It Never Ends
C-15
"What the hell happened to your arms?" Bulma asked her son. He looked half asleep as he walked into the kitchen, only wearing a pair of sweat pants. There were two large bands, which looked almost like burns.
He looked at them. "Oh. Nothing mom," he said and went to get some coffee.
"Nothing!" She exclaimed. "You destroy my lawn last night sparring with Soyna! You won't tell me why you fought and neither will she and you say that it is nothing!"
"Must you yell so early in the morning?" Vegeta grumbled from his chair.
"Yes I must!" She snapped at him. "What is going on here! I liked it much better when you and Soyna weren't talking to each other. At least I knew what the hell was going on around here!" She stormed out of the kitchen, not wanting to deal with either her husband or son. She brushed by Soyna as she left. "No more destroying my lawn!"
.............
He looked at Soyna slink into the kitchen. She looked so much better than she did yesterday. Maybe the sparing match had helped her.
Vegeta didn't look up from the paper that he was reading. "Are you going to cook breakfast?"
"No," she said simply.
He glared up at her. "And why not?"
"You can fend for yourself. Make sure the boys go to school and don't let them forget their lunches," she said and grabbed a jacket.
"Where are you going?" Trunks asked. It was awful early to be going anywhere.
"Out," she said.
"I am not a nanny," Vegeta grumbled.
She shrugged. "I will cook dinner and breakfast tomorrow then," she said. "I really must go." And then she was gone without so much of a word.
Dad didn't look too happy about it. "Stupid child, always taking off."
"Where does she go?" he asked.
Dad didn't answer. That was his way of saying that he didn't know.
...............
Junior smirked.
"It isn't funny!" Goten said. "I can't win against anyone!"
"You just have to keep training and your skills will come back," Junior said. "It took Soyna a whole year after getting out of the hospital to gain the ability of going supersaiyian again and then she couldn't hold it for very long. It took her a long time to get where she used to be."
"What do you mean?" Goten said.
Junior rubbed his eyes. "It's the poison. It does a lot of damage to your system. Didn't you feel that you couldn't reach your full strength when you powered up?"
Goten looked like he was thinking about it for a bit. "I didn't feel anything different," he contemplated. "I just thought that I was loosing control of my strength."
"That's what happens. I don't think they intended the poison to be an inhibitor, they just wanted it to kill, but it is a nasty side effect." Junior said.
Goten sighed. "You mean, I am not loosing to the girls because they are better than me."
"Well," Junior smirked, "I wouldn't say that."
...............
"It took you long enough," Vegeta said as Soyna walked in. He had given up trying to follow her a long time ago. She would always detect him and would tell him to leave her alone. A couple of times, she would fiercely attack him and then hide herself so he couldn't find her. She never would tell him where she was going and he hated not knowing. He really hated it.
She just blinked at him and looked at the clock on the wall. "I still have plenty of time before the boys get home."
"I was hoping to get some exercise today," he said. It had been nearly two whole weeks and he hadn't spared. With Soyna being ill and Bulma dragging him around the city, he was anxious to use his muscles.
She glanced at the clock again. "After dinner," she said and then walked out.
He narrowed his eyes at her.
............
Pan was getting very frustrated with her uncle. "This is easy stuff," she said as she showed him how the chemical reaction works on paper.
He tugged at his hair. He really needed to get a trim. "I really hate school."
"You just have to get through this and you will be home free. God knows what you will do for a living," she said. She never imagined her uncle working. He just was such a carefree guy, she didn't think he could even hold a job for long.
"I was thinking of opening a gym," Goten said. "I don't need chemistry to open a gym."
Her uncle did have ambitions.
"Don't look so shocked!" he said. "It is all I really know how to do. I am not like your or Gohan. I not that smart, but I know what a gym needs."
Pan listened to her uncle talk about what he would like to build. It sounded good.
"It would have everything!" He said with a wide smile. "Absolutely everything."
"How do you plan on getting the money. That would cost a lot," she said. "Well, I figure, if I enter that tournament for that flyer I saw, that would give me enough to start and I am sure Trunks would help out, don't you think?"
She smiled.
He was using his brain.
"But you have to win the tournament to get the money, Goten," she teased.
