Through Hallways
By Pikachu Hunter
Chapter Fourteen: Finishing Up Skipping
"Hey, there's Eighteen and Bulma!" Krillin pointed, seeing a blonde stare blankly at a blue-haired girl who ducked behind a rack of shirts. Vegeta sighed, following Krillin further into the store. He just hoped he didn't end up saying anything stupid.
"Bulma, you can stand up. They know you're here," Eighteen said as Krillin led Vegeta ever forward towards the back of the store, where the two had been changing shirts and deciding on purchases. "Oh," Bulma stood up, and straightened out the bottom of her shirt. "Oh, shit! Stand in front of me, Eighteen!" Bulma threw her friend in front of her. "What the hell for?" Eighteen snapped as she was thrust into place.
"I'm still wearing the shirt! I don't want him to see me in this yet!" Bulma pointed at the pink top on her as Eighteen looked over her shoulder at the girl.
"Hi, Eighteen...um...hi, Bulma...what are you doing?" Krillin waved, and stopped to scratch his head as Bulma hid behind his crush. Bulma laughed loud and nervously. "Oh, nothing!" She smiled, making it obvious that the opposite was true. "Oh, knock it off, Bulma..." Eighteen stepped away from the girl, and left Bulma gasping as the boys saw Bulma's shirt.
Vegeta's jaw would have dropped if he weren't bent on showing that he was unimpressed with everything around him. Bulma's shirt was a soft, light pink, being very tight against her slim and well-rounded figure. The waistline was above the rim of her pants, revealing her naval, and there were no sleeves. Vegeta couldn't help but stare at the low-cut neck of the shirt, where much ivory skin was shown before if cut off two and a half inches below her collarbone.
"Er...earth to Vegeta..." Krillin waved his hand in front of the boy.
"What?!" Vegeta suddenly snapped back to reality, and half-yelled as he was brought from his trance.
"Uh...you just totally spaced out..." Krillin said.
"Yeah, I was...thinking about...nothing..." Vegeta turned around, crossing his arms. He'd start drooling if he kept looking at Bulma in that shirt. Krillin nodded. "Okay, well, the girls are gonna wrap it up, buy what they want, and then we're gonna meet up with Goku and Chi-Chi for an early lunch before going back to school." He said.
"Yeah, sure..." Vegeta mumbled, watching Bulma slip into a changing room, and come out in the blue sweater she'd had on earlier, which had a zipper pulled as low as possible before her bra would be visible, as she had no T-shirt beneath. His eyes then followed her and Eighteen to the check-out counter, where she put the pink shirt and a few other selections before the clerk, Eighteen waiting in line behind her.
"That'll be forty-two seventy-five, miss, for your seven items."
--Elsewhere...--
Chi-Chi and Goku watched fish swim about in a tank that was by a bench, which stood in the middle of the mall's 'hallway.' "Look at that one..." Chi-Chi pointed at one fish. "It's pretty," she commented on the dainty flowing fins that were light blues and greens.
"I like that one," Goku nodded at a large goldfish which lingered at the top of the tank, nibbling on some food the caretaking staff at the mall had dumped in that morning. The goldfish let out a few bubbles of air as it went lower in the tank, and collided with an orange one.
"How about that one?" Chi-Chi moved her index finger in the direction of a fish that swam out of a small castle figurine. Goku smiled. "It's okay..." he decided, taking Chi-Chi's hand.
"Goku-chan..." Chi-Chi looked at the boy, who had just held her hand.
"Chi-Chi-chan." Goku was still adjusting to the awkwardness of calling Chi-Chi his girlfriend. "Do you want to go on a date tomorrow night?" He asked, grinning.
"Of course I do!" Chi-Chi laughed, and kissed him on the cheek for the second time in a half-hour.
"What the hell...?" A third voice sounded in the area, one that Goku ad Chi-Chi had known well by then. Chi- Chi turned from Goku, and saw Bulma and Eighteen standing in front of a few bags they'd dropped. Krillin and Vegeta, not paying attention to where they were going, walked onwards, until smacking into the girl in front of them. Eighteen felt the bump, and was moved a little, but steadied herself and turned around, beginning to yell at Krillin.
Bulma, on the other hand, had been jolted much harder by Vegeta, and slipped forwards. "Ah!" Her scream was cut short as Vegeta caught her before she fell over. All eyes were on the pair as Vegeta helped her up again, and the group remained silent as Bulma blushed a thank-you, and Vegeta murmured a whatever.
