Wolfie: Sorry that it's been so long. An explanation will be put in my profile if anyone wants to read it. As for this chapter I dedicate it to my friend Jazmen as she oh so nicely ordered me to keep writing.

Jazmen: Hiei's mine!

Wolfie: that is so up for debate…Yusuke if you would please.

*Jazmen and Wolfie arguing in the background*

Yusuke: Wolfie owns nothing to do with either DBZ or YYH. She only owns Ebony and her idea for the story.

Jazmen/Wolfie: Enjoy!

Chapter 3 - Training Day

Ebony awoke to someone opening her door and walking across the room. She didn't even use the energy to scan and see who it was. She was more content to just lie there, sore from the previous couple days.

"Go Away." She grumbled, though it was barely more than a whisper. Either the intruder didn't hear her or chose to ignore her and continued making their way towards her bed. Once they were right next to her, and her shoulders were itching from the invasion, did she know that they were practically sitting on the bed.

"Ebony? You ok?" Trunks asked her as he took a seat on the edge of the bed. After a groaned affirmation he continued on. "Dad's waiting for you in the kitchen. Something about training and you being late."

Ebony shot up and hissed through her teeth at the shock to her body. She climbed out of bed so fast that she tripped over the sheets and landed face first on the floor. At the last second she turned and saved her head from a thorough smacking, landing more on her shoulder. "Crap, crap, crap. Sunday. Vegeta. Training."

She started kicking the sheets off and ran around her room gathering her clothes for the day. She raced into the bathroom, changed, brushed her teeth and rushed back out in less than five minutes. Trunks sat on her bed trying his hardest not to laugh at her. She came out of the bathroom with a brush trying to force her hair into a high ponytail and still run around the room.

As she passed the mirror she noticed a dark shadow, but when she turned to look it was gone. Shrugging she put the brush down and pulled on her boots. Trunks stood up and as he was leaving the room he turned to her, "I'll tell dad you'll be down in just a minute. Just don't trip down the stairs again." He shot at her and before she could throw something at him he ducked out the door and took off.

"One time, one blasted time and I never hear the end of it." She grumbled and followed him out of her room, giving one last look out the window before shrugging it off and going down to breakfast.

****Hiei's POV****

What is it about that girl? I wondered as I raced through the forest. I know Koenma wants us to keep an eye on her, but why do I find her interesting at all?

I stopped and looked around only to realize that I had made my way to Capsule Corp. without even knowing where I was headed. Seeing as I was there I decided to check on the girl. maybe she started training already. I could always see her fighting style and either steal it or find it's weaknesses to us against her later. It might reveal what I find so strange about this girl.

Before I knew it I had decided on watching her that day and sped around the building. Just before reaching the back door I caught a glimpse of movement. I stopped to see her braiding her hair and found myself musing about how long and thick it was. I instantly reprimanded myself for such casual thinking. Why does it matter what her hair is like? She's just a job, I'm only here to observe and protect. Though if these power levels leaking from the house meant anything I wasn't needed here for protecting much.

I saw her turning around and before she could get a good look at me I was racing through the trees to find a comfortable spot near the back door.

***Ebony's POV***

The whole way to the kitchen all I could think about was the shadow outside my room. I didn't even notice where I was going until I reached the kitchen. Vegeta, Trunks and Bulma were there. Vegeta and Trunks were stuffing their faces with breakfast about as fast as Bulma could put the food on their plates. Vegeta looked up from his plate just long enough to glare at me. "Hurry up and eat. You're going to get the workout of your life."

"Slave Driver." I muttered under my breath as I took a seat at the opposite end of the table. Vegeta growled, telling me that he heard me. Damn, more work for me to do today. As if I'm not beat up enough, he's got to add to the mix.

I started to eat the food Bulma set onto my plate. I barely tasted the food as I rushed through the meal expecting Vegeta to drag me away from it as an added punishment. I had everything on my plate gone and was finishing my juice when he spoke, leaving me chocking on the juice out of surprise.

"Are you ready?" He asked, standing up from the table. He had an impatient look on his face and I realized I had kept him from his own training. I stood up myself, thanking Bulma for the meal, and followed him as he walked across the living room to the back door.

Trunks was there, waiting for them out of earshot of his mother. Vegeta stopped, causing me to nearly run into him. "What do you want boy? We have training to get to."

I suppressed a groan suspecting what Trunks was going to say. He'd been to my last training session a couple days ago and saw just how well I was doing. Which probably wasn't very good because I had just started working out at the next level.

"Try not to overwork Ebony today." He said to Vegeta. Maybe he would leave it to me to choose my difficulty today, but there isn't much chance of lying to Vegeta. Even stretching the truth doesn't work most of the time. "Gohan set limits for her and we need to stay within those limits regardless of how mad we are or what she says."

Just great Trunks. You just told one of the most stubborn men to follow the rules. Of course he's going to not like that. I thought to myself as they continued to talk.

