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Kaiya was starting to cringe in her sleep, her jaw tensing. Hiei wasn't sure how much more he could take of seeing her in anguish. She had suffered enough in the past year. This was supposed to help, not hurt her.

The fire demon felt a hand on his shoulder and turned to see Kurama. He was looking at him with worried eyes. "Hiei, maybe you should get out of the room for a bit," he suggested. "We both know you hate being confined to one spot."

"I'm staying here," Hiei responded. There was no way he was going to leave Kaiya alone when she was going through something so major. "I refuse to abandon her. I'm not him."

Kurama sighed. "Hiei, no one is saying you are like Jiro. Just get out for a few minutes, get something to drink or whatever. A five minute break, and then you can come back."

"Um guys," Yusuke said nervously.

"I'm NOT going," Hiei snapped back at his most trusted friend. "I promised her I wouldn't leave her side."

"Guys," Kuwabara tried.

"I know, Hiei, but she will be fine," Kurama replied calmly. "But you will drive yourself mad worrying about her."

"GUYS!" the other three in the room shouted.

Hiei and Kurama turned to them, Hiei angered, Kurama confused. "What is it?" Kurama asked.

"You're never going to believe this…" Yusuke said as everyone tuned into the scene.

I let Kaiya sleep in this morning since we were up most of the night talking…well, she was talking. She was telling me things about Earthling culture and her family members whom I could tell she missed. She taught me some songs that she brought with her (she had something called a CD player and some CD's in her bag). I liked the rock music and, surprisingly, the classical. The classical was peaceful…something I wasn't used to.

Nappa and I left for the training fields. I felt compelled to write her a note with her markers and paper. We even left her some food for when she woke up. I came back hours later, alone since Nappa went to the infirmary after our training session (I may have hit him a little too hard) and found Kaiya surrounded by folders, crying.

When she saw me, she hid under the blankets, and I walked over to the bed. "What's wrong?" I asked softly in fear that I might upset her further.

"I'm sorry," she cried.

I couldn't hide my surprise. "For what?" I asked a little more harshly than I intended. She handed me the folders. They were our files…the ones that I knew to be locked in Frieza's private quarters on Saiyans.

I felt fear for the first time in ages, not for me, but for her. "Did…did you break into Frieza's room?" I asked. I already knew the answer before she nodded solemnly. "Why?"

"Because he's bad," she answered. Well no duh. Of course he was and that was why she shouldn't get herself in trouble with him.

"I know," I responded.

"No," she said, "you don't." I tried to hide my anger. She was beaten by him once; I was beaten by him…I lost count. If anyone knew what he was capable of, it was me. She probably knew what I was thinking because she took the folder and turned it to a specific page and pointed to a paragraph in my file.

It said that Frieza was responsible for the destruction of Planet Vegeta-sei. I was startled, but not surprised. I had long ago suspected that Frieza was lying to us about the meteor shower. Our planet wasn't weak enough to be destroyed by floating rocks. I continued to read that he had purposely called me to his ship. He knew the legend of the Super Saiyan and knew that I was most likely going to ascend. His ultimate goal was to break me, mold me into an obedient servant, and then use my power to destroy all who opposed him. I knew he wanted to break me. The rest of it…that, I was not expecting.

I looked back at Kaiya who had already cried herself to sleep. I wasn't even going to ask how she managed to get into Frieza's quarters without being caught…or at all. I decided to read her file and was disgusted with what I read.

Her father had long ago, on the day she was born, promised that he would hand her over to the Cold Empire as a servant. She had a hidden power…something to do with fire. That fire power protected her from being killed when she was born (the report didn't go into details). Apparently, this "spy school" where she would be training was a facility owned by Frieza to get highly trained warriors for his future army. The children would undergo many tortures to break them and help shape them into killers. Frieza apparently wanted to see if she was strong enough to sustain damage and before she made it to a class, had someone knock her out and kidnap her. He intended to send her back in a few weeks to undergo more torture. However, now that his plans were known, he might attempt to kill her.

