Lucy chapter 9

Goku lays on his bed, his body still reeling from the orgasm he just gave himself. Goku knows full well that he's not a smart guy, in fact he's quite the opposite. There is lots of stuff he doesn't understand, things he doesn't get, but he does know that he shouldn't have been thinking about Vegeta while he touched himself. But he was, he was thinking about Vegeta the whole time and it was good, better than when he thinks about anyone else, it was almost as good as when Chichi does it for him. He wondered what Chichi would say if she knew, Goku gets the feeling she would be very angry and tell him he can't hang out with Vegeta anymore, he doesn't want that. He has waited so long to get close to the only other Saiyan alive. He can't ruin it now.

Maybe it was a mistake to kiss his cheek the way he did. Goku can't explain the things he's feeling, he can't put a name to the emotions coursing through him but he can't deny that something has changed between him and his old friend. Goku has never felt such a strong urge to put his mouth on someone else, the feeling couldn't be ignored, it was just too strong. He just hopes that he hasn't freaked Vegeta out and made him not want to be friends anymore.

He knows something is up with Vegeta, he feels wrong somehow. His energy feels different than any other thing he has felt before. Goku has been careful not to mention this to Vegeta too much. The only time he did say anything Vegeta changed the subject quickly, giving Goku the impression that he didn't wanna talk about it, he said he had been doing some special training, that's why he felt different but Goku knew that was a lie. There was no training that could make your energy that weird.

One moment Vegeta's power is through the roof, raising higher even than Goku's and the next it's dropped so low Goku can barely feel it at all, strange. He wonders if his friend Piccolo has picked up on it, he is usually pretty good at sensing changes in people's energy, and Goku knows for a fact that he always keeps an extra close eye on Vegeta, just in case he turns bad again and tries to blow up the earth like he did before. Goku smiles at his memories while pulling on his shoes and searching for Piccolo's energy.

Piccolo is standing on a cliff minding his own business when Goku appears beside him. He already knows what he is going to ask. Goku is here to find out what is up with Vegeta, and Piccolo has no idea how to answer that question. This isn't something that often happens to Piccolo, he's a very smart guy, he knows nearly everything, but he doesn't know what is going on with Vegeta. He can tell that something is up with the grumpy little prince and if he was forced to hazard a guess he would probably have to say he had turned into a zombie. Piccolo didn't much like the conclusion he had come to, and he certainly wasn't about to try and explain his theory to Goku.

The only thing Piccolo is 100% sure of is that last week, he felt Vegeta die, he wasn't asleep or unconscious, he was dead. Completely and utterly dead. Piccolo had headed straight to the spot where he felt the other die, admittedly himself and Vegeta were never close, he never fully trusted the Saiyan and he was well aware that Vegeta didn't trust him either. They abided each other on the rare occasion they had to get together only for the sake of Goku. When Piccolo entered the small clearing in the woods where he knew Vegeta had fallen, no one was there. He looked in all the bushes and all the trees, even though he knew he wouldn't find him there. He searched near enough the whole forest, nothing. No sign of Vegeta anywhere, it was like he died and then was completely evaporated from the face of the earth. Piccolo was just trying to work up the courage to tell Bulma what he had felt when Vegeta's energy became existent again. Out of thin air, suddenly he was back, it was definitely Vegeta, there was no mistaking his strong, dark power, but something was different. His energy felt colder, harder, almost scary.

Piccolo did go and check on Vegeta, just to make sure Bulma was safe more than anything else. He stood in the couples' massive bedroom and watched Vegeta sleep for a while. He looked pretty normal, to the untrained eye he looked exactly the same, but to piccolo he was somehow wrong. The princes heart was beating a little slower, his breathing a touch more laboured, but since he was a dead man he shouldn't have been breathing at all. Piccolo hung around for a while, he stayed hidden in the background, just until Bulma woke up, he needed to make sure she was safe from her husband. He seemed fine with her, so Piccolo left. Not before reading the texts that Vegeta was contemplating sending to Goku. These confused Piccolo, if he didn't know Vegeta better he would have thought he was trying to flirt with the younger Saiyan. Piccolo decided to keep a close watch on Vegeta, and by keeping a close eye on Vegeta he had no choice but to watch Goku as well. The two have been basically joint at the hip since Vegeta died, something else that has been baffling Piccolo for a week now. He was even more shocked when Goku started acting peculiar too, Piccolo is aware of Goku's feelings for Vegeta, he has watched the young Saiyan fight for his attention year after year, never getting anywhere but what he didn't expect was for Goku to kiss Vegeta, that was an unexpected surprise.

"Hey Piccolo," Goku greets his friend with his huge signature grin. Piccolo can't help but smile back, Goku has that effect on people, he's just so likeable that his face alone is enough to cheer up even the moodiest of people.

"Goku, what brings you all the way out here?" Piccolo asks, pretending he doesn't already know.

"I just wanted to see how you were, and ask you a couple things," Goku muses.

"I'm fine, and I don't know what's up with Vegeta," Piccolo answers hiding his smile by looking in the opposite direction to Goku.

