Old Friends Meet New

Chapter 1

Disclaimer: I don't own Dragonball Z or it's characters

Claimer: I own Emily and anyone else mentioned in this chapter.

It was a crisp Saturday morning in early spring. Situated in Mount Potaz, stood two small houses, inside the larger of the two, a certain blonde demi saiyan was getting ready to go out.

"Mom! I'm heading over to Trunks's house!" She heard her younger brother yell, smiling she ran her brush through her shoulder length hair then tied it back into a low ponytail. Something caught her eye at her window and gasped as she saw ten year old Goten smirking at her whilst levitating in mid air before taking off.

"I wish he'd stop doing that, at least until I'm fully used to flying myself." She sighed as she grabbed her bag then made her way down the stairs. It was a chill day from her usual sparring lessons with her new father, and she had decided to spend it at the mall with her best friend from school, Chloe and her twin brother Adam. Peeking into the living room she spotted her parents talking to her eldest brother Gohan. She had only been adopted a little over three weeks now but she felt like she'd been living there her whole life.

"Are you going out too Emi?" Goku asked, obviously sensing what little ki she was giving off as he had his back turned to her, she nodded as Gohan looked up at her and smiled.

"Yeah, I told you last night I'm going to the mall." She replied, although she lived out on the mountain away from the city her high school was based, she was adamant she was going to stay there, to avoid losing out on her education and losing touch with her friends. Since it was so far away, Goku decided to teach her the instant translocation technique.

"Have fun then honey and don't be too late." ChiChi said, Emily grinned at this comment.

"Don't worry I'll have my phone on if you need me anyway." She said then left her house to make her way to the mall. Meanwhile, in the air, Goten had reached Capsule Corp in record time and had soon met up with his best friend. After a hard workout with his father that morning, Trunks wasn't in the mood for a spar. And he had recently completed his new video game and had declared that the others were getting too predictable. The young prince stared at his friend thoughtfully.

"Hey Goten, what's Emily doing today?" He asked, Goten shrugged his shoulders then grinned.

"She told my mom and dad that she was meeting some school mates at the mall. Why?" He replied, Trunks smirked evilly.

"Well I want to go to the mall, come on." He announced, getting ready to take off but Goten stopped him, frowning.

"Why do you want to go there? It's just shopping it'll be boring." He argued, Trunks sighed as he looked at his friend.

"We're not going to hang out with her 'ten." He said.

"We're not?" Goten asked throwing Trunks a puzzled look.

"Nope, we're gonna have a bit of "fun" with her. She can't read our ki really well so we won't get busted." He explained grinning, Goten matched his grin and thought deeply about what his friends suggestion.

"Yeah ok, let's do it." He said, Trunks nodded as both boys took to the air. Twenty minutes later, Emily had met up with her friend and brother. Although they had been separated when they got adopted, they strangely enough found each other as they ended up in the same high school, and remained close after that. Both Adam and Chloe were the only two mortal friends Emily had that knew her secret.

"Hey, so how's the new life going?" Adam asked as they all met up, since she lived so far away now they only got to see each other during school and the lunch and morning break weren't long enough to catch up with a weeks worth of gossip.

"Great, I love it with them, I feel as though I've lived there my whole life. Plus I don't have to hide anything from them, it really is amazing." Emily replied as they made their way to the food court. One thing Emily was glad she never inherited was the saiyan appetite, although she had known Goku and his family for several weeks now she was still getting used to the large amount of food at every meal time.

"Any sibling rivalry then?" Chloe asked smirking she was famous for her screaming matches with her youngest brother Jack, who was in the year below them, Emily smiled at this question.

"Actually, we get on pretty well. Gohan is very protective over me though, I've noticed, but I suppose that's what you get with an older brother. And Goten, he likes playing annoying jokes with his friend Trunks, but he's ten so I guess I gotta put up with it." She replied, purchasing burger, chips and a diet coke, Adam groaned at her.

"What is the point of having a diet coke when your eating fast food?" He asked, she smirked at the comment.

"It copes with my body better than the normal stuff." She explained as they sat down, Chloe at one side and Adam and her at the other side. She was about to take a bite out of her burger when she suddenly had the urge to duck. Bending her neck to the left, she watched in shock as a hotdog came whizzing past and hit Chloe in the face. Adam gasped as Emily whirled around in the direction the hotdog came.

"Aw man, she dodged it!" A voice hissed as Emily caught a flash of lavender and black. Narrowing her eyes, she turned back to her friend who was now wiping tomato ketchup of her face, not happy at all.

"Are you alright?" Emily asked.

"Little brats! I want to know who did it." Chloe hissed.

"I could have sworn I just saw Trunks, but I know he's at Capsule Corp with Goten, but then I heard Goten's voice. Oh no..." Emily sighed as she worked out who the trouble makers were.

"Come on let's get out of here, I'm suddenly not hungry." Adam announced, the girls nodded and stood up.

