Dragon Ball/Z/GT Fan Fiction ❯ A saiya...wha? (Storm timeline #3) ❯ The bonds of a saiyan ( Chapter 6 )

Title: A Saiya-wha...???

Author: J'dee

Rating: NC-17 (offensive language possible lemon later if I feel like it)

Genre: Drama?? / Humour?? / Angst?? / Supernatural?? / Mary-sue

Author's Note: As much as I love this idea. I'm actually hoping not for this fic not to be as long as the other Storm fics. So a lot will be skimmed through when I find the chance… I don't want to do another episode by episode what if my character was there thing…

SIX

***The Bonds Of A Saiyan***

Gohan's fist connected with the side of Zukoe's face and sent him flying. Leona sat up and threw her arms round Gohan.

He placed his arms round her protectively in return. She looked up at him and he could feel how scared she'd been, she was still shaking. He didn't need to say anything-just hug her tight.

Zukoe glared at the boy, he was getting in the way, sure he'd promised he'd leave her alone but he truthfully had no intention, saiyans didn't give up - in anything.

"Shhhh… It's okay." He watched as Gohan soothed her and she clung to him.

Zukoe was more than pissed, she cared for him back, she had never cared for him, what did this kid have that he didn't?

"Please don't let it happen again Gohan." She spoke, her voice quiet.

Zukoe saw Gohan look at him and he stopped. "So she chooses you, you better claim her quick, while she agrees with you, this one is prone to running away."

Gohan just glared at Zukoe. "She should choose who she wants to be with. We're only half saiyan, we shouldn't be forced in to this."

Zukoe stalked up them and grabbed Leona by the arm he tossed her in to a tree. "The way of the saiyan comes first get it through your head girl, you are a saiyan, he is a saiyan, he came here to do the same thing I did!"

Gohan saw her confused look. She then glared at Zukoe. "You forced him in to this like you did me! Well all I want is to sleep damnit!! SLEEP I've been training today and I'm tired. Can't we do this tomorrow?"

"Tomorrow?!" Zukoe exclaimed.

Gohan looked at the older saiyan his expression was priceless, it was an age old tradition to be set obviously on certain days and here she was asking to do it a day after.

"Let her. She was at least training." Gohan stated. "On one condition."

"What?"

"Let Bulma go."

Zukoe stalked off angered, he gave no reply or any agreement.

"Sllllllleeep." Leona fell over and Gohan scooped her up realising she had indeed been tired.

~*~*~*~

They arrived back at the house, to find Darrsan, Vegeta and Zukoe gone. Gohan walked in carrying Leona, he saw Piccolo sitting at the table.

"You're okay." Piccolo smiled.

"Had you any doubt?" Gohan smiled.

Piccolo shook his head. "Not really."

"How's my mother doing?" Gohan asked.

"She went to bed about an hour ago. She was worried Gohan, I tried to sense you, but were racing around everywhere." Piccolo replied. "I'd never sensed you so panicked before."

Gohan felt a flush cross his cheeks and he looked down. Lee was sound asleep in his arms. "It was supposed to be a saiyan ritual or something. They-" He stopped, just the images of Zukoe slamming her in to the tree shouting at her heritage made him mad.

"Vegeta mentioned a hunt, said it was between you and the other saiyan. Personally I don't like him."

"Don't blame you Piccolo he knocked you out, they used you to get me and Lee to agree to this thing." Gohan sighed. "Did they let Bulma go?"

Piccolo shook his head. "No. Something about keeping her until the hunt was completed. They will return tomorrow, left some instructions." He pulled out an envelope and handed it to Gohan.

Gohan sat Lee down in a chair at the kitchen table and opened the note, he was dreading these instructions, telling him the saviour of earth from Cell what to do.

He hoped it wasn't an instruction manual rammed on to a few pages.

He began to read:

This is what will happen.

Instead of school tomorrow, you both will stay round and help your mothers at their respective houses. No seeing each other, in fact after you finish reading this you will take her to her mothers. She will sleep there to prevent no saiyan mating occurring before tomorrow night.

