Disclaimer: I wish I did, but I don't own dbz

A/n: I suck at this story now lol. I went back and fixed this one and the first chapter and I have myself deadlocked! AAHHHHHHHH thinks hard

SaBeR NiGhTs

Bulma ran quickly through the woods. Her hair had grown long to her lower back. She always had it in a low ponytail. She wore steel armor (like in a bathing suit type fashion) and had a forest green cape. Here boots came up to her knees and were a emerald green. She dodged many of the trees in hope to get away from the person chasing her. She jumped up onto a tree limb, grabbed her dagger out and waited silently.

As she heard footsteps come closer she cut a vine with the dagger and she heard a scream. She swung down from the tree and landed with her knees bent on the ground.

"HAHAHAHAHAHA Kakkarot!!! Come on I know you can do better then that!!! I still get you every time and all I have is speed." Bulma said to the young boy who was caught by his feet upside-down hanging from a tree. Bulma went over and cut so Kakkarot would fall.

"Well if you would stop setting up so many traps in the woods….." Kakkarot said with a pouting look on his face, rubbing his butt, after he fell.

"Awwwww did I make you mad…?" Bulma laughed looking over her shoulder at him there backs facing each other.

As soon as Goku turned to her she was on the other side of him. "Will you quit using you stupid speed?"

"Then how will I defend myself? I'm not strong like you!"

"Exactly!" Kakkarot said tackling her because her defenses were down. "Your speed wont help you if your defense is let down around enemy's." He said laughing. "Hey isn't today your 7th birthday?" He asked letting go of a frustrated Bulma and stood up.

Bulma's scowl turned instantly to a smile. "Yeah!!!! My mom said she was going to tell me a big secret today to!!!"

Kakkarot's face dropped. (he knew the secret) "I wouldn't get too overjoyed about it….."

"wh…" Bulma started

"BULMA!!!!!!! Time to come home" Kira screamed.

Bulma got a huge smile on her face. "COMING MOM!!! Bye Kakkarot come over in 3 hours!! We can celebrate it." Bulma said and started to run to her house.

When she got there she made a big leap and landed on the porch of her house. Her mom (Kira) didn't live there. Bulma didn't know why and hoped maybe this would answer a few questions. Bulma had only known Kakkarot and Kira. Bulma had meet Kakkarot while on and hunt. She had accidentally mistaken him for a Rten and shot him. She nursed him back to heath at age 5 for a month and they became good friends from there on. When Kira found out about this she had a talk with him telling him everything that had happened and making him promise to keep it a secret about her being a queen.

Kira wanted to tell her when she was ready to handle everything.

"I'm here mom!!! Are you gonna tell the secret now." Bulma said looking around the house for her. Once she found her she stopped and frowned.

Kira was sitting at the end of her bed looking at a picture and a tear was running down her face. "Come look at this picture and tell me what you think." Kira said motioning for her to sit next to her. Kira had long black hair beautiful dark obsidian eyes. Bulma had always thought her dad as dead and Kira as her mom so she though her dad was the one with the blue hair. Kira was shorter then the average Saiyan to. She had always wore average clothes when she went over to Bulma's house so Bulma wouldn't get suspicious, but today she had one normal royal attire.

Bulma walked up and sat down. Kira handed her the picture and Bulma studied it closely.

It was a picture of Nyletak and Kira smiling and giving the peace sign to a camera. The back round was beautiful and big. It looked like a ball room and Kira and Nyletak were dress up for a formal dinner.

"It….looks like me and you……but she's to much older to be me. Your clothes are beautiful to…." Bulma sad running her finger over the girl next to her 'mother's' picture.

"That's your mother Bulma………your real one…." King Vegeta said walking into the room they were in.

"Vegeta…..please let me talk to her myself." Kira said to him sadly.

"I'm just here to tell you I will allow what you talked to me about and that our son is due back today. Come home soon." With that King Vegeta flew out of the house.

"Who was that? What is he talking about?" Bulma asked curiously.

"That's the king of this planet. He's my husband. Your mom and I were best friends….well 7 years ago 3 days after you were born your mom was ….killed….by the person who took my son. She made me promise to take care of you and to never tell you what I'm saying right now, but I'm getting sick and soon I'm not going to be able to come out here anymore. So decided to take you with me. You're coming back with me to the palace to live with us."

Bulma stared at the picture not sure what to believe…… "Uh……wha?" Bulma said her eyes showing complete confusion. "You're sick?"

"It not anything to be worried about it just makes me…… weak." She said not really wanting to use the word weak. "Just come back with me to the palace and ill show you around. I'm sure all the million of questions you have will be answered in time." Kira said putting her hand on Bulma's shoulder.

"o…..k…..who was my father?"