Reading my file more closely, I found that it was Kaiya's father who suggested for Frieza to destroy my planet. It was bad enough he bargained his daughter's life for protection and power, but he had to drag my home into it as well?

I realized how similar Kaiya and I actually were. We were both bargained by our fathers for protection. Obviously Frieza wasn't a man of his word when it came to my father. Both Kaiya and I were considered threats to Frieza's empire and he was trying to break and use both of us. I couldn't imagine what this girl would be facing when she returned to Earth. All I know was that some way, somehow, I would protect her even if it was the last thing I did.

"If I hadn't killed Jiro," Hiei started while attempting to reign in his anger and disgust, "I would most definitely be torturing the life out of him now."

"Easy, Hiei," Yusuke said. "Kaiya's going to really need you to be calm when we tell her."

"Do we have to tell her that part?" Kuwabara asked. "It will kill her…I would prefer not to see her so devastated."

"We don't know what part has been causing the nightmares," Kurama said unhappily. That meant they would need to tell her everything verbatim. It would be difficult, but at least she had them, and, if they were right about their theory, Vegeta. From what they were hearing, Vegeta actually seemed to care about Kaiya while she was there. Hopefully now wouldn't be much different.

As soon as I made this revelation, their attention was brought back to the Saiyan's thoughts, Nappa entered the room. I threw the files at him and told him to read them carefully. He was in shock by the situation as well, but he read something that I had missed in my anger.

In her medical page, it said that she had a blood transfusion, hours earlier, using Saiyan blood. I asked Nappa where they got the blood from, because I doubt it came from any of us. He read further and paled, and I learned something that I hadn't known before…I had a sister who had been sent away as an outcast, like my brother Tarble, for the lack of fighting abilities. The child had been sent to an unknown planet at the time. Apparently she was killed by one of Frieza's soldiers and her blood was kept for experimentation at a later date. Another thing I learned that day was that my sister's blood incorporated itself into Kaiya's blood. The DNA didn't coagulate the same way with the Saiyan blood. So in a way (and a really bizarre and confusing way)…

"Kaiya is my sister?" I definitely didn't see that coming.

"Pretty much," Nappa responded. "Genetically at least, thanks to the experiment. Maybe that's why we feel protective over her. She's your sister and I'm the royal guard and general. It's my duty to protect the royal family."

I took in a deep breath. None of this made sense. But then I looked down at Kaiya and instantly smiled. I had a sister and I would be damned if I let Frieza or anyone else on this ship harm her again.

"Holy crap," Yusuke said, the room echoing nothing but silence. The hum of the machine was all that could be heard in that moment.

Bulma just stared at the monitor. She couldn't understand what she had just heard. "There's no way…there's just no way."

Later on, I woke up and found that Nappa brought more food from the cafeteria than normal. Vegeta gave me more food than I was used to eating and demanded I eat it all. I didn't question him. Somehow I knew he was looking out for me.

All day he seemed to want to tell me something, but he waited until Nappa was asleep. I wasn't prepared for what he told me, but it made me happy.

"I'm your brother," he had told me. I looked at him, tilting my head in confusion. I didn't know how that was possible since I was from Earth and he was an alien. He started talking to me about blood, and I kind of lost sight of the conversation afterwards. Something about a blood transfusion and a science experiment. It didn't matter, anyway. I already saw Geta as a big brother.

I was still upset about being a science experiment, though. It was wrong. I was scared and started crying again, not understanding any of it, so Vegeta pulled me into his lap and started telling me about his planet...our planet? He talked to me about the culture, about how we were a strong and proud warrior race. I blinked up at him. I had never considered myself to be strong before and I was always afraid to fight. I didn't tell him that, though, because he told me that admitting weakness is worse than admitting defeat.

He also told me that the color of the royal house was navy blue. There was also a language that he taught me a few words for, as well as a type of mental communication that Saiyans developed with one another. It was how they could recognize each other, which is how he subconsciously knew who I was.

