Usagi stared at her father with excitement. She hoped that she had heard him right. She thought about how many days she had spent begging him to let her enter the tournament. He had always said one thing, and one thing only to her and that was 'No.' She had thought that maybe he didn't think that she was good enough to go up against other fighters. She put her hands together in front of her face as her eyes twinkled with joy. "Really? You mean you're going to let me go to the tournament?" Usagi prayed that he was not just playing a dirty trick on her.
Goku could tell that his daughter was incredibly happy. He loved to see her happy but he liked to be the one to make her happy even more. It made him feel good inside. He nodded as he looked down at his daughter, who was barely able to control her excitement. She looked as if she was about to burst. "Yes, I entered you. I didn't tell you until now because I wanted to see if it was something you really wanted to do."
Usagi threw herself to her father's arms as she smiled. "Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you daddy! This is so perfect!" Usagi wrapped her arms around his waist and hugged him tightly.
Goku leaned down to return his daughter's hug. "Your welcome sweetie." He lifted his head so he could look at Minako and Makoto. He hadn't heard them say anything. He hoped that they weren't upset about it. They had asked a few times with Usagi, but not nearly as many times as she had. He got the message that they too wanted to go. "What about you guys? Are you up to it? It's good training."
Usagi pulled herself away from her father and turned to look at her friends. "Yeah, come on you guys. It will be fun. We can finally show everyone what we are made up."
Minako and Makoto looked at each other. They didn't even have to think about it. They already knew what each other's answers were. Minako turned her head back to Usagi and smiled. "Of course we're going. We wouldn't miss this for the world." Minako spoke for Makoto.
Usagi jumped up with her hands in the air. "Yes! Yay! We get to go to the Budaki Tournament. It's going to be so much fun. Yay! Yay! Yay." Usagi was now hoping around with excitement. She had finally burst and couldn't hold it in anymore.
Goku laughed as he watched his daughter hop up and down. She was so energetic. More energetic then either of her two brothers were. He never knew where she got it. He, as a kid, had been very active, but never as active as she is. He loved her though. He loved everything about her. Her innocence, her energy, her love for life, and just her whole personality. She was a unique person indeed. He put his hand on her head to try and stop her hopping. "Usagi, calm down. If I brought you home this hyper, your mother would think I went out and got you drunk."
Minako laughed. "Mrs. Chi-Chi sure is strange."
Makoto rubbed her head. It still stung where Usagi pulled on her hair. "Yeah, and strict."
Goku looked to Minako. "Yeah, but she's not a bad person. She may yell a lot, but her intentions are good. She just wants what's best for Usagi." Goku knew that the six-year-olds didn't understand what he was talking about. They didn't understand a lot of things yet for they were still very wet behind the ears. Goku all of a sudden felt a sensation that he had never felt before in his entire life. A tingling feeling struck his nose. He tried to hold back but a sneeze found it's way out.
Usagi stopped her hopping and looked at her father. "Daddy? What was that?" Usagi had never seen her father sneeze when nothing was near his nose to tickle it.
Goku looked at the ground. Nothing seemed to come out of his nose or mouth. "I think it was a sneeze." Goku scratched his nose.
Minako and Makoto were as confused as ever. Makoto walked up to Goku as he was thinking and tugged on his GI. "Why are you so surprised? Everyone sneezes."
Goku looked down to the curious girl. She had no idea that Saiyans just don't sneeze for no reason. "You know that I'm a Saiyan." Makoto nodded as Usagi and Minako joined her in front of Goku. Goku continued. "Saiyans don't get sick. Ever. For any reason at all. That means we don't sneeze either unless something tickles our noses. That's why you have never seen Usagi," Goku raised his and pointed to Usagi, "Ever get sick. We have better resistance then humans."
Usagi listened to her father's words. He had never explained to her why she never got sick. It was just a fact of life that she didn't. "But you told me about the Trunks from the future and how he had to give you medicine."
Goku focused on Usagi. "That was a little different. That was no ordinary disease and many people died from it. I was lucky that Trunks came." Goku could see that his daughter was getting nervous. "Don't worry Usagi, there is a cure now. But anyways girls, as I was saying, I had no reason to sneeze just now. It just came out."
Usagi looked to the ground. "What does this mean? Is there another virus going around?" Her eyes widened as she grabbed her father's GI and pulled it as she looked up at him. "Are you going to die?" She could feel tears forming in her eyes.
Goku knew he had to stop he quickly. This was not the place to get emotional. "Usagi, don't worry. It was just a sneeze. Nothing is going to happen. Maybe Saiyans can just get sick when they get older. Who knows." He grabbed her arms. "There is nothing to worry about. I promise."
Usagi hoped that he was right. She didn't know what she would do without him. He was the person who held her together. The person who got her out of every bind that she had ever been in. She let go of his GI. "I'm hungry daddy."
Makoto felt her stomach growling at her to feed it. "Yeah, so am I. I'm tired too." She wanted to go home and relax. She had had a long day.
Goku looked down at the girls. He decided that he should let them stop for the day. He didn't want them to work when they were too tired and hungry to do so. It would have been too hard and they would have stopped caring. They wouldn't have done all that they could have. "Ok, I guess we should call it a day."
Usagi didn't want to part with her friends. She was too excited. She wanted to talk about the tournament with them. "Daddy? Can they come over for dinner?"
Goku rubbed his head. "Uh…I don't know about that." Goku didn't have a problem with it. He was worried about how Chi-Chi would react. Last time he just let them drop by, after they left, both him and Usagi got yelled at.
Usagi looked up at her father with begging eyes. "Please? Pretty, pretty, please?" Usagi gave him her best "puppy dog face" that she could as she walked towards him. She knew he couldn't resist it and that's why she did it.
Goku hated it when she did this to him. He just couldn't say 'no' to a face like that. She looked so cute. It had already been hard for him to say 'no' to her before, now she had to throw something like that on him. He put his hands out in front on him as he backed away from her. "Usagi, you know how much I hate it when you do that." Usagi didn't stop. "Usagi…" Goku really did not want to get yelled at by Chi-Chi again.