"Gohan said that she was not to exceed an additional ten times gravity so long as she shows that she could handle it." Vegeta growled at his son. "I know what Kakarot's brat said. And Ebony wouldn't dare to defy me. I've set similar limits on her myself. So get out of my way."

Trunks nodded and moved so Vegeta could get by. As I moved to follow him, Trunks grabbed my shoulder and stopped me. "Don't let him push you too hard. He'll listen to you if you say enough. Don't be stubborn." He said and walked off.

His words told me more than anything else that he knew I was hurt. Maybe not how bad, but that it wasn't a little scratch. I walked through the door and was at Vegeta's side in a matter of moments. He gave me a look and I shrugged.

"Lets just get this over with." I said as we reached the gravitational chamber. We entered the chamber and the door closed behind us. Vegeta set the code to show anyone outside that the chamber was in use and to do not disturb. I stood to one side and began stretching myself out getting limbered up for the training ahead. Wouldn't do to have something cramp up when you have something as powerful as Vegeta's fist coming at you.

He directed me over to one corner of the room while he closed the door behind us and set the lock on it. "How much trouble do you have at fifty times gravity?"

"I do fine, I'm just not very fast at it. I can handle it, my movements are just a little slow is all." I answered him finishing my stretching. My voice was stubborn and defiant.

"Well we're just going to have to fix that. By the end of the day I want you moving around as if it were the same as Earth's gravity." He told me and caught my irritated glare at him.

Bulma had redesigned the chamber once Trunks had started training in it. Vegeta had taken him in and set the gravity to two times just to get him familiar with the change. The next day Trunks had snuck in and set the chamber to ten times gravity, leaving him on the floor helpless.

It's a very good thing that saiyans are so durable or he wouldn't have been able to survive for very long. Luckily Vegeta was headed to the chamber for his early morning workout. He rescued trunks and Bulma put several safety measures in so that same incident couldn't happen again.

"Your job is to dodge all my attacks. Don't worry about returning a hit or attacking me directly. Just avoid my attacks." He said and punched in the settings. I had all but dropped to the floor when the gravity took effect, but quickly shrugged it off and started moving around. Its not that it was difficult once you trained from the beginning, it was just disorienting for a moment or two while the body adjusted to the higher levels.

****Vegeta's POV****

After I had managed to get rid of Trunks, we continued on our way to the Gravitational Chamber. As we walked out the door I sensed a low level energy nearby. Looking around I saw nothing, but the energy felt familiar. Not so much that it was someone who came by often, but someone that I had met once or twice and recently. I shrugged it off and let it go as I unlocked the door.

I directed Ebony over to one corner of the room while I closed the door behind us and set the lock on it. "How much trouble do you have at fifty times gravity?"

I was determined to have her either fully adjusted to fifty or have her go higher depending on where she stood with the resistance of it. "I do fine, I'm just not very fast at it. I can handle it, my movements are just a little slow is all."

Her voice was stubborn and defiant, just like a true Saiyans. "Well we're just going to have to fix that. By the end of the day I want you moving around as if it were the same as Earth's gravity." I told her watching her irritated glare at me. We stretched and prepared to train before I set the controls to fifty and turned on the machine. We were ready.

****Third Person POV****

As Vegeta turned on the machine, Ebony placed a hand on the wall to remain standing. Vegeta observed her, suspecting that she hadn't told him the whole truth on her training. "Walk to me."

Ebony mentally flinched. She knew he'd have to find out eventually that she hadn't had nearly enough training to be at this level. She let go of the wall and began taking a few steps towards him. Though her steps were very slow, like wading through water, they were mostly sure and steady.

By the time she had crossed the room and was standing in front of him, she was covered in sweat and out of breath. Barely a moment after she had stopped walking Vegeta back-handed her and sent her flying across the room into the wall.

Vegeta started moving towards her all but yelling at her stupidity. "I told you to never lie to me. Do you take me for a fool? I know your training. IF you had reached this level you'd be better at it than dragging your feet across the floor. Have you ever even attempted this level at all?"

Ebony stood up and wiped a trickle of blood of her lip. "Well that's not totally true. I didn't lie to you. The last time I was in here I did attempt to work at fifty times I just couldn't stay a full session to do it. Besides, I said I wasn't very fast at it. I gave you exact truth, I just didn't emphasize on it. You're the one who made assumptions."

As soon as the words were out of her mouth Vegeta leapt the distance between them and punched her in the stomach several times. "You said you do fine at fifty times. Well, fight back!" Vegeta yelled at her in an attempt to push her. He'd had not noticed any recklessness before from her and, though he'd never admit it, it worried him.

Ebony got up and attempted to give him a few of her own punches but he easily dodged all of them and twisted her arm behind her back. He kicked the back of her knee, sending her to the floor, kneeling in front of him. She gritted her teeth to keep from crying out.

