The Difference Between Me and You
Disclaimer: I don't own DB/Z/GT
Bulma and Vegeta sat quietly on the cool ground of the little wooded clearing. The two teenagers had been sitting out there for a while not saying anything when they heard the bell ring signaling that lunch was over.
"Maybe you should go in first." Vegeta said slowly getting up. Bulma got up and dusted her bottom off.
"Are you going back inside?" she asked. He nodded his head and gently pushed her towards the direction of the school.
"I have to. I can't afford to miss anymore class time." He said following her out the woods. Bulma nodded and kept walking. "Go head. I'll come inside as soon as I see you go in." She smiled and the jogged off towards the school.
Bulma walked quickly through the halls to get to her locker. She wasn't in the mood to talk to anyone.
"Where is he?" an innocent voice stopped her in her tracks. She turned around and saw Goku walking towards her. She glared at him and resumed her journey to her locker. "Bulma wait please." Goku pleaded chasing after her. Bulma finally reached her locker and Goku was right behind her.
"What do you want?" she asked rudely. Goku caught his breath real quick and looked at her. She had blood on the front of her white shorts.
"Bulma are you bleeding?" he asked pointing at her pants. Bulma looked down and gasped.
"Damn it." She cursed. "Goku what do you want. I'm really preoccupied at the moment." She said opening her locker and grabbing an extra change of shorts with her. She always carried extra clothing when ever she wore white.
"I just wanted to know where Vegeta was?" he asked quietly.
"Why the hell do you care?" she asked nastily. Goku swallowed hard. "That's right you don't. Goku I'm so disappointed in you." She said walking off towards the girl's bathroom to change. She hoped no one else saw Vegeta's blood stains on her shorts. But little did she know that everyone in the hallway had seen it including ChiChi.
Vegeta walked through the hall with his head held high. He was not going to let anyone think he was weak. He was going to survive this school year and graduate. He just had to get out of here. He walked into the guy's restroom and washed the dirt and blood off of his hands. He could see the cuts on his knuckles but they had stopped bleeding a long time ago. He dried his hands off and walked out the restroom. The hallways were eerily quiet and everyone was standing there just looking at him. He saw Bulma coming out of the girl's restroom down the hall. The principal walked quickly over to her. He couldn't make out what they were saying but Bulma's eyes widen in horror and she broke out into tears. She looked down the hall towards him. The principal then glared at Vegeta.
"Get him." He yelled. The young sayain was so confused that he couldn't move until he felt someone rush him with force and slam his head into the locker.
"Vegeta! No!" Bulma screamed as she tried to run towards him but the principal held her arm. "Let me go you fucking racist bastard." She screamed at the principal.
"Bulma please calm down this is for you and the school's safety. He'll never hurt you again." Bulma looked at the man like he was on crack.
"He has never hurt me." She yelled angrily at his face. "Where the hell would you get something like that."
"It's okay Bulma. Rape victims sometimes think it's their fault but it's really not." Bulma almost threw up at what he had just said. She was for the first time in her life at a loss for words.
"What the hell is going on?" Vegeta asked as he was thrown on the ground and handcuffed just a little too tightly.
"Shut up you disgusting excuse of man." an officer yelled. "You think you can come over here and rape our young women? Your kind should be all sent to hell."
"Rape?" he whispered quietly to himself. 'Where the hell would they get that from?' he thought numbly. The officer that had bum rushed him yanked him up off the ground by his hair. He didn't utter a sound. The principal led Bulma past Vegeta. She looked at him with sad apologetic eyes. He swallowed hard.
Bulma sat in the nurse's office in a white gown. They had brought in a doctor to examine her for evidence. Her mom was sitting in a chair wiping tears away. Her dad sat outside talking with the police and principal. Bulma glared angrily at the floor.
"That boy is a dreadful monster." Her mother blurted out.
"Shut-up mother. What the hell do you know? This whole thing is ridiculous." Bulma said heatedly. "Who the hell came up with this idea of him raping me? I'm a fucking virgin mother. And Vegeta would never hurt me." Bulma's mom just looked at her and kept whimpering. Bulma rolled her big blue eyes and huffed angrily as the doctor and a female officer walked in.
"Miss Briefs, I just need to ask you a couple of questions if that's alright?" the officer asked nicely. Bulma just glared at her. "Well what were you doing with the suspect?"
"He is not a suspect and I am not a victim here!" she screeched. These people were impossible.
"Just answer the question ma'am." The office said monotonously.
"What I was doing with Vegeta is none of your damn business. But he never touched me! Do I look that weak?" she asked hotly.
"He probably over powered you." She replied jotting things down on her little not pad.
"Are you fucking retarded? He didn't touch me, you stupid bitch. Just get the hell out of here!" Bulma screamed. The officer just shook her head and left.
Vegeta sat numbly handcuffed to a table in an empty conference room. What in the name of Kami had he done to deserve the treatment and abuse he was receiving and about to receive. He could see through the little glass window a police officer guarding the door like he was a convicted serial killer. All of sudden the door opened and two officers followed by Bardock and his mother came in.
