Thank the heavens that we have only two days left to cover for this mini-saga!...Alright, Cell. This whole chapter is devoted to you!

Cell:...

Y.A.R.: Why is the mood so depressing right now?

Cell: Arina...

Y.A.R.: Okay, I'm starting the chapter before the disease catches onto me.

Chapter 8-Revelations

After the events of yesterday, he wanted to be alone.

It was only two more days before his tournament, but his mind was conflicting with everything about the girl who filled his thoughts to the brim.

However, the girl in question was nowhere to be seen around the arena.

As the eighth day started to approach beyond the horizon, the android was fighting his thoughts occurring from what just transpired yesterday with Arina. The man had kissed her; kissed her! The very girl that agitated him for so many days since arriving to his arena was still in his mind, but she was nowhere to be seen. It puzzled him beyond belief; the world's most powerful android...created to have neither equal nor any kindness, now has to decide on whether or not to even consider being with this nuisance that he calls Arina. It drove him insane, and to think that after one whole week of being with the female Sayian turned him into this unusual person.

Two hours into the day, Arina has still not appeared in front of him, which was very strange since she always arrived hours earlier to annoy him again and again, until he caved into her demands.

Six hours into the day...still no Arina.

'This can't be right...that irritating woman is always around just to annoy me. So, why hasn't she shown up?' Cell thought irritated.

Maybe she was sick, he thought. But, then again...Arina never showed any symptoms regarding her health and tossed that very thought out of his head.

Was there something she had to discuss with her gal pals that made her late? No, that couldn't be right either. The android would have known first hand since Arina always told him in person.

Wait...why was he so worried about her? He told himself over and over again that he has no emotions over any living being! But, the questions kept piling up inside his head, giving him an intense headache over something so meaningless. This couldn't be right, he thought. Cell never even cared for the girl at all, but these passing days made his very own conscience racing to get out of the very emotions that plagued his mind.

Why was he so concerned about her when she frustrated him to infinite tirades of rage?

Why did he want to hold her in his arms so tenderly as if he was protecting her from harm?

It didn't make sense to him at all! The prideful android wanted nothing to do with Arina at all; from the first day that they met, Cell wanted no connection whatsoever with her. But, as the hours going into every day went and gone, she was the only person that made those days livelier rather than waiting for the tournament to come in silence. The strengths and weaknesses that came with the female Sayian were shown to him; the way that she went through his endless fits of resentment towards her without even flinching...it was like she never knew anything about fear itself.

So why...? Why did Arina kept coming over to him like she wanted somebody to keep her company? Was it that the carefree girl was afraid to be alone?

She had her friends around her, but when they weren't together, could it be that Arina never handled being on her own without someone to be with her? An absolute fear of abandonment...it was like the female Sayian was scared for her life if she didn't have someone to be with her.

Fourteen hours into the day, the girl had never showed up to see him.

'It couldn't be that she's still upset about what happened yesterday, right? I mean, she was the one that started it, but that kiss...it felt like she was desperate for someone to be with her for comfort.' Cell thought.

The android had a long thought into everything that had transpired between him and Arina. It was true that she pushed a lot of his buttons on the first three days, but afterwards pushed her own buttons that made him either fear or curious about her. But, the incident yesterday made him pushed her away, however noticing the tears that fell down from her face after rejecting her advances on him. It was killing him inside his mind. And evaluating everything that Arina did around him, made things much more difficult to disagree with his opinions of the girl.

Never did she do anything to offend him on a massive scale.

Not once has she ever done something to ridicule him.

She respected him within his presence.

She never changed him from the outside, although from the inside was a completely different story.

But the most important thing that made him tolerate her:

Was that no matter what she did, she never changed the person that she first met on that fateful day.

Did the android pushed her away to confront the feelings buried deep within himself? Cell was created to destroy everything and crush anyone that stood in his path of destruction! But, why does he feel so empty after meeting Arina? 17 and 18 were once human, so could it be that those human emotions tossed away after becoming androids were stirring his conscience into accepting the girl? He felt somewhat guilty for driving Arina into tears after her crying escapade, with that very guilt driving his head insanely with emotions he shouldn't have.

Arina wasn't one of those girls that would cling onto him and nag him to death with their constant flirting, which he was actually grateful that the girl didn't know anything about it.

Cell respected her as a fighter; however their fight was cut short after Arina's stunt. Though, he could understand her predicament; no one knew who she truly was other than him and her friends. The female Sayian wanted to keep her true identity a secret.

The more he denied his feelings, the more badly he wanted to release them. But why hasn't she showed up? It was nearing the end of the day, and Cell couldn't take it anymore. Arina was his perfect girl...and he threw her away to refuse the emotions that he dreaded for so long. There was no one like her; she was absolutely perfect in his eyes and the images of her body wouldn't leave his mind.

The android was in love with Arina.

'The more I deny this emotion, the worse it gets to containing it. Arina...will she able to forgive me after what I did to her?' Cell thought.

"Arina..." Cell muttered. "Come back to me...I don't want to upset you anymore. I don't know what you did to me, but I want to hold you in my arms."

And the eighth day concluded with the android finally setting his emotions into place. Though, the moment his tournament starts, he's throwing those emotions out the window so none of his competitors will find out about anything that transpired on these grounds.

When the sun arises in the morning, he wanted to hold the girl that captured his heart in his arms.

Finally done! Aww, man. I am so gonna get covered in tomatoes for this chapter. I just know it.

R&R, people!