This chapter is a little longer than the rest have been, i had an awesome writing day, and just kept going...i really hope you like it, the action will get better in the next chapter, i promise. I hope you enjoy this as much as I do =)

Please please please read and review! Any suggestions or things you want me to think about or do different would be awesome things to comment on.

ANYWAYS I really had fun with this chapter and it's awesome.

Approaching Vega galaxy, 40 hours, ten minutes, fifteen seconds until arrival on planet of Vegeta-sai

The sound of the computer woke the young prince from another attempt he had made at sleep. He decided that if he was going to send a message to his brother he'd better do it soon. He was getting in range of the scouter ships that were to report anyways. He didn't want to get shot down so close to his destination. Very shakily he got up and walked over to the control panel

"Computer, call royal palace of Vegeta-sai," he cleared his voice; it was still groggy sounding from sleep.

Processing request…..calling royal palace of Vegeta-sai

He took a deep breath and stepped in front of the giant screen so that they could see him and he could see them. After a few moments he heard a beeping sound coming from the computer and frowned slightly

"Computer? Report!"

Call unable to be put through, not enough power stored away to arrive at destination and place the call as well.

The young Prince let out a deep breath, well that was that, he had to just go back. He ran a hand over his hair and tried to get it to stay back for once, and as usual it didn't.

Walking over to the kitchen area, wincing only slightly, he got himself a glass of water and started sipping from it. He looked out the window out front and thought about what was out there.

"Forty hours left…and I'll be home,"

A voice in his head reminded him that it hadn't been his home for almost twenty years. He had been banished right before he was to turn seventeen and be able to take a mate for himself. He sighed a little, and wondered if Vegeta had taken a mate while he was away. What if he had kids? Shuddering slightly at the thought of his stoic, non-caring, ruthless older brother having kids he stopped thinking about it all together. He couldn't possibly have tricked someone into mating with him, not even Vegeta was that cunning.

The giant front window of the little ship he was on didn't show much, but he could see the stars passing and the beauty of the empty world. It was enough to take his breath away, sure he was a Saiyan. A warrior, built for killing and ruling the weak, one of the reasons he was exiled from his planet was for being too curious and for taking time to notice the beauty of things. It wasn't all about death with this young prince.

"I hope Vegeta remembers me…and that he sticks up for me when father tries to kill me," he thought out loud to himself.

There was no turning back now. He was just wondering how much, if anything had changed from when he was there. Vegeta liked to keep things on a schedule and not have anyone go against him; everything had to be exactly what he wanted to do. He had a routine. So the answer to the question of whether things had changed or not…probably not was where his thoughts led him.

He was too close to turn around and keep himself from finding out. Less than two days away from whatever fate had in store for him.

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Trunks walked around the corner, on his way to the lab to finish up some project he was working on, and he found one of the royals sitting just outside the lab reading what looked like a book on Astrophysics. With an eyebrow raised he made his way over and looked over her shoulder a little

"What're you reading?"

The duchess jumped a bit, obviously very into what she was reading. She put a hand on her heart and glared at him a little

"Don't sneak up on someone while they're deep in thought… it's not polite," she bookmarked her place and stood up, dusted herself off and looked Trunks up and down for a moment before answering him.

"I'm studying astrophysics…I find it very interesting. Why? What would a Prince that does nothing but train and fight want to know about these things?"

Trunks couldn't help but chuckle a little

"So that's what you think of me. Just as I thought, the giggling and acting like you were a bunch of airheads the other day was just a hoax. Well played, but I knew you couldn't all be like that, and actually I do a lot more than just train and fight,"

Amy scoffed a little and shook her head, like she just knew that was not possible, for him to do anything but those things.

"What you don't believe me?" Trunks raised an eyebrow; most of the girls just listened to whatever he said and believed whatever he told them. She was the only one besides Jewls who would even question him on anything. It was oddly refreshing.

"No Prince Trunks, I don't actually," she said and tilted her head looking him over once more. She always seemed to be studying him, and it didn't look like she was getting bored.

"I'll prove you wrong, come on," Trunks smiled and opened the door to the lab, offering to let her walk in first.

