Worlds Apart
Pairings: Mirai Trunks/Gohan
Disclaimer: I do know own any characters from Dragonball Z. They are the property of Toei Animation, Pony Canyon, FUNimation Entertainment, and creator Akira Toriyama. Nor do I own any characters from Harry Potter. They are the property of Warner Bros. Studios and creator JK Rowling. I make no money from the writing of the story.
W A R N I N G: This is about male pregnancy (possibly) and male/male relationships. I'm letting you know now what the relationships WILL contain. So, if you are AGAINST such pairings, please find something else more to your liking, you have been WARNED.
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Chapter 12: A Startling Discovery
Goku rejoined the party after extracting a promise from his mate to be nice to Videl. Although Vegeta didn't promise that he would, the ouji did promise not to kill or maim the girl for foolishly thinking that she could best his son for his own mate.
The downstairs bathroom had become a hideaway for Videl. She had locked herself in the bathroom for a good hour and a half, bawling her eyes out. While in there, she wondered if Gohan was ever hers.
A knock startled Videl from her dark musings. She opened the door slightly to peer into the concerned face of Bulma. The scientific genius saw the girl's puffy-eyed features, and entered the bathroom fully once the door was opened wider.
Bulma didn't say anything as she turned on the facet and ran the water until it was the right temperature. Getting a face cloth from the cabinet, Bulma proceeded to soak the towel in the trepid water. Then, placing the soft material in Videl's trembling hands, she leaned up against the counter, not saying a word. Bulma really didn't need to make her young friend feel any worse than what she was already feeling. Videl had put herself into the awkward position. And now, she needed to face reality, Gohan was no longer hers; he never was hers to begin with. Bulma just wished that Videl had seen it for what it was worth before forcing herself on the half-Saiyan.
Sniffling a little, Videl did her best to hold off crying in front of the heiress.
"I… uh… I guess… I owe you an apology, Bulma. I should have listened to you," Videl said quietly, sniffling with small hiccups.
She was broken; Bulma saw how she lacked her normal stance of standing tall for a young woman of her height. Nevertheless, Bulma kept her comments to herself—that wasn't what Videl needed. She needed the comfort and support of her friend. Besides, Bulma didn't need to say another word. She'd said all what she had wanted when she invited Videl over for coffee. Bulma had spoken the truth that morning to Videl, informing the female fighter that her marriage was going to end. Obviously, stubbornness ran in her family.
"I really thought that Gohan would stay, you know? Because of Pan. I didn't want to believe that he would leave his family for another person…" Videl shook her head negatively, "No, for another man." She gave a disheartened chortle. "Despite all that has happened, Bulma, I still love him."
"Oh, sweetie, of course you do. You just don't turn off feelings like that over night. Just know that Chi-Chi and I will be here for you, and remember we went through the same thing but of a lesser degree," Bulma said, pushing off the sink's counter. "Come on, there's a party out there waiting for us," Bulma told her, opening the bathroom door again and leading the distraught young woman to the remaining party of family and friends.
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A couple of hours passed before Mirai stirred awake, the sun already hanging high in the sky, warming the cabin and the lone occupant on the floor. Mirai smiled in memory at what had taken place last night. He felt alive for the first time in nearly four years. Although his son and mom brought him great joy, there was nothing quite like having his mate with him.
He had been such a fool. A fool in love, who had been too scared to make a commitment to his true love. Mirai was scared to lose Gohan again. He was even more scared of losing his mother after so many of their friends had died at the hands of the androids, 17 and 18.
But now, the young half-Saiyan was his—forever.
Azure eyes drifted closed again. Mirai was extremely tired. He and Gohan must have coupled at least a dozen times throughout the night, and well into the morning. His internal clock told him that it was late afternoon, but he didn't care. He ached deliciously all over, and there would be plenty of time to explore their likes and whatnot later.
"Wake up, sleepy head. We need to get back to civilization."
Mirai yawned pulling the blanket tighter around him. "No, Gohan. I'm tired."
