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After his meeting with Dende and Usagi in hand, Goku teleported directly home. He didn't even want to worry about flying home and having Usagi waking up on the way. He didn't know how long she would be out of it and he wanted to tell Chi-Chi what Dende had done to her power before the girl woke up, not to mention that he wanted Usagi to be home when she found out. He knew for sure that she would have a fit and most likely try to challenge him to yet another fight. A fight which he would surely turn down. He had already given her a fight, granted it wasn't a fair fight, but a fight nonetheless. He would permit no rematches, especially since she would be unable to protect herself from anything he through at her. His desire was not to harm his daughter, but to keep her safe instead.
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When Goku arrived home, Chi-Chi had already vacated the kitchen. He could hear her weeping at the back of the house in the living room. He had grown used to the sound of his wife crying over the last couple of days. After trying to calm her, he now knew why she had objected so much to fighting, why it had taken her so long to accept Usagi's fighting habits. He had actually learned something about his wife, something he should have taken the time to do long ago when Gohan had been born, but he had been young and reckless and had thought of nothing but his own pleasure, and to save his family in the process. The times that he had actually been home he had spent training. He hadn't spent nearly enough time getting to know the woman he had married. But now all that had changed. He was older now, and was more aware of what was going on around him.
Goku stepped into his home, still with Usagi over his shoulder. Until she woke up, he wouldn't leave her side. He wanted to be there when she did wake. He wanted Chi-Chi to be there when she woke. And when she did finally wake up, he wanted to discuss the day's events calmly and maturely, although he knew that wouldn't happen. Usagi was a child, and would act like one. Whatever she wanted she would surely voice for all to hear. And what she wanted, he didn't want to hear. He knew exactly what his daughter desired. She wanted nothing more than to be away from himself and Chi-Chi.
Remembering his earlier conversation with his daughter with a frown, he began walking forward, careful not to jog Usagi around too much. He kept quiet until he walked down the hallway and entered into the living room. It was mostly dark with only the dim light of the moon to fill it with light. He looked down at Chi-Chi, who had her face buried it back of the sofa. "Chi-Chi." He whispered quietly so as not to disturb the sleeping girl on his shoulder.
Chi-Chi wiped away her current tears as she looked up at her husband. Her face was more than red from all the crying she had done while Goku was away looking for her baby. She lay her eyes directly upon Usagi, who was still in her father's arms. She was able to say nothing. Instead, she let out a quiet shrill of happiness. Her daughter was now safe at home. For now, there would be peace. Peace, that is, until she awoke from her slumber. Then, the fighting would start all over and the quiet and calm house would become full of anger once again.
Goku walked around the sofa and pulled Usagi down from his shoulder. With care, he gently placed her next to her mother, making sure that he didn't touch any of her wounds. Even though she had skipped out on him earlier, he knew she had to be hurting from their fight, and not to mention the fight she had been involved in the day before. She had had it rough the past couple of days, half of it being brought upon herself.
Chi-Chi rubbed her hand through her daughter's long, golden hair with fresh tears forming in her eyes. She couldn't believe that this was happening. It couldn't be possible. All she had ever wanted in life was a daughter, and now that she finally had one, she was hated. Usagi had already disowned her father, which meant she was next. "It's all my fault..." She said with great remorse.
Goku sighed as he grabbed his wife by her arms and pulled her to her feet. He couldn't remember a time when he had heard such a lie. "No, it's not."
Chi-Chi wiped away the tears on her cheek as she looked up to her husband. "Isn't it, though?" She looked back down to her sleeping daughter, a small smile appearing on her lips. "She's so peaceful right now, isn't she?" She paused only but for a second, not even giving Goku a chance to reply. "But when she wakes up, she'll see us and become angry. She'll tell use how she hates us, like she did earlier." She looked up to her husband, quickly digging her face into his chest for comfort. "If we cause her so much pain, why are we even bringing her back to us? I don't want her to be unhappy, yet I make her unhappy every day! I've set too many rules, I don't give her enough freedom...
Goku gently squeezed Chi-Chi's waist as if to tell her to stop scolding herself. "Stop it! You didn't do anything. Usagi has no reason to be acting like this." He turned his attention down to his daughter with a frown. She truly had no reason to say what she had. He could take it, yes, but Chi-Chi had been through two children before who, although they cared about and loved their mother, never really took the time to show it. They had always been more interested in fighting. While Usagi, who was equally interested in fighting, also showed that she loved and cared about her mother. After raising Gohan and Goten both, Goku could hardly blame Chi-Chi for her emotional distress over Usagi.
Chi-Chi frowned as she dug her nails into Goku's arms. "She does, Goku." She pulled her face away from him chest to look into his eyes. "She has every reason to be angry at me. You've heard the way she gets annoyed whenever I yell at her. You think I don't hear what she says under her breath? I've been trying, Goku, I really have. I try not to get as angry, and I try not to yell and scream whenever something goes wrong."
Goku pulled his wife further away from the sofa and sat her down on the coffee table. He too, then proceeded to sit next to her, still with an arm wrapped around her shoulder. This had been the drill over the past two days. "Chi-Chi, come on, you're losing it. It's ok to yell, but not to the degree that you were for all those years. You've been doing a lot better the last couple of years. And no, Usagi has no right to be mad at you. I was thinking earlier, about all this. At first, I thought the same thing as you, that it must have been something we did. But then I realized, nothing we could have done could have called for Usagi's attitude."
Chi-Chi couldn't disagree with that. Usagi had been out of hand. "That's true." She said with a nod.
Goku couldn't help but smile at that. "Exactly. Usagi was in the wrong here. And then, she ran off against our deal. All she's doing is digging herself in a whole deeper than she can jump out of."
Chi-Chi sniffled as she turned her head to look at her daughter. Even though what Goku was telling her made sense, she still couldn't help but thing that it was something that she had done or said. "I'm glad one of us was thinking while you were gone. I was too upset to."
Goku pulled his wife closer. "Don't worry, Chi-Chi, I think I'm starting to understand what you've been going through all these years, you know, thinking that your kid hates your guts."
Chi-Chi sighed as she leaned her head on Goku's shoulder. "Welcome to my world, Goku, welcome to my world."
The room grew silent as the two parents just sat and watched their child. There was no telling when she would finally wake up, nor what she would do when she did. They both feared that something horrible would happen, that Usagi would end up getting herself hurt again. But the anxiety of this was worse for Goku as he knew what he had done to her. He knew that she was powerless.
Feeling somewhat cleansed of her stress, and becoming more angry than upset, Chi-Chi couldn't help but wonder where Goku had found Usagi. After all, he was out for nearly an hour looking for her. "Goku, where did you find her?"
