The Difference between Me and You
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Goku came back downstairs just in time to see his father return from outside. He paused at the bottom step and stared blankly at his father.
"Goku, I'm sorry you had to see that today, son." Bardock said never moving from in front of the door. "Where are you going?" Goku looked down at his sleeping bag and pillow.
"I'm sleeping in Vegeta's room tonight." He replied searching his father's face.
"I don't fucking think so. You are not to go near him. Do you understand me?" his father yelled advancing towards his son. Goku swallowed a lump in his throat but he stood his ground.
"Dad, I have to make sure he is alright." Goku said calmly.
"Do you want a piece of what he just got, Goku?" Bardock asked menacingly. Just as Bardock brought his hand back and Goku shut his eyes tightly waiting for the sting, Catilla came from down the dark little hall and stared at the scene before her.
"Bardock, stop it. Just…stop it." She said tiredly. "Come to bed. I think that you need to rest." Bardock slowly lowered his hand and stormed up the stairs past his son. Catilla also walked past Goku without saying a word.
Goku made his self comfortable on Vegeta's bedroom floor. His carpet wasn't soft and plush like the rest of the house; it was kind of rough and hard. Sleep wasn't going to come easy to the teenaged boy tonight. Today's events just kept replaying their selves in his head. Vegeta had looked so helpless and it angered him to his bones to watch Vegeta be humiliated in that manner. He knew Vegeta was a strong person; mind and body, but to watch him so brutalized and weak was unbearable. Goku sighed and rolled over in his sleeping bag. He heard his phone vibrating on the floor. He had put it on silent so he wouldn't wake Vegeta. He looked at the small screen that read ChiChi and rolled his eyes.
"What?" he asked annoyed. He did not feel like talking to her of all people but he knew that if he didn't answer his phone she would keep calling; eventually calling the house phone and waking up his parents.
"Goku, please, I need to talk to you." ChiChi pleaded through sobs on the other line.
"Unless you're going to come clean and apologize about what you did today; we have nothing to say." He replied tiredly.
"I'm not going to apologize for anything." She spat. "I taught them a lesson. I warned her. I will not let my best friend become contaminated by that filth. She's wrong about that sayain."
"Good bye, ChiChi" Goku said as he pressed the red end button on his cell phone.
Vegeta woke up the next morning but he couldn't open his eyes or remember what had happened yesterday. To top it of he had a headache straight from hell.
"Kami, I'm blind." He mumbled through swollen lips.
"Hey, Vegeta! You're awake." Goku said cheerfully.
"Kakarot? What the hell I going on?" Vegeta asked still unable to open his eyes.
"Wow, Vegeta, you don't remember?" Goku asked. Vegeta frowned.
"If I remembered, baka, I wouldn't be asking you!" he all but yelled.
"Let's just say, you had a major run in with my father this time." Goku said softly. Vegeta groaned as he suddenly remembered what happened, everything flashed through his mind's eye.
A knock filled Vegeta's silent room. Goku untangled his self from his sleeping bag and answered the door.
"Good morning, Goku." Bulma said softly as she walked into Vegeta's room. "Monica let me in." Goku nodded his head and quickly shut the door.
"Bulma?" Vegeta asked. "What are you doing here? Aren't you supposed to be in school?"
"Well, I said fuck it today." She said walking to go sit on the edge of his bed. "Plus I had to see how you were doing." Vegeta gave her a weak lopsided smirk.
"Oh yeah, I have something to bring down your swelling." She said pulling out a clear pouch with some brown things in it. She pulled out a small brown bean. "Here, eat this." Vegeta looked at the small bean curiously and popped it in his mouth.
"This bean taste like shit. What is it?" He complained almost gagging. Bulma giggled.
"It's a senzu bean. My father grows them in our laboratory greenhouse. I don't know where he got the seeds from exactly but they are supposed to restore your health, give you energy, and heal." Bulma said proudly. "I'm not even sure if they work though. We've never tested them before."
"So you're using me as your personal guinea pig." He asked amused. Bulma shrugged and smiled.
Five minutes passed and his face was no longer swollen and puffy. His eyes and lips had returned to normal. All he had now was some little bruises here and there plus he felt renewed and energized. He had never felt better. Bulma gave Vegeta her compact mirror to examine his self in.
"Bulma that nasty little bean is like magic!" Vegeta exclaimed still checking his self over in the mirror. "All you need to do now is event some stuff to hide bruises." Bulma laughed.
"It's already been invented." Vegeta looked at her quizzically. "It's called make up." She laughed some more. Vegeta just smirked.
"Hey, I'm going to go get dressed and head for school." Goku said out of no where. The other two teens had forgotten he was even in the room. "It'll look obvious if all three of us are absent from school." Vegeta nodded his head in agreement.
"Goku don't forget to come straight home so we can come up with our plan." Bulma reminded as Goku began to leave.
"Ok. Oh, Bulma, make sure you're gone before my dad get's home if I'm not back yet." He said and vanished through the door. Vegeta sat up and swung his legs over the edge of his bed and stood up slowly.
