Okay, let me start by saying that I am extremely sorry for this. I haven't updated in a long time and I promise you that I'll never neglect this story like this ever again! It's just that…I got really busy and everything and…I'm sorry! With the Dragonball Z uncut showing, the buzz is back and I was determined to find a really good AU and I couldn't find a lot, so I had to write this again! I just had to. I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry! Now its summer and I don't have excuses. I'll be good, I promise!

Chapter 13

Me no own

Friday Afternoon: Day of the School Dance

Vegeta was looking at his tuxedo in the closet and wondered if he should really put it on or not. He knew Bulma was up to something, but he wasn't sure what. He had to be on his toes. Then again, she would be a fool to try anything, especially since Vegeta could easily tell her father that she wasn't a virgin. Everyone was super religious in that area and Bulma would probably be seriously punished for doing something like fornication. Yes, Bulma was no fool, but she was a risk taker, so her actions weren't clear to Vegeta, but if she wasn't going to try anything, Vegeta was confident that he'd have a good time.

"Cousin Geta?" asked Goku coming into his room. "Ah cousin Geta, you go'n to the dance with Ms. Bulma?"

"Not sure. I was considering to actually give her the honor of going out with me."

Goku chuckled a little. "You sure do think highly of yerself" Goku said.

"And why shouldn't I? Just because you country bumpkins have a lack of self confidence doesn't mean that I have to. Besides, I'm worth it. I deserve to half self confidence, now for someone as pathetic as you, then that's a different story." Goku frowned. 'Going to the dance with Bulma should turn out all right. Besides, Jell-O in lockers, colored gum, and stink bombs is all pretty childish and stupid. She probably doesn't have any good ideas left, at least not anything that I couldn't figure out.'

Just then, there was a knock at Vegeta's door, but his aunt Tannipu was already standing in the doorway. "Vegeta, Bulma's here to see you."

"Bulma?" Goku asked. "I thought you weren't sure if you were going with her."

"That's what I said. I never told her yes." Vegeta walked out of his room with Kakarot behind him all the way to the downstairs living room where Bulma was waiting impatiently on the couch. "What do you want, woman?" Vegeta noticed her saddened and worried eyes, along with her slightly shaking body. She looked horrified and guilty. Vegeta grew suspicious though. Bulma wasn't going to earn his trust that fast. "What do you want woman?" Vegeta went over to Bulma and she stood to greet him.

"V-V…Vegeta…" she was petrified. "Vegeta I did something awful and I'm so horrible and now…"

"What's going on?" Goku asked. Goku was obviously worried about Bulma. "I've never seen you so scared before."

"Vegeta, I can't go to the dance with you. I've…I've got a big problem with Yamcha right now and if I don't handle it, somethin bad's gonna happen ta Yamcha, and I…I just can't live with that, so I'm sorry." She grabbed her blue jean jacket that she had sat down on the couch. "I'll talk to you later."

"But what's the matter with Yamcha?" Goku asked full of concern. "What's going on with him? He's my friend too, Bulma."

"I don't wanna pull you into it. It's all my fault, Goku."

"Just spill it" Vegeta was growing weary of their conversation. "Come on woman. It's not that hard to explain."

She looked around to make sure that Vegeta's aunt and uncle weren't around. When she saw that they weren't she began to explain. "Well, it's Yamcha. He was so angry when I broke up with him that he just went into a fit of depression. Sometimes he's not so depressed, but then he gets angry. I told him that you were gonna take me to the dance and bout caught the biggest fit I've evah seen in my whole life. He ain't got no date, because he figured that I just wanted to get with you for revenge, but he believes that I'm really interested in you…" she started to blush. "He's really jealous of you Vegeta."

Vegeta smirked at the news. "Well, who could compete with me after all?"

"He hates you and he was so upset. He's talk'n bout kill'n himself tonight. I've gotta stop him before he does it." Goku's eyes widened, but Vegeta was a little suspicious of Bulma's little story. "Sorry about all this Mistah City" she gave Vegeta a quick peck on the cheek "I know you wanted ta be with me tonight. Maybe homecoming, Sugah."

"I'm gonna look for him with ya" Goku said. "We should tell my pa."

Bulma shook her head. "I can look for him myself. I don't need yer help." Before she walked away, Vegeta noticed that under her right eye was a little discolored. It looked like she tried to cover it with makeup.

"Bulma, did he do this to you?" Vegeta asked angrily.

Goku shook his head. "No, Yamcha wouldn't do nuthin like that. He'd nevah hurt Bulma."

Goku waited for her to say something to prove her wrong. He was just waiting for her to say that Yamcha would never hurt her andhad gotten it doing something on the farm, but she didn't say anything. "Yamcha's not himself. He didn't mean to."

