Chapter 9

I don't own DBZ

Before first hour started, Bulma paid Vegeta a little visit by his class with a smirk. "So, how was the rest of the day for you?"

Vegeta didn't get angry. He kept a smirk on his face, knowing that today was that start of a glorious victory for him. "Woman, why do you even ask? It was miserable, just like you planned it would be."

"What do you mean planned?" Bulma was a horrible actress, but then again, she wasn't trying too hard to act. She wanted to see him angry. She thought he was cute when he was angry. "Well, what do you mean?"

"I'm sure you knew that as soon as my uncle found out that I was swearing, he'd go ballistic on me. I spent most of yesterday putting up a fence around the house." Vegeta kept his cool, even when Bulma started laughing at him. "Just remember woman, that I always have a plan."

"Before or after all of my pranks were successful?"

He suddenly lost his positive attitude and became aggressive. "Laugh all you want woman, but I will get my revenge. I may not be accustomed to your foolish country bumpkin ways, but I will crush you." The warning bell rang and Vegeta smirked as he stepped into his classroom.

Bulma thought nothing of his threats and rushed towards her locker, knowing that she only had less than 50 seconds to get to class. When she opened it, nothing was there. "What the heck?" She ran her hands through her hair in frustration. 'That immature little jerk! I'll get him.'

Within 15 minutes, Vegeta was called down to the office with a smirking Bulma, and an angry principle. There was a long speech about how stealing isn't right and other crap like that, but Vegeta wasn't paying attention to that. He was just waiting for one special line. "So in other words, give Ms. Briefs back her things."

He calmly said "I don't have them."

Bulma grunted and yelled. "You liar! You're doing this to get back at me! I've got a paper that I was supposed to do, and I need it! Give me my stuff!"

Vegeta smirked. "I don't have it." Vegeta stood to his feet. "Let's go to my locker right now, and we'll settle this."

Bulma and the principle followed Vegeta to his locker, and when they looked inside, none of Bulma's items were found. They searched through his backpack and couldn't find Bulma's items.

Bulma began to get angry. "I stayed up till three writing a ridiculous paper that's due today!"

Vegeta became disgusted and said quietly enough for just her to hear "That's not all you were doing last night, was it?"

"What?" Bulma said. She became a little pale, but played dumb. "I'm sick and tired of playing games with you. I want my things."

"I don't have them." He looked at the principle with a serious expression on his face. "Now, if you'll excuse me, I wish to continue building up my education." Vegeta calmly walked to his second hour class, since first hour was about to end in a minute.

"I'll find out about your things Ms. Briefs" the principle said. "Please take me to your locker."

Bulma sighed and walked a little further down the hall to her locker and opened it up. "See, there's nothing..." Bulma's mouth dropped as she looked into the locker and saw all of her things. "I swear it wasn't here before. Vegeta put it back."

The principle frowned. "We'll see. I'll be watching Vegeta, but make sure that you stay in line."

Bulma was cursing in her mind as the principle walked away. After second hour was over, Bulma came to her locker and once again, nothing was there. 'This is getting really old, really fast.'

"What's the matter?" Yamcha came to Bulma with a smile on his face. "I thought you'd still be happy from what happened last night."

Bulma realized that there was one thing in her locker. It was a note that said "I know your secret."

"What secret?" Yamcha said looking over her shoulder.

Bulma began to panic. "I don't now. I'm not sure at all what this means. This is crazy. I don't understand any of this. Who knows my secret?"

"What secret do you have?"

"Us you idiot!" Bulma hit him in the chest. "What we do when the lights go out."

"You don't know if that's what they're talking about."

"I don't have any other secrets Yamcha" she said quietly. "What if Vegeta knows? He's mad at me. What if he tells my dad? Do you know what he'll do to me?"

"Calm down, babe. It'll be alright. Just stay calm. You don't know that Vegeta wrote this, and you don't know if anyone really knows anything."

"Well, what about my stuff? I need it for my classes."

"You've got gym. Just go to your gym locker and get dressed. Just act like nothing happened." Yamcha kissed her girlfriend on her head and walked away to his next class.

Bulma was jumpy when she went to her next class. When she opened her gym locker, everything seemed the same. No one invaded her locker from what she could tell. 'Maybe I'm over reacting.'

"What's the matter?" said Ashley. "You look pretty tense."

"I'm fine you witch! Just stay out of my business."

"I was just ask'n." She walked out of the locker room. Bulma pulled her gym shirt out of her locker and put it on without even really looking at it. She was just in such an angry daze. 'Someone will pay for taking my things. I'll get someone good for this. I bet it's that Vegeta.' Bulma took her black shorts out of her locker and saw another note. "I know your secret." Bulma looked around her locker room. 'Ashley. It has to be. It's her. I know it's her.'

One of the girls started snickering at Bulma. "And what's your problem?" Bulma was ready to accuse her, but the girl quickly announced what was so funny. "Your shirt says that you're a stupid slut who sleeps around."

"It what?" Bulma looked down at her shirt and gasped. She quickly removed it. 'Darn Ashley.' Bulma had to borrow a shirt from an over weight girl named Susan. Bulma made sure that Ashley didn't do anything suspiciously during class. She hated her and paid really close attention to her. Ashley didn't do anything out of the ordinary. She did fall and hurt her knee so was excused to go rest in the clinic, but that was it.

When Bulma opened her locker to change back into her regular clothes, there was nothing there but her deodorant, lotion, and hair spray. "You've got to be kidding me!" Bulma yelled.

"What's the matter?" he teacher asked.

"All of my things have been stolen! They're not here!" The teacher quickly questioned all of the students, including Ashley, but had no idea who had taken Bulma's things. She informed the principle, and all of the girl's lockers and bags were searched, but nothing turned up.

