Two days had passed since Hotaru had revealed herself to everyone as a Saiyan. She never knew that it would feel so good to get herself out in the open. Since she didn't have anything more to hide, she felt a sense of freedom, something that she hadn't really ever had the chance to feel before. But everything seemed to be going smoother now and she hoped that it would always stay that way. Her life was absolutely perfect.
After school on that Monday after the picnic, Usagi picked Hotaru up to continue her training with Goku. This time, Goku had a little more understanding of Hotaru, which meant that he wouldn't go so easy on her anymore. She was a Saiyan and could be treated as one, especially since she was already so far into her training as it was.
While Hotaru sparred with Goku in a field not too far from the house, Usagi sat, by the house, with her friends and watched Lucky as she chased a butterfly around the yard. They were in a state of almost pure sadness for one more day and Lucky would have to leave, Chi-Chi's rules. Lucky's recovery was coming along faster than any of the girls had hoped. Her foot was still injured, but she was able to walk on it none the less. Chi-Chi had decided that it was time for the puppy to move into a new house with a permanent family and that permanent family wasn't Hotaru, sadly. Her father had disagreed to every request to keep Lucky that Hotaru had produced. Though, it was all Kaori's influence over him. It seemed like every time Hotaru wanted something, Kaori felt that it was her job to make sure that it didn't happen.
Ami and Usagi were deep in conversation. Summer Vacation had crept up on the busy group and it seemed as though they only had a week left. In only two short days, they would be made to take a test to see if they passed into the next grade without taking summer courses, something that Usagi dreaded every year. "Ami I'm just not cuttin it anymore."
"Relax Usagi. You'll do fine on the test."
"No I won't. I'm probably going to barely pass the test just like I do every year. I know that music helps, but not enough. It only helps when I'm listening to it."
Ami sighed. "It's ok Usagi. You're just stressing yourself over nothing."
"No I'm not. Last year I got a C on the final test. My mom told me that if I come home with another C on my final test that I'm going to be grounded for the whole summer."
"Well I don't know if this will work for this year, but I know it will for next year."
Usagi curiously looked to Ami for whatever was on her mind. "What do you mean?"
"Well, maybe you just need a better understanding of music. It works for a lot of people. Maybe you should come down to the music school with me sometimes. You get to listen to all sorts of famous works played by amateur as well as professional players."
Usagi pondered over the thought of learning more about music to further help her in her studies. "Well...Maybe I will give it a try. You never know. But you're right, that's not going to help me for this summer. I'm going to get in much trouble." 'Maybe dad can help me out like he usually does. He's such a life saver.'
Makoto tilted her head to the side when she saw two pairs of feet walking towards their position. She brought her hand to her forehead to shelter her eyes from the shining sun. "Hey you guys." She could hear Lucky growling at the two visitors in the background.
Hearing her friend greet someone, Minako looked up in curiosity as to who it was that Makoto was talking to. "Piccolo. Yamcha. Hi!" She chirped.
Usagi looked away from her conversation with Ami and looked up to Yamcha and Piccolo. 'Why are they here?' She pushed herself forward a bit through the grass to see if there were any other unexpected visitors in their midst. "Where's Mamoru?"
Piccolo looked down to Usagi with a slight frown. "He's not here right now." 'I hope they agree to this.'
Usagi smiled. 'Great.' "Cool. So what brings you here? Are you here to spar with dad or something?"
Yamcha couldn't help but let out a chuckle. "Usagi, if I tried to spar with your dad I would probably be done for in just one hit. I haven't spared with him in years."
Usagi looked up to Piccolo with eyes of curiosity. "We're not here to spar. We are here to talk to your parents though."
Usagi gloomily stood up and brushed herself off. "Ok." She turned away from the group and walked into her house, motioning for the duo to follow as well as her friends.
Rei walked behind Piccolo and Yamcha and bent down to pick up Lucky. "Come on Lucky. Let's get you something to drink before you make yourself too hot with all of this exercise." She blew off the dirty looks she received from Piccolo and Yamcha and proceeded to follow her friends into the Sons' house.
Yamcha just looked over to Piccolo. "What a weird bunch of kids. They aren't even acting like their summer vacation is coming up in a week."
Piccolo shrugged as he followed the last of the kids inside. "They've always been extra strange, but we're not here to worry about their behavioral problems, we're here to discuss business with Goku and Chi-Chi. Just let me do most of the talking."
Usagi led Yamcha and Piccolo into the family room of her house and grabbed Minako and Ami by the arms. "Come on guys. While they talk, let's go to my room and play with Lucky." Before leaving the room she turned to address the duo again. "I'll go get my mom. Don't break anything or else she'll have a cow. Believe me, I've had lots of experience with that before." She turned back around and began pulling two of her friends down the hallway with the other two close behind to follow.
Yamcha chuckled as Lucky yelped halfway down the hallway. "Those kids really love that dog."
"Yeah, almost too much. They're babying it too much. I am in fear of what their kids are going to turn out like."
"Do you think Chi-Chi will let Usagi keep it here?"
Piccolo laughed out loud. "Not a chance."
~*~*~
Chi-Chi turned her attention upon her daughter and friends as they walked into the room on her right. She had previously been watching television, something that she had been trying to do all day, but was interrupted by the noisy bunch of girls entering the room. "Hold it right there. All of you. I thought I told you guys to go outside to play."
Usagi turned around to her mother, pouting. "Mom, it's hot outside and we're tired of playing out there. Besides, Piccolo and Yamcha are here. They want to talk to you and daddy."
Before Chi-Chi even had the slightest chance to respond to her daughter's whining of how hot it was, she let the fact that they had guests sink into her head. "Fine. Stay inside as long as you aren't loud." Without further words spoken between the two, Chi-Chi stood to her feet and left the room to greet the visitors."
~*~*~
Chi-Chi walked out into the family room half expecting to see everything out of place, but to her surprise, nothing was moved. Not a single item was broken or on the floor when it shouldn't have been. Yamcha and Piccolo were standing perfectly still. "Seems like you two behaved yourselves out here. To what do I owe this occasion?"
Yamcha cleared his throat as he looked up to Piccolo, who was ready to ask away. "We have a proposition for you two that we would like to discuss. Is Goku around?"
Chi-Chi sighed as she turned her head to the hallway. "Usagi!"
The sound of a door being ripped open was heard. "Yes?"
"Get your father!" She yelled. "It will be just a minute."
Usagi knew why her mother wanted her to go. It was because of her ability to perform instant transmission. But Usagi went one step higher than that. She opened up a small link to Hotaru instead of having to leave the house, even if it would have only been for a few minutes.
~*~*~
Hotaru didn't receive Usagi's message at first for she was too involved in a fight with Goku, one that she seemed to be losing.
Hotaru dodged a swift jab from Goku, who was fighting weaponless. With a quick retaliation, Hotaru jumped over his head and rammed the end of her staff into his back to keep him from turning around to see her. "Beat that."
Goku grinned as he pressed his fingers to his head and teleported to be just in front of Hotaru, who did the same as he had. "Smart. I see you're following Usagi's example and not holding still."
Just as Hotaru reappeared above Goku's head, Usagi's message had finally reached her. "Goku?"
