Chapter 8:
Back t the Capsule Corp. me and Shin were talking in my room before everyone came back. He was telling me everything, why he left, why he never sent word, and why he didn't want to loose me. I was so confused about why he thought he was going to lose me. Then he asked the question I thought he was never going to ask.
He asked, "Why didn't you get married after I left?" He'd been standing up the whole time we were talking and when he asked me that he sat down on the bed next to me.
"I don't know, I guess I always knew that you were going to come back. And I never stopped loving you, and Ryuu probably would have gotten really mad if I had married someone who wasn't his dad." I told him, he smiled at me and then he leaned over to kiss me but I stopped him.
He was confused, then he asked me, "What's wrong, why won't you let me kiss you?"
I looked at the floor and then I looked back at him. And then I asked him, "What would you do if I left here? How would you go on?" He looked so confused.
"What do you mean? Why are you asking me these questions? Are you planning something?" He looked so hurt like I was going to leave for good.
"I'm not planning anything; I just want you to answer the questions." I got up and went over to my tall dresser and pulled out the letter that he had left me.
"I guess if you left I would look for you no matter how long it took me, and if I lost you for good I wouldn't be able to go on without you. I love you so much Riley, you have no clue how painful it has been to stay away from you. In my head I could hear you say my name and I knew that I had no right to leave the way I did."
I walked back over to the bed and stood in front of him, I handed him the letter that he had left me, and said, "Read this, and just imagine how I felt when I read it. I felt like I was going to die, I couldn't fucking breath, it felt like you took a damn knife and dug out my heart and took it with you."
He opened the letter and read it. As he was reading it I could see his eyes fill up with tears. He was reading and imagining me crying my eyes out and how hurt I was by him leaving. After he read the letter he folded it back up and looked at me.
"Wow, I didn't know that you felt like that. I am so sorry; I hope that you can forgive me because it's never going to happen again." He stood up in front of me and put his arms around my waist and kissed me.
We were kissing and it felt so nice. He moved me over to the bed, and then I realized what he really wanted. I sat down on the bed, and then I felt him undoing my buttons on my shirt. And that's when I stopped him.
"What's wrong? Did I do something?" He looked at me and I saw the love in his eyes. He was truly sorry that he had hurt me and that he never came back to check on me and Ryuu.
"I don't know, and no, you didn't do anything wrong. I just don't want everything happen like it did the last time. I don't want to get hurt again. Shin, I love you so much, and when you left I couldn't breathe because of how hurt I was. I want things to be different this time, I don't want you to run off like you did, and I don't want you to just show up again after 16 years." I looked at him in the eyes and I could tell that he was never going to leave me and our son again.
"I'm not going to leave again, I'm not going to disappear for 16 years like I did before, and I love you too, and I love Ryuu. I may not know him yet, but since he's my son, I really don't have to know him to love him. I'm staying and that's final." He put his hand on my cheek, and kissed me again.
Everything went through, he undid my shirt, and it went on from there. It was the best night of my life because the next morning, he was laying right next to me watching me sleep. I was SO happy to see him that I didn't even think of the time.
"Morning, how did you sleep?" He asked.
"Fine, do you by any chance know what time it is?" I asked as I turned and looked at the clock. It was 9:00AM and I was late for work. "Oh shit, I'm late for work. Oh my God, my boss is going to have my ass. This is like to fourth time I've been late for work."
"Do you have to go? Can't you stay and hang out with me for the day?" He got up off the bed and stopped me from rushing around, trying to get ready. He put his hands on my waist, and just looked at me.
"I have to go because if I don't, I will get my ass fired and this job is the ideal job. It's my dream job, and if I don't show up I'll be in some deep shit." I looked at him and kissed him softly and then went into the bathroom and finished getting ready.
I left for work and there was no sign of Ryuu yet. I figured that he was still in the woods with the others. I hoped that him and Chika didn't go to far. And if they did go as far as I think they did, I better not find out about it. And what if his father found out? Oh my God, Shin would shoot frizbees.
Ryuu's View
I had spent the whole night in the woods with Chika. The night seemed like it went on forever, but I remember that it was amazing. Me and Chika made love for the first time. It was amazing, she was amazing. I loved her so much and I just wanted to lay there next to her forever and I didn't was to disturb her from the deep sleep that she seemed to be in. What I can remember from the night before is that after she came back and we kissed, we just sat for about two hours just talking. Then I kissed her again, and one thing leads to another after that. We were lying on ground, and I was undoing her shirt and she was undoing mine. Her skin was so soft and I just wanted the night to carry on. It hurt her but I was doing my best not to cause too much pain, it also hurt me too. At the end we were just lying there on the ground looking at one another, and I told her about five times that I loved her. That I loved her so much that nothing was going to take her from me and that I was going to anything to keep her. Then when I looked at her again she was waking up.
