New chapter! ^-^;; Sorry for the looong wait but my laptop's been having problems recently. I have to clean it because it had a major virus now T^T I will try and use the computer but I won't really have where to type because I'm very busy now since my church's VBS is next week and I'm helping plan it. Forgive me! *bows in shame* Please enjoy my new chapter which is out because of my friend's constant nagging :3
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Chapter Five:
Sensie
"Kayumi-san!" Bulma gasped wiping the last of her tears away. She rushed out of Yamcha's embrace to stand in front of the other woman. "It's been so long since the last time we saw you!"
"Yeah Bulma-chan," the older woman greeted warmly returning the hug the blue haired woman gave her. Standing straight her smile slowly disappeared from her face. Looking around at the group that was gathered she let a sigh escape her lips. "It has been quite some time since I last visited, ne?"
"And yet you don't look a day over thirty," Yamcha snorted sarcastically. He sent her an arrogant smirk that had her glaring at him.
Although he was only teasing her the others knew his statement was true. The woman before them looked to be in her early or mid-thirties.
She had long, raven hair that fell to her knees in a low pony tail. There were thin silver streaks in her hair that made it seem dyed. She had a blue off the shoulders long sleeve shirt with wide sleeves. On the back in black kanji 'Aoi no Sakura' was written neatly. The woman also had white shorts that reached her knees. On her feet were short black boots. Around her waist was a black obi with blue sakura petals outlined in silver.
On her obi was a sword that looked to be three feet tall. The hilt was blue with silver designs on it. A small black ribbon was tied onto the hilt as well. In her sleeves were hidden throwing needles all around it. She also had a black whip coiled next to the sword on her obi.
"Kayumi," Chi Chi mumbled trying to remember where she heard the name. Wait! It was his sister's sensie! "You wouldn't happen to be the very same Kayumi-san we heard about would you?"
"Kayumi Sakura the Aoi no Sakura," Yamcha said smugly, smirking at the teacher. "She is one of the last remaining real miko with actual powers and a strong martial artist. She's famous for creating the Aoi Hanabira Suto! And for refusing to take on students. She refused me too!"
"It's rude to talk about a lady's age just because she refused to teach you, Yam-Yam. I taught you how to do the Kaze no Shōheki didn't I?" Kayumi snorted flicking his nose. "Besides you simply lack the ki to learn from me Yam-Yam."
"Kayumi-san you taught my oba-chan?" Gohan asked blinking innocent obsidian eyes at the miko. He titled his head to the side and Kayumi almost felt like hugging the life out of the young boy.
"Well aren't you the charmer Gohan-kun?" the miko smirked patting his head. "Yeah. I taught that stubborn girl. She was a fast learner but damn her and her pranks."
"Tell me about it," Master Roshi said shaking his head in exasperation although everyone could see the smile on his face.
"Woman you smell like," Vegeta sniffed the air once more before his eyes widened. "Like rain and vanilla. The onna's scent!"
"Whose scent?" Goku asked confused. While it was true that saiyans had a higher sense of smell compared to the regular ningen so they could smell people's scent he had no idea whose scent Vageta had just described. Sniffing the air around Kayumi his eyes widened when he smelt the familiar scent he had smelt as a child lingering on her.
"Wait, I smell like what now?" Kayumi asked lifting a brow as she tried to smell what Vegeta and Goku obviously could. She raised her arm to smell her own hand but was only met with her own sakura perfume.
"Kagome's?" Bulma asked shocked remembering Vegeta calling her that. Her eyes widened and she shook her head in denial. "That's impossible Vegeta! She's d-dead!"
Kayumi's face hardened at her statement and she looked away. She silently clenched her fist and forced herself to remain calm.
"Kayumi-san are you alright?" Gohan asked shyly tugging on her sleeve. He had seen her react at Bulma's statement.
"I-I… Yeah," she said refusing to look at any of them in the eye. She only gave them a smile they knew was fake and patted Gohan on his head. "Everything's alright."
"The scent. The reaction," Goku mumbled furrowing his brow. Turning to the priestess he narrowed his eyes at her. "You know something about her don't you Kayumi-sensie?"
"Goku-kun you always knew when I was lying to you, huh? Just like your sister did," Kayumi chuckled. Sighing she seemed to have aged more than she had in years in those seconds. Everyone could suddenly see the bags under her eyes, the sadness that still lingered in her blue eyes, and the way she moved slower than her usual quick pace. "Everyone might want to take a seat. This is going to be one long story."
