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Son Gohan woke up hazily and soon found that he wasn't in one of his normal sleeping spots, a field or a river bank, but in a bed. A girl's bed no less. He could tell it was a girl's because for one, a boy's wouldn't have pink pillowcases with lace, and two, it wouldn't smell as nice.

"Wh...where am I?"

He tried to shift his weight, but remembered the wound on his side and winced in pain. That woman....that woman had found him again, she didn't hold back this time. She would have ripped him to shreds if he hadn't unleashed that last blast of ki to the side of her head. But never the less, she wasn't dead, not by a long shot. She was very much alive, she could feel it. For now though, he was safe.

He watched as a girl entered the room, holding a first aid kit. Her face brightened up as she saw that he had woken up. She came and kneeled beside the bed and started taking bandages out of the white case.

"So what's your name?"

"Gohan."

She struggled to pull apart the gauze from the wrapper, but gave it up and threw it over her shoulder. He cringed a little as she gently laid her fingertips on his side. She looked beck up at him.

"After you passed out, Goten told me that you were his brother. I...didn't think he had any family left...."

He nodded. "I've been trying to find him for awhile. I haven't seen him since I was thirteen."

She smiled a little. "And how old are you now?"

"Sixteen." He paused for a minute. "Who are you?"

"I'm Usagi. My....aunt adopted your brother. She adopted me a couple of years back."

"What happened to your parents?"

Her face fell a little. Th-they were murdered.....I really don't want to talk about it."

He gave a small "oh" and looked back down a t what her fingers were doing. His mouth dropped open a little as he saw that she was...healing him! Every touch of her fingers were rebuilding tissue.

"H-how are you...."

"You can't actually heal someone, that's impossible. All I'm doing is sending small jolts of electricity to the cells of the body that regenerate themselves. I'm just speeding up the process. My friend, she taught me before..." her voice trailed off.

He watched her in amazement. He didn't think such a scrawny little girl, ( well, she wasn't little, but still...) could use ki or know anything about it. She pushed a strand of hair away to reveal her face. He thought that she was actually kind of pretty. He forced a weak smile.

"So what happened to your friend?"

She stopped with what she was doing to give him a glare that most might read as:

"Shut the Hell up or I'll kill you."

He tried to turn it into a joke. "Oh, hey, sorry....heh, didn't think you were so sensitive to a question."

She went back to working on his wound. "What the Hell happened to you in the first place?"

Now it was Gohan's turn to act coldly to the other party. "You wouldn't believe me if I told you."

Usagi chuckled to herself. Youmas, witches, demons, evil reincarnate. What hadn't she seen?

"Try me."

He smirked. He slowly unwove a tale of how the greatest warriors that roamed the earth were devoured by a phycofemme with no remorse. Whose only purpose was to consume power and to be powerful. He told of how until today, she had been saving him for some sick, demented desire. Of how she was hunting him and his little brother.

She asked for her name, but he said he didn't know. Usagi just thought he was rambling on about some dream or something, that he was still recovering from passing out.

What a huge-ass mistake that was.

Just then, the door creaked open to reveal Goten, only....different.

Usagi waved a hand, gesturing him to come in. "Hey Goten, your brother's awake now."

"I can see that." Goten's voice wasn't the same either. It made Usagi half-curious, half-terrified.

Gohan offered him a small, true smile, a rarity these days. "Hi Goten, long time no see, ne?"

Goten's eyes piered his brother's. "You left me alone."

Usagi tried to interrupt. "Wha-"

Goten glared at her. "Stay out of this." He turned his obscure glaze back to Gohan, who was now a little afraid himself.

"You left me alone, I was scared and you didn't care, you abandoned me and you ran..."

Usagi gave a small scream as the twin pastel lamps on either side of the bed exploded. The window pane on the left cracked and the shards shattered to the ground. She clenched her fist as she saw a small line of static run across Goten's little frame.

"Goten....stop it...."

His nostrils flared as his head spun around to meet her frightened expression. "I said stay out of this, don't make me do that for you."

She trembled a little.

This isn't Goten....not the one I know....it's his alter ego...

Gohan tried to rise from the bed, still clutching at her side. "Goten, you need to calm down-"

"Shut up."

Usagi whimpered a little as the electricity in the house began to flash on and off, like a strobe light. The television on the left began blinking to all sorts of different channels. The stereo began blaring as loud as it could, cassettes and compact disks flying everywhere.

The dark brown of Goten's eye was replaced by a deep aqua, the same color of the Mediterranean.

He glared again at Gohan. "You...left me alone....on Bulma's doorstep....for hours and hours....Mamma died and I was so scared and you left me...."

Gohan tried to lay a hand on his brother's shoulder, but Goten swatted it off.

"NO!! Don't touch me!!! You left me alone you coward!!! You bastard!!! I hate you!! I hope you rot in Hell!!! I HATE YOU!!!! I SWEAR TO GOD I HA-"

Gohan's eyes were welled with tears as he slapped his little brother across the face, making a sound like a whip snapping in the air. Goten's hair and eyes returned to their normal colors as tears streamed down his face.

He squeaked, in barely a whisper. "Why did you leave me alone Gohan? I m-missed you so much...."

And then, neither one of them could stand it anymore, and both broke down and wrapped each other in a hug. It was a moment so touching it would have melted the heart of the Grinch. Gohan gripped his brother even closer.

"I'm so sorry, and I know I'm coward, and I promise I'll never do that to you again, and I'mhere now, and I'm just so sorry...."

Usagi wiped a couple of tears from her own eyes. She looked over to her right to see Minako standing in the doorway, back from work, with the most bewildered look on her face she had ever seen. She mouthed silently "Who the Hell is this?"

Usagi tip-toed over to her, and brought her into the living room. She explained the situation of Gohan to Minako, who was very relieved as she thought before that he was just another one of Usagi's little boyfriends having a "sleepover". Minako eventually gave in and let Gohan stay. She was getting a little sick of this routine though. She felt like she was running a half-way house for any orphan that dropped by. She didn't mind though, she like kids to keep her company, they were full of life....

....but not for long....

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To Be Continued......

(A/N: Don't worry about the 'you left me alone' thing, it'll get explained eventually through out the story. So erm....don't get all confused and stuff.... R&R ~Flirtatious Flamingo~)