Kiwi felt some shake her gently and leaped to her feet. Despite the pain she threw two chi blasts at someone standing in front of her. "Kiwi!" Trunks yanked her dark hair and effectively woke her up. "What…Gohan! What are you doing here and why are holding your face like that?" Kiwi sat down trying to ease the pain in her ribs. Gohan chuckled nervously. "Ummm…Trunks woke you up and you threw a few chi blasts at me…" he moved his hands and she saw a few burn marks but nothing to serious. "Sorry Gohan. Trunks knows I do that if I'm startled out of my sleep. That's why he stood on this side of me."

Both she and Gohan turned to glare at the purple haired teen. Trunks grinned sheepishly. "Hey can you blame me if I was tired of burning my face? Anyways you need to go straight home Kiwi. Can you do it on your air board?" Wincing she stood and pulled out her capsule. "Hey…where are Piccolo and the big ugly guy, Cell?" Trunks shrugged. "He went ahead and Cell took off. Hurry up." She nodded stiffly and decapsolized the air board.

Trunks helped her sit on top of the thin board. "This thing is so slender. It's a wonder it can support you." Kiwi smiled proudly even though it hurt. "Yeah, well I'm the only one who can use it. It's programmed to obey me and only Me." she pressed a small button and a pair of handles slid out from a compartment. "Hey I've never seen that before!" "That's because I usually control the whole thing with my feet but I'd most likely fall off if I tried that now. I'll be seeing you later. Bye Gohan!"

"There. Is that to tight?" Bulma finished tying the last of the bandages around Kiwi's chest. "No that's perfect. Thanks a lot Bulma." The blue haired woman laughed. "Don't thank me. Thank Vegeta for getting hurt so many times." Kiwi smiled sadly. "Yeah… I think I'll go take a nap now. Thanks Bulma." Kiwi slipped off the table she had been sitting on and began limping away. "K-kiwi?"

The dark haired girl turned around and saw the other woman staring at her. "Yeah Bulma? Is everything alright?" Bulma took a hesitating step towards her and asked softly, "How come Trunks calls me mom and you don't? Are you not my daughter? Trunks said that you guys were brother and sister…" kiwi blushed guiltily. Why didn't she call Bulma, mom? The answer hovered before her. She couldn't get attached. She had no past. Cell had destroyed her parents and any hope she had of living in this time.

Why get close when she would never even met see these people again? "I'm sorry…Bulma but I'm not your real daughter. Did you know that Cell killed my family today? One year from next Tuesday was when I was supposed to be born. I will never happen because Cell killed everyone in ginger town. I failed Bulma, failed with a capital 'F'. The only reason I came to the past was to make sure I would be born a-and… and to see if I could find the one I loved best.

"I failed both my missions. I allowed my chance of survival to be ripped away from me by a slimy green insect and the one I love is gone. he's not here. He's not hereeee…" her voice ended in a sob and she slipped to floor and began to cry. Bulma was at her side instantly. Wrapping her arms around Kiwi she murmured soothing words into her ears.

"It's alright Kiwi… now take a deep breath and tell me who's not here." Kiwi shifted slightly to get comfortable and said shakily, "H-He's here but its n-not the same. He's short a-and his hair's weird a-and he has two arms. Two aaaaaaaaarms!" she wailed the last part out. Bulma shook her slightly and snapped, "Kiwi, get a grip! Whom are you talking about?"

"Gohan! I'm talking about Gohan! I loved him okay? Loved all right? Do you know what it's like to have your boyfriend killed right in front of you? Of course you don't. I came here so I could see him again and I knew he was going to be different. Then I come here and he's some pipsqueak 11 year old who doesn't know right from left."

Bulma laughed. "Honey but you knew this was going to be different." Kiwi gripped Bulma's shirt and snapped, "I know but you can't help but hope everything will go alright. And to make things worse Cell told me the worst things. It's much too horrible to repeat. Oh mom…"

A throat cleared. Bulma and Kiwi looked up embarrassed. It was Gohan looking uncomfortable. "Ummm…Bulma, Kiwi, is everything alright?" the two girls struggled to stand and Kiwi said brightly, "Every things great Gohan. Mom and I were just doing girl talk. Hey, how come you're not with Trunks? Where is he?" Gohan gave an uncharacteristic scowl. "He and Krillen went to go check Dr. Gero's lab to see if they could find Cell. Mom said I couldn't come so I came here."

