Through Hallways
By Pikachu Hunter
Chapter Twelve: The Mall
"Hey, I guess this is the part where we split up, and we'll all meet up here again to go back to school for lunch?" Krillin looked at the other five, where they stood outside the entrance to the mall. Bulma nodded. "C'mon, Chi, we have to shop till we drop! I want something cute to wear for the dance next week!" She said, grabbing her friend's wrist. Chi- Chi opened her mouth to protest. "Actually, Bulma, I was sort of..."
"Sort of what?" Bulma stopped.
"Uh...I was gonna go with Goku to the food court...he's gonna buy me ice cream." Chi-Chi went a little red in the face as she looked behind her at the boy with wild hair. Goku waved at Bulma, who looked over Chi-Chi's shoulder at him, and smiled. "Only if you don't mind, though, Bulma..." he put a hand behind his head.
Bulma's lower eyelids lifted as she thought of the possibilities, and put a hand over her mouth, laughing. Then she pretended to hug Chi-Chi as she whispered in her friend's ear. "Are you going out with him?" She questioned.
"No," Chi-Chi replied. "He just offered to buy me ice cream. I'm hoping he'll ask me out, though!" She smiled.
"Good luck!" Bulma said, patting her friend on the back. "Now go get him!" She pushed Chi-Chi towards Goku.
"Bye, Bulma! See you at lunch!" Chi-Chi waved as Goku led her to one of his favorite places in town; the food court at the mall on fifth street. Bulma looked at the remaining three. "Well? Who else has plans?" She asked.
"Uh...I'm going to the arcade with Vegeta, remember?" Krillin raised his hand.
"Oh yeah!" Bulma nodded. "You, Eighteen?"
Eighteen walked towards Bulma, leaving Krillin's side for the first time since they'd sat on the couch together gawking at the timer as Bulma and Vegeta kissed. "I don't plan to waste my money on stupid arcade games, I'm going with you. Let's shop."
"Okay!" Bulma smiled. "Bye, guys!" She waved as she and Eighteen walked in the opposite direction of Krillin and Vegeta. Vegeta mumbled a 'seeya, Bulma,' and Krillin had enthusiastically waved good-bye.
--The Food Court...--
So, uh...what kind of ice cream do you want?" Goku asked, flipping his wallet open and counting bills.
"Oh, just a plain vanilla one..." Chi-Chi said, looking at a floor.
"In a cone?" Goku wondered.
"Sure," Chi-Chi nodded. The two waited in line, Goku fumbling furiously through his wallet, until they were first in line. "How can I help you?" The girl asked, an ice cream scoop in hand, and a paper hat on her head.
"Um...I'd like two fudge sundaes, a chocolate ice cream in a bowl, a nut covered fudgecicle, a rocketpop, er...I guess...three of those--" Goku thumbed a picture on a glass covering over the ice cream in buckets on display "--and a vanilla ice cream cone, please." He smiled.
"Y-yes sir...are you sure you can pay for that?" The wide-eyed girl asked, her mouth hanging open.
"Er...is this enough?" Goku handed over a fifty dollar bill.
"Uh-huh! Your ice cream is coming right up!" The girl almost dropped the bill, and rushed to get Goku's order.
"Goku, where did you get fifty bucks?!" Chi-Chi asked, almost staring.
"Well, my Grampa pays me a lot for doing my chores, and mowing the lawn, and stuff, and I don't really go anywhere...I tend to have a lot of change after buying lunch at school." Goku laughed.
"Here's your ice cream, sir! And your change!" The girl set the large order on the counter, save the ice cream cone, which would melt if it was set down, and passed Goku a handful of cash. Goku shoved the money in his pocket, and took the ice cream cone. He passed it to Chi-Chi, blushing when her fingers brushed against his while taking the cone. "Thanks, Goku," she smiled. "Do you need help taking that to a table?" She asked.
"N-no, I'm o-okay!" Goku laughed nervously, piling up the bowls and such in his hands, as he thought of actually touching Chi-Chi's hand. It was like...holding her hand, almost!
