A/N: "Please don't kill me! I'm sorry! I really am!" Reikai ducks down to avoid the swinging pitchforks. "My computer died on me and I had to get it fixed. Forgive me." She humbly bows down in respect to the leader of the revolt. "Fine." The leader spoke with finality. "But only this once." "Oh thank you! I'll get back to typing up more for the other stories." Busies herself typing the rest of the chapters as the leader watches her closely, pitchfork in hand.

Ch.9: Yuki's Time to Shine

"Bright New Future"

Peresia, Yuki, and Akurei were headed outside to lunch when they noticed a girl sitting by herself. She had dark brown hair with light brown highlights that blended in perfectly and brown eyes. Being who they were, and hating to see people alone, the girls made their way over.

"Hey."

The brown haired girl looked up and noticed three other females walking to her, smiling. "Hey."

"Why are you sitting alone?" Peresia asked.

"Well, Ashaitaki is not here today and all my other friends have moved or gone to a new school."

"Not true." Yuki frowned playfully.

"Yeah, we're your friends now, so why don't you come and eat with our gang." Akurei added.

"I'd appreciate that. Thank you." The girl stood up and followed the trio.

~*~

Trunks, Gohan, Videl, Sharpner and Erasa were already seated in the shade of the tree they always ate under.

"Here comes the girls, and it looks as if they have a new friend." Videl pointed out as she watched the four get close.

"Hey guys." The trio walked up with the new girl. "This is..." Peresia stopped. She hadn't learned the girls name yet, and at that point she felt a little stupid.

"Maxine." The brown-eyed girl finished the sentence.

"Maxine..." Peresia began. "This is Trunks, Gohan, Videl, Sharpner and Erasa." She pointed to each person as she called his or her name.

"And I'm Yuki, this is Akurei and the jabber jaw is Peresia."

"Nice to meet y'all." Maxine smiled as Peresia glared at her sister in disapproval.

~*~

"You were so!"

"Was not!"

"Come on Yuki, you now you liked Trever. Admit it." Yuki began to blush lightly as the others just watched the argument between the two sisters, as they began to laugh

"I wasn't the only one." Yuki looked to Akurei. She was not about to be the only one getting laughed at. "Akurei was all over Alex."

"I was not." Akurei blushed fiercely.

"Just admit you liked him." Yuki pushed.

"Well..." Akurei stopped.

"Just think, come Valentines Day, you guys will both be paired off." Peresia smiled as she crossed her arms and smirked at the two.

"What are you talking about?"

"Omigosh! You didn't notice?" Peresia stared in amazement. "It was so obvious that they liked y'all."

"Do you really think so?" Akurei questioned hopefully.

"Of course." Peresia nodded in return.

"I need to meet this Trever person." Gohan butted in. "My sister is not allowed to date some weirdo."

"Same goes for the Alex guy." Trunks looked to Gohan. "I think we need to have a talk with those two." Gohan nodded in agreement.

"Please don't." Akurei and Yuki both pleaded to their brothers. "We don't even know for sure if they like us or not."

"We can't promise anything." Akurei and Yuki gave them the meanest look they could muster as they crossed their arms angrily. Gohan and Trunks couldn't help but laugh at the two and neither could the others.

"Anyways..." Videl changed the conversation. "We have a three day weekend. What do you guys plan on doing?"

"We have to go sopping for new sparring gear." Peresia, Yuki and Akurei quit smiling.

"Sounds like fun."

"You've never been shopping with Bulma."

::RING::

"Last period. YES!" Yuki cheered.

"And it's Friday, hallelujah!" Sharpner said happily.

"I need a break." Erasa added. Everyone headed to their last class of the day, which was trigonometry. They all had this class together, so there was no need to split up.

~*~

Everyone of Trigonometry 4B had just sat down when a strange man walked into the classroom.

"Good afternoon class. I'm your substitute teacher for today. My name is Mr. Coolidge. Mrs. Fieirstein is sick today, but she left me with instructions for you." The brown haired man, who looked to be in his early twenty's, picked up a piece of paper off the teacher's desk and read it aloud. "You are to read over pgs 133 to 136 and do problems 1 to 100 even. This is due on Tuesday, so what you don't finish today in class, you are to do for homework." The young teacher looked to a group of boys in the first row who were laughing and talking about how they were going to win tonight at the football game. "And that doesn't mean that you can talk the whole period." The group quickly shut up under the subs glare and started their work.

~*~

There was only twenty minutes left in the class when...

:BEEP::BEEP::BEEP:

Videl's wristwatch started to go off, drawing the attention of the entire class. She quickly pressed the button on the side and a picture of the chief showed up on the small screen.

"Yes chief?"

"Videl, we have a robbery taking place at the U.P.M. Computer store. We normally could take care of this situation, but they have the president of the store as a hostage. We really need your help."

"You were right in calling me. Exactly how many are there?"

"We believe there is four, but we are not completely sure."

"Alright. I'll be there as soon as I can." Videl pressed the button again and the image of the chief disappeared as she raised her hand.

"Yes Ms. Videl, you may be excused. I heard everything." Videl stood up, grabbed her things and ran down the stairs, bowing in thanks to the sub as she ran out the door.

Yuki looked to Gohan, using her puppydog eyes that only her and her sister could pull off, begging to be the one to go this time. Gohan smiled, he could never resist his sister's puppy eyes and he knodded in approval with a smile and winked as if saying, "Good luck." Yuki smiled in joy and raised her hand.

"Yes?"

"May I please be excused to go to the restroom?" She asked as nicely as she could.

"Yes you may, but don't take to long, school will be over on 15 minutes." This teacher never made students wait till class was over. He believed that if you had to go you had to go. You can't control your body, so he didn't question her, which was quite a relief for Yuki.

Yuki stood up and rushed out the door. Gohan, Trunks, Peresia and Akurei secretly wished her luck, except the fact that Yuki could hear Gohan and Peresia's thoughts.

'Thanks. Oh and Peresia.... don't forget to get my things when you leave.'

'No sweat.'

'Ta ta for now.'

Next Time: 'Another One!' (The title pretty much says it all. Videl isn't happy about there being a second gold fighter and she states her opinion on that subject. But after this chapter comes what everyone's been waiting for. SHOPPING WITH BULMA!!!! Trust me, this'll be quite amusing. ^-^ And guess who gets dragged along?)

Stay Tuned!

A/N: I really am sorry it took so long for this story. I wanted to cry when my compy broke. I promise to have the next chapter up in a week, at the most.