AN: Hello everyone again! I know it's beenn a while:(!
Lets see, I had decided to do another story, its results werent too bad, but sadly, there
was no motivation! i had it when i wrote the chapter and the idea, but now it's all gone.
As for this chapter, I wrote it for quite a while;) LOL, it's all over in my agendas, in different pen colors!
READY, SET, ENJOY!
[Beautiful Poison 9]
Startled, Goku quickly turned around meeting with the Masked Mystery. "N-no one!" he abruptly shouted.
"Calm down. Sheesh nobody's hurt..." she jerked away but neared again when she saw what was in his hand. "Ah~! My fish!" she pointed frustrated. "You ate it again!"
'Again?' he paused."Anyhow, I'm really sorry, it just looked so tasty I couldn't resist!" he looked at the stolid mask with earnest eyes.
Sighing in defeat, "it's okay, it's okay..." 'Cute!' Feeling as if he might've seen the shade of pink under the mask, Mundansa looked away. "Ah! But, umm why don't you help me set the table? Uhh... Yeah!"
"Oh, ok." Goku absentmindedly shrugged. As they spread the cloth onto the table, Goku stared intently yet baffled at Mundansa, who kept trying to look in another direction every time their glances met. ' Hnm? What's the matter with him?'
"Hey...who taught you how to make that.. Yamegaro?"
"Huh?...Oh, I did, it's a pretty worldwide known dish."
"Really?...hmm..I thought you could only catch this in a certain places once a year."
"You're partly right. But I've found a way to preserve them with these." she held up a bunch of dried out flowers.
"What are those?"
"Hydrangeas, they're especially good for preserving. Be careful though, they're quite poisonous...But, I've found the secret to its undoing!" she laughed proudly.
He sweat dropped. "Ahaha!.." 'It's scary and funny how some people are so alike!'
"Yeah, c-cool isn't it?" She slapped herself mentally, 'Cool? Oh Kami! I'm so lame, get it together!' Her body began to overheat. Why of all times had she begun to feel so nervous? She tried to change the subject, "So... Uh, Vegeta huh, he's married?" trying to sound as interested as possible.
Goku looked at her strangely. "Uh-huh... And a kid named Trunks - Well let's see... It wouldn't be too because they're divorced... More like ex-wife!" He informed with his finger in the air.
Unsurprised she shook her head and began to lay plates on the table. "I guess Vegeta is Vegeta. How about you-" Immediately, she touched her mask where her lips would have been. 'Wait! Don't answer that!' Her eyebrows gathered.
"I have two sons and I had a wife Ch- " The ceramic plates heavily dropped onto the hard tiled blue floor and with it the masked mystery on her calves. She held onto the table nearby and leaned her head on her arm. 'Why did I ask? I'm such a fool... What was I hoping for?'
"Are you alright?" Goku interrupted her thoughts. He gave her a hand, but she slapped it away. "Ah! I'm sorry?..." 'Why am I apologizing?' Comprehending what she had done vaguely she abruptly arose from her state.
"Ah! Um, no no, I was the one at fault. I'll clean this mess up right away! Ahaha!..." Carelessly, she took a step towards the dustpan and broom. As a result, a scream devoured the entire room.
As soon as that happened a door was heard slamming against its perpendicular wall from the hallway. It was Vegeta, half cloaked with a white towel and foamy shampoo oozing off his head. "Kakarott! What the hell was that!" he bellowed ready to run to the source until a rattling doorknob caught his eye from the corner.
"Nothing!" Goku and Mundansa slightly panicked in unison.
Finally, the opposite parallel door was kicked open. The door flew in Vegeta's direction as a girl appeared. "Stupid door..." the bizarre female tugged at the damp towel covering her body, but full of concern, she couldn't care less what she wore."S-Mundansa! Are you oka-!"
"ARE YOU ASKING FOR A DEATH WISH?" Vegeta popped out from under the door infuriated. He stopped himself from saying anymore because he smelled something weird and soap had attacked his eyes. "Damn it! Ridiculous bubbles!" He gathered at his knees rubbing furiously at his eyes. When vision finally returned, the strange female was nowhere to be found, and the door was left as if it never opened. 'I was sure I smelled it.' He ruffled his foamy hair, "Have I finally cracked?"
Mundansa sat in the floor clutching her foot. "Ow... Small wounds can hurt so much!"
"Wow for a man you sure can scream." Goku offered out his hand again.
