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I do not own Dragon Ball Z. This is a work of Fanfiction using the Dragon Ball Z world. Dragon Ball Z is owned by Akira Toriyama.

Gine had just finished training for the day and was outside their house waiting for Goku to get back with lunch. It had been four years since Kakarot's Great Ape incident, and there hadn't been another one since. Gine had told Gohan about her's and Kakarot's race, and somethings about their biology.

She'd been surprised that he hadn't sent them off right then and there, but she hadn't pressed the issue. Gohan had insisted on her taking more time to train for whatever reason, and had started taking on more housework himself.

Where is he? She wondered. It wasn't like Kakarot to be late, especially to a meal. He'd ended up with his fathers appetite and it gave her and Gohan both fits.

She saw him walking up the road, and walked out to meet him. She saw the massive fish he was carrying and assumed he'd been fishing. "Hey Kakarot!" she called, as she started to jog toward him. "Hey mom." he said as she stopped and bent down in front of him. "Where have you been?" "Just fishing." he replied casually. "That took a while for you just fishing." replied Gine skeptically.

"Hello, I'm here to." came a voice from behind Kakarot. Gine stood up and saw a blue haired girl standing behind Goku. The girl was in a very short pink dress that had the name Bulma on the front. She had blue sneakers with purple socks, a belt with a blue pouch on it, a purple scarf, a leather glove on her right hand, and a red band around her left wrist. She was around a head taller than Gine, and had her blue hair in a braid with a red ribbon.

"Hi, who are you?" asked Gine standing up. "My names Bulma." answered the girl. "I'm looking for an orange ball with stars, and there's supposed to be one around here, do you know where it is."

She must be talking about that thing Gohan picked up a while back. I wonder what she's going to do with it. "How'd you find her?" she asked her son. He glared at Bulma before answering. "She ran me over, and shot me with some kind of weak human toy."

Gine glared at Bulma. "You ran him over?" she asked in a dangerously low tone. "Well, I didn't see him he kind of came out of nowhere and surprised me. He threw my car across the road, and I panicked and shot at him. It didn't hurt him, so no harm done. Right?" Bulma said in a nervous rush.

Gine turned to Kakarot. "Are you hurt?" He shook his head. "It stung a little though." Gine was relieved. "I'll get Gohan to look over you when we get to the house." Kakarot sighed, he was used to his mother being slightly overprotective, but it was still annoying.

"You can come to I suppose." said Gine as she turned to Bulma. "If you try to blast my son again though, I'll throw you down the mountain." Bulma gulped and looked down at the drop. "Alright." she squeaked.

As they walked back Bulma kept looking at Gine when she thought Gine wasn't looking. "What is it? Do you recognize me or something?" asked Gine after a while. "Well, I was wondering." Bulma began hesitantly. "Are you really his biological mother." "Not that I doubt your word or anything you just look really young to be a mom." she added hastily, not wanting to offend Gine.

Gine was confused by this question. What does she mean by that? "I'm not that old I'm only 32." Bulma gaped openly at her. "How are you looking so young?" I guess earthlings age faster than Saiyans. I never thought to ask Gohan how old he is. "Just aged well I guess." "I guessed you were related when I saw you had a tail, but I figured you'd be his older sister not his mother." Do earthlings really age that fast? We stay young until we're eighty.

"Gohan we're back!" called Gine as she opened the door to their house. "Hello." replied Gohan as he looked up from the stove. "Who is this young lady?" he asked looking at Bulma. "She wants your orange ball, Grandpa." answered Goku. Gine sighed. Straight to the point. Just like his father.

"Her names Bulma, she comes from the city, and is looking for an orange orb with stars." said Gine, glaring at Goku. "I can introduce myself, thank you!" said Bulma irritably. "I'm Bulma, I've come all the way from West City looking for an orb similar to this." she said as she pulled an orange orb with stars on it from her pouch.

"Yes I do have an orb like that." said Gohan after a moment. "What would you like it for?" "There are seven of these orbs, and if I collect all seven the Eternal Dragon will appear and grant my wish." she said excitedly. "Now can I have your Dragon Ball?" "What do you want to wish for?" asked Gine curiously. "The perfect boyfriend." replied Bulma.

"Mom, what does she mean by boyfriend? Is she going to run him over?" asked Kakarot, frowning at Bulma. Gine laughed softly. "I don't know what she means, but I doubt she's going to run him over." Kakarot nodded.

Gohan however knew exactly what she meant. "If you can wish for anything you want, then why would you wish for something like that?" he asked curiously. "You could use the wish for a good cause that doesn't just benefit yourself. For instance, Goku's father died when Goku was a baby, you could use the wish to bring him back and give Goku a father."

Bulma looked thoughtful for a moment. She looked at Kakarot and Gine, then sighed. "I guess I could give up my wish. You guys will have to come on the search though."

"Are you sure?" asked Gine. Bulma nodded. "Yeah I'm completely sure. You guys need it more than I do." "Thank you." Kakarot looked conflicted, then his face returned to normal. "What's for lunch." Gine smiled at him. "Unless someone stole your fish, probably fish."

"When are we leaving?" asked Bulma, after lunch. "I was thinking today." answered Gine. "I'd like to get started as soon as possible, and if we delay it'll just waste daylight." Bulma nodded and went outside.

I'm not sure how much I really want to leave. I wonder what Bardock will think if I can bring him back. I hope he won't insist we conquer the planet. I should be able to prevent that.

"Mom!" came Kakarot's voice from the door, interrupting her thoughts. "What is it?" "We're leaving., Hurry up." Gine grabbed her bag and walked out the door.