A hearty laugh made Mirai groan. "Come on, Trunks, everyone is going to wonder what happened to us."
"I don't care, let them wonder. Besides, Gohan, we need to talk," Mirai answered, opening his eyes to stare at his mate.
A frown creased Gohan's forehead. "Okay, what do you want to talk about?"
"Us… But first, I'm starving. What's here to eat?"
"Nothing."
"You're a Super Saiyan, go get us food and I'll clean up. You must not have been here for a while," Mirai said, finally getting a good look about the place, noticing the accumulated dust.
"I haven't. I was here last with you."
Before Mirai could reply, Gohan walked out the door and flew out of sight.
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Videl slowly made her way downstairs once she smelled breakfast wafting through the cracks of her door. Bulma had managed to talk her into sleeping over, along with the majority of their friends.
She bristled somewhat when she entered the dining room where she saw Vegeta. Goku was there as well, and he was entertaining a little boy that must be his son. She didn't know that Chi-Chi was pregnant at any point, nor did Videl know that that Goku and Chi-Chi were having an intimate relationship. Vegeta of course ignored Videl as he favored to dote upon his daughter.
Again Videl didn't know that Bulma had bore another child to the arrogant Saiyan.
"Grandpa, no! Daddy said I don't have to get 'em if I don't wanna!" the little boy said, refusing to eat whatever Goku was trying to force down his throat.
Grandpa? Isn't that Goku's kid? Videl thought as she nearly choked on her juice.
"Kakarott, leave the brat alone. If Trunks said he didn't have to eat the crap, then don't make him," Vegeta interrupted as he handed Shingeta a bottle of milk. She took it with zeal and got comfortable within Vegeta's hold, her eyelids already at half mast.
"Thank you, Grandpa!"
Vegeta nearly screamed when the endearment was shouted directly at him.
"Chibi, what did I tell you about calling me that?" Vegeta said as non-threatening as he could. He was not ready to be called Grandpa. He was far too young by Saiyan standards to be anyone's grandfather.
But Chibi wasn't listening. "Grandpa Goku said that it was okay." However, the little half-Saiyan was starting to tear up. He was finally able to meet his grandparents and he was being denied the right to address one of them as such.
"Geta, stop being mean to the boy."
Vegeta growled. "I'm not being mean! I would prefer something else. 'Grandpa' makes me sound extremely old, which I'm not."
Videl thought that she might be able to get out undetected, but her hopes were dashed when the little boy saw her.
"Hello!"
Immediately Vegeta's and Goku's attention was on her. Videl began to squirm underneath the prince's hardened gaze.
"Good morning, Goku, Vegeta," she greeted humbly.
"Good morning, Videl. Did you sleep well?" Goku asked, concerned especially how things went down between her and Gohan.
"I slept as well as I was going to last night. I did have a bit of a buzz though, so it was no wonder that I'm not suffering with a hangover this morning," Videl replied, eyeing Vegeta warily.
"Well at least we didn't have to hear you crying all night," Vegeta mumbled, which earned him a kick from his larger mate. "Ow! What the fuck, Kakarott?"
"You promised, Geta," Goku reminded his mate.
Standing in a huff, Vegeta made to leave with his now sleeping daughter. "I'll meet you in the Gravity Room in ten minutes, Kakarott, after I put her to bed." Then the short Saiyan exited without another word.
"I'm sorry about him, Videl, he's just been a little edgy these last couple of days."
"That's okay, Goku, you don't have to make excuses for him. I know he's a bastard by nature," Videl replied.
"Oh, Grandpa, she said a bad word about Papa," Chibi said. He wasn't used to hearing such bad language, and he was hearing quite a bit of it from Vegeta; and from this female stranger.
Blushing, Videl was ashamed that she forgot all about the baby being present and should have minded her manners better than what she had been doing.
"I'm sorry; I didn't mean to say such a naughty word. Please pardon me," Videl apologized and quickly left the kitchen in search of something to do until Bulma woke up.