"Let's sit here." Chi-Chi sat in a seat across from Goku at a table for two.
--The Arcade...--
Vegeta pulled a couple quarters from his pocket, and pushed one into the machine the same time as Krillin.
"Ready to race?" Krillin asked, selecting his car as he shifted in the driver's seat-like spot beside Vegeta.
"Any time," Vegeta smirked confidently. "I'm going to kick your ass."
"Not if I can help it!" Krillin stomped on the gas pedal by his foot after the screen showed a green light. Krillin's car shot out ahead all the others, and he laughed. "Now who's kicking WHO'S ass?!" Krillin smiled, steering along peacefully.
"I'm kicking yours!" Vegeta laughed, smashing Krillin's car out of the way and taking first place.
After a few minutes of Krillin struggling his way from last to third, and Vegeta laughing as he lapped the seventh place computer player, Krillin decided to break the silence. "So, what do you think of Bulma, Vegeta?" He asked.
"Why?" Vegeta didn't feel very inclined to answer the boy's question unless there was a good reason to.
"Oh, I'm just wondering...so?"
"Well...I don't know." Vegeta sighed, thinking of how she'd told him it was only a dare. If only it wasn't...
"Okay, what did you think of that dare, then?" Krillin persisted.
"What about it?"
"Did you like kissing her?"
"Um..."
"Is that so? So, you like her?" Krillin assumed Vegeta's silence was a sign of embarrassment, and that he was ashamed to say yes. Krillin didn't dare look in his long-time friend's direction, though, because it would mean taking his eyes off the screen, and that was certain doom for his place in the race.
"Uh...well, just between you and me...yeah. Don't tell her, though. I don't think she likes me." Vegeta felt himself flush as Krillin asked the question. Krillin nodded. "I won't. But if you ask me, I thin she likes you back."
"But it could just as easily be you," Vegeta referred to how Bulma had only said it was someone in that room.
"Why would she like me? She can hardly remember my name!" Krillin laughed at the thought of himself and Bulma together. He'd have to decline, since he had his eyes on someone else.
"Well then she probably has a crush on Kakkarot. I know it's not me, though..." Vegeta thought again on how she'd said it was 'just a dare.' Krillin tried to smother a laugh. "Are you nuts?! Goku?!" He let out a loud 'bwahaha,' and his car swerved to the left, smashing into a building. The car disappeared, and a new one appeared in it's place. The life counter was down to one. "Shit," Krillin cursed under his breath as he saw himself drop to fifth place.
"So you really think Bulma likes me?" Vegeta wondered.
"Yeah! Who else would she accept a dare to French?"
--In a Clothes Store...--
"Does this make me look fat?" Bulma asked Eighteen the universal code question for 'compliment me' in the female language. She held a soft pink dress up to her slim figure. Eighteen looked over from a different rack. "No, Bulma..." she droned on. "You look nice in everything here. Hey, what do you think of this?" Eighteen held a white T-shirt with a picture of the Beyblade gang on it, all of them striking poses holding the chips containing their beloved Bit Beasts.
"For what occasion?" Bulma wondered, tapping her chin.
"Krillin walking me home, and maybe noticing me at lunch?" Eighteen smiled shyly.
"You're really into him, aren't you?" Bulma laughed.
"Well I could say things about you and Vegeta..." Eighteen shot back.
"What?! Vegeta?! Are you insane?!" Bulma half-yelled as the blonde chuckled slightly.
"Oh, give it up, Bulma...on the first day of school, you point at Vegeta and say he's cute. Then, after you got paired up with him, you were abnormally happy! And then you accepted that dare, and got REALLY into it! We all know you like him, you might as well admit it." Eighteen said, picking something up off the rack and tossing it into a basket that hung off her arm.
"...Okay." Bulma put on a pouting face. "Just do me a favor, and don't tell him. I don't care if Chi-Chi knows, but if Goku or Krillin find out, they'll tell Vegeta."
"But you guys would make such a cute couple! Why not go ahead and go out with him!"