Taking her advice everyone started to take a seat on the floor. They got into a circle to make it easier to see each other while talking. Kayumi sat in the middle with all eyes turned to her. On her right side was Goku with Gohan on his lap and Chi Chi on his right. Beside Chi Chi was Bulma who was leaning on Yamcha. To Kayumi's left sat Master Roshi with Krillin on his own left. In between Krillin and Yamcha was Vegeta.
"As you know I'm a priestess and I own a shrine not too far from here. Being a priestess I can sense things that regular people can't, like aura's for instance. No one can have the same aura because of the pain it would cost," Kayumi grimaced. "Every person's aura is different from anyone else's. They have different forms and shapes. I'm sure Goku-kun, Yam-Yam, Pervert Crab, Grumpy-san, and chibi-chan and maybe Gohan-kun can sense aura's too. Maybe not to the extent I can but they can sense them nonetheless."
"I'm not a Perverted Crab!" Master Roshi shouted although everyone ignored him.
Vegeta growled at her his tail twitching in agitation. His fingers flexed and he glared at her in anger. "Watch your mouth woman."
"Well maybe I would if you gave me your name," she retorted glaring back. When he glared straight into her eyes she didn't back down and leveled him with a cold glare of her own.
Vegeta snorted at her and crossed his arms over his chest. "Tch. Vegeta the Prince of all Saiyans."
"I'm Goku's wife Chi Chi," the other female introduced herself politely bowing her head. She patted Gohan on his head to which he smiled. "And this is Goku and my son, Gohan."
"Nice to finally have a name to put to your faces," Kayumi grinned a little before going back to her serious mood. "Look as I was saying earlier no aura can ever, and I mean ever, be the same."
"I get the whole aura thing just fine but why are you telling us this?" Yamcha asked confusedly as he wrapped his girlfriend in his arms.
"I'm saying this because," she took a deep breath and prepared to 'spill the beans' so to speak. Look at each and every one of them in the eyes she continued in a calm voice, "I sensed Kagome's aura and I met the person I believe to be Kagome just two days ago. Her and her children."
"Ch-children?" Goku spluttered. His mouth hung open at the thought of his older sister having a boyfriend or husband.
"I don't think they're hers. One of the kids was a ginger and the other was blonde. They looked to be around Gohan-kun's age. She most likely adopted them and from what I saw they aren't a tight knit family either," the miko-warrior shrugged. "Assuming that was Kagome."
"No way! We couldn't even bring her back with the Dragon Balls and now she's back?" Krillin exclaimed. His eyes were wide in excitement.
"Does that mean I have an aunt then?" Gohan asked curiously. Sure he loved his otou-san's friends and considered them family but it would be nice to have blood related family. Not to mention someone his own age to play with. 'Playing' only meant training or studying to the adults. "And cousins?"
"You mean Kagome is somewhere near us?" Yamcha grinned. He wouldn't ever admit it out loud but he admired Kayumi like no one else. Kagome did too but she would have never admitted it either. Both trained under the guidance of Kayumi and they had grown to be very close friends. Best friends as some would say. "What are we waiting for?"
"Living dead?" Chi Chi mumbled out confused. This was just not making any sense at all!
"Tch," Vegeta snarled. His tail flickered angrily behind him. He glared at them all, those stupid fools. "Listen to what the miko us saying, fools. That onna cannot possibly be alive. It was only a miracle that she escaped to Earth with Kakarrot. Don't fool yourselves into thinking otherwise. The dead should stay just that; dead."
"I hate to admit it but Prince Grump is correct. Although, I only saw her once her features were almost the same but she seemed different as well," Kayumi sighed. "I had no intentions of finding out if it was really her or not."
"B-but Kayu-sensie you yourself said that you met her," Yamcha argued.
"I said who I thought was her Yamcha," Kayumi retorted. "I haven't seen or felt her aura in twenty-something years so maybe I was mistaken!"
"Then why don't we just go and check it out?" Bulma asked. She grinned. "And is it is her then we'll just have to ask about the kids."
"Yeah! I mean Kagome- the violent tempered girl who ate just as much as Goku- has a boyfriend now?" Krillin laughed.
"I would like to meet her," Chi Chi said adding her two-cents to the conversation as well.
"But what if it's not her?!" Surprised at the amount of raw anger they all turned to the voice and were shocked that it was not Vegeta who had said that, but Goku. "Kayumi-sensie said it might not be her."
Master Roshi eyes shined in understanding. He smiled softly at Kayumi and Goku. He knew exactly what they were feeling. They felt hope that Kagome was alive after all these years and they didn't want that hope shattered by reality so soon. They would rather keep that hope with the doubt of not knowing than know and have no hope of her returning.
