I do not own Dragon Ball Z.
Sorry for the late update. The chapter wasn't done last week and I figured a long chapter was better than a very short one. :)
(Vegeta's POV)
It had been two days since the tests, and she still refused to be in the same room as me, let alone talk to me. I wasn't sure why it hurt me this much that she wasn't talking to me, almost as if I'd made a wrong decision. Bra had always been very spoiled I had some to blame for that, since she was little I'd give her everything she wanted. She was after all "daddy's little girl." However, this time things wouldn't go her way, and she'd have to deal with that.
My head ached, brows furrowed deeply as I thought about the consequences of the results. Barillious was out of the picture, unless he "man's up". Neddo has opened doors. Strange that he's made no move whatsoever on Bra. It seems like he'd be throwing flowers on our doorstep, in her name.
Oh and Trunks proposed. He'd been a bit jumpy recently, and I overheard a conversation he had with Lara when he thought they were alone. I wasn't quite sure where he got all that insecurity. He obviously cared for Lara, then why was he worried about marrying her?
The soft touch of a small hand brought me out of my thoughts. It was my mother.
"Vegeta, what do you think about this?" she asked leaning in as we sat in the middle of the council room, watching as the Speaker talked about the main points we'd be discussing today. I hadn't been any attention whatsoever; fortunately I had scanned the pamphlet briefly before starting to daydream. He's only gone over the first point, about increasing health insurance benefits to the elderly.
"It sounds like a good plan, the elderly should have all the benefits for health insurance."
"Yes, I agree. Now I'm not to sure about taking the money out of our educational system."
Now that I didn't know, and I agreed with mother, it shouldn't be taken out of there.
"Well have to see how to change that." She nodded and we both turned back to listening to the Speaker.
"King Vegeta has authorized to begin communications with Planet Earth. It is planned to create a bond with a company called Capsule Corp, owned and run by Queen Bulma, and Prince Trunks Briefs. We will discuss today how much money will go into this project, which according to Prince Trunk's speech yesterday has the possibility of increasing the Technology on AT-40 by at least 65%. Today however we will discuss the contrasting statement by Councilman Ireks." He turned and waited for the councilman to take his spot on the podium.
I still didn't have enough information on the guy. Unfortunately. That didn't mean I wasn't watching his every move.
"Thank you," he said to the Speaker, "Your highness." He said turning to me. I stared at him in annoyance.
I had to give it to the bastard; he was a great speaker, and convincing too. He spoke with confidence so much so that if I didn't know he ran the black market of AT-40 I'd think he was a virtuous man.
Yes, I had learned a lot over the past couple of days, thanks to Barillious's handy man. Who'd managed to get all sorts of information on Ireks, unfortunately not what I needed to prove he'd tried to kill me. But the information was handy. For instance, he ran the black market, and the major drug cartels in AT-40. The most popular drug was called Elecsium, or EL for short. Apparently the stuff was being trafficked from AR-76, the closest planet to AT-40. AR-76 was also the planet that we received the largest supply of grains. I planned on sending Trunks to check out how things were organized, I'd love to go myself but for now I had to keep open eyes to everything going on.
Ireks didn't talk very long the bastard was concise. And it was decided the decision over, money funding the unification of Capsule Corp and AT-40s science center would be voted on tomorrow. And council was dismissed.
"Excuse me your highness," a young man about my height stopped me. He wasn't wearing typical Saiyan formalwear like all the rest of us; instead he wore what looked like earthling clothes. Navy pants and a stripped button down the young man wore his hair in long shoulder length hair, which was a red color.
"Yes? Who are you?"
"I'm Zeke, I work for the Arther Magazine."
"I don't do interviews," I told him go around him.
"No sir, it's not about that. I um, would like to ask you about courting your daughter."
There had been various potential suitors for my daughter. All of them had failed the test. And this kid didn't look like a fighter at all, just a normal reporter I wondered how long he'd last before he gave up. I didn't think I'd find pleasure in this but I really was.
(Bra's POV)
I hadn't talked to daddy yet. Part of me wanted to ask him how the fight went, while the other part hated the idea of giving in so easily. It had been two days, and already I felt very lonely. Mother tried to tell me that this was nice, being without anyone, so that I'd decide what I really wanted. I was still very young.
