I bet you guys can guess what the next Title will be. c:

Cliche?-Somewhat, but I found the time to use it, and I took the chance.

Breaking

Yiu was doing it again; shutting herself up in the room. She was talking just fine and eating regularly when somebody scolded her to eat, but she was only sitting or laying down. During this time, the both of them stopped talking to each other. If one entered a room, the other left. Though both really wanted to do the opposite they couldn't exactly forget now too. Six weeks seemed long, but in the short days where she forced herself to sleep, they came quickly.

It was the day of the tournament. Yiu kept her bandages fresh every now and then with the help of the maids. She no longer had to wear long skirts to cover her legs nor float around to get places. Still, she wasn't fully recovered, because it was discovered that the glass absorbed into her body damaged bone tissue. She wasn't walking much, so she sat often on a swing on the outside porch. She liked to watch the sun come and go with the chirps of birds and bees coming back. It made her feel liberated from new truths. She thought many things to herself during these past few weeks. She must have looked like a fool in front of the Briefs and their friends. They all knew the whole situation, and it was only she who was well uninformed. She wouldn't blame Bulma for wanting to hide Vegeta away. And amidst it all, she wanted to disappear. How could she fall in love so immorally? Most of all, she felt a sense of guilt towards Trunks.

"Ready?" Gohan pat her back.

"How come you're not entering?" she laughed with him neverminding the truth. "You're completely capable of joining in!"

"Nah." He laughed. "I'm too old." He pointed back with his thumbs. "Piccolo and I are just going to watch. With the likes of my dad and Vegeta in the ring, we wouldn't want to bother. But with the Kami Kai here who knows what'll happen."

"I just hope I get to fight you." Goku grinned while Vegeta glared at him.

"Me too." She spoke trying to provoke the prince.

"I want the prize money." Eighteen stuck her hands in her pocket.

"This is on our groceries." Krillin laughed holding Marion.

"Get em' Goku!" cried Chi-Chi. "I can't live on another day with just pickled dishes!"

"We can just eat stadium hot dogs! They're cheap!" he ran to the side grabbing a handful.

"Oh help me." His wife gave up easily. Yiu watched the both of them happily. Even though Chi-chi had her complaints, she was happy with him. And the food made her think of the time when she was getting used to Vegeta when she first woke up. The days, she wished would have lasted for just a bit longer.

"Either way, we already know the winner will probably be Hercules anyways." Bulma shook her head disapprovingly.

"I know. It's so embarrassing." Videl sighed. "If only he didn't think the whole world worshipped him."

"Hey Dad, isn't that the Supreme Kai?" Trunks pointed ahead.

"Supreme Kai!" Gohan waved. "What are you doing here?"

"I can't believe you guys!" he lashed out suddenly. "How can you let the Kami Kai join this tournament? I understand squabbles between your groups, but to let the Kami Kai join…." He grabbed her hand and tugged. "Come Yiu, we must leave from here at once."

"Who are you?" she took her hand away awkwardly.

"Yiu…" he looked at her disbelievingly. "It's me…Shin."

"Shin? Who's that?" She looked at him confused and bowed. "I think you've got me mixed up with someone else sir. Sorry." With that she walked away oblivious to his expression.

Supreme looked at the rest with a bitter face. "She's not competing."

"It's fine!" Goku chuckled and walked past the Kai. "A few friendly spars aren't going to hurt. I assure you nothing will happen." The group walked away from him as he watched silently.

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In the waiting room, Goku tapped Yiu's shoulder lightly. "I can't believe we're fighting each other right off the bat!" Goku smiled squeamishly to himself. "I'm not going to hell for this am I?" He scratched his head seriously worried.

"Me too!" Yiu grinned excitedly back. "I was so nervous when they were drawing the name after yours!"

"You shouldn't go out there! As much as I hate to agree Supreme Kai is right." Vegeta shouted out just as their names were called to the stage. "Don't do it." he pulled her hand and held it there. No, this wasn't what he really wanted to talk about at all. Of course he was concerned about her fight with Kakkarot, since it seemed his rival had no means of holding back. She could seriously be injured. But there was a burning sensation in his core, and most of the time that meant something bad was going to happen.

"Why…?" she didn't turn around. "So you can fight him? Not me? Because you think I'm weak? So I can stay behind? So I can look like a fool again?" she threw his hands away from him unable to keep it inside anymore. "When were you planning on telling me huh? I was too blind to see it for myself. You have a loving wife, who is in dire need of your affection, and an over-achieving son. For Kami's-sake a SON! You're married! Do you know how that makes me look? They both just want you to look at them properly!" she laughed dryly; making a face that clearly showed she was hurt. "And I was so stupid to fall for it. You must have been laughing inside all along. No?" Her sarcastic tone dropped in. "Because it just wasn't weird at all that a man lived with a woman and her child who had no relation to you at all. No, definitely not…. I'm so stupid! Ugh!" Even so, above it all, she kept her head up and fists tight, she bit her lips so hard they turned a malicious purple, and like that she walked into the ring; feeling dishonored. "I'm going to fight with everything I have. Don't stop me, because right now I feel like jumping off some freaking cliff!"

"…"

"That was one hell of a grave you just dug. Yikes…" Eighteen added. "What the heck was he talking about?"

"I don't know what's even happening." Goku shrugged meanwhile Trunks and Goten looked at each other with bizarre expressions.

"I know." The prince put his head against the wall. "I know…"

"Quick somebody record that!" the deadly beauty marveled. "I can't believe he just admitted something. This has got to be serious." Setting all jokes aside, she looked back at the proud prince, who really was beating himself up at a fight the others didn't know was so much deeper.

