The young woman known as Akane, who was once the young man known as Ranma
Saotome, sat watching Goku laugh and play as a tiger chased him about. She
thought back on everything that had gone on and how much she had changed;
she wondered if her old self would even recognize her and how she would
change again once her memory returned.
'I miss Gohan,' she thought, 'he was like a father to Goku and me. I still remember our first meal together, the one we shared out behind the old kitchen.'
"All the things I learned," she murmured with a far away melancholy expression.
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Big Sister
By Verse12
[email protected]
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Disclaimer:
I do not own these characters nor do I claim too, this is a simple fan based homage. Their creators and the companies they work for and with own the characters and all that pertains to them. (I.E. Rumiko Takahashi, Viz, Shougakukan, Pioneer LDC, Hiroki Hayashi, Ryoe Tsukimura, Akira Toriyama) This is just fans of the shows expressing their love for it for fun, no profit is involved or expected thank you.
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Chapter Two
Beginnings Part Four
Or
Building a Life
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Almost two years earlier,
"Sit. Eat," Gohan said with a flourish, indicating a large stump the top of which had been made into a tabletop. Sitting on a log seat before the table Akane smiled tentatively, she was still a little nervous.
Gohan walked over to the table and began to ladle out heaping bowls of a thick stew into wooden bowls. Goku was incapable of speech as he was too busy drooling from hunger. In addition to the stew, Gohan tore off hunks of hearty dark bread for everyone to enjoy. The meal passed in companionable silence except for the fact that Goku and Akane ate like starving wolves. When Gohan commented on this with a smile, Goku let loose a big grin while Akane blushed in embarrassment.
"Akane, you can stay for as long as you like, we will help you as much as we can," Gohan assured the girl.
"Oh no, I can't intrude on you like that. You've done more than enough," Akane demurred. Yet despite her words she fervently hoped she could continue to stay with her hosts for now.
With a good-natured smile the older man laughed heartily at the girl, "It's okay, really. We can put up a curtain so you can have your privacy, and after we move some things around, maybe put some things in the rafters, we should have enough room. It'll be a little cramped but it should be enough."
Akane smiled and thanked the kindly old man.
Returning her smile, Gohan said, "You're more than welcome."
"So you're stayin' Oneechan?" Goku asked in his typically sweet manner.
"For now it seems," the red headed girl said, Smiling kindly.
"Now the conditions out here are kind of rustic," Gohan apologized, "but what we have is yours."
"That's okay," she said, "I think I may have been something of a tomboy," she said with a self-deprecating grin.
"There is plenty of food; Goku can hunt for just about anything while I find wild fruits and nuts to supplement the garden on the other side of the house," the old man said while laughing good naturedly. "And while we don't have a bathtub to wash in, we do have a lagoon we use to keep clean; it isn't hot but it never gets that cold ether."
Akane smiled at her luck in finding such good people, and said she had no problem with that.
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Back to the present
Akane laughed as Goku effortlessly threw off the tiger with which he had been playing, then ran off laughing and swinging through the trees.
'Settling in was easier than I thought it would be. Though there were a few bumps along the way, such as when I took my first bath in the river,' she thought.
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The past,
The first morning living with Gohan and Goku, Akane woke up feeling better, during the night she found her aches and pains had eased, although the weakness still plagued her. She looked around the one room house and saw the two men had already left.
Gohan had Goku moved some things as promised, a bedroll had been set up over by the chest of drawers, the trunk that had been sitting there was currently up in the rafters. An old sheet thrown over a pole made a temporary curtain to cut off the sleeping area from the rest of the room.
She stood up and stretched her back, trying to get the kinks out, 'I would have taken the bedroll but Gohan wouldn't hear of it,' she thought. 'I'm glad he said we would make a trip to the nearest town, there are some things I'm going to need, plus maybe we can find out something about me.'
With a sigh she set about straightening the futon while her thoughts returned to the conversation from the night before, 'Goku was so excited about going to a town,' she smiled.
Sniffing her underarm she recoiled at the smell, "PEUH, I need to wash for sure. Now let's see; Gohan said the washing lagoon was back along the main path but you have to take a side path to the right."
