Dragon Ball/Z/GT Fan Fiction ❯ KALERAGETSUSEI : BK 4 OF TOSOV ❯ BAD NEW IS HARD TO BREAK ( Chapter 53 )

[ Y - Young Adult: Not suitable for readers under 16 ]

WARNING! ALL MALE FEMMES-SAIYAN, HUMAN OR OTHERWISE-WILL BE ADDESSED USING THE MALE HE, HIM, HIS-MAINLY FOR SANITY'S SAKE. THIS IS NOT A PUT DOWN ON THE ALTERNATIVE LIFESTYLE, MERELY THE AUTHOR'S EXPRESSION FROM AN OPENMINDED VIEW. A/N: THE AUTHOR HAS NEVER SEEN A PICTURE OR SCAN OF KURAMA'S STEPBROTHER, SO THE DESCRIPTION IS PURELY OF THE AUTHOR'S IMAGINATION. "FEMALE" WILL BE USED REGARDING TRUE GENDERED WOMEN ONLY. THE SLURRS HATANAKA USES ARE A REFLECTION OF HIS DISLIKE OF HIS STEPSON AND THOSE THAT THE ELDER MALE CONSIDERS LIKE MINIMIO SHUICHI.

CHAPER LV

BAD NEWS IS HARD TO BREAK

A gathered crowd of four powerful Saiya-jin, two silver kitsune and one fire youkai stood in Sakyou's private suite and Vegeta discussed the opening ceremony with his partner.

"It's quite simple, I have my entire band planet-side, so we'll perform. Anyone else care to share their talent may do so. The ceremony will take place on Thursday evening, tomorrow, after we hold the prelims for positions with the first bout being right after the opening show. As for the announcer, we'll employ, Koto, that kitsune female from the boys' first DT. Now, if that is all, we must gently let Mrs. Minamino-Hatanaka know about her son," Vegeta nodded-he did not go femme-then the group left.

Sakyou accompanied the aliens and youkai to the humans' suite. Kurama shuddered with every step he took. Hiei could smell his apprehension.

'Why so worried, kit? I think Shiori'll love you for who you are like I do, no matter the package. Besides, once they find out about the one you love, Hatanaka won't let you step a mile within the family. He already thinks you're out for his 'pure’ little boy. Give me a break,' Hiei shook his head over the link he had with the fox.

'That's why the Saiya-jin are coming with us. Shiori knows not about their relationships but she is acquainted with both Sakyou and Vegeta,' Kurama replied in like manner as he melted back into his human aspect.

"Hey, quit thinking so loud, I can't hear my mate think," Goten quipped as the group neared the suite that contained Kurama's human family.

"Please, allow me. That hothead step-dad of yours might take such news from his prime competitor. I forgot to mention that Hatanaka's managed to procure a group of alien fighters to challenge us. He says they come from a planet called Serbaceaus. I've never met the beings. He'd have been better off trying to hire Netehrworlders as muscle," Sakyou stated.

"Serbaceans? Those mucus dripping slugs? A giant box of salt will take care of them. He should have hired the Concretions, at least the roaches will last past the first round," Vegeta snickered as the group stopped in front of Room 312.

Sakyou knocked on the high polished cherry wood door.

"Yes, who is there?" a cooish voice asked from inside the room.

"Mrs. Minamino-Hatanaka-san, may we come in? This is Mr. Sakyou and I bring guests to see you all," Sakyou replied.

"What the hell do you want? I told you over the phone that that land is not for sale! What... Oh, you brought them with you. I thought this one was long gone out of our lives," Mr. Hatanaka snapped in both Kurama and Trageta's direction.

"Hatanaka-san, please be civil. This is my son and his friends and with me, they are always welcome. Come, friends, Mr. Sakyou. I have tea waiting. Shu-chan, how are you, my son? It has been long since we have seen you last," a beautiful female with shoulder-length brown hair smiled.

"You indulge that boy way too much, Shiori. It's because of you he's the way he is. A heavy hand would not hurt that pretty boy one friggin' bit," Kurama's step-dad, Hatanaka Kazuya huffed.

"Hatanaka, I know you're uncomfortable with Shuichi, but wake up and smell the wasabi. Your biggest competitor and his partner are the same way and twice as powerful as you will ever be," Sakyou spoke in defense of one of his strongest warriors.

"Besides, ningen, Kur-Shuichi can-"

"Hiei, no. He's set in his ways. There's no changin' some people's minds. I didn't come here to argue with you. I've come to-"

"SHU-CHAN! Brother, I didn't know you were here! Ya gonna fight in the tourney? Dad's got a team but even I could beat them slug-looking things," a boy about Kurama's human age ran into the main room from a bedroom.

