A timeless affair

Chapter 1 – Unexpected encounter

Volunteers wanted for data gathering, payments included – For our long-term experiment we need female test people regarding our newest project, sponsored and developed by the Son Corporation. Applications should be made personally at Tuesday. No CV required. Further information only when joining the experiment.

Looking at the piece of paper Chichi had found in between the letters of her mailbox she frowned and switched her gaze from the paper back to the building before her and back to the small flyer. She had no idea why this little thing had landed into her hands; maybe she was just lucky enough to receive it.

And desperate enough to follow it.

Yet, breathing in deeply, Chichi wasn't sure about what to do.

She had to admit she was quite interested in this experiment as she knew the named company. and constantly was following their Insta-account with eagerness.
Sighing, Chichi put the flyer back into her bag and shook her head. 'I should stop daydreaming and concentrate on my studies first!', she reminded herself. Sure, it had always been her dream to work for the Son Corp. and she had sent more than one job application to them!

But unfortunately, it was impossible to apply for a job at all. She had tried many times but her applications always came back – unopened and unread.

And now it should be that easy to enter this company with just this little piece of paper? She wondered about that…

She ruffled her black bangs and cursed under her breath as she still didn't know what to do. Looking at the big front door made from glass she followed the letters with her eyes that were written on the top of it: "Your present is decided by your future." How philosophic.

Gripping her bag, Chichi inhaled deeply and made her first steps. A try shouldn't hurt, right? She could just walk in, look around, ask a few questions and leave again, if she didn't want to participate in the end. Piece of a cake!

Once the automatic door closed behind her and she was welcomed by a cool climatic breeze, she looked at the silver shining reception which was about six meters long and glittered freshly polished. The waxed floor made from grey marble mirrored her shivering self and Chichi recognized just how nervous she was. Stepping towards the receptionist – a small lady with a professional smile grazing her lips – she heard the click of her shoes being reflected by the walls and the high ceiling.

"Hello. How may I help you?" the woman questioned her friendly. Her light blue blouse was perfectly ironed and Chichi suddenly felt very underdressed.
"Uh…hi." She tried to smile just as beautiful as the receptionist did and probably failed. "I'm here to apply for the experiment regarding your project "Timeless Progress". I got this flyer and – "
"Yes, of course." She announced and cut off Chichi's sentence as if she knew exactly why she was here, handing her one piece of paper and a pen, her fake smile never leaving her face."Just fill out this sheet. And don't be afraid, it's just a common questioning document."

Taking everything with a small "Thank you" Chichi positioned herself two steps away from the other female and leaned her upper body against the big counter. Frowning, she quickly went through the questions they wanted her to answer.

Name – Chichi Ox

Origin–China

Age– 24

Profession – Student at T-University. Mastering in future technology and applied psychology.

Family status – Single

Special abilities or talents – Cooking, Martial Arts (Judo, Kendo and different offensive Styles)

What are you applying for – Experiment for project "Timeless Progress"

Why do you want to apply –

She halted and tapped the pen on the paper for a few times. Why did she want to apply? She absolutely had no idea how to answer that one. Sure, her dream had always been to work here but that's not something you should write down. And this one was just a simple experiment.

Scratching one of her eyebrows with her left index finger, she wondered what to write down. Was it important to answer that one now? What was a job interview for if not for answering questions like that? Why telling beforehand then?

Chichi glanced at the lady who tipped something on her keyboard and into the screen of her PC.

"I'm sorry?" she took her out of her concentration.

"Miss?"

"Do I have to answer all of those questions?"

"If you want the authorization for a job interview, I'm afraid you do have to answer all of them, yes."

"I see…"

"Is there a problem with the sheet?"

"No! No." She shook her head and concentrated on the last question again. "Everything's fine." She added absentmindedly and wrote down her answer: "Sudden desires are not explainable."

Chichi sighed. She was so going to get rejected…for a simply experiment! With a small smile she handed the sheet back to the lady who friendly took it from her grasp and nodded her thanks.

