Worth It
I.)
The boy fiddled with the strap of her bra, apparently stymied. He was two grades ahead of her, and had a tattoo and an earring, so Bura had thought he was cool for sure. Now, she was quickly reevaluating that opinion.
She heard her dad coming long before the distracted boy would have. "Suppress
your ki," she hissed at the boy, disengaging his arms from her body gently - you had to be careful about boys, most of them were easy to break - and looking around the room for her shirt.
"My what?" the boy muttered. When her father began to pound on the bedroom door he nearly jumped out of his skin.
"Unlock this door or I'll break it down," Vegeta warned from the other side of the door. "Who's in there with you, Bura?"
"Daddy, you're horrible," Bura shouted back at him. She stood quickly, and opened her window so the boy could leave the way he'd come in. "Go out through the west gate," she whispered, "but watch out for the security robots. They have lasers."
"The what?" the boy said again, and that was when she decided he really was an idiot.
"Go quickly. Don't look back. Just run."
When the door splintered inward a few seconds later, Vegeta found her alone in the room. "Daddy!" she said, exasperated.
Outside there was a flash of blue light, followed quickly by a howl of pain. Bura rolled her eyes. "I warned him about the robots."
"You can do better," her father said.
II.)
There was only a silver of space on the couch between her brother and Goten, but Bura slipped into it, elbowing Trunks in the kidney when he was too slow scooting over. The TV flickered in the darkened room, as monsters chased a screaming woman across the screen.
"How's your training going, Goten?" she asked, leaning in close. "You're getting pretty strong, huh?"
"I'm tryin' to watch the movie," Goten said. He added pointedly, "With Trunks."
She stood again a few minutes later, stalking from the room huffily, and Goten scooted back over to Trunks' side. He yawned expansively, slipping his arm around Trunks' shoulder as he did so. "Thought she'd never leave," he said. Trunks' hand moved to Goten's thigh, resting there possessively.
III.)
"It's not worth the risk," Bura warned Uub, when they'd been together for nearly a year. She had long since learned the art of circumspection. "You don't know how he gets. He's impossible. Just don't tell him."
But Uub was stubborn in a completely different way than her father. "It's the right thing to do," he said.
IV.)
Uub found Vegeta in his training room. He turned and looked at Uub when he came in, and suddenly Uub didn't think they'd been nearly as clever as Bura had thought. "I wanna marry your daughter," he said. "Sir."
Vegeta looked him up and down, eyes hooded and unblinking, and Uub stood straighter. By then he had more than a foot's height on the smaller man. "Do you believe that you could beat me in a fight?"
"Yes, sir," Uub said, without hesitation. "But it wouldn't be easy."
"Try."
V.)
When it was over, Vegeta wiped blood from his mouth and said - not entirely begrudgingly - "You'll do."
And Uub beamed around a newly broken tooth and went to find Bura.
VI.)
The wedding was held in May, on the same island Uub had been born. There was roast boar and platters of fruit, and colorful birds in the trees, and flowers everywhere.