Disclaimer: I own about as much as the homeless guy down the street. Wait, no; he beats out me by his cardboard box.
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Slap Happy Chi-Chi?
"Shit happens, Bulma; you know that all too well, huh?"
Bulma stared at the place that Trunks last was standing. What on Earth had just happened? Trunks questioning whether or not he should even be living? That was certainly not like the happy and mischievous boy she'd been raising for seven years!
"Kami, what's going on with you?" she wondered out loud.
"On with who, Baby?" her mother inquired.
"...Uh...Nothing Mom..." she said distantly.
"Oh, that's nice, Dear!" her mother's incessant cheeriness was starting to irritate Bulma.
"Mom, I'm going out."
*****
Bulma sat in her jet plane that had been set on autopilot to the Son residence.
'Was I an accident?' her son's words echoed through her mind. She thought back to the time when she first found out that she was pregnant. Trunks sure was a surprise, but Bulma wanted him. How could any responsible adult not want a child that they had helped create?
The blue-haired genius was so engrossed in her thoughts that she didn't even notice that she had touched down until Goten started tapping on her window.
"Huh? Oh, hey Goten," She said as she stepped out of her vehicle and capsuled it.
"Is Trunks here?" Goten asked looking around for his best friend.
"No Kiddo, he's not," Bulma said apologetically.
"Awwww!" the boy whined, but soon stopped when he saw Gohan coming out of the house.
"Gohan can you play with me? Please?" Goten pleaded giving his brother puppy dog eyes.
"Not now, Squirt. Sorry! Oh, hi Bulma!"
"Hey Gohan. Is your mom around?"
"Yeah, she's inside," as Bulma walked into the house she could still hear Goten begging his brother to play with him.
*****
"Chi-Chi?" Bulma called out.
"I'm in the kitchen!" Chi-Chi called back.
When Bulma got into the kitchen she took a seat at the table.
"How are you doing, Chi?" Bulma asked, trying to remain calm when she really was deathly worried about Trunks.
"Terrible! It's just been the worst day, so I'm telling you now, I will snap!" Chi-Chi warned.
"Thanks for the warning..." Bulma mumbled.
"So why are you here?" a sniffle was her only reply.
"Bulma?" Chi-Chi turned around, and a large knife hovered above her vegetables. Chi-Chi was fairly shocked, her friend was in tears.
"What happened? Did Vegeta screw up again? Because if he did," her hand tightened on her knife, "I'll...I'll, do something very bad to that man!"
"No, no--er yes...I don't know!" she sobbed.
"Want to tell me about it? I may be having a bad day, but I can listen I suppose," she took a seat next to Bulma, abandoning her knife on the counter.
"Trunks came in and asked if he was an accident! I don't know where he got that idea from and," she sniffed, "he took off! I don't know where he is! Vegeta and I had another fight and he's gone too! It's just so...terrible!"
"Oh my! It's okay, Bulma," she coaxed. "I'm sure Trunks and Vegeta--although I don't know why you'd want him back--will be home soon."
"But Chi! It's just not fair! I'm supposed to be a happy millionaire with everything going for her! But instead, I have an insane husband and a depressed son!" Bulma wailed.
'Well, I DID warn her!' Chi-Chi thought. "Shit happens, Bulma; you know that all too well, huh?" Bulma gawked at her. "I'm sorry, Bulma, but you can't expect everything in life to be SO easy for you just because you're rich! Besides, WASN'T Trunks an accident?"
The heiress glowered at Chi-Chi, "No, he more like a...surprise! Wasn't GOTEN an accident?"
"No he was NOT you rich little brat! How dare you talk about my son that way?!"
"Well you just spoke about MINE in that way, CHI-CHI!"
Both women sighed...this wasn't going anywhere.
"Trunks wasn't really an accident. Of course, I didn't expect to jump in the sack with Vegeta all of those times before Trunks either...It seemed more like Trunks was a surprise. At first, I was kind of dreading being a mom because I thought I would be too irresponsible for a child, not to mention that VEGETA was the FATHER. But, the more I thought it about...the more the idea of being a mom and having a family really grew on me, you know?" Bulma spoke thoughtfully.
Chi-Chi nodded. Goten was definitely a surprise, but a pleasant one of course. Although, the thought of raising him without a father was saddening. She frowned for a moment, remembering her lost love. However, she hastily turned back to the situation at hand.
"So, did you tell Trunks that?"
"...No...I tried to tell him he wasn't an accident, but he didn't believe me. I guess I didn't really think of the definition of 'accident' at the time..."
"SO YOU TOLD HIM HE WAS ONE?!"
"NO! Of course not...although he may have thought I did," Bulma frowned. "This is all Vegeta's fault!"
"Now you realize this?"
"You're not funny. But, I bet Vegeta was the one who got that stupid idea in Trunks head! That son-of-a-bitch! I'll kill him if I ever see him again!"
Chi-Chi sighed, "What happened between you two this time?"
Bulma sighed, too. "Well...I guess it all happened when he was kissing my--"
"This isn't going to be anything I don't want to know about, will it?!"
"Chi-Chi, I'm not in the mood to discuss my sex life with you right now, so no. Anyhow, I think it started when he was kissing me and he noticed some guy's cologne..."
"So you CHEATED on your HUSBAND?!"
"NO! Chi! Listen, would you?!"
"Fine."
