A/N: I don't own DBZ and I don't pretend to. This story is AU so that gives me free range and characters are OOC (out of character). Be warned spelling and grammar mistakes will be found. ALWAYS! Warning, Yaoi, male/male coupling. If you are homophobic then don't read. No one is making you. Rated R 

Royal Delivery

Chapter 30

Gohan struggled, trying to worm out of Mirai's hold, feeling sharp teeth rake across his skin. He flinched as it sliced - feeling like a paper cut as it trailed down his neck. Then, lips pressed hard, greedily drawing on anything that the small cut could deliver.

Panic raced as his wrists twisted in the tight grip; bruising and pitching the skin until hands were freed.

"MIRAI DON'T!"  

The door slid opened and Ursus' brow drew together at what his eyes were trying to grasp. Mirai had Gohan pressed hard against the wall as the young boy struggled, nearly invisible under the older boy.

Mirai was being flooded with his Saiyanjin hormones, the new high, a potent drug of his future partner's essence, the highest of desire made to claim what's yours. He was lost to his surroundings only hungry for what was to be his.        

Before Ursus could take another step Gohan had thrown Mirai back hard, sending the boy tumbling over Ursus's bed and onto the floor on the other side.

The younger prince slid down the wall with the strength it took to free him self.. His breathing came labored and heavy. Lids closed trying to calm his pounding heart. Ursus knelt down next the young teen as the door closed behind him. He looked at the boy before frowning back at his friend opposite them.

Mirai was on the floor leaning back against his bed with his legs drawn bent at the knees. His head hung low, lavender strains blanketed his face. His fingers fisted into his hair.

"What the HELL happened Mirai?" Ursus yelled.

Mirai wasn't listening. He was too busy gathering all his senses and kicking himself with anger, ashamed, so ashamed of what he had done. 

Gohan lifted his eyelids. Dark pearls looked over at his brother. A run of emotions flooded through him, why? Why him? Out of everyone he knows why did Mirai have to do that?  Catching his breath Gohan looked up to meet with Ursus' concerned and confused pools.

Ursus' eyes widened. His sights shifted to Gohan's neck, a graze above the boy's silver ring. "SHIT MIRAI WHAT DID YOU DO!"

Mirai's fist clenched at his mistake. He kept his head buried in regret.. "I didn't…It was …I'm sorry." He looked up with his lavender silk strands parting, his blues filled with tears pleading for forgiveness.

He caught sight of his young brother being helped up by Ursus. Gohan's dark pearls looked his way, now in the other teen's arms. Pearls that were filled with regret, anguish, if he hadn't opened his mouth maybe Mirai wouldn't have done this. Gohan's trust was bleeding away like the graze on his neck.

He was hoping, praying that maybe things could be different with him, with Mirai.. Gohan found forgiveness difficult thing to believe in. It was only a word filled with letters that have no meaning.

Ursus held Gohan close, holding back his own arousing feelings, the heat. He was shocked with Mirai. He was normally more in control than this. Something must have been said to get him in this condition.

"Chibi please…" Mirai stood up with Gohan eyes fixed warily in the stillness. When the door slid opened all eyes shifted firmly fixed on the dark figure at the door, hearts stopped.

"What the hell is going on in here?"  Vegeta growled with the commander next to him and his son Collis. Mirai's blues went straight to Gohan. Both locked sights with the same fear. What if their father, the king, catches sight of the graze?

Ursus, with his arms around the young prince comforting the boy, was now getting the death glare from the king. He gulped the teen could feel his life being shortened as he released the boy.

Gohan's hand went straight to his neck. He locked eyes with his brother for help. Mirai took at step forward getting his father and the others' attention. "Dad… I mean father. What are you doing here?" 

Ursus shifted slightly in front of Gohan covering him from the others' view, protecting him from his father's sight. The younger prince was desperately trying to work out how he was going to hide the graze from his protective father..

Vegeta stepped in to the room, which held both his sons. Questioning sights narrowed on the heir to the throne. "I thought that after last night's incident I would address all of your squad, why boy?" He asked suspiciously..

"Oh nothing…no reason." Mirai stepped back under the intense stare he was receiving from his father. Vegeta sniffed the air and turned to Ursus who kept his sights on the king not sure what to expect.

"You're going into heat boy." Vegeta growled Ursus' face paled. Mirai sights fixed hardened on his friend.