"Please follow these stairs to your right. Once you've reached the second floor turn right and enter the third room to your left. You will have to wait for a short amount of time. My colleague will take care of you afterwards." The lady explained to a confused Chichi who did not understand what was happening.
Thanking her with a quizzical look, she followed the description to the second floor and landed in a room – which apparently functioned as a waiting room – and sat down on one of the chairs. She was alone and analyzed unsurely and with a growing mistrust the walls and the poor decoration. It couldn't be that she was the only one here, regarding this thing, could it? Not even on the floor had she witnessed another person ghosting around. Her heart pulsated nervously.

Playing with the material of her handbag she waited until the second door to her right opened and another young woman signalized her to follow her. This lady too was smiling her beautiful yet very fake smile while showing the young girl around.

"This way, Miss Ox." She addressed her curtly and Chichi was surprised at how fast the lady had been informed about her name. They entered a little elevator – looked rather private to Chichi – and waited for the number to switch to floor 53. Opening the door after a minute the woman led Chichi inside a room only to close the elevator right behind her again.

Turning around startled she noticed that the lady hadn't followed her.

Turning once again and facing the inside of the room she noticed a male person standing with his back to her, looking out of the big window which basically dominated the whole wall.

Chichi gulped audibly, pressing her purse into her chest.

"Hello?" she tried to get his attention yet got none. As her – sometimes – uncontrolled temper was just about to explode due to the weird behavior inside this building she bravely stomped forward until she reached the pair of chairs - apparently for guests or business partners. Straightening her back, she was just about to say something as he suddenly spoke up. "The view from above looks marvelous, doesn't it? You can just see how time flies by while observing the people from up here."

Taken aback by his words Chichi stuttered. "Uh..uhm…I…I don't…huh….?"
He saved her from blabbering nonsense by continuing talking: "It's sad to know that nobody really thinks about the use of time, don't you think? And still, people always cry there's never enough of it." Turning around the elder man in his black suit sent her a beautiful charismatic smile. He was probably in his seventies, had an awfully gentle expression and looked horribly cute in his business suit. He was smaller than Chichi, had grey hair and a bushy beard just above his upper lip.

With his hands behind his back, he walked towards the girl, still smiling nonchalantly. "Miss Ox, I presume?" he addressed her friendly and showed her one of his outstretched hands. Taking it rather weakly she shook it with a small movement and nodded.
"My name's Son."
Son? That meant he was the president, wasn't he? Chichi felt her face losing color and was just about to pass out from sudden nervousness. She was speaking with the president. Personally?

'What is going on here?!' she screamed in her head.
"My pleasure." She choked out with a weak voice, barely noticeable.

His warm laugh relaxed her a little as his hand was still holding hers in a soft grip. "Don't panic, I won't bite."

Chichi just was able to nod slowly and felt lost as he let go of her hand again.

"I hope your arrival has been pleasant?" he small-talked.

"Everyone was very nice to me." She half whispered out of respect.

"Glad to hear that." He answered honestly before he sat down and gestured her to do so as well. She hastily obliged.

"So...you want to participate in one of our experiments?" he straight came to the point and grinned at her cheekily. She frowned as she answered him that she had found the flyer about the project in her mailbox just this morning. And she told him that she had been interested in their company ever since, so that's why she came here to give it a try.

'Although I might just think it was a bad idea coming here…'

The old man just nodded happily at every word Chichi said.

"Well then!" he clapped his hands just after she had finished talking what didn't last longer than one minute. "Welcome to our team."

"Huh?" Chichi looked at him dumbfounded. "But you haven't questioned me anything at all…I don't…" she shook her head disbelievingly.

He smiled. "The questioning will not be done by me. I'm merely the initiator. My…specialist will take care of that."

"I-I see." Chichi was dumbfounded and President Son smiled gently again.

"Well then, may I take you to the interview room? And do not be afraid, it will not take as long as described in the flyer."

"If you say so…?" Chichi whispered and got a light laugh as an answer before he stood up from his desk and went past her. Seeing him leave his office she was rather slow in following him as her brain couldn't keep up with everything.

With his hands behind his back again he entered the elevator, still smiling. Standing beside him Chichi couldn't stop playing with her bag. She was nervous, happy, confused and couldn't believe any of this.

She obviously was allowed to peek at the work of the Son Corp.

Looking at the number just above the sliding door of the elevator, she tried to distract herself while the silence was just about to kill her. She swore one was able to hear her thoughts and questions circulate in her brain!

