Chapter 3: Malls, Teachers and Friends
They landed at Capsule Corp and the three saiyans were taken aback by the massive building. The largest homes on there planet had been huts. This place looked like they could fit more then fifty of them just inside. So many sights and sounds they had to take in. The sun was starting to set and the sky was mixed beautifully with oranges, reds, and purples. All Naomi wanted to do was stare at the sky but that dream was short lived from Goku's outburst.
"So when you guys want to start! I have so much to show you!" he said then embraced the three saiyans in a backbreaking hug. They were all squeezed so tightly there were cheek to cheek."
"Settle down Kakarot. If anything we need to decide, how we are going to split the three of them up and how long do we keep them until we switch."
Hideo was getting sick of Vegeta and Goku deciding there fates without so much as asking what they wanted to do. So he saw this as an opportunity to at least voice his opinions rather they fell on deaf ears or not.
"Since it's uneven one of you can train just one of us. The other can take on two, I'm sure it wouldn't be difficult for you." He added trying not to annoy Vegeta. He already seemed to be on uneasy terms with him. "And like two weeks should be long enough to get basics down until we all advance…"
"Great idea Hideo! I agree completely." Goku said, he turned to Vegeta. "I think I will take just one for now Vegeta. I think that's all Chi Chi can handle until I talk her down." He voice turned to a grimaced one. Chi Chi always seemed to be a little harsh when it came to fun. Well fun to Goku anyway.
"It's whatever Kakarot. Pick whichever loser you want." he still seemed to give little to no attention to the others. Hideo really hoped Goku would pick him! He seemed to be a little less…intense then Vegeta would be. "Alright." Goku said and he walked past each one of them looking up and down there stances. Kaylynn was amazed. Merely walking around, it was as if every part of him was still guarded. God she wished she could have that confidence, that power. Aura seemed to be leaking out of his very pores.
He stopped in front of Naomi. She looked down as soon as his eyes met hers. She was a few inches shorter then Kaylynn, and though her hair colored matched hers, it was much longer in length. Her bangs were combed straight down and the rest of her hair came down to the middle of her back the ends were jagged as if it had been cut unevenly on accident. She defiantly seemed more timid, then the other two but he felt a deep inner power and rage that had been years suppressed.
"What do you say Naomi? Want to stay with me for awhile?" he smiled and placed a hand on her shoulder. She was very small built. His palm almost engulfed her entire shoulder. She looked up and nodded returning Goku's smile. Yes Kaylynn thought to herself. She got the same vibe as Hideo that Goku might be inclined to be easier on them and she was in no mood for games. She wanted to get stronger she NEEDED to get stronger. Damn was more the thought process as Hideo had in his head. He felt his muscles already start to ache in the anticipation. Of course he wanted to get stronger and actually make a name for himself in this world but he didn't want to kill himself trying to impress an obvious impossible judge.
About that time, Goten and Trunks had woken up from there nap. Face and hair still a mess it didn't help that they both had decided to wear white dress up shirts for the party. Trunks stepped outside rubbing his eyes and letting out an obnoxious yawn. "What's going on." he muttered. At the same time him and Goten had seen Naomi and Kaylynn and hid halfway behind the door blushing. What were the chances of hot girls being at there house? Vegeta saw it as the perfect chance to embarrass his son further.
"Ah look he finally decided to join us. Trunks I would like you to meet warriors actually interested in doing something besides going out and finding dates."
"Huh?" Goten asked from behind the door. He refused to let them see him as such a wreck. Both of them had to be some of the prettiest girls he had ever seen and…did he say they were fighters.
"Long story Goten, but basically these guys will be learning fighting techniques from us." Goku explained
They would have asked more questions about they strangers that seemed to now be a part of there lives but Bulma had landed the hover car back at her home. She barely had time to land before Chi Chi had jumped out of the car.
"Stay!" she warned Goku and Kaylynn thought he was on the defense before she really thought so now. "Can you tell me what in the world is going on? Are these guy aliens or-" Chi Chi noticed the three of them had tales but before she could say anything else Vegeta and Goku gave them a quick run through of the situation. Then there was silence. Bulma looked to her husband even though he was frowning and had his usual stance she could tell he was substantially happier. Sometimes she thought if he wasn't constantly bruised or in a fight he wasn't happy at all. She didn't mind. He still spent time with her and showed more affection then he had in years. When he was happy they got along better to say the least.
