Chapter Six

To dance or not to dance…a second Choice…

In all his glory the prince of Teriok now stood at ChiChi's right side creating a golf between her and Goku. He held out his hand a charming smile upon his handsome face, and ChiChi reluctantly placed her small hand in his. He slowly; gingerly, placed a simple kiss upon the top of her hand his eyes never leaving hers.

"Can you grace me with a dance?" He asked.

Quietly she sat, and would have continued in silence had her father not given her a nudge to the side. "Of course, but I'm not certain if you could lead," she answered.

"You'll be surprised at how well I can lead," he informed, helping her to her feet. She followed behind him closely until they reached the center of the ball room.

Everyone that was previously dancing to the music fled from the ballroom floor, and all eyes were fixed on the pair. ChiChi abhorred the way that people could watch, and make something so trivial into something much greater than it was!

The prince rested his right hand on the small of her back, and she placed hers' upon his shoulder and then clasped their left hands together. Almost instantly the music begun to play, and he pushed forward leading her into their dance. "Don't you think I lead well?"

"I think you don't know what leading means," she replied. "If that is leading I hate to know what directing is."

"Are you saying I'm a bit rash?" he glanced down at the little princess.

"Exactly what I'm saying," she retorted.

He chuckled at the fire that burned within her eyes, and spun her as a merry go round would and pulled her closer to him. The crowd of people in the room went wild at his brilliant display. There wasn't but centimeters between them and ChiChi could feel the heat of his body, and he never glanced away from her furious gaze. "Maybe I could show you else wise, if you let me," he whispered.

"Maybe not," she informed, her voice dripping with cynicism.

"I'm not a bad guy," he countered. "I'm certain you might have heard stories, but I'm not my father."

"I don't know what stories you are referring too, I only know truths," she spat. "Your army, your people have plague and murdered and I want no part of that."

"You won't have to worry about that," he soothed. "I know what my father has done before me is wrong, but I am not my father. I can't help it that I bear his name and kingdom. I would love to change or even help those in which my father had hurt."

ChiChi laughed as he twirled her and graceful she spun away at arm's length and then he pulled her back. The crowd was applauding with every twirl, spin, or movement they made but ChiChi was being tormented with everyone.

"How can you help someone when they are all murdered," she lashed.

"I can help those that are left, those that live," the music begun to fade, and before he could finish he gave the crowd one last source of entertainment as he dipped her.

Goku could only sit watching as the beautiful princess danced with the stranger, and wait. His stomach was in knots, and he couldn't begin to explain it. She did the most peculiar thing to him, and he always never had an answer to the phenomena.

She was the princess and he just the guard and he would be nothing more than that to her. However; he couldn't stop his mind from picturing her in his arms as she had now been in the terioken princes' arms.

"He'll make a wonderful suitor! Do you think so Goku?" Ox King gushed.

Goku glanced over to Ox King, although he knew it was right to answer the king he could find no words. How could he say yes?

Guard the Princess' Heart…

"What?" he question absentmindedly aloud again.

He was grateful for the crowds cheering that drowned out his word from the king, but was perplexed at the voice. He wanted to get an answer, to figure out where the voice was coming from and why it was telling him what it was.

"Goku did you hear me?" ChiChi interrupted him.

"Sorry," he answered.

"I was telling both my father and Prince Absalom that we have to retire, because it is your first night," she stated. "I know you have to practice, and as much as I hate leaving early I have to wait till your accustom to your duties."

"Huh?...Oh, okay!" Bewildered Goku nodded his head.

"It was pleasant meeting you Prince Absalom, and Daddy it was good to see you back," she said, sweetly. ChiChi kissed her father's cheek, and with a loving rub to the shoulder left with Goku following behind her.

The moment ChiChi and Goku step out of eye view of the ballroom she grabbed hold of Goku's massive hand and pulled him behind her as she ran down the narrow halls.

"What are you doing?" question Goku, as they continued their mad dash down the long hall.

"Just follow me," she answered.

With every stride he took behind the beautiful princess he became frustrated with desire to know where she was leading him too. He couldn't contain his frustration anymore when all that he could hear was the click of her heels and drag of her breath. Without realization he yanked her hand back a little harder than he anticipated, halting their run. Twirling her around, she stood pressed against him. Another unfamiliar expression greeted him on her perfectly shaped oval face, sorrow; she was white as a ghost, and what looked to be tears welled at the corner of her eyes. Why was she sad?

