Baby Sitting Bra
IV.
"I'm ready to go, Daddy!" Bra screamed, running into his bedroom and jumping on the bed as he finished putting on his shirt.
Vegeta looked at her wearing her faded blue jeans and a long pink tee shirt…which reminded him of his Bad Man shirt.
"Well, at least you're wearing park attire, so let's get going before I change my mind."
Bra continued to bounce on his bed, spinning in circles every once in awhile and looking down at him, "Okay! But ya gotta catch me!"
She bounced a couple more times before flinging herself forward toward Vegeta; arms outspread like she was flying. Vegeta held out his arms and caught her with ease. He put her under his one arm and carried her out the door and out of the whole house.
"Wee!" Bra yelled right in his ear, making him flinch. He looked down at her straight body, pretending she was flying, "Gimmie a piggy-back ride, Daddy!"
"No way!" he responded, getting a look of disgust on his face.
Bra looked up at him with big eyes, "Please? I'll be really good for the rest of the day!"
Vegeta snickered, "For the rest of the day…"
She dropped her legs and arms as she went limp, though it seemed no different to Vegeta.
"If you don't give me a piggy-back ride, I'll scream 'hairassment!'" she threatened.
Vegeta was about to ask what the heck hairassment was, but then he figured she meant harassment.
"No, you will not!" he said, knowing she could attract a lot of attention just from that one stupid word.
"Yes, I will!" she screamed in protest.
"No, you—."
"Yes!" she interrupted.
"No—."
"Yes—."
"NO—!"
Bra stopped the arguing by sucking in a deep breath, ready to scream. As soon as she was about to let out a bloodcurdling yell, he covered her mouth with his hand.
"Fine! I'll give you a piggy-sack ride!" he said, throwing her up and tossing her onto his shoulder.
She laughed as she got settled by putting her legs on either side of him, "Daddy, it's not piggy-sack, it's piggy-back!"
Vegeta mumbled, "I don't have a back like a pig, so does that mean you can get off of me?"
"No," she replied simply, "that just means that you got a pigs sack!"
He sweat dropped at her innocence, "If you say so…"
Bra giggled and, crossing her arms, rested them on his head, "Good thing I cut your hair, or else I wouldn't be able to see over it!"
A growl escaped his throat, "Shut up with the comments!"
"Aww…you said shut uuuuup! I'm telling Mooooomyyyy!" Bra threatened.
"Say one word to her and you'll get beaten!" Vegeta threatened back.
But she only giggled, "Yeah right, Daddy! Like you would!"
He sighed and didn't say another word, knowing she was right.
"Look, it's a puppy!" Bra cooed all of a sudden, pointing her finger in front of Vegeta.
He looked over to the left to see a small golden shepherd rolling around on the sidewalk.
"I wanna pet it!" she said, leaning further over to get a better look at the dog, almost falling off Vegeta's shoulders.
"I knew there would be at least one pit stop along the way…" he said, before walking over to the little animal and putting Bra down after he was in front of it.
Bra pet the dog on the head as soon as she came into reach, making the dog stand up, tongue hanging out and tail wagging quickly. She giggled, "Aww, you're so cute! What's your name?"
The dog barked in reply, circling around Bra and sniffing her up and down.
Bra laughed, "Hey! That tickles!" she sat on the sidewalk, making the dog jump on her.
Vegeta looked down at the animal in disgust, wondering what anyone ever saw in them…all they did was sleep, eat, and go to the bathroom everywhere. He smirked, knowing that if he said that out loud when Bulma was there, she would say the same thing about him. Well…he doesn't go to the bathroom everywhere though.
She looked up at him, "Daddy…I love you."
He raised an eyebrow, then shook his head, "You're not keeping the dog."
Bra stood up, making the dog stand beside her. She pouted and looked up at him, "Come on! He has no other home and we have plenty of home!"
Vegeta chuckled and shook his head again, "No, your mother would probably kill me if she saw I got you a dog."
"She wouldn't kill you!" Bra looked horrified.
"Right…but she would make me sleep on the couch, which is even worse yet." Vegeta said, trying to hold in a laugh at Bra's face.
