Edit A/N: I would like to make a public apology. I have unknowing been copying from another great ff, Life With You (By ElisaJ). Thank you to the person who pointed it out. It was never my attention to copy, but be inspired. I wasn't able to catch it on my own. Her work is spread within chapters 11 to 48. Again I was not fully aware of my own mistake, and I take full responsibility for my actions. I apologize for this. Anything that happens after 49/50 is purely my own. But if something seems off, PLEASE I encourage someone pointing it out to me.

Again. I deeply apologize, and encourage those who haven't read ElisaJ work please do. She's amazing.

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Chapter 11: Piccolo Jr and Home

I can't believe it. Kami… Kami… Kami attacked backfired, and Piccolo had swallowed him. How in the world am I going to save him? Once Kami is returned safely then I can really fight Piccolo. I'm going to have to be careful.

Everything else around me turns to smoke as I focused fully on our fight. When he became a giant I finally got an idea. Once I got Kami out safely, I seemed to angered Piccolo. Once Kami was with my friends, I went to finish this fight. Again, the world become a blur as I fight. Then a panic filled my vain, and it wasn't my panic. That's when I finally realize the mess we created, and everyone else was still here.

I told everyone to leave, but they didn't want to. One more looked at all my friends, my eyes landed on Chichi's. Is it possible? Is it possible I'm feeling her panic? I didn't have a chance to think about it, since the fighting resumed. When I thought I finally put him down, he surprised attacked me. This pain was just so unbearable. But I need to push through. I can't die!

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As I watched them fight, I was panicking this fight was going to get super ugly. I started to heavily panic. And yet I felt a sense of calmness, but I don't that was mine. The way Goku was fight looked like he was calm during everything, even though the fight wasn't in his favor. He also seemed zone out, since he wasn't responding to his friends worries.

Maybe I shouldn't panic. I should just believe he can… OH NO! How can that monster do that! Killing is against tournament rules! By that standard only he lost the fight. But that would mean I lost Goku before we got married. Then I heard something, it sounded like a heartbeat ringing loudly in my ear. I kept watching the fight, hoping with all my heart.

When Goku stood back up a wave of gratitude washed over me. It overwhelmed any worried I had. I just kept hoping he'll win. Then when he told everyone to leave, we just couldn't. Then that Tien guy did something, and Yamcha called out to me to hurry. We was in a hole underground. During everything Yamcha made sure nothing to me, and stood close. I was really grateful.

Before I knew it, it was over.

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It's over the moment the announcer stated I pushed Piccolo outside the ring. It was too good to be good. I just wish I could move to celebrate my first tournament victory. That's when Yajirobe gave me a senzu bean. Thank the heavens for that powerful small bean! I flew up and let out all my excitement from the greatest victory ever!

I was so excited I almost missed that Kami was walking to Piccolo. At the last second, I interfered. As much I know he done so much evil, but that was his dad. This Piccolo was different, I can tell. And if he dies, then Kami dies and the dragon balls are no more. I could hear my friends try to not do this, but I must. I then gave Piccolo a senzu bean and he flew off.

He'll be a great challenge, and maybe a nice future sparring partner. With that over I was about to regroup with my friends, till I was surprised attacked by Chichi. She was hugging me tighter than before, and I finally took noticed other things that I no longer worried of fighting. It made my cheeks burn and I was trying to tell her not now. I have no idea why I said those words, instead of telling her get off. Afterwards Kami offered me his position. I got my power pole from Master Roshi. I then laughed off the offer of kami, and grabbed Chichi and left everyone behind.

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Seeing him so beaten up I was so scared. Then this guy with an orange ronin gave Goku some type of bean. Before my very eyes he was all healed. I was so over joyed, and seeing him celebrating his victory was so cute. But what I don't understand why he had to save that monster. Maybe that's a subject to talk about another day. Right now, I'm going to enjoy the fact he's alive and he won.

I was so excited after he finished talking to the other green guy. In a burst of joy, I jumped and hugged him tightly. He said how I shouldn't since everyone was watching us. I loosen my hold and hugged him one more time, then I let go and stood next to him.

Then that green guy, Kami, offered Goku to be the earth's guardian. Why would he do such a thing? That sounds more work than being a princess. Goku laughed and grabbed me, then he called his cloud and we flew off.

As we flew, he asked which way was my home again. I told him, and we flew that direction. We flew close to the water, and some sprayed on us. The ride home was so much fun. Now alone I thought maybe I could get a kiss from him, or I could kiss him. But I thought against it. Instead I took comfort in being super close to him. His back is so warm and strong.

