Coal black eyes looked upon the figures in confusion and then slowly burned
to icy blue at a rushed assumption. Lowly the golden Saiyajin hissed,
"Vegeta.take your hands off of her."
The prince slowly rose to his feet with a sneer, still standing far too close to her, for Goku's liking. With the flash of a half-second Vegeta was against the wall with Goku's hand gripped tightly around his neck, his cold blue eyes burning into the black ones of Vegeta.
Chi-Chi's eyes remained on the bed as she huddled into a corner, unsure of what to do as she regained some sense of composure, "Goku.Vegeta." She looked up and saw the smaller Saiyajin in a death grip. She gasped, trying to word out protest to her husband but only a sob came out.
Vegeta glanced over at her and then back at the angry stare of his arch nemesis. He felt the light-headedness rushing to his head as his hands attempted without success to pull the larger fighter's ones off without going Super Saiyajin. He looked back at Chi-Chi and then went Super Saiyajin, kicking the other Saiyajin off.
Goku growled as he clutched his stomach before he charged forward once again with a punch. Vegeta glanced back at the other fighter in enough time to prepare for the blunt force of the attack. The prince flew forward, going headfirst into one of the night table. Chi-chi let out a stray scream watching Vegeta land dangerously close to where she was with a sickening thud against the table. Finally, regaining her voice she screamed, "Stop it! Goku!"
Too angry to hear anything else but his throaty growls, Goku picked the prince up and threw him into another wall. Slowly Vegeta staggered up and coughed, "Kakarot, I hardly think this is the."
"And to think I gave you a second chance Vegeta. Had I known you were capable of something like this." Goku's eyes clenched shut and then opened into low, hateful slits; "I would have never told Krillin to give you mercy. How could you try to hurt her like that Vegeta? I thought you had changed."
Vegeta's face lowered into an angrier and angrier glare with each word the younger fighter spewed, "You fool, you actually think."
"No! That's it, Vegeta.I'm not listening to you dish out your same old threats." his fists tightened, until blood seeped from them, "I can not forgive you for this!"
Goku lunged at Vegeta again and the Saiyajin quickly took the offensive, moving away from the bed. Chi-Chi scrambled to the other side, her eyes growing in horror, "NO! GOKU! You have to listen!"
She grabbed Goku's arm and Goku broke free, landing the fist on Vegeta's face. Chi-Chi gasped, putting her hands to her mouth. She had to stop this before something horrible happened. She had never seen her husband snap like this. Who knew what he could be capable of in this sort of state?
She looked at Vegeta; he knew what her Goku was capable of. He had seen Goku on the battlefield. She had not, and this side of her husband scared her. Trying to regain her lost courage, Chi-Chi charged forward, determined to stop this fight before they both got hurt.
Goku grunted, noticing that Vegeta had yet to pose any type of retaliatory attacks. Vegeta looked back at the younger fighter and then over at Chi- Chi. His eyes grew wide as he realized she storming over to them, "Stay back woman, this does not concern you."
"How can you say that?! This had absolutely everything to do with me." She argued, stopping behind Goku.
Goku looked back at her, "He's right Chi, this is between me and him now, you should get out of here."
She clicked her tongue in annoyance and grabbed Goku's shoulder, "No! Stop it Goku, right now! You will not continue this fight in my house."
His eyes widened slightly, "Oh right Chi! Sorry, I didn't mean to break anything!" Vegeta raised an eyebrow perplexed, surely Kakarot wasn't that dense.
"Kakarot don't you have at least one brain cell working?" Vegeta said more sarcastically than he had meant to.
Goku turned back to him fiercely, his angry gaze once again attempting to dissect him. Vegeta grunted, hating the younger fighter for being able to switch modes so quickly.
Chi-Chi took a step back as she realized the other side of her husband had once again taken over. Vegeta looked over at her and then back at the sneering Saiyajin.
Anger once again having taken control, Goku kicked Vegeta to the other side of the room, past Chi-Chi. She moved out of the way quickly.
Vegeta moved swiftly as Goku's follow up knee landed where the prince had been a moment before. Goku sneered and sent a blast over his shoulder reflexively. Vegeta looked up in enough time to see the blast headed towards the still frighten woman.
