Chapter 1: Best of all Futures

It was so great when we discovered that Frieza was dead. Thanks to Goku.

"Hmph" Vegeta said as he separated himself from the rest of those humans.

Bulma looked over to see Vegeta leaning against a tree with his arms crossed over his chest. She walked over to him and said, "Hey Vegeta! Wanna stay at Capsule Corporation? You could train and maybe my dad would build you gravity chamber? So how about it?"

"I don't need your charity woman. I can survive on my own," Vegeta said gruffly. Bulma started getting really angry, she knew his pride was getting in the way of him taking her up on my offer.

"Look you have no place to stay and there is no way I am letting you go off on your own on a planet you almost destroyed! Come on!" And then she walked off. And to her pleasure, he followed.

3 months later

"WOMAN! The damn gravity machine is out again! You need to fix it! NOW!" Bulma looked up slowly, she didn't want to have to deal with Vegeta's arrogant attitude this early in the day.

Bulma sighed and glanced up at him, "Why can't you fix it? You demand everything from us and yet you never thank us? What the hell is wrong with you? And then you walk in here and tell ME to fix something YOU broke. There is something really wrong with that."

"Woman, just fix it." Then he left. Probably to raid the refrigerator. she sighed. It wasn't worth getting all hyped up about it. Who knows, maybe he would finally appreciate it one day.

Vegeta thought. He started making a sandwich, they were the quickest things to make especially when he had all this training to do. While those thoughts were running through his head Bulma suddenly graced through the door. "It's done. You can go work yourself out again. Just be careful, I don't want you getting hurt." Vegeta's mouth hung open for a few seconds.

"Hmph, surprised you plan on caring about ME today woman. I'll be off now."

Well infact, Bulma didn't know why she didn't want Vegeta going and getting himself hurt. It was a surprise to her that SHE had said that. And she was still stunned when he said his smart remark that she didn't notice he walked off to the gravity room with his sandwich and when Bulma opened her mouth to tell him, "well I do care," he was gone. She sighed and went off to her room. She had a date with Yamcha tonight, despite his standing her up last week.

While Bulma was in the bedroom primping her hair, Vegeta came in with a smirk on his face. "I can't believe you are going back out with that BOY again since last week he didn't show up and you made all those weeping sounds."

She turned around to face him, "Well I'm especially glad you noticed." And then left leaving him with a fading smirk on his face.

By the time the date was over, Yamcha and Bulma were already in another fight. While they were at a dance club she had noticed him giving looks at some other girls, and when Bulma went off to go to the bathroom, she came back to find him with two other girls. When they reached Capsule Corporation she was about to wring his neck. Bulma was sick of hearing his excuses. She jumped out of the car but not without him right at her heels. "Please Bulma! THEY approached me! I was trying to tell them to go away!"

"No Yamcha, that's not true. We're over, no more!"

"Bulma come on!"

"Why must you always be like this Yamcha?! Do you do this just to piss me off? Do you get turned on by watching me get pissed!"

"No! That's not it! Bulma, you know I care about you! Just listen to me..." Yamcha tried to reach out and take her hand only to receive a fatal slap across his face. "What the hell! You BITCH!" Again he tried to make a grab and her wrist.

"Don't touch me Yamcha! I don't any thing to do with you! You are a lame excuse for a boyfriend and I was fooling myself ever thinking that you would make an ideal husband!"

Yamcha stared at her, "You whore. Just because other girls think I'm attractive doesn't make me a bad person!"

As Yamcha ranted Bulma noticed that Vegeta had come out and was standing in the corner watching silently. Her face, for a moment, had a surprised look but she quickly regained her composure and focused on telling Yamcha that they were over. Yamcha, watching Bulma's every move, had noticed her surprised look when she had glanced over in Vegeta's direction for that moment that he turned around to see what had gotten her attention.

"Ah, I see. You are just using the fact that two girls approached me to dump me since you have fallen for that lame excuse of a prince over there." Sneered Yamcha glaring daggers at Vegeta. Bulma felt her cheeks heat up before her anger reached its peak.

"Why you little..." she stopped short because at that moment Vegeta had leapt out of his corner and was beating Yamcha to a red pulp. Vegeta had gotten Yamcha out of the house when he started building an extremely powerful ki when Bulma ran out side.

"Stop Vegeta! I think he gets the point." Vegeta stopped and walked through the door and hmphed. Bulma ran up to Yamcha and said, "Now will you please go?" He did a slight nod before flying off.

When Bulma went into the house she walked by Vegeta who was sitting on the sofa with his eyes closed and his arms crossed over his chest. Bulma stopped and began to look at him.

Even though his eyes were closed, he could sense that she was staring at him. Staring at him with those deep blue eyes and her body. *WHAT? What WAS I thinking. I can't even stand a couple of minutes with her in the room. These feelings were something new to me and I just want to ignore them. I have no time for petty feelings. But she was a gorgeous girl, like I had said on Namek.* I opened my eyes. "I told you that you shouldn't have given him the time of day." She just sighed before she hurried up the stairs and to her bedroom.

