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Chapter Two.
Vegeta woke to the sound of someone walking near him, and he opened his eyes with a start, leaping up into a defensive stance immediately. Goku looked at him warily, and Vegeta sighed and relaxed, sitting down again as Goku came over and crept up beside him.
"Vegeta?" Goku asked, not sure if he was up to talking.
"Yes?"
"How-how long was I unconscious for?" Goku looked up at him. "I think it must have been a couple of days…from what I saw, but…" He trailed off, but Vegeta picked it up.
"Close. It was at least a week, because when the final explosion happened I was blown a long way away. I couldn't fly back, so I had to walk, and I spent at least a week walking before I could use my ki again." He said. Goku's face fell, but he held in a sob.
"I wonder if there's anyone left. I can't feel a single ki on the planet." He mused, then looked back to Vegeta. "Why did you bring us here?"
"I honestly don't know Kakarrot. Something told me to go in this direction, and I had to stop here because I simply couldn't go any further."
"Do you know what this place is?"
"No."
"This is where I grew up. Me and my Grandpa Gohan." Goku looked around wistfully, and a tear escaped from his eye. "You've been out for two days, so that makes it about two weeks since Omega Shenron was destroyed, right?" Goku looked up to Vegeta, and Vegeta nodded in polite surprise.
"I didn't know you could add Kakarrot." He said, and Goku smiled.
"Only a bit. Chichi was trying to teach me to read, write, and do math when all of this happened." Goku's face fell suddenly at the mention of Chichi, and his eyes welled up, but Vegeta placed an arm around him and drew him close.
"Don't cry Kakarrot. It won't do us any good to keep going back on the memories." He sighed, then stood and went outside. He had to rest as soon as he got outside though, because since he had been without food for about three days he doubled over. His last meal had been a partly decayed bull, that was all that he had been able to find. After a few moments he heard Goku moving about inside, and he forced himself to stand and walk back in again. His eyes widened in surprise when he saw that Goku had almost finished preparing a massive meal of forest produce, including nuts, berries, wild plants, and a soup of roots and berries. Goku's tail waved behind him, detecting the movement of the air as Vegeta entered, and he looked at a surprised Vegeta for the second time that day. "You can cook too?"
"Hmm." Goku shrugged, placing a wooden bowl on the table. "It's only simple. When Chichi tried to teach me to cook she made it so complicated, and I kept getting confused and burning things. But I can make simple meals, like this. This didn't take too long to put together." He explained as a means of small talk while he and Vegeta finished off setting out the meal. "Thanks."
They ate in silence, then they both helped out washing up, and both of them promptly fell asleep soon after bringing the things back inside, curled up on the bed together for heat.