Sibling rivalry [Etoru/Tomo closed]

Tomoroko grit her teeth angrily, reaching up with one hand to grip Etoru's leg tightly as he finished yelling at her and came in to kick her head. Her grip on his leg would tighten into a near death grip as she brought her other hand around to grab the other leg as well, this way Etoru wouldn't be able to hit her that way again as she began to head towards the gravity chamber. She made sure to hold the small boy at arms length so that he wouldn't physically be able to hit her.

When they did get to the gravity chamber, she literally tossed Etoru inside and sealed the door behind her, glaring at him intensely as she did so.

"You're a saiyan too you idiot, so you should feel some sense of pride! Get used to this 'Saiyan talk' brat because like it or not, you are one of us. What the hell is wrong with you anyways? Did you grow up in a barn? Even saiyan children on Vegeta are better behaved than you."
She stated as she stepped away from the door, walking towards Etoru with the same look of anger on her face, her red aura dancing off of her body intimidatingly.

"Who cares if you're only half saiyan? You're my little brother and I won't have an ignorant half-bred earthling. Our father might of been a piece of shit so you might not understand what it really means to be a saiyan but I won't stand for that attitude."
tomoroko growled, raising an angry eyebrow as all anger seemed to disappear from Etoru's face all at once as he stated that he had, in fact, grown up in a barn. This only served to irritate the elder saiyaness even more as she balled her fists. She suddenly felt as she had whenever she first learned Etoru was her brother... angry and hurt with a serious desire to kill him.

However, unlike then, she had grown to like the bratty younger brother in front of her... so killing him was out of the question, but he was definitely hers to beat up for acting so ignorantly. He might get mad when she called him a brat, which to her, was more of an endearing pet name than it was an insult... while his pointing out her lack of a tail felt like a stab to the chest.

Etoru suddenly seemed to get mad again as he claimed nothing was wrong him him, proceeding once more to call out her lack of a tail. The aura around her seemed to blast out angrily, growing double in size and flashing gold as if a warning of what was to come.

"Last warning to stop saying that, damn it!"
Tomo growled as she was about to charge Etoru again when the young boy threw two ki blasts towards her. She frowned as she brought her arms up in front of her. She managed to hit one away from her while the other slammed into her right arm. She winced slightly as it stung and burnt her but not enough to leave more than a slight red mark where it had hit. When she looked back up and could jsut start seeing passed the smoke, she watched as Etoru began to power up, his hair spiking up threateningly as if he was about to ascend to the super saiyan level. She watched him cautiously, but when no golden aura came, she breathed a sigh of relief. She couldn't control her super saiyan state properly yet, and the last thing she wanted to do was accidentally kill Etoru. She was mad, but she didn't want him dead.

Etoru then sprang towards her, suddenly kicking off from the ground and bounding to the seelinf, where he used it as a platform to quickly launch himself down towards her, kicking her backwards off balance to the point she fell backwards.

'This strength... it's like on Vegeta...'
She thought to herself in annoyance. Without her transformation she wouldn't be able to beat him... but that wasn't the point of this was it? No, she wanted him to understand what it was to feel like a saiyan did. As Etoru came back towards her, attempting to pound her body with punch after punch, Tomo would bring her arms up to protect her face while rolling this way and that to avoid the brute force of his strikes. Eventually, one of Etoru's hits would look like it passed directly through her as Tomoroko vanished from her position and appeared standing behind him. She hesitated for a brief moment, debating whether to kick Etoru in the ass (literally) or to simply grab his tail. She finally decided to reach forward in an attempt to immobilize him by grabbing his tail.

"Hmph"
Tomoroko huffed as her hesitation caused her to miss her grip on Etoru's tail, and in turn the young saiyan seemed to grow more playful than he was angry with her. She really didn't understand this kid what-so-ever! Totally emotionally unbalanced and it really frustrated her. Couldn't he stay focused on one thing for more than 5 seconds? Well, at least he wasn't mocking her lack of a full tail anymore... When he poped up in front of her face and kissed her nose however, she brought her hand up to swat him away from her, but by then he had already flipped away to create some distance between them.

That's when she noticed the smile on his face. He was happy that he had bested her, PROUD of himself for being stronger than her without having to tap into some hidden power that would make him lose sight of what he was doing. He was beating her all on his own, with a power that he fully controlled.

It was her turn to smirk as she crossed her arms, one finger pointed towards the small boy as he slipped back into a fighting stance, ready to attack her once more.

