Chapter 3
Morning came, and Raditz was already up and cooked her own breakfast. She was sitting beside a river. She left a note back at the house before leaving. She was thinking about Goten's words, and felt her hunger rise by them. The third day being alive, and she felt her stomach feel full. The feeling of such was amazing.
She lied down on the grass breathing in deeply. She felt the limit of her stomach and chest rising. Her heart beating strong. She grabbed the grass tearing it off its roots and throwing them above her. She blasted each grass before they landed on the ground.
She was dressed in only a plain green dress with straps. Her face was bare from any annoying cosmetics.
"That brat, telling me something as foolish as wanting to know me. I am Raditz! I destroyed worlds and good at it!..." She thought of what Vegeta and Nappa would do. They'd laugh and mock her about the fact that she could do nothing without their help. "Bardock, father...are you even more disappointed in me?" She huddled herself with crossed legs held by her arms.
"I am a woman now. My lower body opens a canal's cavern, and my chest is fuller out that I cannot cross my arms properly. Am I a woman that men would desire and force under their control? Heh. Like that hadn't been done to me as a man. Beautiful does a child call me." She looked at her face in the river. "A softer face, fuller lips, big breasts, wide hips," She flexed her arms seeing her muscles. "At least I still have you lovelies." She kissed her biceps.
She then continued to look at her face on the water until she could recognize it as herself. "To be honest, I like this look. If I knew I would be this good looking, I would have totally done me."
"Done what?"
"WAH!" Raditz was shocked by Goten's sudden appearance. "You! What are you doing here?! Where is your father?!"
"Dad sent me to get you. He went to get more firewood." Then there was a sudden short quake with the sound of leaves rustling and birds squawking. "What were you doing?"
"Nothing!" The woman stood up dusting grass off of her dress. "Why does your father want me?"
"I don't know, but he looked really excited! C'mon!" Goten grabbed her hand and pulled her with his strong hand.
"He-Hey! Don't pull me as you please!" She growled but could do nothing as she was pulled. The two went to an open field where Goku was waiting for them while doing stretches.
"Daddy! I found aunt Raditz!"
"Good job, Goten!"
The woman pulled her hand away from her nephew. "What is the meaning of this?"
Goku grinned, stopping his stretches. "We're going to train together as promised!"
Raditz arched an eyebrow. "In a dress? Bro...Goku, could you be anymore naive."
"What? What's wrong? You wanted to train right?"
"That was your assumption! If there's anything I want more is news on how far the kais have come to finding the culprit responsible for this!"
"Then I'll give them a call after we're done training!"
"I'm not training with you." She insisted.
"What?! Why?!"
"Training with you is an annoyance. There's nothing worth learning if I'm not going to fight an actual threat on this darn planet."
"It's not like we have to train for a battle. Let's just train for fun! I'm going easy on you, and I know how much you love to hit me!"
"As much as that is true, I'll have to decline." Raditz turned away from him.
"Why?!" Goku whined childishly.
"I don't want to see your face. That's all. You can keep me under your roof, but I rather have it that I have the morning and afternoon to myself. I need space to breathe. Can you not trust me now, Goku?"
"...I guess so." Goku looked down feeling really sad for not being able to spar with Raditz. "Be okay, alright."
Raditz rolled her eyes at the concern, and walked away.
"Wait! Aunt Raditz!" Goten grabbed her dress. Raditz stopped to look down at him with an annoyed glare. The child asked, "Can I come with you?"
"No." She pulled her dress away, but the child held on stubbornly.
"But I really want to!"
The woman remembered last night but wasn't going to be whelmed by this half breed child. She coldly rejected him, "I don't care about what you want."
Goku sighed, "Just leave her alone, Goten. She'll come around in no time!"
His son looked at him, and then at Raditz who was about to fly off. He became determined. "I'm coming with you!" He chased after his aunt in the sky.
The aunt looked back at him, "Little runt! See if you can catch up then!" She flew faster. Goten tried his best catching up.
The child had come to lose her several times, but tried his energy sensing trick to find her.
Brat! Let's see how good you are! Raditz secretly enjoyed playing the game of cat and mouse or hide-n'-seek. She never played such childish games.
When Goten found her, she immediately flew or ran into caves. She would throw beams at him and leave clues for the child to try and find her. Her clues went from footprints, broken branches, charred leaves, birds squawking and anything else that posed little threat to the horizons they came across.
It got more difficult to the point that Goten took a break for a moment. He sat down at a random island. "Ha! That's your limit?" Raditz appeared above him. "What kind of child who's suppose to be stronger than me be tired now?"
"I didn't say that!"