"Sorry I didn't mean to hurt you," he said, artlessly.

She shook her head a limp smile upon her full rosy pink lips that could break any man's heart. "No, you didn't hurt me, I just." Her usual audacious charm had fled and all that was left was a broken little girl. "My father has done the unspeakable Goku," she final managed.

He tried to think of everything he could that would have had her in such a ramble, but all he could pull was a blank. What had her father done? She hadn't even spent much time with him, and already he done something so horrible that left her in shambles? "I don't understand."

"He wants me to…" she bit down on her bottom lip. Mustering all that was in her she managed to look up to the innocent guard before her, taking in his loving features. Just the delicate care in his eyes made her fears melt away, and she couldn't help but giggle. "You were jealous!"

The question both baffled and confused Goku, and partly because he had never experience such a thing before. Since when did he get jealous? "I never had that," he tersely answered.

"Oh yes you did!" she accused. The sorrow once written upon her beautiful features vanished, and her usually playful demeanor returned.

"I didn't eat anything!" he informed, annoyed. It wasn't often he was accused of eating something he hadn't before.

"What," Chichi exclaimed, between fits of laughter. "Food…Goku you are very odd. I wasn't talking about food."

"No? Then what else could jealous mean?" he question.

"It simply means that you wish you were the one dancing with me, and you didn't like me dancing with Absalom!"

How had she known? Could she read his mind too? Goku was very perplex and he was begin to thinking nearly everyone could read his mind now. Especial with the occasional voice inside his head, and that meant he needed to keep a tight grip on what he'd say! His cheeks were burning red from embarrassment.

"Don't worry I'm only kidding," she soothed.

If he received a pound for every perplexing thing the princess had done to him he would be the richest man in all the land. For the first time they both noticed how dangerously close they were and immediately stepped back. "Sorry again for pulling you," again he apologized.

"No worries," she answered. "You make me feel like I'm on clouds when I'm in the middle of a storm."

His mind was going crazy again with the sound of her words, she was very peculiar. He never felt for a girl like he did for her, she was truly captivating. Indeed he hadn't a lot of experience with women but he was certain if he did they could never make him feel the way she did.

"Have you ever courted?" Asked, ChiChi.

"No," tersely he replied.

ChiChi smiled, and stood next to him hooking her left hand into the crook of his right arm. "Why? I mean you're very handsome," she whispered, a tiny shade of pink gracing her cheeks unbeknownst to the tall warrior.

He shrugged his shoulder as they began to walk down the halls. "I never really got to be around much girls, I was always farming. I met two but they were weird."

Giggling ChiChi look up to Goku that stood what seemed four inches taller than her. Curiously she proceeded to probe him for answers, "Weird? What do you mean by that?"

"For one every time I went around them they were giggling so much I couldn't get a word in, and their faces looked as red as a beet!"

"You are so silly, Ku," she interjected. "They must have really liked you, I don't find that hard to believe."

"They never felt special to me, "he added.

"Hmn. I've never court either," ChiChi informed. "I don't even get that option, I just get married away."

"That doesn't sound fair," Goku stated.

"That is the life of a Princess," she said, somberly.

"Is that why you're sad?" Goku asked. Goku could be dense at times, but he had his moments. Then just as at the table earlier when he had found out she was the princess he could feel all her emotions to an extent it felt like he was drowning. He couldn't understand it, and he couldn't grasp the connection between them.

"Ku, it feels like I've known you forever," she exclaim, in need of a change of topic. "Like you were always here with me, you know?"

"In a way…wait! You didn't answer my question," countered Goku.

"You're much smarter than I thought," Said, ChiChi. ChiChi eyes became distant and the flickering of the castle walls only illuminated the tiny princess' sorrow. "I don't know if you'd understand."

"I'd try too," he informed. The sternness in his large eyes had made ChiChi understand how much he truly wanted to know, he cared.

"Follow me," she urged gripping his hand and he willingly followed. After bending a few more corners in utter silence, and stepping out into the fresh night air. Goku was more curious to know where he was being taken, and to know what she had to tell him. They had reached one of the large walls of the castle gate, and ChiChi let go of Goku's hand and sat on her knees.

