Usagi, A Saiyan Child

by Kichigai Joshi

Usagi's life as a Saiyan; For those of you who are wondering and haven't read my updates page, this story has been moved to my website. It's listed on my profile page.

85. Part 15

(Hey, here's a little note from me. Now, you all know I haven't really ever kept a chapter from you for more than one day, but this time I've made a bit of an exception. I've been spending the past week writing this, staying up until VERY early morning so it would be good. Though, I had help from Comet Moon. He wrote the fight between Usagi and...well...her last fight before Mr. Satan. I added in some detail but the initial message was his work. Be happy! This chapter went back and fourth between us a couple times and went through at least three times of editing, so if it's bad, then we're bad editors. Well here it is, 35 pages of one VERY long part. )

Gohan flew away from the tournament with one thought, and one thought only in mind. He flew deep, deep into the forest where he found a very well hidden house. A house that only came to be not even sixteen years before.

Gohan landed behind a patch of trees so as to not be spotted by the inhabitant of the house. 'Well, it's now or never.' He slowly emerged from the trees as he kicked himself a head of time for what he was about to do. It wasn't WHAT he was doing that was making him upset, it was the reason why he was ABLE to do it that wore on his mind.

The being who resided inside sighed when he felt his former student's uneasiness as he approached his home. He knew that it had something to do with his son, as well as Gohan's sister. Those two always seemed to be going at it for some reason or another.

Gohan approached the house with hesitation as he became more and more nervous. 'God, he's going to act just like Goten I bet.' He stopped at the door and raised his hand to knock on the door that kept him from entering.

Before Gohan even had the chance to knock, the door was thrown open with Piccolo standing behind it looking rather annoyed. "What is it, Gohan?"

Gohan dropped his hand with embarrassment. He didn't know why, but he had a feeling that Piccolo knew what was going on. It could be heard in his voice. "I have a favor to ask of you."

Piccolo backed away from the door and motioned for Gohan to follow him. "What?" He grabbed his friend's shoulders and shoved him down to sit in a chair.

Gohan jerked away from Piccolo's grasp. "Mamoru and Usagi will most likely be fighting in the last fight because we...kind of...rigged the tournament to lean towards that outcome." Before Piccolo could have any say in what was going to be said next, Gohan spit out more words, more excuses. "We did it so Mamoru would win. I also told him and his friends how to grab her tail."

Piccolo widened his eyes as he looked upon Gohan with utter shame. "You did what? What the hell is going on in your head? You know that Mamoru will take that opportunity without a second thought. He'll win for sure, not to mention put her through agonizing pain."

Gohan let his guilt take over as his main emotion as he was reminded of the danger that he had put his sister in. "I know that. I've been given the opportunity to take her out buy father has given me his word that he'll make sure he takes her out when he thinks that she can't handle anymore. I did it so she wouldn't show the world Mr. Satan's true side. He would be utterly humiliated if we were to allow her to do that."

Piccolo didn't seemed interested in his excuses. "That's nice. Now why are you here?"

"We don't want Mamoru to do it either. I'm here to ask you to make him lose the fight. He doesn't have anything against Mr. Satan like Usagi does. It wont be as hard for him to give up the chance to beat him. If you just add in the fact that Mr. Satan isn't the most difficult enemy to beat and theirs no honor in beating an enemy of lesser strength, then I'm sure he'll give into it."

Piccolo growled as he walked to the door and ripped it open. "Fine. You better consider yourself lucky."

~*~*~

~~Back at the Tournament~~

Haruka walked out of the fighters' building with a scowl on her face. She hatefully grumbled as she walked towards her laughing group of friends. "What are you laughing at?" Haruka blushed with extreme embarrassment as she looked up to her friends.

There was a very good reason for her embarrassment. She had just been publicly humiliated in front of everyone who was watching the fight by Rei and Minako. Her first two fights were against these two, and were also her last. She didn't stand a chance against either of them. When she was fighting Rei, she had held up pretty well until Rei got in a hit on her face. From then, everything went downhill. Her vision became blurred and she could barely walk at all, let alone walking straight.

When she had fought Minako, which was the fight directly after the fight with Rei, things were much worse. She didn't even have time to recuperate from her fight with Rei before the fight with Minako. She had put up a good fight with Minako, but it wasn't good enough to win. She let her anger get the best of her and had been quite careless as to what she was doing, which was her downfall. Minako got in a lot of defendable hits.

Mamoru laughed the hardest as he placed his hand on her shoulder. "Man, you crack me up. You lost TWICE in a row. Now you're out of the tournament and me and Michiru have to take out the other kids all by ourselves. But don't worry, we'll make those two pay."

Haruka pulled herself away from Mamoru as she glared at him. "Don't mess with me, Mamoru. I'm not in the mood right now. All I know is that I'm going to pay them both back. As well as their friends."

"I'll get Ami. I have a fight with her next. Why don't you all come root for me?" Mamoru arrogantly turned to his friends. "I'll show you what a real fighter is."

"Will the fighters of the next fight please proceed to the ring..."

Mamoru looked up when the intercom interrupted. "Come on guys. Let's go have some fun."

Michiru happily followed her friends to the ring. She couldn't wait to watch the fight. It was sure to be good, though she knew who was going to win, Mamoru. It was always the same. He won every match that he had. Though, this was the first fight he was going to have against the girls. But she knew that Ami definitely couldn't beat Mamoru so there really was no point in thinking that he would loose. "Let's just get this done and over with. I'm hungry."

~*~*~

"Please welcome Mizuno Ami and Chiba Mamoru to the ring ladies and gentlemen." Clapping of an excited crowd could be heard all around the stadium. They couldn't wait to watch yet another excellent fight. Though, they knew that it would end very grim for the younger fighter. Mamoru hadn't lost a single match since he first started, knocking most of his opponents out with a single punch, but this new fighter seemed to be very confident.

~*~*~

Mrs. Mizuno waved down to her daughter and blew kisses at her. "AMI! You can do it!"

~*~*~

Ami gracefully walked to the ring, which only made her mother proud, while Mamoru strutted conceitedly to the ring. He didn't look too concerned with this fight. And to tell the truth, he wasn't. He didn't regard Ami as one who would know how to keep her own in a battle. He hadn't watched any of her previous fights. The only time that he had seen her fighting was when Cell had attacked them in the past. Even then he didn't see as too good of a fighter. One reason was because she was inexperienced, and the second was because she spent all of her time gawking and not enough time acting upon her finds. "Look, it's the weakling."

Ami ignored Mamoru as they both stepped up to the ring. She knew better than to even try to dignify his comment with an answer. Instead, she just walked to the left side of the ring while Mamoru stayed on the right.

"Ladies and Gentlemen, Mizuno Ami, age ten." The announcer pointed to Ami, who respectfully smiled at him. He turned over to Mamoru, who only looked at him as if he were an idiot. "And Chiba Mamoru, age fifteen. Kids, let us begin." He jumped down off the platform and ran to the judges table where he would watch the spectacular fight that was about to begin.

Mamoru smirked as he readied himself. "Like a brain could ever beat me. You should just give up now before you embarrass yourself."

Ami remained emotionless as she, too, prepared herself. "Talking only ruins concentration. I advise that you stop."

Mamoru chuckled. "Oh look who this is coming from, Ms. Champion of the books."

A little put out by his comment, Ami elected not to reply to him. Instead, she responded by jumping to the center of the ring. Her eyes implied a request for him to join her to begin the fight.

Mamoru gladly accepted her disguised request. 'Now she thinks she's all hot cause she's calling me out. Ha!' Now, both fighters stood, face to face and close enough that they could reach out and touch each other with much ease. 'She's just going to stand there while I attack like she did when Cell came.'

Ami dropped to the ground when Mamoru reached out to grab her. She performed a quick leg sweep and had him on his back within seconds. Mamoru jumped to his feet and caught Ami's arm as she went to punch him. "Too slow." He began to lift her up by her arm to flip her into the air. "Go back and train some more bef..."

Ami allowed herself to be flipped upside down. But once she was in mid-air and looking directly down at her foe, she twisted her arm away from and unsuspecting Mamoru. She quickly acted and grabbed a hold of his arm and proceeded to use his own weight against him to slow herself down from falling. Slowing down allowed her to get a hold of herself so she would be able to land on her feet. But that wasn't all that she had planned. As she was falling to the ground, she began to lift Mamoru up by his arm. In mid-air, she had reversed his attack on him.

As soon as her feet touched the ground, she hurled Mamoru into the air, though, she had overshot the amount of strength she used. Mamoru went flying, head first, into the fighters' building, disqualifying him immediately. Ami giggled at his misfortune. "Whoops. Guess I went too far."

The announcer, as well as the entire crowd, went completely silent in shock. Not once in their lives had they seen a ten year old girl of Ami's small frame be able to lift a fifteen year old boy, who was weighted with muscles, let alone hurl him across an entire arena. But they had witnessed it and found it completely amazing.

The announcer ran to Ami and held up her hand. "Ladies and Gentlemen, Mizuno Ami!"

~*~*~

Mrs. Mizuno jumped out of her seat and threw her soda on the person next to her from being so excited. "GO AMI!"

~*~*~

Ami blushed as she took her victory quietly. She wasn't one to make a big thing out of a small win like this. She thanked the announcer and walked down off of the ring. She walked to a pouting Mamoru and giggled down at him. " That's what happen when you talk too much. Looks like I'm also the champion of you too and not just books." She laughed as she began to walk away. "I would have at least expected more of a challenge from you."

Mamoru sneered at Ami as she walked by. "That wont happen again, kid. Just watch, we're sure to meet again." He pounded his fist into the ground. 'Crap! I can't lose again.'

~*~*~

Hotaru jumped to Ami with a giant smile. "That was SO cool how you showed him what you were made of. You showed that bully real good, Ami."

Ami blushed again as she modestly looked at the child. "Oh, it was nothing."

Makoto grinned at Mamoru, who came walking into the building. "What's the matter? Don't you like being beaten by a girl?"

Usagi snickered. "Not only by a girl, but by a bookworm." The girls couldn't help by burst out in laughter at the situation. They never would have thought that Mamoru would have gone so easily.

Goku couldn't help but break a smile at his daughter's comments. "Heh...no kidding. Mr. Muscle-head isn't as strong as we thought." If she had made fun of anyone else, he probably would have scolded her for it, but Mamoru was an exception. For one, he always seemed to have something smart to say about his daughter as well as the fact that he was going to try and use her weakness against her. 'Hopefully he'll lose against these others and Usagi wont even have to go up against him.'

Usagi giggled as she backed away from a fuming Mamoru. "Why don't you run along now? Go cry to your daddy."

Mamoru turned around with fire in his eyes. "WHY DON'T YOU!? YOU ALWAYS SEEM TO DO THAT!" He knocked over a tray of glasses with juice in it as he stormed out of the room.

Usagi scratched her head with confusion. "Wow. That was strange. He's acting like a crybaby."

Goku walked to the door and watched Mamoru cockily punch one of his friends from America. "I guess he's still insecure about himself. Most bullies are. Oh well, maybe this will open his eyes and show that he isn't the only one in the world."

~*~*~

~~Two hours Later~~

Two hours had passed. Everyone had been kicked out of the tournament except for Usagi and her last opponent, Mamoru. Who else? Mamoru had knocked out Michiru along with a majority of the other kids who had entered.

Now, Usagi was preparing herself for her fight against Mamoru. She was in the fighters' building with all of her friends and family. Well, all except for Gohan, who resided in the stands to watch the fight away from his family.

Usagi questioned her father as he watched the announcer walk to the ring. "What if Mamoru uses my weakness against me?"

Goku looked down to his worried daughter. "Then he uses it against you. There's nothing that we can do about it."

"Well I've come to a decision. I don't want you or mom or Goten or Gohan to interfere in the fight if he does use it against me, k?" Goku looked a bit startled as he looked down to his daughter. "This is a tournament, I guess I have deal with it, right? I mean, I don't want to get disqualified. I want to beat Mr. Satan."

Goku nodded as he smiled down at her. "That's correct." 'If she only knew what her weakness was, but I can't tell her. That's Gohan's thing to do. But, if something goes too wrong... Gohan, you had your chance to take her out, now you have to live with it, I guess. As much as I disagree with it. I just hope she doesn't get too hurt with doing this.' "Good luck out there."

Hotaru came bouncing from behind Goku with a giant smile on her face. "Yeah, Usagi! Good luck! We're going to be rooting for you one-hundred percent."

Rei walked to Usagi with a grin. "Here's some spiritual advice. KICK HIS BUTT AND YOU'LL LIVE IN HAPPINESS!"

