Destined To Be

DISCLAIMER: I do not own and am not claiming Akira Toriyama's characters from Dragonball Z. I do; however, own this story and created it myself.

AUTHOR'S NOTE: For the most part this is a fan fiction, but there is a little bit of song fiction incorporated. The purpose is to imply events, which are not directly written into this story. The main subject being what would be lemon scenes; however, I am not a lemon writer, which is why I came up with the idea of incorporating pieces of lyrics to convey the moment. ANOTHER DISCLAMER: I do not own and am not claiming the lyrics to Lee Ann Rimes' "Can't Fight The Moonlight," Mandy Moore's "I Wanna Be With You," or Savage Garden's "Universe." And PLEASE do not let the artists that I mentioned sway you from reading this story. I only happen to like those particular songs and am not an obsessed Lee Ann Rimes or Mandy Moore fan. ;-) Thanks and enjoy!

saiyangerl

Prologue: The evil Frieza and King Cold have been destroyed by a mystery Super Saiyan from the future, who has just revealed to Goku who he is. Piccolo, with his strong sense of hearing, overhears as well. Goku quickly tells the others about a powerful force of androids that will come to Earth within three years.

"Three years?!" Krillin cried.

"Yes, and we'll need all that time in order to train and prepare." said Piccolo seriously.

"But you'll never guess who that Super Saiyan was!" Goku exclaimed.

"You know…he looked familiar. Him and Vegeta…they looked alike." Krillin commented.

"Uh…funny you should mention that Krillin…" Goku replied trying not to be obvious.

"What do you mean by that Kakarot?" Vegeta questioned, arms crossed.

"N-nothing…" Goku stuttered.

"Alright, Goku! Out with it! Who was that mysterious boy?!" Bulma cried with impatience.

"In order for him to be a Super Saiyan wouldn't you or Vegeta have to be his father?" said Krillin.

"That's right!" Bulma cried. "And if you ask me he looked more like Vegeta."

"Humph! He looked nothing like me, woman!" Vegeta retorted. "Besides, who is his mother then?" Vegeta had brought up a good point.

"That's right. If Vegeta is supposedly the father, then who is his mother?" Krillin wondered aloud.

"Goku! Come on! Speak up!" Bulma said, hands on hips, stamping her foot.

"Well…" Goku avoided their stares and looked at the ground, shifting around.

"Why can't you tell us Goku?!"

"He's Vegeta's son isn't he?" said Krillin.

"Uh…"

"Come on, Goku. I know you better than anyone and you know I'm right." Krillin said, to prove his point.

"Krillin…I'm not supposed to say…" Goku replied hesitantly.

"So what are you trying to say?" Vegeta cried. "Is he my son or isn't he?"

Goku looked at Vegeta and then his eyes shifted away avoiding Vegeta's stare.

"Well if we know that Vegeta's the father you have to tell us who the mother is now." Bulma said, pressuring Goku.

"That would be funny if it was Bulma." Krillin said jokingly.

"Ha. Very funny chrome dome!" Bulma replied, obviously not amused.

"Yeah…wouldn't that be funny…" Goku said uneasily.

"Uh…Goku…I don't like the sound of that…" Krillin had stopped laughing. "Are you trying to say that Bulma and Vegeta are the mother and father?"

"WHAAAT?!?!" Bulma shrieked and fell over.

"You can't be serious Kakarot!!!" Vegeta cried.

"Uh…so…let's say we start training for those androids…" Goku said, trying to change the subject.

"Goku you know that you weren't supposed to tell. You've just terminated his existence." Piccolo said sternly, with his arms crossed.

"But how did you know that he was the son of Bulma and Vegeta?" Goku asked in surprise.

"YOU MEAN IT'S TRUE?!?!" Bulma had now jumped back on to her feet. All eyes were on Bulma and Vegeta.

"What are you all staring at?!" yelled Bulma. "If you ask me, I think the future has just been perfected." She commented, barely glancing at Vegeta.

Vegeta was in deep thought over the concept. My son?! And with that human woman as a mate?! What kind of future is that?!

