Chapter Two- Setsuya, Destiny of Death
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Kirai, Ashia, and Bryce sat silently, looking almost guilty. Vegeta just sat there, not looking at anyone. His face was down.
Goten glanced at his best friend's face and saw the ultimate shock. Goten had to admit that he'd pretty surprised too, if some girl showed up with his dad's son. He also wondered how Bryce must be feeling, at finding out that his dad, had left him, and gotten with another woman and had another son. Goten then also realized that Vegeta must be feeling pretty rotten too, since after all he hadn't even known that Bryce had existed, and thought that Kirai and Ashia were dead.
Things were getting weird.
Ashia looked over at Vegeta, and saw his look of defeat.
'Come on Veggie, you don't have time to feel sorry for yourself. That boy... he is the one that Summer has come for, I can feel it. Death of Destiny.' Ashia thought, biting her lip.
Kirai looked over at Ashia, and saw her look of nervousness. Kirai got down from where she was sitting on the table.
"Yo Bryce. What did you save on the ship other then the food?" Kirai asked.
Bryce shrugged.
"A little of this and that."
"Go get it then."
Bryce nodded, and got up and started out the door. As he was passing Gohan, Gohan whispered something to him, and Bryce blushed and shook his head.
Gohan shook his head, and the two of them headed out the door.
Kirai shook her head after hearing their conversation, that son of her's was going to get into some trouble one day.
"Hey, do you remember where to go?" Gohan had asked.
Ashia sighed, feeling exhausted, and Vegeta looked at her.
*So little sister, what is really vexing you?* Vegeta said, using a telepathy link that he and his sister had long ago forged.
Ashia looked up at him, extremely surprised that Vegeta could still use a Saiyan telepathy link after all these years on Earth. She knew, where Kirai didn't believe, that Vegta had enjoyed staying here and building a family. She looked at the purple haired teenage boy, that sat talking with his best friend, Kakarott's youngest son. She felt a feeling of uneasy as she thought of the older boy, Gohan, off flying with Bryce. True, Bryce and Gohan were close to the same age, around twenty-five, but she couldn't help but worry...
*Ashia, tell me...*
Ashia realized that she had been zoning out to Vegeta's persisting thoughts, but she couldn't just say it to him, could she? Reawaken all that pain that had been held in their childhood? The pain that not even Kirai could understand? That she, Setsuya, and Vegeta had shared together?
She looked up at Vegeta, and shook her head, her eyes full of tears.
Kirai frowned as she saw Vegeta and Ashia have a mental coversation. What the hell was the matter with Vegeta? She knew he had changed. He wasn't the same guy that she had loved. The ruthless guy that was always jumping, with her right next to him. She knew his weaknesses came from the kid, Trunks, and the new mate Bulma. She knew that Vegeta loved Bulma, like he had never loved her, but that didn't cease the sting of pain that she had felt when she saw that the teases that Summer had been taunting at her were true. Her son deserved to have a father too, dammit! Her son, who had acheived a level that they thought wasn't possible, only to find that Vegeta's other son had achieved it as well.
Ashia and Kirai sensed each other's unease, and Vegeta could feel it too, the air coated with it.
Finally Bryce came back, handed the stuff to his mother, before heading out to spar with Gohan.
"Be careful Bryce. If you get killed we're not bringing you back." Kirai said, browsing through the few items that her son had brought back.
Bryce grinned.
"Summer ain't got nothing on me, Mom. You just make sure you don't go into one of your fits, and try to kill everyone in sight."
Kirai flicked a ki ball, at the boy who scampered out the door.
"Gohan-chan, can I come too?" Goten asked.
Gohan shrugged, as he headed out the door.
Goten jumped off the couch, and grabbed Trunks's hand.
"Goten!"'
"Come on Trunks!"
And Goten pulled his best friend out the door.
Kirai looked up from the stuff.
"Come on Ashia, you have some crap to build."
Ashia snapped out of her thoughts.
"What Ki?"
"Yo Ashi! Wake up! You have to build us a place to stay."
Ashia nodded, still stuck in her thoughts.
Kirai and Ashia headed out the door, with Vegeta in toe, to make sure that the two didn't get lost.
Goku, Krillin, Piccolo, Eighteen, and Yamcha were left alone.
"Was that just the weirdest thing or what?" Krillin said after a minute.
Goku nodded.
"That girl looked like me."
"That's usually what having a twin means, Goku." Yamcha said, as Krillin, Eighteen, and Piccolo fell over.
"I'm gonna go talk to Bulma." Goku said, getting up.
Krillin, and Yamcha nodded, quiet.
Piccolo got up too.
