Baby Sitting Bra
V.
"Bra, we're home."
The little blue eyed girl lifted her head off her fathers' shoulder and looked at her house. She nodded.
"You know, it didn't feel like we were at the park too long," she commented, wiggling her way out of his arms.
Vegeta put her down and walked up to the door, unlocking it, "Probably 'cause we weren't."
Bra ran into the house after Vegeta opened the door, running right towards the kitchen, "I want ice cream!"
He chuckled as he closed the door behind him, hearing Bra scamper through the kitchen to get a chair to stand on to reach the freezer. As soon as he began walking towards the kitchen to help her, he heard a loud crash, followed by a boom, then a bang. Vegeta froze in his tracks; afraid of what he might see once he entered the room Bra was in.
"I didn't do it!" Bra said quickly, jumping off the chair and running out of the kitchen.
"Hold it!" Vegeta demanded, grabbing her by her shirt and lifting her up so she was only running in thin air, "I think you have a mess to clean up," he said, walking into the kitchen and, sure enough, saw that the whole freezer was spilled in front of the refrigerator.
After trying a few more times to run away from Vegeta's grip but being unsuccessful, she slumped while he still held her by her shirt, "I said I didn't do it though."
"Oh?" Vegeta raised an eyebrow, "Then who may I ask did?"
"Umm…" Bra paused a moment before looking up at her dad with hopeful eyes that he will believe her, "The Boogie Man?"
"Heh," Vegeta shook his head and put Bra down on the floor, "Well then I would suggest you go find this Boogie Man and tell him that if he doesn't clean up his mess, you have to."
That seemed to work for Bra, "Okay!" And with that, she was running upstairs.
Vegeta stood in the middle of the kitchen for two minutes, waiting for her to come back…but she never did. He suddenly realized that as long as it was her duty to clean up, she wouldn't come down…until she found The Boogie Man, of course.
He growled, "BRA!" Vegeta shouted, but instead of waiting for her some more, he just levitated all the fallen food back into the freezer and shut the door. After that, he stomped up the stairs, ready to…do something…to Bra.
"BRA!" he yelled once again, reaching her door and kicking it open with his foot. He didn't see her anywhere in the room but sensed that she was hiding under her bed.
"Bra, come out from under there," he said, stepping up to it.
"But I'm trying to find The Boogie Man…" was her meek reply.
Vegeta sighed and crossed his arms over his chest, "Don't bother…I already cleaned up The Boogie Man's mess."
Hearing that, Bra crawled out from under the bed, "Oh, well, in that case…"
From that, Vegeta couldn't help but let out a laugh, seeing how much his daughter could change from when she had to do something she didn't want to do to when she didn't have to do anything in the first place.
Bra smiled from making him laugh, "So can I still get ice cream?"
Vegeta was quickly out the door, "If you reach the kitchen before I finish it all!" he challenged jokingly.
It was Bra's turn to laugh as she raced out of her room, seeing her dad just heading down the stairs, "No fair! You got a head start!"
"Excuses, excuses!" she heard him scream back, apparently already downstairs.
Bra screamed really loudly then. There was no reason for it, she just felt like doing it. She took after her father in that way, where if she didn't win or get her way, she would get very…very…very angry. She almost literally flew down the stairs.
"Yum, this ice cream is delicious!" Vegeta said from the kitchen.
Bra grabbed a hold of the banister at the bottom, swinging herself around the poll towards the kitchen, "NNNOOOOOO!"
She ran into the kitchen, but since there was no carpet, she couldn't stop herself as she slid across the floor, not being able to stop until she came in contact with the wall opposite the doorway with an "oomph!"
She slumped to the floor, but quickly stood up, pointing an accusing finger at Vegeta, "Don't you dare tell me you ate all the ice cream already!"
Vegeta shook his head, "No, never even got it out yet," he said, taking the carton out of the freezer.
Bra smiled again and sat down at the table, "Good."
He set the cold carton on the table, getting two bowls and two spoons for them. He opened the box and stuck the spoon in the frozen stuff. Vegeta tried to take the ice cream out lightly, but to no avail. That only made him agitated, so he pressed down on the spoon harder, making a big scoop of ice cream fly up and land on the ceiling with a plop.
They both stared up at it for a moment before Bra pointed at it and began laughing hysterically. As Bra did this, Vegeta just shook his head and scooped the ice cream out easier, succeeding in putting it in the bowls.
Meanwhile, as Bra was still laughing at it, the ice cream was melting from the heat of the ceiling, making it plop back down onto the table, only making Bra laugh harder. Vegeta was expecting it to fall, seeing as how Bra always pointed to it, even when it was falling.
After serving them both huge amounts of the chocolate ice cream, Vegeta sat down at the table across from Bra and began to eat quickly, yet neatly.
Bra, on the other hand, wanted to eat her ice cream as soon as possible, but still laugh as the fallen ice cream. So, as it went, she missed her mouth a lot, smothering it all over her face and blowing it all over the table.
Vegeta tried his best to ignore this, "Bra, eat properly."
"I mam meaming mopmepee!" she giggled.
He raised an eyebrow, trying to figure out what she said, "Then…go to the bathroom."
Hearing that, Bra had no choice but to spit out the ice cream she currently had in her mouth so she could laugh more.
Vegeta wasn't even gonna bother to ask.
"I should have known chocolate ice cream would get you hyper…" he said, more to himself then to her.
Bra put down her spoon and nodded vigorously, making it look like she was hyperventilating.
Again, Vegeta raised an eyebrow at trying to figure out what the heck she was doing. The next thing he knew, she was falling out of her chair and doing the worm.