"Well, that doesn't matter! You can sleep in my room with me!" Bra offered, slipping her hand into his.
His lips tugged up a bit, "No, Bra. Besides, I think he already has a home. Look…" he leaned down and tugged on the collar around the dogs neck, "he has a license and everything. His name is…Sizzle," Vegeta said slowly, looking at the collar again, making sure he got the name right.
Bra giggled, "Hi, Sizzle! Do you want to come to the park with me?"
The dog barked.
"Great! Come on!" Bra said, leading the rest of the way, which wasn't too far. Bra, followed by the dog, then Vegeta, walked into the gate of the City Park, where a lot of kids were playing on the playground.
Bra ran over to the play set quickly, climbing up the rope ladder and stepping onto the highest platform. The dog followed her, slapping its tail hard on the ground as it looked up at her. She ran down two steps and jumping on the small wooden bridge that led to the other side of the play set. Unfortunately for a small boy who was in the middle of the bridge, but too scared to go the rest of the way, Bra was not willing to stop and wait for him or to help him along. She wanted to cross as fast as possible, so she pushed him out of the way, causing him to go flying off the bridge.
Vegeta saw this and smirked to himself, 'That's my girl!'
She continued her "assault" as she ran back and forth a few times, not bothering to slow down for anyone or go around anyone. About time she got tired of everything on there, she jumped off the top platform from where she started, making all the other kids look at her weirdly, as she ran over to the swing set, sitting on the one free swing.
"Push me, Daddy!" she called over to Vegeta.
Vegeta grunted and looked around at the other parents playing with their children. No one seemed to notice, to him, that one girl out of all the other kids wanted her father to push her on the swings.
He grunted, 'No one better notice this…' he said in his mind while reluctantly walking over to where Bra was.
She smiled up at him and kicked her legs back and forth, waiting for him to give her the extra boost. He went behind her, grabbing the chains that she was hanging onto and lifting her backwards. Bra giggled excitedly, seeing the ground get further and further away from her.
Once Vegeta got her up high enough, he pushed her forward, making her fly more than swing, as she swung too high and went over the bar. She caught the ground with her feet after the swing went back down.
They both looked around at all the other people there, and it seemed like the whole playground saw what happened, as all their eyes were wide open.
Bra blushed, "Not so hard…"
Vegeta snorted, "You do sound like your mother."
"Huh?"
He shook his head and chuckled, "Nothing, Bra." Vegeta pushed her lightly on her back, making her swing high immediately, but not enough to have her go swinging over the bar again.
She laughed and kicked her feet joyfully, "That's better, Daddy!"
Vegeta nodded in agreement, pushing her one more time, having her swing that push off, then pushing her again, repeating this pattern. This continued on for awhile, before Vegeta felt someone jump on his back.
"What the—!?" he screamed, turning around in time to see Sizzle looking up at him with his big…cute…puppy eyes. This was enough to make Vegeta shiver in horror.
"What do you want?!" he demanded of the dog, only to get a short bark from it.
Bra stopped the swing herself and got off, going around and petting Sizzle on his head, "He just wanted to say hello."
Vegeta hmphed, "Have it go say hello to someone else!"
"Aww, but he likes you, Daddy!" Bra giggled.
"I don't care!" he said, crossing his arms.
Bra gave him her famous 'cute evil' eye, "I think you doooo! You like Sizzle as much as he likes youuuu!" Bra taunted.
Vegeta came back and decided to give her his 'cute evil' eye…which isn't really supposed to be cute at all, "I do not like that annoying mutt whatsoever!"
The girl looked down at Sizzle, then back up at her dad with a pout, "Are you saying you don't like me?"
He was taken back from that question, trying to figure out what she meant by that, "Bra…you're not a mutt!"
She nodded, "Yes I am!"
With that, she got down on her hands and knees, looking up at Vegeta with her tongue hanging out. She did her version of a bark, which was really only a high pitched yelp.
Vegeta grunted in disapproval at seeing this, "No daughter of mine is going to be a mutt crawling around on the ground! Get up, Bra!"
