(A/N: ***THIS IS THE ONLY CHAPTER WITH HUMOR*** ***I REPEAT ONLY CHAPTER WITH HUMOR*** .....thank you for your time...)

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It had been officially a month since Goten had moved in with Minako and Chibiusa, (he checked on the calendar Artemis gave him). Now, even though half of him was Saiyan (even though he didn't know it), that didn't exempt him from getting sick.

Minako took out the thermometer from his mouth. "Ooh, you've got a hundred and three fever....my poor baby...."

She started hugging him, or strangling him....whatever you want to call it.

Goten's eyes bugged out. "Minako....breath slowly....slipping away..."

"Oh, oops, sorry."

Goten lied back down, coughing a little bit. Minako gave him a kiss on the forehead.

"I'm sorry I can't stay with you, I have work again, but Chibiusa will take care of you while I'm gone, okay?"

He nodded gloomily and snezed. He watched as Minako walked out of the room, and Usagi walked in. She came and sat down beside him on the bed.

"How are you doing?"

"Bhowe dzo fyou fink I'm fdoing?" (how do you think I'm doing?)

"Hmmm.....not really sure what you said there, but okay. Do you want anything?"

He nodded his head furiously. "Swill fou wead fo meef?" ( will you read to me?)

Usagi shook her head. "Goten, I can't understand a word of what you're saying. Sit with that Vix Vapor Rub for awhile, I'll be back in thirty minutes."

"Fwut- fwut-" (but- but-)

"No! Just do it! I'll be back!"

She shut the door, and Goten crossed his arms and pouted. "Sheenie" (meanie)

Like Usagi said, she came back thirty minutes later, and the Vix had cleared up some of Goten's nose so he was at least understandable.

She put her hands on her hips. "Now, what did you want before?"

"I wanted you to read to me."

"Oh, well how about the three little pigs."

He raised an eyebrow. "Pigs?"

"Yeah, pigs."

"I guess so..."

She sat back and pulled a book out of the shelf behind her. She let Goten sit on her lap and snuggle up against her shoulder.

"Once upon a time..."

He frowned. "Why do these always start out 'Once upon a time' ?"

"I don't know Goten, it's a federal law or something. Now, once upon a time there were these three little pigs-"

"Wow! This story gets right to the point!"

"Goten, are you going to let me read this or not?"

"'Kay..."

"Anyhoo, their mom kicked them out of the house because they were bums and all-"

"Gosh, their mom must be a real witch-spelled-with-a-'B'!"

"Goten! Shut up!"

"Okay..."

"So, these piggy-bums need houses or trailers or whatever, so one of them used straws-"

"Straws? Like the kind you drink Coke with?"

"Damnit Goten, if you don't stop interrupting me I'll use the rectal thermometer next time..."

Goten gulped. "I'll be good!"

"Thank you. Now, the two stupid pigs used straws and sticks and-"

"Like chopsticks?"

Usagi ripped the book in half. "That's it! No more!"

Goten's bottom lip started to tremble, and his eyes started welling up. "Y-you're so mean..."

Usagi gritted her teeth, she hated the puppy-dog face. "Alright, alright, I'm sorry. Lets watch a movie or something."

Goten perked up again. "Okay."

He walked into Minako's room and looked in her video drawer. He pushed aside many options until he finally found one he liked.

"I want this one."

Usagi looked at the cassette. "Goten no! You can't watch Silence of the Lambs! I wet my pants when I watched that, and I was seven years older than you are!"

Goten's bottom lip started to tremble again. "I'm gonna tell Minako you tried to sell me to the Gypsies!"

"WHAT?!! I didn't try to sell you to the Gypsies!!"

"I know that, and you know that, but she doesn't know that..."

"That's blackmail!"

"What's your point?"

Usagi threw her arms up in defeat. "Fine, go ahead, get scared shitless, I don't care. But don't say I didn't warn you..."

