Falling Into You

Part Three

Goku arrived at Master Roshi's house the next day. There he found Master Roshi, Oolong and Krillin there. When they saw Goku, they cringe seeing his angry face. Yamcha told them how Goku and Chi-Chi reacted to finding out what they were doing and how angry Goku was.

"Um, Goku, I just have one thing to say," Oolong began. "It was all Master Roshi's fault!"

Master Roshi slapped Oolong with his magazine. "You're the one who wondered how Goku would perform!"

The Turtle Hermit and pig continued to argued until Goku had enough.

"Stop it!" Goku shouted getting Roshi and Oolong's attention. "I don't want to know who started it, but I don't want it to happen anymore. Chi-Chi was very hurt about what you all are doing."

"We're sorry, Goku," Krillin apologize. "It wasn't a right thing to do. I tried to tell them, but they wouldn't listen. They thought it would be fun."

Master Roshi scratched the back of his baldhead and laughed. "You know, once you look back at it a few years from now, you'd think it was a funny thing."

Goku shot Roshi a look that made the former world champion think twice about what he said.

Oolong snickered. "Yeah, just like you reading your magazines because you can't get—"

Master Roshi slapped the pig shut with his magazine. Oolong nodded rubbed the back of his head and growled.

Goku put on his cheerful smile. "Well, thanks. I'll see you guys later!" Goku said and left.

"Wow. Did you see how Goku reacted? He really does care for Chi-Chi and it's only been two months. I thought it would take a little longer…well, you know, considering how Goku doesn't catch onto things as easy as everyone else," Krillin commented.

"Yeah, from the way Yamcha described Goku's reaction when he saw Chi-Chi upset, I thought he'd fry us," Oolong added.

As Oolong watch Goku ride off on Nimbus, he folded his arms and looked at Roshi who was snickering. "And what's so funny?"

The old warrior snickered. "I told you getting some every now and then will change a guy."

Krillin rolled his eyes. "Oh, you are one sick man."

*****

The next week, Goku and Chi-Chi went on a camping trip, more of Goku's idea than Chi-Chi's. They were going to be gone for a week so they packed some clothes, a tent, camping material and some food, but not much though because Goku wanted to eat like the outdoorsman.

"Come on, Chi-Chi. It's real good. I promise. I even got rid of the hair."

Chi-Chi stared at the meat. She could not believe that when Goku said he was going to hunt for their dinner, he hunted for wolf. She thought he would bring a fish and she would cook it. Chi-Chi nearly screamed when she saw that Goku was carrying a dead wolf. She continued to watch as Goku skinned and cooked it before her very eyes over a hot fire. Now that it was done, Goku wanted her to have first bite.

She wanted to say, "No. Get that away from me." However, Chi-Chi did recall herself saying she would try it another time. She should have said she was allergic. She would've gotten off, but then Goku would get sad and she didn't like seeing him sad.

"All right. One bite."

Goku broke off a piece of wolf meat and handed it to her. Chi-Chi stared at it and then quickly put it in her mouth. The quicker she eats it, the quicker it would be forgotten. She chewed on it and swallows it fast. To her surprise, she found it to be very tasty.

"Well?" Goku asked expectantly.

"It tasted very well."

"Do you want another one?"

"Um, maybe a little bite since the piece you gave me was small."

Goku handed Chi-Chi a bigger piece. Before Chi-Chi got it, Goku pulled back. Chi-Chi looked at him expectantly. "I was wondering if you would like it if I feed you."

"What?"

"I saw Bulma feed Yamcha one time and he seem to have liked it and I wondered if you would like it."

Chi-Chi shrugged her shoulder. "Sure, I don't mind."

Goku broke a piece of the meat off and fed it to Chi-Chi. Chi-Chi didn't feel any different. She thought it was nice Goku would feed her but it was no big deal.

Chi-Chi took the meat from Goku. "My turn. Just don't bite my hand off," she joked. "Close your eyes." Goku closed his eyes. Chi-Chi swirled the piece of meat playfully around his mouth. He opens it, but Chi-Chi didn't put the meat in. Instead, she rubbed it across his lips. Goku licked the juices off the meat.

"Hey, no fair, Chi-Chi."

Chi-Chi giggled and kissed him instead. She pulled back and told Goku to keep his eyes closed. "If you want your food, you have to come get it from me and your eyes have to be closed." Chi-Chi said and ran off in the woods.

Goku smiled at the challenged and followed Chi-Chi with his eyes closed. He bumped into a few trees, but then remembering his training, he used his senses of touch, and strong sense of smell to alert him to Chi-Chi's presence.

"Gotcha!" Goku said triumphantly as he grabbed Chi-Chi by the waist. Her shriek confirmed he found his prize. Goku carried her back to the campfire.