"Damn it." He growled as he looked down at the clothes he had on from yesterday and frowned. He stretched; it was amazing how he didn't feel any pain or anything. Earlier he had felt like he was run over by a freight train. He picked up his shower bag and started heading for the door.
"And where do you think you're going?" Bulma asked walking quickly towards Vegeta. He looked at her and smirked.
"To take a shower. Do you care to join me?" he asked lowering his voice and staring her straight in the eyes. She blushed.
"Uh…no thanks. I'll just wait for you in your room." She replied lowering her gaze to the floor.
"Alright, suit your self." He said still smirking and walked out the door.
Vegeta looked at his face more closely in the bathroom mirror. He was surprised that he could recognize himself even if all the swelling had went down. Both his eyes were black and he had bruises all over his face. That little compact mirror fooled him. 'What the hell is wrong with every one is this Kami forsaken city? I never did anything to anybody.' he thought shaking his head and looking away from the mirror. He turned the shower on, stripped off all his clothes and climbed into the hot water. Vegeta put his head under the stream of steaming water and let the pressure massage his body. For the first time since he had gotten to West City he let his tears fall and mix with the water as they flowed down the drain. He was glad that Bulma couldn't see him like this.
As Goku walked through the halls of school he could hear people whispering and talking about what had happened the day before. Kids stared at him as he passed by.
"Hey Goku!" Krillin called out to him as he entered the classroom. Goku ignored his former best friend and sat down in a desk at the front of the class. Krillin came and sat next to him.
"Krillin, I thought I made it clear that I don't want to associate myself with you." Goku said staring at the blank chalk board.
"I just wanted to tell you that I was thinking about what you said about helping Bulma and Vegeta. I would like to help." He said looking down at the desk.
"And what changed your mind? Overnight at that." Goku asked. He looked over at Krillin to see if he was being sincere or not.
"Well, I was never the type of person to be hateful. It's not in my character. Plus Vegeta has never done anything to me. So I figured if you and Bulma see that he is a good person and you're my best friend. I would like to get to know him. No more giving him hard times." He confessed. "Anything I can do, I'll be happy to do it." Goku didn't say a word. He just nodded and waited for class to begin.
"I'm going to get back my Goku, Juu." ChiChi said as she watched the young man from the back of the class.
"And how do you plan on doing that. He acts like you don't even exist." Juu said looking over at Krillin; who had a content smile on his face. "I wonder what they were talking about."
"You'll see my friend. You shall see. Nobody messes with ChiChi Mau." She said smirking evilly.
Bulma had finished making Vegeta's bed about five minutes ago and she was now lying across it staring at the ceiling. She had been daydreaming about what she and her sexy sayain friend could have been doing in that very bed right then. 'I'm such a naughty girl!' Bulma thought as she smiled to herself.
"What are you smiling about?" Vegeta asked walking through the door with a towel wrapped around his waist. He quietly shut the door. Bulma looked over in his direction and blushed. He had a six pack out of this world. They weren't all chiseled like a body builder, but they were just perfect for him. How could an eighteen year old have a body so built? He slowly let the towel fall from around his waist as he smirked at her shocked reaction.
"Vegeta!" she gasped quickly closing her eyes. Vegeta chuckled.
"Calm down, woman. I have on some basketball shorts." He said as she slowly opened her eyes.
"Oh…I thought you were…never mind." She mumbled embarrassed.
"Nah, you're not ready for what I have to offer." He said arrogantly, turning his back on her to look for a wife beater. 'Even his back has muscles.' She thought feeling her face growing hot again as he bent over. Bulma liked her dry lips. Nobody ever made her feel the things that she felt when she was around Vegeta; which was one of the main reasons she was still a virgin. He's muscles flexed and relaxed as he slipped the tight fitting undershirt over his body. This boy was testing her will power. Vegeta smirked at her again.
"Bulma, are you okay?" Vegeta asked coming to lie on the bed next to her; putting his arm around her to bring her closer.
"I'm fine." She said sitting up to look at him. "Vegeta, Goku and I came up with an idea yesterday." She looked away to avoid his intense stare.
"And what would that be?" he asked, sitting up him self.
"We want you to run away from West City." She said quietly.
"Runaway?" he scoffed leaning back on one of his pillows.
"Yeah, you, me, and Goku." She replied looking at Vegeta with glowing eyes. He was staring up at the ceiling with his hands behind his head. "So, what do you say?"
"I say… that's a bad idea." He stated blandly. She was shocked. She thought that he would jump for joy at a chance to get out of there.
"What?" she asked a little aggravated. "I thought you would kill to get out of here."
"I would. But running away isn't going to solve anything. I think it would make things worse. I'm going to show these hateful people that I'm not afraid or weak." He stated.
"But…" she began but was cut off.
"My father wouldn't run. And neither will I." he said cutting her off. "Bulma I appreciate everything you're doing and trying to do for me…but I can handle it."
"Handle it?" Bulma yelled angrily. "Get beat to a pulp everyday is not what I would call handling it Vegeta. He could have killed you."
"But he didn't." he stated calmly. He looked over at Bulma; who looked like she was on the verge of tears.
"Vegeta things are just going to get worse for you if you stay here." She said letting her tears fall. Vegeta gently grabbed Bulma pulled her into a hug.
