The Wish That Never Was: Chapter 12: Onward to the Tenkaichi Budokai!
By kyllir
Disclaimer: Standard disclaimer states that I do not own anything, and that I wish that I owned Chibi Vegeta. It also states that I'm nuts.
A/N: Thank you so much for all of your lovely reviews, and thank you to all those who wished me a happy birthday ^_^.
Vegeta slowly awoke and opened his eyes, only to see blackness. He almost panicked, and then remembered that he was wearing the blindfold voluntarily, and had been for almost four months. He smiled slightly as he inhaled and felt the weight on his chest as it rose. Every night would find Bulma staying in his room, and every morning would find her rolled out of her bed and into his. He could sense that she was still asleep by the ki level she radiated and by her slow and even breathing. He carefully rolled out from under her, trying not to wake her. This attempt failed, however, and she awoke.
"Good morning, Vegeta," she yawned sleepily as Vegeta removed his tail from where it had been resting on her stomach,
"Why is it you can never stay in your own bed?" he asked with genuine curiosity, she yawned again and stretched out,
"I dunno," she curled up again, "but your bed is really comfy," she drifted back to sleep again. Vegeta grabbed his clean clothes from the dresser and headed to the bathroom for his shower. He turned back around, he had just felt someone's ki behind him. He reached out with his newly acquired senses and found that it was Kamesennin, he listened intently, and heard his door open. He got back in front of the door so fast that it couldn't be seen, and stood in front of the old man with his arms crossed. Kamesennin backed away, even under the blindfold he could tell that Vegeta was glaring at him. He began to sweat and backed farther away, and began to explain himself,
"That test went perfectly! You are getting really good with your ki sensing abilities! I'm gonna go have breakfast now." he coughed and zoomed out of the hallway, leaving an irate Vegeta. Gokou ran out of his room at top speed,
"Did someone say 'breakfast'? I'm hungry!" he hopped around the hallway, looking in every direction for the one who had mentioned breakfast, and stopped in front of Vegeta, "are we having breakfast now?" his tail was wagging with delight, Vegeta couldn't see the boy, but he could tell he was drooling.
"Have some dignity, Kakarott, you know we don't eat until after the morning exercises." The younger boy whimpered and trudged into the living room. Vegeta then dismissed the idea of having a shower this morning and quickly dressed himself. Gokou then walked out the door to begin the morning milk delivery. Vegeta powered up slightly, letting his ki radiate slightly, barely detectable, and focused on the vibrations that bounced off the walls, like a form of echolocation. Once he knew what his surrounding were, he jogged after Gokou. He remembered his first day of blindfolded training, he had lost his balance a lot, and heavily relied on flying to keep himself from hitting the ground. Bulma was mad at him for some reason, she had said that she couldn't see him properly with the blindfold on, or something to that effect. She didn't seem to mind as much now, perhaps she had gotten used to 'not seeing properly'. Vegeta almost regretted agreeing to this training, but then remembered the reason why he had, and all bad feelings of it vanished.
Four months earlier:
Vegeta woke with a start and rolled out of bed, panicking for a moment, he couldn't see at all. Bulma woke suddenly and glared at Vegeta, then blushed when she realized that she had rolled into his bed again. Vegeta backed away into the wall, convinced that this was some kind of trick of Freezer's,
"Stay away from me you terrible purple lizard! What have you done to me?" he shouted, Bulma stared at him, she had no idea what had happened in his past, but it must've been horrible to make him act like this, she decided to put an end to this suffering.
"Vegeta! Calm down! You're wearing a blindfold, remember? You wanted to wear it? Even though I yelled at you?" she slowly crept across the floor and gently placed a hand on his shoulder, he winced,
"Right, now leave me be," he said harshly, he was covered in a layer of cold sweat and was still shaking, he had actually thought that this all had been a dream and he was back in Freezer's clutches. He could barely hide his relief that it wasn't true. He stood up, and felt along the wall, almost running into the door. He fumbled around for a moment until his hand found the doorknob, he then opened the door and left the room, leaving a confused Bulma. She heard him stepping heavily through the hall, as if the gravity had increased tenfold, he was heading towards the bathroom, for his shower, she presumed. She glanced over to the dresser, and upon seeing his clean clothes still folded up atop its surface, she sprung up and grabbed the garments, and ran after Vegeta. He was just shutting the door when she got into the hallway. She sprinted over to the door and knocked twice.