Goku's fist went flying into the halted girl's chest, causing her to fly back. "Yes?" He let himself float to Hotaru and extended his hand to help her back to her feet.
"Usagi said that Chi-Chi wants you to come home because Piccolo and Yamcha want to talk to you guys." Hotaru lifted her hand and met it with Goku's, allowing herself to be helped up.
Goku looked in the direction of his house in much curiosity. He wondered what they could have possibly needed him back at the house for. "Ok. I guess we're done for the day then. Why don't we take you back to the house and then you can play with Lucky before she leaves tomorrow."
Hotaru's eyes grew heavy with sadness as she looked down at the ground. She so wished that they could have kept the puppy, but no one's parents would let them. "Ok."
Goku could feel the anxiety of tomorrow coming in Hotaru. He knew that the girls would all have a hard time with giving Lucky up and the truth of the matter was that he himself was getting somewhat attached to her, somewhat was the key word there, though. He still his doubts about her that he would have to get over before he actually let her get too close to him. "Come on. Let's run there for the last of our workout for the day."
Hotaru smiled as she looked up to Goku. "K!"
~*~*~
~~Ten minutes Later~~
Goku and Chi-Chi sat on one side of their family room as Piccolo and Yamcha sat on the other side. Both parties stared at each other with blank emotions, not knowing what to expect from each other. Yamcha coughed as he jabbed Piccolo in the side. He got a cold glare in response. "Fine already!"
Piccolo let his eyes glance over in the direction of Usagi's room, not wanting her to overhear anything that was going to be said. "We need to talk..."
"...about something major."
Piccolo shot another glare back at Yamcha, which got him to shut up. 'Damn annoying little pest.' "Now you've noticed more than the both of us that our kids don't exactly..."
"...See eye to eye with each other."
Piccolo stood up from his chair and violently lifted Yamcha up by his shirt. "Do you wish to tell them?!" Yamcha cowered away as Piccolo narrowed his eyes. "I'll take that as a 'no'. Don't interrupt me again!"
Goku chuckled when he saw the fearful face of Yamcha. "You're right. We would know about that. They've been going at it for years now. About three if I recall right."
Piccolo calmed himself as he sat down once again. He hoped that he wouldn't have to burst out like that again, especially since Usagi could hear things pretty well to begin with. "Yeah, it's been about that. Quite frankly, it's ridiculous and annoying."
Remembering back to the tournament, Chi-Chi frowned with near hate. "That boy has to be stopped! He's put my baby in too much pain. He nearly killed her for god's sake." She let her glare explain the fact that she was STILL unhappy that Piccolo just left her there to fend for herself.
Goku reached up and grabbed his wife by the shoulders. "Don't overwork yourself, Chi-Chi. It's done and over with." His expression turned more serious when he turned back to Piccolo and Yamcha. "I'm guess you want to do something about this?"
Piccolo nodded. "Precisely. We want our students to learn some respect, which they have none of. Now you know ever since you found out I was his father that I've been tying to tone his violent habits down but it didn't work. It did up to a certain point, but we all know how far that got. He corrupted Yamcha's students and as for Haruka and Michiru..."
"They've always been that way. Ever since they first met Usagi they've been picking on her." Goku looked down to his seething wife. "Calm down."
"That's what I thought. Well Yamcha and I were talking the other day. Ever since the tournament we've known that there we were going to have to do something about this problem. Ever since we saw the group laughing at Usagi when Mamoru was hurting her. And then on Saturday when Mamoru suggested that Usagi watch out for Hotaru's tail."
Goku grinned. He knew what this was coming to, but he knew his wife didn't have a clue as to what he was getting at. "And you want them to under-go some special training, correct?"
Piccolo nodded. "Yes."
Chi-Chi's face cheered up quick as a smile spread across it. "And you want my Goku to teach them? Right? Goku can get them to respect others just like he showed our kids."
Goku grinned and answered before Piccolo even had a chance to open his mouth. "Nope. They want Usagi to do it, don't you?" He turned to look at Piccolo and Yamcha for agreement.
Stunned, Piccolo nodded. "Ye...yeah, how did you know?"
Goku smirked. "Well you know as well as I do that my patience with those kids have grown too thin for mine and their own good. I wouldn't be able to put up with all the insults that they had to dish out."
"That's right. Yamcha and I were talking about that. We don't have patience for them either. That's one of the reasons why they act the way they do. It's all the know," Piccolo dropped his head a bit. "Sadly."
Yamcha decided it was his turn to get in his thoughts on all of this. "We want them to learn to respect others for who they are and not what they look like. We want them to learn to not pass judgment upon a person without getting to know them, something they seem to have a habit of doing. We've noticed that Usagi is one of the most forgiving people besides yourself, Goku."
Piccolo raised his head. "That's right. It seems that no matter what someone does, she always forgives them. I mean look at what happened with Gohan. After everything that he did to her she still forgave him."
Chi-Chi frowned. She definitely did NOT want to let her youngest train a bunch of low-lives like the Rat pack. They had done too much to Usagi for her to ever really trust them. "Absolutely not. She will not be training them. Who knows what they will try to do to her."
Goku, on the other hand, was a little more understanding. "Chi-Chi, this is the only way that it will work."
Chi-Chi turned from her husband in disgust. "And what makes you think that it will work."
"I'm confident that it WILL work. Maybe when they see that Usagi will forgive them for what they do, they'll begin to realize that their antics aren't the center of the universe."
"Well not only that, Goku," Yamcha eased forward in his chair when he heard a large thump coming from down the hall. "The kids?" He got a small nod from Chi-Chi. "Whew, I thought they were coming out here or something."
Chi-Chi frowned. "No, they're just playing in there. Honestly, they always have to make noise. They can't ever play civilly."
Yamcha chuckled at the thought of having a child. He had never actually gotten around to getting married, he more rather liked going out with women for a few months and then moving on. But that wasn't to be spoken of. "Well, on with business, Piccolo and I were thinking that maybe, just maybe when the kids see that Usagi forgives them for everything that they do, they will begin to follow her example and learn to respect others. We want her as well as her friends, to train them to fight fair, as you taught her Goku. We need her to do it because well, I've never seen her loose her temper before so I think she's the perfect candidate."
Goku had to force himself from bursting out with laughter over that little bit. "You think she doesn't loose her temper? She does, believe me. We almost had a few fights between her and her classmates when she was first going to school. But after a hard time of learning to control herself, I think she's finally over that. Now she just loses her temper over other things. But as far as hearts go, Usagi's your kid. I doubt she'll lose her temper with Mamoru and his friends if she hasn't already. Personally, I'm getting sick of his attitude, I don't think I would be able to do it."
Chi-Chi smiled as she stood up and stretched. "You're right Goku. All of you are right. After listening to why you think she should train them, I think it's a good idea. But you guys are missing the most important part of this training. I don't blame you. I mean, you're only men and you just don't see things as clearly as us women. Usagi and her friends will be able to learn just as much from Piccolo and Yamcha's students as they will from the girls. They will open each other's eyes up to other alternatives besides what they think. It will be good for both groups if you ask me." Chi-Chi paused long enough to give a quick glare at her husband. "But you have to have their permission before you go and make any decisions. We can't MAKE them train anyone of they don't want to."