Yamcha, who had been silent during the entire discussion so far, started laughing. "That's funny, Goku! Why would Bulma ever go out with Vegeta?!" he laughed some more. "That's a good one!!!"

"No, this is no joke." Piccolo said.

"Huh?" Yamcha stopped laughing.

"Now that everyone knows it has affected the natural events which were supposed to occur."

"As if I would ever waste my time with a woman! I've got better things to do!" said Vegeta.

"And as if I'd ever waste my time with a stubborn Saiyan like you!" Bulma retorted.

"We've got to find a way to fix this, or their son will cease to exist." Piccolo stated.

"You expect me to just dump Yamcha and go out with Vegeta?!" Bulma cried. "Well you've got another thing coming if you think I'd ever even consider somebody like Vegeta!"

"Well he asked that Goku not mention who he was, but obviously it slipped his mind." Piccolo stated, looking at Goku.

"Um…sorry." Goku muttered.

"He came from the future to warn us so that we could make a better one. And he also destroyed Frieza and King Cold. Now you're saying we should just forget about his existence?!" said Piccolo.

"Piccolo, I've never seen you show such compassion." said Goku.

"We can also use as many strong fighters as we can get. You never know what lies ahead." Piccolo replied in a serious tone.

"I DON'T CARE WHAT YOU SAY! I'M NOT GOING TO BE VEGETA'S GIRLFRIEND!!!!" Bulma cried out in great protest. The shock was making her ballistic. She took a capsule from her pocket and threw it to the ground. In a puff of smoke appeared an instant air car. "Well I don't know about you guys, but I'm out of here!" She hopped in and flew off back to Capsule Corp.

Vegeta glared one last time at the others, then charged up and followed to begin extensive training. Afterwards, Yamcha, Tien, and Chaozu took off.

The only ones left were Piccolo, Goku, Gohan, and Krillin. "Listen. We're going to have to do something about this." Piccolo began.

"You mean, get Bulma and Vegeta…together???" said Krillin.

"Exactly."

"How are we going to do that, Piccolo?" Gohan asked.

"Well I'm not one to know much about relationships so I'll leave that up to you guys." said Piccolo.

"But Bulma has been with Yamcha forever!" protested Krillin.

"It doesn't matter! Trunks will not exist unless we do something about it!" Piccolo cried impatiently. "Instead of remaining apart for three years, we'll have to get everyone together a few times until we can assure that the future is put back on its proper course." With that having been said, he flew off.

"Well, now all we have to do is tell your mother that we're going to have to train for the next three years, Gohan." said Goku.

"Mom's not gonna like that." said Gohan.

"You got that right!" Krillin cried. "I still remember when I had to tell her where you and Gohan were and about the two Saiyans coming to Earth!"

"Well, we have to break the news to her. Like it or not, we've got to prepare for those androids." Goku replied.

A few days later…

"So how did Chichi take the news?" Krillin whispered to Goku.

"Well…she eventually had to give in…"

"Hey! Chrome dome! This was your idea! Why don't you do the barbecuing!" Bulma shouted from the grill.

"Uh…okay." Krillin said, not wanting to deal with Bulma's ranting, and hurried over.

"Humph! All Yamcha does is fight!" Bulma grumbled to herself. Yamcha and Tien were sparring a little with each other, Krillin was cooking at the grill, Master Roshi was relaxing in a chair reading a magazine, Gohan and Chaozu were playing Frisbee, and Goku was drooling over the delicious smells coming from the grill.

Vegeta stood off by himself, with his arms crossed. Mr. Briefs had barely started working on a gravity machine for him to train in. Humph! Foolish sentimental gatherings! I can't believe I have to live with these Earthlings! He griped to himself.

Bulma stood by the grill while Krillin flipped a couple burgers. Well…it's now or never. Krillin thought. Gosh I sure hate to sabotage their relationship…but her and Yamcha were going to break up anyways. I have to conjure up a fight between them for the sake of the future.

"Say…Bulma! Why aren't you and Yamcha catching up on some time together? I mean…you've hardly had a chance to since we were all so busy trying to defeat Frieza." "Humph! He's off sparring with Tien, even though there's no real fight anytime soon!" Bulma replied angrily.

