A New Beginning
Part Seven
Goku laid Gohan on a blanket on the table in his room. Also on the table were a diaper, baby powder and baby wipes. He had seen Chi-Chi do this several times. So, he can do this too.
Gohan's tail was becoming more apparent for it was more than a soft patch of fur on his backside to growing four inches. It wasn't as long as Goku's as a child, but it was still growing. Goku removed Gohan's diaper and cleaned him off. Gohan moved his head from side to side looking around. He saw the baby powder and reached for it with his small hand. Goku pulled it out of Gohan's reach, but that didn't stop Gohan. He made grunting noises as he tried to take it out of his father's hands as he used it on him.
"No, Gohan. You can't hold this." Goku quickly gathered the fresh diaper. He was about to put it on Gohan when Gohan realized he still had some urine left. He relieved himself and Goku dodged out of the way to avoid getting hit with it. "Gohan, I thought you were finished already."
Gohan just giggled. He had never seen his Daddy move so fast.
Goku cleaned him again and resumed putting Gohan's diaper on him. Afterwards he cleaned up the mess Gohan made and tossed the several wipes in the trashcan. He raised Gohan in his arms. "See? All nice and dry."
"You're doing a nice job," Chi-Chi said standing at the door.
"You think so?"
"Yep," Chi-Chi said stepping in the room. She was very grateful of Goku's assistance since their talk weeks ago.
"I could teach Gohan some Marital Arts when he's older," Goku said.
"Goku," Chi-Chi said gently as she leaned her head on his shoulders. "You and I discussed this. The world's peaceful now and if Gohan becomes a Martial Artist, he won't be serving any purpose at all. With an education, becoming a scholar, Gohan will be serving a purpose."
"So, if the world's not peaceful, would you want him fighting?"
Chi-Chi looked up at your husband. "Goku, how can you think of something like that?"
"I'm just stating what could happen. Piccolo is still out there."
"I'm not worried about Piccolo," Chi-Chi said confidently. "I know you can beat him again. Enough of this gloomy talk. Breakfast is ready."
After breakfast, Goku placed Gohan on a blanket on the living room floor, just observing him while doing his exercises. Gohan laid on his back, laughing and waving his arms around in joy seeing his father holding his body up by his hands and doing pushups. It was entertaining to the baby.
Gohan continued to wiggle his arms and legs. Goku watched as Gohan rolled over on to his stomach. He had learned to do this a week ago. Goku walked over on his hands to face Gohan. "Whatcha doin', Gohan?"
Gohan was struggling to lift himself up with his arms. He raised himself up for a few seconds and fell flat on his face hard. Gohan whimpered and started to cry. Goku sat down and picked Gohan up. "It's okay, Gohan. Don't push yourself."
Gohan stopped whimpering. Goku tickled the three month old and Gohan started laughing. Chi-Chi came in the house with an empty basket in her hands. She had just hung the clothes outside. She smiled seeing the interaction between Goku and Gohan. After their talk a few weeks ago, Goku began to help out more with Gohan. Goku still slept through the night but he was changing Gohan's diapers more and giving him baths.
Goku stood up holding Gohan. "I'm going to take Gohan outside for a while, Chi-Chi."
"How long are you planning to be out?"
Goku wasn't sure himself. "I don't know. Maybe a few hours. I should be back by lunch."
"Okay," Chi-Chi agreed. "I'll get the carrier and diaper bag ready."
Thirty minutes later, Goku walked outside with one hand holding the carrier that held Gohan and on his shoulder he had a diaper bag that carried Gohan's diapers, powder, wipes, a change of clothes and milk bottles. Gohan looked at the outside world around him in awe from the warm sun on his face to the birds chirping and flying around. A butterfly flew around Gohan's face. Gohan reached for it but the butterfly flew away. Gohan smiled and squealed in delight.
