Part 7
The next day Tomarotto
debated on whether or not to tell his beloved, Pan
that her father had an affair with her uncle's wife. Pan, the love of
his life. The woman he wanted to take as his mate. She was the only
brightness on this Kami-forsaken planet he'd found since he'd been wished
back by Prince Vegeta. He loved her so much, but knew that if she
discovered Gohan's secret it would crush her. How would she react when she found
out that he had known and not told her? Gohan had told him not to go to the
Saiyan Prince with this revelation, but Vegeta was the only one
Tomarotto could think of to talk to. After all, Vegeta was the only other
full-Saiyan on the planet. Tomarotto took off for Capsule Corp to find
Vegeta and tell him what he had been hiding for so long.
Vegeta's head snapped up as he finished eating breakfast. "Vegeta, what
is wrong?" Bulma asked as she noticed his sudden movement.
"Tomarotto's on his way here."
"Good, I'll set another place then," she smiled as she kissed his
cheek.
He shooed her away, not wanting the Saiyan warrior seeing the Prince's mate
fawn over him so. A knock came at the door, and Vegeta arose to answer it.
Tomarotto bowed to the Prince and apologized for disturbing his early
morning meal.
"It's alright, Tomarotto. What is it that you need?"
"Prince Vegeta, I have to talk to you about a matter. It is of the utmost
importance."
"Very well then," Vegeta was just about to tell him they could talk in
the gardens when Bulma came up from behind him.
"Good morning, Toma-san!!! Come in, have breakfast with us!"
"Woman, be quiet! He is here on important business." Bulma ignored him
and dragged Tomarotto into the house to the breakfast table. "Why is it
that you have to stick your nose into my business?"
"Would you like some eggs, Toma-san?" She offered.
"Arigatou, Bulma-sama," he said as she laid a plate full of scrambled
eggs before him.
"Are you even listening to me, you baka Human?"
"I have some toast as well," she smiled to the Saiyan warrior.
"That would be great," he said as he looked at Vegeta in bewilderment.
"Bulma!! Have you heard a word I have said?" The Prince asked getting
angry.
"Yes, of course I have Vegeta-chan. You think I'm ignoring you, and
you're right," she smiled sweetly. "Toma-san is a guest, and we should
treat him accordingly." Vegeta's blood began to boil, and Tomarotto could
feel him going Super Saiyan.
"Bulma-sama?" He asked. Bulma looked up from the toaster and saw the
Vegeta was getting riled. She simply walked over to the Prince as the
golden aura was enveloping him and lightly rubbed the nape of his neck.
The contact with her caused him to drop out of Super Saiyan and return to
normal.
"Now, see, was that all that important to get so upset over?" She
whispered into his ear before taking the lobe between her teeth. Tomarotto
had turned his head away, not daring to catch the exchange between Bulma
and Vegeta. Vegeta., too, noticed this and didn't feel as embarrassed as
he would've been had the Saiyan warrior seen how Bulma calmed him down.
"Fine, Tomarotto, eat!! I will be out in the gardens when you are
finished. Don't keep me waiting!" He growled as he flew out the kitchen
window.
"He's such a grouch sometimes," Bulma offered an explanation.
"Just
thank Kami you don't have to live with him," she laughed.
"Yeah," he said before gobbling down the food. He could remember how
much of a spoiled brat the Prince was when he was a child and how things
hadn't really changed. Vegeta was somewhat softer than he was back then.
'I guess that's what living with Humans will do for you,' he thought as he
watched Bulma pour him a cup of coffee.
"Now, how are you and Pan? Any wedding bells yet?" He spat out his
eggs
as she placed the cup of coffee to his left. "Toma-san, I'm sorry. I
didn't mean to . . ."
"It's alright, Princess. It's just that . . . Saiyans don't marry."
"Believe me, I know," she said. She was still a little uncomfortable
with his calling her 'Princess,' but afterall she was the mate of the last
Prince of Saiyans.
"So, you and Prince Vegeta, have never married?"
"No, we haven't. I guess I don't need a wedding ring to tell me that he
loves me. He's stayed with me, fathered two children with me, if he was
going to leave he would've right after Trunks was born."
"He cares about you a great deal. I can tell."
"You can?! Could you tell me how you do that?" She winked at him.
Tomarrotto excused himself from the table after he had finished the
breakfast Bulma had forced him to eat and found Vegeta standing in the
middle of the gardens. "Took you long enough, Tomarotto!" He barked.
"Gomen nasai, Oji-sama. You know how the Princess is," he bowed.
"Yes, I do," he winced as he remembered how Bulma had calmed him from
the fit he almost threw.
"I have to tell you something. It is my duty as a Saiyan soldier."
"Yes," Vegeta said as he turned to face him.
"Your daughter, Princess Bra, is bonded to the eldest son of Kakarrot."
"I knew it! I knew it!!! I knew that she loved Gohan-- not Goten!" He
spat.
"That's not all, Oji-sama," Tomarotto said nervously.
"It isn't? You mean you bear more horrible news?!"
