MATTER OF WAR AND MATTER OF HEART

Yakusoku and Raditz were still shaking hands his stomach started growling loudly. He chuckled embarrassed.

"By the sound of this I can say you missed breakfast and lunch" Yakusoku said while looking at him.

"Hehehe yeah, was too busy running errands" he said.

"How ironic this is, one of the mightiest saiya-jin warrior is now an errand boy." She said indifferently.

"I know." Raditz said sadly while looking at the floor so he can hide his real feeling, anger.

"Well it seems that we'll be going to that barbecue after all, after we eat a little something that is." she said while setting the table and began to microwave various dishes. Raditz just sat there watching her, there was something about that woman he couldn't quite understand 'What are you thinking the earthlings are a weird breed of people anyway.' he thought while emptying his plates. When they were done Yakusoku went upstairs to fresh up while Raditz was looking around. There were pictures of a little brown-haired girl with a red ribbon in her hair smiling on the walls. The pictures were taking on different places, since she was a baby until age nine. The saiya-jin pickup up one of the picture and looked at it more closely, she looked quite familiar.

"Put that back in its place." Yakusoku said while coming down wearing a sleeveless white shirt with red skirt with white spot along with flat red shoes, she had her hair down with a red band on her silver-white hair.

"Is that your daughter?" Raditz asked while hanging it up on the wall.

"I don't have any child." She replied.

"No way, don't tell me the kid in the pictures is you?" Raditz asked puzzled.

"It's me." she replied callously.

"You had brown hair when you were a kid, what's up with the white hair?" Raditz asked.

"I dye them so they could go with my red and white outfits" she just said. Raditz raised an eyebrow thinking 'One thing for sure about that woman, you can never tell when she's joking'

"I sincerely hope that Joe has enough food to fill you up." She said while walking at the door and Raditz went ahead and opened the door for her; she passed him then stopped a second and looked at him.

"What?" Raditz asked.

"Nothing, let's go I can smell the ribs from here. Joe is truly the king of the grill, you'll like his cuisine."

"Ok" Raditz said who really didn't care he was so angry that he could eat the steaks just raw. The soiree went without incident as Raditz learned a little bit more about earthling customs; they were quite friendly he thought, but if asked he wouldn't hesitate to wipe them off from existence in a second. He spent the afternoon watching her chatting with the others and even played with the children but still she was expressionless.

'Does she ever smile? Anyway I don't care, once I get my revenge over my brother and his green friend I'll hightail out of here.' He thought.

"Raditz, we are leaving" She said while saying goodbye to the neighbors. They walked silently side by side back to the house, until she broke the silence and said.

"Are you going to spend the night here?"

"If you don't mind." Raditz said.

"I don't mind." she said while opening the door and Raditz wondered how she could feel safe having him alone in her house. He stood at the guestroom's door while she was preparing everything for him.

"Nice and cozy." She said once done but when she wanted to leave the room Raditz wouldn't move away to let her pass. So she just crossed her arms and looked at him.

"Aren't you scared?" he asked her puzzled.

"Why should I?" she answered.

"Because of who I am, I could do to you the worse things a woman could imagine happening to her." He said looking at her strait in the eyes.

"Oh, well go ahead." She said calmly.

Raditz was thinking grabbing her by her swan neck and threw her to the bed, ripping her clothes off and hurt her until she begged him to kill her, but while he was lost in his thoughts he heard "Goodnight Raditz-san." He snapped out of it only to see Yakusoku calmly leaving the room and closed the door after her. The saiya-jin just learned one more thing about the doctor, she wasn't easily intimidated. He smiled to himself and went to bed.

She was already up when he woke up; she was sitting in the kitchen sipping her coffee while reading the newspaper still in her red nightgown, as soon she acknowledge his presence she got up and began to serve him breakfast. Raditz just sat down and enjoyed the view as every time she walked back and forth into the sun light coming from the windows her nightgown became translucent. When she was done serving him she stood by one of the windows enjoying the sun. Raditz didn't pay any attention to his breakfast as he couldn't help himself from staring at her. Soon she noticed that he wasn't eating and discovered why.

"Have you never seen a woman in her nightgown before?" she asked while moving away from the window. Raditz chuckled and replied.

"I saw women in all kind of outfits." He replied still not leaving her of the eyes.

"Ok then, so stop staring at my body." She said truly annoyed, and Raditz just laughed. "I am going to get dress." She rushed out the kitchen while he started eating his sausages. She came back later one fully dress with dress pants, high heel, white shirt and her lab coat on.

"Are you going to dad or shall we begin working on your case?" she asked him who was getting ready to leave.

'What do you have in mind?" he asked him.

"I don't know yet, but I'll sure need more data on that transformation for example what trigger it" she said.

"Yea, but first we'll need a place to work and I know just where." He said.

"Ok, show me." She said and they both drove toward ACC's old relay tower. "This place is perfect!" she said while exploring the inside the old building.

