Chapter 14: Purpose

A/N: Glad to see we are still having new faces join this fanfic as we progress through, we haven't reached our first arc point yet but we will in due time. Also please go and give happygochi more of your love on tumblr she's constantly creating scenes throughout this story and needs more attention.

The three caretakers of house Bardock were idle in their room. The long tasks and hard work of the day already over, dinner had been served and now they used the few hours of quiet to themselves. Though Viv returned from the bathroom sniffing as if she had a partial cold she remained cheerful, though she could see that there was a heavy weight upon their human friend.

"What is troubling you dear?" The large woman taking a seat beside Chi-Chi's bed. The over voluptuous woman wearing a scanty nightgown but there weren't many aliens that made size fifteen extra large garments for her kind. Her red eyes noting the shift as Chi-Chi just laid there silent. Her fingers playing with her hair almost out of boredom.

"Nothing…"

Viv sighed, "Dear why do you not tell us? We are your sisters here, you may tell us anything and we will help you. There are no words that leave this place that escape to our masters… provided you aren't planning on harming them of course." The large arachnid smile exposing her twin fangs just enough still slightly unnerved Chi-Chi, but not as much as it used too.

Though she knew the larger woman wouldn't leave it be until she got something out of her. The overbearing big sister, never satisfied until she knew everything about her younger sibling.

In a way it was comforting.

"I don't know… it's just… well" her thoughts were a mess, how could she explain this without it sounding foolish. The way her heart was pulled by seeing Broly like that… he was so gentle, caring, and considerate. Only to watch him thrown about like nothing even mattered? It was painful for her to watch and know that whatever awaited him back home would certainly be worse.

"It concerns that young saiyan heir. That young son of Paragus doesn't it?" Nevah said as she brushed her hair at her nightstand. A bit of an obsession for the young Norlean who couldn't leave anything of place, but her OCD behavior was a benefit when cleaning to a spotless shine. Though she did not look directly at Chi-Chi her eyes reflected in the mirror of her vanity at the woman laying on her bed.

"Broly?" Viv clarified, her eyebrow raising upwards as she watched her fellow caretaker nod her head. "Really?" Her voice clearly showing her piqued interest. "Now why is that young man on your mind?"

Chi-Chi brought both of her hands and covered her face, it feels like an interrogation. I don't want to answer, but they won't stop until I tell them… One short grunt later she just stared up into the ceiling. "He's just not like other saiyans, he actually protected me when I went shopping for those." Gesturing with her finger to the small stack of items she had purchased.

"Protected you?" The arachnid was even more curious. "Now that's unique darling, why would house paragus protect you? I could understand the others but I know Paragus himself is disgusted with the other elite houses."

"But you know of Broly's oddities, I can imagine that his son helping you was just another level of frustration." Nevah's perception was that of the rest of the saiyan society, but she tolerated it. Changing the whims of a barbaric race that did not view the universe as her people did wasn't going to happen. But to judge them all based on the loose beliefs of their people would allow them to criticize her own. "Lord Paragus has never been normal since in his eyes he's lost everything that made him a true saiyan."

"I know he lost his mate, and Broly was captured, but is that really enough to make him beat his son like that? To humiliate him and treat him as if he were less than dirt? I don't see that in Broly, he's soft spoken. Understanding, almost philosophical with how he conducts himself."

Nevah put down her comb as he turned her small pink frame towards Chi-Chi. Wearing a large T-shirt that could possibly cover the top of Viv's Chest but fell down to just above the Norelean's thighs. "Chi-Chi what is most important to a saiyan beyond himself?"

Well that was easy. "His legacy,"

Smiling and nodding, "Yes and the legacy he leaves behind will be his damaged son, now I know what you see. I looked after that young boy before you. I understand how he is and I don't see it as a bad thing. But to Paragus it is his lineage, everything that once made him worthy of being an elite is his son. A son who doesn't feel saiyan and that is a tremendous shame to him and he has resorted to admittedly barbaric tactics in order to spark something inside of his only child."

