~Tribulations from the Past~
Chapter: 5
When Bulma, Trunks, and Goten entered the kitchen, they found Vegeta still at the table with stacks of plates already finished cluttered all around as he dug into fresh ones being delivered by their maids.
"Well obviously we know who Trunks gets his table manners from." Bulma teased to him. He acknowledged her with a grunt and continued eating. She rolled her eyes as he grabbed another plate from a skittish maid and looked at Goten and Trunks who were acting disappointed that they weren't able to go spar yet. "Hey why don't you two go into the backyard and spar while the 'Prince of All Saiyans' finishes stuffing his face?" she winked. They both nodded grinning and headed outside.
It turned out to be a warm summer day with just the right breeze and they quickly decided that the back yard was too confining and, telling Bulma first of course so they wouldn't have another episode like earlier, they decided to head out to a nearby gorge (Trunks had found it) where they could spar without people seeing them while they waited for Vegeta to finish eating which, knowing him, would probably take awhile.
Landing in the enormous rocky ravine surrounded by towering rock walls, they both powered up and started to spar right away at their almost max level, Trunks' was a bit higher then Gotens so he kept it down so they were just even so it would make the fight more interesting. They had told Bulma where they were going so most likely Vegeta would probably show up there in a while to start the training there, this would be a good warm up they decided.
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"Onna, where have the two brats gone? If they expect me to train them then they better stop running off or I'll just let them train themselves."
Vegeta stomped back into the kitchen after not finding them in the house or the back yard. Bulma's voice was heard from the living room, "They went to a gorge 5 miles out of North City, I told them that you would meet them there when you were done."
"What? I never said I would go out there! I could have been training by now, why didn't you tell me this in the first place before I wasted my time looking for them?" She popped her head around the corner grinning, "You didn't ask."
Growling in frustration at her, he left the house and blasted into the air heading for the gorge. He knew exactly where he was going. He had been to that very same place countless times, years ago before Trunks was even born. He had used it to train and camp when he had first arrived preparing to fight the androids. It was quite perfect for sparring outside, no one would ever notice you. Trunks actually found it on his own, and used it for this very purpose. It was quite a coincidence if you thought about it.
Suddenly, an unsettling thought came to him. 'Maybe I should just go get the boys and return to the house to train there, Bulma will be all alone and, knowing her, she'll let all the servants off for the day and who knows what she could get herself into if no one is around to know if she's alright.... .'
This may seem like a weird, paranoid thought to you and you may wonder why Vegeta would even bother to worry about such a thing, but as I'm sure you've figured out if you're a dedicated DBZ fan, that trouble always seems to find Bulma no matter where she goes or what she does.
But Vegeta ignored his better instinct and told himself that he was just being paranoid. They would be gone for only a day and probably get back early tomorrow morning or very late tonight.
What could possibly happen?
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Bulma hummed to the music that she had blaring on the radio as she helped the maids clean the mess that Vegeta had left after breakfast cause she had nothing else to do. After everything was cleaned up, since it was a Sunday, she didn't have any work to do and the house was in order so she decided to let all the servants off for the rest of the day thinking she'd be fine without them.
Capsule Corp., as we all know, is a very huge place. So huge, that the Brief's had made it into a kind of home/building corporation. Bulma and her families living area and home was on a huge section in the front, and her parents lived way on the other side, so she never saw them much by accident.
She had no one to talk to and finally getting bored, decided that she and Chichi should go spend a day at the beach, so picking up the phone she called her and after much convincing that Chichi's house was clean enough and could use a day off of being spotless, they were getting ready and both off to meet at their favorite place at the beach by the volleyball nets.
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"Trunks you are such a cheater! You said you'd fight with only one arm!" Goten pouted in his adorably cute, high voice. "Well I did only use one arm, I punched you once with this arm" Trunks lifted his right arm smugly, "then once with this arm" he lifted the other one. Goten pouted, "Not fair! You knew you were cheating." Trunks rolled his eyes, "Goten you are such a sore loser. Quit being a baby."
