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Zamasu's POV….
The day I had visited Earth was a memorable one. Though the event has been so long passed that I'm certain it's not even important anymore. When you are immortal time becomes a construct and rather meaningless.
Emotions within me were rather dull as I had spent so many years in solitude that the idea of others was rather intimidating. The idea of allowing myself to feel love again was laughable given my age.
At this point, millions upon millions of years had passed since Black's rampage. The massacre that cost countless lives in the pursuit of a horribly misguided sense of justice. Though the victims are long gone, their lives didn't go in vain, as their universes will be put to good use.
I had spent millions of years fixing Black's mess. While it wasn't perfect, I had kept things stable. Balance was necessary as I didn't want to end up making things worse than they already were.
I was having tea to myself, still having two cups on the table, waiting for the person who would never come back. I drank it in solitude, long used to the silence of being alone for all these years.
My eyes went blank when I caught something in the crystal ball, it was trying to tell me something. That was strange, I haven't seen anything interesting on the crystal ball in ages, what could possibly be so important? Maybe a mortal did something useful and made a technological advancement of some kind.
I froze when I saw something I never thought I'd see. I saw someone...someone who looked like they belonged to my species. I blinked, believing I was hallucinating, but the crystal ball never lies.
I had to investigate it for myself. I can't allow myself to get optimistic over nothing.
I teleported to where the Tree that bored Kais was. At first I didn't see anything except what I had built ages ago. I narrowed my eyes skeptically, wondering where the person who I saw earlier had run off to, that is if they were there in the first place.
Suddenly my ears picked up the sound, it resembled the giggle of a child. I whipped around, seeing nothing but the tree. That was strange...I swore I had heard something.
"Hehe!" This time it came from above me.
I narrowed my eyes before looking upward. To my shock I saw a pair of large brown eyes staring back at me.
"What the hells!? Who are you?"
Suddenly they disappeared into the trees, and I quickly followed after them."Hey get back here! You can't just run away from me, I need to talk to you!"
They didn't listen to my commands, instead choosing hide within the tree. I didn't have time for foolish games like this! Why are they acting so childish!?
"I got you now!" I finally managed to grab them, but they quickly managed to slip from graphs and tumble down the hill."No! Wait!" I flew after them and grabbed them by the foot.
Sternly I lifted them up."Aha! I've finally caught you! You've caused a lot of trouble for me…" As I got a closer looks, I saw a androgynous looking kai, appearing to be a male with butterscotch skin and a white mohawk that stuck out in a childish fashion.
"Dang it! Why'd you use that weird ability!?"
"You call flight a weird ability? Can you not fly naturally?" Kais were supposed to be able to fly naturally. Maybe this one was a dud.
"No! I wish I could though!" The way this man acted was like a child. He was barely up to my waist and appeared to be nothing more than a little kid. This was going to be hard training him to be a supreme kai.
"It's simple, just control your chi and focus. Follow my lead...Erm...what's your name? Mine is Zamasu."
"I don't have one, Zamasu. Hmm..Maybe you can come up with something for me!"
"Err...Alright. Let me think…" Despite his childishness and rather incompetent behavior, I felt that his excitement for new things reminded me of someone. I put my hand under my chin before saying,"I'll name you...Gowasu."
'Gowasu' blinked."Yeah! New name!"
"'I'm glad you like it. It's someone else's name, you just reminded me of him."
"Cool! Now teach me how to fly! Now!"
"Alright. After me," I rose upwards into the air."Your turn, Gowasu."
He scrunched his face up in a hilarious fashion. I had a hard time not laughing at his attempt to remain serious."Okie dokie! Hmmm! Come on! Fly!"
"It doesn't work like that, you need to manipulate your ki in order to fly. Remain calm and try to focus."
"Hmmm…." He remained silent and with a little bit of effort, his feet began floating off the ground."Look! It's working! Master! Look at me! I'm flying! OOOF!" That was the sound he made once he got carried away and fell on his face.
I cringed."Alright, we'll try again next time, Gowasu."
It took multiple humiliating attempts for him to get the basics of flight. I had to admit his attempts were rather amusing, but still rather strange.
When I took him to the palace, he seemed more interested in goofing off than actually training to be a Supreme Kai."Gowasu, stop playing with the butterfly and focus on your training. You're supposed to be looking through the crystal ball."
"Buts is so boring! Its just a stupid ball of glass!"
"Not it's not. It's a highly sophisticated device used to assist us in seeing places from where we are within the realm. It's far from useless and has helped me several times-Are you even listening!?"
"Ugh, I kind of lost track after sophisticated and mumbo jumbo."
"Oh my gods!" I hit my face against the desk."Alright, maybe we should start simple. Try making tea since looking through the crystal ball is clearly above your capabilities."
"Ok!" He rushed off. He came back a few minutes later. I was somewhat amused, but mostly disappointed when I saw instead of tea, he created this thing...that he called coffee.
"It's got way more caffeine Master Zamasu! It'll make those wrinkles on your face go away too!"
"What!? Wrinkles, are you insinuating that I'm old!?"
"Well no….but yeah?"
"Ugh! How am I going to deal with you?"
"I don't know! But you'll figure that out eventually! Besides, I'm sure the guy who trained you was cool, so I'm sure you'll do great! Maybe I'll be a good supreme kai like you."
"That's...a very sweet sentiment of yours." I can't remember the last time I genuinely smiled, so when I did it was rather embarrassing."But first, please work on making tea instead of coffee. It tastes….bitter."
"I like it this way. It's nice and black."
I twitched at the name, memories flashing back in a painful fashion."..."
"What? You seem disturbed. Something I said?"
"No..Yes, but I'll tell you when you're…more mature. Just refrain from using that name."
"Ok! Thanks Master Zamasu, you're the best!"
"Thank you, Gowasu…"
I smiled, Gowasu I hope you're up there. And I hope you are proud. Because I'm going to need patience from the gods to handle this child. And as annoying as he was, I had to admit, it had been so long since I had smiled. Emotions like happiness were foreign after all these millions of years, having been stolen away from these years solitude. The idea that someone unharmed from Black's carnage is freely happy and so eager to listen is comforting. I can't remember the last time I've felt happy, its been so long.
And yet I don't want it to end...
