A/N: Okay, I'm making a rather late new year's resolution, which is to ignore all the ignorant people. I believe a wise person once said, "Tolerate illiteracy but don't put up with ignorance." Or is it the other way around? I forget, but you get the drift, eh?
Antics of Love
Chapter 12
"I'm bored!" Bura whined. Bulma hasn't held a get together picnic in quite sometime now and Pan and Bura are getting restless.
"I need entertainment! Any kind of entertainment!" Pan begged Bulma, who was preparing lunch in large quantities. "Right now I'd be happy with a pile of beef jerky and a cheesy porno!" (Hehe, after one review in particular, I've fell in love with the word 'cheesy!')
Bulma stopped what she was doing and smiled, "Well then, you should be happy to hear about our plans this evening." She smirked. "I'm throwing you both a baby shower! Everyone is going to be here! Chichi, Videl, 18, Lunch, and a bunch of your friends that I got out of your guys' address books!"
(In the states…)
Trunks and Goten, who were sitting around a large conference table couldn't help but not laugh. 'I'm glad we're here and not there.' Trunks mused to himself.
"Do you find the fall in our stock funny Mr. Briefs?" the president of the other company asked.
"Oh no, I was just…never mind."
Goten smirked before turning his attention back to the meeting that they've been sitting in for the last three hours. "If I could call a short recess, both Trunks and I can get our heads back into the meeting." Goten requested.
"A short recess would be greatly beneficial for us all." Said the acting VP of the competition.
"Yah, unlike this deal your offering." Trunks said under his breath as he and Goten walked out into the hall.
'Just set your standards, show them whose boss.' Pan thought over to Trunks.
'Don't you have a baby shower to prepare for?' Trunks thought humorously.
'Hey, shut up!' Pan scolded. 'You owe me!'
'For what?'
'Having your child.' Pan thought.
'I have something planned, no need to worry.'
'I feel fat.' Bura thought to Goten.
'Your eight months pregnant, but you don't look a month past two.' Goten thought back humorously.
'Don't try buttering me up, I'm still mad at you for being in the States and I know I'm as big as a house.'
'Great, then I'll be sure to recognize you at the airport.' Goten smirked.
'You're not making your case any better!' Bura scolded.
"Hey Goten, I saw this nice little Chinese restaurant just down the street, I'm hungry." Trunks called over to his friend.
"Lets go." Goten said as he grabbed his jacket.
(Back in Satan City…)
"Men!" Bura shot out angrily.
Pan smiled. "I think they're quite useful."
"Only because you lucked out and Trunks didn't turn out like Vegeta." Bura sighed, "Goten wouldn't know how to romance a woman even he read the book 'Romancing for Idiots!'"
"Come on, he isn't that clueless." Pan said humorously. "Come on, I feel the need to watch Jerry Springer."
Later that night, Pan and Bura were still watching TV, Vegeta made it quite clear that he wouldn't be anywhere near Capsule Corp. while Bulma and Chichi were frantically preparing appetizers. Soon enough, all the women arrived bearing gifts, even Marron showed up with a peace offering.
"It's a two-way baby monitor, I thought you may find it useful." Marron said as she gave the two packages to Pan and Bura.
"Oh, ah…" Bura started.
"Thanks." Pan said turning off the TV. She immediately wished she was with Trunks or even Vegeta wouldn't be as weird as this.
"Excuse me, I have something I have to do." Bura said as she place the package with the rest of the gifts.
Pan grabbed her arm, "You're not going to do it are you?" Pan asked with a hint of glee in her eyes.
Bura smirked mischievously, "Of course." She said as she walked outside and stood in the middle of the yard. She stood there for about five minutes before she felt his ki rapidly approaching.
"You said it was an emergency?" Uubu asked as he landed in front of Bura.
Bura, being a great actress and always getting what she wants, started to let fake tears fall down her face. "It's Goten! He's unconscious in the Gravity room! I don't know if he's alright or not!" She cried.
