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Chapter Ten

The HIFL of Shopping

Pia glared at the large building in front of her, before she was dragged into the building reluctantly by Pan and Bra. The automatic, glass doors slid open and Pia groaned at what the next few hours would offer. Jerking her wrists out of the two chibi's grips, Pia followed the group taking in all of the different stores and, most importantly, the food court when they passed.

The mall had two floors, and escalators, stairs, and elevators were here-and-there allowing easy access to both floors. Pia could easily see the first floor stores, but the floors on the balconies above were a little difficult to see. From what Pia could see on the first floor, she figured that most of the stores were going to be clothing stores and that was only after seeing ten stores with manikins in the window within the first minute. Although there were other stores as well, and, in particular, a martial arts store caught Pia's eye immediately. She knew that would probably be the only store that would be worth while for her.

"This is the store!" Chi Chi said as she headed towards a store that was for kids, judging by the sizes of the manikins.

As she followed into the store after everyone else something that Pia didn't think was a good sign was that all of the clothes were uniforms, and didn't look comfortable. Looking around at the clothes racks Pia felt so tiny because the racks towered almost two feet over the tiny saiya-jin's head. As she was walking the chibi almost ran into Pan, she was so absorbed in her thoughts of all of the racks towering heights. Whispering an apology to Pan, Pia started at Chi Chi's voice.

"Here we go! Pia you need to try these things on."

Side-stepping around the group in front of her, which now consisted of Videl and Pan because Bulma and Bra had gone to another part of the store unnoticed to Pia, Pia examined what Chi Chi was holding. She almost sighed in relief when she realized that what she had to try on wasn't a dress but a pair of kaki pants, a white skirt with a wide, navy blue trim, and a navy blue shirt with a white collar to match. Granted, there was a skirt, but to Pia the pair of pants canceled that out.

"Ok." Pia complied before Chi Chi dragged her off to the dressing rooms and shoved the chibi into one of the open doors, before closing it. Stunned Pia locked the door behind her.

"I'm going to go look for more clothes ok, Pia!" Chi Chi called, her voice getting a little quieter as she walked off.

Quickly, Pia undressed do she could try on the clothes. Carefully she pulled the pants on, having to deal with how uncomfortable they felt against her tail when she had them on seeing how she was able to let it go over the top of the pants without putting a hole in them. She pulled on the skirt over the pants, and squirmed into the shirt. Finally changed, Pia looked at herself in the mirror, shocked at what she saw. In her opinion she looked downright weird.

Wrapping her tail around her waist under the skirt, Pia opened the door, popping her head out looking for Chi Chi. She just about jumped out of her skin when Chi Chi just appeared almost out of nowhere. In her arms the woman had fifteen more outfits, most of them looking just like the one Pia had on, some shirt were black instead of blue or the pants were white or black, not kaki, though. Just about dropping all of the many clothes she had in her arms, Chi Chi flung the door fully open to the changing room that Pia was in, and, after she saw what Pia was wearing, smiled.

"You look so professional," Chi Chi exclaimed, forcing the pile of clothes into the changing room, while Pia gaped at the mountain, "now try on these outfits and then we can go. Oh, and close your mouth, Pia. You'll catch flies."

Obediently Pia did as she was told, and closed her mouth. Staring at the woman as she disappeared among the clothes, Pia shook her head a little in disbelief, before going back into the changing room. With a groan, she started to try on all of the outfits that Chi Chi had placed there. As she was trying the clothes on Pia realized that with each outfit there was a skirt to hide her tail.

Oh, well… Pia thought as she redressed into her dress and leggings when she had finally finished trying the clothes on. Now that she had changed Pia was happy to finally have something on that felt remotely comfortable. With a sigh Pia gathered all of the clothes back into a tall, teetering pile before somehow managing to pick them up. Miraculously, Pia made it out of the dressing room with out her burden falling.

"Did they all fit, Pia?" Chi Chi asked from behind a clothes rack. Pia just about dropped all of the clothes in shock, but recovered herself just in time.

"Y-yes, ma'am," Pia stuttered as the women relieved the chibi saiya-jin of the clothes.

"Good! Now I'm going to go to the register to buy these and then we will wait for the rest outside the store." Chi Chi said as she made her way to the register, Pia following after her. The clerk, a blonde teen with pale, blue-green eyes, had a large sweat-drop on her head as she looked at Chi Chi. She gave Pia a pitying look, and Pia met it with her own look that said plain as day, "SAVE ME!" as well as "I am NOT related to her!"