"Yes you did. Yesterday. Right before I left you for the forest at night." She smirked. Goten looked down guiltily as he remembered. The woman sat next to him. "You'll become faster in due time. I'm only good with this because I was always the one who played bait on my missions."
"Bait?"
"Yup! In one of my many missions with Prince Vegeta and our comrade, Nappa, we had to erase the species on this one planet where gigantic worms lived in these caves. I had to get the worms in there to chase me so Prince Vegeta and Nappa could erase them."
"Really?! Were they this big?!" The child spread his arms as wide as he could.
"Bigger."
"No way! Bigger than this island?!"
"Oh yes. Bigger than you could ever believe." She smirked at the twinkle in the child's eyes.
"Cool! What happened next?!" Goten asked.
"We erased each and everyone of those worms obviously, except for one. There was this one cave and no matter what I did, or Prince Vegeta did to tempt the worm out, it would only growl and then let out a strange auto-tune call similar to this," She did a mimicking sound. "Prince Vegeta decided to enter the cave when his patience ran out. I went along with him courageously," That was a lie as the child Raditz was actually scared, "Within the dark cave with only our energy for lights, we came upon a grave discovery..."
There was a pause that had the child feel the suspense of curiosity. "What? What is it?!"
"The worm was bigger than all of them. We were before the mother worm. The queen who birthed them all with eggs attached to the walls. My scouter, that could tell me how powerful it was, was at a power beyond ours. I warned Prince Vegeta, but his arrogance had him attack without caution. The mother worm wasn't happy, and attacked with its tail. It separated the two of us as our energies had the darkness go and come back in flashes that my memory was blurred with confusion and fear for my prince..." She looked at Goten. "Then came a mysterious event. The mother worm gave out its auto-tune cry!" She did the sound and then continued as she looked out at the ocean sparkling before her, "The eggs hatched and it was us against millions of different sizes and power! I found Prince Vegeta at a grave state. He was on the ground badly wounded. I flew to him and held him close. There was no escape for the entrance was blocked by the big worms. I cried out to Nappa to save us, but he didn't hear me. Time was running out for us, and when they all came at us, I closed my eyes, and then...they disappeared."
"What?"
Raditz repeated, "They disappeared. When I woke up, I was back at our ship on a medical bed with doctors present. Nappa told me that there was a sudden burst of light and lava that destroyed the cave and the worms, but it didn't destroy me or Vegeta. It was to believed that our saiyans body was too strong for the natural event of the land's crust to crack and have a volcanic eruption within. Prince Vegeta was careless in his attacks that it would be natural that he'd cause such a spectacular event."
"Wow...What else?!"
"What else?"
"What else happened?! That was so cool! I want to hear more!" Goten cried out.
"...I supposed I can tell you more." Raditz then told him about a variety of missions from long ones to short ones with light to gruesome details. Eventually it became lunch, and they had to go. But Raditz was going to make his own food. Goten wanted to stay with him, but the woman reasoned that his mother would be upset if he didn't show up.
"Okay." Goten sadly left which made Raditz feel happy. Not the sadistic kind but acknowledged that Goten felt sad leaving her.
Raditz only complied with telling those stories because she wanted to. There was nothing better to do. It's not like she actually liked the child. The child was the son of Goku and grabbed her tail! Even with these negative thoughts, Raditz was happy to talk to him.
She let these thoughts flow away as she made her own lunch. This time she ate twice as more than breakfast. Her own saiyan diet coming back.
She fished through the ocean, hunted in the sky for birds, and then the mountains for dinosaur meat. A giant red dinosaur appeared before her roaring.
"Hehe." She smirked. "You'd do nicely."
"No don't!" A cry came out. Raditz looked to see a child behind a rock. "It'll eat you up! Like it did my parents!"
"Hmph. Keep your warnings to yourself kid." She turned back to the dinosaur who charged with its opened mouth. Raditz jumped and then landed a kick to its back, breaking its spine.
The child was dumbstruck. "Wha-What are you?"
"I am a saiyan warrior looking for lunch." She flew up.
"Wait! Are you an angel?!" The child cried out but was ignored.
Raditz settled at a deserted mountain to cook her meals. She knew how to cook since on missions when the prince was hungry and didn't like the food, Raditz would find ways to make it taste better. It was a rare occasion for the prince to become picky, but Raditz learned to please her prince. To keep him happy and her alive.
She smiled satisfyingly at the roasted meat with filling, the soup in a rock carved bowl, and the stream of fresh water nearby. She took a peach from a woven basket of fruits. She enjoyed the satisfying sweet smell and the nice texture and color. For some reason, she noticed things more than usual.