He took Amy around and showed her what things did, and then let her do as she pleased. He was very interested in this Saiyan royal. She wasn't his father's first choice but as he looked her up and down he had to admit she was very attractive, and she understood astrophysics. That wasn't something you found in a potential mate very often, in fact almost never. Her hair was longer than most Saiyans. The Saiyans liked to keep it shorter so that it didn't interfere with their battles, and if it was long they kept it spiked up like his father did. She was almost the perfect height for him, if she was just a little taller she would be, but he wasn't going to complain about height. Her eyes were captivating, her lips as well, and the way she tilted her head was just about the cutest thing he'd ever seen.

He had to shake his head and frown a little at himself to keep his head on straight; it wasn't like him to zone out and just stare at a girl like that. It wasn't like him to think a girl was cute, unless it was his sister.

Amy got a curious look in her dark eyes and walked around the lab a little more before blinking a little in surprise

"This is yours? I thought this was the princess's work space…"

"We're twins, we share a lot more than a birthday and a floor in the castle for our rooms…we share everything including a lab," he shrugged a little bit, watching her still as she tinkered with some things.

'And our thoughts and actions and basically our lives…' He thought to himself quietly, his eyes never leaving the dark haired girl in front of him.

He loved his sister dearly, but having to deal with her emotions as well as his own and her thoughts, sometimes was a challenge. When they had been a little younger Trunks hadn't wanted to share or do anything with her at all. They had just barely turned seven when he went into the phase of not wanting to be near her at all.

Trunks thought about how he used to treat his sister and frowned a little, his thoughts taking him away from the situation he was physically in. He was lost in memory

"Wait! Trunks wait for me!"Veala ran to try and catch up with him but he just quickened his pace and made it to the training grounds where he proceeded to fly straight up to the window, kick it open and fly inside, losing his twin.

"Trunks!" Veala called for him and looked around, not noticing him, all the while trying to get into his mind to see where he was, but he wasn't letting her, he fought it as long as she tried

"Can't she just leave me alone…" he muttered quietly to himself as he watched her sneakily from the window, she ran off towards the other side of the building in hopes of finding her brother.

Convinced he'd lost her for a while Trunks headed down to his room, he and Goten had been planning world domination when stupid Veala had to walk in and ruin everything again!

He made his way into his room where Goten was trying to fix what Veala had tried to help with

"Trunks!" Goten smiled at his best friend and they picked up their plans where they had left off before she came along.

Almost five hours later a very angry Vegeta came rushing into the room

"Boy!"

Trunks turned around, startled, wondering what he'd done wrong that time, his father only called him boy in that tone when he was in trouble.

"Y-Yes?" he asked quietly

"Where is your sister right now?"

Trunks scowled at the question and turned away from his father, going back to what he was doing

"How should I know, I'm not in charge of her or where she is…"

Vegeta grabbed him by the arm and spun him around, a very angry look in his eyes for just a moment, and then he turned and pulled the young boy down the hall with him

"Hey! Dad where are we going?!" he struggled to get out of his hold.

"To see your sister, she chased after you when you led her outside, thinking you went into the forest like you've done to get rid of her before, but this time she got lost,"

Trunks got a confused look on his face, he tried to mentally reach out to her but she was almost unconscious.

"Lost…? But she knows the forest is dangerous why would she go in there without someone with her?"

"Because she thought her older brother would be in there, trying to get rid of her as usual!" Vegeta glared at the boy

"It's not my fault! She's so annoying! She won't leave me alone! I can't take it anymore!" Trunks broke free from his father's hold and Vegeta had to visibly restrain himself from harming his firstborn and only son.

"You have no idea how important it is that you protect her. You're not only her older brother and best friend; you're her protector, ever since you were little you've had those feelings in you that told you to stay close to her and make sure she was always alright, and there's a damn good reason for that! She's not strong enough to take care of herself, when you have a twin one is always the weaker of the two and it just happened to be her! You're lucky boy," Vegeta led him into Veala's room not too far down the hall from his own room.

Bulma was sitting on the bed with her little girl, wiping her forehead with a cool cloth. Veala was shivering, several blankets on top of her. She looked awful, she felt awful, in that moment everything was awful.

