Usagi stared up at the Dragon in disbelief. She could not, no, she would not believe what she thought she just heard it say. She had to get home. She couldn't stay any longer. She needed to get home. The Dragon was he only hope. If he couldn't get her home, she didn't know how else she would be able to do it. "What? Why can't you send us home? Why is it beyond your power? I want to go home really bad."
"I don't care how much you want it. I can not conduct time travel. I am not as powerful as the guardian of time and space. Please, choose another wish before I get angry."
Usagi let herself drop to her knees. She felt faint and wanted to pass out, but she didn't. She wouldn't give up. "This guardian of time you speak of, who is it? How can I talk to this person?" If the dragon couldn't help her, she figured the guardian would.
"Do not ask of this person as I will not tell. Pick a wish or sacrifice this turn." The dragon was becoming agitated with Usagi. The people of this planet always took forever when making a wish. It was ridiculous. They should have made up their minds about wishes before they summoned him.
"I wish to go home to the future. But I obviously can't have that." She leaned over and put her forehead to the ground. She didn't know what to do. 'Why did that guardian of time let us come here if they weren't going to let us go back home? That makes no sense.' "This isn't fair. I want to go. I wish to go home. Time guardian, why won't you let me go home?"
Chi-Chi could tell that her daughter was having a hard time dealing with this. She would now be a permanent resident of the house, which was obviously not what she wanted. Granted they were in a way family. They just weren't HER real family. They weren't the people that she was born to. She walked over to her and kneeled by her side. "Usagi, we'll find a way for you to get home. We'll get Bulma to build you a time machine to go home. I'm sure she can do it." She picked up her daughter and held her in her lap. She had never really seen her upset before. She was usually such a chipper little thing that she was beginning to wonder if she ever felt sorrow.
"Um, Chi-Chi, Bulma and I built that thing with the most recent parts available. We may not be able to build another one. I don't even have a base to go off on. Our time pad blew up the first day we were here. There is no way to go back and find it to even salvage parts anymore." Ami hated to be the holder of bad news, but it had to be told. There was no way around it.
"Hurry up and make a wish."
Usagi looked up at the Dragon. "I wish to go home!"
"I can't do that."
Usagi's eyes watered up with tears as she began to cry into her mother's shoulder. "I'm never going to get home. It's official. I'm doomed to live in the past for the rest of my life. I'll never get to see Goten again, or Pan, or Bra, or Trunks, or Minako, or Makoto. I even miss Haruka and Michiru."
Chi-Chi rubbed her hand on her daughter's back. "Don't cry Usagi. You WILL get home. One way or the other. You will see your friends and family again."
Usagi pulled away from her mother's grasp and looked into her face. Her tears sparkled silver as they trickled down her cheeks. "But it's my fault. It's all my fault. I wanted to come to the past. I wanted so badly to save daddy, mamma. It isn't fair. I got Rei and Ami and Mamoru into this. Now because of me, we can never go home."
Watching Usagi cry Mamoru actually felt bad for her. He had seen her cry many times before, but most of the time she cried over the stupidest things. But this time she had reasons to justify her crying. She had lost all hope on ever getting home and blamed herself when it was all of their faults. He blamed himself for not telling the adults. "Usagi, don't give up hope."
'Patience little Usagi.'
Usagi looked up into the sky. "Huh? Who said that?"
'A very good friend.'
"Who are you? I can't see you. I can only hear you." Everyone looked curiously to Usagi. They didn't hear anyone.
'Do not cry, let time play its role out. Things in time happen for a reason. Nothing happens without cause.'
"What? What is that supposed to mean?" Usagi didn't get an answer. "Hello? Who were you? What did you mean? Please tell me. I need to know." Still, no answer from the mysterious voice. She pulled away from her mother, who stared at her in confusion. She looked around, everyone stared at her like she was nuts. "This lady talked to me guys. She said to let time takes it's role or something. That everything in time happens for a reason."
"That was the guardian of time. She is wise. You should listen to her. Now, make a wish. I am getting angry with you people."
"I wish to go home, but I know I can't do that." Usagi stood up with her mother's help. "I also wish that Minako and Makoto are here, but I know I can't do that either." She turned to her friends. "Is there anything that we want?"
"That can be done."
"What?" Usagi turned her head back to the Dragon. It had just said that something could be done, but what? He wasn't capable of conducting time travel.
"The Guardian of Time has agreed to let your friends come into the past. She will help me full fill the wish." The Dragon's eyes lit up to a red color again as he granted the young Saiyan's wish.
Usagi smiled as wide as she could. She couldn't believe it. "So she'll let them come here? For real?" She took his eyes glowing red as a yes. "This is so cool!"
Gohan watched his sister and was amazed. She was totally depressed and lost within her emotions one minute, and the next, she was as happy as she had ever been. He was happy for her though. He himself wanted to cry just now when she was crying. He inched over to his father. "Looks like we got a couple more girls coming our way."
"Great. Girls are interesting, son. That's all I have to say about them." The sky turned bright blue again and the Dragon disappeared.
Rei looked around. She couldn't see her friends anywhere, but she knew they were around. She could feel them. "Where are they?" She let herself rise into the air a bit to scan the area. "I don't see them anywhere." She looked over to the horizon. "There they are! Why did they get put all the way over there?"
"Who knows and who cares! I'm ready to see them!" Usagi hovered into the air and darted towards her friends. She had a lot of explaining to do.
"Gohan, your sister has an unimaginable power, you know that? She possesses a power that only you and I could dream of. If trained properly, she could become one of the most powerful beings. But there's something more to her then we see. A normal Saiyan is not capable of having that much power in their normal form."
Gohan looked up to his father. "Are you thinking about training her to control that power that she showed the day she came?"
"I'm going to try." He watched Rei and Ami follow Usagi as she ran to their friends. He would try to teach all of them to use their power. He found the other's too strong to just be human. They had to have something else inside of them. His future self probably felt it too, yet did not act upon it.
~*~*~
Minako and Makoto looked around at their new surroundings. They didn't know what was going on. One minute they were talking with Bulma, Chi-Chi, Goku, Gohan, Goten, Videl, and Piccolo, and the next thing they know, they were in the middle of no where. They had been discussing the plans to rebuild the time machine to go back and get Mamoru, Usagi, Rei, and Ami, but things weren't working out too well. Most of the parts that were used were rare and they were unable to locate the parts. Videl, Gohan, and Bulma were going to be in charge of the building, while they, Piccolo, Goku, and Chi-Chi were going to try and find parts. "Uh, Makoto, what just happened?"
