AN: So finally, I get this chapter up...I guess it was a little tough?...ooohh...stupid chapter name.
Change of Pace
Chapter 2:Chi-chi's dillema
Chi-chi sighed as she sat down on the couch, the last week had been hectic indeed...half the time the man would train 24/7, not even bothering to sleep, and the other half he spent complaining about the guest room, which had been Goten's.
When she had angrily told him he could try Goku's bed if he wasn't satisfied he'd finally shut up.
And the dishes! Though he did eat less than Goku, no doubt in part because he was in such a hurry to go back to his training, he had broken nearly every dish she owned. Apparently Bulma used extremely heavy-duty china-ware.
That problem, too, had been resolved, as Bulma had sent Trunks over with a large supply of her 'extra' dishes.
Of course, another part of their agreement was that they were not allowed to leave their property or come into contact with their respective husbands.
In the end, the inertial dampeners Bulma had provided for the gravity capsule had proved invaluable when Chi-chi needed to sleep during one of his 'training sessions'.
So, she had thought to herself an indeterminable amount of times during the 'week of hell' I've found all his bad points, there can only be good ones now, right?
Oh, how often she had been proven wrong!
Yet, she had asked for this, and she was determined to emerge the victor of this before the three months were up!
"You just wait, Mr. I-rule-the-world...you won't know left from right when I'm done!"
o-o-o-o-o
Bulma gave a satisfied sigh, as the warm water of the shower washed over her, the last week had been better than she'd expected!
He was so docile and placid, on day three she'd convinced him to sleep in the same room as her, and only a little bit of prodding got him in the same bed.
At first he had been a bit of a wild sleeper, but it hadn't been hard to show him the way, and the nights since had been incredably peaceful.
When he ate, he had this peacefulness about him that was almost like Saiyan table-manners. Rather than savagely attacking his food, he smiled, thanked her for it, and chowed down much more like an overweight man, than a starving animal.
She smiled to herself suddenly, from the exhausted tone of Chi-chi's voice when she'd called for help, Chi-chi had not faired so well.
It couldn't be helped, she asked for it!
Wasn't as if I hadn't warned her hundreds of times before
As she wrapped her plush purple towel around her, she smiled faintly into the mirror, her mind drifting to when she had first met Goku, back when he had barged in on her bath.
What if he did it again? How much might he understand about it this time?
She shook her head quickly, she couldn't think like that, he was a married man!
And yet Chi-chi had insisted on the fact that the two of them need never tell the other anything that happened during the three months...that had made her slightly suspicious of what Chi-chi's true intentions were.
Not that she didn't have faith in Vegeta or anything...
I do not have him on a leash!
She shook her head firmly, she couldn't just turn around and do exactly what she had silently accused her friend of planning!
She sighed heavily, what was wrong with her? Acting like some school girl!
Snap out of it, girl, come on! she chided herself, splashing water on her face.
o-o-o-o-o-o
Vegeta frowned as he sat in the corner of the pod, grudgingly taking a break.
The sky outside was dark as pitch now, but that mattered little to him-he actually ipreferred/i the night.
The witch had indeed installed an intercom in the capsule she had supplied. Blissfully, the hell-cat used it sparingly.
He hated to admit it, but the woman had earned his grudging respect, not giving up on this little game, persisting in finding a solution to even his most ingenious schemes to get her off his back.
Naturally he hadn't really tried, but still...no human he had met before could withstand such punishment and come back so readily for more.
Not even that vixen he normally lived with.
Abruptly he decided that line of thought was far too complicated for the training room, and immediately launched himself into even fiercer training.
o-o-o-o-o-o
Goku smiled goofily at the air, it was nice, this place.
He could eat as much as he wanted, and no one complained, he didn't have to sleep on the floor all the time, and best of all, Bulma never yelled at him!
But he missed his home...Bulma was a fun friend, but Chi-chi was his wife...and though his mind may have been addled, his goofy smile faded to a small frown as he realized how much he missed her.
"I hope you clean your house soon, Chi-chi...I wanna go home."
Completely unnoticed by Goku, a slim figure stood in the doorway to the house, a sad smile on her tired face, and tears shimmering in her eyes.
"Don't worry..." she whispered," you'll see her again soon...I promise."
o-o-o-o-o-o
"This is crazy! I can't even go in my own house anymore!" Trunks sighed, raking his fingers frantically through his hair as if he were being telepathically assaulted.
"It's not that bad, Trunks..." Goten replied," After all, it's not like you're on the street! You're with me!"
"That's the problem, Goten..."
Goten couldn't help but laugh at his friend, his mother wasn't the type to kick her son out of the house for days at a time for such tiny things as forgetting to buy her groceries a few times and cruising the streets instead...Trunks simply wasn't accustomed to being banned from his home for so long!
"Look, Trunks, you only have two-and-a-half months to go, then you can pretend this nightmare never existed!"
"And what if they decide thier 'test drives' were up to spec, and trade their husbands permanantly?"
For the first time in years, Trunks' words inspired a vice-grip of fear around his throat.
Quickly, he shook it off...that was absurd!
"Trunks! Quit acting so unreasonably paranoid!" Goten snapped," This...'thing' our mother's are doing...it's not gonna last, okay? No way our dad's will let it."
"Well...your dad might."
In spite of himself, he couldn't help but laugh...his father could be such a goof!
"I just hope you're right..." Trunks mumbled, shaking his head.
o-o-o-o-o-o
"I just think we should check on her!" Gohan sighed, not for the first time.
"Gohan, you know you're not supposed to be interfering with your parent's wacky vacation from reality!" Videl repeated for the hundreth time," Now, you know as well as I do, Chi-chi is perfectly safe!"
"I just wish I could shake this feeling that something's wrong!"
Videl smiled and slipped behind him, massaging his shoulders." It's okay...everything will be fine...relax!"
o-o-o-o-o-o
Chi-chi sighed as she sat uncomfortably across from her 'guest', his glare was impassible, and directed at her.
Suddenly, he inhaled sharply," Hellcat, your dinner is burning."
His derogatory comment did not even register to her ears.
How could it be burning! It's far from ready!
Frantically, she rushed into the kitchen...there was no smell and no smoke, but she opened the oven anyway and peered inside, the roast wasn't even half-done.
Strange.
She caught a whiff of the smell...it was coming from farther down the hall...
The scent led her to a storage room, and she warily swung open the door, casting about for all the usual signs of fire.
There was nothing unusual to be seen in the room, even when she flipped on the light switch. There was only drawers, boxes, cabinets, and their propane water heater.
Nothing.
Yet the smell was choking in the room, and as Chi-chi thought about it, the scent was somehow familiar.
Absently, she entered the room, looking for where she could have smelled it before.
Where...where did I smell that...?
She froze.
The water heater
She barely had time to scream before the heater exploded in flames.
AN: Okay, it may seem farfetched, but that scenario is entirely possible! My mother once had 3 feet of flame erupt from a water heater behind her, luckily the door to the small laundry room was open to the night air, so the room wasn't filled with the gas, else she'd have been a crispy critter...speaking of that, don't do all that stuff Chi-chi did...if a water heater like that has a leak, it could explode like that without warning, esp. if it turns on!(I think newer ones have a safety mechanism to prevent it from exploding, but not older ones!) Also...if you do smell gas in a room, it is a bad idea to turn on the light(esp. if you have an old style hanging bulb that you pull a string to turn on) it's likely to go boom.
To important things!
Have I gone mad and killed the main character!
Also...to any Fate readers...I'd have updated already but I'm missing the page that I'm at! T.T
Yusagi Sombermoon.