"Hello Trunks," Vegeta growls back, and holds up the infamous Vegeta-

hugging picture "Care to explain this?"

Trunks looked at the picture and gulped. //I'd rather not// he

thinks but knows better.

"It's a picture...," he tries, biting his lip.

Vegeta looked like he was about to explode. "I know it's a picture,"

he snarls "Care to explain how it happened?"

"...no," Trunks replies weakly, scooting backwards in the air.

Vegeta grabbed Trunks by his shirt, his eyes glaring daggers at the

nine-year-old boy. "Sorry dad," Trunks says, hanging limply in the

air.

"You're going to be sorry," Vegeta promises and lets go. He points

in the direction of their house.

"Fly," he says gruffly.

Trunks whimpers miserably and does as his father commands...no point in

making him madder.

Trunks flies...not at all at his top speed. He was in no hurry to get

home. About two minutes of flying later, Vegeta was getting very

annoyed. "Fly faster," he commands behind his son, clapping his

hands together loudly.

At the sound of the clap Trunks took off much faster toward the house

and unfortunately they were there much quicker than he hoped.

"I'll go to my room...," Trunks said as soon as he walked in and

started heading up the stairs.

"Stop," Vegeta says sternly. Trunks stops in mid-step.

Vegeta walks over to the couch and sits. "Come here," he says, doing

his best at controlling his anger and not blasting his son where he

stood.

Trunks slowly walks back down the stairs and even slower to the couch

where he father was sitting. "Y-yes dad," he says, doing his best

not to run out of the room.

Vegeta glared at Trunks for a moment. He was ticked. Trunks had

hurt his reputation...and his pride. If he was still on Planet Vegeta,

he would beat his son to within an inch of his life and left it at

that...but this was Earth and that kind of punishment was frowned upon

and he knew exactly what to do.

He grabs his son's wrist and yanks the small boy over his lap. "Wha...

no dad I'm sorry," Trunks yells, knowing exactly what was about to

happen. This wasn't the first time he had been in this position.

"Its too late for that," Vegeta said, holding his struggling son down

with one hand and yanking down his pants with the other "Far too

late."

Trunks' underwear followed, leaving the boy's bottom totally

unprotected. "Nononono," Trunks cried, and redoubled his struggling

efforts.

Vegeta's hand came down and slapped hard against Trunks'

behind. "You disrespected me Trunks," he said, as his hand began to

move up and down, peppering the boy's bottom with stinging slaps "And

now you will pay the consequences."

Trunks yelped loudly as a particularly hard smack came down. "Sorry,

I won't do it again," Trunks yelled, though not very sincerely.

"I know you won't," Vegeta agreed and continued bringing his hand up

and down quickly and painfully.

Trunks whimpered, his feet drumming in the air. "Lemme go," he

pleaded.

"Oh, we're just beginning," Vegeta said, and began smacking Trunks'

upper thighs, moving up his leg until he got the infamous sit-spot

where he laid a series of painful slaps. He wasn't going to stop

until his son was in tears and truly sorry and with all the

punishment Trunks could take in training and in sparing that was

probably going to take a little while.

Vegeta's hand moved almost in a blur all over his son's bottom,

turning it from a light pink, to a rosy color and eventually to a

red, the whole time Trunks kicked, squirmed and yelped.

"I'm sorrieeee," he cried, tears forming at his eyes.

Vegeta's arm came back down, slower than before but much harder.

About ten smacks later Trunks was bawling and limp over his lap.

"I'm...sorry," he cried "I'm sorry..."

Vegeta hit his bottom once more than stopped. "I know you are," he

said, letting the child cry over his lap "But this is not the end of

your punishment."

Trunks stopped crying for a moment than started to bawl again as he

considered what that meant. Vegeta picked up Trunks and set him

standing in the corner, leaving his pants and underwear at his

ankles. "Stay there until I come back," he instructs and leaves the

room, leaving the sniffling boy alone.

About half an hour later Vegeta returned and sat on the couch. "Come

here son," he said, much calmer than before.

Trunks turned around and pulled up his pants than walked over to his

father. He had no idea what to expect. "I'm sorry," he says again.

"I know...but that still doesn't excuse what you did," Vegeta says, for

once fatherly "You disrespected me and made me look bad in front of

millions of people."

"I know...it was just a joke...sorry," Trunks says, looking at his feet.

"Well, that's why you are being punished. You are grounded for the

rest of the month...no games, no friends over...you have to stay in your

room...and I'm taking away your computer until I think you deserve it

back again. After of course you put this on the Internet," he says,

and pulls the picture he had gone to find.

Trunks took one look at it than at Vegeta. "No...please not that one...

I'm sorry," he pleads.

"No...perhaps next time you'll consider your actions before you do

something stupid," he says, smirking a little at his son's defeated

face "I'll make sure its up in a little bit...now march." Vegeta

pointed up the stairs to his room.

Trunks took the picture and sighed going up to his room.

The next week, a picture of a six-year old Trunks Briefs sleeping on

the couch, sucking his thumb and wearing nothing but a diaper, was

the most downloaded picture on the Net. Unlike most children, Trunks

hadn't been completely potty trained until he was seven. Only his

family and Goten's family knew about it...but now a good million or so

people knew about it.

Which was a fact that the grounded Trunks was not very happy about.