Chapter 2!@#$%^&()-
"Hey Gohan!" Saria yelled as she ran up behimd him.
"What, Saria?" Gohan asked as he looked up from his studies in the front yard.
"I need to learn to fly before the tournament, can you teach me?" she asked, leening over his shoulder and looking at his books.
"No," he said and continued working.
"Why not? You taught Goten and Videl," Saria wined and poked Gohan in the shoulder.
"Because you're a girl and you don't need to know, that's why" Gohan said getting up and walking into the house.
"Videl's a girl," Saria said following Gohan into the house and up to his room.
"That's different."
"No it ain't," Saria said tugging on his sleeve.
"Is too," he said closing the door in her face.
"Fine be that way, I'll just phone Videl and get her to teach me how to fly," Saria sayes and walked down the hallway.
"Phone Videl? How are you gonna do that? You don't even know her phone number," Gohan said poking his head out his door.
"Ya I do, it's 678-9045," Saria said and continued walking down the hallway.
"How did you know that?" Gohan said running up to Saria and spinning her around.
"A little something," Saria said flashing a small note book infront of Gohan's face.
"Hey that's my journal! Give that back!" Gohan said chasing Saria down the hallway.
"Nope not until you catch me," she said running out the front door. Gohan chased after her, they ran all around the back yard, up the hill, through the forest and back into the house. Saria ran into the kitchen and hind behind Chi-chi.
"Saria, get back here," Gohan yelled as he ran into the kitchen.
"Gohan," Chi-chi said with her arms crossed," What are you doing chasing after Saria?"
"I was...umm...uh...getting...,"Gohan started to say.
"I don't want to hear another word, you go straight to your room and finish your studies this minute," Chi-chi said glarring at Gohan.
"Yes, ma'm," Gohan said turning and walking back into his room. Saria smiled and casually walked over to the phone.
"Psst! Saria, come here," Gohan said sticking his head out his door.
"Huh?" she said cocking her head to one side but did as asked and walked over to Gohan's bedroom door.
"Give me my journal back," Gohan said reaching out to try and grab the book.
"No, I need to phone Videl to get her to show me how to fly," Saria said pulling away from Gohan's reach.
"Oh alright, I teach you how to fly if you give me my journal back," Gohan said with a sigh.
"Okay, here ya go," Saria said handing him his journal. He quickly grabbed it and headed for the front door. Saria followed him outside to the front yard. Gohan stopped and looked down at her with a smile.
For the next hour Gohan proceeded to teach Saria how to fly. She was doing quite well at first but once she got a hold of the basics she didn't stop to learn the rest. He had to fly at full speed so he could catch her and bring her back down for more training. It was supper time when they finally finished. Chi-chi called them both in for supper, Gohan lagged behind Saria as they went into the house.
"Why are you so tierd Gohan?" Goten asked his big brother as he sat down at the dinner table.
"Oh nothing, just a day of training Saria how to fly," he said leening back on his chair.
"Fun," Goten said just tapping the edge of Gohan's chair. Gohan was just about to stop him but it was too late, he was already on the floor with the chair on top of him.
"Gohan," Chi-chi said putting a bowl of rice on the table," What are you doing on the floor?"
"Goten pushed my chair over," he said putting his chair back in the up-right position.
Chi-chi looked over at Goten and frowned" Goten, did you do that?"
"Um...well...no," he said cringing back.
"Yes he did, I saw him do it," Saria said leening over and glarring at Goten.
"Goten did you?" Chi-chi said putting her hands on her hips.
"Yes ma'm," Goten said lowering his head and looking at the floor. Saria smiled and grabbed a bowl of rice.
"You better say sorry to Gohan before I send you to bed without supper," Chi-chi told Goten. Goten apoligized to his brother then they all fiished eating.
As Chi-chi cleaned up the kitchen after supper Saria desided that she needed to test her and Goten's strength. Goten was outside the house trianing with Gohan, Saria walked up to him and tapped him on the shoulder.
"What?" Goten said turning around to face Saria.
"Do you think you can beat me?" she said to Goten. He made an odd face then smiled.
"Do I think I can beat you? That's a stupid question to ask," Goten said with a smirk. Saria frowned and looked over at Gohan.
"Hey Gohan, do you think I can win," Goten asked with a smile.
"I don't know Goten, she's pretty strong," Gohan told Goten. Goten frowned then took a fighter's stance infront of Saria. She smiled then did the same.
Chapter 3!@#$%^&()-
Gohan watched as Goten and Saria faced off. They stared each other down until Goten couldn't take it any more. He lunged forward with a fist out to hit her, she casually side stepped it and kicked him in the back of the head. The fight continued much like this, Goten attacked and Saria doudged or blocked without much effort. Goten started to get tierd of beaten so he went super saiyin to continue the fight. He thought that this would give him an advantage but of course not knowing what he was up against he was very surprised.
"WHA!!!! How did you do that!" he asked as she went super saiyin 1.5 .
"Well probably the same way that you went super saiyin I guess," she said with a shrug and stepped forward. Goten backed up a little, he was still a bit surprised about Saria going super saiyin but the thought that shocked him the most was him losing to her.
