Dragon Ball/Z/GT Fan Fiction ❯ The Saiyan Empire ❯ Jobs? What jobs? ( Chapter 2 )

Kijah slowly opened her eyes, and something told her she was being watched. She fired a ki blast ( a small one) into no where.

"OWWW!!! KUSO! Kij!! You didn't have to do that!" Liena whined.

Kijah sat up, now able to see as she was actually awake. "OH JEEZE! I'm sorry Li!! " Her brows drew together. "NO I'm not! Your the baka who snuck in here anyway!"

Liena dropped her hand and scowled. "Well I just wanted to wake you up. They're starting to call us out to duties!"

Kijah, now awake fully, stood and looked around. "Well I don't have any yet."

Liena raised both brows. "You sure?"

Kijah nodded. She flicked her gaze to the message screen, noticing there none since last night.

Liena smirked. "Well i have to get going. You might as well come with me and see if you can find any of your guard members."

Kijah pulled her armor on, and her face turned to a grin. "Ahhh my little warrior! You just want to see your friend Ka-chan!"

Liena snorted and folded her arms. Her tail lashed once behind her. "Don't call me little warrior! I'm in a higher guard than you are!"

Liena drew back a bit as she realized her mistake.

Kijah shot a wicked glare, one only used when she was REALLY mad at her. Her tail lashed wildly and fluffed. "You KNOW I do not want to hear that. YOU KNOW I am bored with my entire job, and YOU KNOW I DIPISE it when you bring that up. SO DONT. Or we'll be the two at battle." Kijah stalked to the door and Liena followed quietly.

She knew she'd touched a bad nerve with that statement. Placing was everything to them. And her being ahead of Kijah in the guard bothered Kijah. She shouldn't have said such a thing and decided to remain quiet for the brunt of the walk.

Kijah walked , arms folded, tail lashing, and her companion followed behind.

They both headed to the main dining wing, which held the hall in which the feast would take place.

Kijah heard a sound from ahead of them, and was ready when Kakarott jumped out of one of the corridors and right onto Liena.

Obviously Liena was not as she instictively shot a punch straight to his face.

Luckily he caught it.

"Uhhhhmm... boo?" he said sheepishly, not letting go of her hand just yet.

Liena laughed wickedly. "Oh I didn't mean to do that!!"

"Nice shot!" He said seriously. "Oh and... I got you out of guarding!"

Liena smiled ferally, but so much that it showed how happy she was.

"I'll see you in the dining hall" Kijah said, interrupting, and continued on.

"Ki wait!" Liena said, and as Kiajh stopped, not turning around ,she realized she was still angry. " I'll see you later." she sighed a bit and turned back to Kakarott as Kijah walked on.

"Whats wrong with her?" he asked

"Nothing" Liena put out quickly " I said something wrong is all.. No big deal...." She looked to him "So how'd you get me out!?"

He grinned again, something that made her stomach flutter. "Oh it was easy!" He began to walk and she followed.

"All I had to do was tell Shinto you needed private training today. He couldn't do anything about it! I'm a higher officer than he is! Well, if not that, he just knows I can kick his ass." Kakarott smirked.

Liena looked down and smiled, her tail sat straight down her back, flicking at the tip.

"So what do we do now? " She asked, looking to him

"Well.." a wicked mischeivious look crossd his face. "We can have a little fun!"

This only made Liena's stomach do more turns. "Like what?" She asked, taking a look into those fathomless eyes. Liena wasn't used to the concept of 'fun'.

He smirked at her. "Ahh..well let me show you!"

The two walked suspiciously down the halls, and as the guards began to be less frequent, they broke into a small jog. Once the halls were clear, Kakarott and Liena were literally flying down the corridors into less populater areas.

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Kijah walked into the hall...well as far into it as she could without running into a million workers.

She flicked a dark gaze around, and decided to step back behind a wall. She looked as if she were guarding anyway.

Kijah figured her brother and Liena's troops were at another entrance to the room. It was then that she saw something interesting. The lovely Lotar; the pompus male she had beaten within a few mere minutes last night.

He was going off as usual, but as she leaned in to listen a bit, she heard it wasn't about what she thought it'd be.

".. feast! I mean, this is NO custom of ours, and she brings it in on a whim and Vegeta just lets it pass!" He said in a low tone to a fellow guard.

"Ohh man" Kijah thought to herself "He could be killed on sight for such treasonour comments. They usually only lead to....assasination.. She listened on as that popped into her mind

" ..return to that baka planet she's from. Vegeta can go wit her for all I care. " He scowled and shot a quick glance around, then looked back to his friend. "This planet just ins't Saiyan anymore. We have to do something about.."

