Chapter five – A day of family life

Uub felt absolutely horrible; couldn't things get any worse for him? He moaned as he stuffed his face in one of the many fluffy pillows. When he had just woken up he had briefly hoped it would be in his own warm bed, only the sound of Rishou yelling at his younger brother cut that happy thought short.

And with that came this ice piercing headache, it felt like Bebi was pounding on his head all over again except this time, it was –worse-. Much and much more worse.

He sighed and moaned again, the curtains were wide open and he could see the bright blue sky above but that was even too bright for his eyes as they both started to burn straight out their caskets.

What was in that drink any way? Poison of some sort?

A soft knock on the door caused him to look up, in the door way stood a slightly amused Marron.

"Well that was fun." She whispered and walked into the bedroom.

"I am not laughing." Uub mumbled as he laid his head back down on the pillow trying to wish the headache away. Marron chuckled, "You sometimes seem to forget that you and alcohol-" she sat down on the edge of the bed, "do not mix well." She finished and lay down next to him. She placed her surprisingly cool hands gently on his head and Uub couldn't help but to press his head towards the touch, "You should have seen my mother, she was really angry to find my father still half drunk this morning."

Uub chuckled; he didn't remember much of the night before but did recall Krillen's drunken face.

"She forced him to bring them back home in the Capsule Plane."

She paused and rubbed his temples gently causing Uub's whole body to relax. The headache casually slipping away.

"She also told me to kick you out of the bed and force you to take us to the mall, there was no way you should get out of it." Another chuckle escaped her lips.

Uub's eyes flew open, "To the mall?" Uub asked puzzled.

"Yes," Marron stopped massaging and sat up straight, "Like you promised last week you would."

"Wha... the mall, the city mall, as in Satan city mall?" the headache came back pounding even harder then it did before.

"Yes, the city mall as in the Satan city mall." Marron repeated his words except there was no humour in her voice as she spoke. Uub slowly turned his head to her, "But what do we need to do there?" he asked her ridiculously.

Marron jumped of the bed with a tiny cry, turned to him with her hands back on her hips. "For a moment I considered not going there today, but if you start acting like that Mister, I think I will force -as my mother delicately placed it-, you to go to the mall with us after all!" she rushed to the closets and ripped the doors open.

Uub stammered and sat up straight, ignoring his headache that now decided to have a mind of his own and slam the pain straight down to the rest of his body.

"But… Marron I… I-don't like going to the mall." He whined, "Don't make me!"

'Why was she doing this?' His mind started to whine, he should have known that was one part of Marron he could never change. Not even this weird illusion was able to do that.

Damnit!

She shook her head, "I can't believe you, you did this on purpose didn't you?!" she yelled at him and threw a pair of trousers at his head. "You got drunk on purpose so you wouldn't have to go!" her voice got stronger and she threw a shirt at him.

"Just take your shower, get down and eat your breakfast. And you better be ready, with this I mean fully dressed and have eaten every single last thing of your breakfast with in the hour!" She shook her head and headed towards the door, "Asking me what we would need from the mall, what a stupid question, I can't believe you!" and after that she slammed the door shut behind her.

Uub sat up straight, a little dazed and most of all confused. How did this happen? One moment she was perfectly happy with him, and then the next….

He'll never understand how the mind of a woman worked. Especially not hers. Always was a tricky one that one.

He shook his head and got out of bed, straightening himself for a couple of times before taking the clothes and heading to where he hoped the bathroom would be.

Stupid mall, what the hell would they need from the mall any way?

And how was he supposed to know she wanted to go the mall today? He didn't even remember what they supposedly did last week! He didn't even remember what they supposedly did last year! Or the year before that, or the –years- before that even.

Stupid witch Babba.

And Marron, bursting out at him like that, only making his headache worse.

He kept on mumbling reaching out for the soap as the cool water from the shower hit him. Stupid malls, why would they need a mall any how? They had everything they needed in the forest around them, meat, fruit and-… other things.