"What is it?" she heard Vegeta's disgruntled reply,
"You left your clothes on the dresser, I brought them for you!" she heard him sighing defeatedly,
"Come in then." She slowly opened the door, her eyes widened at the sight before her. Vegeta stood in front of her, his back facing the door. He wore only a towel, but that wasn't what had caught her attention. His entire back was covered in scars and cuts, some fading, and others looked as if they had been given to him within the last month. She gasped and took a step backwards, no wonder he had been having nightmares!
"Woman, the clothes." He commanded with a hint of shame in his voice, he knew what she had seen, and he knew that she must be thinking horrible things of him for it.
"Vegeta."
The Present:
After a long and satisfying breakfast, Vegeta prepared to fly Bulma to a place that she called 'school', he had been flying her there every weekday for the last two months, when she realized that her summer was over and she had to return. Bulma picked up her backpack and all but hopped into Vegeta's waiting arms. He took off silently and flew towards West City, not needing his sight to find the area since he had flown there several times. Bulma yawned and snuggled up to his chest, hoping to take a quick nap before they arrived. Her eyes closed slowly, but snapped back open as Vegeta made the sharp descent that meant they had reached the outskirts of the city, and the place where she had to be dropped off. She fidgeted uncomfortably as Vegeta touched down and gently set her on the ground.
"I arranged for a leave of absence so I can watch you fight in the Tenkaichi Budokai, so this will be the last flight for a while, 'kay?" Bulma told Vegeta, happy to get out of going to school. Vegeta was glad that she'd be there, but said nothing of it,
"Today is my last day of blindfolded training," he told her, he could tell she was smiling, "so I'll see you when I come to pick you up this afternoon." He couldn't hide the small smile that came to his lips. A bell ringing in the distance cut them off,
"That's the bell! I'd better hurry and get to class!" she began running the three blocks to the school. Vegeta jumped up and flew back towards the Kame house.
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"Alright Vegeta, I want you to suppress your ki far enough that I cannot sense it," Kamesennin told his pupil. Vegeta had a look of intense concentration on his face as his ki dropped dramatically, it kept going lower and lower, until no one could feel it at all. Vegeta felt a little lightheaded, he had never suppressed his ki this low before, but he kept his mind on the training. Kamesennin smiled and quickly went into action, suppressing his own ki, he prepared to attack Vegeta, he brought his arm back and swiftly sent it forward, aiming his fist right between Vegeta's eyes. He was surprised, however, when a gloved hand caught hold of his wrist, his clenched fist only millimeters from Vegeta's face. Vegeta smirked, and prepared to send the old man flying, as he was about to do so, he was interrupted by chiming in the distance, the phone was ringing, Vegeta reluctantly put the man down and went to answer it.
"What do you want?" Vegeta said into the receiver as soon as he picked it up,
"This is the West City High School office, your scholar is in the nurse's office, she was complaining of terrible stomach pain and then passed out, we are concerned for her health and would like you to pick her up as soon as possible." The woman on the phone said hurriedly, intimidated by Vegeta's greeting,
"I'll be right there," Vegeta told her gruffly, and hung up the phone, he then ran out to tell the others he was leaving.
"Vegeta, you may remove your blindfold, you have completed your training. You may not have noticed, but you made it from here to the house and back without powering up enough to 'echolocate' your ki, congratulations." Kamesennin told Vegeta, proud that his student had succeeded with his goal. Vegeta slowly removed the cloth from his eyes, blinking back the sunlight that overwhelmed his vision for a moment, and then glanced around his surroundings. He smirked and took to the air, heading for West City. On the way to West City, Vegeta scanned the horizon, looking around in wonder at the landscape, the tops of the trees were tinted with bright reds, yellows, and oranges, and were falling to the ground. The spectacular show of colors dazzled his eyes as he continued on his way, sometimes he almost had to shut his eyes to orient himself. It did not take him long to reach his destination, and soon he stood before the large brick building that was School.
"It looks like a prison..." Vegeta muttered to himself as he strode over to the doors and walked inside. He stopped in the entrance, scanning for Bulma's ki signature, he quickly located it and followed it until he reached a small office. He opened the door and peered inside before stepping into the small room. The office was lined on one side with chairs, straight across from the door was a woman with mousy brown hair sitting at a desk, sorting through files, the other wall had a cot and a cabinet, and lying on the cot was Bulma. Bulma fidgeted irately and rolled over, glaring at the woman at the desk, and then noticed Vegeta standing there, her eyes lit up and she sat up quickly, bumping her head on the shelf that protruded from the cabinet, she winced and grabbed her head in agony as several pill bottles fell from the shelf and onto her lap.
