Gohan sighed and leaned his head on Vegeta's shoulder, he was still reeling with what had all happened. It was just too surreal, like a dream...?

Maybe he was dreaming and tomorrow he'd wake up in his room, in his bed.

Vegeta was pretty pissed with what happened. The fucker took advantage of those annoying gold diggers trying to sway him from his choice to go after his future mate. He stopped in front of a door and shifted Gohan so he was held in one arm while he pressed his palm on the panel to get into the room. When it opened he stepped inside and the door shut behind him as he walked over to the bed and set Gohan down on it.

"Stay there..." Vegeta said and went into the adjoining bathroom. Gohan said nothing as he looked at the room. It was pretty big, stylish and cozy, but it lacked life.

He sighed as his mind wandered back to what Vegeta told him and what he said in the ballroom.

You are very dense aren't you?

Gohan sighed, the voice was back. It came more often now that he was here on Vegetasei, and he got use to it, so he didn't even bother trying to block it out anymore.

'But how can I be sure... isn't this a little fast?'

You have a month and a half to make a final decision... For now just let him spoil you! Besides the fact that he's a prince, is there any other reason to decline his proposal?

Gohan said nothing for a while, jumping slightly when Vegeta came back out of the bathroom and dug in the wardrobe. He pulled out a loose tunic and pants before he handed them to Gohan.

"Go take a hot bath." he directed him into the bathroom and gently pushed him towards it.

"Why?"

"You're still tense... You felt it. The power he has... He could've snapped you in two." Vegeta said.

Gohan nodded and thanked him softly before going into the bathroom. Vegeta nodded and waited in the bedroom, taking a seat in the tea area and closing his eyes. He was a frazzled mess, but the odd thing was, he liked it. He liked being able to worry about someone else, someone who could possibly be by his side for the rest of his life.

'But in the end it's all up to him...' he thought a bit depressed...

-A few hours later-

A knock woke Vegeta from his thoughts and made him get up from the bedside and open it. He saw Cornelius there and the man looked a little drunk, but still sober.

"Burdock said that Gohan was resting here."

"Yeah, he fell asleep a little while ago... he had a delayed reaction to meeting Frieza." Vegeta said.

Cornelius nodded, a lot of them were wondering why Vegeta had taken him from the party, but when a maid came to tell Burdock that Gohan suddenly became distressed, they knew it was an aftershock of how powerful Frieza was.

"You better not have done anything to him."

"I'm not some people." Vegeta hissed as he picked up the small bag that Gohan's clothes in it and handed it to Cornelius. Before he left, his tail brushing over Gohan's as said appendage curled over his and then went lax again. "I will come by tomorrow to call on him."

Cornelius grunted as he carefully wrapped Gohan's tail over his arm and picked him up. Vegeta held the door open for him and they went their separate ways, for now...

-Next day-

The following day was interesting to say the least. Kakarot woke up to see Cornelius in bed with him and well... he blasted the man out of the bed and out of the house as he screamed like a little girl before running into Radditzu's room and then back out when he saw his older brother's lips wrapped over Nappa's length. Burdock had walked in just in time to have his youngest lunge into his arms and cry like a baby. Cornelius crawled back in, hissing in pain every now and again, slight burns decorating his scarred body and face.

Radditzu came out in his shorts and trying to fix his hair to look less like a Chia Pet gone wrong and more like a proper Saiyan. Burdock sighed as he cooed and coddled his youngest as his eldest tried and failed to explain why Kakarot was in tears while Cornelius just laid their in the the entrance hall of the house. Nappa walked down in full armor with Toma happily hanging from his arm, laughing happily. Gohan came down, rubbing the sleep out of his eyes wondering what all the noise was about.

"Gohan, go back to bed... Your mother is being over dramatic right now." Burdock said, still coddling Kakarot as Cornelius tried once more to get up, but the pain racing through him due to the ki blast was almost devastating...

-a few hours later-

When Gohan came down the second time that morning, he was dressed in a plane light blue yukata and sandals. His parents were in the kitchen, his father was busy trying to clean the puke out of his shirt while his mother (Kakarot) was giving Toma a bath.

"Where's everyone?"

"Papa's escorting the Wind Beings around Vegetasei for a few days while your auntie Ditzu went shopping for supplies to re-enforce the house for mating season as well as patch up the whole I put in it... Nappa's either training the new recruits or he's in another Blood Sport." Kakarot said.