"Officers." Bardock said calmly and nodded at them. The officers walked out and closed the door behind them. Bardock glared menacingly at the young man before him. Catilla sat quietly in a corner.
"Junior, please tell me these accusations aren't true." She asked in a shaky voice. Vegeta swallowed hard. His mouth all of a sudden became dry.
"Answer her boy." Bardock growled. Vegeta fought to find his voice. He finally realized that Bardock scared the living day lights out of him. He would never admit it but the man struck fear into his heart. Vegeta wasn't afraid of anyone or anything but this man was an exception.
"N-no, it's not true. I have never touched Bulma in my life." He said as calmly as he could.
"Don't fucking lie to me. Yamacha saw you kiss her in the hallway and then during lunch the whole school admits you ran off with her." Bardock yelled at him. What could he say? The odds were all against him.
"Goku sweetie are you alright?" Chichi asked. Everyone was sent into the gym until the school day was over. Goku looked awfully pale and hadn't said a word.
"Yeah man you look sick." Krillin added sitting in between Juu's legs on the bleachers. Goku blinked twice.
"Why Chi?" he asked softly. ChiChi blinked her eyes in a confused manner. "I know it was you."
"What are you talking about honey?" she asked innocently.
"Don't play fucking stupid with me ChiChi. This is serious." He yelled standing up. Everyone in the gym looked his way. "You made up that shit about him. What did he do to you?"
"Goku he's a menace. He's filth compared to us. I'm trying to protect Bulma from getting hurt and becoming a disgrace to us all." ChiChi said calmly.
"You are a very hateful person ChiChi and I never realized it until now. We have nothing in common. All of you." He said looking at ChiChi, Krillin, Juu, and Yamacha.
"Goku what are you trying to say?" ChiChi said shakily. Goku sighed and looked back at his group of friends.
"I need ya'll to help me help Vegeta and Bulma. Not to hurt them. He needs her." Goku stated.
"That's my woman, Goku." Yamacha said angrily. Goku glared at him.
"I think it would be best for you to stay the hell away from her. You disgust me and if you go near her I will personally kick your ass."
"Goku what's gotten…" but she was quickly cut off as Yamacha sprung towards Goku. Goku easily grabbed Yamacha by the throat tightly and punched him square in the face breaking his nose. Yamacha staggered back and ran out the gym.
"Goku chill out." Juu stood up with her hands on her hips glaring hard at him.
"Fuck you Juu. Fuck all of ya'll. I would have at least thought I could depend on my friends." He yelled at her. She sat back down with her mouth open in surprise. ChiChi touched his arm but he violently pulled away.
"Don't touch me. I can't hang out with the likes of you guys. Your hearts are to full of hate and I can't pretend anymore. Until you realize that Vegeta is a person like the rest of us, don't bother to talk to me." He said turning on his heel and as he began walking he stopped. "Oh yeah ChiChi?" he turned frowning at her.
"Yes, Goku?" she said softly.
"It's over." He spat out and continued his walk out the gym leaving his two friends and ex girlfriend behind confused and hurt.
"Okay well we'll take these back to the lab at the hospital and we'll call you tomorrow morning with the results." The doctor said smiling at the young heiress. Bulma scoffed. She had been dressed almost an hour before the doctor came back in to tell her this nonsense.
"Well doctor. I can tell you that the results are negative." She huffed and marched out the nurse's office. Her father turned around and glared at her. She glared right back at him.
"How could you go off with him Bulma? You should have known something like this was going to happen." Her father stated matter of factly. "He's a savage."
"Whatever. I just want to go home." She said tiredly.
"Miss Briefs." One of the officers called to her. It was the same officer that hand cuffed Vegeta.
"What?" she asked rudely. The officer gulped.
"Would you like to press charges ma'am?" he asked. She looked at him like he was crazy.
"Of course not. There is nothing to press charges against." She stated and walked out the office.
People listened on in shock as they heard a women crying and male yelling historically from behind the teacher's conference room door. Goku walked quickly towards the door but two officers blocked his path.
"You can't go in there son." The officer said sternly. Goku saw through the little window his father pull his fist back and hit Vegeta continuously in his face.
"Get the hell out of my way." Goku yelled and pushed the two officers out of his path. Before they could get back up Goku was already in the room. "Dad stop it." Goku yelled as loud as he could.
"Stay out of this Goku. Who let you in here?" He asked halting his assault on the teenaged boy. Goku looked at Vegeta in horror. There was no way that Vegeta could have defended himself because he was handcuffed to the table. His face was covered in blood and he looked like he could pass out any second now. His nose was crooked which meant it was broke, his lips were both busted and both his eyes and swollen shut already.
"Dad you're going to kill him." Goku said hysterically. "Those things about Bulma are all lies. ChiChi made them up." Bardock looked over at his son.
"Are you sure about this son?" he asked stepping away from Vegeta quickly. Goku nodded staring his father dead in the eyes. Bardock grunted and walked out the room. Goku looked over at his mother.
