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Forever, For Always, For You

Author: Xolani

Chapter six: Practicing to perfection

"Speaking" 'Thinking'Reading/writingsetting change POV [A/N]

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Nothing but complaints from three very eager children met ChiChi's sudden decision for a lunch break. She had found it harder this time to lay down the law, not to just the usual Usagi and Goten's protesting act, but to Trunks' also. And just to add to the load of trouble she already had on her hands, Trunks just happened to be one of those dominant rebel types of children, no doubt that coming from Vegeta, which influenced her babies to be the same.

She had sighed peacefully as she gently set her fork back down onto the table. For the first time since the twins could talk, she hadn't had to dish out second or third helpings to anyone, but Gohan. Usagi, Goten and Trunks finished at such a speed; it could give Goku a run for his money any day. ChiChi never thought she'd see the day where she'd have to threaten and bribe her children to eat a meal. After they had spent what they had described as forever, standing around waiting for her to finish eating her lunch that hadn't finished, they had eventually brought their game of tag back into action.

So there ChiChi stood in front of her three students ready to commence their lesson after the short break, "Ok, for our next lesson, I'm going to give you each two chances with a minimum of three punches to try and hit me anywhere, while I defend myself against you. I really want you to put what you just learnt into action. We'll do it in the same order as last time, so that means your up first, Trunks."

Usagi watched Trunks nervously step forward with a side ways glance. By the time the five year old had reached ChiChi, Usagi had gently placed herself comfortably on the grassy ground, with Goten following suit beside her. She watched as Gohan and Bulma also approached them and followed their example by also sitting down.

"So, are you guys enjoying yourselves?" Bulma started out a conversation while keeping her eye on her son who had just received a nod of approval to start from ChiChi.

"Yeah, kinda I guess, but I thought mamma would have let Gohan help us out by now…" Goten spoke what was troubling his mind, which just happened to be what was also troubling Usagi's.

Gohan smiled, "She will let me help one day, and remember she did say maybe today guys."

"Yeah you should give your mum a bit of a chance, this is really hard for her to do, you know?" Bulma could feel the smile forcing its way across her lips, how she just loved little kids! They were so cute. "ChiChi knows what she's doing."

Usagi remained quiet, only offering her nod of agreement to the group's discussion. Her crystal orbs followed Trunks' every movement that her mother was always able to match, her arm always beating him to his targeted stop on her body. "Wow…mamma is pretty good. She blocked all of Trunks' punches only using one of her hands!"

"That's so cool!" Goten agreed, a smile slapping itself over his face, "Hey look she did it again! I wonder if we will ever be able to do that…?"

Gohan laughed quietly, how they could be amused by the simplest of things was just amusing to him. ChiChi didn't even appear to be trying at all to block Trunks' punches, she proving Gohan's point when he managed to land one single punch to her stomach. She had let him do it, it was just so obvious to his eye. "I'm sure you'll defiantly be able to do that one day."

"You can do it too, can't you, Gohan?"

Gohan nodded, "Yeah. Its not as hard as it really looks, you know."

"Usagi! Come on!" Usagi's eyes flashed in the sunlight as she noticed Trunks marching back to the group, smiling proudly that he had actually landed a punch on ChiChi.

Usagi got up from the floor, barely hearing the echoing wishes of 'good luck' from her two brothers and Bulma. She quickly dusted off the sky blue GI of any grass or dirt that she may have picked up, and walked towards her mother. "Hey, Good luck Usa. Your mum is pretty good. I only got one punch in on her." Trunks was so happy he at least got one punch in on ChiChi, it wouldn't have mattered if he got five, he would have been just as happy to get one on his first day of training.

"Thanks." She smiled back, before quickening her pace towards her mother who was waiting patiently for her just a few steps away.

"When you're ready, Usa." ChiChi instructed, allowing Usagi to understand that she was ready for anything she had to give her.

Usagi nodded, and got straight into attacking her mother. She balled her fist tightly, making sure that her thumb wasn't hidden inside her palm, but sitting comfortably under her fingers, and threw her fist forwards, aiming for her mother's lower stomach. She thought she was actually going to make contact with her mother, well that was until ChiChi's arm slammed into Usagi's travelling fist.

"You'll have to be faster than that, Usa," ChiChi explained, pushing Usagi's fist away from her body with a force. She watched as Usagi repeated the process, still aiming for the same spot, making it easy for ChiChi to defend herself again. "Use both of your hands; I don't want to see you only ever using your right hand. Your left is just as good as your right Usa, so use it as well. And besides, doing that will make you go twice as fast."

Usagi nodded, also balling her left hand into a tight fist. She took her right one back, once again aiming for ChiChi's lower stomach, but as before, it was easily blocked. She quickly threw her left arm forwards, hoping it may have more of an effect on her mother than the right had.

"Usagi, don't always aim for the same spot! Move around!" ChiChi's voice broke out into a yell that she hadn't meant, but it was too late to take it back now, it had already been done. ChiChi watched, as once again another fist was thrown at her, this time aimed towards her higher stomach, on the left side. She had to move faster than she had wanted to, to be able to block the punch again. Of course she made it, repelling Usagi's fist once again.

Usagi groaned in annoyance. She was never going to land a punch on her mother. She was always one step ahead of her, and seemed to almost know where Usagi planned to attack before she even made a move towards the said target. Usagi was now beginning to believe that ChiChi had let Trunks score a hit on her, she was just too good! Usagi threw another punch to her mother's upper stomach, before bringing her left arm forwards with such force she felt it slam into the middle of her mother's stomach with it's full force.

