Evening
Disclaimer- I don't own Dragon Ball Z. I don't own the rights to anything in the whole DBZ universe which I worship so.
This story, well I hate to admit to it, but this one is by the seat of my pants. Kami only knows what'll happen. (watches all the DBZ characters shrink back in fear) Mwahaha! This is going to be a well-rounded story. Be warned, lots n lots of Piccolo! I have a soft spot for 'em. Him and Gohan, and I beg you, do not attempt to place this in a time line, save yourself a headache, because this is an A/U. Much Like the Dragonball Z movies. They just don't fit! (Like The Tree of Might.. I mean.. shesh )
Thanks all of you who are bearing with me, my thanks to all my fans. I'm dedicating this to Piccolo0714, Piccolo Dragon and WereCat and all of you out there that are reading! I love you guys!!.. now.. to pull some teeth!
-------------------- = Changing view points or location.(such as switching from Goku's point of view to Piccolo's) '...' = Thoughts
Chapter Two: Roommates
She followed Piccolo timidly, she was afraid that he was upset with being stuck with her for a year. Eve had changed only moments ago and was wearing a black gi, much like the one Piccolo was wearing. He had been kind enough to mentally produce it for her.
She could just imagine the bright red blush on her face when she was standing in front of him, completely nude. 'Its not like he didn't see me when I changed in his cave.. '
Eve hugged herself and moved a little faster to keep up with Piccolo's pace. 'I'm so tired, and hungry. I hope we get back soon.' She held her tongue though, she wouldn't ask for anything from Piccolo. Instead she began to look around her, then she began to study his back rather intensely.
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He could hear her close behind him and smirked.' She's a trooper, I'll give her that. Gohan would have been complaining by now.' He sighed heavily and turned to the left at a fork in the path. The sky had lost all of it's fading light several minutes ago.
Piccolo found himself stealing a few glances back at Eve. Deciding it was to assure him that she was keeping up. 'Maybe I should just carry her, it'd be a lot quicker that way.' He stopped, only to feel her nearly run into him. He heard her yelp softly and step back. "Sorry.." she said, hanging her head. Piccolo narrowed eyes and frowned. 'Is she that afraid of me?' "We're going to fly the rest of the way." He raised a brow as she hesitated and just looked at him, as if not sure what to do.
"Come here.." he commanded, but his tone wasn't as harsh as he would have liked. In fact his voice was rather soft. '.terrific.' his frown deepened. Though it didn't seem to detour the frail woman before him, she step up to him. Piccolo bent slightly and placed his left arm behind her knees, and the other around her shoulders. The namake stood and adjusted her in his arms slightly. 'she doesn't weight anything..'
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Eve felt her feet leave the ground. She instinctively huddled closer to Piccolo as he lifted from the ground. 'He wouldn't drop me.' she closed her eyes and folded her arms in her lap.
She then suddenly felt the wind rushing past them. Her indigo eyes flashed open and were wide with terror as she saw the trees sailing past them at UN thought of speeds. "ahh!" she yelped and her arms clung around his neck. She closed her eyes and buried her face into the crook of his neck.
Eve could feel him suddenly become ridge and tense at her embrace. But the fear at the moment swept her thoughts away, until she could feel the wind cease to whip past. She tentatively shifted to look around. He was hovering in front of the cave.
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Piccolo looked down at her, and could still feel her body trembling from their flight. '..Maybe I over did it a little.' He thought to himself as his feet touched the cold stone ledge outside his cave. He gently set her down. He watched her walk into the dark cave without hesitation '. She must have incredible night vision' he then followed in after her.
Piccolo pointed his index and middle fingers at the fire pit in the center of his dwelling and lit the fire with a controlled ki beam. He watched Eve's expression, she wasn't surprised. 'That's right, she's watched me for years.'
He popped his neck side to side and removed his cape and turban, tossing them absently into a corner. Just as he sat down he heard the oddest sound. He looked up and saw Eve look up at him and blush. That is when he recognized what he'd heard." Are you hungry?" he asked flatly, raising a brow to her.
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Eve smiled softly and nodded, " Yes Mr. Piccolo " she asked timidly. She was surprised he asked her, though it warmed her.
'May be he doesn't mind my staying as much as I had thought.' Her eyes followed the Namake's movements until he disappeared from the fire-lit cave. She raised a brow.