Makoto and Minako laughed as they watched Usagi manipulate her father. He was like putty in her hands when she did this. Goku finally stopped. "Alright, alright. They can come over."
Usagi stopped too and smiled. "Yay! Thank you daddy." She turned back to Minako and Makoto. "So, can you guys come over tonight?" Usagi hoped that they could. She knew her mother would get angry but she didn't care. She would just have to deal with getting yelled at. Usagi learned to deal with it some time ago.
Minako was the first to speak. "Yeah, I don't think my parents care. They will probably just think I'm still training anyways." Minako loved to go to Usagi's house. They always had so much fun. They usually ended up making fun of her dad.
Makoto wished she could but she couldn't. Her parents were very strict about what time she was to come home. The last time she had just up and gone to Usagi's without telling them, she was grounded for a week. "I'm sorry Usagi, my parents will go nuts if I go."
Usagi was disappointed. She really wanted both of her friends to come over. "That's alright Makoto. I understand." At least she still had Minako going with her. "So are you going home now?"
Makoto nodded. "Yeah. I guess I should." She jumped in the air. "Good bye Usagi, Good bye Minako, Good bye Goku! See you tomorrow." She waved goodbye to her friends and flew back to her home.
Usagi and Minako waved to Makoto. They watched her as she disappeared into the sunset. Usagi turned around to her father. "So, are we going to go now?"
Goku nodded. "Yeah." He turned to Minako. "Be prepared. Usagi's mother may just be a little bit upset when we get home. Don't take it personally." Goku really didn't want to listen to her again. He was getting quite tired of it lately.
Minako knew never to take any of Chi-Chi's yelling personally. She knew that she just had an anger problem. "Don't worry about it Goku. I'm never bothered by it." She turned to Usagi. "And if she does, I'll just tell her it was all your fault."
"What!? How dare you!" Usagi was ready to pounce on Minako.
"Usagi…" Goku buried his face in his hand. "Please don't start this right now." Usagi had a tendency to take things too far.
Usagi stopped what she was doing. She knew he was upset about something. She could see it. She hoped that he wasn't mad at her. "I'm sorry."
Goku picked his face up out of his hands and looked down at his daughter. "Don't be. Let's just get out of here."
~*~*~
When the trio arrived at the house, Goku made sure that the girls stayed outside. He wanted to tell Chi-Chi when Minako wasn't in the house. He found her in the kitchen, making dinner. She was humming a song to herself when he snuck up behind her and wrapped his arms around her waist.
Chi-Chi jumped. "Aaahhh!" Chi-Chi dropped her spoon in the pot of stew she was making. She turned her head to see who was there and smiled when she saw that it was just her husband. "Goku, don't sneak up on me like that. You can make someone go crazy like that." She looked back to her pot. "Now how am I supposed to get the spoon out?"
Goku buried his face in her hair that lay on her shoulder. "I'm sorry Chi-Chi."
Chi-Chi moved her eyes back to her husband. She knew he was up to something. He was never THIS loving unless something was wrong. Whether it is for good or for bad, she knew the SOMETHING was up. "Goku, what's wrong?"
~*~*~
Usagi and Minako watched them from a window of the kitchen. Usagi didn't know what they were doing. She had never seen her parents do that before. "Minako, what is daddy doing to mamma?"
Minako looked over to Usagi. She couldn't believe that she didn't know what her father was doing. "He's hugging her. All parents do that. My parents call it "adult time" and I'm not allowed to be around when they have that time."
Usagi was confused. Her mother should have been yelling at the top of her lungs by now. Instead they were hugging. "Well do you think it's safe to walk in? Mamma hasn't yelled yet, maybe she won't yell at all." A sound of hope came out with Usagi's words. She poked Minako in the arm, who was still looking in the window. "Come on, let's go."
Minako pulled herself away from the window and stared at Usagi. "Are you sure we should?" She peered back in the window. They seemed to be talking now.
Usagi grabbed her friends arm and pulled her. "It's fine. Let's just get inside. I have something I want to do. Hehehe." Usagi grinned evilly.
~*~*~
Goku stared at Chi-Chi's jet black eyes. He didn't want to make her angry. She was so happy and seemed content with him. "Nothing is wrong Chi-Chi, honest." Chi-Chi wasn't sure what was going on. She wasn't sure if she should believe him or not. Goku got closer to her face. His lips neared hers. She closed her eyes, ready for the kiss.
"Hey mamma, hey daddy! What cha' doin?" Usagi burst into the room and ran to the table. Minako followed her in. She wasn't sure if she should be there. She didn't think that Goku had told Chi-Chi about her being there.
Goku and Chi-Chi pulled away from each other, quickly. Chi-Chi went back to her stew while Goku turned around and glared at the intruders. Sometimes having a small child around the house was not a good thing. They could never do anything with them around. Goku bent over and rested his hands on the table. He lowered his head so he would be eye level with his daughter as she crawled up on the chair and sat on her knees. He had a hint of a smile on his face. "What are you doing in here? I thought I told you to stay outside."
Usagi, wide eyed as ever, knew that they were trying to hide something from her. She looked at her father and then glanced over at her mother. "What were you guys doing in here?" She curiously looked back at her father.
Minako tired to hold back a giggle. She knew what they were going to do. She also knew that if Usagi continued her questions her parents wouldn't be able to answer. Minako had asked her parents MANY questions a few months ago and her parents' faces turned beet red. She couldn't understand why. All she asked was where babies came from and they totally freaked out. They never even told her. It was from a moment like this that her question arose. That's when she learned about "Adult Time".