"We're here." Mister Son's soft voice startled her only moments later. The number had switched to "U5" and Chichi knew they were rather deep under the ground. Breathing in deeply she nodded and watched the door slide to the side. The hallway was highlighted by a weak light, you hardly could made out structures or the texture of the wall.

Every step they made was echoing through the large hallway and gave her the feeling that there absolutely was nothing except the both of them. Chichi had goosebumps on her arms as she could feel a cold breeze around her.

If she had to scream down here nobody would probably hear her. Her mouth became dry. Her heart hammered inside her ear. Gazing at the back of the old man Chichi tried to focus on his movements as he wasn't making a scene to speak at all.
And the more they went through the hallway, the colder it got.
Chichi didn't know how long they were wandering around in this darkened corridor, but she was slightly getting impatient and the alarm clock in her head was permanently on tour now.

"Excuse me, ?" Chichi indicated a conversation after what felt like ten minutes. "But what exactly is the content of this project?"

"Time."

"Uh, time, Sir?" she frowned.

"Exactly."

The conversation ended as fast as it had started and Chichi was even more clueless than before. Maybe it would have been a better idea to turn around and flee? But there was no time now, basically, to think about running away anymore!

Still wondering what he had meant she almost stumbled over him as he suddenly stopped after another five-minute-walk in front of a massive door. Chichi had to lean her head into her neck to follow it right to the top. This door looked as if it was completely made from steel. Normally you would see such doors in movies where they try to hide something dangerously behind it. She gulped down a lump in her throat.

"Uh, Sir?" she interrupted him just as he started to tap in a code into the little keyboard on the right side of the steel-door. "Is this thing here functioning as a firewall, or….?"

"This is the entrance of the interview-roomm." The raspy old and gentle voice of the president explained to her matter-of-factly and Chichi hardly was able to stand anymore.

"This thing?" she pointed at it disbelievingly while president Son confirmed the code and the steel slowly gave way to present her a totally illuminated and white room. She stood there with wide eyes. What in the world did she get herself into?!

Chichi had the urge to turn around and run away.

"Uh…you know, I think it's better if I leave after all…." she whispered as she couldn't stop looking at this massive thing in front of her. Now she got cold feet. And her knees were shaking dangerously.

"Ah, balderdash, Miss Ox! Just look inside! It's nothing dangerous, it's just a room!" he kindly made a gesture to sign Chichi, she should go in first. She looked at him unsurely. Honestly, she didn't want to go inside. She had the feeling this man was trying to trick her into something!

"Uh…"

"Just one look. You can still decline the offer after seeing the inside." He smiled warmly as he pleaded. The president of her Oh-so-favorite-company pleaded!

'Why can't I handle pleading old men?!', she scolded her mind desperately.

Chichi gulped. She couldn't refuse him now, could she? She made her first steps to glance inside. When her head was only inches inside, she felt a light push from behind. With hasty movements she suddenly stumbled over her feet and landed with her face flat on the white ground.

Standing up Chichi cleaned her pants with her hands. "How embarrassing…" she mumbled to herself as she turned around, readying herself to see a laughing president behind her.

Yet everything Chichi saw was nothing. Where had the door gone to? Was her mind playing tricks on her? Wondering she turned her head around. "Mister Son?"

No reaction.

"Sir?"

White walls, white floor, white whatever her eye could reach.

"Hello?"

But still, no reaction from whoever.

"I think a blackout is absolutely appropriate…" she assured herself aloud as she started to hyperventilate and collapsed without another comment.

Kakarott had heard the door before she even was opened. Wondering what the old man was up to now, he made his way through the whiteness towards the location of the massive door which was the only way out of this "room". He had been in here for almost five years now, preparing and training himself. He liked it in here; he had enough time to become stronger as his instincts told him that he would need his full strength someday. Although he couldn't really predict what for.

But this room was created especially for him, and he only used the door every once a year. Not that he wanted to get out. But it was rather convenient to get some supplies before closing the door once again.

Yet today was not after one year and he didn't need anything in particular.

Unable to suppress the growl in his throat he let out an animalistic sound as he saw and felt an object lying in the distance which was unknown to him. It's low Ki telling him it had to be a human. Kakarott snarled angrily. He had been living on earth for almost twenty years now - the five years excluded - but he wasn't familiar with the species called earthling and he never wanted to. The only person who ever was allowed to come close to him was the old man who had adopted him as he had landed on earth as a child. And even if other persons might have had the opportunity to come close to him, they wouldn't dare. Everybody else was afraid of him, and he was rather pleased with that.

