Dragon Ball: Uprising (Original)

Chapter 5: Arra vs Lero

No amount of sleep or feasting could get his encounter out of his thoughts. While before Kaido was just made uncomfortable by the 'master' staring, now the young Saiyan had to legitimately fear him being a higher up from the Planet Trade Organization. Kaido needed to shine throughout the Placement Trials for his father's benefit- not some offworlder's enjoyment. He didn't care for Frieza's Saiyan Army, he only had the goal of following his own father's footsteps. So of course he wasn't going to jeopardize his chance by killing Kohl. He wasn't desperate for a job outside his home world like a lot of children his age. The strangers would've had more success trying to get the temperamental Arra to kill her opponents.

When he arrived at Arena B after the hour of 'rest', Kaido honestly had to stop himself from suggesting it directly. Sure, it'd probably get the strangers off of him, but it wouldn't be a victory he had really earned. Suna would definitely disapprove, if she could hear his thoughts. Although.. most Saiyans would disapprove of his fearing the offworlders if they could see into his head. Komat might not, since he was a bit of a weird kid, but he hardly mattered in the grand scheme of things.

These thoughts, as well as the feeling that he was still being watched intently, lead to Kaido being quite obviously uncomposed. He was smiling rather nervously, and looking around the arena- not able to remain still. To anyone who paid attention, it looked like he was either excited to fight or a bit nervous about what was to come. So Suna had a pretty good reason to approach him, seeing as her brother was no longer around to speak to her and the other two participants in the trial were already at the center of the arena, waiting for Papai to come along.

Kaido expected the first words of her mouth to sound at least somewhat aggressive since she was his next opponent, but she sounded more curious than anything. "What has you all shaken up, Kaido?" He wasn't about to explain his encounter with the offworlders to her, so the only thing he could do was lie.

Intending to play on her love of fights, he gestured at Papai, who was chatting with some other Alien official. He then pointed at Arra and Lero at the center of the arena. Both of them were pretty damn ready to beat each other up, but they were waiting on Papai's signal. "I want to see them fight, but the announcer is taking his time. It wouldn't hurt him to at least announce their names again, so we'll know the match is about to start."

She seemed to accept this explanation, as hearing him voice it brought a small smile to her face. Suna didn't appear impatient on the outside, but of course she wanted the fight to just begin already. Her own match would come after it, so after waiting an hour she didn't want to wait anymore than she already had. "Yeah, I get that." She took one last look at Arra and Lero, but then she turned to face Kaido alone. "Since we're up next, I think we should talk on the rules."

He wasn't the kind of person to break the match rules, so he didn't really need to discuss them. However, he wasn't going to give up on the opportunity of getting his mind off the strangers that still watched him from afar. "Please don't tell me you want to ignore them."

Her next expression made it rather clear that the answer to the question was 'no'. "I was actually going to ask that you not do anything like the beam attack you did to Kohl. I wouldn't do it either. If it hits an organ it could kill, and it honestly would end a fight before it really got exciting. That doesn't mean I want you to hold back anything else, though."

So she wanted to put on a show, like Kohl had. She wanted recruitment into the army, so it was better to draw out the fight to make it impressive rather than do something quick. If he became too eager to strike with a finger beam, it could end badly. He understood the reasoning behind it. For the same reason, the actual rules forbade the pulling of tails throughout the Trials. "So neither of us will use possibly lethal blasts? Killing was already against the rules, so don't worry- I wasn't planning to repeatedly throw those at you."