My Immortal
By: Cabalistic
Disclaimer: No own dbz.
Chapter 11
Goku choked on his clam chowder soup. (A/N don't ask...) Vegeta! He choked on it and coughed, banging the table for help from his friends. Except they didn't really notice, Goku already choked five times so it wasn't much use coming to his rescue.
Kurrin looked up a little from the newspaper and his coffee and said, "Geez, slow down will ya, Goku?" Juu kind of nodded from the side of her head. Chi Chi banged on his back, making him choke even more.
Goku spat out the soup on the next table, which turned out being a very fat blonde haired lady, dressed in shorts who really shouldn't be wearing them with an overtight tee shirt, who shrieked and tried to swat Goku with one of her many handbags. He ducked, then smiled his goofy smile and said, "Sorry ma'am, but you look better that way." She shot him a look of pure disgust and venom rolled into one glare and stalked off, cursing.
He turned back to the table and remembered. Then he slammed his fists into the table and started yelling curses. The words streamed from his mouth and into the air.
Everyone in the restaurant stopped what they were doing and looked at him. Chi Chi leapt to her feet and said in a loud enough voice for everyone to hear, "Goku I think you drank to much beer, let's get you outside." She pushed him outside and pulled 18 along.
Kurrin grumbled under his breath, "Thanks, leave me to pay the bill."
Goku sat on the sidewalk and sighed. Chi Chi looked worried and said, "What happened?"
He didn't look up and muttered so low the girls had to strain to hear, "Vegeta's ki went out." He looked, with tears running down his face, "He's dead."
Juu made a sharp sound in her throat and Chi Chi turned pale. "Who?"
"Vegeta. He's dead." Goku's voice quivered and he yelled angrily, "They poisoned him!"
Juu shook his shoulder and said in a hurriedly voice, "Bulma? Is she okay?"
Goku didn't answer and Juu shrank back in alarm. Then he answered in a low voice, "She's alive. But she's just miserable." Chi Chi's eyes widened and Juu screamed in sudden realization that they weren't with their friend.
Trunks felt the tiny flicker of life from the stronger chi die from next to his mother. Goten was already asleep, with all of his energy back. Trunks energy was still wavering but he could make it.
He felt his mother's chi cry out in agony. Did she truly care for him? Trunks wondered.
He glanced at Goten's sleeping body in the corner of the cell. Just tomorrow and we'll be out, mom, He promised quietly. Please hold on.
The darkness from the cell seemed to stretch for miles and Trunks shivered, pushing himself further against the wall. Somewhere in the dark, a man groaned and a baby whimpered. A mother was singing quietly.
Water dripped from the ceiling, landing like an explosion in the silence.
Goten stirred in his sleep and snored loudly. The bottom of the cage door opened slightly and a plate with a chicken was shoved in with a bun. A glass of water came after that.
Goten awoke when the door open and scuttled to the food. He laid it in front of Trunks and stared at the bun quietly. Trunks studied the food. The chicken had a bite out of it and the bun had a fly on it, which Goten removed quickly. The water had a putrid smell and had a green look to it.
"The bun and chicken are fine. The water's poisoned again." Goten groaned with Trunk's news. "What's with the water these days?" He complained to the ceiling.
Trunks smiled one of his mysterious smiles then clinked at the chains. "Can you get me out?" Goten stood up eagerly and asked, "Are we getting out now?" Trunks shook his head, "Tomorrow."
Goten frowned but blasted the chains with a single ki shot. Trunks rubbed his sore wrists and sat down, "Let's eat."
Chi Chi and Juu left Goku in his sadness, feeling like they let him down. The youth rested his head on both of his fists and sighed angrily. He sat on top of the roof of the church in the town with light bells that rang from inside, but he didn't notice. Goku stared out into the sunset with tears flowing down his cheeks like waterfalls.
Flashback
"Crying is a weakness, Karkarot!" 25 year old Vegeta said, scowling at Goku. Goku stifled at cry from his throat and looked back at his sister's grave. The tombstone said in bold letters: Korn. Like a lightning bolt through his heart.
"She never even got to drive her own spaceship." He whispered hoarsely. Vegeta struck him hard across the face. His eyes flashed wildly in anger, "Stop whimpering, Karkarot! You're acting like there's no food for tomorrow! That's something to cry about!" Vegeta sucked in a breath. "Crying is for pathetic useless women who have nothing better to do!"
