Fourth chapter. All right! I have been working on this for the last couple of days and felt that it would be better to just get a lot of chapters out at first so you can congragulate and thank me for getting a jump start on it. ^_^ Well, here's the disclaimer.
I don't own SM or DBZ. Now here's the story.
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"Where have you been, woman?" Vegeta growled as she landed next to him on the porch.
"I just went to go see someone, all right?" she said and blew him off.
"For what?"
"Something you'll thank me for later," she explained and walked past him into the house. He didn't say anything else but grunted. She shook her head and walked into the kitchen, opening the refrigerator. She took out the mayonaise, lettuce, tomatoes, and lunchmeat, setting them on the island in the kitchen. She dropped the bread in the middle of it and began making her sandwich.
Vegeta was on the couch watching TV. He didn't sem interested in what she was doing.
"Veggie, aren't you hungry?" she asked. He didn't even move.
"Yeah. I want ten sandwiches with the works," he said as he surfed the channels. Usagi just shrugged and finshed making her sandwich, grabbing a handful of potato chips and a soda. She walked to the sofa and sat on the end. She put her soda on the coffee table and her plate in her lap. She popped the top of the coke and took a sip. "Woman, what about mine?" he asked her as he watched her.
"What about it?"
"Where is it?"
"Well, Veggie, you have to make it to eat it, don't you think?" she retorted and bit into her sandwich.
"I have to make it? I'm a prince! You're a woman so go make my lunch!" he ordered. Usagi just glanced at him.
"So what if you're royalty? I am too but I still have to make my own food. In fact, I don't think either of us are a prince or princess. Only you and Goku and Gohan are the remaining Saiyans and I'm the last Lunarian." She continued eating. Vegeta wasn't angry at her for refusing to make his lunch, but angry at her for pointing out the fact that he wasn't a prince anymore.
He slammed his fist down on the coffee table, causing her drink to spill.
"Vegeta!" she yelled as she tried to soak up the sticky drink. "What is your problem?"
"You are!" he growled and got off the couch, storming to his room and slamming the door. The sound reverberated through the whole house and Usagi winced, fearing the door was broken.
"Why, the ungrateful..." her voice trailed off and she finished cleaning up the coke. She put her sandwich on the messy counter and went up the stairs, knocking on the prince's door. "Vegeta?"
He didn't answer.
"Vegeta, open the door," she ordered. He still didn't answer her. She sighed in annoyance and opened the door slowly. She looked inside the room. All the lights were out and she blinked so her eyes could get used to the darkness.
"Get out," came a stern voice. Usagi just straightened her back and shoulders, walking into the room. She peered into the dark and saw him on the bed. She flipped on the lights. He was on his back on the bed, arms behind his head. His eyes were closed and the always-present scowl was etched into his hard features. He had taken off his armor and was clad in the blue spandex. His gloves were thrown across the room, most likely in a fit of rage.
She walked to the bed and stood there, looming over him. He never opened his eyes but she knew he knew she was there. She just sighed and sat on the edge of the bed. Her back was to him.
"Vegeta," she began softly. "I'm sorry for what I said down there. But it is true. What is the point of being the head honcho of a race that only lives on in you?" she tried to reason. "Yes, it's great to know that you're a prince, but it really doesn't mean anything if you're the sole survivor of a nearly dead people. I understand what you're going through. I'm the only one left of my kingdom. The only reason I'm here is because my mother sent me here to be reborn. That was over a thousand years ago. My planet is gone as well. Maybe for the best.
"But hey," she continued. "If someone messes with you, just say that you're the prince of the most powerful race in the universe. It wouldn't be lying and it really does make you feel better."
Vegeta finally cracked open an eye and looked at her. She smiled slightly and stood up, patting his arm.
"Hope you feel better," she said and began to walk away. She didn't hear him get off the bed and come up behind her. She reached for the door when she saw his hand come from behind her. He put his palm flat on the door and pushed it closed. "Vegeta..." she began but was cut off when his other arm came around her shoulders and pulled her back.
"Thank you, tenshi," he whispered in her ear and she shivered. She felt him rest his face on the base of her neck and breathe in her scent.
"Vegeta, please..." she whispered. Then he suddenly let her go, opening the door and pushing her through it gently. Before she could turn around the door was shut again.
And locked.
"Oh, Vegeta," she said softly and turned to her room.
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"Come on, Veggie!" Usagi taunted as she dodged another one of Vegeta's attacks. It had been
over two years since the incident that day. Her and Vegeta had not exactly become friends but were closer. Now all they did were argue and spar.
Usagi scoffed as Vegeta nearly hit her with a blast. She formed a ball of lightning in her hand and threw it up at him. He just scowled and with a quick move of his arm had knocked the attack off its course and she watched with hands on her hips as the perfectly good energy blasted off into the distance, flaring lightly when it hit the ground.
"Thanks a lot, Veggie-san! All that was for nothing!" she yelled and dramatically threw her hands into the air. He hovered above her, smirking and rubbing his arm in triumph.
"Stop complaining, odango, we still have a lot of training to do-" he began but stopped abruptly, his eyes widening. Usagi stared up at him and frowned.
"Vegeta, what's the matter?" she asked but he silenced her.
"Don't you feel it?" he demanded and she frowned. She concentrated on her surroundings and suddenly she felt it as well.
