Chapter 18. Frazzled nerves and minor annoyances
Monday, June 16 6:50 AM
Ichigo reached over to shut off the alarm on the bedside table. It had taken about 20 minutes the previous night to figure out how to set the stupid thing. Given that she normally used a 36 hr clock rather then what she had figured out to be a 24 hr clock, she had decided that getting it to work without breaking the darn thing had been an accomplishment. She had given herself 10 minutes to get dressed and ready for whatever Roshi had prepared for her. She wearily climbed out of bed, manually turned the light on and stretched a bit. "I am soo tired." She said to herself while walking to the dresser.
Ichigo had found, while looking around last night, that most of the workout clothing folded in the dresser would fit her. She had determined from the pictures that it looked like this Pan girl had liked to wear very large oversized clothing. Which was good for Ichigo, since she had determined that she was taller and a bit more muscular then Pan had been. Since she only had one bodysuit left and did not want to damage her armor in training, she had decided to put wear one of the light blue and orange outfits like Roshi's, over a black skinsuit. The skinsuit while living her arms and legs below the knees unprotected, seemed to be made of a material very much like her own bodysuit. It was a bit to tight over her chest, waist and hips, but it was better then going nude. Ichigo was, however, surprised at the lightness of the fabric the blue... gi? was made of. Assuming that it was made of the same stuff as the one Roshi wore last night, Ichigo knew it was quite strong. Yet without the weight of the armor, she still felt strangely naked and unprotected as she put her scouter on and headed out the door.
Determined to make the best of her situation she was prepared to tell Roshi who she really was. With that and whatever his training was going to be in mind, she looked around the estate.
The scouter could not detect anyone out in the yard so Ichigo walked over to the main house. 'Where the heck is that jerk. He told me to be ready for training at 7. It is already well past that.' Ichigo thought to herself as she opened the front door of the main house.
Her scouter had detected three people in the house, but much to Ichigo's chagrin there was no indication which one of them was Roshi. Since all of them were upstairs, she floated up to the second floor landing and opened the first door she came to.
A large spotlessly clean room greeted her. Walking past a private bath and a large computer consul, she found the actual bedroom. Sleeping on the bed was Roshi. Ichigo balled her fists. "Hey wake up! You said you would train me today." She said to him.
"Naaww, need more sleep. Leamme alone, no school today. It summer." He mumbled as he rolled over to face away from her.
Ichigo couldn't believe it. No one had ever ignored her in her life. The fact that he was almost oblivious to her was insulting. She looked around his room for something big to break over his head.
After a bit of snooping around his room, she walked back over to his bed. His back was to her. Her scouter said he had a power level of .5! Ichigo glared at him for a few moments. Roshi made several snoring noises. 'ARRGH this is intolerable!'
She kicked him in the back, right over his left kidney. Or rather that was what she had tried to do. Faster then she had ever seen anyone move, he had rolled over in bed to face her and grabbed her foot stopping her kick dead. His other hand swung around and once again time slowed down. Ichigo could only watch in shock as his right arm swung down to smash into her kneecap. Roshi stopped the swing barely tapping her knee. Her scouter never even blinked.
Still holding her foot, he looked at his watch. "Wow, a minute and thirty- four seconds. That is about a minute and thirty-three seconds longer then I thought it would take you to try to attack me."
Ichigo yanked her foot out of his hand and glared at him as he swung himself out of bed.
A million questions were raging through her mind, but she found herself strangely speechless.
Roshi stretched out and then looked up at her. "As my father used to say, anger is a tool and a weapon. You can use it to your advantage, or you can let it rule you. I expected you to lash out immediately after I rolled over. You didn't, which is good. BUT, you let yourself forget everything you should have learned yesterday. You rely on that scouter way way too much, and it put you at a disadvantage."
Realizing that she had been wrong the night before and being prepaired to come clean were on thing. Being treated in such a manner by someone she still saw as an underling was another all together. Hearing him chastise her like that caused her mentioned anger to skyrocket. "Who are you to talk? From what you told me last night, you only beat me last night because you lost control of your anger." She spat at him.
Roshi seemed not the slightest bit unnerved by her comment. This did not make her any happier. Ichigo had the suspicion that this would be a very long day.
"Last night I lost control of my rage. Rage is a combination of anger, fear, pain and a few other emotions thrown in like hate. The difference may not seem like much but it is significant. Until you can control your anger, you will not be able to have the peace of mind necessary to learn what I have to teach you."
