Cell's Courtship: Chapter 3

(All characters except the ones I made up are from DBZ, in other words don't sue me. I'm just writing a fanfic here.)

Goku's eyes moved back and forth as he watched Cell pace around the room. Cell on the other hand was realizing that Goku was not exactly the right person to be talking about such matters with.
"I just don't know how I should tell her." Cell lamented.
"Have you tried giving her a gift?" Goku responded, actually showing signs of intelligence.
"A gift? A gift! Thats great. What could I get her?" Cell asked getting a little more positive about Goku's abilities.
"You could get her food." Goku said sorta thinking about the idea.
"No no no. Girls don't like food, you like food!" he yelled slapping his forehead. He was about to continue asking Goku questions, when he noticed that Goku was gone from him seat. Goku, meanwhile had gone off to raid the fridge.
Elsewhere.
"Ouch! Jeez mom, not so hard." as Jade struggled against Bulma's lethal comb.
"Oh stop it Jade. You have such beutiful hair, and it could be even better if you just took care of it sometimes. I mean look at all these split ends." Bulma said, finally being able to talk to her "daughter" about something that she knew about.
"Oh please mom. I was just going to tell him how I feel, its not like I'm going to ask him to marry me." she said sorta lingering on the thought.
"Oh you can never tell...." replied Bulma trailing off. Which left Jade wondering what she exactly could of meant by it. After about a half hour of grooming, Bulma stepped away from her daughter.
"There. You look gorgeous." she said smiling at the vast improvement.
"Are you sure I look ok in this. I would rather just wear my normal armor." said Jade as she looked at her new clothing. Bulma had dressed her in a rather tight fitting green tank top, paired with another pair of skimpy shorts.
"Mom? Do I really look good in these. Its just when I'm not wearing my armor I just...."
"Feel so naked. I know, I know. You've told me a million times. And if I know anything about boys, its that sometimes you have give them something nice to look at, or else they won't notice you at all.
Jade turned towards the mirror to look at herself. She admitted that she did look...different. Its just she had never actually tried to look cute. At least thats what her mother said she was aiming for.
"Ahhh, don't touch your face to much. You'll smudge your makeup." Bulma cried seeing that Jade was trying to wipe some of it off. After another half hour of final preperations. Jade walked out of her room, looking like a normal human being, other then the white skin of course.
Meanwhile on the other side of Kami's lookout a similar exchange had gone on between Cell and Krillin, who had told him that what he was wearing was the latest look. Cell now wore a simple combination of jeans and a faded t-shirt.
"Are you sure about this?" he asked tugging at his shirt.
"Sure I'm sure, now go out there and win one for the home team." Krillin replied using one of his corny phrases.
Krillin had told Cell just to act casual and wait outside of Kami's lookout. Which Cell did quite well, though he wasn't very good at acting casual. And soon found himself practising simple fighting moves while waiting for Jade to show up. At least he was told she was going to show up.
Jade walked out the door of Kami's place and her heart jumped when she noticed Cell in the distance. But sank noticing that he was only practising his fighting techniques.
Cell, caught up in his training didn't notice her until she had walked right up next to him. And when he did, one of his punches went astray and hit a tree. He found himself shaking lightly as he was frozen in his position staring at her. It was the first time he, or anybody had actually seen her "prettied up". He stared at her lips as they were beginning to move, and he wondered what sweet words would come out of them.
"Uh Cell.....the tree." she said pointing.
Cell caught up in his revery finally turned just to late to see the tree he punched earlier crashing down on his head. Which he made a little show of pain by jumping up and down, holding his head. Jade reacted to this and giggled, until she saw him regain his composure. And she, like him before found herself staring at him. Since the last time she had seen him without his armor was when he came out of the time chamber. And at the time he was looking worse for ware. But now, he was actually a stunning example of a man.
Cell suddenly whipped out a small bouquet of flowers which she hadn't noticed until now.
"Here....I got these for you...." he managed to stutter as she took the flowers merrily. Her heart filled with happiness as she sniffed them gently, but her nose wrinkled as she found the flowers smelled horrible.
"Gah...where did you get these?" she said holding the flowers away from her.
"Uh around here I think." he said realizing that she had not like his gift. But Jade quickly retaliated, not going to let this ruin her plan.
"Don't worry about it, its the thought that counts." she said and quickly placed the flowers down beside her. She then grabbed his hand and led him to the edge of the lookout, sitting down, letting her feet hang over the edge.
"Come sit with me." she said motioning with her hand. He was about to oblige but he suddenly for some reason lost his footing and fell right over the edge of the lookout.
"Cell!!" Jade cried out in surprise as he dissapeared from site, she slowly began to panic, and was preparing to go after him. When of course he came floating back up, forgetting that he had the ability to fly.
"Sorry about that." Cell said utterly embarrased as he landed beside her and sat down.
"Don't worry about it." she said smiling, still not allowing their time to be spoiled.
The rest of the day after that went about as horrible as it could go. Cell found himself either tripping over his two feet, babbling over nothing lacking anything to say, and breaking the table at the restaurant they had gone to. Causing the food to go everywhere. And when they had gotten home afterwards, Cell was walking alone, leaving Jade utterly perturbed about the horrid evening.
When Jade finally did catch up with Cell she found him leaning against a railing near the pond, throwing small pebbles in. As she approaches, she could here him mumbling curses to himself. Jade slowly made her way toward him and sat down without asking.
"Cell?" she questioned, placing a hand on his shoulder. He turned towards her, looking totally despaired.
"Jade.....before you say anything I want to apologize for today. For the tree incident, and falling off the lookout, and ruining dinner...." he started saying rapidly trying to go over all that went wrong. He would of continued further if Jade had not placed a finger on his lips.
"I'll say it again, don't worry about." she whispered and propped herself up so that she was leaning over the railing looking at the lake next to him. Occasionally Cell would look at her distant eyes and despair that he had ruined his chance for them to only be looking at him. Though at that exact moment Jade turned her head to return his gaze, and Cell could feel himself start to panic.
Suddenly Cell felt some unknown force push him on his back, and he stumbled forward right into Jade, knocking her on her back. And when he came to his senses he realized he was lying directly on top of her, both of them looking directly into each others eyes. Before Cell had time to consider his options the same uknown force pushed his face down onto hers. And for the very time, their lips met.
Cell felt nothing but happiness as he realized that Jade was accepting the kiss, and had wrapped her arms around his back. After they parted for breath, Cell stood up holding Jade and they stood there once again staring at each other. But this time no force was needed as the two leaned towards each other interlocking into another passionate kiss.
A short distance away two people were walking away from the scene.
"Do you really think it was ok that I did that lord Yamcha." said Puar as she floated near him.
"Of course. Dont' worry, he'll be thanking me someday. Besides I owe him one for destroying the androids ya know." Yamcha said happily as he and Puar walked away from the two. Meanwhile, Jade and Cell were still together, under the moonlight, inerlocked in a kiss.....

To be Continued