(Women have the innate skill to notice things more than men-similar to the reproduction system. Men are quantity over quality while women are quality over quantity. Raditz's different brain patterns, due to her female hormones and possible empathy, is interfering and making him respond like this. Men and women are different due to hormones and natural instincts.)
She was going to take a bite, but then there was a, "Mmm! That smells good!" The peach squished in her hand. She quickly felt her hunger plummet exaggeratedly.
"Bro...Goku, what are you doing here?" Raditz asked grudgingly.
The male sat next to her. "I got worried when you didn't come for lunch, but now I see that you just wanted your own meal! It smells so good!" He salivated. "Can I have some?"
Seeing as she barely felt hungry, she sighed and said bitterly, "Yes, Goku."
"Great! Itadakimasu!" He grabbed a large piece of meat and gobbled it up in less than a minute. Raditz ate as much as she could before Goku ate most of it. "Whew! That was amazing! I never tasted something so good! You gotta try cooking at our house, Raditz!"
"That is your wife's job!"
"Awe! But Chichi can't cook that good!"
Raditz felt an ego boost there, but not that high. "If you are done eating me food, then leave me be! I'll come back tonight!"
"Okay. Oh, and Goten told me about the stories you told him! You and Vegeta really go back, huh!"
"Yes, Goku. Don't you have any other important duties to attend to?"
"No. I'm pretty free unless you want to spar!"
"Ugh! Great Kami kill me now." She ran her fingers through her hair. "I am not going to spar with you, Goku. I am going to go bathe. I need my privacy." She flew away. Her brother didn't follow her so was left in peace. She landed near a waterfall and took off her dress to bathe.
She then wondered why Goten wasn't with him, but reasoned that the mother didn't want him to get close to her. She chuckled at the obvious, but also felt a dull ache on the left side of her chest. She shook her head trying to get rid of this feeling. Kept telling herself that she didn't need them. It only made her feel worse.
She spent the rest of the day flying around taking in the sights, and then resting under a shaded tree when she got bored. She tried to think of what to do than sight seeing, but all she knew to do was to be ordered around and slaughtering people.
She thought about seeing Bulma but felt uncomfortable seeing her 'friend'. So spent the day being bored until it was night time. She made her own dinner which wasn't much, and left to the house. It was very late since Raditz didn't want to see the woman.
In the house, it appeared that everyone went to sleep. She went to the room she shared with Goten to see that the child was deeply asleep. The woman stared at the child wondering why she felt happy to see him. She was supposed to despise him. She tried, but her heart couldn't come to it. Would she have felt any different as a man?
The next day was the same, but this time Goten wasn't allowed to follow her, and Goku decided to give her the space she wanted. It was a relief but also a misery as she was bored. She tried doing stretches of her own and leg work. She didn't get her amazing legs doing nothing. She also trained herself to sense energy like the others.
But most of the time she just looked up at the sky remembering missions, imagining ways she'd celebrate if she ever killed Goku, and what else she'd do off the planet.
A week passed of doing the same thing that Raditz was ready to put her hand to her temple and kill herself. Yet, she just lied down on snow while wearing a black dress and brown jacket. "If there's anyone out there, I am so ready to be killed by you! I don't care how you do it! Just kill me right now! I'd do it to myself, but..." Raditz wondered if she'd go to hell in this form. She really didn't want that.
Only silence responded to the woman. When night rose, she went back home thinking the others would be asleep like usual but the lights were on. Raditz lowered her energy to not be known that she was coming any closer.
"I don't understand why you are letting her live with you. She is a danger to our family." A male said.
"She's really not. She hasn't tried to do anything." Goku responded calmly. "And she's family."
"She tried to kill me as a child!" Now Raditz knew who it was.
"But she didn't."
"She could have!"
"I agree with Gohan!" Chichi cried out.
"What do you expect me to do?" Goku asked.
"I don't know! Not bother with her!" Gohan responded. "We can't trust her!"
"It's not like she can do anything since we're all stronger."
"I guess that's true, but what if she isn't Raditz. You said that she was reborn a woman. What if she's lying and is conspiring with villains."
"But Shenron said that she was under a spell."
"Maybe Raditz is scheming with this so-called former kai. Isn't it suspicious that she hasn't been around?"
"She needed her space."
"For what?!"
"Gohan," Goku said seriously, "Maybe you're right, but Raditz is my brother. I can't abandon him."
There was silence, but Raditz didn't want to stay any longer. She flew away and went to a city for a change of view, and the possibility of hiding so her brother couldn't find her.
Unknown to her, Krillin's family was at a restaurant next to a window. Marron noticed her, "Look mama! It's that naked lady!"
