Through The Eyes of A Saiyan
Written by Jennifer and Mandy
Chapter 19 - I'm The Best!
"How long have we been searching, Trunks?" Goten asked with a bored tone.
Trunks looked over to his friend. "Umm. I'm not quite sure. It seems like we've been flying forever and we still haven't found a single dragonball yet." He answered with discouragement in his voice.
Goten looked down at the islands racing below him. "Mmm. Maybe they already found all of them."
He thought about that possibility for a second. "Ahh. I doubt it. It usually takes a lot longer than this to find all seven. Well, let's keep looking."
Goten nodded in agreement. "Hai."
After a few minutes of flying in silence over a large body of water, Trunks' attention was caught by a glimmer of light. He stopped immediately and looked back. "Hey Goten, did you see that?"
Goten stopped as well and backed up. He glanced around himself quickly, and looked at Trunks. "No. What was it?"
Trunks looked around below him at the water's still surface. That light. It must have been a dragonball!" He looked around some more in the general area of where he saw it the first time. Suddenly the light sparkled again. "There!" he exclaimed, pointing to the water. "You see it now?"
Goten followed Trunks finger to where he was pointing. He searched silently for a moment before breaking into a wide grin. "Hai! I see it!"
Trunks then glanced over to his friend with a mischievous glint in his eye and grinned. "I'll race ya for it. Let's say.loser does my --- er. I mean, the other's chores for a week."
Goten smirked. "You got it." He leaned forward and got ready to go.
Trunks did the same and slowly moved his eyes over to look at Goten with a sly grin on his face. "Ready.on your mar-GO!" He laughed as he flew past the confused Goten.
"Huh?! HEY!" he shouted and took off after him. "I'm gonna get you for that, Trunks!" He sped up, firing a small ki blast at Trunks' back and watched him fall behind in a cloud of smoke. "Heh heh heh."
Trunks coughed and waved the smoke away from his face. "Arg! Goten!" he growled. "You've asked for it now, bro." He transformed into Super Saiyan and jetted past the younger demi-Saiyan before he could even see him. He shot into the water like a cannon ball, causing a huge splash that engulfed the surprised Goten.
"What the?!" Goten dove into the water as well and saw Trunks further down in Super Saiyan form. He narrowed his eyes and growled in his throat, transforming as well and speeding after him.
Trunks glanced over his shoulder to see Goten coming up behind him fast. Oh no you don't. I'm winning this one. He smirked and looked forward again. Just like I win all of them.
Goten gained on Trunks a little more.
Trunks glanced back and saw how close Goten was getting to passing him again. He thought to himself what he could do now and grinned. Perfect. He dropped behind Goten so that he was level with his feet. He swiftly grabbed his ankles, jerking him to a stop, and threw him back behind him. He laughed in his mind at Goten's misfortune and he swam down a little farther and grabbed the dragonball, shooting back up to the surface.
Goten stopped himself in the water just before hitting a rock and looked up to see Trunks swimming up to the surface with the six-star ball in his arms. He clenched his fists and sprung off the rock to the surface as well.
Trunks flew out of the water and gasped for air. He hovered in the air and powered down, waiting for Goten to emerge.
Moments later, Goten burst from the water and flew up, powering down, and stopped in front of Trunks. He leaned forward, inches in front of his face, glaring at him angrily.
Trunks blinked at Goten's sudden appearance. He moved his head back a little and laughed quietly. He turned his head to the side and stroked his chin in thought. "Now let's see. What did I have to do next week? Hmm. I'm sure that repainting the entire living room was one of my chores." He said slyly and eyed the gawking Goten from the side and grinned in amusement. "Oh yeah. I think that I was going to have to baby-sit Bra, Pan, and Marron one night. Bra's having a little sleepover and Dad doesn't wanna be there for it. I sure lucked out on that one. Heh."
Goten's face paled as he glared at Trunks in astonishment. "Th. Wh. That's not fair, Trunks!! You cheated and you know it!" he accused.
Trunks just turned to face him again and smiled. "Now I don't remember setting any rules down for this little race of ours. Just admit it, bro." He smirked. "I'm better than you."
Goten folded his arms and turned to the side with a pout. "Humph. The only thing you're better at is being a jerk."
"Aw, come on, Goten. There has to be a loser for everything. It's not my fault if I don't know how that feels."
