Quiet........it was so damn quiet it was maddening. No crying, no screaming, no birds chirping......what made him think he could take this intolerable quiet? Vegeta's eyes shut tightly as he lay on his bed, he could hear himself think, and that was the one thing he couldn't take. Thinking meant remembering and remembering always lead to second-guessing and regrets.

Damn woman. Damn brat. Damn planet. Damn Kararot. Damn Red. As planets flashed by the windows of the ship in a blur, he found himself second- guessing. What had he done? If that damned scientist were to raise their brat on her own, she'd turn him into a soft earthlings. His eyes closed tighter.......

What the hell did he care if the kid ended up being a weakling? The brat would hold him down, better to cut off ties now. What would the prince of all Saiyajins do with a half-breed spawn like that anyway? He'd certainly be of no use to him and it was not worth putting up with his mother.

Yes, why would he waste his time on insignificant little mud ball of a planet when there were galaxies out there all for his taking? With Frieza out of the picture and Kakarot bound to his little planet, he was the strongest in the universe and it was all his if he desired it, so long as he stayed away from the Earth. His lips twitched into a smirk. He didn't need immortality anymore.

He would have to commend the damn clown for giving him a second chance, an honorable but stupid move. Like Vegeta, the strongest soldier in the universe could actually go soft and change his ways-stupid. Then again that damn circus clown had always been a moron. Look at the way he treated his mate? His beautiful, fiery, passionate mate............

She was so Saiyajin that it blew his mind every time he thought about it. From her features to her attitude, hell she was even a formidable warrior. How can any Saiyajin, let alone male, abandon her for such long periods of his own free will? For that alone, he should kill the baka. Then the to the victor go the spoils............

Opening his eyes he shook his head, quickly reprimanding himself for letting his thoughts stray there. The woman had made her choice, Kakarot........always Kakarot. His fists clenched the sheets beneath him. Why was it he couldn't stop thinking of that damn woman? It was like she had invaded his mind like a demon.

With a growl he threw himself out of the bed and he staggered slowly to the main chamber of the ship. What was the point of trying to rest? It never did him any good. He needed something to occupy his thoughts with. Anything.

Training. Wear the body out, so the mind can't think, then he's be able to escape her. At least for a little while.

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He'd left two weeks and three days ago, she had kept count. For two weeks and three days she'd been going over their last meeting over and over again in her head. She shouldn't have freaked out the way she did, he must have taken it as rejection. She fought back a sob as she leaned against the counter in her kitchen.

She had to finish cleaning......everything was unclean........She was unclean. For some reason, however, she couldn't bring herself to hate herself or Vegeta. Even at night as she lay awake, uncertain, she'd find herself hoping that he'd come back. Imagine that. She'd actually hope that that surly piece of arrogance would come back to her.

"Oh Kami." she moaned clutching her stomach. She apologized silently to Goku for thinking such a sinful thought and her son, oh gods! Her son. When had she gotten so selfish? she wondered.

Heavily exhaling she squared her shoulders back and grabbed her broom, roughly sweeping the already clean floors. "Have to make it cleaner." She whispered harshly to herself, remembering the phone conversation she had had with Bulma after Vegeta had left.

The heiress to Capsule Corp. fortune had called Chi-Chi in a huff, blaming her right and left for making Vegeta leave, saying she was on to their little sordid affair. How had she put it? Oh yes, she had called her a 'two- timing skank and home wrecker and how she could look herself in the same mirror that Son Goku uses was beyond her comprehension'.

She gripped the broom so tightly that the handle broke in two. Chi-Chi couldn't remember how the rest of the conversation went, although she partly remembered loosing it on Bulma before she hung up on her. Or had it been the other way around? She wasn't sure. Hell, she wasn't sure of much of anything anymore.

Had she really been cheating on Goku all those times she had seen Vegeta? Perhaps in spirit and mind if not in body. No, they had never made love to each other, instead they had done something far worse, she decided, they fell in love. There it was for the whole world to hear, she had fallen in love with Vegeta! She knelt down and picked up the broken pieces of the broom.

At least if they had only slept together, say the first night they had met, it would have been a one time mistake that she could move on from with regret and self loathing. But at least then, she'd still love her husband and the affair would be over, after her body had taken what it had wanted. She cringed, at the idea of making herself look so animalistic. Like she would actually use someone just for bodily need or lust and worst, the idea that she would have been better off doing so. Yet, she knew that was better, love was worst, love lasted far longer and went much deeper than lust or loneliness and her relationship with Vegeta went beyond those two things.

When he had kissed her she felt like she was melting away from her horrible reality into some beautiful escape. She shook the memory out of her head and stood up with the two pieces of what was once a broom in her hands. Maybe it was for the best he had left because had he stayed she was sure she wouldn't be able to carry on with Goku.