"How did you find me so quick?"

"I could smell you. I know your scent."

"My scent?" Chi-Chi repeated as Goku set her in front of the fire.

"Yeah, I can smell you," Goku said sitting beside her. "It's a nice smell. Everyone I know has a different smell. Now can I have my food?"

Oh…kay that was weird. Chi-Chi ignored the fact Goku could smell different scents from people as if he was an animal. She put the wolf meat in his mouth. Goku smiled as he ate his food and sat back down on the ground. "Wolf meat is good, but I don't think it's as good as octopus."

"Octopus?!" Chi-Chi shrieked. "You ate an octopus?!"

"Yeah," Goku said as he munched on his food. "At first I didn't know what it was, but he was trying to eat me and I used my Kamehameha Wave on him. I was also hungry so I ate him. He was really good."

Chi-Chi felt as if she was going to be sick. She wasn't going to make the mistake like last time and asked how it taste because she knew exactly what he would do and she didn't want to eat an octopus. Still, she found it funny picturing innocent Goku that way, and as usual her curious mind was getting the better of her.

"What other animals have you eaten?"

Goku swallowed a large piece of wolf meat before answering. "I ate chicken, wolf, tiger—"

"You ate a tiger?!"

"Actually, three. For the 22nd World Martial Arts Tournament, I had to swim from Yahhoy to get to the island. When I did, I was hungry and climbed a tree to get some fruit. The three tigers surrounded me at the bottom of the tree. I thought they were hungry so I threw some fruit down for them, but they rocked the tree, knocking me down and attacked me. I was still hungry from my swim so I killed and ate them, and since they destroyed my clothes, I made new ones out of their skin."

He didn't say that. Goku did not say that. She would guess any other person would be running away right now saying Goku was not human, say that he was a monster. Chi-Chi was shocked and picturing him offering the fruit when they wanted to eat him almost made the story humorous, but there was something else. She was amazed.

"You're amazing."

"Huh?" Goku said with a mouthful of wolf meat.

"I mean, you're amazing, so incredibly strong," she said in awe. "There's no other word to describe it. You do all these incredible things and you don't think of it as a big thing when it is."

Goku just blinked and Chi-Chi moved even closer to him leaned against him. "I feel so safe with you, more than ever before."

Goku blinked again, unsure why Chi-Chi moved closer but he didn't mind. Over the past two and a half months, he liked it when Chi-Chi moved closer to him; feeling her skin pressed against his. When they would sleep, he would wake up with her draped over him or her legs entangled with his, he would like it and often put his arm around and bring her closer to him.

He liked being close to her and he liked her scent a lot and the feelings he was having for her were strange, but enjoyable. He would get weird flutters or rushes through his body when she smiled at him, hugged or kissed him and the feelings kept growing. He wondered if this love was like.

"Did you do this often with your grandfather—camping?" Chi-Chi asked looking at the stars.

Goku shook himself from his thoughts and smiled wistfully at her. "Yeah," he looked upwards at the night sky, too. "We camped a lot."

Chi-Chi tore her eyes from the sky and looked at him. "Do you miss him?"

Goku nodded. "Yes, but I was glad I got to say goodbye to him when Fortune Rattler Baba brought him back from the Other World."

Chi-Chi giggled. "Don't you mean Fortune Teller Baba?"

"Oh, yeah." Goku realized.

"How did you meet him again?"

"I was searching for all the Dragon Balls to wish back Upa's father since General Tao killed him. I got six of them but couldn't find the seventh one, so Master Roshi told us about Baba. Yamcha, Krillin, Puar, Upa and me went to her place. We couldn't afford her high price so we had to fight her five warriors. The last one was my Grandpa. I didn't know it at first, but after he pulled my tail off, he gave up and I learned it was him."

"He pulled your tail off? That had to have hurt."

Goku laughed. "Yeah, it did, but it didn't hurt so much when I learned it was my grandpa. I was so happy to see him again. It wouldn't have mattered if he pulled my tail all the time. I was just glad to see him again."

Chi-Chi smiled and placed a hand on his, squeezing it lightly. "You really did love him." She leaned her head against his shoulder. "It must have been horrible for you after you learned your grandfather died."

Goku was quiet for a moment before he spoke. "Yeah, I looked for him everywhere, but I couldn't find him. It had to have been that giant monkey that killed him."

"Giant monkey?" Chi-Chi inquired.

Goku looked at her. "Didn't you know on a full moon a giant monkey comes out and tramples over everything?" Chi-Chi shook her head. "I know it killed my grandpa. He always told me not to look at the moon."

Chi-Chi looked lost. "I never seen a giant monkey on a full moon. Why did your grandfather tell you not to look at the moon?"