"Huh?" Her parents looked to see an over six foot tall woman with a black mane that reached her knees.
"It looks like no one's with her." Krillin pointed out.
"Does it matter?" 18 asked.
"She might be planning something. Finish your meal, honey. I'll go get her." Krillin ran towards Raditz. "Hey Raditz!"
The woman turned around to see a man that she didn't recognize. "What do you want?" She asked bitterly. "If it's a good time, I'm telling you now that I'm not a prostitute."
The monk was taken aback by her assumption. "It's not that! God no!"
Raditz was insulted. "What do you mean by that?!"
"No! I didn't mean it like that! You really don't remember me? I'm the guy that you smacked your tail with when you first got here on Earth, and took you in when I found you at our shore."
"Right. Weren't you bald?"
"I was. So you do remember!
"Ha! How could I forget? That was hilarious!" She laughed mightily.
Krillin let out a weak laughter. "Yeah, so what brings you here? Where's Goku?"
"He's at home. And are you implying that he is my keeper! Just so you know, I am nobody's keeper!"
"I didn't call you anybody's keeper! But you are a force to be reckoned with! I was concerned that you would do something."
"Hmph. If I could, I would have." She frowned not really meaning it. Doing so would mean nothing, and she'd feel like nothing. "Goodbye." She turned to walk.
Krillin watched her. He could feel her sadness that he felt his conscience reach out to her. "Ugh, Krillin you'd regret not doing this anyway. Wait! Raditz!" The woman stopped. The male caught up to her. "Would you like to stay with me and my family? You obviously look miserable having to stay with Goku."
"You'd open your home to someone who told your friend to kill a hundred people or else?" Raditz arched an eyebrow at his stupidity.
"Yeah, but bygones are bygones y'know. Besides, me and my wife are no pushovers."
"Denied."
"Huh?! Why?!"
"I don't want to bother with Goku, his family or friends. All of you but my stupid brother want me gone, so get over it. Blow another hole into my stomach. I don't care."
"Hey...Don't talk like that. Yeah, you're bad but you weren't that bad compared to Vegeta and boy will I tell you, that guy changing sides and marrying Bulma was a big surprise. So relax. The entire world is not against you or really hate you. I kinda forgive you."
"Kinda?"
"You did kinda bitch slapped me into a house." Krillin laughed lightly.
Raditz chuckled, "You're right. And I kinda don't want to kill you."
"See! We're even! So do you want to crash at my place, or go back to Goku?"
"..." Raditz didn't want to face Goku or his son. The one who headbutt her chest. When she agreed to stay with him only if Goku didn't visit, it was a deal.
But then Krillin didn't ask his wife, so did. The woman thought he was crazy, but then looked at Raditz and reasoned that she also found Goku to be infuriating for his stupidity at times, and that she was stronger than her so would be able to do anything if the woman were to try anything.
So Raditz stayed at their house. Since the rooms were taken, she had to crash at the living room with a futon.
Master Roshi was surprised and shocked to find her there, but then understood the situation and the fact that another beautiful female was going to stay in his house despite being previously a male. He offered to share a room with her, but was quickly denied. Oolong and Turtle just questioned and commented on the situation as dangerous but something new.
Krillin called Goku telling him of the circumstances. The saiyan was surprised but accepted the fact that Raditz didn't want to see him at all. Gohan was worried as he was still there at the house. He took the phone questioning their choice.
Raditz sighed becoming more annoyed by this person. Then she felt someone tug at her hair. She saw that it was Marron. "Want a cookie?" She held out a pink frosted cookie.
The woman was a guest so accepted it. "Thank you." She stuffed it all in her mouth and gobbled it up. Marron went to the kitchen and bought out a tray of cookies. She continued giving Raditz one by one and watched with interest of how the woman ate it in one go.
Raditz began to get sick of its sweetness. So for the next cookie, she denied, and said that she was thirsty. Marron got her a cup of water. The woman jugged it down and then told her thank you. Marron nodded. "Do you feel better now?"
"Yes...Thank you very much, Marron." She told the child. The little girl smiled, "You're welcome! It's almost bed time, but for tomorrow, do you wanna play?"
"..." Raditz looked at her mother. The blond nodded. "...Alright." She said softly. It was something to do after a week of nothing.
So, for surprisingly a month, Raditz had stayed at the Kame House without having to see Goku or his other family. She had spent her time playing with Marron at the island while also denying the advances of the old man and the sexual antics of him and the pig. Goku had sent the woman's clothes. Knowing that he'd come, the woman flew away and lowered her energy from being found by him or his sons.
She made sure to sense their energy so she didn't have to see them. She also avoided Bulma and her son when they came to visit. She just didn't want to see anyone.
