Hello!

So this is my first multichapter fic and long project published in English that it's not related to any special week or event.

I love romantic comedies but I figured there aren't too many GoChi rom-coms out there, so I wanted to write one.

As mentioned in my other works, my main language isn't English, but I'll always give my best on the translations, but apologize in advance for any mistake. Feedbacks are always welcome 😁

I don't think I need to say but, expect the characters to be a little OOC since it's an alternative universe - modern/all humans/no power, but I tried to keep their spirit nonetheless.

I hope you like it!

The sound of music echoed through the bohemian place, producing a lively and fun atmosphere. As the drinks and snacks were served, the conversation at the bar table was lively, nothing important or relevant, after all, it was friday night and they were just chatting away, relaxing after an intense week of work.

"Goku?" called the voice of one of them, trying to get the attention of his friend who suddenly seemed to be distracted. "Goku, can you hear me?"

"Huh?" Goku, whose attentive gaze kept scanning the room when a dark-haired woman walked with a wiggle by the table and took his attention, turned his head towards to the man diagonally, but his gaze was slow to follow the movement.

"I asked if you... Never mind!"

Goku shrugged and then kicked his friend's leg lightly in front of him, saying: "Hey, check out that dark-haired woman over there, Yamcha, the one in the little striped dress!" he pointed at the woman who had just walked by, but his comment made everyone at the table look in the direction he had pointed.

Yamcha whistled as he watched the woman and added: "Hot!"

She seemed to notice the looks on her and reciprocated with a falsely shy smile since it was clear that she was enjoying all the attention she was receiving.

"Oh, poor thing, she's already fallen into the trap..." Mocked Tien before bringing the beer mug to his lips. He already knew his friend well enough to know where and how this exchange of glances was going.

"It was pretty fast this time." Looking at the watch on his wrist, Yamcha commented in a tone of debauchery.

"Nah..." Goku shrugged. "I dunno... she's hot, but she seems to be one of those clingy ones... I think I'll pass!"

"Tell me about it! But I don't know... sometimes it's worth it," said Yamcha.

"Who knows…?" he smiled and looked again at the woman who was staring back at him.

She was definitely interested in him. How could she not be? Goku was young, strong, extremely handsome, and had a captivating smile that would melt any woman. He had dark, unruly hair and an air of innocence that was funny when compared to his naughty side, considering that he wasn't innocent at all.

Well... She wasn't ruled out yet, but the night was just beginning and he had barely arrived at the bar.

Krillin just rolled his eyes and shook his head.

"You really can't change!"

The taller, messy-haired man laughed and then hugged the shorter, balding boy sideways, raising his beer mug as a toast.

"Hey," Goku protested. "What're you talking about? Just because you decided to tie yourself up doesn't mean I have to do the same. I'm just evaluating the available material!"

"Goku's right!" agreed Yamcha. "It's your problem if you have been put on a leash."

"Aww, c'mon, cut it out!" Tien teased, lightly patting the arm of his friend by his side. "You only say that because Bulma kicked your ass, otherwise you two might be married today." he laughed out loud, drawing laughter from the others, except for Yamcha, who grimaced at him.

"That's not true." murmured the long black-haired boy, and before he could become a laughingstock again, he changed the focus of the subject. "But seriously, I still don't know how you managed to hook such a hot woman, Krillin. You're short, you're bald, you have a flat nose that looks like it was punched inside your face! You must have done some kind of spell for this woman to fall under your grace, honestly…"

Krillin rolled his eyes but partially smiled. Maybe even he didn't believe it, but it didn't matter, he was married and very well married. His wife was beautiful, amazing, and loved him. Besides, he was a very attractive and strong man, and also had many other qualities that she liked a lot, but he knew that his wife was not superficial enough to care about this appearance nonsense. He himself had not fallen in love with her only because she was just pretty.

"It's because I'm a responsible guy and I don't run away from commitment, unlike some I know…" he gave a corner look to Goku who was now staring at a woman with blond hair and a pink dress, on the opposite side from the dark-haired one.

"Oh man, it's just... this thing of… serious relationship, marriage... it's not for me. Why get attached to one person if I can have as many as I want?" he grinned and Yamcha raised his beer mug in agreement with what he said. Krillin shook his head while Tien just laughed and shrugged.

"Man, you're twenty-five years old and you have never had a serious relationship. That's not normal!" Krillin argued. He still thought his friend's seductive life was bullshit. When they were teenagers, okay, they were young and brainless, but he was a grown man now, he should come to his senses. "You have never gone out with a woman more than two or three times. I've known you since we were kids, and I've never seen you seen you get seriously involved with anyone. Every week is someone different. I don't even know how you manage to find so many different available women out there..."

