Well, looks like you all liked the match ups. Yay!

Reviews:

Son Oliver: I'm trying to show that Goku suspects that something is wrong with Goten but he hasn't had a chance to work it out properly yet thanks to the others getting in his way. Like when Gohan keeps talking to Goku and stepping in front of him. So Goku probably won't think much of it at the match. But everybody that was in the budokai in 'the girl next door' should know what's going on with Goten as well as Chichi.

Super saiyan 4 chichi: um…he can still transform into a super 4, I just haven't called it that yet (not sure if anyone noticed). But if it's the whole Goku being big again thing you don't like then…well, you're the first…

Erica: ah, you think so, eh? (Insert wicked evil smirk) not going to tell you which are wrong so you're going to have to wait and see.

Trugeta: looks like most people liked the whole 'Goten hates Uub' thing as well. Glad you liked.

Chico: well it'll have the Goten v Uub fight in it so you should like it. But you'll have to wait another week, unless something happens that forces me to update tomorrow…

Rejhan: glad you liked! Looks like you don't have to wait much longer.

Onwards to…um…fiction! (What? It's early…)

Chapter 14: it begins.

Vegeta vs. Butch
Daisuke vs. Eisuke
Pan vs. Bra
Goten vs. Uub
Zara vs. Trunks
Goku vs. Bruno
Gohan vs. The Arachnid
Tara vs. Haru

The whole crowd stared at the match ups for as long as the monks would allow, fighters sizing up their opponent and already preparing themselves mentally for the match.

Vegeta glanced over at Butch and Bruno, the wrestler duo, and scoffed. Goku just grinned a Son grin.

"Be nice Vegeta." He joked and the proud Prince shot Goku an annoyed glance.

"Those two are not even worthy of a saiyans time." He muttered and made his way back to the waiting room, Goku following along with the others. Goku watched all of the human fighters on the way and noted how much they changed now that they knew whom they would be up against.

Haru – the typical pretty boy that all the tournaments seemed to get - had put on the charm at full now that he knew he was against Tara. Goku watched Tara giggle and flirt back but he had a feeling that she was only pretending to be interested.

The Arachnid had been staring at Gohan ever since their numbers had been called and now he was circling a nervous Gohan. He was trying to work out Gohan's reach and speed to use against him in the match. And Gohan looked slightly uncomfortable with the masked fighter circling him. The mask prevented him from knowing exactly where the Arachnid was staring…

The final two pairs of humans had paired up and were making their way inside. The wrestlers were talking about what they were going to do with their prize money – as they obviously thought that everyone there were pushovers – and Daisuke and Eisuke were playing the part of two best friends messing around. Goku guessed that Tien had agreed to train them because they probably reminded him of the good old days when Goku and Krillen were kids and the most they had to worry about was Pilaf. Goku almost felt sorry for the two kids, as whoever won between them would no doubt have to face a bored Vegeta.

Goten watched His father carefully for a moment and then turned his gaze on to Uub, who had managed to get right next to Goten with out him even noticing.

"Good luck in our match. I'm looking forward to it." Uub said and smiled at Goten, raising his hand in a friendly manner, asking for it to be shaken. Goten simply stared at the hand, slightly taken by surprise.

"Goku has told me a lot about you…" Uub added nervously, hoping to get a conversation going. Goten's face contorted into one of anger and he turned his back on Uub.

"Just get ready for our fight." Goten barked out and quickly made his way to the waiting area. Uub stared at the back of the Son man in confusion and then looked to his side where Trunks and Zara were standing. Trunks sighed heavily and started to walk off.

"I'll go talk to him." He told the two whilst thinking like it'd do any good.

Uub watched Trunks go then looked to Zara who was shaking her head.

"Err…what's going on?" Uub asked her. Zara looked straight at him with those intense eyes of hers, making him flinch slightly. He wasn't used to most of the gang yet.

"Goten just has a lot of issues he needs to work out." She told him, keeping a straight face.

"What kind of issues?" he asked. Zara looked in the general direction she could sense the boys in.

"I'm not normally one to get into other peoples business, it's just that Goten has certain problems with his dad right now that he needs to work out." She said and then started to walk off. She stopped after a few paces and looked over her shoulder at Uub.

"A piece of advice. Be especially careful in your match against Goten." And with that she left, leaving Uub behind.

Goten leant against the wall of the waiting area whilst Trunks stood firmly in front of him with his arms folded tightly across his chest.

"Look, he doesn't even know what he did. Besides, I don't think its Uub you're mad at. I think its Goku so talk to him." The lavender haired saiyan told his friend who laughed.

"Shows what you know Trunks. I'm mad at the both of them, Uub for taking dad away and dad for going. That should have been me he wanted to train and hang around with, not some other kid!"

Trunks stared at Goten who now wore a calm glare. Trunks sighed at his friend.

"Ok, that was unfair but you know Goku. He's not exactly the type to hang around for too long. I know you want to go prove yourself but don't do anything you might regret." He told Goten calmly.

