Ok, this is it! The semi-dubcon chapter that I've warned yall about. I won't go further than that except to say that this chapter was a BITCH to write. I've never had writer's block so badly in my entire LIFE. And I'm sorry for my absence as of late. Yall know what happened Mother's Day week and I've been in more than a bit of a funk over it. It makes it difficult to write anything at all some days. Anyways… here we go! ENJOY!

Usagi stretched and quietly grumbled about her back as she carefully extracted herself from Kakarot's arms, climbing to her feet from the floor of the rocky cave. "Possessive, domineering Saiyan males," she sighed.

Fine, in a way it was a little sweet that he'd wanted to take her somewhere beautiful, but her mortal body would have appreciated the warmth and comfort of a bed, rather than the rocky ground padded with only some blankets. Even if that bed was surrounded by sheer beauty in the form of glowing crystals embedded in the stone around them. "Makes a good nightlight at least," she mused aloud as she went outside to do her business. When she returned, she found Kakarot awake and waiting, his tail moving about in what she was quickly learning to be a sign of agitation. "I had to pee."

The Saiyan warrior visibly relaxed at that and nodded. "Oh, ok. I thought…"

"No, I wasn't running." Usagi smirked slightly as she slid back in beside him and enjoyed the warmth under the blankets compared to the chilly early morning air. "But I appreciate you not flying off the handle and chasing me down while I was in mid-stream."

Sensing through the bond that he had earned brownie points in some bizarre fashion, Kakarot began to purr lightly as he devised a way to earn even more. "What would you like to do today, woman?"

Already dozing back off, lulled by his scent and his purr, Usagi smiled into his chest. "Chiropractor," she chuckled. "Know any good ones?"

He blinked at that and immediately repositioned her so she was lying on her stomach, smirking at the memory of what relaxed her. He hadn't even done that for her yet, either… well, she was about to get one hell of a massage; Goku knew all sorts of stuff about it and that meant that Kakarot did as well.

Usagi was about to ask what in the hell he was up to when she felt his hands move down her spine, gently locating knots and working them out, and she gurgled with pleasure as she slumped into the bedding and submitted to him. "You're very good with your hands," she sighed happily.

"And only you will ever enjoy them," he chuckled as he bent his head to nip at her shoulder from behind, his fingers constantly kneading and moving over her back as his tongue stroked over the bite mark. "I think I might enjoy an early morning massage as well," he murmured as he moved on to her legs.

Usagi giggled at that and turned her head slightly to look up at him in the glow of the stones around them. "Hm… does someone want a cock massage?"

"Well, I meant my neck, but if you're offering?" He replied with a tiny grin. "No, lie still," he added when she tried to move. "I'd like to massage another area of you when I'm done with your legs."

She laid her head back down at that and licked her lips in anticipation when his tail began to stroke her curls lightly. "You won't hear me complaining, honey." As he worked down her calves and began to gently rub her feet, Usagi moaned with need, her hips moving back of their own volition. She couldn't handle such teasing; his tail would slip past her folds for a moment only to retreat to her thighs and the outside of her mound, and frankly it was making her a little crazy.

"Getting impatient, baby?" Kakarot chuckled when she nodded and stopped what he was doing to roll her onto her back, sliding up to straddle her as his tail pressed past her folds once more to caress her clit. His mate's delirious moan of pleasure had him purring vigorously as he placed himself at her entrance and only slightly pushed forward. "Baby… do you trust me?"

Usagi hesitated for the briefest of moments but wound up nodding, her hands going to his hips to grant him permission. "Just don't…"

He eased inside of her carefully then and began to cautiously flex his hips, biting down on his lower lip in reaction to how tight and wet she was, how it was more than tempting to just surge forward and take her completely. "I love you, baby," he whispered as he bent over her, slowly claiming her lips as she moaned in ecstasy. You don't have to bite me back, but… you know how much I want you, Usagi… please… I'll give anything… just let me have you…

Please don't, she replied through the bond, gently stroking the base of his tail as she began to spiral up. But if you want… you can come inside of me, she offered a little shyly, touched by his admission of love for her and the feeling of it, strong and true, flowing through the bond.

