Title: Crimson-dipped Obsession

Summary: Bulma Briefs' life made a horrifying turn when an obsessed Saiyan prince arrived on Earth and wanted her to be his! What's more to this alien was a dark secret that has caused a change in the history of Dragon Ball Z, and if it is revealed, it holds the fate of the entire universe.

Genre: Horror, Psychological Thriller, Romance, Mystery

Disclaimer: I do not own Dragon Ball Z. Some events in this fan fic is also inspired by Mirai Nikki and DBXV.

Warning: You might find Vegeta out of character in this story as this fic is made as an answer to the question 'What if Vegeta was a yandere?'. Vegeta is originally and generally a tsundere. A Tsundere is a character who is initially cold and even hostile towards another person before gradually showing a warm and caring side over time. The yandere personality is the exact opposite of a tsundere personality. A Yandere is a character who is genuinely kind, loving, sweet or gentle, but can suddenly switch to being aggressive or deranged. (From wiktionary).

If you don't like Vegeta to be like a yandere then I suggest you to turn back now and stop reading as this story also contains lots of blood, gore and violence.

Author's Notes: I was watching Dragon Ball Z for references for some filler adventure while Bulma, Vegeta, Gohan and Krilin were travelling towards Namek. And here's what I find. This chapter is based on the DBZ filler Episode (ep#39) entitled in English as 'Friends or foes', though I refer to the japanese version as you might notice by my use of honorifics (-san, -chan, -kun) and by the way Bulma refers to Goku as 'Son-kun'.

I would also like to thank all readers and supporters of this story. Please do read and review for your continued support to this story serve as an inspiration for me to write more for you! Keep it up! :)

Now, on to the sixth chapter of Crimson-dipped Obsession!

Chapter 6: The Choice

[Age 762, November 11, 00:07, Sun Wukong Hospital, Goku's room]

Goku sat motionless on his bed, thinking deeply about what the Lord of Worlds just told him earlier…

"Goku… I was watching your fight with him a week ago, that's why I know what happened. Whoever that Vegeta you guys are with, he's a fake. Do not put your trust on him! We don't know who he really is and what his true intentions are."

Goku couldn't shake these thoughts of. By his judgment, Vegeta was indeed a good guy, though not very perfectly because he could still sense a tint of evil energy within the Saiyan. But he was helping them out, and he was being kind with him and his friends. If there were any evil intention, Goku would have sensed it by the way.

But as the Lord of Worlds have said, if Vegeta died, and his spirit appeared before Enma Daiou, then suddenly disappeared and if that thing called 'paradox' are true, then who was that Vegeta who was with them? Is he the same person when he first met him or an imposter? Can he really trust the prince, who was along with his best friends and his son? What if…?

No, Vegeta will never harm them. I'm sure of it. I can feel he wouldn't do anything as cowardly as that. Goku thought. If there was any doubt, he could only pray for his son and friends' safety as they travel to Namek with a guy like that.

He could only wait until he could get to Planet Namek to confront Vegeta about this.

[Age 762, November 21, Outer Space, Inside the Namekian Spaceship]

Eleven days after Bulma and the others left the Earth, Bulma found herself becoming bored after she finished reading several books and novels. Krilin and Gohan busy themselves with some image training together. Vegeta used to join them a few days before but after realizing that these two were definitely no match for him, he decided to just go and sit in the corner to do his own mental training in order to try and control his Saiyan blood lust.

"Yaaaaawn! I'm so bored…!" Bulma yawned with a big mouth as she looked around at the mess in the floor. She knew that it was her mess but cleaning it up would be all too annoying for her.

She looked at her companions, who were all sitting with their legs crossed on the floor. Krilin and Gohan were facing each other while Vegeta was in the corner by himself. She watched as Krilin and Gohan concentrated on their mind training. Seconds later, both Krilin and Gohan opened their eyes, exhausted.

"You're good, Gohan! After all you are Goku's son and you were trained by Piccolo!" Krilin complimented.

"You, too, Krilin-san!" Gohan cheerfully replied.

After a few seconds of silence, both turned towards where Vegeta is. "Well, it's good that he didn't join us this time. He was merciless even on training!" Krilin said.

"Yeah, Vegeta-san seemed to get tired on both of us! Hahahaha!" Gohan laughed.

"Say…" Bulma butted in. "Training with your mind is all good, but this place has gotten a bit too messy. Would you care to clean it up? There's a lady in here."

"But you were the one who made that mess. We already clean up ours, you should clean yours." Krilin said.

