Should Have Been Mine..., a dragon ball z fanfic

Should Have Been Mine… By Katie

Hello! This is a new sad story I decided to write. This is about Yamcha and his reflections on someone very close to him that he believes should have been his.

The disclaimer is usual, I don't own Dragonball so don't sue.

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Should Have Been Mine…

By Katie

This journal is the memoirs of Yamcha.

You should have been mine. I just sit here, staring at the scene before me. You are walking around, you little tike, with your little friend, who can't even walk yet.

I haven't had a good life, and don't have anything to give. I was abandoned when I was a baby and was raised in the desert. That doesn't exactly give me the best schooling and intelligence in the way the world works, but I can guarantee, I could have been perfect for you.

I was abandoned once more and it was hard for me. I had no one. I cried many nights in loneliness, hoping that someone would one day show up to take me away from this place. But no one did.

Until she showed up.

She wasn't exactly the person who I was expecting. Frankly I would have settled for anyone, but her? That was one of the weirdest things for me at the time. She wasn't even human.

Frankly, when I met her, I didn't know what she was. Was she a cat or something else? She was a fly cat that could talk. She introduced herself as Puar, a shape-shifting cat. She laughed at me, for she says I had the strangest look on my face. I just stared, dumbfounded, at the creature before me, introducing herself as something I had never heard of. She lightly giggled and put her paw into my hand. I dumbly took it and shook her paw, introducing myself.

That was the beginning of a beautiful friendship.

Puar and I were rarely apart, for when we were apart we felt alone, both of us not having a family and all. We often wondered the deserts in search of things. I was taught when I was young, how to steel and Puar and I made our living that way. We stole food, money, almost anything we could get our hands on at the time.

But that wasn't enough; I still felt that I was missing something in my life. Maybe it was because I was shy of girls, I wasn't sure, but that was the reason I gave myself.

I was later told of something called the Dragonballs. They supposedly granted any wish I wanted, if I collected all 7. So I decided, hay! I know how to get over your extreme fear of girls! Why don't you just wish it away? That was probably the best thing that ever happened to me in my life.

When I was in searching, I saw them. Goku, Bulma, and Oolong. It turned out they were also searching for the Dragonballs. I was originally following them; planning on stealing the Dragonballs, but eventually I joined up with them, when they found Krillin.

I became good friends with all of them, even dating Bulma. I always sensed when I was dating Bulma that Puar was jealous, but I just shook it off. She was just a cat, although she was my best friend.

Times went on, Bulma and I were still together, ChiChi and Goku had married and had a son named Gohan and I was killed once in the battle versus Nappa and Vegeta, losing bitterly to a little green plant thing that was sent forth by Vegeta and Nappa. I never even got my chance against either of them.

But I now figure that that was a good thing.

I was up on King Kai's planet training with Choatzu, Tien, and Piccolo. Now when I look back I realize it was a total waste of time. It was meant to give me more courage, along with more strength, but no more seemed to come, maybe a few hundred, maybe even a few more thousand ki points, but that's about it. I was nowhere close to Tien, Piccolo, or even Krillin's power levels, so I seemed to give up slightly.

But I never lost faith in Goku, nor did I lose faith in her.

True, I missed everyone so much that I wasn't with up in heaven, but most of all, I missed my girl, Bulma. She had, I later found out, gone to Namek with Gohan and Krillin. I wasn't so pleased about that. But being in heaven and all, I couldn't stop her.

When I came back, I figured everything would be wonderful once again.

Wrong again.

I was put up against Garlic Jr. That threat was the quickest threat we had to face, having Gohan kick the guy's butt.

It seemed after that that I was free from worry. Wrong again. How many times have I been wrong so far? 200? I thought as much.

I was sitting there one day at the barbeque with Bulma and Puar. I was listening to Bulma talk until I was taken back in surprise.

"Yamcha, last night I had a dream. I was kissing Vegeta…mmm…he was a good kisser."

I was furious! But I held hat anger deep inside; laughing it off knowing Bulma was mine.