Kakarot groaned and nodded at the offer as he began to move a little faster, always careful not to press against her virginity, his head tipping back in ecstasy as she reached down and stroked the remainder of his heavy shaft with her hand. "Love you, baby… come with me…" With that he released the mouth that was moaning deliriously and sunk his teeth into her shoulder, purring at the taste and the sound and feeling of her coming hard. He let himself go then, relishing the white-hot fire ripping through his body as he spilled his seed inside of her with a loud yell, everything else in the universe forgotten except for the tight wet sheath surrounding only a quarter of his length.

Usagi couldn't help herself, she lifted her hips just a little to feel him pressing down on her barrier and contemplated letting him take her. Something told her it would calm him down, keep him pacified even more effectively than he was that morning. But no… not yet. Soon if he kept being as sweet and attentive as he had been so far… but not quite yet.

"Imagining what it'll feel like?" He asked knowingly as he slipped from her sex and rolled her on top of him to rest her head on his chest. "I promise that it'll feel better than anything we've done before, r'sha."

"I'm not a virgin in my other form, Kakarot. I know how good it can feel with the right partner… and frankly, that's what makes it so hard to resist. But if you want more than just sex…" A heavy nod confirmed her statement. "…then I want more than some crazy-ass Saiyan warrior trying to make me his breeding bitch," she finished with conviction.

"That's not all that a mate is, damn it," Kakarot snapped. "A mate is treasured, well taken care of and honored above all by a Saiyan warrior."

Usagi sighed and shook her head; he just didn't seem to get it. "Then start treating me like a mate and not like a conquest, sweetheart."

"And just what do you think I've been doing all morning, woman?"

The growl in his voice made her relent a little and she stroked his tail soothingly. "One morning isn't going to do it. It has to be all the time… or, at least most of it. I'll even admit that there's no perfect relationship in the universe, but I won't have you lording over me all the time. Now that I'm stuck as a mortal—" She sighed again at that and looked sad. "—there are some things I'd like to do with what little time I have left."

That made Kakarot grit his teeth as he was washed in a wave of guilt. He'd done that. He was the reason that she'd age and someday die. The one solution was to gather the dragon balls, but… but if he did that and she ran, he might not ever find her again or defeat her in order to claim her. Damn it, there had to be some other way to keep her for the rest of his own life… "Come on."

Usagi climbed to her feet, silently taking in his troubled demeanor, but kept her mouth shut. He was clearly bothered by something and it would be best if she let him work it out for himself. Hopefully it had something to do with the discussion they'd just had and he would stop being such a douche all the time.

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First came breakfast in the form of pancakes at the Lookout, where everyone kept a good little distance from them except for Goten and Vegeta, the latter of which took one sniff of her and grumbled as he handed over some cash to Goku's youngest son.

"Told you he wouldn't take her. My new mommy's awfully crafty," Goten said with a wink. "Unlike Trunks, who has likely been taking it up—"He skillfully dodged a whack and hid behind his father, grinning his head off. "—the ass since we last saw him," he finished. However, he didn't dodge a whack from his own sire.

"Don't disrespect our prince, boy," Kakarot admonished seriously as he continued to tear into his pancakes. "Either of them, for that matter. No one can help who they feel the pull for."

Vegeta gave Kakarot a grunt in a rare display of gratitude before returning to his meal, basking in the momentary silence. At least, until Krillin showed up.

"Goku…? Or Kakarot…?" He asked hesitantly.

"Kakarot," everyone within earshot chimed in at once. The man himself merely grunted and offered a plate of pancakes by way of a peace offering.

Krillin spotted the bite on Usagi's shoulder and grinned as he took the plate. "Now I know why the world hasn't exploded in the last few days. Good for you, Kakarot."

"Don't count your chickens just yet, baldy," Vegeta snorted. "The little vixen has yet to return the mark."

