Oinkie the Pig
Chapter 5
Who's Gonna Take Care of Oinkie?
"How much trouble are we in?" Trunks inquired, handing his mother her credit card and cell phone. Bulma sighed in frustration and scanned through her head of the possible days or even weeks her son would be grounded for.
"One week… and with that, you cannot do the following things…
Go over to Goten's house.
Go on the computer.
Play video games.
Go out anywhere without me, ChiChi or your father unless it's school.
Stay up any later than nine.
Or play with Oinkie."
Trunks dropped his mouth in shock and his blue eyes started to water, "But mom! What can I do!"
Bulma was about to open her mouth, when Vegeta cut her off, "Train and work." he smirked and went into the kitchen to grab a snack before Trunks had anything else to say.
The little half blood Saiyan growled and crossed his arms. "But then who's going to take care of Oinkie?"
"I can, Trunks!" Goten exclaimed, grinning wide and happily.
"Oh no you're not, mister. You're grounded as well!" said an impatient ChiChi, who wanted to get back home and cook dinner for her family.
Goten hung his head in guilt and mouthed a 'sorry' to his best friend. The room grew silent when ChiChi got up, excusing herself to go home. "Come on, Goten. Time to go." she went to the front door and said goodbye to her loyalist friends, and went home.
"Who's going to take care of Oinkie, Mom?" Trunks asked, sitting himself on the sofa next to a bowl of M&Ms. He picked at a few of the yellow ones and shoved them into his mouth.
"Try finding a pet sitter, but I doubt you'll find anyone who can take care of pigs. There's not that many people in the city who even know what a pig is."
"Fine… but I don't see why I can't take care of my own pet. I mean, usually Moms would want their kids to take care of their responsibilities, but I guess you don't want me to be responsible and independent." with a shrug and a little 'humph', Trunks slid into the kitchen without picking his small feet up.
Bulma, on the other hand let out a sigh and went to put her things Trunks 'borrowed' in a safe spot where he couldn't find them again.
As Trunks took out the phone book and searched under 'Pets', he then remembered he had a pig show to train for in 10 days!
"Oh no! I'll only have…" he counted with his fingers subtracting 7 from 10, "three days to train Oinkie!" he slapped himself on the forehead and continued searching for a reasonable sitter.
"Nope, too expensive… nope, too young… too psycho… to… hey! That's not a person!" he angrily growled and zipped through the pages, until he found one girl who sitted for free, and had lots of experience.
"Perfect!" he picked up the phone and started to dial the number to the girl. It rang a few times before a hoarse voice answered.
"Hello?"
"Hey! Is this Sherry Hughes?"
"Yes it is, may I help you?"
"Yea, I was wondering if you still to pet sitting… because I need someone to watch my pet for a week."
"Sure! What kind of animal is it? Because I have had many, many experiences with dogs, cats, birds, rabbits and other furry critters."
"Um, well my pet isn't one you'd just find out of the ordinary blue, hehe."
"I'm sure I can still handle it."
"She's a pig."
Instantly, the phone clicked and the line beeped. "Um, hello? Hello? You still there? Hello!"
With a frown and a thought of discouragement, Trunks hung up the phone back onto the receiver and hopped off the stool he was sitting on. He went to find his mom to tell her he couldn't find anyone who could watch Oinkie.
"See, I told you no one would be able to sit a pig! Unless…" the mischievous Bulma thought for a moment, before thinking of the perfect person. "Aha! I've got just the right person to watch your pig!"
"You like animals, right Gohan?" Bulma had to drag Goku's oldest son out of his studies to simply just talk to him without the lazy Saiyan getting too confused from switching subjects. He'd been studying so hard, he could hardly think about anything else but math.
"Animals? Oh, yea, sure I like animals. Why?"
"Well, we've got a little animal back at our house, which Trunks is suppose to take care of, but unfortunately he's grounded for a week. So, I was wondering if you'd be kind enough to watch over her?"
Gohan thought for a moment, clearing his mind of school, "I'd be happy to, Bulma. Besides, it would let me take a break from studying for a while, so yea!"
"Oh, great! Here, can you come over right now so Trunks can explain what you need to do?"
"Yea, I don't think I have anything to do." Goku's oldest son followed Bulma into one of her many cars and hopped in.
When the two arrived back at Capsule Corp., Gohan noticed something different in the backyard and widened his eyes when he saw a pig running around a pen.
"A… pig? Since when do people have pigs as pets!"
"Since when do people have dragons as pets?" Bulma smiled and called for Trunks who was currently folding the cloths in his room. He scurried outside and waved to Gohan with a wide grin.