"Oh, Kami-sama, what is that?" she asked as she scanned the skies. Her eyes widened. "There!" she indicated, pointing to a spot in the sky.
"Let's go!" Vegeta ordered and he grabbed her wrist, flying into the air.
A few minutes later they stopped and glided gracefully to the ground. Both were quiet.
"Hey! Usagi, Vegeta! What are you doing here?"
"Krillen, shush!" Usagi whispered, waving at the new arrivals with her hand to tell them to be quiet. Krillen blushed.
Usagi walked to the bluff to stand beside Vegeta.
"What is it?" she whispered. Vegeta's eyes narrowed as he looked down into the ravine. "Who is that?"
Standing down in the ravine was a kid, no more than perhaps sixteen or seventeen. He had lavender hair that hung around his face softly and dark blue eyes. He had on a dark blue jacket and pants, a white shirt showing beneath. A sword was strapped on his back.
"Doesn't he look... slightly familiar?" she whispered.
"It's not him," Vegeta seethed.
"What?"
"He isn't the one who has the huge power level. It's something else," he replied and once again began to search the sky.
"V-Vegeta?" Usagi stammered.
"What woman?" he demanded. He looked up to see a huge ship of some kind part the clouds and smack into the Earth. He felt the ki inside the ship.
"Maybe it's Goku," she whispered. Vegeta shook his head. This was not as strong as Goku but it felt different as well.
The door to the ship opened and soldiers of all kinds filed out. Vegeta and Usagi immediately prepared to power up. But all their attention was focused on the boy. Usagi grimaced and braced herself, preparing to fly to help the kid. But a hand on her arm stopped her.
She looked up questioningly at the prince. He just continued watching the fight unfold below him. Usagi sighed and did the same.
The kid was actually very strong. He easily defeated the soldiers in less than two minutes. All the z-warriors were standing there gaping. The kid didn't seem to notice them.
Suddenly two men stepped off the ship. One was a short alien of some sort, even shorter than Usagi. He was the weirdest thing she had seen. Next to him stood a larger man that towered over everyone.
"Freiza!" Vegeta yelled softly before Usagi slapped a hand over his mouth and pulled him back.
"That's Freiza?" she asked him. He gripped her hand in his and pried it from his mouth. He shot her a death glare but she just glared right back at him. "You screamed first," she accused and pointed her finger at him, prodding him in the chest.
"I didn't scream," he hissed. Usagi just responded by crossing her arms over her chest and cocking an eyebrow at him. "That's Freiza. I don't know who the other person is, though."
"Hey, lovebirds! You have got to see this guy! He's going up against Freiza alone!" Krillen whispered. Usagi and Vegeta glared at him. He just shrugged and laughed nervously. Usagi walked back towards the group and Vegeta was behind her.
"Woah. He's good," she whispered. Vegeta just grunted behind her as he watched the battle. Suddenly the boy's aura turned gold. His eyes turned turquoise and his hair golden. His power level sky rocketed.
"He's a Super Saiyan?" Vegeta cried, stunned. He watched in amasement as the kid beat Freiza to a bloody pulp.
'But how can that be? Kakarott and I are the only full blooded Saiyans left in the universe! And he doesn't even have the dark hair or tail!' Vegeta screamed in his head.
Soon it was the larger man's turn to deal with the boy. His fate was the same as Freiza's.
Vegeta glared down at the boy. Usagi felt his power level increase and before she could stop him he shot down into the ravine.
"Vegeta, wait!" she cried and blasted off after him. Vegeta landed just beside the boy, Usagi behind Vegeta.
"All right, kid! Who are you and how did you become a Super Saiyan?" Vegeta demanded.
"Vegetable head! Cool it, okay? He defeated Freiza and the other guy, therefore saving the Earth, AND you," she yelled. "That means he's a good guy. Is that right?" she asked the boy. He just smirked and his eyes looked from Usagi to Vegeta.
"Don't worry. I didn't come here to hurt any of you, I promise," he said solemnly. Usagi smiled in return but she was shaken on the inside. That smirk...it looked so familiar. He did, as well. "I came here to see Goku."
"Son Goku?" Usagi asked skeptically, stepping out from behind Vegeta. The boy nodded. "Well, sorry to tell you this, but Goku's not here right now. In fact, we don't know where in the universe he is!"
"Actually, he's just two hours and fifteen minutes away from Earth. Come on, I'm going to go meet him. Why don't all of you come?" he asked.
"I-I guess we could... spare a couple of hours," Usagi said slowly.
"And I want answers-!" Vegeta began to say but Usagi had once again locked her mouth over his mouth.
"Veggie head, shut up," she whispered into his ear.
"If you do that one more time..." he threatened.
"Yeah, yeah, whatever," she said while turning her back to him and waving a hand dismissively. This earned a soft laugh from the boy.
"I'll take that as a yes." He turned from them and cupped his hands around his mouth. "Rini! Come on, it's safe!" he yelled over the terrain.
"Hey, you don't have to yell, big bro. I'm right here," called a feminine voice from behind a boulder. Usagi's eyes widened on the girl.
A girl of about fourteen or fifteen stepped from behind a boulder, dramatically rubbing an ear for her insult to take affect. Her blue eyes sparkled with humor and her silver hair caught in the wind, gently floating around her soft face and shoulders.