"What's a matter?" she asked," Scared?"
"No, of course not," he said taking his stance again.
"Ya you are, I can tell by the look in your eyes," she said with a mocking smile.
"Really...wait a minute no you can't you're just trying to trick me," he said making a face.
"Sure am, and it worked too. I'll tell ya what, we'll call it quits for now and I won't tell anyone I kicked your ass," she said standing up straight and putting her hands on her hips..
Goten gave a half smile half frown,"Okay but you better promise not to tell ANYONE that you beat me," he told her.
"Hey you're not gonna get off this easy, I'm not just gonna let you go like that. If you don't want me to tell then you better not bug me anymore, do we have a deal?"
"Um...I don't...uh...."he stammered.
"If you break this promise Trunks will be the first one to know," she said extending her hand.
"Oh alright, if I have too," Goten said shaking hands with Saria, she smiled then ran off into the house. Goten watched her go then slowly made his way into the house to be mentaly damaged by the show she had just turned on. The Power Puff Girls. What a dreadful thought. He slowly walked into the living room and sat on the couch near the tv, the show was blarring in his ears and there was nothing he could do to stop it. Saria was sitting on the floor infront of him watching the tv in a mesmorized state. He smiled mischiviously and looked around the living room for the remote. He spotted it, on top of the tv. He carfuly crept over to the tv and snatched the remote, just s he was about to sit back down on the couch he felt a tug on his pant leg.
"Huh...? Oh hi Saria. Nice show you got playin' there, how is it?" he said rubbing the back of his head anime style.
"What do you think you are doing?" she asked in a very peeved voice.
"Uh...well...I was...kind...of...wondering..."
"No you may not change the chanel to X-Men, unless you're willing to get your ass kicked,"she said grabbing the remote back and turning back around to watch her show. Goten was about to protest but he stopped knowing that Saria would flip out if he tried anything else. He got up off the couch and walked into the kitchen and sat a the table beside Gohan.
"Whatcha doin'," he asked Gohan. Gohan looked up from his books and smiled.
"Studying for mid terms," he said. Goten cocked his head to one side.
"Mid terms? Are those like tests or something?"
"Ya, they're really boring. When you get into high school I'll help you study and get ready for big tests like these," Gohan said getting back to his studies. Goten smiled and rested his head on the table, he wondered how he would ever manage to beat Saria in the tournament. He would have to train really hard if he ever hoped to beat Saria, never mind Trunks. He knew that Trunks would help him train but if he asked Trunks would wonder why, then he would have to tell him about Saria kicking his ass. Oh this is gonna be hard, very hard.
"Hey Gohan," Goten asked his big brother.
"What can I do for ya?" Gohan replied.
"Do you think you can train me to be able to beat Saria? I know you are really strong and even you can beat her but I can't and that's just plain pathetic," Goten said closing his eyes. Gohan's eyes widened, he had never thought that his younger brother would be asking for help to beat his sister.
"Well...I guess I could teach you but I have to train too so don't get mad if I stop right in the middle of a sestion and walk off," Gohan said getting up from the table and putting his books away. He left the kitchen and walked into his room, Goten followed close behind to see if his big brother would say anything else. Gohan stopped in the middle of his room and looked over at his bed side table, on the table was a picture taken of him as a small boy. Also in the picture was Goku. Gohan missed his father a lot and it hurt when ever he looked at Goten because he resembled him quite well. Gohan looked over at Goten and smiled.
"Do you promise to try your harddest and never quit?" Gohan asked him.
"Ya...? Why do ask such a dumb question?" Goten said sitting on Gohan's bed.
"I dun no, I'm sorry," Gohan said scratching his head and sitting down on his bed beside Goten.
"It's okay," he said looking around. It had been a long time since he had sat in his brother's room, most of the time Gohan would just say he was busy and push him out the door. Goten kept looking until his eyes found a picture on Gohan's shelf," Hey Gohan, who's that?"
"Huh...? Oh that Videl, even though she's one of my best friends I kinda have these fee.........."Gohan stopped when he realized that he was revealing one of his best kept secrets.
"Have these what?" Goten asked with couriosity.
"Promise not to tell?" Gohan asked in a almost whisper.
"I won't tell if you won't tell," Goten replied.
"Tell what?"
"Well today when me and Saria were sparing I kinda lost, the reason you don't know this is beacause you went in the house to either do you're boring studies or talk on the phone to your friends," Goten said resting his head in his hands.
"Don't worry I won't tell," Gohan said getting up and pulling his shirt to get ready for bed," Hey you better get to bed if you wanna train tomorrow, I'll be wakin' you up early."
"Ya I'll go but first you tell me your lil' secret," Goten said with a smirk. Gohan's smiled faded and he sat back down of his bed beside Goten."
"You promise not to tell anyone, not even Trunks?" he asked. Goten nodded," Alright, what I was talking about was that I kinda have these........feelings for her and I wanted to ask her out but mom had a huge fit over it when she came to get her flying leasons that I promised, remember. I kinda gave up on asking her out anytime soon but.....at the end of the tournament I'll see how things are."
