Loss

By Chichigal

Thanks for the great reviews! I hope the second chapter will be anything like the first!

I am fully aware that I don't own any of the Dragonball Z characters, etc…(Sigh. Too bad)

Chapter 2

After half an hour of chatting, the old friends had sat at a large table in the kitchen to eat the large buffet set up for the small Reunion. Goku stared at the food, with a look of absolute hunger in his eyes, while the young boy beside him mirrored his expression.

Krillen couldn't help but laugh at the sight the pair made, as the two quickly dug into the food. Goku like usual was as quickly and messy as possible, while the young boy ate a little more well-mannered, but nether the less not far from his fathers way of eating, the two looked like a pack of hungry wolves, ripping at their food.

There was no question about it; the boy was definitely Goku's son. They looked like one another, they both ate like pigs, and he even had a… tail.

Krillen's mind went back to when Goku had his tail, and grinned at the memory of when Goku had lost it. Then he looked at Gohan's tail and his eyebrow lifted in thought.

'Was it normal for human's to have tails?'

'Is Goku even… human?'

Krillen cautiously looked at his friend briefly, who was chewing on a chicken leg happily, then Krillen shook his head in denial, silently chuckled to himself from the obscene thought.

'Goku an alien!'

'Yeah right! Well maybe...'

The table suddenly jolted, when Goku jumped to a fighting stance, an expression of worry on his food soiled face.

"There's a large ki, heading here!"

The Gang of friends all stood up quickly, and left to go outside to see who was this uninvited visitor.



Raditz grin widened as he approached a small island where one of the large ki's were. The largest ki he had first followed was a namek in the middle of meditation. He was shocked at the least at seeing a Namek on this mudball of a planet, but left the green man with a small gift before leaving in search of Kakkarot. He grinned in remembrance, at the shocked expression the Namek wore, when he had deflected his attack easily, then sent a ki blast back, sending him careening into a mountain.

He then slowed to a halt, and drifted down to the sandy beach, gracefully, and grinned almost evilly at the familiar looking young man in an orange gi. He was standing in a fighting pose, ready to defend against any attack committed on his friends.

Goku looked at the tall mans features cautiously; almost remembering something that was buried deep in his mind. He shook off the weird feeling of déjà vu, and glared at the tall, longhaired warrior warningly.

"Do I know you?"

A scowl appeared on Raditz's face at this, but he didn't move into a fighting pose. But instead looked at Goku with interest, the grin appearing on his face once again.

"Don't you remember your own big brother, Kakkarot?"

Everyone but Raditz and Goku gasped in shock at this statement, and puzzlement filled them with Goku's reaction. Goku wasn't that shocked with this new trail of events, because deep down in his heart, he knew it was true, and he was indeed his brother.

The fact he had a tail swinging back and forth was further proof, and there was clearly a resemblance between the two. But either way, he was still weary of the man posing as his brother, and stayed in his fighting stance.

"I only came for a little chat, Brother." Explained Raditz in a disbelieving voice.

Goku dropped out of his fighting stance, his arms crossed across his chest, and a scowl covered his face.

"For some reason, I don't believe you. What do you want?"

Raditz walked a step closer to his tense brother, smiling menacingly, and Goku quickly jumped back into a fighting pose.

"I want to know why you haven't carried out your mission, little brother?"

End of Chapter 2

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