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"Please! Please don't kill me! I didn't do anything wrong, it's not my fault!" Bulma repeated over and over to a person that stood in front of her. She could see nothing more than his black tipped shoes and he was threatening to kill her if she wouldn't tell him where the prince was.

"Tell me where he is and I'll consider letting you go!" The figure yelled.

"I don't know who you are talking about! What prince?!" Bulma tried yelling to get some sense into him but the figure just ignored whatever she had said and picked her up by the head throwing her against the wall. She was falling into unconsciousness until some one walked by and kneeled in front of her.

Rubbing his white gloved hand across her cheek he whispered, "I'll take care of it, just lie still now."

The man walked over to the figure in black tipped boots, "I'LL KILL YOU!"

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She sat up quickly gasping for air in her bed. "It was just a dream," she kept muttering to herself. Trying to calm her self down Bulma got up to walk around. Bulma got up, noticing that her window was open and saw that Vegeta was lying against a tree staring into the sky.

Vegeta looked up into the sky began to wonder that out of all his futures he could have had, out of all the places he could have been, he ended up here, on earth, a planet he was supposed to destroy, with a person, that he despised... Or did he despise her. Just then Vegeta noticed that Bulma had wandered outside and was coming right up to him. Vegeta looked over at her, "What do you want woman?"

She didn't say anything until she was sitting next to him against the tree. It was strange, she hated being near him. "What are you looking at Vegeta?" He looked at her, he wanted to insult her, there were so many thoughts and feelings running through his mind at that moment but he only said one thing.

"I really don't know. I was thinking that out of everything that could possibly happen, I ended up here."

Bulma didn't know exactly what to say to Vegeta at that moment and if she did have something in her mind, she didn't know how to put it into words. So she just sat there and looked up into the sky with Vegeta, it felt so right just to do that.

Bulma's eyes began to wander from the sky to Vegeta. Tracing his shoulders. Tracing his stomach, his thighs, all of his muscles. He was perfect. And even though she knew this was someone who she hated and who she knew hated her, she couldn't pull her eyes away from him. His eyes were so intense, his lips looked so soft and warm. she finally was able to stop and looked back up to the sky.

Vegeta stopped gazing into the sky for a moment and looked Bulma. She looked so fragile and beautiful in the starlight. The way her body moved, the way her eyes reflected the sky. The way her lips were pursed into a slight smile. At that, he felt so comfortable not being alone and having someone to look at the stars with that Vegeta didn't notice that he began to put his arm around her, but it just felt so nice. She then rested her head on his shoulder and soon they fell asleep outside together, looking at the sky.

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When Vegeta woke up he noticed that Bulma was still resting on his shoulder. He tried to get up without waking her, she looked too peaceful. But Vegeta accidentally aroused her and she glanced up at him and asked, "Training now?"

"Yes," and with that he flew off. Vegeta thought last night was dream and now he didn't know what to think about it, but even if it was, it was a very good dream.

It was so strange. She had fallen asleep in Vegeta's arms without the slightest bit of hesitations, but when she woke up it was like everything that was shared last night was nothing but an amazing dream. In fact, she didn't even know how to act towards him any more. It was strange. Last night he had been so different. He wasn't an arrogant and selfish prince, but a caring person who was willing to spend his time with some one else other than his ego.

Suddenly in the middle of the day a loud explosion was heard throughout the entire house! Bulma, who was in her room suddenly looked up from her book and rushed downstairs. She noticed that smoke was coming from the gravity room and when she got to where the gravity room once stood she saw Vegeta, standing there his face covered with smoke and was breathing extremely hard, "Kisama, never built a ki that powerful before! And damn did that hurt." At that, Vegeta collapsed onto the rubble; unconscious and bloody.

"ARA! VEGETA?! VEGETA WAKE UP!" When her yelling didn't work she ran up to a phone and dialed 911. "My boyfriend... I mean my friend just got caught in an explosion and isn't responding to anything!" A few minutes later an ambulance came and she and Vegeta was off the hospital.

"Mam, were you the one who came with Vegeta?"

"Yes"

"You can come and see him now. He is stable but still unconscious. He is very lucky, he escaped with a broken arm and two fractured ribs. Any normal person probably would have died in an explosion like that." Bulma sighed and thought *Yeah... He is very special.*

In the hospital room Bulma sat next to Vegeta and looked at him. As evil and rude as he usually is he looked so sweet while sleeping. Bulma reached and took his hand in hers. "Your not alone. I'm here."

It was around 11:00 p.m. when Bulma felt the hand she was holding tighten. Slowly Vegeta's eyes opened and looked at Bulma. He had this dreamy look in his eyes and he smiled. But quickly turned his smile into his character scowl and said, "Where am I?"

