Dragon Ball/Z/GT Fan Fiction ❯ Seducing Vegeta ❯ The Aftermath ( Chapter 5 )

Seducing Vegeta

Part V

The Aftermath

Bulma

I awoke from a bed in the medical ward of Capsule Corporation drowsily. The silky ivory sheets were draped gracefully over me, like covering up a dead body or something. I sat up and stretched myself out and cracked my back by holding onto the bed and twisting around. I righted myself and looked around at my surroundings. What happened? The room was empty, yet almost as soon as I had woken up, Maria walked into the room. She looked over at the bed and flipped out.

"OMYGOSH! Bulma, are you ok? Did I wake you up? If I am I am really sorry! I didn't mean to, I swear. I was just checking on you! Gaah! I hope that you're ok!" Maria said alarmingly while spazzing out.

"Maria, I am fine. What happened?"

"You mean, you don't remember?"

"Is there something that I should remember?"

"Ok, let me refresh your memory. Yesterday night, we went to a party, right?" Her eyes pleaded with mine. When she saw no spark of memory in my eyes, she sighed and re-situated herself in her chair. "Then, you went dancing with Chichi for awhile, and then you came up to find Goku there, drunk." I gasped.

Flashback…….

"Ssseeee? I told you it meant boobiesss, but yousss wouldn't lisssen! You jusss had to go blaaahdy blahhdy blahh yet you were as drunk as hellllll....…." Goku's last words were carried with him as he dropped to the floor of the party, unconscious. Vegeta's finger was still in the air, which was a little bit red at the end of it, which indicated that it had caused a blow to the body somewhere.

"YOU BASTARD! WHAT THE HELL DID YOU DO TO HIM?" Chichi screamed at him.

"Yeearch, are you trying to make my ears bleed? I improved it! I pushed a pressure point at the back of his thick head! Now he doesn't talk at all, and he should wake up fully sober! Ignorant woman…" Vegeta stalked off with Maria skipping along, following closely behind.

I shook my head and headed towards the other side of the room where the group said that Yaumcha was headed. When I got there, I noticed that it was totally different than the other side of the room. It was right in front of the fog machine, causing me not being able to see very far in front of me. I knocked into two or three couples who seemed to be…busy… very busy.

I finally saw Yaumcha in a group of guys that I didn't even know. I went over him and tapped him on the shoulder. He turned around, and already I could see that he wasn't in a very good state of mind. He was wasted. His eyes were glazed over and half closed, and he had a joint in his hand that he hadn't finished smoking.

"YAUMCHA! I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU! WE FINALLY GET TO A NICE PARTY AND YOU RU..." I didn't get to finish because he harshy clapped his hand over my mouth and shushed me.

"Shh…. They'll hear you!" Yaumcha said only loud enough so that I could hear him.

"Wha-?" Again before I could say anything, he grabbed me by the arm and twisted it around to follow him.

"OUCH! YAUMCHA WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING?" I screamed at him, but he only looked back at me. The look that he had in his eyes, it scared me down into my bones. "YAUMCHA…?"

…End of Flashback

"I think that I remember…"

"Yes! Great! Do you know why you're here?"

"I can remember a little bit about it, but I don't know what happened. Did it have something to do with Yaumcha? I can remember the feeling of pain. Ouch!" Right as I had said the word `pain', I lightly tapped the side of my face with my hand, and a sharp and quick ache erupted through my nerves.

"Urgmph… What was that?" I questioned.

"That would be the hideous bruise that Yaumcha left on the side of your face." Maria said hesitantly.

"Nani?!?" Just as the outburst had escaped from my lips, Goku and Vegeta entered the room.

"Whoah!" Vegeta and Goku said in unison.

"Were we interrupting a `girl talk' or something?" Goku said apologetically.

"Woman! Your face looks like a balloon!" Vegeta said in amazement, but I knew that he had only said that to ridicule me.

"Well, wasn't that polite!" said a voice from behind him. She squeezed through the two men, and it was none other than Chichi.

"OH! BULMA!" She gasped at the sight of me.

"What are you guys gasping about? Did you ever stop to think that I have no idea what's going on?" I said. They all stopped chattering and looked at me. Then they all looked at each other and started talking all at the same time.

"It was at the party-"

"Yaumcha is such a jerk! Wait until I get my hands on that-"

"Chichi said that I got drunk, but I know that she was just joking-"

"Hmph."

"I never saw Krillin there-"

"GAHH! I CAN'T UNDERSTAND A THING YOU ALL ARE SAYING!" I yelled amidst the chaos.

"Ok." Chichi took charge and gave everyone an interrupt-me-and-see-what-happens-why-don't-you look. "We have already established that we all went to a party last night. Yaumcha got wasted on something and he took advantage of you. He attacked you, and then Vegeta came and scared him off, and then he took you here. Since he didn't come back for awhile, we got Goku sobered up and he flew all of us home. Maria called her parents, and we all crashed here at CC to wait until you woke up. That is basically what happened." She smiled in happiness that no one butted in while she was finishing up her explanation.

