Disclaimer: Don't own it, never will.
A/N: Hey guys! Long time no write! Well, I've been in several huge projects lately, making a web-site, trying to get over my writer's block for Onnafied, doing homework, and oh yeah! rewriting the first 34 chapters of Incidences of Madness!
I started this story when I was just in 9th grade so it needed a serious update. I'm still in the process of working out all the kinks and all that, changing around a little bit of the dialogue and the plot and elaborating more, but it'll turn out exactly the same so there's no change to the major plotline! But if you guys have a favorite part that you would just die if it got even touched, please tell me so I can avoid the area altogether.
And please come visit my website! It's at http:// www. geocities. com/ yamino_86 /Corner /corner. html. It's just where I put all my fanart and stuff, but I have a manga version of Split Ends on it! and some original art. If you're interested, please take a look and sign my guestbook!
Anyway, enough of that! On with the next chapter!
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"Okay, now open up."
Goku obediently opens his mouth, still lying down in bed of the almost completed tree house. Somehow Vegeta had managed to build the small one room, wooden cabin without the use of any tools; no saws, hammers, nails, nothing. Looking up at the ceiling, the ouji notes a couple leaks coming from roof. He says out loud, "I'm going to have to fix those tomorrow." He pulls out a capsule and shows it to Goku, "Look, I found another one around the pits. This one has cooking supplies, like pots and pans. It should come in handy."
Outside, a storm whips around them, thunder roaring over their little shelter as if trying to scare them away, accompanied by lightning flashing in anger. Goku watches the rain and wind by the doorway, vainly trying to thrash the walls, but it comes to no avail. The cabin is as tight as Fort Knox. "Hey, are you going to talk or what?" Vegeta's annoyed voice brings him back to attention.
Goku merely shrugs and takes another spoonful of soup. The ouji mutters with a frown, "I can't believe I'm being the more talkative one out of us two."
A memory of Dr. Tang's voice comes to Vegeta's mind. //When he wakes up he'll be a perfectly healthy kid! Assuming he isn't traumatized too badly.// However, he doesn't have a clue how Goku's state of mind is. But he isn't just going to blurt out that everyone of the Z-senshi is dead until he finds out.
"Can I have more please?" Realizing he was lost in thought, Vegeta just nods, giving Goku the bowl and spoon. Sitting up, the little saiyajin takes the bowl into his lap and starts eating by himself.
The ouji frowns, suddenly irritated by Goku's behavior, "Aren't you going to even crack a smile or something? Or say thank you? I've been taking care of you all this time, you know. Nearly six weeks now. Two at the hospital, two when you were in a coma, two when you're awake. I'll have you know that that's the longest I've ever taken care of anybody by myself."
Goku looks up and gives his guardian an apologetic smile, "Sorry. I guess my thoughts are pretty occupied. Thanks a lot for taking care of me all this time." Then he sighs, leaning back into a pillow. One that Vegeta also managed to salvage from a capsule along with a whole bunch of other bedding. He looks back out the door and asks, "Can I ask you something?"
"Depends if it's a stupid one."
At that the little saiyajin blushes and pulls the blanket over his head, "Nevermind then."
The ouji scowls, "I was just kidding." Over the two weeks, he discovered Goku had become meek and quiet. And he didn't like it one bit.
Goku peeks over the blanket and asks, "So, did you find me?"
Vegeta blinks, "What?"
"Before you brought me over to the hospital, did you find me?"
"...No, I followed Blade over to where you were fighting Kakarot."
Goku gives him a confused look, "What?"
"Don't you remember Blade coming into your fight and beating you up into a bloody pulp?"
The little saiyajin's eyes widen, "No, I don't remember anything."
Vegeta yells in exasperation, "Well then what are you being so moody for?! You don't remember it, you shouldn't be traumatized! Why are you so quiet?!"
"Um... I really don't remember anything?"
Shaking his head, the ouji mutters, "Now you are making no sense. What do you remember then?"
At this the young saiyajin strains to think, "Well, I remember waking up and seeing your blurry face. And like you said that was two weeks ago."
"I meant before you were in a coma," Vegeta says flatly.
Goku gives him a sheepish grin and shrugs, "Sorry."
The cabin turns silent. Vegeta says slowly, almost disbelievingly, "Excuse me?"
"Well, like I said. I can't remember anything before I woke up two weeks ago."
