Chapter 3
My head is spinning and I am totally disoriented. I don't have any idea where I am. All I know is that I'm spinning wildly around with my eyes closed. I'm getting dizzy. Really dizzy. So I opened my eyes to wretch but when I did, I screamed. A blood curdling scream.
I see blood. Lots of it. Blood glowing red with anger. It is quickly drowning me with it. I am quickly enveloped by the blood in mere seconds. I tried to swim up. But I can't. Something or somebody is holding my feet, tight.
I looked down just in time to see the cadavers. The cadavers of those youkai or people I have killed. From the days of my being the Toushin Taishi. I know they're out to get me. I just know it. They'll get their sweet revenge on me! Maybe they'll kill me or worse they'll torture me slowly. I thought to myself, panicked.
With all my might, I tried to kick them down but they just wouldn't let go. It was as if they're hanging onto me for dear life. I let out a groan of pain when their sharp nails suddenly dug into the flesh of my foot.
I shrieked when I noticed that some of them had reached my level. I am trying really hard not to scream and cry like crazy. I was scared beyond imagination. These cadavers were gruesome. Really gruesome. Some had no heads on their bodies and they were drenched with blood. Those who had heads.......... Well, I just wished they haven't had one. Their eyes are gone out of their sockets and their mouths were sprouting blood and spit and something green and solid. Their noses and ears too were sprouting materials of this kind. I shuddered and held out my hand.
I did this in vain attempt to escape. Hoping against hope that someone might be there to save me. Someone to lend a helping hand. When all hope was lost, when I am being dragged down to the depths of the angry, red blood, a hand closed in on mine and started to tug. Slowly, the gentle hands that held me, took gain. Inch by inch I am being raised from the sea of blood. Until I was free.
I took several deep breaths before turning to face my savior. My smile froze in my face when I realize who he was. It was Li Touten, my father. I started to move away from him but he grabbed my hand to stop me. Dreadfully I turned to face him, my eyes full of fear. He smiled gently and held my hands delicately.
"Nataku why are you so afraid of me?" He asked me his eyes full of worry. I could only stare at him. The fear I had for him will never waver.
"Why? I've done nothing to you. I've saved you from those who wanted to kill you. I dressed you in fine clothes. I've great dreams for you." He told me, his eyes full of anxiety.
"You've done nothing but to hurt me." I told him in a small voice. He dropped me to the ground and held out his arms.
"Hurt you? I saved you!" He told me, his voice louder than necessary. He dropped it to a lower level and stared at me.
"If I showed you, would you believe me then?" I nodded. Out of fear, out of curiosity, out of obedience, I don't know. I just have to follow. He smiled softly and stirred his arms about.
The place we are in began to disappear in a wave of colors. Even Li Touten vanished. He left me in a vast empty void. I stood up and tried to wander. The place is starting to get hold. A new era. A new dimension.
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A young maiden is walking down the street of a modest looking town. It is tribal really. The houses are huts and it formed a circle around what looked like a remnant of a bon fire from yesterday night.
The woman is pretty. And although she is pregnant, her body is still curvaceous, minus the tummy of course. She had long, black silky hair the falls in ripples around her waist. When she looked up, I saw that she had luminescent sapphire eyes.
When she neared her home, it is the most elegant of all the huts, she fell to her knees, gasping. The pain must've gotten worse because she suddenly howled and clutched her tummy tighter. I went to her but when I tried to touch her, my hand went through. I told her to relax but she didn't even flinch at my words.
Thankfully, her neighbors came to her aid. They brought her to the resident witch doctor, who confirmed that she is about to give birth. They waited patiently outside, gossiping.
"Do you think we should tell the chieftain about this?" The plump woman asked her companion. They were the ones who brought the young maiden in. The horse faced companion shook her head.
"Better not. I heard that the chieftain almost disowned her."
"Why? Who would be the successor then? The chieftain has her as the only child." The plump woman inquired, getting anxious.