He let out a sigh, "I know. I somehow have to get back into shape." He rubbed his throat. "I have to start winning some of the sparing matches."
"I'll help you," she said, with what I can.
"I need your help in holding off mom," he said. "I don't think she would like the idea all that much of me entering another tournament."
"Gotcha," she said.
Her uncle smile dimmed again as he looked at the chemistry homework. "Now, explain to me, what the difference between a cation and an ion is again."
............
Trunk's was drained from sitting in that meeting. It took all day and they got nowhere. Nowhere! They just talked in circles and it was driving him nuts. He was glad that they got out of there at four. He doubted he could have handled hearing his voice for one more second, even though he had another daylong meeting tomorrow.
Of course, nothing could have prepared him for what he heard when he came through the front door of his house.
Benot was standing beside his mother looking angrily at two people he did not know that had a little girl with pink hair.
Soyna looked rather calm.
The man was talking and said the oddest thing and it was directed at him. "I am sure that if he had a father that was around instead of hiding at the office all day, your boy wouldn't be so violent!"
She turned her head slightly and looked at him. He just stood their stunned. He was very aware how much Benot took after him, especially when he first arrived and had seen the boy. Even Goten had asked him, if there was something he wasn't telling him. It was humorous after he got over all that shock.
Benot was the one that yelled back at the man. "That is not my FATHER! My mother is a WIDOW! My FATHER DIED a long time ago."
The man blushed slightly and looked like he was about to apologize. Soyna wasn't doing anything to stop Benot from yelling and he continued. She looked amazingly calm.
"All I did was undo her braids! I didn't give HER a BLACK eye!" He said glaring at the little girl that was now hiding behind her mother's legs. Benot pointed to his shadowed eye. Then he muttered under his breath, "I should have though."
"Well, I never," the woman said.
"Really?" Soyna said. "I thought you two were here to have a civilized conversation. You just seem to be ready to point fingers. Trust me when I say that Benot is getting punished enough for his little prank."
"Then why didn't you show up for the parent teacher conference," the woman said.
"I have not been well for the last couple of weeks. I did not become aware of the situation until later, which is why I allowed you in my house." She said. She still was amazingly calm. Benot seemed to be the one that held all the anger at the moment.
"I told the principal that my mom was sick, but he didn't believe me!" Benot said. "I wasn't lying!"
"You look fine now," the woman said.
"I am," she said, her eyes narrowing for the first time.
"My little girl doesn't deserve the detention because of your delinquent son!" she said.
She clenched her teeth together. She was starting to get angry.
"I GOT a BLACK EYE here!" Benot snapped. Soyna put a hand on his head and pushed him back.
"My son also received a detention," she said. "You should talk to the school about their disciplinary measures if you don't agree with them. My son, is the one that now has the stigma of getting a black eye for a pink haired little girl." Soyna said.
"Hey!" Benot said. "Mom, you are supposed to stick up for me!"
Trunks could hear Legen giggling around the corner.
"My little angel..." the woman started.
Soyna growled.
Trunks decided that he should step in. She was going to loose her temper and do something that she was going to regret big time. He came forward. "Now, now, we don't need to get into a fight here."
"You tell 'em!" Benot said. Soyna gave her son a glare and Benot hid behind his legs.
"If you're not the father of this boy, you do not need to be in this conversation!" The woman said.
She was being a stubborn bitch. Just like his mother. He knew how to handle this. He dreamed of talking back to his mother, but he never really had the guts for that, after all, she was his mother, but this woman, was not.
"I think I do!" He said sharply. "The martial affairs of anyone in this household is none of your business. The disciplining of Benot is none of your business and if anything, it is your little girl that owes Benot an apology!"
She gasped.
The little girl then spoke, "I will never apologize to the creep!"
"Strawberry head!" Benot countered.
"Turnip head!" she snapped back.
"Cotton Ball!"
"Girly hair!"
"Freak!"
"Jerk"
"Enough you two!" Trunks said. Jeez, that's kids for you.
Soyna was smiling again.
"Rose!" Her mother exclaimed.
"Isn't that sweet. They like each other!" Soyna said with a wide grin.