"This looks like a good spot to train," Goku said and sat the carrier on the grass. Goku dropped the diaper bag beside it. He took the four-star dragon ball on Gohan's read hat and placed it in Gohan's hands. Gohan cooed as he focused his attention on the dragon ball. "You can play with this while Daddy trains."
Gohan bit into the dragon ball. Goku took it out of his mouth. "No, Gohan. Dragon balls aren't meant to be eaten. Once you get older, I'll tell you all about them." He placed the ball in Gohan's lap. "Watch what Dad can do?"
Goku performed a small Kamehameha Wave. Gohan looked in awe of the energy in his father's hands. It was enough to make Gohan's mouth open and go, "Oooo."
Goku looked down at his song and saw the joy and awe on his face. Goku picked Gohan out of his carrier. "Oh, you like that, huh," Goku laughed. He made baby noises at Gohan and the little boy laughed. "I just may teach you that when you get older."
Seeing Gohan smiled like that, didn't make training seem as important anymore. He looked around at the carrier and diaper bag. "This should be safe here since no one comes here, except the Ox King. Come on, Gohan. We're taking a walk in the woods."
Goku spent the rest of the morning with Gohan showing him around the forest to see the various trees, flowers, the river that lead water to their house and the animals. Gohan reached for an apple but Goku stopped him. Gohan didn't have teeth yet and would probably try to swallow it whole.
After walking through the forest, Goku returned to his site and fed Gohan's his milk and put him to sleep. He smiled seeing Gohan's hand locked on the dragon ball as he napped. Goku didn't want to leave Gohan to train or return to the house just yet so he fell asleep beside him.
Emperor Pilaf, Mai and Shu stood on the edges of the forest. The short and stupid emperor had a radar in his hands while Mai looked through her binoculars at Goku and Gohan sleeping. "The dragon ball has to be around here somewhere."
"I think I found it, sir," Mai said and pointed to father and son. "The baby has it in his hands."
Emperor Pilaf laughed wickedly. "This will be easy…like taking candy from a baby." He laughed at his own stupid joke while Mai and Shu rolled their eyes. He stopped laughing and glared at his assistants. "Why aren't you laughing?! That was a good joke."
"Oh, sure," Shu said and feigned his laughter. "The funniest joke I ever heard."
Mai faked her laughter as well. "You should be a comedian, sir."
Pilaf crossed his arms. "That's better. Now get me that dragon ball!"
"Yes, sir." Mai and Shu bowed before Pilaf and walked to Goku and Gohan.
Shu saw the tall figure sleeping beside the baby and knew that had to be the child's father. He could only see Goku from the back and even though Shu didn't know who the father was yet, he had a bad feeling in himself. He looked up at Mai nervously. "Um, Mai doesn't that father look familiar?"
"I haven't seen him before," Mai said but as she got closer, she saw the figure seem familiar, especially with Roshi's name on the back of his shirt. There was also the way the side of his hair stood out. "Now that you mention it, I do feel as if I've seen him somewhere. Let's just get the dragon ball and leave."
Gohan was awake from his hour nap. He saw his father still sleeping so he entertained himself with the dragon ball in his hands. Gohan was fine with that when a dark shadow loomed over him. He made an odd sound and looked around. His head moved upwards and he saw Shu and Mai.
"Hello," Mai said sweetly. "It seems you have a dragon ball. Why don't you give it to me?"
Gohan just stared at Mai not understanding what she was talking about. Shu looked passed Gohan to the man sleeping beside the baby. When he saw that face, he gasped and stepped backwards in shock. Not again! Not that face! Not that boy, no man again! He looked to Gohan who was staring at Mai confused and it hit Shu that this baby was Goku's son.
Shu started to scream but he covered a hand over his mouth. He didn't want to scream. If he did, he would wake up Goku. He tugged on Mai's jacket. "Mai," he whispered. "Mai!" he whispered louder.
"What's the matter with you, Shu?" Mai asked. She saw Shu pointing passed Gohan.
"His father," Shu stuttered. "Look at him."