The ouji's jaw drops and he yells, "YOU HAVE AMNESIA?!?!"
The chibi gives him a nervous smile, "Well it seems that way, doesn't it?" Then he hears a loud thump and sees that the ouji is on the floor in a dead faint. "WAH!!" Goku jumps on top of him and starts shaking him, "Mister! Wake up!"
Vegeta opens an eye and twitches, seeing the young saiyajin on top of his chest. Without a word he puts a hand to Goku's forehead, intent on exploring his mind. A minute later he pulls his hand away and says flatly, "You have real amnesia. I'm not sure whether I should feel relieved or not."
Goku blinks, "Eh? Then what's fake amnesia?"
Suddenly, Vegeta jumps up from his seat and starts pacing the small cabin, "I DON'T BELIEVE IT! HOW CAN YOU POSSIBLY HAVE AMNESIA TWICE?!" He turns on Goku and demands, "WHY THE HELL DIDN'T YOU TELL ME ABOUT THIS BEFORE?!" Goku turns away from his powerful gaze, looking very abashed.
The ouji shakes his head and sits down in a chair massaging his temples muttering to himself, "Of all the stupid things to-"
"Sir?"
Vegeta turns back to Goku and snaps angrily, "What?"
The little saiyajin blushes, "Um, what's your name?"
The ouji sighs, "Vegeta, crown prince of the saiyajin race."
Goku frowns at him, "Wait a sec. You're a crown prince?!" He looks around the cabin, "What's an ouji doing in a place like this?"
"We're hiding from the man that wants to kill you. This is the only place we can hide, in this forest."
"Wait a sec, does that mean you know who I am?!" Goku says in excitement.
Vegeta's eyes widen, "Don't ask me what your name is."
The chibi gives him an indignant frown, "Why not? You haven't said my name the whole time in two weeks."
"Well that's because-! I can't say your name right! I know the right name, but I just can't say it!"
"...What in the world do you call me?"
The ouji gives a defeated sigh, "Prince Goku."
Goku stares at him, "You just put a prince in that name didn't you?"
His caretaker says quickly, "Not by choice!"
Slowly, Goku points to himself, "Wait a sec. I'm an ouji too?"
Vegeta yells, "Of course not! I just can't call you anything else! I was hypnotized into calling you Prince Goku!"
"Well how do you know you were hypnotized into calling me Prince Goku? What if I really am an ouji and you were hypnotized into thinking I wasn't one?"
The ouji opens his mouth and closes it, at a complete loss at that one.
Goku looks up at Vegeta and asks, "So are you my father?"
"WHAT?!" Vegeta nearly falls out of his chair. He jumps up and demands, "Where the hell did you get that idea?!"
"...Well if we are both royalty..."
"YOU ARE NOT AN OUJI!"
"Why not?"
Vegeta groans and massages the bridge of his nose between his eyes. He looks back at Goku and asks, "Are you absolutely convinced you're an ouji?" The young saiyajin nods. His caretaker shakes his head, suddenly amused, "You are one confused little saiyajin." He leans down close to Goku's face and gives him a menacing grin, "Fine then. I'm going to chock your head so full of royal crap that you are going to wish you never even heard of the word!"
Goku merely blinks at this, not sure what to say. But once the ouji turns, the young saiyajin says, "You never answered my question. Are you my father?"
At this, Vegeta pauses, looking back at Goku with a raised eyebrow, thinking about what to say to that. He goes through several points in his head.
[List of points]
He's not repulsed by the idea It'll be easier to control Goku He's learned from his mistakes with Trunks Goku won't know about his real family Goku's real family's dead anyway His own family's dead This is going to distort Goku's aspect of reality Nobody's left alive to care He won't have to bother with line of succession since there is no more Bejita-sei or any heirs for that matter He's already emotionally attached to Goku as it is, even though it's hard to admit And lastly... He can mold the little saiyajin into his own image!
Vegeta grins a very wicked, evil scheming grin, one that belongs to a thief who's about to steal millions from the Swiss National Bank and get away with it. He hides the grin with a cough and makes regular smirk, shrugging, "Sure, why not?"
Goku frowns at that sort of answer, but takes it as a yes anyway.
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"Oi, Prince Goku. Prince Goku?" Vegeta pokes Goku in the head as they sit around a slowly dying fire, its embers more black and gray than red. A slight snore answers him. Ticked off, Vegeta yells in the little saiyajin's ear, "WAKE UP, DAMMIT!"