"What!" Both kids exclaimed.
"How can I like the grape juice boy!" Rose yelled.
"How can I like that freak of nature!" Benot snapped.
Soyna just smiled and looked at her boy.
"It is not like that mom! How can I like someone whose hair looks like cotton candy."
Legen was laughing up a storm from the hall now.
"He is rude and arrogant and a pain in the ass." Rose said. "Mom, can we go home now!" She tugged on her shocked mother's arm. She stuck her tongue out at him. He returned it.
"Barbie doll!" Benot fumed.
"Trash man!" she snapped back.
"I think we will be leaving," said Rose's father as he scooped up his little girl.
"It was nice to meet you. I am sure that we will meet again," Soyna said.
"Wimp!"
"Hey! I am not a wimp!" Benot snapped.
Rose stuck her tongue out loudly at him as her parents escorted her out the door.
Soyna gave out a light laugh. A rather strange sound coming from her.
Benot was fuming. There was almost steam rising off of his head. "That was not funny mom."
"It got rid of them didn't it?" she said. Legen's laughing quickly distracted Benot.
"Shut up Legen!" Benot yelled.
"Wait until I tell the guys in class!"
They were gone in a flash, Benot chasing after Legen. You could hear Legen laughing as he ran.
He looked at Soyna who had on a light smile, not her normal grim one. She looked at him for a bit and then walked away, towards the kitchen.
She was in a good mood.
He shook his head and decided that he was going to go to bed early and try not to deal with his extended family for the rest of the day. They were just too weird at times.
...............
"Finally," Vegeta said stretching, getting ready to spar with Soyna. She looked oddly happy today and well. She hadn't look so well in a couple of months.
"Well," she said. "Are you just going to stand there, or are we going to destroy the lawn again?"
He laughed as they flew off to a safer place to destroy.
...............
He had not seen his daughter in the morning; she had left for school early. He was glad to see that she wasn't wearing a dress, and was back to her tomboyish ways. Of course, it was Thursday and she didn't have lunch with Trunks on Thursday, but it was still good to see.
"How was school today?" he asked her.
"Good. My lab went perfect and I got a 100 % recovery rate. I should be getting an 8 in it, if this keeps up," she said.
"That's good," he said, still looking at his daughter intently. He was looking for any signs that she might be interested in Trunks in her face or on her neck... he couldn't see any.
"What?"
"Huh?"
"Why are you looking at me like that?"
"Like what?" he said.
"Dad!" She said. "I wore the dress yesterday because I was going to met Bra! You know that if I don't wear one, she will make me buy one and I don't need anymore of them in my closet!" she said. "Jeez, you are paranoid."
"I can't help it," he shrugged.
"Well, I hate to tell you dad, I am not a little girl anymore!" she said and stormed out of the room.
He groaned. He knew that she wasn't a little girl anymore, but she didn't need to tell him that.
...............
"DONE!" Goten yelled. "I have a whole three days in which I don't have to open a stupid book!" He folded his papers and closed his binders.
Junior was gratefully as well. This week of suspension was more strenuous that going to school, especially with having to help out Goten with his studies.
"What do you want to do now?" Junior asked.
"I really need to stretch my muscles," Goten said. "Hey, let's go spar. I really need to get up on my training if I want to enter that tournament."
"You were serious about that?" Junior said.
"Yeah."
"You don't think you can beat Soyna do you?" Junior said. "I mean, the last couple of times, she beat you into the ground."
"That's not true. Gohan stopped us once," he said. "I technically didn't loose."
"Technically," Junior said. "You have only two months to get good enough to beat her and I doubt that will happen."
"I won't know unless I try. I am sure I can convince her to help me train and I think Vegeta will too," Goten said.
"You have one hell of a death wish," Junior smiled.
"Come one. You are supposed to be my bud. You are supposed to support me," Goten said with a puppy-dog-face.
He sighed and rolled his eyes. "Fine. Sis, won't kill you, maybe she will just maim you."
Goten frowned. "Thanks for the vote of confidence."
............
Well, her is another chapter....
It seems like everyone is preparing for a tournament now...