"Is this true?" The lavender prince asked with his friend looking nervously from the king to him.

"Yes, yes it is." Ursus swallowed apprehensively looking for his lost confidence. Mirai couldn't believe his friend had never said a word and that he hadn't noticed. Vegeta's eyes darkened as his sights narrowed and fixed on his younger son still behind the teen.

"Boy, come here."  Gohan closed his eyes, his heart pounded. What should he do? Ursus or Mirai will get into serious trouble and he didn't want anyone to have to take the blame for this. "Boy!"

Opening his eyes, he prepared for the inevitable. "Father."

Ursus stood tall, knowing what he will have to do. Gohan stepped behind eyes shifting to Mirai's anxious blues, who in return, went straight to his father. Vegeta's dark orbs widened his sights went straight to the mark of dry crimson on the boy neck.

His heart raced as his temper built, swelling ready to rupture. His son had the beginnings of what could have been a claim. If not a little higher than where it should be with the ring there, his son, the youngest prince, could have being taken underage and not yet ready.

"Who!" His sights darkened on Ursus, Gohan stepped in front of the teen with his hands waving.

"Nothing happened."

"It doesn't look like that TO ME!" Vegeta snapped. His fists clenched.

"Father…" They both called in unison. Mirai took a step forward, the king turned and glared at him, stopping him.

"Don't move!" Vegeta turned to the other teen entering the room. "Collis, could you escort my son back to the palace?"

"Sire…" The larger teen bowed before stepping in front of his father, the commander, to get the young prince.

"NO!" Mirai growled. His eyes narrowed and filled with hatred for the teen, Collis.

"BRAT! Are you questioning my orders?" Vegeta was livid. His son had nearly been claimed by someone outside the approved houses, a commoner. His fist clenched Gohan was to be Mirai's future mate. It was an unwritten law. Others can offer up their sons and daughters but Vegeta wanted the two boys to take each other in a claim. For the good of Vegeta-sei, they must take the throne..

Mirai had proven himself as an elite warrior in battle and he had plains of training his youngest son to reach the same level. 

"Father it was…" Mirai started to call, getting Collis to look at him and Ursus to step forward before his friend could say another word..

"Sire I'm to blame I lost control…" A fist went flying sending the teen flying into the wall.

"YOU keep your hands off him." The king growled. Ursus looked up holding his jaw.

"FATHER." Both Gohan and Mirai called as they both went to be beside their friend.

"ENOUGH! Collis take my son away" Vegeta grabbed Gohan's arm and pulled him back from going to Ursus. Mirai went to go but his father stretched out a hand stop him in his tracks.

"Dad please…" Mirai begged. "Just listen… Chibi...NO!" Mirai leaped forward with his fist ready to stop Collis from taking his brother only to have Vegeta grab him and pull him back. Gohan looked unsure as to what to do as the other teen approached.

As they watched Gohan leave with Collis the eldest prince's ki was starting to spike, as did his father, the king, in an attempt to keep his son at bay. Mirai's brother's eyes haunted him as they looked back before he disappeared around the corner. Collis turned with a new gleam a taunting look; it shone with enjoyment at Mirai as he left with Gohan.

"NO!" Mirai growled.

"Brat!" Vegeta was having trouble holding his son back. It was clear by now that the boy has tasted, savored the powerful essence of his true love. This and years of longing is what was responsible for the boy's increase in strength, desires, and passion. "You were going to claim him, WEREN'T YOU?"  The king roared as his anger flared. 

"LET ME GO!" Mirai struggled against his father. The two awesome powers started to spike in a battle of their own. The prince was beside himself with worry. His father had called upon the one person he didn't want Gohan to be with. 

"You idiot!" Vegeta growled at the boy's error, lack of control. He released Mirai and in that split second the king came down hard on the back of the boy's neck rendering him unconscious. He watched him collapse to the floor.

The king's sights went to Ursus who was looking concerned for his friend, who was now, face down on the floor. "Commander I want Ursus kept in his quarters. The boy is coming into heat I'll organize a room back at the palace later."

"Of course your highness." The commander bowed.  His sights looked at the boy, Ursus, looking dazed. He had no time for the boy. He was a commoner and, in his books, should have been thrown out like the trash he is. But he couldn't deny that the boy was a strong warrior and a powerful fighter in the heat of the battle, like the prince, a great match.

