Disclaimer: For the last time (in this fanfic), it's in CHAPTER ONE!!!

Well, this is it, folks. The last chapter of Green Valentine Daquiri. You've been a good bunch of fans; Really. My other fics are looking forward to the attention that they'll be getting, and my 2nd sequal (which I'm thinking about naming along the lines of The Mania of the Tearing Seams) will go underway. A little info for you: it's to take place at about the end of DBZ (so it will be in the DBZ section), it will be rather short, and it WONT be a Romance (I'm not even planning for Jin to make any sort of appearance o.o;;;).
"I can't believe that I'm doing this..." I said, sorting through my old, dusty suitcase. Chi-Chi and I were in my cave on the secluded, uncharted island that I used for training. I pulled out several papers, trying to find a picture of Jin among them, as Chi-Chi rummaged around for the ring and a set of, as she put it, "normal clothes".
"We have to get something that's not out of date yet, but still would be something that she'd expect you to wear," she explained as she looked at one of the shirts. "Simple black slacks and this white shirt should do." She tossed it towards me. "Still haven't found your ring, though."
I didn't answer; I just passed from one paper to another. Most of what I had from the experience wasn't much more than copies of the formulas for the drugs and counteractive, as well as a few newspaper snips concerning what happened at Loam Bistro and Jailbait and some stuff from the Red Stave Pub. Then, I came upon a group picture of everybody working at the bar together. I remembered when it was taken, about a week before we left. "This might work."
"Hmm? You found a picture?" She crouched beside me and looked. "Which one's you?" When I pointed myself out, she gasped. "You've got to be kidding! That guy is..." She quickly looked back and forth between me and the picture. "I have to see what you look like with that ring on."
"Yeah, whatever. That won't happen if you don't find it."
"I will! But first, which one's Jin?" I pointed to the woman by my Human form, standing in the same fashion as I did, with her arms crossed. "Geez. She does look like she acts like you. And Uwaki is...?" I tapped the woman on the other side of me, clasped on my arm and posing in a sordid manner. Chi-Chi made a groan. "She looks a lot like Kuririn's old girlfriend, Marron."
As I went to place the parchments back in the suitcase, the ring fell out and clanged on the stone ground. "No wonder it was so hard to find." I picked it up and pushed Chi-Chi out of the cave so that I could dress.

Kouseki Island was a small to medium sized community, in the process of expanding. Most of the people on it seemed to have recently moved there within the past five years. That was the excuse that was given me whenever I asked if they knew the woman in the picture.
One old man that I asked looked over the fence, adjusting his glasses as he gazed. "Sure seems familiar. Then again, she's so pretty, I might have seen her in one of my magazines..."
I smacked him upside the head with the map of the island Chi-Chi insisted on getting and walked away. "I don't see why I'm doing this. It's been seven years!"
"Hey, come on!" Chi-Chi came in, "It's Valentine's Day. You should feel obligated to see her again, at least once."
"Mister," I heard a small voice call from behind me, accompanied by a tugging at my pantsleg. I turned to see a little girl, about five or six years old, looking up at me. "I think I know who that lady is."
"Do you?" I held the photo down a little lower so that she would have a better look. She gazed at it for a moment, and nodded energetically with her face beaming. "Yup! That's my mommy!"
"Your..." I managed a smile with some effort. "Your mother, huh?"
She giggled. "Hey! Come with me and meet daddy!" With this, she began to run a little ahead. "Come on!"
"I don't know if that's..." It took quite a bit of willpower to not crush the picture and the map in my hands.
Chi-Chi's hand fell on my shoulder. "You should, you know."

The little girl took us to a bar, which didn't surprise me at the least. "Daddy!" She yelled as she ran back through a door that was obviously the manager's office. I sat on a stool and leaned against the counter, feeling week.
"That girl does look a bit like her," she said, looking at the photograph. "Black hair; Pale skin."
My mind wandered as we waited. I remembered something that disproved something I said to Chi-Chi earlier. I figured that I forgot it because I was about to die, but I did think of Jin once in the past seven years. As I was looking up at the sky, dying, with Gohan and his own pouting at my side, above him I thought I saw Jin crying. But I wasn't really sure if it was her, since I didn't really see her as much as I felt her. Almost certainly, though, I saw her tears drop, but vanish before they reached my face.
The cheerful laugh of the girl came again, followed by a man's voice. "OK, OK, Hina-chan! Who is it that you want me to see?"
She led him to us. "This man and lady are looking for Mommy."
He blinked. "Mommy?" Then he looked at the picture. "Oh! You mean Uotsuka-san!" He laughed himself and looked at us. "She's not really Uotsuka-san's daughter; She's an orphan. Her real parents died before she could remember and I took custody of her. But, one day, she saw a picture of Uotsuka-san and referred to her as 'Mommy' ever since."
I gave a sigh of relief, and Chi-Chi snickered.
"She's really pretty, though!" The girl hopped up onto the stool. "And she has black hair and pale skin like me! Daddy, do you think that I'll be pretty like that when I grow up?"
"I'm sure you will, Hina-chan," He laughed and looked at us. "So, you're looking for her? I'm sorry if you came a long way just to find her, because she hasn't been here for quite a few year now..." He looked up in thought a moment. "Seven years, I think. Really, she only stayed a month or two while she worked on something the local machine shop. Not sure what."
"I see." I lowered my head a bit. "Do you have any idea where she went?"
"Well, I'd like to say that she left Kouseki to live somewhere else, but I don't know. If you talk to anyone that was around at the time, you'll know that about eight or more years ago, there was a great flash and a tremor, and the shrine on the mountain was destroyed. All the demons, said to be sealed in the mountain, broke loose and started to cause mayhem. It was gettin' to be a real problem; People were even dying. But then Uotsuka- san just went into the woods of the mountains one day and the haunting stopped."
I raised a brow. "That's fascinating, but what does it have to do with where she might be?"
"That's just it. That was the last anyone ever saw of her. The woods are still haunted, so no one went in for a search party. We don't know what happened to her. Some people think that she sacrificed herself to keep the demons from coming into town again." He looked at the picture again. "Hey! You're that guy she was always talking about! Dorai Berumotto, isn't it?"
"Y-yeah. She talked about me?"
He nodded. "Almost every night. When she came here, she had that same picture out and looked at it. Whenever she started doing that, she'd say, 'Give me a doubleshot of Dry Vermouth; A shot for both me and my companion of the same name.' Then she'd start talking about how you two had so much in common, that you'd start talking in unison out of the blue, and stuff like that. I asked her a few times if she loved you."
"And what'd she say?" I said in an almost hasty manner.
"'Probably.'"

