Early the next morning, Vegeta woke up, feeling, for the first time in ages, happy and warm. He opened his eyes slowly, his vision hazy. He felt Goku next to him, one arm around him, one hand touching his stomach. Vegeta frowned slightly and sat up. Goku woke up immediately and looked up at him, smiling.
"You ok?" he asked.
"I was going to ask you that." Vegeta said quietly. Goku tilted his head to one side in clear confusion. "I mean… are you ok… with this?" he asked, pointing to his stomach.
"Oh, that. Yeah that's great! Heh, it only came as such a shock because I thought only women could get pregnant." He grinned, "That is great though!" a stupid childish look settled on his face. "I wonder who it will look like! What shall we call it? Do you think it'll be a super Saiyan? How long have you been pregnant? How did you know? How…" and the questions went on, before Vegeta smirked. Goku was obviously very enthusiastic, and that was all the prince needed to know.
Supreme Kai stayed as long as he could in Ibiza, but soon the first light of the next day showed up, and the tide rose to cover the rock he was on. He could no longer stand it, and so went back to Goku's house.
As he walked in the front door, he saw Goku attacking a huge pile of food. He looked up as Kai entered and for a fleeting moment, fear flashed across his face. It was soon replaced with the usual façade and Goku grinned at him, though obviously half-heartedly.
"Want some?" he asked. Supreme Kai was confused- why would Goku be afraid of him? Was it to do with what Vegeta said? Did Goku actually believe that stuff? "Supreme Kai?" he jolted and looked up at Goku. Supreme Kai sat down on the settee opposite Goku and frowned at him.
"Are you alright?"
"Well I was just wondering…"
"What?"
"Why you left me in Ibiza all night?"
"Oh…" Goku flushed, "Sorry, I forgot all about you! See I found out some stuff and guess what? Vegeta's talking to me again! Speak of the devil!" Vegeta had just walked into the room and was glaring daggers at Supreme Kai.
"I thought you said you told him to leave?"
"No, I said I would tell him to leave." Goku said nervously, "If you think about it, he had to come back here anyway to pick up Old Kai." Vegeta nodded in surrender, not really feeling like arguing again. Supreme Kai looked from Goku to Vegeta and knew what was coming. "Er… sorry but… uh… I have to… evict you?" Supreme Kai took in a deep breath and nodded.
"Right then, I'll just get my ancestor…"
~In the woods somewhere~
'I cannot allow him to leave! He is what creates the main flow of my power! Stop him!'
"Yes, Master."
~Back in Goku's house~
"… And I'll be off." Supreme Kai turned to leave when a lightning bolt shot straight through the ceiling and hit him in the back. He fell to the floor unconscious.
"Bloody hell." Goku whispered.
[Supreme Kai?]
{…}
"I'll never get rid of him." muttered Vegeta, who seemed totally unperturbed by the fact Supreme Kai had just been struck by lightning.
Three hours later, Supreme Kai regained consciousness and opened his eyes. He noticed vaguely that he was in a bed before he sat up.
"Finally up then?" Supreme Kai turned round to see Old Kai sitting on a chair next to the bed smirking. "Those two!" he said, obviously meaning Goku and Vegeta, "Those two made me come up here to keep an eye on you! No respect! Ordering me around! Well since you're up I can go now, and good riddance!" Supreme Kai frowned as old Kai retreated from the room. Why was he in bed?
He got up and felt a sharp pain in his back. Trying to ignore it, he made his way downstairs.
Goku and Vegeta were sat in the living room. There was nothing on TV, so Goku was pouring through baby magazines, which made Vegeta both happy and confused- Goku had already had two kids, why did he need to look at those?
Goku picked up one entitled 'Fatherhood- how to not suck at it' when Supreme Kai came through the door. Both Saiyans jolted and Goku hurriedly stuffed his magazines under a nearby pillow.
"I see you're not unconscious." He said quickly.
"What happened to me?" Kai asked.
"A giant lightning bolt shot through the ceiling and hit you." Vegeta said simply. He looked thoroughly pissed off at this. "Which meant you had to stay here longer! But now you can go." The prince then turned to Goku, as if for consent- or daring him to disagree. Goku nodded briskly and didn't make eye contact with Supreme Kai.
"Right then." Goku could hear the emptiness of Kai's voice. "I'd better be…" yet another lightning bolt shot through the ceiling and hit him in the back. Goku stared down at him in disbelief. He could feel a slight decrease in his ki. If he keeps this up, he'll die, He thought.
