Dragon Ball Z, Naruto 1. Welcome to Earth!

**Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto or the Dragon Ball Franchise, They are owned by Mashashi Kishimoto and Akira Toriyama Respectively.**

Naruto Uzumaki always found a way to smile even if worse came to worse. Though he was treated badly because of having the Kyubi sealed within him (Which was right now unknown to the boy.) He always told himself that one day it would get better. And that was closer to him than he expected.

Naruto was four years old and was a hyperactive boy. He wore a small orange jumpsuit which fit him perfectly. He had cerulean eyes with three whisker marks on each cheek marking his face. What was the most unusual thing though was his blond, furry tail which was wrapped around his waist as a belt.

The four year old boy walked into the Hokage's Mansion and was surprised to see it to be a little less guarded than usual. "Oji-chan." He looked around to see no one there. If the Sandaime Hokage wasn't here then something was definitely up.

BOOM!

"What was that?" He wondered. A giant crash was heard close to the village. Only seconds later he heard Sarutobi screaming order to the Anbu and a bunch of jonin.

The village grew on fire as Naruto ran into the streets. "How did this happen…" Naruto voice carried to no one. Suddenly he was picked up by his tail.

"Weird, what's a Saiyan doing on this planet. Yellow hair... You must be half-breed." A man with black, long, spiky hair came into Naruto's vision. The man had a strange armor along with a weird device on his right eye. Out of all his adversary's attire and appearance what shocked Naruto the most was the tail wrapped around his waist. Naruto had no idea what the strange man was saying as he tried squirming out the man's grasp. It was to no avail though as he felt weaker than normal for some odd reason.

"Let me go!" The young boy shouted.

"NARUTO!" He heard someone familiar yell. The blond looked around till he found where the voice came from. His face perked up as he saw the Sandaime Hokage running towards him.

"You're a persistent bastard but I'll finish you off now." Roughly dropping Naruto the man held back his hand which started to glow a bright yellow. "Double Sunday!" Pushing his hand forward a yellow beam of energy shot out of his hand making a b-line towards the Sandaime.

"Naruto run as far a-!" Those were his last words as the energy engulfed him. Naruto looked on with shock and anger.

"I made quite an example of him." The unworldly man chuckled.

"Y-Y-You killed him." Naruto growled a red chakra coated him. Naruto's features changed, his claws became sharper, his whisker marks became more visible and denser, and his tail's fur stood up.

The device on the strange man's head started beeping. "This brat's power is skyrocketing 200...300...400...500...600." The man evilly chuckled albeit, darkly. "Hahaha Your power level has increased but not enough, but even though this I am still impressed that you managed to increase your so dramatica-." His sentence hadn't finished as Naruto took a dive towards his adversary's stomach. He was launched straight into the Hokage's mansion which began to crumble.

The now known "Saiyan" boy's cloak of red chakra vanished. He blinked looking at the damage he had done. His eyes took a look of horror as the man stood up from the rubble that was caused when he smashed into the mansion. Naruto's body froze for a second. 'It's over…' He looked at the Hokage Mountain and turned his gaze to the Sandaime's face. He took a deep breath and ran. The Sandaime's sacrifice to keep him alive would not end in vain.

"That brat caught me by surprise." The alien said his voice obviously on the border line between calm and anger.

-Naruto-

The blond ran through the forest, since it was a good place to hide. He knew it like the map was implanted into his brain. Soon after he slowed his pace down a little bit. His tail wiggled around frantically. He was pretty scared. Then he heard a gigantic shout.

"When I get my hands on that brat I'll make sure he knows his place!" The alien shouted, now his anger was clear to Naruto.

Naruto slowly walked backwards in complete fear."I'm going to die."

He then tripped and landed on something soft. Looking around he found himself inside a… pod.

"This is the perfect hiding spot." He smiled. He took a look at the lowered door. He tried picking it up but it wouldn't budge.

That blew his chance. Curiously he looked around the pod. He saw an array of buttons. "Maybe if I..." The blond jinchuriki put his finger towards a button which was bigger than the others. Pressing plastered a look of relief on his face as the door moved up shutting entirely.

The sound of an engine took place inside the pod. Naruto's eyes widened in disbelief, out of all the buttons he had pressed the one that started it. Then again what was left for him here? His face now bared a sad smile. The pod's speakers rang out in Naruto's moment of silence. **"Destination: Planet Earth estimated arrival 5 Hours."**

Naruto's eyes widened once again as he felt the spaceship fly into the air. And if the blond heard correct than he would be going to another planet. Seconds later the pod was racing towards Earth leaving the gaki only to wonder how all this could happen in one day.

All Naruto could see in space was darkness except for little twinkle of light which Naruto guessed was stars. "I can't believe that all this happened so fast." Naruto began before yawning. "I'm tired." He said to himself. His eyelids became heavy. "I guess I could take a quick nap."

Quickly falling asleep the young boy could only wonder what would wait for on Earth. His stomach grumbled loudly he hadn't had anything to eat since the morning… yesterday morning to be specific. He could sure go for some ramen. Maybe they knew about it on earth.

-Several Hours Later on Earth-

Son Gohan son of Goku wandered through the forest alone. Apparently he had gotten lost separated from his home since it was bordering the forest of Mount Paozu. It was a bigger than he expected and most of the place looked the complete same so he knew it was going to be hard to find his way out.

He wore a Japanese child out with the kanji of "Son" written on the front. On top of his head was a orange sphere with four stars. On Earth it was known as a Dragon Ball.

"Daddy…" The little boy quietly said wandering through the forest.

CRASH!

Something collided into the ground right near Gohan who ran back frightened of what he had just seen. A small crater could be seen from the sight. In the middle was a pod which was emitting steam from its base. The door hatch opened slowly before settling with n abrupt stop.

The still frightened Gohan could feel his heart racing. He really wanted his daddy right about now. Minutes passed by as he waited for whatever was in the pod to come out, though nothing ever did.

Slowly walking into the crater Gohan tried to stay as alert as possible. He was only a couple of feet away from the pod. He looked inside slowly only to find a blonde boy about the same age as him with a brown tail just like his.

"Hello." Gohan's voice trailed inside. The only thing the boy mumbled was something about ramen as he drooled a little bit. Poking the blonde's tail he got him to groan a little bit and soon the blonds' eye blinked twice before he crawled out of the pod.

Gohan just stared at the stranger before he heard him say something. "Who are you?"

"I-I-I'm Son Gohan." The boy said slowly. "What about yours?"

Naruto truthfully didn't want to say his after all with what had happened to him he wasn't sure who he could trust but something was... different about Gohan maybe it was just instinct but he could tell that could trust him even if he just met the boy.

Putting a grin on his face he perked up. "I'm Uzumaki Naruto." The newly announced boy took a look at his surroundings. It seemed he landed in a forest. "Gohan, could you tell me where I am?"

"You're in a forest at Mount Paozu." The boy replied. Seeing as the jinchuriki was silent Gohan spoke up. "I have a good idea."

Naruto stood there waiting for Gohan to speak up. Inside Naruto was pretty happy he was on Earth for less than an hour and he already had an "acquaintance" (Whatever that was Naruto neither Gohan knew.)

"How about we play together." The young boy smiled.

-Minutes Later-

I feel like I could eat a horse." Naruto laughed along with his new friend. Naruto stopped when he saw Gohan shiver in fear. Gohan and Naruto were both exhausted from their game of tag. It was a close one but in the end Naruto won.

"N-N-Naruto?" Gohan said as he backed away slowly. He pointed his finger to something behind Naruto. The blond followed the line of sight that his finger made and looked behind him to see an orange animal. He gulped as he noticed it was a tiger. Gohan fell to the ground and stopped moving while trying to make his breath slow down. Luckily, Naruto caught on and copied what he did. They were both playing dead.

The lion slowly approached the four year olds. Surprisingly it passed Naruto who gave a silent sigh. 'If Gohan can stay still long enough then we might be able make it through this.'

The lion stared a Gohan's unmoving body or more likely Gohan's hat which had some weird ball with four stars on it. The lion picked it up and ran away with it.

"Alright we did! Dattebayo!" Naruto grinned.

He saw tear drop from his friend. "That was my DADDY'S!" Gohan half shouted and half whined. The next thing surprised the blond. With a loud cry the son of Goku dashed at high speed at the direction the lion ran away to. Naruto laughed at the scene before deciding to follow him.

"I finally found you." Naruto heard. His eyes widened it was the same voice as the person he had met at the village. Naruto slowly turned his head and gulped. "You think I'd let you get away." The man gave an evil laugh.

He grabbed Naruto by the back of his shirt. "Leave me alone." Naruto said while trying to get out of the man's grasp. 'I guess that will be the last time I see Gohan. ' Naruto sadly thought.

The person tapped the device on his face. "Where are you Kakarot?" The man who was known as Raditz smiled, as his device beeped, before flying in the air and launching off towards the person he called "Kakarot."

Within several minutes the flight had ceased and the man descended to the ground. "What the..." Naruto turned his head to the sound of the voice.

He found a green skinned person with two antennae of his forehead. He wore a purple gi with and a top layering cape which was white. On his head was a white hat with purple on the top of it.

His eyes scanned from the newly arrived person to the boy with the tail. "Who are you and what business do you have with me?" The green skinned man could feel sweat dripping down his neck as he spoke, and Naruto could hear a little bit of nervousness in his voice.

"It seems I was looking for someone but I got the wrong person." Raditz said as he gently tapped his scouter. "Perhaps I should kill some time though." Raditz chuckled at his joke which to Naruto wasn't that funny. Increased sweat dropped down the currently the green man's neck. "But since your power level is far weaker than mine I'll allow you to give me your best shot." He dropped Naruto who slowly walked towards the namekian's side.

Meanwhile, Piccolo knew the risk of not taking the offer and quickly took got ready his attack. A yellow manifestation of energy formed in his hands.

-Gohan-

"Here we are!" Goku said with joy as he and Gohan got off the nimbus. Gohan though didn't hear what his father had spoken because he was in deep thought about his blond haired friend.

After his father found him he had told him about Naruto so they searched through the forest for him but they didn't find the boy. That's when Goku had remembered something that Chi-Chi once told him. Something about Gohan's imagination being big and he was just imagining Naruto but Gohan knew that couldn't be true.

"Gohan, Gohan, Gohan." Goku repeated until Gohan was brought from his thoughts.

-Naruto-

Naruto gave a sigh of relief at the events which had just transpired right when Raditz was about to attack Piccolo he stopped and muttered something about carrots before leaving without a moment to spare, fortunately he had forgotten about Naruto who silently hoped that he never saw him again.

"Hey kid..." Piccolo started catching the blonds' attention. The namekian was breathing heavily at the scene which could have led him to his death. "You're coming with me."

"What!" Naruto replied not hiding his immediate shock.

"Don't play dumb with me... Now grab a hold of me." Naruto listened immediately not choosing to object to his words.

Naruto had gotten used to flying with someone so the sensation just naturally came. It was weird at first but first he soon got the feel of it.

"Um... Mr. What's your name."

"It's Piccolo." He heard Naruto laugh. "What's so funny kid?"

"Nothing, I just think your name is cool." Naruto grinned.

Piccolo turned his head after seeing Naruto smile. "And what is your name."

"Uzumaki Naruto." The jinchuriki's grin widened further. "I have another friend already."

"I haven't even known you for an hour and you're already saying I'm your friend. Kid I'm not your friend I'm a monster." The rest of the trip to wherever Piccolo was taking. Naruto was silent the rest of the way. Naruto spirit of making Piccolo his friend didn't waver.

"There it is." He heard Piccolo announce.

Odd as it was Piccolo's destination was a small island with a house that had the words "Kame" printed on it. "What is this pla-" Naruto's mouth was covered as Piccolo took him to the side of house. On the front one would see several people eyes widening.

"Goku has a brother!" A bald short man wearing a similar gi to Goku shouted in shock.

"No way." A blue headed woman in shock whispered.

Naruto took a chance to look at the people. He found two familiar faces in Gohan and Raditz The young boy couldn't tell if he was happy or scared at the facts.

"You see Kakarot you are not from this world. You are from Planet Vegeta and you were sent on this planet to destroy it." Raditz continued on.

"No that can't be true." The one known as Goku said.

"Da…Da...Daddy," Gohan stuttered trying to get out of the blue haired woman known as Bulma's grasp. Eventually, Gohan managed to free himself and ran up to his father.

"Gohan no!" His father shouted his eyes were wide. His Orange gi and spiky hair blew in the wind.

"So is that your son?" Raditz guessed holding back an evil smirk.

"No he isn't." Goku half growled and half spoke.

"Stop lying I can see his tail."

"And so what if he is."

"Maybe I should take your son in exchange for you." Raditz chuckled and slowly approached him.

"I won't let you lay a finger on him!" The earth's defender shouted and got ready to go into defensive or offensive at any given time. Sure, Raditz was on a whole other league of his own but if he stood around doing nothing then it would be the same as watching his friends and family die.

In an instance Goku's now known brother appeared right behind the defender of the Earth. Naruto watched grimacing as a hard knee was sent to Goku's stomach. Naruto had seen about and added force to intervene but Piccolo held him back.

Naruto tried to get out of Piccolo's grasp. Naruto turned his attention back to the scene and watched with even more anger as Raditz picked Gohan in a rough manner. That was when Naruto finally had enough.

"Leave Gohan..." Naruto started catching everyone's attention "ALONE!"

Raditz turned his head towards the voice and started a dark laugh. "Look whose come running home, At this point I thought I would have to search for you myself." Raditz sarcastic tone didn't hide in his voice.

Though his insolence would pay, to busy laughing at his quote he seemed to not have noticed Naruto running up to him.

"Uh... Bulma is it only me or does that blond boy have a tail." Krillin, the bald headed man, said with nervousness in his voice.

"I see it too." Bulma quietly replied.

'Who's...That?" Goku thought struggling to move his head up from the pain Raditz inflicted on him.

Gohan calmed down a little after seeing Naruto trying to help him.

Raditz had finally caught attention on Naruto. Said blond had already jumped into the air hoping to get a strike in but his Saiyan enemy grabbed him. Naruto blinked at his fail of an attempt.

Everyone (maybe even Goku) took a chance to sweat drop at the blonds' actions. He could talk big but he couldn't back it up.

Realizing the magnitude of the situation Gohan and Naruto stared at each other and if there was a person good enough they could see them mentally nod. The two had become good friends fast. Maybe it was because they could tell that they could both trust each other really. But whatever it was good for both of them.

Naruto opened his mouth a little bit and told Gohan what to do. With a tug to make Raditz's hand swing back and forth. Their plan had begun. The next phase was biting Raditz hand which was done quite fast for them both.

Raditz snarled at the bite inflicted on him. 'How could I let that brat get another surprise attack on me?' His anger flared up at the thought.

Too busy to notice a change in Raditz's demeanor were the z-fighters with the addition of Naruto and Gohan.

"Thanks Naruto." Gohan praised his jinchuriki friend.

"There was nothing to it." Naruto said as he blushed at the praise and sheepishly scratched his head.

Gohan then turned his attention towards his dad. "Daddy!" Gohan ran into his father's arms. Goku smiled and with relief.

"Naruto is it..." Goku began. "You have my thanks."

Naruto grinned and Goku laughed at the accomplishment until it was abruptly stopped and his eyes widened and for the third time today by the same man Naruto was grabbed by the tail.

"Good you should be thanking him." Raditz said picking Naruto by the tail making what he would call good use of the inexperienced demi-saiyan's weakness. Naruto felt a throbbing pain in his back of his neck not knowing that the pure-blooded Saiyan had struck him in that spot.

Naruto struggled to stay from being knocked out but with his enemy holding by his tail his now known weakness soon succumbed to unconsciousness.

"Thanks to him my offer now stands until sunset." Raditz said and proceeded to knee Naruto repeatedly.

'He's an m-m-monster.' Krillin thought with fear.

'How could he do this to a poor little child?' Bulma thought covering her mouth in shock.

'I fear that maybe even Goku might not have the ability to beat an opponent of this caliber.' Master Roshi thought watching the scene.

"Stop that..." Everyone turned to see Gohan say. "Stop it right now!" The demi-saiyan ran towards the person holding his friend who was in pain.

Raditz's scouter beeped causing his attention to stir. "A mere power level of 1,000 will not do you any good." Too bad for him as he didn't take notice a white beam of energy emitted from Gohan. "Warning/" Raditz said looking at his scouter. "Must be a malfunction." He brushed it aside even though the warning stayed. It was at this point that he had finally seen what Gohan was doing.

'Incredible. What immense power coming from a child.' Piccolo thought still staying hidden.

'Wow that is some serious power. I guess Gohan really is his father's son.'

Raditz seemed to have taken full impact of the attack or maybe not because the blinding white light from Gohan's strike negated everyone from seeing Raditz try to dodge the attack at last second.

The son of Goku landed on the ground and turned his head in a confused manner. The young couldn't figure out how he even managed to pull that off. "Gohan did that?" Goku wondered but also felt some pride at his son's powers.

"Today must not be my day."

A backhand chop made its way to Gohan's neck leaving him with the same fate of Naruto. "I must say these two half-breeds put up a better fight Kakarot. But in the end their efforts were futile. "I'll be leaving now." Picking up Gohan by his hair the pure-blooded Saiyan flew off.

"Gohan... I have to save Gohan" Goku said while struggling to stand.

"Goku you can't go to fight him in this condition." His lifelong best friend told him.

"Then how about we both take him on?" Piccolo said to the shock of everyone.

"Piccolo!"

"Why would you want to help Goku?"

"You saw how powerful that person is for one to take on alone." The namekian gave stating one reason. "Second of all, I can't let him ruin my plans of world domination."

"Of course" Krillin sighed. "I knew that Piccolo had no chance of becoming good."

-Naruto and Gohan-

Naruto groaned awaking from his sleep. Once again he found himself in the space pod. That's when he remembered what had happened.

He heard a groan emit from someone near him and found his friend just waking up too.

"Naruto is that you?" The voice of Gohan spoke to him.

The boy nodded and the two kids felt relieved that neither one of them were dead. For now they could tell that they were stuck there but they both hoped that Goku would be coming soon.

"I hear my daddy!"

Outside Goku was going head to head with his brother meanwhile Piccolo was charging an attack, one that he had planned to used on his temporary ally for the time.

With a steady fighting stance Goku stared down his enemy and also his brother. Turning his head back a little he could see Piccolo charging his attack.

"Alright!" The hero said. With a boost from his legs he launched off. He first went for a punch which was parried with a hand. Goku then went for leg sweep only to be kicked up into the air. Though instead of falling to the ground like a normal person would he managed to suspend himself there, he was flying!

"What do you see Gohan?" Naruto questioned wanting to get out of the space pod already.

"My daddy!" He smiled with tons of relief. "I think he's fighting that guy with some green man."

"That must be !"

"Piccolo." Gohan whispered he could have sworn that he heard it before. "I've heard that name from my parents. My dad said he was a really bad man."

"He seemed nice when I met him. Let me see." Naruto's cerulean eyes took the look of awe at the view he got. "Your dad's amazing."

To some people that would classify as an understatement. With a slow pace Goku cupped his hands together and drew them back. Concentrating he allowed his Ki, the energy used on Earth, to focus in his hands. He took a heavy breath and began his speech.

"Ka..." A blue glow filled his hands showing the immense energy he was putting into the attack. "Me..."

Once again Raditz scouter beeped with a warning. "His power's increasing dramatically." Cocking his head to where the namekian was just like his comrade his power was increasing too.

"Ha... Me..." The hero thrust his hand forward launching his famous attack. "Ha!" The Kamehameha was Goku signature technique learned none other than from master Roshi. For the old man it took well over 50 years to master it. For Goku it only took minutes after seeing Roshi use to manage to do one.

This time not taking any the Saiyan warrior tried dodging the wave of blue energy. He tried but to his shock and surprise his brother twisted the blast. They thought they were saved but if they were to look back outside they would see Raditz take on Goku's Kamehameha with his bare hands.

Gohan looked out the window with a huge hope that his father had defeated his uncle. Though the view before him ruined what he had thought was happening.

A bruised and battered Goku lay on the ground and applied on his stomach with extra force was Raditz's foot.

"You fool you should never be so forgiving to your enemy."

Naruto watched Gohan's expression varying from sad, worried, and anger. Unknown to Naruto though Gohan's power level was increasing his angry mood stayed. "Gohan..." Tapping his shoulder didn't get his attention. "Don't hurt." Naruto had to push his ear closely to hear the whisper.

Back outside the same view as before still. "I might as well finish you now."

His brother stopped very abruptly with slight annoyance in his eyes. For the third time in less than an hour his scouter blared with a warning.

Suddenly a shattering sound surrounded the area as (to everyone's amazement) little Gohan emerged out of a broken pod while his friend who was also in their stood in awe at his friend's power.

"G-Gohan." Naruto tried calling his friend out. Their formidable foe was just shocked at the power.

'How could a little boy be stronger than me?'

Piccolo silently gazed at Gohan and Naruto. 'If what that "Saiyan" said was true and Goku's kid being able to use that power then both must have an extreme amount of potential.'

"Don't hurt my DADDY!" Naruto blinked his eyes rapidly to make sure he saw things correctly. His friend flew straight towards that Radish guy. (Pun intended).

"Not this time." Raditz smirked while sidestepping to dodge and just as Gohan soared pass him he grab him by his shirt stopping his attack state.

The now fully conscious son of Goku stared around not knowing how he had gotten out of the space pod. He then realized that someone was holding him. But it wasn't his father as he expected.

Naruto balled his hands. He had seen Gohan make two feats of strength but here Naruto was not being able to do anything. He couldn't stand it and while people he had made friends with suffered he would be stuck on the sidelines. 'Am I just weak?' he wondered.

"**Let me lend you power." **Naruto mentally perked his ears and the voice repeated.

It was persuasive enough to almost catch Naruto in lure him towards what would be strength. 'No if I'm gonna save my friends then I'm gonna…' "Use my own power!" He yelled as just what he said surged through his veins.

'Just as I thought.' Piccolo thinking process continued with correct predictions. Naruto ran straight up towards Raditz and punched him in the face causing the Saiyan to spit up some blood. Proceeding Naruto gave him several punches to his gut before kicking him in his shins.

"You bastard now you're really in for it now!" Raditz yelled dropping Gohan once again. His fist leaned back purple energy leaking out of it. His cocked fist lowered though as the feeling of weakness overcame his body.

Goku, his brother, was holding on to him in a full nelson position. "No forgiveness now!" Goku yelled in anger. "No forgiveness now!" Naruto moved out the way looking at Piccolo who smirked. Purple, green, and yellow was sparking like electricity in his head.

"Goku it's done!" Piccolo looked at the position his rival was in and quickly nodded at it already understanding the situation.

Raditz continued to struggle in Goku's hold. "You can't do this to your own brother!" Raditz begged. The tides had taken a dramatic turn in this battle. "I promise not to harm any humans and leave this planet at once."

Goku didn't budge an inch he held still firm in place. "PICCOLO! NOW!" Naruto looked up at Goku with admiration. He was sacrificing himself for better of Earth, his friends, and his family.

"SPECIAL BEAM CANNON!"Piccolo launched his attack which took the form of a single beam of potent and concentrated Ki. Once it reached Raditz it pierced through his body next piercing straight through Goku. The attack drilled its way into to not one body but two.

Raditz staggered to the ground along with Goku not far away from him who fell on his back with a smile. Raditz smirked and chuckled. "You may have beaten me but at a price of Kakarot."

"No worries your death will remain in vain. We have the Dragon Balls. It won't be long until his friends wish him back." Piccolo smirked as Raditz looked at him with disbelief. It seems Piccolo would get the last the last laugh.

Naruto smiled while rushing up to Goku. "…" Goku smiled at the young boy slowly ruffling his hair. "You were pretty brave back there. Thanks for not saving Gohan not once but twice."

Naruto gave a smile and thumbs up. Before turning his attention to Piccolo and Raditz's conversation. "Thanks for the information. This device on my head is called a scouter not only does it detect power but also it acts as a transmitter."

"And so what?"

"That means my other two Saiyan comrades even stronger than me have heard everything you just told me about these so called Dragon Balls. In one year they'll come and avenge me and then wish me back to life." Raditz chuckled.

"Shut up!" Piccolo yelled bringing his hand down ending the evil saiyan's life. Sweat dripped down his neck. 'One year… one short year to train.' Piccolo looked at Naruto and Gohan before a helicopter of some sorts landed down next to Goku.

"Goku!" Krillin yelled running up to his friend. Naruto backed away to let them have their moment.

"Krillin so this is how it feels to be dying huh?" Goku chuckled his smile was still spread wide on his face. It was too small to be called a grin though. He was dying he found it hard to move most of his body.

"Goku…" Master Roshi said softly and quietly. His student was dying and there was nothing he could do about it.

"Goku…" Bulma said in an even a softer voice.

"Don't worry about it Goku. Everything is going to be alright." Krillin said trying to look on the bright side. Goku was having none of that though.

"Goku you heard right?" Piccolo said all the while approaching him.

"Yep… two saiyan's… stronger than… Raditz… one year…" Goku said between pauses. "Well everyone it looks like my time is up. Please tell Gohan that daddy's coming back and not to worry… please." Goku croaked his last words. Even in death Goku always put his family and friends first. He was one of the most pure hearted people Naruto would ever meet, literally.

Goku's friends gave a moment of silence for their friend before he disappeared. "This must be Kami's doing." Piccolo guessed the geezer of a man always had a plan. "There's no doubt that he heard what was going on here."

"Wait! Two saiyans!" Krillin screamed at the top of his lungs. "There's more?"

"Yeah and they'll be coming in about a year. Funny thing is that there stronger than Goku's brother." Piccolo said approaching Naruto again.

"…" The group was left in silence till once again Krillin spoke. "Then I'll train if Goku's going to fight them then I will to."

"By the way… Piccolo where did that kid come from?" Bulma asked her curiosity had gotten the best of her. She was pointing at Naruto who turned his head away from her gaze.

"Goku's brother brought him here. Other than that I don't much about him." Piccolo spoke. "But it seems that he knows Gohan. Start speaking up."

Naruto stared at Piccolo for a while before speaking. "I'm Naruto Uzumaki." He announced bow slightly to them. "Before that guy took me I wasn't on this planet. He invaded my home planet though and took me cause of my tail." Naruto wiggled it to show proof it was real.

"He has a tail just like Goku's." Bulma said softly before her eyes widened. "Hey Naruto have you ever looked at the moon on your home planet." Naruto nodded.

"Has anything different changed about you after you looked at it." The hermit spoke.

"Well my heart did start beating faster for a while and then my tail started moving like crazy until I looked away." Naruto answered full in truth. "But anyway I managed to get into one of those pods and it took me here where I met Gohan. After that I lost Gohan and that man found me again. That's where I met ." That pretty much summed up the rest of Naruto's story.

"So Piccolo just took you here like that." Naruto nodded. "Piccolo I would have never thought." Krillin said shaking his head in shame for the namekian.

A vein grew on Piccolo's forehead. "If you're done joking around then you can start training."

"Well what about Naruto and Gohan?" Krillin asked. Piccolo in turn picked up both Naruto and Gohan by the back of their shirts. "No way!"

"I'll be training them. They have tons of potential they may even be stronger than Goku." Naruto grinned at that statement.

' said I have potential!' One thing was for sure Naruto was for sure he was going to get stronger.

"But what about Chi-Chi, what do I tell her." Piccolo shrugged and flew off leaving a frantic Krillin, Roshi and Bulma wondering what to tell the woman.

" are you really going to train us?" Naruto asked. His confirmation came at the nod of Piccolo. "I'm gonna become even stronger than Dattebayo!"

Piccolo remained silent the rest of the trip. Not before long though they arrived at the grounds. It was a place where he had formally trained preparing to fight Goku once again. He dropped Naruto and Gohan into a pond so he could look.

"Naruto?" Gohan called indicating that he was now fully awake

. "What happened?"

Naruto held a sad smile as he pointed to Piccolo to explain the events that transpired. Needless to say the explanation left Gohan crying before being snapped at by Piccolo.

"I'm sure your father has told you about the Dragon Balls countless times and their powers to bring back revive the dead once." Piccolo said closing his eyes. "in about a year or so your friends are going to bring him back so he can help us fight the Saiyans coming." Piccolo's eyes snapped open. "Meanwhile the two of you are going to be training… under me."

"Why me I've never trained before?" Gohan said along with a nod from Naruto.

Piccolo picked the boy up slightly roughly before swinging his arm to the direction of a slightly small mountain. Naruto panicked watching his friend being hurled in the air, he was only a few meters from colliding with the mountain before…

Gohan's body was enveloped in Ki and a beam of said energy shot out of him and destroyed the mountain.

"Now you see what I mean? You have powers dwelling inside of you but they only react upon emotion."

Naruto looked down at his hands in complete awe. 'Is this why the villagers hated me so much?' Naruto hadn't known the truth about why he was treated the way he was in Konoha but one thing that was definite would be that he would use his powers to protect his precious people.

Gohan who had gained his composure now stood next to Naruto. The two children just stared at Piccolo who in return stared back. "What do you want?!" He shouted in rage.

"What do we do now?" Gohan asked.

"So how do we train?" Naruto continued.

Piccolo hovered off the ground and turned his back from the two. "I'll be leaving for 6 months and during that time the two of you will be surviving in the wild."

"Your joking right, ?!" Naruto said expressing a little panic in his voice. Naruto tugged on his cape. "You wouldn't do that would you?"

Gohan was reacting in a very similar way. "I WANT MY DADDY!" These were the words shouted multiple times by the Son of Goku before a very enraged Piccolo was forced to put a stop to it.

"LISTEN UP!" By this time Naruto had stopped tugging on Piccolo's cape and Gohan had stopped whining. "If you two can't survive for that long then I'm afraid my judgement about you was wrong." Piccolo was serious now making both demi-saiyans' demeanor change. "Do WHATEVER you can to survive or else you can say goodbye to this planet or everyone else on it." With those words floating through Naruto and Gohan's minds Piccolo flew off to begin his own independent training.

"…"

"Gohan…" Naruto spoke breaking the silence. "Let's do it." Gohan stood up and looked at Naruto. " trusts us to do it. So if he says we need to survive then let's do it."

"Aren't you scared?" Gohan asked because he certainly was.

"Are you kidding me of course I am but if we don't do it then your father's sacrifice will be useless."

Gohan gripped his fist slightly remembering what he was told. "Alright then… Naruto we're surviving!"

Piccolo stopped his flight and looked at where Naruto and Gohan were. 'Good, now both of you better survive or else… this planet is finished.'

With new found determination flooding through Naruto and Gohan, a year of training added to the arsenal of the Z-Fighters and Kami's plan with Goku taking effect do the Earth's Special Forces have what it take to take on the **Saiyans. **The world can only hope because if not they can kiss their home goodbye.

**A/N: How'd everyone like it? This idea popped into my head after rewatching Dragon Ball Z with my brother back in August. This chapter was way longer than I thought it would be too. Moving on to the topics of the story Naruto will be scared of some things. First of all he's only four years old right now, Two he hasn't had ANY training. Gohan will be a little bit stronger when the saiyans arrive because now that he can train with Naruto it allows more opportunities for his growth in strength. The pairing will probably be Naruto x Younger 18 and of course Gohan x Videl but no need to worry about that right now (Unless you have another suggestion for a pairing. ) Don't worry about Naruto getting the spotlight the whole time trust me he won't the other Z-Fighters will have their chance to shine. The next chapter may come quick because this will be the training of Naruto and Gohan which will build their friendship.**

**That's all for now. Please review it and don't be afraid to point out mistakes. See ya.**


	2. Training Kids isn't Piccolo's forte!

**What Lies Within Chapter 2: Training kids isn't Piccolo's forte!**

-Month time skip-

"*pant* Gohan *pant* do you think we managed to escape that dinosaur." Naruto heaved and decided to take the moment to sit down.

Gohan, who also seemed tired from running, was holding a very large egg. "I can't believe you made us do that." The boy spoke.

Naruto grinned at his friend. "We managed to get it though." Naruto was wearing a plain white undershirt and black pants. He preferred it to be orange but Piccolo had told him before he left that wearing orange in the wild would attract a lot of attention from the animals. Piccolo had said it as if he had read it from a wildlife survival encyclopedia. Though the fact Piccolo had made left the blond disappointed he listened anyway.

Gohan's clothes in comparison to the blond were that he was wearing a plain white undershirt along with dark green pants. "We need to start a fire before we can even start cooking it." After saying his statement aloud Gohan turn his attention to Naruto. "Do you know how to start a fire?"

"Sort of." Naruto said growing up was one rollercoaster after another and the Raditz Incident was one of the highest dips so far. He had sort gotten use to living in the forest surrounding Konoha on some nights so naturally of course he knew how to make a fire. The only difference was that where he and Gohan were they're animals which would not hesitate to attack unlike Konoha.

"Alright I'll get some firewood." Gohan replied. Both of them were pretty reliable. Watching Gohan walk away and head over to the first tree he could spot he watched Gohan punch a tree and after several repeats the tree finally came down.

Over the course of about one month Naruto and Gohan had enough power to at least put down an average sized tree with a series of punches and kicks. Yet after one month the idea had just struck their mind to build a fire.

Naruto moved his eyes to the dinosaur egg and blinked a few times at what came to his vision. The dinosaur egg was cracked open. Naruto moved closer making sure he wasn't hallucinating. "Gohan!"

Gohan came over dropping the wood he gathered before his eyes landed on the egg. "What happened to the egg?!" He shouted.

"I don't kno-. " Naruto sentence was cut off by a light dinosaur sound.

"SQUAK!" Naruto attention turned to the sound. It wasn't to his right or left. It wasn't up in the air either. So he looked down. "SQUAK!"

There was a baby Pterodactyl on the ground. The baby tilted its head and looked at Naruto.

"There goes dinner." Gohan said while his stomach grumbled. He was definitely the son of Goku alright. Naruto sweatdropped before watching the Pterodactyl use its claws and legs to grab Gohan's pants. Shrugging Gohan picked up the dinosaur and put it on top of his head. The dinosaur moved Gohan's hair around till it felt comfortable and let itself fall asleep.

"So what are we going to eat now?" Naruto asked Gohan.

"More… fish." Gohan said and he slumped they had been eating fish almost every day. The worst thing about it was that they ate it raw. Naruto let out a depressed sigh before he and Gohan made way towards the river.

-Few hours later

The full moon glimmered with a light dim in its place up in the sky. Gohan and Naruto usually would have been asleep but since they could make a fire they could stay up longer.

"Let's get some more firewood before we go to bed Gohan."

"You sure it's pretty dark outside." Gohan spoke softly.

"Come on Gohan there's nothing we can't handle. We keep getting stronger each day!"

Minutes later both boys had a bundle of wood.

"Naruto look it's the moon." Gohan said in awe. Naruto took a turn to look up and his heart stopped and in one quick fashion Gohan dropped the pile of wood.

Their heartbeats grew louder as it pumped slowly each second. They both quickly began to grow mass amounts of hair going into some metamorphosis. Their clothes ripped off as they grew and suddenly they were gigantic and they had massive differences compared to a few minutes ago.

For starters they looked like giant apes, which was the simplest explanation a person could give. With mighty roars they broke down huge rocks. They had lost their consciousness to control their bodies.

Mass chaos was bond to strike the region.

ROAR!

Not far away was Piccolo who was disturbed in the middle of his meditation. "What the heck is that?!" The namekian shouted. Over in the distance to his horror he saw a two giant apes wrecking havoc upon the mountains.

He charged straight in before remembering something Raditz had said.

"_We saiyans have tails and when we look at the full moon because of our tails we turn into giant apes."_

'If that's true that must be Gohan and Naruto.' Piccolo thought sweat rolling down his head. He looked at the moon and smirked. "So that must mean if I destroy the moon they'll de-form." To any other man that achievement would be crazy and impossible but Piccolo was a whole other person or… species.

Putting both his pointer and middle finger together and placing them on his forehead. He charged up an attack he had only just used for the first time against a real opponent a month ago. It was ironic that the move was supposed to be used to kill Goku and that's what it did. Though instead of helping Piccolo achieve his goal of world domination it helped Goku out.

