The new formed trio had now continued onwards to their journey to find the sixth Dragon Ball they were looking for. Ichigo, Bulma, and their new required assist, Oolong, had been travelling on a driving boat that seemed to work like a car. The direction that they had been heading to was going in the Southwest direction as they rode the boat on a river they were heading to.

Ichigo had looked at the river below him from the side by tilting his head. He had to say that the river looked really pretty, quite a sight to look at. Though one thing that made him question was just how long they were going at this. It felt as though that it's been hours already. Ichigo then looked towards at Bulma so he could have some answers. "Hey, so where exactly are we going now?" he asked her, wanting to know their next location and the destination.

"That's what I wanna know!" Oolong exclaimed in annoyance. It felt like it's been hours already. Just where in Kami's name were they going? "Just where the hell are we going?!"

"Let me check the map again." Bulma digged her hand in her backpack so that she could pull out her map. Fluttering it a little so that she could take a full view of it, she checked the distance they were going at. "Ah geez, it looks like it wonderful take us till another 3 days to get where we're supposed to."

"And the place we're heading to is…?"

"Uh…" Bulma checked on the map again. "It looks like we're heading to a place called Fire Mountain." she informed both of them of this.

But the reaction from Oolong wasn't really pleasant at all. If anything he looked as though that all color on him was drained from his face. "F-Fire Mountain?! Are you out of your mind?!" the piggy had screeched, though in this case it was somewhat understandable. "No way in fucking hell are you gonna drive me all the way there!"

"Huh? Why?" Bulma seemed to be a little confused by the sudden outburst. "What's so bad about it?"

"Wha—" Oolong now looked to be shocked. "—You mean to tell me you actually don't know that place at all?! Don't you know that the Fire Mountain belongs to the terrible Ox King?!"

Ichigo seemed to be quite surprised by this as he had his hands rest behind his head. 'Ox King? We get to meet the Ox King now? Huh, that's kinda neat.' he thought with a smile on his face.

"Is it really that bad?" Bulma asked.

Oolong had nervously nodded his head. "You bet it is! From what I heard, the mountain is always on fire! And the Ox King himself is no joke to mess with! They say he's around 10 feet tall and weighs around 500 pounds! He always runs after those who try to climb his mountain! Especially his castle! He also wields a giant battle axe, and let me tell you he's really good at it! He's been tearing the countryside for years! Once you actually meet him, the only way to win is to run as far as you possibly can!" he had exclaimed with the fear intended on his voice, hoping that these two would listen to reason and get out of here while they had the chance.

"So… you actually heard of that?" Bulma asked.

Oolong frantically nodded his head. "He might as well be the strongest guy in the whole world!"

Ichigo rolled his eyes from that one. Honestly that statement just annoyed him. "Sounds like an exaggeration. Square me in a one-on-one fight and I might beat this guy." he said.

Oolong gaped his mouth from this. "Did you two not listen to anything I just said?!"

"I mean, he might not be wrong." Bulma backed Ichigo up. "The kid has the most insane strength for his age."

"Oh hell no!" Oolong couldn't take it. These people were insane. To head over to the one of the most dangerous places in the world instead of turning back like how they should be. "Screw you people! I'm getting out of here!" he had then jumped out of the boat and turned into a red fish, something that took both Ichigo and Bulma by surprise. "So long, suckers!" he exclaimed before going inside the water.

"Coward!" Ichigo called the pig out. "You're not gonna get away that easily!" this had the boy increase his nerves, planning out to find Oolong and beat the crap out of him.

"Wait, hang on a second!" Bulma waved her hand to stop Ichigo in his tracks, to which he had stopped. "I think I might have a better idea to catch him without getting wet."

"And what would that be?"

"You might wanna turn around for a minute…" Ichigo seemed a bit confused by what she meant by that, but then he saw her taking off her shorts, and then along with her panties. Getting the cue, Ichigo quickly turned around and stood there till she was done. Bulma had her shorts again, but she carried a fishing rod that carried her panties with them. "Done! Have a taste of some panties, you pig!"

Ichigo just stared at the girl in front with a blank look. For some reason he felt like this might actually work. And his hunch had proven to be correct when the wire made a tug that Bulma had felt. "There! He bit it!" the teen girl exclaimed before she yanked the net as much as she could, to which she had successfully pulled Oolong as the same shape shifting fish just a minute ago.

"Ahhh! Damn it!" Oolong swore, as he had wiggled around the net.

"I can't believe you were stupid enough to actually fall for that." Ichigo blankly said.

The trio had went back to travel on the river. With Ichigo and Oolong sitting at the same places as before, and with Bulma taking over the wheel.

Ichigo could hear his stomach grumbling lowly. He patted his stomach when he felt his hunger riding, demanding to eat food. 'Man, I'm starting to get hungry now. Why couldn't Saiyans try to have less of a freakish hunger for food? I could really use some right about now.' the boy thought to himself. "Hey, does anybody have some kind of food with them? I could use it right about now…"

"He's right! I'm starting to get hungry as well!" Oolong exclaimed.

Bulma briefly glanced her eyes back at Oolong before digging into her pocket and pulled out some kind of a yellow candy pill. "Sorry, Ichigo. I don't really have anything but this one piece of candy. That really won't do anything for you."