The map, though showing a mark that represented the temple, didn't outline any definite path to it through the woods. Even so, I went ahead, threading through the trees. Chi-Chi became anxious at my decision to take a look on what happened to Jin.
"What're you worried about? You're the one that suggested I come here in the first place." I called back at her. I had taken my ring off, seeing as it was pointless to look Human in a place that had no one in it.
"That's easy for you to say! You can just kill any demon that comes up! And even if you can't, you could probably get them to bow down before you!"
"What was that?" A voice came from inside a tree. Suddenly, we were surrounded by various youkai and mononoke. Sounds of their energies passing, or oni growling, or chains clanking circled us.
The muttering voices and gnashing teeth died down when a tall but bent creature came forward. It had long, thin hair and a skull-like face. It's body was thin and frail looking, and it was almost completely white and gray. When its eyes seemed to have focused on me, it kneeled to the ground. "Greetings, Daimaou-sama."
It appears that Chi-Chi was right. "Who are you?"
"Sukeruton. I am the doyen of the Kouseki forces, and a loyal servant to your father. May I ask to what service you would wish of me?"
"I'm looking for a Human woman named Jin Uotsuka."
There was a lot of commotion among the group as soon as I muttered the name. Sukeruton raised a hand, and the noise ceased. "I was bid, by her own mouth, not to reveal much about her. However, your father wanted me to tell you his own plot. You see, he went to check on your progress, and noticed an influx of energy here. At that time, she crashed into the mountain and destroyed the temple that kept us locked away. We, in turn, would tend to her wounds. Your father thought that she was a superb candidate to be your queen, and designed to have you meet." He stopped abruptly when he noticed my rising ire.
"Lovely to see that Father has such great interest in my love life," I grumbled sarcastically, "Am I to assume that you tended to her also as she was much stronger than you?"
He looked to either side anxiously. "I suppose so. Yeah, you could say that. It was quite definite to us that she was superior."
"So, where is she now?"
"Well, she fixed her ship... and left to go home," he said, as plain as possible.
"And her home is...?"
"I was told not to say anything that could reveal that she wasn't Human--- FUCK!!" Slapping his own head, he retired to his rest, refusing to answer any more questions.
A long-necked mononoke in a kimono came to us after he left. "Our leader is just a little overexcited. She crashed here in her space ship, and we immediately saw from her appearance that she was to be a demon queen. We had to detour her until Youba made a new ring that had more complex texture rendering, since the crash left her with a great wound that had a good chance of being seen."
"She actually wasn't Human?" I looked up to the sky, watching the few clouds that could be seen through the tree branches redden with the sunset.
"We cannot answer any more questions," she said, and with that, all the demons turned away and vanished.

I dropped Chi-Chi back off at her house and went back to my own cave on my island. I locked away all the garments and memories in the case again and sprawled out on my mediocre bed of animal skins and straw. Having nothing to look at but the cave ceiling above me, my mind wandered to Jin again. So, she was an alien, and a demon to boot.Of course it figured. Hell, I suspected it enough.
The next day, I trained harder and longer than usual, not letting the two Saiya-jin take any unnecessary breaks. Perhaps its the old "carrot on a stick" (or "bottle on a string", in this case), but working is always easier when theres a reward in front of you, even if it seems like you can never reach it.
Well, it's been fun, guys. I gained some fans and some skills along the way, and you people found something to tickle your Romance fancies without going Mary Sue (sorry, but I find most yaoi sappy and OOC) or into the uninspired trash that wafts around some of these fanfic sites (ie, generic make-out scenes of AnimeHeroY and AnimeHeroineX). If you've been saving up, you can read the Interpretations now (though I highly suggest hearing the songs in them beforehand). Funny. As I finished this, I finished high school! -cheering- I gots me some cord and tassle action for me cap n' gown!