Trunks frowned and went over to the bed

"Veala, why are you so dumb…"

"Hey! Trunks you be quiet! She's sick because of you! You left her alone like we've told you time and time again not to do! She got lost because you were mean and tricked her into running the other direction," Bulma glared slightly at her son and then her worried expression came back as she looked from Veala to Vegeta

"Her fever hasn't gone up…"

"That's good, but if it doesn't break in the next few hours we'll need to get the entire medical squad in here, we're not going to let her die because her brother decided he doesn't want to be around her anymore,"

Trunks slowly let the barrier down between them and said mentally

'You big dummy... Why'd you do that?'

Veala looked up at him, still shivering, and tears came to her eyes, she bit them back so her dad wouldn't see her crying and silently sobbed into her pillow, two little tears fell down her face, and she refused to look or talk to her brother.

When her fever began to go up more Bulma and Vegeta both started to panic and Trunks was starting to get scared, he realized how much he loved his sister and how much he needed her around. He didn't understand the feelings that were going through him. It almost…hurt a little bit, like if she wasn't there a part of him would be missing. He knew she wasn't as strong as everyone else, and his parents had been trying to tell him that, but he didn't think he needed to be with her all the time, he was learning very quickly he was wrong

"Veala?" he said quietly as his father ran to get the medics, putting a hand on her shoulder gently. She shook her head and began to cry once more

"Go away! Why do you h-hate me! What have I e-ever done to y-you T-Trunks! Y-You're S-So m-mean t-to m-me," she wasn't breathing correctly, every breath was starting to sound like a gasp and she tried to get up once but ended up coughing too much to get up on that attempt. Trunks held out a hand to help her but she just shook it off and jumped up, tears in her eyes as she ran down the hallway, she didn't want her dad or mom to see her cry anymore.

Bulma started to panic and jumped up to go after her but Trunks was faster and just started running. His legs seemed to just want to follow her, and he didn't fight it. She seemed to stumble a little and he picked up the pace

"Veala no! You can't…" Trunks ran to her quickly and caught her before she passed out completely.

"Veala!" he shook her a bit but her fever was still very high and all she did was groan a little bit. He felt tears come to his eyes just for a second

"Veala! Come on you need to fight it! You're stronger than this stupid sickness! You need to fight it! You can't die and leave me here all alone!" He stood up and held her close to him as he ran her back into her room, placing her on her bed gently.

He put his forehead on hers and he mentally told her

'Come on Vey…don't give into it, fight,'

He was taken away from her as the medics arrived and couldn't be in the room while they were working. He punched the wall in front of him and closed his eyes as one tear fell….

Amy shook his shoulder a little

"Prince Trunks?"

"Huh…oh sorry," He shook his head and smiled at her a little

"And uh you can just call me Trunks…alright? Unless we're in front of my parents then call me Prince…but it's just us, so you can just call me Trunks,"

"Oh, sure," she tilted her head a little and smiled a little concerned

"You looked very deep in thought about something…care to share?"

Trunks smiled and shook his head

"Just lost in a memory, no worries, now…would you like me to show you how this all works? I'm working on something with astrophysics right now actually…want to be my partner and help me with it?"

This surprised even Trunks, he didn't usually ask anyone to help him with these things, but he felt the need to ask her. He was drawn to this duchess for some reason he couldn't put a finger on. He'd figure it out later; he had a project to be working on anyways.

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Goten was sitting in the middle of the training grounds looking up at the sky, thinking about Veala. He sighed a little thinking about her, how she looked the other day. She was always so beautiful, but she had taken his breath away that day.

He felt this pang of something he didn't understand go through him as he thought of the royals that were there waiting for her to give them the okay to have at her. He clenched his hands into fists and for a moment, a brief moment, his energy spiked a bit and some sparks came up from the ground, causing him to shake his head and snap out of it. If any of them hurt her, or tried anything funny he was certain he wouldn't be able to stop himself from brutally murdering them. And these thoughts sort of scared him a little. He wasn't used to feeling so strongly for anyone, let alone someone he couldn't have without a fight…

"Goten!"