"It's not barbaric it's cruel Nevah you-"

"I know," She held up a hand with a sigh, "I won't deny it's image is shocking. But it's all Paragus knows, Pain and loss for the last decade. Never once rising in rank, watching his only child become a shadow of what he was destined to be in his own eyes, making that journey all alone. No doubt some of his sanity has left him. But it is all he has and i'm certain one day Broly will take his father's life and in that moment his father will be happy to see his son show that glimmer that he wants. Though if that is truly what he wants I am not sure, but you must believe that Paragus's actions are not based off simple cruelty because of it. It is because that is all that he knows, he was a special inquisitor for the royal family and breaking people has been his method of intelligence gathering. The hopes that one day his son might be able to be rebuilt… but I feel that he only does it because that's all he knows."

Still that was horrible, none of the Caretakers would agree that it wasn't right. But, their opinions were not important, such as their roll in this world. They did not wield power, they did not control saiyan culture or the whims of their masters.

"One day Chi-Chi the young son will be alright, perhaps it will be for the better or he might be free from it. Whichever the greater conscious of the universe decides shall be that fate. Please do not stress yourself with such greater cosmic changes, it won't be healthy for you."

Viv brought a reassuring hand to Chi-Chi's shoulder. "Paragus won't kill his son, to do so would only shame him more. Just give it time, one day he'll be free."

Chi-Chi just released a breath and looked into her pillow. The larger woman seeing her mood slipping knew something that might brighten her day.

Even a little.

"Well what do you feel about that new assignment that you are being given?" Her red eyes squinting together as she smiled.

"Two months at the new Bardock Vineyards, where I will be fixing, cleaning, and preparing the new summer home with Kakarot…" It wasn't like it was anything special to her. "I won't have you you two to help me out, and i'll be sweating my ass off even more with the new location and no doubt the only thing i'll have time for is washing clothes, cleaning dishes, and cooking meals for Kakarot. Yay me!" Her voice ending in overly sarcastic enthusiasm.

"Come now, you are really not excited to spend a summer at a Vineyard? You'll be surrounded by the richest and most delectable wines on Vegeta-sei. Young Kakarot will be there as your company… I know you two got very close with that last assignment." She didn't have multiple eyes and a solid pair of ears to not be able to hear what had transpired. The report from Bardock's team had been quite detailed and vivid while she attended to them.

The young Kakarot and Chi-Chi had gotten into quite the little mess and had no doubt earned the respect of the saiyans for both parties involved. The way Chi-Chi was sent back with Kakarot and the measure of concern for him wasn't lost on her as he was loaded into the rejuvenation chamber.

"By necessity, I don't think Kakarot will be as thrilled about what happened as you are making it out to be Viv," The idea that he'd be happy to be alone with her after crawling through a river of shit and taking a massive orbital cannon to the back because of her desire to save a few people's lives on that world wasn't going to be a happy thing between them.

Viv shook her head, "Oh my dear you think that Kakarot cares about that now? The young lord survived a near fatal blow and became even stronger and his father's approval of how he handled himself. I don't think you could've made Bardock more proud and Kakarot revel in his increased strength."

Chi-Chi did have to concede that small point, "But i'm sure he won't be happy about the river of shit to come and save me. He still bathes three times a day because of that." Earning a fit of laughter from the two caretakers.

"That is something we have to thank you for," The arachnid giggled. "Getting a saiyan to bathe more than once is troubling especially with how much they train and spare. But on top of that the idea of Kakarot still furiously scrubbing himself after crawling through that is quite amusing."

"At least you didn't have to wash him up afterwards. I can tell you his body still stunk to high heaven, I had to use industrial grade cleaning soaps to remove that layer of funk on him." Chi-Chi did not agree that it was at all fun despite the humor of spending over an hour scrubbing him clean.

Viv's smile broaden, "Oh you hand bathed the young lord? Naughty naughty." The teasing voice causing Chi-Chi to knock her hand away from her shoulder. "Was that all that happened, you couldn't have simply cleaned him up and then walked away, i'm certain you got to partake of his physique just a little." Acting more like a teenage school girl Viv seemingly enjoying the visage of a mature older sister just a little much.

"Oh please, Kakarot resembles any other man on my world, it's not like it was anything romantic. I was scrubbing him while trying not to breathe remember!" She growled finding the larger caretaker to be a tad annoying with her antics.

Though it did feel like she was apart of a family again, having lost her own. Nevah the gentle wise sister who looked out for her and Viv being the party girl, trying to live her life and bring Chi-Chi along with her. She missed company, people around her to share the good and bad times with.

