Dragon Ball/Z/GT Fan Fiction ❯ Hateful Business ❯ Chapter 2 ( Chapter 2 )

Author's Note: Okay I know I am a little behind on this story but that's okay. I was just trying to figure out a way to get rid the `passion' in the story. Then I came to the realization that I can't. I personally don't believe that two people can fall in love when there is no passion. So for all the reviewers that keep on harpin about this being `just a passion fic' I can tell you that it won't end up that way. They are not just going to sleep together in `the heat of the moment' kind of thing. If this still isn't enough than don't read it, I can't just make Bulma and Vegeta just fall in love when there is no flirting or passion at all it just isn't going to happen.

On with the story…

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She made sure to be early at the office so that Vegeta wouldn't be down her throat about being late to the meeting. She knew that things would go back to the way they were before the ball Saturday night and she was okay with that. Of course she understood that he had to keep his badass image and she didn't mind. Vegeta just wouldn't be himself if he didn't keep up the power façade that he had going.

"Claire?" She asked into the empty room. Her secretary had been moved into the space just outside the office to do her normal job.

Claire was always at the office very early unless she was sick. But she always called Bulma to say that she wouldn't be in that day. Here it was ten minutes `til seven and Claire hadn't called her and she wasn't at the front desk. Looking over the desk to see if she left a note she saw that her coat and purse were on the desk. She had to be at the office somewhere. `Maybe she stepped out for a smoke,' she thought. But Claire didn't smoke and if she had Bulma would've run into her on the way in. `Must be in the bathroom.'

Walking into her office she was shocked to see that Mr. High-and-Mighty was not already working at his desk. Vegeta was always at the office working way before Bulma ever arrived in the morning. She was surprised to find that he wasn't leaning against a wall tapping his foot and looking at the clock. She had to get to that meeting in ten minutes or else the company could lose valuable investors and yet Vegeta wasn't even here yet. `He must already be at the Café waiting or something,' she thought until she thought she heard something in the small bedroom off the office.

Figuring it must be Vegeta she snuck over to the door and quietly opened it. She was careful not to let any light hit the bed. Believing she was waking up her coworker she peeked inside the room only to have her jaw drop to the floor. There on the queen sized bed was her missing secretary, but that was not what shocked her. Above the moaning and naked woman was a very naked Vegeta moving roughly above her. Neither occupant seemed to notice Bulma at the door nor all she could do was stare before shutting the door and leaving.

She wasn't surprised that when she arrived at the small café that the investors were already sitting chatting amongst themselves. It was 8 o'clock sharp when she sat down at the table receiving stares from the all male table as she ordered a Chocolate-mocha cappuccino and a blueberry muffin.

"Where is Mr. Quiji?" One of the men asked.

"I don't know I could have sworn he would be here already. He is usually early for everything I am surprised he isn't here yet," she lied through her teeth trying hard not to say `oh he's at the office fucking my secretary.' "You are not threatened by a woman being here are you?"

"Not at all Ms. Briefs we just assumed that you and Mr. Ouiji would arrive together is all," he said nervously.

"Well I am afraid that we cannot wait for him to arrive," another elder investor said, "we will just base our decisions on what you have to say about your expectations for this new company."

That was exactly what she did, however, she stressed the Capsule Corps. Part of the merger more than the Saiyan Enterprises. By the time the breakfast ended she was sure that if they were going to invest their money it would be in C.C. and not in Saiyan Enterprises or the merged corporation. The goal of this meeting was, of course, to get more people to place money on the merged company stock. But money could also be granted to either company for future resources if the investor chose to do so. That was exactly what Bulma had tried to do, allow for some stock purchasing in the merged company but also to get grant money for future research under the C.C. wing. She laughed as she thought about what Vegeta's reaction would be if he found out what she had just done.

Walking out of the elevator she was greeted by her secretary Claire who appeared just as she always did. Bulma forced a smile and a greeting as she stepped into the office and was surprised to find Vegeta not at his desk. Peeking into the bedroom she noticed his form under a thin sheet. Deciding not to wake him up knowing that would piss him off to realize he slept through most of the day. She quietly shut the door and sat at her desk to begin the day's work.

***

Groggy eyes opened and glanced at the red digits of the clock on the small nightstand beside the bed. It read 1 o'clock and his eyes widened as it finally sunk into his brain. He had slept most of the day and missed the meeting with the investors at the café this morning. `It couldn't have taken me that long to get off,' he thought as he pulled on his boxers and slipped into his business suit. `What if Bulma heard or saw what happened this morning? Why do I care?' His mind was reeling as he quickly got ready for the second half of the day. Walking out into the main office he noticed Bulma t her desk on the phone. He growled as he figured that she had been there most of the day and did not wake him up. As soon as she set the phone down and looked at him he began his rant.

