CFAF: ah, hm….eh……licks lips uh, sorry? GOMEN GOMEN NASSAI Minna-san!!! (For all those who like me who didn't know what that meant for the longest time….it means everyone….respectfully of course)
Gomen, once again, I write the chapters…….. I just don't get around to typing them….. eh heh!
Tanuki: LAZY!!
CFAF; look who's talking Tanuki!
Tanuki: ; eh heh!
CFAF: this is the authoress, Tanuki, creator of Tanuki. Say hi Tanuki.
Tanuki: HI!!
CFAF: well…I don't own DBZ, I don't own Tanuki, I own Kid, I also own Max……on with the story, which I have delayed in updating! Gomen!
Thoughts
Dream sequence
"Speech"
and a special one for this chapter, kids thoughts on her dream
Scene change
Chapter 16: Dreams, and an annoying Tanuki
Kid bolted upright in her bed, stifling a scream and sweating profusely.
She was breathing hard with one hand over her mouth and one hand over her heart, as she reflected on the dream that caused this reaction.
Fragments……. fragments, that was all. What where they, what are they? What were these dreams? They couldn't be her past; she had no recollection, not anything, like that happening to her, none of them, what were they? What were they?
"…"
She was in a large white room laying on something, a table? On the walls were endless rows of cages filled with the sounds of dying and suffering animals.
Getting a good look into one she was shocked, No, NO! It's not possible! Those aren't animals they are- her thoughts were cut off by the appearance of a man towering over her, and for some unknown reason she was filled with terror, utter complete mind-locking terror.
The man reached for something, her eyes widened when she saw it and-
FLASHShe was now in a jungle, running from……something, she didn't know what, she just knew that she had to keep running, she had to keep running to save herself from something, she did not know what she was trying to save herself from either, all she knew was she had to keep running and she couldn't get caught.
She tripped over a tree root and skinned her knee on impact but jumped up and continued running immediately.
She was panting for each breath; every time she inhaled fire filled her lungs, suggesting she had been sprinting as fast as she could for a very long time.
She tripped once again but this time over a log, she flew five feet and landed on her face. She was scrambling to get up when; someone or something grabbed her from behind.
A scream bubbled up in her throat, an ear shattering, heart wrenching, scream, the scream of a trapped animal. The scream wrenched itself free from her throat, in a long, "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!"
FLASH
Agony, pure agony, her whole body was on fire. Yet she could do nothing but whimper as quietly as possible.
She had a gut wrenching feeling that if even the smallest of the pathetic animalistic sounds she was making were heard, she would find herself in a great deal more pain, so much more she could barely imagine it. Yet she didn't know why. She didn't know where she was, she didn't know how she came to be in this much pain, she had no idea what was happening, or what had happened.
All she was aware of was the pain, the pain and the fact that her life depended on her keeping quiet.
FLASH
This one is different. Everything is……black, but there are voices, familiar voices.
"I found her." It was Frieza.
"Good, very good. Keep watch on her. I have no need of her, yet." Fero's cold voice chilled Kid to the bone.
"And what do I get out of this again? Keeping her when I could just dispose of her and be so much better off?"
Fero voice was sickly sweet as he said, "I told you before! You shall be paid!"
Frieza scowled, "Yes, but how much?
Fero seemed slightly annoyed by Frieza as he sighed, "Here is a deposit." A slight rustling of paper was heard.
Frieza's voice immediately sweetened, "for this I would watch her for ye….for a few months, I expect more later. Nice doing business with you….. Friend."
What were they? Kid sighed, I guess I will never know. That bothers me.
Kid sighed, and rolled over, What time is it? Looking at the clock she discovered itt was 7:06 am. She sighed once again and decided it was best to get up now, who knows when someone, probably Radditz, would barge In and deicide it was time for her to get up.
She rolled over off her bed, crashed to the floor, got up and went over to the closet to search for something to wear besides armor, "So not fair," she muttered, under her breath with her voice increasing in intensity and volume with each word, "Why is there nothing, but SKIN TIGHT ARMOR?!" After this outburst Radditz walked calmly into Kid's room without knocking. "Radditz?" Kid's voice came calmly and sweetly, "Why did you come into my room without knocking?"
"Because you were yelling, I figured you were up."
"But, what if I had not been dressed?"
"But you are, so it does not matter. Don't think of what ifs think of what is. So why do you have a problem with armor?"
"It. Is. Skintight."
"What would you prefer?"
"Do you have gi's?"
"Yes, but do you not have your own?"
