Saiyan Jabs

Author: Edward Tudor

Rating: K+ to M

Warnings: Yaoi, homosexuality, m-preg, AU, crossdressing, etc, etc; you HAVE been warned

Summary: Quick one-shot stories randomly written prompted by one word. Goku/Vegeta only (seme/uke)

Kitten

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Goku glared from his perch at the evil little interloper. How he hated it! Even though he was normally a very friendly God and he hadn't hated much in his life, he found he hated this little demon with a passion! He hated it even more because it was just sitting there, ever so innocently and looking up at him with its big blue eyes. Well, he wasn't going to fall for that again!

"Goku?" he looked over his wings and at the young priest who was currently looking as though the Wind God had lost his mind. "What the hell are you doing up there?"

"Nothing," he groused sulkily. Vegeta arched a brow, but didn't probe.

"Well, when you're done doing 'nothing' you can come down to dinner." With that, he turned his attention away from Goku and crouched down with a soft smile on his face. Goku felt his hackles rise as Vegeta simpered to the fuzzy demon. "Here Brolly. C'mere, little kitty-kitty! Dinner is ready."

The evil demon mewed excitedly and eagerly ran over to Vegeta. Goku's eyes narrowed and his wings puffed up in agitation as his priest laughed as the demon rubbed up against his legs and purred happily. Vegeta picked up the kitten and turned to Goku one last time.

"Come on, Goku. It's dinner time. You never eat when your food gets cold, you know."

"I know." He grumbled as he shuffled on his spot. "I'll be down in a few…" Vegeta nodded and sauntered off, all the while simpering nonsense to the fuzzy priest snatcher.

Goku sighed as he relaxed. Guilt flooded him and he felt terrible for the way he had been acting. Truly, he wasn't sure why he had been behaving like a spoilt child. All he knew was that he didn't like Vegeta coddling that…that…thing so much!

He winced as he mentally berated himself for calling the kitten a 'thing'. And why should he feel bad? After all, he found the kitten when it washed up on the beach. He had decided to fly out for a while, mainly to escape Vegeta's wrath as he managed to blow their fresh laundry off their lines and into the mud again, when he came across wreckage upon a small island. There weren't many bodies, but what few there were made Goku's heart ache. To his nature, he started looking for survivors and found a poor little kitten struggling. It was obviously newborn and looked like it was searching for its mother, but was wandering closer to the waves. Overwhelmed, he had snatched the little tabby up and flew back to the temple.

Vegeta had, at first, been terribly sceptical. Goku felt properly chagrined when he remembered that it was initially Vegeta who didn't want the kitten.

"It's a lot of hard work, Goku," he had told him. "Having a pet isn't easy; especially seeing as this kitten is a newborn! You'll have to be his mother just to get him past his infantile stage, you know!"

But Goku had begged and pleaded and whined and got on his knees and cried until, eventually, Vegeta had given in.

True to Vegeta's words, taking care of a pet was very difficult. All Goku had done so far was name the kitten Brolly! Since he got him, he had been harassing Vegeta to help feed him, look out for him and take care of him because he didn't know what to do. Eventually, Vegeta simply took it upon himself to feed Brolly milk from a sheep's bladder and to keep him warm by cradling him in the pouch of his toga by his chest.

Thinking back, it was then, of course, no surprise that Brolly started to see Vegeta as his mother. Whenever Vegeta called, he would respond and whenever he meowed, Vegeta responded.

Goku slumped and his wings slumped down with him. Really, if he didn't want to hate the kitten then he really should have listened to Vegeta and left him alone. But he knew he would never have done that. He was just terribly jealous of someone else garnering his priest's attention. He felt a little like the older sibling that had been forgotten now that there was someone younger to look after.

Resigned, Goku flew down from his perch and sadly trudged through to the dining room. Vegeta was there with Brolly, scratching behind his ears as the kitten ate small cuts of veal in gravy. He obviously wasn't bothered with the attention. In fact, Goku could hear him purring. He scowled again; jealousy flooding his every being before sitting at the table.

Vegeta was up and quickly brought his dish to him.

"Here," he said. "I don't know what has been up with you lately, but I thought you might need a little pick-me-up."

Goku stared down at the plate. It was filled with his favourite dishes! Exotic fruits and sweet meats and pickled vegetables; they were all there! He glanced up to see Vegeta looking anxiously at him and instantly felt guilty. He had been so involved with himself and jealous that Brolly was stealing Vegeta's attention away from him that he thought he didn't matter any more to the boy. He didn't see how his attitude had worried him.

Guilty, but grateful, Goku dug eagerly into the meal.

"Thank you so much, 'Geta!" he chirped. "This means a lot to me!"

"So, what was wrong?" Goku swallowed hard on the sweat meat in his mouth. He knew he should tell the truth, but it sounded very silly.

"Ah…well, I was…was…feeling bad," he stalled between bites. "That…that I wasn't able to take care of Brolly as well as you did even though I wanted him…yeah…sorry about that."

Vegeta cocked a brow and crossed his arms as though to say that he didn't believe him, and Goku was sure he didn't. But after a moment's scrutiny, he simply sighed and let it go.

"If you say so," he said. "But I did warn you that pet's are hard work."

"I know, Vegeta," he agreed, slumping down guiltily in his seat. "And I promise from now on I'll look after him!"

"Good," Vegeta agreed. "Then the first thing you can do is entertain him while I clean up. I haven't been able to do much since I started looking after him. There's a pile of dishes that need cleaning and bunch of requests that need to be sifted through. I don't even know what happened to the washing…"

Goku smiled as Vegeta rambled off his private to-do list out loud. Vegeta didn't know just how cute he was when he did things like that. A soft mew caught his attention and he looked down to see Brolly sitting between them, closer to Vegeta's side. He smiled. Maybe the kitten wasn't such an evil little demonspawn…

He reached up and started petting him behind his ears, pleased at the soft purr that vibrated against his fingertips.

Which was why he was damned surprised when Brolly grabbed his hand and sunk his teeth into it!

Goku managed to suppress surprise his yelp, but he couldn't hide the reflexive flap his wings gave! Vegeta jumped and stared at him, causing Goku to blush and glare down at the kitten whom he swore was grinning smugly up at him!

Alright, Brolly, he growled. You wanna play rough…

AN: I can easily see Goku getting jealous of something more fluffy and cute taking Vegeta's attention away from him