Chapter 24: A New Home?
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"Get back here you two!" Yelled an angry red faced security guard, sweat dripping from face and staining his shirt, as he chased two kids through the hallways and stairwells of Orange Star General Hospital. But the two adolescents either didn't hear him or just didn't care. But judging by how the girl kept yelling at the boy and how the boy kept giving the girl frantic glances he suspected that they just weren't paying attention to anything but each other.
A few minutes later as they were about to run past a nurse's station for the fifth time, one of the nurses stepped into the middle of the hall. From her stance, fisted hands on hips, and the angered gleam in her eye it was obvious that she's not happy. "STOP RIGHT THERE!" Yelled the woman in a squeaky high-pitched voice.
He couldn't believe it. He's spent the last twenty minutes chasing these two with no sign of the chase ending anytime soon. And all this woman did was step into the hall and yell at them to cause the two adolescents to come to a screeching halt. "T-thanks." Panted the security guard.
"Go get cleaned up. I'll handle these two." Replied the nurse in that same squeaky voice.
If he wasn't for the fact that he's hot, sweaty, and tired then he would have protested. But he was all those things so he replied, "Yes ma'am," before going off to the security guard's small locker room in the basement of the hospital.
The woman glared down at the two kids. "Gohan! Videl! Just what do you think you were doing? This is a hospital not an indoor racetrack! Just wait till I tell your mothers! I'm sure Chi-Chi and Selene will punish you!" Her last sentence sent a chill down the two kid's spines.
"Youch!" Exclaimed the two adolescents as the woman grabbed the Gohan's ear in her left hand and Videl's ear in her right and dragged them down the hall. If the two had not been imagining what horrible torture their mothers may have in store for them then they would have realized that this woman shouldn't know their names or the names of their mothers.
"Excuse me, but I think these belong to you." Said the nurse as she dragged Gohan and Videl into the hospital room. "They were running through the hallways."
"Oh, is that so?" Asked a coolly smiling Selene. She and Hercule had arrived shortly after Gohan and Videl left on their outing.
"Yes it is Mrs. Satan. And I suggest that they be punished severely." Gohan and Videl sent frantic looks at the nurse. Did this woman know that she's signing their death warrants?
"I think that can be arranged." Replied Chi-Chi as her frying pan gently clinked against the bed rail. The look on Gohan and Videl's faces was that of pure terror. They knew that Chi-Chi has had a sedative and that her judgement is slightly impaired. If she were to strike them with the all might frying pan in current condition then this hospital might have two additional patients to take care of.
Suddenly everyone in the room burst out laughing. Gohan and Videl blinked in confusion as to what's so funny when their attention is drawn by a small explosion and puff of smoke. Where once stood the nurse, now floats Puar.
"You were right! That was much more fun then having them paged!" Laughed Yamcha.
"This waswe're not really in trouble?" Stammered Gohan.
"Nope. We knew what you were doing." Answered Chi-Chi.
"But after about ten minutes we sent Puar out to look for you. We would have sent Oolong as well, but he'sindisposed." Added Bulma as she eyed the pig. His short body slumped in a chair with a frying pan shaped mark on his head.
"What happened to him?" Asked a curious Videl.
"He wasbeing himself. Trying to get into the nurses locker room." Replied Bulma. Gohan and Videl chuckled at this.
"I'm surprised that Roshi didn't try the same thing." Snickered Gohan.
"Yea, I bet that old man would love to get into one of the locker rooms." Added Videl.
"Speaking of Roshi, where is he?" Asked Goku.
"Ioh lord." Muttered Bulma as everyone realized that the old man is no longer in the room.
"The fool is bound to show up sometime." Said a disinterested Vegeta.
"Yea but
"Security to the nurses locker room. Security to theAh! Get away from me you dirty old man!" The group of friends stared at the speaker in the hallway.
"Well if I'm dirty then how about giving me a sponge bath?" Replied the voice of Roshi through the same speaker.
"Ah! For the love of god put your clothes back on! I don" The speaker in the hall crackled before going silent.
"I think I know where Roshi's at." Said Goku. "The cafeteria!" Everyone stared at him in disbelief. Noticing the looks everyone is giving him he added, "Ok, I know he's not there. But I'm hungryyyy." A low rumble filled the room.
"Oh Goku. What am I gonna" The sound of a baby crying cut Chi-Chi off in mid sentence. "Well I guess someone else is hungry too." A sudden breeze kicked up as everyone except for Bulma and Goku turned away from the mother and son as she opened her gown to feed Goten.
"I'll go get a couple of bottles of formula." Said Bulma. "I know that it takes more then a woman can supply to feed one of those little devils."
"Thanks Bulma." Replied Chi-Chi.
A woman who appears to be barely out of her teens summoned all the courage she can muster as she walked to a table in the center of the cafeteria. At this table sat a group of five people who have been busy stuffing their faces at an alarming rate for nearly twenty minutes now. And by all rights their stomachs should have exploded long ago. "Umexcuse me. But uhhyou're going to have to leave now." She said timidly to the people at the table.
One of them, a man with flame like black hair, paused in his feasting and glared at her. "Bring me more food Onna."