"Well…I know we have to train for when those androids come, but I don't see anything wrong with a little relaxation and fun once in awhile. I mean, we've got three years." said Krillin.

"If I complain to him we'll just get in another argument!" Bulma sniffed, crossing her arms.

"But Bulma…you're letting him take control. You should show him who's boss. I mean what's more important to him? You or fighting?"

"I suppose you're right. Why are you trying to help me, Krillin? I didn't think you cared about such things. I'm always yelling and insulting you…" Bulma said, thinking about Krillin's advice.

"I know you don't mean it, Bulma. And I still consider you a friend. So I'm just trying to be a good friend by helping another friend." Krillin replied with a smile.

"Thanks, Krillin." Bulma said, a smile coming to her face. Then she walked off. I'm sorry, but I had to do it, Bulma. Krillin thought to himself.

"Yamcha! Why are you fighting right now?! Frieza was just barely destroyed and all you can think about is fighting?!" Bulma exclaimed.

Yamcha and Tien paused, with their fists in the air and in a fighting stance. "But Bulma, you heard, there's going to be some really powerful androids arriving in three years. We'll need all the time we can get to prepare." He replied.

"I know, but there's nothing wrong with relaxing once in awhile!"

"Oh come on, Bulma. Tien and I are just having a little fun…I'll be with you in a few minutes, okay?"

"Oh! So you're just going to brush me off like that! You'd rather fight, huh?!" Bulma retorted.

"Bulma, I never said ---" Yamcha began.

"You're going to have to choose what's more important! Me, or fighting!" Bulma ordered, cutting Yamcha off.

"Are you saying that I either fight or be with you?" he questioned.

"That's right! That's exactly what I'm saying!"

"You can't just order me not to fight!" he cried. Bulma grumbled, stomped her foot, and walked off.

Krillin watched from a distance, feeling bad about setting up the fight. Suddenly a hand touched his shoulder and Krillin turned around. "Goku!"

"I know you feel bad, Krillin, but it had to be done. They would've broken up anyways if I hadn't opened my big mouth and altered the future." said Goku.

"Yeah, I know you're right, Goku. What's going to be even harder is getting Bulma and Vegeta together!"

"They managed to get together somehow in the future so there's got to be a way for us to make that happen." Goku replied seriously.

"Yeah." said Krillin.

Gohan laughed as he and Chaozu threw the Frisbee back and forth. "Try and catch this one!" Chaozu cried.

Gohan leapt in to the air, but was just a little bit short of catching the Frisbee. It flew over his head and over to where Vegeta was standing. "Hey, uh, Vegeta! Can you throw that back here, please!" Gohan shouted.

"Humph!" And with a simple blast, Vegeta destroyed the Frisbee. Foolish games! What a complete waste of time!

"Aw…why'd ya have to go and do that?" Gohan said with a sad look on his face.

"Come on, everybody! Let's eat!" exclaimed Goku.

"Come on, Gohan! We'd better hurry and get some food!" Chaozu cried, pulling Gohan with him.

After eating and having a good time, everybody went their separate ways again. Goku, Gohan, and Krillin were still at Master Roshi's hanging around afterwards. Then Piccolo landed on the island. "Piccolo!" Gohan cried out happily.

"So…how are things going?" he asked with his usual serious tone.

"Well…Bulma and Yamcha got in to an argument. I set it up…" said Krillin.

"But how do we know if they're going to stay angry at each other and broken up?" asked Goku.

"Well I encouraged Bulma that she give Yamcha an ultimatum, her or fighting." replied Krillin.

"Good. We can almost confirm that phase one has been completed." said Piccolo. "I think we'd better wait and see though. These things take time. We're dealing with emotions, not fighting techniques." said Goku.

"But how in the world are we going to get Bulma and Vegeta together?!" Krillin cried.

"I would advise that you wait about a week to ensure that Bulma and Yamcha's relationship is permanently terminated." Piccolo added.

"Piccolo, it's going to take a lot longer than that. We have three years, so there is plenty of time for a relationship to develop between Bulma and Vegeta."