A snarl escaped his lips as suddenly the scent of a female crawled up his nostrils and he had trouble to control the anger flooding his system – or the sudden arousal. He might be someone who liked his peace, but he was still a man with needs. Although he hated to admit that.

The hair on his neck stood straight as soon as he stood before the unconscious woman. The way she laid on the floor looked uncomfortable, but Kakarott couldn't care less about her sleeping habits.

She was here and he didn't want her to be here. End of discussion. She needed to leave as quickly as possible.

Nodding to himself, Kakarott wanted to finish this business asap as he suddenly heard her moan in distress. He huffed as he glanced down at the female. This "taking care of others" was pissing him off but somehow, he had adapted to that behavior while staying on earth for too long. He simply couldn't help it, he had gotten conditioned by Mr. Son, like the animal he was.

So, without another word he kneeled down to a crouch and slapped her on the cheek with the back of his hand in order to wake her up. He tried to lessen the strength in his hit but as soon as he had touched her, her eyes snapped open, and she held her hurting face while rolling to the side in pain. Her muffled cry was perfectly ignored by him.

"Woman! He barked and she halted in her movements as she realized someone was talking to her. Her back was turned to him, and she had to incline her neck to see him. Her dark brown orbs were wide open in wonder and one single tear snuggled itself perfectly in the corner of her left eye. Staring at him she looked quite confused. Her breathing accelerated as a thought probably formed inside her mind, and she fanatically started to scan the area without a second glance to Kakarott.

"The door!" she whispered as she scattered to her feet and walked a few steps away from him. "Where's the door!" waving around with her tiny hands she tried to grasp the air. Kakarott lifted one of his eyebrows. Was she trying to pantomime or what…?

"No no no no no no no!" she mumbled in front of herself as she still tried to find that stupid, freaking massive steel door! Massive steel doors didn't just disappear like that! Taking off her shoe she threw it against the whiteness of the room, hoping to find something like an object, but she watched in pure horror as her shoe kept flying.

Until it landed with a low sound on the ground about thirty meters away from her.

She looked at it in silence.

"You have to be joking…" she half laughed desperately before she groaned aloud and made the whiniest noise she had ever produced. All of this was just so not happening!

Kakarott had to hold in a growl as the panicked woman was slightly getting on his nerves. Maybe it would have been better to simply throw her out without waking her up. But it was too late now to do so. Standing up he flared up his aura as he felt rather ignored by the intrusion which was walking up and down and talking to herself. She wanted to leave? He could help her with that.

Turning towards the door – who was hiding itself behind a field of force, becoming invincible – he grabbed the handle and pushed. Nothing happened. He tried it again, and rattled on the door but it remained closed.

Oh, that old bastard had done it now, had he not?

A vein pulsated visibly on his forehead, and he had to held in his beastly anger. He did not want to destroy the door to his personal refuge. But if he would stay, he knew he would take his anger out on that woman. Not that it wasn't tempting, but he wasn't in the mood to kill and splatter blood on the floor.

He let out an angry snarl as she cried a rather loud "Let me out!" that ringed in his sensitive ears. But before he was able to allow his beast to just grip her neck, he stilled it and started to walk away, shutting her out of his mind. Killing her would probably solve the noise-problem but he had no intention to do so. Not now.

So, he went simply away, hoping his beast would remain calm and stay hidden until he could come up with a solution to this mess.

But when her shoe landed a hit on his back, he had to stop in his tracks.

Oh, she was messing with her life now, wasn't she?

Chichi stopped pulling her hair in despair as she felt a strong aura leaving her. Oh right, the hallucination she had when she woke up! How could she forget about it so quickly?

"Don't!" she yelled after him but got ignored. Of course. No male ever had shown any interest in her, why should her own hallucination be any different?

Inhaling the air through her nostrils angrily, she stood there with her destroyed hairstyle and with only one shoe left on her feet. "Hey!" she shouted at him again. But the man wasn't listening to her at all.