I wasn't sure what I felt for Barillious all I knew was that I had that feeling. That feeling you get when you meet someone for the first time and you immediately like their personality. I could barely understand it myself; I'd never had such a connection with someone.
Although… I do admit that I have always been spoiled, I was used to getting my way and maybe that's what this was about, me getting my way. I wanted him and the fact that he'd been denied to me made me want him more? Could that be possible?
I couldn't stop thinking about the kisses we shared. He was very inexperienced and it made me think that maybe that had been his first kiss.
But now I stopped thinking about the kisses and about how he'd push me away. Wasn't it enough that I wanted him? I guess not. That angered me. Infuriated me. Why did he care about that? I didn't, and surely this was more about me than anything else, right?
In other thoughts…the machine worked. I had tried many objects, still not huge objects, but objects yes. Now I had to test it on living creatures. Maybe I should just put myself in that machine to see if it works? Suddenly my thoughts were interrupted when a handsome man with shoulder length red hair walked into the room.
"Nice to meet you Princess my name is Zeke." He casually walked up to me and held up his hand.
"Nice to meet you?" I said looking up from the barstool I had placed next to the teleporter machine.
"I come from Arther Magazine, they wanted me to do an interview with you. About the machine you're working on."
"Oh." My head immediately thought about that. How had the word got out about the machine? As far as I knew there were very few people that new about it at all. Some scientists in this very building didn't know about it. I turned to look at him, "This is a private project I can't do an interview." Then I thought about the security of the building, "How'd you even get in here isn't this supposed to be an employees only area?" his eyes opened and he smiled.
"Yes… but that's not enough to stop a good reporter." He grinned.
"I see. Well Seke, I believe your trespassing and if you don't leave in the next few seconds I will call security." I turned away, expecting him to leave but he didn't and I turned to see what he was doing.
"Princess. I believe you caught me on a lie." My eyebrows raised in interest. "I'm not here for an interview, to be honest I have no idea if you were working on a secret machine or not, I was just here to meet you for the very first time."
"What?"
"When I saw you at your fathers ceremony I thought you were the most beautiful woman I had ever seen in my life. I wanted to talk you that day. But since you were either with Barillious or Neddo, I got a little self conscious about talking to you, in all honestly I think every single man my age thought the same. But now, I have managed the courage to ask the King for the test. I hope that I pass, because I'd really like to know you better." He bowed and left before I could say anything.
That was interesting. Too bad he'd never pass my fathers test.
Later that day…
After working on the machine and testing insects on it, I decided to find my grandmother and talk to her. I knew she was back from the council meeting and was probably in her office with her pet.
"Grandmother?" I asked knocking on the door, I heard her a come in and opened the door and walked into the vast office.
"My dear, how are you?" I frowned and she waited for me to say something.
"It's just… you know the whole test thing."
"Yes. And let me give you some advice, you need to talk to your father about that."
"I don't want to talk to him." I said determined. "I can't believe that he'd do something just to make sure I never date anyone in my entire life."
"Now that's not true child." She walked toward me and held me in a hug. "Just because Barillious didn't pass the test doesn't mean someone else didn't." that caught me off guard; I didn't know someone had passed. Who could possibly be stronger than father?
"Who?" I asked and her eyes tickled with delight.
"I can't tell you, you'll need to ask your father."
"Please grandma." I begged and she smiled and looked away.
"Sorry child, it is not my place to tell you, you need to speak to your father about it." I sighed and resigned I guess I had to talk to dad.
"Grandma do you know where is Barillious is? I haven't seen him around and I thought he lived here at the palace."
"He does. But he's out of the city for a while."
"Oh. So he won't be working on the machine with me anymore?"
"Maybe when he gets back."
"When will that be?"
"I'm not sure." I looked away and gave up. It was silent for a bit until a question popped into my head.
"Grandma, did you ever love anyone before?" she was quiet and took a seat in the chairs in her office motioning me to take another seat I did, and waited.
"Yes, of course I did." Her voice low almost a whisper. "Are you implying you love Barillious?" she said this time with more umph and looking at me with open eyes.
