Chapter Six
A year had passed since the little incident at Eternal Rave. Kinira was now fifteen, soon to be sixteen, and much stronger than ever. She, Rochelle, Jiji, San, Aki, and Freya had all been forgiven for the most part about it, but were still being monitored. They were all getting good grades at the R.D.I., and Jiji had taken an interest in The Veritas, R.D.I.'s newspaper.
Freya had recently cut her brown-blonde hair, and was now a short and spunky bob, like a boy's hair. Rochelle had recently dyed her green eyes blue to contrast with her curly green hair, and San got a tattoo of a butterfly on her lower back about six months before. Aki was still the same, with her bright red pigtails and no tattoos or anything too wild.
Kinira had finally let the cat out of the bag about being a Saiyan to the girls, since she had known them since she was eight, but didn't dare let her father know until he was far too tired from training to kill her. Surprisingly, the girls hadn't freaked out too much from it, they figured that it made sense she was from outer space. They always knew that there was no way she could be human, it just didn't make any sense with her violent and prideful nature. Also, it made total sense once you included the fact that Kinira had a tail up until she was nine, where it had been cut off during the summer where she and her father went on a 'training vacation' on a distant planet. Luckily, they didn't have a heart attack about the whole thing.
It was now two months before the World Martial Arts Tournament, and the girls were walking off campus for lunch. They had just gotten out of their favorite burger place, Dawg Burger, and were now taking a shortcut back to school that took them by Gohan's school, Orange Star High.
Aki took a sip of soda from her straw and looked on the other side of the street where a fight was taking place. She noticed a tall boy with black hair, "Hey, Kinira, isn't that the Gohan guy you always used to hang out with?"
She stuffed some fried into her mouth and looked over to see Gohan fight. "Ah, don't worry about it, Gohan can take some pitiful street fighters. Let's watch."
They saw Gohan then turn to see a girl with black pigtails. "Hey, Videl," said Gohan, then taking a punch in the face, knocking him down.
"Hey!!!" said Kinira
"You jerk!" screamed the girl called Videl. She ran in and jumped into the fight. She jumped and performed and outside crescent kick, but failed. She landed and was knocked off her feet by one of the street fighters.
Kinira growled. She immediately jumped in to the fight. "Kinira!" cried San after her friend.
The fighter raised his leg in a preparation for a drop kick, but was miraculously thrown aside and knocked hard into the wall of an office building, creating a great dent in the side. Videl looked up in amazement and saw a young girl with long spiky hair and green eyes. She crossed her arms, "You shouldn't rush into a battle that you're not ready for," said the girl.
"HEY!!!" yelled the other street fighter that had been attacking Gohan. "You little twirp!!!"
Kinira's eyes flared. "TWIRP?!!!!!!!!!" she screamed in anger. She charged at the fighter and kicked him hard into the sky, making him disappear into the distance. She closed her eyes and snorted angrily and brushed her sleeves off, adjusted her pleated black miniskirt, and flicked a few hairs away from her eyes. She turned on her heel and walked up to Gohan, everyone else seemed to be frozen in time, their eyes nearly bulging out of their skulls. "Gohan!!!"
He turned around, to everyone's surprise, he didn't have a scratch on him. "Ah! Kinira?! When did you get here???"
"I could ask the same question to you. However, I'm more concerned how you took a punch in the face by a stupid street fighter! You're WAY stronger than anyone on this planet, you dork! How could you let that wuss hit you?!!!" she yelled in anger.
He waved his hands defensively, "Kinira!" He lowered his voice to a whisper, "Could you keep it down??? I don't want these people to know about us!"
She placed her hands on her hips, "No, I will not keep it down! How can a girl keep it down when her childhood friend-slash-sparring partner has let himself shrivil up into a weak human! Just look at how you've let yourself go over the years, you've become weaker than you were when you were a child--it's absurd!"
"Gohan???" A female vioce was heard behind them. It turned out to be the same girl with pigtails, sitting on the street, wide-eyed.
Kinira did her trademark eyebrow raise. "Who's this, your girlfriend?"
"D'ah! She's not my girlfriend, Kinira! No way!" Gohan cried desparately.
"Good thing, too, you need someone who knows how to actually fight well."