"That's some secret," Goten said with wide eyes," Well I gotta go to bed but I hope you have beter luck with Videl, see ya."
"Good night," Gohan said as his little brother ran out his door. Gohan sighed and layed down on his bed, how would he ever get enough courage to ask out Videl? Mabey he could get Goten or Saria to do it. No that wouldn't work, they'd mess it up big time. Oh well he'll just have to wait, mabey Videl feels the same too.
Chapter 4!@#$%^&()-
Saria yawned and sat up, the sun was shining in her and Goten's bedroom window onto her bed. She rubbed the sleep put of her eyes and looked around to make sure Goten hadn't broken his promise, there was nothing there and neither was he. He must have got up already, well of course he did she had always had this bad habbit of sleeping in to 11:00. She pushed back her covers then swung her feet off her bed and headed for her bedroom door. The door looked as it always looked but she kinda thought there was something wrong with it, she slowly pushed it open from a safe distance. And sure enough a bucket filled with liquid glue fell to the floor in front of her. Saria frowned, stepped over the mess nad walked into the kitchen for breakfast.
"Ohayo gozaimasu, Saria," Chi-chi said to her daughter as Saria sat down at the breakfast table without completly opening her eyes.
"Ohayo," Saria replied glumly and rested her head on the table then closed her eyes.
"Ohayo, Saria," said another voice. Saria's eyes burst open, the voice she heard sounded like the voice of the evil Trunks.
Saria sat up and stared straight at Trunks,"What the hell are you doing here?" she replied angrily and gritted her teeth.
"I'm staying here for the day because mom and dad had to go some place that they said would be boring for me," Trunks said with a smile and took a bite of his apple that he was holding. Saria frowned and got up from the table to got watch tv. She couldn't stand being around that kid, well she could but she wasn't about show it. She sat down infront of the tv and turned it on, her favorite show wasn't on so she just channel surfed for a while. Trunks had finished his apple in the kitchen so he went into the living room to watch tv with Saria. Just as he sat down beside her she got up and moved to a different spot. Puzzled, Trunks moved up beside her, she turned around and glarred at him.
"What the hell do you want?" she asked.
"I just want to sit with you, is that a crime?" he asked with wide eyes.
Saria frowned,"Yes, after what you did to me this morning," she said crossing her arms and turning back to the tv.
"I didn't do that, Goten did. I told him not but noooo he wouldn't listen to me," Trunks said laying down on the floor.
"Well if he did that, then I'm gonna tell you something he told me not to tell. I promised not to tell anyone if he stopped pulling tricks on me but I guess nothing can get through that rock hard brain of his,"she said still looking at the tv.
"What were you not gonna tell?" Trunks asked sitting back up.
"That I kicked his ass yesterday when we were training."
"You did? Ha that's pretty funny, I never thought that he would get his ass kicked by a girl," Trunks said with a laugh.
"Ya well, anyway I have to go," she said getting up and walking door the hall way to her and Goten's bedroom.
"Go where?" Trunks said getting up of the floor and running after her.
"Go finish doing my work," she said closing the door in Trunks's face.
"Hey! That's not nice, please let me in, I'll be nice! I promise," he said banging on the door. It opened, Trunks smiled and walked in, Saria rolled her eyes and sat on her bed. She grabbed her scetch pad and her pencil then began to draw. Trunks sat there watching in amazment, he never knew that Saria could draw, well not this good. He sat there watching her for the longest time that is until she told him to stop watching her. He got up off the bed and layed down on Goten's bed to stare up at the celing. Saria finaly finished her picture that she was drawing but quickly put it away when Trunks saw that she was done.
"Hey, I wanted to see it," Trunks wined as he sat up and swung his legs off the bed.
'No...y...you...can't," she said getting up from her bed and walking over to the window.
"Why not? Is it something personal?" he asked walking over to the window and standing beside her.
"Sorta, I guess but I just don't need to show you right now okay? You'll think I'm crazy," she said still looking out the window.
"Alright but I'm getting bored, wanna go spar for a while?" he asked her.
"Might as well, there's nothing else to do here anyway," she said heading for the door.
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"HEY BE CARFUL!!!!! IT'S NOT LIKE I'M INDESTRUTABLE!!!!!" Saria screamed as Trunks let lose a huge chi blast.
"Oh sorry, I just kinda thought if you ca beat Goten then you could mabey beat me, that's why I was trying so hard," Trunks said leveling down to his normal state. He sat down on a rock and pushed the hair out of his, Saria walked over to him and sat down on the grass.
"I didn't know you were so strong Trunks, where do you get all that power?" Saria asked as she leveled down from super saiyin.
"My dad. He trains me every day, if I don't do something right he yells and screams until I do get it right. He's a good teacher but he gets really tough on me, sometimes I just can't take it any more but then he gets even more mad and will even hit me sometimes," he said getting up and walking away from Saria a bit,"That's why I didn't go with them, I can't stand him. I swear that one day I'll end up killing him, I hate him so much. Please don't tell anyone I just told you that," he said turning back around to face Saria.