Goku looked down at his wife. He wore and expression on his face that told Chi-Chi that he didn't really want to tell her, for she would be angry. But he knew he had to. She had a right to know. She especially had a right to know what he had Dende do. "Downtown."
Chi-Chi's eyes widened at the sound of that. She had always warned Usagi against the dangers of downtown at night. Usagi knew better than to go down there, but of course, Usagi was a rebel now, why would she listen to her mother? "What?! Downtown?! What in the world was she doing downtown?"
Goku frowned as he remembered the situation that he had found his daughter in. He didn't know what would have happened if he hadn't shown up to retrieve her. Either her attackers would have been killed in an instant, or she would have allowed herself to become spoiled, and that was something he didn't even want to think about. "Just getting herself into some trouble, what else?" He knew he should have told Chi-Chi what really happened, but she had already been through too much. That was a weight he would have to bear alone.
Chi-Chi sighed from her stress as she stood up. "My baby is a rebel." She turned back to Goku with a look of concern. "What are we going to do with her? She's violent, and can't be trusted right now. She's got all that power, and too much anger, not a good combination."
Goku frowned to himself as he too stood up and towered over his daughter, who was still knocked out and lying on the sofa. He still wasn't too happy with his actions, but it was the only thing he could think of at the time. "Don't worry about that."
Chi-Chi frowned. "Have you gone crazy, Goku? I WILL worry about it. She's dangerous." She yelled as she pointed down to the girl.
Goku cleared his throat with a rising anger. "I realize that. But, as I was talking to Dende, and yes, I went to Dende's after I found Usagi to ask about the broach, he offered to put a temporary block on her power."
Chi-Chi crossed her arms across her chest, though not in anger. More in fascination than anything. "A block? What kind?"
"Nothing too big. All it does is keep her from using her power so she won't hurt anyone. This means she can't challenge me to another fight, which in turn means I won't have to hurt her again. And she won't be able to hurt anyone anymore, well, not too badly."
Chi-Chi smiled as she looked down at her daughter once again. That sounded like an ok deal to her. That was the one major thing she had thought of when she was waiting for Goku to return home. She had been thrown around by Usagi earlier, which had sparked the thought. She didn't want Usagi running loose with that kind of power, the power to hurt others. "No, now she'll just be like Haruka was before she was trained in the art of Ki."
Goku groaned as he threw his head back. He hadn't thought of that, but there really wasn't any way to stop that. Her friends would keep her in mind. Hopefully they hadn't gone nuts too. "I wonder if the others know about this."
Chi-Chi shook her head with a shrug of the shoulders. "I don't know. I hope they do, yet, I hope they don't. I would like to think that they would tell us about any strange and rude behavior, then again, they could be this way too..." Goku and Chi-Chi were surprised to hear a groan of pain arise from their daughter at that moment. Both immediately stopped their conversation and looked down at Usagi for the last time.
Usagi groaned yet again as she lifted her arm and placed her hand up by her face in order to push herself up from her sleeping position. She felt horrible, and after being dropped by Tatsuo and knocked out by both Tatsuo and Goku, who wouldn't be?
Next to move were her eyes, which opened to see virtually nothing. It was too dark to really see anything. The only thing her eyes picked up were shadows, and those were to her side. With blurred vision, she looked to her side to see what exactly she was noticing, only to find it was the shadow of her parents.
Goku pushed Chi-Chi slightly behind him as if to cover her from an attack. He didn't want Usagi to lash out in anger and hit Chi-Chi. If anyone would be hit, it would be him. He would be able to deal with her quick and easy, whereas Chi-Chi would go through an emotional surge before she did anything.
Chi-Chi's breathing increased by the second. She watched Usagi push herself into a sitting position as she tried to push against Goku's force, but he wouldn't allow her to move any closer. Her own pain and stress had long since passed and now she was ready to dig into her daughter, which probably wasn't the safest thing in the world, but she didn't much care at that moment. The more she thought over what Goku had said, the more she believed him. I was true, Usagi had no right to act the way she had and should be punished for it, even though she was already grounded by Goku's orders, which Chi-Chi still couldn't believe.
Usagi said nothing at first. She was fully aware of who knocked her out last, which naturally made her a little weary of her father as he stood there before her. Instead of bursting out with words, she rubbed her neck, which was the sorest area of body at the moment. That was where both Tatsuo and her father had knocked her out at. She was certain her father had a reason for doin what he had, and she was interested in finding out what the reasoning was. It may have been her punishment for staying out so late and being downtown, but then again, he had told her to shut up with giving her a chance to explain. In anyway, her father's actions were strange and she must have been in the wrong or else he wouldn't have hit her.
Goku stood still as he continued to watch his daughter. She didn't seem to be reacting the way he had expected. She was acting more like a normal person, but he knew it had to be fake. She had already tricked him once earlier that day and now he wouldn't fall for it again. It would take time for her to gain his trust again.
Usagi rubbed her neck as she watched her father carefully. He and her mother just seemed to be starring down at her as they were not moving. Since the room was darker than usual, she couldn't quite make out the frowns they wore, which was probably better for her own sanity.
She slowly let go of her neck and dropped her arm to her side, her muscles aching with every movement. Her back ached the most after her neck, so sitting up only caused more pain. In response to her growing pain, Usagi moved to the side of the sofa and leaned into the cushioned arm. With a sigh, and still looking up at her parents, she decided it was time to speak. "What was all that about?" She whined to her father.
Goku gritted his teeth as he pulled Chi-Chi to the opposite end of the sofa. He wanted to keep his distance from Usagi for a while to show her he still wasn't all buddy-buddy with her. Not that she would care, she had already disowned him as her father. "Why don't you tell me?"
Usagi turned her head on its side in confusion. "Huh? What are you talking about, daddy? You're the one who hit me."
Goku frowned as he let go of Chi-Chi's wrist, but still held his arm out to prevent her from coming forward. "Oh so NOW you want to acknowledge me as your father now that you've lost?" He lifted one of his feet and rested it on the coffee table as he leaned his upper body forward toward Usagi. "I've got news for you, little girl, it ain't gonna work."
Usagi gasped with a shock. That definitely wasn't the response she had been expecting to come from him. He acted as if knocking her out wasn't even important. "What? I always knew you were my dad, and have always acknowledged it."
Goku rested his free arm on his knee to become more comfortable. "Bull Crap!"
Usagi flinched as she closed her eyes in fear. Never in her life had her father swore at her. Her heart sped up at that point. She didn't know what her father was going to do, but she knew one thing, she was afraid of him at that point. He had already knocked her out once, she knew he wouldn't hesitate again. "Daddy..."