"Um...who's up for lunch?" Krillin asked.
"Oh, I am!" Goku threw his hand in the air.
"Goku-chan, you just had a lot of ice cream!" Chi-Chi reminded him, pulling his hand down.
The four stared at Goku and Chi-Chi. Bulma quirked an eyebrow. "Goku- CHAN...?" She wondered.
"Uh..." Chi-Chi smiled. "Yeah."
"Me an' Chi-Chi-chan are--"
"We get it, Kakkarot..." Vegeta rolled his eyes. The use of the suffix was enough, he didn't need to spell it out for them. They were all fifteen or sixteen, old enough to understand the meaning of such a word.
"Oh." Goku looked down. "Well, anyways I would LOVE some lunch right about now..."
--In The Food Court...--
"Oh, let me pay for that, Eighteen!" Krillin offered, walking up to the girl who fumbled in her pocket for change.
"What? Oh, no, I've got it..." Eighteen answered, still looking for the money in her wallet.
"No, no, you're a lady, I'll pay..." Krillin whipped out a ten dollar bill, and handed it to the man behind the cash register. He gave Krillin his change, and the boy walked Eighteen to the table where Bulma and Chi-Chi sat. Taking his place by the blonde, who sat next to Bulma, he picked up a burrito he'd left there minutes ago. "Thanks." Eighteen said, sipping some of her pop. "No problem." Krillin nodded. "Where are Goku and Vegeta at?"
"Getting lunch." Bulma said as she bit into a sub.
At that moment, Goku and Vegeta returned with trays overloaded with food. They sat side by side in the two available seats, Goku by Chi-Chi, and Vegeta by Goku, and began to eat their faces out. Chi-Chi gasped. "Goku-chan, you're making a mess of yourself, slow down! It's not a race!" She said, putting a napkin to her face.
"But Chi-Chi-chan..." Goku whined as the girl wiped his face clean. "I'm missing eating time!"
"You can spare a second to be clean..." Chi-Chi smiled as she kissed Goku's nose before he went back to eating. Vegeta snorted. "Disgusting."
"I wouldn't be talking if I were you, Vegeta." Eighteen laughed. "You seemed to enjoy kissing Bulma, here."
Vegeta's face turned red. "No!" He yelled. "I was just...uh..."
"We were making it more interesting for you guys." Bulma finished. Vegeta glanced at her before going back to eating at a quick but neat pace. She listened intently as Chi-Chi told a short story about something unrelated to the topic.
"Vegeta, you're doing that thing again," Krillin said, snapping his fingers before the boy's eyes.
"Huh?" Vegeta mumbled.
"You're zoning out!" Goku laughed. "What's got your mind so occupied?"
"Er...nothing." Vegeta said as he quietly finished his lunch.
--Outside Morutaka High School...--
"Well, that was one hell of a morning, you guys..." Bulma sighed as they heard the lunch bell ring. Having already eaten, they wandered into the school yard behind the building in a group. "Say, we should go to our lockers to put theses bags away." Eighteen motioned at her packages to Bulma.
"Yeah..." Bulma nodded. "Okay, you guys, we'll be right back. Stay here, so we can find you."
"Oh, I want to come to see what you bought!" Chi-Chi said, following. The girls wandered into the school, leaving the boys behind. Goku smiled. "So, how did your time at the mall go?"
"Uh...Vegeta beat me at every game in the arcade." Krillin said.
Vegeta smirked. "You were an easy opponent."
"Say, Goku, I never knew you liked Chi-Chi..." Krillin pointed out. "And now you're going out?"
"Yup!" Goku nodded. "She's pretty, don't you think?"
"Who, Chi-Chi?" Krillin asked. "I have my eye on someone else, but remember Vegeta saying she was the prettiest of the three on the first day we saw them? Ha, that must've been the funniest thing you've ever said!"
"Shut it. I don't think that any more." Vegeta frowned, crossing his arms.
"He says he's into Bulma! Can you believe it? Those two?" Krillin laughed loudly.
"It's not funny!" Vegeta yelled.
"Oh, no?" Goku put on a goofy grin. "I think it is!"
Krillin, calming down, put on a more serious face. "Uh...Goku, er..." he looked around, as if Eighteen could pop out of nowhere and discover his secret. "How did you get Chi-Chi to go out with you?" He wondered.