Goku nodded. "I was just about to say that, dear."
Piccolo and Yamcha stood up at the same time and walked to the front door. "Goku, go get your kid and bring her outside, if you don't mind."
Yamcha turned to the parents of Usagi just before he followed Piccolo out. "Do something about Usagi. She's too glum for a kid. Summer Vacation's starting in a week. All of those kids are upset."
Chi-Chi let on a slight frown. But not at Yamcha, it was meant for herself. "They're just upset that they have to find Lucky a new home tomorrow."
Goku grabbed his wife by the shoulders and rested his chin on her shoulders. "Speaking of which, did you tell them yet?"
Chi-Chi smiled. "Not yet, but I plan to later."
Goku smiled, as well, as he walked back to his daughter's room and knocked on the door. "Girls?"
"Come in daddy."
Goku placed his hand on the door knob and turned it, allowing the door to be opened. He took one look around the room and realized that all six girls were on the floor with a distraught little puppy. "What are you doing to the poor thing?" In the center of the room sat Lucky with one of Usagi's doll's dresses on. On her head she wore a little hat that was also meant for a doll and on her feet she wore little doll socks.
Minako grinned as she looked up to Goku. "We're playing dress-up." She still very vividly remembered what had happened the last time they had played dress-up, when they had some how gotten Goku to play with them.
Usagi smiled up at her father. "Wanna play? We'll be the salon people and you can be the customer." She pulled her attention from Lucky, which allowed time for her to run out the room. "Lucky! Come back here!"
Goku pulled out of the room. "Now you keep that stuff away from you. Don't think I haven't forgotten what happened last time you tricked me into playing that. Nuh-uh. No way. I'm never playing that game again."
Minako drooped her lip as her own form of begging. "Aww...come on Goku. Don't you wanna play with us?"
Goku shook his head. "No. Never. Now come on. We have to talk." Immediately, the faces of the girls turned grim. "Don't worry, it's not bad." He turned around and walked away. He took one look at Lucky, who hid under the sofa, and laughed. "Poor dog."
Hotaru tapped Usagi on the shoulder. "What happened last time you played the game?"
"Yeah. This sounds like it could be interesting." Rei stood up and began to make her way to the door, but she was dying to know what happened, which was the only thing keeping her in the room at that point.
Minako giggled. "We made him look pretty, but I don't think he thought it was very pretty. We put loads and loads of make-up on his face and two different colors of lipstick."
Usagi smiled as she remembered back to that day. "Yep. I tried to brush his hair but it wasn't cooperating so I just put it up in pig-tails."
"GIRLS!"
Usagi sighed as she stood up. "Coming mom! I guess we better go before mom has a fit again."
~*~*~
Once outside, the group of girls walked to Piccolo and Yamcha in wonder. The duo just stared back down at them, both groups were as curious as the other.
Piccolo nervously turned to Goku, wanting him to ask them if they would do it. He had no hopes of asking himself. Goku just replied with a frown to let him know that he wasn't going to bail him out of this one. He and Yamcha were completely on their own.
But before he could ask, Minako, curious as always, asked the first question. "So what was it that you all wanted to talk to us about?"
Piccolo cleared his throat in hopes to be able to persuade the young fighters. "Yes, well Yamcha and I," He wasn't even going to attempt to do this alone. If he was going down he was going to drag Yamcha right along with him. "Have a...request to ask of you girls. First off, we are interested in seeing your training style."
Makoto thought about that for a moment and took the initiative to speak out first. "Well that depends. When we're with Goku, we fight all out. But when we're alone, we fight in a playing style. It makes it twice as fun."
Piccolo let out a quiet growl. "You play?"
Rei frowned. "That's right. Got a problem with it?"
"No. No problem." 'Except for the fact that you don't learn anything when you play. But let it up to a kid and they're going to play.' "Would you mind showing us?"
The girls looked around to each other in confusion. They weren't sure why he would ask such a request. Ami turned to Piccolo with a frown of her own. "Why? You aren't planning on fighting us, are you?"
Coming to one ultimate realization, Usagi glared up at the green fighter. "You're trying to find a way for Mamoru to beat us, aren't you? You're just mad that he can't grab my tail anymore."
Piccolo scowled down at the young Saiyan and bent down to be face to face with her. "How dare you make such an accusation. I'm trying to reform Mamoru, not make him worse!"
Chi-Chi sighed as she dropped her head in annoyance. "Usagi, he's not trying to find a way to hurt you. He's just curious as to how you fight. Just do it!"
Usagi curled her nose up at her mother's request. 'Always having to yell at me in front of everyone.' "Fine, fine." She grinned as she looked back to Hotaru. "Hey, wanna do it?"
Hotaru nodded with excitement. "Of course I want to do it!"
'Good. Now they'll see how good Hotaru is.' "Ami? Wanna go up against Hotaru real quick?"
Ami smiled over at Hotaru as she nodded. "It would be my pleasure." She walked to Hotaru. "This is just like practice. Ignore the others and forget that this is a test."
Hotaru nodded. "Ok."
Ami grinned as she slapped Hotaru on her back. "Tag, you're it!" Now laughing, Ami leapt into the air.
Hotaru took flight after Ami. "Cheater!" Flying at half top speed, Hotaru managed to keep up, following Ami's aerial maneuvers with ease. Suddenly, Ami teleported away, followed by Hotaru. Both fighters were having the time of their life just having fun while training, as they always had.
Finally teleporting back, Ami launched a Ki attack at Hotaru. Hotaru dodged the blast and retaliated with her mightiest blast, which Ami deflected back at her with another one of her Ki attacks. Hotaru was careless and allowed the blast to hit her, but it didn't really seriously hit her for Ami didn't put all that much power into it.
Piccolo and Yamcha just stared up into the sky. They weren't surprised that Ami's skills were so great, but Hotaru's was spectacular. They had never seen such skill from a fighter with so little experience.
Although it may have seemed like Yamcha and Piccolo wanted to see their skill, what they were really interested in was seeing how much Hotaru had learned while training with the girls. They knew that Usagi would want to show of the girl's skills, which they used to their advantage. "Well I think I've seen enough to make my decision."
Usagi frowned as she turned to her mother with anger. "I thought you said they weren't plotting anything?"
Chi-Chi sighed. 'That girl is always so suspicious.' "I said they wouldn't try to hurt any of you, I never said they weren't plotting anything." She looked up into the air to the still fighting children. "Girls! Come on down now!" Panting for breath, both girls looked down to the ground at Chi-Chi and nodded.
Usagi turned to Piccolo to further her knowledge of what they might have wanted. She already knew that it had to do with fighting, that was pretty obvious. "So?"
Piccolo turned to Yamcha. "Don't look at me. I'm keeping my mouth shut. Remember? You want to do all the talking."
Piccolo frowned. 'I knew that would come back to bite me in the butt.' "Usagi, our students are having a problem learning how to treat people with respect. They have no respect for themselves either. They don't care about anyone or anything. When they fight, they do it to hurt people unlike you girls. You only do it for the fun of it, something they need to learn. We can't teach them any of this because they first have to respect themselves, which they definitely won't do if we keep losing out tempers with them, something we don't do. Also, they're having problems developing the extra skills you have. We were hoping you could teach them everything, how to respect life, how to fight with honor, how to acquire new skills. Everything."
