A/N: Okay peeps, here be chapter 2! Enjoy!
CH 2
The next morning, Miari was woken up by a hard smack to the head, followed with bouncing all around him. He sat up to see Trunks bouncing all over his bed.
"Oww," he said, rubbing his head, "Chibi, what are you doing?"
"Waking you up," he said, flopping down at the foot of the bed, "It's already seven."
"Seven!?" he asked, "In the morning?"
"Of course silly! Come on! Get outta bed!" Miari groaned, laying back down and pulling the covers over his head. Chibi tilted his head in confusment. Why did it seem people always did that when he came to wake them up? "Miari," he whined, shaking him, "Come on. Everyone else is already waking up and mom says you have to get up too."
Miari sat up again, staring at Chibi. He smiled up at his future counterpart.
"How old are you?" asked Miari.
"I'm gonna be 10 in May."
"Nine and still bouncing off the walls at insane hours of the morning?" Chibi crossed his arms, scowling.
"It's not my fault you're so lazy," he said. Miari laughed, climbing out of the bed and pulled on a spare blue T-shirt and white pants Gohan had lent him until Bulma dragged him shopping for his own clothes. Led by Chibi, he came downstairs to meet Bulma, dressed in her favorite red dress and Vegeta, for once not in the gravity room, in his all blue workout suit.
"Well I guess keeping him in the house was enough of a challenge without getting him in something besides his beloved spandex." he muttered to himself. Chibi laughed, covering his mouth.
"Hey you two," she said, "Glad to see Chibi got you out of bed Miari."
"Yeah, I'm not used to waking up so early. I prefer to sleep till at least ten."
"Ten?!" she laughed, "Well you're just gonna have to get over that mister. Now come on. I've already packed up everything we need and we were supposed to be at Chichi's by six thirty."
They went outside and after climbing into the capsule plane took off for Goku's house. Miari leaned against the window, looking down at the view. Despite the day had just started, already people were rushing back and forth all over the city below. Some were running errands, some going to work, others going to see a parade that was being held downtown on the main street. On many of the building, there were bright green, red, white, and sometimes blue, orange, yellow, and purple lights. Also hanging around on the doors of stores and the few houses in the city there were what looked like a tree branch that had been bent into a circle, some with ribbons, bells, or other decorations. He stared, confused by the sight.
"Bulma-san, what's that for?" he asked. She look over to see what he was talking about.
"What's what? Oh, those? There just decorations for Christmas. I swear they start celebrating Christmas earlier and earlier every year. Before you know it it'll start being advertised before Halloween."
"Halloween?" he asked, more confused than when he'd asked the question in the first place. Why in the world would a bent tree be used as a decoration? And all the lights everywhere seemed like a waste of electricity. 'Of course,' he reminded himself, ' I'm sure that's less of a concern here.'
After leaving the city limits, they passed over the more suburb areas. On the lawns of almost all of the houses were some form or another of a fake snowman or some kind of deer with big horns. Most of them were black nosed but one in every set had a red nose. He wondered what in the world that could mean. Maybe the others beat him up and he had a bloody nose. On the houses there were also lights and signs that said things like "Merry Christmas", "Happy Holidays", or "Santa Stops Here".
'Santa?' he thought, 'I guess that's that Santa Clause guy.' All in all, he was very interested and confused by these things. Yamcha, who was riding with them looked over at him. He laughed.
"What's so funny?" he asked. Yamcha shrugged.
"I don't know. It's just I never thought of what it'd be like to never see Christmas. I mean, how do you not know about Santa, or Christmas lights, or Rudolf.."
"Rudolf? Who's that?" Bra squealed with delight.
"Rudolf! I love Rudolf! I know the whole song too!"
"Song?"
"Yup! You wanna hear it? It goes like this: Rudolf the Red-Nose Reindeer! Had a very shiny nose!"
"Whoa, wait. What the heck's a reindeer?" he asked.
"It's like a deer with horns. And it flies on Christmas because of the magic," said Trunks, very informative-like.
"Anyways," said Bra, "I wasn't done. Now where was I? Oh yeah! And if you ever saw it, you could even say it glows!"
"Like a light bulb!" said Trunks.
"Trunks don't interrupt! I wasn't done!" Bra whined. Trunks snickered.
"Um. why does his nose glow?" asked Miari. Bra sighed.
"Because! He has a red nose! Weren't you listening to me? Now next is: All of the other reindeer, used to laugh and call him names!"
"Like Pinocchio!" said Trunks. Bra scowled as she continued.
"They never let poor Rudolf, join any reindeer games!"
"Like Monopoly!" Trunks interjected.
"Trunks!" Bra yelled. He laughed. "Mommy! Trunks is being a butt head!"
"Trunks leave your sister alone," she ordered. Trunks just smirked, leaning back in his seat. Miari shook his head, wondering if that had ever been him.