It made me sad, though, that there weren't many Saiyans left. There was at least another one, named Raditz, that was doing some type of mission. I didn't really know WHAT he was doing. When I asked Vegeta, he told me not to worry about it.

Before we went to sleep, I asked Vegeta if he and Nappa would go back to Earth with me, Raditz too. They would get away from the mean lizard and we could be a family. Vegeta frowned at me before pulling me into a hug. He never gave me a response, but he hugged me as if he were never going to see me again. I didn't know that he was planning to send me away the next day.

"I knew you had a heart, Vegeta," Bulma said, stroking the sleeping Saiyan's arm comfortingly. He would have had to have one if he was willing to risk his life to protect the little girl that came into his life. And if from what Kaiya's thoughts showed her was right, her Earthling father had put them both in that terrible position. "That's more than I can say for some people. I wish I could meet this guy and give him a piece of my mind."

The next day, Nappa and I let Kaiya sleep in again. She had woken up with us, but was tired. I had tickled her with my tail which made her giggle before putting her back to bed. I was happy she went down quietly. Nappa and I had work to do.

We searched the launch pad for extra space pods and found a few unregistered pods that did not yet have the tracking system installed. That was her best chance of escape. We were about to go and get her ready for departure when we heard her scream just around the corner. Wasn't she still in our room?

When we reached where she was, we found her with Cui. She was screaming in fear and begging him to get away from her. Normally that would have bothered me. She was a Saiyan, and Saiyans didn't show fear to their enemies, but she was still raised as a human. I didn't even want to think of what Cui would have done if we hadn't gotten there in time, but we did and I let him have it. Nappa grabbed Kaiya, and we all took off for the space pod once Cui was down.

Kaiya refused to let go of me when I tried to put her in the pod. I hadn't forgotten the claustrophobia, but this had to be done. I apologized to her in advance before knocking her unconscious, placed her in the pod, and activated the stasis. She'd be fine until she got to Earth. I used mental communication to give her one last message.

I love you, sister. Be safe. Maybe we'll be together one day in the future. I knew that this probably wasn't true.

I love you, too, Geta, I communicated back to him in the softest whisper. I couldn't believe he was sending me away. I wanted him to come with me. Mommy would have loved him too. He shouldn't have stayed behind with the mean lizard that destroyed our home.

I don't remember much before I lost consciousness, but I do remember waking up in my bed. After that, all of my memories disappeared from me, locking themselves away in the darker places in my mind. I remember a voice telling me I would never remember no matter how much my mind wanted me to. All I knew was that I would never again see or remember my brother, and that thought scared me more than anything else.

The transmission ended there, the screen returning to one that showed brainwaves. The shocking thing was that the lines were no longer skewed, meaning that Vegeta would now have full access to whatever memories he had, and most likely the view from Kaiya.

Bulma was worried, not that he would be mad, but what he would do with this new information. Frieza was gone, but the damage he had done was still ever present in Vegeta's life. And now this little girl, she was out there. How would he ever be able to make peace with any of this when his sister was still out there, away from him?

Bulma was so deep in her worrying that she didn't notice Vegeta had woken up. He was shocked that the woman was so upset about his own past. As he watched her tears fall, he cleared his throat. Bulma looked back at him, many apologies dancing in her eyes. They were not only apologies for drugging him and forcing him to relive his past, but for the sister he may never find again. After all, what were the chances they could find her somewhere on the blue planet?

Nappa and I watched as the pod left. We didn't know that Dodoria had seen the whole thing. The two of us smiled knowing she was safe, and thinking it would never get traced back to us made us overly cocky.

Days later, Frieza returned. I was in mine and Nappa's quarters reading a book from Kaiya's backpack and listening to a CD. I also found something in her bag called "Hershey's Chocolate" which tasted fantastic. I wish I had more time with her to ask more about Earth culture, but this was enough. I would always look back at her drawing of Earth and smile. Even if Earth wasn't my home, she was. I could tell Nappa felt the same way.

