Title: A New Kind of Battle

Author: Oddling

Rating: PG

Disclaimer: You know the drill…*mouths along with some random official- sounding person* I do not own DBZ in any shape, size or form …

A/N: This is in the alternate timeline where Goku gets the heart disease…I haven't actually seen any episodes of it, so bear with me if my facts are way off! (Oh btw, there's no yaoi . . . this is strictly friendship!)





Vegeta speaks:

I can still remember the day that Kakarrot first found out about his heart disease . . . or rather, I accidentally told him about it. How was I supposed to know that his idiot of a wife hadn't told him yet?! The expression on his face after I rudely reminded him of his quick- approaching demise would haunt me for years to come . . .



Flashback: 5 years ago

"Goku? Honey? It's time to get up!" Chi-chi gently shook her husband awake, wondering why he was still asleep. "Aren't you supposed to go sparring with Vegeta today?"

Goku awoke instantly and shot out of bed. "Oh yea, I forgot! Whoops! I bet Vegeta's gonna be pretty mad!" He raced around the room, hurriedly putting on his orange gi that he always trained in. "Um . . . Chi-chi? Have you seen my boots anywhere?"

Chi-chi smiled wryly and shook her head as she watched Goku zoom around the house looking for his boots. "They're under the bed, right where you left them!"

He raced back to the bedroom and checked under the bed, and sure enough, there they were. "Heh, there they are!" he exclaimed with a sheepish grin, tugging them on his feet. "Thanks! Well I better go, or else Vegeta might smash me into a cliff or something! Bye, I'll be home for dinner!" There was a flash of orange, and he was out the door before Chi-chi could reply.

She sighed. "Oh Goku," she thought to herself. "You're the sweetest person on this earth, but not exactly the brightest."

With that she went off to the kitchen, where she found their son Gohan busying himself with eating out the contents of the refrigerator.

"GOHAN!"

"Sorry mom! I was hungry!"