One year later…(Usagi is now nearly eight years old.)
Not much had happened since Kiro and his gang attacked the Saiyans. After that day, everyone pretty much went on with their lives. Rei learned how to fight with the help of Goku's training. She finally gave into letting him teach her how to fight using energy. She actually enjoyed it quite a bit and found fighting a good way to get away from the stress of everyday life. She, Minako, Makoto, and Usagi were now inseparable. They would not go anywhere unless they were all together. They had begged Rei's grandfather to let her go to the public school. But he insisted that she wouldn't learn anything from going to a public school.
Usagi had done as her father told her and stayed away from Mamoru. It wasn't that hard this past year for the fact that him, Haruka, and Michiru had left the school she was at, and left to go to middle school, which overjoyed her. She no longer had to put up with their harassment. She knew that he was right about her being weaker then him. He had finally taught them how to read power levels. The first person that Usagi read was Mamoru's. And he had an exceptionally larger power level then her own. But just because her father wouldn't let her go near Mamoru now, didn't mean that she would NEVER be able to go near him. Usagi waited in anticipation for the day that she could pay Mamoru back. She was getting stronger and stronger every day and knew that one day very soon, she would surpass him. It was inevitable.
Usagi sat outside her house, in the dark, trying to figure out how to configure her attack into a long range attack instead of her having to grab the person and holding her energy. She wasn't quite sure how she was going to do it. She didn't even know how she created it in the first place. She had kind of just stumbled on it.
~*~*~
Goku looked out the window of his room and watched his daughter outside. 'She's grown so much.' He remembered back to when she was only five. Back to when she first started school. Back to when she first learned how to fight. He couldn't believe how much she had learned in just two and half-short years. It was amazing. He was very proud of her. Even her friends were making great progress. They were making more progress then he had ever seen any humans do though. One thing still bothered him though. He still wanted to know what kind of power Usagi really had in her. He often found himself wondering about that. The power that he felt coming from her that day was enormous. He backed away from the window and turned around to see Chi-Chi sitting on the bed.
"Is she still out there playing with her attack?" Chi-Chi sat on the bed, reading a magazine about decorating.
Goku walked to the bed and sat down. He looked at the clock. "Yes. It's 7:30 already. I'm going to have to go and get her soon." He lay his head on the pillow behind him.
"I wish she wouldn't spend all her time out there." Chi-Chi was disgusted with the fact that her daughter spent most of the nights outside with her attacks. For the past month or so, it seemed like five nights a week she was out there.
"Chi-Chi, there's nothing wrong with it. It's not like she's hurting herself out there. She knows what she's doing. Just let her have her fun." Goku knew what she was doing. She was preparing herself for Mamoru. He knew that she knew that he was going to allow her to contact Mamoru soon. She was getting strong enough to over power him.
~*~*~
Usagi sat with her back to a tree with her hands in the air in front of her. A little golden bar of energy sat in between her hands. She began moving one of her hands up, while she moved her other hand down, stretching and twisting the energy with each hand. She stopped for just a moment and then quickly pulled both of her hands together, tearing the energy into two parts. Now she had a ball of energy in each hand. She could feel the resistance in her hands. The energy was trying to pull itself back together. Usagi pulled against it as hard as she could, but she wasn't able to hold up for too long. The resistance was too much for her. He hands slammed into each other, causing the Ki attack to touch her arms. "Ahhh! Owww!" Her own attack had backfired onto her and was now being equally distributed throughout her body. She felt like she was being electrocuted. She tried to pull her hands away from each other but couldn't. It was like the time she that had used her attack on Piccolo and Kiro. The energy clasped onto her and wouldn't let go. She could barely move. "Owe, owe, owe, hot, hot, hot." She quickly discontinued her energy flow, stopping her attack on herself. She fell over onto her side in pain as smoke arose from her body. "What a rush." She looked down to her legs at her tail, which was strung over them. The fur on it was standing straight up from the electrical current that had just run through it. "Whoa. I did that?" She sat up and poked at her hair. It was also frizzy from the attack. "Hmm…that was weird how the attack pulled itself back together. It was like a magnet. Maybe I can use that to my advantage." She stood up and faced the tree. "Now, if I can find some way to control this." She put her hands together and once again formed a Ki blast between her hands. She slowly pulled her hands apart just to the point of resistance. She took a deep breath. "Here we go." She quickly pulled her hands apart as far as they would go, once again feeling the resistance between her arms. She put one of her hands out in front of her and fired one of the blasts. It looked kind of like a boomerang. She watched as it swung back at her and headed straight for the tree. As soon as it did that, she released the Ki blast that sat in her other hand. Both blasts spun towards each other at an amazingly fast speed.
They met each other at their target, the tree. When they came together, they didn't really explode the tree like Usagi had expected them to. Instead, it engulfed the tree in a great golden light, lighting up the sky. The light stayed around the tree. "Is that my attack?" She walked up to it. She could feel its power. She put her finger on it and was immediately caught in the attack. It traveled to her body. She was being jolted around. "N…o…o…o…t…a…a…g…ain!" She once again could not move away. This time she had no control over the attack. She would just have to hold on until it wore out, which she didn't know when would happen. She had put a lot of energy into the attack.
Out of no where, a blue blast hit the tree high about her head, making terminating the serge of energy that ran through it. Usagi fell back to the ground. This time she felt horrible. She could still feel the energy racing through her veins. She looked up at the tree. The part that was still standing was now burnt to a crisp. She noticed something black standing over her. It was too dark to make out who it was. "Who's there?"
"Just me Usagi." Goku turned on a flashlight. He hadn't needed it before. The tree kept the area well lighted. He knew that Chi-Chi was probably going ballistic by now. He bent down at picked up his daughter and began carrying her back to the house. "You really should be more careful when testing out your attacks."
"Well, you see…I…uh…didn't know what it was doing." She wrapped her frizzy little tail around her father's arm. "I didn't know you were coming out here. I guess that attack messed up my senses or something."