When Vegeta arrived later that day after searching for Goku we had laughed at him. He had seriously smelled! That had definitely turned me away from the thought that MY Bulma could ever have a relationship with that guy. I remember him taking a shower and yelling through the door for a towel. I had laughed for Bulma had refused unless he said "please". He just shouted back that he would drip dry.

Hehe, and when he came out in that ridicules pink shirt I had laughed my head off, until he threatened to blast me into the next dimension.

Stupid Vegeta, he never has stopped saying that.

Mirai Trunks showed up. I'll never forget the day I met him.

The first time I lay eyes on him, he was a Super Saiyan. He looked so much like his mother, excluding the fact that he had lavender hair and she had blue. But maybe that will change. Your mother had lavender hair when she was young…

But he obviously had his father's spirit. He was not cold like his father, and he was quite shy, I'm not sure whom he got that from. But he was defiantly a fighter, and could show his enemies that he wouldn't take anything from them.

When I saw him talking to Goku and Goku being taken aback, I knew it was true. He glanced at Vegeta then back at the boy then at Bulma, my Bulma. I shouldn't have been so blind! I should have realized it right then and there who his parents were and saved myself heartache! But no, I was blind with love.

I never cheated on her, struck her, or purposely hurt her, so why did she hurt me?

It was a year and a half after Mirai Trunks had left back home, and I was training for the androids.

My worst nightmare came true.

I came into the kitchen of Capsule Corp. one hand lying neatly in my pocket on the velvet box in my pocket. That little velvet box held the key to my future, an engagement ring. I was finally going to ask for her hand in marriage, after asking Dr. Briefs for permission three months ago.

Bulma took one look at me and took me by the hands, leading me into the living room.

"Yamcha," she started solemnly, he voice dripping sympathy. "I have something to tell you..."

I knew what she was going to say. I stumbled to my feat, tears running down my face. I stumbled backwards into the wall, or at least what I thought had been the wall and was really Vegeta. He pushed me off and I went sprawling onto the floor. I turned and looked at him than back at Bulma, tears still stinging my cheeks.

"No Bulma, you can't…"

"Yamcha, I would really like to still be friends…"

I watched as Vegeta walked over to Bulma. He stopped beside her.

I fell backwards.

Bulma nodded again.

"Bulma…how could you?"

"Yamcha you have been so busy training! If you weren't so busy maybe you would have realized that I began to fall for him!"

"So?"

"Listen, two weeks ago I started to look at Vegeta a lot more, and feel more connected to him. Whenever he insulted me, called me 'baka' it hurt. I soon realized I was falling for him. I fell for him Yamcha, and he fell for me."

I just stared at Vegeta.

"How could you?" I just stated again.

"Yamcha, listen," she grabbed a hold of my hands to calm me. "You'll find someone knew. I'm just not the one for you."

"No Bulma, you listen. You are the one for me you just don't realize it. There wont be anyone else with me Bulma, only you. One day you will realize this."

I just glared at Vegeta, and he glared at me.

"Get out or I'll blast you into the next dimension."

"I've already been there, its nice in heaven, unlike the place you went to. How is hell this time of year? This was around the time of year that you went."

His blood seemed to boil over and I was kicked so hard that I went flying through the wall.

I just got up and brushed myself off.

"Your relationship with this guy will never go anywhere Bulma-chan. When you two break up, call me. I'll be right there."

"Get lost baka! Onna and I share a bond, so leave us alone!" Vegeta snapped through the hole in the wall.

I stumbled dizzily away, dazed, confused and saddened. But I still had a grim thought of hope in the back of my mind.

'She'll be back Yamcha; she'll come crawling back. He'll probably beat her and then you'll have the family you've always wanted, and needed. You just wait Vegeta. We'll see then who's the best. Hehe. We'll see whose the best and who's the one for Bulma. Bond my butt. I don't even know what that is but it can't be anything serious…'

But I was wrong. God! How many times have I been wrong? Too many to count!

But he just had to go into battle against the androids, Mirai Trunks had to come back from the past, Vegeta just had to turn out to be one of the heroes and me a chicken.