CHAPTER 284 KAME HOUSE
<span style="font-weight:400">“Why the hell do you need me?” Yamcha asked as we got off the ne.
<span style="font-weight:400">“We had a deal, Yamcha,” I said. “I got you a girl. Not my fault if you can’t close the deal.”
<span style="font-weight:400">“Close the deal?” He asked, confused. Sasuke’s face was no longer on, he was far less confident. “She was nice, but I doubted she would have wanted to go further.”
<span style="font-weight:400">“Dude, she came back with us to our hotel room,” I said. “Of course she was willing to go further.” I didn’t bother to tell him I’d paid her to sleep with him.
<span style="font-weight:400">“No way. She was just nice,” Yamcha said as we walked through the small airport.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Yamcha…” I said with a sigh. “Nevermind. Just stick to the deal.”
<span style="font-weight:400">“Yeah, but why do you want to go to Kame House?” He asked.
<span style="font-weight:400">“You said you couldn’t sense any Chi in me-“ I said but was cut off.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Ki, it’s ki,” he corrected.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Whatever,” I said. “I’d like Master Roshi to tell me why.”
<span style="font-weight:400">“That old perv. Good luck with that,” Yamcha mumbled. “His ce is about 100 miles that way.”
<span style="font-weight:400">“Cool, we uh gonna run or…”
<span style="font-weight:400">“Screw that,” he said. “I’m not in a hurry and still hungover.”
<span style="font-weight:400">“Fine,” I growled. Making water-chakra, I pooled the puddle in front of me and froze it. “Jump on.”
<span style="font-weight:400">“I’ve seen a lot of weird skills. But this takes the cake,” Yamcha said as he studied therge disc. “How do you do it? I feel energy, but it’s different.”
<span style="font-weight:400">“Doesn’t matter. Come on,” I said, stepping onto it. He whispered under his breath but got on. I lifted us up in the air and flew us in the direction he pointed.
<span style="font-weight:400">Trees everywhere, we flew in silence. Thendscape changed to a mix of sand and trees as we ate the miles away.
<span style="font-weight:400">“How long since you’ve been back here?”
<span style="font-weight:400">“2 years or so,” he said. “Bulma better not be here.”
<span style="font-weight:400">“What the hell man. You know she’s just a chick. If she doesn’t want you, why would you want her?”
<span style="font-weight:400">“She and I are meant to be together. You don’t know her. One second she is…” he continued on. I could hear the love in his voice. It was pretty awkward.
<span style="font-weight:400">I felt a little bad knowing she’d dump him for an alien prince. I was never a big fan of Bulma or Chichi. If things stuck to canon, Vegeta could have her in my book. Although I did want to get close to her. I just didn’t want to risk Trunks not being born.
<span style="font-weight:400">We flew over the ocean, Yamcha still babbling on as we sped up. Eventually I saw it far ahead. A little ind only about 75 feet across there was a small pink house with a red roof on it. Small porch out front I didn’t see anyone outside, but as we drew closer I could feel him.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Master Roshi!” Yamcha yelled as he jumped off the ice. “Roshi! Come out.” Inded and made a move to go inside but Yamcha’s hand stopped me.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Never go into Roshi’s house,” he said.
<span style="font-weight:400">“What? Why?” I asked.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Feels like he’s alone,” Yamcha said, getting serious. “The old man is a little…pervy.”
<span style="font-weight:400">“Yeah so,” I said. This wasn’t news to me.
<span style="font-weight:400">“He is usually doing…you know.”
<span style="font-weight:400">“What?”
<span style="font-weight:400">“Doing stuff,” Yamcha said, blushing. “He lives alone…”
<span style="font-weight:400">“Wh-Oh seriously?” I asked surprised. “He’s jerking it?”
<span style="font-weight:400">“Don’t say that,” Yamcha groaned, ufortable. “If no one’s here he spends his time looking at magazines. It’s best to wait for him toe out, trust me.”
<span style="font-weight:400">“Well shit,” I said, staring at the screened door. I could feel strong Spiritual Energy. I tuned out what the Energy felt like. “How longs it usually take for him to-“
<span style="font-weight:400">“I’ve waited out here over an hour before,” Yamcha admitted. He sat on the beach and looked out onto the ocean. I considered just barging in, but I wanted to make a good impression.
<span style="font-weight:400">“What can you tell me about Ki?” I asked as I sat down next to him.
<span style="font-weight:400">“What do you want to know?”
<span style="font-weight:400">“How’d you learn it? How do you use it? What the hell is it?” I asked.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Hmm,” Yamcha said as he leaned back. A far cry from the drunk I found he still had his hair slicked to the side. Almost a real professional human being next to me I was more willing to ept his words.