"Okay but what about Goten?" she asked as she got up and walked over to him.
"He doesn't need to know, he can't keep secrets very well, that's why I never tell him anything. The only reason I told you is beacuse you're the only one here right now and you can keep good secrets, or so Goten tells me," he said smiling at Saria. Saria's eyes widened but she went along with what Trunks said. The only thing that she wondered about was why he was all of a sudden being so nice and friendly to her and why he was smiling at her as if she was like his best friend or something. She had this increadible urge to hit him but something inside her told her not to.
"I'm gonna go inside to watch my show, you can come if you like," Saria said to Trunks as she walked towards the house.
"I guess I'll come, I have nothing else to do or play with," he said following her into the house. Saria turned on he tv to then sat down on the floor infront of the tv to watch her show. Trunks came and sat down beside her, he stared blankly at the tv"what the hell is this?" he thought to himself.
"Um...Saria...we watch something else?" he asked.
"When this is over," she said with eyes still glued to the tv. Trunks sighed and climbed up into a big chair, he would have to sit through a whole half-hour of horror. Those stupid Power puff girls were just about enough to make him puke at the end of the show.
"Hey Trunks," Saria said throwing the remote at Trunks,"Change it to something else."
"Like what?" he asked.
"I dun no but it can't be X-Men," she said changing her position from being upright to laying down on her stomach.
"Uh...okay," he said fliping through channels. He finally stopped at some movie that had just started, it looked okay so he just left it.
********An hour later********
"Hey Saria, what's the matter?" Trunks asked her, she was all curled up on the floor in some werid position that she couldn't even see the tv. She looked over at Trunks and sat up a bit.
"Oh nothing I'm just cold, that's all," she said then curled back up.
"Well...why don't you come and sit with me?" he asked her in a shakey voice. Saria sat up and looked at him, why would he be asking her this? He has never cared about her, so why now?
"Um...?....okay," she said getting up off the floor and climbing onto the chair with Trunks. He smiled at her then looked back at the tv again. Saria looked over at Trunks, why was he doing this? This was not normal for him, he was alway trying to kill her with Goten. This was so strange for him to be doing this and yet she was going along with it, she should be trying to kill him for this but she wasn't. Instead she was starting to fall asleep on his shoulder, this was so strange for her to be doing becuase for some reason she felt very calm when she was around him. Could it be that she.....likes him? Nah it couldn't be...could it?
Chapter 5!@#$%^&()--
"Thanks for teaching all that stuff today, Gohan," Goten said to his brother as they walked in the front door of the house.
"No problem just make sure you pratice a bit more before the tournament, okay?"Gohan said taking off his shoes and walking into the kitchen to go help his mother get ready for supper. Goten looked around,"Hey Mom! Where's Trunks? I thought he was supposed to be here today" he yelled into the kitchen.
"He and Saria are watching tv in the living room," Chi-chi told Goten. Goten smiled and ran into the living to get his best friend. He saw that the tv was on but he didn't see Trunks and Saria, they should have been on the floor or on the couch but he didn't see them. He looked around some more, they had to be here some...Goten stopped, there they were. Goten just stared at them for a bit pondering his thoughts over what to do about this.Trunks was a heavy slepper so nothing Goten did would have an effect him but Saria, Saria was a different story. Goten walked over to the sleeping couple, they looked sorta cute but he couldn't have his best friend become closer to his sister than him, well at least not at this age. Goten walked over to Saria's side of the chair and proceeded to put his fingers in her nose so she couldn't breath. She started to move around a bit but Goten kept his fingers in place. Saria's eyes finally opened, Goten tried to remove his fingers before Saria could notice but of course he just wasn't fast enough.
"GOTEN!!! WHAT WERE YOU DOING!!!!!" Saria screamed at the top of her lungs, Goten fell backwards onto the floor and Trunks started to move around a bit in his sleep.
"Huh...I was...um.....uh..." Goten tried spit out what he was doing but it was kinda hard when you have a girl like Saria on your case.
"SO you can't tell me, is that it?" she asked standing up and putting her hands on her hips.
"Well...ya I can...but...you'd kill me," Goten said cringing back. Saria frowned and turned around to see if Trunks had woken up yet. Of course he didn't so she poked him a bit, he moved a little but didn't open his eyes.
"No...don't touch...me...I wanna...stay here...and not... move..." Trunks said in his sleep. Saria made a werid face then poked him some more. He still didn't wake up. This started to bother Goten because he would like an explaination for all these thing happening between Saria ans Trunks. Goten walked over to Trunks and crossed his arms.
"I wonder..."Goten said looking at his friend and uncrossing his arms,"TTTTTRRRRUUUUNNNNKKKKSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!"Goten screamed at the top of his lungs in his best friend's ear.
"YEOW!!!!" Trunks said cluching his ears and jumping up from the chair," Wha...? Goten, why did you do that?!"
"First you tell me what you and my sister were up to today," Goten said making a extreamly mad face. Seeing this Saria just kinda removed herself from the flams between her and his best friend.
"We didn't do anything!" Trunks yelled to Goten.
