A/N: I have some angry followers I am sure since I have not posted in months :'( I have provided empty promises which I apologize for immensely. I am FINALLY heading towards winter break, and during my summer break I produced so many updates and it will happen again. I am still very in love with ALL my stories, and I can't wait to post the updates!
But to get into the groove of things, I wrote what started as one-shot dedicated to the first year of Goku and Chi-Chi's marriage, but decided to make it into a four part series of all the seasons. It's probably been done too much to the point it's exhausted, but I hope someone out there enjoys my perspective as I celebrate my absolute favorite pairing of the DB franchise!
Enjoy! More updates coming this weekend!
Part I: Summer
There was cake frosting still clinging to the upright strands of Goku's hair long after he had ripped the white bow tie off his neck. The matching white pants had become unzipped so he could fill his stomach on leftovers from the after party. The refrigerator light had illuminated his face, and for a minute Chi-Chi had thought an overgrown raccoon had snuck into their kitchen gnawing through the ham like a savage beast.
Chi-Chi thought that wedding nights were suppose to go a bit...differently.
"Goku, what are you doing?"
In response was a muffled reply, a type of language she would need to get use to in order to make this marriage last. The slobbery chunks of meat that escaped his mouth when he spoke had dribbled down his chin and landed on the tiles.
The bride didn't know what to say at this point. In their dark house that Papa had built for a wedding present on Mount Paozu, there was no working A.C. yet she felt colder than ever. The groom had them ditch the party early on the flying Nimbus, and even though their arms were occupied with food that could feed an entire village...
Chi-Chi honestly believed Goku wanted to do the thing.
Yes, the thing. That very thing.
But as she watched him wolf down a roast beef that had fallen on the ground during their trip home, Chi-Chi wasn't even sure if Goku even knew what the thing was.
The groom wasn't completely to blame. Chi-Chi herself didn't go through the Flying Nimbus. She was pure as snow. The only difference between her innocent child self and now was that she could fill out that bikini pretty well.
She turned as red as the fruit punch Goku was gulping down.
That's a thought only a hussy would have.
Chi-Chi didn't have any actual friends growing up. When her father had matters to discuss with the neighboring villages, some of the other princesses would come to her palace and they would talk about boys, boys, boys, hairstyles, and boys. The conversations only got more inappropriate as the girls turned into women, and Chi-Chi would remember coming up with any and every excuse in the book to leave the room before she fainted.
The first of the women to get married was from one of the forest villages. She told Chi-Chi and the others about how her sister's best friend's sister's aunt spilled all the juicy details about what's suppose to go down the night following the wedding.
To say the least, Chi-Chi wasn't able to escape that conversation.
Thanks to that princess's words, the girls Chi-Chi grew up with now had husbands with babies nine months right after the wedding took place.
That thing had to happen tonight for the new bride to have that phenomenal lifestyle.
But honestly... how could she do the thing when her husband's busy hands were giving all the love to cake?
Chi-Chi dropped her head in defeat. She didn't even know where to begin. She knew she loved him the moment Goku kicked her in the hoo-hee and told her she didn't have a wiener. There was nothing more she wanted in this life than to marry that little boy on the cloud who saved the world from King Piccolo. But now that it had happened...
The wife rubbed her wrist with her thumb. Was it possible that they had rushed into this?
After releasing a burp that was a little louder than he wanted it to be, Goku closed the emptied fridge's door and made the kitchen completely dark. He wouldn't have even been able to tell Chi-Chi was there if it weren't for significant ki. Either that, or the entire bottle of rose sweat she was wearing. How she was able to extract sweat from the roses, Goku had no clue.
"Boy, that was delicious!" He was beaming, and with his closed eyes and belly rubbing he was completely unaware that his wife was doing the exact opposite. "I'm tired. G'night!"
Goku gave Chi-Chi an awkward pat on the shoulder before navigating his way through a house he'd never been in before. In fact, that whole trip to the fridge was his first five minutes in the place. Before he could place a hand on the knob that belonged to the bathroom, the woman in his new house began wailing her lungs out. Head tilted back and everything.