As the clerk set to work on checking out all of the clothes, Pia looked around the store, her hands behind her head. She noticed that there was two halves of the store: one for girls, one for boys. Seeing a flash of bright blue Pia stepped to her right and about busted out laughing uncontrollably, but still laughed some. There was Bra, in a pink and blue outfit. The blue matched her hair to the exact shade, and the pink was exactly the same as her brother's hair. It looked exactly like what Pia had tried on but Bra had only a skirt on with no pants or leggings on underneath. In an effort to stop laughing Pia clamped her hands over her mouth.

Bra's head snapped around at Pia's laughter. The bluenette glared at the saiya-jin girl, giving Pia her best Vegeta Death Glare™. This only made Pia have to press her hand harder into her mouth. Bra in a skirt and with the Vegeta Death Glare™ on her face, it was priceless. Suddenly Pia was grabbed by the collar of her shirt, and, with a cry of surprise, found that she was being drug out of the store forcibly. This time it was Bra's turn to laugh as she watched her friend being removed from the store, a dark scowl the chibi saiya-jin's face. The clerk just stared after the two, penciled eyebrows arched high, eyes wide.

Struggling Pia tried to get out of Chi Chi's death grip on her dress, but to no avail. She gave up and crossed her arms, her normally bright, carefree eyes turning dark with the anger at the wound to her pride. She noticed Bra laughing and stuck her tongue out at her with her own death glare. This only made Bra roll her eyes before Pia was drug out of sight towards the entrance of the door.

Finally, Chi Chi and Pia were outside the store, and, after a few curious looks from shoppers, Pia was let go. Immediately she hoped to her feet, showing her fighting background with her agility and the gracefulness of getting, she turned to face Chi Chi. Miraculously the woman wasn't laden with clothes as Pia had thought she would be. Instead she had nothing besides the purse that she had brought with her to begin with.

"Wait where are all the clothes?" Pia questioned, stunned, all anger forgotten. She looked all around, but still couldn't find any sight of the bags of clothes that should have been there.

"Oh, I put it in a capsule," Chi Chi replied.

"Capsule?" Pia cocked her head to the side in her confusion.

"I forgot you don't know what a capsule is," Chi Chi said and from her purse she pulled out a rectangular case, opened it, and pulled out from it something that looked a lot like a large pill with a button on top. "This is a capsule. You can store all kinds of stuff in these things, like food, houses, cars, and even water, but you can't store living things in them."

"Really?" Pia asked taking the capsule from Chi Chi and examining it closely. "All that could fit in one of these little things. Wow…"

"Yeah, astounding isn't it? But that's Bulma for you!" Chi Chi said as she reached out and took the capsule back from Pia.

"Bulma invented these? Amazing!" Pia exclaimed, taking a small step back, and receiving a few strange glances at her outburst. Then she knit her eyebrow together thinking real hard when a sudden thought came to mind. Without thinking, Pia let her lips put sound to her thoughts, "I bet dad would have liked these capsule things… I think…"

Pia looked back up at Chi Chi, the woman had a stunned look on her face. Confused, Pia put a hand behind her head thinking, Was it something I said? Shaking her head Pia sat down beside Chi Chi, waiting for the others to come out when they were done shopping. They didn't have to wait for too long though when Bulma, Videl, Bra, and Pan came out of the store.

"Took you long enough," Pia said, jumping off of the bench before Chi Chi could patronize her about being rude. The chibi saiya-jin clasped her hands behind her head as she walked over to her two friends grinning.

"Yeah, but we blame our moms," Pan said as the three seven-year-old chibis followed the women through the mall. Pia rolled her eyes, while inwardly she agreed that the shopping for school clothes had taken way too long, almost two hours surprisingly. She just wanted to get out of the dress she was wearing and back into a comfortable gi and boots that she had a plethora of. Just then Pia caught a phrase of what Chi Chi, Videl, and Bulma were talking about unintended.

"Well I think that we should go to a hair solon next to get new-school-year haircuts," Pia heard Videl suggest.

"That's a great idea, Videl," Chi Chi said, "and that way Pia can get her hair cut, that way she won't resemble a porcupine anymore."

Pia stopped abruptly, her grin disappearing. Pan ran into her and fell back, but Pia didn't budge an inch. She was petrified, not out of fear, but of a brief memory that had been brought back by the mention of a haircut.

