A/N: Thanks so much for the awesome reviews, guys! The General of Darkness, Shadow of dusk, rocky, DBZAngelX, sarah, and DBZ Chick1 are each super great for reviewing chapter four! Extra thanks to DBZAngelX, who's reviewed every chapter so far!

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Disclaimer: Dragonball Z is copyrighted to Toriyama Akira and Toei Animation. I don't own anything that has to do with DBZ. Aiko, Reizo, and any other original characters that appear are owned by mwah! (:

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"If Aiko doesn't come with me, I'll tell the master about how you're helping out a human boy." Reizo smirked. His plan was flawless.

"I don't want to come with you, Reizo!" Aiko yelled. "I like Yuu-chan, not you!"

Yuurei blushed a bit at her comment. He felt bad for not returning her feelings. He loved her, but only as a friend.

"Reizo!" Reizo slowly turned and looked at the younger shinigami. "You think that being a tattle-tail is bad, huh? You think it'll scare me, huh? If you so dare as to take Aiko OR tell the master about this, I'll tell every other shinigami about how you can't even speak in your plushie form! Or should I tell them about how you have extreme trouble transforming back into your regular form? Maybe I'll tell them both! Then YOU'LL be the laughing stock!"

Reizo growled. "I'M your elder! You should RESPECT me! At least I'm not in such a low-life ward as pediatrics!"

"LOW LIFE!" Yuurei yelled. "We have a harder job than you do!"

"You've never been cut out to be a shinigami, Yuurei." Reizo glared. "Give me Ai-chan!"

"Take her, but if you do, just know that all of your deepest, darkest secrets will be revealed!"

"REIZO, FOR THE FIFTY MILLIONTH TIME, I DON'T WANT TO GO WITH YOU!" Aiko screamed. Goten sweat dropped. "Mister, if Aiko doesn't want to go, why are you forcing her?"

"Stay out of this, human!" Reizo yelled.

Goten glared, trying to look scary, but only succeeded in making himself look more cute.

"She's MY oneechan!"

Aiko and Yuurei just face faulted. Since Yuurei was the "oniichan," calling Aiko "oneechan," seemed some what awkward…or at least to Yuurei it did.

Hearts shined in Aiko's eyes. "See, Yuu-chan! Goten knows we're perfect together!"

Reizo growled and Yuurei looked annoyed.

"REIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIZO-KUUUUUN!" Yuurei, Aiko, Reizo, and Goten all turned to see Mijime.

"REIIIZO-KUUUUN! I want to watch my soap operas!" Mijime whined.

Reizo took out a needle and poked Mijime, making him deflate.

"YOU'RE SO MEEEAN, REIZOOOO-KUUUN!"

"Who the hell is that?" Yuurei asked.

Reizo sweat dropped. "That…is Mijime. My new partner."

"We're the shinigami team, Suihanki!" Mijime yelled. Goten sweat dropped. Did the shinigami's master have a weird sense of humor, or was he just crazy? Two of the shinigami teams were, "Karaage Tamanegi (Fried Onions)," and "Suihanki (Rice Cooker)?" Yuurei's eyes widened. "I understand why you want Aiko back now, but that doesn't mean I'll give her to you. What if I end up with a partner like that?"

"REEEEIZO-KUUUN! MY SOAPS! MY SOAPS!"

"SHUT UP, MIJIMIE!"

"MY SOOOOOOOAAAAAPS!"

Reizo growled. "I'll be back, Ai-chan, Yuu-kun! You'd better be waiting!" Both Reizo and Mijime flew off into the distance. "That was strange." Goten said.

Aiko laughed. "I'm thankful that I got you as a partner, Yuu-chan. I'd die if I got Mijime."

Yuurei slowly nodded. "Me, too."

"Hey…I've been meaning to ask you…" Goten twiddled his thumbs. "How did you become solid before? You looked…alive."

Yuurei sighed. "When I get really…inspired…I guess, I can transform into my living form. I can only stay like that for a short time, though. It takes up a lot of power."

Aiko smiled. "I can willingly transform whenever I want! I just don't have a reason to!"

"Whatever, Aiko." Yuurei commented.

"YUU-CHAN!" She growled. "You know I can!"

Goten smiled. "Piccolo-san said that you looked like Gohan."

