Unfaithful

It'd been expected for a while now that he'd ask her, but when I saw the grin on his face-it wasn't due to alcohol or cheap sex, I knew before he said a word and all I could do was exactly what I was expected to do.

Ah, yes, Bulma. She was like a lioness. Beautiful to watch until she had you by the throat, slowly and beautifully murdering you so that she could feed on you, her poor prey, and move to another.

And so when Yamucha came to me with the news that he'd tamed the lioness, or so he seemed to think he had, I had to blink for a moment.

Hey!

I wanted the lioness.

So I'd never said I wanted her, never acted on it, I probably wouldn't be alive today if I had, but still, I was a guy and one of my best friends was telling me he was going to marry the girl I'd had a crush on my entire life.

Okay, Bulma was loud. Very loud. But she was pretty when she was quiet. Like a child. A really smart, loud, angry child.

But there was obviously something there in the entire attitude I'd always been attracted to.

Even Maron, well she was a joke. That was just proof that I had no love life. And so after he slept with Maron, to this day he will say he didn't, but he did, he was now telling me that he was going to marry Bulma.

Well, it was expected, and even now I'm still sort of confused as to how it happened, but it happened, and I guess I regret my role in the entire story.

"I... see."

"Great, huh?" The man was fricken' bouncing off of the walls when he told me.

"Hush, you're going to bother the old man," I pointed to the door.

"But Kuririn, I'm getting married."

"And I'm about to go train so I can survive to see the wedding."

He froze and stared at me for a moment. "That..."

"What?"

"Well, it's just... you're right. I can't gamble and wait until those monsters come. You know as well as I do... that..."

He didn't have to say anything else, I knew. Compared to Gokou, Gokou that was my best friend in the entire world that I loved like a brother and never saw, we were nothing.

Yes, he'd told me once that he was bitter that Gokou "became" Saiya-Jin, and in a sense he did become one, but he always was one, he was always destined to be more powerful than we were one way or the other, even if he'd "stayed" Human.

Yamucha is jealous, and I guess I was a little bit too, but the way I saw it, neither of us had much of a right to be jealous of him, it seemed so low after he'd saved our lives so many times.

"So you're going to can-"

"We'll just have to move it up. The androids are going to come. So if we get married in... three months, we can have a little bit of time together and I'll at least have three months to train while she sets up her beautiful wedding. I'll have to get back to training eventually but maybe this will give me some time." He smiled, like he was intelligent.

I nodded a bit, "How's she going to take this?"

"Well, we never officially set a date... so I can just mention..."

"I see. And you don't think Bulma's going to be annoyed that you're rushing her?"

"She'll under..." He frowned, "Come with me?"

I sighed and nodded. He could be like a child at times. A big, sex-crazed child. I could never bring myself to be jealous of Gokou. Not with the way he's treated me after all the years I knew him.

But after Yamucha slept with Maron when I was dating her and he was dating Bulma, and after I'd caught Yamucha with woman after woman, innocent eyes trailing or physical touch, never really mattered, I always thought that Bulma would eventually get someone better and move on.

Now, I never really thought I'd be someone better, and I wasn't...

But looking back on everything now, I just wish maybe it hadn't happened the way it had to happen.

-CL