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Bulma looked to Kakarot seeking to know if it was true. "Is that true? You've never been anywhere?"
"Yep. Lived here my whole life." Kakarot answered.
Bulma looked to Gine and back at Kakarot. "Sure, why not? I could use a little extra protection and some company. And I'd be happy to show him the sights."
"The sights?" Kakarot asked, his curiosity peaked.
"Yep, there are all kinds of cool things to see in the world. Get to see the big cities, cross the deserts, and even see the ocean!" Bulma said.
"Really?!" Kakarot said, astonishment in his voice.
"That's right." Gohan added. "You can go see all the faraway places you read about in your books and learn all about what life outside the mountains is like. You might even learn something new about fighting out there too."
Kakarot's eyes lit up with a wonderment that Gine had never seen from him before.
"Oh wow!" He exclaimed and turned to his mom. "Can I really go with Bulma, Mom?! Please?!"
Gine sighed in embarrassment and relief. "I just told her to take you with her, sweetie. Of course you can go!"
"ALRIGHT!" Kakarot jumped in joy, unable to contain his excitement.
"Then we have no time to lose! Grab your stuff and let's get going!" Bulma declared.
Kakarot hastily finished his lunch and grabbed his Power Pole, Bulma opened a capsule on the ground outside that made a motorcycle pop into existence. Kakarot was ready to leave but stopped.
"How long will I be gone?" He asked them in general.
Bulma thought for a moment and said, "Not sure, however long it takes to find the Dragon balls I guess."
Kakarot looked to his mom for her input.
"I'm fine with that, just remember to not be gone for too long." Gine said.
"Okay!" He said and ran up to his mother and gave her and Grandpa Gohan a hug.
"I'll be back soon!" He yelled as he jumped on the motorcycle behind Bulma, and rode off. He waved back at them.
"BYE!" They all said to each other, Gine watched them go until they were out of view...
Finally, some alone time for once, she thought. But she couldn't help but have mixed feelings about this.
Gine was beyond excited that her son can have an opportunity to see some more of the world, but this was the first time he had ever ventured out on his own without her guidance. He needed this. But...
"He'll be fine." Gohan said, breaking her train of thought. Almost as if he knew what she was thinking.
"Yeah... I'm sure he will." She said uncertainly.
An empty nest was easier on the child than the mother. Gine was learning that later in the evening as she paced back and forth in the hut restlessly.
"What if he gets hurt?" She said, biting her knuckles. Her mind was in a whirlwind of worry. She had been thinking about nothing but what could happen to Kakarot out there all by himself.
"As I said, he'll be fine. He's a strong lad, you're just worrying too much." Gohan said placatingly. He seemed more concerned about Gine giving herself a panic attack than Kakarot's safety.
"Or what if he hurts someone? Like, what if he looks at the moon by accident?" She lets out the worst of her worries.
"I don't think that would happen. We've made sure of that, and he's never transformed since you came here." Gohan reminded her.
"But what if he forgets himself?" Gine said, not listening. "He forgets things sometimes, and what if he forgets it's a full moon out and he does hurt someone?"
"So what if he does?" Gohan said abruptly.
Gine stopped pacing and stared at him, her mouth agape. That got her attention finally.
His face softened. "You said so yourself that Kakarot needs to do things on his own, right? Well, that includes his responsibility to not hurt others. You can't nurture him forever. This is something that he needs to do. You've pounded that lesson into him his whole life and he's turned out rather well. So, I think it's reasonable enough to assume he will be okay." Gohan assured her.
Gine stood there silently, trying to think of a rebuke to prove Gohan wrong, that he should be as worried as she was. But she couldn't.
"I guess... you're right." She said reluctantly, but it didn't do much to assuage her fears.
Gohan walked over to her and gently placed his hands on her arms. "I understand your fears, Gine. No amount of reassurances can make a parent stop worrying about their child, but in order to fly, the mother bird needs to trust her chicks that they are ready. This is as much of a test of growth for you as it is for Kakarot. You just need to trust him."
Gine knew he was right, like always. She needed to trust her son to do the right thing. She made it her life's purpose to raise him properly, to be a good man of his own someday rather than just another battle-crazy Saiyan. And to do that would mean to do things the way humans did, all of this something no Saiyan mother has ever tried before. And he can't put all what she taught him to use if he remained cooped up here. Plus, she did say so herself that she wanted him to leave eventually.
Well, she got what she wanted in the form of Bulma coming along. Though now she was wondering if she had been too hasty in wanting that. But as Gohan would say: the beauty of life was in the unexpected.
Gine let out a shaky breath she didn't realize she was holding. "Okay."
Gohan gave her a reassuring hug. "Don't worry, my dear. He'll be fine. It won't do you much good to stress yourself out."
She snorted sardonically. "Well, I am his mother. It's my job to worry about him."
"Heheheh. Well, that's true I'll admit." Gohan chuckled.
Weeks later, Gine was outside the hut hanging up some laundry to dry, humming to herself.
As she finished smoothing out the cresses on some sheets, she stopped humming. There was another sound. Another kind of humming she could hear; a strange put-put noise from the sky.
Gine looked high up to see a yellow streak heading straight towards her. She tensed, not sure at what she was seeing should make her feel threatened.
The yellow streak arced sideways. It was a puffy yellow cloud leaving a contrail in its wake, humming along like it was a motorized contraption. On the cloud was a dot, and as the cloud go closer, that dot grew to resemble that of a little boy on it.
"HEY MOM!" The boy called out from the cloud. She immediately knew.
"KAKAROT!" Gine cried out with joy.
Her son leapt from the cloud as it flew over them. She held out her arms to catch him and he effortlessly landed in them.
"I missed you, Mom!" Kakarot laughed a
nd squealed in delight in her embrace. Gine hugged him tightly as tears of joy threatened to fall.
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