Daddy's Girl

I know everyone has been asking about Goten's sudden switch. I'm sorry, I don't mean any character bashings, but I need Goten to be like this for a while to fit the story. There will be Goten's POV, may be in the next chapter.

I don't own DBZ and all its characters.

I hope you enjoy!

Chapter 7

"Where's my new armor?" Vegeta asked the old scientist coldly as he entered Dr. Briefs' lab that afternoon. He walked in with his arms crossed over his chest, like always. "The woman should have finished remaking it long time ago."

Dr. Briefs stopped observing his experimental object on his microscope. He tilted his head towards the arrogant prince, "Why are you asking about your armor? Are you planning to leave, Vegeta?"

"That's none of your concern, old man. Just tell me where it is."

"Well, if you insist, son. Bulma has capsulized all your new armors here." Dr. Briefs walked towards a cupboard in the corner of his lab and took a capsule case from it. Vegeta grabbed the thing from the old man's hand fast.

"By the way old man, I want the spaceship ready with full fuel by seven tonight. And tell that old woman to prepare my supply."

"I'm sorry if I have to disappoint you, Vegeta. But the spaceship's fuel has to be transported from Capsule Corps' branch in South City and it will need at least two days to do it."

"Are you trying to slow me down, old man?!"

"No, son, though I have a reason to do it. Haven't you heard the news from Bulma?"

Vegeta absolutely knew what Bulma's father meant, but he only glanced at that old man with his most intimidating glance.

"I take it you knew." Dr. Briefs said, "Aren't you happy about it?"

"I don't care about it. I'm not interested in offspring." Vegeta then left the old man alone in his lab.

He could recall it now. The face of the old man as he left him that afternoon. Wasn't that face full of sadness and hurt? No matter how, as a scientist, the old man understood Vegeta's alien character, he couldn't hide his hurt expression on his face. Vegeta had rejected him and his daughter and his to be born grandchild. What had that old man done wrong to him? Nothing, he could realize it now. Since he first came to Capsule Corps, that old man not only had offered him his hospitality, but also his home, his food, and the most important thing was, his gravity room.

Not even once he showed him any hatred, though it was obvious that Dr. Briefs had known his reputation as a mass murderer since the beginning.

And he could only repay that old man with his harshness and pain.

Now another young man did the same stupid thing to Vegeta as Vegeta ever did to Dr. Briefs. Goten had rejected him, his daughter and his to be born grandchild. And Vegeta couldn't describe the pain he felt in his heart. Was it the way you felt when I rejected you, old man? Is this your ghost haunting me from the grave?

"So, you're leaving?" Bulma asked Vegeta as she saw him dressed in his armor and combat suit and was now putting his white gloves on his hands. He actually didn't intend to leave by this time, he was just trying his new armor and battle suit. Bulma knew that he would leave because her mother had told her about it and that he had asked Mrs. Briefs to prepare his travel supply. Bulma went to his room then, she thought she had to do something to stop him.

"Is that a problem?" His voice was harsh as usual and he answered without looking at her eyes. He knew he would melt to her blue, so he avoided it.

"Is this because I keep the baby?" She managed to hold her tears.

He grunted, then, "I don't care about it."

Bulma slammed his bedroom door before she spun and ran towards her own room to break her tears and let out her cry.

She met Yamcha in the corridor"Bulma, are you all right?"

"He is leaving, Yamcha. He is leaving. He doesn't care about me and my baby." She sobbed on her ex-boyfriend's wide well built chest, "I know I must have thought about it when I deal with him, but... "

Yamcha hugged her and caressed her hair, Baby? He was shocked at her words, but he didn't show it. So, their relationship has been this far?

Vegeta could feel the weakling's kis outside his room and he admitted that he felt annoyed by the desert bandit's presence. But he tried hard to ignore it, now or never...

The woman had become such a breeding creature, though he knew that it was his offspring in her womb. But he thought that may be he should let her come back to her ex-boyfriend. They were both human, the desert bandit would make a perfect couple for her.

Vegeta had a much more important thing to do than dealing with humans and all their confusing pathetic emotions. He still had not reached the super saiyan level. Nothing would be able to stop him from reaching it now.

Emotions? The only emotions he knew was anger. Anger and anger had grown in him like fungus since he was a very little child. However, living under the tyrant of Friezza wasn't easy and it made him angry all the time. But did it give him reason to treat other people who never did any wrong things to him like the way Friezza treated him? He just realized it now that he had been blind all this time.

And the super saiyan level, the thing which was used to be his number one priority over all the things around him, included somebody else's feeling and life, didn't help him at all. Wasn't it his super saiyan form which had beaten Son Goten into coma and caused all the problems he was experiencing now?

Vegeta walked and walked, didn't care if the sky had turned dark above him.

-

Bulla got up from her bed, a slight of pain still hit her stomach every time she moved her body. She rubbed her belly gently to alleviate it. She remembered what the doctor had said before she left the hospital, she needed bed rest. But the voice she heard with her sensitive ears built her curiosity. Isn't that Goku's voice? He is here, in Capsule Corps, talking to mom. Well, may be he can tell why Goten isn't coming yet. She missed him a lot, she missed him so much. There were so many things they had to talk about. She walked downstairs with all efforts she could manage to the kitchen where the voices came from And she stopped before the kitchen door as the conversation between Goku and her mother went on.

Bulma poured hot coffee into her guest's cup, "Do you want to eat something, Goku?"

"No, thank you, Bulma. I'm not hungry."

Bulma rolled her eyes, "Are you sure about that?" She sat next to her lifetime best friend, "Is there a problem, Goku?"

"I'm really sorry, Bulma. I'm very ashamed of this."

"What happens?"

