Yo! Son Goku and friends! Saiyan Saga (Chapter 26)
Yamcha
"You really want me to rain lightning down on you while you run up the tower!?" Korin questioned in a frantic manner.
"Yeah, I've gotten good enough to where I don't even need to really use the holds anymore, I can just run, it'll take me longer but I'll get better that way. If you could put some pressure on me while I run up I'd get better at dodging too."
"Kid, my lightning's gonna hurt like hell, paralyse ya. Are you fine with getting hit and falling all the way down?"
"I survived the Ultra Divine Water didn't I?"
"Gods, alright kid. Have it your way, I won't stop ya'."
"Okay!" He punched his left fist with enthusiasm before thumbing through his hair and combing out the loose strands.
Yamcha tied back his hair tight with a white hair tie and cracked his neck and back in a gyrating motion using his shoulders. He also stretched out his arms and legs in front of the fountain and let out in a huff at the completion of his warm up. Yamcha blinked plainly before he asked:
"Uhh, how are you gonna know when I'm down there?"
"I can read minds, I'll send you a message with my telepathy."
"Huh. I guess I just thought I would have known that by now. That makes it easy for me then."
Yamcha hopped up onto the railing like a gargoyle and shot back a smile at the white cat god and waved as he fell out into the sky in a spread eagle formation.
"I can't believe it, this guy is as wild as Goku. And here I thought I had seen everything." Korin mused as he hopped onto the railing, mirroring Yamcha's positioning from moments ago.
Yamcha touched down onto the tower in slow gallops, falling a ways then halting his momentum with a light run, then going back into freefall, then repeating the cycle until he combat rolled onto the green grass.
"Hey Yamcha!"
"Hmm?" The Wolf turned around with a raised brow only to meet the angry gaze of blonde Launch. "Oh great." He let out loud, infuriating her.
"Whaddya' mean 'oh great'? I oughtta whoop youa ass jus' fa sayin' that! And while I'm at it, where's Tien's bum ass been at hah!?"
"Look Launch, I'm not his girlfriend. I don't track his every move."
"You gettin' smart with me!?"
"I'll tell him to come down after I hit this set."
"Don't ignore me!"
"I'm NOT!" Yamcha turned back dramatically. "Did you not hear what I just said bitch?"
Launch's eyes ran bloodshot, the red veins pulsed with intensity.
"I'll tell him, after this set." Yamcha put his pointer finger in her face to which she was just fuming.
The sky ran dark and the clouds shifted intimidatingly. A bolt of lightning shot down near the pair and boomed loudly.
Zzz~KAH-KOOOOOOWWWWWWWW!
The shock caused Launch to sneeze. Yamcha put his hands together in a prayer and mouthed the words 'thank you Korin'.
"No sweat kid, but uhh, you'd probably want to learn how to talk to the ladies better. I don't think calling her that was the right move."
"What else was I supposed to do?" Yamcha shrugged his shoulders and looked at the grey clouds above.
"Hey Yamcha!"
"Uhh, Hi Launch."
"Can you tell Tien to come back down soon?"
"Mm-hmm-hmm." He cleared his throat awkwardly. "Yeah, sure thing."
"Yamcha!"
"What? Why are we yelling?"
"Get that girl out of the way, dumbass!"
"Oh, I'm fuckin' stupid." He put his hands on his face.
"Launch, I need you to go back to the village real quick. I'll get Tien right away but this training I'm about to do right now is dangerous so you want to steer clear, okay?"
"Oh, I'm sorry, I didn't mean to cause any trouble." She bowed and danced away in a pseudo skip back to the village past the trees.
"That could have gone better."
"That could have gone so much worse kid, no wonder you get no girls."
"That's not true!"
"Where's Bulma at now then?"
Yamcha averted his gaze to the treeline for a moment and bit his lip, lowering his gaze to the ground. He breathed in deep through his nose and wiped at his eyes with his left hand. He then lowered into a wolf stance.
"I'm just gonna hit this set like you didn't say that."
"Can't run away from your problems kid, that's not how it works. I don't know much about human girls but I do know that if you just ignore em' that's a quick way for them to move on."
Yamcha swallowed hard and the rain from the clouds started pelting down like bullets. The clouds were torn apart by a blue bolt and The Wolf started his climb.
Zyooow!