Stepping out of the shower he grabbed the very first towel that was available and dried himself off. His body still complaining in any matter it could, but he decided to ignore it instead.

Maybe it will go away if he did that long enough.

He got dressed and headed down the stairs, greeting the children that happily said good morning and finally sat down at the kitchen table. Luckily for him Goushi and Rishou had rushed outside and started to play on the front porch.

"Feeling better now?" Marron asked in a cold voice.

"A little." He mumbled in return however didn't look at her.

She placed a plate filled with breakfast in front of him and sat down across.

"I decided to add some eggs in there; rumour has it that it helps with people who suffer from a horrible hangover."

Uub nodded, the sight of the breakfast in front of him wasn't appealing at all. He felt his stomach make a huge turn over, in the wrong direction even, forcing pretty much every thing that was still down there to go up in to the wrong direction. Trying hard not to gag he took a fork and started to poke his breakfast. Every now and then taking a bite and ignoring the looks Marron sent at him.

"They're dead you know, I checked." She commented eying his fork.

She didn't seem to make any gesture of moving out of her seat what so ever, making sure he would he eat every last piece of food from that plate.

Stupid… breakfast, stupid witch Babba. And-…

"Uub." Marron spoke; again he didn't look up, for he was far too busy. Yes, far to busy.

"I am sorry for falling out like that, but you know that the boys and I do need things from the mall in Satan City." She continued, oblivious to Uub's attempts in ignoring her and instead tried to down the breakfast in to his throat.

"Either way Uub." She hissed slightly, "You promised me last week after I have asked you countless of times for the last few months. It's hard to take the boys with me since they're walking around completely out of control. Now you go and act exactly the same way you did months ago and completely threw off what you promised."

Uub looked up at her, still chewing on his breakfast only having a better time with swallowing it.

"It just hurts Uub, it's not like you to let go of a promise…"

He swallowed hard; she was putting on a sad face and was now starring at the table.

Damnit, not the sad blue eyes trick. She was not playing fair… he downed the last bite of his breakfast and after the last bit of food finally dropped down in his stomach, Uub sighed.

"We'll go." He finally said, "I just… was in a foul mood. Sorry." He said truthfully and this immediately earned him a happy Marron across of him. He smiled warmly at her and was slightly thrown back the moment she rushed over to him and hugged him tightly.

He gulped but hugged her back with a tiny pat on her back.

"Thank you Uub." She said and kissed him on the cheek. Then quickly let him go, except sat down on his lap. He smiled uneasy but made no move to get her off his lap, her bright smile froze him and he couldn't help but to remain in his seat like he was with her.

"So did you finish your breakfast?" she asked him sweetly, he nodded.

"Good, now I can give you this special pill uncle Yamucha gave me years ago. It's a strong sobering pill and I am only allowed to use it in strong cases. And one must eat a good meal before taking it." She kissed his fore head and stood up. Uub immediately missed her warmth on his lap and watched her roam the kitchen cup boards.

He sighed and shook his head.

"I've seen the bottle you and dad drank out of." She shook her head, "Dad had no idea what it was and just assumed it was safe to drink it like that. Idiots, the both of you." She chuckled and turned back to him. A glass of water in one hand and a blue pill in the other. "No wonder you got drunk after the first two glasses." She shook her head and walked up to him.

"Just take this and you should be feeling better in an hour or so."

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When Marron had told him that taking the boys to the mall of Satan City was a hassle, she was most definitely not joking. At least not about how chaotic and loud the ride over to Satan City was going to be. The moment the passenger seat of their hover car opened the two boys burst out of the car and rushed towards the huge building that was known as the city mall.

"Boys! Stay here!" Marron tried to call after them, but it didn't help, both the youngsters were to far away.

Uub looked slightly amused but when he turned to Marron his smile disappeared, "Well, go get them!"

