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Yes, I wrote this entire story and I do plan on writing the back story that goes along with it. It may take me a little while, mainly because I have a lot of other stories to finish and I'm in college full time with 35 hours a week at work. If that's not enough, trying rasing a daughter on top of all that.
Mythical Origins Tired Of It All Chapter OneHe stood, walking to the door with his fists tightly clenched. Goku shook, his temper rising to the surface. "Goku! We're not finished! Honestly, what king of an example are you setting for your son?"
Goku scowled; enough was enough. "You mean like you pretend!"
Goten, sitting at the table, dropped his pen and stared at his father in open mouth astonishment. His father never stood up to Chi-chi, yet here he was. His mother was a control freak, but until now he had never said anything. Chi-chi, unsure of how to respond, stared at him for several minutes before she regained her ability to speak. She yelled him, not because he feared her, but because Chi-chi knew she could get away with it. "Goku! I'm not the problem; you are!"
Goku's faced reddened, the color a unique contrast to his normally calm features. He snarled, unleashing the side he always kept controlled. His teeth pulled back and his black eyes swirled with emotion. Chi-chi blinked, startled by his sudden fury. "Calling the kettle black, aren't we?" He snarled.
"Is it so hard to say thank you, Chi-chi? All you ever do is bitch about Goten's or Gohan's studies! I hate to break this to you, but if it hadn't been for both your sons, you would be dead! Let's forget that I died not once, but twice, so that you may live in happiness and peace. Forget that your son is here because it was I, not you, who sacrificed his life. I didn't ask to be brought back to life. It was I that gave him the chance to have his world; not you, not Vegeta and not some damn book!"
Chi-chi was numb, unable to respond to her husband's outburt. His eyes burned with sparks of red, a white flame radiating around his body. All signs of his humanity had vanished, replaced by the feral Saiya-jin glaring at her with contempt. Goten stared at his parents, witnessing his father challenge Chi-chi for the first time. Normally his mother would have won easily, but his father was all savagery.
Goku's tail smashed the air angrily. He took a step towards Chi-chi, trapping her against the wall of the small house. There was no where to run and he could smell her fear. "I tried to give you everything, a home, your sons and a good life. No matter how hard I aimed to please, it was never good enough. Gohan and Goten are not the two that hate me; you are. What did I do so wrong to earn a lecture every morning, noon and night?"
"Who was it that went after Gohan when Raditz kidnapped him? Where were you when the androids came, Cell, Majin Buu, and Broli? Where were you when the planet blew to nothing? Hell, even Vegeta had more tollerance, and he had more reason to hate me than anyone! What's your excuse, Chi-chi?"
"You can't talk to me like that! If you don't like how I run things, then leave! Don't come back until you've learned some manners!"
“If that's the way you want it, fine. Goten, let's go! Now!”
Chi-chi blinked, watching as her son quickly jumped away from the table and ran up to his father. “Wait a minute! I said you, not him!” Goten froze, torn between obeying his father and mother.
“He's my son! You've had your chance with him! By the way, don't think that I'm aware of your affair with that desert bandit. How long were you sleeping with him and when were you going to tell me about it? I may be twenty-five, but I'm a lot smarter than I was the first time.”
The expression on Chi-chi's face was priceless and he wished that he had a kodak picture for it. “How...?”
“Give me a break, Chi-chi. His scent is all over you! I'm curious, why'd you stay so long if you couldn't stand me? It's not like I would have stopped you. I hope you're happy. Yamcha isn't known to be very loyal to his girlfriends or lovers.”
“You can't have my son, Goku.”
Goku roared and slammed Chi-chi against the wall so hard that she saw stars for several hours after wards. “If you dare touch what is rightfully mine... You forfeited all rights to him when you turned your back on me and I refuse to have my son raised by a man who has no morals.” Goku let go of Chi-chi and turned to his son, eyes bulging out of his head. “Let's go.”
Chi-chi was not willing to give up; “If you take my son, I'll report you for kidnapping!”
“Sit down!” roared Goku. “Do you have any idea how humiliating it is to hear you lecture me in front of my sons, friends and the whole world? Besides, who do you think they will award custody of Goten too? The world hero, or a nagging whore? If you really want me to disclose to everyone about your affairs then go ahead and challenge me. I promise, Vegeta would break that pretty neck of yours. He may be an arrogant ass, but when it comes to disgracing the Saiya-jin empire, he has no tolerance or merci. Stay away from me and my sons. From this moment on, we cease to exist in your eyes.”