"Charm, my friend!" Goku grinned smugly. He was fully aware of his potential. "Sometimes I have to try a little harder, it's true, but there isn't a woman who can resist my charm!"

"And smooth talk!" added Yamcha, and Goku laughed. Of course, his good looks and charm alone couldn't get women into bed, so he needed to use a little bit of smooth talk to get what he wanted.

"But how can you know that this is not for you? I mean… if you've never given a relationship a chance?" questioned Tien sharply. He wasn't like Goku or Yamcha, although he wasn't on the married or committed team either, he was much more open-minded about this sort of thing.

"Look man, I don't need to be in a relationship with anyone to know that this isn't for me. There are certain things that... you just know. I know I'm fine with it! I'm fine with casually going out with some women, with no commitment, no involvement, no feelings attached, y'know. It's all purely carnal. What better life than this?"

"To have someone to rely on!" pointed out Krillin. "Someone you know will support you in everything, every aspect of your life, someone to laugh with you, someone to share the best moments of life with! This life is better than the one you are talking about, my friend, having someone by your side, someone who loves you and who you love, that's what really matters! Not all this shallow stuff that you are living..."

The four were silent for a moment as they absorbed Krillin's words, but it didn't take long for Goku, Yamcha, and even Tien to burst out laughing, leaving the shortest one looking like a fool.

"Wow, I'm touched." Yamcha sneered. "But you are wrong about one thing."

"What?"

"It's not because we don't have a girlfriend or a wife that we don't have all that stuff you said, on the contrary! We can enjoy all the best moments of life with beautiful women who support us, who trust us to take them to our homes or even to their homes, who laugh with us every time we nibbled on their necks... No one needs to tie themselves up to another person to have all this! We can have it all! And the best thing is, each time with a different woman, each one hotter and prettier than the other!"

"No... aarg, it's not the same... you don't even know what you're talking about!" grumbled Krillin.

"Yamcha is right." agreed Goku without making much effort to reflect on Krillin's words. It was nothing but an illusion. Sure, it might work for some people, as was the case with his own friend, but for him, oh, for him it didn't. He was a free spirit, free of ties, free of commitment. "The only problem is the clingy ones, those women who are always running after us. This is a real pain in the ass. Why is it always so complicated for women? Why does everything have to involve feelings? Isn't just sex not enough? Come on! I understand that they want to repeat, because I must've been the best fuck of their lives, for sure!" he grinned smugly, "but past experiences have proven to me that this isn't a good idea, it leads to more serious things, they start to think that something is going on, that we have feelings for them, they already want to date, oh, I'm out!" he grimaced in displeasure. "One-night stand is enough and that's it. Everyone's happy!"

"Look, any day now, Goku... You'll bite your tongue," warned Krillin and Goku laughed out loud. "I'm warning you. One of these days you'll be the one who will fall in love with a woman who only wants to know about sex and nothing else and who will dump you without even thinking twice."

"Yeah, right..." Goku sneered.

"Keep laughing..." Tien teased.

"If such a woman exists, please introduce me, I want to meet her!" he laughed again.

"Why did I choose you to be my best man anyway?" Krillin shook his head, partially disappointed at his friend's attitude, but he had known him for years, knew how he was and knew he wouldn't change so easily.

Goku brought one of his hands to the center of his chest and looked at him with a fake offended face. "How can you talk like that about your best childhood friend?

"You have no shame, do you?"

"Let's have a drink, shall we? "Yamcha cut in.

"That's right. In a little while I have to go home!" said Krillin as he looked at the time on his watch.

"Booooo!" Yamcha grumbled. "Always like this, no later than eleven. You used to stay with us until dawn, remember?!"

"Look, as much as I enjoy your company, I have a much better one waiting for me at home." he grinned.

Goku, whose hunting eyes were still searching for his prey for that night, as he drank more of his beer, apparently oblivious to his friends' conversation, said: "You have a beautiful woman waiting for you at home and I..." he mischievously smiled. "…I will find one to take me home... preferably to hers... Heh!"

Going back alone wasn't an option.

It never was.

His chest glistened with sweat that dripped between the lines of his body as his breathing gradually slowed. This second round had demanded a lot of him, but he was fully satisfied as a result. And not only him, by the way.

Beside him, a young black-haired woman snuggled a little closer to him, hugging him and resting her head on his chest as delicate fingers with perfectly manicured nails circled the gnarled tendrils of his abdomen. She was red, not only in the face, due to the hectic movement of sexual activity, but also in other parts of her body like arms, legs, breasts, and butt, which were places where he kissed, bit, or squeezed her during the act. But she had not complained about anything at all.

