Dragon Ball/Z/GT Fan Fiction ❯ Warrior Soul ❯ Sanpai ( Chapter 4 )

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Sanpai

Gohan flies through the night, enjoying his flight before he confronts the so-called Hakai-sha, or Destroyer. Briefly, Gohan worries about what his father and Goten are thinking since he disappeared, but dispels the thought knowing that his father has confidence in him to handle any situation. Now Goten would be a different matter, thinking everybody needs his help, the fusion with Trunks to form Gotenks must have permanently damaged his mind making him very egotistical. Thank Kami that they had not had to do the fusion dance in over a decade or Goten would be even worse than he is now.

     Gohan senses the ki very close and pulls up to a stop to float in the air and visually check the area, due to it being a moonless night it's very hard to see anything but shapes and shadows. Faintly in the distance to the North Gohan sees a shape flying towards him. Lowering his ki to near none existent, Gohan hovers there and waits for the shape to reach him.
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  &nb sp; After grudgingly flying several miles in the opposite direction of the village she wanted to destroy and taking several hours before finally finding food worth eating, Naa does a fly by of the beasts to get a better look.

     "Now these look promising, they stand as tall as me. Two or three should fill me up just fine." With the fly by sending the herd into a stampede, Naa flies ahead of them and lands directly in their path. The heard splits in two different directions on either side of her. Spotting one that looks like it's in its prime Naa pounces on its back and rides the creature for a minute before reaching around and grabbing its muzzle, with a quick twist she snaps its neck and jumps off the beast before it collapses to the ground. Looking around once more Naa spots a big buck and sends a quick ki ball and blasts its head off. Picking up the beast whose head she broke, Naa drags it over to the headless one. Picking that one up also she flies up in the air looking for a decent spot to eat. Spotting a likely spot by a body of water Naa settles down to her feast. Just as the sun was setting Naa stretches next to the pile of bones left over and walks down to the water for a good long drink, with a few stretches and a pat on her belly (for the good eating) Naa continues her journey back to the village.

     Night falls as Naa flies towards the village when her scouter goes off. Reaching up a hand, she taps the side of it for a read out.

     "Got a power reading about 2 miles ahead of me, pretty faint. If that is the best they can do maybe it will not be as much fun destroying the village as I thought it would. Oh well, any fight is a good fight I like to say." Naa mutters squinting in the night to see the faint figure floating ahead. Speeding up a tad, she pulls up about 100 yards from the shadow and calls out. "I don't know who you are stranger but you're in for a big surprise if you think you can stop me."

     "Really? Try me." The soft masculine voice says, clothes rustling as he goes down in a fighting crouch.

     "Oh ho, so you want to fight?" Naa taunts back so softly that Gohan can barely hear it as, she too, goes down in a fighting crouch, "Bring it on!"

     "Why don't you leave these people alone? They haven't done you any harm, they lead peaceful lives." Gohan calls out.

     Naa answers with a snort.

     "Is this how it's going to be? Do you really want to fight?" Gohan asks.

     Naa answers with a flurry of punches and kicks when she rushes up to Gohan. For the most part Gohan blocks them, but a few get by. Naa aims a punch for his face but Gohan ducks it, he comes up trying to get a grab on Naa to throw her over his shoulder but only ends up with a handful of breasts. Gohan's head flies up as he tries to make out Naa's face in the dark. He starts to mutter an apology why trying to fiercely control his blushing when Naa answers with a knee to the groin and a two hand hit on the back of his neck, sending Gohan flying into the ground.

     Naa floats over the impact crater with a smirk on her face, wondering if that is the best these people can send her. She floats down to the ground and starts kicking at the rubble when the ground starts to shake. At the same time her scouter goes off, with a quick tap she stares at the readings in disbelief.

     "There is no way he could be this strong, I didn't get any readings like this when I landed." Quickly Naa jumps up in the air and flies up several feet to stare at the boulders as they were blasted away, barely missing her.

     Gohan yells as he builds his ki up to blast away the rubble in a flash of white. Reaching his senses out to locate his opponent he looks up and spots Naa several feet above him.

     "Please, we don't have to do this. Fighting is not the answer to everything." Gohan says.

     "Is that all you know how to do is talk? I am a warrior, fighting is my life." Naa says warily eye Gohan as he glides up a few feet out of the crater.

     "There is more to life than fighting." Gohan regards Naa. "Unless you fight for a good cause, such as protecting the ones you love."

    "HA! Love?? I don't believe in love, fighting is all I believe in. And it is all I'll ever do until I die a worthy death in battle!   Enough talk!" Naa yells out as she sends multiple ki blasts to Gohan, who knocks them all aside. While Gohan was momentarily blinded Naa flies in for close combat.

