Chapter Five: Getting Started

Dear Diary,

I'm always arguing with that arrogant prince, Vegeta. But now I realise that he can be good to talk to. It's strange, it just seems to me that it is against his morals to be nice.

Bulma dropped to the ground, feeling exhausted. She had just spent a whole day walking in the forest with Eighteen, Iresu, and Vegeta. The walk itself was not that bad but what she didn't like was walking with Vegeta. In fact, she hated walking with Vegeta. No matter how friendly she tried to act towards the Saiyan prince, he just wouldn't stop treating her like as if she was a pest. What made her even angrier was when he became more hostile towards her when he found out she was a Saijin.

Bulma could hear Vegeta training in the distance. She then turned to Iresu and Eighteen, who were sitting beside her. They were both staring at the stars. "Hey, you two, why don't we start dinner?"

Eighteen nodded. "I'll get some wood to start a campfire; you go tell Vegeta to get his arse here."

Bulma nodded and started to walk towards him. She remembered the argument the two of them had earlier.

*Flashback*

"Damn Frieza. If it weren't for him, we wouldn't have to be here. We don't even have any facilities with us," Eighteen complained.

"We will take our revenge. Just wait and you'll watch me rip the lizard's head off," Vegeta said.

"But what will you do when you can't find the other Saiyans and you don't even have a ship?" Bulma asked.

"Shut up, woman! We don't need any contributions from a baka, especially from a Saijin!" Vegeta growled.

Bulma's face started to turn red with anger. "What did you just say? How dare you insult my race!!"

Vegeta smirked. "You're race? Saijin's are just the lower class from my planet. Don't forget that Saijins are still Saiyans and were originally ruled by people within my blood!"

Bulma crossed her arms. "What are you trying to prove, Mr. High-and-all-mighty? You don't even rule your own planet anymore!" As soon as she said those words, she regretted it.

Vegeta started to steam in anger. He wanted to blast her but a part of him didn't allow him to. "You ignorant woman! If I was still ruling my planet, I would blast any Saijins out of my sight. You're lucky that I won't kill you because I don't want to hurt any Saiyans for now."

"Whatever, Vegeta. You're just an ostentatious, arrogant bastard. You think you can be superior just because you are a prince? Well, I hate to hit some truth in you, but this is Earth, not your planet," Bulma sneered.

Before things started to get violent, Eighteen stepped between them.

"Oh please, this won't make things any better."

*End of flashback*

Bulma sighed and saw Vegeta's back towards her. She could see the muscles which were outlined in his clothes. She then noticed his smooth movement. Before she took another step, she felt a sudden movement and a fist right in front of her face. She flinched and fell backwards. She then looked up and saw Vegeta smirking at her. "Don't ever sneak up on people like that," he scowled.

Bulma stood up and brushed dust off her clothes. "Well, I'm sorry, I wasn't exactly sneaking up on you. Just want to tell you to get back because dinner is-" she stopped talking when she saw him doing push ups. "Are you listening to me? I'm talking to you here. I think it's a good idea that you come back to where the others are."

Vegeta didn't stop doing push ups. "Leave me alone, woman. I don't think you can understand the amount of training a Saiyan is required to do. Especially not a weakling like you."

Bulma crossed her arms. "Oh really? So you think I'm a weakling. Well, I'll just let you know that I'm a lot stronger that you think."

Vegeta stood up and faced Bulma. "What are you trying to say? You want me to prove to you that you're not weak?"

He then started to power up. To his surprised, he could sense Bulma gathering her ki. She was a lot stronger than he thought, but nowhere near as strong as him.

Bulma started to throw a number of kicks and punches towards him and he blocked them all without using much energy. "Is this the best you can do?" he said mockingly.

Bulma became angry. "No, you bastard!" she yelled and formed a ki ball. She then threw it at him but he dodged easily. He flew up off the ground and then landed towards her. She was about to throw another sets of ki balls when she felt something slithering around her feet. She stopped dead on her tracks.

"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!! Snake!!!" she screamed and ran forward, as fast as she could and clanged onto the nearest object she could find, which happened to be Vegeta. He felt a sudden shock as she grabbed him and they both fell. He fell backwards and landed on his back while Bulma fell forwards, landing right on top of him. There was silence for a few seconds as the two started gazing at each others eyes. Bulma then blinked and started to blush. Vegeta scowled. "Get off me, you baka! I can't believe it; you're scared of a tiny snake." They both got up and Bulma saw that the snake was gone. Feeling embarrassed, she couldn't look Vegeta in the face.

"I'm sorry, I'll go back to see if I could help serving dinner," she said softly and ran off. Vegeta watched as she ran out of his sight. His scowl then turned into a subtle grin. He then shook his head and went back training.

Late at night…

Sweat started to form on Vegeta's forehead and he moved his head side to side slowly. He was having another nightmare. The same nightmare that he had for days.

"You know you're fate, Vegeta. Don't try to escape it. You will die, DIE!" the woman standing in front of him started to laugh cruelly.

"No… it won't happen. It's not fate! Fate doesn't exist!" Vegeta angrily shouted.

Vegeta's eyes opened and he sat up, slowly panting. He wiped his forehead, realising it was all just a dream. He turned to see the dim firelight in front of him. His eyes wondered across to where Bulma lay. His eyes opened wide in surprise when he saw that she wasn't there. He suddenly wondered where she went.

"Grrr… Why do I care where she went…" he said to himself. But he stood up and started to walk off. He walked towards a lake where he saw a dark figure sitting on a rock next to the water. He could tell that it was a girl. He then realised that it was Bulma. She stood there, holding some sort of pendant in front of her, staring at it.

"What are you doing up so late?" he said.

Bulma suddenly jumped in surprise and turned around. She then calmed down. "Oh, it's just you."

"Answer my question, woman," he demanded.

Bulma sighed. "Oh nothing, I just couldn't sleep, what about you?"

Vegeta was silent for a second. "I had a nightmare."

"Oh really, do you want to talk about it?" she asked.

Vegeta walked towards her and sat down next to her. "Not really," he then saw the pendant in her hand. "What is that?" he asked.

Bulma handed the pendant to him and he grabbed it and stared at it. "I don't know," she shrugged, "I've just had it for as long as I remembered. But I know nothing about my earliest years. Nothing at all. I didn't even realise that I was from Saijin."

"You definitely have the temper of one, and you're strength is far greater than an average human," Vegeta said.

Bulma stared at the water, sparkling under the moon. "You think? Well, I never thought my life would turn out this way. I never really thought that much about my future. All I could think about is working under the harsh conditions of being a servant. And now, what I want to know more than anything in the world is why my parents didn't want me and how I ended up here."

Vegeta looked at her and saw her beautiful eyes go teary as they showed the reflection of the moon. "So you think you had a pretty bad life, huh? Well, look at mine. My planet has been overtaken. My family has been murdered. I have nothing now."

Bulma faced Vegeta. "Well, there's still that chance for you to defeat Frieza, isn't there?"

Vegeta looked up. "There should be. There's only me and Eighteen. And this stupid worthless planet. What other options are left?"

Bulma yawned and stood up. "I don't know. My only reason for staying alive is to find ChiChi, and maybe more about my past. I have no home, no parents, no one to take care of me. But maybe I did something wrong when I was little and deserved all this."

She turned around and froze when she saw a person standing in front of her. Vegeta turned around and looked surprised too. "It's you…" he whispered.

AN: Hi!! I'm SO sorry that this fic has gone sooo slow. There's just so much background information that I like adding. Well, I promise you all that the climax will start next chapter. Please review!!