The Torment 17: Grandpa!
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Piccolo
fell over.
He had just
heard the words that Goku had uttered, one of which was 'granddaughter'.
Mental
overload!
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"Peek!"
Imp-chan yelled, seeing her parent fall over. She was still too young to
understand that Piccolo 'wasn't like her'. He was her parent!
"Piccolo?"
Goku asked in confusion, acting the way he usually does, completely clueless,
but I say it in a good way. If only we could all be so oblivious.
Imp-chan
was sitting on his chest, her tail thrashing madly, while she patted Piccolo on
the face.
"I know!" she
lisped, and kissed his nose.
"I don't
know if that will work on him, sweetheart," he told the little girl, who looked
up at him with big, trusting eyes.
It shocked
Goku that anyone raised by Piccolo could be so innocent. Although, from what he
had seen when he was dead, there was nothing that would ever convince him that
Piccolo would hurt his granddaughter.
"It
didn't-" Imp was about to cry, when Piccolo groaned, a rolled over, his arms
automatically pulling her to his chest.
"PEEK!" she
crowed, and hugged him.
Goku
grinned his usual happy smile.
"I guess
kissing him worked after all, Imp-chan!" Son said, and Imp looked at him, now
realizing that this was not her friend Gohan, but someone else. Since she had
been taught that people she didn't know could be bad, she squeaked, and hid
behind Piccolo.
"What did
you say?" Piccolo asked, sounding shocked.
"I came to
see my grandkid. Since I only have one, then I guess Imp is who I came to
visit!"
"What are
you talking about?" Piccolo demanded, confusion written in every line of him.
"My
granddaughter. You know, Pan Pipe. Why shouldn't I see her?" he asked, getting
the impression that something was wrong.
"You- what-
how did you-"
Looking at
the sputtering Piccolo, Goku actually managed some logic.
"Oh! See,
since I was dead at the time you made the wish for everyone to forget. I don't
know why you did that, but I'm sorry I couldn't help you," the large Saiya-jin
said sorrowfully, his big black eyes, so much like Gohan's, shiny with tears.
"After what
that guy did," Goku started, when Imp interrupted.
"NO one can
hurt Peek!" she pouted, and put her arms around Piccolo to emphasize her point.
Piccolo rested his cheek against her now obviously Son hair, and sighed.
"Imp, yes,
people can hurt me. They even killed me once. I was hurt very badly before-
before I got you."
Imp's eyes
widened in horror; yet she didn't seem to believe it. Then, her eyes narrowed.
"I will
hurt them!" she declared, then 'eep'd when she heard an owl.
"She's so
cute!" Goku said, and before Piccolo could react, picked her up and started to
babble baby talk to her. Imp looked at him like he's lost his mind.
Still, the
guy holding her was awfully nice, she decided. Almost as nice as Peekro.
She gently
tugged his hair, and he laughed like crazy.
"Goku, will
you stop doing that with my child?"
"Doing
what?" and both of them gave him puppy eyes, and Piccolo melted.
"Nothing,"
Piccolo mumbled, watching the two children play.
"Peek, I'm
hungry," Imp said plaintively, and Piccolo sighed.
(Keep in
mind, she isn't much more than a year old.)
"Okay,"
Piccolo answered, and started to shift to his girl form.
"You have
food, Piccolo?" Goku asked, and Piccolo-chan shook her head.
"No. I am
not going to feed you," Piccolo-chan growled, while Goku pouted.
"Why not?"
"Because,"
she told him, as she opened up her gi top, "You have been weaned. You are an
adult, I don't think you feel like nursing."
(Fact: Some
people breast-feed their children up to four years. No, I will not do this to
Piccolo, but with Imp's biology, she is capable of talking and developing much
faster than human children, but hey, free lunch.)
Goku's face
turned an interesting shade of purple, as he fell over, while Imp began to
nurse.
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It was a
few hours later when Goku woke up. Piccolo had since reverted to his normal
self, and was cradling the little girl in his lap, a not quite adoring look on
his face.
"She's so
much cuter than a little boy," Goku told Piccolo, and grinned. "She smells
better too!"
Goku then
heard his stomach rumble like an earthquake.
"Uh, I'm
going to go get something to eat, Piccolo, and come back."
In a matter
of a few moments, he had returned with several small animals, and one or two
really big ones. He arranged Piccolo's fire into one he could cook over, and
started roasting the meat. This woke Imp up.
"Its smells
really good," she told Goku, and looked at it strangely. "What is it?"
For her
young age, she spoke like an adult, probably because that was how Piccolo had
always spoken to her.
"It's meat,
Imp-chan," he answered, and gave her a piece.
"HOT!" she
yelped, and juggled it for a moment.
Then she
tried chewing it. This took her a long time, because she didn't have all her
teeth yet.
Her face
was scrunched in concentration, and she did as best she could, and finally
swallowed.
Goku had
been watching this, entranced. He had only had boys, and a girl was something
he had never raised, and was finding being around a little girl to be a lot of
fun.
"That
tasted- okay," she offered, still lisping.
Goku
laughed, and hugged her.
Imp-chan
giggled.
"Call me
ojisan, okay?" he asked her, and she nodded solemnly, her father's eyes making
her look so serious.
Piccolo had
watched the exchange with amusement and bewilderment. Imp was too young to
remember his conversation with Goku, but he didn't want Imp-chan to know who he
was to her. It would save her the pain. Pain of being called a freak, and the
pain of his past enemies, if that madman was to ever find him again.
"Hey,
Piccolo, did you hear me?" Goku asked, breaking him out of his reverie.
"Hm?"
"I asked if
Imp-chan could come visit tonight. I know that Chi-Chi would like having
someone to baby, and a girl at that. Is that okay? I promise not to tell that
we're related."
Piccolo
paused to think.
True, Imp
would need to get to know her other family, even if she didn't know they were
her family. And Chi-Chi did not know who her parents were, so she wouldn't
freak out.
"Okay, but
if anything happens to her, Goku, or you tell anyone that I'm her mother, then
you will die a horrible, painful death, worse than the other ones."
This did in
no way deter Goku.
"SUGOI!
Arigato, Piccolo!"
To be continued…
In "The Visit"!