Chapter 17 People I need to know... Do I update enough? Tell me in a review or email me at Snowmiss2222@yahoo.com Disclaimer- the song Torn and Dragon ball are not mine. ~

"ChiChi! Where are you?" Bulma called from the back door. "I'm in the kitchen Bulma! What is it?" ChiChi called back.

"Could you come here for a moment?"

"How about you come here? I'm washing the floor!"

"All right!" Bulma sighed 'Does that woman ever do anything besides clean?' She walked into the kitchen brushing some of the dirt that had been clinging to her spandex top.

"ACK! Bulma! What are you doing? I just washed the floor!" ChiChi freaked.

"Uh-sorry, I asked you to come outside. But no! You have to polish a floor that's already spotless number 1. And number two it's not even YOUR own floor!"

"You could have at least said-" ChiChi started but was cut off by Bulma.

"Forget it!" she interjected with a wave of her hand and was about to go back outside when ChiChi called back. "Is there something that you wanted to ask me?"

"Oh! Yeah! I forgot! Whoops!" she laughed nervously, looking down at the once sparkly floor making triangles with her fingertips.

"Well, spit it out!" ChiChi said and threw her mop into the broom closet.

"I really..." Bulma said now making her way to a chair because her legs were trembling and could give at any moment.

"Really what?" ChiChi said extending her hands and rotating them for exaggeration.

"Uh- oh boy?" Bulma pulled a loose strand of hair behind her ear.

"Ask me now or else I won't even listen!" ChiChi said bending down grabbing some cleaning products from under the sink.

"Okay!" she screamed in frustration. Then her voice dropped to a mumble "How did you know that you were in love with Goku? But don't say there were no doubts because that won't help in this situation!"

"You want to know of your in love with Yamcha?" ChiChi asked slyly.

"No it has nothing to do with Yamcha!" Bulma retorted.

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~!@#$%^&**&^%$#@!~ I thought I saw a man brought to life He was warm he came around like he was dignified He showed me what it was to cry Well you couldn't be that man I adored You don't seem to know - or seem to care what your heart s for I don't know him anymore There's nothing where he used to lie My conversation has run dry That's what's going on Nothing's fine I'm torn ~!@#$%^&**&^%$#@!~

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Yamcha groaned and stirred in his sleep. 'Man am I hungry' he thought. He looked over to the plate of soup ChiChi had offered him. He asked himself why he didn't eat it earlier. He shrugged and wiggled out of bed and looked at the soup 'Probably cold now. Where's a microwave when you need one?' he mentally groaned. He picked up the cold bowl of chicken noodle and made his way to the kitchen. As he got closer he got lighter on his footsteps because he heard what he thought was a light conversation. "Bulma" he uttered under his breath and pressed his ear tentivly to the wall and listened to what they were saying...

"How did you know that you were in love with Goku? But don't say there were no doubts because that won't help in this situation!" he heard a muffled voice which he recognized as Bulma's.

"You want to know of your in love with Yamcha?" was ChiChi's reply.

He felt his heart leap in his throat... There was still a chance! Still a chance she loved him. He was totally overwhelmed with all types of emotions. To bad it only lasted a second.

"No it has nothing to do with Yamcha!"

His heart dropped to his stomach and the bowl of soup fell to the floor. He backed out of the hallway slowly.

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~!@#$%^&**&^%$#@!~ I'm all out of faith, this is how I feel I'm cold and I am shamed Lying naked on the floor Illusion never changed Into something real I'm wide-awake and I can see the perfect sky is torn You're a little late I'm already torn ~!@#$%^&**&^%$#@!~

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"What was that!?" Bulma and ChiChi screamed in unison. "It was from the hall!" Bulma replied getting out of her chair and running toward the doorway. Her eyes shot around like mad broncos and she noticed a shattered bowl on the floor and looked up and saw and orange blur turn the corner. 'He heard me!" was all she could think and took off after him and in the back round from when she heard ChiChi's horrified cry "THE CARPET!"

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She followed him out of the house and caught up to him surprisingly easily. "Yamcha! Wait... I can explain!"

He turned around and faced her "No."

"No?"

"I don't want your damn explanation!" he shouted back enraged. Bulma was taken back. She had always been the one that had said that line and now she was on the other end of things she didn't like it, not one bit.

"All right. Never mind" she sighed. She had let a big chip of her pride fall but she knew that that would work because every time she said that she didn't want an explanation she really did. She turned around and let her eyes water freely as she went.

