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Chapter Ten

Vegeta didn't even have time to silently thank the blue haired saiyan for her sign of respect because Frieza and Zarbon's power signals were getting closer to their location by the second and Vegeta thanked the gods for not allowing Frieza and Zarbon to be able to sense an energy source. So with that last thought he quickly grabbed a startled Bulma who looked equally nervous, and pulled her out of the window and started dragging her towards the large lake in front of them.

"How long can you hold your breath?" Vegeta asked quickly for they were short on time.

Coming out of her startled state Bulma realized that they were in a life or death situation "long enough, just jump in and I'll follow you" Bulma answered back all in one breath causing Vegeta to realize that she understood the situation they were currently in.

Nodding his head Vegeta quickly turned around and jumped into the water without a backwards glance, and seconds later he noticed Bulma swimming right next to him.

Bulma noticed three things the second her tiny yet still injured body made contact with the water. One, it was cold as fuck! Two, her muscles were still sore, and she didn't have as much strength as she normally did and three, Vegeta was swimming at a faster rate than she knew she could keep up with. But she was determined not to die and to not show any weakness to Vegeta. So with those thoughts in mind she shoved the pain to the back of her mind and pushed her body to its limits.

She had been swimming now for 10 minutes straight without a single breath of fresh air, she could feel her already sore lungs catch fire at the lack of oxygen and with a look of panic in her eyes she realized she might actually not be able to make it. But then she started to notice that the water was getting shallower and that a shore line could be visibly seen at only a mere foot away. *I can do this!* she thought while mentally breathing a sigh of relief.

As Vegeta made it to the shore line, he hastily pulled his body up out of the water. Standing on his two feet he turned around and watched as Bulma slightly struggled to pull herself out of the water. He silently admired her strength for being able to even keep up with him, he was in no way under the impression that she couldn't but he did realize that she was still weak from her injury and at being pulled out of the regen tank before her healing time was up she was at an even greater disadvantage than normal. At the realization at how weak and tired she must be he rushed over to aid her out of the water.

Bulma watched with wide eyes as Vegeta walked up to her and put his arms under hers and scooped her up into his chest so carefully that he acted as if she would break at any moment. As much as she wanted to protest and tell him that she wasn't weak and could do it by herself, she realized that the words wouldn't spill forth from her mouth because she was in such a bliss filled state at not having to do anymore work, that she didn't even noticed that her body sagged onto Vegeta's as if she was dead and couldn't move anymore.

Bulma felt the vibrations of a deep chuckle emitting from Vegeta's chest as he laughed at her "tired little one?" he whispered against her hair.

Yawning wide Bulma merely nodded her head before her eyes slowly dropped closed in exhaustion from over working her tiny body in the state that it was in.

Vegeta watched with deep fascination as Bulma nuzzled closer to his chest to take in as much warmth from his body heat as she could. Her tail then slithered around his arm, and he heard soft purring noises coming from her mouth as her chest moved in a rhythmic up, down pattern from her deep breathing. *What are these strange feelings!* Vegeta thought to himself as he unconsciously brought Bulma into a tighter embrace as if to reassure himself that she was truly there. He then took his hand a ran it threw her soft azure colored hair, he marveled at the color, and light scent of lavender and vanilla that emitted from her exotic mane of hair. He couldn't help but make the simple comparison of silk to her hair but he quickly pulled his hand away as if he got burned and glared down at the small female. *Emotions are for the weak* he thought with distaste as he stared at the small half breed *If that is the case then why do you feel invincible in her presence?* his mind silently argued back. Shaking his head in an attempt to rid himself of all the confusing thoughts and emotions, Vegeta shoved his pride to the back of his head as he gently sat down against a rock all the while making sure he didn't disturb Bulma in her slumber. As he shut his eyes to get some rest the last thing his vision encountered was the seven dragonballs lying neatly next to each other only mere inches away from him.