"Morning beautiful, how did you sleep? Sorry we didn't have a more conferrable spot, or area." She rolled over and looked at me, and I looked at her back.
"I slept fine, and it's alright that our spot wasn't better. What time is it? I don't want my mom or dad to worry about me." I rolled over and looked at my watch and I couldn't believe what time it was.
"Oh shit! It's 9:30AM; do you know how much trouble I'm going to be in?" I grabbed my clothes and rushed to put them on.
"Look I'm sure you won't get in that much trouble." She sat up and grabbed her clothes and put them on.
"Well, then you must not know my mom all that well. Cause when it comes to things like this." She put her close back on and I walked over to her. I put my arms around her waist and kissed her.
"My mom may freak as well. But I'm more worried about my dad instead. You know how he can be." She looked at me. She was smiling at me and I couldn't but help love her more.
We searched for Kenshin and Sakura. We all thought that Chika and Kenshin would have ended up together. And then me and Sakura, but it didn't turn out like that. It turned out a couple of weeks ago me and Kenshin were walking home from school and he told me that he thought that he was in love with Sakura. I really couldn't believe it when he told me but I guess everyone finds that special someone and doesn't matter how we figured it.
Rori and Trucks, Saphire and Goten, Piccolo and Sabrina, and then my mom and dad. It really hasn't bothered me that my father hasn't ever been around until I really started to think about it. Especially when my mom told me that he was still alive. I've been thinking of it ever since she told me. I haven't been able to get my mind off of it except last night when the only thing I could think of was how beautiful Chika was.
We walked through the woods trying to find the others and then we came to a clearing where we saw two people sleeping on the ground. They looked like they had gotten physical the night before, just like me and Chika.
We walked up to them. They were knocked out and they didn't wake up until I said, "Well, well, what do we have here? Is it a couple of teens who didn't know how to keep it put away?"
They freaked, they couldn't believe that we saw them like we did. Sakura was the worst she through a rock at my head. She screamed at me nonstop for an hour, while we were going back to the Capsule Corp.
"I can't believe you had the nerve! I can't believe that you were spying on us!" I was ready to gag her because she wouldn't shut up about it.
"Look, we didn't mean to walk up on you two. We were just looking for you so we could come home. By the way, did any of you see my mom before we met up?" I hadn't seen her since we talked and she told me about my dad.
"No, I think she was going to hang out with the others. I haven't seen her since yesterday. Oh, by the way, what did you two do last night?" Kenshin asked. I didn't want to tell him, because he would make a big deal out of it, so I made up a lie.
"Nothing. We talked for most of the night about what would like to do when we were able to move out of the house." I looked at Chika and she looked hurt, I think she got the point that I didn't want the others to know.
"Yeah, we talked about what people we were going to meet, and who we wanted to spend the rest of our lives with, if we lived in a world where you could pick anyone." Chika added. I could tell that she didn't want to hide it from the others but we had to.
"Okay, you two can keep telling yourselves that. But I know what me and Kenshin did last night, I'm not afraid to admit to it." Sakura was very open about things like that. She didn't care if anyone and everyone heard.
"Yeah, it was pretty amazing. Wasn't it Sakura?" Kenshin asked.
"Umm, can we please change the subject? Its kind of making me sick right now, you know, you two talking about you sex life." Chika said, it surprised me that she said that.
When we arrived at the Capsule Corp. no one was in sight. We walked into the house, looked around and no one was there. It was like they vanished into thin air, or that they were just out on a family gathering.
Riley's View
When I got home from work the day after Shin got back we decided to take a walk. We flew to a plain that we had trained on when I was younger. I couldn't even describe how wonderful it felt with him next to me, not kissing me, not wanting me in any sexual way, just there next to me, the joy of his company was SO much better.
Then he asked, "What's our son like? What are his hobbies, and who does he take after the most?"
I just giggled a little and then answered by saying, "He's very temperamental like me, and he doesn't really like to be told how things should be done. He has taken up sword fighting as you could have seen. But I would say, he takes after you the most, he looks like you, as you saw, and he's got your strength."
"Really, did you train him? Or did Vegeta, maybe Goku?" He asked.
"No, neither one of them did, I did all of his training. I learned from the best, remember?" We stopped and looked over some water. It was a bright sunny day, and there wasn't a cloud in sight.
