Dragon Ball/Z/GT Fan Fiction ❯ That'll Do, Son. ❯ The Third Chapter ( Chapter 3 )

Authoros Notos: mm. After minor writer's block I'm back in action! I've decided that the yaoi part's gonna be between Goku and Vegeta (because they, as a pair, kick ass. Hands down.), and quite possibly Radditz and Goku (because for some reason, I think they're adorable together), and if there's any other couples you wanna see, you can email me or leave a review and hit me up! I don't bite, I promise. ^~ Enjoy.

The Third Chapter. (couldn't think of a name)

Radditz let his hand linger in the embrace of his brother's for a bit longer, enjoying the alien spark given off by Goku's pure soul. Another laugh erupted from inside, breaking the awkward silence and the touch shared by the siblings. Radditz cleared his throat a bit so that Goku would make eye contact. Once done, Radditz chuckled and rubbed the back of his head, shifting his lofty mane with the movement. "Well...uh...I guess this is the point where I'm supposed to take you inside and properly introduce you to everyone, ne?"

"Aa, Radditz, I believe it is. But..."

"But what, Kakarot?"

"...What...What do you think they'll think of me?"

Radditz chuckled again; a deep, guttural sound that was both comforting and unsettling at the same time. Goku stuck his lower lip out a bit and widened his eyes, pouting in hopes that it would stop Radditz from being...well...Radditz. "Ah, Little Brother! The men inside are friends and comrades, they're just Saiyan!"

"Every Saiyan I've ever met in my life has tried to kill me, Radditz."

"Well, you're not alive, are you?"

"No, but this IS the afterLIFE. There's a first time for everything, you know!"

"Ah, yes, I do, but trust me for once!" Goku opened his mouth to remind him of their tussle on earth, but Radditz held a finger to his lips. "I'm not kidding, I swear. Just follow my lead, and be yourself. Be... Son Goku."

Goku nodded and followed as Radditz opened the door and was greeted, dimly noticing the odd way that his earth name rolled off of his brother's tongue. Goku planted a wan smile on his face, but he was clearly uncomfortable. The odd Saiyan never was as good at hiding his emotions as he would have liked, and now was one of the instances where he would have preferred to look as confident as his burly brother. Nevertheless, it was time to face the music. His brother was there, and his father, and there was Turles... Goku wasn't quite sure what relation he had to Turles, or if there even WAS one, but the man was there, anyway, and though he was a former enemy, so was Radditz. He could have changed, too, right?

"Oi! Spacey!"

Goku blinked and blushed a bit, looking at Radditz. "Heh, sorry about that..."

"Feh... Anyway, this," he motioned to Zorn, "is Zorn. He was Captain of all Royal Fleets back on V-sei, and also the King's best friend. Here, however, he's just a poor bastard who's been around the block a few times."

Goku watched with amusement as Zorn's eyes shone with pride and immediately glared daggers at Radditz when he finished his sentence. His brother cleared his throat. "Turles you already know... Ahh, father. Kakarot, this is your... birth father. He was one of the greatest warriors of his class when we were still alive, and would certainly have had elite potential...had we not died."

The younger looked his sire in the eye with a significant admiration, barely noticing when he took the man's hand and started shaking it. His father... He finally got to meet his father. After countless years of wondering, of trying to come up with what he looked like, or the sound of his voice, or the way he moved and fought... Here the man was...He who had already saved him from his brother once (Goku nearly smiled at that), shaking his hand like it was an everyday occurrence. The Earth Saiyan knew that he probably looked like a total fool, with his eyes bugged out and him shaking the man's hand continuously, but he tried to memorize every feature: every wrinkle and dimple and freckle on the man's face at that very moment, as if he'd never see him again. Bardock's smirk grew into a quirked eyebrow and a grin as he chuckled uncomfortably.

"Well, uh...Kakarot...Are you done shaking my hand, or is it just that damned enjoyable?"

Goku dropped the hand immediately and blushed. He had already made an ass out of himself!

"Hey, kid. Loosen up, already! I don't bite, I promise!" Bardock chuckled and ruffled his youngest son's hair a bit.

