Seeing Things Clearly
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Chapter 6: Fights and Rainbows
Hmm, not to bad, I think I updated this fic pretty quick – hopefully I'll manage to update the rest now! This chapter is dedicated to Vegetachik7! Thanks for writing such fantastic fanfiction! You guys should really check out her work!
Goku studied the Prince as he pulled on his combat suit before picking up his gloves and shoes and tossing them at the orange clad Saiyan. Goku looked at the items in his hands and then back at the Prince before speaking.
"Um … Vegeta?" Goku asked uncertainly "What do you want me to-"
"Left Kakarot" Vegeta interrupted, holding out his hand
Goku cocked his head to the side in obvious confusion and the Prince sighed agitatedly.
"Throw me the left boot and glove Kakarot – I can't tell which is which yet and unless you want to sit there waiting for me to figure it out by trying on each one, then I suggest you hurry!"
"R-Right!" Goku stuttered, a little shocked that Vegeta trusted him enough to show any kind of weakness "Here"
Goku handed the requested items to the Prince and watched as he slipped them on before handing him the others and waiting for the Prince to finish.
"What are you staring at Kakarot?" Vegeta asked angrily as he pulled on his right hand glove
"Nothing!" Goku replied quickly, blushing slightly at being caught
"Yeah … right"
Goku sighed suddenly thinking that maybe this wasn't such a good idea. He and Vegeta were finally going to have their first sparring session since Vegeta had lost his sight and to put it simply, Goku was scared.
He trusted Vegeta and he trusted the Prince's ability to adapt, he had seen him do so on many occasions before, but he couldn't help but worry that he would end up hurting Vegeta, or even worse – embarrassing him!
"Stop thinking that way idiot" Vegeta muttered
"Huh?" Goku asked dumbly "What do you mean?"
"You're not concentrating and you're channelling your thoughts to me and probably half of the Z idiots inside"
"Oh … sorry"
"What's the problem?" Vegeta asked gruffly, adjusting the pitch black glases on his face to better cover his eyes "You should know better than to worry about me – and I'll fucking kill you if you start pitying me!"
The Prince stepped forward and clenched his fists, growling at Goku
"Whoa, whoa! Calm down Vegeta!" Goku quickly shouted "I don't pity you! Really!"
"Hmph! Whatever!"
Goku sighed again, Vegeta was in a bad mood today which meant he was going to be a bit of a tough opponent – or would he? The younger Saiyan couldn't help but wonder if Vegeta fighting technique would be affected by his loss of sight. It was true that they never really relied too heavily on their sight in past battles, but that didn't mean they didn't use it at all!
He shot a look at Vegeta and the Prince's frown deepened. He took off in the direction of their usual training spot but then quickly changed direction, heading for a flatter area of land. Vegeta, sensing his rival's change in direction followed and sped up, coming level with Goku before shooting in front of him and blocking his path, forcing Goku to stop in his tracks.
"What's up Vegeta?" he asked curiously
"I was about to ask the same of you Kakarot" Vegeta countered, crossing his arms in front of his chest
"What do you mean?"
"Don't fucking play with me Kakarot!"
"I don't know what you mean!" Goku defended "What's wrong with you!"
"What's wrong with me?" Vegeta shouted "What the fuck is wrong with you!"
"Just tell me what I did Vegeta!"
"Why are you going over there?" Vegeta asked, pointing in the direction they had been travelling
"For you!" Goku replied "I did so that it wouldn't be as … hard for you to … oh…"
"Give the dipstick a prize – he figured it out!"
"Vegeta, I didn't mean-"
"Save it Kakarot!" Vegeta snapped, moving to face their original destinations, the mountains where they had first fought and their favourite training grounds "I'll beat some sense into you when we get there"
With that said, Vegeta took off and Goku followed behind him. After a few moments they reached their destination and moved to face each other. Vegeta smirked, finding the situation familiar even though the circumstances had changed. His smirk quickly faded and his head snapped to the left. Goku, who had been wrapped up in his thoughts, noticed the distracted Prince and followed his gaze to find none other than the Z Warriors touching down a good distance away from them. Several were carrying the women and children in their arms and a few moments passed before they all sat down, making themselves comfortable.