With the years after her parents death she only somehow managed to keep herself together. Not trying to recall how she survived afterwards was always a positive and when-

"I think you being a favorite of the young lord will be good for you. You work well with him and he treats you right, maybe just being away from a bit of chaos will be a positive for you." Nevah tried seeing the other side to the situation.

Viv scratched her lips with fingers as she looked at Chi-Chi. A particular topic of conversation quickly spurred ot life inside of the large arachnid's mind. "What kind of men are you into Chi-Chi?"

"What!? What kind of question is that?" She was sitting right up now and giving a hard stare to the larger woman who sat in a chair next to her bed.

Laughing a bit at the gross overreaction. "It's just a question, I mean you do like men don't you?"

"Viv, be decent." Nevah said almost scolding but the other woman waved her hand at her.

"I mean really Chi-Chi you don't seem to find a great deal of enjoyment with our saiyan hosts as you do with soft spoken Broly seeing as how this is the second time you've spoken so well of him." A grin on her lips, "So what kind of men are you in to?"

Chi-Chi turned a bit red face, the topic wasn't exactly something she'd consider proper evening talk and especially sharing such information with Viv of all people though she'd never gossip it with anyone else. She was the type of woman to try and use it for good and ill will at times.

Recalling the time she told her about her desire to taste proper Earth Chocolate again.

Oh that was a bad image for her to recall.

"Come on Chi-Chi, are you more into the soft gentle guys like Broly or do you find him easier to talk to because of that. Or are you do you secretly enjoy men like Kakarot but simply can't stomach his other behaviors. Come on now which one do you like?"

"Will you drop it after I tell you?" Chi-Chi asked not bothering to make this into a debate discussion because Viv was a relentless gossip. It was one of her hobbies when not warming Raditz's bed as she hadn't done in a long time.

"I probably will, but depends on what I hear." Placing her curled hand under her chin she waited for Chi-Chi to divulge some secrets.

…

"I can fly myself you know."

"You can, but you can't fly as fast as me and you also don't know where we are going." Kakarot said rolling his eyes, "I thought you didn't mind being close to me if I recall? Or have I worn out such a warm welcome?" He didn't look at her but he did have a pleased smirk.

"Ugh, that was only because you reeked to high heaven, also this isn't exactly comfortable."

Chi-Chi was being held by the waist of Kakarot as they were traveling through the air though she wasn't being treated like luggage it sure as hell felt like it.

"Would you like me to carry you in my arms or ride on my back?" Kakarot offered to her as they continued across the sky, his white trail over the world of red and orange sand slowly shifting as the majority of the barren desert that was the red rock of Vegeta-sei gave way.

A single patch of brown sparsely living foliage then it extended from there, the rock becoming patches of blocking dirt until it expanded further. A small creak of water that lead into a small lake that was connected to a river, the largest source of freshwater on the planet that ran nearly all around the world's equator.

The source of creation, as all life came from and needed water, it was honorably given that title.

Chi-Chi equated to the long winding rivers of the Amazon that split off creating the growing forests and lush grasslands of Vegeta-sei. The temperature was less arid and more humid. The skies turning more blue as Kakarot skirted the top forests along the river and traveled onwards.

Her eyes watching as out from beyond the treetops sprouted a large three story house. It's walls made of smooth white stone, the roof made from marble. The structure itself looked old but as they came closer she could see the renovations and updations to the windows and area around. But as her eyes looked along the waterline she could see rows of vineyards similar to how they would be on Earth.

Long stretches of winding vines that covered the tops and bottoms in green plantlife. It fell around the area, with small black wires that hung between the rows of plants where small machines tested and collected the ripening fruit.

Chi-Chi equated it to swollen golden grapes. Not growing in the massive bushels but in small groups of two or three as Kakarot flew low over them. A pleasant aroma filtering up from below as Chi-Chi was brought around to the front of the building and the two slowly landed down on the ground.

"I've not actually been to the Vineyards myself… not a bad place. I have to admit." Kakarot looked around with his hands on his hips. The smell was good, the water wasn't bad and the temperature felt different. "To think my brother won two of these homes…" Shaking his head, I suppose it all makes sense now.

