Last time, the plane that the four was on crashed and Vegeta kept his promise to Bulma by not flying, making them stranded in a place that they have no idea about.
Stranded.
Chapter 4.
Chi-Chi's Big Plan.
"Well, you can't just go off by yourself. I think we should have a competition. A married couple versus two people who hate each other, in the wild for two weeks." Chi-Chi said.
"What?" Vegeta asked. "Are you saying that I should pair up with Bulma for the two weeks?"
"Yes. And not just pair up with her, I mean live with her for the next two weeks. You have to build a shelter, eat together and take care of each other."
"What? Are you insane?" Bulma asked.
"We'll keep the shared stuff in this cave and sleep in here until the shelters are built. Goku and I will make a different shelter somewhere else. So, what do you say?"
"Or are you weak?" Goku asked, trying to egg them on.
"I am not weak, Kakarot!" Vegeta snapped.
"Is that a yes?" Chi-Chi asked.
"Yes." Vegeta said.
"What?" Bulma asked. "I didn't agree to it."
"I just did for you." Vegeta said.
"Jerk."
"This is going to be good." Goku said. "I'm going further into the cave to get dressed. Bye." He said. He picked up his stuff and walked further into the cave. He stopped when he could barely hear everyone talking and got changed faster then the eye could see. He walked back and Vegeta took his turn, then Bulma, then Chi-Chi.
"I think we should spend this day looking around the place for somewhere to set up." Chi-Chi said. Everyone agreed and walked off.
"Why did you agree for me?" Bulma asked Vegeta.
"Because I am not a wimp and don't want to turn out like one because you didn't want to team up with me."
"Fine then." Bulma said. She crossed her arms, resulting in her wrist hurting again.
"You're lucky Kakarot got the first aid kit for that."
"It's just broken. Nothing much."
"I know. I just don't know how a human woman would take care of it."
"Well, we take care of it perfectly."
"It doesn't show. You've hurt it twice already." Vegeta said. They walked for a little while longer and found themselves at a lake.
"Wow. It's beautiful." Bulma said. She looked around as did Vegeta and sat underneath a tree.
"I think you just found our shelter." Vegeta said. He looked above her to see that the tree was large and had really flat branches. (A:N Much like Rafikis' house in The Lion King. J) "You could build a whole house up there. And you're right near a lake, a good water source. It might even have some fish in it."
"Good. We should get stuff to build it with." Bulma said. Vegeta walked over to a fallen tree and picked it up.
"We could cut it into some pieces to make walls and a floor."
"Sure, okay. I'll get some more branches."
"Okay." Vegeta said, putting the tree back down and he started to go at it.
Half a minute later, he had at least twenty logs. He placed them across the branches of the tree as the floor. Bulma returned with five or so braches half the size of what Vegeta needed, but he put them to use as the floor. After ten minutes, they had a floor and half a wall.
"How do you think Chi-Chi and Goku's doing?" Bulma asked Vegeta when they took a break for Bulma.
"I don't know. I hope they're not as far as we are. Actually, if they are, then they should spend tonight in their shelter, that way I wont have to hear Kakarot snore like he did last night, and I really need some sleep."
"Okay. If you need your sleep, then we should hurry up." Bulma said. She grabbed another plank that she had collected and climbed back up the tree to the floor that was very stable and she started to weave a vine through it and four others so she had five planks of wood woven together to make a strong wall. She picked it up and placed it next to three other groups that Vegeta had previously made and put together. Vegeta climbed up with seven more pieces in his arms and they started to work on them. After an hour or so, they had a tree house with four complete walls and half a roof when they realised that they didn't have a door or windows. They took out half of five planks at the front to make a door and then kept the cut out part as the door so they could push it away and then while Bulma cut the holes that were to be the windows, Vegeta went back to the ruined plane to get some glass.
"Oh, Vegeta." Goku said when he saw him near the plane with the glass and a couple of blankets that he found in one of the planes cupboards in his arms.
"Kakarot, why are you here?"
"I was getting the same thing as you. Chi-Chi wanted a glass door, windows and even a skylight. Why were you there?"
"We just needed it for the windows. So how are you going? How big is your shelter?"
"Please. We are just gathering everything."
"What? Bulma and I have built everything but one half of the roof and the windows. We're also going to add an elevator that
Bulma's going to make, some beds, a fireplace, some furniture and two of the four fridges you saved."
"Wow. How could you have made so much already?"
"We found a lake and a large tree near it and decided to make the shelter in the tree. Where's yours going to be?"
"Near the cave. There's a ridge near it and we thought that we could use it."
