Hiya!!!

Welcome to the long awaited FITH chapter of LOCKED IN!!!

Goten: It wasn't long awaited!!!

Trunks: Yeah, It was only, like, twenty-four hours!!!

Emiko: Shut-Up you!!!

Goten & Trunks: NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Emiko: YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Goten: Anyway!!! Emiko does not own DBZ in anyway, Akira Toriyama does.

Emiko: No he doesn't! I do! I own all the rights to Dragonball Z!!!

Trunks: ((on the phone)) Yes, Crazy Bin Inc.? Yes, I have another patient for you.((Pause)) She thinks she's the owner of DBZ.

Emiko: ((In the background)) I AM THE OWNER OF DBZ!!! Akira STOLE it!!!

Trunks: They'll be here in a minute!

((60 seconds tick by))

Bob: Hello, I am Bob, the Crazy Bin Inc. director. I will be taking Emiko.

Emiko: NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Random dude in a white suit: Come with me!!

Emiko: No really, I came up with the idea!!!

Random dude in a white suit: Yeah, and I'm Trunks Briefs.

Trunks: No, I am Trunks Briefs.

Bob: ((Looks at Trunks)) take him too.

Trunks: NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Goten!!! HELP!!!

Goten: NO! Since Emiko is not here, um . . . this feels weird, um . . .

ON WITH THE FIC!!!

LOCKED IN

Bulma pulled back.

"I'm sorry, I don't know what came over me! I didn't mean for that to happen, I just thought that . . . well, I thought that um . . . You see Vegeta I muhh . . .

Just as Bulma cut off Vegeta, Vegeta had cut off Bulma.

Bulma's eyes became wide as his lips landed on hers. She was slightly surprised with the fact that he had kissed her back. Her eyelids fluttered shut as she leaned in.

The thing that surprised her the most, was he was gentle. Not sloppy and wet, like Yamcha's, but slow, soft, perfect. This was the last thing she expected from him. He was a Prince that probably had his fare kisses and women throughout his life. Getting what he wanted from women. Not this gentle, sweet, slow, passionate kiss, that Bulma was not used to.

Her hand slowly moved to his neck, pulling him closer. Her other hand went straight to his hair, grabbing it in her fingers.

Vegeta responded by wrapping his arm around her waist and grabbed the back of her head, as If he were holding on to save his life. He slightly grazed her lips with his tongue.

She moaned and gladly let him explore openly. She leaned down, taking him with her.

Vegeta suddenly pulled back. Bulma's eyebrows frowned in confusion.

"Do you really wanna be stuck with me the rest of your life?" he asked softly.

"What? What do you mean?" she asked.

"Well, Say-jins, um . . .they stay with one person their entire life. Not straying, not cheating, no other marriages. It goes on after death."

"What is 'it'?"

Vegeta looked at her uncertainly. "Bonding."

One word. One word never made Bulma feel so many emotions at once.

"What do you mean by 'bonding'?"

"Well, Say-jins, Kami, what was it?" he yelled at himself. When Nappa was trying to explain this to him, he wasn't really paying attention. He was twelve for Kami's sake. "I don't remember much of it, but, when a Say-jin mates, or has sex, he, um . . ., is bonded to the other person, and has to stick with the other person because it just wouldn't FEEL right. That person is the only person in the universe for them."

"That's sweet." Bulma thought for a moment. Would she want to be stuck with him forever. 'Till not even death due them part'?

"Could you put up with me?"

'YES!' her heart told her to say. She needed to think about this reasonably. It was like she was at the altar, about to say 'I do'. Except with this, there was no divorce. Only marriage.

Vegeta's face was as stubborn as it ever was; hard, cold, and angry looking. But Bulma knew better. She knew his 'code' that no one else knew.

Bulma smiled.

"The real question is; could YOU put up with ME?"

"Is that a yes?" he asked.

"If you don't know, then maybe I should do this, instead of saying 'yes'."

Bulma grabbed his head and pulled him down on her lips.

The next morning, Bulma woke up to the sound of the shower running. She turned over, to see that Vegeta's pillow was empty.

A sharp pain ran over her neck. Bulma reached up and felt a slight incision. She pulled back her hand and saw blood.

She went down to the kitchen as soon as she had put on a camisole and drawstring pants. She reached for another silver packet in the cupboard. She wasn't really paying attention to what she was doing because she was too busy thinking of her husband, Vegeta. Vegeta was her husband! That was something she never thought would happen. But what was up with the bite mark on her neck, and what exactly was this 'bonding' thing all about?

'I'll just have to ask Vegeta,' she thought.

She felt two strong arms go around her.

"Speak of the devil!" she said.

"What?" he said, turning her to face him.

"I was just thinking about you." She said, planting a kiss on him. She slowly moved her hands down his button-down shirt. "So," she started, "Are we considered married right now?"

Vegeta looked at her a bit before he said, "I guess so."

Bulma smiled the biggest smile she had ever smiled in her entire life. "And what's up with the Vampire teeth, huh?"

He got a look of confusion on his face. She pointed to the bite mark.

"Oh! That! I guess I should've warned you!"

"Warned me what?"

"That's how we bond. We have no control over it. See?" He pulled back his own shirt collar to reveal a very familiar mark.

"Okay," Bulma said inspecting the bite, "I did that?"

Vegeta only nodded. Then he turned to go to the living room.

Bulma, beginning to become very curious, followed him. When she arrived in the living room, she caught Vegeta holding the couch above his head.

"What are you doing?" she asked from the doorway. Her eyebrows were raised and her hands were on her hips.

"I WAS going to exercise. THREE WJOLE DAYS with out the GR is not very good, considering we have two years left." He said in his usually tone, which a normal person would consider the scariest sound in the universe.

Not to Bulma though, "You usually BLOW UP the GR! I don't know about you, but, I like this house. I want to keep it!"

"Calm down woman! I was only going to do some push-ups and sit-ups!"

"Okay . . . Just don't ruin anything!" she retreating back into the kitchen.

Four hours later, Bulma was sitting in the Kitchen listening to Vegeta workout in the adjoining room. He grunted every time he did a push-up. She had counted. He was up to 3,892 . . .3,893 . . .3,894 . . .and so on and so on.

Frankly, it was getting on her nerves.

She got up and stormed into the living room.

"VEGETA! IT'S THE FRIST DAY OF OUR MARRIED LIFE AND ALL YOU WANT TO DO IS SPEND ALL DAY DOING PUSHUPS! GET UP, MONKEY-BOY!" She took off her shoe and walked over to the now sitting Vegeta and hit him over the head.

"I WAS only gonna go to 4,000, but, you interrupted me, I'm gonna have to start all over." Sarcasm rich in his voice, Bulma hit him over the head again.

When Vegeta finally got the shoe out of her hand, he wrapped her in his arms and dragged her back up-stairs.

^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Crappy Chapter 5^ I know!!!

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