"Shut up!" He growled as he pulled his leg down to the floor and walked to stand before his daughter. He looked directly down at her, this time with the light in his face. Usagi was able to read his expression quite easily now. "You may be able to prance around and tell people who love you that you hate them without a second thought, but you better be able to deal with the consequences! According to you, I am NOT your father, or are you changing that too?!" His voice was all sarcasm as he lowered his face down to be level with Usagi's. He knew he was scaring her, and that was the point. After her display of attitude she almost deserved it. But, what he didn't know was that she didn't understand.
Usagi shook her head with tears forming in her eyes. She pulled herself as far into the corner of her seat as she could with her legs pressed up against her chest. She had never been talked to like this in her entire life by any of her family, even Gohan hadn't spoken to her quite like this. "I don't know what you're talking about..."
Chi-Chi frowned as she clenched her fists with anger. Goku wasn't able to stop her from coming fourth anymore now that he had left her side. "Son Usagi," She began to scold, "Or have you disowned that name too?"
Usagi wiped away her tears as her attention was taken away from her father and put on her mother. "What are you talking about? I never disowned anyone..."
Chi-Chi growled loudly as she turned up to her husband, who was preparing for another verbal attack. "You hear that? She's denying what happened." She looked back down at her daughter, who was pushing herself even further into the corner of the sofa. "First you come home LATE and then you tell us how you hate us! Then you hit your father!" She reached up and grabbed Goku by the face and brought him even further into the light to show Usagi the large gash on his face. "You, yes YOU did this! You can't deny it, young lady!"
Usagi looked at the gash in horror. She had no recollection of hitting her father, probably because she hadn't. She had been knocked out the entire afternoon. She could remember it well. She had come out of school with her friends and had been kidnapped by Tatsuo.
Usagi plugged her ears and lowered her face into her knees. "I didn't do anything! It wasn't me! I was knocked out!" She lifted her face again, this time with a trail of tears running down her cheeks. She felt no single trace of anger in her mind. How could she? Her parents hated her. It was obvious they did, otherwise they wouldn't be yelling at her like this.
Goku glared at his daughter as he placed one hand on the arm of the sofa and his other hand on the back. He then proceeded to lean in toward his daughter who was sliding herself even further down. But Goku didn't stop until he was face to face with Usagi, their foreheads almost touching. "All you're doing is digging yourself deeper and deeper into trouble with every lie you tell."
The tears flowed out faster at that point as Usagi's heart raced within her chest. This was getting too weird for her. She was too emotionally weak when it came to her parents. They had always been her support, her guidance, and now they were turning on her for an unknown reason. "I'm not lying daddy, I promise."
Goku growled as he pressed his forehead against Usagi's. "Bull!"
Usagi rolled into a ball to the best of her ability. "Why would I lie?!"
Goku dug his finger tips into the sofa to keep from flying off the handle completely. "Because you lost! You took off, were found, and now you're trying to act innocent so you won't get in trouble. Well I've got some news for you, it's not gonna work! You may have tricked me once, but it WON'T happen again, I guarantee it!" He glanced back at his wife who didn't seem to care about his actions. "If you EVER try this crap again, I can promise you that you won't be able to walk away without help."
Usagi truly had no idea what her father was talking about. She couldn't remember anything that had been mentioned, which meant she either had amnesia, or it hadn't happen. And she knew she didn't have the first list because she could remember who she was and who she was talking to. She gulped at the threat, something she had never had to deal with before from him. "I didn't do anything! I swear! Tatsuo knocked me out today. Ask my friends! They saw me get kidnapped by him. Or, at least, they saw me get taken away."
Chi-Chi gazed down at her hysterical daughter, and for a moment felt sorry for the child. But her sympathy was soon drawn away by the thought of what took place earlier. "Tatsuo? Tatsuo is just a kid. He has nothing to do with this. Don't bring others into this, young lady! You know what you've done wrong and now it's time to take responsibility for your actions! Your father beat you in the fight today, which means you have to continue living here under our rules! We may have been lax on our rules lately, but that won't EVER happen again! From now on it's our way or punishment!"
"But it was Tatsuo!" Usagi yelled back, still face to face with her now intimidating father.
Goku pulled back and slapped his daughter, though not hard enough to cause any real damage. It was meant to serve more as a warning than to hurt. "I'm sick of all your damn lies! You can't try to play this off, kid! We all three know what happened today! You were completely out of line!"
Usagi raised her hand to her stinging cheek while she kept her eyes planted firmly on her father. She had no idea what he was talking about. "I'm not lying. I know I was lying about..."
Goku cut his daughter short. "I know you were lying too, young lady! And I thought that was bad enough! Then you come running in here, LATE, and going off on how you HATE us!" Goku stuck his hand into his pocket.
Usagi looked up at her mother, who was staring at her with an equal frown. It was official. Both of her parents hated her. Her father hand swore at her, AND hit her. Her mother, well, her mother always had a habit of yelling but Usually when her father yelled, her mother calmed him down. But not now. Now they were both against her. "I don't hate you."
Chi-Chi pushed her husband aside and glared at her crying daughter. But Goku cut her off before she said anything. "That's not what you said earlier. You said, and I quote, 'I hate you, I hate you, Goku, I hate you!'."
Chi-Chi crossed her arms over her chest. "You SAID that to your FATHER?!"
Goku grinned. Time to play a little hardball. Usagi would learn what it meant to go against one's family. "No, Chi-Chi, she said it to me. Her father wasn't around." He added sarcastically.
Usagi was speechless. Now she knew for sure she hadn't said anything of the sort. She had never called her father Goku, she had never disowned him, and she had never said she hated him. Where was this coming from? Had she somehow tripped into an alternate dimension where Usagi was evil?
She once again dug her nose into her knees with tears flowing faster than ever. Her heart rate had sped up tremendously along with her breathing. "Why are you guys being so mean to me?"
Goku looked down at Chi-Chi, who looked up at him. "Well, Chi-Chi? What do you think? We bein mean to her? Cause I don't think we're bein mean to her?"
Chi-Chi shook her head. "Nah. Not in the least, Goku. We're just telling the truth." She glared back down at her daughter. "Don't give us a reason to be mean to you. Don't think that just because you're our daughter that we're going to take it easy on you after the way you treated us today. Fair is fair."
Usagi rolled her eyes. "I thought I wasn't your daughter." She said sarcastically. And at that point, she was truly beginning to think that she had no parents, that they had turned their back on her.
Goku frowned. "Watch it! You're the one who appointed that."
Usagi looked up into her father's eyes, which had been brought away from the lighting again. "No I didn't!" Nothing was said as she looked down at the floor. Silence reigned the room as she remembered back to all the fights that had taken place in this room, in this house even. There had been so many that she had lost count, but she did know for sure that none of them compared to the magnitude of this one. And in all of the fights preceding this, at least one of her parents had been on her side.
Sighing in confusion, she looked back up at her father. "I'm sorry I lied to you about the broach. But I'm not lying about this. I really didn't do anything you say I did."