He blushed as he heard her say his name, it was one of his favorite things, the way she said it like he was her favorite person, like she wanted to see him, just him. He stood up and turned to greet her

"Princess," he bowed a little

"Oh come on Goten, it's just me…and we're alone you don't have to be so formal," Veala smiled at him, it was her soft beautiful smile that she only could have inherited from her mother.

"Yes…Veala…so what're you up too? No band of suitors following you today?" he asked a little frustrated with that whole situation.

"Actually it's their day off from following me around," she chuckled lightly, "usually they're all assigned a day to be with me, just me and them. But it doesn't start until after my birthday in a few days so I'm in the clear until then…unless they find me again,"

Goten nodded a little

"I see, so you're hiding then,"

Veala smiled innocently and nodded

"Maybe… oh Goten it's awful! I can't stand any of them!"

That gave Goten a little more hope than he'd been praying for and he smiled a little but coughed to cover it up

"Is that so, do you want to talk about it?" he loved to listen to her, it was one of his favorite pastimes. She was so intelligent, he was sure she was even smarter than her mother or father and she was witty as well, he just loved it. He loved everything about her.

As she started talking about what bothered her about each suitor, he just sat there listening and hoping maybe, just maybe he'd get a chance to steal her heart before one of the others did.

"But I guess it doesn't really matter," she was finishing her rant, "I mean in the end I have the final decision, my dad said that I do…and I don't think I'd choose any of them," she was really just talking to herself at that point and it made Goten smile. She was so cute to him.

"Well anyways…thanks for listening, you're always here when I need you Goten," she smiled at him a little then got a mischievous look in her eyes

"Hey want to spar with me?"

Goten blinked a few times, a little surprised at the request and then he tried to stutter out

"I-I don't k-know if we s-should...I mean…that is…"

"Come on it'll be fun! No Ki just fists!" she pulled him over to the middle of the field with her, by his hand making him blush. He could hear his heart beating and hoped that she couldn't as well. His cheeks were bright red and he had to take a deep breath to compose himself enough to face her once more. His feelings towards her had gotten so much deeper the past three days. He didn't understand it at all.

"Ready?" she called out to him; all he could do was nod and block every punch she tried to give as best he could. She wasn't the strongest warrior, but she wasn't weak either. She had power behind every punch, and she was fast. Really fast, one minute in front the next behind, the next above, he was never sure where she'd pop out. Finally he saw an opening and grabbed her ankle sending her backwards with a shove, throwing her off balance enough to knock her down, but she was ready for that and used his own weight against him, sending him down with her. He landed on top of her, much as he had done the other day when Trunks had pushed him in the hall. He looked into her eyes and couldn't help his blush. She was blushing too, and he couldn't understand exactly why that was….

'He's so close!' she thought to herself, one minute they had been fighting the next they had both fallen to the floor. His hands were on either side of her head, and he had one knee to the side of her hip and the other almost between her legs. Her blush was evident on her cheeks, and just as she was about to ask him to get off his head dipped down and she stiffened a bit. His face was really close to hers.

'If I just lean up a little more…our lips would be…' she closed her eyes and leaned up a little more, so their lips just barely brushed together. It was light and barely noticeable but it was a kiss. But just as soon as it had started, it ended and he was up and off her and helping her up as well an unreadable expression on his face. She blinked and looked at him with a confused look in her eyes but he just looked away from her.

She blushed once and looked down, thinking he didn't feel the same way she felt about him…he was her best friend, other than Trunks. He was always there for her when she needed him, he was easy to talk too, she'd known him forever, and she thought she would like to date him and maybe have him court her but if he didn't want too…

"I-I'm sorry…" she said quietly and turned to go back inside

"Veala!" Goten grabbed her arm and turned her to look at him for a moment, "Wait…please don't apologize it's not you…I just...don't want you to get in trouble, I know I'm below your station and you have all these suitors here…I don't want to make this complicated for you, so I guess I'm the one who's sorry, I just don't think this can't happen, without you getting in trouble…."

She just shrugged his hand off her and glared at him the best she could, and she learned how from the best in the entire galaxy, so Goten was scared out of his mind.