Chi-Chi's eyes grew in horror as she turned to see the approaching ki blast, engulfing her in its bright light. She turned her face sharply to the side, shut her eyes tightly, and put her arms up over her head, awaiting the impending impact. It never came.
As the light blew past and the darkness settled once again over the room. She became aware of the limp body on top of her. She blinked and looked over at the face of the badly hurt Saiyajin prince, "Vegeta?!...VEGETA?!?!?!"
She turned them over and bit her lip nervously, searching him over for serious injuries. She ran her fingertips over his blood streaked cheek softly, "You saved my life and what did I do? I sat there and let him fight because I-I didn't speak up soon enough, I'm sorry my love.I'm so sorry." As tears began to streak down her face, Chi-Chi leaned down and put her arms around the fallen prince.
Goku rushed over to her, his hair, and now back to its normal black, "Chi are you?" He stopped in front of her, noticing she was far too concerned with the man in her arms than her own state. He took a step back perplexed, hadn't Vegeta just tried to hurt her though?
Chi-Chi turned to him sharply; "Look what you did Goku! How could you do that?!" She looked back at Vegeta, "Come on, wake up Vegeta."
"But I thought." Goku trailed off as he watched her, worry over the shorter Saiyajin, his face suddenly lightening in realization. He hadn't been assaulting her, they'd been.
"Goku! Listen to me dammit! Help me get him to the bed." She screamed up at him as he came out of his musings, he staggered back.
He looked down at her and frowned, "No Chi-Chi, no I won't help you." His lower lip fattened into a pouting expression, "He wasn't hurting you was he? You were kissing him!"
She placed the prince down softly and stood up, staring up at Goku threateningly, "Yes I was kissing him."
Goku's eyes flashed in sorrow and shock, even though the truth was in front of him he didn't...no couldn't... believe it, "But.I thought.we were married."
She looked up at his hurt expression and sighed softly, her own face taking on a somber look, "Goku, we have to talk."
***
Having helped Chi-Chi get the unconscious Vegeta onto their bed, Goku and his wife walked outside, in the first rays of the morning sun. He inhaled the dewy sweet air he had come to call his home sharply as though it was his last breath. His mind race with a million possibilities and scenarios as he felt a pain coursing through his chest and pitting itself in his stomach.
Looking over at Chi-Chi's neutral expression didn't make him feel much better. She hadn't looked over at him since they'd walked out of the house, she hadn't yelled at him for staying away for so long or not wearing a sweater or even eating right. He hadn't even seen her crack a smile at his unexpected homecoming. He wasn't sure what exactly was going on as he absently scratched the back of his head in confusion.
So she had been kissing Vegeta. He felt the pain grow a little larger again and then recede to the back of his eyes and throat, "Chi?"
"Goku..." she interrupted him as he looked down at her, his eyes searching hers for answers, "You have to understand, I never meant for any of this to happen."
His brow lowered, for some reason there seemed to be more behind her apology than a few heated kisses, "What's 'this'? You kissing Vegeta?"
"Well yes, that partly but Goku...I was so lonely and...."
He felt his heart beat quicken with each passing moment, beating in a rhythm of some sort of painful rage or perhaps raging pain, he wasn't sure. He wiped his palm on his thighs as he leaned back slightly.
"And....Goku you're never around."
He blinked and let out a sigh of frustration as though that was there was to their argument, "Chi-Chi I'm training, the androids are coming in a few..."
"God Goku! If it's not one thing it's another with you! I don't see how training entails leaving your home for MONTHS on end with your son not even sending his mother and your wife a word on how you are! For all I knew you'd all been eaten by some wild animal or destroyed by some crazy gun wielding alien! You come running when you're hungry or something but God forbid you come and visit your lonely wife! HA! Visit......." she tasted her last word like it was a bitter herb, "like, we're old friends or something. " Tears began to well up in her eyes as her hand brushed away a few stray pieces of hair that fell in front of her. This wasn't what she envisioned her marriage would come to, weekly visits.
Goku blinked, raising an unsure hand and placing it on her shoulder, she pulled away and turned to him, "Don't you get it?!"
He frowned, "I'm not stupid Chi-Chi. God, I understand and I'm sorry I didn't realize....."
She laughed ironically, raising her hands and letting them fall, "Didn't realize....."
