A Friendship Tried

Okay I know I said next week but it figured, why wait if I can upload now. It's not like you can upload on FF.net at will these days. I just want you to know it feels good to be back. For al of you who don't know, I found another job. I'm not going to apologize for not writing because I had to many things going on in my life that didn't allow me to write the way I wanted to and the things I did write totally sucked so much that it would've been better if I didn't write. I just want to say to El Loco Lobo and Vegeta's Little Princess thank you guys for listening to my rants and cheering me up.

Okay enough mushy stuff, if you are this far in the story, you have read the disclaimer and the writing code so what's the use of writing it again. If you haven't read the previous chapter yet…what are you doing here?!?!?!? Go back and read the other chapters so you can understand the whole situation, retard!!!

Enjoy!!!!

ChiChi thanked said goodbye to Krillin, Juuhachi and Marron as she began cleaning up the mess from the party. She could tell Krillin was not happy about the proposal but somehow decided to accept it. As usual, Juuhachi was indifferent about the entire situation. Everyone else at the party congratulated her and Yamucha with smiles, but she knew they were weary about their relationship. She looked at various paper plates and plastic cups littering her yard and said out loud to no one in particular,

"Well they will just have to accept it. This is me and Yamucha's life and Goku is gone no matter how much I want to wish him back." Just as she finished her comment, a cold, uninviting twinge trickled down her spine. She quickly disregarded the eerie feeling and began stuffing the litter from a nearby table in the bag she was holding. After the fourth paper plate, she looked down at the small trash bag in her hand and laughed,

"This bag isn't going to doing anything for this yard," then started towards her back door.

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Bulma leaned against Vegeta in the strikingly clean kitchen. She placed her head on her mate's shoulder and sighed. Vegeta, in turn, tentatively placed his strong hands on the small of her back. She responded by closing her eyes and snuggling closer to the man.

ChiChi walked into her kitchen to find Vegeta and Bulma wrapped in each other's arms. To anyone else it would look as though the two were asleep in each other's arms while standing, however, ChiChi knew better.

She knew from her own experience that the two were having an in depth conversation that was well beyond verbal words. She looked at the two and sighed, remembering how special those talks with Goku were.

*Well those have been gone for a good while now, so why dwell on them.*

The newly engaged woman softly walked across the kitchen to her pantry and grabbed two very large trash bags and start back to the yard.

"ChiChi wait, I want to talk to you." ChiChi turned around to face the owner of the voice. Although the speaker was still in the same stance as before, ChiChi know the woman was very much aware of her position. It's almost like a required extra sensory tool one develops while living with and raising a Saiyajin.

Bulma released herself from Vegeta's firm embrace and turned to face her friend. She could tell ChiChi already knew she was going to disapprove of the engagement from the small stress line forming around the woman's eyes. Bulma swallowed hard and set herself for the possibly explosive conversation that was about to occur. As she walk to the table that chichi happened to be standing by, she said clairvoyantly to Vegeta,

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"Do you mind waiting outside while I talk with her?"

"What's the use, I can still hear you out there. Besides, I, too, am curious to know why she accepted the marriage arrangement."

"Proposal, Vegeta. They're not call arrangements on earth."

"I know what they are call woman, and what she just entered was an arrangement, not a proposal."

"Whatever Vegeta. Just go outside please."

"Fine, I will go and find the spawnlings and teach them a thing or two."

"Thank you."

"Humph."

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ChiChi watched Bulma and Vegeta hold a conversation, possibly about her, then Vegeta leave the room. As Vegeta walked out of the room, he looked at ChiChi with almost a sardonic expression and continued out the door. The look Vegeta gave the woman confirmed to her that the conversation that was about to occur was not going to be a calm one. She looked at her friend's almost royal blue eyes flicker with something that said anger, pain, and even a little bit of jealousy within them. ChiChi gave a slight smirk, crossed her arms, and leaned on one leg as she said in a surprisingly sweet voice as she readied herself for a argument,

"Yes Bulma?" The blue haired woman sat down at the table and said in a low tone,

"You lied to me and I want to know why." ChiChi raised an eyebrow as she looked at Bulma and said, still in her sweet, innocent voice,

"What are you talking about?" Bulma turned to look at the woman with hurt filled eyes and quickly retorted, trying her best to keep her temper,

"You said, no, you promised that you wouldn't fall for Yamucha and his lies and you did. I demand an explanation." ChiChi's face contorted from a sweet, calm expression to an angry, almost evil façade as she quickly replied in a light but forceful tone,

"What makes you think that Yamucha is lying to me? What, because he constantly lied to you? Moreover, who do you think you are to demand an explanation about my private life!" Bulma jumped out of the chair she was sitting in and yelled, losing all of her temper,

"Hello?!? My best friend is engaged to my ex-boyfriend, who happens to be her late husband's childhood friend!!! You threw you private life out the window when you and Yamucha started dating! I have every right to know why you accepted his proposal and so does everyone else!" ChiChi shifted her weight on to her other leg and uncrossed her arms as she willed herself to stay calm for Bulma's sake and growled,

"Who in the hell do you think you are! Just because you have Vegeta on pins and needles on how to act towards you doesn't mean everyone else is! Who are you to judge me by whom I'm with!!! You're fucking the man who killed Yamucha, when he was yours I might add, at will, on a nightly basis. If anything you should be looking at your own character." Bulma's face became flushed with a mixture of anger and embarrassment and for the first time in a long while she was at a complete loss of words. She stared at ChiChi and actually growled much like her mate would before a heated fight. She went and stood directly in front of ChiChi and huffed. ChiChi's smirk returned to her face, knowing she had shut down the 'one and only Bulma'. She leaned closer to the tongue tied woman and said in a condescending voice,

"What Bulma, are you at a lost of words? Because I surely can't hear you." Suddenly ChiChi felt a sharp sting across her left cheek. She quickly placed her hand over the pain and felt the skin there was red-hot. Bulma was in a stance that indicated she was ready to hit ChiChi again. ChiChi stood erect and said in a tone of voice that sounded almost as if she had been possessed,

"Oh, so you want to go that route? That's more than fine with me princess!!!" ChiChi started her swing to punch Bulma and Bulma quickly blocked herself from the assault but it never came. She looked up and saw Yamucha standing in front of her holding ChiChi as if she was a mere toy. The look in the man's eyes displayed total anger towards the woman as he said,

"Who in the hell do you think you are?!?" Before she could retort, another masculine, all too familiar voice replied from the door,

"My mate, wanna do anything about it?"

Okay, you can tell I'm in a good mood!!!! I left suspense! Can you guess what's going to happen? I can't… that's why I need your help. If you have any suggestions, please e-mail me at nacobesdomain@lycos.com . I really need help.

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