The jaws of all six girls drop open all the way. Before two seconds are up the entire area is filled with the laughter of children. Usagi bent over from producing herself with too much pain of laughing, but she managed to look up a bit. Just enough to see Piccolo's face. "For a second there I thought you wanted me and the girls to teach Mamoru's gang. AHAHAHAHA."
Piccolo solemnly stared down at the uproarious girls. "We do."
All laughter stopped in a split second after hearing that. None of the girls knew what to say. Never in their lives had they heard of such a ridiculous idea. "Us? Train them?" Usagi squeaked. "I know I can't do it. We don't get along. We'll fight all the time."
"But, you have managed to train another in skills even I haven't mastered. I wish for them to advance, and as much as I hate to admit, they aren't under me."
Yamcha continued where Piccolo left off. "My students also need this training. For some reason I can't get them to surpass this stage. We'd really appreciate it if you did this for us."
Minako let her laughter over take her better judgment. "But you're also ADMITTING to the fact that you're kids are a bunch of bullies who are mean?"
Piccolo growled. "YES!"
"Eep!" Minako coward away from the fuming Namek.
"Hang on. Let my and my," Rei smirked as she looked around to her friends. "Colleagues discuss this and we'll get right back to you." The six girls walked away from the adults and formed a huddle. They bent over, threw their arms around each shoulders, and two tails stuck up and twitched with excitement.
Goku chuckled at the sight of the tails. "I think Usagi is having too much fun with another Saiyan kid around."
Piccolo sweat dropped as he got a feeling of doom in his heart. "Nevermind that. Those kids are dangerous when you get them thinking."
~*~*~
~~In the Huddle
"Are we really going to do this?" Minako turned to Usagi. She knew that when it came right down to it, it would be her decision that made it all final. She knew that Usagi would have a hard time trying to do something like this.
Usagi pondered over the idea. "It'd be a great way to finally bury the hatchet with them."
Rei had expected that to come from her Saiyan friend. "Maybe, but they're jerks, do we want to?"
"Yes, I'm tired of the fighting." 'I'm hungry.'
"Ok, we agree, some more then others, but lets do it." Makoto couldn't wait to dig into the Rat Pack. She couldn't wait to teach them how to act, it would embarrass them so much.
Usagi pulled back on Makoto, who was getting ready to leave the huddle. "Wait, first some ground rules."
Makoto groaned. She didn't want to waste anymore time, but she knew it was for the best. "Right, that way they can't pick on us."
"No calling me Odango anything. I'm sick of it."
Hotaru tried to think of something that had bothered her about that group. Because of her short history with them, she couldn't come up with anything much, but one idea did stick out in her head. "And they have to fight nice. No picking on others."
"Yeah, and they have follow our training, not theirs, I mean we are training them." Minako was overly amused by the fact that the Rat Pack would finally be under their control and there was nothing they could do about it.
Rei nodded. "Right. That seems about everything."
'Wait!' Usagi let her tail stand nearly straight up. A fact that had the adults in fear for their lives. "Wait a minute guys. If we do this, we should be paid for it. I mean, Yamcha is being paid by Dende to train them, why not us?"
Hotaru thought about the idea for a while. She knew she wanted it, she just didn't know what. "Well what do we want?"
Usagi gave an evil grin. She had already had something in mind. "How about, Piccolo and Yamcha taking us to Disney world in The USA, Florida when Summer Starts?"
Makoto thought of anything degrading that they could have done to the boys without being too harsh on them. "Yeah, and they have to come."
Ami went one of Makoto on this one, though. "Yeah, and make him wear those Mickey Mouse ears." The entire group laughed out at that one, which nearly made the adults faint.
Usagi smiled, half in pride. "AMI, I didn't know you had it in you. I guess you've finally learned how to have fun."
Ami blushed. "Yeah. Then we're agreed and we promise each other that we only do this if they comply." The other five nodded to their agreeing 'right'. "Ok then, disperse at once."
The girls twirled around and formed a line, with Ami and Usagi in the direct middle. All six girls had huge grins on their faces. Usagi looked around to her friends, who seemed to want her to tell the adults the 'good' news. "Alright, we'll do it." Piccolo and Yamcha began to look relieved, that is, until she began to speak again. "But only on a couple conditions."
Now more worried, they frowned at the girls. "What conditions?" Piccolo growled. 'Isn't it bad enough that they already got so much of my money?'
Usagi smiled, with a hint of a frown wanting to form. "No one calls me 'Odango' till we finish training. AT ALL! I'm tired of it and it's mean."
Piccolo considered it and decided that it was a reasonable request. "Agreed. What else."
"Second, we have a say on their training till they finish. We train differently then you and that may be one of the reasons they have problems."
Yamcha nodded at this. "Makes sense. Anything else?" Fear clutched both their hearts as the grins on the faces of the girls increased ten fold.
"One thing more. Since we're training them, and I know Yamcha was paid too. And Piccolo has a VERY big savings from his Kami days; we thought we should be paid for our work."
Chi-Chi frowned. "Usagi!"
Piccolo scowled down to the girls. If he only knew what awaited him, he wouldn't have agreed. "Fine, we'll pay you..."
Usagi interrupts, "We don't want money. We want you to take us to Disney World in America this summer. We've never been to America and we really want to see what it's like. We want you to have fun there. Plus Piccolo has to wear Mickey Mouse ears with us." She said the last statement full of laughter.
Piccolo's eyes bolted wide open. "WHAT!? NEVER!"
Yamcha; "Forget it kids, we won't do it."
Usagi cheekily grinned. "Sorry then, we promised ourselves that was the only way that we'd train them."
Growling, Piccolo snarled. "Fine we'll take you to DISNEY WORLD, but I won't wear ears. That has to me the stupidest thing you've thought of Usagi."
Looking thoughtful, she responded. "OK, fine then. But will you do Ami's idea then, since mine seems to upset you." 'The master of tricking people has struck again.'
Piccolo thought of sweet, kind Ami and nodded in agreement. "Fine. I will."
All of the girls, including the blushing Ami, began to laugh as loud and as hard as the possibly could. Makoto gasped between breaths and finally choked out the truth to Piccolo. "Great, it was Ami's idea for the ears."
Goku was now in on the laughter at the thought of Piccolo in Mouse ears. "She really got you good this time, Piccolo. When are you going to learn? Please promise to take me with you, I HAVE to see this."
Usagi walked to her laughing father, barely able to contain her own laughter. "Don't worry daddy, we'll take you with us."
'She's always gotta fool people. One of these days I'm going to get her back.' "FINE! I'll WEAR THE EARS, only if you will train them." He got a nodded from every single laughing child. "We'll bring them by tomorrow after school then."
"Ok, meet us here. See you then." Usagi dropped to the ground next to her laughing father. She still couldn't get over how easily she had tricked Piccolo and was still laughing up a lung.
Yamcha and Piccolo beat a hasty retreat. The cost had been higher then they thought It'd be, but at least their students would be able to learn something for once.
