by : Bulma
Vegeta was in the gravity room as usual trying to be better than Goku. He was trying to block out the sound of Bulma and Yamcha fighting in the kitchen.
“Stupid humans,” Vegeta mumbled to himself. “How is a sayain supposed to train with all that racket.”
Vegeta soon just decided to go in the kitchen to get something to eat since he had nothing else to do, any ways, he wanted to see the two go at it and was wondering if he could get them annoyed and maybe get that weakling, Yamcha, out of the house.
By the time he was half way to the kitchen all he could hear was glass shattering and Bulma saying “I never want to see you again!”
When he got in the kitchen, he saw Bulma on her knees on the floor with her head in her hand crying. Vegeta was soon standing in the doorway when he started laughing his annoying laugh.
“You humans fight over such little things,” Vegeta was trying to say but was laughing so much.
“Don’t start with me Vegeta!” Bulma snapped back. “ I already got it from Yamcha. I don’t need it from you too.”
For one Vegeta ALMOST felt sorry for her but quickly brushed off the idea. He then went over and quickly made 5 sandwiches and a glass of milk. When he was done eating, he went back the gravity room to train some more.
Later that evening, Bulma decided to go for a walk around the neighbor hood to get her mind off things. Her parents were gone on a cruise, so she was just hoping Vegeta wouldn’t trash the house while she was gone.
Bulma was watching the sunset when clouds started rolling in. ‘I better start getting home’ Bulma thought hoping it wouldn’t start to rain.
When she was about ½ mile away from her house, the rain started pouring down. Soon thunder was crashing loudly and the lightning seemed to light up the whole sky.
“Perfect!” she said loudly in a sarcastic voice.
“What’s so perfect?” a familiar voice asked her as she came up the drive way to the door.
“Vegeta! What are you doing out here?” Bulma asked extremely shocked.
“After you decided to on your little walk, the electricity want out so the gravity machine wasn’t working. I then decided to go inside but you locked the door and I knew you would get mad at me if I broke any windows.”
“Sorry,” Bulma said and quickly opened the door.
Bulma and Vegeta were drenched from head to toe from the rain.
“Let me find a flashlight,” Bulma quickly said, soon realizing that it would be more difficult than she thought because the house was pitch dark. By the time she actually found a flashlight, she found out that it didn’t work.
“Damn it!!” she yelled out loud slapping the flashlight on her hand trying to get it to work. After figuring out that, that didn’t work she threw the flashlight to the ground and was trying to find the fireplace.
‘Thank Kame I have a gas fire place,’ Bulma thought to herself as she turned on the fire place.
When she turned around she wasn’t expecting to see Vegeta standing there looking at her.
“You should change out of your wet clothes,” Bulma said wondering why she was concerned about this bastard.
“I’ll be fine.”
“Then at least go warm up by the fire,” Bulma pleaded with puppy eyes trying to get him to listen to her for at least once in his life. After not getting an answer, she started her way back to her room to change.
When she got back down stairs, after falling down the stairs and bumping into the walls a few times, she went and laid down on the couch. She then decided that it wasn’t worth the pain and effort to go back upstairs into her room. She then noticed that Vegeta wasn’t there anymore.
“I swear that all that man does is eat, sleep, and train,” Bulma said not noticing how loudly she had actually said it. After about ten minutes she drifted off to sleep.
Bulma then suddenly woke up to a loud crash in the kitchen. On her way to go see what it was, she found out that Vegeta had woken up too.
“Somebody’s in the house!” Bulma said trying not to go into hysterics.
Vegeta then, self consciously, grabbed Bulma’s hand so that way they wouldn’t lose each other in the dark.
Bulma was quite surprised by his action, but followed him any ways because she wanted to find out who or what was in the house. When they got to the kitchen they saw a dark figure with black spiky hair looking in the refrigerator.
Vegeta was about to fire up a ki-blast when he felt a familiar ki
Part Two
"Hey guys! Sorry to wake ya," he said while pulling most of the food out of the refrigerator.
"Kakkorot! What the hell are you doing here?!" Vegeta said enraged for getting so worried over nothing.
"I'm sorry, but ChiChi got mad at me a kicked me out. She said I've been training too much and not spending anytime with her," Goku said puzzled hoping that, that was the reason.
"So I thought you guys wouldn't mind me staying here for the night, or at least until we straighten things out. I'm sorry I got you guys worried."
"It's okay Goku. Just tell us before you're going to stay over, okay?"
"K."
