"If I believed that withholding the truth would make life better for either of you then yes, I'd have kept it to myself. I'd have carried that information with me to my grave, or at least until my last years. It would eat me up inside knowing I lied, but that's what a parent does, they protect their children." It wasn't always the most logical of things, nor did it seem right in some eyes, but parents would always try to do whatever they could to ensure their children were happy and well off. Aito knew he'd made plenty of mistakes in the past, there was a list immeasurable in length purely on what wrong he'd done to Viral, never mind Vegeta or even Yumi. "The most important thing to a parent is that their child is healthy, happy and lives to their fullest, and that's all I've ever wanted for both of you. My keeping secrets was precisely because I feared the truth would hurt you, and seeing you now I fear my worries weren't far off." 

Vegeta wasn't sure where the hell he was supposed to go from there, or what he could say to make Viral feel better. He wasn't the naive child he was last time they'd seen the man, he knew full well there were secrets in the world; people kept secrets for any number of reasons, yet he could see their father had only tried to protect them in doing so, nothing more. Were Viral to know of the life that could have been, he thought, then perhaps the Beastman would loathe what he was and wish for a different existence instead. "I have been thinking about it. I've been thinking about it for weeks now, today's revelation only furthered my resolve to make it up to you," Vegeta replied, frowning as he looked over at Viral, "When we get home... Whatever you want, it's yours. If you want time to go and travel completely unguarded then go ahead, or if you want something else it's yours. A new room, clothes, anything. I know materials don't make up for what I did, but I'll give you whatever you want or do anything you want until you've at least partially forgiven me."

Aito was all kinds of excited with his new idea, figuring he had just struck metaphorical gold here. The tests may have to be done one way or another, at least the more rudimentary ones, that they couldn't escape. If Viral had such an aversion to labs though then they need not use one, they could go outdoors! A portable power supply would suffice, there wasn't anything especially sensitive being done so it wasn't as though a sterile environment was needed. Smiling apologetically as he startled both of his sons, the doctor took Viral from Vegeta, picking up on his movements and helping him settle into an wheeled chair along the wall. "The machines will function fine outdoors, assuming that it's not any extreme sort of environment," Aito said, having never been to Uuonoe himself, "And we can employ some of the locals to help. They'll know the area well enough to pick a safe spot, and we may even get lucky and find some willing to keep an eye out for us as well. And all my plans are is to start your hormone treatment, and monitor the changes to make sure the process goes smoothly. Plus, I figure outdoors gives us the benefit of the sun, or suns, providing you energy, and the environment is far more welcoming than that of a cold laboratory, no?"

"You're getting it Shu, and that was what, your second try?" Takeshi asked rhetorically, grinning as he clapped his hands. Even with himself getting excited it seemed like the little guy wasn't feeling it, something very clearly eating at him. "There's no 'should' buddy, got it? Because what you can do is what you can do, you know? Some people can do some things and some people can't, that's just how life is. You've gotta be cool with whatever you can do, and if you want to be better at it then keep working." It's like how he wasn't content to be just another fighter in the group, he wanted to be [i]the[/i] fighter. Viral was stronger than him, he had no doubt of that, and chances were so too were Vegeta's parents now. Hell, Vegeta himself may even be stronger, he'd never seen the guy go all out really. Point of the matter was that you were always going to be better and worse than people, and if you weren't cool with that then you had to keep working to change it. "Buddy, 5 minutes ago you couldn't even get in the air, now you're moving around and keeping steady, that's a huge leap! You can do it Shu, you're making insane progress already, don't give up now." Just in case his own pep talk wasn't sufficient Takeshi glanced down at Kabocha on the ground, clearing his throat before nodding towards Shu intently.

Jeez, why did he have to get involved in the sappy talk? It wasn't his brother, and he'd only told Shu the truth of the matter; he and the twins always doubted what the younger Prince was capable of, he just seemed like a kid who had more power than he'd ever know what to do with. He was from a life where having power meant you knew what to do with it, so seeing someone like a Prince be utterly hapless was completely strange. Meeting Takeshi's gaze with a frown Kabocha sighed under his breath, rubbing his head before looking up at Shu with a slight grin. "Hey... You've got a ways to go Shu, you could do so much more with all that power you have," he began, glancing over uneasily at Takeshi as he was sure those words would be taken the wrong way, hastily adding, "But, you're doing well. Like your brother said you're making progress ridiculously fast, and you can definitely get this down. Sure, maybe you don't know how to properly use that energy yet, but you've got loads to use to learn how. Think of it that way, you can spend all the time you need to get tricks down, and you're way more stamina than anyone else here. If you figure out how to use that power there'll be no stopping you!"

"Oh, uh... Right, thanks Kai!" This was weird, having someone be so helpful to him. In a way it was rather nice, but Haku was unused to it and didn't quite know how to react. For a good while there he had expected some kind of catch with his training, like shining the floors or having to scrub the toilets or something, yet nothing more was ever said. It was hard to tell if Kai was happy to be helping, or annoyed, or... Anything really, he was pretty monotone, but Haku was just happy all the same to be getting lessons. Grabbing his plate full of food Haku hurried over to the cupboard to find himself some kind of seasoning to use. There was most certainly a plenitude of spices and sauces to choose from, but what should he use? Some were alien, some were from Kortal, plenty were from Earth, yet he'd never really had any of them. Scanning over the bottles he eventually settled on cayenne pepper, figuring peppers were usually fairly tasty and went well with most anything. Smiling confidently he shook out a healthy serving of the ground pepper onto his steak, putting the bottle back before going to join Kai at the counter, putting his plate down before beginning to dice up his steak.

Yumi felt a bit bad for pulling Choi away from his own meal, but knowing him he was bound to work on her request even if she told him not to. Since it was just a salad he was making she couldn't imagine it would take long, even if the meat they were adding had to be cooked fairly well. It was all coming together nicely, she knew she'd asked the proper person for such a favor. "Well... I bet Vegeta and Aito must be hungry too, so if he doesn't eat it all maybe they can share," she mused, smiling before shaking her head, "Or they can just come here and get something themselves. Those two focus way too much on work and not enough on themselves, they'll wear themselves out before long." That was why she was so confident Viral would be alright, there was no stopping those two men from helping her friend, except for themselves. While they did the busy work on Viral she'd have to keep an eye on them, make sure they were taking care of themselves as well. "Just think... Soon we'll all be able to go out as a group and visit worlds again, no more problems! It'll be awesome!"