"I'm coming with you" Vegeta surprisingly said. "He's psychotic."

Bulma almost burst into tears from shock. "I…I didn't think that you'd help me. I thought you would have believed that this was a prank."

"I did, but you're too vain to bruise your face just to fool me." He grabbed her arm. "Let's go."

She smiled brightly, even though she was highly offended. "You don't know what this means to me. You're probably gonna save his life, Vegeta."

"Yeah" Goku said "yer a real hero."

"I'm not doing it for his good; I'm doing it because he's sick and pathetic. I want him to know that before he ends his life." They all went out to Bulma's truck and Bulma looked scared to death. If this was a prank, then Bulma's acting abilities were far beyond that of what Vegeta originally thought she was capable of. The swollen mark under her eye is what had made him sure it wasn't a prank though. Bulma was too vain to hurt herself. What she was saying had to be the truth.

After driving for a half hour, Bulma drove up to Dead Man's Forest, as it was so popularly named by the teenagers there. Ironically, it was the place where most of the rebellious teens would go to make out. Bulma and Yamcha had gone there many of times, and now it was the place where Yamcha was going to end everything. The forest was thick and heavy with trees. Vegeta had sworn for a moment that he was in a jungle, rather than in a forest. When they finally did find Yamcha, he had his dad's shotgun pointed to his head and looked pathetic. "Yamcha, don't do it!" Bulma pleaded. "Please Yamcha; you don't have ta do this. Yer better than this!"

"Not without you babe."

Vegeta rolled his eyes. "You're really that pathetic that you can't live without her? If that's true, then she doesn't deserve someone as pathetic as you." Just when Vegeta stepped a little closer, so he could pound Yamcha's face in just before he killed himself, Yamcha smirked. Before Vegeta could figure out he had been made a fool of, he felt his leg being snagged and he was quickly turned upside down and being hung by a rope on a tree.

"Cousin Geta!" Just as Goku tried to help his cousin, he discovered that there was a trap set up for him as well. When they were both hanging upside down, side by side, Goku and Vegeta were furious.

"What was all that crap about Yamcha hitting you?"

Bulma laughed. "Do you think I'm that stupid? I'd nevah be with a man that had enough gull to hit me! I got this from a farming accident. Happens a lot whenevah Goku chooses not to do my chores!"

"Do your own chores!" Vegeta barked. "This is ridiculous! So now what? I'm going to hang up here for about a half hour and then your sweet and precious revenge will be realized?"

"No" Bulma said reaching into her purse and pulling out a small device. "It's a homemade stink bomb, but don't think it stops there sugah. You'll probably smell nice and clean by the time you go home, since it's gonna rain while Yamcha and me are safe inside the school gym."

"Oh," Yamcha said "and lets not ferget whatever else can happen while yer out in these parts." He began to laugh. "I don't plan on help'n ya down, city fella. Figure it out."

Bulma took a can of spray paint out of her purse along with a disposable camera. "Don't take it too personal, Sugah." She walked behind him and tired to avoid his arms from grabbing her. She had a hard time avoiding him, but she was able to successfully write 'Loser' very sloppily on his and Goku's back.

"What did I do?" asked Goku. "I thought we were friends."

"We were, but you can't side with him and expect not ta suffer with him either." She took pictures the both of them. "Have a nice night!" Bulma and Yamcha began to run away as the stink bomb began to go off.

"Vegeta" Goku asked worriedly "how do we get out of this?"

"Kakarot…" Vegeta said like he was about to explode "Bulma was our ride home."

Goku began to whimper as the scent of the foul stink bomb unleashed its wrath upon Vegeta and Goku. "This ain't right!" Goku yelled. "This ain't right! Bulma!" She didn't answer. Yamcha and Bulma just left them there hanging upside down being tainted by the stink bomb.

Vegeta was furious. "That stupid girl had to resort to this? This was childish!"

"Well" Goku's face already red. He could feel the blood rushing to his head. "This won't seem so stupid when we pass out!" Goku sighed. "Look like she won, cousin Geta."

"Do you think I'm actually going to let her get away with this, Kakarot? I'll get her for this." Vegeta noticed how sick Goku began to look. "Kakarot?" Goku was feeling light headed and that combined with the foul smell of the stink bomb only made Goku nauseating. It wasn't long until he threw up. "Ah Kakarot, that's disgusting!"

