Chapter 9 Chores and things.

Earth, Early Sunday Morning.

Son Roshi's alarm clock went off right at 6:00 A.M. He quickly slapped it to shut it off. Then thanked Kami for the millionth time that most of the appliances in his house had been specially made by the Capsule Corp to be "Saiyan Resistant", as Slip called it.

After quickly pulling on a dogi he quickly went to the window and opened it. He slowly floated out backwards and eased the window closed.

'Good', he thought. 'I didn't wake anyone up.' Then he turned around to leave.

"AHHHH! MOM!"

His mother was sitting in a lawn chair below his window. It looked like she had been waiting for him to try to leave.

"Now just where do you think your going young man!" She demanded as she got out of the chair.

"Ah, to Slip's to ah to train. Dad said I had to, it is part of my punishment." Roshi replied as he lowered himself form his second story window to land in front of his mother.

"Punishment my foot! You're not being punished, you're getting the summer off! Well I've had just about enough of your laziness. You're on your summer vacation and I am going to get some work out of you. I don't care if Mr. Satan himself comes back from the grave to train with you! You're not leaving until you get your chores done! YOU UNDERSTAND ME??!!!"

Roshi's mother had been raised to believe that Mr. Satan was the greatest man ever, and no amount of other family legend was going to convince her otherwise.

"Ahhh Yeah mom! I'll do some chores, but I really have to..."

"I don't want to hear another excuse from your mouth. For all I know you've been sneaking away to go hang out with that girl you took to the movies the other night. And you don't even have the decency to bring her here! Well if you want to be sneaking around behind my back then you can stay where I tell you to be. No go clean your room!"

Roshi quickly went to clean his room. It took him ten minutes. His room was spotless to begin with, so all he had to do was dust and make his bed.

"Ok, I'm done with my room. Can I go now?"

"No, not until you are done with this list." His mother said as she handed him a list of chores."

"OoooKay Mom whatever you say." He said as he looked down at the list. "Let me see, item one, Wash my clothes. That's not that hard."

Being your typical male, Roshi put as many of his clothes into the washing machine as he could, and then started it washing.

THUMP, THUMP, WHAMP, THUD!

Various coins, pens, pencils and a calculator also ended up in the wash.

When it was all done washing, Roshi took all of his clothes out of the washer and used his Ki to dry them. He noticed that several of his white school shirts had turned purple-red. "Hmmm, maybe I should have washed the white stuff separately. Oh well, I needed new shirts anyway."

"Item two. Repaint the house." Roshi stared at it for a minute. "Repaint the house," he repeated slowly. "Sounds fun." Sarcasm was not lost on Roshi today.

The son family Mansion was four stories tall and had over 150 rooms. Needless to say, painting it would not be easy. Roshi quickly found some white paint and started painting the house. Not wanting to waste the time with brushes, he just poured the paint directly onto the side of the house and used various strengths of Kiahs to spread it out evenly. The fact that he had also painted over several windows did not occur to him at the time.

"WHAT DO YOU THINK YOUR DOING?!?!?!" His mother screamed.

"Uh, I'm painting."

"Forget it, I don't want to know. Just get the paint off the windows before it dries."

"Sure thing mom!" Roshi said while thinking how lucky he was that she didn't go nuts after seeing that he had painted over the windows.

Painting the house and de-painting the windows took several hours. It was now 11:26 A.M.

"I need to hurry up. Item three, chop wood. Heah! That's easy!"

Roshi found and old dead tree and smacked it into pieces. Then he quickly carried enough wood to last them two years back to the yard.

"Item four. Repair driveway. WHAT?!?!" Roshi couldn't believe this one. He went to get his mother. "Ah... mom, what do you mean by this?" He asked while showing her the list.

"Our driveway has some trees growing onto it an it has lots of pot holes. I want you to carry some of the gravel your father and you have made while blowing up the mountains around here and patch up the driveway."

"Mom! we live in East Chikyuu! Our Driveway is 163 km long! No one uses ground vehicles anyway! We all have hover cars!!"