"I know. That's why the chieftain put a rein on her." The horse faced woman said.
"A rein? What do you mean? And did she ever finish her training?"
"I'm afraid not. She went home even before she had completed the task. And..." The plump woman had her eyes wide as saucers in suspense.
"And what...?"
"Isn't it obvious?! She went home pregnant! And she never did tell the father of her child."
"What?! I thought she left here pregnant with her fiancée?" The horse faced woman shook her head sadly.
"Neigh. It was just the rumor. And the chieftain started it himself. I can relate. His daughter is such a shame."
"I know. But you did say that she never did finish her training. What's to happen to us? People and youkai alike are starting to rebel us. They have their uprisings. Only the chosen one can save us." The plump woman asked, her forehead creased with worry.
"And you suppose that Hestia is the chosen one?" The horse faced woman asked indignantly.
"We'll never know. Only the gods can confirm that. But she didn't finish the training. So I suppose she didn't get the chance to converse with them." The plump woman sighed.
They stood in silence for a few moments, at a loss for words and gossip. They were startled when they heard a baby's cry pierce the silence. Their faces lit up in a smile. Their tribe hasn't got any babies for a while. The two women started to come in the hut, but they stopped short when they heard the witchdoctor scream.
"A monster! An unclean one!" She shouted over and again. The baby's wail grew louder.
"Kill that baby, Hestia! KILL HIM! He will bring us despair!!!" The witchdoctor screamed aloud.
"No! Never! He is my child!" Hestia pleaded. The two women proceeded to the hut. They peered at the child, and they too screamed.
"It can't be!! A heretic!" The horse faced woman screamed.
"Who is the father Hestia?!" The plump woman asked harshly, eyeing the baby with such hatred. Hestia just kept silent.
"You won't talk?! I'll call the chieftain then!" The horse faced woman said in a huff. She went out and within moments brought with her the chieftain.
"What is happening here?" He asked importantly. The witchdoctor snatched from Hestia's hands her child. A baby boy.
"Look into his eyes." The witchdoctor said as she let the chieftain peer into the child's face.
"Give me my son! Let me have him... Please..." Hestia pleaded her eyes now puffy from crying.
"Golden eyes..." The chieftain murmured.
"Yes! Golden eyes! He will bring us bad luck! We are already in the brink of despair! People and youkai have come to hunt us down! With that child..." The witchdoctor could not continue. The horse faced woman butted in.
"Chieftain.. We must kill the child. It bid us bad sign."
"What are you talking about?! He is just a child! What can he possibly do?" Hestia tried to reason with them, as she snatched her child from the witchdoctor's grasp.
"Who is the father of your child Hestia?" Her father asked her in a deadly voice.
"I... I..." She stammered at a loss for words.
"WHO?!!!!" Her father bellowed at her. Hestia opened her mouth to say something but they were interrupted when they heard a loud bang outside.
"Chieftain!!! Youkai attack!!" The chieftain's head snapped up, then forgetting Hestia and the child went downstairs.
"What?! Call the most powerful spell casters! And hide the women and children from harm! Go on. Hurry." When the chieftain started to move about, an arrow pierced him from behind. He fell down to his knees coughing up blood. Hestia is at his side immediately.
"Father!!! Come on up. We have to go." She said as she tried to get a hold of his father. He pushed her.
"Go! Go run. You mustn't be captured!"
"But... But..."
"For the sake of your child Hestia. Go." Her father coughed up more blood. Another arrow was shot in the air. This time it hit her father in the heart. He died right in front of her.
"Father!!!!" She screamed. She stood there holding her child, frozen in time. Then slowly, she started glowing blue. She looked up her eyes full of anger. Her headdress, which was covering most of her forehead, broke. Her forehead revealed a charka in the middle of her birthmark. A triangular blue mark on her forehead.