"Sorry Geta…"

Vegeta was disgusted with his cousin and was determined to get loose now, but it was going to be hard. Vegeta struggled to reach the rope tied around his feet, but it was hard getting to it. It wasn't long until it started raining and when it did, it only made things harder, but Vegeta eventually got to it and untied himself, but after he was loose, the force of gravity over took him and he had a hard landing on the forest ground, hurting his already injured back. "She's gonna pay…" he seethed. It took him a while to get up, but when he did, he struggled to help his sick cousin down. "I can't believe you can eat so much and have such a weak stomach."

Goku was just glad to be back on his feet. They must have been upside down for an hour or maybe two. "Uh, we gotta walk home?"

"Do you know how?"

Goku shrugged his shoulders. "I think so. I don't really come up these parts, G…Vegeta. I'll try."

"I think I remember the way home from the forest, but I don't know which way is out of it." 'I'm going to kill her, and she'll experience what true pain really is!' "Come on Kakarot."

"You don't want to go to the dance?" Yamcha asked Bulma up in her room as she looked in a mirror. "You look great."

"But with this bruise I look horrible. I can't go on like this. We can wait fer homecoming. It's not that far away."

Yamcha rolled his eyes. "You women are impossible!"

'I hope my little doll is doing well.'

"Bardock" Tannipu said looking at the grandfather clock in her living room "maybe you should go and try to find Kakarot and Vegeta. It's past their bed time. They could be in trouble. Goku would have come home by now. Vegeta has more sense then to keep him out this late. They would have come home."

"If yer nephew-"

"Our nephew!"

"If yer nephew has influenced our son to do anything wrong, I swear I'll make that boy pay, Tannipu."

"Vegeta did have his school dance tonight."

"That ain't got nuth'n to do with Kakarot and Vegeta left his tuxedo at home. They're either in trouble, or they're gonna be, and I swear I'll kill'em. I'll kill'em dead!" Tannipu looked worried about her son and nephew, but after a while, she started calling around to her neighbor's houses, but she couldn't find out what had happened to her dear Vegeta and Kakarot. Bardock ordered her to try and get some sleep after a while, but she was too worried to actually rest, so she just lay in her bed worrying. Bardock stayed up on the porch and waited for his son and nephew to appear. He was getting tired, but he could never be too sleepy to kill anyone. Around 4 am, Bardock angrily spotted his son and nephew. "Now what on God's green Earth happened to you!"

Vegeta and Goku looked exhausted. They had been hit with a stink bomb, hung upside down for hours, rained on, and utterly lost. On top of that, they were forced to walk/run home a ridiculously long distance. Bardock was ready to kill them, but he just knew it would be one of those incidents where they were in trouble rather than going to be. "Mind splain'n what you done did, boys?"

"I don't want to talk about it" was Vegeta's sleepy reply.

"I don't care. You ain't get'n in this house till I hear an explanation!"

Vegeta was determined not to tell his business to his noisy uncle, but Goku was sick and tired. "We got lost, rained on, and abandoned."

"Who abandoned you and where?"

"Bulma, in the middle of the forest. I didn't rightly know how ta get home, nor did cousin Geta here. We had a hard time walk'n home in the rain."

Bardock felt his son's head. "Boy, you've caught a fever. Get in the house!" He smelled his son. "And take a long shower." Goku walked inside so he couldn't notice the death glare that Vegeta was giving him. "And the smell?" he asked Vegeta.

Vegeta honestly didn't want to explain anything to his uncle. It was none of his business. Besides, he would only get Bulma in trouble by telling her parents, and Vegeta wanted to get even by doing what he thought would hurt her the most. "Skunk, we got sprayed by a blasted skunk, are you happy now? Does that answer all of your questions, or do I have to stand out here soaking wet longer than what my patience can bear?"

"Don't get smart with me boy!"

"Don't call me a boy. I'm not your son, and I don't expect you to treat me like I am. I haven't done anything wrong tonight, so let me be!" The two of them just starred down each other for a while, Tannipu came outside and told the two to back down.

Bardock regrettably agreed. "Fine boy, go take a shower and get dressed."

"No" barked Vegeta. "I'm taking a shower and getting some sleep. I'm not staying up all night only to go to the Briefs' farm. You and your son can go."

Bardock stepped closer to Vegeta and looked down at him with raging eyes. He wasn't used to being disrespected. "Either you act according to my rules, or you get outah my house."

Vegeta expected that he was bluffing at first, but after looking into his eyes, he realized that his uncle was absolutely serious. It wasn't like he could just go home. He didn't have any money on him and his parents wouldn't let him back in, especially if they learned why he left. Vegeta grumbled and walked into the house to get ready to leave for the farm. 'I swear I'll get Bulma. By tomorrow, her life will be over!'

To Be Continued…

A/N: Now Bulma's gonna pay the next chapter!