I sighed with relief as the last period before lunch ended. Nothing had happened! Well, actually, ten minutes before the bell had gone off, Vegeta's stomach had rumbled, rattling everything in the classroom. Then Kakarot's had. My 'uncles' and I had gotten a glare from the teacher and looks of amazement from the other kids.
"Paging Ms. Bouke Enda," came a voice over the loudspeakers, "You are required at the office to take a phone call."
"Come on, guys." I sighed and led them toward the office. I had a bad feeling about this call.
Mike was there waiting for us. "I'll watch them while you take the call." He said and I grinned thankfully at him.
"Thanks, Mike." I entered the office. "I got paged for the phone call." The secretary looked at me then jerked a thumb at the waiting phone. I picked it up. "Yello?"
"Reishi?" asked the boy on the other end.
"Gutei, what are you calling about?" I asked incredulously.
"You won't believe this but…"
"The chibis ate all the food for snack?"
"How'd you know?"
"I just had a bad feeling. I'll pick you up in five." I hung up and walked back out. "Come on. We have to pick up the chibis and then we're eating at Subway."
"Again?" Vegeta growled.
"Come on! The food isn't that bad!" I said as we all got into my car.
"No. It's not but I would like a little variety in my diet. Why didn't you drive this car to school yesterday?" Vegeta answered.
"I don't want carless people to started asking me for lifts." I said and stepped on the gas as I drove to the younger kids' school. I got there in record time and the chibis were outside waiting. They all got in without comment and I took off for Subway.
When we got there, I ordered two party subs, four potato chip bags and five cokes for each of the Saiyans. Zar, Mike and I both got foot long meals. I paid with my credit card and I didn't even look at the total. Thank Kami I have over three thousand dollars on my card. I said to myself and pocketed the receipt. Though by the end of the week it'll prolly be all gone.
We all sat down under much scrutiny and most of the people had to blink a few times as they saw the four Saiyans dig into the party subs. Mike, Vegeta, Kakarot and I sat at one table while Goten, Trunks and Zar sat at another. "So Mike… how's school?" I asked around mouthfuls.
"Well, normal. Except Ms. Piers seems to be in LaLa Land, all of a sudden." Mike chuckled. "I guess that has something to do with those two?"
"Yeah. She saw Vegeta and bam! Love at first sight!" I chuckled too and sipped at my soda.
"That is until she saw Kakarot, right?"
"Yeah. Same deal with Mr. Eveans."
"What? What did he do?" we were now talking over the Saiyans' heads and they knew it.
"He used Kakarot as a dummy. Pointed out all the chest and back muscles on him. I swear he has some pretty good self-control! He kept himself from touching Kakarot the entire time!"
"Really?" Mike lifted an eyebrow and licked his fingers clean. "Scary…"
"Yeah." I finished my food and found the two adult Saiyans looking at us.
"Any other surprises you should tell us about?" Vegeta asked me in a low, dangerous voice.
"No…" I thought for a moment. "Mike? What are your next two periods?"
"P.E. Both." Mike answered and then looked at Vegeta and Kakarot in shock.
"Yeah. Listen up you two," I crooked a finger at the two Saiyans. "If you dare do anything unhuman during gym, I swear I will kill you." Vegeta quirked an eyebrow at me in a show of disbelief. "And I will, no matter how weak I am."
"Bouke?" Zar asked. "Our lunch hour's about up."
"Really?" I looked at the clock and felt my heart jump. Ten minutes till. Ten minutes to get to the chibis' school and then to mine. "To the car!" I yelled and we all ran and jumped in it. I took off speeding. I made it to the little kids' school in more of a record time then I had before. The boys took off running to their classroom while I sped off.
About halfway back to school, I saw a police car flashing its lights at me. "Shit, shit, shit, shit…" I began chanting my new mantra to myself as I pulled over. Heh. I wonder if this guy's the real bit. "'cuse me, sir. Are you a real police officer?" I asked him.
"Of course I am!" he said indignantly. "Why wouldn't I be?"
"Sorry, officer. I just had a run-in with a security guard who wasn't really one so I'm a little suspicious."
"Ah! You've met Marvin." The cop showed me his badge and I nodded in appreciation.
"What's the matter, officer?" I asked as he looked in the window at me and the other guys. Vegeta glared at him and Kakarot just smiled. It'd be just my luck if he thought Kakarot was on some kind of drugs. I thought to myself with a mental sigh.
"You do know you were speeding twenty miles over the speed limit?" the cop asked me.
"Yes, officer." I said with a sigh. "I'm late for school so I was trying to get back in time."
"Really? What's the story?"
"My little cousins ate all the food I packed for them for their lunch and since they have large appetites, they were still hungry. I picked them up, took all of us to Subway, dropped them off again and here I am, trying to get back to the high school before it starts which is in… three minutes." I answered, looking at the clock.
"Can I see your driver's license?" I gave it to him. He did all the stuff and then gave me a ticket. I waved good-bye to him and as he walked back to his car, flipped off his backside.
"Stupid bastard…" I mumbled and pulled back onto the road. I drove off, at a reasonable speed, to the high school. We were ten minutes late, due to the shitty traffic and that asshole of a cop.
We ran into class and the gym coach gave us his special 'I'll-hunt-you-down-like-the-dogs-you-are' glare. "Where were you?" he barked.