"All of you will pay!" She screamed at the top of her lungs. She set down her child beside the father and whispered loving words to him.
"I'll give you your name. In case I die... At least I've given you one. Nataku. My beautiful child. Your name shall be Nataku. Take care my love." She kissed the child and stood up, poised for fight.
She started chanting and when she finished, a harsh blue light emitted from everywhere killing the youkai in an instant. It was like a wave of blue light. Everything it hit died. Even the vegetations and the animals and even her own tribe mates died when they got hit by the harsh blue light. Her son was spared. He was covered in a soft pink light. His mother's love.
Hestia stood still for a moment. Then she dropped unmoving. Nataku started crying. It was the only sound that can be heard for miles. But then somewhere in the ground, a hinge moved. The hiding place of the women and the children.
The horse faced woman looked about, her eyes wide with fright. Her eyes landed on the child and smirked. She didn't care what happens to the child. But then her eyes landed on her husband. The cadaver of her husband. She let out a cry.
Despaired she drew a knife and put it in her throat. But then she remembered Hestia's child. She went to him in a slow pace. Her eyes determined she drew the knife back and aimed at poor little Nataku's heart. The child just wailed in hunger.
"You wretched thing! You caused us this trouble! You deserve to die!" She shouted aloud. I could only look at them. At the woman and me. I did deserve to die. I thought. Right after I was born... I caused enough grief already. But why did I survive?! I thought to my self wildly. The woman screamed and I looked at her again.
My mouth dropped in shock. A whip of air and my father Li Touten was there. He held the woman's hands and glared at her.
"Keep your filthy hands of my son!" He bellowed as a blue light emitted from his hands, killing the woman instantly. He knelt down and picked me up.
"I believe you're Nataku. My son, I expect you to bring me glory." He said to himself as he tapped the ground with his foot, creating a whip of air. We vanished into thin air.
Then this dimension suddenly swirled in colors, creating yet another empty void. When everything settled, I saw my father sitting by the lake.
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"Ah. Your back. How's the viewing my son?" He asked me, his eyes crinkling with delight. I did not answer.
"Did you not like what you saw?" He asked me. I shook my head.
"No. I'm glad actually. I get to see my mother." He nodded understandingly.
"Now do you believe me?" He asks me. I looked at him uncertainly.
"Don't tell me you aren't convinced at all." He asked me incredously.
"It's not that." I told him weakly.
"Then what is it?"
"I don't know." He stood up and went to my side, putting his arms around my shoulders.
"Son, I saved you from them. I didn't give a damn that you're a heretic. I didn't even flinch when I held you in my arms. It is because you're my son. I love you and that will always be it." I shifted in his arms.
"It's that wretched Son Goku and his damned companions' fault. They let you think ill of me. They broke our good relationship."
"Son Goku? What has he got to do with us?" I asked him indignant.
"I'll show you... I'll show how your friend betrayed you... ." He spread his arms about and figures started to configure in the lake.
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"See you tomorrow Nataku!" Goku said as he bid me goodbye. It was after our little trip to my paradise. He skipped across the palace a happy smile on his face. He bounded on Konzen Douji's door and opened it without further ado.
"Konzen! I just have the most wonderful day!!!" He said as he glomped on the blond haired deity.
"Saru. Sit down we have to talk." Goku looked at Konzen with wonder. He was surprised actually that his keeper didn't get mad at the way he greeted him. It must be something really serious.
"What about Konzen?" He asked, his golden eyes shining.
"We're going to escape."
"What?! Whatever for Konzen?!"
"Do you want us to be separated?" Konzen asks him seriously. Goku shook his head wildly.
"Of course not! You're my everything Konzen!" Goku chirped as he hugged the blond haired deity. To his surprise, Konzen didn't move from the embrace, instead he put his arms around the boy as well.
"We leave tomorrow secretly with Tenpou and Kenren. They too have troubles with the upper levels." Goku nodded as if he understands.
