One Thousand and One

by Arlia'Devi.

Disclaimer – I do not own Dragon Ball in any way shape or form. All rights go to Akira Toriyama and associates. I make no money from this.

A/N: This chapter contains sexual material. It's not a full-lemon, so perhaps lime is more of a correct analysis of the content. If you don't like reading such material, however, heed this warning. This fanfiction's rating has gone up to "M" as of this chapter.

Chapter One

It had been blissful, but when the vows had been said and the celebrations over, it was beginning to get late and it was time to get going. The sun was setting in the near distance in the village around Fire Mountain and with a stomach full of delicious wedding food (see, it was a type of food!), Goku yawned. Chi-Chi was beside him, still wearing that funny dress and she was smiling a lot. Krillin was there too, and so were all his old friends. They'd come to the party, but were leaving soon.

So were they, Chi-Chi told him, but Goku didn't know where.

"Time for the newly-weds to leave," Ox King grinned, kissing his daughter on the cheek. "May you have a long, healthy and happy marriage, Chi-Chi and Goku. Welcome to the family."

Goku grinned as Chi-Chi tugged on his arm. She lead him outside the complex into the setting sun.

Everything was bathed in red and it looked like the mountain had caught alight again, which was a funny eye-trick but had Goku worried for a moment.

"Where are we going, Chi-Chi?" he asked his new wife. Her face was red all over, just like the sky around them.

Chi-Chi blushed and looked at her feet. "We can't stay here, Goku. Where will we live? We can't live with Daddy - we're newly-weds; we need a place all our own."

"Oh…," he shrugged. "I don't know. I never really thought about it."

She looked at him then. There was some emotion in her eyes he didn't understand and it made his stomach feel funny. Chi-Chi smiled at her new husband.

"Well, I did," she replied. "Call the flying nimbus. We'll go there. That's where we'll live."

"Oh… alright," Goku muttered. He looked up into the scarlet sky. It was beginning to turn a deep blue as the sun departed under horizon. "Come to me, flying nimbus!"

The little yellow cloud zipped around from behind Fire Mountain and hovered just in front of the newly-weds, awaiting their mounting. It putted gently as it floated stationary. Goku climbed on first and then helped Chi-Chi navigate her wedding dress.

Chi-Chi said to the nimbus, "You know where to go," and the little cloud zipped off, leaving a group of wedding-goers cheering and clapping in their departure. With a teary eye, Ox King waved off his little girl with high hopes that her happy marriage would be much longer than his.

Goku looked at Chi-Chi's wedding dress. It was big and white and puffy and flapped about in the wind. It looked kind of silly with the nimbus cloud having a long white tail behind it, but that was the end of Chi-Chi's wedding dress falling off the edge of the cloud. She looked pretty with all the flowers in her hair, though, Goku thought, and smelled as sweet but he hadn't told Chi-Chi that. Maybe she'd think he thought she was some kind of food. She got mad when he thought that so he didn't say anything at all.

"Your dress isn't very good for flying," Goku joked as she climbed behind him, trying to get comfortable on the little cloud as it whizzed through the sky. When Chi-Chi's hands smoothed over the sides of his ribs, he jerked away. "That tickles, Chi-Chi."

"Sorry," she laughed, nuzzling the back of his neck.

"Why you doing that for?" he bit out, trying to shake her off his back. She was clinging like a little monkey and it was making him itchy.

"That's what we do now – we're married. It's alright to want each other," she clarified.

"Want?" he muttered. The flying nimbus was zipping through the mountains. It lowered suddenly, and then stopped in front of a large domed house painted in white, two large thatched-roofed complexes built next to an old shrine. The house was built on the edge of a small cliff, high in the mountains and already there were some fruit trees growing in the rich soils. The man recognised the small purple shrine, but he didn't recognise the large complex beside it – had someone been up here? Goku jumped off the nimbus with Chi-Chi behind him. He frowned.

"Why did you bring me here?" he muttered, looking back to his smiling wife.

"We live here."

He pointed to the recently built house beside his childhood home. "That's not ours."

Chi-Chi laughed and grasped her husband's hand. "Yes it is. Dad made it for us as a wedding present. I thought it would be nice to live out here in the mountains – we live next door to your grandpa."