Ichigo had sighed from this. "Fine, I'll try to survive a little longer till I get some snack to eat."

"Then give it to me!" Oolong snatched the candy and already swallowed it whole already.

However unknown to him, Bulma had made a small smirk when he had done this. However her smirk her fell short when she was genuinely surprised that the boat suddenly stopped moving. This had surprised the two boys behind her as well.

"Hey, what gives? Why did we stop?" Ichigo asked the older girl in confusion.

"Ah, shit." Bulma swore in annoyance when she found out why the boat stopped. "We're out of gas." the teen then turned her to look at Oolong. "Hey, you think you could turn into a gasoline for us?"

"Hell no! You gotta be kidding me!"

Bulma sighed from this. "Figures. I guess our only option right now is for you to turn into a paddle. Do you think you could at least do that one? Look, I'll just pull us to a shore and then I could use a capsule to fill the fuel."

Oolong grunted, but he had reluctantly agreed nonetheless. "Fine then. I should be able to do that. Transform!" Oolong shouted before his body has shape shifted to a paddle.

Bulma had handed the paddle to Ichigo. "Here, since you're a lot stronger than I am, you should be able to get us to a shore in no time."

Ichigo nodded his head, knowing that he would have to do it instead. "Got it then." he grabbed the paddle before he walked backwards on the boat and then went ahead to paddle.

In no time at all they had made it to a shore. Ichigo had jumped on the field as he had managed to tie a tree with a rope while the said rope was connected to the boat just so that it couldn't leave off anywhere. "Alright, I'm finished with the rope!" he had told Bulma loud enough for her to hear.

"Nice job!"

Ichigo looked up to the tree and saw several apples that were hanging on it. Since he was getting hungry, grabbing some quick snack would have to do something to tone his hunger down. So, he jumped up to the tree branches and went ahead to grab a couple of apples with his hands before he began to eat them.

Down below, Bulma and Oolong had managed to climb on the shore. "So, since I was needed in this one, think I could get an award by having your panties?" Oolong had asked with a perverted grin, thinking that he must have been quite useful.

Bulma almost wanted to scoff from what the pervert wanted, but instead she merely rolled her eyes in annoyance. "Nice try, but if you think it's seriously that easy to get a girl's underwear, then you really need to be better than that." she said, while she had been searching for her pockets on her jumper. She digged through her right pocket but she didn't find anything there. She searched on her left pocket… she also didn't find anything there.

Bulma's eyes had become as wide as they could when a sinking horror had sunk to her in realization that her tray of capsules were gone. All of them. "My… my capsules… they're gone." her brain fully processed that she was absolutely stuck in a land without any safety or protection to go on further. "GIEEEEEEEEEHHHH!" she screamed as she had reached the edge of the shore.

Ichigo had jumped down as he tossed his second apple down on the ground. He had gotten next to Bulma when he heard her screaming. "You lost your capsules?" Ichigo asked in some confusion. "How the hell do you lose that?"

"It must have been dropped in the river!" Bulma had fell onto her knees, with her eyes comedically tearing up. "Now I'll never be able to get out of here! I don't have a bike, a boat, a house, an air conditioner, nothing!"

"Oh brother…" Ichigo sighed as he scratched his fair. Now he couldn't help but feel somewhat bad for her. "Well, I guess our only way to continue this would have to be by walking I guess." he then gained an idea. "Hey, how about you ask Oolong to shape shift himself into a motorcycle?" he had suggested.

This already had Bulma raise her hopes up as she had immediately gotten up again with a large grin plastered on her. It was weird to Ichigo of how she had such mood shifts. "That's a great idea!" Bulma turned around with a sweet smile at Oolong. "Oh, Oolong, deaaaar—" she had acted sweetly, but she saw that the pig was nowhere to be seen at all. "Wha— he's gone again!"

This had Ichigo make an annoyed scowl. The irritation he kept trying to suppress was now coming back to him. "That little shit…" he said between his teeth that he clenched. "He's not getting away that easily." he had then tried to pinpoint as to where Oolong was located at. It took him only seconds to sense him to where he was at. "Hey, Nimbus! Get down from here!" he called out for his new magical cloud, now knowing where Oolong was. Almost immediately, the cloud responded to his call as it came down from below. It had stopped its tracks when it stood next to Ichigo before he jumped on it. Ichigo crouched down where he grabbed the yellow cloud with his hands before it bursted off.

The Nimbus Cloud still felt stingy to him. But he would only have to bear with the uncomfortable sting for a short duration of time as he could already sense where Oolong was. 'I gotta say, I think my sensing is better than it was before in my previous life.' Ichigo thought to himself. 'I wonder how? Is it because that I'm sensing ki in this world? Actually, hang on... I think it might be due to the time that I spent as Karna. Weird… but hey, I ain't complaining about that one.'

Meanwhile in the forest, Oolong had tried to run away as fast as he could, away from those two lunatics. "If they think I'm actually going to that scary-ass mountain, they must be dumber than I thought!" he exclaimed as he continued to run away.

"Hey, Oolong! You're not going anywhere that easily!"

"What the—?!" Oolong had looked up in shock when he saw Ichigo with the Nimbus Cloud coming after him. "—What is that thing?!"