Usagi giggled. "I'll use that as my motivation, Rei." She looked up to the smiling face of her brother.

"You have nothing to worry about, sis. Mamoru isn't any kind of match for you."

"Thanks!"

~*~*~

"Please welcome to the ring, Son Usagi and Chiba Mamoru!"

~*~*~

Usagi turned to look outside with excitement. "It's starting already." She felt a slight hint of nervousness, but she would persist until she won. She had made it this far into the tournament already. "See you after the fight, when I've won."

~*~*~

The announcer stepped into the middle of the ring, the audience was clamoring for the fight that is about to take place. He smiled around to the cheering people with great pleasure of announcing the next fight. "And tonight we've had a magnificent set of battles in this tournament. With two outstanding fighters winning their classes. For the Intermediate, Tomoe Hotaru. And for the beginners, Kichigai Joshi ." (AN: This was thought and written by Comet Moon, Dizz-Chan didn't put it in. Love ya kid. A truly great writer.) "And now, Ladies and Gentlemen, the final fight in the tournament, to see who will be the grand champion of the advance fighters. Both having lost a match each, this will be the deciding factor. Winner takes all."

The announcer pointed to Mamoru as he slowly approached him. "In this corner, at age fifteen, the powerful, ruthless, Chiba Mamoru!" Many spectators around the stadium booed at the fighter, who had fought so brutally throughout the entire tournament as well as his companions. Mamoru was annoyed at the ridicule coming from the crowd, but he didn't want to cause any trouble and get himself kicked out of the fight so he merely glared back at them. He smirked at Usagi as he thought of the beating that she was about to receive from him.

The announcer walked to Usagi and pointed in her direction. "And in this corner, at age ten, the sweetheart that has taken this tournament by storm with her abilities and sense of fair play, Son Usagi." The mass went wild as they cheered her on. All of them seemed to have been caught up in the glow of the shining child. Even her teachers watched in amazement at their pupil's skill. Only seven youngsters and two adults out of the whole crowd glared down at her. One who looked on her with fear, the other glared at her, wishing only for the match to end in her defeat. Although this particular person was utterly ashamed of himself for having such thoughts.

Usagi was a bit stunned by the response of the people, but it warmed her heart to know that people would actually want her to win. She looked into the audience and waved to them. She then proceeded to look back at her family and threw a kiss to them. On the outside, her family responded with kind faces, but each and every member of this family had worries of their own on how this fight would turn out.

A seething Mamoru growled as he became upset at Usagi's popularity. "Hey! Odango! This isn't a beauty contest, you won't win by winning over the audience." He shouted as he sneered at her. "Not that you would ever win one with a face like yours." His cronies laughed uproariously at that, nearly falling to the ground. Many of the Mass threw jeers back at him, yelling that he was very wrong at his assessment.

Usagi pouted at the comment, feeling a bit inadequate in that department, but was encouraged by the crowd. "Yeah, well I don't need good looks to take down a meanie blowhard like you." Having said this, she stuck out her tongue at him.
Many of the crowd laughed at the girl's spirit, while Mamoru glared daggers at her. "Let's just get on with the main event shall we."

Usagi nodded her agreement as she got into a ready position. The announcer once again had control over the fight. He hastily walked to the referee and handed him the Mic. "Alright, here are the rules. Get kicked out of the ring and you loss the match. Five good point hits to the front and you lose. Or when you concede defeat or have the towel thrown in at your corner. Knocked Unconscious and your out. No kidney blows or groin shots. No blows to the spine. Lets have a good clean fight and the best of luck to the both of you."

Usagi smiled at him. "Thanks." Usagi grinned back at Mamoru. She couldn't wait to beat him and get on with the business of beating Mr. Satan. She could feel herself getting excited, but she kept her power level down so she wouldn't seem as if she were cheating.

While Mamoru simply smirked. "Ha, it'll be no contest. We both know who the better fighter is here." Mamoru stared into Usagi's eyes. They were too confident for his liking. He remembered what happened at their last battle. He had lost to her and heard it big time from his father. Ever since then, he had been training for the next time that he would be able to fight her. Now, he was more confident about beating her. He was certain that, now that they didn't have the power of their Ki that he would be able to beat her. Their power levels would be the same. This fight was a challenge of real skill, something that Mamoru knew that he definitely had more of as he had been fighting for many more years that Usagi.

The referee smiled and the little one. He was shocked at how far and skilled one so small and young could be. He only frowned over at her opponent. 'He's what gives fighting a bad name, one who just enjoys hurting others. While she is what makes fighting an honored sport. Fighting with spirit and fair play.' Not wanting to be hurt by the fighting that was about to take place, he stepped out of the ring and put his arms up in the air. "And, Begin!"

Neither fighter took the initiative. Both circled each other, searching for openings. Mamoru, having lost to that brainiac Ami, wasn't nearly as cocky as he appeared to be. He knew that he would have to be careful around Usagi for she could be tricky. He just wanted to her think that he wasn't paying attention, but he knew in the back of his head, much to his fury that she actually was the better fighter. He just didn't want to admit it. He knew that he would have to use all his skill to beat her, but also refused to use his Ki power. This was between him and her, and only one will win. 'Of course, using her weakness isn't cheating. She's the one that let's her guard down in that round house kick.' He grinned a feral grin as he launched his first attack.

Usagi acted quite quickly in response to his attack and deflected his punch with her forearm, guiding it to her left, and bringing her elbow into his face as he momentarily lost his balance.

The Referee smiled as he gladly gave Usagi point. "Point, Son Usagi." The crowd cheered as both fighters backed of slightly.
Usagi grinned cheekily at him as he wiped off some blood from his split lip. 'This time first blood was mine.'

Mamoru glared at her, seeming to know exactly what she was thinking. 'She's going to get it good for that.' They then proceeded to launch themselves at each other in a series of spectacular fighting techniques. Mamoru led off with a side quick, which Usagi easily caught. She twisted him so he fell right and sent a back-kick into his thigh, throwing him off his balance once again. He rolled away from her open palmed punch, which she aimed at his jaw. He somersaulted to his feet and, in turn, threw a roundhouse kick at her crouching form. But Usagi rolled forward, and again circled her foe. This time, Usagi and Mamoru slowly stalked forward to one another, circling again. Their arms were in defensive positions in front of them.

Usagi grinned at Mamoru. She was highly enjoying this spar. She was having almost as much fun fighting him now as she had when she beat him only three years before. This time, she wasn't beating him to prove herself worthy. He was the last wall that stood between her and Mr. Satan, or so she thought.
She ran right at him, but before she reached him, she jumped into the air, using his shoulders to spring over the top. She landed behind him just as he was attempting to turn. She didn't quite let him get through before she performed a leg sweep, bringing him to his back. She gave a swift chop blow to his chest and
landed on him.

Referee; "Point Son Usagi."

Cheers everywhere descended upon her, but she was too focused on Mamoru, who was snarling and forcefully getting into a ready position. Angered, he rushed at her with a series of punches raining down on her, only to discover them being blocked and having to deflect the blows that were coming from her. After a few minutes of this, Usagi managed to get a blow to the chest past his guard.
Referee; "Point, Son Usagi." Both were breathing heavily in exertion, neither having boosted their strength with their Ki. They stared at each other with tired eyes, but neither was about to give up.

Circling each other again, Usagi decided to use her speed, which was much greater than Mamoru's due to her Saiyan heritage and gravity training. Sliding forward, she threw a series of punches at him, backing him up into the corner, the last, she scored a direct blow to the chest, but this also caused him to fall backwards as he started to topple out of the ring.
Seeing him nearly falling out, Usagi reached forward and grabbed him, pulling him back into the ring. The stunned Referee called out Usagi's fourth point. He was completely shocked by her actions.

Both fighters backed away, breathing heavier than ever. Snarling, Mamoru shouted for all to hear. "Why'd you stop me? You would have won!"

The audience listened for her reply. "This is a battle of skill, WHEN I win, I want it to be because I'm the better fighter, not because you lost your balance." She smirked at him, which only made him grow angrier.

He continued to glare at her, humiliated that he needed her aid. The crowd just continued to fall even more in love with the little Champion of Justice. (Ha, wonder where that came from?).

~*~*~

Gohan watched from the crowd. He was having some serious conflicting emotions going through him. He was feeling pride at her skill and sense of fairness that she had learned from him and their father. He was also feeling shame of his own actions, but most of all, he felt anger, which was the emotion he felt most comfortable with. The anger took a firm hold on him and shoved all other emotions away.

'Why can't she just lose? Damn it Mamoru, I thought you were closer to her level. We even saw to it she had to fight all her friends girls to tire her out for you. Why can't you get your act together? Blast it, I even talked Piccolo into a favor for past friendships to have you throw the fight against Mr. Satan when YOU WON. Come on, use her weaknesses against her. She's young, this won't affect her much. But Satan, and my wife and daughter will be devastated if she wins and my father-in-law and their father and grandfather come to shame. WIN!'

Mr. Satan was sweating in the grand chair that was made just for him for this tournament, which was designed so he could watch over the games as a king would their kingdom. In the center, looking down at their flock. 'Anyone but her. Please anyone but her. She's the only one that won't take a fall. She'll wipe the mat with me. It's not fair. Why should I be put to shame for this girl's pigheadedness? Com'on punk, FIGHT!'

~*~*~

Mamoru ran to Usagi. Glaring at her, he quickly realized his mistake. He was going in too close to her. she wouldn't get off a roundhouse kick. He smirked as he circled her, keeping a distance from her, making her come to him.
Usagi wondered why he was smirking. She only needed one more point to win. She saw no reason why he should have been smirking. Though, she did remember that he had advantage over her with knowing about he weakness. She set aside her worries as she cautiously advanced at him.

Trying to close the gap, she threw a punch at him, but he kept his distance, easily evading it. Goku, Goten, and Gohan realized exactly what he was up to. All three of them had totally different views on it.

Goku didn't say anything. He didn't plan on saying anything at all, either, though the fear for her getting hurt was like ice running through his veins, but the weakness and flaw in her fighting IS hers, Mamoru didn't invent it. He was just using it to his advantage. Just like any fighter would. Even though that was true, Goku wasn't sure if he would be able to handle himself when it happened. He so hated to see her hurt.

Goten was utterly furious that his brother had betrayed their baby sister and that their father wasn't giving her his one hundred percent support. He didn't understand how any type of father, or even brother for that matter, could do such a thing. But the matter was out of his hands. Their father had already been made upset by the fact that Gohan had tried to go over his head and now it was leading up to one horrible thing.

Gohan was ecstatic that the jerk was finally fighting right and could actually win this. He ruthlessly shoved all other emotions deep down so he didn't have to feel the guilt in which he had brought upon himself. He anticipated what would happen next. He wasn't sure what would happen once he got her tail, but he knew it wouldn't be good. But, at that point, he didn't exactly care, well, he didn't let his soft emotions get through his hardened ones. The important thing was making sure that Mr. Satan was kept safe.

Mamoru's gang smirked, having figured out, as well, his game. Every one but Michiru had an evil grin on their face. She had a slightly sad expression at a family's betrayal, family that meant the world to the child.

The girls were more on the nervous side of things. They could see the grins on the rivals' faces and wondered why they seemed so sure of themselves. Videl cheered for Usagi. She knew that if Usagi were to win, that a confrontation would be brought about, most likely by her husband.

The crowd booed his cowardly retreat, not seeing the strategy for what it was. Mr. Satan was clueless as to what was transpiring. He just sat there biting his fingernails in anticipation as to what was going to happen, thinking that he should have washed his hands that day since they tasted lousy.

Usagi came forward with a series of punches and kicks that just couldn't reach his retreating form. Finally, she got annoyed with him and threw a roundhouse kick at him. She was certain that her supposed weakness wasn't the roundhouse
kick since she had used it on Michiru and nothing had happened.

~*~*~

Goku and Goten groaned as when they saw her begin her attack, anticipating the outcome. Goku probably felt more fear for her than Goten had. He didn't want to watch it happen, but he had to. If something horrible were to happen to his daughter, he would have to go out there and throw in the towel for her.

Gohan's guilt took hold for a second, but again shoved it down. He knew that this was the best way for all. He couldn't give in. It was too much of an important moment to give into his guilt. He had come this far, he wouldn't got soft now.

The rat pack grinned. They knew right then and there that they've finally won.

~*~*~

Mamoru could taste his victory as he ducked under to the right. Sure enough, there was her tail. He threw a direct punch at her exposed tail, causing it to stand out from her agonized body.

Usagi hollered in severe pain as she felt all energy fly out of her body. Her motionless body crashed hard into the concrete below. The impact caved in the cement just big enough for Usagi to dip into.