"I DON'T WANT TO GO TO SLEEP!"
Stunned, concerned, and a little congested, Goku turned the knob. He grabbed his crying bride's wrist gently and brought her into the bathroom to see her face. The black stuff she used on her eyelashes had run down in black streaks on her face. He ripped some toilet paper off the roll and tried removing it, but only painted her face even more ebony.
Finding it a little funny, he chuckled. Seeing his wife's sad expression turn into a violent glare, he gulped.
"S-Sorry, Chi-Chi. You just remind me of my friend Mr. PoPo."
Her little fists balled up while she shook with her now silent emotions. He had just consumed their entire fridge that was at least suppose to get them through two weeks and now he was cracking jokes!?
"Listen," she sniffed to fight against her tears. "I don't want to stuff my face and I don't want to go to bed. I want to... I want to..."
"You wanna what?" Goku blinked. Was her face turning red because of the hot lights in here? He decided to flip the switch but only received a groan from her end.
Chi-Chi began to hyperventilate at the thought of the two eighteen year olds being alone for the first time in such a dark, cramped space. She blurted the first thing that she could conjure up.
"I WANT TO GO TO THE PARK!"
As if Goku wasn't already confused enough, Chi-Chi ran out of the bathroom in her wedding dress. "Well... Would you like me to come with you?"
His only response was the slamming of a door, but at least it wasn't the front one. She had ran into the room directly in front of the bathroom. Goku abandoned their previously confined space and entered the room his bride disappeared into slowly. He was first greeted with the sight of a large bed, the largest one that he had ever seen.
It seemed to have been made for two.
"Chi-Chi? You in here?"
She immediately emerged from the closet with a pile of clothes, her face reddened underneath the black smears. "I'm going to change and then we will go."
As welcoming as that bed was, Goku would rather prevent his new roommate from crying than knock out. He figured this was as new and different to her like it was for him. Finding the biggest smile he could, Goku grabbed the collar of his dress shirt and ripped the buttons off all the way down. Chi-Chi dropped her clothes to her feet seeing what he was hiding underneath.
Had he somehow worked out that much between the little time of the tournament and their wedding?
"Hello? Earth to Chi-Chi?"
Giving her that big dopey smile, Goku was beginning to look more like an older gentleman completely out of her league than an eighteen year old monkey boy. Chi-Chi, the confident ass kicking princess, felt intimidated by this dumb lug!
"Uh, uh, UH UH! What the hell do you think you're doing!?" Chi-Chi screeched when he began to unbutton his white dress pants. Despite all the food and beverages he'd consumed, they were both surprised it stayed so milky.
"I'm changin'!" Goku raised an eyebrow at her bloodless cheeks. She was looking at his over-sized boxers like they were the most horrendous thing she'd ever seen. "Ah, what? Don't tell me that stain is still on them?"
Chi-Chi bent down to pick up her fallen clothes and buried her face in them as Goku pivoted around to search for the mystery stain. She began screaming into the clothes as she ran into the bathroom, quickly locking the door.
Oh dear lord! I married a man who wears a single pair of underwear!
Should the thing even happen? Isn't being unsanitary a hazard?
Deciding to let Chi-Chi talk to her imaginary friend in the bathroom, Goku shrugged and took a curious look into his new bedroom's closet. The corners of his eyes crinkled while the corners of his mouth slid upwards.
Chi-Chi, at least he assumed it had to be his roommate's doing, had either gotten numerous pairs of his orange gi from Master Roshi or made them herself. They were folded and tucked neatly in their own shelf underneath Chi-Chi's colorful dresses. There was another section beneath the fighting clothes labeled "underwear and socks".
Entertained, Goku opened the drawer and his grin grew wider. She had even provided him with different pairs and colors of boxers.
"Wow," he breathed out and removed a navy cloth. "My wristbands are here too!"