"Yeah," Goku grinned and walked forward to investigate the old house, opening the door with a squeak. "I guess we do. Hey – it looks like it did when I was a boy. It's a little dirtier, but I no one's ever been up here in that time, I suppose."

Chi-Chi tugged on her husband's hand. "It's getting dark. Let's go inside, we can have a look around tomorrow morning."

Goku nodded and followed his wife into the new building by his grandfather's house, looking it over before coming to the entrance. It opened, and Chi-Chi turned on the lights.

"Wow, Cheech, it looks like Bulma's place – it's all cool and fancy," Goku grinned, stepping into the foyer and looking around. "I'm glad it's not as big though. I always get lost at Bulma's."

Chi-Chi smiled and rested against the doorframe. The front door revealed an open foyer, of which Goku was standing in the middle of with cream walls that would hold all the great memories she'd make with her husband and the milestones of all her children. To the right was a large kitchen and dining area, and to the left was a comfortable space for relaxing after a hard day's work. There was a television there, but Chi-Chi never watched much television and neither did her husband – both often too busy playing outside like children should.

Goku fell into one of the yellow lounges, his head rolling over the back looking at Chi-Chi.

"This place is really ours?"

Chi-Chi laughed. "Yes, Son Goku. We live here."

The house was made of wood and stone – to the staircase there was a large arch made of polished mahogany as the stairs spiralled to the top floor. Upstairs there were three bedrooms, as she'd requested her father just in case, and two bathrooms – one for her children, and a private bathroom for herself and her husband.

Chi-Chi opened the door to their bedroom and had to swallow thickly when she found the futon rolled up in the cupboard. Gently she set it up on the wooden floor, her fingers running over lumps and bumps and smoothing out the sheets meticulously before standing up and taking a deep breath. It was time, and she was nervous. All day had been building up to this – their first night together, but how did you explain sex, especially to someone you wanted to initiate it with? Maybe his instincts would take over and Chi-Chi knew Goku would always trust his instincts.

She didn't have that much time to ponder the possibilities however, because at that moment her betrothed bounded up the stairs and stopped behind her - a grin on his face and a cake in his hand.

"This place is filled with food," Goku grinned, biting off the end of a jam and cream cake.

"That's for the next few days, Goku," Chi-Chi responded, watching her husband eat the whole treat without batting an eyelash. "So we don't have to travel into the city. You can't eat it all now."

"Oh really?" he frowned.

"We just had dinner."

Goku considered this and shrugged a little. "I can eat any time, Chi-Chi. I dunno – I guess I'm always hungry." He shifted his weight from one leg to the other and seemed to grow a little impatient. "Well," he asked, looking around upstairs. "What do we do now?"

"Now?" Chi-Chi frowned. That was a good question. "We can go to bed."

Goku nodded and yawned. "Yeah, sure, I'm beat."

"No," Chi-Chi stopped Goku with her little hand pressing against his chest. Had he not sensed the gesture for what it was, he could have easily brushed past her and the door frame. "We go to bed… together."

Goku looked to the futon. "Yeah, it's big – we'll both fit."

Chi-Chi was half tempted to give up and just retire – but what was the first night of marriage without consummation. It would have been easy going to bed with her husband and not actually going to bed and she wonder what Goku's hands would have done when they were laying side by side.

Goku pushed past her and began to remove his clothes.

Chi-Chi leant on the doorframe and watched. His body looked beautiful in the moonlight.

Goku turned back to Chi-Chi. "Well," he asked. "Are you coming?"

Chi-Chi took hesitant steps towards her husband before raising her hand and gently trailed her fingertip across his shoulder bone. She didn't miss the way his pectorals jumped from her touch.

"Do you always sleep like this?"

Goku looked down to his body, completely nude from head to toe and nodded. "Don't you?"

Chi-Chi smiled. "Not most nights… but I can make an exception. Just let me fold away my dress, I won't be long."

Goku shifted uncomfortably as Chi-Chi ran her hand down his arm. At least she wasn't clinging to him again, but there was something funny pooling in his stomach. Maybe he was hungry. He looked down saw his 'man junk' (that's what Krillin called it), going all hard again. He knew touching it wouldn't make it go away – that only seemed to prolong his problem. Krillin said it happened to everyone, but then didn't say why. He'd gotten all embarrassed and his whole head had gone red.