"Oh really? Then why did I see you two both sleeping in the chair together when I got home? Tell me that,"Goten said making a face.
"Well she got cold so I let her sit in the chair with me then we just kinda fell a asleep,"Trunks said to Goten calmly.
"Kinda fell asleep huh? MABEY YOU SHOULD BE MORE CAREFUL THEN!!!!!! YOU TWO WERE LIKE ALL CUDLY AND MUSHY AND IT JUST GROSSES ME OUT TO THINK ABOUT IT!!!!!!!!! I DON'T CARE IF YOU WANNA BE LIKE THAT WHEN YOU'RE OLDER BUT NOT NOW!!!!!!!!" Goten screamed at Trunks.
"Um.......okay........?" Trunks said backing up a little," I'll just be like I was to her before then. And I'll just be mean and pull pranks on her seeing that you can't even beat her in a mild fight," Trunks said with a smirk.
"H...how did you know that she could beat me?" Goten asked with wide eyes.
"She told me becuase she said that you broke your guyses promise."
"Oh...ya...I knida forgot about that...BUT STILL!!!!! SARIA!!!!" Goten screamed after he got over his mild sadness. Saria poked her head out from behind the couch.
"...um...yes...?" she said slowly crawling out.
"Why did you tell? Just because I put that bucket above the door?" Goten demanded.
"Well ya! I told you that if you started to mean again that Trunks would be the first to know. I can't believe that you forgot so fast!" Saria said putting her hands on her hips.
"Oh well at least Trunks is on my side again," Goten said with a smile and patted his friend on the back.
"Lucky him," Saria said with a smile. Goten made an odd face and just before he could tell Trunks to move Trunks's be;t was gone and so was Saria.
"HEY COME BACK HERE!!!!!" Trunks yelled chasing after her and trying to hold his pants up at the same time. Saria laughed and ran into ther room. Goten and Trunks banged on the door for her to let them in but she didn't open up.
"Come on Saria, he never did anything," Goten said as he stopped banging on the door.
"I know but he would have if I didn't do something about it," she said pulling a box out from under her bed and putting the belt in it.
"Won't I ever see it again?" Trunks asked from outside the closed door.
"Mabey, mabey not," she said pushing the box back under her bed. The boys finally gave up trying to get in to get the belt back, they knew it was hopely so they just left. Saria climbed up ontot her bed and grabbed her sketch book. she fliped through the pages until she got the one she had been drawing today. She knew that if Goten and Trunks found it, that would be the end of her little secret so she put it away in a very safe place. One of her drawers ( AN: I don't think I have to tell which one it could be, just take a guess). Goten would never look there nor would he dare. She lay back down on her bed and stared up at the celing. She was bored. She had no friends her age to play with and all the only ones that were her age just had to be Trunks and Goten. Yay, what good friends. Oh well, life will lead the way.
Chapter 6!@#$%^&()-
"GOTEN!!!! SARIA!!!! GET UP OR YOU'LL BE LATE!!!!" Gohan screamed as he opened Goten's and Saria's bedroom door. Saria bolted up in bed, her eyes widened when she saw what time it was.
"Oh crap! Goten! Goten!" she said shaking her brother. He didn't move, she frowned.
"Oh well then you'll have to learn the hard way," she said grabbing the book she had been reading and hit Goten over the head with it.
"Huh...? Wha...?" he said sitting up and looking around.
"We're gonna be late for the tournament you dummy!" she said hitting him with her book again. Goten frowned then jumped out of bed to get ready. Saria pulled off her pj's then put on her training outfit. It was not like those dorky costumes that Goten and Trunks wore it was just a plain black tank top and a pair of cut off's. She looked in the mirror then grabbed her brush.
"SARIA!!!!!" Gohan yelled as poked his head in the door.
"What?" she asked still looking in the mirror and brushing her hair.
"We have to go, as in right NOW!" Goahn said walking over to Saria and picking her up then tucking her under his arm.
"HEY! Put me down! I didn't finish brushing my hair yet!" she screamed as Gohan carried her outside.
"You're gonna be late, now be quiet or I might have to cancle your entery," he said to her as he fly off to go catch up with Goten.
"I can fly let me go!" Saria said as she squirmed to try and get free of Gohan's grasp. Gohan smiled and quickly let go.
"HEY!!!!!!" Saria screamed as she started to fall back down to the ground but finally caught her flight and went back to Gohan. She punched him playfuly in the arm and they continued on their way to the tournament.
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Gohan,Goten and Saria walked into the arena and looked around. There were so many people every where and most of them didn't look to strong. Well what could they expect? It's not like it's normal to have a bunch of saiyin kids walking around.
"Well, bye,"Gohan said to Goten and Saria as he left.
"Where are you going?" Goten asked.
"To study,"Gohan said with a smile.
"You always study," Saria said with a wine," It's like you seem to like it or something."
"I don't like it but it has to be done or I won't get good grades, you'll understand when you start to go to school," Gohan said waving good-bye. Goten and Saria waved back then looked at each other then frowned.
"I have to be stuck here with you for the rest of day? What joy!" Saria said crossing her arms and turning away from Goten.