"Good. Be prepared. If you want to say goodbye to your friend....." Konzen stops and looks at Goku expectedly. Goku shook his head.
"I have you and that's important. I should concentrate that we don't lose each other ne? Anyways, he isn't that important to me. He did hide from me in weeks! Remember when he just returned from fighting Gyumao? So it's okay...." Goku says his eyes shining with adoration.
"Arer you sure? He's you're best friend right?"
"Not really! I just don't have any choice for a playmate!" Goku said cheekily. Konzen patted his pet's hair.
"Naughty as always...."
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I backed away from the lake, feeling sick. I clutched my stomach and fell to the ground in a heap.
I cried. And cried. My world toppled over itself. And I thought Goku was the only one who cared.... I put my hands to my face to stop the tears from falling.... It didn't. A hand wrenched my hand away from my face.
I looked into the loving face of Li Touten.
"I told you so son.... I am the only who cares for you...... I'm the only one... The only one..."
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Li Touten's POV
Stupid son. Just a little lie poison and he's over. Anyway.... I just hope the minor changes in the past are convincing. I put a hand to my chin and stroked it carefully. I'll find out soon enough. I thought as I saw Nataku stir from his sleep.
"Awaken, my son." I told him. Without opening his eyes he sat up. Slowly, he opened his eyes. Ah. He is mine. I thought to myself happily as I stared into those dull, emotionless, golden eyes.
"Who loves and cares for you, my son?"
"You are, father." He said looking at a point in the wall.
"Who hates you? Who despises you? Who betrayed you?" I asked him.
"Son Goku." He said, his eyes turning deadly dull. I snickered.
"What should we do with him?" Nataku turned his head to face me.
"Kill him." He said with conviction.
"Good. Now come here, my son." He comes to me, like the obedient toy he was. I hugged my toy and stroked his hair.
"That's good son. That's good."
t.b.c
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A/N: sorry for not updating in a while... anyway I hope you enjoyed reading it. Reviews are much appreciated!
My head is spinning and I am totally disoriented. I don't have any idea where I am. All I know is that I'm spinning wildly around with my eyes closed. I'm getting dizzy. Really dizzy. So I opened my eyes to wretch but when I did, I screamed. A blood curdling scream.
I see blood. Lots of it. Blood glowing red with anger. It is quickly drowning me with it. I am quickly enveloped by the blood in mere seconds. I tried to swim up. But I can't. Something or somebody is holding my feet, tight.
I looked down just in time to see the cadavers. The cadavers of those youkai or people I have killed. From the days of my being the Toushin Taishi. I know they're out to get me. I just know it. They'll get their sweet revenge on me! Maybe they'll kill me or worse they'll torture me slowly. I thought to myself, panicked.
With all my might, I tried to kick them down but they just wouldn't let go. It was as if they're hanging onto me for dear life. I let out a groan of pain when their sharp nails suddenly dug into the flesh of my foot.
I shrieked when I noticed that some of them had reached my level. I am trying really hard not to scream and cry like crazy. I was scared beyond imagination. These cadavers were gruesome. Really gruesome. Some had no heads on their bodies and they were drenched with blood. Those who had heads.......... Well, I just wished they haven't had one. Their eyes are gone out of their sockets and their mouths were sprouting blood and spit and something green and solid. Their noses and ears too were sprouting materials of this kind. I shuddered and held out my hand.
I did this in vain attempt to escape. Hoping against hope that someone might be there to save me. Someone to lend a helping hand. When all hope was lost, when I am being dragged down to the depths of the angry, red blood, a hand closed in on mine and started to tug. Slowly, the gentle hands that held me, took gain. Inch by inch I am being raised from the sea of blood. Until I was free.
I took several deep breaths before turning to face my savior. My smile froze in my face when I realize who he was. It was Li Touten, my father. I started to move away from him but he grabbed my hand to stop me. Dreadfully I turned to face him, my eyes full of fear. He smiled gently and held my hands delicately.
