Chapter 6: Arriving at the Wrong Time and Fighting Shinobi
Pearl, Kenshiro, and Barit took about two hours to clean the entire apartment, Kenshiro wanted to make extra sure that it was clean. Once they were done the three of them slumped down, Pearl and Kenshiro on the couch and Barit on his chair. After resting for five minutes Barit said, "So, your Mom's a Ninja-" "Kunoichi," Kenshiro said. "Kunoichi," Barit continued, "What's your Dad?" Kenshiro took a second to think before saying, "My Father…died when I was still a baby. He wasn't a warrior, he was a doctor." Barit and Pearl sat up and Barit said, "Oh man, I'm sorry…" "Don't be," Kenshiro told him, "Mom told me that they met when she had botched a mission, she barely escaped but was badly wounded. She made it to the village where my Dad and his family lived, and nursed her back to health. Mom saw how kind he was, and liked how peaceful the village, Cashew Village, was and decided to stay. Eventually, they fell in love and got married. He never knew Mom was a kunoichi.
"All he knew was that she was a warrior, she told him she was attacked by bandits. Mom started teaching martial arts to everyone in Cashew Village, and everything was settled down, when I was born," Kenshiro said. He got a sad look in his eyes and Pearl said, "That's enough, Kenny. You don't have to tell us anymore." Kenshiro shook his head, "No, I might as well finish this. Father…was killed when one of Mom's shinobi enemies found Cashew Village. He had no idea what was coming, but Mom told me that he died to give her time to escape. She hid out for six months, before returning to Cashew Village and letting my Grandma Kamiki and Grandpa Jinbei take care of me, while she got revenge." The three of them were quiet for a while before Pearl asked, "Did she…get her revenge?" Kenshiro nodded, "After six months she returned and told my grandparents the whole story. After that, I was raised by my Father's family and Mom, she taught me how to fight, I came here, and the rest is history."
Barit however had a weird look on his face, "What about your Mom's family?" Kenshiro shrugged, "Mom told me that unlike other shinobi, her family, the Oshiro family, only has one child per generation, it's been this way for 35 generation, and I'm lucky number 36. Shinobi don't live too long, I think Mom might actually be one of the longest surviving ones that's still active. My maternal grandparents, Oshiro Hajime and Tsubaki Kaoru, were dead five years before I was born." "Wow, that's…pretty damn rough," Barit said and Pearl nodded in agreement. "That's the life of shinobi, it's why Mom's glad I didn't try to follow in her footsteps. She always told me that while I might be a powerful warrior, I'm as subtle as a bear in a tutu," Kenshiro said with a laugh. Pearl and Barit laughed at that, "Well, she's right about that," Pearl said.
After taking some quick showers the three of them decided it was time to go get Shurayuki and Praxtic. Barit had an idea, "Why don't we try to get the drop on her?" "How?" Pearl asked. "You use Instant Transmission to send all three of us to her. I'd love to see the look on her face when we pop up right in front of her!" "Ooohh, that sounds interesting," Pearl agreed. "I don't know, Mom might let her killer instincts take over," Kenshiro said. "Oh come on, we're all trained warriors here, I'm pretty sure she can't kill us that fast," Barit said. Kenshiro shook his head, but smiled and said, "Alright, we'll try it. But be ready to dodge." Pearl closed her eyes to sense Shurayuki and Praxtic's ki signatures, and found them, they weren't too far away. "I found them, grab onto me," Pearl said, Barit took her left shoulder and Kenshiro took her right, and they were gone. But Shurayuki wasn't the one that got surprised.
"OH MY GOD!" Pearl squealed.
"WHAT THE HELL!?" Barit yelled.
"OH COME ON MOM!" an exasperated Kenshiro yelled.
"OOOOOOOHHHHHHHHH!"
"TAKE! IT! ALL! IN! BABYYYYYYYYYYYY!"
They were in a Hotel, Shurayuki and Praxtic naked as the day they were born, Shurayuki taking it doggy style, and the three Time Patrollers arrived just in time for the big O. Shurayuki rode her orgasm to the end, and then saw the new arrivals, "Well then, I guess turnabout, ooooohhhhh, is fair play." Praxtic pulled out, and then the Time Patrollers got their second shock.
"WHAT THE HELL IS THAT THING!?" Barit yelled.
"IT'S LIKE A CUCUMBER!" Pearl squealed even higher.
