Point of no Return???
Hello? (Looks at the dark room in front of her) Well, if anyone is out there, I have a new chappie… I can't apologize about the length of time for this chapter but I hope it's contents will make up for the untimely nature I seem to have. ^_^
Disclaimer: If you don't know by now, you'll never know. Look at a previous chapter!!!
Yamucha opened the door to the quaint house in the middle of the forest. He walked in and smiled as he dropped his bags.
*It feels good to be home after a long road trip. *
He then looked into the kitchen to see if ChiChi or one of the boys was in it. He was slightly surprised to see the it completely empty. Normally, the unusually large room was occupied with someone either cooking or eating. He shrugged his shoulders and decided to go upstairs to take a bath and unwind from the long road schedule he and the rest of his team endured. As he headed up the stairs he heard Goten laughing in the backyard and started back down the stairs and went to the back door. Once he entered backyard, Yamucha was greeted by a large group.
"Congratulations Yamucha!!!" He looked at the group that was composed of his common-law family and their friends and smiled. Goten ran up to the man and said,
"I'm happy you're home!!! You missed Gohan's birthday!!!" Yamucha picked up the five year old and spun him in a circle. The young boy squealed and held his arms out. After about three spins, Yamucha sat Goten down and said,
"I missed you too little guy!!!" , as he pat him on the head. Goten smiled and heard Dende' yell at Trunks and ran to his friend's aide. Yamucha watched the boy run over to join his best friend, who seemed to find great pleasure in aggravating the teenage Namek and laughed to himself. He then walked over to Gohan and held out his hand for a hand shake as he said,
"Happy belated birthday young man. Sorry I missed the festivities." Gohan smiled and eagerly hugged Yamucha then said,
"No prob man. Congratulations on the championship." Yamucha quickly returned the hug and released himself from the teenager's embrace as he looked at the young girl standing next to Gohan. The auburn haired girl smiled brightly at the man and said,
"We all knew your team would win. Congratulations!!!" He smiled back politely and replied,
"Thanks Lime. How's your grandfather this days?"
"Better. Thanks for asking." Yamucha nodded and looked past the two teenagers to ChiChi, who was in a lawn chair talking to Juuhachi and Bulma. As he walked closer to his companion, Bulma sighed and got up from her seat. Juuhachi immediately pulled her back down in the seat. Yamucha noticed the action and raised an eyebrow.
*Now what was that? Juuhachi knows Bulma doesn't talk to me unless it's necessary. *
Once he reached the sitting area he leaned down and kissed ChiChi softly. She quickly returned the kiss and smiled like a young school girl. Although she and Yamucha have been in a relationship for 5 ½ years, she still feels a little embarrassed to show affection around other people. Yamucha smiled and turned to two women accompanying his girlfriend and said,
"Hello 18! Bulma. Longtime no see." Bulma looked away and sighed as Juuhachi nodded and said,
"Hello Yamucha, it has been a while. By the way congratulations on another win. Soon the American leagues are going to snag you." Bulma chuckled and said under her breath,
"Please do." Yamucha cut his eye over to the woman and shook his head. Although she said she forgave him for his cruel confession, Bulma still held a lot of hostility towards the man. He knew she only forgave him for ChiChi's sake. It was unnerving to the woman that her best friend and boyfriend couldn't be in the same room without a cloud of tension being evident. Neither Bulma nor Yamucha told ChiChi about the conversation that occurred over two years ago. Yamucha plastered a smile on his face and said,
"Awe Bulma you know you'll be the first to cry if I went away." Bulma turned to face the man and said,
"In your dreams buster!!! Excuse me, I have to get my son before he pisses off God even more." With that the woman left to reprimand her son for bothering Dende' and his father for standing by and letting it happened.
Juuhachi, ChiChi, and Yamucha watched the woman yell at her husband and son and laughed. Juuhachi excused herself from the table to join Krillin and a three year old Marron in a lego building contest. Yamucha looked ChiChi in the eyes and said softly,
"I missed you babe." ChiChi leaned closer to the man and responded,
"Same here." He kissed her the top of her head and took solace in having her close to him. Gohan and Lime walked over to the two and smiled. ChiChi looked up at her son and asked,
"What's up?" Gohan blushed slightly and said,
"Me and Lime are going for a walk. We'll be back soon." ChiChi smiled and said,
"Okay. Are you taking your brother and Trunks with you?" Lime smiled and said,
"Actually, no. Is that okay?"