Ki sparked to life in his finger tips, the more Ki that Piccolo fueled into the attack the louder sound the sparks produced. Piccolo smirked when he finished charging.

Back over to where Naruto and Gohan were, one of the apes undistinguishable to who it was cocked their head to Piccolo's direction. It opened its mouth and fired a large amount of pure Ki.

Piccolo looked on the attack which was rapidly closing in on him. Piccolo had two options, shoot his attack at the ape's attack and hopes he survived it or shoot his attack at the moon and hoped he survived the attack… his options were very limited. "Damnit!" Piccolo cursed before shooting his own attack towards the moon. The moon was destroyed but the situation was not over for Piccolo.

He braced himself for the incoming attack. The second the attack met its target smoke arouse and the area surrounding Piccolo was showing major signs of destruction.

Piccolo made his way through the smoke and breathed heavily. "Imagine if a trained Saiyan turned into that thing.' Piccolo thought with horror. 'That would be able to destroy entire planets.' Piccolo gulped before slowly hovering towards the duo.

"If these kids think at this time they could even beat the saiyans then they're two idiots." Naruto and Gohan were naked not a single piece of clothing was saved when they transformed. "I'm going to give you two this one favor and that's it."

He zapped both of them with a beam and like magic they both had clothes on them. Both were now wearing a gi similar to Goku's the only difference was except for the "Kame" kanji on the circle it's was Piccolo's. Other than that the rest was pretty much the same.

"Oh yea I almost forgot." Piccolo said before pulling their tails out. "Now with the moon gone those saiyans will have slight a disadvantage." Piccolo smirked. He hovered high and then took off into the night not to be seen by Naruto and Gohan again till their training with him.

-Month later-

The little Pterodactyl that had hatched wouldn't even leave the duo's presence. They had tried putting it back to its mother "nest" of sorts but needless to say the Pterodactyl found its way back each time. So the two had kept it and decided to name it.

"Sanchi come get breakfast." Gohan called. Sanchi had grown and was now beginning its stage as a juvenile. It was up still slightly smaller than average juvenile pterodactyls but it was growing.

As the dinosaur ate Gohan and Naruto prepared to get their own breakfast. "We're going to the old berry tree this time?" Naruto questioned while stretching.

"Yea but we better be careful or else that dinosaur gonna be on alert." Gohan replied.

"It wouldn't be bad to try and fight it you know." Naruto stated.

Gohan nodded his head before continuing his own set of stretches. "It's too dangerous." Naruto sighed his 5th time in a row trying to convince Gohan but it always was the same thing.

Naruto seriously wondered where he got that from. It definitely wasn't from his father alright Naruto could tell Goku loved to fight.

-Mount Paozu-

In the little mountains of a young lady was doing some housework before sneezing.

'My little Gohan must be thinking about me." She thought. 'As soon as he gets back he's going straight into his studies he has some catching up to do.'

She walked the house for a minute continuing her work before glancing upon a picture of Goku and Krillin when they were younger. 'Didn't Krillin say something about another boy about Gohan's age?' She nodded recalling upon the encounter. 'Didn't he say he was Gohan's friend?' Chi-Chi's face perked up at that. Even though this she forgot one important part Krillin had told her.

-Two months-

Four months had passed since the beginning of Naruto and Gohan's training. The two had grown stronger physically and somewhat mentally. And as for Sanchi she had gotten too big for the two demi-saiyan so she had flown off somewhere in the mountains to find a mate and have a family.

"Man I've been craving some ramen Gohan." Naruto groaned.

Gohan chuckled at the boy's dismay. "Ramen doesn't grow in the wild you know." Naruto made no intentions of laughing. "But anyways it's so boring." Naruto could agree with that running around in the wild wasn't the most exciting this to do for 4 months.

"Gohan…" Naruto called out in boredom. "How about we have a spar." Naruto grinned. "Let's test out how strong we've gotten without 's help."

Naruto stood up and got into a stance, a very sloppy stance. Although he had some power Naruto wasn't trained properly unlike the Z-Fighters. The same went for Gohan who had never even gotten the chance to really fight.

"Alright fine!" Gohan shouted gleefully. He sure had grown over the course of four months and although he was unsure if he wasn't sure if he was strong enough to take the saiyans on but he was willing to try.

Gohan took a sloppy stance similar to Naruto's.

"No holding back." Naruto announced, seconds after this his eyes became serious.

Gohan meanwhile was having similar thoughts. 'This time I have to see how much stronger I've gotten.'

Naruto made the first move with a swift dash towards Gohan. He brought his fist back and brought it close to his friend's face as he neared. Gohan made a very quick side-step and proceeded with a sweep kick taking Naruto's feet off the ground.

The blond rolled out of the way and stood up and countered Gohan's next parry of attacks. During this Naruto found an opening and grabbed Gohan's arm. Next, he threw the half-Saiyan aside.

Picking up his leg Naruto landed a side kick to Gohan. The son of Goku wobbled back slowly. That kick sure packed a punch err… kick. Gohan regained his balance and went back into a stance.

Gohan walked up slowly towards Naruto with a serious look on his face. He then suddenly started running before he completely passed him and ran towards a cliff. Gohan then jumped onto the wall part of the cliff and used it as a platform to propel himself towards Naruto.

Naruto smirked. 'Gohan's really smart!' In the sight of this situation Naruto ran up and jumped into the air to meet Gohan. Meters before collision Gohan twisted his body moving his course away from the jinchuriki.

Before he knew Naruto found himself falling. Meanwhile, Gohan landed on the ground and ran up to move over Naruto's landing location.

Then before the blond could comprehend what was happening an uppercut made it's was to him sending him flying. Naruto fell to the ground in agony but he was not done yet.

"Gohan… you're really strong but… let's end this already.' Naruto heaved.

"You're really strong too… but… I won't let you win." Gohan also heaved. Both of them began running straight into each other. No tricks… decoys… or false starts. They brought a single fist back. The leaves rustled in the area they were in. Both boy made their ways to each other and went to a parry of attacks.

Back and forth the attacks landed on each other. Both were showing no mercy giving it their all. If one was to look closely or was an expertise at fighting they could tell Naruto and Gohan were fading out slowly, surely but slowly.

Their attacks started slowing down at a considerate, they heaved their hardest they had truly gone alot. They were exhausted.

Gohan brought his fist back for a final attack. Naruto smiled weakly and mimicked the motion. This would end it. The fist made dead contact with each other's face.

Gohan took in a breath full of air and fell. So he lost? Nope, Naruto fell to the ground as well equally as exhausted. Gohan laughed weakly and closed his very heavy eyelids.

Naruto turned his head towards Gohan and put himself in deep thought. 'We're really strong but it makes me wonder if we can even beat the... Saiyans.' Naruto thought and began slowly drifting asleep.

-Month later-

"Naruto only a couple more days and we complete what asked us." Gohan said with glee.

"We did it!" Naruto yelled happily. Naruto raised his hand and Gohan slapped it as they gave each other a hi-five.

The fire that burned crinkled and sparked as they two saiyans couldn't fall asleep. They were anxious to get training started but a little while was all it took to stop the two demi-saiyans' jitters.

Minutes only passed for Naruto and Gohan before sunlight dawned upon them and light reached the crack of their eyes.

"N-Na-Naruto wake up!" Gohan called to his friend.

"Huh?" Naruto half spoke, and yawned.

Naruto opened his eyes and was taken to the sight of someone with their back turned to them. Naruto immediately recognized the cape attached to the man's back. Not to mention the bigger than average ears or the green skin.

"So you're finally awake..." Piccolo said breaking the silence. He turned so that he was now facing the demi-saiyans. "You've completed my first part of the training for surviving but from here on in your training under me."

Gohan nodded his head and gulped. ' 's really strict.' Naruto on the other hand was doing the exact opposite. The blond was closing the distance between him and Piccolo rather quickly while grinning.

"You were the one who gave us these uniforms aren't you?" Naruto said the grin now fully marking his features. Piccolo grunted and Naruto's grin grew even bigger (If that was possible.) "You are a nice guy!"

Gohan thought it over a minute before agreeing with his friend. you really are a nicer person than I thought." Gohan said before continuing. "You seemed really mean at first but-"

"WILL YOU TWO SHUT UP?! THIS IS NOT THE TIME!" Piccolo screamed releasing all his frustration upon the two.

"Ahehehe." Gohan lightly chuckled before walking back slowly.

"Hahaha." Naruto laughed lightly also and sheepishly scratched his head.

-Minutes later-

After Piccolo finally cooled down he prepared to give them their first bit of training under the proclaimed demon. "Now I'm going to teach both of you how to use your energy." First I have to explain the basics to you. Ki is energy in every single being and it is your life force. If one is able to draw it out and manipulate one can use it in several ways."

Piccolo cupped his hands together and slowly let energy manifest on his hands. Our two demi-saiyans looked at the ball of energy in Piccolo's hands with awe and determination. Their true training would begin right here and they wouldn't let anyone down.

Piccolo sat down crisscrossed style and Naruto and Gohan mimicked the action. "Close your eyes." Follow the man's procedures they now closed their eyes.

"Now you have to feel the energy flowing through your body. Once you find it you have to harness it and make it grow throughout your body."

It only took about an hour for the two to finally achieve what was asked of. They were half-saiyans so it was probably normal that they could achieve it though the only part they couldn't achieve as control.

"It won't be possible just yet to achieve any energy-based." Piccolo said while breaking Naruto's excitement in the process.

"Wow this is awesome!" Gohan yelled with excitement. His energy moved excitedly in his body fluctuating with the pass of each second. Naruto's was in a similar state just a little more negatively potent which Piccolo picked up on but tossed it aside.

"Are we going to learn how to fly next?" Naruto asked with pure joy.

"First of all I want you to cease the rapid flow of Ki in your body." Piccolo's response was met with the innocent questioning faces of our two demi-saiyans. Sighing Piccolo put it in terms they could understand. "The Ki in your body is too fast, slow it down."

Nodding the two tried slowing the flow a very hard task without proper control. By the time they actually managed to slow it was already sunset. Both boys took in deep breath controlling energy really took it out of you.

"Now for your last task of the day…" Piccolo began his eyes closed as he sat in a meditation stance. Naruto and Gohan's face took a look of shock.

"You still expect us to do something?!" They shouted in unison.

Piccolo moved forward anyways. "I want you two to kill that dinosaur and bring it here it will serve as our dinner." The dinosaur Piccolo was talking about was very familiar to Naruto and Gohan. It was the one Naruto always wanted to fight but Gohan always told him "It was too dangerous."

"It is a task from Gohan so we have to do it." Naruto said showing how quickly his demeanor changed.

"I guess you're right Naruto." Gohan sighed in defeat. Piccolo flew up from his spot to watch his two students take on the dinosaur.

-Days later-

"Now that you've finally managed to get a good grip on controlling you Ki it's time to teach you how to fly."

"Alright Naruto we did it!" The two gave each other a hi-five.

"If we work our hardest we can do anything!" Naruto shouted to the world.

Both of them were met with the grunts of Piccolo. "Don't get so excited the real training hasn't even begun yet so far I've only taught you the basics."

Gohan took a serious look when he had learned. 'Naruto and I still have a long way to go.'

"Don't worry Gohan we'll keep stronger no matter what!"

Piccolo chuckled as he heard this. "You don't possibly think that you're actually strong enough to take on the Saiyans with your power as of right now do you?"

"…" Naruto and Gohan remained silent.

"Now let's continue." Piccolo began before a shout interrupted him.

"And so what if we think we can beat the saiyans!" Gohan shouted to the shock of Naruto.

"Right now your powers are nowhere near enough."

Next was Naruto's turn to shout. "Then we'll get stronger!" He looked over to Gohan and both nodded to each other.

"Then prove it! If you can't learn how to fly in one week I'LL GIVE UP TRAINING YOU!" Piccolo shouted once again allowing his anger to flood into his words.

Naruto's eyes widened at the statement. 'He'll stop training us.' Naruto was at a loss for words.

"Then we'll do it!" Gohan replied. "Right Naruto?"

Naruto stared at his friend the determination that build up in Gohan was incredible. "Right!" And with those mighty words the path to Piccolo's true training would begin.

Piccolo smirked at the two youths. 'Perfect.'

-Week later-

"Now show me that you can fly both of you." Piccolo announced. The test for displaying if they could properly use Ki and fly would be held in a very wide plains area.

"Ready Gohan?" Naruto said as he stretched his arms. On his face was a look filled to the brim with determination.

"Yep!" Gohan replied doing his own set of stretches. Gohan was serious too and he was determined that he would show Piccolo just what he could do.

"Now start flying slowly."

Both youths followed the instructions and began bringing the Ki underneath of them in a slow pace. Too much Ki would cause an imbalance and flying would be nearly impossible to control, and too little wouldn't even lift them from the ground. That's why it was so hard for normal humans to fly it took a good amount of control and training to know what amount was just right.

The demi-saiyans slowly lifted from the ground and into the air. These actions were met with Piccolo smirking.

"Now fly around fast. Use your Ki to speed you up." Piccolo ordered wisely.

Naruto increased the Ki he was using and flew faster; he could feel himself flying through the air at fast speed. He wasn't able to fully enjoy the sensation though with wind blinding his eyes but with time he would get used to it. He stopped his flight and flew down beside Piccolo. "How'd I do?"

Piccolo grunted. "You passed." The man could show some acknowledgement about the boy's feat. "Gohan!" Piccolo called out. "It's your turn."

Gohan looked over to where his friend and mentor sat. A nervous look crossed the face of Gohan. 'Naruto did it like a pro but I'm not sure if you can do it.'

"Gohan you can do it!" Naruto shouted with complete support for his friend.

'If Naruto believes I can do it, then I can!" It just goes for show that the bond between Naruto and Gohan was very strong.

Gohan allowed the Ki he was storing to move underneath his legs. His speed increased as he pushed more of it out. As the son of Goku sped through the air at magnificent speeds he laughed. "Naruto, I did it!"

Piccolo chuckled as well something Naruto usually wouldn't see. "Congratulations you've finished my first piece of training."

Naruto and Gohan gave each other a huge hugs jumped around with joy. They constantly shouted: "WE DID IT! WE DID IT!" The two finally were going to get to the hardcore training. They wanted to get strongest to show that they could help save the world.

"Don't start celebrating yet because now our true training tomorrow." The demi-saiyans nodded they had paved their ways into this there was no turning back.

By the time of nightfall the three were surrounding a campfire. It was at this time that Gohan asked a question that he long since had forgotten to ask Naruto.

"Hey Naruto, can you tell me about the people back on your planet?" Gohan asked.

"Start speaking up you never told me just what happened." Piccolo said.

Both eyes of Piccolo and Gohan stared Naruto down. "The people back on my planet were really mean except for a few." Naruto began quietly. "I don't know why but they always treated me different then other people." A sad voice formed in Naruto as he continued explaining his story further. Gohan gained a sad look on his face while Piccolo looked on with interest.

"They would chase me down and beat me up and they called me a demon. There were only a couple people who didn't treat me like that but I really didn't have any friends my age." Naruto stopped in his tracks as he described as best as he could a sad look plastered on his face. "That's when that Raditz person came and took me but I escaped into the pod. " Naruto looked to Gohan with a sad smile. "So actually Gohan's my first real friend." He said silently and looked to the ground.

Naruto head shot back up when he was engulfed by a huge hug courtesy of Gohan. "Naruto you're not a monster, you're my best friend." Gohan assured as Naruto looked at him with ever-lasting happiness.

'Gohan's a really good friend.' Naruto thought. "You mean it?"

"You better believe it!" Gohan said stealing one of his friend's trademark phrases. (A/N: Had to use the English saying it just felt right.)

Just then the campfire which lit the area went out. "That's enough, get some sleep you both have a long day of training tomorrow." Piccolo called from his now sleeping position.

"Yes sir!" They replied and went off to bed.

'There must be some logical reason why they called him that. Could that be the reason why some of his energy was slightly negative?' Piccolo turned his head to look at a sleeping Naruto. 'Naruto you have more secrets than probably you even know and you've been through so much…' At those thoughts Piccolo decided to fall asleep not time to ponder over it.

As the light of dawn cracked through the sky Naruto and Gohan patiently waited for Piccolo to awaken.

"This is getting boring." Naruto sighed with a boring expression. " takes such a long time to wake up."

"Maybe he's really tired or he just doesn't want to wake up." Gohan replied. Though he was bored he could wait a little longer, everyone's patience would break sometime.

Piccolo grunted softly as his eyes began to twitch giving signs of him waking up. "I think he's waking up."

With a loud yawn Piccolo open his green eyelids to the world. His first sight wasn't exactly what he was expecting though. Both Naruto and Gohan were staring straight into the eyes of their mentor.

"Will you two move out the way?" Piccolo managed to ask nicely enough. No reason to be so grumpy in the morning, it was just hard for Piccolo to be nice to others at all.

Minutes later, after having a very small breakfast both Naruto and Gohan prepared to begin their true training. "I wonder what 's going to teach us?" Gohan asked showing some of his child curiosity.

"Maybe some Ki-based attacks or some moves that's gonna increase our power." Naruto responded giving a display at his child imagination.

"You both will be learning none of that yet." Piccolo called out to the two his voice was met with the listening yet disappointed sighs of Naruto and Gohan. "Both of you will be sparring with me together and then later on simultaneously."

Piccolo cracked his head and arms back and forth signaling he ready to battle. "Come and strike me, I won't attack you."

Both demi-saiyans charged right in, an order from Piccolo was well an order. What the two didn't expect was a Ki blast to the face courtesy of their mentor.

" you said you weren't going to attack us." Gohan complained trying to ignore the stinging from the attack. Naruto coughed up the smoke made from the contact of the blast which disabled him to speak his words, so silently he agreed with Gohan.

"Fools never trust your enemy." Piccolo replied staring down his two students.

"B-But you're not our enemy." Gohan managed to make out. What Piccolo said was true, you shouldn't trust your enemies, but Piccolo just wasn't their enemy.

"Like I said , you're our friend." Naruto made out quietly as he started to scratch his head sheepishly. Sighing Piccolo began to explain their next lesson.

-Month later-

A month had come and gone in the training with Piccolo and our two demi-saiyans had finally adjusted to the training style of Piccolo.

In Piccolo's training grounds the sound of fighting could be heard throughout. In the middle of it were Naruto and Gohan fighting against Piccolo.

Naruto launched a very brute kick towards Piccolo only to be parried with an arm. Piccolo's counterattack continued with a spin of Naruto's arm and launching the blond backwards. The next set of Piccolo's motions seemed to prove that he was timing his attacks. He blocked Gohan who had tried to sneak a punch from and sent him flying right into an open Naruto.

Both boys had improved in fighting tremendously but against Piccolo it seemed that they hadn't made any progress at all.

"Have you finally had enough?"

Piccolo's ears perked up when he heard the heavy breathing of Naruto and Gohan who had yet to given up. "We're not done yet." Was the best the two could make out between heavy breaths.

Back and forth punches and kicks came to Piccolo and with each one that was put in motion Piccolo dodged. It wasn't until very long where finally Naruto and Gohan managed to get a hit. That's when their counterattack began.

Naruto fist connected straight into Piccolo's stomach while Gohan gave an uppercut to his chin. Due to this action Piccolo was sent spiraling up in the air. The demi-saiyans certainly didn't stop there as Naruto gave an uppercut straight upon chin to send him flying even more.

To finish off a very strong combo, both half-saiyans flew up and gave Piccolo a hard kick to the head which sent the man tumbling to the ground. Naruto and Gohan finally let out a breath they had been holding and fell to the ground unconscious. They had to strain their bodies to finish that combo.

Piccolo grunted and caught the two before they fell to the ground. 'They both have improved by an outstanding rate.' His next action could have shocked anybody who knew him. Piccolo smiled but he quickly erased it. 'This is no time to be growing soft.'

-4 months later-

"That's it that's all you've completed my training." Piccolo called out to his students. Naruto and Gohan grinned at each other.

" how about we have a celebration hug?" Gohan said quietly.

"Yea that would be great!" Naruto yelled to his mentor.

"NO!" Piccolo shouted.

"Please ." Gohan begged.

"NO!"

"Come on please." Naruto said trying to make his eyes as cute as possible. Siding with the blond Gohan did the same as well.

"Fine." Piccolo mumbled and allowed both demi-saiyans took pull him in a hug. 'I'll never understand hu8mans and their silly emotions such as love.'

As Naruto and Gohan pulled from the hug the sky grew dark fast. The sun was blocked out by black clouds, clouds very familiar to Piccolo.

"So they've finally summoned Shenron." Piccolo's voice rang through the darkness. He was very calm about the situation though it was only natural to him.

"So that must mean that their wishing my dad back!" Gohan called out with joy. Who wouldn't his father as coming back after one year of being amongst the dead?

"Congratulations Gohan you'll be able to see your dad again!" Naruto shouted happily to his friend.

-King Kai's Planet-

"There you go Goku the halo on your head is gone!" The proclaimed King Kai said as a monkey behind him shot confetti out of a gun. King Kai wasn't what you expected; first of all he looked very different to humans, and he was also a comedian (A very bad one at that),

"Gee thanks for everything King Kai!" Goku replied. He now wore a gi very similar to his normal one just this time he had the symbol of Kai. Goku looked lively and as battle ready as ever, he truly was ready to fight those who tried hurting Earth.

"Goku, one more thing before you head off." King Kai said giving off a very serious aura.

"What is it King Kai?"

"Naruto Uzumaki has sealed inside of him from the planet he was living on previously. That planet was in my jurisdiction. When he was born a beast made of a giant amount of chakra, the power the energy on that planet, was sealed inside of him. Right now fighting it wouldn't be a problem since chakra is naturally weaker than Ki but the beast may become a mass of Ki since Naruto body's energy preference is it! Goku take extreme caution when you are with Naruto ok? If anything happens you must make sure Naruto keeps control." King Kai explained with haste time was running out for them.

"You got King Kai!" Goku replied and gave thumbs up. The pure-Saiyan stretched as he prepared for his long run back down Snake Way.

-Naruto and Gohan-

"Get some rest both of you. Tomorrow we'll see if the training really payed off." Piccolo ordered to his students.

Naruto and Gohan silently nodded. 'Tomorrow our training will put to use we'll show those saiyans!' Naruto thought with pure determination.

'We'll show everyone just what we've learned!' Gohan similar to Naruto was filled with the determination. Only question: would their bravery stand when they were face-to-face with their foes?

The final day of peace on Earth came and gone in the blink of an eye. No one on Earth except for the Z-Fighters knew that that face of death loomed heavily amongst the planet. November 3rd, Age 762 was the day two space pods landed in a city. The only thing our two demi-saiyans could make out was the winds which blew from the destruction of the city.

"No way!" Naruto shouted as he covered his eyes from the wind.

"Is that them?!" Gohan was also blinding his eyes was shocked at just how much damage the saiyans could cause. The city that was destroyed was very far from the training grounds but the attack was powerful enough to brew up wind that reached other parts of the planet.

"Get ready they'll be heading for us." Piccolo warned. Once again he cracked his head and hands as he prepared to fight.

"Seems like everyone's already here." A familiar voice called out from above.

"Krillin." Piccolo called to his ally for the moment.

"Piccolo seems you managed to keep both of them alive." Krillin replied as he made his way to the ground. "Hi I'm Goku friend Krillin."

"I'm Gohan." Gohan greeted shaking off his shock.

Naruto managed to get rid of all of his shock as well albeit, most of it. "Naruto Uzumaki ready whenever!" He greeted in a very happy tone, Krillin did seem nice.

"Quit the introductions it seems our guests have arrived." Piccolo spread his arms out as his head looked up.

"Well, well just what do we have here?" Someone from above softly chuckled, this time the voice was far from familiar. The man eyed all of them carefully.

To Naruto and Gohan's surprise up above them were the saiyans they had trained for a year to fight. Just what lies in store for the Z-Fighters and will they able to hold off the threat before Goku arrives only time will tell as the battle which holds the Earth's fate begins, Next Time!

**A/N: That's a wrap. So as we progress along with the story more mysteries about Naruto will be revealed. All I'm going to say is that the biggest one probably will be the history of his parents. (Hint, hint) And as for next chapter it may take a little longer to complete. I'll also try to work on my fight scenes I need to do better to help the story out. Well pretty much that's all I've got for now and thanks so much for the review, follows, and favorites. Remember to keep it up!**


	3. Earth's our home! Blast of Determination

**What Lies Within Chapter Three: Earth is our home! Blasts of Determination!**

**A/N: I'm going to be skipping some parts in the beginning of the battle since I find no use for them and basically the same events will be taking place. Also thank you everyone for the support you have given me it's greatly appreciated.**

-Snake Way-

On the alleged "One Million Mile Snake Way" Goku raced down the road at a much faster speed compared to about a year ago. He ran at speeds normal people could only dream of. He was in very deep thought though as he recalled what King Kai had told him.

-Flashback-

"_Goku, one more thing before you head off." King Kai said giving off a very serious aura._

_"What is it King Kai?" _

_"Naruto Uzumaki has sealed inside of him from the planet he was living on previously. That planet was in my jurisdiction. When he was born a beast made of a giant amount of chakra, the power the energy on that planet, was sealed inside of him. Right now fighting it wouldn't be a problem since chakra is naturally weaker than Ki but the beast may become a mass of Ki since Naruto body's energy preference is it! Goku take extreme caution when you are with Naruto ok? If anything happens you must make sure Naruto keeps control." King Kai explained with haste time was running out for them._

_"You got King Kai!" Goku replied and gave thumbs up. The pure-Saiyan stretched as he prepared for his long run back down Snake Way. _

_-Flashback End-_

'If Naruto really is from another planet does he want to go back?' Goku wondered though he doubted it. 'Probably not since he's became a really good friend of Gohan.' The Saiyan smiled at that thought. 'But if he doesn't leave he won't a home to stay in.' Unknown to Goku Naruto himself wasn't sure if he could call his home on Konoha home. 'And I wonder just how strong that being sealed in Naruto is.'

Needless to say Goku had many unanswered questions at the moment, but one thing was for sure he was excited at his upcoming challenges.

-Earth-

Two figures lowered themselves to what used to be Naruto and Gohan's training ground. They obviously were saiyans judging by their choice of attire. Similar to Raditz, both wore armor just like his and the device on their eye.

The taller one of the two was a bald man with a very smug look on his face. The shorter one with spiky hair which pointed upwards wore calm, and collected look even though he was smirking.

Looking on were Naruto and Gohan who stared at the two arrivals with serious demeanors. The purple gi Piccolo had given them blowing in the wind as the atmosphere took and very tense turn.

"Looks like the whole gang's here." Another two people came but unlike the other two they were part of the Z-Fighters. Strangely one of the men had three eyes; he bore a green gi which only covered one shoulder. The other one was a very small person; his skin was very pale and he wore a white-shirt and black pant. These were Tien and Chaiotzu.

"Don't forget about me." With not even a moment of silence another fighter entered the fray. He wore a gi similar to the regular Kame one just short sleeved. A trademark of the man was the scar which marked his cheek. His name was Yamcha.

"They just keep coming, don't they Nappa." The shorter one of the men said while keeping his smirk. "Which one of them are the one who killed Raditz?"

"I think it was the green one Vegeta." The one known as Nappa replied.

"It seems that somehow a namekian has made his way onto Earth." The one who was now known as Vegeta chuckled before his face became a serious one. "Let's see there are 8 of them, Nappa how many Saibamen do we have?"

Naruto looked on with somewhat fear. He was inexperienced on the battlefield and actually this was his first real battle. 'We can do this' he repeatedly thought through his head but now even he wasn't sure if he could do it.

'How can they take it so calmly, they're acting like it's a game?' Gohan thought. Here he was scared out of his mind now that he was face-to-face but the two of them were taking it like a joke. Both half-saiyans were stressing out

Krillin looked back at the two demi-saiyans. "Calm down everything's going to be alright. If you two were actually trained by Piccolo then you must be strong." Krillin's words certainly calmed down the two but the threat still remained.

Back over with Vegeta and Nappa, the latter was currently planting what appeared to be seeds into the ground seven of them to be precise. "How about we have a little tournament?" Vegeta began; it really was just all a game to him.

"A tournament, you think this is all a game!" Tien shouted. Vegeta ignored him in favor of what grew right out of the ground. What actually looked grew instead of plants, were seven greens small creatures.

"One of you will be each taking turns fight one of them." The words came out of the mouth of once again Vegeta. So now it was a game of elimination you fight and somebody dies.

"Alright then I'll fight first!" The volunteer of this act was Yamcha who seemed brave enough for the task.

"Are you sure Yamcha I could go if you want to?" Krillin asked his friend.

"It's fine Krillin besides I'll just be able to show you the fruits of my training!" With a confirmation nod from Krillin Yamcha walked forward. His laidback but serious personality sure was a change for the battlefield.

"You go up and fight him. Don't disappoint me or it'll be the end for you and that goes for all of you." Between Nappa and Vegeta it now would be very easy to tell who the leader around, Vegeta was.

"Both of you watch carefully and no matter what happens while any of us are fighting don't look away." Ordered a very serious Piccolo this time every battle would be at the cost of lives. A much hesitated nod came from Naruto and Gohan.

Naruto looked on to the battlefield where Yamcha stared off the single Saibamen. In a fast motion both Yamcha and the Saibamen were across the battlefield at tremendous speeds. For the older part of the Z-Fighters it was easy to move their eyes around and spot where and what was happening but for Naruto and Gohan it was impossible to spot it.

"Wow! They disappeared!" Gohan yelled with complete awe.

"Yea but what's the point if we can't see them." Naruto said slightly hinting on his frustration.

"Don't use your eyes to see them! You have to sense their Ki!" Piccolo's instructions were hard to follow if you didn't know what to do to begin with. It was a good thing that he taught the demi-saiyans the Art of Ki. The two had been taught how to sense energy levels and proof of this could be shown as they moved their eyes to follow Yamcha and the Saibaman's speed.

The two fighters finally landed on the ground staring each other down. It was then that Yamcha began charging a ball of Ki into his hands. The hand burst from the hands of a Z-Fighter and made its way to make contact with its target. Smoke erupted from the collision as Yamcha smirked.

"Man, was that too easy." Words that emitted from the mouth of Yamcha as he turned himself around to make his way back to the group. Behind him the smoke vanished to show the Saibamen jump and pull Yamcha into a sturdy hold. Piccolo grunted as he watched his ally pay the price for underestimating his opponent.

The Saibaman viciously holding on to the creator of the "Wolf Fang Fist" started emitting a light which grew brighter by the second. This scene was all too familiar to the older part of the Z-Fighters. The Saibamen had taken to the art of self-destruction a last resort move.

A with a mighty sound smoke once again made itself apparent in on the battlefield. Krillin rushed in to look at his friend and training partner. Naruto and Gohan were in shock at the outcome. Death was a scary thing up close and to them they were staring at it.

Over to the sides where the Saiyans stood, Vegeta and Nappa were both chuckling and laughing respectively.

Krillin grit his teeth as he looked over the body of Yamcha, the dead body of Yamcha. "You heartless monsters!" The earthlings shouted as he slowly carried the lifeless body of his friends away. "EVERYONE LEAVE THEM TO ME!" Krillin yelled referring to the Saibaman. It was only moments later that a scattered Ki wave destroyed every other Saibaman left in the area.

Nappa stretched his arms as he prepared to begin his portion of the fight. "So it's my turn to fight right Vegeta?" The affirmation came in the form of a minor grunt from his "boss".

Krillin wasn't taking any chances in this fight, and neither was anyone else in the matter. In one swift movement Krillin made his way up to the large Saiyan. He pushed a fist straight to Nappa's face and in turn the Saiyan smirked and grabbed the earthling's hand. Krillin eyes widened as he looked at the position he was in. There he stood wide open to any attack which would come his way.

"No way." Naruto whispered so that only Gohan could hear.

Gohan gulped in agreement with his friend. "He brushed that attack off like it was nothing."

With watching eyes Naruto and Gohan looked to see Piccolo, Tien, Krillin and even little Chaiotzu moving in to fight.

"This isn't even a warm up." Nappa's cocky laugh brewed through the air. He was having fun despite being outnumbered though he seemed to be winning the struggle.

"DODON RAY!" Tien shouted releasing a thin beam of yellow Ki at his adversary. The attack was easily deflected by the Saiyan brute. Nappa was practically toying with them at this rate and it seemed he wasn't letting up.

Piccolo moved behind the brute in one swift motion and grabbed his tail and smirked. "Now that I've gotten your tail your weak!" Piccolo said from behind Nappa his grasp still very firm.

But in the end it was Vegeta and Nappa smirking and looking at the latter he didn't seem weak at all. Nappa roughly dragged his arm backwards hitting Piccolo and tossing the man aside.

"D-Damnit…" Piccolo quietly cursed they weren't making any progress at all. He cocked his head towards his students. 'They haven't moved an inch… cowards.'

Both demi-saiyan were frozen in their spots, they were in-experienced when it came to actually fighting on the battlefield. They were saiyans but they were also still kids.

"I'm getting bored now!" Nappa eyes began to scan the z-fighters. "Which one of you wants to dies first." His eyes scanned around till they landed on the three-eyed fighter Tien.

Tien braced himself in his fighting stance. He looked on to see a charging Nappa meters from colliding with him. Around the brute was an aura of hot, yellow Ki. When the two collided they stretched out their arm and parried each other's attack. Though that Tien's hand was burned from the force of the impact plus the Ki enforced in the hit. Tien screamed in agony as he grasped his burning hand all the while everyone else looked on in horror.

"Watch out!" Piccolo shouted warning the warrior to no avail.

Nappa's attack wasn't over yet either as the Saiyan jumped up and fell onto the warrior in a rigid manner. Gohan's eyes shut close as he already knew what had happened from another shout of Tien's pain… The three-eyed warrior's hand had been detached and sadly unlike Piccolo's it could not regenerate.

Naruto looked on with complete horror in comparison to his friend. 'We just have to wait till Gohan's dad gets back and everything will be alright.' Naruto thought in hope but even know he wasn't sure if they could hold on.

Tien struggled to relieve himself from his place on the ground. His stance was wobbly and he was slightly shaking but his passion to keep on fight kept moving him on. Nappa once again pummels him into the ground.

Naruto shut his eyes tight, he couldn't bear to watch the events unfolding anymore even with Piccolo's words flowing into his mind. Gohan on the other hand had already closed his eyes prior to Tien hand being detached.

Gohan was in deep thought at this point too. From the stories he heard from Chi-Chi Goku was always there to save the day but now… 'Daddy… where are you?' A brief thought crossed his mind one that he couldn't help but deny but still doubt himself. 'What if he realized there was no hope and he isn't coming.' As Gohan wondered about this a shout cut off his train of thoughts.

"CHAIOTZU!" Both Gohan and Naruto eyes moved from shut to open. Their eyes darted into the sky as they looked on in shock.

Chaiotzu was holding on to the Saiyan brute's back in the sky and oddly enough he was glowing! From the sky Nappa was grabbing to his back trying to take the warrior off the results proved that the actions were useless though.

"Goodbye Tien…" Chaiotzu somewhat weakly called. The body of the small warrior was now completely enveloped in white light. Smoke erupted from the area surrounding Nappa.

"Goku where are you…?" Krillin whispered causing Vegeta raised his eyebrows before hiding his interests.

Piccolo's stern looks focused on the cloud of smoke he knew exactly as well as Krillin just what had just happened.

The demi-saiyans were in a mixed amount of feeling now, worried, sadness, and possibly even scared were some that could be named.

Naruto couldn't bear to look at Tien's distraught face it would just make him feel all the more guilty at not being able to do anything about what just happened.

Slowly Tien stood up and directed his only hand into a half-triangle form. This technique was very similar to the Z-Fighters who had previously viewed other World Martial Arts Tournaments and by the looks on their face they didn't like what technique Tien was about to perform one bit.

"Tien don't do it!" Krillin screamed but his plea fell on death ears. The three-eyed warrior had already put in enough energy to power his attack. The technique he was about to use was the Tri-Beam and it was a very dangerous attack.

Nappa still in the sky looked below to see what the "bald midget" had been shouting about and he did not expect to be blasted in the face by a triangle Ki attack.

"NEO TRI-BEAM!" On the ground Tien was shown getting weaker by the second as he repeatedly threw blast on after another. That's when Tien's face looked so weak that it'd seem that he was inflicting damage upon himself.

