Dragon Ball/Z/GT Fan Fiction ❯ Requiem for Vegeta-sei ❯ 4 ( Chapter 4 )

Disclaimer: Doesn't this stuff feel kind of insignificant due to the US bombing Afghanistan? Please say a little prayer for my twin brother who is in the US Army. Thank you! Now on to a pleasant (I hope) distraction….

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Before either could say anything, their attention was drawn to the child tugging on Trunks' pant leg.

"Trunks, Trunks, Trunks," pleaded the girl in time to her tugs.

"What, Bra?" Came an annoyed sounding reply from the boy.

"I caught a fish! See?"

Trunks finally looked down at the little girl who was now triumphantly holding up a small fish for him to see. She had a big smile on her face even though the fish was only a small sunfish. At another time or under other circumstances, Trunks would have shared the tiny girl's enthusiasm.

"That's nice, little sis," he said walking away. He went to the car and capsuled it so they could fly. He turned around and saw that his sister had turned her attention to someone else. She was now trying to show it off to the Saiyan.

"See? Pan's daddy took us fishing today! I caught it all by myself…well I didn't put the yucky worm on the hook. Worms are yucky!"

"Aren't you afraid of me little girl?" Homini asked. She was a little shocked at the girl's lack of fear of strangers let alone fear of aliens.

"No. Why should I be?" Bra replied in all innocence.

"Because I'm a Saiyan and could hurt you."

The girl giggled wildly. "You're silly!" Bra then ran over to her brother and held her arms up, "I wanna fly with you." She was promptly picked up and they took off silently.

All Homini could do was stand there and blink at the encounter with the child. She wondered who these people were that seemed so unfazed by Saiyans, knew the Prince, and why were they so trusting of her. From what she saw from her scouter, none of them had power levels to brag about. So much had transpired since she picked the fight with the boys that she did not recall Goten's power level rising, and because she didn't have her scouter at the time she did not know that his power level had raised well above hers when she sent the blast at him.

There were too many questions she needed answered. She had too many questions that she thought could possibly be answered when she left home originally. Now, even though she found who she was looking for, all she had was more questions. And these questions seemed even more difficult than the original ones.

Someone talking to her brought her out of her thoughts. "Homini? Is that what Vegeta called you?"

"Whatever Earthling. I'm not in the mood for small talk," she stated looking at the man with a black haired toddler in his arm.

"Anyways, I'm Son Gohan," he extended his hand for her to shake. "Welcome to Earth," he mumbled under his breath when she did not respond to the gesture.

Confused by the man's gesture, Homini just ignored his extended hand. She did not know if it was a greeting or some sort of challenge. "Are you going to take me to Vegeta anytime this century?"

"Um, sure. Follow me," he said lifting off. He looked back behind at the other boy. "Goten, let's go. You have some explaining to do."

Homini tried to ignore their conversation as they flew. It was hard, she could not tell if they were making it all up for some reason or if it really was the truth. Then again, she did not know which would be worse, the expanse of their lies or the truth.

"Now, Goten, whatever possessed you to fight an unknown enemy? And why didn't you at least power up?"

"Well…uh…you see, Trunks and I, we...uh...made a bet…" stammered the younger one.

"Great, that again," Gohan groaned. "Why didn't you go and get Dad or I or any other adult if you knew there would be trouble? When I was your age, I knew enough not to start a fight alone."

"Gohan, by the time you were my age, you had already fought Freiza, the androids, and Cell. Trunks and I never got to do any of that other than we fought Buu," Goten whined.

Gohan stopped midair and turned to glare at his brother. His voice was steeped with anger, "I fought because I had to, not because I wanted to. You didn't have to watch Frieza hurt and kill your friends."

"Whoa! Wait a minute, back up!" Homini exclaimed as she stopped beside the earthlings. "You mean to tell me that you fought Frieza…and lived. He was on Namek when it was destroyed so you would have had to fight him prior to that. Which means that you would have been a mere child!" She looked confused to the point of being frantic. "What the hell is going on here on this planet?!"

"Yeah, he was just a little guy and fought the Ginyu Force and Frieza. 'Course, Krillen, Mr. Piccolo, dad, and even Vegeta were fighting, too. It would have been so cool to have seen that!"

"Yeah, real cool," Gohan said angrily. "I watched that monster kill Dende, Krillen, Vegeta, and the innocent Nameks there. Then I had to drag an unconscious Piccolo back to the space ship and leave dad there on the dying planet to face Frieza alone. Then back on Earth we didn't know for the longest time who survived the explosion of Planet Namek. It must have been horrible because dad still won't tell us what happened exactly." Saying no more Gohan flew off again leading the way to Capsule Corps.

Goten shrugged and followed knowing better than to try to bring up the topic again. Homini just flew, still lost in thought. She was even more confused. She knew she had heard him say that he watched Vegeta die but she knew that she had just seen him. She almost did not notice that they were descending near a large building.

They landed and stood in an awkward silence. Gohan was first to break it. He turned to face his brother and Homini as he spoke, "I'm going to go tell Bulma what's going on and call Videl. I have a feeling that we're going to be a while here and she might want to take Pan home."

Homini walked over to a nearby tree and sat with her back against it. She drew her one knee up to her chest and wrapped her arm around it, the other one she kept out in front of her. Goten mumbled something about finding Trunks. He wandered off leaving the girl alone with her own thoughts.

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A/N: Patience, grasshopper, you will soon find out who Homini is. Thanks to everyone who reviewed, and especially those who reviewed repeatedly! It is very much appreciated.