She walked down the halls of the underground hideout. Bulma wondered why they did stay underneath the surface, where they hiding, if they were, from what? She continued walking for several minutes, watching and thinking about all the people that lived here – she saw men and women buzzing in and out of the hallways like bees. All looked like a one-man army, and all had tails. Not many children were to be seen, but she figured that they were in another part, seeing as she was just in the main hallway, or so she thought.
Finally, her thoughts rested on Vegeta.
"I am so evil…hehehe. I wonder what he is thinking right now…"
Meanwhile…
Vegeta crossed himself again. Why didn't he say no… who knows what Goku will teach her! He is my best fighter and a fighting expert too, but he is a little air-headed, for sure. Why, stupid, why? Even if she can manage the training, she won't… I don't know. This is hopeless.
He growled at himself, and then continued with his work, all the while thinking about his mistake and cursing himself for it.
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After asking around, Bulma located where Goku was – in a seemingly dorm-like place. So this is where these people live, she thought, considering the room around her. Goku stood up, trying to be polite, and then gave her a famous Son grin. Bulma noticed that he wasn't as grim as before, not at all the Goku she had met before. She was seated and then faced the still grinning Goku.
"I want to talk to you about some things, I means, like Vegeta…why you live underground… why you have tails…?" She said innocently, not trying to offend him if she said anything wrong. When his smile discontinued and was replaced with a solemn frown, she feared she had. But, he comforted her by beginning with his speech that he was asked to make.
"My people are called the Saiya-jins. We call ourselves Saiyains for short. Why we have tails, I have no idea, but they make us much more powerful, or so it's told… Vegeta is not the chief of our people, but actually the king. We were forced from our homelands by the wars raging on the four realms. Now, we train so that one day we can end the fighting, make peace, and thus get our homelands back. That is why we live underground, hiding and training, so no one knows we're here. Also, because we can't stand the moon. That also has to do with our tails. The only way to stay concealed and away from the moon is underground. When the Saiyains came here, they found these ancient caverns, and using all their skill, created this home for the Saiyains and the generations to come. That was around 300 years ago though, so it has only been 4 or 5 generations – we Saiyains live exceptionally long."
"We train day and night, because we want to go home, even though none of us have ever been there, and also because it was in our blood. Thousands of years ago we ruled the greatest empire ever…ruthless killers, we would kill off everything on a planet, and then sell the planet to the highest bidder. Then, a great evil monster came and destroyed our home planet. Only about 4 of our people survived. One was a prince, Vegeta, and one was a low-class fighter, sent to Earth, a planet at the time. The present day Vegeta is a descendent of him, and a beautiful woman, her name is lost to us. One day, the boy on Earth, Goku," Goku smiled as he recalled his ancestor, "my ancestor, heard of the monster, Frieza, and went to stop him. During his fight, he became a super-saiyain. That power has been lost to my people ever since those two Saiyains, their children, and then their grandchildren, died. But, he defeated, Frieza, and Vegeta returned to Earth with him, or so it is said. Vegeta became a super-saiyain, too, and like I said, so did their children, and they all became very powerful, no one ever had or has ever matched their strength. They, in all their extended lifetime, died, and all that is left of them is the blood in our veins.
"The nice thing is though, is that a couple hundred years back, about a thousand of our people were discovered living in a remote area in the universe. So, the descendants of our people intertwined and now, here we are, a pure race once again, but never happy. Me, I really want to see Earth, and meet the former Goku's family, and that side of my family. You see, half of my family, my Earth family, is still there, so is Vegeta's…"
So he continued on with the history, culture, and all the stuff about his people, and all the Bulma sat, fascinated. She never realized anyone could have this much history to say. But finally, she got around to her point. She was going to train with him and the other Saiyains, and help Vegeta, and she was going to do it no matter what any one said. Goku saw the stubbornness inside of her, so did not say anything. He just quietly led her to where she could stay, conveniently close to his room, (A/N – not like that, for all you pervs. out there, just so he can watch over her – a fatherly figure, kinda.) and assigned her to his training group, where he could observe her progression.
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Over the next few Bulma trained, stretched, and ached in places that weren't fun to ache. But every day she got up with determination and tried as hard as she could, becoming one of the most determined fighters in all the ranks, even though she wasn't the strongest, by far. Most of the fighters trained by punching, kicking, and shooting ki blasts. She learned what that was, and even saw some of the fighters fly, but only the most elite fighters, like Vegeta and Goku, knew that skill - aka, it was beyond her level.
But, she, not a Saiyain, often could not keep up with their physical training, so she, with all her concealed genius, invented something for herself. A long piece of bent wood, connected by the tips with a horsehair string, she created, calling it a bow. All the Saiyains were surprised at what this contraption could do, but then she pulled out another item. Long reeds, with feathers at one end and a metal tip on the other, an arrow, she called this one. It was placed in a crook on the 'bow' and propelled forward when she pulled in the string. Strange it was to the fighters, but an effective weapon, no doubt. She also made other weapons – a knife, spear, etc. – that were all known to the outside world, but not to the martial artist Saiya-jins. She trained with these weapons, adopting the grim mask of the people and a conscious-free attack-mode, in which she could kill without remorse, same as the warriors of the old. She became accepted as one of them, almost like she had a big family of her own, and she soon became known as the deadly outsider, yet now an insider all the same.
She also saw Vegeta, when she was not training, and for this her reputation grew too. She became one of his closest advisors, alongside with Goku, while they, Bulma with her brilliance and Goku and Vegeta with their fighting experience, devised and plotted. But she spent other time with Vegeta, also. Personal time, where they talked, and even though Vegeta was always distant, and mocked her a lot, she began to relate to him as more than a friend, as did Vegeta feel about her.
And so, when Bulma was leaving to go training after one of these 'personal chats' they said goodbye. But as Bulma turned to leave, she felt Vegeta's hand on her shoulder, and she spun around, being intercepted by a passionate kiss from Vegeta, one that she had dreamed about all her lifetime, and she quickly melted into him, as she stepped back inside his room, and he shut the door behind him.
A/N – It gets interesting, what are they doing in there? Who knows…I do though! I am so evil. I promise the next chapter will be longer… yada yada yada. Well, the twist was that Vegeta was actually DBZ's Vegeta's descendent, and same thing with Goku! Kewl ~*~ Also, this is where I wanted it to be, so I'm happy 4 now. Please Review!