She straightened her clothes and walked out into the morning sun, but not before she grabbed a towel and soap from where Gohan had told her they were.
While she was heading to the lagoon Goku had seen her head in that direction and decided to follow her to make sure she was all right, 'cause his grandpa had told him to look out for her.
Goku came running down to the lagoon yelling to see if she was okay, only to stop and stare. Akane was standing in the lagoon buck-naked. When he looked at her body he screamed that they were missing 'cause he didn't see what he thought he would see.
Seeing him looking at her she screamed as well, Akane ran up to the bank and grabbed her towel, wrapped it around herself, then ran screaming after Goku, who fled in fright.
"COME BACK HERE, YOU LITTLE PERVERT!!!!" she roared in feminine rage.
Goku just screamed in fright and ran away from the angry female.
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The present
Akane stood up and walked across the clearing to the new and larger cottage; it had two bedrooms and an indoor kitchen. Grabbing a whole side of, well some kind of animal, Akane slung it easily over her shoulder and headed into the kitchen.
She dropped the meat onto the table and grabbed a butcher knife. With a quick spin the knife flashed out and chopped the meat into manageable portions. Seasoning the meat she pulled out a wok and began to cook up a storm, adding vegetables and herbs, she prepared the enormous meal for herself and Goku.
While she did this, her thoughts were still on those first days, 'of course I was mad but now I can laugh about it. Perverted thoughts have never entered into Goku's head he just wanted to help. And actually he did help, because he saw that mark on my back, and because he saw that and told Gohan, Gohan was able to do what he could for my weakness.
'Of course it took him forever to calm poor Goku down and explain what he saw,' she chuckled to herself.
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The past
Akane was sitting on a log in the clearing in front of the little one room cottage, as she sat their Gohan came up to her and sat next to her. She had been looking for Goku to apologize to him, but she couldn't find him. Knowing what had happened Gohan came to see if he could help.
"Goku is hiding," the older man said. "He was upset, but I managed to calm him down, and uhm . . . I told him a little about girls," he said while blushing a bit behind his thick mustache. He continued, saying, "You see he didn't know much about women and the uhm . . . differences, well, they kind of, uhm . . . scared him.
"I think you need to talk to him, tell him you're not really mad," he looked closely at her and continued, "I know we've only known you for a day but I think he is really beginning to look up to you."
Smiling in an understanding way she nodded, "Okay, I was actually looking for him myself. Looking back on it I can see it was a misunderstanding."
"That's good," the old martial arts master said. "Uhm, to change the subject a bit, I have something to talk to you about. You see, when I was talking to Goku he asked me if it was normal for girls to have writing on their backs. After I got him calmed down he told me he saw a character written on your back."
"Really? I didn't even know," the young woman interrupted, peeking over her shoulder wondering where it was and what it said.
"What I was wondering was if you would let me see it, I think it may provide a clue as to your origin."
She was confused by this turn of events and replied, "Uhm? I guess, sure."
Blushing slightly, she turned around and lifted the back of her shirt to show him what they thought was a tattoo of some kind.
He hemmed and hawed for a minute looking at the mark before she finally asked him, "Well?" in a curt manner.
"Oh, sorry. I think I may have an idea about this, but it's not about your origin I think this may have something to do with this weakness you say your feeling."
As she dropped her shirt and retied the sash around her waist he continued speaking, "I feel that this is somewhat unnatural."
"Unnatural?" she questioned as she continued readjusting the baggy shirt that fell to her knees.
"As a martial artist, I notice things that others may not, but when I saw you chasing Goku earlier how you moved as you ran showed that you have training in the art as well."
"Really? You think so?"
"Most certainly, it shows in everything you do, how you move and walk. Your brain may have forgotten but your body remembers," the older man stated.
"But how is that unnatural?"
He shook his head, "That is not what is unnatural. It is your weakness that is. What truly made me aware of the severity of it was when you tried to grab that small rock and throw it at Goku as you were chasing him."
In confusion she frowned and answered his unasked question and quietly said, "It was too heavy."
"Exactly, and there is no reason a small rock like that should have been beyond your ability to lift. Especially if you are as skilled as I think you are." Then he frowned and looked seriously at her, as though examining the problem and not the girl her self, "No I think you were attacked."