"Don't argue with me young man! You can go have your fun AFTER you get your work done!"

"Yaaaaah, ahh man!"

Roshi went right to work fixing the driveway. After what seemed like only a little time, he was hungry so he stopped at the nearby river and caught a fish and ate it.

"Ah, that hit the spot." he said while lying on his back near the river. "Now, what time is it? AHHHH It's already 2:30!! I have to get moving!!!" 'Painting the house is one thing, but I would think that my mother could hire an engineering team to fix the driveway if she wanted it nice.' Roshi complained to himself.

The driveway was gravel and normally in disrepair for several reasons not the least of which is that as Roshi said everyone flew to and from the estate. The other primary reason is who would suspect that some of the richest people in the world lived at the end of a nasty dirt and gravel road that disappeared into an overgrown forest?

Roshi finished fixing the driveway at 3:10 and was walking back to the house to see what else he had to do.

His mother met him at the door. She looked like she was upset about something. It is never a good thing when his mother looked like she was upset.

"Ok Young man, who is she? Is this over that Mariah girl that you got into that fight for?"

"Huh?"

"Don't huh me! young man! I had to disconnect the phone. Your cousin Slip kept calling every minute claming there was some big emergency and she said that some girl would be here this afternoon. Now who..."

"THIS AFTERNOON!!!!!"

"...is she? I want to know who this hussy is that you were sneaking out of the house to meet. I don't want you dating any girls I don't approve of young man. She is probably just out..."

"DID SLIP SAY WHEN SHE WOULD BE HERE?!?!?!"

"for your fame. I should know, I had the biggest schoolgirl crush on one of your uncles..."

"MOM TELL ME WHAT SLIP SAID... YOU WHAT!?!!?!"

"I said, I had a schoolgirl crush on one of your uncles. He was a descendant of the great Mr. Satan, and he was so cute. When your father asked me out I said yes because he was a total hunk, but I didn't even know who your father was until the second date. I think he didn't want people to know he was a member of the Satan family."

"Wow! who would have thought. So which uncle was it? I bet it was PJ wasn't it?" 'No wait, she said she liked him because he was a descendant of Mr. Satan. That would mean it couldn't be PJ... I wonder' Roshi let his thoughts trail off.

"I'm not telling! I have to have a few secrets don't I? But YOU young man, DON'T get the same privilege! Who is this girl?"

"OH YEAH THE GIRL!!! PLEASE!!! mom what did Slip say??? PLEASE tell me exactly what she said."

"Just that this Hussy would be here at around four."

"Around FOUR!!! CRAP!!" Roshi started to turn to leave.

"ROSHI! I want to know who this girl is now tell me or your going to be grounded until your 90!"

"Mom, listen very carefully. I'm not going to go on a date with this girl. She is a terrible killer, and I have to go fight her."

Roshi's mother looked at him for a little bit and then burst out laughing. "Son, you have quite the imagination. Let me guess, this girl has been watching you for quite some time. Just because she has a crush on you doesn't make her a terrible killer. I mean come on! I bet she just embarrasses you."

"Mom, you don't understand!"

"Oh, trust me I do all too well. Now that I know that you don't like this girl, I'm not quite as worried." She winked at him and then went started walking to the house. "After you get the grocery's you can go have your date son. Oh, my baby has his first girlfriend! He's growing up so fast!"

Roshi was frantic, It's already 3:15! I have to hurry, she'll be here in about 45 minutes! He grabbed the capsule that had the food truck in it and flew towards Satan City as fast as he could.

Once in Satan City, he clicked the capsule and put the truck into a parking spot at the local farmer's market. He then quickly went to the main desk.

"Ah hi, I need 200 heads of lettuce, 150 heads of cabbage, 100 lbs. of sweet peas, 150 stalks of celery, 100 tomatoes, 200 ears of sweet corn, 5,000 lbs. of rice, 150 lbs. of bamboo shoots, 2,000 oranges, 1,500 apples, 1,000 lbs. of chicken, 2,000 lbs. of beef, 1,000 lbs. of pork, and 150 lbs. of ground pepper. Can you get that and put it in that Semi in the next 30 minutes?"