"I'm not a baby Trunks!"
Trunks smirked, a mirror image of Vegeta, "Then prove it" he said, while lowering back into a fighting position.
"Fine! And this time, I'm gonna win Trunks."
"Ha, we'll see." Trunks said almost deviously. With that, he flew at Goten with a very smug look on his face. Then, just as he was about to appear behind Goten, he was grabbed from behind and had his arms and legs pinned to his sides leaving him utterly helpless.
Struggling, he fiercely looked up into the face of his captor and let out a groan. "Daaaad, no fair! Lemme go!" he struggled with all his strength but gave up when he realized that he wasn't getting anywhere. Vegeta grinned down at him, "Not fair? You should always be on the aware for a surprise attack, the enemy will not hesitate to get you when you're not paying attention." He glanced over at Goten who still had a big bruise on his face from when Trunks had hit him deliberately cheating. "Besides" Vegeta added, "It doesn't look like you're much into playing fair." (*ouch!*)
Trunks blushed shamefully and suddenly found staring at the ground miles below them very fascinating.
"So are you boys ready to begin?" Vegeta asked with a smirk. They both nodded. He let a sullen Trunks go and proceeded to explain how, if it had been a real life situation, would have been the best way for Trunks to get out of that hold. After explaining a few tricks of the trade about fighting smarts, he taught them about using good bluffs on your opponent, then asked them a couple questions here and there to determine what he thought they were ready for and what they were not. When he was satisfied by what they knew, they dropped back down to the ground and lowered into the wide, yet deep gorge and the lessons began.
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~Later that night~
Coming back from the beach Bulma was exhausted, she was dripping wet and it wasn't from the ocean. Pouring just didn't seem to justify how hard the rain was pounding down. It was just like being under a waterfall the second you walked outside. The wind was blowing and trees were getting knocked over. Lightening was flashing and power lines were starting to get taken out and half the city was in darkness already from loss of electricity. Thankfully, where she lived the power lines were still currently up and she had light, but the light bulbs kept flickering which meant they would probably be going out soon.
She hadn't gotten home till late because when the storm had hit so suddenly and without warning they had headed straight for Chichi's because it was closer and the air cars weren't holding up too well in the terrible wind. She had finally been able to make it home when it had taken a short break, but not even half way back she had gotten stuck in the worst part of it yet and got drenched just making it from the car to the door.
Glancing at the clock, she saw that it was 11:00 and groaned. Tomorrow was Monday and if she didn't get enough sleep everyone would suffer the next day from her mood. She had expected Vegeta and the kids to be home by now, what with the weather and all, but knowing saiyans they probably enjoyed fighting in the torrent of rain immensely. So, heading up the stairs, she decided to take a quick shower to warm up and then would go to bed.
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~Back to that mid-afternoon~
(An hour or two after Bulma left the house)
"Dad we're f-fr-freezing, let's go home!" Trunks yelled over to Vegeta through the howling wind. The rain was gushing down into the gorge like a waterfall off the sides of the cliff and was streaming onto them relentlessly.
Now, when I say they were having rain gushing down on them relentlessly.... I mean Trunks and Goten. Vegeta however, was quite dry and cozy. There was a small cave-like indent in the side of the rock wall that was just big and deep enough for one person sitting down to fit into it. Vegeta was occupying this for meditation while the boys were supposed to be working on some new sets of katas that he had taught them.
Sitting Indian style with his hands resting on the sides of his legs, he opened one eye to glare at Trunks. "Quit whining boy, this is nothing! You must clear your mind and focus on what you must do, now concentrate!" With that he closed his eye and resumed sitting in silence.