"I'm busy! I have lots to think about! Besides, all the three of you do is sit on-board!"

"But I thought you said you were bored."

"Shut up! Can't you be considerate to a delicate lady?"

Gohan began to clean up the mess Bulma was talking about, Krilin decided to help him. While Bulma turned around and sat on one of the chairs in front of the main control computer.

"If she was a delicate lady, I wish she wouldn't wander around in her underwear…." Krilin whispered to Gohan.

As the two continued to clean Bulma's mess, Krilin said to Gohan…"You Saiyans seemed to have bottomless potential, eh…. I can't believe Vegeta was merciful to let us all live and even help us revive our friends back."

"He didn't look like a good guy when we first met him, but I guess we really should not judge people by their appearance, eh?"

"You're right."

In the corner, Vegeta was quietly meditating. In his mind, he was trying to focus more on controlling his urge to kill both Krilin and Gohan, which is becoming more difficult for him as the days passed by. He was having that urge every time the two speak to Bulma, laugh with her, and even look at her. He heard Krilin say something about Bulma wandering around in her underwear and immediately wanted to rip the monk's eyes off their sockets for looking at Bulma in her undies. On the other hand, he thought Krilin was right, why the hell was Bulma wandering around in her underwear anyways? In the end he used these thoughts to take away his desire to kill. After all, what would Bulma think of him if he were to kill Krilin and Kakarot's brat?

Then, something caught his sensitive senses. He snapped his eyes open as his senses screamed danger. At the same time, the ship's computer initiated a warning.

"Huh? What's that?" Bulma asked particularly no one as she looked over between the monitor and the window before her. Gohan and Krilin approached her immediately.

"Hey, look! Space jets?!" Gohan pointed at the line of light that seemed to approach them. Indeed, there were several space jets in front of them. The space jets began firing at them with lasers and the three of them screamed as their space ship shook.

Vegeta quickly stood up and teleported in front of the computer with his unbelievable speed, making Bulma, Krilin and Gohan surprised at his display of incredible speed.

"Vegeta!" Krilin and Bulma called.

"Vegeta-san!" Gohan also called in unison with the two.

Vegeta turned to them and said, "Leave it to me," He approached the computer, and said this on Namekian Language: "Computer, initiate a stronger defense mechanism. Then prepare to retaliate immediately. Fire blasts and obliterate all enemies in the way. Do it now!"

The spaceship stopped shaking the next second, and then they all watched as the line of space jets in front of them get vaporized by their spaceship's own laser beams. When the coast is finally clear, Bulma, Gohan and Krilin all together cheered. "We did it! Yay!"

Vegeta was glaring at the window when he noticed something. A spaceship that looked like theirs loomed right in front of them and is getting closer right towards them. But when he looked at the monitor, the computer was not detecting something in front of them.

"Oh no!" Bulma screamed when she noticed the huge, white spaceship coming right towards them, and if it wouldn't be stopped then they will slam into that thing!

"Waaaaaaaaaaahh!" Gohan and Krilin screamed.

Vegeta glared at the scene before him and noticed something odd. He blinked before he let out an evil smirk. He decided to have some fun with what he just discovered and decided not to do anything against it.

"This sounds like fun…"

When they thought the Namekian spaceship they were riding in slammed into the other spaceship, they actually got captured into something unexplainable.

[Age 762, November 21, Inside an Unknown Spaceship]

"Bulma! Hey! Bulma!"

Bulma slowly opened her eyes as she felt someone shook her. She found Vegeta looking at her anxiously, while Gohan and Krilin stood beside him. The prince helped Bulma to get up.

"Where are we?" she asked as she looked at the window to see where they are. They're not in space anymore. It looked like some sort of garage where different spaceships were parked.

"I don't know," Vegeta replied. "But it seems we are captured. There could be dangerous aliens lurking around but we don't know how we should escape in here unless I destroy this entire place. For the meantime, why won't we investigate?"

"Wouldn't that be dangerous?" Krilin asked.

Vegeta just gave him an arrogant smirk.

They came out of the space ship, while looking around for quite some time, Bulma realized she was wearing her underwear only and freaked out, "Waah! I forgot my pants!"

The three boys just looked at her weirdly.

"It was your fault for being too irresponsible," Vegeta told her.

"Bulma-san, would you care behaving for the sake of all the Earthlings?" Krilin also told her.

"Bah! Forget it! Let's just go!" Bulma screamed at them, getting angry.

"I can't believe I fell in love with this woman…" Vegeta thought.