Goku moved in closer to his daughter and put his finger on her nose. "That, young lady, is none of your business." She would find out soon enough. She didn't need to know now. He turned his head back to his wife. She hadn't seemed to notice that they had a guest. "Chi-Chi, I have something I want to tell you." He got up from the table. "Umm…you see…Usagi wanted to have Minako over for dinner…and well…I said she could." Goku backed up so he would not be within the firing range of her anger.
Chi-Chi turned around to Minako and smiled. "Hello Minako." She turned to Goku. "I knew that already Goku. I'm not an idiot." She turned back to her cooking.
Minako smiled. "Hello Mrs. Chi-Chi."
Goku and Usagi were both relieved. They hadn't expected Chi-Chi to be calm about it. Goku sat down at the table again and sighed. 'I guess I made her really happy or something. Otherwise she would have gone ballistic.' He turned to his daughter who was still sitting on her knees. Minako stood behind her. "Usagi, tell your mother about your day at school."
Usagi shot her eyes open as wide as they go. She turned her head to her father so she could look in straight in the eyes. "What? What are you doing daddy?" Usagi didn't want to tell her mother. She knew that she would just end up getting in trouble. She always did. In her mother's mind, the teacher was never wrong.
Goku nodded. "Go ahead. If you don't, I will. Your mother needs to know."
Chi-Chi turned around and crossed her arms. She stared at her daughter and husband. "What do I need to know?"
Goku glanced at his wife and then back at his daughter. It was obvious that she wasn't going to say anything so he turned his head back so he could look at Chi-Chi while he spoke to her. "It seems as though her teacher has taken a liking to picking on Usagi. He keeps sending notes home for her to get signed telling us how stupid she is, and how she is the dumbest kid in the class." Goku could see the fire beginning in Chi-Chi's eyes.
Usagi jumped off of her chair and ran behind her father and covered his mouth with her hands. She looked up at her mother and smiled. "He doesn't know what he's talking about, mamma."
Chi-Chi was angry. She was angry with two people. Herself and her daughter's teacher. "Don't worry. I'm not going to yell at you. What did you do Goku?"
Goku pulled his daughter's hands off of his mouth. "I did what any sensible parent would do. I told him if he doesn't stop harassing her, he would have to deal with me." Goku felt the tingling sensation in his nose again and sneezed. He rubbed his nose. "Excuse me."
Chi-Chi was surprised. "Goku, did you just sneeze?"
"Yeah, that's the second time today." Goku stood up and got some tissue from the family room and blew his nose.
Chi-Chi and the girls followed him in. "Goku, you never sneeze. You aren't getting sick are you?" Chi-Chi never wanted to see him get sick again. She had been through that once before and hoped that she never had to do it again.
Goku through the tissue away in a little garbage bin that sat on the floor next to the table that the phone sat on. "I know. I keep sneezing for some reason though. I'm not getting sick. Saiyans never get sick." He could feel his nose getting plugged up as he spoke. 'What's wrong with me?'
~*~*~
Half way home, Makoto stopped flying so she could walk. She wanted to enjoy the sunset while it lasted. The air smelled extra clean that day too. She was enjoying herself quite nicely. She passed the park where she had met Usagi. She remembered that day quite well. She remembered the match that she and Usagi fought. She remembered why she had called the match. That was probably one of the best things that she could have done. She got to meet some really strong people after she met her.
~*~*~
"Is that the girl boss?" A man dressed in all black from head to toe lurked behind a tree as he watched Makoto walk by.
"Yeah, she is the daughter of that Saiyan. She has to be. A saiyan is not capable of producing a golden haired offspring."
"Right. We will keep her under close surveillance."
~*~*~
Minako sat in Usagi's room with her. She was playing with one of Usagi's hand held video games. "So, what did you want to do so badly that it just couldn't wait until after your dad talked to your mom?"
Usagi got her evil grin back as she sat in her swivel chair. "I want to play a game with daddy." Usagi pulled a purple box out from underneath her bed.
Minako took one look at the box and knew exactly what her friend was thinking inside her little head. She rubbed her hands together. "Let's have some fun, Usagi."
Usagi nodded. "Yeah." She walked to her window and saw her father doing some training by himself. "This WILL be fun." She turned back to her friend. "Ok. Let's go get him."
Usagi and Minako left the room and walked down the hallway that led into the living room. Usagi noticed her mother in the kitchen. She was still standing over the stove stirring her stew. "Hi mamma. When is dinner going to be ready?" Usagi wanted to have enough time to do what she wanted to do.
Chi-Chi turned her head and looked into the family room. "Hi Usagi, hi Minako. Dinner will be ready in about a half-hour. Tell your father for me. Tell him to get cleaned up too."
Usagi turned to the door. "Ok! Come on Minako. Let's get daddy cleaned up for dinner."
"Yeah, this should be REALLY fun." Minako followed Usagi out of the house. She saw Goku sparring with an imaginary partner. "Goku!"
Goku turned and looked at the house. He saw Usagi and Minako running for him. He smiled. "Is dinner ready?" Goku was starving. He hadn't eaten since right before he picked up the girls for sparring practice. His nose was also still stuffed up.
The girls each grabbed one of Goku's arms. Usagi started walking back to the house first. "Not yet, but come on. Mamma says we have to get you cleaned up for dinner." Minako began pulling on his other arm.
Goku allowed his daughter and her friend to pull him closer to the house. He couldn't figure out why they were so eager to get him cleaned up though. He didn't think he was THAT dirty. "What's the rush girls?" Neither of them answered, they just pulled him faster as they giggled. He knew they were up to something.
~*~*~
Minako slammed the door shut when they finally got back to Usagi's room. She walked up to Usagi's pink swivel chair that sat at her desk. "Please Goku, sit down."
Goku suspiciously looked at Usagi and Minako's face. He wasn't sure he wanted to sit down. "Shouldn't I wash up in the bathroom?" He turned to walk out of his daughter's room.
Seeing this, Usagi raced past her father and blocked the door with her body. She didn't want her plan for fun ruined. She smiled as she looked up at her father. "Please sit down daddy. We just want to play a game with you. It won't be fun without you." He didn't seem to react. "Pleeeeese?"
