Thanks for all your reviews, I only posted it up one morning, and that evening Wham! My inbox was flooding, guess people really do like Gohan and Odongo Atama fics ^_^ Well onward!
Usagi woke to a damp cloth being pressed against her head. 'Where am I?' she tried to say, but no words came out. She tried to sit up, but found that she failed at that too.
"Hey Bunny," said a
familiar voice, and Gohan's head appeared in front of Usagi's eyes.
"Hi," she said, this time sound
escaping from her lips.
"Sorry about all that, but
Piccolo just wanted to test your power, he banged me up a bit the first time
too," he said in a dort of admiration. "But you'll understand what I mean once
you've started practicing."
Usagi felt like screaming,
so it was all a test, was it? All her work, all her thoughts, everything, it
was all a hoax to see her true power. "I don't want to be trained," she blurted
out.
Gohan looked hurt, "hey
Bunny, don't think like that, it's not that bad alright? We'll need you, your
power level is already past half a million."
"Oh is my power level all
you care about? Does that decide it all?" Usagi said, looking more hurt than
Gohan. "I thought I could trust you Gohan, you seemed so nice before."
"I'm sorry Usagi, please
understand, fighting is really important in my family and your new one," said
Gohan, using her real name. "I just want to have someone that can fight and is
still my age, I don't see any kids, I get home schooled most of the time too. I
just want you to be my friend Usagi."
"I'm sorry Gohan, I just
got really mad that's all. Friends?" she asked outstretching a tiny hand.
"Yeah!" Gohan said shaking
hers, "now Bunny, grab a nap okay? I'll wait for you outside, then Piccolo can
stop testing you and start teaching you."
Usagi smiled, and drifted
off to sleep.
Start Dream
"…Usagi…"
"…Usagi my little rabbit…"
"…It's me Pluto…"
Sailor Pluto appeared out of nowhere, with her familiar sailor suit and garnet rod. "Hey Squirt listen carefully…"
It was a sound different from anything Usagi had ever heard. It was the most beautiful voice around. Soft and melodic, the sound echoed over the room repeating itself over and over.
"Little
flames backward glow,
Little
flames forward glow.
Carry the
secrets of our hearts,
Back to
heaven where it starts."
"Pluto, I don't understand? Is it just a song?" asked Usagi, her blue eyes full of questions.
"Dream
your dream do your part,
Release
the secrets in your heart.
You are
the smallest candlelight,
Find your
dream this odd night.
From here the singers voice became low and frightened, like the dreams were being extracted from her heart. She sang in no more than a whisper:
Your dream will come true,
Sister dearest waits for you.
Train hard and prepare yourself,
And one day the time will come…
Be Ready!
These new lines had not repeated themselves, and Usagi saw Pluto start to dissolve away, and she found herself once again back in her bed millions of space time portals away. There she sat hunched up in her bed, curling up in the sunlight, her covers forgotten in a heap at the foot of her bed.
She knew what she had to do.
"Gohan!" she yelled, pounding her tiny fists against the heavy door. "Gohan please come here!" she shouted again, and there was a muffled 'coming!' and the door finally swung inwards.
"Hey 'Sagi," Gohan muttered rubbing his eyes.
"Get dressed, we're going to see Piccolo!"
"Awright," he yawned and shut the door, appearing minutes later in his gi, which was similar to Piccolo's. Gohan easily picked up his power level, and summoned Nimbus for Usagi, and they flew to the spot where he was meditating.
"What is it Gohan?" Piccolo said, not opening his eyes.
"U-U-Usagi," he said unable to stifle a yawn, "wants to train."
"Very well, Gohan, go dip into that stream, wake up," Piccolo finally opened his eyes.
Gohan nodded and jumped headlong into the stream, Piccolo sighed, "he really is asleep. He usually undresses first," Gohan came out shivering as if to prove him right.
"Mr. Piccolo, sir, could we please begin?" Usagi piped up.
"Fine," Piccolo charged forward and slugged her in her stomach. Usagi, stunned by the blow stepped back, spit flying out of her mouth (AN: you know like when Gohan got punched by the Ginyu or something)
Usagi, however quickly composed herself, and charged forward mimicking his move, but with greater force. Thus the tables had turned, and Piccolo decided it was time to remove his weighted cloak and turban. Usagi thought he was sitting down for a break and approached him with a look of sympathy on her face, "I'm sorry I didn't mean to."
Piccolo had other plans and kicked her into the sky, he reappeared behind her and brought his fists down hard on her head, watching as she crashed into the ground, practically burying her own grave.
Usagi, shook her aching head and climbed out of the soil, brushing some of it off. She stared up at Piccolo with a strange look of thanks.
"That's enough, now Gohan you fight the little rabbit, ready, one, two…three!"
Gohan circled Usagi carefully, from the way she fought he could tell that the first move was his, then she would copy him exactly, just like a mime. He was right and he went forward, lightly cuffing her on her shoulder. Usagi lept forward, and summoned up her power, "FINAL FLASH!"
Gohan was unable to block the small blast at such close range, and he put his arms in front of his face and shut his eyes. The heat pushed against his body, but then he pushed up the furnace, and powered up a KaMeHaMeHa. Again a rift opened at Usagi's feet but she was too busy watching Gohan that she fell. Gohan dropped his attack and flew after her, but there was no need, Usagi was floating up herself with a strange light blue aura around her, and then Gohan saw something, a silver tail, he fell back into a dead faint.
"Gohan? Gohan? I know I flew, but so can you so?"
Piccolo however, hovered to Gohan, and splashed some water on him, and for the first time he too noticed a small silver tail, gleaming at Usagi's side.
"Usagi, you're a a."
"A what?"
"A saiya-jin, you have a tail!" Piccolo stammered.
"Oh, I know, I thought it was weird, but then I saw that Gohan had one, so I guess it's okay, isn't it?" she asked seeing the look on his face.
"Well, it's not bad, I just never knew, when was it first there?" he said, knowing inside it was a ridiculous question.
"Well yesterday, yesterday afternoon."
"Oh!" said Gohan, as he started to come around, "I get it!"
"Gohan, is there something I need to know?" Piccolo growled, suddenly not believing the orphanage story either.
The pleading look in Usagi's eyes, made her look even more scared and mysterious, and it was too much for young Gohan. "No Mr. Piccolo," he said averting his eyes.
"Usagi, there's something missing explain yourself," he said menacingly.
"Alright!" Tears welled up in her eyes, before she could speak. "I was in another dimension, where there was a war, and the soldiers killed everyone, including my sister, M-Maniki, and then they tried to kill me," her voice wavered, and Gohan felt the urge to hold her in his arms. "Then they tried to kill me, and I disappeared, and then I was in a place that was dark, and it had no sound, it was nothingness. Then a lady named Pluto told me I had to save my own world, and that since I was the only one to do it, she sent me here telling me that she'd come back when I was grown up and ready to fight."
Piccolo saw her eyes turn into an iceburg surrounded by a sea of dark blue waves, threatening to destroy her. "I won't tell anyone Usagi, but only Goku, he'll know what to do. In the meantime, I will not let my guard down again," he smirked. "We'll now train twice as hard as before."
Usagi just smiled and slammed her teacher into a tree, "am I getting better?"
So, know that we know that we know who (or rather what) Usagi is, I can finally let this story progress. I hope you guys like reading this as much as I did while writing it. I'll have to ration my writing time, because now homework craves my attention as well. See I unfortunately belong to a school district that does not value family time. It snowed about a foot and a half before Christmas break, but NOOOO school was still up and running. Oh well, I hope you love school as much as I do!!