Goku crossed his arms. "You give me no reason to believe you. One, because you DID lie about the broach, and two, because I SAW YOU, I FOUGHT YOU. I was THERE!"
Usagi flinched back at the harshness of his reply. She had nothing left to say in her defense. It was obvious that her parents were going to believe what they wanted. They say they were there, but she knew she was knocked out. She knew she had seen Tatsuo knock her out and steal her broach. Speaking of which, he must have had it. Her heart sped up even further than before as she began panicking even more. As if it wasn't bad enough that her parents hated her, now she had to deal Tatsuo owning her broach.
Goku and Chi-Chi shared a nod, resulting in Goku pulling a small item out of his pocket. Usagi perked her head in interest at the silver shine that the broach made in the dim light of the moon. Could that have been it? Could her father have gotten her broach back? She leaned even closer to her father, something she wasn't comfortable doing at that point, but if it meant getting back what was hers, she was it.
Chi-Chi watched her daughter closely and examined that she was seeming too interested in what Goku was holding. By the expression on Usagi's face it HAD to have been something of GREAT value to her, and maybe the new enemy too.
Usagi got one quick glance at the entire item and immediately knew what it was. "MY BROACH! HOW DID YOU GET THAT" She yelled out. And before she knew it, her excitement had gotten the best of her. She jumped up from her seat and lunged for her father and the broach.
Goku, thinking that Usagi was ready to attack, reached out and pushed Usagi to the ground. "Hold it!"
Usagi failed to listen to her father. Her will to retrieve what was hers was too great to be contained. She jumped for her father again. "Give it!"
Seeing that Usagi was more after the broach than an attack, he held it up high above his head where Usagi couldn't get to it. "Get down!" He scolded as Usagi ran into him trying to get a hold of it.
Usagi didn't listen to her father yet again. Instead, she jumped up over and over to try and grab the item out of his hand, but, for some reason, her bounce just wasn't there. "It's mine! Give it to me!"
Goku ignored his daughter for a moment and looked up at his wife. He didn't know what to do. And he didn't know what Chi-Chi wanted to do. He didn't know if he should ask his child what it was now, or wait until later. In any way it would have to be asked. Better sooner than later. He looked back down to the little rabbit like girl with a frown. He once again pushed her away. "Stop it! First you have to answer my questions."
Usagi fell backwards onto her butt and glared up at her father. She let out a loud groan. She knew for sure this wouldn't be good. "What?"
Goku smiled at his daughter sarcastically. "What is this thing and where did you get it?"
Usagi frowned. "I told you where I got it. It was a gift. Now give it to me!"
Chi-Chi frowned. "You're not in a position to be making demands right now, little lady!"
Goku brought the broach down to his face with a slight frown. "Dende says it could be at least a few hundred years old." He looked down at his daughter. "Now who would give you, a mere child, such an item?"
Usagi didn't like the sound of that question. What was more, she didn't like the fact that he had consulted Dende. That could have ruined her cover as Sailor Moon, what with him being god of the earth and all. "I don't know."
Chi-Chi snorted as she sat on the edge of the sofa. "Well wouldn't you? You're the one who received it..."
Goku was in a full frown again. "Unless you stole it."
Usagi gasped at her father's accusation. "I don't need to be sitting here and listening to this. I may be a liar, but I'm NOT a thief and you KNOW it."
Goku smirked. "Well, I thought I knew you before today but with your recent, and outrageous behavior, I guess I don't. Now tell me what this is? I know the enemy wants it. It's got to be something important."
Usagi had had enough of this. Her parents can turn against her and hate her all they like, but they do NOT mess with Sailor Moon. Sailor Moon was the only thing that could destroy Beryl, who knew what other kind of enemies would show up. If only she could have told them... "I can't say! I won't say!"
Goku frowned as he put the broach back into his pocket. "Fine then. It'll just stay with me until you decide when you WILL tell me."
Usagi jumped to her feet with an angry frown. "Give it to me!" Goku crossed his arms as he shook his head, but said nothing. This only caused Usagi to become angrier. "IT'S MINE!" She cried out as she jumped for her father while trying to raise her power level for a power hit. But her power fell short of being something magnificent. Instead of hurting her father, she barely tickled him.
At that point, Goku was happy that he had gotten rid of Usagi's ability to use her power. She was still dangerous, no matter how you looked at it. "Your act of innocence has just been erased by your violent actions, kid."
Chi-Chi sarcastically shook her head. "Bad, bad, bad."
Usagi dropped to one knee in even more confusion. She looked at her hands not knowing what to say or how to act. "What... what happened?" She lowered her head in distress. This entire situation was taking too much out of her.
Goku, too, kneeled and looked Usagi in the eye. "We didn't want what happened earlier to happen again so I had Dende block your power for a while, and I will continue to keep it blocked until you act like a normal human being."
Usagi slowly raised her head. And where Goku had expected anger was nothing but a little girl in pain. She had broken down for the night. Her parents hated her, they took away all sources of power, even Sailor Moon. What was she to do now? How would she defend herself if Tatsuo attacked her now? How would she explain this to her friends? She still needed them to explain where she was during the earlier part of the day. "Daddy..."
Goku frowned. "Don't 'boo-hoo daddy' me, young lady. You've dug yourself too deep to get that to work on me. I'm not going to be tricked again, I told you that already." Looking down at his daughter, Goku had to force himself not to break down and pulled her close to him. He had a feeling that that she would just lash out at him like she had earlier. He had to constantly remind himself of what she had done and why she deserved this.
Usagi stopped looking at her father and lay down on the floor. She was too unhappy to go on any further. She just wanted to curl up and be erased from all existence. Her life had been lived in vain so far.
Goku sighed as he stood up and picked up Usagi. She was like a dead weight, not even struggling to free herself from his hold. In all truth, she was just happy to have some kind of contact with him, even if it wasn't loving contact. It was all the same to her. He walked her to her room and dropped her on her bed as softly as he could. She didn't seem to move at all. If he had been anyone else, he would have been fooled by her performance, but he wasn't. He knew what was going on. Before he walked out of her room, he turned back to look at her. "You're still grounded until I say otherwise." With that, he turned around and walked away from her for the night. He left the door open to make sure she didn't try anything funny like jumping out the window or anything.
Usagi only half heard her father's words, but she didn't really care. Her life as she knew it was over. Something had happened while she was away. Although she wasn't sure what exactly, she knew it was something horrible. But now, it didn't matter. She was to live with the consequences. She was left to cry about it all night.