"Well..." Goku started.
--In the Hall...--
"Well, I didn't see you three at school this morning!" Chikara-sensei said in her cold-blooded voice as she went down the hall, and ran run into the trio of females. Eighteen nodded. "We just got here. Personal business." She said.
"Oh? And does this personal business have to do with those shopping bags?" Chikara-sensei asked.
"Uh..." Bulma moved the bag behind her back.
"Come on, let's see what's in there, girls..." the teacher said, reaching for the bags that could seal the doom of the three, and land them in trouble if the times and dates on the receipts were checked.
- - - LMAO Another cliff-hanger...sort of. Ah, don't worry, I update almost every day, so...you'll only have to wait until some time tomorrow to read more, I suppose...If I feel like writing tonight. A lot of you are really glad I update every day...
Okay, here's the Halloween costume update: A lot of you who suggested things for Eighteen's costume said something related to a villainous person, or someone of a style that refers to a bad reputation...[laughs] They were all good ideas, but I think I am going to choose the most ironic, yet most interesting (to me, anyways) costume idea: Dressing Eighteen up as an Android. CONGRATS to you who had suggested this! [hands out noise- makers and throws confetti in air]
Uh...I think I am going to make Vegeta BATMAN, just because I have had so many people saying stuff about how they would not like to see Vegeta in a Spider-Man costume. If you wanted to know the deal on that, I had just seen Spider- Man 2, and was thinking about Vegeta at the same time, so I morphed thoughts and came out with Vegeta Parker, AKA Spider-Saiyan-Man, and KAI-Jane Watson, girlfriend of Vegeta Parker. LMAO I couldn't help but imagine this the whole time I sat in the theaters watching the movie...:) I will explain about Vegeta's Batman costume in the next chapter in my comments...
At this time, I am not taking any votes for Krillin or Kakkarot's costumes, but am still leaving the vote for Vegeta open. Eighteen's is closed, though, because I've finalized the android thing! [laughing head off] The poll in place of the quickly decided Eighteen's is Chi-Chi's...I know it would be something frilly or what not...what do you think?
Seeya next chapter!
--Kai
By Pikachu Hunter
Chapter Fourteen: Finishing Up Skipping
"Hey, there's Eighteen and Bulma!" Krillin pointed, seeing a blonde stare blankly at a blue-haired girl who ducked behind a rack of shirts. Vegeta sighed, following Krillin further into the store. He just hoped he didn't end up saying anything stupid.
"Bulma, you can stand up. They know you're here," Eighteen said as Krillin led Vegeta ever forward towards the back of the store, where the two had been changing shirts and deciding on purchases. "Oh," Bulma stood up, and straightened out the bottom of her shirt. "Oh, shit! Stand in front of me, Eighteen!" Bulma threw her friend in front of her. "What the hell for?" Eighteen snapped as she was thrust into place.
"I'm still wearing the shirt! I don't want him to see me in this yet!" Bulma pointed at the pink top on her as Eighteen looked over her shoulder at the girl.
"Hi, Eighteen...um...hi, Bulma...what are you doing?" Krillin waved, and stopped to scratch his head as Bulma hid behind his crush. Bulma laughed loud and nervously. "Oh, nothing!" She smiled, making it obvious that the opposite was true. "Oh, knock it off, Bulma..." Eighteen stepped away from the girl, and left Bulma gasping as the boys saw Bulma's shirt.
Vegeta's jaw would have dropped if he weren't bent on showing that he was unimpressed with everything around him. Bulma's shirt was a soft, light pink, being very tight against her slim and well-rounded figure. The waistline was above the rim of her pants, revealing her naval, and there were no sleeves. Vegeta couldn't help but stare at the low-cut neck of the shirt, where much ivory skin was shown before if cut off two and a half inches below her collarbone.
"Er...earth to Vegeta..." Krillin waved his hand in front of the boy.
"What?!" Vegeta suddenly snapped back to reality, and half-yelled as he was brought from his trance.
"Uh...you just totally spaced out..." Krillin said.
"Yeah, I was...thinking about...nothing..." Vegeta turned around, crossing his arms. He'd start drooling if he kept looking at Bulma in that shirt. Krillin nodded. "Okay, well, the girls are gonna wrap it up, buy what they want, and then we're gonna meet up with Goku and Chi-Chi for an early lunch before going back to school." He said.