One final blast hit Nappa before Tien fell to the ground and seemed to no longer be breathing and to the horror of Naruto and Gohan another Z-Fighter has become a casualty. And up in the sky landing towards the ground was Nappa still in top shape. (**A/N: Sorry for just rushing through those parts there but basically t that point I was improvising on what to do.)**

That's when it struck him. 'If we just keep standing here and don't even help Piccolo's training will be in vain.' Naruto's face grew serious.

The blond slowly walked up to Nappa who stared at him. "So the brat's finally manned up?" When Naruto was standing right in front of him he sniffed.

Naruto quickly pinched his nose and looked at the brute. "You smell!" He shouted quickly waiting for the saiyan's reaction which came fairly quick.

"YOU TRY SPENDING A YEAR IN A SPACE POD AND NOT BEING ABLE TO TAKE A BAT-!" Nappa rant was shortly cut off from Naruto next action. The demi-saiyan kicked him in an area right between his legs. Krillin, Gohan, and Piccolo sweatdropped.

"I have to admit the brat has some spunk." Vegeta chuckled.

"Ha!" Naruto shouted and launched a yellow Ki blast into Nappa's face.

'Here's my chance!' Piccolo thought as he dashed straight towards a dazed Nappa. The namekian brought a low kick to him sweeping the Saiyan off his feet and proceeded with another kick which made Nappa speed into the air.

Krillin followed Piccolo lead and sped into the sky to meet up with Nappa, and grabbed his own hand together. Then in one false swoop he sent the Saiyan plummeting towards the ground with a swing from his hands.

Looking at the current situation one could tell that the fight seemed to be to the Z-Fighters advantage but Naruto watched in panic as Nappa fell towards Gohan who looked on still frozen in his spot.

'What am I going to do?' Gohan thought also in panic. 'My body won't move.'

"Gohan what are you waiting for attack him!" His mentor shouted to him but still he wouldn't move.

"Gohan you have to believe in yourself!" Naruto shouted trying to motivate his friend. "This is what we've been training for! Just imagine yourself being able to beat him and you can do it!"

Gohan gripped his hand thinking over what Naruto told him. 'Naruto's right I can't stand here and do nothing.' Gohan would never forgive himself if it was his fault that the Earth was destroyed. Gohan's hands moved up to his forehead mimicking a position Piccolo had taught him and Gohan. He charged up Ki quickly into his hand.

"MASENKO-HA!" He called out his attack and stretched his arm outwards. The attack made contact with Nappa and gave birth to a layer of smoke upon contact. Naruto ran up to his friend with a grin plastered on his face. Krillin and Piccolo also slowly made their way to Gohan.

"Alright Gohan!" Naruto said as he gave Gohan a hi-five which was returned. Krillin smiled at the two with some hope.

"You two did great."

"Thanks ."Naruto scratched his head sheepishly.

"You don't have to be formal just call me Krillin."

Piccolo looked at the demi-saiyans with no emotion what-so-ever. 'They've gotten really strong if they can keep it up then…' Piccolo smirked the battle sure was about to take a huge turn.

Vegeta was having his own thoughts; he was looking over his scouter to make sure he was getting everything correctly. 'Those two's power levels were reaching up to 3,000! If they were to fully charge up like the others they could reach heights which could beat Nappa!' It was a theory a wild one at that fact but this were saiyans that he was talking about the strongest race in the universe so maybe just maybe it was possible.

High in the sky was Nappa who had suspended who everyone had long forgotten. He was obviously enraged at not only being forgotten but also getting a beating from the Z-Fighters.

"IF YOU THINK I'M GOING TO LET YOU GET AWAY THEN YOU MUST BE DREAMING!" Nappa landed on the ground pure anger written on his face it was only his nature.

"Hold it Nappa." Vegeta called forcing a very reluctant Nappa to slow in his tracks. "This Goku you have been talking about is he Kakarot?" His question was directed towards the others.

Krillin looked at Vegeta with a frown. "I guess but that isn't his name it's Goku. G-O-K-U!" Gohan and Naruto sweatdropped at Krillin's unneeded words.

Vegeta closed his eyes in thought. "Alright then you get 3 hours."

"Huh?"

"The battle will pause for three hours if Kakarot is not here in that amounting of time we'll continue the battle."

"But Vegeta!" Nappa began almost seeming to complain at his "partner's" announcement.

"Shut up Nappa." Naruto burst out laughing at how fast Nappa was turned down.

"You shut up just wait till I get my hands on you!" Nappa shouted.

"You won't even lay a hand on us after we're done with you!' Gohan yelled with a grin. His action was met with a grin right back from Naruto. The two's courage was back and they seemed to now be ready to contribute to the fight.

To the sidelines Piccolo and Krillin looked at the two demi-saiyans. "Man Piccolo they're really strong how crazy did you train them."

Piccolo shrugged. "They're power has grown to amazing boundaries but they stilled haven't even tapped into their true power. Not by a long shot."

"Wait so you mean they're even stronger?!"

Piccolo nodded as he spoke. "Even the one over there, Vegeta he's already noticed too."

"Gohan… you ok? You seemed worried." Naruto was really good at telling emotions and Gohan could tell. The Son of Goku was doing the best he could to hide it.

"…" Gohan hesitated with his words.

"Don't worry Gohan if you're worried about your dad he'll come."

"H-How'd you know?" A shocked Gohan spoke.

"Hehe Wild guesses?" Naruto responded while sheepishly scratching his head. And with that the two headed over to Piccolo and Krillin.

-Snake Way-

"Come On, come on!" Still on Snake way was Goku who was pumping all the energy he could in order to reach the end. 'Gohan, Piccolo, Krillin, Naruto don't worry I'll be there soon."

-Chi-Chi's house-

"Gathered around a TV in the living room of the Son house were Chi-Chi, her father the Ox King, Bulma, Oolong, Puar, and Master Roshi.

"Gohan's really strong!" Proclaimed the voice of a childhood friend of Goku, Bulma.

"And that Naruto doesn't seem like he's doing that bad himself." Master Roshi said.

"AH!" Those screams of surprise came from Chi-Chi. "Krillin was right Gohan is friends with Naruto. Didn't you see how he was talking to him?"

"He sure gave Gohan a lot of courage" Oolong concluded.

"But don't you remember what Krillin said that kid isn't from this planet." Puar said.

"So after this he would go back to his other planet right?"

"I highly doubt that at this point." Master Roshi said in what could be seen as a wise voice. "That looked when he attacked that big Saiyan… I could tell he did it for the Earth."

"What do you mean?" Oolong questioned it kind of seemed like a whole bunch of nonsense.

"I mean why else would you protect a planet. If you had family, or friends on that planet or you truly cared about it, At that point that planet would become your… home."

-Battlefield-

Vegeta's scouter beeped for the second time alerting him and an impatient Nappa that only one hour remained. "One hour remains."

"I guess that Kakarot fellow decided to chicken out after all. What a shame." Nappa cockily chuckled to the anger of Gohan.

Gohan gripped his hand in anger and gritted his teeth which obviously didn't go un-noticed by Naruto. But shortly calmed down after a while it just wasn't worth risking breaking any time his dad had left to come.

'Only one hour left what's the plan?" Krillin spoke breaking the large silence.

Naruto and Gohan were dead silent and Piccolo was running out of ideas.

"Any ideas?"

"We'll have to hold our ground for as long as we can until Goku arrives." Piccolo plan did seem very short minded from a few dozen angles but what other chance did they have. "We'll only be able to do it if you two fight, so will you?"

Piccolo's answers came in the form of fierce nods from Naruto and Gohan. They weren't scared anymore this time they would fight and they would stand their ground. Neither of them was going to stand around and get killed. They had power and they would use it to protect not only them but everyone else.

Vegeta's scouter rang on final time. "Time's up we shall continue he battle."

Nappa gave a smile and cracked his head while directing his attention to the Z-Fighters. "NOW I"LL DEAL WITH ALL OF YOU!"

'If Nappa doesn't cool it then he'll end up losing.' Vegeta thought once again. 'But if he continues I'll be able to see their full potential.' A small smirk crossed Vegeta's face as he prepared to watch the fireworks continue. 'It's a shame that Kakarot hasn't arrived yet.

"We can do this Gohan." Naruto said to his friend.

"Yea we just have to hold on long enough till my dad gets here." Gohan replied. Now he still wasn't exactly sure when Goku would get here but he was sure that he was trying to make it as fast as he could.

The 4 remaining defenders of Earth stood their ground against the shouts of Nappa. What was left of the demi-saiyans fear was also gone. Nappa's eyes scanned across the fighters. His anger showed he was ready to kill at any moment but he would make sure they would suffer. Nappa proceeded in taking off his battered armor and stretching.

The brute began running only to be knocked back from a kick from Krillin and kicked on the neck by the same person. Piccolo let his fist make direct contact with Nappa who in turn began a parry of punches and kicks towards the said namekian. Though Piccolo managed to avoid each and every attack and land a few of his own.

The distance between Nappa and Piccolo decreased even more with the actions of the two demi-saiyans. Both Naruto and Gohan landed a straight foot-plant onto Nappa's face causing him to stumble back.

Naruto and Gohan gave each other a huge hi-five at the succeeded attack. The two gave each other a grin before turning their heads back to Nappa who looked very pissed off.

"I'll kill all of you right now!" Nappa shouted letting loose a range of mad emotions take stage. First Nappa picked up Krillin and crashed him into a mountain. Next Nappa grabbed Piccolo and slammed him into the ground with plenty of force to make dent in the ground. Nappa then moved to Gohan who was very quickly punched in the gut and kneeling towards the ground.

"AND YOU!" Naruto was forcefully grabbed by Nappa and struggled over the grasp of the brute. Then the man began kneeing Naruto continuously. The blond spat out some blond from the repeat gut kneeing. It hurt like hell.

"N-Naruto." Gohan weakly lifted his friend to see his friend taking a brutal amount of damage. Gohan gripped his fist hard. 'Naruto is always there to help me out but when he's in trouble I can never help him. But what can I do…' Gohan was at a loss for thoughts and Piccolo and Krillin seemed to be out of commission.

Gohan slowly stood up and shook still feeling the effects of the attack from Nappa. "I'm not done yet…"Gohan quietly said he had still not got Nappa's attention. The demi-saiyan wiped the blood and spoke once more. "I'm not done yet!" Gohan's flew towards Nappa at very fast speeds and tackled the brute down.

Naruto fell to the ground and spat out a little bit more blood before standing up while slightly shaking. "Thanks Gohan." He said.

Gohan smiled back at his friend before looking down at his hands. 'Did I really just do that…?' He was surprised that he had it in him but over to the side of Vegeta, a certain Saiyan Prince just had his theory proven.

Both Naruto and Gohan moved backwards as they saw Nappa stand up again. Every time he was knocked down he came back up even more pissed than the last time and this time he looked like he was going to explode.

"You little runts, both of you are going to die." Nappa seethed with rage.

"NAPPA CALM DOWN!" Vegeta shouted causing Nappa to cease his movements. "If you keep this up they'll be able to get the advantage of you." Vegeta spoke very true words of experience.

"You're right Vegeta thanks." Nappa was level headed for the first time since the fight had began but Naruto and Gohan's situation still remained. It was only them against Nappa. Two against seemed one seemed more advantageous towards their side but there was a few factors which made them weigh into the disadvantage zone.

"I guess it's only us Gohan."

"Yea."

There was a little bit of silence between the two before they both took stances similar to Piccolo for obvious reasons. They both now had serious faces before they charged at the Saiyan brute.

Krillin surely wasn't out of action behind them, actually the bald man was charging up a huge concentration of Ki above his stretched arm. 'Damn Naruto and Gohan are in the way. I can't launch this with them in the way.'

"I'll take care of it Krillin." Krillin almost jumped back in shock from the words of Piccolo. It seemed he had no clue that Piccolo was back in action too. "Piccolo give someone a warning next time you almost cost me my attack."

Piccolo grunted as he turned his body to face his students he gave them a look of pride. Both of them were fighting on their own to hold their adversary off, for now they were no longer cowards in battle and they actually would be fighters. He erased the look from his face and moved forward to meet up with them.

The heavy breath of the demi-saiyans and their attacks coming in slower and slower showed that each of them were getting extremely tired. The damage from the battle was really starting to take effect.

'We can't stop going, if we stop then all our effort would be wasted including mine.' Naruto was directly talking about himself. When he was a kid he always had a dream to have a lot of friend, nice ones to be specific, but at Konoha that seemed to never be able to be a reality. But here on Earth the people were really nice and they treated him like family so maybe just maybe his dream could come true.

'We have to keep going we just have to hold on a little longer till dad gets here. Naruto isn't giving up wither there's no way I can or else we'll both end up dying… No that won't happen I won't let it!' Gohan was a little scared but for the meanwhile he would have to set that aside and fight as hard as he could.

Both Naruto and Gohan aimed a kick to Nappa's side but both legs were caught leaving themselves wide open. Nappa let a small smirk make way to his face as he noticed his current opportunities. He slammed both of them into the ground only to be kicked back by Piccolo.

The Namekian quickly scooped up Naruto and Gohan and led them away from the dazed Saiyan. "Krillin now!"

"Alright then, this is the "Fruit of My Training" now take a look at my new technique! DESTRUCTO DISC!" Krillin gave his arm a thrust forward to launch the newly named Ki disc. Nappa who was still dazed was straight in line with collision course of the attack which was much stronger than anyone would originally think.

"NAPPA, YOU IDIOT DODGE IT!" Vegeta yelled to his "comrade", who snapped out of his on instant just in time to slightly dodge the attack. Though the Saiyan brute had a cut across his solder which of course once again made him:

"YOU"RE GOING TO WISH YOU NEVER DID THAT!" Once again to none of the Z-Fighters surprises Nappa was once again mad to the irritation of Vegeta.

Nappa slowly walked up towards Krillin's position and the bald Z-Fighter not one to lose his chances darted straight towards the brute. It was because of this action that he was roughly picked up and kneed in the chin.

"AH!" Krillin's scream of agony broke into the air, he felt like his jaw had just broken into a million pieces. And Nappa didn't stop there next he hurled him into the air and kicked him in the gut.

"AH!" Once again the screams of agony broke into the air; it was getting to familiar to Naruto at this point, the continuous screams of pain.

Naruto took a step forward to help out his… friend. He wouldn't stand around anymore. "Stop hurting my friend!"

Nappa stopped hurling Krillin around to look at Naruto and he smirked cockily. "Finally re-grown your guts."

Naruto ignored that and continued. "Give us our friend back." Naruto said with slight anger, he gritted his teeth Nappa was starting to get on his nerves at this point. Nappa threw over Krillin straight to Naruto like a ragdoll. Naruto brought over Krillin to Piccolo and Gohan and set him down.

"What are we going to do?" Naruto asked quietly now even he wasn't sure what to do. Piccolo remained silent he had run out of ideas now.

"I don't know why but I know my dad is almost here so…"" Gohan quietly said.

"We have to keep fighting…" Naruto finished. He brought his face from the ground to give Nappa a serious look. " we're going to need your help too." Piccolo just nodded while looking away; to him it was kind of embarrassing to be ordered by one of your students.

"Sorry guys I would help you but…" Krillin weakly said in a strained voice.

Naruto looked back at the bald man and smiled. "Don't worry we'll take care of this from here." He looked back to Gohan and both nodded.

'My dad's coming I know he's almost here we just have to hold on a little longer.' Gohan thought.

Piccolo made a rush at Nappa and moved in for an elbow, only to be parried by the brute. Both made advances back and forth with punches and kick but each was parried, dodged, or pushed away. The brute pushed Piccolo aside to counteract a kick aimed at him from Gohan. Looking to his side he saw Naruto nowhere in sit till it hit him the face… literally.

Naruto landed a sky kick on Nappa's face and flipped away along with Gohan to avoid two swings of the brute arms. Piccolo then came back into the assault and knocked Nappa away with a side slam, next the Namekian used his arm stretching ability to grab Nappa and fling him into the sky.

Gohan was right behind him as he kicked Nappa even higher into the sky with an upwards kick. Naruto was at the height Nappa reached and with a downwards kick sent Nappa racing down to the ground.

'Nappa, that idiot, he's letting them get the best of him.' Vegeta was in complete irritation and it only increased when Nappa fell to the ground right next to him.

Back to the Z-Fighters, who now were on the ground, each felt something zip in their heads.

"What the?!" Piccolo exclaimed. "You feel that power coming from over there.

Gohan and Naruto nodded, which the starter who started smiling. "It's my daddy I know it!"

Naruto nodded in agreement, he didn't know why but he could just feel the bright aura coming from Goku.

Vegeta raise his eyebrow at their statements and chuckled. "You don't think I would actually believe that you can sense power levels without a scouter." Naruto and Gohan looked at each other and nodded back to Vegeta. 'They're serious.'

"Vegeta check the scouter to see." Nappa called.

Sure enough Vegeta did and with a few beeps of his scouter his face became shocked. "No way!"

"What Vegeta?!"

"They can actually sense it." Vegeta said baffled at this discovery.

"No time Nappa… kill all of them the first thing I want Kakarot to see when he gets here are his children and friends' bones and blood."

Nappa was already on the attack already as he brutally kicked Piccolo away from his position. Next were Gohan and Naruto who were moved away from their original positions as well.

"Hurry finish them now Nappa!"

Nappa was quick to follow Vegeta's words and charged up a large amount of Ki into his mouth. He was targeting Naruto and Gohan, this was unknown to the demi-saiyans though who stood their ground. That's when Nappa fired.

Time slowed down as the Ki mouth energy wave made its way towards Naruto and Gohan. Naruto and Gohan looked on with faces that could be described as fear and suddenly their bodies wouldn't move.

'This can't be the end not when we were so close.' Naruto thought.

'Not when we did so much, not after everyone's sacrifices… It can't end here.'

"It was nice knowing you Gohan…" Naruto spoke out in almost disbelief. Gohan didn't reply and both closed their eyes tight.

The blinding light of the energy wave still seeped into their eyes but no matter what they kept their eyes shut. Then like it had never started the light vanished.

Naruto opened his eyes and moved to a face of shock, complete and utter shock. Gohan's eyes were opened too and not only was he shocked, he couldn't believe at what was currently happening.

" …" Naruto and Gohan quietly said to the man standing in front of them, the man who had shielded them from the blast!

Piccolo fell to the ground smoke leaving his body. The namekian was bruised and battered now. Naruto could feel some tear slipping down his face now. Gohan could feel the ultimate sadness now creeping upon him too.

"Naruto, Gohan…" Piccolo croaked. "I can't believe I just saved the son of my arch-rival and a person I hadn't even known existed till a year ago." Piccolo spoke to Gohan and Naruto respectively. The two were silent on words to say. "You two were the only ones who had never treated me like a monster but as a friend." The purple blood of the namekian slipped down his jaw.

"But why…" Gohan managed to make out quietly, the tears just kept falling down the two demi-saiyan's face now.

"It's because you two were my students, maybe even my first pair of friends." Piccolo smiled death was almost running to him at this point. "Don't die…" These were the last words which Piccolo said before he finally breathed his last on Earth. Naruto's face of sadness changed into a one of anger, still strained with tears.

"**I'll give you the power to avenge him!" **Something deep within Naruto called almost begging Naruto to awaken his hidden abilities.

"No!" Naruto said out loud.

**"You can't hold me back forever." **The voice faded away faded away with those last words.

"YOU KILLED !" Naruto pointed the anger straight to Nappa.

Gohan walked forward silently his hair blocking off his anger. " !" Gohan shouted to the surprise of Krillin he never would expect Gohan to get so mad. Gohan hair ceased to cover his eyes when the boy moved his head up. Gohan's eyes pierced straight into Nappa with pure rage.

Once again Vegeta's scouter beeped several times before whirling down to silence. "Ahh! Nappa you better be careful those brats' power level is 5,000 each!"

Nappa's face became panicked. "5,000?! Impossible, there's no way that two little half-breeds could achieve that power!" Naruto and Gohan continued to look at Nappa their rage coming to its peak.

Slowly they walked towards Nappa both their eyes being shaded by the hair which had slightly overgrown over the one year of training. Naruto gripped his right fist as they were only meters away from Nappa and punched the brute across the face.

If that was surprising then Gohan's action would be jaw-dropping. The son of Goku elbowed the brute in the jaw hard enough to cause him to stumble back. Next in the two's combo came from Naruto and with a jolty stomp across Nappa face he blew said person into a mountain.

Gohan looked on at what happened still eyed with raged until he thought about something, the brutality of Nappa in fact. Memories from how every other warrior had died on the battlefield because of that.

"Naruto we have to stop." Gohan called to his friend, no longer were his eyes potent with rage now it was filled with seriousness. "If we keep going like this we'll be nothing more than him…" Gohan said with slight sadness, the demi-saiyan eyes looked towards the ground.

"Gohan… get ready to help me with something." Naruto called showing his rage had subsided. Gohan nodded and followed his friend.

Naruto now had Nappa's complete attention judging from how the brute was staring at him.

"Why do we fight even though some of us knew we might die…?" Naruto began leaving Gohan and Krillin a little confused. "It's because of Earth!" Naruto shouted.

Now everyone including Vegeta was confused they had no idea where this speech was coming from.

"Unlike you they were born here on Earth and they truly care about it, it's their home! But here I am not even being able to call this my birth-planet. Having a home doesn't mean you were born there though; it's if you have friends and family there. AND THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT I HAVE! SO I WON"T LET YOU…" Naruto put his hands on his forehead and began concentrating a huge amount of Ki into it. "HURT MY HOME!" Naruto pushed his hand straight out to release a huge yellow Ki energy wave that made way to Nappa.

Gohan smiled at Naruto for those words suddenly now Gohan was really happy. 'Naruto said his home's Earth so does that mean he's staying here?' Gohan thought hoping his answer was correct.

Back to Nappa the brute was put into a panic state and out of instinct, he released a mouthed energy

wave to counteract Naruto's.

Vegeta's scouter beeped from the reading he was getting on Naruto's current power. 'His power level has stabilized at 5,750 that's still not enough to take out Nappa but if the other one joins in then… Nappa has leaded himself to his own defeat by underestimating them.' Vegeta thought with interest they were starting to exceed his predictions as well.

In the beam struggle Nappa seemed to be taking advantage of the situation due to his slightly higher power than Naruto. "Gohan you have to help me." Naruto called to his friend, bringing Gohan out of his thought.

"Right!" Gohan charged an amount of Ki very similar to Naruto's and fired allowing their attacks to combine and continue in the beam struggle with Nappa. Now they had the huge overwhelming advantage against the brute and within second their energy wave pushed pass Nappa's and engulfed him.

"NOOOOOOOO!" Screamed Nappa before the yell faded away like darkness as the sun rises.

A bright light emitted from the collision of the attack blinding Naruto and Gohan's eyes. When the light had dispersed the only remains were smoke and rumble Nappa was gone.

Naruto and Gohan looked at each other not knowing what to do next until their heads snapped to behind them.

""No way!" Krillin exclaimed also looking behind him.

Right behind the remaining Z-Fighters was a man dressed in a rather familiar orange gi outfit, not only that but his hair was spiking towards the sides and one strand sticking out near the top.

"Sorry I was late everyone." The man apologized.

Krillin, Naruto and Gohan felt like crying out of joy now.

"GOKU!"

**As the battle with Nappa closes with Naruto and Gohan releasing a gigantic energy wave to finish him a new battle arrives just around the corner. And this time their opponent is the cool, collected Saiyan Prince Vegeta. Just what power lies within him and will the demi-saiyans newfound power aid in this battle? Find Out Next What Lies Within!**

**A/N: How'd everyone like this chapter to me I felt it was sloppy compared to my other two but surprisingly I exceeded my original predictions of my word count by 1k! Anyways besides that we finally have a good measurement of Gohan and Naruto's power so far.**

**Naruto: 5,000**

**Gohan: 5,000**

**And by the power levels I mean base power not while charging up technique, which by the way the techniques they used will be dubbed Ultimate Masenko. Make sure to remember that since the power levels are different that you can expect some major changes coming. Of course also their powers are very similar due to the fact they were both trained by Piccolo during the same time. Be sure to check my profile every once and a while because I usually show the status for the current chapter in percentage. Also lastly but not least I'm thinking about doing the movies if I ever get to that part I my story. Ex: Cooler's Revenge during 3 years before Androids appears. They'll be some I'll skip because frankly they are kind of stupid to me cough*Wheelo* cough. So basically that's all for now! Thanks for the support guys keep it up! ^~^**


	4. All Over! The Decisive Battle Ends!

**What Lies Within Chapter Four: All Over! The Decisive Battle Ends!**

**A/N: Thanks for all the support guys keep it up. **

Gohan ran up to his father and tackled him into a big hug. They're waiting was over they could finally fight with their strongest warrior. Goku smiled as he ruffled Gohan's hair. Krillin ran up to Goku's side and panted.

"You're finally here…" Krillin's smile was evident.

Goku gave a giant grin to his best friend before turning his head to a blond who stood far away from the rest of them. Naruto Uzumaki felt really awkward right about now, I mean he didn't even know what to do and unlike Gohan and Krillin he didn't really know Goku.

"Hey Naruto don't you want to say hi to me?" Goku called to the blond and signaled him to come over. When Naruto did get to Goku he bended and greeted causing Goku to burst out laughing. "There's no reason to greet me like that." Goku calmed down and put his hand down on Naruto's head and ruffled it. "You're a good kid don't stress yourself." Naruto hesitantly nodded at Goku's words and now looked at the seriousness in the warrior's face.

"So Yamcha, Chaiotzu, Tien, and Piccolo they all died… huh?" The three nodded causing Goku to grit his teeth. "Darn it I was too late! Wait wasn't there another Saiyan." Goku's attention changed to Vegeta who smirked.

Vegeta moved up closing his distance from Goku before stopping only a few yards away. "Why don't you ask the runts Kakarot?" Ignoring Vegeta call him by his Saiyan name Goku looked at Naruto and Gohan.

"We sort of killed him." Naruto spoke out awkwardly. Gohan nodded looking at his dad. He knew that Goku was about to have a really disappointed face at those words but what actually happened was pretty surprising for everyone.

"HAHA No way! I knew you two had gotten strong but I never thought you two alone would be able to take one of them out. Nice job!" Goku put out both of his hands and allowed the demi-saiyan to give him a hi-five.

"But aren't you mad that we killed him?" Gohan asked his father.

"It's OK, I know you both did it for the sake of Earth and by the way Naruto I think it's great that you're making Earth your new home."

"Huh?" Naruto blankly spoke he had no idea how Goku had any idea that he had said that. One thing was for sure was that Goku was full of surprises.

"So from what I heard your name is Vegeta?" Goku stood up from his position and approached the smaller Saiyan.

"The one and only." Vegeta was still smirking with pleasure.

"Naruto, Krillin, Gohan I want all of you to head back to Master Roshi's house I'll settle this alone." Goku told the other with authority, this time he was for real.

"But dad we can help you." Gohan pleaded.

"Gohan's right we're stronger now we can help!" Naruto supported.

"No buts now go!"

"Goku's right guys we should leave we'll only get in the way… he won't be able to protect us and fight to the fullest at the same time." Krillin said trying to wave away Gohan's and Naruto's thoughts.

Naruto and Gohan looked at each other with a slight glint in their eyes before nodding their heads. The then picked themselves up from the ground via flying and headed to the Kame House. Krillin followed slowly and looked back to see Goku and Vegeta conversing slightly before they flew off to another spot.

"Alright then we better go follow them." Krillin spoke breaking the silence. They looked at him with faces of shock and Krillin knew exactly what they were currently thinking. "Come on I know you two wouldn't just give up that easy, I've been a youngster too before." Krillin said raising his pointer finger.

Naruto smiled at approached Krillin. "You're the best Krillin!"

Gohan approached Krillin as well with a smile. "Thanks for all the help Krillin!"

Krillin smirked once again following the two demi-saiyans to where Goku and Vegeta's fight would begin. "I know, I know."

-Kame House-

"That was incredible!" Roshi screamed. "I never thought those two could pull it off."

Bulma was in complete shock too, she was wearing the scouter that had been used by Raditz so she could read their power levels. "5000…" She said in a dazed voice.

"Gohan's so strong now!" Chi-Chi spoke with pride, she didn't want him to fight but she would acknowledge his growth in strength well at least not in front of him.

"Who would've known the old coot was right about Naruto he really does want to make Earth his home." Oolong spoke almost unbelievably.

Now you may be wondering how they were watching the rest of the events taking place, it was pretty easy in ways with the help of an old woman and a crystal ball.

Fortuneteller Baba levitated around her Crystal Orb and continued to watching the events. "Quiet, quiet everyone it seems those two kids are following Goku and the Saiyan."

"Gohan!"

-Gohan-

The black haired demi-saiyan sneezed as his flight wavered slightly. "I think I'm catching a cold."

"Don't worry Gohan someone's just talking about you." Naruto said with a smile.

"Hehe probably Chi-Chi…" Krillin chuckled before he stopped abruptly. 'They're probably watching us right now so…. Ah Chi-Chi's going to kill me!' He thought.

"You ok Krillin?" Gohan asked.

"Yeah everything's ok!" Krillin said a little hastily, the demi-saiyans raised an eyebrow but shrugged it off, Krillin sure was weird sometimes.

Within minutes the trio could see that faint of familiar outlines of Goku and Vegeta. It seemed that the fight had already begun so the three lowered themselves to the ground and rested behind a bolder.

"Man I'm exhausted…" Naruto groaned, after hours of fighting this was the first time he even had the chance to sit down.

Gohan and Krillin were too busy focusing on Goku's fight to notice Naruto. It was at this point that they could tell that Goku worked his hardest in the afterlife. He was fighting like never before and busting out every technique he could.

"Hey it looks my dad is winning!" Gohan spoke with complete joy.

Naruto turned his head to look at the battle and it did look like Goku was winning… at first. Naruto's viewpoint caused him to tilt his head slightly into a wondering position, making him look somewhat childish. "Something's not right…"

"What do you mean? Goku's kicking that guys' butt! Haha get'em Goku!" Krillin's battle optimism seemed very apparent and strong to Naruto.

Naruto opened and closed his eyes and looked back at the fight a second time. 'There's just something wrong.' He thought again and again but no matter how many times he looked he just couldn't tell what it was.

Goku took a deep breath on the pillar of rocks he stood on unaware that his battle was being viewed. Goku slightly smirked, 'Man this guy's tough , no matter how many times I knock him down he gets back up… but even when things look this bad I'm really excited!'

Naruto looked at Goku and sub-consciously could tell that he was smirking and odd as it he loved the battle, every minute of it. Naruto was awe-inspired by Goku already at this point there was just no words to describe him. He was finally getting a clear view at why everyone was so dependent on Goku.

"Kaioken!" Goku yelled the name of a new learned technique.

"Man our training is nothing compared to Goku's."

Vegeta's scouter beeped again indicating the change of his opponent's power level. He smirked witnessing the increase.

'Looks like he has a few tricks up his sleeve too.' The atmosphere surrounding the fighters intensified, as both stared each other down, allowing silence to enter the area.

"Now then shall we end our warm up then?" Vegeta said still keeping his cocky voice and smile.

"Alright then no holding back!" Goku replied and gave a fierce fighting smile.

Naruto was watching with very attentive eyes. 'I don't know why but I'm really excited for this.' The answer to this probably would only be known by those with the knowledge of saiyans. Naruto's Saiyan blood was finally starting to slightly show, the excitement for battle was coursing through his veins.

-Afterlife-

In the afterlife King Yemma gave a huge sigh as he finished signing in the final casualties of Nappa's city explosion, it wasn't easy signing in so many people at once much less doing it for what feels like an eternity. It was then that the giant ogre's attention was brought to the entrance where four men stood.

"You guys are Piccolo, Tien, Chaiotzu, and Yamcha right?"

Each of the now known people gave different replies. They wore what they had during the battle with the Saiyans but also had a new feature… their halos. Yep, they were dead and this time there was no way to revive them, not with Piccolo dead.

"So I guess you guys want to go meet King Kai?"

"Huh?" They all very bluntly replied.

"You don't know who he is… didn't Kami tell you that he trained Goku just a while ago."

"Wait you mean the training for battling the Saiyans?!" Yamcha exclaimed with complete shock.

"Now that I think about it shouldn't we have lost our bodies?" Tien questioned.

King Yemma was frustrated by now, it was a really long day and he didn't feel like answering anymore questions. "Just proceed along this way your questions will be answered later." Three people left leaving one person behind. "Piccolo what are you still doing here?"

"I have a personal question for you." He said in a stern voice.

Yemma sighed from what he had heard Piccolo was as stubborn as they could get so he would answer. "Continue…"

"After I died what happened?" Piccolo asked trying not to even let any seeps of interest leak out.

"Those two kids you trained, what were their names, Gohan and Naruto… they became enraged from what I heard. They got so angry that their power increased. That's when that Naruto kid started saying something about making Earth his home… that's when the two of them blasted a technique to destroy that Nappa guy."

Piccolo was already gone by the end of what Yemma was saying, and he was smirking maybe even bordering a smile at what he heard. 'Naruto, Gohan you better not die anytime soon.' It just went to show that even strict and stern masters had soft spots for their students.

-Goku-

Goku gave a hard punch to Vegeta's gut in turn causing his opponent to move into a fast counter, in the form of a Ki disperse pushing Goku away. The two moved up close to each other and engaged in a furious clash of punches and kicks. Gohan wasn't sure whether the battle was getting to them or if they truly didn't because his dad and Vegeta weren't dodging the other's attacks.

"They just keep going back and forth." The commentary had come from Krillin. Naruto silently nodded in agreement he was starting to understand what he saw before.

'Gohan's dad and Vegeta's fight they both are fighting equally.' Naruto was sure of it but something else wasn't right Vegeta was slowly but surely gaining an upper hand.

"Gohan..." Naruto whispered so only he and Gohan could hear it.

"Yea?"

Naruto wasn't sure how to continue , it wouldn't be easy to tell his friend that his dad looked to be losing but luckily his and Gohan's attention turned back to the fight to see Vegeta begin a major counter.

Vegeta breezed through a kick from Goku and brought his fist into Goku gut. Goku staggered backwards in a dazed state allowing Vegeta to proceed into another attack. A double axe handle brought Goku straight into the ground, right near Gohan, Naruto, and Krillin!

A thick layer of smoke covered Vegeta view of Goku but he already knew that the damage had been done. His cocky smirk plastered itself upon his face as he levitated from above.

The trio hid knowing full well that Goku was bound to spot them. Naruto head poked out to see Goku lying on the floor looking helpless and Gohan resisted the urge to rush out and help his father, though when he slowly stood back up something from the corner of his caused his head to pop to their direction.

The thing he spotted was a tuff of blond hair and Naruto knew it was over. "Naruto?"

Naruto not being one to try and act like he wasn't there stood up and approached Goku. "G-Goku-san…" Naruto stuttered ready to feel the wrath of a pure-Saiyan.

Goku frowned at Naruto using the honorific but replaced the look with anger. "Naruto what are you doing here! I told you to head back with Gohan and Krillin to Master Roshi's!" Naruto looked his head down in shame but brought his face up again to respond to Goku.

"I came here to help! I just don't think its right to let only one other person fights by themselves because if that's how it is everyone else will just be weak forever and if you want to save your precious people weak isn't an option."

Goku could respect Naruto for doing that because truthfully his heart was in the right place but on another hand Goku didn't want them to fight to lower the risk of them getting hurt.

From where Gohan and Krillin were standing Gohan was making approaches to reveal himself to his father but Krillin insisted otherwise.

"Wait a minute Gohan we have to hide; your dad doesn't know we're here and the less he knows the better so he can fight better." Gohan sighed and moved his sight between Goku and Naruto before he gave up trying to free himself.

Gohan felt his wild hair that grew from the one year flick to the side from the wind. The wind was picking up quickly as he looked to see Naruto move back and the smoke that one was present vanished.

Goku once again stared Vegeta from below. "I see you took your time." Goku raised an eyebrow wondering whether he was implying that he heard their conversation but shrugged it off and began to get back on the assault.

Goku slightly eased his muscles before he removed the layers of his shirt. This now in turn showed just what physical looks Goku had gained through training and it was surely showing off.

