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Author's Note:

Dragontwin: Man, I AM ON A ROLL!

Kat: Dragontwin, get off the bread dough.

Chi: Kat that was a terrible joke. I mean just rotten.

Kat: Hush. Some people think I'm funny

Dragontwin: Hey Kat, we forgot to tell the people the wonderful news.

Kat: What wonderful news?

Chi: *ahem.*

Dragontwin: You know…

Kat: OH! HEY EVERYONE! WE HAVE A SPECIAL GUEST AUTHOR WRITING THE CHAPTER FOR US TODAY!

Dragontwin: Kat, you forgot to turn off the caps lock button on your voice. That was loud.

Kat: Anyone want to guess who's writing for us?

Dragontwin and Kat: CHI!

**Applause**

Both: You'd better get started, Chi. They get kind of impatient.

Chi: Okay, here I go.

Quick note to all confused people:

Gogeta: Trunks and Pan's son…G/CC great grandson, Gh/V's grandson and B/V's grandson. Goten and Bra's nephew…

Shinou (the one in this fic, not the one on ff.net)- Trunks and Pan's daughter. That makes her Goku and Chichi's great granddaughter, Gohan and Videl's granddaughter, Bulma and Vegeta's granddaughter, Goten and Bra's niece.

**New character** Tombra- Goten and Bra's daughter. This makes her: B/V and G/CC granddaughter.

Promises-Chapter (can you believe it) 9 Chi

**Capsule Corporation**

Pan realized with a start that the birthday girl had yet to meet her birthday present. She nodded at Trunks, who excused himself to go back to the kitchen.

Shinou at the moment was busy staring at the huge chocolate cake her mommy had made her. She looked up momentarily and saw her daddy standing in the doorway, looking down at her with a smile on his face.

"Daddy!" She jumped up quickly and jumped on him. She gave him a big kiss on the cheek. For some reason, everyone else was sad today, but she wanted her daddy to be happy.

"I've got a surprise for you, pumpkin." She clapped her hands excitedly. She never got surprises.

"What is it?" Trunks laughed merrily. She was so like her mother had been at that age.

"If I told you, it wouldn't be a surprise." She stuck out her lip in a pout. "Hey, none of that. Be a big girl, huh?" She nodded her head.

"Okay. When do I get to find out what the surprise is?"

"Right now if you promise to be good and not get scared, okay?" She nodded her head again excitedly. Trunks shook his head. It had been hard trying to explain the death concept to a small child, and now that Chichi was back, with the great grandfather she had never gotten to meet, Trunks suspected that they were in for another month or two of trying to explain the Other World and the Z senshis' habit of not staying dead for long.

"Okay. Where's the surprise?"

"This way." Trunks carried her out through the doorway to the kitchen. She leaned her head into his neck and giggled.

"I like surprises!"

"Well, here it is. You can look now, Shinou-chan."

"GREAT GRANDMA!" She jumped down from her father's arms and into Chichi's.

"Hello Shinou. I brought someone with me," Shinou looked up from her neck over to where Goku was standing.

"Who are you?" Everyone in the room laughed. Chichi began to stroke her back, "Hey, you look different than you used to."

"That's because they gave me my twenty year old body, honey. This is your great grandfather, Goku."

"Hi. I'm Shinou. Aren't you the one in my dream?" Goku laughed.

"I think so. I hope you're not as much of a minx in real life as you are in your dreams."

"I don't think so. Mommy and Daddy don't run as fast in real life as they do in my dreams. Daddy doesn't have blond hair, either."

"Sometimes he does," Pan said, chuckling under her breath. Gogeta smiled.

"Wait a minute Kakkarott. Are you saying that she has dreams with the Super Saiyan transformation of her father in them?"

"Sometimes I'm in them, too."

"Quit being so dense Kakkarott! Don't you think that this is important?"

Goku scratched his head. "Not really. She's probably seen you do it often enough."

"The brat doesn't watch me train. Gogeta is the only one of my descendants interested in fighting, besides Tombra."

"That is interesting. I wonder," Goku's voice trailed off.

"You wonder what, you big ape?" Chichi demanded, instantly concerned.

"What's going on here Vegeta?" Bulma insisted.

"Nothing," Goku hurried to reassure Chichi.

"It's just that…" Vegeta started.

"I would really like to see her fight," Goku said out of nowhere.

"No worries there, Grandpa. Tombra's coming over for the party. There's bound to be a skirmish of some kind. Trust me."

"Do they not get along? That's kind of funny. You and Bra always got along."

"She takes after her mother a little, but Tombra takes after Bulma and Bra so that it's almost like it's a meld of the two of them. Shinou's too much like me to like that," Trunks said. Pan promptly slugged him in the arm. "OUCH! What'd I do?"

"So Chichi isn't the only one who hits people for no reason," Goku said and was smacked. Vegeta smirked and began to chuckle. He was saved from being hit by the doorbell ringing.

A/N: Got to go! Chapters 10 and 11 up tomorrow, I swear it!