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With a grunt Vegeta continued a regiment one-fingered push-ups. "It's not like she'd leave him anyway." He rationalized under his breath as he rose and fell constantly, "and even if she did, what type of relationship could we have? She'd never stand by and watch her son's confusion and hurt over her parent's break up."

His eyes slanted angrily. Just for once he'd like to get something his way and besides that how could he sit back and allow her to become Kakarot's victim again? Surely there was a better way. How could he leave her the way she was? He was just as bad a Kakarot. He just up and left her alone in her self loathing again and what was worse, was the fact that he gave a damn he had done so.

He stopped in mid push up. But perhaps he could do something to make a mense for that, something Kakarot never thought to do..........he'd come back for her.

He shook his head, no, he wouldn't go back for HER. He'd go back for himself, to demand she take off this spell she'd casted on him and order that she tell him why she would choose a loser like Kakarot over him. Yes, that was why he was going back, it wasn't that he cared for her feelings or anything.

*****

Chi-Chi tossed restlessly in her bed as she watched the shapes on the ceiling from outside. The arms of the trees gently jarred against one another in an endless dance, so beautiful and sad at the same time. The sky lay dark except for the stars that lit up the night. How she missed the moon at times.

Past the romantic reasons for it's presence. She missed being able to walk the perimeters of her house drenched in the moonlight; it made it so much easier to see at night. She sighed. Oh well, no reason to obsess over such things. She turned to her side about to close her eyes when a huge explosion awakened her.

She ran to her large window. Viewing only a darkened landscape, she deiced it was nothing. She had hoped perhaps Vegeta had returned, or maybe even Goku. She huffed and turned on her heels to go back to her bed when a sudden rustle of the chilly wind struck her back. She turned to lock the ajar window and was greeted to a figure in front of the huge shudders.

Intruder. She backed off a few steps as the figure grew until she could see his enlarged shadow in the rustling curtains that blew in the breeze. She bit back her fear and grew determined, if it was some robber or fiend was he is for the surprise of his life. Son Chi-Chi was no victim.

"I know karate!" she screamed all at one, rushing at the figure in overly large worn cotton nightgown that rustled with her every bare footstep.

A more powerful wind finally caught the curtains and sent them to the side. She stopped dead in her tracks as she looked face to face with the eyes she had grown so accustomed to.

"Veg.....Veg.....but I thought......Bulma told me........" she stammered her arms still over her head in an odd attempt to look threatening.

His eyes lowered as he took a step in, deciding to ignore her earlier foolish antics, he wasn't there to laugh at her, although for a moment as he looked at her still moronic pose he was tempted to. Placing a finger to her lips, he bit back the chuckle threatening to escape his lips and instead concentrated on her dark caramel eyes. His face grew serious as he spoke lowly, "I have but one question for you, it's been driving me insane since I left. How can you choose Kakarot like the rest of them?" he looked at her with an almost pleading expression, "what gift or power is that he possesses that I lack? Please I must know." His cursed himself silently, he had come off far more gentle than he had wanted to he realized, it was the way she was looking at him, it made him feel so exposed.

Her eyes lowered with his fingertips as they fell from her lips in order to let her speak. "'Vegeta......." she took a step towards him, "When you left all I could think about was......" she winced, knowing that once she admitted it, there was no taking it back. She looked into his dark eyes and smiled, "you......Vegeta-kun......I..........I" She looked away as her face grew red as the words lingered on her tongue, "I think I'm in love with you."

Vegeta's hand touched his stomach, as he felt an odd burning sensation take it over. He felt hot all over. "Witchcraft." He whispered with wide eyes as he took a step closer to her and replied with a demanding tone, "Enchantress take your spell off of me."

She scanned his darkened figure, colored only by the few stars that filled the clouded sky, "I'm not......." She studied his confused expression carefully, "Vegeta, I'm not a witch."

"You have to be." He argued as he scowled softly, his hand reaching out, gently moving up and down her arm, "You've entered my mind and attacked my soul, there's no other explanation." His fingers gently traced up her neck and jaw line as he studied her soft figure against the material of her pink nightgown. Even now, he wanted her; he let out a breath he hadn't even realized he'd been keeping in.

Her breaths became uneven as she saw the look of longing in his eyes. "Why do you tantalize me so?" he whispered as though he were in pain. Chi-Chi felt her heart doing flips as she took another step towards him, her hand peeling his away from her face, entwining her fingers in his. She opened her mouth to say something, but no words came out, she had said everything there was to say. With her free hand, she turned his face inches from hers, and kissed him softly, giving him time and room to escape.

Vegeta inhaled sharply as he felt her mouth crush softly on top of his. After a lingering moment, he gave into the feelings surging through his veins and wrapped his free arms around her waist, pulling her tightly against his muscular figure, he felt her moan softly at the sudden body heat. His body burned with sensation as her fingertips gently massaged the back of his head, with a soft moan he ran his tongue passed her lips, over her teeth and searched for velvety tongue as the flavors invading his mouth made him pull her closer to her him.