Kenshiro saw Praxtic's member and passed out in shock. Praxtic chuckled and said, "Impressed? My Mom was a Saiyan, but my Dad was a Phallusian from the Horse Tribe!" Shurayuki started getting dressed and Pearl looked at her, yelling, "How are you still alive!?" Pearl then noticed some scars on Shurayuki's back before the woman got dressed and said, "Decades of practice my dear, and the fact that I often hide weapons in my anus helps to keep my limber." Praxtic took a step towards them and saw Kenshiro, "Whoa, I guess some guys just can't take knowing a bigger man." "Dude! Put that thing away!" Barit yelled. Praxtic laughed some more, but mercifully put his pants back on. Shurayuki finished getting dressed back in her shinobi outfit and walked over to Kenshiro, and lifted him up on her shoulders. "Alright then, fun's over. We should probably take Kenshi home," she said. Pearl nodded and put her fingers to her forehead. Shurayuki blew a kiss to Praxtic before grabbing Pearl's shoulder, and they were gone.
The three of them were quiet as Shurayuki gently put Kenshiro on the couch and said, "I'm going to need a shower after that. If Kenshi wakes up, don't hesitate to tell me." With that, Shurayuki headed for the bathroom, leaving Barit and Pearl to look at each other. "So…" Barit said, "That was…" "Traumatic," Pearl said, "Did you see how big he was! I was afraid he'd come for me next!" "Do you and Kenshiro do that stuff?" Barit asked. Pearl blushed at that and muttered, "Sometimes… But he's nowhere near that freakishly huge…" "I'm gonna need some whiskey to deal with that," Barit said and went to the kitchen, "Get me a glass too!" Pearl asked. Barit came out with two half full glasses of whiskey and handed one with ice to Pearl. Pearl quickly drank her glass and put it down. Barit finished his right as Shurayuki emerged from the shower, her hair in a long braid and wearing a white qipao with red borders on the sleeves and shoes.
"Ah, I see Kenshi is still out. This is actually pretty good timing," Shurayuki said. "Good timing for what?" Pearl asked. Shurayuki walked over to the hall closet of the apartment and took out a pack from it. "I think that we should have some girl time," Shurayuki said. "But what about Kenshiro?" Barit asked. Shurayuki looked down at her son and smiled at him, "He's fine, I think we can just let him rest." The kunoichi gently stroked her slumbering son's hair before reaching into her pack and pulling something wrapped in white fabric out. "Barit, call Pearl when he wakes up, and make sure he gets this. He'll know what it is," she said and gave the object to Barit. "Ummm…ok," the Namekian agreed as he took the object.
"Uh… Well… we don't have much to do here in Conton City…" Pearl said as she and Shurayuki left the apartment. "That's alright, we can just walk and talk. Kenshiro told me a lot about you, and I think we should get to know each other better," Shurayuki said. Well… what do I talk about? I mean, she's a kunoichi, before I was a Time Patroller, I was a nerd! There's nothing really interesting about me… "Just start at the beginning, how about your family, Kenshi told me that you were the oldest of five," Shurayuki suggested. "Oh…ok. Well, Mama is a martial artist, she was the World Champion for three Tenkaichi Budokai in fact, before she came to the Time Patrol, for two months, then decided that she preferred to spend her time with her family.
"Papa is a chef, the seventh best chef in the world. Him and Mama met when after she lost in the Final round of her first Tenkaichi Budokai, Papa saw and gave her a meal for free. They started dating, and eventually got married, and soon decided they wanted kids, and I was the first," Pearl said. "What do they look like?" Shurayuki asked. "Well, you need to understand that Majins are magical beings, we don't really have genetics like other creatures. They really don't look much like me," Pearl explained as they walked through Conton City. "Mama is as tall as me, but much more muscular, with red skin and yellow eyes, and she likes to keep her tentacles in a ponytail-ish style. Papa is even taller, and orange, by other people's standards he's very fat, but by Majin standards he's pretty fit for a male, his tentacles are like a three-pointed crown on his head, while he also has two smaller ones on his face that look like whiskers, he has purple eyes, but they're usually shut, trust me, when they're open, he's scary. Mama usually likes to where her green and black Buu-gi, while Papa usually wears a chef outfit," Pearl explained.
Shurayuki took a minute to process this, "I see. I take it that you're very close?" Pearl nodded, "Mama and Papa always encouraged me to be the best I could be. They were never disappointed that I wasn't as strong as my little brothers and sisters, but they always encouraged me to be stronger too. Mama said that it was important that we could defend ourselves form bad guys." "It sounds like you've had a pretty good life. What about your siblings?" Shurayuki asked, and then sat down next to the lake at the bottom of a waterfall just outside the Shopping District, it was just the two of them there. Pearl sat down next to her and continued, "Well, after me, when I was two, Mama and Papa had Jasper, my little brother. He looks like Papa, orange skin, three pointed crown tentacles, but his eyes are open and green and he doesn't have Papa's whiskers. He likes to dress up in a black gi a lot. Then when I was three my little sister Jade was born. She's in between me and Mama, muscular wise, and has green skin with white eyes and black sclera. Her tentacles look like they're a short haircut, and she has rosy red cheeks, she likes to wear qipao that are purple or blue. Jasper was always the strongest of us, and always ready to pick a fight, while Jade is more laid back, she likes to play videogames a lot.
