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Trials and Tribulations

By Salsa Kitty

The Chibi Saga

Chapter Six

His Father's Memories

Vegeta had pretty much decided that who ever was banging at his door at 4 o'clock in the morning was going to have to die… Unfortunately for that person, he was thinking of every painful thing he could think of to do to them as he made his way to the door clad in his under shirt and boxers.

As he opened the door, in his most dangerous tone, "What the fuck are you doing banging on my door at 4 o'clock in the mother fucking morning?"

He was shocked to find that it was Bulma standing there dressed, wide-awake in her usual training attire. "Well… I thought I would be nice and wake you up so we could go and spar… I see that wasn't what ~you~ had in mind…"

"…………You ~always~ get up this early to spar?" He asked.

"Uh huh." She smiled. "That's how I always beat you to the training center."

"…………….Are you serious……..?" Vegeta said groggily.

"Yup…… you wanna spar?" She asked with a big smile.

"At 4 in the morning….?"

"Yup."

"………………………It's 4 in the morning."

"…So…?"

"……………………….. okay…. Hold on… I have to get dressed…."

"M'kay… I'll meet you there, see ya!"

Vegeta watched her walk away and shut the door, and then made his way to the shower…

~*~*~*~*~

~Shit! Shit! Shit! ~ Vegeta kept saying to himself as he ran down the northern wing of the palace. Vegeta had fallen asleep in the shower, and was now an hour late. ~Bulma's gonna be so pissed at me! Shit! ~

He had finally made it to the training center, and quickly opened to doors to the inside.

"BULMA!!! I'm sorry I'm late! I fell asleep….. Bulma….?" Bulma wasn't around anywhere. "Shit… She probably finished and left… Damn…" ~I'll just go and meet her at her room and explain what happened! ~ Vegeta quickly raced down back to the west wing of the palace.

When he got there he ran to her room and opened to door… "Bulma? Bulma, 'you here?"

 All that Vegeta heard was water running. ~She must be in the shower. ~ He though to himself. Then he started thinking about yesterday, in Nappa's quarters, and then that weird feeling he had in his most private places. "I wonder…" ~I wonder what she looks like in the shower…~ Vegeta had the most overwhelming urge to take a peek at Bulma while she was in the shower. ~Shit… If I do, if she sees me, then she'll be SOOOO pissed. ~ And being that Vegeta was of the Male species, he decided to do the stupid thing and peek at her.

He opened the door a little and saw her in her in her nude form. Her back was to Vegeta, so she couldn't see him. The steam from the hot water had fogged up the entire bathroom. He could see her perfectly formed back and butt, and her tail. ~She's…. so… so pretty….~ Vegeta thought to himself, he realized that he was particularly fond of looking at her tail. She picked up the conditioner and began to put in her aqua blue hair. Then it hit him… That weird feeling again… ~Shit… ~ He closed the door into the bathroom and tried to calm down. ~SHIT! The fuck is happening to me?!~  The water in the bathroom shut off a moment later, and a sopping wet Bulma came out of the bathroom, with nothing but a towel covering her.

"Vegeta?" She said as she saw him, "What are you doing here?"

"Ummmm… um… um.. um…… Ah… I was ….. I'm sorry… I fell asleep in the shower…. I have'ta go now….. um… sorry about earlier… Bye!" and with that Vegeta ran out of the room, leaving behind a stunned Bulma.

"What was that all about?" She said to her self.

~*~*~*~*~

Vegeta ran into his room. ~What was that all about? ~ He wondered to himself, ~I must have sounded like an idiot! ~ A few minutes later, Bulma came and knocked on his door. "Vegeta," Her muffled voice sounded through his door, "Geta, it's me, open up!"

Vegeta opened the door.

"What was that all about?" She asked.

"Umm… Nothing, I… It's nothing." Then he continued, "I fell asleep in the shower, I'm sorry… I didn't mean to…"

"I know, you told me that a minute ago." They stood there for what seemed like forever. "Are you ever going to invite me in?"

"Ah… Yeah! Sorry!" Vegeta moved so that she could get through, and she plopped herself down on his bed.

She looked around, "Wow… all the guest rooms look the same don't they?"

"Yeah…" He sat next to her on the bed and looked around the room with her. "My old quarters should be all cleaned up by today." They sat there for a long time just sitting there doing nothing.

"What happened to your old Quarters?" She inquired.

