Sorry I was taking so long with this, but I had a really long chapter done but I hated it. I doubt there are actually people reading this story, and if there are, I thank the brave people.

Disclaimer: I don't own Totally Spies, Marathon does, and I don't own DragonBall Z/GT, Akira Toriyama does. (And FUNimation owns the English dubbed versions.)

Alex sat on the bed, her mouth hanging open. The whole room was silent, except the quiet noise of some wind outside. The tail flicked around, in almost spastic motions. Alex put her hands gently around it; it was slightly wet, being covered in blood. Sam made a loud fake cough, trying to cover up the awkward silence.

"How..?" Alex asked, her face slightly pale. Her hands were shaking slightly.

"Well.. Tails can grow back.. Why it grew back just now, that's kind of weird," Koneko said looking up, "Maybe you felt threatened, so your Saiyan blood caused you to lash out and that caused your tail to grow back.. That's my only answer.."

The other three just sat there, their mouths hanging open. 'Damn.. Why does she have an answer to everything..?' Sam thought to herself.

Koneko walked over Alex, and took the flicking tail in her hands. She gave it a slight tug, Alex yelped loudly like a dog. Koneko nodded, "Yep! It's a Saiyan tail," Koneko said, quite pleased with herself.

Clover sat there, her eyes watching the tail's every movement, like she was excepting it to leap at her.

Alex pulled her tail out of Koneko's hands, and brought it over to her. She stood up, and walked around. For once in her life, her movements didn't feel awkward or clumsy. It was like the tail made her more graceful.

Like she was reading her mind, Koneko spoke up. "A tail does help your balance, a lot. Like a cat, or a kangaroo.." Koneko said this in a very casual way, like it was the simplest answer ever.

Sam frowned at her, she was getting very annoyed with her.

"Jeeze Koneko! You have an answer to everything, even ones that weren't asked!" Sam yelled at her, her face was turning red.

"Are you jealous that you're not the smartest person here now?" Koneko said, smirking. She was testing Sam's patience.

Sam clenched her fists, "You think you're sooo smart.. But.." Sam looked around, obviously not able to think of anything to say.

"Look Sam, I know a lot because I've had a lot of life experience. I've lived in a small village in the middle of some woods for ten years. And actually, I know a lot about Saiyans because I'm half Saiyan," Koneko said, casting her eyes to the ceiling.

"Y-You're Saiyan?" Clover asked, finally saying something.

"Jeeze.." Koneko jumped back for a second, Clover saying something all of the sudden surprised her, she coughed, "Yes.. Yes I am a Saiyan.."

"Why didn't you say anything about that before?" Alex asked, finally talking.

"Well.. I thought it's weird that I'm not human at all.. Think about it.. I'm pretty much half cat half monkey. Being half human half Saiyan isn't that weird 'cause Saiyans and humans are very close genetically, maybe off one code," Koneko said in pretty much one breath.

"Uh.. Yea.." Alex said slowly, "Anyway.. What are we going to do about this tail?" Alex wagged her tail, indicating it.

"Well, we have two options, one is to leave the tail alone," Koneko looked around for any reactions before continuing, "Or we could cut it off.."

"Um.. Does it hurt to cut it off..?" Alex asked sheepishly.

"I've never had it done before, but I heard it hurts like hell. You see the Saiyan tail has very sensitive nerve endings, that's why," Koneko swiftly grabbed Alex's tail causing her to screech in pain, "Any pressure to the tail causes extreme pain."

"How is the tail cut off?" Alex asked, her voice getting shaky.

"You don't have to necessarily cut it off, I could yank it off, but it would have to be at the base," Koneko explained.

Alex paled, and looked at the floor. "And if I don't cut or pull it off.. What do I do..?"

"What do you mean?" Koneko asked.

"I mean, what do I do to keep people from noticing?" Alex said fingering her hair.

"Oh, what I do is wrap it around my waist, that way people think it's a belt," Koneko answered.

Sam, who had been quiet for a while, asked, "Is your tail Neko-jin, or Saiya-jin?"

"Good question Sam", said Koneko, sounding like a teacher, "My tail has less sensitive nerve endings, but if pulled hard enough I can be knocked unconscious. But different from the Neko-jin tail, mine is very flexible, I can wrap it around, say a tree branch, and hang on it. So it's probably more Saiyan that Neko-jin."