Memories of her summer home back on Earth flooded back to Chi-Chi. Times of laughter, of carefree fun, and plenty of fond times back with her parents. But before she could slip back into that reverie she caught herself and knew that it was pointless to think about such things, it would only make things difficult later. This was still work not a vacation, looking to Kakarot she was ready just to head inside and get started on the day to day but he put a hand on her shoulder.

"Let's take a tour around,"

"No thanks, i'm sure i have plenty of things to get started on." Chi-Chi said grabbing one of his fingers but Kakarot's hand didn't budge. Brown eyes rotated to his black ones which looked at her in a more somber expression.

"Don't worry about it. It'll be alright for one day since we're going to be spending the next few months out here and my mother and father won't be stopping in for a few weeks. Just take it easy."

Sighing, oh well it's not like he's completely wrong. It was like a banishment with some work to be done. Bardock would be more focused on training his unit with Raditz alongside him. Gine and the caretakers seeing to the rest of the house would be cared for in their absence with Gine filling in to help test with Bulma in place of Bardock and Raditz as the machine could be assessed on it's effects on the different sex.

Looking at Kakarot she could tell something was a bit off about him, he wasn't in the same mood of being annoying or teasing with her. He just sort of stared off into the surroundings.

"Alright, alright." Figuring if he didn't tell her to start cleaning and making dinner she didn't have too and with Kakarot's appetite he'd be hungry in a few hours anyway.

"Are you familiar with Vegeta-sei's vineyards?" Kakarot asked as they walked along a stone red path that touched from the river and around the sprawling plants. The quiet whirr of automated machines as they passed between the long winding vines didn't ruin the atmosphere as the water flowed alongside them. An occasional fish jumping out from the clear blue waters of the largest river on Vegeta-sei.

She shook her head and Kakarot nodded. "Well these used to be run by old artisan's who crafted the most powerful wine in the entire solar system. It's potency and flavor require almost a year of proper fermentation to get it correct. The fruit grown for a sedative," He gave a small snort of amusement, "Nothing like a shot of hard liquor to calm the nerves and reset some limbs."

Continuing on Kakarot motioned in the direction of the small machines moving up and down the rows of the vineyards, checking each separate fruit. "Are you aware as to why it's mostly fully automated?" The caretaker shook her head, "Surprisingly enough the wine is quite addictive with its quantities and some of the races that used to work these vineyards often couldn't stop themselves from sampling it's qualities after having just a taste of the rich juices of the fruit."

"What is the fruit called?"

"It has other names but it's called golden honey. Making honey wine or gold wine, and I do mean gold, not a cheap yellow. It's very thick and heavy, i've had one glass before and it's quite a treat." Kakarot kept walking with Chi-Chi who saw the small almost homely luxuries. A small shed and a gazebo style building with hammocks, benches and pillows. The obvious comforts of an elite lifestyle showing off their partial vanity and status.

"The fruit is very delicate and if harvested too soon or too late can drastically cut the quality of such a drink. With these automated systems we can make high quality golden honey without too much loss." Kakarot rounded to a small dock. One could see the current that pushed against the stone supports holding up a wooden walkway that went almost thirty feet out of the near hundred foot spanning river.

It actually looked serene, a complete opposite of the harshness of Vegeta-sei. "How did this place remain like this?" Chi-Chi asked Kakarot who was surprised by her question. "Wouldn't you have fought over it endlessly? I mean you did share it with another race that you two were at war with? How did this river remain so untouched?"

Kakarot chuckled slightly, "I could understand why that might seem surprising. But even as saiyans we knew what was valuable and with the strongest saiyan keeping other saiyans in line the water's here were defended savagely by our people. Even if we are saiyans we can't survive without water and every attempt our old enemies the Tuffles made on this point were driven back time and time again. Perhaps they intended on poisoning it in a last ditch effort but our ancestors never game them such a chance. It established necessary rationing and basic agriculture on our world until we were given access to the technology of the tuffles and gained space flight."

"Hm," She said looking at the waters for a moment.

"Care to take a swim?"

"What?" She replied looking back at him with smile, "You heard me, a swim. The water's always warm and I feel like diving in and I want to know if you'd like to join me?"

"It's alright, I really don't want to swim." She told him, she'd much rather just get settled in and set up in her room and begin thinking about dinner. Counting on Kakarot to do that would be asking a bit much.