"Oh and just how do I go about controlling my anger? Since you seem to have all the answers." She demanded.
"First you need to go back to bed. Both of us need more rest before training will do either of us any good." He said as he laid back down on his bed.
"What!?! You make me wake up for this and then send me back to bed like a child! How is sleep going to help anything?"
Roshi pulled the covers over his head and then talked through them. "First, it gets you away from me. I am very tired and even though we both ate a senzu I know that I need more rest before I actually get up for the day. Oh, and don't you claim to be fine, your reflexes were ten times faster yesterday. Now if you don't mind. I am going to go back to sleep."
Ichigo stood there blinking. 'The insolence! Who the heck did he think he was?!' She pulled back her arm to smack him in the head.
"I wouldn't if I were you" Roshi said from beneath his covers.
"AAAAAAARRRRRRRGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHH YOU ARE IMPOSSIBLE!!!!!!" She screamed at him.
Roshi pulled his quilt off of his head and looked at her like she was some sort of thing to be avoided at all costs. "There, now you have done it. You woke up my mother. I was hoping to avoid this."
Roshi got out of bed and walked to his private bathroom. "Just don't move I will be right back."
A few moments later he walked out of the bath wearing his normal navy and orange outfit. He glared at her like a superior officer looks at a recruit who just failed some test. "Now, if you do as I say, life will be much easier for the both of us. No matter what I or anyone else says, you are NOT to react and you are to be as civil as you can be. Oh, and take that thing off your face." He said as he pointed at her scouter. He then turned and walked out into the hallway.
Not knowing anything else to do, Ichigo stuffed her scouter onto one of the tables near Roshi's bed and followed him. A red-haired woman in disheveled clothing was rubbing her eyes as she walked through the double doors at the end of the hall.
"Roshi I had the strangest dream and then I heard screaming, what is..." The woman stopped dead as she caught sight of Ichigo. "Who is that? What is going on?" She asked looking quite confused.
"Mom, ah this is..." Roshi began.
Suddenly, the blue-haired idiot ran out of a different room and almost slammed into the woman. "What is all the screaming about? I just got to sleep." Slip said as she looked around. "Oh, YOU! I should have known." She said as she caught sight of Ichigo.
"What? Slip dear what are you doing here? Do you know this girl? What is she doing with my Roshi?" The woman Roshi had just identified as his mother said.
"Mother if you would..." Roshi started again.
"No! I am not going to stand here and have you make up some story. You and your father seem to think that I am incapable of understanding things, so you never tell me the whole truth. Now Slip, who is this girl!" The woman said cutting Roshi off.
Slip looked at Roshi quickly and then started talking. "Ah, well Mrs. Son, I really think you should have Roshi explain..."
Roshi's mother glowered at her and Slip changed her story. "... er well ok. Um... this is um... well she is a Saiyan who um... came here looking for other ah Saiyans. Right Roshi?" Slip finished.
Ichigo was amazed. She had expected Slip to go ballistic and make her out to be the worst threat this planet had ever seen. Ichigo glanced at Roshi. From the look on his face she could tell he was surprised as well.
"Ah yeah." He stammered
The red-haired woman walked up to Ichigo and poked her in the center of her chest. "So you're and alien? What are you doing here on Earth?" A sudden look of shock appeared on her face. "Wait! Roshi said some terrible murderer was coming from space! You're that girl! It wasn't a dream. You get away from me!" She said while backing away.
It had taken every bit of Ichigo's self control not to snap the woman's finger off for poking her. But that tirade was just about all she could take. She was about to launch herself at the stupid woman when Roshi stepped between her and his mother.
"Mother, Slip, would you two just calm down and come downstairs so we can discuss this."
"Oh no! I have had enough of this. You are a seventeen-year-old boy who still does not know his place! I knew you were going to be bringing a girl home some day, but I would have thought you would have had some sense! You are GROUNDED! Get to your room NOW! Your father is not home so you can't hide behind him this time! AND you you! space hussy you get away from my son or by Heaven and Earth you will be sorry!" She said shaking her finger at Ichigo.