"Goku, Kayumi I know it's hard for you two. She was your first and only student and your older sister but it would be for the best if you face your fear," he spoke out. "I know both of you are scared to know the truth even if you won't admit it. She was my student too, you know. We all have hope that she's alive. But we all know in the back of our minds that there's also a possibility that she may be dead. That the girl Kayumi saw and felt was not her. It's better to know that be given any false hope."
"…Maybe," Goku murmured just loud enough so they could all hear. He looked away from the group and refused to meet their eyes.
"Look if you guys are that determined to go then I'll lead you to the last place I saw her," Kayumi said. Her expression turned hard and her eyes held so many emotions. "But I stand firm to my decision. I won't go with you. Be prepared to leave in two hours. I can't stay the night because I have a family to go home to. You can stay at the back house. However, I only have five rooms so decide who will come. Meet me here again in two hours."
With that said she walked to a nearby tree and sat down. She went to the lotus position to meditate. The miko-warrior knew if she didn't calm down she would lose control of her emotions.
The group of people exchanged worried glances.
"We have to decide who will be going with Kayumi. Five rooms mean five people can go," Master Roshi said looking around the room.
"I'm going," Goku responded determinedly.
"Of course. I knew you would say that," Master Roshi grinned. "I think I'll stay behind on this one."
"I'll go too!" Krillin and Bulma shouted at the same time. They looked at each other weirdly for a second before laughing.
"That makes three,"" Master Roshi nodded.
"You can count me in!" Yamcha smirked moving to stand near the other three who had moved next to Master Roshi.
Master Roshi chuckled. "One more."
Those who were left looked at Vegeta expectedly. Vegeta seeing their looks snorted but moved towards the group nonetheless. "Tch. I don't see the point in going but might as well go train in the forest."
Master Roshi smile softly at the group who was going. They were all so anxious to find out she was alive. They had all been close to her when she was… alive. Goku was her brother, Krillin was like her brother as well, Bulma was her best girl friend, Yamcha was her best guy friend, and Vegeta- well he really didn't know what sort of relationship those two had. "Well now that we have eve-"
"I… I want to go!" Gohan unexpectedly cried out interrupting Master Roshi. He shyly looked at the group. They looked at him in shock. "I-I want to find out too."
"No! I can't have my baby going off on another crazy adventure! You son't even know if she's alive or not Gohan. Do you know what dangers there can be?" Chi Chi glared at Gohan in her worry she turned angry for him wanting to go to danger. "I won't have you risking yourself to find a woman who may or may not even be alive!"
The others knew that Chi Chi was only worried about Gohan's safety but they winced at her harsh words. Bulma gasped and looked at Goku to see his reaction. Krillin and Yamcha couldn't help but glare at her. Vageta seemed indifferent and only scoffed at her. Everyone soon turned to see what Goku's reaction would be.
He turned his back to everyone. "Gohan will share a room with me. Come on Gohan. We need to fly to the house so we can get our supplies." Without waiting for an answer he walked further on.
Gohan cast an uncertain glance at his mother but he followed after his father nonetheless. He mumbled a quick "gomen" to her and caught up to his idol. "Wait for me Tou-san!"
Chi Chi was left gapping at their backs. 'Ho-how dare he tell my son that?' Her face started turning red in her silent fit of rage. Her anger clouded her logic as she was prepared to march and talk (scream) some sense into Goku.
For the others they actually sighed in relief. This reaction was much, much better than the violent reaction they had pictured. Honestly they all thought Chi Chi had gone too far and that Goku was going to snap. The reaction she got was much, much less violent- not to mention emotion- then what they expected.
"Oi lady."
Everyone turned back to see Kayumi standing from the floor. Her bangs over shadowed her eyes and she kept her expression cold. Although she tried to contain her emotions they saw her arms shake with the effort and her fingers coil in fists.
"Goku-kun may have let you get away with your screeching but I won't. Don't you ever talk about her like that, got it?" She raised her gaze to meet with Chi Chi's surprised obsidian orbs. Kayumi's own blue eyes held anger, border lining hate. Turning her back to Chi Chi she left muttering, "I'll be at the river waiting. Make it quick. I don't have all day."
"W-who does she think she is to boss me around like that!?" Chi Chi exploded glaring at the direction the priestess had left. "She can't control what I say!"
"No one can," Yamcha muttered too low for Chi Chi to here but not the rest. Krillin snickered and Vageta snorted in amusement.