"Hey!" a voice said from the still mostly dumbstruck crowd in front of the school. "Videl is Hercule's daughter and she fights way better than you could!"
"What?!!!" Kinria's eyes flared once more and powered up, a huge blast of wind blowing all around her and blasting everyone back. "HOW DARE YOU!!!" she screamed.
"Kinira, STOP!!!" cried Gohan as everyone in sight ran and hid behind buildings, peeking around the corners.
"NOT UNTIL THEY ADMIT THAT I'M THE STRONGEST FIGHTER IN THIS WHOLE DAMN WORLD, AND THAT I'M WAY BETTER THAN ANY MUTANT SPAWN OF THAT POSER, HERCULE!!!" she screamed at the top of her lungs, powering up more every second, near Super Saiyan transformation levels.
"Oh man... YOU BETTER DO WHAT SHE SAYS!" Gohan yelled to the students hiding behind the building. "UNLESS YOU'VE SEEN VIDEL DO THIS, DO WHAT SHE SAYS OR SHE'LL LOSE HER TEMPER AND BLAST THIS SCHOOL TO KINGDOM COME!"
"YOU'RE THE STRONGEST FIGHTER IN THE WHOLE DAMN WORLD!!!" yelled everyone in fear for their own lives.
"Hear that Kinira?!!!" yelled Gohan. "You're the strongest!!! Why don't you calm down now?!"
She let her power drain away and she turned back to normal, "Fine, but I'm gonna prove how strong I am in the World Martial Arts Tournament, and show just how fake that Hercule really is!" And with that, she walked back to her friends, everyone frozen in fear of this girl. She stopped at her group and cleared her throat, "So, let's get back to school! I've got double Art, next. I totally can't wait!"
"...K-Kinira--what happened?!" cried Jiji.
"Huh...?" asked Kinira. "Oh! Nothing happened! I just lost my temper for a second. Besides, you girls have known me since I was eight, and you've seen way weirder stuff around me, right?"
"Uh--no, we haven't!" screamed Rochelle.
"Sure you have!" Kinira protested. "You remember that day last year when I forgot my lunch and my Dad came and gave it to me on the bus?"
They were all silent for a moment, but then chimed in at different times, saying 'Oh, yeah!' or 'That's right! Remember that?' And they all walked off, talking about various times they had experienced weird stuff around Kinira, and just ignored everyone else as if nothing had happened.
Gohan sighed deeply, "I hate my life..."
"Vegeta!!! Vegeta--come in here!" Bulma shouted from the living room.
Vegeta walked in with a sweaty towel around his neck, dabbing his forehead. "What is it? I was in the middle of training."
"Listen to the news!" said Bulma, motioning to the television set. The reporters carried on about a mysterious young girl that had appeared before Orange Star High School who had shattered the bones of two criminals, rendering them near death, and they showed a very blurry picture of what appeared to be a girl surrounded by light, and various pictures of the damage done.
After the 'interview' with the victims(the could barely speak through their body casts), Kinira walked in as if on cue. "Hi, guys! Dad, I'll be ready to train in a sec--oh--and the girls'll be here in a few hours to study--and don't worry--we won't sneak out to a night club like we did before." All of this was said very fast.
"Kinira, come in here!" yelled Vegeta.
"What is it?" she asked, but then she noticed the news. "Oh... That... Hehe... I'd just like to state--in my defense--that he was the one who called me a twirp!" They both scowled at her, "I'll just be in the G.R.(Gravity Room)--"
"Kinira, stay." Vegeta said shortly.
"Dad, please. Stay is a dog command, and let's not forget that I am your only heir to the Saiyan throne, so you shouldn't give me a dog command," she said, pointing to herself.
Vegeta crossed his arms, "Sit," he said shortly. She immediately dropped her cocky teenager stuff and immidiately sat down on the couch. "Now, you have some serious explaining to do..."
"And that's pretty much the whole thing in a nutshell," said Kinira after she had explained everything
that had happened that day, Vegeta standing in front of the coffee table with his arms crossed, Bulma pacing back and forth.
"Well, regardless of what they did to Gohan, and what they said, that gives you no right to do any of those things! I'll admit that it's extremely out of character for Gohan to be able to be taken down by a regular person, but you put these people in body casts!"said Bulma, throwing her hands up.