"Yeah, things like that happen when you've got energy like that around you. But, I do have to say that was a pretty good attack you've got there. It's pretty affected." Goku opened the door and set Usagi down after he turned the flashlight off. "You should get ready for bed, you have about fifteen minutes."
"Do I have to?" Usagi hated her 8:00 bed time. She wanted to stay up with her parents. Rei and Makoto were allowed to stay up until nine. When she told her mother that, all she had to say was, 'Well, you aren't Rei or Makoto.'
"You know the rules. Your mother would kill me if I let you stay up past eight. I'm sorry Usagi. When you get older you can stay up." If it were up to him, she would be able to stay up as late as she would like but, he and Chi-Chi had been through many fights about how to raise Usagi and he didn't want to get into another one over bed times.
"Fine." Usagi slowly walked passed her father with her head down to the ground. She was trying to look as pathetic as possible so he would feel guilty and let her stay up. It had worked many times. Her father never could resist her guilt trips. He usually fell for them.
At that moment, Chi-Chi walked out of the hallway, seeing her daughter. She frowned as she put her hands to her waist. "Usagi! Don't do that to your father. You know how I feel about you begging." Usagi opened her mouth to protest, but, before she could even say anything, her mother continued. "I know what you're thinking. You're thinking that you're not begging. Well, yes you are. That guilt stuff is just another way of begging. So stop it before we get mad." She looked up at her husband. She knew he wouldn't get mad, but she was hoping that he would go along with her.
Usagi stopped her pouting. "But I want to stay up."
"No. Now just go to bed, please." Chi-Chi found that she could get Usagi to do the things that she wanted if she just said please every now and then.
"Ok mom. I will." Usagi walked passed her mother and down the hallway. "Don't forget to come tuck me in."
"All right." She looked up at Goku, who was smiling. "Did I do good?"
Goku nodded. A couple months back, he had told her about how Usagi thought that her mother hated her. Since then, Chi-Chi had tried to make more of an effort to be nice to Usagi and show her that she didn't hate her. "Yes, you did great."
"So, what was that light I saw? And why was Usagi's hair and tail so puffy?" Chi-Chi wanted to laugh when she first saw her daughter but she didn't want to hurt her feelings.
Goku chuckled as he remembered what had just happened. He himself even found it a little bit funny. But he wouldn't dare laugh about it in front of Usagi. "Well, she was making her attack outside. Somehow she found a way to make it stick onto a tree. She didn't know what it was doing, so she stuck her finger to it."
Chi-Chi didn't have to hear anymore. She pretty much knew what happened after that. She burst out laughing. "My god. That's funny. She looks like she touched an electric wire and lived to tell about it." She looked behind her to make sure Usagi wasn't there behind her.
Goku couldn't help but laugh. He had to admit. She did look pretty ridiculous with her hair all frizzed up. "At least she wasn't hurt. She just got the wind knocked out of her. I guess we should stop talking about it though, she may walk in here and hear us laughing about it. I don't think that she would appreciate that."
"I think you're probably right." Chi-Chi calmed her laughter down to a quiet giggle.
~*~*~
The next day…
Usagi scratched her head as she sleepily staggered into the kitchen. She had wakened up later then usual. Her mother had already made breakfast for them and she had to eat before she did anything else. If she didn't, there would be no food left for her to eat for her father would devour it all without a second thought. She sat down at the table, across from her father, and ran her fingers through her hair. It was still quite frizzy from the night before and it was driving her nuts. She couldn't wait until she could take a bath and make it straight again. "What's for breakfast mamma?" Usagi asked hungrily as she looked to her mother for answers.
"Food." Chi-Chi was too busy to answer the questions of her inquisitive daughter.
Usagi sighed as she put her head on the table in front of her. "Gees, like I couldn't have guessed that." She looked up at her father who stared blankly back at her. He never was himself until he had his first meal of the day.
"Usagi. I have a special surprise for you that I think you will enjoy."
Usagi's ears perked up as they always did whenever someone said that they had something for her. Her eyes began to sparkle with excitement. "Ooh, ooh, ooh, what is it? Tell me." He face was consumed with a giant smile.
Goku laughed to himself. 'Here I go getting her excited again.' "You'll find out after school."
Usagi got a pouty look on her face. "Awe, but why can't you tell me now?" She got on what she liked to call her 'puppy dog face'.
"Because I don't want you to do anything that you may regret today." Goku could see that his daughter was getting impatient with him. "Don't worry, you'll learn soon enough."
He smiled at Usagi, which made her even more agitated. He always kept things from her. She was certain that he loved toying with her. She faked a big smile. "Ok daddy."
"No need to get angry Usagi."
Usagi dropped the smile. She knew that was his way of scolding her. "Sorry."
"Sorry to interrupt," Chi-Chi turned around with a tray and sat it on the table, "But I think that food is a little bit more important at this point. Dig in."
~*~*~
Usagi arrived at school five minutes before it started. She had made a very bad habit of arriving late ever since her father let her fly herself to school. She always lost track of time. She landed in the front courtyard and ran through the main doors, hoping that she wouldn't get late to class. She ran down the winding halls of her schools. She watched her back carefully, making sure no teachers were in sight. She looked over her shoulder when she heard something tapping behind her. "Whew, no one there." Before she had a chance to move her head back, she ran into something. With her hand, she began to poke around it. "Uh-oh." She backed up to see a sixth grade 'hall monster', as the kids called the hall monitors at the school. "Yes?"
"You were running in the hall. That's a serious infraction." The kid pulled out his notebook. "Please give me your name."
Usagi got a devious grin on her face. "My name? Well, you see, my name is Haruka Tenno."
The kid wrote down the name. "Ok. This is a referral. You will be doing some hard time. Now get to class."
Usagi walked passed the kid as she giggled. 'That's what you think.'