"Why hello young man, are you feeling ill?" The woman behind the desk asked Vegeta in a painfully high-toned nasal voice, he winced slightly and moved his eyes from Bulma to look at the woman,
"I am here to pick up Bulma," he stated as he watched the woman's grey eyes dart over to Bulma, who was still rubbing her head,
"Oh yes, I need you to fill out a form before you can take her home," she shoved a stack of papers at Vegeta, "She came in here a little after lunch, her teacher said she almost collapsed in the middle of Biology, we made her lay down and then she passed out," the nurse said in her nasally voice, oblivious to the glares she was getting from both Bulma and Vegeta. The latter smirked and pushed the stack of papers back, filled out completely in Saiyago. The nurse looked over the symbols with a confused look on her face as Vegeta gathered Bulma into his arms and took off running before anyone could object.
"That woman was irritating," Vegeta told Bulma as they sped away from the school, he smirked, "you fainted, eh?" Bulma blushed slightly,
"Yeah... I guess I did... I just got this terrible feeling in the pit of my stomach, y'know? Like something really bad happened, its kind of silly, but for a minute there I thought something had happened to you..." She trailed off, turning a darker shade of red when she felt his eyes on her,
"You were concerned about me then? And this made you pass out?" Vegeta asked her, a little irritated by his confusion, Bulma was as red as a tomato now,
"Well, yeah. It was like you just phased out of existence, you were just GONE..." she admitted, wondering both why she fainted, and why she was explaining to Vegeta her feelings during the episode. Vegeta seemed equally confused, then something dawned on him,
"This was right after lunch, correct?"
"Uhm, yeah, Biology class is after lunch, why?" she asked, wondering what the time had to do with anything,
"Well, right before I received the call from your school, I was learning how to suppress ki, so I could not be detected by scouters... Perhaps you have the latent ability to sense ki, and noticed when mine disappeared..." Vegeta smirked at her, "why that made you faint is beyond me though, weak humans..." Bulma nodded, absorbing the information, not even noticing that he had insulted her, then shook her head to clear her thoughts,
"I'm glad you got rid of that ridiculous blindfold, it's a lot easier to talk to you when I can see you," she said, smiling up at him as he began to descend, Vegeta rolled his eyes, he never did understand the whole 'seeing properly' concept, it wasn't like SHE was the one who was wearing the blindfold, SHE could see him just fine, he just couldn't see her. Looking down at her, he realized that he had actually missed looking at her, the way her eyes lit up with happiness one moment, and burned with fury the next. Landing on the ground, he set Bulma gently down, and began walking into the house, then thinking again, walked back and took Bulma by the arm, helping her as she was still a little wobbly on her legs.
"Alright, we will retire early tonight so we can rest up for the journey to South City, so lets have dinner and get to bed!" Kamesennin called to his pupils, at the word 'dinner', everyone's eyes lit up and they hurried into the dining room. The sound of chopsticks scraping plates filled the room as everyone raced to fill their mouths with more chicken fried rice and dumplings, the two Saiya-jins ate faster and larger quantities than everyone else, but the humans in the group paid little attention to it, as they were used to such displays. Within minutes, most of the food was gone, and Ranchi went to get the second course from the kitchen, great piles of steaming egg rolls. There was a collective murmur of approval as everyone began to partake of the egg rolls, Vegeta and Gokou were stuffing up to six egg rolls at a time into their mouths, swallowing almost without chewing and shoving another mouthful in a second later, making everyone else wonder if they even had to stop to breathe. When all the egg rolls were gone, the group dispersed and headed for their respective bedrooms. Vegeta lay down on his bedroll and tried to get comfortable as Bulma finished brushing her hair and settled onto her own roll, Vegeta smirked and turned towards Bulma, lifting his blanket up,
"You know you're just going to end up over here anyway, why don't you save yourself some time?" unbeknownst to him, his smirk changed slowly into a grin, Bulma smiled back and scooted across the floor and under the blanket, Vegeta's tail immediately latched onto her waist as they both sighed contentedly and fell asleep.
