Author Notes: My first fandom ever was DBZ when I was 13, and well, here I am in it again. Although with a much more mature sense about my writing. Go figure. Hope you can stand to put up with me for a while. I aim to update once a week. It is a personal deadline and personal goal. This story "collection" is actually structured to be in timeline order, skipping to a bunch of little moments. It starts with the night after their wedding and doesn't hit the Z story line until chapter 9. Eventually, we will make it through to the end of Z but I still won't be finished. I don't really like working with the GT story - and I'm not too hyped about working with the Super story line either, as much as I love Whis and Beerus and will cameo-style include them. Still. This long winded explanation is to tell you that the eventual story will reach an original plot that is actually going to connect into other couples. Basically, an over arching plot line including all (or most) of the Dragon Ball characters - each "collection" jumping around in chronological order to explain the major plot. But, well, I'll explain more when we get there. We aren't there yet. For now, I hope you enjoy what I have, but know that I have some major plan in the works.

So that's it then.

Pairing: Goku/Chi-Chi

Words: 904

Prompt: Introduction

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"Sometimes my brain doesn't know what my mouth is saying. Good thing my heart does." - Goku, Dragonball, English (Funimation) Dub

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Chi-Chi sighed happily as she stared off into space, listening to the sound of birds and other wild animals outside their window. Their little house in the woods, a place built by her father right next to the place where Goku grew up. It was a scene from a romantic novel, and she was still tickled to death that everything had played out right to get her here.

A chance meeting with a boy on a cloud. A sudden fling of a question. A promise given. And then years later experiencing the frustration of being forgotten, of realizing the innocent boy turned man had no idea what he had promised back then, only to come clean and propose on the world tournament stage once everything had been explained.

She looked down at the man on the bed beside her and smiled, watching him sleep so haphazardly with the covers hardly even on him. His soft snores filled the air as he drifted through his dreams. He'd had the perfect chance to escape his promise, the perfect excuse to not go through it; she'd been about to give up hope, and yet here he was. Her husband.

She found his hand under the bed sheets and squeezed it, getting nothing more than a little twitch and mumble from him in his sleep. Their first morning waking up together as a married couple, and even though she had woken up before him she was willing to wait right here until he opened his eyes to their first day. However long it took. After all, she had waited years for him before, she could wait a few hours now.

In the meantime, she let her thoughts wander, eyes open but staring into the past.

"Are you Chi-Chi?"

"Yes, I am. How do you know my name? Oh, you must be in love with me, too!"

She smiled at the memory of Goku on his strange flying cloud, floating right over to her and calling her name like some long lost lover. Oh, she had been so taken with him right from the start, though he apparently had been so innocent he hadn't even realized her feelings. Or what his cute responses made her think.

She could still feel the fluffy yellow cloud as if it were yesterday. She chuckled to herself. Well, of course. It was yesterday that he had taken her for a ride on it again, after all. His favorite way to travel. Such a special, romantic thing to go flying through the air after their wedding ceremony.

And then the way he had carried her into the house, hopping off the nimbus without even expecting her to walk in by herself. Being a gentlemen in the small things, whether he realized it or not (though at this point she was almost certain he did things without understanding their meaning).

"Oh, wow, so this is where we're going to live together for the rest of our lives, huh?"

"Yes, Goku. Oh, do you like it?"

"Yeah! It's great! But, Chi-Chi, why is there only one bed? Where are you gonna sleep?"

"With you, silly."

"Huh? Like together?"

"Of course. That's what married couples do, sweetheart."

"Oh, well, I haven't slept with anyone since I was a kid and I always slept with my grandpa back then. You know, Bulma always told me it was weird for a guy to sleep with a girl, but if you say so."

Chi-Chi giggled a little at the memory of just yesterday. He really was so innocent, even more so than her. At least she knew the basics of married life. Goku hadn't a clue. Which, of course, meant she'd had to show him every embarrassing detail of the more intimate matters. Her face flushed just at the memory. Thankfully, once he'd gotten started, he'd moved into an instinctual urge that almost frightened her. A few moments reminding him to be gentle, and their first night hadn't been all too bad.

She brought a finger to her smiling lips and giggled again. Oh, not bad at all.

It wasn't until warm arms wrapped around her shoulders that she realized she'd lost her grip on Goku's hand. "Hey, Chi-Chi," he said, his warm breath right in her ear.

Suppressing a shudder, she smiled and brought her smaller hands to rest on the arms holding her. "Good morning, Goku."

He grunted at that, his voice bright and cheery when he responded in kind. "G'morning! But hey, I was wondering..."

"What is it, Goku?"

"That thing we did last night..." he whispered, kissing her jaw right beneath her ear. "Can we do it again?"

Closing her eyes, she sighed, laughing inside a bit at his eagerness. At least she knew he liked 'it.' If she was being honest, she liked it, too, even though it was incredibly new and scary and yet so wonderful she could only imagine what new things they would be able to uncover. Both under bedsheets and in their lives together from here on out.

"Yes, Goku," she said, leaning back against his chest. "Just remember..."

"To be gentle," he finished, a hand of his already on the move. "Yeah, I know."

-Edit 1: 30 Sept 2015