"He was a scientific genius just like your mother. They both worked in the science wing of the palace. I have a feeling you will do the same. Your mother also worked with the troops to teach them archery. She was a wonderful person, but she loved her privacy. That's why she lived back here. It was rare for her to do something like that." Kira said pointing to the picture. "It took forever to get her to come to that party. HAHA we were best friend since we were 3. Her and the king actually dated and broke up then I got with him….it was funny though we never got into fights but when we found out he was the prince we argued who would get him." Kira smiled sadly another tear rolled down her cheek. "Well I say we head off home now. To our real home. I hope you still think of me as a mother! I love you, you know that?" Kira knew it was insane to show such emotion to someone but to Bulma it just seemed natural. Kira was always kind hearted and not as huge as a warrior as other women. She found it amazing that the king still loved her even knowing that.

"Yes, I do, but its just that…….I don't know….I guess I was made for the palace. If my mom worked there. I want to take over everything she left off." Bulma said walking after her 'mother'.

"That's going to be very hard to do you know. It wasn't easy for your mom."

"If she can do it so can I!!!" Bulma said determined to be strong about the news she just found out. She always knew something strange was up and thought it best to not let it all get to her.

At the Palace

Bulma had gotten a grand tour of the palace from Kira. Bulma had started to call her Kira more instead of mom. Bulma also refused to wear anything else seeing as that was what her mother always wore (the armor). Two hours had gone by and they were back in the throne room.

"King Vegeta meet Bulma. I know this is different for you but I think it would be good for you to know who was living in your palace." The queen said playfully pushing Bulma forward. (the first time the king had ever seen her was earlier when he brought the news)

Bulma bowed as the king studied her.

"You may stand" King Vegeta smirked.

Bulma thought about how cute his smirk was.

Just as he said that the same royal guard from 7 years ago ran in suddenly a bowed with his hand over his heart again. "I have brought you news. I'm not sure if it's good or bad. Freeza has come back and dropped your son off. He never said where nor can anyone find him. We think Freeza has some sort of device that hides power levels and that's why we could never sense him or his men before." After that he stayed quiet hoping the king would let him go.

"You may leave!" The king said standing up. His royal blue cape swaying behind him as he walked down the steps from his thrown.

Kira wrapped her arm in front of Bulma over her shoulders to pull her out of the way of the king's path. "I'm scared of what Freeza did to him."

"Oh NO!!! Kakkarot!!! I forgot I told him to meet me back at the house in three hours!! I have to go back and tell him what happened!!" Bulma said escaping the queens grasp. Bulma ran passed the king and out the door.

"BULMA COME BACK FREIZA MIGHT STILL BE OUT THERE!!!!" Kira yelled and started running to catch her.

Vegeta put out his arm and caught her. "She'll be fine. Freeza is gone. I'm sure of it" King Vegeta said staring at the door she exited.

Bulma ran thought the hall ways ignoring the guards trying to catch her thinking she was a escaped convict. As soon as she got through the main entrance she used all the speed she had to run to the woods. (Bulma can't fly)

When she reached the woods it had gotten dark out and Bulma had reached her house. She was about to jump up to her old house when she heard someone in the distance. "Kakkarot????" Bulma asked walking stealth fully through the darkness. She heard some soft shuffling in the bushes not to far from where she stood. She walked over them and suddenly a boy jumped out at her. He formed a ki blast in his hand and aimed it at her face.

"Where is the palace? Take me there!!!" He said pulling her up by her cape.

"I'm guessing your King Vegeta's son……?" Bulma gasped surprised he was able to catch her so quickly.

"How do you know of such information? I thought no one knew of me?"

"I live at the palace." Bulma said then almost let out a yell of pain when he dropped her.

"Your colorings way to odd to be any relative of mine. Are you a guard there or are you lying?"

"I was taken in by your mother. Your and my moms knew each other."

"Your not even a Saiyan…you couldn't be! Stand up!"

Bulma stood up knowing from the experience she just had that he was faster then her and she knew speed was all she had.

He looked completely impassive as he studied her face. He walked a circle around her to study every detail. Suddenly he grabbed her tail causing her freeze.

"Your tails blue?!?! Impossible! You dyed your tail? What a disgrace!" and with that he ripped her tail out of her making her fall to the ground in shear pain…..Tears flowed down her face. Suddenly she heard something happening from the curled ball position she was in. She looked up to see Kakkarot with a pissed expression on his face and her VERY pissed enemy getting up from an indent on the ground.

"Bulma come over here and get behind me!" Goku called to her.

"I can't….move……" She said tears getting worse as she realize what had just occurred. "My tail….." Bulma she squeaked. She refused to cry anymore to give Vegeta the satisfaction of the pain she felt because of him.

Kakkarot moved up closer to Bulma keeping his defensive stance.. The son of the king lunged at Kakkarot with a ki blast in hand. Just before he shot Kakkarot he got punched in the face and sent flying into the woods.

King Vegeta stood over Bulma's body with his arms crossed. "Kakkarot take Bulma back to the palace! Now!!!!"

Kakkarot grabbed Bulma shivering form and darted off into the sky to the palace.

"VEGETA!!! Stop this now!!! This is no way to act!!!!" Right after he said this Vegeta darted out at the king.

King Vegeta grabbed him by the neck and squeezed. "I don't want to hurt you but I will if I have to!! I thought for sure Freeza would have taught you that there is a penalty for taking another Saiyan's tail off without consent! What did he do to you?"