"I wonder what he'll bring me." Eves gaze fell to the fire as different images popped into her mind, most of which should have made her sick to the stomach. But she just held her stomach, hoping he'd return soon.
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He flew swiftly threw the woods just below the cave. '.What would a human female want to eat?' he pondered this question before finally halting about the lake. "If this were Gohan. I would simply kill something, but this isn't a saiyan that will eat anything" Gohan, now that he thought about it, she reminded him greatly of the growing saiyan he trained all too long ago. Even the way she called him 'Mr. Piccolo' seemed to scream of the child- like innocence the ebony haired boy had showed him.
His gaze, as if by chance fell on a fruit tree across from him. 'That will do nicely..' he smirked to himself and sailed down to it. As he picked the assortment of fruits that grew on the various trees by the lake, he listened to all of the large predatory animals stalking through the forest.
'. I wonder how she has managed to survive out here all this time.' Piccolo narrowed his eyes as he finished and started back. 'Gohan survived out here, but not for this long. And he is a fighter by blood.'
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Eve was in the process of drawing images in the ashes before her, while humming loudly. (Tapion Theme from DragonBall z if you're curious) The fire liked flickered, seeming to give the images she created life. The horse appeared the toss its mane, and the wolf howl to the moon. The fire wavered suddenly as a gust of wind struck it. Herr midnight blue eyes darted upward and her humming melody creased.
"Mr. Piccolo" she smiled warmly seeing him standing at the mouth of the cave. Her eyes softened as she watched the gold light of the flames dance across his skin. 'You are perfect.. My love.' She felt her heart beating slightly faster.
She often wondered how she had grown to love someone she had only spoken to a day ago. 'I have known you forever it seems..'
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Piccolo landed and watched as the woman glanced up, startled at first, though once she realized it was him, and oddly thoughtful expression graced her alabaster features. ' What's that look for?' He asked himself. '.. She is rather beautiful.. for a woman ' he raised a brow thinking of Chi-Chi and Bulma. Piccolo deeply hoped that Eve would not turn out to be as shrill. His ear wouldn't survive a year of such.
He did however like the song he heard as he had reached the cave. He did not recognize the tune. 'Mostly likely something from her time' he noted.
He approached her slowly and moved around the fire. His eyes caught a swift glimpse of the drawings in the ash. "I see you can entertain yourself easy enough.." he certainly wasn't going to he added silently. He watched her nod.
"Here.." he set down the bag filled with the fruit he had just picked for her. Then Piccolo left her to sit in the farthest corner of the cave, where he began to mediate
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Eve opened the bag and smiled. "Thank you" she said as he walked away. She was not very keen on fruit. Taking into consideration her daytime form. But her hunger wasn't bias at the moment. She took a mouth full of an arrange type fruit and swallowed it eagerly.
"Tomorrow night you will not need to worry about bring me food." She said in an off-hand sort of way. Not entirely sure he could even here her. She had watched him mediate countless times, but obviously never attempted to speak to him while he was doing so.
None-the-less she decided to continue as though he had heard her. "..I just did not have the opportunity to hunt today."
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Piccolo smirked faintly, 'That explains how she survived out there for the most part.' He also enjoyed the idea that he did not need to baby-sit her all the time.
But something was nagging at him. "I want you to stay close to this ridge during the day.." his words came out gruff and stern, as he had intended. 'Good, I haven't turned completely soft yet.' Yet he didn't really know why he said that. Was he worried about her safety? 'No..I just don't wish to tell Goku she died while she was in my care. He would hunt me down' that had to be it.
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She blinked and choked down the mouthful of fruit and berries. Her first reaction was to protest. She was not even sure she could keep her Tigress from strolling far off after prey.
But then she recognized what his request meant. "You are worried I will get hurt?" she asked faintly, almost asking herself more than Piccolo.
She saw him tense for a moment before looking up to her. She tried desperately to find his onyx eyes in the flickering light.
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He tightened his jaw. 'What is she babbling about?' he thought. Assuring himself that she was mistaken. "No, I just have no desire to inform Goku that you got yourself killed while I was supposed to be watching you."
He closed his eyes again, this time folding his arms across his chest. He sighed heavily. "When you are finished eating you can sleep over there.." he gestured to the wall closest to the fire where there was a bedroll.
