I hope everyone is enjoying the story. I got another chapter out super quick for all my loyal fans ^-^. Hehehe I love this chapter...and I do have to say my husband gave me the idea for the end of this chapter...but no give aways, you'll just have to read it find out what happens. Thank you again for reading!
Trunks and Goten went running through the hallways. They had grabbed squirt guns and Goten was chasing Trunks, since Trunks' gun had gone empty. As Trunks flew around the corner he ran into parents. He fell backwards onto his butt and looked up at them with a smile. Vegeta crossed his arms and went to talk but got right as he did Goten came around the corner squirting his guns. Another one of Trunks' new inventions was rigging his mega water guns so they had a mechanism that made them automatic. He also managed to make it where it was a constant stream and didn't stop until he let go of the button. Trunks, who was on his butt, only got hit with the water that bounced off his parents.
"GOOOOTEN!" Vegeta screamed and instantly Goten stopped the guns. Tension, fear and anger hung in the air for a long ten seconds before the silence was broken.
"I'm….I'm sorry Vegeta! It was Trunks' idea to play with these. He said he wanted to show me how cool he made them." Goten spat out quickly as Vegeta started to walk towards him.
"Thanks a lot you jerk. Pin it all on me." Trunks said from behind his father.
"You know," Vegeta said as he turned to his son "I don't think I ever confronted the two of you for your little stunt earlier."
Trunks moved closer to his mother. "Oh come on dad, it was just an accident. I got my math wrong when I was aiming for the tree. You really can't be mad at us for that."
"You got the math wrong. Ha. I don't believe you." Vegeta said with a smirk. He looked at Bulma who gave a little nod and a smile. "So later, I get to take both of you into the gravity room and we get to see how well you do when I get my math wrong with the strength."
"But that's not fair." Came from both sides of Vegeta as Goten and Trunks replied at the same time.
"I don't care what you think is fair, I am the adult and you go by what I say. Now let's go get dinner because if that idiot ate all the food, he will be joining the two of you later." Vegeta said as he walked over to the closet grabbing a towel and tossing it to Bulma. She caught it and walked past the boys patting them on the head.
"You're back!" Goku said excitedly because he knew that it was now time to actually eat.
"Yes and we would have been back sooner if you knew how to watch our children for a few minutes." Vegeta said as he walked past Goku and smacked him across the back of the head.
Goku rubbed the back of the head, knowing that was for more than not keeping an eye on the kids. "Well we're all here now so how about we eat." Goku stated with a laugh.
"I'll go get my mother and let her know we are all here. I know she has been working so hard trying to make sure all the food was ready at once." Bulma said as she walked towards the door.
Chi-Chi hopped up and walked towards Bulma "I think I'll come with you, just to see if your mom needs any help."
Bulma turned to her friend and smiled. "Thank you Chi-Chi." And the two of them walked out the back door to the dining room.
Quickly, Vegeta looked over towards Goku. "You better not say anything to Bulma to give it away, I'm warning you Kakarot. The stupid earthling tradition of going to the doctors is a big deal to her. So help me if you tell her, I'm going to have to beat the living shit out of you once and for all."
"Whoa, Vegeta I promise I won't say anything to her." Goku said while waving his hands and turning red. "It was a complete mistake that I told you."
"Well next time you should just keep you damned mouth shut." Vegeta demanded.
Everyone again was silent and Gohan couldn't help but think this evening was going to be horribly awkward for the rest of the hours they had to stay. He knew there was no escaping from the Capsule house. His mother had even made sure that he and Videl would not get called for any emergencies so they could finally enjoy an evening together. This didn't leave Gohan with very many outs if things got ugly around here.
Only another moment passed by before Bulma and Chi-Chi arrived back into the room and the caterers were right behind. Within minutes the table was filled with plates of meat, trays of vegetables, bowls of mashed potatoes and other sides, and pitchers of drinks. Everything was laid out before them and lids were removed to reveal the lavish delicacies of food before them and the two Saiyans and three half-saiyans stomachs immediately growled. Goku's eyes were as big as the slabs of steak that were placed in front of him. Mrs. Briefs had gone all out with getting a delicious meal set for her family and friends. Shortly after all the food had finally been brought into the hall, Mr. and Mrs. Briefs joined the table to start the dinner. Mr. Briefs stood up and made a small toast before the dinner was to commence.
