Chapter 50. Disobedience
When Akane came to the solar with Biran, her brother's eyes had finally returned to their normal size. Even so he wasn't less stumped and the more Akane told him about the history preceding her mate's kingship, the less Biran was inclined to believe her story. Akane abandoned her efforts to convince him and motioned him to sit down at the large table in the front room that bore a feast great enough to feed ten Kings. It was untouched which was strange because Akane sensed her mate in the bed chamber ahead.
"Have some food." Akane said. "I'll be right back."
Her brother wasn't listening anymore and literally dove in to the food famished. The tribes clearly hadn't fed him quite sufficiently during his long stay in the South.
Akane left him to it and made for the bed chamber where she found her mate lying boots on and splayed atop the furs on the immense bed just like she had done earlier.
Vegeta sat up on his elbow when the door fell shut behind her back. Dire was the look on his unreasonably well-favoured face and the silence he held screamed the seriousness of his predicament. The untouched food was explained at this scene. Her mate was hungry, but it wasn't for food. The black spandex that clung to his powerful form left nothing to guess at. Her eyes travelled up the distinctly defined muscles of his legs and thighs to where she found that he was in quite a state.
Her own hunger piqued, she let him in through their bond and her blood was brought to an instant boil at the raw need he had for her. It wouldn't surprise her if steam started rising from every pore on her skin. His lust made her reel and she pushed him back out with a sharp breath. Her eyes left the grand state of his pride to find a very suggestive grin creeping onto his face.
"Staggering isn't it?" Vegeta asked in his low voice. "You can come sit on it if you have such trouble keeping to your feet, little one. I won't mind."
That he could sound so nonchalant while that unwieldy need ate away at him was an outstanding achievement. Akane only had a taste of it and she was having a hard time dealing.
"My brother is here." she said with the little breath that was left to her.
"I know. Now you can finally get some sleep." Vegeta let out a soft laugh to match his suggestive smirk. "Well not now per se. I mean after I have seen to you. You will need it to be sure. It is safe to say that when I am done with you, sleep will be the only thing remaining to you."
Akane twitched involuntarily. His words send her up in flames. "No he is here, in the solar."
Vegeta lifted a brow with mild interest. "Is there something wrong with your ears? I said I know."
"Then stop getting on my tits and come meet him." Akane snapped put out as he leisurely began to peel off her battle suit with his eyes.
The filthy smirk gave way for his earlier graveness. "I am not pissing about, Akane. Go send him off if it bothers you, or try to be still and well-behaved for a change. It is all the same to me. I would have fucked you with him in the room. My balls are ready to fall right off."
That would be awfully sad. Akane tried to loosen her tightened muscles, tried to oppose the commanding dark eyes that held her and tried to keep her wits about her, yet her sanity left her with every grating word he spoke. He was right. It had been far too long.
"I want to show him my kitten." it was a feeble objection and her mate knew it too.
Vegeta sat up at her lack of complience and summoned her to him with a single gloved finger. "No, what you want is to get your big arse out of that suit and into this bed with me. And if you don't do so within the following seconds, I'm afraid I'm going to have to hurt you."
His kingship certainly hadn't done anything to humble him. Akane smirked, deciding to push him on a bit even she was as starved as he was. "You think you're quite something now that you're King, don't you, little lord? You wait your turn."
She snickered at the outrage on his face and slipped out of the bed chamber, throwing the door shut just as he reached it. It remained closed and Akane could picture him standing behind it with clenched fists and teeth. Seething no doubt. She was going to pay for this later and the prospect of him taking out all that frustration on her made her shiver. She was in for a treat.
"Come have a look, Biran." Akane called to her brother at the table.
Biran left the food for what it was only reluctantly and they entered the silent nursery together, her brother still munching on a huge wodge of cheese.
Biran peered inside the cot curiously and a huge smile came to his stuffed face when he found Aina sleeping inside it. He swallowed the wodge of cheese whole so that he was able to say: "Sweet Mother, sister. She looks exactly like you when you were a whelp. What is her name?"
"Aina." Akane said as she aimed her arse in the window seat across the room. She laughed at Biran's incredulous look to the munched down latticework of the cot and added: "She is teething." And as that proved too meagre an explanation: "She has ascended to super like me. In fact she came into the world in her super form. Nearly did me in too. That is why I was able to ascend myself."
"That is corking." Biran said awestruck. "I never even believed in the legend. What about the King?"
Vegeta appeared in the door frame at the right moment, his face tuned in on hell. Akane was just wondering when he would finally come in to set her straight. She stretched her body in the window seat, in the angry glare of Vegetasei's suns coming in through the window at her back and it glanced almost blindingly off of her crimson suit. It took her mate difficulty to avert his smouldering eyes from her. Anger made the corner of his mouth twitch. She snickered again. Oh yes, she was going to pay.