"Yeah, come on." Chloe agreed as they both exited the food court, Emily followed them but glancing behind her frowning as she caught another flash, but decided to ignore it for now. They found their way into the clothes shop, Emily immediately drawn over to the tracksuits and hipsters. Smirking Adam followed his sister as she picked up a navy blue pair of pants.

"You know, white would look nice on you." He said.

"Yeah, but I'll get them way too dirty, I stick with darker pants since they get the most messed up out of my clothes." She explained, suddenly something smacked into the back of her head. Emily whirled around to see a pair of socks on the floor and frowned as she bent down and picked them up.

"What happened?" Chloe asked walking over to them with a baby pink tank top in her hand, Emily looked at her friend.

"Someone just threw this at me." She replied, Adam frowned.

"Hey is that clothes rack moving?" He asked, Emily spun around just in time to see the rack stop dead. She narrowed her eyes as she slowly approached it, only to get another pair of socks thrown in her face.

"Hey!" She yelled as another one was thrown at her, then they started increasing in numbers until wave after wave of socks were flying at her. She put her hands up to shield her face then crept around the back of the rack.

"What's going on over there?" A security guard yelled, seeing the wave of socks come flying out of the clothes rack. Ignoring him, Emily pulled a load of jumpers out of the rack and growled at the two boys, Trunks sitting with a box in between his legs and was throwing them out with his eyes closed, laughing under his breath. Growling, she caught the attention of her little brother, who widened his eyes as he stared at his sister then tapped his friend on the shoulder.

"What?" Trunks snapped, opening his eyes and looking back, also widened his eyes as he caught Emily's face. She pulled the two boys out by their tops and glared at them dangerously.

"What do you two think your playing at? You are in so much trouble!" She yelled folding her arms, Trunks smirked at this.

"Well, we can't be if you can't catch us." He declared grabbing Goten by the two and taking off. Emily just sighed and bent down to start picking all the socks up. Flicking her waist length brown hair back, Chloe bent down to help her friend, tidy up.

"Aren't you going to go after them?" She asked.

"Nah, they won't get far." Emily replied shrugging her shoulders, Adam frowned at his twin and pushed a strand of blonde hair out of his eyes.

"Why not?" He asked.

"Gohan's here, I know he followed me, I saw him when we left the food court. They attracted a lot of attention back there, so he'll get to them." She explained smirking now as she threw the last of the socks back into the box and stood up, Chloe doing the same.

"Let's check out that CD shop, hopefully in peace this time." Chloe groaned, Emily suddenly felt a strong ki, knowing it belonged to Gohan.

"He's got them, we're safe now." She laughed as they made their way into the shop, meanwhile outside, Gohan was glaring at the two boys who knew they weren't getting away this time.

"What are you doing here?" Goten demanded.

"Never mind that, what do you two think you were doing. This isn't fair on Emily Goten, you know she barely gets to see her friends." Gohan started.

"We were only playing Gohan." Trunks snapped.

"Well not where you embarrass people. I don't know how she got herself out of this but Goten your coming home with me. Trunks, you go home too." Gohan said firmly, staring at them, Trunks glared at him.

"Your not telling me what to do!" He yelled.

"Fine, but whilst Goten is getting punished he's not going anywhere. And if I were you, I'd stay away from Emily. You've annoyed her enough already." He said grabbing Goten's arm and taking off, Trunks just growled and took off himself. Meanwhile inside the mall, Emily was staring out the shop window thoughtfully when Adam approached her.

"You ok?" He asked, sighing she nodded her head.

"Yeah, everyone's gone. Goten had better start training cause he's gonna get it when I get home." She growled, getting annoyed all over again.

"Hey calm down, it wasn't that bad. You said it yourself, he plays jokes." Adam reasoned placing his hand on her shoulder.

"Your right, he just embarrassed me so much. I wouldn't even dream of doing that to him, and the security guard is glaring at me as if it was my fault." She sighed, glancing over to the clothes shop to see the guard with his gazed fixed on her suspiciously. Sometime later Gohan had landed back in Mount Potaz, Goku was sparring with Krillen on the lawn. Stopping his mini fight, Goku looked at his two sons and immediately knew something was wrong by the look on his eldest son's face.

"You followed her didn't you. Gohan you've got to let her do things by herself." Goku sighed, as they made his way over to them.

"It's a good job I did, she was dealing with trouble." Gohan stated, ignoring his fathers latest comment, Goku frowned then looked at Goten.

"What trouble? Oh no Goten, you didn't." He groaned.

"He did. I'm leaving Emily to cool off but get ready for a firework display, cause she's not happy." Gohan said letting go of his younger brother, Goku just shook his head.

"Goten, go to your room. Thanks Gohan." He said as Goten stormed into the house, Gohan glaring after him. Emily wasn't in the mood for shopping anymore, word had travelled fast about what her brother had done and everywhere she had gone she was getting disapproved looks from all the other shoppers. Calling it a day, she said goodbye to Chloe and Adam then left the mall to take the slow way home.