So here it is! The last part, I promise. Drat! This was supposed to be my jumping off fic, a short one-shot. Oh well.
Neko-chan, 5th CLAMP author. I'm so honored! And your fic really was good.
Chrystaline, just read your 2nd review, thanks so much!!! If you liked the second part you'll probably love this part, hopefully. And yes I will read the epic you will *soon* post.
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Dream a little dream
Part 3
By Nitte iz
He stared.
She was beautiful, like she had always been, but more importantly it was her. The woman, she was right there and that was no dream.
"One day."
He hadn't realized when she answered, well avoided, his question, she meant literally! That he would know who she was in one day, the Bukodai!
He let his eyes drift down her figure; oh she was definitely there…in the flesh. And quite nicely too, he noted absently, taking in her lithe form and excellent fighting form.
The woman flushed with anger, mistaking his absorption as a sign of his ignoring her tirade. The glow in her cheek and spark in her eyes was positively alluring to the young Saiyan across from her.
"She's even more beautiful when angry." Goku silently agreed with the assertion, but resolved to find out why exactly she was so upset. First things first though.
"Who are you?" he asked. However the woman only got angrier.
"How dare you Son Goku! How could you forget me! You promised-" but without completing the sentence, she charged him in a flurry of fists and kicks. Startled, she got one kick in before he went on defense, mechanically dodging her attacks.
Instinctively he knew that she was not referring to his dreams. No, she had not been that woman, well she had, but… Well he didn't really know, but that woman had been older, different.
He frowned slightly. He still didn't know who she was or what promise she was referring to. Had she met him somewhere? He racked his brain, but no one fit the image of the raven beauty fighting him, rather aggressively, one might add.
Determined to get answers, he phased out, the woman sputtering in shock when he simply disappeared. Within a moment though he was back, trapping her from behind.
"Now who are you? And what promise did I make to you?" he asked exasperated. Unconsciously, he took in her scent, slightly sweaty from her exertions, but indefinably…good.
The image returned to his head from the night before. The little black-haired girl. Tugging his tail. Sitting on the Nimbus. Giggling under an apple tree.
"ChiChi?" he muttered as if in a trance. The first dream, it had come on the night he first met her! His reverie was then broken by her furious voice.
"So now you remember me! I guess you don't remember your promise, but you made it to me Goku! I'm not going to let you break it!" She struggled against his hold. He tightened it.
"What did I promise? And no, I have no intention of breaking it." ChiChi calmed slightly. A lump clogged her throat.
"You promised me, you promised me we'd get married." The words out, she stilled in his arms. Goku frowned.
"Married? Isn't that a food?" ChiChi's eyes shot open in shock. Food?!?!? She'd waited for six years, come to this tournament for food?!?!? In blind rage, she broke his hold and elbowed him powerfully in the gut.
"You, you-" she was too angry to even articulate and rained him with blows. Startled by her sudden fury, he backed up quickly.
Bulma slapped her forehead. Food? Oh man, she knew she should've given him some lessons on normal life. She cupped her hands to give a little help to the clueless warrior. "Marriage is when two people in love become husband and wife, er permanent boyfriend and girlfriend!"
Goku nearly froze, but had to move to block ChiChi's vicious right hook.
Love?!?!?!?!
"Will you love me…forever?"
"She's mine…forever."
"I will try."
"One day, she will be yours."
"Promise me that you will always try."
"I love him and so even if he makes sad, I'm still going to keep him."
"What is love?"
"Love, no true love, is wanting to be with one person the rest of your life. To protect, to hold each night, to wake up with every morning, to stay by their side when they have a really high fever and throw up a lot, and to do it even when you don't feel like it all the time. And whenever you think of getting old, seeing that one person as sitting next to you, beautiful with all their wrinkles and white hair."
"One day."
Words rushing through his head, Goku jumped into the air and stared at ChiChi. Flabbergast, ChiChi's jaw dropped before her rage retook her.
"Get down here you coward!" she yelled.
He stared down at her. She was beautiful and soon…she would be his. The thought sent a shock down his spine. He never broke his promises and as he watched her fiery spirit rail at him, he remembered the feel of her in his arms. The way she had slumped in his arms after finally telling what promise had he made unknowing, almost broken. The smell he had remembered, yet was now utterly different in some enticing way. The way she fought so passionately. There was much more to this woman…and he was looking forward to finding out just what.
"Okay." ChiChi blinked at his sudden response, but before she could really register the acquiesce, she was blown out of the ring. Goku touched down and walked over to her as the announcer declared his victory, visually making sure she was unhurt. Satisfied he looked straight into her startled eyes. "We'll get married after I finish this last match." Ah yes, Piccolo. He'd almost forgotten about his nemesis.
Grinning, he helped her up, in time to see her face flush again, though from embarrassment or the return of her anger he couldn't say. He couldn't help but take another good sniff of her, unaware of ChiChi's darkened flush at his close proximity. He opened his eyes and they locked, onyx to midnight. So close.
"Mine?"
"One day, you will hunger for her more than any food…or any fight."
That strange twist to his stomach was back, but he didn't know what to do about it. But he was going to find out.
Just one more fight and he'd be able to find out exactly why she made him feel so weirdly and why exactly he was so looking forward to her being his. Him being hers.
He smiled again and walked away, leaving a rather flustered and bewildered ChiChi.
Who knew fulfilling that promise to his dream woman would be so easy?
Funny, he knew nothing about marriage, only that he'd be with her. To find out all her secrets, to protect her, to grow old with her, to hold unto her even when she was sick, and apparently to fight with.
Funny. That didn't seem so bad.
And I dreamt a little dream
Only just a kid
But still I remember
Forever, you and me.
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So good? Poem's mine, not very good, but I thought it up in like thirty seconds.
I almost had Goku and ChiChi kiss, but I liked the direction it ended up going and that would've really changed it.
Finally finished!!!! Thanks to all you lovely reviewers, I will post again soon.
Well toodles!
Nitte iz
