How Do You Know?

Chapter 13: Telling





"Dad." Said Shashii softly. Raddittzu's eyes opened and he recalled where they were. Shashii was still weak and cradled in his father's arms.

"Hi Shashii, how do you feel?" asked the father concerned. Shashii squeezed his father in a hug.

"Thank you. I never want to do that again." Whispered the teen as if he were a little kid again. Raddittzu smiled and nodded as he lit up an energy ball again.

"I'm proud you lasted as long as you did. What he did to you, not even the worse of our criminals were treated as such." Raddittzu's voice had switched from calm and loving to angry and vengeful in an instant. Both of their stomachs chose that instant to let their hunger be known.

"Heh, I almost forgot how hungry I am." Said Shashii bemusedly. He tried to get up but found that his knees were like jelly and that when he tried to put pressure on his right leg a shot of pain ran up his spine, "Ouch." He whispered. Raddittzu stood and supported Shashii.

"Better?" Asked the elder Sayajin. Shashii dumbly nodded as he still tried to hide how badly he was hurt. Slowly they made their way to the outside world, as they did Shashii couldn't help but marvel at the way the night sky twinkled.

Outside under the half-moon light, Raddittzu took full notice of how bad his son's injuries really were and frowned deeply. "You shouldn't even be on your feet."

Shashii shrugged, or tried to anyways, he found out just how right his father was. He couldn't move a muscle without pain, bones were broken, and he could feel the burns. "Oops?" said Shashii half apologetically, half amused he was still kicking.

With a trace of a smile Raddittzu lifted his son onto his back and started to fly slowly north. Shashii just relaxed and felt that safe calm that he always got when he knew his dad would take care of everything.

"Dad?" Shashii said after fifteen minutes of flight.

"Yes?" answered Raddittzu.

"You know I love you right?" asked the teen softly. Raddittzu chuckled deeply and nodded.

"Yes, son, I do."

"Good." Shashii yawned and fell asleep and Raddittzu shifted him carefully and kept flying until morning.







Shashii awoke in a green field filled with soft purple flowers that waved lazily in the wind. Overhead was a brilliant light blue sky with huge puffy clouds of white fluff. It was so much like his dream world bar one fact. He hurt. And that fact was painfully obvious.

Groaning he stood and then promptly sat down again. He could feel that his wounds were cleaned and dressed and his two broken limbs were splinted. But they still hurt like hell. Farther proof it wasn't a dream came as he looked down. His armor and under-suit were burned, bloody and ripped apart.

Flopping his left incapacitated arm around, he sighed. It was just another tally mark on his medical record. It was, what, the twenty second time he had busted that arm? Maybe twenty third, he had lost count years ago. At least all but three bones had been broken in his lifetime, but those bones were in his ear, unless it was a killing move, he doubted they would break.

"Man, what is this place?" he asked himself aloud. He stared at the violet flowers, the ones in his dream were always yellow or white. He could smell salt water nearby, and hear the roar of an ocean no more than a mile away.

Laying down he decided to just relax and let his body heal, his father was there and would take care of him. And so he drifted off into another dreamless rest.







Raddittzu was at the shore watching the waves dance along the gold- white sands. He was sitting drawing in the sand and thinking. He could feel all sorts of life now, it was overwhelming, and made him realize all the more why Shashii should have grown up on this planet and not with him. The sun was going down and he hadn't moved since he had left Shashii in the field.

"I shouldn't of ever have come here all those years ago. I've made so many mistakes. So many mistakes. But how do I tell him, how can I tell him?" Raddittzu wondered aloud to himself. "He's not really son. I should haven't of even touched him without Kakorrotto's permission in the first place. I shouldn't of lost my head." He felt the soft almost hidden presence of his son's approach.

"Dad?" questioned Shashii's voice. Raddittzu turned to face his son who floated down next to him. The elder Sayajin sighed and looked at his hands.

"This is all my fault." Said Raddittzu softly. Shashii opened his mouth to protest and question his father. Quietly Raddittzu shook his head. "You don't know the story of this planet and my landing here. I should have told you sooner, told you when you were five."

"Dad what are you talking about? What's so important about this one?" Asked Shashii confused and worried at his father's odd behavior.

"This is where you were born."

Raddittzu could feel Shashii's silent shock. Taking a deep breath he plunged into the story.

"The day of Vegeta-sai's destruction a newborn was sent out, his name was Kakorrotto, my baby brother. I had no idea he had survived until I was twenty-five and looking through the records for a planet to take it easy on and still make a lot of currency with.

"I stumbled upon a file about Earth, and then found out my baby brother was as alive as I was. And so I quickly went there to get him back, after all it had been twenty years. The planet was supposed to be done with and he was probably just waiting for a transport home. I quickly learned how wrong I was.

"When I arrived I found nothing but a still living and thriving society and billions of happy people running around. Immediately I started to look for Kakorrotto, praying he was still alive. I found Piccolo first, but before I could battle him I found a higher level signature moving at a high speed, it had to be my brother.

"As I came to his location, I found a replica of my father talking to the Earthlings as friends. He told me that he had amnesia as an infant after he fell into a gorge. After that he had grown soft and defended the Earth. He insisted that he was one of them and not Sayajin. I was disgusted and angered that he considered himself a Human as they called themselves.

"I lost my head and stared to threaten him and his friends to get him to join me and remember. Then I saw you."

"Me?"

"Yes, you. You were clinging to his leg like a frightened rodent, a baby really, and you eyes were full of curious innocence. I really wasn't thinking, I snatched you away from him and told him to bring one hundred dead Earthlings if he wanted to see you again.

"And like a true Sayajin he didn't. He came after me as soon as he picked up a new ally, Piccolo. You were knocked out and inside my pod when they arrived. The battle was favoring me until the end, your father, your real father was going to sacrifice himself to kill me. I ducked out of the attack's way and thought I could pull my brother down in time. I didn't it drilled into his spine, lungs, and then destroyed his heart. He died before he hit the ground.

"I knocked out Piccolo soon after and departed, I had almost forgotten about you until it was too late to stop the launch. When the pod landed I had given the entire matter a lot of thought and realized that you needed someone of our race to raise you, after all you were Sayajin. I got rid of your memories to help you make the transition and make you happier." Raddittzu finished with a sigh and he turned to look at the youth.

"Okay," said Shashii calmly, " I just need to think this over." And he closed his eyes. Raddittzu nodded and left Shashii alone.





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