Sorry for the long wait, but I started at my job back on the 7th and I haven't had much free time, or at least not a lot of time to write.

I do not own Dragon Ball Z.

Last of Two Planets

Part 2: A New Friendship

Chapter 7: An Old Friend Returns

"…so then we wished Tou-san back with the Dragon Balls and nothing's really happened until Cell came back." Gohan says, finishing his story about his life as the sun sits low over the mountains. Its final rays of light make the horizon a wonderful tapestry of color.

Videl looks at him in shock and horror before managing to stutter, "Wow…that's…that's incredible…you've been through so much."

"Yeah, I guess so. But most of the people I know have interesting lives in some way. Like being incredibly strong, full or part alien, or having died."

"I still find it hard to believe that people can be wished back to life or that there really are aliens."

"Don't forget, your mother is one of those aliens."

"Yeah, I…"

"Gohan! Videl! Dinner is ready!" Chi-Chi calls from the house.

"It's about time, I'm starved!" Gohan exclaims as they walk towards the house.

"Like I was saying, I'm going to have to ask her about that tomorrow." Videl finishes as two orange blurs, one large and one small, rocket past them and into the house.


Several seconds later a loud yell and two clangs of a frying pan striking the heads of a hungry Saiya-jin and demi Saiya-jin. "GOKU! GOTEN! YOU KNOW BETTER THEN TO TRACK MUD INTO THE HOUSE!"

As the two teenage demi Saiya-jins enter the house they can see two sets of muddy footprints on the, otherwise, spotless floor.

"You'd think, as fast as they were running, that all the mud would have come off outside." Videl says as she suppresses a laugh at the sight of Goten and Goku sitting at the table with one hand on their bruised heads and the other poised to dig into their food.

"Come on Nii-chan an Widel-chan. It's eating time." Goten says with a pleading look on his face.

"Ok bro." Gohan says as he and Videl follow the anxious chibi into the house.

• • •

"That was a great meal Chi-Chi-san. You're a better cook then our chefs." Videl says as she rubs her full stomach.

"Thank you dear." Chi-Chi blushes. "It's nice to hear it from someone other then Gohan." She adds while glaring at Goku and Goten who gulp.

"G-great meal Chi-Chi."

"Yeah, good foods Mommy."

"Thanks." Chi-Chi replies dryly while washing the dishes.

"Why's she upset? I tell her thank you after every meal." Goku whispers to Gohan.

Unfortunately Chi-Chi overhears him and sends a frying pan crashing down on his head. "A burp and a mumbled 'thanks' doesn't count Goku!"

"Sorry Chi-chan. I love your cooking and I love you." Goku says smoothly as he kisses the back of her hand before kissing her on the lips.

Young Goten makes gagging noises at the scene his parents are making. "Eewwwwww, sick. Do you have'ta do that kissy kissy stuff here?"

"Gohan, Why don't you and Videl go play with Goten outside for a while." Chi-Chi breathlessly says when she and Goku pull apart.

"Ok Kaa-san." Gohan says while rolling his eyes.

An amused smile brightens Videl's face as she follows Gohan and Goten outside. The way Gohan's parents act towards each other reminds her a lot of her own parents. With the only difference being that her parents do not usually show too much affection towards each other when other people were in the room, although that usually just means when company or servants are present. "Do your parents always act like that?" She asks Gohan as Goten chases a lizard.

"Always wanting to be alone? Yeah, I asked Vegeta about it a little over a year ago and he…told me a bit more then I wanted to know. Why are you asking?"

"I was just wondering. My parents act the same way when the servants aren't in the room." Videl says as she watches Goten hold the lizard in the air over his head in triumph only to have the small reptile wiggle free of his grasp. "So uhh…what did Vegeta say when you asked him?"

"He said that it's because Tou-san started spending more time with us and less time training. And when a Saiya-jin does that the bond with their mate can grow stronger and he or she becomes more 'playful' with their mate."

"Oh." Videl says while they watch Goten once again chase the lizard in the fading light. His yells at lizard to slow down can be heard. As she watches Goten switch to catching fireflies, something that Gohan just said, and something that she had heard a few others mention, comes to mind. "Gohan?"

"Yeah?"

"What's a bond? I've heard that word used several times today but no-one has said what it is."

"Oh…well a bond is something that forms between a Saiya-jin and their mate. And according to Vegeta, that was how I knew you were in that plane."

"Yeah, I heard that part." Videl replies as they both turn slightly red at the thought of what the word mate implies that they will do someday.

"Ok, umm…from what I know, once the bond has formed that pretty much means that the two 'bondmates' will be together the rest of their lives. Also, at some point the bond is completed by the two mates biting each other on the nape of the neck, marking them."

"Oh, so that's why Momma and Poppa have those bight marks. I always thought it was kind of weird."

"NII-CHAN! WIDEL-CHAN! Looky whats I caught!" Goten yells as he comes running up, dragging a purple dinosaur by its tail behind him. "I cetched Barney!" The large reptile looks on with amusement towards the small boy dragging him through the field.

"HOLY SH-COW!" Videl yells in surprise. "Am I seeing things, or is that dinosaur purple?"

"Nope, that's not a purple dinosaur." Gohan replies. "It's a purple dragon and his name's Icarus."

Videl looks at him, stunned. "What? How do you know that?"

"Because he's an old friend. Come on. I'll introduce you."

"Umm…ok." Videl replies as she trails behind Gohan as he leads the way towards his brother and Icarus.

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