Goku cringed at the sound of his daughter's cries of pain. He wished that there was something that he could do to help without disqualifying her from the fight. He could barely hold himself back from throwing in the towel. He hadn't heard her cry out in such pain in years.

The hit wasn't a point blow, nor was it a foul, no rules for tails was called for and the referee looking to Mr. Satan for his thoughts, found him grinning. "There's no rules for tails. That's a valid hit." He rubbed his hands together for he knew there was nothing to worry about anymore. 'That boy shall be rewarded for this. A loss for the girl is a victory for my family. Sorry kid, you're just going to have to be humiliated over me. What a sacrifice.'

Mamoru stalked up to her and slammed his foot onto her twitching tail. Usagi let out another piercing wail from her lips. Gohan tried to shut out the sound of his little sister crying out by covering his ears. He had never heard such a horrible sound in his life. It made it even worse that he had sharper hearing than the audience due to his Saiyan hearing, which only amplified the wailing .
Goten was horrified at the spectacle. He turned to glare at his brother with hatred for the first time in his life. He was already planning to beat the crap out of him. Well wouldn't you?

Gohan didn't even try to hold his brother's glare. He winced at their mother's cries of agony at her baby's pain. The girls cried out in pain for their friend and sister. Mr. Satan even winced at Usagi's pain. He consuls himself with the thought that she had brought this on herself. He had not part in this what-so-ever. All of Mamoru's cronies, except Michiru, patted themselves on the backs for a job well done.

Grinning evilly, Mamoru kicked her in the chest. 'Boy! This is great!'
The Referee was absolutely furious with him kicking a downed opponent. He wished that he didn't have to give him a point, but it was the rule. "Point Chiba Mamoru."

The crowd was shocked by the turn of events as well as the appearance of the mysterious tail. They all booed at Mamoru. They couldn't understand why he was able to beat her so badly all of a sudden, but they were outraged by the fact that he was beating a defenseless foe.

Mamoru smirked with a sense of superiority as he sneered down at her. "Well Odango, looks like you lose." He lifted his foot only to bring it down with another pain filled stomp onto her tail, making her even more defenseless. He added to the pain with another stomp, followed by a hard blow to the face.
The referee gulped with fear as he listened to the cries of Usagi. "Point, Chiba Mamoru."

Usagi's family was incensed at the beating that Mamoru was giving her. The couldn't believe that anyone could be so ruthless. Gohan looked down in horror. 'What have I created?' He looked down to his parents, who seemed to be trying their hardest from taking her out of the battle. He wished very much that he could have gone to their side and cried right along with his mother, but he knew that his father, or even brother, would have lashed out at him with their rage. It was, after all, his own fault that his little sister was in such a situation. 'Why isn't dad making her quit? He said that he would. She's in too much danger down there. What's wrong with him? Wait, this is a punishment to me, isn't it? This is because I wouldn't tell her.'

Mamoru walked to her head and kicked her roughly in the face, causing blood to splatter around. "Point Chiba Mamoru."

~*~*~

Chi-Chi and Goku stood at ringside with a towel in their hands. They couldn't help but think about throwing it in. They wanted to spare their daughter the pain. It was obviously too much for her to handle. Chi-Chi looked into her daughter's agony filled eyes. "Goku..."

Goku walked from behind his wife and grabbed her shoulders. "I know. We can't stop it though. She isn't in enough danger to stop her. Her life isn't being threatened. This is a tournament, she should have expected something like this Besides, she doesn't want us to." 'Even though this wouldn't have happened if it wasn't for Gohan.' He shot a piercing glare up at his first son, who was looking horrified. Goku wanted to close his eyes and have it be over. He didn't want his daughter to have to go threw the pain any longer. He knew exactly what it felt like to have your tail grabbed or stepped on and he knew that it definitely wasn't something that anyone wanted to go through. He could feel her pain.

~*~*~

Mamoru smashed his fist into her tail to make sure she didn't regain her energy anytime soon. He was enjoying this entirely too much it was scary. "Odango, this sure brings back memories of when I kicked your sorry ass before." He followed up with a blow to her wounded chest.

"Point Chiba Mamoru. Tie score. Four, Son Usagi. Four, Chiba Mamoru. Next point is the winner." The crowd went quiet, the fate of the fight lay on the next blow.

Mamoru smirked down at the helpless form. "Pathetic. Truly pathetic." He thought back to all the times he was compared to her in a less than shining light. Of the last fight he lost. At her greater strength and power that she had shown that day. 'Now I get my revenge. At all the times father has put me down. He has praised her skills and zest for life over me. He shunned me for loosing to her. He always tells me how much of a better fighter she is!' "Well Odango. Looks like a winner has been found. Now how to beat you?"

He stomped on her tail again as she tried to push herself up. He walked around her and gazed down on her limp body with wonder. "Hmm...should I just do a simple blow? Pick you up and throw you out of the ring? Hmm, decisions, decisions."
He walked to her face and put his face in hers. "I know. I'm going to make you surrender. I'm going to make you call out, to everyone, that I'm the better fighter here. Come on Odango, call it quits. You've lost."

Tears streamed down her eyes as the pain coursed through her. She glared up at him. "No...never!"

Mamoru said nothing as he stood up and walked back to Usagi's tail. He smirked at her face, which with its expression, was begging him not to do it again. He lifted his foot and stomped down on her tail twice more. "And just for good measure..." He lifted his foot and stomped down on it again, only this time, he twisted his foot around on it to force it further into the concrete.

Usagi screamed out in excruciating pain. So much pain was gushing through her body that she was almost becoming numb. She couldn't believe that this was happening to her. She thought that if she had her tail hidden that it wouldn't become a problem. That's what her father had told her. But already twice in one day it had been used against her.

She winced in agonizing pain as she brought her eyes up to see her parents, who looking worriedly down at her. She mustered up enough energy to halfway reach out to them, as if she could feel their comforting touch. She cried harder when she saw her mother's tears.

Chi-Chi cried right along with her daughter. Seeing her reach out like she had only caused more pain for both parents. They could barely hold themselves together. While Chi-Chi cried, however, Goku had his attention fully fixed upon Gohan. He never would have thought Gohan to be someone to do this kind of thing. Especially to family, let alone a child.

Goten, too, was glaring up at his brother. At the moment, he wanted to kill him for what he had done. He had lost all respect for him and it would take a LONG time for him to earn it back. He would think twice before he ever trusted him again. He hoped that their parents would think twice when they wanted to leave her in his care again.

Once she began to feel her energy returning, Usagi struggled to rise. Mamoru was soon to stop her as he pushed her over and stomped on her tail. "It's simple Odango. Just give up."

Usagi's friends looked on as they cried. Ami grabbed Hotaru and pulled her in towards her. She covered the young fighter's eyes with her hands to shelter her from watching such violence. Even though her eyes were covered, Hotaru could still hear the screams loud and clear.

~*~*~

Up in the stands, the rat pack laughed at the spectacle that they found to be hilarious. They were the only group laughing. Even Gohan had let his feelings for his sister take over what he wanted Mamoru to do. Michiru put her hand to her eye to wipe away a tear before it could show. She didn't want Haruka to think that she as going soft.

Haruka looked back to Michiru, who was only halfheartedly laughing. "Come on Michiru! This is the greatest thing we've seen in our entire lives. This is even greater than the time we beat ol' Monkey Girl up."

Michiru nervously looked over to her friend. "I know. My stomach hurts, though." 'A sad excuse.'

Haruka laughed. "Don't tell me that all this excitement is making you nauseous.'

~*~*~

Goku looked over at his wife, wanting to cry himself. He couldn't stand to see his youngest child, his baby, in such pain. "Chi-Chi, give me the towel."

Chi-Chi turned to her husband in surprise. "But Goku, you said..."
Goku frowned. "I DON'T CARE! I can't stand this anymore!" He snatched the towel from his wife and approached the referee. "REF..."

Mamoru laughed when he saw Goku talking to the Referee. He smirked down at Usagi. "Looks like daddy wants his baby back in her pen. Ha, the perfect ending! Beaten by me and your father. What more could I possibly ask for, well, except watching you die but we all know that wont happen as long as your stupid family is around."

Usagi glared at him with hateful eyes, for the first time, but then she let his words sink in. She looked up to her father in horror. 'He doesn't think I can do it? If he doesn't believe in me, who will?' Not wanting to let her father down, she took off her gravity amulet, which she was secretly wearing throughout the entire tournament. She didn't even let her friends know that she was wearing it. She had worn it turned on to fifteen times earth's gravity to compensate for her Saiyan strength, not wanting an unfair advantage. The rest of the girls had theirs off, but since Mamoru was using her Saiyan weakness against her, she RIGHTFULLY determined that it was only fair to use her extra strength against him.

She held the amulet in her hand and with all the strength she could collect, she hurled it at her father, hitting the towel out of his hands. Chi-Chi was stunned by that as she tried to pick it up, only to find that it was still on. She had a hard time lifting it. 'What is she thinking?' "Goku."
Goku turned around and grabbed the amulet from her. He looked up to his wife with a smile. "She wore it to give the rest of the fighters a chance. That's our Usagi." A smile of pride appeared on his face as he and his wife simultaneously turned around to their daughter.

Usagi had a slight glare on her face. "This is my fight, stay out of it. I can do it. Just give me a chance."

Amused by the by-play, Mamoru looked over to them, He smirked as he stamped down on her tail once more, just to spite her parents.

Goku and Chi-Chi gave a piercing glare at Mamoru. They then turned to their daughter and mutely nodded to her. Mamoru furiously stamped down on her tail again. "Tell your parents to quit being so loving and maybe I'll consider letting up a little on the tail." He evilly laughed as he pulled away from her to study her immobile body. "You've lost Odango. Admit it. I'm better than you."

Usagi scowled up at her nemesis. "Never! I'll never give into bullies! Never! This is for all the kids who get picked on by people like you!"

Mamoru let his rage snap like a twig as he threw a punch aimed at her jaw that was sure to at least break it, if not kill her.

Gohan looked on in rage as he struggled to keep from pulling his hair out. He couldn't believe that Mamoru would try to hurt another in such a dishonorable manner. "That BASTARD! How could I have trusted HIM!?"

Haruka turned around with a smirk as Gohan's scream was heard where she was. "So that idiot has finally come to his senses. He was a fool to trust us."

Goten now had two people on his kill list. No, make that three, Satan must die. He was the only reason why any of this was happening.

Mr. Satan considered hiding behind his chair and running far away, where the Son family couldn't find him. If something horrible were to happen to Usagi, he would be the first that they came for, after Mamoru, that is.

Mamoru smirked. 'She'll be fine. We'll just get a Senzu bean to help her.'
Usagi didn't blink. Using the last of her strength, no longer hindered by the Gravity amulet, she threw her left arm to block the blow coming from Mamoru, turning the blow away from her into the cemented ring, while at the same time, using her right fist to hurl a blow into to his jaw with all her might. Subconsciously, she added a bit of Ki energy into it. Not to increase its power, but as her father, Piccolo, and brothers realized, it was to defuse the blow so it wouldn't kill him with its force.

Unable to stop his momentum, shocked that she had any strength left after her beating, Mamoru was unable to turn from the fist before it connected with him, full force. The blow sent him hurtling through the air and out of the ring. He landed with a thump, falling unconscious.

Usagi struggled to rise to her feet. She limped her way over to the fallen form of her enemy. She didn't quite make it before she found herself on the ground again. Her legs were much too weak to hold up her body. But she didn't let that stop her. She quickly scurried to her feet again and slowly staggered to him. She once again let herself drop to her knees as she looked down at him. "Five points. Knocked out of the ring. Knocked out. Two losses. Three strikes Mamoru, you're out." She whispered. She could barely keep herself up.

The referee walked over to the two fighters in shock. "You did great, little Usagi." He bent down and helped her back to her feet, raising her arm into the air while he was at it. "The winner by knockout of the advanced class, SON USAGI!"

~*~*~

The cheers that came from the crowd were deafening, though, very much appreciated by the young fighter. Her friends and family were leading most of the pack.

Goku couldn't have been more proud of his daughter at that point. She had made an almost impossible comeback from such a beating. But she had done it and he was proud and there was nothing in the world that would keep him from letting her know, even if there still was the question of Satan's fight with her riding on the line. That would be worried about when the time came. But, until then, they wouldn't speak of it.

Chi-Chi could have fainted right then and there. She was certain that her daughter had finally met the end of the tournament. But, she had again been proved wrong. "She did it."

