Till We Meet Again By: HopePoe26

Ch. 5

Time: The Present. Place: Vegeta-sei.

Kakarott stood in front of the council's door and waited. She really didn't know why she was being summoned, but she had a pretty good idea that made her want to puke in disgust.

"Going somewhere?" – a voice she loathed with all her heart said.

"Actually no. I'm waiting on the King's call." – she turned around to see dark eyes and a long mane of black spiky hair that reached muscled shoulders.

"Kakarott, don't run away from me again. We are friends you know?" – she visibly stiffened at the purr. She hated him and all men alike. All except for her two sons and the family's men that is. But her father's latest progress made her rethink that.

"Since when did we turned to be friends, Brolli. I'd rather eat dirt than be align to you." – she meant to leave him alone when his tail wrapped around her waist and said...

"Oh, but I thought you'd rather do that with me instead of Vegeta." "After all, didn't he left you to fend off for yourself twenty years ago?"

"Vegeta holds no ownership on me. No man does!" – with that she stepped hard on his tail taking him by surprise.

She was about to leave but Brolli's last comment made her seethe...

"We'll see about that. You'll be my mate as of yet." – then before she could turn to him and hit him, Geta was suddenly there holding on for all it was worth.

"Let me go! I'll make him eat his words!" – she growled out. But Geta wouldn't let her go that easily knowing that if she were to hit him, she'd be sent to prison for assaulting a first class soldier even if she was elite now.

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Bardock wondered why in the seven hells would Vegeta have another brat. He didn't fall asleep inside the pod as he did when he was coming over. He winced. He now knew what his daughter had felt when he delivered the news. He was in shock. It even seemed as if Vegeta no Ouji had really forgotten about Kakarott. For good.

Flashback

"But Papa! I want to go!" – exclaimed a fourteen year old Kakarott at his father.

"You can't. If you were male, I'd let you go. But you are not, therefore you will stay at the care of your mother's family. Radditz just has to go."

He hadn't known that this was going to be the last time he saw her. He did know however, that his little bundle of joy was one more tomboy to add to the mass of soldiers around. But he was being sent to the frontier, he wouldn't be there when she turned into a woman. He'd be lucky if he ever saw her marry and bond to the man of her dreams.

He was about to say goodbye to his daughter early in the morning – his son had left the night before – and found her bed made and a note on top of it.

Dear father; I know you said I couldn't go. But, I can't quite squelch this fire within me that says I've got to fight. So I'll fight. I'll see you in four years, good luck and don't die on me. Your daughter: Kakarott.

He stared blankly at it for a second before he leapt into the sky trying to find her, but he couldn't for she was already gone.

End of Flashback

Two years after he left, he received a note from his son Radditz saying that Kakarott was alright and that he was training her in the art of combat. It was then he received the first flash of the future.

It was part of his legacy. The ability to see the future was something Bardock had been expecting to have since he was told about it around his late teen years. And what he saw made him question his sanity. He saw his daughter, a grown female saiyan beckoning someone to her bed. Her breasts were big enough though not as big as her mother's had been. And the patch of black coarse hair that covered her sex was wild and untamed as the locks of hair that covered her head.

When he finally got over the fact that this was her daughter's future and that he felt nothing about her (she looked so much like her mother that it was frightening and also sickening), he took a mental look around the room she was in and gasped. Vegeta was strolling towards her... in all his naked glory.

It was then he knew that there was going to be a very tumultuous relationship between the two of them. And then the third eye was closed off. But he could never take it out of his mind. The idea of them having sex, Vegeta was at least six years older than her... it just seemed wrong to him then. Now he had to agree that the fates had nailed Kakarott's spirit to the right man.

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/ I didn't want you to go but you did and now here we are waiting for whatever fate decides to give us. /

Kakarott stood in front of the Palace's port. Knowing what was coming and not understanding why she wasn't just gone. She wanted to be. She wanted to escape her fate, but then Vegeta had always enthralled her in every imaginable way. To hear that he was coming back after twenty years without seeing him was something that tore her soul apart.. again.

/ I have been waiting on you forever knowing that you'd come back to me but when the days turned into years I fell defeated /

Then: She had been seven months into her pregnancy. She hadn't wanted Vegeta to go. She clung to him even when he growled at her for doing so. It was a short trip to Kalal, a planet located near the black hole. He said he'd be back in no time, but he didn't. And the bond started to hurt too much. She heard her brother tell her father that sooner or later they'd have to put her out of her misery. She couldn't die. She just couldn't stop living. She had to survive. She decided to live and to hell with Vegeta.

/ I am not sure if I still care if you come back, will I be standing there if you come back, would you want me back? If you come back, would I really want you back? /

Now: She couldn't just stand there, she had papers to give out after all. And then she had to go and see her son... life didn't offer any comfort that easily. She had moved on. She had. But there was a nagging thought in the back of her head that she wanted him again and she growled at the injustice of fate.

Kakarott left the port to go back to her office. She tried to convince herself that she didn't need him. That she would never crawl up to him again. That she hated him for hurting her so deeply. But she just didn't know what to expect. Only the next day would tell her fate.