Usagi looked at the two teenagers with wide eyes. She prodded Vegeta in the stomach with her elbow.
"Vegeta! Look at them! Don't they look familiar to you?" she asked frantically. Vegeta only nodded faintly.
"That girl looks just like you," he replied. The boy watched them nervously before clearing his throat.
"Why don't we go now? Goku should be here soon," he said and turned to the wide eyed girl. "Let's go, sis." The girl nodded and her brother flew into the air. She followed closely behind him. Usagi just shrugged and followed suit. Vegeta just grunted in annoyance and set off on Usagi's trail.
"What...was that, guys?" Bulma asked the remaining z-senshi. "Didn't those two kids look like Vegeta and Usagi to you?"
"Very close resemblence," Piccolo said as he put a hand on her shoulder. "But I don't think our princess or Vegeta noticed."
"Obviously not. C'mon, he said Goku was going to be here soon! Let's go meet him!" Yamcha exclaimed.
"Yeah! Dad's coming home!" Gohan said excitedly.
The z-warriors were soon trailing the four people on their way to meet their long lost friend.
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"Kid," Vegeta clipped. The boy looked up from the rock he was sitting on the glance at Vegeta. "How did you become Super Saiyan? Only Kakarott and me are the remaining full blooded Saiyans in the universe.
"It's a long story," he said quickly, looking down at his watch.
"I have the time," Vegeta returned smoothly, crossing his arms to glare at the boy.
"Actually, we don't," the boy replied, standing up. "He's here."
Everyone looked towards the boy and came to attention. A streak crossed the sky and everyone watched as the pod crashed into the Earth. Usagi and Gohan were the first ones there.
"Dad!" Gohan called excitedly as his father stepped out of the pod.
"Huh? Gohan? Usagi? Guys? What are you all doing here?" Goku asked, puzzlement written clearly on his face.
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Goku had ended up talking to the boy and afterwards seemed a bit... well, weird to say the least.
Usagi had sat down with Rini and tried to get information out of her but the girl was smart. She knew where Usagi was headed and usually laughed it off, changing the subject.
Soon, however, the two teens had to leave. Both piled into a small, nearly arachnid-looking craft, waving good bye to the group.
Especially Usagi and Vegeta.
Goku told them after the two had left that the boy had said there were going to be two androids that were going to show up in a year and a half. He gave them specific places and times.
Soon the group began to split to head home. Gohan and Goku had just begun to leave when Goku turned back to the two royals.
"Hey, Usagi!" he called.
"Yeah Goku?" she replied.
"Hope you have a healthy baby! Bye!"
"WHAT?!" Vegeta roared as soon as Gohan and Goku were out of hearing range. Usagi was just as shocked.
"Vegeta, I swear I have no idea what he's talking about!" she pleaded, latching onto his arm. She looked straight into his furious face with soft eyes.
"Baby! Are you having a baby?" he demanded.
"I haven't been with a man since Mamo-baka. I never even slept with him!" she insisted then flushed crimson. That was definately NOT something she had intented to say. "Let's just go home," she muttered and darted into the sky. Vegeta cursed as he watched her.
He loved her, he had to admit that much. He had loved her since that night two years ago in his bedroom. Each night he forced himself to stay in his own bed. It was torture to be near her, but it was even worse when he wasn't.
Now he heard her recieve a blessing for a child that she said she wasn't having. But he trusted her. He would put his life in her hands in a second.
He shook his head and tried to clear all the thoughts screaming through his head. He powered up and instantly transported to the house. It was something he'd been working on for the past month in the gravity room.
Usagi had had Bulma make it for him two years ago. He remembered how she presented it to him.
She woke him up at six in the morning one day. He would have blasted her to oblivion if it weren't for the fact that she was the one he wanted and that this had to be really important if she was up at six in the morning. Perhaps it was a youma. They popped up every once in a while on rare occasions.
She had dragged him out into the dew covered lawn, both still clad in their pj's. A gentle mist swirled around them. She was as giddy as a school girl, giggling the whole time.
"Tada!" she yelled as she presented the huge ball on her yard.
"What is this, woman?" he growled. He certainly didn't enjoy being dragged out of his warm bed and that wonderful dream just to see a giant eyesore.
"Your new training room," she laughed. He just looked at her as though she had lost her mind. "Don't worry, the coffee should wear off by later this morning."
She walked to the capsule with him behind her. A red Christmas bow was on the door. It was ridiculous. She had laughed so hard at that, he didn't understand why. It had been a measley bow.
She stepped back a bit and motioned for him to do the same. The door lowered and she walked inside. Vegeta walked in behind her.
"I hope you like it. I stayed up all night fixing this place up for you," she said as she walked around the room.
"How is this supposed to help me get stronger?" he asked her, his arms crossed over his chest. She had turned to him, her eyes wide. Their eyes locked. He saw disappointment and pain flash behind them.
She looked down, breaking the stare.
"It's a gravity room. You can program it to change the gravity inside the capsule. It can reach up to eight hundred times Earth's gravity. I asked Bulma to make it. She brought it by last night. That's the control panel," she indicated by pointing to it. "There's also some droids in here to help you train. Well, I think I'm going to go inside and get some sleep," she said and tried to sound cheerful, but her voice quivered with each word. "See ya!"