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"And it's the next round!" the announcer with his cool glasses said charismatically into the mic. "He's our local favorite show-stopper. Give it up for Goku! His opponent is a new face I haven't seen around in town. She looks small and fragile, but be warned, if she's one of Goku's friends, we can all assume for a good show. Get your seats ready because this match is officially going!"

"I know you're strong." Smirked Goku. "But I know right now you're not at your best."

"What are you trying to get at?" She got out of her fighting stance.

"Your mother stinks!" Goku teased. "She's the root of all yo' mama jokes!"

"Huh?" she arched a brow more confused. "Yo' Mama? I don't have a Mom. Well, maybe I did, but then I don't recall. So maybe I do and maybe I don't. I don't really know."

"Uhh…Shoot." He shook his head. "This isn't going to work like it did for Uub. How about I attack you directly?" In an instant he disappeared and threw a punch behind her.

"Woah." She flinched and jumped out of the way.

"I knew it!" he shouted excitedly. "You can dodge my punch so easily even though you don't have much strength. How about this? KA-ME-HA—"

"What are you doing?!" she panicked. "I can't dodge power blasts!" She thought of ways she could dodge. There was flying, but even—That was when it started stretching. Stretching and tearing away all the fibers; a growing painful stub in her toes and then it branched out with leaves and leaves of pain of its own, and it hit hard until it finally reached her lower waist. But in the middle of this battle, she wasn't going to flee; no matter how much pain accumulated in her lower body from her previous injuries.

Vegeta noticed something was wrong when she was crouched down and wouldn't even move. He fled to the scene, but she suddenly looked in his direction with an austere expression as if she had known he'd run in.

This is my fight! To be honest, she didn't want to fight Goku at all. She had no idea how she would, and now in the moment, she was caught in a black hole. There was a chance at making a huge gravity field that the wave would be too light to enter, but it wasn't test approved. She hadn't even discovered half of her powers or who she was. But the blue was coming, and it was all or nothing.

"ME-HAAA!" He held his hands out with all he could, but as soon as he finished that last syllable, the blast came back in his direction with ten times the brute force he put in for her. "Nice move….That kind of hurt." He spoke after the sizzling of the wave evaporated. "But you'll have to try harder." Goku had gone Super Saiyan with his right hand heavily damaged.

"Oh Kami!" Yiu gasped suddenly forgetting about the match. "Goku, You're injured! Quick get medical attention." She tried to get up, but fell back down suddenly with a look of confusion drawn all over.

"It's fine." He put his hands up. "This isn't much at all really. Besides, I think you're condition is worse." He lent his bloodied hand out. "Let's give it another go."

Yiu looked at his hand strangely and pale at the sight. Was blood always this red? Not to mention, the stench of rusted iron is overwhelming. It dripped from the cracks in his nails where he tried to block his own power wave. "Blood…It's so red…" she blinked once hoping the image would go away. "Blood…" A flash back of an injured and heavily bloodied bearded man flashed. His cackle rang in through her head. "O-oozaru…" she cried and struck his hand away. "Run away! Don't come near me…" Yiu tried to get up and run, but fell over from her unstable legs. Another scene came in like the pounding of a migraine.

"He's not as innocent as you think!" a ghostly couple wailed to her. "Kill him! Kill him!"

They came and went, all trying to stuff themselves in the pockets of her mind where she had already replaced them with new memories.

"No he's not bad Sylvia!" Yiu screamed to another woman who looked similar to her. The other woman looked heavily damaged and exhausted.

"Who do you think did this to me?!" the girl shot another blast at Vegeta. "I won't let you hurt anybody anymore! Damn you! He's nothing but evil."

Then some of them slowed, for they were not the hurtful kinds of memories, but instead they were the lost ones she had cherished. From her and the prince's unpredicted meeting to becoming star crossed partners it came to her in that small moment.

"You're beautiful." He whispered little words to her that made her feel as hot as the sun.

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"You're beautiful every moment to me."

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"You'd think in these past seven years, I'd forget, but I never knew what you meant to me until I realized later on in my life."

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"Doesn't that mean that you missed me too? Doesn't the fact that you remembered me, mean that you do care for me." It was no longer a question, he was speaking the truth. She yanked away and turned herself around. "I've thought about you many times in my life down on Earth. You've taught me something valuable, that I will never be able to forget. Never… For the first time." He turned her around. "This was beating." He hit his chest over and over. "Imagine me, longing for someone. It was probably lust at first, but who would know such turn of events would befall me and I could feel like this? And now I can't forget!"

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"I'm telling you to love me." He pulled her close to his chest, cradling her so carefully as if she might break if he held her with all of his longing. "You're the one I need now. Don't keep running."

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"What's wrong? Yiu?!" Goku took a few steps back. "You need serious attention, look at your feet." Her legs were bleeding now too. The wounds reopened from too much strength, but instead of the lively red that should have been there, it was shiny, silky; reflecting the light well.

All of what she saw brought back a dark glow into her eyes. "What is this?..." Yiu touched it over and over beneath her legs "Is this…my blood?!" Her lips curled out of reflex and she was once again trembling. She knew she wasn't human, but wasn't this all too much?

"Yiu!" the Supreme Kai and Vegeta ran out of the room. She looked at him, wanting to run to him. Hoping that this all was a bad nightmare. If she fell into his arms now, she could forget all about this. She could forget that she was truly an ugly and disgusting monster, different on the outside and even the inside. All of herself was much too different. She wanted to be held; to be told that all of this wasn't true.

Drops formed and fell, lining to the tip of her chin like rain. Her vision blurred by a cloud of a salty river, she cried for him. "V—"No… She stopped herself short. She couldn't call him now. Not after all of this….And soon everything became a blackened screen.

I wonder what's going to happen next too :C

Thanks for reading! Join me again next time.

-HB123