"I think he does this just to spite me." Vegeta muttered.
"He'll have to stay." Goku said.
"What?"
"He'll have to. If this keeps up, he'll die, and if this bond we have is like a Saiyan one… I don't really feel like going insane or dying… and not knowing another one of my kids." The last part stopped Vegeta wanting to hit him. He sighed.
"Very well, but don't you dare go off with him or anything."
"The only reason I did that was because you wouldn't speak to me!" Goku objected. Vegeta stuck his tongue out and Goku grinned.
Later that night, for a second time, Supreme Kai woke up, this time with a splitting headache. He groaned in frustration, finding himself in bed again and set off back downstairs.
Once again, Goku was absorbed in his magazines, and Vegeta was watching TV. Goku didn't have time to hide his magazine this time, and Supreme Kai frowned.
"Why are you reading those?" Goku nearly shot through the roof.
"Er…"
"I'm pregnant." Vegeta snapped. Supreme Kai turned to him, his eyes wide in disbelief- they darted down to look at his stomach. Vegeta glared at him. "What?!" he demanded. When Supreme Kai didn't answer, and just kept staring at his stomach, Vegeta scowled. "What are you doing?"
"Listening… bloody hell and you are!"
"You can hear it?" Goku asked.
"Yeah. You can to. Just open up our link and hear what I can."
"How?"
"Just try." Goku frowned slightly, but did it all the same. A faint rustling came through their link.
"Is that the baby?"
"Yep. You can see it too. Just go a little further." Vegeta watched in awe as Supreme Kai's eyes grew slightly wider and adopted a childish look in them, much like Goku's.
"Awww, it's so cute!" Goku exclaimed. "And so small!"
"It's only a month old, moron." Vegeta said. Goku looked up at him. Supreme Kai shook his head slightly.
"I've never done that before." He whispered.
"What?"
"Let you look through my eyes."
"Oh that's what it was that I was doing." Something in Vegeta's brain clicked and he snarled. Both Goku and Supreme Kai turned quickly to look at him.
"You were eavesdropping on me yesterday! When I was talking to Kakarott! That's why his eyes went all funny! You heard that and you have the nerve to come back here?"
"Well yeah, since I didn't believe a word of it. And they didn't go 'all funny,' they just looked like mine for a while."
"Come to think of it, my eyes did feel weird, and my ears were twitchy."
"Yep, those are the signs that we're listening in on each other."
"Bloody mother fu…"
"Vegeta!" Goku interrupted. "Don't worry. I wont do it again!"
"I'm not mad at you! I'm mad at that bloody short shit over there!" Supreme Kai scowled.
"Look who's talking! Look at you! Prince of all Saiyans and five foot nothing!"
"Shut up you bastard! You have no right to mock me!"
"I have every right! I'm the Supreme Kai! I do what I want!"
"Oh yeah! Really? That's why you can't leave the house is it?"
"That suits me fine because I don't want to leave anyway! You're the one that should leave!" Vegeta's ki flared.
"How'd you work that one out? I'm Kakarott's lover, not you! I have more right to be here!"
"Yeah? You may be his lover, but I'm his soul partner! And as you said yourself, you can't compete with that!"
"Kakarott said I don't have to compete!"
"That's because there's no point! You don't have to compete because it would be useless! You could never win!"
"Shut the fuck up!"
"NO! You can't order me around! Oh, I get it… the truth hurts doesn't it Vegeta? Knowing that you'll never be as close as you want to be to someone? It must be hard for you knowing that you're carrying the child of someone who could never truly love you!" Supreme Kai gasped at his own words. What had gotten into him? He looked up at Vegeta. He was looking horrified. "I…I'm sorry. I didn't mean… I…" Vegeta sunk back into a chair, his eyes welling up. Supreme Kai backed out of the room, and headed upstairs quietly.
Goku sighed sadly. Why couldn't they just get along? It wouldn't be for long…
He took a bite out of a hamburger and gazed out of the window. He had used instant translocation, when the fight first broke out, to get to a restaurant on the other side of the world. 'At least I know I definitely won't be able to hear them over here,' he thought. He knew he should have stayed… maybe try to get them to stop shouting at each other, but as strong as Goku was, he just didn't have the guts to put himself in the middle of that kind of battle.
