CFAF: …………Forgive me…please?

Chapter 16.

"But Radditz!"

"But nothing, put on the gi."
"Radditz, I'm not going to put it on!"

"I don't care what you think Kid, you are going to put that gi on right now."

"I won't!!"

"You have to train so put it on!"

"Radditz," The yelling abated and Kid was now speaking quietly, "I am not going to wear this gi, one, I don't want to train, but I understand that I must, but more importantly, it's pink. I refuse, to wear, anything, pink, ni-san, no pink."

Radditz blinked, "Oh so that's the problem? We can fix that. I suppose the person I got it from assumed, as you are a girl, you'd like pink. I wasn't thinking. Why don't you like pink anyway?"

"I hate pink Radditz, despise it. It's girlish, if you notice, I'm not wearing anything pink."

"You're not wearing much of any color, Kid, black and blue."

"Doesn't that tell you anything?! Let me help choose the gi, that way we don't have to worry about this."

"Well here's a yellow one…."

"No!"

"Fine, fine, we'll go get you a different one."

"Thank you!"

Radditz led Kid to a room full of thousands of gi's and armor, "Wow, That's a lot of training crap."

"Training crap?" Radditz raised an eyebrow, "How literate you are."

"Meh, leave me alone." Kid began browsing through the gi's and armor, stopping every once and a while and pulling something out and tossing them in a pile.

Radditz watched his adoptive sister as she rummaged through things and when her pile grew to a reasonable size he bent over to inspect her choices, "Kid," His voice was exasperated, "All of these clothes are about five sizes to big."

"Yeah so?" Her voice was muffled, "All my clothes are."

"It will be next to impossible to train in these."

"That's nice Radditz, I don't want to train anyway."

Radditz calmly put all the previously chosen gi's away after looking at the colors and went back through and picked out more gi's of the same colors and four sizes smaller.

Kid turned around and noticed the change in sizes, "Oh c'mon Radditz! That's so unfair!"

"Life's not fair Kid. Get used to it."

Kid whined, "But Nii-saaaaaan!"

"But nothing. Now, shut up and go put on one of these gi's."

"Fine." Kid rolled her eyes, but you know this training will not accomplish anything."

"We'll see, we'll see."

An hour later kid was drenched in sweat and covered in bruises and blood, "I, told you, this would, not avail, in anything." Kid said between pants.

Radditz rolled his eyes and stopped the light punch he'd been aiming at Kid, he wasn't even winded, "You aren't trying Kid."

"I am freaking too!" she lied through her teeth, "This is hard!" that wasn't a lie.

Radditz sighed, "I'll be right back, Nappa, if you could take over for a moment, I am going to go get her some water." Radditz rolled his eyes and quickly exited the training room to get water for Kid.

"Well Kid, it's my turn for the moment," Nappa cracked his knuckles and started towards Kid menacingly, "And unlike the weakling; Radditz, I don't have a soft spot for you." With that Nappa punched Kid in the gut, hard, and she doubled over in pain, looking up at Nappa there was fear in her eyes as she saw Nappa kick and felt her legs crumple beneath her, staring up in shock and fear and pain at Nappa, her eyes widened as a large fist filled her vision and on contact she was released into blissful unconsciousness.

Ten minutes later Radditz walked back into the training room, upon seeing Nappa beating something he scowled and he saw a trail of blood pooling up beneath him, "Nappa!" he snapped, "What the heck are you doing!?"

"Training the girl," Nappa sneered, "She's weak, it took merely a punch to the face to knock her out."

"Nappa stop now!" Radditz shouted.

"Fine," Nappa stopped his relentless attack, and wiped his bloody knuckles off on Kid's gi; "but the girl will be better off for it, she'll be stronger."

"She's not a Saiyan Nappa! This will not benefit her! Leave!"

"Filthy third class Saiyan," Nappa lifted Radditz up by his armor, "I am an elite, you cannot tell me what to do!"

"I am one of the three Saiyans left, you cannot kill me, Prince Vegeta would be angry."

"He would not care about a filthy third-class like you!" Nappa spat but set Radditz down nonetheless and strode quickly out the door.

