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"Well we need to go home now, good bye person who helped my sister." Lapis said as he and his sister were about to leave. "Wait a second, do you mind if I take a picture of you two and Russell?" Robin asked them as he wanted to start with the pictures now. "Okay." The two of them said at the same time.

So that was Robin's first picture and he looked at the screen of the camera as the kids walked away. It was Lapis sitting on top of Russell with Lazuli standing next to them. They both had bright cheerful smiles on their faces and this was one picture that Robin would need to keep until the day that Krillin marries Eighteen.

Chapter 8: The Calm Before the Storm Part Two

Now that quite a bit of time passed, Robin decided to walk back to the bakery hoping that the cake would be ready by the time he gets there. One problem was he couldn't quite remember where the bakery was so he had to back track to the dojo.

Once he was at the dojo he started going in the direction that he remembered walking from the bakery. To his surprise he could remember almost every step. 'Strange, how can I remember this path so vividly?' Robin thought to himself as he walked down the street.

He then realized that he could remember almost every moment of every day since he was turned into a saiyan. 'Maybe saiyans have photographic memories to help them remember their own mistakes in battle and to help them be better warriors.' Robin wasn't really sure since that wasn't something talked about in the manga or anime so he decided to just throw the thought aside for another day.

'But wait, if I have a photographic memory, why couldn't I remember exactly where the bakery was? Was it because I didn't pay much attention to any of the other buildings?' Robin had plenty of questions that he couldn't really answer.

He was so deep in thought though that he walked right past the bakery. He only realized this when the wind changed directions and he could smell the baking sweets. He looked up and noticed that he was half way down the street from the bakery and turned around hoping no one saw him. Robin was a fairly outgoing person but he was easily embarrassed at being caught messing up just about anything.

When he walked into the bakery, he looked up to a clock and saw that he was about five minutes early and Cindy wasn't near the counter. He went and sat down at a small table in the corner of the bakery and decided to wait a while and if Cindy didn't pop up somewhere around the shop, he would go ask another worker.

He seemed quite lucky though when after only three minutes, Cindy walked out from the back area of the bakery and looked around. She spotted Robin and smiled while holding up a cake for him to see. Robin guessed that it was the cake he ordered so he got up and walked over to the counter.

The caked seemed smaller than Robin thought it would've been but it was only for Goku so it might be enough. It had primarily white vanilla frosting on it but around the edge of the cake on the bottom and top, there was blue frosting.

"I hope you think this is good enough, because since you're so handsome I made the entire cake by myself." Cindy said with pride. "Yeah, it looks great, I'm sure it tastes good too just by the looks of it. My little brother should love it." Robin said in an approving tone.

"So would you like any writing on it? There's no extra cost." Cindy asked Robin. "Umm… sure, just put Happy Birthday Goku on it with matching blue writing." Robin said, he wasn't much of a cake expert but if the writing was anything but a matching blue, it might look weird.

Cindy just took out a tube from under the counter and started writing on it. The blue was almost the exact same colour as the blue around the edges. "So how do you spell Goku?" Cindy asked as she finished the writing Birthday. "It's spelled G-O-K-U." Robin said and Cindy wrote that under the word Birthday.

"Well the cake is done now, would you like it in a carry box or simply a plastic container?" Cindy asked as she walked a few feet over to the boxes and plastics. "I'll take it in a carry box but before you pack it, since you made the whole cake by yourself, do you mind if I take a picture of you with it?" Robin asked somewhat awkwardly since she wasn't simply a small child who would say yes to anything.

"Sure, but only if you call me beautiful." Cindy said with a smirk as a flustered looked came over Robin's face. All the nearby workers rolled their eyes and shook their heads while holding down giggles. That was when Robin realized Cindy was serious.

"Fine, you're beautiful." Robin said somewhat hesitantly while a small blush started to come across his cheeks, but he pushed back the blush before someone noticed it and he reached into his back pack and took out his camera.

"How's my hair?" Cindy asked him as she picked up the cake. "It's fine." Robin said as he hid his face behind the camera about to take the picture. A frown came on Cindy's face though so he looked up at her. "Just fine?" She asked him. "Ugh… you're hair's perfect." Robin said somewhat annoyed at how she's forcing him to compliment her.

"That's what I like to hear." Cindy said as she smiled brightly and held up the cake in front of her. Robin took the picture and started to chuckle at Cindy's personality. Robin then took the cake from Cindy and was about to turn and leave when Cindy stopped him at the last second.

"Before you leave, what's your name?" She asked him. 'I suppose it won't hurt to tell her.' Robin thought to himself as he looked up at her. "It's Robin." He said and turned around to walk out. "I hope you come back soon Robin." He could hear Cindy say as he stepped out the door with the boxed cake in his hands.

'Now I just need to find a place to fly up without being noticed and head home.' Robin thought to himself as he walked down the street. He eventually found an ally and when he sensed that no one was nearby he shot p into the sky and started flying in the direction of home.

Robin flew home at a slower pace than when he flew to Orange Star City. This time he decided to enjoy the view of the land instead of push himself to his flying limit. He could already feel that his ki had increased lightly since earlier that day so he thought that one day of less training than usual wouldn't hurt.

Robin landed on that path in the forest about a quarter of a mile away from home and by the time he made it home, it was around supper time. As he walked up the hill to the small house, he could smell fish cooking and he saw Goku shadow sparring and going through his stances.

Goku heard Robin walking when he was about halfway up the hill and he turned around to go greet him. "Hey big brother! You were gone longer than a little while so grandpa started making supper without you." Goku said as he ran down the hill to get to Robin.

"Hey what's that?" Goku asked as he pointed at the box in Robin's hand. "It's a surprise for later after supper Goku." Robin said as he continued walking up the hill. "Why don't you go continue your training while I go talk to grandpa okay?" Robin suggested and Goku agreed and ran back up the hill to continue going through his stances.

Robin walked around to the other side of the house and saw Gohan roasting a fish over a fire. "It's about time you return, you find out anything?" Gohan asked Robin before he had time to say anything though Gohan noticed the box in his hand. "Oh, what do you have there?" Gohan asked forgetting about his previous question.

"It's a cake for Goku, since today didn't turn out how we wanted I thought I'd get him something." Robin said as he handed the box to Gohan. "You think you could hold onto it, I'm going to go train a bit with Goku." Robin said as the news he had from the city slipped his mind completely.

Robin walked to the other side of the house and he started sparring with Goku. They sparred for about twenty minutes when Gohan hit his gong to let them know supper was ready.

The rest of the day was quite peaceful, and all worries about anything left Robin's mind when he saw how happy Goku was. Especially when Goku tasted the cake, he was so joyful. All the while, Robin was taking pictures.

One picture was of Goku trying to shove the entire cake in his mouth with Gohan next to him laughing. The next was Goku opening a present with a new gi inside of it that Robin helped Gohan make. It was the same colours as his old one, but slightly larger. The last photo was all three of them sitting around a fire, Gohan was smiling happily while looking down at Goku, Goku was laughing at something and Robin was looking up at the camera making sure it's pointing in the right direction.

That night, everyone went to bed in a blissful mood. In the morning however, Robin knew he would need to talk to Gohan about the rebellion but he decided not to let it worry him too much. Tonight was a final night of peace before all focus went into the rebellion. After all the friends Robin made today, he felt defending them should be a top priority.