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Chapter 10
*After we finish our sword practice for the day, I realized that I'm starved to death. I haven't eaten any thing since breakfast. I look at Trunks and grin at him.*
"I don't know about you Trunks but I think that I've had enough practice for one day. I'm tired, sore, and hungry. Do you want to come in and eat before Fluffy come's to get you?"
"No. I think I'll head back. I'll eat when I get to Sesshoumaru's. But I'll see you in the morning Kag."
*We walk out the door of the dojo and stand there for a moment watching the sunset, just enjoying the peace and quiet of the moment. I feel some aura's approaching us. I turn and look in the direction that I sense them coming from. After several minute's I see Goku, Chi-chi, and Gohan flying toward us. I turn toward Trunks.*
"It look's like Bulma invited the Sons to supper. Are you sure that you can't stay and eat with us?"
"No, I really shouldn't interact with to many people from this time. The less everyone knows about me the better. Be side's my Aunt has told me all about the Sons, and I would love to meet them, but it would be to dangerous to me and everyone else if I did."
"Your Aunt told you about them, does she know them?"
"Yes she did. My Aunt raised me after my parent's died."
"Your parent's died? How old were you when they died?"
"A little over a year old. I don't have many specific memory's of them. I just remember feeling safe and loved when I was with them. My Aunt raised me as her own after they died. To tell the truth I had forgotten about them, my Aunt had to tell me about them when I got old enough to understand."
"It's understandable that you forgot them, you were so young when they died. You were very fortunate that your Aunt was there to raise you. She must of been very close to them to raise you after they died."
"She was very close to my Mom growing up, and had come to respect my Dad, after he and Mom got together. Well I should go before they get here. I'll see you tomorrow Kag... Bye!"
*I stand there and watch him blast off quickly. Just a couple of second's before Goku and his family land.*
"Who was that Gome? Why did he leave in such a hurry?" Goku ask's.
"That is Sesshoumaru-sama's new student. He left because he had to get back to Sesshoumaru-sama's at a certain time."
"If I knew that you had a new training partner I would have come over earlier. That way I could have met him. What's his name?" Goku ask's.
"I don't know what his real name is, I've been calling him Trunks all day."
"You don't know his real name! Why don't you know his real name Kagome?" Gohan ask's me.
"It's a secret Gohan. Sesshoumaru-sama say's that he's trustworthy and I trust his judgment. Sesshoumaru-sama gave his word to Trunks not to tell anyone his true name, and he always keep's his word."
"Not even you Gome? Don't they trust you?" Goku ask's.
"It's not really a matter of trust Goku. Trunks is from a very different place and time, and he feel's if we know to much about the future we could change it for the worse. So I understand why they don't want anyone to know, it's for his safety and ours. I guess that you guy's are here to eat supper. I guess we should go in and see if Bulma has everything under control."
*I turn and start walking toward C&C with them walking with me. I hear Bulma and Vegeta arguing as we walk in through the back door into the kitchen. I stand in the door listening to them argue. I was right about one thing it does seem to be something that Vegeta enjoys to have someone who isn't afraid to argue with him. I stand there with Goku and his family standing behind me watching them. Goku seem's nervous, so I turn and grin at him, then I turn back toward the kitchen and walk in and sit down in a chair next to Vegeta.*
"One would think that you enjoy to argue with people Veg-head, this is the second argument you've gotten into today."
"Butt out onna. This is none of your business."
"This is the first argument I've had with him today Gome. So who else did he argue with?" Bulma ask's.
"With me, earlier at the dojo."
"Onna, be quiet!"
"No way Veg-head!"
"Onna I'm warning you!"
"I'm not scared of you Veg-head. I think that I proved that earlier when I didn't run from your temper tantrum. You don't intimidate me Veg-head!"
"Vegeta threw a temper tantrum on you today Gome? And you walked away from it? Your a brave girl, even I steer clear of him when he loses his temper." Goku say's.
"Goku if he had wanted to hurt me he wouldn't have missed me with the ki blast he threw at me."
"Onna I'm warning you!"
"And I warned you Veg-head, my name is Kagome. Not Onna!"
*I sit there and watch as he jump's up and glare's at me. He give's me an angry look as he turn's and stomp's out of the kitchen.*
"I don't know how you managed to get him to walk away from this, but I wish you would teach me on how to get him to walk away from an argument." Bulma say's.