Mai followed Shu's hand to Goku and gasped. She stuttered backwards as well with Shu. "N-n-no. Not him, again." Mai and Shu turned and ran back to the forest where Emperor Pilaf was waiting.
Gohan blinked confused at them and resumed playing with the dragon ball.
Emperor Pilaf frowned when Mai and Shu returned empty handed. "Why didn't you bring back the dragon ball?!"
"Sir, we tried but that baby's father is no ordinary man," Mai said.
"It's Goku," Shu said.
"Goku!" Pilaf shrieked. "That idiot is always getting in my way! Still, he's sleeping for crying out loud and you're all are too cowardly to take a dragon ball from a baby when his father is sleeping?! You are the worst servants!"
Mai and Shu bowed before Pilaf. "We're sorry, sir."
"Wait. He has a kid now?!" The Emperor finally caught on to what Mai and Shu said. He shuddered at the thought. "You mean that annoying girl we met at the Fire Eater's cave gave that fool a child? Well, it's true with what they say--women are getting desperate these days."
"Is that why you never had a girlfriend, sir?" Mai asked.
"Of course that's why!" Pilaf yelled. "I'm the greatest, strongest, most intelligent man on this planet and I will rule the world! Women are desperate and too intimidated by a man like me! That's why they go for the strong ones, the smart ones, the naïve ones, the caring or the bad ones! Only desperate women would want a man like that!"
'I wouldn't mind having one of those type," Mai thought.
Pilaf let out an aggravated sigh. "If I want something done, then I would have to do it myself!" Emperor Pilaf marched the forty feet distance to Goku and Gohan. He saw Goku sleeping so Pilaf stuck his tongue out at the sleeping Goku. Pilaf laughed wickedly at Gohan who still held his dragon ball. He laughed seeing Emperor Pilaf's wicked face.
"So, you're Goku's son. I oughta smack you for all the trouble your idiotic father caused me over the years. Heh. I'll do it after I get the dragon ball." Pilaf grabbed the dragon ball and tried to pull it out of Gohan's hand but he was finding the task difficult. He looked at the child and saw he was holding onto the ball, refusing to let it go.
"Let go, you dumb baby. I said let go!"
Gohan's face grew determined as he refused to let go of that ball. Pilaf couldn't believe this. A child not much over three months old was giving him a hard time of letting go of the dragon ball.
Gohan let out a cry of aggravation enough to make his father grumbled in his sleep. Pilaf released the ball having lost to Gohan. "You're no ordinary child. You got some of that freak's power." Pilaf screamed and ran back in the forest. "Let's get out of here! That baby isn't normal!"
Goku awakened not long after Pilaf left. He looked around and saw Gohan happily holding his dragon ball. He smiled. "You really like that ball, don't you, Gohan?" Gohan laughed.
Goku stood and stretched. He put the diaper bag over his shoulder and picked up Gohan's carrier. "Let's head home, Gohan. I'm sure Chi-Chi has lunch ready."
Goku rolled over in bed the tenth time tonight. He lied on his back in wonder. For the first time ever, he couldn't get to sleep. Usually, he'd lie on the pillow and fall fast asleep within minutes, but it's been an hour and he couldn't sleep. He looked over at Chi-Chi and noticed how peacefully she was sleeping. He envied her now.
Goku quietly got out of bed and left the room. He walked around the house until he found himself in Gohan's room. He entered his son's room and checked his son in the crib. To Goku's surprise, Gohan was awake.
"So, both of us couldn't sleep, eh?"
The room was dark except for the half full moonlight coming in the room from the window. Gohan was barely able to make out the image of his father. Goku turned on a low nightlight that gave more light into the room but it wasn't enough to disturb Gohan that he couldn't fall asleep. When he saw his son, Goku smiled warmly. Gohan had one of his feet in his mouth. The baby grinned wildly at his Daddy.
"You know, you can't eat that, Gohan," Goku joked.
