Chapter Eleven- How Things Were Supposed To Be and How Things Are.
Minsa breathed deep as she stopped training with Gohan.
'This kid is unbelieveable! He reminds me of...'
Minsa shook her head, ridding herself of unwelcome memories.
Gohan looked up at her and grinned.
"Are you okay?"
She looked down at him and swallowed hard.
"Y-Yes... I'm fine."
Suddenly there was a knock on the large wooden door.
"Lady Minsa may I come in?" the guard's voice asked.
Minsa spun quickly and motioned for the boys to stop training. She walked over to the door.
"What is it?" she asked peering through the door.
Riroku suddenly opened the door all the way, and scanned the room for a moment before looking down at an indignant Minsa.
"Riroku! How-"
"Guard, take these four to regeneration tanks for an hour." Riroku commanded.
The guard looked at Minsa for a reaction, but she had none. So he led Goku, Gohan, Krillin and Yamcha out of the room.
"What do you want Riroku?" Minsa asked after the door had been shut.
"I just want to have a little heart to heart Minsa." he said, playing with her green hair.
"Riroku, you will keep your distance." Minsa said firmly.
"Oh but I don't have to now...It's not rape if it's your mate to be..." Riroku whispered in her ear.
Minsa's body tensed.
'He wouldn't...'
"I just don't understand Minsa... why you want to be a slave to these Saiyans so much." Riroku said softly.
"I'm not a slave." Minsa said firmly, trying to turn around, but he was holding her firmly by the wrists.
"Then what are you? Have you forgotten who used to be? Who you still and always will be to me?" Riroku asked.
Minsa tried to push herself away from Riroku again, but he was too strong for her.
"Things are different now." Minsa answered, trying not to let her voice shake.
"Then we can change them. We can make things the same again." Riroku responded gently in her ear, trailing his hand down her back. "Let me prove it to you."
"Never! Stop Riroku!" Minsa cried, but Riroku pulled her closer to him.
"Fine then, milady."
"No! Riroku! Please!"
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The guard walked out of the tank room and glanced at Goku. Goku had been the first to come out of the tanks, and had stood against the wall, outside the tank room waiting for Krillin, Yamcha, and Gohan to come out.
The guard had checked on Goku every now and then, figuring that Goku would have gone back to his cell anyway. But he hadn't which made the guard slightly uneasy.
When Gohan, Krillin, and Yamcha came out, the guard led him back to the high securite cell. He opened the door, and gasped out what he saw.
A figure was lying across on the floor, severly beaten, with what was left of a spandex suit covering the person's body. Green hair lay tangled and unkept around the person's beaten face, which had the eyes closed.
"Lady Minsa! Oh my... Lord Riroku come quickly!" the guard shouted as he ran across the cell.
Lord Riroku came from across the hall and looked down the hall.
"What is it?"
"Lady Minsa! S-She's been.... She's been..." the guard couldn't bring himself to say what had happened to her, because it was apparent from her apperance and all the blood.
Lord Riroku frowned and hurried down the hall.
"Good kami! Minsa!" Riroku yelled as he hurried over to her.
He knelt beside her, and lifted her head gently.
"Minsa darling... Can you hear me? Minsa, wake up please!" Riroku said gently.
Then he looked up at the guard.
"We have to get her to the hospital wing." Riroku stood, holding Minsa gently in his arms. Then he turned to Goku, Krillin, Yamcha, and Gohan. "And I want these three animals not to be allowed out of here at all, and to have five guards in this room at all times until the King is informed of what they have done to Lady Minsa!"
The guard nodded, looking disgusted at Goku, Gohan, Krillin, and Yamcha.
And with that, Riroku fled the room, holding Minsa.
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Bulma yawned as Vegeta walked into the room. She threw a fork at him, and he caught it. Then she tossed a plate, and he caught that too. It had become a routine with them, and they excepted every move. Then Bulma lifted the frying pan, and tossed the contents over her shoulder. Vegeta swiftly moved the plate, and grabbed the food, before putting the plate down on the table.
Then Bulma walked over, and sat down next to Vegeta.
Bulma yawned, and stretched a little.
"Vegeta... I'm bored... There's nothing to do around here anymore..."