His voice slightly rose in held back anger, as tried to stay reasonable, "I didn't realize what this was doing to you but now that you've told me, we can make the changes."
Her shoulder slumped as she shook her head back and forth, "No Goku........it's not just that."
He shut his eyes, "What else is it then?"
"How can you even ask that?!" she screamed into his face
A defiant glower took over his face as his anger finally took over. "Chi- Chi what do you want from me?! I'm trying here okay? I come home to see my wife in the arms of another man, a man who hates me and not even a few years ago was trying to kill me and now here you are jumping around not giving me an explanation just telling me all the things I've done wrong and saying I don't understand. Well dammit Chi-Chi! You NEVER told me how these things effected you, how was I supposed to know?" he screamed as a tear slid down his cheek.
She took a step back a hand clutched to her chest, "Goku, I could understand all the training and even taking Gohan along but when you decided it would be more fun to stay on than damned planet rather than come home after you went to Namek!"
"...I came back." He countered.
"After a couple of years! We're not a family here at your disposal Goku, here when it suits you. We're here and need you every day!" she screamed, a crying fit slowly robbing her voice as she hissed, "I needed you."
He placed his hands on her shoulders, his face taking on a look of realization, "Chi-Chi, I never meant to stay away more than I had to.......you have to understand.........."
"I have to understand?!" she screamed looking up at him.
He grunted and looked away from her, "You don't understand how difficult it was."
"I beg to differ, I had to raise a family on my own in the middle of nowhere with little to no income."
"Look Chi-Chi, I understand that but at the time my head it was....gha! He fought for words, "When I went Super Saiyajin I couldn't trust myself, I just got so angry and the people on Yardrat helped me control it. I didn't want to come back and hurt you or Gohan by accident."
Her eyes turned misty; "It's unfortunate you did anyway."
He turned away from her and took a few steps away from her, his hands balling into fists, "I couldn't help it. Chi-Chi, it's so hard trying to be everything to everyone at once. I try to think of you and Gohan and then all this evil gets in the way and I can't help but feel like I have to stop it." He looked over at her with tears in her eyes, "But I can't help it, when I see people suffering I have to help them, I can't let them...I feel responsible for them."
She nodded knowingly, "I know that Goku, I should have realized it a long time ago."
He blinked back the tears, "But if you want me to, I'll stop and I'll stay here with you and Gohan can study, right?"
She looked down at her shoes, the shoes Vegeta had given her. She felt blood leak from her lip as she bit it hardly. She shook her head, "no"
Goku blinked, "What?" He ran up to her and shook her gently as he fell to his knees; "Yes we can Chi-Chi. We can go back to how it was before Radditz."
She broke free of him, "No we can't Goku! I'm in love with Vegeta!"
He fell back, clutching his chest as though he just had a heart attack, "But...but...he's...we're-we're married."
"Goku...........no we're not, maybe legally but you're heart never just belonged to me. It belongs to everyone, they all need you." She answered placing a hand on his shoulder.
"What about what I need?" he whispered as he clutched dirt with his fist.
She shook her forced a smile on her pained face, "You don't need me."
He stood up, "Yes I do!"
"What to cook for you and remind you dress warm?" She whimpered.
"No I need you for a million things!" he argued with a desperate look.
She sighed and turned from him, "It should just be one."
He felt her slipping away from him, he ran after her, "Chi-Chi, please don't do this, I'll change...I'll..."
She put her arms around him, "You can't change Goku, I wouldn't want that, you wouldn't want that...and all those people out there need you."
He gulped "I don't want to lose you." He whispered into her hair as he felt tears splashing onto his chest.
"I'm sorry Goku but we can't go back." She said feeling sorrow for the both of them
He breathed in deeply, "I know, but can't I just hold you for a moment longer?"
"Hai." She whispered feeling her heart shatter into a million pieces along with Goku's.
****
Vegeta's eyes fluttered open as he grimaced in pain. He rolled over slowly to his side, trying to avoid hitting his wounded back side. What sort of idiots were they, setting him on his wounded back side to rest anyhow? "Damn onna, couldn't even stay out of the path of a ki blast." He swore to himself testing his feet on the floor.
