Chapter 1

(Five years later)

"I'm sorry Ryo but we cannot ignore this any further, things are getting out of hand!"

Elder Mori shook his head in apology as he looked up at the glowering Namekian.

"Look, I'm not saying you should get rid of him but at least talk to him or teach him some restraint! He could have seriously hurt someone with his latest stunt; as it was Nail got a broken arm stopping your son's latest fight."

Ryo continued to glower. Ryon had grown quickly into an aggressive, highly intelligent five year old; his only problem was that he really didn't know when to stop and had accidentally hurt a few of the other youngsters in the nearby village, and a few of the teenagers as well. This wasn't the first time Elder Mori had shown up at his house to 'talk' to him about Ryon and it probably wasn't going to be the last either. Ryo really didn't like these talks, in his opinion, things would be easier if the village children left Ryon alone and stopped provoking the short tempered, arrogant child into fights. Ryon always got the blame for such fights because the tall boy often won such confrontations. For a race of beings who were peaceful, for the most part, the children sure appeared to enjoy getting into fights they couldn't win. Reaching the end of his already thin patience, Ryo pinched the bridge of his nose and sighed.

"Look, I'll talk to him alright but he's still just a child, he'll learn restraint as he gets older and trains more."

"See that you do please, I really don't want to have to take this to Guru."

What! How dare he?! There was no need to get the Grand Elder involved, none whatsoever and Mori knew it. Before Ryo could snap off a reply Mori had already taken flight, returning to his village. Growling, Ryo turned towards the house where he knew his sons would be shamelessly eavesdropping. He noticed Ryon peer around the open door, his normally proud obsidian eyes worried.

"Come here Ryon, we need to talk."

The child gulped, his teak-brown tail whipping around nervously. Hanging his head, he approached his adoptive father. Trying to ignore the pitiful look on his youngest's face Ryo looked up towards the house again.

"You four better come out as well, this is a family matter"

On cue four more heads popped around the door. Royan, Jek, Flute and Ryno all joined their father and baby brother. The four brothers all looked irritated at the villager's treatment of their little brother especially Jek and Ryno, the third and fourth youngest. Jek quickly spoke up in defense of his brother.

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"It's not Ryon's fault Dad … they were goading him into a fight, again…"

"Yeah Dad, Nail only got hurt because he tried to break up Goja and Ryon, Goja started it all anyway…"

Now there was a surprise … not. Goja always seemed to be involved whenever Ryon got into trouble, it was almost like the eight year old Namekian was deliberately targeting Ryon. Ryo was knocked out of his musings as Jek threw a small ki blast at his brother's head.

"Ryno shut up! I'm trying to talk here … Dad, you aren't gonna let anything happen to Ryon are you?"

Ryo looked at all five of his sons as Jek and Ryno defended their youngest brother. Inwardly he was incredibly proud that they were all so loyal to each other, however, he knew that Ryon needed to be taught how to handle such situations before he did more than just break an arm. He looked down at his youngest, Ryon met his gaze but the Namekian could see that the five year old was trying not to cry. Ryo crouched down and scooped up the child into a hug. Ryon instinctively curled into his father, looking up at him with shimmering eyes.

"Am I in real big trouble thith time Dad?"

Ryo couldn't help but laugh at his son's slight lisp, it was the bane of the arrogant child's existence but was so freaking cute. He shook his head.

"No son, I know you never start the fights. However, you are grounded for not keeping your temper and for breaking Nail's arm. I thought I had taught you better than that."

Ryon's tail drooped and the obsidian and blonde haired child sobbed slightly. Feeling the death glares of his other four offspring, Ryo continued.

"But … I think it's time I started training you properly. Copying your brother's lessons is all well and good, but you're old enough now to benefit from proper training."

Instantly Ryon's mood did a complete u-turn as he grinned. His tail wagged excitedly while the five year old took in his father's words. Royan, Flute, Jek and Ryno all shared relieved looks: no more training their baby brother behind their dad's back. Ryo shot them a suspicious look before looking down at Ryon.

"I can start training properly now! Yeth! Hear that big Brother's, we don't have to be so sneaky no more."

Ryo pinned his now very nervous sons with a 'You Four are in Big Trouble Look' TM as Ryon continued to grin.

"Ryon? What exactly do you mean by not having to be sneaky?"

Ryon noticed his big brothers trying to tell him to shut up and smirked. Payback for all the times he got in trouble at home for one of their stunts. All four Namekians paled at their little brother's evil smirk.

"Royan an' Flute have been training me when you leave the house, Ryno an' Jek make sure we didn' get seen. It was fun, I got to learn how to hide and how to hit someone."

"Oh really …"

The four young adults paled even further as their evil little brother sang like a bird. They were so going to get the brat back for this.

"Well boys … seeing as you think you can just do as you please whenever I leave the house, including train your brother when I said not to … I think you four don't have enough to do, don't you?"

Ryo grinned sadistically.

"Starting tomorrow, your training is going to be so much harder."

As his sons started to complain about how unfair it was that they were getting punished, Ryo looked down at the grinning chibi in his arms.

"As for you, go and get some rest, you've got training to get ready for."

There, Chapter 1 done!

I'm working off the basis that just because Namekians are supposed to be peaceful, there's exceptions to every rule i.e. Ryo and his boys are warriors first, everything else second

As to the fighting, kids are cruel, its almost guaranteed that Ryon would be getting teased and goaded into fights simply because he is different, I was.

R&R please, I'd love to hear what you think