Disclaimer: Finally I'm hearing Nickelback's new song, Photograph. Life is indeed good. Oh they are so one of my favorite bands…-drools slightly- oh right, disclaimer. I don't own DBZ…but who cares. Good music. REALLY REALLY GOOD MUSIC!

Chapter 4:

Children's Song

"Pássaro, pássaro

Voar no céu

Deixe-me ser como um pássaro

E mosca assim altamente,"

sang Goten as he skipped out of the front door. It was so sunny outside today. It made him happy inside. He didn't get to go outside when it rained anymore. Ever since Goku got back his mom got so much stricter. He didn't really understand it. She was so much more fun when dad was around.

No. He had to work on that, Goku was his dad. Dad wasn't Vegeta. Wasn't. Had to remember that, 'cause mom told him that it would hurt Goku's feeling if he didn't call him dad. Now Goten didn't find it very fair that he had to call a stranger dad, but if that's what mom wanted, then that's what he would do. Try to do at least.

Trunks should be here soon. Then they could play and he wouldn't have to think about all these things that made his head spin. Trunks was lucky, though, he got to had Vegeta for a dad. It wasn't fair.

Trunks said he would meet him in the usual spot. So that's where he would go. But did he want to run there or fly? Flying, he thought, might be more fun. But running would be more of a work out (kind of).

All right then, he would run.

It reminded him of all right before the martial arts tournament two year ago when Gohan had trained him. He never saw Gohan anymore. Ever since Goku back he never saw anyone anymore. He didn't know why, everyone had always said Goku was such a great guy, but everyone was happier when he was gone. Or at least that's what it seemed to him. Maybe he didn't understand what happy was. That could be it.

But he still didn't like how things were.

He didn't like Goku either.

It wasn't a work out at all. He was there in a couple minutes. But Trunks wasn't there. Oh well, he would wait.

But it was boring here all by himself.

"Pássaro, pássaro

Voar no céu

Deixe-me ser como um pássaro

E mosca assim altamente"

He missed dad- Vegeta. Vegeta. He missed Vegeta. Goku never sang. From the little he saw of him it seemed like he never did anything but train and eat. Now he was borning. And he never told any stories, and he certaintly never taught him any songs. And while what he was singing might be a song for really little kids, it was catchy, and he was still a kid. So it was still okay to be singing it.

"Trunks!" Goten shouted happily as his friends landed.

"Hey Goten," Trunks said. But he wasn't facing toward him. And he sounded funny.

"Hey, Trunks, what's wrong?" Goten moved over to him. Trunks turned around. He was crying.

"My dad's l-leaving," Trunks said, desperately trying not to sob.

"Leaving?" Goten repeated, sure he had heard wrong. "He can't be leaving!"

"He- he is," Trunks sobbed.

"W-why?" Goten stammered. "W-why would he do that?"

"I don't know," Trunks screamed. "He just told mom that he was leaving this morning at breakfast and then he was gone!"

It was Goku's fault. It had to be.

He had done it. He was free. He was free- though he had no where to go.

"You didn't really think it through, did you?" said a wry little voice in his head. Shut up, Vegeta snapped at it. You're dead so you get no say in this. He could almost see him sticking his tongue out in reply.

I'll manage, he thought angrily. I'll get a job and an apartment and I will make it.

"So long as you don't go back to killing people for money," another voice whispered to him.

Stop it, he seethed. I didn't have a choice.

"We all have a choice," the voice said in a sing-song fashion.

I didn't, he argued, if I didn't I would have died.

"That was choice then. Between you and others. A good person would have picked others."

Since you're dead to, he said to her, you don't get to criticize me. Finally it was quiet again and he was alone in his head.

No one was looking strangely as he walked down the street. It was an immense improvement. Humans aren't so bad, I suppose, he reflected.

He didn't know where he was going. He had no money, no clothes other than what he was wearing, no where to stay, yet he continued to move forward, unconsciously heading somewhere. So he let his body go, wondering where he would end up.

It didn't matter. He never had to deal with them again, that stupid group.

"Especially Kakkarot," he muttered aloud.

It was the music shop. Huh. Did he go in?

Yes…

Song Translation:

Birdies, birdies,

Fly in the sky,

Let me be like a birdie

And fly so high."

A/N: Nickelback! Nickelback! I love them! I love this song! I can't believe I haven't been able to hear it before now…its so good. I can't believe it. Sorry, I know. Pointless and none of you care. I'm working on my random outburts.

I don't know if this chapter feels as, I dunno, depressing as the others. It doesn't to me. Simple reason is I was kinda sad when I wrote the other chapters, but today I got a new locker that actually opens so I was perversely pleased when I wrote the chatper and had a hard time keeping in Vegeta's mind set. And then as I posted this one up, like you might have noticed, I finally heard the song I'd been dying to hear for a month. But as promised, replies to your reviews (but just for the newest ones that I've received, not the ones that were pre-post chatper 3. Not to say reviews from chapter two will not be answered, but only the ones that have come in recently, because I'm lazy, I'm sorry to say. And lacking time. So here are the replies:

Quaxo: Thank you…sappy? -shudders- oh I hope not…if it ever becomes so tell me and I'll fix it…

Kit-kit: hehe…but I think its kinda cute? I can just see him playing it in a little music shop in his own little world…and thanks for reviewing like every chapter. Appreciate it.

Whooooo: Really? -surprised- it flows? I'm eloquent? Really? Thanks. I mean it. And I hope you enjoyed the next couple chatpers.

Anjanka: -smiles- I know, a violin just suits him. (although I have toyed with idea for another plot line that in the past he was in a bad, either the lead singer and/or guitar player…might do that later) and thanks for reviewing every chapter- it means a lot to me.

Anyway, tonight it was a late post because I didn't have time to do it right after school. I apologize. Tomorrow I'll try harder to get it up on time. Hope you all enjoyed it, and next time more Vegeta. I just wanted to explore Goten today for some reason. I might actually make him a bigger character…I don't know…maybe I'll do a bit of Trunks sometime…and of course, Goku. Remo