It was where he normally slept. But he could easily mediate all night, or sleep on the stone floor is he wished. He couldn't just let her sleep on the hard floor.
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Eve blinked. She could tell his conflict with his words as he mentioned why he wanted her to stay close by. She just couldn't believe that he truly meant that.
Then she nearly gagged on her food as she saw where she was to sleep. 'His bed!?' she coughed softly and shook her head, tossing her hair slightly "But Mr. Piccolo that is your Bed, I cannot." She looked to see his reaction, she received little.
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Piccolo groaned softly, almost inaudibly. He had forgotten what it was like to spend the night with another present, and it was beginning to grate on his nerves a bit.
"I don't sleep normally, so you will sleep there. " he cracked open on eye to watch what she would do. He hadn't meant for it to sound so much like a command.
Eve looked down and rolled the apple in her hand and looked at the bed. Piccolo tightened his jaw but managed to speak. "..please.." Amazingly enough it sounded as sincere as he had meant it and it seemed to brighten her mood.
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She smiled brightly "Alright.I do not normally sleep either. Because it is not very safe out there.." she trailed off looking out into the darkness at the cave's threshold. Eve could easily remember so many times she nearly met near fatal injury from one of many various beasts out at night.
"But with you here with me. I can sleep and be safe!" she chirped happily and finished the last of her meal.
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He blinked. 'I make her feel safe?' that was the first he had heard someone aside from the Z-fighters tell him that. A woman no less.
He watched as she crawled over to the bed. His brow ridge lifted as he saw her paw at it, in a rather feline manner. She patted it and finally laid down in it. Piccolo smirked as she felt about for a cover blanket, and finally located it and pulled it snuggly around her. 'Sleep well Eve..'
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Eve curled in the warmth of his bed. She felt as if she would die of utter bliss.' These smell just like him.' She thought as she nuzzled her cheek against the pallet beneath her.
It was much more comfortable than she had thought. And she soon found sleep pulling at her eyelids. 'What a long day. But one I will always remember.' "Good Night Mr. Piccolo.." she whispered. Though to her complete surprise she heard his deep voice from behind her reply "call me Piccolo."
Disclaimer- I don't own Dragon Ball Z. I don't own the rights to anything in the whole DBZ universe which I worship so.
This story, well I hate to admit to it, but this one is by the seat of my pants. Kami only knows what'll happen. (watches all the DBZ characters shrink back in fear) Mwahaha! This is going to be a well-rounded story. Be warned, lots n lots of Piccolo! I have a soft spot for 'em. Him and Gohan, and I beg you, do not attempt to place this in a time line, save yourself a headache, because this is an A/U. Much Like the Dragonball Z movies. They just don't fit! (Like The Tree of Might.. I mean.. shesh )
Thanks all of you who are bearing with me, my thanks to all my fans. I'm dedicating this to Piccolo0714, Piccolo Dragon and WereCat and all of you out there that are reading! I love you guys!!.. now.. to pull some teeth!
-------------------- = Changing view points or location.(such as switching from Goku's point of view to Piccolo's) '...' = Thoughts
Chapter Two: Roommates
She followed Piccolo timidly, she was afraid that he was upset with being stuck with her for a year. Eve had changed only moments ago and was wearing a black gi, much like the one Piccolo was wearing. He had been kind enough to mentally produce it for her.
She could just imagine the bright red blush on her face when she was standing in front of him, completely nude. 'Its not like he didn't see me when I changed in his cave.. '
Eve hugged herself and moved a little faster to keep up with Piccolo's pace. 'I'm so tired, and hungry. I hope we get back soon.' She held her tongue though, she wouldn't ask for anything from Piccolo. Instead she began to look around her, then she began to study his back rather intensely.
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He could hear her close behind him and smirked.' She's a trooper, I'll give her that. Gohan would have been complaining by now.' He sighed heavily and turned to the left at a fork in the path. The sky had lost all of it's fading light several minutes ago.
Piccolo found himself stealing a few glances back at Eve. Deciding it was to assure him that she was keeping up. 'Maybe I should just carry her, it'd be a lot quicker that way.' He stopped, only to feel her nearly run into him. He heard her yelp softly and step back. "Sorry.." she said, hanging her head. Piccolo narrowed eyes and frowned. 'Is she that afraid of me?' "We're going to fly the rest of the way." He raised a brow as she hesitated and just looked at him, as if not sure what to do.