"If things get to the point where I have no control over what's going on…then I'll run. But right now, with all these accusations, just isn't a good time." He said stroking her hair. She wiggled out of the hug and stared into his deep black eyes.
"We'll run." She corrected him and kissed him softly on his lips.
ChiChi walked seething down the hall. How dare Goku pick filth over their relationship. She had tried to talking to him all day, but he had made it a mission to avoid her. She had even tried waiting by his locker, but he never showed up. Earlier in the day she had seen him chatting with Krillin after a class and Krillin was just who she was looking for now. She found him in the courtyard hugged up with Juu on a bench.
"Krillin, can I talk to you for a second?" ChiChi asked. Krillin looked at Juu oddly and she shrugged her shoulders.
"I'll call you later, Krillin." Juu said as she kissed him and waved to ChiChi. ChiChi waited till their friend walked through the double doors that lead to school before she spoke.
"Okay Krillin. Spill." ChiChi demanded. Krillin looked at her like she had lost her mind.
"If you wan to talk to Goku do it yourself." He said hopping of the bench and walking around her. "I had a hard enough time trying to get him to say to words to me."
"I just need to know if he said anything about me." ChiChi said softly. Krillin sighed and walked back towards her.
"Chi, maybe you went to far yesterday." Krillin stated and walked off towards his car. ChiChi frowned to herself as she walked to her own car.
"This isn't over yet." She said out loud to her self as she climbed in the driver's seat. "I'm going to get rid of that monkey, and get boyfriend and best friend back."
Vegeta and Bulma had dozed off cuddled up together when he heard the front door slam. He looked over at the clock. It was already 4:30 p.m.
"Shit. Bulma, you have to leave now." Vegeta whispered loudly shaking her sleeping form awake.
"What's wrong?" she asked taking in her surroundings.
"Bardock is home early." He said staring at the door nervously. "If he finds you here…"
"Okay, just calm down. Lift me up so I can climb out your window." She said running over to his small high window. Vegeta rushed over to her as he listened intently for any signs of his step father coming down the hall.
"Hurry." He whispered, gently grabbing her by her waist and lifting her up with ease. She swiftly climbed out the window.
"Take care." She whispered back to him, but she received no answer as she heard Bardock storm into Vegeta's room. She crouched silently below his window and listened closely trying to hear what was going on inside.
"So, you sorry sack of shit…you recover pretty fast." Bardock growled from the doorway. He had had a bad day at work. Ever since his other senior partners had found out that the sayain that had raped the Briefs' daughter was his step son, they had started singling him out and he feared that he was going to face a possible demotion. Vegeta didn't say a word; he just stood by the window trying to look unnerved. "You ruined my life the day I found out that you even existed. Then I was forced to bring you into my home." He spat disgustedly. Bardock marched over to Vegeta and grabbed him by the throat. "So you like to force sexual actions upon people do you?" he asked with an odd gleam in his eyes.
"What…are…you…" Vegeta gasped; struggling to get air into his lungs.
"Don't question me boy. Do you want to see how poor Bulma felt yesterday?" he asked as he grabbed all that made Vegeta a man. Vegeta's eyes widened in shock and pain. Bulma clasped her hand over her mouth; if what she just heard was correct, then Bardock was going to…
"Oh Kami no." she whispered horrified. She stood up just enough to look down upon the scene before her. Bardock had flipped Vegeta around so that his face was against the wall. He let go of his neck to grab his arms and pin them behind his back tightly. Vegeta was mortified. This was not about to happen to him. He tried to fight back, but Bardock would just slam his head hard against the wall. Bulma looked away from the window and looked around the yard for something; anything. She was not going to sit there and let Vegeta be violated like that. Then she spotted it; an out of place brick surrounding some roses. She ran over and dislodged it quickly. She sprinted back to the window in time to see Bardock unzipping the fly on his trousers.
"I bet you won't touch her or any of our girls again." He said as he was about to degrade, molest, and abuse Vegeta in the worse way possible. Vegeta stood there praying to die, when he heard someone scream.
"Stop it, you disgusting bastard!" Bulma screamed. Vegeta and Bardock looked up at the open window right above them. Bardock quickly backed away from Vegeta and stared at Bulma in shock. She frowned and aimed the brick right for his forehead.
"Bulma you don't…" he started.
"Shut the hell up." She yelled and threw the brick with all her might hoping her aim was on point. The teens heard a sickening crack as the brick collided with Bardock's head and he fell back unconscious. Vegeta looked up at her then over at Bardock's still form. He swallowed a lump in his throat. Bulma had already climbed through the window and dropped gracefully to the floor. She ran over to him and wrapped her arms around him, but he stood there stiffly.
"Vegeta?" she asked releasing him and trying to look into his eyes, but he wouldn't meet her gaze.
"Let's go." He said walking quickly past Bardock. He collected some things, grabbed Bulma's hand and ran out that house hoping never to return.
Well there's chapter 5. This chapter is brand new…well not really I wrote it two years ago. But it's now ready to be read by all. I hope ya'll enjoyed it and I will try to update as soon as possible!