"So your just volunteering our home up to strangers then huh?" Chi Chi continued she hated not being consulted on some of the stunts Goku pulled. "We finally got Gohan out of the house (Gohan blushed at that comment but Videl merely giggled) and your planning room and board for them now? Why don't you just go get some homeless men to come in and eat up all our food? Or did you ever think these guys are lying and plan on murdering us all in our sleep? I don't remember anyone else of your kind being very friendly eh?"
"Chi Chi it's not like that-" Goku pleaded. Chi Chi took in a deep breath to continue cursing Goku. Gohan wanted to be a little more greeting to the new found guests but he had heard plenty of his mothers rants in the past to want to listen to another one. He whispered his thanks to Bulma for her hospitality and him and Videl silently snuck out. Yamcha followed Gohan's lead and Bulma brought the three teens into the house for refreshments with Vegeta not far behind. Goten and Trunks ran into a different room to clean up and change real quick.
"I'm sure you guys are starved! Coming all the way across they galaxy I mean." She smiled then she asked what had been on her mind as soon as she had seen them. "How old are you guys anyway?"
"17." Hideo answered as he helped himself to the buffet Bulma had graciously pointed out. Never in his life had he seen such a spread of food in. He Didn't recognize any of them but his stomach couldn't wait for to find the new tastes and sensations. There was turkey legs, sausages, mac and cheese, spaghetti, rolls, low mein and so much more. He found himself taking plates and plates of the food the tiny robotic chefs. They even thanked him every time he got one.
"All of you?" she asked quizzically. The three shared a nod. She decided to bypass it as she was sure they were getting sick of all the questions. She turned to the girls instead. "Naomi Kaylynn I have to be honest I'm kinda glad you guys came here. It's usally just me Chi Chi, Videl and 18 for us girls. You gotta admit theres a lot more testosterone around her. This kinda makes things a little more even wouldn't you say?"
"I know what you mean. On our planet there wasn't set genders at all so it's nice just to be around people more like us for a change." Kaylynn said helping herself to just as many plates as Hideo. Bulma was shocked at first then she reminded herself that they were saiyans. She was thankfully she had plenty of refrigerators to store all the food she would need to feed everyone. She noticed that Naomi had just taken a seat at one of the tables close to everyone but hadn't touched any food.
"Naomi aren't you hungry?" she asked.
"She's shy." Kaylynn said taking a seat next to Naomi and tried to convince her to fix herself a plate.
"Really Naomi it's ok. It will all go bad if you don't." Bulma insisted. Naomi bowed and got up to fix herself a plate. Vegeta chuckled.
"That's a habit your going to have to break girl. Shyness doesn't do well around here if you hadn't noticed." The screams of Chi Chi were still being heard from inside. She nodded and blushed making a single plate but still piled it much higher then it's means. They all ate again in silence Vegeta made himself a second helping as well and Bulma decided they should retire to the kitchen instead. It was alittle more cozy and would force conversation if need be. Though Bulma's idea of "cozy" was still very impressive for the young saiyans eyes. The Kitchen was bigger then most conventional living rooms, with a beautiful bay window that let you see all the beauty of the city and there massive yard in the far distance there "neighbors" could be seen. The kitchen was an intense sterilized white that when first seen automatically would make you think of a hospital room but it was balanced with random beautiful flowers potted on top of the mahogany cabinets. The floor was linoleum and the counter tops were a deep blue graniet. They all sat at the round kitchen table and yet again sat in silence.
"So Hideo," Bulma said picking someone at random. She hated silence and with seven people in the house there was no excuse for it. "Tell us something about you. What's your planet like?"