"KAIOKEN X2!" Goku screamed and let brilliant red Ki wash over his body. With blinding speeds the warrior approached Vegeta and swung his held back arm. Vegeta who hadn't braced for the impact was sent flying across the field only to them be knocked downwards from a kick to the chin.

The battlefield as trembling at Goku's power, rocks broke apart and flew into the sky giving clues to aftershocks of Ki output.

Goku dashed to get behind Vegeta and released a prepared Ki blast that made direct contact. Goku heaved a giant held breath as he lowered himself to the ground he wasn't sure if he could keep it up and somehow protect Naruto all at the same time.

His head moved up to see Vegeta infuriated face, he was humiliated by what he called a "low class" any normal Saiyan would understand but then again Goku wasn't normal.

'Who think he'd be able to draw blood from a noble!' Vegeta thought in rage. 'No I can't let him live I'll destroy him and this entire planet!"

"I won't let you get away not after what you've done to me! I take you and these whole planet out in one go!" The prince's hand moved behind him in a similar and different position of the stance for the Kamehameha. "I"LL TURN YOU INTO SPACE TRASH! GALICK GUN!" And out of nowhere a purple Ki wave forced itself out of Vegeta palm causing Goku's eye to widen.

"I only have one choice. Body don't fail me now! KAIOKEN X3!" Goku yelled and could tell that somewhere into the otherworld King Kai was cursing. Goku now took the position of the Kamehameha and charged up as much pure and concentrated Ki as he could see that the Vegeta's Ki wave was approaching.

"KAMEHAMEHA!"

Goku blue Ki wave blazed into the sky and met with Vegeta's galick gun causing the two's waves to clash and enter a beam struggle and even though Goku's wave was released he would have to keep adding energy until Vegeta either gave up or he dominated it.

Naruto and Gohan both were put in awe from the flashing show of techniques and power. They were beginning to realize the massive difference between everyone's powers. The Kamehameha seemed to be a very strong move and both of them hoped to learn it.

"So cool!" The both said in sync with utter awe, if one would looked close enough and managed to block out the immense light from the attacks they would see stars in their eyes. It was due to their shock that they didn't notice Goku's attack being pushed back showing that Vegeta was gaining the advantage.

Goku was never one to panic in situations like this so he managed to try the first thing that came to his battle-weary mind boosting the Kaioken. "Forgive me King Kai. KAIOKEN X4!" The new boost in power was also displayed in the Kamehameha as the blue Ki wave was given a bigger pump of energy.

Naruto and Gohan watched with amazement as Goku's new powered Kamehameha pummeled through the Galick Gun and hit Vegeta dead-on. Goku finally let go of his energy wave and let it move Vegeta into the sky.

"Goku you did it!" Krillin shouted to his lifelong friend. He rushed up to him with a huge amount of relief. "I never doubted you not for one moment.

"K-Krillin?"

Next was Gohan who grinned at what he saw. "Dad!" Goku's face was bewildered now at the happy faces of everyone. "What are you guys doing here?"

"We wanted to help you Goku but it seems you took care of it yourself." Krillin wholeheartedly said with a smile.

"I didn't know you guys were here." A slightly husk voice called from behind them.

"Yajirobe, I didn't expect you to try and help us, much less try and fight." Krillin said while taking up and humorous face.

"Well that doesn't matter now, what does matter is that Goku took out that Saiyan guy." The now confirmed Yajirobe spoke.

"Yea that was awesome!" Naruto shouted with stars in his eyes, even after training he was still a kid.

"You guys don't really believe that I finished do you?" Goku questioned with concern. "Because he's not done yet." Goku took several deep breaths.

"What do you mean dad you just hit him with that attack?" Gohan questioned.

"Now not the time to discuss this, get out of here before it's too late." Goku warned before his head moved towards the sky.

"It's too late for that." Vegeta's voice carried. "I knew you would be planning for our arrival but I had no idea you would so far as to destroy the moon itself."

"I didn't destroy the moon."

" did right Naruto?"

"Yep but he never told us why."

"Who would've known that explains why I haven't seen the moon for so long."

Vegeta comically grew a vein on his head. "Stop ignoring me!" He barked and everyone's attention turned to him. "It's too bad that we Saiyans have the ability to create artificial moons. You're going to be wishing that you still had your tail Kakarot." Vegeta in a swift motion brought his hand upwards around his chest level and concentrated. Only seconds later a white orb of Ki manifested in his palm. Vegeta motioned his hand upwards and launched the orb into the sky and with a close of his hand the orb expanded.

Everyone looked upwards as Gohan and Naruto's tail sub-consciously wagged with curiosity. Vegeta's smirk carried on to the group as he began to change similar as when Naruto and Gohan had during their training.

Vegeta's mouth moved outwards and grew sharper teeth while his body expanded to great heights. Fur already had accumulated across his whole body. Krillin's eyes grew wide at the familiar sight, a sight he had saw what seemed to happen thousands of years ago even though the memory was still very vivid.

Within minutes Vegeta's transformation was done as Goku, Krillin, and Yajirobe looked on with complete shock.

"Gohan, Naruto get away now!" Goku yelled but his shout fell on deaf ears. He turned to Naruto and Gohan but saw that they were standing motionless while looking at the artificial moon created by Vegeta.

Krillin turned too looked at them too and once again his eyes grew wide. "No way!" Krillin yelled as his line of sight led to Naruto and Gohan's tails.

Krillin moved to snap the two out of their trance but it was too late fur already was growing on their body, and they were increasing in size.

"What the?"

Vegeta took a chance to see why everyone's attention had switched and gained a shocked look at what he saw. 'Those runts had tails!' Vegeta thought and mentally cursed himself, now on the battlefield stood three giant apes and three normal-sized people.

We have to get as far as possible right now!" Krillin yelled. Goku looked at Krillin questioning his choice of actions but Krillin continued. "I'll explain later so come on." With that the two flew away from the sight both concerned about the turn of events with Yajirobe far from the battlefield already.

In the center was the calm before the storm, nobody was moving and everything was quiet. Vegeta was sub-consciously sweating, he could handle one but facing two Great Apes was a whole other league of its own including the fact that they probably didn't have any control.

Though their clothes were ripped and most distinguishable features of them were gone there was still one trait which made to easily indentify which was Gohan and which was Naruto. Whisker-marks, a patch of fur was noticeably darker in three areas on each cheek, which imitated Naruto's whisker-marks.

"Krillin you known what happened?" Goku asked and received an answer in the form of a nod.

"Let's see where I should begin…"

Only a minute after Krillin finished explaining Goku's previous transformations over the years Goku was finally piecing some things together. 'So that's why Grandpa told me never to look at the full moon, I must have been the one who killed.'

"Goku?"

"I'm going in there to help I don't want anything to happen to Naruto and Gohan especially now that the Dragon Balls are gone now." Goku stood up and flew back into the center of the battlefield with a serious look. He approached the two apes which were Gohan and Naruto and spoke. "Gohan, Naruto it's me!" Gohan and Naruto stood silent while Vegeta looked on with curiosity. "You guys have to keep control-"But Goku's words were brought to a stop by Naruto bringing down his now giant hand at Goku knocking the pure-Saiyan down.

Naruto and Gohan began pounding their chest just as an ape would do and roared. The battle was finally starting.

Gohan jumped in the air and moved his ape-like body towards Vegeta. When he was much closer to him he swung his arm down to attack but was parried by a grab courtesy of Vegeta. The Saiyan who now had grasped of the situation literally pushed Gohan backwards and opened his mouth.

Naruto who still stood where he first stood began moving upwards at a weirdly fast pace. For a giant ape he sure was fast to say the least. The demi-saiyan ape didn't stop as he approached Vegeta and tackled him down to the ground. As odd as it was it seemed as if Naruto and Gohan nodded at each other before turning their attention back to Vegeta.

It was a pretty amazing sight: Even in a new form with not the least ounce of self-control the two's demi-Saiyans friendships held strong.

"You runts, I'll get you for that!" The ape Vegeta shouted. He held his mouth wide open and allowed Ki to concentrate in that area right before a condensed blast of Ki shot out of his mouth. The ape resembling Naruto took the blast head on. Smoke appeared and by the time it disappeared the demi-Saiyan was still walking towards Vegeta.

Behind Naruto the ape Gohan opened his own mouth and launched a Ki blast of his own. Vegeta the alleged target easily deflected the attack. Though something collided with his face anyway, Naruto's fist.

By the time Vegeta put the piece together it was already too late as Naruto and Gohan's counterattack began. Naruto grabbed Vegeta hand and swung it to the side causing the Saiyan noble to be tossed over in that direction.

Vegeta laid helpless on the floor with no defense or any means of helping himself in the very likely case of Naruto and Gohan attacking him.

Gohan turned the opposite way of Vegeta and picked up a normal-sized rock for a giant. Throwing it allowed him to make direct contact with the prince.

'Damnit.' Vegeta cursed. It was his one miscalculation that caused him to be currently losing: he hadn't expected anyone other than Goku to be on the battlefield especially the demi-Saiyans. Now because of that he was suffering the consequences of his own. 'Wait, that's it!' Vegeta thought as a cocky smirk grew on his face. 'We'll see who's roaring after this.'

The pure-Saiyan's hands moved in to the side and glow a soft purple aura before once again a purple Ki wave shot out of it. The attack wasn't strong enough to take out either of the demi-saiyans but it got the job done of distracting the two. The ape in Saiyan armor stood up with a grunt. The pain Vegeta had been inflicted in battle was catching up… fast.

Over to the sidelines were still Goku and Krillin, their eyes were intensively focused on the battle. "Man, I wish I could help out but I can't really do anything against a giant ape."

"Yea, I know I wish I could help to but… ugh." Goku's attempts at standing up were futile that slam from Naruto really dealt some damage. "But I really can't do anything right now; our best bet is to leave everything up to Naruto and Gohan." The idea of course didn't sit well with Goku himself but there was no other possible solutions all he could do know were hope that Naruto and Gohan can help him out of this mess.

Vegeta darted upwards to slam Naruto in the ground and succeeded slightly. Though the throw he just made was a success Naruto managed to slip slightly causing Vegeta to wobble, once again leaving him wide open. 

He felt something come in brute contact with his body, turning his falling body to the side he saw Gohan tackle him. Though if Vegeta was angry he didn't show it because the noble just raised his hand in the air and began an attack. Quickly a condensed wave of Ki moved into the sky but oddly wasn't aimed at Gohan nor Naruto, its target was the artificial moon Vegeta had created less than a half-hour before.

Vegeta chuckled loudly as he began to shrink his plan had succeeded. 'Now that that cursed moon is gone I can take every single one of them out.' He had to admit it would be easier taking them out in his Great Ape form but with Naruto and Gohan those chances were definitely lowered.

Speaking of the two demi-Saiyans both were laid on the ground unconscious, with clothes on. This was surprising since their Ape transformation size increase caused their clothes to be ripped to shreds but it was probably just an after-effect of Piccolo continuously using his "Clothing Materialization" technique.

Vegeta slowly walked up to Gohan and Naruto holding a cocky smirk like he had just won the whole battle. But most people would think the same thing, Krillin, Goku, and Yajirobe were M.I.A, Gohan and Naruto were unconscious and all the other Z-Fighters were either to weak or dead.

"I'll kill both of you right now!" Vegeta shouted his intentions. He picked up Naruto by the scruff of his neck scarf and moved his Ki infused hand backwards. "Now die!" The hand moved in a straight line to Naruto's chest but the attack was stopped when someone grabbed his it.

"I won't let you hurt my friend." Gohan's voice travelled.

"So you want to die first, so be it!" Vegeta moved his arm out of Gohan's grasp and pushed it to take a fatal blow.

"I won't let you hurt anybody precious to me!" Naruto's voice called.

'What how is this possible most Saiyans with no control on their Great Ape form usually are rendered unconscious after going back to normal.'

Gohan and Naruto jumped back from Vegeta and took stances much better than their sloppy stances before Piccolo's training. Vegeta hid any surprise or shocked emotion on his face and replaced it with his smirk.

Naruto smirked as well and ran up to Vegeta in a quick motion. With the snap of his hand a fist trailed to hit Vegeta's gut but was parried with the grasp of his arm. Vegeta used his other arm to hit Naruto in the face but Naruto's other arm came to block the attack. The two were at a stronghold with both their arms in grasp of their opponent. Vegeta was knocked to the side from a kick from Gohan moving him away from the two of them.

Vegeta would have to change his tactics to take the two of them on at once, when one was in trouble the other would come to attack the distracted enemy and bam they would have a great counterattack. He would have to separate them before going into a full offense.

Gohan moved up to land another kick but it was blocked by Vegeta's arm, the two went into a parry of attacks. Back and forth they went; kick and punches landed at minimal rate but the damage would still leave some effect.

Naruto moved in on Gohan's side and entered the parry turning it into a 2-on-1. The rate of punches and kicks which landed increased for Naruto and Gohan but decreased for Vegeta. The parry continued for only a few more seconds before Vegeta extended both of his arms towards them.

A light sound of Ki charging in his hands was heard and Gohan and Naruto finally caught a clue of what was happening but it was too late. The purple Ki blast hit both of them head on which in result brought up a thick layer of smoke.

All three of them split away leaving every single one of them wide open but Vegeta had a larger advantage with the experience factor and having dealt with situations like this before. Vegeta moved in close to the unaware Gohan who held his guard up. Vegeta stood right in front of him and ducked down and leaned a fist back. In a smooth and silent motion he landed an attack on Gohan's gut and proceeded with another which made Gohan fly across the battlefield literally not knowing what hit him.

Vegeta took a chance to look at his chipped armor and cursed inwardly. 'I'll kill every last one of them.' Now that Gohan was out it would be much easier to take out Naruto.

Goku looked at the current events of the battle with concern, it was lookijg pretty bad at this rate and after the artificial moon was destroyed it just made everything worse.

"Goku you have to have some other thing you learned from that King Kai." Krillin asked, he didn't want be negative but at this rate things weren't looking good.

Vegeta moved in to finish off Naruto before the smoke wore off and it wasn't hard to find the blonde. Quickly he slammed his fist into Naruto's gut and launched him away just as the smoke dispersed.

Naruto and Gohan were down for good this time or Vegeta thought. He turned his head back to Naruto and saw a thick pillar of dark red-orange Ki shoot into the sky.

"What the hell is that?" In less than a second a red blur moved in front of Vegeta and it would be easily identified as Naruto with a few physical changes. For starters his whisker-marks were much more visible, his hands had sharp nails, his teeth became sharp, his eyes became red, and his pupils were slits. The most noticeable trait was that dark red Ki surrounded his whole body.

Naruto roar shook everybody's ears. Naruto brought his right hand up and quickly brought it down right in front of Vegeta causing a large gash to appear on Vegeta's chest. The Saiyan prince to fell down to the ground unconscious.

Naruto didn't stop as he gave another ear shattering roar and began tearing up anything in his sight of the battlefield.

"Goku what's happening?!" Krillin shouted and questioned, he was relieved that Vegeta was out but now that Naruto was going berserk everything was askew.

"Krillin buy me sometime." Goku quickly said with a serious face.

"Wait Goku you know what's happening?!"

"Yes but now isn't the time to be explaining things now go before he does something else." Goku addressed. Krillin went on to quickly go into action while Goku extended both his hands into the air and closed his eyes. 'Please give me some of your energy.' Honestly Goku didn't want to use this technique on anyone especially a comrade but King Kai had told him the danger of the situation they were now in and he didn't want anyone to get hurt because of it.

"Hey Naruto!" Krillin shouted only a little far away from Krillin. "It's me Krillin!" Naruto didn't give any attention and continued destroying the land. This kept up for several minutes until Krillin had had enough of it and launched a Ki blast at Naruto.

Naruto's head snapped over to Krillin causing the bald man to move backwards while sweating bullets. "Remember me Naruto it's good ol' Krillin the best guy in the world." But of course Naruto didn't recognize him.

Naruto moved in to grab Krillin but his head turned behind the bald man just in time. Krillin's eyes wandered to where Naruto was looking before he spotted Goku with white Ki surrounding his hands.

"Krillin move out of the way!" Goku yelled, Krillin held no objections and followed. "It's a Spirit Bomb and you're going to eat it!" Goku yelled and launched what could be one of his most powerful attacks.

Naruto looked at the White irregular shaped Ki attacks and did nothing even though alarms in his body were going off. When it collided with him sparks flew! His body was lifted sky high until he disappeared from sight. Only a few seconds later Naruto's body came crashing down to the ground without any of the new features he had just gotten.

"It's finally over." Goku sighed before falling down to the ground on his own, that battle sure made him tired and now that the battle was concluded he would be taking some rest.

Krillin followed along and was knocked out cold too he had taken some major damage in that battle even though it wasn't anything compared to Naruto, Gohan, or Goku's damage but it still hurt like hell.

Had Krillin or Goku been awake for a minute longer they would've seen Vegeta reach into his pocket and pull out a remote and click a button. "To be beaten by a Low Class and a Hybrid." Vegeta thought out loud too weak to show any of his anger.

His space pod appeared in a matter of minutes. He crawled into it and looked at Naruto before noting his blond hair. It oddly resembled something he had seen as a kid but he cast it aside.

"I'll get Kakarot and that brat another day." And with that the space pod flew into the sky and left the atmosphere.

That day Vegeta swore vengeance upon the Saiyan known as "Kakarot" A.K.A Goku and the Demi-Saiyan Naruto Uzumaki.

**A/N: So that's the end of the Saiyan Saga and the next chapter will be Post-Saiyan and Pre-Namek. Somewhere during this chapter I dropped a major hint at something that will be revealed further along the story so I hope you caught it. Also, about doing the movies when they come along I've decided I'm definitely doing it because some of them will be having a major impact on the story. That's all for now so remember to keep supporting the story. **


	5. Find Dragon Balls! Destination: Namek!

**What Lies Within Chapter Five: Search for the Dragon Balls! Destination: Namek?!**

**A/N: Thanks for all the support guys! **

Naruto's eyes fluttered for a few seconds before they rested again. 'I don't feel like getting up right now.' Naruto Uzumaki thought as he snuggled in bed. 'What's this?' He opened his eyes to see that he was in a hospital room. 'When did I get here?' The hospital room looked extremely similar to the one back in Konoha.

'Weren't we fighting those Saiyans?' The questions just came coming up and it was starting to hurt his head. So standing up he realized he was bandaged all across his body. He peeled one of to see what wounds he had gotten. 'Wonder why they put bandages when it doesn't look like I got any wounds.'

The demi-Saiyan moved to exit his room before he was stopped by someone entering the door. "Krillin!" Naruto shouted with a grin. Like Naruto he was in a hospital gown and he had bandages but he also had crutches.

"Seems like you're awake Naruto." Krillin gave a smile of his own back too. "Now come on let's go to the other room, Gohan was pretty worried about you." Naruto gave a sincere smile he was only awake for a minute but it felt so peaceful it was something he wasn't use too.

"Wait Krillin is anyone else there?" Naruto asked as they quickly approached the door.

"Yea some of them really want to meet you." Nodding his head Naruto opened the door slowly and when he looked inside he saw that the room was filled with people.

If Naruto's memory served him correctly he recognized two of them from the house he was at during the Raditz Incident.

"Naruto was awake so I decided to just bring him along with me." Krillin addressed. "Well go on introduce yourself." Krillin pushed Naruto forward by a small margin forcing the boy to do it.

Naruto bowed awkwardly before moving back up and sheepishly scratching his head. "H-Hi I'm Naruto Uzumaki."

Naruto's eyes were closed so he couldn't really see any movement but he could hear. What he heard was somebody running up to him. He opened his eyes when he felt someone pull him into a hug.

"Thank You Thank You so much!" Naruto raised his eyebrow at who was thanking him he didn't recognize her. "Thank you so much for saving my baby!" Naruto sweatdropped and then looked over to Gohan who was blushing.

"So you must be Gohan's mom." Naruto managed to talk out of the gigantic hug he had gotten.

She nodded before putting him down. "I'm Chi-Chi Gohan's mom. Thank you so much for saving my baby." Naruto guessed she was talking about Gohan.

"Mom, you're embarrassing me." Gohan said out from under the cover and Naruto gave a sincere laugh something that he hadn't done in a while.

An old man moved up to introduce him and gave a toothy smile. "Hi I'm Roshi." Naruto gave a smile back before the geezer leaned to whisper to him. "Be careful around Chi-Chi she's like a devil if you get on her bad side.

Naruto's head flicked to the side when he heard Chi-Chi pull something out and he looked to see an irregular shaped weapon known as a gun. She pulled the trigger and began shooting at the geezer giving Naruto another opportunity to laugh along with everyone else.

The next person who moved to introduce themselves was the blue-haired woman who he had seen about a year ago. The only difference now was that see had shaggy, long hair now.

"I'm Bulma…" Like Roshi she moved in to whisper to him. 'Stay away from Roshi he's bad influence." She leaned away and gave a smile before turning around and throwing the hermit who and leaned own to look at her while she had leaned down. "Roshi you pervert!" Naruto didn't understand but he laughed anyway.

When all the introductions were over Naruto moved over to sit down on a chair while the door to the room opened. He looked at who entered to see a doctor walk in and look at him.

"What the! What are you doing here?"

"Huh?"

"You shouldn't be walking around with your injuries." The doctor addressed.

"But I feel fine… see look at under the bandages." Naruto lifted up his shirt and removed the bandage to show signs of closed wounds.

The doctor's eyes widened. "But those wounds were supposed to last a week; you must have a monstrous recovery rate."

Naruto's eyes narrowed as he replied. "It's not monstrous I was just been born with it." Naruto's voice was a little harsher but the boy didn't notice it. Everyone noticed but didn't speak about it. The doctor looked at Naruto like he was crazy before rushing out of the room.

Naruto shrugged it off not noticing what had happened. "Hey speaking of the wounds we got, how did we beat Vegeta?"

"You don't remember?' Krillin said and looked to see Naruto shake his head. "You-"

"Hehe We beat him together! It's hard to explain but we all use a giant energy blast to beat him but he got away!" Goku said hastily, everyone raised an eyebrow at the story except for Gohan and Naruto who frowned.

"Man it sucks that we can't remember it." Everybody sweatdropped at how easy it was to lie to Naruto and Gohan even though it didn't feel right to keep secrets.

"Hey Krillin you said something about being able to revive the others?" Gohan questioned.

"Oh yeah, that Vegeta guy said that Piccolo and Kami came from another planet, so if Kami made the Dragon Balls on Earth isn't it possible for the "Namekians" on their home planet to make similar ones." Krillin explained.

"That makes sense but still we don't even know where their planet is even located." Bulma brought up a pretty good point.

"I guess that's my cue to come in." A distant voice said.

"Oh hey it's King Kai!" Goku exclaimed.

"That's how he sounds like." Krillin deadpanned.

"Yep, I bet you think it sounds like a perfect comedic voice." King Kai replied.

"That's one way to put it." Krillin silently said.

"Well putting my hilarious jokes aside I know the exact coordinates of the Planet Namek, the name of where Kami and Piccolo came from." King Kai continued and gave the coordinates but the only one who understood it was Bulma.

"Even if we know the coordinates we'll never be able o make it there in our lifespan! Using the fastest ship on this planet it would take over 100 years to get there." Bulma had pulled out a calculator and showed them the scientific fact not that anyone understood what bunch of numbers she inserted.

"But what if we had another ship?" Naruto brought up. Everyone looked at him like he was crazy but he continued. "There's the ship that brought me to Earth." Naruto smiled.

"And then there's the one the other Saiyan brought." Gohan spoke up.

"The only thing we have to do is bring them here but how?" Krillin questioned.

"Well I have two of them, one dropped from that Raditz guy meaning that it must be the one that brought Naruto to Earth and the other one was brought to the Capsule Corporation after discovery." Bulma said with a nod of her head.

"Still though which button brings them here?" Roshi questioned.

"I know that the big grey button self-destructs it if the control pad on the ship and the remote are the same." The blond quickly advised.

'Lucky he said that I almost pressed it.' Bulma thought as she tensed up, handling intergalactic devices wasn't easy.

"Hold on a second Bulma isn't that a pod right there?" Master Roshi asked as he pointed forward. On the T.V was a newscast reporting:

"_We still don't have any idea what type of technology was used to create it but it appears to be from another planet as the people who arrived in it had moved in from outer space…" _The newscaster said.

Naruto stared at the T.V strangely and raised an eyebrow. "Are people in a box?" He wondered out loud. The whole room sweatdropped at the reaction especially people who had known Goku when he was younger.

'He's making the same assumption that Goku made when I first showed it to him.' Bulma thought as she remembered some old memories, which was when she and Goku had just started gathering the Dragon Balls for the first time. Of course there was multiple times they had done it but that was enough reminiscing for one day.

"Oh yeah I forgot you weren't from this Planet. I guess they didn't have this type of machinery there." Krillin slightly pondered before moving on. "That's a Television or T.V for short you can watch things on it, it can entertain you, tempts you to buy things, or be informational."

Naruto nodded with excitement though the last bit of information wasn't something Naruto would do anytime soon. Everyone gave a sincere smile at Naruto's innocent curiosity even through all the fighting he was still only about five years old.

"Aha I got the right button." Bulma exclaimed with pure excitement. Everyone's eyes wandered to the newscast to see the Space Pod break through the glass and fly into the sky.

That's when Gohan came up with a conclusion. "If the pod comes to where the remote is wouldn't it go into the hospital too?" Gohan's logic seemed legit to Naruto so the demi-Saiyan nodded in agreement.

Bulma's eyes widened at how she hadn't even thought about something that was common sense. The sound of something zipping at high speeds through the sky was heard indicating that the Pod was approaching so quickly Bulma raced to throw the remote out the window and lucky for her it landed there and nobody as standing around there.

She sighed before she decided to bring back the topic of Namek not really caring about everyone looking at the Space Pod with crazy eyes. "It seems like they can only fit one person but with some modifying we can rebuild it and only use one pod. But anyway who is going to Namek?" The questioned had just dawned on everyone.

"Well Bulma you have to go or else we won't even be able to get off the planet." Krillin nodded with a slight smile.

"Well I'm not going alone!" Bulma shouted what to most people w as common sense, well at least people without a sense of adventure and for most Z-Fighters the sense was strong.

"Hehehe of course Bulma that's why I'm coming too." Krillin confirmed.

"If you wouldn't mind can I go?" Naruto nervously asked.

"Sure Naruto all you needed to do was asking." Krillin affirmed and Naruto was now grinning with pleasure before he frowned slightly.

"What about Gohan?" Naruto turned his head to his friend looking for an answer the demi-Saiyan was about to answer before someone cut him off.

"No son of mine is going to any other planet!" The voice of Chi-Chi called. "He needs to focus on his studies and going off to other planets isn't going to help isn't that right Gohan?" Naruto turned his head to his friend hoping that wasn't true plus Naruto really hated studying.

"I want to go!" Gohan shouted to his mother and Chi-Chi looked at him mouth agape. "I want to help everyone else plus I want to have fun with my friends."

Chi-Chi looked at Gohan as if he was crazy. 'My son is becoming a rebel. Wait he said something about friends!' Chi-Chi thought. That was the first time Gohan had mentioned anything about friends because frankly one year ago Gohan didn't have any especially none his age. Chi-Chi's eyes wandered over to Naruto before she closed her eyes in thought. "Alright you can go…" Chi-Chi said surprising anybody that really knew her.

"Alright!" The two demi-Saiyans exclaimed as they gave each other a hi-five. They began dancing and jumping and chanting: "We're going to Namek!" Over and over again with grins on their faces and everybody including Chi-Chi grinned, even though she gave a one that held a little glint.

"But you're going to have to study while you're there." Chi-Chi condition caused everyone to sweat drop, of course she wouldn't just let him go like that. "The same goes to you Naruto." Naruto stopped jumping around at that when a book was shoved into his arms.

_The Idiot's or Foreigner's Guide to Everything Earth_

Why she had the book no one knew.

"No friend of my son is going to be an idiot!" Chi-Chi quickly said and Naruto just nodded.

"Ending off that note factoring in the weariness and damage on the pod it should take 7 days to re-build it." Bulma smiled.

"I want to go to Namek too." Goku protested but he had suffered some far gruesome injuries then the others mainly because of his full on battle with Vegeta and the extreme usage of the Kaioken. It would take a month or two to fully recover and the Senzu Beans would only be fully grown in a little less than a month.

"Face it Goku this time you aren't doing anything but getting some rest." And with that Chi-Chi sat down next to Naruto and began knitting.

Naruto smiled at how kind everyone. 'Everyone here is really nice.'

-Vegeta-

A battle injured Vegeta seethed remembering what had happened on Earth. 'Taken down by a low-class and a hybrid.' He wondered about the whole Red Ki thing but honestly he didn't care. 'As soon as my healing is done I'm heading straight back to that retched planet.'

Vegeta's thoughts wondered back to Naruto. He held something familiar he hadn't seen in years. He held his head in frustration at the fuzzy thoughts he was getting.

_-Flashback-_

"_Vegeta hold up!" A person shouted with eagerness. Vegeta memory couldn't exactly see his face but all he could see was blond, spiky hair._

"_What do you want?" A kid Vegeta scoffed. Vegeta wore a normal Saiyan Armor except for the fact that he had a cape and the insignia near the upper right corner._

"_Want to do something fun?" The boy asked._

"_Fun? My definition of fun probably doesn't fit yours unless you want to have a spar." Vegeta replied._

"_Alright a spar sounds fun!" The boy replied, Vegeta smirked he would have fun messing with a low class._

_Only minutes later the two were panting and Vegeta could be seen smiling._

_Someone came into the room they were sparring and the younger Vegeta turned around to see a man with a decent amount of hair who looked to be a younger Nappa._

"_Vegeta what are you doing with a low-class." Nappa said._

"_Shut up Nappa! Now what's your name?" Vegeta asked the kid now seeing that Nappa's mouth was shut._

_The boy opened his mouth and spoke but no matter what Vegeta couldn't hear it._

_-Flashback end-_

Vegeta shook his head as his took his head out of the clouds. 'There's no time for that, I have to focus on recovery.' Vegeta grunted before he went to sleep he still had some time before he would reach his destination.

-Hospital-

Back on Earth the group had settled down with most of the others who weren't hospitalized returning home. Gohan had fallen back asleep after he and Krillin had learned that it would take 3 more days before they could leave while Naruto only about a day but the blond insisted on staying until Gohan and Krillin were out.

Right now the blond demi-Saiyan was watching Chi-Chi knit something. She looked over to see him watching and she smiled.

"Want me to make one for you too?" She asked and the young boy shook his head no, he didn't want her to do anything she honestly didn't want her to do."Its fine I was just about to finish one for Gohan anyway. "Now what's your size?"

"I don't know?" He blankly said. Honestly he didn't know himself.

"Haven't your parents ever told you?" She said and was surprised to see Naruto turn his head away from her. She could already feel a melancholic and tensed atmosphere rise from him.

"Mom me and Naruto…" Gohan began before he was interrupted.

"Naruto and I."

Gohan didn't really care for the moment that he had been corrected. "Naruto and I are the same size."

Chi-Chi looked between Naruto and Gohan back and forth before nodding she suspected fishy but didn't ponder on it.

Naruto looked at Gohan with a smile and Gohan gave one back before going back to bed, Naruto's life in Konoha was something he didn't feel like bringing up at least not now.

-Day later-

Naruto was now sleeping in the same hospital room with Gohan and Krillin since someone wanted to switch places as soon as possible. The blond gently slept in the bed pretty happy to let all the stress he had gotten in the battle to wash away.

It was pretty early in the morning but it wasn't visiting hours yet so Chi-Chi wasn't there. 'Wonder what's going to happen when we leave the hospital.' Naruto thought with a slight sadness his face took a frown. 'Guess I'm going to have to live in the wild now.' Naruto wasn't worried if he could handle living there but actually he would be lonely. 'At least we're going to Namek together.' And with that his thrill of adventure was replenished and when the time would come it would come.

Gohan shuffled in bed before poking his sleep head up. "Naruto are you ok?" He asked and Naruto nodded with a smile, Gohan looked back at him before giving a smile of his own and standing up.

Somehow two could perfectly tell if the other was feeling bad they didn't even need to say anything they could just tell. It was a bond only true friends could really have.

The demi-Saiyans both looked at Krillin who was snoring indicating that he was sleeping.

Gohan moved his attention to a bag filled with his clothes and pulled out something he had managed to hide. "Found it." Gohan had pulled out the gi Piccolo had given the two and put it on.

"Lucky, I couldn't find mine after I woke up." Naruto sighed and whined he really liked the gi too.

"Mine got mixed with your Gohan said with a smile as he pulled up another out of the bag and threw it to his friend.

Naruto took the gi and put it on. 'So comfy.' Naruto thought as he slipped it on and he and Gohan grinned at each other.

'Gohan want to have a spar?" Naruto asked giving a smile.

"Yep, and we can even pick off from where we left off from last time." Gohan said mentioning the spar they had had a year prior. That one ended in a tie so they were pretty eager to see what their training had done to them since they had spared before Piccolo gave them their training.

"But we can't do it in here or else people in the building will get hurt." The two grinned at that fact just showing they were stronger than the average boy. The two moved to the large balcony of the Hospital room and took stances before they began.

Gohan quickly ran forward and jumped into the sky. The action allowed his body to be semi-propelled downwards. He extended his foot downwards to do a sky kick to Naruto but the blond sidestepped and crouched down to avoid the attack.

When Gohan had made landing on the ground the blond swept his leg to the side causing his fellow demi-Saiyan to lose balance a fall. Seconds before landing on the ground Naruto directed his leg in a "roundhouse kick" motion making Gohan move into the sky. It was something he had seen Piccolo do.

Gohan moved back to the ground and dashed straight back towards Naruto aiming a punch which was quickly parried by the blond's elbow. The two proceeded to exchange a flurry of attacks which each dodged with minimal effort.

As both pushed each other away to end the exchange Gohan thrust an open palm forward which broke Naruto's guard, he felt as though some imaginary pressure pushed him away. He could see Gohan smirk again and saw him move forward and aim a punch to his face.

Gohan's attack made impact allowing the boy to continue. Gohan motioned his legs up to side kick the blond but the blond quickly caught it a flipped backwards.

The two demi-Saiyans clanked at each other before in sync they put their two hands on their forehead. They began charging Ki into their hands in a not so familiar motion.

"Ma!" They began they could both feel their capacity of energy they could power into the attack reach its limit. "Sen!" They both ceased the accumulation of energy. "Ko!" Both thrust their hands forward. "Ha!" The yellow Ki energy that had been stored up was released into energy waves.

The two waves of Ki forced themselves into each other and struggled back and forth continuously. Both demi-Saiyans kept supplying energy to their attack before they heard a shout.

"GOHAN NARUTO!" Both demi-Saiyans gulped knowing full well who had called them. It was Chi-Chi they both moved their attention from their attack to her seeing as she was right behind them.

Since their attention had turned from their Masenko to her the attacks seemingly wiggled before an explosion was heard.

Minutes later, the two demi-Saiyans lay in their respective beds rubbing their butts in pain. Needless to say Chi-Chi had given them a punishment for what they had did and as an added plus they took some damage from the Ki explosion.

"You two fought?!" Goku questioned and exclaimed. The two boys nodded.

"Who won?" Krillin asked, he was eager to know because honestly when they had fought Nappa and Vegeta they seemed to be equal.

"It was a tie." They said in unison.

Krillin nodded before speaking again. "But you didn't use your full power did you?" The two shook their heads with a light smile.

"It doesn't matter how much power they used as soon as they come back they'll be studying." Chi-Chi said still knitting. Everyone sweat dropped at what she said. Just then the door to the room was jerked open and the familiar blue hair of Bulma was in sight.

"Alright, so my Dad is rebuilding the Space Pod and he calculated the time it will take for us to get to Namek." Bulma said with pride. Naruto, Gohan, and Krillin looked at her knowing the next piece of information was going to be vital. "He said it'll take about 2 and a half weeks or 3 weeks if we have traffic."

"Bulma do you really think there is traffic in space." Krillin deadpanned while Naruto and Gohan laughed.

"Yea Yea Krillin just make sure you're prepared, you too Naruto and Gohan." Bulma said giving a smile. She exited only seconds later.