Chi-Chi was naked now and she was putting her wedding gown into a chest of drawers on the far side of the wall. When she approached Goku, his eyes dropped instantly to those strange things on Chi-Chi's chest that Master had told him to stay away from when fighting a girl… well, if he could.

They looked weird. He wondered if they felt weird as well.

Chi-Chi smiled gently, albeit a little bashfully at her husband. He was fidgeting with his crotch and it only took Chi-Chi a quick glance to figure out why. She quickly averted her eyes back up only to find that his were doing some wandering of their own and Chi-Chi felt her cheeks reddening. Maybe it wouldn't take that much to…

"Well…," Goku cleared his throat, his eyes looking at the futon on the floor. "We should go to sleep."

"Are you alright, Goku?" Chi-Chi asked gently, touching her husband's arm. She felt his muscles tense under the skin. "You seem a little strange."

"No…," he shook his head. "I'm fine." That was what was going to happen right? They were going to go to sleep. Goku sighed; he knew he wouldn't be going to sleep. At least not until his little problem died down.

Chi-Chi pulled the covers over. "Does that happen to you a lot?" she motioned downward.

"Sometimes," he muttered.

Sensing her moment, Chi-Chi gently approached Goku. "Do you know what it means?"

He hesitated. The look in his eyes was like confused animals – one not sure if it was to flee or remain. Gently, Chi-Chi took her knew husband's hands.

"It's good to feel that," she assured gently.

"It is?"

Chi-Chi nodded, smiling despite the awkwardness of the situation. She never thought she'd have to step-by-step through their joining, but if that was what it took to be with Goku.

"I'm even glad you feel that way… about me."

Goku was puzzled. "How?"

"Just follow your instincts, Goku." She took the hand she was holding within hers and placed it upon her breast. Goku's fingers instantly flexed and explored the strange flesh. "Don't you trust me?"

"Yeah, sure Cheech," Goku replied, his voice a little jumpy. Chi-Chi's heart swelled at the nickname, and then again when Goku raised his left hand to grasp her other breast.

"Wow," he breathed out, the emotional and physical overload evident in his face. "These feel really weird."

Chi-Chi took Goku's hands again, sliding them away from her breasts and down to her hips. She gingerly stepped into his embrace and trailed a hand down his cheek, making his eyes drop to look at her.

"I want to show you something tonight," Chi-Chi whispered. "Something only husbands and wives do." Gently she leant up and kissed him. Goku, who wasn't used to the whole kissing thing Chi-Chi seemed to do, didn't respond in time so Chi-Chi kissed his slack, unresponsive lip quickly. Something was sticking her in the stomach and she smiled up at her husband. "You just have to trust me. I love you."

Goku swallowed thickly. His mind was fuzzy – fuzzier than usual and more than once he'd glanced to the window, thinking it as a viable means of escape. But that would hurt Chi-Chi's feelings, and he didn't want to hurt Chi-Chi… One part of him wished she'd drop the conversation about touching and that they just go to sleep. The other part of him wanted her to hold him, because the moment he'd started touching those things Master Roshi always told him not to touch (tittes?), he'd grown hot all over and his little problem had become considerably bigger and sorer. Chi-Chi's touch felt so good on his face and chest – would it feel good there too? His body was telling him yes.

She kissed him again and Goku had time to respond. When they broke apart, Chi-Chi smiled and grabbed Goku's hand, leading him with shaking legs towards their futon. Goku, wordlessly, followed his wife to their bed and sank down with her.

First, allow me to say, wow! The amount of reviews I got for the first chapter was amazing. Thank you to everyone who took the time to review after they'd read the Introduction. As I promised, I'll try and update this regularly - a few times a month. I anticipate it to have 15-20 chapters.
I was originally going to write a lemon for this, but decided against it. There will be a few lemons throughout this fic, however, so don't be disheartened if you were waiting out for it!

Thanks for reading. I hope you take the time to tell me your thoughts on this chapter!
Please review!

Until next time,

~ Arlia'Devi.