Just One Wish
Disclaimer: Dragonball Z is mine! Mine! Mine! Mine! *Smabbi-san does the dance of joy* *Lawyers appear brandishing clubs and waving papers containing lawsuits* *Smabbi-san sweatdrops* Okay fine, Dragonball Z is not mine…it is the product of the great Toriyama-sama and not me. *Smabbi-san hangs head in shame* I'm borrowing the characters and using them in my humble fan fic. *Smabbi-san glares at the lawyers* Does that satisfy you?! Lousy, rotten, evil… *Lawyers brandish more lawsuits* I'll be good!
A/N: If the disclaimer seems a little crazy…okay I don't really have an excuse…let's just say I'm stressed cause of exams. On the upside, I only have a French exam left. (I'm doomed!) Thus the wonderful marvellous update! Everyone loves updates! ^.^ Enjoy the fic and as always…review! (I love reviews…not enough people review…makes me sad.)
Chapter Nine
"Goku! I told you to teleport! Now the food's cold!" Chi Chi scolded her wayward 'husband'.
"NANI?!" Vegeta couldn't believe this, he hadn't had anything to eat all day. Not since breakfast anyway, but it had been a really long day and breakfast seemed like an eternity ago. To a saiya-jin, this was torture perhaps even hell. He hoped his father was suffering as much as he was right at this moment.
Goten's stomach rumbled plaintively and he began to whine. "Aww…kasan! I'm hungry! We gotta eat, specially with a new enemy coming soon!"
"A-a new enemy?" Chi Chi dropped the frying pan she had been meaning to hit her husband on the head with on the floor and sank down beside it. "No! This is not happening! Goten needs to study! And my poor Gohan! He has to come top of his class!" She wailed. "Why can't it just be peaceful? It's not fair! You're always risking your life out there Goku!"
For once, the high and mighty saiya-jin prince was at a loss for what to say. If it was his mate, he would probably have been slightly more helpful, if gruff, but this was Kakarott's mate. Kakarott's baka mate, and he had no idea of how to handle the situation. 'Nuts! What would Kakarott do?'
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Goku stopped the little yellow cloud above his house. A few left over McDonald's wrappers floated gently to the ground. Being the environmentally conscious saiya-jin that he is, Goku had already deposited most of the rubbish in a bin, but he had still been eating at the time. "Oops." He muttered softly. Ignoring the bags for the moment, he cast out his sixth sense; wanting to make sure that Vegeta was in the house and not in the forest somewhere. He locked on to Vegeta's distinctive ki signature and smiled.
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"I don't want you to die again!" Chi Chi sobbed uncontrollably. "It's just not fair!! I don't want anyone else to die! Why do always have to go and fight and die?!"
"Uh…" Vegeta was panicking, Kakarott's mate was acting a lot like his mate when she was upset. At those times, Vegeta tended to avoid Bulma until he had to confront her. Then he found himself doing distinctly unsaiya-jin like things, like hugging and comforting.
"Why!?" Chi Chi was in hysterics now. "I'm coming with you this time!" She declared firmly, "You are not dying when I'm there Son Goku!"
"Um…I…err…" Vegeta was immensely relieved when he heard the knock on the door. "I'LL GET IT!!" He screamed with an almost Goku-like cheerfulness. He opened to door to find himself face to face with…himself.
"Kakarott!" He hissed irritably, "What are you doing here?"
Goku held up the dragonradar. "Hey Vegeta! Wanna go look for the dragonballs?" He asked with a smile.
"Kakarott!" He was about to shout when he remembered where he was. "You're being cheerful…" He warned.
"Oops! Gomen!" Goku said apologetically. He scratched the back of his head and grinned. Vegeta smacked his forehead exasperatedly.
"Goku? Who is it?" Vegeta winced when he heard Chi Chi's voice. 'At least she's sounding reasonable now.' "Is that Vegeta?"
"Oh hey Chi Chi!" Goku called cheerfully.
"Kakarott!" Vegeta snapped. In the background the phone rang and Goten scrambled off his chair to get it. Goku looked at Chi Chi and then gave Vegeta a questioning glance. Vegeta thought about it, realising that it would make his life a lot easier he gave a barely perceptible nod. He now turned to face his 'wife'. "The charade is over woman." He said, removing Chi Chi's hands from their position on his arm.
"Nani? What are you talking about Goku?"
"Chi Chi…this is going to be a little hard to grasp, but I'm Goku and he's Vegeta."
"NANI?!"
Vegeta looked at Chi Chi and then he looked at Goku. "Okay…not my place to be here. Just make sure she tells no one Kakarott!" He said in a surprising moment of insight. He flew quickly into the forest, he wouldn't stay for the scene that he knew would follow for all the money in the world.
Goku looked worriedly at his wife who seemed to have gone into a state of shock. "Honey? Chi Chi, are you okay?"
"G-Goku?" Chi Chi murmured faintly. "What - I just - You…Vegeta…How did -"
"We don't know." Goku interrupted her unintelligible sentence. "I just woke up today and I was like this." He said, gesturing to 'his' body. "Uh…Chi Chi?" He watched in amazement as his normally indestructible wife fainted. He sighed. 'I have seen far too many people faint today…'
"Kakarott."