"Find something interesting?" A deep drawled out voice came from behind her. She was almost sure that was the Kings voice.

Kijah turned and looked into the brown eyes...and did a double take. Brown?

The male grinned wickedly. "Well hello there. Sorry I caught you at such a concentrating moment"

Kijah scowled. Another pompus one. They always tried to irk her nerves so. She folded her arms and outright glared into those hybrid eyes. She fought off being utterly mystified by them. " You 'caught ' me at nothing " she flicked a glance and made sure Lotar was gone by now. " I was looking out for a possible revolt."

He raised a brow. "Ahh.. sure. Like anyone wold go near either of our royalty. Vegeta could blow up this entire planet on a whim if he thought better."

She shrugged, not thinking any different, and reminding herself to keep a wary eye out. All the while her gaze was still locked on the brown one of the male.

"Chatsu." he bowed slightly "And you would be?"

Kijah sneered a bit. She hated formal introductions. She figured no one was there to berate her, and merely said her name without any other movement. "Kijah"

The male smirked again. Grrr.. why does he do that so much. "Well have you nothing to do Kijah?" he drawled again. That voice was beginning to irk her.

"Actually," she purred right back. "I was never assigned. And I would rather not spend the day with the likes of my troops." Kijah finally broke her gaze and looked away, still scowling.

"Well then, instead of getting yourself in trouble with other troops, why dont you show me around this palace." Her eyes were distracted to his tail as it flicked around behind him. Then Kijah begrudgedly looked back into those eyes.

" Why on Vegetasei would you need showing around?" She was not about to let him know that her brother had explained 'him' to her last night. "AND " she added quickly, with a wry sideways glance "I happen to like trouble."

This made HIM look away. He knew of course, everyone of his kind loved to get into some type of trouble every once and awhile. But for some reason, this female's way of just..saying it, made him do that 'look away thing' he so rarely did.

"Well .. I'm new here. I am about to be promoted, and i need to know where everything is." he said, looking back finally.

Kijah, her look diverted again, spotted her troop leader pointing at guards and giving them idle jobs. Grrr. Alright, anything to get out of that.

"Fine." She began walking quickly, and he fell into step next to her. That infectuous wicked grin painted on his face. "What am I getting myself in to..." She sighed to herself as the two entered the less populated halls.

She had no time to notice her tail, which stood straight down her legs, flicking wildly at the tip.

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Vegeta folded his arms. He kept a wary eye on Bulma, as well as 50 other places at once.

The woman could NOT be kept in one place. He had actually sat her down in her throne about 3 times already. Somehow, she had weasled her way out and was running around the room like a chicken with her head cut off.

He smirked as he thought. None other than Bulma would be able to escape that easily. He wondered idly how she did it.

"Sire" Vegeta broke his thoughts and looked ot the bowing form below him.

"What is it." He said simply

"Well sire, the queen suggests that you work on a spar , as there are quite a few hours left before the feast begins" The guard replied meekly.

Even though it usually scared the guards half to death, Bulma and Vegeta would inadvertantly direct their 'squabbles' back on forth through them.

Vegeta scowled. He could go for a good fight at any time during the day. Under the orders of his mate? No way.

"Well you can tell the Queen that if she thinks i could use a spar, then to come over and prove such." He smirked, and watched the guard walk off nervously and deliver the news.

He lowered his brows just before she shot a wicked glare to him and stalked over. What a lovely evening it was going to be indeed.

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" Commander" Shinto broke his gaze and looked to Ranku

"Any new news?" he said as Shinto looked ot him.

Shinto sighed. He realised every one of his troops could use a good spar. He felt as if they were getting weaker every minute. They had to stay and guard nonetheless, under direct orders from the King.

"None at all...." Shinto said in low tones, so that only Ranku could hear "Except that someone reported seeing my SISTER and that Chatsu guy together" He scowled, and reminded himself to take out all of his anger later.

Ranku held back laughter. He would love to see Shinto's face if he had to put up with Chatsu. He stepped back in line and stood guard. Many merely went over moves in their minds. Only the well trained guards actually kept watch over the place.

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Liena was quiet. As quiet as any could be in the deserted west wing of the palace. She had actually tied her hair back with string; a very 'unformal' thing for females to do.

She snuck up to a corner and peeked her head around. She was afraid to check her scouter as the sound would be heard.