"Well lucky for me that Trunks will be here," Goten said with a mocking smile. Saria turned around and slaped Goten in the face.
"What did you do that for?" he asked rubbing his cheek.
"You're making me mad," she said walking away to find a seat and wait for her turn.
"Girls," Goten mumbled as he rubbed his cheek and looked around for Trunks. He walked around and around until he finally spotted his friend, he was sitting on a bench with some other boy.
"Hey Trunks!" Goten said walking over to his friend.
"Hey, I was lookin' for ya earlier but I couldn't find ya. Did ya just get here?" Trunks asked Goten.
"Ya, I was kinda late getting up but I still got here on time."
"That's good but...,"Trunks said looking around," where's your sister?"
"Oh she's right over th..." Goten stopped and looked over where she had been sitting before, she wasn't there. Oh well she wasn't his responsiblity, he had better things to do that look for his sister.
"Um...Goten don't turn around okay..." Trunks said to Goten.
"Why not, there's no harm in just turn..."Goten said turning around only to get a bucket of sour milk thrown on him. There of course was Saria with the bucket in hand and a smile on her face.
"Hope you have fun fighting in smelly clothes," Saria said throwing the bucket over Goten's head and running off.
"Um...Goten are you...okay...?" Trunks asked pulling the bucket off Goten's head. Goten mumbled something and stopmed off towards Saria. Trunks watched for a minute then followed his friend.
"SARIA!!!" Goten said as he walked up beside her with his fists clenched and his face beat red.
"Yes, what is it?" she replied calmly.
"I'm...gonna...kill...you...in...the..." he started to say but Saria cut him off and pulled him down into a seat beside her.
"Oh, I'm sure you'll do just fine but just make sure that you don't stiffen up and that you don't get mad and don't think that you can't win and don't say that you're the best and blah, blah,blah,blah,blah,blah,blah," she said smilng and going on and on about what he should and shouldn't do. Goten frowned and crossed his arms, this would be the lostgest wait ever. Both he and Trunks would be tourchered until it was hteir turn to fight but then of course when they were done their fight they would have to listen to it again.
This had to be the longest wait in the history of world, they had only be waiting for about 15 minutes but it seemed like hours. And with Saria going on about what ever she could think of made it even worse. It was finally their time, the last three matches were to go as so, Goten VS Saria, Saria VS Trunks, Goten VS Trunks. Goten stood up and walked into the ring, Saria followed and did the same. They both took their fighting postions and waited for the bell. It sounded, Goten and Saria fought with everything they had in them. Of course Saria won in the end but she still had to beat Trunks, which would be extreamly hard. Goten went and sat down beside Trunks on the bench while Saria was being congradulated for winning and being the only girl in the history of martial arts to get this far. Goten hung his head in dispare but in his heart he hoped that Saria would win this next fight so he could make fun of Trunks because he lost to a girl.
"Hey Goten,"Trunks said poking his friend slightly.
"Yeah?" he said lifting his head.
"That was some good fighting you did out there,"Trunks said with a smile.
"Thanks but do think you can beat her?" Goten asked.
"Sure no problem, it's not like she's extreamly hard like she was to you."
"Oh shut up! It's not like I wasn't trying at all," Goten said crossing his arms.
"I know, I know, I was just joking but anyways wish me luck," Trunks said getting up and walking towards the ring.
"Good luck," Goten said to his friend. Trunks gave Goten a thumbs up then comtinued to the ring. He climbed in and faced Saria who was still taking compliments from the crowd.
"Yes, thank you all, I will make sure that if I win this match I will..." she stopped when Trunks tapped her on the shoulder,"What?"
"We have to start now," he said to her. She frowned but truned around and got ready to fight for her life.
Chapter 7!@#$%^&()-
Saria glarred at Trunks, he had interupted her while she was trying to maintian her fame. Trunks smiled as he waited for the bell, it sounded. Saria lunged forward and hit Trunks right in the jaw, he stumbled back a bit but caught his balence then kicked Saria in the back. Thier fight went on much like this, Saria hit Trunks and Trunks hit Saria. All they would do is hit each other back and forth with out taking much damage. The all changed when Trunks let loose a huge chi blast that nearly knocked Saria out of the ring. She caught he footing just in time to throw a similar blast back a him. He blocked it then enforced another chi blast onto her. She couldn't block this time, it her with such a force that she flew out of the ring.
"That wasn't very fair," Saria said as she came back to the ring to congradulate Trunks.
"Ya..well I had to get rid of you some how, are you okay though?" he asked as she shook his hand.
"I'm fine but next time you won't be so lucky," she said with a smile as she left the ring so Trunks could recive his wonderful medal that she wanted so badly. She walked over to Goten and sat down.
"I can't believe I lost," she said hanging her head and looking at the floor.
"Hey don't worry about it, how do you think I felt when I lost to you?" Goten asked her with a smile.
She looked up at Goten,"I'm sorry, it's just that I've never lost to anyone before."
"It's okay, I understand," Goten said with a smile. Saria's eyes widened, Goten had never spoken to her like this. He had never said anything nice or encourageing to her before, why did he and Trunks start to be nice her? Oh well it only lasts for a short while so there nothing to get all exited about. Lets just forget this whole thing and go home, Saria thought to herself.