"I'm not sure." The two girls stood back to back, hoping that nothing would attack them. "I wish I knew though." She looked down to her wrist after she felt something tighten against it. "Where did this come from?" She looked over to Minako's wrist and watched a black band form on her wrist. "You got one too."
Minako looked down. "Whoa, this is weird. This looks like one of those wristbands that Bulma showed us from her invention doesn't it?"
"Does this mean…"
"GUYS!" Usagi ran as fast as her little legs could take her. She was so excited for she hadn't seen either of them for a year. "You guys! Over here!" She waved her hands in the air as she ran.
Minako and Makoto looked at each other, stunned, without anything to say. They could have sworn that they just heard the voice of their best friend Usagi. Makoto turned her head to where the voice came from and couldn't believe her eyes. "Oh my gosh. Minako, look! It's Usagi!"
"What!?" Minako turned her head in the direction that Makoto pointed to. "But how? She went to the past." But sure enough, it was true. Usagi was just about to reach them. Behind her ran Ami and Rei, but they were barely visible. "It IS Usagi. Wow. This is so cool!"
When Usagi got close enough, she tried to stop her feet, but couldn't. She had too much speed, thus, she collided into Minako, causing both of them to fall to the ground. She laughed as she threw her arms around the girl. "Minako! I missed you so much!" Usagi had totally forgotten about not being able to go home. With the combination of the time guardian's words, and her friends arriving, she was in pure happiness.
Minako tried to pull away from Usagi's gripped. She was still puzzled as to where they were, and why Usagi was there too. "Usagi, I can't breathe. Lighten up a little bit." Usagi didn't listen. She was too happy to do so. Minako knew that there was no hope of ever being freed unless it was her friend's decision. "Usagi, where are we?"
Usagi let go. She couldn't wait to tell her everything that had happened. "Well you're in the past with us now. Isn't that great? Now we can all be together again." He eyes shimmered with happiness in the bright sunlight.
Minako's mouth dropped as she looked up to Makoto. "Did she just say what I think she said?" She hoped it wasn't true. That would probably be the most horrible thing. It wasn't that she didn't want to be with her friends, she just knew how the adults were reacting back home.
"Yes Minako. Sadly, you just heard right from Usagi's mouth. You are in the past with us." Rei and Ami had finally caught up to Usagi. Rei immediately sensed the uneasiness in Minako after that statement. "Usagi wished to go home, but the Dragon said something about a guardian of time and how they wouldn't let us. Then she wished that you guys could come here. She didn't even mean it. It was just something she said, and then, well, you pretty much know the rest." She put on a sarcastic smile. "Well, welcome to the past you guys."
Makoto looked down to Usagi just as Goku and the rest arrived at the scene. "You what?!" She paused and let Usagi's words sink in. "Wait a minute. The Dragon wouldn't let you go home?"
Usagi shook her head. "No. He said that he had no control over time. He said that the time guardian person did. I think the time guardian talked to me. She said that everything in time happens for a reason. So I'm thinking we're supposed to be here? I don't know though. The Dragon said that she helped him make my wish come true. So maybe you guys are supposed to be here too."
"What are these things that appeared on our wrists?" Minako tried pulling the wristband off.
Rei grabbed her friend's arm. "Don't pull that off. That's what keeps us from aging here. Just so you know, time goes extra fast here. We have already gone a year here where you guys have gone a day."
"Yeah Bulma told us about that."
"You wished us to the past? How could you do a thing like that? You have no idea what's going on back home do you?" Makoto wondered what was happening in the future right about now. All she remembered was a bright flash of a white light and then poof, they were where they were now.
Usagi's ears perked. She hadn't thought about the fact that they knew what was going on. They had information on what her family was doing. She looked up to Makoto. "How mad is mom?"
Makoto giggled. Chi-Chi was far more mad then just being 'pissed'. There really were no words to explain her extreme anger towards her daughter at the moment. "Well, remember when you said your mom slapped you for keeping your suspension a secret?"
"Yeah?" Just by Makoto's tone of voice, Usagi could tell that this was not something she wanted to know. She was not going to look forward to going back home.
"Well, don't even think she's that laid back now. Boy, she was talking about killing you when you got home. Then your dad attempted to calm her down, now she's just going to strangle you until near death. In other words, you're lucky you can't go back to the future yet."
Usagi knew that that would happen. She still wanted to go home though. She didn't care. She just wanted something familiar. "So how did they find out?"
Minako stood up and brushed some dirt off of her cloths. "Gohan told us that Vejita told Bulma he saw you by her office today and how you said Ami was showing you. I guess Bulma put two and two together and figured out where you were. She was on the phone with your mom at the time."
"Man. What have I gotten us into? I mean, I don't really want to go home and face mom, but I do want to go home and put this behind me."
Chi-Chi stepped up to be in front of Usagi. "Usagi, dear, are you telling me that you didn't ask your parents if you could leave?" She distinctly remembered Usagi telling her that she had permission to go to the past.
Usagi froze. She slowly moved her eyes up and met with her mother's. It was bad enough that she had to 'look forward' to hearing it from her real mother. Now she was certain that she would have to hear it from this one too. "You see, there's a funny story about that…" She faked a smile in hopes to calm her mother down before she blew up.
Chi-Chi frowned. "You lied to me? You lied to your parents? I know you were not brought up to do that sort of thing. We would never raise a child to lie." She crossed her arms. "What do you have to say for yourself?"
Goku put his hands around his wife's shoulders. "It's not exactly our place to yell at her. Leave that for her real mother." He pushed gently pushed Chi-Chi aside and looked down at Usagi. "Don't worry. We won't punish you for lying." He looked over to Chi-Chi who pouted to herself.
Usagi smiled. "Thanks daddy." She looked back over to Minako. "Is dad really mad at me too?"
"Yes and no. You see, he IS really mad and all, but he said that he's not going to show it until you get home. He's worried about you more then anything. Once you get home though, he has nothing to worry about and will probably go off on you. It was really obvious that he was majorly mad. He didn't have much to say either. He just breathed really hard and loud too. I think he was madder then he showed. So Usagi you really should watch yourself when you get home."
"When did you find out that we were gone?"
"Today when we went to your house to see if you could do something with us. Your dad said you weren't there but you were in the past. Then he told us to get in the car so we could go with him and your mom to Capsule Corp. We didn't know why but we did it anyways. When we got there, Gohan and Videl were already there. Guess what they were doing?"
"What?"