( Ok, there it is AGAIN. Another part. What did you think? Interesting, ne. The whole Disney World Mickey Mouse ears idea came from Comet Moon. Well, it's late. See ya later. Ja Ne )
After school on that Monday after the picnic, Usagi picked Hotaru up to continue her training with Goku. This time, Goku had a little more understanding of Hotaru, which meant that he wouldn't go so easy on her anymore. She was a Saiyan and could be treated as one, especially since she was already so far into her training as it was.
While Hotaru sparred with Goku in a field not too far from the house, Usagi sat, by the house, with her friends and watched Lucky as she chased a butterfly around the yard. They were in a state of almost pure sadness for one more day and Lucky would have to leave, Chi-Chi's rules. Lucky's recovery was coming along faster than any of the girls had hoped. Her foot was still injured, but she was able to walk on it none the less. Chi-Chi had decided that it was time for the puppy to move into a new house with a permanent family and that permanent family wasn't Hotaru, sadly. Her father had disagreed to every request to keep Lucky that Hotaru had produced. Though, it was all Kaori's influence over him. It seemed like every time Hotaru wanted something, Kaori felt that it was her job to make sure that it didn't happen.
Ami and Usagi were deep in conversation. Summer Vacation had crept up on the busy group and it seemed as though they only had a week left. In only two short days, they would be made to take a test to see if they passed into the next grade without taking summer courses, something that Usagi dreaded every year. "Ami I'm just not cuttin it anymore."
"Relax Usagi. You'll do fine on the test."
"No I won't. I'm probably going to barely pass the test just like I do every year. I know that music helps, but not enough. It only helps when I'm listening to it."
Ami sighed. "It's ok Usagi. You're just stressing yourself over nothing."
"No I'm not. Last year I got a C on the final test. My mom told me that if I come home with another C on my final test that I'm going to be grounded for the whole summer."
"Well I don't know if this will work for this year, but I know it will for next year."
Usagi curiously looked to Ami for whatever was on her mind. "What do you mean?"
"Well, maybe you just need a better understanding of music. It works for a lot of people. Maybe you should come down to the music school with me sometimes. You get to listen to all sorts of famous works played by amateur as well as professional players."
Usagi pondered over the thought of learning more about music to further help her in her studies. "Well...Maybe I will give it a try. You never know. But you're right, that's not going to help me for this summer. I'm going to get in much trouble." 'Maybe dad can help me out like he usually does. He's such a life saver.'
Makoto tilted her head to the side when she saw two pairs of feet walking towards their position. She brought her hand to her forehead to shelter her eyes from the shining sun. "Hey you guys." She could hear Lucky growling at the two visitors in the background.
Hearing her friend greet someone, Minako looked up in curiosity as to who it was that Makoto was talking to. "Piccolo. Yamcha. Hi!" She chirped.
Usagi looked away from her conversation with Ami and looked up to Yamcha and Piccolo. 'Why are they here?' She pushed herself forward a bit through the grass to see if there were any other unexpected visitors in their midst. "Where's Mamoru?"
Piccolo looked down to Usagi with a slight frown. "He's not here right now." 'I hope they agree to this.'
Usagi smiled. 'Great.' "Cool. So what brings you here? Are you here to spar with dad or something?"
Yamcha couldn't help but let out a chuckle. "Usagi, if I tried to spar with your dad I would probably be done for in just one hit. I haven't spared with him in years."
Usagi looked up to Piccolo with eyes of curiosity. "We're not here to spar. We are here to talk to your parents though."
Usagi gloomily stood up and brushed herself off. "Ok." She turned away from the group and walked into her house, motioning for the duo to follow as well as her friends.
Rei walked behind Piccolo and Yamcha and bent down to pick up Lucky. "Come on Lucky. Let's get you something to drink before you make yourself too hot with all of this exercise." She blew off the dirty looks she received from Piccolo and Yamcha and proceeded to follow her friends into the Sons' house.
Yamcha just looked over to Piccolo. "What a weird bunch of kids. They aren't even acting like their summer vacation is coming up in a week."
Piccolo shrugged as he followed the last of the kids inside. "They've always been extra strange, but we're not here to worry about their behavioral problems, we're here to discuss business with Goku and Chi-Chi. Just let me do most of the talking."
Usagi led Yamcha and Piccolo into the family room of her house and grabbed Minako and Ami by the arms. "Come on guys. While they talk, let's go to my room and play with Lucky." Before leaving the room she turned to address the duo again. "I'll go get my mom. Don't break anything or else she'll have a cow. Believe me, I've had lots of experience with that before." She turned back around and began pulling two of her friends down the hallway with the other two close behind to follow.
Yamcha chuckled as Lucky yelped halfway down the hallway. "Those kids really love that dog."
"Yeah, almost too much. They're babying it too much. I am in fear of what their kids are going to turn out like."
"Do you think Chi-Chi will let Usagi keep it here?"
Piccolo laughed out loud. "Not a chance."
~*~*~
Chi-Chi turned her attention upon her daughter and friends as they walked into the room on her right. She had previously been watching television, something that she had been trying to do all day, but was interrupted by the noisy bunch of girls entering the room. "Hold it right there. All of you. I thought I told you guys to go outside to play."
Usagi turned around to her mother, pouting. "Mom, it's hot outside and we're tired of playing out there. Besides, Piccolo and Yamcha are here. They want to talk to you and daddy."
Before Chi-Chi even had the slightest chance to respond to her daughter's whining of how hot it was, she let the fact that they had guests sink into her head. "Fine. Stay inside as long as you aren't loud." Without further words spoken between the two, Chi-Chi stood to her feet and left the room to greet the visitors."
~*~*~
Chi-Chi walked out into the family room half expecting to see everything out of place, but to her surprise, nothing was moved. Not a single item was broken or on the floor when it shouldn't have been. Yamcha and Piccolo were standing perfectly still. "Seems like you two behaved yourselves out here. To what do I owe this occasion?"
Yamcha cleared his throat as he looked up to Piccolo, who was ready to ask away. "We have a proposition for you two that we would like to discuss. Is Goku around?"
Chi-Chi sighed as she turned her head to the hallway. "Usagi!"
The sound of a door being ripped open was heard. "Yes?"
"Get your father!" She yelled. "It will be just a minute."
Usagi knew why her mother wanted her to go. It was because of her ability to perform instant transmission. But Usagi went one step higher than that. She opened up a small link to Hotaru instead of having to leave the house, even if it would have only been for a few minutes.
~*~*~
Hotaru didn't receive Usagi's message at first for she was too involved in a fight with Goku, one that she seemed to be losing.
Hotaru dodged a swift jab from Goku, who was fighting weaponless. With a quick retaliation, Hotaru jumped over his head and rammed the end of her staff into his back to keep him from turning around to see her. "Beat that."
Goku grinned as he pressed his fingers to his head and teleported to be just in front of Hotaru, who did the same as he had. "Smart. I see you're following Usagi's example and not holding still."
Just as Hotaru reappeared above Goku's head, Usagi's message had finally reached her. "Goku?"
Goku's fist went flying into the halted girl's chest, causing her to fly back. "Yes?" He let himself float to Hotaru and extended his hand to help her back to her feet.