Trunks and Goten squinted at each other as best as they could through the sheets of water, but in the end Trunks decided that for them to get home, his dad needed to know how it felt to be them right now, so forming a bubble-like energy ball, he raised it up and it actually began catching and filling up with raindrops. Since it was raining harder than a faucet can spout water, it didn't take long to be full and, snickering over to Goten who looked almost horrified and like he wanted to be anywhere but there, Trunks heaved it at Vegeta and yelled somewhat evilly, "Heads up dad!" (Isn't Trunks a nice son? *evil smile*)
It hit him dead center in the face and soaked him as thoroughly as if he had just jumped in a lake with his clothes on. Vegeta's eyes flew open as he jumped to his feet as quick as lightening, which caused him to bang his head on the ceiling of the small cave-like area and cursed loudly.
Trunks laughed uncontrollably, "Hey does the water feel more on the wet or dry side today dad?" he yelled through his fits of laughter.
"TRUNKS!!! JUST WAIT UNTIL I GET MY HANDS ON YOU! YOU'LL BE DOING PUSH-UPS IN THE RAIN FOR A MONTH!!!"
He glared over where his only and soon-not-to-be-living-when-he-got-his- hands-on-him-son who was currently rolling around on the soaked ground despite the two feet deep mud, laughing his head off while Goten looked as if he didn't know whether to be terrified or laughing right along with Trunks. Vegeta just glared at him rolling on the ground as his son was miserably failing at trying to collect himself enough to stand up (He kept looking at his dad standing there with his hair dripping water and bent down at odd angles all over the place which looked very hysterical and made him start busting out every time he looked at him) but soon found that the mud worked like a suction cup and Vegeta got the pleasure of watching him get more and more stuck in the mud till he gave up trying to get free and just sat there still grinning widely.
"I have half a mind to just leave you stuck there for the night you know that Trunks?" He growled while wringing his hair out, yet just couldn't keep down the smile at watching him act so goofy. "How about if I can get outta here then me and Goten go home where it's dry and waterproof?" Trunks asked almost seriously.
"Boy, you are pathetic." He said shaking his head with hidden amusement. "Fine, you two may go back to the house if you feel that a little bit of rain is too much for you to handle, but tomorrow be prepared for the hardest training of your life."
Trunks, still sitting down, stuck in the mud, looked over at him, "What? Aren't you coming with us?" Vegeta, watching him struggle to get out of the mud and actually have to power up just a little bit to get free replied, "When you meditate, to achieve open mindedness you must concentrate on it for a specific amount of time. The more I am distracted by you and your childish games the more I waste and have to spend more time meditating to achieve the goal."
Trunks, obviously not understanding a word of this just looked at him for a second wide-eyed and said, "Oh."
"Well OK, Goten you ready?"
A huddled and shaking Goten replied "Yea, l-lets g-go-o T-Trunksss.."
He waved to his father as they floated up through the air and they turned and sped away quickly leaving only their aura colorations behind them which soon disappeared from the heavy rain. Vegeta sighed and sat back down rather heavily with an annoying wet plop. "Sigh, he is definitely that onna's son." He thought. "Now at least I can meditate in peace."
With that he got back to work, ignoring the pounding rain and howling wind, he crossed his legs and closed his eyes trying to clear his thoughts but still was unable to stop from shaking his head one last time and keeping the tiniest of smiles from only momentarily gracing his face.
A/N: I know I kinda skipped around alot during this day but if anyone got confused about what happened when, just ask and I'll post to clear it up. Hope you enjoyed this one, I like to think that Vegeta and Trunks had a pretty good relationship with one another even though DBZ never really lets you see how they interacted all the time together but I thought that with Trunks' personality when he was younger that Vegeta would almost have to act with him like this even if just occasionally. But, ne way thats just me......... So hope you liked it and let's see those reviews that I love so much! Oh and sorry vegetasqueen1220 but next chapter is when at least some of the suspense takes place. I know not alot happened here but *Evil grin* this chappy just kinda filled in some spots but ya gotta know this for later parts to understand it. Enjoy!
