DISCLAMIER: I DO NOT own either Dragon Ball Z, or Sailor Moon, and I have added this as proof I do not wish to claim either of them as my own works. Any Characters that may turn up throughout this fic that you do not recognise are mine.

Forever, For Always, For You

Author: Xolani

Chapter two

"Speaking" *Thinking* Reading/writing setting change POV [A/N]

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By the end of the week, Chi-Chi was ready to come home from the hospital with the twins, Goten and Usagi. Chi-Chi had eventually lightened up to the idea of having a third child. At least Usagi was a girl. Hopefully, unlike Gohan and probably Goten, Usagi would be Chi-Chi's little girl. Chi-Chi knew in her heart that Goku would be back eventually to take Goten away from her. But Usagi was Chi-Chi's. Nothing Goku could ever do would make her little Usagi wish to fight like her brothers.

As far as having an extra baby went with only one parent, things were harder for Chi-Chi than they ever were before. She had to cook, clean the house, make sure Gohan was ahead in his studies and look after two screaming babies at three AM in the morning all by herself, every single day. But Gohan was almost as much of a help as Goku would have been, had he been there, maybe even more so.

Gohan found himself drifting off a lot lately. His mother was becoming slightly annoyed with having to continuously repeat herself in order to be heard by her saiyan son. Gohan wanted more than anything for Goku to just return to earth. Not just for him, but his mother and the twins. Chi-Chi was struggling with the effort of looking after three children alone.

"Go'an!" the happy scream of his younger sister reached his ears as the two year old girl trotted into his bedroom as fast as she could with Goten at her heels with a photo frame in his hands. "Go'an, Go'an! Look what we are finding!"

It had amazed both Gohan and Chi-Chi how much Goten at such a young age could already look like his father. He had inherited the same pushing-up-against-gravity-in-all-directions hairstyle Goku had, except right now it wasn't that long, but still it was long enough. Goten also had the small chubby face to match his father's, with the exception of Chi-Chi's eyes.

But Usagi remained the mystery child. Her face had similarities to Goten's but not enough that you would pick them out to be twins. She was the smaller of the two. She had not inherited the Son family black hair, but pure silver hair instead, that Chi-Chi was fond of for it's strange yet beautiful colour. It was only just long enough to be tied back into two small pigtails. She didn't have the black eyes like her brother either, but sapphire blue with silver rims around it. But Chi-Chi figured she must have got the darkness of her eyes from them at least. But what amazed everyone most, was Usagi was born with no tail. Chi-Chi was delighted, claiming this was a sign that Usagi would be her little girl forever, while Gohan remained curious and not all too convinced that Usagi wasn't a demi-saiyan.   

Gohan looked up from his homework and placed his pencil down on the table, happy to get away from it as the two came into his room. Goten handed him the photo of Goku.

"Huz dat?" Goten asked his older brother while pointing curiously at the man in an orange GI with a goofy smile.

Gohan took the photo into his hands and examined it sadly, "Come on guys, I've told you a thousand times who that is. You can't have forgotten, can you?"

The twins looked at each other with the same happy, giggling expression before nodding their heads to Gohan. Gohan laughed out loud, "I can't believe you two. Well…let's see." Gohan laughed again as he watched Usagi throw herself on the floor comfortably, then with Goten copying her with a giggle, "That, is the strongest man in the world, and our father, Goku. He's what we'd call a really strong saiyan warrior."

"What happened to 'im?" Goten asked still with a smile.

"Did he weave mummy?" Usagi continued the questions to Gohan who smiled again and hid his laughter at their baby talk.

"Well, not really. He died just before you were born in a big battle against a bad guy called Cell." Gohan sighed and closed his eyes. The memory of when Goku had just disappeared from the earth's surface will Cell was still fresh in his mind. He blamed himself. He should have listened to everyone and finished Cell of quickly. But instead he ignored them and lost the life of his father because of his foolish mistake. And now Goten and Usagi would have to grow up, without their father's guiding hand.

"Go'an!" Gohan was snapped out of his thoughts as Usagi was now tugging on his pants to get his attention, "Are you still awake?"

"Maybe he dead, like Daddy…" Goten suggested whilst cupping his hands over his mouth to muffle out his giggles.

"Huh? No, sorry guys, I'm still with you." Gohan answered back in a slightly dazed tone, whistle he looked out the window. His eyes suddenly narrowed as he sensed an energy behind the wall to his room. What he found interesting was it wasn't that of a Ki power, but something completely different. He couldn't even tell if it was strong or weak by the power it possessed. He was only barely able to sense whatever it was. His eyes moved along the wall as if he could see through it and could see the source of the strange power moving closer to the window.        

Setsuna Meioh walked casually by the bedroom window of the room that contained the reincarnated Cosmos. Through the split second she could actually see though the window, her young Hime was sitting on the floor beside her twin brother, tugging on the pants of an older boy that was staring straight at her with narrowed eyes. But before the boy glaring at her could even reach the window she had walked through a portal, back to the gates of time. Her Hime was doing alright. It would be a long time before Setsuna saw Usagi again. Usagi's life was now free of battles and wars, for a good couple of years. Usagi would only be forced to remember who she really was when Chaos' threat became more than fatal to the senshi dimension. She was free to live a normal life at last.

"MUMMY!" Goten and Usagi screamed at the exact same time before they ran out of the room. Gohan sighed as he turned his head just in time to see Usagi swiftly turn a corner straight after her brother. It was moments later that the twins returned into his bedroom, each of them with a hand in their mother's hands.

