29 As the Seasons Change

Raiden couldn't help but laugh at the worried expression on his dad's face.

"Don't worry guys I'm not leaving for a long time. The next tournament is in 5 years so I think I'll just train at home. I think I'll probably leave a year ahead of the tournament to go back to train with master Chappa but other than that I'll be home," Raiden said with a smile on his face.

"Don't laugh you brat," Alice said lightly slapping the back of Raiden's head. "Do you know how worried we were that you would just leave again?" She scolded him.

"Well you don't have to worry anymore, I'm not going anywhere," Raiden said. "Also I'm still growing, I'll show you who the brat is in a few years," he added with a mutter.

The siblings continued arguing for a while until Marie decided she had enough of their squabble and sent them both to bed saying it was already late.

While laying in his bed in the room he shared with his sister Raiden was lost in his thoughts. He had lied to his parents when he said he would be going to train with Chappa a year before the tournament.

While he would leave after around 4 years, it wouldn't be to go train with Chappa. What he actually planned on doing was joining Goku and his friends on their adventure to find the dragon balls.

But even though that was the plan Raiden didn't really know where to start with it. How on Earth would he find Goku's little cottage in the woods, it was basically impossible. He did know where Bulma lived though, west city. It would probably be fairly easy to find the home of the owner of Capsule Corp, but still, he needed an actual reason to talk to her.

After thinking about how exactly he would somehow join Goku and his friends in their adventures and coming up with no answers, Raiden decided to let the matter be. If he had no other option he could simply try to ambush Bulma as Yamcha did and somehow befriend them from there.

What he was actually needed to do was start training. Once the cannon timeline started treats like the red ribbon army, king Picollo, and the Saiyans would start showing up to Earth like Moths to a fire.

Also, the fact that he could currently be beaten by a Saibaman was very motivational to get him to step up his training.

After that Raiden quickly fell asleep having dreams of funny little green men that had somehow managed to defeat Yamcha.

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Raiden floated above the rocky outcrop where he suspected Goku and Vegeta would fight in due time. He lazily stared at the mountain and raised one of his palms. With a flash, one of the 5 orbs that floated behind his back flashed bright white with ki and the mountain exploded from the flash of energy released from the attack.

Raiden grinned as he examined his handiwork. If he was worried about Saibamen 4 years ago, they wouldn't stand a chance against him now.

With a flash of energy, he took off going south to Sasebo city. He still had 30 minutes before lunch but his mother wouldn't be happy with him cutting it close. Not like it would take him the whole thirty minutes.

From the last 4 years of training his ki control had gotten much better so a trip that would have taken him several days of flying, after he came back home from the tournament, now only took 20ish minutes.

It wasn't that he was finally able to utilize his absurdly large ki pool in his body. If only it was that easy. While growing up and gaining almost a foot in height, he now stood at a proud 1.75 meters tall ( 5' 7") which was pretty good for a 15-year-old.

With the height and age increasing so did the amount of ki he could utilize within his body, but still, it wasn't enough. If he didn't use his ki orbs Yajirobe or Chappa would have little to no trouble dealing with him. It was frustrating, all the workouts and training he did, just for his muscles and skin to feel as though they were about to burst when he tried to use just a little bit more of the ki he already had.

But still, it wasn't as if the last 4 years had been without any improvements in his training. When he said that he had improved his ki control he meant it. Raiden would wager his ki control was the best in the whole 7th universe. Well maybe discounting the people of Yardrat.

While he couldn't use the ki in his body the ki outside was a different thing altogether. His favorite thing to do was split apart his ki into tiny particles and pretend it was a bit like the that Gaara controlled in Naruto. Of course with ki that small if it hit or touched something it wouldn't really hurt, it would just be a small spark against your skin.

But still making his childhood fantasies come true brought him much delight.

Of course, if he used his ki balls then Yajirobe and Chappa stood no chance. Each one of those had more energy than both of them combined.

One of his favorite ways to train his ki had been to change try and change the shape of one of the ki balls into a sword then use it to spar Yajirobe while he used his katana. Holding the shape and making his ki sharp was good practice. Especially when he later used those same principles to copy Frieza's Destructo Disk.

After about 20 minutes Raiden managed to fly past the southern continent and shot down to the floor like a meteor about a mile away from his home.

He broke into a jog to get in a small run and smiled thinking of the scolding he would no doubt get from his mother.