Sam nodded, for once in her life, she wasn't really following this. Alex's face was still considerably pale, and Clover had fallen silent again. Silence filled the room. All was heard was everyone's slow breathing. Koneko stood up abruptly, walking over to the window. She stared out outside. She looked as though she was looking at something.

Just then, they heard Carmen's voice yell from downstairs. "Alex?" her voice sounded anxious, "Alex!"

Alex jumped. She quickly stood up. "Y-Yea mom?" Alex said, her voice shaking.

"Alex, are you alright?" Carmen's voice was getting closer. They could hear footsteps coming up the stairs. Alex promptly said something: "It's alright mom.. I'm fine... No need to come up!"

The footsteps stopped. "Are you sure?" Carmen's voice began to sound like her daughter's.

Alex nodded to herself. "Yea mom," Alex replied, regaining her composure, "The girls are here." Koneko noted how she said 'the girls', not letting her mom know that some Saiyan/Neko-jin hybrid was in her house. There was silence.

"Ok.." Carmen's voice sounded distant and slightly sad.

Clover's eyes looked up suddenly, sparkling. "I know!" She jumped up, "Let's go to the mall!" The other three looked at her. First she was being quiet and reserved, now she wanted to go to the mall.

Koneko sighed. 'I haven't even known them long,' she thought, 'but already, I know Clover's unpredictable..'

Sam looked at Clover, and nodded. "Fine we can go.." Sam said, Clover responding with a squeal, "But, let's go out the window, be don't want Alex's mom to know."

"We don't?" Koneko said this. Sam looked at Koneko with a surprised look. "Well, yea, she'd probably make a big deal out of it." Koneko cocked her eyebrow. "Why would she? She knew Makoto, she should know about Saiya-jin stuff, right?"

"Y-You knew my dad?" Alex looked up, her eyes wide. Koneko swallowed a few times.

"Well.. I never met him, I just heard about him.."

"How'd you know he was my dad?"

"Well.. I kinda' saw a picture of him lying on the floor," Koneko grinned, shrugging her shoulders.

"Where'd you hear about him?" Alex's voice had grown stern.

"Remember the Saiyans I was talking about a while back?" Alex nodded, "Well, one of the families of the Saiyans were the Briefs, actually Bulma was human and Vegeta, who I already told you about, is Saiyan. Like I said, their children are Trunks and Bra-

"Wait, you mean to tell me their last name is Briefs, the mother's name is Bulma and the children are Trunks and Bra?" Clover made a face.

"Yea, I think there's some pun going on there," Koneko said, "Anyway, from what they told me, over 16 years ago, their friend Makoto saved a girl, who must have been your mom, Alex?" Alex nodded, "So, the girl started to fall in love with Makoto, and soon enough, she became pregnant, later giving birth to a baby girl.

"Makoto and the girl moved back to the girl's house, but when the world was in danger and Makoto knew this, he went off, getting killed. The girl and Makoto's daughter went on with life, the girl getting married with her fiancée, and the child growing up thinking that her mother's husband was her father. Is that what your mom told you Alex?"

Alex sat there quietly. She had only heard part of the story; her mom started to cry while telling her it. Alex nodded slowly.

Koneko looked at her doubtfully, "Ok.."

Sam, who was quiet, let out a long breath through her nose. "H--How about we do something?"

Clover's eyes lit up, "How about the mall?" She grinned sweetly at Sam.

"I don't know.." Sam made a quick glance at Alex, who was fiddling with her tail.

"It's ok, I can just wrap it around my waist, I guess.." Alex said looking up, her voice was flat.

"Ok!" Clover said perkily. She started to flutter out the door when Alex grabbed her by the back of the shirt.

"We can't let my mom see me like this," Alex said in a low voice.

"So, how, may I ask, are we going to get down," Clover asked frowning.

Alex slowly turned her head towards door that went out to the small balcony she had.

"Hell no! We are not going down that way," Clover, almost, shouted.

Without speaking, Alex walked through the door, going out to the balcony.

I want to get as much of my stories done because I'm going on a mission trip in two weeks (Yay!) and I'll be tired when I get back. Yes, mission trip. In Maine, hoes (hos?)!