"Come here.." he commanded, but his tone wasn't as harsh as he would have liked. In fact his voice was rather soft. '.terrific.' his frown deepened. Though it didn't seem to detour the frail woman before him, she step up to him. Piccolo bent slightly and placed his left arm behind her knees, and the other around her shoulders. The namake stood and adjusted her in his arms slightly. 'she doesn't weight anything..'
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Eve felt her feet leave the ground. She instinctively huddled closer to Piccolo as he lifted from the ground. 'He wouldn't drop me.' she closed her eyes and folded her arms in her lap.
She then suddenly felt the wind rushing past them. Her indigo eyes flashed open and were wide with terror as she saw the trees sailing past them at UN thought of speeds. "ahh!" she yelped and her arms clung around his neck. She closed her eyes and buried her face into the crook of his neck.
Eve could feel him suddenly become ridge and tense at her embrace. But the fear at the moment swept her thoughts away, until she could feel the wind cease to whip past. She tentatively shifted to look around. He was hovering in front of the cave.
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Piccolo looked down at her, and could still feel her body trembling from their flight. '..Maybe I over did it a little.' He thought to himself as his feet touched the cold stone ledge outside his cave. He gently set her down. He watched her walk into the dark cave without hesitation '. She must have incredible night vision' he then followed in after her.
Piccolo pointed his index and middle fingers at the fire pit in the center of his dwelling and lit the fire with a controlled ki beam. He watched Eve's expression, she wasn't surprised. 'That's right, she's watched me for years.'
He popped his neck side to side and removed his cape and turban, tossing them absently into a corner. Just as he sat down he heard the oddest sound. He looked up and saw Eve look up at him and blush. That is when he recognized what he'd heard." Are you hungry?" he asked flatly, raising a brow to her.
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Eve smiled softly and nodded, " Yes Mr. Piccolo " she asked timidly. She was surprised he asked her, though it warmed her.
'May be he doesn't mind my staying as much as I had thought.' Her eyes followed the Namake's movements until he disappeared from the fire-lit cave. She raised a brow.
"I wonder what he'll bring me." Eves gaze fell to the fire as different images popped into her mind, most of which should have made her sick to the stomach. But she just held her stomach, hoping he'd return soon.
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He flew swiftly threw the woods just below the cave. '.What would a human female want to eat?' he pondered this question before finally halting about the lake. "If this were Gohan. I would simply kill something, but this isn't a saiyan that will eat anything" Gohan, now that he thought about it, she reminded him greatly of the growing saiyan he trained all too long ago. Even the way she called him 'Mr. Piccolo' seemed to scream of the child- like innocence the ebony haired boy had showed him.
His gaze, as if by chance fell on a fruit tree across from him. 'That will do nicely..' he smirked to himself and sailed down to it. As he picked the assortment of fruits that grew on the various trees by the lake, he listened to all of the large predatory animals stalking through the forest.
'. I wonder how she has managed to survive out here all this time.' Piccolo narrowed his eyes as he finished and started back. 'Gohan survived out here, but not for this long. And he is a fighter by blood.'
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Eve was in the process of drawing images in the ashes before her, while humming loudly. (Tapion Theme from DragonBall z if you're curious) The fire liked flickered, seeming to give the images she created life. The horse appeared the toss its mane, and the wolf howl to the moon. The fire wavered suddenly as a gust of wind struck it. Herr midnight blue eyes darted upward and her humming melody creased.
"Mr. Piccolo" she smiled warmly seeing him standing at the mouth of the cave. Her eyes softened as she watched the gold light of the flames dance across his skin. 'You are perfect.. My love.' She felt her heart beating slightly faster.
She often wondered how she had grown to love someone she had only spoken to a day ago. 'I have known you forever it seems..'
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Piccolo landed and watched as the woman glanced up, startled at first, though once she realized it was him, and oddly thoughtful expression graced her alabaster features. ' What's that look for?' He asked himself. '.. She is rather beautiful.. for a woman ' he raised a brow thinking of Chi-Chi and Bulma. Piccolo deeply hoped that Eve would not turn out to be as shrill. His ear wouldn't survive a year of such.