Bulma was in a dark room, she knew that she wasn't alone, there were a few others in the room, and the evil that radiated off them left a bad taste in her mouth. She could hear them mumbling, she caught only a few words from their conversation, it dealt mostly with the destruction of the earth. Bulma could not help shuddering in fear, and then she saw them, eyes. They were looming and red, and they were the most frightening eyes she had ever seen...
"Woman, wake up!" Bulma heard a voice say, after a moment she realized it was Vegeta. Her eyes snapped open and she latched on to him for dear life, "It was terrible..." she cried as Vegeta looked down at her with a confused look, wondering what to do as Bulma squeezed his waist tighter. Vegeta slowly put one hand on her shoulder, and then the other one came around her back, he pulled her a little closer, and was relieved that she loosened her death grip on him, he patted her back gently, attempting to soothe her. She looked up at him, eyes shining, "Thank you Vegeta..." gazing into his eyes for a moment, she forgot all about her horrible nightmare and rested her head on his shoulder, falling asleep immediately. Vegeta carefully placed her back on the bed and lay beside her, briefly wondering what kind of nightmare she had before falling into a deep sleep.
The next morning found Vegeta being the one latched onto Bulma for a change, not that she minded. Vegeta awoke right after Bulma, and realizing that he was basically wrapped around her, he turned at least seven shades of red, and it certainly didn't help him any that when Bulma turned her head to look at him, their noses touched. Vegeta quickly disentangled himself and got up,
"Good morning to you too," Bulma groaned at the loss of heat and sat up, rubbing her eyes. There was a knock at the door, it was Kamesennin,
"Hurry up and get ready, we're leaving in a few minutes!" he called to them. Moments later, everyone was gathered in the living room with their suitcases,
"We are flying to South City, everyone put your luggage into this capsule," Kamesennin told them, holding out a dinocap, They all placed their luggage into a pile and quickly capsulated it,
"Wait!" Ranchi called out to them, "I have something for our warriors!" she handed a suit to Gokou, Vegeta, and Kuririn,
"Wow! Did you make these for us?" Kuririn asked as he inspected the suit happily,
"Yup, I thought that since this is your first big tournament, you might want to look nice!" she got two enthusiastic 'thank you's and a nod from Vegeta, she smiled at them as they once again prepared to depart, this time in style.
"That suit looks real nice on you," Bulma told Vegeta as he scooped her up into his arms and took to the air, the others followed, they ascended for some time until all the houses looked like specks on the ground and then stopped, waiting from directions from Kamesennin.
"South City is, of course, south of here, about six hundred miles, if we get split up, we will meet at the registration desk at the Budokai. Onward! To the Tenkaichi Budokai!" Kamesennin shouted.
Alrighty! That's it for chapter 12! I am so sorry that I didn't get it out sooner, but I just was not getting ideas for this chapter! *Continues in narrator-type voice* Well now our heroes are on their way to fight in the Tenkaichi Budoukai, who will be at this tournament? What powerful foes await? And what was Bulma's dream about? These questions and more will be answered in the next exciting installment of The Wish That Never Was: Chapter 13: Eliminations and Round one! Kuririn vs. Bacterian!
Poll results: Vegeta won, though Cell and Majin Buu were close seconds! 'Geta had my vote!
Poll: Who do YOU think I should exclude from the tourney to give 'Geta a spot? I got a good idea who I want out, but what do YOU think?
Alright now, I have received another question! VEGETA! Get over here and answer the nice reviewer's question, will you?
Vegeta: FINE... *walks over* what do you want?
Question from Xasshaaz: Why did I make an AMV for you? Is it because I'm stupid? Is it because I wanted to make a music video and I didn't want to make it on a character WORTH making an AMV on cuz I knew that I'd f*** it up? Oh, and don't try and kill me. Remember: I can turn into any Anime character. That includes fanfiction chars. That includes MY fanfiction chars. See what I'm saying? I can also turn into characters not yet born, and any video game characters. You don't wanna try and kill me; it would be much too painful for you.
Vegeta: ... I have nothing to say to this individual, other than that he is a dork. *mutters to himself* Damn... I'm picking up too much vocabulary from the woman...
Kyllir: okay Vegeta, you can go now!
Vegeta: FINALLY!
Oh yes, a little note... I'm sure you've all heard about the news of banning all NC-17 rated fanfiction, if you haven't signed the petition yet, it is on http://www.petitiononline.com it is in the top ten petitions. Well, until next time, Ja!