"What?" she exclaimed in shock.
"I think that this mark has something to do with your weakness, I've never seen anything like it but if I am reading things correctly then some how that mark is sapping your strength. And if this is true then your amnesia could also be the work of the same people, of course it could just be the stress of what has occurred to you but I believe that it is to close to be a coincidence."
Angry and a little scared she asked, "Who?"
"It's impossible to tell yet, but the good news is that I may be able to help you with the weakness you are suffering," Gohan stated, trying to ease her tension levels.
Akane relaxed slightly, "How will you do that?"
"It's complicated, but I know of a technique, it won't give you back your strength but it will give you the chance to get stronger. It will be hard work, very hard work, but if you keep at it I believe you will be as strong as you ever were, maybe even stronger." Smiling the older man patted her on the shoulder and looked her in the eye; "I will train you; if you wish it that is."
The redheaded girl looked down at the ground. Overcome by the kindness being shown to her, for some reason it was very precious to her, as if she had not known its like before. So right then and there, she decided to do her all to help them as much as they might ever need. "Okay," she finally said with a smile, "but how is this technique supposed to work anyway?"
Frowning for a second Gohan leaned away from her in thought, "Imagine your strength is like a pond, and right now, somehow, that pond has been covered up. Now, the pond is still there, just beneath the surface, but you can't access it. What this technique should do though is build up the banks of the shore making a new basin over the old covered one. And gradually we should be able to fill that new dry pond with strength." The old man finished his metaphor with a sober smile.
After a moment of thought she finally said okay and even though he warned once more that it would be very hard work.
"No, I need to do this, especially if you are right and this was done to me. I will need to get strong to be able to defend myself from this again."
Looking at her seriously he told her, "If you are dedicated you will succeed in all you try to do. But you should stay here with us at least until you get your strength back; so that you can defend yourself in case whoever did this comes looking for you again."
Sitting back for a second she thought over this before nodding, "All right."
"It will be very painful I'm afraid," he warned her.
"Let's just do this, I want to get started as soon as we can," the girl asserted.
So with a nod, the two of them stood up and he pressed points on the back of her neck in a bizarre combination.
For a second she thought that it hadn't worked, that is until the pain hit. She screamed and screamed until all that would come out is a choked gasp, then, mercifully, she finally passed out.
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Back to the Present
Akane shook her head at the memory of the pain before thinking, 'It hurt so much, but two days later when I woke up I already felt a little bit stronger, just a bit mind you. But a few days later when Gohan began to train me, and he was right it was hard, but as intense and painful as the training was it did work to increase my strength once I could get stronger again. After a month I could do average things that were normal for someone of my build and size.'
Still making lunch, practically on automatic, she rolled out some dough and prepared to steam some stuffed buns. But as she was doing this her thoughts were still on the past, 'the walk Gohan and me took to the nearest town filled me in on a lot of things. It was forty miles away and would take some time to get there, get the things we needed, and return. But Gohan would not take Goku with us and that disappointed the boy greatly and it caused me to worry for him because I had gotten quite close to him already. But after his explanation of the tail, something I had been quite worried about, I understood. He related the story of Goku's arrival on earth and how he found him, and everything that happened in those early days.
'After he said all of that as we walked the dusty road down the mountain he said one more thing on the subject - a warning that under no circumstances was Goku ever to be allowed to look at the full moon. He wouldn't say why, he just asked me to trust him. I wish I had,' she thought wiping a tear from her eye.
She put the buns into the steamer and began chopping up more things for a stir-fried dish, 'I'm glad I resolved not to let Goku's origins affect how I treated him or even how I felt for the boy, I had actually grown to see him as my little brother.
'I was embarrassed by all the things that Gohan got me at the stores in town. But when he said how grateful he was for all I had done for Goku, he said I had no choice in the matter. I was getting whatever I wanted. It still embarrasses me a bit that I actually teared up at that point. Evidently Gohan had a lot of gold hidden away, so when we got to the town we got all that we needed: another futon, lumber, clothing, other sundry supplies as well as that capsule truck to get everything back home,' the girl smiled at her thoughts on that little bit of technology. 'Capsule technology was a shock, that's for sure, and that is a hint about where I'm from, I still knew about most forms of technology but that was something I had never seen before. So wherever I am from they don't have Hoi-Poi Capsules.'