"I uh," she gulped in fear at the man, "there is no more, sir." In a heartbeat all sound and movement ceased at the table.
"Come again?" Asked a woman with long flowing midnight hair.
"There's uh," she eyed the man with the flame like hair nervously, "no more food. You uhpeople ate it all."
"Oh man. Not again!" Exclaimed a man with a head full of messy black spikes. "Chi-Chi's gonna kill me!"
"Shut up Kakarott! It's not our fault these weakling humans can't run a decent restaurant."
"Vegeta, you know that Bulma doesn't like you saying that."
"Shut up brat. My mate is not your concern."
"Maybe I should tell her how you're acting. I'm sure she'd like to know." Said a smirking Videl.
"It's no wonder you're the brat's mate. You two are both annoying. Why if Iouch! Damn it! What was that for!" Yelled Vegeta when the woman sitting across from him kicked him in the shin.
"Just taking over Bulma's job since she's not here."
"You're too much Selene." Replied a chuckling Goku.
"Excuse me, but who's going to pay?" Said the woman. Goku blinked, pay?
"Ummdon't look at me! I don't carry money around!" Said Goku while waving his hands about.
"Don't look at us! We're kids!" Exclaimed Gohan and Videl.
"And does it look like I have a place to put money?" Grumbled Vegeta.
'You could put it up your butt along with your head.' Thought a smirking Gohan. Videl heard the thought and burst into laughter.
"I'll pay for it," sighed Selene, "how much is it?"
"Umm1,429 zeni ma'am." Selene's eyes shot open wide. How had they run up such a bill?
"I uhhdon't have that kind of cash on me. And my credit cards are at home."
"Oh for crying out loud! Just charge the damn bill to Capsule Corp!" Roared Vegeta.
"Goku! Where have you been!" Yelled Chi-Chi when she saw her husband enter her hospital room, forgetting about the sleeping Goten.
"Err ummtraining?"
"How dare you!" Screamed Chi-Chi, totally missing that he is lying. "Here I am stuck in this place and you go off to train! Why I" She trailed off when Goten began to cry. Goku blinked in confusion when she sent him a glare that seemed to say, look what you did now.
"Errdo you want me to take you home now?" Goku asked nervously. He didn't want to risk saying something that would trigger an encounter with a frying pan.
"Yes. But not by that Instant Transmission Technique. Kami only knows what harm that will do to my baby."
Goku blinked in confusion. Why was it that she didn't want him to use it now, but he had been able to use it when she was pregnant? "Alight." He replied since he knew better then to question his wife. "Just uh"
"What?!" Snapped Chi-Chi. Having spent three days in the hospital as really strained her patients.
"Ummdo you have a car?"
"No I don't! Why would I have one when I couldn't leave this place? Just go borrow one from Bulma!"
"Right." Using Instant Transmission, Goku left and returned a minute later with a capsule. "Ok, are you rea" He wasn't able to finish his question when the bag containing Chi-Chi's things was thrown in his face.
As they walked out of the hospital Goku couldn't help but wonder why he stayed around when she's like this. But one glance at the baby in her arms and at the gleam of happiness in Chi-Chi's eyes answered that.
"It's gonna feel so good to be home." Sighed Chi-Chi as their air-car sailed through the air towards their home in 439 Mountain area. "I hate hospitals. Morons think that just because my baby has a tail I have to stay there."
"I hate their food." Chimed Goku from the pilot seat. He may have been a hazard when behind the wheel of a conventional car, but when it came to flying vehicles he as an excellent pilot.
"Well you wouldn't know it with how much you ate."
"Hey! What was I supposed to do? Starve to death?"
"No, you could have hunted for your food like you did when you were little."
"But that takes to long!" Complained Goku. Chi-Chi looked at him as if he had grown a second head.
"Well you better be prepared to starve because I'm not gonna cook for you any more!"
"W-what?! Why?" Stammered a pale Goku.
"Because you left me alone in the hospital for two days!"
"Well ummabout that"
"What? Is there a good reason for your absence?"
"I uhyea. There is."
"And?" Said Chi-Chi when her husband didn't elaborate.
"That." Replied Goku while pointing out the window of the air car. Chi-Chi looked out the window of the air-car stared in stunned silence.
Gone is the small house that has been her home for so many years and in its place is a series of domes. Cut into the largest of the structures is a deck with a close line strung between two poles. Upon closer inspection she could see their old home, dwarfed by the new addition, attached to one side.
"I've spent the last two days making a few changes to our home." Said Goku while grinning proudly.
"Buthow?" Chi
"Well being a super Saiya-jin is good for more then just fighting." Grinned Goku as he landed the air-car.
Chi-Chi's jaw dropped as she walked into her new entryway of her home. No longer is it a small cramped space but a large room with plenty of space and a large domed ceiling. "W-wowGoku, this iswow!" Exclaimed Chi-Chi, unable to think of anything to say. She had been impressed when he had built their first home. And this one was just amazing. "I can't believe you did all this!"
"Wellour home was a bit cramped. I figured that now would be a good time to expand."