"He did teach me all the rules!!! I know them!! She was a disgrace to Saiyan's everywhere! Her tail is dyed!" Vegeta choked out. He spit out a little blood from the kings first punch.

"Her tail is not dyed it was a defect! I know you wouldn't normally act like this. I should rip your tail off for that, but you're going to need it!" King Vegeta said. Then he took off into the air to go to the palace.

Kakkarot arrived at the palace to a worried Kira. He looked up at her slowly and held up Bulma. "She lost her tail, but that's all." Kakkarot told her worried what she would do.

Kira ran over to her and took her from Kakkarot arms. "Who did this!?!? Freeza did it didn't he!!!"

"I'm sorry to say that your son is the one who did it." Kakkarot told her looking at Bulma. "She's just in pain take her to her room I'm going to see if the king needs help." He said handing Bulma to Kira. Just as Kakkarot was about to take off into the air when the king landed in from of him with a struggling prince in his arms.

"That won't be necessary." King Vegeta said walking into the Palace.

2 days later

Bulma had gotten treatment on her tail and once again was able to roam to palace as if she were royalty. Also now Bulma had been shown to the science wing and became a top scientist in that field within a few hours. Bulma had started to work on a new invention that would bring her tail back. All the scientists were baffled by the 7 year olds brain and wished to study it more thoroughly.

Bulma ran down the hall to go find Kira, ignoring the glances from the guards in the hall. She ran faster as she came closer to the thrown room. Just before Bulma got to the door she heard a guard whistle at her. "YOU STUPID PERVERT IM ONLY 7!!!!" Bulma yelled turning her head to look at the guard, who winked at her.

Bulma had gotten stuff like that often. She had also developed a mouth which everyone who knew Nyletak knew very well.

Just as she was about to turn her head again she ran smack into someone falling on top of them. She looked down to see the Saiyan prince scowling at her from underneath her. Bulma growled then realized the position they were in and got up immediately.

The guards in the hall started laughing immediately.

Vegeta jumped up and shot the guard, killing him, without a moment's hesitation.

"I'm sorry….excuse me." Bulma said bravely moving around him. She had never witnessed death before and couldn't stand it she had to get away from the smell of rotting flesh before she threw up.

Just as she was at his side Vegeta's arm shot out and grabbed her arm.

Bulma held her breath wandering what he was going to do.

"I didn't mean to do that in front of you. It's a natural reaction" He whispered into her ear and let her go chuckling low in his throat.

Bulma involuntarily shuddered and started to run again to get away from the site. "He's messing with me!" Bulma clenched her fists.

Vegeta watched her speed as she ran. Then Vegeta turned around and finished off the job of vaporizing the body of the guard. The other guards around there pretended they didn't see that it happened hoping that he would leave them be. Then Vegeta continued down the hall.

King Vegeta stepped out of the shadows smirking at him as e left. "It seems Vegeta's not as bad as I thought he'd be……he has part of his mother in him that Freeza could never take from him though. I wander if he knows it yet. Id say it's going to be pretty interesting around here when we get back from the war…." King Vegeta thought walking in the same direction that Bulma ran. He knew even though What Vegeta said was still unkind that it was not something he would normally say.

Bulma stopped running as she reached the thrown room's door. She composed herself and opened the doors walking in. She saw Kira sitting at the thrown doing what looked like paper work.

"KIRA!!!! The serums almost completely done!!!! I'll get my tail back soon!!!" Bulma yelled happily and ran over to Kira.

"Oh? That's great I wish to make sure its safe before you use it!" Kira said winking at Bulma.

"Oh come on I made it I think I would know if it was safe" Bulma said proudly.

"Just like your mother….."

"Huh?"

"Nothing well I have some important things to get to so why don't you go find Kakkarot…"

"Wait I've heard that there's a war starting….your not going right?"

"Well yes a great war is said to start between Saiyan's and ice-jins, but no I'm not going. King Vegeta and Prince Vegeta will be attending it though. I suggest you say bye to them…or at least King Vegeta."

"Ok I will…..how long is it supposed to last?"

"Well…….more the 10 years….after ten years are up then from there anything could happen. That's my guess"

Bulma looked at the ground. "I hope dearly Kakkarot does not have to attend…."

"I doubt it he's your personal guard he is to stay here with you…..now run along." Kira said looking back over her work.

Bulma slowly walked out of the room wandering what the next few years would bring. She noticed out the window that one of the 5 moons was a deep shade of red and couldn't help but stare at it for long time. I wander what that means.

In the next chapter…..

Bulma looked up at the prince's face. He had grown so much in the past 11 years. His expression was solid and he stared ahead at nothing like he was bored. He glance suddenly shot over to Bulma. Who intern looked back with the same intensity.

Vegeta suddenly walked up to her still with no expression. He brought his hand up to her cheek and moved his thumb over the smooth, flawless skin. Then almost out of nowhere he walked away as if nothing had happened.

The king looked at her with question in his eyes and Bulma just shrugged

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