The young boy had short-cut brown hair and chocolate brown eyes much like Yusuke's girlfriend, Keiko. He admired Kurama and it reflected in the brightness of his eyes.

Kurama nodded to the boy. "Shu-kun, brother, how are you?" the redhead asked as the two hugged in greeting.

"Fine. Who're all these? I know Mr. Sakyou and Mr. Vegeta and Hiei, of course. Shu-chan, is-is that a kitsune sitting by Hiei?" the young boy, whose name was also Shuichi, asked as his eyes locked upon Kalissa.

Shiori and Kazuya looked to where the young boy was and noted a silvery being that sat on a window seat where Hiei had moved to stand.

"Wh-Shu-chan, what... Who are you?!" Shiori gasped as she turned to face the one she had called son for seventeen years.

In the place of the redhead Shuichi stood the tall silver kitsune, Youko Kurama.

"Shiori. I am Youko Kurama and I live within Shuichi, your son. I am glad you are seated for it will make what I have to say easier to take, I hope. Seventeen years ago, I lived in the inner world called the Makai or the youkai world to you humans. I was a master thief and had just lost my best friend and partner to a booby-trapped forest after we had scored a most sought after treasure. He told me to run away and I did that, reluctantly. I wandered around until I came across another and we set up a den together. I returned to my ways of robbing and pillaging until I botched a job, got caught and pursued. My pursuer shot me and left me for dead. With what energy I had, I knew I had one chance to save myself. I had to be reborn, so I launched myself into this world. It was by the merest chance that I took residence in the unborn child you carried. You were due to have a girl but I did a bit of rearranging to make the child a male," Kurama explained, his voice a few octaves lower than Shuichi's dulcet tenor.

"Ya didn't do such a good job, whatever you are. And you don't look too musclely yourself. I've heard of kitsunes. They're wanton, frivolous and sleep with anything walking. Mainly, they are a myth," Hatanaka dismissed.

"Oh, I assure you, we are quite real. This kit, is she who bore me into the Makai several hundred years ago. I owe my firs existence to her. I owe so much more to you, Shiori. Originally I had planned to stay just long enough to recover my energy, which would have been ten years. Then, you took ill on me and wouldn't get better. Hiei, whom I had first met in my human guise at the age of ten, he and another, had tracked me down when I was fourteen. We had planned to score the most guarded treasures of Spirit World, the Artifacts of Darkness. One of the artifacts was called 'The Mirror of Utter Dark.' It granted a wish to the one who looked into it on a full moon but the spirit of the mirror took the user's life in exchange. The only reason I'm still here is that my wish to save your life was interrupted by Uremeshi Atsuko's son, Yususke," Kurama, who had melted back into his Shuichi body, continued.

"My-my baby. I-Is this the secret you kept from me? Is this why you seemed so withdrawn even though you were the most popular young man in Meiou High, next to Trunks Briefs? Oh, Shu-chan, thank you!" Shiori jumped up and tightly embraced her son. "Either way, you're beautiful and will always be my baby," the human female smiled.

Shuichi Kurama smiled in a shy manner. "Now, the reason I look as a female, the intended spirit for this body and I met on the way. We had a few words and before a new spirit could be sent to fill this house, I grabbed the girl spirit and we merged on the agreement that I would be dominant. Now, mother, Shiori, I know how much you wanted grandchildren but as Shuichi, I am unable to give you such, however, as Youko Kurama, I am able to and the Youko is breeding now with Hiei's cub. I was told that I must give up Shuichi if I want to carry to term but I refused to do that. Vegeta helped me decide on a course of action but very little of my original person will go unchanged," Shuichi Kurama nodded.

"Huh, you gonna do the world a favor and become what you really are? Maybe then I'll be able to stomach you," Mr. Hatanaka sneered.

"HATANAKA-SAN! That is totally uncalled for. Let's drop this subject. Shurama-chan, do you know anything about this tournament?" Shiori asked trying to keep peace between her old-fashioned husband and only son.

"It's a dark martial arts tournament and is basically no holds barred. Unlike other fighting tournaments, the combatants are allowed to kill one another. In fact, that's the major rule, kill or be killed. How's that team of yours, Hatanaka?" Sakyou, who had provided the explanation, asked.

"They'll beat the snot outta your team, that's for sure!" Kazuya shot back.

"From my understanding, they won't make it passed the first round. Shuichi, your son, can beat them. I'll make a wager. Since you won't sell me that land I'm interested in, put it on the block. You win and I don't harass you over it any more. We win... You can figure that out," Sakyou continued.