After breakfast, Kakarot asked where Piccolo was at and grew annoyed when no one could give him a straight answer. Fine, that was just fine. "Boy!" He barked at his youngest, once Usagi had excused herself to use the bathroom. "I want you to find me the dragonballs, and I want you to be quick about it, understand?"

"I still don't see a little sister growing in my new mommy's belly," he replied in a sing-song voice.

"Do it or I'll cut off your nads and give Gohan a little sister instead," he growled.

"Oh, fine," Goten grumbled, "but I'd better get something awesome for this."

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"Can I open my eyes yet?" Usagi sighed. This was cute, the way he was trying to surprise her, but she was starting to get a little impatient with the way he had her blindfolded and was carefully leading her.

"No," he said flatly as he guided her around a large rock. "Not much further, we're almost there."

A horrifying thought occurred to her and she blinked behind the blindfold. "Please tell me it's not more dead things."

"You'll just have to wait and see," Kakarot chuckled darkly. It wasn't dead bodies, but it was definitely something dead. "Oh, come on," he snorted when she drug her feet a little; obviously she'd read his thoughts through the bond. Usagi complied with a sigh and he led her for a few hundred feet before stopping. "Alright, woman. Now," he said, untying her blindfold.

Usagi's eyes went a little wide in surprise at the sight before her, and she giggled as she understood his thoughts about it being something dead. Lying under a tree was a blanket covered in freshly picked flowers and a basket that likely had food inside of it. "This is sweet," she told him softly, rising up to peck him on the mouth. "Thank you."

Once they were settled on the blanket, Kakarot smirked as he handed her a single rose. "Here. Something dead to appease your snatch."

"Are all Saiyans such smartasses?" Usagi snorted as she sniffed the flower and set it to the side as he started to go through the picnic basket and set food out in front of her.

"Yes," he replied, "and I'm sure Vegeta was just as confused about courting an Earth woman when him and Bulma wound up mating on accident."

"Accident?" Usagi asked curiously as she took an offered plate of food from him and nibbled on a piece of fruit. "But I thought you said that Saiyans feel the pull."

"They do, but Vegeta wasn't raised the same way Goku was. He didn't want a relationship with anyone, let alone a human woman, and he avoided her like a plague. Bulma did the same since she couldn't stand his holier-than-thou attitude, but then there was an incident in the gravity room after Vegeta had been injured, and well…" Kakarot grinned and shrugged. "That was that, and that's also how they conceived Trunks. Further proof that you can't fight the pull."

She rolled her eyes at that but giggled as a funny thought popped into her head. "Did Vegeta bring her dead things to appease her snatch as well?"

"Bodies, just like I did. The bodies of all her father's company's rivals. Bulma was… not too happy about it, but she has a sick sense of humor and laughed about it in private."

"Sounds like a match made in heaven," Usagi drawled around a large bite of a sandwich.

"Hey, so are we," he chuckled darkly, pointing at the food in her hands. "You're eating something dead that I brought you. Even if it is just ham. Why you're so squeamish about dead bodies is beyond me; didn't you used to fight evil when you were mortal?"

"Yes, but I tried very hard not to kill anyone, Kakarot," Usagi sighed, feeling as if she were explaining herself to a child. "When I was done fighting youma and simply fighting crime, I only killed if I had no other choice. Otherwise I would knock them out or tie them up for the police, then I'd leave." She frowned at what she translated as a snort of contempt concerning her methods of fighting crime. "I'd rather not have that kind of blood on my hands, Kakarot."

"I guess we can agree to disagree," he replied with a shrug as he tucked into his third sandwich. "Hm… don't you miss it?" He asked thoughtfully once they'd finished eating.

Usagi helped clean up the mess and shrugged. "Sure, I guess. Sometimes I miss the thrill of it and all, just fighting in general. Why?"

Kakarot grinned and teleported them both to Tokyo, appearing in a deserted alleyway. "Transform," he ordered with a happy growl as he shifted to level four. "This is part of Saiyan courtship that you might actually enjoy, woman."