Finishing another dish, she started making another, 'Of course as much as it freaked me out capsules freaked out Goku a lot more.' She chuckled at the thought of Goku thinking the capsules were magic and the truck was a monster, 'We were barely able to keep him from destroying it.'
She reflected over all the work they had done, expanding the garden into a sizable field of crops, putting the new futon out for the boys, and getting her things put away into one of the chests.
As she continued to cook she thought over how it was at this point that she decided to help out more by cleaning up and doing some of the cooking (which she discovered she was quite good at), 'As well as the cooking martial arts that I knew instinctively,' she thought with a blurring spin of the knife in her hand.
Arranging the dishes on the table inside, she blushed as she remembered that first meal she cooked; how Gohan had told Goku that they were in for a treat having a home cooked meal from a pretty girl.
'Of course, it took me a while to get used to cooking for someone with an appetite like Goku, though I seem to eat a lot too. Martial arts must burn off all those calories we take in.'
Sighing, she headed to the door and looked out, leaning against the doorframe she watched Goku frolic about, she smiled but that quickly turned into a frown. 'I wish I had listened better when Gohan had warned me about the full moon.'
She continued to watch Goku as he chopped some wood for the fire and she smiled sadly, 'I love them both, but it's my fault that Gohan is gone, I have to do whatever I can for Goku. And follow Gohan's last wishes, not to break Goku's heart by telling him the truth about the monster who killed his grandpa.'
Finally, with a shake of her head, she ceased her dark ruminations and called Goku to lunch, 'I will take care of my little brother, no matter what.'
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To be continued in,
Chapter Three of Big Sister
And the start of a new saga,
The Hunt or Who's Bulma
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End Notes:
Thank you all for your reviews I really appreciate it, I hope you all like this chapter. Your reviews make me write faster. I recently posted Chapter 10 of Only Human and I only got 2 reviews? Needless to say I was a little disappointed so if you liked these fics, or even if you didn't please review. Let me know where you think things should go or where you think I dropped the ball.
And a special thanks to my pre readers out there, Skunktrain and Taurock you guys are great thanks for all your help.
If anyone else wants to be a Pre-reader I would appreciate it, please Email me at [email protected], also make sure to make the subject about pre- readers.
Signed: Verse12
'I miss Gohan,' she thought, 'he was like a father to Goku and me. I still remember our first meal together, the one we shared out behind the old kitchen.'
"All the things I learned," she murmured with a far away melancholy expression.
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Big Sister
By Verse12
[email protected]
******************************
Disclaimer:
I do not own these characters nor do I claim too, this is a simple fan based homage. Their creators and the companies they work for and with own the characters and all that pertains to them. (I.E. Rumiko Takahashi, Viz, Shougakukan, Pioneer LDC, Hiroki Hayashi, Ryoe Tsukimura, Akira Toriyama) This is just fans of the shows expressing their love for it for fun, no profit is involved or expected thank you.
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Chapter Two
Beginnings Part Four
Or
Building a Life
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Almost two years earlier,
"Sit. Eat," Gohan said with a flourish, indicating a large stump the top of which had been made into a tabletop. Sitting on a log seat before the table Akane smiled tentatively, she was still a little nervous.
Gohan walked over to the table and began to ladle out heaping bowls of a thick stew into wooden bowls. Goku was incapable of speech as he was too busy drooling from hunger. In addition to the stew, Gohan tore off hunks of hearty dark bread for everyone to enjoy. The meal passed in companionable silence except for the fact that Goku and Akane ate like starving wolves. When Gohan commented on this with a smile, Goku let loose a big grin while Akane blushed in embarrassment.
"Akane, you can stay for as long as you like, we will help you as much as we can," Gohan assured the girl.
"Oh no, I can't intrude on you like that. You've done more than enough," Akane demurred. Yet despite her words she fervently hoped she could continue to stay with her hosts for now.