"I see. I'm going to explore the forest for a while, and I'll be careful this time. I won't repeat what happened when I was four..." Gohan said when his mother spun around eyes wide with horror.

"Please be careful, I don't have nimbus and lord knows what's around here." Kakarot told him.

"Flare once as a warning, flare twice when I need help." Gohan said remembering his mom taught him that.

"Alright... Cornelius, stop that before your rip your shirt."

"But it won't come out!"

Gohan shook his head and headed out the door as his parents got into a minor spat. It was odd really, animal instinct made things sound so simple and yet so complex and mixing logic with it was just plain confusing. Logically he and his mother shouldn't like his father because of how he went about getting his mother pregnant, but instinctively they both sought him out for care and protection.

Cornelius proved to be an agreeable man when he wasn't drunk from the massive increase of hormones so it did take all that long for either of them to warm up to him though there were moments where his mother blasted his father out the house for one reason or another.

'He says it's out of reflex, but I think he's doing to get back at him... mom can be a sadist that way.' Gohan laughed a little to himself as he walked down the path leading from their house to the main road.

About half way down it, he turned into the woods and began looking around. There were animals all around similar to ones on earth, but completely different at the same time. He giggled when giant butterflies danced about him, some of them nesting in his hair making it look like he was wearing a crown of butterflies. He ran away from some huge bees and jumped up a tree when a mole like creature snarled like a mountain lion.

But other than that he was having fun. He found stream and blinked when he saw the fish, they were huge, really as big as his uncle Nappa and that was pretty damn big!

"I wonder if they taste good?" he mumbled to himself.

After awhile of looking at the fish he looked up at a tree and smiled, he found good spot in them and slowly drifted off to sleep...

-Son's House-

Kakarot was laughing at his brother and his mate, they both were covered in pain and glaring death at each other. He had offered to help, but neither one wanted him getting hurt so they told him to look after Toma, who was happily playing with his own tail to care much about what they were doing.

"I told you to let me help- Oh, is papa expecting the prince?" Kakarot asked as he got up and headed for the door.

"Eh? Kakarot, did you hit your head- eh?" Radditzu cut himself off as he walked to the front of the house to see Vegeta walking into the modest home. "How'd you know it was Vegeta?"

"I just do... Now what can we do for you?"

"I've come to call on you son, Son Gohan." Vegeta said with a sweeping bow, being as formal as possible.

Kakarot blinked, he had missed quite a lot when he went missing. Radditzu saw the confused frown and shook his head.

"If you wish to call on him, he's out wondering the woods. Knowing him, he fell asleep in a tree again." Radditzu said, pointing off to the woods.

"Then I'll be off then... And Kakarot... you may want to read up on formal courtship." Vegeta said and left.

He stood on the path, hiss eyes looking sharply at the woods, searching for the best place to start looking. The wind blew in from the south and it tickled his nose with a sweet, sweet scent. It whet his appetite and made him growled with lust and hunger. He took off quickly while the wind was still south so he could follow the scent to it's source.

He jumped over bushes and trees, smirking as he resorted to more primal method of travel. The Forest was pretty dense, excellent for endurance training.

'No wonder father loves the many rounds of sex he can have with Burdock. And even better, he can still get up and order the army around... the Sons are an interesting family...' he thought.

He jumped from branch to branch, sometimes trunk to trunk, using his tail as extra leverage or to help him gain distance. He made it to the tree line and stopped, he was out of breath, yes, but it was worth it. He looked around and spotted a pair of sandals on the floor below a tree to his left, he looked in the branches and sure enough, Son Gohan was sound asleep.

'Adorable, yet idiotic. Letting himself be seen out here in the open and unguarded...' Vegeta thought, smiling fondly at the cuteness of his Iompróir.

He moved over the branches with grave, a calm smile and soft eyes focused on the sleeping Son. He gently shook the younger Saiyan awake and was greeted with those beautiful, albeit sleepy, dark brown eyes. Gohan stared at the person in front of him for a moment before a hot blush flew across his nose as he saw that Vegeta was standing there.

"Ah! Your highness! I forgot you were coming... I'm sorry-!"

"Don't do that..." Vegeta grunted out, holding his hand to Gohan.