"Yes, the child that Princess Bra is carrying is very likely to be
Gohan's."
"So, my suspicious were correct. She is bonded to him if she's pregnant.
I've known for sometime now that she and Goten couldn't be bonded. You
know how fertile Saiyans are," he stated. Tomarotto almost blushed at that
thought. He remembered that he and Pan had never been intimate with one
another; Gohan had caught them before they could consummate their
relationship. After that incident, he wanted to wait until he had claimed
her as his own before he mated with her.
"I spoke with Gohan about this."
"You did?! What did he say?"
"He loves Bra."
"But how can he? I mean, aren't Humans supposed to care about their
siblings?!"
"Yes, but he is half-Saiyan, my Prince."
"Still, he is Kakarrot's son-- the Saiyan who grew up Human. This is most
bizarre!"
"Hai, it is," he agreed thinking of how akward it was to be around Pan
knowing her father was having an affair with the Saiyan Prince's daughter.
"I will not let him ruin Bra's life. She has chosen Goten for a mate, and
that's the choice she's going to stick with!" The Saiyan Prince fumed and
took off for the skies.
"Where are you going, Oji-sama!"
"To Gohan's house!!" Vegeta bellowed back down to him.
"Tousan, I'm going off to find Tomarotto!" Pan yelled up to her father
who hadn't even gotten out of bed yet.
"Okay, Panny. See you later!" He shouted sleepily. Pan sighed at the
fact that her father was still in bed at ten-thirty am-- something that
wouldn't be happening had her mother never left. She ran to the porch and
leaped off into the air in search of her boyfriend who had been very
distant toward her lately. 'What could be wrong with him? Am I pushing
him too far? He is a Saiyan, after all. Maybe he thinks I want too much
of a commitment from him?' She thought as she soared high into the sky
getting lost in the billowy, soft clouds.
Gohan snapped out of his deep slumber when he felt an all too familiar Ki
heading toward him; it was Vegeta. "I bet Tomarotto's told him. Well, I
knew I'd have to face old Vegetable head one day-- might as well be today,"
He quickly pulled on some jeans and a t-shirt and headed downstairs to
the front porch. When he stepped foot on the porch, he saw Vegeta standing
out in the yard looking like he could kill him.
"Good morning, Vegeta-sama!" He called to the Saiyan Prince.
"I'm not here for a social call, brat!"
"Then what are you here for?"
"You know what I'm here for-- so don't act like you don't! You've
poisoned my daughter's marriage!" He spat.
"Vegeta-sama, let me explain something to you. I love Bra; I have no
intentions of breaking her and Goten's marriage up."
"Really?" Vegeta began to walk toward him. "Is that why you
impregnated
her? So that you wouldn't break up their marriage?!" Uh-oh, the cat was
out of the bag. Gohan knew just who'd let the string loose-- Tomarotto.
"Listen, I never meant for that to happen. If Videl--"
"Aha! Videl! That insepid Human you were married to; are you going to
blame all this on her?"
"I was just going to say that had she not left . . ."
"You never would've taken an interest in Bra?"
"Now see here! I love your daughter! I only have her best interest at
heart!" Gohan began to power up.
"If you had her best interests in mind; you never would have slept with
her!" He screamed.
"So, I see that Pan's boyfriend has told you."
"Yes, he's a very loyal warrior. Of course he would've told me! Are you
two going to tell Goten?"
"Never! We would never crush him like that."
"Haven't you already done that?! I don't understand what my daughter
could've been thinking! Just because he doesn't know that his brother
slept with his wife, doesn't mean that you haven't already crushed him!"
"Well, oh great one, what do you suggest we do?!" Gohan said getting
angrier and angrier.
"I suggest that you stop seeing my daughter behind her husband's back-- if
you know what's good for you!"
"Is that a threat, Vegeta?!"
"Yes, it is. I am the Prince of Saiyans, and you are a half-Saiyan."
"So?"
"You will do as I say!"
"You're not my father," Gohan said as he turned to go back inside the
house. He had heard enough from the Prince of Saiyans for today.
"If your father were here; you would not be acting like a dog in
heat!"
He barked then turned to fly off from Gohan's home.
"What did you say?!" Gohan growled low in his throat. He felt his
power
slipping much like it did during the Cell Games. Vegeta stopped dead in
his tracks as he felt the younger demi-Saiyan's power level skyrocket.
"Gohan!" Vegeta exclaimed.
"What do you know about my father?! What do you know about love?! You
never loved anyone in your life-- not even Bulma and your children!!"
Gohan screamed as he started to transform into a Super Saiyan. Vegeta
responded in kind. There was no way Kakarrot's eldest was going to best
him on this day.
"I do know this, brat-- you will leave my daughter alone or--" Vegeta
got
out before Gohan charged and punched him harder than Cell or Majin Buu ever did.
The Saiyan Prince fell to his knees gasping for air. "Fine then, if
it's a fight you want, little brother," Vegeta sounding much like he did
on Namek before cheap-shotting Gohan, "then it is a fight you shall
have."
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