A/N: {[ this is Goku and Supreme Kai saying exactly the same thing at exactly the same time]}
"KAKAROTT!" Vegeta screamed over and over. Kaiku came rushing into the room looking half asleep but still worried.
"What is it?" he saw Vegeta was covered in dirt and leaves. "What happened?"
"I was dreaming and it was so real and when I woke up all this was here and…and…" he broke down into sobs. "The skull said we're both going to die! We're not nearly strong enough!" Kaiku looked shocked. He put his arm around Vegeta and pulled him close.
"Shhhh. It's ok…"
"HOW CAN YOU SAY THAT?! I'm going to die! You're going to die! My baby's going to die!" Kaiku sighed.
[What are we gonna do? The skull's never wrong.]
{I know…we'll have to start training. Hard. I have to warn you…I train a lot more vigorously than you do.}
[…whatever it takes to save Vegeta.]
Kaiku squeezed Vegeta softly and got up.
"Where are you going!?"
"I need to go and train."
"Where?"
"…dunno. Maybe the hyperbolic time chamber."
"You can't leave me here on my own!" Kaiku raised an eyebrow. Vegeta looked down in defeat. "Sorry. That was dumb."
"You can come with me. You can stay with Dende." Vegeta nodded, not wanting to make himself look dumb again. "Right then. Lets go."
"Just like that? Do I need to pack?" Kaiku gave him a 'don't be stupid' look and headed out of the window.
"We wont be there more than two days. That'll give me two years inside."
"Will you change much?" Kaiku shrugged.
"Dunno. Maybe. I mean, since we've fused, we're both immortal now but if…"
"WHAT?! Kakarott, you can't be immortal! I'll lose you!" Kaiku sighed.
"I'm sorry. it's permanent. I can't change it. Just like the link between us." Vegeta stopped in mid air.
"n,no! you can't…you can't leave me!" there were tears in his eyes. "I…I thought we'd be together forever in otherworld."
Inside Kaiku, Supreme Kai could feel Goku's pain, and it was slowly overwhelming him.
{Goku you have to stop hurting!}
[I can't! I never thought I'd lose him…you never told me I was immortal now!] the mental pain intensified.
{Goku please!} Supreme Kai couldn't take it anymore. He pulled Goku's mind back into their shared space- where it didn't hurt.
"you have to cope with this. Kai's can't handle strong emotions. It kills them."
"I thought kais were immortal."
"We are. But only in the sense that we'll never die naturally. Things can kill us, but age never will." Goku's eyes watered up.
"I'm going to lose him aren't I?"
"Not for a long time! Saiyans have very long lifespans."
"But nowhere near forever…"
"…No…"
Outside, Vegeta watched as Kaiku went totally still.
"Kakarott?" nothing. He suddenly got angry. "Well fine! If Supreme Kai means more to you than me then fuck you! I hope I never see you again!" and he flew back.
"Look, we have to concentrate on the battle."
"Why? If we both die, at least I'll be with Vegeta." Goku said, staring at the darkness below him.
"Do you really want to be responsible for the deaths of everyone on this planet?!"
"Vegeta… what will I do?!" Goku suddenly leapt forward and grabbed Supreme Kai, burying himself in his chest.
"Hey get off!" Supreme Kai cried in surprise.
"I'll lose him forever!" Goku sobbed.
"I told you never to hug me!" Goku just let out a huge sob and squeezed him more. "Ack! You're killing my ribs!"
"I'm sorry!" Goku cried, doing nothing about it. Supreme Kai gave up and sighed exasperatedly. He ran his fingers through Goku's hair.
"You have to pull yourself together. We can worry about immortality later. After the battle ok?" Goku nodded. He pulled away from Supreme Kai looking embarrassed.
"Sorry."
"Don't worry about it. But if you ever do that again, I'll bloody kill you myself." Goku grinned.
"Right. Ready to go back out now?"
"Yeah. Lets go to the lookout."
"You wanna be in control for a while longer?"
"Of course." Goku grinned again. He stayed back a few steps while Supreme Kai went on into the light.
Kaiku looked around. Vegeta was nowhere in sight.
"Damn. Without him we don't know where the true enemy is." He sighed and carried on to the lookout.
As he approached it, he saw a huge ball of what looked like smokey cloud surrounding it. Kaiku flew warily towards it, but as he got nearer, a small hole appeared that was just big enough for him to get through.
{What do you think? Do I go in?}
[Of course you do!]
Kaiku flew through the hole and landed on the lookout. Dende came rushing up to him.
"How did you get through?!" Kaiku just looked confusedly at him. "I've been trying to get through that barrier for days now, and I can't! I can't reach the outside world at all. I can't see what's going on. I can't…"
"Ok. We get it." Dende frowned.
"We?"
"Uh…I mean I…" the Namek suddenly smiled.
"I see you two are still very much bonded then. You two really are like two bonded Saiyans. You're so in to each other now, it's like the fusion doesn't even exist!"
"What do you mean?" Kaiku knew he had more important things to do, but he wanted to know what Dende meant.
"Well, when two Saiyans mate, they say they're bonded to each other, in the sense that it hurts them to be apart. Bonded Saiyans do everything together. Eat. Sleep. Train. Fight. Much like in the same way you two do. You share the same feelings, thoughts- maybe not at the same time, but you get there, am I right?" Kaiku nodded slowly. "Frankly, I'm surprised that you haven't tried to find a way to have sex!"
[Oh no not him too!]
"Now come on! oh, look we have more important things to do!" Kaiku said, quickly trying to change the subject. He told Dende about the dreams, the missing people, and the true enemy- all that had been going on recently. "So we need to use the hyperbolic time chamber."