Gohan blushed and ducked his head as he let Vegeta take hold of his hand and pull him up. He squeaked when the prince brushed his hand over his tail before picking him up bridal style and picking him. He tried to ask what he was doing but squeaked when they began to float off the tree branch and fly off towards the Son's house.

"Relax, I won't let you fall."

"I'm fine..." Gohan said, though he was clinging to Vegeta a bit too tightly.

Vegeta chuckled and began to land, barely disturbing the earth beneath them. He set Gohan down and smirked at him as he adjusted his yukata.

"Ah! My sandals!" Gohan gasped as he looked down at his feet.

"Should I go get them?" Vegeta asked.

"Please? I can't leave the house without them... I'm sorry..."

Vegeta shook his head and kissed his cheek, before he took off into the air while a deep growl came from behind Gohan. Said boy spun around and gasped when Toma was thrust into his hands while his father flew after Vegeta.

"Papa, what are you doing!" Gohan cried as he quickly flipped Toma over and shushed him. "really that was so dangerous! What if Toma fell!"

"Gohan? What's going on?"

"Papa took off after Prince Sei and he gave me Toma, but he was upside down!"

Kakarot sighed as he led his son and nephew into the house and made them sit down. He had been given a crash course of formal courtship and well, Cornelius wasn't too happy about catching Vegeta kissing their son, though it was only on the cheek.

"Your papa's just overprotective. He's trying to make up for the lost time. As well as try and make up for his misdeeds to the both of us. Though It's pretty cute."

"Mom... what's formal courtship?"

"Well from what Cornelius pretty much screamed at me, the dominant, Vegeta, has to come to the family house and call on you for a date. Until he gets permission from either me and your father or your grandfather, he's not allowed to touch you." Kakarot said. "After he gets permission, he'll take you out on a date and have dinner with us as well as spend the night. If he can prove himself a proper gentleman, then he may mate with you if that's what you want."

"I see... We flew back and he carried me, but we forgot my sandals so he went to get them... He kissed my cheek." Gohan said, blushing.

"Yes we saw... He really likes you, you know? Papa's known him since he was a child and this is the first time since his mother's death that he's been close to anyone... He comes off as cold and cruel, on the battlefield he truly is, but he's a pretty decent man."

"... I like him... He helped me back when they first brought us home... He's looked out for me while I was at the academy and even protected me from that alien... Frieza."

"Yes. Gohan, I want you to never, ever get near that alien. He's dangerous, he's caused us enough problems and over half the wars you learned about was all his doing. Be careful, okay?"

"I will... they're back!"

They both went out to meet their respective male, Cornelius was frowning away as he nursed a burn on his shoulder while Vegeta just shook his head and walked over to Gohan offering his shoes back. Cornelius grumbled something in the Saiyan's language which both Gohan and Kakarot blinked, not understanding what they were saying. Vegeta stood and the look on his face said it all: 'Do I look like someone who'd play around with another's emotions?'

"Gohan." Cornelius said, still trying to get use to the name. "You may see Prince Vegeta if that it what you want."

"Really, Cornelius?" Kakarot asked, shocked that his overbearing mate would submit to this.

"Yes. It's only fair for him since we didn't exactly agree." Cornelius said, blushing in shame as he reminded them once more that their mating was more rape based rather than consented and formal.

"Thank you, papa..." Gohan said hugging the large male, making Vegeta slightly jealous.

Cornelius just gave the prince one more glare before taking his mate inside and telling the prince to bring Gohan back by supper. Kakarot elbowed his mate and told them to be back by 8 the latest. Gohan laughed a bit at his parents as he slipped his sandals back on. Vegeta offering him support as he did so, once he was ready, Vegeta swept him up once more and took off for the city.

"You don't have to carry me."

"Really? By the time we've walked to the city, we'd have to turn back around and go back to your house."

"... Okay, you win that one." Gohan sulked, he had been hoping they'd just get to know each other in private. He was really scared that someone would say something about them and make a scene.

Vegeta knew why the boy had suggested walking, it was appealing, but formal courting had to be public so everyone saw that the Iompróir belonged to him. When they were a good distance from the city, Vegeta began to land and then gently set Gohan down, allowing him to adjust himself and look around to see that they had about a ten minute walk to the city gates. He smiled softly at Vegeta and took his offered arm, blushing when he pulled him close enough that the smaller Saiyan could rest his head on his shoulder.