"Wow, you were really serious when you said that you didn't want to see anyone." Krillin said during dinner. "But other than that, your cooking is amazing! I honestly had my doubts making you stay here at first but stay as long as you want!"
"It's super oh so delicious!" Marron agreed eating her fill. 18 smiled at her little girl eating her vegetables.
"Thank you." Raditz said half heartily. "I spent time learning of your species, and made these dishes without harming your health or the environment for thanks."
"You're welcome," 18 told her, "But you can't keep avoiding them. Not that I care, but then you're only becoming more suspicious when you leave. I'm tired of having to answer their stupid questions."
"I'm sorry. But then if your creator, Dr. Gero, was alive, you'd also want to avoid him, wouldn't you?" Raditz knew of her story.
"Good point."
"But," Roshi spoke up, "You can't deny the inevitable. You will have to accept the fact that you have a family who cares or will come to care about you. Friends included."
"Be quiet old man. Family is of no concern to me. All I need to do is turn into a man, and I will leave."
"What?" Marron was surprised by the plan. "You're leaving?"
"Not yet." Raditz told her sweetly.
"Where are you going to?"
"I'm going to travel through space."
"Space? You mean like to the stars?"
"Yes. And planets and worm holes."
Marron gasped, "Are you going to get sucked into a worm hole?!"
"No... Maybe."
"But if you get sucked into one, you might go into an alternate universe!" The little child watches a lot of TV.
"And what kind of universe do you think I'd be sucked into." Raditz questioned, and the child began rambling on about puppies and aliens.
After a week more, Goku went to the Kame's house to find Raditz not being there again. "Hey Goku!" the bald monk greeted him. "Sorry but you just missed Raditz again." He laughed lightly at the repetitive.
"I know. Man, over a month, and she's still not seeing me." The man sighed. "And I thought we could patch things up, but that's not happening any time soon. I thought you were going to convince her, Krillin."
"Yeah...about that. I'm sorry Goku, but I don't wanna let her go."
"You don't want to?! What do you mean?!"
"I mean that...it's nice having Raditz around. I know it's shocking, but she's been a huge help in our lives! She does the cooking, the cleaning and even babysits Marron when 18 and I want to go out, and is really good at it!"
"It sounds more like you just want her around as a maid."
"Yeah. Raditz knows that but rather have it that way than be with you. No offense." Krillin said with a pinch of guilt when his best friend frowned.
"I see. But I'd like to see Raditz. Goten has been becoming more upset, and thinks that it's his fault that Raditz doesn't want to come back, so has been refusing to go home, too. Right now, Goten is at Bulma's place, and Chichi can't even get him back. Bulma also wants to see her, too. She also blames herself somehow."
"With someone with Raditz's back story, you can't help but want to be there for her, too."
"What do you mean?"
"I should've known you wouldn't know. Raditz was neglected and abused as a child."
"What?"
"I guess you can say that she's never been loved, and is the reason she looks down at family. She's only dealing with us because we don't get into her business much about it. For these kind of things, we thought we'd give her her space since it really isn't our place to do something."
"That's terrible!"
"I'm not her brother." Krillin pointed out. "And she seems pretty upset when I mention Gohan. But when I mention Goten, Raditz seems to miss him. How about bringing Goten here if he's so upset."
"I guess I can do that. I'll bring Goten tomorrow then. I'll be back." Goku flew off.
"See ya!" Krillin cried out and then entered the house.
The next day, Goten was dropped off with Trunks who wanted to see the woman, too, to do something. "Aunt Raditz!" The little child ran into the house sensing her aunt inside.
The woman looked disapprovingly at his crying face. "Now what are you crying about?"
"I thought aunt Raditz hated me! You wouldn't come home! I'm sorry I ignored you! Mom wouldn't let me talk to you!" He cried.
Raditz sighed. "Stop crying. I'm here now aren't I?"
"Yeah." The child sniffed wiping his tears away.
"Done crying?" She asked. Goten nodded. "Now how about you two play with Marron. I need to make lunch."
"Ah..but..."
"No buts, or do you want no lunch?"
Goten groaned but he really did want lunch, so settled with playing with Marron.
"Do we really have to play with her?" Trunks whispered to him.
"Aunt Raditz said so."
"Why are you doing what she says? Like I told you before, you barely even know her."
"But still! I don't want Aunt Raditz to be alone."
"She's not alone stupid. She's staying here with Marron and her parents."
"If you don't want to play with us, then go home already." Goten quipped. "C'mon Marron. Let's play!"
"Huh?!" Trunks was taken aback by Goten's attitude. "Hey! Wait!" The purple hair boy played with them in the end.
