T-18 G-17 P-6 B-5

The age gaps are normal, maybe a little too much. But ne who, italics are thoughts, or emphasis you'll be able to tell which. ::whatever:: is an action and AN...... are my personal commentaries. Enjoy the show....story!

Oh yeah, I don't owne DBZ, too bad, that would be fun, huh?

1 "No! Please! Anything but that! Have mercy!" Trunks pleaded on his knees with his hands folded above his head. Vegeta looked down at the boy and sneered.

"Don't make me repeat myself, brat. Obey or suffer this and further punishment. You'll be beaten shitless without senzu beans!"

"Please! Let me do that instead of this!" Trunks said, snapping his head up to look into his Father's emotionless face. He knew it was useless though. His Father has probably heard millions of people beg for their lives before he vaporized them.

Then something odd happened while Trunks looked at him with fear in his eyes. Vegeta's mouth twitched. And then, it turned into a...smile.

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~FLASHBACK 15 minutes ago~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~

"Brat! Get in here!" Vegeta roared from the gravity room. Trunks got up from the floor and headed down the hallway. He was talking to Goten on the phone and had fallen off his bed from laughing so hard.

"Yeah Dad?" He asked as he stepped in. Bra was smirking at him as she left, having just finished her training for the night.

"Close the door." Vegeta said calmly with his back to Trunks. Trunks became a little scared with the 180 Vegeta just pulled, but complied. As soon as he did, he could feel himself being pulled to the floor with an amazing amount of strength. He could barely stand up! Now he knew he was in trouble. Aw man, he's put it past 500x. He's gotta be mad pissed at me. What'd I do? Shit! Could he have heard!? How though? Trunks thought to himself.

Then Vegeta slowly turned and faced Trunks, with a raging fire in his eyes. He then said, trying to control the fury underneath, "Why did you tell Kakarott's brat, that?"

"Tell Goten what, Dad?" Trunks said loosing his strength just from standing up. Shit he heard! Dende, now what!?

"You know damn well, 'what'! The bear!" Vegeta growled as he slowly circled Trunks. Trunks could feel beads of sweat forming on his brow.

"I didn't say anything about a bear, Dad." Trunks answered nervously. Big mistake. He suddenly felt Vegeta's foot connect with his back sending him flying across the room only to smash into a wall and crumple into a heap on the floor.

"Don't lie to me!" He shouted and fazed out reappearing above Trunks. Suddenly it hit Trunks. Well, Vegeta's punch and a thought.

"Saiyajin hearing." Trunks groaned as the punch slammed into his gut. He spent the next few minutes letting Vegeta beat him up. Ow, ok, just survive this. Drag myself to Mom's lab and grab a senzu bean. Then all should be ok. Trunks must have smiled or something on his face showed that he was ok with Vegeta beating the crap out of him. Because all of a sudden Vegeta stopped mid punch and stared venomously at the boy.

"So, my beatings aren't enough for you eh?" Vegeta said. I can read minds brat! Vegeta psychically informed Trunks. He gave his trademark grin when he saw Trunks eyes widen in fear. "We'll just have to find a longer lasting punishment." Vegeta said and dropped Trunks onto the floor.

Just then Bulma's voice could be heard screaming from down the hall.

"Vegeta! Stop your silly training and take a shower! We've got to be at the banquet in 45 minutes! And Tammy just canceled!" Tammy was Bra's babysitter. Vegeta then cast his eyes from the door back down to the bloody mess on the floor that was Trunks, with a sinister look.

"You heard her brat. You'll be babysitting your sister tonight." He said. Trunks eyes snapped open and he sat up.

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*END FLASHBACK*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~

"Quit your whining and get cleaned up." Vegeta said, and stepped on Trunks on his way out of the gravity room.

"Vegeta! Quick! Go shower! Your tux is laid out on the bed. I gotta make some phone calls to find a babysitter. Why is there blood on your hands?" Bulma asked while putting on her earings.

"No reason. And Trunks will babysit her tonight." Vegeta said as he turned and headed down the hall to their bedroom. Bulma just looked at his retreating figure until she snapped out of her daze by a groan that came from around her feet. She looked down and screamed at first. Then she recognized the purple hair.

"Trunks! Oh honey! What'd you do now!?" She asked crouching down wiping some of the blood off his face.

"Need....senzu....b....b...." He mumbled, Bulma understood and then briskly walked away to her lab. Trunks laid there on the floor staring at the ceiling, silently praying he'd be dead before she got back. Suddenly, a little something jumped on his chest and held his face between it's hands.

"Niichan! Papa, said you're babysitting me and Panny tonight!" Bra said happily bouncing on his bruised ribs. "You must have made Papa really mad to have to babysit us again!" She giggled. Trunks gathered every last bit of energy he had left in his beaten body and formed a small ki blast in his palm and shot it at Bra. It wasn't enough to even burn her, but enough to knock her off his chest and bounce off the wall. Bra stood up and with a red face glaring at Trunks.

"That was mean niichan! FINAL.....!" She started to say, but just then Bulma returned.

"Bra! You know better! No fighting in the halls!" Bulma scolded as she hunched over Trunks and handed him a damp towel and the senzu bean. She then stood up and took Bra by the hand.

"Come on young lady, we need to get you into your Pjs. Pan will be here soon."

"Yeah!" Bra said as she skipped down the hall next to her Mother.

Trunks ate the bean and then stood up, feeling tons better. He then rubbed off the now dry blood as he walked back to his room to call Goten.

"Moshi moshi?" Goten said as he picked up his phone.

"Goten! You baka! I got in so much trouble with Tousan because of you!" Trunks yelled into the phone.

"Calm down! What'd Vegeta do to you? Why?" Goten said, trying to peace together what had happened in the half hour since he and his best friend had last talked.

"Ugh, he heard me tell you about the bear incident..." Trunks started, but then Goten interupted.

"::snicker:: You told me about that! I didn't have anything to do with it. Haha, Vegeta with a teddy bear." Goten said and then started laughing again.

"Shut up dude! And to set the record strait, before I'm beaten up again. Bra had a nightmare and wouldn't go to sleep unless he protected Muffy. So he just fell asleep with the bear in his arms. I happened to walk by and notice the 3 of 'em." Trunks said, Goten was still on the other end of the line laughing.

"Now, I have to babysit Bra and your niece! And you are gonna help me!" Trunks said tossing the towel into his hamper and pulled out some clean clothes.

"Really? And why am I going to do that?" Goten asked regaining his composure.

"Because your my best friend and wouldn't make me go through this torture alone." Trunks said. He didn't here a reply from Goten. "And my Mom just went grocery shopping. How now? Goten?" Trunks said into the phone. Someone tapped him on the shoulder.

"Kuso!" Trunks said as he jumped forward clutching his heart. "Don't do that Goten!" Trunks shouted. Goten didn't really care, he simply replied, "When's dinner?"