Chapter 4 Feelings

"Hey Vegeta! Are you ready to go?" Bulma yelled outside his door. It was finally time to retrieve them, the dragon balls had been activated just that night and they were finally showing up on the radar. If they wanted to get them before someone else did they had to leave as soon as possible. It was just going to be Bulma and Vegeta going on the trip since Yamcha had chickened out.

"I'm sorry Bulma! I just can't okay? Really, I would love to go on an adventure like like last time but….I just can't okay?" Yamcha told Bulma just that morning. Bulma didn't need to question further, she knew that the reason he didn't want to go was because he was terrified of Vegeta.

"Why are you so scared of Vegeta Yamcha?" Bulma replied. Yamcha's mouth gaped open stupidly, "I-I'm not afraid of V-v-v, that guy. I just…I just can't go." Bulma rolled her eyes and turned away from her boyfriend. He was always like this, and before she had always brushed it off and forgave him. But she was getting tired of it and she didn't care about hurting his feelings anymore.

"I think we should break up Yamcha." Bulma said, turning around to look him in the eyes. "Why?!" Bulma sighed, "I just don't think we're right for each other. You lack…. I want someone to be willing to die for me . Someone who adores me but will stand up for himself and someone who knows who they are….Yamcha you aren't any of those things. I'm sorry. It's over." Yamcha frantically grabbed her hand and got down on his knees.

"I-I'll go on the trip with you. Please. Just don't break up with me." He begged. Other girls would have found this sweet but Bulma thought it was disgusting. This was exactly what she was talking about, no guts.

"Get up Yamcha. I'm going and you're not coming with me. It's over." She shook his hand off and walked away, leaving Yamcha sitting on the floor in shock.

Bulma sighed remembering the look he had on his face when she said she was breaking up with him. He was like a lost puppy, and maybe that was all he had ever been, a cute little dog. Not a boyfriend.

Bulma knocked again and got no answer. Where could that idiot be? She wondered, as she walked down stairs and into the kitchen. He mother was at the counter making pancakes. "Hey mom," Bulma said. He mother turned around and smiled at her daughter. "Why hello Bulma! I haven't seen you forever it seems. You're always off in the lab or going on dates with that Yamcha boy."

Bulma smiled and hugged her mother. "Don't worry, after this trip I'll say hi to you more often. I broke up with Yamcha anyway." Her mom giggled and patted Bulma on the head.

"Good, now you can start dating that hunk Vegeta. I think he likes you, you know." Bulma pulled away and looked at her mother incredulously. My mom is an airhead after all, bulma thought, then shrugged. She had long ago accepted that fact, thank god she had gotten her father's brains.

"By the way mom have you seen Vegeta walk through here?" Her mother giggled again. "Oh my, yes I did actually. He walked in here about three hours ago asking where you were. When I told him you weren't up yet he was going to wake you up but I convinced him not to. He said he was going to go train in the gravity chamber while he waited."

Bulma nodded and left after saying good-bye. She should have guessed that he would be up before her; she had never been an early riser.

She had sense enough to knock on the door of the gravity chamber this time, instead of using the hologram projector. The door opened after the first knock and Bulma stepped back as Vegeta walked out. "It's about time woman!" He said blinking in the suinlight.

"Well excuse me!" Bulma replied, "Let's go, hop in the hover car and we'll start with the one closest to us." Vegeta snorted and Bulma looked up from the Dragon Ball detector to glare at him. "What?"

"Why should we use such a useless human invention when I can fly in half the time?" Bulma blinked at him. "Fly? You can fly? You're joking right?" Vegeta sighed, he had forgotten that he had never flown in Bulma's presence, he had always walked.

"Yes I can fly, and this trip will go much faster if carry you around than it would if we go by that stupid 'hover car'." He replied. Bulma still couldn't quite believe that he could fly but Vegeta wasn't the type to lie about something like that so she nodded.

"Umm… Okay then we'll fly. How long do you think it will take to get here?" Bulma pointed to a place on the radar and Vegeta studied it for a moment. "We will probably arrive there tomorrow morning if we don't stop." Bulma blinked. By hover car that trip would take at least four days.

"Alright then, I guess we can go…" Vegeta sighed when he saw that Bulma had no idea how to go about grabbing onto him. "Just wrap your arms around my neck and your legs around my waist. Stupid woman, for someone who can design a gravity chamber in one day you sure are dumb when it comes to simple things."

Bulma flushed with anger as she climbed onto his back. He smacked him on the head, "Just shut up!" Bulma yelled and Vegeta smirked.

She carefully wrapped her legs around his waist and before she could even completely settle he took off. She screamed and closed her eyes, "Vegeta! Oh Kami! I'm going to die!" she screamed. "Shut up you stupid woman! You won't die! Just open your eyes you'll see."

Hesitantly she opened her eyes a crack, then opened them as wide as they would go. It was beautiful, the trees and water under them passing by so fast that she could barely register what she saw. "Wow…" she whispered breathlessly, "It's beautiful, Vegeta. Thank you."

Vegeta stiffened, embarrassed despite himself. "Stupid woman, it's just a view, you act as if you've never been in the sky before." Vegeta grunted, his eyes looking straight ahead.

"But this is different. Being in a plane or spaceship is like being in your house, watching T.V. or something. You don't feel connected to the view, but this…. I mean it's right there. I can feel it you know?"