With a good-natured smile the older man laughed heartily at the girl, "It's okay, really. We can put up a curtain so you can have your privacy, and after we move some things around, maybe put some things in the rafters, we should have enough room. It'll be a little cramped but it should be enough."
Akane smiled and thanked the kindly old man.
Returning her smile, Gohan said, "You're more than welcome."
"So you're stayin' Oneechan?" Goku asked in his typically sweet manner.
"For now it seems," the red headed girl said, Smiling kindly.
"Now the conditions out here are kind of rustic," Gohan apologized, "but what we have is yours."
"That's okay," she said, "I think I may have been something of a tomboy," she said with a self-deprecating grin.
"There is plenty of food; Goku can hunt for just about anything while I find wild fruits and nuts to supplement the garden on the other side of the house," the old man said while laughing good naturedly. "And while we don't have a bathtub to wash in, we do have a lagoon we use to keep clean; it isn't hot but it never gets that cold ether."
Akane smiled at her luck in finding such good people, and said she had no problem with that.
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Back to the present
Akane laughed as Goku effortlessly threw off the tiger with which he had been playing, then ran off laughing and swinging through the trees.
'Settling in was easier than I thought it would be. Though there were a few bumps along the way, such as when I took my first bath in the river,' she thought.
******************************
The past,
The first morning living with Gohan and Goku, Akane woke up feeling better, during the night she found her aches and pains had eased, although the weakness still plagued her. She looked around the one room house and saw the two men had already left.
Gohan had Goku moved some things as promised, a bedroll had been set up over by the chest of drawers, the trunk that had been sitting there was currently up in the rafters. An old sheet thrown over a pole made a temporary curtain to cut off the sleeping area from the rest of the room.
She stood up and stretched her back, trying to get the kinks out, 'I would have taken the bedroll but Gohan wouldn't hear of it,' she thought. 'I'm glad he said we would make a trip to the nearest town, there are some things I'm going to need, plus maybe we can find out something about me.'
With a sigh she set about straightening the futon while her thoughts returned to the conversation from the night before, 'Goku was so excited about going to a town,' she smiled.
Sniffing her underarm she recoiled at the smell, "PEUH, I need to wash for sure. Now let's see; Gohan said the washing lagoon was back along the main path but you have to take a side path to the right."
She straightened her clothes and walked out into the morning sun, but not before she grabbed a towel and soap from where Gohan had told her they were.
While she was heading to the lagoon Goku had seen her head in that direction and decided to follow her to make sure she was all right, 'cause his grandpa had told him to look out for her.
Goku came running down to the lagoon yelling to see if she was okay, only to stop and stare. Akane was standing in the lagoon buck-naked. When he looked at her body he screamed that they were missing 'cause he didn't see what he thought he would see.
Seeing him looking at her she screamed as well, Akane ran up to the bank and grabbed her towel, wrapped it around herself, then ran screaming after Goku, who fled in fright.
"COME BACK HERE, YOU LITTLE PERVERT!!!!" she roared in feminine rage.
Goku just screamed in fright and ran away from the angry female.
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The present
Akane stood up and walked across the clearing to the new and larger cottage; it had two bedrooms and an indoor kitchen. Grabbing a whole side of, well some kind of animal, Akane slung it easily over her shoulder and headed into the kitchen.
She dropped the meat onto the table and grabbed a butcher knife. With a quick spin the knife flashed out and chopped the meat into manageable portions. Seasoning the meat she pulled out a wok and began to cook up a storm, adding vegetables and herbs, she prepared the enormous meal for herself and Goku.
While she did this, her thoughts were still on those first days, 'of course I was mad but now I can laugh about it. Perverted thoughts have never entered into Goku's head he just wanted to help. And actually he did help, because he saw that mark on my back, and because he saw that and told Gohan, Gohan was able to do what he could for my weakness.
'Of course it took him forever to calm poor Goku down and explain what he saw,' she chuckled to herself.
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The past
Akane was sitting on a log in the clearing in front of the little one room cottage, as she sat their Gohan came up to her and sat next to her. She had been looking for Goku to apologize to him, but she couldn't find him. Knowing what had happened Gohan came to see if he could help.
