"Close But No Cigar"

I'm back, and I'm ready to rock! I know I'm corny, but you should have known that by now. This chapter is going to be kind of romantic; Awki is going to show her soft side to Goten. Anyway, enough of my inane babble and on to the story.

Disclaimer: Me no own.

Chapter 7: Crush

Awki began to power up as she tried to size up how strong the robots that Bulma had produced her in the gravity room. She figured they were somewhat strong, but quickly changed her mind when the nearest robot was knocked over by the force of just her powering up.

"You look like you could use a decent sparring partner." Goten said.

Awki jumped, she hadn't known that Goten had been watching her.

"I didn't know you were even in here." Awki admitted.

"Not many notice my existence."

"You poor baby." Awki said as she rolled her eyes at his pathetic attempt to make her pity him.

"Well, that didn't go as planned." Goten muttered to himself.

"Oh? And what was it you had planned?" Awki asked. When she saw the startled look on Goten's face she quickly explained. "I am the daughter of Vegeta, I do have super sensitive saiyan hearing as well."

"Right, well, I uh… um…" Goten stuttered.

"What do you want, Goten? I haven't got all day." Awki asked irritably.

"Here goes. Awki, will you go on a date with me?" Goten asked nervously.

Awki looked at Goten as though he had just asked her to marry him. She couldn't believe he had the nerve to ask her on a date, they hardly knew each other.

"Uh, I guess I could do that. As long as it's not a date date, I'd hate to have to explain that to my father." Awki said, but then she realized that it shouldn't matter what Vegeta said, he was never there for her before, why should she have to ask his permission now? "Goten, I will go on a date with you."

"A date date?" Goten asked uncertainly.

"Yes, a date date." Awki laughed to reassure Goten.

"Cool, uh, it will be a fancy restaurant, so you might want to wear something nice."

"Ah, darn, you mean I can't wear my fighting outfit?" Awki joked. Little did she know that anything she said he thought she was serious.

"Well, ok, I guess you could wear that if you wanted to." Goten said, his cheeks reddening.

"Goten, I was kidding." Awki said bewildered that anybody could ever be so thickheaded.

"Oh right. Well, the limo will pick you up at seven o clock tomorrow night." Goten said.

"Wait a second, you had a limo all ready planned? How'd you know I was going to say yes?" Awki asked.

"Well, Trunks said that no girl could resist my sex appeal, so I figured you would probably say yes." Goten said innocently.

Awki began to laugh. She couldn't believe Trunks had told this poor, stupid creature that he even had the slightest sex appeal. 'Wait, if he doesn't have a sex appeal, then what attracts me to him?' Awki asked herself mentally.

Goten looked rather confused as he walked out the door. He didn't know what had been so funny, but he had a feeling that he had just said something that made him sound really stupid.

"Well at least Trunks was being a nice friend by telling him he had a sex appeal. He better not think he can get me in bed with it though." Awki said to herself.

Awki heard a shuffling in the back of the GR and quickly found out who it was. An energy blast rang through the GR as Vegeta attacked Awki with a great amount of force. Awki easily dodged it and called for her father to come out and talk, instead of attack.

Vegeta emerged looking very disgruntled. He stalked over to Awki with a scowl in the place of his normal smirk. Awki prepared herself for the worst, she figured Vegeta was probably really angry with her because he hadn't even bothered to make sure she was all right.

"You didn't even ask my permission to go on a date. Do you know who that is? It's Kakkarot's brat, you know I despise Kakkarot, and I won't have my daughter fooling with his riff raff of a son. He won't ever be able to protect you, what on Earth is your attraction to him?" Vegeta said enraged.

"Dad, I don't need your permission to go out on a date with a guy that I like. And secondly, I don't care who his father is and if you like him or not, It's not your place to choose who I can and cannot date. I don't care if he can protect me or not, I'll do all the protecting, he can lounge around and drink beer all day for all I care. Any other questions that you need to know the answers of? Are you done nosing around in my life yet?" Awki said irritably.

Vegeta looked rather taken aback. He did his little humph, and walked off.

Awki couldn't believe it, not only was she going on her first date ever, but she had totally told her father off in the meantime. Awki's body filled with excitement as she began to fantasize about the night ahead of her.

Bulma strolled in and asked Awki if she had seen Vegeta, but quickly asked another question when she saw the look on Awki's face.

"What on earth are you so excited about?" Bulma asked Awki curiously.

"Let's just say I feel like Cinderella going to the ball." Awki explained.

*fin

~S saiyan Vegeta4013