"So I do. It doesn't matter." Yuurei snorted.

Goten smiled. "I've been wondering…how are you chosen as shinigami?"

Aiko sighed. "I don't know if you are old enough to hear the story, kid."

"Oneechan!"

Yuurei laughed. "She's right, you know! It isn't important, anyway."

Goten sighed. "You're so mean." His stomach suddenly growled. "I'm sooooo hungry!"

"Your mother's not letting you eat, huh? That sucks."

Aiko rolled her eyes. "How would you know. It's not like you experience hunger or remember ever experiencing it."

"True."

"I'm going to go beg mommy for some food." Goten ran downstairs in a rush to get food.

"Heh. We might as well follow him. It's not like we have much other stuff to do." Aiko suggested as she flew through the wall.

Yuurei just stared at Goten's room, and them walked over to a picture he had on his desk of his mother, father, and who he guessed to be Goten's brother. Everyone in the picture looked so familiar, and Yuurei could have sworn he had seen it before. He only wished he knew where.

I ran away. I don't want to run away again. I WON'T run away again.

Yuurei sighed. There was that voice again. It seemed to haunt him. What did it mean by "run away." He only wished he knew what it meant.

The young shinigami put his hand on his forehead. He wanted to remember his life so badly, yet he didn't want to. He longed to know why he commit suicide, but at the same time, he didn't want to know. He was so confused. He had been able to figure out that that "Piccolo" guy had been involved in his life at some point. He had to wonder if maybe he had been "Gohan."

Part of the reason of why he didn't want to remember was because he knew that if he did remember his life, he'd become a ghost. He hadn't become a full shinigami yet, so there would be no doubt that he'd become a ghost.

Reizo…he didn't know whether Reizo was lucky or cursed. Reizo hadn't forgotten his life when he was taken by Death. Reizo remembered all of his life.

From what Yuurei had heard, Reizo had killed himself when he was only nine years old. He let himself get run over by a train out of depression from his mother abusing him. He wasn't sure if it was the truth though…since so many rumors floated around the shinigami dimension. Of course, if Reizo did die when he was a child, it didn't make any difference on how he appeared now. All shinigami have the physical appearance of a sixteen year old. They received that sixteen year old body when they became shinigami.

Yuurei imagined that the reason Reizo hadn't became a ghost was because he made his first kill so quickly. Yuurei hadn't taken one soul yet. He had been assigned to take the soul of some woman who had been killed by her husband, but her soul escaped him. She said something about still having obligations on the planet. What was that supposed to mean?

"Yuu-chan? Are you coming?" Aiko asked as she poked her head through the wall.

Yuurei nodded. "I'm coming."

The pair of shinigami flew down to where the Son family was eating, and Aiko couldn't help but notice how intense Yuurei had looked over the past few days. She knew the anniversary of his death was coming up. All shinigami lost a lot of their powers on the anniversary of their death, and they occasionally remembered bits and pieces of their life. She hoped that he wouldn't remember his life with all her heart. She would die…well…stop existing, if he became a ghost. She needed him with her.

Yuurei and Aiko's eyes widened when they saw how much Goku and Goten were eating. Aiko looked disgusted, while Yuurei felt as though he had seen something like it before. He just couldn't put his finger on when.

"The anniversary is coming up in a few days." Chichi stated coldly.

Goku stopped eating for a moment. "I know."

Goten just stared at his saddened parents. He knew what it was: the anniversary of. Gohan's suicide. His parents always got all sad at this time of the year. Goten was sad to…he was sad because he didn't get to meet his brother, and his parents were so sad. He wished he could cheer them up, but there was nothing he could do. Gohan was gone forever.

You'll be dead soon, too, Goten. He told himself. Fear rose in his chest. He didn't want to leave his parents all alone. They had already lost one son. They didn't deserve to lose another.

"Okaasan… Otousan…"

Chichi smiled sadly. "Don't worry, Goten-chan. We'll be fine. We knew that you're upset, too, even though you didn't know him."

"I wish I could have met him."

Goku faintly smiled. "I wish you could have, too. I wish he could have seen you, as well. He'd be really proud of you."