When Bulma turned around she found that Vegeta had already gone back to bed. "Goku, you can stay in my bed until you and ChiChi straighten things up," Bulma said then decided to go to her lab since she couldn't get back to sleep and the couch is very uncomfortable. Since the electricity came back on she thought that she could maybe get a few things done.
Bulma was soon trying to get some little gadget going when she found out that all she was doing was making it worse. She then decided to go on her computer and check her e-mail. She was then reading a long letter that her mother had sent her on their cruise. ( Hey, if they have capsules, why can't they have computers on ships?) She then slowly drifted off to sleep with her head on her key board even though it was her mouse pad that said BANG HEAD HERE.
The next morning Vegeta woke up and went to take a shower. When he finally got there, Goku was already in the shower. "Damn that Kakkorot," Vegeta said as he headed off for the kitchen.
When he reached the kitchen the only thought that was flowing through his mind was coffee, coffee, coffee.
"Damn it," he cursed as he found out that there was no coffee. Vegeta then started moping around the kitchen hoping that coffee would magically appear. When this approach didn't work, he started looking for the coffee grounds so that way he could make the coffee.
Part Three
Vegeta soon found the coffee grounds and was now looking for the filters. 'I've seen Bulma do this, so how hard could it be,' he though to himself as he put the filter into the coffee machine. Without knowing how much coffee ground to put into the filter, he put in as much as he could fit. He then poured in the water and flipped on the switch. 'That wasn't hard at all,' he thought proudly to himself.
When the coffee was done he quickly poured himself a cup. He then gulped it down and had the most horrified face on him as he could possibly ever had. He then quickly spit it out in the sink.
"Holy SHIT! That's strong," he said and then decided to give it another go.
This time he actually managed to swallow it and poured himself another cup. He soon drank the whole thing of coffee and was just about bouncing off the walls.
Bulma woke up to the commotion and ran to the kitchen.
"What the hell is going on?" Bulma asked when she got in the kitchen.
"Java. Java. Java. Java. Java," was the only thing that Vegeta said in return. "Cappaciono!"
"Vegeta, what are you on?" Bulma asked very confused at his behavior.
"Hey guys!" Goku said as he entered the kitchen hoping to get a bite to eat. "What's with him?"
"I don't know. I just walked in the kitchen and here he was," Bulma said as she tried to calm him down.
Goku then grabbed Vegeta's shoulder and walked him over to the couch. He pushed him down so that he would be sitting on the couch. Bulma followed them and also brought a glass of water.
"Vegeta! Snap out of it!" Goku said shaking him furousiaslly.
"Goku, you try and get him to calm down and I'll go make some coffee," Bulma said and walked back into the kitchen.
Goku had an idea to pour the glass of water that Bulma left there on Vegeta's head. After Goku did that, Vegeta was now just a soaking wet caffiene high sayain.
Bulma was now looking to see if there was any coffee but found out that Vegeta had used it all.
"Well, that explains it," she said as she walked back out to Goku and Vegeta. "Vegeta just used all the coffee and I think he drank it all, too."
"What are we supposed to do? I may have saved the world a few times, but I have never dealt with a caffiene high sayain."
"We have to wait until it wears off, I guess," Bulma said wondering how long this stuff would actually last. "Look, go make up with ChiChi. I'll stay here and watch him."
"What!? All he has to do is slap you across the face and you'll be out for 2 weeks!" Goku exclaimed.
"He wouldn't hurt me. I know he wouldn't. And if he wanted to, he knows that you're here and he knows that you'll kick his sorry little ass."
"Okay. I hope ChiChi will forgive me."
"If I know her, she will."
"Thanks Bulma, and see you later."
Bulma nodded her head and waved goodbye.
"Great. Now what am I supposed to do with you?" she asked him even though she new he wouldn't answer her.
About an hour later Vegeta started calming down and was in the gravity room training again. Bulma was just fixing up lunch since she knew Vegeta would be out soon because he missed breakfast. Bulma was about to put the noodles in the water when she heard a loud crash from the gravity room.
"Oh my God!" she said and quickly turned the burners off and ran to the gravity room except it wasn't there any more, somewhat speaking.
"Vegeta! Vegeta!" she called to him as she was digging through the rubble. When she found him he was out cold and injured badly. "Vegeta," she said quietly and moved a few rocks off of his legs and arms.
"I'll go get help!" she said and then ran inside and called Goku.
"Hello?" ChiChi said as she picked up the phone.
"Vegeta......blew up.........gravity machine......" Bulma said going into hysterics.
"Calm down," ChiChi said as she motioned Goku to come over to her.
"Vegeta, blew up the gravity machine....... And he is hurt real bad. I need help."
"We'll be over there as fast as we can." ChiChi then hung up the phone.