"Goku is hiding," the older man said. "He was upset, but I managed to calm him down, and uhm . . . I told him a little about girls," he said while blushing a bit behind his thick mustache. He continued, saying, "You see he didn't know much about women and the uhm . . . differences, well, they kind of, uhm . . . scared him.
"I think you need to talk to him, tell him you're not really mad," he looked closely at her and continued, "I know we've only known you for a day but I think he is really beginning to look up to you."
Smiling in an understanding way she nodded, "Okay, I was actually looking for him myself. Looking back on it I can see it was a misunderstanding."
"That's good," the old martial arts master said. "Uhm, to change the subject a bit, I have something to talk to you about. You see, when I was talking to Goku he asked me if it was normal for girls to have writing on their backs. After I got him calmed down he told me he saw a character written on your back."
"Really? I didn't even know," the young woman interrupted, peeking over her shoulder wondering where it was and what it said.
"What I was wondering was if you would let me see it, I think it may provide a clue as to your origin."
She was confused by this turn of events and replied, "Uhm? I guess, sure."
Blushing slightly, she turned around and lifted the back of her shirt to show him what they thought was a tattoo of some kind.
He hemmed and hawed for a minute looking at the mark before she finally asked him, "Well?" in a curt manner.
"Oh, sorry. I think I may have an idea about this, but it's not about your origin I think this may have something to do with this weakness you say your feeling."
As she dropped her shirt and retied the sash around her waist he continued speaking, "I feel that this is somewhat unnatural."
"Unnatural?" she questioned as she continued readjusting the baggy shirt that fell to her knees.
"As a martial artist, I notice things that others may not, but when I saw you chasing Goku earlier how you moved as you ran showed that you have training in the art as well."
"Really? You think so?"
"Most certainly, it shows in everything you do, how you move and walk. Your brain may have forgotten but your body remembers," the older man stated.
"But how is that unnatural?"
He shook his head, "That is not what is unnatural. It is your weakness that is. What truly made me aware of the severity of it was when you tried to grab that small rock and throw it at Goku as you were chasing him."
In confusion she frowned and answered his unasked question and quietly said, "It was too heavy."
"Exactly, and there is no reason a small rock like that should have been beyond your ability to lift. Especially if you are as skilled as I think you are." Then he frowned and looked seriously at her, as though examining the problem and not the girl her self, "No I think you were attacked."
"What?" she exclaimed in shock.
"I think that this mark has something to do with your weakness, I've never seen anything like it but if I am reading things correctly then some how that mark is sapping your strength. And if this is true then your amnesia could also be the work of the same people, of course it could just be the stress of what has occurred to you but I believe that it is to close to be a coincidence."
Angry and a little scared she asked, "Who?"
"It's impossible to tell yet, but the good news is that I may be able to help you with the weakness you are suffering," Gohan stated, trying to ease her tension levels.
Akane relaxed slightly, "How will you do that?"
"It's complicated, but I know of a technique, it won't give you back your strength but it will give you the chance to get stronger. It will be hard work, very hard work, but if you keep at it I believe you will be as strong as you ever were, maybe even stronger." Smiling the older man patted her on the shoulder and looked her in the eye; "I will train you; if you wish it that is."
The redheaded girl looked down at the ground. Overcome by the kindness being shown to her, for some reason it was very precious to her, as if she had not known its like before. So right then and there, she decided to do her all to help them as much as they might ever need. "Okay," she finally said with a smile, "but how is this technique supposed to work anyway?"
Frowning for a second Gohan leaned away from her in thought, "Imagine your strength is like a pond, and right now, somehow, that pond has been covered up. Now, the pond is still there, just beneath the surface, but you can't access it. What this technique should do though is build up the banks of the shore making a new basin over the old covered one. And gradually we should be able to fill that new dry pond with strength." The old man finished his metaphor with a sober smile.
After a moment of thought she finally said okay and even though he warned once more that it would be very hard work.
"No, I need to do this, especially if you are right and this was done to me. I will need to get strong to be able to defend myself from this again."
Looking at her seriously he told her, "If you are dedicated you will succeed in all you try to do. But you should stay here with us at least until you get your strength back; so that you can defend yourself in case whoever did this comes looking for you again."