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The younger half-Saiyan returned with an armful of groceries to stock the kitchen, seeing that Mirai had other plans in mind for them to stay a little bit longer.
In his absence, Mirai had found a pair of old sweats pants that he'd left there, and one of Gohan's wife-beater t-shirt. The younger half-Saiyan admired his mate, and he couldn't help letting out a groan of lust as Mirai bent over looking for things to use to cook with.
Diverting his attention to put away the various items he recently purchased, Gohan instead listened to his older mate rummage through the cabinets in search of cookware and utensils to prepare breakfast. Then, leaning on the counter, Gohan asked his long desired question. "Why did you leave, Mirai?"
Momentarily stopping in his preparation of their morning meal, Mirai inhaled deeply. "I wasn't ready. I was scared that I would lose you in this timeline."
"We talked about this, Mirai. Why did we spend three months together here alone? I'm not going anywhere. We've dealt with the androids and Cell and Buu remember? Damn it! You don't give me enough credit as a Super Saiyan to hold my own," Gohan vented, frustrated with his lover.
"I know, and I'm sorry."
Exhaling a deep breath of air, Gohan calmed his racing pulse. He needed a clear level head when dealing with Mirai. "So what made you decide to come back?" Gohan asked, trying not to let his anger get the best of him.
"My mom."
"Bulma? Really? What did you do to make her send you all the way back here?" Gohan inquired smiling, imaging an older Bulma telling her adult son to hit the road.
Pausing to place their plates of food on the table, Mirai steeled his nerves. "I was fading."
That didn't surprise Gohan in the least. He knew that it was possible for them to die because of the half-bond that they shared, but it was progressing at a much slower rate than it actually should and he didn't understand why. He asked Vegeta but the Saiyan prince merely stated that something was keeping him and Mirai from dying.
"Yeah, I pretty much guessed that we both were," Gohan replied, taking a seat and grabbing up a forkful of food, pausing mid-bite, contemplating the situation. "How is it that we didn't just die, Mirai? Vegeta and Dad said on numerous occasions that a Saiyan pair, whether half or full-blooded, would die if one or the other dies; yet we haven't."
Guilt gnawed in Mirai's stomach for what he was about to say next.
"The reason, Gohan, is that… when we initially mated… and I left to go back home, which I shouldn't have done… you, you didn't leave me without giving me a small piece of you. I didn't go back home alone," Mirai choked out, hands trembling as his eyes began to tear up.
"Wha-?"
"I was pregnant, Gohan."
"What?" Gohan exclaimed, staring wide-eyed at his mate.
"You have a son… We have a four year old little boy."
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Once breakfast was cleared, and Vegeta and Goku had left to spar, Videl was sitting alone in the family room, the place where Mirai had shown-up, ruining her one time opportunity to get Gohan back. She was flipping through a magazine on the latest women's fashion, when an energetic little boy bounced into the room.
He plopped down in front of the mega television, turning it on, mindful of the volume since there was another person in the room besides him, and he proceeded to silently watch cartoons. After a while the dark haired child laid down on the carpet, growing tired of sitting cross-legged.
Videl studied the boy. She was informed by Goku that the child belonged to Mirai. She wondered what woman in her right mind would birth him a child knowing his preference in bed partners. Did Mirai pay the woman a large sum of money to beget him an heir for Capsule Corporation? Or did he have a short fling and the woman ended up pregnant and she didn't want to have any further contact with Mirai once she found out that he wasn't interested in her that way?
There were so many unanswered questions; Videl just couldn't keep them sorted out right in her head. But there was one burning question, though; the little boy did look familiar to her, so who did he remind her of? He didn't look like Mirai, apart from maybe the eyes and that was about it. No, he looked like someone else.
Putting her magazine aside, Videl crawled down on the floor as quietly as she could toward the smaller being. Coming around to the front of him, Videl realized that he had fallen asleep.
Seizing this as her only chance, Videl scrutinized him with a more critical eye.