Goku walked out the door with Goten close behind, feeling free for the first time of a bunch of books and rules. Chi-chi sat on the floor for a long time. “I don't need them. Goku did me a favor.”
Goku looked at his son, the anger gone from his eyes. He smiled. There was uncertainty in Goten's face and Goku felt a little guilty about having his son see all that, but the freedom he felt couldn't make him go back and apologize for any reason. Goten saw his father smile at him and knew everything was still good between them. “What's up?”
“Where are we going to stay if we don't live with mom anymore?”
Goku frowned. He hadn't thought about that during his fight with Chi-chi. “Why don't we go to capsule corp.? Maybe, if Vegeta is in a good mood, we can stay there for a while.”
“I don't know dad. I heard that Vegeta and Bulma were going through some bad stuff too.”
“Really. I hadn't heard anything.”
They reached Capsule Corp., hearing a lot of shouting coming from the house. Cautiously they approached, wondering if Bulma needed help. Upon entering, they were stunned to find Trunks hiding behind the counter in terror, covering his ears from the fight taking place in the living room. “What's going on Trunks?” Goten asked.
Trunks jumped at Goten's voice, but sighed in relief. “Sit a few minutes, and you'll find out. If dad doesn't kill mom, then living on Earth has made him soft. He's livid and ready to snap her in two."
Goku started to help Bulma, but when he heard what was being said, his morning argument with Chi-chi came flooding back. “Why are you sleeping with Yamcha behind my back woman? Did you think I wouldn't find out and if I did, not care and do nothing? Who else are you sleeping with?”
“I slept with him because he pays more attention than to me than you ever did or will! You're always off fighting, and you're never around for the kids. You know what you are, a has been and always will be.”
Goku had heard enough and walked straight through the wall, forgetting that their was an entrance into the next room. The look of pure rage on his face, made Vegeta hold back, watching in awe as his rival closed in on Bulma. What Chi-chi had missed in Goku's expression, he clearly saw. There was nothing human about Goku, he was all Kakarot and pure instict driving him to hurt or kill Bulma. 'What pushed him over the edge?' he wondered.
He barely touched her, but his strength was enough to fling her against the couch and pin her. "That was stupid, Bulma, even for you! I don't have to remind you that it was I who stopped Vegeta from killing you and this entire mud ball. Was I wrong? Let me tell you something about your has been..." He snarled, his fingers cracking her wrist, "Despite everything Frieza did to him, created this Saiya-jin to be; Vegeta kept his honor and pride. He saved this planet, despite his feelings. Vegeta did all of this not for Earth, but for you!"
Vegeta dropped his fists, unable to speak. This couldn't be the Saiya-jin he'd been fighting for the past fifty years. 'Kakarot respects me!' The truth was like a cold bucket of water in his face and for the first time he felt badly for all the years he had hated the man. To Kakarot, Vegeta had never been second or third, but a friend. He still couldn't understand why Kakarot would suddenly turn on his childhood friend and defend him? "Kakarot, what do you want?"
The Saiya-jin shrugged, his gaze still on Bulma. "I left home! Seems we both have a problem."
Vegeta raised a brow. 'My god, the third class idiot actually had the balls to tell his wife off and leave?' “For once, I agree with you. I'm joining you!"
“What do you mean you'll join him?”
“Did I say it wrong? Let me put it in japanese; I'm leaving and taking my son and daughter with me. Trunks! Get your sister now! We're leaving!”
Goten was having his second shock for the day and didn't know if he could take any more. First his mom, now Bulma, and they still had no place to stay.
Vegeta joined Goku and Goten with Trunks and Bra quickly following. “I knew I should have let this mud ball be destroyed,” Vegeta muttered under his breath.
“Then let me know the next time you try so I can help,” Goku growled. Vegeta, almost hit a moutain face, his ears ringing from Kakarot's comment. Three demi-saiya-jins were just as horrified or stunned, they weren't sure which emotion to feel.
“Dad, we still have no place to stay tonight.”
Goku was thinking. “How about Gohan? Hopefully he's not having troubles too.”