Oolong had tried to run as fast as he possibly could, but since the Nimbus Cloud was far faster, Ichigo had caught up to him quite easily. The boy had stopped Oolong by grabbing him by the wrist before he flied back to where Bulma was at. When they had reached the ground, Ichigo threw Oolong back at the ground.

"You mind explaining yourself just what the hell that one was for?" Ichigo asked in annoyance, as he fully stood up with his arms folded while giving off a glare.

"Hey!" Oolong had glared back at the boy. "It's called staying alive! You really expect me to go to one of the most dangerous places in the world with you two nutjobs?!"

"Too bad." Ichigo replied back without much care. "Now you're stuck with us. No way are you running off anytime soon."

"And also—" Bulma had now interjected. "—If you do try to run away again…" she had gritted her teeth, keeping a devilish smile while doing so. "Pii, pii, pii, pii."

Oolong had started to sweat heavily as he held onto his stomach, feeling as though he had to use the biggest bathroom he could possibly find. "Aaaaahhhh!" he shouted before he had gotten in the bushes to take a dive.

Ichigo had put his fingers on his nose, as he tried to block out the horrid smell that came. His expression still held that of annoyance. "Wow, you really know how to take some dumpster shit, don't ya?" he sarcastically remarked.

"Shut the hell up!" Oolong had exclaimed before he casted his eyes at the smug Bulma. "And what the hell did you just do to me?!"

"You know that little piece of candy I have you before?" Bulma folded her arms with a smug smirk plastered on her. "That was actually one of my inventions. It's called the PP candy, and whenever I say the words ''pii pii", that person who ate the candy will have diarrhea. This way, you won't be able to run away anywhere from us anytime soon. The effects of that candy will last for about a month in that time as well."

Oolong had glared at the girl. Just perfect. Not only would he be forced to go to Fire Mountain with these two lunatics, but he couldn't even run away as well. ''Fine. Guess I'll have to stay then."

"Well, about time already. So, if you don't mind, I would like you to turn into a motorcycle." Bulma said.

Oolong had growled from the demanded, but he nevertheless compelled as he had turned into a motorcycle. However the shape of the said motorcycle seemed to be something that was very out of fashion, something that seemed to be quite outdated. Bulma was just stunned at the appearance. "Hey, what gives, Oolong? When I said turn to a motorcycle, I didn't mean make it like crap!" Bulma exclaimed.

"Oh, just shut up already!"

"Well…" Bulma softly put her leg on the motorcycle. "It's better than walking I guess." she then went ahead to sit on the motorcycle. But before she could do anything with it, the motorcycle had fallen down under her weight. "Hey, put some muscle into that!"

"Aaagh! It's not my fault!" Oolong changed back into his original form. "All I can do is just my appearance! Not my strength! Besides, I can only hold it out for 5 minutes! And then I need 1 minute to recover!"

"Agh! This is just wonderful!" Bulma had complained.

"But hey! If you want to, I could turn into some panties!" Oolong had gained a perverted grin before he transformed into some pink panties. "They got wet in the river, didn't they? So, are you even wearing them right now? You could use something more fresh!"

Bulma had furiously stomped her foot down on the panties, which made Oolong yelp in pain. "HOW THE HELL IS THAT GONNA BE USEFUL?!" she screamed in fury.

Ichigo had rolled his eyes from this. "Are you two finally done fooling around or can we start going? It looks like our only way out of this now is to go on foot."

Continuing onto their journey; Bulma, Oolong, and Ichigo had walked on foot to go further into the unexplored. The area they were at was at a hot desert. Ichigo had calmly walked at the front as the heat didn't really seem to bother him at all. Meanwhile behind him, Oolong and Bulma were painting like dogs and sweating like they never had before. Bulma looked like she could barely handle anything anymore as she was walking with a large wooden staff supporting.

Ichigo turned around to look at them, and he couldn't help but just groan at how slow they were being. "You guys can't seriously be this slow. I mean, come on, I gave up on the Nimbus Cloud, walked with you, and you still can't keep up?"

"H-Hey!" Bulma exclaimed with a hoarse throat. "Keep in my mind I'm a city girl! I'm not used to the wilderness like you are!" she then took a look of her surroundings, having no idea where she was even at. "Say… w-where even are we? It's nothing but desert."

"O... Of course it is." Oolong had panted. "I heard that you have to cross this desert in order to get to Fire Mountain."

Bulma had stopped walking as she had gotten on her knees. "I... I can't take it anymore. I think this is enough for today." Oolong had now also done the same thing.

"Oh come on…" Ichigo had given them both a bland look. "Now you guys are just being pathetic."

"Do… do you think there's a hotel anywhere around here?" Bulma asked, desperately wanting to rest right now and be in a luxurious place she was used to.

"What kind of a hotel would there be here in the middle of a desert?" Oolong answered, and gave Bulma a look as if she was being stupid.

That was it. She couldn't take it anymore. She lost all her capsules. She was probably stuck somewhere in the middle of a desert with probably no way back at all. "Aaaaaargh!" It was at that moment that Bulma had started throwing a temper tantrum. "Whyyyyy?! It's not fair!" she whined as she had lied on the ground and started moving her back. "This is awful! I'm getting hungry! I wanna have a bath! I won't be able to sleep until I get a bed!" she had climbed herself to where there was some cave, and beneath it were shadows where she had covered herself.