"Oh right!" he rushed after the two and soon caught up in behind them. "Hey!" he called and grabbed the both of them by their shoulders. "Where do you think you're going huh?" he asked them and put the two laughing kids to a halt.

"Oh come on! We want to go to the game-"

"No Rishou, you said you and me would go to see the to-"

"No, to the game hall!" Rishou yelled back at his younger brother who was by now watering up.

"That's not fair you promised!" Goushi yelled which caused some of the people walking around to look at Uub with a curious glare.

Uub laughed nervously, "Now we can go to bo-" he was cut off by Rishou's loud voice, "But dad, I want to go to the game hall, I haven't in forever!" he stomped his foot on the ground.

"Well, we can-"

"No daddy, to the toys!" Goushi interrupted him.

"Goushi, you do not interrupt your father." Marron popped up from behind and quickly both the boys grew silent. "Now, we're going to the clothes stores first. You are both in great need of clothes and shoes once-" she ignored the whining pleas from Rishou and Goushi and continued on talking in a loud and clear voice, "Once we're done we'll see how much time we have left to go the game hall –and- toy store."

The boys looked like they wanted to disagree with the deal, but from the looks on Marron's face Uub figured they knew better not to start anything.

So this was the big deal? Why did he have to come to the mall with her, she had them perfectly under control! He sighed and shoved his hands in his pockets, following the young family into the city mall.

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Oh how he was wrong.

As Marron was trying to find the right clothes for the right amount of money Uub was chasing down the two young boys through every clothing store. Apologizing after Goushi accidentally tripped an old lady and thanks to Rishou he had to pay for a broken vase that was worth well over fifty Zeni.

"I am truly sorry m'am, it won't happen again." Uub had pleaded with one angry female clerk after both the boys had decided that clothing racks in the store were good hiding places for the two of them.

He had jumped over the mattresses in the bed store after Goushi and Rishou rushed over the mattresses as if they were fluffy clouds high up in the sky. Their dirty shoes leaving marks on the white material, Uub, as ashamed as he was quickly got them out of the store unnoticed. He was –not- going to be paying for –that-.

"Yes, well, you know kids these days." He said frantically to an angry mother who was soothing her crying daughter. He tried to keep both boys at bay, holding Goushi up by his collar and keeping Rishou by his side with holding his arm tightly. "But she bit me daddy!" Rishou yelled once they were out of hearing distance.

But that wasn't the end of it, no; they rushed through the mall like two mad lunatics. They were scarring of customers, breaking things, eating things all of which he had to pay for in the end. People scowling at him for being a lousy father, "Keep that brat with you!" one elderly male had yelled once Goushi crashed up against his trolley causing it to buckle over and have its' content sprawled all over the floor.

Uub apologized over and over again, helped those who had accidentally been caught in his two son's crazy racing contest.

And over and over and over again he was forced to drag them back to a very happy Marron who was holding up a whole set of clothing. After another new set of chasing games he finally brought the two back at the patiently waiting Marron.

Goushi was the first who had to fit all of the clothes she had picked out for the three year old. Yet the moment the boy heard that he was up first he made another wild run for it and Uub was speeding straight after him.

This was getting very, very annoying.

"Goushi, get here!" he yelled after his three year old son who only laughed as he dived straight under through another rack of clothes, rushed through the crowds of people that were in the corridor.

"Damnit!" he turned to Marron, "Start with Rishou instead!" he called but the moment he said that he realized that the six year old had made a run for it as well. "Where'd he go?!" he yelled.

Marron looked puzzled, "What he's right- oh." She smiled sheepishly at him, "Oh for crying out loud." Uub said with an exhausted moan and finally took of in to the mall, set out to find the little two devils Babba dared to give to him.

No way could he have children like those two, they were out of control, disrespectful and very, -very- annoying!

How could Marron leave Rishou out of her sight like that?!

The two just had to wait and see once he would get them back in the store. He glared and stood still right in the middle of the crowded corridor. Ignoring the scowling voices of those who bumped up against him, taking in a deep breath he searched for their ki's.