~*~*~
Usagi walked into the class just as the last bell was ringing. She ran back to her seat. The teacher looked up at the clock. It was 8:00, the time that school started. By other teacher's standards, Usagi would have been late. But this particular teacher had different standards. She understood that kids sometime get late so she gave them until 8:01 to be on time. "Oooh, you nearly got here too late Usagi. I don't like to count you late, but it's school rules. Please try to make more of an effort to get here on time."
Usagi nodded. She loved her teacher's rules. She was so fair with them and didn't really enforce too many of the rules that most kids found too silly to have around. She was Usagi's favorite teacher yet. "Ok Ms. Erickson. I will try harder." She took her seat by Minako and Makoto, which she had been begging all year to sit by and just recently got moved by. "You guys, guess what? Daddy has a surprise for me and he won't tell me what it is until after school."
Minako began to get excited. Usually, when Goku had a surprise, it was a good one. "What do you think it is?!"
Usagi could hardly sit still in her chair. Just talking about it made her more antsy to find out what it was. "I don't know. But he knows how I hate secrets. How could he do this to me? I'll die if I don't find out what it is soon."
Makoto, on the other hand, didn't mind secrets that much. She had always been the more calm kid out of the three. "You guys should calm down. You're going to have to wait."
Minako got up in Makoto's face. "Come on Makoto. You can't just sit there and tell us that you have no feeling what so ever about this? Are you telling us that you don't want to know what the surprise is?"
Makoto thought about it for a moment and then smiled. "Of course I want to know what it is. I just don't want to think about it. The more I think about it, the more I want it. You guys know the feeling."
Yes, the definitely did. "Ok class. Please quiet down. I have an announcement to make." Everyone in the class stopped their conversations and turned their attention to the front of the class where their teacher was standing. She smiled. "Thanks you guys. You're so wonderfully behaved. It's amazing. Anyways, I have someone I want to introduce you to." She walked to the door and opened it and waved for someone to come in. "Come on. Don't be shy." She backed up and was followed in by a girl with short blue hair. "This is Mizuno Ami." She looked down at the little girl. "Would you like to tell us anything about yourself?"
Usagi looked at the girl. She could sense her shyness. Ami scanned the class with her eyes. "Um…I just moved here from Tokyo with my mom and siblings." The class laughed when she said that last word. They always laughed when someone was smart. Ami tried to shrug it off. "My mom works at the hospital and has a part time job as a doctor at Capsule Corp. for the people who work there and she is really smart."
"Thank you Ami. You can take your seat over then in the back of the room." Ms. Erickson pointed to the tabled on the right of Usagi's.
Ami obeyed and sat in the only empty chair at the table. She held her head low. She knew people were making fun of her. The always did. She was always so much smarter then everyone else in her classes. She sat in the chair on the end of the table, behind Usagi's.
Usagi frowned around at all the people in the class. Her Saiyan hearing was picking up every rude comment that the people were whispering. She felt sorry for the girl. She was so unsure of herself. Usagi knew what she was feeling for she too was subject to the taunting and ridiculing of the kids in that school. 'These guys are way too mean. One of these days they are going to laugh at the wrong person.'
Minako stared at the new girl. She looked like she had been made fun of a lot. She carried herself a lot like Usagi had the first couple of days of their kindergarten year. She spoke with her face to the ground and didn't look anyone in the eye as she was walking back to her seat. "You guys, she's too depressed to be a kid."
Makoto had also noticed all the same things about the girl that Minako had. "Yeah. I hope she doesn't stay like that forever."
Usagi stopped listening to the chatter of her classmates. "Maybe we should try to talk to her."
~*~*~
At lunch, Usagi and her friends sat in the grass under the sun. It was a beautiful spring afternoon and they often sat out in the big grassy field by the playground. Most kids did this activity. Makoto looked around the playground. "Where do you think that new kid Ami is?"
Usagi looked up from stuffing her face with her lunch. She was beginning to pick up some of her father's eating habits. But not quite as bad. She only ate fast when she was really hungry. "If she's anything like I was, then she's probably staying inside the classroom."
"Usagi's right Makoto. She doesn't have any friend here yet and is probably really uncomfortable eating out here with all of us. We should go find her…"
"After we eat," Usagi interrupted. "I'm starving right now."
Minako glared at Usagi. She hated it when people interrupted her. "Fine. We can eat first."
Usagi smiled. She hated to miss a meal. "You guys, the coolest thing happened last night. You know my attack where I stun the person with my energy?" Minako and Makoto nodded. They were too busy chewing to reply. "Well, I found a way to make this really cool attack with it. You wanna see it?"
Makoto nearly spit her food out. The last time they had tried sparring at school, they nearly got suspended for fighting. They had each other beaten up pretty well. They had all been told by their parents that they were never to fight each other at school again. "We aren't allowed to. Remember? Your mom wasn't too happy when she found out what happened. Neither was my dad. He really laid into me when I got home. Remember? I told you how I got grounded."
"So. They said we couldn't fight each other, they never said we couldn't show each other things." Usagi always found ways around systems. She was good at manipulating the words of others without changing them.
Makoto wasn't sure if she should go along with it. She looked over to Minako. "What do you think?"
"Wouldn't hurt. It's true. They never said that we couldn't show things. But to be on the safe side, why don't you show us behind the school. Where no body ever goes." Minako didn't want to get suspended again. She didn't want another suspension going on her record.
Usagi jumped to her feet. "K! let's go." Usagi held onto a cookie in her mouth while she stuffed the rest of her lunch in her book bag. She waved for her friends to follow her as she ran off into the direction of the back of the school.
Makoto sighed as she stood up. "You just had to agree with her didn't you Minako?"
"Yup. Don't worry Makoto. Nothing is going to happen."
