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Gohan looked down at the new student. "Karisu was her name, huh?" There was something odd about her, but he couldn't quite put his finger on it. He fiddled with his watch on the desk.

"Please take a seat behind Mr. Son and Miss Satan. Raise your hands you two!" Gohan and Videl raised their hands. Sharpner turned to face her as she sat down.

"So babe, wanna go on a date Saturday night? You know you do." He said in what he thought was a seducing tone. He was sadly mistaken.

"With you? Ha! I can think of better places to be, like the morgue."

"What?!" Sharpner yelled, earning a glare from the instructor.

"Can't comprehend? Blonde." Karisu retorted with a satisfied smirk. Sharpner turned around, fuming. Videl, Gohan, and Erasa gaped at her.

"May I, help you?" The three turned around.

Sharpner deserved that. Gohan pondered a little while longer.

A watch beeped somewhere in the classroom. Videl looked down, ready to respond, but it wasn't hers.

"I'm scared." A voice said. Karisu looked down at the innocent face that appeared on her screen. She turned down the volume so that no one could hear. She didn't know she was sitting behind a 1/2 saiyan.

"It's okay. I'll be there soon. Stay put until I can get to you." She ended the conversation. Gohan just sat there, stunned. No way! What else is she hiding, I wonder?

The bell rang, signaling the next teacher to come. During the break, Karisu ran down the steps.

"Hey! Where are you going?" Videl yelled at the girl. Karisu turned to face her.

"You can't just leave! Ditching, I'll bet. On your first day too!" Karisu just turned heel and left. Videl was close to chasing her, but Gohan laid a hand on her shoulder. Videl looked at him quizzically.

"I'll tell you later." He said and returned to his seat as the teacher walked in.

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Around lunch, Karisu returned. It looked as though she had been through a windstorm. Her hair was wind tossed and she had dirt caked on her clothes. She took her place in the lunch line.

"So what happened Gohan?" Videl asked as she sat down next to her three friends.

"Well, when her watch beeped earlier, a face came up on her screen. It was a little boy, about the age of two. That's all I really know." Gohan lied. Karisu walked by holding a bag of lunch food.

"Hey Karisu! Where'd you go earlier? Wanna sit with us." Erasa offered.

"No, I have somewhere to be. She said in a monotone voice.

"You just got back!" The blonde argued.

"Hm." She walked off.

"What is up with her?" Erasa scoffed.

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If Only They Knew

"Mommy, I don't like this stuff. It looks unreal. Is it edible?"

"I don't know honey but it's all we have tonight until I leave school." Karisu answered as she sat in the tree with her two-year-old son.

"Okay! Can we go into the city again? Those two kids were cool! They had tails just like me!"

" Sure." She gave him a smile only he'd seen in the last four years. Karisu looked at her young son scaling up the tree, pulling his tail when he climbed too high. He plopped down on the branch next to his mother.

"Mommy, why don't you smile at other people?"

"Well' I love you so much, I can't smile at anyone else." And because I can't deal with the pain anymore. It hurts me to know you'll have to go through life. You'll make it though, my prince. Karisu's watch alarm went off, signaling the end of her lunch period.

"Well, be good, and don't talk to strangers. Stay in the tree. I love you." She playfully pulled his tail.

"Okay. I love you too." He sat in the tree and started drawing. Kami watch over him. She took off for school.

When she arrived, it was already time for physical education. Karisu sighed as she stepped into the locker room. Oh great, Videl's here. She rolled her eyes.

" I want to talk to you. Meet me on the bleachers." Videl huffed out of the locker room.

What is up with her? Why is she so bent on talking to me? No one else seems to care. She changed into gym attire, not ready for the drama, yet. Karisu left the locker room and sat on the bleachers next to Gohan and Videl.

"Where'd you go? I'd like to know." Videl demanded.

"That's for me to know." Karisu answered with a voice of indifference.

"Where do you live?" Gohan asked in a gentle voice. Karisu sighed.

"I live in the 442-mountain area."

"You don't live that far from Gohan." Videl stated.

" How do you take care of him?" Karisu's eyes betrayed fear for a second, and then went blank.

"What are you talking about?" Karisu asked Gohan.

"Your son."

" I don't know what you mean. I'm only seventeen." He heard my watch earlier.

" See Gohan. She doesn't have a son." Videl declared.

"We'll see."

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