Yamcha dodged to the left with ease, gyrating his shoulders to weave the lightning. He closed his eyes for a moment and took a deep breath as he sent out a pulse of ki. Other bolts broke the clouds in an x formation and The Wolf cleared it like a hurdle using a lunge. He dashed around the pillar in a spiraling formation, running rampant up the shaft as he weaved the electric ki lines.
KOWW! Zyoo~ ZUU- Vyooow~ KA-KOWW! Vreeeew~ DA-DOMM! Vyeww! KOMM!
The villagers looked on as Yamcha lunged up the tower, lightning strikes raining down and crashing into the grass below.
"Father, is that one of Goku's friends?" A youth with a black braid and feather in his hair questioned, bow in tow.
"I believe so, Upa." The large tan man looked on in a pseudo-salute, peering at the figure as it leapt out of view and into the dark sky.
A trifecta of blue lines crackled and lanced through the air, Yamcha dodging those too in a full wolf gallop up the side. Korin felt out the energies with his staff through the air and nodded, formulating more ki with his staff. He waved it and another trio of lightning bolts rained down on The Wolf. Yamcha dodged those as well using the same wolf run only to be waylaid by a blue bolt from behind.
ZZzzt~KAh-ZZZZZZZZTTttZZTtztztztzt!
Yamcha's body convulsed involuntarily and he peered at the top, moments away as he fell down the tower. Yamcha's foot caught on a hold sticking out of the tower and it propelled him in a tailspin, unable to control his movements for a long time as he flailed and rotated down the tower. Korin gathered more energy with his staff and he felt out the air around him.
"Duaaghh!" Yamcha finally cried out when he came to, spinning out wildly.
A jagged line of electricity shot down immediately to pressure him, causing The Wolf's eyes to widen out of their sockets. Yamcha dashed out of the way with his flight and clung to the tower.
"Yamcha!"
"What!? I just about died!"
"I thought you were training your running speed, not your flight!"
"How else was I supposed to get back on the tower, Whiskers!?"
"Flight is the easy way out, you coulda used a Kiai, or a beam to propel you. The reason you're climbing the tower is to enhance your other skills isn't it!?"
"Yeah!"
"Then no shortcuts! Start from the bottom."
"Fuck me…" Yamcha replied as he slid down the shaft of the tower, guiding his path with his right hand and foot.
Yamcha touched down onto the grass again and shook away some of the rain like a dog. He wiped back the loose black strands from his face and focused up again with his low crouching stance.
"Go!"
The Wolf sprinted up the tower only to be immediately struck in the back again. The blue sparks ran wild and the villagers looked on in horror at Yamcha's loud wail. Yamcha fell to the ground and struggled to get up.
"I wasn't trying all that hard the first time kid, you gotta use your Ki Sensing more efficiently if you wanna get up here. I have no idea why you're so intent on running up this thing."
"Again…" Yamcha commanded with a squeaky breath.
Korin sighed deep and nodded before speaking.
"You sure kid?"
"Again!" An unrestrained lightning bolt struck down near The Wolf's position as he roared at the sky.
Tien
"I came down here yesterday babe, are you good?" Tien said with a cheeky smile, stealing a kiss from Launch as he sat down on some loose blankets in the hut.
The large tan man handed Tien a clay cup with steam gently rising from it. Tien accepted with a smile and took a large drain from it.
"Thank you Bora, you do not need to show me such hospitality yet you do anyway. It's terribly shameful for my betrayal against Tao and the others to come after your passing. Please forgive me."
Bora waved his bow off with a hand, placing it on his chest and forcing him upright.
"You chose the right path in the end, we cannot move forward without forgiveness. I forgive you a thousand times over. We have a saying here in the Sacred Lands. There are no bad students, only bad teachers."
"Very wise." Launch stated with a pinch of sarcasm as she took a sip from her tea.
Tien shifted his focus to the blonde girlfriend in front of him. He looked with some seriousness, she stroked his face gently and Bora nodded, leaving the two of them alone in the tent. Launch took another small drink from her glass and just said plainly:
"Whaddya' trainin' for? I know martial arts is important to you, that's why I like you so much." She brushed back her blonde locks and blushed a little bit, turning her eyes to the ground before meeting eye contact again. "Youa really driven sweetheart and I think that's great but I wanna know what's actually up."
Tien looked to the small campfire lighting the room and then back to his girlfriend. Launch brushed her hand along the large scar on his right pectoral.
"Stuff like this happens when ya' fight." She mused with some melancholy. "I just wanna know-" She shifted to piercing, loving eye contact. "Who are ya' fighting this time, I wanna hear it from ya'."