"Geez…" Ichigo had a sweat drop on his head. "Talk about being so self centered…"

"I think she's got a point. I think I could use some nap." Oolong said, before he as well had lied down on the ground.

Ichigo patted his stomach again, and once more he heard growling coming out of it. 'Damn… my hunger just keeps growing. It's kinda getting more harder to focus properly.' the Saiyan boy had looked towards at the desert he was at. 'Although… something about this desert seems a little odd… actually... I would more so say that it's a bit familiar for some reason. But why?' he thought to himself. He didn't really know as to why this area seemed a little familiar to begin with. Actually he didn't think that was important now. Right now he was getting really hungry. And he doubted that there would be some proper food, but right now he really needed food. "Fine by me. I'll go try and find some sort of food here." he said.

Ichigo was about to head off into the other areas of the desert, but in front of him he saw something that seemed to be heading right towards them. "The hell is that?" he more so asked himself, but Oolong heard what he said and the pig got up again to see what was approaching them.

There, out in the open field, came what looked like a flying motorbike towards Ichigo and the co. There were two persons that were wielding this vehicle were none other than the desert bandits, Yamcha and Puar.

'Is that…' Ichigo widened his eyes when he saw just who it was that. He almost couldn't believe it. 'No way... Yamcha? What is he doing approaching us—' hold on a second… '—Hang on… that's right, now I remember. This must be him in his days as a bandit. I think he did change when he met Goku and the others… or me in this case. Still, right now I don't think he would be friendly as of the moment. He probably wants some money or something.'

The flying vehicle had finally approached them, and with that Yamcha and Puar had stepped out of it. "Greetings." Yamcha had said. "I am the hyena who's very citadel is this wasteland. The name is Yamcha." he had introduced himself.

"And I'm Puar!"

"There is no need to fear me. All you have to do is just hand out all of your money and capsules, and I will let you leave here in peace." Yamcha gestured his hand, as if expecting to be handed on what he wanted.

Oolong genuinely looked surprised when he had saw the blue cat that was next to Yamcha's leg. He pointed his finger at the cat. "Hey, are you actually Puar?!"

Puar then looked shocked when he saw the pig in front of him. "O-Oolong?!"

"You know him, Puar?" Yamcha asked the blue cat.

"That's right!" Puar nodded his head. "We went to the shape shifting pre-school together! He was always a bully to me! Not only that, but he stole the female teacher's panties, and was eventually kicked out!"

Ichigo had slowly turned his head to look at the pig. Suddenly everyone's attention was casted onto Oolong, who now seemed nervous at all the stares given to him.

"You haven't changed one bit, have you…" Ichigo had given the pig a glare. "I feel like we should have found some other shape shifter instead."

Yamcha had grunted. "I suppose it doesn't really matter now. The reason we're here in the first place is for the money and the capsules. So if you can just hand over everything you have…"

"Uhhh…" Oolong had then hid behind Ichigo. "Say, kid, how strong are you exactly?"

Ichigo didn't answer Oolong, instead he merely ignored him and payed attention to Yamcha instead. "Hate to break it to ya, but it won't be so simple taking anything from me."

"I see then…" Yamcha had then put his hand on the handle of a sheathed sword that rested on his hip before he fully drawn it out. "I guess you must be dead set on making your way to go to Heaven."

'Oh come on. How come he gets to have a sword and I have a pole instead?' Ichigo thought as he prepared himself a basic fighting stance. 'Well whatever. At least the pole won't break so easily.' he could hear Oolong running off to hide off somewhere. Well at least he knew not to get in his way. That was something.

Yamcha had then thrown his sheath far in the air. This action had slightly confused the childish Ichigo as he instinctively turned his head up in the air. This had Yamcha take immediate advantage of this as he ran as fast as he could against Ichigo. Ichigo widened his eyes when he saw the order man charge at him with his sword. Yamcha shifted his right arm on other side so he could make a better strike as he swung his sword downwards. Instead of cutting him apart, Ichigo had leaped through Yamcha's shoulder and went away further.

Ichigo had landed directly in front of Puar where he guarded the sheath. Yamcha had shifted his hand back to how it originally was again for his sword as he had jumped over to vertically slash at Ichigo. However the Saiyan boy leaped away once more, and Yamcha looked like he was just about to cut Puar instead, however he barely stopped at touching the cat's head, which made it pass out. Yamcha then ran toward Ichigo again with both his hands touching the sword before he swung it down below at the boy's legs from behind. Ichigo had instead jumped high upwards at the sky and made a backflip in doing so.

Ichigo finally managed to take out the pole at his back and started to fall down. "Graaaagh!" he yelled out as he had wildly swinged his pole down at the bandit. Yamcha had managed to raise his sword above his head to block the pole that came at him. Both of their weapons had clashed against one another. Yamcha had pushed Ichigo away from him while he also backed off. The bandit went ahead to charge forward at him again, but Ichigo had freely pointed his pole at him. "Extend!" Ichigo commanded before the red pole suddenly became much longer and it hit Yamcha right in the gut. This had the bandit get sent flying back several meters before he hit the ground.