"What's been going on in here, Gohan?" ChiChi asked through her sigh as Gohan quickly picked up his abandoned pencil. "Why are they running around the house screaming 'Gohan's dead!'?"

A small smile crept up on Gohan's face that he was unable to hide. It was just the thought of what the twins had been doing that made him want to laugh. "I guess I must have spaced out while I was talking to them."

ChiChi sighed loudly, "Again? Well can you try not to do it in front of the twins? It gets them all excited, I don't think they realise how much they scare me when they run around screaming 'Gohan's dead, mummy!' Can you do that for me?"

Gohan nodded, "Yeah I can. I just got a little distracted." He explained the truth.

"Good. Now, I think it's about time you continued with your homework. That's enough distractions for one day." And with that being said, Gohan watched his mother walk his younger brother and sister out of the room and close his door behind them. 

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Later that Night

Usagi and Goten had just finished up their bath, and were now arguing against their mother over bedtime. Neither wanted to go to bed, but truth be told they knew they were both tired after the day of playing. They were both put into the winter pyjamas, Goten's blue and Usagi's pink, and then placed gently in bed one by one by ChiChi. After tucking her twins in and kissing them both goodnight on their foreheads, she turned out the light and left the room, closing the door behind her almost fully.

The only light now left in the room, was the light illuminated by the moon. Usagi stood up on her bed slowly with a yawn, her eyes flashing in the moonlight, to notice Goten already standing up. "I'll get Go'an." Usagi smiled before she climbed down from her bed and quickly crawled from the room.

Goten had to muffle his giggles as he sat back down on his bed, whilst watching his twin leave the room. When Usagi was to return, according to their plan made earlier while ChiChi had gone to get towels, she would bring Gohan back with her and they would ask for a bedtime story.

Usagi crawled quickly and quietly down the hall until she came to Gohan's bedroom. She had passed the archway to the living room, where ChiChi had comfortably placed herself to watch a late night romance movie. Gohan's door was shut once again; no doubt by ChiChi, so neither of the twins would bother him again. Lucky for Usagi though, the door hadn't been completely closed and she was able to push it open with little effort. It made creaking noises, but she ignored them. When she came face to face with Gohan's small, circular room, she smiled to herself. She had so far been successful.

Gohan had heard the creaking of his door slowly being opened and turn around immediately, whilst picking his pencil up in hopes to look like he'd been working. He was surprised when he saw that it hadn't been his mother coming into the room to check on him. He thought it was nothing until he felt the familiar feeling of someone tugging on his pants.

Looking down, he noticed his silver haired youngest sibling.  She had a smile plastered on her face, showing her teeth in a toothy smile of innocence. "What are you doing up?" Gohan asked in a soft voice, "You should be in bed. If mum catches you…"

Usagi's smile fell slightly, "We wanting story!"

Gohan laughed and picked her up carefully. "You know, you're pretty lucky, I never had stories read to me before I went to sleep." He then slowly tiptoed down the hallway to the twins' bedroom.

They found Goten still sitting on his bed patently; he'd been playing with his blue bear he had received at birth. When he noticed the two he suddenly discarded the teddy bear and smiled, whilst watching Gohan put his twin back in her bed. 

"So, you guys want a story, eh?" Gohan sighed, walking back into the middle of the room. "Well what do you want to hear about tonight?"

This part, neither of the twins had yet considered. But before Usagi could come up with anything, Goten answered, "How did daddy die?"

Gohan's world stopped. They wanted to hear how their dad died. He didn't want to tell them. He'd been trying to put it behind him for the last two years, but now they were forcing him to remember. "Uh…you…" Gohan tried to find his voice, but wasn't too successful in doing so. He took a deep breath and closed his eyes for a moment.

When he did reopen them, both twins were standing up at the end of their beds, looking curiously over at their older brother. "Uh…so, there was an evil android named Cell that was a threat to earth.  He had decided to give the earth a chance though, and threw a tournament he called the 'Cell Games'. Anyone was aloud to enter, and we were given ten days to train for it. Naturally dad didn't waste a second of our precious time, and he took me to a special room where a year passes in there, but only a day passes in the real world."

Gohan stopped. He had hoped the twins would have fallen asleep in the middle of his story, but he was met by disappointment. Both were sitting on their beds, absorbed into his story by every word he spoke. "When it was my turn to fight Cell at the Cell games, after I had turned super saiyan two, it looked like I had Cell beat. Everyone told me to do it quickly, but I ignored them. I didn't see the harm in it until he'd blown himself up and claimed he would blow earth up with him in ten seconds. Dad had to do something, so he sacrificed himself and took Cell to another planet before he blew up."

Now, they knew the truth about their father. Gohan couldn't help but feel scared that they may grow up to hate him because he was the reason they had no father.

By the end of the story, both were laying happily on their beds, almost asleep. Knowing this was the right time to leave, Gohan forced a smile that he gave to each of the twins before leaving the room and closing the door behind him with a sigh.

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Okay, another chapter up. I didn't really like this chapter, and didn't enjoy writing it as much as the first. But I do believe that this chapter was necessary. I don't want everything moving too fast. Sorry about the bedtime story, if it was incorrect, or I left out something important. I haven't seen that episode in over a year, and I based it off memory. Next chapter should be more interesting, I hope.  No it should be, I have plans for it. But you'll just have to wait and see! In this chapter, maybe some of you picked up, maybe not, I was trying to keep Goten in with it all without pushing him to the side so Usagi could be the centre of attention. But then I also tried keeping Usagi in with it too, so it wouldn't look like I forgot her. If I did, what would be the point in this fic anyway?

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