Cleaning her face free from her last tears she felt her temper grow. Why in the world was every male person ignoring her? Even her own fantasies! Making a noise that sounded like the growl of a little puppy, Chichi took her other shoe and threw it at the direction her hallucination was walking off to. When she heard the object hitting the soft back of him, she looked at the person standing there with wide eyes.

She got him? Her shoe didn't go through him? So that meant he was real?

Gasping, she held in another sob that rippled through her body and started to run towards the man instinctively, ready to pull him into a big embrace as she wanted to thank the gods that she wasn't alone in here!

Yet the only thing she met was a big, rough hand around her neck holding her up.

"Yeah, real! Definitely real!" she choked out as she scratched and ripped at the arm holding her up. She couldn't breathe!

"Woman, cease your struggling!" the man hissed as he looked at her with angry eyes. He was angry at her? Because she had hit him with a tiny shoe, size 6? If she had thought her temper was bad than his was even worse.

Feeling her vision become blurry rather quickly she tried to focus on the dark eyes. "Can't breathe…!" she pressed out. "Let go…! Please!" Her legs swung in the air as she tried to kick him. Well, she landed a powerful one against his chest, but it apparently didn't hurt him at all.

Her nails bored themselves into the skin of his arm, but he felt the pressure and her strength weaken rapidly. Blinking a few times, he cursed under his breath as he opened his hand and let her go again. She landed uncomfortably on her buttocks and let out a small noise of pain.

His beast had to go back in his cage, or he would really strangle her to death. And he still had no desire to kill the woman whose neck felt incredibly soft, he had to admit in annoyance.

Chichi just sat there on her butt and tried to teach her lungs again how to inhale as her eyes focused on his black boots. Maybe her life had turned dramatically upside down now, but she still was able to understand that he had almost choker her to death! And look at him! He was standing right before her without saying anything!

As her temper quickly flared up, she glared up at him and with her last strength, flipped her body until her leg collided with his feet as she indented to make him fall down himself! Yet as he continued standing there like a rock, she tried to kick him again.

And again.

Until she felt the familiar pain of a hematoma on her shin. Gritting her teeth, she looked up at him in frustration. "At least have the sense of decency and fake a fall, damn it!" Chichi cried out with her dry throat, feeling completely embarrassed by his unemotional stare. Her cheeks turned red as her frustration once again hit her poor self and she sniffed a few times before she tried to blink the tears away.

'Oh just let this be a horrible, horrible dream!' she cried in her head as she buried her face in her palms.

Kakarott on the other hand had to hold in a roar of frustration himself as the weeping female began to start her self-pitying once again. Well, he was impressed that she had tried to challenge him. She obviously wasn't as weak – if only physically – as her gender normally was. But if she wouldn't stop assaulting his presence with her constant crying his beast would attack her again!

"Woman!" he barked as she wouldn't stop sniffling and the salty scent hit his nose like poison. His beast rumbled inside of him, and he kneeled to her eye-level, grabbed her shoulders and shook her lightly. As lightly as his strength allowed him to. "Stop your crying this instant or I might do worse than just strangle you!" he warned her and was rather surprised as her eyes shot him death glares although she still hiccupped loudly.

"Don't tell me what to do, you big stupid, horrible, arrogant gorilla!" she yelled at him with her still very dry throat as she slapped his hands away only to slump down seconds after again. He was dumbfounded. Nobody had ever dared to say anything like that to him!

"Oh why did I agree to this stupid experiment…" she whispered as she robbed away from him and encircled her legs, hiding her nose between her knees. "I should have stopped going inside…" she talked to herself. "… I shouldn't have walked into the building. I shouldn't have followed him willingly to the basement. Above all I really shouldn't have looked into the room. A massive door is always dangerous, Chichi! You have watched more than one horror movie, you should have known better!" she scolded herself.

"Woman…" Kakarott now growled dangerously. He didn't really get her blabbering, and he didn't even want to know, but she obviously didn't want to be here. And he didn't want to have her here. Yet her constant talking was driving him nuts! And the fact that she wasn't scared of him just angered him additionally!

"One day your curiosity's going to break your neck." She continued without considering listing to him. "But don't panic, now. Don't panic…Just search for a solution. Stay calm and find a way…You can do this!"

Alright, now he had enough! She wasn't listening to him, and he hated non submission more than too much noise! His "grandfather" absolutely had to take her back. Right now! Grabbing her arm forcefully he ignored her scream perfectly as he took her with him.

