Bubun: Juuhachi

Nin, or rather Hitomi, stared at the group with hollow eyes and a cruel smile. She hid her frustration and anger through this smile. She was pretty pissed off that Gohan was touching her Trunks and that the stupid redhead who she now inhabited had almost killed her.

She had dragged Hitomi through her into Nins' subconscious, but Nin lost. So now she still had a body and could still kill Trunks' killer, a man by the name of Ronald living somewhere in India.

All Hitomi had to do right now was get rid of Gohan and ultimately, Kokoro.

"Let's finish this shall we?" Hitomi suggested in a voice that was far too happy.

"Stop this fucking madness! It's crazy Hitomi!" Kokoro yelled walking over to the Yume Mi. "You're possessing yourself with your own anger!"

Hitomi took a look at her father, scowled and him and them slapped the man. His face looked to his right, but he seemed to be uninjured.

"I will fight you if I have to," Kokoro said silently.

Hitomi gave out a cruel laugh.

"You? Fight me!?!" Hitomi said and continued laughing. "You baka! I'm stronger than you now! I'm stronger then everyone!"

"You think you can beat me Hitomi?" Kokoro asked and looked back at her. "You are my flesh and blood. You came from me. I know you better than anyone else! I know your movements before you do! And if I want, you can't lay one finger on me."

Enraged Hitomi swung out to punch her father, and to prove his point, Hitomis' fist went right through her almost taking her off balance. Then Kokoro brought his hand up and hit the back of her neck, she fell to the floor.

"You dirty son of a bitch!" Hitomi yelled and tried to tackle her father, but she flew right through. "I knew you would turn on me…"

"Me turn on you!?!" Kokoro yelled enraged. "Let me tell you something Hitomi! I was willing to let you kill Goten, Marron and even Vegeta, but you stepped over the line."

Gohan listened on in curiosity and confusion. Maybe he would find out why Kokoro made all the choices he had.

"You're such a fucking hypocrite! You say you care for every living thing and then say you'll let me kill? Of course this isn't true because now you say I can't!" Hitomi yelled and tried kicking him; he disappeared in the shadows and appeared behind her kicking her in the spin sending her on the floor.

"I'm no hypocrite Hitomi."

"Yes you are!" Hitomi said on her feet again, tears almost rimmed her eyes. "You say you love Kaasan! Then you hate her! You say you love me! Then you hate me! In truth the only person you love is yourself!"

"Everything I did, I did for a reason!" Kokoro said trying to defend himself, but he was quickly loosing ground.

"Yeah! For yourself!" Hitomi said, and in distress kicked Kokoro in the stomach, he doubled over in pain, his breath knocked out of him.

"No…" Kokoro mumbled. "I never did anything for myself…"

"Liar!" Hitomi yelled and kicked him again, this time in the chin sending him backwards.

"Kokoro!" Gohan yelled and wondered if like when Bulma died, he wanted to loose. Maybe all this time Kokoro simply had a death wish.

"I hope you rot in hell!" Hitomi yelled picking Kokoro up by his shirt collar.

"Everything I ever did was for you and your Kaasan," Kokoro mumbled out.

"Shut up!" Hitomi yelled and threw him to the floor.

"And then when you both betrayed me," Kokoro yelled getting kicked in the head. "I turned to the people I was sworn to protect."

Hitomi kicked him in the stomach. How could he sprout these lies? Her eyes were slowly filling with tears. How could he make her so sad? It wasn't fair.

"Because unlike you two," another kick to the gut, "they never betrayed me, or anyone."

Hitomi went to kick him again, but found her foot went clean through. She snarled by the fact that he was finally fighting back, but no matter. As he stood up she put her hands together as in prayer.

Gohan smiled a bit, Kokoro was finally getting back in the fight. He knew he didn't stand a chance without the katana. Goku was stronger than him and he… hadn't won. Nin had tried and lost, and now it was up to Kokoro.

Hitomi took a step back and closed her eyes concentrating. She could beat her father easily, there was still a bit of her mother in her after all. Hitomi chanted a few words and then threw her extended palm out at him.

Kokoro shielded his eyes as light emerged and surrounded him, but he felt no effect on his body. So he continued to walk towards her.

"This body may not be as strong as Trunks," Hitomi said, her smirk returning to her. "But she's a lot more in tune with the spiritual world, and so I can use my own powers better."

Kokoro just shrugged her message off and when she swung at him didn't bother to duck, he knew the punch would just go straight‑

The punch impacted and Kokoro found himself flying towards the wall.

"How?" Kokoro asked after he had impacted.

"You're little fucking trick won't work against me, not until the sun comes up, Tousan," Hitomi said and began laughing again.

Gohan was about to jump in there and grab Kokoro, all they had to do was wait until the morning and then Kokoro could easily win against her, however, it was then when Trunks decided to find the strength to talk again.

"Gohan…" He mumbled up, Gohan looked down at him with worried eyes. "We have to save him…"

"Save Kokoro?" Gohan asked a bit confused.

Trunks shook his head. "No… Hitomi wants to kill… him…"

"Who's him?"

"My other father…" Trunks replied. He didn't know how to make it make sense.

"Other father?" Gohan asked confused, and then looked up as he head Kokoro scream.