"No! No. It's still too early to know, and well I just met him, but he makes me feel nice and we do have a lot of things in common, I guess I'd never met anyone that seemed to understand me so much. Back on earth, the men I saw were different than me, and after a while it became too much to handle. Here it's like, I don't have to hide that my father is an Alien King and watch my strength in case in hurt anyone. It seems easier but at the same time it it's a different difficulty. What's going to happen when I actually fall in love grandma? With whoever I fall in love…"
"When you fall in love you'll feel like everything is alright, and no matter what happens, no matter if your planet blows up and everything you've ever loved is taken away from you. It will be fine because you love that person."
"Do you miss grandpa?" I asked she thought for a couple of seconds.
"Sometimes. Your grandfather was a very stubborn, and prideful man, and if things didn't go his way he'd hide in his art room for hours and paint. We fought more than we got along, and we didn't spend much time together. Sometimes it would be days until I'd see him again. But he was still there you know? And even though we had our differences when I left planet Vegeta and left him behind, I felt so lonely. I realized that I had gotten used to having him there even if it was just to feel like I had someone."
Analyzing my grandmothers words I realized that when she talked about my grandfather it wasn't in the same voice or tone as she'd done when she said she been in love. It was different. I concluded that maybe she'd never loved grandfather. Which made me want to know exactly how they came to be.
"Grandma, how did you and grandfather end up getting married?"
"I was chosen by your great grandfather Vegeta."
"Oh." It was an arranged marriage. So whom did she love? "When you said you had been in love who was that?"
"Bardo." That was Barillious's father. My eyes grew wide. "We grew up together. Had the same teachers. Trained together. When I was chosen to be your grandfather's wife we were separated and we didn't see each other for years. Much later I saw him again when he had become a great scientist. Graduated in so many degrees it seemed almost impossible. He wasn't married, and I had just given birth to Vegeta. We grew close again. And when I least expected it I was in love with him. I never acted upon my feelings, if I had I would be executed, shunned for such an act, and he'd be too, as well as Vegeta I couldn't be that selfish, and I had to think about my son."
"Did grandpa know?"
"Of course he has his suspicions. He thought I was cheating on him, and for a while he hated Bardo."
"But you and him were together, right? After you left Planet Vegeta?" she shook her head.
"When we left Planet Vegeta Bardo was engaged to Nana, Barillious's mother. He had a compromise with Nana and her family. She was pregnant soon after their marriage. She was a lovely woman, a writer, you would have loved her."
"But she died young."
"In an explosion. Bardo had been working as the Mining Engineer in a mine a couple of cities from here. She'd gone to visit him, actually had left me Barillious since he was only three years old. There was an explosion the day she went, 35 people die. And she was one of them." I nodded understanding. Barillious had been left motherless at a very young age. I wondered for a moment how different my life would have been if my mother had died when I was three years old. I could be a completely different person.
"Where you together after that?"
"No, we both had other things to worry about."
"You loved him but you two were never together." She nodded and I felt bad. Horrible. She had loved someone and never had the opportunity to be with him. How different things would have been if she hadn't married my grandfather.
(Vegeta's POV)
Seke the red haired Saiyan half-breed. The boy showed almost no muscle and when we started to fight he moved very slow. I broke his arms first then his legs, but he kept on fighting. The boy had passed. I personally took him to the healing chambers.
Going to my office. A grand room with bookcase, fireplace, a huge wooden desk, and a set of confortable chairs I sat down only to be interrupted by a knock.
"Come in," I said staring at the door until a familiar face walked in and closed the door behind her.
"Bra."
"Hi daddy. I think we need to talk."
"About what."
"You know about what daddy." She walked toward my desk and sat on a chair in front crossing her legs her eyebrows raised. "I want to know about the test."
"What about it?"
"What is it?"
"I can't tell you."
She thought for a bit and then sighed. "Fine. Tell me about the fight between you and Barillious."
So I did. I told her how'd it gone, and how easily he'd given up. She studied everything I said and her face showed interest.
"What about the other one, grandmother said someone passed?"
I explained how the fight with Neddo had gone and this seemed to impress her. "I admire the boy more now that I've seen him fight that way." I told her as a final statement. "And today we had another one, Seke."
"Seke? He came to you already?"
"Yes. Do you know him?"
"He introduced himself to me earlier today."
"Well the boy is surprising, gave it his absolute best, which ill admit is nothing. He's probably the weakest Saiyan I've seen in a while, but he passed."
"He passed?" she thought for a second and then whispered to herself. "So it isn't a test of strength. Hmm."