If Roshi hadn't been blocking her, Ichigo was quite certain that there would be another murder on her hands. Not because she wanted to kill the woman, but because she was quite certain that had she hit the woman for speaking to her in such a manner, the woman would have most likely died. It took a matter of moments for her to figure out the consequences of such an action. Roshi would have killed her. She could tell that even with his mother's irrational behavior that he loved his mother.
Ichigo realized that while his mother was off of her rocker, she needed to learn whatever Roshi could or would teach her. So, she turned around and walked calmly down the stairs and out of the house.
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Roshi's hopes fell faster then a falling stone as he heard his mother's tirade. He braced himself to stop the girl he knew as Kinomi from attacking. The attack never came. She just turned around and walked out of his house. He couldn't believe it. This was not something he had expected at all. Maybe she would be able to control her temper and learn. Not that he would be teaching her much today.
"Fine mother, I am sorry. May I please talk to Slip for a little bit?" He asked.
"Fine, but I never want to see that girl again!" Son Beth said before going back into her bedroom.
Slip was still staring down the hall where the girl had gone. "What just happened? Why didn't she try to kill us? Roshi?" She looked at him in utter confusion.
Roshi rolled his eyes and turned around. "Come here Slip, we need to talk." He said as he walked into his room.
Slip followed him in and sat down on one of his chairs.
"Don't worry, my mother is soft. Once she calms down I am sure I will be able to talk some sense into her. In the meantime however, I am going to go back to bed. There is nothing else I can do. If I sneak out and get caught my mother will kill me. I need you to give this to Kinomi." He said as he picked the girl's scouter up off his table. "These things have transmitters in them. If you can figure out what channel it transmits please tell me. I can listen in here with my computer. If I can't be watching her I can at least be listening to what she does."
"You don't trust her do you?" Slip exclaimed.
"No, I don't, not really at least. I believe that she only killed those people because she thought she had to. I honestly think that she does not want to hurt anyone. Don't ask why, I just know. But that doesn't mean that she won't go break a lot of things. Besides, she still hasn't opened up and told me anything about her."
"Ah, Roshi, I hate to mention it, but she doesn't exactly like me. Are you sure she will even let me talk to her?" Slip asked.
Roshi could tell that Slip was frightened at the prospects of approaching Kinomi. "If you don't do anything to aggravate her I don't think she will do anything to you." Roshi said.
Slip didn't look too sure. "Ah you have a frequency analyzer here?" She asked as she fiddled with one of the dials on the scouter.
"Sure, let me just go to my lab and get it for you." Roshi said with just a bit of sarcasm. "If I knew what that was I might have been able to figure out how to tap into it myself."
Slip looked up at him. "Well sorry, some of us didn't get a good nights sleep last night. Something about a certain girl attacking the planet and trying to kill people. But obviously you have a short term memory and forgot."
Roshi rolled his eyes. "Hey, she made a mistake in thinking that the Saiyans living here were still evil. We made the mistake of thinking that she wanted to kill us. None of us is perfect. Get off your high horse and give her a chance to prove herself. If she proves to be a threat, we have more then enough people to help get rid of her."
"ARRGGGHHH, Fine! What do you want me to tell her?" Slip said as she stopped fiddling with the scouter.
"Tell her that you need to set her scouter so that we can talk to each other through it. I will talk her through some of the routines."
"Ok, shouldn't be a problem." Slip said as she got up to leave.
"Oh, one more thing." Roshi said quickly. "I need you to take her back to Capsule Corp. Then you can give her back her tail and give her someplace to sleep. She needs at least five more hours of sleep before I will even start training her."
"NO way in hell! That girl is not getting anywhere near the Capsule Corp!" Slip yelled.
"Yes she is! She will need to use the gravity room. Not to mention several other training facilities you have there."
"Why can't you use the ones you have here? Your dad is the Turtle master! You have far better facilities right here!"
"All of which you can be assured my mother will be watching like a hawk. Don't argue with me. IF you don't feel safe, get Boxers and Tee to help you."
"No offense to them, but the Two of them couldn't protect me from a flea let alone that GIRL!" Slip screamed.
"Slip, Trust me. I know what I am doing." Roshi replied.
"Fine, Fine I'll do it. But to return what you said last night if she kills me, I WILL come back and haunt you, and don't claim it was a mistake!" Slip said as she walked out the door.
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Hey all.. Sorry this is taking so long.. Once again, thanks for reading. Please keep reviewing.
The Smooster ****************************************************************************
p.s. Sorry about this chapter being so short. This is hopefully the last of the short chapters.
