CHAPTER 11- Bardock's Visit
Sorry it took so long, but I was waiting for ff.net to come back online before I wrote any more! I only got three reviews for the last chapter thanks to their technical problems, or whatever. How annoying, oh well on with the story!
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"209 days to go!" Bulma cried triumphantly, not even expecting Vegeta to answer. He rolled over on the couch and realized that he'd slept in. he growled in annoyance
"Why didn't you wake me woman???" he called out
"I lost my watch that time in the forest, remember? I only just woke up myself!" Bulma poked her head round the living room door, she was still in her pajamas, yesterday's make up was smudged on her face and her hair was a mess
"So I can see," muttered Vegeta quietly, not quite ready to have an argument yet, he would wait at least until after breakfast.
"What did you just say???" Bulma demanded angrily
"Nothing woman, now go and make breakfast, I have training to do" he half yawned.
"Humph" said Bulma as she turned on her heel and walked with her nose in the air to the kitchen. She cracked some eggs, 20 to be precise, fried some bacon and brewed a pot of coffee. She sat back and admired her work, five months ago she had no cooking skills whatsoever now she found that she knew how to cook breakfast for a whole human household, and more importantly what she cooked didn't taste half bad.
Suddenly there was a knock at the door and Bulma wandered over to answer it, one eye still on her cooking
"Who could this be?" she groaned as she turned the handle and pulled the door open to find none other than Bardock looking down at her. She jumped as she realized that she was still in her pajamas, and her bunny slippers
'Kami, I haven't even brushed my teeth yet!' she blushed
"Um… hi Bardock, I guess you're wondering what happened to Vegeta this morning huh?"
"That is why I called" he replied hastily, looking away from her
"Well he…" she was broken off as a hand covered her mouth and pulled her back inside the house
"I had other things to attend to" Vegeta finished her sentence
Bulma fumed
"What? Now sleeping in a couple of hours is a sign of weakness as well? Give it a rest Vegeta, you're trying too hard!" Bulma turned back to attend to her bacon and eggs as Bardock saw a vein in Vegeta's head begin to throb
"Your majesty, I will excuse myself if you have no objections?" he said gruffly
"No Bardock, I demand that you stay and eat with us, that way I might be distracted enough not to kill the foolish wench before midday!!!" he spoke loud enough for Bulma to hear every word.
"Whatever Vegeta" Bulma shook her head as Bardock ducked to enter the house through the small back door. Vegeta was surprised and annoyed to find that it had not taken long for the woman to completely lose any fear she had of him, he had thought he would have been scary enough to keep her cowering for more than five months
'No matter, at least she learnt how to cook' he thought as he began to shovel food into his mouth
Bulma was about to sit and eat but remembered that she didn't feel comfortable around guests in her bunny slippers. She exited the room quickly to go and change into something more suitable
Vegeta noticed her swift exit
"Must not be hungry' he thought out loud and turned to Bardock to see his gaze hovering over the doorway she had walked through
'Why must he continually stare like that??' he growled without thinking, causing Bardock to snap out of his thoughts and turn back to his breakfast, giving the prince a fleeting nervous glance as he did so. Vegeta was still annoyed however. Everyday for months he had caught Bardock staring at Bulma, even during sparring. He had started to spar with him less and less as a consequence, which was a shame seeing as Bardock was the only one with a brain in the entire saiya jin group he had discovered. They were all too weak to beat him, but still he preferred to fight someone with tactics rather than someone whose only thoughts during battle were probably
'Keep punching till he falls down'
Besides the fact that he couldn't get Bardock to concentrate while the woman was around, he also had a bizarre sickening feeling whenever he saw Bardock look at her. He was no fool, he knew what those looks meant, and he also knew what these feelings meant, not that he consciously accepted that they existed. He had a theory, however that if he forced Bulma and Bardock into each other's presence often enough, he would become dumb to the tedious emotions he was feeling and perhaps Bardock would even get so used to her presence that he didn't care to look at her any more. He knew it wasn't a great theory but it was less hard work than keeping them away from each other, and he wouldn't have to lose Bardock as a sparring partner.
Bulma reappeared and starred angrily at the empty plates littering the table
"You didn't leave me anything?"
Vegeta smirked, waiting for her immanent explosion, Bardock blinked and held up his plate, carrying on remaining strip of bacon, and one fried egg
Bulma looked down at him and smiled, taking the plate and sitting in the seat next to him at the table.
"At least somebody here is a gentleman!" Bulma sneered at Vegeta, who was now gaping at Bardock in absolute horror Bardock blushed.
'That traitor!' thought Vegeta 'how dare show kindness to a pathetic weakling earthling, especially in my presence!' he lifted himself abruptly out of his chair, muttered something highly insulting in saiya jin, obviously aimed at Bardock, and left through the back door.
Bulma looked up from her food
"What got into his majesty?" she asked Bardock, her voice dripping with sarcasm
"He called me a traitor, I think I should not have given you food"
"Ha ha!" Bulma laughed, Bardock looked up in shock
"Why do you laugh?"
"Because, that is so dumb!"
"Humph" said Bardock, he sulked slightly. Although he wasn't pleased that the prince had called him a traitor he would still never go so far as to call him 'dumb', he was too loyal.
Bulma stopped and blinked at Bardock
"What?" he asked, unnerved
"Hm? Nothing, so Bardock, what did you do when you were alive? other than fighting and killing that is…"
"What do you mean? A saiya jin dedicates his life to battle, he has no time for any other interests"
"Yeah, yeah, 'saiya jin pride' blah blah blah" Bardock thought it would be best to interrupt her now before he had to listen to a full-blown rant about his race.
"I was a scientist," he blurted out. Bulma grinned
"Really??" she said excitedly
He nodded, slightly scared by her sudden reaction, but also quite flattered that she wanted to know…
There you go, chapter 11!!! Review!!!