Dragon Ball/Z/GT Fan Fiction ❯ A Saiyajin's Heart ❯ Chapter Seventeen: Doubles ( Chapter 17 )

A Saiyajin's Heart

Chapter Seventeen: Doubles

By Selenity Jade

Rated: M

 

Disclaimer: My life sucks, suing me would probably make my day. Aaloka and Galan are mine.

 

Beta: W-chan - Thank You!

 

Pairing: Buruma/Vejiita

 

AN: 03/04/08 - Updated. I have received a zillion death threats from this fic, so please don't send me more. I know exactly how I ended it and yes, I will make the sequel. I promise.

 

xxx

 

Within moments of his attack, Vejiita found himself immobile, barely able to draw a breath. He blinked, one of the few things he could do, and growled, powering up and attempting to wretch himself into motion.

 

It was all in vain, however. And Vejiita realized that the moment Aaloka started laughing, as if his predicament was the most hilarious thing she had ever seen.

 

Vejiita ceased his struggles finally, and just stood, glaring at the woman before him. He could feel Buruma's fear and concern through his mind, but pushed it away roughly. He couldn't afford to be distracted by the weakness just then.

 

It was at that moment that Goku decided to return, teleporting in right before Vejiita. The younger Saiyajin blinked in surprise, glancing around at the occupants of the room in confusion. He then gave them his trademark grin, putting a hand behind his head sheepishly. "Um, hi, guys…"

 

"Kakarotto, you moron!" Vejiita snapped. "Get the Onna out of here, now!"

 

"I don't think so, Vejiita," Aaloka retorted, turning her eyes to the blue-haired woman beside the wall. "I think you should watch as I kill her again."

 

Goku blinked and shook his head. "Sorry, I can't let you do that. If she dies again, we can't wish her back," Goku told her thoughtlessly, then walked towards his longtime friend, and picked her up. "Be right back," he told them and disappeared once again.

 

"Hey, Vejiita," Aaloka began, a slow smirk appearing on her face.

 

"Hey, bitch," he snapped back, his eyes narrowed hatefully at her.

 

She shook her head as one would at a disobedient child, and clicked her tongue. "Now, now, is that any way to treat me, Vejiita?"

 

"Let me think," he drawled, then snapped, "Yes!"

 

"Anyway," she said again, dismissing his attitude. "Remember a couple months ago when your gravity room shut off unexpectedly? Just before that stupid get-together of the blue-haired woman's friends?"

 

"Yes, so?" Vejiita growled.

 

She snickered, brushing a strand of hair back. "That, my dear Saiyajin no Ouji, was all a part of the plan."

 

Vejiita blinked. "What kind of stupid plan was that?"

 

She laughed and motioned with her hand. The door slid open, and Vejiita found himself gaping in stunned silence for the first time in his life.

 

He found himself staring... at himself.

 

xxx

 

Goku and Buruma appeared before a flustered Chichi, who was sitting beside a twin bed. In that bed lay Galan, who moaned softly in his sleep, a pained frown on his face.

 

Chichi gasped and clasped Buruma in a tight hug as soon as she noticed them, babbling incoherently and scolding her about letting herself be taken and killed. Buruma put up with the henpecking amazingly well, although Goku suspected it was because she was still dazed about being brought back to life.

 

"Uh, Chichi?" Goku interrupted.

 

"What, Goku-sa?" Chichi returned absently, looking Buruma over still.

 

"Perhaps you should help Buruma get cleaned up. I'm going to go back and help Vejiita…"

 

"You mean it's not done yet?" Chichi demanded, turning to her husband with wide dark eyes.

 

Shaking his head, the Saiyajin sighed. "No, and although he may not want my help, I think he'll need it. Anyway, take care of Buruma, I'll return…" He then put two fingers to his forehead and vanished.

 

Buruma suddenly gasped and looked upward, her eyes wide and frightened.

 

"Buruma? What is it?" Chichi asked in concern.

 

"Vejiita…"

 

xxx

 

Vejiita continued to gape at his other self, completely speechless. Aaloka laughed hysterically as she watched the shocked Saiyajin no Ouji eye his double warily. She then decided to drop the bombshell on the warrior.

 

"This, Vejiita," she practically purred, "is your clone."

 

"Why?" was the only thing he could think to ask.

 

"Why, Vejiita? Because I felt like it. Because I wish to see you suffer, of course. You see, your clone here remembers everything you do. He knows everything you do. Only there is one big difference," she explained with a smirk.

 

"And that is?" Vejiita asked, finally gathering his wits.

 

"He does not have a heart, Vejiita. He cannot love or even hate. He cannot feel. But he can emulate them well enough." She paused and patted the double on his shoulder. The figure of Vejiita didn't even move. "He will be taking your place on Earth, Vejiita. With your mate and unborn child. You, meanwhile, will become what you once were. My pet."

 

Vejiita couldn't even grasp the implications of that, his mind whirling with horror that the man, Saiyajin, before him would take his place with his Onna. His mate. The child wasn't real to him, he had never cared about children or fathering them, especially now that none of them were going to be full-blooded Saiyajin. If perhaps he needed to sire children to populate Vejiita-sei again, he'd have done it, eagerly, but to be a father? Him? It wasn't real to him yet.

 

Buruma, though, was.

 

Aaloka grinned and waved a hand almost absently, then Vejiita's world blurred and the room vanished.

 

xxx

 

Laughing, Aaloka turned to her creation. "Well, Vejiita, that other Saiyajin will return… I must go. Remember your orders," she reminded the expressionless being, and with that, she too vanished.

 

Goku returned moments later, only to find Vejiita standing in the middle of an empty room, his eyes vacant. He didn't think it was odd the Saiyajin no Ouji didn't even seem to notice him until Goku called his name.

 

And he didn't even seem to notice the usual biting reply was strangely dull as he took the Saiyajin's arm and teleported back home.

 

xxx

 

Aaloka's laugh rang through the near empty ship, and Vejiita, who was trapped immobile down below shivered in response.

 

His mate would soon be trapped with a version of himself who had no heart. He shivered again, screaming out as he powered up to Super Saiyajin effortlessly.

 

It was all in vain. He could not free himself.

 

Buruma.

 

xxx

 

AN: NO MORE DEATH THREATS! I know it was evil. YES this was the end of THIS fic. There WILL be a sequel. Hush now.

 

Lovies!