The three of them ended up making a sand castle together. "So Marron, what's it like with Aunt Raditz?" Goten asked.
"She's amazing! We play together every day! She makes delicious food and sings lullabies to me!"
"Lullabies?"
"Yeah! There's this one lullaby that mothers would sing to saiyans! It's really pretty!"
Goten frowned. He only got to spend a few days while Marron spent a whole month with his aunt. "That's not fair."
"You can stay over if you like!" Marron told him.
Trunks responded, "No way. I'm going home after this. I don't see what's so great about this Aunt Raditz. My grandma can do that."
"No!" Goten cried out. "Aunt Raditz is unique and special!"
"Geeze, sorry. I didn't mean to talk bad about your girlfriend."
"She's not my girlfriend!"
"You sure act like she is."
Then Raditz called out. "Lunch is ready!"
"Oh boy!" Goten and the others ran into the house and took their seat. The table was filled with different types of food. "Wow! It smells delicious!"
After all the food was gone, Marron got sleepy. 18 bought her daughter to her bed.
Raditz took the dishes to wash them. Goten followed her to the kitchen. "Want help?"
"You can help by putting the dishes away. Drop one and I'll kill you." She told him half heartily.
Trunks was upset, "C'mon! Really?! I'm going home."
Oolong spoke up, "Then you'll miss the stories."
"What stories?"
"The stories of the missions Raditz went through with your dad. You wanna hear them right?"
"...Yeah." He grumbled to himself when he decided to just go help, too. The boys took a dry towel and helped by wiping them and then putting them away. During it, Goten noticed his aunt humming a tune.
"What're you humming aunt Raditz?"
"It's the battle lullaby of the saiyans."
Trunks' eyebrows raised, "Lullaby of the saiyans? There's no such thing."
The woman retorted, "There is. During the war between the Tuffles and saiyans, the saiyan mothers would sing a lullaby to the children to fall asleep."
"Will you sing to us this lullaby?" Goten asked.
"Tonight if you're staying over."
"I am!"
Trunks responded, "I'm leaving after hearing the stories about my dad."
"Then let's start." Raditz wiped her wet hands with a dry towel and then had the kids follow her to the living room. "So what story do you want to hear?"
"Ooh! Ooh! Tell him about the worms!" Goten suggested.
"Alright." Raditz told the story about the worms and the volcanic eruption.
Trunks doubted some parts. "That's totally made up! My dad wouldn't be beaten by some worm!"
"Your father was only seven at the time and saiyans can't see in the dark unless there's something your father hadn't told me yet."
"Fine. What else?" The male lied down on his side wanting to hear more.
Raditz told them stories through the hours. Eventually the boys' eyes were falling closed.
"I believe it's time for you to sleep." Raditz told them.
Trunks tiredly denied. "...No it isn't..."
"Yeah..." Goten agreed with a yawn and a rub for his eye.
Raditz carried them up and made them lie down on her futon together. She then sang to them the lullaby.
Do not cry saiyan warrior, so proud and strong
Your victories will become a song
Dream of your future battles and struggles
'Cause you are a saiyan warrior, so proud and strong
You could do no wrong.
But when you do, stare at the moon
And your greatest strength will bloom
Do not cry saiyan warrior, so proud and strong
Listen to my song
The boys fell asleep and dreamed of random things. The others in the house were also asleep. Raditz walked outside and sat down on the grass. There was no moon in the sky. There was supposed to be one, but was destroyed. Her tail wrapped around her neck.
She had adapted to the simple earth ways to waste her time, but on a restless night like these in silence, she couldn't help thinking back to the past on Planet Vegeta.
"Weakling Raditz! Weakling Raditz! Weakling Raditz!" The children cried out in a circle around him, and attacked him with food and dirt.
The adults just watched. "So that's Raditz, huh." "Yeah, his father is Bardock." "No wonder why." "Isn't his mom at the bar?" "Yeah, she's a heavy drinker." "I don't think any of his parents even know he's alive. I asked her about her son, and she told me that she didn't know what I was talking about. Can you believe that?" "I can actually."
Raditz felt her tears flowed down her eyes. She remembered being such an optimist as a child. Her child's optimism kept her crying everyday. The only time she ever cried as a child was that one worm accident. She really thought that they'd die. She really thought that her prince Vegeta was going to die and never revenge them. She cried so hard that Nappa gained the habit of calling her a crybaby when she couldn't stop. It took a while to regain her optimism after such a traumatic event.
Now it was happening all over again but worse. She needed to find her optimism again if she had to wait any longer.
The next day, Goten had to leave. "I don't wanna go home." He said stubbornly.