Most in the high ranking families were concerned that the king would have the two to become mates, downgrading the royals house and taking the chances away from their own fine offspring to take the proud seat in the royal house, to sit next the heir of Vegeta-sei, to rule beside the next King.

Their chances had improved now that the younger prince had returned home. He had proven on that first day not to be mad, insane from years of slavery. They were hoping that the heir to the throne would go into heat before his young brother could take a partner. In their desperation they hoped and prayed that the king might have to find another partner for Mirai. This idea wasn't insane for those desperate enough. No one could last, as the prince did, not a second time. And it's forbidden to anyone to be claimed before they come of age; they would be outcasts from society, by Saiyanjin law. Rich or poor, this is law, the Saiyan way.     

"Sire." Ursus looked up at the king not knowing what to say as he went to stand. Normally, when one goes into their first heat, they would be sent to their families' homes as to find a suitable mate. Others would be sent to the medical ward of the academy. There they would be cared for while they recover or until the teen elite's family found a suitable partner.

It was different for the elites they had laws to follow they couldn't just go and hunt down their mate like the rest of the population of Vegeta-sei. They still had the hunt but only partners chosen arranged by their families, the strongest the richest ones that could tie proud families together. The king could see the boy's confusion. "I appreciate what you did. You have been loyal, protecting both your princes, even in the first stages of your condition.. It takes guts to lie to your King boy. Understand this, if you ever try it again you get more than my fist. You understand me?"   

"Yes your highness." Ursus bowed. Vegeta was satisfied a slightly amused smirk appeared on his face as he reached down to pick up his eldest son with his mate, Goku constantly asking what is happening through their bond.

Goku had picked up on everything with the peak in kis, and was rushing out off the training room to find out what is going on. Vegeta hastily explained that Gohan was on his way back home and to wait there for the boy and him.

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Gohan and Collis walked beside each other in silence. The boy could feel the teen's eyes upon him. Collis' massive mane was out, giving him an even broader and intimidating look in the same style as his Uncle Raditz. Collis fascinated him. His strong pretentious features and proud face that could look overconfident at most times were features that he had inherited from his father, the commander.

Gohan was going over the things that have happened. He was ashamed. Mirai was only doing what he did best something that was second nature to him even as young cubs; protect him. Gohan knew how his brother wanted to bed him, take him as a mate and the way he felt about Collis.

Glancing at Collis, Gohan couldn't see the problem. The teen had been nothing but nice to him, but he never really trusted anyone. Still Collis was here with him now. The more he looked at the teen as they walked down the long halls of the academy the more appealing his idea was.

At first his plan was to have Ursus bed him but now he knew Mirai needed his friendship and will need it more in the future. He couldn't take that way from him.. But Collis would take him and he seamed nice. With the added problem of Mirai trying to claim him now, Gohan knew he had to do something quickly.  

Touching his neck, he still felt the slight sting from the graze as his sights locked with Collis.

"Sire does it hurt? Allow me to look." Collis said in a soft warm manner.

Gohan stopped drawn to the gentleness in the boy. His dark pools watched the gentle movement as the teen shifted in front of him engulfing his smaller frame as he loomed over him. The young prince tilted his head curiosity feeling fingers now upon him. He winched some as a finger traced over the raw mark. Dark inks glanced back up at Collis, feeling the warmth radiating from the teen now that he was so close.

"My prince, you were lucky. If deeper…" Collis stopped and glanced at the boy looking up at him with his neck still tilted and in his reach as if a call, a dare perhaps. A smirk slipped on his handsome face. "My prince, all will be well." He purred. His calculating eyes were upon the boy, offering him what his family had sought after for a very long time; a royal seat in the house of Vegeta, maybe the throne. "Shall we?"

Gohan looked up at Collis curiously as he stood there seeing the shimmer in the teen's eyes. He has seen that look before. It was one who was in reach of a goal. The young prince knew this game; he'd seen it before. But it was a game he wanted too; both after something so different but combined each would have what they desired. And maybe love will be born from it…

The young prince nodded, and with Collis' added confidence, touched the prince shoulders with a gleam, a new spark. "My prince."

TBC…

A/N: I have plans of Gohan going off with Collis and starting his training before the party. Mirai might not be happy but then he might not know about it.

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