"Oh, that's it!!" He charged at Trunks and hit him full force, beginning to wrestle him in the air. After attacking against Trunks' defense, Goten accidentally knocked the dragonball out of his hand.
"Hey! Look what you did!" Trunks exclaimed and looked down at the falling dragonball, causing him to get hit in the face by one of Goten's punches.
Goten stopped and the both turned again to see the ball. Suddenly it disappeared in mid air. They then heard laughter from behind them and spun around to find Gohan hovering a couple of feet away from them with their dragonball in one hand.
"Gohan! What are you doing here?" Goten asked.
"Well, we flew by and saw you two having one of your little fights. I saw the dragonball falling and decided since you didn't want this anymore, I guess I'd take it." He replied with a smile.
Trunks straightened up. "Goten's just a sore loser. He can't admit that I'm the best."
Goten turned to Trunks. "You're not the best; you're just a cheater! I could beat you easy if you'd actually play fair for once."
"Hey, Piccolo! Catch!" Gohan called and threw the dragonball to him. He turned to the two half-Saiyans, crouching down slightly. "Well I could take you both on." He challenged, smirking.
Goten and Trunks both turned to face Gohan, and then glanced at each other with nervous grins.
Gohan raised his arms up, curling his hands into loose fists. He charged at them and began to spar in midair.
Trunks gasped in surprise at the sudden attack and crossed his forearms over his face to block Gohan's swift punch.
Goten put his right forearm up to block a punch as well and swung a kick to Gohan's side.
Gohan moved to the side, deftly avoiding the kick while spinning around and punching Trunks hard in the gut.
Trunks took the hit and grunted a little. He swung a punch to Gohan's jaw.
Gohan easily dodged the fist by ducking under it. He took the open opportunity and grabbed Trunks' arm. "Heh heh." He smirked at the boy before kicking him hard in the chest, releasing his arm as his foot made contact, causing Trunks to fly into the water.
Trunk fell into the water, flipping a few times before stopping himself. He clutched his chest in pain as he tried to gather his senses. Man, how do I get myself into these things? Gohan's just too fast for us. I can't beat him right now! He growled and shot out of the water again where the two brothers were in a fury of kicks and punches, none of which, Goten was making contact with. Trunks flew up behind Gohan to attempt a surprise attack.
Gohan sensed Trunks behind him and twisted to the side so that they were now on either side of him. He raised his arms in front of him and elbowed them both in the neck, stunning them temporarily. While they were immobile, he grabbed them and got them both in a headlock. He laughed victoriously with a proud grin as they struggled in his grip. "Looks like I'm the best now."
Trunks and Goten tried desperately to get free, but it was useless. They made pathetic attempts to persuade Gohan to let them go.
Piccolo grinned slightly, looking up at the three from his spot in the air. "Huh?" He turned his head to the right as he sensed Goku, Krillin, Vegeta, and a new ki that he didn't recognize, coming this direction.
Gohan stopped his mocking laughter and turned his head to the left, sensing the approaching ki's as well.
Suddenly, Goku and the rest appeared behind Piccolo.
Piccolo turned around. "Goku."
"Hey Piccolo!" the energetic Saiyan greeted.
Piccolo took a quick glance at the dragonballs in their arms. "I see you've collected the rest of the dragonballs."
"Yep!" Goku answered. "Thanks to our new friend, Churu, here." He motioned to Churu. "We were able to find the last few quite easily. He knew exactly where they were."
Vegeta narrowed his eyes momentarily and looked up in the sky, noticing the three. He looked at them and blinked before rolling his eyes and looking back down with his arms folded.
"Good." Piccolo said. He looked at Churu. "Do you mind if I ask you a favor?"
"Go ahead." He replied.
"As you know, the dragon on this planet will only grant wishes that are spoken in the Namekian language." He began.
Churu nodded.
"Would you mind asking Porunga our wishes in Namekian?" he asked.
"Hmm. I suppose." The young Namek answered.
Goku smiled. "Arigatou."
They were interrupted by Trunks' yells. "Dad! A little help here would be appreciated!"
Vegeta's head shot back up to look at them again. He growled in disapproval and looked at Goku. "Kakarott! Tell that brat of yours to let go of my brat!"
Goku glanced up at them, then back to Vegeta. "Aw come on, Vegeta. He's just having fun." He then noticed the look of thorough irritation, from earlier, still in Vegeta's eyes. "Al-all right, Vegeta." He looked up again. "Hey Gohan! I think it's about time for you to let them go!"