Goku laughed wantonly and coughed, managing a small "Uh...yeah...heh..." He felt about 40 years younger surrounded by the Saiyan senshi. It was then that he noticed that the man in the chair (who had previously been sleeping) was now eyeing him with an odd look. Goku lifted an eyebrow at him. "Who's that?"

Radditz turned his head towards the forgotten Saiyan. "Oh, that's Sullion, but we mostly call him Sull. He's Zorn's bro."

Sullion did a two-finger salute and nodded. Goku wiggled his fingers in a sort-of wave and muttered a quiet "hello..." and turned back to his brother. Radditz cleared his throat. "So...uh...Kakarot," Radditz motioned for him to take a seat on the couch beside Turles. The comparatively small Saiyan did so with a bit of hesitancy, and Radditz sat to his left. "Like I said, we've all been kind of watching you, but it's damned near impossible to actually get the details of the living world. It's like a silent movie: Only pictures and no sound or narration. I've pretty much filled these guys in on up until we died, but...what happened after that?"

"Aw, geez, guys...I'm not much of a story teller..."

Zorn flopped down onto the floor. "Yeah, but we're not much of mind readers, either. Well...except for Bardock, here, but he's an exception. Please, Kakarot?"

Goku dimly noted the usage of `please' and sighed, leaning back onto the couch. He didn't see the smirks exchanged between Turles and Radditz before they simultaneously put their arms around Goku's shoulders. The ninjen Saiyan jumped, but didn't protest the gestures. He sighed. "Fine. But you're not allowed to laugh."

All Saiyans present except for Goku promised heartily that they wouldn't laugh. Though not convinced in the least, Goku nodded.

"Right then. Wow.. after Radditz and I died.. hmm. Well, I'm supposing Radditz got sent straight to here, right?"

Radditz nodded.

"Right. Okay, well, when I got to the check-in station, I was pretty freaked out, `cause King Yama's pretty scary when you first see him. Then this green guy with antennae showed up."

Radditz snorted. "I thought Piccolo lived?"

Goku shook his head and crossed his arms. "No, Radditz, it wasn't Piccolo, he was just from the same species. This man's name was Kami. He asked King Yama if I could go for special training with King Kai."

Zorn's eyes grew wide. "You know the North Kai?"

Radditz's brother laughed. "I know far higher beings than the North Kai! I know the East, West, and South Kais, the Grand Kai, the Supreme Kai..."

Zorn, Sullion, and Bardock adopted dull looks.

"But anyway, that's besides the point! Now, where was I?"

Turles cleared his throat. "You were telling us of...err...Kami's request for special permission to take you to North Kai's planet for training."

"Oh yeah! Now I remember! Well, like I was sayin', this green guy named Kami showed up and asked if I could go with him to King Kai's planet. Now, I didn't know who any of these people were, so I just kinda went with the flow of things, and King Yama said yes, but I had to go alone. He told me that I had to go on this REALLY long pathway called Snake Way to get there, and that if I fell off, I would go to Hell."

Goku rubbed his nose and settled further into the couch, resting his head on the two arms around his shoulders. He couldn't place why, exactly, but it was comfortable and his brother (brothers?) didn't seem to mind it. "So when I started on Snake Way, it was a bit intimidating `cause you could just see it twisting and turning for thousands of miles...I thought I'd never reach the end! But I had Kami coaching me, and I really wanted to meet this King Kai guy, so I started on my way.

"I couldn't tell you how far I got, `cause like I said, Snake way is REALLY long, but I met up with this horned guy cleaning the pathway with this neat little street cleaner. He asked me if I wanted a ride, and I still had quite a way's to go, so I accepted. We drove for a bit, and he asked me to take the wheel while he looked at somethin', but I'm a really lousy driver, and I kinda drove it off the path..." Goku blushed and looked at his toes.

Radditz threw his head back and laughed, earning a glare from his brother.

"You said you wouldn't laugh!!!"

Radditz continued laughing, though trying to stifle the guttural chuckles.

Goku pouted.

"Alright, I'm sorry. Go on." Radditz coughed back a few chuckles, earning another glare from Goku.

