I know there are tons of stories about them, but well... I have to write my own as well. I just love them :)

I don't own Dragon Ball, etc.

Bulma tried to focus on the draft of her new invention, but failed desperately. Her thoughts were around Yamcha and their break-up yesterday. All started as a normal date, she never assumed something is wrong, until Yamcha pulled out his serious face and began talking about their relationship. Bulma was only partly paying attention and it took her some time to realize what Yamcha was talking about. They were sitting in a restaurant and just finished dessert.

„I just feel that you are not really here." She heard him saying. „I mean obviously you are here physically, but I fell like you are not paying attention to me."

„Oh, I pay attention" Bulma snapped, although that was the first two sentences tonight catching her full attention. She was indeed somewhere else, lost in her own thoughts.

„It's not just you!" Yamcha quickly called, putting his hand on Bulma's.

By then Bulma was sure Yamcha will break up with her. She felt anger rising and she had to take a deep breath to calms herself. She wasn't successful enough as she heard herself shouting:

"No, you won't! Don't even try to break up with me!"

"I…" Yamcha tried to calm her but she sprung up from the table and continued:

"You cannot! Because... you know what? I'm breaking up with you, you JERK!"

"Bulma!" Yamcha called her name, but she stormed out, without looking back.

Now every time she tried to work, she saw this scene in her head over and over again. The worst thing was, that she couldn't understand herself. She expected that she will be sorry and depressed but she felt nothing. Sure, she was angry that he wanted to dump her, HER! Nobody will dump Bulma Brief, nobody! Yet, beyond that anger she felt no pain, no regret, no loss. Yamcha was her true love, they were together since she was 16, yet somehow their relationship changed. He was right, even when they were together both of them were pre-occupied with other things, yet she was sure they will be married one day. She looked one more time on the draft on her drawing table and left the laboratory to get some coffee. When she was in the kitchen, she decided to eat something so she opened the fridge.

"How long do you plan to just stand there?" Vegeta called when he watched Bulma for 10 seconds.

"Gee Vegeta, you scared me!" Bulma looked at him, then after 5 more seconds she decided to grab a pudding.

"I don't have time to wait until you decide what to eat" He snapped, then as soon as he could, he went to the fringe and packed his hands full of food.

While Vegeta filled several plates with food, Bulma was looking at him amused. She has seen Goku eat so many times and now she lived together with Vegeta since 6 months, yet it never seemed to amaze her how much a saiyan can eat.

"What are you staring at, woman?" Vegeta asked, rather irritated.

"You" Bulma simply answered smiling.

She just realized that she made Vegeta angry and as it happened she quite enjoyed playing with him. He was always so composed, his face expressionless so at least when he was angry he showed some emotions.

"Don't!"

"I do what I want. If I want to look at you, I will.

Vegeta pulled out a chair, sat in front of Bulma and tried to concentrate on his food. He felt her gaze on him, but by now he knew she was just teasing him. The woman enjoyed making him angry so he won't give her that pleasure. It seemed something new, something what she recently decided to enjoy. Sure, she was never afraid of him what he never quite understood but she wasn't trying to piss him of. Maybe by now she thinks he is not so dangerous. She couldn't be more wrong about that, yet they both knew that he won't hurt her. He needed her and her damn father to fix the gravity machine and make other training equipment as well. He also needed her stupid mother as she was the only person who could cook. Vegeta had to admit that her meals were extraordinary good, better than Freeza's chiefs, although he enslaved the best of the best from several planets. Freeza would have liked her among them. Stranger still, that she enjoyed cooking for him and regardless what he throw to her head, she kept smiling. The woman on the other hand was quite her opposite. It was so easy to piss her off. Just then Vegeta decided that even in this situation the best defence was to attack, so he wanted to find something to make her angry.

"Why are you here?" He asked. "Isn't this the famous Friday, where you stupid humans like to go out?"

"I decided to stay here, so what?" Bulma asked back a bit irritated as it reminded her that she mostly spent her Fridays with Yamcha.

Of course now it was out of the question. She hasn't even realized until now, that she was sitting home, alone, with nothing to do. It's not like she hasn't got friends, but everybody was too busy training, even to come over for a tea or something. Yamcha was the only one who pushed aside his trainings for her. Yamcha… Here she was again, thinking about him. She bit her lower lip angrily from which Vegeta concluded that he might have hit a nerve with this simple question. Hence he decided to push it:

"What about that weakling?"

"Do not talk about him!" Bulma commanded, trying to maintain a neutral voice.

"Don't tell me even he hasn't got time for you! Did he dump you?"

Even before Vegeta completely finished his last sentence he knew that was it. He managed to make Bulma angry and she was much angrier about this, then he was for her staring at him. When Bulma jumped up causing her chair to fall, Vegeta already had a smirk on his face.

"I dumped HIM, not the other way around! Do you understand?!"

She simple lost it, as she screamed this into his face. She felt she could explode in any second, also she felt like strangling Vegeta for even thinking about that.

"I don't care" He shrugged and as he finished his meal, he simply left amused.