( DONE! Ok, no more chapters until Sunday or Monday. I didn't know I'd be so busy this week, but I'm preparing for a small quartet performance for Saturday for band and I've been staying after school till six every night, except tonight, to get ready for it. Sorry. Anyway, so what did you think? Well, See ya Sunday or Monday! )
After his meeting with Dende and Usagi in hand, Goku teleported directly home. He didn't even want to worry about flying home and having Usagi waking up on the way. He didn't know how long she would be out of it and he wanted to tell Chi-Chi what Dende had done to her power before the girl woke up, not to mention that he wanted Usagi to be home when she found out. He knew for sure that she would have a fit and most likely try to challenge him to yet another fight. A fight which he would surely turn down. He had already given her a fight, granted it wasn't a fair fight, but a fight nonetheless. He would permit no rematches, especially since she would be unable to protect herself from anything he through at her. His desire was not to harm his daughter, but to keep her safe instead.
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When Goku arrived home, Chi-Chi had already vacated the kitchen. He could hear her weeping at the back of the house in the living room. He had grown used to the sound of his wife crying over the last couple of days. After trying to calm her, he now knew why she had objected so much to fighting, why it had taken her so long to accept Usagi's fighting habits. He had actually learned something about his wife, something he should have taken the time to do long ago when Gohan had been born, but he had been young and reckless and had thought of nothing but his own pleasure, and to save his family in the process. The times that he had actually been home he had spent training. He hadn't spent nearly enough time getting to know the woman he had married. But now all that had changed. He was older now, and was more aware of what was going on around him.
Goku stepped into his home, still with Usagi over his shoulder. Until she woke up, he wouldn't leave her side. He wanted to be there when she did wake. He wanted Chi-Chi to be there when she woke. And when she did finally wake up, he wanted to discuss the day's events calmly and maturely, although he knew that wouldn't happen. Usagi was a child, and would act like one. Whatever she wanted she would surely voice for all to hear. And what she wanted, he didn't want to hear. He knew exactly what his daughter desired. She wanted nothing more than to be away from himself and Chi-Chi.
Remembering his earlier conversation with his daughter with a frown, he began walking forward, careful not to jog Usagi around too much. He kept quiet until he walked down the hallway and entered into the living room. It was mostly dark with only the dim light of the moon to fill it with light. He looked down at Chi-Chi, who had her face buried it back of the sofa. "Chi-Chi." He whispered quietly so as not to disturb the sleeping girl on his shoulder.
Chi-Chi wiped away her current tears as she looked up at her husband. Her face was more than red from all the crying she had done while Goku was away looking for her baby. She lay her eyes directly upon Usagi, who was still in her father's arms. She was able to say nothing. Instead, she let out a quiet shrill of happiness. Her daughter was now safe at home. For now, there would be peace. Peace, that is, until she awoke from her slumber. Then, the fighting would start all over and the quiet and calm house would become full of anger once again.
Goku walked around the sofa and pulled Usagi down from his shoulder. With care, he gently placed her next to her mother, making sure that he didn't touch any of her wounds. Even though she had skipped out on him earlier, he knew she had to be hurting from their fight, and not to mention the fight she had been involved in the day before. She had had it rough the past couple of days, half of it being brought upon herself.
Chi-Chi rubbed her hand through her daughter's long, golden hair with fresh tears forming in her eyes. She couldn't believe that this was happening. It couldn't be possible. All she had ever wanted in life was a daughter, and now that she finally had one, she was hated. Usagi had already disowned her father, which meant she was next. "It's all my fault..." She said with great remorse.
Goku sighed as he grabbed his wife by her arms and pulled her to her feet. He couldn't remember a time when he had heard such a lie. "No, it's not."
Chi-Chi wiped away the tears on her cheek as she looked up to her husband. "Isn't it, though?" She looked back down to her sleeping daughter, a small smile appearing on her lips. "She's so peaceful right now, isn't she?" She paused only but for a second, not even giving Goku a chance to reply. "But when she wakes up, she'll see us and become angry. She'll tell use how she hates us, like she did earlier." She looked up to her husband, quickly digging her face into his chest for comfort. "If we cause her so much pain, why are we even bringing her back to us? I don't want her to be unhappy, yet I make her unhappy every day! I've set too many rules, I don't give her enough freedom...
Goku gently squeezed Chi-Chi's waist as if to tell her to stop scolding herself. "Stop it! You didn't do anything. Usagi has no reason to be acting like this." He turned his attention down to his daughter with a frown. She truly had no reason to say what she had. He could take it, yes, but Chi-Chi had been through two children before who, although they cared about and loved their mother, never really took the time to show it. They had always been more interested in fighting. While Usagi, who was equally interested in fighting, also showed that she loved and cared about her mother. After raising Gohan and Goten both, Goku could hardly blame Chi-Chi for her emotional distress over Usagi.
Chi-Chi frowned as she dug her nails into Goku's arms. "She does, Goku." She pulled her face away from him chest to look into his eyes. "She has every reason to be angry at me. You've heard the way she gets annoyed whenever I yell at her. You think I don't hear what she says under her breath? I've been trying, Goku, I really have. I try not to get as angry, and I try not to yell and scream whenever something goes wrong."
Goku pulled his wife further away from the sofa and sat her down on the coffee table. He too, then proceeded to sit next to her, still with an arm wrapped around her shoulder. This had been the drill over the past two days. "Chi-Chi, come on, you're losing it. It's ok to yell, but not to the degree that you were for all those years. You've been doing a lot better the last couple of years. And no, Usagi has no right to be mad at you. I was thinking earlier, about all this. At first, I thought the same thing as you, that it must have been something we did. But then I realized, nothing we could have done could have called for Usagi's attitude."
Chi-Chi couldn't disagree with that. Usagi had been out of hand. "That's true." She said with a nod.
Goku couldn't help but smile at that. "Exactly. Usagi was in the wrong here. And then, she ran off against our deal. All she's doing is digging herself in a whole deeper than she can jump out of."
Chi-Chi sniffled as she turned her head to look at her daughter. Even though what Goku was telling her made sense, she still couldn't help but thing that it was something that she had done or said. "I'm glad one of us was thinking while you were gone. I was too upset to."
Goku pulled his wife closer. "Don't worry, Chi-Chi, I think I'm starting to understand what you've been going through all these years, you know, thinking that your kid hates your guts."
Chi-Chi sighed as she leaned her head on Goku's shoulder. "Welcome to my world, Goku, welcome to my world."
The room grew silent as the two parents just sat and watched their child. There was no telling when she would finally wake up, nor what she would do when she did. They both feared that something horrible would happen, that Usagi would end up getting herself hurt again. But the anxiety of this was worse for Goku as he knew what he had done to her. He knew that she was powerless.
Feeling somewhat cleansed of her stress, and becoming more angry than upset, Chi-Chi couldn't help but wonder where Goku had found Usagi. After all, he was out for nearly an hour looking for her. "Goku, where did you find her?"