Gohan couldn't believe the incredible power he now felt surging threw him all because of the Namekian sitting before him "Thank you so much Guru I know this power boost will help our efforts in collecting the dragonballs immensely" Gohan said with a beaming smile on his face.

"It is no problem at all young one, I just wish for my people to stop dying. I know your efforts will not be in vein, I feel an evil amongst your group but its slowly dimming." Guru replied

*An evil amongst our group? He can't be talking about Vegeta* Krillen thought to himself "Guru, sir you wouldn't happen to be talking about someone named Vegeta would you?" he asked curiously.

"But of course" Guru replied simply.

"WHAT!" both Krillen and Gohan responded at the same time.

"Bbbbuu-tt there's no way he is on our side" Krillen sputtered out.

"Yeah, he is pure evil!" Gohan shouted.

Guru chuckled amusedly at the two before him "Yes he has done a lot of things most call evil and he has a heart made of ice but he does have a heart and one of you will slowly melt your way into it. Trust me when I say he may always have evil tendencies but he will recognize what is most important in life and push his tendencies aside." Guru said with much wisdom and confidence in his voice.

Krillen just shook his head nonbelieving *There is no way anyone of us is going to melt Vegeta's 'ice heart'* Krillen thought to himself.

"Alright Guru, I believe you. You haven't been wrong about anything yet and I feel as if I can trust you." Gohan said "but we must go and find my sister now for Vegeta may not be as evil but there are other beings out there that are. Thank you for everything but we must get going now." Gohan continued as him and Krillen headed towards the door to leave.

Bulma weakly opened her eyes and brought one of her hands up to rub the sleep out *man am I sore, and tired! Kami don't even get me started on how bad I smell, and man is Vegeta one comfy pillow. Wait a minute Vegeta, VEGETA!* she mentally screamed in her head at realizing she was curled up into a comfy ball atop the stoic saiyan prince. *Oh man he is going to KILL me when he finds out I drooled on him* she thought nervously while her tailed unconsciously tightened around Vegeta's arm in her nervous state, waking Vegeta without her knowing.

At feeling the tightening of her tail and the waves of nervousness coming off her body Vegeta quickly jumped to his feet into a fighting stance, knocking Bulma off him into a huddled heap on the ground. With a low growl ripping out his throat and crazed eyes from not being fully awake he couldn't help but grow agitated at not only not seeing anyone dangerous around but also at the fact that the ungrateful female before him was in a fit of laughter so intense he saw tears in her eyes. "Girl" he growled "what the hell is so funny" he continued through gritted teeth.

Rolling around on the ground Bulma grabbed her stomach because the cramps from laughing and her injury caused a slight agitation but she couldn't help spill fourth what she was witnessing "Vvv-ee-getaaa hahaha my Kami you look like a crazed animal" she said in between fits of laughter.

Vegeta walked over to river and looked at his reflection. His hair was in a tousled state from sleeping in an odd position; he was still wearing his bloody and ripped clothes from fighting Zarbon, one of his eyes was half open from just waking up and he had a little drool hanging off his chin. He indeed looked like a crazed animal but at realizing how ridiculous he looked he quickly fixed his hair, rubbed the sleep from his eye and whipped the drool off. When he was done he turned around with a slight tint of red on his cheeks "Shut up girl! Tell anyone about this and your dead!" he threatened. This only caused Bulma to start laughing harder.

"Vegeta, Prince of all Saiyans are you blushing!" Bulma asked teasingly

"No" he answered quickly which only brought a smirk to her face.

"Right…" she said as she stood up and walked over to the river to get a much need drink.

Vegeta watched her warily before finally turning around to go collect the dragonballs and put them in a good hiding spot until he got all seven. *Damn girl scarring me half to death thinking someone was getting ready to attack her* he thought to himself *wait a minute why should I care if someone attacks her* he countered angrily.

Bulma watched as Vegeta's face contorted from agitation to anger so she carefully walked up to him not sure of what his mood was now *my Kami, Vegeta is a weird one* she thought with a slight chuckle.

