Old readers will notice that this story (or rather set of stories) is being cleaned up in terms of format and grammar. I really hope I don't miss anything.

The Happiest Day of My Life

Goku was completely out of his element. His wife, Chi Chi, was lying on their bed screaming her head off, he was getting his hand crushed into powder by said screaming wife, the Ox King was pacing nervously in the living room, and a doctor was sitting at Chi Chi's feet giving instructions. Amid all of this confusion he could only think about the one thing he thought he understood. And that was the fact that his child was being born.

He could remember quite clearly the day that Chi Chi had sat him down and said that they had to talk.

"Yeah what about?" he asked in his mind's eye. She had a funny look on her face; like she was extremely happy about something yet was trying to hold it in for the time being.

"Goku" she finally burst out "I'm pregnant!"

He blinked and asked "What does that mean? Are you sick?"

Her joy turned to anger and frustration. "No" she said as patiently as she could "It means that I'm going to have a baby."

"A baby?!" he asked in surprise. "Yes! We're going to be parents."

"You mean like my Grandpa was for me?"

"Yes isn't it wonderful?!"

He sat in silence for a moment. He wasn't sure how he felt. He had just gotten married not that long ago and was still adjusting to that. A baby would make things even weirder. "Well yeah" he said "I guess it sounds alright."

Chi Chi looked livid "Just alright! What do you mean?"

"I don't know what else to tell you, Chi Chi. I didn't know what marriage meant until right before it happened. Give me some time."

His wife sighed and said "Okay. I'll do my best."

Goku, relieved that she wasn't angry anymore, asked "So when is the baby getting here?"

Chi Chi half smiled, half sighed at how naive her husband was. "In a way it's already here." Goku became very surprised and began looking around the room. "No silly" she laughed "It's here inside of me." Now Goku was just plain confused and he stated it. Chi Chi took his hand and put in on the lower part of her stomach "In here. The baby will grow over the coming months until it's ready to come out."

Goku asked "How did this happen?"

Chi Chi grinned playfully "Do you remember that "exercise" I taught you the night after we got married?"

"Yeah so wha…Oh! Was that it? Are you going to have a baby every time we do that?"

"No we won't, thank goodness. We just got lucky this time."

Goku's mind fast forwarded to another memory. Chi Chi was visibly showing by now and Goku had painfully learned not to call her fat. They were in what used to be an empty room of their house, which was now full of boxes of what Goku called "baby stuff." He and Chi Chi were currently trying to put together a cradle (meaning that Goku was doing 90% of the work and she was supervising).

"Now insert part C into slot B."

"Wait, wait, wait!" he gasped "I'm still assembling part A."

"Come on Goku I'm getting tired." He wanted to say something in response to this but bit his lip. After a few more minutes, they began making some actual headway. "I still don't see why your dad couldn't do this."

Chi Chi said "His large hands just aren't suited for this sort of thing, remember? And you, as the father, need to do your part. Just keep working; I think that we'll be done soon." Goku was starting to think that having a baby just wasn't worth the trouble.

Another scream from Chi Chi and a painful squeeze on his hand pulled him back to the present. The doctor was saying "I can see the head Mrs. Son. You'll be a mother very soon."

Chi Chi was having a fit of pure agony but managed a smile. Goku, still rather frightened and confused by the whole affair, asked "What should I do, Doctor?"

"Just make sure your wife keeps breathing and pushing!"

"Uh, Chi Chi, do what he said." She managed a very Chi Chi-ish look before wincing and gasping again.

The doctor said "Come on push! We're almost…" Chi Chi gave her loudest scream yet and the doctor finished "there!"

The room was filled with the wailing cries of a baby. The doctor announced "Congratulations Mr. and Mrs. Son. You are now the parents of a beautiful baby boy!"

Chi Chi grasped Goku's hand tight again and said "Did you hear that, Goku?! A boy!"

"Yeah that's great!" and he meant it. A boy was something he could relate to, he had been terrified it would be a girl and that he would be completely lost. He never did learn to understand women and marring one had actually made it worse.

By now the doctor was placing the baby in Chi Chi's arms. "Oh Goku! Just look at him." Goku did so and saw a baby wrapped in a blanket. His mind was a blank and he wasn't sure what to think. Sure he was happy but he wasn't falling all over himself like Chi Chi. "Do you want to hold him?"

"Uh sure!" he stuttered. He took the squirming child and held him like he was made of glass. He stared down at his son and their eyes met. Goku's heart stopped beating for a moment. Those were his eyes, his son had his eyes! Goku suddenly felt a lot of things all at once. "Chi Chi I think I need a moment alone."

She nodded and took the baby back; "Tell dad he can come in now."

Goku did so and the Ox King actually shoved him aside in his mad rush to see his daughter and grandchild. Goku stepped outside and looked around. The birds, the trees, the clouds; they were all the completely the same yet completely different. He hadn't known what it would be like to actually hold the child and to look at it. He had had no idea that it was possible to love anything that much. He felt like he was going to explode with love for that child and with love for the woman who gave birth to him.

Suddenly, Goku rocketed upward at breakneck speed. He soared up above the clouds until he had trouble breathing. He stopped, took the deepest breath he could and screamed "Yahoo! I have a son, I'm a daddy!" He couldn't stop shouting it; "I'm a daddy, I'm a daddy!" Finally, when he almost passed out from lack of breath, he sank back to earth much slower than he had risen. When he reached the ground he found the doctor coming out of the house.

"Oh there you are Mr. Son…"

"Please call me Goku" he panted.

"Well Goku you're son seems to be perfectly strong and healthy."

Goku swelled with pride and asked "What about Chi Chi?"

"She is just fine. I'll be back to check on you all soon but I think that things are just perfect."

Goku thanked the doctor and sent him on his way. He walked back inside and found the Ox King holding his tiny grandson. "Oh Goku, Chi Chi I couldn't be happier!"

Goku said "Neither could I." He sat down on the bed beside Chi Chi and took her hand.

She asked "Do you mean that? I don't think you were ever completely comfortable with the idea."

"I know. I had a lot to learn and still have a lot of learning ahead of me. But I do know that I love my son and I love you." He bent forward and kissed her. She smiled and said "Too bad this will all wear off soon and you'll be back to your usual, clueless self."

He laughed and said "Probably. But before I do change back I want to say that this is the happiest day off my life!"