Kakarot put an arm around her waist. "Can you swim?" That old playful tone returning.

"I can swim." She sighed, "I can fly remember? I can easily swim."

"Then how about a race." He countered releasing her back and walking forwards. Grabbing his armor he pulled it up and over his shoulders, then without shame stripped off his spandex and boots tossing them on the dock. His tail swishing behind him as Kakarot walked buck naked in front of Chi-Chi.

Her face flushed red and she looked away as Kakarot looked over his shoulder at her. "What's the problem, you didn't mind back in that cold shower."

Flaring her nose she looked squarely at his grinning face. "For your information, that was way different. You stunk like a shithole and I had to clean your sorry but in order to keep myself breathing."

"Maybe, but I know you really don't have a trouble with being around saiyans. So why are you getting so flustered around me. You're quite used to me aren't you?"

Crossing her arms over her chest Chi-Chi glared at him, "If by used to you, you mean totally annoying and somewhat aggravating to my daily schedule then yes I am quite used to you." Kakarot had gotten better, since they had come back from their mission. But he wasn't at all like another saiyan she knew.

"Ouch." Kakarot said turning around and putting a hand over his heart acting like he was hurt. Yet it didn't feel as fun as he thought.

Like going through the motions.

Chi-Chi's eyes looked down for a second then she turned away in a flash. But it had been too late, she had seen everything and no doubt Kakarot saw her face turn more red. Not that she hadn't seen him in the nude before but not at this close of a distance. "You have no manners!" She shouted at him though she refused to look back at him.

Kakarot's smirk faded as he saw Chi-Chi turn away from him. He walked back up to her from behind, the black eyes of the son of Bardock showing a shifting emotion in the once playful and carefree expression that danced on them a month or so ago. One might call it maturity or responsibility.

It however was neither of those two things. "Chi-Chi," His voice changing to tired one. "Will you take a swim with me?"

She missed his shift in tone. "Why? Expecting me to strip and jump into the water just because you tell me too?" Snapping back at him, what was up with him today? He was acting much different than usual and it was just irritating.

"Chi-Chi… are you aware why you and I were sent out here?"

She paused, the once building agitation fell flat. Her face looking over her shoulder at Kakarot. "Chi-Chi… this isn't some reward for you and I. My father sent us here because he wants us out of his way. He wants me and you to get out of his hair and stop causing problems for him." His tone was almost defeated as he leaned against the railing his eyes looking down towards the ground. "My father is picking my brother to succeed the family, meaning all that I did on the purge assignment, saving you, enduring that fucking cannon to my back. It was all meaningless…" He spat out but his words were a bit quick and he looked up at Chi-Chi. "Not that I regret doing it and saving you. I didn't want you to die."

Letting his head fall back down towards the ground. "I thought my father would give me a chance, that I would have the option of fighting my brother and earning the right to stand as the house's fighter for the elite gathering in a few months… but of course I can't. My older brother, who is just as lazy, a womanizer, a gambler, and complete fucking waste gets a free pass to taking over my families house because my dad still sees me as a young child!" It hurt to say those words aloud.

Imaging that he'd not be picked was one thing, but he wasn't even given a chance! Not a single chance! Just that alone was painful, "Didn't I prove myself? Wasn't what I did enough to show him I deserve that chance?"

It was an odd sight for her as she looked into the face of Kakarot, the way he seemed to be getting emotional over this apparent dismissal that she had no idea of. She had just thought it a way for Bardock to keep his sons apart and focus on one of them at a time.

If what Kakarot was telling her was true this was actually a massive blow to his pride and honor. While Kakarot never displayed it openly and often acted so lazy in his mannerisms one might mistake him for not caring for much about anything. But Kakarot did feel things and if he didn't care about his pride or saiyan nature there wouldn't have been many of the exchanges between the two of them.

Giving in to the pain and allowing Chi-Chi to carry him to a rejuvenation chamber was a small glimpse of it too her.

Then going through great lengths to save her and find her. Crawling through shit wasn't something a saiyan did, but he had in order to make sure she was alive and unharmed. It was humiliating, and the relief she saw in his face after discovering that she was alive and well finally showed. The way he had hugged her and breathed a sigh of relief knowing that he wouldn't return home and face his father as a failure.