"How could you sit there and let him do to this to your only birth child?" Goku asked angrily. Catilla just looked at the ground. "Why would you even bring him here if you knew shit like this was going to happen? You're supposed to be his mother. Your job is to protect him from people like my father, Yamacha, and ChiChi. I'm so disappointed in you. I thought at least you would help him." He said softly. An officer came in and released Vegeta from the handcuffs and table. Vegeta fell side ways out of the chair and on to the floor unconscious.
Bulma strode down the hallway angrily until she saw a group of people standing by the teacher's conference room. She quickly jogged over to see what was going on. She nearly fainted as she saw Goku carrying a blood covered unconscious Vegeta in his arms. Vegeta was just laying there limp. He looked horrible. He almost looked…she choked on a sob.
"Oh my Kami Goku! What happened to him?" she asked running up to the tall boy. Goku just shook his head. Bulma looked over at her parents who were talking to Bardock and what was that he was wiping of his hands? Blood? 'Vegeta's blood?' she thought.
"Bulma don't worry about it I'll take care of him." Goku whispered and walked down the hall towards the student parking lot.
"Goku I'll be right there in a second." She called after him. She turned around and marched right to where her parents and Goku's dad and step-mother now stood.
"Bulma darling are you ready?" he father asked extending a hand towards her. She smacked it away angrily.
"How dare you beat him like some runaway sayain slave." She hissed at Bardock. He looked at her and frowned.
"Bulma you don't understand his kind. They are dangerous." He said softly.
"His kind? He is not some fucking animal with rabies. He eats, sleeps, and shits just like the rest of us. He is no different from any of us." She screeched loudly.
"Young lady mind your manners when talking to adults." Her father said threateningly. Bulma glared evilly at her father. He swallowed but stood his ground. She turned her gaze back to Bardock then to Catilla.
"What kind of pathetic mother are you?" she asked. Catilla stared down at the ground her face burning. "And you Bardock. I swear before Kami that if you ever hit Vegeta again I will personally kill you my damn self." She growled. Bulma's mother gasped and before Bulma could think twice her father slapped her across her face. Bulma's hair flew wildly about her face, but she didn't even scream, cry, or touch the red spot on the cheek that had just been hit. Her eyes darkened with rage as she stared at her father. Dr. Briefs looked at his hand in disbelief. He could not believe he actually struck his own daughter. Bulma pierced her lips together and then spit the blood that was in her mouth at her father and stalked off towards the student parking lot.
Later on that evening
Bulma had helped Goku get Vegeta cleaned up and settled into bed. He was still unconscious but they knew that eventually he would pull through with a major headache.
"I would have never guessed that Vegeta was getting tortured at home too." Bulma said staring sadly at the young man she had secretly grown to love.
"I have never seen this side of my father or our friends before. I didn't know people could live with so much hate." Goku said lying on the floor staring at the ceiling. Bulma looked around Vegeta's odd room. She had been to Goku's house a million times and never noticed the ugly hallway with the hidden room to it. This room was down right hideous, but it seemed Vegeta had tried his best to spiff it up. Bulma sighed deeply. Then a thought occurred to her.
"Goku…let's take Vegeta away from East City." Bulma said smiling for the first time all day. Goku sat up and looked at her quizzically.
"What do you mean?" he asked interested. Bulma licked her lips and came closer to Goku.
"I mean let's runaway from here. We could finish school under alias names and whenever Vegeta graduates he can be free from the people here and your father." She said happily. Goku thought for a second.
"That's a great idea. But don't you think it would be to suspicious if all three of us disappear?" he asked. Bulma shook her head.
"If you stay they'll ask too many questions and you might crumble. Not to be mean Goku…but you suck under pressure." Bulma giggled as Goku blushed and scratched the back of his head.
"Okay you're on. After Vegeta gets well we'll come up with the final plan then." Goku said excitedly. He wasn't usually the one to head towards trouble but if it meant saving the life of his only brother then he would do it any day. Bulma squealed excitedly and kissed Goku on the cheek. A knock brought them slamming back to reality.
"Bulma your parents are here waiting for you." Catilla whispered not making eye contact with any of the teens.
"Thank you Mrs. Son. I'll call you later Goku." She said walking past Catilla quickly.
"Mom don't you want to see how he's doing?" Goku asked stand on his feet now. She slowly shook her head.
"He'll never forgive me, Goku. I just sat there and let Bardock beat the living day lights out my son. He looked at me with his beautiful eyes pleading for me to do something. And you know what I did…nothing. I didn't do shit. And now look at him." She said fresh new tears stinging her eyes. Goku didn't say anything; he also just stared at Vegeta's sleeping form.
"I think I'm going to stay down here tonight. Just in case he wakes up. I'm going to get my sleeping bag. Watch him for me please. Make sure my father stays away from here." He stated with no emotions and walked out the door. Catilla came and stood over her son.
"Your father would kill me if he ever found out about this. I'm so sorry I let you down Junior." She whispered letting her tears fall freely.
So what did ya'll think? I know it seems depressing right now but I promise the light will shine on it soon enough. Well tell me what you think…and this is Vegeta's last beating for a while!