"Goku! We have to go to Bulma's place because Vegeta blew up the gravity macine and is hurt real bad."
"OK!" Goku said and lifted ChiChi up and flew over to Capsule Corp.
"I was thinking we could use the car?" ChiChi said.
"This ways faster."
When they got there they saw Bulma sitting next to Vegeta trying to get him to wake up and almost in tears. Goku then walked over and picked up Vegeta and brought him inside and put him in his room.
When everybody got there, Bulma was starting to tend to his wounds.
"So, it looks like you and ChiChi got back together," Bulma said to Goku.
"Yep."
"Well that's good."
When Bulma was done wrapping up Vegeta's leg and his other wounds she told Goku and ChiChi that they could leave because she was going to watch Vegeta and make sure that he will stay in bed when he wakes up.
"Bulma, we'll stay here until he wakes up and don't worry about us we know our way through the house, and we also know that he is not the only one who needs taking care of," ChiChi said and left the room.
Part Four
Bulma was sitting in a chair next to Vegeta waiting for him to get up. While sitting there, she got very bored and started counting all the little pictures on the wallpaper. When she was about on number 5673 ChiChi came walking in the room.
" Hey Bulma," she said as she walked in the door.
" Huh?" Bulma said startled." You made me lose count!"
" Jeez, so sorry. I was just trying to be a friend and bring you lunch."
" I'm sorry. I was just so board sitting here and waiting for Blockhead here to wake up."
" Maybe the smell of food will wake him up?"
" Maybe. Let's see if it works."
ChiChi handed a piece of a sandwich to Bulma. Bulma took the piece of sandwich and held it right in front of Vegeta's nose. Vegeta then slapped the piece of bread out of Bulma's hand turned on his side and said " But blue is much prettier than red." (Vegeta was still asleep doing all of this, in case you don't know.)
" Well that worked," Bulma said and was now rubbing her hand of where he hit her.
" I'll be down stairs, just tell me when he wakes up, okay?" ChiChi said and was heading toward the door.
" Alrighty then."
Later that night Bulma had decided to read a book and hoping that Vegeta would wake up. She then heard footsteps coming up the stairs.
" Bulma?"ChiChi said quietly in case she was asleep.
" Yes?"
" Goku and I are leaving now because Gohan called and was wondering where we were. Will you be okay by yourself?"
" I'll be just fine.
" You sure?"
" Positive."
" Alright then. See ya later Bulma."
" Bye ChiChi."
Bulma then waved to her dear friend and got back to reading. She had only read about 15 minutes when she drifted off to sleep.
Where am I? was the only thought going through Vegeta's mind when he woke up. He tried to get up but found that it was too painful to even move his fingers. He groaned loudly and plopped his head in his pillow. He then glance over to his right to see Bulma sitting in a chair fast asleep. Okay. I'm going to make it out of here for once and for all, and with that he sat up in bed and placed his feet on the floor. Vegeta was grinding his teeth trying not to yell in pain.
" Vegeta? What are you doing up?" Bulma sleepily said as she stretched and got up from her seat. " You need to stay in bed if you want to get better."
" I'm the prince of sayains..."
" I don't care if you're prince of the universe, you're staying in bed."
" No I'm not."
" Yes you are."
" No! I'm not!"
" Yes! You are!
" Not!"
" Are!"
" Not!"
" Are!"
" Not times a hundred!"
" Are times a thousand!"
"Not times a million!"
" Are times infinity! You can't go higher than that so don't try." Bulma then went over to push him back down even though she knew he wouldn't go. But to her surprise he went without any fuss, only a " Hmph!"
" Vegeta I was worried about you today. You could have gotten yourself killed."
" I wish I had," Vegeta mumbled to himself.
" What did you say!"
" Nothing!"
" Fine then! If you don't appreciate what I've done for you then get out! Go kill yourself out there!" Bulma said starting to get into hysterics and trying not to burst out into tears because she really cared for him.
Vegeta just sat and stared at her blankly.
" I thought you were going to leave! You obviously don't care enough about anything that I do for you!"
Bulma then ran out of his room and into her room. She sat on her bed and started sobbing on her pillow. What does he take me for? His servant? He is such a bastard! Bulma said and tried to go to sleep for the little bit of night that was left.
When she got up the next morning she new it was going to be the old routine: she gets up, makes breakfast for Vegeta and herself, and then Vegeta would go out and train some more. What a life, she said to herself as she pulled herself out of bed. She then was walking to the bathroom to take a shower first. When she walked by Vegeta's room, she noticed that he wasn't there. For once, he listened to me, she thought in her head. Bulma then went and took her shower.