Hitomi was kicking him over and over before he could even get off the floor. If there was one thing he knew about this girl, it was that she hated fair fights.

"Look Trunks, I'll go help your other father soon enough," Gohan said, hoping later he'd get a better story out of him. "But first I've got to go save Kokoro."

Gohan then gently put Trunks back on the floor and flew over to Hitomi as fast as he could, once he got there he pushed Hitomi off of Kokoro sending her sailing through a couple walls and almost right out of the warehouse.

"Are you ok Kokoro?" Gohan asked crouching by the man.

Kokoro looked up and smiled. "I'm alive… but we have to get out of here."

Gohan nodded and picked him up, he then got back over to Trunks as he heard Hitomi scream.

"You asshole! I'll kill you and everyone person close to you!"

He ignored her thinking she'd pretty much already accomplished that. Then he picked up Trunks and by flying through the roof, got out of the warehouse and began to fly towards Capsule Corps.

*

After Hitomi had gathered her senses back together and gotten a bit more used to her knew body, she decided to get back to business. She'd go kill that Ronald guy now. She vaguely remembers him.

Trunks used to give off horror stories about him, and she'd only met him one time when he had come home early. He had barged into the room and just started yelling at them. Trunks had gotten her out of the room. Trunks hadn't been so fortunate.

The point was, he deserved to die. He had killed the one he loved, and ruined her life.

So she was making her way to India. The kill would be fairly easy, this time nobody would get in her way. However, she had to travel by Airplane this time. Loosing Trunks also lost her the ability to fly.

She had bought a ticket for the first non‑stop flight there with Nins' founds, the girl was useless when it came to stopping her, but quite useful when to came to money. Once again, Trunks could have been more useful as far as money went.

On the whole, it was very frustrating that she had been dragged out of there, what was worst was that she was trapped in this damn body. Nin had bended them, the bonding tool being her own body. The only way for her to leave this body was to die, in which case she would return to the dreamscape and she wasn't powerful enough to possess a body again.

Very frustrating.

It was now almost noon and she was only halfway there. She hoped it wouldn't take too long to find the bastard, she was getting quite bored right now and almost wished Kokoro would show up again so she could kick his fuckin ass… again.

"Cocky son of a bitch," she mumbled to herself. "I almost feel like going after him when I'm done with Ronald…"

The passenger sitting next to her stared at her odd, but let the matter drop. He didn't want to get in the way with other peoples business no matter what.

*

When they got back to Capsule Corps, Trunks found himself only asking one thing.

"Is Bulma really dead?"

The question took Gohan a bit by surprised because he didn't think Trunks would be able to know if he was possessed and all, but obviously he had a way of knowing. So Gohan simply nodded in response and watched as Trunks quietly cried to himself.

"It's all my fault," Trunks muttered softly.

"The only way it could be your fault is if you killed them yourself," Gohan said trying to reassure him.

"I wasn't strong enough, I couldn't stop her from possessing me. Twice. Because of me Goten and Goku and mom and‑"

Gohan put a finger to his mouth and held back his tears.

"It is not your fault. Don't you dare think that," he said and then started to walk out of his room. "Get some sleep Trunks."

Trunks looked scared at the mention of sleep and he quickly shook his head. Gohan looked back at him with compassionate eyes. He wasn't too sure what Trunks had been through, but he doubted it was good if he was scared to sleep.

"Where's my father?" Trunks asked suddenly, and Gohan wasn't too sure what to say.

"Well… after Marron, he grabbed Bra and ran off."

"Can you find him for me Gohan. Please. You've got to find him. I've got to talk to him," Trunks pleaded with him.

Gohan nodded his head and left Trunks in the room. Videl met him outside in the hall.

"How is he?" She asked walking up to him.

Gohan wrapped his arms around her and held her in the embrace not wanting to let go.

"He's scared," he answered back breathing in her sweet hair. "And very anxious to talk to Vegeta."

"I hope he starts feeling better," she answered also not wanting to let go. The past few weeks had just been so crazy.

*

Vegeta stood in midair holding Bra. He could feel her close to him. He wasn't too sure how he could, but he knew where she was, and more importantly where she was headed.

"Bra, we have to go somewhere before we go back home," Vegeta told his child in a monotone voice.

Why could he feel her and not Trunks? Who was this girl anyway? Manakos' daughter. That was really all he knew about her, and it was enough to hate her.

(After writing that long chapter *one hour ago*, coupled with the fact that both the Leafs and the Raptors lost their games today, I'm too tired and depressed to right a long chapter, or a long comment here. Not that anybody reads these. I guess I'll write more when I actually post this. WORK YOU STUPID INTERNET WORK!!!!!!!!!!

Ok, I wrote that many days ago... but for some reason won't erase it. I went through almost too much shit to put this up, so not another word about these three chapters being three weeks late. By the way, in a bit of an update, Raptors are tied 3-3 with Philly and they WILL win the game Sunday dammit. Anyway, have fun; don't expect the next chapter for about another week. This computer has pissed me off and I don't want to speak to it for a while. Oh, this chapter is dedicated to my mom. Not because it has any significance to her or anything, but she's getting married tomorrow and I wish her all the best *wish me luck too, I'm performing "Angel" on my guitar for her. ¬_¬;*)