"Don't you ever say that again! You are NOT below my station! In fact you're right up here with me! Your dad is the second most…." Her mother's glare came into her mind and she adjusted her previous statement, "okay third most powerful person on the entire planet Goten! Just because you're not a Prince or a duke or something like that does not mean you are any less than them…that you're any less to me… because I'd choose you over them any day," her eyes got sad and she backed up a step

"But I understand if you don't want to deal with all the crap that'd go on if I told my dad I wanted to date you instead of all of them… so I'll just go inside...And we can pretend this never happened okay?"

"Veala, I never said that!" he tried to get her to look at him once more but she just shook her head and turned around once more

"I-I have to go inside," she ran into the castle and straight to her room. She proceeded to blast the dummy in the corner to bits before choking back her tears and jumping into her bed. She did not want to think about him and the only way to get rid of that memory was to sleep, so she used her KI to make herself all nice and warm and slowly, almost painfully slowly closed her eyes to take a little nap.

Goten grabbed the first training dummy he could find and started hitting the crap out of it. She had kissed him! And what did he do? He backed off and told her it couldn't happen! Why not?!

"You're such an idiot Goten! What is wrong with you! Girl you've been in love with for forever finally admits she likes you and you kiss, and you decide now's the best time to save her the trouble of talking to her father about it?! Stupid!"

He fell to the ground, onto his back, and let out a frustrated sigh very loudly. He had to fix it but how? She was going to pretend it didn't happen and that was something he definitely did not want to happen. He wanted it to continue… her lips were soft but electrocuting at the same time.

"Just like her, soft but electrocuting" he sighed thinking aloud.

"Hey Goten!" he didn't have to look up to know it was Trunks

"What?" he asked not bothering to pretend to respect him at all. They were best friends and now was not the time for him to be pretending that he was a huge suck up.

"Someone's in a foul mood…what happened?"

"Have you not already seen it through that stupid bond of yours? Stop mocking me man," he felt Trunks sit on the ground next to him and pat his shoulder

"Come on Goten, you finally got to kiss her! What were you thinking? She's a mess because of it…" Trunks shuddered a little bit. He hadn't been blocking their bond today and he felt what she did. So indirectly he'd kissed his best friend and it freaked him out a little, he'd be sure to be ten times more careful when they were together. He wasn't about to tell Goten that either, he didn't want things to be awkward between them for any reason.

"Obviously I got my father's tendency to not do much of that…now didn't I?"

"Well your mom is smart, you have to have some of that right?"

"Not in the relationship department she doesn't…and Gohan got all the brains from her I didn't get any,"

Trunks started to pick the grass and put it on Goten's face

"What're you going to do about it? If you don't fix it she's going to choose one of those loser princes as her official suitor and you'll be out of luck!"

"Thank you, for the confidence booster, really helping me out there…" Goten rolled over and buried his face into the grass

"I hate everything!" he said almost whining into the ground.

Trunks laughed a little

"You don't hate Veala do you?" he quickly dodged a punch from his best friend and they jumped apart into their defensive stances

"Alright purple hair, let's go!" Goten smiled and they charged at each other, blowing off some steam would help them both feel better.

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"Vegeta!" Bulma was looking for her mate and couldn't seem to find him. She sighed frustrated and put a hand on her hip, she couldn't break the barrier he had put up so that she could find him when she actually needed him! She was standing right outside her room, for almost ten minutes she'd been looking with no success. She just decided to yell for him, it would probably be more productive,

"VEGETA! Where the hell is he…AH!" she squeaked in surprise as someone put a hand on her mouth from behind her. She struggled a little and was about to start punching when she realized it was her mate.

"Woman, you're giving me a headache…stop yelling for me…" his lips were right by her ear and he very lightly nipped at her earlobe, smirking slightly as she shuddered. Keeping his hand over her mouth he skillfully moved her into their room and flipped her around. Before she could say anything his lips were on hers and she was backed up against a wall, trying not to give into him. She stiffened up a little and refused to reciprocate. But he knew her body too well and his lips moved almost directly to the soft spot on her neck, making her groan a little bit. She had something to tell him, but couldn't focus long enough to remember.