The four of them started walking around, with Vegeta on the lead, who was holding Bulma's hand. Bulma followed him, then Krilin and Gohan. They entered a dark hallway and roamed around for a little bit until Vegeta sensed something that made him stop on his tracks. Bulma hit his back with her face, and so as Krilin and Gohan.

"Ouch! Why did you suddenly stop, Vegeta?!" Bulma yelled at him.

"Guns," Vegeta replied.

"Guns?" Bulma repeated. As if to answer her question, a hundred of guns began to appear on the walls the surrounded them.

"Eeeepp!" Bulma, Gohan and Krilin screamed.

Vegeta just glared, and then snorted loudly. He turned around and carried Bulma in his arms, making her scream in surprise.

"W-W-W-W-What are you doing, you jerk?!"

In a flash of super speed, Vegeta ran his way forward, Krilin and Gohan followed him, hardly dodging the bullets that would have killed them. Once they reached the other side, they felt safe.

"T-That was close…" Bulma sighed in relief after Vegeta brought her down.

"Indeed," Krilin agreed in exhaustion.

Suddenly, there was a loud sound of ripping metal, the four of them found themselves being trapped as huge metal walls slammed around them.

"No! Let me out of here! Please, let me out of here!" Bulma cried as she began to bang her hands on the metal walls.

"Tch! This could be easy," Vegeta said, letting out an arrogant smirk.

"Yeah!" Krilin agreed with a huge smirk.

"Ready?"

"Yes!" Gohan nodded.

"Bulma, get away from there!" Vegeta told her as he prepared a ki sphere in his right hand. Bulma saw what they are about to do and decided to step back. But before the three men could fire off their blasts on the door, something leaked out it, a dark green substance.

"What is that?" Krilin asked.

Vegeta sniffed at the air and recognized, "It's acid!" he exclaimed.

"Acid?"

The Saiyan prince quickly grabbed Bulma in his arms as he floated in the air. "Hurry up, Krilin! Blast the damn door or we will be toast!"

After Krilin and Gohan blasted the door, they finally got out safely. All of them sighed with relief.

"I thought we're going to die," Bulma sighed.

"No, we won't, so long as I'm in here," Vegeta assured her.

"How can you be so sure about that?" Krilin asked doubtfully.

Vegeta just ignored him and told them to follow him. They continued walking around the hallway, which seemed to be endless.

"Hey, aren't we walking around in circles?" Gohan asked.

"I noticed that, too," Bulma told him.

"Hmmm… There could be a door somewhere in here," Krilin said.

As if on cue, Krilin was right. There was indeed a door that appeared before them, but it was in the ceiling.

"I'll get it!" The monk turned warrior volunteered as he floated to open that door, but it just wouldn't budge no matter how hard he tried.

"Huh? What the fuck?" Vegeta muttered to himself.

Bulma laughed, "Hahaha! You know what? There could be a password to that thing!"

"And what would that be?"

Bulma posed, looking up into the ceiling where the door was, and raised her hand. Then she began waving them as her face became concentrated, "Haaaaaah! OPEN SESAMEEEEEEEEEEEEE!"

Vegeta, Gohan and Krilin just stared at her, dumbfounded.

Bulma continued with what she was doing, "OPEN SESAMEEEEEEEEEEEE! Come on guys! Let's do this!"

Vegeta, Krilin and Gohan were forced to do the same as Bulma, blushing in embarrassment.

Vegeta looked away in embarrassment, "I can't believe I fell in love with this idiot…" and then he saw something blinking on the side."What's that?"

"OPEEEEEEEEEEEEENNN SESAMEEEEEE!"

Then suddenly they heard something opened, they found that the door was actually on the wall in front of them.

"Yes! The door opened!" Bulma exclaimed.

"Of course it did, because I opened it." Vegeta told her.

"Shut up! It opened because of my password!" Bulma screamed at him.

Vegeta rolled his eyes before he let out a forced sweet smile, "Fine, good job, my dear little Bulma."

[Age 762, November 21, Inside an Unknown Spaceship, Hallway B]

They entered the hallway that was opened before them. As they walked around, Bulma stepped on something and that made the floors collapse abruptly, making them all fall and scream in terror. But before Bulma, Krilin and Gohan could drop and be thrown out in outer space; Vegeta caught them all and blasted his way out of the trap. Once they reached another room, the three thanked the Saiyan Prince for saving them. Vegeta just smiled back at them in his sweetest way.

"I'm hungry…" Vegeta mumbled.

"Me, too." Krilin agreed.