"Unbelievable!" Puar had exclaimed in shock.

"Alright! Kick his ass!" Oolong cheered.

"Uuugh…" Yamcha groaned from the pain he felt in his gut, but nevertheless he managed to get back up. As he had he couldn't help but glance at that staff that the kid had. "H-Hey, kid… that staff you have… where in the world did you get it?" he asked Ichigo. If that pole was actually what he thought it was… "There's only one man in the world who could possibly have that staff."

Ichigo quirked his eyebrows at this. He found this a bit odd but nevertheless he didn't see harm in answering that. "It belonged to the one man who trained me. But unfortunately he passed away. His name was Son Gohan." he answered him.

"Son Gohan?!" Yamcha genuinely seemed shocked by this revelation. "No wonder why that pole seemed familiar to me! Son Gohan was a supposed martial art master who was superior to most martial artists in general!" Yamcha exclaimed. "Although I never even heard he had kids to begin with! What was your relationship with him?"

"He…" Ichigo made a small frown before hardening his look. "To put this in very simple terms, he was my… grandfather…" that just felt weird to say. When he thought about it he never even knew about having grandparents in his previous life. "Any questions further from that are banned for me to answer to someone like you."

Yamcha had merely nodded his head. "That's all the information I would need. Since you are Son Gohan's grandson, I shouldn't hold back at all anymore." the bandit had taken on a special stance as he lowered himself. Something about that seemed familiar to Ichigo. "Now, prepare yourself!"

Ichigo had then saw Yamcha sprinting at him, but something about this sprint looked too odd. This sprint didn't really seem like that of a human. In fact the way it was done reminded the boy of some kind… a wolf. It was just then that Ichigo realized what that attack was. 'Wait, that stance! Isn't that—'

"Wolf Fang Fist!"

Yamcha had then started to unleash a fury of wild attacks that came at all sides at Ichigo. Ichigo was trying to block all the strikes that came at him. He managed to block a kick that came right at him. After that there were the paws just kept coming at him over and over, and they were so quick. Ichigo had kept on trying to block the paws but it was becoming more difficult for him to do that. His own defenses and movements were becoming more sluggish, more sloppy, and more slower to react. Having not eaten any food couldn't make him concentrate straight. He was starting to take more blows. It also didn't help with the current state of his mind being… not very stable to say the least…

"Oooooouh!" Yamcha had made the final strike by cupping his hands together and matched the strike directly at Ichigo's chest, something he couldn't block at all. The sudden strike had Ichigo get sent flying backwards through the air. Ichigo couldn't do anything to propel himself before he had been sent through multiple large stone rocks that made holes through. When that happened, the stone rocks had completely fallen down onto Ichigo's body, and it was nowhere to be seen.

Oolong had paled in horror when he had seen Ichigo being defeated. He was so screwed now. Yamcha had turned around to look at Oolong before he started to approach him. Oolong had turned into a fly and started to fly away. However, Puar had countered by transforming into a fly swatter and had managed to smack Oolong back on the ground, transforming him back to his original shape.

"Why the hell did you that for?!"

"Consider it payback for the years of bullying me!"

"Alright, that's enough. We wasted enough time as it is." Yamcha was now directly in front of Oolong. "Either hand us your money and capsules, or you join your friend."

Oolong had growled, but nevertheless he compiled as he did not want to lose his life right now. "Damn it…" he digged in his pocket to pull out a capsule. "I was really hoping to use this one on special occasions." he reluctantly gave his capsule to Yamcha.

Yamcha seemed to be quite pleased by this. "An M sized capsule? Hoho, that's pretty expensive to get. This will surely pay nicely."

However at that moment, there were rumbles that were seen from the stone rocks, and Ichigo had bursted from the rocks. "Agh, bloody hell…" he grumbled as he seemed quite irritated, and didn't really show any damage handed to him at all.

Despite this Ichigo had continued to walk forward. "Hey! This fight isn't over yet! Not by a long shot!" Ichigo exclaimed as he had surprised almost everyone.

"Huh, well I'll be damned. I'm surprised you're still alive after all that." Yamcha remarked as he looked at the boy who was approaching him. "I would take it that you would like to have a taste of the Wolf Fang Fist once more?"

This was where Ichigo had gained a cocky smirk. "Who knows—" Ichigo had then taken a fighting strange if his own. "—You really might need it. It might be your only shot of taking me down. You really would use a technique like that to beat a child like myself?" he had silently chuckled. "I guess you're not much of a fighter, are you?"

This had Yamcha become provoked by the insults. "Why you…" the young man had started to run back at the boy again. "I don't need my Wolf Fang Fist to beat someone like you!"

Ichigo prepared for the oncoming attacks that would come at him. Yamcha had made a spinning kick that came right at Ichigo's head, however it turns out that the kick was fake, letting go of it at the last second before he threw a right fist instead. Ichigo countered by throwing his left fist instead, which both have clashed against one another. It was then that Yamcha threw a roundhouse kick at Ichigo's head, but the boy ducked his head in time. Ichigo then jumped as he had used his knee to hit Yamcha's chin before he managed to flip behind him and grab onto the clothes before throwing him away. Yamcha had hit a stone rock but his body had bounced out of it before he hit the ground, forming a small crater of his size in doing so.