"Stop thinking about what the test is. You're not supposed to know." She smiled and then walked around the table.
"So I have two accepted suitors, Huh? Now what exactly does that mean daddy? That I can kiss them and touch them and-"
"Bra. I can take back both acceptances if you don't behave yourself. Do you hear me?" I nodded automatically and smiled.
"Oh Daddy I love you!" hugging him I kissed his cheek. "I'm so sorry for being mad at you. You're the best daddy ever!"
"Alright, alright calm down girl." She did and smiled at me.
"I tested the machine on insects today. It worked perfectly."
"Good. Tell me when your ready to test on Saiyans." She nodded with a huge smile on her face.
"Oh Daddy I'm so giddy." Moving away she left the room. That girl could change moods so quickly it surprised me every single time.
(Trunks POV)
Dad had informed me that I'd be taking a ship later that night. I'd go to AR-76, something about checking the place out, since some illegal drug was being trafficked from there. I couldn't take Lara with me, and I had no idea how long I would be gone, so I packed enough and placed it in the capsule.
Lara walked in when I had placed the Capsule in my pocket.
"Hey, I need to talk to you."
"Alright, what is it?" she asked setting the books she had in her hands down on the table.
"I'm going to travel to a planet called AR-76. It's not too far from here, and I'm not sure how long it's going to be, could be one week, could be two."
"Okay." She said rubbing her arms, "you better call."
"I will. It'll be like old times."
"Yeah," she agreed kissing my cheek softly.
Years ago, when we had started going steady, she would go off a week or more on modeling jobs and we'd constantly communicating through the Internet, or our phones.
"Listen, when I get back, we'll talk about the… you know?" she nodded and smiled.
"Alright."
Later that day…
The trip was only two hours long. And once I got there Sandro a Saiyan in charge of taking care of the cargo that left AR-76 immediately greeted me.
Sandro was plump for a Saiyan. Shorter than my father and with a wide belly. I suddenly understood why my grandmother had said he wasn't a fighter. In deed this man hadn't been training for years, and the only memories that I could see of a previous warrior was the dark black scar that ran across his face, and even though it made him look grim, it only made him look more like a cartoon character.
He was nice, and introduced himself to me bowing down and then walking alongside me and explaining how everything worked. The planet was gorgeous; it was like opening a Dr. Seuss Book. The grass was almost a lime green, and the trees came in all sorts of colors some even a light pink and others stripped with purple or dotted with blue. The inhabitants also where strange creatures with light almost pinkish skin and burgundy hair.
From the way Sandro spoke to me I understood that they sold us grain at a very low price in return from protection. The people seemed nice enough, I thought as I passed the streets.
"I will take you to my house, there you will stay during your visit," he explained and I nodded following him along until we reached a vehicle that would take us the rest of the way.
His house was in the middle of town, surrounded by a huge pink wall. We entered and I realized the house was partly underground partly in the sky, with twists and turns; there were parts where a staircase could be seen and others where it was concealed. Inside it was surrounded my color, I never imagined that a Saiyan could live in such a colorful place. There were maids running around the house and a white marble fountain in the middle, which shot water into the sky before dropping directly into some kind of animal, I'd never seen before.
"Jeeropoo" Sandro screeched and a small thin man with light pink skin appeared.
"Please take Prince Trunks to his quarters and tell my daughter to come meet her prince."
"Yes sir," he said bowing slight and then turned to me.
"This way your majesty," he whispered and led the way. He took me through a series of hallways and as I followed him I looked at the different sets of artwork that were on the walls, and there was definitely a recurring theme; beautiful naked women. There were naked women in vases, photos, paintings, drawings, and even sculptures.
"Sandro has a love or art," I stated and Jeeropoo nodded.
"Yes Sir. Mr. Sandro collects art from far galaxies, he is known as an admirer of the female species." I smiled at that and finally arrived at a set of white doors. Jeeropoo opened them to reveal the suite. There was a small sitting area with a very small granite fireplace. Columns opened to an open area that accompanied a pool. The pool was very decorated in different colors of pink and red and to the end laid another set of doors which once opened revealed a huge bed. This bed however was a pink wood and had carvings of roses and flowers. Jeeropoo must have seen my face because he asked if I would l like to make any changes. I told him it was fine and he went off to call maids to help me put away the things I had brought.