She scooted in close and put her head on his chest, Tien wrapped his big arms around her and they rocked back and forth for a while. She sighed a big sigh and continued her thoughts as they swung gently.
"Is it gonna be like King Piccolo?"
Tien winced a bit internally and bit his lip. He took a long pause before answering.
"Probably worse."
She bit her own lip in response and small tears formed under her eyes and she nodded. Tien pulled her in even closer and locked her head in on his chest, laying his head on hers.
"We've gotten stronger than Piccolo's reincarnation." He soothed calmly.
She nodded again and a bit of her tenseness eased up.
"Piccolo himself won't be a problem anymore, now it's fuckin' aliens, can you believe that?"
Tien laughed a bit at the strangeness of it all and it coaxed a laugh out of Launch as they embraced.
"Don't worry, we're working together. Krillin and Yamcha are looking after me."
"Krillin's a good guy." Her words a bit muffled as she basically spoke into his chest.
"What about Yamcha?" A cheeky smile creeping across his face.
"What about him?"
"Hah-hah." He laughed loudly.
She smiled pretty wide and they continued to rock until they fell over onto the blankets. They embraced more like husband and wife as they looked at the crackling fire.
"Goku's apparently going crazy with the training in the afterlife. I'll bet he'll come back and just stomp the shit out of the Saiyans like it was nothing." Tien laughed a bit as he turned into a big spoon position. "The crazy odds haven't ever stopped him before."
"He really was like 13 or somethin' right?"
"Yeah! Training martial arts my whole life and a fucking kid comes and whoops my ass."
The couple shared a hearty laugh for a while, bathing in the warmth of the flames. Launch pulled Tien's left arm over her body and held onto it. Tien smiled and shifted a bit more for support and the two fell asleep. Owls hooting in the indigo sky, the stars shining particularly bright that night.
Piccolo
Piccolo was meditating above the palace deep in thought as Kami ascended the staircase from below. He walked out into the open air and looked to his other half as the stars glistened in the night sky. He paced around with his staff in a smooth rhythm before standing to face Piccolo.
"Piccolo."
Piccolo opened his eyes and furrowed his brow as he saw The Guardian of Earth's maw.
"Come to torment me again old man?"
"No, no. heh-heh." Kami laughed it out and leaned on the railing. "Not my intention but I suppose if you are continuously repulsed by me then that shall be the outcome."
"What do you want?"
"I just want to hang out and answer any questions you might have."
"Huh." He let out in a grunt-laugh as he stared daggers at Kami.
Kami turned his back to Piccolo and put his palms on the railing, looking out into the starry beyond.
"Alright, I'll bite." Piccolo asserted as he shifted from his meditative pose to standing on the floor. He shuffled over to the side opposite Kami and leaned against the rail himself, crossing his arms as he did it.
"Fantastic." Kami shifted back around and maintained eye contact with his other half.
"If we're demons, where the hell are all the others?"
Kami smiled a bit and let out a fit of calm laughter.
"What's so funny, old man!?" Piccolo bore his fangs in an aggressive manner.
"Oh-hoho. Nothing, nothing. Heh-heh. That is exactly what I came up here to answer."
"The only ones I've ever seen that look like us are me and you. Are we the last of the green demons?"
"No, no, we are not. As far as I know it we still thrive on our lush home world of Namek."
"Figures, we're aliens too?"
Kami nodded back with a smile.
"I didn't think so at first considering we have dog mayors in West City but I've literally never seen anyone else look like us. And I've seen plenty of bears with katanas so…" Piccolo averted his gaze for a moment to look at the stars before returning fierce eye contact.
"I was sent away from Namek when I was very young so I remember very little of the culture. The only thing I truly remember is that there are two races of our people. The Warrior Clan, strong bodied Namekians like yourself and The Dragon Clan, Namekians like me who are well versed in magic and the creation of the Dragon Balls."
"So I couldn't make them if I wanted?"
"No."
"That implies that there are Dragon Balls on Namek then, am I wrong?"
"No-ho you are quite right Piccolo."
"Don't patronise me old man."
"Not my intention." He shot back with a cheeky smile. "I just wanted you to know in case it had come across your mind, we Namekians are intimately attracted to the pursuit of knowledge and the act of meditation."
Piccolo sharpened his brow and stepped forward in a dominant display.
"I'm NOT getting along with those dreadful earthlings. So don't even think about me coming to attend one of your little training sessions because it's not going to happen!"