"So go buy a personality." Vegeta said as he stuffed his mouth with food.
"Geta!"
"Don't call me Geta, dammit onna!"
"I'll call you whatever I please!"
'She has no idea, that what she does is treason, and I doubt that she would care either, she has such a fiery passion that is matched be no one.' Vegeta thought.
"You are forbidden to call me anything but Prince Vegeta! It's my damn title!"
"I'll call you 'Prince Vegeta' when you call me Bulma! I'm sick and tired of 'onna this' and 'onna that'. Bulma is my damn name!"
They both glared at each other for a moment.
Bulma grinned inwardly as they verbally sparred.
'Minsa was right about him, you can get him to do what you want if you just butter him up the right way. Which means that he is... er.. human? But I love how he gets that look like he can see straight into your soul with his deep dark eyes.' Bulma thought.
Vegeta and Bulma both opened their mouths to continue, but suddenly there was a knock on the door.
Vegeta got up glaring at Bulma, who stuck her tongue out.
"What do you want?" Vegeta barked as he opened the door.
The guard bowed and handed Vegeta a letter.
"Prince, we thought you might like to know."
Vegeta shut the door in the guard's face and tore open the letter, and began to read.
(The next part is censored, because Vegeta says some REALLY bad stuff.)
"!@#$!@#$!@#$!@#$!@#$!@#$!@#!@$"
(Use your imagination to pretend what he said.)
"I knew that they never should have sent to that whore hole!"
Bulma looked up from the table.
"What the hell is the matter with you? You're kami damned language!"
"Shut up onna! Not now! I have more important things to attend to!"
"What's wrong Vegeta?" Bulma asked, suddenly nervous and standing up from the table.
"Something bad has happened to Minsa."
Bulma sunk back into her chair.
'No! Not Minsa!' her mind screamed.
"Then I'm coming with you." Bulma said firmly, looking up at Vegeta.
"What?!"
"Please Vegeta... Please?!"
"Fine! I don't have time to argue with you onna!" Vegeta snapped as he prepared to go out the door.
Bulma jumped up from the table and followed him out the door down to the hospital wing.
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When they returned, Bulma felt sick.
'No... that couldn't have been Minsa... not that feeble sick girl...no! I refuse to accept this!' Bulma's thoughts raced around her mind.
But she knew it was true, and while Vegeta when back to his bedroom, Bulma sat in the kitchen and cried her eyes out.
Suddenly Vegeta peered out of the bedroom.
"Onna... what's wrong?"
Bulma looked up, surprised at the concern in his voice.
"I'm scared for Minsa Vegeta! Who would do such an awful thing to her!?"
Vegeta walked across the room, and hesitated for a moment, before letting her cry on his shoulder. She threw her arms around him, she was shocked.
"Don't worry onna..." he said soflty. "Minsa is tough, she will pull through."
Bulma cried harder, and Vegeta put his arms tentatively around her, not sure if she would pull back or not.
"B-But Vegeta... that could have been anyone in that bed... Why Minsa? It could have been me instead..."
Vegeta took Bulma by the shoulders and pulled her out in front of him.
"Because I forbid to happen to you as long as you're with me."
Suddenly they were looking into each other's eyes. Bulma's perfect china blue tear-stained eyes meeting Vegeta's deep,dark coal black eyes.
And then without knowing what they were doing, they were both leaning forward, and were embraced in a passionate kiss.
'What the hell am I doing?!' Bulma thought for a moment, but then she couldn't concentrate on any thing but Vegeta's kiss, which felt so right. So perfect.
'What the hell am I doing?!' Vegeta thought for a moment, but then he too was lost in the kiss. He couldn't string two thoughts together, except for the fabulous woman in front of him.
Then it ended, and the two were looking at each other again.
Vegeta blinked for a moment, and then his body reacting on it's own again, he pulled her closer, and made a deeper, more intense kiss, and Bulma didn't pull away at all, nowing that was how things were supposed to be.
Author's Note: What a horrible, but yet wondeful chapter to write, huh? Anyway, poor Minsa, and that jack@$$ Riroku! Now guess who's going to get the blame for Minsa? And just when Vegeta and Bulma are getting together too! Anyway, review, or email to join my mailing list at vegetaztwin@hotmail.com