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CHAPTER 10

Furoi was not looking forward to having another chat with Bulma. At this point she was like a ticking time bomb and Furoi had no idea what was going to happen, but her conscious forbid her from running away.

She took a deep breath before she knocked on the door.

"What do you want?" Bulma asked as she opened the door. Furoi stepped inside without invitation and sat down on the bed.

Bulma gave her an irritated look but didn't say anything and went back to rearranging her room.

"I came to ask what the hell was wrong with you. Did Vegeta do something?" Furoi said bluntly.

Bulma paused and looked at her for a moment, as though she was considering something, but then she just sighed and turned away.

"I don't want to talk about it." she said.

"Come on Bulma, you know you want to. Just spit it out already." Furoi replied. Bulma shot her another irritated glance and crossed her arms over her chest.

"I said I don't want to talk about it okay? I'm fine." Bulma insisted, not looking fine at all.

Furoi was starting to get pissed off now, why couldn't everyone just say what they wanted to say and get it over with instead of wasting precious time with things like 'I don't wanna' and 'I don't feel like it'? Bulma knew damn well that she would have to talk eventually so why avoid it?

"Damn it Bulma! Just spit it out before I yank it out of you!" Furoi yelled, a giant vein clearly visible on her forehead.

"I don't even know what you're talking about!" Bulma screamed and Fruoi was relieved to see some of that old spark come back into her eyes.

"You do!"

"No I don't!"

"Yes. You. do!" Furoi said through clenched teeth.

"I don't okay! I just realized something that I should have discovered a long time ago!" Bulma screamed, flopping back onto her bed and looking away. Furoi sighed; at least they were getting somewhere.

"What do you mean?" Furoi said, trying to keep the irritation out of her voice. She could tell it would be stupid, she knew it would be but she had to pretend that it wasn't and it was killing her.

Bulma had been on edge all day, but now was when she finally shattered. Her knees buckled and she fell onto the bed in a heap. Tears started pouring out and she sobbed hysterically, she had promised herself that she would cry but she had anyway.

Furoi sighed and gently ran her hand through Bulma's hair, "Come on. Tell me all about it."

Despite herself Bulma began to talk about it and once she started she couldn't stop, until she had told Furoi everything. About how Vegeta had killed all her friends, about how she had watched and felt so helpless and how she had ignored all that and had even started to like him a little.

By the time Bulma was finished talking Furoi had her head in her hands. She had been right, it was stupid.

"Okay," Furoi said, her face still in her hands, "Let me get this straight. Vegeta came to Earth, planning to destroy everyone on it; your friends and your boyfriend fought him and died to protect the planet. Now you're searching for a dragon balls across the universe so that you can wish your friends back. However during this trip you forgot that Vegeta had killed your friends in the first place and have even gotten all chummy with him so you feel really guilty and mad at him right?"

Bulma nodded.

"WHAT KIND OF SHIT IS THAT!?" Furoi screamed, chucking a pillow at her face.

"What the hell are you talking about!?" Bulma yelled in shock.

"Your guilt and anger has no ground! For one thing it was a BATTLE!! People die in battles! That's what happens! Besides they're coming back to life soon anyway so what's your problem!? Plus, Vegeta didn't even kill any of your friends! It was those weird plant thingies and Nappa right!? Damn you're stupid, you only feel guilty 'cause you have a boyfriend but you're falling in love with another guy, you're just over complicating things on purpose! Stop being a baby and confront your feelings!" Furoi roared and Bulma was at a loss for words for a moment.

"W-what!?" Bulma finally said after she had found the words again.

"You know what I said! Think about it you idiot!" Furoi said, and with that she stomped her way out of the room.

She was so sick and tired of everyone being stupid, it was almost as though they didn't want to be happy.

Suddenlt Vegeta walked by and she gave him a quizzical look, "Hey where's Mikkore?" She asked. He grunted and glared at her but didn't say anything as he made his way into the kitchen.

A cold chill ran down her spine. She jogged her way to the gravity chamber and opened the doors.

She felt the breath go out of her for a minute when she saw Mikkore on the ground, completely covered in blood. She ran over to him as fast as she could and touched his chest.

"You really got the shit kicked out of you huh?" She said and his eyes snapped open.

"It's about time you came to look for me." He said as she began to heal him, she looked away so he wouldn't see how close she was to crying.

"Well I figured that you could take care of yourself, but I guess I was wrong." She said laughing a little, but she choked on the sound and he brought a hand up to touch her face.

"Don't you think we're a little old to be playing games? Say you love me and get it over with." He whispered and she looked at him for the first time, the tears were streaming down her face.

"You say it first." She said and he laughed.

"Fine. I love you." He said, placing his hand on the back of her neck and pulling her face down until her lips were only centimeters away from his.

"I love you too, so don't die okay?" She said, sending him a watery smile. He nodded and they kissed.

When they pulled away he laughed, "I'm probably the only man who would find your fat face pretty."

"Yeah well I'm the only woman who would be willing to crouch down in order to kiss you," she scowled. But for once this didn't turn into an argument and after he had completely healed they kissed again.

"They're both idiots huh?" She said.

"Oh, most definitely," He replied, "Just like us."