"Wow! Handsome... That was amazing!"

Goku smiled mischievously. He didn't mess around. He might be a lady's man and get laid with several different women, but he still boasted that he was really good in bed and he was sure that he had never left any woman unsatisfied (or hardly any). He was after sex and pleasure, yes, but not for that reason would he leave his wins in the lurch. He was only satisfied when he had satisfied them, it was like a personal victory for him.

"You were good too, beauty."

He then turned his face away to reach for his cell phone and check what time it was. The clock read 3:48 am. He widened his eyes in surprise, he had stayed much longer than he thought, considering that he had left the bar with her around 1:30 am.

"Damn, it's late!" he grumbled and motioned to get up, but the weight of her body on his arm stopped him. When he looked at her side again, he realized that the young woman was completely asleep and clinging to his body.

He frowned and even thought about waking her up, but then gave up. From the way she was clinging to his body after they had had crazy sex, Goku was sure that she was the kind of clingy woman and mentally reproached himself for drinking too much and letting the alcohol affect his judgment. He had suspected this before, but ultimately believed that the fuck would be worth it. However, when he took a second appraisal of the woman's bare, shapely body, he smiled to himself. Yes, she was hot, and it had been totally worth it.

It had been good while it lasted, but he needed to leave.

Carefully, Goku released himself from the woman's grasp and got out of bed to throw away the used condoms and put on his clothes strewn across the floor, trying to be as quick as possible, but quietly so as not to wake up ... what was her name again? He thought for a moment and even forced his memory to try to remember, but nothing came to his mind. He knew she had spoken, but to him, that information was so irrelevant that he rarely memorized it, even more so with such easy prey as her. If it was someone who needed to invest a little more energy, it'd certainly be something he'd have memorized, but the dark-haired woman practically threw herself into his arms that he made no point of getting to know her on any kind of level. Surely leaving without saying goodbye would be the best option, since he wouldn't be spending the night there.

Goku was always very careful not to sleep, literally, with any of them. He liked space and was terrified of sleeping with someone clinging to his body or holding him in any way, so no matter what time it was, he would go away. Always. This was also the reason why he never brought women to his apartment. He always found a way to go to their place, so he didn't have to kick them out of his, and after all, it was always easier for him to leave. For more complicated situations, the option was a hot-sheet hotel. When they finished, he'd take them to their house and then go back to his by himself. He had no problem with this, the only thing he didn't want was a woman picking on him the next day, wanting to have coffee together or spend the day as a couple. Sometimes he even took their phone numbers in case of a possibility of a second time, which hardly ever happened, only when the sex was really exceptional – which wasn't the case that night – but in general, he opted to follow his usual plan.

Once in a while he ended up bumping into these women in some places, even if he lived in a big city, or they found him on social media, most of them he didn't even remember, not only the name, but also the person itself, it wasn't as if he kept in his memory all the women he had slept with, but they certainly didn't forget him, although some pretended not to remember him or who really didn't remember. Some even did, but that was it, no hard feelings. But there were still those who pursued him, those who believed that he was different and that they could simply make him change for the better only with the 'power of love'. And these were the ones he always tried to avoid at all costs.

This seemed to be the case with the woman who was lying in that bed next to him.

As soon as he left the room and walked down the hallway to the exit of the small apartment, he came across another woman sitting in an armchair, with a mug in one hand and a book in the other. He was slightly startled since he wasn't expecting to find anyone else there. He vaguely remembered the woman he had sex with saying that she shared the apartment with a friend, but she wasn't there that night.

The other woman, who was chubby and had greenish hair, stared at him seriously and coldly with her blue eyes, analyzing him from top to bottom.

"Errm... Hi! Sorry, I didn't know there was anyone else here!"

"Are you leaving?" she questioned, her tone accusatory.

"Hmmm… yes, I am..."

"I hope you're not sneaking out without saying goodbye to my friend or at least leaving your phone number!"

Goku froze. That was exactly what he was doing, but he didn't count on the fact that there would be a security guard outside the room waiting to catch him in the act of sneaking out to not sleep with the woman he had spent the last few hours having sex with. So, he smiled graciously, trying to break the ice with the woman, after all, his smile was always irresistible to the female sex (and sometimes even to the male sex).

"No, it's nothing like that, miss, it's just... I have to work! I start super early!"

"On saturday?"

"Yep, that's right, you know..." he laughed and scratched the back of his neck awkwardly. "Community service at an animal shelter, there's an adoption fair today!" he lied. Maybe there really was a pet fair somewhere in town, but that wasn't where he was going, he was a long way from helping with any community service.