"Then there's my littlest sister, Amber. She's as muscular as Mama, but she's pretty short, about half as tall as me, she was born when I was six. Her skin is orange like Papa's, and she keeps her eyes shut a lot, she also has marks on her cheeks like me, but they're blue. Her tentacles look like pigtails, and she likes dressing up in hiking gear a lot, and hiking everywhere she can go really. She says that one day she'll walk around the world. And then there's my littlest brother, Silver. He's pure white, and his eyes are yellow like Mama's. He was born when I was eleven. He's still just a little kid, and really fat. He likes to dress up like Papa and wants to be a chef like him," Pearl said.
Shurayuki smiled and shook her head, "You've really led a charmed life it sounds like." Pearl nervously rubbed her neck, "Well…yes. I mean, it's not always peaceful. We sometimes fight, and all. And, Jasper can be really pushy at times. He's always been the strongest of us, and he makes sure we know it." "I suppose you'd like to know about my life now?" Shurayuki asked. "Kenshiro explained to me and Barit about how you and his Father met, he told me that your family is…" Pearl wasn't sure if she should talk about the woman's life so casually. "Yes, my family is dead, except for Kenshiro," Shurayuki said, then told Pearl, "Ask me any question you'd like, and I will answer truthfully. My age, the people I've killed, my life with Shiro, nothing is off limits." "Shiro?" Pearl asked. Shurayuki nodded with a wistful smile, "Yes, Shiro, Kenshiro's Father. When I met him, I was fleeing for my life after messing up my escape. I had killed Hanbei Tora, a notorious Yakuza boss, and was shot three times escaping. I would have died had I not stumbled on Cashew Village.
"Shiro was the village's doctor, he was the only one who left to attend college before returning to help take care of his people," Shurayuki explained, then reached into her qipao and pulled out an iron locket. She opened the locket and showed Pearl the picture inside. It was a picture of a very pregnant Shurayuki in a yellow and green qipao, holding hands with a man that looked a lot like Kenshiro, except for his normal skin and much thinner body. Pearl also finally noticed that the shape of Kenshiro's eyes he had inherited from his Mother. "Shiro was a good man, dedicated to helping anyone who needed him. During the two years I was with him, he must have helped save at least seventy lives, and helped bring thirty-seven babies into this world. He was…so unlike me, a woman who had committed her first kill at the age of twelve. For the first time, I knew what it was like, to really enjoy life," Shurayuki said, and a tear fell from her eyes.
"I-I'm sorry, I didn" Pearl tried to say, but Shurayuki shook her head, "It's not your fault. Pearl, I see how Kenshiro looks at you. He has the same look Shiro had in his eyes. You deserve to know the truth, just as he did. Ask me any question you'd like, don't worry about me, the past is past." I have so many questions… But I… I don't know what to think anymore. What can I ask? Pearl and Shurayuki sat there for ten minutes before Pearl finally asked, "What did you do…after Shiro was killed?" Shurayuki's expression became much harder, and fiercer as she said, "Shiro…was killed only an hour after Kenshiro was born. I was still exhausted from giving birth, all I could do was grab Kenshiro and my family's katana and run and hide. For three months, I lived in the woods near Cashew Village with Kenshiro, until I was certain that my enemies had left. I returned there, the villagers thought that I had murdered Shiro and took off with our son. If Shiro's parents, Jinbei and Kamiki hadn't spoken up for me, I would have surely been lynched. I gave Kenshiro to them, and then I went to Shiro's grave and swore vengeance.
"For nine months after that, I left a trail of death in my wake in the shinobi world. There was no low I wouldn't sink to, no method I wouldn't try to find my husband's killers. I made many enemies during those nine months, before I finally found the shinobi responsible. He was no match for me, I had nothing left to lose, I thought at the time, and after fighting for three days and nights I at last took his head. Before he died, he told me who had hired him. It was the daughter of Hanbei Tora, Torako. I broke into her home, and I made her suffer far worse than her Father did," Shurayuki said. Pearl's eyes were threatening to pop out of her head they were so wide. One look in Shurayuki's eyes told her that every word was true, and that the woman sitting next to her was someone you didn't want as an enemy.
Before Pearl realized what happened, explosions went off all around them, and the air was filled with dirt and smoke. "What's going on!" Pearl asked. "Jump into the lake now!" Shurayuki ordered, and Pearl obeyed immediately, the lake wasn't that deep, only up to their knees. Shurayuki pulled out two daggers from her sleeves and Pearl saw as she struck numerous shuriken out of the air. Pearl couldn't see anything, or sense them either. "They're not using ki, I can't sense them!" Pearl yelled as she ducked just in time to avoid three shuriken. Pearl then heard five splashes, their attackers had jumped into the lake after them. "Pearl, I'll try to draw them away, you get out of the smoke!" Shurayuki yelled, and ran further into the smoke. Pearl heard the sound of metal clashing and started to run in the opposite direction.
