Chapter 28: Owner of Flashback Mystery… Solved!

Goten and Guru were basically traumatized from the flashbacks. They wanted to know where they came from. But most of all they wanted to know who they belonged to. They wanted to know who those two little girls were and if they survived.

Goten continued to fight Ayme. He threw his fists forward. When he did so he stopped dead in his tracks with a picture of the mother of the two little girls throwing her fist at her daughters. He paid more attention to the flashback then his opponent.

Ayme landed a powerful blow to his stomach causing his body to jerk towards her, making a sideways V. Saliva came out of Goten's mouth as he gagged slightly. Ayme then swung her leg upwards hitting him right underneath his chin throwing his body back up into an upright position. She grabbed a hold of his hair and whipped him around above her head. She threw him into the ground. Once he landed she pulled her hands to her side. Goten shook in pain as air entered his body again revealing some of his pain. He closed one eye looking in the direction of his opponent. In the air Ayme had her hands to her side with a ki ball in between them pushing them apart slightly.

She threw her hands forward and her attack quickly raced to Goten. Goten wanted to move but his body gave out on him. He couldn't move at all. Guru appeared by his side with blood dripping down the side of his mouth. He turned and looked at the attack that lit up his face in the light. He looked back at Goten; grabbing onto his hand he swung his partner over his shoulder as the attack hit them creating dust.

The team stood there… waiting for the dust to settle. Kotari held her fists tightly to her mouth biting onto her fingers. Goku, Gohan, and Pan watched closely as they waited for their family member to get to his feet.

The dust began to settle. The concrete floor of the ring was broken into pieces that laid there on the ground as if there was an earth quake. Goten laid on his back with his head turned to the right. Blood began to drip out of his nose and mouth as he laid there. His fingers were curled as his right knee was pointed up into the air with his foot planted on the ground. His shirt was torn in two. On his pants, from the knee down was missing, it showed Goten's shin. Dust covered his body along with bruises, cuts, blood, and burn marks.

Guru laid not that far away. He laid on his stomach with his eyes closed. Blood from his mouth dripped onto the concrete slowly making a small blood puddle. His right arm laid over his head on the ground as his left arm laid by his face. His shirt was completely blown away. His pants was covered in holes almost. On his right knee and on this left shin there were holes as blood dripped out of them. Dust laid all over his battered body as he laid there.

The ref came off of his safe plantform and jumped from rubble to rubble to get toGoten and Guru. He raised his hand in the air and began to count.

"One! Two! Three!" nothing came from Guru and Goten. "Four! Five!"

"Uncle Goten!" Pan shouted running to the ring side. "Get up! Please! You have to get up!" she shouted at her knocked out uncle. Followed by Pan came Kotari. She gripped whatever was left of the ring side.

"Guru! Get up Guru!" she shouted out. But nothing came from the two. Only dust that blown off of their bodies from the blowing wind.

"Six! Seven!" the ref continued to count. Kotari dropped to her knees in the grass gripping onto it. She closed her eyes tightly as she listened to the ref count. "Eight!" Pan fell back onto her butt as she closed her eyes tightly trying not to cry. Her father got down to her side as did Goku holding onto her. Borox looked at his daughter and thought about her.

'Those human emotions of your Kotari… it's going to get you killed. And there's nothing I can do about it. I know your not Aquan, but I know you are half human. The race that was plagued by emotions and now you've been diseased by it. I don't know if I can allow you to fight anymore becuase of it...'

"Dad!" Kotari yelled as tears formed in her eyes. "Aren't you upset that Guru might bedead?" she asked him. Borox didn't answer. He kept his arms crossed looking forward. Kotari got to her feet. "You don't care do you?" she asked. She turned and looked at Talli and Jakx. "Talli? Jakx?"

They looked away. She then turned and looked at Kui, Loji, and Jinx.

"What about you?" she asked.

They looked down at the ground. Kotari clenched her fists. She tried not to break down but she did anyway. She ran to Borox and began to pound her fists painfully onto his chest.

"HOW CAN YOU NOT CARE ABOUT YOUR OWN FLESH AND BLOOD!" She shouted. "HE'S YOUR SON! HOW CAN YOU NOT CARE ABOUT HIM!" Borox slammed his hands onto Kotari's shoulders.