Kiwi giggled. "You most be bored. Here lets go outside so I can show you something. Coming Mom?" Bulma shook her head. "No, I've got to work to do. I'll see you kids later." She turned and walked down the hall.

A few moments later Gohan and Kiwi were outside seated beneath a large tree. Kiwi dug through her pocket and handed the child a capsule. "This is a training mechanism that I invented a while back. I just upgraded it recently, would you like to use it?" Gohan nodded. "Uh…sure." Kiwi decapsolized it and Gohan was surprised to see it was nothing more than a pair of sunglass, headphones, gloves and boots.

"How does it work?" quickly Kiwi took the items from him and said, "Here, I'll put them on for you. If you put these on together it becomes like some kind of virtual reality that only you can see. Here, the sunglasses are for the lens. The gloves allow you to hit back at your opponent. The boots so you can kick and fly. And the headphones are so you can hear everything that you opponent says."

About 20 seconds later Gohan was fighting against a virtual Vegeta. After watching him for a few moments Kiwi, with much difficulty, stood up and limped inside. Seeing the couch she gave a sigh of relief and lay down upon it. Sadly she thought, -man am I pathetic. Trunks is here fighting his butt of and I'm here dead on top of a couch. A very comfortable one I might add. – She drifted off into sleep.

'Your back.' The male voice made Kiwi turn in surprise. 'Who's there?' the voice laughed. 'No one you know. Anyways let cut to the chase. Cell frightened you.' Kiwi frowned into the darkness. 'Scared of him? That ugly frog like creature? No offense or anything but his face…it looked like a butt. Kind of hard to be scared' The voice laughed again. 'Very true but that isn't what I'm talking about. I'm talking about what he told you before you were knocked into the building.'

Kiwi frowned and blushed. 'Oh you mean what he said about me and a purple haired man' Kiwi could hear the retort in the mans voice. 'Don't play coy with me. You know the man he was talking about Trunks. Why does it upset you that you and Trunks might end up together in the future?' Kiwi blushed brighter. 'w-what? That's ridiculous. T-Trunks is...that…I mean Trunks is just Trunks.' 'So you think he's ugly?' 'WHA! No I mean…no he's not.'

'So he's hot?' 'NO! I mean…oh all right! He's hot very, very hot. Have you seen him when he's wet? Forget hot, he's down right sexy.' "Who are you?"

The voice startled Kiwi from her sleep and she leaped on whoever was standing beside her. She raised a glowing hand and stared down hard at the person she straddled. It was a male, nearly 10 inches taller than her normal 5'1. His own eyes were hard as he stared back up at her. "Who the hell are you and why were you standing above me?" Kiwi's voice was cold. The man snapped back, "Who the hell are you? I live here. I'm Bulma's Brief's cousin." Needless to say Kiwi's mouth dropped. Mom's cousin?

Yeah! Gives an exaggeratedly big yawn oh my, I am dead tired. I have been up since 7 this morning and right now it 1:32 am. I am literally a walking zombie. Kind of like Shawn of the dead except very much alive. LOL I'm very excited. Tomorrow…er…today really I'm going to be celebrating my b-day.

It's really next Friday but I'm having my party today. Around eight I'll get my hair done and then at 2 I'll be hostessing my party people or whatever…gives another jaw splitting yawn. Ummm…

Thomas Drovin- I think it's sad that you haven't been anywhere. I myself have been to several of the states of the U.S. and Puerto Rico. About getting engaged…you'll be happy to know I am 100 female. So I guess you wont have to politely refuse me now. J/K. LOL. I'm tired. Good night people. Gives yet another huge yawn before dropping into sleep mode and slipping off the chair… 'Ouch…' over and out