A/N: Thank you Dreamwraith, Piccolosdragon (I'm really looking forward to seeing that picture!), Daffodil8728, and Miroku-has-darkness for the reviews!
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"Why don't you swim?" Ganjo asked lying back in the grass, his shirt missing and his pants soaked from the quick dip in the lake. They had ended up back at Piccolo's waterfall; however said Namek was not there.
Kage shrugged, "I tried too when I was little, but I tripped and fell going under. It was the scariest thing, besides," He looked over at Ganjo shifting his arms under his head, "Besides that day."
"I was a close call." Ganjo said softly, he had never told Kage just how close it really was. Goten had told him a few years back expecting him to be more wary of the Namekian boy, in the end it just made them closer.
Kage nodded his eyes sliding up to the sky, "Never could figure out where I got that attack… not only that, but I can't do it again." A thoughtful look relaxed his features, "Hey," He smiled sitting up and leaned back on his hands, "Heard your grandfather is coming back. My father won't tell me exactly where from …"
Ganjo grinned sitting up as well, "He's been dead."
"Dead?" Kage blinked, he'd heard of the Dragon balls bringing dead people back to life, but not dead people coming back just to 'visit'. That was just weird.
His confusion, however, seemed to only amuse Ganjo, "Yep, for one week. It'll be nice; I haven't seen him since I was seven." He turned away looking up at the clouds.
"Wait," Kage furrowed his eyebrows in thought, "Why can't I remember him?"
Ganjo's face dropped slightly, "Well uh, he came while you were unconscious." He didn't have to say anymore judging by the look on Kage's face, "He was only here for a couple of hours though." Truth was, he had come despite some witch woman's wishes when he had found out about Kage's attack and Piccolo's wishes to destroy the child.
"What happened?" The tall spiky haired man appeared suddenly and all eyes turned to him in surprise. Gohan gaped at him, Goten froze, and Ganjo hid behind his father's leg.
Dende blinked hard, "Goku?"
"Dad?"
Piccolo looked up at the man who was ignoring everyone's stunned reactions, his eyes fixed on him sitting in the corner of the room.
"Goku," Piccolo growled locking eyes with his one time enemy, "Long time no see."
Gohan stepped forward, "Dad? Why are you here?" He would have loved to hug him but something about the way his father looked was intimidating, even to him.
Goku walked over to Kage's bedside and looked down at the Namekian child, "He has great potential Piccolo," He said softly looking back over to the Namek, "But I would be careful."
It was such an ominous comment from the naïve carefree man that it had stunned everyone into silence. Ganjo glanced over at Kage; he didn't want to go into detail about his grandfather's visit. The man did however loosen up once he had said that, but the thought still lingered in everyone's minds.
"I can't wait to see him again."
Kage smiled lopsidedly picking at his sweaty T-shirt he wore under his gi top. His whole outfit clashed horribly, his father had even said so before they left to spar that morning. His gi looked exactly like his father's except instead of the blue sash and bare-chested look; he went with the orange sash and orange T-shirt look. In the bright sunlight he was hard to look at, Ganjo guessed that's what he was going for.
"Man," Ganjo wrinkled his nose, "You stink. When's the last time you bathed?"
Kage grinned sheepishly, "One week ago."
Ganjo laughed, "One word, 'deodorant'."
"De-odor-what?" Kage made a face and Ganjo fell over then scrambled away from the Namek.
"Come on, you seriously need a bath."
Kage reluctantly stood up and followed Ganjo into the air.
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"-I would be careful."
Piccolo scowled unfolding himself from his seated position in the air right in front of his waterfall. He couldn't concentrate enough to actually meditate, his thoughts kept wandering back to those four words Goku had spoke nearly a decade ago. His eyes slid down to the ground where Kage was meditating in a clean gi, one of Ganjo's instead of his own.
Goku was coming back and that was something the Namekian was not looking forward too.
"Father?" Kage called up to him pulling him out of his thoughts.
Floating down to his side, Piccolo smirked slightly, "I see that Ganjo got you to take a bath." The boy defiantly smelt better thank Kami, he didn't know how much more he could handle.
Kage smiled, "Thought it was about time. He even gave me this," He pulled out a stick of deodorant from his pocket.
"What's that?" Piccolo grunted looking the object over.
Kage shrugged, "Deodorant. Anyways, I wanted to ask you something," He tucked the deodorant back into his pocket and looked back up at his father seriously, "What happened that day when I was unconscious."
Piccolo frowned; he hadn't planned on telling Kage that story, "What day?" He grunted buying himself some time.
"Ten years ago when I… when I almost killed us." All traces of his happy-go-lucky Goku nature was gone, at that moment he truly looked like the son of Piccolo Damaio.
"It's a long story." He didn't want to tell it.
Kage frowned, "We have time." He said sitting down on the ground and watched his father intently.
A few long moments passed before Piccolo finally sat down turning himself towards the water. He watched the water ripple and move then go still a little ways away from the falls, his mind raced for a place to start.
"In order for you to understand what happened then you have to know the circumstances in which you were born." Piccolo started glancing over at Kage who too was watching the water's surface.
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"Ichi, ni, san, shi-" Ganjo paused in mid punch when a new ki signature sparked near by.
Gohan walked out the door with Videl as Goku suddenly appeared in the center of the yard.
He grinned at the family, "Hey!"
"Dad!" Gohan laughed running over to the man and hugged him, "It's been a long time! How have you been?"
Goku laughed hugging Gohan back then pulled back, "Well as good as a dead guy can be I suppose." He grinned looking around his eyes landing on Ganjo, "How's my grandson been?"
Ganjo smiled, "I've been good Grandpa."
Nodding Goku looked to Videl, "Hello Videl!" He waved.
She laughed softly, "Hello Mr. Son."
"Nah," Goku shook his head, "You can just call me Goku, all that formal stuff…" He rolled his eyes.
Gohan smiled, "You hungry dad? We were just about to go eat dinner."
A loud rumbling sound echoed around the yard ending with Goku smiling sheepishly with his hand behind his head. Ganjo shook his head, he never did understand the Saiyajin appetite since he wasn't born with it himself; being one-third Saiyajin did have its perks.
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Kage breathed out slowly threw his nose, "So… you were going to kill me?"
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