Otherworld was slowly returning to normal as the Check-In Station was fully restored and the souls were coming back in at an alarming rate. But this didn't concern King Yemma since he proceeded to get back to work with no care in the world. On the other hand Hudo was now limping over to the fusion.
"So...Kuzugo right? You mind teleporting us back home? I kinda need to fall down on something soft." Hudo jokes. Kuzugo smiled and grabbed the Astackian and instant transmission back to the gang.
-Instant Transmission SFX-
The two appeared near the group of friends who were just in the middle of a discussion. Everyone turned to see Hudo and Kuzugo standing there. Hudo fell to the ground and mumble some words as the gang ran to the fusion in confusion.
"Who are you? Where is Kuzuku and Zugo?" Krillin asked. Hudo lifted his chin before he could answer the baldy's question.
"Don't worry Krillin, in order for us to defeat that monster Janemba, Kuzuku and Zugo performed the fusion technique. You can call them Kuzugo for now. He should be defusing any second now." Hudo explained. On schedule, Kuzugo de-fused back into his two original beings, dropping them on the ground as they were somewhat exhausted.
"Huff* Huff* Well glad that's over. Any longer of me being fused with you was going to drive me insane." Zugo remarked.
"Pant* Pant* Oh just lighten up will ya? You're like a walking pile of salt right now." Kuzuku countered. Everyone laughed at the comedy act that was going on between the two. 21 smiled genuinely from a loving standpoint. She had a feeling that Kuzuku was going to be alright but couldn't stop thinking about what had happened earlier. The gang decided it was best to have a victory feast. Kuzuku was catching up with his friends back at school and how they have been doing.
"I heard that you all finally graduated! Congratulations you guys!" Kuzuku complimented.
"Come on you don't have to toot our horn. You literally graduated earlier and have been living on your own far longer than any of us." Kize jokes.
"So Ace, when do you start taking over your father's business?" Kuzuku asked.
"Well buddy, I first have to go through college and get my business degree so taking over the family's business is far ahead in the future. Liz had actually started her semester in the medical field so that's a plus." Ace noted.
"Wow so you're trying to be a doctor, Liz?" Kuzuku astonished.
"You bet it, I've always wanted to be a doctor so going to medical school is one step towards that goal. But that doesn't come close to the amount of lives you and your friends save on a daily basis." Liz said.
Kuzuku simply chuckled at from the praising and sipped a bit of his drink, only to notice that Ryusika and Vincent had been looking distress and hasn't been talking much. Kuzuku raised an eyebrow in suspicion and decided to get them involved in the conversation.
"Hey you two okay over there? You both seem distant for some odd reason." Kuzuku asked. Ryusika jerked a bit from the sudden question that was directed at her and nervously started laughing.
"Oh it's nothing at all, just me dozing off." Ryusika feigned. Vincent kissed his teeth and walked started to walk away. The group was now completely confused as to what was happening. The tilted hair football star was never like this before which was a first for everyone.
"What's wrong with him?" Kize muttered. Ryusika started to feel depressed and hid her face from her friends. Her lips started to quiver as if it was holding back the words that she didn't want to let out. The group started to catch on and looked at each other, nodding in union.
"Come on, let's have a private chat somewhere less crowded. That way we won't make a scene." Liz offered, pulling her behind the Capsule Corp house while motioning the others to come with her. As soon as they were far away from the party they surrounded the popular girl so she couldn't escape from the interrogation.
"Alright now speak your mind, what's going on between you and Vincent. The moment Kuzuku said something to you two he completely bailed on us." Ace asked. Ryusika's feet started to shake from the pressure. She collapsed to her knees and started to sob uncontrollably. Everyone started to feel bad trying to force her to go through this confession. Kuzuku knelt down and patted her head.
"Look, you don't have to talk about it if you don't want to but we are your friends so you don't have to bare whatever is making you down alone." Kuzuku whispered. Ryusika wiped the tears out of her eyes an darted her eyes down to the grass. Everyone present, Liz, Kuzuku, Ace, and Kize were awaiting for her response.