~*~*~
Once behind the school, Usagi powered up enough to get her attack started. "Now watch closely, this is cool." She pulled her hands apart again just to the point of resistance. "Here we go." She quickly pulled her hands apart as far as they would go, once again, and tried as hard as she could to hold them apart. She would have to finish quickly, for if she did not, her father would come there, wondering why she had powered up. She fired one of the halves and as it spun, it turned into a boomerang shape. It quickly began to spin back at her. Once she saw it do that, she fired the other halve of the blast. They all watched as the two halves hit their target, a tree. The tree was immediately consumed by the energy. Minako walked up to with great curiosity. She put her hand out. It was warm. Usagi stepped forward. "Don't touch it!"
Minako was startled and jumped back. "What?"
"Believe me. You don't want to touch it. Huh?" Usagi all of a sudden felt Piccolo's Ki. She looked up to the sky. 'Uh-oh, did he feel my energy go up?' "You guys, look, it's Piccolo." She pointed to the sky where he was flying overhead.
Minako and Makoto looked up. Makoto shaded her eyes with her hand. "What? Why is he here in the city? Isn't he somewhat of a loner?" She looked back down to Usagi.
"Yeah. He hates being around people unless it's with our little group of fighters. This is kind of strange." Usagi had never seen Piccolo go into the city on his own free will. He only went if there was a fight, tournament, or if it was to go to Gohan's.
Minako shrugged it off. "Oh well, it's not like we can leave. So, let's go talk to the new girl."
Usagi looked back to Minako. "Ok." She turned around and began to walk back to the playground so they could go to their class. Minako and Makoto followed.
~*~*~
Just as Usagi had suggested, Ami was sitting in the classroom, alone and reading a book. She looked so lonely to Minako. She felt sorry for her. She looked back to Makoto and Usagi. They looked as though they wanted her to lead the way. "Fine." She walked into the classroom and down the aisle. She looked over her shoulder to make sure her friends were following her. She was glad to see that they were. She stopped when she got to Ami's side. "Uh…hi. I'm Minako and this is Usagi, and this is Makoto." She pointed to each of her friends as she introduced them.
Ami looked to Minako and then behind her to the two girls who stood behind her. She didn't know if they were seriously trying to be nice to her, or just make her think they were her friend so they could later, stomp all over her feelings. She had never really had a real friend. No one had ever taken the time to become friends with her. She was always made fun of for being too smart. "What do you want?" She didn't say it to be mean. She just wanted to make sure they weren't trying to be rude to her. She always made sure. She would have rather had no friends then friends who would just use her for her brains or just use her for someone to make fun of.
"Hey, is that any way to make a friend?"
Ami had heard that many times. Most of the time, it was meant as something rude. She lowered her body and turned back to the table so she didn't have to look at Minako and her friends any more. "I don't care if I have friends. You are all a bunch of mean people anyways."
Usagi could tell that this girl was really hurting. She had to have gone through a rough time at her previous school. "Look, everyone needs friends."
"I don't. Especially people like you."
Usagi gasped a bit. "What? What did we do?"
"I know your kind. Always trying to become my friend to use me. I don't appreciate it. Just leave me alone."
Usagi was a little hurt by Ami's words. "You don't even know us. How can you say this?" All she was trying to do was be nice to her, which obviously no body ever did.
"Your all the same." Ami had never had anybody ever try to be her friend outside of school. That's how she knew people used her. Once she wouldn't let them copy off her work, she would be made fun of. She would just rather prefer to not go through it all again.
Usagi didn't mind that Ami was talking to her like she had. She understood. Usagi had pretty much been the same the year before. But with time, she learned to be a bit more trusting of people. "Ok. I'll leave you alone, but that doesn't mean I'm not going to stop trying to be your friend."
"Yeah. Sure." Ami crossed her arms on the table in front of her and buried her face in them.
"Come on. Let's go." Usagi turned around and began to leave the room. Minako and Makoto followed closely behind.
~*~*~
Usagi and her friends quickly changed into their GI's after school. They couldn't wait until they found out what Goku had for Usagi. It had to have been something good or else he would have told her before she went to school that morning. "Come on you guys! Let's go!" Usagi waited impatiently for her friends to change.
Makoto hit her had against one of the changing room doors. "I'm going as fast as I can. Gee's. I'm just as excited as you are."
"Sorry guys. I just really want to find out what my surprise it. I'm so excited. I'm so excited. I'm so excited." Usagi felt like she was going to burst from being over excited. She always did have a problem with containing her emotions. But she didn't care. She wanted to know what she was getting.
Minako and Makoto pretty much raced out of their changing rooms at the same time, both with wide eyes. All three girls looked at each other. "Let's go see what it is!" It was as if they knew what each other were going to say so they all said it at the same time. After that, it was like a race to the door. They all darted at it at the same time.
Once out of the girls' locker room, they ran down the halls. They didn't care if they were going to get in trouble for running. They probably wouldn't have stopped for anyone anyways. "We're almost there!" Usagi yelled as she approached the main doors. With each step she took, the more excited she became.
~*~*~
Goku noticed his daughter and her friends running towards him as he stood out in the courtyard in front of the school. He could sense how incredibly excited they all were. "Hey girls!" He began walking towards them and met them halfway. He looked down at the excited girls who stood before him. "Hey. How's it goin?"
Usagi grabbed the front of her father's GI. "Enough with the small talk daddy. Just tell me what the surpirse is. I'm dying here."
Goku laughed. He knew she wouldn't be able to go the whole school day without getting herself all hyped up about it. "Well, I have been studying your progress closely these past few months."
"Yes, yes…"
"Let me talk Usagi. Anyways, you have become very strong and I am proud of you. And I told you that once you get strong enough, you can challenge Mamoru if you wanted to." Usagi's mouth flew open. She knew exactly where this was going. "And, I believe that you are strong enough to do so. So, I now permit you to talk to him again."
Usagi hugged her father. "Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you!" She couldn't wait to fight him and show him once and for all that she is able to beat him.
Minako and Makoto were pretty excited too. They couldn't wait for the day when he would get himself beaten up. Minako put her hand on Usagi's back. "Way to go Usagi."