He smirked once he located them, no longer caring about his manners he rushed to the side of the escalators and jumped straight down on to the first set moving stairs. A few startled gasps from the other people could be heard but Uub didn't stay long enough to apologize and once again flipped to the side only this time dropping him three stores down. Skipping long sets of escalators as he did so and landing perfectly well in the middle of first floor hall way.

And right in front of the game hall Rishou had wanted to go to the whole time since they had gotten there.

Uub glared and headed into the dark hall, children of all ages were seated in front of funny shaped boxes that were making all kinds of sounds.

"I want to have a go now Goushi, you're not doing it right." He heard the eldest of the two call; he turned around and found the two of them trying to jump up on the chair in front of one of the weird boxes.

He walked up closer, crossed his arms and cleared his throat. Causing the two boys to duck for cover only to bump their heads against each other.

"Just what do you two think you're doing?" Uub asked in a clam low voice.

Rishou looked up, his big blue eyes starring at him as a sheepish smile covered his lips.

"We just wanted to go to the game hall daddy." He simply answered, but looked away once he saw the look on Uub's face.

"And who said you were allowed to go yet?" he asked calmly.

"But you should have seen –all- the clothes daddy!" Rishou exclaimed, "It would take forever!"

"Yes and whose fault is that? If you weren't running like two crazy chickens through this whole mall we might have been finished right away. Instead you have me chase you down in to every store, reek havoc and what not through out the whole building and made me and your mother pay for everything you have broken. Not only that but you have been extremely disrespectful to other people, to me and to your mother who is trying really hard to find you a good set of clothing." Who would have thought, he was actually out of breath once he was finished and was mildly surprised to find both boys with their heads hung low.

"No one is to blame other then yourselves for not being able to play some games, now get here. We've got a whole set of clothes for you to try on." He reached out both of his hands and he was once again surprised when both boys complied and took his hand without any complaints.

They slowly and peacefully made their way up to the third floor where an impatient Marron was waiting in front of it. Two piles of clothes stood on both her sides.

"Now where did you two run off too huh?" she asked.

"Sorry mommy won't do it again." The boys said in union. Marron looked pleased and stood up straight, giving Uub a wink causing him to blush.

Clearing his throat he gently pushed the boys in to the store as he waited outside, very much pleased with himself as he crossed his arms. He wasn't a bad father after all!

Wait… well; he wasn't exactly a father at the moment. Since this was still an illusion and these kids, a shiver ran down his spine as he pictured those two boys in his head. Not really existing.

He shook his head and tried to cast those thoughts out. Instead focusing on how he finally managed to make those two calm down. Both fire balls of energy that's for sure, he smiled to himself and when he heard the tiny voice belonging to Rishou appear next to him, "We're ready daddy." He extended his hand with a smile.

Rishou smiled back, his blue eyes shimmering slightly and took his hand.

"Thank Bulma and her father Mr. Briefs for ever inventing the Capsules." Marron exclaimed as she and Goushi joined their side. Uub couldn't help but smile at her, holding her purse against her with one arm and Goushi's small hand in the other.

"Honestly, I don't know how I would have ever gotten this amount of clothes with us. Layers of boxes and a huge amount of bags and-" Marron paused and smiled at him, "What'?"

Uub blinked and quickly turned away, blushing slightly for being caught of starring at her.

Faintly aware of the fact that he was actually married to the woman so he was pretty much allowed to stare at her for the rest of his life if he wanted.

"Now, lets go back home shall we?" he finally said and the little family moved to the escalators down to the first floor.

To Be Continued…

A/N : Well you should have figured that if Marron and Uub did have children that they would be fire balls. I mean, related to Uub (who has super powers and I am assuming he would be able to pass down his powers to his offspring) AND Krillen who wasn't exactly an Angel when he was a kid… XD ANY WAY…. Please review people!