Naruto smiled. 'I can't wait to go to Namek.' He thought, he was pretty hyped for it but he could wait 5-6 more days.

-Next day-

Only a few hours ago Naruto, Gohan, and Krillin learned that they could now leave the hospital for a few hours but since they weren't scheduled to leave until the next day they would have to be back by sunset.

"Perfect timing, now you two can get a haircut." Chi-Chi said as she looked at the two's hair. Their hair was certainly longer than it was one year prior. Before their hair was pretty short not reaching lower than the back of their neck but now it reached their mid-back.

Naruto frowned at her statement. He didn't like haircuts especially the ones back in Konoha, they went pretty rough on him. Gohan sighed neutrally. It was only minutes later that Gohan and Naruto were now in casual clothes.

Gohan wore a collar black T-Shirt which was tucked into his black pants. Naruto wore something very similar though his shirt was white. Both looked like they were dressed to be semi-formal even though they were only going to a barber shop.

"Now you look like gentlemen." Krillin laughed at their attire and Goku was trying to find a chance to breath.

Only an hour later Gohan and Naruto were back and Krillin and Goku found themselves once again laughing.

Gohan's hair was now in a bow-shaped style though it reached over most of his forehead. Naruto's spiky hair remained though it was pointed slightly more downwards.

"Laugh if you want but they look like young gentlemen." Chi-Chi said as Naruto and Gohan sighed.

-Next day-

Naruto woke up with a frown on his face. It was finally the day they were scheduled to leave the hospital. 'Guess I'll have to go back to the wild.' Naruto thought.

In the blink of an eye two hours had passed and now everyone except for Goku was signed out. Chi-Chi now stood outside with Gohan and Naruto, Krillin had already flown off.

"See you in a couple of days." Naruto said giving a half-sincere, half-fake smile. He moved himself up from the ground and prepared to fly off before a hand from behind.

"Where do you think you're going?" Chi-Chi asked.

"…" Naruto didn't reply.

"If you think I'm going to let you live in the wild then you're crazy." She said. "You can stay at our house for the time being."

Naruto and Gohan grinned and laughed. "Alright!" Gohan exclaimed.

"We still have four days before we have to go to Namek we're going to have so much fun!" Gohan said with cheer. Three were in a taxi right now because walking all the way to Mt. Paozu would take years.

Naruto nodded and leaned in to whisper to Gohan. "And maybe when your mom's asleep we can train." Gohan nodded. "So do you think the Namekians are friendly?"

"If they're anything like Piccolo I'm sure they are." Gohan and Naruto's imagination began running wild. They began imagining what they looked like.

Chi-Chi chuckled at the two's active imagination and she was pretty happy for Gohan now that he was making friends. She turned around now see that they were asleep.

By nightfall the three had reached their house in the mountains. Naruto stepped in and grinned 'This place looks great!"

Chi-Chi nodded before looking at the time. "It's time for you two to go to bed." Naruto and Gohan looked at each other before going back to her.

"But we're not tired." They said in unison.

She looked at them with a stern look before sighing. "Just make sure not to stay up too long." And with that Chi-Chi went to her room and presumably fell asleep.

"Hehehe that's the first time my mom's ever let me stay up." Gohan said as they sat on the couch. The sound of a stomach growling was heard from both their stomachs and they laughed before heading into the kitchen.

Gohan opened the fridge to show a moderate amount of food in it. "I've never seen so much food in a fridge before." Gohan looked at Naruto before remembering what Naruto had told him and Piccolo.

"I guess we can help ourselves!" Gohan said as he took some food. Naruto's eyes caught something that caused his eyes to form stars.

"You guys have ramen!" He exclaimed and instantly did the preparations and put it in the microwave. It would only take those diabolical three minutes to finish. Gohan laughed remembering Naruto tell him something about ramen when they were training with Piccolo but he had never tasted it before.

"Is it really that good?"

"Yep, it's the food of the gods!" He said and grinned.

"I guess I'll try it." Gohan said and returned the grin right back.

Minutes later, Gohan and Naruto were devouring their sixth bowl of ramen.

"Ramen is pretty good!" Gohan exclaimed with cheer he was already having a lot of fun. Naruto nodded before going to wash the bowl he used.

'I want to help Gohan's mom out, she won't regret letting me stay over.' He thought with a determined attitude.

-4 days later-

"Naruto and Gohan woke up and looked at each other with faces of excitement.

'Finally the day we go to Namek.' Naruto thought with a grin.

"This is going to be awesome!" Gohan exclaimed

The two quickly dressed into their purple gi and brought their bags filled with clothes food, and books downstairs.

"Hold on you two take those outfits off this instance!" Chi-Chi screamed. Minutes later the two came back downstairs with the clothes Chi-Chi wanted them to wears. It made them look like students.

"I can see the look on Krillin's face right now." Gohan said.

Needless to say when everyone had gotten to the"Kame House" Krillin why dying of laughter. "Very young gentlemen indeed." He said before he calmed down.

Several minutes later the last occupant of the journey finally appeared Bulma.

Naruto and Gohan sweat dropped at her attire. She was wearing a spacesuit as she exited the large, rounded spaceship behind her.

"So this is the spaceship?" Gohan curiously asked. Bulma nodded.

"Well hurry up and load your thing on!" She said and with the help of the Ox King, who Naruto had found out was Chi-Chi's father, they put the things on.

"I guess this where we leave see you guys!" Krillin said as he climbed aboard.

"Be careful you two, be nice to those aliens, and study." She said amongst a bunch of other stuff. Naruto smiled Chi-Chi was treating him as if he was a son of her own even though he was residing in their house for 4 days before their journey.

"We will." Gohan said with a smile of his own. The two then entered the ship and closed the hatch.

Inside Gohan and Naruto looked in awe. 'It's so big!' They both thought.

"Alright ground…. Err…. Space rules." Bulma began. The trio looked at her before she began her list of rules. "Alright buckle." Bulma said as she clicked the button. The sound of the engine of the ship rung through everyone's ears as the ship began to shake.

"Wait Bulma we haven't put on our seat belts." Krillin slightly panicked as the three of them rushed to put it on.

Naruto and Gohan grinned at each other. They were hyped, they were going to a new planet with their friends meaning not only would it be an adventure an added plus is that they would have fun!

"But we can't forget what we're going there for." Gohan said as he gained a serious face. Naruto face became serious and he nodded as well.

"Just you wait Piccolo!" They said with determination.

The ship had finally lifted out of the earth's atmosphere and into space and this was very easy to indicate based on what the demi-Saiyans were currently doing. Naruto and Gohan laughed as they pretended to swim now that were in mid-air due to the zero-gravity.

"I could get use to this." Naruto said before he fell to the ground face first. "Ouch!"

"We're not here for fun and games." Bulma advised causing Naruto to scratch his head sheepishly and nodded in understanding. "Now that everyone understands that, my dad installed a few features into the ship." She pointed to a control panel in the middle of the room. "He installed a gravity changing devices that affects only the main center of the ship. Not sure why but only use it when I'm not there."

Everyone nodded before she continued knowing what the gravity machine could possibly do if used correctly. Bulma continued showing the lesser-interesting features of the ship before she was done.

Now the four stood lying around actually bored. Sure going into outer space was incredible but you'd have to occupy yourself.

"So bored." Gohan sighed and Naruto gave a sigh of agreement.

"Hey Naruto you mind if I ask you a question?" Krillin asked, even though technically asking one anyway. Naruto nodded he would do anything to kill some time. "What was it like back on your home planet?"

"Yea actually I want to know as well." Bulma added on.

Naruto's face tensed up and he looked down. Gohan moved in to help out his friend.

"Maybe some other time I guess." Gohan said hastily.

"It's ok Gohan I guess I should tell them." Naruto awkwardly laughed even though he wasn't in a humorous mood.

"I didn't really like the people on my planet at least the people where I lived… They were really mean to me and unfair. I didn't have any parents so I had to live in an orphanage but even then I wasn't treated." Naruto gripped his fist as if to draw blood from it.

"Sorry if I brought up bad memories." Krillin said after seeing Naruto say nothing else.

"Naruto just looked at Krillin and Bulma and smiled. "No problem, there's no reason to keep my head in the past anyways." Naruto yawned and moved to his room and went to bed.

"It's all starting to finally make sense now." Krillin noted.

"What do you mean Krillin?" Gohan asked.

"Remember what Goku told us about Naruto having some energy beast sealed within him." Bulma and Gohan didn't do anything and let Krillin continue,

"That must be why the people where he came from treated him like a monster. It wasn't even his choice whether he wanted it sealed within him though." The fighter said with slight anger. Gohan and Bulma nodded they wouldn't let their judgment of the demi-Saiyan be changed by that thing. Plus if they did that they would have ditched Goku for turning into a Great Ape years ago but they didn't.

The remaining three people yawned and decided to head off to sleep. They wouldn't ponder on that right now but it was something they would definitely tell the blond later.

Naruto woke up early the next day err night? Either way now Gohan, Krillin, and him were awake.

"I want to test out that gravity machine Goku said he got that strong due to it. King Kai's planet is 10x normal gravity." Gohan and Naruto nodded with determined grins. "Let's try it out." Within a few click of a button the monitor read 10.

The trio's eyes widened as they felt the pressure that built up on their legs trying to bring them down.

"I guess my dad was right when he said he felt like led." Gohan managed to speak out.

Naruto laughed as he tried to slowly move his body with increased weight. "This is nothing." Naruto spoke as he struggled to move his own body.

"What are you guys doing?" Bulma called as she entered the room. She felt the built up pressure and fell to the floor. "Turn it off!" She struggled to scream and needless o put Krillin followed.

"Next time tell me before you turn that thing on!" Bulma scolded.

"Yes Bulma." The trio replied now having several bumps and bruises surround their body.

Naruto Uzumaki, Son Gohan, Krillin, and Bulma Briefs knew one thing for sure; it may not be a boring trip after all.

**A/N: Now that we're done with that we now begin the Namek Saga. I'm pretty hyped for this saga and the two following ( Cpt. Ginyu and Frieza) since I already have a lot of stuff planned for it including a special. Also some of you may think that everyone going into the modified Space Pod may not really change everything but if you paid close attention you'll know that they're actually arriving to Namek earlier than in canon, and with the Gravity Machine Naruto, Gohan, and Krillin will be stronger than when the left Earth. The changes are coming slowly and slowly you just have to make sure you sense them. Also one more thing, the spaceship they currently have is slightly less modified than the one Goku went in. For one their Gravity machines can only go up to 50x and few other things. That's all for now keep up the support guys!**


	6. Filling in a Gap! Gohan's Sick!

**What Lies Within Chapter Six: Filling in a Gap! Gohan's Sick?!**

**A/N: Thanks for all the support guys! The story now has over 100 followers and favorites! Keep it up! **

Gohan grimaced as he walked through the gravity enhanced room. He along with Krillin and Naruto had successfully completed 10x gravity in less than 3 days much faster than Goku's time. The two demi-saiyans not only learned that and were taught a few tricks from Krillin.

_-Flashback-_

"_Well I think that's enough gravity training for now guys." Krillin said with a nod from the tired forms of Naruto and Gohan._

_Naruto eyes moved around a little bit before they widened with surprise. He stood up and pumped his fist up. "Hey Krillin back on Earth that move you used was so cool!" Krillin tilted his head and saw from the corner of his eyes Gohan nodding with a happy demeanor of his own._

"_Maybe you should teach us it!" The son of Goku said with complete agreement from his best friend._

_Krillin closed his eyes in thought for a while before opening them back quickly. "Alright I guess I could give you a tip or two." He jumped backwards a stretched his arm upwards. "So stretch your arm up." He looked to see both demi-saiyans imitating his pose. "Then you got to channel as much raw Ki to your body as possible."_

_Krillin slowly watched the energy build up through their arms before stabilizing. 'Guess I should give them more credit than I thought, it took me almost a year just to get the stabilization of energy correct." _

"_Last step is to imagine you wielding giant sharp disk of energy!" Krillin grinned, the "Destructo Disk" was one of his greatest techniques thus far. _

_Gohan and Naruto grit their teeth as they struggled to stabilize the energy before a small explosion occurred. Gohan and Naruto could now be seen knocked out unconscious._

_Krillin chuckled quietly as he picked up the two kids. 'Even for Saiyans energy control isn't an easy thing to accomplish."_

_-Flashback End-_

Bulma sighed as she walked in wearing her grey pair of underwear, obviously she didn't care about modesty around two children and a man. "We're still only 2 and half weeks away from it."

Naruto nodded his head in agreement as he plopped on the floor. Feeling new levels of bored he never experienced Naruto pulled out the one book he never thought he would actually get; the one Chi-Chi gave him.

"Capsule…" He read. "Store things like TV, bikes, and houses? More like magic to me." Naruto bluntly said.

"It's anywhere away from magic; I'll have you know that my father is creator of said magic." Bulma said with a mix of obnoxiousness and pride.

"That explains a lot." Naruto said with a smile and nod. Bulma raised her eyebrow to Naruto's liking. "That explains why you look like a witch." Second later Naruto was flung across the ship into a suitcase. He humorously rubbed his head and pain. "Just kidding Bulma!" He held his hands in defense before she could do anything else.

Gohan was too busy laughing to hear. Gohan quickly calmed down and took a look at the book. Fingering through the book he landed on a very interesting page. "Hey Naruto look Piccolo's also the name of an instrument."

Naruto moved behind and looked at the page and saw a small pipe with a few holes and other complex pieces. He chuckled lightly. "Haha we got to play it to him one time." Naruto and Gohan laughed but made sure to keep that idea in their head for future notes.

"Hey Naruto Piccolo's a pretty weird word." Naruto nodded. "We can make it like our secret language." Gohan smiled.

"Yeah like for opening the doors to other spaceships." Naruto and Gohan laughed at their imaginations. The two sneezed simultaneously but just shrugged it off someone had probably just been talking about them.

-Earth-

"Maybe we should give some thought about it Goku; I'm pretty sure Gohan'd like it." Chi-Chi stated as she stood bedside to Goku. "Or maybe Bulma would like to…" Chi-Chi chuckled at whatever she was talking about before moving on to something else. "I wonder what they're doing right."

Goku gave a smile. "They're probably having the time of their lives…" Goku frowned. "While I'm stuck in here." Chi-Chi sighed at Goku's antics and began to knit; it was good way to blow off some stress for her.

-Spaceship-

"Alright Naruto Gohan let's get back to training." Krillin said as he watched Bulma exit the main area. The demi-saiyans gave their temporary "master" fierce nods. "Let's crank it up to 20x now."

The pressure of the room changed… literally. You see Gravity change wasn't a simple thing. Technically gravity changes but what you actually are feeling is increased weight which you normally can't easily sustain. That's why gravity training is so important, not only does one gain more power, they also increase their speeds.

Gohan heaved quietly as he walked slowly around moving one arm up and down in a repetitive motion. 'Piccolo…' He thought as he moved. 'I hope you're watching us train.' Gohan stopped and began hitting a flurry of attacks into the air obviously at a slower rate than on Earth.

Naruto grit his teeth as he began once again focusing energy to his hands before a very familiar explosion. He gripped his fist and tried again. 'I still can't get it right…' He thought with some frustration. 

Krillin stopped from his training to look at Naruto. "Keep calm Naruto, if your emotions are running rampant than the way your energy fluctuates will be irregular." Krillin wisely mentioned. Naruto looked at the Earthling and nodded.

Krillin chuckled as he watched Naruto go right back to work. He looked over to Gohan to see the demi-saiyan firing punches and kicks like there was no tomorrow. He smiled lightly as he went back to his own training. 'If I don't keep it up they'll end up being stronger than me! Maybe they're even stronger right now!' Krillin's current thoughts were stopped as alarms blared in the trio's ears.

"AH!" They heard Bulma screamed and the three quickly rushed to check for the reason. "Bad news guys… One of the main gears of the ship broke off, if we don't re-attach it we'll be floating in space forever!" She whimpered. "I'm too young and beautiful to die!" She sobbed to the humor of Naruto, Gohan, and Krillin.

Only three minutes later the problem was solved. Turns out that not only had given them spare parts he also had installed a video communication device so that he could help them. Needless to say Gohan and Naruto were now standing in front of the screen looking at Chi-Chi.

"I hope you two have been studying." She said not to the surprise of Naruto and Gohan. The two nodded keeping the full truth that they didn't bother even opened the books she brought with exception of the I.O.F.G.T.E.E.

"Tell me the truth!" She easily screamed next causing Naruto and Gohan to slightly widen their eyes.

"…"

"…"

"Don't worry Chi-Chi I've been making sure they studied everyday!" Krillin butt in the extreme relief of Naruto and Gohan.

"Hehehe Yep -Chi we've been studying every day, right Gohan?" Naruto hastily followed along.

"Yea mother we just wanted you to be surprised to see how much we studied when we got back!" Gohan followed suit.

Chi-Chi raised an eyebrow and looked at the trio who were sweating bullets. "Alright, but you boys better continue studying." And after that with a polite smile and wave see ended what was probably the first inter-space video chat hosted from Earth.

"Thanks Krillin we owe you one." Gohan sighed allowing the breath he had not known he held escape. Naruto nodded and sat down on the floor of the main room.

"Gohan, Naruto…" A voice not belonging to anyone in the room beaconed. Naruto and Gohan head popped up at the voice though.

" ?!" They shouted.

"… Yea it's me." Piccolo replied. "I'm speaking to you through King Kai."

"Piccolo? I don't see him around." Krillin said only to be ignored by the two he was speaking to.

Naruto and Gohan looked at each other and grinned.

Seeing as they didn't reply Piccolo continued. "When you gather the Dragon Balls on Namek revive me first." Naruto and Gohan could almost swear that they could hear an argument going on after Piccolo said that.

"Of course but why?" Gohan asked with curiosity. Of course he was excited to hear from Piccolo but it was still weird that he wanted to be revived first.

"No reason." He bluntly said with as little emotion as he could. "That's all for now…. And just call me Piccolo…" That was the last thing he said causing Naruto and Gohan to grin.

-King Kai's Planet-

"I know why you want to be resurrected first Piccolo." Yamcha said with a sly smile.

"You must want to see Naruto and Gohan." Tien continued with a serious but sly smile as well.

"Looks like Piccolo has a soft spot for his students." King Kai helped in.

"S-SHUT UP! LET"S JUST CONTINUE THE TRAINING!" Piccolo shouted with an extremely noticeable blush of embarrassment on his green skin.

-Spaceship-

"So bored!" Naruto said as all the occupants of the ship lay in the main room of the spaceship. Things quickly died down after Naruto and Gohan explained everything to Krillin.

"You said it!" Krillin agreed.

"And we still have about a week till we get to Namek." Gohan informed.

"I think I'll die of boredom before we even get to Namek." Bulma added before her face brightened. "Hey I've got an idea, how about we take a quick detour and go to another planet."

"Bulma I'm not sure-" Krillin began before being interrupted.

"Alright!" Naruto and Gohan yelled with stars in their eyes. "Goodbye boredom, good bye sadness" They shouted as they danced around.

Krillin sweatdropped. 'Sometimes I wonder if I'm the only sane one on this ship.'

"I guess it's decided!" Bulma shouted with a smile. "All I have to do now is change the coordinates to the nearest planet within range." Naruto and Gohan looked at Bulma press various button in the cockpit.

"Wow, Bulma you're really smart." Gohan stated as he continued watching Bulma.

"Well, I'm nowhere near as smart as my father is." Bulma said as she slightly puffed out her chest with pride.

"What she really means is that she hasn't learned as much magic as her father." Naruto whispered to Gohan who laughed.

Bulma grew a vein on her head and flicked Naruto on the head.

"Now all we have to do is wait about a day and we'll be there." Bulma concluded before sniffing and pinching her nose, "You two stink when was the last time you two took a bath?!"

Naruto and Gohan counted their fingers and showed them to her. "Seven days." They said in unison

"That it both you into the shower now!" Bulma shouted. Both demi-Saiyans listened with no objections and headed into the bathroom and took off their clothing.

"This sure is going to be different then taking a bath in the river." Gohan said with immediate agreement from his friend. When they had to survive in the wild during their training they had to bath in the rivers which wasn't as bad as it seemed.

Bulma entered the room with rolled up pants and a t-shirt as started running the water. "Alright get into the shower."

Naruto and Gohan sighed in bliss as he felt the hot running water run into their bodies.

Bulma chuckled seeing their reactions and unconsciously let her mind wander. 'This reminds me back when Goku and I first started hunting the Dragon Balls. Back then he didn't know what a shower was.' Bulma snapped her head out of her thoughts when she looked to see the bath filled with bubbles and Naruto and Gohan swimming around in the big bathtub.

She quietly chuckled at their actions. "Alright that's enough I have to wash your backs."

"Bulma you're really nice!" Naruto said with a smile as Bulma washed his back. "You're really smart too." He continued causing Bulma to smile. "Even though you're a witch in disguise…" Bulma's smile faded away but she shrugged and continued washing his back.

"At least Gohan doesn't believe its magic."

Gohan laughed a little bit before talking. "Actually Bulma I'm starting to believe Naruto." The two boys high-fived each other before having their heads forced in the water by Bulma. She kept them in that position for while until she felt like they had enough. When the demi-saiyans head resurfaced they gasped for air.

"And for starters it's called science." Bulma sighed seeing neither Gohan nor Naruto listening to her.

-Hours Later-

Gohan yawned and shifted around in his bed before deciding to wake up. He didn't feel good at all. He kind of felt sick, he was having ulcers and his head wasn't feeling well. "Ugh." He said quietly as he held his head in pain.

Naruto yawned and stood up from his bed and stretched his arms wide before opening his eyes. Gohan quickly removed any signs of feeling bad and acted like he had just woken up as well.

Naruto gave a smile to Gohan. "Morning Gohan." Naruto said. Gohan just nodded to him before walking into the main room causing Naruto to raise an eyebrow but shrug it off.

"Well you two sure did wake up late." Krillin said and turned back to look at the newcomers.

"Yea we were waiting for you! We're almost at that planet." Bulma stated to the two.

"Guess we just slept in late." Gohan oddly replied weakly before falling to the floor unconscious.

"Gohan!' Naruto shouted and moved to the floor to look at his friend. Naruto's face grew in concern as he saw Gohan's forehead turn bright red.

Bulma moved her hand on his head and winced." His head is burning up! He's sick!"

"But how is that possible, we're floating in space millions of miles away from any civilizations?!" Krillin shouted as he picked up Gohan and placed him on the bed. Naruto continued looking on his face with concern.

"Dad!" Bulma called into a phone of sorts. Seconds later the face of appeared on the screen.

"Yes Bulma what the problem? Another piece fall from the ship?" He chuckled.\

"No time for jokes father! Gohan's sick!" She said causing 's eyebrow to rise.

"Show me the boy." He replied getting a serious demeanor. He inspected the boy before sighing. "Tell me the boy's temperature."

"104.5 degrees…" Bulma gulped.

"This isn't good." Krillin said as he gulped as well.

"Not good at all…" began. "We don't have the medicine for this one. He's suffering from a disease that oddly enough doesn't take place until a week after it first reaches contact. After a few days the victim will receive ulcers, migraines, etc. At this point if the boy is not treated within 12 hours he'll… die."

Naruto could feel his heart shattered as he fell to the ground. "That can't be." He said in denial. "Gohan's just tired from our training." Naruto moved to Gohan and shook him slightly.

"Come on Gohan wake up." He repeatedly said. The tears built up in Naruto's eyes. "Wake up…" Naruto finally said as he moved away from Gohan's bed to look at Bulma and Krillin. He began tearing up as he ran out of the room.

Bulma moved to go find the boy only to be stopped by Krillin.

"Naruto has to deal with this his own way, plus right now we need to see if there is anything we can do." Krillin advised motioning to Gohan.

-Vegeta-

"Vegeta what are you doing out of your chamber you've not fully recovered yet!" The voice of an old and alien voice called.

"I feel fine just leave me be for now, I'm just taking a stroll around if I don't feel good I'll come back." Vegeta grunted before leaving. 'Damn earthlings!' Vegeta thought as what only had happened 2 weeks prior came back into his memory. It was like a curse that wouldn't leave his head, a memory stuck on rewind.

How his pride was crushed by a hybrid! He was a prince yet he was tossed like rag doll by a kid not even 6 years old.

He held his head in anger before he remembered Naruto's hair and grunted. 'That brat he reminds me of someone but who?!' Vegeta hated mysteries especially ones he should know but he couldn't do anything about this one it was his memories and he couldn't choose when they could resurface or not.

-Spaceship-

"Naruto stand up!" Krillin demanded, he sighed seeing Naruto not follow. "You know that Gohan wouldn't want you to sit around crying and watch him die. He's even told me himself you're the last person who'd lose hope so fast." The blond didn't make a move for a while before standing up with a fierce look on his face. "That's the Naruto we know!"

The two walked back to the room to see Bulma and her father discussing something.

"Alright so we have a plan that might work so there's no need to worry." Bulma chirped with a smile. "All we have to do is check on the Planet we're approaching and see if they have the medicine containing elements that can cure Saiyans."

"Isn't that a little bit specific, I mean it's like a one in a million chance." Krillin stated.

"Do you have any other ideas then?!" Bulma shouted.

"If it's means we have a chance let's do it." Naruto said as he looked with Bulma with a smile. "We can't give up until times up!"

Krillin and Bulma smiled at Naruto's determination. The ship shook slightly and a smirk pulled on Bulma face.

"And that's our stop!" She said. "Alright so the plan is to look for any people who know if there's anywhere we can find some medicine you hear?" By the time Bulma finished her sentence the two had already moved to open the hatch of the ship.

-Vegeta-

Vegeta moved to the southern part of the semi-planet. It was an abandoned sector so barely anyone came over so it would give him a chance to rest his mind.

"What the?!" Vegeta half questioned and shouted at what appeared in his sight. The sound of a hatch opening up was heard in the area. In Vegeta's sight was the exact spaceship. Vegeta eyes widened as the people who were in the ship came to sight. "What are you doing here?!" Vegeta shouted to the occupants as he approached the ship.

Krillin head moved upwards as if in slow motion as he recognized the voice, his face adapted into one of fear. "No way!" Krillin shouted.

"What's the matter Krillin?" Bulma questioned still in the ship.

Naruto sub-consciously took a step backwards. "Vegeta!"

In a surprising turn of events the planets Naruto, Bulma, and Krillin have stumbled on is the exact one Vegeta is recovering in. Things aren't looking good for the trio so far especially with Gohan's extreme fever. Will the three be able to find a cure for Gohan or be killed by Vegeta before their search even begins? Find out next What Lies Within!

**A/N: So how was the chapter, I seriously want to know if there's anything I can do to help it. I would've continued but I felt like it was a pretty good stopping point with my little twist of events. I hope everyone realize how deep the bond between Naruto and Gohan is currently. Now you can expect some major changes for when they arrive on Namek. Also, each chapter Naruto or Gohan learn or begin trying to learn a new move I'll give a statistics of the current moves they know.**

**Naruto: Flight, Ki Blast, Masenko, Ultimate Masenko, Destructo Disk (Learning), new move (Self-Taught)**

**Gohan: Flight, Ki Blast, Masenko, Ultimate Masenko, Destructo Disk (Learning), New Move (Self-Taught)**

**Right now they literally have the exact same roster of moves but then again this is only Chapter Six. The new move though will be specific to the person only. Naruto's move is also different from Gohan vice versa. That's all for now thank for all the support and keep it up! See ya!**


	7. An Alliance is formed! Approaching Namek

**What Lies Within Chapter Seven: An Alliance is formed! Approaching Namek!**

**A/N: Thanks for the support! Keep it up!**

Vegeta grabbed the blond demi-saiyan by the scruff of his neck and glared his eyes at the boy. "What are you doing here?" Vegeta asked with demand.

Naruto grit his teethand gripped his hands but didn't say a word. Vegeta tightened the hold he had on Naruto violently.

"I'll ask again, what are you doing here?" Vegeta asked much more forcefully. Naruto once again didn't answer causing Vegeta to toss the young boy aside.

Krillin watched as Vegeta moved over to him and picked him up. "I'm waiting for your answer."

"Wait Vegeta." Naruto called out. Vegeta turned his head behind and smirked.

"Seems like you want to finally answer my question."

"Gohan he's sick and we don't have any medicine to cure him. Please you have to help us." Naruto said in a saddened tone.

Krillin gasped at Naruto's actions. "Naruto."

"Krillin we have no other choices if we don't do anything Gohan will die." Krillin gulped slightly thinking about what was on the line.

'Naruto's right we don't have any other choice but why would we should trust Vegeta, but he's the very same guy who tried to kill us a few weeks ago.'

"And why should I help you?" Vegeta retorted with a smirk.

"Please Gohan's my friend I don't want him to die." Naruto quickly replied.

Vegeta chuckled several times before turning to walk away. He made way to Naruto before kicking the boy who was on his knees to the ground.

"I don't know what you're here for but I suggest you leave now!" With those final words Vegeta moved to leave but his foot was caught by something. He turned around to see Naruto's golden locks of hair. Naruto's hand was holding on to Vegeta's legs.

Vegeta kicked his legs in an attempt to push Naruto away but it worked to no avail. Naruto kept his fierce grip locked on Vegeta's legs.

"Please." Naruto quietly repeated. "I need to save my friend."

Vegeta looked at Naruto with annoyance before looking at his golden lock of hair once again. Once again the current sight Vegeta currently had disappeared and was replaced by a fuzzy memory.

_-Flashback-_

_Vegeta walked through the streets of the capital of Planet Vegeta. The odd thing was that he was in the mid-slums part of the city where middle-class saiyans lived. The area wasn't really a place any noble would go._

_As he walked through he took out the piece of paper in his hand and read it before checking the street he was on. He nodded to himself before walking up the stairs of a house and knocking._

_A few seconds later the door open and Vegeta heard a women gasp. Looking up the prince saw a woman with spiky, downward black hair and black eyes._

"_Prince Vegeta…" She said in complete disbelief Vegeta silently sighed already being used to being treated this way. The women bowed a little bit before allowing him in. "Prince Vegeta what brings you here?" The women asked still shocked. She stood up and placed some meat on the table Vegeta was on._

"_I'm looking for your eldest son… does he live here." The name that Vegeta said didn't come out in Vegeta's memory. _

"_You mean you and him are actually friends?" She said with disbelief._

_Vegeta slightly nodded causing the women to almost fall over in shock. "M-My son?" She asked one more time. After getting the same answer she stood up with the baby wrapped in her hands._

_Vegeta could hear the woman calling for the boy. _

_A minute later he could see the blond haired Saiyan coming down the stair. His calm face formed into a smile when he saw Vegeta. _

"_Vegeta you came!" The boy said as he approached his friend happily._

"_Let's just get going." Vegeta finished the meat given to him and headed out the door. The blond followed behind him._

_The mother of the boy smiled as she moved into another room of their house and looked at the black haired three-year old sleeping. _

_She rubbed the boy hair with a smile as she cried a little bit. "There's no need to worry Raditz your brother's making friends."_

_Vegeta and the boy moved across the city with hurry, they had already planned where they were going. People around town stared at the two._

_Constant mummers and gossip could be heard between everyone such as: "Look Prince Vegeta is with that weird guy." Or "Blond hair isn't normal that guy is weird. Why is Prince Vegeta hanging out with him?" but Vegeta glared at anyone who was making snarky comments about his friend._

_The boy silently thanked his friend before they stopped at their destination, the arcade ones extremely similar to those on Planet Earth. _

"_Quite a noisy place isn't it?" Vegeta questioned to his friend as soon as they entered._

"_You haven't been to an arcade before have you?" His friend asked to the grunt of Vegeta. With a chuckling the boy motioned for the prince to follow him. "This is one of my favorites." Vegeta saw 2D figures beating each other up._

"_What the point of the game? To defeat your opponent?" Vegeta's blond friend nodded as they both inserted a coin._

_Minutes later the two boys were still playing with the score being15-0 with Vegeta on the losing end._

_Vegeta mashed the buttons in the arcade box like rapid fire. Honestly he didn't know how to play but it was fun. It was only seconds later that his health bar depleted and he lost._

_The young prince reached in his pocket for more coins but only ended up feeling the surface of the texture._

'_Out of coins.' He thought with a minor grunt. 'I'll just get more.' He stood up and looked around for his friend and found him playing towards the end of the arcade._

_He continued on to the booth where tons of people began to surround him. "Hey it's Prince Vegeta!" Some kid shouted. Vegeta sighed with annoyance and barged his way through the crowd._

"_The Prince? What's he doing here?" A guy towards the back of the room quietly said to someone near him._

"_I don't know but this may be a big opportunity to make some big money." He smirked and both headed to Vegeta's location in a casual manner._

_The blond friend of Vegeta moved away from the booth he was at to head towards his friend. He scanned around to arcade till he spotted the person he was looking for. _

"_Hey Vegeta!" He yelled only to find himself receiving no reply. In a brief second the boy saw the familiar spiky hair of Vegeta being carried away by two men. 'Don't tell me they're…" The boy face became serious as he chased after the two men at full speed._

_The boy was FAST for his age. He could beat most of the adult saiyan's speed and still get higher most people in the Capital of Planet Vegeta could memorize him as a "Yellow Blur" that occasionally ran across the city._

_The boy spotted the two men grabbed one by the shirt to stop him in his tracks._

"_What the?!" One of the kidnappers yelled. Vegeta's eyes widened when he got a view at who was there._

"_Stay out of your own business kid!" The other kidnapper screamed and aimed a kick. The blond quickly dodged and connected a fierce fist to his face knocking him out cold._

_Vegeta smirked at his friend's easy take down of the kidnapper but it was only then that the smirk faded. The kidnapper connected his right knee into the blond's gut. Vegeta watched uselessly as his friend fell to the ground with a look of complete pain._

"_Now that, that's over let's get you to somewhere nice and safe where I can store you till that idiotic father of yours decides to pay me for your return." The kidnapper said with a complete smirk. Vegeta looked at the man with anger but with his current position he couldn't do anything._

'_So this must be what it feels like to be useless.' He grimly thought. 'Damnit why am I so weak!' He looked at his fallen friend._

"_I won't let you…" The blond grimly stated. (__**A/N: Getting really tired of saying "Blond" but bear with me till Vegeta remembers.) **_

"_Just give up!" The kidnapper shouted as he kicked the blond away but the newly enforced grip on his foot won't give way. The kidnapper slowly reached in his pocket and pulled out the one thing neither boy was ready to defend… a gun._

"_Now let go or else!" The kidnapper shouted as he pointed his gun to the blond._

"_Never!" The blond replied. The resounding sound of a bang coursed through the whole area. Vegeta eyes widened as his brain registered what happened. In front of his very own eyes his friend's hand was shot._

_But the grip didn't weaken at all. The blond's now bloody hand still held on to the kidnapper's legs. _

"_I will never let you do anything to my…" The blond began with fierceness as he stood up. In his hand a sub-conscious ball of energy formed. "Hurt my friend!" He shouted and slammed the ball of energy into the kidnapper. In seconds the ball contracted into one single point then expanded across his body. By this time the grip on Vegeta was long gone._

_And with those final actions the first of MANY kidnappings on Vegeta had ended._

_-Hours later-_

_The blond woke up to find himself in the hospital with bandage wrappings on his hand. He slightly cringed as he once again felt the pain of it but cast it aside. It was more than worth it to help his friend._

_Speaking of the said Saiyan, Vegeta burst through the doors of the room._

_He breathed and heaved in anger when he realized that the blond was awake. He slowly moved towards his friend while his eyes were closed with anger but the blond didn't realize the strong emotion and smiled._

_This was right until a fist made its way to his face. The blond honestly didn't feel any of the pain but took up a look of shock._

_Vegeta calmed down as he sat on a chair next to the hospital bed._

"_Why'd you do it?" He silently said knowing that he would hear._

"_Huh?" The blond bluntly replied._

"_Why'd you try and stop those guys even if you knew you'd get hurt?" Vegeta calmly and quietly once again questioned._

_The blond gave a big grin and replied. "Because you're my friend!" _

"… _Thanks I guess." He quietly said. A comfortable silence washed over the two. _

"_Hey Vegeta you know what?" The blond called. "Let make a promise."_

_Vegeta raised his eyebrow at the suggestions. "Continue." _

"_As long as I protect you, you protect me!" The blond said with a grin._

_In a very rare moment Vegeta took a full out smile. "As long as we have each other no one can stop us!" Vegeta called._

"_Yep!" And so that day, exactly two years before the day of the destruction of Planet Vegeta a truce between the best of friends was made._

-Flashback end-

Vegeta looked at Naruto once again. 'Damnit just who does this brat remind me of.' Vegeta mentally cursed and looked down at the boy.