Goku shrugged his shoulders. "I don't know. I guess he thought I would see it or that's what happens when you look at a full moon."

Chi-Chi started to ask Goku if he ever looked at the moon, but decided not to. She wasn't sure she wanted to know the answer. She thought back to when Goku was younger. He had a tail then, but he didn't have one now. Her eyes widen in horror. Was it him? Could Goku have killed his grandfather and not know it?

Goku noticed her expression. "Chi-Chi, are you all right? What's wrong?"

"Wrong?" Chi-Chi said in a shrilled voice. "No. Nothing's wrong. I was just thinking about your grandfather and how horrible it was to…" she stopped her words and just hugged her husband. "I'm sorry. I'm…sorry." She didn't know what else to say. Her mind was panicking. She could be hugging a man who turns into a giant monkey on full moons and killed his grandfather.

Goku wrapped his arms around her. "Hey, it's okay. I'm fine now. It's just that if I ever see that monkey, I'll kill him." Chi-Chi's eyes widen in horror again. She was glad Goku couldn't see her. "He won't hurt me or you. I promise you, Chi-Chi."

Chi-Chi seemed to relax. If this monkey existed, she didn't want to see him. She couldn't help but wonder if it was Goku or not that killed his grandfather.

"What about you?" Goku asked.

Chi-Chi snapped out of thoughts and looked at Goku. "What?"

"Your mother. Do you miss her?"

Chi-Chi leaned against him and held his hand tightly. "Yeah, I do. I don't really remember her though. She died when I was very young. After that, I was just close to my father, not making many friends. Not many like to spar like me. I felt so alone. That is, until I met you. I was drawn to you the moment we met.

"When I was a little girl, I saw this movie where this boy on a magic carpet won the heart of a princess. I always dreamed of my prince coming to rescue me on a magic carpet, but he didn't." She looked at Goku with shining eyes. "He rode in on a magic cloud. There was just something special about you Goku. Do you remember when we first met?"

Goku smiled. "How can I forget the only other person beside grandpa to pull my tail and made me lose my energy?" He chuckled. "You're one of the first people that didn't go weird when they saw I had a tail. Bulma looked pale to discover I had one."

Chi-Chi chuckled. "Well, you have to admit, it's not something you see everyday."

There was silence for a while. Chi-Chi looked up to discover that Goku was looking down at her smiling. Chi-Chi just smiled back. She felt his hand behind her head bringing her closer to him as he leaned down to kiss her.

The force of the kiss blew Chi-Chi away. She felt his other hand coming up behind her and pressing her against him. Chi-Chi relaxed and wrapped her arms around his neck. His fingers entangle her hair and her mouth opened against his. Chi-Chi wondered where this came from. She was the one to kiss him and when Goku did kiss her, it was always quick kisses on the cheek or lips not ones that knock you away with such power and intensity. Finally, Chi-Chi had to pull back from lack of oxygen. When she looked at Goku, he was smiling almost wickedly as he struggled to control his breath.

"Let's go to bed now."

Goku and Chi-Chi went in their tent and pulled back one of the three blankets they were sleeping on. Goku didn't like sleeping bags since he didn't look like he could move in it. Goku held Chi-Chi close to him as he waited for sleep to claim him. He had a goofy smile on his face like a teenage boy crazy about his girlfriend. Sleep soon claimed him and Chi-Chi was left to watch him and let hr thoughts wonder.

He looked so peaceful as he slept. Then again he was always at peace and happy when he was awake.

'Could you be that giant monkey, Goku? Could you have killed your grandfather? It seems unreal that a person like you could do something like that, but you probably weren't yourself if you were that monkey, were you?'

Chi-Chi reached out to push the spiky bangs away from his hair. She removed her fingers and the hair fell back in place across his forehead. Chi-Chi just smiled.

'There's such a mystery about you, Goku. What of your parents? You never mentioned them. Did you even know them? How did you come to be in your grandfather's care? You probably don't know the answer to these questions either, but you don't seem to make a big deal about it. Maybe I shouldn't either.'

Chi-Chi placed a soft kiss on Goku's cheek. He smiled. Chi-Chi felt as if she was falling in love with him all over again.

'I love you, Goku, but what if you turn into this giant monkey? Will I love you then? Hmp. Yes, I will. You won't turn into that monster, Goku. You're not that monster. You're my naïve husband who gets joy out of the simplest things in life.'

She suddenly frowned.

'I wonder if the tail makes you that giant monkey. What of our children then? What if they are born with a tail? It doesn't matter if they are. I'll love them anyway, and it could be a coincidence that Goku never saw the monster but his grandfather did. However, just to be sure, I think it would be best that our children not look at the moon and go to bed early.'

With that thought resolved, Chi-Chi snuggled closer to Goku and fell asleep.