"Of course, I would not dream of it. Goodnight, Piccolo."
Piccolo stared on with a focused gaze as Kami descended the staircase with a smile, waving as he rounded the corner and disappeared. Piccolo just grunted and returned to his floating meditation, his cape floating gracefully in the nightly winds above the palace.
Krillin
"Show me what you got Krillin!" Kami commanded with a stomp of his staff on the tile.
The sun shined on the turtle student as if it were cheering him on. Krillin smiled a bit and jogged backwards to the edge of the lookout, focusing his position to be parallel with the trees. Tien walked out of the palace just in time, eyes wide and lips suctioned onto the straw of his drink. He pep-stepped over to Kami and put his left hand on his hip as he watched. They shot glances at each other before turning their gaze back to Krillin.
Piccolo opened his eyes and halted his meditation to observe the small man. Krillin huffed and shook out the nerves with some jazz hands, bouncing on the balls of his feet. He slapped his face.
"Okay! Ka-"
The blue streams of light swirled around as he cupped his hands on his left side.
"Me-Ha-Me…"
He tightened his stance even more and pointed his right shoulder directly at the first palm tree.
"HA!"
The blue beam made a b-line at the tree before curving harshly and snaking around the right side. It passed through the gap and Krillin mimed with his two hands, feeling up the firing orb of the beam like it were a steering wheel.
This is one of the reasons the Kamehameha is one of the best beams ever crafted. Roshi had really perfected the single focused laser type. It wasn't the strongest or had the most impact or was the fastest. But it did something much better than any other and that was the caster's ability to manipulate the beam and hold the pose. The Kamehameha is the most cost effective beams ever created and is the reason why it has a high chance of winning in a beam struggle with two equally skilled opponents using different beams. The support ball that the beam has is unique to it, most ki manipulators did not have the foresight like Roshi did to craft a technique with multiple purposes.
The laser rode the wave around the left side of the second tree and Krillin mimed as if he were shooting a three pointer from half court, causing the beam to ride up in a wave past the third tree. He wrapped it around and cleared the fourth from the left side by riding the basketball pose like a low wave into a snaking s motion. He let it loose and the beam fired off into the clouds. Krillin wiped the sweat from his brow and whistled as it entered the aether.
"You did not clear the last tree young Krillin."
"Haghh… yeah, kinda ran outta gas." Krillin laughed out as rubbed the back of his neck while keeling over.
"Yo! Good shit Krillin!" Tien congratulated with a high five that morphed into a handshake. "Wish I could do that with the Dodon Ray."
"You wanna learn it..?" Krillin asked with a shaky breath.
Tien looked back with wide eyes.
"I can teach you the Kamehameha…" He straightened himself out and stood up. "And we'll see what you can do."
"Alright! I'm game."
"Gimme a few though."
"Of course."
Krillin took a chill pill, leaning against one of the palms trees he just fired a beam at.
Ka-THUMM!
At that moment a strange thud impacted the bottom of the lookout and the trio looked at each other with surprise before Yamcha's voice rang out:
"Damn it!"
Krillin and Tien peered over the edge only to see Yamcha sliding down near the ladder. He hopped off the lookout and into the known unknown that the clouds blocked out.
"Is Yamcha fooling around out there again?"
"I guess. I don't know what that guy is doing. He hasn't been training with us for a while now." Tien stated as he looked at the passing clouds.
"I'll keep that to myself." Kami mused, a sly smile creeping across his face. "Tien?"
"Yes, Kami?" Tien responded right away, standing up and turning to The Guardian of Earth.
"I want you to Ki Source for me in the middle of the lookout."
Tien raised a brow.
"We're looking at its defensive applications."
"Ahh." Tien smiled a bit and jogged over to the middle.
"Krillin?"
"Heh. You want me to fire a Kamehameha at him?"
"You really do catch on fast."
Krillin hopped up to his feet before Kami stopped him with a hand on his shoulder.
"Now boys, both of you are going to partake in this exercise as I break down your techniques. I believe you already know the differences in them but how you apply them is a good skill to learn especially if you are looking to add them to your tool box." He said with a nod to Tien at the last of his statement.
Krillin started gathering the energy and took the pose.
"Ka-me-"
"Now Ki Sourcing to defend against the Dodon and Kamehameha are actually both very hard but for different reasons."
"Ha-me…"
Kami stepped out of the way and Tien posed tall, his hands together in the ninja-like pose.
"HAA!"
