Lucy chapter 11
Goku feels warm and comfortable as he slowly wakes up, he doesn't want to be awake yet and wills himself to drift back off but it's not happening. He stretches his arms and buries his face in Vegeta's hair, deeply breathing in the scent of the other Saiyan, sleeping on his chest. Vegeta? wait…. That's not right. Goku's eyes fly open as he realises his mistake, how could he have fallen asleep all snuggled up with Vegeta like this, what if someone had seen them.
"Crap, crap, crap," He whispers trying to worm his way out from under Vegeta's weight, luckily, he is as light as a feather. Goku finally wiggles free and slides onto the front room floor, knocking into Trunks' back and causing his PlayStation controller to go skidding across the floor
"Careful, I'm gonna lose a life now," Trunks gripes
"Trunks! What are you doing here?" Goku exclaims, blushing
"I live here, the real question is what are you doing here?" Trunks asks raising one lavender coloured eyebrow at Goku
"I know you live here, I mean why are you on the floor there?" Goku carefully avoids answering the question
"Well, you and dad were taking up the whole sofa with… whatever the fuck you two have been doing, I don't even think I wanna sit on it anymore, I'll stay on the floor,"
"Don't be silly, Trunks of course nothing like that happened, we just fell asleep is all…. but still can you not mention this to your mum or dad, he doesn't know I was here with him," Goku asks flashing his most convincing smile
"Hmmmm," Was the only answer Trunks gave
"What does Hmmm mean? Are you gonna tell Vegeta that I was hugging him?"
"That depends," Trunks smiles smugly
"Depends on what?" Goku asks feeling confused as to what Trunks means
"I want to take Goten to a party, but his mum said no, if Chichi changes her mind I won't tell mum or dad that you were here, do you think she might change her mind?"
"Is that all, sure I'll get her to change her mind. Thanks Trunks, catch you later," Goku smiles again before lifting two fingers to his forehead and vanishing.
Trunks picked up his control pad and continued to play his game, he hoped this affair, or whatever the hell it was going on between his and Goten's dad, went on for quite a bit longer, he can imagine he will soon have all the grown-ups wrapped round his fingers. Better text Goten and tell him to get ready to go out later, he thinks smugly.
Vegeta wakes up about an hour later, it's hot and his back aches from laying in an uncomfortable position on the sofa. He remembers falling asleep at the kitchen table, after Goku saw him crying, again. How utterly embarrassing. He sits up on the sofa with a heavy sigh and wipes the sleep from his eyes. The room is hot, too hot for morning time, this is midday heat, he must have slept for hours. There goes his and Goku's romantic track up the mountain to see the sunrise. Vegeta looks around, he can sense that Goku is not here right now, so why does the whole room smell of him, his heady scent is all that Vegeta can smell, but the only other person in the room is Trunks.
"Where is Kakarot?" he groans
"He left," Trunks answers without taking his eyes off his video game
"So why does it smell like I've got my head stuck in his armpit?" Vegeta says sniffing his white t-shirt and realising that the smell of Goku has saturated the whole thing.
"Dunno dad" Trunks shrugs.
Vegeta pulls himself of the sofa and quickly walks to the bathroom, he needs a shower pronto, the smell of Goku is giving him a boner.
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When Goku gets home, magically appearing in his kitchen, his wife is no-where to be seen. She didn't leave a note with some kisses and a little love heart doodled at the bottom of the page like she usually does, neither did she leave food cooked to perfection, ready and waiting for her husband like she usually does. She didn't even send a text to let him know where she is. Chichi is pissed. Goku knows that much. What he doesn't know is why, I mean sure he stayed out all night without even as much as a phone call, but that is nothing new for Goku, he's just that kind of guy. Chichi loves that about him really, she loves his hare-brained, unpredictable, sometimes even careless self. She loves everything about him, so why is she pissed?
Maybe she knows, Goku can't help worrying, Chichi is real smart after all, maybe she has figured out that he kissed Vegeta. Goku starts to pace the floor, getting himself worked up to the point that he has to sit down and catch his breath, Chichi is going to kill him. What if piccolo told her? No, Piccolo wouldn't do a thing like that. But…. Piccolo did tell Goku not to kiss Vegeta again, and he did. Maybe Piccolo was angry and that's why he told Chichi.
The front door swung open and Goku nearly jumped out of his skin
"I didn't do anything!" he yells in a panic as Chichi bundles through the door, her arms loaded with bags from a very successful shopping trip. She sees the terrified expression on her husband's face and has to supress a laugh, he is looking at her as though she is Freiza or something, one of his strongest and most feared enemy's.
"What do you mean honey," She smiles sweetly at her husband, remembering what Bulma said, for now we do nothing and just watch. They needed to get some cold hard evidence that something dodgy was going on before they confronted the two Saiyans. She still hoped in the back of her mind that this was all a massive misunderstanding, it must be, Goku and Vegeta together is just a joke.
"Are you mad at me?" Goku asks, relaxing a little. If Chichi knew he had kissed Vegeta she would have hit him with a frying pan by now, and she hadn't done that. Goku glanced behind him to check the frying pan was still in place, yep, hanging on the hook near the oven. Piccolo can't have told her.
"No, why would I be, have you done something wrong?" Chichi asks wondering if she might get a confession out of him, but no.
