Chapter 19: The Talk
Well, Vegeta is living at Capsule Corporation now, and I just turned 18, the year at home should be 2007. For my birthday I got some assorted capsules from Bulma, a new fighting Gi made like Goku's except it was a light blue color from Chi-chi, and a sword from Goku and Gohan. It looked like a traditional Japanese sword, unlike the one Trunks has. The handle was gold and light blue, like the colorings of a SSJ, and my name was engraved on one side, and the other side had the Japanese symbols for fighting and peace. Each on a different side with ivy twined around them. Goku got it made for me special from the Ox-King. Now there was only one thing left for me to do. A week after my birthday I visited Vegeta.
So, dressed in casual clothes, which were blue jean shorts, a capsule Corp. tank top, tennis shoes, and a belt, I got to Capsule Corp. and Bulma showed me to the Gravity Room. That's where Vegeta was training. I said I'd be fine by myself with him and she left. These two hadn't got together as of yet.
I opened the door and saw Vegeta training with a robotic punching bag, one that moved around and dodged attacks. Vegeta saw me and growled.
"What do you want?" he snapped.
"I need to talk to you, and it's important."
"Well, if you want to talk, come on in." the gravity was at 300x, and Vegeta was straining with it was he trained.
"Fine, I will." I walked in and at first I fell to my hands and knees, barely staying up as it was. He snorted at me, so I raised my Ki and got up. He looked to me, but I showed no weakness as I stood there tall. He frowned and walked over to turn off the machine.
"Well, what's so damned important?"
"Vegeta, I just had my birthday. My 18th birthday." his eyes grew wide.
"I see. You thought you would try to ask me about Sayjin anatomy?"
"Yes. You are the only true Sayjin left who would know about… this."
"Come, I don't want that woman to hear. And if you EVER tell anyone that we had this talk I swear I'll kill you." I followed as he led me to a tree at the edge of the yard far from the house so we could see if anyone was coming.
"What do you want to know?"
"Well, everything, I guess." I said, blushing.
"I see. At age eighteen a Sayjin begins puberty. From what I've learned, it isn't really all that different from human puberty, but there are some differences."
"You've done your homework?"
"Know your enemy like you know yourself."
"Oh." He still considered us the enemy.
"The females go into their mating cycles once a year. That's, uh, well, its like an animal going into heat." He finished fast, clearly embarrassed. If I were anyone else I would have been rejected right away. "But they can reproduce more often than that… if they want. Sayjin females aren't known for their maternal sides. They will protect their young at any cost, but they don't go out of their way to have children like earthlings do. But it's the same with human females as Sayjins, except your senses will be heightened and there isn't any…bleeding. Is that all?"
"One more thing and I'll leave you alone. How do Sayjins… mate?" this question embarrassed me, and I knew Vegeta would be embarrassed trying to explain it. He sighed and began again.
"Sayjins mate for life, never taking another mate even after the other dies. We bite our mate on the neck, right here-" he showed a spot that was between the shoulder and collar bone, at the base of the neck. "-On the left side. The bite draws blood and bonds the two together. We call that Bonding. And you can tell who has mated with someone because you can smell his or her scent on the other. You and your mate become as one. And from what I've learned here, that is the only difference between Sayjin and human mating. I suggest you ask the woman if you want to know anymore."
"Right. Uh, thanks, Vegeta."
"Don't tell anyone I told you any of this." he said very sternly. I nodded and we separated.
So Sayjins are more animalistic than I thought. Hmm… no wonder we still have tails.
And now that I knew exactly what was going on, I left to train. It wasn't until later that I realized I had accepted that I wasn't human anymore after pondering that thought.
