To Midnight-flame- princess, and Layann!! Thanks for giving me the best compliments ever!
And also: it helps to read the replies, because they help to clear up confusion!
And to Mkh2- For christening Claudia as 'Clod'ia, you rock! To all reviewers, feel free to abuse Claudia in any way! If some one plans a wonderfully terrible death for her, I might just work it in somewhere, you never know…
And now, to clear up confusions:
Layann – soz about the spelling. Claudia is an evil bitch, but no, she is not German, just some daughter of Satan (not Hercule,). I just prefer to say gezundheit/ gesundheit because I have no religious belief, and stay away from the traditional bless you. I'm glad that you think so highly of me…
Ria- I'm so sorry that this is late…but here it is, at least!
Veggies boo- Goku introduced himself as Kakarot to her, that's why she's using that name. That puts Goku in the wrong! But as I've said before, he will get his come uppance, and yes, there will be a happy ending…but I think wench is a brilliant name for Clodia! And two tickets to the throttling for you! As for bakarot, you'll have to wait til Geta's finished with him…then you can scratch him merrily.
Musaka14 – beat her brains out, please!!!
Purple moonlight- dude, you can always sneak in backstage, but the good seats go to veggies boo!
dc-sais – well, Goku doesn't think he has a chance with Vegeta, so he thought he'd try with Clodia. But he is being stupid.
Jay girl – you never know…
A Paler shade of blue – to all my reviewers, please look at this wonderful persons review. She has summed up Goku's problem perfectly. You keep poking Claudia with that stick, make sure that its sharp! And as for Goku, well, he'll come right.
Goleta – I'm glad that you're reading all my fic! And yes, Claudia is modeled on chichi, but add chemical X!
Ozuma's girl- there will be action between our two fave Saiyans, but in more ways than one…watch out!
Midnight- flame-princess : my other stories thank you!
Oh, and as for the pickle/ veggie story…it's coming along…and a new possible story I have might involve a lot of alcohol and a rather interesting morning after…a little short story as a gift to all the reviwers of this story!
Onwards!
Chapter Six: Vegeta's 'Polite' Discussion
The water drained out the regen tank, the lid opened, and a well tanned prince stepped out, having healed and gaining a deep tan in the process. But despite this, he was in a vicious mood. There's nothing like two hours of sitting in a regen tank to make one think about things. Vegeta had been stewing about Goku's misdemeanors and had worked himself up into a really, really foul mood. We all do that, when all we can do is sit and think instead of doing anything constructive. Vegeta had been thinking about Goku's lack of consideration, how he had chosen Claudia over him. What happened to "You're my best bud, Vegeta" ? He had taken every little event into account, magnified it and stewed about it. Not healthy, but right now, Vegeta didn't care. Vegeta wrapped a towel around his waist, and stomped off down the corridors to his bedroom, breaking things along the way.
"That bloody stupid bastard! The one day of the year he should spend with me, (crash!) the one day he has to care about me, he doesn't because he wants to be with that (tinkle of breaking glass) bitch!" Every time he passed a vase, or any valuable, fragile object, he would go out of his way to pick it up and break it somehow. He stomped into his room, and pulled open his cupboard doors with slightly more force than necessary. He pulled a spandex training suit off his rack, a black one, and hastily pulled it on, muttering under his breath the whole time. He snapped his gloves on irritably, and as soon as he was dressed, he went over to the window. He nearly tore it off its hinges to get it open, then he blasted out, towards Goku's house, to have a 'polite' word with him.
"What's wrong, love?"
Claudia looked at Goku, who had stopped in the middle of the hallway, a heavy box in his arms and his ears twitching very slightly. Claudia was standing behind him, and she tilted her head to the side, looking puzzled. Goku's whole body stiffened.
Why is Vegeta coming here?
And why is his ki like that? It's so…violent. And it's so high…
But before Goku could do anything, Vegeta had landed outside and was banging on the door.
"I'll get it!"
Claudia turned around and left, and Goku dropped the box, shattering a few items of glassware.
He ran after her, wishing he could use his hyper speed, but he couldn't let Claudia see. She had a good head start, and had opened the door by the time Goku skidded around the corner and slammed into the wall. Vegeta looked right past Claudia and saw Kakarot, his eyes narrowing.
Goku picked himself up from the floor, and gulped when he saw Vegeta. The look on Vegeta's face was one he had not seen in a very long time. The anger just seemed to seethe out of him, barely contained. Goku felt forcibly reminded of a volcano, just waiting to explode, the smoke already billowing.
"What do you want?" demanded Claudia. Vegeta growled.
"None of your business, you manipulative bitch! I want to speak to Kakarot!" snapped Vegeta.
"Is that right? Well, you can't. I say who he can and can't talk to. I can't remember what your name is, but it doesn't matter."
"Listen here, you pathetic, inbred slut…"
Goku gently pulled Claudia backwards by the shoulders, and stepped in front of her.
"Cloud, let me deal with this, okay?"
"But, Kakarot…"
"Don't you dare use that name!" yelled Vegeta, trying to grab her throat, but Goku pulled her further backwards.
Claudia took one look at Vegeta, and started walking slowly backwards, feeling highly unnerved by the anger sparking off him. Her eyes widened when she saw his tail. It was whipping around, and she could have sworn that she heard him growling. She turned and practically sprinted from the room, and left Goku to deal with Vegeta.
