author's note- All right, so the story starts to pick up and Chibi-usa gets herself into more trouble. Fun stuff. ^_^

Chapter 3

Chibi-usa screamed as she was grabbed and thrown into the wall by the man that had entered the room she was in. She thought she had gotten out without his knowing, she had used the special techniques taught to her by Sailor Venus... how could he have sensed her? She cringed in fear, making herself as small as possible, his hand was so tight around her arm, she was sure he would break her wrist. And then, he let go. She opened her eyes, which were glistening with tears and looked, she saw the man's orange and blue gi, so she raised her eyes, and they met his eyes.

"Oh Kami, I'm sorry..." Gohan muttered, and reached out to place a hand on her shoulder, but she cringed away from his hand, but continued looking at him, with those large sentimental eyes. Chibi-usa felt her knees growing weak, she could feel herself shivering, and she became woozy.

"Gohan!" Chibi-usa heard a voice yell that name, as she collapsed, and felt someone strong catch her and lift her up. She then passed out, happily going back to the warm darkness. Gohan, held the girl in his arms, who had just collapsed and saw his mother rushing at him. "What happend?!" she demanded.

"Mom! I thought she was... er, something else!"

"What?! What did you think a poor innocent girl was?"

"For Kami's sake mother, I thought she was intruding, a thief, something! Not a girl!"

"Nevermind," ChiChi said, "let's just get her back into bed."

***

Afterward, over dinner, ChiChi, Goku, and Goten explained where the girl had come from. While Goku and Goten were outside sparring, they had seen the girl stumble out of the woods and collapse. That was yesterday, and they had put the girl, and her cat in Gohan's room.

"She woke up last night," ChiChi said while getting Goku some more rice. "She woke up yelling about Diana, and she kept saying 'senshi'. I calmed her down, got her to drink some water and forced her to drink some aoup. That was it though, she passed out again after the cat had curled up next to her. That poor girl, she must have gone through so much."

"Hai, and then bakayoru over here decides to slam her against the wall!" Goten exclaimed with his mouth full of food.

"Shut up." Gohan said, annoyed.

"Boys, stop fighting!" ChiChi said.

"Nani?!" Goku yelped. The whole family sweat-dropped.

"Stop fighting with words, with words, is what I meant Goku." ChiChi calmly explained to her husband. Goku took the time to soak in what she said and then he put on his goofy grin.

"Oh! Okay!" And he continued shoveling food in his mouth. Gohan and Goten shrugged and followed suit, imitating their father to a tee. ChiChi simply sat down, and ate, while dodging pieces of chicken every now and then.

***

Later that night Gohan lie in bed thinking about the girl. First, he thought about how he had sensed her energy. It had been strange, she was in his room, but he hadn't sensed her till she was already down the hallway. 'She must know how to hide her Ki,' he thought, but she had such a low energy level, that was impossible. There was also the fact that she seemed very weak and feeble, like a tree limb waiting to be snapped when he had grabbed her. He cringed at the thought of that, throwing her small body into the wall. His mind then drifted away from the thoughts of her energy level, but to the thought of her. That long flowing hair, strange.. pink hair, and it was in that strange hairstyle. 'Not that me, Dad, Goten, or Vejita are any better...,' Gohan thought. She had looked at him with those eyes, brimming with tears, her smooth skin underneath his calloused hand, he could almost feel her arm again.

When he had carried her, he could feel, that she was weak, but had a very pure heart. He knew that this girl was hiding something, down deep inside of her... he just couldn't find out what that thing actually was. And the way she smelled, like flowers, an intoxicating scent... Gohan shook his head. 'Whoa there,' he thought to himself, 'time to stop thinking about the mystery girl.'. But he couldn't, and as he drifted off to sleep, he thought he heard a soft voice calling to him...

"Please... Gohan, you are my only hope.... for Crystal Tokyo, you must help me..." the voice faded and Gohan drifted off to sleep.

***

The next morning, the sound of something clattering and the mumbles of voices brought Chibi-usa out of her sleep. She felt the warm sun upon her face, and she opened her eyes, squinting she looked about to find out just exactly where she was. In a bed, in a small room, next to her was a nightstand, there were boxes scattered about the room, and in the corner, there was a tall bookcase, with a few books on its shelves. That was it, nothing more, nothing less.

She shook her head, trying to re-collect what had happened. She remembered waking up, because something had happened. Her shoulders and wrist were sore, but she couldn't remember why. In fact, she couldn't remember much of anything. 'Where am I? We're not in Crystal Tokyo anymore, Toto.' she thought, and then she heard the booming laughter of a man. She decided she had better go talk to someone, and perhaps they could tell her just what the hell had happened.

"Goten, Gohan! Watch this!" exclaimed Goku as he balanced one of ChiChi's bowls of oatmeal on his head.