"ENOUGH!" he shouted. "We don't feel anything! We don't have emotions!" he shouted. Kotari stared at him. Not understanding what he was saying.

"What… how can you not have emotions?" she asked.

"Aquans don't have any emotions like you do. You… you are half human, that's why you care and have emotions." Kotari's eyes widened.

"I'm… half… Human?"

"Nine! And Te-…" the sounds of Goten and Guru's bodies moving made everyone turn and look in their direction. Goten rolled onto his stomach getting onto his hands and knees as Guru forced himself off of his stomach and to his feet. When Goten stood uphe stumbled back a few times but managed to stay on his feet. Guru fell a couple of times but he was up. He stood there next to Goten looking up in the air at Mora and Ayme. "The fighters are up on their feet! Let the battle commence!" he shouted getting back to his platform.

"Ready… G-Goten?" Guru asked wincing slightly in his pain.

"Yu-Yup. You?" Goten asked right back.

"Never been this ready in my… entire… life."

"Good."

Goten and Guru lunged upward to Mora and Ayme. The two girls stood there without showing any kind of fear. There was a doubt going through Goten and Guru's mind that even did have fear.

Kotari turned her head and looked back at Borox who still had his hands tightly on her shoulders. He was no longer looking at her. He was looking at the battle that commenced.

"I'm… half human?" she repeated. Borox looked down at her. He got onto his right knee pulling his left hand off of her shoulder.

"Yes, you're part human."

"That's why I never fit in," Kotari said looking down.

"You fit in just fine." He said to her. "Your just part human."

"If I'm part human… and Aquan… then who's my mother?" she asked looking at him. It was a good question. If Borox was her father… then who was her mother? Borox didn't answer her. "Let me guess… your going to say, 'some stupid human' right?" she asked. Borox still didn't answer her. Pan had walk over. She had her hands on her hips.

"There's nothing wrong with being human." She said. Kotari turned her head looking at her as did Borox. "I'm mostly human and part Saiyan. And I like being both. There's nothing wrong with you being both."

"There is." Borox said standing up. "Her emotions get in the way of her battling." He said.

"Believe it or not Borox," Goku started. "Emotions help you to win. Emotions is what drives you to win. Having emotions is what makes you strong." He explained.

"On our planet." Borox started. "There's no such thing called emotions. Kotari is a weak fighter because of it. She could be stronger but with her emotions, she won't excel. She'll continue to fall and fall till finally… one day… her emotions will cause her to lose her life." Kotari stood there looking at her father. Suddenly, her fist came out of nowhere strikingBorox's face.

"I HATE YOU!" She shouted. "YOU'RE NOTHING BUT A PIECE OF AQAUN TRASH! I HOPE YOU GO TO HELL!" she shouted turning her back to him. Borox stayed on his knee and then he stood up.

"That doesn't phase me." He said wiping blood off of his nose that dripped down. "I will go to hell." Kotari didn't say a word. Pan took her hand and walked her away from Borox.

Goten and Guru kept on fighting Mora and Ayme. With their bodies in pain and even slower then ever, it was difficult to block or dodge their attacks. They were knocked about with their blood splattering onto the floor of the ring.

Guru through his fist forward but Mora grabbed onto his hand. She smirked as she clenched it tightly. Guru sneered in pain as he then through his other fist forward hitting her square in the face. Mora's body was jerked to the left kind of. Guru then kicked her in her face knocking her to the ground. She stood up. A piece of her clothing was beginning to rip off. She bent down ripping it off of her. Guru's eyes widened. He saw a scar that went from one end to the next. It was the very cut that was placed onto the that little girl's body.

'Is it her memories that I keep on seeing? It has to be… she wears the same scar given to the girl in these flashbacks by her mother.' hesaid tohimself.

Goten pulled his hands back to his side. "KA! ME! HA! ME! HA!" He threw his hands forward hitting Ayme in her chest blowing her into the ground. Goten watched as Ayme as shestood up onto her feet. He landed in front of her and there, he saw about fifteen stab markings on her chest. He remembered that in one of his flashbacks a little girl was being stabbed in her chest over and over again.

'It's her! The girl from the flashbacks!'