There is two months of training before the big day...stay tuned for the next exciting episode of IT NEVER ENDS
Soyna
C-15
"What the hell happened to your arms?" Bulma asked her son. He looked half asleep as he walked into the kitchen, only wearing a pair of sweat pants. There were two large bands, which looked almost like burns.
He looked at them. "Oh. Nothing mom," he said and went to get some coffee.
"Nothing!" She exclaimed. "You destroy my lawn last night sparring with Soyna! You won't tell me why you fought and neither will she and you say that it is nothing!"
"Must you yell so early in the morning?" Vegeta grumbled from his chair.
"Yes I must!" She snapped at him. "What is going on here! I liked it much better when you and Soyna weren't talking to each other. At least I knew what the hell was going on around here!" She stormed out of the kitchen, not wanting to deal with either her husband or son. She brushed by Soyna as she left. "No more destroying my lawn!"
.............
He looked at Soyna slink into the kitchen. She looked so much better than she did yesterday. Maybe the sparing match had helped her.
Vegeta didn't look up from the paper that he was reading. "Are you going to cook breakfast?"
"No," she said simply.
He glared up at her. "And why not?"
"You can fend for yourself. Make sure the boys go to school and don't let them forget their lunches," she said and grabbed a jacket.
"Where are you going?" Trunks asked. It was awful early to be going anywhere.
"Out," she said.
"I am not a nanny," Vegeta grumbled.
She shrugged. "I will cook dinner and breakfast tomorrow then," she said. "I really must go." And then she was gone without so much of a word.
Dad didn't look too happy about it. "Stupid child, always taking off."
"Where does she go?" he asked.
Dad didn't answer. That was his way of saying that he didn't know.
...............
Junior smirked.
"It isn't funny!" Goten said. "I can't win against anyone!"
"You just have to keep training and your skills will come back," Junior said. "It took Soyna a whole year after getting out of the hospital to gain the ability of going supersaiyian again and then she couldn't hold it for very long. It took her a long time to get where she used to be."
"What do you mean?" Goten said.
Junior rubbed his eyes. "It's the poison. It does a lot of damage to your system. Didn't you feel that you couldn't reach your full strength when you powered up?"
Goten looked like he was thinking about it for a bit. "I didn't feel anything different," he contemplated. "I just thought that I was loosing control of my strength."
"That's what happens. I don't think they intended the poison to be an inhibitor, they just wanted it to kill, but it is a nasty side effect." Junior said.
Goten sighed. "You mean, I am not loosing to the girls because they are better than me."
"Well," Junior smirked, "I wouldn't say that."
...............
"It took you long enough," Vegeta said as Soyna walked in. He had given up trying to follow her a long time ago. She would always detect him and would tell him to leave her alone. A couple of times, she would fiercely attack him and then hide herself so he couldn't find her. She never would tell him where she was going and he hated not knowing. He really hated it.
She just blinked at him and looked at the clock on the wall. "I still have plenty of time before the boys get home."
"I was hoping to get some exercise today," he said. It had been nearly two whole weeks and he hadn't spared. With Soyna being ill and Bulma dragging him around the city, he was anxious to use his muscles.
She glanced at the clock again. "After dinner," she said and then walked out.
He narrowed his eyes at her.
............
Pan was getting very frustrated with her uncle. "This is easy stuff," she said as she showed him how the chemical reaction works on paper.
He tugged at his hair. He really needed to get a trim. "I really hate school."
"You just have to get through this and you will be home free. God knows what you will do for a living," she said. She never imagined her uncle working. He just was such a carefree guy, she didn't think he could even hold a job for long.
"I was thinking of opening a gym," Goten said. "I don't need chemistry to open a gym."
Her uncle did have ambitions.
"Don't look so shocked!" he said. "It is all I really know how to do. I am not like your or Gohan. I not that smart, but I know what a gym needs."
Pan listened to her uncle talk about what he would like to build. It sounded good.
"It would have everything!" He said with a wide smile. "Absolutely everything."
"How do you plan on getting the money. That would cost a lot," she said. "Well, I figure, if I enter that tournament for that flyer I saw, that would give me enough to start and I am sure Trunks would help out, don't you think?"
She smiled.
He was using his brain.
"But you have to win the tournament to get the money, Goten," she teased.