"I don't have my stuff! My ship was attacked!'
Radditz rolled his eyes and went over to her bed, leaned over and pulled a bad from underneath it, "Here you go, get changed and meet me in the cafeteria."
"Yeah, yeah, out." Kid said half teasingly.
Radditz laughed and allowed himself to be pushed out of the room and slightly jumped as he had the door shut on his backside.
Kid rummaged through the bag with a slight smile on her face, "Ah, my clothes, my brush, my books, my, my locket…."
A bittersweet smile graced his face, as she opened the locket and stroked the pictures inside. She dropped out of the language she usually used, the interspecies and all around used language, called common, and into her native tongue. "Mommy, Daddy, where are you? I can't remember, why can't I remember? What happened? What happened? Did you leave me? Who am I really? Why am I here? What are these dreams? Why can't I remember what happened to you, what happened to me? Did you….. did you die?"
Going back to speaking in common, Kid remarked to herself, "Oh, kill me now! I'm going insane!" A bitter laughter sounded, "Talking to inanimate objects, not to mention myself."
Kid
quickly went through her other belongings pulling out a select few, letting her
hands linger on others in memory.
She er…. realized that
she didn't have a gi….. Whoops, now I wonder how that happened, a
small grin climbed her cheeks, I don't have a gi! Oh well! I never told
Radditz I had one, I just said I didn't have my
stuff! Hm! She closed her eyes
happily (A/N doing something like t
his, ) Ni-san shall not be able
to blame me!
She rummaged through her clothes and found a large, a very large, baggy black t-shirt and a pair of baggy jeans and but them on. She ran a comb through her hair; and put a hair tie around her wrist.
She took one last look at her locket before her room.
She rubbed her forehead, "Where was the cafeteria again." It was more of a statement to refresh her memory than anything else, but unfortunately for her, someone heard, and that someone was, Ginyu.
"Hello, girl! Need help finding the cafeteria?'
"N-" she tried to interrupt early and get away, but Ginyu didn't pause long enough for her to get a word in edgewise.
"Of course you do! Newbies always do; and that's what you are! A newbie! Let's go! I will take you to the cafeteria!" Ginyu grabbed Kid's arm and started walking, talking all the way, first about how inferior newbies were, moving on to how wonderful he was, and eventually as always he moved once again onto how great and powerful Frieza was. "…And he can beat armies with a flick of his wrist! He is the most powerful being in the universe! Much stronger than even me!" Ginyu flexed his muscles as they walked, "and I am no weakling!" At this point Kid rolled her eyes, and joined in with Ginyu sarcastically lipping the words he was saying, "I am the leader of the most powerful force in the universe! And it's named after me! The Ginyu force!"
Finally this torment ended, sort of. Vegeta walked up behind Ginyu and Kid, and grunted, "Ginyu, Brat,"
Kid managed to make eye contact with Vegeta and mouthed, 'save me!' Vegeta smirked and his eyes glinted, "Ginyu, have you ever told the Brat about the time you fought that, what was it, giant cockroach?"
Kid's eyes widened and she nearly whimpered, "No, please, no."
Ginyu gasped and exclaimed, "No! You see, I was on a mission…"
By the time they had reached the cafeteria Kid's eyes were wide and she was staring blankly straight in front of her, she was walking blindly stumbling over her own feet. As soon as they reached the cafeteria she snapped out of it and interrupted excitedly, "Well! It has been nice talking to you Ginyu but I have to go eat! Later!" She nearly skipped off to get food, overjoyed to be away from Ginyu.
At a table, at which the Saiyans had chosen to sit at Kid glared at Vegeta, "You. are evil."
Vegeta snickered, "You caused it."
Kid grumbled and sat down next to Radditz across from Vegeta with Nappa between Vegeta and Radditz.
"Ginyu. Is evil." Kid declared.
Radditz smirked, "So, everyone is evil this morning Brat?"
"No, just Ginyu and Vegeta."
"Just you wait."
"What's that mean?"
"Nothing, but why are you not wearing a gi?"
Kid yawned, "I never said I owned a gi did I?"
"You said you didn't have your stuff and if you did then you would be able to-I can't believe you."
"I just said I didn't have my stuff, never said I had a gi Radditz! You should have been a bit more specific!" Kid grinned at Radditz who was now grumbling about traitorous younger siblings.
"Well, We'll have to go get you some gi's than, Kid." Radditz grumbled before turning back to his meal.
Kid began eating and finished long before the other Saiyans, she sat and watched them eat, ignoring everything around them.