"Usagi, wait," Vegeta called. She froze at the entrance to the capsule.
"Yeah, Vegeta?" she asked softly.
"Thanks," he said with a smirk. She smiled over her shoulder and left.
He vowed from that day on never to hurt her.
But it seemed as though he had. He growled and walked into the gravity room. He removed his shirt and was clad only in a pair of black gi pants. He set the gravity to four hundred times normal gravity and began his training.
Except harder today.
He destroyed a couple of droids. They went into shield mode as he threw a blasts at the remaining ones. The ki blasts bounced off each one and hit another, just like a game of pinball.
And Vegeta was stuck in the middle of it. He noticed that he had never made an attack this powerful in the gravity room before. He knew he never should make an attack that powerful.
But anger towards himself and so many others had blinded him and he let it all out in that room.
The attack bounced out from between the droids and Vegeta watched in horror as it hit the control panel.
All he remembered was the blinding flash of the explosion, the deafening rumble of the collapsing capsule, and pain searing through his body.
He blacked out when the debris piled on top of him.
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'I can't believe Goku would do that! Now Vegeta is about to KILL me!' Usagi thought sadly. She hadn't been with anyone in her life and people are already telling her congrats on her baby. She stopped in mid flight.
"Why am I always the last one to know things?" she groaned.
A sudden flash of light on the horizon caused her to start.
"That looks like where my house is- Oh, Kami-sama, Vegeta!" she cried and used her instant transmission technique to get to the house. She had seen him working on a new technique himself in the gravity room that was a lot like the instant transmission so he could have easily gotten home before her.
Sure enough, when she got to her home, all that remained of the gravity room was a huge pile of rubble. She immediately ran to it, falling on her knees and digging through the debris.
"Vegeta!" she called, listening and watching for any sound or movement at all. She continued her frantic search, tears welling up in her eyes. She jumped when a hand suddenly shot through the debris. "Oh, Kami," she breathed and ran to him, pulling off the debris.
He wasn't hurt to bad, just a few scratches here and there, but it was still serious. She lifted his heavy torso as far as she could, ducking beneath his arm to support him against her as she rose very slowly.
"Usagi," he said softly against her shoulder.
"Shh, we're almost in the house, Vegeta," she said and continued her teadious task.
Finally, after a lot of hard work and encouraging, she had been able to drag him across the yard, into the house, and up the stairs to his bedroom. She laid him on the bed and covered him up. She cleaned is wounds with rubbing alcohol and wrapped a piece of linen around his forehead because of the large gash there just inside his hairline.
She sat back into a chair and leaned back, covering her eyes with her hands and sighing. She frowned and lifted her hand to see it trembling. Usagi tried to stop the nervousness but couldn't. She growled in frustration and let her hand fall limply onto the armrest.
Vegeta's steady breathing filled the air in the room. Usagi's eyes wandered to him. She didn't know what she felt towards him. It was nothing like what she felt towards Mamoru. This was a more intense feeling.
Was this love?
Did Vegeta feel the same way towards her?
Sometimes, when they trained with each other, Usagi would see something pass in his eyes when he hit her with a blast or punch, but he would just put the mask up once again.
She had tried to break through several times but he just pushed her away. He had changed so much since they had begun living together.
She let out a watery laugh at the first time she had seen him. A huge monkey crushing one of her best friends.
Not something you would want to do in front of her. She was seeing red by the time they had actually begun fighting.
Then the time they went fishing together. He just laid there meditating most of the time. Usagi had gotten tired of just watching him sit there so she used her mercurian powers and threw a little water ball at him. Well, Mercury was an ice planet, so...
He had gotten so mad at her that he had caught her, hoisted her above his head, and tossed her out into the middle of the pond. Well, Usagi was the type of person that always, well, most of the time, had a back-up plan. She began choking and flailing about in the water yelling she couldn't swim. Vegeta had reluctantly held out a hand to help her out.
He shouldn't have.
The next thing he knew he was sitting on his rear in the muddy bottom of the pond with a soaking wet Usagi standing over him.
It was literally a water war after that. They came home with no fish for dinner so they just ordered two large pizzas instead.
Usagi had tears streaming down her cheeks she was laughing so hard. She got up to leave the room so she wouldn't wake him up.
Too late.
"Where are you going? And just WHAT could you be laughing at at a time like this?" came a gruff voice and Usagi looked over to see Vegeta sitting painfully up in bed glaring at her.
"Were you awake when I dragged you up here?" she demanded, coming over to scowl at him.
"You got the dragged part right."
"You were! And you made me... oh, you're gonna pay!" she yelled and picked up one of his pillows, aiming for his head. Even though he was hurt didn't mean his reflexes had diminished any.
He grabbed the pillow, knotted his fist into it, and pulled it towards him, Usagi still attached to it. She cried out, nearly falling on top of him. She closed her eyes and felt herself being held in a strong embrace.
Her silvery hair had come undone from the loose bun on the back of her head and she looked up, startled to see Vegeta staring down into her face, smiling lightly.
"You should learn how to control that clumsiness, tenshi," he whispered as he captured her lips with his.
He had waited too long for this. It was time to kindle what was already burning deep inside both of them.