Goku smiled as he put his hands around his wife's shoulders. "She sure did."
Chi-Chi turned to her husband with wide eyes filled with concern. "Gohan and Mr. Satan aren't going to take this win too well, are they?"
Goku lovingly smiled down at his wife as he moved his face closer to hers. "Who cares? Their plan hasn't worked yet, has it?"

Mamoru's gang looked down in shock. Even after all of that, Usagi STILL won. They weren't angry at Mamoru for not finishing the job when he should have, but they were angry at USAGI of all people. Except for Michiru. On the outside, she was angry at Usagi, but on the inside, she was sort of happy about her defeat over Mamoru.

Gohan felt a mixture of relief, pride, shame, and yet anger, which had returned when Usagi won. "All this heartache and she still wins. DAMN! Now we have to go into the other plan. I didn't want to do that."

~*~*~

Usagi pulled away from the referee and turned back to Mamoru, who was bleeding. She gulped as the medical personal came to attend to him. She let herself drop next to him. She dug around in her pocket for a tiny item, which she promptly took out and handed to Mamoru when she found it. "Here." She popped the bean into his mouth and made him chew it.

Mamoru came to and immediately became confused as where he was and what had happened. He looked up to Usagi and the stunned medial personal. "What the hell is going on?" He winced in pain as he spoke.

"You lost." She told him quietly.

Mamoru glared at her in shame by being beaten by her again. "You may have won on this on, but understand this. It's far from over. We're enemies for all time." He stood to his feet, with much trouble and began stalking off towards his friends.

"Mamoru! That's your choice! I just want to finally put this behind us! It's stupid to keep fighting like this! Let's just be friends!" She caught up to him and awaited his answer.

Mamoru looked into her eyes and saw the sincerity in them. He considered it for all of one second and then let his pride take over. "NO!" He turned away and walked away.

Usagi was left behind with sadness, but soon forgot it as the cheers for her rose from the crowd. Smiling, she realized that she had won. She walked back to the ring where she responded in the most dignified manner that a ten-year old could give. She clasped her hands together and began jumping up and down. "I WON! I WON!"

She looked up to the booth, where Mr. Satan was and grinned. 'Heh! You're going down. I finally get my wish.' Usagi jumped with joy as she stood as the final victor of the advanced division. She couldn't wait to dig her hands into Mr. Satan and finally reveal him as the true fraud that he was. She would finally put an end to his escapade. Well, she as well as Hotaru both would show him what they were made of.

She proudly stepped off of the fighting platform, though not for the last time. She smiled, widely, as she walked back to the fighters' building, where her family and friends awaited her. She couldn't help but be happy that the crowd was cheering for her. She wondered what was in store for her when she beat Mr. Satan. She wondered if they would boo her out of the arena for beating their savior, or cheer her on for it.

She smirked at Mr. Satan as she passed him. "Good luck out there with me and Hotaru...you're going to need it." 'Not that it's going to do him any good.' She laughed at his fearful face as she joined her friends, who were also laughing at the man's misfortune. "What fun I'm going to have."

Usagi looked up to her smiling parents. "I told you I could do it."

Chi-Chi was still in tears as she kneeled down and hugged her daughter as tightly as she could. "My baby! I thought you were going to die!" She pulled away just enough to where she could shower her with a series of kisses.

Goku joined his wife and daughter with a smile filled with the pride of a father. "You did great, Usagi. I'm just sorry that you had to be hurt so badly. But, you made a great comeback and we're all very proud of you."

Usagi beamed with happiness as she pulled herself from her mother's grip and launched herself onto her father. "Thanks daddy!"

Hotaru ran to Usagi with excitement. "You were SO cool out there, Usagi! Except, it wasn't cool when you were getting hurt. You're going to be even cooler when you fight Mr. Satan."

Mr. Satan slumped over as he began to walk towards the door that would take him out into the crowd, where they would cheer him on, but not for long. He sighed as he wondered what would happen to him after his fun was over. "Even the little one is against me."

Goku watched Mr. Satan walk away from the group with sympathy. He could sense that the man was having trouble with this. But he still hadn't been fully convinced. "Good luck...Mr. Satan."

Gohan watched Mr. Satan walk out into the excited crowd and then turned to his little Sister with a frown, who was laughing it up with her friends. He angrily walked over to the group of children and glared down at them for their rude behavior, Usagi most of all. "I hope you're happy!"

Usagi turned to her Brother in utter confusion. "What are you talking about?"

Gohan squinted his eyes at her in disappointment. "You know what I'm talking about. You better enjoy this day while you can before you start to feel the guilt." Not wanting to talk to her any longer, Gohan turned around and rejoined his Wife.

Usagi frowned at her Brother's back as he walked away. "Aren't you even going to congratulate me? I mean, I did make a good comeback after having my tail attacked! Don't you even care that I was in a lot of pain!? I don't know what's wrong with him. He's been mean to me all day. He needs to just tell me what's the matter and be done with it."

Makoto put her hand on her friend's shoulder, who was obviously beginning to be troubled by her Brother's behavior. "Don't stress it. Remember what my Mom calls it? The Spontaneous Pissy Man Syndrome."

Usagi giggled as she was reminded of Mrs. Kino's saying. "Yeah. Maybe you're right." She turned back to the group with a smile, though not forgetting the incident that just took place. "I guess I should get ready for the fight. Who wants to come get a drink with me first though? I'm SO thirsty! I think there's a soda machine just outside."

Hotaru threw arms around Usagi's waist and looked up at her with a smile. "I DO!"

"We'll come with you, wont we girls?" Minako looked to her friends for an agreement, which they gladly complied with. "Good, cause I'm thirsty too."

The girls left only the adults in the room. All of them had separate feelings about what had happened. All of them were sure that they were going to have it out before the day was out. And Goten was probably the one who wanted it the most. "Gohan! You call yourself a brother!?"

Gohan sighed as he turned to his brother. "I don't want to hear it from you, man. It was bad enough that I had to watch and listen to it."

"Don't give me that crap! You SHOULD want to listen to it! That was only Usagi, your sister who was out there being agonized like that!" Goten got up into his brothers face. "You're not brother I would ever want!"

"Well maybe if dad would have done something like he said he would." Gohan turned his glare upon his father, who frowned back.

"Don't give that line of crap to me, Gohan. You know damn well that I gave you the chance to back out of it. To take her out. I told you that I would intervene if something terrible were to happen. I know that her getting her tail smashed into the ground is terrible, but I mean, terrible as in life threatening."

Gohan rolled his eyes. "Sure. That's why you were getting ready to teleport when she was about to be hit by Mamoru?"

"There was plenty of time to teleport in and out if I needed to."


~*~*~

Mamoru angrily grumbled as he roamed the grounds of the arena. He couldn't decide if he wanted to stay and watch Mr. Satan be publicly humiliated, or if he just wanted to take off and face the music from his father. 'Guess I'll stay here.' He began walking towards the stands when he was stopped by the angry face of the only person who had control over him. "Father!"

Piccolo roughly pushed his son back and glared down at him. "How could you do that?"

Mamoru sheepishly looked down to the ground. "I know. I lost, but I'll win next time, father."

Piccolo punched his son for being so blind to the severity of what he had done to Usagi. "You idiot! I don't care that you lost! I expected that! But what you did to Usagi was uncalled for! I don't remember training you to be so ruthless!"

Mamoru smirked as he looked up, though he wiped the smirk off his face as soon as their eyes locked. "You didn't. That was a little something I picked up from hating her so much. Gohan told me about it, I got back at Usagi for everything that she's done to me."

Piccolo once again raised his fist and punched his son in the face. "SHE'S DONE NOTHING TO YOU!"

Mamoru grabbed his lip, which was now bleeding, as he looked back up to his father. "She did. She's made me look like an idiot in front of my friends. She beat me when she was just a little brat, still is actually."

"She only did that to pay you back for the brutal beating she received from you. You may be fifteen, but you've got a lot to learn. From now on, your training becomes more intense. You also need to learn some respect for the people around you. You fought without honor today..." Piccolo smirked as he turned away from his son.

Mamoru's face became filled with fear. He had caught a glimpse of his father's smirk. "He's up to something and I really don't think I'm going to like it."

~*~*~

Mr. Satan stood, nervously, in the middle of the fighting platform as his loyal fans cheered and called out to him. He couldn't help but sweat with all the worrying about what his fans would think when the "Tricks", as he had referred to them, would be his downfall. He stood tall and firm, though, as there was still the hope that Usagi's parents had made their decision. He grabbed the microphone from the announcer and held up his hand to make the "V" sign, which only made the crowd grow wilder. "Citizens of Satan ci..." He dropped the microphone and curled up with supposed pain in his stomach. "Oooh..."

The announcer ran to the "Hero's" side and kneeled down to see what could have possibly been causing the man to drop with pain. "Mr. Satan, are you all right? Do you need a doctor?"

Mr. Satan grinned as he looked at the ground. "I'll be fine. I just have to talk to my Daughter. She has my medicine. I've been a little under the whether lately, but I wont let my fans down." He allowed himself to be helped up by the announcer.

"You hear that folks, he'll be fine. He's just going to get something from Videl and he'll be right back." The announcer proceeded to walk Mr. Satan back to the area where Videl and the Saiyans were. "Here you are, Mr. Satan. We'll be waiting for you to return." He worriedly turned around and walked back out to the ring, where he would proceed to speak of Mr. Satan, most likely.

~*~*~

Mr. Satan pathetically looked around the room and gave a long sigh of relief. "Good, none of the kids are here." He looked up to Usagi's parents. "Have you come to your decision yet?"

"Dad..." Goten approached his Father with concern. He knew that he was debating on it and leaning more towards the 'yes' side of things. "Don't do it. This man..."

"Be quiet, Goten." Goku stared into Mr. Satan's pitiful black eyes and let on a sign of a frown. "Please tell me why I should crush my Daughter with breaking her heart like this?"

Satan evilly smiled. He knew that he almost had Goku convinced now. "Because. Do you know how embarrassing it will be if she comes out after all these years and shows the world what a liar I am NOW? It will follow me around for the rest of my life. People all over will taunt me forever. I wont be able to find a moment's peace. This will dirty my family name. I won't be able to go out in public ever again without having to worry about what the people will think. Usagi will be upset, but at least she wont be publicly humiliated."

Chi-Chi pushed her Husband aside. She herself was beginning to become convinced that it was the right thing to do. "So that's why you want us to force her to throw the fight."

Goku pushed his Wife back behind him. "Mr. Satan, I want you to realize that we've never forced our Daughter to do anything that she wouldn't benefit from."

Now Gohan was the one pushing people around. He grabbed Mr. Satan and pulled him away. "Father, you have to learn to be able to stand firm in your decisions. Usagi will just have to understand that she can't publicly humiliate someone just because she WANTS to. You and I BOTH know that it's wrong. Mr. Satan isn't hurting anyone with his secret. Now, if he were hurting someone, I would say no more. But I really see no point in letting her ruin his life over it." He winked back at Videl, who appreciated him for what he was doing.

Goku found himself not agreeing with his Daughter's wants, but his Son's. Mr. Satan did seem to have more at stake here than Usagi did. "All right. We'll make her throw the fight."

Goten widened his eyes with shame. Shame for his Father for agreeing with Gohan. Shame for Gohan persuading their Father like he had. And shame for his Mother because she obviously wasn't going to try and intervene. "I can't believe you guys. This man has no RIGHT to lie to these people." He glared at Mr. Satan, causing him to cower away.

Goku sighed as he turned to his second Son. "Goten, you were obviously not listening to a word that Mr. Satan or your Brother said. He will be humiliated and put to shame for the rest of his life. I don't think we want to be responsible for allowing Usagi to do such a thing. She'll understand."

Goten snorted with disgust. "Yeah right. I just want you all to know that Usagi will NOT understand. She's just a kid. She wont understand something like this. And who's to say she's wrong about this." He crossed his arms. "I'm not going to stand by and watch you do this to her."

Once Mr. Satan knew that he had Goku's support, he was once again fearless of the youngest Son. He walked to him and put his arm around the boy's shoulders. "No one is making you stay here, you know."

Goten moved his eyes to look at Mr. Satan, the annoyance. "Don't push me, old man. I'm not in the mood to be messed with."

Chi-Chi frowned at her Son as she put her hands to her hips. "Goten! Don't talk to people who are older than you in such a rude manner! I'm ashamed of you."

Goten wiped the frown off his face and looked to his Mother. "I'm sorr..." He shook his head. His frown reappeared on his face. "I'm not sorry. I'm ashamed of you ALL. You have no idea how much you are going to mess with Usagi on this one. And I'm not going to be associated with it. I have better things to do than to see my kid Sister be crushed by her own family...AGAIN!" He pulled away from Mr. Satan and stormed out of the room.