Then taking that massive blast by that cannon and gaining power only showed further desire to progress, take risks and do what was needed as a true saiyan.

Perhaps in his own mind he was starting to become more of a man and take charge of some aspects of his life and not act as if things were as carefree as he once believed. This wasn't some minor thing to him, it was an immense honor to become the successor to his house and the simple fact that he was so easily overlooked by his father would cast doubts in his direction, and cause many to question him. Although he would remain an elite, there was never a guarantee that his brother could not remove that title from him.

They weren't exactly the closest of brothers with their wildly different personalities. Who also was going to say that things couldn't change down the road?

For saiyan society that was always in question.

"This is a punishment?" She replied and Kakarot just clenched his fists and bit into his bottom lip. "If this is to punish you, then why did they send me?"

"You really don't know?" Kakarot said incredulously, looking as if she were having a laugh at him. But Chi-Chi didn't see why her presence would be a punishment. "Because of what you did with Paragus's son, you almost dishonored my father and insulted Paragus. Though i'm sure you didn't realize it, afterall you were under no obligations on the second time and the first which I found out later was a request from my mother, but even still you sit openly with another house and since you are not a saiyan as well raises into question your loyalties and humiliates Paragus because his son was seen at the beck and call of a caretaker…. Which brings me to another question."

She could guess what that would be.

"Why was I with Broly?" Her brown eyes noticing as his head dipped slightly. "Why? Because he's a friend."

"A friend?" Kakarot said his lip pulling back in a mixture of shock and disgust. "How and why?"

Chi-Chi tossed her hair back as she gave Kakarot a hard stare right back. "Because I befriend him if I want, Broly's nice to me and there's nothing saying that I can't have friends. If another saiyan likes me why would that bother you?"

Bother him? It angered him, "He knows that you are our caretaker, so what reason would he have to be around you?" There was a fine line between him bumping into Chi-Chi, but there was a fair difference between the two of them spending time together.

"I don't know Kakarot, maybe because we share common interests and he wanted to enjoy some new foods that I showed him. Why do you saiyans always have to blow everything out of proportion!" She threw her hands up in the air as she released a frustrated grunt.

"And what would've happened had Paragus killed you? Would it have been blown out of proportion then, because he sure as hell could have." Kakarot reminded her with a snort.

"I'm just a slave what does me dying to Paragus matter?" Chi-Chi sent back at him.

Just a slave? Was that really all she was?

There was something more about her, sure his father wasn't happy about her being with Broly… so why was he equally angered by it? Chi-Chi didn't belong to him and nor was she a saiyan. But what was the reason he found this angering to him? Why did the idea bother him so much?

He did enjoy her company, more than the other caretakers. Nevah was quiet and subservient, a good worker and loyal while Viv was a bit more wild but found her humors and being more feminine and teasing. Leaving Chi-Chi as the odd one out of the three. Spirited and bold, unflinching in her own way, the way she tolerated his antics and fought back. Refusing to be intimidated or back down from him or even his father.

Why?

As the moment turned into a few minutes Chi-Chi watched the visible conflict in Kakarot's face. Where was the quip back at her? Was he just angry for the sake of being angry?

It took another five minutes for Kakarot to finally speak, "You aren't just a slave Chi-Chi." His black eyes now giving her his full attention.

Broly had said the same thing to her…

"If that were all you were, do you think I would've done all that for you? That I would swim through a river of shit and let you get away with everything. Because if you were a true slave I wouldn't care about your opinions, I wouldn't-" He stopped himself before he said. "Nevermind." Shaking his head he waved her off. "Go do what you want just forget it." Before he said something that went too far.

Yet the reason he found Chi-Chi so interesting was also the reason she moved in front of him, not letting him leave. "You wouldn't what?" Pushing her face up towards his, "Finish what you were going to say." Her hands were on her hips as she refused to break eye contact with him.

"What does it matter." His eyes looking away from her. Just having her staring at him as he tried to say something he didn't want to really admit.

In the short time around Kakarot she had learned to pick up on his habits, as all saiyans were creatures of habit. Having mannerisms, speech and other ways of how they were going to express themselves. "I don't know what I wanted to say, just drop it."

"It doesn't work like that with me and you know that. You said if I was just a slave you wouldn't have done all that you did for me, so tell me why. If it wasn't fear from your father or your own pride why did you do it."