Ichigo reached over to shut off the alarm on the bedside table. It had taken about 20 minutes the previous night to figure out how to set the stupid thing. Given that she normally used a 36 hr clock rather then what she had figured out to be a 24 hr clock, she had decided that getting it to work without breaking the darn thing had been an accomplishment. She had given herself 10 minutes to get dressed and ready for whatever Roshi had prepared for her. She wearily climbed out of bed, manually turned the light on and stretched a bit. "I am soo tired." She said to herself while walking to the dresser.
Ichigo had found, while looking around last night, that most of the workout clothing folded in the dresser would fit her. She had determined from the pictures that it looked like this Pan girl had liked to wear very large oversized clothing. Which was good for Ichigo, since she had determined that she was taller and a bit more muscular then Pan had been. Since she only had one bodysuit left and did not want to damage her armor in training, she had decided to put wear one of the light blue and orange outfits like Roshi's, over a black skinsuit. The skinsuit while living her arms and legs below the knees unprotected, seemed to be made of a material very much like her own bodysuit. It was a bit to tight over her chest, waist and hips, but it was better then going nude. Ichigo was, however, surprised at the lightness of the fabric the blue... gi? was made of. Assuming that it was made of the same stuff as the one Roshi wore last night, Ichigo knew it was quite strong. Yet without the weight of the armor, she still felt strangely naked and unprotected as she put her scouter on and headed out the door.
Determined to make the best of her situation she was prepared to tell Roshi who she really was. With that and whatever his training was going to be in mind, she looked around the estate.
The scouter could not detect anyone out in the yard so Ichigo walked over to the main house. 'Where the heck is that jerk. He told me to be ready for training at 7. It is already well past that.' Ichigo thought to herself as she opened the front door of the main house.
Her scouter had detected three people in the house, but much to Ichigo's chagrin there was no indication which one of them was Roshi. Since all of them were upstairs, she floated up to the second floor landing and opened the first door she came to.
A large spotlessly clean room greeted her. Walking past a private bath and a large computer consul, she found the actual bedroom. Sleeping on the bed was Roshi. Ichigo balled her fists. "Hey wake up! You said you would train me today." She said to him.
"Naaww, need more sleep. Leamme alone, no school today. It summer." He mumbled as he rolled over to face away from her.
Ichigo couldn't believe it. No one had ever ignored her in her life. The fact that he was almost oblivious to her was insulting. She looked around his room for something big to break over his head.
After a bit of snooping around his room, she walked back over to his bed. His back was to her. Her scouter said he had a power level of .5! Ichigo glared at him for a few moments. Roshi made several snoring noises. 'ARRGH this is intolerable!'
She kicked him in the back, right over his left kidney. Or rather that was what she had tried to do. Faster then she had ever seen anyone move, he had rolled over in bed to face her and grabbed her foot stopping her kick dead. His other hand swung around and once again time slowed down. Ichigo could only watch in shock as his right arm swung down to smash into her kneecap. Roshi stopped the swing barely tapping her knee. Her scouter never even blinked.
Still holding her foot, he looked at his watch. "Wow, a minute and thirty- four seconds. That is about a minute and thirty-three seconds longer then I thought it would take you to try to attack me."
Ichigo yanked her foot out of his hand and glared at him as he swung himself out of bed.
A million questions were raging through her mind, but she found herself strangely speechless.
Roshi stretched out and then looked up at her. "As my father used to say, anger is a tool and a weapon. You can use it to your advantage, or you can let it rule you. I expected you to lash out immediately after I rolled over. You didn't, which is good. BUT, you let yourself forget everything you should have learned yesterday. You rely on that scouter way way too much, and it put you at a disadvantage."
Realizing that she had been wrong the night before and being prepaired to come clean were on thing. Being treated in such a manner by someone she still saw as an underling was another all together. Hearing him chastise her like that caused her mentioned anger to skyrocket. "Who are you to talk? From what you told me last night, you only beat me last night because you lost control of your anger." She spat at him.
Roshi seemed not the slightest bit unnerved by her comment. This did not make her any happier. Ichigo had the suspicion that this would be a very long day.
"Last night I lost control of my rage. Rage is a combination of anger, fear, pain and a few other emotions thrown in like hate. The difference may not seem like much but it is significant. Until you can control your anger, you will not be able to have the peace of mind necessary to learn what I have to teach you."