I opened the capsule I had brought and waited for the maids to arrive. Honestly I didn't mind having this type of pampering. Sandro came in when the maids where almost done and told me he'd arranged a feast, which I was excited for since I was kind of hungry. So I followed him until we reached a huge table with so much food I knew I would not be hungry in the end.
"Prince Trunks I would like you to meet my daughter Shea." He said and flowed his hand to demonstrate that she was behind me. I turned around at this and saw her standing at the doorway of the room. I froze, she was gorgeous. She had tanned bronzed skin, and long ebony hair that fell past her waist. She wasn't wearing typical Saiyan clothing, instead she wore a lace olive green dress that covered all the essentials and leaving the rest completely bare. From where I was I could tell she had nothing underneath and I felt an urge I'd never felt before. I allowed my eyes to roam her body until finally reaching her face realizing then that her eyes were dark violet.
"My Prince," she said and curtsied before walking toward the table, and sitting diagonally to me.
"Nice to meet you Shea." I said realizing I hadn't stopped staring since I had seen her and sharply turned to look at the food. Her beauty amazed me, sure I had seen beautiful women on earth, I had slept with many of them but never had I seen such perfection.
"Your hair is such a unique color," she said as she gracefully moved her hands to serve herself. "I watched King Vegeta's coronation and saw your mothers color, but I hadn't noticed just how unique yours is."
"My grandfather on my mothers side has this tone," I explained as I served my food.
"Oh, it is beautiful."
Not as beautiful as you, I found myself thinking. What the hell is wrong with me? Remember Lara, your girlfriend?
"Thanks," I said and continued eating.
The rest of the meal was silent, after all we were all Saiyans and very hungry. I stood up eventually and excused myself but it wasn't until I was at the door that I realized that Shea was at my side.
"Let me escort you back my prince, sometimes this house can be like a maze."
"Just this once. I'll make sure to pay extra attention so I don't need an escort next time."
"Is my presence so unpleasant that you would rather be alone?" she asked me.
"Oh no, that's not why I mean-" I turned to her and realized she was giggling; her cheeks red.
"I was only teasing you." she smiled patting my slightly on he shoulder.
"Oh," I whispered and laughed. "That wasn't very nice of you."
"Who told you I was a nice girl?" she asked and I turned to look at her smirk.
"I guess no one did."
"Good. I wouldn't want my reputation to change." We walked together in silence until I asked her something that been on my mind.
"Can I ask you something? It might be a bit importune," she glanced at me and smiled.
"I am an open book to you my Prince."
"Where is your mother?"
"She died."
"Oh I am so sorry. I shouldn't have-"
"Don't worry about it, it was a long time ago, and I was just a babe when it happened. I've had a collection of mothers, my father has remarried six times since my mother's death."
"Before I forget to comment you have beautiful eyes."
"My eyes are not as beautiful as yours, that blue is quite extraordinary. You have your mothers eyes."
"Have you met my mother?"
"No but she's everywhere. On the magazines, television, the woman is being called the most beautiful Saiyan Queen in history."
I chuckled, "she must be glad for that."
"And I heard she's a genius as well."
"You heard correctly," I answered and then realized we had arrived at my suite.
"Well it was very nice talking to you your majesty, I do hope that during your time here we will get to know each other."
"I do too," I answered and turned to her gorgeous eyes.
And then she kissed me, leaving a small peck on the corner of my lips before smiling back and turning away. For a couple of seconds I was completely bewildered I felt like a teenager in front of his crush.
I ended up lying in the bed for quite a while contemplating what I would do during my time here. I was sent here to look over Sandro's job for the time being, until my father could trust him, but somehow that seemed so boring, even worse than being vice president at Capsule Corp. I took out my communicator and called Lara. She answered after the first ring and her beautiful smiling face looked at mine.
"How is it over there?" she asked joyfully.
"It's like a Dr. Seuss wonderland."
"That's amazing! I wish I could be there with you."
"Me too," I said looking away and remembering the kiss I had received from Shea.
"I've been studying and helping your mother take over as Queen of the Saiyans, it's actually more work than I would have thought."
"Well get used to it," I beamed and she gave me a look, her eyes opening wide, "we will discuss that when I get back."
"Yes of course," she said now glancing away. "I have news, Bra is currently trying to work on transporting living creatures on her machine."