Gohan squealed lightly as he rocked his body from left to right with that foot in his mouth. The baby ignored the gentle warning of, "Careful, Gohan," from his father and continued to move back and forth until his head bumped hard into the bars on the crib. Gohan whimpered and then cried.
"I told you so," Goku said gently as he picked Gohan out of the crib. He soothed Gohan by rocking him back and forth. "See? You're okay."
Gohan stopped whimpering and smiled at his father. Goku lowered Gohan back in his crib. "You have to go back to sleep so you don't wake up Mommy."
"Too late."
Goku looked to the door and saw Chi-Chi stepping in the room. She placed her hands on the rails of the crib and looked down at Gohan. "I heard you having a conversation with Gohan and then he started crying. What happened?"
"Gohan had a foot in his mouth and he rocked his body back and forth and bumped his head on the bars."
Chi-Chi stifled a laugh. "Poor baby," Chi-Chi said reaching down to touch the four month old child's head. "I bet that hurt." Gohan reach to touch his mother's hand. "So how come you can't sleep?"
"Huh?" Goku said distracted.
"I heard Gohan through the monitor. He was making little noises and didn't sound fussy so I wasn't going to get up but then I heard you say that both of you couldn't get any sleep." She removed her hand from Gohan's and looked at her husband. "We should get as much sleep as we can now, Goku, since Gohan is finally sleeping through the night."
Goku shrugged his shoulders. "I don't know why I can't sleep."
"Usually people can't sleep unless something is troubling them. You're always carefree so it has to be something serious."
"I have been thinking about my parents lately," he admitted quietly.
Chi-Chi watched Goku with full attention. He never talked about his parents other than the time she asked about them. It didn't bother him about how he was abandoned, but this time as Chi-Chi took noticed of him with the faint lighting in the room, she saw he was troubled.
"What have you been thinking about?" she asked carefully.
"I wonder about them. I don't think they were good people." Chi-Chi was going to speak but Goku continued talking. "I was left in the forest as a baby. I had no means of taking care of myself. I would've died if Grandpa didn't find me. The whole thing makes me think of Gohan and how I could never do something like that to him." He sighed. "And if I did something like that to Gohan, then I would be a bad person. My parents were bad people, Chi-Chi. I wonder if that's why I was careless with Gohan and thought of myself first before him. I wonder if I'm like my own--"
"You stop right there, Goku," Chi-Chi cut him off before he had a chance to say what she knew he was going to say. She reached out to cup her hands on his face. "You're nothing like your parents. You don't even know them. Besides, we can't really say your parents' abandonment of you was bad. It could be a good thing. Maybe they were saving you from something or someone," Chi-Chi suggested.
Goku looked doubtful so Chi-Chi ran a hand through the black bangs of his hair. He always liked her fingers in his hair. "Do you remember that movie we saw of this alien sent from an exploding planet because his parents didn't want him to die with them? That alien turned out to be a very good person and a hero on his adoptive planet."
"But I'm not an alien," Goku said.
"I know that, but his parents sent him away to save him. Maybe your parents did that."
"Maybe," Goku said still frowning. He didn't like the possibility he was bad like his parents. He never had to think about this before. His own child was making him examine things in his life he never gave a second thought to.
"It really is a good thing that you were abandoned by them. If you didn't, you wouldn't have met your adoptive grandpa who gave you strong values to live by and then you wouldn't have met Master Roshi and Krillin and become the strong fighter you are today," Chi-Chi pointed out.
Goku smiled a little. "I guess so."
Chi-Chi's smile widened. "And more importantly, you wouldn't have met me and had Gohan."
Goku's smile brightened and eyes lifted higher at that. "You're right."
"I know," she said and raised herself on her toes to kiss him. Goku welcomed the kiss and wrapped his arms around Chi-Chi tightly, bringing her closer to him. With the baby, it's been a while since they kissed like this, much less did other things. Slowly, Chi-Chi pulled back to stare in his eyes. "I love you and I don't care where you come from."