"Oh and just how do I go about controlling my anger? Since you seem to have all the answers." She demanded.
"First you need to go back to bed. Both of us need more rest before training will do either of us any good." He said as he laid back down on his bed.
"What!?! You make me wake up for this and then send me back to bed like a child! How is sleep going to help anything?"
Roshi pulled the covers over his head and then talked through them. "First, it gets you away from me. I am very tired and even though we both ate a senzu I know that I need more rest before I actually get up for the day. Oh, and don't you claim to be fine, your reflexes were ten times faster yesterday. Now if you don't mind. I am going to go back to sleep."
Ichigo stood there blinking. 'The insolence! Who the heck did he think he was?!' She pulled back her arm to smack him in the head.
"I wouldn't if I were you" Roshi said from beneath his covers.
"AAAAAAARRRRRRRGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHH YOU ARE IMPOSSIBLE!!!!!!" She screamed at him.
Roshi pulled his quilt off of his head and looked at her like she was some sort of thing to be avoided at all costs. "There, now you have done it. You woke up my mother. I was hoping to avoid this."
Roshi got out of bed and walked to his private bathroom. "Just don't move I will be right back."
A few moments later he walked out of the bath wearing his normal navy and orange outfit. He glared at her like a superior officer looks at a recruit who just failed some test. "Now, if you do as I say, life will be much easier for the both of us. No matter what I or anyone else says, you are NOT to react and you are to be as civil as you can be. Oh, and take that thing off your face." He said as he pointed at her scouter. He then turned and walked out into the hallway.
Not knowing anything else to do, Ichigo stuffed her scouter onto one of the tables near Roshi's bed and followed him. A red-haired woman in disheveled clothing was rubbing her eyes as she walked through the double doors at the end of the hall.
"Roshi I had the strangest dream and then I heard screaming, what is..." The woman stopped dead as she caught sight of Ichigo. "Who is that? What is going on?" She asked looking quite confused.
"Mom, ah this is..." Roshi began.
Suddenly, the blue-haired idiot ran out of a different room and almost slammed into the woman. "What is all the screaming about? I just got to sleep." Slip said as she looked around. "Oh, YOU! I should have known." She said as she caught sight of Ichigo.
"What? Slip dear what are you doing here? Do you know this girl? What is she doing with my Roshi?" The woman Roshi had just identified as his mother said.
"Mother if you would..." Roshi started again.
"No! I am not going to stand here and have you make up some story. You and your father seem to think that I am incapable of understanding things, so you never tell me the whole truth. Now Slip, who is this girl!" The woman said cutting Roshi off.
Slip looked at Roshi quickly and then started talking. "Ah, well Mrs. Son, I really think you should have Roshi explain..."
Roshi's mother glowered at her and Slip changed her story. "... er well ok. Um... this is um... well she is a Saiyan who um... came here looking for other ah Saiyans. Right Roshi?" Slip finished.
Ichigo was amazed. She had expected Slip to go ballistic and make her out to be the worst threat this planet had ever seen. Ichigo glanced at Roshi. From the look on his face she could tell he was surprised as well.
"Ah yeah." He stammered
The red-haired woman walked up to Ichigo and poked her in the center of her chest. "So you're and alien? What are you doing here on Earth?" A sudden look of shock appeared on her face. "Wait! Roshi said some terrible murderer was coming from space! You're that girl! It wasn't a dream. You get away from me!" She said while backing away.
It had taken every bit of Ichigo's self control not to snap the woman's finger off for poking her. But that tirade was just about all she could take. She was about to launch herself at the stupid woman when Roshi stepped between her and his mother.
"Mother, Slip, would you two just calm down and come downstairs so we can discuss this."
"Oh no! I have had enough of this. You are a seventeen-year-old boy who still does not know his place! I knew you were going to be bringing a girl home some day, but I would have thought you would have had some sense! You are GROUNDED! Get to your room NOW! Your father is not home so you can't hide behind him this time! AND you you! space hussy you get away from my son or by Heaven and Earth you will be sorry!" She said shaking her finger at Ichigo.
If Roshi hadn't been blocking her, Ichigo was quite certain that there would be another murder on her hands. Not because she wanted to kill the woman, but because she was quite certain that had she hit the woman for speaking to her in such a manner, the woman would have most likely died. It took a matter of moments for her to figure out the consequences of such an action. Roshi would have killed her. She could tell that even with his mother's irrational behavior that he loved his mother.
