Bardock felt horrible. The idea of Raditz going through that shit again left a bad taste in his mouth. He hadn't even seen either of his sons before they left. It was almost as if he was going though that garbage all over again. Raditz had disappeared again. Now he didn't know where Kakarot was either. What if something went wrong?
"Bardock?" He flinched as Gine came up behind him.
He didn't know what to say. She was right. He was a failure. He had failed his eldest son and now he was out there with that sadistic woman again. He had no one to blame but himself.
He was about to bolt from the room; he didn't want to see his mate right now, but she had wrapped her arms around his waist. He felt her face press against his back. "I'm sorry." Her voice broke and he felt himself shake. "I shouldn't have said that. It's not your fault. I…"
He pulled from her arms and turned around to face her. "I wasn't strong enough." He said looking down at her. Her eyes were red. She was crying. He hated seeing her cry. It had to be one of the most painful things to watch. He wanted to look away, but she reached up and held his face in place.
"Back then, you were the strong one, Bardock." She said, looking him in the eye. "I was the one that fell to pieces. Kakarot needed both of us and what did I do? I fell off my rocker. You were the one that made sure that he was taken care of." She said.
"But what about Raditz? If I had treated him better, he never would have…" He started.
"You don't know that. Raditz would have been taken regardless." She said as fresh tears fell from her eyes. "At least you made it so he would still have a home to come back to. I was useless." She looked down at the ground, which worried him.
"What about when I was gone? You looked after everything at home. When Kakarot needed you, you were there." He said.
"Not all of the time. I practically turned into a pile of goo." She said looking back up at him. "This time I don't want to be useless, Bardock."
He was lost for words. "But you were never useless."
She ignored his words. "Can't we walk through the fire together this time? I don't want to lose you too."
He had heard enough. It pulled her up and silenced her with a kiss. She twisted against him before she drew him closer. He could hear a soft purr on her lips as he pulled away. He looked into her eyes, her sadness was still there in droves, but there was a light. Only a small glimmer, but hope resided there. He gave her a smile. "Let's go home."
She looked very confused. "I thought our job was here."
"It is, but I think we need to focus on us for a little bit. Kakarot will be fine and Raditz has made it through this before. As much as it pains me to say it, they will come out better from this. Raditz is much stronger than we give credit for." He touched the side of her face. "I just want us to get back to a good place again." He began to lead her out of the palace and out onto the street.
She gave him a sad smile, which made him smile back. "You really want us to go home? Without our boys?"
"I know it's hard to tell you this, but they aren't little boys anymore. They've grown into men and its time we treated them like it." Bardock said, looking up at the sky.
"They will always be my little boys. Besides, they aren't even mated. How can they be men if they haven't taken that step?" His mate almost laughed at that.
"Those two are a stubborn lot, but they have already proven themselves." He reminded his mate. "They did that back when they were still children."
"And they wouldn't have gotten far without you." Gine said cuddling into his arms. "I wouldn't have either." She purred.
He felt a little light headed as a familiar smell entered his nose and he smirked. He didn't realize until now that they were outside of their house. Not only that, it was the first time that they had an empty house in ages. He looked back at his mate, before pushing her inside.
She giggled as he pushed her against the wall and began to kiss her. It didn't matter where they did anything today. His musk filled the room and met the smell that she was already sending out. He felt frantic as he pushed her down to the floor and took what was his.
Kakarot sighed to himself. This wasn't the plan. This wasn't the plan at all.
Chichi looked embarrassed now that they had gotten their clothes back on, which was weird. Part of him didn't want to stop. Chichi still smelled too good to him.
He wasn't paying attention as she came around and gave him a kiss on the cheek. "What are you thinking about?" She giggled.
He couldn't help himself as he wrapped his tail around her. "Just thinking about what we did."
She gave him a smile. "I didn't expect you to do that. From what I heard, I thought you weren't coming back for me." Then she looked sad, which really bothered him. He didn't want to see that look in her eyes.
"What do you mean?" He knew that she knew about his pledge to never mate, but her words didn't make sense.
"Oh." She blushed. "When we were kids, you got drunk before the battle on Planet Vegeta. You told me that you would make me your bride." She looked down. "I figured that you forgot about it and me."
"I could never forget about you. I was just busy." He said.
"So you never made a pledge like that?" She asked.
"I did make that pledge." She frowned. "But you can see how that turned out. I still chose you in the end."
The sadness faded from her face. "I'm glad you came back for me."