"Because he has his eye on Chi-Chi! Remember, I read his lips! He said she was prettier than me or you!"
"Maybe his opinion's changed." Eighteen had finalized in her mind that, without Bulma or Vegeta knowing, they'd fallen in love, and couldn't resist but show that they cared for eachother when they were kissing in the old janitor's office. Bulma just rolled her eyes. "Nah, he's not like that...I don't think he likes ANY girl..."
--In the Food Court...--
"Ah, finally done!" Goku patted his stomach, and dumped all the trash in the bin near their table. He wandered back, and sat down across from Chi-Chi, staring blankly. "How can you not be done that tiny little ice cream?" He asked in awe. Chi-Chi licked the cone daintily. "I just can," she said. "Want a lick?" She offered to the boy who's eyes were as round as saucers, staring at her ice cream cone.
"Okay!" Goku took the extended cone, and took a large mouthful of vanilla ice cream into his mouth. He swallowed it, some being on his chin and nose still, and handed the cone back to Chi-Chi. "Thanks!" He smiled.
"Uh..." Chi-Chi looked at what was left. Not much. "Here, you've got something on your face." She reached over with a napkin, and tried to dab at his nose. Goku pulled away. "Hey, what're you doing?" He asked, ducking the napkin. Chi-Chi walked around to his side of the table, and stood him up. Again moving the napkin at his face, Goku moved sideways, dodging it for the second time.
"Hold still!" Chi-Chi put a hand on both sides of Goku's cheeks. He stopped struggling as she licked the napkin and brushed away the ice cream on his face. "There. Now was that so bad...?" She asked, putting the napkin on the table. Goku looked at Chi-Chi in a different way than he had when he'd wanted ice cream. Now his eyes displayed a desire for something else. He took a step towards Chi-Chi, and their noses almost touched, they were so close. Chi-Chi looked into Goku's expression, trying to read his intentions. Goku put one of his hands on the side of the girl's face, running his thumb over her cheek, as if smoothing it, and the other hand took hers, which hung at her side.
"Can I...can I kiss you?" Goku asked, smiling a little as he watched Chi-Chi's surprised expression.
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:) Cliff hanger time! I love to leave you in suspense...and don't nobody suggest what should happen next, because I will be INFLUENCED, and then I won't get to write what happens that I want to happen. Suggestions for the story in general are okay, though!
You guys wouldn't believe the weird ideas I got for Vegeta's Halloween costume...there was a MASSIVE response...and someone ACTUALLY agreed about the Spider-Man costume! I also had one suggestion saying I should make him NEO from the MATRIX...dude, you definitely had something awesome going on in your head when you thought of that, because I laughed my head off thinking of Vegeta taking off his sun glasses in a dramatically slow and drawn out way, and him wearing all the black leather...the poll for Vegeta's costume is still on! Oh--there was another one I loved-- BATMAN! And I totally agree, that would be the number one super hero Vegeta matched personalities with...:D Did you say Bulma should be CatWoman? Ha, I laughed very hard thinking of that...
And...some people think the story is getting boring. Well, is it LESS boring, now that we're actually getting somewhere? [cough] And...I guess it was stupid of me to ask which couple you'd like me to focus on. You're right...it's a Bulma-Vegeta, so we should be focusing on Bulma and Vegeta! But...I want there to be romance between the other couples, too...
WHOA! Through Hallways is over THREE TIMES AS POPULAR as With You!!!! Yay! I am VERY CLOSE to my one-hundred review mark for this one!! Is anyone who hasen't going to read With You, and make THAT one have over a hundred reviews? I think it's at about...say...the plus side of Eight-five, now?
