I can't relax at all!' I added in I my head. He leaned his chin on my shoulder and now started to whisper in my ear! I really thought my heart would just drop out of my chest and leave me alone, for good!

"Your 'salaik' is relaxing to me."

"M-my 'salaik'?" I didn't hear this word before, it sounded strange to my ears.

"And your 'proluki', your 'walun', your 'nalaim'…" I couldn't hear anymore than that, because his hands started to wander over me! Goodness, I was tempted like crazy! But my head was clear enough to remember the way his hands were going, and as he lightly brushed over my chest I jumped away from him, my heart pounded in my ears, my head was blank and all I could do was stare into his confused face. I couldn't describe what was happening to me, but I somehow enjoyed it.

"Is everything alright?" Kakarott started to wander over to me, but I just stared blankly at him. If he is coming a second time, I wouldn't know what I would do. I thought he didn't want to? Or did he want to do what I thought he wanted to do just before the fight, although he looked like he didn't want to do it before at all? Wait that was confusing me. So I just asked him.

"What is wrong with you today?" I asked at first. He frowned.

"What should be wrong?"

"Well, you behave strangely. First you ignored me, than you kissed me, ignored me again, then you showed me this affection side, but showed clear enough, too, just how far you want to go and now you are doing this?"

I was completely at a loss. And so was he. He massaged his root of the nose, before he leaned back and simply said "Sorry. I guess I wasn't able to control myself anymore. I'm sorry for scaring you."

"It's more like worrying than scaring, if I have to be honest."

"How do you mean?"

"Well, you keep things to yourself and won't tell me anything. And every time I see you frowning or thinking about something and ask you what is wrong, you start to kiss me or to hug me and won't answer to me at all."

"Sorry."

"Stop this stupid sorry-act already and tell me what is wrong!"

He looked away and pressed his lips together. I was getting angry and I started to feel the coldness of the water in my clothes.

"Kakarott!"

"Chi…" He said to me and held his hand up to sign me I should stop asking. But I didn't want to.

"Tell me! I feel left out, if you don't say anything to me. I'm in there as much as you are, damn it!"

"I know!" He yelled lightly but regretted it at the same time. "I know." He said again. "But I just don't want you to fight, because I somehow feel that…" he stopped.

"That what?" I questioned further. He looked into my eyes silently. The only sound we heard was the water rippling as I neared myself Kakarott again. And as I stood face to face to him, he answered while brushing hair behind my ear with a sad voice, which echoed trough my body.

"That one of us is going to die."

I didn't now if I should feel happy or angry. Was he really this dumb? Or was this only his naïve sweetness? I smiled as I touched his cheek.

"And you really think I would stay by the side and watch how you die? We are in this together. Meaning: if you fight, I fight too. And if you die…" I paused. Was I really to say this? I saw into his eyes and was for the first time ever absolutely sure. "…I die too."

I felt his arms again around me, and pressed my nose into his wet chest, breathed his fragrance deep into my lungs and welcomed his warmth which hugged me like a second skin.

It was silent for a while before he suddenly said some words I didn't understand again. But I knew their meaning, and it punched me like a hard fist right into my face.

Farim kaleida, Chi. Farim kaleida.

Those words circled through my head as we walked hours later hand in hand out of the room and right into the arms of Bulma who after smiling like crazy at us, explained the serious situation.

So it already started as we trained. But we felt absolutely confident. I pressed his hand and smiled to him before we both flew away right into the arms of our first opponent.

At that time I didn't knew at all what my role was in all of that, but I was going to learn, that my existence was more important than I had thought…