For the Love of ChiChi

Part Two

Krillin stared at his best friend in awe as Goku ate and ate and ate to his heart's content. They were at their regular restaurant "Delicious" where they celebrated their wins and losses at the tournaments in the past. It was great to have everyone reunited again since they hadn't seen each other in three years. Neither went into details about the training they went under but they all agreed it was vigorous and worth it for all the strength and knowledge they have gathered.

"Still, the same as ever, Goku," Krillin laughed at all the food Goku had eaten. He also still couldn't believe how tall his friend had grown.

Bulma was also impressed about how Goku look now, but her thoughts were different from Krillin's. 'I never knew that hick kid I met as a boy would grow up to be so handsome. He really is cute.'

As usual, Goku cleaned out the restaurant and Master Roshi paid for the meal. Everyone left the restaurant full and happy. ChiChi arrived at the restaurant ten minutes later for a meal herself but was turned down when they said a young man cleaned them out of their food. ChiChi knew it was Goku.

"This young man--did he have wild, black hair and the most handsome face ever."

"Uh…" a waiter scratched his head. "I don't know about handsome, but yes he did have wild, black hair."

"Where did he go?" ChiChi asked desperately. She was so close and so far away to finding Goku.

"Um, he and his friends left ten minutes ago. They went back to the hotel."

"Thank you!" ChiChi said and raced out the restaurant. She stopped as a realization dawned on her. Which hotel? There were at least three hotels nearby and Goku could be in any one of them. In that instant, her hopes were dashed. Sadly, she got some takeout at another restaurant and made her way back to the hotel room--the same one Goku was checked in.

Goku, Krillin, Yamcha, Tien and Chaozu got in one elevator while Bulma, Launch, Master Roshi, Oolong and Puar got in the other.

ChiChi arrived back at the hotel just as the elevator that held Goku closed in. ChiChi got in the third elevator alone and took her trip to the eighth floor. Goku and his friends got off the eighth floor as well and said goodnight to their friends before retiring in their rooms. ChiChi stepped off her elevator and entered her hotel room just three doors down from Goku's.

ChiChi was in a deliriously happy mood when she arrived at the tournament the following morning. She couldn't sleep. She was so excited to meet Goku and remind him of his promise. ChiChi wondered if he was still cute and adorable as he was when they were kids. She remembered him being so strong. ChiChi knew it was him who defeated King Piccolo and to be the suitable wife of a man like that, ChiChi felt she should be strong as well. She worked hard in mastering all the skills her father learned from Master Roshi and now she was stronger than the great Ox King. Also to be a good wife for Goku, ChiChi learned how to be an excellent cook from the chefs in her father's castle and the maids taught her how to be a good cleaner of the house and clothes and taught her in other areas how to be a good wife. ChiChi wanted to be the best wife in the world for Goku, so she learned everything a good wife should know. ChiChi even learned how to knit and sew. She dreamed of making clothes for Goku and their children and imagine how happy Goku would be to have a wife like her. She just couldn't wait to show off her skills.

ChiChi arrived at the tournament early so she wouldn't get caught in the crowd. She heard about how popular the last tournament was so she knew to arrive early. Soon other fighters entered. ChiChi stood in the corner watching them all. Some were humans others were animals like an alligator with a black belt, a fox and a tall green man in a white cape and turban. She kept looking around for Goku.

That was when she spotted him. Goku was just as she imagined he would be--tall, handsome and strong looking the same with that wild black hair. She could never forget that hairstyle. It was his trademark. She could feel her heart pounding at the sight of him. ChiChi noticed Goku was talking to another face she remembered--Yamcha. She remembered the former bandit telling her that he was in love with her. ChiChi didn't love him and would have to tell him that after she spoke with Goku. There was another man only shorter and bald, a tall man with three eyes standing beside another short man with his face made up like a clown.

ChiChi was on cloud nine now that she met her betrothed and daydreamed about her meeting with Goku.

ChiChi walked over and tapped Goku's back. He turned around and smiled.

"Hi, Goku," ChiChi smiled warmly at Goku.

Goku looked her over and smiled. "ChiChi? Is that you?"

