"Bondage"

By Pixie

Pixie: Nothing too important here. It's chapter 6, the story is almost over. (After this chapter is complete, there are two chapters and an epilogue left, then, I'm sorry, the insanity is over…for now.)

Chapter 6: Goten and Bra

Goten knew how he felt about Bra. He just didn't know how Bra felt about him. He supposed that, through their bond, he could find this information out. But Bra tended to scream if you probed her mind too much.

"Come to think about it," Goten thought, "Bra screams about a lot of things." But Goten knew that was what he had come to love about Bra. Her unpredictability, her wild passion nature. She was an ocean person, calm on minute, storming and wild the next, but always beautiful. He thought of her hair and eyes, the color of the ocean on a calm day, but when she grew angry, this whole dark demeanor took over, casting a gray shadow over her.

"Who are you think about?" Bra's lovely smooth voice floated in Goten's mind. And she yelled at him for invading her mind.

"What do you mean? I-I'm not thinking about ANYONE! Especially not a girl, Especially not YOU!…Or Anyone like YOU! Why would I think about you? Why are you even thinking I'd think about you?!" Goten prayed that sounded as natural as he thought it did.

"You were thinking about me, weren't you?" Despite the fact Goten got tortured daily, Bra still loved torturing him even more. There's a certain pleasure, an ecstatic high, she got from his pain. She wondered if this was the reason her mother brought her dad pink clothes.

"How do you girls always know what we guys are thinking? We never know what you girls are thinking about?" Goten glanced over, and was surprised to see Bra laughing. Not only was she laughing, she was laughing really, really hard. Goten only felt more confused. How had she known what he was thinking and what on Earth did he say that was so funny.

"We girls are just smarter than you boys, that's all." Goten accepted Bra's word as truth. He was surprised to find that accepting her word as all-knowing was not that different than accepting Trunks' word. After all, Trunks had taught Goten almost everything he knew, from when they were little, and Goten didn't know what a wizard was. Trunks was more than happy to give him an answer. And when they grew older, it was Trunks who taught him about girls. But if Trunks had taught him everything he knew about girls…why was he still so confused?

Bra laughed at Goten. He looked so bewildered over everything, though he strangely enough appeared to be thinking.

"He's just so cute when he's confused…" Bra thought to herself, making sure she didn't project the thought to Goten. "Wait a sec! Did I…I, Bra Briefs just call Goten SON, cute?" Now she was the one confused. A few weeks ago, she was ready to strangle Goten. And now, now she was wondering what it would be like to kiss him.

"Why were we fighting anyway?" She saw Goten staring at her, and she blushed slightly, realizing she had said this out loud. He thought this over for a minute then met Bra's eyes with his black ones.

"I don't know why you fought against me, but I always was….this is embarrassing, but I was jealous of you Bra. I was always sort of the favorite kid around my mom, then you came along, and suddenly, Bulma was always over with you. And I felt forgotten."

"My mom doesn't know much about caring for babies. She used to get a lot of help with caring for Trunks from Yamcha, but it was different with me. Yamcha could have labeled Trunks a mistake, just an accident from one night Bulma was upset. But my birth…this proved Trunks was no mistake, they loved each other. I was proof Yamcha and Bulma were truly over forever. So she went to Chi-Chi for help." Bra looked down at the ground. Goten stood there awkwardly there for a minute, before he wrapped his arm around Bra.

Goten began talking again, "And then, Trunks was always so protective of you. We were always best friends, he put me before everything but you. Trunks would be downright cruel to me, if I wasn't nice to you…"

Bra sighed, "I wasn't very easy to be nice to…"

Pan and Trunks sighed watching through the window.

"So touching," Pan swooned, staring at the two, while hovering outside their window. She and Trunks smiled at each other in such a way Vegeta's blood would have run cold. Two minutes later, Trunks had a camera, and they were standing outside Bra's room, which conveniently for Trunks and Pan, had the door open They waited, and just as they expected, Bra and Goten were talking quietly on the bed. Pan snuck in, while Trunks stood outside, watching. Pan raced forward, quickly and silently, and pushed Goten hard as she could. After years of practice, this had become an art to her, Goten landed right on top of Bra, and Pan had raced back safely to the door. The amount of confusion between Bra and Goten was supposed to allow Trunks to get his camera ready. But instead it gave time for something even worse to happen.

"BOY! WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!" Vegeta had arrived, not seeing Pan and Trunks cause the trouble, only seeing Bra and Goten together.

Pixie: Muhaha! Cliffhanger!