Ria walked behind Trunks as they went through the front room of the home. Trunks stopped next to an intercom and held down a button.
"Mother I have a guest you might want to meet" he grinned knowing that would get his mother to drop whatever she was doing in a hurry.
"I'll be right up" was the reply
Ria leaned up against the entry way that led to the kitchen and folded her arms over her chest it was her usual waiting pose which she hoped didn't seem to impatient. She watched as a petite woman emerged from a hidden door under the upstairs stairwell her long aqua hair was pulled back in a relaxed pony tail, she was wearing a loose fitting t-shirt and black cargo shorts.
"Mother this is Ria, Ria this is my mother Bulma"
"Nice to meet you Bulma" Ria smiled and shook her hand
"Ah finally my son brings home a woman" smiled Bulma her eyes shining with mischief. Ria chuckled as Trunks turned several shades of red.
"Mother, that's not why she's here" he muttered crossing his arms
"Oh well guess there always next time" Bulma winked
Ria continued grinning at the amusing spectacled before her
"I was actually wondering if you could help me out?" inquired Ria hoping to spare Trunks anymore motherly mischief
"Oh?" Bulma turned her full attention to the young girl her son had brought home and noticed a white tail moving behind her
"Your Saiyan?!"
"Well, I'm supposed to be human; I also used to have Brown hair" Ria tried to look a least somewhat calm but her tail fidgeting behind her gave her away.
"Well the only thing I can do at the moment is to confirm whether or not you are genetically Saiyan or human, which means I'll need to do a few blood scans"
Ria paled slightly I don't like needles and lagged behind as the three went into the room Bulma had come out of. Trunks was just behind her smiling to himself, slightly amused since the only one he had known to hate needles was Goku. Bulma motioned for Ria to sit on a bench like table as Bulma pulled out the aforementioned instrument. Ria paled even more and griped the side of the table till her knuckles turned white as the needle pricked her skin tears sprung to her eyes, but she closed her eyes, refusing to cry in front of them.
"Alright I got all I'll need" chirped Bulma as she studied the now pale girl in front of her and smiled "at least you don't have a tantrum like Goku does"
Ria smiled and watched Bulma place the blood sample under an elaborate microscope. Bulma pressed a few buttons and flipped a switch, a screen just to the side of the microscope flickered on and showed the cells, as Bulma pressed a few more buttons the image changed to that of an estrange DNA strand.
"That doesn't seem right a human only has a double helix…"
"Yeah Saiyans have a quad, but you have so many that are tightly compacted together that I would have to say that you were created in a lab rather then born" mused Bulma still staring at the image before her.
"I do have a bellybutton though, I would suppose a geneticist could do something to fix that or at the least a plastic surgeons. In any case this is to 5th elementish" Ria stared at the image as well "now all we need is the perverted commander and the odd ball that murmurs perfect" Ria sighed and both Trunks and Bulma looked at her confused
"What is this 5th element?" ask Trunks curiously
"eheh sorry about that the 5th element is a very very fictitious story, seeing this just made me think of it" Ria continued to stare at the screen seemingly oblivious to the awkward stares from her hosts.
This does seem familiar I wonder if maybe it was that fan fiction my friend wrote about a female Saiyan, she thought that there were to few, so she made one to be unique…I made a joke about the 5th element to explain why she was even around… Ria's thoughts were interrupted by a hand on her shoulder. Jumping slightly she found Trunks next to her.
"Sorry, mom is making supper" Ria nodded looking back to the screen "Are you ok?"
She turned meeting with concerned eyes, a memory of another flashed across her vision, he had given her that same look when she found out that her beloved friend had been killed in a car accident. Ria blinked a few times hoping he didn't see her eyes gloss over.
"I'm fine…" she held her arm rubbing slightly to get rid of the cold feeling seeping into her bones and headed back to the kitchen to see if she could help Bulma. Trunks watched her go, he knew there was something bothering her it was easy to tell, but whether it was about what they just found out or if it's something else he wasn't sure. After a time Trunks walked out of the lab and settled into the kitchen watching the women chat as they set out the plates. Dinner was uneventful to say the least, Ria seemed content to eat in silence and the worried look in Bulma's eyes didn't seem to help much, it was starting to make Trunks tense. Unfortunately he took it out on his food and had already started on his 5th serving when Ria finished her second and stood, bowing towards them.
"Thank you for everything…"
"No need to leave you can use one of the spare rooms" Bulma interjected
Ria smiled as best she could and nodded wringing her hands loosly.
"Trunks?" inquired Bulma
"hrmm?" with a good helping still in his mouth
"When your finished show Ria to one of the guest rooms, I have work to finish" and with that she got up and left for the lab.
Ria set back down into her chair and waited for Trunks still in her gloomy state.