He did however like the song he heard as he had reached the cave. He did not recognize the tune. 'Mostly likely something from her time' he noted.
He approached her slowly and moved around the fire. His eyes caught a swift glimpse of the drawings in the ash. "I see you can entertain yourself easy enough.." he certainly wasn't going to he added silently. He watched her nod.
"Here.." he set down the bag filled with the fruit he had just picked for her. Then Piccolo left her to sit in the farthest corner of the cave, where he began to mediate
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Eve opened the bag and smiled. "Thank you" she said as he walked away. She was not very keen on fruit. Taking into consideration her daytime form. But her hunger wasn't bias at the moment. She took a mouth full of an arrange type fruit and swallowed it eagerly.
"Tomorrow night you will not need to worry about bring me food." She said in an off-hand sort of way. Not entirely sure he could even here her. She had watched him mediate countless times, but obviously never attempted to speak to him while he was doing so.
None-the-less she decided to continue as though he had heard her. "..I just did not have the opportunity to hunt today."
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Piccolo smirked faintly, 'That explains how she survived out there for the most part.' He also enjoyed the idea that he did not need to baby-sit her all the time.
But something was nagging at him. "I want you to stay close to this ridge during the day.." his words came out gruff and stern, as he had intended. 'Good, I haven't turned completely soft yet.' Yet he didn't really know why he said that. Was he worried about her safety? 'No..I just don't wish to tell Goku she died while she was in my care. He would hunt me down' that had to be it.
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She blinked and choked down the mouthful of fruit and berries. Her first reaction was to protest. She was not even sure she could keep her Tigress from strolling far off after prey.
But then she recognized what his request meant. "You are worried I will get hurt?" she asked faintly, almost asking herself more than Piccolo.
She saw him tense for a moment before looking up to her. She tried desperately to find his onyx eyes in the flickering light.
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He tightened his jaw. 'What is she babbling about?' he thought. Assuring himself that she was mistaken. "No, I just have no desire to inform Goku that you got yourself killed while I was supposed to be watching you."
He closed his eyes again, this time folding his arms across his chest. He sighed heavily. "When you are finished eating you can sleep over there.." he gestured to the wall closest to the fire where there was a bedroll.
It was where he normally slept. But he could easily mediate all night, or sleep on the stone floor is he wished. He couldn't just let her sleep on the hard floor.
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Eve blinked. She could tell his conflict with his words as he mentioned why he wanted her to stay close by. She just couldn't believe that he truly meant that.
Then she nearly gagged on her food as she saw where she was to sleep. 'His bed!?' she coughed softly and shook her head, tossing her hair slightly "But Mr. Piccolo that is your Bed, I cannot." She looked to see his reaction, she received little.
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Piccolo groaned softly, almost inaudibly. He had forgotten what it was like to spend the night with another present, and it was beginning to grate on his nerves a bit.
"I don't sleep normally, so you will sleep there. " he cracked open on eye to watch what she would do. He hadn't meant for it to sound so much like a command.
Eve looked down and rolled the apple in her hand and looked at the bed. Piccolo tightened his jaw but managed to speak. "..please.." Amazingly enough it sounded as sincere as he had meant it and it seemed to brighten her mood.
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She smiled brightly "Alright.I do not normally sleep either. Because it is not very safe out there.." she trailed off looking out into the darkness at the cave's threshold. Eve could easily remember so many times she nearly met near fatal injury from one of many various beasts out at night.
"But with you here with me. I can sleep and be safe!" she chirped happily and finished the last of her meal.
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He blinked. 'I make her feel safe?' that was the first he had heard someone aside from the Z-fighters tell him that. A woman no less.
He watched as she crawled over to the bed. His brow ridge lifted as he saw her paw at it, in a rather feline manner. She patted it and finally laid down in it. Piccolo smirked as she felt about for a cover blanket, and finally located it and pulled it snuggly around her. 'Sleep well Eve..'
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Eve curled in the warmth of his bed. She felt as if she would die of utter bliss.' These smell just like him.' She thought as she nuzzled her cheek against the pallet beneath her.
It was much more comfortable than she had thought. And she soon found sleep pulling at her eyelids. 'What a long day. But one I will always remember.' "Good Night Mr. Piccolo.." she whispered. Though to her complete surprise she heard his deep voice from behind her reply "call me Piccolo."