"It took you that long to find a ridge near the cave that we started off at?"
"Well, yeah."
"I guess that means that you'll be sleeping in the cave tonight."
"Yeah. It looks like you're prepared for the night."
"I can't see why you haven't done anything yet. Bulma has a broken wrist and I can't fly. You and your mate are in great health and you haven't even started." Vegeta grunted.
"She isn't my mate. She is my wife."
"Why use human turns? You are a Saiyan and a Super Saiyan at that."
"Goku! Hurry up!" Chi-Chi screamed.
"You heard her. I better go." Goku said, walking towards the plane.
Vegeta continued in his direction until he heard Bulma scream. He ran off in the direction until he got to the tree house where he found Bulma at the base of the tree unconscious and a bear drinking at the lake. He smirked and blasted at the bear, leaving a hole in the ground right near it. The bear ran away and Vegeta went over to Bulma. He put the glass and blankets on the ground and picked up Bulma and carried her up the tree.
Bulma woke up hours later on a thing that seemed to be a mattress. She propped herself up on her elbow and looked around. She saw that there were no more holes in the roof and the glass windows had been fitted in. And then she saw Vegeta asleep on the other side of the 'mattress'. She smiled to herself and lay back on her bed as she stared at the fire that Vegeta had made. It was right in the middle of the house and was on stones so the tree wouldn't catch on fire.
"Don't get used to it." Vegeta grunted. She sat back up and smiled at him. "What exactly did you do, Woman?"
"I climbing up the tree when I heard the bear. It scared me and I fell off. Did you make this?" Bulma asked, pointing to the mattress.
"Yeah. It's a blanket that I found in the plane stuffed with grass. I was in the middle of my one when I fell asleep. I also finished the house, as you can see."
"How long did it take you?"
"Just a while. Kakarot and his mate, or 'wife' as he put it has only managed to find a ridge near the cave and hadn't started on making it a house when I ran into him. By the way, you did more damage to your wrist and the food is very nice."
"Good to know. Did you leave any for me?"
"Yes. I did." Vegeta said, standing up to show her the two fridges that he told Goku that he was going to keep. He then grabbed one of his bags and walked towards the door that he had fixed so perfectly while Bulma was unconscious.
"Where are you going?"
"To bathe." He said. He walked out the door and jumped out of the high tree and landed flawlessly by the lake. He started to move further down the lake so he was out of Bulma's sight.
Bulma got up and started to look around. She saw what Vegeta had done to finish the house and then walked over to one of the fridges and took out a capsule that had a picture of sweet and sour chicken with fried rice (my fav ^_^) and then read the instructions that said to heat for four minutes. She did as it said and sat watching it on the mattress that Vegeta had made. Then her dinner was finally ready. She ate it just as Vegeta walked back into the tree house.
His hair was still wet, making it stay down to his shoulders. He brushed a single strand that was in his eyes and then powered up so it would dry.
"You had to do that, didn't you?"
"Why?"
"Because you looked kinda cute." Bulma giggled. He blushed and she giggled some more.
"Shut up woman." Vegeta scowled. "What's the time?" Bulma looked at her watch that was buried under all bandages on her
left wrist.
"It's 11:56."
"I'm going to sleep."
"But you only managed to make one mattress, that I am sleeping on."
"Fine then." Vegeta said. He grabbed the half mattress and some blankets and put them on the floor next to the fire and then laid down on them. "This will do."
"How can you sleep on that?"
"I've had to sleep on the floor before."
"I guess no sleep and what I call hard times is a holiday for you."
"Yes."
"Goodnight." Bulma said, crawling back into her bed. Vegeta threw one of his blankets over to her and then curled up so he
was comfortable.
"Goodnight, Woman." He said. Bulma soon fell asleep, while Vegeta stared at the fire.
After a while, he looked around at the place that he was to call home for the next two weeks. It was okay. It reminded him of the training camp. He had to always had to make one for his group to toughen him up. It was easy for him to make this one. It didn't have to be too sturdy and he didn't have any demands or had to make any changes. Instead, his 'partner' was unconscious while he made everything. He didn't mind that. He didn't have to listen to her whine, which was a first. But still, she wasn't demanding. And then he looked over to her, sleeping so quietly.
* Flashback *
Once Vegeta had taken Bulma up the tree, he put her down near the door and gathered up all the stuff that he had put down by the tree trunk and grabbed out the blankets. He put two across her body and then took two more blankets and walked out of the house again.
He walked for a while when he got to a field of long grass and he started to gather some. Once he was able to fill the bags that he had made out of the blankets with grass, he turned back to the tree house.