"I trashed them."

"Why?"

"'Cuz I was pissed off."

"Why?"

"'Cuz I didn't wanna be mated."

"Hehe… yeah… I kicked and screamed all the way here 'cuz I didn't wanna be mated either." She smiled, "I'm glad I met you though, I don't have a lot of friends."

"Yeah, me neither."

"I'm either a blue haired freak, or I'm just to smart, so none of the other kids wanna hang out with me…" Her face displayed a moment of sadness in her eyes.

"Yeah… I know… I have too many duties as a prince to have friends…"

"You seem to have a lot of free time to me."

"Yeah, well, once you leave, I'll have to go back to my old routine again. Sparring, and training, and school! Oh I hate school!"

"Hehe… Why's that 'Geta? I love school…. 'cept I could live without the bitches that I have to deal with all the time."

"Yeah, well, I have assholes for instructors, and shit like that, I would rather be training."

"Well I can't disagree with that." She hopped off the bed. "I'm gonna miss you a lot when I have to go back home, 'cuz I know we probably won't see much of each other again until we're older and stuff."

"Yeah…."

"Well, 'Geta, whatcha wanna do today?" Bulma asked.

"I dunno… Whatcha wanna do?" Vegeta hopped off the bed and stood next to Bulma.

"I dunno either…." Bulma stood there trying to think of something to do. "Hey, how about we go and check out how your Quarters are coming along?"

"Okay." And with that they ran off to Vegeta's Palace Quarters.

~*~*~*~*~

Vegeta and Bulma came to the royal hall of the palace. It was here that all the Royalty of Vejiitasei resided. There were many large and extravagant rooms, though they really weren't 'rooms' if you thought about it, they were more like apartments really. Each of the royal chambers consisted of an extravagant master bedroom, a small kitchen, a dinning area, and a living room. All of the Royal Chambers were built with privacy and comfort of the Royal families in mind. Vegeta's Royal Chambers were smaller and less extravagant then many of the other rooms that occupied the Royal Hall. King Vegeta felt that it would be better that Vegeta didn't grow up spoiled like most children of Nobility and Royalty usually did, so he wasn't given every little thing he wanted. Vegeta hated that his father did this, as it usually caused the other kids at his school to ridicule him.

Fortunately, the clean up was about over, and hardly anyone was around so there was no one to yell at the two if they would just go in and have a peek at the new décor of his living quarters.

"Wow…" Bulma said aloud, "The Royal Quarters are ~really~ different from the Guest Quarters, huh?"

"Yeah, I guess so…" Vegeta began to inspect his room, to make sure messed with his personal stuff. Luckily nothing of his had been touched. "Well… most of the holes seem to be covered up."

"'Geta, you should really learn how to control your anger." Bulma told him.

"Shut up!" He said to her, "Sorry, but I don't want to be mated, okay?"

"Okay, okay, chill out Vegeta," Bulma plopped herself on Vegeta's bed. "I think I like your room better then I like mine." Vegeta's room was lovely contrast of royal blues, grays, and golds. His bed was like that of the guest rooms, with a royal blue comforter with the 'House of Vegeta' Emblem embossed on it, with the

"Well, it's not really yours. And I ~know~ that I like my room better then those boring guest rooms."

Bulma stuck her tongue out at him. "So, like, all of the rooms have nothing in them?"

"Yeah, 'cept mine and my Fathers, and the one room at the end of the hall." Vegeta hopped on the bed to sit beside her.

"Who lives there?" Bulma asked.

"No one does, it's all storage." Vegeta then said quietly, "It's the stuff that belonged to my mother."

"Really?" Bulma said.

"Yeah… well, I only saw the stuff once. It was when my father thought it was a god idea to tell me about her, and, well, we went in there, and he showed me her picture, and stuff like that." Vegeta sat there, remembering that time. "It was so weird. Like, when he showed me her picture, it looked like he was gonna cry." Vegeta then became really quiet.

Bulma was quiet too. She had only seen the late Queen on the TV. Bulma always thought that she was so pretty, and many people had haled the relationship between the King and Queen as a fairy tale romance. There was always talk about the King before her uncle, and what a terrible ruler he was. And when her uncle became king, and had mated with Miss Velveeta, the planet had rejoiced. Then, when she had Vegeta, she died. It must have been very hard on the two of them, Bulma had thought to herself.