It was a bit different from his original wristbands, but it didn't matter. He eventually figured out how to correctly place them on his wrists and then examined the section labeled "People Clothes". He pulled a pair of dark jeans over his old boxers and wondered how Chi-Chi got the measurements so right that the pants fit so perfectly.
Chi-Chi could hear her new husband rummaging through the closet and sighed in relief knowing he wasn't going to be naked anymore. Before leaving the bathroom, she fought with the choice of buttoning her blue sweater or leaving it open. One look down at her cleavage the white tank top underneath provided, she immediately covered herself up.
The park wasn't a place to wear her traditional dress-and-pants combo. Maybe when she was a mother, but right now...
Chi-Chi took a deep breath and buttoned her dark blue pants. It made her feel sick to think about being a mother, because the thing would need to happen before that and...
She wiped the panic sweat off her forehead.
No, don't worry about this right now stupid. You are going to the park for some park-time merriment.
The moment she opened the door, a large hand that was attached to a muscular arm was in her face. Goku, wearing the black shirt and pants Chi-Chi had placed in the closet before they officially moved in together, was beaming like a child on Free Candy Day.
"Thanks Chi-Chi! That was real nice of ya!"
The wife blinked at his hand until she realized he wanted a high-five. Giving him what he wanted, Chi-Chi blushed as she brushed past him and cursed under breath. Fall really needed to roll around soon so those arms wouldn't be so exposed.
"Are you ready to go to the park?" Chi-Chi's voice sounded foreign even to her. It was shaky, weak, and nothing like the tough gal she was. Her nervous smile crashed into an exhaustive expression. What would those girls she grew up with think? Going to a park to play on her wedding night?
Goku scurried past her like a rodent on steroids in order to open the door first. He looked at the top of Chi-Chi's head as she passed by. Her bangs had been recently trimmed so they remained along the line of her thin eyebrows, and her thick pony tail had curled up at the end.
"Just like Oolong's tail!"
"Huh?"
"Nothing!" Goku winked (missing his bride's blushing face) and whistled, "NIIIIMBUS!"
As soon as their fluffy yellow companion arrived, Chi-Chi rubbed the back of her neck wondering if she'd still be able to sit on the cloud in the future. How could one remain pure when...when...
"Gosh, Cheech. You sure are moving slow today! C'mon!"
Cheech?
The young lady sighed loudly and tucked some loose hair behind her ear. She climbed onto the cloud and immediately wrapped her arms around Goku's torso. She could feel his abs through his shirt and burrowed her nose into the back of his neck. Nimbus was already moving through the sky before any words were spoken.
"What park are you taking us to?"
"I don't really know! I'll just have Nimbus drop us down when I see one!"
Chi-Chi shrugged. She didn't have a problem with that. Anywhere but alone in that house tonight with him was fine. Unknowingly, she began massaging his torso with her thumbs.
Goku could feel his face turning warm and couldn't blame the hot air touching their faces. It scared him that this tiny teen made his chest and body feel funny. He straightened up when her fingers pressed deeper into his stomach muscles.
"Hey, hey, hey! Stop that!"
Chi-Chi removed her face from his back and blinked at his spiked up mess of a hair. "Stop what?"
The new husband grumbled something under his breath, too embarrassed and too confused as to what to tell her. "Nothing. I'm going to have Nimbus bring us down there."
Feeling suddenly insecure about her actions from his frustrated voice, Chi-Chi frowned and moved her hands to his shoulders. At least this way, whatever caused his mood to change might ease up and she won't fall off the floating cloud.
Their trusted companion Nimbus hadn't failed them. The park was simple, but enough and most of all private. This time of night, even for a summer's night, had brought about no soul except for the newlyweds. Goku waved goodbye to the yellow cloud and offered Chi-Chi his hand.
"Do you want me to push you on the swing or something?"
He secretly wanted to swing himself, but there was only one available and he already had a bad feeling he had hurt Chi-Chi's feelings. He sighed happily when she accepted his offer with a small smile and blush.