"Not much to tell" he said buttering one of four rolls he had next to his plate. Bulma blushed. The boy was handsome. Very handome. They all were very beautiful especially for there race. From the little that Vegeta had described over there years saiyans were more of a ogrish race not well groomed or educated. As he reached for another roll she noticed how muscular his arm was. He was extremely built, nothing like Vegeta of course but for his age was impressive none the less. Now if only she could do something about that hair. She hated Mohawks and his were spiked at the end and messy. Must have been a trait the saiyans shared. She remembered when she had first met Goku she would complain about how his hair could stick up on end. Even still she wouldn't kick him outta bed. Wait what was she thinking! The boy was 17 years old she should be thrown in jail for the very thought she rubbed Vegeta's knee to ake up for it. He always seemed to have a knack for reading people's thoughts and that was one she defiantly would rather not have been discovered.
"The planet was nothing like earth. We had more water then grass but hardly any vegetation. Mostly rocks, cliffs and wastelands."
"That must have been weird." the earth was mostly water but from what Hideo said there planet had even more water. How strange. "And the people there?"
"Very different. The best way I can describe them is well…" he looked to the girls to help him out in the description. Kaylynn had finished eating a few minutes before so she was happy to help. She knew the discussion was touchy one for Hideo the second he found out he was from a different face.
"Um…I guess the simplest term would be…blobs…." Kaylynn knew the whole idea was ridiculous but it was true. As infants they were bigger then the ones who had raised them. Made disciplining them a difficult task. Vegeta laughed mockingly under his breath and the three saiyan teens blushed in embarrassment. Bulmas raised a disapproving eyebrow to him and scoffed.
"What is so funny Mister? You are being very rude to our guests."
"How can I not be? No wonder these kids are so eager to fight and lack even in the most basic of fighting skills if they were raise by gelatinous life forms." In reality Vegeta was doing his best to make it clear to the "kids" he was there teacher not there friend. And he was going to do and say whatever he wanted until they had the strength to stop him.
"Oh hush you!" Bulma warned and turned but to the Kaylynn. "Gosh that must have been weird though. Anything special about them or there teachings?"
"If there was hardly any vegetation what did you subsist on?" Vegeta added his question. He noticed they had wolfed down the food to quick for even his kind like they hadn't eaten in years. He remembered being on different planets and having to eat the most god awful things imaginable just to survive. Maybe they were a little harder then he had expected.
"Actually they were expert potion makers. There bodies were blob like but there insides were different. Some how they would submerge into the water there and come out with all different types of potions. One of those would keep us full for weeks and when we needed more they just made more. Excellent carpenters surprisingly enough. Our homes there stone and round so they could endure just about anything." Naomi smiled she was finally starting to be less on the defensive now and just enjoying
"There potions were how we were able to sneak up on you. We just chugged one of there invisibility potions. It's superb. Impossible to see or detect us even through our energy." Hideo said taking pride in some of the things his other race was known for. He looked up at the clock and couldn't read it nor understand what it's purpose was, but it's constant ticking was much more noticed by him then the others in the room. The kitchen was intimidating. He wasn't sure if they slaughtered the animals with all there shiny chrome gadgets or if they kept them all inside the giant cold box that Bulma had gotten some very funny tasting water from. What strange place this was. The other planets he had visited still didn't hold a candle to earths beauty and since of unity.
"Hm, sounds pretty cowardice to me." Vegeta said sipping on the funny water Bulma had poured him as well. Bulma shot him another venomous look that Vegeta merely matched. Letting her know this wasn't a subject he was going to budge on. Not this time. He let his own love for his son allow the kid to become soft for his happiness. He had no attachments to this lot. If his own bloodline wouldn't keep his name going, maybe the greatest fighters in the galaxy would.
"Anyway…are those…clothes common on your planet?" Bulma said trying to suppress her own prejudices, but good lord did those girls look horrible.
"Yeah." Kaylynn laughed. "They have no need for clothes so they just had to come up with the best ideas they could. It's pretty much the only outfit we have." Kaylynn felt a strong grip on her shoulder and had to resist the instinct to punch her right away. She looked up at Bulma who had the look of up most urgency on her face.
"We, are going shopping now!" she stated.
At that time Chi Chi and Goku and finally returned from outside and Chi Chi sighed and signaled towards the door.