He staggered up and looked around, "Red?" His voice took on an angry expression, "Kakarot?" The baka, he wouldn't have been surprised if the clown had remained to eat breakfast or something. He had realized too late the night before that landing so close to the onna's house was a mistake. Of course Kakarot would come to investigate and with that damned instant transmission.........
He growled softly and decided not to dwell on his miscalculation until he surveyed the damage of the night before, which led him to the dilemma of where exactly the woman and the clown were?
He shrugged and walked out the bedroom and down the hall, catching a glimpse out the window of Kakarot holding Chi-Chi. He stopped and stared at them as he let his anger lace through his veins searingly slow.
Unforgivable! And after he had risked his life, she goes running into his arms. His back wounds burned along with the anger now ablaze in his soul. He would not stand for this!
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Author's Notes: Sorry! Sorry! Sorry! Sorry! I had absolutely NO intentions of waiting this long for an update especially with that cliffhanger. I just got really stuck for a couple of reasons. 1. I refuse to bastardize Goku. I mean, he would NEVER hurt Chi-Chi on purpose so I wasn't about to make him into the jerk of all jerks............that's Vegeta's job hahahaha anyway, that caused me a few problems on how to go about writing this chapter but I think it turned out fairly decent this way.. 2. I have all these different scenes in my head and I'm never sure when to incorporate them. So this is version 3 of this chapter. And I think this one works out for the best since the next chapter should wrap the whole thing up right?
So yeah, sorry again I won't make you guys wait as long for the next update, I promise! and dear God! Everyone thank Bucky since she pretty much got me back on track with this chapter and pulled me out of my rut oh and SapphireAngelofTheNight too...she coached me through the fight scene.....bah! I hate writing those. A quick advertisement, you should check out her fic. Android B, it promises to be one helluva a fic. ^_~ trust me.
Oh right! And before I forget for all you Vegeta/Chi-Chi fans there's a Vegeta/Chi-Chi web page out there now. This is the link to Vegeta/Chi-Chi's page but Midnight has alot of other odd couple pairings with Chi-Chi too..lotsa good fic.s ^_^
http://www.angelfire.com/anime4/midnightsreflections/Vegeta.html
okay....Well I hoped you like! I promise next chapter as soon as I can!! ^__^ oh yeah and thankyou everybody for all of the wonderful reviews! This chapter would have never came without all of your encouragement.
The prince slowly rose to his feet with a sneer, still standing far too close to her, for Goku's liking. With the flash of a half-second Vegeta was against the wall with Goku's hand gripped tightly around his neck, his cold blue eyes burning into the black ones of Vegeta.
Chi-Chi's eyes remained on the bed as she huddled into a corner, unsure of what to do as she regained some sense of composure, "Goku.Vegeta." She looked up and saw the smaller Saiyajin in a death grip. She gasped, trying to word out protest to her husband but only a sob came out.
Vegeta glanced over at her and then back at the angry stare of his arch nemesis. He felt the light-headedness rushing to his head as his hands attempted without success to pull the larger fighter's ones off without going Super Saiyajin. He looked back at Chi-Chi and then went Super Saiyajin, kicking the other Saiyajin off.
Goku growled as he clutched his stomach before he charged forward once again with a punch. Vegeta glanced back at the other fighter in enough time to prepare for the blunt force of the attack. The prince flew forward, going headfirst into one of the night table. Chi-chi let out a stray scream watching Vegeta land dangerously close to where she was with a sickening thud against the table. Finally, regaining her voice she screamed, "Stop it! Goku!"
Too angry to hear anything else but his throaty growls, Goku picked the prince up and threw him into another wall. Slowly Vegeta staggered up and coughed, "Kakarot, I hardly think this is the."
"And to think I gave you a second chance Vegeta. Had I known you were capable of something like this." Goku's eyes clenched shut and then opened into low, hateful slits; "I would have never told Krillin to give you mercy. How could you try to hurt her like that Vegeta? I thought you had changed."
Vegeta's face lowered into an angrier and angrier glare with each word the younger fighter spewed, "You fool, you actually think."
"No! That's it, Vegeta.I'm not listening to you dish out your same old threats." his fists tightened, until blood seeped from them, "I can not forgive you for this!"
Goku lunged at Vegeta again and the Saiyajin quickly took the offensive, moving away from the bed. Chi-Chi scrambled to the other side, her eyes growing in horror, "NO! GOKU! You have to listen!"