"Pia? Hey, Pia!" Pan exclaimed in her friend's face. Out of pure instinct Pia jumped back, prepared to fight. At Pia's reaction Pan yelped and stumbled away from her friend. Finally Pia's brain caught up with her actions and, with a sheepish grin, relaxed, putting a hand behind her head.

"Uh, sorry," Pia said as the three chibis once again followed after the adults again.

"Why did you stop?" Bra asked as she walked beside her friends.

"I sort-of remembered something when I overheard Chi Chi and Videl say something about haircuts. See a full-blooded saiya-jin's hair doesn't grow at all during their lifetime, so if a saiya-jin gets his or her hair cut then I won't grow back to the length that it is supposed to be." Pia stated while Pan and Bra gaped at her.

"So if you get a haircut your hair won't grow back?" Pan questioned, but before Pia could answer Bra asked her own question.

"Then your hair hasn't grown any longer since you were a baby either?"

"Yes, and yes," Pia mumbled, not understanding why she had to semi-repeat herself. Fortunately for the chibi saiya-jin Pan and Bra couldn't ask anymore questions, Videl had interrupted them. Unfortunately it was about haircuts.

"Ok you three, you are going to get haircuts for the beginning of the school year," she said ushering them towards a salon, a firm hand on one of Pan and Pia's shoulder with Bra squished in-between the two black-haired girls. At the sight of Pia's mouth opening for an argument Videl added, "No buts about it either."

Quickly Pia got out of Videl's grip and got behind the woman. Videl stumbled, seeing as she had been pushing three little girls along then suddenly only two. When she had regained her balance she spun around to face Pia who was standing there, arms crossed, and a determined look on her face.

"No, Videl, I will not get a haircut," the saiya-jin stated simply, causing Chi Chi to turn around and Pia had to now face the bipolar woman's anger.

"And why not, Pia?" Chi Chi demanded in a falsely sweet voice.

"Because my hair won't grow back if it gets cut. A pure blooded saiya-jin's hair doesn't grow, ever. If I get it cut it will be on my decision, no one else's." Pia said, unfazed by Chi Chi while Pan and Bra cowered away from her in fear.

"Hey, I remember Vegeta saying something like that when Cell was alive, after he came out of the Hyperbolic Time Chamber with future Trunks," Bulma muttered.

"Oh, really?" Chi Chi stated, raising an eyebrow. Suddenly she grabbed for Pia's shoulder, practically yelling, "But I won't have you going to school looking like a porcupine!"

Pia easily sidestepped Chi Chi's lunge. The woman stumbled forward about two steps before she regained her balance and turned to Pia. From out of nowhere a frying pan appeared in Chi Chi's hands, and immediately Pia grew more wary and settled into a stance that she could easily dodge from. The rest of the group looked on surprised at the frying pan, all of them wondering, Wait, where did that come from?

"One more chance, Pia. You will get a haircut." Chi Chi said quietly in her sickly sweet voice that made the rest of the group cringe.

"I'm sorry, Chi Chi, but I said no and I mean no." Pia sighed exasperated. Can't she give up for once, the saiya-jin thought, she isn't getting anywhere at all.

"All right then…" Chi Chi whispered, and sooner than Pia thought she sprung at Pia.

Pia, who hadn't expected Chi Chi to move as fast as she did, had little time to dodge, but dodge she did. She threw herself to her right into a roll and barely a second later the frying pan whistled through the air where Pia's head had been. Once again Chi Chi struck out faster than Pia had thought she could, but it was slow to Pia. As soon as Pia had her feet under her she was attacked again with a horizontal swing from the frying pan. Quickly Pia ducked down, avoiding the swing, and again threw herself to the right. Instead of rolling, Pia went into a handstand and flipped back to her feet, spinning to face Chi Chi again.

"Videl," Chi Chi said still looking at Pia, and out of the corner of her eye she saw Videl give a nod before stepping forward and in-between Pia and Chi Chi. By then a few spectators had gathered out of curiosity, and more than a few were awestruck at what was going on. When Videl stepped forward there were whispers of "The Videl?" or "Videl Satan?" But Videl ignored them, all of her attention on Pia.

"Pia, please agree with Chi Chi," Videl asked, her eyes slightly pleading.

"I'm sorry, Videl, but no," Pia sighed.

