Finding Hope

Chapter 45: An Outing With My Brother's!!!

Tsubaki's pov

It was early Saturday morning, I sat outside the river bed, near the house and threw rocks into the water. "Hey sis, what's up?" I turned my head seeing Gohan, he was standing a few feet away from me. "Nothing much. Dreading the fact that Trunks is busy." I laid back on the grass with a groan, making him laugh as he walked over. "Would you like to come with me to see the city? It's a lot different from your timeline's city. I can take you sight seeing since today is Saturday." Gohan stuck his face in mine, as he stood over me and I smiled. "You're willing to spend time with your little sister?" I smirked and he smiled, "It's not a big deal. Come on, before Mom sees that you're out here." Gohan stood back, as I jumped up in excitement. 

"Shouldn't we take Goten?" I questioned.

"Goten!! Come on out!!" Gohan yelled towards the house and Goten fell out of the window from excitement, making me laugh. "Come on, we should get going."

"Nimbus!!" Gohan called out, "Nimbus?" I questioned, looking over at him. "Yeah, Dad used to ride it when he was younger and then I used to. Now younger you and Goten ride it often." Goten nodded, as Gohan explained. A little yellow cloud came flying over, stopping in front of Gohan. "So how does it work?" I walked around it, "Well you have to be pure of heart. Bulma tried to when she was your age after she and dad met Master Roshi, but she fell right through. Piccolo can't even ride it." Gohan explained as Goten climbed onto Nimbus.

I was a little skeptical, but I climbed onto Nimbus and surprisingly didn't fall through. "Looks like your just as pure as Dad." Gohan chuckled and climbed on.

So we all left the house on the nimbus cloud and headed towards the town, "Wow!" I sat in awe just looking at the landscape. It was amazing. "I can't believe this is what this looks like from the nimbus cloud! Gohan it's so pretty." I smiled brightly, not realizing the stares I got from both my brother's. As soon as we saw the city, my eyes lit up and I got really excited. I remembered that for a while I didn't have my tail, because Mom insisted I not have it anymore and pulled it off while I was sleeping.

I felt weird not having my tail, I was so used it. When Dad saw that I didn't have my tail, he freaked out and Vegeta scolded me for letting my guard down. "Come on, let's go to the mall. I know you haven't seen how big the one near downtown is." I smiled at Gohan and nodded as we flew off.

We landed in front of the mall and I jumped down, landing in front of Goten. "You brought money?" I looked to Gohan, who held up his wallet. "Come on," I smiled and looped my arm in his and grabbed Goten's, before dragging them into the mall.

Three hours later.....

Goten and I couldn't hold our laughter as we chased Gohan around the tree in the woods, near a small lake. "Guys!!! This isn't funny! You shouldn't gang up on your older brother like this." He complained, but we kept chasing him until Goten trapped him from around the other side and I got him from the back.

"What will you do now, Gohan? Where will you run?" I smirked.

He looked at me wide eyed, but then got this mischievous look on his face. But for some reason, I got this feeling that he wasn't going to let this go. He suddenly disappeared and I froze. Oh crap baskets.

"Hey, that's no fair Gohan!! I can't do that yet!!" Goten whined.

"I'll teach you how to do that later. First, Let's find Gohan." I looked at him and he nodded.

We flew around the whole area trying to find Gohan and followed his ki but every time we got close, he would suddenly just disappear. This became annoying very quickly and it had already been an hour, "Awww man, we'll never be able to find Gohan. He keeps disappearing." Goten turned to face me with a sad look on his face. I knew that if I didn't find Gohan, Goten would be extremely upset. So I started thinking to myself, how I could catch Gohan.

"Alright, Goten. Don't worry, we'll find Gohan. You go that way and I'll go this way. If we can't find him, we'll meet back here and go home without him. But if we find him, he'll have to to do something for us." I smirked, explaining the plan to Goten. "Okay!" He flew off excitedly and I laughed, as he high tailed it out of there.

I shook my head still laughing and flew off in the other direction, I kept an eye out for any other movement besides the animals. "Gohan, come out!!!! Come out, wherever you are!!! If you don't, Goten and I will go home!" I called out, but I sensed nothing. "What does he have up his sleeve?" I kept my eyes forward, but was suddenly tackled out of the sky. I tried to stop myself, but I couldn't in time and flew right into the lake beside the trees. Whatever just hit me rendered my ki useless and I had no strength left, I panicked realizing that I didn't know how to swim well. This was  something that future Gohan had trouble with when we would train me and Trunks. I kicked my legs hard enough, managing to make it back the surface but I couldn't swim. "Goten!!!!" I shouted in hopes, he hadn't gone too far. "Goten!!!! Gohan!!!" I splashed around, kicking my legs to keep from sinking but the current had other plans. I was carried down the lake, pushed in different directions which made me panic.

"Gohan!!!! Goten!!! Somebody help!" I swallowed a lungful of water, making me cough as I tried to keep from being whisked any further down the small lake. I felt my legs get tired with each kick and felt as the current became stronger, I was swallowed up by a huge current and before I could try to get to land, I was swept under water. "Where are you Gohan?"