"Yeah. You two behave okay?" Gohan and Lime quickly nodded as the slight blush across their faces deepened. As the two teenagers walked away Yamucha looked at ChiChi and said,
"Okay, am I missing something here? I thought Lime and Gohan were just friends!"
"Well, a couple of things happened while you were away. One, Gohan and Lime are officially a couple. I found out about them at his birthday party. They've been a couple for a while but was afraid to say anything. It just so happens that I caught them in a pretty passionate moment." Yamucha's eyes widened as he asked,
"So you're telling they're…doing it?" ChiChi laughed and said,
"They said they haven't done 'it' but from my point of view it looked like they were pretty close to 'it'."
"And you're okay with this?"
"You know me!!! I scared them so much that they're probably afraid to even touch each other!" Yamucha laughed whole-heartedly and hugged the feisty woman and said,
"I hope you haven't damaged them for life."
"Maybe just until they get married." Yamucha looked over at the woman and all of the suddenly became solemn.
*What about me and you getting married Chi.*
ChiChi noticed the man's change in demeanor and asked,
"Is everything okay?" Yamucha stared at ChiChi for a moment and forced a smiled on his face and said,
"Yeah, everything is okay. I was just thinking… that's all." ChiChi wrinkled her nose prodded further by asking,
"About?" The man gave a slight smile and said,
"Nothing."
"Yamucha it couldn't have been nothing. You all the sudden became serious and quiet. Is there something wrong? You know you can talk to me about anything." Yamucha looked at ChiChi intensely for a moment and thought,
*She's right. It's not like we haven't talked about marriage before. She's probably waiting for me to ask her, that all.*
Yamucha got up from the chair and said to ChiChi,
"I'll be right back okay? I just need to get something.", then ran into the house. ChiChi answered the man's retreating form,
"Okay?"
On the other side of the yard a Saiyajin prince watched Yamucha run into the house and looked at a confused ChiChi watch him. He heard the conversation, thanks to his precision hearing, and knew what was about to happen. He sighed and looked at the wife of his long since fallen comrade and said to himself,
*Well ChiChi, we're about to find out if you've actually forgotten about your Kakkorot. I wonder if you or your 'companion' are ready to find out the answer I already know.*
He then took off into the surrounding forest.
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Gohan and Lime walked slowly in the forest holding hands. The young girl leaned her head on her boyfriend's head. Gohan looked down at her and smiled.
"Everything okay? You're usually not this quiet." She looked up at the young man and said,
"Yeah, everything is fine. It's just that I really haven't had you alone since your mom caught us." Gohan blushed at the memory of his mother catching him and Lime making out on his birthday.
"Yeah, she's had us under serious surveillance for the past week. Don't sweat it though, she'll lighten up." Lime let go of Gohan's hand and wrapped her arms around his waist and said,
"I hope so. I miss you being close to me." Gohan stopped walking and lifted the girl up so she was closer to his height and said,
"Well, since we don't have a chaperone, I can fix that." He then kissed the girl softly, keeping in mind not to hurt her. She squeaked against his lips and returned his kisses. Lime knew Gohan was always concerned about squeezing her or holding her too hard. She was one of the few people that knew his family's secret. She also knew that he had defeated Cell without him saying anything. She knew it once she heard Cell had been defeated. She saw his fighting abilities on his eleventh birthday.
After the fight, she came around from time to time to check up on him. Sometimes, she would just sit with him for hours on end in silence. She knew what it was like to lose a parent. As time went along, she talked with him and helped him through some of his depression. She knew that he tried to commit suicide a couple of years ago, he had told her about his plans. Of course she thought he was just talking but she quickly found out not to take anything Son Gohan says for granted. After that day she promised to be around the boy as much as she could. Her being around him so much, even while he was training with Piccolo or Vegeta, became an infatuation and eventually her first authentic case of love. Gohan, too felt something special for her and they eventually built up the courage to tell each other and they became each other's first boyfriend/girlfriend.
