Pins and Needles
Chapter 13
Food… And falling!
"As you wish! Geez!"
"AHHHHHH!!!"
Goku looked taken aback as he heard Aisu's last order, letting him go at once. Aisu landed on his butt, and then fell over backwards, hitting his head on a root.
"Oops! Sorry…" Goku called down to him, floating down rather slowly.
"What in hell! You did that on friggin' purpose!!!!" Aisu screamed.
Goku held out a hand, shaking his head.
"No, I didn't."
Aisu glared at it and heaved himself to his feet with a groan, feeling him muscles screaming at him for his effort. Goku stood back and dropped his hand, noticing the girlish appearance Aisu seemed to take with his blue hair glinting and framing his bored green eyes and seemingly thin face. The saiyan smiled and began his flying lesson.
-/Half an hour later/-
Wham!
A whole lot of cursing was heard a good distance away by a certain namek, who was under a glistening, freezing cold waterfall
"That was good! Try doing the same thing again."
Aisu growled, rubbed his left knee and threw Goku a dirty glance, which he caught in a soft mitt and returned with a smile. The young man sat down again and placed his palms on his kneecaps and began to hover up to the night sky in a trance-like manner. The boy reached to a height of four feet before opening his eyes and seeing Goku's face peering at him. He yelled in shock and fell again, Goku not catching him because he wondered whether he'd fly in mid-fall.
After three and a half falls, twelve hovers and Aisu almost falling asleep, Goku managed to help Aisu fly. He noticed a red spark around the boy's shoes every time he took flight. The boy felt the man's eyes on him the whole time and silently berated himself for saying he wanted to fly. Suddenly, as he landed, Aisu experienced a sensation in his legs like they were abruptly replaced by thousands of buzzing bees or flies.
The 'little wolf' fell forwards and blinked, his expressionless face back with a bit of surprise. Goku rushed over to him and stooped down, his eyes smiling but his face worried as he tried to help him sit up. The boy swatted away the helping hand then slowly moved into a sitting position, his legs bent abnormally to the side, not like he cared because he could not exactly sense the pain.
"What's wrong?" Goku asked, after slinging the boy's arm over his shoulder.
Green orbs caste an icy stare at the spiky haired saiyan.
"Can't feel my legs," Aisu replied shortly.
Goku nodded amiably.
"Best get you home then!" He said cheerfully, and put a finger to his forehead before they both vanished.
Aisu nearly jumped away from the saiyan, almost forgetting he had not the use of his legs. The saiyan chuckled and gave his wife, who had just walked into the living room, an apologetic glance.
"I thought you were coming home before dark! Goten's spending the night by Trunks and Gohan's by Videl again," Chi-Chi said, striding to the kitchen. "Are you two hungry?"
Goku answered immediately while Aisu gave a small nod. The three sat down and Chi-Chi watched in amazement as Aisu filled his plate twice before shoveling the food into his mouth. The saiyan, after eating, cleared up the dishes and placed them in the sink. Chi-Chi yawned slightly and stood to go wash up, but Aisu stopped her from entering the kitchen.
He shooed her back upstairs then dragged Goku in with him to wash the dishes. Goku gave him a pitiful look.
"This," Aisu snarled. "Is payback. Wash 'em!"
Goku sighed and scooped up a sponge before giving a dirty bowl a long swipe with soapy water. He saw right away that the young man was in an angered mood and he did not want the out come to be as bad as it could get, and that included deaths.
As the soft clunk of the last dish was heard, Goku was out of the kitchen and outside, standing on the lawn. Aisu joined him in star-gazing with a sour but calm look etched on his face, mainly because of his recently obtained bruises. The young man could not understand why everyone disliked him so and, as a shooting star appeared in a burst of light in the vast darkness, he wished for someone to take a liking to him.
Little did he figure out that Bulma, Trunks and Goten already did.