She laughed and prayed silently to herself that they would realize that they loved each other before it was too late.

Vegeta had unfortunately seen everything that went on between the pink aliens in the gravity room.

"God damn it! Why do they have to do that in MY gravity room!?" he yelled rhetorically at the ceiling of the kitchen. The situation was far too awkward for him to just shoo them out, and he doubted that they would've stopped in any case, but now he had nowhere to go.

Suddenly the words that they had said popped into his head, 'aren't we a little old to be playing games?'. That sentence seemed to be directed at him for some reason.

Vegeta banged his fist against the table, they were ridiculous! They thought they knew everything but they didn't, they didn't know him and they didn't know anything about what he felt!

Suddenly he got an idea and he stood up. He would prove to them that he had no feelings for the woman; he would show everyone that they were wrong.

Quickly he jumped to his feet and walked to the door to where they shared their room and kicked the door open.

Bulma was lying on her bed and thinking about what Furoi said. 'Stop being a baby'? What the hell!? Bulma tried to bring her old feelings of self hatred and loathing but it wasn't working, all her previous worries seemed ridiculous now.

"But I can't love Vegeta!" She yelled to the pink ceiling. It didn't answer.

"I can't okay? I mean, I love Yamcha! Sure we fight all the time and he's always leaving me when I need him, but in the end we always end up together. Doesn't that count for something?" She said out loud. The wall still said nothing.

Bulma sighed and turned over onto her side. Okay, so what if, hypothetically, she did love Vegeta? What would she do then?

She couldn't picture it. What would she do if she did love him? Would she confess? Would she just kiss him? Or would she just hope that he came to her first?

"Damn it!" She yelled, exasperated. She had no idea what she was talking about, she didn't understand what she was feeling, and she sure as hell didn't understand what everyone was expecting her to do about said feelings.

Suddenly she heard the door get kicked open and she sat up quickly, "What the he-" she started to say, but she didn't get to finish because Vegeta grabbed her hair and yanked her head violently so that it lay flat against the bed.

"The sexual tension stops here," he said gruffly, "after this we move on."

She didn't understand what he meant, but her heart was going a mile a minute and her brain couldn't seem to grasp the concept of words so she said nothing. He didn't seem to notice or care about her silence and simply continued what he was doing.

He quickly and violently ripped off her clothing and grabbed greedily at her body, everything he touched was left bruised. She didn't understand what was happening, this felt so wrong somehow and she didn't know why. She searched for his eyes but he never looked at her and he never kissed her, and that's when she understood.

He's using me, she thought, he's trying to prove that he doesn't feel anything by forcing me like an animal. She felt an uncontrollable rage build in her and she clenched her teeth, who the hell did he think he was?

With all the strength inside her she kicked him between the legs. He gasped and fell over, she took the chance to stand up and look down at him. He stared up at her with pure rage and agony but she didn't care, she was ten times more furious.

"Don't you dare think that you can use me like a piece of trash! You may have been able to do that with other girls but not me!" She screamed, her vision began to blur from the effort of trying to keep back her tears.

She turned away from his quickly and ran out of them room, she ran and ran until she reached Gohan and Krillin's room, where she promptly slammed and locked the door behind her and sunk to the floor.

Gohan and Krillian stared at her in shock, her clothes were ripped and she was sobbing, her face red and her nose runny. She brought her hands up to her face to try to wipe away the tears but it was no use, they came down like rain and burned her bruised skin like acid. She couldn't ever remember crying so much in a single day.

"Bulma, what happened to you!?" Krillen said, dropping the cards he was holding and grabbing a comforter off the bed and throwing it over her shoulders.

She sobbed louder and leaned her head against Krillin's strong shoulder, he obviously felt uncomfortable but he patted her back gently until her sobbing dissipated a little.

Finally after the tears had run their course she looked up at him, her eyes red and her face contorted in a strange kind of pain that he couldn't recognize.

"I think that I love him." She whispered.

"So what's your plan?" Goku said to the scientist.

"No idea." He said, shrugging. Goku gaped at him.

"You have no idea?" Goku said slowly, and the man nodded.

"Nope. I mean, what the hell can you do? We're behind a waterfall under Freeza's control, he not only is much, much, much stronger than you, he also has a million minions that are also probably your equal in strength. So in conclusion, there is no plan."

"Then why did you agree to help me!?" Goku replied.

"Well you seem like the kind of guy who gets through life purely on luck so I figured that should kick in any time now."

Goku stared at the small man in silence ofr a long time. He supposed it was true, luck had gotten him out of more situations than he could count, but it was skill tha really pulled thorugh in the end. What he needed was a real plan.

Goku scratched his head and sighed, was what he going to do? If only he had some help…… Gou gasped. That was it. Help.

"Hey, how many of the people under Freeza's rule are prisoners?" Goku said quickly.

"I'd have to say all of them chief." The scientist replied, rolling his eyes.

"Okay, but how many are prisoners that would be quick to betray him?" Goku said, ignoring the sarcastic comment.

"Uh, maybe a quarter of 'em."

Goku grinned, "Are you willing to do a special assignment?"

"I guess."

"Good." Goku grinned. He might just win this battle after all.