"Good. I gotta go, meet you later." Raditz said leaving. One hour later while Yakusoku was making some plans, when she heard tires screeching outside, she went to look who this was in a hole when she saw Bruno getting off his car.

"What are you doing here?" she asked to the young scientist.

"Hi Dr Yakusoku, how are you?" the young man said.

"I am fine, answer the question." She said.

"Nice to see you too." Bruno said pouting.

"I don't want you to get involve in this. If General Roswell discovered about this he'll…" she started.

"He won't, so calm down." The boy reassured her.

"How did you find him?" she asked.

"Well he found me."

"I am going to kill him."

"Oh, why I thought you sent him."

"No I didn't."

"Oh well I am here, and I won't be left out this time." He said, she sighed and said

"I am sure going to need your help in this one. Ok then, here what I have in mind to do. I want to turn this building into a research center and a training area." She began to explain to him.

"So you are really going to help him, I am very surprised."

"You and me both." She said.

"So why are you helping him?" Bruno asked her.

"I always find the saiya-jin race a fascinating subject; I want to study him even further to see how my modifications affected him, too bad I only have one subject." She said sighing.

"Oh, this is your reason." Bruno said disappointed.

"What did you think it was?" she asked him curious.

"I don't know, a certain researcher fell in love with her test subject and helped him escape." Bruno said grinning.

"What do you think this is? A stupid soap opera and Kami I hate those!" she said and Bruno began to laugh.

When Raditz came back later on, he received a dressing down from a not so happy Yakusoku, but once the matter was settled everyone began to work on the new lab after she made sure he didn't tell Bruno whom she was the daughter.

Yakusoku tell them what they will need, Bruno brought them and Raditz put them together. The two men only came to the tower only after work while Yakusoku spent most of the time there and even brought some personnel things she might need.

One day during the wiring Raditz mixed up the wrong colors and got electrocuted, his hair that didn't totally grow back to their usual length was standing on his skull like a porcupine. When she saw him she began to laugh to tears, and Raditz was surprised to hear her nice clear laugh, her face had a nice rosy shade from laughing so hard.

"Not funny." he said while trying to get his hair down.

"Sorry." She said while wiping her eyes while going to the bathroom.

"That's a first." Bruno said.

"Uh?"

"You made her laugh; something that even my jokes wasn't able to do."

"This is because your jokes are corny." Raditz said.

"No they aren't!" Bruno protested.

The three friends spent most of their time working at the relay tower; Bruno had his radio blaring rock/pop music which didn't seem to bother Yakusoku or Raditz who were preoccupied in building the training area. When she wasn't working with Raditz she was absorbed in studying the data Raditz had brought on Vegeta and Gokou, the ones Dr Gero had collected on them.

One day Bruno was showing to Raditz some moves he had picked up by throwing a kick at him, the poor scientist slipped and fell on his rear during his demonstration.

"Oh shit, I think I ripped my pants!" Bruno said while getting up.

"Not bad at all for a novice but let me show you how it's done!" Raditz said laughing while showing to Bruno the correct way to move. Yakusoku had stopped what she was doing for a moment to watched them thinking that Bruno shouldn't get to attach to the alien, but she knew that was already the case. She sighed 'He should know he won't stay here forever one day or another he's going to leave us.' she thought.

Life at the tower wasn't as monotonous it might sound like, as the female scientist had her hand full with that saiya-jin male who seemed to be unable to keep his hands and tail for himself. Every time they were a little to close to each other his hands will 'accidentally' be on her person, and as time went by these wandering hands seemed to get on more intimate places. There wasn't a day Bruno wouldn't hear these words from Yakusoku:

'Raditz!'

'Get your hands of me!'

'Hey get away from me!'

'What in the world you think you are doing?'

'Do you really have to be that close?'

'Scram!'

The young man would giggle and Yakusoku would glare at him. The time she spent we these two men had changed her greatly she wasn't as frigid she used to be, as her impassible feature began to change but most of her new expressions were anger and annoyance.

"Hey Raditz you better stop playing." Bruno told him one day after one of his little accident.

"Playing? Who's playing?" he asked innocently.

"Stop poking her ok or you'll regret it one day and don't say I didn't warn you."

The training simulator chamber was an amalgam of the one at ACC's and Bulma's GR machine which made it ten times more effective; Bruno had programmed various kind of fighting bots modeled after Dr Gero past androids but even more powerful, the walls of the chamber was a magnetic field which could absorb all the energies gave off during a training session.

"Everything is ready to go." Yakusoku said.

"We should celebrate by going out, we sure deserved it." Bruno said to the others.

"I don't know." She said.

"Aw come on! Just for tonight please, and I know a nice place too." Bruno said.

"Ok then." She said and the three friends went partying on the nearest bar close to the tower which was pretty far away.

They sat at a table and chilled out, hour later Bruno went to get some more drinks and when he was coming back he walked on the foot of a biker who wouldn't accept an apology, Raditz seeing the young scientist was in trouble he got up to go clear things out.