"She is a genius," I agreed and found myself lost in my thoughts for a second. I hadn't really considered leaving earth ever. Sure in the back of my mind I thought it would be fun to travel in outer space, maybe do some light training, but leaving earth for all this? To become a real prince, sure I had known my father was one my whole life but somehow now it seemed too real. He was a king, my mother his queen and now I was off to another planet to investigate food production for my race. I would be the future king after my father, and that just seemed so… off.
Maybe I wasn't ever meant to be king, Kami knows that I wasn't even good at being Vice President of Capsule Corp, and honestly my sister would be a far greater president, she after all had my mother's genius. But King? My thoughts were interrupted when I heard Lara talking about my father and his training.
I moved around so that I could lay my head on my pillow.
"Hey, want to talk about it?" she asked me her beautiful caramel eyes dazzling at me with pure interest and concern.
"About what?"
"What you have on your mind, you are honestly like an open book, and anyways you keep dozing off and thinking deeply. Is something wrong?"
"I'm just… this is just… you know?" I didn't even have words to describe myself and I knew that somehow she'd find the courage to understand or at least to not ask anything else.
"You will get it someday," she answered and I found myself urging to kiss her plump lips.
"I wish I could kiss you," I admitted and this made her smile again.
"I do too."
We must have talked for over two hours after that. But after we ended the call one thing came to mind, and it seemed as though it wouldn't leave it, and that was Shea's eyes.
(Bra's POV)
The testing began. I realized that there had to be a change in the system's formula, since living creatures where being transported in different parts.
So I was desperately running numbers, trying to figure out a way to fix the problem. I realized that Bar and I were good partners. I felt like if came back, we'd figure out the formula faster. Ugh. Why did he leave anyways? Was he ashamed that he didn't pass or something? I didn't understand.
There was a knock on the lab door and I looked up and said, "Come in." It was Neddo that entered. I had expected to come around sooner or later, so it didn't surprise me.
"Good morning." He said with a huge smile on his face.
"Good morning, Neddo."
"I have come with a proposition," I raised my eyebrow's and waited for him to continue. "Take a break from your project today, and I'll make sure you have the best day of your life so far."
"That good, huh?" I asked chuckling at how serious he sounded.
"Better that what you can imagine."
"Alright… hmph." I paused looking around at the various problems I'd been working on. Even if I didn't have such a great time, it'd probably be better than what I was doing here. "Okay. Give me a second to clean up." He smiled and nodded watching me as I cleaned up my stuff, and organized it so that when I did get back to work it'd make sense.
When I was done I looked up and walked toward him. "Okay, I'm ready."
"Perfect, follow me." he led me outside of the science center. There was parked a strange looking motorcycle. It was all black and shiny, with shiny silver wheels.
"Damn, this is nice." I commented and he nodded smiling.
"I know, it's my baby." He got on, and looked at me, "come on." I walked forward looking at how close we'd be, and thinking about how I'd be hugging him soon. He watched me amused. Finally I let my leg go over the chair and got on. "Grab on, or you'll fall." I wrapped my arms around him and the first thing I thought was "how muscular he was." Through his shirt I could feel the steel hard abs, and he wasn't even flexing. My chin rested on his back and then he started to drive.
When he had said I could fall, he wasn't kidding. He was driving fast. So fast that sometimes I'd have to grab him with my thighs because it felt like I was going to fly off. And once we got out of the city I started to see the beauty of this planet that I hadn't seen before. There were mountains and more mountains, so green that it didn't seem real. And once we'd passed those mountains we reached a prairie, and there were animals of all kind who simply moved their heads up and looked at us as we swept by. And then we reached forests and forests, and the road changed and became dirt and bumps started becoming prominent, and around us we could hear birds or some sort of animal, and then he started to slow down, slowly until we came to a full stop and he pointed to a huge tree in front of him.
"This is the best fruit this planet has to offer." I followed him as he walked toward it and flew a bit to grab a yellowy orange, oval, and rip it off of the branch.
"Isn't that illegal?"
"I'll do anything for you, even if it is illegal."
"Oh shut up with that, and give me the fruit." He smiled and passed it to me. "How do you eat this?" He grabbed one for himself and demonstrated as he ripped part of the top leaving a opening and then he sucked in.