"Hey Trunks!" Goten said to Trunks as he came out of the ring.
"Ya, what is it?" he asked, walking over and sitting down beside Goten.
"Why don't you have a sleep over tonight? My mom won't mind and we can stay up as long as we want," Goten exclaimed happily.
"Okay, I'll phone my mom when we get to your house," Trunks said with a smile as they started to walk out of the arena.
"WAIT!!!!!" Saria screamed after them.
"What?" they both said turning around.
"Goten!!! You can't do this! I need my beauty sleep and I can't sleep with both of you in the same room as me," she said angrily.
"You can now," Goten said walking out of the arena with Trunks. Saria frowned, how the hell was she gonna be able to sleep with two morons making a bunch of noise? It's nearly impossible but she couldn't do anything about it no mater how hand she tried. She slowly followed them out of the arena to go back home.
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"Please mom! Trunks won the tournament, it's just a little celibration for him, please," Goten winned to Chi-chi.
"Oh alright, just don't make to much noise, it could keep Saria awake if she wants to go to sleep," Chi-chi said with a smile as Saria mumbled words that she should not be saying (AN: you heard what she said earlier, only this time they were worse +_+) behind her back. Goten and Trunks ran off to Goten and Saria's room and slamed the door. Saria casualy followed them then banged on the door.
"I need to come in," she said calmly.
"Why?" Trunks said opening the door just a bit.
"Because," she wiping open the door.
"Hey!" Goten said walking over to her and putting his hands on his hips.
"What?" she said climbing onto her bed and pushing off some of the things that the boys had put there.
"Who said that you could come in here?" Goten said with a frown.
"It's my bedroom too, if you want to be alone and do stuff with Trunks then you can go sleep outside," she said picking up a magazine and holding up infront of her face so Goten couldn't see her.
"Fine, you can stay here as long as you don't bug us," he said sitting down on his bed.
"I never bug you, you always bug me," she said not even looking up from her magazine. Goten frowned but didn't say anything, he got up and walked over to the closet. He opened the doors and started to rumage around in search of...something? He looked and looked until he finally emerged with a box.
"What's in there?" Trunks asked walking over to Goten.
"I dun no, that's why I brouhgt it out, so we could look in it," Goten said putting the box down on his bed. Saria looked over at them to see what they were up to, only to find something not to her liking.
"Um...what are you guys looking at...in that box?" she asked getting up from her bed and walking over to Goten's bed.
"I dun no, that's why we're looking," he said to her.
"Well being as the box doesn't belong to you can I just see it for a minute," Saria said grabbing the box and peering into it. Her eyes widened when she saw that it was the box she kept under her bed. Chi-chi must have moved it when she was cleaning one day.
"Can we have to box back now Saria?" Trunks asked.
"NO! I mean no, you can't I need to do something with it," she said shoving the box under her bed.
"But why?" they both asked her.
She smiled and inched closer to the door," Because that box is MINE and I'm going to have a talk with the person that put Mr, good ol ' box in the closet, so good-bye," she said running out the door and into the kitchen. Saria ran over to Chi-chi who was sitting at the table reading something.
"Mom! Why did you put that box I had under my bed in the closet?"she asked Chi-chi.
"Well why not? It's been under your bed for the longest..."
"That's why it's under there because that way Goten won't look in it or find it," she said to a surprised Chi-chi.
"But what's in it? If I had know that you didn't want it in tha closet then I wouldn't have put it in there."
"It a bunch of personal stuff that no one is supposed to see but since you put it in the closet Goten and Trunks got into it," Saria said running back into her bedroom. She flung open the bedroom door and jumped onto her bed.
"What are you doing back in here so fast?" Goten asked looking up from something he and Trunks were building.
"Making sure that you two don't do anything stupid," she grabbing her magizine to continue reading from where she had left off.
Chapter 8 !@#$%^&*()-
"Will you guys PLEASE be quiet!!!" Saria screamed for the 30th time in the past hour. It was midnight and they hadn't even started to settle down. Saria layed back down on her pillow and stared up at the celing, it wouldn't be so bad if they would include her so she wouldn't be bored. She grabbed another magizine and started to read, it was the only thing that she could do with them still awake.
"Hey Saria," Trunks said ploping himself down on her bed," Wanna play game?"
"What kind of game?" she asked looking up from her magizine.
"Truth or dare," Goten said walking up beside her.
Saria put her magizine down,"Why?" she asked.
"Cuz' it's something to do," Trunks said.
"You donn't have to...that is if you're scared," Goten said making a mischivous grin and leening froward a bit.
"I'm not scared of a little truth and dare," she getting up from her bed and sitting down on the floor of the bedroom. Goten and Trunks sat down accross from her, Goten started first; he picked dare. Trunks dared him to go out into the kitchen and eat two lemons out of the bottem of the fridge. Goten agreed and did just so but came back with a extreamly sour face. The game went on for quite some time until Goten started to fall asleep, both Trunks and Saria thought they should let him be then went to sleep then selves.