"Yes, it's me, Goku," ChiChi smiled and hugged Goku who returned the hug. "I'm so happy to see you."

"Wow! It's been so long," Goku said. "What are you doing here?"

ChiChi blushed as she stared in Goku's eyes. "It's been so many years and you haven't been back to my village. I thought it was time I remind you of your promise to marry me."

"Oh, yeah. I could never forget that. We can get married after the tournament."

ChiChi sighed happily as she thought about her daydream. 'He's so sweet.' ChiChi made her way over to Goku. She saw that tall green man with a turban staring at Goku. The two didn't say anything. The tall, green man smirked and walked away. ChiChi wondered what that was about but ignored that since her main focus was to talk to Goku.

Her heart was pounding so fast and loud that ChiChi could've sworn she heard it in her ears. 'Here goes.' She tapped Goku on the shoulder.

ChiChi watch as Goku turned around. Instead of being happy, he looked confused. ChiChi didn't care. "Hi, Goku," ChiChi said, giggling softly as she stepped closer to him. 'Oh, he's so handsome.'

Goku leaned forward with a finger on his lower lip. "Do I…know you?"

ChiChi gasped in shock. He didn't remember? 'I've thought about him all these years, prepared myself to be his wife, learning how to fight, cook, knit and sew and he doesn't remember me? He promised to marry me and I spent all those years waiting and getting myself ready for him and he doesn't remember who I am?!' ChiChi's face of shock soon turned to anger. 'How dare he? HOW DARE HE?!'

ChiChi growled angrily and screamed. "YOU FOOL!!!"

The range of her yelling knocked Goku, Choazu, and a few onlookers on the floor. Tien and Yamcha stood on ends on the verge of falling and Krillin covered his ears. ChiChi stood there breathing heavily, enraged.

Goku however looked even more confused. "Are you okay? Was it something I said?"

ChiChi was too angry to respond. Instead, she huffed, turned her back on Goku and marched off. 'How could he? Of all the…After all these years, he forgotten about me! Dad and Takashi were right. Goku did forget me. He's gonna pay!!'

ChiChi thoughts were diverted when she heard the announcer. She listened as he spoke but most of her thoughts were on Goku and how he forgot her. He was so going to pay for this. Next came pulling the numbers. She got in line separate of Goku's and picked out her number 59. By this time, she had calmed down but she was still furious with Goku. She checked her spot and soon the first match of the preliminary rounds were beginning. ChiChi looked around to see where Goku was. She saw that he was in the first match. ChiChi made her way through the crowd to see the match.

'Let's see how strong you are, Goku.'

Goku was up against King Chappa. In less than a minute, Goku defeated Chappa.

'Such an easy victory for Goku,' ChiChi thought. 'I could've defeated him easily as well.' She turned and walked off. 'I won't fight him until the tournament. It'll be an easy defeat and that will be suitable punishment for what he did to me.'

The time arrived for ChiChi to fight. Her first opponent was a giant bear. The bear laughed at his opponent. A small female against him--a seven foot bear wearing over four hundred pounds. This would be easy.

"Such small fry. I'll go easy on you," the bear spoke confidently.

ChiChi stroke a pose. "Your mistake."

"Ready? Begin!" The referee said.

ChiChi charged on the bear and sent a punch and kick to the bear's belly in which he crumpled to his knees in pain. ChiChi grabbed the bear and threw him out of the ring.

"Out of bounds. Winner is Number 59!"

ChiChi bowed at her fallen opponent. 'All too easy.' ChiChi left to watch Goku's matches and then fought in hers. Her opponents were easy to defeat. She didn't get hit once as she blocked all her opponents' attacks and struck hard in her defense.

After the preliminaries were over, the announcer for the games told the finalist to come over. ChiChi found herself walking beside Goku. She scowled at him but he had a cheerful smile on his face as he didn't even notice her. She moved passed him to the other side to stand beside the tall green guy and the man with the glasses who was the last to enter.

After the drawing of lots, the fighters were announced. ChiChi was delighted to learn that she will face Goku first. 'Good. I'll defeat him and that should be payback for him forgetting me.'