By kyllir
Disclaimer: Standard disclaimer states that I do not own anything, and that I wish that I owned Chibi Vegeta. It also states that I'm nuts.
A/N: Thank you so much for all of your lovely reviews, and thank you to all those who wished me a happy birthday ^_^.
Vegeta slowly awoke and opened his eyes, only to see blackness. He almost panicked, and then remembered that he was wearing the blindfold voluntarily, and had been for almost four months. He smiled slightly as he inhaled and felt the weight on his chest as it rose. Every night would find Bulma staying in his room, and every morning would find her rolled out of her bed and into his. He could sense that she was still asleep by the ki level she radiated and by her slow and even breathing. He carefully rolled out from under her, trying not to wake her. This attempt failed, however, and she awoke.
"Good morning, Vegeta," she yawned sleepily as Vegeta removed his tail from where it had been resting on her stomach,
"Why is it you can never stay in your own bed?" he asked with genuine curiosity, she yawned again and stretched out,
"I dunno," she curled up again, "but your bed is really comfy," she drifted back to sleep again. Vegeta grabbed his clean clothes from the dresser and headed to the bathroom for his shower. He turned back around, he had just felt someone's ki behind him. He reached out with his newly acquired senses and found that it was Kamesennin, he listened intently, and heard his door open. He got back in front of the door so fast that it couldn't be seen, and stood in front of the old man with his arms crossed. Kamesennin backed away, even under the blindfold he could tell that Vegeta was glaring at him. He began to sweat and backed farther away, and began to explain himself,
"That test went perfectly! You are getting really good with your ki sensing abilities! I'm gonna go have breakfast now." he coughed and zoomed out of the hallway, leaving an irate Vegeta. Gokou ran out of his room at top speed,
"Did someone say 'breakfast'? I'm hungry!" he hopped around the hallway, looking in every direction for the one who had mentioned breakfast, and stopped in front of Vegeta, "are we having breakfast now?" his tail was wagging with delight, Vegeta couldn't see the boy, but he could tell he was drooling.
"Have some dignity, Kakarott, you know we don't eat until after the morning exercises." The younger boy whimpered and trudged into the living room. Vegeta then dismissed the idea of having a shower this morning and quickly dressed himself. Gokou then walked out the door to begin the morning milk delivery. Vegeta powered up slightly, letting his ki radiate slightly, barely detectable, and focused on the vibrations that bounced off the walls, like a form of echolocation. Once he knew what his surrounding were, he jogged after Gokou. He remembered his first day of blindfolded training, he had lost his balance a lot, and heavily relied on flying to keep himself from hitting the ground. Bulma was mad at him for some reason, she had said that she couldn't see him properly with the blindfold on, or something to that effect. She didn't seem to mind as much now, perhaps she had gotten used to 'not seeing properly'. Vegeta almost regretted agreeing to this training, but then remembered the reason why he had, and all bad feelings of it vanished.
Four months earlier:
Vegeta woke with a start and rolled out of bed, panicking for a moment, he couldn't see at all. Bulma woke suddenly and glared at Vegeta, then blushed when she realized that she had rolled into his bed again. Vegeta backed away into the wall, convinced that this was some kind of trick of Freezer's,
"Stay away from me you terrible purple lizard! What have you done to me?" he shouted, Bulma stared at him, she had no idea what had happened in his past, but it must've been horrible to make him act like this, she decided to put an end to this suffering.
"Vegeta! Calm down! You're wearing a blindfold, remember? You wanted to wear it? Even though I yelled at you?" she slowly crept across the floor and gently placed a hand on his shoulder, he winced,
"Right, now leave me be," he said harshly, he was covered in a layer of cold sweat and was still shaking, he had actually thought that this all had been a dream and he was back in Freezer's clutches. He could barely hide his relief that it wasn't true. He stood up, and felt along the wall, almost running into the door. He fumbled around for a moment until his hand found the doorknob, he then opened the door and left the room, leaving a confused Bulma. She heard him stepping heavily through the hall, as if the gravity had increased tenfold, he was heading towards the bathroom, for his shower, she presumed. She glanced over to the dresser, and upon seeing his clean clothes still folded up atop its surface, she sprung up and grabbed the garments, and ran after Vegeta. He was just shutting the door when she got into the hallway. She sprinted over to the door and knocked twice.