When the sun has set Letesh is to be let out and to enter the woods, Johanna will cast a spell to prevent any others from interfering.

The spell itself will send you three to another uninhabitable world where you can hunt uninterrupted. This is between you and Zukoe. The hunt will go on.

Darrsan

Gohan placed the letter down on the table and he looked at Leona, she didn't want this, he didn't want this, but unless another strong half saiyan or full blooded saiyan came along before then to sweep her off her feet he had no choice.

Piccolo picked up the note and he read it.

Gohan just looked at Leona, how could they do this, she was here to prevent some all-powerful evil and they wanted to play matchmaker saiyan style.

Piccolo put the note on the table and he looked at Gohan. His expression was fully serious. "What do you plan to do?"

"Hope that her mother disagrees with this." Gohan replied.

"I think she'll want Darrsan to return Bulma, so she will go along with it, though I don't think she'd be happy."

~*~*~*~

The next day…

The food had no taste as I ate, normally it would have triggered something, but I was terrified completely terrified. My mother she looked the same, she'd told me about the letter and why I had slept there and how she had to help in the hunt, megami forbid if anything happened to Bulma the timelines would be altered something chronic.

It was a meal and I ate, my mother encouraging me to eat as much as I could, but I couldn't I wasn't a saiyan, I didn't want to be, but boy he polished off what I didn't eat.

I stepped outside for a breath of fresh air to see Piccolo standing there.

"You okay Piccolo?" I asked.

He just nodded. "I'm fine, so is Gohan."

I felt my face flush I raced up to I shook my head. "I can't do this. I can't. Please you got to help me."

A flash of sympathy passed his features before his usual stern face replaced it. "Gohan will make sure you're okay. I promise Leona."

"Piccolo I've seen the future. I'm not part of Gohan's future. It's not me. I can't do this."

He looked at me he obviously felt my fear for he just put a hand on my shoulder and looked at me. "You're a fighter. Do what you have to. Fight. Goku trained you didn't he?" I just nodded. "He's the best fighter I know, use what he taught you."

I could only nod. Piccolo left me with the time I would have to venture in to the forest… alone.

I did the chores to help round home, sweep the floors, clean the shower, and bring in the firewood, simple and domestic stuff. Hang out the washing even, doing dishes. I went for an afternoon sleep to stop the fear.

As I lay in my bed I just looked at the blank wall and felt a padding at the base of the bed and looked to see my cat padding round getting comfy before flopping down curling up against me to sleep also. I didn't want to go through what happened with Zukoe again. I didn't want it.

Eventually after my racing mind subsided, sleep consumed me for the rest of the afternoon.

~*~*~*~

Gohan fired another ki blast and the wood was blasted and landed in kindling scraps. He let out a sigh and watched Trunks and Goten train the two of them jumping round Trunks every so often "cheating" as Goten called it by flying away.

Piccolo landed and Gohan looked at him. Piccolo's expression emotionless as normal, but that didn't mean a good or bad thing.

"How is she?" Gohan asked.

"She's scared Gohan. She's made it clear she doesn't want to do this, whatever happened the first time has made her more than frightened. You do what you have to I promised her you'd make sure she wouldn't get hurt."

Gohan nodded. "I intend to stop Zukoe."

"I know you do."

Gohan and Piccolo stopped seeing the two boys watching them.

Goten looked at Gohan. "Where'd Lee go Gohan?"

"To stay with her mother for a while." Gohan replied.

"See told you!" Goten prodded at Trunks who frowned and looked back at him.

"I still think it's got something to do with those guys that arrived last night."

~*~*~*~

Leona finished half of the meal her mother had cooked for her. She looked at her mother who was sitting there across the table silent. The TV in the next room going marking that Neil was there still watching his show while eating his dinner.

"It's like some bad dream." Leona spoke finally.

Her mother reached across the table and took her hands. "I know it is, but you have faith in Gohan don't you?"