Uubu, not thinking, ran into the gravity room. Bura smirked as she locked the door from the outside. 'There, that outta do it; my mother is a genius to make the walls and door unbreakable by ki blasts.' She thought as she walked back inside.
The older women were in the kitchen talking about diaper rash and baby clothes while Pan and Marron were discussing their past. "What happened to us, we used to be best friends?" Pan asked.
Marron sighed. "There were certain things that got to me and I know I can't take my past mistakes away, but I'm sorry for you know, Max and Trunks…"
"Oh hey, don't worry about it. You saved me from marrying that low grade bastard and you helped me find my true feelings for Trunks." Pan acknowledged awkwardly as she scratched the back of her neck.
"Marron, since we're all good again. Could you do me a favor?" Bura asked as she collapsed on the couch.
"Umm, sure." Marron breathed uneasily.
"Could go to the gravity room and grabbed Goten's sweatshirt? He left it there last night I really want to wear it." Bura requested.
"Sure." Marron agreed, after all it was the least she could do. She walked out the sliding glass door and looked over her shoulder when she got half way through the yard. She couldn't help but feel that something just wasn't quite right.
Bura unlocked the door with her remote when Marron got to the door and quickly locked it again when she got inside. "Ha! Finally! All we have to do is wait and let nature take it course!" Bura said happily.
"Girls, where did Marron go?" 18 asked as she walked into the living room.
"Oh, she said she had to use the bathroom." Bura noted, "She looked a little quizey, I hope she's alright." She said while trying to suppress a fit of giggles, Pan not fairing too well.
"Alright, well, when you guys are ready, we're ready to start." 18 announced suspiciously before walking back into the kitchen.
"When we're ready for our impending doom, we're to enter the kitchen!" Pan joked.
"Alright, shall we?" Bura asked locking arms with Pan and giggling.
"This pregnancy is going to kill me."
Marron's POV
'Grab Goten's sweatshirt, that sounds easy enough.' Marron thought as she looked over her shoulder and looked back to the house. Everything seemed normal enough, 'Wait, this may be a trap!' she thought dramatically as the gravity door slammed shut behind her. She heard the locks automatically click, Marron screamed and kicked at the door, "Fucking bitches!" she yelled as she turned around and noticed another person in the room with her.
"Uubu." Marron said startled.
"Marron." Uubu said as he got up from the ground. He looked a little nervous for a warrior of steel Marron thought. She turned around and started pushing on the door. "There's no use, we're stuck here until they let us out." He announced.
"Well isn't that la de da great!?" Marron bitched.
(Back inside…)
Pan and Bura smiled warmly as they opened their babies' gifts. Pan suddenly felt her baby kick, "Oh, the baby just kicked." She said proudly.
"Not only that, but your water just broke!" Bura announced frantically.
Pan looked down, "I guess it did." She said calmly.
The women all ran around the room wildly "Grab her bag!" Bulma order no one in particular, "Get the car started!"
(In the states…)
"Her water just broke!" Trunks yelled shocked in the middle of the meeting, Goten looked equally shocked.
"How do you know?"
"Um, she just paged me! I'm going to be a father!" Trunks yelled as he ran out of the room.
"Hey wait up!" Goten yelled running after him.
(In the Car…)
"Can't you drive any faster!?" Chichi yelled frantically.
"I'm going five over the speed limit as it is!" Bulma hissed.
"Oh shit!" Bura groaned as her water broke too.
"Bulma, we have another one in labor!" Videl yelled. Bulma hit the pedal to the metal going well over five over the speed limit. Out of all the women in the large van, Bura and Pan were the calmest as they discussed how long it was going to take their men to get to the hospital.
(In the Gravity Room…)
"How long are we going to be in here?" Uubu asked crossing his arms as he sat Indian style on the ground.
"Only Dende knows." Marron sighed.
(In the Skies…)
"Can't you go any faster!" Goten yelled.
"I'm going as fast as I can!" Trunks yelled, powering up to SSJ2.