The two of us were called to Frieza's throne room the day after his return, expecting a new purge mission. We had no reason to believe he knew. We received punishment upon entry.

"Did you think I wouldn't find out?!" he screeched. "You are fools to believe I wouldn't have you being watched, you disgraceful monkeys!" He turned to Zarbon after beating us. "I want you to search their quarters. Remove and destroy anything of the Earth girl's and check their drawers for the two missing files." He turned back to us. "Dodoria will follow through with Nappa's punishment and I will personally see to yours, Vegeta. But first, damage control."

A woman with blonde hair showed up out of nowhere and was introduced to us as a Mind Wipe. Apparently she was of a breed of alien that could erase memories of those at a distance. I knew what was coming. Our memories of Kaiya were going to be erased, as well as Kaiya's memories of us. Frieza even mentioned something about erasing the minds of those close to Kaiya, like her mother I was guessing, so that no one remembered the days she was missing.

Both of our memories were erased, mine and Nappa's. Soon we had no idea why we were being punished. Frieza took me somewhere on the ship I had never been to before…a dungeon, maybe?

It was pitch black and I couldn't see anything. I was chained to wall and left there...an isolation chamber, any Saiyan's, or human's, worst nightmare. This is where I slowly succumbed to insanity for the months I was locked away.

"This guy is an ass," Yusuke growled out. "How could he do that to a person…Saiyan…thing? This is just nuts."

Hiei was still trying to reign in his anger at both Jiro and this Frieza guy. The fact that he was so cold-hearted, to separate two siblings for some bizarre fear he might have had of their race. If the lizard was still alive today, Hiei would have loved to use the same sword he used to kill Kaiya's father to skin the tyrant alive. Maybe that would settle his bloodlust at the moment.

"Guys, unfortunately, it's not over," Kuwabara said pointing to the monitor. "I think his thoughts are continuing four years later…"

"What?" Hiei asked in shock. He listened to hear what his girlfriend's apparent brother had to say.

My twentieth birthday came and went, not like there was anything to celebrate…we were purging yet another planet. I hated the world around me and everyone in it. After a few months to a year in isolation, I went crazy and tried to hurt myself and others a few times. Nappa and Raditz helped me to get back to my old self; however, that would never happen. Four more years of torture and I was ready to surrender. I became the person I hated and, like Frieza, became a ruthless killer.

Things became tiresome and we were no longer working fast enough for Frieza, leading to more punishments. It was then that Raditz remembered his brother, Kakarot, being sent to planet Earth…a planet which the name sounded so familiar. We decided to set a course for Earth. I went to my room on Frieza's ship to pack a few essentials and found something under the bed that I could not remember. It was a drawing of a blue and green sphere. On the back it said "There's no place like home, there's no place like home, there's no place like home."

"So…he really did come to Earth," Kuronue stated. "Do you think he really was behind the attack on that city, Kurama?"

"I wouldn't put it past him," Kurama stated. "Nor would I blame him. It's clear to me that his actions were determined by that sadistic tyrant he was forced to work for. I could never hold it against him."

"Yeah," Yusuke agreed. "So what do we do about Kaiya? We can't just drop this huge bombshell on her."

"I agree with Urameshi," Kuwabara said in a rush. "I mean, her getting over Jiro was bad enough. What if she finds out her brother was a killer?"

Hiei shot Kuwabara a look, but before he could retort, they heard Kaiya speak up. "I already know," she said, her eyes looking as shocked as theirs were.

"You…you know? How?" Yusuke asked.

Kaiya shook her head. "My powers activated and connected our minds while I was under. I have his memories and he has mine," she explained. "I've seen everything."

"Kaiya…" Hiei tried. But Kaiya put a hand on his shoulder.

"It doesn't mean he's a bad person, though," she said in reassurance. Hiei and her brother were not all that different, and the fire demon was probably afraid of how she'd react to him too after seeing so much pain another caused.