She grabbed Goku's arm and Goku broke free, landing the fist on Vegeta's face. Chi-Chi gasped, putting her hands to her mouth. She had to stop this before something horrible happened. She had never seen her husband snap like this. Who knew what he could be capable of in this sort of state?
She looked at Vegeta; he knew what her Goku was capable of. He had seen Goku on the battlefield. She had not, and this side of her husband scared her. Trying to regain her lost courage, Chi-Chi charged forward, determined to stop this fight before they both got hurt.
Goku grunted, noticing that Vegeta had yet to pose any type of retaliatory attacks. Vegeta looked back at the younger fighter and then over at Chi- Chi. His eyes grew wide as he realized she storming over to them, "Stay back woman, this does not concern you."
"How can you say that?! This had absolutely everything to do with me." She argued, stopping behind Goku.
Goku looked back at her, "He's right Chi, this is between me and him now, you should get out of here."
She clicked her tongue in annoyance and grabbed Goku's shoulder, "No! Stop it Goku, right now! You will not continue this fight in my house."
His eyes widened slightly, "Oh right Chi! Sorry, I didn't mean to break anything!" Vegeta raised an eyebrow perplexed, surely Kakarot wasn't that dense.
"Kakarot don't you have at least one brain cell working?" Vegeta said more sarcastically than he had meant to.
Goku turned back to him fiercely, his angry gaze once again attempting to dissect him. Vegeta grunted, hating the younger fighter for being able to switch modes so quickly.
Chi-Chi took a step back as she realized the other side of her husband had once again taken over. Vegeta looked over at her and then back at the sneering Saiyajin.
Anger once again having taken control, Goku kicked Vegeta to the other side of the room, past Chi-Chi. She moved out of the way quickly.
Vegeta moved swiftly as Goku's follow up knee landed where the prince had been a moment before. Goku sneered and sent a blast over his shoulder reflexively. Vegeta looked up in enough time to see the blast headed towards the still frighten woman.
Chi-Chi's eyes grew in horror as she turned to see the approaching ki blast, engulfing her in its bright light. She turned her face sharply to the side, shut her eyes tightly, and put her arms up over her head, awaiting the impending impact. It never came.
As the light blew past and the darkness settled once again over the room. She became aware of the limp body on top of her. She blinked and looked over at the face of the badly hurt Saiyajin prince, "Vegeta?!...VEGETA?!?!?!"
She turned them over and bit her lip nervously, searching him over for serious injuries. She ran her fingertips over his blood streaked cheek softly, "You saved my life and what did I do? I sat there and let him fight because I-I didn't speak up soon enough, I'm sorry my love.I'm so sorry." As tears began to streak down her face, Chi-Chi leaned down and put her arms around the fallen prince.
Goku rushed over to her, his hair, and now back to its normal black, "Chi are you?" He stopped in front of her, noticing she was far too concerned with the man in her arms than her own state. He took a step back perplexed, hadn't Vegeta just tried to hurt her though?
Chi-Chi turned to him sharply; "Look what you did Goku! How could you do that?!" She looked back at Vegeta, "Come on, wake up Vegeta."
"But I thought." Goku trailed off as he watched her, worry over the shorter Saiyajin, his face suddenly lightening in realization. He hadn't been assaulting her, they'd been.
"Goku! Listen to me dammit! Help me get him to the bed." She screamed up at him as he came out of his musings, he staggered back.
He looked down at her and frowned, "No Chi-Chi, no I won't help you." His lower lip fattened into a pouting expression, "He wasn't hurting you was he? You were kissing him!"
She placed the prince down softly and stood up, staring up at Goku threateningly, "Yes I was kissing him."
Goku's eyes flashed in sorrow and shock, even though the truth was in front of him he didn't...no couldn't... believe it, "But.I thought.we were married."
She looked up at his hurt expression and sighed softly, her own face taking on a somber look, "Goku, we have to talk."
***
Having helped Chi-Chi get the unconscious Vegeta onto their bed, Goku and his wife walked outside, in the first rays of the morning sun. He inhaled the dewy sweet air he had come to call his home sharply as though it was his last breath. His mind race with a million possibilities and scenarios as he felt a pain coursing through his chest and pitting itself in his stomach.