When she was done she went down stairs to get her cup of coffee. After drinking her coffee she went and called ChiChi to tell her that Vegeta had run off somewhere. Maybe I should go do something with Yamcha. He seems to appreciate me.
" Hello?" Yamcha said as he answered the phone.
" Hey Yamcha! What are you doing today?"
" Well actually I'm kind of busy.
" Who is it Yamcha?" a girl that was with Yamcha.
" Yamcha!?" Bulma screamed and quickly hung up the phone.
" Bulma! It's......" he was cut off when he heard her hang up the phone. " Oh well." Yamcha said and got back to what he was doing.
Bulma by now was sobbing on the floor wondering if her life could get any worse. She then thought of how Yamcha and Vegeta had both treated her and ran up into her fifth part up ASAP. room and locked the door.
Part Five
" Bulma! Bulma! BULMA!!" ChiChi was at the front door yelling for Bulma.
" Goku! You said that she was here!"
" She is! I can feel her presence!"
" Bulma, if you don't open this door I'm knocking it down."
" Why are you so worried about her?"Goku asked with a questioned look on his face.
" She told me to call her back and I did, in fact 13 times! Some things wrong. If she was home she wouldn't be neglecting the phone this much!" ChiChi was now hoping that Goku understood but he just stood there with a clueless face. " Never mind!"
" Alright Bulma! The door is going down!"
ChiChi yelled and then used one of her kicks and knocked down the door.
She ran inside hoping to see Bulma but when she saw nothing she ran to Bulma's lab.
" Goku, do you know where she is?" ChiChi asked while walking back out into the living room. " Oh! She's probably in Vegeta's room." ChiChi exclaimed excitedly.
" I don't know about that. I don't feel Vegeta's ki.” Goku said starting to wonder what was going on. " I think she might be in her room."
Goku then started heading up the stairs to her room, and ChiChi followed him. Goku stopped when he reached Vegeta's room.
" I wonder where Vegeta went? He's not here." Goku then walked on to Bulma's room.
When they reached her room, ChiChi discovered that the door was locked.
" Bulma? Are you in there?" ChiChi calmly asked.
~silence~
" This is ChiChi, please answer me."
" Bulma, do you know where Vegeta went?"Goku simply asked.
~silence~
" Bulma, why don't you answer us?"
" Bulma, please answer us?"
This had gone on for about fifteen minutes, when Bulma finally decided to emerge.
" Bulma!" ChiChi exclaimed but when she saw Bulma's puffy red eyes she knew why she didn't want to come out. " Bulma? What's the matter?"
" Vegeta left so if you want to spar with him Goku, you're going to have to look for him." Bulma stated with out any expression.
" Where did he go? He's not healed yet."
" That ungrateful bastard. He wouldn't care if he killed himself, he just wants to be better than you."
" So, he left?"
Bulma just nodded her head. She walked out of her bedroom and headed down the stairs to the living room. Goku and ChiChi followed her to the living room. They all sat down in the living room and started talking again.
" Vegeta can't survive out there on his own, in the condition he is." Goku pointed out to Bulma.
" I know, it was my fault. I kicked him out."
" You kicked him out?" ChiChi said surprised that Bulma would do something like that.
" I know it was stupid, but he...."
" Bulma, there are no buts about it, you did what you did and that's it. Now we have to find him before he kills himself," Goku said in a very serious tone.
" Okay. I just don't think I'll be able to face him."
" I'm sure you can," ChiChi assured her and put her arm around Bulma's shoulder. All three of them walked to the front door to decide how they were going to find him.
" ChiChi and I can take my hover car, and Goku, you can fly."
Bulma explained and started digging in her pocket for the capsule with the hover car in it. " Oh, Goku, take this." She handed him a little radio looking device. " If you find him, you can call me on this."
" Okay."
They went their separate ways and started their search for Vegeta. Goku was trying to find his ki, but was having no luck.
" He must of gone somewhere pretty far if I can't feel hi ki," Goku thought in his head.
Bulma and ChiChi weren't having much luck either.
" This is going to be like finding a needle in a haystack," Bulma stated.
" I wonder if Goku is having better luck?" ChiChi pondered out loud.
" You can call him on the radio thingy."
" Naw, if he found him he would tell us."
After about an hour of searching Goku started to pick up something. " Hey! Is that Vegeta?!" Goku excitedly said out loud. He then stopped in his flight and was trying to get the radio thingy to work.
" Hello? Hello?" Goku said hysterically.
" Goku? It's me, ChiChi, did you find him?"
" I think so, I'm kind of......."