That was the question pounding inside of his own head. This female, there was just something about her. Why she was different from the rest and it's reason he… he What did he feel?

"I enjoy your company or… or I don't know okay!" He finally said angrily his face looking back at her. There was more to it… but he couldn't express that. Kakarot had more things rolling around in his head that just Chi-Chi. "I need to think…"

Without waiting for her this time he jumped into the air and dove into the water, vanishing beneath the current as Kakarot struggled to comprehend what was going on with him. Why did he care so much, even if his father was irritated by it he'd never thought to care about it before. Maybe he'd just been hit too hard and the fact that his father had exiled him away had just made him think and speak to quickly.

Whatever it was he just didn't like the fact that Chi-Chi said Broly was her friend? That she actually liked him? Mentally he slapped himself to regain his thoughts and deciding a nice long swim might get his mind off of her.

He needed just to be alone and have some quiet…

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It rolled late into the evening when Kakarot finally had enough time to just clear his head. Though as he redressed only in his spandex he could tell that the lone caretaker was not inside the house. She was outside as the lights were not on as the partial dark phase of the evening rolled through the area. A low sunset and sunrise coming and going simultaneously.

Of course he hadn't been able to wholly flush his mind out, but the quiet had done him some good. Approaching the side staircase leading to a large balcony attached to the house Kakarot immediately picked up the smell of something. It was unmistakable, "Golden Honey…" It was like smelling a symphony of fresh fruit all at once, salivating the taste buds and making his mind already heavy with thoughts of tasting that delicacy. One glass was enough to put his father down, hell it could buzz his whole family.

Approaching up from the side he looked over and saw Chi-Chi sitting back in a reclining long patio chair. Wearing her evening clothes but no socks, shoes, and her hair was undone she looked like a woman resting in a piece of luxury. Not a caretaker as beside her sat a freshly opened bottle was in the chair and a barely touched glass of pure sin was beside her. But even Kakarot could see the faint lip marks on the edges of the glass.

"You had to try it didn't you?" Kakarot cracked a smirk as Chi-Chi looked at him her face showing a full red line from cheek to cheek. A smile across her face, Yep she was completely toasted already. "Like it?"

"Uhhh huhhh." She replied, "Sooo where did yaa goo?" Asking as obviously her mind was blanking out some very key points of their day.

"You won't remember anyway." A small feeling of relief came with not having to deal with explaining himself to her, though why he had to in the first place still eluded him.

Chi-Chi giggled, "I remember things!" She said happily as Kakarot took a seat beside her figuring this might be a bit entertaining and after the day he'd already had why not have a good drink while he was out.

Grabbing the glass he let the faintest drop touch his tongue and before he let the drink touch the table he felt warm all over. A content sigh escaped as he licked his lips and laid back in his seat. Chi-Chi had opened a fifty thousand credit bottle of golden honey… he figured that it wouldn't be good to let it go to waste. Not that the building they owned produced the rare wine but, it wasn't something that was drank so freely and his father hadn't told he couldn't.

So fuck it.

The two settled into a quiet peace but the saiyan felt the human's eyes on him as he looked at her. She had a little grin on her face as she looked at him. "Did I ever tell you that you're cute when you have the little grin on your face?"

"No," he laughed feeling the warmth of the alcohol running through him. "You often don't like a lot of things about me."

"You're just too grabby, you gotta be nice to a lady." She chided him and he looked back up into the purple sky. "Do you not think i'm a lady?" Her lower lip pushing outwards into an overly pathetic pout.

"I do, why? Do you not think so?"

She flopped onto the chair laying on her stomach, "Not always… I just couldn't take it." She sounded depressed and hurt as she stared back at the river from where they were sitting. "I just wanted to be a princess… I never wanted to be like I was."

"What do you mean 'like you were'?" Kakarot asked still looking up at the sky, tucking his arms behind his head.

"I was a bad person. I was like you."

His eyebrow raised as his head rolled to the side. "What? How were you ever like me?" She must've been really drunk to go off spouting nonsense like this.

Chi-Chi lay quiet for a minute as she just looked away, her body completely limp and almost made Kakarot think she had passed out, though she spoke again quietly. "I was…"

(Chi-Chi's past begins next chapter)

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