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Chapter 12

I don't own DBZ

"So how was school today?" asked Goku sadly as he picked up a pitchfork and began scooping up hay and placing it into a barn. Vegeta did the same, even though his back still hurt from the horse incident. He wasn't going to complain about it. Only weaklings would, and Vegeta wasn't weak.

"Well, the woman can't resist me any longer" he said with a smirk.

"The woman?" Goku scratched his head out of confusion then smiled. "Oh, you mean Bulma. Well, she's a real fire cracker."

"Meaning?"

"Well, she'll do just about anything and everything, pretty quick. She's real outgoing."

"She broke up with the idiot as well."

Goku nearly gasped. He was sure Bulma and Yamcha would get married one day. "But, what happened? They seemed meant for each other. Yamcha must be really mad at you for being the cause of their break up."

Vegeta's smirk grew. "I know." He began to chuckle at the thought of Yamcha steaming from anger. 'Oh, this is a great day indeed.'

"Runt" Vegeta said "I need to get out of this place and go do something besides farm work. Where's the closest place?"

"Well, you could go into town and watch a movie at the theater."

"No," Vegeta practically barked. "You can't think anything better than that?"

"Bulma goes off a lot. Why don't you ask her? I don't nevah really go nowhere, and if I do, it's with my pa and ma." Goku shrugged. "Anyways, I can't go nowhere noways."

"First of all" Vegeta said "your grammar is horrible. Second of all, why'd you add the little comment about your life, assuming that I cared?"

Goku shrugged. "I don't know. I figured you would care." He said quietly. "Anyways, why don't ya ask her?" He laughed dryly. "Not that pa would let ya go anywhere."

"It's not like I'd ask your father for permission."

"Pa'll be real mad if ya go somewhere without him say'n ya could."

"I don't honestly care. I'm an adult and I can do whatever I want to do, and no one is going to change that, not you, your mother, or your father."

"What about me?" Bulma came to Vegeta with a smile on her face. "Do I sway your decisions in anyway, or" she placed her hand on his shoulder as a flirting gesture and stepped closer "is it the other way around?"

Goku started to blush and turned his head away from Vegeta and Bulma. 'Are they gonna kiss? My, I can't believe this! This is way too fast for me!' "Guys, maybe you shouldn't be doing anything like this. Its kind a sudden, don't ya think?"

Bulma just smiled wider. "Well I bettah do what I can ta keep my hands on this city fella before he leaves me behind and goes back to where he came from." Her words saddened her, as well as Goku. "Yer not gonna go back any time soon, are ya?"

"Thanksgiving is when I will be leaving and to get out of this Hell hole is something I can't wait for."

"This place can't be all bad, can it?" She wrapped her arms around Vegeta's neck and although the thought of him wanting to leave so sudden did bother her, she smiled. "The company isn't so terrible, is it? I mean," she fluttered her eyes and swung her hair back and said "If this is truly Hell, then what does that make me? Am I really a demon?"

He smirked sexily at her and cocked an eyebrow. "Woman, you're nothing but trouble. Of course you're a demon." He got closer to her and whispered in her ear "A very sexy demon, but a demon nonetheless."

She crossed her arms and had an amused look on her face. Vegeta certainly was more fun than Yamcha. Yamcha wasn't as near as attractive as Vegeta, or as confident. Sure she and Yamcha had a good relationship and enjoyed being together, but there was something that attracted her to Vegeta and she couldn't let him go. She still needed to have some fun. "So, why was judgment placed on you? What made yer daddy send you here?"

He placed an amused look on his face and slightly chuckled. "What makes you think that I would tell you that much of my personal business?"

"Yer mama said it was because of a pretty girl. Was she a demon?"

"She was a temptress, and but not as evil and manipulating as you."

"Well, I'm glad that I've placed an impression on you."

"The impression you've placed on me isn't exactly something to be proud of, but if it's a compliment to you, then you're the biggest whore I've ever met."