Goku cupped one side of Chi-Chi's face with his large hand. She didn't know it but it really meant a lot to Goku to have Chi-Chi say that. "Thank you."
"You're welcome." She linked her hand with his to remove it from her face. "You can only be who you are, not who your parents were or who others want you to be just you. Always remember that."
Goku nodded, agreeing with the advice. It reminded him of something his grandfather told him and his grandpa always gave good advice. "I will. I promise."
Chi-Chi laughed at the race that was transpiring between Gohan and Goku. Gohan was crawling and Goku was walking on his hands. Gohan took off first, crawling quickly on his hands and knees laughing. He was a fast one as he raced from one end of the room to another. Ever since Gohan learned this when he was six months, it was double duty for Goku and Chi-Chi to keep an eye on Gohan. He loved to move around. If they turn away for one second, Gohan would crawl around the house. Goku had easily caught up with Gohan on his hands but in the end, Goku allowed Gohan to win.
"Bravo, Gohan!" Chi-Chi said as she picked up her victorious son and showered him with kisses.
"Cee-Cee," Gohan said.
Gohan had been speaking for a month now and Chi-Chi was able to pick that 'Cee-Cee' was Gohan saying 'Chi-Chi'. "No, Gohan, you don't call me Chi-Chi. I'm Mama. Ma…ma," Chi-Chi dragged it out.
"Cee-Cee!" Gohan cheered.
"Ma…ma."
"Cee-Cee."
Chi-Chi frowned slightly. "Well, maybe he'll get it soon. He's only seven months."
"Gogoo," Gohan said seeing his Daddy.
"Goku," Goku corrected his son.
"Gogoo," Gohan insisted.
Goku gave up as well. "You're right, Chi-Chi."
"Cee-Cee!" Gohan said waving his arms in the air.
Goku was amazed of what his child could do in his development over the past seven months since his birth. He was a quick learner in crawling and was talking more. He was still mostly incoherent with his babbles but he was still learning and speaking more.
Gohan would also try to imitate his parents, especially Goku. If Goku was doing pushups, Gohan would attempt it unsuccessfully. Gohan would hum or babble a song Chi-Chi sang to him. Gohan would always follow his Daddy around when he could. He would raise his arms up if he wanted Chi-Chi or Goku to pick him up. Once, Chi-Chi was putting cookies in a jar and Goku got a handful, Gohan tug on his mother's dress and pointed at it, wanting those cookies his Daddy was eating. He was an adorable boy to his parents.
One of the things that amazed Goku the most was Gohan's strength. One day when Gohan was five months, Goku and Chi-Chi were walking Gohan in the woods. The three stopped to look at the pretty flowers and a bird family in a tree. Goku took his hand off the stroller Gohan was in and shielded his eyes from the sun to take a look at the family. Unfortunately they were on a high hill and Gohan went straight down. Goku and Chi-Chi chased Gohan but he was too far gone. Goku used extra speed to catch up with Gohan before he crashed in the tree. Unfortunately, Goku ran passed Gohan and couldn't stop his son from crashing into a tree.
Goku thought it was all over for Gohan but then a miracle happened. Gohan went straight through the tree as if it was paper. Goku saw the determined look on Gohan's face and knew his tearing through the tree was no accident.
Gohan had an unusually power in him, Goku realized. If Gohan had the strength to go through the tree, then he had enough strength to catch himself so he wouldn't plow through it. This left Goku with one reasonable thought--Gohan did that on purpose.
'I'm still amazed Gohan did that,' he thought. 'I can't believe Chi-Chi didn't see it! Where were her eyes? She thought I flew through the tree. She saw the stroller crash into the tree, didn't she? Maybe if she saw his strength, Chi-Chi wouldn't mind letting me train, Gohan.'
"And as an award, Gohan," Chi-Chi continued on, "you get to ride with your Daddy on his Nimbus Cloud."
"Nimmus!" Gohan cheered. He had ridden the cloud before with his father and enjoyed it.