Chi-Chi began to chase after him. "GOTEN!" She was soon stopped by a firm grip pulling her back. She looked back to see her Husband. "What are we going to do with him?"

"Absolutely nothing. He's not a kid anymore. We can't control him or what he thinks. Just let him leave. He doesn't have to be a part of this anymore." He shot a glare in Satan's direction. "You owe us all...big time!"

Feeling bad vibes coming from Goku, Satan slightly chucked like the idiot that he is as he backed out of the room. "No hard feelings." With that turned around and ran out of the room.

Just as Mr. Satan was leaving, Usagi was returning with her friends, not knowing what was about to happen. "Hey, what was with Goten? He just left saying something about honor and pride." She took a sip of her soda, which she had gotten from the soda machine outside. "What's up? Why are you all looking at me funny? Is there something on my face?" Chi-Chi sighed as she shook her head and turned her back. She didn't want to see what would happen when she was told the news. "Mom?"

Gohan pushed his Father to the side. "I'll take care of this, Father." He walked to Usagi and kneeled in front of her so he could be face to face with her. He put a smile on his face so as to not make it seem like she was being punished for anything. "Now look, I know you wanted to beat Mr. Satan in front of everyone but you have to understand that you can not do that." 'Blast, She wasn't supposed to recover from her tail being attacked. Why was she able to recover like that?'

Usagi stared at her Brother blankly as she tried to comprehend what he was saying to her. She looked into his serious eyes as she thought about what it was supposed to mean. Though, when she did figure it out, she knew that it had to be a joke. "Ha, Ha, Ha, Ha, Gohan! Good one! You really had me going there for a minute with your serious expression and all." She stepped to the side, to avoid hitting her older Brother, and began walking forward. "Don't try to make me loose my concentration with jokes, Gohan."

Gohan stood to his feet and grabbed his Sister by the shoulders, turning her around to face him. He still had the most serious expression on his face. "I'm not joking, Usagi. We're all very serious. You have to throw the fight."

Usagi frowned. She didn't like the tone that he was using. "Whatever, Gohan! I'm not throwing the fight. That's why he IS such a big liar is because you guys have let him do it all these years. If you guys aren't going to beat him, then it's my job to do it."

Gohan frowned as he tightened his grip on her shoulders, causing slight pain in the child. "It's not YOUR job to do ANYTHING but GROW UP! This isn't YOUR decision to make. It's MINE! You weren't even alive when Mr. Satan lied and took credit for something I did. It is NONE of your concern. So you be a good little girl and lose the fight like you've been told to. Do it for the family honor."

Usagi pulled out of her Brother's painful grasp and turned her frown into an almost hateful scowl. She knew now that he was very serious. "Don't tell me what to do, Gohan! You aren't my Dad! And Daddy already said that I could fight with Mr. Satan! So there!" She crossed her arms as she stuck her tongue out at him.

"Actually...Usagi..." Usagi felt her confidence fly out the door when she heard the hesitant tone of her Father. "You are to loose the fight to Mr. Satan. Your Mother and I made the decision, not Gohan. He was just delivering it to you."

Usagi slowly turned around in disbelief to see her Father give her a stern serious face. "But you SAID that I could fight him and BEAT him! Why are you changing it? That's not fair!"

"Things change, Usagi. It has come to our atten..."

"I don't care. YOU SAID I COULD BEAT HIM! She turned from her Brother and walked to face her Father, whom she couldn't believe was going along with this outrageous act in the first place. She couldn't believe that any of them would let Satan tramp about and lie to the world. "You can't go back on what you said. I worked hard to get to this point! I went through the most pain I've ever had in my life, having my tail beaten to get to this point! Do you think I liked getting my tail crushed?!"

"Usagi! Don't interrupt your Father like that! You should know better than to do that when someone is scolding you. Now stop it! You are losing to him and that's final! And we know that your tail was hurt, but that's just the way things go sometimes. We didn't plan this to happen." Usagi looked up to her Mother in near tears. The only one who hadn't yelled at her yet was Videl.

Videl didn't totally agree with throwing the fight for she knew her Father's pride. She hated that factor of him. But her love for him made it impossible for her to truly go to Usagi's aide.

'That's the way things go?! MY TAIL WAS CRUSHED! That's all she can say?' Usagi looked around to the faces of her friends, who had backed away from the family, not wanting to get pulled into the feud. They all looked at her with great sympathy. Usagi turned back to her family. "I'm not going to do it. Even if you try to make me. It's wrong and..."

"Usagi!" Gohan turned his Sister around by her shoulder. "Don't mess with this! It's already a done deal! You AREN'T going out there unless you throw the fight."

Usagi looked down to the ground. She had to force herself to reply. "Then I'm not going out there."

"Oh yes you are. And you're going to loose with honor. You are going to be a good sport about this. You aren't going to whine or pout about it." Chi-Chi grabbed her Daughter by the arm and dragged her to the doorway that led out into the arena. She pushed her against the wall and bent down to stare her in the eyes. "We aren't asking much of you. Now just do as we tell you and loose."

Usagi pulled her arm away from her Mother as she looked into her unforgiving eyes. "I'm NOT going to do it." She said with her teeth clenched. She knew that she deserved to be slapped for talking to her Mother the way she just had, but she didn't care. She wouldn't contribute to the giant lie that her family had already started. Even if it meant making her own family angry with her. "You can't make me...Mother..."

Chi-Chi backed away from her Daughter in shock. Her Daughter had just spoken to her as if she had mistreated her. Something she had never done before, which only built fear in the Mother's eyes.

Gohan glared down at his Sister in fury for what she had just done to their Mother. She didn't deserve such a harsh and cold treatment from such an ungrateful child, at least, that's the way he saw things. "If you had only LOST the stupid match against Mamoru things wouldn't have even come to this."

Shock entered Usagi's eyes as she realized just how much he had wanted her to loose. "You did it, didn't you? You really did it." She shook her head with disgust as tears for a new reason entered her eyes. "You were the one who told the others about my weaknesses." She whispered in a voice that even a Saiyan had to strain to hear. "YOU IDIOT! YOU REALLY DON'T CARE ABOUT ME!"

Gohan, feeling guilt overcome him, hardened his emotions and just glared at her. He couldn't cave in, in front of her. Though, he could have kicked himself over and over for what he had done. He still believed that it had been the best thing to do. His glare just answered her question without a single word. 'Great, now she thinks I hate her.'

Usagi slowly turned her head to her Father and realized, just by looking into his eyes, that he knew that Gohan had told the others. "You knew, Daddy? You knew and you told me to ignore it. Let me blame someone else for what he did?" 'More lies...' She looked at her Father with a wounded expression.

Feeling guilt as well, but letting his stubborn pride get in the way of a quick and easy apology and finally having been fed up with his Daughter's adamants, Goku issued an ultimatum. They weren't asking too much of her. Only to throw the fight to save a man's pride so he wouldn't be ridiculed for the rest of life. He saw no reason for her to be putting up such a fight. "USAGI! That's enough! You will not beat Mr. Satan in the fight...period! Don't make this harder on yourself than it has to be."

Usagi cringed from the rough and stern voice he was using with her, something that she hadn't heard in a long time for he never really spoke to her like that unless she did something really bad. "But..." She was already feeling defeated.

Gohan ran to Usagi and glared down at her. "ENOUGH! Quit being such a selfish brat!" No one protested to that, though, Videl looked as if she were about to lay into him big time for his outburst. He had no right to talk to her that way. There was no excuse for it.

Usagi looked down to the ground in utter defeat and tears in her eyes. 'Brat? Is that what I am because I don't want to carry on a lie? Mom and Dad always tell me not to lie, but now that I don't want to lie, I'm a brat? Does this mean that Gohan hates me now? Vejita calls me a brat and HE hates me.' Her heart began to ache with the thought. "Fine." She agreed in a defeated tone that no one, not even her friends had ever heard her use before. She pulled away from the wall and slowly and sadly began to walk out of the room, but, before she left, she stopped in her place and halfway turned around to see her Brother and family in her side vision. "I was wrong, that wasn't the most pain I've ever had."

She continued out the door. On her way out, she caught Gohan's eyes once more. "I thought you were supposed to be my Brother."

At that moment, each and every one of her friends, who were lined up against the wall, wished that they were strong enough to take Gohan out right there and then. They had always respected him because of his kind nature, but now, they weren't sure if they would ever like him the slightest bit again. Seeing this only made Hotaru all the more nervous of revealing her secret to the world.

Goku turned to his Wife in apprehension. "I think we went too far." His face filled with fear and anger as he turned to his Son. "Gohan, don't call your Sister a brat EVER again."

Chi-Chi turned her attention to the ground, as she wanted to burst into tears for the way her Daughter had just spoken to her. "We DID go too far, Goku. We should have just explained everything and laid down the law without loosing our tempers."

"Goten was right. She doesn't understand why we're making her do this. She would have been more willing to go along with it if she did understand." If he could have, Goku would have beaten himself up right there and then for what he had done to her. He couldn't believe that he had spoken to her in such a tone when she really hadn't done anything. She didn't deserve to be treated the way she did. 'I did it again...'

Gohan just stood there and stared at his Sister in shock. He felt much more guilt after hearing her last statement than he had about the whole Mamoru situation. He couldn't believe himself. But then again, he had gotten his point across to her.

~*~*~

The announcer stepped onto the platform with Mr. Satan and the microphone in hand. The crowed wildly cheered with anticipation of the next fight. "Now ladies and gentlemen, we have witnessed some great fights here today. We have also seen some great fighters. Now, we have three winners here today that will get to try their luck at beating our world's hero, Mr. Satan!"

The crowd grew wilder as their cheers grew for Mr. Satan. "SATAN! SATAN! SATAN!"

"Now we will be watching the fight between the great champion of the earth, and the new comer from the advanced division. The one who has taken this tournament by storm. Ladies and Gentlemen please welcome back Son Usagi!"

Everyone applauded as they turned their attention to the young fighter making her way towards the ring. Usagi's last fight was being broadcasted all over Japan and even across the world. She was being basked with cheers. But, as she walked forward, there was no smile on her face. Not even a slight hint of one wanting to come out and show itself to the world. There was no joy of honorable battle that she had shown throughout the tournament. There was no sign of anything like that in her tiny body. No, what she had on her face was worse than anything her family and friends had ever seen. It was the hurt look of a lost little girl, not going unnoticed by her guilty feeling family. From the top of the fighters' building, Goten watched her walk slowly to the ring, with her head down. He had heard the whole fight between her and their family. He wished that he had been there at her aid, but, knowing Usagi, she would have felt that he was against her too. He needed to go to her when no one else was around.

Mr. Satan strutted over to announcer and grabbed the mic out of his hand. "Greetings again, citizens of Satan City and visitors from all around. Here we are again. Time to show this new star what she may one day become. Well, close anyway. After all, no one can equal the great Mr. Satan, savior of the world."

Usagi stepped onto the platform and looked up to the lying buffoon. She winced more than a few times. Her heart was bleeding inside from the verbal beating in which she had just received. That's how she thought it to be, anyway.

Mr. Satan met her eyes as he looked down into her small face. Her eyes were emotionless, which only scared him. He had never seen her look so upset before. There wasn't even a single tear in her eyes anymore. He couldn't just stand there and feel sympathy for her though. He needed to put on the show for his fans. "Don't worry, little girl, I'll go easy on you." The crowd grew wild at their hero's generosity and sense of fair play.

"You two know the rules." The announcer left the platform and rung the bell to signal the fight to begin.

Mr. Satan took a confident step towards Usagi, who stepped away. "Come on kid, let's lose." He whispered under his breath to remind her of her duty.

Usagi's eyes formed a slight glare. She couldn't believe that her family, her supporters, had turned their backs on her. She couldn't believe that they had promised her that she could finally beat him only to take that privilege away from her. In the manner that they had told her, she felt as if someone violently ripped her heart out of her body and then pranced all over it. But most of all, she couldn't believe that she was THAT close to Mr. Satan and she was being force, by her own family, to throw the fight. "You evil little..." Without thinking, she pulled her fist back and raised her power level. She could feel her Father's power level rising higher than her own as a form of keeping her under control. She knew, at that moment, that she had better knock it off or else she would have had to pay the consequences. She knew that her family was totally serious about this. 'I've been defeated without a single hit.'

Usagi dropped her power level as well as her fist and lowered her head, which caused her Father to drop his power level back down to normal. Without moving her head, but only her eyes, she glanced over at her angry parents and Brother who stood in the doorway. She knew that she had messed up big time. A part of her didn't even care. "You win. I surrender. I don't want to fight the great Mr. Satan. I'm too scared." It was true. She was entirely too frightened to go on. Though, not of Mr. Satan, but her own family. She backed up and turned around to walk towards the exit, not her stunned family.

