Like I said, I was working on chapter nine. Would I lie?

I don't own SM or DBZ.

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"Where could she have gone to?" Vegeta growled as he shot over the land, looking for any signs of his princess. His scouter wasn't picking up on any power levels besides the three high ones which most likely belonged to Freiza and his henchmen.

'How will I be able to control her after this? She's headstrong and would sooner tell me to go sit on it than listen to me!'

Suddenly one of the powers sky rocketed and he feared the worst. He turned around headed for the most powerful ki.

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"Oh no!"

Usagi skidded to a halt at the edge of a valley and hit the ground. Gohan and Krillin were soon beside her.

"Usagi, what is it?" Krillin asked. He saw her white face and looked down. A village of some kind was under attack by some REALLY weird looking guys. One was pink with spikes all over his body, another one had bluish green skin and dark green hair, and another was in a hover chair and had two long horns coming out of the sides of his head.

Krillin looked up at Usagi and he saw that she was very worried. He frowned and watched the attack. The village apparently belonged to these people who looked like Piccolo. Some were huddled together and a few were standing in front of the alien in the chair.

"If we give you the Dragonball, will you leave our people alone?" he asked.

The man in the chair smiled. "Of course I will," he said.

The Namek frowned and turned away, making his way inside a house and soon came back with a huge golden ball held in front of him. It had two red stars on it.

"You guys, that's a Dragonball!" whispered Usagi.

"It is?" pondered Gohan. "It looks too big to me to be a Dragonball."

"I'm positive. We should stay up here and wait and see what they do to these people. For some reason I don't trust that guy. Not for a minute."

The two warriors beside the princess nodded and continued their vigilance on the village. The old Namek gave the ball to what Usagi believed was Freiza. He giggled when the ball was placed in the hands of his green henchman.

"Now you will do as you promised and leave," demanded the elder.

"Promise? I never promise to anything, Namek. Now tell me where the other Dragonballs are or I will destroy this happy
little town of yours, one by one," hissed Freiza. The Namek gasped and drew back, anger settling over his face.

"I will never tell you, you monster. Now leave!"

"Fine. Have it your way," threatened Freiza. He saw the elder's supporters and smirked. In a flash they all fell to the ground.

Usagi nearly cried out but stuck her fist in her mouth. Tears began forming in her eyes and she blinked them back.

Two children were huddled near another older Namek and hid their faces in his tunic when the event occured, sobbing. Usagi wanted to go down there but decided against it. To actually beat these guys she would have to tranform in front of them. But she didn't want them to know unless there was no other choice. And the choices were narrowing fast.

Usagi growled and prepared to go down there and straighten things up when Freiza threw a blast at the care taker of the small ones. Gohan and Krillin did the same.

Freiza aimed his sights at the small children. He smirked and sent a ki ball right at one. The small boy fell to the ground and didn't move.

Tears were falling down Usagi's cheecks as she got to her feet.

"Guys..." was all she said and they began to power up. She transformed and jumped down the cliff face just as soon as Freiza made an attack for the boy.

"Don't even think about it! I will not allow you to bring any more harm to these people!" she warned as she stepped between Freiza and the Namek boy as Gohan and Krillin scooped him up and took off.

"And you would be..." said his green skinned companion who was giving her an inspection that made her skin crawl. But she didn't allow any of them to see this.

Instead she used a smirk that she picked up from Vegeta and answered, "Your worst nightmare." This caused the demons to laugh and she took this advantage to fly into the air and throw a column of fire down upon the unsuspecting men and laughed as they were blasted by it.

"My hair is toasted!" This had to of come from the green haired freak.

"When I get my hands on that wench I'll..." Pink dude.

"Then why don't you do that Dodoria and stop making empty threats!" Freiza's girly voice.

The next thing Usagi knew a mass of pink erupted from the fire and headed for her. She gasped and took off towards the mountains.

'This guy's fast,' she realized. He was gaining on her. She had an idea.

She averted her flight and headed down to the ground. As soon as her feet hit the ground she took off running.

Then she sensed it. Vegeta's ki. It was close and coming straight for them.