Goku went to the window and yelled for Nimbus. The cloud zoomed from the sky and parked in the window. Chi-Chi walked to Goku holding Gohan. "Goku, how many times do I have to tell you about not jumping out of the window?"
"Too many," Goku joked. He leaned over to kiss Chi-Chi goodbye, but first he covered Gohan's eyes with his hand, making Gohan murmur, 'huh' and Chi-Chi laughed in the kiss. He was so goofy sometimes. When he pulled back, Goku was smiling. "You don't want to come?"
"No, I have some work to do around the house, but be back soon. Papa invited us to his castle for dinner tonight."
"We'll be back by then." Goku jumped out the window with Gohan in his arms and sat on Nimbus. He placed Gohan in his lap. As usual, Gohan would pull on Nimbus or bite on the cloud, trying to eat the cloud and Goku would stir his son away from that.
"No, Gohan. Nimbus is a cloud, not cotton candy," Goku told his son. "Nimbus, let's go!"
Nimbus shot in the sky with giant circles, making Gohan squeal in joy. Goku laughed as well enjoying this time with his son. The pass week, he was alone in the day training and was too exhausted to spend his evenings with Gohan, so spending time with Gohan now, seeing him smile and marvel at the world around him, was a great joy to Goku.
It was strange, Goku thought as he flew with Gohan. When he stepped out of the house to train, he would miss Gohan and Chi-Chi. He would miss seeing Chi-Chi play with their son, her cooking dinner, the warm atmosphere she created, even the few times she would get upset with him. Goku would miss Gohan's laughter, his curiosity as a baby, even the minor rescues of Gohan. The other day he saved Gohan from being electrocuted when he tried to stick a bobby pin in an outlet.
There was something about marriage and fatherhood that was comforting to Goku. It gave him a different kind of happiness and love that fighting didn't. He loved fighting and he always will, but he was beginning to like this new feeling marriage and fatherhood was slowly bringing into his heart.
To Be Continued
Koolrunnings: Thanks. I really appreciate that. I'm trying my best.
Nacobe: Thanks. I'm trying my best to present that here.
Serenestorm: A lot of people butcher her character based on how they foolishly see her because of Funimations bashing on ChiChi. I just portray ChiChi as she really is. She's a lot different in the Japanese version and why Funimations bash the wife of the hero of the series makes no sense to me.
Chuquita: Well, I update weekly so long I felt I didn't need to remind anyone anymore because reviewers should be used to how I write by now. I think has always been a good comfort to ChiChi and giver of advice to her when she was troubled.
Jessica C: What do you mean by fairly good? Like I said before, it was some time during those five years between DB and DBZ that Goku matured. You will have to wait and see in this story how I portray it. Why ChiChi didn't come? Because Akira Toriyama didn't want her to and for good reason. She'd only add to the problem by coming with Goku and Gohan. I'll give the short version of why I hate GT. It's a complete insult to the whole Dragonball franchise. Akira Toriyama didn't create it anyway. You will have to forget practically everything in DB and DBZ to believe the storyline in DBGT because it's so inaccurate from the first ten minutes of the first ep. Pilaf said the black DBs were created when Piccolo was whole the first time. Wrong. Kami didn't create the DBs until after he was guardian because the previous one wouldn't let Kami become guardian because he sense the evil in him. So, Kami expelled his evil counterpart, Piccolo. Kami created the DBs because he wanted to give the humans courage and hope. It's all in DB when Goku first meets Kami. Aside from that huge mistake, every character is OOC. Goku would never want to stay a kid, Vegeta wouldn't have changed his hairstyle or grow a mustache because he said Saiyans didn't care for such trivial things and he of all people would keep up the roots of his Saiyan heritage in DBZ. And anyone out there who like GT, please don't respond with some long essay on why GT is great because I don't want to read it.
