Disclamers: Yeah, *sighs* neither DBZ nor SM belong to me. If they did, this fanfic wouldn't be a fanfic, it'd be a frikkin storyline. And please don't sue-- if you do, you'd get nothing but, hmm, my bottle of water, a couple "I Am Loved" pins, and a grimy nickel.
"..." - speaking
'...' - thinking
*...* - emphasis on a word
{...} - author's note
Ages:
Usagi- 17
Gohan- 18
There will be no Chibi Trunks in this story (Sorry, all you fans out there!)
There will be no Bra, either. No Pan. No Videl. They're just too pesky and they'd interfere with my story.
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"Would you train me?"
"What?!" Gohan was caught off guard.
"You heard me. Would you train me? I promise I'd try really hard, and I won't give up, and--"
"Calm down, Usagi. I guess, if you really want to, I *could* train you."
"Oh, thankyouthankyouthankyouthankyou, Gohan-chan!!!" Usagi hugged Gohan, nearly knocking him down.
Gohan smiled. "Training will start tomorrow morning, at dawn."
Usagi stopped dead. "At.... dawn...?"
"Hai," Gohan replied. "Is that a problem?"
"Oh, I suppose not. After all, I *did* say I'd try!"
"Yeah. Well, I'd get some sleep, because like I said, we're gonna get up early," Gohan said, yawning a little already.
"Yeah," yawned Usagi. "I guess so. G'night, Gohan-chan."
"Goodnight, Usagi. See you in the morning."
Usagi started to plod up the stairs toward her room. Gohan waited and watched her go up. "Goodnight, my Princess," he whispered aloud.
The sun was just beginning to rise, and Usagi and Gohan were already outside. Usagi was wearing one of Gohan's old gi's. Usagi was still putting up her hair in their "buns."
"Ah, Usagi, don't you think all that hair is going to get in your way?" Gohan asked, noticing how long it was (down to her ankles).
Usagi toyed with the end of her hair. "Yeah, I guess so." She pulled out the knife at her belt. She grasped one of her pigtails and roughly cut most of it off, leaving it a little shorter than shoulder-length. She grabbed the other one and did the same.
"Usagi?"
Usagi looked down at the small pile of her long golden hair. She nearly cried. "I've never once had my hair cut, all my life. But I guess now that I'm not Sailor Moon anymore, I don't need to wear her hairstyle." She wiped her eyes. "I'm okay, Gohan. Let's start training."
Gohan looked at Usagi. 'I hope she's alright.' He grinned. "Okay. The first thing I'm gonna teach you is how to fly."
"FLY?! You can fly?!" Usagi looked surprised.
"Yeah. I thought I told you that. Guess not," Gohan replied.
"Nope. So, are you gonna teach me or not?" Usagi grinned.
"Oh, yeah. First, you have to calm down. Then, concentrate on your inner energy."
Usagi squeezed her eyes shut and tried to concentrate. "I can't, Gohan-chan."
"Come on, keep trying. Look deep inside of yourself." Gohan placed his hand on Usagi's shoulder, shut his eyes, and focused on her energy.
Usagi's skin tingled at Gohan's touch, but she quickly calmed herself down so that she could concentrate. She searched herself for her inner energy, and this time, quickly found it. "Gohan," she whispered, not opening her eyes, "Gohan, I found it. What do I do now?"
"Lift it. Try to lift it up." He watched Usagi levitate a couple inches above the ground.
Usagi opened her eyes and squealed, seeing that she was floating. "Now what?"
Gohan opened his eyes. "Concentrate on my energy, Usagi. Can you feel it?"
"Yes."
"Good." He moved about ten paces away from her. "Now try to move your energy towards mine." Gohan watched as Usagi was slowly coming in his direction. She reached her hand out towards him when she was only a couple feet away from him. When he took her hand, he felt a jolt of energy go through his arm. "What the..?"
Usagi put her feet onto the ground. "What?"
Gohan stared at Usagi, then at his arm. "Usagi, you just channeled some of your energy through my hand."
"I did?"
"Yeah. I guess now would be a good time to teach you ki control."
Only 15 minutes later, Usagi had hidden her ki, lowering it to a normal level, and was learning to use ki blasts.
"Okay, Usagi, that's big enough," Gohan said, watching the growing ball of energy in her hands. "Now let it go. Fire it at me."
Usagi let the glowing ball of energy fly. Gohan blocked it easily, of course, but marveled at how powerful it was, especially for a beginner.
"Was that any good, Gohan-chan?" asked Usagi hopefully.
Gohan just stared. "Yeah, wow, where'd you get so much power?"
"Well remember, I AM the Moon Princess!" Usagi smiled. "Hey, can I go out for a while and train by myself?"
"Sure, I should start making breakfast soon anyway. Be back in an hour, okay?"
"Okay! Bye!" Usagi flew off. Gohan started walking towards the house, thinking about Usagi's power.
'She's gonna be a great fighter, maybe even better than me. But will I be able to teach her to use her special power?'
Usagi landed on the bank of a small lake. She decided that this would be a good place for her to train.
"Hmm," she wondered aloud. "I wonder if now that I'm Cosmos, I can use the other senshi's elements." She kneeled on the edge of the water. She touched the surface of the water with her fingertips, making them tingle.
Suddenly, she felt a new power surge through her. She built up another ki blast in her hand, then touched her other hand to the water, turning the ball of energy a bluish color.
"Tsunami, ha!" she shouted, releasing the ki blast at a tree on the other side of the lake. It made contact and the tree instantly exploded. "Wow... that was crazy. I guess I *can* use the others' powers!"
Gohan was just finishing making breakfast when suddenly he felt Usagi's ki signature disappear. "What the hell?!" Gohan was about to go to where he felt Usagi had been training before, when suddenly she appeared in the kitchen in a watery swirl.
"Hey, Gohan-chan!" she giggled.
"What the hell? Usagi, where'd you learn to do that?!" Gohan was confused.
"I don't know, it just kind-of came to me. Isn't it cool? So when's breakfast?"
Gohan just stared at the girl that had just a second before been miles away. "Ah, it's just about ready. I'll bring it out. I hope you're hungry."
"Of course!"
Gohan and Usagi were training out in the field again after lunch. By now, Usagi knew basic self-defense and then some.
'Wow, this girl in something else! Her power just keeps growing and growing the more that I teach her!'
Usagi punched Gohan in the gut when he wasn't paying attention. "What, Gohan-chan, are you okay?" she asked, snapping him out of it.
"Oh, sorry, yeah, I'm okay." Gohan tried to kick her legs out from underneath her, but she backflipped out of the way before he had a chance to. She came up behind Gohan and clung to his neck.
"Aah! Usagi! Get off!" Gohan tried to shake her off, without success.
"Nope!" Usagi giggled, tightening her hold around his neck.
"Usagi!" Gohan tried to pry her arms from around his neck, but she was holding on too tightly. But without warning, he was suddenly upside down and hanging in the air.
Usagi just laughed. "Don't underestimate me, Gohan!"
She transported herself and her sensei to the lake where she had been earlier that morning. But what was waiting for her made her drop Gohan and nearly faint-- all of the senshi, even the Starlights, but they didn't look themselves. They looked evil...
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Haha! Cliffhanger! I love doing that to you guys! *points and laughs* Hahaha! Well, look, I finally got this chapter out (it was even a little longer than the others, at least I think it was)! The little surprise I was talking about in my author's note wil probally come in the next chapter, then. 'Til then, ja ne, ~Tsu.