"Alright then," Chi Chi said before springing back in, this time Videl joined her. Chi Chi was the only one actually throwing attacks; Videl was aiming to at least stop Pia without injuring her, if she could. The crowd gasped as Pia dodged all of the swings from Chi Chi's frying pan, as well as Videl's grabs towards her.

Pia's mind was on autopilot. Duck, jump, roll, lean, block. Even in the dress she was wearing Pia was doing fine at dodging. She saw each attack as if it were in slow motion once she got her mind to slow all of the movements down to an almost crawl. Even though she had the speed advantage on her side, after a good ten minutes Pia had had enough, and jumped over the heads of the stunned spectators.

"Sorry, but this got too troublesome," Pia said before taking off at a sprint, but to the humans present it was as fast as an Olympics runner's speed, if not a little faster. She left behind at least thirty gawking shoppers, a stunned Chi Chi, Videl, and Bulma, and a smiling Pan and Bra.

As Pia wove through the shoppers, many stopped and stared at her as she passed. As she sprinted she thought, I'm going to that martial arts store that I saw earlier, then I may see if I can use Instant Transmission to go to Goku and face Chi Chi's wrath later. With a smile, Pia slowed down to a walk as she passed the food court, not even winded a little. Soon the martial arts store came into view and without a word she entered the store.

"Hello, little girl are you lost?" the storeowner asked looking down at Pia as she was looking at some of the children gis.

"No, sir," Pia replied without looking away from the gis.

"Why are you here, then, and where are you parents?" He asked.

"I'm here to look, and my parents… They're dead. If you mean guardians then they are here in the mall, so no need to worry." Pia stated looking up at the man. He was a semi-beefy man, but if she looked closely, really closely, Pia could faintly see his half-wasted, corded muscles. How do they put someone that looks like he has never even done martial arts in his lifetime as an employee in a martial arts store? I doesn't make any sense! Pia thought, forcing herself not to grimace but to have a semi-innocent look on her face.

The employee on the other hand was in complete shock. He couldn't believe that the little girl in front of him could say so smoothly that her parents were dead without bating an eye. What creeped him out the most though was her eyes. Her eyes were pure black onyx orbs, which were as dark as the night sky, but warm and cold at the same time. Warm because they still held the sweetness of an innocent happiness in them, but cold because they looked old beyond their years, as if her innocence had been taken at a tender age and she had seen too many nightmares brought to life. Somehow he managed to stutter, "I-I-I'm s-s-sorry."

"I don't remember them really so it's like they never existed, but I know they did," Pia said sadly, not understanding why she was giving half of her life story that she knew thanks to her amnesia.

"Oh… Well keep looking then, and if you see something you like just come back with your guardians," the man said before he walked away. He threw a glance back at Pia over his shoulder.

Pia tracked him with her eyes before she saw him disappear around a red-man that was in the huge section for gear. With him finally out of her sight Pia sighed and returned her attention back to the gis in front of her. They were mainly boring navy blues, whites, or blacks with the occasional red thrown in there and she couldn't seem to find the bright orange that she had become acquainted with. Apparently Chi Chi went to a certain store to buy the gis.

Bored of looking at the gis Pia decided to go to Goku and after looking around the store Pia smiled and placed her right hand's index and middle finger on her forehead. Knitting her brows to together in concentration Pia reached out with her sixth sense—her power detecting sense—to find Goku. Granted she knew that Goku was at Capsule Corp, but she didn't have any idea where that was in the city, so Pia expanded her senses in a large three hundred sixty-degree radius. Finally, Pia felt his energy and with a smile, and a pray to Kami that this would work and she wouldn't end up in a solid object, she used Instant Transmission. (A.N.: The solid object thing really did happen to her by the way, and it will happen to her again later on in the story, so don't worry! It was a rock. Quite a funny side-story if you think about it.)

The shop blurred around Pia as she made her way to Goku, and ended up transmissioning right into the branches of a tree. This time though, Pia wasn't as surprised as the first time and grabbed at one of the branches with an iron grip. Pia was a little dizzy, with the world spinning ever so slightly as she gripped the branch; this was a side effect of Instant Transmission that effected the chibi from time-to-time. When the world finally stopped spinning Pia let go of the branch and floated down through the branches to the ground. With a soft tap she landed and looked around, and groaned, she was still at the mall, but outside.