Goten grinned and popped the video into the VCR and took a seat on the bed. For the first hour, he watched with a half-bored expression on his face, trying to understand all of Hannibal Lector's "big words". He was about to fall asleep when the cannibal decided to have one of the Police guards' faces for lunch. Goten quickly waddled to the bathroom to throw up. Usagi leaned on the frame of the doorway and snickered.

"What did I tell you?"

Goten came running over to her. "Usa! Usa! Usa! That was so nasty! He ate his face! Who would eat someone else's face?! I've heard of people who eat their own boogers, but not their faces!! By the way, I'm hungry..."

Usagi's eyes nearly popped out of her head. "HUNGRY?!! YOU JUST WITNESSED CANNIBALISM AND YOU'RE HUNGRY?!!!"

"Yep!"

"I'm not cooking."

"Gypsies."

"Damn you."

Goten practically shoved her into the kitchen. He dove into the refrigerator, throwing odds and ends onto the table. He turned back around to greet Usagi with a smile.

" You are going to help me make a super-duper-cheezy-nacho-and-banana-split-double-decker-supreme-Goten's-surprise!"

"....And I don't even want to know..."

Eventually, the pair had created a huge pile of different sorts of food, ranging from pickles to pineapples. With many threats of Gypsies, Usagi finally let Goten stand on her shoulders to put the grand cherry on top. Unfortunately for her, Goten leaned over too far, and the tower of tofu came crashing down on the unsuspecting rabbit. All kinds of food flying everywhere, mostly on Usagi.

Goten looked at her sheepishly. "Heh, heh....you're mad aren't you Usa?"

She wiped whipped cream from her eye. "Get ready for the rectal thermometer of doom..."

"Eep!"

Goten quickly ran and hid in a closet. Usagi ran after him.

"You little coward!! You get your ass back out here!!"

A muffled "No! You really will sell me to the Gypsies!" came from the closet. After about twenty minutes of pleading with the closet door, Usagi finally gave up.

"Fine Goten, you can stay there and rot for all I care! I'm going to go take a shower to try and wash some of this cheese out of my hair..."

Goten put his ear to the door and he listened as he heard Usagi's footsteps go into the bathroom, his signal that he could come out now. As he opened the door to the under the stairwell chambers, he heard a pounding, as if someone's life was at stake at the front door. He yelled for Usagi.

"Usa! Someone's at the door."

Her voice traveled from the bathroom. "Get it yourself! I'm still in the shower!"

"I can't. Minako won't let me. She says it might be a hentai kidnapper who wants to do stuff to me that I can't talk about 'cause it's nasty..."

He listened as the shower was abruptly turned off, and Usagi's grumbling of "Damn that kid's a pain in the ass."

She marched with a towel wrapped around her into the living room, still dripping wet, giving Goten cold death stares. She found the key on the buffet and eventually got the door unlocked.

"Hello-" but she cut herself off as she caught sight of the boy in front of her. He didn't look much older than she, only about two or three years. He looked a little dirty, a lota dirty, but underneath the smudges, she could tell, was a handsome face. Muscular, most likely a foot taller than her or so. He had dark, coarse hair, with eyes of matching color. A thin blush crept across the bridge of her nose. But because she was so concentrated on his looks, she had yet to notice the huge gash of a near-fatal wound across the side of his abdomen. The pain was so great he was no longer able to hold himself up.

He stuttered. "P-please, help me..."

Usagi gave a small scream as he completely collapsed in her arms. His body weight was too much for her, and she sunk to the floor.

"Goten! Help me! I need to get this poor guy to a couch or a bed or something! Help me lift him up!!!!"

But Goten just stood there, all the color drained from his face, his mouth partly open. In any other situation, the next two words he spoke would be as normal as the sky is blue, but this wasn't an average situation. The pupils of Usagi's eyes widened as Goten's hair, for a quick second, flashed golden. In a half-dead to the world tone, in an almost completely different voice, he whispered hoarsely.

"Big Brother...."

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To Be Continued......