<span style="font-weight:400">“I was a bandit when I was younger. 16 maybe. I was pretty strong but then ran into Bulma and her friend. The kid freaking kicked my ass.” I nodded. Goku did that to pretty much all of his friends.
<span style="font-weight:400">“After that I decided to be stronger. I was obsessed with wolves. Went into the mountains. Trained like crazy. I made this move. Wolf-fang fist. I focused all my strength when I was using the move. I went to the World’s Martial Arts Tournament. I thought I was strong then. What a joke,” he chuckled to himself.
<span style="font-weight:400">“I fought Master Roshi. Did my Wolf-fang fist. The old man did the same move against me, only about twice as strong after seeing it once. He kicked my ass. After that I begged him to train me. I was strong, but most all of what I knew was self taught. He trained me how to channel my Ki. Focus strength. Be truly strong.”
<span style="font-weight:400">“So what is it? Ki?”
<span style="font-weight:400">“Life energy was how he talked about it,” Yamcha said. “Your strength. Not everyone can use or ess it. First you train to use it in your body. To strengthen yourself. You only have so much energy. It’s easy to make the mistake of using it all in a punch. Then you''re SOL if something happens.”
<span style="font-weight:400">“When you’re good enough you can actually push it out of your body,” Yamcha said. Extending his hand out a bright blue ball appeared then shot out over the water. I had witnessed it and was surprised to find that it was like his Haki had left him. But I hadn’t sensed his spiritual energy shift or lessen whatsoever. I wasn’t sure what the hell was going on.
<span style="font-weight:400">“How about a spar,” I said standing up. “I’m curious how I stack up.”
<span style="font-weight:400">“Been a while since I’ve fought,” Yamcha admitted. “But sure.”
<span style="font-weight:400">I moved a few paces away and began to ess my powers. I remembered a scene in Dragonball where Yamcha and Krillin were running along a car while they trained for the Martial Arts Tournament. The cars speedometer was a few hundred kilometers per hour. And they sped past it. I wasn’t near that speed. Unsure if that was just in the anime or actual canon, I hoped I could keep up.
<span style="font-weight:400">Yamcha stiffened his body and I felt his Spiritual Energy shift. Jumping up a level I guessed he was powering up or focusing his energy.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Let’s see what you’re made of,” Yamcha said with a smirk. I nodded and jumped at him. He met me halfway, catching me off guard.
<span style="font-weight:400">A smile on his lips, he blocked my punch. I stuck to physical strength but he caught my hand. I had been confident in the amount of strength my body had. But it wasn’t a problem for him to hold me back.
<span style="font-weight:400">I pulled away and kicked only to meet his foot again. Toying with me, Yamcha blocked every blow I threw. Punches, kicks, nut shots, eye gouges. It didn’t matter what I did. I wasn’t fast or strong enough.
<span style="font-weight:400">I poured chakra into my body and caught him off guard. His face scrunching with effort as he blocked it my pride soared, but then he hit me.
<span style="font-weight:400">It was like a freight train. He was in my defense and punched me hard across the face. Saliva shot out of my mouth as I saw stars. Gritting my teeth I added Haki into the mix.
<span style="font-weight:400">This time I connected with his pec. I felt him pushed back slightly, but it wasn’t enough. Close to him I put Nen in my other fist and punched him as hard as I could. He reacted by kicking the side of my head.
<span style="font-weight:400">Before I knew it was spitting up sand. “You’re not so bad,” Yamcha said as he walked around me. “Not sure about that power. But it’s strong.”
<span style="font-weight:400">“Thanks,” I said, getting back up. It was time to use all 3. I focused Haki in my arms, my lifeforce/Nen in my fists, and Chakra everywhere. I moved to him with all the speed I had. His hand blocked my knee and swatted me away.
<span style="font-weight:400">Grabbing my own hands I did a piledriver down but he leaned back, forcing me to go with my momentum. Kicking up, I barely blocked it and threw myself backwards. Only to go forward again.
<span style="font-weight:400">My punch connected with his side and he yelled out. His fist met my chin and I felt my teeth crack from the force of it. My body twisting I kicked out and sent a burst of power toward him. My chakra pushing against his body he flew back.
<span style="font-weight:400">The fight continued. Getting more ferocious as he took me seriously with each blow. But he met everything I had to throw at him. He started bringing Ki into the mix so I guessed he was struggling.
<span style="font-weight:400">A ball of energy hit me in the chest. I was thrown to the other side of the ind but pushed it away from me before I hit the water. Cursing as more sand covered me I pulled at my Tremor Fruit. The sand began to shake as vibrations leaked out of me.
<span style="font-weight:400">Yelling I threw myself at him. My arm drawing back I channeled all of my power. Tremors shooting out of my hand I stopped in time as the old voice yelled, “what the hell is going on out here?!”
