Of Pets and the Past
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Chapter 14: The Endless Versions of How it Happened
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Last Time
Vegeta yawned and stretched as his son had done before leaning back on his elbows. He was about to lie down and let sleep claim him, when an all too familiar voice broke the silence of the night.
"Daddy?"
Vegeta's eyes widened as he turned around and came face to face with his long lost son and daughter. He leapt at them both and tackled them to the floor in a hug that could rival Goku's. They laughed as they rolled around on the floor together, playing after so many years apart.
The Z Warriors were awoken by the commotion and before long were caught up and joining in the scuffle on the floor, laughing and joking as if nothing had ever been wrong. The women watched as they all played with smiles on their faces.
When they had all calmed down, the question rounds began.
"Where have you been?"
"Why did you leave?"
"What made you come back?"
"Raaeeeoooaaarrrr?"
"Chigchiggachig?"
"Where did you stay?"
"Cant you go away again?"
The Z Warriors laughed as Bulmy asked that question, but to her dismay, Bura and Trunks shook their heads in a 'no' gesture. They were back to stay.
Trunks smirked at the look on his younger siblings faces when he and Bura had said no and then turned to his father. His smirk quickly dropped when he saw his father was looking at hi with big watery eyes and sniffling. He nudged his sister nervously who was quick to look afraid.
"Daddy…" she started "I know you're happy to see us but-"
Before she could finish the sentence, she and her brother found themselves in a monster hug that was squeezing the life out of them.
"MY BABIES!" Vegeta cried, making everybody look at him
Suddenly, Chichi stormed up to him and slapped him hard across the face. Vegeta dropped his gasping children hard onto the floor and looked at her with a shocked expression on his face.
""What was that for?" he asked
""You know very well what for!" Chichi hollered "You stole my line!"
Vegeta blinked once and then twice before stepping aside and gesturing to Goha who had been standing behind him.
"Go ahead then" he said "Knock yourself out"
"MY BABY!" Chichi screamed as she launched herself at Gohan, who quickly moved out of the way, resulting in chichi hugging Piccolo instead.
As you can imagine, all hell broke loose from there.
Piccolo shrieked like a little girl and started trying to pry Chichi off, Gohan burst out crying and tried to run away, but ran into Trunks, who fell over onto Tien causing a domino effect with the rest of the Z Warriors, Goku started to sing making piccolo shriek louder, Chichi, being oblivious to the fact she was holding Piccolo and not her son squeezed tighter, Bura was hollering at everybody to shut up in between making out with Goten and eventually piccolo gnawed his arms off and re-grew then, cowering behind Vegeta, who had been busy the entire time, trying to solve one of those colour cubes where you have to get all the matching colours on each side.
When things had finally calmed down, more questions were spewed forth. From what the Z Warriors could tell, Bura and Trunks had felt crowded by the new children and had felt they had needed some freedom. Once they'd had a taste of it, they enjoyed it for a while but eventually knew they had to come home as they missed their parents too much.
"So in other words, you were jealous?" Goku asked
"Yep" Trunks replied
"Hi dad!" Goten shouted happily
"Be quiet Goten" Chichi shushed "We're talking to Bura and Trunks – they've been gone for a long time in case you haven't noticed!"
"I know" Goten replied "I was with them"
"You were?" the Z Warriors asked in shock
"You didn't notice I was missing for the past decade or so?" Goten asked as a hurt expression crossed his face
"Nobody really notices when you come and go Goten" Piccolo, the ever so wise and observant one stated "You were only important in the Z series for a little while, and though you adopted a fair number of fans, you are still a long way off from being a major character, unlike myself or say, your father or Vegeta, or even your brother really"
Everybody listened and blinked and Piccolo spoke more words in one sentence thaa they had heard him say in his whole life.
"Furthermore, you only starred in the later episodes of Dragonball Z" Piccolo continued "Everything about you was slaughtered in Dragonball GT and you didn't even exist in Dragonball, so face the facts and accept it Goten … you are not important"
Goten blinked as his eyes filled with tears. His lower lip quivered and small sobs escaped his lips before he burst out crying and ran into a conveniently placed house that just happened to belong to one of the Z Warriors.
Bura followed him in, and within a matter of seconds, he emerged again with a happy Son grin on his face, humming happily.
"What did you do?" Vegeta asked
"What do you think I did?" Bura smirked, and Vegeta cringed
"So what were you doing with Bura and Trunks?" Krillen asked Goten
"Well…" Goten replied "It happened like this…"
Goten looked up as he heard a knock on the door. He strutted to the door and opened it in a very cool way to reveal (of course) the Saiyan princess.
"Hi Bura" he greeted in a deep, manly voice … very sexily of course.
"Goten!" Bura cried as she launched into his arms "I'm leaving forever and I need you to come with me! I can't live without you Goten!"
"No worries babe" Goten replied "I'll come with you and we can live happily together"
"Oh Goten!" Bura squealed "How can I ever replay you?"
"Well-"
"OUCH!" Goten cried as Bura whacked him across the head "What was that for?"
"That's not how it happened and you know it!" Bura scolded
Trunks shook his head as Bura shouted at Goten. They had been like throughout the entire time they had been gone, but deep down he knew they were crazy about each other. Why else would Goten stay with such a psychotic bitch like his sister?
"Uh Trunks?" Vegeta asked "Did you realise you were talking out loud?"
"WHAT!" Trunks screamed and turned to face his growling sister "I … I didn't mean it!"