" Don't worry, Bulma is picking you up now on the radar. We'll be there in a second."
Part Six
" ChiChi, hold on tight and buckle your seat belt."
" Oh, Kame. And I thought I was a crazy driver. Any ways, where is Goku."
" Goku is about five miles that way." Bulma said and pointed to the forest.
Bulma then, put the hover car into gear and pushed the pedal to the medal. Why am I doing this? she pondered to herself. All Vegeta is going to do is eat, sleep, and train again, and not appreciate anything that I'm doing for him.
They started to slow down when they approached the area that they picked up Goku on the radar.
" OVER HERE!!" Goku yelled and started waving his hands frantically in the air.
" There he is!" ChiChi said pointing to him.
Bulma then flew the car over to where he was.
" Did you find him?" Bulma questioned Goku with a worried look on her face.
" Yeah, but it doesn't look good." Goku then pointed to where Vegeta's lifeless body laid on the ground. Bulma remained speechless and zipped the car to the ground. She then ran over to him and was looking for any signs of life.
" He's still breathing, but very weak," she exclaimed to Goku and ChiChi as they walked over.
" Come on, let's get him to a doctor." Goku said knowing that they could at least help.
" I never should have told him to leave."
Bulma started to cry as Goku lifted up his body and put it into the car. All four of them were piled in the hover car and were well on there way to the hospital. ChiChi was driving, Goku was in the passenger's seat, and Bulma was in the back with Vegeta.
" Don't die on me Vegeta. Please don't die on me." Bulma said and had started to try and get him to wake up.
Vegeta started stirring a little bit but hadn't woken up.
" How's he doing back there?" ChiChi asked them while looking into the review mirror.
I think he's starting to wake up.
Vegeta started to stir a little more and slowly opened his eyes.
" Where the hell am I?" was the first thing that came out of his mouth.
" Vegeta! You're going to be alright." Bulma said and then hugged him.
" AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" Vegeta screamed in pain from Bulma.
" Sorry, sorry. So sorry," Bulma apologized and let go of him.
" I can't move." Vegeta said very blankly.
" Vegeta, what happened out there?" Bulma asked looking straight into his eyes.
" Nothing, happened." He responded and felt an extremely weird feeling go through his whole body.
" We're taking you to the hospital so you can get checked out. I think both of your legs are broken."
" You think? I know they're broken!" Vegeta said and moaned in pain.
Meanwhile, in the front of the car Goku and ChiChi were having their own conversation.
" I think something is going on between those two," ChiChi whispered so that way only Goku could here what she said.
" You think?" Goku said with a puzzled look on his face. Goku then turned around and looked at the two in the back seat. " I think you might be right." Goku said and then looked back up front.
" How much further away is the hospital ChiChi?"
" Why are you all of a sudden wanting to go to the doctors. I thought you hated them?"
" I do. I just want to know how much time I have to run."
" Ha. Ha." ChiChi laughed sarcastically." Since you were curious, the hospital is right there."
About a minute later they had pulled up into the emergency entrance of the hospital. Bulma jumped out and rushed inside.
" There's an injured man outside who needs immediate assistance." Bulma was trying not to go into hysterics but it was too late.
She ran outside with a few of the doctors and they lifted Vegeta into a stretcher.
" Okay Vegeta, you have got to work with us here. If you want to get better you're going to have to cooperate, okay?"
" I'm not disagreeing."
" Are you his wife?" a doctor asked Bulma.
" No. I'm just a friend." Bulma said but in her mind she was saying Oh how much I wish I was. She lost that idea very fast when she thought about what life would be like if she lived with him forever.
" Come on let's get him into the ER." a doctor said and on the count of three they lifted him up and took him to the ER.
Bulma was on one side of the stretcher following the Vegeta into the ER.
" Vegeta! Are you still there? Hang on!" Bulma was now really starting to panic.
The last thing Vegeta before he passed out saw was Bulma walking along the stretcher.
" Ma'am. Could you please wait in the waiting room? Don't worry, he's in good hands." a nurse told her and escorted her to the waiting room.
When Bulma got there she saw Goku and ChiChi sitting in the chairs.
" Bulma!" ChiChi got up and walked over to her." So, have you heard anything yet?"
" No. Last time I saw him he had passed out again."
" Bulma, don't worry about it, he'll be just fine."
" It was my fault. I'll never forgive myself!" Bulma said, breaking down in tears.
" No it wasn't. If he knew you well enough, he would have known that you were just mad and that you would forget it about later." ChiChi hugged her dear friend trying to comfort her a little bit. She led her to the chairs so that way she could at least sit down and get a little bit more comfortable, cause she knew that they could be here for a while.