"Nataku why are you so afraid of me?" He asked me his eyes full of worry. I could only stare at him. The fear I had for him will never waver.
"Why? I've done nothing to you. I've saved you from those who wanted to kill you. I dressed you in fine clothes. I've great dreams for you." He told me, his eyes full of anxiety.
"You've done nothing but to hurt me." I told him in a small voice. He dropped me to the ground and held out his arms.
"Hurt you? I saved you!" He told me, his voice louder than necessary. He dropped it to a lower level and stared at me.
"If I showed you, would you believe me then?" I nodded. Out of fear, out of curiosity, out of obedience, I don't know. I just have to follow. He smiled softly and stirred his arms about.
The place we are in began to disappear in a wave of colors. Even Li Touten vanished. He left me in a vast empty void. I stood up and tried to wander. The place is starting to get hold. A new era. A new dimension.
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A young maiden is walking down the street of a modest looking town. It is tribal really. The houses are huts and it formed a circle around what looked like a remnant of a bon fire from yesterday night.
The woman is pretty. And although she is pregnant, her body is still curvaceous, minus the tummy of course. She had long, black silky hair the falls in ripples around her waist. When she looked up, I saw that she had luminescent sapphire eyes.
When she neared her home, it is the most elegant of all the huts, she fell to her knees, gasping. The pain must've gotten worse because she suddenly howled and clutched her tummy tighter. I went to her but when I tried to touch her, my hand went through. I told her to relax but she didn't even flinch at my words.
Thankfully, her neighbors came to her aid. They brought her to the resident witch doctor, who confirmed that she is about to give birth. They waited patiently outside, gossiping.
"Do you think we should tell the chieftain about this?" The plump woman asked her companion. They were the ones who brought the young maiden in. The horse faced companion shook her head.
"Better not. I heard that the chieftain almost disowned her."
"Why? Who would be the successor then? The chieftain has her as the only child." The plump woman inquired, getting anxious.
"I know. That's why the chieftain put a rein on her." The horse faced woman said.
"A rein? What do you mean? And did she ever finish her training?"
"I'm afraid not. She went home even before she had completed the task. And..." The plump woman had her eyes wide as saucers in suspense.
"And what...?"
"Isn't it obvious?! She went home pregnant! And she never did tell the father of her child."
"What?! I thought she left here pregnant with her fiancée?" The horse faced woman shook her head sadly.
"Neigh. It was just the rumor. And the chieftain started it himself. I can relate. His daughter is such a shame."
"I know. But you did say that she never did finish her training. What's to happen to us? People and youkai alike are starting to rebel us. They have their uprisings. Only the chosen one can save us." The plump woman asked, her forehead creased with worry.
"And you suppose that Hestia is the chosen one?" The horse faced woman asked indignantly.
"We'll never know. Only the gods can confirm that. But she didn't finish the training. So I suppose she didn't get the chance to converse with them." The plump woman sighed.
They stood in silence for a few moments, at a loss for words and gossip. They were startled when they heard a baby's cry pierce the silence. Their faces lit up in a smile. Their tribe hasn't got any babies for a while. The two women started to come in the hut, but they stopped short when they heard the witchdoctor scream.
"A monster! An unclean one!" She shouted over and again. The baby's wail grew louder.
"Kill that baby, Hestia! KILL HIM! He will bring us despair!!!" The witchdoctor screamed aloud.
"No! Never! He is my child!" Hestia pleaded. The two women proceeded to the hut. They peered at the child, and they too screamed.
"It can't be!! A heretic!" The horse faced woman screamed.
"Who is the father Hestia?!" The plump woman asked harshly, eyeing the baby with such hatred. Hestia just kept silent.
"You won't talk?! I'll call the chieftain then!" The horse faced woman said in a huff. She went out and within moments brought with her the chieftain.
