I'm getting better at updating faster again! Now that I'm finally able to work on this.

Must I really put this up? I never owned DBZ all the way back at chapter one so how would it be any different now at chapter twenty nine? I DON'T OWN DBZ!

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Trip through Time

Chapter Twenty-Nine

An eerie feeling, the meeting spot of Bulma and Vegeta

Not a sound came from any people within that small hut; not from the children sitting their or the old martial artist who was sitting there, just the sound of the oblivious Goku who was snacking away at the last few treats left on the tray. Shocked eyes were on the other boy in the room with a tail similar to his adopted grandsons. Then to Raditz, Vegeta, Bra and Pan's surprise the shock left Gohan's eyes and the cheerful face returned as he looked over at his grandson, who was licking the sticky residue from the treats off his fingers. "Goku…could you do me a favor and go get some more water from the river? With this many people for supper tonight I'm going to need more" Gohan said in his usual tone. Goku winced at first thinking his grandfather would scold him for eating all the treats; then smiled at the thought of possibly more food on the table; he grabbed a worn looking wooden bucket and took off out the door. Gohan's eyes left the door that his grandson had left through and then turned to the four children sitting in his house. There was seriousness in the way he looked at them and how he was sitting there; the old man took away the empty tray and then sat back down and spoke "Okay now…would you mind telling me why you have a tail like my Goku does? And don't tell me its some kind of mutation you were born with…I'm not buying that I might not look it but I know plenty about those kinds of things, I've been around the block more then once you know" The man said grinning.

"I don't think you would believe us even if we told you…" Pan said her voice was a small and soft whisper.

"Why not give an old man a try?" Gohan said folding his hands together and placing them on the table; he leaned over as if he was looking out one of the red framed decorative windows, "Knowing Goku he'll take his time to fish or swim around before coming back with the water. I think you have more then enough time to tell me about this?" Gohan said looking at the four of them "Please he is my grandson after all…I want to do all I can to understand him and the way he came into my care. Am I correct in thinking you all came in a round pod like Goku did? And you can transform at the full moon?" Gohan asked.

"Might as well tell him Bra…he's a stubborn old man just like all the other old people I've met in my life" Vegeta said leaning his head on one hand.

Bra sighed not really seeing anyway out of this; not even lying would do anything to trick this wily old man after years of putting up with wacky little Goku, there were things his man would be able to see through thanks to all the weirdness that had entered his life since becoming Goku's adopted guardian. She told him about Goku's real name being Kakarrot and that he was an alien warrior originally sent here to destroy Earth. How he was from a race called the Saiyan who five years ago had their planet destroyed by the tyrant named Freiza who Goku would one day face in combat. That Raditz was by blood Goku's family and that Goku's real father Bardock was killed trying to stop Freiza. That Goku was to eventually marry and have two sons, and when Bra told him Goku had named his first son after him, his eyes looked like they misted over but she continued. She told him how Goku's first born married and had a daughter who was Pan sitting there in the room. Getting back to the reason they were having this talk she told how the full moon the tails Saiyans have a reaction to transform. That Freiza was still ruining planets and how Vegeta and Raditz had spent the years after the Planet Vegeta's destruction living under Freiza's tyranny. Through all this Gohan nodded his head, looked either surprised or stunned, or even angry at one point when she mentioned Raditz and Vegeta living under such conditions. Finally when all was said and done Gohan inhaled before letting out a breath.

"My, my, my…so that's the story…" Gohan said looking out the window "So all of Goku's people are gone but you two?" Gohan said motioning to Raditz and Vegeta.

"As of right now in this time period. I didn't tell you this but me and Pan don't belong in this time period, Vegeta here is my future father" Bra said "And if you think you're shocked by just that…Vegeta is a prince, the Prince of the Saiyans"

"Not only do I have the pleasure of meeting my great granddaughter, my Goku is friends with royalty?" Gohan said sounding amazed "You should have told me, I hope I didn't appear as rude so far"

"Believe me, if you had been rude you would defiantly know by now" Raditz said ignoring Vegeta's glaring.

