Kinda short, but this finally wraps it up, folks! Bun bun bun bun ANOTHER ONE BITES THE DUST! AND ANOTHER ONE'S GONE AND ANOTHER ONE'S GONE AND ANOTHER ONE BITES THE DUST!
At first, Usagi was surprised to wake to an open mating bond and the sensation of love flowing through it, laced with unbridled lust. She wasn't surprised to feel a tongue stroking over her clit or a pair of large, calloused hands gripping her thighs, it was just the bond that shocked her into momentary stiffness, which immediately stopped the slow, intense Saiyan kiss that was curling her toes.
"It's ok, r'sha," Raditz breathed against her neatly trimmed curls. "It's just me."
"Raditz," she sighed as she laced her fingers in his thick hair and trembled at the continuous waves of unadulterated love and adoration rolling through the bond. "Oh gods… I… I…"
The scent of her tears brought him back up to kiss her lips, and he wiped at them as he cupped her face in both hands, pushing comfort through the bond to mix in with the love. "Please don't tell me you're having second thoughts," he breathed as he rested his forehead to hers. "I couldn't bear it if you hadn't truly wanted to be mine, angel."
"No, Raddy, it's just the mating bond… I… I haven't felt it in so long, and then to wake up to it… I missed it so much," she choked out, unable to stop the tears that only continued to come. "I love you… I love you so much…"
"Shh… angel… my angel," Raditz murmured lovingly into her hair as he continued to push waves of love and comfort through the bond, throwing it fully open and savoring the feeling of being mentally joined with another being, their very souls entwined. It had taken him half the night to get used to it, but Raditz knew instinctively that a pairbond with Usagi was something he would never, ever take for granted or fully grow accustomed to. It was just too extraordinary and surreal all at once. "Don't cry, sweetheart, it's alright."
"N—No, it's not," she sobbed into the crook of his neck. "Y—You won't—"
"Yes, I will," he whispered as soon as he heard her train of thought in his head. "I go when you go." She'd been thinking about his eventual death, about when she'd have to bury yet another lover, husband and mate, and how she would continue on by herself in another few hundred years, unable to even take her own life because she was truly immortal. "Usagi, I die when you die. You'll never be alone again. Ever. I swear it on my tail and my honor. I'll never leave you."
Too stunned at first to do anything but stare up at him in confused shock, it took Usagi several moments to see the truth of his thoughts and the images flipping through his mind of Shenron, the dragon balls, and everyone who had gone to Earth with them yesterday. "You… you wished…"
"Yes. But not immortality. I wished to be young and to live by your side until you finally pass on. Then, and only then, will I die. I'm immortal, yes, but only if you are, r'sha m'yo. You're not mad at me, are you?" He added fretfully when she only kept staring at him, her feelings such a jumble through the bond that Raditz couldn't read them; he was still too new to being mated, and reading her accurately when she when she had so many conflicting emotions was near impossible so soon. "Please don't be mad at me, r'sha, I was just terrified of you ever being alone again. Damn it… I should have asked you first, I knew it."
He way he was caressing her face as he spoke brought her around slowly, and once Usagi could function past the knowledge that she'd never be alone again, she hugged him with the force of a truck, knocking him onto his back even though he'd been on top of her, sobbing tears of joy into his broad chest.
Feeling her happiness overcoming everything else through the bond, Raditz purred for her and returned the embrace, sighing in contentment now that he knew she wasn't angry with him for his wish on the dragon balls. "Tah'kha'or au," he sighed into her hair as he ran his fingers through it idly. "I'll never leave you again, I swore it the very first day."
"I remember," she sighed happily. Brimming with energy for the first time in years, Usagi beamed at him as she sat up and straddled him and nodded towards the door. "I feel like going home, Raddy. Do you want to come with me? I'd like to see my children."
And they probably wanted to see her too, Raditz acknowledged silently. It wasn't a stretch to assume that they hadn't seen their mother smile like that in over a decade and that it would do the lot of them some good to see her genuinely happy. Especially Tarble; that kid seemed to carry an aura of melancholy around with him wherever he went, and something told Raditz that it had a lot to do with the empathic powers he'd inherited from Usagi and the sadness that had loomed over his family ever since Vegeta's death. "Sure, angel. Anything you want."