"Me three," Gohan also agreed,

"Me four," Bulma also agreed.

"Hmm?" Vegeta muttered as he sniffed in the air. Once he recognized that smell, his mouth began to water. "That's smells like food!"

Kriln and Gohan also sniffed in the air, "There's no doubt about it!"

"That smelled like roast!"

"Yaaay!"

They all ran towards the source of the smell. It led them into an empty hall that looked like an empty gym. There were balconies on every corner of the room. In the center of the room was a table full of food. The three men immediately ran over the table to eat while Bulma told them to be alert for any kind of traps after what they experienced earlier.

"Don't worry, Bulma! No matter what happens, I will protect you!" Vegeta assured. "So let's eat, okay!"

When Bulma sat on the table, trying to be careful and alert for any signs of traps when something abruptly went past an inch on her face. And Vegeta saw it was a knife, he quickly grabbed another knife that was set on the table before him and deflected the thing coming towards Bulma. The knife earlier went through a button in the wall instead, which rang out a loud alarm.

"W-What's happening?!" Bulma screamed as the entire place began shaking. Suddenly, a huge metal dome came out of nowhere and enclosed them. While Krilin and Gohan were able to escape, Vegeta grabbed Bulma but something pulled both of them away from each other. It was a huge mechanical claw, something similar to the ones used in toy cranes, each of the two mechanical claws pulled Bulma and Vegeta away from each other, while trapping both of them in its huge claws.

"Help me!" Bulma cried out as she slammed into the dome and crashed it. She was being pulled back fast, much like a yoyo being pulled back into the player's hand. Finally, she slammed into the wall, which stopped her momentum.

"Bulma!" Vegeta called out. Bulma saw that he was being pulled on the other side away from her.

"Bulma-saaan! Vegeta-saaaan!" Gohan and Krilin screamed.

"Vegeta! Gohan-chan! Krilin!" Bulma cried.

Bulma felt something pressed on her face, when she looked down, she saw several chidren, about twenty of them, pointing their guns toward her.

There were loud noises as several huge cubes emerged from the floor, and there came out several more children armed with guns and pointed their guns towards Gohan and Krilin.

"W-What's this?"

On the other side, Vegeta finds himself being ambushed by thirty children. He just glared at them before he turned his eyes towards where Bulma is. She was crying for help.

"Waaaaaaahh! Help me! Gohan-chan! Krilin! Don't move! If you move, I will die!" Bulma screamed.

"B-b-but Bulma-san…. What are we supposed to do?"

"Just fucking surrender!"

Vegeta growled to himself as he turned to see both Krilin and Gohan confused on what to do. Then he turned his glare to the children before him. Surrender? Oh no, never in his lifetime!

"Tch! What a nuisance!" he snarled, before he held on to the claws that held him and began to rip them off. The children before him watched at his display of strength in fear, and began to fire their guns towards him.

"Oh no! Vegeta!" Bulma screamed.

"Vegeta-san!" Gohan also screamed in unison with Bulma.

"LET GO OF MY BULMA, YOU STUPID BRAAAAAAAAAAAAATTSSS!" Vegeta released his aura and began to power up, shaking the entire ship with his power.

"W-What the?!" the leader of the army of children, a dark haired boy wearing a white shirt mouthed. "This kind of power! The uniform he's wearing! This person is one of Frieza's soldiers!"

"Frieza?" Krilin and Gohan repeated.

Vegeta snarled at them, his power creating a destructive maelstrom around him. "I AM NOT ONE OF FRIEZA'S SOLDIERS, YOU FOOL! NOT ANYMORE!" He screamed as he flew towards the boy and punched him in the face. The boy was thrown away several meters across from where he stood. Vegeta quickly flew towards Bulma as the children began firing at them. Vegeta ripped the claw that held Bulma with his power and flew away, leaving Krilin and Gohan to deal with the children.

The leader called Zushin divided their group into two units. The first group led by a boy named Bun went after Vegeta and Bulma while the others were left to guard Krilin and Gohan.

"No! Please stop, we're innocent!" Krilin said to the children when they pointed their guns toward them.

"Liars! If you really are innocent then why are you with a guy like him?!" yelled Zushin.

"You mean, Vegeta?"

"Yeah! Him! Wait, he's Vegeta? The Legendary Destroyer of Worlds?"

"Eh? Legendary Destroyer of Worlds?" Gohan repeated.

"Yeah! Vegeta, the Legendary Destroyer of Worlds, Frieza's favorite soldier!"

"Frieza?"