There was that face again. He just couldn't resist it. He knew he was going to live to regret his next action. "Alright." He sighed as he walked back to the chair and sat down in it. "What's this game called Usagi?" He looked into the mirror that sat in front of him. He had a pretty good hunch about what it would be called.
Usagi walked up behind her father and smiled. "It's called 'Let's make daddy look pretty'." She opened the purple box that sat to his left.
Goku was right. Usagi did want to put makeup on him. Vejita once warned him about this. He once told him to never be pulled into your daughter's room if they seem like they are up to something. Goku had been warned, and had not listened to the warning. 'Oh god. This is going to be interesting.' He looked in the box. In it was all the makeup that Bra had gotten her for her last birthday. He would have to thank her for it one of these days.
Usagi picked up one of her brushes. "Ok daddy, first, I'm going to comb your hair. It's really messy." She began to run the brush through his wild hair. "While I'm doing this, Minako is going to put nail polish on your fingers."
Goku wished that he hadn't agreed to this. If either of his sons saw him like this, it would be all over for him. He would never live this day down. He didn't even want to think about what Vejita would do. He looked over to Minako, who was applying bright red nail polish onto his fingers. His head was harshly pulled back by Usagi's brushing. "Usagi, take it easy. That hurts."
Usagi set the brush down. "Sorry." She examined his hair for a few minutes. "Well, your hair doesn't want to be good, so I'll put it up in pig tails." She smiled. "Then you can look kind of like me. Wouldn't that be cool daddy."
Goku rolled his eyes. "Yeah, real cool." 'What have I gotten myself into.' He looked over at Minako again, she had just finished up with his nails. "Are you finished now?"
Minako stood up from kneeling. She shook her head. "Nope. I still have to put your makeup on." She rummaged through the box full of makeup and found the perfect colors. Her job was only do one side. Usagi wanted to do the other. She found a container of dark blue eye shadow. She held it up to his eyes. "This looks nice." She opened it up and began to put it on hie right eye.
Goku was kicking himself inside. He couldn't believe he was letting them do this. He couldn't back out now. "How long is this going to take?" He looked straightforward into the mirror and saw that Usagi had finished with his hair. She had managed to put it up into two pigtails on the top of his head. 'Oh god, what will Chi-Chi think?'
Usagi grabbed the box of makeup and looked through it. She noticed that Minako was already done with everything except for the lipstick, which she was applying at the moment. "I don't like the blue eye shadow…I like purple." She opened up the container of purple eye shadow and put on her father.
Minako jumped back from Goku. "Done!" She explained to both of them. She looked at his face. "I think he looks cute, Usagi."
Usagi stopped what she was doing and looked at her father's face. "He does. You hear that daddy, you look cute."
Goku groaned as he looked at himself in the mirror. Usagi put orange blush on him while Minako had put on pink. Usagi was now putting on bright blue lipstick. Minako put on red. He looked like a clown. He would never let Usagi do this to him again. He would make sure of that. "Are you finished yet?"
Usagi pulled back a ways, she wanted to look at her father from afar to see if it looked good. She smiled. "That looks cool daddy. But you're missing something." She pulled out a small compact and opened it. White powder sat inside under a small pad. She pulled the pad out and quickly applied the powder to her father's face making everything a little bit more pail, which was ok with Goku because all of the make up was on way to thick. Usagi stepped back again. She grabbed her chin. "Nope, still missing something. I know." She went to her jewelry box and pulled out a fake pearl necklace and fake pearl clip on earrings. Her mother wouldn't let her pierce her ears so she had to get clip on earrings. She ran back to her father and put on the earrings and necklace. She grabbed his hand and pulled him out of the chair. She turned back to Minako. "What do you think?"
"Perfect, just perfect."
Goku stood with bright orange blush on one cheek, with bright pink on the other. He had one Blue eye and the other purple. One side of his lips was red and the other was blue. His hair was done up in pigtails. He looked at himself in the mirror and sighed. 'Girls. What a bother.'
Usagi grabbed her father's arm. "Come on daddy. Let's go show mamma." Usagi pulled her father out of her room. Minako waited for them to leave before she left. She wanted to make sure that Goku didn't try to run away. She laughed as they walked to the kitchen.
~*~*~
Usagi pulled her father into the kitchen. "Look mamma. Look at daddy!"
Chi-Chi put some spices in the stew. "Honey I can't be bothered right now I…" She looked over at her daughter and was shocked at what she saw. "Oh my god…" She walked up to Goku to look at him closely. "What did they do to you Goku?"
Goku wanted to get that crap off of his face as soon as possible. "They made me over."
Chi-Chi stood back and laughed. "I guess so. You do look so beautiful though. I may have to get jealous if some man checks you out."
Goku sarcastically laughed along with his wife. "That's right Chi-Chi, keep laughing. It will happen to you one of these days. Just you watch."
Chi-Chi walked back to her stew. "Well, dinner is ready."
Goku turned around to go to the bathroom. His daughter and Minako stopped him. "What?"
Minako held her hand out. "Where do you think you're going?" Minako knew where he was going, she just wanted to catch him in the act.
Goku hoped they didn't expect him to stay like that. "I'm going to wash all this off."
Usagi looked up at her father. "You don't like it?"
Goku shook his head. "Of course I like it. I love it. I just don't want your mother to get jealous of someone who can attract more men then her." Goku looked back at his frowning wife. Usagi and Minako didn't have the foggiest idea what he meant by that.
Chi-Chi put 4 plates on the table. "Oh that's ok dear. I think it's lovely. I think you should keep it on all night."
Goku wanted to scream out 'no' but didn't because he didn't want to hurt his daughter and Minako's feelings. He knew that this was how Chi-Chi was getting him back for inviting Minako over. He knew he couldn't get off that easily. He faked a smile as he looked down at the two wide-eyed children. "Well I guess I have to…I mean get to stay beautiful." Out of no where, Goku sneezed again.