"ANYWAY, I did, indeed, fall into hell. I don't know where I was, though, cuz when I fell, I kinda blacked out for a few minutes. When I woke up, there were these two guys with "HFIL" tank tops on. They introduced themselves as Gozu and Mezu, and said that they would only show me the way out if I beat them all at a couple of games."

"Gozu and Mezu? You actually associate with those two lowlifes??" Bardock snorted. "I can't see why."

"If it weren't for them, I'd still be stuck here from the FIRST time I fell! Now be quiet!"

Bardock sat back on his heels, his tail twitching behind him.

"Now then, Mezu was a complete pushover, and I had to beat Gozu in... I dunno, a race or somethin', and I won, so he let me out of hell. I probably couldn't find the way out again if I had a map, though."

Zorn shook his head. "That doesn't make sense...How would Gozu and Mezu know the ways out? HFIL and Hell are two different places, and even so, Hell shifts it's entrances and exits constantly. Then there's the barriers being heavily guarded... How do you suppose that they not only got here in the first place, but also found out how to send you through?"

Goku chuckled and put his hand behind his head, nearly elbowing Turles in the face. "Well, the only thing I can remember them saying about it was that they "beat that little whelp to pieces", but they weren't very strong and they put things out of prospective a lot, so I really couldn't tell ya."

A knock on the door turned the heads of the quintuplet of Saiyans. "Hello? You guys haven't like, rotted away in there, have you?"

Zorn frowned. "No, we're still quite solid. You can come in."

A man wearing luxurious armor with hair that spiked forward and hung over his eyes strolled into the house. He scanned his eyes around the room, glaring at each of the occupants and finally boring into Goku's own gaze. He snorted. "Who's the new kid?"

Zorn scowled. "What do you want, Kale?"

"Yeesh, testy, aren't we? I've come for Bardock and his son."

Bardock stood. "Which?"

"Excuse me?"

The third-class warrior grinned. "Y'know, "that new kid" is my son, too...Perhaps you've met him?"

"I thought you only had one son."

Bardock shook his head.

"Oh well. Better bring both, then. I've no idea what he wants to do with you."

Goku drew in his eyebrows and looked at Radditz, who shrugged. They got up, fell in step behind Bardock, and left the house. Taking to the air beside Radditz, Goku watched the tail and hair ruffle on his father's body as they flew. He turned his head to Radditz and whispered, "Who's `he'"?

Radditz appeared to think for a moment, then shrugged and crossed his arms. "Probably the king."

"You mean Vegeta's dad?"

Radditz nodded. "We've more likely than not been summoned to the palace by him. He does this sometimes; God knows what he could want us for..."

Goku sighed. Five minutes in Hell and he was already in trouble. Or was he? His Majesty could have just wanted Radditz...He doubted it. A new Saiyan in Hell? Goku was sure that if he were the king of a dead species and one of the last appeared where he was available for interrogation, Goku would have snatched them up as soon as possible. That sent the shadow-earthling into a flurry of wonder at whether Vegeta was much like his father. Or vise versa, he guessed...

They touched down in the middle of a large city. So captured was his by the slew of grotesque creatures among scattered Saiyans going about their daily (daily...nightly...who knew what it was down here?) tasks that he didn't notes an enormous wrought-iron gate standing mightily behind two guards. Kale held out a hand and the guards read his palm with a sensor. This was repeated on Bardock and Radditz, so Goku assumed that he should do the same.

He approached the mean looking guard and held out his palm. A gloved hand flattened Goku's, moving the fingers out of the way and placing the sensor over the appendage. The tiny machine beeped twice and was taken away. The guard's eyes grew very wide, and flew to his partner's. The second's jaw dropped as he looked to Goku.

"Masaka...Kakarot...?"

A/N: Whoo! Y'know, this story has the longest set of chapters out of any of mine.. 5 pages at least! Yeesh… Anyway, this chapter was kinda fun to write… hehe.. okay, so it was a lot of fun to write, but they all are, ne? Next chapter, I do believe we'll meet some more familiar faces, beat up on the baddies, slobber over Goku a bit, and even bring Veggie-chan back into the scene! ^_^ Inspire me: show me you can review!