No Fight's Over Until I've Won-Ch 3
By Elbereth in April

With some guilt but no hesitation, Kakkarot snuck out of camp the following day and arrived at Chi-Chi's house about 2:30 PM. He scanned the area for ki signatures. They were still out in the middle of nowhere. Nobody was around for miles except the two of them.

He started to knock on the door but then he heard singing around behind the house. He followed the sound. Chi-Chi was hanging up clothes to dry on a line strung between two trees.

He walked up slowly, so as not to startle her. "Hey, Chi-Chi."

She smiled to see him. "Hello."

He helped her to finish with the clothes, although he didn't do a very good job. They talked the whole time, although Kakkarot was rather reticent about certain subjects. He talked a lot about martial arts, and food, and Vegeta, and asked the strangest questions about local animals, and plants, and customs.

"Where are you from exactly?" she asked him as they walked along a stream.

"Oh, um, originally? Somewhere far away. Do you have any brothers or sisters?"

"Far away as in-not Japan?"

"Much farther. Your parents are dead, you said?"

"Yes, it's just me. How is it that you can fly?"

"Practice. That's a pretty waterfall." They stopped and sat down at the edge of the swift stream, where it fell over gray rocks in a white froth.

"You're very mysterious, aren't you?"

"I'm just a person, Chi."

She thought about this for a moment. Then she laid her head on his shoulder. Then she sighed. "Kakkarot. You have a tail and it's wrapped around my leg."

"Um. Oops. Sorry."
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Vegeta and Thenore were cutting up a wild pig for supper. Every so often Thenore would sneak a glance over at Radditz, who was digging a hole. Every so often Radditz would look over at her. Vegeta smirked to himself. Interesting.

As soon as they returned to Vegeta-sei, the Prince intended to find Kakkarot a nice Saiyan woman. This distraction he had with this Earth girl was disturbing. Kakkarot was his best friend; he deserved the best. That meant Saiyan.

While he was at it, he'd better get a girl himself. If Radditz and Kakkarot both hooked up, he was going to start to feel rather jealous.
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Kakkarot, his face red, was now keeping his tail to himself. What an embarrassing accident!

Chi-Chi seemed to be holding an internal debate. If she asked him about his tail, what would he say? If she freaked out completely and sent him away, what would he do?

Finally she said, "Well." Kakkarot waited, but that was it. He smiled in relief.

She put her head back on his shoulder. 'Yes!' he thought.

After a little while, they awoke from their own little world when they started to feel wet. Looking around in surprise, they realized the wind had picked up and was blowing so hard the water from the falls was spraying over them.

Chi-Chi jumped up. "Oh, my clothes!"

They raced back to the house to find Chi-Chi's fears confirmed. Her laundry was whipping around on the line. A few shirts had blown off and were sticking in the bushes.

Kakkarot went to rescue them as Chi-Chi ran over to the clothesline. Just as she reached it, a bedsheet pulled itself off and slapped her in the face. It wrapped itself around her and she fell over.

Kakkarot forgot the shirts and ran back to rescue Chi-Chi. "Are you OK?" He pulled the sheet off.

They looked at each other and both started laughing. Then they ran around gathering up the laundry. They took it inside to the living room to fold it.

"Help me fold the sheets," Chi-Chi instructed. They both took hold of the corners and folded it up by walking forward til they met in the middle. Then they flipped it over.

"This is harder than it looks," Kakkarot said, turning his side the wrong way round.

Chi-Chi laughed at him. They folded and met again. They stood not three inches apart.

'I must be completely crazy,' Chi-Chi thought, her heart pounding wildly. They stared into each other's eyes. But he didn't look odd (except for the tail), or evil (despite the light from the hands thing), or insane (except for calling that Vegeta person his best friend). He looked half-dazed, and vulnerable, and as if he very much wanted to kiss her.

'Maybe it's pheromones. Well, whatever.' She leaned forward and kissed him-on the nose.

He looked at her, bewildered. She laughed. "Finish the sheet." They folded it and placed it carefully on the couch.

And then she threw herself into his arms and kissed him with abandon. On the lips.
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A/N: More to come soon. But now I'm off to work on another story, which, frankly, has more reviews than this one. If you want me to devote myself to this story, please review!