CHAPTER 22- More Romance!
Disclaimer: I don't own anything other than the cat =^.^= who I feed with fish *))) !
Bulma slumped down on the couch having decided to eat her dinner in front of the television rather than sit with Vegeta.
'How could he do that to me? I thought… oh who cares what I thought get over it Bulma!' she sulked
Nightie jumped up to join her and snuggled in next to her as she flicked through the many channels to find an interesting documentary on artificial intelligence,
'I wonder if doctor gero is watching this' she thought and sighed 'Vegeta could be dead in two years time, along with everyone else I know and love apart from maybe Gohan. And what can I do about it? Nothing!' she sighed again
"Kinda makes you think doesn't it Nightie?" she said aloud
"Meeoow" said Nightie, almost questioningly
"I probably shouldn't be wasting what little time I have
left arguing with Vegeta… I should be out enjoying my life. But Yamcha's not
here anymore and all my friends are so busy. The only person here who I would
like to get closer to keeps on treating me like dirt!"
"Meeoow" said Nightie
"Just listen to me feeling sorry for myself!" Bulma had a sudden burst of energy "I should just stop relying on other people to make me happy!! Don't you agree Nightie?"
Nightie looked up at her and began to purr lightly. Bulma smiled,
'I always heard animals were therapeutic to have around!' she thought
In the kitchen Vegeta had finished his meal although somehow, the woman's decision to eat in another room had bothered him slightly
'She has no right to be angry with me!!! I was simply evening the score, getting some anger out of my system!' he growled and decided to go and give Bulma a piece of his mind
"Woman!" he said curtly as he marched into the living room
"What now Vegeta?" Bulma sighed
"You are below me! You have no right to snub me! Besides, under the circumstances I believe I have behaved very reasonably, I have killed people for less than what you did!!"
Bulma felt a mischievous smile spread across her face
'Time to have some fun' she thought. She stood up and sauntered over to him as seductively as she could.
"And why didn't you kill me Vegeta?" she said huskily
Vegeta was taken aback; he didn't have an answer immediately to hand, he soon recovered though
"Believe me woman I would've if you weren't useful to me," he stated blandly, refusing to lose his composure.
Bulma pouted cutely
"Is that really the only reason?" Vegeta could feel her breath on his neck and looked down to see huge puppy dog eyes staring up at him, he gulped almost audibly
"Of course it is woman! What other reason would I have to spare your pitiful life??"
Bulma suddenly pulled away from him and replied calmly
"None… none at all." She smiled sweetly and sauntered away again, picking up the kitten and heading for her room. "Night night Vegeta"
"Goodnight woman" he replied despite himself and immediately felt like ringing his own neck.
'Grrr!! That woman!' he grumbled as he stormed off to his own bed
The next morning Vegeta awoke and was horrified to find that he'd slept in till 9:30. Normally he would have been up four hours ago
'What is happening to me? First I can no longer control a pathetic woman and now I am becoming lazy!' he attempted to lift himself out of bed but as he did he felt something shift on his stomach and looked down to find Nightie stretching lazily as if she, too, had just woken
"Shoo! Stupid animal!!!"
Nightie looked up at him as if this was the first time she had noticed him and purred
"What? You like lying there do you? Well I'm afraid you won't be there for much longer, I have to get up!! Now shoo!"
Nightie didn't even flinch
'And now the cat doesn't even show me proper respect' Vegeta felt something akin to depression and decided it wouldn't be so bad to take the morning off and pet the cat for a while, as long as no one saw him. Just as he lay back down however he heard Bulma calling the cat and coming up the stairs
"Nightie! Come on kitty it's time for breakfast!"
Vegeta began to panic
"Come on now it's really time for you to move!" he lifted the kitten off his stomach, realizing that simple shooing didn't work, only to find her clinging to his arm as if her life depended on it, using her needle like claws when necessary
Vegeta winced in slight pain
"Damn those things are sharp! Come on get off me!!"
"Meeoow" said Nightie as she dangled from Vegeta's left arm by her claws
The door opened suddenly and Bulma giggled as she watched the mighty saiya jin prince struggle and wince as the tiny kitten clung to him
Vegeta heard her giggle and turned slowly to face her
"Woman! How dare you enter my living quarters without my permission!!"
"Sorry Vegeta, I thought you would be training! I have to come in here to get your washing every other day any way! Besides, I've shared a bed with you and lived in your body, there's no point getting picky about your privacy now!!"
"Humph" Vegeta knew when he was defeated
"Ok, so now that's cleared up would you like your breakfast? You might as well seeing as I have to feed the cat and I don't think she's letting go any time soon!!"
Vegeta stopped struggling against the feline's grip and Nightie curled up in his arms and began to purr again. Vegeta scowled darkly
"Aww come on Vegeta! You should be flattered, cats are good judges of character!" Bulma giggled as she left the room calling behind her " get dressed and come down when you're ready, I'll have your breakfast waiting for you!!"
"Humph" said Vegeta and then began to ponder the question of how on earth he could get dressed if the cat wouldn't let go of him? "Stupid fur ball" he grumbled
"*Purr*" said Nightie
Back in the kitchen Bulma had decided to try winning Vegeta with food again, but this time she couldn't find her mother to help her, so all wasn't exactly going to plan.
'At this rate I'll give him food poisoning!' she thought annoyed as she slipped yet another of her culinary creations into the bin.
'Forget this! I can't cook, I'll just have to find some other way to get his attention!' she switched on a cooking robot, programmed a menu and sat herself down at the kitchen table to sulk, again.
'Hmmm, maybe I could ask chi chi how she got Goku, he's a saiya jin after all, what have I got to lose?' she then remembered that chi chi got Goku because he didn't know what marriage was and somewhere along the line she beat him up… Bulma didn't imagine that the same formula would work here.
Soon after she dismissed this idea, Vegeta appeared in the doorway looking bedraggled with Nightie hanging on to his shoulder.
"Where is my food woman?"
"The cooking bot will be finished in a minute, just sit down a while and be patient"
"Fine."
"Vegeta?" Bulma began after a short silence
"What?" he inwardly groaned, 'not another depressing emotional conversation, the one about vegetasei was bad enough'
"Do you ever feel lonely?"
'Oh dear kami no! Not this conversation!! I have to shut her up but how?'
Bulma looked at Vegeta patiently, waiting for an answer to her question, instead she saw him smirk and then before she knew what day it was she felt his lips pressed urgently against her own
"What the?" she attempted to shout through his mouth on hers before she settled down and began to enjoy herself…
'That shut her up' thought Vegeta triumphantly
Oooh… what'll happen next I wonder??
I have a bit of a dilemma… to lemon or not to lemon? That is the question. On the one hand I have never written a lemon before and while I could get help from someone more experienced, I'd rest easier knowing this fic was all my own work. Also, I'm not sure if a lemon chapter would fit in very well with the mood of this fic, which doesn't take itself very seriously, whereas most good lemons do take themselves seriously in my humble opinion! However on the other hand I know a lot of people would like to see some lemon and a lot of people may view it as a bit of an anticlimax (no puns intended) to say "and then they lived happily ever after the end" and that's it. Please give me your opinions in your reviews, which I hope to see a lot of if you want to know how this story ends!!!