Crimson-dipped Obsession Chapter 21: Trust, a dragon ball z fanfic

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 Note: Hello everyone. Here's the twentY-first chapter of Crimson-dipped Obsession. Please read and review.

Chapter 21: Trust

[763 A.D., May 15, 3:15, Pepper Island]

The Saiyan Prince was seen digging a rather huge deep hole into the soil at the center of the island where it was surrounded by several trees. At first glance, it looked as if Vegeta had used a bomb or a ki blast earlier to clear off the trees that surrounded the hole he was digging. The hole he made was about ten meters in diameter and it's almost twice in depth. Vegeta was there, digging continuously and enthusiastically using a shovel in his hand.

[763 A.D. May 14, 11:40]

After that interrogation with Irami, Bulma became curious of what Irami was telling her and decided to see what she could find on the island Irami told her about. She took an air jet to go into the island. Once she was above the island, something suddenly went wrong with her jet. A loud creepy sound came from the radio of the jet and the engines began to go crazy. She later found her jet crashing into the island. Luckily she was able to jump out of it because she could die from the crash.

Bulma landed safely on her feet a few meters away from her jet. She looked around the island which was filled with trees. She took a flashlight from her pocket and turned it on. She found the place suddenly creepy and didn't know whether she should turn around or not. But she could feel that something was drawing her into somewhere in the island. As if she could hear someone telling her to come in there and see whatever it was.

She thought she was hallucinating when she saw a flaming haired shadow shuffled from the trees, "Vegeta!" she called. "Vegeta! Is that you?" she asked. The shadow hovered away, faster than she expected, passing through the trees like a ghost. Bulma decided to follow him further into the forest, calling out for his name.

Follow me, over here.

She thought she heard him tell her. She continued to follow him, trying her best to catch up to him. "Vegeta, wait up!"

She ran quickly, following the Saiyan Prince deep into the forest. "Huh? Why would he wear that at a time like this?" she thought, noticing the battle worn armor he was wearing.

When she arrived on a clearing he was gone. "Vegeta! Stop playing around. Where did you go?!" she shouted. She walked around the clearing trying to look where the Saiyan Prince went off but she couldn't see it. When she stepped on something hard, she immediately turned the light on it and she jumped away in fright upon seeing what she just stepped into.

"Aaaaaaahh!" she screamed when she saw a person's bones lying on the ground before her. The blue and white clothes on the bones were ripped to pieces and dirty. She could barely recognize the cracked, dirty and separated pieces of familiar armor scattered in places with the bones.

Yes, she expected to see a person's bones in there just as Irami told her, but her experience with Vegeta earlier made her frightened. Also, the pieces of clothes on the bones were strikingly familiar to the ones that Vegeta wore when he first arrived on Earth.

"Who is this person?" she asked herself in fright.

Out of fear, she decided to return home but when she turned around she screamed in horror, Vegeta was there before her and glaring at her with angry ebony eyes.

"Vegeta, you jerk! Stop scaring me like that?!" she yelled at him. She noticed him wearing a blue collared shirt and khakis instead of the armor she saw him wearing earlier. What? Did he just change his clothes?

Vegeta's scowl deepened, as he continued to glare at her angrily and coldly it made Bulma kind of scared as if she did something wrong.

"What the fuck do you think you're doing in here, woman?" he asked her coldly.

"Uh… I was… uh… I was lost," she lied.

Bad liar. Vegeta thought. He knew she was lying but he thinks it's much better for him to believe that lie than learning she just saw that.

"W-What about you?" Bulma asked, breathlessly.

"I sensed your fright; I came to see what happened to you. Come on, let's go home." He told her coldly before he left her, expecting her to follow him immediately.

Why is Vegeta suddenly angry at her? Bulma turned around to see the bones and then shouted, "But Vegeta! There's a set of people's bones in here. Should we call the police?" she said as she followed him quickly.

Vegeta stopped and turned around to glare at her angrily, "What the fuck are you talking about, woman?" he growled.

"I said there are people's bones over there," Bulma informed him.

Vegeta's jaw hardened and his eyes turned even colder, "What bones?"

Bulma swallowed. Why is he looking at her that way? Why is he so angry at her? Did he kill that person?

"Forget it," she gave up. "Are you angry at me?" she asked.

"What do you think?" he growled at her as if the answer to the question was very obvious.

"Vegeta, I'm sorry. I'm just bored and I wanted air, to get out of the house at the middle of the night."