"I went to a spa that day because of all of this stress from some merger or something, and that included a massage. The massage was just given by some guy! No big deal! Nothing happened, but as much as Vegeta tries to act like he doesn't give a damn about me or what I do--he got all possessive and freaked out! I really thought it was kind of strange, but anyhow, we got into a big fight. Neither of us were speaking to each other, and I guess it put us both in bad moods. Vegeta took off earlier, and Trunks came around looking for him...What was I suppose to say? 'Trunks, your dad and I got into a fight, and he took of somewhere because he claims to not give a damn about either of us!'
"I just told Trunks that Vegeta was 'out'. I guess he obviously didn't buy that," she sighed. "He's too smart for his age. He really is...Chi, I dunno what to do!"
*****
Trunks was still flying aimlessly, not caring where he ended up. How long had he been going? He didn't know, or care for that matter.
So it was true. He WAS an accident...
He rolled the meaning around in his mind. Mistake...he really wasn't supposed to be here. His mom and dad had just made a terrible mistake...but mistakes have to be fixed right? Why hadn't his parents just killed him off? A pride thing? Would it have been inhumane?
Trunks scoffed, "I should probably just fix everything for them..."
But how? How could he fix the mistake his parents made seven years ago? Not knowing what else to do, he landed on a desolate sandy beach.
"Why me...?" He wondered out loud.
The water crashed at his feet, soaking his pants and boots--not that he cared of course.
Right at that moment, ending it seemed to be the best solution, however it was no solution at all. By now, Trunks was awfully confused. He wished his mom and dad would come up and say, truthfully, that he was meant to be. That he wasn't an accident.
False hope's a killer.
*****
Bulma had left the Son resident about an hour ago after Chi-Chi had attempted to console her. After she got home, she went to wallow in her self-pity and contemplate how to get her son back. 'It's too bad you're dead, Goku...', she thought with dismay.
As she idly stirred her now cold coffee, an idea for resolve struck her. She immediately rushed through the halls of Capsule Corp. in a desperate search for Vegeta, which she knew had come back while she was gone. She was going to end this thing. Now.
"Damn this place for being so Goddamn big!" she cursed her own home.
Finally, she reached her destination; the gravity room. And it was empty. She quickly screeched in frustration and continued searching the endless halls of Capsule Corp. for her wayward husband.
*****
Little did Bulma know that Vegeta was actually following her. He was wondering as to what the blue haired woman was doing running around the halls. Of course, Vegeta was more curious than concerned.
"Woman!" the short prince called out.
She stopped dead in her tracks. "There you are, you bastard!"
Vegeta was taken aback. "What are you ranting about now?"
"You told your son that he was an accident!" her voice was several octaves higher than before.
Vegeta racked his brain. When had he called his son an accident? Try as he might, he came up with a blank.
"I did no such thing," he denied, honestly not remembering.
Bulma looked as if she were about to blow a gasket. "Really? Well then how come your son came into the kitchen asking me if he was an accident? That after the Gravity Room incident, he didn't come down from his room for the rest of the night? And how come my little boy is missing right now?!"
"What are you babbling about? The boy is in his room," Vegeta said with arms crossed.
"Oh yeah? Well then come on, Smart-ass, and I'll show you!" he let himself be dragged by his apparently deranged wife.
When they reached the plain white door to Trunks room, Bulma swung it open. The only things inside were what you'd normally find in a seven-year-old boy's room. Well, if you triple the amount of toys.
"Unless you taught Trunks how to turn invisible, he's not in there!" the Earth woman sneered.
"Then he's probably out playing with Kakarot's second spawn," Vegeta said before walking off.
"You know what, Vegeta? I was just at Chi-Chi's, and Goten was there begging Gohan to play with him." she stopped her raving for a moment to calmly speak. "What did you say to him in the Gravity Room, Vegeta? What would make Trunks runaway?"
Vegeta focused on his time in the gravity room with his son. When he went in there to train, most things were just a blur that he'd forget soon after. Before long, he remembered what Trunks probably took mean that he was accident. Although, that was just him being grouchy from the previous fight he had with Bulma.
Bulma noticed a look of...understanding on his face? She took this odd look as a sign that he knew what he had said. "What did you say to him? What?"
He shrugged. "He had misunderstood something I said. It is his own fault for not understanding."
Bulma shook with rage. "Why you...I can't believe you're being so Goddamn cold hearted! Just get over yourself, Vegeta!"
With that, she stomped off down the carpeted hallway and down a flight of stairs. Even from the second floor, he could hear the front door slam as Bulma existed. The Saiya-jin prince shook his head and did something that ten years ago, he never would have done. He went after Bulma.
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A/N: Am I evil or am I evil? You decided. Anyhow, I think next chapter will end it, but I don't know. (Sorry, I didn't have the time to proof read this.) -_-' Whoops, I've been slackin'! Hehe, gomen-nasai. Now, I promise I won't advertise Confusion Reigns anymore, but I will advertise, shamelessly I might add, On the Run!
Review first, then go read this really good fic called ON THE RUN, which you will not regret reading! You see, it's about Vegeta owing money and supplies to an underground weaponry. In turn, this weaponry hires a beautiful blue-haired assassin to take Vegeta out. Vegeta, in a last ditch effort, drags Krillin, Gohan, and Goku into the scene. The assassin then drags her bounty hunter associates 18, Videl and Chi-Chi into the picture. (You just think about the couples...) lol ^!^; Well, it's not like you people listen to me anyway! :P
