Chapter 6

Yamucha followed his friends into the temple of Kami. But he hesitated
as he passed his new sensei.

"What’s the matter Yamucha?" Kami asked him.

"Well, something is bothering me," he replied, checking to make sure
that his friends had continued on into the temple. "I don’t want to
second-guess any of your decisions, but, well, why didn’t you, uh..."

"... Request Bulma too?" Kami finished for him. Yamucha nodded.

"She thought that you must have had an important reason for omitting
her," he said, "but she knows all of my techniques! She’s as good as I
am, if not better. Couldn’t she have been a good enough fighter?"

"I agree with you -- up to a point," Kami said. "Bulma is very skilled,
and recently has shown great bravery in the face of danger, but
unfortunately she just doesn’t have the fighting experience. She would
have absolutely no idea what to expect. I’m almost certain that she
wouldn’t survive if we threw her into a fight this extreme. It’s better
this way anyway. She’ll be extremely efficient in locating the
dragonballs, so we’ll have Goku back on time. Now, don’t worry about
Bulma. She and the rest of the world are all counting on us, and Goku
is counting on her. We all have our own jobs to worry about. So let’s
begin yours!" They followed the rest of the group into Kami’s temple.


On to Chapter Seven...