"C'mon Goten. Your mom's worried about you." Trunks told him.
"I don't care." He furrowed his brows and folded his arms.
Aunt Raditz crossed her arms, "I understand that your mother is a pain, but she's your mother. Don't be ungrateful and go to her."
"But she.."
"But she was worried about your safety. I'm still a villain to her eyes and your big brother's own. I hurt kids like you. You can't blame her for loving you." She reasoned. The truth was that she just wanted Goten to leave before she got any more attached.
"But you're not a villain! You're family and family is important!" He cried out and held onto her pants. "You may not believe that but I do! You're my aunt and you can't change that!"
Raditz tried to keep a straight face by how pathetic her nephew was becoming, but her heart was leaping for him. She picked him up and held him close. "Fine. I'll come visit. How about that?"
"You promise?"
"Yeah. I swear on my tail."
Goten leaned back wiping his face. "I love you, Aunt Raditz."
"..." That was the first time that Raditz had heard those words. Marron had only said that she was cool and all but never a playful, 'I love you'. She became teary.
"Aaaaawe!" Krillin said out loud.
"Shut up cue ball." Raditz told him and then told Goten, "You better go home. Your father is coming." She put him down.
"You don't wanna see daddy?"
"Not even if my life depended on it, kid."
"Okay...It was nice seeing you again aunt Raditz. Visit soon." Goten walked out with Trunks. Marron said bye.
Raditz walked towards the back, "I need to go out." The others silently let her go. She went to the snowy mountains so she could assemble herself.
Love was foreign to her heart. She knew the child was smitten with her, but to feel true family affection, her heart tried to access the foreign disease.
"So this is where you'd run off to."
Raditz turned around and looked up to see her prince. "Prince Vegeta!" She knelled down.
"Stand up you worthless dog!" He shouted. "I knew you'd be nothing but a waste of time when spared a life, if all you're going to do is sulk and be a maid! What? Got nothing to say?! Did you become a mute or feel so pathetic that you can't even speak?!"
"Say what?! You're obviously here to challenge me, and you should already know that I will be a disappointment so what's the point?!"
"What kind of talk is that? You are a saiyan warrior! Have you forgotten that?"
"...No I'm not."
"What?"
"I'm not a warrior anymore! I am no longer your subject! I don't have to fight anymore!"
Vegeta was surprised by Raditz's words. "So that's it huh. Not only are you weak, but giving up just because a mere child can beat you."
"Yes! So leave me alone!" She turned away from him. She really didn't want to deal with her prince. It just turned her heart in turmoil. "I mean nothing to you so leave me alone or kill me!"
"Fine." Vegeta raised his hand and threw a beam at her.
Raditz's instincts had her dodge. Vegeta barraged her with a set of attacks that had her knocked into a hole in a mountain and caused an avalanche. The woman flew out and tried to throw her own set of attacks with her double sunday but was too slow for the trained prince and was kicked down on the snow.
The fight continued until she could not move at all. She was bloodied, broken and bruised that she was panting for air. She expected Vegeta to finish her like he did Nappa, but instead threw a senzu beam to her and then left her there in the cold.
Raditz used a trembling hand to grab the bean and then hold it in a fist. She let herself rest until she was able to sit up. She forced herself to stand despite the pain, and flew towards a forest near a river. She removed her shirt to wet it into the river and then wipe the blood off of her.
She still had the bean but then threw it in the river. She knew it was stupid to let herself suffer, but she needed to feel the suffering of physical pain than emotional. She put her hand on her dislocated shoulder and reattached it. She held in her cry of the pain and lied down.
She fell straight to sleep.
"My little brother's born?" Raditz was walking with a doctor down a hallway after being patched up from his usual rough housing.
"Yes. Your parents hadn't come to see him, and he's been crying."
"Why?"
"He wants to be held."
"Then why don't you hold him?"
"I'm just a doctor." The doctors of the place made it a custom to not give emotional care to the newborns. "Aren't you excited to see him?"
Raditz secretly was. He didn't want to see his little brother because his parents didn't care for him so didn't see the point of caring for family, but he was curious.
They went into the baby room where a baby was crying. "Augh! Who's the brat cryin?!"
"He's your little brother, Kakarot." The man opened the case.
"Kakarot? Ha! That's a girl's name." Raditz then took a step back when the doctor handed the crying child to him. The baby stopped crying and stared at him. The ten-year-old saw that the baby looked similar to their father. That made him upset a little. "Hey Kakarot, I'm your big brother Raditz and you're going to do whatever I say and destroy planets together!"