"What is happening here?" He asked importantly. The witchdoctor snatched from Hestia's hands her child. A baby boy.
"Look into his eyes." The witchdoctor said as she let the chieftain peer into the child's face.
"Give me my son! Let me have him... Please..." Hestia pleaded her eyes now puffy from crying.
"Golden eyes..." The chieftain murmured.
"Yes! Golden eyes! He will bring us bad luck! We are already in the brink of despair! People and youkai have come to hunt us down! With that child..." The witchdoctor could not continue. The horse faced woman butted in.
"Chieftain.. We must kill the child. It bid us bad sign."
"What are you talking about?! He is just a child! What can he possibly do?" Hestia tried to reason with them, as she snatched her child from the witchdoctor's grasp.
"Who is the father of your child Hestia?" Her father asked her in a deadly voice.
"I... I..." She stammered at a loss for words.
"WHO?!!!!" Her father bellowed at her. Hestia opened her mouth to say something but they were interrupted when they heard a loud bang outside.
"Chieftain!!! Youkai attack!!" The chieftain's head snapped up, then forgetting Hestia and the child went downstairs.
"What?! Call the most powerful spell casters! And hide the women and children from harm! Go on. Hurry." When the chieftain started to move about, an arrow pierced him from behind. He fell down to his knees coughing up blood. Hestia is at his side immediately.
"Father!!! Come on up. We have to go." She said as she tried to get a hold of his father. He pushed her.
"Go! Go run. You mustn't be captured!"
"But... But..."
"For the sake of your child Hestia. Go." Her father coughed up more blood. Another arrow was shot in the air. This time it hit her father in the heart. He died right in front of her.
"Father!!!!" She screamed. She stood there holding her child, frozen in time. Then slowly, she started glowing blue. She looked up her eyes full of anger. Her headdress, which was covering most of her forehead, broke. Her forehead revealed a charka in the middle of her birthmark. A triangular blue mark on her forehead.
"All of you will pay!" She screamed at the top of her lungs. She set down her child beside the father and whispered loving words to him.
"I'll give you your name. In case I die... At least I've given you one. Nataku. My beautiful child. Your name shall be Nataku. Take care my love." She kissed the child and stood up, poised for fight.
She started chanting and when she finished, a harsh blue light emitted from everywhere killing the youkai in an instant. It was like a wave of blue light. Everything it hit died. Even the vegetations and the animals and even her own tribe mates died when they got hit by the harsh blue light. Her son was spared. He was covered in a soft pink light. His mother's love.
Hestia stood still for a moment. Then she dropped unmoving. Nataku started crying. It was the only sound that can be heard for miles. But then somewhere in the ground, a hinge moved. The hiding place of the women and the children.
The horse faced woman looked about, her eyes wide with fright. Her eyes landed on the child and smirked. She didn't care what happens to the child. But then her eyes landed on her husband. The cadaver of her husband. She let out a cry.
Despaired she drew a knife and put it in her throat. But then she remembered Hestia's child. She went to him in a slow pace. Her eyes determined she drew the knife back and aimed at poor little Nataku's heart. The child just wailed in hunger.
"You wretched thing! You caused us this trouble! You deserve to die!" She shouted aloud. I could only look at them. At the woman and me. I did deserve to die. I thought. Right after I was born... I caused enough grief already. But why did I survive?! I thought to my self wildly. The woman screamed and I looked at her again.
My mouth dropped in shock. A whip of air and my father Li Touten was there. He held the woman's hands and glared at her.
"Keep your filthy hands of my son!" He bellowed as a blue light emitted from his hands, killing the woman instantly. He knelt down and picked me up.
"I believe you're Nataku. My son, I expect you to bring me glory." He said to himself as he tapped the ground with his foot, creating a whip of air. We vanished into thin air.
Then this dimension suddenly swirled in colors, creating yet another empty void. When everything settled, I saw my father sitting by the lake.