"By not showing any fear Bulma. I'm not afraid of him and he knows it."
"Gome that might be dangerous to you, Vegeta is unpredictable, you might push him to far one of these day's. He could lose his temper, and hurt you before he come's to his senses. You shouldn't push him like that." Goku say's.
"But it's so easy to push his button's Goku. You shouldn't worry so much Goku, he won't hurt me. I know that and I think that deep down you know it too or you never would have let him stay here with B-chan and her family. He's not had an easy life like we've had. I think that he's got a good heart and want's people to see him for himself as he truly is and not for what he was forced to do. And you have to admit that all of the Z-senshie holds his past against him. Even you do to a point Goku. True you have tried to be his friend where none of the other's haven't, but you expect him to change. "
"But he's a murderer! He's killed and destroyed whole worlds! How can you sit there and preach at us for not wanting to be his friend, be side's he doesn't want us to be his friend's!" Chi-chi say's.
"Chi-chi how can you say that he doesn't want any friend's, how can you judge him to begin with? You don't have the right to judge him! None of us do!"
"But he's still a murderer! And there is nothing you can say that will change the fact that he's killed people." Chi-chi say's.
"True he has killed people, but so have I, and so has most of the Z-senshie, including Goku."
"You've killed people! Your no better than he is! I always knew you were evil!" She say's.
"Yes I have killed, but only to protect people, and if that make's me evil than Goku is evil too. He'll kill to protect people. What make's him any different than me?"
" He only does it when he doesn't have any other choice. He doesn't enjoy it!"
"Niether do I! Let me tell you something Chi-chi, you've met Sesshoumaru right?"
"Yes, I met him last night at Roshi's."
"What was your first impression of him?"
"He seem's like a nice enough man, a little cold maybe. but nice. Why?"
"Well the first time I met him he tried to kill me and he kept trying to kill me every time I met him after that for almost year. When I first met him he felt no remorse for killing anyone who got in his way, whether it was a man, a woman, or a child! I would say that in his life he would give Vegeta a run for his money on how many people he's killed, and given Sesshoumaru's origin's I would say that he was far more brutal in his kill's than Vegeta could ever have been. But you say he seem's like a nice man, if you had met him before he changed you wouldn't think that he was a nice man. You would have prayed for a quick death!"
"Is Sesshoumaru really that bad Gome?" Goku ask's.
"He was that bad, at one time, until he changed. But like most people he had to have reason to change. Do you have any idea what his reason was Chi-chi?"
"No... I don't."
"The love and faith of a child, he had been severely injured in a fight and a five year old little girl found him. She did her best to help him even though she was an orphan. She wasn't afraid of him or what he was capable of doing, because all she saw when she looked at him was someone who was in worse shape than she was.
The day that he left her village was attacked. When the attack started she ran to where she had left him so she could help him hide from the attacker's but he had already left, and before she could find a place to hide herself the attacker's found her. They killed her!
Sesshoumaru wasn't to far away from there when he smelt her blood on the wind. When he got to the source of the scent all he found was her dead body only a few feet from where he had been earlier. He used the sword that his father had left to him and brought her back to life. When he left again she followed him and he allowed her too. She loved him and had tried to protect him, when she had no reason to.
She started melting his heart of ice with her love and faith in him.. He grew to love her because she never feared him, she only loved him and had complete faith in him. She never judged him because of something that he had done in the past. She is the main reason for his change.
He and I became friends when she was attacked by a youkai. She had wondered away from her babysitter, Sess had a meeting with another youkai lord. I rescued her from the demon. He was amazed that I would go to her aide knowing that she was his ward, because no one else would because of his past.
I got to know him and become friend's with him. He has become one of the best friend's that I've ever had. Hell he feel's like an older brother to me.
So how can I judge Vegeta, on thing's that he's done in the past. I will not treat him any differently than I do anyone else! He deserves a second chance to find a happy life, to have true friend's. Like any of us do!"
"Sound's like your just the person to help him Gome. If any one can reach him it will be you." Goku say's.
"I think she's crazy for being friend's with some one like Sesshoumaru, or to want to be friend's with someone like Vegeta!" Chi-chi say's.
"Chi-chi I think that was uncalled for! Gome is right! We don't have the right to judge any one!" Bulma say's.
*I stand up and give Chi-chi an angry look. I turn to Bulma.*
"I'm no longer hungry B-chan, I'm going to go upstairs'. I'll see you all later."
