The Poor Miller's Boy
Beaner-Bop
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A/N:Long time no write, I know I'm bad
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Disclaimer: Ha!
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Chapter Six: Year Two
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I walked Across an empty land
I knew the path liked the back of my hand
- Keane
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Vegeta wasn't dumb.
Far from it, he knew for a fact that he was smarter, not to mention stronger than practically all the other creatures here.
But shouldn't that mean he'd beat his wife in the brain compartment? Just once?
The strange blue cat was looking at her…er…cat husband with victory flashing in her eyes.
"Ha! Your turn Vegeta! You get to take Trunks out hunting!" Vegeta shook his head. Usually, he wouldn't have minded taking Trunks out hunting, I mean it was HUNTING! But…he didn't want to have to take Goten too…
"Vegeta! The two of them are basically teenagers right now1. You know that when they get older…" Vegeta waved his paw at her, not wanting to hear her rambling. He nodded his head and walked outside their VERY spacious house and went into the street. All sorts of noises and lights were coming from all directions out on the main street where they lived.
Old Cod Haver had his little trading stand filled to the top with fish his family had caught the week before, A strangely colored pink cat was grinning and putting bits of string around her neck at her little shop. Someone else across the street is still selling those glass balls that all the kittens seem to love playing with.
Vegeta shook his head at the activities that were going around him and stood on his hind legs2 and began to sniff the air, trying to find the telltale scents of his son and the spawn of Kakarott. It took a while and Vegeta was about to wonder why until he realized that the scent was from farther down an alley.
"What the hell are those kittens doing?" Vegeta whispered to himself as he got on all fours again, following the scent. He got to the corner and turned, his eyes widening at the sight.
There were the two boy kittens, looking at a strange baggy in their paws filled with a green substance and the large ugly shaggy gray cat that was giving it to them was nodding his head.
"I'll give you this bag free boys, but all the rest you gotta pay for, but just see if you like this first, and what not." The boys nodded slowly, this reasoning making sense to them. Suddenly, Goten stopped.
"But Trunks! Mister! Isn't this the stuff that my mom said was bad for us?" Trunks nodded.
"Yeah, probably. I wonder how though?" The gray cat grinned at him as well as cats could grin and nodded.
"It's nothing to bad, boys, take a bit, whats the best way besides that to figure out?" The boys were still looking at the bag, wondering what they should do.
This is when Vegeta decided to intervene.
"Hello, Trunks." He was using a monotone voice, something he went to every now and then when he wanted to play with someone's mind. Trunks turned slowly to face his father.
"Hey dad…look at what this guy is giving us, for free!" Goten was beside the purple kitten, nodding his black head.
"Yeah, usually it costs a lot of stuff but this is free!" Goten said, trying to help Trunks out.
Vegeta inspected the bag though he didn't need to.
Yep.
It was Cat Nip.
The cat behind him was slowly walking away, quickly recognizing the black cat as the one that had beat up his brother a few weeks ago cutting in front of him on the road. Before he had the chance a black tail whipped out and grabbed the ankle (knee?) of the gray cat making him lose balance and fall over.
"And where are you going, might I ask?" Vegeta said, still in monotone. "I want to talk to you about this great deal you were going to give my son and his friend."
Trunks and Goten sat down beside each other as Vegeta's claws began to come out.
This was going to be SO good!
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Gohan looked out the window for a moment when the sounds of claws, teeth, and screams could be heard from somewhere in the kingdom, but he shook his head. 'Bulma's gonna kill you Vegeta.' He thought to himself, shaking his head. He turned back to what he was doing, painting a wall in 'King Hercules' room.
He didn't understand why though.
'I thought cats couldn't see color…at least not much.'
He thought to himself."We don't, my dad just likes to show off." Came the voice of a slim black cat who had just entered the room. Uncanny blue eyes were looking at him when he turned to the voice. He grinned at her.
"Hey Videl, didn't know I said that out loud. What's going on?" She shook her head, sticking her little pink tongue out in disgust.
"My father, again. He's trying to figure why all his kids, except me, are complete idiots. I tried to tell him that its because…-" Her eyes widened before she looked up at Gohan and asked him how was his day.
As naïve as Gohan was, he wasn't that bad but ignored it like all the other times he had. It seemed as though there were very few 'smart' cats born each year. Usually, there are a few that do what you think a cat normally does to a tee and nothing else, no selling fish, no chatting for fun, no school, nada. It confused him how few 'smart' people there were, and how many 'dumb' ones.
Shaking his head he began to climb down the ladder, taking the paint and paintbrush with him and started to turn left, into the hall where his room was, Videl following him.
"So, seeing as to you're the only person who can actually see how all the colors are turning out, tell me, has my dad done something terrible, bad, not so bad, ok, good, or great?" Gohan shook his head and grinned at her enthusiasm to hear his side on this.
So few people anymore make fun of the king. Gohan loved the irony of the fact that it was Videl, the kings very own flesh and blood that made fun of him the most.
"It's…pretty bad." Videl looked up at him, mirth in her eyes now.
"Why? Obviously I don't know colors but…"
"The colors your dad is giving me, he doesn't actually know what they look like, just the tones, like, 'light', 'dark', et cetera. He doesn't get that…um…a person like me would normally be blinded by walking into that room. Videl grinned at him when he turned to her again.
"Is there a reason you're not blind yet?" She asked him sweetly. Gohan just shrugged his story before smirking at her.
"Because I've been blinded by someone's feline-ish-ness good looks." Videl rolled her eyes at his 'flirting'.
"You're such a freaking goof Gohan!" She told him before watching him walk into his room. When the door was shut and locked, she looked at her paws and if she could've, a tear would've fallen from her eye.
"I've been blinded by you…but I can't do anything thing about it." She sniffed a little before picking her dejected body up and walking slowly farther down the hall, no clear destination in her eyes.
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A/N: Hey, I'm back. Hope this chapter was okay, seriously, I've wanted to sit down and write but JEEZ! My writing is confusing, lol!
Bean
1 - Going by cat ages. 1 year goes by, they're full grown, however, I am gonna go a bit slower so they age SOMEWHAT gradually throughout the story so their more pre-teenish right now.
2 - My friends told me that this was strange activity for a cat but mine do it all the time so…yeah.