"They were planning to build another time machine. They wanted us to help find parts with your mom and dad and Piccolo." She paused long enough to giggle. "Speaking of Piccolo…" She leaned to her right to look at Mamoru. "Your dad said that he's going to beat you down to the ground. His words not mine. So don't go and try to hit me."
Mamoru sarcastically smiled. "I wouldn't dream of hitting a girl."
Usagi frowned as she turned back to Mamoru. "You hit me all the time."
He grinned. "You aren't a girl Odango." Piccolo put his hand on his son's shoulder and gently squeezed to let him know that that is not acceptable. "Sorry Odango." He mumbled under his breath.
"Why Mamoru. You apologized to me. That's the first time. I knew there was hope for you." She smiled. Maybe now he would treat her with a little more respect. Hanging around the Piccolo from the past really did pay off.
"Ok you guys. I know that you all probably want to catch up and everything, but we really do need to train. We have two years before those androids arrive here and we can't waste anytime."
"What?! An enemy is coming in two years?" Minako turned to Goku. She couldn't fight an enemy. She wasn't ready. She wasn't strong enough. She had heard about the enemies that they used to fight and knew that if she were ever faced with them, she would be dead in a heartbeat.
"I'm afraid so. That's why Usagi came into the past." He turned to Usagi. "Usagi, I have a proposition for you."
Usagi turned to her father with curiosity and smiled. "I'm listening."
"How would you like it if I…"
"Goku if you even mention training her I will throw you out of the house. You have Gohan, but you will NOT have Usagi. Just don't even go any further." Although she may have let her daughter train in the future, she didn't have to now. There was no way that she would let Goku talk her into it.
"Aww, come on Chi-Chi. If I train her right, she can be really powerful. Please?"
Chi-Chi looked away from her husband so she wouldn't be persuaded with any of his facial expressions. "I said no and that's final. Usagi has to study. She is too far behind to be traipsing about with you and Gohan becoming a tomboy. She can do without fighting for the remainder of the time that she is here."
Goku looked down to Usagi. She begged him to keep asking with her eyes. He knew he had to get her to agree somehow. He only knew of one way to do it. He also knew that Usagi would hate it, but it really was the only way. He looked back to his wife. "Chi-Chi, what if Usagi starts studying more and actually learns. Then would you let her train?"
Chi-Chi smiled. She knew that that would never happen. If she agreed to it, then Usagi wouldn't be able to fight. "You've got yourself a deal."
"What? Daddy! You can't be serious. I don't wanna study. That isn't fair. Don't tell her I'll study. Please. Anything but that. You don't know how boring that is. Tell her I won't study. Tell her I'll…"
Goku put his finger to his daughter's mouth to silence her. He leaned down to her ear. "Don't worry. Ami can help you. I can even Gohan to help you." Usagi groaned in protest. She didn't care who would help her. She wasn't good at schoolwork. She hated schoolwork, which didn't help any. She would have to go along with it though. It was the only way that she would be able to train with her father and Gohan.
"Can you teach me how to fight Goku?" Usagi, Minako, Rei, and Makoto all turned their head to Ami. They were more shocked then ever to hear those words come from their friend, Ami. Her mother had told her that she was not to fight without her permission, which she would never give.
Goku never would have thought that Ami would want to fight. She was too much of a bookworm for that. But he would be happy to do it. If Chi-Chi would let him that is. "Sure."
"Why the sudden change Ami?"
Ami looked to Rei. "It's not really a change. Ever since I first saw Usagi fighting with Mamoru last year I've wanted to learn how to fight. It looked like fun and it could prove to be a challenge to me. But my mom never let me. But you see, my mom isn't here is she? Not only will it prove to be a challenge, it will also boost my mental concentration, which is needed if I want to excel." Ami couldn't wait to begin her training. She didn't know what she would tell her mother, but she didn't have to worry about that at the moment. She would already be in trouble for taking her friends to the past. She would just explain to her mother that it was inevitable to fight. She wanted to help her friends fight the androids if the time came.
"Now why can't you be more like her Usagi? She studies and fights to excel in her studies. I don't understand you. Look at Gohan. He loves to study. Why do you have to be so unlike your brother?"
Chi-Chi planned on rubbing it in as much as possible so Usagi would try to prove her wrong. But she noticed that Usagi doesn't really try to prove her family wrong. She usually takes what they have to say and accepts it. She found that she had to be somewhat careful of what she said so she wouldn't upset her daughter. But even though she didn't want Usagi to train, she still wanted her to learn. She'd be damned if she sent her daughter back into the future without learning anything.
~*~*~
Two months later…
Usagi threw a textbook down to the floor along with her notebook filled with her work from the past week. "Forget it. I'm just stupid. Let's admit it. I can't do this. I'm never gonna learn anything and I'm never gonna get to train with dad."
Ami bent down and picked up the book and put it on the desk that they had been studying at. "Usagi, you're not stupid. We've already had this conversation. We just haven't found out what helps you study. Don't just give up."
Both girls sat in their temporary room. It was the guestroom, which would one day be Goten's room. There were three rollout beds put together in the room in which all the girls slept in. They were just small enough to fit all them on comfortably. They didn't mind sharing the room either. It had made them feel like sisters. They would stay up until late hours of the night just chatting away. Most nights one of the other family members would have to come in and tell them to quiet down because more then one of the girls would get carried away and start getting loud.
At the moment, Minako, Makoto, and Rei had gone shopping in the city. They had finished their work for the day and Chi-Chi had actually given them permission to go by themselves. Shock They were all excited about going. They wanted to see the fashions of the past and all the old stores and trend of the people. Rei hadn't really gone to the city in the past year so she was just as excited as Minako and Makoto were. They had been there for two months and they had finally convinced Chi-Chi into letting them venture out into the city.
But while they were out having fun, Usagi was stuck in her room with Ami trying to figure out her math homework. She hadn't really made much progress in the past couple of months. Most of the math was beyond her level. "Ami, I've been going to school for how long now? And I still can't do this stuff."
Ami sighed. She knew that Usagi had potential, she just didn't know how to make it show. There had been one time that Usagi actually did a good job on her homework assignment. But she didn't know how she had done it. Ami was certain that she could find out how she had done it though. "Usagi come on. You did this before. Just try do it like you did last week."
Usagi sighed. "I'll try Ami. Just for you I'll try." She could tell that Ami was getting put out with her unwillingness to really try. She turned around when she heard a knock on the door. "Come in." She watched as the door crept slightly open to reveal her mother holding a tray. "Hi mom." She always brought them snacks, something she never really did in the future.
"I thought you might like a snack. You've been in here all day." She looked over her daughter's shoulder at her work as she put down the tray with food on it. "You're work is looking better."