Leona nodded. "I have not a single doubt in my mind. But it's not how it is suppose to be. I'm almost old enough to be his teacher."

"Not here you're not, remember that, this isn't home."

"I'm going home mum. Baba told me so. When I come back Trunks and Goten will be older than I will. That will be like twenty years or so."

"Give Gohan the now then, we fall in love for a reason, even if it's not the person we end up with, it opens us up with each experience."

~*~*~*~

Neil brought his plate in and placed it in the sink, I could feel the tension in the air suddenly, it had been just like at home, they'd had another one of their fights, I looked down at my plate sadly, even in a perfectly animated world, they brought the reality of the real world to it. I must have slept through the fight cause everything seemed okay before I went to sleep. I'd be glad when I left part of me would be so happy that I wouldn't have to put up with my dysfunctional family.

I left and walked in to my room, it was mine by the color scheme and the posters on the wall. The cat on the bed, I sat on the bed next to my cat and gave her attention stroking her fur and even waved my tail about for her to bat around.

"Lee honey Goten's here!!" I heard my mother call.

I picked my cat up and walked out to see Goten in our lounge. Neil was gone I knew he'd run off again in one of his moods.

I put my cat down and it bounced side to side trying to suss Goten out, then it ran and jumped up the back of a chair.

"Hey Goten how'd you get here?"

"Nimbus brought me." He smiled. "Are you coming back?"

I smiled. "Yeah, but I have a family too remember that. I gotta spend time with them too."

He just smiled. "Kay."

"Well since you're here wanna see my house?" I asked.

"Yeah!" He cheered.

~*~*~*~

Goten was looking at all the books on the bookshelf of Leona's room, he was glad at his age Gohan had taught him how to read, although he didn't share his brother's full interest in the knowledge that books could bring, he understood that they were part of life and filled with vast knowledge in various topics while others like television were pure entertainment.

The books on Leona's shelf were various. NLP was written down the side of one of the books in a black marker, that book itself had its spine full of creases making the original title unreadable.

"What's that one?" Goten pointed at it.

"It's a bit about you squirt." She replied. "It's on Neuro linguistic programming."

Goten blinked, he hadn't even heard the words before. "Wow. Those are big words."

Leona chuckled. "See if anything catches your eye."

Goten looked at the books. He pulled one out that wasn't as thick as the others and a slight grey and black in coloring.

"The Tao of Bruce Lee…" Goten read.

"One can learn a great deal about another by observing their bookshelf." Leona remarked. She tapped the book. "Just as another can by observing what a visitor takes from the shelf." She added.

"You like martial arts too?" Goten asked.

Leona smiled and nodded. "Yeah. I like a lot of stuff."

"You got a lot of books Gohan would like this." Goten commented.

"I'll have to invite him round one day."

"Yeah!" Goten pumped his fist in to the air.

The door opened. "Leona are you ready? It's almost time." Johanna stuck her head in the door.

"Yea I'm ready, I'm just showing Goten my room."

"Okay five minutes and you have to go." Johanna reminded her daughter and left the two alone again.

Leona pulled out a box from her wardrobe. "These are my old toys."

"Toys!" Goten opened the box up and he pulled out the Ninja Turtle action van. Several ninja turtle action figures inside. April O'Neil in the front with Michelangelo, Donnatello in the swing open door with Raphael in the back opening doors next to the launching rocket, Leonardo sitting on the seat in the back next to Ace duck.

"What's this?" Goten asked.

"Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles They were the thing when I was eight to eleven years old, Transformers were big round then too." I held up a toy car "Cliff jumper." I then transformed the red mini in to his robot form and handed him to Goten.

"Cool!!!"

"You can have that."

"Really! Awesome!"

~*~*~*~

"Leona…" Johanna looked at her daughter before she stepped in to the forest. Goten stood there a confused expression across his face holding the transformer toy and the book on Bruce Lee that Lee had given him.

"I'll be okay mum." She replied.

"Where you going?" Goten asked.

"Hopefully to meet up with Gohan." Leona smiled.