"Let go!" she yelled as she punched his hand. "You're hurting me!" and another punch hit the back of his hand. He smirked slightly as she tried to cause him pain but was unable to do so…stupid woman. His species was unable to feel any kind of agony.

Suddenly, a shudder went through his body and his throat emitted a uncharacteristic purr. The strangely comfortable sensation crawled from the back of his hand down his entire body. He growled dangerously at the sensual feeling.

Turning towards the female he saw her biting into his hand with full force, knowing instantly what the origin for the sexual tension was. He never had heard of a human woman biting others. Would she do more than that…? He wondered.

But as he refused to let go of her and continued dragging her with him she started to make her puppy-growl and sunk her teeth even more into his skin.

He naturally would never admit it, but this fragile creature amused him. Very much so.

"Woman, I've told you before to cease your struggling." He repeated in his unemotional deep voice before he grabbed her around her waist and threw her over his shoulder, making her shriek in surprise. The more she pulled to slow him down the more she provoked him to run. The spot she had bitten bled lightly, and he didn't like that sight at all as it aroused him dramatically. He bared his teeth in an animalistic movement as he encircled her legs with his arm and speed up to reach his "basement". This might have seemed like a white room with no walls, but even here you had some comfort like a bed, a toilet and a bath.

Meanwhile her little fists pounded into his back. "Let me down, bastard!" she said each word between one of her punches. "Let me down! This instant!"

Stopping her assault on his back as he wouldn't react at all she sighed as all strength left her. "I don't want to do this stupid experiment anymore!" she announced like a little child and wiggled her feet as good as she could as she was being held up by the stranger who suddenly had to grab the underline of her butt as she slightly started to slip off from his shoulder. He tweaked into her bottom what made her shriek in surprise.

"Stop moving." He ordered harshly as the softness of her ass surprised even him. Five years of absolute abstinence were suddenly very clear in his mind, and he cursed under his breath as a movement down below reminded him of something he had tried to forget. He harrumphed.

The sooner she was gone the better!

Reaching his goal finally and throwing her off and onto the floor gladly he stomped towards the little transmitter that looked like an old-fashioned phone. He put the hearer on his ear and waited for someone to answer it. She wanted to be gone, he wanted her gone – now someone just had to understand their wishes and the case was closed. He waited for someone to pick up, his foot hitting the ground under his feet rhythmically.

Chichi in the meantime stared at the simple bed and the rest of the small interior with wide eyes. 'Just what in the world….is that?'

"You have to be fucking kidding me!" the angry hiss of the person beside her took her back to reality – or to her awful realistic dream. She still couldn't understand what was happening. And obviously her previous hallucination couldn't either as he was staring at the phone in disbelief. He crashed it down on the base with full force – breaking the small table it was standing on in one go yet the phone was magically still intact - before he looked at her with a furious expression. But instead of being afraid of him, he only provoked her to snap.

"What?" she hissed as he wouldn't stop looking and she felt how this guy did not want to have her around. Not that she wanted to be around, too. But instead of saying anything he exhaled loudly as he narrowed his eyes, turned around and stomped away, leaving her alone and confused as she watched his figure becoming a little dot in the white distance.

Still sitting on the floor Chichi tried to collect her calm as she sniffed and cleaned her runny nose rather unladylike with the back of her hand before she pulled her hair up and tied it into a messy bun. The man who had left her minutes before was still a little black dot in this "somewhere" of this "something". Looking at her wristwatch she frowned and tapped the glass with her index finger.

"Great…" she muttered as the seconds counter wasn't moving at all! "It's broken! Just what I need!" She huffed in annoyance.

Losing the bracelet of her wristwatch she threw the small object effortlessly into her bag which she obviously and unknowingly had taken with her. Pinching the root of her nose she sighed as she felt the warning of an upcoming headache. What was she going to do now? Well, this whole mess was not a dream, nor was it pure imagination, nor could she change anything as she was stuck in here without a door leading to the outside. To top it all off she was in here with an unfriendly male who was more than just willingly ignoring her after bringing her here for what purpose ever.

As her mind was a mess, she couldn't come up with an explainable thought either. And honestly, she didn't want to come up with one right now.