~Blue-Flame12~
Chapter: 5
When Bulma, Trunks, and Goten entered the kitchen, they found Vegeta still at the table with stacks of plates already finished cluttered all around as he dug into fresh ones being delivered by their maids.
"Well obviously we know who Trunks gets his table manners from." Bulma teased to him. He acknowledged her with a grunt and continued eating. She rolled her eyes as he grabbed another plate from a skittish maid and looked at Goten and Trunks who were acting disappointed that they weren't able to go spar yet. "Hey why don't you two go into the backyard and spar while the 'Prince of All Saiyans' finishes stuffing his face?" she winked. They both nodded grinning and headed outside.
It turned out to be a warm summer day with just the right breeze and they quickly decided that the back yard was too confining and, telling Bulma first of course so they wouldn't have another episode like earlier, they decided to head out to a nearby gorge (Trunks had found it) where they could spar without people seeing them while they waited for Vegeta to finish eating which, knowing him, would probably take awhile.
Landing in the enormous rocky ravine surrounded by towering rock walls, they both powered up and started to spar right away at their almost max level, Trunks' was a bit higher then Gotens so he kept it down so they were just even so it would make the fight more interesting. They had told Bulma where they were going so most likely Vegeta would probably show up there in a while to start the training there, this would be a good warm up they decided.
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"Onna, where have the two brats gone? If they expect me to train them then they better stop running off or I'll just let them train themselves."
Vegeta stomped back into the kitchen after not finding them in the house or the back yard. Bulma's voice was heard from the living room, "They went to a gorge 5 miles out of North City, I told them that you would meet them there when you were done."
"What? I never said I would go out there! I could have been training by now, why didn't you tell me this in the first place before I wasted my time looking for them?" She popped her head around the corner grinning, "You didn't ask."
Growling in frustration at her, he left the house and blasted into the air heading for the gorge. He knew exactly where he was going. He had been to that very same place countless times, years ago before Trunks was even born. He had used it to train and camp when he had first arrived preparing to fight the androids. It was quite perfect for sparring outside, no one would ever notice you. Trunks actually found it on his own, and used it for this very purpose. It was quite a coincidence if you thought about it.
Suddenly, an unsettling thought came to him. 'Maybe I should just go get the boys and return to the house to train there, Bulma will be all alone and, knowing her, she'll let all the servants off for the day and who knows what she could get herself into if no one is around to know if she's alright.... .'
This may seem like a weird, paranoid thought to you and you may wonder why Vegeta would even bother to worry about such a thing, but as I'm sure you've figured out if you're a dedicated DBZ fan, that trouble always seems to find Bulma no matter where she goes or what she does.
But Vegeta ignored his better instinct and told himself that he was just being paranoid. They would be gone for only a day and probably get back early tomorrow morning or very late tonight.
What could possibly happen?
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Bulma hummed to the music that she had blaring on the radio as she helped the maids clean the mess that Vegeta had left after breakfast cause she had nothing else to do. After everything was cleaned up, since it was a Sunday, she didn't have any work to do and the house was in order so she decided to let all the servants off for the rest of the day thinking she'd be fine without them.
Capsule Corp., as we all know, is a very huge place. So huge, that the Brief's had made it into a kind of home/building corporation. Bulma and her families living area and home was on a huge section in the front, and her parents lived way on the other side, so she never saw them much by accident.
She had no one to talk to and finally getting bored, decided that she and Chichi should go spend a day at the beach, so picking up the phone she called her and after much convincing that Chichi's house was clean enough and could use a day off of being spotless, they were getting ready and both off to meet at their favorite place at the beach by the volleyball nets.
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"Trunks you are such a cheater! You said you'd fight with only one arm!" Goten pouted in his adorably cute, high voice. "Well I did only use one arm, I punched you once with this arm" Trunks lifted his right arm smugly, "then once with this arm" he lifted the other one. Goten pouted, "Not fair! You knew you were cheating." Trunks rolled his eyes, "Goten you are such a sore loser. Quit being a baby."
