Chapter 2 – Class, meet two little Saiyans…
The next morning, a little before seven o'clock, Makoto kicked the two kids out of the bed.
"Rise and shine, kiddos!" she announced merrily. "It's almost seven o'clock and the breakfast is ready."
The boys twisted their eyelids open to see Mako's blue school uniform skirt disappear into the kitchen. Goten groaned and hid his head under the pillow. Trunks yawned widely and turned the other side.
"What? Not hungry?" Makoto whooshed back to the living room and waved the frying pan under the kids' noses. "D'you want me to eat all this chicken by myself?"
"You remind me of my mom," Trunks complained over his shoulder. "Give us some time to wake up, will you?" Goten's sleepy eye peeked out from under the pillow.
"Okay, I'll give you… three seconds. Three, two, one, up and away!" Makoto grabbed Trunks's blanket. The kid grunted and curled up under the pillow.
"You're worse than my mom," he announced grimly.
"Where does she get that energy?" Goten asked Trunks as they were slowly gnawing on their breakfast. "I feel like a frog…"
"I'm gonna have to go to school in ten minutes," Makoto said, brushing her hair by the opened window. "You'll stay here and cause no trouble, agreed?"
"Hey, now hold on a sec… who said that we want to stay here?" Trunks asked quickly. "We're on another planet and we are not gonna waste it on sitting in some apartment!" Goten coughed out a chicken bone and nodded frantically.
Makoto frowned slightly. "I can't let you go to the city of Tokyo on your own."
"Then we'll come to the school with you," Trunks declared.
"But…" Mako's eyes turned big. "I can't take you guys to school with me! You're aliens from another planet… and you'd be bored there."
"What do you suggest?" Trunks asked back.
The girl sighed. "All right then… I hope the teacher is agreed. But as soon as you start causing any trouble…" She didn't finish her sentence but her green eyes spoke for her.
The bus stop wasn't far away and after twenty minutes' ride the three stepped out in front of the big white schoolhouse.
"And no funny stuff," Makoto warned the boys as they went to the class. Luckily the teacher agreed to let the boys stay in the class after the girl had told him a story of her aunt going to China for two weeks and leaving her sons with Makoto. ("I just couldn't leave them alone in my apartment, you know, they're little kids, what if they play with matches and burn the whole house down? They won't cause any trouble, I promise.") The boys were sent to the back of the class to sit on the windowsill. Makoto went to her seat, popped down with a sigh and greeted her friends.
"Babysitting today?" Usagi asked her with a wide grin.
Makoto nodded. "Today, tomorrow and a few more days. Lucky me." She frowned at the kids. "But I didn't have much choice."
"You have an aunt?" Minako asked. "I thought you had no siblings alive."
Makoto seemed surprised. "I've said that?" She blinked quickly but then got her nerves back. "Well, I do have an aunt, for your information… although she isn't exactly my aunt, just a relative from my father's side. We don't communicate often but since she currently had nobody who could keep an eye on her children, she asked me to do the job."
Seiya, who had been staring at the ceiling and humming some snatch of melody, suddenly looked at Makoto. "And what if those kids get their hands on a matchbox during the lesson and burn the schoolhouse down?"
Yaten turned around on his seat and gave Seiya a grin. "And you would surely feel so sorry for that?"
Seiya grinned back. "Ooh yeah. You know how I love to go to school."
"They'll do fine," Makoto claimed. "I hope…"
The bell rang and the lesson started. Trunks and Goten were really quiet during the whole lesson and even the next recess. Most of the time they were just sitting and listening. But as hours went by, they became restless. And as soon as the fourth lesson ended, they both announced:
"Mako, we're hungry!"
Makoto blinked slowly and turned to look at them. She remembered the last evening's meal pretty well. "Um, I don't know if my lunchbox has enough food for the three of us…"
"Apparently not," Trunks agreed, "it seems quite tiny."
"But I'm hungry…" Goten whined.
Makoto sighed and searched her pockets. "Let's see… okay, you two, I have a 200-yen-bill here. Go buy yourselves a couple of hamburgers."
Trunks grabbed the bill. "Oh boy – 200? We can get a truckload of hamburgers for that! Thanks!"
"Actually you can get about four hamburgers for that," Seiya remarked. "Ever heard of currency rate?"
"You actually know such words?" Yaten teased. Seiya threw a pencil case at him.
"Only four?" Trunks pouted. "Oh well, better than nothing. Where's that hamburger booth?"
"Right around the corner, five minutes' walk," Usagi and Seiya explained at the same time.
"Hey, hold on, I can't let you on Tokyo's streets all alone!" Mako shouted as the kids were almost out of the door.