Goku watched inquisitively as she moved aside a few stones, and revealed a wide opening in the shape of a square window in the wall. "Come look," she instructed.

Goku sat next to her, and looked out of the gaping hole to see the dimly lit city. Only a few people were bustling through the dark roads, and some closing down their shops others talking away. He had seen the city in the night and couldn't grasp what had been so intriguing to the princess or even made her upset about the tiny city before them, when she had an empire inside these walls. He glanced over at her and for the first time he could see all her beauty as she sat aw struck at the little town. She was the cream of the crops in his eyes, and that was a very grand standard!

"They have it all," she exclaimed. "Choices so many wonderful choice; when they'd like to close their store, or even when they wanted to open it. Oh! They could even take a lunch break and eat as many truffles as they'd like, and the girls get to choose the boy they'd like to kiss. Look at that girl, Ku."

Goku's eyes glanced back to the scene before them at a tall slender girl who was giggling away with a gentleman. "She likes him," ChiChi said, dreamingly. "Look at the way she touches him, and the way he looks at her...that's love. She gets to choose if he is the one she wants to marry, and I would trade anything, anything to do the same."

"You just want to choose who you marry?" asked Goku.

"Yes!" cried chichi, "well to a certain extent I just want to be able to choose what I want in my life. Like what I want to eat for breakfast, or how much soap goes in my bubble bath…or colors I want to wear. To choose…like I chose you."

ChiChi looked over to Goku their eyes now met and for the second time her cheeks had turned a lovely shade of pink, and heat surged through her tiny frame. She choked out a laugh and quickly turned from his gaze back at the view of the town. "Sometimes I get carried away; I don't know why I even said that."

"Before my Gramps died he always said that our choices make our lives, and maybe you don't feel you're living yours because you haven't made much," he expressed.

"Why does your Gramps and Gran always have such wonderful phrases?" smiling, she placed the rocks back in their places hiding the view of the city.

Goku sat pensively; his eyes distant and chin resting in the palm of his right hand. ChiChi was perplexed by his demeanor; she had never seen him look as he did at that moment. She couldn't place her finger on what he could be thinking so hard on, but she had no pleasure in sitting for hours in the remindful cold. "Goku we ne-"

"Will you show me how to dance?" he interjected.

Brow arched ChiChi looked daringly at Goku trying to figure out his tactics. "Teach you to dance?"

"Yes," he affirmed.

Was he playing? Did he not notice it was freezing outside? Also, what music would they dance too? Millions of questions popped into her mind, but none outweighed the desire in her heart to teach her charming guard. "…Okay, sure. You have to help me up though."

As quick as she said it he was to his feet pulling her up as well with care. "So you have to place your right hand on the small of my back," she informed.

With every intention of following her instruction he placed his hands where he had thought she informed. The startle jump from the princess and eyes of dagger quickly let him know he had gone centimeters to low. "Sorry," he hashed out.

"You're okay, just remember my butt isn't my back," she giggled. "Now you will hold out your left hand and I will place mine against yours." He extended his arm and when ChiChi placed her small hand against his massive hand chills went through his body. "Now you will lead, if you want to lead me back just move forward with your right. Let's start simple okay?"

Goku nodded and with a gentle push they begun, and their music the chime of the crickets. ChiChi couldn't help but laugh at how many times Goku would step on her feet, or do an awkward turn. He had the silliest face when he would mess up that of a child with their hand caught in the cookie jar. ChiChi enjoyed every minute of her clumsy student's attempt of dance!

"You did it," exclaimed Goku. They had been dancing for hours and luckily the dinner hadn't ended, or Launch would have surely given her a talking.

"Did what? Live after dancing with the world's worst dancer," she teased.

"Hey I can't help it that dancing has so many stupid moves," he wallowed. "Why couldn't it be easy like kung Fu?"

"I think most people would say the opposite," she countered. "Anyways what were you saying?"

"Oh," he smiled. They stood in front of her bedroom door; he already scouted her room for any uninvited guests. "You made your second choice."

"I don't understand, how?" she questioned.

"You chose to teach me to dance," he answered.

Giggling she nod and she felt the same burn from earlier rise upon her cheeks. "I did," joyfully, she agreed. "Good night, Ku," she whispered. She made her quick escape behind her bedroom door, leaning against it for support she took in a needed breath of air. What was happening to her?

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