(Ok, that's it for this chapter. What do you think of this part? Is it good or bad? Please review, thank you ^_^)
Goku could tell that his daughter was incredibly happy. He loved to see her happy but he liked to be the one to make her happy even more. It made him feel good inside. He nodded as he looked down at his daughter, who was barely able to control her excitement. She looked as if she was about to burst. "Yes, I entered you. I didn't tell you until now because I wanted to see if it was something you really wanted to do."
Usagi threw herself to her father's arms as she smiled. "Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you daddy! This is so perfect!" Usagi wrapped her arms around his waist and hugged him tightly.
Goku leaned down to return his daughter's hug. "Your welcome sweetie." He lifted his head so he could look at Minako and Makoto. He hadn't heard them say anything. He hoped that they weren't upset about it. They had asked a few times with Usagi, but not nearly as many times as she had. He got the message that they too wanted to go. "What about you guys? Are you up to it? It's good training."
Usagi pulled herself away from her father and turned to look at her friends. "Yeah, come on you guys. It will be fun. We can finally show everyone what we are made up."
Minako and Makoto looked at each other. They didn't even have to think about it. They already knew what each other's answers were. Minako turned her head back to Usagi and smiled. "Of course we're going. We wouldn't miss this for the world." Minako spoke for Makoto.
Usagi jumped up with her hands in the air. "Yes! Yay! We get to go to the Budaki Tournament. It's going to be so much fun. Yay! Yay! Yay." Usagi was now hoping around with excitement. She had finally burst and couldn't hold it in anymore.
Goku laughed as he watched his daughter hop up and down. She was so energetic. More energetic then either of her two brothers were. He never knew where she got it. He, as a kid, had been very active, but never as active as she is. He loved her though. He loved everything about her. Her innocence, her energy, her love for life, and just her whole personality. She was a unique person indeed. He put his hand on her head to try and stop her hopping. "Usagi, calm down. If I brought you home this hyper, your mother would think I went out and got you drunk."
Minako laughed. "Mrs. Chi-Chi sure is strange."
Makoto rubbed her head. It still stung where Usagi pulled on her hair. "Yeah, and strict."
Goku looked to Minako. "Yeah, but she's not a bad person. She may yell a lot, but her intentions are good. She just wants what's best for Usagi." Goku knew that the six-year-olds didn't understand what he was talking about. They didn't understand a lot of things yet for they were still very wet behind the ears. Goku all of a sudden felt a sensation that he had never felt before in his entire life. A tingling feeling struck his nose. He tried to hold back but a sneeze found it's way out.
Usagi stopped her hopping and looked at her father. "Daddy? What was that?" Usagi had never seen her father sneeze when nothing was near his nose to tickle it.
Goku looked at the ground. Nothing seemed to come out of his nose or mouth. "I think it was a sneeze." Goku scratched his nose.
Minako and Makoto were as confused as ever. Makoto walked up to Goku as he was thinking and tugged on his GI. "Why are you so surprised? Everyone sneezes."
Goku looked down to the curious girl. She had no idea that Saiyans just don't sneeze for no reason. "You know that I'm a Saiyan." Makoto nodded as Usagi and Minako joined her in front of Goku. Goku continued. "Saiyans don't get sick. Ever. For any reason at all. That means we don't sneeze either unless something tickles our noses. That's why you have never seen Usagi," Goku raised his and pointed to Usagi, "Ever get sick. We have better resistance then humans."
Usagi listened to her father's words. He had never explained to her why she never got sick. It was just a fact of life that she didn't. "But you told me about the Trunks from the future and how he had to give you medicine."
Goku focused on Usagi. "That was a little different. That was no ordinary disease and many people died from it. I was lucky that Trunks came." Goku could see that his daughter was getting nervous. "Don't worry Usagi, there is a cure now. But anyways girls, as I was saying, I had no reason to sneeze just now. It just came out."
Usagi looked to the ground. "What does this mean? Is there another virus going around?" Her eyes widened as she grabbed her father's GI and pulled it as she looked up at him. "Are you going to die?" She could feel tears forming in her eyes.
Goku knew he had to stop he quickly. This was not the place to get emotional. "Usagi, don't worry. It was just a sneeze. Nothing is going to happen. Maybe Saiyans can just get sick when they get older. Who knows." He grabbed her arms. "There is nothing to worry about. I promise."
Usagi hoped that he was right. She didn't know what she would do without him. He was the person who held her together. The person who got her out of every bind that she had ever been in. She let go of his GI. "I'm hungry daddy."
Makoto felt her stomach growling at her to feed it. "Yeah, so am I. I'm tired too." She wanted to go home and relax. She had had a long day.
Goku looked down at the girls. He decided that he should let them stop for the day. He didn't want them to work when they were too tired and hungry to do so. It would have been too hard and they would have stopped caring. They wouldn't have done all that they could have. "Ok, I guess we should call it a day."
Usagi didn't want to part with her friends. She was too excited. She wanted to talk about the tournament with them. "Daddy? Can they come over for dinner?"
Goku rubbed his head. "Uh…I don't know about that." Goku didn't have a problem with it. He was worried about how Chi-Chi would react. Last time he just let them drop by, after they left, both him and Usagi got yelled at.
Usagi looked up at her father with begging eyes. "Please? Pretty, pretty, please?" Usagi gave him her best "puppy dog face" that she could as she walked towards him. She knew he couldn't resist it and that's why she did it.
Goku hated it when she did this to him. He just couldn't say 'no' to a face like that. She looked so cute. It had already been hard for him to say 'no' to her before, now she had to throw something like that on him. He put his hands out in front on him as he backed away from her. "Usagi, you know how much I hate it when you do that." Usagi didn't stop. "Usagi…" Goku really did not want to get yelled at by Chi-Chi again.