"This dinner is to bring together our family and their friends. We felt that you all needed a simple break from everything and to enjoy a nice lavish meal. So to you all, let us eat." Mr. Briefs said very quickly and he sat down. He hadn't wanted to make a toast at all but his wife pushed him into it.
The moment he sat down, the five boys filled their plates as if they would never get a chance to eat again. Trunks and Goten were fighting over which pieces of meat they were going to take because they always seemed to go for the same thing. Goku and Vegeta piled their plates and pulled things closer to them that they wanted to eat that no one else should touch. Smartly enough, Bulma and Chi-Chi sat in between their two men because they had a force of habit to also fight over what food they were going to eat and would usually wage a war at the table if one took the others food. After all the years that Chi-Chi and Bulma were with Goku and Vegeta, they had become used to how Saiyan ate but Videl on the other hand wasn't quite used to it and still got rather embarrassed when she sat with Gohan for big meals to eat.
Gohan, Trunks, and Vegeta all carried manors at the table, but Goten was just like his father. They couldn't help but talk when food was placed into their mouths. It was almost guaranteed that they would show what they were eating a dozen times during a meal. Gohan had been working on getting Goten trained to be a little better at the table but his father didn't help when he would do exactly what Gohan had said not to do. Just because the three had manors still didn't make them look 'normal' while eating, especially when they were extremely hungry. All five would shovel food in and finish three to five plates to the girl's one plate.
After about a half hour, the boys had all slowed down with their eating and the women were already talking so the men decided to join in.
"I'm not too sure what I want to do about when the baby is first born. I mean I'd like to have him or her in the bedroom with us for a few weeks. I did that with Trunks so I figure I should do it with the new child as well but Vegeta doesn't like that idea." Bulma was saying when Vegeta had entered the conversation.
"I don't see why we need to have the new child in our room. I don't even get why you did it with Trunks." Vegeta added.
Bulma rolled her eyes. "It made it easier for feeding him when he would wake up in the middle of the night. Of course I wouldn't expect you to remember that because you were never home back then."
"Oh my gosh Bulma, how many times have we gotten into this conversation before. I wasn't here watching the runt because I was training before the Androids came, which did prove to help greatly. If I hadn't of done that training things would have gone a lot worse then." Vegeta retorted back.
"Anyways," Bulma said as she turned back to Chi-Chi and Videl, "It'd probably only be for a short time and then we will move him or her down to his or her own room."
"Which room are you going to choose?" Videl asked lightly, noticing that Trunks was paying attention to what this answer was going to be.
His room was the closest to his parent's room and she had always gone on about how her precious baby boy had to stay close to her at bed time. Bulma was very attached to her son, but Trunks was still worried about being moved down to a different room or being ranked number two when the baby was born. Trunks was in the middle of his bite of cake but he wanted despirately to know what would be happening.
"There's the room on the other side of Trunks' room that I think will work perfectly for the new baby. It's still not that far away from us and we'll have a monitor put into rooms so I can keep an eye on the baby. I haven't started to think of what I'm going to do decorating wise though. I think I'll wait until I know the gender before I'll start to come up with plan on how I want to paint."
The room went a little stale with the mention of the gender of the child since everyone in the room but Bulma and her parents knew what she was having. Trunks wasn't so much worried about that as he was relieved to know that one of his biggest fears of the new sibling wasn't going to be happening at all. Bulma grabbed a couple of pieces of fruit and then went back to her conversation with the girls.
"So Videl, when are you and Gohan going to have a baby?" Bulma asked with a smile. Chi-Chi had asked her when they went to go get the food to bring up the subject with Videl to see if she would open up a little more with her than she was with her mother-in-law.
Videl's face when bright red and she didn't look either Bulma or Chi-Chi in the eyes. "As Gohan had told Chi-Chi before, we really aren't thinking about that at the moment. We are both so busy we just don't think it would be a good time to have a child. I mean we'd really like to be more free to spend with it and right now we just wouldn't have the proper amount of time to be parenting a child."
"Well you'll have one when you're meant to have one." Bulma said with a nudge and then added with a whisper. "Trunks wasn't really something Vegeta and I planned. Hell we weren't really what you'd call a couple back then either but the child came." She laughed but still kept her voice down. "To be honest, if it wasn't for Trunks, I'm not sure if Vegeta and I would have truly tried to be more than what we had going on. I wouldn't change it for the world though. Our little 'accident' turned out to be more of a miracle for Vegeta and I. That's what I think anyways."