Both Vegeta and Goku blinked before Vegeta's smirk returned and he turned to face Goku once more.
"Looks like we have an audience Kakarot" his smirk widened "What do you say we give them a show?"
"But Vegeta – what if you accidentally send a blast in their direction?"
"I'm sure one of our sons could deflect it"
"But what if it's too strong?"
"Then I'm pretty sure 2 of our sons could deflect it" Vegeta replied simply with a hint of anger to his voice – why was he stalling?
"Vegeta, I don't know if-"
"Coward" Vegeta interrupted crossing his arms across his chest "If you were afraid to face me then you shouldn't have accepted the challenge!"
"You know I'm not afraid" Goku shot back
"You are" Vegeta replied quietly "You're afraid to hurt me…"
Goku looked down at his feet in shame. He had promised that he wouldn't be like this with Vegeta, but now he was. He just couldn't help thinking that the prince would be at a disadvantage – it wasn't fair – right?
Goku's head snapped up as he felt Vegeta's power skyrocket and he just barely managed to avoid the fist as his brushed a few stray locks of his hair across his face. He turned to try and talk to the Prince, but Vegeta wasn't about to listen. If he had to show his rival nothing had changed then so be it.
With a loud battle cry, Vegeta jumped to Super Saiyan 2 and launched at Goku again. Before long, Goku was forced to transform to Super Saiyan to prevent his head from being knocked off his shoulders and pretty soon, every ounce of worry faded from his mind.
Their fists collided time after time. Perfectly executed kicks meeting rock hard defences and finally Goku understood. Everything was fine. There was nothing to worry about.
He charged up to SS3 and waited for Vegeta to land in front of him, slightly panting from their last face off.
"Done already Vegeta?" Goku asked with a slight smirk
"Far from it idiot!" Vegeta retorted
Both warriors shot forward ploughing limb after limb into one another, Goku surprised Vegeta using his instant transmission technique, which he rarely used in battles against the Prince, to appear behind him and blast him in the back with a weak kamehameha.
Vegeta shot forward from the blast, heading straight into the mountain range before him, as he was about to make contact his keen senses picked up the land mass in front of him and he raised his hands at lightning speed shooting a ki wave to reflect himself from the crash. In his desperation in avoiding making contact with the rock, Vegeta hadn't judged the power he had put into the ki wave, effectively sending him hurtling in the other direction and smashing straight into another mountain range in the other direction.
The Prince groaned, quite literally peeling himself from the mountainside and floating to his rivals side with one hand on his head and a small smile in place. A look of worry crossed Goku's features before it quickly changed to confusion from the look on Vegeta's face.
"What?" Goku asked "I thought you would be mad"
Vegeta huffed, removing the hand from his head and folding them across his chest.
"Not really" Vegeta admitted, his smile forming into a smirk "If anything that was actually quite fun"
"You're kidding right?"
"Why don't you try it sometime" Vegeta replied, but really, I think that's enough for today – it's getting late"
Goku looked up and indeed it was starting to get dark – just how long had they been fighting? The earth-raised Saiyan had been having so much fun, he had lost all track of time.
Vegeta floated to the ground to stand beside Bulma who had moved closer, along with the rest of the Z Warriors after Vegeta's little run in with the mountain-side.
"You okay?" she asked as he picked her up and raised into the air
"Yes" Vegeta replied with a smirk on his face
"Why so happy?"
Vegeta stayed silent. He decided against telling his mate of the burst of colours that had formed, but quickly faded behind his closed eyes as he had made contact to the mountain. Why get her hopes up?
"It was a good spar" he replied
Bulma smiled snuggled into him slightly. He didn't really mind as the Z Warriors were ahead of him, leading him back to Capsule Corp and couldn't see.
"You were great" she whispered
"I know" Vegeta replied smugly
She playfully slapped him and leaned her head against his shoulder. No more words were spoken for the rest of the journey home other than the occasional squeal of delight from the Prince's daughter who had loved watching the spar between her daddy and Mr Goku.
Well, I think that was a pretty good update time! Now I'll have to go and work on the rest of my fics! I hope I didn't disappoint you Vegetachik7! Don't forget to leave a review – I would appreciate it if you could comment on the fight scene as I don't normally write fight scenes and would like to know how I did.
Until Next Time!
Clarobell