"Why won't you give up?" Vegeta neutrally asked.

"Because I want to save my friend." Naruto stated as his grip didn't loosen.

"Alright fine." Vegeta said to the surprise of Krillin. "You'll have to be bring him out be quick! If any of the others here see you it spells trouble for all of us alike."

"Really?" Naruto asked in almost disbelief but with a smile of his own.

Vegeta turned his face away from the blond. "Just hurry up and bring him before I change my mind."

Naruto grinned as he circled Vegeta quickly. "I knew you were a nice person all along Vegeta."

Vegeta just grunted and turned his head away from the blond even further. Krillin was skeptical at the scene.

'There's no way Vegeta just wants to change his mind. He must want something in return.' Krillin thought as he gave Vegeta a suspicious eye. Vegeta caught the bald man looking and smirked.

"Come on Krillin let's get Gohan so Vegeta can help him."

Minutes later 4 people walked across the white corridor of a building on Planet Frieza Number 79; Vegeta, Bulma, Krillin, and Naruto with Gohan being carried by Vegeta.

Bulma walked cautiously behind Vegeta, the bluenette had no way to defend himself in the case that Vegeta ended up attacking them.

'How did I get myself into this?' Bulma thought with panic she could vision several ways Vegeta could kill her.

'I wonder just what that red aura around him was when he defeated me on Earth.' Vegeta thought in slight annoyance as he somewhat acknowledged his loss. 'Even without my scouter I could sense his power level and it far exceeded mine but that attack was held back. If he had hit me with his real power than he could have killed me a dozen times over!' Vegeta was then brought from his thoughts by Naruto.

"Hey Vegeta where exactly are we going?" Naruto asked almost with impatience as he looked over his friend again. Gohan was sweating like crazy which really wasn't a good sign.

"It right here." Vegeta answered as he pointed his fingers to a room directly next to them. "This should be easy. The medicine to cure this type of fever was made centuries ago."

"Wait a minute Vegeta how do we know you're not going to poison him?" Krillin asked with obvious suspicion.

Vegeta smirked as he began to answer. "I'm a Saiyan I rather beat my enemy through sheer feats of power and I rather have Kakarot watch him and his friends turned into space trash along with his planet."

Krillin sighed. 'I should have known. Either way I think it's safe to say we can trust Vegeta, at least for now anyways.'

"Alright then Vegeta when you come back to Earth we'll kick our butt another time again!" Naruto shouted with determination to the smirk of Vegeta.

'By that time I'll probably already achieved it.' Vegeta thought to himself. Vegeta took out a vial from the vial cabinet and moved the green liquid into Gohan's mouth. "There's a low chance that it may not work but he should come too in a couple of minutes."

Naruto grinned as he looked at his friend. "Thanks Vegeta!" He yelled with glee.

"Now tell me what are you doing in that spaceship?" Vegeta asked as he looked at Naruto.

Naruto, Krillin, and Bulma tensed as they heard his question. Vegeta raised his eyebrow and repeated his question.

"Krillin… I guess we should tell him." Naruto said.

"Why?! He'll probably end up doing something to us!" Krillin replied to the suggestion.

"He saved Gohan without him he would've been dead… trust me I don't like the idea either but we owe him!" Krillin silently closed his eyes and thought it over before nodding.

Naruto looked at Vegeta with a serious demeanor set. "We're heading to Planet Namek."

Vegeta's eyes widened as he heard this. "Don't tell me you wish to use the Dragon Balls?!" Vegeta hastily asked.

Naruto nodded. "We're going to wish back our friends!"

Vegeta smirked. "It's a shame that I'll be getting them first and become immortal." Naruto frowned but kept his serious demeanor. "Now I'll be cashing in my real favor now! I want to ride in your spaceship to Planet Namek!"

Krillin felt sweat dropping from the back of his head like bullets. 'Damn I knew it was a bad idea to say it but it looks like we're cornered now.'

"I say we let him!" A voice towards the corner called out. Naruto turned his head as a smile made its way to his face.

The person who had spoken was… Gohan!

"Gohan!" Naruto yelled with happiness as he felt tears build up in his eyes. "I almost thought you were gone."

Gohan smiled as he saw his friend's concern. "It's alright I'm all good now… Thanks to Vegeta." Gohan turned his head to said Saiyan prince. "Thanks Vegeta." Gohan said with a smile.

"Gohan don't tell me you think we should actually take him to Namek with us?!" Bulma shouted.

Gohan nodded. "He did save me." Vegeta smirked at the response.

"Alright then when should we be heading off then?"

-About an hour later-

The tension had slightly settled around everyone except for Bulma and Krillin. They were still skeptical at the idea of Vegeta not wanting to kill them.

"Just look at them just sitting there with him." Krillin whispered to the bluenette.

In the main area of the ship were Naruto, Gohan, and Vegeta. They were all holding controllers and were looking at the screen. They were calmly playing a video game.

Vegeta laughed as he easily beat Naruto and Gohan. He had improved in playing since he was a kid. Naruto and Gohan laughed merrily even though they were losing they were having fun.

"Man Vegeta you're really good!" Gohan stated as he watched him and Naruto lost once again, Vegeta smirked in pleasure.

Naruto chuckled at their defeat. "That was fun! I've never done anything like it." It was true neither Naruto nor Gohan had played a video game in their entire life. Naruto looked behind to see Bulma and Krillin staring at the three of them. "You guys want to play? There's a fourth controller."

Krillin and Bulma looked at Naruto and Gohan's innocence towards Vegeta in complete disbelief.

About an hour later, Naruto, Gohan, and Krillin were long sleeping leaving only Vegeta and a very cautious Bulma awake.

"Woman where is the shower around here?!" Vegeta demanded rather than questioned to the annoyance of Bulma.

"This woman has a name you know!" Bulma responded with annoyance clear in her voice. She pointed to a room behind her while closing her eyes.

A few minutes later Bulma could hear the water running out of the faucet for a few seconds before it was turned off. It was only then that Vegeta's voice called to her once again.

"Women what's this?! What happened to my armor?!" Vegeta shouted now having annoyance in his voice.

Bulma quietly chuckled before replying. "Ever heard of pajamas?!"

The door to the bathroom slammed open and Bulma turned her head to see Vegeta in the pajamas she gave him.

Vegeta was in a pajama with brown fur similar to a monkey, also plain on the front donned a chibi monkey with hair similar to Vegeta holding the peace sign with the words "Yasai".

A vein grew on Vegeta's head as he spoke. "What is this?! I'm the Prince of the Saiyan race not a monkey!"

Bulma closed her mouth to stop her laughter any fear she had of Vegeta was long gone. "It' fine plus with that tail of yours you really do look like a monkey.

Vegeta raised his eyebrow and looked behind him; there it was a brown furry tail. 'That's strange it's too early for it to grow back yet?" Vegeta shrugged from what he had heard Planet Namek had no moons and three suns.

He watched Bulma's walk in his opposite direction into another room. He grunted before laying in the futon that was provided by the bluenette. 'The Human Female is such an enigma!'

A week later the group everybody on the ship had settled down. Of course there was lots of fighting and arguments mainly due to Vegeta and Bulma but it was safe to say that they were getting along for the most part.

Krillin and Bulma's worries about Vegeta killing them were replaced by good emotions; Naruto and Gohan were even saying that all of them were good friends now, though Vegeta usually denied it and said that it was just a temporary alliance.

In the main room of the ship Naruto, Gohan, and Vegeta stared down at each other with moderate bruises; all three were breathing heavily. Their spar had only been existent for a minute but all three managed to take and inflict a decent amount of damage. Vegeta was the most curious of the matter though.

'Interesting they got stronger already the effects of their beatings back on Earth must have made them stronger already but it couldn't have progressed their power this high? There's no way in two weeks that they managed to bring their power close to my previous one!' Vegeta smirked as he looked at the boys again.

Naruto brought up his hands to his forehead drawing his breath in and out slowly. "MA… SEN…" Naruto yelled. A brilliant yellow light made way to his palm.

"NARUTO DON'T TRY ONE OF THOSE ENERGY ATTACKS!" Bulma shrieked. Naruto stopped dead in his tracks and looked at the bluenette with sweat dripping of his head.

Over the week Bulma had created a rule which would limit the amount of damage that could be done: No Energy attacks. It was to ensure the safety of not only the ship but her main priority, herself. Naruto sheepishly scratched his head and apologized.

"That was tiring." Gohan heaved as he fell to the floor. He was conscious but hungry. Vegeta nodded slightly in agreement with a nod from Naruto as well.

All three's stomach rumbled and Naruto and Gohan chuckled. "I guess our stomachs agree that we're hungry as well." They said in unison.

A while after dinner Vegeta sat in the futon in deep thought. Tomorrow they would arrive on Namek.

'Damn I let my ambition go while I was with them.' Vegeta grunted in annoyance. 'How could I forget my goal go while I was having fun.' The last word echoed through Vegeta's mind like he was in a cave. He looked at the ceiling. 'When was the last time I had fun like this?' Vegeta questioned himself. A mixture of emotions built up inside. He could feel some memories running into him. 'Just why do I want to become the strongest?' He solemnly thought.

After the events of the destruction of Planet Vegeta he really couldn't remember much about his life before that. All he could remember was his one friend, somebody who he had lost communication with somewhere around five years ago. Even then he really couldn't remember much about him and the memories he currently remembered weren't much to go on.

Taking a deep breath Vegeta closed his eyelids. This was a short period of time where Vegeta found him vulnerable. Time would work his magic for his uneasiness and his questions.

By morning or night or evening all three were ready. Planet Namek was already in sight. Naruto and Gohan were awed by the beautiful green planet from space.

Naruto wore an orange collar vest shirt with buttons, and blue/black short pants. Gohan wore a purple collar vest with buttons, with black shorts. All in all their choice of attire was rather casual.

They laughed and hi-fived each other. "We did it! We're at Namek!" They shouted with glee. It truly was a miracle to be on the planet.

In a matter of seconds the round space pod broke through the planet's atmosphere and found way to the ground. Slowly the door of the hatch opened and the natural air of the planet filled the ship.

"So I guess this is where we split ways Vegeta." Krillin said slightly sad. Naruto, Gohan, and Bulma frowned slightly from their position behind Vegeta. Vegeta himself had no reaction.

Then as if by instinct Vegeta, Gohan, Naruto, and Krillin's body tensed up. They quickly left the interior of the ship and made way outside.

"What the hell is that?!" Krillin screamed with horror. Naruto and Gohan gasped at what they were sensing.

One by one in the skies of Namek space pods fell like a meteor shower, until it stopped with one big oval-shaped one finishing the sight. The spaceships had landed somewhere half-across the planet. Their eyes widened as they made sure they were sensing something believable.

'No way! It can't be!' Vegeta thought. Vegeta grit his teeth in frustration. "Looks this alliance of ours is going to last for a little while longer." He spoke.

**Chapter Preview (Cue DBZK Preview Music)**

**Naruto: Yo Naruto here!**

**Naruto: It was pretty fun in space!**

**Gohan: Yep! Especially with Vegeta!**

**Vegeta: Quit your jabbering don't you sense that?!**

**Krillin: That power's huge!**

**Vegeta: I should have known he'd be looking for them too…**

**Gohan: Vegeta you know who that guy is?!**

**Vegeta: Unfortunately… Yes.**

**Naruto: Next time on What Lies Within! **

_**The Peace Disrupted! The Tyrant Frieza!**_

**Naruto and Gohan: Rock! Paper! Scissor! Tie!**

**A/N: So the Namek Saga begins with a twist! As you should expect, arriving early to Namek will lead to some major changes, now nobody has the Dragon Balls to begin with. The score of the Alliance vs. Frieza is 0-0 opposed to canon. **

**Now to start explaining some things, Naruto and Gohan's power has increased way more than when they left Earth. Not only have they trained in 30x Gravity (Have yet to get to 50x due to Vegeta.) but also they been given tutelage by Krillin and slightly Vegeta. Plus, since they have Saiyan blood Zenkai, or the ability Saiyans have so when they lose they get stronger for those who don't know has kicked in.**

**So real question is: How strong are Naruto and Gohan now? As mentioned in this chapter by Vegeta their power is around his base power back when he was on Earth which was 18,000.**

**As for Vegeta, you can expect some major changes from here on out. If you read carefully I was dropping hints like rapid fire! I brought some major depth onto Vegeta for future events. So you all better expect some major changes from here on out.**

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	8. The Peace Disrupted! The Tyrant Frieza!

**What Lies Within Chapter Eight: The Peace Disrupted! The Tyrant Frieza!**

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Bulma quickly grasped the phone in the ship and hastily dialed the number to hear the rings. She would have been laughing in pride at this being the first intergalactic call from space to Earth via phone. After what finally felt like 20 rings someone finally picked up.

"Hello?" She heard the old voice of Roshi answer.

"Master Roshi you have to listen carefully to everything I have to say because you have to tell Goku about everything I tell you." She hastily said.

"I'm at the hospital right now do you want me to put him on the line?" He asked which led him to quickly put the Saiyan on the line.

"Hey Bulma how everything going on Namek?" Goku cheerfully asked.

"Bad, first Gohan was sick but Vegeta helped us and he said that in exchange for his help we would have to take him to Namek and we did. But as soon as we arrived on Namek the others said they sensed a power even stronger then Vegeta." She hastily explained.

"WHAT?! A power stronger then Vegeta!" Goku shouted but unconsciously grew a smile on his face. "I'll try and come as soon as possible but the doctor says I won't be out of the hospital for another month and the Senzu beans aren't finished." Bulma bit her lip before ending the call.

"This isn't good guys; Goku says he's not ready to come yet." Bulma said.

"Who said I needed Kakarot's help. I'll defeat _him_ on my own." Vegeta cockily replied to t6he comment, the name Kakarot was like a drip of venom to him.

"But Vegeta even you said that that guy is even stronger than you." Gohan replied to Vegeta's comment.

"Calm down guys, arguing about this isn't going to do anything. First of all we need to find shelter." Krillin commented.

"I saw a cave over there." Naruto declared and pointed his finger over the top of the hill.

"Alright then let go!" Krillin shouted as he moved to walk towards the hill. This was until the sound of something piercing out of the atmosphere of Namek was heard. Krillin gulped at the familiar sound of a ship landing on the Planet but that wasn't why he gulped.

The demi-saiyans looked at their right to see a Saiyan space pod crash land onto the surface only a few yards away from them, though unlike Earth the crashing didn't cause a huge crater.

Vegeta clicked his teeth in annoyance obviously not worried by the presence of the newcomer. Slowly the pod opened to reveal a man dressed in Saiyan armor with light purple skin.

"My My Vegeta it seems that before you were defeated on Earth you gathered a few underlings before you were defeated on Earth." The alien said with a chuckle.

Vegeta grunted before smirking. "See anything different about me Cui?" Vegeta asked.

"Not really but if you're talking in terms of power I think it's still safe to say that we're still rivals." The man known as Cui answered while tapping his scouter.

"Well then let me show you something before you die." Vegeta brought himself into a fighting position before quickly stopping and turning around to look at his onlookers. "Actually you're just child's play to me now." He pointed his finger behind him. "You see those kids over there; they could fight and beat you along with baldy if he tried hard enough."

"What?!" The three shouted with faces of disbelief.

'That guy said that Vegeta and him were equal in power before he arrived on Earth and now Vegeta is saying that we can beat him.' Naruto thought as he looked at his arm. 'Did the gravity training really increase my power that much?'

'You're kidding me there's no way that we could have brought up our powers in less than a month?' Gohan thought with disbelief as well.

'Huh? Is Vegeta trying to place us out for fools?' Krillin thought with a suspicious eye.

"You're bluffing!" Cui shouted at Vegeta and moved closer.

"You'll see for yourself." Vegeta turned around at the three Z-Fighters behind him. "You three decide who's going to fight him."

The three just looked at him before shrugging. It was one thing that many warriors can understand; when a warrior of higher power tells you that you're stronger than you think you are believe him.

"Rock! Paper! Scissors!" The three began as they began what the Z-Fighters use to decide fights. "Tie!"

Vegeta and Cui were silent as they watched the game; you never interrupted warriors when they were deciding who would fight. Bulma sweat dropped at the scene.

'We're going to die before we even find one Dragon Ball.' She thought as she crawled away from the scene and moved to the ship. She quickly clicked a button and it went into the form of a capsule and ran off up the hill.

"Hehe I won!" Naruto yelled with determination as he looked at his hand which was in a rock form, while Gohan and Krillin had scissors.

"Good luck!" Gohan supported as he gave Naruto a thumbs up Naruto akin to a mirror reflected the actions both giving grins. Naruto turned around to face Cui and took a stance with a serious face.

Cui silently brought himself into a fighting position with a smirk and began the first action of the fight with a dash towards his blond opponent with a reeled back fist. He brought it forward as he approached but the fist was quickly tossed to the side by an open palm courtesy of Naruto.

The blond quickly moved his leg up to the alien on his left but his opponent quickly caught it. They were both in a cautious position; Naruto had hold of the alien's hand, while the alien had hold of the demi-saiyan's leg. The two made way into an explosion of kicks and punches in the middle of the battlefield.

"Hehe look at Naruto go!" Krillin commented the fight with a grin Gohan nodded as he continued to cheer his friend on.

"You got this Naruto!" Gohan shouted with determination. If anyone could do it, Naruto could. Vegeta smirked at the fight, it seemed that both were even but if you looked closely you could see that Naruto was gaining the advantage.

Vegeta was brought out of his thoughts when he saw Naruto end the flurry of attacks with a very forceful jab to Cui's face.

'My body is so light." Naruto thought in amazement. 'I guess the training really did pay off."

The alien smirked seeing an opened opportunity at Naruto's position in the air and motioned an uppercut to his chin sending him upwards into the air. Next the alien sent a volley of Ki blasts to the defenseless boy.

The smirk on the alien's face grew into a crazy grin as smoke arose from the attacks. Cui flew into the air with quick speeds and began rapidly jabbing his hands into the cloud of smoke, using the contact he made with Naruto to signify that he was making hits. He finished the comb with a double axe handle which sent the blond demi-saiyan falling to the ground.

"Oh no I think Naruto's in trouble." Krillin said as he grit his teeth. Cui landed on the ground not a far away from Naruto and smirked.

"It's too bad for your lackey Vegeta but then again you probably just underestimated my streng-" Cui began cockily before his eyes widened/ "What! How?!" He said in shock.

In front of him he saw Naruto dusting his Gi off. He looked at him seriously. "Stop playing around already start fighting seriously." Naruto said and Cui's eyes widened to the point that they seemed to almost pop out of his eyes.

"This isn't the time for joking." Krillin deadpanned with a sweat drop. Gohan quickly shook his head at Krillin's words.

"Naruto's serious." Gohan simply said as he kept watching the battle with a smile.

"If you won't start getting serious I will." Naruto finished while beginning to run to his opponent. Cui, who was still in shock, looked at the approaching blond with a twitching eye. He was starting to grind his last nerves.

Naruto pushed his fist into Cui's gut and somersaulted into the air before suspending himself upside down with his hands on an all too familiar position on his forehead.

"MASENKO-HA!" He shouted as the point blank Ki attack made quick way to Cui. He alien responded by grabbing the attack itself and digging his feet into the ground. He strained his body to keep the attack in place but it continued to push him backwards. He screamed as he finally lifted his hands and the attack blew up in the planet's atmosphere. Steam sizzled on the purple colored man's body as he gasped for air. He slowly lifted his head upwards to see Naruto standing away from him with his right hand lifted in the air.

The boy had a grin on his face as he turned his head to Krillin. "Krillin are you watching?" The bald man nodded causing Naruto's grin to widen. Ki built up in Naruto hand while said Ki moved and suspended in the air in a ball. The ball slowly mold into the shape of a disk and Krillin nodded seeing his attack being done correctly but he was surprised to see Naruto not stopping. The disk continued to mold with razor sharp edges as the razor disk began spinning at high speeds.

"Destructo Disk: Rasen Style!" Naruto shouted but instead of throwing the spinning disk of Ki he kept it near his hand and darted towards Cui who panicked. In a flash of a second Cui smirked then turned back into panic when Naruto approached.

"Ah Lord Frieza!" Cui shouted as he slowly back up.

Naruto looked at him with a dumbfounded look. "Who's Frieza?" He asked before slamming the Destructo Disk into him. Naruto jumped away and shielded himself as the attack contracted and then expanded into a huge explosion, which sent Cui flying away from the battlefield.

"Told you." Vegeta simply said with a smirk seeing Cui defeated.

-Elsewhere on Namek-

"Lord Frieza my scouter is detecting a power similar in magnitude to Vegeta but I'm getting readings showing that it's not him." A man green hair and pale blue skin said. He flew through the air along with a group of other people wearing Saiyan suits but up front was a man sitting in an egg shaped vehicle.

"Zarbon your scouter is probably just malfunctioning you should have upgraded tone of the newer models." A pink, spiky skinned man replied while tapping his scouter.

"Quiet Dodoria." The man up front calmly said with a spicy sound of demand in his voice. "Now Zarbon what does is the power level?"

"20,000, Lord Frieza." The man known as Frieza chuckled as he heard the power level.

"Pathetic you and Dodoria can easily defeat that pathetic power level." He said in between chuckles, his two servants flew silently while chuckling as well.

"Maybe I am just being a little paranoid." Zarbon said as he chuckled as well.

"It seems we've made our way into a village, shall we investigate for some Dragon Balls?" Frieza asked.

"Yes my lord." They both responded. Namek sure was about to be thrown into chaos without any warnings.

-Naruto-

"Alright Naruto!" Krillin shouted with a smile while watching Naruto and Gohan hi-fiving.

"I knew you could do it Naruto!" Gohan shouted with a smile.

Naruto nodded. "It's too bad I wasn't trying my hardest till the end." Naruto sighed. "The guy never decided to get serious. Vegeta was he really your rival?" Naruto asked.

"He was my rival but I've already surpassed his power." Vegeta said with a smirk. "Good job." Vegeta managed out causing Naruto to smile.

"Thank Vegeta!" Naruto shouted with a sincere smile.

"That was awesome Naruto! How'd you manage to change Krillin's Destructo Disk?" He questioned with curiosity.

"Yea Naruto molding your Ki into the specific form you want isn't easy. It took me a few years o even learn the basic of Ki molding." Krillin began raising a finger.

Naruto sheepishly scratched his head. "I guess I just imagined a sharp disks and I made it, it was actually my first time trying it out." And with that the four began walking to the cave they had seen before.

"There you guys are I thought you all had died!" Bulma yelled at them.

"Quiet down woman I don't have time for your foolishness right now." Vegeta simply said with a grunt.

"Shut up Vegeta! If you four had died I would have been left here on the planet by myself even with the ship it won't be easy going back to Earth empty handed with you guys dead." Bulma shouted to them.

"I don't plan to let you revive your friends with the Dragon Balls remember we aren't friends just comrades with a common goal." Vegeta simply explained as he rested on a futon in the capsule house.

"Ugh!" Bulma groaned in irritation before storming off.

"Where's this dragon radar of yours?" Vegeta asked.

"You're going to look for the Dragon Balls already?" Krillin more said then questioned with a bit of humor as he handed him the radar. "Make sure NOT to kill any Namekians, we don't want them thinking we're their enemies." Vegeta grunted.

"I trust Vegeta he won't kill anybody." Naruto simply said from him and Gohan's space near the T.V. He left out the door with the Dragon Radar in hand.

"Vegeta left already." Bulma softly said as she exited her room.

"Yeah." Krillin replied causing her to frown. "You're worried about him aren't you?" Krillin teasingly said.

"…No I'm not!" Bulma retorted.

"Don't worry Bulma if anyone can handle themselves its Vegeta trust me." Naruto assured her with a smile which soothed her worries. Her worry turned to amusement as she saw what Gohan and Naruto were doing.

"Ready…" Naruto slowly said.

"Set…" Gohan slowly said and they positioned their bowls of ramen near each other.

"Go!" They both shouted and began chomping down on their bowls of ramen. Bulma and Krillin watched with laughter as they finished bowl after bowl till they were done with a large burp.

"They looked at each other while smiling before laying themselves on the ground and quickly resting, they were exhausted from the excitement and tensions they had dealt with today and they were finally getting an opportunity to relax.

-Vegeta-

The smirk on the Saiyan prince's face was evident as he approached a Dragon Ball as well as a Namekian village. Their little "alliance" had a gigantic advantage against Frieza.

While Frieza could use scouters to find Namekian villages, scouters used power levels to sense things but if there were no power level what then? It was one of those things which made sensing/detecting power levels difficult.

Still smirking Vegeta slowly descended into the village and was met by over a dozen stares from Namekians.

"Who are you and what business do we have with you?" An old man asked the Saiyan, the words were very similar to what another certain Namekian would say.

"I have no intention with harming you I just request of your Dragon Ball." Vegeta said as he evilly smirked, he positioned his hand into a gun.

The apparent elder of the village stood in front of Vegeta with no fear he gave a toothy smile as he put his hands behind his back.

"How interesting you point your attack but you don't feel like attacking me." The elder replied though the warriors of the village put themselves on guard.

Vegeta frowned for a second before instantly turning it into an evil smirk one which unconscious strained him mentally. "And how do you know that?"

The elder chuckled before answering. "I've been gifted with the powers to sense the light and dark auras within a person." Vegeta once again frowned as he settled down the hand within gun position.

"If you'd know that then you'd be obvious to the fact that an extremely powerful person may be on his way here right now to obtain your Dragon Ball and he won't be as hesitant as me to kill you." Vegeta truthfully spoke.

"It would seem so." The elder spoke before turning to his warriors. "Bring the Dragon Balls to this man. You three go to the other villages and the Guru to inform them of this threat." The elder said to the shock of many in the village.

"Elder Moori are you sure?" One of the warriors asked and Moori gave them a nod.

"There is your Dragon Ball." Moori said with a chuckle. "I must thank you for giving us this information." The elder thanked him and his reply was given in the form of a grunt.

With that Vegeta quickly flew off with a scowl on his face. 'Damn why did I hesitate to kill him.' Vegeta thought. The words of Naruto almost spontaneously echoed in his head.

"_I trust Vegeta he won't kill anybody."_

He shook his mind out of his thoughts and quickly continued back to getting to the ship.

-Ship-

"Let's go look for a Dragon Ball guys." Naruto suggested out of boredom.

"I agree if we leave everything to Vegeta it'll be boring." Gohan agreed.

"I'm not sure if that's a good idea, Bulma's going to be here alone and that strong guy is on the loose here." Krillin advised.

"Yea and let's not forget that I'm going to be here alone." Bulma said.

"I just said that Bulma." Krillin deadpanned.

"Don't worry Bulma we'll be back before you even know it." Naruto assured. "Trust me Bulma plus Vegeta's on his way here."

Bulma looked at his blue eyes before sighing. "Alright just hurry up with it."

"Alright!" Naruto and Gohan cheered.

"Just make sure to keep your energy levels down OK?" Krillin asked and his question was answered with two happy nods.

The three quickly began walking off to a very close pile of power levels huddled in one area so guessing it was a Namekian village the three set course to this location.

"Hey I think we're here." Gohan stated as the three walked up a hill.

"I'll ask again, where is the Dragon Ball?" An unfamiliar voice ran across the area. Krillin's eyes widened as he made the three of them fall to the ground into a crawling position.

"You sense that power level." Krillin whispered in a shaky voice showing he was slightly frightened.

Naruto and Gohan's eyes widened. "It's the same guy Vegeta said he knew." Gohan concluded. They continued crawling in order to see what was happening.

"I wouldn't even if you forced me." The elder of the village spoke. Surprisingly it was Moori once again the same elder who had given the Dragon Ball of the village.

"Maybe I intend on trying." Frieza replied with a haughty voice. He was still in his egg shaped vehicle with his pink and purple-ended tail sticking out. Among the village of Namekians people looked at Frieza with horror. By his side were his servant Zarbon and Dodoria the latter who held one large-sized Dragon Ball in his hand.

"Lord Frieza I'll handle this nuisance." The pink-skinned spiky man known as Dodoria spoke. **(A/N: Skipping this part since extremely similar to canon.)**

Naruto and Gohan looked at the site of the village with anger. What once held many lives of Namekians now had the bodies of many lifeless Namekians.

The elder Moori ended his life with leaving an advantage for his brethren; all of Frieza's scouters were destroyed meaning not one single one of Frieza's soldiers could find a Namekian village.

"Stop it!" Gohan shouted with anger after reaching his breaking point. There was only one Namekian left in the whole village (You should all pretty much know what he is.

"Damn it Gohan!" Krillin shouted while Naruto smirked at his friend's actions. Frieza along with his servant looked at them with interest.

"And who might you be?" Frieza simply questioned.

No one answered the man question as a Naruto pulled out a green circular object from his pocket and threw it to the ground. When the object made contact with the ground a huge cloud of smoke covered the area.

"Hurry up!" Krillin shouted as the three of them dashed into the cloud and quickly exited and flew away at fats speeds from the area.

As the cloud of smoke disappeared Frieza and her soldier realized two things. For one, the namekian boy was missing but the most important thing that was realized was…

"THEY STOLE THE DRAGON BALL!" Frieza shouted with anger causing Dodoria and Zarbon to gulp. "DODORIA I TRUSTED YOU WITH THE DUTY OF GUARDING IT NOW GO AFTER THOSE BRATS NOW!" Frieza screamed with a death glare radiating out of his face.

"Y-Yes Lord Frieza!" Dodoria replied hastily and nervously before flying off.

"Gohan you must have a lot of guts pulling that." Krillin yelled as he carried the young namekian below him. "Are you OK?" Krillin questioned the boy and got his answer in a nervous nod.

"But at least we saved him." Gohan sheepishly replied akin to what his best friend would do.

"And we got a Dragon Ball." Naruto added in with a grin.

"Yep." Krillin and Gohan answered before making their eyes widen. "WHAT?!"

"While they were stunned I just took it, that pink guy set it down." Naruto replied with a grin.

"You mean me." Dodoria spoke from right behind the group.

"Damn it he already caught up." Krillin cursed, their group stopped and looked at Dodoria who was only a few yards away.

"You see Lord Frieza would like that Dragon Ball of yours so I'm going to have to kill you." Dodoria simply spoke.

Naruto balled a fist and moved forward. "You'll have to go through-!" He began.

"Me first!" Gohan shouted finishing his friends' sentence. "You guys go back to the ship I'll finish this guy off." Gohan confidently spoke.

"You sure?" Naruto questioned.

"Trust me." Gohan replied to his friend. Naruto nodded as he looked at his friend before flying off along with Krillin.

Mid-flight Naruto turned his head around. "You better not die!" He shouted with a grin causing Gohan to grin as well. The son of Goku then turned his head back to Dodoria before getting into a fighting stance.

As Naruto and Krillin race off to the ship to meet up with Bulma and Vegeta, Gohan has decided to take on Dodoria one on one. Can he handle it or is it just one promise he can't keep. Now without Dragon Balls can Frieza manage to make his way back up or will the loss of scouters screw with everything in the process with the score now being:

Alliance: 2

Frieza: 0

One thing is for sure: Namek is about to get a whole lot chaotic, next time on What Lies Within.

**A/N: Sorry the chapter seemed a little rushed at the end but with me finally getting out of school and finishing exam I just wanted to get this out as soon as possible. Now I see you guys are starting to see several major changes on the events occurring on Namek as well.**

**Along with this since my Summer Break is now here I'll be trying to increase update speed though there will always be some days where I just don't feel like typing.**

**Also, I'd like to give credit to BRobson147 for the idea of Naruto's "Destructo Disk: Rasen Style" I was going to change the final attack of the match but decided on this one.**

**Finally, I'll be putting What Lies Within and Guardian Soul on rotation schedule meaning after Guardian Soul's update I'll update WLW then update GS and so on and so on, meaning Guardian Soul's update in about a week or two.**

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	9. Gohan vs Dodoria! Trouble on Namek!

**What Lies Within Chapter Nine: Gohan vs. Dodoria, Troubles Arise on Namek!**

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"HOW COULD THOSE LITTLE INSECTS STEAL MY DRAGON BALL?!" Frieza shouted with great amount of frustration in his voice. It was safe to say that the alien was way beyond pissed. The discovery that the Namekian village had no Dragon Ball was only a factor which further enraged him.

Zarbon bowed down to Frieza and hid his head to hide away that he was sweating bullets; he slightly gulped at Frieza's rage. He could hear his superior take several breaths before speaking.

"Now Zarbon tell me the specific duty I gave you and Dodoria when we obtained the Dragon Ball." Frieza calmly ordered while closing his eyes and turning his back.

"Protect the Dragon Ball my Lord." Zarbon hastily replied trying to contain his nervousness.

"So even though I ordered you to keep your priority on the Dragon Ball you failed me and let a child slip through your defense!" Frieza shouted once again and to further his display of anger he slammed his tail onto the ground.

"It won't happen again my Lord I promise." Zarbon replied now hiding his face in his bow at Frieza glare.

"It better not." Frieza simply said. "Now follow Dodoria and chase after those scoundrels, this time if you fail me you won't live to tell the story, understand?" Frieza ordered and questioned, his answer was met in the form of a nod. Frieza continued watching Zarbon fly out of sight till he was no longer visible. 'Now I could have sworn I saw a lock of blond hair while I was in that smoke cloud, it seems familiar.' Frieza thought with interest.' He shrugged with a slight chuckle. 'It must be my imagination.'

-Naruto-

"Are you okay?" Naruto asked the child Namekian.

"Yes." The boy shyly and quietly replied. Naruto looked to Krillin who simply shrugged at the boy's actions.

"Naruto aren't you worried about Gohan?" Krillin asked changing the topic as he, the blond, and the namekian child flew through the sky, he could see Naruto shake his head as a smile grew on his face.

"Gohan said he promised that he'd beat him and I trust him, he wouldn't let me down." Naruto informed his thoughts on the matter causing Krillin to smile as well. "Hey look its Vegeta!"

Naruto could see the silhouette of Vegeta's Saiyan suit in the distance along with his trademark spiky hair; it was pretty easy to make out along the green land of Namek.

"What are you doing here why aren't you at the ship?!" Vegeta asked as he approached them in a slightly rude manner.

"We went to look for a Dragon Ball." Naruto replied with a smile and lifted the Dragon Ball to Vegeta's vision. The pure-Saiyan looked at the blond slightly shocked. "We got it from that strong person."Naruto informed.

"Naruto managed to grab it and we ran off before he could figure out we were there." Krillin also informed. "We also saved this namekian." Vegeta's eyes widened in shock before his eyes scanned around them.

"Where's Kakarot's son?" He questioned, Naruto grew a serious look on his face.

"He's fighting one of that strong person's servants he did it so he could buy us sometime and get away." Naruto answered.

"He wouldn't happen to be pink would he?" Vegeta questioned again his answer was given as a nod.

"Tsk… this isn't good." Vegeta said after awhile. "Naruto come with me." Vegeta simply said to Naruto and moved forward.

"Gohan can handle himself Vegeta." Naruto replied. "He can beat that guy I know it." Naruto continued.

Vegeta looked at Naruto once again before grunting. "Well if you'd like to have your friend die it's your decision but if I know Frieza he'd send his other servant, a person even stronger after him." Vegeta spoke before flying off. Naruto looked at Vegeta who faded away as the distance between them increased.

"Krillin you and the namekian should go back with Bulma." Naruto stated as he turned back to Krillin.

"But what about you?" Krillin asked in reply.

"I'm going to go with Vegeta." Naruto answered with a determined and serious look. Krillin eyed the blond for a few seconds before giving with a little laugh.

'I guess when it comes to Naruto and Gohan they can be really persistent with each other.' The bald man thought. "Alright then but you both better come back safely."