A single golden brow lifted in surprise, but she did as she was told. And once she was Super Sailor Moon, she blushed at the way he was eyeing her fuku. "No, Kakarot."

"Doesn't mean I can't fantasize about slamming you against the wall and tearing that scrap of clothing from you," he rumbled softly.

Strangely turned on a little by the idea, Usagi blushed and turned her head just as he leaned in to kiss her and his lips landed on her cheek instead. Apparently he wasn't too happy about that and he growled down at her, gripping her chin lightly to pull her mouth to his own. The combination of his forceful lips and tongue and the gentle way he was holding her made her moan softly into his mouth, and when he pulled away she was slightly aroused and breathing heavily. "Hot damn," she gasped.

"Maybe we should just go back to my bed and finish this?" He suggested softly, his chest stuttering in a seductive purr.

Tempted by the images of her fuku being shredded that he was sending through the half-bond, Usagi hesitated before shaking her head. "No… um, let's just go do whatever it was you had planned."

Kakarot grinned savagely and nodded, teleporting them to the inner city, and gestured to all the rundown buildings around them. "Well, my mate… let's find some lawbreakers and kick some ass, shall we?"

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The pair didn't have to look hard to find something illegal happening; that section of the city was rife with crime and debauchery, and Kakarot meted out justice with glee as he watched his mate kick some serious ass. Damn if she wasn't vicious as hell when she was pissed! Laying back in midair, Kakarot simply watched her for a little bit, knowing she could handle herself as she laid low a few more gang members on her own.

He did jump in when guns started getting pulled, though, and it seemed that Usagi was having one hell of a time dodging bullets. The mere fact that she could definitely raised his level of respect for her as a warrior; damn if she wasn't fast! She sure as hell wasn't that strong in her lesser form, but the woman could move!

Comes from running like hell to school every day as a teenager, she commented smugly in his mind.

Mmm… only makes me admire those legs even more, r'sha. Maybe I'll pin you to the wall later and admire them more intimately… if you'd care to wrap them around my neck.

Blushing at the very idea, Usagi was distracted momentarily and yelped sharply as something hot bit into her shoulder blade just as she'd jumped… and then that yelp became a scream as it exited and she felt an excruciating tearing sensation not in her body—but in her mind and her soul.

Sailor Moon crumpled to the ground, shaking violently as she mentally shrieked at the loss of Kakarot in her head and whimpered aloud, tears of grief forming in her eyes. He was… he had to be dead… that was the only explanation for it… "Kakarot… gods… I'm sorry…"

That was when she heard of roar of total and utter rage coming from her mate's mouth and she managed to turn despite the physical and emotional pain, just in time to see him crackling with the amount of ki surrounding him. And he wasn't just killing all of the men surrounding her, he was… vaporizing them. Usagi could feel the hot spackles of blood landing on her as their bodies practically exploded, but she couldn't care less about it.

He was alive. She couldn't feel him in her mind at all, but he was somehow inexplicably alive!

The last body exploded in a rain of red after only a few moments, and Usagi trembled as the enraged male slowly approached her, his eyes glowing crimson, his tail thrashing about in his fury. "Kakarot?"

The level four Saiyan forced her back down the moment she stood and embraced him, snarling a warning down at her, and if his beast hadn't been in control, he would have been surprised at how quickly she complied and at the raw emotion shining in her eyes. "They broke the bond," he ground out. "They shot off your mark."

Since even an idiot could tell without the bond that Kakarot was very dangerously close to obliterating all of Tokyo, Usagi held perfectly still when he forced her onto her back and began to inspect her bullet wound. And gods knew, she had more than enough common sense than to protest the fact that the enraged Saiyan looming over her had killed all those Yakuza. "I thought you were dead," she whispered, still shaking at the very idea. "I… when I couldn't feel you anymore… I thought they'd killed you."

Kakarot scoffed at the notion, the genuine fear and… was that love?... in her eyes made his beast purr a little for her as it relinquished some control. Even Goku was still raging in the back of his mind, but for some unexplainable reason, Kakarot was the calmer of the two. "It would take a lot more than a few bullets to kill me, baby. They can't even break my skin when I'm ascended." Glancing up for a moment, he grimaced at the mess he'd made and wondered how pissed she'd be about it. "Sorry I killed them all."