"Hey Vegeta, it's okay…" She said as he laid her head on his shoulder and put an arm around his neck.

"Hey, Bulma, wanna go check it out?" Vegeta suggested.

"What?" Bulma pulled away from her, "Are you serious? If your Dad finds out, he'll be ~SOOOOO~ pissed off at us!"

"He won't be ~that~ pissed off," Vegeta nudged her, "C'mon, or are you to much of a girlie girl?"

She stuck her tongue out at him again, "I am not a ~girlie girl~!"

"Then let's go!" Vegeta grabbed her by the arm and dragged her out of his room.

~*~*~*~*~

Bulma fiddled diddled with the keypad until it unlocked.

"Hurry up, will ya!?" Vegeta demanded in a nervous tone.

"Chill out okay? It's unlocked now, see?" She opened the door for Vegeta to enter.

"Thanks," He said with a shy smile as he entered his deceased mother's bedroom.

"Oh my," Bulma coughed as she shut the door behind her, "The dust in here is thick!"

"Yeah, well, not a lot of people are allowed in here you know, not even me!" The room was littered with boxes and things. Everything was covered in dust. There was some furniture, but it was covered with white sheets for its protection. There were various knick-knacks and things that were on top of boxes. Bulma picked up a picture frame and wiped away the dusty film to reveal a picture of the late Queen of Vejiitasei, Velveeta.

"Vegeta, come' mere, check this out." Bulma said to Vegeta. He walked over to her and looked at the picture with Bulma. "Is that Velveeta?"

"Yeah."

"She were was pretty, wasn't she?"

"Yeah. I wish…. I wish that I could have met her."

Bulma smiled, "Yeah, me too…" She looked around. "So… all this stuff used to be her's?"

"Yeah… I don't know what most of this stuff is though, My Father would kill me if I went through these boxes." Vegeta looked around and sat on the dusty couch.

"Didn't she live in the same room as my Uncle?" Bulma asked.

"Umm I think they did, but when she died, he packed up all her belongings and placed them here." Vegeta picked up a silver mirror that was on the end table next to him and cleaned it of its dust.

Bulma came over and sat right next to him, "That's pretty."

"Yeah…" Vegeta just sat there and stared into his reflection. "My mother, she… she must've taken this mirror in her hands, and when she looked into it, she must have seen her own reflection." Bulma scooted next to him and looked into the mirror as well. Then she held up the picture of Velveeta next to the mirror. 

They sat there for a long time like that, not saying anything.

"We should probably go," Bulma said after al long time. "If we're caught in here, your Dad will be really pissed off at us."

"Yeah, your probably right." Vegeta got up off the couch and heard Bulma giggle. "What so funny?"

"Your back," Bulma pointed, "You got dust all over you."

Vegeta looked behind himself to see an outline of dust form where he had been sitting on the couch. "Ya know, you probably have dust all over you too." Bulma quickly got up and looked at her backside to see that she too had an outline of dust from where she had been sitting. They both laughed and dusted each other off.

~*~*~*~*~

The next couple of days were like that. Bulma and Vegeta would meet each other in the morning to spar and train together, and the rest of the day they would explore the castle, and have lots of fun together. They had become the best of friends during their time together, and when it had become time for Bulma to go home they had both become very sad. Vegeta was some one that Bulma could relate to, and Bulma was the only person that Vegeta could show his emotions to with out being criticized for it. They knew that in a few years they would be together again, but it was still hard for them both.

On the day that Bulma had to go home, Vegeta stood beside his father and waved to her as she boarded the Space Cruiser that would take her to her knew home of Earth, a satellite of Vejiitasei. Bulma didn't know that she was going to go to earth until the day before she was to leave, and she was not happy about it. They promised to write to each other and talk when ever they could, and things of that sort.

Vegeta couldn't help that as he watched his only true friend leave, he felt that a piece of himself was leaving to. They both knew that they would see each other again, but a few years seemed like such a long to the both of them. He was sad, but happy that he had some one who was a true friend. Now matter how far apart they were to each other, they both knew that the other was out there, some where, thinking of them.

~*~*~*~This concludes the end of the Chibi Saga, next will be the Dragon Ball Saga!!! ~*~*~*~

Authors notes: Hehe, wasn't this a sweet Chapter? I thought it was, sorry it took so long to get out, hopefully I'll get the next chapter out soon… Like tomorrow maybe? Hopefully.  Hehehe

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