"Um, Miss, could I have your name?" the blonde announcer asked.

"Anonymous."

The announcer blinked. "Um, is that your real name?"

"I choose not to give my name for personal reasons," she said glaring at Goku.

"Um, okay," he said and wrote it beside Goku as they will be competing in the next match.

Takashi frowned at the crowd that greeted him when he arrived at the tournament. 'I'll never get inside to see ChiChi now. I know her though. She'll make it to the finals.'

ChiChi prepared herself for her match with warm ups as Goku watched the first match with his friends. She fumed as she angrily thought about Goku.

'How could he? How could he forget me? He said he will marry me and he forgets me. How dare he leaves a girl's heart waiting all this time and then forgets her. I'll defeat him for it.'

"It's strangely quiet, don't you think?" Kami asked in his guised as a goofy human who didn't appear as one would think a martial artist would be.

ChiChi stopped in her fighting and listened to the quietness. She could hear the birds chirping and nothing else as it seemed everyone was holding their breath for the first match to begin. "I hear many sounds that invade the silence."

ChiChi resumed throwing her kicks and punches in the air. She had to be in perfect condition to fight Goku. One false mistake and she could lose. Ha! ChiChi was very confident she would defeat Goku.

"You seem upset at that, uh, fellow--Son Goku? Is he an enemy of yours?" Kami asked. He saw the confrontation between the two and was curious himself as to why the young woman was upset with him. Goku was a man of pure heart and would never hurt anyone unless they threatened the lives of innocence and the woman before him didn't have evil in her.

"He's not my enemy, but a cruel man for what he did to me," ChiChi said still upset with Goku.

This peaked Kami's interest. What in the world could a person as kind and pure as Goku do to make this woman of purity and goodness upset with him. "That doesn't make sense," he muttered to himself.

But ChiChi heard him. She looked back at him over her shoulder. "To me it does and that's all that matters."

Kami knew to back down so she wouldn't be suspicious. 'It'll come out soon.'

When ChiChi heard the announcer mention the winner, ChiChi knew it was time for her to step out. When she did, she saw Goku stretching cheerfully saying he couldn't wait for his match to begin. He saw ChiChi stepping out and he and gave her a cheerful smile. "Hello!"

ChiChi huffed and ignored him as she made her way to the ring. Goku looked dumbfounded as he walked onto the ring. He began stretching again to make sure he was surely ready for this. After that, he stared at an angry ChiChi. He asked her why she was angry and she accused him of it. This made Goku even more confused. He had a feeling he had met her before but he wasn't sure where or what he did to make her so angry with him.

Takashi gritted his teeth when he saw ChiChi standing across from Goku. 'She's found him! This isn't good! I have to get her alone. Wait,' he thought as he noticed ChiChi. 'She's angry…at Goku. I wonder why.' He could see ChiChi's face. She was angry and it appeared to be at Goku. Her mouth moved but he couldn't hear what they were taking about.

Just as the match was getting started, ChiChi charged on Goku angrily. Takashi watched the match and saw ChiChi was losing. Goku blocked and ducked all of ChiChi's kicks and punches. When she tried to trip Goku, he jumped out of the way. Goku caught her punches and ChiChi was quick to move with another attack. Goku wasn't attacking ChiChi at all. In fact, it seemed he looked confused and was trying to ask her something and an angry ChiChi was yelling at him. Goku took to the sky to escape her but ChiChi jumped in after him fighting Goku. Goku didn't seem happy that ChiChi was kicking him in the sky but he didn't attack her. The two landed and Goku looked pleadingly at ChiChi asking her something. Takashi learned what was going on when he heard Chi-Chi spoke.

"Fine! I'll tell you the promise you broke! You said I would be your bride! You promised to marry me!!"

The crowd fell silent to murmurs at what ChiChi said.

"He forgot about her," Takashi said. 'That's why ChiChi looks furious at Goku. Ha! I knew it! This is working better than expected. ChiChi will leave and have no choice but to accept my offer of marriage.'

"Krillin, what's a bride?!" Goku asked confused.

