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Chapter 16
Leaving
By
Bulma
-Earth!-
Bulma stayed with Sanshi in her room all night and both bonded by talking about their inner conflicts. Bulma learned from Sanshi that the extent of how over protective Trunks was of her and how she really felt that Shimaru and how hurt she was of her Dad. In return, Sanshi learned from Bulma the fruitless love between Bulma and Yamcha's relationship and the vain attempt to keep the relationship going. They stayed well into the night just talking and figuring our what to do about the incidents in the club.
The morning light poured into Sanshi's room as both girls laid sprawled out in the mess of pillows and blankets, sleeping the late morning away. Bulma woke up to the nuzzling of scratch putting her nose to Bulma's cheek to attempt to get her up. Bulma opened her eyes and smiled at the little creature. "Scratch, what are you doing waking me up hmmm? It's 11:30am, you know I don't get up til' 3:00pm in the afternoon." Bulma sat up and cradled the cat in her lap as she looked at the still sleeping girl. Bulma watched Sanshi's tail lazily swing to and fro as she seemed to be deep in a rather nice dream. A pool of drool was on her pillow as she kept mumbling the word "Shimaru" ever so often.
Bulma smiled and started to shake, well nudge the girl with her foot, awake. "Rise and shine sleeping beauty." Bulma giggled since the cat rested upon her shoulder as she climbed up from her lap. Sanshi moaned and groggily sat up, wiping the drool from her face. "Whazza? What time is it?" She mumbled rubbing the sleep from her eyes.
"It's 11:30am. Do you want me to go cook us some breakfast?" "Um sure, but…I'll help." Sanshi smiled. Bulma helped her up and they headed downstairs to the kitchen. They came to the sight of Vegeta, Trunks, and Shimaru at the table while Mrs. Briefs and Venux were continuing to cook brunch. Sanshi was more or less shocked and noticed her appearance and quickly hid behind Bulma. Shimaru looked at Sanshi with a soft smile. She looked beautiful with her hair ruffled and hanging around her in her pajamas.
But quickly looked away when Trunks sent the young Saiyan an evil glare. Bulma cleared her throat to clear the silence. "Something smells good. What's for breakfast guys?" Bulma quickly made her way to the table taking Sanshi with her. Shimaru and Trunks sat opposite of each other while Vegeta was on Trunks's left. Bulma sat next to Vegeta and Sanshi to her, which ended up sitting next to Shimaru in turn. Then Venux comes to set the food down and had a seat herself while Mrs. Briefs leaves the room.
"This looks great!" Bulma smiled, again trying to break the silence. Trunks kept glaring at Sanshi and Shimaru for sitting so close together. Venux hit Trunks on the hand to get him to stop. "Okay, what is going on?" Since no one was answering Bulma's questions. "Well for starters Woman, the Brat, his family, and I will be accupying Shimaru to Vegeta-sei." Vegeta spoke. "What?!" screamed Sanshi and everyone looked at the blushing girl. "Well…um there's some explaining to do.." Shimaru spoke quietly.
Sanshi looked at him with a puzzled expression. "Shimaru?" "Sanshi, I am a Saiyan just like you and your family. I came all the way from New Vegeta-sei to find Prince Vegeta so that he may restore the Saiyan name to the proper respect of order. Your family has agreed to come along and help us out. Their place is on New Vegeta-sei, not Earth." Shimaru explained. Sanshi looked at her Father for answers to this. "Dad, what about Bulma? Can't she come with us?" she pleaded. "Well, it's up to her if she wants to go with us." Venux told her.
Sanshi turned her attention to Bulma, as did everyone else. "Um…I don't know. If I do go, it'll be for a visit and I have to look at my schedule. When are you all leaving?" Bulma asked. "Tonight if possible." Shimaru replied. "Tonight?! No way can I do it. Maybe in 3 days, but tonight? Isn't that a little too soon?" Bulma asked shocked. "Do you wish to go with us?" Trunks asked. "Of course I do . But Trunks, I have work." Bulma explained. "Then don't worry about it. Your Father and I worked everything out this morning." Trunks told her.