Chi-Chi laughed a little. "Wish it would have worked that way for me. This is the longest Goku has been a part of the family for quiet some time."
Bulma and Videl frowned a little bit. "Oh, I'm sorry Chich. I didn't mean to make it come out to make you feel bad."
"Oh you don't have to worry about it. I'm just grateful he's home now. He may go out all day and train but I know that when dinner time comes around, no matter where he disappeared to for the day, he will come back, at least for now I know that's how it is." Chi-Chi said as she put a hand on Bulma's arm. "No reason to be all down and out because of it. I'm not anymore."
Videl had heard all the stories from Gohan about his childhood. He had lost his father several times. It was bad enough losing a parent once, she knew because her mother passed away when she was young, but to have a parent die and come back to life and watch them die another time had to have been horrible. She heard all the horror stories of him trying to cope with the lose but she never really had thought about what Chi-Chi had to have gone though, considering shortly after he passed away the one time she found out she was pregnant. She couldn't help but feel bad for Chi-Chi.
"Videl, whatcha thinking about?" Gohan asked as he leaned over to her and gave her a kiss on the cheek.
"Oh I'm sorry Gohan, just lost in a train of thought about…" She said as she turned her back to Bulma and Chi-Chi were talking about their 'no good Saiyan husbands who only thought about food and fighting' "well your past. I never realized how much your mother went through and she just shrugs it off and laughs about it."
"Yeah, that's mom. She's a fighter even if she doesn't always want to admit it. Just don't worry yourself over it okay?" He said in reply and kissed her on the cheek again and Videl blushed lightly.
"Ooooo, kissy kissy." Goten said from behind them, making Videl and Gohan jump a little.
"Mwah! Smoochy smooch." Trunks laughed out loud as he and Gohan started to run away.
"Oh yeah, get back here you little brats. You two are so dead." Gohan said as he got up and chased them.
"Hey, we aren't little!" Goten shouted back.
"You're only twelve, so that makes you little. Plus it doesn't help that you act like you're still seven." Gohan retorted.
"Urgh, really boys. Why can't you two just go one day without arguing with each other? My family is such a disaster." Chi-Chi replied in distraught and put her hands over her face.
On the other side of the table away from the commotion was Vegeta and Goku. Vegeta was mainly staying away from the conversations because there was nothing he really wanted to engage in talking about. Goku on the other hand had moved to the side of the table because there was still food. Goku looked over at Vegeta who was watching a laughing Trunks and Goten run around the dining room.
"Do you think we should step in to calm them down a little?" Goku said leaning closer to Vegeta.
"I'd like to see if Gohan is going to keep his word about killing them off." Vegeta said slightly amused.
"I really don't think he will." Goku said right after he took a bite making bits of food fly towards Vegeta's arm as he spoke.
"Kakarot, you seriously need to learn your manors. This is disgusting." Vegeta said as he wiped his arm off with the napkin. Then he saw Trunks pull his water gun out from under the table and point it at Gohan. With a flash Vegeta had moved to grab the gun out of his hand. "What makes you think that I'm going to allow this sort of horse play in this room?"
Trunks looked down at the ground. "I'm sorry father. May I take it back up to my room?"
"Fine but if I see anything is wet later, I am going to destroy it." Vegeta said as he handed it back to Trunks. Everyone else in the room had gone quiet and was watching Vegeta and Trunks. Mr. Briefs particularly was paying attention to the gun that Vegeta was handing back to Trunks.
"Trunks my boy." Mr. Briefs said to get his attention. "Bring that over here for me to look at. I see you have made some modifications and I want to see what you have done." Trunks looked up at his father waiting for permission to take his toy somewhere else than where he said it must go. After a second Vegeta gave a nod of his head in the direction of Trunks' grandfather and then went to sit back down. Trunks smiled and walked over to Mr. Briefs. He and Trunks went over all the mechanisms that Trunks had altered and added to make it work as it did.
