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Chapter One: Meeting the New Neighbors

"Now Vegeta, say hello to Bulma" a smooth voice whispered next to the stern looking boy's shoulder. Vegeta glared at the girl. She was hiding behind her mother's leg, peeping at him with an inquisitive eye.

The boy stood with his shoulders thrown back and arms crossed over his chest, mirroring the tall man behind him. He wasn't particularly happy about having to move to this new house and going to a new school, but this by far was the most annoying part. Vegeta just didn't like girls.

"What's wrong with your hair?" Vegeta said. In an instant he felt his father lightly smack the back of his head. "Hey! What was that for?" Vegeta shouted turned to the taller and older version of him standing behind him with hands covering the offended part of his head.

"Mommy says my hair is pretty. She said it looks like the ocean," a voice said boldly, "Your hair is weird. How does it stand up like that?" While his back was turned, the girl had moved to stand right in front of him. She was looking up and reaching to examine his black gravity defying hair.

"Ooooh! Aren't they so adorable?" Bunny squealed, "Vegeta, Bulma will be in your class next week. Would you be a dear and watch out for her? She hasn't been in a public school before and she is a little younger than the other kids. She is a little genius just like her daddy," she said pinching Bulma's cheek, to the owner's dismay. Bunny took hold of Vegeta Senior's and his wife's arm and guided them into the house. "Why don't we all go inside and have some tea while they get to know each other?"

Both children watched the parents retreat into the garden as Bunny prattled on. Vegeta had no impulse to follow the loud woman into the house for fear his cheeks would also be severely pinched. He looked around the yard wondering if there was something interesting to do while his parents were gone. When he was about to bound into the wooden area behind the house, he noticed the girl was still standing in front of him. She was squinting at him like she was trying to figure out a puzzle.

"What?" he said at her. She kinda freaked him out with her hard piercing stare.

Her face switched from puzzled to pure excitement in a blink as she said, "Want to see something?"

Before he could answer, she grabbed his hand and dragged him away behind the domed house. She pulled him along until abruptly letting go of his hand to kneel behind the porch railing. As soon as their hands were not locked Vegeta stopped running and closed his arms across his chest to stare at the strange girl. She scrabbled back to him carrying a tiny black cat.

"Look!" she said, her face glowing with excitement at the ordinary looking animal.

"Look at what? It's just a cat," Vegeta raised an eyebrow in question.

"He looks just like you, see the tuft of hair and pointy eyes? He's your cat twin!"

Vegeta gave the tiny cat a long glare. Sure, it did have a tuft of black mane poking up between its ears, but that was it. As Vegeta stared down into the cat's face, the animal's feline eyes seemed to narrow in disapproval back at him. The dislike was apparently mutual.

"I don't look anything like a stupid kitten," he declared as he looked away.

"You don't think so? Tama is a little sweetie, but he can give you a scary look when he wants to." She cooed and stroked the cat until it purred.

How did I end up stuck with this dumb girl? As he looked around the yard, he noticed a critter sitting at the edge of a puddle, the product of a dripping faucet. Perfect, he thought. Vegeta was often in trouble for terrorizing the other girls in his class. He didn't resort to pulling hair or name calling like the other boys, but he had found his own ways to send them off streaming. While she was distracted, he tiptoed over to grab the wet amphibian.

"Well you look like this toad!" he said, pushing the frog so close to Bulma's face she was nearly kissing it.

"That isn't a toad, it's a frog! See, toads have short legs while frogs have the longer ones for jumping. Plus, frogs have eyes that bug out more, like this" she gestured with her cups hands on the sides of her face. Tama had leapt to safety already and looked at the strange pair from the porch.

Vegeta just looked at her flabbergasted. She wasn't screaming or anything? She likes toa—I mean, frogs? To shock him more, she reached out her hands and took the squirming creature from him to examine it closer. "And frogs have upper teeth too... I wonder how it got all the way over here. That is a hefty hopping distance from the lake. Let's return him," she was beaming up at his face again. Pressing the frog belly to her body, she wrapped her now muddy hand around his and pulled them both towards the back of the complex.

She lead him down a small foot-beaten path and over a broken portion of the fence and towards a free growing pond. The sound of crickets and frogs build with each step closer to the wet grass. At the edge of the water, Bulma kneels down and lets the frog leap from her hands and into the water, before turning around and returning to stand next to him.

"I come here a lot to explore. But you have to watch out for the snakes.

"Snakes?" Vegeta's voiced jumped a little at the thought, but he managed to calm himself down before saying, "Are there really snakes out here?"

"Yeah, garter snakes," she looked up at his face with amusement, "they don't make noises like a rattle snake does, so you won't know if they crawl up your back!" she yelled as she dragged a finger up the boy's spine and watched him jump three feet with a yelp. She couldn't contain her laughter as she bent over and held her stomach seeing the red-faced haughty boy. "That's for trying to scare me with the frog" she said between giggles.

Vegeta wanted to be mad and storm off at the girl, but the sound of her tinkling laughter held him in place. He crossed him arms and faced away from her instead.

"Hey 'Geta, the garter snake won't hurt you. They aren't poisonous and only eat earthworms and maybe even our froggie friend. You're not really mad are you?" She edged closer to him and tried to peek around his arms to see his face, but he only scoffed and turned farther away.

She plopped down on the grass next to his feet and looked out at the pond. The afternoon was escaping them as the sky began to brighten to orange. "Hey, 'Geta…. You don't think I really look like a toad, do you?"

Vegeta turned and looked down at her, watching as she plucked and pulled blades of grass near where she sat. Her blue hair was coming loose from the pigtails and strands had slipped into her eyes. It really did look like the ocean, even with bits of leaves and twigs, it still shined and sparkled. He sat down in the grass next to the girl and plucked his own grass. "Nah, I guess not. Your hair is too weird to be like a toad."

Bulma's head turned towards him as she smiled and her turquoise eyes beamed up at him again. Sitting so close together and with her looking at him that way made him nervous and he could feel all the blood warming his face a deep red.

All of a sudden, she jumped up, "Uh Oh! We better get back!" As soon as she said this, Vegeta heard his mother calling him from a long distance off.

"Race ya!" He said after he got to his feet. In a moment he was leaping over the broken fence and running full speed over the yard. He looked back to her running fast, but not nearly fast enough to catch up to him. He slowed so it would be a close second as they landed both breathing heavily in front of the group of waiting parents.

"My, look at you two covered in mud! Bulma, dear, you've ruined your dress," Bunny said as she brought a spit moistened handkerchief to the girl's cheek. Vegeta grinned as she squirmed away from the cloth like it was the slimy frog trying to kiss her.

"Come on Vegeta, you need a bath as well" he heard the rasp of his father's voice say as he directed him back towards their neighboring house.

Before they had gotten too far away, Vegeta heard Bulma call out to him, "Bye 'Geta!"

Vegeta looked back at the girl from between his parents legs, and waved his own goodbye.

"What a sweet girl. I hope you were nice and not mean like you were to the girls at your old school, Vegeta. It will be nice to have a friend before you go to a new school next week, right?"

"Yeah. And, Bulma isn't so bad… for a girl," Vegeta says with a fond smile.

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A/N: How was it? Don't worry, they don't stay this sickeningly cute for long. In fact, the story turns darker, much darker. No Spoilers! So keep reading!

Sneak Peak of Next Chapter: It is several years later and young Vegeta and Bulma are still close friends. Life is sweet, however, it cannot last forever. After Vegeta's parents die in a car accident, Frieza takes over not just the family business but also Vegeta's home. See how it all unfolds, next!