One last note: You may have noticed I removed 'Blackened Souls'...I couldn't write any more. The love I have for Vegeta is too sacred to me to exploit in a [most likely] explicit manner on fanfiction, and thus, I had to discontinue it...Sorry, if you were excited about it! Maybe I'll write you another good Bulma-Vegeta instead! Just IMAGINE there being the name 'Kai' where it says Bulma...I do that for EVERYTHING I read and write! LOL
--Kai
By Pikachu Hunter
Chapter Twelve: The Mall
"Hey, I guess this is the part where we split up, and we'll all meet up here again to go back to school for lunch?" Krillin looked at the other five, where they stood outside the entrance to the mall. Bulma nodded. "C'mon, Chi, we have to shop till we drop! I want something cute to wear for the dance next week!" She said, grabbing her friend's wrist. Chi- Chi opened her mouth to protest. "Actually, Bulma, I was sort of..."
"Sort of what?" Bulma stopped.
"Uh...I was gonna go with Goku to the food court...he's gonna buy me ice cream." Chi-Chi went a little red in the face as she looked behind her at the boy with wild hair. Goku waved at Bulma, who looked over Chi-Chi's shoulder at him, and smiled. "Only if you don't mind, though, Bulma..." he put a hand behind his head.
Bulma's lower eyelids lifted as she thought of the possibilities, and put a hand over her mouth, laughing. Then she pretended to hug Chi-Chi as she whispered in her friend's ear. "Are you going out with him?" She questioned.
"No," Chi-Chi replied. "He just offered to buy me ice cream. I'm hoping he'll ask me out, though!" She smiled.
"Good luck!" Bulma said, patting her friend on the back. "Now go get him!" She pushed Chi-Chi towards Goku.
"Bye, Bulma! See you at lunch!" Chi-Chi waved as Goku led her to one of his favorite places in town; the food court at the mall on fifth street. Bulma looked at the remaining three. "Well? Who else has plans?" She asked.
"Uh...I'm going to the arcade with Vegeta, remember?" Krillin raised his hand.
"Oh yeah!" Bulma nodded. "You, Eighteen?"
Eighteen walked towards Bulma, leaving Krillin's side for the first time since they'd sat on the couch together gawking at the timer as Bulma and Vegeta kissed. "I don't plan to waste my money on stupid arcade games, I'm going with you. Let's shop."
"Okay!" Bulma smiled. "Bye, guys!" She waved as she and Eighteen walked in the opposite direction of Krillin and Vegeta. Vegeta mumbled a 'seeya, Bulma,' and Krillin had enthusiastically waved good-bye.
--The Food Court...--
So, uh...what kind of ice cream do you want?" Goku asked, flipping his wallet open and counting bills.
"Oh, just a plain vanilla one..." Chi-Chi said, looking at a floor.
"In a cone?" Goku wondered.
"Sure," Chi-Chi nodded. The two waited in line, Goku fumbling furiously through his wallet, until they were first in line. "How can I help you?" The girl asked, an ice cream scoop in hand, and a paper hat on her head.
"Um...I'd like two fudge sundaes, a chocolate ice cream in a bowl, a nut covered fudgecicle, a rocketpop, er...I guess...three of those--" Goku thumbed a picture on a glass covering over the ice cream in buckets on display "--and a vanilla ice cream cone, please." He smiled.
"Y-yes sir...are you sure you can pay for that?" The wide-eyed girl asked, her mouth hanging open.
"Er...is this enough?" Goku handed over a fifty dollar bill.
"Uh-huh! Your ice cream is coming right up!" The girl almost dropped the bill, and rushed to get Goku's order.
"Goku, where did you get fifty bucks?!" Chi-Chi asked, almost staring.
"Well, my Grampa pays me a lot for doing my chores, and mowing the lawn, and stuff, and I don't really go anywhere...I tend to have a lot of change after buying lunch at school." Goku laughed.
"Here's your ice cream, sir! And your change!" The girl set the large order on the counter, save the ice cream cone, which would melt if it was set down, and passed Goku a handful of cash. Goku shoved the money in his pocket, and took the ice cream cone. He passed it to Chi-Chi, blushing when her fingers brushed against his while taking the cone. "Thanks, Goku," she smiled. "Do you need help taking that to a table?" She asked.
"N-no, I'm o-okay!" Goku laughed nervously, piling up the bowls and such in his hands, as he thought of actually touching Chi-Chi's hand. It was like...holding her hand, almost!
