I am known as many things, but to you, I'm your creeping death.
Bubun: Ni
Deciding that they had postponed their arrival long enough, the two Sons decided to make the rest of their journey up the walkway. But before they could, the small black haired child was tugging on Goten's black dress pants, commanding that he stay.
The two turned to look at the boy and smiled at his pouting face. Because of their smiling the boy also glared, this sent Goten into fits of laughter. It was just so damned cute!
"Don't laugh!" He ordered them, and Goten calmed down and kneeled by the boy.
"Sorry," he apologized and put his hand on the boy's shoulder. "Don't you have to get back to your parents or something?"
The boy quickly shook his head.
"Well it's kinda late, shouldn't you be getting back home to them?" Goku asked trying to be as polite as possible.
The boy shook his head again.
"Why not?" Goten asked, he suddenly became worried about why the boy was out here. Maybe there were troubles at the home and the boy had somehow run away.
"Because my parents are not at home," he said quietly.
"Why not?"
"Because… because…" The boy started saying and then a tear fell down his cheek. "Because there is no home to go to!"
Then he launched himself onto Goten and began hugging him and crying quite violently. Goten looked petrified. He had no clue what to do.
"Hey, it'll be ok," Goten said and stood up picking the boy up with him.
"I think we should get Bulma," Goku suggested.
"Makes sense," Goten said nodding his head.
The two then turned and walked inside, the boy was slowly calming down and by the time they were inside, less than a minute later, the boy was completely calm. He sniffed and buried his head in Goten's black shirt. He hated when people saw him cry, his father would've gotten so mad at him…
Goten patted his back as they walked through the building, finally the boy managed to get down from Goten, but he still held his hand. Every time Goku looked at him the boy would look ashamed of himself.
They all heard noises and figured Bulma and them were straight ahead, just as they were turning the corner the boy let go of Goten's hand and slipped away.
"Hey! Dad! Where'd he go?" Goten asked looking around in confusion.
"We'll go tell Bulma and then find him, he couldn't have gotten too far," Goku said reassuringly and they turned the corner to come face with the odd picture, the strange man and woman bowing in front of Vegeta.
"Hey, Trunks?" Goten asked looking at the six people in confusion. "What's going on?"
"I haven't the foggiest…" Trunks mumbled looking at everyone confused as well.
"Uh, what's with the apron?"
Trunks glared dangerously at his best friend, who quickly forgot about the apron due to fear for his life.
"Forget the apron, what is going on?" Bulma asked getting annoyed with the situation. "What's this promise, Vegeta?"
Imagery of long forgotten memories seeped into Vegeta's mind all the sudden. He was a small boy, maybe five; his was smaller of course. She was there too. Vensu was there, only three. She had short black hair and wore simply blue pants and a white shirt.
She was giving him a flower… what had happened to the flower? Something with fire.
"Hey, Vegeta?" Bulma inquired once more, breaking off the memories.
"Have you no respect woman?" Sederi asked getting annoyed with everyone. How could they all be so disrespectful to the 'Prince of Vegeta'?
"Listen boy, I don't know who you are, but this is my house you're in," Bulma shouted at the man. "What are you people doing here anyway? Why do you know Vegeta?"
"They're saiyans," Goku said, smiling.
"Ah, Goku. I didn't notice you there… wait… Saiyans!" Bulma eyes went wide as she stared down at the two.
"That would explain the tails…" Bra said. She'd noticed it, but hadn't been able to mention it because she was so far into shock.
"But… but… uh… how?" Trunks said in pure disbelief.
"What do you mean how? What kind of a question is that?" Sederi asked, glaring at the boy.
"They left before Planet Vegeta was destroyed… half the royal family did," Vegeta explained silently.
"Royalty huh?" Bulma said with a bit of skepticism in her voice, not that she didn't believe this, but saiyan royalty could be so hard to manage with, from her experience…
It was then when Vegeta gave a small cry of shock and swung around into a small boy. Everyone had been too shocked with the news to notice the small boy wander in through the kitchen and grab Vegeta ass.
"He does not have a tail," the small boy from outside said in confusion.
Vegeta was twitching in anger at the kid, nobody made any real reaction to the kid except Goten.
"HEY! There you are!" Goten said and rushed forward picking the kid up in his arms to make sure Vegeta didn't do anything stupid. Like murder...
It was then from under the boys shirt they saw his small tail come out. It had been wrapped around his waist before and the shirt had covered it. But now that it was unwrapped, nothing hid it anymore.
"Another one?" Bulma asked. The stress was slowly building.