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I don't think the next chapter will be *flashback*ing. You pretty much know what happens.
Please read and review!
I don't own SM or DBZ. Now here's the story.
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"Where have you been, woman?" Vegeta growled as she landed next to him on the porch.
"I just went to go see someone, all right?" she said and blew him off.
"For what?"
"Something you'll thank me for later," she explained and walked past him into the house. He didn't say anything else but grunted. She shook her head and walked into the kitchen, opening the refrigerator. She took out the mayonaise, lettuce, tomatoes, and lunchmeat, setting them on the island in the kitchen. She dropped the bread in the middle of it and began making her sandwich.
Vegeta was on the couch watching TV. He didn't sem interested in what she was doing.
"Veggie, aren't you hungry?" she asked. He didn't even move.
"Yeah. I want ten sandwiches with the works," he said as he surfed the channels. Usagi just shrugged and finshed making her sandwich, grabbing a handful of potato chips and a soda. She walked to the sofa and sat on the end. She put her soda on the coffee table and her plate in her lap. She popped the top of the coke and took a sip. "Woman, what about mine?" he asked her as he watched her.
"What about it?"
"Where is it?"
"Well, Veggie, you have to make it to eat it, don't you think?" she retorted and bit into her sandwich.
"I have to make it? I'm a prince! You're a woman so go make my lunch!" he ordered. Usagi just glanced at him.
"So what if you're royalty? I am too but I still have to make my own food. In fact, I don't think either of us are a prince or princess. Only you and Goku and Gohan are the remaining Saiyans and I'm the last Lunarian." She continued eating. Vegeta wasn't angry at her for refusing to make his lunch, but angry at her for pointing out the fact that he wasn't a prince anymore.
He slammed his fist down on the coffee table, causing her drink to spill.
"Vegeta!" she yelled as she tried to soak up the sticky drink. "What is your problem?"
"You are!" he growled and got off the couch, storming to his room and slamming the door. The sound reverberated through the whole house and Usagi winced, fearing the door was broken.
"Why, the ungrateful..." her voice trailed off and she finished cleaning up the coke. She put her sandwich on the messy counter and went up the stairs, knocking on the prince's door. "Vegeta?"
He didn't answer.
"Vegeta, open the door," she ordered. He still didn't answer her. She sighed in annoyance and opened the door slowly. She looked inside the room. All the lights were out and she blinked so her eyes could get used to the darkness.
"Get out," came a stern voice. Usagi just straightened her back and shoulders, walking into the room. She peered into the dark and saw him on the bed. She flipped on the lights. He was on his back on the bed, arms behind his head. His eyes were closed and the always-present scowl was etched into his hard features. He had taken off his armor and was clad in the blue spandex. His gloves were thrown across the room, most likely in a fit of rage.
She walked to the bed and stood there, looming over him. He never opened his eyes but she knew he knew she was there. She just sighed and sat on the edge of the bed. Her back was to him.
"Vegeta," she began softly. "I'm sorry for what I said down there. But it is true. What is the point of being the head honcho of a race that only lives on in you?" she tried to reason. "Yes, it's great to know that you're a prince, but it really doesn't mean anything if you're the sole survivor of a nearly dead people. I understand what you're going through. I'm the only one left of my kingdom. The only reason I'm here is because my mother sent me here to be reborn. That was over a thousand years ago. My planet is gone as well. Maybe for the best.
"But hey," she continued. "If someone messes with you, just say that you're the prince of the most powerful race in the universe. It wouldn't be lying and it really does make you feel better."
Vegeta finally cracked open an eye and looked at her. She smiled slightly and stood up, patting his arm.
"Hope you feel better," she said and began to walk away. She didn't hear him get off the bed and come up behind her. She reached for the door when she saw his hand come from behind her. He put his palm flat on the door and pushed it closed. "Vegeta..." she began but was cut off when his other arm came around her shoulders and pulled her back.
"Thank you, tenshi," he whispered in her ear and she shivered. She felt him rest his face on the base of her neck and breathe in her scent.
"Vegeta, please..." she whispered. Then he suddenly let her go, opening the door and pushing her through it gently. Before she could turn around the door was shut again.
And locked.
"Oh, Vegeta," she said softly and turned to her room.
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"Come on, Veggie!" Usagi taunted as she dodged another one of Vegeta's attacks. It had been
over two years since the incident that day. Her and Vegeta had not exactly become friends but were closer. Now all they did were argue and spar.
Usagi scoffed as Vegeta nearly hit her with a blast. She formed a ball of lightning in her hand and threw it up at him. He just scowled and with a quick move of his arm had knocked the attack off its course and she watched with hands on her hips as the perfectly good energy blasted off into the distance, flaring lightly when it hit the ground.
"Thanks a lot, Veggie-san! All that was for nothing!" she yelled and dramatically threw her hands into the air. He hovered above her, smirking and rubbing his arm in triumph.
"Stop complaining, odango, we still have a lot of training to do-" he began but stopped abruptly, his eyes widening. Usagi stared up at him and frowned.
"Vegeta, what's the matter?" she asked but he silenced her.
"Don't you feel it?" he demanded and she frowned. She concentrated on her surroundings and suddenly she felt it as well.