"Kaiya, we don't know that," Kuronue stated. "I mean, I'm all for those who reform, but this guy still has a bad attitude towards people. If he knows about you, we don't know if he'd hurt you. It's not him, but the fact that he lost his sanity for a time draws a red flag in my book."

Kaiya frowned. She knew Kuronue and Kurama would see it that way. They had reformed, but they had never killed their comrades (though Kurama had blinded one of his). From what Kaiya could see, Vegeta had snapped during a fight on Earth and killed his most trusted friend. But what she also saw, now at least, was that he regretted his actions. He was alone, or at least he felt that way.

The she gasped as she remembered something. "But he wouldn't hurt me," she told them. She was met with a few confused stares. "I'm serious, you guys. I know, because I saw him."

"You…you saw him?" Kuwabara asked. "When?"

"Earlier today," Kaiya said with a smile. "At the beach…but I didn't remember him. He just felt familiar, and I waved. He just glared at me and left. If he wanted to hurt me, he would have, especially when he didn't remember who I was."

"You don't know what he was thinking," Yusuke pointed out. "Unless you decided to use your telepathy then, you have no clue if he was plotting you death or not."

"What's wrong with you?" Hiei snapped at Yusuke. "Just because the guy has killed before does NOT mean he would ever hurt his little sister."

"You mean like you?" Yusuke asked Hiei. "Come on, Hiei. It's a different story between you and Yukina." After the words left his mouth, Yusuke instantly regretted it as everyone looked wide-eyed at him. "I mean…Kaiya help."

Kaiya held up her hands. "Oh ho, not a chance. You're on your own on this one."

Hiei hand his hand on the hilt of his sword, ready to kill. "You've been driving me crazy all night, detective, but you just crossed a line."

"Wait, shrimp," Kuwabara said in shock. "Your Yukina's long-lost twin brother?"

"Kuwabara, you don't want to be in here for this," Kuronue pointed out, grabbing the human to get him out of the room.

"Hiei, don't destroy the mind scanner," Kurama said with a sigh. "Yusuke, good luck."

"You guys suck," Yusuke whined.

"Yeah, well you're an idiot," Kaiya said narrowing her eyes at him. "You need a good ass kicking right now, anyway?"

And then the door was shut, and Yusuke was left alone with an angry Hiei. Yeah, he had screwed up big time.

Vegeta was pacing in his room. At least he knew that he wouldn't be having nightmares, or if he did, he probably wouldn't be blowing anymore holes in the walls. Right now all he wanted to do was ring Frieza's neck for causing him to forget someone so important. Kaiya was definitely important, or he wouldn't have risked everything to save her.

The girl on the beach, she resembled the little girl so much. It had to have been her. He was in the same city as his sister, looked her in the eye, and he hadn't known it. And he treated her horribly, growling at her with the intent of murder. And if he had seen her memories, then she had seen his. What if the little girl that placed such blatant trust in him was gone? He couldn't possibly blame her if she wanted nothing to do with him. She already had one evil relative, at least, and he had felt her pain in her memories. He would not want to cause the same problems for her.

"Hey, Vegeta," he heard Bulma call from the other side of his door. The Saiyan halted in his pacing. "Do you want to talk?"

Vegeta scowled. Talk, talk, talk…did all of these Earthlings like to talk? Vegeta went to his door and nearly tore it opened. He was enraged, and it made Bulma jump back. "I do NOT want to talk," he shouted before slamming the door in her face.

Bulma sighed and realized that he needed a little time to process all of this. Honestly, she didn't know how he'd be able to. It wasn't every day you found out you had a sibling, not to mention one that he was so attached to. She was finally starting to see why the Saiyan prince frowned upon attachments. The Frieza guy everyone hated seemed to destroy any ounce of happiness those attachments could bring.