It took several minutes until Bulma calmed herself down. She was angry for herself reacting this way. It was so foolish. It's not even like she minded the break up at all. She just wasn't used to be alone. Sure, she and Yamcha broke up a couple of times before that but this last one was final. There was no going back. She gave up on the idea to finish her work, so instead she went back to her room and pulled out an old photo album. As she looked at the pages, memories surfaced and she had to smile a lot. She suddenly recalled how she met Goku and how her life changed that day. She never quite fit in before that and she had no real friends. She wasn't even attending school, at least not in a normal peace as she was cleverer than the kids at her own age. She attended the university at age 15 and there everybody though she was just some weird girl. After she met Goku, she met the others as well and every single one of them was odd in their own ways. Yamcha afraid of girls, Roshi with his pervert attitude, Krillin with his ego and how he wanted to become a material artist to pick up girls, Oolong and Pool… Lunch with her splitter personality yet both had something likable about her. Ten Shien and Chaozu who abandoned their own master and become good after meeting Goku. She wasn't considering Piccolo her friend yet, but after Namek, she knew that he also changed. Bulma never fully understood what it was about Goku, what made people change and what made people like him. As she looked out of her windows she caught sight of Vegeta who just went back to the spaceship to train. Goku let him alive, even though he was the most evil fighter they ever met. It's ironic how he somehow ended up helping them on Namek and how he also will help them with the androids. Bulma was glad that they had one more fighter on their side as even though she has never seen him fight, Goku respected Vegeta for his powers. Bulma knew she should be afraid from the future as the androids already killed everybody once, according to the strange young man, but when it happened Goku was dead. She wanted to believe that even without training, the future would have looked otherwise with Goku alive. Now that he got the medicine and they even have 3 years to prepare for the fight, there was no way they would loose.

The next morning Bulma was determined to finish her plans regarding the new invention; a gravity room. Her father looked perplexed when she mentioned it to him, as Vegeta already had the spaceship.

"Sure, but remember when he blow it up?" She asked looking at his father.

"Of course. I'm still afraid he might do it again."

"He just might. You cannot reinforce a spaceship the way you can reinforce a room. It won't just be designed to hold in the increased gravity, it will be designed to absorb the energy beams if necessary, in order to avoid any explosion."

"Hm, sounds interesting. What did he say about it?"

"I haven't told him yet."

"How come?"

"You know him. He would breath on my neck and urge me to complete it. I would become crazy. I won't tell him until it's done!"

"He will be overjoyed that you are so concerned about him." Bunny smiled as she stepped into the lab with two cup of tea and some biscuits on a plate.

"What?" Bulma asked surprised.

"You are afraid that he will hurt himself again, like the last time." Bunny explained slowly, like her daughter was slow on uptake.

"No, mum, that has nothing to do with it. I'm just afraid he will blow up the house!"

"Honey, you were concerned about him, you don't have to deny it!" Bunny smiled, pushing a mug in her daughter's hand. "He is such a nice man and all. Now I haven't told you anything as you were dating Yamcha but now that you are single, you should go for him!"

"Mum!" Bulma cried out not quite able to believe her ears.

"If I were your age…"

"Please, just stop!" Bulma looked at her begging.

"He is so handsome and that body of his!"

"Ok, that's enough!" Bulma said and she stormed out of the lab, still hearing her mother drooling over Vegeta.

It was disturbing in so many ways that she just wanted to forget the whole conversation. Yet, just as she was about to think of something else, anything else! she bumped into Vegeta. Literarily. She just felt something hard and the next moment she landed on the floor sitting on her ass.

"Watch were you are going woman!" The prince called smirking as Bulma got up rubbing her backside.

Although she assumed she was looking, apparently it wasn't the case as she realised she went towards the kitchen instead of the living room. As she looked at the saiyan, she remembered why she was in such a hurry; to get away from her mother. Her mother talked about Vegeta the way, she shouldn't. Without intending to, Bulma looked at the prince's bare chest as just like usually, he was only wearing training shorts and sneakers. Those shorts were rather a tight fit... Ok, he has a great body all right, no denying it. Also, he is handsome with those onyx eyes and thick black hair. It's not like she hasn't realised it already after they got teleported back from Namek. She became conscious of how her thought went in all the wrong direction, so she shot back:

"What about you, your highness? Surely you could have avoided me!"

"You need to move out of my way as I'm the prince of all saiyans."

"Heard it, but first of all it's my house and second of all I'm not a saiyan so you are not my prince."

My prince… Bulma mentally slapped herself for not choosing her words more carefully. It almost sounded like she was flirting with him. Yet Vegeta didn't seem to find any other meaning behind her words as he simply left her there, without further ado. She presumed the main reason was, that maybe nobody ever flirted with him, so he wasn't familiar with it. This lead to the next question; whether Vegeta had a girlfriend or somebody on one of Freeza's planet who he left behind? This seemed to bug her so much that she decided to ask it:

"Say Vegeta, did you have a girlfriend?"

The saiyan was drinking water from a bottle when she asked this and it took him completely off guard. So much, that he couldn't swallow down the water properly; spit it out on the kitchen floor and began to cough. Bulma haven't quite expected such a strong reaction, she only assumed a look which would kill if Vegeta had that power or some verbal response like she is stupid. Seeing him almost chocking caused her to laugh. She was unable to restrain herself. Her back began to hurt and also tears were flowing from her eyes. She failed to remain on the chair, ended up on the floor but still couldn't stop. Meanwhile the prince of all saiyans was still coughing, while looked over to Bulma like he would blast her away.

"Should I take this as a no?" Bulma asked, when she was able to speak and managed to get up.

Vegeta was concentrating hard not to lose it, he balled is fists and grinded his teeth. He stepped to the woman and pushed her back until she was pressed against the wall.