"Which ever one of you is supposed to come with us do so now! Were leaving and I apologize for my rudeness or whatever." she said and stormed out Goku blushed and laughed it off. He Hadn't seen Chi Chi this mad in a while and he had the feeling that if they were all boys it wouldn't be as big of a deal. Maybe he should have picked Hideo first, maybe it would have went by smoother.
"Come on Naomi I promise she's not so bad once you get to know her." he stated smiling at her. The girl was nervous enough he really didn't want her to be scared off so early.
"No need Goku I will drop her off at your house but first were going to do some shopping and get these girls out of the rags there wearing."
"Ok. Well I will see you all soon." he left rather quickly in fear that Chi Chi would get upset again, from the other room Goten finally ran out and looked completely different. He had a clean nice blue shirt on and it looked like he had even combed his hair. "Wait up dad." He stopped in front of Naomi and did his best a pulling off a seducing smirk. "can't wait to see you Naomi." Then he was gone. Trunks had entered the kitchen too looking sharp. Wearing a green shirt and a exquisite looking leather jacket. Praying his appearance wouldn't cause attention.
"What have you been up to?" muttered his father. Trunks tried to play off his fathers remark. "Just hanging out." he answered.
"Where are you guys going?" his eyes never left Kaylynn though she didn't seem to notice him at all.
"Oh just to the mall to pick up a new wardrobe for the girls but don't you worry you boys can stay here and give Hideo a tour of the place and do whatever other men stuff you feel like." Bulma said cheerfully. Both Hideo and Trunks shared the same amount of disappoint. Trunks because he had spent that whole time trying to figure out how to impress Kaylynn and Hideo because he really dreaded being around Vegeta alone. He wasn't exactly shy on his feelings for Hideo.
At the mall it was obvious to everyone that Naomi and Kaylynn had never been inside one before. There eyes widened to the size of tennis balls. Trying to absorb all the selling items and the amount of people there. Bulma had asked them before they went inside to hide there tails from the general public. Not for her sake (seeing as her husbands last actions at the world material arts tournament had brought her more then enough attention and ridicule) but because teenage years are a very crucial time and the less trouble they had the better. Who knew what emotional roller coasters they were on already.
Despite there tails being hidden, all eyes were on them. There strange clothing and the fact they were pressing there faces against every display window like a couple of five year olds caused snickers and pointing anyway though they didn't seem to care. Kaylynn was to busy eyeing a pair of black high heels pumps. Bulma caught her staring and giggled.
"Oh your going to fit in right in." she said taking her by the arm and dragging her into the shoe store. Naomi right behind. As soon as they entered the girls heard a "dee doo" sound which made the saiyans jump to a defensive stance. Bulma assured them it was fine and they began to search around. In the middle of the store was a giant scale replica of a bright red pair of tennis shoes, and it was hard to hear anyone with the three large tv's mounted on the wall repeating different adds. Kaylynn poked the tv in curiosity on how she was supposed to get the shoes outta there. Bulma pulled her back and showed her all the actual displays she could chose from. They had everything from dress shoes to slippers. Kaylynn picked out a pair of pink and black stripped pair of tennis shoes, a pair of combat boots for training and fighting in (also black) and a pair of fuzzy white slippers she had to stop herself from petting over and over again.
Naomi picked out two pairs of tennis shoes both blue and white in variation, and a slip on white pair of shoes without strings. She figured she didn't want to worry about tripping during battle. Bulma picked out two pairs of combat boots for Hideo one in a camo pattern the other just a plain black resembling the one's Kaylynn had picked out, and just a simple pair of red straped shoes. She figured if she had gotten the wrong size she could just adjust them at home. If she could build rocket ships she knew she could alter a pair of shoes.
As soon as they got to a clothes store Bulma made them change immediately but had to stop them from stripping down naked in front of everyone in the store and explained that's what the booths were for. She looked over and some boys that were in the store and they had an aw man expression on there faces. She giggled. She remembered a time when she couldn't go anywhere without men gawking at her. Those days really were behind her. When they emerged from inside there booths they truly did look like a ladies now. Just jeans and t-shirts for now, but the shopping was far from over. She hated the malls for all there concession stands. The girls seemed more interested in the different colored ice cream cones a vendor was making to keep them from being distracted she promised them they'd stop and get a cone on the way out.