Vegeta didn't say anything but somehow she knew that he got it. She smiled and leaned in next to his ear, "Thank you Vegeta. You're a nice guy after all." Vegeta felt his heart skip around in his chest again, and his face turned bright red.

"I don't know what you're talking about you stupid woman!" He replied, she couldn't see his face but she knew that he was embarrassed, but that was all she thought he was, she had no idea that his heart was beating so hard that he couldn't even think straight.

Vegeta was currently trying to get his thoughts straight. But all it wasn't words that flitted through his mind, it was senses. He could feel her chest pressed tightly against his back, he could hear her breathing in his ear, and most of all he could smell her. She was intoxicating, bitter and sweet and a little spicy at the same time. It was her smell, he had noticed it the first time he met her, and even then had been attracted to it but it had never seemed strong or potent as it did right now.

Vegeta was jolted from his thoughts by Bulma's scream, "Vegeta you idiot! Watch out for that tree!" Vegeta looked and there was a tree directly in front of them. It was too close to just avoid it so Vegeta blasted through it with a ki blast.

"Stop being hysterical you stupid woman! I know what I'm doing." Vegeta said, actually he was thankful for her screaming, his body was back to normal and he could think clearly now.

"Hey Vegeta?" Bulma said hours later, it was starting to get too dark to see and she was tired. "Let's stop for the night." Vegeta snorted. "What are you tired woman?"

"Yes I am! I am a woman after all, I need my beauty sleep! So you better stop for tonight or I'll jump off your back and then you'll never find those dragon balls!" Vegeta rolled his eyes, he knew she wouldn't actually do it but it was best to stop anyway. He could use some sleep as well.

"Fine, but you better wake up at five tomorrow, I am not going to wait for you like I did this morning."

"Fine." Bulma said, pouting slightly, she really hated waking up early.

Bulma peeled herself off of Vegeta's back and stretched. Her whole body was stiff and the front of her felt damp from the heat of Vegeta's back against her. She blushed a little, it had felt nice to lean against him.

She shook her head, what was she blathering on about? I should be setting up camp. Bulma rummaged through her pockets for the capsule with the fully furnished house in it. But there weren't any.

She started to panic a little, "Where are they?!" Vegeta looked at her. "What are you panicking about now woman?" He asked. She looked at him fearfully, "I didn't bring any capsules! I don't have anywhere to sleep! Oh kami, what am I going to do?" she groaned. Vegeta snorted and rolled his eyes.

"You sleep on the ground. Don't be stupid." Bulma glared at him but didn't say anything. He was right she supposed, sleeping on the grass was pretty horrible but it wasn't the end of the world. She saw Vegeta lay down and she lay down a good five feet away from him, as she stared up at the sky she thought that there was no way she would be able to fall asleep.

But of course she was out before two minutes had passed.

Vegeta woke up at exactly five a.m., his internal clock was fine tuned and precise. He opened his eyes and looked up at the sky, it was still dark and the sun hadn't risen yet but it was just bright enough to see.

He heard a sigh and felt someone wrap their arms around his chest. It was Bulma of course. She murmured something unintelligible in her sleep and laid her head against his chest. Vegeta couldn't move, he was completely immobilized as though he had been electrocuted.

Bulma said something else and rubbed her head against him. Vegeta gulped and tried to nudge her off of him. But she wasn't having it; she just clung onto him tighter and wrapped her leg around him as well, entwining them even more.

"Uh…" Vegeta said in confusion. He could honestly say he had never been in this kind of situation. What the hell is this woman doing? Vegeta thought as she rubbed against him a little, causing a tingling sensation to flutter all through his body.

I have got to get her off me, he thought trying to regain his composure, but he still couldn't shake her off. He tried to sit up, and succeeded, but all that did was make Bulma move her position so that she was sitting in his lap.

He looked down at her sleeping face and blushed even redder than he already was. What is wrong with me? He scolded himself. Stupid hormones, they always seem to act up at the worst possible time. The stupid woman's not even that attractive by Saiyan standards, why did he feel like this?

"Vegeta," Bulma murmured in her sleep and Vegeta felt his heart stop. What? "Vegeta," she said again turning over. His mind stopped working, the only thought that he was able to process was: What?

"Vegeta…you idiot." Bulma murmured in her sleep and Vegeta relaxed. For a minute there he had thought…well what had he thought? Vegeta shook his head, he was being weak. What was wrong with him? He shouldn't act like such a weakling.

He stood up, shaking Bulma off of him. "Wake up." He said and she opened her eyes. "Ugh," she said, still asleep. She opened her eyes and Vegeta could tell that she couldn't actually see anything; she was still in a very deep sleep.

"I love, Vegeta, I love this… is it done?" she murmured closing her eyes again. Vegeta felt his knees give out on him a little and he grabbed onto a tree. He pressed his forehead to the trunk and closed his eyes. He laughed at himself mockingly, just one incoherent sentence from a sleeping teenager could cause such a strong reaction…this was ridiculous.

Vegeta stood up and kicked Bulma awake, his eyes hard. Emotions are for the weak, I can't let this happen again.

Bulma opened her eyes and looked at him, fully awake this time, "What?" Vegeta didn't look at her. "It's time to go."