"Bra, you're getting ice cream all over the floor!" Vegeta scolded, knowing how much heat he would get from Bulma if he just left it on the floor.
She stood up and ran over to the door that was the exit from the kitchen, only to run into the wall instead. Bra had her arms outspread as she fell backwards. It didn't seem to faze her any, though, as she looked at her dad upside down. Once again, she laughed.
Vegeta shook his head, "I will never understand you, child."
He got up from his seat, then picked her up, sitting her on the sink counter to wipe all the chocolate off her face with a rag, "You are the messiest brat I have ever seen."
Bra giggled, "That's 'cause you're my dad!"
Vegeta lowered his eyes, "What's that supposed to mean?"
She averted her eyes to all around the kitchen, "Noooothing…"
"Whatever," he said before lowering her back to the ground, only to see her run off quickly. Vegeta's eyes switched to the floor, noticing that it wasn't that big a mess.
"I cannot believe I am going to do this…" he said to himself before reluctantly dropping to his knees and wiping up the little bit of chocolate. Of course, he stood as quickly as he could, wiping the table next, then putting the bowls into the sink.
He through the rag into the sink, also, hearing Bra run around crazily all over the house.
"She should be tired in no time," he said, walking into the living room and settling down on the couch.
Just as predicted, after Bra ran up the stairs and down the stairs about thirty times, often tripping over herself and flying forward, she finally began slowing down, breathing heavily as she walked in front of her dad.
"Tired?" Vegeta asked with a smirk, seeing her practically drag her feet.
Bra shook her head, "No…no, I can still keep going, I'm not tired…" she managed to get out between breaths, only to collapse beside Vegeta.
She rested her head on his shoulder until her breathing finally returned to normal. Already, Vegeta could see her eyes drooping from all the energy she wore off within the whole day. Slowly, she moved her body onto his lap to rest her head on his chest, her breathing now going into the soft state, saying that she was already half asleep.
To make it more comfortable for her, Vegeta wrapped his arms around her and laid down on the couch, him against the back of the couch and her on the outside, but with his protective arm still around her.
Bra snuggled more into his chest, letting out a content sigh before falling asleep.
Vegeta smiled at seeing this, brushing some strands of hair out of her face to get a good view of her.
She was beautiful, no doubt. She was the perfect daughter and what made it even better to Vegeta…was that she was his perfect daughter.
'I love you,' he said in his mind. It was something he often did, either with her, Trunks, or Bulma. Vegeta could hardly ever say those three words together out loud, but he had no trouble accepting the fact that he did care for his family greatly in his mind. And he knew that his wife and children knew it enough that he didn't have to say it anyway.
Vegeta leaned in and kissed her on her forehead before falling into a light sleep himself.
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Vegeta awoke some time later from hearing a door slam shut. His eyes snapped open as he moved them up to see who it was. Sure enough, Bulma came walking into the living room, humming an unknown song softly to herself.
She quickly shut up though once she saw Bra sleeping on the couch with Vegeta's arm around her. Her eyes went wide for a moment, almost not believing what she was seeing. But she soon got over her shock and she smiled.
"Well, it seems you two had a good time," she commented, standing in front of the couch.
Vegeta didn't say anything back yet, not wanting to wake Bra up. He slowly sat up, making Bra stir a little, but once Vegeta stood up all the way, Bra was sound asleep again.
"So, how was she?" Bulma asked, looking down at her daughter before looking at Vegeta.
"She was good," was Vegeta's simple answer. But even so, Bulma knew from the smirk on Vegeta's face and the way he looked down at Bra, that he enjoyed every minute he had with her.
Bulma smiled and closed the gap between them as she wrapped her arms around his neck and gave him a quick kiss, "Thank you."
"For what?"
She shrugged, "For everything. For watching Bra when I couldn't, for not complaining about it…much," she giggled. Bulma stopped though and gave her husband her best smile and tilted her head back to get her bangs out of her eyes, "And for being the best father…and husband."
"Heh…" was all Vegeta could think of to say, not used to Bulma giving him multiple compliments at once.
"I love you," she finally said, chancing on it one more time to kiss him again.
After she pulled away, he was grinning, "I know."
Bulma grinned, too, as they both just stood there for a moment, enjoying being next to each other and hearing their daughters slight snoring.
"And Vegeta?" she asked, her eyes sparkling.
"Yeah?" he asked, almost silently.
She smiled and ran her hand back through his dark hair, "What happened to your hair?"
The End! I hope you all like my last chapter! ^_^ Now, for my little shout out thank you things! (I'm sorry if I missed you, but I'm only putting shout outs to the people that read chapter 4).
Phoenix: Thank you! =) I'm glad you enjoyed the story.
Vegeta's True Love: Hehe, you actually like my story that much to read it over and over again? ::blush:: Wow…what a compliment. And sorry I ended it sooner then expected. I might think about doing another one like this. Who knows!
Rainymalamute: Thanks for sticking with me through all my chapters! ::thumbs up::
Megan: ^_^ Hopefully this chapter was even betta then the last, last chapter!
Kunama: Hey there! To answer your question…no, I do not have a 4 year old sibling. I am the only child. And I hate kids. Lol, can ya tell? Probably not from this story, eh? Oh well…maybe that does say something about my writing, ne? ^_^
Saiyan Princess Trien: Yes…a Majin Launch would be deadly…that's why I love my name!
Nebula: I LOVE the way Vegeta acts around his little girl, too!
Maggs: Thank ya mighty!
Okay, well…I'm sorry if I missed you, my sincere apologies. But I do say thank you to all of you who reviewed and liked my fic! =) Ja ne now!