Bulma's mouth dropped and she was speechless. She wasn't expecting the sudden insult after they had flittered for so long. 'Maybe he knows and he's ready for me, but that's impossible. Why would he know? How could he know?' She forced herself to smile. "My, my, my, those are awful big words from a hobbit." She placed her hands on his hips and said "You know, I might a been wrong about you Vegeta. I thought you were good enough ta be with me, but now that I think about it, I don't think you're worthy enough."

Vegeta laughed at her ridiculous comment. "Me? Not worthy of you? You're saying that I'm not worthy of you? That's hysterical!"

She placed her hand right in front of the top of her head and said "You must be this tall to ride this ride, and I think you've still got some growing to do, little boy." She chuckled. "There's this little thing called puberty. I don't know if you've heard of it, but I'm really concerned. You should have experienced this already. It really does trouble me."

Vegeta was about an inch taller than Bulma, but she was wearing boots that made her stand two inches higher. Vegeta grunted, but didn't let her comment faze him too much. "Well, I'm also concerned, since a woman's breast isn't supposed to be avoided during puberty."

It was then that Bulma lost it. Her body was shaped very nicely, and Vegeta knew that, but he was willing to wound wherever he could, and he knew it would anger her. "How dare you! I have a wonderful figure! I am flawless!"

"Yeah, you are" he tired to stop laughing "if you don't count those hideous fat thighs."

"My body is fine!" She yelled. "How dare you say anything about this body? I see you checking me out, watching me as I sway my hips back'n forth! Don't even try ta deny it, ya little science fair project reject freak!"

"First of all, of course I look at your hips as you sway them back and forth. They're the only thing in my vision until you're at least fifty feet away. And really, you're right" he said calmly. "I was rejected, because you won first place at the science fair. They didn't think that cows could get that big." He busted out into laughter, and even Goku laughed at this. Bulma turned to Goku and glared at him. "The both of you shut up!" She yelled. She didn't know what else to say. He had won the battle. She just had to depend on her plan to work. "And you!" She pointed to Goku with a rage. "If I were you, I'd stay on everyone's good side, since ya got kicked out a school today!"

Vegeta looked down at his cousin with shock. "What? You mean the Boy Scout did something wrong?" He said sarcastically. "I think I may die of shock!"

"Oh, stop it, cousin Geta." Goku said wearily. "Besides, you said ya didn't care."

"Now there are details, juicy details, and I've got to pick with you while it's hot, so spill it. What happened?"

"You mean ya didn't know?" Bulma asked with unbelief. "Just bout everybody knows. News travels as fast as lightening in this town." She pointed to him. "How could ya not know?"

"That still doesn't tell me anything, but it does answer the question of how come Kakarot's father was angry when we left."

"He's still mad." Bulma said. "Goku's gonna get it when he goes home." She was teasing now. She felt bad that it hurt Goku's feelings, but she figured he deserved it.

Goku but his head down. "I didn't mean ta hurt nobody."

Vegeta actually looked closely and noticed that Goku's lip was busted and there was a fairly big blue and purple mark on his right arm. "What's the other kid look like?"

"I don't think I beat him real good at all. I didn't even want to start a fight, but this kid just a kept pick'n with me, and he threw the first punch. I just decided to defend myself. That first punch busted my lip and after that, I fought back. His nose was a bleed'n, but a bunch a the kids think I lost, some thought I won."

"The one who's left standing wins. Since no one was killed, and if he's the one with the bloody nose, then I'd say you won." He crossed his arms. "You're already weird. I'd have to disown you if you lost a fight."

"Thanks" he scratched his head. "I think."

"So when ya gonna go back ta school?" Bulma asked. "When they let'n ya?"

"Him and I are suspended for three days."

"Three days of no school and yet you still look sad. Are you an idiot or what?" Vegeta said.

"It's just that if I've gotta stay home then-"

"His daddy is gonna make him work real hard if he's gotta stay home, especially since it's cuze he was in a fight."

"Honestly, you're too old for him to pull out a whip or anything. What's the big deal?"