"What is it Vegeta." Goku asked, slightly annoyed.
"Are we going to look for the dragonballs or not?" The impatient prince scowled. He had no time for such trivial matters, if Kakarott's mate was a weak baka, it was Kakarott's fault.
Goku's face twisted into a grimace of annoyance. "Not now Vegeta! Can't you see that Chi Ch-"
"Hmph. Your mate will be fine. I want out of your pathetic body and I need the dragonballs for that." Vegeta snorted contemptuously.
Goku glowered at Vegeta, torn between worry for Chi Chi and the need to find the dragonballs. For the first time in his life, the Saiya-jin no Ouji found himself on the receiving end of his own glare. Even he had to admit that it was not an experience that he wanted to repeat twice. "Here." Goku tossed the dragonradar to Vegeta. "I'll catch up once Chi Chi's better."
Vegeta raised a questioning eyebrow before nimbly catching the small, flying device. "Bonds…nothing but a waste of time." He muttered under his breath. Kakarott had left his mate half a dozen times to save the pathetic planet. But when it came to saving the honour of his ouji…Vegeta resisted the urge to blast Kakarott, his mate and the whole planet along with him. It probably wasn't a good idea. After all, he was on the planet. Not to mention his mate and brat. He took to the air still muttering under his breath about low class saiya-jins, their pathetic mates and half-breed brats.
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"Goku? I had the weirdest dream…" Chi Chi said dazedly when she finally came to. "You…you…AHH!" Chi Chi bolted upright. Goku quickly used 'his' hand to cover her mouth.
"It's okay…just calm down." He murmured soothingly, removing the hand once she was quiet.
"Y-you…Vegeta…How?!" Chi Chi stammered, confused.
"We don't know. Vegeta's gone to find the dragonballs and hopefully we'll be able to wish ourselves back in a week when they're active." Goku said as though he was reporting the weather. It was this attitude that managed to calm his very distraught wife down.
Chi Chi traced a finger across his jaw line. "Demo…you - you're Vegeta!"
"Iie." Goku said softly. "I'm still me and Vegeta's still Vegeta. We just happen to look different."
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"…then kasan started crying and saying stuff about us getting hurt and dying. Tousan looked like he wanted to run away! And then your tousan appeared."
"Nani? Why?" Trunks asked, struggling to hold back giggles. Vegeta's hastily made up story about to fearsome Doh Knut and his plan to overthrow all the world powers had as many holes as swiss cheese.
"I don't know." Goten said regretfully. "I saw tousan fly off…but kasan has gone somewhere, maybe she went with him…and I don't know where your father went..." He mused, looking around the house for a sign of his missing family members.
"Yeah? Well- coming kasan!" Trunks called, in reply to the small voice that Goten could hear in the background. "I've gotta go Goten." Trunks said a little disappointed. He really wanted to know what other catastrophes his father had gotten into.
"Okay. I'll see you in school. Bye."
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Goku landed easily in front of the house, Chi Chi in his arms. Chi Chi had finally come to terms with the fact that, temporarily at least, her husband looked like Vegeta. She also understood 'Goku's' weird behaviour that day.
"Vegeta is really on edge about all this. So don't tell anyone okay?" Goku said, casting a furtive glance around to make sure Goten was still on the phone.
Goten peered out the door, he had sensed 'Vegeta's' ki and was now watching his mother and 'Vegeta'. 'Funny…I thought kasan didn't really like Vegeta all that much…' It didn't look like that right now. The two of them were standing close, heads almost touching. Vegeta's lips were moving so it was obvious that he was talking. Goten strained his sensitive saiya-jin hearing, hoping to hear what they were talking about.
"…don't tell anyone…aishiteru…"
Goten's jaw dropped. He bit his lip, struggling to keep his ki under control. However, it was hard to refrain from going super saiya-jin when he saw Vegeta lean in and kiss his mother.
Glowering, Goten watched Vegeta take off. Tears welled up in his ebony eyes and he furiously knuckled them away. His mother was having an affair with Vegeta. How could he have not noticed this before? Exactly how long had this been going on? This might mean that he wasn't actually Goku's son but Vegeta's. His father had been dead when he was born. In his distraught state, Goten conveniently forgot that he looked like an exact replica of his father.
His distress gave way to anger. 'How could kasan do something like this to tousan?!'
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A/N: Funny? Well I hope people like it…when I say people, I mean you! Review it please! My reviews have been dropping lately. So if you would kindly fill out the little box at the bottom I would be forever grateful. Just cause I wouldn't want to have to set a little thing like "10 people have to review before I write the next chapter." I actually do want to know what you think…call it payment with no money. For those who want to know, yes I am working on a sequel to Dear Diary but I'm a little stuck right now and I'm just looking for a way to finish it off. (Oh yeah…read Dear Diary if you haven't yet! *plug plug*) Special thanks to mon inspiration Smeegee-san who also provided the whole Chi Chi's cheating on Goku idea. (No you're not The Enforcer Smeegee.)
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