"It's not my fault that I could snap these guys like twigs!" cried Kinira.
Bulma and Vegeta looked at each other. "Well," started Vegeta. "... She does have a point about that."The doorbell then rang.
Kinira stood up quickly, "Well! Would ya look at the time--can you believe it? That'd be the girls--we're gonna go upstairs and study--I'll leave you guys to decide my proper punishment--see ya!" And then she
ran off to get the door, and rushed up the stairs with the girls.
Bulma rubbed her forehead, "She's impossible," she said. She turned to Vegeta, "So, what should her punishment be? We can't just give her the regular week's grounding, this is serious. I say we go for a month."
Vegeta shrugged, "Personally, I don't see what the problem is. She's right, it's not her fault she could snap them like twigs. I say we leave the punishment up to me, I think I know just what to do with her..."
The sound of the door bursting open came, and the sound of hurried footsteps came closer. Gohan appeared at the edge of the living room, huffing and puffing. "Hi! ...Wh-Where's...Kinira...?"
Bulma was about to answer, but was cut off by Vegeta saying, "Before we tell you, you have some questions to answer. First of all, why were you knocked down by a pathetic human. A true warrior is always prepared, no matter what the circumstances."
She glanced at Vegeta, and then looked at Gohan. "Well, I actually agree with Vegeta. In a fight, you're always ready, and I've never seen you let your guard down--"
"And--according to Kinira--it was all because of a pair of big blue goo-goo eyes!" yelled Vegeta angrily.
"I-I... Well..." Gohan let his head hang. "Sorry..." Great, he thought. For the first time in my life, I'm in trouble with someone else's dad... "Can I just talk to Kinira? The whole city is talking about what happened! They're calling her the 'Satin City Angel.'"
"Angel?" asked Bulma. "She put two guys in body casts! What kind of city is this?"
"Angel..." Vegeta hissed in disgust. "She is anything but an angel, she's a Saiyan heiress!"
"Yeah, I know..." said Gohan. "But those two were hardened criminals, charged with murder, homocide, hazing, DWI, manslaughter, and all sorts of stuff. The law's been after them for years. The whole city is on a search for her identity, they're calling her a hero!"
Vegeta growled, She's turning into Kakarott... he thought angrily. "I'll talk to her later," he said slowly.
"Great! But--can I talk to her now?" Vegeta nodded.
"She's upstairs in her room, her friends are with her."
"Thanks!" And then he rushed upstairs.
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"Hey, girls! Listen to this one, I heard it in a music store, it's really cool!" said Kinira, plucking a few strands on her guitar. She began to sing a sort of country tune and strum her acoustic guitar proudly, "My roots are planted in the past, though my life is changing fast. Who I am is who I wanna be-he-hee...
A single Mom, who works too hard--who loves her kids, and never stops. With gentle hands and the heart of a fighter... I'm a survivor!"
"Whoo-hoo!" cheered the rest of the girls, their books all open on Kinira's little tea table in the middle of her room.
"Nice, Kinira!" said San.
Kinira put her right hand on the back of her head in modesty, "Haha--thanks! I really like it, too bad it's not mine, though..."
"Yeah..." said Rochelle, taking a sip of hot Peppermint tea. "So, your Dad and Aunt gonna kill you about today?" she asked.
Kinira shrugged, taking something down in her notebook. "I dunno, I doubt that my Dad'll go too hard on me, though. You know how Dad's a total fighter, right? And I did mention that that baka street fighter called me a twirp. I'll still probably be grounded for a month, though. However, with my Dad, you never know. Heck, I wouldn't be surprised if Dad praised me for fighting back! I am descended from a very prideful and violent people, you see."
"Saiyan or not," said Jiji. "You still had no right to do what you did. I understand that Gohan is your friend and old 'sparring partner,' but you nearly killed those guys!"
"Calm down, Jiji," said Freya, tapping on her favorite bongos. "They were hardened criminals on the run from the law--it's lucky that our little Saiyan Princess here got to them!"
"Still!" cried Jiji. "I would have expected better from you, Kinira. Violence isn't always the answer, you know."
Everyone stared at her. "You were one of those kids who liked to be spanked, huh?" asked San.
Jiji was silent for a moment, and she crossed her arms. "It was only because I deserved it!"