Chichi sighed sadly. She thought about what Gohan might be doing right now had he not have died. He could have gone to school, become a scholar, anything! Every time she saw kids that were the age he should be at the moment, it made her sad. The mothers of those teenagers were so lucky. They still had their babies.

Chichi looked over at Goten lovingly. She loved Goten-chan with al of her heart. He was her baby, too, after all. She just wished that she could have both babies. She worried about Goten so much, too. With his throat cancer, he had to be extremely careful. He was very delicate.

"Can I be excused, okaasan, otousan?" Goten asked.

Goku nodded. "Go on, Goten. I'll see you soon to put you to bed."

"Okay, otousan. Thank you." Goten ran up the stairs to his room and shut the door. Aiko and Yuurei looked down sadly. They knew that Goten didn't want to die, but there was nothing they could do about it. This was their punishment, after all. They had to do things they didn't want to do.

"Aiko…you know, being a shinigami really is a punishment. It serves as so many punishments. I can't even name them all."

Aiko softly laughed. "If only we hadn't killed ourselves."

"Do you ever wonder what made you do it?" Yuurei asked.

"Of course. I wonder why I would give up something as precious as life. All the people from my life probably don't even care or remember me anymore, though. It has been thirty-something years since I died."

Yuurei laughed. "So, if Reizo's our elder, how old is HE?"

"Who knows." Aiko smirked. "He'd probably be a perverted old man by now had he lived."

"We'd better check on the kid." Yuurei said.

Aiko nodded. "Yeah. I hope he's okay."

Aiko and Yuurei flew up to the room to see Goten looking at pictures. There were pictures of him with all of the Z senshi, some of him with his parents, and some of Gohan with their parents. Then there were some of just Gohan, some with Gohan at his age. He liked looking at those. He wondered if Gohan was happy when he was that age, since he obviously wasn't very happy at the end of his life.

"Can you tell us who all those people are, Goten-chan?" Aiko asked in an attempt to cheer the child up.

"Yes." Goten pointed at his mother and father in one picture. "That's my mother and father, as you know."

"They're a cute couple." Aiko said with a smile.

"That's Yamucha-san." Goten pointed at his scarred friend. "He doesn't really talk with us very much anymore. He's a baseball player now. He used to fight."

"Baseball over fighting? How dorky." Yuurei stated.

Goten pointed at Kuririn. "That's Kuririn. He's been my dad's best friend since they were kids." Goten then pointed at Tenshinhan and Chaotsu. "That's Tenshinhan and his friend, Chaotsu. Chaotsu's an emperor and Tenshinhan is his body guard, so they don't visit much."

Goten then pointed at the "jolly-green-giant." "That's Piccolo-san. You've met him."

Goten took out a picture of the Briefs family. "That's Vegeta." He pointed to the spiky haired prince. "He's really mean and arroga-ga-ga-"

"Arrogant?" Yuurei suggested.

"Yeah!" Then Goten pointed to Trunks. "That's his son, Trunks. I play with him a lot. He's my best friend." Goten smiled.

"Then that's Bulma-san. She's the current president of Capsule Corp. She was the one who told my dad about the dragonballs."

"Bulma…?" Aiko asked. "Where have I seen her before? I KNOW I've seen her somewhere!"

"Maybe you saw someone who looked like her in the shinigami world." Yuurei suggested.

"No. I know I've heard that name, "Bulma" before."

Goten blinked and pointed at Dr. Briefs and Bunny Briefs. "Those are Bulma-san's parents: Dr. Briefs and Bunny Briefs. Dr. Briefs founded Capsule Corp."

"They both look familiar, too! That name, Bunny, I know I've heard it somewhere before!" Aiko rubbed her head in frustration. "I hate it when you can't think of something so obvious."

Goten smiled. "Maybe you'll remember tomorrow. We're going there for a reunion."

"Right."

"Goten! It's time for bed!" Goku walked in the room and stood next to his son's bed.

"Goodnight, Goten." He gave Goten a kiss on his forehead.

"Night, otousan."

As soon as Goku walked out of the room, Goten and Yuurei were both sound asleep.

Aiko held the picture of the Briefs family close to her face.

"Bulma…why does that name sound so important to me.

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A/N: That chapter was somewhat short, but oh well. I'm too tired to right any more. You'll find out who Akiko is in the next chapter, so look forward to it.

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