Goku looked down at his wife. He wore and expression on his face that told Chi-Chi that he didn't really want to tell her, for she would be angry. But he knew he had to. She had a right to know. She especially had a right to know what he had Dende do. "Downtown."
Chi-Chi's eyes widened at the sound of that. She had always warned Usagi against the dangers of downtown at night. Usagi knew better than to go down there, but of course, Usagi was a rebel now, why would she listen to her mother? "What?! Downtown?! What in the world was she doing downtown?"
Goku frowned as he remembered the situation that he had found his daughter in. He didn't know what would have happened if he hadn't shown up to retrieve her. Either her attackers would have been killed in an instant, or she would have allowed herself to become spoiled, and that was something he didn't even want to think about. "Just getting herself into some trouble, what else?" He knew he should have told Chi-Chi what really happened, but she had already been through too much. That was a weight he would have to bear alone.
Chi-Chi sighed from her stress as she stood up. "My baby is a rebel." She turned back to Goku with a look of concern. "What are we going to do with her? She's violent, and can't be trusted right now. She's got all that power, and too much anger, not a good combination."
Goku frowned to himself as he too stood up and towered over his daughter, who was still knocked out and lying on the sofa. He still wasn't too happy with his actions, but it was the only thing he could think of at the time. "Don't worry about that."
Chi-Chi frowned. "Have you gone crazy, Goku? I WILL worry about it. She's dangerous." She yelled as she pointed down to the girl.
Goku cleared his throat with a rising anger. "I realize that. But, as I was talking to Dende, and yes, I went to Dende's after I found Usagi to ask about the broach, he offered to put a temporary block on her power."
Chi-Chi crossed her arms across her chest, though not in anger. More in fascination than anything. "A block? What kind?"
"Nothing too big. All it does is keep her from using her power so she won't hurt anyone. This means she can't challenge me to another fight, which in turn means I won't have to hurt her again. And she won't be able to hurt anyone anymore, well, not too badly."
Chi-Chi smiled as she looked down at her daughter once again. That sounded like an ok deal to her. That was the one major thing she had thought of when she was waiting for Goku to return home. She had been thrown around by Usagi earlier, which had sparked the thought. She didn't want Usagi running loose with that kind of power, the power to hurt others. "No, now she'll just be like Haruka was before she was trained in the art of Ki."
Goku groaned as he threw his head back. He hadn't thought of that, but there really wasn't any way to stop that. Her friends would keep her in mind. Hopefully they hadn't gone nuts too. "I wonder if the others know about this."
Chi-Chi shook her head with a shrug of the shoulders. "I don't know. I hope they do, yet, I hope they don't. I would like to think that they would tell us about any strange and rude behavior, then again, they could be this way too..." Goku and Chi-Chi were surprised to hear a groan of pain arise from their daughter at that moment. Both immediately stopped their conversation and looked down at Usagi for the last time.
Usagi groaned yet again as she lifted her arm and placed her hand up by her face in order to push herself up from her sleeping position. She felt horrible, and after being dropped by Tatsuo and knocked out by both Tatsuo and Goku, who wouldn't be?
Next to move were her eyes, which opened to see virtually nothing. It was too dark to really see anything. The only thing her eyes picked up were shadows, and those were to her side. With blurred vision, she looked to her side to see what exactly she was noticing, only to find it was the shadow of her parents.
Goku pushed Chi-Chi slightly behind him as if to cover her from an attack. He didn't want Usagi to lash out in anger and hit Chi-Chi. If anyone would be hit, it would be him. He would be able to deal with her quick and easy, whereas Chi-Chi would go through an emotional surge before she did anything.
Chi-Chi's breathing increased by the second. She watched Usagi push herself into a sitting position as she tried to push against Goku's force, but he wouldn't allow her to move any closer. Her own pain and stress had long since passed and now she was ready to dig into her daughter, which probably wasn't the safest thing in the world, but she didn't much care at that moment. The more she thought over what Goku had said, the more she believed him. I was true, Usagi had no right to act the way she had and should be punished for it, even though she was already grounded by Goku's orders, which Chi-Chi still couldn't believe.
Usagi said nothing at first. She was fully aware of who knocked her out last, which naturally made her a little weary of her father as he stood there before her. Instead of bursting out with words, she rubbed her neck, which was the sorest area of body at the moment. That was where both Tatsuo and her father had knocked her out at. She was certain her father had a reason for doin what he had, and she was interested in finding out what the reasoning was. It may have been her punishment for staying out so late and being downtown, but then again, he had told her to shut up with giving her a chance to explain. In anyway, her father's actions were strange and she must have been in the wrong or else he wouldn't have hit her.
Goku stood still as he continued to watch his daughter. She didn't seem to be reacting the way he had expected. She was acting more like a normal person, but he knew it had to be fake. She had already tricked him once earlier that day and now he wouldn't fall for it again. It would take time for her to gain his trust again.
Usagi rubbed her neck as she watched her father carefully. He and her mother just seemed to be starring down at her as they were not moving. Since the room was darker than usual, she couldn't quite make out the frowns they wore, which was probably better for her own sanity.
She slowly let go of her neck and dropped her arm to her side, her muscles aching with every movement. Her back ached the most after her neck, so sitting up only caused more pain. In response to her growing pain, Usagi moved to the side of the sofa and leaned into the cushioned arm. With a sigh, and still looking up at her parents, she decided it was time to speak. "What was all that about?" She whined to her father.
Goku gritted his teeth as he pulled Chi-Chi to the opposite end of the sofa. He wanted to keep his distance from Usagi for a while to show her he still wasn't all buddy-buddy with her. Not that she would care, she had already disowned him as her father. "Why don't you tell me?"
Usagi turned her head on its side in confusion. "Huh? What are you talking about, daddy? You're the one who hit me."
Goku frowned as he let go of Chi-Chi's wrist, but still held his arm out to prevent her from coming forward. "Oh so NOW you want to acknowledge me as your father now that you've lost?" He lifted one of his feet and rested it on the coffee table as he leaned his upper body forward toward Usagi. "I've got news for you, little girl, it ain't gonna work."
Usagi gasped with a shock. That definitely wasn't the response she had been expecting to come from him. He acted as if knocking her out wasn't even important. "What? I always knew you were my dad, and have always acknowledged it."
Goku rested his free arm on his knee to become more comfortable. "Bull Crap!"
Usagi flinched as she closed her eyes in fear. Never in her life had her father swore at her. Her heart sped up at that point. She didn't know what her father was going to do, but she knew one thing, she was afraid of him at that point. He had already knocked her out once, she knew he wouldn't hesitate again. "Daddy..."