"Usagi said that Chi-Chi wants you to come home because Piccolo and Yamcha want to talk to you guys." Hotaru lifted her hand and met it with Goku's, allowing herself to be helped up.
Goku looked in the direction of his house in much curiosity. He wondered what they could have possibly needed him back at the house for. "Ok. I guess we're done for the day then. Why don't we take you back to the house and then you can play with Lucky before she leaves tomorrow."
Hotaru's eyes grew heavy with sadness as she looked down at the ground. She so wished that they could have kept the puppy, but no one's parents would let them. "Ok."
Goku could feel the anxiety of tomorrow coming in Hotaru. He knew that the girls would all have a hard time with giving Lucky up and the truth of the matter was that he himself was getting somewhat attached to her, somewhat was the key word there, though. He still his doubts about her that he would have to get over before he actually let her get too close to him. "Come on. Let's run there for the last of our workout for the day."
Hotaru smiled as she looked up to Goku. "K!"
~*~*~
~~Ten minutes Later~~
Goku and Chi-Chi sat on one side of their family room as Piccolo and Yamcha sat on the other side. Both parties stared at each other with blank emotions, not knowing what to expect from each other. Yamcha coughed as he jabbed Piccolo in the side. He got a cold glare in response. "Fine already!"
Piccolo let his eyes glance over in the direction of Usagi's room, not wanting her to overhear anything that was going to be said. "We need to talk..."
"...about something major."
Piccolo shot another glare back at Yamcha, which got him to shut up. 'Damn annoying little pest.' "Now you've noticed more than the both of us that our kids don't exactly..."
"...See eye to eye with each other."
Piccolo stood up from his chair and violently lifted Yamcha up by his shirt. "Do you wish to tell them?!" Yamcha cowered away as Piccolo narrowed his eyes. "I'll take that as a 'no'. Don't interrupt me again!"
Goku chuckled when he saw the fearful face of Yamcha. "You're right. We would know about that. They've been going at it for years now. About three if I recall right."
Piccolo calmed himself as he sat down once again. He hoped that he wouldn't have to burst out like that again, especially since Usagi could hear things pretty well to begin with. "Yeah, it's been about that. Quite frankly, it's ridiculous and annoying."
Remembering back to the tournament, Chi-Chi frowned with near hate. "That boy has to be stopped! He's put my baby in too much pain. He nearly killed her for god's sake." She let her glare explain the fact that she was STILL unhappy that Piccolo just left her there to fend for herself.
Goku reached up and grabbed his wife by the shoulders. "Don't overwork yourself, Chi-Chi. It's done and over with." His expression turned more serious when he turned back to Piccolo and Yamcha. "I'm guess you want to do something about this?"
Piccolo nodded. "Precisely. We want our students to learn some respect, which they have none of. Now you know ever since you found out I was his father that I've been tying to tone his violent habits down but it didn't work. It did up to a certain point, but we all know how far that got. He corrupted Yamcha's students and as for Haruka and Michiru..."
"They've always been that way. Ever since they first met Usagi they've been picking on her." Goku looked down to his seething wife. "Calm down."
"That's what I thought. Well Yamcha and I were talking the other day. Ever since the tournament we've known that there we were going to have to do something about this problem. Ever since we saw the group laughing at Usagi when Mamoru was hurting her. And then on Saturday when Mamoru suggested that Usagi watch out for Hotaru's tail."
Goku grinned. He knew what this was coming to, but he knew his wife didn't have a clue as to what he was getting at. "And you want them to under-go some special training, correct?"
Piccolo nodded. "Yes."
Chi-Chi's face cheered up quick as a smile spread across it. "And you want my Goku to teach them? Right? Goku can get them to respect others just like he showed our kids."
Goku grinned and answered before Piccolo even had a chance to open his mouth. "Nope. They want Usagi to do it, don't you?" He turned to look at Piccolo and Yamcha for agreement.
Stunned, Piccolo nodded. "Ye...yeah, how did you know?"
Goku smirked. "Well you know as well as I do that my patience with those kids have grown too thin for mine and their own good. I wouldn't be able to put up with all the insults that they had to dish out."
"That's right. Yamcha and I were talking about that. We don't have patience for them either. That's one of the reasons why they act the way they do. It's all the know," Piccolo dropped his head a bit. "Sadly."
Yamcha decided it was his turn to get in his thoughts on all of this. "We want them to learn to respect others for who they are and not what they look like. We want them to learn to not pass judgment upon a person without getting to know them, something they seem to have a habit of doing. We've noticed that Usagi is one of the most forgiving people besides yourself, Goku."
Piccolo raised his head. "That's right. It seems that no matter what someone does, she always forgives them. I mean look at what happened with Gohan. After everything that he did to her she still forgave him."
Chi-Chi frowned. She definitely did NOT want to let her youngest train a bunch of low-lives like the Rat pack. They had done too much to Usagi for her to ever really trust them. "Absolutely not. She will not be training them. Who knows what they will try to do to her."
Goku, on the other hand, was a little more understanding. "Chi-Chi, this is the only way that it will work."
Chi-Chi turned from her husband in disgust. "And what makes you think that it will work."
"I'm confident that it WILL work. Maybe when they see that Usagi will forgive them for what they do, they'll begin to realize that their antics aren't the center of the universe."
"Well not only that, Goku," Yamcha eased forward in his chair when he heard a large thump coming from down the hall. "The kids?" He got a small nod from Chi-Chi. "Whew, I thought they were coming out here or something."
Chi-Chi frowned. "No, they're just playing in there. Honestly, they always have to make noise. They can't ever play civilly."
Yamcha chuckled at the thought of having a child. He had never actually gotten around to getting married, he more rather liked going out with women for a few months and then moving on. But that wasn't to be spoken of. "Well, on with business, Piccolo and I were thinking that maybe, just maybe when the kids see that Usagi forgives them for everything that they do, they will begin to follow her example and learn to respect others. We want her as well as her friends, to train them to fight fair, as you taught her Goku. We need her to do it because well, I've never seen her loose her temper before so I think she's the perfect candidate."
Goku had to force himself from bursting out with laughter over that little bit. "You think she doesn't loose her temper? She does, believe me. We almost had a few fights between her and her classmates when she was first going to school. But after a hard time of learning to control herself, I think she's finally over that. Now she just loses her temper over other things. But as far as hearts go, Usagi's your kid. I doubt she'll lose her temper with Mamoru and his friends if she hasn't already. Personally, I'm getting sick of his attitude, I don't think I would be able to do it."
Chi-Chi smiled as she stood up and stretched. "You're right Goku. All of you are right. After listening to why you think she should train them, I think it's a good idea. But you guys are missing the most important part of this training. I don't blame you. I mean, you're only men and you just don't see things as clearly as us women. Usagi and her friends will be able to learn just as much from Piccolo and Yamcha's students as they will from the girls. They will open each other's eyes up to other alternatives besides what they think. It will be good for both groups if you ask me." Chi-Chi paused long enough to give a quick glare at her husband. "But you have to have their permission before you go and make any decisions. We can't MAKE them train anyone of they don't want to."
Goku nodded. "I was just about to say that, dear."