"Wait!" he called her back extending his hand.

"What?!" she snapped.

"I just want to know why. I know I wasn't exactly Mr. Faithful but I did love you and I had reasons to why I cheated on you! You just never let me explain!" Yamcha reasoned annoyed.

"Okay how about you tell me the reasons why you cheated on me all those time and I tell you what you want to know?"

"It doesn't matter now!" He shouted.

"And why not!" she yelled even louder then she had.

"Because you love Vegeta now! That's why!"

"No I don't Yamcha! I don't even LIKE Vegeta!" She screamed loosing her breath. "Why do you think I save you? But I guess I learned something today" she continued panting lightly.

"What did you learn?" he asked curiously walking up to her and entwining his finger in hers. To his surprise she didn't flinch back she just curled her fingers around his.

"I learned that you don't realize what you have until their gone" she replied looking strait into his eyes.

"Well I think that I'm going to come back. If that's what you want" he replied looking down on her. She looked back in his honey-eyes and replied "I don't miss you. I miss the trust that I had thought that we put into each other and all the other times you cheated on me I stayed with you for one reason and that one reason only!" She replied retreating from him and sitting down on the picnic bench.

"Then what was that one thing?!" He asked sitting down across from her.

"I was scared"

"Of what?"

"Loneliness, but you know what as much as I hate Vegeta he's really smart. He told me that Love is a weakness and only the cold and ruthless survive and he gave me the courage to not give in to you!"

"Why do you hate Vegeta then? He seems to be you knight in shining armor!" he said getting up from the table.

"You want to know why! But know that I think about it! I really shouldn't hate him!"

"So what did he do!"

"When I took off he followed me for whatever reason I don't know yet! But I will find out! But first of all Vegeta thinks different from people and he thought that he should kill you and maybe then I wouldn't be so wrapped up in you!"

"Why would he care!"

"Because he knows what it's like to be twisted and used!"

"Why don't you just marry him! You seem so goddamn obsessed with him!"

~!@#$%^&**&^%$#@!~ So I guess the fortune teller's right I should have seen just what was there and not some holy light But you `crawled beneath my veins and now I don't care, I have No luck I don't miss it all that much There are just so many things That I can't touch I'm torn There's nothing where he used to lie My inspiration has run dry That's what's going' on Nothing's right I'm torn... ~!@#$%^&**&^%$#@!~

Something in Bulma snapped she couldn't stand to listen to Yamcha insult Vegeta. "You know what Yamcha Fuck you!" She screamed and was about to go find Vegeta when Yamcha phased out in front of her and punched her in the stomach but she didn't even flinch.

"You forgot I'm a Sayain now!" she laughed evilly and her tail shot out from behind her and curled around his neck choking the life out of him. Then it lifted bringing Yamcha high in the air so that the tips of his toes brushed the ground slightly. She sneered and swung him around tossing him into the ocean that surrounded the island. And the blasted off to find Vegeta.

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ChiChi and Master Roshi watched from the window totally amazed. Baba on the other hand was congratulating herself.

"Should we go see if he's okay?" ChiChi asked worried.

"No! He hit her. Let him stay there!" Baba protested floating out of the room.

Roshi and ChiChi exchanged glances and shrugged. "Oh well" Roshi stated following his sister's example. ChiChi just looked out the window. She couldn't believe He had hit her. She asked herself why people do those kinds of things to people. She crossed her arms over the windowsill and buried her head in them, sighed, and fell asleep.

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~!@#$%^&**&^%$#@!~ I'm all out of faith, this is how I feel I'm cold and I am shamed Lying naked on the floor Illusion never changed Into something real I'm wide-awake and I can see the perfect sky is torn You're a little late I'm already torn ~!@#$%^&**&^%$#@!~

Yamcha couldn't believe he had tried to strike her. But what was more astonishing is that she literally kicked his ass. He felt so... so hurt. His plan backfired instead of her feeling guilty he felt like an idiot. He stood up out of the water and sagged to the shore and threw off his soaked shirt 'God, I need to get laid' he thought as he reached in his back pocket to pull out his 'little black book' but to his horror all the pages were wet and smudged. "NO! My Book!" he exclaimed. 'How could this day get any worse!' he thought. 'Oh well, that's my life for you. Besides I wonder what Yassica is doing tonight"

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WoW! That was a long chapter about 3,500 words that is double then what I usually write for a chapter anyway I have a shout out to Tweetyboo! (Note: I spelled it right! I rule! (yeah in my dreams)