A/N: I am getting heaps of fanfiction story ideas and I want to finish this really quickly so I can get started on the others. So I might put up a couple of chapters at a time cause I really want to start some other stuff.

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Uub was waiting beside my locker with his arms loaded with books and wearing the same clothes as always. He smiled faintly when he saw me as always and waited beside me while I gathered books from my clattered locker. I had inherited the family talent for being incredibly messy.

"Good morning." He said meekly when I approached.

I didn't reply as I jabbed the locker key into the door and swung the thing open with such force, it smacked Uub in the face. He took several steps backwards and I gasped, realizing what I had done. When I checked to see if he was alright, I noticed he only had a small bruising bellow his right eye and breathed a sigh of relief. Goku's training with Uub was at least to some effect. Being smashed in the face with a thick block of steel didn't effect him as much as usual humans.

"Oh gosh, sorry Uub. I'm just not in a great mood at the moment." I scathed, pulling things out of my locker and dumping them on the floor. The person in the locker hadn't arrived yet.

"Why? What happened?" He asked, his voice filled with concern. "If you don't mind me asking."

"You don't have to ask me if you can ask a question, Uub." I muttered, I wasn't really in the mood for this. "If you must know, Trunks and I had a fight."

"Oh." Was Uub's only reply.

You would think that Trunks and I were the kind of brother and sister who had common, shall we say, sibling disagreements. But behind closed doors, my usually stern and calm elder brother had the occasional argument. Possibly what made it even worse was having to spend time at both school and home. Spending too much time with the one person (especially if he was your brother) didn't really improve your relationship.

"I bet you're used to it, though." I said, breaking the silence between Uub and I as he trotted after me down the corridors to our first class. "You have five younger siblings! I can scarcely imagine it, you must fight all the time."

"Actually, we get on pretty well." Uub replied thoughtfully.

I stared at him in disbelief. "You don't fight with any of them?"

"No." Uub said with a shy smile, then added seriously. "Do you think I should?"

"Oh yeah." I said sarcastically. "Just go home this afternoon and wreck a prefect sibling relationship that most children can never seem to accomplish."

"Oh. Alright then."

This guy was really beginning to get on my nerves. He couldn't make decisions for himself, he followed me around the school, he never changed clothes and he had trouble understanding sarcasm! Perhaps the friendship I had been hoping to achieve from this simple-minded villager was virtually impossible.

We entered the classroom and I sat at the table beside Trunks with Uub next to me. The teacher entered the room and I began to take notes vigorously as usual. I managed to note, however, that Eliza was bending right over her desk, sticking out her top teeth and pretending to write at an insanely fast pace causing the other girls to fake a coughing fit to hide their laughter.

I scowled, tore off a piece of paper and scribbled on it quickly before tossing it across the room so it jabbed into Eliza's springy hair. She unfolded it, read it and then gave me a look of loathing and hatred.

After class, Eliza, Anna and Mez cornered Uub and I on our way to the next period. Eliza's fat face were red with fury in a perfect match with her hair. Anna was continuing to remind me of a turnip and Mez hovered in the background, glaring at me menacingly.

"What was that about?" Eliza said, shoving her ugly mug of a face right into mine.

"Well if you keep your face out of mine, I might be able to form a decent sentence without having to worry about opening my mouth only to find it filled with putrid acid, or better known as your breath."

"I don't have time for you today, Bra." Eliza said in a voice no louder than a whisper. "But I'll make you pay for that note you passed last class."

"Oh so now I'm in trouble for speaking the truth?" I grinned. "I don't see what the problem is."

Eliza raised a fist to my face but Anna and Mez held her back. "Not here." Anna hissed. "After school, ok?"

The three of them marched away and Uub, who had been milling around in the background, gave me a puzzled expression that could only mean he was asking for an explanation.

"I sent her a note in class." I admitted as we hurried to our next class, Uub keeping annoyingly close. "Informing her that she was doing a fantastic job at imitating herself, and that it was a surprising she never got the role of 'Dorothy' all those years ago, but then I reminded myself that it wasn't that hard to act herself, and that if she was trying to imitate me, her acting skills were equivalent to a spoons."