The blue energy burst from Krillin's hands and fired at Tien. The crane student broke the pose and shifted his hands to make a triangle gap in between the two of them as he pressed his fingertips together. The beam impacted his hands and Tien was forced back on the tile and slided quite a distance before screeching to a halt.
VZZHHHHHHH! Swkwweeeeeeeeeee!
"Yes! Your hands are a good spot to catch beams with! Good choice Tien!" Kami yelled over the loud energies roaring like a jet engine. "Hold it as long as you can, both of you!"
Krillin sharpened his gaze with a squint, the blue plasma dulling his hands with an aching sensation. The veins around Tien's forearms sprouted to the surface under the pressure. The pain became too much to bear and Krillin took away his right arm to shake out the numbness.
Most beams cannot do this, this is a testament to how well the Kamehameha was crafted.
Tien could not feel any difference as Krillin took away his hands to shake away the pain one by one. Tien grit his teeth and held the line. His palms felt like they had just been smashed by a sledgehammer only to have that weight left on his palms indefinitely. Krillin caved first under the excessive expenditure the training session had cost.
"Gahhhhhhh…" Krillin hit some jazz hands and blew on them to cool off. They were blistering red as if they were stung by something.
"I hate this shit." Tien declared as he felt the raw staticy numbness of dead hands. Barely able to move his finger with the finer motor functions.
"Well done, especially you Tien. You held on really well."
"Thanks…" He said in a sarcastic tone, looking down at the annoyance that was his fingers.
"We could take a short break but I do want you to fire the Dodon at Krillin and have him defend against that soon."
Tien nodded before turning around and heading inside. Krillin ran by in a hurry, pushing Kami out of the way by accident.
"Sorry Kami!"
"Heh-heh! No problem boy!"
Krillin scrambled into the establishment and ran down the corridor. He rounded the corner on the right side, almost falling over from the frantic shifting of his weight and shuffled down the steps. He was so quick he hopped over Tien, clearing the whole stairway, almost landing right in the hot tub. Krillin hightailed it to the sink and poured out a cold stream.
"Ahhh…"
"Hah-hah!" Tien laughed out heartily as he took off his clothes, submerging himself in the hot tub.
Tien took a more relaxed pose, sinking down neck deep into the water.
"How were you the one to cave first?'
"I don't think you understand just how much it burns holding energy for that long." He scrubbed it out a while before turning off the faucet.
Kshhhhhhhh~skawee.
He shook out his hands and took off his clothes as well, cannonballing into the water. The bubbly liquid rose up to the surface and spilled onto the brown tile.
"Ah-hah-hah!" Tien cackled as he covered his third eye.
Krillin stayed underwater for a while before surfacing in a dramatic display, kipping up fluids like he was in a hair commercial only with no hair.
"I dunno how Goku does it man." He sidled over to the step and sat down. "I've seen him hold that shit for so long and he doesn't even bat an eye."
"Huh. I would have never guessed."
Krillin leaned in with a cheeky smile and covered his face for a faux whisper.
"Don't tell nobody this but I'm pretty sure that's why Yamcha never does it. This shit melts your hands."
"Ahh, I see." Tien replied with a devilish smile.
The pair soaked in the water for a while looking up at the white ceiling and the faint yellow lights. Krillin sprung out first in a hop, grabbing a towel on the rack near the door, drying off quickly before throwing on his orange turtle school uniform. Tien followed suit and suited up with a white tee and his green parachute pants. The pair grabbed their shoes and hurried up the steps and rounded the corner, their stomps echoing through the empty building easily. They reached the outside in no time and greeted Kami.
"Are you ready?"
Krillin nodded with some focus and stood in the middle of the lookout. Tien paced backwards and got ready with his positioning. Tien straightened up and just spoke aloud.
"Uhm, the Dodon is way faster than the Kamehameha. We should probably agree on a point I should fire at before we start."
Kami nodded and looked over to Krillin. The turtle student pointed his thumb at his left shoulder and took a low stance.
"Okay!" Tien let aloud as he stook up his own stance. Yellow streams gathering in his right index. "Dodon Ray!" He winced a little as he fired the beam.
The blistering speed impacted Krillin the moment Tien proclaimed the attack name, thrusting him onto the ground.
"Krillin!" Tien proclaimed, winding back his hand and running over.
"Ha-Haaaa!" Krillin laughed out jubilantly.
He tore away the singed fabric around his shoulder, revealing a only slightly scuffed mark.
