I do not own DBZ or any of its characters.

A/N: which happen to be my initials ironically, some of the things in this story are auto-biographical but I won't tell what, you can figure it out.

Sleeping With The Enemy

I wiped my sleeves as Vegeta and that boy from the future crashed into each other and fell unconscious. I have pretty good aim and Vegeta's body weight was enough to knock out that purple haired freak. Well they both had blonde hair at the moment something that didn't exactly register in my files. When they fell unconscious Vegeta's spiky golden locks turned black and the boy from the future's hair turned purple. My brother had successfully defeated the green namek Piccolo and that three-eyed freak Tien.

And there he stood the short little bald man scared out of his wits, too scared to jump in and rescue his friends. According to my files his name was Krillin. 17 flew down near him and he started trembling as fear overtook him. He was cute when he was scared. No! What am I saying! Cute?! Ha! No way, he's a friend of my enemy therefore he is my enemy. I joined 17's side and gently put on arm on his shoulder telling him not to hurt the little guy. 17 growled slightly but figured that Krillin wouldn't be much of a challenge so he left it alone.

"You look scared," 17 said calmly, "just relax you are not the one we're looking for ok? We want Goku." Krillin looked even more terrified now. 17 turns to me and says, "This one seems to be at a lost for words. Goodbye then, come on lets go" he beckons to me. I start walking with him as he says, "let's go find Goku."

"And just why didn't you ask him where Goku is?" I asked 17 not understanding my brother's foolish games.

"Don't be ridiculous, sure we can force him to tell us if he's willing enough, but then we wouldn't get to have the fun of finding Goku ourselves," he responded. I rolled my eyes at my brother's insistence on doing things the hard way.

But then again once we killed Goku there would be no more fun things for us to do. So I smirked slightly and said, "I see. Well then, bye!" I said in a monotonous singsong voice. "Really I don't know why you insist on behaving so foolishly 17," I said to him once we were out of Krillin's earshot.

"What's so foolish about wanting to have a little fun?" 17 said. "What are you looking at 16?" 17 said as we approached the big android.

"You two made too much noise," he said mechanically, "you scared the birds away."

"Birds?" 17 said confused.

"Listen," I interrupted, "it doesn't look like any cars are gonna come down this road, so if you still wanna find one maybe we should fly to one that's a bit more busier."

"Yes of course that's a wonderful idea 18," 17 said, "yes let's go I'm sure there will be plenty of cars to chose from once we reach a more populated area."

"And while we're at it I wouldn't mind replacing these torn up clothes," I said. I've always loved shopping.

"Well are you ready to begin our search 16?" 17 said.

"Yes," 16 responded turning and walking with us behind him.

"NO STOP!" Krillin yelled running up from behind us. I turned slightly giving him only a small acknowledgement. The poor guy looked seriously devastated, he was adorable. Gah! What am I saying!

"Aaand what do YOU want now?" 17 said sarcastically.

"Stop, you guys leave Goku alone, he's sick he can't fight you now," Krillin explained, "Goku hasn't done anything to you, why are you after him?"

"16 has been programmed to destroy Goku," 17 said now turning to face Krillin, "so that's what we're going to do."

"Why? You don't have to do that?" Krillin said.

"We're only following Dr. Gero's master plan," 17 said making my skin crawl. Oh how I hated that man.

"Just listen to yourselves," Krillin shouted, "did you forget? Dr. Gero is gone! You took care of that!"

"Yes I haven't forgotten about that," 17 said his voice seething with anger at the memories of what that man had done to us. "but this friend, is a game." Krillin was gaping at him now.

"What…do…you mean?" he said, "this…is just a game? Is that all?"

"That's right, yes, and finding Goku is a part of the game," 17 said, "that's why we did not ask you where he is.

Krillin growled and said, "NO! Stop this! I beg of you! Please don't go after Goku! Please!" Now he looked especially cute begging! Oh Kami what's wrong with me. "You don't have to do this!"

"No!" 16 said robotically, "I am programmed to destroy Goku."

"There you go pal," 17 said, "now if you'll excuse us we have work to do." Krillin blinked and whimpered slightly. Kami why is this turning me on! I hope 17 doesn't notice. "Stop worrying about Goku and worry about your other friends, they look like they could use some SENSU beans!" Krillin gasped and looked up now seeing me approach him. His whole body trembled as I inched closer to him. I bent down and he stepped back whimpering in fear. I simply wanted to kiss his cheek and tease him but I wasn't expecting him to turn around.