Needless to say, Yamcha was absolutely furious by this as he had gotten up again, glaring murderous daggers at Ichigo. "You little shit… you'll pay for this!" he then started to run after Ichigo as fast as he could all while he screamed. "HOOOOOOOOOOOOOUGHHH!"

Ichigo himself was starting to feel more dizzy, his hunger becoming much harder to focus straight. "I… can do this…" he said, between his gritted teeth.

However, Bulma had started to regain her composure again as her eyes have started to open themselves. She had shifted her body upright so that she crouched down. Bulma had rubbed her eyes. "Geez, guys… what's with all the screaming about?"

Her answers were given to her almost immediately when Yamcha had stopped just halfway to Ichigo when his eyes glanced towards Bulma. His attention was focused at her, and he couldn't help but just stare at her. 'She's gorgeous!' he thought to himself before his face turned completely red down and fell down on the ground.

Ichigo was just dumbfounded by this. "Wait, what the hell?" he looked back at Bulma before looking back at Yamcha again. It was then that he realized what happened. "Ohhh... I get it now."

"T-This isn't over! I'll be back later!" Yamcha had stuttered his words before he had gotten to his flying bike and fleet away with Puar.

"Hey, hey!" Bulma had now gotten in front of the co. "Who was that handsome guy just now?! He looked really cool!"

"I'm too hungry to care right now…" Ichigo said.

Evening had now passed within the confines of the desert. Ichigo and the others had stayed at what seemed like a 2 story van, something that Oolong had in his Capsule but tried to hide it.

"Just why exactly did you hide that you had such a camped Capsule like that in the first place?!" Bulma asked, as she did not seem very pleased that Oolong had hidden such a thing from them when this could have been used earlier, all while she sat on the couch with a coffee mug on her hand.

"I had to hide it for special occasions! Just be lucky that bandit hadn't stole it!" Oolong replied in annoyance before he set the another plate of a large cooked kitchen down on the table. In that table was Ichigo eating all the food there was on it like a madman. "Kid, you really gotta slow down. You're gonna choke yourself if you keep this up."

Ichigo didn't listen to him, instead he just kept eating at ravenous speeds.

"Oh, Yamcha…" Bulma had sighed. "I hope to see him again. He was so shy, but so handsome…" the teen looked back at Oolong. "Is there a bathroom in this place?"

"It's on top of the stairs." Oolong led her as both of them were walking on the stairs before he opened the room for the bathroom as he turned on the lights.

Bulma didn't really seem too pleased by the rather small size she was at. "It looks so small. To be honest, I'm more used to bigger and luxurious bathrooms."

"Oh, well how about we go down to a luxurious hotel down the road? I'm sure there's plenty of them out there IN THE DESERT." Oolong sarcastically replied back to her.

"Fine." Bulma grunted before she started to look around.

"Now what are you looking for?!"

"Peepholes." Bulma then put a glare at Oolong. "I wouldn't put it past you to do something like that."

"Fine." Oolong grunted, but he had other thoughts instead. 'Hah! As if I would do something minor like peepholes when I have something better!'

Soon enough, everything had become dark as the sun had fully fallen down. It would be hard for an average person to see where they were walking towards, but for Yamcha and Puar who have lived here for a while, it wasn't very hard for them to move around while they were hiding behind a rock stone, with the van being in front of them.

"A double decker van, huh?" Yamcha mused himself. "I bet I could sell it for a pretty decent prize."

"But what about the girl?" Puar asked his master, knowing his weakness over women.

Yamcha grinned, good thing that he had planned this out to get rid of that problem. "It's fine. All we have to do is take the girl outside somehow, and after that we'll get to rob whatever they have in there!"

Back in the van, both Oolong and Ichigo were on the lower as they have sat on the couch together, with Oolong checking out the windows to see if anybody was out there. "You really think we're going to be safe here?" he asked the boy as he sat back down.

Ichigo only shrugged at this. "Well it's better than staying outside. Unless you like it there more than here." he said, as his feet were resting on the desk while his hands were resting at the back of his head.

"Say, I've been meaning to ask lately… just why exactly are you risking your life to go to a place like Fire Mountain in the first place? What's all with all these journey for?" Oolong asked.

"It's more so to get a Dragon Ball there."

"Dragon Ball?" Oolong seemed confused by this. "What's that?"

Ichigo had scratched his hair, considering whether to tell him or not about this. "I guess I should have expected to answer you at some point, so I guess it would be alright to tell you." he had pulled a Dragon Ball and put it on the desk. "This is how one of these look like for the most part."

"Ok? But what exactly are they for anyways?"

"There's a legend that there are 7 magical balls that are hidden somewhere in the planet. The purpose of these balls are that you have to gather all of them together, and once you do then there would be a dragon that would come out of them. Once that happens, it will allow you to grant any wish you want." Ichigo had explained.

Oolong had merely gaped his pork mouth at this revelation bestowed upon him. It can grant wishes?! "You're kidding me! So, it can give you any wishes you want?!"

"Well…" Ichigo had a small frown shown on him. "Any that's capable of doing at least…"

"So that's why you're crazy enough to go to a place like Fire Mountain! Did that radar she had on the boat tell you where these Dragon Balls are located?"