Goten glanced around the room as everyone contemplated the situation for themselves, then Goten caught sight of Sederi and held his breath in fear. The man was glaring at him like he meant to kill him and was slowly rising to his feet.
"Unhand him now…" he choked out, his fist clenched in anger.
Goten backed up in fear as he realized the obvious, that man was this kid's father. He tried to fake a smile, but was still sweating. The boy was clinging to Goten's neck, not wanting to be put down.
"Sederi…" Vensu warned softly.
"Put Bori down now," Sederi commanded, still walking forward.
Bulma began backing up and by putting her hands on Bra's shoulders she got her daughter to start backing up as well.
Goten attempted to put the child down, but the kid was showing an amazing strength in clinging to his neck. He could barely breath, but most of that had to do with the look Sederi was giving him.
"Put him down!" Sederi yelled and in a reflex he let his left hand swing out, and it found its way to Trunks nose.
"OW! You mother fucker!" Trunks yelled holding his nose as blood flowed down his chin. "That hurt!"
"SEDERI!" Vensu yelled, suddenly at his side glaring him down. "What do you think you are doing?"
Sederi's eyes twitched a bit in anger, but as Vensu yelled at him he calmed down and turned away.
Vensu put her hand on Trunks' cheek and the other took his hand away to observe the damage. Trunks just didn't move as the girl began to feel his nose.
"Sorry," she mumbled for her mate's loss of temper. "I didn't realize he'd do that…"
"It's ok…" Trunks mumbled, finally pulling away from her. "I'll just go find some ice… or something…"
Trunks quickly turned around and left to find the stairs, hiding his blushing.
"Trunks, wait for me," Goten called after him and began to fallow him, until Vensu grabbed his arm. "Oh yeah, Bori, right? Let go. Please."
Finally Bori let go and got back down on the floor. He needed to investigate things more, being the curious little saiyan he was.
"How dare he pick up a saiyan Prince…" Sederi mumbled under his breath as Goten walked by. "Saiyan or not."
"Well how dare you punch a saiyan Prince!" Bulma shot back, Vegeta was still lost in his own little world.
"What?" Sederi asked, dumbfounded, as he looked at the girl like she was crazy.
"He, along with her," Bulma said looking down at Bra, and then she looked back up at Sederi, "are mine and Vegeta's children."
"Chil… children…?" Sederi asked in shock. "But you… you are not a saiyan... correct?"
"Correct," Bulma confirmed.
"No way..." Sederi said in this revelation, he almost felt like smiling, the situation was just crazy.
"You're a father?" Vensu asked with a bit of smirk. Vegeta nodded in reply. "Well I'll be…"
"Trunks, you ok?" Goten asked, walking into the bathroom.
"Next time, let the kid go," Trunks mumbled, he had the sink running and was keeping the blood under control.
"I tried!" He defended himself. "But the kid wouldn't let go."
"Wow… somebody actually likes you?" Trunks asked, his face in awe.
"Shut, up," Goten said and threw a towel at him.
Trunks blocked it with his hand and smiled.
"You know I'm your hero."
"You wish."
"My Dende… who are those people anyway?" Trunks asked as he looked into the mirror, he wondered if his nose has badly broken. A saiyan had punched him after all.
"I dunno… but I sure don't like that guy, Sederi or something. The kid's cute, Bori…" Goten said, thinking it over.
"The girl was nice," Trunks said, half paying attention to Goten. "She's also really pretty."
"Ooooo, Trunks has a crush," Goten said in a singsong voice, Trunks blushed madly.
Trunks then backhanded Goten.
"I do not have a crush on her. She's a mother for Dende's sake." The blush was disappearing from his face.
Goten chuckled a bit. Trunks rolled his eyes at the boy's immaturity. He thought she was pretty, didn't mean he wanted to marry her. That Goten sometimes, he could be so unnerving…
"If they're royalty, does that mean your dad knows them?" Goten asked.
"I think he knows the girl," Trunks replied. And finally got the bleeding to stop. "There we go…"
"I wonder in what way…" Goten said thoughtfully.
"What do you mean by that?" Trunks asked, glaring at Goten.
"I dunno... he just seemed very out of it. Maybe they had something together before Planet Vegeta was blown up."
"I truly do not think that is the case."
"But they still seemed to be very close."
"Oh, and you can tell this by seeing them in a hallway together for five seconds?" Trunks asked, almost to the point of bitterness.
"They were starring at each other man, really staring."
After Vensu had yelled at Sederi and Bulma had put Bra to bed, even though it was still early and she hadn't finished her supper, she had also put Bori in one of the guest rooms, the saiyans and Bulma sat down at the dinner table to talk things over.