Sighing again, Bulma went back to the living room to pack up the mind scanning prototype. She'd have to bring it back to her dad's office the next day. At least she could tell him that it did work, though she still didn't understand the full picture. Maybe he'd have some insight on it tomorrow.

Kaiya was happy to see that her room had not been incinerated in Hiei's anger. The other guys had left earlier, dragging an injured Yusuke from her room. Honestly, the detective got off easily for the damage he had caused that night. No doubt Kuwabara would haunt Hiei until he told Yukina. Kaiya was all for him finally telling his sister the truth, but forcing him to do it was not the way.

Hiei came into the room after unleashing some more energy outside. Kaiya turned to face him, smiling sadly at him. He took her hand and the two of them sat down on her bed, both sighing in frustration. He looked at her, expecting to see judgment, but there was nothing but understanding lighting her eyes.

"Well, I guess everyone will get what they want," Hiei muttered. "The fool is demanding I tell her, or he will."

"He's such a moron," Kaiya retorted. Hiei looked shocked at her uncharacteristic insult. "I mean really…does he not get that it's a sore subject for you? I understand that you have your fears of rejection and, where I think that they're misplaced, I would never force you to do anything you weren't comfortable with."

Hiei shook his head. "I don't know how to even start," Hiei growled out.

"Yukina won't be mad at you, you know," Kaiya pointed out. Hiei just stared at her with an irritated blankness. "I'm serious. She's very sweet and caring. Actually, she came over today because she was worried with everyone talking about me having trouble. She wanted to heal me."

"Yukina stopped by?" Hiei asked, his expression softening completely.

Kaiya nodded. "Then she came to class with me and I brought her back to Genkai's. She seemed to have fun when she wasn't trying to snap me out of my memories. You know, she really likes animals."

Hiei smirked. "I know…um, thanks…" he said awkwardly.

"For?" Kaiya asked with a quirked brow.

"For spending time with my sister," Hiei clarified. "It means a lot that you two get along."

Kaiya sucked in a breath of air, nervous all of a sudden. Hiei looked to her, confused by her hesitation. "Would you…would you get to know my brother if I decided to go and meet him?" she asked nervously, playing with the tail she had kept hidden.

Hiei hid his shock at seeing her tail, not wanting to startle her further. "That depends…" Hiei stated. "As long as he is good to you, I see no reason not to. In all honesty, I think I'd get along with him."

Kaiya smiled slightly and nodded. "I think so, too. He was very nice to me, at least back then." She looked over to Hiei, determination burning in her eyes. "I want to find him."

"Hn, we won't have to go far," Hiei told her. Kaiya tilted her head in confusion. "We saw…well, heard him at Capsule Corp. where Kuwabara borrowed the mind scanning thing. He's living with the daughter of the man who owns the company."

"Seriously?" Kaiya asked. "Then there's a chance I'll see him again? Not just a passing chance on the beach?"

"Yes," Hiei replied.

Kaiya lied down in her bed with a smile on her face. Closing her eyes, she whispered, "I'd like that."

The next morning, Bulma brought the mind scanner back to her dad's office. She found him looking at the other mind scanning unit. Finally, her father looked up at her. "Oh, hello Bulma. What can I do for you?"

She placed the unit down on his desk. "I kind of borrowed this last night for Vegeta," Bulma told him. "He was having nightmares associated with blocked memories. The device worked well, though I actually got to see the scenes play out. The wavelength readings disappeared."

"Hm, very strange," the doctor said. "But not surprising."

"What do you mean, dad?" Bulma asked.

"Well, you know the intern I hired?" Dr. Briefs asked without waiting for a response. "Well, a friend of his, some girl, had a similar problem and he offered to test the scanner on her last night and he had a similar story. The memories were a scene, seen from the eyes of another individual."

Bulma gasped. "Who?"

"He didn't say," Dr. Briefs continued. "I could tell from the look on his face that there was a lot more he wasn't telling me. When I asked him his theory on what happened, he said he thought he left his stove on at home and left. It was obvious he was just trying to avoid the question. Anyways, I'll have to look into it more, later. At least I know they work."