"Aw, come on, Dad!" Gohan whined, with them still in a headlock.
Without hesitation, Vegeta turned to face the three again and fired a blast up at them.
Three yells were heard as Gohan immediately released the two younger half- Saiyans and flew up to dodge the blast, while Goten and Trunks flew backwards from where they were. Once the blast had flown between the three boys, they all relaxed a bit and let out a short sigh of relief. Goten and Trunks rubbed their necks sorely as Gohan flew down to get next to them. Trunks had a grin across his face that clearly showed he was trying to contain his laughter. "Told you to let us go." He muttered to Gohan with a chuckle.
"Shut up." Gohan replied.
The three of them flew down to where the rest of the group was hovering. Trunks and Vegeta glanced at each other. Trunks smiled faintly with the laughter from Vegeta's action still in his eyes. Vegeta read his son's expression clearly and gave a small nod before averting his eyes to look at the rest of the group in front of him. Trunks glanced at Gohan and then looked at Goku and the rest. Goten leaned over to his older brother and muttered irritably, "You're gonna get it later."
Vegeta suddenly spoke up with a voice full of impatience. "Can we stop wasting our time, and go make the wishes all ready?" He sighed in frustration and turned to fly off.
"All right, everyone. Let's go." Piccolo said and flew off after Vegeta.
"Hai." Goku said. He and the remainder of the group flew off in the same direction.
As Piccolo flew off, he tossed the four-star ball to Gohan while he carried the six-star ball. Churu carried the one-star ball. Goku held the two- star ball while Krillin flew to his right with the five and three-star balls in his arms and an annoyed expression on his face. Goten was to his left with the seven-star ball.
Goku sped up a little and got up along side Piccolo. "Hey Piccolo. Do you mind if I ask you something?"
"Nani?"
"Well, I was just wondering why you asked Churu to do the wishes. I thought you would do it, since you know the language too."
"It's been several years since I've needed to speak this language, so I'm a little rusty." He answered.
"Oh. ok." Goku replied.
Vegeta flew ahead of everyone. As thoughts of Bulma raced through his mind, he became more and more anxious. For the first time, in several months, he smiled. Not just a smile, but a smile of love.
Written by Jennifer and Mandy
Chapter 19 - I'm The Best!
"How long have we been searching, Trunks?" Goten asked with a bored tone.
Trunks looked over to his friend. "Umm. I'm not quite sure. It seems like we've been flying forever and we still haven't found a single dragonball yet." He answered with discouragement in his voice.
Goten looked down at the islands racing below him. "Mmm. Maybe they already found all of them."
He thought about that possibility for a second. "Ahh. I doubt it. It usually takes a lot longer than this to find all seven. Well, let's keep looking."
Goten nodded in agreement. "Hai."
After a few minutes of flying in silence over a large body of water, Trunks' attention was caught by a glimmer of light. He stopped immediately and looked back. "Hey Goten, did you see that?"
Goten stopped as well and backed up. He glanced around himself quickly, and looked at Trunks. "No. What was it?"
Trunks looked around below him at the water's still surface. That light. It must have been a dragonball!" He looked around some more in the general area of where he saw it the first time. Suddenly the light sparkled again. "There!" he exclaimed, pointing to the water. "You see it now?"
Goten followed Trunks finger to where he was pointing. He searched silently for a moment before breaking into a wide grin. "Hai! I see it!"
Trunks then glanced over to his friend with a mischievous glint in his eye and grinned. "I'll race ya for it. Let's say.loser does my --- er. I mean, the other's chores for a week."
Goten smirked. "You got it." He leaned forward and got ready to go.
Trunks did the same and slowly moved his eyes over to look at Goten with a sly grin on his face. "Ready.on your mar-GO!" He laughed as he flew past the confused Goten.
"Huh?! HEY!" he shouted and took off after him. "I'm gonna get you for that, Trunks!" He sped up, firing a small ki blast at Trunks' back and watched him fall behind in a cloud of smoke. "Heh heh heh."
Trunks coughed and waved the smoke away from his face. "Arg! Goten!" he growled. "You've asked for it now, bro." He transformed into Super Saiyan and jetted past the younger demi-Saiyan before he could even see him. He shot into the water like a cannon ball, causing a huge splash that engulfed the surprised Goten.