"What is it?" she heard Vegeta's disgruntled reply,
"You left your clothes on the dresser, I brought them for you!" she heard him sighing defeatedly,
"Come in then." She slowly opened the door, her eyes widened at the sight before her. Vegeta stood in front of her, his back facing the door. He wore only a towel, but that wasn't what had caught her attention. His entire back was covered in scars and cuts, some fading, and others looked as if they had been given to him within the last month. She gasped and took a step backwards, no wonder he had been having nightmares!
"Woman, the clothes." He commanded with a hint of shame in his voice, he knew what she had seen, and he knew that she must be thinking horrible things of him for it.
"Vegeta."
The Present:
After a long and satisfying breakfast, Vegeta prepared to fly Bulma to a place that she called 'school', he had been flying her there every weekday for the last two months, when she realized that her summer was over and she had to return. Bulma picked up her backpack and all but hopped into Vegeta's waiting arms. He took off silently and flew towards West City, not needing his sight to find the area since he had flown there several times. Bulma yawned and snuggled up to his chest, hoping to take a quick nap before they arrived. Her eyes closed slowly, but snapped back open as Vegeta made the sharp descent that meant they had reached the outskirts of the city, and the place where she had to be dropped off. She fidgeted uncomfortably as Vegeta touched down and gently set her on the ground.
"I arranged for a leave of absence so I can watch you fight in the Tenkaichi Budokai, so this will be the last flight for a while, 'kay?" Bulma told Vegeta, happy to get out of going to school. Vegeta was glad that she'd be there, but said nothing of it,
"Today is my last day of blindfolded training," he told her, he could tell she was smiling, "so I'll see you when I come to pick you up this afternoon." He couldn't hide the small smile that came to his lips. A bell ringing in the distance cut them off,
"That's the bell! I'd better hurry and get to class!" she began running the three blocks to the school. Vegeta jumped up and flew back towards the Kame house.
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"Alright Vegeta, I want you to suppress your ki far enough that I cannot sense it," Kamesennin told his pupil. Vegeta had a look of intense concentration on his face as his ki dropped dramatically, it kept going lower and lower, until no one could feel it at all. Vegeta felt a little lightheaded, he had never suppressed his ki this low before, but he kept his mind on the training. Kamesennin smiled and quickly went into action, suppressing his own ki, he prepared to attack Vegeta, he brought his arm back and swiftly sent it forward, aiming his fist right between Vegeta's eyes. He was surprised, however, when a gloved hand caught hold of his wrist, his clenched fist only millimeters from Vegeta's face. Vegeta smirked, and prepared to send the old man flying, as he was about to do so, he was interrupted by chiming in the distance, the phone was ringing, Vegeta reluctantly put the man down and went to answer it.
"What do you want?" Vegeta said into the receiver as soon as he picked it up,
"This is the West City High School office, your scholar is in the nurse's office, she was complaining of terrible stomach pain and then passed out, we are concerned for her health and would like you to pick her up as soon as possible." The woman on the phone said hurriedly, intimidated by Vegeta's greeting,
"I'll be right there," Vegeta told her gruffly, and hung up the phone, he then ran out to tell the others he was leaving.
"Vegeta, you may remove your blindfold, you have completed your training. You may not have noticed, but you made it from here to the house and back without powering up enough to 'echolocate' your ki, congratulations." Kamesennin told Vegeta, proud that his student had succeeded with his goal. Vegeta slowly removed the cloth from his eyes, blinking back the sunlight that overwhelmed his vision for a moment, and then glanced around his surroundings. He smirked and took to the air, heading for West City. On the way to West City, Vegeta scanned the horizon, looking around in wonder at the landscape, the tops of the trees were tinted with bright reds, yellows, and oranges, and were falling to the ground. The spectacular show of colors dazzled his eyes as he continued on his way, sometimes he almost had to shut his eyes to orient himself. It did not take him long to reach his destination, and soon he stood before the large brick building that was School.
"It looks like a prison..." Vegeta muttered to himself as he strode over to the doors and walked inside. He stopped in the entrance, scanning for Bulma's ki signature, he quickly located it and followed it until he reached a small office. He opened the door and peered inside before stepping into the small room. The office was lined on one side with chairs, straight across from the door was a woman with mousy brown hair sitting at a desk, sorting through files, the other wall had a cot and a cabinet, and lying on the cot was Bulma. Bulma fidgeted irately and rolled over, glaring at the woman at the desk, and then noticed Vegeta standing there, her eyes lit up and she sat up quickly, bumping her head on the shelf that protruded from the cabinet, she winced and grabbed her head in agony as several pill bottles fell from the shelf and onto her lap.
