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~*` CHAPTER 4 `*~
Vegeta quietly landed beside the rock with Bulma's towel on it. He crossed his arms across his chest, leaned against the rock, and smirked as he watched Bulma swim around in the water. Her back was kind of to him, so she didn't notice him......he thought.
Bulma stood back up chest deep in the water. She leaned over and dipped her blue hair into it and flipped it back. She cupped her hands in the water, scooped some up, and poured it over herself. She smiled then dived under water.
Vegeta just stood there watching Bulma. Almost mezmorized by her. He didn't know what it was. He had never been so interested in anything--or one-- for that matter. He had to admit though, that 'thing' she was wearing showed off every curve of her beautiful body perfectly. He lifted his head up a little to see where she was under the water. He couldn't find her until she popped up and splashed him.
"Gotcha." Bulma giggled.
"Woman! You got me all wet!" Vegeta growled.
"That was the idea, silly." She said with her hands on her hips, standing in waist deep water. She laughed and splashed him again. He growled then smirked sardonically. Before Bulma could try to get away, he lunged towards her, grabbed her around the waist, and flew high into the air. "Vegeta! Put me down!" Bulma squealed. He snickered and let go.
"Eek!!" Bulma screeched as she hit the water. **SpLaSh** Bulma swam back up to the surface and glared at Vegeta who was laughing as he hovered over her. She grinned and reached up, grabbing his ankle, and pulled him in. 'Ack' was all the saiya-jin prince could get out before going under. He swam back up to the surface. He didn't look to happy when he came up. Vegeta grabbed Bulma again, flung her over one shoulder, and carried her back. Bulma just frowned and sighed as he carried her. She was starting to get used to him doing this. He dropped her in the grass near the dragonballs.
"Ow. You could have gently set me down instead of just dropping me ya'know." Bulma grumbled as she stood up rubbing her butt. She walked over an took her towel from the rock. She dried herself off and put the jean shorts and shirt on over her bikini. After she was done, Bulma threw the towel at Vegeta, who effortlessly caught it. He took off his armor and dried himself off. ~Wow.~ Bulma thought noticing how Vegeta's blue-fighting suit clung to his chest and arms, perfectly highlighting every muscle. ~He sure is well built. And handsome.~ She grinned a little at her last thought. ~I-I mean for an arrogant prince that is.~ She thought trying to convince herself she didn't like Vegeta. ~But he is cute when he does that smirk of his..~
"What are you staring at, woman?" Vegeta asked gruffly, interupting Bulma's thoughts as he threw the towel back at her. Bulma snapped back to reality when the towel smacked her in the face.
"Oh, uuuh, nothing." She answered quickly, feeling the color rise to her cheeks. She pulled the towel from her face and layed it out on the rock again to dry. She turned back around to see Vegeta's hair poofed out from drying it. She giggled a little at him.
"What?" Vegeta asked frowning at her as he put his armor back on.
"Your hair. It's all poofy!" She replied giggling a litle more. Vegeta 'hmphed' ran a hand up through his hair a couple times. It smoothed back out standing tall on his head as usual again. Bulma then looked down and saw his tail wrapped around his waist. "You have a tail?!" She asked surprised.
"Ya? So? It grew back when I was healed after it got cut off on Chikyuu." Vegeta answered casually unwrapping it from his waist and waving it around. 'Oh' was all Bulma replied and sat down in the grass. She rubbed her stomach.
"I'm hungry." Bulma stated complainingly.
"So." Vegeta spat, his tail wrapping back around his waist again.
"Did you bring me anything to eat?" She asked.
"No." He said coldy. "You can get your own food."
"Well, I would go get my own food, but then someone could just come by and kidnap or kill me and then where would you be?" She explained standing up putting her hands on her hips. Vegeta grumbled something Bulma didn't catch.
"Fine." Vegeta sneered. "But if I come back and my dragonballs and you are gone, your gonna wish you never came to this planet." With that Vegeta once again took off in search of food. Bulma stuck her tongue out at him as he flew out of site. She whirled around to go brush her hair when she saw in the sky a little ways two figures flying full speed towards her. "Hey that looks like--Krillin and Gohan!" Bulma exclaimed happy that they were finaly here to get her. "Looks like they got the last dragonball too." She was about to wave to them but they flew past her still going at full speed in Vegeta's direction. They hadn't even noticed her. "Where are they going? I'm over here!" She stated to no one in particular. "Guess I'll just have to go after them myself." She reached in her pocket and pulled out the small compact again, flipped it open, and pulled out a capsule. She clicked the top of it with her thumb and threw it a safe distance. **pOoF** A small green convertible-type air car popped out. Bulma was about to climb in when she looked down at the dragonballs. ~I better take one of these just in case Vegeta tries to pull something sneaky. At least then we'll have one dragonball still.~ She smirked proudly at her genius plan. She picked up the four-star ball. "These things are big." She uttered as she plopped it in the trunk of the little vehicle. Bulma slammed the lid shut and hopped in the driver's seat. And with that she was off to Krillin, Gohan, and Vegeta. Or so she thought.................