She crossed her arms, set aside her mug and book, and looked at him deciding whether to believe this story. Goku felt a little intimidated, but he kept smiling amiably and even ran his hand through his hair in a slightly sensual gesture, not that he wanted to take her to bed too, she wasn't his type and it wouldn't be appropriate to do that right after screwing her roommate who was sleeping peacefully in her room. Even he wasn't that much of a jackass.

"Okay... Have some coffee, then, before you leave!" she sounded imposing even though she was smiling.

Goku pondered for a few seconds but thought that a cup of plain coffee would do him good to keep him awake to at least drive home, since he couldn't even remember how high up in the city he was and it might as well be far from his building. Besides, she didn't seem like she was going to let him leave while she was suspicious of him, so he thought it best to reinforce the lie.

"Okay! A cup of coffee will do just as well." he agreed and the woman got up from her armchair and went to the kitchen, which was right next door, to get some coffee for him that was already in the pot.

"My name's Ribrianne, by the way, I'm Heles' friend! And you, what's your name?"

Heles! That was the woman's name!

"My name's Goku!"

"How long have you and Heles been going out?"

"We just met today, actually." he answered as he settled into one of the chairs in the small kitchen.

"First night, huh?" she murmured, but remained with her back to him, as she stirred the coffee she had put in for him. Then she turned and smiled, handing the mug in his direction. "I hope you enjoy your coffee!"

Goku looked at the mug in front of him and then looked at Ribrianne, who was smiling warmly at him, but there was something in her expression that was a little threatening. He hesitated to take the mug, so she encouraged him by saying: "Don't worry, it's sugar-free. Just the way you like it!"

Goku arched his eyebrow and tried to remember at what point he had told her about the way he liked coffee. Ribrianne then dragged the mug closer to him and reinforced: "Come on, drink up. Or you're going fall asleep at your pet fair."

Goku swallowed hard. Why did it seem like she was acting passive-aggressively? Even with that sweet smile on her lips. He looked again at the cup, suspicious, then at Ribrianne. She wouldn't have put poison in his coffee, would she? Why would she do that, right? Yet what did he know about her and Heles? Only that the dark-haired one was a hottie, but he couldn't even remember her name just a few minutes ago and had no idea what pickup line he had used on her to end the night in bed. And what about this friend of hers? He knew even less.

"You know what!? I think I'll skip the coffee! My stomach isn't very good right now and coffee might not be good for me..."

"Drink. The coffee. Goku!"

"I'd rather not."

"I knew it!" Ribrianne then slammed her palms down on the table and suddenly approached him. "You were lying! You were sneaking out, running away from Heles, after having sex all night. You're nothing but a cheap womanizer who only cares about getting women into bed for your own pleasure!"

"Hey," Goku yelped, and took his distance as far as the chair would allow him to go. "That ain't true!" it wasn't just for his own pleasure. Heles had enjoyed it too, and a lot of it.

"If you think you are going to hurt my friend, you're very, very much mistaken. I won't allow it!"

Goku widened his eyes and shook his head. What did she mean? What was this crazy woman going to do? Make him marry his friend? Lock him up there forever?

"I don't want to hurt anyone! We were just having fun... that's all!"

"Fun, isn't it? That's what you want then, that's what you'll get!"

Ribrianne pulled away from him again and closed her eyes, placing both hands palms up and at shoulder height as she babbled nonsense words.

"What da hell!?" Goku grumbled in amazement and stood up, clutching the chair.

Suddenly she opened her eyes wide and stared at him, but she didn't seem to be looking at him exactly, she seemed to be seeing beyond him. She began to speak, and her voice came out thick and guttural, further terrifying the man who could not move, whether from fear or surprise.

"Lover of lust and slave of pleasure. Every will becomes action, in this world of seduction. A man who wants them all, but gets attached to no woman. At sunrise today, the one you lie down with will never look at you again. Fated to solitude, you will live in your own prison."

And as if to complete the spooky touch of everything that was happening, the kitchen window opened at once and a strong wind blew in, shaking Goku's unruly hair.

"Fuck..." he muttered but didn't wait for another second and ran out of there, slamming the door on his way out.

Outside the apartment, in the middle of the hallway and already a few away meters from the door, he brought his hand to his chest as he breathed slowly, trying to rationalize what had happened.

"What a crazy woman!"

Notes:

What about Chi-Chi? Don't worry, we'll see her in the next chapter and you'll absolutely gonna love her! 😍

Also yeah, Goku's a womanizer so expect to see him talking a lot about other women or interacting with them, but this isn't a story about him and them, but him and Chichi, that's why only they are tagged as a couple.

Explicit content only for them!

Also, other couples are/will be mentioned, but only that, as side characters, that's why they won't be tagged too. The focus here is GoChi.