I laughed at the memory of the look on Eliza's face when she read the note, but Uub was still puzzled. I grinned as the last traces of the bad mood I had been carrying around that morning evaporated from my body.

"The almighty Bra gives you permission to question her." I said sarcastically and Uub burst into sunny laughter.

"I was just wondering what you meant by 'Dorothy'." Uub said as he caught himself.

"You mean I never told you?" I asked, bewildered. I couldn't believe he had spent so much time trailing around after me and I hadn't told him that yet. "It's my favorite story."

I only finished the story of Eliza and the school production of the 'Wizard of Oz' when we entered the classroom for the second class that day and Uub came into the classroom laughing. Most people stared at him in alarm, seeing as this was the loudest they had ever heard him, and for some it was the only noise they had heard him make so far.

I have to confess to myself, his wild, sunny laugh seemed to brighten the classroom. Although from the vibrant red in his cheeks when he caught himself again, I realized that would be the last time Uub had an outburst like that during class.

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When school ended, Uub followed me to the entrance of the locker room. I rounded on him, my temper rising with him for the first time that day.

"Look, there's no need to come in here. Just go home, ok?"

"Aw, don't be a spoil sport." I turned to see Eliza, Anna and Mez making their way towards us, strangely late. "Let your boyfriend join us, Bra. Not very nice to send him home like that."

"Uub and I are not dating, Eliza." I retorted. "Because unlike you and every other selfish and conceited girl in this school, I have managed to understand that life has more meaning to it than sitting at home and swooning over a boy you and your ugly face will ever be able to have."

"SHUT UP!" Mez boomed, pushing me inside the locker room, the others not far behind. "I am so sick of your smart-ass comments."

"And I'm sick of waiting for Goten." Anna wailed. "Eliza, you said we'd have results by now."

"We will have results, Anna." Eliza reassured her.

"Yes, you will. Though I don't guarantee positive results. Again, I am forced to say no. No need to ask me the question again."

Eliza threw her arms up in the air in frustration, then noticed Uub backing into a corner and smirked foully. She stalked across the locker room after him, motioning for the others to follow.

"Uuby!" Eliza simpered, as if addressing a child. "You'll help us, right?"

I groaned. At least I should be proud that some of my intelligence had rubbed off on Eliza. She knew now that Uub would be a much more venerable target and it wouldn't take long for him to bend to their will.

"Look, all we need is someone to convince Trunks to go out with Marron and Goten to go out with Anna. You can do that, right?"

"Um...if you want me to." Uub murmured innocently.

"Yes we do. And if you don't, we'll make your life hell, understand?" Mez threatened, grabbing Uub by the collar. His dark face was dripping with enough sweat to make my own backyard swimming pool.

"Err...kind of." Uub whispered. Mez dropped his collar, his eyes leering. While their attentions were fixed on Uub, I packed my bag quietly.

"Right." I said once I had finished packing. "Best be off, then. See you tomorrow!"

They rounded on me and Eliza's smirk broadened. "Oops, we forgot about Bra, didn't we? Hey, I just remembered, I need to pay you back for that note you sent in first period. Silly me, can't let something like that slip!"

"Oh yeah. Be a real tragedy if you forgot." I mumbled sarcastically as Mez flexed her muscles and charged at me.

It all happened in a matter of nano-seconds. I punched Mez with ease, using just enough strength to keep her winded long enough for Uub and I to leave and the pushed her into Eliza and Anna so they all flew back into the opposite wall. I beckoned to Uub and strutted out of the room towards the school's front entrance.

"Listen to me, Uub." I called as I hurried to make it in time for the bus. "You can't do anything Eliza told you to. It will show her you're weak. That's the last thing you want, trust me. Take my advice and stand up to her. You're strong right? So if she really gets on your nerves, give her what she deserves. Do you understand?"

"Kind of." Uub forced a little smile, making him appear more pathetic than ever. I sighed melodramatically, wondering if he had ever done anything in his life without someone having to ask him to do it.