The goddess of the stars practically radiated delight at that and slipped off the bed to get dressed, but a glance back to her new mate only drew her eyes right to his groin and the thick arousal sticking straight up in the air. "Hm… maybe we should take care of that first?" She asked with a playful grin, coming right back to the bed to climb on top of him. "The sun's barely up back home as it is."
"Mmm… more than enough time for a quickie, then," he chuckled, promptly flipped her onto her back once more. "Though I'll admit, I'm still awfully curious about that dream you had, Usa. Do we have enough time for that?"
"No," she giggled, "that one's going to take us at least an hour. Tonight?"
"Tonight," he agreed. "And I'm holding you to it."
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"Now this is the Usagi I remember," Mako giggled as she remained perched in Piccolo's lap, leaning into him comfortably as she watched the blonde playing the game that Raditz had taught her with all of her own and her reincarnated Senshis' children. "Heh… our own little clan's giving her a run for her money," she mused when her oldest easily caught up with Usa and zapped her with his ki. "THAT'S IT!" She yelled enthusiastically. "GET HER, TANTU! KICK HER COSMIC ASS!"
"Oooow," Piccolo grumbled. "Too loud, Koto."
"Oh, she's just happy, Uncle Piccolo!" Chibi-Usa giggled as she flew down to grab a drink, turning her head to flash a smile towards Bardock Junior, who was hot on her tail but skidding to a halt at the sight of her beaming at him sunnily, her cheeks flushed red. "Would you like a drink, too?" She offered, suddenly shy as her tail twitched behind her in a mixture of interest and nervousness. "I um… I can get you one."
"Uh… yeah, sure. I'd like anything you gave me if you—oh gods, I didn't mean it that way," he said quickly, blushing brightly when she just stared at him for a long moment.
"No, you didn't, now quit with the awkward stammering you inherited from your father and go get a drink with the girl, BJ," Raditz snorted before launching himself into the air to join his mate, snickering when his nephew sputtered and growled at the nickname he hated being called more than anything.
"To think, he was trying to get all aggressively Saiyan and hormonal with me a few days ago," Usagi chuckled when Raditz flew up and caught her, cradling her to his chest and nuzzling and nipping at her mark.
"Yeah, but that was hormones and nothing else, angel. This time, he's got a crush. And I plan on busting his balls as often as possible about it, as we all should," Raditz purred. "Just remember to call him BJ every five seconds, especially when Rabbit's in earshot."
"Will do," she agreed as he floated them down into a chair, bunching her fingers in his hair when he kissed her. "How's Goten?"
"He's gone off for a while with Gohan and a few of Piccolo's boys; he didn't want to see Rei and risk a breakdown in front of her. The kid's terrified of scaring her on accident since he can't really predict how he might behave in front of her. Goten doesn't want to wind up bawling his eyes out and hugging her for an hour."
"I don't think he'll make it twenty years," Usagi admitted worriedly. "You?"
"I don't know, sweetheart. But at least he has hope. That's what got me through the last two hundred years, and I have faith that he can make it a couple of decades, r'sha. Give him the benefit of the doubt since he's got some of my genes in him," Raditz told her gently.
"Yeah, he does… no wonder he's such an amazing man," she admitted softly. "Just like his uncle."
"Mmm… yes I am," Raditz purred, nipping at her mark for the millionth time that day, still reeling at the fact that she was finally all his. "In fact… no one's paying attention except for the Namek, but that asshole hears everything. Want to slip away for an hour? Maybe break out that blindfold?"
"No blindfold until tonight, mister. It's the shower for the both of us right now."
"Heh, alrighty then, I can live with that," he replied happily, keeping her cradled against him as he stood and walked off towards Capsule Corp. "Hey Usagi? I love you."
Usa knew he'd never, ever get tired of saying it, and honestly, she'd never get tired of hearing it. "I love you too, Raditz."
THE END! WOOOOOOOOOOOOO! TA DA! Don't worry, there's an epilogue coming! Pun intended! R&R and I'll try to get it finished!