Usagi's coward-ness shocked the entire stadium as well as the home viewers. Immediately after her forfeit, jeers and boo's began to arise within the stadium, all of them directed towards Usagi, which didn't make things any better. Mr. Satan, himself, was even stunned at her behavior. Though, he quickly regained his composure and decided that for the child's sanity, he would address the audience. "Hey, don't make her feel bad. After all, she can hardly be blamed for fearing the greatest fighter on earth."

Usagi stopped when she heard that, full of tears once again. She slowly began to turn her head, utterly terrifying Satan. She shook her head in disgust as she walked out of the arena, her head was held low in defeat and shame.

Videl was the first of the family to come to their senses. She sent a cold glare out to her still preening Father. Feeling her glare, Mr. Satan turned to her and realized that maybe he had taken it just a little too far. After all, Usagi was only a child who obviously didn't understand how important it was to him to keep his image. But his pride wouldn't let him back down. The image of his Daughter's face that filled with disappointment and shame for him would follow him for the rest of his days.

~*~*~

Videl stepped out of the fighters' building and began running across the ring to hopefully catch up to Usagi, with her Husband and his family close behind, leaving the girls all alone.

Hotaru walked to the doorway once there was no one left but them. "Shouldn't we follow them to make sure that Usagi is all right?"

Minako looked to Rei, who looked to Makoto, who looked to Ami, who looked back at all her of her friends. They then proceeded to turn to Hotaru with Ami as the spokes leader. "I don't think that's such a good idea considering the fact that this is one of those family things."

Hotaru couldn't take that as a valid answer. Yes it was true, it was a family argument. But at that moment, not even Usagi's family seemed to be on her side. "She needs a friend, you guys. Usagi was there for me when I was down in the dumps. I want to be there for HER when her family leaves." Without even getting an ok from her friends, she darted out in pursue of Usagi and her family.

Minako hesitated to turn to her friends in question. "Should we follow her?"

Rei shook her head. "No. Well, maybe we should, but then again...I don't know. This is too confusing."

~*~*~

Usagi numbly emerged out of the upset crowd of people with tears streaming down her face. The crowd threw taunts of disgust at her as they walked past her. Usagi just lowered her head more as she felt like she hadn't a single friend in the world, though she knew she did. This was brining back horrible memories of her first two days of school.

Videl was the first to spot Usagi in the main hall of the stadium. She couldn't remember any other time that she had seen Usagi, or any child, as upset as she was then. "Usagi, hang on."

Usagi didn't respond. She just continued to walk away from her family, who was sure to scold her for what she had done. But she didn't care. She wanted time alone to think, which was something that she wouldn't be allowed to have.

Gohan followed his Wife and Sister. He was more upset with Usagi now than he had been before the fight. It was one thing to try and ruin a man's life, but it was another to make the family name look bad in front of so many viewers. He was unable to imagine what could have made her put on such a show. 'Why couldn't she just have fought and lost like the rest of us do? What was she thinking? That we'd feel guilty about it? She's the one who should feel guilty.' Gohan became even angrier at his thought. He let his anger show in his voice. "You're just going to pout now, huh? You had to do something right for a change and not do it the way you wanted to, and now you're going to make everyone feel guilty."

Goku had mixed feelings about this whole situation. He had wanted her to lose to protect Mr. Satan, but he hadn't wanted her to just surrender like she had. Though, he could hardly blame her after they way they had treated her. "Gohan..." He sternly glanced back to his Son. 'Neither of them understands the other, obviously. Do I?'

Usagi froze in her place when the harsh words of her Brother once again wounded her heart. 'What was the difference in me loosing the fight? It was either him or me who was humiliated. Why did they want ME to be humiliated over him?'

Seeing that Usagi had stopped, but not turned around, Videl slowly walked to her and placed her hand on the child's shoulder as a form of comfort. She looked down at Usagi, who had her face turned away. Videl figured that she didn't want anyone to see her tears. Tears that had been brought upon by her Brother. By all of them. "Us..."

Usagi wrenched her shoulder away from her only supporter, thinking that she was against her as well since it was her Father that they were all trying to protect. 'Why don't they just leave me alone?'

Her whole family was stunned at her refusal to even cooperate with Videl. Though, no one was more stunned than Gohan. He jumped to his Sisters side and bent down to her face. She refused to even look at him. "You little brat! How dare you to that to my Wife! She's practically your Sister! You should be ashamed of yourself! You've changed into nothing but a selfish brat! And now it shows because for once Mom and Dad didn't cave into your begging, and you act like this." Anger had forced him to respond with more fury than he had intended to, but he didn't back down. 'If Mom and Dad aren't going to get their hands dirty with disciplining her, I have to.'

The parents of this duo were going to get their hands dirty all right, just nothing to Gohan's liking. Chi-Chi was too shocked to do anything at all, though; Goku still had a hold of himself. He tried to keep his cool as he began to speak for he didn't want to be just like Gohan. "Gohan! What did I tell you about that? Knock it off!"

If Usagi were in any other kind of a mood, she would have smiled and thanked her Father for trying to stand up for her, but the truth was that she was still angry at him for telling her that she could beat Satan and then ripping that privilege away from her. He had let her go through that whole tournament thinking that she was going to show the world his true side only to force her to loose right at the very end. "I AM ashamed of myself." Every single person there turned their shocked attention down to the child who had just softly spoken, barely loud enough for any of them to hear.

Gohan stood back up and smiled down at his Sister as he took a step back. "At least you know that what you did was wrong."

Usagi shot a deadly glare up at her Brother. Not only was she angry with him for calling her a brat and being an utter jerk to her for the entire day, but also he had tried to keep her from winning by selling out to the enemy. "AND I'm ashamed of all of you, too. But most of all, Gohan, I'm ashamed of you." She narrowed her eyes, which only made her look angrier, scaring her Brother. "You're the worst, Gohan!" She let her head drop back down in shame as she wiped some tears away.

Gohan, once again, lost his temper at that. "Oh I'M the worst?!" Right when he was about to go to her again, his Wife intervened. He furiously looked up at her. "Videl! Move aside!"

Videl shook her head. "NO! You MOVE!" Gohan growled as he backed away. Videl calmly turned to Usagi and once again placed her hand on her shoulder. "Usagi..."

"I'm leaving for...somewhere else! I need to get away from you guys!" She raised her hands to her face to gaze upon and in a low voice added, "I want a bath. I feel so...dirty."

Gohan couldn't control his anger any longer. Especially after that remark from his Sister. "You brat! We're here, in the middle of a conversation, and all you want to do is leave to take a bath? I..."

Usagi scowled up at her Brother. She had listened to enough of his ranting. "SHUT UP! I don't care about what you have to say!" Everyone was utterly shocked at the cold voice that she used to scold her Brother.

Not even trying to control his fury anymore, he roughly grabbed her arms and turned her to face him all the way. "Now look here Usagi! You..." He didn't get any further before an angry Super Saiyan threw him off.

Angry at both of his kids' attitudes about the whole thing, Goku too, went Super Saiyan as he knew if he didn't, they would probably end up fighting each other right there and then. That could have ended up very messy considering the fact that Gohan has his mystic powers, which greatly exceeded the powers that of a Super Saiyan. And with Gohan's current rage, Goku feared that he wouldn't hold back against the weaker fighter. "Both of you! Stop this garbage!" He glared back and fourth at Gohan, who was returning to his feet, and at Usagi who didn't seem to want to power down. She more concerned with starring down Gohan. He crossed his arms as he upped his power level to Super Saiyan two, just in case they didn't want to listen. "Usagi..." He couldn't believe that he was having to witness this. Never in his life had he expected Usagi and Gohan to ever argue to this extent.

Chi-Chi rushed to her Husband's side and stared directly at Gohan. She wasn't too concerned with Usagi for the fact that she was just trying to defend herself, even if she had gone overboard. "Don't try anything, Gohan."

Usagi continued to stare into her Brother's angry eyes, though, hers weren't quite filled with rage, as his were. Hers were filled with fear. Fear of loosing her relationship with her Brother forever. "Whose the REAL brat here, Gohan?" She kept her power level at Super Saiyan against her Father's wishes. She couldn't power down. That would be telling Gohan that he had won against her again.

Gohan glared down into his Sister's eyes, still at the same power level that he had been at when she had thrown him off. "You are. You're the one attacking me."

Usagi found that to be absolutely outrageous. "I only did it because you grabbed my arm. I didn't know what your intentions were going to be. Plus didn't want YOU touching me." 'He's acting like Mamoru. He's the selfish pig! Not me!' She took a step forward to intimidate her Brother. It was her turn to do the yelling.

Goku could see things heating up very quickly. He hated to intervene in this for the fact that it was mainly between Gohan and Usagi. He had caused it to escalate higher than it needed to be. "Usagi! Power down!"

Usagi stopped in her place and slowly turned to face her Father. With one cold word she had greatly defied her Father, to his face, for the very first time. "NO!"

Goku was a bit disoriented at her reply. She had never refused to do anything that he had told her to do in her life. She had always obeyed him. Though, the last time she followed what he had said for her to do, she had become heartbroken. "Fine! Just don't try anything and you can stay powered up." He let his power go down as he grinned at her, telling her that he wasn't angry about her decision to challenge him.

Usagi lost her train of thought as she became surprised at his reply. She had expected him to yell at her, maybe even lash out at her for rebelling against his wishes. But he hadn't, he had agreed with her and even powered down. She quickly regained herself and turned to her Brother with a returned grimace. "Now YOU listen here, GOHAN! I've listened to all of you. Now it's MY turn!" She let out a growl as her eyes reflected the sunlight, making them almost completely silver right along with her hair and tail, which was beating angrily against her legs, not going unnoticed by her family.

Videl could see that Gohan was going to try and do something again so she stepped in-between the arguing siblings as a barrier. Gohan glared at his Wife. "Videl!"

"Shut up! We've made her do what you and my Father wanted. We're the ones who made her this distressed. Now it IS out turn to listen to what she has to say. Something we should have taken into consideration earlier." She paused and looked back to Usagi. She still saw the ashamed look that had entered the child's eyes, but now, the fire of justice again blazed within them as well. "Go ahead and speak your mind, Usagi. We're listening."

Usagi slowly turned to her Mother, who was in a state of crisis at the moment. She had things to say to her, but she just couldn't bring herself down to her Brother's level and knock her while she was down. So she turned to her Brother. "You speak of family honor and doing this FOR family honor, but it's not that. It's pride. You let that crazy man fool the world into thinking that he is the TRUE hero." She turned to her Father, who knew he was in for it for many things, and he was definitely ready to listen. "You and Mom always, ALWAYS yell at me for lying to you. But here, today, not only did you lie to me, but also you made me lie. You said that I could beat Mr. Satan, but then right at the last minute you said I couldn't. You forced me to lie by letting Mr. Satan to win. You didn't even let me try to defend myself and my reasons." She turned back to her Brother to let her Father think about what she had just said to him. "When Cell Jr. was attacking, you made me leave the area when he was going on about how he was going to save the world again. You told me it was none of my business. And you call that honor? I call that lying, something I don't believe I'm supposed to do." Usagi turned to her Father once again. "Maybe you should punish me for lying so much FATHER!" She stated in the most sarcastic voice she could.

Gohan looked down at his Sister. Most of his frown had diminished. "Why do you even remember me making you leave?"

Usagi looked back up to her Brother. "Because I remember the things that hurt me most so I can avoid running into that same situation again. That's what happens when you're picked on throughout your WHOLE life, Gohan. You learn to be tough, to harden yourself. But you wouldn't know about that, would you?"

Gohan was shocked by his Sister's statement. He wasn't too sure what she was trying to say to him about not knowing about it. "I don't know..."

Usagi frowned. "Of course you wouldn't. You do NOT know the difference between honor and pride. I don't know the dictionary definitions right off hand but I do have my own. Honor is truth, justice, love, caring, doing your best. That isn't what you guys had me do. What you had me do was for pride. Honor is most always sacrificed for pride. When Cell Jr. attacked, that idiot had that crowd out in the open. They thought that he could protect him. What if Cell Jr. would have attacked when they were there and no one was there to help because of your lies. Would you try to bring them back with the Dragon Balls? Would that make it right? I ask you this, Gohan? How many other kids have had their day and victory destroyed because HE had to be in the spotlight? Why else would he fight the winners of the tournament if not to be the center of attention?"