ChiChi doubled over with the impact, and wrapped her arms tightly around her stomach. She had let that happen, just like she had for Trunks. She could see the annoyance in Usagi's face because she had always been able to beat her to her attack. Usagi had been losing her confidence with every miss she made. And what better way to fix that than to let her score her goal, just as she had done with Trunks, and probably would do so for Goten too. She noticed the smile building its way over the silver haired child's features as she began to jump around in the air for her victory. Narrowing her eyes and frowning deeply, ChiChi wasted no time in forcing herself back up into a standing position before giving Usagi a punch on her exposed back.

Usagi was so happy with her victory, she had been too busy bouncing on her toes yelling out to her brothers her good news, she hadn't seen her mother come from behind and throw a steel punch to her back. From the sudden impact on her small unsuspecting body, she was send falling forwards only to stop falling when she landed roughly on her knees, which soon gave way and she landed bang on her stomach.

"I don't ever want to see you celebrating after scoring an effective hit on your opponent. Neither do I ever want to see you turn your back to your enemy." ChiChi's voice was cold as these words came from her mouth and thundered in Usagi's ears.

Usagi rolled onto her pained back and attempted to force herself into a sitting position. She had barely made it off the ground before she had given into the pain in her back and fallen back to the ground. "Mamma! That wasn't fair! That really really really hurt!" She whined loudly, trying to force the tears that threatened to spill from the pain away.

"I'm sorry Usa," ChiChi whispered as she slowly bent down to her daughter. She didn't know what had come over her, attacking Usagi like that, but she had to teach her a lesson that she knew she would never forget. "But when you fight a real enemy, they are going to take every chance they can to cause damage to you. And exposing your back to them is just as good as telling them they can have a free hit on you!"

"But I wasn't fighting a real enemy! I wasn't even really fighting!" Usagi protested the unfairness in her mother's actions.

ChiChi shook her head, "It doesn't matter. You shouldn't show me your back in the future. Understand?" She waited for Usagi's agreeing nod before she continued, "Good. Now, you can get up right? I didn't hit you that hard in the first place."

Usagi watched as her mum extended her hand to her. Usagi accepted it almost instantly, and allowed herself to be pulled back onto her feet. "Thanks mamma."

ChiChi smiled, "No problem, kid. You know, I think by tomorrow we'll both have formed a huge bruise where we were hit. You do pack a pretty good punch. Now, go get your brother for me, please."

"Wow Usa…" Goten whispered as he stared at Usagi's back, "It is a pretty big bruise…"

Usagi frowned and pulled the back of her pink pyjama top down to fully cover her back, "And it really hurts too."

ChiChi had been in to tuck them in bed over three hours ago, but both were too excited to even get a blink of sleep. Tomorrow was another day, and Trunks would be returning to their house to continue with their training. ChiChi hadn't ever got as far as moving them onto defence, and decided that she wouldn't do that until she was satisfied with their punching. But before defence, she was going to take them through a little bit of kicking that would always come in handy.

"It still hurts?"

"Well yeah sorta," Usagi whispered back.

"But it's been hurting all day!" Goten protested in a rather loud whisper.

Usagi frowned deeper, "I know. I don't think mamma realised just how hard she really did punch me today."

"You know she didn't mean to hurt you through, right?" Goten was almost positive their mother wouldn't intentionally try to hurt them.

Usagi could only shrug her shoulders, "Yeah, of course I know that…I—"

"Goten, Usagi! Go to sleep please! I am really considering putting the two of you into separate bedrooms!"

Exchanging silent words, they both decide it was defiantly time to get some sleep. Both knew as well as the other their mother was really beginning to get serious with her threats and it wouldn't be long until she actually undertook them. Each climbed under the covers of their bed and exchanged good nights before they closed their eyes, ready to get some rest at last.

For the second night in a row, ChiChi stood outside their room, waiting for another word to be exchanged between them. When nothing could be heard after several seconds, she continued down the hall to Gohan's room. She opened the room and slowly peered in, checking to see Gohan was asleep rather than sitting up doing god knows what. She smiled to herself when she saw he was tucked away in his bed, most likely sleeping by now.

She closed the door to her eldest son's room and finally entered her own. She closed the door for the night and changed into her pyjama top and bottom. She spent her well deserved thinking time, sitting as usual in front of her mirror, giving her hair a final brush before she went to bed.

Today had been a hard day, and she had made no where near as much process as she would have liked to. But then again, she was at least happy with how their lessons were shaping out, she had gone into such a depth with the punching, she hadn't thought she'd go that far. They were taking it all on board pretty quickly, their punching styles getting better with every punch they threw.

She smiled to her reflection and stood up. A thought soon crossed her mind, and acting on her thoughts, she pulled her pyjama top up to reveal her stomach. Just as she had predicted to Usagi earlier, she had indeed formed a bruise where Usagi had managed to hit her. She also had three other bruises where Trunks had hit her twice, and Goten had hit her once. They hadn't hurt much, but they were enough to leave small purple bruises on her skin. She sighed to herself; it had really only just begun…one day they'd be just like Goku.

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Sorry I took forever…but this time I have good reasoning! I got grounded from using the laptop for two weeks because I didn't do my homework one night, and lied about it to my dad…and then there was that little issue with my tennis coach telling my parents something that they weren't meant to know about what me and my friend did…so that added up to the grounding time too. bangs head But…me of course being sneaky I got on this thing to write when ever I could…when my parents were at work…even when they are both home I stilled used it. But its ok now, I got it back because I did well in a maths test so I'm now back on track! So sorry about all that!

Anyway, let me know what you thought of this chapter! I kinda had to end the day somewhere…otherwise we'd be on day one forever…and well them my story would be paced too slow! Please review and let me know what you thought!

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