"I can take you to meet Gohan."

"This has to be done the saiyan way Goten." Johanna explained.

Goten blinked. "So you have to walk there?"

"This is a situation for an explain when your older thing." Leona replied.

"I get a lot of those lately." He frowned.

Neil landed and raced up to Leona. She looked at him surprised he'd come back before she'd left.

"Hey be careful okay?" He said.

She gave him a hug and he jabbed her in the side tickling her. "You be okay or I'll tell yo nana."

"My nana is your nana." She replied and ruffled his hair. "Later." She waved and entered the forest.

~*~*~*~

"Gohan Gohan!!" Goten raced in to the house to see Goten standing there while Chi-chi was packing thinks in to a backpack.

"Oh hey squirt where did you get to?"

"I was at Lee's place look what she gave me!" he held up the book and the transformer. "She's got lots of books, she let me have this one. And she gave me this from her old toys. Isn't it cool he can change from a robot to a car."

Gohan smiled. "That's great."

"She said she was hoping to meet up with you. Is that why mom is packing your bag?" Goten asked.

Gohan nodded. "Yeah apparently this could take a couple of days."

"Well Lee's already left."

"Yeah we leave an hour later." Gohan replied.

"We? Is Piccolo going too?" Goten questioned.

"Uh no, me and someone else…" Gohan answered.

"Oooh okay. I'm gunna show these to Trunks. Have fun Gohan!" Goten raced through to the lounge.

Gohan watched as Chi-chi finished doing up the backpack. She handed it to him, Gohan slipped the bag on his bag and gave Chi-chi a hug.

"Gohan you be careful now."

"I will."

"Make me proud, she'd make a great wife."

Gohan sweatdropped. "Uhhhh… k. Bye mom." He walked out of the door and entered the forest.

Piccolo stood there waiting for him, with his chance to wish him well and to be careful.

~*~*~*~

The ground was littered with pin needles and anywhere she stepped in the forest they echoed with a loud crunch. She was tempted to give up the silent approach after all a saiyan could track by her ki.

"This so isn't fair." She complained.

She then spotted a clearing in the forest and she stopped seeing a swamp in front of her, and in the distance a wooden walkway, she shrugged and went to levitate over there when she spotted people, she didn't want to scare anyone and started to wait til they were out of sight. Only to hear a joyful sounding barking. She looked over to see a familiar blue heeler dog racing towards her.

He then pounded on her with muddy paws and she laughed. "Dadaji!" He tried to lick her face and she suddenly knew what that meant.

"Mum… you sent me home." She raced back in to the forest getting her bearings correct and found the path and ran down it with 'Dadaji' racing her, Leona found Chhaya and hugged her tightly.

"Dudette!! Where did you come from?"

"Um… up north." Leona rubbed the back of her neck suddenly realising she's been zapped in to another dimension.

"They said you just vanished."

"It was Avonalon. I tell you."

Chhaya laughed. "Ah eelo brought you to me." She suddenly turned serious. "First you vanished, then Neil, then your old man, I thought something was up, ya know like you dad did or said something to that family member that can make people 'disappear'."

"I'm okay boy is fine I can't say where I've been you just wouldn't believe me. But can I crash over at your place tonight please?"

"My place, dudette you should know by now you don't need to ask. Your second home remember."

"Thanks." Leona hugged her again. "Man I missed you guys I was beginning to think I was going to go crazy having to go back to hi-" She stopped mid word.

"Hi?" Chhaya questioned. "Wait can't tell me."

"I will when everything it done, but not right now."

"That's cool mugi for dinner?"

"Sweet!"

~*~*~*~

Gohan upon arrival to the world instantly felt something different about himself. He couldn't figure it out though, he suddenly picked up Leona's scent, and followed it to a path and he stopped seeing people, they were suppose to be in a secluded dimension or something like that but obviously Johanna had opted for something more public just to obviously annoy Zukoe.