"V-Vegeta…" she managed to say, not very clearly since he was attacking her neck and face, knowing exactly what to do to distract her. She moved her hands and let them rest on his upper arms, tilting her head a little to give him more room and closing her eyes while trying to stay quiet.

"Mmm," he hummed against her neck, letting his lips linger on a newly formed mark he'd left there. She almost whined at him at him a little

"Stop trying to distract me…I have to talk to you Vegeta," but she made no attempt to move, in fact she frowned when he backed up a little.

"Really? That was why you've been screaming for me? I had no idea…"

"And you wonder where Trunks gets his smartass side from," she said and moved her hands up his arms and wrapped her arms around his neck

"Don't give me all the credit; you helped a little there as well my queen. Now something tells me that you didn't spend ten minutes trying to find me to tell me I'm an ass. And if you did, I'm going to suggest getting in line,"

Bulma shook her head, trying to remember and then got a look in her eyes

"Come on…" Bulma pulled Vegeta with her down the hall to their daughter's room, where she was asleep on her bed; she was looking a little pale however; which was the problem.

"I think she's getting sick…" Bulma whispered, she always panicked a little when Veala got sick, she was very fragile and if something serious were to come over her it could probably kill her very easily.

"She's a little pale, that doesn't mean she's going to die Bulma, you're over-reac…"

They turned around as they heard a voice behind them, Trunks always seemed to know when they were talking about Veala, and it was a little scary.

"Actually, she already is sick," Trunks walked in the room, hands in his pockets, talking to his parents all nonchalantly.

"I told you!" Bulma went over and put a hand on her forehead, biting her lip a little in worry

"No fever, not yet at least,"

"Mom, she's sick not dying, it's just the stress of having to chose or not chose a suitor and all that on her mind, it's not helping her already weak immune system work properly…unless she gets a fever we all know she's going to insist nothing's wrong."

"Oh Trunks… is that it? Are you stressed about finding a girl to court as well? Because if you don't want to court any of them you don't have too, it's just a suggestion; this tradition is stupid anyways…neither your father nor I took it seriously,"

Bulma watched her son's reaction very closely, she knew his expressions very well and tried to tell herself she knew what he was thinking. To her surprise he just ran a hand through his hair and laughed a little

"No, no I'm not stressing out about anything, in fact I already have one in mind; Veala on the other hand does not. What I think you should do is make her rest for all the rest of today and see how she's doing tomorrow, if she's going to get worse you know it'll only take a few hours,"

Vegeta nodded a little and looked at his mate, then his kids and let out a slight sigh of contentment. He wished everything could stay as it had been. If anything unexpected was to come up soon he didn't know if he was going to be able to take it without killing multiple people.

"I don't think we should move her just yet, she seems so peaceful..." Bulma stopped talking when she heard the young Princess start coughing a little. Vegeta walked over and picked Veala up gently and turned around carrying her to the medical wing of the castle, Trunks and Bulma close behind him.

"She'll be fine mom, just calm down," Trunks was quietly trying to console his mother. She was almost always irrational and over protective of Veala and Trunks both. Vegeta was as well to some extent, but he felt sorry for whoever married either of the twins.

Sure they'd have to deal with him and his over protective attitude and need to insult everyone who wasn't adequate but then there was Bulma, whoever it was that was lucky enough to get the hand of his son and or daughter, would unfortunately have the nosiest, in their business and face, need to know everything they'd ever done ever, mother in law ever.

'Hey! I heard that! So I care about my kids! That's not a bad thing! That's it, me and you, training grounds for a match. Right after we make sure Veala's all settled into the medical wing!'

Vegeta internally cursed and as they got to the medical wing where he laid Veala down on one of the beds in the room, then he said back

'Fine, but if I win that means instead of spending the night working in your lab, you have to spend the night with me doing…other things,'

Bulma glared at him but nodded a little, saying yes she agreed to their little wager.

"Hey uh mom, dad…I promised to go show Amy and Kri around the castle a little more…so I can't stay here," Trunks backed up a step, wondering if maybe he should have kept his mouth shut, because now instead of his mother and father glaring at each other as usual, it was directed at him.

"Well we can't stay here, we have some business to attend to," Bulma's glare went back to Vegeta for a moment before looking at her son with a look that told him not to argue with her.

