I'm back!!!!! Whoo Hoo!!! I now have a job that will allow me to do some writing. I've given up on my crashed computer and started rewriting everything. If you didn't know, My Favorite Girl and Uninvited have been updated for a while. I hope you all will like the newly installed chappie!!!
Disclaimer and Author's Notes: If you don't know by now, you'll never know….
Goten and Trunks ran through the forest extremely fast, making sharp turns and dodging trees at the last minute. Moments later, they found their destination, a large tree with a small, custom-made capsule house sitting among its branches. The two young boys climbed the tree in record timing and entered through the adult sized floor hatch.
From the outside, the tree house looked like a normal capsule tree house, but on the inside it donned the best essentials from Capsule Corp. The playhouse even had a gravity mechanism that allowed the boys to raise the gravity by ten times the earth's gravity. The tree house sat high enough so the boys could easily see Goten's house from the tree house and ChiChi could view the house from her backyard.
As Trunks sat on the floor he nonchalantly asked Goten,
"So your mommy's marrying Mr. Yamucha? Will he be your for real daddy?" Goten shrugged his shoulders as he pulled some candy out of his pocket and replied,
"I don't know. He's the only daddy I know. I never met my other daddy." Trunks watched Goten suck on his candy and asked,
"Goten, how do you get two daddies? I only have one." Goten smiled from the sheer enjoyment of the taste of his candy and said happily,
"I lucky I guess." Trunks repositioned himself and replied,
"I wish I had two daddies, that would be fun," and grabbed a piece of Goten's candy.
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Vegeta walked into the room as Yamucha slowly back away from Bulma with ChiChi still in hand. The Saiyajin could literally smell the mild fear emitting from the man, which made his stoic expression change to a slight hint of amusement.
"What weakling, you don't have anything else to say to Bulma? Please don't let me interrupt your tirade." Yamucha looked around the room with a slight twinge of nervousness in his eyes and said,
"Vegeta, this has nothing to do with you. This is an issue between, Bulma, ChiChi, and myself."
"Oh, I disagree," Vegeta looked at Bulma as he continued in a condescending voice, "See earthling, you have been the underlying topic that has caused a fissure between my mate and mine's relationship" Vegeta this switched his unyielding gaze from Bulma to ChiChi and said, "I also can't understand, for the life of me, what power you hold to cause the mate of an honorably slain Saiyajin to forget about her bond, let alone create this gap between Bulma and I."
ChiChi pulled away from Yamucha and affronted Vegeta. Vegeta looked at the woman and said, "Woman I don't even want to hear what you have to say." ChiChi stepped closer and said,
"Well, Vegeta, you're going to hear what I have to say. I am so tired of and 'your mate' involving yourselves in Yamucha and mine's life. Both of us are adults who can make logical decisions and know what we want from each other. We don't need approval from you, Bulma, Krillin, or anyone else. Instead of being concerned about what Yamucha said to Bulma you should be concerned about why your bonded mate is so upset about her ex-boyfriend's love life." She then moved to her back door, motioning for them to leave her home and said in continuance,
"And as for me, the bonded mate of a dead Saiyajin, I miss Goku everyday and I've learned to fill the void that came when he died. Now, please leave my house. If you leave Trunks here Gohan will bring him home. Goodbye."
Bulma smugly went to the door while Vegeta stayed rooted to where he was. The arrogant smirk he wore earlier turned into a death glare at the woman. He crossed his arms and retorted to the woman,
"If you think you've fooled anyone with that that little discourse you are sadly mistaken. There is no way that you are 100% happy with him. I told you once before that you are only leading him on. With you agreeing to this marriage arrangement, you are only leading him further into disillusionment. You are afraid that if you are alone you will have to face the pain again. Why don't you let him know that you almost died after Kakkorot died. I felt your ki weaken daily."
ChiChi's face became a bright red from anger as she screamed,
"VEGETA, GET THE FUCK OUT OF MY HOUSE!!!! NOW!!!!" The smirk returned to Vegeta's face as he knew he'd hit the core of her fears and pains. All in the room knew Vegeta hit a cord within ChiChi and felt it was best not to say anything at the time, leaving an eerie silence lingering in the air.
Vegeta started towards the back door that ChiChi stood next to. As he brushed past the woman he said only loud enough for her to hear,
"I think you need to reevaluate your relationship very soon." ChiChi turned full face to the man and said in a low growl,
"Leave, you are not welcomed anymore." He shrugged his shoulders in reply and left the house with Bulma following close behind.