I followed his actions ripping off the first part and then sucked in immediately feeling the sweet seeds fill my mouth. It had a taste I had never had before; sweet in a different way. Finishing it off I looked at him and he smiled, he'd been watching my reaction.
"Another one?" I nodded and he threw one at me I caught it and opened it, once again sucking in its delicious sweetness.
"Come with me, I have something else to show you." I followed him into the forest as he moved branches so that I could pass by. And we reached a large blue pool of water, surrounded by green trees, and in the middle a huge waterfall. It was beautiful.
"This is beautiful." I said.
"I know." He commented and I watched as he took out a capsule from him pocket. My mother had given it to him as a present, and he'd been completely obsessed with it. when the capsule opened it revealed a nice table and two beautiful grey chairs, on it two plates and two trays covering the food. Some sort of drink to a side, and a bag placed in one of the chairs.
"Now you decide," he said turning to the bag and opening it. "We can take a dip first and then eat, or we can eat, talk, and then take a dip."
"Take a dip? You mean in there? Aren't there… animals and such?"
"Don't worry about it princess I'll protect you." he said handing me over something. "And I brought you something so swim in, so you can't use that excuse either." I looked at the dark navy one-piece swimsuit that he'd passed me. It looked very, very small. My eyes widened and I looked over at what he had in his hand. "I'll change over here," he said walking away into the woods. "Call me when you're done!" I heard his scream and looked back down at the piece.
I looked around and felt his Ki; it was already pretty far from here. Relaxing, I started taking off my shoes, and pants, and then changed into the very small one piece. Once I had it on I realized that it was made of the same material as the Saiyan Warrior Suits, and even though it looked small it fit me perfectly. It was like a second skin.
"I'm ready!" I screamed out and he was there very quickly. He dropped his clothes on the floor and looked at me, I saw his eyes quickly roam by body. And I took that opportunity and looked at his. He had so much muscle, and no hair…other than that on his head and eyebrows. He was tan everywhere, and when I kept roaming down I noticed he wore something that looked like boxer briefs. My cheeks reddened when I realized I had been staring at his intimate area for far too long.
"Come on," he said winking and I walked toward the water with him. He dove in once we reached the side and I watched him swim underneath the water through the clearness of the pool. After coming up he looked at me waiting for me to do something.
I decided to dive in too, and once I felt the cool water touch my skin I felt immediately felt refreshed. I swam toward him and came out so that I'd be right next to him.
"Isn't this water the perfect temperature?" I nodded and raised my hand to move the hair out of my face.
"It is." Looking around I decided to move toward the waterfall and held on to a rock as I let the waterfall on my face. This place was gorgeous.
"So, Princess, how's the secret project you've been working on?" I turned to him and realized he'd jumped off to a side of the waterfall, so that the water wouldn't hit him directly.
"I'm having an issue. But I think I just need to rethink a calculation." He nodded and looked at the rainforest.
"You'll get it, don't worry."
"What about you? What do you do all day other than training?"
"Well every morning I come out here and help my grandmother I help her with the animals while she makes us breakfast. My grandfather died a while back and she's very lonely out here."
"That's very sweet of you."
"Oh you should meet my grandmother, she's the sweetest woman I've ever met. For a while now I've wanted to pay someone to help her in the farm but she fires every single person I've ever hired, says they don't know anything about farming."
"That's why she has a grandson."
"Exactly. And I'm happy to help her."
"What about your mom and dad?"
"They live in the city. My mother is a pediatrician and my father a judge. We see each other occasionally but they live very busy lives." I nodded understand.
"Do you have any sisters or brothers?"
"Three older sisters and a younger brother."
"Wow that's a big family! I didn't know that. What do they do?"
"My oldest sister teaches Philosophy in a University in a city near here. The other is a surgeon in the Hospital in the city. My other sister is following my father's footsteps and finishing her Law career in the Main University in the Capital. And my younger brother is a technology major also in the Main University."
"Oh wow. And you're the head of the Royal army. You're parents should be proud. You're all overachievers."
"Ah… not really proud, of me anyways. You could say my parents are very… Liberal. Their beliefs go against all the old ways, and don't really believe in Saiyans being only a warrior race. I'm like the black sheep of the family. The one that went against the families ideas."
"You're parents didn't want you to join the military?"