"I've got it!" Krillin cried jumping in the air.

"Next week we'll have another gathering, but everybody will come late except for Bulma and Vegeta! We'll just call this the first step. Then we'll have to come up with more ideas."

"But what if Vegeta doesn't want to come?" Gohan questioned.

"I know! We'll mention there will be some sparring as well!" said Goku.

"I can't believe nobody's here! Krillin is supposed to help do the cooking!"

Vegeta just stood with his arms crossed. So…there's going to be sparring. Here's my chance to beat Kakarot! He thought to himself. Half an hour passed and still, nobody was there.

"Where is everybody?!" Bulma cried getting impatient. "Well I have to start preparing the food. I don't suppose you know how to cook?" she said, looking at Vegeta. He didn't answer but remained standing, with his arms crossed. "Fine then!" she cried.

An hour passed and the food was almost done. "Where is everybody!!!" Bulma cried angrily, looking at her watch. "And you! You couldn't even help!" she shouted at Vegeta. He sat in one of the kitchen chairs and did not respond. "You don't even have anything to say?!" Bulma was really getting angry now and threw a cup at Vegeta, he moved his head slightly as it flew by him and smashed against the wall.

Where is Kakarot?! And why must I put up with this woman?! He thought with frustration.

"When I get my hands on that bald head of Krillin's I'm gonna throw it against the wall like a tennis ball!!!"

Then Tien and Chaozu walked in. "Hi guys!" Chaozu greeted.

"Why is everybody so late?!" Bulma cried.

"Late? We're not late." Said Chaozu.

"Goku told us to meet here at two o'clock." replied Tien.

"What?!?! He told me everybody was coming at twelve o'clock!!!"

"Well…you know Goku. Two o'clock, twelve o'clock, he probably got them mixed up." said Chaozu, trying to laugh convincingly.

"Just wait til I get my hands on him!!!" she yelled.

A few minutes later, Goku arrived. "Hi everybody! Oh hey, Bulma!" he said with a smile.

Bulma looked ready to explode. "GOKU!!! I had everything ready two hours early because you confused the time!!! I can't rely on you to do anything right!!!"

"Sorry…Bulma. I don't see what the big deal is." Goku replied calmly. Bulma just stomped off. Everybody gave each other a sly look.

Soon Yamcha arrived. And a few minutes after that came Krillin. "Krillin!!! I'll have you know I prepared ALL the food!!! So you're stuck with the dishes!" Bulma yelled, poking him and walking off.

Krillin just stood after her and stared. "Wow…she's really mad." He said.

Soon after eating, everybody gathered outside. "Okay now we'll spar with one partner for 20 minutes and then switch off. We need to practice fighting different people to get used to different strengths." said Goku.

Just then Piccolo arrived. "So are we going to spar or what?" he said.

"Okay, Gohan, you spar with Chaozu. Krillin you spar with Yamcha…"

"And I'll take on you, Kakarot." said Vegeta, stepping forward.

"Alright. Then Tien you spar with Piccolo."

Vegeta and Goku prepared to face off. Vegeta smiled menacingly. Then they flew in to the air, throwing punches back and forth. Goku threw a hard punch to Vegeta, which seemed to send him down almost too easily. But the Saiyan quickly flew back up, and with his super speed hit Goku from behind.

Meanwhile, one of Chaozu's punches sent Gohan flying. "Whoa!" he cried, hitting the ground. He gritted his teeth and got back up. Then he charged at Chaozu.

"Yah! Yah!" Krillin cried with each attempt to punch Yamcha. Yamcha jumped over him and easily knocked him to the ground with a kick of his leg, while Piccolo was roughing Tien up. The sparring continued, switching on and off between partners for two hours. Except for Goku and Vegeta. Vegeta was determined to beat him. They both had their triumphs, but by the end they were both pretty beaten up.

Everybody lay down in chairs outside, exhausted. Bulma was tending to everybody's sores. Krillin and Goku watched as she rubbed some cream on to Vegeta's sores. "Wow…she's actually helping Vegeta…" Krillin whispered to Goku.

