Obsession

Part One

Ten years later

Chi-Chi sighed dejectedly as she took a seat at the kitchen table. Goku and Gohan were off training with Piccolo in preparation for the Androids and she was at home by herself again.

She was bored to put it simple. The dinner was cooking on the stove and in the oven, the clothes has been washed, dried and put up and the rest of the house was clean. She wished Goku or Gohan was here to keep her company. She missed seeing her men play together or spend time with her. She remembered in better times, the family would sit around the table and play games like Monopoly or Uno, or just go out together in the city to the park or beach. Those days were gone now they were busy training for Androids who threatened to destroy the Earth and kill all the Z fighters.

The thought of that still made her shudder in fear. To think all of them including Piccolo, Vegeta and Gohan would die by them and her Goku killed by a stupid virus. It almost seemed unreal, but Chi-Chi wasn't going to take a chance on thinking it was unreal. After everything she's seen in her life, anything was possible.

A knock at the door disturbed Chi-Chi from her thoughts. Who could that be? She doesn't get any visitors unless it was her father, Goku's friends or some salesman. She opened the door and saw a man standing there. He was tall, about the same height as Goku, but not as built, green eyes and red hair.

"May I help you?" Chi-Chi asked.

The man laughed. "It's been ten years and you're just as pretty as ever."

Chi-Chi raised her eyebrows in confusion. "Who are you?"

"You don't recognize me, huh? I guess a decade will do that to you, but it's me, Chi-Chi. Kobi."

Chi-Chi looked the man over. He did have a resemblance to the man she knew ten years ago, but was it really him? "Kobi, is that really you?"

"Yes, it's me."

Chi-Chi smiled and gave the man a hug. "Kobi, how have you been? Come in."

Chi-Chi leads Kobi inside to sit at the kitchen table while she poured some coffee for the two of them. "So, tell me. How have you been?" Chi-Chi said giving him a cup and setting one in front of herself as she sat down.

"Can't complain. My books are on the best seller list."

"Books?" Chi-Chi said surprised. "So you've become an author after all. What's your genre?"

"Horror and fantasy. I'm very big in the stories of sorcery. Too bad they're not real."

That's what you think, Chi-Chi said to herself. "I always thought you would go into fighting and become a professional martial artist and build a school."

"That was my intention, but while I was in school, I had a life changing experience that drew me to writing about dark magic, fantasy and horror. Thanks to that, I'm a very rich man." He drunk some of his coffee and set it down. "So, you married Goku I assume."

Chi-Chi smiled brightly. "Yes, and we have a wonderful son, Gohan."

Kobi didn't seem that impressed. He looked around. "So, where are your husband and son?"

"They're out training," Chi-Chi said nonchalantly.

He looked surprised. "Training? How old is your son?"

"Gohan's nine."

Kobi nodded. Seem about the right age for a child to learn about the marital arts. "Is your marriage of what you hoped?"

Chi-Chi shrugged. "Not exactly. I guess it's a little different from other marriages, but I'm still very happy. I mean, not every woman can say they married the strongest man in the universe."

"Universe?" He quirked his eyebrow. "Aren't you stretching that, Chi-Chi?"

Chi-Chi chuckled. "You don't know my Goku. He's a lot stronger than he was at the last Martial Arts Tournament and faced stronger opponents, so it's very safe to say that my Goku is the strongest man in the universe."

That's what you think, Kobi thought. "Fighting strong opponents doesn't leave him much time to spend with you."

Chi-Chi frowned at that. "Well, he does be gone a lot because of the fighting but that's the sacrifice one makes when you marry a man like Goku and it's really for the good of mankind."

"And you're happy with that?"

Chi-Chi folded her hands on the table. "Happy about Goku leaving? No. I rather he stay here, but he has to do it. Sometimes, I might not show it, but I'm very proud of what he does and who he is," Chi-Chi smiled and looked as if she wanted to change the subject. "Enough about me. Tell me about yourself. Have you married?"