Ichigo realized that while his mother was off of her rocker, she needed to learn whatever Roshi could or would teach her. So, she turned around and walked calmly down the stairs and out of the house.
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Roshi's hopes fell faster then a falling stone as he heard his mother's tirade. He braced himself to stop the girl he knew as Kinomi from attacking. The attack never came. She just turned around and walked out of his house. He couldn't believe it. This was not something he had expected at all. Maybe she would be able to control her temper and learn. Not that he would be teaching her much today.
"Fine mother, I am sorry. May I please talk to Slip for a little bit?" He asked.
"Fine, but I never want to see that girl again!" Son Beth said before going back into her bedroom.
Slip was still staring down the hall where the girl had gone. "What just happened? Why didn't she try to kill us? Roshi?" She looked at him in utter confusion.
Roshi rolled his eyes and turned around. "Come here Slip, we need to talk." He said as he walked into his room.
Slip followed him in and sat down on one of his chairs.
"Don't worry, my mother is soft. Once she calms down I am sure I will be able to talk some sense into her. In the meantime however, I am going to go back to bed. There is nothing else I can do. If I sneak out and get caught my mother will kill me. I need you to give this to Kinomi." He said as he picked the girl's scouter up off his table. "These things have transmitters in them. If you can figure out what channel it transmits please tell me. I can listen in here with my computer. If I can't be watching her I can at least be listening to what she does."
"You don't trust her do you?" Slip exclaimed.
"No, I don't, not really at least. I believe that she only killed those people because she thought she had to. I honestly think that she does not want to hurt anyone. Don't ask why, I just know. But that doesn't mean that she won't go break a lot of things. Besides, she still hasn't opened up and told me anything about her."
"Ah, Roshi, I hate to mention it, but she doesn't exactly like me. Are you sure she will even let me talk to her?" Slip asked.
Roshi could tell that Slip was frightened at the prospects of approaching Kinomi. "If you don't do anything to aggravate her I don't think she will do anything to you." Roshi said.
Slip didn't look too sure. "Ah you have a frequency analyzer here?" She asked as she fiddled with one of the dials on the scouter.
"Sure, let me just go to my lab and get it for you." Roshi said with just a bit of sarcasm. "If I knew what that was I might have been able to figure out how to tap into it myself."
Slip looked up at him. "Well sorry, some of us didn't get a good nights sleep last night. Something about a certain girl attacking the planet and trying to kill people. But obviously you have a short term memory and forgot."
Roshi rolled his eyes. "Hey, she made a mistake in thinking that the Saiyans living here were still evil. We made the mistake of thinking that she wanted to kill us. None of us is perfect. Get off your high horse and give her a chance to prove herself. If she proves to be a threat, we have more then enough people to help get rid of her."
"ARRGGGHHH, Fine! What do you want me to tell her?" Slip said as she stopped fiddling with the scouter.
"Tell her that you need to set her scouter so that we can talk to each other through it. I will talk her through some of the routines."
"Ok, shouldn't be a problem." Slip said as she got up to leave.
"Oh, one more thing." Roshi said quickly. "I need you to take her back to Capsule Corp. Then you can give her back her tail and give her someplace to sleep. She needs at least five more hours of sleep before I will even start training her."
"NO way in hell! That girl is not getting anywhere near the Capsule Corp!" Slip yelled.
"Yes she is! She will need to use the gravity room. Not to mention several other training facilities you have there."
"Why can't you use the ones you have here? Your dad is the Turtle master! You have far better facilities right here!"
"All of which you can be assured my mother will be watching like a hawk. Don't argue with me. IF you don't feel safe, get Boxers and Tee to help you."
"No offense to them, but the Two of them couldn't protect me from a flea let alone that GIRL!" Slip screamed.
"Slip, Trust me. I know what I am doing." Roshi replied.
"Fine, Fine I'll do it. But to return what you said last night if she kills me, I WILL come back and haunt you, and don't claim it was a mistake!" Slip said as she walked out the door.
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Hey all.. Sorry this is taking so long.. Once again, thanks for reading. Please keep reviewing.
The Smooster ****************************************************************************
p.s. Sorry about this chapter being so short. This is hopefully the last of the short chapters.
