Chapter 22

I don't own DBZ

"Put me down!" screamed Chi-Chi.

"Why?" Kakarot had a huge smirk upon his face. "Don't you trust me?"

"Just go lower!"

"Sure thing!" He started to go down like she requested, but he went down faster than any jet on Earth good go. "This is okay, right?" Chi-Chi began screaming wildly as he took her down towards the ground. "Don't like that?" He started laughing like a little child. "How bout' I just drop you now?" He let her go and laughed even louder as she fell almost to the ground, but just before impact, he managed to catch her.

After Chi-Chi's heart started beating again, she turned to see Kakarot's face, with her face completely pale. "How dare you!" She used all her strength to slap Kakarot in the face, but in the end, her hand hurt more than his face did.

"You certainly are a fool" he said calmly and coldly, yet glaring at her as if he was going to rip her arms off.

The rest of Chi-Chi's strength left, still in shock from being scared that her head was going to cave in on impact and fainted.

Kakarot stood above her body and scratched his head. "I didn't do that, did I?" He smiled. "Who knew Earth girls were so fragile?" Kakarot picked up her body and accidentally took in a strong whiff of her scent. 'Bulma's scent doesn't really make me like this. What is it about this woman?' He decided to ignore the scent of the annoying Earth woman and continue the search for his sister.

"Vegeta" said Bulma as she entered the storage room. "I can't find that stupid Saiyan!"

"Well you better! He's got important work for to do, and the clown should do the work, not the King!"

"Well I'm smarter than Kakarot, if brains are what you're looking for, but I'm really concerned. If he's not on the ship, then where else could he be?"

"If he doesn't want to be found, then it's not that big of a deal. It's not like someone is going to hunt him down and kill him."

"Maybe you're right." Bulma sighed. "But I've got a really bad feeling about all of this. Chi-Chi is missing too and Colly-"

"Colly?" Vegeta questioned.

"Kakarot's sister doesn't seem too happy about anything. I think she's scared that something might have happened and you know that she has visions like Kakarot. Maybe she saw something bad happen to him."

Vegeta dropped a box that he had in his hand crossed his arms. "Well, Kakarot might just be alone with Chi-Chi engaging in sexual intercourse."

Bulma was surprised at how calm Vegeta was while making his accusations. "Why would you say something like that? Chi-Chi can't be trusted! Why would he be doing anything of the sort with her?"

"For three reasons: One, because he's and idiot, two, because he's a man, and three, because when a Saiyan is attracted or what you humans call 'horny' our scents slightly change and yes, he his has many times around that woman. I don't even think he realized that himself, but he's wanted her for a long time. Maybe the fact that she's determined-in a stupid kind of way-turns him on. Maybe it's the fact that she's trying to kill him and the chase of the hunt excites him. Or maybe their scents are just compatible."

"But Chi-Chi wouldn't dream of being with Kakarot in that kind of way! There's no way she'd go alone but to kill him!"

"Relax woman. There are ways for any man-no matter how much the woman may hate him-to get her."

"Oh yeah" she became angry at him for a moment. "Is there some kind of a special 'look' or something?" She crossed her arms, extremely angry that Vegeta wasn't more concerned about Kakarot and she was also offended that Vegeta would say such things about men and women. "You're so inconsiderate and stupid Vegeta! I think Kakarot's in trouble and all you can say is that Chi-Chi's fallen for him because men have some kind of power over women? Yeah right!"

Vegeta rolled his eyes as he thought 'Screw Kakarot right now. I'll show her. I'll have her in my bed in ten…make that five minutes.'

"Why are you smirking?" she asked angrily.
As Kakarot was walking around in the forest with Chi-Chi in his arms, he thought about searching her mind to see if she was truly telling the truth. He didn't really believe her and wasn't quite sure to why he let himself be led out in the middle of nowhere with her. "Women will be the death of me" he said out loud."

"They sure will!"

Kakarot dodged out the way of a ki blast and grunted. "Who are you?" Before the pink man could answer, he began to shake with shock and then anger. "Never mind! I know who you are! You're that Dadoria! You're one of Frieza's men!"