"Well he's kind of one of us now. Hanging out with us and living with Bulma." Goku whispered back.

"Except he still wants to beat you." replied Krillin.

"Well…some things you can't change I guess."

"There! All done!" said Bulma.

Vegeta stared at the strange smelly, gooey stuff that Bulma had rubbed on him. Then he looked up. "What are you staring at?!" he said sternly to Goku and Krillin.

"Oh…nothing." said Goku.

"Yeah, nothing at all!" said Krillin.

Humph! Ignorant jerks! Vegeta thought angrily.

"Hey, we never found out if it's over between Bulma and Yamcha for good." Krillin whispered to Goku.

"They didn't talk to each other at all today." Goku commented.

"Well I'll find out from Yamcha." Replied Krillin.

"Well, looks like I better get going." said Yamcha, slowly getting up and walking past Goku and Krillin.

"Yeah, us too." said Tien as he and Chaozu also got up.

"Hey…uh…Yamcha…I was just wondering…are you and Bulma still talking to each other?" asked Krillin quietly so that only Yamcha would hear.

Yamcha looked down for a second. "Well…we had one of our usual fights and Bulma gave me a choice. Her or fighting. But she can't tell me not to fight. So…I guess we're just not talking to each other for now." Yamcha said slowly. "You know how she gets. I bet after a couple of days she'll start talking to me again." Yamcha said, and flew off. Then Tien and Chaozu said their good-byes and left as well.

"It seems like it's possibly over." Krillin said solemnly.

Goku nodded. "Well at least Bulma and Vegeta are interacting at least." Goku said. "The hard part will be getting them together."

Back at Capsule Corp…

Bulma landed the air car and hopped out; as Vegeta slowly landed, holding a slightly injured arm to his muscular chest. Once inside he idly straightened out his arm, bearing the pain. "You shouldn't do that." Bulma commented.

He looked up to her, glaring. "And what do you know?!" he snapped.

"Humph! Well, if you're not able to use your arm for awhile because you didn't take care of it then it's not my problem!" she sniffed, walking off.

Vegeta just sneered after her and went to the kitchen, where Mr. Briefs was drinking coffee and reading the paper. "Is the gravity machine complete?" he asked gruffly.

"No, won't be done for awhile. I barely started working on her." Mr. Briefs replied, then went back to reading the paper.

Vegeta left in a huff. I must train so that I can defeat Kakarot!

Bulma stood in front of her mirror, brushing her hair. Humph! There's no way I'm going out with that Saiyan! The future will be much better off! To think I actually have to live with him though!

The next day Yamcha came to see Bulma. "Oh it's you." Bulma said smugly.

"Look Bulma, I've really been thinking about what you said." started Yamcha.

"Oh?"

"And I don't want us to argue and end up breaking up. I want things to work out between us and I definitely don't want you to end up having a baby with Vegeta." he said guiltily.

"Aw, that's so sweet of you, Yamcha! You really do care about me!" Bulma cried out with joy. "And don't worry, there's no way I'm going to go out with Vegeta! I can't stand him! He thinks he's such a tough guy and has such an attitude!"

"Really? That's nice to know." said Vegeta coming up from behind Bulma. "Yikes!!! It's Vegeta!!!" Bulma cried out in surprise, jumping a mile into the air. Vegeta smiled mischievously.

"Hi there Vegeta!" Yamcha said smiling, trying to be nice since he feared Vegeta's bad temper. Vegeta just glared at him.

"Anyways! If you didn't realize, we were having a conversation that does not include you or your attitude!" Bulma screamed at Vegeta in annoyance.

"Heh. Why do you waste your time on such an annoying woman?" Vegeta said to Yamcha with a smirk and started to walk off.

"Oh yeah! I'll show you annoying!" Bulma cried out in rage, shaking her fist in the air.

She was about to run after Vegeta and attempt to pound him for his sardonic remarks, but Yamcha held her back. "Whoa! Hold on there Bulma! Let's not get carried away. He didn't harm you or anything."

"Well he's got to learn how to treat a woman! I will not put up with that attitude!"