As his tongue wrested with hers, she felt her knees going weak. Finally, he released her mouth for air and she inhaled sharply, wrapping her arms around his neck as she collapsed against him. Without thought, he lifted her and placed her on the bed as he laid butterfly kisses across her jaw line and down her neck.

Her eyes slid shut with renewed desire as her hands pulled at his raven mane. She shuddered arching her back as his hands pushed her nightgown up past her milky white thighs. Her eyes opened as she felt a cold breeze hit her exposed skin. She suddenly caught an all too familiar figure by the window. The three unmistakable spokes of hair standing against gravity. She went cold, as did Vegeta. Slowly, he rose from her and turned to the figure in the window with a menacing growl, "Kakarot."

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Author's Notes: Eh? Eh? Things are starting to get a bit interesting ne? I bet you're wondering how I got this update out fairly soon, well I'm sick LoL so I used the free time to bang this puppy out. So what do you think? Tell me! Was Soap Operay enough for ya? Okay, now notes to my reviewers, I'm gonna go from the last 2 chapters, I think that's fair and good..but so long LOL..YAY! I love reviews!!!

Bucky: I'm glad you love it so, and LoL, I'd be lying if I didn't say another reason I tried to get the chapter out was so you wouldn't get angry and start threatening me. School, well, it's actually an easier schedule than I expected so hopefully, I'll get this story wrapped up sooner than later. *drums her fingers and smiles sweetly * But how's the Vegeta fic. going?? Or Los Rotos??? Update one of them!! Either one!! Both of them of you're feeling charitable!!! I'm dying of anticipation here...*sits back down and coughs * sorry about that.....thanks for the review. ^_^

Jackie: ^_^ okay my wish is your command and more you shall have.

Shaundrea: Really? Maybe the problem was because FFN.Net was making a lot of changes at the time. Try again now, would be my advise because I've had problems uploading chapters too when the site's making changes...oh! and I'm glad you like the story!

Reina: cool! I stop doing homework to write this so we have something in common!! I'm glad you like the story so much! Thanks for the review!

Rasberries: LOL! Honestly, I wasn't expecting to send Vegeta off into space either that was a last minute choice because I felt the chapter was lacking something. Anyhoo, I'm glad you liked it and I hope this one's a bit more of a fulfilling chapter?

Crash: Yeah, makes you bring into question, Bulma's judgement, poor Yamucha. Thanks for the review, ^_^

elektra642000: awwww...thanks, my ego needed that after the week I've been having. I'm glad I'm inspiring others to write V/CC's too. Personally, I think they're a deserving couple. Well I when you finish yours or post yours, whichever one's first, tell me! I wanna read it!

Dew777: Well, I got the next chapter out, even sooner than I thought. Hope you like! Thanks for the review!

Penchy-chan: damn life! Always gets in the way of writing LOL! Yeah, I tend to feel more for Vegeta too.......probably because of my obsession for him. Actually, though, I never thought much of Chi-Chi until I started writing this and then suddenly, her entire character snapped in my head and I just got it and she became one of my favorite characters. But I still feel more for Vegeta, he just needs a big hug!

Chococat101: I hope you liked it! Yeah, odd couple romances are the best. It's time for something different from all of those bland V/B out there. Ahhh!! Fresh air!

AGalaxiaGoddess: Ah! School can be such a pain in the Kakarot! Hehehehe..I'm glad my antics were able to cheer some one up and thanks for the compliments. Good luck with the studying, as you can see, my obsession with this fic. has made it so I no longer study LoL.

Cdkobasiuk: I have a tendency to write myself into corners LOL.but hey! I got out of it! Vegeta can be such a jerk can't he? Hehehehe and btw...how's the CC/Y fic. coming?!?! I'm dying for an update!!

Silverstar: Thanks for the review and voila! I gots the new chapter out, I hope I didn't leave you hanging for too long.

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Chielle: Gha! I haven't talked yo you for a bit. I promise I'll get around to checking USRPG soon! Oh and you're fic. is coming out wonderfully! ^__^ I'm glad you're liking mine!

Evilcarrot: Ah! I'm sorry your team lost! But I'm glad you liked the chapter! School! Ghrrr! Hope this chapter finds you in a happier mood!

Sparkle: I have a feeling when you read chapter nine you're going to be like, GHA! Evil Squirl! Then you'll read this chapter and be like Yay! Thanks for the reviews! I'm glad you liked the V/CC moment!

Syaoran's Blossom: Thanks, I wasn't sure if those last sentences sounded right or not. I'm glad they did. Thankies for the review!

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Midnight_Lilly: Vegeta would definantly agree with you, now let's see if he can convince Chi-Chi of that!! Thanks for the review!!