Then something furry grasped her ankle and she spun around all at once"

This time Kakarott didged the instinctive punch. "Ha!" He grinned "You're it!"

Liena scowled and folded her arms. "Thats not even valid!"

"WHAT!" He complained, quite proud of his 'win'.

"She glared down at his tail, which remained around her ankle. He looked down and removed it quickly, and it retreted back to the content wave. "Tails don't count. They are around the waist in battle!" she stated militiantly.

Kakarott scowled and looked at her thinking. She had a good point. He found himself 'thinking' about the same thing, and slowly drifting off into an outright stare.

Liena, beginning to feel a bit uncomfotable by such a stare, unfolded her arms a bit. He must be tired or something.

Finally, he moved. His face slowly pulled into a wicked grin. One almost as bad as the King's. Then he teleported.

Liena sighed and focused on his ki as he was trying to teach her.

Then 3 thing happened at once.

She found his ki quite easily, as he was right behind her. Then at the same time she felt a small nip at the back of her neck, and as she turned instinctively, he was dematerialized with 2 words. "Your IT!"

Liena's face contorted into one rarely, almost never seen. One eyebrow shot up, the other just stayed there, and she just stared ahead blankly, her black pupils becoming more beady then Kijah's. Her mouth lay agape as she still felt the tingle from the bite she'd just recieved.

There was only one word for such a feeling.. "gah...."

Once she'd composed herself again (about 5 minutes later), Liena continued her 'game'. This time with a renewed sense of challenge ;).

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Kijah literally rolled her eyes as she walked. Chatsu was clearly amused with her actions. He just smirked the entire time, and that really pissed her off.

"Here's the arena guard quarters..and up here is the arena" She said in a voice that was all and too mocking.

" This is where we all come to tr.."

Kijah was cut off as she walked right into Liena's materialising form

"BAKA!!!!! " Kijah yelled as she jumped back. Chatsu had to fight not to catch her.

Liena looked...drunk? "HI KI!! I'm training!!" The girl was grinning from ear to ear.

Kijah scowled. "WATCH where you're GOING. BAKA."

Liena looked Chatsu over and then looked to Kijah "Whos your friend Ki?" Liena winked at her.

Kijah diverted her attention from Liena's oddly lashing tail to yelling. "HIS NAME is CHATSU. He's NEW HERE, and rather then spend the day with a whole LOAD of morons, I chose to spend it with just ONE." She folded her arms. Chatsu was valiantly holding in laughter. Merely smirking in Kijah's direction.

Liena's face suddenly lit up "Gotta go!! See you two tonight!" and she dematerialized.

Kakarott materialized at the same moment. He looked around wildly. "Hello Kijah! Have you seen that slithery little female friend of yours!?" His face was a mask of deviousness.

"She went that way" Chatsu pointed towards the hall behind them.

"Thanks!!" Kakarott saluted "Remind me to introduce myself later! I have a little battle to finish." he grinned again and teleported out.

Kijah wheeled on Chatsu, who spoke first.

"Well those two are a package!"

Kijah snorted. "Ahh they're just playing." She lied. Her brows drew together "How did you know she went that way?"

Chatsu smirked again. "Its a simple skill I picked up off world. Reading ki without a scouter. Obviously those two are working on the skill already."

Kijah raised both brows. She only now, under the light, noticed that his black hair had a red base. Another odd coloration for a Saiyan. Definately a hybrid. But Kijah wondered if her brother's outlook on hybrids was wrong. This one seemed to be quite skilled.

Kijah, not wanting to fein an interest in this skill (though it was UTTERLY hard. She LOVED to learn new things) wheeled on her heels and kept walking.

Chatsu figured it was only a matter of time before she asked.

"Alright..." She sighed. "Thats about it for the west wing." Kijah turned and looked to him "So we'd best get back before we get reported." Although she was definately one for adventures, Kijah did not like disobeying heirarchy in the least. She was actually one of the few who looked up to the King AND Queen in a good way.

Chatsu shrugged "We still have a few hours yet until the feast....and truthfully" his smug face melted for just a second. "I'm not looking forward to the spotlight this evening...." Almost immediately the same old face returned. And Kijah inadvertantly began to think of the many ways she could make that face dissapear.

Then she snorted those thoughts RIGHT out of her head.

"What?" He said

"Nothing... so what do we do now? I have showed you the jest of the entire palace." She stood looking quite uncomfortable.

He raised a deviant brow." Well can you take me to... " he thought a second " Mid section... # 3 i think..yes 3. Thats where my new quarters are."