"Let's sit here." Chi-Chi sat in a seat across from Goku at a table for two.
--The Arcade...--
Vegeta pulled a couple quarters from his pocket, and pushed one into the machine the same time as Krillin.
"Ready to race?" Krillin asked, selecting his car as he shifted in the driver's seat-like spot beside Vegeta.
"Any time," Vegeta smirked confidently. "I'm going to kick your ass."
"Not if I can help it!" Krillin stomped on the gas pedal by his foot after the screen showed a green light. Krillin's car shot out ahead all the others, and he laughed. "Now who's kicking WHO'S ass?!" Krillin smiled, steering along peacefully.
"I'm kicking yours!" Vegeta laughed, smashing Krillin's car out of the way and taking first place.
After a few minutes of Krillin struggling his way from last to third, and Vegeta laughing as he lapped the seventh place computer player, Krillin decided to break the silence. "So, what do you think of Bulma, Vegeta?" He asked.
"Why?" Vegeta didn't feel very inclined to answer the boy's question unless there was a good reason to.
"Oh, I'm just wondering...so?"
"Well...I don't know." Vegeta sighed, thinking of how she'd told him it was only a dare. If only it wasn't...
"Okay, what did you think of that dare, then?" Krillin persisted.
"What about it?"
"Did you like kissing her?"
"Um..."
"Is that so? So, you like her?" Krillin assumed Vegeta's silence was a sign of embarrassment, and that he was ashamed to say yes. Krillin didn't dare look in his long-time friend's direction, though, because it would mean taking his eyes off the screen, and that was certain doom for his place in the race.
"Uh...well, just between you and me...yeah. Don't tell her, though. I don't think she likes me." Vegeta felt himself flush as Krillin asked the question. Krillin nodded. "I won't. But if you ask me, I thin she likes you back."
"But it could just as easily be you," Vegeta referred to how Bulma had only said it was someone in that room.
"Why would she like me? She can hardly remember my name!" Krillin laughed at the thought of himself and Bulma together. He'd have to decline, since he had his eyes on someone else.
"Well then she probably has a crush on Kakkarot. I know it's not me, though..." Vegeta thought again on how she'd said it was 'just a dare.' Krillin tried to smother a laugh. "Are you nuts?! Goku?!" He let out a loud 'bwahaha,' and his car swerved to the left, smashing into a building. The car disappeared, and a new one appeared in it's place. The life counter was down to one. "Shit," Krillin cursed under his breath as he saw himself drop to fifth place.
"So you really think Bulma likes me?" Vegeta wondered.
"Yeah! Who else would she accept a dare to French?"
--In a Clothes Store...--
"Does this make me look fat?" Bulma asked Eighteen the universal code question for 'compliment me' in the female language. She held a soft pink dress up to her slim figure. Eighteen looked over from a different rack. "No, Bulma..." she droned on. "You look nice in everything here. Hey, what do you think of this?" Eighteen held a white T-shirt with a picture of the Beyblade gang on it, all of them striking poses holding the chips containing their beloved Bit Beasts.
"For what occasion?" Bulma wondered, tapping her chin.
"Krillin walking me home, and maybe noticing me at lunch?" Eighteen smiled shyly.
"You're really into him, aren't you?" Bulma laughed.
"Well I could say things about you and Vegeta..." Eighteen shot back.
"What?! Vegeta?! Are you insane?!" Bulma half-yelled as the blonde chuckled slightly.
"Oh, give it up, Bulma...on the first day of school, you point at Vegeta and say he's cute. Then, after you got paired up with him, you were abnormally happy! And then you accepted that dare, and got REALLY into it! We all know you like him, you might as well admit it." Eighteen said, picking something up off the rack and tossing it into a basket that hung off her arm.
"...Okay." Bulma put on a pouting face. "Just do me a favor, and don't tell him. I don't care if Chi-Chi knows, but if Goku or Krillin find out, they'll tell Vegeta."
"But you guys would make such a cute couple! Why not go ahead and go out with him!"
