A Saiyan Sized Secret

A/N- I hope your wait was a good one. And I hope you find this chapter worth that wait.

Disclaimer- I've never owned DBZ, if I did Vegeta would have been the princess of the saiyans and Gohan would have been her son with Goku. But hey, we can dream right?

'Thoughts'

Alright, in this chapter I will be hoping around at certain key points in the DBZ series. This chapter is mostly just Goku recalling those times, so please bear with it, because I have my reasons.

After all, not everyone reading this has seen/read the whole series now have they? So it wouldn't hurt to play catch-up a little right? Don't worry though, it will lead up to where the story really starts, k?

Which mean spoilers galore! So if you don't want to know about them, then please watch the series first then come back and read this...k?

And with that, let's get onto the story!

Chapter 1:

Troublesome Memories

All she had was time. Time to think and time to wait.

After all, the return trip to earth would take her three months at least and there was no way she could sleep the whole time. So that left her very few options and so she soon found herself recalling a time not long ago.

And a day that changed her life. The day she found out who and what she really was.

She had been preparing to go for the reunion at Master Roshi's place and was wondering what she was going to tell Krillin when she saw him again. She could never consider him as more than a friend, so there were no way his advances towards her were welcome.

Chichi, one of her dearest friends had asked her to take her son along. It would be good for him, she said. Frankly Goku couldn't care less; she only wanted to get there on time. So she scooped up the boy and hopped onto the flying nimbus.

The reunion had gone about as well as Goku expected; Krillin had asked her out again, while master Roshi tried to grope her. Something that after years of living and training with him, she had grown used to it. Besides she really didn't care if she was male or female, they would always be her friends.

When the time came to leave, she had gathered up the snacks she was taking home with her when she felt it. Her first impression of Radditz was that he needed a bath and that he was kind of a jerk, which was all before he'd dropped the bomb that he was her elder brother.

What really surprised her was that he thought Chichi's boy was hers and had taken the child. Feeling at fault for this, she was preparing to venture after them when Piccolo showed up. And after teaming up, they were off.

She could only remember how she thought Chichi would react if she ever found out what had happened.

As they battled her brother, Goku found herself loosing herself in the fight. Until something she had avoided for a long time happened. Her top was ripped off, revealing her unbound breasts. Something that stopped both Radditz and Piccolo short.

She was shocked that neither had known she was a female. And the way Radditz went on about how she had a duty to her species, a duty to restore their kind sickened her. He didn't see her, he saw someone he could use. This had pushed her to her final decision, sacrificing herself to save the earth.

As she lay there in pain, her life ebbing away, she heard her brother's words about two other saiyans. Something about those words struck a chord deep within her, so deep that she didn't find out until much later just what that had meant.

After spending the year training with King Kai, Goku kept wondering about these other saiyans. She couldn't help it; they were her kind after all. And during her training her tail had made a sudden reappearance, which lead to more training.

When the time had come and she had returned to face off against them, she was surprised at what greeted her. Some part of her had focused upon the smaller of the two, Vegeta, and had stayed there.

Seeing her friends dead and dying was enough to spur her into battle. And through her fight with Vegeta she found herself focusing more upon him than his moves. It was enough to distract her, but then he'd placed that fake moon in the sky and had brought to light what she truly was deep inside.

She'd been devastated when she figured out that she had killed her grandfather and had been distracted enough to almost be killed by Vegeta. Who throughout the battle kept propositioning her, asking her to join him, just as her brother had done. All he saw was a brood female, not her, not who she truly was.

When Yaijarobi had cut off Vegeta's tail, Goku took that moment to look to the sky. Allowing herself to overflow with rage, with madness, but through it all, King Kai kept her mind in place. Letting her focus all of this upon the Saiyan prince. Once he had been defeated and the light had faded, she fell.

And when Krillin had tried to finish Vegeta off, she didn't know why she had truly stayed his hand. She only knew that she wanted him to live, to think, to learn from what happened here. And so he was gone and she had to spend her days in the hospital, the one placed she loathed.

While recuperating, she found her thoughts returning to Vegeta more often than not. And not in the way she had expected either. She soon became restless, especially when she found out her friends had gone into space without her.

When she had recovered completely, via sensu beans, she was practically bursting from the seams. She had to go to Namek, no matter what it took she had to. And so her next journey began, and if she had known where it was to end, she probably would have gone anyway. She had to protect her friends after all.

Once on Namek and finding Vegeta and her friends in need, she felt a cool rage starting to stir in her blood. Something that didn't come to a head until she was forced to face Freiza in battle. And then the unexpected happened.