"Stop feigning ignorance! No matter what you say, you are with Vegeta. If you are with him that means you are also invaders!"

"No! No, we're not invaders! We are peace-loving people from Earth!" Krilin defended, waving his hands to deny the accusation being pointed at them.

"Shut up!" another boy, named Yuso screamed at him as he fired his gun. Gohan merely dodged the bullet that would have injured him.

"B-but…" Gohan pouted back.

"No matter what you say, nobody's going to believe you," Zushintold them coldly.

"Hey now, we heard about Vegeta being a trouble maker and all but... Whatever business he was doing with this Frieza that you guys are talking about, we're really not with him on it. He was merely helping us get our friends back," Krilin said.

"Please believe us." Gohan pleaded.

"I said SHUT UP!"

And then, there was a series of gunfire.

[Age 762, November 21, Inside an Unknown Spaceship, Hallway B]

"Vegeta! Stop it! Gohan and Krilin are in danger! We have to help them!" Bulma screamed at Vegeta, who was making his way back towards their spaceship.

"It doesn't matter." Vegeta replied.

"What do you mean by that?!"

"So long as you and I survive, other things don't matter to me. I am merely using those two as distraction in order for us to escape."

"What?"

Bulma looked at him, his eyes weren't those crazy pair of crimson she saw when he killed those people in the Amusement Park a few days ago on Earth. But why is Vegeta suddenly becoming so cold now? Was the cold and ruthless attitude really from the Saiyan instincts or was it really from his personality?

"No! Stop it, Vegeta! You have to help them! Please!" Bulma begged him as she grabbed his shoulders desperately.

Vegeta gritted his teeth in annoyance as he stopped from flying. He descended into the floor and brought her down. Vegeta turned his back on her and said: "Say something, and then I will do it."

"Say what?" Bulma asked, confused.

"Say "Please help me save those two, then in return, I will be your lover for all eternity.'"

"No way!"

"Then let's go and leave them to die!" Vegeta said as he continued his pace, but Bulma refused to walk.

"No, I won't! If you don't want to save them, then I will do it." She shouted at him as she turned back.

Vegeta quickly turned and shouted back, "Then you will die!"

"Who cares?!" she yelled back.

"I do! Bulma, I cannot live without you!"

A few seconds of silence before Bulma turned to look at the Saiyan prince coldly. "That's not my problem anymore."

When Bulma was about to leave Vegeta, she found that several other children have chased them and they are now being surrounded. The sight of the armed children made her step back in fear. Vegeta stepped in front of her protectively and crouched down in a fighting stance.

"We have captured your two other friends, if you want to save them then surrender yourself to us, Prince Vegeta." The leader named Bun said.

"And what makes you think I will surrender to the likes of you?" Vegeta asked, his voice was cold and deep, without any emotion.

"If you don't then that girl behind you will also die."

"Try doing it then you will provoke my wrath. When that happens, everyone's going to die."

The leader gritted his teeth and began firing at him, the other children also fired at him. Vegeta raised his finger and used it to deflect all the bullets that were meant to kill him and Bulma. This act terrified all the children at that display of power and Vegeta pointed his two fingers at each them. When he did that, each one exploded into a firework of blood and meat in his command.

"Vegeta! STOP!" Bulma screamed as she cannot endure seeing the gore and violence Vegeta was inflicting.

"So tell me, Bulma…" Vegeta said as he slowly pulled his hand down. "Choose me and I will protect you and save those two or…" He slowly turned turned his head at her, smiling cruelly. "Would you rather die trying to save them by yourself? Choose!" Vegeta smiled back at her in a sweet way.

What was Bulma supposed to do in this situation? If it was true that Krilin and Gohan are captured by these children who are armed with guns, then she wouldn't get a chance against them by herself even if she steal their weapons. If only Vegeta would cooperate willingly without asking for anything in return, then it would be easy. But he was asking for her to be his lover in exchange of helping her. What is she going to do now?

"Choose now, Bulma!"

Bulma couldn't help but choose one thing, "Please help me save those two…" Bulma's tears fell down from her eyes. She shut them to keep her tears from falling but, it did. Her hands shook into fists. "And in return, I will be your lover."

Vegeta smiled back warmly at her as he walked back towards her, "Good. That's very good." Then he raised his hand to touch her face, making her open her eyes. He reached out to wipe away her tears. "Don't cry, Bulma. You will never regret this, I promise."

And then he abruptly pressed his lips against on hers in a passionate kiss. Bulma kissed him back, though, quite reluctantly.

"I'm sorry, Yamcha…"