Disclaimer: I don't own DBZ or this wonderful song.
Summary: It's Vegeta's Father's birthday…Happy birthday bastard…
Emotion's one must conceal
Chapter fourteen: Father of mine
A deep silence fell over the crowd. It was a near by club and a week after the accident. Bulma stared into his dark black orbs and smiled along with her friend 18 and Chichi. Vegeta would be playing the song that he'd been writing for a year. It was finally complete.
"GO VEGETA!" Mayumi cheered with a yell. Makato grinned and clapped.
He smirked that with obstinate arrogance and tipped off to Goku and Krillin to start the base and drums. As the played for a while he breathed heavily and nodded. His deep masculine voice finally spoke those words.
"Father of mine
Tell me where have you been
You know I just closed my eyes
My whole world disappeared
Father of mine
Take me back to the day
When I was still your golden boy
Back before you went away
I remember the blue skies, walking the block
I loved it when you held me high
I loved to hear you talk
You would take me to the movie
You would take me to the beach
Take me to a place inside that is so hard to reach"
Mayumi's eyes had tears form in them, but she kept on smiling for her little brother…
"Father of mine
Tell me where did you go
You had the world inside your hand
But you did not seem to know
Father of mine
Tell me what do you see
When you look back at your wasted life and you don't see me
I was ten years old
Doing all that I could
It wasn't easy for me to be a scared white boy in a black neighborhood
Sometimes you would send me a birthday card
With a five dollar bill
I never understood you then and I guess I never will"
Bulma sighed and held her stomach. The pain was still in her, and she felt the deep sadness that Vegeta was expressing. She has yet to tell her own parents of the accident…it isn't as if they'd care…
"Daddy gave me a name
My dad he gave me a name
Then he walked away
Daddy gave me a name
Then he walked away
My dad gave me a name
Father of mine
Tell me where have you been
I just closed my eyes
And the world disappeared"
Vegeta silenced himself for a moment then sang hardly again. He obscured his shattered life and emotions not giving his true emotions.
"Father of mine
Tell me how do you sleep
With the children you abandoned
And the wife I saw you beat
I will never be safe
I will never be sane
I will always be weird inside
I will always be lame
Now I am a grown man
With a child of my own
And I swear I'm not going to let her know
All the pain I have known
Then he walked away
Daddy gave me a name
Then he walked away
My dad gave me a name
Then he walked away"
The last lines of the song were sung with roughness and bitterness as for the whole song. Cheers and claps were heard from all around the club and he nodded before speaking into the microphone.
"Happy birthday father, from Mayumi and I. You left us, hurt us, and I hope you rot in hell!" He growled but cracked a smirk. The gang laughed and Vegeta jumped off stage.
Mayumi, Makato, Bulma, Chichi, 18, Krillin, and Goku congratulated Vegeta on the song and celebrated together. They all laughed, drank a bit then finally left home. Bulma and Vegeta walked along the streets talking about the night's events.
"You really are one strong girl," Vegeta commented, "how is your wound?"
"Internal or external?" Bulma mumbled.
Vegeta chuckled and looked into the sky. "Both."
"Let's just say the emotional wound is one that will never heal, but the external has already," she sighed softly. They both stopped and sat under and tree in the park.
"Life is pretty weird ain't it?"
"What do you mean?" she asked.
"Well you were blessed with wealth, two parents, yet you're unhappy because the wealth doesn't really help. You're probably the smartest person on the planet, but you thrive for someone to be better than you for once. You don't like being the center of attention, and you may have two parents, but they never pay attention or notice you," Vegeta explained.
"What are you getting at?" Bulma requested.
"Just listen to me." He said then continued. "That's your life. My life consisted of an abusive father who is gone, a loving mother and sister, wealth, and attention. If we compare lives, one may think you have it better, but it is I who has it better. You have no one to turn to but your friends and Makato, while I have a sister and mother."
"You're right," the blue eyed girl sighed, "people say I'm lucky…but I'm not."
"That's just it, if you keep saying 'I'm not lucky, life is a bitch, I'm going to kill myself' then you're just wallowing in pity of the world. The world is surrounded by all this, and we say we hate pity, but we are falling into it." Vegeta inferred. "We're suffering from our own disliking."
"You know what Veggie? For once you make sense!"
"Scary ain't it?"
"Very."
"Walk you home?"
"Sure."
It was late at night and Bulma shivered at the thought of going home. It was scary being all alone…
"Stay with me," he said. "I actually don't want you being in Capsule Corp all alone, and neither does my mother, Mayumi, Makato…"
"Ok father," Bulma said sarcastically but mentally thanking him.
They walked into the house and were greeted by Mayumi and Yumi. "Welcome home son, I heard your song was a hit."
"I guess," he mumbled.
Yumi smiled at Bulma, "Hello sweetheart, have you gotten a hold of your parents?"
"Not yet…" she grumbled, "they'll be back next month."
"Ok honey, are you staying with us?" Yumi asked.
"Yes ma'am."
"Well you guys have school tomorrow, get to bed!"
The children scampered off to bed and dreamed of nightmares. The images of their father haunted the two Ouji siblings in the night. As they awakened, a cold sweat hit their foreheads softly and then they'd fall asleep again.
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Today was the day the ancient civilization's project was due. The boys were working vigorously one theirs for months as the girls. Finally, the class began and presentations occurred.
Chichi, 18, and Bulma stepped up in front of the room with materials. 18 and Chichi were holding a medium sized diorama, while Bulma held a poster board with information.
"In ancient Egypt, there were many ceremony's. There was the ceremony for courtship, childbirth and blessing, and mummifying. When in courtship, ancient Egyptian couples would move in with each other and sign sacred documents. In childbirth and blessings the woman and Egyptian doctors would do a weird test to find out if the child would be a boy or a girl." Bulma explained.
Chichi smiled and started to talk, "When a woman thought her baby was in danger, there would be a sacred amulet of Hathor, the Egyptian god of fertility, and that was said to protect both the child and mother if the amulet was in the same room as them."
"The mummification process had around five different steps. There was the removal of the organs and putting them in canopic jars, adding salt, wrapping the body with many roles of cloth and finally burying the mummy." 18 said with a smiled.
"Well done girls!" the teacher exclaimed, "absolutely wonderful!"
The girls smiled and looked at the guys with a smirk. All three sat down and high fived each other in victory, but victory was celebrated too early.
The guys came up with a complete diorama of three ancient temples of three Greek gods/ goddesses. Each spoke and pointed at the heavily detailed models and gave vivid features and old ceremonies.
The teacher came up and smiled. "Well done all of you. I only graded the basic quality of the project and I will be passing them out now."
A paper was handed to Bulma and then Vegeta. Both smirked and showed the paper to each other.
"100%!" both yelled in unison. They blinked and stared at each other.
"NOT ANOTHER TIE!"
~*~
Kat: Hahaha I never give those two a break. Ok, the next chapter is the last, so I hope you enjoy the story while it lasted.
Next and final chapter: Graduation…a year and a half later…