Our lips met in a soft kiss and he was pretty startled but he responded. His lips were so soft and I felt a fluttery feeling in my stomach. There must be something wrong with my programming because I traced my tongue across his lips and he opened his mouth. I slipped my tongue inside and started caressing his tongue, he moaned in my mouth. This seemed to turn me on more! What in the world was going on I don't know, but I wanted to kiss him until the cows came home and strip off his clothes, and suck his…."Ahem!" 17 said loudly catching my attention. I stood up and watched his dazed expression. What in the name of Kami was I doing? I had to keep my cool so that 17, 16, and especially Krillin didn't notice my slip up.

"Good luck," I said in my favorite singsong tone, "Bye!" I walked away from him calmly keeping my composure and flying away with my brother and android 16.

"What the hell was that?" 17 said almost regretting his earlier decision in not killing the bald man.

"I was just teasing him 17," I said calmly being careful not to let any emotion slip. 16 eyed me curiously as if he knew. I dismissed the thought and continued on my way.

3

First the androids, then Cell! Then Cell absorbed android 17, then under my own nose android 18. I could have saved her but I failed. And all because of that kiss, that tender kiss where I sensed that she was as human as I was. How can things get any worse!!! Vegeta, Trunks, Goku, Gohan, and Piccolo trained in the hyperbolic time chamber and it almost wasn't enough! Gohan defeated Cell, yes but not after taking the life of my best friend in the whole world: Goku. Even Vegeta was affected by it. The death of Trunks didn't help his rage either, he almost got himself killed if it wasn't for Gohan. Yamcha carried unconscious and hurt Gohan, Tien carried Trunks' body, and I carried unconscious android 18 who had been spit out by some miracle. We reconvened at the Kami lookout. Little Dende was glad to heal all our wounds and Gohan explained to us that Goku, with the help of King Kai, was by his side the whole time helping him defeat Cell.

Then the dreaded thing happened, Gohan blew my secret. 18 was insulted that I had a crush on her and she had a bad image of me. Kami Gohan why do you have to be just like your father.

3

Why did he wish the explosives out our bodies? After everything he has done for me! Why did he use that final wish for me and my brother! I mean sure the idiot thinks we're boyfriend and girlfriend which is so gross but still! The dragon granted his wish but I don't feel any different. Krillin admitted that he did because he liked me and they all seem to be ok with it. "Gosh they're nice," I said to myself quietly.

"I understand why you help the girl, but did you wish that guy back too?" Tien said.

Krillin flipped a little but he explained it, "well I want her to be happy and those two make such a cute couple I thought she'd be happier with him."

I scoffed to myself. Ew! He's my brother! What an idiot! I was starting to lose my temper. "Well that's why," Krillin finished.

"Dude you're hopeless," Yamcha said as the others laughed. Krillin blushed profusely and smiled. He was soooo cute when he blushed. Oh Kami here we go again.

"If that's what you humans call love, count me out," Piccolo said.

I lost my patience and ran out into the clearing, "Time for bonus points," I said catching their attention, especially Krillin's.

"Oh wow! There she is!" Krillin said, "how'd she get here."

"Hey!" I said angrily, "bonehead! 17 is my twin brother!"

"Oh man," he groaned.

"No! Didn't you hear her you dope!" Yamcha said, "that guy is her twin brother, hahaha!"

"I wouldn't celebrate if I were you," I said harshly, "if you think you won my heart because of that one lousy wish you're mistaken. I didn't ask for your help." Krillin dropped his head sadly. It broke my heart to see him brokenhearted. I turned around to stop my tears from flowing down. I took a deep breath and turned to look at him to add softly, "but it was really nice of you."

"It was?" he said incredulously looking up to catch my gaze. "You mean you're not mad at me?"

"Not really, no" I said softly making his eyes widen in surprise and glimmer with hope.

"Well then would you like to come over and join us?" he said.

It was a tempting offer but I decline calmly, "no thanks." I walked away and flew off the platform in search for my brother as he muttered "oh man."

It was true what I said. His wish hadn't won my heart, nor his attempt at rescuing me from Cell. What won my heart was that kiss. That soft, sweet, tender kiss I had given him on the road that day. Kami I wish 17 never broke it up.