"I don't know what to do guys and I am terrified." Ryusika sniffed.
"What are you so afraid of, I mean it can't be all that ba-OW!" Kize said before getting kicked in the shin by Liz.
"Do you guys remember the party last week?" Ryusika muttered.
"Yeah the one that we all went to before graduation day right?" Ace said.
"Well while Kize was busy partying and you two were pretty much having some alone time to yourselves, Vincent was the only actual company that I had with me. We both had a tad bit too much to drink and after that everything went blank..." Ryusika said before her voice trailed off. Kuzuku's eyes widened in realization. He heard various stories from Gohan of this same cliche' that seems to always happen to college and high school students when at parties so much so that it is frantically displayed in movies and T.V series.
"Ryusika don't tell me you are..." Kuzuku asked.
"Yes its exactly what it seems, I knew you'd figure it out. I woke up naked next to Vincent in the morning at a strangers house and not even a week later I just found out that I am pregnant." Ryusika confessed. There was now an eerie silence that filled the air. Everyone was now completely shocked at the news that he had just heard.
"Man it's just one problem after the other." Kuzuku groaned mentally.
"So are you going to keep it?" Ace asked.
"Ace!" Liz yelled.
"Yes, even though I know daddy won't be happy I don't ever want to abort my child even if it was a accident. I just have to manage somehow..." Ryusika answered. Kuzuku helped the poor girl off the ground put one hand on her shoulder, gaining her full attention.
"Then it's settled! Don't worry we will support you and Vincent with everything we got!" Kuzuku assured. Ryusika smiled at the Saiyan's kind support, feeling butterflies in her stomach once again. She pushed down the feeling and went back to a sulking expression.
"Thanks you guys but I don't think Vincent will be on the same page. When I told him this morning, he said he didn't want anything to do with me." Ryusika added.
"What! But how could he!? I'll go see him at once!" Kize gritted as he ran off to find his best friend in anger. Ace was about to stop him but he knew that the track star was unwilling to listen. He turned back to the situation at hand and let out a sigh.
"Well looks like Kize is going to take care of the Vincent problem but for now we better head back to the feast before all the food is gone. Later we will try discussing a way on how we will inform your parents." Ace coughed. Everyone agreed to that and decided to head back to enjoy the dinner.
Somewhere In A Random Park
Vincent sat alone by the water fountain as lily pads floated along the waters while the birds that stayed away peaked at the ground. He took out his phone and began to start scrolling through message until a certain person stopped right in front of him. He looked up to see his childhood friend Kize looking down on him with his brown eyes while his golden hair reflected off the night post.
"What do you want?" Vincent said with venom.
"We heard what happened between you and Ryusika." Kize replied. Vincent started to laugh nonchalantly at the revelation.
"So? Is that all you came here for because if that's all then you can simply take your ass out of here." Vincent snapped while getting up to walk away. Before he could he was turned around by the shoulder and grabbed by the shirt. Kize beamed his angered eyes at his.
"What kind of bullshit is this!? You just going to knock up a girl and simply not take up any ownership!" Kize said
"So what, it's none of your business so lay off! Besides I told her that I want nothing to do with this when she menti-". Kize had enough of the talking out the ass and punched him across the face. Vincent stumbled back a bit and held his cheek.
"You despicable bastard, don't you have any morals?" Kize muttered. There was a moment of silence for a moment.
"Kize, you know that I got a full time scholarship for football and this whole pregnant situation will only cause a disaster if the media or anyone from the university I am going to finds out. I will miss my chance to go pro and my life you only plunder from there if it did. I don't have much of a choice here." Vincent explained.
"Tch...even if all that is true, there are some things that you simply do not cross despite how much pain you may end up in. At least own up to your mistakes." Kize replied as he walked away from the conversation and made his way back to the party, leaving Vincent back to thinking for himself.
With Kuzuku and 21
The two were now walking around the city at night after the feast was finished. Neither said a word as the two were in there own thoughts. Even so, Kuzuku couldn't help but notice that 21 was troubled as to say. He didn't know why but he had to assume that something had happened to make her this tense...especially since her eyes seem to display sadness for some reason. Kuzuku stopped under a bridge as a train pass by, alerting the majin to stop as well.