"Well…" Tien sighed. "I'm glad I didn't hurt you but on the other hand. Dodon Ray is not nearly as lethal as it's supposed to be."
"But it is, Tien."
Tien averted his gaze to the green god.
"The only reason there's not a hole in Krillin right now is because you prepped the area before the strike. An attack like the Dodon Ray is powerful because of the speed. The reaction time needed to defend correctly is absurd. Just because it was Ki Sourced correctly does not mean the technique is faulty."
Tien helped Krillin stand on his feet.
"Quite the contrary in fact. I would say that the Dodon is a very powerful attack."
"Hmm." Tien furrowed his brow.
"Do you guys have anything else you would want me to part with today?"
Krillin pondered for a moment before answering, pacing around a bit.
"Nah, I think we're good. I'm probably just gonna teach him the Kamehameha." He knocked onto Tien's chest with the back of his fist.
"We'll holler at you if we need you."
Kami smiled and walked away timely, his staff tapping on the white tile and his white robes wavering slightly in the wind.
Korin
"Kid are you good?"
Yamcha laid overworked and sweating on the floor near the fountain, his skin reddened from the exercise. He laughed out a bit before Korin dumped a jug of water on his head. The sky was a dark indigo and the torches on Korin's Tower were the only thing dimly lighting the pair.
"I'm good Whiskers, don't worry about it."
"Mmhmm." He sassed, bonking The Wolf on the head lightly with the jug as he walked to put it back into place. "You thought of what you're gonna do about your girl?"
"Am I really gonna talk to you about my girl problems Korin?" Yamcha had a smile on his face over the absurdity over it all.
"I don't see why not, it's kind of my job to instruct. The best lessons often go beyond the classroom." The white cat hopped onto the railing, crossing his arms behind his back and waving his brown staff back and forth.
Yamcha laid down for a while before slowly crawling to an upright position. He leaned over his left knee and crossed his arms.
"I was a fuckin' dogshit boyfriend. I wasn't all that bad at first but once I got into baseball maaan." He sighed out and looked to the colourful stars of the beyond. "I'm just not very good around loud women. I love Bulma but she has a tendency to say really mean things sometimes and I don't know."
The Wolf rocked back and forth and looked to his left, other starry constellations grabbing his attention.
"I guess I lash out too quick. If I were to get back with her I guess that's one of the things I need to fix."
"You know Yamcha, I have a feeling that all you do is think about it. It sounds to me like you've already run all the numbers."
"I did some wrong things but I don't want to get back into a relationship with Bulma unless she apologises for some of the wrong things she did too."
"Like?"
"Hehhhhh… She thought I was cheating on her when I got into baseball and that's simply not true. It really hurt me when she thought I was capable of messing with her feelings like that. It really pissed me off so I just kind of…" Tears welled up in his eyes and he just kind of clenched and unclenched his jaw.
He looked around at the ceiling of the tower before letting his head down.
"I'm not gonna pour my heart out to some fuckin' cat."
"If Puar's your best friend, you're doing him wrong too by not letting him know what's going on. You're gonna lose two people instead of one. I know that he left the hideout before you started training."
"Fuckin'-" Yamcha looked back out to the stars and tightened his lips.
The Wolf took a long pause to compose himself with steady breaths, wiping away the tears.
"Hmmmm-phuuuuuuu. Okay. I know it's really petty but I felt like I had to get back at her some way ya know? It's wrong, I know it's wrong but I felt like she really did me dirty so it was like she deserved me ignoring her or something. And it's like to top it off my baseball career was going, the sponsorships, interviews, people assuming I was doping."
He finally looked over to Korin who had been giving him his full attention. The piercing gaze kind of startling him. He cleared his throat before starting again.
"I forgot how strong I was and the fact that most people don't know how to use ki. I chose baseball because I actually really like it but…"
There was a moment of silence as Yamcha broke eye contact and looked at the floor and the fountain.
"No one could even come close to me so… I just, I just let everything slip. I know I'm the richest out of all of us besides Bulma and it's not even close." He shrugged his shoulders, wide eyed. "So I guess I just thought the money would bring me happiness or something, but it never did. I'm not even a big spender either so I don't know why I thought that. Yeah, it's really stupid, I don't even feel like I'm allowed to be sad, there are definitely people out there who have it worse than me so who am I to complain?"
"You've got plenty to be worried about, if you didn't what would that make you? Wolves hunt in packs, Yamcha. Lone wolves are destined for an unceremonious death."