"Of course you can! This sounds urgent! Remember, only two days. Two years ok?"
"Right."
"I'll see you when you come back out then." Kaiku nodded and ran towards the doorway to the hyperbolic time chamber.
"Oh Dende! Can you try and get past that smoke barrier and ask Vegeta if he's remembered the two locations yet? He'll know what I'm on about!" he added seeing the Namek's confused face. Then he turned and ran into the hyperbolic time chamber, the door slamming behind him.
Kaiku looked warily around the room. Since Supreme Kai was in control, he hadn't been in here before.
{This place doesn't seem so bad.}
[Well, beyond this room is…go and see!] Goku loved people's first reaction to seeing this.
Kaiku walked forwards and gasped. Beyond the building was nothing! Nothing at all.
[It stretches on forever. The further out you go, the more gravity there is- and more difficult to breathe.]
{…Wow…}
[Maybe you'd better let me take over for a while so you can get used to it. Then you can take over again in a few weeks and train harder. Ok?]
{Ok.}
Vegeta sighed and rolled over on the bed. He couldn't believe Kakarott hadn't come after him. Then again, now he had Supreme Kai back nothing else seemed to matter to him.
"I can't keep thinking like this! I'm carrying his child; that's got to mean something to him." no it hasn't. Argued a voice in his head- probably insanity creeping up on him. You two aren't bonded. Kakarott has more of a relationship with Supreme Kai than you. Vegeta stared blankly at the wall opposite him as seconds crept into minutes and minutes turned to hours. Before he knew it, it was past one in the afternoon-almost five hours since Kaiku had left for the hyperbolic time chamber. He faintly wondered what had changed already.
[Do you think you're ready for this?]
{What kind of a question is that? We've been in here months now! Let me train us. We'll get a lot more done!}
[Heh, right then!] ~switch~
Kaiku was breathing heavily as he looked back on the tiny speck on the horizon that was the door out. Icy walls shot up on all sides and encased him in a thick layer of unbreakable ice. Unbreakable? Not for long! Kaiku raised his ki higher than ever before. The walls shattered by the pure energy radiating from him. Once free, Kaiku flew right out to the point where it was a struggle to keep breathing and started training. Inside, Goku had to admire Supreme Kai's fighting techniques. When Supreme Kai had first said he got up to five thousand times normal gravity, Goku had had a hard time believing it, but now, it was no question. They had already gone far beyond the limits of a Saiyan or Kai on his own.
A full five hours later Kaiku finally gave into his fatigue. He dropped to his knees breathing heavily. They switched again and Goku flew them back to the main building. His body was aching from the intense training. Supreme Kai was right- he did train a lot more vigorously!
Kaiku jumped onto one of the beds and stared up at the ceiling.
{Are you ok? You haven't really talked at all for months. Just trained. And you've never once mentioned Vegeta.}
[…What's there to talk about? We're training to save the world-it's nothing new to me. If I don't get a lot stronger, the planet's doomed-as always. Just think; if I had stayed dead after the Cell games, this whole thing might not have happened.]
{…Oh…uh, I think I preferred it when you weren't depressed. Anyway- if you had stayed dead, I'd never have met you. And I'd never have fused with you. And this is the best thing that's ever happened to me. I'm stronger than I ever could have been on my own. And not just that…I finally feel like I can trust someone…}
[How do you mean?]
{…I've never ever trusted anyone in my life. Not the other Kais when they were around. Not Kibito. Not anyone. Then this happens and I feel like I'm not alone anymore. I trust you with my life- even though you did try to kill me.}
[Hey I did not! I was in anger mode! Buu had just killed Vegeta for God's sake!]
{Heh, I know! But anyway…this may have been a horrible ordeal for you, but this fusion was the best thing that ever happened to me.}
[……I never said the fusion was a bad thing. And I did miss it when we split.]
{Well stop moping around then! Want to go train some more?}
[Yeah. sure!]
As night fell Vegeta counted down the hours to midnight. It was all he could do. At midnight he fell asleep. He woke up again and got up for something to eat two hours later. He walked down stairs in a trance and picked out something from the fridge. He wasn't sure what and he didn't really care. He stayed up till four in the morning and went back to bed at ten past, never once stopping to think that it was about a full day since Kaiku had been in the hyperbolic time chamber.
Kaiku returned from the long training session feeling fairly content with the seven-hour work out. He had gone about forty miles out from the main building today.
There was now a permanent aura around him and his hair had gone from super Saiyan yellow to pure gold over the past year and stuck out more. His skin had gone from pale lilac to milky white and he looked almost spirit like. Both Goku and Supreme Kai had matured considerably.
[That was a good training session.]
{Yeah. I think we went up about seven thousand.}
[Mm. I'm…]
{Hungry and…}
[A bit tired as well. We're doing it again!] For a few months now they had been finishing each other's sentences- but it was more than that. They were thinking the same thoughts- to the point that they didn't even really have to speak to each other because they were thinking the same thing.
{[I wonder what caused this]}
[Probably just…]
{All the synchronisation of our…}
[Training. But sometimes it is…]
{Pretty weird.}
[Yeah.]
Kaiku, with Goku in control, flew right into the main building and got something to eat. There was still plenty to eat-which surprised him.
{Will everything be the same when we go back out?}
[two days along the road, but yeah.]
Vegeta got back up and had something else to eat. He walked out of the back door and sat under a tree, still not too aware of what was happening. It was amazing how empty he felt without Goku. Train hard Kakarott. Save us all as you usually do. But you won't save me. It's too late for that. He stood back up, eyes watering slightly and wrote a quick note explaining where the true enemy was. It's all he cares about. And precious Supreme Kai. He took one last look back at Goku's house before flying away, never to return.
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