"Land? What land?" Shuichi Kurama asked as he sat between both his mothers.

"An island really and what becomes of it is entirely up to you. Excuse me," Shiori nodded then got up from the sofa.

Two minutes later, she returned and took her seat by Shuichi. She held a manila envelope in her dainty hands and looked over the front.

"My first husband, Minamino Tayaka, left this for his heir with a substantial trust. I meant to gift this to you when you turned sixteen, but I had not seen you then at all. Well, in a month you will be eighteen... Happy birthday, Ichison," Shiori smiled as she handed the envelope to the redhead.

"But... I thought all of Minamino's fortune belonged to you at his death? That's the way it's supposed to be!" Hatanaka flustered.

"Minamino was so happy that I birthed him a son, that is why he changed his will to give the island to Shurama-chan," Shiori smiled as Kurama took the contents out of the envelope.

"I could use that island to expand the business, Shiori-chan!" Hatanaka all but whined.

"Well, my plan is to preserve the land as it is and let my teams have a training ground in this dimension and also have easy access to both their world and ours. Lord knows they don't need us humans freaking out when one of them suddenly appears," Sakyou tossed out his idea.

"Since it's my land, I'll say what's to become of it. After all, Hiei, the kits and I will need a home in this realm while I'm tied to this human existence," Shuichi Kurama smiled at his now taller mate.

Hiei cast a glare at the redhead, a furrow in his brow. "You mean you have a place we could have gone to all along?" the fire youkai hissed in Kurama's native language.

Kurama smiled at the hot-tempered youkai, his love. "Hiei, how could I know of something I myself just found out about? You heard Shiori-kaasan; she hasn't seen much of me since our joining with Yusuke. Now, that I have it, we can scope it out and build a den! You can have all the privacy and training you desire and I'll be able to be with you without school and such imposing on us," Kurama told the half Koorime in that youkai's native language.

Vegeta had been looking over the papers of Kurama's inheritance and his demeanor paled. Kakarrot and their sons picked up on the fact immediately.

"Love, what is it?" Kakarrot asked the stricken prince as he put his arms around the slighter being.

The prince could not answer but his eyes told his large mate and the others to look at the map of Kurama's land the prince had been looking at. On the map was an island chain and a blue circle surrounded the largest island.

"Th-this can't be! Vegeta..." Kakarrot whimpered.

"This isn't right? All the time the island belonged to someone! 'Tousan, you said it was unclaimed when you found it!" Trageta gasped as if he had just fought a major battle.

"What is, my friends?" Kurama asked, speaking in Saiyago.

Kakarrot looked up with pained eyes that reflected his mate's mood. "Y-your land, is-is an island. Th-that island is Little Vegeta," the large warrior stammered out.

"WHAT?!" Hiei, Kurama and Sakyou all exclaimed.

"That can't be right!" Kurama took the map from Vegeta and looked at it then his human mother. "Did you know this?" he asked, disbelief in his tenor voice.

Shiori shook her head. "Tayaka never disclosed the location but he had taken me there before we had you," the female human smiled and palmed her son's head of red silk.

"Kurama?" Hiei began.

"Kurama, I-I didn't know. I'll tell-"

"Vegeta! I will not ask that of you. It was unclaimed in the truest sense since Minamino Tayaka was deceased and Shiori-kaasan just told me of it. No. Since it is my island to do with what I will and I like Sakyou's idea and there are several friends inhabiting that local to begin with... Plus, I should be thinking about attending collage somewhere and seeking a doctorate the way Gohan, Goten's elder sib, had," Kurama started.

"That's a brilliant idea! Why don't you study on Kale since both the king and myself have given the ok for you guys to train with us, plus it will take half as long and your cleverness, intelligence and skills match our-I mean...hell," Vegeta cursed.

"I know what you're saying, Vegeta-tousan. I was surprised to find others as brilliant, plus I don't have to hide behind the mask of perfection when I'm with you Saiya-jin. No offense, Shiori-kaasan, but whenever I'm home I feel I have to live up to such high expectations and it's getting to me. I guess ever since the youko was called out, I've been feeling restless and that's why I'm not home as much as I should be. After this tourney, I will be leaving with the Saiya-jin to live with them on their planet. As far as the land goes, I turn it over to Sakageta Enterprise and will visit often. I have to. My best girl lives here," Shuichi Kurama smiled at Shiori and caressed her cheek. "Plus, Sakyou-san, Vegeta-sama, I should like to ask to be considered as a partner in your enterprise."