Gohan was playing with his eight-year-old daughter, Pan, in the yard when his dad, brother, Vegeta, Trunks and Bra dropped down. Vedel had died of cancer a couple of years ago, leaving him to raise his daughter alone. At first it was hard, but he threw all of his time and energy into his daughter, trying to forget about his late wife. “Hello dad, Vegeta. What are you guys doing here?”
“Mind if we stay for a few days or weeks?”
A sweat drop appeared above Gohan's head as he blinked at his father. “Why not with your wives?”
“We left,” Vegeta stated flatly. Gohan fainted, making his scowl get bigger. “Damn kid always did have problems with shocks.”
Goku easily lifted Gohan and moved into the house. Gohan woke an hour later and had his father explain what happened. He understood and agreed to let them stay. “Dad, I'm sorry about mom. I knew a long time ago about it, but never had the heart to tell you.”
Goku was stunned. “You knew? That must be why you hated Yamcha for the last few years.”
“So what are you going to do now, dad?”
“I have an idea, but I need to talk to Piccolo tomorrow morning. I was wondering if you and Pan would come with me to Kami's lookout. I'm going to ask the others later. Goten for sure is coming with me, but you guys have a choice.” Goku refused to say anymore and dove into dinner along with everyone else.
“We're leaving. Want to come? We're erasing all knowledge of the Saiya-jins from the people of earth and going to the future.”
Piccolo didn't act surprised. In fact, he was wondering why it had taken Vegeta and Goku so long to stick up to their mates and let them go. “Fine. Have nothing better to do anyway.”
“Dad, we don't have the dragon balls with us,” said Gohan.
“Who cares. I'm still a part of Shenlong and can use the dragon without gathering them.”
Goku closed his eyes and focused on the sleeping dragon within him and soon it blasted into the sky. “Shenlong, erase all memories and bonds to the Saiya-jins from the minds of the people on this planet. Two, give us all our tails back. Three, send the eight of us here in the group around me, far into the future to where we will never see this time or the people in it again.”
“Granted,” Shenlong's eyes glowed red and they all landed in the middle of a huge intersection and almost got hit by several cars.
“Kakarot! What the hell did you do?” Vegeta roared. Everyone but Piccolo and Goku were in shock.
“Oops, guess I forgot to tell you what I was going to do?”
Vegeta lunged at Goku and started beating him up when he realized something. The bond between him and Bulma was completely gone and he felt totally free. “Maybe this won't be to bad after all. Remind me to thank you later, Kakarot.”
“Dad, what are we going to do now that we're here?”
Goku sat down on the grass and then smiled. “Let's go to college!”
“What?” Everyone shouted. Piccolo looked at Goku as if he had snapped under the strain of Chi-chi. “Goku what the hell are you talking about? You know as well as I do, how hard it is in school.”
Goku scratched his head. “Not really. I've read Gohan's and Goten's school books and they were easy to understand. Don't know why Chi-chi thought it was hard, because the boys and I never had a hard time with the work.”
Dumb looks came across Gohan's and Goten's face. “Uh... dad... You never told us you understood our homework,” Gohan pointed out to him.
“That's because Chi-chi thought I was stupid and never gave me a chance to prove other wise.”
They all sighed. Goku could be such an airhead sometimes. “Don't you think we have to take an entrance exam to get in first?” Trunks said.
“Yeah, so what! Let's go get in collage and have some fun for a change. I'm tired of always defending a planet that no one appreciates." All six warriors and two children, Bra and Pan, wandered around town for the next few days registering for classes and taking several entrance exams.
Usagi and the Sailor Senshi
Usagi, in America, was in her last year of high school. She was eighteenand a lot different than the Sailor Senshi remembered her as.
Flash Back
They were having one of their normal study sessions, when Usagi walked in from another day of detention. She had tried to get her homework done that night, but it was so hard to her and the teacher had sent her to detention again until she had gotten it done.
“Usagi! Are you ever going to do anything right and show up on time?” Rei yelled at her.
“Yeah really, Usagi. You have to start giving more of an effort instead of always being late to everything. You will never get any stronger because you never apply yourself,” Makoto said.
“I'm disappointed Usagi. High School entrance exams are a week away and you're still making 50's on most of your tests. You never listen to a word I say or teach, so how do you expect to pass?” Ami finished telling her, reading her science book.