"I see that Cornelius and Kakarot are setting down together."

"Yes, though, mom still blasts papa everyone once in a while. Grandpa said that it'll be a few years before that stops."

"Yes, though I admit that if we had killed Cornelius, we'd have lost one of our best trackers... Are you happy with him as your sire?"

"At first? No I wasn't, but after I talked with mom and grandpa, I kinda figured that it wasn't really either of their faults and I rather have papa then any of those other men... Mom was wondering whatever happened to them." Gohan said, bowing his head a bit, frightened of the men that cause his mother the majority of his aggressiveness to others.

"That's pretty simple, they are enjoying their last days on this planet before we execute them. Your mother was only fourteen when he was raped and then later pregnant with you. That's a serious offense."

"Yes. I know... but we grew rapidly on Earth... shorter years." Gohan giggled a little at how he almost freaked out to learn he was only five Saiyan wise, but Burdock told him that Saiyans adjust to whatever time frame the planet they were on and was the same age here as he was there.

"Interesting. I didn't get to enjoy myself that much while there. As soon as we had landed, we had to find food since we had gone three weeks without it. After we had eaten we were instantly hit with both yours and your mother's scent. We found you, though your mother instantly went on to the attack."

"Yes... my human mother took me to the cave we use during landslides and other emergencies. That's where you found me." Gohan said.

"Yes. I'd admit that if you hadn't been producing the amount of pheromones that you were I'd have completely missed you... But I'm glad I didn't. You were in a lot of pain and I figured that the earth dwellers didn't have the technology to help you. Are you glad we 'kidnapped' you and your mother?"

"Now? Yes. But in the beginning not so much. I was thankful for the help, but I had to get use to a culture so very different from the one I grew up with. Though we pride ourselves on our excellence in military power as well as our fighting skills, I like how rich we are in other aspects as well." Gohan said.

"Really?" Vegeta questioned as they finally made it to the city. "Such as what?"

"Eh? Oh well for one the art. I got lost in the academy on the first day and while I was looking for someone to point me in the right direction I saw a lot of paintings depicting on one side of the hall, all the fierce strength of the Saiyans, Oozuru's might and even a few paintings of a golden warrior."

"Brolly, the father of our current breed of Saiyans. Before Brolly's time, we were quite stupid and very much considered monsters that didn't deserve to breathe. Even now we are viewed as savage, but as you can see we've come quite some way from what we were before." Vegeta said pointing out some of the artisans that were scattered about.

A band of musicians played lively music as painters made portraits or painted the different views of the capital city. Jewelers and pottery makers were busy at work as a few smiths were busy making new armor and tools. There were a few booths where puppet show was going on. Gohan smiled as they walked down the street. Vegeta smirked as he watched those dark brown eyes lighten to a deep browned honey as his smile brightened even more.

As they walked passed a group of women shopping for clothes, Gohan felt a bit shy and tried to let go of Vegeta, but the prince didn't let him slip away. He pulled him close, wrapping his tail over Gohan's waist, a show of dominance over the Iompróir. Gohan whined, but Vegeta shushed him and whispered in his that everything was alright. Gohan blushed feeling that warm breath on his cheek and nodded as he let the strong male lead them into one of the shops, it was a sweet shop.

"Huh?"Gohan asked as he looked around, his nose assaulted by the millions of scents lingering in the air, whetting his appetite.

"I figures since you loved the first box of chocolates I'd by you another one. Feel free to pick any one you like." Vegeta said, gesturing to display cases as the works quickly snapped to attention seeing their prince and future king standing in their shop, but were left shell shocked when they saw his tail wrapped possessively over the young Iompróir's waist.

"... Are sure?" Gohan asked, a bit worried.

"Yes, there's no need to worry. I'll pay for everything."

"But-?"

"Little Iompróir, the dominant always provides for his mate." Vegeta said, looking the shy boy in the eyes and smirked when his cheeks colored again, but he looked to his lips instead of completely away as he nodded his head shyly.

"Would the young Iompróir like to try free samples?" the shop manager asked, wanting to please the prince and his possible princess to the best of his abilities.

Gohan shyly nodded his head and soon became engrossed with the sweets while Vegeta stood a feet steps away, keeping a close eye on his future mate...