Bulma woke up with a headache, but aside from that she also found herself cuddling with a certain Saiyan prince. He had is arm around her waist and his face was buried in her hair. She turned away from him to slide off the bed without disturbing the sleeping Saiyan; he looked so peaceful for once. But when she tried to slip out of his hold, it only got tighter.
Bulma let out a quite sigh, and turned back towards him. She looked at his face, "He is kinda cute when he doesn't have that scowl." She gently put her hand on his shoulder, "Vegeta, it's time to wake up."
Suddenly she could feel his whole body tense, his face changed from a serene look to his normal scowl, and his onyx eyes were staring down at her.
"What are you doing?"
"I'm trying to get out of bed, but someone wont let me go." She indicated the position of his arm around her, and with a disgusted, and slightly surprised, look on his face he quickly removed himself from her.
"We must have fallen asleep out here," Bulma sat up and started to stretch, then suddenly grabbed her head, "Oh, I think I drank too much." She fell back down to the bed only to realize that Vegeta was gone. She decided that she was going to need a bit more nursing from her mother that morning before she tried to do anything else.
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What was he thinking? How could he have let his guard down so much that he fell asleep next to her? And what time was it anyway? This day was getting off to a horrible start, he had already missed hours of training because of…HER!
As soon as he realized what position he was in when he woke up, he had felt exposed. Had he really been holding her in his sleep?
Well, he couldn't let her get in the way of his training any more. It didn't matter that she smelled nice or made him feel…things. No she was a distraction and he was only allowed to think about defeating Kakarot and the androids.
He made his way to the gravity chamber. He looked at the clock on the console, it was 10am he had slept 7 hours, he couldn't remember the last time he wasted so much time asleep. He was going to have to start at a higher level to make up for the lost time.
He was up to 300 times gravity when Mrs. Briefs had called him for lunch. "This can't be right. It usually takes me longer to build up to this much gravity. The damn woman's machine must be reading the wrong gravity." He took a towel from the bathroom of the chamber and wiped the sweat from his face. " She is just going to have to fix it."
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Bulma was sitting in the kitchen with her mom. After she got off the roof she decided that she wanted to cover up her bruises, so she had her mother help her with some makeup. You would never tell by her face that she had been in a hostage situation yesterday, unfortunately the entire world already knew.
"We didn't see either of you at breakfast this morning," her mother chimed as Vegeta entered the kitchen, "Of course, after all the excitement you two must have slept in."
Vegeta made his way to the table and sat down across from Bulma with a thud. "The gravity room is broken."
Bulma looked up at him with a questioning look on her face, "What did you do to it?"
"It is reading higher than it actually is."
"Strange," she had just recalibrated it the other day, "I'll check it out after we eat; it shouldn't take long."
"Hn." Vegeta was then presented with a rather large plate of steak and noodles and began digging in.
"It certainly was quiet last night. I was worried that you wouldn't get much sleep after all the excitement the other day, Bulma."
"I managed." She smiled.
Vegeta gave Bulma a death glare as if to say, If you tell anyone about last night I will end you!
It only made Bulma's smile widen.
XXX
After lunch Bulma grabbed her gear from her lab and made her way to the gravity room. She opened the door only to be greeted by Vegeta.
"What took you so long?"
"I had to get my tools. Could you take it down a notch, my head still hurts." Bulma sat down and started to plug in her computer to run diagnostics. "What makes you think it isn't reading correctly?"
"It was too easy to get to 300 times gravity."
"What do you mean?"
"I mean that it usually takes me an hour to warm up to that level and today it took half that time!"
The computer in her hand beeped. "Well, everything checks out, you really were working under 300xs gravity."
"Are you sure?"
"Yeah," Bulma started packing up her computer, "Vegeta, did you ever consider that maybe your body was able to work better today because you got enough sleep last night?"
Vegeta rolled his eyes.
"You do realize that you can't constantly run yourself on a few hours of sleep and expect to be at your best."
"I don't need training advice from a woman who thinks posing in awkward positions is a proper workout."
"Hey! Yoga and palates keep my body in spectacular shape. " Bulma stood with her hands on her hips. "Besides, even you can't argue with results. One night of restful sleep and you are cutting your warm-up time in half; imagine what you could do if all your nights were as restful."
"I am not sleeping with you on the roof…"
"I'm not talking about that! There are other things that can help you sleep," she rubbed her forehead, "things that won't hurt in the morning."
"Like what?"
"I don't know, like certain scents or sounds when you sleep, or making your room more warm."
"You think the temperature of my sleeping quarters is too cold?"
"No I think that sleeping on a bed in a room with nothing but white walls and a nightstand is a little less than relaxing."
Vegeta stood there with his arms folded at his chest, I suppose she has a point. "Fine."
Bulma scoffed, "Fine…fine what?"
"Do those things you said, and we'll see if I get stronger."
"What do you mean, do those things? I can't do those things; I have no idea what you find relaxing. If you want me to help you, you are going to have to work with me." Bulma paused for a moment to let it sink in, when she didn't see him budge she shifted her stance to match his, "Unless you really don't mind pink."
"Fine. When do we do this?"
"Now."
"Now? Why now?"
"Because if we pick out everything now, then it can be ordered and set up for tonight."
Vegeta thought about it, then sighed and moved his arms to his sides.
Bulma started to leave the gravity room and took one of his arms to lead him over to the house. "Come on, Vegeta. This'll be fun."
"Woman, you and I have very different definitions of fun."