But Bra ignored him as she tried to scratch behind her ear with her foot like Sizzle was doing, but found it harder than it looked, as she fell flat on her face. Vegeta had a hard time trying to stifle a laugh, but he didn't want to let Bra know that her acting as a dog was amusing.
Bra got up unharmed, just in time to see the dog run off across the playground. She tried to follow suit on her hands and knees, but when she figured out that she couldn't run like that, she decided to switch the rules a little and run on her feet.
Vegeta watched both of them for awhile, feeling his lips curve up, hearing her laugh hysterically. But the smile that was soon to come turned into a frown as he realized that the dog was heading towards the street. Bra was having too much fun trying to catch Sizzle, so she didn't notice where she was going.
He watched as the dog crossed the street with ease and into the arms of a young woman. He turned his attention back to Bra, seeing her get closer and closer to the street when he came to the realization that there was a big semi-truck heading down the street.
"Bra!" he screamed her name, but she did not hear. He knew a truck could not hurt a Saiyan, but he didn't know about a half-Saiyan…a four-year-old half-Saiyan to be precise.
Vegeta didn't bother to try to call her name again, all he could bother to think about was getting her out of the way before her and the truck collided. With lightening fast speed, he ran to Bra, getting a hold of her in seconds' time…and just in time to see the semi-truck go by while blowing its horn.
Bra's eyes were wide, not noticing the huge truck was there before it appeared right in front of her. She soon came back to reality, though, as she felt and heard her dad breathing heavily next to her ear.
"Daddy?" she managed to squeak out before struggling to turn around in his strong grip to face him.
Once she managed this, her eyes widened a second time. For the first time in her life, she saw fear in her dads' eyes. She called to him again, trying to get him to talk to her.
Hearing her call him that time, he blinked twice before staring straight into her eyes. Right away, his eyes narrowed.
"Bra, what were you thinking?! You might have gotten killed if I wouldn't have stopped you!" Vegeta yelled, gripping her shoulders tightly so she would keep looking at him, but not too hard as to hurt her, "What were you thinking?!" he repeated, shaking her back and forth once.
Bra even heard how scared he was by his voice cracking at times, which only made her more scared. Little girls always look up to their fathers to be the bravest and best super hero's ever, where absolutely nothing scares them. And Bra was no exception. So seeing that her father had a fear, made tears come to her eyes immediately and start to pour down her cheeks.
"I-I'm sorry, Daddy," she said between sobs.
Vegeta's eyes relaxed a little, but could still feel his heart beating quickly in his chest, "It's okay, Bra, just…be more careful next time, all right?"
She nodded but was unable to say anything more as she flung herself on him, wrapping her tiny arms around his neck and held on as tight as she could.
This time was different from the rest. Vegeta couldn't help but wrap his arms around her too and hug her close. He sighed, 'I never had a fear, not one!…Until Bra gets in danger.' Vegeta realized and sighed again.
"Hey, how about we head back home now? Your mother should be getting back in about an hour or so," he asked her after realizing people were staring at them…at him, which made him angry and he didn't want to start obliterating people in front of Bra.
Bra nodded, but did not pick her head up from his shoulder. Vegeta took that as a hint for him to carry her, so that's what he did.
Before he left the park, he looked back across the street and saw the young woman still petting the dog and cooing at it…must be the things' owner.
Vegeta spat at the dog, 'I knew that mutt was trouble…stupid dog.'
And with that, he carried Bra back to Capsule Corp., feeling her arms rest from the tension they were at a minute ago.
Hello everyone! Sorry I took longer to update this chapter, but I guess I've been kinda busy. Lol, and can ya tell I just got done watching Courage the Cowardly Dog? Hehe, I love that show…anyway, I wanted to ask you all if you wanted to be on my update list. If you do, please say so in your review (with your e-mail handy) or if you don't want your e-mail shown in the review, you can e-mail me at MajinLaunchVBLT@aol.com. Okay? I just thought about doing this because some people like to know when updates are and I'm having a hard time keeping track at the moment. And I will try to have chapter 5 up soon! WAA! This story is almost over already. Gees…