Krillin and Eighteen arrived home with their daughter after coming back from winning the Tournament of Power. They had had a celebration party at Bulma's as soon as they got back, and now it was getting late.

"Home sweet home!" Krillin rejoiced as he unlocked the front door and they entered the house. Marron had this excited look on her face, like she was still ready to celebrate some more. Eighteen quickly noticed that and spoke up.

"No young lady! It's almost past your bedtime." Eighteen sternly told Marron.

Marron looked to her mother with a pleading look in her eyes. "But mommy!" She began to beg.

Krillin couldn't help but chuckle. "Your mother is right Marron. You still have school tomorrow. You gotta get some sleep!" He looked at her and explained.

Seeing her mother and father were in a mutual agreement on this, Marron didn't bother trying to beg to stay up late. "Okay." She pouted, though she wasn't really upset.

"Get yourself ready for bed, and mommy and I will be there to tell you goodnight." He instructed. Krillin turned to Eighteen and smiled. She gave a small smile back in response. Seeing that beautiful smile always made Krillin feel warm inside. For Eighteen, that goofy smile of his was just one on several reasons why she married him.

After putting Marron to bed, Krillin and Eighteen had snuggled up in their own bed just a couple hours later. Krillin looked as comfortable as could be. Being in bed with his arms wrapped around his wife was heaven to him. Eighteen however, looked conflicted, guilty even. She was thinking about something she said to Krillin at the tournament, something horrible.

"You call yourself my husband?!" She complained in response to Krillin being the first one on the Universe 7 team to be eliminated. Even though he was way up in the spectator's seats, she knew he still heard it. She had said it and pretty much forgotten about it. It was only when she had time to think about all that had occurred did she think about it. Why did she say that? He didn't deserve to be told that, he actually did well in tournament, better than what most expected of him. IN fact, if it wasn't for him, she would have been the first member of the team to be eliminated. She had to talk to him, she had to apologize.

"Krillin?" She began softly.

"What's up, babe?" He muttered in response.

She sat up and turned to Krillin. "I owe you an apology." She confessed. This earned a look of genuine confusion from her husband, who sat up as well.

"For what?"

"For something I said at the tournament." She said, turning away from his gaze out of guilt.

It took Krillin a moment to realize what she was referring to. "Oh that! Oh babe don't worry about that! It's no big deal." He simply shrugged that off. He meant it too. He wasn't hung up on what she said. It was water under the bridge to him.

Eighteen looked back at him with utter shock. "Are you serious? No big deal? Is that what you said?"

"Yeah. Why?"

"BECAUSE IT IS A BIG DEAL KRILLIN!" She raised her voice at him angrily but did not scream, as she didn't want to wake up Marron. Needless to say she got Krillin's attention.

It was strange. He wasn't mad at her, wasn't listing the reasons why she should feel bad, wasn't arguing with her. And that's why she was upset, because she wanted him to do all of those things because she felt she deserved it. Why was he so damn forgiving? "What I said to you was awful Krillin! How can you forgive me so easily? Why aren't you mad at me?!" She pleaded for answers.

"Because I know you didn't mean it!" He answered her. He cupped his wife's cheek with one of his hands and rubbed it. "Tell me, are you actually ashamed of me being your husband?" Krillin asked rhetorically. She quickly shook her head.

"No! Of course not! I love you! You know that!" She stated. She hoped he wasn't doubting her love for him. If he was, she would make damn sure that he knows how much she loved him.

"You're right! I do know that, and that's why I knew you didn't mean it!" He smiled. Eighteen was still a little confused. "I'm sure it must've been a little frustrating to see me get eliminated so you just needed to blow off some steam, that's all." He explained, rubbing Eighteen's arm to comfort her.

This just reminded Eighteen of another reason why she fell for Krillin. Back when they were getting to know each other, complicated emotions were very foreign to her. There were many times that she felt something she could never remember feeling before. She couldn't explain them properly and they confused her, sometimes even scared her. But Krillin was always there for her, helping her to understand these emotions.