"Oh, Kami-sama, what is that?" she asked as she scanned the skies. Her eyes widened. "There!" she indicated, pointing to a spot in the sky.
"Let's go!" Vegeta ordered and he grabbed her wrist, flying into the air.
A few minutes later they stopped and glided gracefully to the ground. Both were quiet.
"Hey! Usagi, Vegeta! What are you doing here?"
"Krillen, shush!" Usagi whispered, waving at the new arrivals with her hand to tell them to be quiet. Krillen blushed.
Usagi walked to the bluff to stand beside Vegeta.
"What is it?" she whispered. Vegeta's eyes narrowed as he looked down into the ravine. "Who is that?"
Standing down in the ravine was a kid, no more than perhaps sixteen or seventeen. He had lavender hair that hung around his face softly and dark blue eyes. He had on a dark blue jacket and pants, a white shirt showing beneath. A sword was strapped on his back.
"Doesn't he look... slightly familiar?" she whispered.
"It's not him," Vegeta seethed.
"What?"
"He isn't the one who has the huge power level. It's something else," he replied and once again began to search the sky.
"V-Vegeta?" Usagi stammered.
"What woman?" he demanded. He looked up to see a huge ship of some kind part the clouds and smack into the Earth. He felt the ki inside the ship.
"Maybe it's Goku," she whispered. Vegeta shook his head. This was not as strong as Goku but it felt different as well.
The door to the ship opened and soldiers of all kinds filed out. Vegeta and Usagi immediately prepared to power up. But all their attention was focused on the boy. Usagi grimaced and braced herself, preparing to fly to help the kid. But a hand on her arm stopped her.
She looked up questioningly at the prince. He just continued watching the fight unfold below him. Usagi sighed and did the same.
The kid was actually very strong. He easily defeated the soldiers in less than two minutes. All the z-warriors were standing there gaping. The kid didn't seem to notice them.
Suddenly two men stepped off the ship. One was a short alien of some sort, even shorter than Usagi. He was the weirdest thing she had seen. Next to him stood a larger man that towered over everyone.
"Freiza!" Vegeta yelled softly before Usagi slapped a hand over his mouth and pulled him back.
"That's Freiza?" she asked him. He gripped her hand in his and pried it from his mouth. He shot her a death glare but she just glared right back at him. "You screamed first," she accused and pointed her finger at him, prodding him in the chest.
"I didn't scream," he hissed. Usagi just responded by crossing her arms over her chest and cocking an eyebrow at him. "That's Freiza. I don't know who the other person is, though."
"Hey, lovebirds! You have got to see this guy! He's going up against Freiza alone!" Krillen whispered. Usagi and Vegeta glared at him. He just shrugged and laughed nervously. Usagi walked back towards the group and Vegeta was behind her.
"Woah. He's good," she whispered. Vegeta just grunted behind her as he watched the battle. Suddenly the boy's aura turned gold. His eyes turned turquoise and his hair golden. His power level sky rocketed.
"He's a Super Saiyan?" Vegeta cried, stunned. He watched in amasement as the kid beat Freiza to a bloody pulp.
'But how can that be? Kakarott and I are the only full blooded Saiyans left in the universe! And he doesn't even have the dark hair or tail!' Vegeta screamed in his head.
Soon it was the larger man's turn to deal with the boy. His fate was the same as Freiza's.
Vegeta glared down at the boy. Usagi felt his power level increase and before she could stop him he shot down into the ravine.
"Vegeta, wait!" she cried and blasted off after him. Vegeta landed just beside the boy, Usagi behind Vegeta.
"All right, kid! Who are you and how did you become a Super Saiyan?" Vegeta demanded.
"Vegetable head! Cool it, okay? He defeated Freiza and the other guy, therefore saving the Earth, AND you," she yelled. "That means he's a good guy. Is that right?" she asked the boy. He just smirked and his eyes looked from Usagi to Vegeta.
"Don't worry. I didn't come here to hurt any of you, I promise," he said solemnly. Usagi smiled in return but she was shaken on the inside. That smirk...it looked so familiar. He did, as well. "I came here to see Goku."
"Son Goku?" Usagi asked skeptically, stepping out from behind Vegeta. The boy nodded. "Well, sorry to tell you this, but Goku's not here right now. In fact, we don't know where in the universe he is!"
"Actually, he's just two hours and fifteen minutes away from Earth. Come on, I'm going to go meet him. Why don't all of you come?" he asked.
"I-I guess we could... spare a couple of hours," Usagi said slowly.
"And I want answers-!" Vegeta began to say but Usagi had once again locked her mouth over his mouth.
"Veggie head, shut up," she whispered into his ear.
"If you do that one more time..." he threatened.
"Yeah, yeah, whatever," she said while turning her back to him and waving a hand dismissively. This earned a soft laugh from the boy.
"I'll take that as a yes." He turned from them and cupped his hands around his mouth. "Rini! Come on, it's safe!" he yelled over the terrain.
"Hey, you don't have to yell, big bro. I'm right here," called a feminine voice from behind a boulder. Usagi's eyes widened on the girl.
A girl of about fourteen or fifteen stepped from behind a boulder, dramatically rubbing an ear for her insult to take affect. Her blue eyes sparkled with humor and her silver hair caught in the wind, gently floating around her soft face and shoulders.