"Hey Gohan! Are you going to watch Oinkie?"
"I guess so… but I still don't get why you couldn't get a dog than a pig." Gohan answered, with an unsure look on his sweet face.
"What can I say… I'm unique." Trunks grinned again, showing him around Oinkie's pen and giving him instructions on when and how to feed her. He also showed him the correct way to give her baths, and how to brush her teeth.
"You know, I think you take care of this pig more than my dad takes care of himself!" Gohan laughed and patted Oinkie on the head, "I don't think this will be impossibly hard."
"Really? Then you can start right now! Go ahead and give her late afternoon scoop of feed and then you can brush her teeth. I'll be going off to finish my work for being grounded!" Trunks glided off into the midst, leaving a utterly confused but yet excited Gohan behind.
"Ok, Oinkie, now you're going to be good, right?" he looked over at the pink animal who was chewing on the fence and looking up at the new stranger at the same time.
Gohan went over to the feed bin and grabbed a scoop of pellets, just like Trunks had told him to do. He poured it into the pig's bucket and watched her feast over it just like how he ate.
"Wow, you're a hungry little thing, aren't you? Just like my dad and little brother." he scratched his head and sat on the fence near by waiting for Oinkie to be done so he could brush her tiny teeth. He yawned in the process of sitting, and looked around. The grass was so green, it almost made him throw up from the freshness.
When Oinkie finished her meal, Gohan shuffled over to the pig's specially made toothbrush and special pig toothpaste, made by the one and only Bulma Briefs.
"What will she think of next?" he asked himself, while trying to catch the pig. Which ever way he went to chase her, she just darted the other way, snorting like laughter for a response.
"Hey! Come on, you have to have fresh breath! You know what germs you'll get by not brushing your teeth? They can even rot from the plaque that gets built up in them!"
Gohan almost had Oinkie, when she suddenly stopped, causing the tired and breathless teen to trip over her, tumbling into one of the fence posts.
"Ow! Ow… ow… dang, why do I always get hurt by the most impossible situations!" he sat up, and glared at Oinkie who was laughing and squealing at the same time. "Oh, pig."
Gohan stood up, when he realized his hands were covered in something squishy and brown. He looked down at what he felt, and then turned green, "Oh Kami!" he cried, running over to fresh grass to wipe his hands on. "The last thing I need to have fresh pig dung all over myself!"
From behind, Oinkie was eating all of the toothpaste out of the tube, with some covering her little pink nose. She squealed, letting the stranger know that she was waiting for her teeth to be sparkly and clean.
"Oh, so now you want to be clean." Gohan sighed and went to put what ever was left of the toothpaste on the brush. He pulled her top lip up and started to scrub over the front teeth. The bottom teeth were harder since they were more in the back, but his finishing progress showed great work. "Ok, now go do your own thing… I have to ask Trunks something…"
Gohan quietly opened the back screen and stepped inside. He looked around at how much the place has changed since his last visit. "Hey Trunks!" he called, waiting to hear the sound of footsteps racing down the stairs, but instead he heard nothing. "Trunks, I've got a question!" Still nothing. He started to look around, wandering upstairs to look in his room. He then found the little 8 year old year old sleeping on the floor with one of his hot wheels in his hand.
Gohan smiled slightly and placed Trunks onto his bed, pulling the covers up to his head. He left the room closing the door behind him, and then strolled off back to Oinkie's pen. It was getting pretty late, so he decided to pick up after the pig's mess, and check for any last things Trunks would want him to do.
So the sun started to set, and Gohan said goodbye to Bulma and Trunks who just woke up from his nap, and then shot off back to his house.
"Mom, please?" Trunks asked, grabbing a pear off the counter.
"Please what?"
"Can I please have one day taken away from being grounded? PLEASE! Oinkie needs intensive care, and a lot of attention. Gohan is already busy himself with school!"
"Trunks, you know I never let anyone ever get more or less than what I said of their punishment once it's decided… but… since it does keep you away from those horrid video games, I'll let you take care of Oinkie, but you're still grounded for a week!"
Trunks grinned, "Understood!" he ran off outside to hug his pig, and tell her he wasn't grounded anymore so they could start training. And for once, it would start tomorrow, no matter what distractions got in his way, or if anything popped up.
Ok, so that was a pretty un exciting chapter, BUT it was the best I could do with homework in the way! Please R&R! I Didn't get ANY reviews from the last chapter, so if you can, review that one too! Don't worry, this fic WILL be even more exciting than it is right now… so anyways, R&R!
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