"In the hospital Vegeta." He glanced around and acknowledged that his surroundings were completely different than that of capsule corporation. "What happened? What the hell is wrong with me? Why do I have to stay here?"

The questions continuously poured out of the saiyan's mouth to fast for Bulma to answer. She quickly hushed him and told him everything making a long story short. He quickly tried to sit up but he felt Bulma pushing him down. Vegeta quickly complied which surprised Bulma who was pushing with all her strength that when he went back down she lost her balance and fell onto Vegeta. Not only was Vegeta shocked but halfway excited to have this girl on him. Thought Bulma but then realized what was happening and quickly picked herself up. "Sorry." Vegeta just laid there, a little dazed and a little pissed. He couldn't quite decide.

The next day around 5:00 p.m. Bulma proudly waltzed into the room unknowing that Vegeta was sleeping. "Vegeta!" she sang.

"Kisama Woman! What are you trying to do? Scare the hell out of me?"

"Sorry Vegeta but get dressed you get to come home now. You just have to have lots of rest and take some wonderful medicine!" Bulma held up a glass bottle filled with red liquid stuff. Vegeta cringed his nose swollowed 1/4th of the bottle and quickly dressed. Much to Bulma's pleasure she saw part of his muscular chest before excusing herself of embarrassment.

When Vegeta got back to the house he began to take off his arm cast and all his bandages around his chest. Bulma, quickly noticing his actions, ran up to Vegeta and started yelling, "You can't take those off! You have to keep them on until they are healed!"

"I'm healed, see!" In hopes of proving to Bulma that he was all better he ran towards Bulma and picked her up and started flying off to a place in the forest. *hehehe Not only do I get to take her flying to prove my health, I get to touch her* Vegeta looked down at the frightened woman in his hands, smiling at the fact that they were together.

"ARA Vegeta! Don't drop me! For Kami's sake please don't drop me!" Bulma quickly clung to Vegeta's neck and buried her head into his chest. Vegeta looked down at her with a smirk that was so characteristic.

"Don't worry Bulma, I'm not PLANNING on dropping you, but we could easily change that." His hold on Bulma was quickly loosened and if you happened to be in a five mile radius of those two you would have been guaranteed to hear a high-pitched scream coming out of Bulma's mouth. In quite a shocked state Vegeta quickly tightened his grip on her and flew faster; his ears ringing.

Vegeta landed in a clearing in the middle of the woods. He knew this area because he went there often. It was his "sanctuary" and he went there when he just needed to get away. It was a nice area since there was a lake right next to it. Bulma quickly scrambled away from Vegeta and went quickly to the lake, Vegeta went over to a tree and leaned against it. "I told you I was healed. Hmph, sure beats you petty humans." Bulma did nothing but glare. He was being pretty nice compared to his usual state that she decided that they shouldn't get into an argument just yet.

Bulma turned to Vegeta and looked at him. His eyes were closed, his arms were crossed, the only thing different was that his mouth was not scowling, but looking pleasant. Bulma couldn't help but thinking how it would feel to have his lips on hers. She remembered the night they slept outside under the stars together and how warm he was. Bulma pondered this and began to wander up to Vegeta. Vegeta noticing her presence opened his eyes, "What do you want?" he said as coldly as he could.

Bulma just stared at him and said, "Vegeta, do you love me?"

Vegeta glanced up at her, at first with wide eyes then narrowed them and looked straight into her eyes, "Where do you even get an idea like that?" Vegeta looked at her, ignoring the disappointment he saw plastered on her face.

"I was just wondering... That's all."

"Well then, woman, I suggest that you quit wondering and get on with your life, without Yamcha."

Bulma gawked at him for a second. Had he cared who she shared her life with? "Um, well, do you care about me?" Bulma had muttered half of the words, but it was still loud enough for him to hear.

Not wanting to repeat his mistake that he had last time and wishing not to see the disappointment on her face again, he answered, "Well I, yes I do. No, no I don't. I mean, you see..."

Vegeta was stuttering like a mad man and was quickly hushed by Bulma's lips covering his. Vegeta was stunned at first, but became quickly determined and pulled Bulma towards him kissing her more passionately than before. They stopped kissing for a moment. Vegeta could see the questions in her blue eyes. "You're the first person who ever though I was nice, despite everything I did."

"Vegeta, I've loved you since the first moment I met you."

Vegeta smiled, "The first time I met you, I was going to kill you baka."

"No, despite that, I felt something when I looked at you, and..."

Vegeta reached up to brush the side of her cheek, "Out of all the possibilities that could have happened in my life, I'm glad this is what happened." It was so out of character for Vegeta to say anything like that. Bulma just looked up at him and nodded and rested her head on his shoulder.

Vegeta picked her up and began to fly back to the house.

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