Chapter 5: Merry Christmas!!!!
The evening arrived and with it, all the rush and jumpiness that a host family has on a Christmas Eve. Bulma was running from one side to another, yelling at her family as well as her bots to get the things done in time. Trunks and Goten were protesting about their clothes and the formality the occasion merited. Besides, neither of them wanted to get a bath either, so Vegeta had to force them to get into the shower.
- "If you don't get ready by the time Goten's foolish father arrives, the woman herself will deal with you, little brats!!! And believe me that you'd rather be blasted into oblivion by my hand than making that woman angrier!!!"
Vegeta's menace worked once again and the kids started to prepare themselves for the Christmas party. Both of them knew they were being watched by those security cams and sooner or later Bulma would find out about their deeds.
It was 7 pm sharp when the first family arrived: The Son's. Chi-chi was in an excellent mood this day because it was one of the very few times that Goku was actually punctual. Goku limited himself to scratch the back of his head and smile. He just wanted to talk with Bulma and Vegeta to catch up about what happened with them in these last few weeks. Chi-chi, on the other hand, went directly to Bulma to help her finish the party preparations.
- "Goten??!!!! Trunks??!!! Where are you? Chi-chi and I just arrived and she needs you to help her…" – said Goku as he wandered around in the house. The kids were ready by then and it took them half-second to get where Goku was.
- "Alright, dad. We're going. I don't want to see aunt Bulma's fury"
The kids left and it hadn't passed much long before the Chestnut arrived and as soon as the trio arrived, Goku felt their ki and instantly teleported to greet them. After the Chestnuts, It didn't take long for the rest of the Z gang to come to Bulma's house.
Basically, it was a "normal" Christmas party with people doing whatever people do at Christmas: talk about the year, dance a bit, have dinner, do some toasts with Christmas beverage, etc…
As in every year, Yajirobe disguised himself as Santa Claus and delivered the presents to everyone present and joked with them a little while. Trunks and Goten already knew Yajirobe was the one disguised as Santa (they discovered him last Christmas, when they pulled his fake beard), but Marron didn't, so those two were teasing her with that fact. It took only a threat by 18 to calm down the little saiyans and never bother Marron again….at least with that fact.
As strange as this may seem, Vegeta was actually enjoying himself with some company….although, he only talked with his own family and rarely with Kakarot or Gohan. In his mind however, the plan was going on smoothly. He already talked to Yajirobe and made all the preparations.
Midnight came and everyone cheered up, greeted each other and started to unwrap the presents. At that time, Yajirobe was saying out loud which present was for which one and from which one. To everyone's surprise, there were presents for Table and Grey, which weren't expected: music CDs, pictures and even a painting - "to remind them about Earth so you can come back" – said Bulma. Trunks, on the other hand, couldn't be happier with his present. He just kept enumerating all the uses he would give the HD Cam…mainly mischievous in each and every possible way. He even was considering start with Goten their own "Gag" library so they would laugh at pleasure.
When they were almost done unwrapping the presents, Yajirobe stated: "wait everyone…there are a couple of presents I haven't delivered yet." Everyone was surprised. Who would be those presents for? And more importantly, who sent them?
- "Ok…this one is for….TRUNKS!!! and it's from…Santa Claus!!!"
- "Hoorray!!" – yelled the purple-haired boy, as he unwrapped what it seemed to be an small and soft package. – "Oh no…OH HELL NO!!! I am so NOT gonna wear this!!" – as Trunks blushed all over.
The package was no other than a pink size "S" sweater with strawberries stamped all over it. On the front, it was stamped a name tag that reads "Hi, my name is….Trunks" and on the back there was an inscription that reads "The strongest kid in the universe". The demi-saiyan was in a predicament: he really wanted to wear clothes that stated how strong he was, but on the other hand, the sweater was too "girlish"!!
- "Hahahahahahaahaahahahahahahaaaaaa…Now you got what you deserve, brat!!! It's payback time!!!" – noted Vegeta, as he remembered the last Christmas, when Trunks got him a pink T-shirt - "I waited the whole year to see you on that, kid, so try it on NOW!!"
- "Ok dad. Got the point. Will never do that again" – said Trunks as he tried it on. He knew his father was proud of him, otherwise he wouldn't have ordered the sweater with those inscriptions but at the same time, he was pissed for the prank Trunks planted on him last Christmas. It was fair to wear it.
Everyone laughed at the situation (specially of the father-son prank) and then quieted down in order to listen the next gifts.
- "Allright…now…this one is for…GOKU!!!! And it's from….wow, Santa as well!!!
- "I wonder what it may be" – said the saiyan as he began unwrapping his gift. It was a white t-shirt with the same name tag that Trunks' gift had. It reads "Hi, my name is….Goku" and on the back there was a large caption that read "…and I have a flat EEG" and a picture of a flat EEG.
- "I don't understand this….what's an EEG?* " – asked curiously the naïve saiyan.
Everyone laughed really hard…specially Vegeta, which was waiting for this moment for a long time. Goku only understood the joke when Bulma explained him what was an EEG and what's used for.
Yajirobe made everyone shut up to deliver the last gift.
- "And now…the last gift. Let's see… here says it's for…BULMA!!!! And it says it's from…Santa again? C'mon, guys…" joked Yajirobe as he delivered the present to the scientist.
- "Let's see what prank is this one…" – she said as she began unwrapping her present.
Great was her surprise when she discovered it was a regular coffee mug. It wasn't any different from any other mug: it was metallic, large and had a plastic top cover. Bulma was a bit skeptic when she first opened it up, but she was even more surprised to see that part of the metallic body had the caffeine molecule laser-engraved on it. On the back, there was another laser-engraved inscription which reads "for the best-looking, more intelligent, cutest, sexiest and loving woman in the universe: Bulma".
- "Oh my god….who could have been?"
- "It wasn't me, Bulma, I swear!!" said Yamcha nervously, as he was getting everyone's attention.
- "Then who?" – asked Bulma with even more curiosity in her mind.
As she asked that, Vegeta stated that party was over and that everyone must go to their respective homes.
- "You too go to sleep, Trunks! Don't make me say it twice"
The young saiyan prince acknowledged the order and quickly went to his room. He didn't want to hear her mother's screams again.
- "Oh you've done it BIG TIME, VEGETA!!! DON'T THINK I'M GONNA FORGET THIS!! YOU KNOW WHAT? I'M GONNA…"
And just when the blue-haired woman was telling the saiyan king what she will do, he grabbed her by her waist and gave her the most passionate kiss he ever gave.
- "Don't think that's gonna change things, mister."
- "And I don't need to. The mug you received was ordered by me and since you don't like it, I better return it" – said Vegeta in his sarcastic tone.
- "No, please!!…do you actually feel about me the way you describe there?" – Bulma was shocked. Her husband was showing his love in a very "earthly" manner and wasn't ashamed of doing it.
- "Of course, woman!! I don't need the other weaklings know that, just you…and besides…there's a second gift for you" –the king said in a very suggestive manner.
- "Vegeta… behave…" – answered Bulma in the same manner.
And both of them went directly to their room. There truly was love in the air…
A/N: Yeah... I'm lacking a bit of ideas, but you can't ask more from me: I have exams and things to do at the University and I finished this story just yesterday. I know this is by no means the best chapter I've written, but I think it closes the story in an appropiate manner....I think so....
* EEG stands for Electroencephalogram, and it's a medical exam that measures the brain activity a person has. A flat EEG means that there is no brain at all or the brain is plain dead. hahahha. xD