"The King at that time wished to colonnade other planets and sent fifty first class warriors out to do so. Sederi and I included. I was in charge, being the highest of royalty among them, even though I was 3..." Vensu began explaining to them; she looked around at all present at the table.
When she looked at Trunks, Goten nudged him in the arm, to which Trunks kicked Goten in the shin.
"Ow!" Goten yelled out, the entire table looked at him. "Uh… continue." He smiled nervously.
Trunks suppressed his fits of laughter and Bulma sighed, maybe she should have put them to bed too. 20 and 19 and still acting like 6 and 5.
"All went well for some time until three months ago when something went terribly wrong and due to natural causes… the planet imploded on itself. Most people got off the planet, but the shockwave scattered all off us into different areas. We had long since known about Planet Vegeta's destruction…" Vensu looked at the table in a sad way. "We figured they were all dead, but, I could still fell Prince Vegeta's presence."
Vegeta looked up at her. After all this time she still had a bond with him, he had pretty much forgotten her. For a second Vegeta almost felt guilty. Almost.
"So we came here and well… that's the story so far," Vensu finished.
"And now that we have found you, we will leave," Sederi added on.
"You're leaving so soon?" Trunks asked.
Goten smiled, Trunks glared back at him.
"You might as well spend a few nights here," Bulma offered before she even realized what she was saying. She wasn't too sure if she liked the idea of a pack of saiyan royalty staying here…
"If it wouldn't be too much trouble," Vensu said looking hopefully.
"I'll go show you to your rooms," Vegeta said, getting up, Sederi looked at him a bit shocked, but Vensu simply smiled.
"I better get going home," Goku, who had been oddly silent, announced. "C'mon Goten."
"Is it ok if I stay here?" Goten asked his father.
"Yeah sure," Goku said, then he said his goodbyes and was gone.
"You just want to bug me don't you?" Trunks asked and Goten nodded in reply. "Great."
Vegeta, Sederi and Vensu walked up the stairs and down the hall. They reached a door and Vegeta opened it, motioning for them to go inside.
"Sederi… go on in ahead," Vensu told him and he left closing the door to the room behind him.
Vensu looked down the halls to make sure nobody was there and then flung herself onto Vegeta, hugging him, the brims of her eyes tearing.
"I missed you so much…" she muttered softly.
Vegeta's eyes were wide with the suddenly affection, but he slowly put his arms around her as well.
"Why didn't you ever come get me?" She asked quietly.
"I… I forgot…" Vegeta muttered out.
"Just don't leave me like that again," she said and hugged him harder.
Bulma looked on at the two in shock and then slowly turned around and descended the stairs. Who the hell was she? Just how close were her and Vegeta? The whole scene had oddly unnerved her.
She continued walking down the stairs, her stare almost catatonic. Trunks and Goten walked by, but they were arguing and didn't notice Bulma's expression.
A knock came at the door for about the fifth time and finally Trunks got out of his bed, only wearing his boxers, and walked across the room (almost tripping over the sprawled out Goten).
"Yeah?" Trunks said, eyes bleary as he opened the door… and found nothing. "Huh?"
Trunks then felt a poke on his leg and looked down to find Bori standing there.
"Where is Goten?" He asked.
"Goten?" Trunks asked. He was too tired for this. "I dunno…"
Bori glared at Trunks and then ran inside, Trunks sighed and then closed the door and began to walk back towards his bed. He saw Bori run towards Goten and then curl up in his arms and go to sleep.
All Trunks could think of was what an odd little kid he was.
(I think I should take this fine time to explain Bori yes he used to be named Tome for all you people who read the teaser. I think I took all four of my cute little cousins and warped them together to get this hyper and yet depressed little saiyan. He's depressed because he lost his only home and his parents don't pay much attention to him. So as he attempted to play hide and go seek with he parents, he stumbled upon Goten and Goku. Obviously listening in on their conversation he figures out they were saiyans he's such a smart little boy and being one of those kids who crave compassion he decided to pick one to latch on. Why Goten then? Well anyone who knows me well enough knows the answer, but to humour you guys: I think if I were a small child I'd be scared of Goku. So that's about it. My Gaia, I was about to snap over all the titles that were being thrown around. Royalty always have to be so formal and shit and after a while I get confused and then go crazy and rambles on before finding some cheese to snack on and therefore forgets all past and current troubles. Now, before you go and start bashing me about just how close Vensu and Vegeta were/are, READ THE REST OF THE STORY. Thank you and good night… or day… or whatever. Sayonara)