The pair looked at one another and smirked. Nodding in unison, the partners stood and bowed.

"Welcome to Sakageta Enterprise. After the DT, Vegeta and I will discuss the terms of your employment. As for your education, you have just stated going to his planet to study. You will accompany him, no doubt, Hiei?" Sakyou asked and the dark haired youkai nodded. "The Enterprise will fund your schooling and whatever studies you undertake. You as well, Hiei, and if your other two buddies and the girls desire to accompany you, the offer extends to them," Sakyou continued.

"Me, too, sir? I'd like to go with my brother. I've been to the Makai and I've seen some impressive shit there. Plus, I'm nearly as old as Shu-chan and want to experience time on my own. Besides, I'm getting tired of being compared to him and put down when I don't meet the standard he set. No offense, but it's hard to live in the shadow of 'The Great One," Hatanaka Shuichi shook his head.

" 'The Great One?' That is Kura-kit's nickname in Makai, how did you chance to hear it?" Kalissa spoke for the first time.

"It just came to me. So, you gave life to the fox, huh? I'm very honored to have such a one as my brother. Hey, you never answered me, Shu-san! Are you gonna use your rosewhip in the fight?" Shuichi H. asked.

"As Youko, I have access to more than just the rosewhip, Shu-kun. You'll see. Anyway, with your spirit awareness, we need to have you properly trained. For now, stay here with Yususke, Kuwabara, the girls and Genkai, learn from them, then we'll talk about you attending classes on Kale. Mind you, the Saiya-jin are a warrior race that was created for that purpose by the One above all others and they can teach you how to fight like Yususke can. 17 and Krillin are also good trainers along with 18, however, the Saiya-jin are the most brilliant war faring race I've ever encountered in my long existence and as a Youko, I encountered many. Hiei, my wolfen stepbrothers and myself fought with the prince and Kakarrot as well as several others of the race and we decided we wanted to learn more. Plus, last spring, we met Vegeta and his family at the CCWP-Cerulean City Water Park-and helped save one of the instructors from Meiou high, that had been accused of accosting one of the students," Shuichi Kurama told his human family.

"I remember hearing of that. Goya Wilkins' boy Jeffery had been viciously attacked and they blamed that sweet Gren fellow. I wonder why?" Shiori mused.

"He was a girlie-boy, wife, like that one you had and this black haired thing here!" Hatanaka snarled.

"He couldn't help it, he was a result of the government using some gene altering drug that changed him. Hatanaka, we are no threat. For some, it's the only way they feel wanted and cherished. Gren didn't attack the Wilkins' brat. Someone else did but they are not present," Kurama retorted back.

"I don't care. Goya and Tina are most upset and have vowed revenge on the entire girlie-boy populace, starting with you all. He's got a team of the most-wicked criminals ever to be found on this planet! He'll be here to register his team in the morning," Hatanaka remarked.

"Humans, fighting in the DT? I hope you guys know this is a 'fight-to-the-death' event," Trageta reminded.

"We can't... You guys can! The way you ripped those squid things apart! Man, that was gorgeous!" Hiei exclaimed.

"Well, I can't wait to see my brother rip open a six-pack and kick some asses inta the next millenium! I'll be rooting all the way. G'night, y'all," Shuichi H. bade, kissed Shiori, bowed to his dad and stepbrother, then left.

"We gotta be going as well. We will see you and Wilkins and the other gamblers in the morning. We'll begin by gauging strength with a punch machine. Be in the arena at eight sharp. You all have a good night. Oh, Kakarrot, might I a word with you?" Sakyou asked the large Saiyan, who hesitantly followed the human.

"The boys'll take the others back, I'll be with you in a bit" Vegeta called as the two disappeared.

"Well all, I hate to be a party pooper, but I do need my beauty sleep. Shu-rama, Ichison," Shiori smiled as Kurama assisted her to her feet. She hugged him tightly. "Don't let Hatanaka intimidate you. Come see me whenever you can. I love you and kick butt out there!"

"No worry on that head, Shiori-kaasan, I will. Stay sweet and don't let him bully you over me. I'm a big boy and I can handle my own. I will always love you and thank you for accepting me. Take care," Kurama smiled then turned to Kalissa and Hiei. With a nod, the other two stood, joined hands with the fox then disappeared.

"I will see you hang for such an outrage! Things like you girlie-boys have no place in this universe!" Hatanaka shot then left Vegeta, Trageta and Goten to themselves.

The royal teleported to Sakyou's room to wait for Kakarrot and the boys returned with Hiei, Kurama and Kalissa to the now claimed island of Little Vegeta.