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"Ah. Your back. How's the viewing my son?" He asked me, his eyes crinkling with delight. I did not answer.
"Did you not like what you saw?" He asked me. I shook my head.
"No. I'm glad actually. I get to see my mother." He nodded understandingly.
"Now do you believe me?" He asks me. I looked at him uncertainly.
"Don't tell me you aren't convinced at all." He asked me incredously.
"It's not that." I told him weakly.
"Then what is it?"
"I don't know." He stood up and went to my side, putting his arms around my shoulders.
"Son, I saved you from them. I didn't give a damn that you're a heretic. I didn't even flinch when I held you in my arms. It is because you're my son. I love you and that will always be it." I shifted in his arms.
"It's that wretched Son Goku and his damned companions' fault. They let you think ill of me. They broke our good relationship."
"Son Goku? What has he got to do with us?" I asked him indignant.
"I'll show you... I'll show how your friend betrayed you... ." He spread his arms about and figures started to configure in the lake.
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"See you tomorrow Nataku!" Goku said as he bid me goodbye. It was after our little trip to my paradise. He skipped across the palace a happy smile on his face. He bounded on Konzen Douji's door and opened it without further ado.
"Konzen! I just have the most wonderful day!!!" He said as he glomped on the blond haired deity.
"Saru. Sit down we have to talk." Goku looked at Konzen with wonder. He was surprised actually that his keeper didn't get mad at the way he greeted him. It must be something really serious.
"What about Konzen?" He asked, his golden eyes shining.
"We're going to escape."
"What?! Whatever for Konzen?!"
"Do you want us to be separated?" Konzen asks him seriously. Goku shook his head wildly.
"Of course not! You're my everything Konzen!" Goku chirped as he hugged the blond haired deity. To his surprise, Konzen didn't move from the embrace, instead he put his arms around the boy as well.
"We leave tomorrow secretly with Tenpou and Kenren. They too have troubles with the upper levels." Goku nodded as if he understands.
"Good. Be prepared. If you want to say goodbye to your friend....." Konzen stops and looks at Goku expectedly. Goku shook his head.
"I have you and that's important. I should concentrate that we don't lose each other ne? Anyways, he isn't that important to me. He did hide from me in weeks! Remember when he just returned from fighting Gyumao? So it's okay...." Goku says his eyes shining with adoration.
"Arer you sure? He's you're best friend right?"
"Not really! I just don't have any choice for a playmate!" Goku said cheekily. Konzen patted his pet's hair.
"Naughty as always...."
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I backed away from the lake, feeling sick. I clutched my stomach and fell to the ground in a heap.
I cried. And cried. My world toppled over itself. And I thought Goku was the only one who cared.... I put my hands to my face to stop the tears from falling.... It didn't. A hand wrenched my hand away from my face.
I looked into the loving face of Li Touten.
"I told you so son.... I am the only who cares for you...... I'm the only one... The only one..."
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Li Touten's POV
Stupid son. Just a little lie poison and he's over. Anyway.... I just hope the minor changes in the past are convincing. I put a hand to my chin and stroked it carefully. I'll find out soon enough. I thought as I saw Nataku stir from his sleep.
"Awaken, my son." I told him. Without opening his eyes he sat up. Slowly, he opened his eyes. Ah. He is mine. I thought to myself happily as I stared into those dull, emotionless, golden eyes.
"Who loves and cares for you, my son?"
"You are, father." He said looking at a point in the wall.
"Who hates you? Who despises you? Who betrayed you?" I asked him.
"Son Goku." He said, his eyes turning deadly dull. I snickered.
"What should we do with him?" Nataku turned his head to face me.
"Kill him." He said with conviction.
"Good. Now come here, my son." He comes to me, like the obedient toy he was. I hugged my toy and stroked his hair.
"That's good son. That's good."
t.b.c
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A/N: sorry for not updating in a while... anyway I hope you enjoyed reading it. Reviews are much appreciated!