"Well, that must mean that he learned from the best then. He takes after you with his moves and speed also his skill as well. You taught him all of that." He sat down on a rock and looked at me. He asked me, "How could I have ever left you?"
"I don't know, I was surprised that you left. I didn't think I was going to live through it. But hey, look, I'm still here." I stepped to the edge of the cliff and looked out over the water, kind of like I was looking into the past.
"I'm glad you're still here, I will never leave you again, and I will never hurt you again. And you never know, maybe we could give Ryuu a little brother or sister some day. All I can say is that we better not have any grandkids any time soon. Then I will have to kill him." He laughed a little at that last line. I knew that he was joking and he knew that I would do the same if he ever got a girl pregnant before he was married and out of school.
I moved away from the cliff and sat down next to Shin on the rock. I said, "I forgot how pretty it was up here. I haven't been up here since the last time we were together. I guess I thought that if I came up here it would cause too much heart ache and I wouldn't be able to stand it. I pretty much stayed away from things that reminded me of you or the things we did together."
"Why? Why did you give up on everything like that? You must have known deep in your hear that I would be back and that we would be together again?" He looked at me with this confused look on his face.
"I didn't give up on everything. I just couldn't handle anything that reminded me of you. Because if ANYTHING would remind me of you I would go off by myself and cry. No one knows of that but I did do it. I just wanted you back SO bad I could taste it." I got up from the rock once more and looked out over the cliff and just stared off into the vast beyond like I was looking for something.
"Well, sounds like to me you were giving up. You didn't want anything to do with me anymore. But I kind of get where you coming from, I didn't have a right to leave like I did; you deserved better than that. You're the only person that I've ever loved in my life, I'm not supposed to fall in love but I did anyways." He stood up next to me, he was a little shorter than me but to us it didn't matter one bit. He stepped in front of me to get my full attention and he put his hands on my neck to make sure I was looking at him, and he kissed me so passionately I went weak in the knees.
I fell to ground because I couldn't stand up much longer cause of the kiss. I said to Shin, "I… I'm sorry, I don't know what got into me. I guess I couldn't keep my balance any longer. You haven't kissed me like that in such a long time. I kind of forgot what it felt like."
He grabbed my hands and picked me up off the ground. He was just standing there on that cliff edge holding me and looking into my eyes like he was never let anyone or anything take me away from him. Then he took off from the ground still holding me. He told me that he wanted to take me somewhere. But I didn't have a clue what he was talking about.
Ryuu's View
I was sitting in the kitchen with Chika, Kenshin, and Sakura talking when I heard somebody outside the front door. I went to the front door and it was Rori, Saphire, and Sabrina. They were breathing awful hard, and I didn't know what was wrong with them, and I could tell something WAS wrong with them.
"What's wrong?" I asked as I let them into the house to sit down and catch their breaths. They looked so confused.
"I don't know. All I know is that I was talking to Trucks and he started to yell at the top of his lungs. He grabbed his head and fell to his knees, kind of like he was in some terrible pain. He yelled for me to get out of the house and run somewhere he wouldn't be able to find me." Rori explained as she got a glass of water to calm her nerves.
"The same thing happened with me Goten." Saphire said.
"Yeah, me too. Piccolo didn't know what was going on. He just told me to get out of there. Where's your mom Ryuu?" Sabrina asked.
"I don't know. She wasn't here when I got home. She may be in town. But I'm not quite sure."
Then after I said that the front door opened and my mom walked into the house. Caring nothing in her hands. Now I was curious what she was doing this entire time.
"Hey guys, what's up? Why are you here? Is something wrong?" She asked as she walked closer them with a confused look on her face.
"The guys started to act really weird. They started screaming out in pain and told us to run. And told us to go somewhere where they couldn't find us. So we came here, but they'll probably know that we're here." Sabrina said as she put her head on the table.
"Really, do you…" all of a sudden my mom stopped talking and turned towards the front door and looked out the window kind of like she sensed someone. "They're coming and they're coming fast. We need to get out of here." She said as she rushed to the back door.
"Come on everyone, lets go." Rori said and she rushed out the door.
We all followed my mom, Saphire, Sabrina, and Rori. Then all of a sudden my mom stopped like she had ran into a wall. Then a space ship landed in front of us. I had no idea who or what it could be. I had never seen anything like it before. Then a door opened on it. And a guy stepped out with gold eyes and grey hair and he had staff with a orb of some type on it.
We landed on the ground and my mom asked, "Who are you and what do you want with us and our families?"
"Oh, it's not your families that I want. It's you and the other three that I want. Your families aren't important to me." The man responded with an evil grin on his face.