"Because he has his eye on Chi-Chi! Remember, I read his lips! He said she was prettier than me or you!"
"Maybe his opinion's changed." Eighteen had finalized in her mind that, without Bulma or Vegeta knowing, they'd fallen in love, and couldn't resist but show that they cared for eachother when they were kissing in the old janitor's office. Bulma just rolled her eyes. "Nah, he's not like that...I don't think he likes ANY girl..."
--In the Food Court...--
"Ah, finally done!" Goku patted his stomach, and dumped all the trash in the bin near their table. He wandered back, and sat down across from Chi-Chi, staring blankly. "How can you not be done that tiny little ice cream?" He asked in awe. Chi-Chi licked the cone daintily. "I just can," she said. "Want a lick?" She offered to the boy who's eyes were as round as saucers, staring at her ice cream cone.
"Okay!" Goku took the extended cone, and took a large mouthful of vanilla ice cream into his mouth. He swallowed it, some being on his chin and nose still, and handed the cone back to Chi-Chi. "Thanks!" He smiled.
"Uh..." Chi-Chi looked at what was left. Not much. "Here, you've got something on your face." She reached over with a napkin, and tried to dab at his nose. Goku pulled away. "Hey, what're you doing?" He asked, ducking the napkin. Chi-Chi walked around to his side of the table, and stood him up. Again moving the napkin at his face, Goku moved sideways, dodging it for the second time.
"Hold still!" Chi-Chi put a hand on both sides of Goku's cheeks. He stopped struggling as she licked the napkin and brushed away the ice cream on his face. "There. Now was that so bad...?" She asked, putting the napkin on the table. Goku looked at Chi-Chi in a different way than he had when he'd wanted ice cream. Now his eyes displayed a desire for something else. He took a step towards Chi-Chi, and their noses almost touched, they were so close. Chi-Chi looked into Goku's expression, trying to read his intentions. Goku put one of his hands on the side of the girl's face, running his thumb over her cheek, as if smoothing it, and the other hand took hers, which hung at her side.
"Can I...can I kiss you?" Goku asked, smiling a little as he watched Chi-Chi's surprised expression.
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:) Cliff hanger time! I love to leave you in suspense...and don't nobody suggest what should happen next, because I will be INFLUENCED, and then I won't get to write what happens that I want to happen. Suggestions for the story in general are okay, though!
You guys wouldn't believe the weird ideas I got for Vegeta's Halloween costume...there was a MASSIVE response...and someone ACTUALLY agreed about the Spider-Man costume! I also had one suggestion saying I should make him NEO from the MATRIX...dude, you definitely had something awesome going on in your head when you thought of that, because I laughed my head off thinking of Vegeta taking off his sun glasses in a dramatically slow and drawn out way, and him wearing all the black leather...the poll for Vegeta's costume is still on! Oh--there was another one I loved-- BATMAN! And I totally agree, that would be the number one super hero Vegeta matched personalities with...:D Did you say Bulma should be CatWoman? Ha, I laughed very hard thinking of that...
And...some people think the story is getting boring. Well, is it LESS boring, now that we're actually getting somewhere? [cough] And...I guess it was stupid of me to ask which couple you'd like me to focus on. You're right...it's a Bulma-Vegeta, so we should be focusing on Bulma and Vegeta! But...I want there to be romance between the other couples, too...
WHOA! Through Hallways is over THREE TIMES AS POPULAR as With You!!!! Yay! I am VERY CLOSE to my one-hundred review mark for this one!! Is anyone who hasen't going to read With You, and make THAT one have over a hundred reviews? I think it's at about...say...the plus side of Eight-five, now?
One last note: You may have noticed I removed 'Blackened Souls'...I couldn't write any more. The love I have for Vegeta is too sacred to me to exploit in a [most likely] explicit manner on fanfiction, and thus, I had to discontinue it...Sorry, if you were excited about it! Maybe I'll write you another good Bulma-Vegeta instead! Just IMAGINE there being the name 'Kai' where it says Bulma...I do that for EVERYTHING I read and write! LOL
--Kai