" So tell me again how a saiyan's pride is stupid. Because, from here it looks to me like you, the half saiyan, is pretty proud about besting me just now. "
She made it abundantly clear that, regardless of his upbringing, there would always be parts of Etoru that were more saiyan than he realized. She wanted him to respect the saiyan way, to know what was and wasn't acceptable in their culture such as mocking a saiyan's pride, or lack thereof.

"I said it was LIKE the physical embodiment of pride... damn it kid you are such an annoying, pig headed little brat!"
Tomoroko growled at him as she immediately fell for his taunt. Anyone who would mock her for her missing tail would piss her off, but now that he was doing it on purpose!? Her whole body seemed to be trembling in anger with her younger brother, her red aura flaring around her once again before it quickly changed and snapped to a golden hue. Even her hair spiked up and changed to that same color, while her eyes became teal. Her whole face seemed to grow increasingly angry as she bore her teeth at the younger saiyan.

'crap... I didn't mean to do that.... calm down, calm down, calm down...'
Tomoroko had to goad herself into trying to remain calm, except now that she was a super saiyan, her rage was quickly taking over her mind, and all she could think about was punching Etoru right through the wall of the ship and letting the vacuum of space get him out of her sight.

'no no no...'
She thought to herself again as she brought her hands up to the side of her head, closing her eyes tightly as she tried to force herself back out of her transformation. However, long before she could, the door to the gravity chamber opened and Kyuri stepped inside, an angry look of her own on her face. She walked over to Tomoroko, seemingly uncaring of the fact that she was currently transformed and literally slapped the girl behind the head, literally knocking the gold out of her. As the light around her died out, Tomoroko was panting heavily at the amount of control she had needed to use just to keep herself from killing the little saiyan.

"Stop being such a bully Tomo, and Etoru, smarten up. Goading her isn't going to help anything."
Kyuri stated, looking at Etoru with a glare, like a mother scolding her child for getting into a fight.

"If you're just here... to make fun of me Etoru, and you don't even want... to understand how much it... hurts, then get the hell off our ship..."
She stated finally, managing to find the words that, to her, would do the least amount of damage.

"Stop it"
This time, Kyuri grabbed Tomo by the ear, causing the young girl to wince as she huffed and pulled away from her mom, her cheeks now bright red as she turned her back to them and crossed her arms.

Kyuri put her hand on Tomoroko's shoulder as the young girl began to tremble once again. She could see the young girl really trying to stay in control of herself, and after the events of that day, she was surprised she was doing such a good job at it. When Tomoroko pulled away from her the older woman rolled her eyes.

"Tomo, get out of here and go to your room already. You haven't gotten any rest since the invasion, go calm down."
Kyuri instructed her daughter who's eyes darted over to her before nodding gently. She didn't even glance back at Etoru at this point, instead choosing to walk straight out of the gravity chamber and towards her quarters. If Etoru was looking at her at all as she left, he'd notice that she was fighting back tears once again. Not necessarily because of what the young boy said, but the stress of everything welling up inside of her was quickly becoming too much to handle.

Kyuri then turned to look as at Etoru, walking over to the boy and crouching down in front of him so the two were a little more eye leveled. She brought up her right hand and gently karate chopped the top of Etoru's head.

"You are really asking for an ass whooping young man, you know that? Tomo could have killed you just then when she transformed. Do you know why she didn't?"
Kyuri asked him, her tone stern, yet gentle as she spoke to him.

"No, it's because she cares about you. She's trying to act like a big sister but she doesn't know how, because she's my only daughter. She acts like a bully because that's all she knows. In her old team, she had a big brother figure who would always bully her, after every mission he'd always beat on her until she couldn't stand, sounds weird right? But to him, he was making her stronger, he was, in his own way protecting her. And that's how Tomo's come to see sibling relationship's. Saiyans... we're a rough bunch but that doesn't mean we can't care about people in our own way."
Kyuri began to explain, now putting her hand on top of Etoru's head and petting his hair gently.

"I know you're still young, but she still see's you as one of us, that's why she tries to act all tough around you. And poking fun at her tail probably wasn't the best way to retaliate. She only just lost it a few hours ago during the invasion, and she probably thinks a lot less of herself for having lost it. Now, I know you don't like her calling you a brat either and just make it clear to her that it's very  hurtful when she does but as it stands, it's a pet name for her. She doesn't mean it to be cruel."
She added as she finally gave his head one final pat before pushing herself back up to her feet. Tomo would probably kill her if she heard her just now, but it really seemed like there were just some things that Etoru didn't, or couldn't understand. Whether it was because of his age or because of his upbringing on Earth. There was still a lot the kid had to learn about his saiyan heritage.