"Why the hell didn't you wake me up?"

"It's not my job to make sure you are doing yours," she quipped.

"When did you get here?"

"I came as soon as the meeting with the investors was finished."

"You didn't come here first?" He asked as a bit of hope that he hadn't been caught with her secretary.

"Of course I did," fear flashed in his eyes for a quick moment, "but when I didn't see you I just assumed that you had already left. I didn't know you were sleeping until after the meeting was finished," she lied and held back saying what she really wanted to say.

"You didn't think to call," he growled in anger.

"Would you have called me if I was a no show?" she hit back with a note of sarcasm. "I didn't think so. Before you ask I do believe that I talked them into placing money in some company stock. Although when you're the only girl in a room full of men that isn't too hard to do."

His eyes widened as he caught the meaning in her words. Growling in anger and jealousy he took a seat at his desk and picked up the phone to listen to his voice messages. He barely heard Bulma telling him that she was headed to lunch as he sat in both anger and confusion. He was so wrapped up in fuming that he didn't notice Claire walk into the room until her arms were draped over his shoulders and she was nibbling on his ear.

"What?" He asked gruffly.

"Just wanted to know if you were interested in round two?" She asked seductively as she bit gently on his earlobe.

"What would make you think I would want you again?" He received a huff of anger and she pulled away from him.

"Well you were rather eager this morning," she exclaimed.

"That was this morning and this is the afternoon," he laughed.

"I can't believe you. So is that what I am just a morning fuck," she huffed.

"You were there I was horny, shit happens you'll get over it eventually. I didn't force you into bed with me. As I recall you're the one that came on to me."

"Well I assumed that you were hard for-"

"You?!" He laughed out loud, "I have been in this building for two weeks and never once came on to you. Trust me if I were hard for you I would've let you know when I first came here."

"Well then if it wasn't me then who?" she asked ready to pounce on the woman that he said.

"Who turns me on is none of your business. Just because I screwed you doesn't me that I will ever do it again. You were just convenient and rather easy," he said hoping she would leave him alone.

With one last angry huff she turned on her heal and stomped out of the room slamming the door in the process. `Maybe now she'll leave me the hell alone,' he thought angrily. `God knows she wasn't good enough for another go, that's for sure.'

***

"Are you serious? With Claire your secretary?" Chichi asked shocked at what Bulma had just told her.

"Yeah I came by the office early expecting Vegeta to be leaning against a wall tapping his foot and looking at a watch. I thought that I heard something coming from that bedroom that is attached to the office. I creaked open the door and there they were going at it," she said angrily.

"I just can't believe with Claire. I mean I always pegged her as a prude not a slut."

"Yeah that was why I hired her in the first place. When Yamcha and I were a couple I knew I could count on her to not fall for his charms so to speak. I just assumed it would the same I guess I was wrong about that."

"Well did you ask Vegeta what exactly happened?" she asked but Bulma's eyes dropped, "Bulma Briefs does Vegeta even know that you walked in on him and your secretary?"

"Well no and I'm not going to tell him either and neither are you," she shouted angrily. "Now enough about Vegeta tell me what happened after the ball Saturday."

"Well things didn't exactly turn out as romantic as I hoped," she said with a sigh.

"What1?" Bulma asked rather loudly not believing what she was hearing.

"Well remember when we were just Juniors in college," Bulma nodded, " well that first night we went to that party and I kind of got a little tipsy and slept with some guy. I was too wasted to remember anything about it the next day or even how I got home."

"I remember when you told me you were pregnant and left campus. But what does this have to do with Goku?" Bulma asked.

"He is Gohan's father."

"How can you be sure?"

"Well after we left the ball we headed back to his apartment and made love. Of course I was shocked when I discovered that he knew what he was doing, not that I've had that much experience in that field. Well I asked him about it," she stopped to sip her coffee. "Well he told me that him and Vegeta had gone to a college party in a nearby university when he was a Senior in college. Naturally Vegeta got wasted and was with some girl within an hour at the most. He told me that he decided to have a little beer and have a good time. Well he said that after a few beers he met this girl and eventually slept with her. When he woke up the next morning she was gone and he didn't remember her name or her face, all he remembered were her chocolate colored eyes and deep black hair that smelled like fresh baked cookies."

"You don't think that this was just a coincidence Chi do you. I mean I know that most college kids go to other colleges to party," Bulma stated.