**********The next Morning***********
Saria opened her eyes and yawned. She sat up and looked around, Trunks was spralled out on the floor with a blanket and Goten was still asleep on the floor. She rolled her eyes then swung her feet of the bed and headed for her bedroom door. Chi-chi was already up making breakfast and Gohan had left for school. Saria walked over to the table and sat down.
"Ohayo Saria," Chi-chi walking over to her daughter and placing a bowl of rice infront of her.
"Ohayo," Saria said sitting up and looking at the bowl of food before her.
"Did you have a good sleep?" Chi-chi asked. Saria looked over at her mother adn made a face, did she have a good sleep? What kind of question was that? Goten and Trunks were having a sleep over in her room, how the hell was she supposed to have a good sleep?
"What do you think?" she said shoveling the rice in her mouth. Chi-chi frowned but went about her business until Trunks and Goten came out.
"I didn't know you were up, Saria," Goten said eating his rice.
"How could you not know I was up if I wasn't in the bedroom?" she glarring at him.
"Well it's not llike I look for you in the morning," Goten said with a smirk.
Saria frowned,"Hmmph," she said getting up from the table and walking into the livng to watch tv. She turned to her favorite show and sat down on the couch in a happy mesmorized state. After Goten and Trunks finished thier breakfast they walked into the living room go watch their favorite show but of course Saria had got there first.
"Hey Saria," Goten said waving his hand infront of her face," Do ya think we could change the channel for a minute?"
"No," she said with her eyes still glued to the tv.
"Why not, you always get to watch your show and besides all your shows are just re-runs," Trunks wined as he reached for the remote. Saria turned around and slapped his hand.
"Don't you dare touch that," she said in an angery voice.
"But our show!" Goten said.
"To hell with your show, mine's better," she said grabbing the remote.
"But it's not fair! You always get to watch your show first then by the time it's over ours is too.,"Trunks said pushing Saria a bit.
She turned around and glarred at him," Watch it mister or I'll beat you to a pulpe."
"Oh I'm sure you will, seeing as how that I won the tournament," he said sticking his nose in the air.
"You jerk, just because I was a little slak that doesn't mean anyrhing," she said getting up.
"Yes it does, it just proves that girls are weaker that guys," Trunks said stiking out his toung at her.
"IT DOES NOT!!!!!" she said chaging at him and knowing him over,"This is it mister, you so0o0o0o0 dead!!!!!"
"Saria get off him!" Goten trying to push Saria off. Saria just pushed Goten away then proseeded to slap Trunks a multipule of times across the face. He face was extreamly red by the time she stopped and got off him.
She put her hands on her hips and glarred down at him," Don't ever make me miss my show again!" she said then stopped off to her room and slammed the door. Trunks got up and looked at Goten who still had absolutly no clue exactly what had just took place.
"Um...Goten do you think now would be a good time for me to go home?" he asked.
"Ya, seeing as how Saria is not too happy and it would be very wrong to try and appologize at the monment," Goten said. Trunks got up from off the floor and walked down the hallway to Goten and Saria's bedroom.
"Um...Saria, can I come in a get my things.....please...?"Trunks said as he stood outside her bedroom door.
"No," she said angrily from inside.
"But I need to leave...I'm...sorry...?" he said.
"Just a minute," she said. Trunks waited, he could hear her doing something but he wasn't quite sure what. The door opened,"Thanks."
"No problem,"she glumly as he walking in a gathered his things. He was just about to leave but he realized he was missing something.
"Hey um...Saria have you seen my medal that I got from the tournament?" he asked looking around him.
"No," she said sitting down on her bed. Goten walked in and looked at Trunks who was crawling around the room on his hands and knees. Goten cocked his head and sat down beside Saria.
"Um...Trunks what are you doing?" he asked his friend.
"I can't seen to fine my medal that I won form the tournament," Trunks said standing up.
"Well, if I find it in my travels then I'll give it to you," Goten said. Trunks smiled and picked up his stuff.
"Okay but don't keep it," he said walking out the bedroom door and down the hall to the front door. He smiled at Goten then left, GOten walked back into the bedroom and glarred at Saria.
"What?" she said.
"What did you do with Trunks's medal?" he asked angrily.
"I didn't do anyting with it, I didn't even know he had one," she said laying down on her bed and grabbing a magizine. Goten frowned and walked out of the room, he knew Saria must have done something with it because he saw it when he left to go eat breakfast. Oh well there was nothing he could do about it now and Trunks would soon forget about it...well Trunks would but Vegeta might not.
Saria put down her magizine and hopped off her bed to close the door. She walked over to the edge of her bed and sat down on the floor. She pulled out the box from under her bed and took out the medal she had taken form Trunks. She looked at it as she held it in her hand.
"I should have got this," she said softly to herself. She put it back in the box with the rest of the things she had collected over the years. Her collection consisted of Trunks's belt, one of his shirts, a couple of his socks, the medal of course and a few pther odds and ends that used to be his or are his. She shoved the box under her bed for safe keeping, no one would ever know the secret that she kept deep in her heart.