     Before Naa could connect Gohan had landed a punch to her jaw that knocks her sideways. Turning with the impact Naa kicks Gohan across the stomach and quickly flies out of reach. Gohan suddenly appears behind and slightly above her, before Naa could react he had brought his two handed fist down and strikes her down to the ground. Before the dust had even cleared with the impact Naa was streaking back up towards Gohan and lands an uppercut to his jaw, knocking him up further into the air. Swinging back around Gohan aims a kick towards Naa's shoulder, which she blocks and holds with her arm. Twisting around Gohan sends his other leg, hitting her across the other side of her face. The force of the impact folds Naa over Gohan's leg, which she still held. Naa retaliates with a backhanded blow over part of Gohan's cheek and ear, knocking Gohan down several feet below Naa.

     Looking up Gohan yells up to Naa, "Is this really what you want? To die in a battle against somebody you don't even know about?"

     "I must say it would be a glorious death," Naa calls back down, "you are an amazing warrior to defeat one such as me! The time for talk is past. Defend yourself or die!" And Naa releases a multitude of ki blasts, which soul purpose is to destroy the man in front of her.

     Cupping his hands together and brings them to his side Gohan calls out. "KA...ME...HA...MA..." A ball of ki light forms between his cupped palms, Gohan continues, "HAAAAA!" With that yell Gohan brings his hands out front of him and releases the built up ki towards Naa, knocking away all the ki blasts she had sent as if they meant nothing.

     "Shimatta!" Naa yells as she brings her hands in front, palm together, facing outwards as she gathers her ki, "Kaminari Bakuha! (Thunder Blast)" Releasing a continual wide blast of ki to counter Gohan's attack. For just a moment Naa thought it was working but her opponent's ki over took hers and soon was approaching her. Naa had barely just enough time to bring her arms and legs in to defend herself before the ki blast reached her. Just before the blackness took over, the aftermath of the ki had illuminated the area enough for her to see her enemy's face and a last thought flashed through her mind as she was blasted several miles away from him. *Why does he look so familiar?*

     Gohan regretfully watches the smoking body flying away from him from the impact of the kamahamaha. He can sense no ki from her and turns away with remorse to fly back to the village and tell the chief that his mission is complete. The village is now safe. However, for some reason Gohan receives no joy from that.
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  &n bsp; As Gohan flies back to the village, Naa's body lands several miles away near a small, isolated farm. The sound of the impact draws out a tall, hefty, middle age woman from her hut, her eyes widen briefly at the big crater Naa's body made when she landed. Slowly she makes her way down and crouches by Naa's body to check for signs of life. To the woman's amazement she notices that the injured woman was still breathing. Barely, but still breathing nonetheless. The woman calls out and two younger men, whom had come out of the hut with her, rush down the side of the crater.

     "Boys, I want you to pick her up and carry her to my bed.   She still lives, no matter that she is a stranger she needs our help."

     "Yes okasan." The boys say together as the stand on each side of Naa's body and lift her up in their arms. They start the journey back up the crater and into the hut. They lay her gently down in a bed that is curtained off from the rest of the hut in the back. The middle age woman follows behind them. As soon as the woman's sons move away from the prone body on the bed she orders them out of the room.

     "Bring me some linen, boiled water, my herbs and bandages." She calls through the curtain.

     "Yes okasan." They chorus once again.

     "Now let's see what we have here." The woman leans over Naa and runs her hands down her body to check for injuries. "Neck is fine, a broken arm, and a few broken ribs. Hip is fine but it is probably going to hurt something fierce cause of the landing. Several cuts and bruises from what I can see so far.   Need to get your clothes off you before Oba can really tell the extent of your injuries."

     The woman called Oba starts pulling off Naa's armor, Naa moans in pain at the movement.

     "I know it hurts tou (sugar) but it must be done."   Oba says. After several minutes of struggling Oba finally gets the armor and clothing off of her injured guest. During the whole time Naa had moaned only that once and has been unconscious the whole time. One of Oba's sons coughs behind the curtain.

     "Okasan, I've got what you asked for."

     "Good boy, now go and heat me up some more water. Whatever ikijigoku (living hell) this girl has been though it sure left her dirty. Here, throw these in the pile I was washing; I'll get back to them when I can." Oba hands her son Naa's armor and clothing, after he was gone she turn towards the body in the bed and says to herself, "I wonder what happened to you girl? Nobody deserves to be treated like this no matter what they have done." Oba settles down on the bed by Naa, leans over her and starts to wash the grime away.