"What?!" "Don't you worry so damn much Woman. The Brat figured you would wan to go, so he took the initiative to go ahead and work things out and the packing, prepping, and planning has been taken care of. So stop worrying so damn much and relax." Vegeta told her. For a second there he almost seemed happy to have Bulma join him on his journey to Vegeta-sei. But it must have been the imagination of Bulma since he turned away from her with his annoyance at her presence scowl. "Right. Well if everything is taken care of, then sure, I'll go. Besides, I think Sanshi will miss me." Bulma smiled as she ignored Vegeta's attitude.
"Then it's settled then. We will leave tonight." Venux joined Bulma happiness. "Enough with the talking! Let's dig in before this great food Mom and Venux made gets cold." Bulma began to make plates for everyone,. Unnoticed by anyone, save Trunks, Sanshi reached her hand under the table and held onto Shimaru's hand as she sent him a secret smile. She was going to love going to New Vegeta-sei with Shimaru at her side; her Father was another story.
-That Night!-
The sun was slowly setting over the warm spring day over looking West City. You could see the perfect sunset of golden rays, royal purples, deep sea blues, and brilliant oranges in the slowly settling sky. A giant ship landed and awaited the Prince of Saiyans and company. The Saiyan Guards were outside as Shimaru was explaining more of the situation while everyone was in the house. Bulma headed onto her parents tightly in a hug. "Now, do keep a report and learn from the technology." Dr. Briefs told her. "Dear, she is on vacation. Go and have a wonderful time. Oh and call us when you get there." Mrs. Briefs hugged her Daughter once more.
"Will do Mom. Have fun with the company til' I get back." "Oh and do come back with a nice man like Vegeta. You know I've always dreamed of Grandchildren." Mrs. Briefs stated hopefully. "Mom, aren't I a little too young to be thinking about kids?" Bulma laughed at her Mother's hinting. "Well at least come home with a nice, yummy man next time. Unless of course, you are finally going to grab that Prince Charming." Mrs. Briefs nodded to a sulking Vegeta, who was annoyed that they were not leaving yet. "MOM!" Bulma cried and the rest of the group could only snicker, save Vegeta who only scowled at another desperate attempt for Bulma's Mother to try and hook them up.
"Um, if we are finished here, we have to get4 going before we delay our time. Vegeta-sei is expecting us." Shimaru came into the laughing group. "Right, come on. It's been far too long since I've seen my people." Vegeta ignoring the group and smirked proudly. "Then why won't you let me use Instant Transmission? We would get there a lot sooner?" Trunks slyly asked. "Quiet Brat! I'll arrive as I am and I want to make a great entrance. Now Woman, stop talking nonsense with your insane parents and lets go!" Vegeta snapped. "All right, all right. Keep your spandex on Let's go. Love you guys!" Bulma blew them a kiss and the rest of the group filed out to the ship.
-Next Morning!-
It was awfully quiet around Capsule Corp. estate. Mrs. Briefs was in the kitchen, cooking up breakfast while Dr. Briefs was sitting at the table, reading his newspaper, drinking his cup of coffee with Scratch perched on his shoulder. It was a nice, comforting silence as both enjoyed the company of the other person. It was another spring day as a warm breeze was flowing in from the open windows of the kitchen. "It sure is a nice day to say the least. It's a shame Bulma isn't here to enjoy it with us. We could work in the gardens again. It's perfect weather for it." Mrs. Briefs thought out loud. "What do you plan on planting?" "Oh my usual roses…maybe a tree or some plants." Mrs. Briefs giggled.
Suddenly the warm breeze began to pick up and a rather large group landed on the green lawn. Dr. and Mrs. Briefs looked out the window as the leader of the group, a beautiful woman of dark hair and an electrical whip out in hand began to advance on the house. "Oh my…this doesn't look very good." Mrs. Briefs whispered. O-Ren snapped her fingers and her group behind her began to power up and shoot the house.