"I'm not a baby Trunks!"
Trunks smirked, a mirror image of Vegeta, "Then prove it" he said, while lowering back into a fighting position.
"Fine! And this time, I'm gonna win Trunks."
"Ha, we'll see." Trunks said almost deviously. With that, he flew at Goten with a very smug look on his face. Then, just as he was about to appear behind Goten, he was grabbed from behind and had his arms and legs pinned to his sides leaving him utterly helpless.
Struggling, he fiercely looked up into the face of his captor and let out a groan. "Daaaad, no fair! Lemme go!" he struggled with all his strength but gave up when he realized that he wasn't getting anywhere. Vegeta grinned down at him, "Not fair? You should always be on the aware for a surprise attack, the enemy will not hesitate to get you when you're not paying attention." He glanced over at Goten who still had a big bruise on his face from when Trunks had hit him deliberately cheating. "Besides" Vegeta added, "It doesn't look like you're much into playing fair." (*ouch!*)
Trunks blushed shamefully and suddenly found staring at the ground miles below them very fascinating.
"So are you boys ready to begin?" Vegeta asked with a smirk. They both nodded. He let a sullen Trunks go and proceeded to explain how, if it had been a real life situation, would have been the best way for Trunks to get out of that hold. After explaining a few tricks of the trade about fighting smarts, he taught them about using good bluffs on your opponent, then asked them a couple questions here and there to determine what he thought they were ready for and what they were not. When he was satisfied by what they knew, they dropped back down to the ground and lowered into the wide, yet deep gorge and the lessons began.
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~Later that night~
Coming back from the beach Bulma was exhausted, she was dripping wet and it wasn't from the ocean. Pouring just didn't seem to justify how hard the rain was pounding down. It was just like being under a waterfall the second you walked outside. The wind was blowing and trees were getting knocked over. Lightening was flashing and power lines were starting to get taken out and half the city was in darkness already from loss of electricity. Thankfully, where she lived the power lines were still currently up and she had light, but the light bulbs kept flickering which meant they would probably be going out soon.
She hadn't gotten home till late because when the storm had hit so suddenly and without warning they had headed straight for Chichi's because it was closer and the air cars weren't holding up too well in the terrible wind. She had finally been able to make it home when it had taken a short break, but not even half way back she had gotten stuck in the worst part of it yet and got drenched just making it from the car to the door.
Glancing at the clock, she saw that it was 11:00 and groaned. Tomorrow was Monday and if she didn't get enough sleep everyone would suffer the next day from her mood. She had expected Vegeta and the kids to be home by now, what with the weather and all, but knowing saiyans they probably enjoyed fighting in the torrent of rain immensely. So, heading up the stairs, she decided to take a quick shower to warm up and then would go to bed.
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~Back to that mid-afternoon~
(An hour or two after Bulma left the house)
"Dad we're f-fr-freezing, let's go home!" Trunks yelled over to Vegeta through the howling wind. The rain was gushing down into the gorge like a waterfall off the sides of the cliff and was streaming onto them relentlessly.
Now, when I say they were having rain gushing down on them relentlessly.... I mean Trunks and Goten. Vegeta however, was quite dry and cozy. There was a small cave-like indent in the side of the rock wall that was just big and deep enough for one person sitting down to fit into it. Vegeta was occupying this for meditation while the boys were supposed to be working on some new sets of katas that he had taught them.
Sitting Indian style with his hands resting on the sides of his legs, he opened one eye to glare at Trunks. "Quit whining boy, this is nothing! You must clear your mind and focus on what you must do, now concentrate!" With that he closed his eye and resumed sitting in silence.