He let out a sigh, "I know. I somehow have to get back into shape." He rubbed his throat. "I have to start winning some of the sparing matches."
"I'll help you," she said, with what I can.
"I need your help in holding off mom," he said. "I don't think she would like the idea all that much of me entering another tournament."
"Gotcha," she said.
Her uncle smile dimmed again as he looked at the chemistry homework. "Now, explain to me, what the difference between a cation and an ion is again."
............
Trunk's was drained from sitting in that meeting. It took all day and they got nowhere. Nowhere! They just talked in circles and it was driving him nuts. He was glad that they got out of there at four. He doubted he could have handled hearing his voice for one more second, even though he had another daylong meeting tomorrow.
Of course, nothing could have prepared him for what he heard when he came through the front door of his house.
Benot was standing beside his mother looking angrily at two people he did not know that had a little girl with pink hair.
Soyna looked rather calm.
The man was talking and said the oddest thing and it was directed at him. "I am sure that if he had a father that was around instead of hiding at the office all day, your boy wouldn't be so violent!"
She turned her head slightly and looked at him. He just stood their stunned. He was very aware how much Benot took after him, especially when he first arrived and had seen the boy. Even Goten had asked him, if there was something he wasn't telling him. It was humorous after he got over all that shock.
Benot was the one that yelled back at the man. "That is not my FATHER! My mother is a WIDOW! My FATHER DIED a long time ago."
The man blushed slightly and looked like he was about to apologize. Soyna wasn't doing anything to stop Benot from yelling and he continued. She looked amazingly calm.
"All I did was undo her braids! I didn't give HER a BLACK eye!" He said glaring at the little girl that was now hiding behind her mother's legs. Benot pointed to his shadowed eye. Then he muttered under his breath, "I should have though."
"Well, I never," the woman said.
"Really?" Soyna said. "I thought you two were here to have a civilized conversation. You just seem to be ready to point fingers. Trust me when I say that Benot is getting punished enough for his little prank."
"Then why didn't you show up for the parent teacher conference," the woman said.
"I have not been well for the last couple of weeks. I did not become aware of the situation until later, which is why I allowed you in my house." She said. She still was amazingly calm. Benot seemed to be the one that held all the anger at the moment.
"I told the principal that my mom was sick, but he didn't believe me!" Benot said. "I wasn't lying!"
"You look fine now," the woman said.
"I am," she said, her eyes narrowing for the first time.
"My little girl doesn't deserve the detention because of your delinquent son!" she said.
She clenched her teeth together. She was starting to get angry.
"I GOT a BLACK EYE here!" Benot snapped. Soyna put a hand on his head and pushed him back.
"My son also received a detention," she said. "You should talk to the school about their disciplinary measures if you don't agree with them. My son, is the one that now has the stigma of getting a black eye for a pink haired little girl." Soyna said.
"Hey!" Benot said. "Mom, you are supposed to stick up for me!"
Trunks could hear Legen giggling around the corner.
"My little angel..." the woman started.
Soyna growled.
Trunks decided that he should step in. She was going to loose her temper and do something that she was going to regret big time. He came forward. "Now, now, we don't need to get into a fight here."
"You tell 'em!" Benot said. Soyna gave her son a glare and Benot hid behind his legs.
"If you're not the father of this boy, you do not need to be in this conversation!" The woman said.
She was being a stubborn bitch. Just like his mother. He knew how to handle this. He dreamed of talking back to his mother, but he never really had the guts for that, after all, she was his mother, but this woman, was not.
"I think I do!" He said sharply. "The martial affairs of anyone in this household is none of your business. The disciplining of Benot is none of your business and if anything, it is your little girl that owes Benot an apology!"
She gasped.
The little girl then spoke, "I will never apologize to the creep!"
"Strawberry head!" Benot countered.
"Turnip head!" she snapped back.
"Cotton Ball!"
"Girly hair!"
"Freak!"
"Jerk"
"Enough you two!" Trunks said. Jeez, that's kids for you.
Soyna was smiling again.
"Rose!" Her mother exclaimed.
"Isn't that sweet. They like each other!" Soyna said with a wide grin.
"What!" Both kids exclaimed.