Where have I seen these features before? Videl thought racking her brain to come up with the answer.
She almost had it when Bulma entered.
"Sorry to keep you waiting, but I overslept," she explained, not feeling sorry at all for having the poor girl wait.
"No worries, Bulma," Videl replied, standing and moving away from the kid.
"Oh, Chibi fell asleep, huh?"
"Yeah, I thought most kids his age would be a ball of energy. He just knocked right on out. I'm a little surprised that any kid of Mirai's would just be so lacked."
"It's not his fault," Bulma said as she placed a pillow under Chibi's head and covered him with a blanket from the back of the sofa for the occasion. Then walking out the door into the kitchen with Videl right on her heels, without thinking about what she was saying the younger female she blurted, "He's not a half-Saiyan, only a quarter, and to gain his strength back he needs to sleep and eat twice as much as Mirai and Gohan."
It was in that moment that Videl realized where she saw Chibi's facial features.
"Bulma, I don't know much about Saiyan biology but, is it possible for two Saiyans… to… uh, have kids?" Videl asked, stuttering.
The blue haired genius giggled. "Of course, dear. Why wouldn't they? Saiyans reproduce just like humans." Then Bulma thought about that. "Well, that's not entirely true, the males can conceive too, which is why there are dominates and submissives. Vegetasei didn't have enough females, so the species evolved to keep from becoming extinct. Subs are the ones to be impregnated and Doms are the ones to protect their subs and offspring. Just like Goku and Vegeta. Another reason why Vegeta is so volatile when it comes to his kids. It's his maternal instinct to protect them."
A stone dropped in the pit of Videl's stomach at the implication of what Bulma just said.
"Just like Goku and Vegeta, you say?"
"Yeah," Bulma answered, pouring herself a fresh cup of coffee and adding a shot of spiced rum to it. "Even though I gave birth to Trunks and Bra, and technically Mirai, Vegeta has the overwhelming innate programming as a life bearer to protect his children and will do just about anything, and I mean anything, to keep them safe from harm, which includes heartbreak," Bulma said, leveling a pointed gaze at the other female.
"Hm, I've noticed. But Chibi, he has more human blood than Mirai because his mother is human?" Videl asked, trying to gain more information about the boy.
"Not entirely true. Chibi has more Saiyan blood than human merely because Mirai and Gohan are half-Saiyan," Bulma responded while rummaging through the refrigerator for something to eat.
Videl's heart sank. She hoped that it didn't show on her face.
"And just what does Gohan have to do with Chibi?"
Catching herself, Bulma stopped. Shit! Oh, Mirai's gonna kill me. Well, I might as well tell her… No, it's not for me say. Either Gohan or Mirai have to do it.
"I'm sorry, Videl, but I already said enough. It's best if Gohan tells you," Bulma said. Provided that Mirai told him.
"Okay, well anyway, I have to get going. My dad's probably spoiling Pan rotten," Videl said, getting ready to depart. She opened the door only to be pushed out the way by the very man she was still trying to hold on to.
"Where is he?" Gohan demanded.
"Where's who, Gohan?" Bulma asked, puzzled by his uptight behavior.
"Gohan," Vidal meekly called out, frowning as he walked right through the kitchen into another part of the house without as much as a hello to her or anyone.
Turning back to the door, Mirai entered with an equally upset look on his face that matched Gohan's. Videl inwardly smirked. Whatever happened between them, it must have been bad for Gohan to come here in a huff.
Just then Gohan came back into the room with Chibi wrapped snuggly around his torso. Yawning widely, Chibi rubbed at his sleepy blue eyes, raising his head. And said the words that nearly caused Videl to faint.
"Father? Is it really you?"
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A/N: Well, how was that? It seems that Mirai finally told Gohan about his son and he's not too happy with his mate at the moment. Videl got what she deserved, boy, what a way to find out that her husband has an older child. How is she going to handle it? Don't know? Well, stay tuned for the next chapter.
Nemesis