"Well go faster!" Goten yelled as he too powered up to SSJ2.
(At the hospital…)
The nurses helped the two demi-sayains out of the van into wheel chairs and lead them into their own birthing rooms. Bulma stayed with Bura while Videl and Chichi were with Pan. 18 was acting very peculiar as she pulled out her cell phone, she was actually glowing with maternal instinct as she called everyone she could think of.
"Hmm…Vegeta, Vegeta…do you have a cell phone?" she asked herself, but before she had to chance to think, Vegeta and Gohan were running through emergency room doors to their daughters. "Oh yeah, forgot about that whole bonding thing." She said as she dialed her home phone number.
(In the Gravity Room…)
"Uubu! Lighten up already! That was a whole two years ago! It's called a one night stand!" Marron yelled.
"One night stand huh? Is that why you left tear streaked letter on my nightstand saying how sorry you were?" Uubu asked coldly.
(A/N: Ewww…….)
(Back at the hospitial…)
Trunks and Goten ran inside the hospital, both in SSJ mode. They hurried into the rooms, "Oh Bura, wrong room." Trunk said sheepishly, "Good luck!" He said as she turned and ran out the room.
CRASH!!!
Pan got out of her bed, her contractions were mild and far apart and walked to the door way, she saw Bura also in her doorway looking at the same scene that had drawn everyone's attention from the waiting room. Goten and Trunks, both in SSJ form, were unconscious in the middle of the hall.
"You are such an idiot GOTEN!" Bura yelled.
"Kami!" Pan sighed as she flung up her arms and walked back into her room. Gohan grabbed Trunks by the back of his shirt and dragged him into the room with his daughter, Vegeta did the same with Goten.
(Back in the Gravity room…)
"Kami! It meant nothing to me!" Marron screamed.
"No, it did mean something to you! It meant a lot to me, did you ever think about that?" Uubu yelled, "You're just afraid!"
"Afraid of what?!" Marron spat.
"You're afraid to let yourself feel!" Uubu yelled back.
"Feel what?!"
"Do you know why you did those things to Pan and Bura?!" Uubu yelled, "You're just jealous that they're not afraid to ride on their emotions and finally be happy with the one they love! You can't stand to see people happy when you can't be!"
(A/N: Ewwie….)
(Back in the Hospital…)
Trunks rubbed his head for second, but didn't wake up. Pan clutched the sides of the bed as not so mild contraction started. Gohan came to her side and held her hand; Pan closed her eyes and concentrated really hard to get into the deepest parts of his head.
Pan found her self in his dream; Trunks was sitting in the middle of woods with two little boys and a young girl. Obviously their children, he was smiling as he watched the children play. Pan walked up to him and stood in front of him with her hands firmly planted on her hips…she noticed her feet for the first time in six months. 'nice.' She thought before giving Trunks a death glare.
"Hi sweetie! Aren't our children wonderful?" Trunks asked with hint happiness in his eyes.
"Trunks, this is all a dream! We don't have any children yet!" Pan yelled at him, even though she was in his dream she could still feel her pain.
Gohan looked at his daughter's facial expression then towards Trunks, he noticed that they were communicating in some way.
"What are you talking about?"
"We don't have any children yet, even though I'm in the middle of giving you your first born! Now get your ass up before you miss it! Don't make me get off this bed and bitch slap you awake!" Pan warned.
"I'm sleeping?" Trunks asked looking confused.
"You're hopeless!" Pan yelled as she broke the link. "Daddy, can you knock him awake? Nothing is working."
"Okay!" Gohan agreed eagerly.
"I'm awake!" Trunks hollered as he jumped out of the seat just before Gohan had the chance to smack him upside his head.
"Please, if we could only have the father in here at this time. It would be greatly appreciated." A nurse requested as she walked into the room to check the stats. She left to do the same with Bura. Gohan gave his daughter a kiss on the forehead before leaving the room.
"Good luck honey." Videl said as she gave Pan a hug. Chichi smiled as the two women left.