"I'm not going to regret this. I'm going to beat Uub and prove I'm better. Now if your girlfriend would stop talking to the enemy then it would all be prefect." Goten replied, equally as calm as Zara made her way over to their little corner.

"He's not my enemy, goat-ten, and he talked to me." She told him as she came to a halt beside Trunks. Trunks glanced at her and then frowned at Goten.

"And you know she's not my girlfriend so would you stop with that joke? We're not kids anymore."

Goten grinned at his two friends and stepped away from the wall.

"Tell it to Zar-zar." He said then pushed past them and turned to face them as he walked away.

"Besides, you should stop fooling yourself. I've seen you checking her out and vice versa. So I'm going to make it easy for you two. Trunks likes Zara and Zara likes Trunks. Go to that restaurant Trunks takes out all his dates and work it out. When you're done with that, you can meddle with my problems all you want. Just deal with your own first." He called and then took off down the hall to wait for his match and leaving a very red couple behind.

There was a long, very awkward silence between the two until Zara finally decided to break the ice.

"So…is what he said true or was that just him messing with our heads?" She asked and momentarily shifted her gaze from her feet to Trunks then back again. Trunks could feel a rather large sweat drop rolling down the back of his head as he tried to find an answer to her question.

"Well…err…um…" he stuttered, praying to Dende and the kais the whole time for some kind of diversion. Zara was now watching Trunks closely as he struggled to get out a sentence, a small smile spreading across her face the whole time until Trunks was sure she was going to laugh, that's when the others decided to show up.

"Still can't believe I'm near the end. That's too long to wait." Goku was saying to Gohan and Uub. Gohan was laughing.

"I know, Pan, Bra and the others aren't exactly going to hurry." He said and then noticed the very red Trunks and slightly confused Zara.

"Err, what's up with him?" he asked. Zara shrugged.

"He's been like this for a couple of minutes now. Hopefully he'll unfreeze before our match." She explained. Goku laughed at this.

"If he gets any redder then he'll probably melt. Now come on, Vegeta's match is about to start."

"You mean finish, he'll only take about five nano-seconds." Gohan commented, making the others laugh as they went towards the screened entrance to watch.

Trunks stood there for a couple more seconds and then spoke.

"Maybe…" he muttered and then noticed that he was alone.

"Damn it!" he cursed and ran after the others.

When Trunks caught up with the others, Vegeta's fight had barely even started. He was glad that he wasn't too late but was still embarrassed as Zara ribbed him and then gave him a questioning look that he responded with a 'tell you later' gesture after looking at the crowd round the screen. He and Zara were on the right of it with Pan and Bra floating behind it with their arms and chins rested on the large screen and finally Uub, Goku and Gohan were on the left. It was a bit too crowded for a private talk, which was a shame because he had finally worked out what he wanted to say…

Vegeta was standing at the far end of the Ring with his arms firmly crossed. He was staring coldly at the large, dark skinned man in front of him that was quickly doing some last minute stretches with a confident smirk on his face.

"Look gramps, if I were you I'd forfeit now because you ain't got a hope in hell of getting past me." Butch said as he straightened up and flexed his enormous, muscular arms. Vegeta was unfazed by this so the big guy grinned.

"You're either deaf or stupid so I'll show you what I mean." He announced then lunched into a charge, almost like a rhino would. Vegeta stared at the muscular mass that was heading straight for him and then, when the moment was exactly right, he fazed out of sight and the next thing Butch knew, a foot had collided with his chin and had set him flying backwards and directly into the wall above the screen. A moment later and he had slid down and had landed flat on his front with the whole of the competing z gang watching unblinkingly at him.

"Wow, that has got to be a new record!" Pan commented, the others all agreeing with her as the medical team took the poor guy away on a stretcher and Vegeta made his way into the room.

The rest of the audience however weren't as understanding as the z gang and the whole of it – minus the z gangs family and friends – shared matching looks of utter surprise. It took the announcer sometime to realise that the fight was in fact over.

"Wow! Can you believe that ladies and gentlemen? Butch, one of the finalists from the last two budokais, has been beaten within the space of a matter of seconds! If you blinked then you probably missed the whole thing! That has got to of hurt! But moving on, here are two boys that are guaranteed to be a hit as they are the students of an old favourite here. These are the students of Tienshinhan, give it up for Daisuke and Eisuke!" the announcer announced and the whole crowd cheered as the two nervous boys made their way out onto the ring for the first time.

The Z gang all felt slightly sorry for those two as they could tell right away that all though they were powerful, they were nowhere near the same league as the saiyans. But that quickly passed as the match started. It turned out to be very entertaining to watch those two and Goku could tell that those two could no doubt become as powerful as the human z fighters if they trained hard enough. It was a shame that the winner had to go against Vegeta of all people.

