Chapter 5: Rouge's New Abilities

It was a quiet flight back to the mansion the other X-men had headed back with the other dragon balls and were awaiting our arrival. As I landed at the front door of the mansion Rouge was still asleep curled up in my arms. I proceeded inside and showed her to professor X, in which he recommended that I take her up to her room and let her sleep the rest of the evening. I took her up and laid her in her bed, covered her up and found a nice spot in the corner with a chair to sleep in, faster than you could turn out a light bulb I was sound asleep.

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The next morning would be a day of change and revelations simply because we now had all seven of the dragon balls and we could all help Rouge. I awoke to find her changing her clothes (which isn't a bad thing to start the morning on), being in front of a mirror she had noticed me waking up and had soon told me to avert my eyes. I had caught just enough of her to see her lovely curves and a certain marking on her shoulder's that caught my attention.

"So Rouge when do you want to use the Dragon Balls," I asked having difficulty keeping my wandering eyes away from the beauty before me.

"Whenever really, we are in no hurry," she answered.

"Ok, how about after breakfast then" I recommended.

"Sure why not, then we can get this done and over with" she said tossing on a shirt and proceeding to walk outside her room.

Now that she was finished changing we headed downstairs for breakfast and to meet up with everybody from the past evening. Turns out at the site of the mine the dragon ball was only about twenty feet back into the mine from where I had found the other X-men. We ended up discussing the sentinel plant and what had all gone down over there, most of the people were a little shocked at what I had done to the place but I soon explained that it was all to help another. Deep down I knew that I had feelings for Rouge I was just hoping she felt the same way. After breakfast we all gathered in the courtyard out in the front of the mansion, I then proceeded to call Shenron.

"Shenron, eternal dragon come forth and grant us these wishes." I called out to the flashing set of gold orbs that were set on the ground. Suddenly the sky turned black as the gold aura of the dragon erupted forth out towards the sky.

Once he had fully exited the dragon balls only then did he speak "You who has summoned me, you have two wishes what will they be?"

"Shenron I am the one who called you grant me these two wishes. First I wish for Rouge to have full control over her abilities," I told him. He went quiet for a second then announced it was done. "Shenron for my second wish grant Rouge the knowledge of her past and who she truly is so she may know of her true potential" his eyes glowed red for a second time as he then announced it was done.

With that Shenron's image was returned to a gold aura and reentered the dragon balls, from there the balls split up and proceeded to the ends of the Earth. I turned around to find Rouge on her knees with her hands over her face. I walked over to her and knelt down beside her, as I pulled her hands away from her face I could see that she had tears in her eyes.

She just simply looked at me "can it be true?"

"Well let me put it this way, I've known for some time that you are a saiyan I just needed more proof for myself. Just wait I have something else to show you" I lifted up my right shoulder of my shirt to reveal the name of Rengus, Rouge immediately fell back stunned so I assumed she knew what I meant.

"Why do you have that name there, that is my father's name"?

"Well for the same reason you have my mother's name on your right" I said as I pointed to her right shoulder covered by her shirt.

"How do you know about that?"

"Well when you were changing I caught a glimpse of the names before you caught me looking"

"I see, that would make us betrothed to one another then am I right"

"I guess so," I told her as we sat there.

"Well to tell you the truth I wouldn't have it any other way," she said as gave me a deep kiss on the lips and got up off the grass.

Hank was the first to approach us "So Jared what comes of this new found information?"

"Well Hank, our lovely Rouge here is a saiyan, she is just like me also a half breed. We both have our betrothing tattoos so a while from now we are going to marry," I told him calmly, but he didn't seem calm at all.

"Wha, what you two are going to marry? You've known each other all of two days and your going to tie the knot! Oh Christ what is it with people these days?"

"Hold on Hank my father spoke of the ways of the old where two sayains were betrothed to one another and set to marry by decision of the parents. My father told me I was betrothed to someone but he was unsure if that saiyan family has survived Frieza's attack. The way to tell was simple the children would have tattoos, the husband would have the names of the fathers while the wife would have the names of the mothers," I explained holding up my shirt.

Sure as shit there were the tattoos, Zarick the name of my father on the left and Rengus the name of my father to be on the right. Rouge rolled up her shirt to show two names, Maron her mother on the left and Nadia my mother on the right. This proved that we were to wed and I had finally found my bride. Once the initial shock had faded we headed back inside and prepared for chores and other things, just to get back to normal again. There inside the main hall of the mansion we met Gohan, here he had returned from Japan to check in on us. But something seemed to be troubling him, because he was looking and looking but couldn't find his objective.

"Hey Gohan what's up?" we asked walking up to him.

"There is another energy signature here and I can't tell who it is, it is fairly high so it isn't human,"

"Well you just keep on looking I'm sure you'll find it sooner or later," I said slightly raising my energy a bit just to throw him off.

"You know that isn't helping,"

"Yeah I know but I want to make it difficult for you, besides your family is supposed to be the best at seeking out energy so this should be simple for you," I noted calling on Rouge's attention. Quietly I told her, when she got my signal, to walk over to Gohan and then go to super saiyan. I figured it would surprise the shit out of him and this would also help introduce the most recent of the super saiyans. That is exactly what she did, they were face to face and just as he mentioned it she transformed sending him staggering back as he fell over a footstool.

"You son of a bitch why didn't you tell me that she was a saiyan," Gohan cried out picking himself off the floor as Rouge walked over the nearest mirror to admire her new form.

"Well if you remember a couple days ago I mentioned that she could be a saiyan but I guess you turned a deaf ear."

"But that doesn't make sense she is a female, she can't go super saiyan."

"It is a balance of her genes, the human ones blocked out that saiyan trait giving her the ability to turn super saiyan." I answered coming up and putting my arm around her.

"Sounds reasonable, so what's in store for the new couple?" Gohan asked anxious for me to give him the answer.

"Well, since we are betrothed to each other we are going to get married, but not right away because I want to build up her skills before then, so I would give it at least a couple months,"

"Cool, and what was that part about the betrothed thing, what is that all about"

"Well my father practiced the ways of the old, and we were betrothed to one another just before we were born, unfortunately Rouge's parents couldn't be found to confirm that their daughter was alive so we didn't know if my bride was dead or alive. Like all saiyans I got the customary tattoos of the fathers on me and she got the mothers on her, now that I think about it your dad should have them as well for he was only a low class warrior. Vegeta on the other hand wouldn't have any because of his royal blood, he would be able to choose his bride." I explained walking out into the front courtyard.

"You know Jared, you should really inform my father about that just incase some saiyan shows up at his door claiming she is his wife"

"I'll have to save that for later, but I will"

"Well I have to go Videl is probably worried sick about me, see you later Jared and happy training," Gohan said with a huge grin mounted on his face.

"See you!!" I called back turning to head back into the mansion.

I definitely had my work cut out for me, for Rouge was only a low level super saiyan at this time and I wanted to have her a SSJ 3 or even a SSJ 4 for the wedding, that way we could have a true saiyan wedding. I just was really hoping she would be up to it.