Kijah's mouth almost dropeed open. If his quarters were any closer to her's they'd be next door to each other.

She held her contour though. "Alright fine. I guess I do need to wear something more formal." She looked down to her armor, which regardless of her duties, she always wore.

He smirked "Good then. Teleport us there? It will be quicker."

She saw that spark in his eye and sneered. What a devious little.... Oh who cares. "FINE" She spat, almost hissing.

Chatsu held back a smug face for the moment as she stepped and took his arm in her hand.

It was all she needed to dematerialize the both of them and teleport to her (and now his) hall. As soon as they were both 'accounted for', she let go of his arm and stepped back.

He now pulled the smug face "Why thank you Miss! I'll be back to escort you to the fine meal this evening!" He saluted and began to walk to his room.

Kijah snorted again. "You'll do NO such thing!" She folded her arms and held her tail down the best she could as she entered her room.

One look in the mirror made her wonder if she was coming down with something. The bridge of her nose was reddened..somewhat like the way she saw Liena when she was around Kakarott.

Kijah's eyes widened. "NO. NO way!" She walked into the steam room cursing to herself. There was NO way on this planet.....

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Liena stopped laughing. That was about the only time in her entire life she'd laughed so hard. "You should have SEEN your face!" She still laughed at the scowling Kakarott.

A guard had shown up, and was about to give the two hell for galavanting around the halls when there was work to do.

Kakarott had begun to explain his training of Liena, and his guard status, when Liena had teleported directly onto his head, and sat there. He had jumped back with such force that he ran right into the guard. The guard walked back to his post growling about pre-seasonal young ones as Kakarott regained his composure.

That was about the time they'd teleported back to the deserted arena and Liena burst into wild laughter, knowing she wouldn't be caught.

"Oh just shut UP. You know how stupid that made me look?" His eyes flashed. For once, her trainer was actually mad. Liena thought about how cute he looked, and swore to repeat the process some more in the future.

Over the past few hours she had basically given up on denying to herself that she had Kakarott's scent. Now the fun part was keeping those idle wicked thoughts to herself.

"No more idiotic then you regularly do!" She stood and took a fighting stance. He merely stood, arms folded, ignoring the challenge.

"Awww come on!!! Just one last fight before the big meal! PLEASE!! " She whined. She wondered in the back of her head what had caused her such hyperactivity. "Your afraid arent you?" She jumped circles around him. "Just a scared little Siayan! Put your tail between your legs and.."

THUD

His tail swept her feet and she was on her back. Before she knew it, he was in 'pushup form', and she was in between his arms. This set his (still hardened) face right in front of hers. So close that Liena felt the redness rising once again. "Damnit" she thought to herself.

"It is ALMOST time for us to get ready for the Queen's feast. You just made one baka out of me, and now you want to spar. No more fun for today Liena." he said sternly. This was completely odd. He was usually the mischeivious one.

He in turn was utterly caught up in the position they were in,and found it hard to remain stern. Kakarott actually had to FORCE himself to move his muscles to get up off of her.

Liena remained on the ground as he stood tall above her. She shot up after realizing how odd she must've looked.

Now they stood eye to eye (though not HALF as close as one minute ago) "Alright." She said simply. "I guess I'll just see you there then."

Kakarott nodded, still not moving from his place.

Liena began walking out of the arena, her tail around her waist TIGHT. They couldn't teleport from the arena as the gravity was heightened and such. Once she got out, she expected to turn and see him gone. She only saw him in the same spot, his deep dark eyes boring into her soul. Now that stare...was it out of spite?

She teleported then, and was in front of her door before she knew it.

It was only then that her knees nearly gave out right then and there.

Kakarott stood there. Once she had teleported, he still couldn't move. He had never felt such a thing before in his life.

Just a minute ago, he was utterly angry with that female. But as soon as he had pinned her, he'd just plain wanted her, and had to slip his tail tightly around his waist to keep it from showing her that.

He gritted his teeth and walked out in the same direction, his tail now lashed wildly and exitedly behind him. He'd still get to see her again. That, oddly, was the only comforting thought that came to mind.

He smirked when he re-thought the day to himself.

Tonight might be a bit more interesting then the Queen had meant it to be.

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Bulma slid into her huge throne. For once, on her own calling. Vegeta shot a sideways glance at her.

"So is the planet redecorated yet?"

Bulma glared half heartedly. "I'm going to fall asleep in the middle of the meal." She sighed. She had been making sure EVERY thing was correct. Literally.