"Goku!" ChiChi screeched, Gohan and Goten just laughed. Chibi-usa then stepped into the kitchen, where she saw three men, one with a bowl on his head, and they all had very crazy, black hair. There was also a woman, who was getting ready to hit the man with the bowl on his head with a spoon, when they all stopped and looked in her direction. Goku took the bowl off his head and placed it on the table. It was an awkward, silent moment, and Chibi-usa didn't know what to say. Finally it was broken by the woman.

"Thank Kami! You seem like you're doing much better today my dear. Come here, sit down and eat some breakfast. I'm sure you're starving!" ChiChi said as she guided Chibi-usa to a seat next to Goku. Chibi-usa sat down and looked around at the people who were also seated at the table.

The man next to her, very large, extremely muscular, with spiky black hair, who also had a very good aura around him. He had a goofy-looking half smile upon his face, and he looked at Chibi-usa.

"Welcome to the Son household," the man said, "My name is Goku, this is my wife ChiChi." He said as ChiChi placed a bowl of oatmeal in front of Chibi-usa. "And these are my sons. Gohan, the eldest, and Goten."

"Th-thank you," Chibi-usa said to ChiChi, and then to Goku, "My name is Chi--" she stopped in mid-sentence and they all stared at her, awaiting what she would say. "My name is Usa." she decided to say, after all she wasn't very 'chibi' anymore and she didn't want these people calling her 'Princess' or 'Serenity'.

"Well, it's very nice to meet you Usa." said ChiChi, "Now do tell us, where are you from and what happened to you?"

"I... I'm from.." Chibi-usa stuttered. 'Think of something fast baka! You can't tell them the truth!' she mulled over it in her mind quickly.

"A small island just west of here. I left... for certain reasons." 'Oh yah, real smooth,' she thought to herself.

"Do you have a family?" ChiChi asked.

"No, I was orphaned... a long time ago, and abandoned on the island." Chibi-usa said, thinking to herself that that sounded like a semi believable story. At least, she hoped they would believe it. They all looked at her, surprised. 'Oh crap,' she thought, 'they're not believing it.'

"If you grew up on an island, where'd you get the princess get up from?" Goten asked straight out, and the others sweat dropped.

"Iie! Oh, this?!" Chibi-usa pointed at her gown and turned beet red. "Errr.. I got it... it..." Think of something rice for brains! "I stole it!" Chibi-usa choked out and then smacked her forehead. 'That's great! Nice one, now you're a thief!' she thought.

The whole family fell over stunned, except for Gohan. They all clambered back into their chairs and Goku put his hand behind his head and laughed nervously.

"Well! I guess you gotta wear something..." Goku said and looked nervously at Gohan who had bent the spoon he had in his hand in half.

"Umm... hai." Usa said as her face darkened. A little rain cloud popped over the whole table and poured down rain for an instant and then it was gone.

"Oh, that's enough of us pestering you for now. Go on and eat!" ChiChi said happily, trying to lighten the mood.

Usa realized then that she was starving and shoveled some oatmeal into her mouth, and then began going at it just like Usagi-chan. Goku looked bewildered at the girl.

"Ehh..?!" Gohan and Goten looked at her in surprise and then at their father.

"Nani?!" Goku exclaimed.

"She eats faster than you do!" Goten managed to get out while laughing. Not wanting to be out done, Goku began his feeding frenzy. Going at rapid speeds, chop-sticks flailing, both Chibi-usa and Goku lifted their bowls and ate the last bits in record time. Then both slammed the bowls down onto the table and exclaimed, "Finished!" Chibi-usa flushed with embarrassment. 'Aie! All that time spent with Usagi in the past, and look what it's done to me!' she thought.

***

Later that day, Usa had found Diana and was talking to her quietly in her room for now, while she stayed with the family that had found her after she had made it through the woods.

"They seem like very nice people." Usa said.

"Yes, of course they are. They fed me while you were asleep, I kept a close eye on them all since we arrived here. The mother is nice, but a little over-bearing. The biggest man with the black hair is very funny! He also has something about him..."

"Yes, I felt it too. It was almost like... my mother's aura. That certain feeling that hangs around her, and when she steps into a room, everyone just seems to know everything is going to be all right." Usa smiled as she said this.

"And the second largest, who is the eldest son, well he must not live at home anymore because he comes to eat, but then always leaves when it starts to get dark. He acts more serious than his father. The youngest resembles and acts a lot like his father and is usually outside fighting with him." Diana continued, "They must be great warriors Princess! The energy coming off of all of them is very great indeed! You should see them fight, it is amazing. Like nothing I've ever heard of or seen before. At times, they move so incredibly fast you can not see them. They take hits over and over again that would send Sailor Uranus flying!" Diana exclaimed.

"Warriors...?" Usa repeated and her eyes sparkled. Diana's eyes got big realizing what she had just done. "Oh no Princess! You mustn't! You must promise me you won't! We must think of a way to get home!" Diana yelped.

"Diana, please.. you know how I feel. Maybe I can't henshin anymore... but maybe these people can teach me how to become a real warrior! So, I can be more than just the princess when I go back home!" Usa said while clenching her fist.

'There's no stopping her now.' Diana thought miserably.