"Vegeta, what's wrong?" Goku put his hand on Vegeta's shoulder, but retracted it almost immediately. Strange. Vegeta's skin was hot, almost unbearably so. Vegeta sneered.
"Everything is wrong, Kakarot. But how would you know that? Why would you care? Tell me Kakarot, why you don't CARE!"
Vegeta slammed the heel of his hand into Goku's chest, sending him stumbling backwards.
Goku staggered, and looked at Vegeta, who was clenching his fists and bearing his fangs, which had grown longer. A deep growl was coming out of his throat.
"Vegeta…"
Goku tried to get Vegeta to calm down, but no such luck.
"I can't believe you, Kakarot! How can you choose her over me?! That bitch, over your best friend!"
Sparks were flying off him, and one jumped into a nearby lamp, causing it to explode. A glass shard flew into Vegeta's bicep, but he ignored it and continued glaring at Goku.
His tail flicked, and another bolt of energy went into the telephone, destroying that too. Goku realized that he had to get Vegeta to open ground, before he did some serious damage.
Goku lowered his tone, and held his hands out, palms up.
"Fine, Vegeta. Let's go discuss this somewhere else, somewhere more private. Just please calm down."
"So be it, clown. I might need space to beat you around anyway."
Goku cringed. Vegeta hadn't called him that since the bad days, before they were friends, back when they were rivals. Goku was suddenly scared that things would go back to being that way.
He must be really mad at me, if he's calling me that again…
Vegeta turned and flew away, and Goku followed, trying to avoid Vegeta's aura trail, which was blood red and hot, like a heat haze.
How can he generate so much heat? And why? Is this another thing I don't know about Saiyans?
They landed on an open field, far away from each other. The sun was setting, a crimson sky stretched over them, darkened only by thunder clouds, rumbling far away.
It seemed apt.
Vegeta turned to face Goku slowly, fangs still extended.
"Vegeta, tell me what's wrong. Why are you so upset?"
Vegeta laughed with his head flung back, and Goku took a step back without realizing.
He recognized that deranged laugh.
It made him sick.
It made him scared.
It was the demented laugh that had come from Vegeta after Babidi possessed him.
He used to laugh like that before he killed.
Back when he was bad, back when he had no control.
Back when he didn't care about life.
"You stupid clown, it took you long enough to fucking notice. Maybe I should explain why my body is super heated, so hot that no one can touch me. I'll tell you why, fool. This only happens when a saiyan gets frustrated, angry, sad, depressed and desperate all at the same time. It's a coping mechanism, it supposedly prevents me from going mad." Vegeta snarled.
"But it's too late to cope, clown! You're too late to help me! Too late to save me! You save everyone except me! You can't even save me from MYSELF!"
Goku felt Vegeta's energy building, as huge sparks continued to jump off him, long bolts of electricity that formed a huge cage of electricity around him. Goku could see that he was struggling to maintain control, as the globe became larger, more powerful, Vegeta rising slowly in the middle of it. Goku's jaw dropped, as he stared up at the globe, having never seen anything quite like it. Vegeta was looking down at him, arms spread to the side, ankles crossed. His hair had started growing very slowly, and it was shoulder length now.
"Vegeta! Calm down!" yelled Goku.
But Vegeta just laughed scathingly, his old vindictive smirk back on his face and his pupils turning red, like they were being filled with crimson paint.
"Calm down? It's too late for that, Kakarot…
You're too late."
The calmness of Vegeta's voice scared Goku. He could see that Vegeta was undergoing a transformation, that much is obvious. But how could he be so calm?
Unless…it was the proverbial peace before the storm…
"Why is it too late, Vegeta, tell me!''
Suddenly, the golden beams forming the hovering globe around Vegeta turned red and exploded outwards, forcing Goku to form a shield around himself. The beams shot over him and drilled into the ground around the two Saiyans, setting the grass alight. Soon, they were encircled in a ring of fire, the lightening flashing over head. Vegeta floated down slowly to the ground, head down, arms slightly raised at his sides. A crack of thunder, a flash of lightening and the rain started coming down hard. But not hard enough to put out the fires, or to cool down Vegeta's anger.
Vegeta lifted his head slowly and Goku took a sharp breath.
The Prince's eyes had turned totally red, like an Oozaru.
His fangs were at least two inches long.
His hair tumbled all the way down to his feet, streaked with white.
His tail had turned white, and was three metres long. Vegeta slapped it against the ground, and it left a deep imprint. Goku was fairly sure that his tail was as strong as Frieza's.
Goku glanced around, not taking his eyes off Vegeta for longer than two seconds. The fire was the least of his worries.
Vegeta was far more powerful than he was, and he gulped.
The Prince had transformed into a highly pissed-off super saiyan four.
AN- I hereby patent my version of super saiyan four! If anyone wants to draw it, please do! If you send it to me, I'll circulate it! And if any one has a profile on deviantart. Com, ill check it out! I can't seem to get enough yaoi pics. Does any body have any site suggestions? Pretty please? Zogeta is begging oh so nicely…
Hmm…yes. I remember now…the next chapter is sad…and I can't wait to see what the readers are going to think after the next one! Hahaha!