"I'll go back in a few hours to see if they've blown up the house." Goku decided.
Supreme Kai sat up in the spare bedroom of Goku's house, hoping that the ground would swallow him soon. 'How could I have said those things? That was terrible!'
There was a knock at the door, and Old Kai entered.
"That was some argument!" he said.
"You heard that?" Old Kai snorted.
"If you had shouted any louder, the people in the North Pole would have heard you!"
"Yeah well…"
****
Vegeta had gone up to sit on the roof. It was three hours since he and Supreme Kai had argued, and Goku still hadn't come back. Vegeta hadn't really noticed he'd gone until Supreme Kai had left, but he didn't care about that so much. What was bugging him was what Kai had said- it must be hard for you knowing that you're carrying the child of someone who could never truly love you… was that true?
"No, it just can't be…"
"What can't?" Vegeta nearly toppled off the roof. He looked up and saw Goku hovering above him. He sat down next to Vegeta and smiled. "I see you didn't destroy the house. That's good!" Vegeta nodded vaguely. Goku sighed. "What did he say now?"
"It doesn't matter… I… I didn't believe it."
"Good. That means I can talk about nicer things!" Goku grinned childishly again. "I was thinking, maybe we could build an extension onto the house so we'd have more room, and maybe set up a boundary line and make a garden and a playground and if you wanted… like a little training area for the baby if you wanted it to be a fighter… do you?" Vegeta rolled his eyes.
"Of course I do. It'll be a full-blooded Saiyan. I want it to grow up to be stronger than a super Saiyan three."
"High expectations then?"
"Yep. But Kakarott, you seem to be overlooking one important detail- with your DIY talents, we might as well hire a stuffed animal to do it."
By the time they were finished talking, Vegeta had forgotten all about what Supreme Kai had said. it soon got late and darkness fell.
"Well we'd better go in, it's getting late." Goku said finally. He stood up and fell straight off the roof, landing with a thud on the ground below him.
"Moron." Vegeta muttered with a smile.
Once inside, they went straight up to bed. Both of them were unusually tired. Goku was glad he was sleeping in with Vegeta again. it was much warmer.
"Goodnight you two." He whispered, putting an arm around Vegeta. Vegeta smirked and fell straight off to sleep.
~Dream~
Vegeta was walking through the woods. He looked to his left to see Kaiku by his side.
"Kakarott!" he snapped accusingly. "Why are you like that?!"
"You think I have a choice?" Kaiku asked defensively. They entered the clearing and instinctively looked up.
"The true enemy is growing stronger. You had better put a stop to the monster creator soon, or you will have two enemies to deal with." The skull said calmly, as if it wasn't a big deal.
"Terrific. Can I go now?" Vegeta asked. The skull turned slightly towards him.
"You seem agitated, loner."
"I am not a loner!" the prince snapped.
"Yes you are." Said the skull matter of factly. "By the way. I see you are not yet aware that the people you hold dear are vanishing."
"What do you mean?" asked Kaiku.
"Goten, Trunks, Kibito, Chi Chi, Bulma, Krillin… I was just wondering why you have not yet noticed that they have not been in touch with you for so long." Before any more questions could be asked, the blinding light came…
~End Dream~
… And they woke up. It was early morning, and Goku was first to open his eyes. He looked to his left and saw Vegeta, and then to his right and saw… Supreme Kai? Goku panicked and pushed him out of the bed. He thudded onto the floor and made a squeaking noise.
"Where am I?" he asked hazily.
"Where you shouldn't be! Get lost before Vegeta comes round!" Supreme Kai seemed to realise where he was and teleported out seconds before Vegeta woke up properly. He snarled.
"That skull's mocking me, I swear!" Goku sighed in relief.
"Well, I'd better go."
"Where are you going?" Vegeta asked suspiciously.
"Well, I need to find out if the skull's right don't I? I need to phone Chi Chi, Bulma and Krillin. We already know Goten, Trunks and Kibito are missing, but the others… do you think this true enemy's got them?" Vegeta shrugged unconcernedly and turned away from him. Oh yeah, thought Goku, Chi Chi. Yet another person Vegeta gets jealous about if I talk to her. And he's long since vowed to never speak to Bulma again. "Don't worry Vegeta. Chances are they're not there anyway." Vegeta nodded distantly and got up as well. It had only occurred to Goku recently how much Vegeta hated him talking to other people- like he wanted Goku all to himself and nobody else mattered. This made Goku half proud, half concerned. What if Vegeta started tried to stop him going to see anyone at all?