Dadoria began laughing gently. "And you look familiar." Dadoria examined him and realized that he looked like a solider that he fought with a long time ago on Planet Vegeta. Kakarot even had the same bandana around his head, but he had no scars on his face.

"I wasn't aware that there were any other Saiyans alive besides Prince Vegeta."

"Show him some respect! He's King Vegeta now, and we will avenge our people!"

Dadoria only began laughing as some more of Frieza's men began to run from behind him. "You're going to avenge your people? You can't even defeat me. You won't stand a chance against Lord Frieza."

"I don't care what you say, Dadoria. I won't be defeated by the likes of you!" Kakarot glanced down at Chi-Chi's face. She was still unconscious, but she looked unease about something, even in her sleep. 'Was this a setup? Is this because of her somehow?'

"How did you find us?" Kakarot asked.

"One of Frieza's physics was able to break through the barrier that you put up. You obviously are too weak!"

Kakarot extended his hand towards Dadoria and blasted him with a lot of energy that he hand and began running for his life. 'I don't usually run from any battle, but I'm at a huge disadvantage with this woman in my arms.'

He started to run away and after a while he looked back to see if they were still there, but the smoke didn't clear yet. While he wasn't looking, he felt his leg snag on something and he fell to the ground, and Chi-Chi surprisingly didn't wake up, but she moaned as if she was about to. Kakarot landed in some plant and began coughing harshly as the dust entered his mouth. 'What is this stuff?' Kakarot ignored it and started running again.

Kakarot ran through the forest, even though he knew flying would be faster. He couldn't take the chance of being picked up by scouters. Kakarot ran through the forest until he found a river and followed it until there were no more trees in sight, and the only thing he could see was a large waterfall and the rocks below. "I could lose them."

"Chi-Chi?" He began to shake her roughly, hoping that she would wake up, and she did. "We're being chased."

She looked more nervous than surprised. "Chased?"

Kakarot could sense her fear, but it was towards Kakarot, not at the fact that they were being chased. He growled at her menacingly. "Come!"

"Come where?"

She was about to get out of his hold, but when she realized what he was about to do, she held on to him tightly. "Oh no!"

"If I die, then you're going down with me woman. I just want you to know that now." Chi-Chi began to shake with fear. She knew that he knew and was frightened because of it. Without warning, Kakarot jumped into the river and they both went down the waterfall. Chi-Chi was screaming loudly until he covered her mouth. "Silence!" When they landed in the river below, Kakarot rushed to the surface and realized that there was an opening in the stone wall behind the water fall. Chi-Chi was choking because she swallowed too much water. Kakarot didn't care though. All he could think about was breaking her neck. He carried her out of the water and on to the rocks. "You see that Chi-Chi? Climb in there." The opening was small and narrow, but Chi-Chi was able to squeeze through. When Kakarot realized that he was too big, he punched the wall until it was big enough and got through and entered a cave.

Chi-Chi sat on the cave floor, still cough up water, while Kakarot hovered above her, waiting for her to stop. When she did, she was red from all of the coughing. "Why didn't you pat me on the back?"

Kakarot grunted as he kneeled down beside her. "Do you think I'm that stupid? I've been foolish for letting you live so many times, but I'm not so stupid to the point where I couldn't figure out that this was a setup."

Chi-Chi had never been so afraid. She always knew that he could kill her, but now she was really terrified.

"Nothing to say? Ready for me to kill you now?" He had a smile on his face, but it withered away. "I've spared you time after time, but now you've crossed the line. I would blast you into tiny pieces, but they would pick it up. I'm just going to have to strangle you now." Chi-Chi screamed as he reached his arms toward her, and she was even more scared when he stopped and started laughing. "Oh, so you're scared now? You thought you'd get away with it? That's very very amusing."

Tears began to fall from her eyes and down her cheeks. "You think-"

Kakarot covered her mouth. 'Shut up' he said telepathically. 'They're coming. I don't know why you made a deal with the devil, but now I'm going to send you to Hell.' Chi-Chi wanted to scream, but if she did, she was most definitely dead. She stayed quiet and didn't even motion for him to remove his hand. She only continued crying. 'You're a coward' he said telepathically. 'Make any noise and I promise you that you'll die now. I guess it doesn't matter though since you're already dead.'