"Ah, son, Just how are you planning on paying for that?"

"Put it on this." Roshi said as he gave the man a debut card with his picture and name on it.

"Hey, I know that name, you're one of Mr. Satan's descendants. I bet your giving all this food to the needy aren't you?"

"Ah, yeah, in a way." He needed to eat just like everyone else. Ok, so he ate many times more then every one else, but he still needed to eat.

"Ok sir, we'll have that semi loaded in no time!"

Roshi hated it when old people called him sir. It was just plain weird. He had never done anything to deserve special treatment, but people always treated him different after they learned who he was.

While they were loading the truck he flew to the local dairy processing plant and went in to talk to the manager.

"Hi, Dave! I need the usual."

Roshi visited this place quite often and Dave knew exactly what he needed. The usual was a 500 gallon tank of milk and one block each of cheddar, Colby-jack, and pepper-jack cheeses. These were not 1lb. blocks, but rather the big 3 foot by 2 foot by 3 foot wooden shipping boxes used to ship large amounts of cheese long distance. Each box contained close to 700 lbs. of cheese.

"Ok Roshi, we were expecting you yesterday, you're lucky I was here to do some bookkeeping or you would have had to wait until tomorrow."

"Yeah, forgot it was the weekend. Sorry."

Roshi got the stuff and enclosed it into a capsule and left to get the rest of his food.

After he left one of the office help who had never seen Roshi before had to ask a question. "Hey boss, what do you think they do with all that cheese?"

"I haven't got a clue. Cheese is good for you and all, but they get that much every week. They must give it to charity or something."

"Yeah, the descendents of Mr. Satan are really great people."

After he turned the truck back into a capsule he looked at his watch. "CRAP! It's 4:06! I have to get moving!"

"Hey Roshi! What's up!" Mariah called as she ran over from the farmers market with a bag of fresh early tomatoes.

Roshi turned around and looked at Mariah. "Um Mariah, I really hate to do this, but I really have to get moving. I was supposed to be at Capsule Corp at four and I am late." Roshi said befor turning and calling the Kintoun.

"Darn. Well, you are a busy person. I just wanted to thank you for the other night. It was really fun."

Roshi set his capsules into the Kintoun and then reached over and pulled Mariah into a hug. "Don't mention it. Same thing this Friday only I pay this time remember."

Mariah laughed. "Like I would forget!"

"Yeah, well sorry to run, but I have to get moving. See you later!" Roshi yelled as he hopped on the Kintoun and flew away. He waited until he was out of eyesight before jumping off the Kintoun and flying away on his own. Roshi had never flown as fast in his life. He made it home in less then 5 minutes.

"Hey mom, here is all the food." he said as he dropped the two capsules and turned to leave.

"Wait, you need to help me unpack all this food, you know I can't lift most of these things."

"Mom you need to listen to me now because I am dead serious. In less then one hour a girl who is looking for Saiyans and has killed at least six people directly and destroyed most of the food supply for Peace City on Namek will land on Earth. She fought with Piccolo on Namek and is very strong. I am the only one still on Earth who can fight her and hope to survive. She kills without cause and if I loose many many people will probably die. If I am still alive I will help you unpack the food later. I have to go now." He started to leave.

"I love you mom! Wish me luck."

Roshi's mother just stood there, frozen for many minutes after he had left. Her little boy was going to go fight a killer. She was terrified. She finally decided that Slip must know something. She got into her car and started to drive to the Capsule Corp. It would take her eleven hours to drive that far, but by Dende she was going to get to the bottom of this. She couldn't just let her baby go and fight this terrible beast girl. * * *

Author's note: This chapter was for all of you people who like pointless episodes of DBZ, you know, like the Goku and Piccolo Driving one. It doesn't help the plot, but it sure was funny.

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