"No. They forbade me actually. When I finished main school I received the second highest score in the history of the C.A.S.T. a test they make you take during your last year. Depending on your score in certain areas, it will let you know what careers you can choose and what you can study in the university. Since I received such a high score I could decide to study anything. But my heart was in fighting, and I'm good with commanding people. So I decided to enroll in the military. After the first semester of training you can enroll in the university and study, so I decided to study; History focusing more in war related subjects, Mechanics, and Psychology. I completed it in a year and a half which was extremely quick and then I focused in my career in the military."
"But the good thing is you followed your heart. I guess I'm glad my parents have always been very supportive of what I've wanted to do." I watched as he laid back on the rock looking up at the blue green sky. "Are you happy with what you do?"
"Of course. It was always my dream to be in the position I Am. Not to mention that before your father came I was considered the strongest Saiyan on this planet. Which was a huge honor. But I'm actually glad now because I have a challenge, to train so that I can beat your father in a fight one day." He sounded like dad when he said the last part, which made me smile. I'd never though that there would be Saiyans against their son going into the military. Part of me was happy that he followed what he wanted and didn't cave into his parent's desires.
"I'm proud of you for following your dreams." He looked over at me and smiled
"Thanks. What about you, do you have a passion?"
"My passion is inventing. I just love the thrill of coming up with ideas. And working on them for hours, because through all the hard work, hours, and sleepless nights, it makes it up because the thrill of having the finished product is he most amazing feeling I've ever felt."
"That's exactly how I feel about a good fight, a challenge. I really hope that I'll be able to beat your father one day." I watched him turn over to me a strange looking face on him.
"What?" I asked, and he kept looking at me, "What?"
"Don't freak out…" my eyes went wide and I tensed.
"Is something on me?" he nodded and moved so that his hand could come up to touch me.
"Don't move." I nodded but I was scared. I felt his hands on my shoulder and then felt something come off and when I looked at what he had in his hand I almost jumped back into the water.
"What the hell is that?" I touched my sore shoulder as I watched him hurl the thing back into the water.
"A parasite."
"A parasite!" I screamed
"Yes. Don't freak out, they just suck your blood. That's why it was attached to you." I glanced at my shoulder and saw tiny red dots. "It has tiny little teeth that attached and suck. They live mainly in the water."
"Do I have any more?" I asked scared and I saw his eyes roam my body before shaking his head and turning to the table.
"Are you hungry?"
"A little… actually now that I think of it I don't think I've had lunch yet." He grabbed me and had me in his arms bridal style before I could say anything and flying toward the table. He placed me down on the floor and then walked over to his bag and threw me a towel. I wrapped myself up not feeling so self-conscious about the tight one-piece and turned to the plates.
"Lets eat. Ladies first." He said as he waited for me to sit and then for me to open the tray uncovering what looked like calamari and pasta, but then again… it could be any other thing from this planet. I started to eat it and realized I hadn't been off it was some sort of sea animal but what?
"Alright so this is delicious, what is it?"
"It's called Geroue, it's a type of marine life off the cost of Main City."
"Geroue," I repeated and he nodded, "and who made it, cause this plate is delicious."
"I did."
"You cook?"
"I had to. Have you ever tried military food?" I laughed and shook my head.
"I haven't but I'm guessing it's disgusting."
"Horrible."
"I don't know how to cook at all." I commented turning to the glass he had served me of something that appeared to be wine.
"You don't?"
"Oh no. I burn everything I cook. Back home I wasn't allowed to cook anything. No one would eat it." he laughed a bit and looked up at me.
"Cooking can't be calculated, but its almost like an-"
"art."
"Yes like an art. And trust me no one is just good at first. I too burned a couple of meals when I was starting. You should cook something for me one day. I'll give you my honest opinion."
"Do you want to die?" I asked sarcastically and he laughed.
In this way we talked for a while. And then jumped back into the water, to discover it had warmed. The place was beautiful, the food was great, and the company was wonderful as well.
When he took me home I hadn't known what to expect, had he thought it was a date? I wasn't so sure. But he surprised me when he kissed me on the cheek and bade me good night. I had expected a kiss on the lips seeing on how he'd done it before, but he'd barely graced my cheek before he backed off and smiled. I watched him leave with a wave and get on his strange bike. I stood there like an idiot for a while, thinking about the events of the afternoon until I finally came to my senses and went inside.
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