3

"So let me get this straight," Bulma said walking around the table to sit next to me. Master Roshi was too engrossed in his magazine to stare at Bulma's ass like he usually does when she visits. "18 said she didn't ask you for help but she wasn't mad at you?"

"That's right," I said, "Yamcha said that if I stood by him then he would help get her."

Bulma almost fell off the couch in laughter, "Oh come on Krillin! The best girl Yamcha has ever had was me and look at him now."

"Hey I resent that!" Yamcha called out from somewhere upstairs.

"Hey I'm telling the truth," Bulma said, "as a woman I know and understand other women and Yamcha is in no way any help to you."

I laughed at Yamcha's fuming and nodded at Bulma in approval. "I'm gonna explain to you the essence of a woman, pleasure is not only sexual, it's physical, emotional, and mental."

"Alright, I'm listening," I responded leaning in as Bulma explained to me the deepest darkest secrets of a woman's heart.

3

It took me about a week to find my brother, and unfortunately when I did find him he was in a cabin in the woods underneath some girl who was riding him mercilessly. "Oh Kami," I said as I walked in the door.

The girl was pretty startled and she instantly froze. She looked at 17 in shock as if asking if I was some secret wife or girlfriend. 17 chuckled and said, "She's my twin sister babe you can continue." The girl seemed satisfied with that answer and continued to lift herself and drop herself along his length. "Hey sis," he said to me calmly, "come on in, go upstairs and make yourself comfortable, I'll be up when I'm done here."

"Jeez 17 will you at least wait until I'm out of the room!" I said angrily.

"I thought your name was Pete, why did she call you a number?" the girl said in a ditzy voice moaning when he hit a spot within her.

"It's a brother-sister thing don't worry about it," he assuaged, then to me "I'm gonna come, are you gonna stand there and watch?"

"Asshole," I muttered as I walked upstairs and got into the room that didn't have all his crap in it. I could hear the girl's moans turning into screams and I ignored them. I didn't like to think about sex. It was the corrupter of my brain. Dr. Gero had kidnapped my brother and I when we were eleven years old and he wanted us to be full androids by the time we were eighteen. Also by that same age he wanted to impregnate me and convert the baby into an android as well. But one without emotion and with no inkling to betray him.

He said that I needed to be ready for it so from the mere age of eleven he would touch me in inappropriate places and make me do disgusting things. He corrupted my mind with pornography and foreplay saying that he wanted me to be a virgin but not ignorant. He wanted me to be so curious about sex by the age of eighteen that I would willingly give myself to him to answer my unspoken questions. I found myself thinking about sex all the time and the slightest things turned me on, I was only eleven I didn't understand. That was until 17 found out.

I was around sixteen years old when 17 caught Dr. Gero in the act and beat him senseless. He explained to me what Dr. Gero was really doing. This is when Dr. Gero deactivated us and turned himself into an android. He reactivated us several years later. Our bodies had matured like an eighteen year old body should but they stayed that way even though technically we were in our twenties. Dr. Gero was still planning to carry it out his original plan, so the moment his hand grasped my shoulder 17 sliced his head off in one swift movement.

The damage done to me is incurable. The thought of a man's hand on my thighs-Dr. Gero's favorite place to touch-is the scariest thing in the world. I still long for love and sex but the thought of it terrifies me. Krillin will never be as strong as me but I fear him because my heart flutters whenever I see him and whenever I hear his voice. Because I almost gave in to my carnal desires when my lips met his. He's eliciting emotions in me that I cannot control so I must hide behind this mask of toughness, of anger, of strength. But inside I am scared. I am a lonely, scared, eleven year old girl who's drowning in a sea of confusion.

Someone, anyone! Come save me! Krillin, come save me!

3

Bulma's talk was really eye opening. I've been with several women and there are always women around me, yet I didn't understand. Now I look at a random woman at the mall or something and I can tell what's in her heart. I remember android 18's icy blue eyes like a picture in my brain. I feel like I know her so much better and I wish I could tell her that. I haven't seen her in two weeks and who knows if I'll ever see her again. There's one thing that I know for sure, I love her. I love her with my body, mind, heart, and soul, and she may or may not ever love me back. But I'm satisfied with just making her happy.