Once the Vegeta and Bulma left, the woman sighed and allowed the tears that she willed herself to hold out of pride. She walked out of the kitchen and looked to the sky and said mentally,
*Why me?*
Yamucha followed his new fiancé out of the house and watched stress line on her forehead appear. He then asked,
"Chichi, is it true what Vegeta said?" ChiChi sighed and said,
"Yamucha, I don't want to talk about it now." The man became infuriated and yelled,
"Well I do damn it!!! Are you using me? Have you been using me all this time? I have a right to know!!!" ChiChi turned to the man and retorted,
"What does it matter!?! Huh? Are you going to leave? You wanted me since I was 15 years old!!! I had a right to know that!!! You made Bulma believe she was your old and only time and time again when it was me you were thinking about. She had a right to know! You fought along side Goku all the while secretly longing for his wife!!! He had a right to know!! Personally, Yamucha if I were you, I would just be happy you got what you've wanted for so long." ChiChi pushed past the man but Yamucha grabbed her and roared,
"I don't care what has happened in the past. I love you and I want to know if you have been using me!!!" The woman glared at the man and said in a guttural growl,
"I don't care what you want at this particular point. Let… me… go!"
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Gohan flew at a slow pace from Lime's home thinking about the event that occurred between he and his girlfriend.
*I think I love her. I wonder if she's the one that would be my mate. I think I'll ask Vegeta when I get back to the house. The party still should be going on.*
As the young man flew home, his sixth sense told him that something was wrong at home but he nudged it away.
*Mom's mad at some at someone. Krillin or Vegeta must have said something to piss her off. Oh well.*
He continued to fly at his relaxed pace and started to think of Lime again but the feeling within him grew stronger and he saw Vegeta take off in the air with Bulma in his arms. The young man could tell that the man was slightly upset by the way he shot up in the air.
*Okay, Vegeta pissed mom off. I know this is going to be a funny story. Let me hurry home so Krillin could give me the play by play details. I know the party is still going strong.*
He put a little speed into his flight and zoomed off toward the clearing in the forest that he and his family considered home. Much to his surprise, the party looked to be over for a longtime.
*Hmm, maybe mom and Yamucha's engagement didn't go off that well with everyone. I totally understand their feelings but it's something we're all going to have to get used to. *
Gohan saw his mother come into their backyard and he could easily see the distress in her face. Yamucha then followed her out and they began talking. Instead of disturbing them, and for him to hear the conversation, he quietly landed and suppressed his ki. He was able to hear everything that was said between his mother and Yamucha and with each passing syllable it was getting harder and harder to keep from going super on the man. That is until Yamucha grabbed his mother.
*You are SO dead, bastard!*
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Yamucha looked into ChiChi's eyes, the woman who he loved for so long, couldn't believe she could possibly be using him. But at the same time, it made perfect sense.
*If she knew about how I felt why didn't she say something? *
ChiChi's eyes narrowed to thin slits as she growled to the man, "It was an arrangement Yamucha!!! I didn't want to be alone and you didn't want to be alone. You were someone to hold during my times of need and I was the same to you!" Yamucha was about to rebuttal ChiChi's statement until he felt a sudden increase of ki. He turned and saw Gohan standing there with blazing green eyes. The teenage boy said in a eerily calm voice,
"Let go of her now." Yamucha thought about protesting but knew it would be a lost battle before it started. Also he could see how this looked from Gohan's standpoint. He slowly released the woman and said to Gohan,
"It's not what you're thinking Gohan. I would never hurt your mom." Gohan looked at the man and growled,
"You need to leave at this very second before I am not able to control myself." With that, the boy's hair flashed a bright gold. Yamucha knew it was probably best to take the boy's advice and looked at his fiancé and said,
"Um, we'll talk when we're both in our right minds," and left Mount Poazu.
ChiChi looked at her son with the slightest hint of guilt because she knew he had heard the entire conversation. She stepped close to Gohan and reached to touch him but he quickly jerked away from her hand.
"Gohan, I know you heard. I…" Gohan quickly interrupted his mother and said,
"You have made the only somewhat normal part of my life dysfunctional because you didn't want to be alone?!? My brother thinks Yamucha is his dad because you didn't want to be alone! Yamucha is ostracized from his life long friends and comrades because you didn't want to be alone!!! Did you ever think that you were never alone?" ChiChi's eyes glassed over with tears as she heard her son's words and saw his angry face. She opened her mouth to speak but nothing seemed to come out. Gohan frowned harder as he watched his speechless mother.
"I'm taking Goten and we're going to the lookout. Goodbye." With that, Gohan flew towards his brother's ki signature.
ChiChi watched her son retrieve her youngest child and Trunks and fly away from their home. The build up of tears in her eyes overflowed and her voice came back with a loud sob. She tried to walk into her home but her legs gave way under her and she found herself on the ground. It didn't matter though. The only thing that mattered was that her world was falling apart and she had no clue of how to put back the way it was.
Through her tears she looked up to the sky and saw a star constellation that reminded her of how all of this madness started. The star gathering looked liked a certain spiky hair man who she lived her life for but as fast as she saw the image, it was gone. She heard a loud voice but wasn't sure who exactly would be yelling so maniacally. At first she could make out what the voice was yelling but slowly the sounds came into focus and noticed the voice was saying 'Why Goku, why?'. She then began to noticed the voice and realized it was her yelling. Grief, guilt and shame washed over her like she had never experienced and the only thing she could do was allow her body to make the strange noises to call out to her long since slain husband.
Girl, I love you so
Can't let you go
It feels so right
Having Someone to Hold
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