"Well as nice as it is to see all of you…why are you here to begin with?" Gohan asked.

"Sort of by accident really…now we're going to Capsule Corporation to see Bra's mother as a kid"

"I see…well you all have a big day ahead of you for tomorrow then. I suggest you all not say anything about this to Goku, with as much as he has to do with your future Pan, I think its best we keep him in the dark" Gohan said as the boy in question came in carrying the bucket full to the brim with water.

"I'm back grandpa! Did I miss anything?" Goku asked as he put the bucket down.

"No son…nothing very important" Gohan said with his usual smile, and while the young boy had his back turned the old man gave them all a wink.

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After the events of the past few hours of their arrival and ending up staying at Grandpa Gohan's and Goku's house. Raditz, feeling he should get started on those long over due brotherly activities, took Goku out to do whatever he wanted, which turned out to be training. But not before Goku bombarded his grandfather about if he had asked about Vegeta's tail. Gohan was quick to think and while it wasn't very polite to Vegeta or Raditz, Gohan told Goku that it was a birth defect that they had been born with. Vegeta had been annoyed about the mans little lie but the truth had to be concealed from Goku if any of the future was to happen properly. While Raditz and Goku were out Pan helped Gohan cut and clean a fish Goku had caught just before they had arrived, and getting the fire and pot ready to make some soup. Bra and her father were excluded from the work; Bra because Gohan didn't feel right making guests work and already felt bad Pan was helping, Vegeta because he had been asked to start the fire to cook the soup in and ended up almost burning off Gohan's mustache by trying to start the blaze with a small ball of ki. Vegeta had gone off on his own to search around for something different to eat, saying that he had eaten enough fish on this trip and wasn't going to eat any more of it. Bra had just rolled her eyes at him saying to not be gone long; now he was flying above the tree tops only have to see the ground through a few of the clearings.

The sun was beginning to set as the sky began to be colored in shades of oranges, purples, reds and pinks along with the bright orange sun and the now purple clouds. Feeling he had gone far enough without spotting any good game he was about to turn around and head back when one clearing out of the others caught his eye. It was a regular clearing; it was grassy and had many colorful flowers and in the center was a clear lake, a few trees were growing in the clearing some of them with bird's nests from how much chirping was going on. It was a normal clearing so why had he gotten the urge to come down here? Shaking his head he walked over to the lake; he took his white gloves off and then dipped his hands into the water to cup some to splash on his face, it was unbelievably hot out here and especially for a forest area on top of a mountain. Done cooling off he cupped more water in his hands to drink, a noise from in back of him had him spinning around to see who or what it was. His eyes widened when he saw it was Bra; she was standing there right in the spot he had landed, she had taken off her armor and was now in just her blue spandex suit, white gloves and boots. Bra smiled before walking over to him and sat down, Vegeta sat down next to her and the too sat in silence for a few seconds before Bra broke the silence.

"You know it's creepy…that you found your way to this place" she said, the wind picked up blowing her blue hair in all directions.

"Why? It's just a clearing, nothing special…" Vegeta replied as he tried to keep his bangs out of his eyes until the wind settled.

"It is special…for you and mom anyway"

"How so?"

"This is…were you and her met" Bra said before scratching her head "Well…you saw each other, other times before meeting here. But the two of you were either caught up in not getting killed or something to notice the other was even five feet in front of you" Bra sighed "It was when you two and everyone was wished from the planet Namek…before then you two met two other times on Namek. Once was when you had to fight Zarbon for the second time and another time you were busy…with something else and probably didn't see she was their. Most of this is what Goku's friend Krillin and his son Gohan told me…mom even brought me to this clearing and told me she felt this was hers and yours true meeting spot" Bra laughed before setting down again "She said its was ironic; since her whole world was turned crazy by Goku when she met him, and then to meet her future partner on the same mountain"

"Partner? Don't you mean mate or whatever you humans call it?"

