Chapter: 6
Subtitle: Learning First Hand
Author: Trixie-chan
Genre: Romance/Humor
Rating: PG-13
Disclaimer: I don't own DBZ, it is owned by the wonderfully wonderful Akira Toriyama! I only own the story idea. ... I think...
Notes: And here's chapter 6! I'm sorry that it took so long (damn my procrastination.... arrrrrrrg.......). Anyway, again, I don't know exactly what's going to happen in this chapter, so it's as much of a surprise to you as it is to me. :D And also, I noticed that I made a mistake earlier in the story. I said that Bulma had kissed guys before, then I said that that was the first time she kissed. ::sigh:: I really need to think before I write... So, that's changed! Now on to the fic, hope you enjoy! Little precede: NEXT CHAPTER IS A LEMON!! BE WARNED!! :P
"...." – talking
.... - thinking
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Bulma yawned lazily as she stretched her arms, but she felt oddly confined. She painfully opened her eyes and put her left hand on her throbbing forehead. She moaned in pain as she slightly sat up, but looked down at her chest to see a muscular arm draped across her flat stomach. She looked over to see Vegeta, slightly curled up against her, and she panicked.
Oh my god... she thought. I was drunk last night, he was drunk... WE were drunk.... Holy God.. I really hope we didn't... ::gulp:: DO anything....
She plopped back down on the bed and slowly rolled out the other side, away from Vegeta's warm and comforting embrace. Hopefully Vegeta would remember what had happened last night, because she sure the hell didn't. She was completely smashed and she was guessing he was too.
Holding her forehead, she stood up and walked over to the entrance, her other hand on her hip. Bulma sighed and looked down, noticing for the first time that she still had her clothes on.
Wait a minute... I still have my clothes on! she thought happily. She ran over to Vegeta, finding that he also still had his clothes on. If both of us have our clothes on, meaning we (hopefully) never took them off, then nothing could have happened!
"Yes!!" she squealed, soon after putting her hands over her mouth as Vegeta stirred and moaned tiredly in bed. He suddenly put his hand on his forehead, moaned, shook his head and sat up. He sat there, not moving for a while, then turned his head to Bulma.
"What's with all the damn screaming, woman? You woke me up..." he mumbled tiredly.
"Sorry..." Bulma muttered sheepishly. He stared at her.
Kami she looks when she's nervous... he thought, his features softening as a very slight smile appeared on his face in place of the usual scowl.
She looked up and noticed the tiny smile, and smiled herself. "Good! You're happy and you're not all pissy!" she said, like a mother to a child. Vegeta only hmphed.
Bulma happily ran to the entrance and out, because Vegeta had not moved the rock over the opening for... "obvious" reasons.
Outside, Bulma sighed in the sunlight, then looked around at the scenery. She turned back around to the cave and walked back to it. She turned off to the side of the entrance and climbed up the side to the flat, smooth top of the cave and lay down in the bright sun. She looked up at the sky and sighed wistfully. "I think I've just found my new thinking spot..." she whispered more to herself than anyone else, and closed her eyes, a slight smile on her face.
As Bulma lay there, in quiet, restful bliss, she heard grumbling coming from the cave. "Guess Vegeta's up..." she mumbled to herself. The grumbling got louder and soon she could make out, "damn woman," "stupid screaming," "tired," and "headache." And although she couldn't see the entrance of the cave because she was on top of it, she could see the top of Vegeta's hair as he exited the cave, she figured, since she could see that much, that he was about 4 ft from the entrance of the cave.
Vegeta grumbled some more to himself, then looked
around for the woman. Not seeing her, he got confused
and a little panicked. He walked out further, then turned around, still
looking. He saw the glimmer of blue hair on top of the cave, so he
backed
up more so the top of the cave was in sight.
"What the hell do you think you're doing up there!" he yelled to her.
"Relaxing and thinking, now leave me alone," she
retorted. Vegeta 'hmphed' and sat down on one of the rocks
at the base of the cave that looked like stairs leading up to the top.
He sighed and quickly decided that he was very bored. What to do what
to do.... he thought, tapping his foot lightly. I know! a devilish
smirk
washed over his face. I think it's time to take the woman on her first
job... He stood up silently then climbed up the rocks. He stopped
directly
over her so he was intentionally blocking her sunlight. A scowl came
across
her face and her eyebrows forked; she opened one eye slowly, almost
cautiously.
When she saw him standing above her, she sighed angrily, threw her head
to the side and back facing front, then sat up.
"What is so important that you have to ruin my
happy
thinking-about-my-life-before-all-hell-broke-loose time?"
she snarled.
"Time to go," he said simply.
"Go where."
"On your first job." With that, he walked back down the cave, leaving Bulma only to stare at his retreating form.
"Hey! Wait! Now I never agreed to this!" she called after him.
"Whoever said I was asking for your agreement?" She puffed out her cheeks in anger. Oooo that man makes me so angry!! I would hate him SO much if he weren't so cute...
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Prince stopped just outside of town behind some
rocks.
He wouldn't be able to explain some things to Bulma if
they went into town, what with all the screaming that goes on when
he comes in, he never could think why... Oh yea, because whenever he
came,
the came in shooting.
"Now, what you have to understand," Vegeta started. "Is that these people are simple folk, also known as 'cowards.' It's not too easy to scare them, someone they don't know comes into town, and they all run like a bunch of sissies. They'll be scared of you no doubt."
"Oh what the hell's that supposed to mean? Are you saying I'm ugly??" Bulma cried. Vegeta put his finger over his lips and hissed 'shhhh!'
"No I'm not sayi..."—he stopped to think—"... no, I'm not saying that you're ugly. I'm just saying that they'll definitely be afraid of someone who's with the most wanted outlaw in the West." Bulma mouthed 'Ohhhh...'