Heaving in exertion, she turned her eyes upon her shocked parents again. "You let the world call him a hero. I always adored heroes. All of them. The police that protect people from themselves and others. The firemen who risk their lives to help others out of danger. Parents who protect their kids from dangers. The Mothers who gives her kid the last of the food in the house, even though her hunger is just as big. The good citizens of the city that save unknown strangers. The heroes of the past and the present. The heroes with NO powers to help them do their job. And most of all, you guys." Silence reigns as she paused to catch her breath.

"Now I can't help but to cry. All those heroes, from everyday ones, to the greatest in the universe. Even ones who lost their lives trying to protect others, even if they failed. All of them are great heroes. And I can't help but think that we've shamed them with our lies. I look around to you guys and all I see are liars. I look at myself now and I know that I'm the biggest liar of all. I knew this was wrong, but the weakling that I am, I gave in. I let you make me into a traitor to all true heroes, everywhere." She powered down now that everything that she had wanted to say, had been said. She didn't care how much of a lecture she would get either. She had spoken from the heart and if she were to get in trouble for it, then that just showed how much her family really cared about what she ever had to say about anything.

To her surprise, no one said a single word, which made her feel slightly better. But not enough to want to stay and look upon who she considered to be traitors to all heroes. "I'm leaving. I need a bath to try and wash this horrible dirty feeling I have. I can't stand to stay here any longer. Whenever I look around, all I see are big giant LIES. I see...I see...I see Mr. Satan hurting himself with his own lies. I'm going somewhere else. Don't bother following me because I'll just teleport away as soon as you get there." She looked over to her Father and Mother to see their reaction. To her relief, they didn't seem too angry at her decision. She gave them a quick grin in thanks as she teleported away.

~*~*~

Gohan gulped as he grimly looked around to his parents and Wife. "I've really screwed up big time with this one."

"It serves you right. You were a real ass to her. I would be surprised if she ever took you back into her heart again, after what you pulled." Goten entered the circle of his family and turned to his Father, who was trying to piece together what had just happened. "I told you she wouldn't understand, did I not? You just couldn't listen to me. No, little Goten was wrong again."

"SHUT UP!" Gohan desperately tried to keep himself from lashing out at his little Brother. "You don't have to rub it in so god damned much."

Goten grinned. "Getting temperamental, are we? My, my, Brother, now we know how our little sis felt, don't we?"

Chi-Chi frowned as she raised her fist and hit her youngest Son upside the head. "Goten! Don't make things worse! Maybe you should do something constructive and find Usagi for us."

Goten angrily turned to his Mother. "Maybe Gohan should do that." With that, he turned around and stomped away from the group.

Goku looked up to Gohan with concern. "I have a few things that I'd like to say to you. Now, first off, you know I HATE yelling at any of you three."

Gohan nodded. "Yeah I know." 'This could get bad. I've done a lot of things to make him mad today.'

"Let me get a few things straight. You may be an adult now, you may be out of our house now, but that doesn't change the fact that we're your parents. When we tell you NOT to interfere or try going above our heads, in regards to your Sister's life, and ours, you DON'T do it, EVER. We had our reasons for not deciding on anything and you know that, Gohan. And second, DON'T EVER call your Sister a brat again! I already told you that! You know damn well that she is NOT a brat! You're just throwing oil on a grease-fire when you do that. You know Usagi and how easily she gets upset."

Gohan dropped his head with shame as he listened to his Father's words. He knew that they were all true, but, he had let his anger get the best of him and now he would have to pay for it.

"And if you ask me, you're the one being a brat. You're the one being selfish. You only thought about what you wanted today. You went through all that trouble to make sure that Usagi didn't win the tournament today and when she did, you blew up on her. You didn't seem to want to take into consideration that you were putting her feelings at stake."

Before Goku could go on any further, Mr. Satan struts into the group with a cheeky smile from his most recent 'victory'. "Well that went well." He wrapped his arm around Gohan's shoulder as he thought that they were great friends because of their deal. "Ha, I have to admit I thought the kid would have at least TRIED to put up a fight. Guess she knew better than to fight a real hero."

Gohan, utterly ashamed of himself, beat his Wife to a response, who was about to lash into her Father. He pulled away from the man. He reached out and lifted him by the cuff of the collar. "Father..." Mr. Satan shook with fear. "This is the last time you rig a fight. AND the last time you fight the winners of the tournament. You'll make an announcement that you have decided to let the winners have their day, and that you were wrong to steal their rightfully earned glory." Gohan growled as he brought Mr. Satan closer to his face, who was about to protest to Gohan's 'requests'. "If you don't, I'LL fight you in public and beat the living crap out of you and then tell all the true story of what happened at the Cell games." He grinned. "Or better yet, I'll let my Sister."

Mr. Satan shook harder as he looked down to his Daughter for support, who was glaring at him. He chuckled, fearfully. "Ok my boy, ok. No harm done."

"You're wrong, but it wasn't by you, it was by me, much to my shame." He set his Father-in-law down, who jumped away, not wanting to be hurt in any way.

Gohan looked in the direction in which he felt his Sister's Ki. She seemed to be at her tree house, Sanctuary. 'Poor kid. What have I done? She's going to hate me forever.' "I know she said not to follow her, but don't you think we should go and apologize?" His, as well as everyone else's, attention was diverted to a small figure emerging from the shadows.

"It wouldn't matter if you went or not. Your GREAT PLAN failed and now she's not going to listen to you." Startled and cursing themselves for being so careless as to let an outsider listen in on the conversation, the family turned to the cold voice that had quietly made the statement. That small and angry voice came from Hotaru, who had quietly been watching the whole thing. She glared at Gohan and Mr. Satan without any respect at all for either of them. "I heard it. I heard it all. What you did. How you forced her into loosing, me and the others all watched it. And it was POINTLESS!" She said it almost as if she had a plan to overcome this obstacle that Usagi had not. "He still has to fight me. And I WON'T BACK DOWN! No one can make me! For my best friend, who is also my Sensei, I will beat you up!"

Mr. Satan stared fearfully at Hotaru, he knew what she was capable of, though; she was also quite hurt from her previous battles. He looked back to the others for support, but there was nothing for him to rely on. He would have to do this on his own. "Now, little girl..."

Hotaru glared harder as she stepped towards him, causing him to cower further away from him. "Don't you little girl me! I may be small, I may not always act like it, but I'm NOT ignorant! I'm NOT going to let you win!" With much determination, Hotaru turned away from the people she had respected, until now. "I'll see you in the ring, Mr. Satan."

Before Satan could even make a single response of any kind, Chi-Chi glared at him with hateful eyes. "Don't even think about it you crazy old man. You're on your own with this one. That includes you two as well, Goku and YOU Gohan. We WILL talk about your keeping things from me AGAIN, Goku. And don't think that I haven't figured out what she meant by 'you did it', Gohan. I guarantee that we will discuss."

Videl glared at her Husband, which always had a way of intimidating him, ever since they had first met. "That goes double for me." A very ashamed Goku and Gohan lowered their heads and nodded as they sighed. They felt horrible about themselves.

Mr. Satan turned around and considered his position. True, he wasn't even in Usagi's league, but without the use of her Ki attacks he was sure he could beat Hotaru since she was pretty much out of it anyway. Despite everything, he was a tenth level Black belt, and one of the greatest human fighters on earth who couldn't use Ki attacks. He just wasn't capable of holding up against any of the Z team fighters and their children. A smirk appeared as he went to get himself ready for the next fights. 'I'll fight the beginner first and save the younger one for last. That way, I can save my strength for the real fight and have the crowd eating out of my hand if I need to.'

Glaring at her Father's back, Videl slowly turned to the rest of her family. "He's up to something. I can feel it."

Chi-Chi nodded as she considered the situation, something she was sure that her pigged headed Husband and Son weren't doing. "For now, we need to let Usagi cool off. Plus, I know that she would want us here to make sure nothing went wrong with Hotaru, that nothing happen to her during her fight. But we won't interfere with the fight in any way." She glared especially at her Son and Husband, who were known to interfere many times when it just wasn't needed.

Videl smiled sadly at her Mother-in-law. "Agreed." She turned her glare upon Gohan, once again. All knew better than to comment on her agreement with Chi-Chi. That was one pair that everyone knew better than to contradict.

~*~*~

Usagi walked aimlessly walked around Sanctuary with a broken heart and tear filled eyes. She replayed the previous activities over and over again in her head almost to the point where she wanted to puke because they were so awful. She wasn't sure if she would ever have the same loving relationship with her Brother. If it could ever be the same. She wouldn't have a problem with forgetting about it and trying to move on with life, but she wasn't sure about Gohan. They were two very different people with two very different views on life. She wasn't sure if Gohan would ever forgive her for talking to him the way she had, though, she just wouldn't have been able to live with herself had she not have been able to get it out in the open.

Her parents were another story. Though she had been too angry with them to do as they wanted, she knew that they at least halfway stood on her side. Her Father had not once yelled at her after the fight for disobeying him. He seemed to be ok with it, though, she wouldn't push her luck and make it a habit. She knew that this was just one of those times that things like that were allowed. But, it would take a while to get things back to normal, which was something she didn't want. She wanted to skip the earning each other's trust back part and get back to the way things were.

Now she sat on the top balcony with a cherry slushy cooling herself off from the draining day. She was looking forward to watching the fight between Hotaru and Mr. Satan. She was going to watch it on the big-screen TV that sat on the main floor of Sanctuary. Though, in the back of her mind she was really debating on whether she wanted to go back and watch it for real, but that would require running into her family, something she wasn't quite sure she was ready to do for if she did see them, she was certain that another conflict would arise between them. She didn't exactly want to see them again until she had recollected her thoughts enough to where she could make a good argument. She knew that once she saw her parents again that she would be in for a nice scolding. Not from her Father most likely, but from her Mother. She had worn herself out with all that she had just done. She wasn't exactly ready to go through it again, though, she wanted to be there for Hotaru. She sighed as she took a sip of her slushy. 'What to do, what to do...'

~*~*~

Having easily beaten Kichigai Joshi, the winner of the beginner division with a swift punch to the stomach (Poor Dizzy-Chan HEY NOW!! Heh... ), Mr. Satan proudly and arrogantly stepped into the ring again, finding himself standing across from Hotaru. He gulped when she said nothing. She only glared upon him as if he were an animal. Despite himself, he felt a strange fear of this child. Not only does he fear that he will be beaten in front of all his loyal fans, but he felt a fear that couldn't be explained.

The announcer who had presented the whole fight to the audience at the stadium, as well as the home viewers, walked up to the ring for the last time. "And now for the final fight of day. Ladies and gentlemen we have seen extraordinary talent here today from this young child. She will now try her luck at beating the mighty Mr. Satan! The intermediate winner, Tomoe Hotaru!" The audience grew loud as they clapped for the youngster.

Mr. Satan cockily walked up to Hotaru. He smiled a feral grin and began his attacks without any type of warning. They were fast and furious. He wasn't thinking about how hard he was hitting, though. He was imagining young Hotaru as her Sensei, Usagi. The one person in the world who dared to defy him. She had generated another hater of him.

Hotaru had not expected such strength and skill to come from him. All she had heard from Usagi was that he was a big fake. Usagi never mentioned anything about whether he really could fight or not. Hotaru took a large beating from Mr. Satan and realized that she had underestimated him. But already worn out from the tournament and facing a foe with years of experience and great strength for a non-Ki fighter, she was unable to make a come back of any sort, but she also refused to fall.

Mr. Satan just narrowed his glare at her unwillingness to fall as he let the punches go at her harder. "Just fall and be done with it."

Bleeding, Hotaru had to force herself not to drop to her knees as she glared right back at him. "Never! I will never betray my best friend, my Sensei. I'm going to beat you for her!"

An even greater fury erupted inside him. All the worry and planning over the day to make sure that Usagi was not allowed to beat him and the tension with his family got the better of him, overcoming any thought of decency. He threw a deadly full fisted blow at her, which would cripple her if it were to make contact.

His family realized too late what he had done to do anything. Videl dropped to her knees as she cried out in horror for him to stop as well as the audience, but, before the punch could hit the seriously injured fighter, a small hand appeared in a burst of golden light, stopping it in mid-throw.

Usagi had been watching the tournament from Sanctuary, wanting to see Hotaru's triumph, when she realized, as well as her family, that Mr. Satan had gone WAY over the edge. From the moment that he first laid a single punch upon her, from the first time that Usagi noticed that Hotaru would not be able to recover easily, she prepared to come there to cheer her on. But then she saw the killer blow. She knew that Hotaru would not be able to block against it with such a low power level.