(K! That's it for this part. What do you think? Good or Bad? Please review. Thank you. ^_^)
Not much had happened since Kiro and his gang attacked the Saiyans. After that day, everyone pretty much went on with their lives. Rei learned how to fight with the help of Goku's training. She finally gave into letting him teach her how to fight using energy. She actually enjoyed it quite a bit and found fighting a good way to get away from the stress of everyday life. She, Minako, Makoto, and Usagi were now inseparable. They would not go anywhere unless they were all together. They had begged Rei's grandfather to let her go to the public school. But he insisted that she wouldn't learn anything from going to a public school.
Usagi had done as her father told her and stayed away from Mamoru. It wasn't that hard this past year for the fact that him, Haruka, and Michiru had left the school she was at, and left to go to middle school, which overjoyed her. She no longer had to put up with their harassment. She knew that he was right about her being weaker then him. He had finally taught them how to read power levels. The first person that Usagi read was Mamoru's. And he had an exceptionally larger power level then her own. But just because her father wouldn't let her go near Mamoru now, didn't mean that she would NEVER be able to go near him. Usagi waited in anticipation for the day that she could pay Mamoru back. She was getting stronger and stronger every day and knew that one day very soon, she would surpass him. It was inevitable.
Usagi sat outside her house, in the dark, trying to figure out how to configure her attack into a long range attack instead of her having to grab the person and holding her energy. She wasn't quite sure how she was going to do it. She didn't even know how she created it in the first place. She had kind of just stumbled on it.
~*~*~
Goku looked out the window of his room and watched his daughter outside. 'She's grown so much.' He remembered back to when she was only five. Back to when she first started school. Back to when she first learned how to fight. He couldn't believe how much she had learned in just two and half-short years. It was amazing. He was very proud of her. Even her friends were making great progress. They were making more progress then he had ever seen any humans do though. One thing still bothered him though. He still wanted to know what kind of power Usagi really had in her. He often found himself wondering about that. The power that he felt coming from her that day was enormous. He backed away from the window and turned around to see Chi-Chi sitting on the bed.
"Is she still out there playing with her attack?" Chi-Chi sat on the bed, reading a magazine about decorating.
Goku walked to the bed and sat down. He looked at the clock. "Yes. It's 7:30 already. I'm going to have to go and get her soon." He lay his head on the pillow behind him.
"I wish she wouldn't spend all her time out there." Chi-Chi was disgusted with the fact that her daughter spent most of the nights outside with her attacks. For the past month or so, it seemed like five nights a week she was out there.
"Chi-Chi, there's nothing wrong with it. It's not like she's hurting herself out there. She knows what she's doing. Just let her have her fun." Goku knew what she was doing. She was preparing herself for Mamoru. He knew that she knew that he was going to allow her to contact Mamoru soon. She was getting strong enough to over power him.
~*~*~
Usagi sat with her back to a tree with her hands in the air in front of her. A little golden bar of energy sat in between her hands. She began moving one of her hands up, while she moved her other hand down, stretching and twisting the energy with each hand. She stopped for just a moment and then quickly pulled both of her hands together, tearing the energy into two parts. Now she had a ball of energy in each hand. She could feel the resistance in her hands. The energy was trying to pull itself back together. Usagi pulled against it as hard as she could, but she wasn't able to hold up for too long. The resistance was too much for her. He hands slammed into each other, causing the Ki attack to touch her arms. "Ahhh! Owww!" Her own attack had backfired onto her and was now being equally distributed throughout her body. She felt like she was being electrocuted. She tried to pull her hands away from each other but couldn't. It was like the time she that had used her attack on Piccolo and Kiro. The energy clasped onto her and wouldn't let go. She could barely move. "Owe, owe, owe, hot, hot, hot." She quickly discontinued her energy flow, stopping her attack on herself. She fell over onto her side in pain as smoke arose from her body. "What a rush." She looked down to her legs at her tail, which was strung over them. The fur on it was standing straight up from the electrical current that had just run through it. "Whoa. I did that?" She sat up and poked at her hair. It was also frizzy from the attack. "Hmm…that was weird how the attack pulled itself back together. It was like a magnet. Maybe I can use that to my advantage." She stood up and faced the tree. "Now, if I can find some way to control this." She put her hands together and once again formed a Ki blast between her hands. She slowly pulled her hands apart just to the point of resistance. She took a deep breath. "Here we go." She quickly pulled her hands apart as far as they would go, once again feeling the resistance between her arms. She put one of her hands out in front of her and fired one of the blasts. It looked kind of like a boomerang. She watched as it swung back at her and headed straight for the tree. As soon as it did that, she released the Ki blast that sat in her other hand. Both blasts spun towards each other at an amazingly fast speed.
They met each other at their target, the tree. When they came together, they didn't really explode the tree like Usagi had expected them to. Instead, it engulfed the tree in a great golden light, lighting up the sky. The light stayed around the tree. "Is that my attack?" She walked up to it. She could feel its power. She put her finger on it and was immediately caught in the attack. It traveled to her body. She was being jolted around. "N…o…o…o…t…a…a…g…ain!" She once again could not move away. This time she had no control over the attack. She would just have to hold on until it wore out, which she didn't know when would happen. She had put a lot of energy into the attack.
Out of no where, a blue blast hit the tree high about her head, making terminating the serge of energy that ran through it. Usagi fell back to the ground. This time she felt horrible. She could still feel the energy racing through her veins. She looked up at the tree. The part that was still standing was now burnt to a crisp. She noticed something black standing over her. It was too dark to make out who it was. "Who's there?"
"Just me Usagi." Goku turned on a flashlight. He hadn't needed it before. The tree kept the area well lighted. He knew that Chi-Chi was probably going ballistic by now. He bent down at picked up his daughter and began carrying her back to the house. "You really should be more careful when testing out your attacks."
"Well, you see…I…uh…didn't know what it was doing." She wrapped her frizzy little tail around her father's arm. "I didn't know you were coming out here. I guess that attack messed up my senses or something."