She sighed into defeat and took his hand while he chuckled. "So I win?" 'This hand...is warm...' he stared at it for a while.
She interrupted him while scoffing "What? No way!"
"Not even a point?" he made puppy dog eyes. 'It really is warm...' Strangely his heart began to throb and his hands rapidly became sweaty.
"..Why are you so difficult? And what points are you talking about?"
"How about if I do this?" he picked her up, "Wow, you're a pretty little guy! 2 points!" 'If I held on any longer...'
"Am not! AND, I still have no clue what you're talking about!" she retorted. "Put me down!" she squirmed in his tight grasp around her waist.
"Oh c'mon, I'm just talking about a bit of a friendly competition." he placed her softly on the couch. "That's how I got Vegeta to lose his sharp edges, even though he still snarls a bit... But! Rivalry is better than no friendship!"
"Idiot, there will be no such rivalry because I'm your master." the masked mystery held up her head high.
"Well, some master, you couldn't even sense the pieces of the ceramic."
She scoffed again, "Well-!...well.." words at loss. "Anyways, Thank you..." she mumbled.
"Was that a thank you? Yeah, 3 points! I was beginning to think that you hated me!" he laughed while reaching for the first aid kit.
"Why would I hate you?"
"Let me put it this way." he scratched his cheek "You and your brother haven't exactly been friendly."
"You guys haven't done a thing to despise. Besides, Goku, I could never hate you," she stood still with her knees on the couch and her fist in the center of her chest. With the comforting intense silence, Goku could not break off the eye contact with Mundansa. He was both stunned and speechless, as something familiar tugged at his own chest. Something that he had long forgotten, and now experiencing it for the first time again. "Because Goku,-" she stopped realizing she had spoken too much. Secretly, he clenched his fist. 'What is this...'
He simply ignored the abrupt confession and grinned as wide as he could "Let's get your foot cleaned it's not good to leave it like that for long." He kept his smile on and made two victory poses "4 points!"
Mundansa snatched away the cotton swab, "Put a sock in it!"
Vegeta slipped back into the shower cell turning the water on highand sneezed. "Fwa-choo! Disgusting..." he wiped his nose. 'But...what the heck just happened?' The question repeated in his head over and over again. He laid his head against the wall and stared blankly downwards. 'She came out of nowhere—well to be exact a door— oh can it!' he began to argue with himself like a complete lunatic. 'But yeah, nowhere... Her hair was up to her mid thigh. As she spoke, drenched wavy caramel strands clung to her petite body. Even though I clearly didn't get a good look at her, I know I saw her face for a split second, but that second felt like an eternity...' He only saw that of her profile and her orbs for a tiny moment, but he remembered. He remembered as pink began to inflame his cheeks, 'Her eyes, they were so deep, so intense, so much like the midnight seas...and her scent, it was so strong. Almost as though I were standing in a field of roses and coconuts...' he snapped out of the trance. "Alright, I think I've taken a long enough shower!..." he patted his cheeks.
The strange woman laid in bed snickering to herself. She was doing her best to hold in laughter, when at last it, came out all at once."Hahahaha! Kami~i! The Saiyan Prince was defeated by and army of bubbles..." she muffled her laughter with the nearby pillows. "Ah! Ouch! My stomach~!" She lied on her back and placed an arm on her forehead. "But seeing him again like that..." shades of pink rolled onto her face. "He must work out a lot..."
ll four sat at the table eating rather quietly, nope, scratch that. The two masked mysteries sat at the table eating rather quietly, while the Saiyans ravaging through the delicacies. "Mrgph rife prweefsh!" Goku handed his bowl to Mundansa.
"I'll never get over the expanding ability of Saiyan stomachs." both masked mysteries sighed.
"Hey, get some more of those noodles!" demanded Vegeta.
"Yes sir!" Nichidansa automatically shouted loudly and rather feminine. "Ahem.. Uh, I meant sure." the voice became low and burly once again.
Vegeta and Goku shrugged their shoulders and continued to stuff themselves.
Mundansa handed Goku his bowl. "Eat up as much as possible. You'll need the strength."
"Thatsh eeshy! Wee alwarsh duu! And thrish is reely guud!" Goku savaged through the tender fish, while Vegeta placed his chopsticks on top of his bowl, darting his gaze at the masked mysteries. A serious situation was on board and the air became thick.
"Yes, as Mundansa has advised, you should do so. Tonight you will begin the next step of training, which will take up almost the entire time we have here."
"What do you mean most of?" Vegeta scowled with his arms crossed.