"I thought you'd never get here." Pan said calming down, "Then once you got here, I thought you'd never wake up!"
"Sorry about that." Trunks said sheepishly as he gave her peck on the lips. "Hi." He said happily.
"Hi."
(Inside Bura's room…. inside the hospital…duh!)
"Can't you wake him up?" Vegeta asked his daughter with a sneer directed towards Goten.
"She already tried communicating with him through his dream, but he wasn't having one." Bulma said.
"Don't worry, I know how to wake him up." Bura said with a laugh, "Goten! FOOD!!!" she yelled.
Within seconds Goten's eye's shot open, only this time he didn't asked where the food was instead, "Did I miss anything?" he asked as he jumped out of the chair.
"Nope." Bura smirked.
"If we can only have the father in here, it would be greatly appreciated." The same nurse that checked on Pan requested as she checked the stats.
"No, I'm staying." Vegeta said as he crossed his arms.
"Daddy, please?" Bura asked with puppy dog eyes as she took hold of Goten's hand.
"Sorry I was late, the traffic was horrible." Goten smirked as he kissed Bura's hand with a smirk. Vegeta growled, he didn't want to see the carbon copy of Kakkorotto try to romance his daughter. Bulma pulled him out of the room and sat him in the waiting room where Gohan, Videl, and Chichi were already sitting. 18 must've called everyone who ever fought a battle, because Yamcha, Tien, Chazou, Puar, Oolong, Dende, Piccolo, Krillin, Master Roshi, and even Goku was there with his halo hanging over his head. Nobody missed Uubu or Marron due to the fact that there were so many people already in the waiting room.
(In the Gravity Room…)
"No! I don't regret what I did!" Marron yelled.
"Yes you do!" Uubu tried to say calmly.
"No I don't!"
"Then why are you crying?!" Uubu asked loosing his temper again.
(At the Hospital…)
"What do you think we should name him?" Pan asked lovingly as she held her newborn son.
"I don't know, I never gave it much thought." Trunks said guiltily as he ran his finger gently along his son's cheek.
"I like Zumiez, what do you think?" Pan asked looking up from her son to meet Trunks' gaze.
"Zumiez it is then." Trunks replied lovingly, "Excuse me, I have father's bragging rights right now." He said as she got up from the seat that was pulled exceptionally close to the bed.
(Inside Bura's Room…)
"She's beautiful." Goten said in awe, "She has your eyes and hair color."
"She has your chin and goofy grin." Bura laughed.
"She has your hands." Goten noted as his daughter grabbed hold of his finger. "I think she's a Lita, what do you think?"
"I love it." Bura smiled as she watched her fiancée hold their daughter for the first time, "She already has you wrapped around her little fingers." She noted as she watched the look of pure love emanate from Goten.
"Just like you." Goten smiled as he handed Lita back to her mother. "If you'd excuse me, I have bragging rights now."
(In the hall…)
"Goten!" Trunks yelled happily.
"Trunks!" Goten yelled back absolutely glowing.
"I'm a father!" They both yelled at the same time. They ran into the waiting room, "I'm a father!" they announced.
"Boy or Girl?" Bulma asked both of her sons (well one of them is about to become her son-in-law anyway).
"Zumiez is a BOY!" Trunks said proudly.
"I have a baby girl!" Goten said even more proud, if possible. "We named her Lita."
(Back with Pan and Bura…)
The nurses brought the two new mothers into a different room where they could rest and get caught up with each other. After telling each other the sex and names of their babies, they laid back both expecting to go to sleep when a thought ran through there heads.
"Marron!" They both shouted as they shot up in there beds.
"I wonder how they're doing?" Bura asked.
"I don't know, I kind of feel sorry for Uubu, but one day, he'll thank us." Pan said confidently.
"How are you so sure?" Trunks asked as he and Goten walked into the room.
"Call it maternal instinct." Bura grinned.
"Wha-?" Goten asked with wide eyes.
"You'll see." Pan grinned.