Vegeta looked out into the now ready dining hall, raising both eyebrows. "Ahh. Oh well. Then I'd just have to take you to your quarters a bit early wouldn't I?"

Bulma wondered how the man could think of nothing else. Not that she didn't like it.... she shook her head quickly. "Big feast tonight Bulma, all your idea, concentrate." she thought quickly

She sighed and observed the hall. It looked quite exquisite actually. Soon the guests would begin to arrive. The only thing she loathed was speaking in front of the crowd.

Bulma caught a glance at Vegeta's tail, hanging off of the chair and flicking about. She knew he was just as on edge as she was. But the reason was likely different; he never liked to have her out in large crowds.

Bulma decided to do her best to just stop thinking and relax a bit. She'd need it.

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Shinto checked each attandant as the passed the great doors. He felt quite honored as he was assigned to do so.

It was evening, the sun was still just above the horizon, and the workers were just beginning to arrive and take their seats.

One odd looking one stopped and looked him over

"Might I help you warrior?" Shinto spit out.

"Ahh..your the brother of Kijah eh? "

Shinto sneered as he nodded. What had she done now?

"Eh.. that little bitch thinks she's all bad because she defeated me at a spar last night." he laughed a bit.

Shinto stood unscathed "My sister is quite the fighter. Our entire family are well known for our skills. What is your point to this? You are merely holding up the line "

Lotar scoffed a bit "Eh you pompus guard trainers" He stalked off as Shinto shook his head. He hated talking about Kijah.

A sly looking female that Shinto knew all and too well passed by with a smirk. "Hello Shin-chan, on duty tonight?"

He smirked right back. "Indeed. I'll be at the table though"

She nodded and walked in.

The encounter with his old sparring partner was all he needed to forget the ordeal with his sister...

and totally miss the conversation Lotar was holding with another guard around the corner.

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Liena sat on her bed. She was already dressed in her formal (yet utterly useless in battle) armor. Now all she had to do was wait for Kijah to message her.

All Liena could think of was how she spent the day. She'd never had such a time in her life, as it was all usual battle and guard work. She wondered if she'd ever do something so... 'fun' ever again.

Her downed spirits were lifted abruptly as she thought about it. She'd see Kakarott tonight anyway, and he WAS her mentor. Liena did have a way of being optomistic, even with herself.

The message board finally blinked.

Liena got up "Took you long enough Ki..."

She clicked the recieve button, and realised it was actually a live message.

"Well good evening. Are we all ready to go?" Ki drawled.

"Obviously you aren't!" Liena snorted a bit, looking Kijah's polished armor over. "Is that all you did? polish your battle armor?"

Kijah shrugged "It's not like I'll be kicked out. There wasn't a dress code, and anyway, I like to be prepared." she said in that sly voice she used so much.

Liena shook her head "You know Ki, I swear I'm the only on who's seen you out of that old armor!!"

"Good." Kijah stated simply. "You ready to go? I want to leave before that pompus hybrid slithers over"

Liena raised a brow. "Ahh!! Your new friend eh? he lives around here?... hmmm" Liena's face got a devious look to it. " Maybe I'll wait a bit longer. That 'pompus hybrid' seems to have YOUR scent."

Kijah bared her teeth at Liena through the screen "Shut UP brat! You'll speak of NO such thing!!"

Li cut her off before she erupted into screams. "Well he seemed to be getting quite the kick out of YOU while you were going off in the halls today!"

Kijah scowled and opened her mouth to protest, but then re-thought "Well you and KA-CHAN seemed to be having you're own little ball back there also!"

Liena shrugged. "Eh, so i have his scent. Big deal. " She smirked wickedly, and again cut off Kijah's odd exclamation "Lets get moving. I think we BOTH have some things to talk about"

Kijah nodded curtly and clicked off the screen.

Liena leaned back. This evening might be a bit more fun than she expected. And she happened to like this new 'fun' thing.

She smirked and stood, walking to the door. Now that she had addmitted it, maybe the tables would turn on Kijah and this new male.

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Chatsu sat up quickly and checked the time.

He sighed with relief. Luckily he hadn't slept throught the entire thing, and would actually make it on time.

He was so un-used to actually sleeping in "his own" quarters, that he had just zonked out as soon he'd hit his bed.

He stood quickly and replaced his usual armor with the formal suit he'd been given by a commanding officer.

He flicked a glance at his message board and then turned to leave.

"I think I'm going to like living planetside after all" he said to himself as he glanced back at his room.