"Bra," he asked, trying to get her anger off of Trunks, "Why did the others make fun of him? And what's a Pinocchio?"
"Because he has a red nose! Reindeer are supposed to have black noses silly. Pinocchio is just Trunks being stupid."
"And what are reindeer games? And what's Monopoly?" Trunks snickered.
"Um. I don't know what reindeer games are cuz they're reindeer games not people games. But they don't play Monopoly!" she said to Trunks.
"How do you know? Have you ever asked a reindeer? Maybe they like to play Monopoly. And Monopoly is a board game FYI. And it takes forever to play and it's really boring but I always beat Goten in it so it's not so bad."
"Can I please finish my song?" Bra said, then began, "Then one foggy Christmas eve, Santa came to say-"
"Ho Ho Ho!" interjected Trunks again. Bra ignored him.
"Rudolf with your nose so bright, won't you guide my sleigh tonight?" Miari stared at Trunks wide-eyed.
"What did you say?" he asked.
"Ho Ho Ho," he said. That's what Santa always says, duh?"
"Why does he say that!?" he looked at Yamcha, who looked confused on what Miari was talking about. Then it hit him.
"Oh!" he laughed, "Not like that you dope! That's just the way he laughs. It doesn't mean anything like that."
"Oh." Miari sighed in relief, glad that kids weren't supposedly being brought presents by an imaginary man who supported pimping. "Well, what sleigh was Randy going to guide?"
"Not Randy, Rudolf!" said Bra. "And Santa's sleigh of course." Miari still didn't understand. Trunks sighed, wondering if his future self was just being stupid.
"Santa comes to your house in a sleigh. That's how he makes it all the way around the world in one night. That night it was all snowy and he couldn't see where he was going so he got Rudolf and told him to lead all the reindeer around the world so the Christmas wouldn't be canceled."
"All right, all right!" said Bra. "Now I'm going to finish!" She began again, "Then all the reindeer loved him! As they shouted out with glee: Rudolf The-Red-Nosed-Reindeer, you'll go down in history!!"
"Like Columbus!" finished Trunks, as Bra looked ready to kill him.
"Daddy!" she yelled. Vegeta turned back to them.
"Trunks shut up and leave her alone, or else." Trunks scowled and folded his arms. Bra smiled at having gotten Trunks in trouble, and Miari returned to staring out the window, now having even more to wonder about.
A/N: Please R&R my friends!! Thank you!!
CH 2
The next morning, Miari was woken up by a hard smack to the head, followed with bouncing all around him. He sat up to see Trunks bouncing all over his bed.
"Oww," he said, rubbing his head, "Chibi, what are you doing?"
"Waking you up," he said, flopping down at the foot of the bed, "It's already seven."
"Seven!?" he asked, "In the morning?"
"Of course silly! Come on! Get outta bed!" Miari groaned, laying back down and pulling the covers over his head. Chibi tilted his head in confusment. Why did it seem people always did that when he came to wake them up? "Miari," he whined, shaking him, "Come on. Everyone else is already waking up and mom says you have to get up too."
Miari sat up again, staring at Chibi. He smiled up at his future counterpart.
"How old are you?" asked Miari.
"I'm gonna be 10 in May."
"Nine and still bouncing off the walls at insane hours of the morning?" Chibi crossed his arms, scowling.
"It's not my fault you're so lazy," he said. Miari laughed, climbing out of the bed and pulled on a spare blue T-shirt and white pants Gohan had lent him until Bulma dragged him shopping for his own clothes. Led by Chibi, he came downstairs to meet Bulma, dressed in her favorite red dress and Vegeta, for once not in the gravity room, in his all blue workout suit.
"Well I guess keeping him in the house was enough of a challenge without getting him in something besides his beloved spandex." he muttered to himself. Chibi laughed, covering his mouth.
"Hey you two," she said, "Glad to see Chibi got you out of bed Miari."
"Yeah, I'm not used to waking up so early. I prefer to sleep till at least ten."
"Ten?!" she laughed, "Well you're just gonna have to get over that mister. Now come on. I've already packed up everything we need and we were supposed to be at Chichi's by six thirty."
They went outside and after climbing into the capsule plane took off for Goku's house. Miari leaned against the window, looking down at the view. Despite the day had just started, already people were rushing back and forth all over the city below. Some were running errands, some going to work, others going to see a parade that was being held downtown on the main street. On many of the building, there were bright green, red, white, and sometimes blue, orange, yellow, and purple lights. Also hanging around on the doors of stores and the few houses in the city there were what looked like a tree branch that had been bent into a circle, some with ribbons, bells, or other decorations. He stared, confused by the sight.
"Bulma-san, what's that for?" he asked. She look over to see what he was talking about.