"At lunch with my cousins and uncles and there was bad traffic, sir." I explained lamely. He didn't need to know about the cop. Coach Bergman's a funny guy: funny as in strange. We don't know if he was in the army or not but he runs gym like a drill sergeant and he requires us to call him 'sir'.
"Drop down and give me twenty!" he roared. I nodded and Mike and I complied without a groan. Coach looked at Kakarot and Vegeta. "You're her uncles?" Vegeta nodded. "Why aren't you doing it too?" he yelled.
"What? Oh… okay." Kakarot and Vegeta did the push-ups in just a few seconds.
"You didn't do them all!" Coach's voice seemed to be at a perpetual shouting level.
"Yes, we did!" Kakarot said with a grin.
"It only took you a few seconds if you did actually do them!" Coach howled.
"Well, of course. We're fast." Vegeta said calmly.
"I don't believe you!" Coach yelled and, with more then a bit of strain, picked up a weight weighing one hundred pounds. "Lift this ten times!" he gave it to Kakarot.
"Okay." Kakarot, slower this time so that Coach could see him, did as Coach said.
"What… but…"
"I told you we were fast but did I mention we were strong." Vegeta said with a smirk. The class was now all sitting down except Mike and myself who were standing, laughing quietly to ourselves.
"Oh, so you're a cheeky bastard, huh? Gimme a hundred sit-ups and then a hundred push-ups! All four of you!" Coach didn't seem to like Vegeta's attitude.
"I don't see how any of you can get stronger in this pathetic gravity." Vegeta growled at me quietly as we all did the sit-ups and push-ups.
"It's not like we have a gravity room or a control on the planet's." I answered, groaning heavily due to the fact that after seventy-five sit-ups my stomach muscles were killing me.
"Do you have a problem with the assignment?" Coach asked me.
"No, sir." I grumbled and flipped over to do my push-ups.
"Good!" he stomped over to where Mike was struggling with his push-ups. Mike was on his fifth while I was just finishing up and then I sat up to watch him. "Do you have a problem with the assignment I've given you?"
"No, sir. It's just that I have weak arm muscles!" Wrong thing to say to the coach.
"Then you can have another fifty to strengthen them up!" Coach shouted. He then turned to the class and got them organized into playing a game of basketball. When Mike was finished, we went and joined them.
Coach watched everyone for a few minutes and then approached Kakarot and Vegeta. They were sitting up against the wall, reminiscing over old times. He stood by them for a few minutes, being completely ignored before Vegeta grew a little angry. "Why the hell are you hanging around over here?" Vegeta bellowed in a voice to rival Coach's.
"I was wondering what your secrets are." Coach said in a talking voice, the first time I had ever heard him use a voice like it. Oh wait! You don't know! Well. I, being the eavesdropping kind of personality that I am, was hiding under the bleachers listening and Mike was with me. We were at an angle where we could see them but they couldn't see us. If they could, I'd be dead, literally
"Our secrets?" Kakarot and Vegeta both echoed. I sniggered silently. So Vegeta wasn't all that bright too.
"Yeah. The key to your strength and big muscles and speed." Coach said.
"Oh. The key." Kakarot looked at Vegeta.
"Well… since you seem to be a nice guy," Vegeta waved for Kakarot's silence, "I will deign to tell you." Awh fuck! Come on Vegeta! Be nice! "Each morning I wake up at five, I do five hundred push-ups, two hundred sit-ups and three hundred chin-ups. Then I eat a large breakfast. I then train till lunch and that's when I eat another large meal. I train again till dinner and I eat again. I then go to sleep at ten or there abouts." Vegeta explained his day.
"What do you mean 'train'?" Coach asked.
"I spar with Kakarot here, his spawn or my brat. Or if no one is available to spar with, then I do sit-ups, chin-ups, push-ups and other things." Vegeta said with his smirk. My coach stared at Vegeta for a moment and then walked off muttering to himself.
"Hah! That was a good one Vegeta! Telling him what you really do!" Kakarot snickered. I was amazed. I had thought that there wasn't a malicious bone in his body. "You can come out now, guys." I looked at Mike and he shrugged. We came out.
"You forgot we can sense ki." Vegeta smirked.
"Yeah, well, I can't keep track of all the little details." I said with a shrug. "Anyway, he'll be bugging me about what you really do for the rest of the school year now." I sighed. A lot would be happening because of this. "We better get back to the game Mike." I waved to my 'uncles' and jogged back into the fray with Mike.
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Jeril: Ack! I'm updating again! This is one of my fastest updated fics! You lucky bunch of monkeys! *Jeril looks mortified* Oops! Soory if I offended any of your Saiyan personalities! *bows* Forgive me! There's not a lot I can say about this chap so… Oh yeah! Vegeta, I think you can kill the coach…
Vegeta: Really?!? *smirks*
Jeril: Yeah. He's named close to my teacher and I hate my teacher so… If I can think of a good reason in the fic, you can.
Kakarot: *looks astonished* You shouldn't encourage Vegeta to kill innocents!
Jeril: You're too much of a goody-goody, Kakarot! Besides, he's not innocent! He's mean to Bouke and his reality counterpart is mean to me! *Vegeta nods solemnly* So there! *lol*