"Whoah." I used Vegeta and Goku's phrase. "…Can I see a mirror?"

They all fell over anime style. "You're worried about your looks at a time like this?! Maria yelled.

"No, I just want to see what kind of damage was done." I reassured them. Chichi handed me a mirror. I was shocked at what I saw. Now I understood why everyone was gasping whenever they saw me.

There was this huge pulsing growth on the side of my face, along with a black eye on the same side. I could feet my heartbeat through them. I lightly brushed my fingers against it, but I flinched at the contact. Again pain surged throughout my face. I realized that my mouth was naturally a little bit open. Whenever I tried to close it, a long twinge of pain burst through my jaw. I could taste the iron of my blood in my mouth, and it left a long lingering taste afterwards.

"Holy…." I didn't finish my phrase. I was in utter astonishment. Not only did Yaumcha hurt me, but I couldn't help to thing of something optimistic about the situation. Vegeta had saved me.

"Hey Vegeta." I said quietly.

"What is it, woman?"

"Thank you."

"For what?"

"FOR SAVING ME, YOU BAKA!" I yelled. I didn't mind the pain in my head when I yelled. He deserved it. Goku cowered at my sudden anger.

"Hmph. Come on Kakarott." He waltzed out of the room, Goku trailing behind him. He needs to get over himself! He didn't even say `your welcome' or anything! That infuriated me, but my mood softened when I looked at the worried looks on Maria and Chichi's faces.

"Hey, we had better get going too. Get some rest, ok?"

"Ok. See you. Thanks, you guys, for coming."

"Pssh." They both pushed aside my thank you as they waved their hands.

"You deserve it, don't thank us."

"Yeah. See you." I smiled as they left. I snuggled back into bed. It was hard to get into a comfortable position because of the throbbing lump on the side of my face and because of my head bandages. I was extremely itchy underneath them, and I wanted to take them off, but I knew that in order for me to heal I had to wear the bandages. I tossed and turned, found a comfy spot, and just as I was drifting off to sleep, my mother peeked into my room. I groaned, but beckoned her inside. She sat her bubbly self in the same chair that Maria had been sitting in before.

"Hey! How are you feeling?" She asked.

"Better."

"I didn't mean to bug you, but I wanted to give you some green tea. To help out your stomach, and yourself. I knew you would like some since you haven't brushed your teeth in awhile. I nodded and she poured me a cup. I drank it earnestly, and I was easily asking for another cup.

"I also came in here to talk to you about something." I nodded as I was still sipping from my cup. "I'd might as well tell you the whole story."

Flashback…… (A/N: Hey, we sure are having a lot of these! Just to let you know, this is one of those flashbacks when they are telling someone about it as they're thinking it and stuff. But it's in third person. Get it? Got it? Good.)

Mrs. Breifs stood at the stove, cooking dinner for her and Dr. Breifs. A loud knock awoke her from her thoughts. She went and answered it, and was almost totally knocked over by an extremely pissed off Vegeta.

"Vegeta..?" Vegeta did not respond, yet he turned around. In his arms, a mangled Bulma laid. He held her close, as if protecting her from any more harm. The side of her face was beginning to swell, and blood soaked her clothes, and also Vegeta's. He didn't seem bothered by the red ooze that was dripping from her tattered body onto the carpet. Mrs. Breifs screamed, and Vegeta flinched greatly at the loud sound that reached his sensitive ears. He could not cover his them due to the precious cargo that he held in his arms.

Moments later, Dr. Breifs led Vegeta to the medical ward. The whole time, they all walked there in silence. When they had finally arrived, Vegeta immediately ordered them out, but Dr. Breifs asked to help with the bandaging….

End of Flashback

"So that's what happened…" I said, thinking hard.

"That's not it yet, dear. You see, I noticed something last night."

"What did you notice?"

"Vegeta cares about you! I know that he does. Last night, when he was carrying you in his arms….. it was so strange." My mother paused.

"Yeah, right, like Vegeta could care about anyone but himself…." I snorted. "What was so strange about it mom? He just carried me. So, there is nothing weird about carrying someone."

"He held you… like you would hold a child. He held you close, and he didn't even mind that someone else's blood was dripping all over the place, including the carpet which I had to clean!" Mrs. Breifs pouted.

"Well, of course he didn't mind someone else's blood dripping all over the place! He has killed like, tons of people, mom. You make it sound like my blood was acid or something." I pointed out.

"Anyways, you may not see it now, but it is still there." She said. "Well, I am going to go clean. I will leave the tea here."

"Ok. Thanks mom." She left and shut the door behind her quietly. I love it how moms do that, they do something to the door and it just shuts so quietly so that you cant hear it.

I really hope Mom's wrong about that Vegeta thing. It is hard to imagine that anyone like him would care about anything but himself. And training, that is. It would be strange… and maybe even exciting if he did care about me.

I'm thinking about him again…….

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