A/N: Thank you everyone for the reviews! It might be a little while before I can post again, depending when I get time because this is the last week of school. And then I'm going camping. Lol woot:D But I'll do my best to update again as soon as I can.
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If someone ever told you there wasn't a dark side to Son Goku, they lied. That dark side, the side he keeps locked inside, the Saiyajin in him, Kakaratto, rarely ever surfaces. He doesn't let it, until then. His eyes skimmed over the face of his grandson staring up at him with unseeing eyes. Gohan was approaching quickly with Goten, the two coming back to search for the boy.
Slowly Goku knelt down by Ganjo and touched his face, "You're gonna be okay." He whispered, his voice catching with the wind and floating away before it could reach Ganjo's ears.
Kage stirred, winced, then opened his eyes finding the angry face of Son Goku staring down at him.
"G-Goku?" Kage blinked tiredly, "Wha-... what happened? 'm I dead?" His head throbbed and he felt like he'd pass out again if he had to move.
Goku breathed in sharply through his nose, "You need to leave Kage. Leave and never come back."
"What?" Kage closed his eyes and was pulled up onto his feet in one swift motion. He wavered, staggering forward as the world spun around him and his head pounded harder.
Goku caught him and held him up firmly by the shoulders, "I can't help you anymore Kage. You have to go now," He grabbed the boy by the chin forcing him to look him in the face, "Now Kage."
Kage stared back at him with wide eyes, "I don't know what's going on." He whispered, he had never been this scared before.
Shaking his head, Goku released Kage and began to vanish, "Just go."
Feeling to weak to fly, Kage began walking aimlessly across the desert. What frightened him most was that he couldn't remember getting there. He could remember going to Ganjo's but everything after that was a blur.
"I need to find my father." He whispered under his breath as his feet dragged along the dirt.
Slowly the vegetation began showing up and the ground began to get softer until finally his feet came into contact with grass. Kage swallowed thickly looking back at the desert and continued on into the forest.
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Gohan and Goten's feet touched down on the ground where one time a busy street had been.
"I'll take this half," Gohan said pointing to the left; he pointed to the right, "You take that half."
Goten nodded, "Alright." He said already taking to the air to get a better view of the area. His eyes landed on Piccolo's dead body and he froze in the air.
Taking to the ground, Gohan ran as fast as his feet would let him. His eyes skimmed the ground around him and before him. Then something blue caught his eye.
"Goten!" He yelled changing directions, "Goten I think I found him!"
Goten pulled his eyes away from Piccolo and was above Gohan in seconds, "I see him!" He called down and moved ahead landing next to the boy before Gohan even got there.
The two knelt down by the boy, Gohan panting from both his run and the fear closing his throat. His heart pounded in his chest as Goten check Ganjo over, checking his pulse in his neck.
"He's alive." He said softly and Gohan sighed heavily.
Ganjo stirred, his eyes opening slowly, "D-dad?" His voice rasped dryly.
"Yea son, it's me. You did good 'jo." Gohan smiled brushing Ganjo's bangs from his face.
Ganjo blinked, "Why's it so dark? Turn on the lights will ya?" He coughed clearing his throat.
Gohan and Goten exchanged worried looks, "Dad?" Ganjo whispered.
"I'm still here," Gohan squeezed Ganjo's arm gently, "I'm still here."
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The roar of the waterfall echoed around Kage signaling the end of his long journey home. He had collapsed in exhaustion several times along the way. Dropping to his knees at the water's edge, he dunk his head in and drank greedily. Feeling full, Kage laid down in the grass in an attempt at gathering energy. His whole body ached including the headache he had woken up with.
"Father," He called out curling up into the fetal position, "Father help…" His eyes rolled up to the cave opening in hopes of his father floating out to yell at him about being weak. But the water kept its steady currant and no noises came from within the cave.
"Father!" Kage shouted suddenly feeling alone.
Tears welled up in his eyes at the words echoing in his mind, 'You're alone now. My job here is done.' The silence afterwards was sickening. Kage curled further into himself and cried.
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"His retinas have been burnt out." Bulma frowned moving the light away from Ganjo's eyes. She was really a scientist but in being a scientist she had also picked up a few medical terms. She figured she should know some of those things when Marai Trunks told her about the future. Funny how some things change.
"I'm going to be blind forever?" Ganjo's voice wavered slightly in fear. Even the sensus couldn't undo that damage done to his eyes.
Bulma looked to Gohan hold Videl who was sobbing. Videl reminded her a lot of Chichi the way their reactions were closely the same on things. She turned back to Ganjo and squeezed his shoulder, "I'm sorry Ganjo."
Ganjo looked away raking his hand through his hair, "Shit." He breathed.
"Ganjo!" Videl reprimanded her son half heartedly, "Watch your mouth." Her voice crumbled and she turned back to Gohan burying her face into his shirt.
"I need some air." Ganjo grunted standing up and attempted to leave the room, his arms flailed in the air and he ran into a table. He hissed in annoyance and pain and continued to try to leave the room. Gohan came to his aid placing both his hands on his son's shoulders.
Ganjo shrugged him off, "No!" He shouted swiping at the air, "I can do this! Just let me be!" He turned back in the direction he believed the door to be and continued forward. Gohan backed up a little stunned and watched him leave the room and disappear down the hallway.
"It's going to take some time." Bulma said softly moving to Videl to take Gohan's place in comforting her.
Gohan nodded mutely then walked out the door closing it behind him. He found Ganjo sitting in the hallway, with his knees pulled up to his chest, staring blankly at the wall.
"I don't know where to go." He said monotonously, his hands twitching on top his knees.
Gohan slid down the wall, "I'm sorry."
"For what?" Ganjo turned his head in the direction of his father's voice.
There was a brief silence as Gohan thought about the question, what was he sorry for? For thinking Kage had some good in him, for thinking that Kage could fight back the evil in him, for what?
"Everything." He answered finally.
Ganjo just snorted stretching his legs out in front of himself, "Don't be sorry."
Another moment of silence passed between them and then Ganjo, using the aid of the wall, stood up, "I still need some air." He said following the wall a little ways.
Gohan stood up and moved next to him, "We can get you a teacher to help you with this. To teach you-"
"I don't want to talk about it," Ganjo interrupted as he followed the wall around a corner, "Not right now."
"Oh." Gohan sighed eyeing the door to the backyard on the other side of the hallway but didn't say anything. Ganjo didn't want his help right now.
Ganjo paused then turned around facing Gohan, "He was my best friend dad." He said clenching his fists by his sides, "I can't believe…" Gohan felt anger run through his veins at seeing his son so upset, "I can't hate him dad."
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