He gave her a smile and leaned down to kiss her. He found that he liked kissing her, among other things. It was strange. Everything had sounded disgusting and scary when Raditz had explained it to him, but now he wasn't sure he could ever live without it. "We do need to head back though. I'm sure that everyone will get a kick out of this."
Chichi made to giggle again. "Yeah, I only came here to get away from seeing you."
He gave her a funny look. "Was I that bad?"
"Goku, you didn't even look at me for 10 years. What was I supposed to think?" She stated.
He felt a little bashful at that. "I'm sorry it took me so long."
She smiled. "You're forgiven."
There was one thing that was still bothering him though. "What were those guys all fighting over yesterday?"
She blushed and looked at the ground nervously. "Oh that…They heard some things."
He felt a spark of anger. "What things?"
She looked up at him. "Remember when I wanted to meet with Baba-sama?" He nodded. "She told me that I would birth a powerful son. Those men wanted me to give them a baby."
His blood boiled as he made to snarl. "They wanted to touch you!"
She grabbed onto his arm to ground him. "Don't you get it, Goku? She wasn't talking about them having a child with me. She was talking about you having a child with me."
It was like his emotions did a one-eighty. His brain was trying to imagine a child that belonged to him and Chichi. "So we're going to have a baby?"
She giggled. "Not right now, but it's in the future."
He purred against her. He had never even thought about that option before. He really didn't think that pledge of his through. "Why not now?"
Her eyes grew wide. "Goku? Do you really think we are ready for that?"
"How could we not be? We're mated. You're my bride. We can do anything." He stated.
She jumped up into his arms. "Oh Goku, I'm so happy!"
She smelt good, but he had other things to focus on. "Let's get back home." She nodded and let him pick her up. He took to the sky and started to head towards his pod. There was a capsule in there with his ship in it. He was already planning to set the ship to autopilot and take his mate to the bedroom that was on it.
He landed and put her down before he walked over to it. He smirked when he found the small capsule in it. He pushed the button and tossed it. The ship came out and it was bigger than he expected. He smirked as he looked at his mate. "Ready?"
She gave him a smile and they got on the ship. It was really spacious; he had to give Tarble that. The younger saiyan prince still designed ships from time to time and anyone could tell the difference between one of Tarble's designs and anyone else's.
He walked forward and started to put in their coordinates so that the auto pilot would start up. He heard a couple of sharp beeps and took his mate's hand.
Chichi moved over to strap herself in. She was ready to get off the planet as well. It would take them two weeks to get back with the hyper drive on.
They blasted off into space and he was already going through every scenario he could think of in his mind. He hoped that Tarble had included a bed for two in his plans because he was already making plans involving one.
He stood up and looked back at Earth before setting the hyper drive. Chichi must have known what was on his mind and as he turned, he saw that she had already removed her clothes. A purr rumbled through him and he couldn't help himself anymore as he pounced on her. She giggled as he carried her off to their quarters, not noticing the bright red light that was lit up above the hyper drive.
Gure sobbed. What was she going to do? Yogut could come back at any time. The idea of being with that scoundrel sickened her.
She wondered what Tarble was doing now. He had to have discovered her home planet and seen it in ruin. Would he come for her or would he move on? She shook her head. There was no way he would move on. Tarble wasn't that kind of man. He would try and find her. She only hoped that it wasn't too late.
Tarble paced as he thought about his prey. Where were they hiding and what would he do to them when he found them? Hundreds, maybe even thousands of ideas began to float through his head. He chuckled darkly as he walked out of his room.
Vegeta was down in one of the parlor rooms with Bulma. His brother looked surprised to see him. "I thought you were going to turn in."
He shook his head. "No. I've been thinking."
Bulma smiled. "When aren't you thinking?"
He ignored her comment. There were more pressing matters. "Can you make a room for me?" He said looking at his sister-in-law.
Bulma looked taken aback. "Why are you asking me? You're better than I am at those kinds of things?"
He turned back to his brother and thought over the next set of words he was going to say. He never thought he would ever say them in his life. "I will be too busy for that, so will Vegeta."
"Why's that?" Vegeta asked.
"We are going to train." He stated. Vegeta gave him a smirk. His brother already had a room to train in, but he needed one of his own. His abilities were different and it would be the only way to refine them.
"So when do we start?" Vegeta looked excited. They hadn't really spared since that day he had hit puberty.
He smirked. "Why not now?"
Bulma rolled her eyes. "It's late."
Vegeta smirked. "It's never too late to train."
With that they nodded Bulma off and left for the room that Vegeta trained in. He had an idea of what he wanted to try, and if it worked, nothing would ever stand in his way again.
To Be Continued…