About two hours later a doctor came out to tell them about Vegeta.
" So is he okay?" Bulma asked. As she stood up she wiped the tears off of her cheeks.
" I think he'll be fine. He just needs some time to recuperate."
" Can we see him?"
" He can have one visitor for right now."
" Go ahead Bulma, I don't have anything important to say to him. Any ways I think he would only get mad at me for seeing him so out of shape." Goku said and stood up.
" We'll come visit him tomorrow," ChiChi said and took Goku's hand to help her up. " See ya later Bulma."
" Yeah, and tell Vegeta I said hi." Goku added.
" See ya guys later," Bulma said and waved to them as she exited the room to see Vegeta.
" Is he even conscious yet?" Bulma asked the nurse.
" No." she replied." He's in there, visiting time is over at 11:00 p.m."
" Okay."
Bulma then walked into the room the nurse had told her to go in. When she got in, she was happy to see that nobody but Vegeta was there. She walked over to the side of his bed and sat in the chair. Ever so carefully, she picked up his hand and put it into hers.
" I'm so sorry." was the only thing that she was able to say. She stayed by his side for most of the night.
" Ma'am? You have twenty minutes until visiting hours are over." a nurse told her .
" Okay." Bulma answered.
Bulma sat by his side for about another 15 minutes. She was standing up and getting ready to leave, when she did something that she would never dream of doing. She bent over the bed and gave Vegeta a small kiss on the lips. She was quite startled when he kissed her back. The two had felt something that they had never felt before.
" Excuse me, Ma'am," the nurse said as she walked in. Bulma jumped the fastest that she had ever in her life.
" Oh! Excuse me! I'll give you a few more minutes alone."
" How long have you been awake?" Bulma asked Vegeta as she started to calm down again.
" Only about twenty minutes."
" Only?"
" What happened?" Vegeta asked and was trying to sit up.
" Don't sit up!" Bulma exclaimed and pushed him back down.
" Don't tell me what to do!"
" Vegeta, you're hurt. Please stay in bed until you're healed." Bulma gave him a very sad look, cause she was really worried about him.
" Hmph." was the only answer that she got from him.
" Well, I've got to go." Bulma told him and was getting ready to go.
When she was about to leave, she walked over to Vegeta one more time. She bent over again and gave him another kiss on the lips, except with more passion this time.
Vegeta, for once in life, was happy about what was going on. When they finally parted, Bulma just stood up with a great big smile on her face.
" See ya tomorrow," she said and patted his hand.
" See ya," he said, and actually had a calm smile on his face, not his usual smirk.
Bulma grabbed her jacket and left out the door.
" Things are really going to change between us," she thought to herself. " Now, if only I can get out of here?"
Part Seven
The next day, Bulma was trying to get a hold of ChiChi and Goku so that way they could go see Vegeta.
" Come on ChiChi, pick up. Pick UP!" she said anxiously, she really wanted to see Vegeta again.
" Hello?" ChiChi answered the phone wearily.
" ChiChi! Hi! I was going to go see Vegeta at 10:00. You want to come?" ChiChi looked at the clock to see what time it was. " Bulma, it's 6:00 o'clock in the morning, go back to bed."
" I can't sleep. So, are you coming or not?"
" Okay, we'll go."
" Great! I'll come pick you guys up then, okay?" Bulma was getting very anxious now.
" Okay."
" Bye!"
" Bye?!"
ChiChi slowly hung up the phone and decided to get up because this was about the time she got up anyway. She was really, HAPPY, today, she thought as she was going into the kitchen to make breakfast.
After about an hour of cooking, ChiChi decided to get the family up. " BREAKFAST!!!" she yelled at the top of her lungs. The only thing you could here now was the thundering of footsteps heading for the kitchen. Goku and Gohan soon found there way to the table and started wolfing down the food.
" Goku, we're going to go see Vegeta today. If that's alright with you."
" That's, ~chew, chew, chew~ Just fine."
" You've got about 15 minutes to get ready so you better hurry up." ChiChi stated and then went back to her room to get ready.
" I'll take the hover car," Bulma thought to herself and was soon on her way to pick ChiChi and Goku." I wonder if Vegeta will be happy to see me? I hope so!" Bulma was just so excited.
About 10 minutes later, she reached the Son household. She didn't bother to get out of the car cause she knew all she had to do was honk the horn.~beep, beeeeeeep~ Bulma honked the horn and patiently waited for them to emerge from their house." Gohan, you'll be fine by yourself , right?" ChiChi asked him in her worried mother routine.