"I'm blowing this freak stand. That's the last thing I need to be around, is some crazy girl who's out to kill Vegeta. We've got enough of those around." he said.
Krillin, Yamcha, and Eighteen sat there for a minute.
"Let's go watch Gohan beat the crap out of Vegeta's kid." Yamcha said with a smirk.
"That's the best idea, I've had all day." Eighteen said.
All three of them took into the air, grinning like crazy.
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Goku found Bulma upstairs, crying her eyes out. He sat down quietly on the bed next to her.
"Bulma-chan..." Goku muttered softly.
Bulma looked up from the bed, her eyes rimmed red.
"Oh Goku!" she cried as she threw her arms around his neck, and sobbed into his shirt.
"It's ok Bulma... it will be alright." he murmered to her.
"H-How?! Vegeta l-lied to me! H-He's probably s-slept with m-millions of other woman, and I'm just another trophy to add to his collection!"
Goku pulled Bulma back, and looked in her the face.
"Bulma, you listen to me, Vegeta would never do anything to hurt you. I know for a fact that he cares about you very much. You can take one look into his eyes right now, and you can see how much he wants to make it up to you, but Bulma, he doesn't know how. He's not very good with expressing his emotions and how much he loves you and Trunks, you have to remember that."
Bulma nodded and stopped crying.
"B-But Goku, I need him to say it. I'm tired of just assuming that he loves me."
Goku nodded, and she cried into his shirt for a little while longer until she fell asleep.
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Bryce and Gohan went back to the clearing that only that morning, Gohan, Goten, Goku, Trunks, and Vegeta had intended to train at. Goten sped after them eagerly, and Trunks at a more dismal pace.
He didn't want to see this half-brother of his fight Gohan. Unless of course he got his ass beat, and then Trunks would be out there cheering Gohan on, until his lungs gave out.
Goten looked over at Trunks, and he saw the anger and hatred pouring out of his eyes at Bryce's back. Goten almost fell out of the sky, when he saw how much Trunks looked like Vegeta, whenever he had done bad sparring with Goku. Goten wished that Trunks could see differently, like in a way, that it was Trunks's older brother against Goten's older brother, but he kenw better. Goten doubted that Trunks would ever consider Bryce his older brother.
The three demi-saiyans, and saiyan didn't notice that they were being followed by Eighteen, Krillin, and Yamcha. Piccolo was also watching them, too. He was interested in how this son of Vegeta would do against, his pupil.
Everyone was so confident that Gohan was going to kick the shit out of Bryce. How wrong they were.
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Kirai left Ashia and Vegeta alone for a while, feeling that her presence was becoming an annoyance, since Ashia obviously wanted to talk to Vegeta, alone. Kirai left the place, that was their make shift home, a cross between a large tent and a house, and sat down next to the Capsule Corp. wall and started to mediate. She didn't think she would be disturbed, since they were in the private garden in the back.
Ashia stood across from Vegeta for a moment, before he grew impatient, and then she started to talk quickly.
"Vegeta, you remember how when a member of the royal family was born, they would check the stars for seeing the person's future, and to name them?"
Vegeta nodded, remembering clearly.
When he had been born, they had announced that the heir, and prince to the throne would grow to be a strong warrior, and would have a great amount of pride. He of course had been named what every heir to the throne was named, Vegeta. When Ashia had been born a year later they had announced that she would be a more gentle, not much of a fighter, but very intelligent. She had been named Ashia which meant 'Gentle Rain', truly an odd name for a member of the Saiyan Royal Family.
Vegeta's mind froze when he thought of when Setsuya had been born. 'Destiny of Death.'
"That's right Vegeta." Ashia said, after reading his mind.
"When she was born, everyone was terrified. They said they read that she would become one of the biggest fears of the Saiyan no Ouji. You. That her life would be filled with deaths. They wanted to kill her, but you insisted no, that you weren't scared of anything, especially not a puny baby, so they named her Setsuya. Destiny of Death. But do you remember what that old fortune teller told her when she was five, just before Planet Vegeta was destroyed?"
Vegeta frowned, not remembering what she was talking about.
"She told Setsuya, that one day she would become Summer. And many years after that, she would meet a man, but yet a boy. A son of a traitor, but a hero. And this boy, would make her stronger then she ever dreamed possible."
Vegeta froze.
"Kakarott's oldest. Gohan..."
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Author's Note: Ah! Watch out Gohan! *kicks Vegeta* Go say sorry to Bulma, you baka boy! Anyway, REVIEW! Mwhahahha! Or email me to join my mailing list at vegetaztwin@hotmail.com. ^_^()