Roza sat down with Kakarot on the couch, and Goten sat down on the other side of his son. Kakarot could sense the hesitation coming from his parents. It was driving him crazy. He had to know what they were hiding.

"Mommy, daddy, just tell me what's going on." Kakarot pleaded.

Roza put her arms around Kakarot but he pushed her away and then demanded, "Stop babying me! I want to know the truth now!" His tail fur stuck up as he became annoyed with his parents' attempt to hide the truth.

Goten sighed and began to explain, "Kakarot, about 23 years ago some things happened and daddy went through a really hard time." Goten couldn't go any further and nodded at Roza to continue.

Roza took a deep breath, "Kakarot, do you know what rape is?"

Kakarot nodded, "It's that thing Angelica tried to do to me, right?"

"That's right. Well 23 years ago the police thought your daddy raped a girl." Roza stopped her story right there to let Kakarot take in this shocking news.

Kakarot looked horrified and stunned. He looked at his dad, "Why? Why would they think that!? Daddy, you would never hurt an innocent girl like that! Why dad!? Why!?"

Goten was fighting back the tears, "I asked myself that same question for 15 years, Kakarot. I was sure they would find out I was innocent but they didn't and I was locked away in prison for 15 years before they found out I didn't do anything."

Kakarot shook his head in disbelief, "But that isn't fair! Prison is for bad people! You're a good guy, daddy! You should have broke out of prison! You should have made them pay for what they did!" Kakaort said that last sentence with a true saiyan tone of anger.

"Kakarot, calm down." Goten tried to get his son to relax so he didn't transform.

Kakarot stood up and shouted, "NO! What they did to you was unfair! They shouldn't get away with it! Lock them up for 15 years and see how they like it!"

Goten and Roza both could feel his ki rising as his began to spike up slightly more than normal.

"Kakarot STOP!" Goten shouted so loud it frightened Kakarot, causing the boy's ki to return to normal.

"But daddy…" Kakarot couldn't understand how his dad could just keep on living without getting back at the people who locked him up.

Goten looked at Roza, "Kakarot, I know I should hate all the people responsible for what happened to me. That would make sense. But love doesn't make sense sometimes…that's what makes it such a mystery." Goten explained.

"What do you mean? What does love have to do with this?" Kakarot asked very confused.

Goten hugged Roza, "Love has everything to do with this story."

Roza pushed Goten away slightly and looked down in shame, "Kakarot…" She was so afraid her son would hate her after she explained to him the truth about the ones responsible for what happened to Goten.

"Kakarot…" Roza continued, "You had another uncle. Your grandpa Goku unknowingly had a son with another saiyan woman a long time ago. "His name was Ryo and he looked a lot like your father. Ryo was the one who really raped that girl. Being your dad's brother their DNA had similarities and so they mistook it for Goten's DNA since the cops didn't even know Ryo existed. When they looked at it 15 years later, they found the DNA wasn't your dad's and he was freed from prison."

Roza waited a moment to catch her breath before she continued, "Goku didn't know he was Ryo's dad or that Ryo even existed for decades. Ryo felt abandoned by Goku and came to hate your grandpa, and also came to hate Gohan and your dad for getting to be a family with Goku. But Ryo wasn't nearly as strong as his father and sought revenge the only he could: by attacking your grandpa's heart. He framed Goten for the rape because he knew it would hurt Goku. Nothing hurts a parent worse than seeing their children hurt."

Kakarot was shocked that his parents had hid all of this from him, but he still didn't understand, "But what does love have to do with all of this."

"You're uncle Ryo wasn't working alone. He has an older sister who helped him. Well she is actually his half sister. They shared the same mother but not the same father. Ryo's sister is….me." Roza turned away and begin to cry uncontrollably in a manner unlike what a saiyan woman should act like.

Kakarot was frozen in place, horrified by what his mom just admitted to. He shook his head and tears trickled down his cheeks, "No…no no no NO! Mom please no! How could you!? How could you hurt daddy like that!?"

Goten pulled Roza into a hug and rubbed her back gently as she cried in his chest. Then he looked as Kakarot and said, "Son, listen to me. Your mom she changed. After I got out of prison Ryo and your mom tried to complete their revenge but Roza couldn't go through with it. Our relationship started out as a lie but we both fell in love together. It took me awhile but I couldn't hate her no matter how much I wanted to. I loved her…I always will love your mom. I know it didn't make sense to love her…to forgive her…but love doesn't have to make sense, we don't have to understand it. The fact that we can't comprehend love in a logical manner shows how powerful it really is."

Goten let go of Roza and kneeled down in front of Kakarot, "Please don't hate your mom. She already feels guilty enough. Remember a few weeks ago when you thought I had hit your mom and we told you I just did it to wake her up from a nightmare that I couldn't wake her up from otherwise? The truth is Kakarot, your mom was trying to get me to beat her up for what she did to me. I almost did it, I was mad at her, but I couldn't go through with it."