Kobi shook his head. "No. I've been too busy with my books and researching for the next one. This is the first time in a long time I've had a break. One day, I was working in my office thinking of my next book, maybe about a princess, and then I thought of you, daughter of the Ox King. I wondered what happened to you. Your father told me you had married Goku like you said you would and was living here so I decided to look you up." He put a hand over hers. "I'm hurt you haven't read any of my books or contacted me."

Chi-Chi made an apologetic look. "I'm sorry, Kobi, but I've been rather busy with a husband and son. As for your books, I'm not into reading horror, fantasy and all that magic." I get enough of that in my life to read it, Chi-Chi thought. She tried to pull her hand away but Kobi held onto it firmly.

Kobi looked insistently at Chi-Chi. "What about your husband and son? Perhaps they would be interested in it."

Chi-Chi giggled. "Gohan reads educational books. He's going to be a scholar and my husband doesn't read much." The timer on the stove went off and Chi-Chi pulled her hand away to go to the stove and put on her oven mittens and pulled out her two large chickens that were cooking in the oven. She laid the pan on the counter and checked on her stew on the stove. She took out a spoon to taste it. Ah, it was done. Chi-Chi looked out the window and figured Goku and Gohan would be home soon now that dinner is ready. She turned around and saw Kobi standing behind her.

"Kobi, what are you doing?" Chi-Chi asked startled.

"I thought I'd give you a hand." He looked over at the cooked food—two large chickens, a large crock pot full of stew, twenty large rolls, a pot full of rice and a large bowl of salad Chi-Chi was now taking out of the refrigerator.  "Are you throwing a dinner party?"

"Huh?" Chi-Chi said confused as she placed the salad on the table.

"The food," Kobi pointed at the food everywhere.

Chi-Chi laughed. "Oh, this is for my husband and son. They eat a lot." Chi-Chi moved passed him as she got the dishes down from the cabinet.

"You cook like this everyday?" Kobi asked.

"Yes."

"Whoever my wife will be won't have to worry about that. I have cooks, staff and a fabulous house. She would be waited on hand and foot instead of her waiting on others."

"Good for your future wife," Chi-Chi said nonchalantly, "but she may be bored. What would she do if she's being waited on?"

"Spend time with me of course," Kobi said proudly.

"But I thought you were a workaholic. You said yourself you spent all your time writing and researching for your books," Chi-Chi said as she set the table.

"That won't be a problem for I will quit writing when I marry. I've enough money for my grandchildren to live off of, but what about you? You haven't told me what Goku does for a living."

Chi-Chi began taking the glasses down from the cabinet and placing them on the table. "My husband is a fighter. We've been living off the money he won from the tournament quite well."

"But that was ten years ago," Kobi sputtered.

Chi-Chi looked at him with no expression on her face. "I know and we still have plenty of it left. We don't blow our money. We only use it for food mainly, clothes and whatever else we need at the time. The last time we spent a lot of money was to buy a car."

"What happens if you run out of money? What then?" Kobi asked curiously.

It bothered her that Kobi would ask such questions. She doesn't get this from her father so why was he curious about her financial state? "If we ran out of money, I'm confident my Goku would provide for us," Chi-Chi said slightly irritated at his interrogations.

"But you're a princess, Chi-Chi. You should be living in a castle or a mansion like your father's home and wearing the finest of clothes and let others wait on you."

Chi-Chi began putting the salad on the salad plates at the table. She went to the refrigerator to get the dressing and pour it on the salad. As she did this she told him,  "I could've married a rich man, lived in a big house, wear the best clothes, but what good would that be for me when I don't have love and I can only get that from Goku."

Kobi kept himself from rolling his eyes at Chi-Chi. She was in love with Goku more than ever. It didn't matter to him. Chi-Chi would be his. Kobi put an arm around Chi-Chi and smiled as he pulled her close to him. "You can also get it from the love I have for you."

At that moment, the door opened and Goku and Gohan walked in, happy and tired from their day of training.

"Hey, Chi-Chi, what's going on?" Goku asked as he and Gohan stepped in the house.