Looking over at Chi-Chi's neutral expression didn't make him feel much better. She hadn't looked over at him since they'd walked out of the house, she hadn't yelled at him for staying away for so long or not wearing a sweater or even eating right. He hadn't even seen her crack a smile at his unexpected homecoming. He wasn't sure what exactly was going on as he absently scratched the back of his head in confusion.
So she had been kissing Vegeta. He felt the pain grow a little larger again and then recede to the back of his eyes and throat, "Chi?"
"Goku..." she interrupted him as he looked down at her, his eyes searching hers for answers, "You have to understand, I never meant for any of this to happen."
His brow lowered, for some reason there seemed to be more behind her apology than a few heated kisses, "What's 'this'? You kissing Vegeta?"
"Well yes, that partly but Goku...I was so lonely and...."
He felt his heart beat quicken with each passing moment, beating in a rhythm of some sort of painful rage or perhaps raging pain, he wasn't sure. He wiped his palm on his thighs as he leaned back slightly.
"And....Goku you're never around."
He blinked and let out a sigh of frustration as though that was there was to their argument, "Chi-Chi I'm training, the androids are coming in a few..."
"God Goku! If it's not one thing it's another with you! I don't see how training entails leaving your home for MONTHS on end with your son not even sending his mother and your wife a word on how you are! For all I knew you'd all been eaten by some wild animal or destroyed by some crazy gun wielding alien! You come running when you're hungry or something but God forbid you come and visit your lonely wife! HA! Visit......." she tasted her last word like it was a bitter herb, "like, we're old friends or something. " Tears began to well up in her eyes as her hand brushed away a few stray pieces of hair that fell in front of her. This wasn't what she envisioned her marriage would come to, weekly visits.
Goku blinked, raising an unsure hand and placing it on her shoulder, she pulled away and turned to him, "Don't you get it?!"
He frowned, "I'm not stupid Chi-Chi. God, I understand and I'm sorry I didn't realize....."
She laughed ironically, raising her hands and letting them fall, "Didn't realize....."
His voice slightly rose in held back anger, as tried to stay reasonable, "I didn't realize what this was doing to you but now that you've told me, we can make the changes."
Her shoulder slumped as she shook her head back and forth, "No Goku........it's not just that."
He shut his eyes, "What else is it then?"
"How can you even ask that?!" she screamed into his face
A defiant glower took over his face as his anger finally took over. "Chi- Chi what do you want from me?! I'm trying here okay? I come home to see my wife in the arms of another man, a man who hates me and not even a few years ago was trying to kill me and now here you are jumping around not giving me an explanation just telling me all the things I've done wrong and saying I don't understand. Well dammit Chi-Chi! You NEVER told me how these things effected you, how was I supposed to know?" he screamed as a tear slid down his cheek.
She took a step back a hand clutched to her chest, "Goku, I could understand all the training and even taking Gohan along but when you decided it would be more fun to stay on than damned planet rather than come home after you went to Namek!"
"...I came back." He countered.
"After a couple of years! We're not a family here at your disposal Goku, here when it suits you. We're here and need you every day!" she screamed, a crying fit slowly robbing her voice as she hissed, "I needed you."
He placed his hands on her shoulders, his face taking on a look of realization, "Chi-Chi, I never meant to stay away more than I had to.......you have to understand.........."
"I have to understand?!" she screamed looking up at him.
He grunted and looked away from her, "You don't understand how difficult it was."
"I beg to differ, I had to raise a family on my own in the middle of nowhere with little to no income."
"Look Chi-Chi, I understand that but at the time my head it was....gha! He fought for words, "When I went Super Saiyajin I couldn't trust myself, I just got so angry and the people on Yardrat helped me control it. I didn't want to come back and hurt you or Gohan by accident."
Her eyes turned misty; "It's unfortunate you did anyway."
He turned away from her and took a few steps away from her, his hands balling into fists, "I couldn't help it. Chi-Chi, it's so hard trying to be everything to everyone at once. I try to think of you and Gohan and then all this evil gets in the way and I can't help but feel like I have to stop it." He looked over at her with tears in her eyes, "But I can't help it, when I see people suffering I have to help them, I can't let them...I feel responsible for them."
She nodded knowingly, "I know that Goku, I should have realized it a long time ago."