"We call it marriage partner or a few other things. But you and mom aren't coupled through human traditions, it was moms idea so don't ask…my grandfather slipped that info to me so I'm not sure I'm suppose to know that about you two. I'm not even sure of what marriage traditions there are for Saiyan's" Bra took a moment to think back on anything her father had said possibly relating to it "I don't remember you saying anything about that…"

"You wouldn't…I wasn't on Planet Vegeta long enough to learn that from anyone. And don't you DARE bring up Raditz or Nappa…no way am I asking them about that!" Vegeta glared before Bra could even say whatever it was she was about to say. They sat in silence again as Vegeta digested what he was told.

So…this is where…by my mates opinion…where me and her first met… he through looking around the clearing. It felt sort of eerie knowing that years from now in this spot, he would meet his mate here in this very clearing after some event on the Namekian's Planet. He felt like he was trespassing some how, like he was some were he knew he shouldn't be and would get in serious trouble if he didn't leave. Shaking his head Vegeta stood up and put his gloves back on "Come on before its late" Vegeta walked a little away from Bra "We better head back before they eat everything"

"But you said you hated fish"

"Don't remind me…I have to eat something around here" Vegeta just rolled his eyes as his daughter laughed before they took off. That night after a dinner of fish soup and bread; Gohan and Goku got into their shared bed while Pan and Raditz slept on one roll out futon and Vegeta and Bra on another. And while Vegeta might not ever admit it; that night he barely slept due to the one thought buzzing through his mind, tomorrow he was to meet his future mate, and for the first time in his life when it came to girls, he was a nervous wreck. But he'd be damned before he would ever admit it or show it tomorrow.

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Sorry if this was short; but I want one chapter to be just about Vegeta and Bulma's meeting as kids, so this is pretty much the end of everything with Grandpa Gohan and Goku, until they leave their house in the next chapter, but that's the last you'll see of them in this story in this time period, until I switch to the present which won't be for a while longer.

For those of you stuck watching the dubbed DBZ, Bulma and Vegeta are not married. If you watch the Japanese version of when Mirai Trunks is talking to Goku, Mirai Trunks talks about how his parents never married "My mother…she saw how lonely he was. But they never married, moms like that…" this line was butchered up in the dub, and I'm not sure I got this line completely correct. But Trunks DOES say that his parents never married. My guest as to why they changed what Trunks said in the dub; is because by what the Japanese Mirai Trunks said, Vegeta and Bulma had sex and a child out of wedlock or before getting married. And by FUNimation standards this is something on there "No, no" list that children shouldn't see. Which the whole thing is hilarious when you remember that DBZ wasn't for little children to BEGIN WITH!

I'm not sure if were they ended up was close to Mount Paioz or not so I'm just going to say it is. It adds a little more tension to the chapter when Vegeta and Bulma finally meet. And I my self feel that was Bulma and Vegeta's true meeting place; Back when he came to Earth as an adult with Nappa, Bulma only saw him through Baba's crystal ball. On Namek Vegeta was either in a hurry or too absorbed in making sure he got all the Dragon Balls, or that he wasn't killed by any of Freiza's men, to notice Bulma at any of the times they were seen in the same scene. Plus at the time Yamcha's death was still on Bulma's mind. But in the scene's after they returned to Earth to when Freiza comes to Earth she seems to pay more attention to him even after Yamcha is wished back. So that is their first meeting spot to me, you can disagree with me if you want but that's my view on it.

I'm not sure if any of you will agree to me having them revel themselves to Gohan like that. But when I saw him in DB, he struck me as knowing more then he was letting on some of the times he was shown. As if he knew about curtain events that would happen in his adopted grandson's life, and he made sure to be there when needed. Such as when they were fighting Baba's spirit fighters to find the four star dragon ball, and Gohan was one of the fighters. Or when Chi Chi's father's castle was on fire and he just happened to be at the Earth's furnace, I'm not sure if it's called that. But he was there when Goku needed him to be at the most unpredictable times. All those events took place in DB or Dragon Ball the series of when Goku was a child.