Kakarot waited impatiently for Dadoria and his men to leave and when they did, he said "You know betrayers get the worst spot in Hell, or at least they should."

Chi-Chi was still shaking, but she managed to find enough courage to speak. "If Frieza swore that he changed and you had the chance to kill him, wouldn't you still do it?"

"Don't start with me!" he snapped. "Frieza would never change and whoever would let him go would be a fool to do so! He killed my people. He killed my father!"

"And you killed mine, Kakarot! You destroyed him. First you fought him and enjoyed beating him. When you were covered in his blood, you didn't care! You enjoyed it! You're sick! You're so disgusting that I don't even want to look at you." She turned her head so she couldn't see him. "I can't forgive you, just like you can't forgive Frieza!"

"I did change you stupid woman! I even began protecting your worthless race!"

"You still find pleasure in killing people, and you know it's true. You're sick!" She faced him again, and stood to her feet. "Do you know what the worst part about you is, Kakarot?" She wiped the tears away from her face. "You promised that you'd let him go! You pretended to help me, and when you were about to leave, you crushed him! You crushed him with your big monkey foot!"

Kakarot was shocked as he suddenly remembered her and that night from so many years ago. "I remember you now, Chi-Chi. Fire Mountain is where you lived." He placed his hand on top of his head, still taken back by the sudden rush of memories. "I remember it all. You're the reason why I wanted to change. I thought I killed you."

"Well I'm here!"

He shook his head. "You're so stupid." He said it quietly, but then began to get louder with rage. "You're so stupid! We're in here, probably about to be killed, you've endangered my King and my friend and the person is supposed to be my sister, because of an accident?"

Chi-Chi stopped crying and her eyes bucked, but then she shook with rage herself. "It wasn't an accident. You killed my father!"

"I looked at the moon and when a Saiyan does that, they transform. Only a few can control themselves when they transform and I couldn't when I was little. Vegeta could, my father could, but not me." He calmed down. "It was an accident."

Chi-Chi shook her head and leaned against the cave wall. "No." She sat on the cold floor and began crying. "No! Don't take my hatred away! It's all I have in this stupid world. Don't take it away!"

Kakarot felt weak for a moment and took a seat on the cave floor. "All of your pain and hatred towards us Saiyans for nothing. What a waste of a life!" He looked at her sobbing and wondered if he should still go through with killing her. If Vegeta found out what she did, he would kill Chi-Chi for no matter what reason.

"Just destroy me, Kakarot." Chi-Chi wiped her tears away and looked at him miserably. "Please just do it. I've lived this lie long enough."

Kakarot turned his head from her. "Keep sobbing. I would rather let you live if it would pain you."

"But-" She saw his eyes. They weren't as angry as before. They were disappointed. She didn't know if the disappointment was because of her, or because the fact that he wouldn't kill her. "I'm sorry Kakarot."

He looked at her surprised. "When you asked me if Frieza swore that he changed and if I had the chance to kill him, wouldn't you still do it, I actually thought we were kind of alike." He shrugged his shoulders. "I was still going to kill you, but I thought we were a lot alike." He smiled. "Now I realize that I was being foolish. We're still two different people, just put into a similar situation. King Vegeta and Bulma, they're the same. They're perfect for each other. Me and you, we're not the same at all." He almost began to laugh. "If I some how found out that Frieza killed my father on an accident, I sure wouldn't be apologizing to anyone, and I'd still kill him."

Chi-Chi sniffed and then said "You have a right to be angry. Frieza killed everyone you loved. You have a reason to be angry, and I have a reason to be angry at you. The truth about everything is that Frieza didn't change." She almost began to laugh. "And to think that all of those times when I thought that you were just sparing me because I believed that you were just trying to get into my pants."

Kakarot dropped his smile and blushed. "It wasn't exactly about that, but I can't deny that."

Chi-Chi looked a little disgusted. "And now?"

"It's not for that reason. I think living in your despair would be worse than death. What are you without your mission to kill me? I just took everything away from you." He smirked while slightly cocking an eyebrow at her, focusing his eyes on only her. "But that doesn't mean that I'm not going to try to get into your pants."