It was not only the nature of his beast, but his nature as well to protect her at all costs, and that's exactly what he had done. She could hardly fault him for it; those dumbasses shouldn't have shot her in the first place… let alone severed the pairbond. Funny how it was suddenly ok with her, but… she couldn't help but admit to herself that they'd all deserved it for making her think—even if only for a few moments—that Kakarot had been dead. "You alright?" She finally managed, keeping her voice as gentle as she could manage through the radiating pain in her shoulder.

"None of it's my blood," Kakarot ground out as he ripped away most of the top half of her fuku and focused on the wound. The sight of it had his beast coming back to the surface quickly, and he fought for control as it scented her blood mixed with the smell of metallic gunsmoke and the heat of battle. "You're lucky it missed anything vital. Here," he ordered flatly, shoving a senzu into her hand. "Eat this. It'll heal you up."

Doing as she was told, Usagi finally sat up and pulled him tightly into a grateful hug, hoping that it would calm him down a little bit. Hell, maybe it would calm her, too. It wasn't like she could reach through the bond to do it anymore. "Kakarot," she said softly after a long minute of him still growling under his breath, "if it'll help you… I suppose I wouldn't mind you remarking me."

"You sure about that?" Kakarot snarled, his beast already taking over and tugging her into his lap so that she was straddling him. "I know you didn't want the bond in the first place, woman, so don't offer something that you're going to bitch and moan about later on."

Her hands were trembling slightly as she pushed the top of his shredded gi to the side and pressed her bare chest to his. "When it happened and I thought you were dead, I…" Usagi blushed and slightly shook her head, unable to even voice the rest of that thought in her mind. Damn it, I'm not in love with him. I can't be! I can barely stand him! But still… damn it. She wanted the mark back, simple as that. It had felt right, and to have it suddenly taken away, to be cut off from the constant presence that she had grown more than fond of since he'd first bitten her… the very thought of remaining cut off from it made tears form in her eyes yet again.

"Do you want it?" He asked, his voice gentle as he purred a little harder in an effort to erase the tears falling down her cheeks. "Usa… ask me and I'll remark you." Kakarot licked his lips and waved away Goku when his other half actually roared in response and demanded that he mark her immediately. Shit, when in the hell had they exchanged personalities!?

Mark her now, Goku growled. She's our mate, damn it!

No… just wait, Goku. Let her make this decision. I forced it on her the first time… it will mean more if she asks for it. "Usa?" He asked again. "Baby? Do you want it?"

"Yes," she breathed. "I'm yours if you want me, Kakarot." When he hesitated for the briefest of moments, Usagi opened her mouth to speak once more, only to be cut off by a rough, passionate kiss that had her toes curling.

That dark, seductive purr immediately joined in the moment their lips locked, and Kakarot began to explore her slowly as his beast and Goku both voiced their solid approval of pleasuring their mate as Kakarot marked her. He heard a soft moan as he caressed her breasts and thrust up against the cloth of her fuku; he was already rock hard at the prospect of making her his again and with the scent of blood, battle and arousal perfuming the air, Kakarot was quickly losing ground to his inner Saiyan.

She felt so good—so downright fucking perfect—as he felt her moving against him, arching into his every movement as he ground upwards along her clit and drank in her moans while he devoured her mouth. "I love you, Usa," he groaned as he broke away to latch onto a nipple and suck.

"Kakarot… please… I—I need—" Her whimpering plea was halted as he began kissing her again and suddenly felt his completely bare body pressing into her own—the only thing she could think of was how good it felt, but she knew on an instinctive level that he had flared his ki to disintegrate their clothing.

"I need you, too," he finally growled before diving back in to nip and lick at her lips. "Come for me, Usagi. Be mine."