"My mate's power is truly corking, brother. He is fucking awesome. Aina and I don't even come close to matching him." she said with theatrical admiration.
Vegeta seemed ready to grem at this, but contained himself and said: "That must have slipped your mind just now." He gave her no more attention, which caused him trouble, and joined Biran at the cot. He peeked in and asked passingly as ever: "Looks like her, right?"
"As the suns." Biran agreed. He gave a stately nod then. "It is good to meet you, King Vegeta."
Vegeta gave a nod in return. The two men fully faced each other and exchanged a curt arm shake. Her mate would not admit it, but Akane knew it had to please him that he was actually eye to eye with a man for a change. He didn't come across many Saiyajin men that matched him in height. His power well made up for what he might miss in height though, as did his attitude. If one should ask Akane to describe her mate, short would be the last thing coming to mind.
Incensed was a suitable description for him right now, although he was quite achieved in masking it as he engaged in conversation with the young Protector of the Eastern Quarter of Vegetasei.
"You took your time to reach the capital." Vegeta said.
"Apologies for my delay, my King. I would have come sooner, but I was at the tribes for the coming war." Biran answered with easy regard.
This pleased her mate as well. A week into his kingship and Vegeta was already thoroughly fed up with the endless grovelling of his subordinates. Who would have thought that his Royal Arrogance could ever grow bored of such admiration. Her brother's conduct wasn't unexpected to him in any case. He had long since learned that she did not grovel and neither did her brother, not even for their King. Remnants of having a tribes woman for a mother. Vegeta had no use for it either. What he needed was respect for his title and that did not lack in Biran's candid conduct.
"Did the Chieftains join you here?" Vegeta inquired.
"Only one. The tribes sent the Chieftain of the Shield Smashers as their spokesman."
"He is our mother-brother." Akane cut in proudly.
Vegeta waved her away with a rough gesture of the hand. He had no mind to forgive her for walking away yet. "What do you mean spokesman?" he asked Biran.
"My brother united the tribes." Akane interrupted again just to irritate Vegeta further. She was going to collect later and the more infuriated her mate was, the more fun it meant for her.
Vegeta refused to budge and beheld his soon to be brother-by-law in stead. He was impressed. "That couldn't have been easy."
"It was nigh impossible." Biran assured him. "The tribes have more blood-enemies amongst themselves than the whores of Centon have patronage. The heads were flying left, right and centre. I thought there wouldn't be a bleeding tribes man left come the end of our negotiations."
"And you're calling me crude." Akane pointed out with a snicker. "Honestly Biran, is that any way to talk to your King?" she took on the broadest smile she could muster and said to Vegeta: "Your adversary's father joined the Chieftain to the palace. He is in for a surprise with Kakarot."
"The shame will have him curse his seed and emasculate himself." Vegeta said as he finally acknowledged her sitting there in the window seat.
"Piss." Akane said in appreciation of the remark. She chuckled at the fire in his dark eyes. "His chopper might well fall off all on its own. Do you know where Turles has gone? I promised his father I would send him down."
"Servant's cell, storage room, the bleeding privy, hell if I know where he goes to bag off with my servants." Vegeta said in an offhand fashion.
He didn't feel quite as indifferent because his bitterness pricked Akane's skin like countless needles. She was getting there, he was about ready to flip his lid.
"That will make his father proud." Biran injected.
Akane left the chafed skin of the arm she was rubbing and grinned at her brother. "Indeed. The man gets to keep his cock after all. I must say, he is quite a specimen."
"Imagine having to haggle with hundreds more like him." Biran laughed. "The men aren't half as bad as their women though. Mother was a purring kitten compared to some of the lasses I met in the South. They scared the kack right out of me. I think you managed to impress my fellow travellers though."
"Oh I bet." Vegeta said dryly.
It graced him that his rancour abandoned him to make room for amusement and Akane decided that he had suffered enough. And also that her own suffering would very soon begin.
"Say Biran, now that I am to be the Queen I have my own bower. Why don't you join me there for supper later. We can talk more then." she thus said.
Biran wasn't that slow on the uptake and, not of a mind to wear out his welcome, made ready to leave. "Sounds like a plan, sister. I should get settled in."
He gave Vegeta another nod, winked brotherly at Akane and left the nursery.
"And bring the tribes men." Akane called after him. "Tell them that to honour their presence I shall break habit and eat with my hands as is their fashion."
Her mate couldn't get himself to give more recognition for the joke than a snort of dour laughter.
With her brother it was not so. Biran's vivacious laugh boomed from the front room, reminding her again of their father. "That is very clever. Have you even learned how to hold a dagger yet? See you this eve." he bid and seconds later the double doors of the solar could be heard falling shut behind him.
"Should I start running?" Akane teased.
Vegeta gave her a very unpleasant grin. "You could try, but I doubt you would get very far."