"But the lesson's about to start… who do you think should come with us?" Goten asked.
Usagi pushed the window open. "Luna, come on over here."
A small black cat jumped on the windowsill. "Meow?"
"That was the fakest meow I've ever heard," Minako whispered to Ami.
"Luna, would you please go with the two boys and keep an eye on them?" Usagi asked the cat who nodded and went to the two boys.
Outside in front of the schoolhouse Luna turned left and went down the street. Trunks and Goten followed her until they came to the hamburger booth.
"Four hamburgers," Trunks ordered and put the money on the counter.
"Wow, these are good," Goten muttered with his mouth full as they had gotten the hamburgers. "Fast food rocks!"
Luna poked Trunks's leg. "Meow?"
Trunks glared at her. "Mine. Not yours."
"Meow," Luna complained. "Mee-ow."
"No," Trunks declared.
"Meow?" Luna asked Goten, who shook his head.
The cat grunted. "Okay, let me put it that way… gimme a piece of that goddamn hamburger before my claws end up in some place where they'll cause a lot of pain. I haven't eaten anything since early in the morning and I'm the one that got you two snotnoses down here!"
Trunks, Goten and the hamburger salesman stared at her.
"What?" Luna hissed to the salesman who jumped back. "Nothing… nothing, just doing my job here."
"Then do it and don't sit here staring at me. Never seen a talking cat before???" Luna gave the two Saiyan kids a short look. The kids quickly gave him the wieners from their burgers.
"That's better," Luna nodded, munching on the wieners.
"Say Luna," Trunks asked the cat after finishing up with his burger," maybe you could show us around in the city?"
Luna nodded slowly. "Yeah, why not. As long as you don't get lost somewhere. Where do you want to go?"
"Somewhere cool," the two replied quickly.
Luna rolled her eyes and sighed. "The zoo…? Or maybe the Tokyo Tower?"
So the rest of the afternoon was spent on hanging around the Tokyo Tower, the parks of Tokyo and the airport, because the kids wanted to see what the airplanes looked like on that planet. When the clock stroke four, Luna said that the lessons were probably over and that they would find Makoto in the Hikawa temple where Rei lived.
"Is it far?" Trunks asked with a grimace. They had walked a lot during the afternoon.
"Not very," Luna replied laconically.
About half an hour later they came to a hill which had a very long staircase on its side.
"The Cherry Hill," Luna explained. "That's where the Hikawa temple is."
Suddenly they heard a loud explosion from the top of the hill. Luna blinked with surprise. Trunks and Goten gave each other a fast look, then they ran up the stairs. When they reached the top and came to the yard of the temple, they stopped and gasped.
There was a fight going on in front of the temple. The Inner Scouts were there, obviously not doing very well. Sailor Venus had been hit against the wall and was now sitting in front of it, rubbing her head. Sailor Mercury's leg had been grazed and was bleeding a little. The other Scouts were still standing, ready to fight till the end. But they were all exhausted. The enemy was strong.
Trunks and Goten looked at the man the Scouts were fighting with. He was standing in the middle of the yard, with an ugly grin on his face. He had long spiky hair, a brownish armor and very cold black eyes.
"Is that all you've got?" he asked with a smirk. "Not exactly much…"
Sailor Jupiter crossed her arms. "You haven't seen the best of us yet! We're the Sailor Scouts and we always fight till the very end, no matter what it takes. Supreme Thunder!"
The man raised his arm and the thunderbolt hit his glove. It didn't even leave a scratch.
"Now it's my turn… without any fancy words, take that!" The man formed a small energy orb between his palms and threw it at Jupiter. The girl was hit against a tree and collapsed with a quiet moan.
"Makoto!" The two Saiyan kids ran to her. "Are you okay?"
"You… recognized me?" Jupiter asked with surprise, trying to raise her head.
Trunks and Goten were just as surprised. "Of course… what's here not to recognize? You're wearing a green skirt and a tiara on your forehead, is that supposed to be a disguise or something?"
"Never though of that…" Makoto gave a sigh and leaned her head on the ground. "Let me take a little rest…" She was breathing hard.
"What?" the man asked, stepping closer. "Tired already? I'm only beginning to fight." Jupiter gave him a furious look and tried to get up but didn't succeed.
"Don't move… we'll take care of that," Trunks remarked Makoto as his eyes turned very angry. "You there, why don't you pick someone your own size?"
"Like you?" The man laughed.
Trunks nodded and a golden aura appeared around him. "Like me." He turned into a Super Saiyan.
Goten jumped up and turned into a Super Saiyan as well. "Hey, you won't get all the fun!"
"What?" The man stepped back. "What the hell??"