"Um, sir," a secretary came in as he set the units aside. "There's a girl and an ill-mannered boy here. The guy is demanding to see you, without an appointment."

"Whatever for?" Dr. Briefs asked skeptically.

"I don't even know, sir," the woman replied. "Would you like me to have security handle them?"

"Wait!" Bulma cried out, earning her some very confused stares. "Let them up. I'll meet with them."

Bulma didn't know why, but for some reason, she felt like meeting the two strangers. It could have been because she felt so off since the previous night, learning of the life Vegeta came from. Maybe she was going crazy from all of the things she saw. But maybe these two people would provide answers for her. What did she have to lose?

The secretary brought Kaiya and Hiei into the outer office, and Bulma gasped when she saw the girl. She was the spitting image of her younger self, the only difference was that she was a young woman. "Please, sit down Kaiya," Bulma said.

Kaiya, in turn, gasped. "You…you know my name?" she asked shyly. Hiei narrowed his eyes at Bulma, not sure whether or not to trust her.

Bulma motioned to the two chairs across from her father's office desk. This was going to be a long day.

Vegeta knew he was alone at the compound. The woman had gone to her father's office to return the device that assisted him in getting his memories back. Most likely she would be out all day. Her mother was out shopping for the day as well. Alone, in the quiet compound fending for himself, was how Vegeta liked it. That way he wouldn't be asked any questions, and he would be able to figure out a way to find Kaiya. He probably wouldn't find her at the beach again. Should he even try to find her at all? He still wasn't sure if she'd accept him. Still, the girl had a right to know what happened to her.

The Saiyan prince walked into the kitchen and opened the fridge to rummage for some food. He tensed after reaching into the cold ice box, sensing someone else was in the compound and standing right behind him. Vegeta turned around swiftly, completely on guard and ready for any oncoming attacks, but he was met with none. Instead, the prince was shocked to see the same girl from yesterday, his sister, standing across from him. She was staring at him nervously, not with fear, playing with her hair and tail curling around her body.

He dropped his guard, just staring at her with his stern, but blank expression, one of the many expressions she had come to know on that ship. Kaiya walked over to him slowly, tears starting to form in her eyes. Vegeta was waiting to be slapped, or scolded for his past crimes, and since she was his sister, he would allow it this once and watch her leave.

He was surprised again when the young girl wrapped her arms around him and buried her face in his chest as she began to cry. His eyes widened as he realized that not only did she accept him, but she still was willing to get this close to him. That blatant trust that she had in him, the faith that he wouldn't harm her, was still present in the girl's heart. Vegeta couldn't help but place his hands on her arms. He wasn't returning her hug, but it had the same effect as Kaiya started laughing through her tears.

In the other room, Bulma and Hiei were watching the reunion, keeping very quiet except for the fact that Bulma was tearing up and sniffling, wiping her eyes with a tissue. "It's just so great," she whispered to Hiei. "After this long, they're finally reunited." Hiei just nodded, and Bulma looked over to him when he didn't give a verbal response. "Aren't you happy for them?"

Hiei glared at her for the insinuation that he wasn't. "Of course I am. It's just making me rethink some of my own family matters."

"Meaning?" Bulma pressed.

Hiei growled at the inquisitive human. She was even nosier than the detective and the fool. "Let's just say my view on keeping secrets has changed. That is all you will get out of me, human."

If Bulma hadn't met aliens and been to other planets, that remark would have gotten to her, but she knew not to judge someone based on their appearance. Chances were they were a powerful alien with the power to destroy. Now, though, as she looked at Vegeta, she didn't see a man who wanted to destroy. She saw a man that would do anything for his little sister, and that was the one thing she would never forget.

A/N: Yay, reunited, and an explanation to the craziness. I hope you enjoyed this chapter. This officially ends the material for the backstory I already had written. I will try to keep the same length, though, for the duration of the story…meaning it will take longer between updates XD