"Chi Chi she wasn't telling you what to do or say. You just offended Goku because you are ruining our hopes of that really being Kagome! They were really close you know? He may seem happy now but Goku was a lot happier when Kagome was around," Bulma huffed scolding Chi Chi. Turning she snatched her boyfriend's hand and dragged him towards her house which was only two miles away. "C'mon Yamcha."
"H-hey wait up Bulma!" Yamcha yelped as he was dragged. He sent a pleading look to Krillin and Vageta. "Help guys?"
Krillin snickered at Yamcha's predicament. "Sorry I need to get going and pack myself." He flew off towards his own home.
Vegeta didn't even spare the flabbergasted woman a glance. Instead he headed straight for the river were Kayumi was at. It wasn't until he reached the edge of the clearing that he acknowledged. "Woman hold your tongue before I feel the need to cut it. You don't know her so you have no right to speak so freely of her." With one last sneer and dark glare he left.
'What right does he have to speak to me like that?!' Chi Chi silently fumed. She glared at a tree in her anger willing it to melt when it hit her. "How am I supposed to get home now!? GOKU!"
"So Mr. High and Mighty shouldn't you be packing?" She didn't care she was being rude to the saiyan. She just wanted to get this whole thing over with.
Although he was annoyed by the name she had decided to give him, Vegeta smirked in amusement as he saw the miko's obvious irritation. "That would be Prince High and Mighty to you miko."
Kayumi snorted, "Yes, I'll try and remember that. So what you plan on wearing that for your entire trip?"
"Tch. What I wear is none of your business," he replied coldly. As he looked at her something flickered in his eyes. "So you trained the onna?"
"The least you can do is call her by her name," Kayumi sighed as she stared at the river ahead of the two. "Yeah I trained her when she was younger. That girl was a handful. She was a saiyan too like you and Goku-kun so did you two know each other?"
"It's none of your business but since you answered my question I will answer yours. I grew up with the onna back on planet Vegeta before it was destroyed by Frieza," he said leaning on a tree. "She used to be my mission partner sometimes but when Kakkarot was born she didn't come with me as much so Nappa became my partner. She was always busy taking care of Kakkarot since her mother had died a week after Kakkarot was born and her father was an elite warrior who often went out on month long missions."
Kayumi nodded. "Sound like her alright. She always made sure Goku-kun was ok before she did herself. That girl could never worry about herself."
It was Vegeta's turn to snort as he shook his head. "That is an understatement. As a saiyan our strength is our pride. Unlike your human woman our woman cared little for looking good because even they were warriors. She was considered odd because our race is known to show no mercy when it comes to battle yet she never wanted to kill our enemies or anyone for that matter. A soft hearted warrior was unheard of for our race. It made her stand out among everyone else."
"So Kagome didn't like to fight back then?" the priestess asked curiously.
"What's a saiyan who doesn't fight?" Vegeta asked looking offended as he glared at Kayumi. "The onna loved to fight. She was one of the better female fighters. The only thing she didn't like was hurting those she deemed 'innocent' or killing anyone."
"But she has killed in the past hasn't she?" Kayumi asked darkly.
Vegeta stiffened and his glare intensified. She returned his glare with no intent of backing down. Kagome had always avoided talking about where she came from or her past before coming to Earth so if she could she would learn what had happened. "It's none of your business woman! You won't be able to comprehend why we did things."
Kayumi rose from her seat and faced him. "Try me saiyan. I've seen things most have never seen. You aren't the only one who has a difficult past or who has shed blood before!"
"Why should I care? Every saiyan is raised to be independent and not rely on anyone but themselves. We all went through difficult times. I don't care about your past miko so shut your mouth!" he practically screamed at her.
"Well I care about Kagome's past! Kagome… She was my first student. She always avoided talking about her past; where she came from, who taught her, how she came here, why she had a tail. I don't know a damn thing about her past. You, you know a lot," she ranted.
"It's not my place to tell you miko," Vegeta said facing away from her. "What happened has happened and no one can change anything. Even if I could I wouldn't tell you simply because sharing her past means sharing my past as well."
Kayumi gave a frustrated sigh and looked like she was about to shout at him once more but suddenly stopped. She shook her head and laughed. "Are you saiyans all the same? Only Kagome could make me scream in frustration but now- now you made me scream in frustration as well."
Vegeta stared at her like she had lost her head but said nothing otherwise. A comfortable silence fell over the two after a while.