" I'll be fine!> Gohan said by accidently raising his voice to his mother. ChiChi shot him a ~you better watch it~ glare and then went to find Goku.
" Goku! Bulma is here! Are you ready?" she yelled through the house, then waited for an answer.
" I'm right here."
Goku started rubbing his ears, because they hurt of ChiChi's yelling." You didn't have to yell, I was right behind you."
" I'm sorry Goku. C`mon, let's not keep Bulma waiting." The two of them then walked out of the house to meet Bulma.
" Hey Bulma!" ChiChi greeted as she jumped into the front seat.
" Why do I always have to ride in back," Goku started whining.
" Because me and Bulma like to have our conversation, and you're never interested in them,"
" Hmph," was the only reply that she got from him.
" So, did Vegeta ever wake up last night?" ChiChi asked trying to start conversation.
" Yeah, he did actually."
" Well that's good." ChiChi replyed.
All the way to the hospital, ChiChi and Bulma did have a conversation going, mostly about the life of a housewife. On the way there Goku had fallen asleep because he got board of listening to the women talk.
" Here we are," Bulma said and got out of the car.
" Goku, honey. Time to get up," ChiChi said and gave him a kiss on the cheek. ~yawn~
" Are we there yet?" Goku tiredly said and stretched out his arms and legs as much as he could in the car.
" C'mon Goku we gotta go catch up with Bulma." ChiChi then gave him her hand and tried to help him up. Except the only thing that happened is that Goku pulled her down and they both fell back into the car. They both started to laugh and tried to get up again.
Bulma stopped at the entrance of the hospital to wait for the two.
" You two, coming?" she yelled to them as they started getting up.
" We're coming!" she said laughing and finally got up with Goku. They walked over to where Bulma was and then all three of them walked in side. Bulma walked up to the counter to find out if Vegeta was still in the same room.
" Excuse me, but do you know where I can find Vegeta?" Bulma asked the secretary at the desk.
" Last name?" the secretary asked typing his name in the computer.
" No last name."
" Okay. He's in room number 315. Enjoy your visit," the secretary said with a wide grin across her face.
" Thank you." They walked down the hall trying to find room 315.
" I think we have to go up two floors." Bulma said remembering where he was last night. They then entered the elevator and went up two floors. They walked down the hallway a little bit and then found room 315.
" Here he is." Bulma said trying not to sound too excited.
" What the hell is that shit? Don't shove that stuff down my throat!!" Vegeta started roaring at the nurse.
" Sir, you need to eat it." the nurse said calmy.
" Like hell I need to eat! But I'm not eating that shit, it's even worse than Bulma's cooking. In fact I would love to have that woman's cooking right now."
" Are visitors allowed in now?" Bulma asked while popping her head in the door.
" If you can get him to eat." the nurse said and then walked over to where Bulma and them were.
" I'm not eating that shit," Vegeta said coldly. He was now at least feeling good enough to be able to sit up in bed on his own. The nurse walked out of the room to let them have some privacy.
" Come on Vegeta, it can't be that bad." she assured him and then went over to look at the food. She gave it one look and placed it down." Never mind."
Vegeta was just sitting there with an ~I told you so ~ look on his face.
" So, how ya feeling today," Bulma asked and sat down on the bed next to him. (The bed had no rails on it and Vegeta was sitting up with his legs and arms crossed, in case anybody was wondering how that was possible. ;)
" I was feeling fine until you guys came in."
" I knew you weren't going to like the hospital food, so I brought some food I thought you might like. It's healthy, but it tastes a lot better than the crap that they give you here." ChiChi told him and reached in her bag and took out some food. After ChiChi pulled out the food, Vegeta's eyes lit up. ChiChi handed the food to him and it wasn't around for much longer. " I knew you would like it."
" ChiChi!?" Goku started whining and looked like on the verge of tears.
" Goku. We can go to the snack bar later." ChiChi told him and that made him shut up pretty quick.
" How long so I have to stay in these bandages?" Vegeta questioned Bulma.
" How ever long the doctors say you have to stay in them."
They were all talking when a doctor walked in through the door.
" Hello, my name is Doctor Carter, I just came in to see how Vegeta was doing." the doctor said and walked over to Vegeta.
" We'll have to do another blood test also."
" No! I don't want any more needles stuck in me!" Vegeta started complaining to the doctor.
" NEEDLES!" Goku yelled and was out of the room faster than you can Kami.
" Goku! You're not getting stuck with any needles! COME BACK!!!!!" ChiChi yelled and then tried to follow him.
" Well any ways, let's get on with it," Dr.Carter said excitedly and pulled out the long needle.