Then he saw her. Leona standing there chatting away to a girl excitedly as they walked Gohan ducked down when she looked behind, and then went back to talking, they were friends. He figured it out only a few moments later, when the other started laughing and then Leona added to the random comment.

"She sent Leona home."

Gohan kept his power level suppressed and followed the two back to the best friends place.

~*~*~*~

I was sleeping in the spare room when the door was opened and I rolled over tiredly. Chhaya stood there looking at me and grinning.

"Dinner time already?" I asked.

She just kept grinning. "Depends on if you plan on eating with us."

"Why would I change my mind?" I frowned sitting up and Chhaya stepped aside and I gasped I had suspected mum had sent them here, but… seeing him, my world, was awkward. How would I explain this to Chhaya without sounding like I needed to be locked up.

"Hi Lee." He smiled.

"Gohan. How? Why? What?" I couldn't be really articulate at this stage.

"You know as well as I do the how, and why." He replied.

I let out a breath, perhaps she did this for a reason to help Zukoe, this world he's sane, the other…"

"World?" Chhaya looked at me.

"You know. Like his own little world." I covered up quickly.

"Zukoe… who would name a child such a shameful name seriously sounds like a vegetable or something." Chhaya replied. "I'll leave you two to talk."

She shut the door and Gohan sat on the side of the bed, I fidgeted with the sheets nerviously.

"How sane was he in this world?" Gohan asked.

"Pretty much a normal person, I never suspected a thing. Dad is going to go off his rocker at mum for this little stunt."

"It doesn't change anything though does it? We still have to."

"There's a full moon here Gohan. Well in the next night or so."

"Do you have your tail?" Gohan asked.

I nodded. "Spell's temporary the day or so after this whole saiyan ritual thing we'll be sent back. But my wiccan side has been prominent in this world, the other world it was my saiyan side as much as I hate to admit it, but I know it's cause of the tail."

Gohan pulled the blanket down and I felt my cheeks heat up and his hand ran across my tail, I had been lucky enough to have it wrapped round my waist when I ran in to Chhaya.

"You know what we have to do then."

"I'm not getting it removed." I hissed. "People will begin to talk and…"

"Not that." Gohan sighed.

I blinked obviously clueless until he kissed me pinning me underneath him on the bed. I suddenly pushed him back.

"My best friends house… did you lose those manners of yours? I have to introduce you to the family. They're my family too…"

Gohan blinked. "Like I am at Bulma's?"

"Yeah." I replied.

He rubbed the back of his neck. "Okay."

I let out a breath. Then I smiled. "Then we'll have dinner here cause trust me Indian cooking is like the bomb… then some clubbing I say."

"Uhhh clubbing?"

"Night clubbing silly."

"What about Zukoe out there?"

"I want to go out and I will go out Son Gohan." I prodded him in the chest.

He smiled. "Okay. I'll meet you in the lounge then, don't forget hide that tail."

I nodded. "Right."

~*~*~*~

Gohan was brought back to Leona's house, where she said she'd find him the right clothes to wear out. She pulled out a pair of unisex dark colored cargos and handed him a belt and a casual white shirt and a dressy blue shirt to wear over top. Gohan took off his own trousers and then put the cargos on and then the white shirt.

Gohan held up the blue shirt and looked at her. "Care to explain?"

She smiled sheepishly. "It's that or the players shirt and boy would flip if you touched his players shirt."

"I mean why is Mirai on the shirt?"

She flashed him the smile. "What you want the Goku one instead I can get it for you, it's orange."

"Lee why is mirai and my dad on shirts here?"

"Later Gohan, please, do this for me and I'll tell you later."

Gohan frowned and he put the shirt on and Leona did up the bottom buttons. "Tell me Lee." He said. "I deserve to know."

She straightened up and sighed. "A television show here. Called Dragonball, it's very popular."

"Television show." He repeated.

She watched as he sat down on boy's bed the shock settling in. "I'm sorry Gohan."

"You should go get ready."

She nodded and walked out leaving him to ponder on the truth.

~*~*~*~

To Be Continued…

R & R

~J'dee