"But I remember that before we went to that party I had just made cookies and didn't have time to wash my hair. And I asked him what college this party was at and he said Versada University, our university. It had to be him, he has to be Gohan's father," she spoke in a whisper as her head dropped.

"Did you tell him that? Does he know that it was you he may have slept with?" She asked anxiously.

"I couldn't tell him I was too shocked myself. Gohan just turned four a few months ago and has never heard me speak of his father nor does he care. I just don't know what Goku would do if I told him that he may be a father," she sighed as she said the last part.

"So was his first time with you?" Bulma asked cautiously.

"Oh no, he had slept with his high school sweetheart several times but he said that with this girl he had a one night stand with was different. He told me that he came back to the campus several times that year to see if he could see her again but never found her. Of course by then I had left had a baby and got my degree at home."

"So you just left him in the bed?"

"No I made up some excuse and left quickly, he has been calling me all day but I can't force myself to life up the phone," she started to cry.

"Chi this is possibly the father of your child, and a child that you love very much. I think you should have a paternity test done and tell Goku all that has happened. It is what Gohan deserves," Bulma tried to comfort her friend.

"I know your right but I am just afraid of what Goku's reaction would be," she sobbed between her hands.

"I'm sure he will be just fine with it. I know in my heart that he loves you very much and he deserves to know that he has a son."

"Yeah I think I will clean myself up then go have a nice long talk with him. I just hope that he doesn't get totally disgusted and leave me heartbroken."

"He won't Chi. Well I have to get back to the office any how. Good luck and call me if you need anything." Waving her friend goodbye she left the little diner and drove towards her office.

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Claire sat at her desk trying to get her work done and not think about the mornings events. No man had ever turned her down for a second time ever. Of course Vegeta wasn't like all the other men she had been with. He was more into women with brains and quick wit then girls that put up no fight when he tried to seduce them. His ex-girlfriend while a total bitch was a fashion designer, which most people would have thought she was dumb but she was very smart. She didn't make nearly as much as he did and probably wouldn't have made as much as she did now if he hadn't pulled a few strings to get her in. Claire was the type of girl he slept with to get rid of a hard on, not have a relationship.

She had flunked out of school when she was sixteen and somehow managed to get a G.E.D and go to a community college and take some business courses. She was a party girl at heart but managed to get some degrees and graduate. Then she had met Yamcha one night at a club downtown. She had heard through the grapevine that was never faithful to his long time girlfriend Bulma Briefs. She quickly managed to wrap him around her finger and they continued their secret affair for months. When she told him she was applying for a secretary job for Capsule Corps. he immediately got worried and tried to tell he that the job she was applying for was for a personal secretary for Bulma but that didn't scare her. He told her that Bulma would never hire Claire because Bulma wouldn't want someone who may take an interest in him. So they formulated this big plan to get her in and still sleep with each other.

She decided to play prude and shy so that Bulma wouldn't think she would ever sleep with Yamcha and it worked. She always kept a shy and timid act up when Bulma was there and never once looked and Yamcha. But as soon as she was gone he and Claire would start making out and fooling around. One time Bulma had been called to an emergency down in the labs leaving Yamcha all by his lonesome self in the office. They ended up having sex all over the office for three or four hours. The best part was Bulma never once believed that Claire ever got involved with her man. Then when Bulma and Yamcha broke up she saw him less and less and they too fell apart.

With more time on her hands she decided to get a second job to pass the time. It wasn't that Bulma didn't pay her enough, because she was a very well to do woman. She worked from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. and after that she got pretty bored. She decided to take up stripping and began working at an expensive club downtown. She started at 1 a.m. and worked until 6 or 7. She would always go from one job to the next and change before she arrived at the office. This morning had been a different story.

She started her job as a stripper and 11 instead of 1 then had been servicing a customer until about ten after 7. She didn't have time or the clothes to change before work. So she took a quick shower and got into some new stripping cloths and took off for the office. Vegeta usually arrived about quarter after 7 but the Ball had been Saturday and he would more than likely not be in until later that day. Running into the small bedroom where she kept a spare set of clothes she was shocked to run into a boxer clad Vegeta. She was wearing a see through nighty type dress over a black bra and thong.

Upon looking him over she noticed something large protruding from his boxers and immediately assumed it was because of her. He had lied when he told her that she came onto him She did but he followed and gave her the best time of her life and she had hoped another affair could start. She was greatly mistaken as he not only blew off her attempts to seduce him but also told her that he wasn't hard for her but someone else. She was pulled from her thoughts when moving men came into the office with what appeared to be a bed.