"Why hello young man, are you feeling ill?" The woman behind the desk asked Vegeta in a painfully high-toned nasal voice, he winced slightly and moved his eyes from Bulma to look at the woman,
"I am here to pick up Bulma," he stated as he watched the woman's grey eyes dart over to Bulma, who was still rubbing her head,
"Oh yes, I need you to fill out a form before you can take her home," she shoved a stack of papers at Vegeta, "She came in here a little after lunch, her teacher said she almost collapsed in the middle of Biology, we made her lay down and then she passed out," the nurse said in her nasally voice, oblivious to the glares she was getting from both Bulma and Vegeta. The latter smirked and pushed the stack of papers back, filled out completely in Saiyago. The nurse looked over the symbols with a confused look on her face as Vegeta gathered Bulma into his arms and took off running before anyone could object.
"That woman was irritating," Vegeta told Bulma as they sped away from the school, he smirked, "you fainted, eh?" Bulma blushed slightly,
"Yeah... I guess I did... I just got this terrible feeling in the pit of my stomach, y'know? Like something really bad happened, its kind of silly, but for a minute there I thought something had happened to you..." She trailed off, turning a darker shade of red when she felt his eyes on her,
"You were concerned about me then? And this made you pass out?" Vegeta asked her, a little irritated by his confusion, Bulma was as red as a tomato now,
"Well, yeah. It was like you just phased out of existence, you were just GONE..." she admitted, wondering both why she fainted, and why she was explaining to Vegeta her feelings during the episode. Vegeta seemed equally confused, then something dawned on him,
"This was right after lunch, correct?"
"Uhm, yeah, Biology class is after lunch, why?" she asked, wondering what the time had to do with anything,
"Well, right before I received the call from your school, I was learning how to suppress ki, so I could not be detected by scouters... Perhaps you have the latent ability to sense ki, and noticed when mine disappeared..." Vegeta smirked at her, "why that made you faint is beyond me though, weak humans..." Bulma nodded, absorbing the information, not even noticing that he had insulted her, then shook her head to clear her thoughts,
"I'm glad you got rid of that ridiculous blindfold, it's a lot easier to talk to you when I can see you," she said, smiling up at him as he began to descend, Vegeta rolled his eyes, he never did understand the whole 'seeing properly' concept, it wasn't like SHE was the one who was wearing the blindfold, SHE could see him just fine, he just couldn't see her. Looking down at her, he realized that he had actually missed looking at her, the way her eyes lit up with happiness one moment, and burned with fury the next. Landing on the ground, he set Bulma gently down, and began walking into the house, then thinking again, walked back and took Bulma by the arm, helping her as she was still a little wobbly on her legs.
"Alright, we will retire early tonight so we can rest up for the journey to South City, so lets have dinner and get to bed!" Kamesennin called to his pupils, at the word 'dinner', everyone's eyes lit up and they hurried into the dining room. The sound of chopsticks scraping plates filled the room as everyone raced to fill their mouths with more chicken fried rice and dumplings, the two Saiya-jins ate faster and larger quantities than everyone else, but the humans in the group paid little attention to it, as they were used to such displays. Within minutes, most of the food was gone, and Ranchi went to get the second course from the kitchen, great piles of steaming egg rolls. There was a collective murmur of approval as everyone began to partake of the egg rolls, Vegeta and Gokou were stuffing up to six egg rolls at a time into their mouths, swallowing almost without chewing and shoving another mouthful in a second later, making everyone else wonder if they even had to stop to breathe. When all the egg rolls were gone, the group dispersed and headed for their respective bedrooms. Vegeta lay down on his bedroll and tried to get comfortable as Bulma finished brushing her hair and settled onto her own roll, Vegeta smirked and turned towards Bulma, lifting his blanket up,
"You know you're just going to end up over here anyway, why don't you save yourself some time?" unbeknownst to him, his smirk changed slowly into a grin, Bulma smiled back and scooted across the floor and under the blanket, Vegeta's tail immediately latched onto her waist as they both sighed contentedly and fell asleep.