Chi-Chi was disgusted, but for the first time in her life, she was attracted to someone. "Do you think they'll find us?"

"No" he said while standing "I'm going to find them instead. Stay here." He said while exiting the cave, but he then began coughing harshly.

"Kakarot?" Chi-Chi said worriedly. "What's wrong?"

Kakarot couldn't answer. He continued coughing, until he felt blood coming out of his mouth. 'What in Hell is wrong with me?' Kakarot lost his strength and fell into the river.

Chi-Chi noticed it and went after him, which she couldn't believe that she did. He didn't drift away too far, so he was easy for her to go after. She swam to him and then swam to land with him and pulled him up. "Kakarot?"

"Hello girl." Dadoria landed right behind Chi-Chi and Kakarot. "What a pleasant surprise." Dadoria took Chi-Chi by the neck and threw her until she was out of his sight completely. "Now it's your turn Saiyan." Kakarot began coughing up water, but then started throwing up on the grass. Dadoria looked at him disgusted. "What's the matter with you Saiyan? Feelings sick?" He began kicking him in his ribs, over and over again until Kakarot lost consciousness. "Goodbye Saiyan!"

"Wait!" said the woman who wore a cloak on, only her beautiful face wasn't covered by a hood. "Let's leave. There is no need to kill him."

Dadoria growled. "But why? The Saiyan is almost dead anyway, and Vegeta is somewhere on this planet. Why do you wish to go?"

She smiled devilishly. "This will be much more fun than his demise. Just trust me Dadoria."

Dadoria kicked him in the face on last time, and the two of them rejoined with their troops and left.

Chi-Chi opened her eyes and saw Kakarot's bloody face. "Where are we?"

"We're back home." He stopped carrying her and put her down.

She was relived when she saw the spaceship in front of her. "Hey, you're not going to tell anyone what I did, are you?"

"No, I'm not. I never really trusted you Chi-Chi, but now I actually think I can. I won't say anything."

She looked at him worried. "Have Bulma check you out, okay?"

"For what?"

Bulma came out of the ship looking angry. "Where were you?"

Kakarot frowned. "Dadoria was on this planet, and now he's gone. I don't know what he's up to, but it worries me." He smiled. "You guys didn't realize I was gone, huh?"

"We realized."

"That's funny. You smell a lot like Vegeta. You must have spent a lot of time in his bed with him."

Bulma blushed. 'Darn Saiyans. It's bad enough he can read minds, but it's worse that he doesn't even need to.' "Come inside. I made something to eat."

Kakarot looked sicker than earlier. "My day just got worse."

"I can cook" Chi-Chi stated quietly. "I'll cook for you, if you want." She smiled. "It's the least I could do after all of this."

"Good. I'm not sure how your good will taste, but if it's worse than Bulma, then I'll really have to kill you."

Chi-Chi realized that he was trying to get her to laugh, but she just couldn't shake the feeling that something was seriously wrong with his body. "You'll get some medical attention, right?"

"If something is wrong with me, then I'll figure it out. I'll test myself. I don't need Bulma and Vegeta worrying over nothing Chi-Chi. Please don't bother me with issues of my health. You were trying to get me killed not to long ago Chi-Chi. I don't expect you to be too caring now."

She sighed. "If you can help yourself Kakarot, then please do."

A week later, Kakarot had examined himself and he seemed to be fine. He couldn't find anything wrong with himself, so he assumed that his immune system wiped it out before it was anything too serious. Kakarot still found in strange that Dadoria left without even trying to kill Vegeta, so he decided to ask Vegeta what his opinion was.

When he was about to walk into the navigation room, Kakarot knew something wasn't right but he entered any way. "King Vegeta?" Vegeta just had shut of a monitor and had created fists, but appeared calm. "What's wrong?"

Vegeta hesitated. "There's a ship close to ours. Bring the passengers aboard."

Kakarot decided not to ask anymore questions, and read what he was thinking. 'His son has been killed.'

To be continued…..

A/N: Well some of you sick people who wanted the demise of Vegeta's children can be slightly happy. Now Chi-Chi's finally going to back off and no one has to eat Bulma's cooking now. But is Kakarot well? Why did Zarbon retreat? Find out next time. Review! Review!