Makoto and Minako laughed as they watched Usagi manipulate her father. He was like putty in her hands when she did this. Goku finally stopped. "Alright, alright. They can come over."
Usagi stopped too and smiled. "Yay! Thank you daddy." She turned back to Minako and Makoto. "So, can you guys come over tonight?" Usagi hoped that they could. She knew her mother would get angry but she didn't care. She would just have to deal with getting yelled at. Usagi learned to deal with it some time ago.
Minako was the first to speak. "Yeah, I don't think my parents care. They will probably just think I'm still training anyways." Minako loved to go to Usagi's house. They always had so much fun. They usually ended up making fun of her dad.
Makoto wished she could but she couldn't. Her parents were very strict about what time she was to come home. The last time she had just up and gone to Usagi's without telling them, she was grounded for a week. "I'm sorry Usagi, my parents will go nuts if I go."
Usagi was disappointed. She really wanted both of her friends to come over. "That's alright Makoto. I understand." At least she still had Minako going with her. "So are you going home now?"
Makoto nodded. "Yeah. I guess I should." She jumped in the air. "Good bye Usagi, Good bye Minako, Good bye Goku! See you tomorrow." She waved goodbye to her friends and flew back to her home.
Usagi and Minako waved to Makoto. They watched her as she disappeared into the sunset. Usagi turned around to her father. "So, are we going to go now?"
Goku nodded. "Yeah." He turned to Minako. "Be prepared. Usagi's mother may just be a little bit upset when we get home. Don't take it personally." Goku really didn't want to listen to her again. He was getting quite tired of it lately.
Minako knew never to take any of Chi-Chi's yelling personally. She knew that she just had an anger problem. "Don't worry about it Goku. I'm never bothered by it." She turned to Usagi. "And if she does, I'll just tell her it was all your fault."
"What!? How dare you!" Usagi was ready to pounce on Minako.
"Usagi…" Goku buried his face in his hand. "Please don't start this right now." Usagi had a tendency to take things too far.
Usagi stopped what she was doing. She knew he was upset about something. She could see it. She hoped that he wasn't mad at her. "I'm sorry."
Goku picked his face up out of his hands and looked down at his daughter. "Don't be. Let's just get out of here."
~*~*~
When the trio arrived at the house, Goku made sure that the girls stayed outside. He wanted to tell Chi-Chi when Minako wasn't in the house. He found her in the kitchen, making dinner. She was humming a song to herself when he snuck up behind her and wrapped his arms around her waist.
Chi-Chi jumped. "Aaahhh!" Chi-Chi dropped her spoon in the pot of stew she was making. She turned her head to see who was there and smiled when she saw that it was just her husband. "Goku, don't sneak up on me like that. You can make someone go crazy like that." She looked back to her pot. "Now how am I supposed to get the spoon out?"
Goku buried his face in her hair that lay on her shoulder. "I'm sorry Chi-Chi."
Chi-Chi moved her eyes back to her husband. She knew he was up to something. He was never THIS loving unless something was wrong. Whether it is for good or for bad, she knew the SOMETHING was up. "Goku, what's wrong?"
~*~*~
Usagi and Minako watched them from a window of the kitchen. Usagi didn't know what they were doing. She had never seen her parents do that before. "Minako, what is daddy doing to mamma?"
Minako looked over to Usagi. She couldn't believe that she didn't know what her father was doing. "He's hugging her. All parents do that. My parents call it "adult time" and I'm not allowed to be around when they have that time."
Usagi was confused. Her mother should have been yelling at the top of her lungs by now. Instead they were hugging. "Well do you think it's safe to walk in? Mamma hasn't yelled yet, maybe she won't yell at all." A sound of hope came out with Usagi's words. She poked Minako in the arm, who was still looking in the window. "Come on, let's go."
Minako pulled herself away from the window and stared at Usagi. "Are you sure we should?" She peered back in the window. They seemed to be talking now.
Usagi grabbed her friends arm and pulled her. "It's fine. Let's just get inside. I have something I want to do. Hehehe." Usagi grinned evilly.
~*~*~
Goku stared at Chi-Chi's jet black eyes. He didn't want to make her angry. She was so happy and seemed content with him. "Nothing is wrong Chi-Chi, honest." Chi-Chi wasn't sure what was going on. She wasn't sure if she should believe him or not. Goku got closer to her face. His lips neared hers. She closed her eyes, ready for the kiss.
"Hey mamma, hey daddy! What cha' doin?" Usagi burst into the room and ran to the table. Minako followed her in. She wasn't sure if she should be there. She didn't think that Goku had told Chi-Chi about her being there.
Goku and Chi-Chi pulled away from each other, quickly. Chi-Chi went back to her stew while Goku turned around and glared at the intruders. Sometimes having a small child around the house was not a good thing. They could never do anything with them around. Goku bent over and rested his hands on the table. He lowered his head so he would be eye level with his daughter as she crawled up on the chair and sat on her knees. He had a hint of a smile on his face. "What are you doing in here? I thought I told you to stay outside."
Usagi, wide eyed as ever, knew that they were trying to hide something from her. She looked at her father and then glanced over at her mother. "What were you guys doing in here?" She curiously looked back at her father.
Minako tired to hold back a giggle. She knew what they were going to do. She also knew that if Usagi continued her questions her parents wouldn't be able to answer. Minako had asked her parents MANY questions a few months ago and her parents' faces turned beet red. She couldn't understand why. All she asked was where babies came from and they totally freaked out. They never even told her. It was from a moment like this that her question arose. That's when she learned about "Adult Time".
Goku moved in closer to his daughter and put his finger on her nose. "That, young lady, is none of your business." She would find out soon enough. She didn't need to know now. He turned his head back to his wife. She hadn't seemed to notice that they had a guest. "Chi-Chi, I have something I want to tell you." He got up from the table. "Umm…you see…Usagi wanted to have Minako over for dinner…and well…I said she could." Goku backed up so he would not be within the firing range of her anger.