"Ha-ha, what made you think I was gonna ask about Vegeta?" Goku laughs nervously, blushing a little, though he isn't sure why.

"Were you going to ask me about Vegeta?" Piccolo asks.

"Yeah, I don't know why, he just feels different." Goku admits, dropping to the floor and sitting with his feel dangling over the edge of the cliff. "And he's kinda acting different too, I'm a bit confused," Goku says with a sigh.

"In what way is Vegeta making you feel confused?" Piccolo asks, wondering what the hell he'll tell Goku. There is no way he's gonna tell the truth. He also wonders if he should be bringing up the way Goku kissed Vegeta earlier.

"In every way. It's like I always wanted to be friends with him, and he was never interested. And now he suddenly wants to be best buddies and you'd think that would make me happy, and it did at first, but now I think I want… Something else from him." Goku sounds really sad as he speaks, he doesn't understand his feelings at all. Piccolo sighs and sits down of the cliff next to his old friend, this is going to be a difficult conversation.

"What do you want from him?"

"I want to… Kiss him. I did kiss him; do you think Chichi would be mad?"

"Err, yes Goku, Chichi would certainly be mad, you see when you married her you kind of made a promise not to kiss other people, why did you kiss Vegeta?"

"I couldn't help it, my mouth just did it without me telling it to, his skin felt soft," Goku reminisces, his hand absentmindedly lifting to touch his lip as he thought about the way it felt to kiss Vegeta. He had to be honest, it felt like heaven, Goku wanted more than anything to regret kissing him, he knew he should be overrun with guilt but he couldn't be, he was on cloud nine about it. His very own lips had touched Vegeta's face, he tasted Vegeta's sweat in his mouth, a salty flavour that Goku would never forget and always crave more of, kissing Vegeta is the stuff that dreams are made of, it was nothing short of beautiful.

"What are you thinking about right now?" Piccolo asked, hearing Goku's heart skip a few beats.

"Vegeta," Goku admits looking at his hands that are resting in his lap.

"Goku, do you love your wife?" Piccolo asks bluntly, he has a lot of respect for Chichi and doesn't want to see her get hurt by all of this, but he also doesn't want to see Goku in love with Vegeta and never able to be with him. It was a slippery situation that was going to end in tears one way or another, but regardless of that the situation had to be dealt with.

"I'm not sure if I know what love is anymore. Chichi makes me happy, and I feel secure and calm when I'm with her. I thought that was love. Vegeta makes me feel something different though, it's hard to explain, it's kinda like he sets me on fire, but I like the burn. He makes my hands shake and my chest bang and when I'm with him I feel like I'm scared and excited, but I'm home, does that make sense?"

Piccolo doesn't know how to answer that, under normal circumstances he would advise Goku to decide, Chichi or Vegeta, it wasn't fair to have them both, but seeing as Vegeta could be dead, it seemed like bad advice. Piccolo still wasn't sure if Vegeta was dangerous or not.

"Yeah, it makes perfect sense, you like him, a lot. Maybe for now you should stay away from Vegeta, just until you get your head together and decide what you want to do with those feelings," Piccolo advises, just trying to buy himself some more time to figure out what the deal is with Vegeta. If he's not dangerous and he feels the same for Goku there is no reason why the two of them can't be together, Piccolo has never agreed with people who stay in a relationship just because they are married, if Goku has fallen in love with someone else the best thing he could do is divorce Chichi, for both if their happiness.

"I don't know if I can stay away from him," Goku muses.

"Well in that case, be careful, there is something different about Vegeta and I don't know what it is. And, no more kissing him, that's not fair on Chichi. You need to make a decision."

"Can't I have them both?" Goku asked, Piccolo had to smile a little at Goku's innocence, he really didn't understand how the world works.

"No Goku, you can't have them both, that would make both of them very upset. Well, unless they agreed to it and I can't see either of them being willing to share you, you have to choose one," Piccolo felt sad as he saw Goku's face drop, his usual smile nowhere to be seen.

"I suppose I'll have to choose Chichi then, she is my wife after all…" He trails off, Piccolo can't help but notice the sadness in Goku's voice. A little jingle plays from Goku's pocket, he pulls out his phone at the speed of light, the smile firmly back on his handsome face.

"It's Vegeta!" He exclaims, bouncing excitedly as he opens the message "He wants to meet up somewhere tomorrow," Goku says as he types back.

"And I assume you are telling him no because you are choosing Chichi?" Piccolo asks, knowing that this is not the case at all.

"Oh, I mean I'll meet him tomorrow and after that I will choose Chichi, just one more day can't hurt, can it?" Goku jumps up excitedly. Piccolo just shrugs.

"See you later Piccolo," Goku calls as he lifts his fingers to his head and vanishes.

Piccolo sighs and stands back up, staring out across the beautiful landscape beneath him. Goku hasn't realised it yet, but he has already chosen Vegeta. This is going to be hard on Chichi, but Piccolo has never known a woman as strong and capable as her, she will get through it, she will probably come out the other side even stronger, and if she needed any help, Piccolo would be happy to comply.