Bulma was in a dark room, she knew that she wasn't alone, there were a few others in the room, and the evil that radiated off them left a bad taste in her mouth. She could hear them mumbling, she caught only a few words from their conversation, it dealt mostly with the destruction of the earth. Bulma could not help shuddering in fear, and then she saw them, eyes. They were looming and red, and they were the most frightening eyes she had ever seen...
"Woman, wake up!" Bulma heard a voice say, after a moment she realized it was Vegeta. Her eyes snapped open and she latched on to him for dear life, "It was terrible..." she cried as Vegeta looked down at her with a confused look, wondering what to do as Bulma squeezed his waist tighter. Vegeta slowly put one hand on her shoulder, and then the other one came around her back, he pulled her a little closer, and was relieved that she loosened her death grip on him, he patted her back gently, attempting to soothe her. She looked up at him, eyes shining, "Thank you Vegeta..." gazing into his eyes for a moment, she forgot all about her horrible nightmare and rested her head on his shoulder, falling asleep immediately. Vegeta carefully placed her back on the bed and lay beside her, briefly wondering what kind of nightmare she had before falling into a deep sleep.
The next morning found Vegeta being the one latched onto Bulma for a change, not that she minded. Vegeta awoke right after Bulma, and realizing that he was basically wrapped around her, he turned at least seven shades of red, and it certainly didn't help him any that when Bulma turned her head to look at him, their noses touched. Vegeta quickly disentangled himself and got up,
"Good morning to you too," Bulma groaned at the loss of heat and sat up, rubbing her eyes. There was a knock at the door, it was Kamesennin,
"Hurry up and get ready, we're leaving in a few minutes!" he called to them. Moments later, everyone was gathered in the living room with their suitcases,
"We are flying to South City, everyone put your luggage into this capsule," Kamesennin told them, holding out a dinocap, They all placed their luggage into a pile and quickly capsulated it,
"Wait!" Ranchi called out to them, "I have something for our warriors!" she handed a suit to Gokou, Vegeta, and Kuririn,
"Wow! Did you make these for us?" Kuririn asked as he inspected the suit happily,
"Yup, I thought that since this is your first big tournament, you might want to look nice!" she got two enthusiastic 'thank you's and a nod from Vegeta, she smiled at them as they once again prepared to depart, this time in style.
"That suit looks real nice on you," Bulma told Vegeta as he scooped her up into his arms and took to the air, the others followed, they ascended for some time until all the houses looked like specks on the ground and then stopped, waiting from directions from Kamesennin.
"South City is, of course, south of here, about six hundred miles, if we get split up, we will meet at the registration desk at the Budokai. Onward! To the Tenkaichi Budokai!" Kamesennin shouted.
Alrighty! That's it for chapter 12! I am so sorry that I didn't get it out sooner, but I just was not getting ideas for this chapter! *Continues in narrator-type voice* Well now our heroes are on their way to fight in the Tenkaichi Budoukai, who will be at this tournament? What powerful foes await? And what was Bulma's dream about? These questions and more will be answered in the next exciting installment of The Wish That Never Was: Chapter 13: Eliminations and Round one! Kuririn vs. Bacterian!
Poll results: Vegeta won, though Cell and Majin Buu were close seconds! 'Geta had my vote!
Poll: Who do YOU think I should exclude from the tourney to give 'Geta a spot? I got a good idea who I want out, but what do YOU think?
Alright now, I have received another question! VEGETA! Get over here and answer the nice reviewer's question, will you?
Vegeta: FINE... *walks over* what do you want?
Question from Xasshaaz: Why did I make an AMV for you? Is it because I'm stupid? Is it because I wanted to make a music video and I didn't want to make it on a character WORTH making an AMV on cuz I knew that I'd f*** it up? Oh, and don't try and kill me. Remember: I can turn into any Anime character. That includes fanfiction chars. That includes MY fanfiction chars. See what I'm saying? I can also turn into characters not yet born, and any video game characters. You don't wanna try and kill me; it would be much too painful for you.
Vegeta: ... I have nothing to say to this individual, other than that he is a dork. *mutters to himself* Damn... I'm picking up too much vocabulary from the woman...
Kyllir: okay Vegeta, you can go now!
Vegeta: FINALLY!
Oh yes, a little note... I'm sure you've all heard about the news of banning all NC-17 rated fanfiction, if you haven't signed the petition yet, it is on http://www.petitiononline.com it is in the top ten petitions. Well, until next time, Ja!