But unfortunately for her, not everyone was ignoring her, namely, Tanuki. "Woooooow," Tanuki watched with awe and wide eyes, causing a startling reaction from Kid, her eyes widened and she stared directly in front of her until Tanuki touched her shoulder, when her eyes went back to the normal half closed look, with the small change of a twitch under her right eye. "They eat a looooooooooot," the awed Tanuki said, "they eat a lot fast!"
"Thanks, Captain Obvious." Kid's sarcasm rang out.
"You're welcome!" Tanuki said sounding completely sincere, she either completely missed the sarcasm, or she chose to ignore it. "Sooo, Bestest-best-best-friend! What are we going to do today?" Tanuki threw her arms around Kid and hugged here tight causing all three Saiyans to spit out their various foods and drinks.
"L-let go Tanuki, Please." Kid got out with her limited air supply, as her lungs were being squeezed almost to the point of which she could not breath.
"Why don't you like me?" Tanuki asked on the verge of tears.
"It's not that, I can't breathe."
"Oh! Okay!" Tanuki grinned and let go. "So….. What are we doing?"
Kid grumbled until saying, "I don't know."
Radditz finished eating and told Kid, "Well, I do. As of today, you will be training."
Bu….bu….bu…"
"Bu? What are you trying to say? No stuttering."
"But-"
"So you were trying to say, 'butt' how interesting."
"Not 'butt!!' But! But I don't want to! I can't fight!"
"No, but you will learn."
"bu-bu"
Again with the butts Brat?"
"Argh!! Bite me!"
"Bite you?" Tanuki's eyes gleamed, and her voice deepened, sounding scary, "Weird, but Okay." Tanuki took Kid's hand and sunk her teeth directly into her palm.
"YEOOOOOOOOOOOW!! TANUKI!!!!"
"What? You told me to bite you, so I did!" Tanuki chirped innocently.
Kid stood with blood dripping from her hand, with fire in her eyes; "You. Are. Dead."
Tanuki blinked, "Why?"
"Look at my hand!!!"
Tanuki inspected Kid's hand exclaiming, "That is horrible!! What happened!?"
Kid sweat-dropped immediately, "Tanuki," She began to explain, "…you know what? Forget it, it doesn't matter."
"Okay!"
Kid sighed and muttered making her way to the medical room, "I have a feeling, this room, is going to become a second home to me…. that sucks."
As she entered the medical room, a medic immediately saw her and came up to her, asking her how the injury had happened, how long it had been bleeding, and if she would like it healed.
"Her, she bit me, I don't know, since she bit me, so…maybe five minutes? Ten? Something like that, and no, of course I don't want it healed; never, I came here just to show it to you." Thinking that maybe sarcasm wasn't the best choice at the look on the medic's face she sighed and than resignedly said, "Yes, please heal it."
"Yes, Ma'am, just a moment and I'll help you out." The medic went over to a cabinet, pulled out a small device and some gauze to wrap up her hand. "This," he said, referring to the device, "Will prevent infection and stop the bleeding; and this, is to keep it protected, so that, with the help of this," he held up the device, "your hand may heal quickly." When he was finished explaining, he put the device up to Kid's hand and pushed a button causing a light to shine on her hand and a buzzing noise.
"Ouch! That hurt!" Kid pulled her hand away quickly, shaking it trying to restore feeling to the numb hand.
"Give me your hand, I need to wrap it up."
"Why?" she grumbled, "I don't need the stupid gauze."
"Give me your hand. Now please."
"Fine," reluctantly she placed her hand in front of the medic, who wrapped it up and informed her she could leave.
"Thanks."
"Of course, it is my job. You may leave now."
As they were leaving Tanuki bounced up in front of Kid, "Are you okay bestest best best friend?"
"Yes, Tanuki, I am fine, thank you for asking, and really, just use my name, Kid, It's far easier."
"Kiiiiid, kid, kiiiiiiiiiiid," Tanuki rolled the name around on her tongue, "Why are you named after a child?"
Kid shrugged, "I don't know, I've just called myself that for many years now, well, mostly this, I have used a couple of other names also."
Tanuki blinked, "Oh! That's weird……oh well! I wish you could meet Master! He's perfect! So nice, and caring and loving!"
Kid blinked rapidly, "That was random. I take it you like this, "master" person?"
Tanuki "Of course! He's Master! But he's MY master not yours, so you can't call him master! You call him Lyserg."
"Okay, whatever you say Tanuki, Look, there's Radditz, run away, or go talk to him, run away, or go talk to him?"
"HI RADDITZ!!"
