Z Basket
By Pikachu Hunter

Chapter Four: Itching Powder

"I don't beleive this...it's one of the last things I'd have expected..." Chi-Chi said. "My dad's a...my dad's a..." Gohan couldn't say it.

"Kakkarot is a little monkey. And I ended up a cat. Who is the buffoon who designated these things?!" Vegeta complained, staring at Goku's form. He looked like an exact duplicate of Bubbles. The room cleared in an instant, nobody having any interest any more. The few left were Goku, Vegeta, Trunks, Gohan, Goten, Bulma, and Chi-Chi.
"Ooh, oowah!" Goku chattered.
"I always knew you were just a little monkey, Kakkarot." Vegeta crossed his arms and went into the kitchen, unimpressed. "Oowah?" Goku scratched his head. Then he shrugged and scampered over to the couch. He began to go out of control, using his short fingernails to shred the cushions to pieces. Vegeta came out of the kitchen with a glass of hot water. "Kakkarot, stop destroying my house!" He dumped the glass over the monkey's head.
"HOT! TOO HOT!" Goku screamed. There had been steam coming off of the water before Vegeta dumped it on Goku. This Vegeta had made sure of, because he knew he could get an amusing five minutes of a Saiyan in his thirties running about whining like a small child, there being nobody to help him. Water was usually the cure for things, not the reason to scream.
Vegeta laughed to himself quietly while Chi-Chi tried to calm him down. "It should kick in...now!" Vegeta snapped. Goku's eyes popped open, and he scratched his back, then his head, and his elbow. Goku went crazy scratching all of the sudden itches he
got.
"Goku, are you okay?" Chi-Chi asked.
"Maybe Kakkarot is still a monkey, screaming and scratching himself like that." Vegeta burst out laughing, and walked up the stairs. Bulma walked into the kitchen to fix some lemonade for those still in the house. "What's this? A new kind of juice powder? Oh well, into the jug it goes!" Bulma dumped the contents of the can left open on the counter into the pitcher of lemon crystals and water. "Why can't I read the label? It's in some foreign--VEGETA!" Bulma saw the scribbles on the label of the can.
"Y-yes?" Vegeta crept cautiously down the stairs and entered the room. "What's this label say?" Bulma asked. She began to stir the juice, and some of the powder came up in a cloud of dust. "Hey, can you scratch my back?" She felt an itch.
"Uh...sure."
"Thanks. Now what's this can say? I put some in the lemonade. Wanna try it?" Bulma held out a cup of the fresh juice, and Vegeta, still unaware of which can with Saiyan writing she had, took the glass and gulped down the beverage in seconds.
"My throat is sorta itchy, y'know?" He said.
"Gah, I'm itching all over, it got that stuff all over me!" Bulma said.
"What stu--ITCHING POWDER?!" Vegeta screamed, looking at the label of the can in question. Bulma laughed. "Itching powder?"
"YOU PUT ITCHING POWDER INTO THE LEMONADE, WOMAN!" Vegeta held his throat and ran out of the kitchen, back into the main room. "I'VE BEEN POISONED!" He shouted.
"And I'm really itchy!" Goku cried, trying to scratch a place on his back he couldn't reach. Chi-Chi bent over and scratched it for him. "Ah..." Goku sighed.
"Poisoned? How, Dad?" Trunks asked.
"ITCHING POWDER!" Vegeta screeched. Chi-Chi frowned, and put her hands on her hips. She wagged a finger at Vegeta in a scolding position. "That's why Goku's so itchy! SHAME ON YOU!" She shouted.
"GAH, I'M MELTING!" Vegeta sank to the floor, still holding his burning throat.
"You're going to be punished for doing that to Goku, Vegeta!" Bulma said, catching on and coming into the room. "P-punished?" Vegeta tried to speak over his moans of agony.
"You bet!" Bulma said.
"Ha, like you're strong enough to punish ME! Even my father couldn't do it!" Vegeta laughed, getting over the itching powder in his system. Bulma thought up a scheme Vegeta would not detect, and along with it, a form of punishment. "You're right. You always are." She said. That ought to make his head swell.
"I know I am," Vegeta said, sitting on the couch. Bulma sat beside him, and smirked. "Sucker." She said.
"Huh?"
"HA!" Bulma hugged him, and poof! There was the little blue kitten.
"Mrow..." Vegeta ran in circles, and growled at Bulma.
"Now let's go give you a bath." Bulma said. Vegeta meowed in joy, and Bulma knew why. She took him up by the skin behind his neck, and laughed. "I'm not that stupid, Vegeta. You're taking a COLD bath, so I can make sure you're squeaky clean for tomorrow.
"Mew?" Vegeta asked.
"Yes, there is no getting out of this!" Bulma cackled and walked up the stairs with the helpless cat in her arms. Goku, Chi-Chi, Trunks, Goten, and Gohan listened to two minutes of pouring water, a splash, an angry cat's meow, and Bulma yelling 'stop scratching' at the top of her lungs. The Bulma came back downstairs with a soaked kitten wrapped in a towel tucked under her arm, the first aid kit under the other. She tossed the wet cat on the couch, then began to wrap her scratched up arms in bandages.
"Kitty cat!" Goten grabbed Vegeta around the waist and hugged him.
"MROW!" Vegeta squirmed, unsucessful in escaping the grasp of the seven-year-old.
"Aw, such a nice little kitt--AAAAAH, OWOWOWOWOWOW, MOM, THE CAT SCRATCHED MEEEEEEEE!" Goten yelled after pulling Vegeta's tail.
"That wasn't nice, Vegeta!" Goku said, pouring a cup of warm water over Vegeta's head.
"He deserved it, he pulled my tail. I finally have a tail, and what happens but your whelp comes over and PULLS IT! I'll be weak and trying to recover for at least a week, he just drained
me of all my energy!" Vegeta panted, resting his head on the floor.
"Goten, what did I tell you about pulling tails?" Goku said sternly.
"Never pull a Saiyan's tail...?" Goten said, looking at the floor.
"And what did you do wrong?" Goku said. It was hard for him to keep a straight face, he wanted to laugh at the pained Vegeta so much.
"I pulled Uncle Veggie's tail...?" Goten answered. Vegeta pounded his fist into the ground. He would have stood up, but he was too tired to. "I AM NOT YOUR UNCLE, AND MY NAME IS NOT VEGGIE! WHO TAUGHT HIM THAT?! KAKKAROT?!" Vegeta shouted, his face
almost purple. Goku covered his mouth, and laughed.
"Yay, Uncle Veggie!" Goten glomped his fake relative.
"GET OFF OF ME!" Vegeta yelled.
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What will happen next? Will Vegeta ever get over being a cat? And what about Goku? Did he really tell Goten that Vegeta was his unlce? And where did Vegeta get itching powder, and why is the label written in Saiyan? This, you most likely won't find out, but check out the next chapter of Z Basket for more laughing matters!