He shook this from his head. Vegeta was probably feeling delicate at the moment because of this whole pregnancy thing.
Goku made his way downstairs, closely followed by Vegeta, and went straight into the living room, where he picked up the phone and started dialling his ex's number.
"No answer." He said, putting down the phone and trying not to sound anxious. Next, he dialled Bulma's new number.
"Hello?"
"Oh hi Yamcha, how's things?" Goku could see Vegeta scowling out of the corner of his eye.
"Terrific. It's really great out here in Hawaii. You should come out here some day!"
"Yeah… yeah maybe. Listen, is Bulma there?"
"Er, no. see, she hasn't been for about a week now."
"What?! How come you didn't tell anyone?"
"I didn't want to worry you guys!" Goku sighed exasperatedly. "Listen, you shouldn't worry so much. Bulma's probably just got caught up in something technological. Anyways, how are you? Still going out with Vegeta?"
"Yeah. He's pregnant."
"Tell the world why don't you?!" Vegeta snapped.
"What? Pregnant? How's that possible?"
"It's a Saiyan thing… look um… I really need to go…"
"Aww come on, I haven't heard from you for ages Goku! What's been going on?"
"Do you really want to know? It's kinda long…"
"I've got all the time in the world!" So Goku went into a long-winded discussion, starting with Vegeta's dreams, his fusion with Supreme Kai, the residual effects, the newest dreams, the disappearances, the lightning bolts, everything except his and Vegeta's argument.
"Sheesh Goku, you've got yourself in a right state haven't you?"
"Yup."
"Well… I, I'm sure Bulma hasn't been kidnapped or anything!"
"Oh I'm pretty sure she has." Goku said without thinking. The phone abruptly hung up. "Oh dear." He muttered dumbly. He started calling Krillin's number. At least if he wasn't there, 18 wouldn't converse with him for hours.
"Talk."
"Oh hi 18! Is Krillin there?"
"No, he's not been here for three days now."
"Oh… right then… well bye…" and he hung up.
"Well?" Goku nearly shot through the roof. He had totally forgotten Vegeta was there.
"They're all missing."
{Well that's bad.}
[Kai?! How long have you been listening?]
{Since you started talking on the phone. Didn't you feel?}
[I wasn't really paying attention…]
{We really have to find Babbidy's apprentice soon. Like that dream said, if we don't hurry up, we'll have to deal with two enemies.}
[Yeah, I guess so.]
"What are you doing?" Goku jumped slightly and looked at Vegeta.
"Huh?"
"You've been staring at a wall for three minutes straight."
"Do you wanna come with me and Supreme Kai to find Babbidy's apprentice's secret hideout and kill him?" Vegeta was slightly taken aback by the suddenness and bluntness of the question. He is getting more like a true Saiyan, he thought smirking.
"Yeah, I suppose. Besides, I'm not leaving you and that purple freak alone together."
"Great! Just don't start fighting again ok?"
"I'll… try." Goku nodded.
[Ok, come on then.]
Soon, they were all flying over a huge open stretch of countryside. Supreme Kai was keeping his distance from Vegeta, staying on Goku's right side whilst Vegeta was on the left.
"Oh boy, everyone welcome the awkward silence!" Goku said, trying to sound cheerful. No one answered, so he kept quiet too.
After a while of meaningless flying, Vegeta started to get annoyed. He suddenly felt a stinging in his arm, and lifted up his sleeve to find his skull scar glowing. Left, something in his mind said. He turned left.
"Vegeta, where are you going?!" Goku asked. Vegeta didn't reply, so Goku just followed him.
Left, right…… left, straight on…. Right, straight on…… stop. Vegeta stopped. He descended straight down and landed infront of a small hole in the ground- about 10 cm. The burning sensation stopped and he heard Goku and the Supreme Kai land next to him.
"What's that?" Goku asked.
"A hole in the ground." Muttered Vegeta.
"Something's coming!" They all stepped back as around fifty bluish pink Buus soared out of the small hole.
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End chapter!!!!! What do you think? Oh, before everyone starts having a go at Supreme Kai for saying that stuff, I just want to say, in his defence, he didn't mean to say it. He just got a little too wrapped up in the argument ok? Ok, review!!!!