Vegeta fell, giving his life to fight Freiza's evil reign. And that was the final straw, Goku's body had realized before her mind had, just what she needed to do. And she exploded in rage, ascending to a level never seen before, a level she has since perfected. A super Saiyan.

But it was what had become crystal clear to her in her rage filled mind that truly shocked her, she had fallen for Vegeta. The prince of her kind, her prince. And now...now it was too late for her to do anything to change that, but at least he was still alive. At least those where her thoughts as she fought Freiza to the end.

Which lead her to where she was now, crammed rather uncomfortably, inside a Saiyan spaceship. She snapped back to attention when she felt the sudden approach of Frieza's energy and when it passed her; she desperately kept an eye on his power levels. Praying all the while silently that she would make it in time. If not she would have to use her ace, something she was loath to do.

And then she felt another strong presence, one that felt familiar but wasn't. This new person destroyed Freiza and the one with him, two almost invincible foes. Which begged the question, who was this new comer? And where they on her side?

Again she was left to wait, left to ponder what she would do now. She wanted to speak to Vegeta first, to find out if there was something that could happen between them, but this new power...that had jumped the list to her number one priority.

In her boredom, she drifted off into a listless sleep, one that she was awoken from when the ships computer announced her final approach to earth. Forcing herself awake, Goku took a deep breath, felt for her friends' energy levels and relaxed for the rest of her flight.

At the same time on earth Vegeta was standing there glaring at the youth before him. This boy had done what he and what Kakarrot had failed to do, he had disposed of Frieza and his father King Cold. And he had done it effortlessly.

That fact alone not only puzzled Vegeta but pissed him off. He knew that himself and Kakarrot were the only remaining saiyans in the universe, but this boy had shown he was one as well. Which begged the question, who were his parents?

The mere thought that he might be Kakarrot's made Vegeta see red, Kakarrot was his and no one else could take her from him, he would never allow it. Which still left the question of this boy's parentage and Vegeta would get to the bottom of it, no matter what.

As he was brooding, the youth had gotten to his feet and announced that Kakarrot would soon land. He then took off and Vegeta was right on his heels, he wouldn't let this boy be the first to see Kakarrot when she exited her ship. It had already been almost a whole year since he had last seen her and he yearned to do what he'd failed to before.

He would make her his this time, before she could get the chance to get away...but first, he had to be sure that she wasn't against such a union. He would have to play his cards carefully, because she was after all an earth raised Saiyan, she didn't understand Saiyan courtship.

When the kid had landed and said this was it, Vegeta looked skeptical until he saw the crater as well. It was a Saiyan space pod, there was no doubt about that and feeling for energy levels, Vegeta felt a shiver wrack his body. Kakarrot was definitely in there and something about the way her power was being suppressed made him sure that she was hiding her true strength.

Not that he truly minded this only meant that Kakarrot would be a more than worthy mate to him. Even though he had already decided that he loved the moron, it was a definite plus to know that she had grown in strength and power. The only real question was just how much.

Hearing the hiss of the door depressurizing, Vegeta practically was bursting at the seams when he watched Kakarrot step out of the ship. Wearing the most usual costume, which like most of the others she donned, was rather baggy. Baggy enough to hide the feminine curves that he knew were underneath.

She lifted her head and smiled, waving in greeting at seeing everyone there waiting for her. When her eyes met his though, Vegeta felt a jolt rush down his spine as her eyes darkened for a mere moment before she turned to look away. But that moment was all that Vegeta had needed, it was clear that she felt something towards him and it made Vegeta very hopeful.

Goku almost ducked back inside the space pod at the look that Vegeta was currently giving her. Not to mention the fact that she couldn't believe what he was wearing, even if he did look rather sexy in pink, she preferred his normal attire.

Taking a deep breath she flew up to the others and couldn't stop smiling herself when Bullma embraced her. "Oh Goku! We're so glad your back!" Returning her hug, Goku chuckled, "good to be back, but how did you guys know I was going to be here?"

Bullma pulled back and motioned to the silent purple haired kid off to the side, "that guy there, he's really strong." Krillin broke in at that, "yeah, he took freiza apart as well as his dad without even trying. He knew exactly when you would return too."

Goku gave a nod of thanks to the kid, "Thank you for that, I was worried that I wasn't going to make it in time. Considering I felt as Frieza passed me, I am glad you were here buddy."

The kid looked down before looking up again, "well I had to take care of him since you weren't here, but anyway, I need to talk to you...alone." Goku blinked before nodding her head, "sure, I'll be right back guys."

She then followed the kid as he flew quite a distance away from the others, once they had landed the kid turned to face her and Goku pondered just what it was about this kid that felt so darn familiar.

A/N- Thank you for reading this and spending some of your time with me. I will do my best to make it worth it every time.

May the Fluff Be with You!

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