Usagi knew that was a lie. She knew how her parents worked. Even if something were totally screwed up, they would still say it was wonderful. Or in this case, looking better. "Thanks mom. Can you turn on the radio please?"
Chi-Chi frowned. "Usagi, if you listen to the radio it will only make you loose your concentration."
"That's right Usagi. If you ever want to train anytime soon, you need all the concentration you can get." Ami was hoping that Usagi's grades would pull up soon. Every day she would have to tutor Usagi, which in turn, met that she couldn't train until Usagi was able to.
"No it doesn't. Please? Just for a while?" She curled her bottom lip.
Chi-Chi was tired of Usagi's whining. She was tired of her daughter doing everything in her power to get out of studying. She was fed up with it. Gohan had never put up as much of a fight with her over studying that Usagi had. "You know what? Fine! If you don't want to study then fine! Don't study! You aren't going to learn anything anyways. Do what you want! Listen to the radio and rot your brain out with that junk! You aren't my problem yet anyways! I'm trying to do your mother a favor by having you study but you obviously don't care about your education. But let me make myself clear on one point. You will NOT fight unless you do your work!" She turned around and stormed out of the room. She was furious. She had no idea how she could have let her daughter become such a lazy person. She wouldn't let it happen when she was born. She wouldn't let Goku train her at all.
Usagi sighed as she looked back to her work. "I've managed to make her mad at me once again. Why do I always do this?" She rested her head in her hands.
"Usagi, you know you push your mother's buttons when you complain about what she wants you to do. You should just go along with whatever she wants you to do. You know you can do it. You've proved you can."
Usagi stood up and walked over to the table by the door that the radio sat on. "That was just a one time only thing. I'm really not smart." She turned it on and sat back down at the desk. She attempted to do some of the long division problems from her math book again.
"If you keep telling yourself that, then you will never become smart. But if you tell yourself that your smart and you can do something, then you will succeed."
"I'm not like you Ami. I wasn't born smart."
Ami stared out the window. Most of their days went on like this. Ami would try to convince Usagi that she wasn't as dumb as she thought she was. Most of the time it would turn into an argument in which Ami would eventually give up as there was no way one could win against Usagi. She was smart when it came to life and the hearts of others. But when it came to books, her heart just wasn't in it. After a couple of minutes thinking, Ami looked down to the work that Usagi was doing. "How did you do that?"
Usagi looked up at Ami puzzled. "Do what?" She looked back down at her notebook. She didn't see anything unusual about it. It just had a bunch of answers scribbled on it that were probably wrong anyways.
Ami was amazed at what she saw. "Your answers. Most of them are right. And the ones that aren't right only have a few minor calculation problems. Usagi, this is wonderful. How did you do this?"
Usagi shrugged. "I dunno. I just did it the way I've always did." She continued to stare at her answers. "If you lying to and my answers are totally wrong I'm gonna…"
"No, no. They are really good." It confused Ami. She didn't know how one minute Usagi didn't know how to do the math and didn't get a single problem right, and the next minute, she was on her way to getting an A on her assignment. Then it hit her. "Usagi, were you listening to the radio when you did the last assignment that you did well on?"
Usagi was silent. She knew she wasn't allowed to listen to the radio while she did her work. But it had always relaxed her. "Umm…yes?"
Ami walked over to the radio and turned it off. "Ok, do the next five problems and tell me when you're finished." 'Yes! We may get to train sooner then I thought.'
"Ok." She didn't know what Ami was trying to do but she went along with it anyways. She turned the page to the next five problems like Ami had told her to. She found it quite hard to concentrate on what she was doing and often found her mind wandering to other subjects. She leaned her head into her left hand. "Ami, this is too hard."
"How many problems do you have done?"
"Two."
"Ten minutes have passed and you only have two done? Ok then, let's try something else." She turned the radio on again. "Try doing the other three now."
"Ok." She started doing the next problem. This time it wasn't as hard for her to do it. About three minutes passed and Usagi was already done. She slammed her pencil to the desk and turned around to Ami. "Finished!"
"Great." She walked back to the desk and picked up the notebook. "Wrong, wrong, right, right, nearly right." She threw it back down in front of Usagi. "I think I found out what your problem is Usagi."
"What? What?"
"When you're doing your homework, do you always concentrate only on it, or do you think about other things?"
"I usually think about other things. Homework it just too boring."
"That's your problem then. You have a short attention span. You need something to keep your mind from wandering and I think that's what the music does for you. You don't necessarily have to concentrate on it. You just kind of let it sit in the back of your mind as you listen to it. In doing this, you allow it the take up all the room in your brain for thinking about other things, therefore making it easier for you concentrate on what you should be doing. Usagi my friend," She smiled. "I think we can get your grades up in no time."
Usagi's face was filled with a smile. "Are you serious? You mean I can train with dad finally? You mean I can be smart?"
Ami nodded. "Yeah. I'm pretty sure of it. You want to tell your mom?"
Usagi jumped out of her seat. "Of course I wanna tell her. I want to start training as soon as possible." She bolted to the door without even finishing the rest of her work. "MOM! MOM!" She ran out of the room and into the living room where her mother was reading a magazine. "Mom guess what?!"
Chi-Chi put her magazine down on her lap and looked to her daughter. "What is it Usagi?"
Usagi walked to the sofa and leaned against the armrest. "Ami found out a way for me to be able to study and actually learn. See, I have to listen to the radio."
"Please Usagi. Don't lie to me. The radio just takes away concentration, it doesn't add anything." She looked back to her magazine. She noticed that Usagi would do anything to get her way and had to learn what to believe and what not to believe.
"Chi-Chi, it's not a lie. It's true. Taking away from her concentration is what she needed. Her problem is that she concentrates too much. But on things different then studying. The music allows her mind to be taken up by the music but still leaves enough room for studying. I guess you could put it that way in the simplest terms. I just tested it out and it really does work. Usagi got most of her problems right after we turned on the radio."
"So mom, now that I can raise my grades, can I train? Can I? Can I? Huh? Huh? Huh?" She leaned in closer to her mother.
'Oh great. I didn't actually think she would raise her grades. But I told her that I would allow her to train once she raised her grades and it's apparent that she will.' She sighed. There was no way that she could say no. She couldn't lie to her daughter. That was one of the things that she always yelled at her for. "I guess so."
Usagi jumped back. "YES!" She turned back to Ami. "This is so totally cool! We get to train! Oh yeah!" She began to do a little dance from being so happy. Chi-Chi laughed at her daughter. That had to be one of the things that she loved most about her. She was always so energetic and full of life.