"Yeah I guess."

"Any wish that you can be granted with, huh…" Oolong had then made a perverted grin with some drool coming out of him. "I already know what I wanna have with that!"

"I wonder what that could possibly be…" Ichigo sarcastically replied as he rolled his eyes. He then widened his eyes when he had sensed a couple of energy sources that were just very close to the van. This got him on alert as he checked on the windows. "Shit." he cursed as he had recognized whom these belonged to.

Oolong let go of his drool as he looked back at Ichigo again. "Hm? Something wrong?"

"I think we might have a problem…" Ichigo had started to whisper to keep his voice down to make sure he wasn't heard.

"Hey! Oolong!" Bulma had came down from the stairs as she only had a towel wrapped around her body, with another towel wrapped around her hair. "You got any spare pyjamas for me to wear in here?"

Oolong had gotten to the fridge before he opened it up and pulled a tray with two orange juices on them, and he gave the teen girl a weird look. "You only have mine. But don't expect them to be of your size at all."

Bulma was not very pleased by this answer, as she had angered look on her face. "So what am I supposed to wear on bed then?!"

"How would I know?! Only option you would have is to sleep naked!"

"Fine!" Bulma had argued, not very much liking the idea of sleeping with no clothes on her, especially with this pervert in the large van, but she didn't have much of a choice at this point. "But you better have washed my clothes by morning!"

"Whatever you say…" Oolong murmured. "Slave driver…" he then presented the drinks. "So how about you have some drink then? This should calm your nerves."

Bulma's mood had already shifted as she had grabbed the drink without question. "Ah, thank you. You can be nice sometimes after all." she then went ahead to drink it.

Oolong had a smirk on his face, seeing that this was working as well as he thought it would. He then showed the last drink to Ichigo, who had turned his head to look at the window. "Say, you want some as well? It's really good." he "kindly" offered it to the boy.

Ichigo barely casted a glance at the pig before he grunted as he turned around. "Not interested. Drink it yourself why don't ya." he rudely said.

Oolong had a small sweat on his head, seeing this wasn't going well now. He had to get him to drink this thing. "You sure? It can get ya stronger, you know?"

Ichigo turned again to give Oolong an irritated glare. "Can't you take a hint? I said I'm not interested. So deal with it." he told him. He didn't know why but something about those drinks told him not to drink them at all. "Don't make me repeat again."

Oolong had started to get nervous now. This was getting bad. With this kid still being awake, getting into Bulma's room was going to be more difficult than he thought. He heard Bulma yawning before she started to head off upstairs to get to bed.

"Hey…" Ichigo looked over at Oolong again. "Turn off the lights now." he had whispered again.

Oolong had seemed confused by this. "What?" hd asked in confusion, not understanding what he meant by this. "What are you talking about?"

"You know that bandit and the cat that we saw earlier?" Oolong nodded his head, still confused by this. "Well, turns out they're back now. And they're very close by, I can sense them."

"What?!" Ichigo had shushed the pig with a finger onto his mouth as a sign to keep his voice down. "You mean, they're here right now?" Oolong asked in nervousness, and Ichigo nodded his head. "Well, what are we gonna do?" he started to whisper.

"Just turn off the lights." Ichigo instructed him. "I'll deal with Yamcha by myself."

"Seriously? Weren't you losing the last time you fought him?"

Ichigo scowled at this. "Last time I lost was because I was starving to death. My body is at peak shape again, no way in hell am I gonna lose the second time. Now turn off the lights. I know what I'm doing here."

"A-Alright…" Oolong nodded his head before he went ahead to fully shut down the lights in the large van.

Ichigo had now merely stood in front of the door, bending his left leg lower while he put his right leg further behind, and he railed his right fist. He now waited if Yamcha bursts through. This time he was ready.

"Alright, Yamcha, it's all clear now." Puar told his master, as he had been staring at the window of the downstairs.

Yamcha had put a small tech device under the large van before he got up and nodded at Puar. "Alright then. You know what to do, Puar."

"Right." Puar had then transformed into a key, as he had landed on Yamcha's palm. Thanks to this, Yamcha had started to unlock the closed door before he fully opened. He had taken the first steps within the downstairs, but the room was completely dark. "Man… it's so dark here, you can barely see anything."

Suddenly, Yamcha felt like he was hit by an invisible air of force that hit him in the chest, which sent him flying back before he roughly landed on the ground again. It felt like air itself just hit him. He heard Puar calling out for his name before getting next to his side. "Agh, what just hit me?" he groaned as he started to get back up.

"Ready for round 2?!" Ichigo exclaimed as he jumped out of the open door, readying his stance to fight Yamcha again.

"You again?" Yamcha chuckled as he had fully gotten up again. "Alright. To be honest, I was hoping that I'd get a rematch from you again. I can't possibly turn down a fight from Son Gohan's grandson." he then took on his own stance. "Alright, kid! You wanna have another beating from my Wolf Fang Fist!"

Ichigo had merely smirked from this. "Let's see if you won't run away this time. Yesterday I was really damn hungry, but today my body is at peak condition. I'm not sure if beating me would be like how it was before."