Usagi scowled at Mr. Satan as she softly kicked him in the stomach. Well, it was soft to her but not to her victim. Mr. Satan grabbed his stomach as he was knocked out of breath. Usagi didn't even give Mr. Satan the dignity of yelling at him. Instead, she just turned to Hotaru, who was now on the ground from exhaustion.

~*~*~

Goku stepped forward, not to scold his Daughter for interfering, but to scold Mr. Satan for nearly killing Hotaru. "That bastard!"

Chi-Chi placed her hand on her Husband's stomach, stopping him from going any further. "Let her do this, Goku. I think she's earned it. Let her show the world who Mr. Satan really is." Goku turned to his Wife and gave her a smile and a nod.

~*~*~

Usagi kneeled down by Hotaru and held out a single Senzu bean, which she had been saving just in case something were to happen. Hotaru's arm shook from being so weak as she reached out and took the small bean from her friend. "I..." She popped the Senzu into her mouth and could almost immediately feel its magic working to replenish her energy.

Hotaru said nothing more as she dropped her head in shame for her defeat. Usagi didn't know what to tell her. She didn't see why Hotaru could have been ashamed of herself for what she just did. Usagi smiled to try and ease up the tension that she was feeling from Hotaru. "It's all right. He isn't as bad of a fighter as I thought he was. But, you'll pass him soon. And if you would have been able to us your Ki power, you'd have won this time. But it's great that you kept the pledge we made not to use it for the tournament. I'm proud of you. Don't be ashamed of a little loss. I mean hey, everyone looses some time. You should be proud that you won the tournament, that's all that really counts."

Hotaru looked up to her friend with a bright smile planted firmly on her face. Usagi always did have a way of cheering people right up. "Thanks."

Usagi giggled. "Welcome!" Usagi turned her head to Mr. Satan as he tried to regain his footing. 'He's going down today and that's all there is to it.' She quickly turned back to Hotaru and motioned for her to leave the area, which she did, not wanting to get involved in what was about to take place.

Usagi stood to her feet as she glared at Mr. Satan. She could barely see her parents out of her side vision. They were watching her. She wondered what was going through their heads at that moment. She wondered if she was going to get into trouble for what she was about to do. They had to know what she was going to do. She could see Gohan, as well. He didn't look like he had any emotions towards the situation at all, but that was just on the outside. Who knew what he was really thinking about all of this.

"I don't care anymore, Mr. Satan. I just don't. I don't give a blast what my Dad wants. I don't give rip about what my Mom wants. I REALLY could care less what my BROTHER wants. I don't even want to hear about what YOU want. All I know is that you're going down today. This time, we finish the fight. Right here, right now!" She yelled loud enough for the whole stadium to hear. She let herself glance over to her family, who didn't move an inch. She could see Hotaru standing, safely, in her Father's arms. 'Good. She's safe from this monster.' She changed her yelling to a soft whisper that only Satan could hear. "You've lied for the last time."

Trying to back out of it, Mr. Satan began walking away with an evil chuckle of victory over Usagi. "Sorry, kid, you had your chance and you ran. Maybe another tim..."

Usagi increased her energy to teleport in front of him. "Not this time. You have no choice. If my parents, or Brother want to stop me, I'll take them on to." 'What am I saying? I can't hold up to them. Well, maybe Mom, but I don't want to hurt her.'

Again, not a single family member moved. The crowd looked on in confusion. They couldn't understand why their champion was letting this bratty, yet, cowardly, kid get away with speaking to him in such a disrespectful manner. Genuine fear entered Mr. Satan's eyes as he backed away like the coward he is. "I'll...I'll go easy on you." He tried to think of another reason that he could come up for his defeat.


"No, you wont. You'll try your best and lose, just like every real fight you've ever had with a master of Ki-Jitsu." The crowd strained to hear every single word that the young fighter spoke as they had never heard of such a style of fighting.

Usagi, having enough talking, lashed out with a sweep of his legs, making them collapse from underneath him. She grabbed his legs as he fell. She began twirling him a great speed, causing him to scream out as she let go, sending him high into the air.

The crowd just sat in shock by the girl's strength. They were utterly stunned that their 'hero' could be so easily beaten by a mere child. They were even more shocked, though completely entertained, by the fact that she began glowing as she FLEW up to him, knocking him down, only to dive beneath him and throw him up again. This continued for just a little under five minutes until he hollered out his surrender. Usagi stopped playing with the man that she despised and let him drop to the ground. She slowly let herself fall by his side. She looked around to the gasping crowd. "The man you know before you is a lie. He didn't defeat Cell. He didn't save earth."

Onlookers shouted down curses to the child in the middle of the ring with their hero. They were outraged at the girl's lies. Most of the crowd began throwing food items down at the child fighter as they told her to get away from Mr. Satan. Some even dared to call her a monster here to attack the earth. Videl sighed as she joined Usagi in the ring. She couldn't have Usagi being taunted and ridiculed because of her Father. She had already gone through that once that day. "This child, Usagi, speaks the truth." She dropped her head in shame. "My Father didn't defeat Cell. Usagi's Brother, my Husband did at the age of ten along with the help of his Father and friends." The world seemed to hold its breath as they turned their angry eyes upon Mr. Satan. Though, Videl was one of the only people who didn't look at him in such an awful way. She look at him with a firm, serious, yet, loving gaze. "It's time for this charade to end, once and for all."

Mr. Satan hurtfully looked at his Daughter. He then turned to crowd with a loud groan and sense of responsibility, one he wished that he didn't have. He was ashamed at the lengths that he had gone to save his face. He, for the first time in his Daughter's life and Usagi's presence, looked utterly defeated. "They tell the truth. I didn't beat Cell. Usagi's older Brother did, just as Videl said. The truth was that I was a coward the whole time. I only fought with him once and got my ass kicked real good. I stayed with the cameraman the whole time. When there was a big explosion, I lied and said that I took care of Cell since the kid and his friends were gone." He lowered his head in absolute shame.

The audience at the stadium was outraged by the story that Mr. Satan told. They were outraged enough to lash out at him with all their disappointment and sense of betrayal. The jeers and catcalls from the audience became too overwhelming for one to hear themselves think. The even began throwing food at him.

Mr. Satan did nothing to stop the anger of his citizens. He just stood there, wanting to cry. He nearly did when Videl embraced him in her loving arms.

All of a sudden, a bright light appeared in the sky, a golden light that put the sun to shame. The light was being generated from an infuriated Usagi, who couldn't believe the abuse that was being dished out by the crowd. "Stop it! All of you!" She shouted with tears forming in her eyes. She couldn't help but feel sad for the man down in the center of the arena. "Who do you think you are?! I would like to see you people have done better in a situation like that! Mr. Satan was brave for even going out there and trying. He tried his best for all of you! Yes, what he did was wrong and it needed to be exposed. But now that it's exposed, it's not that big of a deal. He has feelings too you know! Just like you and me! Now stop it! He didn't even tell you everything that happened. My Dad once told me about it. He told me how Mr. Satan did help in the fight. He was ONE of the heroes from the cell games."

Satan looked up at the child, in shock. "She's defending me? She's saying I'm a hero after what she just did to me? And what I did to her?" Usagi's family, especially Videl, was also stunned to immobility by her statement. Out of all of them, Usagi had built up the most hate towards Mr. Satan for his deceit and now she was DEFENDING him?

"True he didn't defeat Cell, but he did risk his life trying. He didn't even know what he was getting himself into. And when my big Brother Gohan was in trouble, he came into the battlefield with NO Ki powers available. He was defenseless. Because of Mr. Satan's help, Gohan was able to beat Cell. Even after the fight with Cell, Mr. Satan did try to be a hero. He visited others in need, he helped the homeless and sick with charities and support, and he tried his best to be a good person and set a good example to less experienced fighters. My only problem with him was his pride and that he LIED to everyone." Having felt she said enough, for the crowd had settled down, Usagi let herself drop to the ground to stand in front of Mr. Satan, who stared at her with a wide open mouth.

"Why?" Was all he could get out.

Usagi smiled. "Well, you are family, and I don't want anyone really hurt. Besides, maybe you can become what you always said you were. Not the champion of earth, that's probably my Dad or Brother. They are both about the same power level now, but I bet Gohan and Videl would train you in the art of Ki-Jitsu. Wait, Gohan WILL train you. That's his punishment after being such a jerk." Usagi giggled at the thought of Gohan teaching him out to fly as she pictured Mr. Satan out of control and flying upside down.

Looking at the girl, he remembered what his Daughter had always told him about her. About her enormous heart. He actually chuckled at her statement. "Maybe I can learn to be a hero. But I think you're wrong on who the greatest is. I think that a new hero may have arisen to take the title of earth's greatest hero, in my eyes at least."

Usagi smiled and noticed that Gohan was walking out onto the arena. She hoped that they wouldn't get into an argument. She knew how much he was against her beating and exposing Mr. Satan. But she wouldn't back down. She believed it to be the right thing and there was nothing that would change her mind otherwise.

Gohan surprised his little Sister with a smile. "I think my Father-in-law is right about that Usagi. You were right about what you said. I so wanted everyone to be happy, and not wanting the world to hate by knowing the truth, I gave into my fears. But I totally forgot about one of the most important things." He kneeled down in front of Usagi, though he didn't get too close to her. He didn't know if she was still angry with him or not. "I forgot about your feelings and beliefs. You were right, I told Mamoru about how to get to your tail. Though I didn't think he would take it to that extreme. You did yourself honor overcoming him. I'm sorry, can you ever forgive your idiot Brother?"

Usagi looked up to the sky as she pondered over her answer, making her Brother somewhat nervous about knowing her answer. "Well..." She smirked as she turned back to him. Without a single word, she launched herself into his arms and gave him her very own patented bone-crushing hug. "Of course I forgive you, silly. You're my big Brother and I love you. But it's going to cost you a few Sundays for my and my friends."

Hardly realizing that she had already forgiven him, Gohan hugged her back. He let out a small laugh of relief and became very thankful that she had such a large heart. "I love you too, sis."

Usagi didn't let go of her Brother until she saw the stern faces of her parents fast approaching her. 'Uh-oh.' She pulled away from Gohan and let him go onto business of tending to his Wife and her Father. She took a step back as the walked up onto the raised platform. She gulped as she looked up into the slightly frowning face of her Father, and then to her Mother, who stood beside him.

'I guess I should say it.' "I wont ever apologize for this. I wont say I'm sorry. I did it, meant, and would do it again if I had to." She crossed her arms to show them that she was totally serious.

Chi-Chi's frown turned into a smile as her pride grew in her Daughter even more. "We don't expect you to. You were right all along. It was wrong for us to force you to lose to him. We're sorry."

Goku, too, smiled down at his Daughter, who was beginning to warm up to them again. "She's right, kiddo. You WERE right. I'm sorry I didn't tell you about Gohan, I just didn't want you to lose concentration for your battles. We should have listened to your beliefs before we forced you to lose."

Usagi smiled up at them. She had gotten her wish of just being able to put the situation behind her without a giant argument. "Thanks, Mom, Dad." With that she grabbed both of them and gave them each a bone-crushing hug.

Usagi's head perked with interest as she remembered that she still had some unfinished business to attend to. She pulled away from her parents and looked up to them with begging eyes. "Can I go somewhere really quick? I have to go talk to someone." She looked around to the now half empty stands, but couldn't see the person she was looking for. 'Hmm...'

Goku looked to his Wife with concern. He wasn't sure he liked the tone of voice that his Daughter was using. "As long as you don't get in a fight with someone I don't see why not."

"Thanks! That's not what is about. Just the opposite in fact." Usagi turned around and ran out of the main arena in search of the person she was searching for. She quickly pinpointed her by sensing around the area for her. "Ha! She's in the building that fighters get ready in." With that, Usagi pressed her fingers to her head and teleported right to her target.

~*~*~

Usagi spotted the girl she was looking for amongst a dozen other fighters who were collecting their belongings. She slowly walked to her, weaving in and out of the crowd of people trying not to hit any of them. She stopped just in front of the girl, who was sitting down in a resting chair, and smiled down to her. "There's something I need to tell you, Michiru. I called you a liar, when you weren't. I guess I'm just like my family, not trying to find out the truth and not wanting to listen to what you had to say. I truly thought that Gohan would never do something like that to me. But you were right; it doesn't change anything between us, except now I respect you a little more. Thank you."

Michiru nearly frowned as she stood up, but she noticed that her friends were nowhere around and smiled. "You got that right. We're still enemies, but the way I see it you has changed." She walked past a confused Usagi only to stop behind her. Michiru placed her hand on top of Usagi's head. "You're all right, kid."

(Well there you have it. The longest part that you will EVER receive from me. What did you think? I would LOVE to hear what you thought about it. Thanks! Ja ne! )