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Chapter IV – Suspicions and languages

Raditz walked dead tired after a hard training session towards his room which he now shared with his brother and his brat. It really would get tedious as Nappa and Vegeta arrived from their mission and found out that the already nubearable metal room had two occupants more. And more or less Saiya-jins at that. Frieza had forbidden any messages to the flame-haired Saiya-jin prince about his two new-found Saiya-jin fellows.

He grunted thinking about them. His own little brother and nephew. They confused him. He had thought they'd die after couple first days, but obviously he'd been wrong. Kakarott showed no signs of dying during training with Dodoria and Zarbon anytime soon ( he shivered unvoluntarily; Kakarott really didn't have the slightest of clue what was in store for him when he got strong enough) and the brat seemed to be tougher and smarter than childen usually were given credit for.

Kakarott was a foolish dimwit, wasn't he? The brat Gohan was a pampered crybaby, wasn't he? They said or did something and the next, they said or did something that reversed and conflicted with the earlier words and actions completely.

And by all odds Kakarott and the brat should be emotional wrecks right now…Raditz mused sourly. Wait! What was that noise? It was coming from their own room. Raditz opened the door and a bright laughter greeted him and echoed in the fortunately empty corridor. He shut the door quickly behind him leaning against it startled. The laughter was so happy…despite the abuse…despite the environment… It was something he had forgotten a long time ago. The laughter… he hadn't heard pure laughter of joy in ages. Only when the soldiers were telling dirty jokes a laughter was heard...

A smirking Kakarott was tickling Gohan who laughed brightly begging him to stop in some weird language, laying on the bed obvious to the world.

Goku senses and pretended to notice Raditz standing near the door like he had seen a ghost. And for a second he saw mixed emotions twirling behind his black eyes, so much like his own, then they became cold again.

'So ka, not so uncaring and cold, are we eh?' He thought and smirked. He really had a lots of work to do…

" Okaeri nasai Raditsu-san oniisan!" ( Welcome back, big brother Raditz!) Goku exclaimed and Raditz almost jumped through the roof. What did Kakarott just say? And why in the hell it sounded…welcoming?

Gohan saw his ojisan and smiled too. Now Raditz was scared beyond death. What was going on? He was sure they'd jump on him at any moment and try to kill him. Why else they'd be smiling like that! I mean, who smiled without meaningot kill someone or thinking dirty thoughts?

" Kakarott…Whatta hell's going on?" he demanded.

" What do you mean?" Goku asked back seemingly nonchalant.

Raditz went silent and eyed them suspiciously. He was beginning to feel himself nervous around his so called family members. He was used to share his quarter with Nappa and Vegeta (despite of possessing an elite status were forced to live with him, but still had access to the upper level goodies) who could care less if he dropped dead off suddenly and barely acknowledged his presence. And his prince who spoke to him only if necessary…and now he was smiled warmly at…enough to creep him out. He wasn't used to this kind of behavior.

"What did you just say!" he demanded again, still wary of their behavior. And they were speaking that weird language which the scouter couldn't translate and every known language in universe was loaded in it, so…they could be talking about everything.

His brother and nephew seemed to have a knack for fooling scouters making them useless. How in the world did they do it? When he had asked them about it, they had looked so innocent and Raditz hadn't found a heart to beat it out of them which really disturbed him.

Goku could see the doubt in his brother's eyes. A doubt for them of trying something. He frowned inwardly keeping a half smirk on his face. He had found this expression to be annoying for the most of people in Frieza's ship. They couldn't read him thoroughly. Was he amused or arrogant. Scared of distraught. Strong or weak. Goku had even surprised himself for mastering the ability of unreadable expressions and gestures so fast.

Wait! Didn't his scouter translate it? No wonder he was so…distraught.

" Didn't your scouter translate it?"

" No…Earth's language is programmed into the system but it's the same language as the Universal, Galaxy wide known one…Earthlings call it… Egnlihs."

" Uh…it's English Raditsu-san." Gohan who had been silent for a while now butted in earning a slightly baffled and annoyed look from his uncle.

" What…?" Raditsu-san…what was that supposed to be?

" Oh! I get it!" Goku blurted out almost immediately.

" What!"

" The scouter does know English yes, 'cause it's mostly spoken on Chikyuu and it's the universal language after all-"

" On what!"

" – so via and the other languages were completely ignored on Chikyuu! So scouters can't translate Nihon-go!" Goku talked on ignoring Raditz.

" Translate a what?"

" Oh! You're right Tousan! So they can't translate Chuugoku-go or…Doitsu-go for example! Sugoi!" Gohan bounced almost up and down on his fathers chest before he remembered he was still hurt.

Raditz was beginning to feel himself stupid for asking whole time 'what' and he was starting to get extremely irritated because of that.

" A WHAT?" He screamed and both Saiya-jin and Saiya-jin half-breed jumped little at his sudden outburst and the bed they were laying clanged.

" What what?"

" Explain without using those damn fucking foreign words!"

Goku and Gohan shrugged and started explaining. Trying not to slip on Nihon-go proved with little difficulties and with an angry Raditz who didn't manage to intimidate the other two with his threats and yelling for some reason, which annoyed him to no end. ChiChi's daily temper outbursts had made them pretty much immune to temperamental people's usually scary outbursts.

Finally after more yelling and suddenly rather pissed off Goku's outburst for Raditz to shut his fucking trap before he did it and let them continue. Raditz taken back by this, surprisingly shut his mouth. Gohan hardly noticed his father's temper burst.

" So… on Earth which is Chikyuu in Japanese which is Nihon-go, there's really surely over two or three hundred languages! And English which is Eikoku-go or Ei-go is most spoken?"

Nod.

Okay…part of the secret solved. Now… what did he say? Raditz shook his long-maned head. He had never imagined Earth to have so many languages. It was just mind boggling for such small planet to have over three hundred ( Actual count is almost 5000 by the way… bet you didn't know that! Ha! Whaddya mean you don't believe me! It's true! And I learned that at school! ) languages which some of them didn't even remind each other.

" What did you say earlier when I came in?"

" Okaeri nasai Raditsu-san? Welcome back or in…it depends, Raditz."

He nodded dumbly. "Why did you call me Raditsu?"

" I pronounced it like in Nihon-go. It sounds better that way to me. Nihon-go is spoke with syllables so the other langugae little disrupt my ears." Goku answered and tucked Gohan who had fallen asleep surprisingly fast, under his, tail curling protectively around him. " Good nigh'." And he closed his eyes dozing off.

Raditz stood there fully five minutes just thinking. They had talked to him like they had known him for years. Relaxed and casual. Sahred secrets with him, so to speak! It had been actually quite comfortable atmosphere.

He threw off his slightly cracked armor and laid on the bed, curling his tail around his muscled thigh.

These two weeks he had gotten to know them more than he had ever intended to. Mostly because they kept bugging him and talking to him. Heck! He had probably spoken more to them than the combined word amount to his prince and the Saiyan-jin head general! And when they told him about Earth…did they really trust him so much? Did they trust him not to tell this information to Lord Frieza and maybe cause Earth's destruction? The answer seemed to be yes and that made him uncomfortable. Did he even mention to Lord Frieza that Earth was still intact and he had had to escape, otherwise he wouldn't have made it? Those damn Earthlings had been in him like hungry insects for gods fucking sake! The loss still stung his pride quite a bit!

And why would he tell Lord Frieza? To help him to conquer more? No way! It was bad enough already. And the thought of telling something which could harm his relatives... Oddly he found that the thought appalled to him greatly.

A/N: Ooh...Raditz is having some thoughts on life...Review? Please?