(Ok, that's it for this part. What do you think? Was it good or bad? Please review and tell me. Bye for now. ^_^)
"I don't care how much you want it. I can not conduct time travel. I am not as powerful as the guardian of time and space. Please, choose another wish before I get angry."
Usagi let herself drop to her knees. She felt faint and wanted to pass out, but she didn't. She wouldn't give up. "This guardian of time you speak of, who is it? How can I talk to this person?" If the dragon couldn't help her, she figured the guardian would.
"Do not ask of this person as I will not tell. Pick a wish or sacrifice this turn." The dragon was becoming agitated with Usagi. The people of this planet always took forever when making a wish. It was ridiculous. They should have made up their minds about wishes before they summoned him.
"I wish to go home to the future. But I obviously can't have that." She leaned over and put her forehead to the ground. She didn't know what to do. 'Why did that guardian of time let us come here if they weren't going to let us go back home? That makes no sense.' "This isn't fair. I want to go. I wish to go home. Time guardian, why won't you let me go home?"
Chi-Chi could tell that her daughter was having a hard time dealing with this. She would now be a permanent resident of the house, which was obviously not what she wanted. Granted they were in a way family. They just weren't HER real family. They weren't the people that she was born to. She walked over to her and kneeled by her side. "Usagi, we'll find a way for you to get home. We'll get Bulma to build you a time machine to go home. I'm sure she can do it." She picked up her daughter and held her in her lap. She had never really seen her upset before. She was usually such a chipper little thing that she was beginning to wonder if she ever felt sorrow.
"Um, Chi-Chi, Bulma and I built that thing with the most recent parts available. We may not be able to build another one. I don't even have a base to go off on. Our time pad blew up the first day we were here. There is no way to go back and find it to even salvage parts anymore." Ami hated to be the holder of bad news, but it had to be told. There was no way around it.
"Hurry up and make a wish."
Usagi looked up at the Dragon. "I wish to go home!"
"I can't do that."
Usagi's eyes watered up with tears as she began to cry into her mother's shoulder. "I'm never going to get home. It's official. I'm doomed to live in the past for the rest of my life. I'll never get to see Goten again, or Pan, or Bra, or Trunks, or Minako, or Makoto. I even miss Haruka and Michiru."
Chi-Chi rubbed her hand on her daughter's back. "Don't cry Usagi. You WILL get home. One way or the other. You will see your friends and family again."
Usagi pulled away from her mother's grasp and looked into her face. Her tears sparkled silver as they trickled down her cheeks. "But it's my fault. It's all my fault. I wanted to come to the past. I wanted so badly to save daddy, mamma. It isn't fair. I got Rei and Ami and Mamoru into this. Now because of me, we can never go home."
Watching Usagi cry Mamoru actually felt bad for her. He had seen her cry many times before, but most of the time she cried over the stupidest things. But this time she had reasons to justify her crying. She had lost all hope on ever getting home and blamed herself when it was all of their faults. He blamed himself for not telling the adults. "Usagi, don't give up hope."
'Patience little Usagi.'
Usagi looked up into the sky. "Huh? Who said that?"
'A very good friend.'
"Who are you? I can't see you. I can only hear you." Everyone looked curiously to Usagi. They didn't hear anyone.
'Do not cry, let time play its role out. Things in time happen for a reason. Nothing happens without cause.'
"What? What is that supposed to mean?" Usagi didn't get an answer. "Hello? Who were you? What did you mean? Please tell me. I need to know." Still, no answer from the mysterious voice. She pulled away from her mother, who stared at her in confusion. She looked around, everyone stared at her like she was nuts. "This lady talked to me guys. She said to let time takes it's role or something. That everything in time happens for a reason."
"That was the guardian of time. She is wise. You should listen to her. Now, make a wish. I am getting angry with you people."
"I wish to go home, but I know I can't do that." Usagi stood up with her mother's help. "I also wish that Minako and Makoto are here, but I know I can't do that either." She turned to her friends. "Is there anything that we want?"
"That can be done."
"What?" Usagi turned her head back to the Dragon. It had just said that something could be done, but what? He wasn't capable of conducting time travel.
"The Guardian of Time has agreed to let your friends come into the past. She will help me full fill the wish." The Dragon's eyes lit up to a red color again as he granted the young Saiyan's wish.
Usagi smiled as wide as she could. She couldn't believe it. "So she'll let them come here? For real?" She took his eyes glowing red as a yes. "This is so cool!"
Gohan watched his sister and was amazed. She was totally depressed and lost within her emotions one minute, and the next, she was as happy as she had ever been. He was happy for her though. He himself wanted to cry just now when she was crying. He inched over to his father. "Looks like we got a couple more girls coming our way."
"Great. Girls are interesting, son. That's all I have to say about them." The sky turned bright blue again and the Dragon disappeared.
Rei looked around. She couldn't see her friends anywhere, but she knew they were around. She could feel them. "Where are they?" She let herself rise into the air a bit to scan the area. "I don't see them anywhere." She looked over to the horizon. "There they are! Why did they get put all the way over there?"
"Who knows and who cares! I'm ready to see them!" Usagi hovered into the air and darted towards her friends. She had a lot of explaining to do.
"Gohan, your sister has an unimaginable power, you know that? She possesses a power that only you and I could dream of. If trained properly, she could become one of the most powerful beings. But there's something more to her then we see. A normal Saiyan is not capable of having that much power in their normal form."
Gohan looked up to his father. "Are you thinking about training her to control that power that she showed the day she came?"
"I'm going to try." He watched Rei and Ami follow Usagi as she ran to their friends. He would try to teach all of them to use their power. He found the other's too strong to just be human. They had to have something else inside of them. His future self probably felt it too, yet did not act upon it.
~*~*~
Minako and Makoto looked around at their new surroundings. They didn't know what was going on. One minute they were talking with Bulma, Chi-Chi, Goku, Gohan, Goten, Videl, and Piccolo, and the next thing they know, they were in the middle of no where. They had been discussing the plans to rebuild the time machine to go back and get Mamoru, Usagi, Rei, and Ami, but things weren't working out too well. Most of the parts that were used were rare and they were unable to locate the parts. Videl, Gohan, and Bulma were going to be in charge of the building, while they, Piccolo, Goku, and Chi-Chi were going to try and find parts. "Uh, Makoto, what just happened?"
"I'm not sure." The two girls stood back to back, hoping that nothing would attack them. "I wish I knew though." She looked down to her wrist after she felt something tighten against it. "Where did this come from?" She looked over to Minako's wrist and watched a black band form on her wrist. "You got one too."