Maron had been such a good sport about it. She cried when I told her my heart belonged to someone else, but she wished me the best of luck and drove away. I wasn't expecting to find out a few days later that she died in a fatal car accident. I will never forget Maron, and I will find a way to honor her memory.

3

So I was shopping at the mall today, renewing my wardrobe. 17 gave me money, I didn't ask where he got it from nor do I care. I wasn't expecting to find Bulma there! Bulma didn't know me except for descriptions from the other Z-fighters, but I knew her very well because of my database. The blue-haired woman was shopping around pushing a baby cart in front of her. The baby was a young purple-haired boy looking very much like that boy Trunks who tried to save me from Cell. If it wasn't for Vegeta I bet he would have saved me. He didn't try as hard as Krillin, for some reason his hate for me was stronger than everybody else's, even Vegeta.

"You're android 18 aren't you?" Bulma said approaching me.

I looked around to see if she was talking to anyone else, but no she was talking to me. How did she know? "How did you…"

"Krillin talks about you all the time. He drew a picture of you and I didn't realize that he was such a good artist until I saw just how accurate his picture was," Bulma explained, "he's right though, the picture didn't do you justice."

Now I was curious, or did I care? No, what am I saying, I don't care about his opinion. "He talks about me a lot?" I said.

Bulma smiled and nodded. "Hey that's a nice shirt you picked out, why don't we shop together and then sit down for lunch?"

"No thanks," I said starting to walk away.

"You won't be able to afford many of the things in this store," Bulma said pointing at the bills I had in my hand, "I can."

"I don't need your money," I said harshly.

Bulma took a step back but never wavered. No wonder she trapped Vegeta, but then again how didn't he blast her into the next dimension? This woman was so demanding and quite annoying. I suppose it's what the saiyan prince needs. "18," she said, "I am only offering help, I am not strong at all as you probably know, I'm no threat to you. What's wrong with having a girlfriend?"

"Girlfriend?" I said obviously misunderstanding her, "I am straight."

This is when Bulma fell over in laughter. "I am married to Vegeta, do you really think there's anyway I could ever be a lesbian?"

I smiled at her in amusement imagining Vegeta's reaction to Bulma with another woman. "No I suppose not."

"Well then, come on let's shop!" Bulma said. I couldn't resist any further, she was nice and she was buying me nice things. She wasn't kidding when she said she had money. On our little journey she explained to me who Trunks was and where he was from. It's no wonder he hated me so much. I looked at the infant version of him and inwardly I hoped that this one wouldn't grow to hate me like the other one. That one probably already destroyed my brother and I in his timeline, no doubt Cell as well. Finally after a long day of shopping, we sat down at the food court to eat. "I don't eat much, I'm an android," I said.

"You know, I would like to do an examination of you," Bulma said.

"Why?" I said defensively.

"Because if something happens to you, I'm the only one who can help you," Bulma explained.

Well she was right. After Dr. Gero, she was probably the only scientist who can understand our bodies. "Why only me? What about my brother?"

"I already have your brother's blueprints," Bulma explained.

"What? How?" I asked.

"Trunks and Krillin destroyed the Cell of this timeline by destroying Dr. Gero's lab," Bulma said, "They found 17's blueprints. That's how I made that deactivating controller that Krillin destroyed."

"You made that?" I said now aware of how dangerous this woman can really be.

"Well yes, but that was when you were the enemy and we had to stop Cell from getting to you," Bulma said, "how was I supposed to know that Krillin was…." She stopped mid-sentence and bit her lip as if revealing to much.

"Krillin was what?" I said.

"Nothing," Bulma said.

"You said you were my friend didn't you?" I said.

"Yeah but…"

"Then tell me" I interrupted.

"Ok but you can't tell anyone," Bulma said. I nodded in agreement and she leaned in closer to whisper it in my ear, "how was I supposed to know that Krillin was…in love with you."

"In…love?" I said scrunching up my forehead in confusion, "Why? How?"

"I think you and him need to sit down and talk," Bulma said, "I really can't explain that."

"Ok set it up then," I said trying to be angry but for some reason unable to. "But before you go," I said, "answer one more question for me."

"You need to talk to Krillin," Bulma said, "I don't know…"

"It's not about Krillin," I interrupted.

"Then what?" she asked looking at me curiously.

"How did you and Vegeta get together?"