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The next morning, Gine and Gohan stood before the hut with the splintered front door on the ground. It was mixed with other pieces of cut wood that Gohan had from the pile out back. She held a bucket of nails and a hammer in her hand.
"You got everything you need?" Gohan asked.
"Yeah, I think so." Gine said uncertainly, looking at the woodpile. "I'll try to have it fixed by the time you get back."
Gohan placed a reassuring hand on her shoulder. "Whatever you can do will be fine. It doesn't need to be perfect."
Gine nodded. "Okay."
"Anything else that Kakarot will need?" Gohan pointed to the boy in question. Kakarot was sitting on the ground nearby, trying to catch a butterfly from his spot. He fell over, giggling.
The sight warmed Gine's heart. "Nah, I think you got everything on the list."
"Very well then, I shall return by tomorrow." Gohan said, slinging the basket on his back. "The outhouse is over there," he pointed one way, then another towards an empty drum "the bath is over there," then towards the forest behind the hut, "river is over there", and finally pointed towards the kitchen through the door-less entrance "and feel free to make whatever you like until I return."
"I really appreciate this." Gine said to him for the umpteenth time that morning. She was still unable to grasp how anyone like him could be so kind to a stranger.
"No worries my dear, anything to make your stay here on Earth more bearable." He said kindly and took that moment to start walking, heading for the nearby village he told her about for supplies.
"Be safe!" She called out to him, and Gohan waved back as he walked a path through the trees and disappeared from view.
All alone with her son, Gine went about the task of rebuilding the front door. She wasn't very good with tools, let alone primitive ones, so she had to learn how all this worked as she went. Following the instructions Gohan gave her, she arranged the frame in a way that should form the rectangle the size of the entrance and nailed the planks onto the frame. She smashed a finger or two with the hammer a few times, trying to strike the nails perfectly but missing wide.
"GAHH!" Gine yelped when she painfully smashed her thumb again and threw the hammer into the ground out of frustration. She threw it hard enough that it buried itself deep into the dirt.
Cursing herself and not wanting to lose any of Gohan's tools, she spent a good deal of time digging by hand to find the blasted thing. The soil came loose thanks to her Saiyan strength, but now she was making things worse with digging holes. Kakarot just sat and watched, amused by his mother's struggle.
By midafternoon she found the hammer and got out of the hole, realizing then that she had just decimated the beautiful grounds the hut stood on in her search. Trying not to let that undo her calm, she got back to work. After smashing one more thumb again and uttering some explicit words, she finally finished the rudimentary door. She gave it a test fitting in the entrance, and it barely fit. Gine also forgot to put in the hinges, so it just sat there more like a cover than a door.
Well, at least he said it didn't have to be perfect. She though wryly.
Then Gine spent the next hour filling in the holes she dug up, trying to undo the damage done to Gohan's yard. She felt so stupid for causing this, but at least the place wouldn't look like it was pocked with craters.
When she was done, she inspected her work, nodding in half-satisfaction and half-embarrassment. The yard was still a mess, but the door was fixed (somewhat) and the holes where packed in.
Kakarot rolled in the dirt-packed concaves she filled in, laughing while he did so. Gine went to pick him up, he was almost as filthy as she was. She also realized that they haven't bathed since they landed, too tired to do so the night before. They definitely needed to clean up.
Gine took Kakarot to the river with the giant empty drum that Gohan told her was for bathing in. She was flabbergasted at how anyone would use such primitive means, but this should work still. Using only one arm she scooped up enough water from the river with the drum and took it back to the hut. After setting the drum atop a rack of stone and getting a fire going underneath it, she waited for the water to warm up by getting some drying cloths and strange white bars of animal fat that Gohan told her was "soap".
The sun was almost behind the trees when the water was hot enough. Gine removed her dirt-soaked armor, boots, and pants, then lowered herself naked into the boiling water with little Kakarot. He seemed to relax as much as she did when they felt how exquisite the hot water felt, savoring it for as long as she could. Gine then took the soap bars and cleaned herself and Kakarot up, washing away the dirt from today and the day before. Kakarot giggled happily when she wiped his face with the soap bar.
"So silly you are." Gine cooed. She couldn't help but giggle too at how her son tried to play with the bubbles on his face and in the water.
Gine felt a little embarrassed bathing outside and wondered if humans in general didn't have modern means to bathe like a healing tank. It felt like she had stepped back in time when Saiyans had yet to develop any forms of technology. But she had to admit that this had some quaint charm to it.
When Gine dried herself and her son off then redressed in her armor, dusk was setting in. She went back inside to make themselves dinner.
Again, she was unused to using old-style technology. Struggling with cooking pots and open fire pits to heat food, it almost resulted in her burning the hut down. When the fire under the pot got too out of control, she grabbed the handle to throw its overheated contents out the window, only to burn her hand when she forgot that iron pots conducted heat. Instinctively she dropped the pot that spilled the stew of vegetables onto the floor, and knocked some hot embers around, setting fire to some of the fabrics in the rest of the kitchen. With the dry wood of the hut, the fire started to grow fast.
Panicking, she ran outside and grabbed the drum of water they just bathed in and completely emptied it onto the fire. The cloud of steam completely enveloped them and blasted out the windows. With the large amount of soapy water she dumped, the fire was out but now the hut was flooded. The floor completely soaked, some furniture overturned, the pot and some fabrics very burned. The crudely constructed door she rebuilt was on the ground in pieces again, washed out from the rush of water. Kakarot sat at the table and just looked at her, still expecting their meal to be done.
"Great. Just great." Gine muttered aloud while trying hard not to explode in rage and dismay. She almost destroyed her host's home and all her hard work undone. Not a good second day on her new home world.
Giving up trying to salvage the stew, she just split some loaves of bread she found with Kakarot. He whined that he wasn't going to get the big, tasty stew that his mother was trying to make but the bread was not half-bad.
After finishing their meal, Kakarot was dozing off and Gine put him to bed. She rang out some of the fabrics as best she could and swept out some puddles of water to dry out the place. By late into the night, she was done. She'll worry about fixing the door again tomorrow and hoped that Gohan wouldn't be too mad at what she did.
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