He blinked back the tears, "But if you want me to, I'll stop and I'll stay here with you and Gohan can study, right?"
She looked down at her shoes, the shoes Vegeta had given her. She felt blood leak from her lip as she bit it hardly. She shook her head, "no"
Goku blinked, "What?" He ran up to her and shook her gently as he fell to his knees; "Yes we can Chi-Chi. We can go back to how it was before Radditz."
She broke free of him, "No we can't Goku! I'm in love with Vegeta!"
He fell back, clutching his chest as though he just had a heart attack, "But...but...he's...we're-we're married."
"Goku...........no we're not, maybe legally but you're heart never just belonged to me. It belongs to everyone, they all need you." She answered placing a hand on his shoulder.
"What about what I need?" he whispered as he clutched dirt with his fist.
She shook her forced a smile on her pained face, "You don't need me."
He stood up, "Yes I do!"
"What to cook for you and remind you dress warm?" She whimpered.
"No I need you for a million things!" he argued with a desperate look.
She sighed and turned from him, "It should just be one."
He felt her slipping away from him, he ran after her, "Chi-Chi, please don't do this, I'll change...I'll..."
She put her arms around him, "You can't change Goku, I wouldn't want that, you wouldn't want that...and all those people out there need you."
He gulped "I don't want to lose you." He whispered into her hair as he felt tears splashing onto his chest.
"I'm sorry Goku but we can't go back." She said feeling sorrow for the both of them
He breathed in deeply, "I know, but can't I just hold you for a moment longer?"
"Hai." She whispered feeling her heart shatter into a million pieces along with Goku's.
****
Vegeta's eyes fluttered open as he grimaced in pain. He rolled over slowly to his side, trying to avoid hitting his wounded back side. What sort of idiots were they, setting him on his wounded back side to rest anyhow? "Damn onna, couldn't even stay out of the path of a ki blast." He swore to himself testing his feet on the floor.
He staggered up and looked around, "Red?" His voice took on an angry expression, "Kakarot?" The baka, he wouldn't have been surprised if the clown had remained to eat breakfast or something. He had realized too late the night before that landing so close to the onna's house was a mistake. Of course Kakarot would come to investigate and with that damned instant transmission.........
He growled softly and decided not to dwell on his miscalculation until he surveyed the damage of the night before, which led him to the dilemma of where exactly the woman and the clown were?
He shrugged and walked out the bedroom and down the hall, catching a glimpse out the window of Kakarot holding Chi-Chi. He stopped and stared at them as he let his anger lace through his veins searingly slow.
Unforgivable! And after he had risked his life, she goes running into his arms. His back wounds burned along with the anger now ablaze in his soul. He would not stand for this!
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Author's Notes: Sorry! Sorry! Sorry! Sorry! I had absolutely NO intentions of waiting this long for an update especially with that cliffhanger. I just got really stuck for a couple of reasons. 1. I refuse to bastardize Goku. I mean, he would NEVER hurt Chi-Chi on purpose so I wasn't about to make him into the jerk of all jerks............that's Vegeta's job hahahaha anyway, that caused me a few problems on how to go about writing this chapter but I think it turned out fairly decent this way.. 2. I have all these different scenes in my head and I'm never sure when to incorporate them. So this is version 3 of this chapter. And I think this one works out for the best since the next chapter should wrap the whole thing up right?
So yeah, sorry again I won't make you guys wait as long for the next update, I promise! and dear God! Everyone thank Bucky since she pretty much got me back on track with this chapter and pulled me out of my rut oh and SapphireAngelofTheNight too...she coached me through the fight scene.....bah! I hate writing those. A quick advertisement, you should check out her fic. Android B, it promises to be one helluva a fic. ^_~ trust me.
Oh right! And before I forget for all you Vegeta/Chi-Chi fans there's a Vegeta/Chi-Chi web page out there now. This is the link to Vegeta/Chi-Chi's page but Midnight has alot of other odd couple pairings with Chi-Chi too..lotsa good fic.s ^_^
http://www.angelfire.com/anime4/midnightsreflections/Vegeta.html
okay....Well I hoped you like! I promise next chapter as soon as I can!! ^__^ oh yeah and thankyou everybody for all of the wonderful reviews! This chapter would have never came without all of your encouragement.