He just glared at her even angrier without any other word. He took a dino-capsule from his pocket before he threw it on the ground. A blue hover-jet appeared before them. He hopped into the hatch without bothering to help Bulma this time, just to make her feel that he was mad at her. Bulma helped herself to get into the hatch.

Vegeta piloted the jet off the island without saying any other word. Bulma just stared at him like a helpless and scared little that, Bulma didn't talk to him again about the matter. She was sure he noticed those bones but he's claiming that he didn't. Is he hiding something from her?

The moment they returned to the Capsule Corporation Bulma went directly towards her bedroom while Vegeta decided to stay inside the jet for the moment. Bulma decided to herself that she must tell Irami what she found and wondered if the detective was already sleeping.

Meanwhile, Vegeta hopped off the jet and met with Towa.

"What happened?" Towa asked him.

"She saw him. I didn't know why she went into that place and how she found him."

"But how did she able to find that?"

"I don't know. Someone collected everything in one place. Whoever it was probably knows something about what happened. But how? I made sure that no one would ever notice anything! Not even the Kais."

Towa assured, "The Kais saw nothing; you did a pretty well job on preventing it."

"Then how?!" the prince roared.

Then suddenly, Vegeta felt Bulma's ki move again.

"She's going to Irami's room, why?" he growled angrily.

"Stop her or she might tell it to anyone else…" Towa said.

Bulma was in front of Irami's bedroom door, still wondering if the detective was awake. She raised her hand to knock on the door when suddenly Vegeta appeared behind her, making her gasp in surprise.

"What the heck Vegeta? Stop doing that, I thought you were some ghost!"

"What do you think you're doing here, Bulma? Go to sleep," he ordered her coldly.

"But I –,"

"Go to sleep, woman," the prince ordered more firmly. Bulma stepped back at the look he was giving her, wondering why he was so angry at her tonight and then she ran into her room, angry tears on her eyes. Vegeta followed her into her room, as he finally regretted what he was doing to her. There's no reason for him to be mad at her. After all, what would she know about those bones?

"Why are you doing this to me, Vegeta?" Bulma asked. "I already apologized. Isn't that enough?"

"I heard that, I just want you to know that I'm angry at you for going outside at this time of the night all alone. Don't you understand that?"

"So just because I'm your girlfriend, you're grounding me now? That I'm not allowed to go out by myself and have some private matters?"

"It's not like that, Bulma."

"Then what are you so angry about?! Is it because that I found those bones– ?!"

"It's because I am worried sick about you! That's it! Damn it, Bulma! A proper woman doesn't go out at this time of the night! Unless of course if you are a slut."

Bulma kept silent after that and she scowled as she looked at her hands. There was a long silence between the two of them until Vegeta ordered her to go to sleep again. Bulma remained stubborn like a child. Vegeta growled to himself and decided to simply knock her out. Bulma collapsed to her bed, unconscious. The prince fixed her properly to her bed and gently covered her with the comforter.

"I'm sorry, Bulma. Good night." He told her as he planted a kiss on her forehead.

Now then…

[763 A.D., May 15, 3:15, Pepper Island]

Vegeta returned to that island where he found Bulma, armed with a shovel and an axe on his hand. He began to cut down the trees surrounding his desired spot and cleared the place. After doing that, he enthusiastically began digging into the soil using the shovel in his hand. He could have easily punched the soil or fired a blast at it if he wanted too but he was too cautious for anybody would have sensed the explosion (not his ki, he's not that worried of it at all, but the explosion and the bright light caused by it) and would come running here. So he took his time, digging into the ground, deeper and deeper.

"Bulma is mine. Bulma will always be mine. She is mine forever. I will bury everything that would get in my plans! Ugh!" He grunted as he threw a few soil up the hole. Then he dug the shovel's broad scoop into the soil below his feet, stepped on it in order to push it deeper, then scooped the soil once more and threw it up the hole. "Ah! I will bury everything! Everything for my dear little Bulma! Ehehehe!"he then took the bones Bulma saw earlier and threw them all into the hole, he began to bury the bones deep into the soil, covering them with the soil he just dig earlier. "I won't let anyone get in my way! Not even you! Foolish twin brother! Did you summon her in here? She's mine! Only mine! She will never be yours! You don't deserve her! You don't deserve my dear little Bulma! You hear me?! Now learn your place and rest in peace! Ahahahahahahahahahahaha!"and then as if waking up from a bad dream, Vegeta stopped his digging. He blinked and turned his head around, wondering. "Eh? What am I doing in here?"

He dropped the shovel into the ground, furrowing his brows in confusion. He took a step back as he stared at the hole he just did, "W-What did I just do?" he asked himself, confused. He then he hurriedly took off into the sky.