"How can I like the grape juice boy!" Rose yelled.
"How can I like that freak of nature!" Benot snapped.
Soyna just smiled and looked at her boy.
"It is not like that mom! How can I like someone whose hair looks like cotton candy."
Legen was laughing up a storm from the hall now.
"He is rude and arrogant and a pain in the ass." Rose said. "Mom, can we go home now!" She tugged on her shocked mother's arm. She stuck her tongue out at him. He returned it.
"Barbie doll!" Benot fumed.
"Trash man!" she snapped back.
"I think we will be leaving," said Rose's father as he scooped up his little girl.
"It was nice to meet you. I am sure that we will meet again," Soyna said.
"Wimp!"
"Hey! I am not a wimp!" Benot snapped.
Rose stuck her tongue out loudly at him as her parents escorted her out the door.
Soyna gave out a light laugh. A rather strange sound coming from her.
Benot was fuming. There was almost steam rising off of his head. "That was not funny mom."
"It got rid of them didn't it?" she said. Legen's laughing quickly distracted Benot.
"Shut up Legen!" Benot yelled.
"Wait until I tell the guys in class!"
They were gone in a flash, Benot chasing after Legen. You could hear Legen laughing as he ran.
He looked at Soyna who had on a light smile, not her normal grim one. She looked at him for a bit and then walked away, towards the kitchen.
She was in a good mood.
He shook his head and decided that he was going to go to bed early and try not to deal with his extended family for the rest of the day. They were just too weird at times.
...............
"Finally," Vegeta said stretching, getting ready to spar with Soyna. She looked oddly happy today and well. She hadn't look so well in a couple of months.
"Well," she said. "Are you just going to stand there, or are we going to destroy the lawn again?"
He laughed as they flew off to a safer place to destroy.
...............
He had not seen his daughter in the morning; she had left for school early. He was glad to see that she wasn't wearing a dress, and was back to her tomboyish ways. Of course, it was Thursday and she didn't have lunch with Trunks on Thursday, but it was still good to see.
"How was school today?" he asked her.
"Good. My lab went perfect and I got a 100 % recovery rate. I should be getting an 8 in it, if this keeps up," she said.
"That's good," he said, still looking at his daughter intently. He was looking for any signs that she might be interested in Trunks in her face or on her neck... he couldn't see any.
"What?"
"Huh?"
"Why are you looking at me like that?"
"Like what?" he said.
"Dad!" She said. "I wore the dress yesterday because I was going to met Bra! You know that if I don't wear one, she will make me buy one and I don't need anymore of them in my closet!" she said. "Jeez, you are paranoid."
"I can't help it," he shrugged.
"Well, I hate to tell you dad, I am not a little girl anymore!" she said and stormed out of the room.
He groaned. He knew that she wasn't a little girl anymore, but she didn't need to tell him that.
...............
"DONE!" Goten yelled. "I have a whole three days in which I don't have to open a stupid book!" He folded his papers and closed his binders.
Junior was gratefully as well. This week of suspension was more strenuous that going to school, especially with having to help out Goten with his studies.
"What do you want to do now?" Junior asked.
"I really need to stretch my muscles," Goten said. "Hey, let's go spar. I really need to get up on my training if I want to enter that tournament."
"You were serious about that?" Junior said.
"Yeah."
"You don't think you can beat Soyna do you?" Junior said. "I mean, the last couple of times, she beat you into the ground."
"That's not true. Gohan stopped us once," he said. "I technically didn't loose."
"Technically," Junior said. "You have only two months to get good enough to beat her and I doubt that will happen."
"I won't know unless I try. I am sure I can convince her to help me train and I think Vegeta will too," Goten said.
"You have one hell of a death wish," Junior smiled.
"Come one. You are supposed to be my bud. You are supposed to support me," Goten said with a puppy-dog-face.
He sighed and rolled his eyes. "Fine. Sis, won't kill you, maybe she will just maim you."
Goten frowned. "Thanks for the vote of confidence."
............
Well, her is another chapter....
It seems like everyone is preparing for a tournament now...
There is two months of training before the big day...stay tuned for the next exciting episode of IT NEVER ENDS
Soyna