AN: This is Goku and ChiChi's chapter: Spring. This is another couple I've never really written about before, so I wonder how I'll do…
Haru Meku
"Signs of Spring"
ChiChi closed the door behind her and looked up to the brilliant blue sky. The heavy spring rain of the night before had washed away all the clouds, and now fresh midday sunlight glistened against the damp grass around her home.
Had it only been 6 months since she came here? Just six months. ChiChi sighed and walked away from her house down the path that ran parallel to the small building. For six moths she had lived in her mountain home… with Goku. The young woman smiled to herself. Being married really was such a wonderful thing.
Everyday she would cook for him and everyday he would wolf it down happily, always telling her how good her cooking was. They would spar together in the fields on a morning sometimes and she would always get mad at him because he would hold back on her. But really, she didn't mind. Goku was just too sweet to get mad at.
Of course, he wasn't too quick in the uptake either. There had been a lot of things she'd had to teach him over the last few months, like table manners (though that still didn't seem to be going in), how he had to take his shoes off when coming inside and…
…she pressed a hand to her flushed face. Yes, she had had to teach him about a lot of things. But a lot of the time he caught on quickly… even with… she giggled, her face beat red.
Yes, married life was wonderful. And now she had the most wonderful news to tell her new husband. When she had starting feeling unwell, she hadn't thought anything of it, but when she was throwing up on a daily basis, she had gotten worried and visited the doctor just that morning to find out what was wrong with her.
She had never even thought that she could be pregnant. She giggled to herself. Pregnant! She was going to have a baby! She would hold Goku's child in her arms and be able to call herself a mother. Her own little family. Her, Goku and their child. It was just so exciting!
She smiled up at the trees. Look! Look here, at me! I'm going to have a baby! She stopped and looked at the trees that lined the road, each one covered in a blanket of little pink buds. She hadn't realised the cherry blossoms were sprouting already. She looked down and there too the flowers around the bottom of the trees were beginning to flower in a delicious array of purples and whites and yellows.
A gust of wind picked up the bottom of ChiChi's dress, making it float around her legs, her black ponytail swaying against her back. She looked up just in time to see a piece of blossom, the only one that had bloomed, fall from its branch and flitter through the air.
Quickly, she ran forward and caught it in her hands. She opened her palms and looked down at it. A fragile pink thing resting against her pale skin. She looked at it for a long time, until it started to blur, then she wrapped it carefully in her hands and pressed her closed fist against her heart.
"ChiChi? What's the matter? Are you hurt?" She looked up to see her husband stood on the thick branch of the tree above her head, a concerned look flickering over his features. ChiChi smiled brilliantly at him, a crystal tear slipping down each cheek.
"Yes, Goku. I'm fine. I'm just so very happy."
When the baby came, the cherry blossoms would be long gone and the leaves that replaced them would have turned a luminous array of gold and orange. And ChiChi would feel just as happy as she did that day at the start of spring.