"Then what do want with our husbands?" Saphire asked with rage in her voice.
"That's how I'm going to kill you. If their love isn't pure than you'll die at their hands. At least that's what happened to the other protectors of the universe." He said as he stepped out of the ship.
Then a minute later Goten, Trunks, and Piccolo landed behind us trying to keep themselves from fighting the people that they loved the most in the entire world.
Then the ground started to shake. And whatever drove my mom to become so upset that she transformed into her protector gear. It was black with knee high boots and skin tight pants that the boots covered until the knee. Her shirt was sort of the same, skin tight and black and the shirt looked like it was tucked into the top of the pants where the belt was. Her hair was black and in a bun and the sleeves on her shirt came to her elbows and the neck of her shirt went to the middle of her neck. She look fierce and ready to take on everyone who stood in her way. Saphire, Sabrina, and Rori's armor were the same only Saphire's was green, Sabrina's was pink, and Rori's was blue and all of their armor was shinny. And they all had weapons, my mom had a sword, Saphire had a staff, Rori had a bow and arrow set, and Sabrina had a staff looking thing (it had handles on the ends and a chain link in the middle between the handles.)
"You stupid little girls. You think just cause you transformed you can defeat me. How wrong can you get? Especially you, the one in black, you don't know what I have in store for you. What I can use against you." The man started to act kind of cocky all of a sudden.
"And what's that? Are you going to throw your little ball at me?" My mom said trying to be a smart ass.
"No. I'm going to simply use the one thing you love the most in the whole universe." He got a more of a cocky smile on his face.
"And that would be what?" My mom asked.
"This…" he stepped out of the way of whatever he was blocking and I saw, me?
'Me, what? That makes no sense at all. How can fight me if I'm standing right here?' I thought to myself.
Then she screamed, "Shin!? NO! You can't do this!" She looked like she was about to cry and I had never seen my mom cry, as far as I can remember.
'Could he be my father, was he really my dad?' I asked myself. Then I realized that it must be him.
Finally, the man said, "This is pointless." And with a wave of his hand Piccolo, Goten, and Trunks fell to the ground and were unconscious.
"Now I can take care of you, Black Protector. See those imbeciles were strong and could fight my power, but not very easily. Now, the one you love however is the weakest out of them all." The orb on the staff that he was holding in his left hand began to glow brighter, and the man that I thought was my father started watching and trying to control what he did, but it didn't work.
Riley's View
Shin flew at me. He was in SO much pain, and you could see it in his face. He was having a harder time controlling himself than the others. But I had always known him to be the strongest person I knew. But right now he seemed to be the weakest.
"Riley, you're the only one who can stop me! Please! Don't let me hurt you! If I hurt you I won't be able to forgive myself!" Shin screamed as he flew at me.
He threw a punch but I ducked, then a kick, but I blocked. And kick after kick and punch after punch I blocked. But I couldn't bring myself to hit him back. For years I told myself that I didn't love him, but yet, deep down inside I knew I loved him with everything I had.
Shin leaped back to gather energy so he could blast me into the next century. But he let his guard down long enough to get a punch right in the stomach by Ryuu.
Then Saphire had enough time to say, "GREEN PROTECTION IGNITE SPEAR!" She released her arrow and it hit the orb right in the middle and shattered it into a million pieces and the mad started to self-destruct and he blew up on his own. But not before Ryuu got one last kick in on his poor father.
Ryuu's View
I didn't realize that the weird man was gone when I kicked Shin (as my mom called him) in the stomach.
"Oh, sorry. I didn't mean to do that. I didn't know that you were cured before I did that." I told him as I knelt down beside him to make sure I didn't hurt him to bad.
He backed away from me, stood up and brushed himself off and looked at my mom as she handed and went back to her normal look.
"What did I tell you?" He asked my mom with a kind of a smart attitude.
"Well, I was going to tell him, but I wanted you to be there with me when I told him everything. But I guess I can tell him now since you're already here." My told him as she turned to look at me with this kind of 'Oh my God' look on her face.
"Ryuu…" My mom said. "I've got something to tell you. And I hope that it don't be a to big of a shock." She paused for a minute then continued by saying, "Ryuu, this is your father." She pointed to Shin as she introduced him.
I couldn't believe my ears. My mom just introduced me to my father after 15 years of gone. I thought he was dead, but he was alive, did he leave cause he didn't care, or did he not know? My head was filling with SO many questions that I couldn't take it anymore.
"Hello, son." He said. And with that Chika, Sakura, and Kenshin fell over with so much shock and then I fainted not to long after that.