Usagi looked at the two teenagers with wide eyes. She prodded Vegeta in the stomach with her elbow.
"Vegeta! Look at them! Don't they look familiar to you?" she asked frantically. Vegeta only nodded faintly.
"That girl looks just like you," he replied. The boy watched them nervously before clearing his throat.
"Why don't we go now? Goku should be here soon," he said and turned to the wide eyed girl. "Let's go, sis." The girl nodded and her brother flew into the air. She followed closely behind him. Usagi just shrugged and followed suit. Vegeta just grunted in annoyance and set off on Usagi's trail.
"What...was that, guys?" Bulma asked the remaining z-senshi. "Didn't those two kids look like Vegeta and Usagi to you?"
"Very close resemblence," Piccolo said as he put a hand on her shoulder. "But I don't think our princess or Vegeta noticed."
"Obviously not. C'mon, he said Goku was going to be here soon! Let's go meet him!" Yamcha exclaimed.
"Yeah! Dad's coming home!" Gohan said excitedly.
The z-warriors were soon trailing the four people on their way to meet their long lost friend.
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"Kid," Vegeta clipped. The boy looked up from the rock he was sitting on the glance at Vegeta. "How did you become Super Saiyan? Only Kakarott and me are the remaining full blooded Saiyans in the universe.
"It's a long story," he said quickly, looking down at his watch.
"I have the time," Vegeta returned smoothly, crossing his arms to glare at the boy.
"Actually, we don't," the boy replied, standing up. "He's here."
Everyone looked towards the boy and came to attention. A streak crossed the sky and everyone watched as the pod crashed into the Earth. Usagi and Gohan were the first ones there.
"Dad!" Gohan called excitedly as his father stepped out of the pod.
"Huh? Gohan? Usagi? Guys? What are you all doing here?" Goku asked, puzzlement written clearly on his face.
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Goku had ended up talking to the boy and afterwards seemed a bit... well, weird to say the least.
Usagi had sat down with Rini and tried to get information out of her but the girl was smart. She knew where Usagi was headed and usually laughed it off, changing the subject.
Soon, however, the two teens had to leave. Both piled into a small, nearly arachnid-looking craft, waving good bye to the group.
Especially Usagi and Vegeta.
Goku told them after the two had left that the boy had said there were going to be two androids that were going to show up in a year and a half. He gave them specific places and times.
Soon the group began to split to head home. Gohan and Goku had just begun to leave when Goku turned back to the two royals.
"Hey, Usagi!" he called.
"Yeah Goku?" she replied.
"Hope you have a healthy baby! Bye!"
"WHAT?!" Vegeta roared as soon as Gohan and Goku were out of hearing range. Usagi was just as shocked.
"Vegeta, I swear I have no idea what he's talking about!" she pleaded, latching onto his arm. She looked straight into his furious face with soft eyes.
"Baby! Are you having a baby?" he demanded.
"I haven't been with a man since Mamo-baka. I never even slept with him!" she insisted then flushed crimson. That was definately NOT something she had intented to say. "Let's just go home," she muttered and darted into the sky. Vegeta cursed as he watched her.
He loved her, he had to admit that much. He had loved her since that night two years ago in his bedroom. Each night he forced himself to stay in his own bed. It was torture to be near her, but it was even worse when he wasn't.
Now he heard her recieve a blessing for a child that she said she wasn't having. But he trusted her. He would put his life in her hands in a second.
He shook his head and tried to clear all the thoughts screaming through his head. He powered up and instantly transported to the house. It was something he'd been working on for the past month in the gravity room.
Usagi had had Bulma make it for him two years ago. He remembered how she presented it to him.
She woke him up at six in the morning one day. He would have blasted her to oblivion if it weren't for the fact that she was the one he wanted and that this had to be really important if she was up at six in the morning. Perhaps it was a youma. They popped up every once in a while on rare occasions.
She had dragged him out into the dew covered lawn, both still clad in their pj's. A gentle mist swirled around them. She was as giddy as a school girl, giggling the whole time.
"Tada!" she yelled as she presented the huge ball on her yard.
"What is this, woman?" he growled. He certainly didn't enjoy being dragged out of his warm bed and that wonderful dream just to see a giant eyesore.
"Your new training room," she laughed. He just looked at her as though she had lost her mind. "Don't worry, the coffee should wear off by later this morning."
She walked to the capsule with him behind her. A red Christmas bow was on the door. It was ridiculous. She had laughed so hard at that, he didn't understand why. It had been a measley bow.
She stepped back a bit and motioned for him to do the same. The door lowered and she walked inside. Vegeta walked in behind her.
"I hope you like it. I stayed up all night fixing this place up for you," she said as she walked around the room.
"How is this supposed to help me get stronger?" he asked her, his arms crossed over his chest. She had turned to him, her eyes wide. Their eyes locked. He saw disappointment and pain flash behind them.
She looked down, breaking the stare.
"It's a gravity room. You can program it to change the gravity inside the capsule. It can reach up to eight hundred times Earth's gravity. I asked Bulma to make it. She brought it by last night. That's the control panel," she indicated by pointing to it. "There's also some droids in here to help you train. Well, I think I'm going to go inside and get some sleep," she said and tried to sound cheerful, but her voice quivered with each word. "See ya!"