While they were having their conversation, Goten, Gohan and Videl started playing a little game they had come up with at home. They had invited Mrs. Briefs to join them and tried to teach her the game. In the end she decided that she just wanted to watch the three of them play the game. The four laughed quietly as they played and Bulma and Chi-Chi flagged their husbands to come join them in their conversations. Not very thrilled with the idea, Vegeta got up and sat in the chair behind Bulma and Goku joined next to his wife.
"It is starting to get late so if you all want to stay the night, we can get the guest room set up for you in a jiffy. Say the word and I can get one of the robots to get the rooms fixed up while we have desert." Bulma said persuasively.
"We really don't want to be a bother though Bulma." Chi-Chi inclined.
"She's going to make the robots make sure the rooms are ready and that's who's going to be taking care of all of these dishes anyways." Vegeta added hoping that them staying in a couple of the guest rooms would allow him to stay in his room for the first time in a while.
"Well, thank you Vegeta. We just make take you up on that offer after all then." Chi-Chi replied extremely stunned that Vegeta was actually being civil. She looked at Bulma to change the subject back to the pregnancy. "So have you noticed any differences between this pregnancy and when you were pregnant with Trunks?"
"Well the only things I've noticed that are different is I'm nauseas all the time and I've gotten bigger in a lot shorter of a time. I hope that means the kid isn't going to be huge."
"Ha there's so many differences this time around, starting with your damned emotions. You cry so much more this time around and get angry if someone snaps a finger. Of course you seem to have plenty of mood swings when you're not pregnant as well." Vegeta responded and then got an elbow to the chest from Bulma.
"You try carrying another person around inside your body and go through all the changes that we have to just to bare you a child. It's ridiculous." Chi-Chi defended as Bulma shook her head in agreeance.
Goku had been sitting in silence and he just couldn't stand not having some part of the conversation so he decided to change the subjects to names for the child since he didn't want to have a riot start because of them talking about what Bulma was going through. "So do you know what you are going to name her?"
Vegeta and Chi-Chi quickly looked at Goku with an expression that said you better fix that question right now. Normally a good way to cover would be to add "if you are having a girl" but Goku just looked at them with a smile. "What? I just wanted to know what you guys are going to name your daughter."
Bulma's eyes went huge and she looked at Goku and she was able to squeak out "I'm having a girl?"
Vegeta couldn't help but reach across the corner of the table and punch Goku in the face. "What the hell did I fucking tell you?"
After this happened the whole room went quiet and was looking at the corner of the table where Vegeta was standing there with golden hair and a scowl, while Goku was picking himself up off the floor. He rubbed his right cheek as he put his chair back in place and sat down. "Oww Vegeta. That really hurt."
"Yes and I'll do it again if I please. I told you I'd kill you if you opened your big mouth and guess what you just did? You signed the contract to me kicking your ass." Vegeta said in rage.
Bulma stood up, still a look of shock on her face. She turned to Vegeta. "Please can you calm down? I'm confused, how did you guys know the gender, Vegeta?"
"Damn-it woman, it's not my fault. I've been doing as you pleased, not sleeping with you, minimal touching so I can't figure it out. Then this clown comes over today and blurts out that he knows that you are carrying a daughter for us. Be pissed off at him not me. I obeyed your rules and for nothing now because of this idiot. I wasn't going to tell you the gender and go with you to that appointment you said you wanted me to go with you too. Like I said be pissed at him." Vegeta said while rage built inside of him.
Bulma turned to Goku, who was now sluching in his chair, waiting to be yelled at by his oldest friend. She walked over to him and sat in the chair Chi-Chi was no longer sitting in. Taking a deep breath she asked. "How positive are you?"
Goku looked up at her in surprise. He put his hand on her stomach and looked up at her. "One hundred percent." This move of course made Chi-Chi and Vegeta that much angrier but a smile crossed Bulma's face.
"We're having a baby girl!" She looked around the room. "Oh my gosh did you guys hear that? Vegeta and I are having a baby girl!"
Everyone smiled and said congratulations back to her and her mother came up and gave her a hug. But this was the last straw for Vegeta. He couldn't stand that after all that time he was not allowed to find out for himself but the idiot comes over and tells her the way he wanted to do it. He walked out of the room, slamming the door behind him so everyone knew he was pissed and left the house. He couldn't stand being home. He had to get away and if anyone tried to stop him he was going to beat the living crap out of them. Trunks had started to follow but when he felt his father's ki explode, he decided it better to return to the happy party inside.