Disclaimer: as of 9:56 pm Saturday October 6, 2001, I do not own DBZ.

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"Homini?"

She turned to the source of the voice but she could not see whom it was that had spoken. The person was floating above her directly in front of the late afternoon sun. She shielded her eyes with her hand but could only make out a vague outline of a figure. A silence fell on all gathered there as each of them tried to discern what was going on.

"There is, or was, only one person I know who used that ki technique," the silhouetted figure spoke again. His words came across coldly. "And you are not her."

"How do you know my name?" she spat back accusingly.

Lowering so he was eye to eye with her, Vegeta replied, "I'm the one that gave it to you."

The collective gasp and following murmuring from the onlookers were not heard by the two saiyans staring at each other. Two sets of onyx eyes met and silently asked a thousand questions. As the others grew silent to watch, the two finally found words. It was not a question but a plain statement that escaped both their lips in unison.

"I thought you were dead…"

Vegeta must have remembered the audience they had and turned to glare at them. "What are you staring at?"

Goku, master of the obvious, cocked his head towards Vegeta, "Do you know her? She was looking for you?"

"Baka," the prince growled. He looked around once more and started to fly away. Goku made as if he were going to follow him but Vegeta yelled back, "If you follow me, Kakarott, I'll kill you."

Goku stopped and turned back to the rest of the group. He looked at the girl and smiled. "Why don't you go to Capsule Corps with everyone else. I'll just go talk to Vegeta." With that, he lifted his fingers to his forehead and disappeared.

Homini slowly descended to the ground. She took a moment to look at those staring at her. The group was smaller since the two had left but there were still five earthlings. These included the two boys, a man a few years older than her, and two small girls – one with black hair and one with blue. An idle thought went through her head; besides the light haired ones, they all look like Saiyans. Albeit, without tails.

"Come on, everyone, we should be going. Goten, does mom know where you are?" ask the oldest one.

"Well, she knows I was going to stay over at Trunks' tonight," replied the boy she had fought.

"Good well then let's go," he said and looked past Homini. "Trunks, you could give her back her coat."

She turned to face the boy so she could get her stuff back, but stopped. The lavender haired boy was glaring at her. The look in his eyes was a mix of rage and confusion. He just stood there, holding her coat, glaring, not moving.

"Earth to Trunks, helloooooo," said Goten laughing uneasily.

"Give her stuff back to her and capsule your car and get a move on."

Homini moved closer to the youth. Trunks looked at Gohan for a moment, sighed and handed the jacket and scouter to her. Before either could say anything, their attention was drawn to the child tugging on Trunks' pant leg.