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As we flew to Chichi's home I thought I take this time to figured a few things out. Like why is Chichi making me feel weird. And why was my body reacting weird. For starters, having her this close I was able to smell that scent that hunted me on Kami's Lookout. Now I know the source, it made me want to burry my nose in it and drown. Wait! What?

She was hugging my back, and I could have sworn she was humming. It was a nice sound. Well pretty much everything she did was nice. Just thinking about her made my stomach act weird. And her scent got my heart racing like mad.

I don't know when or how, but her arms found their way around my middle section. I stared at her hands, which looked smaller than mine. I was tempted to hold them, but I held back. Why would I want to do that? What's the point?

Just as the sun was setting, we were closing in to Chichi's home. Well, what I remembered of it. I saw the lake, and the apply tree, and the flower field. So this had to be it, but it looked so different. I tried calling Chichi, just to realize she fell asleep. I smiled, I then tried calling again and even shaking her a bit. That worked. She then told me to land in front of the HUGE castle. I'm not kidding, it was larger than any castle I've seen.

Once we landed, there was three people waiting for us. The Ox King plus an old woman, and a guy. I was confused, but I felt Chichi shake. So, I stood at attention for anything.

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Oh no! Dad's mad. And why is standing outside, with them of all people? "Hi daddy." I tried my cheerful voice, as I asked Goku to help me down. Goku gave me a weird look, but he helped me. I stood by his side as my dad and them, walked over.

"Chichi I was worried sick about you! Why didn't you tell anyone where you were going?!" Yup, he was mad. I can basically feel the furry coming from his voice.

I looked at the ground as I tried to explain. "I… I… I didn't say… Because well…"

"Speak up young lady. Show your father, the king, proper respect." Oh boy, was Mrs. Ying was pushing it.

It took very ounce of courage in me, to look up at my father as I spoke. "I didn't say anything because… Because I knew you wasn't going to let me go!" The last part yelled out. I then looked at my father as his face went from anger to sadness but to anger. At this moment, I was feeling small and like a child. I was scared. That's when I remembered I was still holding Goku's hand. And that made me feel more confident as I looked at my father.

"I apologize for that, but your safety is my top concern. But since I knew if you wasn't here, you probably was there. I heard everything over the radio. You did good making it to the top 8."

My face broke out in a smile hearing my dad's praise. I bowed my head. "Thank you, daddy."

"But after what I've heard I got scared and worried. Seeing you here, makes me so happy." Seeing that my dad was happy, I whispered to say something. But before he opened his mouth dad spoke again. "Long time, no see Goku."

Goku broke into a smile and greeted day. It made me so happy. They spoke about the tournament while we walked inside. The happy feeling didn't last long, as I someone staring daggers into my back. We went to the dinning hall and had a big feast to celebrate the defeat of Piccolo's son.

This is when I come to realize Goku ate a lot, and mean enough to feed a village a lot.

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As me and the Ox King spoke while we walked, I could feel the two behind us were giving nasty looks. I paid them no mind. I didn't do anything wrong to them, so I don't know what's their problem. After having such a delicious, Chichi decided we go walk around as talk. Something tells me she just wanted to get away from those two people.

Once alone she finally spoke. "I don't think I've told you, but there's something you have to do first for us to get married." I asked her to continue. "Well you see, you're supposed to ask my dad for his blessing. After that, we do stuff to go plan the wedding."

"First, why do I have to ask for your dad's blessing?" She said, tradition. "OK, what about this stuff about planning a wedding?" She then told all this stuff that goes into a wedding. Like what is a wedding, what we support to do, and the list goes on. My head was starting to hurt. Just when I was about to say something, that guy from earlier showed up.

"You're wasting your time, princess. He clearing doesn't know what he's doing, so there's no point. Just stop living your fantasy world, and marry a real man." I have no idea why, but hearing him speak, and the way Chichi looks mad, got me angry. Just when I was about to walk to him, Chichi grabbed my arm.

"Ignore him Goku. He's not worth it." I took a deep breath to calm down. But the smirk the guy gave made me want to punch him. WOW! Where did that come from?

We walked for a bit more till we came to a hallway with two doors across from another. She commented that the one of the left will be my room, while the right was hers. I acknowledged her claim, and we stepped into my room. I was super impressed how big it was.

The first thing I did was laid on the bed. It was so soft. I then noticed a door, and come to find out it was a bathroom. Super cool. That's when the activities of the day finally hit me, and I became exhausted. I think Chichi notice, since she walked up to me.