"What are you doing?" She shouted running from behind the desk trying to stop them.

"Listen lady we were told to bring a new bed set," one of them said.

"Let them be, I told them to bring it here you nit wit," Vegeta yelled from the door causing her to huff. "Bring it in here and take the old one out."

***

Vegeta had sat in his office trying to get his work done but could not stop thinking about Bulma. He wanted to believe that she just walked in didn't see him and left but his gut told him other wise. The flutter in her eyes when she told him that she had only dropped by and left made him think that she had walked in on him. If it had been any other woman he would care in the least but with Bulma it was different. He found himself caring for her and always did but he never once let it show.

Walking into the small bedroom area his faced frowned in disgust as he remembered exactly what had gone on in that room on that bed. Walking to his desk he picked up the phone and made arrangements for a new bed, sheets and throw rug to replace the old one. The thought of sleeping in the revolting bed again made him gag. Of course the new bed was much nicer and more ornate, and was sure to piss of Bulma but he didn't care. He spent many nights in the office when he was working late or wanted to be up bright and early and not deal with driving. Of course it was a longer drive for him than it was for Bulma anyway. His thoughts were broken when he heard the secretary begin yelling.

Giving her a hard glare he showed the men what to do and sooner than he thought the old bed was out and the new one was set and ready to be made. As he went for the new sheets he noticed the old ones lying in a pile in the corner. With a smirk on his face he placed the new sheets and blankets on the bed and gathered up the old ones. They reeked of sex and he wrinkled his nose when the scent flooded his nostrils. Choosing to be mean he opened the door and walked towards Claire who was busy filing her nails.

"What do you want?" she asked not looking up at him. He dropped the sheets on her desk and turned to leave. "What the hell are these for?"

"You seemed so disappointed this morning I thought you would want a little token," he replied then shut the door to the office and laughed when he heard the outraged scream. His laughing stopped when Bulma walked in through the door.

"What the hell was that about?" She asked, "Vegeta why is their new carpeting and did you buy a new bed?"

"I am not an idiot woman I know damn well you walked in on me and your secretary this morning," he said walking up behind her.

"That constitutes getting rid of a perfectly good bed?"

"Well I couldn't very well sleep on that bed again now could I?" he asked amused.

"So every time you get laid you buy a new bed?" she asked angry that he actually admitted sleeping with her secretary.

"No, just when I want all reminders of the coupling to be destroyed and the reek that is embedded to be gone," he said calmly.

"So you didn't like my secretary?" she whispered while looking at the floor.

"No, she just happened to walk in early enough this morning and caught me with a hard on. She was easy and convenient, but lacked what a real woman has in bed," he spoke nonchalantly.

"Looks like I'm going to have to start looking for a new secretary," she said shaking her head and sitting down in her chair to finish her work.

"Your going to fire her for me?" he asked amused.

"God no I would never give you the luxury of doing you a favor. She is being fired because she knows the company policy of having sex with people that I work with on a daily basis."

"So it was legal for her to screw around with Lamb chop while you were out?" He asked rather bluntly knowing that information would get a rise out of her.

"Lamb Chop? Oh you mean Yamcha, him and I aren't together anymore so what she does in her spare time is not my concern. In fact he hasn't been at the office since we broke up so they couldn't be together unless they did it when-" the realization hit her and she stopped. "No," she whined putting her face into her hands as tears threatened to spill.

Seeing his chance to get close to her he walked up behind her and began to massage her shoulders. He was shocked when she roughly pushed him away and left her chair to glare at him.

"This is all your fault," she accused.

"How is this my fault?" he asked shocked that she would place blame on him.

"Before your stupid father and his stupid company came into ours everything was fine. If it wasn't for you I would still have my secretary and I would still be able to live a life thinking that my ex-boyfriend didn't cheat." She yelled as she dropped to her knees with her face buried in her hands as she cried.

"You think that I wanted this merger?" he asked as his temper began to rise. "If I had things my way Saiyan Enterprises would be doing everything in their power to shut down Capsule Corps."

When she didn't answer he picked up his coat and slammed the door on his way out of the office leaving Bulma on the floor by herself. He knew deep down that he crossed the line but he would never admit that to anyone. He let his anger control his words and it cost him, but he wouldn't know what exactly the price of his storm out cost until the morrow.

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Okay I finally got another chapter out on this story, I am so proud of myself. I did my best to keep down the passion that people have been complaining about. So tell me what you think and I will try my best to appease the best I can. I shall also try to update this story more often.

Later,

Nalalina