"Obviously not run away," Kid sweat-dropped.
Radditz jogged over to the two, "There you are! I have been looking for you! C'mon Kid, we need to go get you a gi."
Kid moaned, "I don't want to. I don't want to train Ni-san!"
"To bad Kid, life's tough, especially here. You are going to train whether you like it or not. Nappa will be helping us today, Vegeta may help out in the future, but today, he has a mission he is going on. Alone for once, but," Radditz shrugged, "He does that sometimes."
"A mission? What do you mean by that?"
"Nothing, at least nothing you have to worry about right now."
Bardock watched Kid as she slept. His brow furrowed as he watched her twist and turn. What could be causing such distressing memories? What is her past anyway? I usually wouldn't think of such a thing, She was merely a slave in our household, one that managed to actually capture both my and my wife's heart. A slave, yet she managed to convince two Saiyans, to adopt her, without her ever asking, even Radditz, over time, grew attached to her. Admittedly it was over quite a bit of time. Yet she was a slave without memory, for some reason she either couldn't remember, or refused to talk about her past….. I have always wondered which it was, she's like the daughter I never had the chance to spend time with. Why do we call her Kid anyway? What's her real name? I wonder where my real daughter is now….. Bardock reflected on some things he hadn't thought of in a long time. She was taken away as a baby, before I ever met her, we named her, and then she was sent off to some planet, what was that planet? I'll have to check and see sometime…… Bardock's thoughts drifted off as he continued to watch Kid toss and turn, suddenly she froze, not moving and barely breathing,
Bardock floated just in front of her head, staring into her closed eyes, when suddenly she sat up passing through him, and causing him to shudder. It is an uncomfortable feeling to have someone go through you, even if you are a ghost.
Kid sighed and turned over to look at the clock sighing once again Bardock chuckled as she didn't get out of bed, or even sit up, she just flopped, she rolled over and flopped onto the ground, taking her blanket's with her. It was an amusing sight,
I can't decide whether she's a klutz or just to lazy to get out of bed the normal way! Bardock laughed and continued to do so as Radditz entered the room and got chewed out by Kid. I never thought the lives of my family could be so interesting; or entertaining.
Bardock suddenly blinked as Kid started, for one, talking to herself, after Radditz left, and for another, she was talking to herself in another language, one that he didn't recognize a bit. She sounded so depressed, even though he couldn't understand what she was saying, her voice radiated sadness.
Without warning she jumped right back into speaking common. "Oh, kill me now! I'm going insane!"
She thinks she's going insane? She always seems so happy….. Kill her? I suppose it is just a saying….. But still…
A bitter laughter sounded,
Bitter laughter? That doesn't sound like Kid at all…..
"Talking to inanimate objects, not to mention myself."
Okay, I have to give her that, but hey, it's informative for me! Though….probably unhealthy for her….
Kid pulled out a baggy t-shirt and a pair of jeans and Bardock's eyes widened briefly before he quickly turned around and sped out the door.
Bardock continued watching and laughing over the things that happened to Kid, Ginyu, he hated that man, but it was hilarious to watch Kid squirm while he talked to here.
And that girl, Tanuki, maybe she'll make a good friend for Kid, "YEOOOOOOOOW!!!" Bardock blinked………or maybe not. He'd have to keep a watch on those two; it would be interesting to see what happened to their friendship….. Or what happens to Tanuki when she finally really makes Kid mad……or vice versa for that matter.
Bardock continued chuckling to himself as he watched Kid give up the argument with Tanuki and head for the medical center, when he heard Kid comment on how she thought the medical center would become an important part o f her life, he burst out laughing.
Yes, watching over his family would be amusing; he had the feeling that very little of it would be boring; and that most of it would be quite amusing.
CFAF: eh heh ; once again gomen nasaii for taking so long to update…. its been about a month longer since I started typing this chapter to the point of finishing it. I didn't have time, or I was uninspired……I'm really, really, really, really, really sorry about the delay.
Important: I am going to go through some renovations for my fiction; I have more of a plan as to where I am going now. I need to change the ages of my characters, ALOT….. So some of the chapters will be quite different when I am through, I will put revised by the chapter title and briefly tell here what will be changed, I am going to add another member to Bardock's family, I am going, as stated above, to change everyone's ages, they will all, except Bardock, become much younger, I plan at the moment on keeping Kid the same age. When I post that information; I will put revised on the chapters, and if you request me to do so…. I can post the revisions in an author's note either at the end of a chapter or as a separate "chapter" end of important stuff
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