Bura began to beat on Trunks and most of the Z Warriors rolled their eyes and released a sigh at the next generations antics before once again Krillen spoke up.
"So tell me then Bura, if that isn't how is happened, then how did it?"
"Well…" Bura started "It happened like this…"
The door slammed as Bura stormed out of the Briefs household. She stomped along the ground, made her way o her house and packed her things before grabbing her brother, who had been drooling over a porn magazine by his collar and dragging him out with her, growling as a trail of drool was left behind her.
As she stomped down the road, she noticed that they had a follower. Goten had been on their trail for the last 15 minutes or so. He had been running from bush to bush, trying to hide behind posts and trees and failing miserably, as every time he ran from one hiding place to another, he would trip and fall with a loud thud and an 'oof', giving away his position.
Bura sighed and growled as more 'oofs' sounded closer behind her until finally she couldn't take it any longer. She spun around, causing a flying mound of drool to hit a random passer by and dropped her brother, turning to Goten.
"WHAT!" she demanded
"Uhh…"
"Yes?"
"Err…"
"Yes!"
"Um…"
"Spit it out before I kill you!"
Goten burst into floods of tears and Bura sighed, taking a deep breath to calm herself. She slowly approached the sobbing Son and gently rubbed his back to calm him down. Within a matter of 10 seconds, he was happy and smiling again.
"So what did you want?" she asked quietly
"Um … to run away into the sunset with you…"
"What do you mean to – ACK!"
Bura yelped as Goten picked her up flinging her over his shoulder and ran in the direction of the sunset, which had just conveniently started to occur. Trunks groaned and whined as he was first stepped in and then grabbed by his collar again and dragged behind.
That is not how it happened!" Trunks shouted
"Well I like my version better!" Bura huffed
Krillen cleared his throat and all eyes turned to him.
"Wow!" he exclaimed "This is the most you guys have ever noticed me!"
"Did you say something?" Bura asked
Krillen released a small sob before slapping himself round the face for being a weakling and turning back to the group.
"So" he stressed "If that isn't how it happened, the how exactly did it happen?"
"I can tell you!" Goku cried happily, waving his arms about
"NO!" everybody screamed, and several jumped on him, knocking him to the floor
"As I was saying" Krillen stated, clearing his throat "Why did you leave … Trunks?"
"Well…" Trunks started
But before Trunks could continue, a scream was heard and the Z Warriors watched as from out of nowhere a tumbleweed fell from the sky and onto Krillen before blowing away with the warrior still trapped inside.
A moment of silence passed before Tien spoke up.
"You were saying Trunks?"
"Well…" Trunks tied again "It happened like this…"
Trunks ran after his sister as he saw her storm out of their parents' house. He finally caught up with her smiled.
"Hey sis!"
Bura turned glaring towards him, before breaking into fits of tears and leaning onto her brothers shoulder.
"Oh Trunks!" she sobbed "Daddy doesn't love us any more!"
Trunks shushed his sister and rubbed her back until she finally stopped crying.
"It's okay" he soothed "I think we've overreacted since the twins were born though"
"I haven't!"
"You shaved Bulmy bald!"
Bura silenced and Trunks knew he was getting through to her. Now was the best time to ask.
"I think we should go away for a while" he suggested "Get away from our parents and away from the twins – what do you say?"
"I … I guess so" Bura stuttered "But where would we go?"
"We'll have to figure it out as we go along I guess"
"I don't know what I'd do without you Trunks!"
"Neither do I sis … I am great aren't I?"
"Yes Trunks, you truly are!"
"I did NOT do that!" Bura screamed
A collective sigh was heard.
"Does anybody know what really happened?" asked Krilled
"I do!" wheezed Goku from underneath numerous Z Warriors, but he was ignored.
"I can tell you" Piccolo stated "It all started when the mushroom people-"
"Stop right there!" Vegeta shouted "I don't think I can take nay more stupid stories or flashbacks!"
"I know what happened…" Goku croaked "…really I do…"
"Did you not just hear me?" Vegeta asked "I said I didn't want any more stupid stories!"
"But-"
"No"
"But-"
"No!"
"But-"
"NO!"
"But-"
"Oh, alright then"
"Really?"
"No"
"But-"
"I said no and that's final!"
"But Vegeta!" Goku whined "It happened like this…"
Bura stormed out of the briefs household-
"Didn't you hear me?" Vegeta glared "I said no more flashbacks!"
"But-"
"Don't start that again!"
"But-"
"NO!"
"Oh let him talk!" Bulma shouted "What could he come out with that could possibly be crazier than mushroom people?"
"Do you really want to know?" Vegeta asked, giving Bulma a flat look "This is Kakarot we're talking about here!"
"That's true" Bulma admitted "But you let everyone else talk!"
"So?"
"so if you don't, you won't get any action tonight!" Bulma stated with a wink
Trunks, Bura, Geta and Bulmy all shuddered and huddled together, tyring to block out what they had just heard their parents say.
Vegeta whined and adopted the look of a kicked puppy before slowly creeping over to Bulma who gently comforted him.
"So can Goku speak?"
Vegeta nodded and Bulma cuddled him, reassuring him he was a 'good boy' and would be getting some tonight.
"But I like being a bad boy" Vegeta whispered "And I thought you like me being a bad boy too!"
Bulma blushed along with all of the Saiyans and Piccolo who had heard.
"Um guys?" Goku asked "Can I tell my version now?"
"Sure Goku" Bulma smiled
Vegeta was about to protest, but saw the look his mate gave him and wisely closed his mouth again.
"Well…" Goku started "It happened like this…"