<span style="font-weight:400">My and Yamcha’s fists stopping a little away from the others'' faces I breathed in and out heavily. Winded from the short exchange of attacks.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Master Roshi,” Yamcha said, stepping forward. “This is Weston. He was interested in training and I-“
<span style="font-weight:400">“You thought to volunteer me?” The old man asked, annoyed. He was as I imagined. Average height. Bald head, fluffy white beard, sunsses, Hawaiian shirt, and a turtle shell on his back. “I quit doing that sort of thing a long time ago.”
<span style="font-weight:400">“Yeah, but he has a little problem. I wasn’t sure if you could take a look,” Yamcha said. Nervous in front of the old man. Roshi eyed me. I couldn’t help but notice that he was in his boxer shorts. A little awkward I stared back, trying to show confidence.
<span style="font-weight:400">“I see,” Roshi said as he turned away. “I know your problem.”
<span style="font-weight:400">“You do?!” I asked, more excited about the news than I expected. “What is it?”
<span style="font-weight:400">“Unlike these idiot students of mine. I don’t do things for free,” Roshi said, turning around quickly. “I will have a price.”
<span style="font-weight:400">That’s when I remembered Launch. Roshi had demanded Krillin and Goku find him a girlfriend before he let them be students.
<span style="font-weight:400">“How about 5 hours in heaven?” I offered as I pulled my Chikyugi ne out of my status screen. Luckily I knew how to handle perverts.
<span style="font-weight:400">Roshi was soon in my Makuramoto. 100 women to feed and fawn over him for a few hours would loosen his tongue.
<span style="font-weight:400">“What’d you do?” Yamcha asked as we stood over the old man. The pervy guy had a huge smile on his face as heughed in the Genjutsu.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Just an illusion,” I said. “He will be out in a moment. Thanks for the fight. How much of your strength did you have yo use?”
<span style="font-weight:400">“Honestly? I was about to hit you with most of it,” he admitted.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Really?” I asked, more than pleased.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Yeah, not sure if I should be training you. You might want to talk to Tien or-“
<span style="font-weight:400">“No!” Roshi said as he opened his eyes. “Where are the girls?!”
<span style="font-weight:400">“They’re there,” I assured the old man as I rested my hand on his shoulder. “I’ll send you back if you tell me my problem.”
<span style="font-weight:400">“You have no Ki,” he blurted. Grabbing the ne he pushed his face up to it as if he could push his way into the world I made for him. “Send me back!”
<span style="font-weight:400">“I don’t have Ki?” I asked. I grabbed the old man’s shoulder forcing him to face me. “What the hell do you mean? I’m strong. I have life energy.”
<span style="font-weight:400">“You do,” the old man admitted. “But yours is broken.”
<span style="font-weight:400">“Broken? Calm it down and I’ll make it 200 women this time. Exin slowly.”
<span style="font-weight:400">Roshi grumbled but got more excited as he sat up. “Okay. Your body has energy. But it’s almost…corrupted. Your body has no talent to move Ki. I can feel you’re strong. So you’ve persevered. But where others take a year to learn how to channel ki. Yours would take a century.”
<span style="font-weight:400">“Fuck,” I said turning around. Thinking back to my old life in DBZ World I’d been the youngest son of the dojo master. My older brothers had made fun of and jeered at me as it took every bit of effort to try to catch up to them. But I never seeded.
<span style="font-weight:400">Back when I originally got to the world I assumed it would be a simple bit of extra effort to catch up. Apparently the body was doomed.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Is there no hope of me learning?” I asked, Roshi.
<span style="font-weight:400">“A miracle. But your bodies all wrong. I’m surprised you’re as strong as you are,” he admitted. “Now send me back.” I lifted the ne and he went off to a blissful world.
<span style="font-weight:400">“What are you going to do?” Yamcha asked as I walked away. I wasn’t in the mood to talk. Heading to the water I stared out to the ocean as I thought.
<span style="font-weight:400">Was my adventure in DBZ already over? I had hoped to get to training. Bulk up whatever was needed to start using Ki. But he’ll I’d gone to Naruto and could use chakra, One Piece and could sense my Haki. There was a reason I couldn’t sense Ki, it simply wasn’t there or was too unruly to handle with my body type.
<span style="font-weight:400">My mind tried toe up with what to do. My adventure wasing to a close and I had only about 28 days until my next challenge. I had hoped to learn Ki to figure out if I wanted to use a Challenger Slot on it. It was time to rethink my ns.
<span style="font-weight:400">That was until I remembered where I was. “Dragon Ball Z…” I said slowly. The answer was right in front of me the whole time. With that a quest popped up.
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