Radditz rushed over to Kid's side and took one look at her and grimaced, her entire body was covered in blood, her nose was bloody and squished, looking quite broken, the rest of her face was bloody from cuts and bruised from the force of many punches. Her shoulder looked broken, there were numerous cuts and gashes all over her body, and a particularly bad one across her stomach, almost as if Nappa had ripped her stomach open with his bare hands, her legs were in bad shape as well, both broken just below the knee.

Radditz cursed violently after taking this in and picked Kid up quickly, though probably best to leave her lying there, she needed medical attention right away. Radditz continued cursing Nappa as he rushed Kid to the medical center.

A pair of eyes glowed red from the shadows as they watched Radditz take Kid away, the figure had appeared moments before and seen Radditz enter the room and Nappa beating on Kid. After silently watching to ensure that Kid would be taken care of the eyes moved off after Nappa's retreating figure.

Reaching the medical center Radditz immediately got the attention of a medic, coincidently it was the same medic who had taken care of Kid's hand injury only hours before.

Not taking notice of whom the victim was the medic immediately set up a rejuvenation chamber and stuck Kid in it, "What happened to her? This isn't even the normal sparring condition." The medic got Kid stabilized and looked up at her face, then realized who she was, "Can this girl not stay uninjured for more than two hours!?"

"Apparently not," Radditz snapped.

"What happened this time?"

"Nappa"

"Oh poor girl…"

"Yes."

"Not much of a conversationalist, are you?"

"No."

"Okay than…" the medic trailed off unwilling to put his neck at risk for conversations sake.

Half an hour later Nappa marched into the medical center cursing, he hand was covered in cuts and scratches and was bleeding profusely. He had grabbed one of the medics and immediately forced him to heal him. On his way out he saw Kid in a tank, she looked white, almost dead cuts clean and no longer bleeding but even through the green glass of the tank one might think she was dead, hair floating around her like a halo pale skin and a very baggy white t-shirt floating around her. "At least that girl is out of the way for the moment, pathetic weakling."

Suddenly Radditz appeared behind Nappa, "Leave Nappa. Now."

Very much surprised by the hissing voice in his ear Nappa leaped forward and whirled around, "Why should I?"

"Leave Nappa, now." Radditz reiterated.

"I'm only leaving because I want to." Nappa left, slightly more hurriedly than he would if Radditz hadn't been there glaring at him with his eyes wishing death upon him.

Radditz stood in front of the regeneration tank and looked into it watching Kid floating in the regenerative liquid, "You'll be okay…..Let's not leave you alone with Nappa again huh?" he spoke softly knowing that Kid couldn't hear him.

Bardock floated over the regeneration tank holding Kid cursing violently. He couldn't do anything, he had watched in horror as Nappa had beaten upon Kid, he attempted to punch Nappa, hoping to deter him, but he had gone right through him, while Nappa had briefly stopped and shuddered, the next time he did it Nappa simply ignored the sensation and continued his pounding.

What use is it, Bardock asked himself, to be here watching over someone when you couldn't do anything to help them?

Bardock sighed and followed Radditz, who had left a short while ago to attend to his daily duties. There was nothing he could do anyway, and just about anything was better than sitting and watching someone float in a tank.

CFAF: I've had writers block for this part of the story for forever, so I've decided I'm just going to post it --; sad, pathetic, I know. But true. I'll try to come up with something else soon. I may be able to do it better. Incredibly short. Not very well written, but I figured you guys deserved something after this long. Anyway…hope that you enjoyed, Reviews always appreciated but not required.

One again apologies for the shortness of this chapter

Gip K Thank you for reviewing! No problem on the delay, i delayed long enough myself, I apologize. Finally did update though ;;

Psycho Dragon Lover didn't quite make that...>. sorry, but hey, here it is.

Kage Onna: Yes, your OC was mentioned, and should be coming up shortly if....i am not prohibited by writers block. Thanks Dana for keeping her from giving any spoilers.....and.....Hao and Kid say, Yes, human's are idiots.

A Fading Shadow ...OO i'm sorry.