[763 A.D., May 15, 8:15, Capsule Corporation, Bulma's bedroom]

Bulma was dreaming again. She dreamt of what she saw on that island last night. In her dream, she saw Vegeta killing the person who owned the bones with a fire axe in his hand. It was horrible. She couldn't make up the face of the victim as he crawled away from his killer. She was just before them, watching Vegeta kill him brutally in fear. She cannot do anything to stop Vegeta no matter how hard and loud she tells him to stop. The victim turned to face her, his face still cloaked in darkness as if he was faceless and he raised his remaining hand to reach for her, "Help me… Help me, please…" the victim cried to her before Vegeta pulled his head off the rest of his body. The faceless head rolled towards her, closer, closer and she stepped back in horror and regret that she was not able to save this person.

Vegeta then turned to her, "I am back for you, my Bulma."

Somebody behind her with a familiar voice told her in a cold way, "It's your fault that I was killed…" it said. "And it's your fault that I became like him. How could such a weakling like yourself make such a difference? I don't understand." The voice was weeping, regretful.

She immediately recognized that voice, "Ve… Vegeta…?" she gasped as she turned around to see him standing before her.

And she screamed.

He stood before her, wearing the same battle worn armor he wore when she first met him. There was a huge bleeding hole in his chest, his right forearm was missing, red blood dripping from the hole in his chest and in between his legs. What frightened her more was that he was headless.

She continued screaming as she fell to her butt. The headless Vegeta slowly raised a finger and pointed behind her. She frightfully followed his finger and found that he was pointing at a completely unscathed Vegeta, who picked up the head of the headless Vegeta and hugged it.

"Beware of those who act nice…" the headless Vegeta told her. Bulma wondered how the hell he was talking to her without his head. This was such a terrible dream. "A wolf in sheep's clothing they say. He could be the worst one between the two of us." Bulma felt his one hand grabbing her left forearm, "And it's your entire fault…"

Bulma screamed once again.

[763 A.D., May 15, 8:15, Capsule Corporation, Bulma's bedroom]

Bulma snapped her eyes open, jolting up from her bed screaming. Tears of fear were streaming from her eyes. Cold sweat glistened on her face and she wiped it with the back of her hand. Her breathing pattern was unsteady out of fear. What was that dream about? Is it some warning about... about Vegeta again? What could it mean? She ran her hand over her blue hair, remembering what she just found yesterday at that island. She curled into a ball, hugging her knees together close to her chest. Those bones... who could it belong to...? She remembered talking about this matter with Vegeta yesterday. She remembered asking him if he killed that person but he claimed that he didn't see people's bones in that place.

Why?

She knows he saw them but why is he claiming that he didn't? Did he really do it?

Those bones... Her dream... The apparition of Vegeta that appeared on her before she found those bones...

Whose bones were those she found there?

For the moment she wondered if it belonged to Vegeta, too. But if that was the case... It's impossible... right? She laughed dryly at the ridiculous thought her stupid mind was making up. If Vegeta was the victim then what the hell's he doing with her here?

But Vegeta's sudden coldness on her yesterday when she found those bones... He's hiding something from her. What could it be?

Vegeta suddenly opening her door made her jump in fright. The Saiyan Prince stared at her weirdly, "...What's the matter, dear?" he asked, concerned.

"N-Nothing..." Bulma squeaked, unable to hide her fear.

"Hn..." Vegeta replied, glaring at her.

"...What..?"

"Get downstairs. Breakfast is ready." he told her before he left her alone and closed the door.

Bulma let out a small sigh of relief and wondered how she was going to tell Irami about this. She decided to get downstairs to eat breakfast when she came across the red headed houseguest by the hallway.

"Good morning, Bulma-san!" Irami greeted. Bulma smiled back at him.

"Good morning, Irami-kun..." she replied.

"I guess I should tell him now... about what I saw in that island..."

"Uhmm... I - Irami-kun... " Bulma called out when Irami was about to walk away. "Yesterday I - "

"- Oh my dear little Bulma, what's taking you so long? Oh!" Vegeta suddenly popped in from out of nowhere and he saw Irami not so far away. His expression suddenly turned cold when he glared at Irami. Bulma's expression paled. Vegeta turned to her and smiled back.

"Come on, Bulma. Let's eat breakfast together." the prince said and he slid his arm behind Bulma and pulled her closer to his right side. A wide smile stretched on his lips. Bulma's face was terrified. He then dragged her gently downstairs into the dining room, leaving Irami wondering what Bulma was going to say.