Deciphering the situation Goku halted, "Yeah, and shouldn't we be getting some shut eye tonight?"
"You won't need sleep where you are going. This training ground, requires almost no physical movement. Everything there may appear indifferent, but polish the diamond in the rough, and let it shine free. Then, you will be halfway completed with our course.
Goku chuckled "What? Yeah, I'm not that great with riddles, so would you mind explaining more, please?"
"It wouldn't be called training If we told you everything now. But since you pleaded I guess I could say this much. Your goals will be to conquer fear. Have no fear, face it, and defeat, but harness that power for ultimate strength."
"Our fears? Ha! This'll be easy! I, the Saiyan prince have no fears!"
Nichidansa raised her brow, "The faster you get out, the safer you'll be."
"The safer?" suspiciously added Goku.
"Yes. Tonight will end in meditation. You will hold and focus on your ki in your body. Your bodies will be asleep while doing this. However long your ki lasts, will be your time limit. But that is not all, you cannot return without completing this. In other words it's a win or lose gamble."
"So why in the name of Kami are we playing this risky game?" Vegeta quoted slightly annoyed with his fingers.
Slapping down his hands, Nichidansa stood tall and firm. "We wouldn't even call ourselves Masters if we couldn't save our subordinates! If worse comes to worse, either I or Mundansa will save you, if we can survive your fear that is."
"Exactly my point!" Vegeta latched onto Nichidansa's cape "What if you can't save us, What if we don't make it, what happens then?" Goku tried to calm him down.
Freeing herself of the cape, Nichidansa barked back. "Are you that afraid? Don't be so scared! Isn't that what you told me? Why do you think of all the 'What ifs!' Don't you want to become strong! Why can't you believe in yourself and know that YOU CAN do it!" she breathed furiously, her chest pumping. But soon she had realized that she acted too quickly and slapped a hand over her mouth. Mundansa appeared before her and swung her cape on top of the other masked mystery.
"What she means to say is, we can help aid you, and in that situation, you will overcome the obstacles and return as you are. But, if we end up saving you, you will return as yourself but have no recollection of who or what you were."
Vegeta nodded, but he was really focused in the small quarrel from moments ago. 'I told him that?...Well, whatever, of course I want to be strong. Why else would I be here.'
-—
The Saiyans laid still on the beds with eyes closed and ears attentive. "Listen, now, focus all your ki in one spot and hold it there. Very slowly, let go of your guard and imagine that you are floating, floating on a giant jell-o cube and in the land of sweets. A-"
"Are you freaking serious?" Vegeta flickered open his eyes. "Land of sweets?"
Nichidansa pouted a bit frustrated. "What? It doesn't help you sleep?"
The prince scoffed, "That idiotic trick would only work on Kakarott!" The masked mysteries laughed and pointed at Goku. He really was unconscious. Upon seeing the sight, Vegeta rolled his eyes and grunted.
"Then what helps you go to sleep?" Nichidansa asked discouraged.
He blushed embarrassed. "Roses... and... coconuts. The smell... I find it relaxing." He didn't know why he suddenly told him a secret that he never told anyone not even Bulma, but he felt the urge.
If he could see her face, he would've seen that her eyes widened for a moment and that she smiled. Subconsciously, she rubbed his back in a pattern of circles. "Geez you're such kid Saiyan prince!"
As she did this she inched just a bit closer accidentally and Vegeta wrinkled his nose. 'There it is again! It's faint, but I can smell it! Where is it coming from?' He sniffed at it and his nose led directly to Nichidansa. Now in a tranquil trance, he smiled satisfied at her. "It's odd how people can smell the same, but I think I can close my eyes now." Underneath the masquerade, red crawled all over her face, as he positioned his body on the bed.
Meanwhile, Mundansa watched and aided Goku into the training grounds.
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Flashes of brightness shot into Goku's eyes, making them a tad but fuzzy. He could hear the crashing waves on the grainy sand and smell the fresh air of the salty ocean. The place seemed very familiar and somehow different. A blob figure—someone seemed to be in front of him. "Goku! C'mon, you've been sleeping there all day! Let's go, Gohan has something to tell us!"
"Sure." he replied not sure what to really say. But he knew who that voice was. It could only belong to one person. Determined to confirm who, he rubbed his eyes clean, consequently, they widened from shock. "Chi-chi?"
"Yeah, and? Will ya' just hurry it up over here already?" she gave him her hand.
Goku latched onto the recognizable coldness.
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