Sitting back for a second she thought over this before nodding, "All right."
"It will be very painful I'm afraid," he warned her.
"Let's just do this, I want to get started as soon as we can," the girl asserted.
So with a nod, the two of them stood up and he pressed points on the back of her neck in a bizarre combination.
For a second she thought that it hadn't worked, that is until the pain hit. She screamed and screamed until all that would come out is a choked gasp, then, mercifully, she finally passed out.
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Back to the Present
Akane shook her head at the memory of the pain before thinking, 'It hurt so much, but two days later when I woke up I already felt a little bit stronger, just a bit mind you. But a few days later when Gohan began to train me, and he was right it was hard, but as intense and painful as the training was it did work to increase my strength once I could get stronger again. After a month I could do average things that were normal for someone of my build and size.'
Still making lunch, practically on automatic, she rolled out some dough and prepared to steam some stuffed buns. But as she was doing this her thoughts were still on the past, 'the walk Gohan and me took to the nearest town filled me in on a lot of things. It was forty miles away and would take some time to get there, get the things we needed, and return. But Gohan would not take Goku with us and that disappointed the boy greatly and it caused me to worry for him because I had gotten quite close to him already. But after his explanation of the tail, something I had been quite worried about, I understood. He related the story of Goku's arrival on earth and how he found him, and everything that happened in those early days.
'After he said all of that as we walked the dusty road down the mountain he said one more thing on the subject - a warning that under no circumstances was Goku ever to be allowed to look at the full moon. He wouldn't say why, he just asked me to trust him. I wish I had,' she thought wiping a tear from her eye.
She put the buns into the steamer and began chopping up more things for a stir-fried dish, 'I'm glad I resolved not to let Goku's origins affect how I treated him or even how I felt for the boy, I had actually grown to see him as my little brother.
'I was embarrassed by all the things that Gohan got me at the stores in town. But when he said how grateful he was for all I had done for Goku, he said I had no choice in the matter. I was getting whatever I wanted. It still embarrasses me a bit that I actually teared up at that point. Evidently Gohan had a lot of gold hidden away, so when we got to the town we got all that we needed: another futon, lumber, clothing, other sundry supplies as well as that capsule truck to get everything back home,' the girl smiled at her thoughts on that little bit of technology. 'Capsule technology was a shock, that's for sure, and that is a hint about where I'm from, I still knew about most forms of technology but that was something I had never seen before. So wherever I am from they don't have Hoi-Poi Capsules.'
Finishing another dish, she started making another, 'Of course as much as it freaked me out capsules freaked out Goku a lot more.' She chuckled at the thought of Goku thinking the capsules were magic and the truck was a monster, 'We were barely able to keep him from destroying it.'
She reflected over all the work they had done, expanding the garden into a sizable field of crops, putting the new futon out for the boys, and getting her things put away into one of the chests.
As she continued to cook she thought over how it was at this point that she decided to help out more by cleaning up and doing some of the cooking (which she discovered she was quite good at), 'As well as the cooking martial arts that I knew instinctively,' she thought with a blurring spin of the knife in her hand.
Arranging the dishes on the table inside, she blushed as she remembered that first meal she cooked; how Gohan had told Goku that they were in for a treat having a home cooked meal from a pretty girl.
'Of course, it took me a while to get used to cooking for someone with an appetite like Goku, though I seem to eat a lot too. Martial arts must burn off all those calories we take in.'
Sighing, she headed to the door and looked out, leaning against the doorframe she watched Goku frolic about, she smiled but that quickly turned into a frown. 'I wish I had listened better when Gohan had warned me about the full moon.'
She continued to watch Goku as he chopped some wood for the fire and she smiled sadly, 'I love them both, but it's my fault that Gohan is gone, I have to do whatever I can for Goku. And follow Gohan's last wishes, not to break Goku's heart by telling him the truth about the monster who killed his grandpa.'
Finally, with a shake of her head, she ceased her dark ruminations and called Goku to lunch, 'I will take care of my little brother, no matter what.'
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To be continued in,
Chapter Three of Big Sister
And the start of a new saga,
The Hunt or Who's Bulma
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End Notes:
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