Bulma and Gohan were standing next to a vehicle with two wheels waiting for her and Kakarot. "Your not coming?" asked Gine when she noticed Gohan didn't have a bag. Gohan shook his head. "No, I'm afraid not. I'm to old for a trip around the world. Take care and come back safe." Gine smiled at him. "You to, if you die while I'm gone I'll kill you." Gohan chuckled. "Goodbye."

"Can we go sometime today?" asked Kakarot sarcastically. "Goku." said Gine in a warning voice. "I'm just saying, if we want to get somewhere before nightfall we have to leave now." Gine nodded "You're right but you don't have to be rude about it."

"We'll be walking to help further our training." said Gine as Bulma sat down on her bike. "No, you guys won't be able to keep up, you need to get on." "No it'll be fine." assured Gine. "If anything we'll have to slow down so you can keep up. I train everyday, and I'm sure I'm faster than those machines. And Gohan might not look like it but he's one of the strongest people on the planet, and he's been training Kakarot, so he'll be able to keep up."

Bulma looked confused. "Whose Kakarot?" Gine sighed, sometimes she wished she'd insisted on keeping Kakarot's birth name. "When Gohan found him we were separated and I was unconscious, so Gohan took him in and named him Goku. Kakarot is his birth name, but he likes Goku better, so that's what I let him go by." Bulma nodded.

"Well anyway, if you're sure you can keep up go ahead and try to run. Don't say I didn't warn you if you can't keep up." "Can we get going already?" asked Goku impatiently. "Yeah we're going right now." answered Bulma as she started the bike, and began to ride down the road.

Gine was keeping pace with the bike easily, for that matter so was Kakarot. Every so often she noticed Bulma looking over to check on her and Kakarot. Gine decided she wanted to kick it up a notch.

"Hey, can't this thing go any faster?!" shouted Gine over the roaring of the engine. "Yeah, but won't you guys fall behind?!" Bulma shouted in answer. "No, just push this thing as far as you can, we'll keep up." "What about Goku?!" Gine looked over her shoulder at her son and saw he was keeping pace not as easily as her, but he was hanging in there. "He'll keep up!"

Bulma nodded, and sped up. Gine kicked it up to match the bike's pace easily. She looked back to check on Goku, and saw that he was having some difficulty but not enough to make her drop her speed.

Bulma stopped suddenly causing Gine to stop, and Goku to run into her. "It's time for a pit-stop." she said as she got up and ran behind some trees. Gine nodded in understanding and leaned against the bike, while Kakarot sat on the seat. "How are you holding up?" asked Gine. "Fine." he replied between breathes. "Okay, if you need us to slow down you tell us, alright." He nodded, but Gine could tell from the look in his eyes that he had no intention of telling them to slow down. Mentally she cursed the fact that Bardock had somehow managed to make his son just as stubborn as he was without being there.

Gine stood up suddenly as she heard a scream. Then she saw Bulma being lifted by a blue dinosaur that tried to fly off with her. Gine heard a yell, and saw Kakarot jumping off the ground at the point where the dinosaur should be when he was level with it. She saw Kakarot slam his fist into the dinosaurs chest, rip clean through it, then begin to fall.

Gine knew he would be fine so she jumped up, caught Bulma, and landed next to the bike. She saw the dinosaur crash into the ground, then Goku landed next to it, with blood all over him.

"Can we stop here, so Kakarot can change clothes?" she asked Bulma. "S-sure." replied the bluenette.

They stopped for the night sometime later. Bulma took a round house out of what she called a dinocap. She'd explained that dinocaps were used by people in the city to store, and carry, things that they usually couldn't. Gine found it very impressive.

They walked in and Bulma flicked the lights on. Electricity is so convenient. "Mom how is it light in here but dark out there?" asked Kakarot in confusion. "They use electricity to turn on lights so we can see." explained Gine. "I don't know how it works, but I bet it's really complicated."

Bulma was laughing softly by the door. "What's so funny?" asked Gine. Then she heard a sound and turned to see someone's face from behind a glass screen she hadn't noticed before.

"Is he trying to break the glass by making that really bad noise?" wondered Kakarot. That's what it sounds like. "I'm going to make him stop." said Goku as he took a stance.

Before Gine could say anything to stop him he launched a flying kick that destroyed the screen and the wall behind him. Gine let out a sigh of relief. Thank god that awful sound stopped. Goku was looking around in confusion. "Where'd he go? Guess I killed him. Oh, well." Gine winced slightly when she heard this. He didn't really have very much respect for life. She tried to teach him that but had failed miserably. She had managed to teach him to only kill when he didn't have any other choice.

"Why did you break my TV set?!" shrieked Bulma, causing Gine and Goku to wince. "What's a TV set?" asked Goku, looking at his mother. Gine just shrugged. "I don't know. I guess it's a device used to see things from far away."

Bulma looked at them incredulously. "You mean you don't have a TV?" Gine nodded. "We trained, all the time." Bulma sighed, and muttered something about country hicks.

Gine roasted the dinosaur with a ki blast, and they ate that for dinner. Well, Gine and Goku did. Bulma said that was gross, and ate some bread and a strange brown liquid called coffee.

Later that night Gine was laying on the couch trying to sleep. Goku was laying on top of her breathing the deep breathes of sleep. She was worried about what Bardock would do if she could actually revive him.

She'd already gone over every likely scenario in her head, and they were mostly bad. The one that seemed most likely was him annihilating all the earthlings except maybe Gohan, and then taking her and Kakarot to fight Frieza.

No use worrying about it. She thought after several hours. The last thing she noticed before sleep took her was a feeling that Bardock wouldn't be coming back.

This story won't interfere with my other story very much at all. If the last time you read my previous chapter Gohan died reread it, because I completely rewrote it. Thanks for reading.