During breakfast, Bulma ate her morning breakfast quietly with her parents, Irami and Vegeta.

"It's hopeless... He's being too watchful of me..." Bulma thought grimly as her blue eyes shifted to see Vegeta staring at her direction, and then smiled back at her. "Is he watching me because he knows I would tell Irami-kun about those... those bones?"

When she was done eating her breakfast, Bulma stood up and returned to her room. Bulma thought that Vegeta was going to follow her but instead he went directly to his Gravity Chamber to train. With that, Bulma took her cellphone and dialed Irami's number but instead of hearing Irami answering from the other line what she heard was just loud static. She sighed and wondered if this was Vegeta's doing as well.

In the end, she decided to write him a note instead.

Moments later... the house shook when a loud explosion boomed from the backyard garden. "What?!" Bulma cried out as she lost her concentration on the note she was writing. Five seconds later, Vegeta entered her room with a scowl. "Bulma! The Gravity Simulator's a toast. Please fix it for me." he pouted.

"Huh? Hn... Alright..." Bulma muttered as she stood up and folded the white paper she was writing in into two and placed it in between the pages of a book before she came out of her room to fix the Gravity Chamber.

Vegeta who was left in her room, turned his head into the table where Bulma left the book she used to keep that note. He took the note on the book and read:

"To Irami-kun.

I have to tell you something about the skeleton you found on Pepper Island. Let's meet there tonight at nine.

Bulma."

Vegeta frowned as he returned the note back in between the pages of the book. He just realized that the book was written by Arthur Conan Doyle entitled "Sherlock Holmes". He didn't know why Bulma suddenly had interest with detective and crime stories when she used to love erotic novels. He gritted his teeth in annoyance, could it be that Irami Keiji is a detective? What does he know about the skeleton he just buried last night? He took the note again and decided to talk to Bulma about this.

He stomped his way back to the Gravity Chamber and demanded her, "What skeleton are you going to tell Irami?" which made Bulma gasped. Did Vegeta just read that note?

"The- the bones we found yesterday." Bulma replied. "Irami's a detective. I will tell him about it."

"Oh..."

Bulma turned her head towards him, surprised by that answer.

"What do you mean by that?" Bulma asked.

"I'm sorry I didn't see those bones last night. I thought you were just kidding with me around."

"I tried telling you but you were so angry last night."

"Forget it, Bulma. Forget it. After all why should you care about it?"

"Because of you."

Vegeta stared at her, utterly speechless.

"You're hiding something... from me. I don't know what that is but I just want to know if you killed that person or not."

"I don't honestly know what you're talking about but if you insist then feel free to tell him anytime. I won't stop you this time. Just... don't go out alone in the middle of the night like you did yesterday."

Bulma blinked, that's unusual of him. She smiled back at him, "Thanks, Vegeta."

"Don't worry about it. Let me tell Irami about this." Then without waiting for Bulma's reply, Vegeta sprinted out of his training room.

"Vegeta! Wait..." Bulma tried to stop him but as she was stucked on this situation she helplessly watched him as he walked back into the house. She didn't know what it was but she felt that something wasn't right about this.

Vegeta hopped into the Research and Development Department Wing of the Capsule Corporation and asked the receptionist to call Irami Keiji for him. He waited not too long before the red haired teenager was before him.

"Good afternoon, Prince Vegeta. How can I help you?" He asked.

Vegeta handed him the note Bulma wrote for him, "Bulma wanted for me to give you this."

Irami took the paper and read the note. He furrowed his brows and wondered what Bulma must know about the skeleton. He turned his eyes to the prince before him and wondered if he knows this. Irami remembered that he told Bulma that he will discuss this matter with her some other time and not to tell anyone about it.

As if he read Irami's mind, Vegeta assured him, "Don't worry about it. She didn't tell me anything. Apparently, I found her on that island alone last night. I don't know what the hell she was doing on that island after the two of you talked yesterday. She found something in there, something I didn't even see. She said she found a person's bones in there. Maybe you would care to check the place with me and her tonight. Just to make sure if she was right or wrong. That's all."

With that Vegeta left. Irami watched at the prince's back, wondering what the prince would have thought when he found Bulma yesterday. He felt something wasn't right about this.

When Vegeta turned right he stopped walking, he slowly turned his head back to the direction where he just came from. His ebony eyes flashing crimson as his expression suddenly turned dark.

"Who the fuck is that boy and what does he know about my brother? I swear if he or anyone finds out the truth I will fucking kill him! I will definitely make sure that his head will be added to my collection!"