Minako looked down. "Whoa, this is weird. This looks like one of those wristbands that Bulma showed us from her invention doesn't it?"
"Does this mean…"
"GUYS!" Usagi ran as fast as her little legs could take her. She was so excited for she hadn't seen either of them for a year. "You guys! Over here!" She waved her hands in the air as she ran.
Minako and Makoto looked at each other, stunned, without anything to say. They could have sworn that they just heard the voice of their best friend Usagi. Makoto turned her head to where the voice came from and couldn't believe her eyes. "Oh my gosh. Minako, look! It's Usagi!"
"What!?" Minako turned her head in the direction that Makoto pointed to. "But how? She went to the past." But sure enough, it was true. Usagi was just about to reach them. Behind her ran Ami and Rei, but they were barely visible. "It IS Usagi. Wow. This is so cool!"
When Usagi got close enough, she tried to stop her feet, but couldn't. She had too much speed, thus, she collided into Minako, causing both of them to fall to the ground. She laughed as she threw her arms around the girl. "Minako! I missed you so much!" Usagi had totally forgotten about not being able to go home. With the combination of the time guardian's words, and her friends arriving, she was in pure happiness.
Minako tried to pull away from Usagi's gripped. She was still puzzled as to where they were, and why Usagi was there too. "Usagi, I can't breathe. Lighten up a little bit." Usagi didn't listen. She was too happy to do so. Minako knew that there was no hope of ever being freed unless it was her friend's decision. "Usagi, where are we?"
Usagi let go. She couldn't wait to tell her everything that had happened. "Well you're in the past with us now. Isn't that great? Now we can all be together again." He eyes shimmered with happiness in the bright sunlight.
Minako's mouth dropped as she looked up to Makoto. "Did she just say what I think she said?" She hoped it wasn't true. That would probably be the most horrible thing. It wasn't that she didn't want to be with her friends, she just knew how the adults were reacting back home.
"Yes Minako. Sadly, you just heard right from Usagi's mouth. You are in the past with us." Rei and Ami had finally caught up to Usagi. Rei immediately sensed the uneasiness in Minako after that statement. "Usagi wished to go home, but the Dragon said something about a guardian of time and how they wouldn't let us. Then she wished that you guys could come here. She didn't even mean it. It was just something she said, and then, well, you pretty much know the rest." She put on a sarcastic smile. "Well, welcome to the past you guys."
Makoto looked down to Usagi just as Goku and the rest arrived at the scene. "You what?!" She paused and let Usagi's words sink in. "Wait a minute. The Dragon wouldn't let you go home?"
Usagi shook her head. "No. He said that he had no control over time. He said that the time guardian person did. I think the time guardian talked to me. She said that everything in time happens for a reason. So I'm thinking we're supposed to be here? I don't know though. The Dragon said that she helped him make my wish come true. So maybe you guys are supposed to be here too."
"What are these things that appeared on our wrists?" Minako tried pulling the wristband off.
Rei grabbed her friend's arm. "Don't pull that off. That's what keeps us from aging here. Just so you know, time goes extra fast here. We have already gone a year here where you guys have gone a day."
"Yeah Bulma told us about that."
"You wished us to the past? How could you do a thing like that? You have no idea what's going on back home do you?" Makoto wondered what was happening in the future right about now. All she remembered was a bright flash of a white light and then poof, they were where they were now.
Usagi's ears perked. She hadn't thought about the fact that they knew what was going on. They had information on what her family was doing. She looked up to Makoto. "How mad is mom?"
Makoto giggled. Chi-Chi was far more mad then just being 'pissed'. There really were no words to explain her extreme anger towards her daughter at the moment. "Well, remember when you said your mom slapped you for keeping your suspension a secret?"
"Yeah?" Just by Makoto's tone of voice, Usagi could tell that this was not something she wanted to know. She was not going to look forward to going back home.
"Well, don't even think she's that laid back now. Boy, she was talking about killing you when you got home. Then your dad attempted to calm her down, now she's just going to strangle you until near death. In other words, you're lucky you can't go back to the future yet."
Usagi knew that that would happen. She still wanted to go home though. She didn't care. She just wanted something familiar. "So how did they find out?"
Minako stood up and brushed some dirt off of her cloths. "Gohan told us that Vejita told Bulma he saw you by her office today and how you said Ami was showing you. I guess Bulma put two and two together and figured out where you were. She was on the phone with your mom at the time."
"Man. What have I gotten us into? I mean, I don't really want to go home and face mom, but I do want to go home and put this behind me."
Chi-Chi stepped up to be in front of Usagi. "Usagi, dear, are you telling me that you didn't ask your parents if you could leave?" She distinctly remembered Usagi telling her that she had permission to go to the past.
Usagi froze. She slowly moved her eyes up and met with her mother's. It was bad enough that she had to 'look forward' to hearing it from her real mother. Now she was certain that she would have to hear it from this one too. "You see, there's a funny story about that…" She faked a smile in hopes to calm her mother down before she blew up.
Chi-Chi frowned. "You lied to me? You lied to your parents? I know you were not brought up to do that sort of thing. We would never raise a child to lie." She crossed her arms. "What do you have to say for yourself?"
Goku put his hands around his wife's shoulders. "It's not exactly our place to yell at her. Leave that for her real mother." He pushed gently pushed Chi-Chi aside and looked down at Usagi. "Don't worry. We won't punish you for lying." He looked over to Chi-Chi who pouted to herself.
Usagi smiled. "Thanks daddy." She looked back over to Minako. "Is dad really mad at me too?"
"Yes and no. You see, he IS really mad and all, but he said that he's not going to show it until you get home. He's worried about you more then anything. Once you get home though, he has nothing to worry about and will probably go off on you. It was really obvious that he was majorly mad. He didn't have much to say either. He just breathed really hard and loud too. I think he was madder then he showed. So Usagi you really should watch yourself when you get home."
"When did you find out that we were gone?"
"Today when we went to your house to see if you could do something with us. Your dad said you weren't there but you were in the past. Then he told us to get in the car so we could go with him and your mom to Capsule Corp. We didn't know why but we did it anyways. When we got there, Gohan and Videl were already there. Guess what they were doing?"
"What?"
"They were planning to build another time machine. They wanted us to help find parts with your mom and dad and Piccolo." She paused long enough to giggle. "Speaking of Piccolo…" She leaned to her right to look at Mamoru. "Your dad said that he's going to beat you down to the ground. His words not mine. So don't go and try to hit me."