Goku bursts out of sleep with a small shriek, looking around wildly, then he sees Vegeta glaring at him. He gives the furious ouji a sheepish smile, "Uh, sorry."
Vegeta smirks, "Ready to admit defeat yet?" He had as he had threatened, started his campaign to chock Goku's head full of all the rites and rituals and any other obscurities of saiyajin royalty that he could think of, hoping that Goku would give up the idea of thinking that he's an ouji, too.
The little saiyajin pouts childishly and says, "Of course not! This is my birthright and my duty! ...I just didn't get any sleep last night is'all."
Chuckling, Vegeta shakes his head, "You're starting to sound more like me everyday."
Goku gives a small sigh and asks, "Father? Shouldn't we be working on my memory though?"
The ouji just makes a 'tch' noise; "Nothing in those years is worth remembering."
"I still need to know."
Vegeta sighs, "Prince Goku, memories are either a luxury or a curse. You don't need them to live. Hell, you don't even need them to be who you are today. Your past doesn't define the present. You are the one that makes you who you are today." Wide-eyed, Goku just nods in silent awe. After that interesting bit of philosophy, the ouji clears his throat and says, "I think we were in the middle of diplomacy. Now when you're dealing with-"
"Father?"
Vegeta's eye twitches, "What NOW?"
"You're a saiyajin, right?"
"Of course I am."
Goku points to himself, "So am I half monkey?"
"...WHAT?!"
The young saiyajin waves his tail out in front of him and says, "Well, I have this monkey tail and you don't."
Annoyed, the ouji growls, "First off that is a saiyajin tail, all saiyajin have them, secondly you're a full saiyajin, and lastly DO I LOOK LIKE THE TYPE THAT WOULD- DO YOU KNOW WHAT- WITH A MONKEY?!"
Goku attempts to steers away from this particular direction. "So, um, diplomacy?"
"DON'T YOU DARE CHANGE THE SUBJECT!!"
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A/N: Uh... please don't kill me? This is actually part of the main plot though! It's not some sort of subplot that has nothing to do with the story I swear! So never fear! I am not going off on a tangent!
A/N: Hey guys! Long time no write! Well, I've been in several huge projects lately, making a web-site, trying to get over my writer's block for Onnafied, doing homework, and oh yeah! rewriting the first 34 chapters of Incidences of Madness!
I started this story when I was just in 9th grade so it needed a serious update. I'm still in the process of working out all the kinks and all that, changing around a little bit of the dialogue and the plot and elaborating more, but it'll turn out exactly the same so there's no change to the major plotline! But if you guys have a favorite part that you would just die if it got even touched, please tell me so I can avoid the area altogether.
And please come visit my website! It's at http:// www. geocities. com/ yamino_86 /Corner /corner. html. It's just where I put all my fanart and stuff, but I have a manga version of Split Ends on it! and some original art. If you're interested, please take a look and sign my guestbook!
Anyway, enough of that! On with the next chapter!
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"Okay, now open up."
Goku obediently opens his mouth, still lying down in bed of the almost completed tree house. Somehow Vegeta had managed to build the small one room, wooden cabin without the use of any tools; no saws, hammers, nails, nothing. Looking up at the ceiling, the ouji notes a couple leaks coming from roof. He says out loud, "I'm going to have to fix those tomorrow." He pulls out a capsule and shows it to Goku, "Look, I found another one around the pits. This one has cooking supplies, like pots and pans. It should come in handy."
Outside, a storm whips around them, thunder roaring over their little shelter as if trying to scare them away, accompanied by lightning flashing in anger. Goku watches the rain and wind by the doorway, vainly trying to thrash the walls, but it comes to no avail. The cabin is as tight as Fort Knox. "Hey, are you going to talk or what?" Vegeta's annoyed voice brings him back to attention.
Goku merely shrugs and takes another spoonful of soup. The ouji mutters with a frown, "I can't believe I'm being the more talkative one out of us two."
A memory of Dr. Tang's voice comes to Vegeta's mind. //When he wakes up he'll be a perfectly healthy kid! Assuming he isn't traumatized too badly.// However, he doesn't have a clue how Goku's state of mind is. But he isn't just going to blurt out that everyone of the Z-senshi is dead until he finds out.