Usagi, holding back tears from their remarks, looked at Minako. “Anything you would like to add?”
“Well, you don't act like a leader sometimes, Usagi. I'm not saying you're not powerful, just that you're irresponsible. One day you're going to get someone killed and a simple I'm sorry I'm late, won't fix it.”
Luna and Artemis were out on a walk, unaware of the cruel things the senshi were saying. "If that's what you think, that I'm a failure, then I'll get out of your way. See ya."
The senshi gasped, unprepared for the single tear that slipped down her face before she turned and walked out of their lives. "I think we were too hard on her," Makoto said.
"I've never seen her cry before, not like that. She didn't even whine this time." Rei wanted to go after Usagi; they always fought. She never thought the other girls would join her.
"Rei, she needs to grow up. What do you think Ami? Should we go after her?"
"No." Everyone stared at Ami in shock. Where was the shy girl they had all known. "We probably were too hard on her, but Usagi's always come back. Why would now be any different? We all know that she doesn't train or study hard enough. This will do her good."
The other girls didn't feels so sure. Usagi's last expression had been different this time and Rei felt a bad premonition coming.
The last think she had expected or needed was Mamoru to hurt her as well. Her heart ached and she was unable to cry. Gritting her teeth, "Don't worry, Mamoru, it won't happen again."
He blinked. Usagi always called him Mamo-chan, but this time she had purposely called him Mamoru. Shaking it off, "The girld told me about your last test. I'm disappointed. You need to be more focused."
Her eyes had grown cold and distant, far from the kind and loving Usagi he knew. Mamoru had only wanted to make her study harder, not push her emotionally away. He stepped back at the amount of pain he had momentarily seen. "It's amazing. I've managed to make even you hate me. If I'm such a failure, then I'm sure the senshi and yourself will have plenty to laugh about. We have nothing else to say. Good-bye." Usagi walked by him, never looking back or saying another word.
Mamoru reached for Usagi, instantly regretting his words. “Usako... What have I done?”
Usagi made it home, went to her room and lied down. She wanted to cry, but no tears would come and she stayed up through the night thinking. She didn't want to face any of them again for a long time, not wanting to be a failure any more. When dawn hit the next day, she had thought of a plan. For over a year she had been saving her allowance for a car and had quite a bit of money. Grabbing her bags Usagi walked a few blocks, not wishing anyone in her family to see what she was about to do. On the way to the airport, she ran into Artemis.
“Usagi?” He was glancing at the bags in her hands and was instantly concerned. Artemis was terrified of the look in her eyes, wanting to ask what was wrong. They looked dead, sad and tired. “What are you doing?”
Her eyes quivered and she turned her head away from the white cat. “Don't worry about it Artemis. Why don't you go see what Luna's up too.”
“No.” Usagi looked at the cat startled. His expression was serious and something else that she couldn't describe. “I'm staying with you, and if you don't like it, I'm going to call the other girls here and now.”
Usagi placed her bags on the ground and gently picked up the cat and hugged him. “Artemis, I don't want the girls with me, do you understand? If you wish to stay with me, then I'm not going to stop you, but I am going to tell you now. If you're going to lecture me, tell a living soul what I'm about to do or where I'm going then you may as well stay here and walk away now.”
Artemis was silent for a few moments, trying to make his decision. When he and Luna arrived at the temple he had noticed the girls seemed tense. None of them would say why Usagi hadn't showed for the meeting. Something must have happened, but why did he notice and not Luna? Luna had gone into her lecturing mode on how irresponsible Usagi was for not showing up to the meeting, but from the look on the young woman's face he felt there was a good reason for her not being there. “I'm staying with you Usagi and if you don't want anyone else to know, then I'll respect your wishes. I've never lectured you before and I'm not about to start now. I think everyone goes a little over board. All you need is time to grow up.”
Usagi nodded and placed Artemis in one of her carry on bags to the plane. When she walked a mile from home, she signaled a taxi that took her to the airport. After she had payed the driver, Usagi walked up to the check in station where a young woman was taking peoples' tickets.
“What is your destination please,” the lady asked.
“America.”
The lady looked at the young girl and frowned. This girl didn't look old enough to be on her own, let alone traveling to a different country. “How old are you?”
“Old enough to travel and pay you the money you need. Now can I get a ticket or not?” Usagi said in an authoritive voice.