Chi-Chi turned around to Minako and smiled. "Hello Minako." She turned to Goku. "I knew that already Goku. I'm not an idiot." She turned back to her cooking.
Minako smiled. "Hello Mrs. Chi-Chi."
Goku and Usagi were both relieved. They hadn't expected Chi-Chi to be calm about it. Goku sat down at the table again and sighed. 'I guess I made her really happy or something. Otherwise she would have gone ballistic.' He turned to his daughter who was still sitting on her knees. Minako stood behind her. "Usagi, tell your mother about your day at school."
Usagi shot her eyes open as wide as they go. She turned her head to her father so she could look in straight in the eyes. "What? What are you doing daddy?" Usagi didn't want to tell her mother. She knew that she would just end up getting in trouble. She always did. In her mother's mind, the teacher was never wrong.
Goku nodded. "Go ahead. If you don't, I will. Your mother needs to know."
Chi-Chi turned around and crossed her arms. She stared at her daughter and husband. "What do I need to know?"
Goku glanced at his wife and then back at his daughter. It was obvious that she wasn't going to say anything so he turned his head back so he could look at Chi-Chi while he spoke to her. "It seems as though her teacher has taken a liking to picking on Usagi. He keeps sending notes home for her to get signed telling us how stupid she is, and how she is the dumbest kid in the class." Goku could see the fire beginning in Chi-Chi's eyes.
Usagi jumped off of her chair and ran behind her father and covered his mouth with her hands. She looked up at her mother and smiled. "He doesn't know what he's talking about, mamma."
Chi-Chi was angry. She was angry with two people. Herself and her daughter's teacher. "Don't worry. I'm not going to yell at you. What did you do Goku?"
Goku pulled his daughter's hands off of his mouth. "I did what any sensible parent would do. I told him if he doesn't stop harassing her, he would have to deal with me." Goku felt the tingling sensation in his nose again and sneezed. He rubbed his nose. "Excuse me."
Chi-Chi was surprised. "Goku, did you just sneeze?"
"Yeah, that's the second time today." Goku stood up and got some tissue from the family room and blew his nose.
Chi-Chi and the girls followed him in. "Goku, you never sneeze. You aren't getting sick are you?" Chi-Chi never wanted to see him get sick again. She had been through that once before and hoped that she never had to do it again.
Goku through the tissue away in a little garbage bin that sat on the floor next to the table that the phone sat on. "I know. I keep sneezing for some reason though. I'm not getting sick. Saiyans never get sick." He could feel his nose getting plugged up as he spoke. 'What's wrong with me?'
~*~*~
Half way home, Makoto stopped flying so she could walk. She wanted to enjoy the sunset while it lasted. The air smelled extra clean that day too. She was enjoying herself quite nicely. She passed the park where she had met Usagi. She remembered that day quite well. She remembered the match that she and Usagi fought. She remembered why she had called the match. That was probably one of the best things that she could have done. She got to meet some really strong people after she met her.
~*~*~
"Is that the girl boss?" A man dressed in all black from head to toe lurked behind a tree as he watched Makoto walk by.
"Yeah, she is the daughter of that Saiyan. She has to be. A saiyan is not capable of producing a golden haired offspring."
"Right. We will keep her under close surveillance."
~*~*~
Minako sat in Usagi's room with her. She was playing with one of Usagi's hand held video games. "So, what did you want to do so badly that it just couldn't wait until after your dad talked to your mom?"
Usagi got her evil grin back as she sat in her swivel chair. "I want to play a game with daddy." Usagi pulled a purple box out from underneath her bed.
Minako took one look at the box and knew exactly what her friend was thinking inside her little head. She rubbed her hands together. "Let's have some fun, Usagi."
Usagi nodded. "Yeah." She walked to her window and saw her father doing some training by himself. "This WILL be fun." She turned back to her friend. "Ok. Let's go get him."
Usagi and Minako left the room and walked down the hallway that led into the living room. Usagi noticed her mother in the kitchen. She was still standing over the stove stirring her stew. "Hi mamma. When is dinner going to be ready?" Usagi wanted to have enough time to do what she wanted to do.
Chi-Chi turned her head and looked into the family room. "Hi Usagi, hi Minako. Dinner will be ready in about a half-hour. Tell your father for me. Tell him to get cleaned up too."
Usagi turned to the door. "Ok! Come on Minako. Let's get daddy cleaned up for dinner."
"Yeah, this should be REALLY fun." Minako followed Usagi out of the house. She saw Goku sparring with an imaginary partner. "Goku!"
Goku turned and looked at the house. He saw Usagi and Minako running for him. He smiled. "Is dinner ready?" Goku was starving. He hadn't eaten since right before he picked up the girls for sparring practice. His nose was also still stuffed up.
The girls each grabbed one of Goku's arms. Usagi started walking back to the house first. "Not yet, but come on. Mamma says we have to get you cleaned up for dinner." Minako began pulling on his other arm.
Goku allowed his daughter and her friend to pull him closer to the house. He couldn't figure out why they were so eager to get him cleaned up though. He didn't think he was THAT dirty. "What's the rush girls?" Neither of them answered, they just pulled him faster as they giggled. He knew they were up to something.
~*~*~
Minako slammed the door shut when they finally got back to Usagi's room. She walked up to Usagi's pink swivel chair that sat at her desk. "Please Goku, sit down."
Goku suspiciously looked at Usagi and Minako's face. He wasn't sure he wanted to sit down. "Shouldn't I wash up in the bathroom?" He turned to walk out of his daughter's room.
Seeing this, Usagi raced past her father and blocked the door with her body. She didn't want her plan for fun ruined. She smiled as she looked up at her father. "Please sit down daddy. We just want to play a game with you. It won't be fun without you." He didn't seem to react. "Pleeeeese?"