"Goten...he said he didn't care about Bulla and her baby."

Bulma put her hand on her mouth, "Oh, Dende! How could he say that?!"

"I really feel terrible about it, Bulma. I have tried to talk to him, really. But he didn't listen to me. Chichi didn't help at all."

"Were they still angry with Vegeta? But they are not supposed to hate Bulla and her baby too, she has nothing to do with what Vegeta had done. Please tell me what Goten had said to you, Goku."

"He said it was a mistake to date with Bulla. He didn't love her. They had just met for few times after Trunks' baby's party. He said it wasn't his fault if Bulla got pregnant, she was supposed to wear protection. Oh...Bulma, I'm really ashamed of this, really."

Bulma's face was then red of anger, "How dare he said that!"

"I'm really sorry, Bulma. I'm really sorry. He also said I had no right to interfere this matter, who I was for him anyway? I had not been a good father for him either. I had not been with him when he was born and in his childhood. And I left him again then to train with Uub. I always preferred training than my family. I think Goten is right, I'm really a bad father."

"That's not true!" Bulma's anger then turned into a pity as she saw her best friend hung his head lower and he had a very sad expression on his face, "That's not true, Goku. Don't be sad. You're a good father, trust me." She pulled Goku's head to her shoulder and let him cry there.

Bulla put her hand on her mouth as she stood behind the Briefs' kitchen door and listened to the conversation between her mother and Son Goku.

He stopped walking as he saw the desert bandit standing before the Capsule Spaceship.

"So, you're really going to leave?"

Vegeta was very sure that Yamcha hided his fright before him, he almost could see his body was shaking of it, "That's none of your concern."

"Of course this is. Everything concerns with Bulma is my concern. Don't you know she's carrying your baby now? Are you trying to run from your responsibility?"

He smirked with his usual arrogant smirk, "I don't care about it. You may take her back if you like. I'm done with her."

The desert bandit clenched his fists, "How could you talk about her that way!"

"So what are you going to do about it?"

Yamcha knew he had no chance against the Saiyan prince, but his anger to Vegeta was unbearable and it made him take a fighting stance.

Vegeta burst out laughing, "This is ridiculous! I have no time to deal with you, human worm!"

"I won't just let you run away so easily!"

"Don't get in my way you worm!"

Yamcha's anger brought him to send his blow and kick to his rival. Vegeta of course, dodged them easily and then with his fingertip, he sent the desert bandit flying high in the air before ended with his head landed on Capsule Corps' building wall with a loud thud.

It was a very light counterattack, however, Vegeta was reluctant to kill him. If Vegeta intended to, Yamcha would have ended in the grave in a second.

Bulma ran from her room to help Yamcha. Vegeta knew she had been watching them from her window. Her parents followed her behind.

"Yamcha! Oh, Kami!" Bulma cried as she held her ex boyfriend in her arms. The desert bandit closed his eyes in pain. Blood flowed from his back head.

"Poor Yamcha!" Mrs. Briefs cried.

"Are you okay, boy? Hang in there! I'll get you a help to bring you to the infirmary!" Dr. Briefs said.

Vegeta grunted in disgust, pathetic humans! Without looking at his back again, he got into the spaceship and blasted off.

-

Bulla had known there was a life in her womb, since the day she opened her eyes in the hospital, she could feel it though nobody told her. And now she didn't need any tests to find out if what she felt was true. She heard their conversation in the kitchen. And more than that, now she also knew why Goten never took a visit for her when she was in the hospital nor when she was taken to home. It wasn't because Goten wasn't fully healed yet, but it was because he hated her and her baby, their baby.

Bulla tried hard to hold her tears. She was a princess. Her daddy had taught her since she was a child that she had to be strong and never easily broke up tears for any reasons.

She rubbed her belly, trying to start a communication with her to be born child, "What should we do now? Your daddy hates us. We will never be together as a family. What should we do now?"

But may be this wasn't all Goten's fault. He was right, she was careless not to wear protection, but she didn't regret it. She wanted the baby, her baby. Hadn't she wanted it since a very long time ago? She remembered her feeling when she held Trunks' baby in her arm, and how she asked herself if she would ever have her own baby. She would have one now, she would never regret it. It was her greatest treasure in her life.

If Goten didn't want the baby, she would not force him. After recalling all the moments they ever had together, she understood one thing now. Not even once Goten ever said that he loved her, so if now he said that he didn't love her, he didn't lie. All what he ever said was, I miss you so much Bulla, or you make me crazy, Bulla.

Everything was just a craziness for him...

A craziness...

Goten turned off the TV before him and threw the remote across the room in frustration, Can't I have a moment in peace for myself?!

Vegeta had left and had not done anything crazy like the other day. Actually, he didn't care anymore about that. Even if Vegeta got really mad again and killed him for what he had said, he wouldn't care, really really wouldn't care.

He was just a man of failure, nothing he did was ever right, and so none loved him enough to accept him anyway. He was no important for anybody.

He didn't know if he had to be angry or to be sad with his own state.

He missed his childhood when he was just an innocent boy and cheerful one. Pain had been illusion, something far beyond his imagination, till experiences taught him the other way. Nobody would think that he was a very sensitive man, every wounds in his heart he experienced since he was a child never get truly cured. Every new wounds would always open the old ones, and so the pain was multiplied.

The incident with Vegeta was the peak, and now he didn't know if he would be able to bear it again or not. He started to feel everything bitterly now and see everyone as enemy, except his mother. His beloved mother was the only person in the world who had a pure heart and love for him. She was the only person who always stayed beside him in his ups and downs.

Thinking that there was still somebody who would always supported him made him feel warm. And

he wanted to return to his childhood, he wanted it so badly...

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