"Why don't I go get Goten? He'll stay with her while you do whatever it is you're going to do and while I show the girls around again…."

Bulma let out a breath and nodded

"Go get him; we'll stay here until you get back,"

Trunks took off to go get Goten with a slight smirk, he was planning to get Goten and Veala alone sometime, sooner was better than later anyways. He'd make sure they got together, even if it didn't work out he knew they needed to at least try, with Goten constantly talking to him about her, and her thoughts about Goten nonstop, it was just enough to make him want them to be together so they'd shut up about it.

He stopped right before he could round the corner; someone was talking so he listened to try to hear them better

"She's so hot…I can't wait until I can tap that. She'll be all mine whether she wants to be or not," it was Ren and Lee.

"She's too smart to go for you, she'd much rather go for me, I've got the smarts and can actually hold an intelligent conversation with her,"

"Shut up Lee, both of us know that I'm more of a ladies' man than you, she's going to fall for me and then that lovely body will be mine to do whatever I please with…"

Trunks didn't realize his hands were in fists, or that his hair was spiking up a little, changing from lavender to blonde, it flickered back and forth for a few moments before he regained his cool. No one would use his sister like that; he didn't deserve her if that's all he was looking for in her. She was so much better than that, she deserved so much better. He wouldn't say anything to her about it, at least not yet, but he'd make sure this Prince got what was coming to him. Right as he was about to continue on to go get Goten he heard a third voice enter the conversation

"Actually Ren, while you want her for her body, which I have to agree with you, she's very attractive… that doesn't even matter. She's not important. Once she picks me I'll sweep her off her feet and make her feel like she's the most important thing ever, then once she's chosen to rule a kingdom I'll tear her down and take over to rule. Women shouldn't rule anyways, and I'll take control. She won't be able to do a thing about it, she's far too weak, sort of pathetic actually," It was Zale. The flickering of his hair color and eye color and the crackling of his energy was enough to startle anyone, and if Goten hadn't come over to Trunks when he did and tap him on the shoulder, Trunks had no doubt all those in that hallway would have been dead.

"Trunks…Where's Veala?"

Trunks walked him back around the corner and said in an angry voice

"She's in the medical wing…" his eyes and hair were flickering again, and the energy all around him was beginning to get scary.

"Whoa man…what's going on?" Goten backed up a step, and then a look of recognition came into his eyes

"Wait she's where?!" he had always been a little slow, and as he ran towards the medical wing to go sit with her, Trunks gained composure once more. He had to take multiple deep breaths. He was livid.

He's make sure Veala got someone she deserved. He'd stay quiet for that moment, but he wouldn't forever. No he definitely would not.

Goten ran into the room and over to her side, the king and queen were still in the room but he didn't pay them any mind. He put a hand on her forehead, checking for a temperature, being soft and gentle, knowing she was fragile. She stirred a little and he rested a hand on hers which seemed to calm her down so she was still fast asleep.

"She'll be alright Goten, no worries," Bulma couldn't help her slight smile as she watched him be all worried.

"Sure…" he said with a frown of worry on his face.

"Woman let's go…boy you're to stay with her until Trunks gets back understood?"

Goten bowed his head to the king and then nodded in understanding

"Yes, king Vegeta,"

"Good," Vegeta grabbed Bulma's hand and they started to walk away, Bulma turned her head to watch Goten and Veala for just a minute more

"Hmm...I wonder,"

"What are you babbling about now woman?" Vegeta asked her as they made it to the training grounds; he jumped as she shot a ki blast at him

"Win and I'll tell you!" she challenged with a cocky but beautiful smile which turned to a smirk as she phased in behind him. When it was just them, Vegeta was only serious sometimes. She loved it so much, that he could just be him when it was just them. He didn't let their duties get in the way of their relationship, or anything else for that matter.

Vegeta had a reason for doing something that seemed so out of place considering how much work they had to do, and where they should have been for their daughter. He just had a feeling that things were about to get chaotic and he wanted some alone time with Bulma before anything crazy went down. So that's what he was going to do, just a little while he was going to spend with her, but it'd be enough.