Ah, the sanctity of their bedroom, and they'd made it without anyone seeing them. Takeshi was all too eager to get back inside, glad to finally get a new pair of pants, and some shoes too. He didn't even remember where the heck his boots had ended up, but he'd been barefoot for a while now as well. Just a shirt, Shu's shirt, wasn't cutting it. Going immediately to their dresser he pulled out a complete change of clothes, the only thing he was keeping on were his boxer shorts for obvious reasons. "We're just going to explore, I don't know exactly where we are going. Exploring is more fun when you don't have a place in mind anyways." Either that or he was just too lazy to come up with a proper destination right now. Most definitely the latter. After slipping on a fresh, much needed change of clothing Takeshi was more than ready to go. Still, he offered a shirt over to Shu, figuring even if his brother didn't want to get dressed it couldn't hurt. "I haven't seen a ton of the West wing actually, that's the one on the other wide of the ship. How about we go over there and look around? By the time we're done I bet it'll be time for lunch... Erm... Dinner? Whatever meal this is." He was getting confused with the lack of a clear day and night cycle. It would only be too soon when they finally got back home.

Ah, so Viral was angry about how she was handling the cleaver. Smiling sheepishly as he held out the belt she took it, carefully fastening it to her waist with a little bit of trouble, it was bigger than she was. After getting it as secure as she could she carefully placed it in the holster, giving it a small jiggle to make certain it was secure. "Sorry about that," she mumbled, flashing Viral a smile and rubbing at her neck. Now they were heading to the med bay it seemed, that was good. Hopefully whatever was going on with Viral could be solved, he didn't seem at all happy to be a giant kitty cat. Frankly she was pretty sure no one, perhaps save Shu, would be thrilled with that. Goodness knows the little Saiyan would have a field day if he turned all fuzzy. With Vegeta leading Yumi followed her friends out of the training hall, taking a last glance back at the room. What a mess, thanks goodness she wasn't going to be the one to clean it up.

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The remainder of the journey to Earth, mercifully, had gone on without incident. Viral had been helped back to his regular form and conflict between parties, namely Yumi and Mizuna, had been avoided. As the familiar blue orb had come into view everyone gathered on the bridge, ecstatic to be returning home. It was almost too good to be true, their home world was right there and they would be landing in just under an hour's time. The planet was in one piece too, imagine that! No signs of Saiyan activity, and as they descended to the surface it looked like there had been no trouble whatsoever. It was an incredible relief to find their planet in good standing, there had been concern amongst those who called Earth home at what they may find upon returning. As they had a rather large ship they couldn't land it just anywhere, they needed a fairly big open space. To remedy that they landed on the distant outskirts of East City, in a large set of plains. What a beautiful sight it was, coming back to their own world after so long. As soon as the ramp had descended the eagerness to get onto the ground was palpable. Takeshi immediately laid out in the tall grass, hardly caring as he soaked up the rays and enjoyed the tufts beneath him. Yumi did much in the same, though her reuniting with the planet wasn't nearly as long coming. Vegeta only spent a little bit of time rejoicing too, having to get back to the ship to shut the systems down. All of the foreigners, the crew included, were quite delighted to be on the new world. As they should be, it was most likely going to be their home for quite some time.

Celebrating their return had lasted perhaps twenty minutes, but there were things to do and it had to stay at that. Viral needed help still and Doctor Ikura needed to be found, so there was that order of business. Not to mention getting a home for everyone who had come with the group back to Earth, there was that small matter as well. Since the latter would take quite some time it was decided the ship would act as a large house for now. The city wasn't all too far off, and Vegeta arranged to have supplies brought out in order to keep everyone happy. The only one who would be leaving the ship for now would be T'charrl, who was to move in with Shu and Takeshi. Getting everything sorted out in regards to where everyone was going they parted ways, agreeing to meet back at the ship when all business was attended to. To their end Vegeta brought Viral and Yumi back to Capsule Corp, being greeted by a rather jubilant and surprised staff seeing the trio's return. Takeshi, Shu and T'charrl went to the former's house in the meantime, intending on putting together a new room or two to accommodate the others. It didn't need to be said however their knowledge of construction was... Lacking.

The act of actually finding Ikura was going to prove to be tricky. They had the doctor's name, sure, but not his location. Earth was fairly expansive, tracking down a single person with no way of knowing where he might be was going to be a massive undertaking. They would have to find a trail and follow it, talk to people that knew him. After that they would have to travel, perhaps halfway across the planet, just to see the man. Gods, and this was all provided he was even alive. They had been given the name and that was all, not even if the man was alive. Or... Maybe that big worry was all for nothing.

"You're joking... He's [i]here[/i]? As in, East City?" Vegeta couldn't believe it, his associate had to be pulling his leg. 

"It's the truth sir. Doctor Ikura has been in town for a week, helping oversee a study at the local hospitals. We were told to direct you to him if you returned in time, he's been wanting to catch up with you it seems."

Vegeta facepalmed awfully hard, not quite believing it. Here he had been digging through old files and making calls all morning to locate old friends of the doctors, and the man was ten blocks away. Sighing softly he nodded in appreciation, waving the associate out before sitting on top of his desk. It would have been awfully nice to have known this yesterday when he'd returned, until they waited to the following morning to say a word on the matter. Smiling exasperatedly he looked over at Yumi and Viral, shrugging his shoulders. "Makes me wonder why I pay people to take calls and news for me. Imbeciles..." Running a hand through his hair he looked out the window of his office, staring down at the street some three stories below. "We know where he is now, at least. And he's expecting me, so it won't be an issue seeing him. Viral, are you ready? We can leave now if you want."

Shu and T'charrl had gotten plenty of sleep the night upon their return, but not Takeshi. After cleaning out the family room for his brother and friend to rest he had gone about almost fanatically cleaning his home. Sure enough it was a mess, with visible layers of dust settled everywhere, cobwebs, and stains from goodness knows what. That wasn't even to mention the foul smell coming from his refrigerator, he had opted to just pull the entire appliance out of his home and buy a new one later. By the time dawn had rolled around he was still scrubbing away, and when the others woke up he had only just finished. Now he was sitting at the kitchen table, or to be more precise laying across it partially. With his head down on top he let out a long winded sigh, rubbing at his hair before glancing up at Shu and T'charrl.

"Right... So more bedrooms... Shouldn't be too hard..." That meant going into town and buying supplies too. They could feasibly just cut down trees around his property, but they afforded him a privacy he'd rather not give up. Thank goodness they had found the suitcase, tucked away beneath his bed and entombed in cobwebs and other bits of who knows what. The money was still perfectly fine inside, if not a bit cry and crispy, definitely worn. Money was money though and a store would most certainly take it. Looking down at the case by his foot he leaned over, grabbing it and dropping it on top of the table. "Now... I don't even know where a lumber store is in East City. Or a hardware store. Man... I don't know where anything is right now..." Takeshi complained, letting his head drop onto the table again. Boy he was sleepy.