The fighters completed the punching block test. They stood in anticipation of the results. Not surprisingly Goku and the others advanced easily into the tournament. So did the mysterious female fighter from before. The remaining fighters assembled into a group to march out and pick lots. Hana stood behind Goten and Trunks, both of whom chattered to each other and made bluffs about being stronger. Goku still watched Hana closely, trying to shake the nagging sense that her presence was based on more than fighting. Vegeta narrowed his eyes. Even though he rarely agreed with Goku, he had to admit that there was something unsettling about the girl. He just couldn't put his finger on what it was.

Hana stood near the boys lost in thought. She played with the necklace around her neck and opened the locket. A stiff family portrait of a tall bearded man and his wife and daughter filled the right side and picture of a baby, not more than a week old was on the left side. Hana looked at the young girl in the picture. "Mother..." she whispered. She then abruptly closed the locket.

Goku glanced over at Hana. 'Strange...' he thought. 'She has some sort of locket.'

"Kakarot!" Vegeta yelled.

Goku's eardrums rang.

"What was that for!" Goku exclaimed. "Are you trying to make me deaf or something?"

"Like I care about that. I want to know about this amazing fighter you were talking about." Vegeta replied. "Is that scrawny kid really the reincarnation of Buu?"

"You better believe it." Goku said. "And that weird girl...I've never seen her before, but she seems strong. The problem is I don't know how strong she since she's making every effort to lay low."

"Yes...not knowing her true strength is unsettling," Vegeta agreed. "Not that it matters. She couldn't possibly be stronger than me."
"Right, Vegeta." Goku said, shaking his head.

Hana watched the little girl balance on her small palms along the edge of the ring. Her eyes grew sad and she remembered when she was that carefree and not worried about mere survival. She was strong, too. 'This child is no human,' Hana thought. 'She must have saiyan blood in her to be so strong at such a young age.'

Then, Pan lost her balance and crushed right into White Tiger. She cried and rubbed her head.

"How dare you attack, White Tiger." He said.

The girl whimpered and rubbed a tear from her eye, running over to Goku. She hugged his leg and he calmed her. Hana remembered the conversation from before." Her 'grampa' apparently," she thought. Hana hated saiyans for her father's untimely death, but couldn't tolerate a little girl being terrorized. Call it a habit.

"So you have to pick on small children to feel tough, huh?" She said, locking eyes with White Tiger and refusing to back off.

"Who are you to talk to White Tiger in such a manner?" He snarled.

"Like I would bother telling scum like you anything. Anyone who feels the need to refer to themselves in third person and attack children must be a coward," Hana replied.

White Tiger fumed.

"You want a fight?" He threatened.

"Like you could possibly stand a chance against me," Hana said. "I'm willing to bet the little girl you just frightened could knock you out in two seconds."

"Me? I could punch your lights out before you even blink." She added. "You no longer interest me. I'm leaving."

With that, Hana gave him a slap on the back. White Tiger winched and grumbled, making his way over to Pan and the others to repair his bruised ego.

"Did you see that?" Goten said to Trunks. "That girl just intimidated him...and slapped him hard enough to make him flinch."

"Yeah, she's almost as short-tempered and cocky as my father." Trunks said.

"Only a lot prettier," Goten said, distractedly.

Trunks raised an eyebrow and looked at Goten. Goten shifted his feet and laughed nervously, scratching his head.

"Er...I mean, not that I find her or your father attractive... that would be weird, ya know?" Goten said, covering up his blurted-out statement rather badly.

"Yeah, buddy. I hope you don't think that." Trunks said, shuddering.

"Besides, what happened to you whining 'My Dad made me cancel my date.' " he added, punching Goten playfully in the side.

"Just drop the subject." Goten said.

"Maybe you should focus on your fight with Buu and less on girls, son." Said Goku, coming behind the boys.

"Dad! Stop sneaking up on me." Goten said. "And eavesdropping."

"Right," Goku said, chuckling.

Just then, the fighters assembled into the waiting area for their matches. Hana watched the Z fighters go to a corner and chatter away, except for Vegeta who stood apart from them and closed his eyes in thought. Hana felt the anger build up inside her. 'Soon you will know the pain my father felt.' She thought. 'Trust me.'