Snow

There was snow. Lots of it too...

Trunks gave a small sigh as he looked out the window. Only three days before, the sun was shining brightly and the air was a reasonable temperature. It was slightly cooler than usual... but it was very comfortable.

Now, a cold front blew in bringing this huge freeze.

Trunks waked back into the main room where a fire was being created. They noticed Tekego throw a match into the fireplace with much paper around small logs and such. Goten was helping with placing the logs into the slowly growing fire to warm up the room.

"It feels very much like winter..." muttered Goten with a small smile as he sat down on the ground Indian style.

Trunks nodded as he stood to the side gazing at the growing fire.

"I totally agree with you," muttered the saiyan hybrid as he crossed his arms, "but it's currently late fall...Cold season shouldn't have come for another two months."

That was the moment the two evil twin chibi's ran into the room. The twin brothers of Tekego began laughing evilly as they fell to the ground holding their sides.

The three teens looked amongst each other for a moment.

Tekego shook his head as he gazed back to the fire. "I seriously don't want to know."

And crawling in the room was no other than the two toddlers, Bra and Pan.

The both were dressed in Sakura's less liked clothes. The neon colors of the outfits were blinding! But the two children were giggling like there was no tomorrow like the two chibi's on the ground still rolling on the ground in laughter. The teens knew they had set up some type of prank for when the parents returned home.

Where were the parents of these saiyans?

They were out. Enough stated.

The two chibi's seemed to calm their laughter in some strange way before they dashed to the large couch in the room. There sat Otoko; Sakura was also lying on the same couch as he. Her head was resting in his lap. The saiyan female was currently withering in tremendous pain. She was the only saiyan who showed pain; she was also the most vulnerable to breaking bones or getting sick.

She did get injured... because of a dare.

You could thank Trunks and Tekego for daring her to attempt a Jack Ass stunt on a motorcycle while at the energy of a human.

The stunt went wrong; she crashed on her side breaking almost all her bones on the right side of her body. She had to have surgery to put the bones back in place; she even had to have dental work done to fix the teeth that broke because of the stunt. Her skin was very bruised, and there were many cuts along with stitches over her once flawless skin.

Sakura was literally helpless! She couldn't move around unless there was someone willing to move her around and be there for her every second.

There was, in fact, a person who took care of her every moment she was awake and when she slept. He was the one who let her rest her head on his lap.

Tekego looked back to the older full-blooded saiyan; he was still against these actions this saiyan was doing for his sister. "You know... when she's completely better you will not be able to get this close to her. I'm only allowing this because of how dependant she is at this moment..." warned the older brother of the saiyan female.

Otoko shrugged his shoulders as he cleared some of Sakura's short strands of black hair away from her face. She cut her hair VERY short after the play allowing it to grown back to its natural black locks. Her hair was spikier than before, yet, twice as soft as it was before. Otoko noticed Sakura finally close her eyes and give a small sigh indicating that she had just fallen asleep. This was a first.

Sakura couldn't sleep a wink for the past two days ever since the accident. The painkillers that the doctors gave her didn't help as they had hoped. Sure, it took a small fraction of the pain away... but she still had to deal with a large brunt of it.

The phone rang.

Tekego leaned back from where he was sitting and grabbed the wireless phone. "Yes?"

"Tekego, is everyone doing fine?"

The saiyan smirked when the words rang in his ears from the receiver. It was his father. Oh... he just knew Sakura would be under her father's protection 24/7.

"Everyone's fine father... that is... all but Jueru."

"Jueru?"

Tekego turned his eyes to his sister. She was now awake at hearing her name; her eyes were completely fearful. Sakura automatically knew that this was her father.

"Yes. She's currently resting her head on the lap of Otoko."

There was silence on the other side of the line... but... the saiyans could automatically feel a HUGE energy in a distance. In the background, Goku's happy-go-lucky voice rang.

"WOW! I didn't know you too could go super!"

Sakura couldn't speak thanks to the broken jaw... but she could still make some noise. And that's exactly what she did; she whined.

"Why. Is. She. Resting. On. Otoko's. Lap," questioned the father of the female saiyan.

"She's completely helpless from this stunt... she was dared to do a few days ago. Otoko had put it upon himself to watch her as she heals and to cater to her every need."

There was a pause in the other side of the line. Then the last sentence was stated, "Then I guess I can't stop the bond he his forming with her; Otoko has obviously gained Sakura's trust... there's nothing more I can do to protect her; she obviously has a soul mate now."

And with that, the phone went dead.

Tekego turned the phone off after a moment or so before he turned back to the eldest full-blooded saiyan. He was now 20 years of age. The female he was after was 16. Only four year difference...

"So... Otoko," started Tekego as he kept his gaze to the saiyan, "You have all intentions to make my sister yours?"

He looked down to her and he gently smiled as he began to gently rub out some aches she had in her shoulder. Otoko nodded as his gaze remained on Sakura. "Someone needs to protect her. She's obviously very fragile."