"Yours," she whimpered, her head rolling back as she felt his mouth descend upon her newly healed shoulder, just as his tail rubbed her clit and his cock pressed into her aching core. "Do it," she begged softly, clutching at the back of his head with one hand and his hip with other as he bit down lightly and eased further into her. "Please, Kakarot… I—I'm burning up… please don't tease me!"

Growling possessively in the back of his throat, Kakarot's beast assumed total control at the sound of her desperate plea and buried his teeth in her shoulder just as she came, his lower half matching the motion and slamming deep inside of her. The scent and taste of her blood set him to purring loudly and he bit her yet again as she cried out in what sounded like pure ecstasy, her nails digging into his flesh. "Mine," he snarled with his mouth full, his eyes rolling back a little as she tightened around him and yelped loudly. "Come for me again, woman," he ordered gruffly, smoothly moving once more just as he simultaneously teleported them back to his room.

Usagi let out a whoosh of air as her back hit the downy comforter and he came down on top of her, the movements of his hips slow and steady. She could feel his beast in total and utter control of him and knew that neither him nor Goku could hear her through the new bond—not yet, anyway—so she tried her best to express her discomfort as he continued thrusting into her. "Please, Kakarot—"

His lips cut her off again and he moved a little harder—the exact opposite of what she wanted—as his beast interpreted her words as a plea for more of him. And then he was biting her yet again and she couldn't think, couldn't function as an intense wave of pleasure crashed through her and she instantly came, her hips bucking into his and her voice crying out his name. "Come for me again, r'sha," he purred lovingly, his fury fading as he was washed in her light through the forming pairbond. "You're mine now and I want to give you as much pleasure as you can handle."

So caught up in yet another orgasm rolling through her, Usagi's previous desire for him to stop and the touch of anger she felt over him taking her without verbal permission completely faded and her pleas became genuine requests for him not to stop, to take her harder, to come with her and feel what she was feeling.

"Gods yes… you feel so good, baby…" He felt her tighten yet again and couldn't hold back any longer as he slammed into her forcefully, his low voice rising as white-hot fire ripped through his body and he erupted deep inside of her. "Holy…!" Kakarot sagged on top of her then, covering her lips as they both fought for air, wanting nothing more than to show her somehow how much he loved her at that very moment. "Love you," he breathed over and over again between slow, sensuous kisses, his purr so loud that it nearly drowned him out. "Swear I'll be a good mate, baby… thank you… thank you for trusting me… for giving yourself to me… feel like… like I've waited forever for you…"

Despite the fact that she hadn't been yelling with pleasure until after he'd brought her to the bed, Usagi hesitated to contradict such genuinely loving statements as he continued to lavish her with sweet, tender kisses that spoke more of Goku than of Kakarot. But it was Kakarot… she could tell through the bond that he was in complete and utter control and she couldn't sense a hint of Goku within him anywhere.

Breaking away from her after one last gentle kiss, Kakarot felt her emotions through the bond and studied her with worry in his eyes. "I… I hurt you, r'sha?"

Knowing she couldn't lie, Usagi sighed and nodded. "I didn't want you to take me," she admitted, her voice laced with more anger than she was trying for. "I was trying to tell you to stop but you kept cutting me off and assuming I was asking for more," she hissed out. "The first two times you thought I was coming, I was actually in pain!"

The sheer look of guilt, remorse and sadness that flashed across his face yet again spoke far more of Goku than Kakarot, and Usagi bit back another remark and simply sighed and looked away. Damn it, he really loved her. And she could feel through the bond that he would have stopped if she'd said something, wouldn't have gone all the way if he'd known.

Shit, why in the hell did she care that she'd just ruined his ecstatic mood, anyway!? Gods fucking damn it! I do not love him! She spat silently to herself as she pushed him off of her and slid out of the bed. "I need to be alone," she managed heatedly before teleporting out.

Heh… that wasn't too bad, huh? Easy as hell to see how Kakarot would have misunderstood. :D I think I might have even gotten AnaFrost's approval on this one. I hope I hope I hope… R&R and I'll try to update soon! I promise! And 15 reviews for this would be awfully nice yall.