When he got there, he saw that Bulma's wrist had swelled up and he took it to bandage it up. Once he was done, he looked around and saw that the house was still missing some parts, so he fixed it up with the windows and a new door. After all that was done, he sat down next to Bulma and started to muck around with a double bed blanket and then stuffed it with some grass.
Ten minutes passed and he had finished stuffing one blanket. He gently picked Bulma up and placed her on her new 'bed'.
'So content, when she's not screeching at me. So…pretty.' He thought. Before he knew it, his face was leaning in closer to hers and he gently kissed her on the lips. 'What the hell did I just do? Am I insane?'
He leaned back up and started to work on the second blanket. He got half of it done when he fell asleep with his head resting on the mattress next to her bandaged arm.
* End Of Flashback *
'It was just temporary insanity. Nothing more. Stop looking at her!' Vegeta thought. He mentally bashed himself on the head. He closed his eyes and slowly fell asleep.
"Hey, Vegeta!" Goku called from the base of the tree to wake them up. "Get up! You too, Bulma!"
"Be quiet, Goku." Bulma demanded. She was already awake and was coming back from her bath that she took while Vegeta was still asleep. "Vegeta has needed sleep for a long time. So shut up."
"Okay. I just thought he might have wanted to fish with me."
"He probably wouldn't. Do you mind giving me a lift?" Bulma asked, pointing up to the tree house.
"Sure." Goku said. He grabbed her and flew up to the door. "May I come in to see your house?"
"Yeah. Where's Chi-Chi?"
"She's still asleep, but she'll probably be angry when I get back."
"You're a brave man." Bulma laughed as she walked through the doorway.
"Wow. Your place is great. Did you make this?"
"Vegeta did most of it. It was really funny how we got around to half of the things on the roof. Because he couldn't fly, he had to put me up on his shoulders while I put everything in place."
"Sounds like fun."
"So how are you and Chi-Chi going?"
"Great. We have made half of our place."
"When are you going to shut up, Kakarot?" Vegeta asked. He threw the half mattress at their heads, but they ducked.
"Someone isn't a morning person." Goku said.
"Yes well, you didn't have to put up with what I had to last night."
"I'm sorry. Did I snore?" Bulma asked.
"No. Just some weird things went through my mind."
"Okay. Just as long as it wasn't me."
"So how are you two handling each other?" Goku asked.
"The woman was unconscious for most of yesterday so I didn't have to put up with her." Vegeta said.
"You were unconscious?"
"Yes. I fell out of the tree and did more damage to my wrist." Bulma said.
"Oh, I have an idea. Lets see if you can go one day without hurting yourself." Vegeta groaned. Bulma crossed her arms in front of her chest and stuck her tongue out.
"Huh, you two are going to get along perfectly." Goku joked.
"What are you doing here, anyway, Kakarot?" Vegeta asked.
"I wanted to know if you wanted to go fishing."
"Like I would. We have enough food with the capsuled food."
"Fine then." Goku said, jumping out of the tree and landing in the exact spot that Vegeta did when he went out to bathe. "Bye!"
"Bye, Goku!" Bulma said as she watched him walk away. "Saiyans are exactly the same."
"What do you mean? Kakarot is one hundred percent innocent and wouldn't know anything like I would, meaning that he's
the complete opposite of me."
"That's not what I meant. He landed on the exact spot that you did when you jumped out last night."
"So?"
"I mean that you judge things the same way."
"We do not."
"Yes you do."
"Whatever." Vegeta said. He got out of his 'bed' and grabbed the half mattress that he had thrown before and started to fill it up with the rest of the grass he had. Soon he had his own mattress.
"So that's what you made when I was out of it?"
"Yes."
"So did you enjoy your sleep?"
"Yes, I did."
"I think I should go and start on a ladder or something so I don't have to have either you or Goku have to throw me up or fly
me up here."
"Kakarot flew you up?" Vegeta asked as if she was his territory by accident.
"Yes, why?"
"Never mind. Hurry up and get out of here so I can get dressed."
"Okay." Bulma said as she tried to climb out of the tree. Vegeta rolled his eyes and walked over to her.
"Grab on." He said as he turned his back to her.
"What?"
"Grab on to me from my neck and I'll jump you down."
"No."
"Just do it. You'll get down faster." He said. Then he felt her arms slip around his neck. "Hang on tight. I don't want you going off as soon as we leave." He felt her arms tighten and then he jumped off and landed near the base of the tree. She let go of him and he jumped back up the tree.
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