"What the?!" Goten dove into the water as well and saw Trunks further down in Super Saiyan form. He narrowed his eyes and growled in his throat, transforming as well and speeding after him.
Trunks glanced over his shoulder to see Goten coming up behind him fast. Oh no you don't. I'm winning this one. He smirked and looked forward again. Just like I win all of them.
Goten gained on Trunks a little more.
Trunks glanced back and saw how close Goten was getting to passing him again. He thought to himself what he could do now and grinned. Perfect. He dropped behind Goten so that he was level with his feet. He swiftly grabbed his ankles, jerking him to a stop, and threw him back behind him. He laughed in his mind at Goten's misfortune and he swam down a little farther and grabbed the dragonball, shooting back up to the surface.
Goten stopped himself in the water just before hitting a rock and looked up to see Trunks swimming up to the surface with the six-star ball in his arms. He clenched his fists and sprung off the rock to the surface as well.
Trunks flew out of the water and gasped for air. He hovered in the air and powered down, waiting for Goten to emerge.
Moments later, Goten burst from the water and flew up, powering down, and stopped in front of Trunks. He leaned forward, inches in front of his face, glaring at him angrily.
Trunks blinked at Goten's sudden appearance. He moved his head back a little and laughed quietly. He turned his head to the side and stroked his chin in thought. "Now let's see. What did I have to do next week? Hmm. I'm sure that repainting the entire living room was one of my chores." He said slyly and eyed the gawking Goten from the side and grinned in amusement. "Oh yeah. I think that I was going to have to baby-sit Bra, Pan, and Marron one night. Bra's having a little sleepover and Dad doesn't wanna be there for it. I sure lucked out on that one. Heh."
Goten's face paled as he glared at Trunks in astonishment. "Th. Wh. That's not fair, Trunks!! You cheated and you know it!" he accused.
Trunks just turned to face him again and smiled. "Now I don't remember setting any rules down for this little race of ours. Just admit it, bro." He smirked. "I'm better than you."
Goten folded his arms and turned to the side with a pout. "Humph. The only thing you're better at is being a jerk."
"Aw, come on, Goten. There has to be a loser for everything. It's not my fault if I don't know how that feels."
"Oh, that's it!!" He charged at Trunks and hit him full force, beginning to wrestle him in the air. After attacking against Trunks' defense, Goten accidentally knocked the dragonball out of his hand.
"Hey! Look what you did!" Trunks exclaimed and looked down at the falling dragonball, causing him to get hit in the face by one of Goten's punches.
Goten stopped and the both turned again to see the ball. Suddenly it disappeared in mid air. They then heard laughter from behind them and spun around to find Gohan hovering a couple of feet away from them with their dragonball in one hand.
"Gohan! What are you doing here?" Goten asked.
"Well, we flew by and saw you two having one of your little fights. I saw the dragonball falling and decided since you didn't want this anymore, I guess I'd take it." He replied with a smile.
Trunks straightened up. "Goten's just a sore loser. He can't admit that I'm the best."
Goten turned to Trunks. "You're not the best; you're just a cheater! I could beat you easy if you'd actually play fair for once."
"Hey, Piccolo! Catch!" Gohan called and threw the dragonball to him. He turned to the two half-Saiyans, crouching down slightly. "Well I could take you both on." He challenged, smirking.
Goten and Trunks both turned to face Gohan, and then glanced at each other with nervous grins.
Gohan raised his arms up, curling his hands into loose fists. He charged at them and began to spar in midair.
Trunks gasped in surprise at the sudden attack and crossed his forearms over his face to block Gohan's swift punch.
Goten put his right forearm up to block a punch as well and swung a kick to Gohan's side.
Gohan moved to the side, deftly avoiding the kick while spinning around and punching Trunks hard in the gut.
Trunks took the hit and grunted a little. He swung a punch to Gohan's jaw.
Gohan easily dodged the fist by ducking under it. He took the open opportunity and grabbed Trunks' arm. "Heh heh." He smirked at the boy before kicking him hard in the chest, releasing his arm as his foot made contact, causing Trunks to fly into the water.
Trunk fell into the water, flipping a few times before stopping himself. He clutched his chest in pain as he tried to gather his senses. Man, how do I get myself into these things? Gohan's just too fast for us. I can't beat him right now! He growled and shot out of the water again where the two brothers were in a fury of kicks and punches, none of which, Goten was making contact with. Trunks flew up behind Gohan to attempt a surprise attack.
