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Kimura rested her chin on folded arms on the windowsill. It had been nearly two hours since her ranting session with Piccolo; she was mildly embarrassed at herself for talking that long to the Namek. She had even apologized several times before leaving, but he just ignored her and went back to his training.
Sighing, Kimura's eyes ticked across the yard. Tora and Crisjin were outside, Tora sitting on the ground pulling rubber spiders from a black bag. Crisjin looked less than pleased watching her do that and would occasionally remind her why he was there.
"124!" Tora announced proudly.
Crisjin rolled his eyes, "I came to find you to spar not help you count those stupid spiders of yours."
"Oh yea, sorry I forgot." Tora smiled shoving the various sized rubber spiders back into the black cloth bag.
"I can't believe you still find that funny." Crisjin stretched his back out cracking it a few times.
Tora shoved the bag into her gi pocket and smiled impishly, "It'll never get old." She stretched out into her fighting stance and taunted Crisjin with her hand.
Crisjin got into his fighting stance, "How many of Vegeta's fears have you found out about?" He lunged forward punching at Tora's face.
"Uhm," Tora dodged to the side grabbing his arm and pulling it behind his back in an arm lock, "Well there's the rubber spiders and something about the kitchen table I haven't quite figured out yet."
Crisjin made a face and broke free of the arm lock swinging his foot around connecting with Tora's side. She fell over using her momentum to back-flip back onto her feet.
"What's up between you and Kimura?" She jumped forward ramming her body against Crisjin's chest pushing him over and flipping over him.
Crisjin fell onto his back and jumped up turning in Tora's direction just in time to block a fist coming at his face, "I don't-" He dodged to the side throwing up his arm to block another fist, "-know what you're talking about." He said quickly back-flipping away to get some distance between the two.
Tora snorted, "Bull. Come on Crisjin."
He shot forward kicking Tora in the stomach then uppercut her in the jaw, "Seriously, I don't know-"
Tora recovered quickly grabbing onto Crisjin's leg and pulled up tripping him.
"So it's all in my imagination that she's been avoiding you? And what about the hurt look I see you carrying around when she's not around?" Tora spat out at him while folding her arms over her chest.
Crisjin looked up at her with wide eyes, "I-"
"Don't say it!"
Sighing, Crisjin sat up, "You and Kimura had your secrete and so did we." He said softly standing up.
Tora looked at him in confusion, "What's that supposed to mean?"
"What's going on?"
Tora tore her eyes off Crisjin, "Nothing." She grumbled turning to Goku as he walked up looking slightly concerned over the angry looks Tora was giving Crisjin. Tora was mildly taken about by the look she had gotten from Goku; she had never seen the man look serious before. He was always smiling or had this dorky sheepish look on his face. Once he realized that everything was okay he smiled at the two running his hand through his hair. Tora smirked to herself, there was that smile.
"I was wondering if any of you wanted to spar with me?" Goku grinned looking between Tora and Crisjin.
Crisjin shook his head, "I'm done." He looked at Tora then walked away.
"Yea, I will." Tora smiled at Goku.
Goku nodded, "Great! I've been looking forward to seeing how strong you guys are."
Kimura moved away from the window thinking about going after Crisjin, and then decided against it. She glanced out the window at Tora and Goku sparring lightly slowly warming up.
"Kakarato's stronger."
Kimura jumped at the voice and whirled around finding Vegeta standing behind her with his arms folded over his chest. He leaned against the doorframe his eyes trained on the fight outside.
Kimura raised an eyebrow looking back out the window, "How can you tell?" She asked looking back at Vegeta.
"I can sense it."
"You can sense Ki?" Kimura blinked in amazement, "How?"
Vegeta snorted turning away, "Most of the warriors on this planet can do it, go ask one of them." He disappeared around the corner. Kimura frowned lightly; this planet had made him more arrogant…
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"Mr. Piccolo!"
Piccolo continued on with his shadow boxing while waiting for the boy to catch up to him. It had been a good week since he saw the boy; he had been sparring more and more with his father and the other Saiyajins, especially Crisjin. Gohan looked up to the older Saiyajin like an older brother.
"Mr. Piccolo! Guess what!" Gohan grinned barely able to contain his excitement any longer.
Piccolo stopped his training and turned to Gohan, "What is it kid?"
"Watch this!" Gohan's face dropped into concentration and his ki slowly began to rise.
After several seconds his hair began to stand on end and flickered gold, his eyes turning turquoise. Then as quick as it all happened it all stopped and his power level dropped back to normal leaving him out of breath.
"I'm almost there!" He laughed having caught his breath. "I'm almost a Super Saiyajin! But don't tell my dad yet, I want to surprise him when I can actually do it."
Piccolo nodded, the kid was working a lot harder than he had expected, "I won't tell him." He said still feeling a little shocked at what he just witnessed.
Gohan grinned, "Thank you Mr. Piccolo. You wanna spar?"
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The ground trembled slightly, "Ow, did you have to do that?" Tora grumbled climbing out of the crater her body made from the impact.
Goku smiled sheepishly rubbing that back of his neck, "Sorry."
"You know-" Tora's eyes grew wide for an instant as a thought struck her, "Will you train me? I mean, you're clearly stronger than me so maybe you can help me out?" She smiled innocently up at him.
Goku tilted his head to the side, "You want me to train you?"
Tora nodded, "Yes please, then maybe I'll be strong enough to help in destroying the androids!"
"Hmm," Goku smiled, "Okay I'll do it!"
"Don't you have your own training to do?" Piccolo grunted walking up to the two with Gohan in his arms. The boy had worn himself out with training and had fallen asleep. Piccolo, deciding he didn't want the harpy on his ass, sought out Goku's ki and brought Gohan to him.
Goku nodded, "Yea, but there's always time to do more training after training Tora."
"Your logic makes no sense most of the time Son." Piccolo grumbled handing him the boy.
"Sure it does." Tora snorted folding her arms over her chest, "He'll just train after training with me."
Piccolo looked at her, "Feh, he'll train with you all day getting no stronger and then eat and sleep; where's that spare time you speak of?"
Goku looked thoughtful for a moment, "I know! Tora, I'll train with you every other day. That way I can train with Vegeta in the gravity room or something on the other days. That'll work!"
Piccolo folded his arms over his chest, "Whatever. I have my own training to do now." Without giving the two another look, Piccolo turned around and took off into the air.
As he flew closer and closer to his usual training ground he began sensing another Ki there.
"Kimura." He grumbled spotting the female Saiyajin once he was close enough.
She was sitting on the bank staring up at the waterfall, "Hey." She said softly seeing Piccolo from the corner of her eye.
Piccolo frowned slightly, "What do you want?"
"You think I want something?" Kimura turned taking her eyes off the waterfall.
"That's why you're here isn't it?"
Kimura shrugged, "Yea, guess you're right. You know how to sense Ki?"
"Hm," Piccolo grunted folding his arms over his chest, "Of course." He looked Kimura over already knowing where she was going with the question.
"Will you teach me? Please?" She stood up and smiled up at him pleadingly, which only succeeded in making Piccolo wince and sweat drop.
"Only if you quit doing that." He said moving to the edge of the bank.
Kimura laughed turning around to stand next to him, "Okay I won't." She titled her head to the side trying to get a better look at the Namekian, "So you'll teach me?"
He looked down at her and she automatically dropped her head looking away. Normally he would have taken offense to the action thinking the female Saiyajin was hiding something from him. But he saw the small flicker of fear then anger in her eyes before she cautiously looked back at him.
He nodded and she smiled running her hand through her hair, "Okay."
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A/N: Reviews are greatly appreciated!