"You mean we can be a family of four in our little house?"

Chichi's eyes shined when I told her, Gohan, Goten, and all of our friends I was alive again after the fight against Majin Buu. Well, she mostly just cried but she did smile at me. She seemed fine when we got home where I was greeted with the most incredible feast I had ever seen and a banner stretched over the kitchen entrance welcoming me home in her neat handwriting. She cleaned up after our amazing dinner without so much as a glance my way. Our exhausted boys had called it an early night soon after they were done eating. They were sound asleep in their beds, leaving me alone with Chichi.

Leaned against the kitchen doorframe, I watched her. I caught little glimpses of Chichi's face reflected in the kitchen window. Something glinted in the corners of her eyes and I grimaced. At least I thought she wanted me home. I was only half joking when I said ifshe wanted me. Maybe I was sleeping on the couch that night. I rubbed the back of my neck. I knew I was gone for a while but what if I was gone too long? Maybe she changed her mind. Maybe she decided she had—

Chichi slapped her wet washrag on the counter, ripped off her apron, and stomped over to me. A hand came up to grab my shirt collar and yank me down to her eye level. When she pressed her soft lips against mine, my breath caught in my throat. Heat spread across my cheeks. Fire burned behind the tears in her big dark eyes when she pulled back. She definitely wasn't happy with me.

I swallowed hard—if just to give me a chance to come up with something to say. "Uh, Ch-Chichi, honey—"

She cut me off with another kiss, that one deeper, longer, and more needy—one that made us both melt into each other. When we came up for air, we were both more than a little breathless. The tears in her eyes were hard enough to see. What was worse was the pain that replaced her earlier fire—pain that I caused. I cupped her cheeks and wiped her tears away. When her eyes fluttered closed, I touched my lips to hers again. Chichi's arms wrapped around my neck and her fingers tangled in my hair. I undid the clip holding her hair in her usual tight bun and let her soft hair fall free. Her silky hair slid through my fingers as my hands wandered down her back to stop just below her butt. In one fluid motion, I lifted her off her feet, earning a gasp and a small giggle and pinned her against me. Her legs wound tight around my waist as we made out like love-struck teenagers.

Chichi pulled back long enough to breathlessly say, "Bed. Now."

Use of powers in the house was never something Chichi was fond of but maybe she wouldn't notice just that one time. I floated off the kitchen floor a few inches and got us to our dark bedroom in a flash. When Chichi eyed me with an eyebrow lifted, I smiled.

Her pretty eyes softened. "Oh, what am I going to do with you?"

"Heh, keep me?"

Chichi answered with her warm lips on mine.

I staggered blindly to our bed and collapsed with her on our soft mattress—careful to catch my weight so I didn't squish her. Hands tickled my sides as she worked to pull my undershirt free of my pants and over my head. She threw my undershirt to the floor. Her quipao went next, followed by my tattered organge gi pants. Bare skin against bare skin, I kissed along her jawline and down her neck, stopping to suck gently on a specific spot right where her neck met her collarbone that always made her squirm. Chichi turned her head away, giving me better access.

Propped on one elbow, I kneaded one of her breasts with just the right amount of pressure while I sucked on that special spot at the base of her neck. She shuddered when I lightly pinched the soft pink bud. "N-need you," Chichi said, followed by a breathy moan.

I nibbled on the delicate skin of her chest and up her jawline before landing on her lips. When the tip of my cock made contact with her slick warmth, I pushed inside of her. I groaned even as Chichi whimpered my name. I threw my head back as I withdrew almost all the way and pushed myself back into her again as far as I could go. I had about forgotten how good sex felt during my time in Other World. I had to be so careful with her. I was so much stronger than before. One wrong move and I could have hurt her. Chichi had nothing but pleasure written across her face.

Chichi writhed beneath me as we moved together, with her lower lip pulled up in her teeth and eyes squeezed shut. Small, muffled sounds escaped her mouth. With her long, dark hair fanned over the mattress and shimmering in the full moon's light streaming in through our bedroom window, and skin still so soft, Chichi was so beautiful, it was heartbreaking. She was so strong. I made things hard for her sometimes. All those years I was gone, she could have moved on, could have married another guy, but she didn't. I had no idea what I did to deserve her. I was the luckiest guy in the world. My chest constricted. I gritted my teeth as my whole body tensed.

The small whimpers Chichi made turned into louder, deeper moans that she muffled with her hand. Almost there. I was glad she was close. Lost in the consuming sensation as I dove into her again and again, I couldn't last much longer. Pressure built inside me. I buried my face in the hollow of her shoulder, breathing in the familiar scent of her sweet-smelling lavender shampoo and snaked an arm between her waist and the bed, pressing my hand into her perfectly shaped butt.

A few more fast, deep thrusts and she gasped my name into her hand, the fingernails of her other hand digging into the skin on my back. Seeing her like that and hearing the sounds she made was enough to shove me over the edge after her. At my burst of pleasure, I saw stars and cried out her name into the crook of her neck before I all but collapsed on top of her. Weird tightness in my chest made it hard to catch my breath. My eyes burned.

Chichi scratched at my scalp and kissed the side of my head. I lifted my face from the small hollow of her neck and frowned slightly at the fresh tears in her eyes—did I hurt her? No, the sparkle in her eyes and her soft smile told me those were good, happy tears. She really forgave me, just like that! Chichi reached up and brushed her thumb across my cheek and I glimpsed water on her fingertips. We stayed connected, exchanging little touches and kisses, until neither of us could keep our eyes open. I felt whole, alive. I couldn't fathom having to go back to Other World after a night like that. Good thing I didn't have to. Nothing beat holding her like this. Nothing beat being home.