Lime broke the kiss and started laughing. Gohan smiled and asked in a soft voice,
"What's so funny?" The young woman finished her laughing assault and said,
"I know it's an inappropriate thing to think about, but what if your mom caught us, well, you know." Gohan looked at his girlfriend with a clueless face and asked,
"Caught us what?" Lime rolled her eyes and mentally reminded herself that Gohan was very naïve and said,
"Caught us doing that thing we did a couple of weeks ago." The teenage Saiyajin remained with a clueless expression on his face and Lime sighed. Then like a bolt of lightening, Gohan's face turned a bright crimson and his eyes became extremely wide.
"You mean what if she caught us doing it?!?" Lime nodded with a bright smile, glad that he finally got the picture.
"Oh man!!! We both would be so dead!!! But let's not think about that right now." Gohan hugged Lime and nuzzled his face in her neck. She, in turn, kissed his neck. Suddenly, both teenagers heard an all too familiar noise and quickly turned around to find Vegeta standing about ten feet in front of them. Both Gohan and Lime immediately turned bright red and Gohan began stuttering excuses.
"Vegeta! It's not what you think!! I mean it's what you think but not, well, you know!! Oh man!" Vegeta smirked and said,
"I don't care about you and your consort's actions boy. You need to come home right now." Gohan raised and eyebrow and asked,
"Is everything okay? Mom said it was okay to leave the party." Vegeta frowned and said in a commanding voice,
"I said you need to come home." Gohan knew that tone of voice meant the request was not open for discussion and sighed. He grabbed Lime and started home after Vegeta. Lime looked at Gohan and said,
"Do you have any idea what this is about?" Gohan looked over to her and said,
None what so ever."
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ChiChi sat in the chair wondering what Yamucha could possibly be doing. She looked over to her friends and saw that everyone was doing their own thing. Goten and Trunks were playing with Marron. Bulma and Juuhachi were talking to a newly arrived Launch and Puar. Krillin, Piccolo, Tien, Chaozu, and Dende were in an animated conversation. She noticed every so often Dende and Piccolo would look over at her with an odd expression on their faces. After about the forth glance she turned her head and looked over to the scenery.
*Sometimes I wonder about those Nameks. It's like they seem to know something that I don't when it comes down to me. Where is Yamucha?!?*
Just at that moment, Yamucha came trotting out of the house. She also noticed Vegeta had come back with Gohan and Lime in tow.
*What did those two do that Vegeta had to bring them back?!? *
She came out of her thought s as Yamucha touched her face ever so slightly and said,
"You love me right?" ChiChi slowly nodded and saw Piccolo, Dende, and Vegeta were watching attentively. Yamucha smiled and said,
"In that case…" He turned to the rest of the group and said loudly,
"Everyone, could I have your attention please?" Everyone slowly stopped their conversations and actions to look at Yamucha. ChiChi started to feel a little embarrassed that everyone was looking at her and Yamucha. She stood and asked in a whispered voice,
"Yamucha, what are you doing?" The man slowly turned and said,
"Something I've wanted to do for a long time now." He took ChiChi's hand and said loud enough for everyone at the party to hear,
"ChiChi, you and I have known each other for a long time now. We first started out as friends and we slowly became closer in times of need. I want you to know I can't imagine living my life without you and the boys. What I'm trying to say is," He slowly lowered down to one knee as he revealed a small red velvet box. Both he and ChiChi saw from the corner of their eyes Bulma turn and slowly walk into the house. ChiChi's breath became short breaths as she heard Yamucha say,
"I would love for you to be my wife. ChiChi will you marry me?"
It's very plain to see
I want you next to me
Give me your hand and
I'll try to understand
(NaCoBe squints to see if anyone is in the room) Um well, if you're here, I hope you enjoyed that. No it's not the end, now that would be just plain mean. I hope you review and let me know what you think. Now please excuse me I have to deal with my Saiyajin Revived crowd. I heard they made voodoo dolls of me at a computer. Eek!!!