Thank you

By Juu

The date was May 12. It'd been more than four years since my life waschanged forever. I walked to the window of my home and peered out of it. Krillinand Marron had gone to the park. Krillin loves taking our daughter anywhere; headores her so much. I looked at all of our pictures on the wall and smiled. Myfamily. Those two people are the most important thing in my life. I'd give my lifeup for them in a second.

I walked to the couch and flop down onto it. With my hands behind myhead and my legs draped over the arm of the couch I closed my eyes andremembered...Remembered what happened on this day those years ago...

The first time I saw Krillin....I've noticed that a lot of people don'tunderstand I gave him that first little kiss on the cheek. Well, to tell you the truth,it was to get him to be quiet. Juunanagou was losing patience quickly and Ididn't want him to hurt the poor little human. I admired his bravery for coming upto us and trying to convince us not to go after his friend. No doubt he must haveknown what we could do to him, if the impulse struck us, yet he tried anyway. Well, my little kiss worked. It nearly gave him a heart attack, and definetly gothim to be quiet.

Then when we were in that bus for what seemed hours he kept poppinginto my head. I felt disturbed by the odd feeling I had. It wouldn't go away. Juunnanagou repeatedly asked me why I was being quiet. I told him I was boredand just wanted to get to Goku so we could do whatever we were supposed todo. And that's what I told myself to believe.

Then after Cell came and swallowed up my brother, I was amazed at how Ifelt. My brother, the only family I had in the world was gone. I hated Cell. Ihated that monster and I hated Gero.

Thanks to Tien, 16 and I managed to escape for the time being. We madeit to a small island. Cell was looking for us and I knew it. He began destroyingwhole islands, killing innocent people just for the fun of it. I realized with asickening feeling that I was supposed to do that too. I was supposed to be a coldblooded killer....and that was all anyone would ever see me as. No one wouldhelp us; if they did it would only be because they didn't want Cell to becomeperfect. I thought of destroying myself as I watched Vegeta and Cell duke it out. That purple haired boy was there too, but he was just standing there watching. None of them had spotted 16 or me. I became engrossed in the battle, not reallycaring about the outcome. If Vegeta won, he would go after us next. If Cellwon....well on the bright side I could be with my brother again.

And then...I heard a sound. The sound of something falling a few feetaway. 16 and I looked over quickly. I remember how happy I was at first,although I wasn't quite sure why. Krillin was standing there with an almostpained expression on his face. His eyes were fixed on me. A light red tinge wasgrowing beneath them. Slowly...I looked to the ground. What I saw made mewant to scream. He had dropped a deactivation remote. I didn't know how hegot it, but I knew very well what it did. I stared at it. Then he spoke, very quietly.

"I hate to tell you this..but....I came here to destroy you. You know whatthis device is for?" He gestured to the remote. I nodded somberly. So he hadcome to destroy me.

"Yes..I do.." I replied, feeling a huge feeling of dispair. Then, Krillin, thesame person who's friends my brother and myself had beaten to exhaustion, didsomething I still don't really understand. With his eyes still on me, he raised hisfoot and smashed the controller. I gawked at him in shock. He had just riskedthe entire world, his friends, his own life....for me. I felt something go off inside ofme. I forgot everything else except what he had just done. Krillin down, like hewas terribly embarresed, and spoke again in a gentle voice.

"You shouldn't be here," he said. Then he raised his eyes and looked upat me, pleading. " Look, if Cell finds you here, we're all history. Please go."

I snapped out of my trance. The shocked feeling was subsiding and I wasleft with the cold feeling of confusion. Strange, a cyborg having all thesefeelings. I shrugged it off.

"But why did you destroy that? You could have gotten rid of me. I couldn'thave stopped you.." Now he was blushing bright red.

"Well...its cause I...I..." All of a sudden Trunks started yelling. I barelyheard him. Krillin, however, jumped.

"I don't have time to explain!" He exclaimed suddenly. "I will later; Ipromise. We've got to get you out of here!" We tried to escape, but it wasbasically useless. The only one strong enough to do any damage to Cell wasVegeta, and he refused to get back involved in the fight. Apparantly, him andCell had struck a deal. Vegeta would leave him alone until after he absorbedme. I suppose that cocky Saiyan wanted a tougher opponent.

No one else could put a dent in Cell's power, not 16, not me, not Krillin. Trunks did all he could, I'll give him that much, but it was kind of difficult whenVegeta kept preventing him from helping us.

Then Cell used a Solar flare....and I did a pretty stupid thing. As I stoodthere, a sitting duck for Cell after being blinded by the brilliant flash of light, Krillingot in front of 16 and me. Even though he couldn't see anymore than we could. I heard a blast fired, Krillin's cry, and then him hitting the ground. And that mademe extremely angry. I blindly attacked Cell. All my punches missed, and thenCell's tail came down on me, past my elbows. I struggled against him and Iheard Krillin screaming at him to let me go, but Cell ignored him. Then I couldsee through Cell's eyes, and I knew I was a part of him. My energy immediatlybegan draining away.