Back at capsule corp Hideo was having a much different time. He followed Vegeta into one of the back rooms in the house, He had to have passed at least seven doors on his way. He was beginning to think this place had no end. Finally they stopped and Vegeta opened the second to last door on the right side of the door and stood there indicating that Hideo go inside. He entered the room and it was decently sized but bare with white walls and a square window on the wall seen as soon as you entered the room.
"This is where you will be when your not eating or training." Vegeta stated. He picked up a capsule that was placed on the window sill, clicked it and gave it a toss in the middle of the room. Hideo jumped at the small explosion convinced Vegeta was trying to attack him. When he opened his eyes he saw that appeared as if by magic was two full sized bed spaced a part from each other two dressers and a full size mirror. Thankfully he did that because Hideo was afraid Vegeta wanted them to sleep on the floor.
"Thank you." was all he could think to say. The uncomfortable silence was starting to get to him. Vegeta laughed his cold laugh. "Let's see how much you want to thank me tomorrow." he stated. Though it did bother him the boy was at least three inches taller then he was. it's bad enough he had finally accepted that the Saiyan race was ll but dead and now these punks show up. He didn't like Hideo lurking over him so he determined to cut him down one way or another. "Now come."
Hideo followed Vegeta back up the hallway and stopped again in the middle of it. The door automatically opened when Vegeta stood in front of it. Hideo ran inside in fear of the door shutting on him. This was another odd room. The floor was tiled and random weight sets were piled in the corners. In the middle of the room was an odd control center that went all the way to the roof. Then he noticed it was a circular room.
"This is the Gravity room." Vegeta explained. "This is where most of your training will take place. I can get this room to simulate up too five hundred times earths gravity. You can imagine what we could get accomplished just by doing simple tasks in this room."
All Hideo could think of was the amount of pain his body would be twisted and molded to satisfy the sadistic saiyan. That reminded him, he took a remote out of his pocket and entered the coordinates to there location so his space ship could fly there. He had forgotten an important bag in there that was filled to the brim with potions there "parents" had made for them. All kinds of variations and some he couldn't ever imagine needing. He met it outside and removed the bag as quickly as he could without Vegeta being the wiser and stuffed it in the closet of his room. About that time the girls had returned with bags upon bags of stuff. Bulma shoved a few of them in his hands.
"Here we didn't know what you liked or your size but whatever you don't want we will take back." She smiled and helped the girls sort through there bags. Inside were pretty generic male clothes. Black tank tops. Red shirts with his name on it, boots, pants, shorts. He preferred the martial arts uniform she had picked out. It was black with a red shirt. Matching sash and wrist guards. Hideo had changed then Vegeta entered the room.
"Bulma, take the other brat to Kakarots, these two need to get in bed. We start at dawn." then left the room. Bulma sighed. Why did he always have to ruin her fun?
"Oh and by the way I enrolled you three into Trunks and Goten's school." she said turning to them all. "It won't be to bad just three classes on Mondays and Wednesdays. I love Goku I really do but being from another planet isn't an excuse for being…uneducated. If you guys plan on being members of this planet you should at least have a decent knowledge of it. And being social will be good for you guys at your age."
"School?" Hideo asked scratching his head. "What's that?"
"Um it's a place of learning where all kids your age get together and learn different topics."
"We are warriors not scholars Bulma." Kaylynn objected. Her main goal was to get stronger and finally become a super saiyan.
"I'm afraid I insist Kaylynn. Now come on Naomi. Let's go before his majesty comes back and growls at us."
Kaylynn and Hideo laid in there bed for hours without sleep. Stareing at the ceiling fan above them. Finally one of them spoke.
"Hey Hideo…think we can do it? Think we can master there techniques and finally become super saiyans? Maybe even beat both of them one day?"
"I know we will Kaylynn. We have worked to hard to get here not to go the distance. You'll see we'll wipe that smirk of Vegeta's face one day. Remember what Mom told us. We just have to be patient. Were going to save the universe."