"She- both of us were born on a distant planet. I don't remember much of it since it was destroyed when we were very young. We left the planet and sought refuge in Planet Plant. We lived there in peace with the other inhabitants there the Tuffles. She enjoyed going to visit them and learning about their culture although us saiyans and the tuffles didn't get along. Soon we had a war for domination over the planet and of course the saiyans won. We renamed Planet Plant to Planet Vegeta in honor of my father," Vegeta said breaking the silence. "That was where we grew up. She was first assigned as my body guard-not that I never needed one- and unfortunately my roommate. We saiyans age differently from you humans do so we looked to be about seven in human years. Soon Kakkarot was born and she would always visit him. Not that she had much time with him. Two weeks after he was born he was sent away to this planet Earth."
Kayumi gapped at the onslaught of information not caring if she looked like an idiot. 'Kagome had an older brother? Scratch that! How old was she when she and Goku-kun came here?! What happened to those tuffles? Kagome did something happen to you while you there?' She couldn't come up with a proper response so she just stayed quiet taking in all the information.
"Hey Tou-san what was she like?" Gohan asked as he was packing. Suddenly remembering his father's ealier attitude of the whole thing he panicked. "I mean you don't have to tell me if you don't wa-!"
Goku chuckled seeing his son so flustered. "No, no it's alright Gohan. You're just curious. Your aunt is just special to me. When we were kids she raised me like your Okaa-san does. I don't remember anything about my father who was alive and my mother died when I was born. Kagome-nee was always there for me and that was all that mattered to me. She was an excellent fighter and I learned a couple moves from her. She was kind to everyone but she had a wicked temper!"
Gohan had stopped packing and looked at him with wide interested eyes. "She met your Okaa-san and Tou-san then?"
Goku nodded his head trying to remember what Kagome had said about them. "Yeah, nee-chan sometimes told me stories about them when I asked her too. She said our father had been a lower class saiyan warrior, who at that time was probably the strongest of them all! Our mother died shortly after I was born. Kagome-nee told me Tou-san was a laid back, fearless man who loved to fight. She always told me I was like him a lot. Kagome-nee said she only saw our mother once."
"Hey Tou-san do you… Do you really think that the fighter Kayumi-san described was actually Oba-san?" Gohan asked resuming his earlier action of packing once more.
Goku paused and set his own luggage down. He grinned widely down at his son and put his hands behind his head. "We won't know that until we go to Kayumi-sensie's and find out for ourselves, now will we? I'd know if it was my nee-chan."
Gohan laughed as he felt excited over this new adventure. "Yeah! And then maybe I can play with Oba-san's children right?"
"Yeah," Goku agreed with a laugh. He looked outside the window of his son's room as Gohan continued to pack. As the sun was finally starting to set a face covered the sun for a moment. The smiling face of his sister taunted him.
'Nee-chan, wait for me. I'm coming.'
One Hour Later
"So now that you all finally decided to come here let's head out. I've already called Takashi to tell him to prepare the house," Kayumi said once the five where finally here. "We'll get there on Bulma-chan's flying contraption. It took me two hours to walk on here on foot so it should only take a little less than an hour to get to my shrine. You five will stay in a house I own that is somewhere near my shrine. It had five bedrooms and two bathrooms. The house is fully furnished so you have nothing to worry about."
"Ok then! Well everybody get on!" Bulma chirped as she ran in and took her seat behind the wheel. Yamcha smirked at the rest and moved to sit right next to her.
Vageta rolled his eyes at the two and sat at the far back glaring at them as if to dare them to sit next to him. Kayumi walked in next sitting at the end of the first back row. Goku sat next to her with Gohan on his lap. Krillin gulped and inwardly cried as he was forced to sit at the eadge of the back row next to Vageta. Their entire luggage had been put in the trunk. Everyone had only taken a bag with the exception of Bulma who took two.
"Well then off to the shrine we go!" the Capsule Corp. heiress said. Shifting into drive she flew towards the shrine at full speed.
"We're off to find Kagome," Yamcha said turning to face those in the back and smiling cockily.
"Yeah!" Gohan cheered throwing his fist in the air. Everyone except Kayumi and Vageta laughed at his reaction.
Goku chuckled at everyone's excitement. Yes they would find her and bring her back. He could only hope beyond hope for the woman Kayumi saw to be his older sister who had 'left this world' years ago. 'We're coming nee-chan. Wait for me- for us.'
Sorry if it was rushed but I needed to get this out as soon as I could. Please if you have any ideas or see any mistakes don't be afraid to tell me! :) I need ideas x_x Also as you can see I've changed my pen name from .xX to BlackLilyAngel. Don't be afriad no one has stolen this ;) Not that I have written anything worth stealing over. Please leave a review! They inspire me and give me ideas! Thanks.
~Lily-chan