I could see Vegeta, happy about his "new opponent", Trunks lookingshocked and in disbelief, 16 struggling to stand up, and Krillin, who lookedscared, then enraged. Then I knew nothing more until I woke up at the lookout.

After that battle and everything was over, Juunanagou and I were livingtogether. And I couldn't stop thinking about Krillin. I figured I'd hurt him bysaying what I did at the lookout and he'd forgotten about me but I had to be sure. I wanted to know why I was feeling the strange feeling I did when I wasn'tsupposed to have feelings at all, or so I believed. So I set out to look for him.

Since I couldn't really sense ki at the time, I had to ask Gohan where helived. He told me that Krillin lived at Kame House. I vaugely remembered goingthere once. When I got to the island, he wasn't there. So I set out to find him. My sensors located him out in the woods a very long ways away. He was sittingsitting on a log drawing something in the dirt with a stick. I landed behind him.

"Krillin?" I said. I must have surprised him because he jumped up andautomatically took a fighting stance. He relaxed for a second when he saw itwas me but then tensed right up again.

"Uh.......uh.....uh....E-eighteen!" He stammered.

"....Hi." I felt like a moron. Even though I was just looking at him Krillinstarted blushing.

"Um...can I um.....help you?" He asked nervously.

" I have to ask you a question," I said bluntly. Krillin gulped visibly.

"Okay...." He stood wringing his hands. I had to smile.

"You can sit down. I'm not going to hurt you."

"I know....I mean I will....I mean okay....I mean...I mean...." He sighed. "I'llsit down." He sat back down on the log. I sat down beside him. We were prettyfar apart but he started blushing again. It made me giggle a bit. Then Iremembered why I had come to find him in the first place.

"Why did you save me?"

"Well...you didn't deserve to be destroyed. Gero's the one who made youdo those things. You're human, just like me...And I guess... I sort of... I meanyou probably already know this but I kind of...have a little bit of......I mean I uh....Imean I....I...I-IhaveacrushonyouandIcareaboutyoualot!" He rushed all his wordstogether. I jerked my eyes up to look at him. He freaked out and jumped away,waving his hands rapidly in front of him.

"I'm sorry!" He said quickly. " Please don't be mad at me because I can'thelp it and I don't want to help it. I mean I know I have no chance but I can't stopthe way I feel and I've felt this way since you kissed me and I know it probablymeans nothing to you but it meant a lot to me. I know you're probably grossedout by me 'cause all girls are, but don't kill me, God knows I've died enough. Okay, go ahead and kill me because I know I deserve it for even thinking for asecond that a woman like you would ever go for a guy like me. Just do me afavor and make it fast!" He squeezed his eyes shut. I think he honestly believedI was going to kill him. I started laughing. He slowly opened one eye and thenthe other.

"What's...so funny?" He asked caustiously.

"Gosh you're cute," I managed through my laughter. This time, he didn'tjust blush, his entire face turned bright red.

"So..you aren't mad....or.....uh....."

"I'm not mad at you at all. In fact I've uh.....been thinking about you....alot." Now it was my turn to blush. He stared at me in utter shock.

"You....have?!!"

"Well its your fault!" I shouted suddenly. " If you hadn't broken thatcontroller I wouldn't....I wouldn't be here." He was quiet for a minute. Hewatched me carefully. I didn't look at him. I was confused. I didn't know whatthe heck I was doing. Finally, he spoke.

"Is that what you want? I didn't know you didn't want to 'be here.' I'msorry, I just-"

"No, I'm glad you did." I spoke suddenly. "But it wasn't just that. I wasthinking about you before that, too. I don't get it!! What's wrong with me?!! Thisisn't supposed to happen. I don't understand why I'm feeling any emotions at all. This is all so stupid!!!!!" I turned away, frustrated. I heard him walking towardsme. He hesitated a moment, and then I felt his hand on my arm.

"You know...you don't have to be scared." I looked at him, amazed that hehad know that. I was going to deny it, but to my surprise I found myself nodding. And that was the beginning for us.

The sound of the door opening woke me up. Krillin walked in with Marronin his arms. I got up off the couch and walked over to them. I patted Marron onthe head.

"Mommy, at the park I saw a praying mantis! At first I thought it wasyucky, but then daddy picked it up and told me I was bigger than it was so itcouldn't hurt me.....I still wouldn't touch it though." I smiled at my daughter. She's my little ladybug. She hopped down from Krillin's arms and went straightfor her coloring book and crayons. Krillin gave me a quick kiss on the cheek. Hestarted to walk past me, but I stopped him and gave him a long kiss on the lips. When we pulled away, he smiled.

"What was that for?" He asked. I smiled and shrugged.

"For giving me the best day of my life."