"Yeah, sure..." Vegeta mumbled, watching Bulma slip into a changing room, and come out in the blue sweater she'd had on earlier, which had a zipper pulled as low as possible before her bra would be visible, as she had no T-shirt beneath. His eyes then followed her and Eighteen to the check-out counter, where she put the pink shirt and a few other selections before the clerk, Eighteen waiting in line behind her.
"That'll be forty-two seventy-five, miss, for your seven items."
--Elsewhere...--
Chi-Chi and Goku watched fish swim about in a tank that was by a bench, which stood in the middle of the mall's 'hallway.' "Look at that one..." Chi-Chi pointed at one fish. "It's pretty," she commented on the dainty flowing fins that were light blues and greens.
"I like that one," Goku nodded at a large goldfish which lingered at the top of the tank, nibbling on some food the caretaking staff at the mall had dumped in that morning. The goldfish let out a few bubbles of air as it went lower in the tank, and collided with an orange one.
"How about that one?" Chi-Chi moved her index finger in the direction of a fish that swam out of a small castle figurine. Goku smiled. "It's okay..." he decided, taking Chi-Chi's hand.
"Goku-chan..." Chi-Chi looked at the boy, who had just held her hand.
"Chi-Chi-chan." Goku was still adjusting to the awkwardness of calling Chi-Chi his girlfriend. "Do you want to go on a date tomorrow night?" He asked, grinning.
"Of course I do!" Chi-Chi laughed, and kissed him on the cheek for the second time in a half-hour.
"What the hell...?" A third voice sounded in the area, one that Goku ad Chi-Chi had known well by then. Chi- Chi turned from Goku, and saw Bulma and Eighteen standing in front of a few bags they'd dropped. Krillin and Vegeta, not paying attention to where they were going, walked onwards, until smacking into the girl in front of them. Eighteen felt the bump, and was moved a little, but steadied herself and turned around, beginning to yell at Krillin.
Bulma, on the other hand, had been jolted much harder by Vegeta, and slipped forwards. "Ah!" Her scream was cut short as Vegeta caught her before she fell over. All eyes were on the pair as Vegeta helped her up again, and the group remained silent as Bulma blushed a thank-you, and Vegeta murmured a whatever.
"Um...who's up for lunch?" Krillin asked.
"Oh, I am!" Goku threw his hand in the air.
"Goku-chan, you just had a lot of ice cream!" Chi-Chi reminded him, pulling his hand down.
The four stared at Goku and Chi-Chi. Bulma quirked an eyebrow. "Goku- CHAN...?" She wondered.
"Uh..." Chi-Chi smiled. "Yeah."
"Me an' Chi-Chi-chan are--"
"We get it, Kakkarot..." Vegeta rolled his eyes. The use of the suffix was enough, he didn't need to spell it out for them. They were all fifteen or sixteen, old enough to understand the meaning of such a word.
"Oh." Goku looked down. "Well, anyways I would LOVE some lunch right about now..."
--In The Food Court...--
"Oh, let me pay for that, Eighteen!" Krillin offered, walking up to the girl who fumbled in her pocket for change.
"What? Oh, no, I've got it..." Eighteen answered, still looking for the money in her wallet.
"No, no, you're a lady, I'll pay..." Krillin whipped out a ten dollar bill, and handed it to the man behind the cash register. He gave Krillin his change, and the boy walked Eighteen to the table where Bulma and Chi-Chi sat. Taking his place by the blonde, who sat next to Bulma, he picked up a burrito he'd left there minutes ago. "Thanks." Eighteen said, sipping some of her pop. "No problem." Krillin nodded. "Where are Goku and Vegeta at?"
"Getting lunch." Bulma said as she bit into a sub.
At that moment, Goku and Vegeta returned with trays overloaded with food. They sat side by side in the two available seats, Goku by Chi-Chi, and Vegeta by Goku, and began to eat their faces out. Chi-Chi gasped. "Goku-chan, you're making a mess of yourself, slow down! It's not a race!" She said, putting a napkin to her face.
"But Chi-Chi-chan..." Goku whined as the girl wiped his face clean. "I'm missing eating time!"
"You can spare a second to be clean..." Chi-Chi smiled as she kissed Goku's nose before he went back to eating. Vegeta snorted. "Disgusting."