Naruto nodded before turning to fly off until he abruptly stopped and moved back. "I almost forgot." Naruto said while he sheepishly scratched his head. He moved towards the namekian boy who probably was about the same age as him. "I'm Naruto Uzumaki." He introduced with a friendly smiled and held out his hand.

The namekian boy looked at the hand before nodding. "I'm D-Dende." He shyly spoke once again and took Naruto offer of a hand shake.

"Don't worry everything will be all right my friend here, Krillin, is going to take you somewhere safe." He assured the boy who slightly calmed down. The boy nodded and Naruto gave a grin once again before flying off after Vegeta.

-Break-

"Listen you little runt I don't have time to be dealing with you." Dodoria spoke with a smirk as he talked to Gohan.

"Well if you want to get to my friends you'll have to go through me first!" Gohan shouted with determination still in his fighting stance. 'I promised… and I won't let my friends down.'

Dodoria chuckled at Gohan's demeanor. "IF you think you can stop me then you're mistaken, now then I'll end this quickly!"

A pink colored Ki radiation shot the opposite way of Dodoria as the loyal servant of Frieza made a dash towards the demi-saiyan. The pink alien put his face downwards in away to headbutt Gohan but said boy side-stepped the attack and followed by thrusting his foot into Dodoria's abdomen.

"You little-" Dodoria began as he moved his head up just seconds before a foot landed dead smack on his face slightly pushing him backwards.

Gohan lightly smiled at seeing several of his attacks landing before continuing his advances. To proceed the combo Gohan landed another foot on Dodoria's face before flipping back and forcing a multitude of fist into his torso.

Midway though Gohan's attacks came to an abrupt stop as he felt Dodoria hold onto his hand, seconds later Gohan could feel sharp pain course throughout his body as the pink fist made its way onto his stomach brutally and then as if Gohan were like a ragdoll he was tossed to the side.

"Say your prayers!" Dodoria shouted before he opened his large mouth at full expansion. As Gohan soared through the air his eye widened as he saw the pink concentration of Ki in Dodoria mouth. He immediately put his hands out seeing as there was no way to steer out of the direction of the attack.

Just as Gohan had predicted a pink wave of Ki blasted out of Dodoria mouth on a crash course towards him. Gohan slightly grimaced at the force behind the energy-based attacks. The attack pushed Gohan back inch by inch as time went on before Gohan, with a loud groan, tossed the attack to the side.

The pink attack didn't disperse though as it continued forward towards a small mountain which quickly collapsed under the pressure of the attack.

Several sighs escaped the semi-exhausted demi-saiyan whose attention turned back to Dodoria. He looked at the short distance between him and his opponent; needless to say things weren't looking good for him.

First of all he was cornered; looking back he could see the rugged wall of a cliff side residing on the banks of the green namekian waters. Second of all, he was already extremely tired Dodoria hadn't attacked him as much as he had attack the pink alien but the difference between their damage was pretty different.

Though even if Gohan was at a disadvantage Gohan couldn't give up not after what he promised. Naruto was his first friend EVER they were the best of friends even brothers, there was no way he would let them down there was just no way could he do it.

"I don't have time to deal with the likes of you right now." Dodoria spoke to Gohan with a cocky voice, though the servant of Frieza was sweating bullets at the thought of his master getting angrier at him. "I'll end this quickly."

Dodoria once again broke it a quick dash using his Ki similar to what he had done earlier but this time his face was lifted so that he had sight of the demi-saiyan, along with that Dodoria's mouth was wide open displaying that he would use the ever familiar "Mouth Cannon" attack.

Gohan simply braced himself for the impact as his adversary closed in. In a matter of seconds any distance between the two of them was gone, Dodoria stood right in front of the defensive demi-saiyan.

The pink alien quickly without warning released his energy wave attack at point blank making Gohan seemingly disappear under the waves of pink Ki.

The erupted smoke from the blast dispersed in a matter of sections leaving the sight of a very broken at shattered cliff side. Gohan hung on a sharp edge of cliff side merely with a piece of his gi.

Dodoria chuckled at the sight before reaching his spiky hand over towards Gohan and grabbing the boy by the scruff of his neck.

"I told you this was only a waste of time." He cockily said his arrogant smirk though disappeared when he saw Gohan move his mouth to contort words.

"I'm not done yet." Gohan managed out with his voice coming out barely above a whisper.

"Hmm?" Dodoria bluntly questioned.

"I said I'm not done yet!" Gohan now shouted, though the demi-saiyan's body was sore he was filled with determination. Even when he was heavily inflicted there was a huge difference between an injured spirit and an injured body.

Gohan's fist soared into Dodoria's face and from shock of the hit said person let go of his grasp. The next move that Gohan made was a swift uppercut to Dodoria jaw and a volley of kicks to his sides before swinging a double axe handle to knock him down.

A light aching smile made its way to Gohan face as he saw that Dodoria was a far ways away.

'The fruit of my training…' Gohan thought as he raised his hand behind his head. 'My new move!'

Dodoria looked at Gohan with a very enraged face, why wouldn't he be? Gohan wouldn't give up, every time he had attacked the boy retaliated with even more power than before but this time he would end it, the whole fight would come to a stop right here.

Dodoria quickly flew as fast as he could arrogantly ignoring the fact that Gohan was charging up an attack.

Speaking about the demi-saiyan his attack was just about ready now in his hand was shining ball of orange Ki. His eyes were locked dead straight onto his opponent but his light smile never disappeared.

"Take this!" He shouted with pure fighting spirit. Gohan thrust his hand forward allowing his large ball of Ki to launch off. Strangely the ball began to spin furiously as it approached the approaching Dodoria who still arrogantly hadn't noticed the attack out of blind rage. More onto Gohan's attack the ball of Ki had formed a small, thin ring of Ki around the outer part.

Dodoria eyes widened as he finally spotted the large attack but it was too late and then the collision happened and the attack exploded right on Dodoria's face.

Gohan grinned seeing his attack work and when the aftermath of explosion concluded his grin became even bigger seeing Dodoria nowhere in sight.

"That was awesome Gohan!" A familiar voice called with excitement. Gohan barely turned around to see Naruto before falling unconscious he would've hit the ground has his best friend not been there. Naruto grinned seeing his friend as he moved back towards Vegeta.

Speaking of the Saiyan prince, Vegeta eyes scanned area several times before his gaze fell on the familiar shade of pink in the form off Dodoria. So after motioning for Naruto to stay he moved towards him.

"It seems you underestimated the boy didn't you or was it something else?" Vegeta said as he approached Dodoria with a smirk.

"S-Shut up Vegeta!" Dodoria shouted in panic as he tried to move his brutally beaten body away from the prince.

"Or what?" Vegeta mockingly re4plied as he raised his hand and let a purple aura of Ki surround his hand as if he were sparking a fire. Dodoria eyes moved from the emotion of panic to being frightened and Vegeta easily noticed as his smirk grew bigger. "It seems as if Frieza will be having one less servant." Vegeta continued.

"W-Wait Vegeta if you don't kill me I can give you some information about what Frieza had said to you" Dodoria hastily continued promptly he was grabbed by the scruff of his suit. "A meteor didn't destroy Planet Vegeta!" Dodoria quickly stated. "Frieza had destroyed it himself he had thought that one days the saiyans would have the power to overthrow him!"

Vegeta frowned at the answer. "I had my own assumptions about that already." Vegeta said before his grip on Dodoria suit had increased. "What I'm mad at is that I have been a mere pawn controlled by Frieza for years!" He shouted, he moved his Ki-infused open palmed hand into Dodoria's face .

"Wait I have something else to say!" Dodoria hastily shouted once again, sweat rolled down like rushing waterfalls behind his head at his current state he was only a few feet away from death. "You may not remember but you had a friend when you were a child…" Dodoria began.

Vegeta raised his eyebrow as his grip on Dodoria had unconsciously loosened. Dodoria was slightly relieved seeing as Vegeta had taken an interest.

"So you must remember him." Dodoria said before continuing seeing Vegeta's grip increase again. "He was blond because of some strange birth defect and he had shown to be able to compete with you speed, power, almost everything. I remember the day Frieza had planned on destroying Planet Vegeta that you and your friend had requested to go on a mission together and Frieza allowed it. Then when you entered your pods and launched off you had been taken to separate places, later on after you returned from the mission Frieza "confirmed" that he was dead. Frieza had ordered that his pod was rigged so that you two would be separated… thinking about it that blond boy over there reminds me about him."

Vegeta grit his teeth at the words and he would have increased his grip on Dodoria had he not clutched his head displaying that he was having a major headache.

"Count yourself lucky this time Dodoria." Vegeta simply replied as his gazed turned from him to the sky, he was so caught up in his gaze that he failed to notice Dodoria retreat. Honestly Vegeta was confused, he oddly felt as if he could trust Dodoria but he was still shrouded in mystery though he was brought out of his thoughts as he saw Naruto approach him.

"Vegeta are you ok?" He heard Naruto ask with a look of concern on his face. He looked at Naruto for a quick second before turning his head.

"Yes." He simply said before his head snapped back to Naruto's direction as his body tensed his face contorted to one of shock at his current sight.

In one quick blow Naruto was knocked out from behind causing him to drop Naruto as well as fall down into a river before quickly disappearing from sight due to the rapids of the river. Vegeta grunted in annoyance as well as caution as he watched Naruto disappear from sight.

"I had followed those two brats but I had never expected to run into you Vegeta." The elegant voice of Zarbon spoke as he eyed Vegeta with his "graceful" smirk

Vegeta slowly moved into a fighting stance already foreseeing a battle about to take place.

-Dodoria-

A battle tired Dodoria slowly crawled to several pods surrounding Frieza's ship trying to be as quiet as possible.

'Lord Frieza is going to kill me!' Dodoria thought in fear, it was completely true he had heard the way Frieza had yelled at him when he failed to protect the Dragon Ball but now that he failed twice he could only vision his final sight before death was being confronted by the rage of Frieza. It was due to this that Dodoria's plan was now to escape while he still could it was his only option left.

"Dodoria…" He heard from behind, Dodoria's eyes widened as his heart seemingly stopped when he heard the ever to familiar voice.

"L-Lord Frieza…" Dodoria stammered as he turned to face him. "It's not what it looks like." He said as he pushed himself against the pod.

"Oh but it does." Frieza replied as he moved closer towards Dodoria slowly holding a frown on his face. Frieza could be a master at mixing his emotions to other, with a calm voice, frown, and eyes which seemed way too hard to detect emotion but to those who knew him it was all too easy to know how he was feeling. "You weren't planning to escape in that space pod were you? Not after you failed a second time."

"Wait Lord Frieza please give me another chance!" Dodoria pleaded as he looked at Frieza, if he was trying to hide his fear of the situation he wasn't doing a very good job.

"You fail me twice and you ask for my forgiveness!" Frieza now yelled. In a odd sight Frieza planted his tail into the ground with ferocious strength causing a small crater to form displaying his anger. Frieza's tail then slithered to Dodoria position, extending with each inch closer, before coiling it around his neck and lifting him up.

"Pl-Please Lord Frieza…" Dodoria croaked as Frieza's tail continued to coil around his neck, his plea fell on deaf ears though and Dodoria soon succumbed to his fate. Without a single show of remorse Frieza extract his tail and walk away with an evil smirk.

"Perhaps I should call the Ginyu Force." He calmly said before breaking into a maniacal laughter and heading back inside his spaceship. Frieza truly was a merciless tyrant.

**A/N: That's a wrap! Sorry for the late chapter guys but I apparently got really busy over the course of two weeks and bam no time left to type, though now I'll try to type my next chapters earlier.**

**Onto the story we've finally gotten a little more insight on the background of Vegeta prior to Planet Vegeta's explosion but is everything what it seems? Maybe, Maybe not. The Captain Ginyu Saga should begin after next chapter as hinted at the end of this chapter. Lastly, I'll be taking suggestions for pairing (Which probably won't be actually shown till the Androids Saga) but please PM them to me don't fill the reviews with them please. :) Speaking of PMs I have an announcement which will be going to all my other stories as well. **

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	10. Problems Arise! A Wild Enemy Appears!

**What Lies Within Chapter Ten: Problems Arise! A Wild New Enemy Appears?!**

The door to the small capsule house opened as Krillin walked in along with Dende. He had finally reached the group's little safe haven stored in a cave. The whole interior was silent, not a single thing to be heard which caused Krillin to gain a questioning look. Where exactly was Bulma? He shrugged the question off and turned his attention towards their guest.

"So Dende make yourself at home." Krillin said while placing the Dragon Ball on a small table.

The young boy nodded his head before sitting down on the table and drinking some water placed on the table by Krillin. The bald warrior wasn't even surprised that the young Namekian didn't mind speaking; he was a kid and just saw his whole village killed in front of his own eyes not exactly something easy to digest.

_RIING!_

"Hello…" Krillin answered picking up the phone. "That really you?!" Krillin shouted while gaining a huge grin. He couldn't believe what he was hearing. "Seriously?! That's great!" Krillin shouted once again. "Alright see you soon!" He said before hanging up in pure joy. Unaware of Dende's watching eyes Krillin began jumping around in happiness of course still keeping his joy factor.

"Krillin!" Bulma shouted as she slammed the door open knocking Krillin down in the process. Bulma panted several times before pulling out what she held by her side. Krillin clutched his throbbing head in pain before looking at what Bulma had pulled out. His face took a look of shock and concern seeing it… or actually him.

Bulma had pulled out a soaking wet and drenched Naruto, the blond's locks of hair flopped down like hairs of a mop. The boy was unconscious but showed signs of lung problems displayed by several coughing fits.

"I think his lungs are filled with water!" Bulma shouted with concern as she rushed him onto a bed.

"Damn, how did this happen?!" Krillin cursed as he tried thrusting his arms onto the boy's stomach in order to push out some water to no avail. Naruto continued his coughing fits though and at an increasing rate.

Dende, who had been watching the scene the whole time, stood up to take a closer look. His presence was unaware to Bulma and Krillin.

'It's him…' Dende thought as he looked at Naruto. 'He's the one who introduced themselves to me.' He thought again before sitting down beside him and placing his hands out. His hands quickly began emitting a blinking light until remaining at a glow.

"Uh, Dende what are you doing?" Krillin asked as he turned his attention towards Dende's actions. The Namekian didn't answer though as he continued before stopping as the glow ceased.

"I did some minor healing to his lungs, now he should be able to release the water in it easier and wake up." Dende answered.

Showing the truth of Dende's words almost on instant, Naruto's body shuffled a few times after a few seconds at the end of process. Then after a small session of fluttering eyes the blond jolted awake.

"Where am I?" He weakly said as he stood up and looked around. "Krillin, Bulma, Dende?" Bulma looked at him with a keen eye before giving a sigh of relief; she was grateful that he was ok.

"What do you think you were doing?!" Bulma shouted as she approached Naruto with a look of fury.

To many people Bulma's rage seemed to be untamed of sorts whenever you did something which got her pissed but to people who had known her for a long time, like Krillin, you'd know that Bulma usually got that way when she was worried.

"Naruto weren't you with Vegeta?" Krillin asked as he raised an eyebrow. "Yea, you guys were going to find Gohan." Naruto looked at him in confusion before his eyes widened as he remembered what had previously had happened prior to being unconscious.

"We did…" Naruto said as he scratched his head. "I only remember Vegeta, Gohan, and me together before I fell unconscious."

"Then where's Gohan?" Bulma questioned this time.

Naruto rubbed his head as he tried to remember any other details. His face brightened up as he displayed a look which hinted at him remembering what had happened.

"I think some guy knocked me out." He blankly said as he tried focusing his concentration on the events. "I guess after he knocked us out, we fell in the river meaning…" Naruto continued, suddenly his face took a serious concerned demeanor and in turn causing the atmosphere to tense. "I have to find Gohan!" He shouted as he moved to run out the door.

"Wait Naruto where do you think you're going?!" Bulma shouted as she walked over to the blond and picked him up by the back scruff of Piccolo's dark orange gi. "You're not going to run off without me this time! I'm going with you!" She declared furiously as she set Naruto down, the blond continued looking at her with a serious look making the atmosphere only grow thicker.

"You could get hurt." He said as he looked at her once again.

Normally in a moment like this he would've been trembling hysterically at Bulma's fury along with Krillin but something was different this time, the Uzumaki had no idea why but her rage was different this time it felt _genuine._

"Me getting hurt, I'm worrying about you getting hurt!" The bluenette shouted with a slightly frustrated tone, a few seconds later her demeanor changed into a concerned one. She turned her head away from Naruto now plastering her normal demeanor on her face. "Besides it's been pretty boring just sitting around here." Naruto looked at her with a grin before moving to exit the door.

"W-Wait!" Naruto heard some call; The Uzumaki turned around to see Dende approaching him. "G-Gohan… Your friend I can heal him as well please let me join you." The young Namek informed.

"Sure! Thanks for the help Dende!" Naruto gave Dende a grin before turning towards Krillin with a smirk. "So Krillin you coming?"

"Well I guess it wouldn't be the same without me would it?" The bald fighter said as he gave a "No Brainer" look and joined them.

"Alright then let's go!" Naruto yelled broadcasting a tone of a very energetic show of determination. 'We're coming Gohan, hang in there.'

-Break-

Using his forearm Vegeta blocked a kick from Zarbon and retaliated with several jabs towards his face causing the self-acclaimed "Elegant" warrior to move away.

Disdain was a strong emotion that currently resided on Zarbon's face as he looked at the Saiyan Prince with a scowl. Vegeta on the other hand was smirking in cocky pride; Vegeta already knew that he was stronger than his current opponent and it would seem his said opponent was finally figuring that out.

While Vegeta barely held any evidence of being hurt or breaking a sweat, Zarbon was a different case with several bruises marking his skin and his nervousness at his current standings in their fight was hinted as a bead of sweat rolled down the back of his head.

"Had you fought me while I was on or prior to my arrival on Earth you may have had a chance but that not the current situation is it?" Vegeta said as he still held his smirk. "So why don't you run and kiss up to Frieza while you still have the chance?"

"That's very unlike you Vegeta; you've never been one to allow someone to get away." Zarbon calmly spoke slyly allowing his true feelings of nervousness to not be displayed.

"What can I say maybe Earth changes you… but there's no time for dawdling, you have 3 seconds to flee and trust me if you don't except I won't hesitate to kill you." Vegeta replied with a slight chuckle causing the scowl on Zarbon's face to widen; here the servant of Frieza was fighting at what was almost his full power or at least the full power of what he wanted to use and Vegeta was simply toying with him.

"3…"

"2…"

"1…"

Without warning Vegeta swiftly flew towards his opponent and positioned himself so that he was upside down, he then held out both of his open hands across Zarbon's chest. Vegeta smirk never left his face as he spoke his next few words:

"Double Galick Cannon!" Vegeta shouted calling the name of his attack; waves of Ki flew out of Vegeta palms as if they were high tides emitting tremendous levels of strength causing Zarbon's body to whiz through the air the opposite direction of Vegeta.

The "Saiyan Prince" quickly proceeded to use Ki and dash through the air quickly making his way to his opponent. He threw several attacks towards Zarbon causing the warrior to continue his travels in the air but Vegeta didn't stop there as he dashed once again and attacked then repeating the process again and causing a repetitive chain before finishing the combo by slamming Zarbon into a cliff side which caused his body to place itself in the small crater it made.

"Curse you Vegeta!" Zarbon cursed from his place on the cliff side. With a loud grunt he forced himself off of the landform and back onto the ground.

"What is it Zarbon, have you finally had enough?" Vegeta more mocked than questioned with a chuckle, his voice was very cocky and it was obvious that Vegeta still had the upper hand.

"I'll wipe that smirk off your face." Zarbon said as he stared Vegeta down with gritted teeth. "I'll have you know that I've yet to use your full power, in other words I have a transformation." Zarbon said as he now grew a smirk of his own.

"A transformation, some silly little metamorphosis won't scare me! Haha, go on ahead I'll enjoy crushing you at full power!" Vegeta arrogantly laughed to accompany his statement still being as conceited as ever.

"Fine, I don't like using it as it makes me become rather… ugly but if I'm able to crush every single bone in your body I'll deem it acceptable…" Zarbon spoke wiping all of his spilled blood on his hands and mouth. "Now then…" Zarbon slowly said before a crazy grin plastered itself on his face.

The wind stirred as the two warriors stared each other down carefully, the green waters of Namek began to shift within the Nature's melody. Then suddenly the waves began shifting at a rapid speed along with wind which began picking up speed.

Slowly the servant of Frieza stretched his arms out wide, and then suddenly as if air were pumped into his body his limbs grew but they didn't look like giant balloons; they looked more like thicker appendages along with an enlarged body. A key feature though was the change of his face. What was remarked as beautiful by Zarbon was no more and in turn it was replaced by a large snarky face with two noticeable fangs sticking out. Vegeta's eyes widened at the several change of physical features as if seeing a monster stare him down.

"Like I said Vegeta you've only seen my beautiful side! Now enjoy this while you live!" Zarbon said with a much deeper voice. The newly transformed alien gave no warning as he quickly charged at Vegeta with a lifted knee which crashed into the Saiyan Prince's gut.

Dazed by the attack Vegeta had no time to defend as Zarbon clutched his shoulders and began head butt him repeatedly allowing blood to spill from his forehead. It was beyond brutal as Zarbon took Vegeta by the arm and dragged him towards a mountain before slamming his defenseless body repeatedly into it several time before creating a place for Vegeta body to stick just as the Saiyan had done to him before.

In Zarbon's newest transformation he attacked like a brute but was quick when it came to attacking as well, not necessarily a good arsenal to go up against.

In his next merciless action Zarbon began pounding into Vegeta's head embedding his fist into Vegeta's skull each time. Then we tremendous strength he threw Vegeta's battered body into the air and elevated into the air so that he was slightly higher in the air than Vegeta. He quickly released a purple ball of Ki which collided with Vegeta's body sending him into a collision course to the ground.

Zarbon gave a deep laugh as he saw Vegeta's bruised and battered body almost look completely lifeless. "Well now it's seems I have wiped that smirk off your face." Zarbon said with a wild grin making its way to his fanged face. "Oh so you want some more?" Zarbon mockingly asked seeing Vegeta weakly try to stand up. The transformed beast slowly walked up to the prince and picked him up as if he was a rag doll. "Now Vegeta have you had enough?" Zarbon cackled as he repeated a question Vegeta had said to him earlier.

The servant of Frieza clutched Vegeta into bear hug and abruptly soared into the air with lots of speed. The crazy fanged grin on his face never disappeared as he turned their bodies upside down and began dropping using Ki to increase his speed. It seemed to be a self-endangering attack till Zarbon quickly disabled his clutch and letting Vegeta plummet to his doom alone.

As smoke and dust which had risen due to the crash dispersed Zarbon could now be seen smirking now de-transformed.

"I did warn him." Zarbon spoke out loud to himself his smirk displaying his satisfaction due to his success. "Now then it's time to report back to Lord Frieza." Zarbon quickly said shortly after that for a second his eyes scanned the area for any sign of Vegeta.

The small land which had once been brimming with life now looked akin to a wasteland. Waves splashed against its surface also hinting that the strip of land had dropped closer to sea level, but there was no sign of the Saiyan Prince

"I feel like I'm forgetting something… no matter." Zarbon quietly said to himself paying no heed to it.

-Break-

Over half way across the planet where Vegeta and Zarbon had fought was where Naruto, Krillin, Bulma and Dende currently flew over one of the green seas of Namek or flew in Naruto, Krillin, and Dende's case while being lifted by Naruto in Bulma's case.

"Did you feel that Naruto!" Krillin yelled as the small group of four stopped their journey. Krillin's voice slightly leaking out fear. "That power level was huge!"

"I think that must've been the guy who knocked me out." Naruto said closing his eyes to focus on the power levels. It was slightly hard since they were basically half way across the planet from that position but nevertheless with some patience it was possible. "Vegeta…" Naruto quietly said. "Vegeta's power level faded…"Naruto solemnly spoke.

"What for real!" Krillin replied as he gritted his teeth.

"Vegeta…" Bulma quietly said herself.

The four were in silence; Dende since he hadn't even met Vegeta and Naruto, Krillin, and Bulma because…

"We have to keep going Naruto, I know it doesn't sound right but we still have to get to Gohan and we're so close if we rush after Vegeta now we won't have enough time to come back. I want to go after Vegeta too but we have someone else we need to get as well." Krillin wisely informed.

Naruto looked at Krillin for a second understanding what he had said. They all had grown close to Vegeta rather quickly; Naruto had started looking up to Vegeta, and Bulma and Krillin had taken a liking to him as well. Vegeta didn't seem like a merciless killer to them anymore, he was no longer the man who had ordered for their friends to be killed anymore he was a friend.

"Alright thanks Krillin, let's go find Gohan we're close!" Naruto shouted with a grin now. "Hurry up!" Krillin smiled seeing Naruto fly ahead of them

'I guess he's still a kid after all.' He thought before quickly flying forward to catch up.

Over the horizons a small strip of land came to view which showed that a small house of sorts was the only building which resided on it, so it wasn't a Namekian village. It was designed just like other Traditional Namekian ones but it was slightly larger.

"That's Guru's place!" Dende exclaimed in excitement as a smile crept on his face.

"Guru?" Naruto simply asked as he flew beside the Young Namekian.

"Yea, he's pretty much the father of all the Namekians currently since he gave birth to all 105 of my brothers!" Dende said his voice still brimming in excitement. "If Gohan's with him then he's most likely alright." Dende failed to notice Krillin and Bulma sweat drop at the beginning part of his

"Alright!" Naruto yelled with a grin still on his face. "Wait, how does he have children?" Naruto asked tilting his head slightly to show his curiosity.

"Wait Dende I don't think we need to-" Bulma began before being interrupted.

"All Namekians give birth to children via ejecting eggs out their mouth." Dende said answering Naruto question, Naruto nodded showing that he understood the question. Bulma face palmed at the two young boy's small talk.

Not wasting a second as soon as Naruto and Dende's feet touched the surface they ran towards the large building, pushing the door open as they ran. They slowly one by one entered the slightly dim lit room walking on the purple tiles which coated the room, which look much bigger on the inside then outside.

"Grand Elder Guru!" Dende yelled as he entered the single room.

"Ah, Dende… I've been expecting you." The Namekian known as Guru replied with a cough and a large breath of air.

Grand Elder Guru was a very large and elder Namekian who appeared to be morbidly obese as he sat on his throne. The wrinkles on his face expressed how old he was even further. He wore traditional Namekian robes and seemed to have both of his eyes closed.

Next to Guru, was another much younger Namekian who looked almost completely identical to Piccolo. He wore a blue vest and a white scarf along with white pants. On the other side of him was an all too familiar Demi-Saiyan.

"Naruto!" Gohan yelled as he ran up to his friend with a smile, one which his best friend returned. They quickly enveloped each other into a hug before laughing with each other. "I would've gone straight to you guys but it's thanks to Grand Elder Guru and Nail that I'm all good."

"Whoa Gohan your power's incredible!" Naruto shouted in shock as he finally took a chance to sense the current people in the room's power level. Gohan's power had skyrocketed tremendously now even rivaling Vegeta's current power level or maybe being even higher.

"Guru can unlock one's hidden potential, what he did to your friend was increase his power." Nail explained and gained a nod from Guru.

"That is correct… now come to me young child." Guru slowly asked as he still kept his same position on his throne.

Following the order Naruto walked over to Guru till he was able to stand right in front of the throne, which was pretty easy due to how large the Namekian was.

"Now then if… you will allow me to… unlock your potential." Guru said and once again coughing and inhaling a large breath of air every time he paused. He moved his large hand over Naruto's head in silence. "I see…" He said after a few seconds. "You have faced many things… throughout your life… some things even unknown to you right now… but that will only be figured as time passes… so nonetheless I shall unlock your potential."

A few seconds slowly passed with no change in anything in the room before Naruto suddenly began emitting a white aura. The aura then grew an orange-red color before disappearing entirely.

"Did it work?" Naruto asked not feeling any different than before.

"No… please sit down young child… Naruto was it? This may take… longer than I expected." Guru ordered calmly, Naruto nodded following what was asked and sat down. 'So it wishes to interfere… this may take longer than I expect.' The elder Namekian thought as he proceeded to try using his ability one more.

-Break-

A loud scream could be heard in Frieza's giant spaceship and the area surrounding it, and it wasn't a scream full of joy that was for sure. It was a scream of rage as usual.

'WHAT DO YOU MEAN FORGOT ABOUT THOSE BRATS?!" Frieza shouted in pure rage, it was the second time in about 24 hours where he had to yell at the top of his lungs, or more specifically yell at Zarbon. "I GAVE YOU ONE ORDER AND YOU FAIL ME!"

"Yes, but Lord Frieza I got sidetracked by Vegeta." Zarbon replied hiding his head as he bowed. He was sweating bullets at this point, Frieza had shouted at him not once but twice and with what happened to Dodoria he wasn't expecting to get a second chance. "His power seems to have increased but I managed to defeat him." Zarbon continued try to make sure not to stutter on words.

"Interesting so Vegeta is on Namek." Frieza now calmly spoke, his tail moving around calmly as to show that he leveled his head. It was almost unbelievable that one second Frieza could be screaming at the top of his lungs and next second speak like the calmest man in the universe. "So where is Vegeta now?" Frieza quietly asked closing his eyes.

"Well after I defeated him, he disappeared so I think he-" The servant of Frieza was only halfway through his words before…

"GO AND FIND HIM OR I WILL NOT DEEM YOU WORTHY OF A SECOND CHANCE!" Frieza shouted interrupting Zarbon's sentence in the process.

"Yes my Lord." Zarbon hastily replied in a nervous tone, before exiting.

"And Zarbon if I'm not back, if you arrive back here assume I'm meeting the Ginyu Force at our Rendezvous point." Frieza informed, his back was turned to Zarbon and his hands were behind him as well in a formal manner.

"The G-Ginyu F-Force, they're coming?" Zarbon said as he stuttered due to the mentioning of that "team".

"Yes, they should be arriving in only a short amount of time. Now hurry along Zarbon, you don't want to disappoint me." Frieza said concluding the conversation while adding extra emphasis to his last sentence, Zarbon was no fool he knew what would happen if he became listed on the "disappointment" category and it was good.

-Break-

Naruto could feel power surging through him as Guru took his hand off his head, he had finally gotten his potential unlocked and it felt like he had a ton of stored adrenaline had been unleashed all at once. His power level had increased to such a high point just as Gohan's had earlier.

"Now we're both stronger now!" Gohan yelled in joy as he and Naruto did their usual Hi-Five both with grins on their faces.

"I feel like I can take on a whole army!" Naruto yelled in excitement, Bulma sweat dropped at the statement which was probably more of a fact.

Saiyan were born with power levels higher than any average human would ever have, even Ki Users if not trained properly still didn't match the power level of a Saiyan. Low-Class Warriors had around what power level in the 1,000s; Mid-Class Warriors had power levels around 6,000-8,000; and High-Class exceeding 10,000.

From what Bulma had seen back on Earth with Vegeta's power level being 18,000 she could tell that Goku, Vegeta, Naruto, and Gohan had easily exceeded that and gone beyond. Not only that but both Goku and Vegeta stated that Vegeta's Galick Gun, When Full Charged like back on Earth , could have destroyed Earth if it had made contact, and to sum it all together if you could destroy a Planet taking out earth's army would be as easy as wagging a Saiyan Tail.

"Wow I guess Guru's the real deal. Naruto your power skyrocketed!" Krillin exclaimed after witnessing the Elder's namekian's ability first hand for the first time ever.

"Of course would you expect any less of the Grand Elder?" Nail calmly said replying to Krillin's statement. The bald warrior sheepishly scratched his head and chuckled at what Nail had said.

"I wonder why it took so long though." Bulma wondered with a thoughtful expression.

"It is not of importance right now, now please let's continue and unlock your potential now." Nail said in a slightly hasty manner.

"Actually why do you guys want to unlock our potential so badly?" Naruto asked as his adrenaline rush died down.

"Yeah you never explained that to me Guru." Gohan asked seconding his friend's question.

"My people… I can tell they are dying… I can already tell that you are all… pure of heart… and I can tell that my time is running out…" Dende gasped at this part.

"Guru you can't mean!" Dende yelled in a solemn tone.

"Yes my child… it is almost time for my… departure from the realm of the living… but I will not allow my Dragon Balls… to be used for evil doings." Guru continued his breaths seeming to grow longer and longer each time. "Dende I want you to go along with them… and help them summon the Dragon." Dende slowly nodded trying his hardest to hold back tears after the words of his father. "Now let us continue… we don't have a moment to waste."

Suddenly outside the sounds of someone struggling could be heard, it was accompanied by the constant sound of water dripping before the sound got louder and louder, and closer and closer.

"Vegeta!" Bulma shouted as she rushed towards the side of the Saiyan Prince, grabbing him before his now unconscious body fell to the ground.

He looked drenched and just as soaking wet just as Naruto had been earlier but not only that he looked as though he had been beaten to a pulp, he was bleeding in several area and bruises were marked on his body in several places, all in all he was far from ok.

"He must have been beaten by that guy who knocked me out." Naruto said as he grit his teeth. "Krillin I think it was the person whose power skyrocketed, remember?"

"I know but maybe we can take him on I mean we just got major power boost, I'm almost certain that either you or Gohan can take him on right now." Krillin informed his student/friend as he kept his positive attitude about the situation.

"Neither of you will be taking him on he's mine." A voice weakly spoke, Vegeta who was still soaking wet and bruised barely moved his body before falling back down into Bulma's arms in failure. It was only seconds after that he could feel his body fall to the ground and away from Bulma's grasp. "Bulma, What was that for?!" Vegeta shouted from his place on the ground.

"Well it seems you're fine so you can stand on your own two feet!" Bulma shouted back.

"That's not a way to treat a Saiyan Prince!" Vegeta yelled back in annoyance.

"Hey Naruto, Gohan I think that's the first time Vegeta's called Bulma by her name." Krillin whispered to his students with a small chuckle.

"They don't want to admit it but they're better friends than you think." Gohan whispered back with laughter.

"Yea, I mean did you see the way Bulma was holding Vegeta back there." Naruto whispered with a grin.

"WHAT WAS THAT?!" Bulma and Vegeta yelled in complete unison as they turn their attention to the trio and glared at them.

"Nothing." The three said still having humorous grins of their own.

"Please quiet down Guru wishes to speak." Nail calmly ordered as he brought their attention back to the Elder Namek.

Guru was currently "staring" at Vegeta, even though his eyes were pretty much closed before turning his head to Dende. With a coughs and a few deep breaths `

"Dende please heal him if you may." Guru quickly said seeing that he had everyone's attention, Dende nodded at the order and slowly walked towards Vegeta before working his magic. "Young girl do you wish to have your potential unlocked?" Guru answered as he turned his head over to face Bulma.

"M-Me?" Bulma stuttered giving a dumbfounding question back in reply, Guru nodded. "I didn't think I had any potential."

"Well I guess it would make sense, all humans have Ki but the older you grow the less chance you have to unlock it; I learned how to use it while I was a teen under Master Roshi so it was easier to learn it then, then now." Krillin explained gesturing his finger around to make his point.

Hearing the information Bulma nodded and approached Guru still being hesitant. The elder namekian quickly placed his hand on her head which once again allowed a faint white aura to make its presence known. The aura filled with energy surrounded the bluenette a few seconds before disappearing as if it never existed.

"…"

Bulma blinked a few times as she looked at the palm of her hands in awe. Now coating her body was a faint, light purple Ki aura that was surging with power… though nothing matched to Naruto, Gohan or Krillin.

"Wow Bulma, your power did really grow, but you still have a long way to go if you want to be on par with Gohan, Krillin, me." Naruto said in reply to her power enhancement with a grin, as always he sheepishly scratched his head seeing Bulma glare at him.

But there was no time for jokes as Naruto's head shot up and tensed, the blond cringed at what he was feeling.

"You guys sense that?" Naruto quietly questioned as he focused his mind.

"Yea…" Krillin quietly said as he took a small chance to gulp. "You think that's Goku?" Krillin continued with a light chuckle as he tried to cheer them up.

"Sorry Krillin but I don't think that's my dad." Gohan answered as he too concentrated on the power levels he was sensing. "Plus I think I sense five power levels and another one coming straight to us."