Mamoru sarcastically smiled. "I wouldn't dream of hitting a girl."
Usagi frowned as she turned back to Mamoru. "You hit me all the time."
He grinned. "You aren't a girl Odango." Piccolo put his hand on his son's shoulder and gently squeezed to let him know that that is not acceptable. "Sorry Odango." He mumbled under his breath.
"Why Mamoru. You apologized to me. That's the first time. I knew there was hope for you." She smiled. Maybe now he would treat her with a little more respect. Hanging around the Piccolo from the past really did pay off.
"Ok you guys. I know that you all probably want to catch up and everything, but we really do need to train. We have two years before those androids arrive here and we can't waste anytime."
"What?! An enemy is coming in two years?" Minako turned to Goku. She couldn't fight an enemy. She wasn't ready. She wasn't strong enough. She had heard about the enemies that they used to fight and knew that if she were ever faced with them, she would be dead in a heartbeat.
"I'm afraid so. That's why Usagi came into the past." He turned to Usagi. "Usagi, I have a proposition for you."
Usagi turned to her father with curiosity and smiled. "I'm listening."
"How would you like it if I…"
"Goku if you even mention training her I will throw you out of the house. You have Gohan, but you will NOT have Usagi. Just don't even go any further." Although she may have let her daughter train in the future, she didn't have to now. There was no way that she would let Goku talk her into it.
"Aww, come on Chi-Chi. If I train her right, she can be really powerful. Please?"
Chi-Chi looked away from her husband so she wouldn't be persuaded with any of his facial expressions. "I said no and that's final. Usagi has to study. She is too far behind to be traipsing about with you and Gohan becoming a tomboy. She can do without fighting for the remainder of the time that she is here."
Goku looked down to Usagi. She begged him to keep asking with her eyes. He knew he had to get her to agree somehow. He only knew of one way to do it. He also knew that Usagi would hate it, but it really was the only way. He looked back to his wife. "Chi-Chi, what if Usagi starts studying more and actually learns. Then would you let her train?"
Chi-Chi smiled. She knew that that would never happen. If she agreed to it, then Usagi wouldn't be able to fight. "You've got yourself a deal."
"What? Daddy! You can't be serious. I don't wanna study. That isn't fair. Don't tell her I'll study. Please. Anything but that. You don't know how boring that is. Tell her I won't study. Tell her I'll…"
Goku put his finger to his daughter's mouth to silence her. He leaned down to her ear. "Don't worry. Ami can help you. I can even Gohan to help you." Usagi groaned in protest. She didn't care who would help her. She wasn't good at schoolwork. She hated schoolwork, which didn't help any. She would have to go along with it though. It was the only way that she would be able to train with her father and Gohan.
"Can you teach me how to fight Goku?" Usagi, Minako, Rei, and Makoto all turned their head to Ami. They were more shocked then ever to hear those words come from their friend, Ami. Her mother had told her that she was not to fight without her permission, which she would never give.
Goku never would have thought that Ami would want to fight. She was too much of a bookworm for that. But he would be happy to do it. If Chi-Chi would let him that is. "Sure."
"Why the sudden change Ami?"
Ami looked to Rei. "It's not really a change. Ever since I first saw Usagi fighting with Mamoru last year I've wanted to learn how to fight. It looked like fun and it could prove to be a challenge to me. But my mom never let me. But you see, my mom isn't here is she? Not only will it prove to be a challenge, it will also boost my mental concentration, which is needed if I want to excel." Ami couldn't wait to begin her training. She didn't know what she would tell her mother, but she didn't have to worry about that at the moment. She would already be in trouble for taking her friends to the past. She would just explain to her mother that it was inevitable to fight. She wanted to help her friends fight the androids if the time came.
"Now why can't you be more like her Usagi? She studies and fights to excel in her studies. I don't understand you. Look at Gohan. He loves to study. Why do you have to be so unlike your brother?"
Chi-Chi planned on rubbing it in as much as possible so Usagi would try to prove her wrong. But she noticed that Usagi doesn't really try to prove her family wrong. She usually takes what they have to say and accepts it. She found that she had to be somewhat careful of what she said so she wouldn't upset her daughter. But even though she didn't want Usagi to train, she still wanted her to learn. She'd be damned if she sent her daughter back into the future without learning anything.
~*~*~
Two months later…
Usagi threw a textbook down to the floor along with her notebook filled with her work from the past week. "Forget it. I'm just stupid. Let's admit it. I can't do this. I'm never gonna learn anything and I'm never gonna get to train with dad."
Ami bent down and picked up the book and put it on the desk that they had been studying at. "Usagi, you're not stupid. We've already had this conversation. We just haven't found out what helps you study. Don't just give up."
Both girls sat in their temporary room. It was the guestroom, which would one day be Goten's room. There were three rollout beds put together in the room in which all the girls slept in. They were just small enough to fit all them on comfortably. They didn't mind sharing the room either. It had made them feel like sisters. They would stay up until late hours of the night just chatting away. Most nights one of the other family members would have to come in and tell them to quiet down because more then one of the girls would get carried away and start getting loud.
At the moment, Minako, Makoto, and Rei had gone shopping in the city. They had finished their work for the day and Chi-Chi had actually given them permission to go by themselves. Shock They were all excited about going. They wanted to see the fashions of the past and all the old stores and trend of the people. Rei hadn't really gone to the city in the past year so she was just as excited as Minako and Makoto were. They had been there for two months and they had finally convinced Chi-Chi into letting them venture out into the city.
But while they were out having fun, Usagi was stuck in her room with Ami trying to figure out her math homework. She hadn't really made much progress in the past couple of months. Most of the math was beyond her level. "Ami, I've been going to school for how long now? And I still can't do this stuff."
Ami sighed. She knew that Usagi had potential, she just didn't know how to make it show. There had been one time that Usagi actually did a good job on her homework assignment. But she didn't know how she had done it. Ami was certain that she could find out how she had done it though. "Usagi come on. You did this before. Just try do it like you did last week."
Usagi sighed. "I'll try Ami. Just for you I'll try." She could tell that Ami was getting put out with her unwillingness to really try. She turned around when she heard a knock on the door. "Come in." She watched as the door crept slightly open to reveal her mother holding a tray. "Hi mom." She always brought them snacks, something she never really did in the future.
"I thought you might like a snack. You've been in here all day." She looked over her daughter's shoulder at her work as she put down the tray with food on it. "You're work is looking better."
Usagi knew that was a lie. She knew how her parents worked. Even if something were totally screwed up, they would still say it was wonderful. Or in this case, looking better. "Thanks mom. Can you turn on the radio please?"