Gohan sensed Trunks behind him and twisted to the side so that they were now on either side of him. He raised his arms in front of him and elbowed them both in the neck, stunning them temporarily. While they were immobile, he grabbed them and got them both in a headlock. He laughed victoriously with a proud grin as they struggled in his grip. "Looks like I'm the best now."
Trunks and Goten tried desperately to get free, but it was useless. They made pathetic attempts to persuade Gohan to let them go.
Piccolo grinned slightly, looking up at the three from his spot in the air. "Huh?" He turned his head to the right as he sensed Goku, Krillin, Vegeta, and a new ki that he didn't recognize, coming this direction.
Gohan stopped his mocking laughter and turned his head to the left, sensing the approaching ki's as well.
Suddenly, Goku and the rest appeared behind Piccolo.
Piccolo turned around. "Goku."
"Hey Piccolo!" the energetic Saiyan greeted.
Piccolo took a quick glance at the dragonballs in their arms. "I see you've collected the rest of the dragonballs."
"Yep!" Goku answered. "Thanks to our new friend, Churu, here." He motioned to Churu. "We were able to find the last few quite easily. He knew exactly where they were."
Vegeta narrowed his eyes momentarily and looked up in the sky, noticing the three. He looked at them and blinked before rolling his eyes and looking back down with his arms folded.
"Good." Piccolo said. He looked at Churu. "Do you mind if I ask you a favor?"
"Go ahead." He replied.
"As you know, the dragon on this planet will only grant wishes that are spoken in the Namekian language." He began.
Churu nodded.
"Would you mind asking Porunga our wishes in Namekian?" he asked.
"Hmm. I suppose." The young Namek answered.
Goku smiled. "Arigatou."
They were interrupted by Trunks' yells. "Dad! A little help here would be appreciated!"
Vegeta's head shot back up to look at them again. He growled in disapproval and looked at Goku. "Kakarott! Tell that brat of yours to let go of my brat!"
Goku glanced up at them, then back to Vegeta. "Aw come on, Vegeta. He's just having fun." He then noticed the look of thorough irritation, from earlier, still in Vegeta's eyes. "Al-all right, Vegeta." He looked up again. "Hey Gohan! I think it's about time for you to let them go!"
"Aw, come on, Dad!" Gohan whined, with them still in a headlock.
Without hesitation, Vegeta turned to face the three again and fired a blast up at them.
Three yells were heard as Gohan immediately released the two younger half- Saiyans and flew up to dodge the blast, while Goten and Trunks flew backwards from where they were. Once the blast had flown between the three boys, they all relaxed a bit and let out a short sigh of relief. Goten and Trunks rubbed their necks sorely as Gohan flew down to get next to them. Trunks had a grin across his face that clearly showed he was trying to contain his laughter. "Told you to let us go." He muttered to Gohan with a chuckle.
"Shut up." Gohan replied.
The three of them flew down to where the rest of the group was hovering. Trunks and Vegeta glanced at each other. Trunks smiled faintly with the laughter from Vegeta's action still in his eyes. Vegeta read his son's expression clearly and gave a small nod before averting his eyes to look at the rest of the group in front of him. Trunks glanced at Gohan and then looked at Goku and the rest. Goten leaned over to his older brother and muttered irritably, "You're gonna get it later."
Vegeta suddenly spoke up with a voice full of impatience. "Can we stop wasting our time, and go make the wishes all ready?" He sighed in frustration and turned to fly off.
"All right, everyone. Let's go." Piccolo said and flew off after Vegeta.
"Hai." Goku said. He and the remainder of the group flew off in the same direction.
As Piccolo flew off, he tossed the four-star ball to Gohan while he carried the six-star ball. Churu carried the one-star ball. Goku held the two- star ball while Krillin flew to his right with the five and three-star balls in his arms and an annoyed expression on his face. Goten was to his left with the seven-star ball.
Goku sped up a little and got up along side Piccolo. "Hey Piccolo. Do you mind if I ask you something?"
"Nani?"
"Well, I was just wondering why you asked Churu to do the wishes. I thought you would do it, since you know the language too."
"It's been several years since I've needed to speak this language, so I'm a little rusty." He answered.
"Oh. ok." Goku replied.
Vegeta flew ahead of everyone. As thoughts of Bulma raced through his mind, he became more and more anxious. For the first time, in several months, he smiled. Not just a smile, but a smile of love.