The Majin girl literally ran into one of their attackers, it was a shinobi dressed in green with grass sticking out of his outfit. Pearl stopped and the shinobi stopped as well and just stared at her. Pearl recovered from her surprise first and slammed her fist into his face, knocking him out instantly. Wow…not too tough, are they? That was when Pearl heard the sound of a man and a woman scream, and more metal clashing. "Shurayuki!?" Pearl yelled. "I'm fine!" the kunoichi replied, and Pearl heard more metal clashing. "Try to get rid of this damn smoke!" Pearl jumped out of the lake and got an idea. She sucked in air as hard as she could, and expanded her chest to fill it even more before blowing the smoke away. She saw two shinobi floating in the lake surrounded by their own blood, and Shurayuki was dueling two others armed with a sword and a spear respectively. Shurayuki didn't look hurt, aside from the fact that her hair was unloosed from her braid she was fine.
Pearl quickly Instant Transmitted to the shinobi with the spear and kicked her in the stomach, sending the shinobi out of the lake and crashing into a tree, knocking it out. Shurayuki saw her chance and caught the last shinobi's sword with one dagger, and with the other sliced his wrists to make him let go. The shinobi screamed in pain and tried to run away, but Shurayuki drew two shuriken and threw them into his knees. The shinobi turned around as Shurayuki approached and said, "I surrender, please! Spare me!" Shurayuki looked at the shinobi and her voice was dripping with contempt as she said, "There is no mercy in the Path of Shinobi." "Don't!" Pearl yelled, only for Shurayuki to stab both her daggers into the shinobi's skull. Shurayuki turned to the first shinobi Pearl knocked out, and Pearl quickly stretched out her arm and pulled him behind her and did the same with the second shinobi.
Shurayuki looked at Pearl, and Pearl felt like tons of weight suddenly pushed her down, but she still looked the kunoichi in the eyes. "I won't let you murder them," Pearl said, standing between Shurayuki and the shinobi. "Do you think you can stop me?" Shurayuki asked, and her ki glowed around her. Pearl didn't have her scouter, but she guessed that Shurayuki was at least on the level of Frieza in his First Form. She still stood her ground, "I may not be able to beat you, but I won't stand back and let you murder any more people. They're not a threat anymore, you can just…take their weapons and let them go." Shurayuki looked at Pearl, and then her ki aura disappeared. "Very well, I will do as you say. But if they attack me again, I won't show them mercy," Shurayuki agreed.
Pearl stepped aside and the shinobi regained consciousness, just in time for Shurayuki to rip off their masks and put her daggers on their throats. "Who are you? Who sent you?" she asked. Pearl saw that one shinobi was a girl the other was a young man, they couldn't have been older than eighteen. They both had black hair in the same pony tail style and similar eyes. The girl was quiet, but her companion answered, "We're Saito and Hitomi of the Murasaki clan! No one sent us! We thought that we could get a better reputation if we killed the White Widow! I swear!" "The Murasaki Clan," Shurayuki said, and spat on the ground, "The only thing you're good for is fucking up and knocking up. Well then, Saito and Hitomi, I have some good news and bad news for you. But first, strip."
The two young shinobi immediately obeyed Shurayuki's orders and as soon as they were stark naked Shurayuki told them to get on all fours. "What are you doing?" Pearl asked. "Checking," Shurayuki said, and rolled up her sleeves. "Well then, Saito and Hitomi of the Murasaki Clan, the good news is that you'll live. The bad news is, not with your virginities intact!" Saito didn't like Shurayuki's cavity search that much, but Hitomi looked like she was enjoying it before the older kunoichi pulled out. "Now then, kowtow three times to her," Shurayuki said, "And say, 'Thank you for sparing us, Pearl-sama'. Do this, and you'll be free to leave." Hitomi and Sakura of the Murasaki clan immediately did as they were ordered, "Thank you for sparing us Pearl-sama! Thank you for sparing us Pearl-sama! Thank you for sparing us Pearl-sama!" "Now screw off," Shurayuki ordered, and the two shinobi scrambled away.
They were stopped in their tracks by a tall female Earthling Time Patroller, followed by another female Saiyan. The Frieza Race Time Patroller that had talked to Kenshiro before flew between Pearl and Shurayuki and said, "Everyone stay where you are. The Kai's want to know what all this commotion is about." Pearl looked around and saw the Supreme Kai of Time and Elder Kai walking to them all, looking very un-amused. "Uh oh."