into her home and surprised her mother greatly by rushing up and hugging her.
"Bulla, I didn't know you'd gone out!" She said. She touched her daughter's still bleeding neck. "The mark..." She whispered. In size it was similiar to the mark her own neck bore. But it was deeper
as it had been given by the rough bite of a Saiyan warrior, not the gentler nipping of a Saiyan prince.
"Who?" She asked. Vegeta walked into the room.
"Yes, I too would like to know your mate."
"You already do. Goten."
"GOTEN? MATE? JUST WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON-"
"Woman. Cease your shouting if you can for ten seconds. Our daughter has just gone through her mating period and she could have done worse than Kakarot's son. An idiot, but a fine warrior.
How do you feel, Princess?"
"Um...okay I guess." Actually, she felt nervous and instinctively moved towards her mother, the parent that was angry with her!
"MATING PERIOD?"
"She was in 'heat' as you humans call it which was the cause of her recent misdeeds."
'Why am I scared of him, suddenly?' Bulla thought.
"HEAT?"
"Yes. And as she comes down from this period rather than seeing other females as rivals she will seek their company-particularly the company of her mother-as she is guided
into the mystery of birth. She will also become frightened of all males save for her life-mate."
"BIRTH?"
"Have you developed a hearing problem, woman?" Vegeta asked, raising an eyebrow. He then remembered that humans had a different way of doing things.
Bulma was hyperventilating. "Birth...oh G-d...you're going to be a teen mom."
"I-I guess so."
"Stop being dramatic. This is the second happiest time in a Saiyan's life cycle, the first being when he or she has their first kill. I remember what happiness I felt when I first found MY life-mate. I can
only assume you felt the same."
Bulma, realizing what Vegeta had just said, blushed. "I-Of course, Vegeta. That was the happiest day of my life."
Bulla, by this time, was hiding behind her mother. She wanted to be somewhere else...maybe dark and closed in...in her mate's arms perhaps...safe...
"Why didn't Trunks ever-are Saiyan males different?"
"Saiyan men are driven to find a mate at all times. Only females have a mating period. Trunks is still seeking his life-mate."
"I'm confused. Is your life-mate just the first person you have sex with?"
"Are you joking woman? I had sex with many women before you. Only you are my life-mate. Only you can be my life-mate."
"How did you KNOW? How does-Honey, you're a little old to be hiding behind my skirt-Bulla know?"
He shrugged. "Instinct. I felt something for you I'd never felt for any other woman. Still do. Only the Gods understand such things."
Bulla suddenly felt ravenously hungry so she went over to the refrigerator, took out a whole, raw chicken and ate it, bones and all. Bulma opened her mouth in shock.
"Aw..." Said Vegeta. "Our little princess is growing up!"
"Are you crying?"
Vegeta wiped away the tear. "N-no. Of course not. I have something in my eye. I'm going to the gravity room." He walked out of the room. Bulma smiled. How did that egotistical bastard
still make her fall for him every time? She turned back to her daughter.
"Um...so...Saiyan babies eat their placentas."
"Seriously?"
"Yes. You ate your tail, it never grew back."
"Huh."
"Also, they're born with a full set of teeth so they're difficult to breastfeed. They'll try though, my g-d, how they will try."
Bulla looked a bit troubled. "Were we worth it?"
Bulma nodded. "I wouldn't trade it for the world."