There was that face again. He just couldn't resist it. He knew he was going to live to regret his next action. "Alright." He sighed as he walked back to the chair and sat down in it. "What's this game called Usagi?" He looked into the mirror that sat in front of him. He had a pretty good hunch about what it would be called.
Usagi walked up behind her father and smiled. "It's called 'Let's make daddy look pretty'." She opened the purple box that sat to his left.
Goku was right. Usagi did want to put makeup on him. Vejita once warned him about this. He once told him to never be pulled into your daughter's room if they seem like they are up to something. Goku had been warned, and had not listened to the warning. 'Oh god. This is going to be interesting.' He looked in the box. In it was all the makeup that Bra had gotten her for her last birthday. He would have to thank her for it one of these days.
Usagi picked up one of her brushes. "Ok daddy, first, I'm going to comb your hair. It's really messy." She began to run the brush through his wild hair. "While I'm doing this, Minako is going to put nail polish on your fingers."
Goku wished that he hadn't agreed to this. If either of his sons saw him like this, it would be all over for him. He would never live this day down. He didn't even want to think about what Vejita would do. He looked over to Minako, who was applying bright red nail polish onto his fingers. His head was harshly pulled back by Usagi's brushing. "Usagi, take it easy. That hurts."
Usagi set the brush down. "Sorry." She examined his hair for a few minutes. "Well, your hair doesn't want to be good, so I'll put it up in pig tails." She smiled. "Then you can look kind of like me. Wouldn't that be cool daddy."
Goku rolled his eyes. "Yeah, real cool." 'What have I gotten myself into.' He looked over at Minako again, she had just finished up with his nails. "Are you finished now?"
Minako stood up from kneeling. She shook her head. "Nope. I still have to put your makeup on." She rummaged through the box full of makeup and found the perfect colors. Her job was only do one side. Usagi wanted to do the other. She found a container of dark blue eye shadow. She held it up to his eyes. "This looks nice." She opened it up and began to put it on hie right eye.
Goku was kicking himself inside. He couldn't believe he was letting them do this. He couldn't back out now. "How long is this going to take?" He looked straightforward into the mirror and saw that Usagi had finished with his hair. She had managed to put it up into two pigtails on the top of his head. 'Oh god, what will Chi-Chi think?'
Usagi grabbed the box of makeup and looked through it. She noticed that Minako was already done with everything except for the lipstick, which she was applying at the moment. "I don't like the blue eye shadow…I like purple." She opened up the container of purple eye shadow and put on her father.
Minako jumped back from Goku. "Done!" She explained to both of them. She looked at his face. "I think he looks cute, Usagi."
Usagi stopped what she was doing and looked at her father's face. "He does. You hear that daddy, you look cute."
Goku groaned as he looked at himself in the mirror. Usagi put orange blush on him while Minako had put on pink. Usagi was now putting on bright blue lipstick. Minako put on red. He looked like a clown. He would never let Usagi do this to him again. He would make sure of that. "Are you finished yet?"
Usagi pulled back a ways, she wanted to look at her father from afar to see if it looked good. She smiled. "That looks cool daddy. But you're missing something." She pulled out a small compact and opened it. White powder sat inside under a small pad. She pulled the pad out and quickly applied the powder to her father's face making everything a little bit more pail, which was ok with Goku because all of the make up was on way to thick. Usagi stepped back again. She grabbed her chin. "Nope, still missing something. I know." She went to her jewelry box and pulled out a fake pearl necklace and fake pearl clip on earrings. Her mother wouldn't let her pierce her ears so she had to get clip on earrings. She ran back to her father and put on the earrings and necklace. She grabbed his hand and pulled him out of the chair. She turned back to Minako. "What do you think?"
"Perfect, just perfect."
Goku stood with bright orange blush on one cheek, with bright pink on the other. He had one Blue eye and the other purple. One side of his lips was red and the other was blue. His hair was done up in pigtails. He looked at himself in the mirror and sighed. 'Girls. What a bother.'
Usagi grabbed her father's arm. "Come on daddy. Let's go show mamma." Usagi pulled her father out of her room. Minako waited for them to leave before she left. She wanted to make sure that Goku didn't try to run away. She laughed as they walked to the kitchen.
~*~*~
Usagi pulled her father into the kitchen. "Look mamma. Look at daddy!"
Chi-Chi put some spices in the stew. "Honey I can't be bothered right now I…" She looked over at her daughter and was shocked at what she saw. "Oh my god…" She walked up to Goku to look at him closely. "What did they do to you Goku?"
Goku wanted to get that crap off of his face as soon as possible. "They made me over."
Chi-Chi stood back and laughed. "I guess so. You do look so beautiful though. I may have to get jealous if some man checks you out."
Goku sarcastically laughed along with his wife. "That's right Chi-Chi, keep laughing. It will happen to you one of these days. Just you watch."
Chi-Chi walked back to her stew. "Well, dinner is ready."
Goku turned around to go to the bathroom. His daughter and Minako stopped him. "What?"
Minako held her hand out. "Where do you think you're going?" Minako knew where he was going, she just wanted to catch him in the act.
Goku hoped they didn't expect him to stay like that. "I'm going to wash all this off."
Usagi looked up at her father. "You don't like it?"
Goku shook his head. "Of course I like it. I love it. I just don't want your mother to get jealous of someone who can attract more men then her." Goku looked back at his frowning wife. Usagi and Minako didn't have the foggiest idea what he meant by that.
Chi-Chi put 4 plates on the table. "Oh that's ok dear. I think it's lovely. I think you should keep it on all night."
Goku wanted to scream out 'no' but didn't because he didn't want to hurt his daughter and Minako's feelings. He knew that this was how Chi-Chi was getting him back for inviting Minako over. He knew he couldn't get off that easily. He faked a smile as he looked down at the two wide-eyed children. "Well I guess I have to…I mean get to stay beautiful." Out of no where, Goku sneezed again.
(Ok, that's it for this chapter. What do you think of this part? Is it good or bad? Please review, thank you ^_^)