"21 did something happened when you came back to Earth? You seem down about something." Kuzuku asked. 21 began thinking of the words to say on how she wanted to express this feeling without making it into a big thing. But after some thinking she couldn't find a way to word it so she went on to be honest.
"Kuzuku...do you think that I was truthfully entitled to forgiveness?" 21 asked. The Saiyan was taken back by this.
"Why do you think that?" Kuzuku concerned.
"...During the chaos, I ran into one of Aereos's minions that I fought back on Codia. She talked about how what she was doing was completely justified because they wanted to make the universe better. Of course I said my reasons but something struck me..." 21 paused as Kuzuku's attention was now fully on her.
"I felt sympathetic about the whole situation and that I was only being a hypocrite." 21 muttered.
"21 how could you say that about yoursel-" Kuzuku started but was cut off.
"Because I know that it is true! Think about it, back when my personality was split, all I ever accomplished was nothing more but death and destruction through my frenzy. I didn't have no moral means to justify it, all I was doing was what any typical majin would do and that was eat, kill, and destroy. How could I be forgiven for something like that!? How can I go on living when I can have my persona split again at anytime and wind up killing the people I love most." 21 yelled. Her whole body was quivering at her sudden outburst.
"I don't want that to happen...I don't..." She whispered. Kuzuku walked up to her and pulled her into a hug.
"21...you know you don't have to worry about such things remember? We revived the people you killed with the dragon balls." Kuzuku uttered. 21's tears were now flowing down her cheeks like a river.
"But, the ends don't justify the means. Even if they were revived I still did what I did." 21 sniffed. Kuzuku smiled as he buried his face into her hair.
"Even so, it doesn't change the fact that since then, you've done nothing more but save lives. You've not only stopped people from getting hurt in the mitts of what happened earlier but you've helped save an entire planet of people from a dark god. Doesn't that amount to something? Aren't you doing what you wanted to do and make amends for what you did?" Kuzuku comforted. 21's eyes softened at his words. Her heart felt as if a great burden had been lifted off itself. Kuzuku withdrew a bit to place his forehead on the pink girl's forehead, their tail intertwined with one of each other.
"Besides, I heard Vegeta was way worse than you were. He told me himself that he practically destroyed planets upon planets for fun but yet he was still forgiven for all that and now look at him. A full time dad and one of the strongest people in the universe. Even Piccolo who was said to be the reincarnation of himself, plunged the world into chaos by releasing every dangerous criminal in custody and over through the world government, so do you really think your alone on this?" Kuzuku chuckled. 21 mouth was agape for a moment but morphed into a smile afterwards.
"I take the smile means that you are alright now?" Kuzuku smirked. 21 wiped the tears from her eyes and nodded.
"Good then I guess we should head back." Kuzuku chirped. As the Saiyan turned around, he felt a hug from behind.
"Thank you..." 21 whispered before her body started to slump downwards. Before she hit the ground, Kuzuku caught her and looked at her closely, only to find out that she had fallen asleep.
"Expressing herself completely on something as grand as this must had taken a lot out of her. Especially after the stuff we've all just gotten out of." he thought. Kuzuku lifted her bridal style and teleported them both back to his place.
-Instant Transmission SFX-
The two appeared inside the living room where Hudo was out cold in front of the TV. Kuzuku shook his head in disappointment. He looked at the clock that read 2:30 AM in the morning. He brought 21 to his room and placed her gently on the bed and started to walking away until unconsciously her tail grabbed onto his arm. The Saiyan smiled at the action a carefully probed it of himself before walking into the bathroom and taking a shower. He put on a change of clothes and hoped into the bed with 21. Instantly as he got into bed, his body was hugged tightly like a soothing teddy bear that would calm anyone. On instinct he hugged her back as his tail yet again intertwined with hers, falling asleep minutes later.
A/N:Yup, prepare for some little slice of life and drama I guess. Don't worry, this little scenario is short. Like literally two more chapters of slice of life just to cut some of the battle tension off a bit.