"You had to fix that fence, Vegeta. You barely got anything done. I'll be forced ta finish it, and no, pa don't believe that I'm too old to have a switch ta my hide. He's says if I'm too old to be whipped, then I'm too old ta be acting like a boy. Then he's expect'n me ta be a man, and I wanna be one, and I'm try'n real hard, but I'm ready to grow up completely. I ain't no man, and don't wanna be one till I am."

Vegeta rolled his eyes. "Idiot."

"You think what ya want, but I wanna be a kid when I can, because you can't have those years back."

"Bulma!" came Yamcha's voice from behind them all.

'Good.' thought Bulma.

"There you are!" He looked depressed and angry. This made Vegeta very proud and he smirked. "Bulma" he grabbed her arms and looked desperate. "Why'd we break up, babe? Why?"

She turned her head away. "I told you why, and we discussed it in private, and I don't wanna lay all my business out right now."

"Then why don't we go talk in private?"

"Because I'm done talk'n to ya, Yamcha! I'm sick and tired of us, and I have nothing more ta say to ya."

Yamcha let go of Bulma and pointed his finger at the smirking Vegeta. "This is all yer fault!"

"Yeah, and I pride myself greatly in that."

"Guys" Goku said "just calm down."

"Stop stick'n up for this jerk!" Yamcha yelled. "Just go back ta where ya came, Vegeta, or you'll be sorry!"

"Yeah, I'll be sorry, sorry that I have to endure your hideous composure for another moment."

Yamcha growled. "You've been warned."

"Yamcha!" Bulma called, but it was no use. He rushed away angrily and Bulma and Yamcha looked worriedly.

"I ain't nevah seen him that angry" Goku said.

"It kind of makes me feel all tingly inside." Vegeta began to laugh.

"This is serious" Bulma said. "I don't wanna be with him anymore though" she said. "I don't like him no more. He's a thorn in my side." She looked at Vegeta and smiled. "Besides, I been think'n bout someone else lately."

"Well, women do find me irresistible."

She smiled. "I'm gonna go try ta calm him down."

Goku was worried about Yamcha, but his worry disappeared when he noticed Vegeta was checking out Bulma as she walked away. "I thought she was fat."

"She is" he said seriously, but then smirked "but in the right places."

When they got home, Goku was surprised to see that his father remained calm and didn't do anything extreme. Goku thought for sure that he was going to get seriously punished. All was quiet at the dinner table, besides that noises coming from the starving family, but no one said a word, until Goku asked his father a question.

"Pa" he said worriedly "am I in trouble?"

Bardock put his fork down and said "If what yer really ask'n is if I'm gonna make you fix the fence, then the answer is yes. Its jus' something that needs ta be done. You got suspended, and you've got some free time. Yer not needed on the Briefs farm that long for the period of the day, so yer gonna do it."

Goku put his head down. "Yessir."

"It ain't for punishment though, boy."

Goku looked at his father with confusion, which was a look that plagued his face a lot. "What do ya mean, Pa?"

"Ain't nothin wrong with defend'n yerself, Kakarot." He smirked. "Besides, I've seen that Broly boy, and if you gave him a bloody nose, then I ain't gonna be mad at ya." The next thing he said was so quiet, Goku barley picked it up. "Kind a proud of ya."

Goku smiled. "Then why the fence, pa?"

"You ain't gotta do it by yerself, and I won't force you to do it all in a day. Take yer time. It's jus' somethin that needs ta be done. Yer bout ta be a big brother and you need more responsibilities." He picked up his fork again, but before he continued eating, he said "But jus' so you know, if you come back with another busted lip and bruise and all the kid got was a bloody nose, then you will be punished."

Goku laughed a little at his father's comment, even though he was completely serious.

Vegeta thought his uncle was a country bumpkin that didn't understand anything at all, but with what his uncle said, for the first time, Vegeta enjoyed sitting at the table with his family.

To be continued….

A/N: Sorry for the long wait. Review!