The baby laughed happily. That made the big brother smile. "Yeah! I'm your cool big bro! Everyone else is a jerk, but your not in my book! heh heh heh!" The two brothers played for a while before Raditz was reminded that he had a mission. "Alright. Bye Kaka."
The doctor took him away, but then the child cried and struggled to get out of the man's arms. He wouldn't stop crying when he got on the carriage.
"Hey!" Raditz called out to him. "Don't cry! You have the coolest race in you!" The baby was still crying, so the male sang to him the saiyan lullaby. Kakarot stopped crying and fell asleep. "That's right!" Raditz whispered. "Go to sleep you big baby!"
Raditz woke up when she felt rain drops. She opened her eyes to see a gray sky above her. She sighed as she began to feel the ache of her bones and muscles. At least she was alone.
"Raditz!" The world hated her. Goku stood above her, looking down at her. "What happened to you?! I better get you out of here." Her brother bought her back to his home.
Raditz stayed quiet as she was too tired to refuse. At the home, she heard Goten cry out. Chichi was also surprised. Gohan also happened to be there.
"Aunt Raditz! What happened to her?" Goten questioned worriedly. It's only been a few hours when he last saw her.
"I don't know." Goku said seriously. "I found her in the forest like this. She needs her rest." He put Raditz on his bed. The woman fell back to sleep.
Raditz was on his first mission with Turles and other three saiyans. Smaller saiyans had to go in groups and were assembled randomly. The team of assholes, who Raditz referred them as, were upset to have him on the team. Except for Turles who said that they actually have a pretty member on the team which upset the female ones.
Now that Raditz remembered, Turles was a cousin of his who teased him for looking like a girl, but was more tamed compared to the other kids. Raditz tackled him when he went too far and the two would fight, but unlike the other fights that ended with him feeling bitter resentment, Turles had actually complimented Raditz even if it was on how pretty girly he was. It was better than being called weakling and other mean words.
Thinking that the mission would be a piece of cake, Raditz was incredibly wrong when the inhabitants murdered more than half of his crew. They fought but were killed instantly with their space pods that only one was left.
Turles and Raditz were left alive with only one space pod.
"Dammit! This is impossible!" Turles cried out. "We're going to die! We're going to die." He was slapped on the face.
"Don't talk like that!" Raditz scolded him. "We're not done yet! We can both fit in that space pod! I'll distract them while you get it ready!"
"Are you crazy?!"
"It's all we got! I'm going!"
"Be careful!"
The male grinned at him, "No promises!" Turles stared at him with a dumbstruck expression, but then understood that he had to go do his role. Raditz threw a rock at the giant scorpion like creatures to chase him. When they did, Turles flew for the space pod and was getting it ready.
Raditz saw him at the corner of his eye and went to head back, but then one of the scorpions hit him with its tail. The boy coughed out blood by the strong force to the abdomen. Raditz looked to the space pod and knew that he wouldn't make it so gave the sign to go.
Turles thought he was crazy but when the creatures came after the pod, he left. Raditz crawled away to a cave when the creatures were distracted by the pod leaving. He knew he would die, and the only thing that was worth remembering was what happened yesterday with his little brother. The few precious hours with his brother.
"Kakarot." She opened her eyes to see someone lying down next to her. Half-dreaming, she embraced the form despite the pain.
Goku saw from an opened door of Raditz hugging a sleeping Goten who was so worried that he wouldn't leave his aunt's side.
Gohan was at the kitchen wrapping his head around this. Goten told him earlier that Aunt Raditz was just very lonely and needs family with her. "I never seen Goten so passionate about anyone."
Chichi frowned, "I'm happy that Goten is so loving, but why does it have to be her?"
Goku gave his goofy smile, "Goten just wants to give Raditz what I think she never had and that's a nice family."
Gohan understood, "So I guess I should give her a chance. I do resent what she did before, but didn't want her to be hurt this badly."
"That's what I've been telling you." Goku said, "Raditz deserves a second chance, and this time let's make her feel a part of this family." Gohan agreed.
Chichi let out a frustrated sigh. "Fine. But only because I want to see what's so great about her cooking."
Goku smiled at it all coming together.
A/N: I figured that despite the first meeting with Raditz on the show, she's actually a very caring and talented individual without having to prove herself or fight. (Ex. His 'if story' on the game) She's still manipulative, cruel, proud and cowardly, but she's also really caring when you show to care about her, too. And her new body is making her emotional and act out irresponsibly.
She must also be the one who did most of the paper work on the team with filing things, researching, patching her teammates up, cooking the food and being the bait, etc. Hence, being skillful in other things than fighting.
For short: Like a mother or house wife of sort in Team Vegeta since Nappa and Vegeta obviously just train and destroy.