A short chapter.
Age: April 743
Goku ran and jumped into the trees, eagerly awaiting the reason for the new scent that he had picked up since that day in the forest. He was more familiar with the coupling smell now, as some other pairs of males and females had done the same.
There were even some other pairs that were only males, and Goku let himself watch and try to keep more focus on the details of it. The females touched each other but it wasn't as frequent. Both of these kinds did not have the same smell as the male and female pairs did.
He watched since the day that the new smell appeared; it only happened in some of the male-female pairs, and the pair that he had first watched was soaked in that smell. They never turned him away when he grew more curious and dared to go closer to them; in fact, they welcomed him, grinning and hooting warmly, and they even groomed him on occasion. He did the same to them, though he never ate the things that crawled in their fur, and he hummed in wonder at the first time he touched the female's belly.
It seemed to be swollen, but it was hard. She smelled healthy enough, and the male did not let her do dangerous things. Every once in a while, when Goku had rested his hand upon the larger belly, something would hit his hand. It was like a force inside of her was reacting to him.
As Goku grew closer to their small nest that the female had been building, he noticed that the scent was very strong. It smelt of new things and fresh water. He carefully approached the nest, chittering like he remembered that Raditz did when he had first come to the Palais to visit Goku all those years ago. It was to be disarming, trustworthy. The female welcomed him, chittering back to him in joy at the sight of him. He curled against her, cooing soft words that he hardly remember now because he didn't need words to talk with anyone now that he was alone out here.
He smiled as she licked his cheeks and reminded him of his dam. He wiped away at his tears because this female couldn't cry like he could.
Goku jumped at the small screeching that she made, pushing him away. The male - her mate - came forward and hooted gently at her before stalking around the nest, his chest thrust forward and his fangs bared. Goku looked at the male in confusion; why would he need to protect his mate right now? He looked to her and noticed her curling forward, as though in pain. He wanted to interfere, but the female made several grunts before a large amount of fluid seemed to spill out of her. Goku, curious, placed his hands in the fluid, and noted it smelt only of that new scent.
Goku whimpered slightly as he saw blood come out of her body, and he tried to help her move, somehow to keep her body out of the blood. He helped her onto her hind legs, her arms grasping at the edge of the nest. It seemed like her body was trying to squeeze something out, and Goku kept an eye on the swell of her belly; had it been something bad the whole time, and he hadn't helped her?
A scream, a new voice completely, came from between the female's legs, and Goku found himself staring at the wrinkled face of a newborn monkey. The infant's eyes were large . and dark, and they reflected everything that they saw. It let out a screeching, quivering whole-body as it slipped out of her slowly. The male - her mate, Goku now realized, from the mixed scent that the infant carried - came forward, hooting softly, just as the infant fell into the softness of the nest, and a cord coming between the dam's legs, from her womb, was the only left connecting dam and offspring. Goku reached forward slowly, biting through the cord and watching as something else, not an infant, slipped out from the female.
The male was coddling his newborn, Goku sniffing at the infant, while the female at the thing that had come out of her. She must not have been eating, Goku thought, because the female turned and ate the after-birthing. She ate it hungrily before reaching for her squealing infant and holding it to her chest. Goku hummed as the infant suckled on his dam's teat, the scent of milk hitting the air and Goku's nose.
He left the nest shortly after, thinking of Gine and how he wanted to be held against her chest again, to taste her milk, and to not feel alone anymore.