"I guess your right. I really didn't know why I said it, it just came out." She said. With a long sigh she said. "Krillin, I don't know how you put up with me sometimes."

Krillin smiled "Eighteen, I've been impaled, blown up, had my neck broken, and turned to stone. Compared to that, putting up with you is no problem." He joked. Eighteen briefly gave him a half-hearted glare before she just started laughing a little. Krillin was surprised by this. "Wow! I can't remember the last time I made you laugh. Usually you just roll your eyes or scoff at my bad jokes!" He chuckled.

"Yeah but, I think that one was kind of funny." She admitted with a smile. She moved her face closer to Krillin's and gave him a kiss on the lips, causing the ex-monk's face to flush red. "I also think it's funny when you blush like an idiot."

"Well then you basically get free entertainment. You know how easy it is for you to get me to blush! You cheater!" He said with a mock pout. Then an idea sparked in Krillin's head. He remembered something that happened at the tournament that was sure to embarrass Eighteen. "Hey you wanna know what else was funny? When you were really getting into the role of being a villain towards Universe 2's fighters that were obsessed with "the power of love!"

Eighteen's eyes widened. "W-what are you talking about?"

"Oh, don't play dumb! You were like "I'm Eighteen, Goddess of Universe 7, and the one who defeated Ribrianne!" He said, doing a terrible imitation of Eighteen. He then saw it was Eighteen that was now blushing. "Haha! The tables have turned! Now you're the one blushing!"

"I…I wasn't enjoying that! I was only doing that to mock them!" She protested while giving him a sharp glare. For once, Krillin wasn't phased by her glare. Most of the time it would shut him up and get her to do whatever she asked. Hell, it wasn't even just him. He could count on his fingers the number of people who aren't affected by it. But right now, her giving him that look while her cheeks were bright red, she just looked adorable to him. He could play with her a little more, but he decided against it. He wasn't going to push his luck and see how much he could tease his wife. There was a limit.

"Alright babe! If you say so." He shrugged, his voice sounding unconvinced. "Come here." He said and extended his arms out, an invitation for her to lean toward him. The frown and glare on her face rescinded, with a small smile and loving eyes. She leaned her head into his chest, putting a hand on it as well. Krillin wrapped his arms around his wife, pulling her into a gentle embrace. They both closed their eyes as they attempted to sleep.

"You may not be the goddess of the whole universe, but you're definitely the goddess of my world." Krillin spoke softly into her ear.

She opened her eyes briefly to roll them. "Oh god Krillin…that was so cheesy." She groaned.

"But you loved it though." He muttered and sported a goofy grin.

Eighteen let a long sigh. "Yeah. I did." She confessed and smiled.

"Love you, Lazuli."

"I love you too Krillin."

So there's an odd bunch of couples that we see in Dragon Ball. Goku and Chi-Chi, an alien of a warrior race that doesn't have much going for him in the brain department unless it involves fighting and a woman with and a human princess with Tiger Mom behavior and an affinity for Chinese styled clothing. Then Vegeta and Bulma, the prince of said warrior race that made a transformation from villain to hero over the course of DBZ while keeping his stubbornness along the way, and a human woman that's the smartest woman on the planet as well as the richest, who is just as if not more stubborn than Vegeta. And then you've got this one, Krillin and Eighteen, A human ex-monk, who is also a midget with no nose, but is still the strongest pure human on Earth, and he's also the nicest guy on the you could meet. And he's married to a beautiful cyborg that was originally given orders to kill his best friend, and has a very cold demeanor towards people she doesn't know.

This is my favorite hands down, and I don't know how to explain why. Probably because there's a lot of reasons.

Anyway, this is probably going to be a series of one-shots revolving around Krillin and Eighteen. You can consider this my contribution towards the underrated K18 pair. Hope you liked it. It's actually my first Romance story so any advice is welcome.