Piccolo and Yamcha stood up at the same time and walked to the front door. "Goku, go get your kid and bring her outside, if you don't mind."
Yamcha turned to the parents of Usagi just before he followed Piccolo out. "Do something about Usagi. She's too glum for a kid. Summer Vacation's starting in a week. All of those kids are upset."
Chi-Chi let on a slight frown. But not at Yamcha, it was meant for herself. "They're just upset that they have to find Lucky a new home tomorrow."
Goku grabbed his wife by the shoulders and rested his chin on her shoulders. "Speaking of which, did you tell them yet?"
Chi-Chi smiled. "Not yet, but I plan to later."
Goku smiled, as well, as he walked back to his daughter's room and knocked on the door. "Girls?"
"Come in daddy."
Goku placed his hand on the door knob and turned it, allowing the door to be opened. He took one look around the room and realized that all six girls were on the floor with a distraught little puppy. "What are you doing to the poor thing?" In the center of the room sat Lucky with one of Usagi's doll's dresses on. On her head she wore a little hat that was also meant for a doll and on her feet she wore little doll socks.
Minako grinned as she looked up to Goku. "We're playing dress-up." She still very vividly remembered what had happened the last time they had played dress-up, when they had some how gotten Goku to play with them.
Usagi smiled up at her father. "Wanna play? We'll be the salon people and you can be the customer." She pulled her attention from Lucky, which allowed time for her to run out the room. "Lucky! Come back here!"
Goku pulled out of the room. "Now you keep that stuff away from you. Don't think I haven't forgotten what happened last time you tricked me into playing that. Nuh-uh. No way. I'm never playing that game again."
Minako drooped her lip as her own form of begging. "Aww...come on Goku. Don't you wanna play with us?"
Goku shook his head. "No. Never. Now come on. We have to talk." Immediately, the faces of the girls turned grim. "Don't worry, it's not bad." He turned around and walked away. He took one look at Lucky, who hid under the sofa, and laughed. "Poor dog."
Hotaru tapped Usagi on the shoulder. "What happened last time you played the game?"
"Yeah. This sounds like it could be interesting." Rei stood up and began to make her way to the door, but she was dying to know what happened, which was the only thing keeping her in the room at that point.
Minako giggled. "We made him look pretty, but I don't think he thought it was very pretty. We put loads and loads of make-up on his face and two different colors of lipstick."
Usagi smiled as she remembered back to that day. "Yep. I tried to brush his hair but it wasn't cooperating so I just put it up in pig-tails."
"GIRLS!"
Usagi sighed as she stood up. "Coming mom! I guess we better go before mom has a fit again."
~*~*~
Once outside, the group of girls walked to Piccolo and Yamcha in wonder. The duo just stared back down at them, both groups were as curious as the other.
Piccolo nervously turned to Goku, wanting him to ask them if they would do it. He had no hopes of asking himself. Goku just replied with a frown to let him know that he wasn't going to bail him out of this one. He and Yamcha were completely on their own.
But before he could ask, Minako, curious as always, asked the first question. "So what was it that you all wanted to talk to us about?"
Piccolo cleared his throat in hopes to be able to persuade the young fighters. "Yes, well Yamcha and I," He wasn't even going to attempt to do this alone. If he was going down he was going to drag Yamcha right along with him. "Have a...request to ask of you girls. First off, we are interested in seeing your training style."
Makoto thought about that for a moment and took the initiative to speak out first. "Well that depends. When we're with Goku, we fight all out. But when we're alone, we fight in a playing style. It makes it twice as fun."
Piccolo let out a quiet growl. "You play?"
Rei frowned. "That's right. Got a problem with it?"
"No. No problem." 'Except for the fact that you don't learn anything when you play. But let it up to a kid and they're going to play.' "Would you mind showing us?"
The girls looked around to each other in confusion. They weren't sure why he would ask such a request. Ami turned to Piccolo with a frown of her own. "Why? You aren't planning on fighting us, are you?"
Coming to one ultimate realization, Usagi glared up at the green fighter. "You're trying to find a way for Mamoru to beat us, aren't you? You're just mad that he can't grab my tail anymore."
Piccolo scowled down at the young Saiyan and bent down to be face to face with her. "How dare you make such an accusation. I'm trying to reform Mamoru, not make him worse!"
Chi-Chi sighed as she dropped her head in annoyance. "Usagi, he's not trying to find a way to hurt you. He's just curious as to how you fight. Just do it!"
Usagi curled her nose up at her mother's request. 'Always having to yell at me in front of everyone.' "Fine, fine." She grinned as she looked back to Hotaru. "Hey, wanna do it?"
Hotaru nodded with excitement. "Of course I want to do it!"
'Good. Now they'll see how good Hotaru is.' "Ami? Wanna go up against Hotaru real quick?"
Ami smiled over at Hotaru as she nodded. "It would be my pleasure." She walked to Hotaru. "This is just like practice. Ignore the others and forget that this is a test."
Hotaru nodded. "Ok."
Ami grinned as she slapped Hotaru on her back. "Tag, you're it!" Now laughing, Ami leapt into the air.
Hotaru took flight after Ami. "Cheater!" Flying at half top speed, Hotaru managed to keep up, following Ami's aerial maneuvers with ease. Suddenly, Ami teleported away, followed by Hotaru. Both fighters were having the time of their life just having fun while training, as they always had.
Finally teleporting back, Ami launched a Ki attack at Hotaru. Hotaru dodged the blast and retaliated with her mightiest blast, which Ami deflected back at her with another one of her Ki attacks. Hotaru was careless and allowed the blast to hit her, but it didn't really seriously hit her for Ami didn't put all that much power into it.
Piccolo and Yamcha just stared up into the sky. They weren't surprised that Ami's skills were so great, but Hotaru's was spectacular. They had never seen such skill from a fighter with so little experience.
Although it may have seemed like Yamcha and Piccolo wanted to see their skill, what they were really interested in was seeing how much Hotaru had learned while training with the girls. They knew that Usagi would want to show of the girl's skills, which they used to their advantage. "Well I think I've seen enough to make my decision."
Usagi frowned as she turned to her mother with anger. "I thought you said they weren't plotting anything?"
Chi-Chi sighed. 'That girl is always so suspicious.' "I said they wouldn't try to hurt any of you, I never said they weren't plotting anything." She looked up into the air to the still fighting children. "Girls! Come on down now!" Panting for breath, both girls looked down to the ground at Chi-Chi and nodded.
Usagi turned to Piccolo to further her knowledge of what they might have wanted. She already knew that it had to do with fighting, that was pretty obvious. "So?"
Piccolo turned to Yamcha. "Don't look at me. I'm keeping my mouth shut. Remember? You want to do all the talking."
Piccolo frowned. 'I knew that would come back to bite me in the butt.' "Usagi, our students are having a problem learning how to treat people with respect. They have no respect for themselves either. They don't care about anyone or anything. When they fight, they do it to hurt people unlike you girls. You only do it for the fun of it, something they need to learn. We can't teach them any of this because they first have to respect themselves, which they definitely won't do if we keep losing out tempers with them, something we don't do. Also, they're having problems developing the extra skills you have. We were hoping you could teach them everything, how to respect life, how to fight with honor, how to acquire new skills. Everything."