"Vegeta!" she heard Dodoria yell. She spun about and saw Dodoria still in the sky but another figure was in front of him. Dodoria's back was to her and she could vaguely make out the other person. It was the hair that gave him away.

He didn't look like he had seen her yet and she meant to sneak away but Dodoria just had to open his big mouth.

"Vegeta, this has to wait! I have orders to destroy that annoying woman down there from Lord Freiza himself!" Dodoria pointed behind himself and down to Usagi who stood frozen.

Vegeta craned his neck to look over Dodoria's shoulder and frowned. Usagi felt shivers run down her spine from the look he threw her.

She began to back up slowly, her eyes trained on the angered prince.

"Don't even think about it, Usagi. We're going to talk as soon as I finish off this annoying pink blob," threatened Vegeta and glared at Dodoria. Dodoria looked horrified.

"N-Now Vegeta, do you really think you can beat us?!" challenged Dodoria. Vegeta smirked and laughed at the foolishness displayed by the alien.

"Yes," was all Vegeta said and powered up. Dodoria was terrified. He spun around and was blasting off when Vegeta suddenly let out a huge blast of energy, the pink mass dissolving inside the bright light.

Usagi dove to the ground when Vegeta attacked, debris and dust flying all around her.

Finally the dust settled and she coughed once before rising to her feet. She dusted herself off and looked in the sky for Vegeta. He was no where to be seen.

She started to panic and began to back up and powered up to get out of there but was caught from behind and twisted around.

She stared right into deep black eyes.

"H-hi Vegeta," she stuttered, trying to sound cheerful but failed miserably. She tried to laugh but choked on it in her throat.

Vegeta frowned and his eyes narrowed. "And would you mind telling me why you came here even when I forbidded it?" he asked softly, anger dripping from the words nonetheless. Usagi suddenly felt foolish of cowering before this man and straightened her shoulders and putting on her most regal and decisive face.

"Because I wanted to, that's why. I don't care if you are the prince of the second most powerful race in the universe, if I want to do something I won't come to you for permission!" she informed him.

Vegeta's back straightened and he took a step back, a smirk on his face. This scared Usagi. She was genuinely frightened of Vegeta right now. If it weren't enough that she had left Vegeta-sei and went against Vegeta, she had just told him that she didn't care what he said and that if she wanted or had to she would do it again.

And it was the truth.

"You're starting to act like a queen now, aren't you? I just hope you weren't expecting me to bow before you. That just isn't my style," he mocked.

"Oh, shut up!" she shouted at him and spun around, marching off. He caught her arm and turned her back around.

"So your true colors are showing," he said softly. Usagi gritted her teeth to keep from opening her mouth and saying something she might later regret.

He saw her do this and smirked, bending his head down to meet her lips in a kiss. Usagi hadn't been ready for it and her knees nearly turned to jelly beneath her. She reached up and held onto his shoulders to keep from sinking to the ground.

Vegeta ended the kiss as quickly as it started. He looked down into her face and laughed softly. She was his.

"Now, to get you back on a ship to Vegeta-sei..." he said and straightened up, taking hold of her arm and pushing her towards the landing site of their pods. She snapped out of her trance when she knew where he was taking her.

"Vegeta, no!" she yelled and struggled against his hold. He was shocked and didn't tighten his grip. She ran from him and before he could do anything she was gone.

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'Not again!' Vegeta thought angrily as he looked at the spot where his princess was. 'I need to get a tracker on her or something to keep tabs on her!'

He had nearly gotten her to the pod but she apparently learned a new trick. It was too fast even for him.

She was also more skiddish. It seemed like she was hiding something from him and he would find out what it was.

He removed his scouter from his pocket and brought it to his face, looking for any sign of Usagi. There wasn't any.

He cursed her for being able to outsmart him.

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*sigh* So tired.... Well, here's your true ninth chapter. I kind of got click happy and uploaded this chapter before it was finished. Go ahead and tell me how ditzy I am because it can't get much worse than this. It won't hurt me, I promise. It's kinda funny, though, when you think about it. ^_^*