It was still enjoyable and amazing to see just how far Tien had brought them. They could manipulate their ki perfectly as demonstrated when the fight took to the air and everyone was on the edge of their seats when the two fire simultaneous Dodon-pas that met head on high above the ring. After a long struggle, Eisuke managed to over power Daisuke and the poor little guy was sent plummeting into the ground below, only just missing the edge of the ring.

"Aw, I wanted Daisuke to win." Pan muttered as she stared out at the boy. He had just been rejoined by Eisuke and seemed to be sharing a joke. Eisuke seemed to pale as Daisuke laughed.

"Guess he just realised who his next opponent will be." Trunks commented.

"Poor guy, he deserves good fight next, not to be hit out with one hit." Bra said from her perch.

"Aw, come on guys, they had a really good fight, that's what counts. Who cares about what Vegeta will do?" Goku interjected, earning a scoff from Vegeta who was leaning against the wall next to Trunks.

"Enough with these weaklings. It is time for a real match. Girls, get out there, you're being called." Vegeta said moodily and both girls hurried to jump over the screen and over to the announcer who was still introducing them.

"Good luck you two!"

"Do us proud!" the two elder Son men yelled after the girls and Vegeta smirked.

"Your runt will need all the luck you can give her." Vegeta muttered as he smirked after his little princess. Zara suppressed a laugh as she looked at Vegeta.

"I hate to burst your bubble Vegeta but Bra can't go super yet." She pointed out and Vegeta remained silent.

The match had started and the signal had been given. The two girls kept into tight stances and slowly circled round the ring, never breaking eye contact. Some clouds slowly floated across the sun high above, casting a shadow over the arena and still the girls waited, watching the other with rapt attention. The cloud continued to float lazily across the sun and as soon as it past and the shadow lifted, the girl leapt forward, taking this as a signal to start.

Pan started with a right hook that caught Bra on the cheek. Bra recoiled and then quickly continued into a spin kick that Pan blocked and pushed aside before being hit in the chest by Bra's palm and then blast. Pan was pushed backwards but she quickly recovered and shot forward in a head butt that Bra flew over and placed a well-placed kick on Pan's back. Pan ended up rolling over and facing Bra and then shooting a multitude of blasts at Bra who barely dodged and ended up being hit by three and then a by a high kick and a double blow from Pan.

Bra landed hard on the tiled surface of the ring and rolled over to face Pan.

Great, I'm going to have to take this up a notch. Maybe it is a good thing that dad started training me…she thought and then flipped onto her feet.

Pan smirked and flew down to meet Bra in a flurry of punches that were quickly returned. The two girls slowly began to rise higher into the air, auras flaring to life, as they continued to exchange attacks. Pan weaved in and out of most of Bra's attacks until finally Bra caught the other girl by surprise with a knee to the gut followed by Bra grabbing Pan's shirt and hitting her hard with three kicks and using a forth to send her back to the ring.

Bra quickly out stretched her arms, keeping her palms facing Pan, and gathered her energy. She then quickly brought her hands together in front of her and fired a blast that should have had enough power to knock her friend out.

Pan's eyes widened when she rolled over and spotted the final flash sailing towards her. She only had seconds to leap out of the way but Bra fired another blast followed by another and another after the girl. Pan quickly jumped away from all the blasts, paying close attention to Bra's energy level. Then, when Bra had slowed down enough, Pan materialised next to her friend and backhanded her to down to the edge of the ring. Bra bounced off the edge and landed in a heap on the grass.

"And the winner by ring out is Son Pan! Give her a hand folks!" the announcer yelled and with it came a wave of cheers and clapping from the stands. Most of the time the girls had moved to fast to see but the crowd was satisfied with what they had seen.

Bra groaned as she got to her feet, realising that she had lost. She frowned and then looked up to see Pan's hand directly in front of her face.

"Good match, but I thought I taught you better then that. You just used up all of your energy." She said, smiling. Bra's frown turned into a smirk.

"Yea, well it was my first real fight, remember? I'm still learning." She said and took Pan's hand and then pulled her off of the platform. Pan landed on her feet and led the way back to the waiting area. Everyone started congratulating the girls on the fight, except Vegeta who simply stared at his daughter, making her feel very uncomfortable. Trunks noticed this and put a hand on his sister's shoulder.

"Don't pay him any attention. He's just on another one of his 'didn't beat Kakarot spawn' things. He sometimes gets relapses like this. Don't worry about it, you did great. Just expect doubled training sessions from now on." He told her, and oddly enough didn't help that much.

Well…at least I got close. She thought and then joined Pan in listening to stories of past battles between the two saiyan families.

A/N: yay, done! Hopefully that was ok. I managed to humiliate Trunks and have Pan win her first fight! So what does everyone think?

Oh, and if you're wondering, Trunks went through the weird embarrassment thing because he was going to say something about Goten messing around with their heads but didn't want Zara to get the wrong idea so didn't know what to say. So it took him five minutes to say maybe…meh, you guys know he's not exactly sharp sometimes…

Anyway, next chapter should be in a week unless I get incredibly bored tomorrow. Ja'ne!