"Shut up!" He growled as he pulled his leg down to the floor and walked to stand before his daughter. He looked directly down at her, this time with the light in his face. Usagi was able to read his expression quite easily now. "You may be able to prance around and tell people who love you that you hate them without a second thought, but you better be able to deal with the consequences! According to you, I am NOT your father, or are you changing that too?!" His voice was all sarcasm as he lowered his face down to be level with Usagi's. He knew he was scaring her, and that was the point. After her display of attitude she almost deserved it. But, what he didn't know was that she didn't understand.
Usagi shook her head with tears forming in her eyes. She pulled herself as far into the corner of her seat as she could with her legs pressed up against her chest. She had never been talked to like this in her entire life by any of her family, even Gohan hadn't spoken to her quite like this. "I don't know what you're talking about..."
Chi-Chi frowned as she clenched her fists with anger. Goku wasn't able to stop her from coming fourth anymore now that he had left her side. "Son Usagi," She began to scold, "Or have you disowned that name too?"
Usagi wiped away her tears as her attention was taken away from her father and put on her mother. "What are you talking about? I never disowned anyone..."
Chi-Chi growled loudly as she turned up to her husband, who was preparing for another verbal attack. "You hear that? She's denying what happened." She looked back down at her daughter, who was pushing herself even further into the corner of the sofa. "First you come home LATE and then you tell us how you hate us! Then you hit your father!" She reached up and grabbed Goku by the face and brought him even further into the light to show Usagi the large gash on his face. "You, yes YOU did this! You can't deny it, young lady!"
Usagi looked at the gash in horror. She had no recollection of hitting her father, probably because she hadn't. She had been knocked out the entire afternoon. She could remember it well. She had come out of school with her friends and had been kidnapped by Tatsuo.
Usagi plugged her ears and lowered her face into her knees. "I didn't do anything! It wasn't me! I was knocked out!" She lifted her face again, this time with a trail of tears running down her cheeks. She felt no single trace of anger in her mind. How could she? Her parents hated her. It was obvious they did, otherwise they wouldn't be yelling at her like this.
Goku glared at his daughter as he placed one hand on the arm of the sofa and his other hand on the back. He then proceeded to lean in toward his daughter who was sliding herself even further down. But Goku didn't stop until he was face to face with Usagi, their foreheads almost touching. "All you're doing is digging yourself deeper and deeper into trouble with every lie you tell."
The tears flowed out faster at that point as Usagi's heart raced within her chest. This was getting too weird for her. She was too emotionally weak when it came to her parents. They had always been her support, her guidance, and now they were turning on her for an unknown reason. "I'm not lying daddy, I promise."
Goku growled as he pressed his forehead against Usagi's. "Bull!"
Usagi rolled into a ball to the best of her ability. "Why would I lie?!"
Goku dug his finger tips into the sofa to keep from flying off the handle completely. "Because you lost! You took off, were found, and now you're trying to act innocent so you won't get in trouble. Well I've got some news for you, it's not gonna work! You may have tricked me once, but it WON'T happen again, I guarantee it!" He glanced back at his wife who didn't seem to care about his actions. "If you EVER try this crap again, I can promise you that you won't be able to walk away without help."
Usagi truly had no idea what her father was talking about. She couldn't remember anything that had been mentioned, which meant she either had amnesia, or it hadn't happen. And she knew she didn't have the first list because she could remember who she was and who she was talking to. She gulped at the threat, something she had never had to deal with before from him. "I didn't do anything! I swear! Tatsuo knocked me out today. Ask my friends! They saw me get kidnapped by him. Or, at least, they saw me get taken away."
Chi-Chi gazed down at her hysterical daughter, and for a moment felt sorry for the child. But her sympathy was soon drawn away by the thought of what took place earlier. "Tatsuo? Tatsuo is just a kid. He has nothing to do with this. Don't bring others into this, young lady! You know what you've done wrong and now it's time to take responsibility for your actions! Your father beat you in the fight today, which means you have to continue living here under our rules! We may have been lax on our rules lately, but that won't EVER happen again! From now on it's our way or punishment!"
"But it was Tatsuo!" Usagi yelled back, still face to face with her now intimidating father.
Goku pulled back and slapped his daughter, though not hard enough to cause any real damage. It was meant to serve more as a warning than to hurt. "I'm sick of all your damn lies! You can't try to play this off, kid! We all three know what happened today! You were completely out of line!"
Usagi raised her hand to her stinging cheek while she kept her eyes planted firmly on her father. She had no idea what he was talking about. "I'm not lying. I know I was lying about..."
Goku cut his daughter short. "I know you were lying too, young lady! And I thought that was bad enough! Then you come running in here, LATE, and going off on how you HATE us!" Goku stuck his hand into his pocket.
Usagi looked up at her mother, who was staring at her with an equal frown. It was official. Both of her parents hated her. Her father hand swore at her, AND hit her. Her mother, well, her mother always had a habit of yelling but Usually when her father yelled, her mother calmed him down. But not now. Now they were both against her. "I don't hate you."
Chi-Chi pushed her husband aside and glared at her crying daughter. But Goku cut her off before she said anything. "That's not what you said earlier. You said, and I quote, 'I hate you, I hate you, Goku, I hate you!'."
Chi-Chi crossed her arms over her chest. "You SAID that to your FATHER?!"
Goku grinned. Time to play a little hardball. Usagi would learn what it meant to go against one's family. "No, Chi-Chi, she said it to me. Her father wasn't around." He added sarcastically.
Usagi was speechless. Now she knew for sure she hadn't said anything of the sort. She had never called her father Goku, she had never disowned him, and she had never said she hated him. Where was this coming from? Had she somehow tripped into an alternate dimension where Usagi was evil?
She once again dug her nose into her knees with tears flowing faster than ever. Her heart rate had sped up tremendously along with her breathing. "Why are you guys being so mean to me?"
Goku looked down at Chi-Chi, who looked up at him. "Well, Chi-Chi? What do you think? We bein mean to her? Cause I don't think we're bein mean to her?"
Chi-Chi shook her head. "Nah. Not in the least, Goku. We're just telling the truth." She glared back down at her daughter. "Don't give us a reason to be mean to you. Don't think that just because you're our daughter that we're going to take it easy on you after the way you treated us today. Fair is fair."
Usagi rolled her eyes. "I thought I wasn't your daughter." She said sarcastically. And at that point, she was truly beginning to think that she had no parents, that they had turned their back on her.
Goku frowned. "Watch it! You're the one who appointed that."
Usagi looked up into her father's eyes, which had been brought away from the lighting again. "No I didn't!" Nothing was said as she looked down at the floor. Silence reigned the room as she remembered back to all the fights that had taken place in this room, in this house even. There had been so many that she had lost count, but she did know for sure that none of them compared to the magnitude of this one. And in all of the fights preceding this, at least one of her parents had been on her side.
Sighing in confusion, she looked back up at her father. "I'm sorry I lied to you about the broach. But I'm not lying about this. I really didn't do anything you say I did."