The lady rolled her eyes and gave Usagi a plane ticket to California. Usagi had a place all the way in the back of the plane which suited her just fine. Artemis, came out of the bag and sat on her lap, trying to comfort her the best way he knew. He still was waiting for her to tell him why she was running away, but didn't want to push her. Soon, the plane began to jolt and move, making its run down the speed way. It lifted off with no problems and Usagi looked out the window as Japan disappeared from view and she prepared herself for America.
When Usagi never arrived to school that morning, the senshi began to worry re-think what they had said. None of them had lost much sleep over it, but now, every one of them felt guilt and a sense of betrayal towards her. Still none of them checked it out, and decided to give Usagi more space and went to Rei's temple for another meeting.
After about an hour at Rei's house, she received a call. “Hello, sendei hill temple, how may I help you?”
“Rei, this is Usagi's mom, Mrs. Tuskino. I was wondering, have you seen my daughter? She wasn't in bed this morning and I figured it was because she went to school early. But, she never came home, nor did she call to say she was going to be late.”
Rei gasped and nearly dropped the phone, causing the girls and Luna to look at her. “She never came to school today. I'll get back with you and see if any of the other girls have seen her or if she's at the library.” Rei hung up the phone and her whole body trembled in barely contained sobs. A feeling was forming in her mind; they weren't going to find Usagi and the girls had really messed up this time.
“What's wrong, Rei?” Minako asked.
“Usagi's missing. She's not at home and she never made it to school.”
“What?” Luna yelled. “She was there last night. I was a bit surprised to see that she was gone early though.”
“Luna,” Makoto whispered. “Did Usagi seem a bit out of it when you saw her last night?”
“Now that you mention it, yes. She didn't eat a thing last night, didn't say a word, nor did she say a thing to me about me lecturing her for not being at the meeting yesterday.”
“Where did you get that idea, Luna?” Minako asked. “She came yesterday, but left after only a minute.”
“What? Why didn't you say something then?”
“Because we said some things that we shouldn't have.”
The girls told Luna what they had said and the cat was speechless. Her whole body was numb and she couldn't believe that they had done something so heartless. She was about to start lecturing them on how they should be her protectors and not her parents, when her whole body felt like sinking to the floor. She had done the same thing that night and could not have made Usagi feel any better. “Oh god. What have we done?” Tears poured from the black cat's eyes and the girls joined her.
Minako suddenly realized that someone else was missing out of their group. “Where's Artemis? Did he not come over Luna?”
“No.”
“Oh no.” Ami was becoming frantic. “What if something happened to both of them and we didn't know about it?” She pulled out her computer, but couldn't find a trace of them anywhere in Japan or in space. For several minutes the girls looked at her anxiously, hoping against hope that they would get a lock on their friend. “I can't find her. We're going to have to look for her the old fashion way, on foot.”
The four women and one cat left the shrine and split up through the city. After more than two hours of not locating her, the police were called in and the whole of Japan was looking for the blond teenager that had disappeared without a trace. Usagi's parents were devastated and Shingo had quit talking to everyone and stayed in his room. He had never said anything good to his sister and now regretted everything
“USAGI! PLEASE COME BACK! I PROMISE I'LL BE A NICER BROTHER. I WON'T HAVE ANYONE TO PICK ON OR TELL ME TO APOLOGIZE FOR BEING A JERK!” His whole body racked with sobs as he cried into his pillow, uncaring if he appeared like a whimp. When he went to school, he was like a zombie that passed through, uncaring of what went on in his surroundings.
The four girls had run across Shingo one day, furthing the knife that was already twisting in their hearts. They couldn't tell him that this was not his fault, but theirs; and none of them slept well at all for several years after Usagi's disappearance. They even kept silent when the outer senshi began to ask questions, fearing their reactions worse than anyone's. They couldn't explain it, but they were especially protective of the moon princess and would tear them limb from limb when they found out what had happened.
“USAGI WHERE ARE YOU? WE'RE SORRY AND WE'LL DO ANYTHING TO GET YOU BACK AGAIN!” They cried. Luna had gone silent, sleeping at Minako's while they continued the search. Her guilt was overwhelming and knew she had failed in teaching and protecting the princess.
“Usagi...” She whimpered in her sleep, causing Minako to hold her tighter. She missed her white advisor and wondered why he had left her.
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