Chapter 2: Realization

The next warm morning started out normal for Bulma. She woke up, showered, dressed... you know the drill. When she went downstairs, she went into the kitchen and made a big bowl of cereal for breakfast, then went into the living room to eat it on the couch. After she was done, she picked up a shopping magazine and began to read it, not really paying attention to what she read. After awhile her mother came into the room with a tray of food.

"Bulma! I stopped by the bakery this morning and look what I bought for us! Don't these look scrumptious? Now, which one do you want?"

"There all yours mom, I'm not very hungry."

"What? Bulma what's wrong with you? Are you getting lonely because all the boys are spending their time training and not spending any time with you? That's it isn't it dear?" she said, sounding very concerned, like her not being hungry was totally unnatural.

"Oh pah-lease! I'm just not very hungry!" Bulma shouted, annoyed.

Just then, Bulma's father walked in, "I'm starting to think Vegeta's a few cards short of a full deck. It's not enough to create 300x gravity for him, now he's demanding I make more equipment for him to train with. Then all he's going to do is break it!"

"Somehow, that doesn't surprise me at all." Bulma said.

"Well, I think it's great he works so hard!" Bulma's mother praised.

"I'm sure he's working hard, but don't you think he's overdoing it a bit?" Bulma's father disagreed.

"Oh no! In my day a man that showed that much dedication to anything was definitely husband material, girl would have to be crazy to let him get away I tell you... Oh my! What am I saying? I'm a married woman!"

Bulma just sighed and took one of the snacks from the tray and began to eat.

As Vegeta slowly stood up from doing his intense round of push-ups, the small training equipment came out. Vegeta shot a ki blast at one of them, then the little probe shot it around from one to the next, finally sending it straight back at Vegeta. Then he shot another right back at the one coming toward him. When the two collided, they blasted a whole side of the gravity machine away.

The rumbling explosion shook the entire house. Bulma and Yamucha ran to the machine to find it had exploded. When Bulma saw it, she began to dig in the rubble, then Vegeta's hand suddenly shot up making her freak out and jump back, ramming hard into Yamucha. As Vegeta shakily got up, Bulma looked up at him, her face showing how intensely worried she was.

"You...ok?" she asked.

"Of course I am." Vegeta answered.

Bulma sighed in relief, then her attitude did a 180 degree turn.

"How DARE you! You dweeb! You almost wrecked my house! What are you trying to prove?!" Vegeta just weakly laughed, then fell down back onto the broken gravity chamber's pieces. Bulma's attitude did another 180-degree turn, and she ran to him, propping him up into a sitting position, being careful of his injuries.

"Oh no your hurt!"

"Leave me alone! I don't need help, I've got training to do."

"You've GOT to stop training for awhile! I mean, look at you! You're a complete wreck!"

"But I feel fine. I'm a Saiyan! I can take a little pain it means nothing to me. And I have to get stronger than Kakarott!"

"Ok sure, we all know you're a tough guy but you need to rest now."

"I take orders from NO ONE!!" Just as Vegeta tried desperately to get up, he immediately collapsed again.

"Oh no!" she said. Please don't die Vegeta... "Yamucha! Tell my dad to get a stretcher! And help me lift him onto it when it gets here!" she yelled in a total state of panic.

"Um...ok..." Yamucha was still confused on how weirdly nice Bulma was being to Vegeta, especially after he heard about the argument they had the night before, but did what Bulma said anyway.

A few hours later...

"Is he going to be alright daddy?" Bulma asked as she knelt by Vegeta's bed after she bandaged him up and hooked an oxygen mask to his face.

"I hope so. He's dodged the bullet again, it's amazing he survived such a horrible accident. Those Saiyans are practically indestructible."

As her parents left the room, Bulma stood up and looked down at Vegeta lying on the bed. You munk-head, She thought. Just as she was about to leave, she heard him whisper in his sleep, "Kak...arott...I'll beat you!" He's having a bad dream... she thought. She walked over and stood next to his bed, then sat down in the chair next to him. As she sat there, she started to think about the whole horrible accident, and wondered why she had acted like... that. She was so worried...so afraid that he was going to die...She began to slowly realize then that she...liked him...a lot. It wasn't one of those, hit-her-in-the-middle-of-the-eyes type of thing. As she realized this, she began to wonder when she even started to like him. She didn't even notice it happening, but the night before when they had their argument, deep down inside, when she looked at him, she thought he looked damn hot when he was pissed off.

I think I started liking him the night I had that dream...the dream of when he came back...the one I told Yamucha about... Yes, that's when, then it got even stronger when my mother told me Vegeta was running out of fuel and he landed on our property and I told him to get into the shower... Wonderful...I like him...perfect...this is going to get interesting... Good thing I already broken up with Yamucha... As Bulma kept thinking...she eventually fell asleep peacefully on the desk.

Well that's the end of Chapter Two! Chapter Three is already posted, so fire away!!!