A wide psychotic smirk stretched on his lips.

[763 A.D. May 15, 20:45 Capsule Corporation]

Irami and Vegeta waited outside for Bulma as she just came out of the house with a dino-capsule in hand, she dropped the capsule into the ground before them and in a puff of smoke, a yellow hoverjet appeared from where she just dropped the capsule.

"Let's go!" Bulma told them as she hopped into the driver's seat. Vegeta took the seat next to her while Irami took the back seat. As she drove the jet, Bulma wondered why Vegeta has to go with them. She shifted her eyes to him and she saw him staring at her intently.

"This is bad. I don't really understand why he has to come with us." Bulma thought grimly.

It took about fifteen minutes before they arrived on Pepper Island, Bulma landed her jet on a clearing before the three of them got off it. She took a flashlight, turned it on and led the way into the clearing where she knows she found those bones.

"Here it is," she announced as she focused the light on the ground before her. "Huh? It's not here...?" She said in disbelief as she turned around to check her surroundings. Where is it? She was definitely sure that she found those bones somewhere here. Finally giving up, she turned towards her boyfriend."Vegeta! What have you done this time? Where are the bones we found yesterday in here?!" She demanded on him.

The Saiyan prince blinked at her innocently, "Eh? Bones? What bones?" he asked, confused. Irami suddenly turned to him, wondering why Vegeta suddenly doesn't remember the purpose of coming in here.

"The bones, Vegeta! The person's bones we found yesterday here!" Bulma yelled at him. "Where is it? What did you do to it?"

"I don't know what you're talking about, dear." he replied.

Irami scowled at hearing that. Indeed, Vegeta could be the suspect of this crime. The ring he found in there a few months ago could belong to him and no one else. Since he was from the future just like Trunks, a wedding ring with Bulma's name could only belong to Vegeta and no one else. However, he wondered if Vegeta and Bulma were actually married in the future. And in case Vegeta owns that ring, does this mean that this Vegeta is from the future as well? If that's the case then how and why did he come here? He knows that in the future, Bulma created the time machine when Vegeta is already dead. That cannot be it.

In another scenario, in case Vegeta stole a time machine from Trunks at the time of the Android's arrival, there is no possibility that he could be this obsessed towards Bulma. So far as he knows, by the time that Trunks returned Vegeta doesn't care about Bulma yet at that time. And they aren't married yet, too.

Irami supposed Vegeta is from somewhere in the future where he was married to Bulma. By that time, Bulma has never created a time machine if that was the case. And Vegeta wouldn't be this obsessed to her either.

He wasn't sure how he could prove that this Vegeta is indeed from the future, either. Maybe yes he was but there wasn't enough proof yet. He has to find something to identify the identity of those bones whether it belonged to the Vegeta of this timeline or not.

Irami watched as Bulma and Vegeta argued about the bones.

Later when they returned to the city, Bulma asked Vegeta to buy some ice cream for the three of them. Vegeta took the money and ran into a nearby convenience store to buy the ice cream.

"Why?" Bulma muttered, utterly disappointed. "I am very sure he saw those bones but why is he lying about it? Did he... kill that person?"

Irami sighed, "Vegeta-san's mental balance is very fragile to the point that he has to resort to lying to you just so you won't dislike him or anything."

"But... why? I don't understand why he's doing this?" Bulma questioned.

"Because he wanted you to accept him for what he is. Bulma-san, listen to me. Vegeta-san is too volatile when he's not with you. You are the only person restraining him from killing all of humanity and destroying this world. He just wanted to be loved and to be happy and that's what you do for him." Irami smiled. Bulma lowered her head in sadness. Irami held her shoulder, "Bulma-san, you have to hold on, for everything you cared for... and for him as well..."

...

With that, Irami walked away and decided to go back home.

Bulma turned around to see Vegeta approaching her with three chocolate popsicles on his hands. He was grinning at her.

"Vegeta..."

"I'm back! Huh? Where did Irami go?" he asked as he handed her the ice cream.

Bulma didn't say anything as she took and ate her ice cream.

TO BE CONTINUED

Author's Notes: I'm not going to leave a preview for now since I realized that I just posted the events of the supposedly next chapter previously. I guess i'll have to make a new chapter 22 again. See you soon. Please Read and Review.

As for the question as to why Vegeta didn't blow up the bones to ashes, he wasn't exactly worried that anyone would find it out and be persistent on knowing the identity of those bones. Also, he didn't know the existence of the Time Patrol just as Trunks did when he traveled back in time.