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A Mild Wind



            Chapter Three: Pizza Night



            Vegeta finished with his training early because he couldn't stop thinking of what happened. He went to his room to take a long, hot shower. Vegeta stood in the shower thinking. "Why was she staring at me like that?" he thought. "She hates me and I hate her. It's just the way things have always been. Hell, it's the one thing we do agree on!" Vegeta stepped out of the shower. "She couldn't possibly love me. Not with that idiot boyfriend of hers, Yamcha, always running around." This reassured Vegeta, and he began to walk down the hall to his room, not knowing the incident that happened earlier with her and Yamcha.


            Bulma sat in her room while talking on the phone. She had ordered five pizzas for dinner since she didn't feel like cooking. Two of them were for her and her parents, who would be home in an hour, and three were for Vegeta. Just then, the doorbell monitor rang. "That must be the pizza," Bulma said to herself as she walked to her desk. She turned on the monitor. Sure enough, the pizza man stood impatiently at the door.


            Bulma dashed out her door to the stairway (she was on the third floor and had to get to the door before the pizza guy figured no one was home.) As she tore down the hall, she turned around, still running, to aim a remote at her door to lock it. Unfortunately, before she turned the right way again, she ran into what felt like a steel wall. There stood Vegeta, still in nothing but a towel.


            "Where the hell are you going in such a hurry?" he snapped.


            Bulma said nothing. Once again, the sight of Vegeta's nearly naked body overwhelmed her, and all she could do was stare.


            "Hello? I said where are you going? Woman! What are you looking at? Answer me!" yelled Vegeta.


            "Oh! I, umm..." Stuttered Bulma, "Oh yeah, I'm going to get your dinner. Unless, of course, the pizza guy left alrea…Hey! What are you doing?"  Without a word, Vegeta had jumped out the window and flown down to the pizza man.


            "Oh well, at least now I know for sure we'll get the pizza. Vegeta sure flew down there fast enough... OH SHIT!" screamed Bulma, and then she tore down the stairs. When she got to the front door, though, she saw that it was too late. All that was there was Vegeta holding five pizza boxes and lying next to him was a smoking pile of ashes, on top of which lay the charred remains of a pizza delivery boy hat.


            "Vegeta! You have to stop blowing up the pizza men or they'll never deliver to us again!" Bulma yelled.


            Every time Vegeta met a deliveryman at the door, the poor man never got away. Vegeta had no concept of money, and the deliveryman wouldn't leave until he was paid. In order to get rid of him, Vegeta blew him up. One week, Vegeta had been in a particularly nasty mood and had used the poor pizza man as target practice.

 

            Sure enough, this time, Vegeta's excuse was no different.


            "He asked for money. I told him I had none, but he kept pestering me, so I blew him up." Vegeta replied as if he had been asked what day it was. Bulma, although mad, could not help but see this situation as rather funny and busted out laughing.


            "Sorry Vegeta," she said when she recovered from her laughing fit. "But you've got to admit, it is funny."


            "I fail to see the humour in that, baka. I blew him up, so what?" growled Vegeta before walking into the house.


            Bulma sighed. "If only he'd smile every now and then," she said to herself. With that, she followed Vegeta into the house. Inside, Bulma slowly ate her pizza and watched Vegeta scarf down a whole slice in two bites. Once his three pizzas were gone, he began to open Mr. And Mrs. Briefs' pizzas. Bulma, however, grabbed his arm before it could reach the box.


            "Don't even think about it," she said flatly, as though Vegeta were no more dangerous than a two-year old child.


            Vegeta was stunned. No human, or Saiyan for that matter, had ever done that to him before. Normally, they just let him do whatever he wanted, and then begged for mercy if they made him angry. Yet this little woman who he could kill without a second thought had just told him what to do. It was almost as if she had Saiyan qualities herself.


            ~Yes, with a silky blue tail and the strength of a Saiyan, she would make the perfect mate...Wait! What am I thinking? ~ Vegeta almost yelled at himself out loud for thinking of something so absurd and outrageous. Surely, he thought this foolish baka was not worthy of being the great prince Vegeta's mate? He jerked his arm away with such force that Bulma almost fell off her chair.


            "Don't touch me, Baka," he spat. He then stormed out of the kitchen, no doubt to go and train some more.

 

 

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