"Just don't kill anyone." Yakusoku said.

"Don't worry." He said smiling, it wasn't long before a bar fight took place, of course Raditz went easy on them so they could come back for more or brought some friends along, and then came the police, so Bruno told him their better split so this one grabbed the others and flew through the window. It was clearly the saiya-jin was too drunk to fly as he flew right through a billboard miles away, the three friends found themselves laying on top of each on a building still hazy from the shock when Yakusoku screamed

"RADITZ!!! Take your hand off me right now!"

"Hehehe sorry." This one said while taking his hand away which didn't fell by accident between the woman's legs.

"Jerk!" she said while getting up.

"A little help, please" Bruno said on the ground.

"I think we better drove back, who got the car? I'll be driving." Yakusoku said.

The next day Raditz began his training while Yakusoku monitoring him, everything went well for awhile until the woman decided to get revenge for all the misery he put her through for the past months by changing the level of the exercise from low to high.

"Hey what's going on?" he said when his routine began to be more strenuous.

"The commends are malfunctioning." Yakusoku said.

"Shut them down! Shut them down!" he shouted when the bots began to fire powerful energy blasts.

"I am trying." Yakusoku said while doing her nails.

The poor saiya-jin couldn't keep up and got beat up into a pulped by his training bots. He left the chamber crawling on his belly exhausted his outfit in pieces, Bruno shook his head when he saw him

"Told you so."

"Oh shut up!" he replied as he understood that all this wasn't an accident, but unfortunately he didn't learn his lesson as he began to bluntly make sexual advance to the woman who began to fell short of ideas to make him stop, none of her treats seemed to work nor the use of the training room as revenge tools.

Every time the saiya-jin used the training room he had to face a life threatening experience when Yakusoku was monitoring. One day while doing his usual routine, Raditz asked Yakusoku to change the level and she did so without retaliation in her mind. He had to go against three androids twice his size and power and seemed to be doing alright so Yakusoku left her station and went to get a drink when she heard a big explosion which shook the entire tower, she dropped her glass and run toward the training chamber opened the door and went inside. When the smoke cleared she saw Raditz laying in the floor, he wasn't moving and breathing. She kneeled near him while taking his pulse, but couldn't feel or hear anything.

"Raditz, Raditz! Please wake up!" she said scared while performing CPR.

"What's going on?" Bruno said who just came back from work and felt the shockwave on his way here.

"Come on Raditz breathe!" Yakusoku said while doing the mouth to mouth, then suddenly Raditz's hands hold her down while he kissing her passionately at the great surprised of the woman. When that moment was passed, Yakusoku slapped Raditz so hard that his head bounced on the floor, she got up and left the room pissed, while the saiya-jin slowly got on his feet while massaging the bump on his head.

"Ouch" Bruno said.

"Hehehe I think she likes me." Raditz said and the young scientist sweat dropped.

"You know here on earth we have other ways to seduce a woman than harassing her." Bruno said while bandaging his head.

"I know, you told me before and I saw Ore using these on her didn't work I think my own method will do"

"You think? I mean I never saw her using violence before just verbal warning."

"Dude, I am the one who had her lips against mine. I can tell."

"If you say so." Bruno said not convince but soon he began to wonder as Yakusoku got less and less offended at Raditz's assaults.

'Is she actually playing his game? Naw!' he thought. Since this not so quite first kiss Yakusoku really get back personally at Raditz, by slapping, hitting, and walked on his tail.

"Aw man, you two better not plans on having children." Bruno said aggravated and Yakusoku began to blush deeply.

Lately Yakusoku had remarked that Raditz had been slacking on his training lately and brought it to his attention.

"At that rate you'll never become a super saiya-jin! You better spent more time training less time flirting with these hippies!" she said.

"Is that jealousy I heard in your voice doctor?" Raditz asked smirking.

"Oh please! Anyway you do have the right to stay a looser while your brother and Vegeta are already reached that level leaving you way behind. Well it seems that you are pleased to be the weakest saiya-jin alive!" She said to him and this one growled and protested.

"I had to go easy on myself because I didn't feel too good lately."

"Yeah, right…weakling." she said under her breath but loud enough for him to hear.

"Ok, I'll get back on it right away." He said while going into the training chamber.

"Now we are talking." She said pleased. While monitoring him she noticed how sloppy his fighting with bots was, so she picked up the microphone and shouted in the intercom.

"Stop fooling around!"

"Yakusoku I don't feel so good." his voice came weakly to her as he fell on his knee panting. Seeing this she shut down the ongoing exercise and came down to him.

"You better not be playing!" she warned him, but as she got closer she knew he wasn't. Raditz was very pale and was holding his chest while moaning in pain.

"Raditz what's wrong?" she asked worried.

"It's…it's…my…heart." He said painfully.

Oh-huh Raditz is sick if you want to know what's wrong with him don't miss the next revelatory chapter of Unforgivable "Weird Proposal!"