"Can I have more please?" Realizing he was lost in thought, Vegeta just nods, giving Goku the bowl and spoon. Sitting up, the little saiyajin takes the bowl into his lap and starts eating by himself.
The ouji frowns, suddenly irritated by Goku's behavior, "Aren't you going to even crack a smile or something? Or say thank you? I've been taking care of you all this time, you know. Nearly six weeks now. Two at the hospital, two when you were in a coma, two when you're awake. I'll have you know that that's the longest I've ever taken care of anybody by myself."
Goku looks up and gives his guardian an apologetic smile, "Sorry. I guess my thoughts are pretty occupied. Thanks a lot for taking care of me all this time." Then he sighs, leaning back into a pillow. One that Vegeta also managed to salvage from a capsule along with a whole bunch of other bedding. He looks back out the door and asks, "Can I ask you something?"
"Depends if it's a stupid one."
At that the little saiyajin blushes and pulls the blanket over his head, "Nevermind then."
The ouji scowls, "I was just kidding." Over the two weeks, he discovered Goku had become meek and quiet. And he didn't like it one bit.
Goku peeks over the blanket and asks, "So, did you find me?"
Vegeta blinks, "What?"
"Before you brought me over to the hospital, did you find me?"
"...No, I followed Blade over to where you were fighting Kakarot."
Goku gives him a confused look, "What?"
"Don't you remember Blade coming into your fight and beating you up into a bloody pulp?"
The little saiyajin's eyes widen, "No, I don't remember anything."
Vegeta yells in exasperation, "Well then what are you being so moody for?! You don't remember it, you shouldn't be traumatized! Why are you so quiet?!"
"Um... I really don't remember anything?"
Shaking his head, the ouji mutters, "Now you are making no sense. What do you remember then?"
At this the young saiyajin strains to think, "Well, I remember waking up and seeing your blurry face. And like you said that was two weeks ago."
"I meant before you were in a coma," Vegeta says flatly.
Goku gives him a sheepish grin and shrugs, "Sorry."
The cabin turns silent. Vegeta says slowly, almost disbelievingly, "Excuse me?"
"Well, like I said. I can't remember anything before I woke up two weeks ago."
The ouji's jaw drops and he yells, "YOU HAVE AMNESIA?!?!"
The chibi gives him a nervous smile, "Well it seems that way, doesn't it?" Then he hears a loud thump and sees that the ouji is on the floor in a dead faint. "WAH!!" Goku jumps on top of him and starts shaking him, "Mister! Wake up!"
Vegeta opens an eye and twitches, seeing the young saiyajin on top of his chest. Without a word he puts a hand to Goku's forehead, intent on exploring his mind. A minute later he pulls his hand away and says flatly, "You have real amnesia. I'm not sure whether I should feel relieved or not."
Goku blinks, "Eh? Then what's fake amnesia?"
Suddenly, Vegeta jumps up from his seat and starts pacing the small cabin, "I DON'T BELIEVE IT! HOW CAN YOU POSSIBLY HAVE AMNESIA TWICE?!" He turns on Goku and demands, "WHY THE HELL DIDN'T YOU TELL ME ABOUT THIS BEFORE?!" Goku turns away from his powerful gaze, looking very abashed.
The ouji shakes his head and sits down in a chair massaging his temples muttering to himself, "Of all the stupid things to-"
"Sir?"
Vegeta turns back to Goku and snaps angrily, "What?"
The little saiyajin blushes, "Um, what's your name?"
The ouji sighs, "Vegeta, crown prince of the saiyajin race."
Goku frowns at him, "Wait a sec. You're a crown prince?!" He looks around the cabin, "What's an ouji doing in a place like this?"
"We're hiding from the man that wants to kill you. This is the only place we can hide, in this forest."
"Wait a sec, does that mean you know who I am?!" Goku says in excitement.
Vegeta's eyes widen, "Don't ask me what your name is."
The chibi gives him an indignant frown, "Why not? You haven't said my name the whole time in two weeks."
"Well that's because-! I can't say your name right! I know the right name, but I just can't say it!"
"...What in the world do you call me?"
The ouji gives a defeated sigh, "Prince Goku."
Goku stares at him, "You just put a prince in that name didn't you?"
His caretaker says quickly, "Not by choice!"
Slowly, Goku points to himself, "Wait a sec. I'm an ouji too?"