He jabbed Goku in the chest, "You are a saiyan warrior! A 3rd rated saiyan, but a warrior! You have true saiyan blood running in you, Karkarot!" He glanced back at the grave and snapped, "Your sister was one of the strong but when she was sent off, it wasn't her fault she didn't get off the planet in time before it blew up! More like her bloody partner's fault for trying to get all the bloody credit!"
Goku sank to the ground and wrapped his arms around his legs, rocking back and forth. He said quietly, "You're thinking about Vegetsa again, aren't you, Vegeta?"
Vegeta's lower lip trembled but otherwise his face didn't budge. He looked rigid in rage and Goku prepared to get killed. But instead he sighed and sank next to Goku and snapped, "What if I am?"
Vegetsa was Vegeta's younger sister, the one no one knew or otherwise talked about. She was two years younger than Vegeta but she adored and looked up to him in every way. The one that 'didn't exist anymore in Vegetasei'. His younger sister was a 'disgrace to the throne' from what The King said.
Apparently they were disappointed in her, they wanted only a son to inherit the throne and otherwise the princess was a problem. They didn't want any other one to inherit the throne other than Vegeta. Even though the young princess had a growing strength, almost as strong as Vegeta in her young age. But that didn't seem to matter.
So when she was six, they sent her off to a distant country, never to be heard from again.
This tore Vegeta's heart because he was close to his sister. He enjoyed having someone to be amazed at what he did. His parents didn't seem much impressed but Vegetsa's dark eyes seemed to widen at everything her older brother did.
Vegeta tore away from the memories and shook his head, trying to get rid of his past sorrow. Gruffly, he said, "What's done is done. What's gone is gone." He glared at Goku and said, "Kill or be killed, Karkarot. Find other's weaknesses and protect yours."
With a flutter of his red cape, Vegeta walked away, leaving Goku alone with his sister's grave, tears running down his face.
End Flashback
Goku hugged his legs to his chest. First his sister Korn then Vegeta had to go. "He knew I didn't like deaths." He mumbled. "He knew that I don't like funerals either." He stared into the sky and sighed, burying his head onto his knees. "He knew I get all weepy."
Goku rocked himself back and forth like a child on the roof. The sun just set and the stars were like lightning bugs in the sky, so tiny it seemed you could reach up and squash one.
Someone emerged, climbing the wall of the church. Chi Chi came up, with a scarf over her shoulders. "Hey," She whispered in a gentle voice.
Goku turned his head away, trying not to face her. He didn't want her to see how he was crying. He didn't want her to know about his weakness.
Chi Chi sat down next to him, unmoving, with her dark eyes intense on him in the dark. "I'm... sorry." She said out of the corner of her mouth. A tear trickled down her cheek like a jewel falling. Goku jerked his head up and said, "For what?"
She waved her hand at the sky and said, "For... Vegeta." Goku was shocked and he said, "No use apologizing for something you didn't do." Chi Chi said, "I know I didn't do anything, but I'm just..." She cut herself off and didn't continue. Goku didn't say anything either. He knew that there was a lot unsaid between them. There was no use trying to talk about it.
"How are they?" Chi Chi asked in a small voice. Goku tilted his head in confusion and said, "Who?" Chi Chi made small gestures with her hands. "Them." Goku's eyes widened in the secret language she shared with him. "Them?" He asked in an astonished voice. Chi Chi nodded.
"They're fine. Really. Taller now, though." He laughed half-heartedly, "Older too." Chi Chi nodded slightly but her face was blurred with tears. "Are they healthy?" Goku nodded eagerly like a small child, "I train with them every day." Chi Chi blurted out, "How's their education?" Goku jolted. Then he shifted himself into a better position, "Their what?"
Chi Chi looked disappointed, "No education on Vegetasei, huh?" Goku looked confused, "Did I fail to mention that? Only royalty has education."
Chi Chi didn't answer that time, only letting the whistle of the wind replace her voice. He sensed a great deal of sorrow in her and only worry could cover it up for her.
And made her forget.
A/N: Well, finally I wrote about G/CC. I haven't been keeping up with them. My bad!
Next time: Bulma's reaction to Vegeta's death and what happens to Vegeta.
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