When lunch came around, Bulma quickly made her way to Yamcha at the table and was enraged by someone's actions against her. "Babe" Yamcha said concerned "something's not right."

"I know! Someone stole my things again and left me another note! I think Vegeta and Ashley are in this together! I'm going to kill that city boy! He thinks he can get me? Oh, well I'll show him a thing or two!"

"Bulma, it's you. You" he said quietly "you stink."

Bulma sniffed herself and realized that her armpits smelled awful. "Someone switched my deodorant." Bulma was already dressed and a baggy shirt, black shorts, and gym shoes. She never went around school looking as sloppy as she did, but this was the last straw. 'He's dead!'

Bulma marched over to Vegeta's table and sat down calmly. "Okay, this game is getting kind of old."

"What are you talking about?" Vegeta smirked.

"Listen you idiotic dwarf, I want you to stop messing with my things, or else yer gonna pay! You keep stealing my things, and that's not funny."

"I don't have your things." Vegeta couldn't stop his smirk.

"He's tell'n the truth" Ashley said.

"Shut up!" Bulma snapped. "I know good and well you took my things in gym. If I don't have my things by the end of lunch, then I'm going to the principle and you will be suspended." She smirked. "And if you thought put'n up that fence was fun, wait until you see what happens when yer uncle's really pissed."

"I don't have your things Bulma. You probably left them somewhere. They could be in your car, or at your house, or in your boyfriend's car. Didn't you ride to school with him?"

Bulma saw the hint in his eye and rushed away out of the building to the student parking lot, and Vegeta was right. All of her things were in Yamcha's car. "That stupid jerk! I hate you Vegeta!" Bulma closed Yamcha car and sat down, meditating on what she should do for revenge. Telling the principle would be too easy and beneath her. Besides, she would get in trouble if he snitched on her.

In the lunch room, the bell rang and Ashley stood up to leave. "You come'n?"

Vegeta smirked as he took a remote out of back pack. "My revenge is complete." He pressed the button and began to laugh.

Bulma began coughing and covered her nose. "What is that?" Bulma realized that green smoke was quickly filling up the car, so she got out, but not before the smell got into her clothes. "Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh!"

Vegeta was still laughing on his way to fourth hour, knowing that Bulma was ticked off. He did regret not being there when the bomb went off. After all, she was so cute when she was angry.

Bulma didn't even go back inside school. She was so embarrassed. She had made Vegeta look like a fool, and now she was the one who was the fool. She thought he had taken his revenge just a little too far, farther than what she did. He destroyed her image. He forced her to go around school looking like a bum, and smelling like a homeless one at that.

Vegeta was happy when he came home. It was strange that he was cheerful and Goku wasn't. Vegeta would have asked what was wrong with him, but he honestly didn't care why Goku looked so down.

"Why are you so happy?" asked Vegeta's aunt when he came into the kitchen for a slice of pie that she had made while he was at school.

"School was just…very rewarding today."

"I'm glad it was better than your first day."

"Oh, it was much better."

His aunt thought Vegeta sounded sadistic, but pushed all of her assumptions out of her mind. "Well, you've got to go to the Briefs' farm today. Bardock will be here to pick you up in a few minutes."

"Okay." Vegeta just decided to wait outside for his uncle, but his cousin ended up joining him first. Vegeta didn't even look at him. He wanted to keep his good mood.

"Cousin Geta…uh Vegeta" Goku said "I've got a problem."

"Then let it be yours and don't bother me."

Goku lowered his head. He wanted things to work out better between him and his cousin. Goku liked to look on the bright side, but his brother was a disappointment to him and was hoping that Vegeta could help fill the gap that Raditz only started to fill. "There's pa" he said walking towards the car as it came down the road. Vegeta didn't pay any mind to his cousin.

'He'll get over it.'

At the Briefs' farm, Vegeta was looking everywhere for Bulma, but he couldn't find her until she approached him. She looked more worried than angry, but the anger was very much present in her eyes. "Vegeta!" she yelled at him while he was fixing a tractor with his uncle.

"Well if it isn't Ms. Briefs! How are you doing? Got any negative comebacks, or are you just going to make threats."

Bulma grabbed his arm and led him away from his uncle so they could talk private. "Vegeta, I'm really mad at you, and I really do hate you, but I can't let that get in the way of the important. I need you to promise me that you will never tell my daddy my secret."

Vegeta smirked. "Your father has the right to know."

"Sure, but don't tell him, Vegeta. I'm serious. If he finds out about this, then I will be in so much trouble! My daddy will take away everything he saved up for college. He told me he would." Bulma's anger was gone from her eyes and they were filled with pleading. "Vegeta, I can't stay on this farm. I've got to go somewhere and do somethin with my life." She smiled. "I wanna see the world! I wanna travel. I wanna have people to worship the ground that I walk on and see me as someone great" her smile faded "instead of a farm girl." She sighed. "I don't like you, and you don't like me. I still just want you to grant me this. Please Vegeta!"

Vegeta wanted to smirk in her face, start laughing, and say no, but he couldn't do it. When he looked into her blue eyes, he just couldn't do it. "I won't tell, woman."

She smiled brightly and kissed him on his cheek. "Thank ya sugah."

When she walked away, Goku came up to Vegeta. "I see you two have put your differences aside."

"We haven't really done that much, but I've got to grant her this. I can't blame her for not wanting to stay." He sighed. "Come on, Kakarot."

"Where are we going?" There was fear in his voice. He didn't want to do anything to get in trouble.

"We're going to go raid through Bulma's house trying to find something."

"Something like what?"

"The note I sent to her father!"

A/N: Uh oh! Review!