Disclaimer: Oh, come on. We all know who owns the Dragonball franchise and the characters and that I am not one of those people. So, must we really go through this? But I do own Vegeta and Juuhachi-gou's children.

Author's Note: Takes place six years after the battle with Buu but before the Epilogue. Enjoy!

First Look

By: Dajira

It was some time after night had fallen when Vegeta dropped down in front of a window leading into a hospital room. He tested the window and was a bit surprised to find that it was unlocked as it slid open. So, he had been expected. Quietly, Vegeta stepped inside the room and closed the window behind him.

It took the prince no time at all to cross the distance of the room and draw up beside its two occupants. Lying in bed was Juuhachi-gou, sleeping deeply. That was something else that surprised Vegeta. Normally, he wouldn't have been able to get so close to her without waking her. Did the birth of this new child actually take a lot out of her despite her infinite stamina? Did Koji take a lot out of her when she gave birth to him as well? Even after they became pure mates earlier in the year, where they bared their hearts and souls to each other, Juuhachi-gou was still such an enigma to him at times. But she was not who he came to see.

He turned and gaze downward, his dark eyes landing on the tiny, yet slightly chubby occupier inside the bassinet next to Juuhachi-gou's bed. His new child- his new daughter- lay asleep as well. Looking at her, he could kind of imagine this was how her mother had looked when she was a baby. She already had a head full of hair, soft, blonde hair just like her mother's, and while her eyes were currently closed, he bet she had also inherited her mother's blue eyes like her brother did; they were even cat-tilted like Juuhachi-gou's. There was no doubt in his mind she would look like a mirror image of Juuhachi-gou when she was older. Pulling back the soft, pink blanket that covered her, he reached inside and carefully lifted her up by her right leg to examine her more closely.

The ever-lasting furrow between his brows deepened a bit as he instantly noticed the lack of a tail. He recalled Juuhachi-gou telling him before that Koji was also born tailless. In fact, so were Goten, Hoshi, and even Gohan's daughter, Pan. In the long run, he decided it really didn't matter if she had one or not. These days, a Saiyajin having a tail wasn't as important as it was in the past. His eyes trailed further down, taking in her white, tiny socks, her diaper, her white shirt, and the pink wristband on her left wrist. As he looked closely at that last part, he saw that there were letters written on it. Her name.

Emiko.

*Emiko?* Vegeta said the name to himself. He approved of it; the name had a certain ring to it.

Looking even more downward, Vegeta's gaze landed on her face, and his eyes widened vaguely when he discovered his daughter was wide awake now, staring back owlishly and curiously at him. He had been right, her eyes were the same shade of blue as Juuhachi-gou's. Yes, the name she was given was more than suitable as the meaning behind it fitted his new whelp just fine. Beautiful child.

So he wouldn't risk the chance of waking up Juuhachi-gou, Vegeta decided to communicate with his daughter through telepathy. *So, little one, you sensed me?*

At the sound of his half gruff-half soft voice in her head, Emiko broke out into a grin. And Vegeta couldn't help but to smile himself. Extending his right index finger towards her, he crafted a tiny, harmless ball of ki at the tip. Almost instantly, Emiko grabbed the finger, very delighted over her new toy. Vegeta lifted an amused brow at her.

*Already disrespectful, just like your brother,* he said to her. He briefly glanced down out of the corner of his eye back at Juuhachi-gou. Good, she was still asleep. He looked back at Emiko. *Considering the mother you have, I guess you really can't help it. So of course you were going to inherit more than her looks. But, more importantly, I can already sense great potential in you. A super prodigy just like the other one. I wonder how strong you'll be in the future with proper training? Well, I guess we'll have to wait and see, won't we?*

Emiko seemed to be ready to go back to sleep as she let out a soft yawn. Reabsorbing his energy into his body, Vegeta situated his daughter more properly in his arms. After taking another quick glance to make sure Juuhachi-gou was still asleep, he placed his daughter back down into the bassinet with a gentleness that would have floored anyone who knew the Prince of the Saiyajin, pulling the blanket back over her.

He took one final look at both his new daughter and his wife, his expression guarded. Then he turned on his heel and left the room back out the window, shutting it closed as silently as he did when he first opened it, and rocketed off into the night sky again.

It wasn't even a full minute after Vegeta had left that Juuhachi-gou had finally decided to drop her ruse of sleeping. Opening her eyes, she looked over towards the window. Of course she had been awake the whole time; Juuhachi-gou was very alert as it was under normal circumstances, and with a newborn baby to care for, her already advanced senses seemed to triple. It had been the same way with Koji. Had that been anyone else, she would have been all over them before they could even come in through the window.

Knowing he would come by later, Juuhachi-gou asked Koji to unlock the window for his father before he left. Unbeknownst to Vegeta, she had seen everything, only looking when he had his back turned and quickly closing her eyes when he looked back in her direction. Thinking about the scene she just witnessed, Juuhachi-gou concluded something that made her have to stifle back a bark of laughter.

When she was older, Emiko was going to have Vegeta completely wrapped around her finger.

Owari