Rochelle laughed loudly, "You worry way too much, girl!"
"Totally!" said Aki, pouring some tea into her cup. "I say we put these bad thoughts behind us, and move on to the brighter future!" She raised her cup, "'Cause Kinira's goin' to the World Martial Arts Tournament and winning back the Saiyan honor that was stolen away by that baka, Hercule!"
"Yeah!" said Freya, picking up her cup. "To Kinira, our lovely Saiyan princess!"
"To Kinira, the newest role-model for girls! Let them follow her example and be strong, smart and bold!" said Rochelle, raising her cup.
"To upholding the law, and defending truth and justice, everywhere!" said Jiji, raising her cup.
"To Kinira Sei, the true victor of the Cell games!" said San, raising her cup.
Kinria blushed and raised her own glass, "And to new friends, new truths, and kicking Hercule's butt!"
"YEAH!!!" everyone cheered, chinking their tea cups together and taking grateful swigs.
The door burst open to reveal that Gohan was at the door frame. "Kinira! There you are! I've been looking all over town--the media is really after you."
"Really?" asked Kinira as San poured more tea into the cups. She turned to her friends, "You hear that girls? I'm famous!"
"Great!" said Freya. "Now you can bust that Hercule dude!"
"Alright!!!" cheered Kinira, raising her cup. "To de-throning Hercule on his media throne! Whoo-hoo!!!" The girls all cheered and toasted again. Kinira laughed at Gohan's blank face, "Have a seat, Great Saiya-Man.."
Gohan did a double-take. "H-How'd you know that it was me?!"
"I didn't," said Kinira. "You just told me." Gohan stood there, dumbstruck, the girls laughing hard. "Go ahead, sit down." Gohan nodded and sat down on a floor pillow with the girls at the small tea table. "Haha--you know, you are WAY too easy nowadays! What ever happened to you, anyway?"
"W-Well... I guess it all started when-- D'oh-- Kinira!!! Would you stop doing that?!"
The girls all laughed hard. "You're right, Kinira!" said Freya, nearly busting a seam laughing. "He is easy! But don't worry, Gohan, we won't say a word. Now, why don't you tell us why you're here, okay?"
Gohan sighed heavily, "I came to tell you that you should watch out--everyone can't know about Saiyans, they'd go nuts and ban us all from society! Scientists and reporters would be on our backs like Elvis on a pound of bacon! You can't just go around firing energy blasts at every turn! You've gotta learn to control your temper or you'll be part of the next cast on Jerry Springer!"
"I like Jerry Springer," said Kinira.
Gohan slapped his forehead, "You're not helping!" He threw his hands down in frustration. "Look, you wanna totally expose yourself to the public, fine! You, your friends, and your whole famly will be hounded by the media. That's fine with me--but wait! What if the subject of your childhood comes up? The media will be hounding you for that, and I'll just be truthful like you want me to, and say how--even though you're a big tough girl, now--you used to sleep with a teddy bear up until you were ten! How would that do with your reputation?"
Kinira's eyes widened, "You wouldn't!"
"I would."
"You wouldn't."
"I would."
"You wouldn't!"
"I would!" Kinira sighed.
"Fine! I'll just be truthfull with my friends and acquaintances."
"Good!" said Gohan.
"But, wait!" said Kinira. "What if I come across that Videl girl? She's an acquaintance, and what if the subject of that fight today comes up? She's still an acquaintance, and I"ll just have to be truthful, and say
that you were TOTALLY off balance that day, because a certain Mr. Saiya-Man can't even keep it together over one girl, the spawn of Hercule?"
"You wouldn't!"
"I would."
"You wouldn't."
"I would."
"You wouldn't!"
"What are you, new?"
Gohan rubbed his temples, "Okay, fine. Let's just agree to disagree, and say that you won't say anything if I won't. You won't give out any secret information, and I won't give away any dirt on you, got it? And--if you MUST--tell it only to the people that you trust with your life!"
She sighed and held out her hand in compliance. "Fine."
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Well! That wasn't so bad, now, eh? I finally got into the series of the--er--series! Well, I should have some more good stuff, soon(like you haven't heard that one, before, eh?)! Well, PLEASE review me!!! PLEEEEEAAAAASSSSEEE!!!!!