" God damn it," Vegeta mumbled to himself.
The doctor drew some blood and took it with him to examine.
" Once we get the results back, you can go home," Dr. Carter said and then slipped out of the room.
" See, you get to go home in no time at all," Bulma said and scooted a little closer to him on the bed.
" You mean I have to go home and see your ugly face again, and eat your terrible cooking?" Vegeta complained.
" Guess so." Bulma said and gave him a kiss on the cheek." Look, I'm going to see if I can find ChiChi and Goku." Vegeta only nodded his head in agreement.
" I'll be back soon."
" I hope so, I know those nurses are going to come back in here and try to shove that crap down my throat again.
Bulma just smiled and walked out the door to look for Goku and ChiChi. After about a half and hour of searching, she finally found them in the snack bar.
" Were you guys here the whole time?" Bulma asked when she got over to them."
" NO! First, he was running around the whole building like a mad man, then he went outside and sat on top of a light pole." ChiChi started explaining.
" How did you get him down?"
" Told him that I was going to the snack bar without him and that I wouldn't cook for 2 weeks." ChiChi said with a big smile across her face.
" Vegeta might be able to come home today."
" Really?"she said with a little sarcasm in her face.
" Just so he can beat himself up again."
" Maybe, maybe not. He might of learned his lesson."
" Bulma? Do you CARE about him?" ChiChi said astonished.
" Who? Me? NO." Bulma said instantaniously.
" Uh huh, sure. I believe you."
" Well you should. How could I like that selfish bastard ?"
" It was just an idea," ChiChi said sheeplishly.
" Goku, c'mon. You came here to visit Vegeta not pork out all day. Bulma? Aren't you coming?"
" Yeah, just let me get a bite to eat real quickly."
She went up to the counter and grabbed a cinnamin roll with a two cups of coffee. The three of them headed back up to Vegeta's room.
When they got there, Vegeta had already started to pack.
" Vegeta?" Bulma questioned and walked over to him. " What are you doing?"
" Going home." he said with his usual rude and obscure voice." The doctor came in and told me that I looked fine and that I needed rest. So he said I could go."
" Well then, do you need any help?"
Bulma was peering over his shoulder trying to see what he was packing. When she noticed that he was only packing clothes, she turned around and went to grab his cruches.
" You'll be needing these," she said as she picked them up.
" Why would you say that?"
"Vegeta! Your leg is broken. How are expecting to get around?"
Vegeta then hopped over on one foot and grabbed the cruches away from her. He then placed them under his arms like he was supposed to and walked out the door.
Vegeta! Let me take your bag for you!" she yelled as she ran out the door after him.
Meanwhile...
Goku and ChiChi were on there way down to the car, hoping that Vegeta and Bulma were already there.
" They would make a very interesting couple, now wouldn't they," ChiChi commented to Goku.
" Well I'm glad to see that Vegeta is adjusting to this earth style of living."
Goku and ChiChi finally made it to the car and what they saw was something you would have to see to believe. Bulma was trying to get Vegeta to sit down in the back of the car.
" Vegeta! Just sit down."
" No! I'm not sitting by Kakkorot."
" Vegeta! SIT!"
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" No."
"Yes!"
" NO!"
"YES!!"
" NO times a hundred."
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" Don't start that again!"
" Bulma just let him sit up front. I know he would start a fight if you don't." ChiChi stated.
Bulma sat down in the drivers seat, and everybody else just piled in. Vegeta was sitting up front, and Goku and ChiChi were in the back.
" Do you two want to stay over for dinner?> Bulma asked while looking into the rearview mirror.
" No thanks Bulma, we're kind of busy tonight."
"Ok. That's fine."
The drive home was a long 2 hours. By the time they had reached the Son house, Vegeta was asleep, and snoring.
" What the?" he said as they parked the car in their driveway.
" See ya guys," Bulma said as she waved to them." Alright Vegeta we can go home now."
When they got home, Bulma helped Vegeta get up the few stairs to the door. After Bulma unlocked the door, the two went inside.
" I'll go make dinner," Bulma told Vegeta and then walked to the kitchen.
" Wait!" Vegeta said and then grabbed her hand and swung her around to face him. (Note: he is still on crutches so this was very difficult for him to do.)
" I'm sorry for the way I treated you earlier," he said in a very low voice. He then kissed her on the lips and held her tight in his arms. He was quite surprised when she returned the kiss and wrapped her arms around his neck.
The two had finally made some sort of piece that night. From then on, they would never have thought of each other as they had done before. I can't say they never got in another fight though.
The End, or just the beginning?