Goten lowered his head and began to cry, "Kakarot, after that whole tragedy ended with Ryo, your mom and I spent a few months alone and not long after that you were born. We both we're so happy to have you. All we wanted was to just have some kind of life where we could have some kind of happiness that would make our painful pasts a little less painful. You make our lives so much better, son. We both love you more than you'll ever know. Don't be mad at your mom, because she loves you so much. She's not the person she used to be. So please let her be the great mother she has always been to you."

Kakarot sat down on the couch, buried his face into his hands and screamed in frustration. "I..I don't know what to think or how I should feel right now." The young boy felt so conflicted between his love for his mom and his anger toward her for hurting her dad.

"Kakarot, I know this is a lot for you to take in but you need to try and calm down. There is more to this story and it's about you." Goten said as he sat down next to Kakarot and rubbed his son's back soothingly.

"What is it?" Kakarot said in a cold harsh tone.

Goten looked at Roza and then back at Kakarot who still had his head hung low. "Kakarot, I was traumatized by the time I spent in prison and the events leading up to it, not to mention the conflict that went on with Ryo after I was released from prison. That trauma left scars but not the kind of scars you can. I developed some mental problems. Some of them aren't so bad, some of them are pretty extreme. And some mental illnesses can be transferred from a parent to a child."

Kakarot immediately knew where his father was going with this, "I have mental problems, don't I?" Kakarot asked but already was sure of the answer.

Goten looked down in shame, he felt like it was his fault his son was like this. "Right now they're dormant and not active, but yes you do." Goten confirmed.

Kakarot was shivering nervously, "You said my mental illnesses are dormant. So it's like they're asleep. If they were to be triggered, if they were woken up, then what would happen?"

Goten took a deep breath, "I wont lie to you, son. Bulma was the one who first discovered you had mental illnesses dormant and she also figured out what would happen if they were triggered. You remember when Angelica almost killed Cheena and I became so angry I went into that weird transformation that lasted only for a few minutes? Well it turns that transformation is a result of me having both human and saiyan DNA. It's a form only human saiyan hybrids can achieve. I'm half saiyan and half human so I can only maintain the transformation for a short time. Your 3 quarters saiyan and only 1 quarter human, so if you were to transform like that."

"It could become permanent. If one of my mental issues is triggered then it could also trigger that transformation and because I'm mostly saiyan I could transform like that permanently. If I can't control myself in that form then I could destroy and hurt a lot of people…." Suddenly everything his uncle Gohan had said about him being a monster, hurting Cheena, and how he should be locked away made sense, "I could hurt Cheena."

Kakarot looked at his hands and began to freak out at the thought of hurting Cheena and being unable to stop himself, "So I really am a monster. I really could hurt her. Uncle Gohan was right…I should be locked away forever."

"That's not true! You're our son! You'd never lose control and hurt Cheena or anyone!" Roza argued with her son.

Kakarot couldn't take this. He couldn't handle this. He had to get out of here. "AAAAAH!" He screamed and ran out of the house in tears.

"We have to talk to him!" Goten jumped up ready to chase after his son but stopped when something strange appeared before them.

First there was a dark portal and from it came one of the hooded figures that had rescued Cheena and Kakarot from the grey monsters that attacked them weeks earlier.

The mysterious figure pointed at Goten and said, "You just made our job a lot harder."

Kakarot kept running and running until he reached a cliff. He wasn't watching where he was going and fell off the cliff, rolling down the side of it and landing on his side. His body bruised and scraps and cuts on different parts of his body, Kakarot laid there and cried softly, "I'm just a monster…" He kept telling himself.

Meanwhile Cheena was still asleep when all of a sudden she felt a sharp pain in her heart like she was drowning in a river of despair and it was causing her emotional heart to burst like her lungs would after holding her breath for too long under water. The pain was so strong it caused her to wake up. She somehow knew this pain wasn't hers, it belonged to someone else, someone deeply tied to her. It was Kakarot's pain.

Her father had been sitting next to her bed when she woke up. Cheena knew he was going to ask if she was okay but she didn't have time to answer questions right now. She had to find Kakarot.

She jumped out of bed and left her house without a word, leaving her father deeply confused and worried. At first Cheena was running toward Goten's house but something told her that Kakarot wasn't there. Her heart led her into the forest and toward a cliff. She looked down to see Kakarot laying on the ground below crying. Cheena flew down and cradled Kakarot in her arms, letting him lay on her lap.

"Kakarot, what's wrong!? Why are you crying!? Who made you cry like this!? I could feel your pain, and it was so strong. Please tell me what's wrong?" Cheena pleaded for answers as she tried to calm him.

Kakarot couldn't look at her, "Your dad has been right all along. I really am a monster! Get away from me! I don't want to hurt you!" Kakarot pushed himself out of her arms.

But Cheena just forced Kakarot to let her hold him, "You're not a monster! And even if you were it doesn't matter! You're my best friend and I'll never leave you even if you do hurt me! Monster or not, you're still Kakarot and the sweetest monster I know."

Kakarot buried his face in Cheena's chest and cried, "I'm afraid…of myself…"

He kept crying until he cried himself to sleep. Cheena felt an odd comfort come over her as Kakarot slept cradled in her arms with his head resting against her chest.

She smiled and whispered to her sleeping cousin, "Mine…" She told him.