"That's the job of my father and I," stated back the brother of the female.

"And such a wonderful job you both did," stated the older saiyan sarcastically as he looked back down to Jueru.

She was now looking to her brother with calm eyes than back to Otoko who smiled down to her. Sakura hated it when they talked about her like this...she wasn't a piece of meat! Bringing her left hand up, she used her hand to make it look like she was writing something.

Noticing this, Trunks went over to the kitchen for a moment and later coming out with a tablet and a marker. He noticed Sakura bending her left leg up so he place the note pad there. And as he placed it sitting up he handed her the marker already open.

Now... since Sakura usually used her left hand to write everything with, she had so much trouble when writing her message on the note pad with her left hand. First, her handwriting was very messy... and second this wasn't the proper hand for her to create letters with.

And when she finished her message she brought her left hand down and gave a small sigh.

Otoko took the pad and read the messy writing. "Why do you two have to argue so much about me?"

He looked to her and smiled, "Well... I hope to have full possession of your one day, young one."

Placing the pen down and ripping the used paper off, she shoved the paper down Otoko's shirt before she grabbed the pen and began to write another message.

When she was finished, the noise she made sounded similar to a muffled cackle. Otoko took the piece of paper out of his shirt before he read the new message on the note pad. " " 'That's what YOU think'? Seriously Jueru... when a saiyan male is after you, he will track you down no matter what."

She looked to him with her good eye and her swollen eye. She then looked down to the pad and added another message to the first. He read it as she wrote it, "As I stated before, that's what YOU think. I'll make sure to run off into space and find some evil villain as a mate." His eyes turned to slits as he noticed the humor in her eyes. "There is no way in hell that I am going to allow you to do that."

She looked to the pad and ripped off the sheet before starting on a new piece of paper. Otoko read it out loud once more. "Want to bet?"

His eyes turned to tighter slits. But his lips soon turned to a smirk. "How about I claim you now? What would you say about that? You are... after all very venerable," reasoned Otoko with a wicked smirk.

Sakura looked coolly to the saiyan before she used her left hand to point to the side. And turning his head to his side he noticed Tekego standing there in full-out super saiyan mode.

Trunks and Goten just stared at the two strangely. Goten shook his head, "I am so glad I don't have a little sister."

Trunks rolled his eyes. "I wish I had a little brother more than a sister... I sometimes wake up with makeup covering my face, courtesy of Bra."

"Do you think she and Pan will be little pranksters?" questioned Goten as he looked out the window.

Trunks shook his head, "Let's hope not. They would get into so much chaos as we did when we were left home alone..."

"Yeah..." muttered Trunks as he looked to the two chibi's, "They would become just like us..."

"Uh... Trunks?"

The hybrid saiyan prince turned to his life long friend. "Yeah?"

Goten, now with wide eyes, looked to his best friend with frightened eyes. He quickly pointed to the ground.

Trunks raised an eyebrow as he looked down.

His face became deathly pale.

"Why," started Tekego as he began to stalk over to the two, "have you both quieted down so-" His eyes also widened and he froze in mid step looking to the ground.

Otoko looked down to the ground and he lightly frowned.

Carefully moving her head to the left, Sakura tried to gaze at why all have quieted down. Her eyes noticed the brown speck on the ground; she screamed bloody murder as she leaped to the other side of the room.

Both of her arms were against the wall and she sat there trembling as her eyes remained on that evil thing.

The roach returned.

Otoko turned his head back to Sakura then to the bug. He looked back to her once more. "I thought... you were-"

"I hate roaches!" she exclaimed as she began to hyperventilate. Her voice was strained... and she was obviously fighting the enormous amount of pain she was facing... or maybe she was too afraid to realize it was there...

Looking back the roach, the oldest full-blooded saiyan walked up to it and snorted. "How can you be afraid of this little... thing?"

Trunks, Goten, and Tekego backed away from the area.

Trunks shook his head, "You obviously weren't there when the roach first appeared..."

Otoko rolled his eyes and he brought his foot up, and over the roach.

The eyes of the saiyans watching widened and they backed further away from him.

But at the last second, the oldest saiyan had a different idea; he brought his foot back kneeling down to the bug. He picked it up by its antenna's.

Otoko looked at the bug in its eyes. "You're afraid of this thing? It's nothing but a-"

That was the moment that the roach spit its evil 'secret weapon', its acid.

Poor inconsiderate fool...

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I think I might add one more chapter to this fic... it will be like... a 10 years later thing. It'll just show who ends up with whom and other things... and memories brought up... stuff like that. I hope this chapter was enjoyable! And I'm really becoming sad that this fic is ending! But not to fear! I have sent out a spin off fic from this series called 'War Against A Roach'. Some may have seen it out already... but yeah... the title is almost self-explanatory. Thanks for sticking with me thus far!

Takuma