Lady Athena: I kinda feel bad for both. I think Ox King was a good father to ChiChi and was often there to give her advice when needed. You made a good point yourself in your story once with Ox King helping ChiChi over Goku's death because he lost his own wife. ChiChi really did have a different perspective of things and it was because of her own naivety. I read Puff's profile. She's a smart person indeed.
Kachie-chan: I know a lot of people don't have the JV and they are missing out on so much such as how the characters are really like and how the series should be portrayed. Since I'm fortunate enough to see the JV, I feel I should tell others about it, so they can get the true understanding of the show and encourage them to buy the JV if they can. It was because I read comments online about how the JV is so much better that ignited my curiosity to view the JV on my first DVD and they were 100% right. Everything is a lot better and more understandable. Many times I kept saying, "Oh, well that makes more sense now." You really have to look in comic stores since most of them are in stock there and the recent ones are found at Best Buy if you want to see the JV. I've never seen Card Captors so I can't comment on it other than say it probably was badly dubbed since most animes are. Why can't these people who do the dubbing respect the show enough to do it right? It's worse than SM? Now I heard SM was the worst dubbed show so Card Captors must really be bad. I never saw SM subbed just the ones on Cartoon Network. I liked it but I'm sure the original is much better. I've seen the JV at Best Buy and I'm almost afraid to get it because I may start hating the people behind the dubbed version like I hate Funimations writers now for how they horribly dubbed DBZ. All that talk of dubbing it to the best of their ability is pure BS. They were lazy on it.
CB: My Mom told me it wasn't easy for her and Dad when my brother was born. My friend was the same way too when her first child was born so I kind of borrowed from their experiences and it sounds like something all married couples or single people go through when a child is born. Gohan keeps getting more adorable with each chapter. The sounds he makes are much cuter in the JV than EV for some reason.
Kinoha Chi: I had my suspicions about that because the anime never showed it and the crystal ball from the Old Kai wasn't around until after ChiChi's death. I had a hard time believing that since no one even Goku couldn't pick up Gohan's low ki and he was on Earth with Gohan. ChiChi was on Earth when she died but Goku wasn't so it would sound impossible for Goku to feel that. Thanks for clearing that up. It might have been best that Goku didn't witness ChiChi's death. We saw how mad he was when he witness Krillin die by Frieza. It's probably best not to imagine how mad he would've been to see ChiChi die. Yeah, I've see all the eps in the DBZ that was aired in America. I'm waiting for the uncut versions of the Saiyan and Namek saga to be aired.
I know about Goku and his potty mouth but no one has a it bigger than Vegeta. All the curse words aren't translated from Japanese to English. There are certain rules here, especially exposing this show to kids. They use the milder ones. Did the Japanese manga have the really foul ones? I don't want to offend anyone so I'll abbreviate it them F---, A--holes, S-- because I saw that on a website about the JV on TV and I wonder if they made the language fouler in the JV than the manga. Is it because of the seriousness of the last chapter that you weren't too fond of it?
Carrie: Thanks. I try to make it as realistic as I possibly can. You should've seen my brother when he became a father for the first time. LOL!
Mic Mic: It's fine to comment on the breast milk scene but it wasn't important to what was going on in the story. I just wanted something light because of the seriousness in the rest of the chapter and it discourages me to see that you only focused on something the least bit sexual and not on the important part of the chapter. There's more to a story than that.
Moon Girl: I buy them at comic book stores mostly and Best Buy for the recent ones. I did see them at Circuit City but Best Buy has more in stock. You can order them online, but they are expensive. It can range from $15-25 depending on the DVDs.
Gogirl: Whoa, you reviewed fast! I just posted the story up and I was replying to my emails and after I was done with that your review showed up. Wow! You got review alerts or something or are you just psychic? Or are you secretly spying on me? Get her, Piccolo! She has those pictures of Gohan sleeping on your lap and you not throwing him off! Seriously, parenthood is pretty hard for new parents and I don't think it was any different than for Goku and ChiChi. I think it matures people more and have you look at life differently. I'm not a parent but I feel that way when I'm babysitting my niece.