"Usagi, wait," Vegeta called. She froze at the entrance to the capsule.
"Yeah, Vegeta?" she asked softly.
"Thanks," he said with a smirk. She smiled over her shoulder and left.
He vowed from that day on never to hurt her.
But it seemed as though he had. He growled and walked into the gravity room. He removed his shirt and was clad only in a pair of black gi pants. He set the gravity to four hundred times normal gravity and began his training.
Except harder today.
He destroyed a couple of droids. They went into shield mode as he threw a blasts at the remaining ones. The ki blasts bounced off each one and hit another, just like a game of pinball.
And Vegeta was stuck in the middle of it. He noticed that he had never made an attack this powerful in the gravity room before. He knew he never should make an attack that powerful.
But anger towards himself and so many others had blinded him and he let it all out in that room.
The attack bounced out from between the droids and Vegeta watched in horror as it hit the control panel.
All he remembered was the blinding flash of the explosion, the deafening rumble of the collapsing capsule, and pain searing through his body.
He blacked out when the debris piled on top of him.
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'I can't believe Goku would do that! Now Vegeta is about to KILL me!' Usagi thought sadly. She hadn't been with anyone in her life and people are already telling her congrats on her baby. She stopped in mid flight.
"Why am I always the last one to know things?" she groaned.
A sudden flash of light on the horizon caused her to start.
"That looks like where my house is- Oh, Kami-sama, Vegeta!" she cried and used her instant transmission technique to get to the house. She had seen him working on a new technique himself in the gravity room that was a lot like the instant transmission so he could have easily gotten home before her.
Sure enough, when she got to her home, all that remained of the gravity room was a huge pile of rubble. She immediately ran to it, falling on her knees and digging through the debris.
"Vegeta!" she called, listening and watching for any sound or movement at all. She continued her frantic search, tears welling up in her eyes. She jumped when a hand suddenly shot through the debris. "Oh, Kami," she breathed and ran to him, pulling off the debris.
He wasn't hurt to bad, just a few scratches here and there, but it was still serious. She lifted his heavy torso as far as she could, ducking beneath his arm to support him against her as she rose very slowly.
"Usagi," he said softly against her shoulder.
"Shh, we're almost in the house, Vegeta," she said and continued her teadious task.
Finally, after a lot of hard work and encouraging, she had been able to drag him across the yard, into the house, and up the stairs to his bedroom. She laid him on the bed and covered him up. She cleaned is wounds with rubbing alcohol and wrapped a piece of linen around his forehead because of the large gash there just inside his hairline.
She sat back into a chair and leaned back, covering her eyes with her hands and sighing. She frowned and lifted her hand to see it trembling. Usagi tried to stop the nervousness but couldn't. She growled in frustration and let her hand fall limply onto the armrest.
Vegeta's steady breathing filled the air in the room. Usagi's eyes wandered to him. She didn't know what she felt towards him. It was nothing like what she felt towards Mamoru. This was a more intense feeling.
Was this love?
Did Vegeta feel the same way towards her?
Sometimes, when they trained with each other, Usagi would see something pass in his eyes when he hit her with a blast or punch, but he would just put the mask up once again.
She had tried to break through several times but he just pushed her away. He had changed so much since they had begun living together.
She let out a watery laugh at the first time she had seen him. A huge monkey crushing one of her best friends.
Not something you would want to do in front of her. She was seeing red by the time they had actually begun fighting.
Then the time they went fishing together. He just laid there meditating most of the time. Usagi had gotten tired of just watching him sit there so she used her mercurian powers and threw a little water ball at him. Well, Mercury was an ice planet, so...
He had gotten so mad at her that he had caught her, hoisted her above his head, and tossed her out into the middle of the pond. Well, Usagi was the type of person that always, well, most of the time, had a back-up plan. She began choking and flailing about in the water yelling she couldn't swim. Vegeta had reluctantly held out a hand to help her out.
He shouldn't have.
The next thing he knew he was sitting on his rear in the muddy bottom of the pond with a soaking wet Usagi standing over him.
It was literally a water war after that. They came home with no fish for dinner so they just ordered two large pizzas instead.
Usagi had tears streaming down her cheeks she was laughing so hard. She got up to leave the room so she wouldn't wake him up.
Too late.
"Where are you going? And just WHAT could you be laughing at at a time like this?" came a gruff voice and Usagi looked over to see Vegeta sitting painfully up in bed glaring at her.
"Were you awake when I dragged you up here?" she demanded, coming over to scowl at him.
"You got the dragged part right."
"You were! And you made me... oh, you're gonna pay!" she yelled and picked up one of his pillows, aiming for his head. Even though he was hurt didn't mean his reflexes had diminished any.
He grabbed the pillow, knotted his fist into it, and pulled it towards him, Usagi still attached to it. She cried out, nearly falling on top of him. She closed her eyes and felt herself being held in a strong embrace.
Her silvery hair had come undone from the loose bun on the back of her head and she looked up, startled to see Vegeta staring down into her face, smiling lightly.
"You should learn how to control that clumsiness, tenshi," he whispered as he captured her lips with his.
He had waited too long for this. It was time to kindle what was already burning deep inside both of them.
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I don't think the next chapter will be *flashback*ing. You pretty much know what happens.
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