Once again Pia concentrated on Goku's energy signal, this time noticing that it was high, almost as if he were sparring, and near him was another high level, but she didn't give this observation a second thought. Placing her first two fingers on her forehead again, Pia concentrated fully on Goku's energy source and used Instant Transmission. This time she managed to get closer, a lot closer, maybe a bit too close seeing as her aim was almost dead on. Pia appeared near Goku, who right then moved, and yelped when she saw a large, gloved fist heading towards her, with a surprised looking saiya-jin prince on the other end.

Without thinking Pia ducked as fast as she possibly could to avoid being punched with a vicious punch that had been meant for Goku's who had used the after-image technique, sending Vegeta barreling straight through the faux Goku, and right towards Pia's face. Vegeta's fist zoomed over Pia's head as the small saiya-jin ducked, missing her head by a few mere inches. Pia threw herself to the side and rolled to get out of Vegeta's way as the elder saiya-jin's momentum made him move forward for a few more seconds. Quickly she continued her roll and got her feet under her just as Vegeta stopped and turned to face the chibi saiya-jin.

"Where the hell did you come from, gaki!" Vegeta yelled with a small vein popping out on his forehead. Goku looked down from above eyebrows raised as high as they could go, almost disappearing in his bangs.

"Umm…" Pia said, placing a hand behind her head, "The mall… Where else?"

"The mall? THE MALL!" Vegeta roared and his vein looking as if it were going to burst before it turned into an anger-tick. (A.N.: You know those weird red things that look like circle #, or something like that. I think they're funny.) "Well then how the hell did you get here then?"

"I used Insta—" Pia started, but never got to finish as Vegeta then rounded on Goku.

"Kakarotto! You taught the gaki how to use Instant Transmission!" Vegeta roared to the other saiya-jin. Goku just sweat-dropped.

"Yeah, she wanted to learn so I taught her," Goku stated floating downward. With a soft tap he landed, one eyebrow raised before he continued, "I didn't see a reason why I couldn't teach it to her."

Vegeta growled, unable to think of a comeback. After a second or two of growling her spat, "Your just soft on her because of you-know-what."

Goku laughed a bit with a sheepish grin, placing a hand behind his head, scratching the nape of his neck. Pia, on the other hand, cocked her head in confusion, she had no idea what Vegeta was talking about. 'You-know-what?' What is that, Pia thought puzzled. Exponentially curious, Pia voiced the question aloud.

"Vegeta, what is this 'you-know-what' you're talking about?"

Vegeta froze, and turned to Pia. He looked as if he were trying to find the best way that he could phrase the answer. Eventually, after what seemed like hours, he replied, "Forget about, gaki. You'll find out about it later. Now, Kakarotto, where were we?"

"My name is not gaki, its Pia," Pia stated as she watched the two other full-blooded saiya-jins in the universe as they got into their individual fighting stances, ready to spar. He didn't even answer my question really, Pia pouted in her mind as she walked over to the wall of the chamber, and after she looked around she guessed that she was in the gravity room, or, as Bra had dubbed it, "Vegeta's House." At the wall Pia slid down so she was sitting, leaning against the wall, and crossed her arms over her chest as she prepared to watch the sparring that was bound to start any second.

"Pia, why are you here?" Goku asked without looking away from Vegeta.

"Chi Chi wanted everyone to get a haircut, and I said no. She conjured up her frying pan and started swinging at me with it; she called Videl in to help. When I got tired of that I ran to the martial arts store. Then I used Instant Transmission to get here and almost got my head pummeled by hothead over there. And I'm just curious as to where that frying pan came from…" Pia stated simply, earning a growl from Vegeta at calling him a hothead.

"Go back to the mall, Pia," Goku instructed, and Pia's mouth fell open in shock.

"B-but why, Goku?" Pia whined, not really caring that Vegeta had a smirk on his face, but she still registered it.

"You still have to sign up for school don't you?" Goku queried, and even from the angle that Pia was sitting at she saw him raise one eyebrow.

"Yeah, but—"

"Pia." Goku said sternly, leaving no room for argument.

"Yes, sir…" Pia sighed and she got up. For the third time that day she placed her first two fingers of her right and on her forehead. Reaching out with her sixth sense Pia tried to locate Bulma, Chi Chi, Videl, Bra, and Pan's energy. After maybe a minute she located them and started to concentrate really hard. Before she left though, Pia stuck her tongue out at the two older saiya-jins, and, before Vegeta could retaliate, she used Instant Transmission.