Trunks and Goten squinted at each other as best as they could through the sheets of water, but in the end Trunks decided that for them to get home, his dad needed to know how it felt to be them right now, so forming a bubble-like energy ball, he raised it up and it actually began catching and filling up with raindrops. Since it was raining harder than a faucet can spout water, it didn't take long to be full and, snickering over to Goten who looked almost horrified and like he wanted to be anywhere but there, Trunks heaved it at Vegeta and yelled somewhat evilly, "Heads up dad!" (Isn't Trunks a nice son? *evil smile*)
It hit him dead center in the face and soaked him as thoroughly as if he had just jumped in a lake with his clothes on. Vegeta's eyes flew open as he jumped to his feet as quick as lightening, which caused him to bang his head on the ceiling of the small cave-like area and cursed loudly.
Trunks laughed uncontrollably, "Hey does the water feel more on the wet or dry side today dad?" he yelled through his fits of laughter.
"TRUNKS!!! JUST WAIT UNTIL I GET MY HANDS ON YOU! YOU'LL BE DOING PUSH-UPS IN THE RAIN FOR A MONTH!!!"
He glared over where his only and soon-not-to-be-living-when-he-got-his- hands-on-him-son who was currently rolling around on the soaked ground despite the two feet deep mud, laughing his head off while Goten looked as if he didn't know whether to be terrified or laughing right along with Trunks. Vegeta just glared at him rolling on the ground as his son was miserably failing at trying to collect himself enough to stand up (He kept looking at his dad standing there with his hair dripping water and bent down at odd angles all over the place which looked very hysterical and made him start busting out every time he looked at him) but soon found that the mud worked like a suction cup and Vegeta got the pleasure of watching him get more and more stuck in the mud till he gave up trying to get free and just sat there still grinning widely.
"I have half a mind to just leave you stuck there for the night you know that Trunks?" He growled while wringing his hair out, yet just couldn't keep down the smile at watching him act so goofy. "How about if I can get outta here then me and Goten go home where it's dry and waterproof?" Trunks asked almost seriously.
"Boy, you are pathetic." He said shaking his head with hidden amusement. "Fine, you two may go back to the house if you feel that a little bit of rain is too much for you to handle, but tomorrow be prepared for the hardest training of your life."
Trunks, still sitting down, stuck in the mud, looked over at him, "What? Aren't you coming with us?" Vegeta, watching him struggle to get out of the mud and actually have to power up just a little bit to get free replied, "When you meditate, to achieve open mindedness you must concentrate on it for a specific amount of time. The more I am distracted by you and your childish games the more I waste and have to spend more time meditating to achieve the goal."
Trunks, obviously not understanding a word of this just looked at him for a second wide-eyed and said, "Oh."
"Well OK, Goten you ready?"
A huddled and shaking Goten replied "Yea, l-lets g-go-o T-Trunksss.."
He waved to his father as they floated up through the air and they turned and sped away quickly leaving only their aura colorations behind them which soon disappeared from the heavy rain. Vegeta sighed and sat back down rather heavily with an annoying wet plop. "Sigh, he is definitely that onna's son." He thought. "Now at least I can meditate in peace."
With that he got back to work, ignoring the pounding rain and howling wind, he crossed his legs and closed his eyes trying to clear his thoughts but still was unable to stop from shaking his head one last time and keeping the tiniest of smiles from only momentarily gracing his face.
A/N: I know I kinda skipped around alot during this day but if anyone got confused about what happened when, just ask and I'll post to clear it up. Hope you enjoyed this one, I like to think that Vegeta and Trunks had a pretty good relationship with one another even though DBZ never really lets you see how they interacted all the time together but I thought that with Trunks' personality when he was younger that Vegeta would almost have to act with him like this even if just occasionally. But, ne way thats just me......... So hope you liked it and let's see those reviews that I love so much! Oh and sorry vegetasqueen1220 but next chapter is when at least some of the suspense takes place. I know not alot happened here but *Evil grin* this chappy just kinda filled in some spots but ya gotta know this for later parts to understand it. Enjoy!
~Blue-Flame12~