The jaws of all six girls drop open all the way. Before two seconds are up the entire area is filled with the laughter of children. Usagi bent over from producing herself with too much pain of laughing, but she managed to look up a bit. Just enough to see Piccolo's face. "For a second there I thought you wanted me and the girls to teach Mamoru's gang. AHAHAHAHA."
Piccolo solemnly stared down at the uproarious girls. "We do."
All laughter stopped in a split second after hearing that. None of the girls knew what to say. Never in their lives had they heard of such a ridiculous idea. "Us? Train them?" Usagi squeaked. "I know I can't do it. We don't get along. We'll fight all the time."
"But, you have managed to train another in skills even I haven't mastered. I wish for them to advance, and as much as I hate to admit, they aren't under me."
Yamcha continued where Piccolo left off. "My students also need this training. For some reason I can't get them to surpass this stage. We'd really appreciate it if you did this for us."
Minako let her laughter over take her better judgment. "But you're also ADMITTING to the fact that you're kids are a bunch of bullies who are mean?"
Piccolo growled. "YES!"
"Eep!" Minako coward away from the fuming Namek.
"Hang on. Let my and my," Rei smirked as she looked around to her friends. "Colleagues discuss this and we'll get right back to you." The six girls walked away from the adults and formed a huddle. They bent over, threw their arms around each shoulders, and two tails stuck up and twitched with excitement.
Goku chuckled at the sight of the tails. "I think Usagi is having too much fun with another Saiyan kid around."
Piccolo sweat dropped as he got a feeling of doom in his heart. "Nevermind that. Those kids are dangerous when you get them thinking."
~*~*~
~~In the Huddle
"Are we really going to do this?" Minako turned to Usagi. She knew that when it came right down to it, it would be her decision that made it all final. She knew that Usagi would have a hard time trying to do something like this.
Usagi pondered over the idea. "It'd be a great way to finally bury the hatchet with them."
Rei had expected that to come from her Saiyan friend. "Maybe, but they're jerks, do we want to?"
"Yes, I'm tired of the fighting." 'I'm hungry.'
"Ok, we agree, some more then others, but lets do it." Makoto couldn't wait to dig into the Rat Pack. She couldn't wait to teach them how to act, it would embarrass them so much.
Usagi pulled back on Makoto, who was getting ready to leave the huddle. "Wait, first some ground rules."
Makoto groaned. She didn't want to waste anymore time, but she knew it was for the best. "Right, that way they can't pick on us."
"No calling me Odango anything. I'm sick of it."
Hotaru tried to think of something that had bothered her about that group. Because of her short history with them, she couldn't come up with anything much, but one idea did stick out in her head. "And they have to fight nice. No picking on others."
"Yeah, and they have follow our training, not theirs, I mean we are training them." Minako was overly amused by the fact that the Rat Pack would finally be under their control and there was nothing they could do about it.
Rei nodded. "Right. That seems about everything."
'Wait!' Usagi let her tail stand nearly straight up. A fact that had the adults in fear for their lives. "Wait a minute guys. If we do this, we should be paid for it. I mean, Yamcha is being paid by Dende to train them, why not us?"
Hotaru thought about the idea for a while. She knew she wanted it, she just didn't know what. "Well what do we want?"
Usagi gave an evil grin. She had already had something in mind. "How about, Piccolo and Yamcha taking us to Disney world in The USA, Florida when Summer Starts?"
Makoto thought of anything degrading that they could have done to the boys without being too harsh on them. "Yeah, and they have to come."
Ami went one of Makoto on this one, though. "Yeah, and make him wear those Mickey Mouse ears." The entire group laughed out at that one, which nearly made the adults faint.
Usagi smiled, half in pride. "AMI, I didn't know you had it in you. I guess you've finally learned how to have fun."
Ami blushed. "Yeah. Then we're agreed and we promise each other that we only do this if they comply." The other five nodded to their agreeing 'right'. "Ok then, disperse at once."
The girls twirled around and formed a line, with Ami and Usagi in the direct middle. All six girls had huge grins on their faces. Usagi looked around to her friends, who seemed to want her to tell the adults the 'good' news. "Alright, we'll do it." Piccolo and Yamcha began to look relieved, that is, until she began to speak again. "But only on a couple conditions."
Now more worried, they frowned at the girls. "What conditions?" Piccolo growled. 'Isn't it bad enough that they already got so much of my money?'
Usagi smiled, with a hint of a frown wanting to form. "No one calls me 'Odango' till we finish training. AT ALL! I'm tired of it and it's mean."
Piccolo considered it and decided that it was a reasonable request. "Agreed. What else."
"Second, we have a say on their training till they finish. We train differently then you and that may be one of the reasons they have problems."
Yamcha nodded at this. "Makes sense. Anything else?" Fear clutched both their hearts as the grins on the faces of the girls increased ten fold.
"One thing more. Since we're training them, and I know Yamcha was paid too. And Piccolo has a VERY big savings from his Kami days; we thought we should be paid for our work."
Chi-Chi frowned. "Usagi!"
Piccolo scowled down to the girls. If he only knew what awaited him, he wouldn't have agreed. "Fine, we'll pay you..."
Usagi interrupts, "We don't want money. We want you to take us to Disney World in America this summer. We've never been to America and we really want to see what it's like. We want you to have fun there. Plus Piccolo has to wear Mickey Mouse ears with us." She said the last statement full of laughter.
Piccolo's eyes bolted wide open. "WHAT!? NEVER!"
Yamcha; "Forget it kids, we won't do it."
Usagi cheekily grinned. "Sorry then, we promised ourselves that was the only way that we'd train them."
Growling, Piccolo snarled. "Fine we'll take you to DISNEY WORLD, but I won't wear ears. That has to me the stupidest thing you've thought of Usagi."
Looking thoughtful, she responded. "OK, fine then. But will you do Ami's idea then, since mine seems to upset you." 'The master of tricking people has struck again.'
Piccolo thought of sweet, kind Ami and nodded in agreement. "Fine. I will."
All of the girls, including the blushing Ami, began to laugh as loud and as hard as the possibly could. Makoto gasped between breaths and finally choked out the truth to Piccolo. "Great, it was Ami's idea for the ears."
Goku was now in on the laughter at the thought of Piccolo in Mouse ears. "She really got you good this time, Piccolo. When are you going to learn? Please promise to take me with you, I HAVE to see this."
Usagi walked to her laughing father, barely able to contain her own laughter. "Don't worry daddy, we'll take you with us."
'She's always gotta fool people. One of these days I'm going to get her back.' "FINE! I'll WEAR THE EARS, only if you will train them." He got a nodded from every single laughing child. "We'll bring them by tomorrow after school then."
"Ok, meet us here. See you then." Usagi dropped to the ground next to her laughing father. She still couldn't get over how easily she had tricked Piccolo and was still laughing up a lung.
Yamcha and Piccolo beat a hasty retreat. The cost had been higher then they thought It'd be, but at least their students would be able to learn something for once.
( Ok, there it is AGAIN. Another part. What did you think? Interesting, ne. The whole Disney World Mickey Mouse ears idea came from Comet Moon. Well, it's late. See ya later. Ja Ne )