Vegeta yells, "Of course not! I just can't call you anything else! I was hypnotized into calling you Prince Goku!"
"Well how do you know you were hypnotized into calling me Prince Goku? What if I really am an ouji and you were hypnotized into thinking I wasn't one?"
The ouji opens his mouth and closes it, at a complete loss at that one.
Goku looks up at Vegeta and asks, "So are you my father?"
"WHAT?!" Vegeta nearly falls out of his chair. He jumps up and demands, "Where the hell did you get that idea?!"
"...Well if we are both royalty..."
"YOU ARE NOT AN OUJI!"
"Why not?"
Vegeta groans and massages the bridge of his nose between his eyes. He looks back at Goku and asks, "Are you absolutely convinced you're an ouji?" The young saiyajin nods. His caretaker shakes his head, suddenly amused, "You are one confused little saiyajin." He leans down close to Goku's face and gives him a menacing grin, "Fine then. I'm going to chock your head so full of royal crap that you are going to wish you never even heard of the word!"
Goku merely blinks at this, not sure what to say. But once the ouji turns, the young saiyajin says, "You never answered my question. Are you my father?"
At this, Vegeta pauses, looking back at Goku with a raised eyebrow, thinking about what to say to that. He goes through several points in his head.
[List of points]
He's not repulsed by the idea It'll be easier to control Goku He's learned from his mistakes with Trunks Goku won't know about his real family Goku's real family's dead anyway His own family's dead This is going to distort Goku's aspect of reality Nobody's left alive to care He won't have to bother with line of succession since there is no more Bejita-sei or any heirs for that matter He's already emotionally attached to Goku as it is, even though it's hard to admit And lastly... He can mold the little saiyajin into his own image!
Vegeta grins a very wicked, evil scheming grin, one that belongs to a thief who's about to steal millions from the Swiss National Bank and get away with it. He hides the grin with a cough and makes regular smirk, shrugging, "Sure, why not?"
Goku frowns at that sort of answer, but takes it as a yes anyway.
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"Oi, Prince Goku. Prince Goku?" Vegeta pokes Goku in the head as they sit around a slowly dying fire, its embers more black and gray than red. A slight snore answers him. Ticked off, Vegeta yells in the little saiyajin's ear, "WAKE UP, DAMMIT!"
Goku bursts out of sleep with a small shriek, looking around wildly, then he sees Vegeta glaring at him. He gives the furious ouji a sheepish smile, "Uh, sorry."
Vegeta smirks, "Ready to admit defeat yet?" He had as he had threatened, started his campaign to chock Goku's head full of all the rites and rituals and any other obscurities of saiyajin royalty that he could think of, hoping that Goku would give up the idea of thinking that he's an ouji, too.
The little saiyajin pouts childishly and says, "Of course not! This is my birthright and my duty! ...I just didn't get any sleep last night is'all."
Chuckling, Vegeta shakes his head, "You're starting to sound more like me everyday."
Goku gives a small sigh and asks, "Father? Shouldn't we be working on my memory though?"
The ouji just makes a 'tch' noise; "Nothing in those years is worth remembering."
"I still need to know."
Vegeta sighs, "Prince Goku, memories are either a luxury or a curse. You don't need them to live. Hell, you don't even need them to be who you are today. Your past doesn't define the present. You are the one that makes you who you are today." Wide-eyed, Goku just nods in silent awe. After that interesting bit of philosophy, the ouji clears his throat and says, "I think we were in the middle of diplomacy. Now when you're dealing with-"
"Father?"
Vegeta's eye twitches, "What NOW?"
"You're a saiyajin, right?"
"Of course I am."
Goku points to himself, "So am I half monkey?"
"...WHAT?!"
The young saiyajin waves his tail out in front of him and says, "Well, I have this monkey tail and you don't."
Annoyed, the ouji growls, "First off that is a saiyajin tail, all saiyajin have them, secondly you're a full saiyajin, and lastly DO I LOOK LIKE THE TYPE THAT WOULD- DO YOU KNOW WHAT- WITH A MONKEY?!"
Goku attempts to steers away from this particular direction. "So, um, diplomacy?"
"DON'T YOU DARE CHANGE THE SUBJECT!!"
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A/N: Uh... please don't kill me? This is actually part of the main plot though! It's not some sort of subplot that has nothing to do with the story I swear! So never fear! I am not going off on a tangent!