Glancing around the poor decoration she noticed with an uncomfortable feeling in her stomach that there was only one bed. Well, there was always the possibility of sleeping on the floor…Leaving the bed she saw a small kitchen counter which was barely used, right beside a giant fridge. Both objects just stood there as if somebody had left them there carelessly. There was no structure, no sense of architecture, no clear lines, no nothing. Even the closet – well, she guessed that's what it was – just stood beside the bed as if it had no meaning at all. Not that there was anything for her to put in, she snorted as she looked at her attire from the corner of her eyes.

Chichi let her gaze wander further until she saw something that let her heart slump to the ground like granite.

'That is so not happening!' she shrieked inside of her head before she closed her eyes shut, whishing for this to be just a stupid and very unfunny joke! But as she saw it a second time she whimpered silently before she held back another sob.

A small toilet was standing proudly in the distance; a white porcelain thing in the middle of this white hell. No walls, no privacy and no peace. To add more to the misery, the shower was standing right beside it, being nothing more than a pipe with a small showerhead which was coming out of the floor. The bathtube stood proudly beside it. No curtain, nothing to hide behind, nothing to shield yourself with.

Chichi had the urge to vomit right were she sat. But as she was still too shocked, she just continued sitting there tiredly while looking a hole into the ground, her mind absolutely blank. In fact, her state matched the room quite perfectly.

Kakarott held himself back to bellow loudly as he sensed her distress even though he was far enough away from her. He even could smell her dissatisfaction and taste her frustration on his tongue. He couldn't help himself but smirk arrogantly as he thought that her being dissatisfied and frustrated could be solved rather quickly, although he wasn't really interested in becoming physical with her all of a sudden. Brushing the smile away from his face he shut her out of his mind once more as he had to calm himself down. There were other and more important things in his head right now: Why had nobody answered his call? What was his father thinking getting her in here? What was she talking about when saying "experiment"? And the most important: what was he going to do with her for the time being?

If the door has been opened then the year was going to start from anew. He presumed that was the time his grandfather wanted that female to stay in here. And either he was going to retrieve her by himself or Kakarott had 365 days time to strengthen his abstinence. A sudden twitch of his member made him stop in his movements. Growling lightly he closed his eyes as his nostrils flared up in frustration, the raw scent of her skin hitting him quite brutally. His beast purred in anticipation.

The first possibility was not an option, Kakarott concluded angrily as he shoved his beast back into his cage. She had to leave as soon as possible before he was able to do something he was going to regret! Probably.

Hours later, as the room started to darken by itself, telling his mind that it was getting late, Kakarott stopped his training and decided to walk back. As he had exhausted himself pretty much, he hoped he was too tired to pay any attention to the newcomer. Hopefully she would be able to read the signs and let him be as well. Sniffing the air while stomping back he noticed with his eyebrows up in wonder that she wasn't emanating the smell of confusion anymore. No, rather than tasting confused her scent suddenly held sweetness in it that fogged his brain quite comfortably. He shook his head in order to come back to his senses.

The more the basement came in sight the sweeter the air got and the more his nerves started to vibrate in his body. Kakarott only halted in his step as he stood right before her sleeping form. She had curled herself into a little ball, her knees touching her chest while her hands were lying in front of her face. She looked like a cat, seeking her own warmth.

"Hn." He dryly commented as he told himself again, not to get involved with her. This was the first task in order to harden himself up. The lesser he came in touch with the female the lesser were the problems on his body and the effect she had on him. Treat her like air and she becomes air. Nodding to himself he let her lay on the ground after absentmindedly tossing a blanket over her figure before he stomped over towards the shower.

A/N:

This is the beginning of a short story I've started to write a long time ago. There are not going to be more than 3 or 4 chapters, at the most. I've not written much between Chichi and Goku as Kakarott, but I had the urge to present you a finished (emphasis lies on finished) story with them as protagonists.

I recently read stories from other authers (from different pairs I like) which were just so god damn good! Their stories just blew my mind! It was a feast to my eyes and soul. And it ignited my phantasies.

So here I am, trying to snuggle myself in a space between those geniuses out there :)

I'm trying to upload a chapter every two weeks!

Unless you think this story is trash, then I'm deleting it immediately again!

NEXT CHAPTER UP ON 09/11/21