"That must be the Ginyu Force, Frieza's elite squadron of men." Vegeta informed and followed up with an explanation to what was most likely going to be their question. "The single power level must be Zarbon, another one of Frieza's men, he's the one who knocked you out and defeated me." Vegeta continued with a grunt.

"So what do we do now?" Krillin blankly said; there really was no other thing to ask.

"You three go gather the two Dragon Balls near the ship, I'll hold of the single power level here, once there go to the spot where that gigantic spaceship landed and sneak inside and try to find the Dragon Balls as quickly as possible." Vegeta said giving out the orders of his plan. "Bulma you stay here."

"But…" Bulma began to plead before being cut off.

"No buts it's too dangerous." Vegeta quickly intervened; Bulma stared at Vegeta for a few seconds before nodding.

"Please take this." Krillin's eyes widened as he took what Guru offered them, it was none other than a Dragon Ball. "Dende please accompany them and help them summon the Dragon." Guru commanded. Dende quickly nodded at the orders.

"Now that everything is sorted out get ready."Vegeta later said after a few seconds of silence.

Naruto and Gohan looked each other in the eye with looks full of passion and determination. They were no longer the scared little kids who had to stall out for Goku on Earth, the Demi-Saiyan who were full of potential but couldn't properly grasp the power that _Lied Within. _For the first time Naruto and Gohan would be helping out at full power from the get go and whether this Ginyu force intervened or not they weren't backing out.

Vegeta, Naruto, Gohan, Krillin, and Dende walked out of the door as they latter four stood the opposite direction of Vegeta. A serious atmosphere filled the air but the Demi-Saiyan duo felt very calm. _The Calm before the Storm_ perhaps? It certainly felt that way especially with the incoming signs of immense danger in the form the Ginyu Force representing the _Calm_ and Frieza representing the _Storm. _ Either way they shook their mind away from the Galactic Tyrant in focus of their current goal.

With no final words the team of four split ways with Vegeta as they headed towards the Space Ship to acquire the Dragon Balls they had obtained prior, while Vegeta moved to face Zarbon.

_**Namek Saga END!**_

**A/N: And the Namek Saga has ended, bet you didn't see that coming huh? Well with that out of the way we move on the Ginyu Force Saga, I know it really doesn't start till the actual fight with Ginyu but come on that would make the Saga like one chapter long two at most.**

**Anyways, you can see Naruto and Gohan have received a major increase of power so I think it's time for a power level update eh?**

**Naruto (Base): 40,000+**

**Gohan (Base): 40,000+**

**Vegeta (Base): 42,000+**

**From here on out I'm suggest that all of you read sections of my story regarding power very carefully if my predictions are correct I think they're power levels will be receiving too many frequent boosts between fights due to Zenkai (If you aren't familiar with this term refer back to Chapter Seven's Author's Note.)**

**Also, in this chapter thanks to constructive criticism from several individuals I've tried to be very descriptive, detailed, etc. I know it's not perfect since I have my flaws but please continue pointing these out I'm grateful for anyone help given, and try to clarify it as best as possible since I'm very likely to be confused at things.**

**On an unrelated note you may notice that I haven't updated Guardian Soul in a while. If any of you remember, on the third chapter I said I would take a break from typing it to study what is to come for the next Arc well I did… So don't worry I'll be bringing some fresh new chapters of it right after I finish typing the next chapter of Guiding the Way (Which is 50% complete). I'll also be giving you two chapters just to apologize for the lack of updates.**

**In upcoming weeks you may realize that new stories may end up popping up such as…**

_**Naruto + To Love Ru**_

**And/or**

_**Naruto + Final Fantasy VII**_

**But please don't worry it won't disrupt updates for any of my current stories just a way to get my ideas out into the open, since they may or may not be updated much.**

**Finally, I want to thank you all so much for OVER 100 reviews! I'm grateful for all the support you all give me! So Thanks for the supports and as always keep it up! :D**


	11. Incredible Posing Squad! Ginyu Force!

**What Lies Within Chapter Eleven: The Incredible Posing Squad! The Ginyu Force! **

**A/N: Thanks for all the support, I appreciate it!**

The hairs of Naruto and Gohan flew in the wind as the two soared through the air. The two had found themselves in a comfortable silence after Krillin and Dende had left to get the Dragon Balls back where they had set up camp. Though it did seem a little odd to leave two children with the duty of sneaking into a Galactic Tyrant's base but Krillin had yet to question the limits of their ability as they had already surpassed his power.

While Frieza had lost his scouters which disabled his ability to precisely locate the Namekians he still had a hefty number of subordinates to do his dirty work. It was in that way that Frieza had easily gathered the remaining four Dragon Balls before he finished each and every subordinate, with a remorseless face albeit.

But not only had the subordinates suffer from Frieza's tyranny; the Namekian villages had been raided by Frieza's men in search for the mystical objects, many Namekians and even entire villages were killed in the search. It angered Naruto and Gohan, it was the Namekians' objects in the first place Frieza had no right to barge in and take it.

The demi-saiyans weren't idiots though so they wouldn't try to approach Frieza in a one-on-one situation but they were almost positive that he would get what he would deserve.

Though both half-breeds were was pulled out of his thoughts as they arrived at their destination. For the most part it looked as if no one was even around as not one sound could be heard but the two friends weren't taking any chances.

So after looking each other and nodding the two set off to get the Dragon Balls.

Only a few seconds later the two made their way back to each other both with a Dragon Ball in the other's hand. They took a sigh of relief and grinned. They were beyond worried about the other's whereabouts.

"Alright!" Naruto exclaimed extending his arm in the air.

"That was too easy!" Gohan exclaimed as well and slapped Naruto's hand in the air so they performed their signature Hi-Five.

With grins as wide as the three suns of Namek, both demi-saiyans stared at one another for a second before gaining a serious demeanor and blasting off into the sky.

There was no time to waste, especially since this so called "Ginyu Force" had just arrived on the planets only a few minutes ago.

-Break-

"What took you guys so long?!" Krillin shouted. "I was starting to get worried." Naruto and Gohan sheepishly scratched their heads as they set down the four Dragon Balls in their possession.

Abruptly all seven Dragon Balls, which were now together in a pile, began illuminating a bright yellow glow. Krillin smiled seeing the balls light up.

"Alright Dende summon the Drag- huh?" The bald warrior began before stopping as five blurs appeared before him. Krillin's face hardened as he picked up the Young Namekian and placed him in a safe place

Standing before the group were five men each looking as though they belonged to an alien race? Oddly enough they were all in some weird pose.

On the far bottom left was a green alien with four eyes; two in the normal area and two which were right on the sides of his head. He appeared to be a short stocky male. On the far upper left was a very muscular humanoid looking man with orange hair. On the upper right was a blue skinned male with red eyes. In the bottom right was a red skinned man with white, long hair. And finally in the middle was a purple skinned male with two horns sticking outside his head.

"We are the Ginyu Force!" All five yelled in unison.

Naruto, Gohan, Krillin and Dende all looked at the squad of men with a sweat drop. There was no way that these were Frieza's so called Elite Squadron, they looked like idiots.

"Now then I believe I'll be taking these." The purple skinned man quickly said before picking up the seven Dragon Balls. "Well boys I'll leave these runts to you."

"W-Wait! You don't really think we're just going to let you walk away with the Dragon Balls do you?" Krillin questioned before hastily backing up as the man turned his head towards him. The scouter on his right eye beeped a bit before he began laughing.

"Pathetic! Do you think you'll really be able to handle me with power levels of 5000?" The supposed Captain of the Ginyu Force mocked.

"Hehe trust me, we can get a lot stronger." Naruto bravely spoke looking at the man with a demeanor of determination. At that the Captain was stopped right in his tracks.

"You're bluffing." The captain simply spoke.

As the commander of the Ginyu force, Captain Ginyu, began turning to walk away Gohan prepared to run after him but not before having an arm put on his shoulder stopping him in his tracks.

"Vegeta?!" Gohan shouted in shock seeing the "Saiyan Prince" stop him. Ginyu turned his head around in interest hearing the name of the Saiyan.

"Ah Vegeta I guess the rumors are true of you teaming up with a couple of humans." The red skinned man of Ginyu Force known as Jeice said finally speaking up.

"Look again." Vegeta calmly said while pointing to the two brown furry tails swinging behind Naruto and Gohan's face.

"Saiyans but I thought Frieza had eliminated all the other saiyans… don't tell me you." Ginyu began before raising an eyebrow once again.

"As if I have the time to be producing offspring. These two are half-saiyans." Vegeta informed. "That one is the child of the Saiyan I met on Earth while the blond… I'm not sure myself." Hearing what Vegeta said Naruto opened his mouth to say something but Vegeta continued his words. "But now not the time for that."

"Alright then, it's a shame that you won't live long enough to tell me anything else." The captain said with an ominous tone. "Well then boys get to work!" And with that the squadron leader flew off towards Frieza's location.

"Well then I guess we have to decide who get who the old-fashioned way." The blue alien whose name was "Burter" stated.

"The first winner gets Vegeta, the second winner gets the runts, and last place gets the midget."The small, green, multi-eyed alien named "Guldo" said.

"How can he call me a midget… I'm even taller than he is." Krillin silently deadpanned.

"ROCK, PAPER, SCISSORS!" They yelled simultaneously.

"Does everyone use this game to determine fights?" The long-life friend of Goku questioned with a sweat drop. "Eh? What's gotten into you two?" Krillin once again asked a question as his head tilted to Naruto and Gohan.

Both demi-saiyans had a serious but excited look plastered on their faces.

"Can't you tell their excited for the fight." Vegeta answered Krillin question while gaining a smirk of his own. "It's only natural for a Saiyan." Krillin rolled his eyes at the Saiyan prince's words in order to avert his eyes back over the Ginyu Force.

"So I get Vegeta!" The brute looking member named "Recoome" answered in a stereotypical idiotic voice.

"And I get the runts…" Guldo muttered with slight annoyance.

"So we get the midget." Both Burter and Jeice stated.

Krillin's face dropped into a look of horror realizing that he was in a 2 on 1 fight. He wasn't as strong neither Goku nor Vegeta, even Naruto and Gohan were much stronger than him. The look of fear must have been as clear as day to the demi-saiyans though as both sent an assuring look to the human calming his fears.

"Alright then I'll go first." Guldo announced walking up slowly to what would be their battleground. He could feel the winds of Namek move across his numerous eyelids as he waited for the "runts" to make their way to the field.

"NOW!" A loud scream was heard across the area. From out of nowhere Gohan appeared behind Guldo a wrapped his body into a full-nelson (The position Goku did to Raditz) strangling the green alien. Only a second later before Guldo even had the chance to breathe Naruto hand was right in the alien's face.

_BOOM!_

A large cloud of smoke revealed itself into the area blinding any view of what happened in the battlefield after Naruto's own appearance. Within a few seconds the smoke cleared to reveal Naruto and Gohan grinning at each other with their hands stretched out into a hi-five. Beneath them was the unconscious form of Guldo.

"We didn't mean to finish the battle that fast." Naruto informed still grinning as he sheepishly scratched his head.

"We just wanted to catch him by surprise." Gohan continued also carrying a grin of his own.

As the demi-saiyans continued their joyous of grins at their latest feat the look on Krillin and the other members of the Ginyu Force were priceless. All had their jaws wide open at how easy it was to finish that off. While Guldo was the weakest member of the group his time-stopping ability would have pushed them on the ropes (Though Krillin lacked the knowledge of this.)

"Well I guess that was a nice, fast job. At least I finally get a chance to fight now." Vegeta commented.

Both Naruto and Gohan kept their smiles at the praise but Naruto's grew slightly larger at the praise, something which didn't go unnoticed by Krillin but the earthling cast the though aside in order to focus on the next match of Vegeta vs. Recoome.

"RECOOME!" The brutish looking member yelled as he jumped to the middle of the battlefield. Along with his yell came an odd pose one that seemed kind of suggestive from some points.

Krillin sweatdropped at the weird pose. "Are all of them freaks?" He quietly murmured as he took a look at Recoome.

"I wouldn't judge him by his looks, he may look weird but I assure you he's no joke. Ginyu handpicks each member based on a specific quality they have. Guldo had the power to freeze time, while Recoome… as I've heard he's quite the brute." Vegeta smirked upon allowing the last few words to slide out of his mouth.

Should the Saiyan Prince be scared… well if he was anyone else he probably would be. The lingering thought of Recoome being strong was a good thing for the prince. And it was all because of that dormant Saiyan ability… ah yes Zenkai. The longer this fight ent on the more likely Vegeta would get stronger as the more beaten up he is after a recovery he would be much stronger.

Without a second's notice Vegeta burst into a sprint towards his opponent reeling a punch in the process. As he approached Recoome, the squad member's stance changed slightly in order to block a fist to the gut and a kick to the head.

Vegeta was most definitely not in a good position as both his arm and foot were locked in place by a iron tight grip by Recoome.

"Recoome…" The brute yelled as he reeled back his legs while trying to keep his grasp on Vegeta in place. "KICK!" Just as Recoome thrust his legs forward Vegeta narrowly escaped the grasp just in time for the kick to breeze right by him.

"Hey no fair! You weren't supposed to escape." Recoome childishly said this along with his distinct tone made him almost take a look of innocence.

"Then would you call this cheating as well?" Vegeta smoothly said as he disappeared from view.

Seconds later the Saiyan reappeared in front Recoome floating upside down with both his palm hovering above Recoome's chest. Without a moment's notice a purple light burst forth from Vegeta's hand enveloping Recoome with explosion.

"Alright Vegeta!" Naruto cheered with a grin.

"I didn't think the battle would be that easy." Gohan commented as he looked to the battlefield which was now enveloped in smoke.

"Wait a minute…" Krillin quietly spoke as he squinted his eyes. His eyes widened only seconds later.

As the smoke cleared Recoome's body had not moved an inch instead the only thing which had changed was Recoome's outfit which now was ripped in several areas.

Vegeta silently cursed as he saw that barely any damage had been done. Though he wasn't in any place to dawdle so he continued his assault.

In swift motion he planted his fist into his adversary's guts. Quickly advancing he brought his leg against the side of Recoome's head knocking the Ginyu Force member of balance. To follow the whole thing up the Saiyan prince launched his foot straight into the brute's head with tremendous force.

Vegeta's next attack was cut off as Recoome's hand grabbed his own. Now the Vegeta was in a bad position Recoome planned on taking full advantage of the situation. Lifting his arm up and down Recoome slammed Vegeta's body into the ground causing pieces of it to fracture. In the whole motion of the attack the Ginyu Force member had yet to leave his grasp on Vegeta.

Recoome carelessly dragged his arm to the side and let go out his grip as Vegeta was thrown through the air as if he were a rag doll. The now bruised Vegeta began slowing his acceleration through the air only to see Recoome figure speeding towards him.

The Saiyan Prince took a defensive pose seeing it was too late to even move out of the way. So closing his eyes he prepared for the worse. But instead of feeling bone crushing pain he felt nothing at all. He reopened his eyes at that moment only to have his stomach sink.

Recoome floated right in front of him with his mouth stretched wide open. Inside was a bright, pink light which continued to expand. On the command of one loud yell from Recoome the energy within his mouth was released in one wave, colliding with Vegeta at point blank.

Once again the battlefield was covered with smoke disabling any view that the spectators had of the fight. It didn't take long for Vegeta's figure to reappear though as his bruised and battered body was launched out the billows of smoke.

"Hehe I guess Vegeta got a little cocky there!" Burter cackled in enlightment seeing the Saiyan Prince at a weakened state.

"SO much for a Saiyan Prince he may as well be a small peasant now!" Jeice laughed along maniacally.

"Vegeta!" Naruto yelled in worry as he approached the Saiyan's side.

"Backup…" Vegeta weakly said as he tried to pick himself "I'm not finished yet." The Saiyan prince weakly continued.

On the sidelines Krillin grit his teeth seeing Vegeta's current state. The strongest of their alliance had almost completely been taken out after a few hits from the brute. Recoome could easily bulldoze through Naruto and Gohan and easily take out Krillin himself.

"HYAH!" Vegeta yelled as he rapidly thrust his palm back and forth in order to launch a volley of Ki blasts at his opponents but it was to no avail.

Once again Recoome showed little signs of being in any real pain. All he had now were several bruises, ruffled hair, and a missing Saiyan suit.

Vegeta merely took several deep breaths and clenched his teeth in frustration. He did all of this just before moving his hands in an ever familiar pose. Slowly he charged up purple Ki into the center of his hands after seeing Recoome responding by opening his mouth.

"GALICK GUN!"

"RECOOME ERASER GUN!"

After both shouts Vegeta and Recoome both released purple and pink waves of Ki respectively at high speeds. The battlefield lit up in pink and purple as both the energy waves clashed with one another. Slowly the Eraser Gun's energy slowly began gaining dominance of Vegeta's own attack. Vegeta grit his teeth in more frustration before pumping more energy into his attack. Thus slowing the rate at which the Eraser Gun was swallowing his attack.

But the action only had stalled Vegeta's impending doom as only a few seconds later the Eraser Gun came colliding with the Saiyan Prince's body at full force.

"Damnit!" Krillin shouted as he clenched his fist even more seeing Vegeta fall once more.

"I don't think Vegeta can take anymore." Gohan stated. Naruto nodded his head slowly after hearing his friend's words.

As the smoke cleared Vegeta's body seemed almost lifeless. The Saiyan showed no sign of moving and it would have seemed that he may have been dead had he not slowly move his hand in an attempt to stand up… but Recoome was having none of that.

As Vegeta weakly managed to stand up on his feet Recoome closed the distance between them before quickly opening his mouth for yet another Eraser Gun. The Saiyan Prince was in no position to block or even move. He was way too tired to even try and he was barely standing up as it was.

"RECOOME ERASER G-" Just before Recoome managed to end Vegeta's life entirely he was stopped by a kick from behind and before he knew it Vegeta disappeared from his current position.

Krillin flipped away from his position behind Recoome and moved to a safe distance away from the brute.

"Hey that's not fair." Recoome said in his usual dimwit sounding tone.

Vegeta now was laid on the ground near Naruto and Gohan. Along with the two demi-saiyans was Dende who had reappeared from his place of hiding. Both the young namekian's hands were stretched out and had a light glow to them.

Krillin took a fierce demeanor as he took a fighting stance that Master Roshi had taught him years ago.

"Haha! You're just a pipsqueak! I can probably beat you with both hands tied behind my back." Recoome said as he came to the evident conclusion that Krillin was about to fight him. Seeing Krillin make no attempts at moving the brute continued. "It's your funeral."

"I'll show you I'm not as weak as I look!" Krillin shouted in determination as he sped through the air towards his new opponent.

Fifteen minutes… that's how long he had before Vegeta was healed. He, Naruto, and Gohan had fifteen minutes to stall Recoome long enough for Vegeta to return to action…

**Chapter Preview (Cue DBZK Preview Music)**

**Naruto: Yo Naruto here!**

**Krillin: Dende how long do we have until Vegeta is fully healed.**

**Dende: About fifteen minutes… it takes a long time to heal when someone is on the verge of death.**

**Gohan: Krillin are you sure you want to fight? Naruto and I can handle it.**

**Krillin: Yea besides you guys have to save up as much power you can to fight those other two.**

**Naruto: All right then Krillin. Give it your all!**

**Naruto and Gohan: Next time on What Lies Within!**

_**The Beast known as Recoome! Fifteen Minutes of Pain!**_

**Recoome: This is going to be easier than I thought.**

**Krillin: It's do or die!**

**A/N: I know it's been a while but I'm finally back! The never ending piles of homework and a few project finally caught up to me but I finally managed to get this chapter out! Though since I'm enjoying the Winter Break and Holiday Season I decided to take some time and work on some of my Fanfics.**

**And so the Ginyu Saga begins with the first fight ending really fast. If any of you are wondering why it was so easy for Gohan and Naruto to win I have the answer. Guldo may have the power to freeze time but he didn't even have the chance to activate it before Naruto and Gohan defeated him.**

**Also, I'm wondering if anyone can critique my battles. Are they too long? Too short? Not enough action/detail? Please let me know as it'll greatly help me improve my stories.**

**Well other than that thanks for all the support everyone and as always KEEP IT UP! And Merry Belated Christmas and if you don't celebrate Christmas Happy holidays all the same! ^_^**


	12. 15 Minutes of Pain!

**What Lies Within Chapter Twelve: The Beast known as Recoome! Fifteen Minutes of Pain!**

Krillin was at a standstill, he only had a short time before he would have to start approaching his opponent because something told him the Recoome was far from being one with patience. Though Krillin had to think his plan out carefully, even the slightest slip up and he could kiss his life goodbye… the thought actually gave him an immense amount of fear but there was no way he was going to leave the fate of an entire planet and possibly many more planets to a two kids no matter how strong they were.

The bald fighter had no idea whether the demi-saiyans held a burst of excitement or fear at the thought of the upcoming fight. If they did they sure did a good job at hiding it. If they showed no fear at putting their lives at stake then he damn sure wasn't going to back out.

"Dende how long till Vegeta's finished healing?" Krillin asked quietly so that his voice was inaudible to his opponent.

"Around 15 minutes… there's only been a few times when I had to heal badly injured person and even then it wasn't a near-death situation." Dende said with a gulp at the thoughts of someone's life being in his hands. "Forgive as I'm not very experienced in stuff like this."

"Don't worry I'm just happy you're helping us." Krillin replied as he gave a sincere smile, one which the young namekian returned.

The earthling scanned his eyes around the battlefield before smirking as to signal he had already formed a plan. The one thing the bald monk had to remember was that he wasn't fighting to win; he was fighting to stall out time.

Krillin rocketed through the air with a burst of Ki in order to shorten the distance between himself and the brute. As he got closer he nodded seeing as Recoome moved his hands forward and shot barrels of Ki towards his way. In response Krillin abruptly stopped his Ki dash, as he felt the wind breeze by him he broke into another Ki dash only this time he took an adjacent path which allowed him to approach Recoome from the backside.

The Ginyu Force member swung his arm backwards in attempt to thwart whatever plan Krillin had created but he had only fell deeper into the trap Krillin had set up. Borrowing a move from his old mentor, Master Roshi, Krillin created an afterimage to take his place which thus allowed himself to miss the attack Recoome had sent him.

As his attack simply pummeled through thin air Recoome gained a look of confusion. Krillin had disappeared from view and in his last position was a simple image of him which began to disappear. As Recoome's head tilted upwards to get a view of the sky a silhouette of Krillin seemed to get bigger and bigger. It was a good thing for Krillin that by the time Recoome had put two and two together his foot had collided with his skull knocking Recoome straight to the ground.

As soon as Krillin face planted Recoome's large head down onto the ground of Namek the earthling jumped to remove himself from any area near Recoome but he was a split second too late. With closed eyes the human-like Ginyu Force member grabbed Krillin's foot and in two very quick motions he stood up and tossed the earthling straight up into the air.

To follow up he launched into a Ki dash up into the air in an attempt to crash his body into Krillin. The bald fighter's eyes widened seeing Recoome approach. In a few seconds of hope Krillin made an attempt to slow the pace his own body was moving in the air and stabilize himself before quickly floating hastily to the side in order to barely miss Recoome's barrage.

Krillin took a deep breath as Recoome's pink Ki breezed along his orange gi. Had he even missed his stabilization in the air in one second he might've been dead. Krillin shook his head though and cleared his mind of his thoughts. A clouded mind was only a burden in a fight.

Regaining his composure Krillin moved to increase the distance between himself and his opponent. He merely sent Naruto and Gohan a nod as they gave him a smile.

'Come on think Krillin.' The earthling thought to himself, he was going to have to be creative in this fight. He wasn't trying to defeat Recoome; he honestly knew he had no chance of doing that himself since taking on Recoome was almost equal to having a battle to the death with Goku. 'Got it!' Krillin mentally exclaimed as he rushed further into the battlefield.

He raised an index finger into the air as he added small outputs of his yellow-colored Ki into his single limb. Krillin face changed demeanor as he saw Recoome quickly approaching him. Hastening the amount of Ki he added into his finger a smaller version of the earthling's own Destructo Disk came into view and with the flick of a finger the small Ki-based projectile few towards Recoome's way. The attack was in vain as with the slightest tip of his head the Ginyu Force member dodged the attack.

"You're no fun." Recoome commented on Krillin as he reeled back an elbow. By now the brute had decreased the distance between him and Krillin to a mere few meters. "Recoome BOOM!" The Ginyu Force yelled as he thrust his elbow forward with intense strength.

Krillin could feel a small amount of blood leave his mouth as the elbow connected to his stomach. Recoome had attacked with tremendous force; he could now honestly see the difference between their powers.

With as much strength as he could muster Krillin stumbled backwards weakly in an attempt to move away from Recoome. He took a deep breath as he thought over how much time had passed… eight minutes. He was trying as hard as possible and only a little more than half the time till Vegeta was finished healing had passed.

Recoome hadn't finished his assault yet though as he grabbed Krillin by his gi and tossed him backwards which once again caused his opponent to soar through the air. Recoome followed up with another air Ki dash the only difference this time was that he had a very noticeable goofy smile plastered on his face.

Still almost having an imitation of a grin on his face Recoome opened his mouth wide as pink Ki built up in his mouth. He was preparing to finish Krillin with the very moved he used to almost end Vegeta's life.

'Damnit… I don't want it to end like this…' Krillin thought with the usual demeanor on his face when he was near losing consciousness. 'I still never even got a girlfr-… No Krillin this isn't the time.' Krillin thought as he stopped himself mentally. 'This isn't my time to die; I still have so much to live for, all my friends.' Sub-consciously Krillin stopped his acceleration in mid-air. Suddenly he felt a weird source of power running through him, though he still felt a dim numbness appearing. Looking at Recoome charge up his attack the bald earthling took up a tremendous demeanor of seriousness.

In an all too familiar pose which he had learned from his master a long time ago. With complete concentration he allowed a dark blue veil of Ki to surround his palm in a spherical shape.

Over on the sidelines Jeice and Burter, who had been quiet for a large portion of the match, finally began peeking interest in Krillin. Jeice raised an eyebrow as his scouter began beeping at a rapid pace which indicated that someone's power was rising dramatically.

"No way." Jeice said in an unbelieving tone with his thick accent. "That earthling's power is rising dramatically."

"And so?" Burter spoke up with a calm but uninterested tone. "It's only around 65-75% of Recoome power… he should only be able to give him bruises." The blue Ginyu Force member informed quite cockily.

"Yeah but if the midget can raise his power that high how much power do you those two half-breeds can muster?" Jeice asked with a minor bead of sweat rolling down his head.

His question had some truth, the two demi-saiyans had fought Guldo but they beat him with a surprise attack within 5 seconds, it happened to fast to determine what their base power was. There was also the fact that Guldo was the weakest of the Force using pure power alone.

"Ridiculous!" Burter shouted just loud enough so that it hurt Jeice's ears but was audible to Naruto, Gohan, Krillin, and Recoome. "Those brats are probably even weaker than Vegeta, and he got demolished. Don't tell me you're actually scared?"

"O-Of course not!" Jeice hastily said with a stutter before he continued watching the match quietly. He had just lost his confidence in the match for a second.

Over on Naruto and Gohan's side, the two had made a stunning revelation as the continued to watch the match.

"Wow, I think Krillin's charging a Kamehameha!" Naruto shouted with excitement. It was then that he raised an eyebrow. "But I think it's different than the ones he used to do somehow." Naruto asked as he raised his eyebrow and tilted his head a curious posture.

"You're right… the ones my dad do and the one he's doing now is different, it has tons more power… it almost like a Kamehameha with super-charged power." Gohan replied before taking on a face gesture similar to Naruto. Suddenly the two best friends looked at each other with a look of excitement.

"So then it's a SUPER KAMEHAMEHA!" The two shouted childishly and simultaneously as they figured on a name for the variation of the attack.

Krillin grunted as he held the supercharged Kamehameha waiting to be released. Eight minutes had passed only 7 remained. He grit his teeth as he predicted the outcome of the beam struggle, nonetheless he pushed his arm forward to release his attack just as Recoome unleashed his own.

"Recoome Eraser Gun!" The brute of the Ginyu Force shouted as he once again released his signature pink Ki wave attack.

"Kamehameha!" Krillin yelled as he released the blue Ki wave. The two demi-saiyan perspective was completely correct, the Kamehameha was radiating with a much denser amount of Ki. It was an incredible achievement to do this actually as adding large amounts of Ki into a single attack was pretty dangerous.

As the two attacks collided the battlefield which was currently being used had exploded into many bright colors. Both fighters' attacks had met at a single point and only tipped the scale of balance every other second as the fighter continued pumping energy into their attacks.

Krillin's face was currently shrouded in worry. He didn't want to admit it but his hands were wobbling very weakly, he wasn't even sure how long he could hold up. Abruptly, with a grim smile, Krillin set his arms down before releasing all the energy he had built into his new Kamehameha variation.

At first it would seem like a very dumb move but in his current state his Super Kamehameha was only draining tons of energy away from him. The attack was untrained, imperfect, and he lacked the Ki reserves required to sustain it for a substantial amount of time.

"KRILLIN!" Naruto and Gohan shouted in dismay as they watched their friend/mentor stand hopelessly waiting for Recoome's attack to land… and even as they flew as fast as they could the image Recoome's Eraser Gun make full contact with Krillin's body.

When Recoome's Eraser Gun vanished from view a large pit of smoke had already replaced it on the battlefield blocking the spectators in the forms of Naruto, Gohan, Jeice, and Burter from viewing anything which was occurring on the field.

Blocked from the vision of the spectators was Recoome, who had a very noticeable frown marking his face. Seconds before his attack had actually made contact with his earthling opponent he could faintly see someone move him out of the way. The red-haired Ginyu Force member, in an odd action frowned silently, as he stood in wait for the smoke to clear up and when it did he finally spoke up.

"I didn't expect you to get back up so quickly." Recoome said as his eyes moved to the person he spoke to, the Saiyan Prince himself Vegeta.

"You hadn't expected to kill me off that easily." Vegeta replied with a sarcastic tone. The Saiyan Prince didn't even take the chance to look at Recoome as he walked passed him. Being held by Vegeta's arm which was grasped onto an orange gi was Krillin who let out of huge sigh of relief.

"Whew! Vegeta am I glad to see you!" Krillin said with a high amount of elation and relief in his voice. "I thought I was done for!" His praise to Vegeta was only met with a grunt, even though he could tell Vegeta would've saved him either way the Saiyan and the earthling were now on even terms. Krillin had saved Vegeta from Recoome and Vegeta had saved Krillin from Recoome.

"Krillin, Vegeta!" The two heard a shout as their names were shouted. The shouts brought their attentions to Naruto and Gohan who took a few seconds to regain their breath as they caught up to the two. Naruto rubbed his eyes as he looked at Krillin, something which Vegeta had noticed.

"Don't tell me you were scared?" Vegeta asked as he let a cocky smirk spread across his face as he looked at Naruto.

As he finished rubbing his eyes Naruto hastily shook his head. "N-No." He answered with a stutter which caused the trio of Vegeta, Gohan, and Krillin to laugh, though Gohan laughed a little lighter than the other two as he had been pretty scared as well.

"Now then." Vegeta said gaining a serious demeanor. "Take him to Dende and ask him to heal him." Gohan and Naruto nodded in reply before grabbing Krillin and rushing to the young Namekian.

"Hey Naruto, Gohan…" Krillin began as he also gained a serious demeanor. They raised an eyebrow which allowed him to continue. "When we have sometime later remind me to show you something." Krillin finished, the two demi-saiyans looked at each other with faces of confusion before shrugging and nodding.

'Maybe, just maybe…' Krillin mentally thought he looked at the two best-friends before gaining a firm look. 'If I could do it there's I bet they can do it.' The ability to supercharge an attack, while it did consume more energy than usual it had the potential to change the tide of battle. He was DEFINITELY teaching them how to do it.

"I'll give you five seconds…" Vegeta said as he held five fingers up with a smirk, Recoome only gazed at the Saiyan Prince with a muddled gaze. "I'll give five mere seconds to run away." Vegeta spoke as his smirk slowly grew into a smirk of pure confidence.

"And why should I run?" Recoome asked with a scowl.

"Because in a few minutes you won't have the body to run." Vegeta wittily remarked as he took a fighting stance and made a few punches into the air. "And you time begins now."

_**Omake 1- One Year Already**_

It had already been one year since Raditz had appeared and Gohan and Naruto's paths had been unexpectedly crossed each other's. Currently Naruto and Gohan stared at the now bright lit sky, only a few seconds ago the sky was dark as if it were midnight due to someone making a wish on the Dragon Balls. That signaled that Gohan's father had been resurrected.

"Hey Naruto?" Gohan called as he turned his attention from the sky to the field they stood on; unknowingly to them the field resembled many places on Namek.

"Yea?" Naruto simply replied.

"Do you like it here on earth?" Gohan questioned as his tail wagged curiously waiting for an answer, it was a question which bothered him in the days leading to the Saiyan's arrival.

"Well I haven't been anywhere except the wild for the time being…" Naruto began, Gohan frowned at the fact. "But if people here are as nice as you and Piccolo I think I'll enjoy my time here." Naruto grinned. Gohan on the other hand frowned at the way Naruto had finished his answer. "Is something wrong?" The Uzumaki asked seeing the noticeable demeanor of sadness.

"Does that mean you're going to leave after we beat the Saiyans?" Gohan asked with a sad tone. His heart would be crushed if Naruto answered with a 'Yes'. Naruto was practically his best friend at this point, his actual first friend and he was someone he didn't want to lose.

"I'm not sure." Naruto answered as he sheepishly scratched his head. He took a deep breathy before he entered a serious demeanor. "I'm almost certain that my home planet isn't very welcoming anymore." Naruto continued his answer as he slightly cringed at the thoughts of the Sandaime's death. Along with Ayame and her father at Ichiraku's Ramen, the Sandaime was a part of the few people who cared about Naruto. Konohagakure was probably destroyed by now due to Raditz anyway. He truly wasn't sure how to answer.

"Let's forget about it for now though." Naruto finally said after a few seconds of silence. "How about we have a final spar to see how much we've progressed in one year?" Gohan nodded as he cheered up before he and the demi-saiyan he called a best friend both gained fighting stances.

**Chapter Preview (Cue DBZK preview music)**

**Naruto: Yo Naruto here!**

**Krillin: Man am I lucky, if Vegeta had been a second late I'd be a goner!**

**Gohan: Yea, but ever since Vegeta's healed he's been different.**

**Vegeta: If you must know it's because I've finally become a Super Saiyan.**

**Naruto: Super… Saiyan?**

**Vegeta: I'll explain later, just prepare for your next match.**

**Naruto and Gohan: Next Time on What Lies Within!**

_**A Fated Battle? The Strongest Tag Team in the Universe?!**_

**Burter: Would you look at that those two brats think they can best the team of... the Blue Hurricane!**

**Jeice: And the Red Magma!**

**A/N: On the day that I've uploaded this it has officially been one year since I have uploaded the first chapter of this story. I just want to take a quick minute to reflect on how much I've learned in the short time of one year. I feel as though I have gained a very good amount of experience since writing this fanfic, and even though I know I haven't mastered the skill I hope to continue learning from writing this story and the constructive criticism you've given me. It truly helps a lot! So in the small time of a year I've made 12 chapters for this fic, it's not something many would be proud of but I'm happy to see that I have strived myself to giving you on average a chapter every month and I hope to increase the speed of the chapters I've given you as time progresses. **

**Moving onto the actually story, I've placed down the idea of Supercharged attacks to add flavor into battle. The idea actually stems from many of the Dragon Ball video games (Such as the Raging Blast Series, Budokai Series, Tenkaichi Series, and the upcoming Xenoverse.) Though most of the games address that the supercharged form of attacks consume more energy at the price of more power which can possibly lead to risky situations if not trained properly (E.g. Krillin's situation in this chapter). I see the task of this concept being very hard to learn and dangerous though so keep that in mind.**

**Finally I just want to give a special thanks to you guys! Without all your support I would've never been able to progress so far I always take your ideas and advice to consideration so I greatly appreciate your support. KEEP IT UP!**


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Dragon Ball Z, Naruto, Adventure, Humor