"Yeah, things like that happen when you've got energy like that around you. But, I do have to say that was a pretty good attack you've got there. It's pretty affected." Goku opened the door and set Usagi down after he turned the flashlight off. "You should get ready for bed, you have about fifteen minutes."
"Do I have to?" Usagi hated her 8:00 bed time. She wanted to stay up with her parents. Rei and Makoto were allowed to stay up until nine. When she told her mother that, all she had to say was, 'Well, you aren't Rei or Makoto.'
"You know the rules. Your mother would kill me if I let you stay up past eight. I'm sorry Usagi. When you get older you can stay up." If it were up to him, she would be able to stay up as late as she would like but, he and Chi-Chi had been through many fights about how to raise Usagi and he didn't want to get into another one over bed times.
"Fine." Usagi slowly walked passed her father with her head down to the ground. She was trying to look as pathetic as possible so he would feel guilty and let her stay up. It had worked many times. Her father never could resist her guilt trips. He usually fell for them.
At that moment, Chi-Chi walked out of the hallway, seeing her daughter. She frowned as she put her hands to her waist. "Usagi! Don't do that to your father. You know how I feel about you begging." Usagi opened her mouth to protest, but, before she could even say anything, her mother continued. "I know what you're thinking. You're thinking that you're not begging. Well, yes you are. That guilt stuff is just another way of begging. So stop it before we get mad." She looked up at her husband. She knew he wouldn't get mad, but she was hoping that he would go along with her.
Usagi stopped her pouting. "But I want to stay up."
"No. Now just go to bed, please." Chi-Chi found that she could get Usagi to do the things that she wanted if she just said please every now and then.
"Ok mom. I will." Usagi walked passed her mother and down the hallway. "Don't forget to come tuck me in."
"All right." She looked up at Goku, who was smiling. "Did I do good?"
Goku nodded. A couple months back, he had told her about how Usagi thought that her mother hated her. Since then, Chi-Chi had tried to make more of an effort to be nice to Usagi and show her that she didn't hate her. "Yes, you did great."
"So, what was that light I saw? And why was Usagi's hair and tail so puffy?" Chi-Chi wanted to laugh when she first saw her daughter but she didn't want to hurt her feelings.
Goku chuckled as he remembered what had just happened. He himself even found it a little bit funny. But he wouldn't dare laugh about it in front of Usagi. "Well, she was making her attack outside. Somehow she found a way to make it stick onto a tree. She didn't know what it was doing, so she stuck her finger to it."
Chi-Chi didn't have to hear anymore. She pretty much knew what happened after that. She burst out laughing. "My god. That's funny. She looks like she touched an electric wire and lived to tell about it." She looked behind her to make sure Usagi wasn't there behind her.
Goku couldn't help but laugh. He had to admit. She did look pretty ridiculous with her hair all frizzed up. "At least she wasn't hurt. She just got the wind knocked out of her. I guess we should stop talking about it though, she may walk in here and hear us laughing about it. I don't think that she would appreciate that."
"I think you're probably right." Chi-Chi calmed her laughter down to a quiet giggle.
~*~*~
The next day…
Usagi scratched her head as she sleepily staggered into the kitchen. She had wakened up later then usual. Her mother had already made breakfast for them and she had to eat before she did anything else. If she didn't, there would be no food left for her to eat for her father would devour it all without a second thought. She sat down at the table, across from her father, and ran her fingers through her hair. It was still quite frizzy from the night before and it was driving her nuts. She couldn't wait until she could take a bath and make it straight again. "What's for breakfast mamma?" Usagi asked hungrily as she looked to her mother for answers.
"Food." Chi-Chi was too busy to answer the questions of her inquisitive daughter.
Usagi sighed as she put her head on the table in front of her. "Gees, like I couldn't have guessed that." She looked up at her father who stared blankly back at her. He never was himself until he had his first meal of the day.
"Usagi. I have a special surprise for you that I think you will enjoy."
Usagi's ears perked up as they always did whenever someone said that they had something for her. Her eyes began to sparkle with excitement. "Ooh, ooh, ooh, what is it? Tell me." He face was consumed with a giant smile.
Goku laughed to himself. 'Here I go getting her excited again.' "You'll find out after school."
Usagi got a pouty look on her face. "Awe, but why can't you tell me now?" She got on what she liked to call her 'puppy dog face'.
"Because I don't want you to do anything that you may regret today." Goku could see that his daughter was getting impatient with him. "Don't worry, you'll learn soon enough."
He smiled at Usagi, which made her even more agitated. He always kept things from her. She was certain that he loved toying with her. She faked a big smile. "Ok daddy."
"No need to get angry Usagi."
Usagi dropped the smile. She knew that was his way of scolding her. "Sorry."
"Sorry to interrupt," Chi-Chi turned around with a tray and sat it on the table, "But I think that food is a little bit more important at this point. Dig in."
~*~*~
Usagi arrived at school five minutes before it started. She had made a very bad habit of arriving late ever since her father let her fly herself to school. She always lost track of time. She landed in the front courtyard and ran through the main doors, hoping that she wouldn't get late to class. She ran down the winding halls of her schools. She watched her back carefully, making sure no teachers were in sight. She looked over her shoulder when she heard something tapping behind her. "Whew, no one there." Before she had a chance to move her head back, she ran into something. With her hand, she began to poke around it. "Uh-oh." She backed up to see a sixth grade 'hall monster', as the kids called the hall monitors at the school. "Yes?"
"You were running in the hall. That's a serious infraction." The kid pulled out his notebook. "Please give me your name."
Usagi got a devious grin on her face. "My name? Well, you see, my name is Haruka Tenno."
The kid wrote down the name. "Ok. This is a referral. You will be doing some hard time. Now get to class."
Usagi walked passed the kid as she giggled. 'That's what you think.'