Goku crossed his arms. "You give me no reason to believe you. One, because you DID lie about the broach, and two, because I SAW YOU, I FOUGHT YOU. I was THERE!"
Usagi flinched back at the harshness of his reply. She had nothing left to say in her defense. It was obvious that her parents were going to believe what they wanted. They say they were there, but she knew she was knocked out. She knew she had seen Tatsuo knock her out and steal her broach. Speaking of which, he must have had it. Her heart sped up even further than before as she began panicking even more. As if it wasn't bad enough that her parents hated her, now she had to deal Tatsuo owning her broach.
Goku and Chi-Chi shared a nod, resulting in Goku pulling a small item out of his pocket. Usagi perked her head in interest at the silver shine that the broach made in the dim light of the moon. Could that have been it? Could her father have gotten her broach back? She leaned even closer to her father, something she wasn't comfortable doing at that point, but if it meant getting back what was hers, she was it.
Chi-Chi watched her daughter closely and examined that she was seeming too interested in what Goku was holding. By the expression on Usagi's face it HAD to have been something of GREAT value to her, and maybe the new enemy too.
Usagi got one quick glance at the entire item and immediately knew what it was. "MY BROACH! HOW DID YOU GET THAT" She yelled out. And before she knew it, her excitement had gotten the best of her. She jumped up from her seat and lunged for her father and the broach.
Goku, thinking that Usagi was ready to attack, reached out and pushed Usagi to the ground. "Hold it!"
Usagi failed to listen to her father. Her will to retrieve what was hers was too great to be contained. She jumped for her father again. "Give it!"
Seeing that Usagi was more after the broach than an attack, he held it up high above his head where Usagi couldn't get to it. "Get down!" He scolded as Usagi ran into him trying to get a hold of it.
Usagi didn't listen to her father yet again. Instead, she jumped up over and over to try and grab the item out of his hand, but, for some reason, her bounce just wasn't there. "It's mine! Give it to me!"
Goku ignored his daughter for a moment and looked up at his wife. He didn't know what to do. And he didn't know what Chi-Chi wanted to do. He didn't know if he should ask his child what it was now, or wait until later. In any way it would have to be asked. Better sooner than later. He looked back down to the little rabbit like girl with a frown. He once again pushed her away. "Stop it! First you have to answer my questions."
Usagi fell backwards onto her butt and glared up at her father. She let out a loud groan. She knew for sure this wouldn't be good. "What?"
Goku smiled at his daughter sarcastically. "What is this thing and where did you get it?"
Usagi frowned. "I told you where I got it. It was a gift. Now give it to me!"
Chi-Chi frowned. "You're not in a position to be making demands right now, little lady!"
Goku brought the broach down to his face with a slight frown. "Dende says it could be at least a few hundred years old." He looked down at his daughter. "Now who would give you, a mere child, such an item?"
Usagi didn't like the sound of that question. What was more, she didn't like the fact that he had consulted Dende. That could have ruined her cover as Sailor Moon, what with him being god of the earth and all. "I don't know."
Chi-Chi snorted as she sat on the edge of the sofa. "Well wouldn't you? You're the one who received it..."
Goku was in a full frown again. "Unless you stole it."
Usagi gasped at her father's accusation. "I don't need to be sitting here and listening to this. I may be a liar, but I'm NOT a thief and you KNOW it."
Goku smirked. "Well, I thought I knew you before today but with your recent, and outrageous behavior, I guess I don't. Now tell me what this is? I know the enemy wants it. It's got to be something important."
Usagi had had enough of this. Her parents can turn against her and hate her all they like, but they do NOT mess with Sailor Moon. Sailor Moon was the only thing that could destroy Beryl, who knew what other kind of enemies would show up. If only she could have told them... "I can't say! I won't say!"
Goku frowned as he put the broach back into his pocket. "Fine then. It'll just stay with me until you decide when you WILL tell me."
Usagi jumped to her feet with an angry frown. "Give it to me!" Goku crossed his arms as he shook his head, but said nothing. This only caused Usagi to become angrier. "IT'S MINE!" She cried out as she jumped for her father while trying to raise her power level for a power hit. But her power fell short of being something magnificent. Instead of hurting her father, she barely tickled him.
At that point, Goku was happy that he had gotten rid of Usagi's ability to use her power. She was still dangerous, no matter how you looked at it. "Your act of innocence has just been erased by your violent actions, kid."
Chi-Chi sarcastically shook her head. "Bad, bad, bad."
Usagi dropped to one knee in even more confusion. She looked at her hands not knowing what to say or how to act. "What... what happened?" She lowered her head in distress. This entire situation was taking too much out of her.
Goku, too, kneeled and looked Usagi in the eye. "We didn't want what happened earlier to happen again so I had Dende block your power for a while, and I will continue to keep it blocked until you act like a normal human being."
Usagi slowly raised her head. And where Goku had expected anger was nothing but a little girl in pain. She had broken down for the night. Her parents hated her, they took away all sources of power, even Sailor Moon. What was she to do now? How would she defend herself if Tatsuo attacked her now? How would she explain this to her friends? She still needed them to explain where she was during the earlier part of the day. "Daddy..."
Goku frowned. "Don't 'boo-hoo daddy' me, young lady. You've dug yourself too deep to get that to work on me. I'm not going to be tricked again, I told you that already." Looking down at his daughter, Goku had to force himself not to break down and pulled her close to him. He had a feeling that that she would just lash out at him like she had earlier. He had to constantly remind himself of what she had done and why she deserved this.
Usagi stopped looking at her father and lay down on the floor. She was too unhappy to go on any further. She just wanted to curl up and be erased from all existence. Her life had been lived in vain so far.
Goku sighed as he stood up and picked up Usagi. She was like a dead weight, not even struggling to free herself from his hold. In all truth, she was just happy to have some kind of contact with him, even if it wasn't loving contact. It was all the same to her. He walked her to her room and dropped her on her bed as softly as he could. She didn't seem to move at all. If he had been anyone else, he would have been fooled by her performance, but he wasn't. He knew what was going on. Before he walked out of her room, he turned back to look at her. "You're still grounded until I say otherwise." With that, he turned around and walked away from her for the night. He left the door open to make sure she didn't try anything funny like jumping out the window or anything.
Usagi only half heard her father's words, but she didn't really care. Her life as she knew it was over. Something had happened while she was away. Although she wasn't sure what exactly, she knew it was something horrible. But now, it didn't matter. She was to live with the consequences. She was left to cry about it all night.
( DONE! Ok, no more chapters until Sunday or Monday. I didn't know I'd be so busy this week, but I'm preparing for a small quartet performance for Saturday for band and I've been staying after school till six every night, except tonight, to get ready for it. Sorry. Anyway, so what did you think? Well, See ya Sunday or Monday! )