Yamcha then went ahead to attack Ichigo first as he leaped right at him with a roundhouse kick, but once more he had tricked this by using his right fist instead. Ichigo had reacted more faster than before as he used his left fist to counter against Yamcha's. Ichigo then let his opponent's fist slide past before he jumped at Yamcha's head to use his right first to hit the face, but Yamcha had managed to barely block it with his left hand. Yamcha then raised his leg to do another roundhouse kick at Ichigo's body, but Ichigo managed to block it with his left wrist, and Ichigo countered this by kicking Yamcha's face, which sent the desert bandit down on the ground.

Ichigo landed down on his feet again. "What's the matter? Your movements look like they've gotten slower since we fought yesterday." he taunted the bandit.

Yamcha held his cheek that had a very visible bruise on it while he glared at the smirking boy. "Y... You little shit…!"

"Yamcha! Your face!" Puar got to his friend's face. "Your tooth fell out!"

"Huh?!" Puar had turned into a mirror, and Yamcha could clearly see that he had a missing tooth from the kick that Ichigo gave him seconds ago. "AH! My tooth! My tooth fell out! Now I'll never be able to get a date!"

Ichigo had a sweatdrop at the back of his head. He was freaking out because some tooth fell out even though it would grow back later? Yamcha then got up on the ground and gave a glare at Ichigo. "You little bastard! I'll remember this!" he exclaimed before he started to run away again.

"...That's it?" Ichigo more so asked himself on what just happened.

The morning sun had now begun to rise from the desert. Ichigo and Oolong had stayed up all night in the large van to make sure that Yamcha or anybody else didn't burst through. It was already surprising that how quickly the last few hours have passed by. Oolong had a shotgun with him while Ichigo was just sitting on the couch. It was then that Bulma had come out of the stairs with nothing but a towel wrapped around.

"Uuuugh…" Bulma had groaned. "I have a really bad headache now. Hey, Oolong, did you have my clothes ready now?"

Oolong turned to look at Bulma with a semi annoyed look. "I didn't have the time." he simply told her.

Bulma had become angered by this. "What do you mean you didn't have the time?! This is serious! I don't have any clothes to wear!"

Ichigo rolled his eyes out of this. Could she not be anymore annoying? "I don't know if you noticed, but we stayed up all night here just so that we don't get attacked."

"Attacked? What could attack us here?"

"I dunno, totally not that desert bandit from yesterday." Ichigo sarcastically replied back to her.

The answer had merely given the teenage girl an excited smile. "You mean that hot hunk from before came here last night?! I don't know what you're talking about! If he came here I would have given him a big warm welcome!"

Ichigo looked at her as if she was completely stupid. "I can only imagine how amazing it must be to be like you."

"Look, if you want clothes, there is one on the drawers above the stairs." Oolong said.

"Why didn't you just say so?!" Bulma then started running off upstairs.

Oolong had sighed as he had gotten off from his seat and went to the bathroom on the current floor to wash his hands and brush his teeth. 'For my wish to get the Dragon Balls, I would want it to have a woman who would be nothing like this girl. I thought I was despicable but I'm starting I may have been outmatched.' he thought to himself. "Man, she has a good body, but a terrible personality."

"OOLONG!" Bulma had screamed in outrage as she was shown to be wearing a black bunny suit with bunny ears on her head. "YOU CALL THESE CLOTHES?!"

Oolong had merely rolled his eyes. "Give me a break, this is all I had left for a woman's clothes." he said. "Besides, you look good in it."

"Look on the bright side, if you're lucky enough you can have a guy or more pay up money in a private room you're in." Ichigo sarcastically snarked.

"Oh shut it!" Bulma replied back at Ichigo. "You're just really rude! And you!" she looked back at Oolong. "You're going to drive!"

"What?! Me?!"

"Of course!" Bulma huffed. "Girls have to be busy with makeup and skincare!"

Oolong gave her a blank look. "Sure, and not having sleep for a whole night isn't important."

With that said and done, the trio had continued their journey. Their next place being the Fire Mountain.

"D-Damn it all…" Yamcha had rubbed his cheek from the soreness hr felt. "That kid really knows how to fight well." he grumbled, as he and Puar had been on a car together.

"But what are we gonna do about those Dragon Balls?" Puar asked.

Yamcha smirked from this. "It's fine. I may have lost the battle, but it's a good thing that I planned something out before that happened. I put a tracking device on that van so that way I can follow where they're going, since it's useless to get Dragon Balls unless you collect all 7 of them." he clenched his right fist. "And once that happens, I'll just take them! And they'll never see it coming! So that way…" he got up from the car and pumped his fist in the air. "I WILL NEVER BE SHY AROUND WOMEN AGAIN!"

Hey guys. Good to see ya again after a while. Hope you did enjoy this chapter as much I liked writing this one. This one was pretty fun to write, especially with Yamcha in this, though I wasn't really into writing the part with him being a prude around girls, and removed the naked Bulma parts, since they felt really unnecessary within the story. And also along with the Shu and Mai planting the bomb in anime, didn't really serve purpose there.

So yeah, right now the next parts should be with Fire Mountain with the first meeting with the Ox King and… Chi-Chi. Wonder how that would go with you when I write those parts. Especially with Ichigo in this.

See ya all next time!