Pia ended up landing in a pot of ferns that was at least a good ten feet away from the others. Grumbling about how she needed to work on her aim because it was too random, Pia climbed out of the pot, earning a few glances from shoppers, and brushed the clingy grass-like substance that was in the pot off of her dress and out of her hair. Looking up she saw the people that she had been trying to aim for sitting at a table in the food court, all five of them were staring at her, well maybe not Chi Chi, she was glaring.

"Umm… Hi." Pia said, making it sound more like a question than an actual statement, and placing her hand behind her head as she grew uncomfortable under the boring gazes focused on her. Of course Chi Chi was the first one to recover.

"Where did you go young lady!" the elder woman screeched causing passerby to either drop his or her bags and clutch at his or her ears instead, or flinch and try to weather it through with death glares at what they were thinking was "the crazy lady." The people that had seen Pia dodging Chi Chi and Videl earlier were definitely in the latter group.

"To the martial arts store over there," Pia stated as she pointed to the store that wasn't too far away, before she continued, "then I went to Capsule Corp, almost got my head pummeled by Vegeta. And Goku told me to come back here so I could come with you guys when you registered me for school. That's it."

Chi Chi looked like a fish out of water as she gaped at Pia, mouth opening and closing in astonishment as she was unable to form words. Everyone else was in the same state of mind. All the adults were thinking, Goku told her to come back here! Not to train with him and Vegeta! Is he ok? Pan and Bra, on the other hand were thinking, What! She went to Capsule Corp and didn't take the two of us with her! No fair…

"Umm… Was it something I said?" Pia questioned with a sweat-drop as she looked upon the group, not really grasping what she had said as abnormal—she had only been around Goku for maybe a month so it's understandable, somewhat. (A.N.: Yup, Goku's sister alright! ^_^)

"Nah, duh, Pia," Bra said sarcastically, earning a soft bop on the arm from Pan.

"Well at least we can go and get you three registered for school now. Time to go then," Videl said once she recovered.

Everyone sitting at the table got up and it was time to head out of the mall and take a trip to the three chibi's new school. Pia happily joined her friends as they followed after the women out of the mall. The chibi saiya-jin noticed that each of her friends had gotten at least an inch cut off of their hair. Before she knew it they were outside the mall, right in front of the van. All six people piled into the van and into the same seats that they had been in earlier. As the engine started up Pia looked at the large building that was the mall, glad to finally leave the accursed place. But unfortunately for Pia the afternoon was only half over.

Dear, Kami, Pia pleaded silently as Bulma pulled the van into the mid-afternoon traffic, please let registering be not as bad as the fiasco in the mall. Please! Otherwise I am going to use Instant Transmission to go back to Capsule Corp, and this time I will not go back to these people. I will stay at Capsule Corp until it is time to go home! I might bring Bra and Pan wit me this time too…

Up on Kami's Lookout Dende heard Pia's plea, but unfortunately for the seven-year-old chibi saiya-jin all the namekian could do was shake his head, a small, sad smile on his face. He closed his eyes, knowing that Pia's day might turn a little more hectic. That was highly probable seeing as Pia was a saiya-jin with a bipolar woman, a demi-saiya-jin, a one-forth saiya-jin, a hotheaded bluenette, and a strong human fighter in the van with her right then made it all the more probable. You might as well go back to Capsule Corp now Pia, Dende thought.

Author's Notes: Ok, I really hope that you liked it, and I know that I left it hanging sorta, as well that it is shorter than the last chapter, plus late, but I have reasons. First, I couldn't think of a better way to end it. Second, it is shorter than the last chapter, and has a cliffhanger, because I couldn't think of a better way to end it. Third, this is late because of stupid writer's block and three stupid things that I had to type up and we got a new puppy, she is a handful. One was the stupid memoir thing's final draft that I mentioned last chapter's author's note. Two was a stupid rewrite for a scene in Julius Caesar. And three was a reflection on how well we followed our criteria that we set for our rewrite. So that is a lot of stuff to write. Add this to all those problems and you have a late chapter. Sorry to all of you readers that had been hoping for a quicker update. Oh, and I'm trying to use more Japanese terms in my story. I hope you guys know what they mean. If you don't review about how you don't know and if I remember for next chapter I'll add footnote things so you can figure it out. Love my story, see something wrong that you can't leave it be? If either apply for you, then why don't you review!