Vegeta nodded. "Now what's going to happen is: We are going to ride into town, I'm going to start shooting my guns and you can improvise, screaming and yelling, not in a frightened manner, might help."
"Well no wonder they're so scared and jumpy! They have some lunatic racing into their town every other day shooting guns, shouting, and robbing them! I'd be the same way if that happened to my town."
Vegeta looked confused. "Y-you mean... your town has never been robbed??"
"Umm..." Bulma thought. "Maybe once..." Vegeta face-vaulted.
"How is that POSSIBLE??"
"Well, our town is rather secluded, so we usually only get cowboys traveling across the west, not robbers. They usually don't go so much out of their way." Vegeta seemed amazed. Then he shook his head, bringing himself out of his stupor.
"Okay.... so, do you understand what you have to do? Just improvise," Vegeta reviewed. Bulma nodded. Vegeta turned around and Bulma wrapped her arms around his waist, then, with a sharp jab to his ribs from Vegeta's boots, Prince took off towards the town.
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Bang! Bang! Bang! "Yeeeeehaw!!" was heard all throughout the town of Ruckland, as were the sounds of countless people screaming bloody murder. (Can ANYONE here picture Vegeta riding through a town shooting off guns and yelling, "Yeehaw?" I can... it's friggin weird... O.O) But among all this was an alien voice to the town, the whooping of young woman, not screaming. Though the people of the town were confused, the confusion in NO way made up for their terror as they kept running aimlessly this way and that, constantly bumping into each other.
"See? Isn't this entertaining??" Vegeta asked, having the time of his life. As much as Bulma hated to admit it, this was rather exciting. She gave a small smile and blushed, then continued her whooping.
They stopped when they came in front of a medium sized building with the words "Bank" written over the door. Vegeta hopped off Prince and held out his arms for Bulma, who gladly slid down into his embrace. When he finally set her down on the floor after they stared into each other's eyes for a while, he led her inside of the bank. Inside was a bunch of people cowering against the walls, and one of the two tellers was shakily peeking out from under the counter he was behind. Bulma was surprised when the other teller that was still standing was smiling at them, and eve more surprised when Vegeta started smirking back. He led her up to his counter and said, "Hey Frank."
Frank smiled again. "Hey there Vegeta, the usual? 'All the money or you're all dead?'" he replied.
"You know it." Frank went in the bank and opened the vault after unlocking the lock on the outside, reached in and grabbed a bag, then brought it back to the counter.
"Ya know..." Frank whispered, leaning over the counter towards Vegeta. "I've always wondered why people keep putting their money here if it gets robbed every other day..." Vegeta nodded in agreement.
"So, how much do you suspect?"
"I'd say somewhere around $200," Frank replied, thinking a bit.
"Nice," Vegeta smirked. With that he grabbed the bag and slumped it over his shoulder, then turned around, motioning for Bulma to follow him.
"See you in a couple days?" Frank called to them as they walked away.
Vegeta turned his head and smirked. "Maybe," he nodded his head in Bulma's direction.
"Ohhh..." Frank mused silently. Then he winked and gave Vegeta thumbs up. Vegeta winked back, then turned around and followed Bulma, who had now gotten ahead of him, out the door.
The moment they had left, people started slowly uncringing and looking around. When suddenly, Vegeta poked his head back in. "Oh, and none of you had better move until you KNOW I am gone, otherwise you'll get an ass full of bullets."
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"Wow! That was so exhilarating!" Bulma exclaimed when they had gotten back to the cave and Vegeta had dumped the money out on the bed.
"I told you you'd love it," Vegeta commented as he started to silently count the money. "You're a natural. I still can't believe that you were only a saloon girl when I found you and not a professional..."
"I would have never done this back then... But things seem to have changed," she murmured looking up at Vegeta and smiling. She thought she saw something flash through his eyes, but it was gone before she could decipher it. He only smirked at her, then went back to counting the money, and not too long after, Bulma joined in as well.
When the final count had been found, it came to $198.53. Not too shabby. Bulma yawned and stretched, as did Vegeta. "I'm so tired...." she mumbled as she rubbed her eyes. She tiredly lay down as Vegeta got up and moved the money off of the bed, then proceeded to remove his clothes, leaving him only in his silk boxers. He nudged Bulma, who groaned back and turned over, curling up into a ball.
"Aren't you going to take that off?" Vegeta asked, impatiently.
"You pervert..." she replied. "Why do you want me to take my clothes off?"
"I didn't go through all that trouble trapping that guy and making him make you suitable undergarments for me to never see them, you know."
"My Kami, you really ARE a pervert." She turned over and looked him straight in the eyes, realizing that he was serious from the look on his face. She sighed as she started to remove her boots. Next, she took off her vest, then her skirt, and finally her shirt.
Vegeta had to all but slap himself not to gawk at her body, he would NEVER get tired of that. She sighed, "Happy now?"
"Very," was Vegeta's reply as he got under the covers and lay right behind her, resisting the urge to pull her near and just hold her in his arms. He sighed as he listened to her steady breathing as it slowed into a rhythmic lull, putting him to sleep almost instantly.
He fell asleep very content that night, a smirk on his lips and a slight purr in his throat.
So? How you like? I know it's FRIGGIN LATE AS HELL!!! But first FanFiction.Net was down, then I got lazy and... ::sigh:: it just went downhill from there. Luckily I work on it practically every day in my computer class! :D Anyway, just to warn you, the next chapter WILL be a lemon. That's right, LEMON. So if you don't like lemons, don't read. I might make a non-lemon chapter for all you lemon haters out there ::cringes at the thought of hating lemons::, heaven forbid... Hope you liked it! Please review!!
- Trixie-chan