"What's what? Oh, those? There just decorations for Christmas. I swear they start celebrating Christmas earlier and earlier every year. Before you know it it'll start being advertised before Halloween."
"Halloween?" he asked, more confused than when he'd asked the question in the first place. Why in the world would a bent tree be used as a decoration? And all the lights everywhere seemed like a waste of electricity. 'Of course,' he reminded himself, ' I'm sure that's less of a concern here.'
After leaving the city limits, they passed over the more suburb areas. On the lawns of almost all of the houses were some form or another of a fake snowman or some kind of deer with big horns. Most of them were black nosed but one in every set had a red nose. He wondered what in the world that could mean. Maybe the others beat him up and he had a bloody nose. On the houses there were also lights and signs that said things like "Merry Christmas", "Happy Holidays", or "Santa Stops Here".
'Santa?' he thought, 'I guess that's that Santa Clause guy.' All in all, he was very interested and confused by these things. Yamcha, who was riding with them looked over at him. He laughed.
"What's so funny?" he asked. Yamcha shrugged.
"I don't know. It's just I never thought of what it'd be like to never see Christmas. I mean, how do you not know about Santa, or Christmas lights, or Rudolf.."
"Rudolf? Who's that?" Bra squealed with delight.
"Rudolf! I love Rudolf! I know the whole song too!"
"Song?"
"Yup! You wanna hear it? It goes like this: Rudolf the Red-Nose Reindeer! Had a very shiny nose!"
"Whoa, wait. What the heck's a reindeer?" he asked.
"It's like a deer with horns. And it flies on Christmas because of the magic," said Trunks, very informative-like.
"Anyways," said Bra, "I wasn't done. Now where was I? Oh yeah! And if you ever saw it, you could even say it glows!"
"Like a light bulb!" said Trunks.
"Trunks don't interrupt! I wasn't done!" Bra whined. Trunks snickered.
"Um. why does his nose glow?" asked Miari. Bra sighed.
"Because! He has a red nose! Weren't you listening to me? Now next is: All of the other reindeer, used to laugh and call him names!"
"Like Pinocchio!" said Trunks. Bra scowled as she continued.
"They never let poor Rudolf, join any reindeer games!"
"Like Monopoly!" Trunks interjected.
"Trunks!" Bra yelled. He laughed. "Mommy! Trunks is being a butt head!"
"Trunks leave your sister alone," she ordered. Trunks just smirked, leaning back in his seat. Miari shook his head, wondering if that had ever been him.
"Bra," he asked, trying to get her anger off of Trunks, "Why did the others make fun of him? And what's a Pinocchio?"
"Because he has a red nose! Reindeer are supposed to have black noses silly. Pinocchio is just Trunks being stupid."
"And what are reindeer games? And what's Monopoly?" Trunks snickered.
"Um. I don't know what reindeer games are cuz they're reindeer games not people games. But they don't play Monopoly!" she said to Trunks.
"How do you know? Have you ever asked a reindeer? Maybe they like to play Monopoly. And Monopoly is a board game FYI. And it takes forever to play and it's really boring but I always beat Goten in it so it's not so bad."
"Can I please finish my song?" Bra said, then began, "Then one foggy Christmas eve, Santa came to say-"
"Ho Ho Ho!" interjected Trunks again. Bra ignored him.
"Rudolf with your nose so bright, won't you guide my sleigh tonight?" Miari stared at Trunks wide-eyed.
"What did you say?" he asked.
"Ho Ho Ho," he said. That's what Santa always says, duh?"
"Why does he say that!?" he looked at Yamcha, who looked confused on what Miari was talking about. Then it hit him.
"Oh!" he laughed, "Not like that you dope! That's just the way he laughs. It doesn't mean anything like that."
"Oh." Miari sighed in relief, glad that kids weren't supposedly being brought presents by an imaginary man who supported pimping. "Well, what sleigh was Randy going to guide?"
"Not Randy, Rudolf!" said Bra. "And Santa's sleigh of course." Miari still didn't understand. Trunks sighed, wondering if his future self was just being stupid.
"Santa comes to your house in a sleigh. That's how he makes it all the way around the world in one night. That night it was all snowy and he couldn't see where he was going so he got Rudolf and told him to lead all the reindeer around the world so the Christmas wouldn't be canceled."
"All right, all right!" said Bra. "Now I'm going to finish!" She began again, "Then all the reindeer loved him! As they shouted out with glee: Rudolf The-Red-Nosed-Reindeer, you'll go down in history!!"
"Like Columbus!" finished Trunks, as Bra looked ready to kill him.
"Daddy!" she yelled. Vegeta turned back to them.
"Trunks shut up and leave her alone, or else." Trunks scowled and folded his arms. Bra smiled at having gotten Trunks in trouble, and Miari returned to staring out the window, now having even more to wonder about.
A/N: Please R&R my friends!! Thank you!!