"I wouldn't be talking if I were you, Vegeta." Eighteen laughed. "You seemed to enjoy kissing Bulma, here."
Vegeta's face turned red. "No!" He yelled. "I was just...uh..."
"We were making it more interesting for you guys." Bulma finished. Vegeta glanced at her before going back to eating at a quick but neat pace. She listened intently as Chi-Chi told a short story about something unrelated to the topic.
"Vegeta, you're doing that thing again," Krillin said, snapping his fingers before the boy's eyes.
"Huh?" Vegeta mumbled.
"You're zoning out!" Goku laughed. "What's got your mind so occupied?"
"Er...nothing." Vegeta said as he quietly finished his lunch.
--Outside Morutaka High School...--
"Well, that was one hell of a morning, you guys..." Bulma sighed as they heard the lunch bell ring. Having already eaten, they wandered into the school yard behind the building in a group. "Say, we should go to our lockers to put theses bags away." Eighteen motioned at her packages to Bulma.
"Yeah..." Bulma nodded. "Okay, you guys, we'll be right back. Stay here, so we can find you."
"Oh, I want to come to see what you bought!" Chi-Chi said, following. The girls wandered into the school, leaving the boys behind. Goku smiled. "So, how did your time at the mall go?"
"Uh...Vegeta beat me at every game in the arcade." Krillin said.
Vegeta smirked. "You were an easy opponent."
"Say, Goku, I never knew you liked Chi-Chi..." Krillin pointed out. "And now you're going out?"
"Yup!" Goku nodded. "She's pretty, don't you think?"
"Who, Chi-Chi?" Krillin asked. "I have my eye on someone else, but remember Vegeta saying she was the prettiest of the three on the first day we saw them? Ha, that must've been the funniest thing you've ever said!"
"Shut it. I don't think that any more." Vegeta frowned, crossing his arms.
"He says he's into Bulma! Can you believe it? Those two?" Krillin laughed loudly.
"It's not funny!" Vegeta yelled.
"Oh, no?" Goku put on a goofy grin. "I think it is!"
Krillin, calming down, put on a more serious face. "Uh...Goku, er..." he looked around, as if Eighteen could pop out of nowhere and discover his secret. "How did you get Chi-Chi to go out with you?" He wondered.
"Well..." Goku started.
--In the Hall...--
"Well, I didn't see you three at school this morning!" Chikara-sensei said in her cold-blooded voice as she went down the hall, and ran run into the trio of females. Eighteen nodded. "We just got here. Personal business." She said.
"Oh? And does this personal business have to do with those shopping bags?" Chikara-sensei asked.
"Uh..." Bulma moved the bag behind her back.
"Come on, let's see what's in there, girls..." the teacher said, reaching for the bags that could seal the doom of the three, and land them in trouble if the times and dates on the receipts were checked.
- - - LMAO Another cliff-hanger...sort of. Ah, don't worry, I update almost every day, so...you'll only have to wait until some time tomorrow to read more, I suppose...If I feel like writing tonight. A lot of you are really glad I update every day...
Okay, here's the Halloween costume update: A lot of you who suggested things for Eighteen's costume said something related to a villainous person, or someone of a style that refers to a bad reputation...[laughs] They were all good ideas, but I think I am going to choose the most ironic, yet most interesting (to me, anyways) costume idea: Dressing Eighteen up as an Android. CONGRATS to you who had suggested this! [hands out noise- makers and throws confetti in air]
Uh...I think I am going to make Vegeta BATMAN, just because I have had so many people saying stuff about how they would not like to see Vegeta in a Spider-Man costume. If you wanted to know the deal on that, I had just seen Spider- Man 2, and was thinking about Vegeta at the same time, so I morphed thoughts and came out with Vegeta Parker, AKA Spider-Saiyan-Man, and KAI-Jane Watson, girlfriend of Vegeta Parker. LMAO I couldn't help but imagine this the whole time I sat in the theaters watching the movie...:) I will explain about Vegeta's Batman costume in the next chapter in my comments...
At this time, I am not taking any votes for Krillin or Kakkarot's costumes, but am still leaving the vote for Vegeta open. Eighteen's is closed, though, because I've finalized the android thing! [laughing head off] The poll in place of the quickly decided Eighteen's is Chi-Chi's...I know it would be something frilly or what not...what do you think?
Seeya next chapter!
--Kai