CHAPTER 10- Jealousy
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Bulma sat on the branch of a tree gently swinging her legs as she gazed non-plussed at the ground. She was tired; she'd been here for hours, although she wasn't sure how many. Her watch had disappeared from her wrist, probably snagged on a twig somewhere along the path she had taken as she madly scrambled through the orchard, which had turned into an unkempt forest once she got further in. This place suited Bulma's mood perfectly, even though she wasn't sure what mood she was in. she only knew she wanted to be alive again, and for some reason which she couldn't figure out she wished that Vegeta had come to find her. She pondered this for a while
'Why would I want that? He's the one who made me cry, run away and climb up here in the first place! Then again there wasn't much he could have said at that moment that wouldn't have made me cry, I went nuts for a little while back there. Who knows, maybe I've lost it for good and any second now I'll loose control and do something crazy, like jump out of this tree' she tried to figure out how high up she was, but gave up and concluded 'very high up'. She was relieved to find, however, that she felt no urge to jump, and her brain was even functioning rationally enough to try and work out how exactly she would get down from here…
Back at the house Vegeta stared hard at a tin of soup, and then at the contraption the woman usually used to open them lying on the table. He sat down on a chair and leaned in for a closer look. He picked up the contraption and prodded the can with it experimentally, that didn't work. He tried to hook the can onto it and pulled hard, breaking the contraption and ripping the can open, spilling its entire contents on the floor in one swift movement. He sighed…
Back in the woods Bulma had tried to climb down using the same route she'd used to climb up, and discovered that the branches didn't appear to be in the same place, and she was stuck,
'What now?' she thought, clinging to the tree's trunk for dear life 'only one thing for it'
She took a deep breath and steadied herself
"VEGETA!!!!!"…
Back at the house Vegeta had cleaned the soup off himself and the floor and decided to go and find Bulma, but only because he was hungry. He reached the edge of the orchard she had run off into and was considering whether it was dignified for him to call her name, when he heard her half hoarse voice screeching from a distance
"HELP! VEGETA!!!"
His heart jumped and he began to run through the forest following the faint sound of her voice. But then the calling stopped and all was eerily silent. He crouched in a battle position listening carefully for the sound of whatever had attacked the woman approaching.
'I'll rip its lungs out!' he mentally growled, too well trained to say it out loud.
He heard a twig snap under a foot, he braced himself as he saw something begin to emerge from the thick of the forest…
Bulma had been screaming for hours, her voice was about to give in, but as it turned out the branch that held her weight was the first thing to go. Sadly even the branches in the realm of the dead didn't regenerate fast enough to catch her and she plummeted to the ground. She closed her eyes tight and found that the only last thoughts she had were
'Maybe I should go on a diet?'
A pair of thick arms caught her just a foot from the ground and she looked up to find Goku's Doppelganger staring down at her with the confused look he only used when the prince wasn't watching… she assumed that Vegeta would think he was dumb if he saw that expression, but it reminded her of Goku so she happened to like it.
"Um… thank you" was all she said as she twisted uncomfortably in his arms… he wouldn't let go "… can I get down now?" she said, half doubting that he'd bother to answer her, wondering why he'd bothered to catch her.
She had hardly ever heard Bardock talk, only the occasional gruff muttering of some saiya jin 'wisdom' about pride and honor etc. Bulma immediately switched off when someone talked like that; she'd heard enough of it from Vegeta to last a lifetime
"You are injured" he said, and nodded slightly toward her leg, she looked down to find an ugly gash spreading down her calf,
"Must have scratched it when I fell" she mumbled to herself, she concluded that she must have been too scared to feel it at the time, but it began to sting now she noticed it.
"I will carry you home" he stated
"Um… ok I guess" Bulma shrugged as he began to wander back toward the house…
Vegeta subconsciously began to growl as the figure approached, his frown deepened until he heard it speak.
"What got into you Vegeta? I know you get cranky when you don't eat but you look ready to kill!!" it was Bulma's voice, and as he continued to stare he could see she was being carried toward him by Bardock. He almost growled again, although he wasn't sure why. He stood up straight and replied simply
"I thought you were a wild animal approaching, I was about to kill you and eat you." He lied like the expert he was and smirked.
"Don't be silly Vegeta, there are no animals here and if there were you certainly wouldn't be able to kill them, just like you can't kill the plants." She said matter of factly
Bardock could see that the prince had been found out and so decided to interrupt before his pride was compromised
"You should show his majesty more respect and conserve your energy, you are injured after all," he half growled
"Injured?" said Vegeta, momentarily shocked "well you'd better still be fit to cook woman!"
Bulma sighed
"Whatever Vegeta, just let me bandage myself up first would ya?"
"Humph" he replied
The trio headed back to the house, with Bulma making futile attempts at normal conversation all the way, attempting to break the bizarre tension she felt between the two saiya jin.
Kami, who saw the whole episode, smiled to him self.
"What is it Kami?" Mr. Popo asked.
"Just a private joke Popo, you'd really have to see it for yourself to understand"
"Oh, that's ok" Popo wasn't disappointed, after all if Kami was happy that could only mean good things for all of them.
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