Whipping his head Vegeta laughed at the blue haired saiyan who still had a smirk on her face "Girl!" he all but hissed out causing her to get ripped out of her thoughts "we need to go find your weak brother and the bald one"

Bulma glared at him for the insult of her brother but the glare quickly turned into a small childish giggle at hearing his nickname for Krillen "and I presume your nickname for me is little one?" Bulma questioned while raising her brow

Vegeta smirked evilly "Of course it's not!" he said and before she could question him further he said "why it's GIRL of course"

"What!" she all but yelled but she quickly sighed dramatically and rolled her eyes in his direction, "fine whatever I don't even care, let's just go find my weak brother and the bald one" she said in a mocking voice while trying to sound like she was him.

Vegeta just ignored her childish antics and picked her up

"Hey what are you doing!" Bulma yelled turning five shades of red.

Vegeta chuckled in amusement at her distress "I know you are still weak and you need to preserve your energy so I'm flying you myself" he stated simply in a voice that left no room for arguments.

Bulma just pouted "fine, get going!" she snapped

Vegeta did just that as he flew into the air at an incredible speed causing Bulma to yelp and quickly wrap both her arms around his neck and her tail tightly around his waist causing Vegeta to snicker in amusement.

Gohan and Krillen watched carefully from their position outside the cave as a small figure that they recognized as Vegeta approached them.

*Oh great what does he want* Krillen thought angrily

But Gohan quickly sighed in relief as he noticed his sister was with him, but that sigh quickly turned to anger as well as he realized something was obviously wrong with Bulma for her to not be flying herself. So as Vegeta landed in front of them with Bulma still in his arms Gohan shot angrily "Vegeta you monster what did you do to my sister!"

But he was greatly shocked when said sister turned around roughly in Vegeta's arms and started walking towards him. She then angrily hit him atop the head.

"Owww Bulma, what the heck was that for!" Gohan whined while rubbing his now aching head.

"Because you idiot, you gave me the wrong coordinates for the fucking dragonball which lead me to get into a ton of shit, and if Vegeta wouldn't have been there I would have died. So apologize to him now!" she spat with venom in her voice

Cowering in fear Gohan quickly looked up into Vegeta face only to see him trying to hold back a laugh at Bulma's outburst. "Fine, I'm sorry" he said looking at Bulma.

"Don't apologize to me you buffoon. Apologize to Vegeta!" she all but yelled causing Vegeta to finally bust forth in laughter and Krillen to stare wide eyed and jaw dropped.

"Sorry Vegeta" Gohan said through gritted teeth.

"Better!" Bulma said "now the dragonballs where are they?"

"We left them back at Gurus why?" Krillen questioned

"Because baldy we need them to grant our wish" Vegeta spat as if it was the most obvious answer in the world.

"I don't take orders from you" Krillen shot back

"Fine then chrome dome take me to the dragonballs!" Bulma said angrily only causing Krillen to flinch at his new 'nickname' and Vegeta to start laughing again.

"Geees Bulma, take it easy" Gohan said we will take you to Guru and he can you give you the power boost too.

"Whatever" she mumbled

Krillen then walked up to her in an attempt to pick her up and fly her there because he assumed that she didn't want Vegeta touching her again. But at the low growl sent his way from Vegeta and the slight glare form Bulma he quickly changed his mind. "Uhh so you two can just follow me and Gohan then" he said slightly scared at not only Vegeta but Bulma's new attitude.

Vegeta just grunted and picked Bulma up, who again wrapped her arms and tail around him. He then jumped up into the air and started following the two guys.

"Little one, remind me to kill them after I have defeated Frieza" he said loud enough for only her to hear.

"Gladly" was the only thing he heard from her mouth causing him to smirk *I think I'll keep you around for a while little one* were Vegeta's last thoughts as they blasted off into the air.

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