"You didn't leave me a note or cook me any food, you always do those things," Goku says, scratching his head
"I just forgot is all, I'll cook you something delicious right now," Chichi put her bags down and hurries to the kitchen. As she turns on the stove she watches her Husband through the crack of the door, he is texting, and smiling at his phone, she wonders if its Vegeta on the receiving end of those messages. She decides that later when he is sleeping she will try to get her hands on that phone, maybe then she can figure out what is going on. That night when she climbs into bed next to the man she loves she sets an alarm on her phone, she will wake up at 3am when he is fast asleep, then she will have plenty of time to rummage through his phone. She feels kinda Guilty but she needs to know if something is going on behind her back.
…
Ding ding ding
Goku's phone plays a little jingle from the bedside table, he rolls over and ignores it
Ding ding ding
It sounds again. This time Goku sighs and reaches for his phone, its half two in the morning who could possibly be texting him now. he squints at the bright screen of his phone. Four messages from Vegeta, suddenly he feels wide awake
*Kakarot?*
*Kakarot, are you awake? *
*I need your assistance*
*For god sake Kakarot, answer your god damned phone*
Goku quickly messages back, he can tell that Vegeta is getting irate
*I'm awake now, what do you need? * He texts back
*Come here, now* is Vegeta's simple reply. Goku feels his heart beating hard in his chest, he is not even a little bit tired any more. What could Vegeta want at this ungodly hour? Is he finally going to mention that kiss, he was in no state to talk about it last night but maybe tonight he will ask Goku why he kissed him. Goku can't help but smile as he thinks about it, or maybe, just maybe he wants to kiss again? Goku really hopes he does. Or could he be crying again, he hates it when Vegeta cries, it makes him feel sad. He closes his eyes and feels for Vegeta's energy, he can hardly feel it, Vegeta is so weak he is hardly putting out any power at all, Goku had better get over there fast. He yanks on his shorts and teleports straight to Vegeta's side, using his minute power level to direct him where to go.
The prince is sitting on the kitchen counter with a face like a thunder storm, he has been trying to open this jar of Nutella for half an hour and he just can't find the strength to do it. On a normal day, he could have crushed the whole jar into non-existence with only one finger, but tonight he just can't get a good grip on the lid and his arms feel like wet noodles, he can't get it open. He considered asking Bulma but that is just too shameful. That's when he decided to text Kakarot, at least he wouldn't laugh or rub it in that the Saiyan prince is currently about as strong as the average baby seal.
"Hey, Vegeta, what can I do for you?" Kakarot purrs appearing in front of Vegeta.
"Oh, thank god, I thought you were never gonna crawl out of your pit, can you open this?" Goku eyed the jar, he wasn't surprised that Vegeta couldn't open it, his power level was the lowest he had ever felt it, but this still seemed like it was some kind of joke. Chichi could open that jar.
"Sure thing," Goku said taking the jar from his friend's hands and opening it without even a trace of effort, then handing it back. Vegeta took it and immediately piled a huge spoonful into his mouth
"Mmmmm, thank you Kakarot," He moans, sounding almost sexual, it makes Goku shiver. He watches the prince for a moment, his eyes are closed as he eats the jar in record time, he looks beautiful as he sucks on the spoon, his tongue peeking out to lick the last traces of spread from his lips. Goku bites his lip
"Why the sudden obsession with Nutella?" He asks, his voice nothing more than a whispered sigh. Vegeta shrugs
"I have no idea, all I know is I need this stuff more than I need air," Vegeta explained shoving another spoonful into his face. Goku can't take his eyes off the other man, he's not sure why but looking at Vegeta makes him feel good
"Vegeta?" He says
"Mmm hmm" Vegeta answers with a mouth full
"…why do I want to kiss you all the time?" Goku asked honestly. Vegeta spat out his chocolate spread, brown slime landing on the floor and looking quite disgusting.
"What?" he spluttered. He knew his automatic reaction should be to punch Goku straight in the face, call him an idiot and never want to see him again, but none of that happens, instead he just stares incredulously at his old friend, unable to find any words, unable to slow his heart rate and unable to stop the feeling spreading through his chest, the feeling telling him he wants to kiss Goku too, the hot passion making him want nothing more than to lean forward and press his lips into Goku's. he wants to bite his full bottom lip, he wants to make him scream. For a moment, they both just stare at one another.
"will you kiss me?" Goku asks. Vegeta has no idea what to do, the contrasting feeling too much to take, he can't make sense of any of this. He shouldn't kiss Goku, he has a wife. He shouldn't want to kiss Goku, he's not gay. He should kiss Goku, he is supposed to be making him fall in love with him after all. He wants to kiss Goku, so so badly.
"I can't" He finally answer's "I want to, Kakarot, I really do, but that wouldn't be fair on Bulma, or Chichi," Vegeta wishes that were the only reason he was turning Goku down, but he knew there was much more to it than that. He turned him down because he was scared, he knew if he kissed Goku, he wouldn't stop at just a kiss, he would need more than that. Goku's body was calling to him in ways that he couldn't explain, or, didn't want to, he was totally captivated by the younger Saiyan, and that was truly and utterly terrifying.
Goku could swear he felt his heart crack, Vegeta's words cut him to the core, he understood though, it was just like Piccolo said, he could only have one of them. It must be the same for Vegeta, he has to choose between Goku and Bulma, he is obviously choosing Bulma
"We can still be friends, though right?" Goku asked looking at the floor
"of course, we will just have to be sensible about it, come to think of it I want to take you out tomorrow night, to a place a …friend told me about, you up for that?" Vegeta gives Goku a little half smile
"Yeah, I'm up for it," Goku answered smiling back.
"Good, now I'm going back to bed, I'm exhausted, see you tomorrow, about seven, don't be late fool"