"You should eat Gome, you've not eat any thing today!" she say's.
"Yes, I did. Vegeta and I ate breakfast together this morning. Night every one."
* I turn and walk out of the kitchen. How can Chi-chi sit there like she's so much better than any one else, none of us are innocent! I will become Vegeta's friend, no matter what! I think that he need's one. Hmm where is Veg-head at? I walk upstairs' and head toward where I sense his aura. He's on the balcony at the end of the hall way. I walk out of the door's and see him leaning against the railing looking at the end of the sunset. I walk over and lean on the rail next to him. I stand there not saying anything. Vegeta turn's and look's at me. He's a lot like Sesshoumaru; you can't read his face either. I wonder if you can see what he's feeling by looking into his eyes? I look into his onyx colored eye's. The only thing's I can read from his eye's are anger, confusion, and loneliness. It hurt's me to see someone as proud as him to be in this kind of situation.*
"What do you want now Onna? Do you enjoy my company so much that you sought me out?"
"Yeah I do enjoy your company Veg-head, and I don't want anything from you except your company."
"Why all we ever do is argue onna? Why do you enjoy that?"
"Because like you I enjoy a good argument, and your a good verbal sparring partner Veg-head."
"I really detest that name onna!"
"Almost as much as I detest at being called onna, I'll make you a deal Veg-head, you call me Kagome, Gome, or Kag and I'll call you Vegeta. If you keep on calling me onna I'll think up a more embarrassing nickname for you. Like Sesshoumaru's nickname, his is Fluffy. He hate's it, but he let's me call him that when we are alone. So what will it be? Shall I keep calling you Veg-head in front of people or shall I start calling you Vegeta again in front of people, and only Veg-head when no one's around? It's up to you Vegeta."
"Call me Vegeta, and I'll call you Kag. Deal?"
"Deal Vegeta, are you going to go downstairs' to eat?"
"Not as long as Kakkarott and his family are down there. His mate is a banshee."
"I agree with you about her. She's the reason I'm up here instead of down there eating, and I don't know about you but I'm hungry."
"What did the banshee do to you to drive you away from the table Kag?"
"She said something that I didn't agree with. I refuse to share a meal with someone so judgmental! No one has the right to judge any one else for something they've done in the past, especially if they no longer are the same person now."
"Who was she judging?"
"You... She was judging you. She said that you were evil because you've killed."
"Most people would agree with her Kag. I have killed people, whole world's even."
"Yeah you have, but you've never tried to hide your past. And she's wrong about you. Your not evil Vegeta!"
"How can you say that Kagome, even I see myself as evil because of what I've done. How can you say that doesn't make me evil?"
"Because you had no choice, you didn't do it because you enjoyed it, you did it to survive. You're not evil Vegeta. You may be arrogant, rude, proud, and overly stubborn, but you're not evil."
"Your right, I did it to survive, but I did come to enjoy it."
"Only because it was all you knew. Hate, anger, and violence was all you were taught. You're not the same man now that you were then. Do you know what I see when I look at you Vegeta?"
"Someone who is arrogant, rude, proud, and overly stubborn?"
"Yes I see all of that, but I also see someone who is confused, lonely, and bitter. I see someone who has changed. I also see someone who I would like to know better, I see someone that I would like to have for a friend."
"You want to be my friend? Why would you want to be friend's with someone like me?"
"Because I think you would be a good friend Veggie. Because when I look at you I see someone I would trust with my life with. And in a fight I would want you to be on my side to watch my back. For some reason I trust you Vegeta... Let's not forget that your also cute!"
*I stand there and watch as he tries to hide his blush. I smile as I step closer to him. I lay my hand on his shoulder, and grin's when he look's at me. I see hope, and trust in his eye's. I quickly step closer to him and hug him. He is at first stiff in my embrace, but after a couple of minute's he relaxes and return's my hug. As I stand there in his arm's I feel so safe and secure. I lay my head against his shoulder.*
"So will you be my friend Veggie?"
"Yes, I guess that might be bearable, you do understand that I won't be the easiest person to get along with"
"All right, but that is just you being your self. I can live with that... So you wanna go downstairs' and ruin dinner for the banshee?"
"Let's go and do it. I like the way you think Kag."
*I grin at him as we start walking downstairs' with our arm's linked. I can't wait to see everyone's face's when we walk in together.*
That's all for this chapter. I hope that this will clear up some of the question's that people have asked.
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