Chi-Chi frowned. "Usagi, if you listen to the radio it will only make you loose your concentration."
"That's right Usagi. If you ever want to train anytime soon, you need all the concentration you can get." Ami was hoping that Usagi's grades would pull up soon. Every day she would have to tutor Usagi, which in turn, met that she couldn't train until Usagi was able to.
"No it doesn't. Please? Just for a while?" She curled her bottom lip.
Chi-Chi was tired of Usagi's whining. She was tired of her daughter doing everything in her power to get out of studying. She was fed up with it. Gohan had never put up as much of a fight with her over studying that Usagi had. "You know what? Fine! If you don't want to study then fine! Don't study! You aren't going to learn anything anyways. Do what you want! Listen to the radio and rot your brain out with that junk! You aren't my problem yet anyways! I'm trying to do your mother a favor by having you study but you obviously don't care about your education. But let me make myself clear on one point. You will NOT fight unless you do your work!" She turned around and stormed out of the room. She was furious. She had no idea how she could have let her daughter become such a lazy person. She wouldn't let it happen when she was born. She wouldn't let Goku train her at all.
Usagi sighed as she looked back to her work. "I've managed to make her mad at me once again. Why do I always do this?" She rested her head in her hands.
"Usagi, you know you push your mother's buttons when you complain about what she wants you to do. You should just go along with whatever she wants you to do. You know you can do it. You've proved you can."
Usagi stood up and walked over to the table by the door that the radio sat on. "That was just a one time only thing. I'm really not smart." She turned it on and sat back down at the desk. She attempted to do some of the long division problems from her math book again.
"If you keep telling yourself that, then you will never become smart. But if you tell yourself that your smart and you can do something, then you will succeed."
"I'm not like you Ami. I wasn't born smart."
Ami stared out the window. Most of their days went on like this. Ami would try to convince Usagi that she wasn't as dumb as she thought she was. Most of the time it would turn into an argument in which Ami would eventually give up as there was no way one could win against Usagi. She was smart when it came to life and the hearts of others. But when it came to books, her heart just wasn't in it. After a couple of minutes thinking, Ami looked down to the work that Usagi was doing. "How did you do that?"
Usagi looked up at Ami puzzled. "Do what?" She looked back down at her notebook. She didn't see anything unusual about it. It just had a bunch of answers scribbled on it that were probably wrong anyways.
Ami was amazed at what she saw. "Your answers. Most of them are right. And the ones that aren't right only have a few minor calculation problems. Usagi, this is wonderful. How did you do this?"
Usagi shrugged. "I dunno. I just did it the way I've always did." She continued to stare at her answers. "If you lying to and my answers are totally wrong I'm gonna…"
"No, no. They are really good." It confused Ami. She didn't know how one minute Usagi didn't know how to do the math and didn't get a single problem right, and the next minute, she was on her way to getting an A on her assignment. Then it hit her. "Usagi, were you listening to the radio when you did the last assignment that you did well on?"
Usagi was silent. She knew she wasn't allowed to listen to the radio while she did her work. But it had always relaxed her. "Umm…yes?"
Ami walked over to the radio and turned it off. "Ok, do the next five problems and tell me when you're finished." 'Yes! We may get to train sooner then I thought.'
"Ok." She didn't know what Ami was trying to do but she went along with it anyways. She turned the page to the next five problems like Ami had told her to. She found it quite hard to concentrate on what she was doing and often found her mind wandering to other subjects. She leaned her head into her left hand. "Ami, this is too hard."
"How many problems do you have done?"
"Two."
"Ten minutes have passed and you only have two done? Ok then, let's try something else." She turned the radio on again. "Try doing the other three now."
"Ok." She started doing the next problem. This time it wasn't as hard for her to do it. About three minutes passed and Usagi was already done. She slammed her pencil to the desk and turned around to Ami. "Finished!"
"Great." She walked back to the desk and picked up the notebook. "Wrong, wrong, right, right, nearly right." She threw it back down in front of Usagi. "I think I found out what your problem is Usagi."
"What? What?"
"When you're doing your homework, do you always concentrate only on it, or do you think about other things?"
"I usually think about other things. Homework it just too boring."
"That's your problem then. You have a short attention span. You need something to keep your mind from wandering and I think that's what the music does for you. You don't necessarily have to concentrate on it. You just kind of let it sit in the back of your mind as you listen to it. In doing this, you allow it the take up all the room in your brain for thinking about other things, therefore making it easier for you concentrate on what you should be doing. Usagi my friend," She smiled. "I think we can get your grades up in no time."
Usagi's face was filled with a smile. "Are you serious? You mean I can train with dad finally? You mean I can be smart?"
Ami nodded. "Yeah. I'm pretty sure of it. You want to tell your mom?"
Usagi jumped out of her seat. "Of course I wanna tell her. I want to start training as soon as possible." She bolted to the door without even finishing the rest of her work. "MOM! MOM!" She ran out of the room and into the living room where her mother was reading a magazine. "Mom guess what?!"
Chi-Chi put her magazine down on her lap and looked to her daughter. "What is it Usagi?"
Usagi walked to the sofa and leaned against the armrest. "Ami found out a way for me to be able to study and actually learn. See, I have to listen to the radio."
"Please Usagi. Don't lie to me. The radio just takes away concentration, it doesn't add anything." She looked back to her magazine. She noticed that Usagi would do anything to get her way and had to learn what to believe and what not to believe.
"Chi-Chi, it's not a lie. It's true. Taking away from her concentration is what she needed. Her problem is that she concentrates too much. But on things different then studying. The music allows her mind to be taken up by the music but still leaves enough room for studying. I guess you could put it that way in the simplest terms. I just tested it out and it really does work. Usagi got most of her problems right after we turned on the radio."
"So mom, now that I can raise my grades, can I train? Can I? Can I? Huh? Huh? Huh?" She leaned in closer to her mother.
'Oh great. I didn't actually think she would raise her grades. But I told her that I would allow her to train once she raised her grades and it's apparent that she will.' She sighed. There was no way that she could say no. She couldn't lie to her daughter. That was one of the things that she always yelled at her for. "I guess so."
Usagi jumped back. "YES!" She turned back to Ami. "This is so totally cool! We get to train! Oh yeah!" She began to do a little dance from being so happy. Chi-Chi laughed at her daughter. That had to be one of the things that she loved most about her. She was always so energetic and full of life.
(Ok, that's it for this part. What do you think? Was it good or bad? Please review and tell me. Bye for now. ^_^)