'Did he say what's a bride?' Takashi thought. He nearly fell over in surprise. 'How could ChiChi fall for such an idiot?'

"Live together?! With you?!" Goku looked at ChiChi frightened and shocked by the suggestion. "When I said that, was I conscious?!"

Takashi smirked. 'This is going better than expected. He'll refuse the offer now and ChiChi will kill him for that remark.'

Takashi heard ChiChi promised to tell her name if Goku defeated her. With a simple attack of not even hitting her, Goku knocked ChiChi out of the ring. The crowd was stun. Goku ran over to ChiChi asking if she was all right and apologizing for using the attack so hard. ChiChi rubbed her sore head and stood up. She complimented him on his fighting and how impressed she was. Goku asked for her name and she gave it to him still annoyed he hadn't figured it out yet.

Takashi saw the flabbergasted look on Goku's face. He stuttered as he stared at her. "Wait a minute. You're ChiChi." Goku looked as if he was thinking some more as if he was trying to remember her. "AAAHH!! I remember!! I did say it! It was back…back to when we were children when I told you I wanted a bride."

Takashi liked everyone else listened and heard ChiChi telling Goku she remembered and Goku spoke again.

"But I don't think you understand. I thought bride meant something to eat."

'Oh, good grief, what a moron!' Takashi thought. 'I thought ChiChi would have better taste in men than that!'

The crowd was silent as they listened intently at this conversation. Nothing like this has ever happened at the tournament before. This will be a great story to tell for years to come.

"Then the promise you made was a mistake?" ChiChi asked. She was the verge of tears now as she realized her dreams were shattered and she couldn't argue if Goku did turn her down. She understood now. He didn't know what promise he was making and being as innocent as she was when she was kid, she thought Goku was kidding around by saying he didn't know.

'Yes!' It took all the will in Takashi to not jump in joy. "Now she can be my wife and I can have her kingdom.'

Goku had his arms folded as he thought. "Sometimes my brain doesn't understand what my heart is saying. Good thing my heart does."

'Oh, no,' Takashi thought worried. 'I don't like the sound of this."

Goku walked up to ChiChi. "Will you marry me?"

ChiChi's eyes lit with joy. "Yes! Yes!" She said happily. ChiChi quickly grabbed Goku's arm. He was hers now. 'He still wants to marry me. He knows what marriage is and he still wants to marry me! I'm so happy.' "Goku," she cooed.

"Why are you grabbing me?" Goku asked confused.

'No! NO!' Takashi thought angrily as the crowd around him cheered happily. 'This wasn't suppose to happen!' He watched as ChiChi gave Goku a kiss on the cheek and he looked confused at the action. This made Takashi furious. 'How dare he? That's my woman and my riches going away there! This isn't right!'

Takashi pushed his way through the crowds. He had to confront ChiChi. He had to get her away from Goku. If Takashi could take ChiChi away now, he'll have a chance with her.

ChiChi was in heaven. At first she was angry at Goku and then learning that he didn't know what a bride was, she thought it was over but then Goku proposed to her. He still didn't seem to understand what was going on, but with a kiss on the cheek, ChiChi promised to show Goku how great love and their marriage will be.

ChiChi introduced herself to Goku's friends, turned Yamcha down and promised Goku she will be the world's best wife. Goku warned Krillin of his next opponent and how he shouldn't take MaJunior lightly. Krillin promised he will and since his match wouldn't begin in ten minutes, thought he and the others should wait outside while Goku and ChiChi talk. The two had a lot to talk about.

Goku scratched his head. "Talk about? What do we have to talk about?"

"Things for our marriage. I was thinking we could build our home or buy one of those capsules home. Oh! How about we raise a strong, ideal child?"

"A child?" Goku said startled. What did she mean by that? How would they get one of those?

"Yes! We can keep the wedding ceremony very simple. I don't like things to be extravagant. What about you?"

Goku shrugged his shoulders. "Either way is fine with me."

"I'm going to cook you the best meals." ChiChi laughed gleefully.

"Really?" Goku asked excited by the thought.

"I'm going to be the best wife in the world!" She hugged Goku once more which startled him.

"ChiChi, why are you holding me like this? Stop it!"