"I would love that, Goku."
In one swift and surprising gesture, Goku sweeped Chi-Chi off her feet and placed her on the swing. Instead of the traditional push swinging, Goku grabbed the chains in front of her and began rocking her slowly. He had to be as gentle as possible with this young bride and not send her to Other World.
"Hey... Can I ask you something?"
Chi-Chi was caught off guard by his now timid voice. He wasn't the muscle-bound beef cake she was frightened of. He was the innocent monkey boy again.
"Of course, anything."
"Uhhhhhm, well..." Goku looked down at his navy boots and scuffled the wood chips below. Master Roshi, Krillin, Yamcha, and even Oolong couldn't quite help him put together the pieces of this whole marriage thing, and there was one part that had been causing his head to ache. "What does roasting the broomstick mean?"
"What?"
"Oh darn, that must not be it!" Goku held onto the chains on the swings tightly and momentarily stopped pushing the lovely lady while he tried to remember that thing Yamcha said. "A bit of the ole' in and out?"
Chi-Chi shook her head. "Honey, I honestly don't know what you're talking about."
Honey? Goku smiled. He recalled Dr. Brief saying that to Bulma's mom when he was younger. It was the first time Chi-Chi had called him anything but his name. Unless you count jerk from the World Martial Arts Tournament.
"Ah, forget it!" Goku gave her the type of wink that gave her the type of smile that gave Goku that type of heartache. He furrowed his brows together as if that would fight off the funny feeling. "I'm gonna push you now."
The way he said it made Chi-Chi feel like this push was going to end her life. She gripped onto the chains to tightly her hands turned white. He pulled her close to him as he walked backward. Their eyes connected heavily for a brief moment before they grew flush and looked away awkwardly at the same time. The pulling back of his elbows brought them even closer together, and they sweated while avoiding eye contact. When he released her, she went swinging backwards.
The World Martial Arts champion cracked up hearing her screamed, and gave her a thumbs up when she came back to him. Her worrisome expression disappeared once she began to get the hang of swinging at such an intense speed.
"Look at you! You're flying!"
Chi-Chi giggled, suddenly feeling lighter than air. She was having the time of her life with her new husband until she noticed her husband's eyes went a little below her neck every time she came back to him. Turning the reddest she had been in awhile, she looked down to see some of the buttons on her sweater had come undone. She released her grip on the chains and tried to cover herself up as quickly as she could.
One moment, Chi-Chi and the swing had greeted Goku before they went backward. When the swing came back, there was no Chi-Chi. Goku's grin was lost as he began to panic.
Had the momentum increased and she went into the stratosphere!?
"CHI-CHI!?" he'd never said anyone's name with this much desperation. "CHI-CHI!?"
The teen was married for five hours before he had become a widow. He began digging through the wood chips, searching the jungle gym while calling out for her. It wasn't until he had to take a deep breath that he heard a muffled sound coming from the grassy section behind the swing.
"Chi-Chi!" Goku's happiness overwhelmed him to that point that he appeared by her side in a millisecond. The poor bride was laying in the dried up grass, her bangs engrossed with twigs and ants. The husband laid beside her, brushing the hair out of her face. "What happened... honey?"
Honey? Chi-Chi rubbed her head, wondering if she had heard that right. What was she suppose to say to that goofy, loving face of his? That she didn't want her husband staring at her Smothers Brothers so she fell off the swing?
"Uhm... My hands slipped."
Goku chuckled in relief that it wasn't his wrongdoing. He stood up and offered his wife his hand, who was about to take it before she began laughing hysterically. She had managed to stand up at her own at this point, but was doubled-over with her uncontrollable laughter.
The messy haired hero began to wonder if that fall had made her insane.
"Uh, Cheech? What's so funny?"
She wiped a tear from her eye as she brought herself up right. Her body occasionally shook with giggles as she tried getting the words out. "Why do you have my underwear wrapped around your wrists?"