"Yea, now come on! I wanna see the rest of this place!"
"Alright." Replied Goku as he led her up the stairs.
A smiling Chi-Chi stood at the stove in her new kitchen, or rather her old kitchen. Goku had turned what used to be a space divided up amongst the kitchen/dining room, and living room in a much larger kitchen and a separate dining room. "This is wonderful Goku-chan." Said the woman when she felt her husbands arms wrap around her from behind.
"I'm glad you think so." Replied Goku before chuckling. "If I hadn't done this now then I would have needed to when Gohan and Videl had a kid." Chi-Chi froze in place at his words.
"G-gr-grandkids?" Stuttered the woman as though the thought had never occurred to her. "Oh my that's right! I forgot!"
"Forgot what Kaa-san?" Asked Gohan as he entered the kitchen.
"About you and Videl getting married and giving me grandkids." Replied a wildly smiling Chi-Chi.
"What?! But we're only eleven! We can't get married!"
Chi-Chi laughed at her son's reaction. "Of course you can dear. Why your father and I were almost married when we were twelve!"
"That's right. If I hadn't been on a quest for the Dragon Balls then we would have been."
"B-but"
"Don't worry about it my boy. I'm sure your parents won't force you and Videl to do anything you don't want to." Said the Ox-King as he came into the room.
"Thanks Grandpa."
"No problem." Replied the mountainous man before wincing as Goten pulled on his beard.
"Dad, why are you telling Gohan that? Videl will make a perfect wife for my little boy. And I don't expect them to consummate the marriage till they're older." Ox-King laughed at this.
"So you're telling me that if you and Goku had gotten married when you were twelve that you would have waited to do that?" Asked Ox-King as Gohan snuck from the room. This was one conversation he didn't want to hear.
"Well ummdon't know." Chi-Chi's cheeks burned red. Would she have waited? That was so long ago. She didn't even remember if she had known about sex back then. Let alone what it involved. But then again she hadn't really known what it involved when they had gotten married years later. "Probably not." She admitted.
"Chi-Chi. I'm surprised at you!" Replied Ox-King.
"Daaad! You asked and I answered! I honestly don't know what we would have done then. But with howit had been once we had gotten married I don't think we would have waited."
Ox-King chuckled at his daughter. "Now could someone get my other grandson off of me? It really hurts when he pulls on my beard." As if to emphasize the point Goten yanked on the man's whiskers, causing him to yelp in pain. Goku chuckled as he took his son from his father in law.
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Chi-Chi had a tiny smile on her lips as she walked through her new home. Dinner had ended several hours ago, her father had just left, Goten's sound asleep in his nursery, Gohan has settled himself in front of the TV, and Goku is in the kitchen fixing a snack. "The house is quiet. Life is peaceful." Mused Chi-Chi. "And I have a brand new jacuzzi tub to try out." The thought of soaking in a warm bath while water jets massaged away her cares caused her to grin. 'I could really get to like this place. Scratch that, I already love this place.' Thought Chi-Chi as she entered the master bedroom.
Goku felt a sensation of contentment flow through the bond he shares with his mate as her voice spoke softly in his mind.
::You're too good for me.::
::Thanks Chi-chan.::
::I wasn't talking about you, Goku. I was talking about this wonderful tub. Although I suppose you're too good for me as well.:: She heard Goku chuckle in her mind.
::Then maybe I should help make up your mind about that.::
::What do you mean?:: She asked. But nothing came in reply. ::Goku?:: Again she didn't get a reply from him. ::Come on, quit messing around.:: Chi-Chi sat there quietly for a few seconds when the door opened and Goku entered the bathroom. She could see that he's hiding something behind his back. Reaching for the light switch he dimmed the lights. "What are you doing?"
Goku smiled but didn't say anything as he walked over to her. Once he was next to the large tub he produced a bottle of champagne and two glasses from behind his back. "Mind if I join you?"
"Not at all." Replied Chi-Chi.
"That's good. But there's just one thing."
Chi-Chi raised an eyebrow at her husband. "And that is?"
"This." He replied while pulling a box from the pocket of his gi and opening it to reveal a diamond studded gold bracelet. Chi-Chi's eyes grew wide in surprise.
"Goku"
"Shh" Goku hushed as he clasped the bracelet around her wrist before kissing her.
"You knowyou really are too good for me." Remarked Chi-Chi when they separated.
"That's what I thought." Replied Goku as he removed his gi. "Now move over, I'm coming in."
"Yes sir." Replied a giggling Chi-Chi.
After settling into the water next to his wife Goku opened the bottle of champagne and poured them each a glass. "There you are madam."
"Thank you kind sir." Said Chi-Chi, nearly laughing.
Gohan awoke with a start at the sound of an explosion. After glancing around he realized that the noise had come from the TV. With a yawn he turned it off and went to the bathroom to brush his teeth. As he walked down the hall towards his room he heard the sounds of giggling coming from his parents room. Pausing, he stared at the closed door for several seconds before moving on to his room.
"Grownups are weird." Muttered the demi-Saiya-jin as he drifted off to sleep.
The Son's remodeled home looks like the one towards the end of DBZ.
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