ChiChi refused to let go. Now that she had him, she wasn't ever going to let go. "This is what couples do, Honey."

"Honey? But there's no--" Goku words were cut off when he overhead the blonde announcer mention that the third match was about to begin. "Um, ChiChi, we have to go if we want to see the third match."

"Oh, you go. I have some things to do first, but I'll be back to see you fight." ChiChi smiled shyly at Goku. "Um, can I kiss you goodbye?"

"Kiss?"

"Mm-hmm," ChiChi nodded as her cheeks turned a bright pink.

"I'm not sure what exactly that is, but okay."

ChiChi giggled. "You're so cute. I just gave you one of the cheek."

"Oh, that's what that was? I guess it will be okay."

"I want to kiss you on the lips this time. It's my first one."

"It'll be my first, too. Okay, but can we hurry it up. I want to see Krillin fight."

ChiChi stepped close to Goku. She placed her hands on his chest and raised herself on her toes. Goku looked puzzled as ChiChi kissed him on the lips. Goku tried to pull away but ChiChi wrapped an arm around his neck while Goku's arms just hang down his waist. He could feel heat rise on his cheek. He was blushing, something he never did. This was confusing and weird.

ChiChi pulled back with a brilliant smile on her lips. "I'll see you for your next match." Goku watched as ChiChi ran off. Before she left the room, she turned and blew a kiss to Goku before finally leaving.

Goku stood there dumbfounded as he watched ChiChi leave.

'What was that?'

"Goku!"

Goku snapped out of his daydream and saw Yamcha. Yamcha only smiled. He came in to tell Goku Krillin was about to fight but he stopped when he saw Goku kissing ChiChi. He kept quiet about it until it was over.

"Come on. Krillin's about to fight."

"Oh, let's go," Goku said and ran outside to see Krillin fight.

ChiChi was going to head back to the hotel and call her father to let her know about Goku but then she saw Takashi. "Takashi?" ChiChi said surprised to see him. She was too happy to question why he was here. "Takashi! Oh, it's so wonderful! Goku proposed to me! He's going to marry me!" She twirled in excitement. "We're going to be so happy together!"

"ChiChi," Takashi began seriously. "I have some bad news."

ChiChi noticed the sadness in Takashi's eyes and the grimness in his voice. "Bad news? How can anything be bad on this perfect day!"

"It's your father."

ChiChi gasped. "My father? What's the matter? Is he all right?"

"He's fell ill. He's been poisoned."

"Oh, no!" ChiChi gasped in horror. "Who poisoned him? Is he all right?"

Takashi shook his head. "It doesn't look good. We don't know who poisoned him but it was in his food. I had a feeling you will be here since you talked about Goku and this tournament. I've come to get you. He's been asking for you."

"Papa," ChiChi said mournfully, tearing up. "I have to see him."

Takashi held a hand out for ChiChi. "Come. I'll take you home."

ChiChi nodded. "Okay, but I've got to tell Goku."

ChiChi started to leave but Takashi grabbed her arm. "No, you can't."

"Why not?!" ChiChi questioned upset. "He needs to know!"

"If you tell him, you will ruin his concentration in his fights and you don't want him to lose because of you do you?"

"No, but he has to know where I'm going."

"ChiChi, this is the only way. Your father is in pain and has been asking for you. He could be dying now. You could miss him taking these precious minutes to talk to Goku."

ChiChi looked reluctantly at the tournament doors. She had to tell Goku but she didn't want to risk him losing the tournament because of her. Her father needed her. He had raised her all his life and he could be dying at this moment. ChiChi turned to Takashi. "Okay. I'll go now."

Takashi smiled. "Good. We don't have much time."

To Be Continued

Carrie2sky: It's okay. Maybe I did seem a bit harsh in my author's note and some people might have misinterpreted what I was saying in the wrong way. I have read other authors' stories and their reviews and some of the things reviewers would say or request, I found annoying and I didn't want those kind of reviews for my story. I have a family and child who is very active so I don't have time to be replying to reviews. Everyone doesn't do it and it's not a requirement. I have a busy life and my family is top priority over any story.