"You can end this three ways. One, you pass out from the fighting. Two, you hit me at least once. Three, you surrender and agree to spending the next month training with me every day after school and on weekends. It's your choice girl." He growled next to her ear. "We'll be here all day if necessary."

Ebony let out a yell, pulling herself up so hard and fast that Vegeta was either forced to break her arm or let it go. He let it go not wanting to cause that kind of harm for just training.

Trying as hard as she could Ebony ended her movement by spinning around and throwing a clenched fist towards his face. The older Saiyan just barely managed to dodge the enraged teen and gave her a satisfied smirk as a reward. He looked at her and said, "I think it's time to turn the gravity up just a bit."

He shoved ebony halfway across the room and hurried to the panel that controlled the gravity. Thinking quickly about her abilities he turned up the controls an additional two times gravity.

Ebony was just trying to stand as the gravity took effect and was sent back to the floor with a whimper. Vegeta frowned not liking her reaction. She was a Saiyan after all, she's tougher than this. "Get up." He ordered her.

Ebony forced herself to sit up. She knew that Vegeta would only put her through this kind of training because he cared about her. She had worried him over the last couple of days and he wasn't taking it well. He just didn't do good with his feelings unless they involved fighting. The only thing that kept her from being worried about this rough training was the knowledge that he wouldn't kill her. Sure he'd cause her enough pain that she'd wish she was dead but he wouldn't do any serious damage that she couldn't heal within a few days.

****Hiei's POV****

I had been waiting for nearly an hour outside the building and still the girl had not come out. I used my Jagan Eye to see what was going on. Looking in I saw the girl, Ebony, lying on the floor unable to get up. The guy, Vegeta I believed she called him, was standing in front of her. It appeared that he was saying something and judging from her emotions it seemed as if he was taunting her.

She tried to stand up, yet nearly fell a second time. I've seen her fight, she's hurt but not so hurt that she couldn't stand up and defend herself. What is this building?

I scanned her mind and found it to be a small building that manipulated the earth's gravity. To train under that kind of stress would be sure to make any being stronger the more they used it. My attention was brought back to the girl, trying to step away from the wall.

The moment that she had taken a second step, Vegeta was there with a fist that sent her across the room and against another wall. This time she didn't get up and I could feel her energy level fluxuate before lowering slightly. I couldn't stay silent on this one.

Get up you stupid girl. I commanded her. She was a good enough fighter that I wanted to try my strength against hers.

Who…who is this? What do you want? She replied from her place against the wall. Vegeta seemed to be waiting from the same place as if waiting for her to do something.

That doesn't matter right now. Just get up and fight before he kills you. I told her. I wasn't so sure about how much damage he truly wanted to do to her. Instinct forced me to believe that the strong killed the weak. A side effect from being born and raised in Makai. Not necessarily a bad one, but a natural instinct for most species. Humans don't seem to have it as strong as most being though.

I know that voice…Hiei. You know you sound a lot like Vegeta. It's kind of funny. Her thoughts were barely a mumble as is she were falling asleep. Another growl raised in my throat, surprising me. Where had it come from? And why do I feel so protective of this girl?

I'm coming in. I told her as I moved to another tree that was closer to the building. I felt her mentally jump in surprise and a trickle of emotion came through. Was that fear from her I was sensing?

No don't! The gravity in this place will kill you. It's why I'm so tired. She began to wake back up. The adrenaline pumping through her body. This ends when I meet one of his requirements. Pass out, defeat him or give up and face his punishment. I'll do my best to defeat him but you cannot come in.

Fine, defeat him. I'll wait for you to come out. I told her as I nodded my approval mentally as well as physically. Settling back against the tree I kept an eye on her and began to ponder why I was so attracted to this girl.

****Ebony's POV****

Afraid that Hiei would be killed should he attempt to rescue me, either by the gravity or Vegeta, I found a new determination to fight. Standing up I could still feel Hiei watching through my mind. Vegeta's voice brought my attention back to him. "Are you ready to surrender to me or will you continue to fight?"

"I'm going to fight." I shook my head to clear it and powered up until I was just borderline Super Saiyan. If I moved to the next level Vegeta would consider it cheating so I stayed lower. Not giving him a chance, I pulled my fist back and charged him.

He dodged the punch, but missed my foot coming for his face. It made contact and satisfied both me and his training requirements. Before I could enjoy my victory he knocked the wind out of me with his knee in my gut that I was unable to block. I fell to my knees and held my stomach as I tried to regain my breath.

"Hn, we're done her for today." He said and turned off the gravity, with was that a smile? Finally able to stand, I dragged myself up and followed the prince towards the house.

Jazmen: Hiei is mine, you can have the fox

Wolfie: I want Hiei, I'm older.

Jazmen: Nope I get him

Kuwabara: Are they still going at it?

Yusuke: Yup *checks his watch* I doubt they'll ever stop either.

Kuwabara: Wow

*Wolfie and Jaz still fighting over Hiei*

Yusuke: Well I guess it's up to me to end this. Please Read and Review, Ja ne.