~*~*~
Usagi walked into the class just as the last bell was ringing. She ran back to her seat. The teacher looked up at the clock. It was 8:00, the time that school started. By other teacher's standards, Usagi would have been late. But this particular teacher had different standards. She understood that kids sometime get late so she gave them until 8:01 to be on time. "Oooh, you nearly got here too late Usagi. I don't like to count you late, but it's school rules. Please try to make more of an effort to get here on time."
Usagi nodded. She loved her teacher's rules. She was so fair with them and didn't really enforce too many of the rules that most kids found too silly to have around. She was Usagi's favorite teacher yet. "Ok Ms. Erickson. I will try harder." She took her seat by Minako and Makoto, which she had been begging all year to sit by and just recently got moved by. "You guys, guess what? Daddy has a surprise for me and he won't tell me what it is until after school."
Minako began to get excited. Usually, when Goku had a surprise, it was a good one. "What do you think it is?!"
Usagi could hardly sit still in her chair. Just talking about it made her more antsy to find out what it was. "I don't know. But he knows how I hate secrets. How could he do this to me? I'll die if I don't find out what it is soon."
Makoto, on the other hand, didn't mind secrets that much. She had always been the more calm kid out of the three. "You guys should calm down. You're going to have to wait."
Minako got up in Makoto's face. "Come on Makoto. You can't just sit there and tell us that you have no feeling what so ever about this? Are you telling us that you don't want to know what the surprise is?"
Makoto thought about it for a moment and then smiled. "Of course I want to know what it is. I just don't want to think about it. The more I think about it, the more I want it. You guys know the feeling."
Yes, the definitely did. "Ok class. Please quiet down. I have an announcement to make." Everyone in the class stopped their conversations and turned their attention to the front of the class where their teacher was standing. She smiled. "Thanks you guys. You're so wonderfully behaved. It's amazing. Anyways, I have someone I want to introduce you to." She walked to the door and opened it and waved for someone to come in. "Come on. Don't be shy." She backed up and was followed in by a girl with short blue hair. "This is Mizuno Ami." She looked down at the little girl. "Would you like to tell us anything about yourself?"
Usagi looked at the girl. She could sense her shyness. Ami scanned the class with her eyes. "Um…I just moved here from Tokyo with my mom and siblings." The class laughed when she said that last word. They always laughed when someone was smart. Ami tried to shrug it off. "My mom works at the hospital and has a part time job as a doctor at Capsule Corp. for the people who work there and she is really smart."
"Thank you Ami. You can take your seat over then in the back of the room." Ms. Erickson pointed to the tabled on the right of Usagi's.
Ami obeyed and sat in the only empty chair at the table. She held her head low. She knew people were making fun of her. The always did. She was always so much smarter then everyone else in her classes. She sat in the chair on the end of the table, behind Usagi's.
Usagi frowned around at all the people in the class. Her Saiyan hearing was picking up every rude comment that the people were whispering. She felt sorry for the girl. She was so unsure of herself. Usagi knew what she was feeling for she too was subject to the taunting and ridiculing of the kids in that school. 'These guys are way too mean. One of these days they are going to laugh at the wrong person.'
Minako stared at the new girl. She looked like she had been made fun of a lot. She carried herself a lot like Usagi had the first couple of days of their kindergarten year. She spoke with her face to the ground and didn't look anyone in the eye as she was walking back to her seat. "You guys, she's too depressed to be a kid."
Makoto had also noticed all the same things about the girl that Minako had. "Yeah. I hope she doesn't stay like that forever."
Usagi stopped listening to the chatter of her classmates. "Maybe we should try to talk to her."
~*~*~
At lunch, Usagi and her friends sat in the grass under the sun. It was a beautiful spring afternoon and they often sat out in the big grassy field by the playground. Most kids did this activity. Makoto looked around the playground. "Where do you think that new kid Ami is?"
Usagi looked up from stuffing her face with her lunch. She was beginning to pick up some of her father's eating habits. But not quite as bad. She only ate fast when she was really hungry. "If she's anything like I was, then she's probably staying inside the classroom."
"Usagi's right Makoto. She doesn't have any friend here yet and is probably really uncomfortable eating out here with all of us. We should go find her…"
"After we eat," Usagi interrupted. "I'm starving right now."
Minako glared at Usagi. She hated it when people interrupted her. "Fine. We can eat first."
Usagi smiled. She hated to miss a meal. "You guys, the coolest thing happened last night. You know my attack where I stun the person with my energy?" Minako and Makoto nodded. They were too busy chewing to reply. "Well, I found a way to make this really cool attack with it. You wanna see it?"
Makoto nearly spit her food out. The last time they had tried sparring at school, they nearly got suspended for fighting. They had each other beaten up pretty well. They had all been told by their parents that they were never to fight each other at school again. "We aren't allowed to. Remember? Your mom wasn't too happy when she found out what happened. Neither was my dad. He really laid into me when I got home. Remember? I told you how I got grounded."
"So. They said we couldn't fight each other, they never said we couldn't show each other things." Usagi always found ways around systems. She was good at manipulating the words of others without changing them.
Makoto wasn't sure if she should go along with it. She looked over to Minako. "What do you think?"
"Wouldn't hurt. It's true. They never said that we couldn't show things. But to be on the safe side, why don't you show us behind the school. Where no body ever goes." Minako didn't want to get suspended again. She didn't want another suspension going on her record.
Usagi jumped to her feet. "K! let's go." Usagi held onto a cookie in her mouth while she stuffed the rest of her lunch in her book bag. She waved for her friends to follow her as she ran off into the direction of the back of the school.
Makoto sighed as she stood up. "You just had to agree with her didn't you Minako?"
"Yup. Don't worry Makoto. Nothing is going to happen."
~*~*~
Once behind the school, Usagi powered up enough to get her attack started. "Now watch closely, this is cool." She pulled her hands apart again just to the point of resistance. "Here we go." She quickly pulled her hands apart as far as they would go, once again, and tried as hard as she could to hold them apart. She would have to finish quickly, for if she did not, her father would come there, wondering why she had powered up. She fired one of the halves and as it spun, it turned into a boomerang shape. It quickly began to spin back at her. Once she saw it do that, she fired the other halve of the blast. They all watched as the two halves hit their target, a tree. The tree was immediately consumed by the energy. Minako walked up to with great curiosity. She put her hand out. It was warm. Usagi stepped forward. "Don't touch it!"
Minako was startled and jumped back. "What?"
"Believe me. You don't want to touch it. Huh?" Usagi all of a sudden felt Piccolo's Ki. She looked up to the sky. 'Uh-oh, did he feel my energy go up?' "You guys, look, it's Piccolo." She pointed to the sky where he was flying overhead.
Minako and Makoto looked up. Makoto shaded her eyes with her hand. "What? Why is he here in the city? Isn't he somewhat of a loner?" She looked back down to Usagi.
"Yeah. He hates being around people unless it's with our little group of fighters. This is kind of strange." Usagi had never seen Piccolo go into the city on his own free will. He only went if there was a fight, tournament, or if it was to go to Gohan's.
Minako shrugged it off. "Oh well, it's not like we can leave. So, let's go talk to the new girl."
Usagi looked back to Minako. "Ok." She turned around and began to walk back to the playground so they could go to their class. Minako and Makoto followed.
~*~*~
Just as Usagi had suggested, Ami was sitting in the classroom, alone and reading a book. She looked so lonely to Minako. She felt sorry for her. She looked back to Makoto and Usagi. They looked as though they wanted her to lead the way. "Fine." She walked into the classroom and down the aisle. She looked over her shoulder to make sure her friends were following her. She was glad to see that they were. She stopped when she got to Ami's side. "Uh…hi. I'm Minako and this is Usagi, and this is Makoto." She pointed to each of her friends as she introduced them.
Ami looked to Minako and then behind her to the two girls who stood behind her. She didn't know if they were seriously trying to be nice to her, or just make her think they were her friend so they could later, stomp all over her feelings. She had never really had a real friend. No one had ever taken the time to become friends with her. She was always made fun of for being too smart. "What do you want?" She didn't say it to be mean. She just wanted to make sure they weren't trying to be rude to her. She always made sure. She would have rather had no friends then friends who would just use her for her brains or just use her for someone to make fun of.
"Hey, is that any way to make a friend?"
Ami had heard that many times. Most of the time, it was meant as something rude. She lowered her body and turned back to the table so she didn't have to look at Minako and her friends any more. "I don't care if I have friends. You are all a bunch of mean people anyways."
Usagi could tell that this girl was really hurting. She had to have gone through a rough time at her previous school. "Look, everyone needs friends."
"I don't. Especially people like you."
Usagi gasped a bit. "What? What did we do?"
"I know your kind. Always trying to become my friend to use me. I don't appreciate it. Just leave me alone."
Usagi was a little hurt by Ami's words. "You don't even know us. How can you say this?" All she was trying to do was be nice to her, which obviously no body ever did.
"Your all the same." Ami had never had anybody ever try to be her friend outside of school. That's how she knew people used her. Once she wouldn't let them copy off her work, she would be made fun of. She would just rather prefer to not go through it all again.
Usagi didn't mind that Ami was talking to her like she had. She understood. Usagi had pretty much been the same the year before. But with time, she learned to be a bit more trusting of people. "Ok. I'll leave you alone, but that doesn't mean I'm not going to stop trying to be your friend."
"Yeah. Sure." Ami crossed her arms on the table in front of her and buried her face in them.
"Come on. Let's go." Usagi turned around and began to leave the room. Minako and Makoto followed closely behind.
~*~*~
Usagi and her friends quickly changed into their GI's after school. They couldn't wait until they found out what Goku had for Usagi. It had to have been something good or else he would have told her before she went to school that morning. "Come on you guys! Let's go!" Usagi waited impatiently for her friends to change.
Makoto hit her had against one of the changing room doors. "I'm going as fast as I can. Gee's. I'm just as excited as you are."
"Sorry guys. I just really want to find out what my surprise it. I'm so excited. I'm so excited. I'm so excited." Usagi felt like she was going to burst from being over excited. She always did have a problem with containing her emotions. But she didn't care. She wanted to know what she was getting.
Minako and Makoto pretty much raced out of their changing rooms at the same time, both with wide eyes. All three girls looked at each other. "Let's go see what it is!" It was as if they knew what each other were going to say so they all said it at the same time. After that, it was like a race to the door. They all darted at it at the same time.
Once out of the girls' locker room, they ran down the halls. They didn't care if they were going to get in trouble for running. They probably wouldn't have stopped for anyone anyways. "We're almost there!" Usagi yelled as she approached the main doors. With each step she took, the more excited she became.
~*~*~
Goku noticed his daughter and her friends running towards him as he stood out in the courtyard in front of the school. He could sense how incredibly excited they all were. "Hey girls!" He began walking towards them and met them halfway. He looked down at the excited girls who stood before him. "Hey. How's it goin?"
Usagi grabbed the front of her father's GI. "Enough with the small talk daddy. Just tell me what the surpirse is. I'm dying here."
Goku laughed. He knew she wouldn't be able to go the whole school day without getting herself all hyped up about it. "Well, I have been studying your progress closely these past few months."
"Yes, yes…"
"Let me talk Usagi. Anyways, you have become very strong and I am proud of you. And I told you that once you get strong enough, you can challenge Mamoru if you wanted to." Usagi's mouth flew open. She knew exactly where this was going. "And, I believe that you are strong enough to do so. So, I now permit you to talk to him again."
Usagi hugged her father. "Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you!" She couldn't wait to fight him and show him once and for all that she is able to beat him.
Minako and Makoto were pretty excited too. They couldn't wait for the day when he would get himself beaten up. Minako put her hand on Usagi's back. "Way to go Usagi."
(K! That's it for this part. What do you think? Good or Bad? Please review. Thank you. ^_^)