Dragon Ball/Z/GT Fan Fiction ❯ Someone to watch over me... ❯ Come on Barney, you're making Veggie mad ( Chapter 11 )
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Someone to watch over me…
Avoiding one another for the better part of a week or more Bulma rarely saw Vegeta after the 'Barnstormers' performance. She continued to practice with the huge amount of people that would all be flown over to the islands of Hawaii for a video shoot. Yamcha had some how managed to talk her into going there to have the breath taking landscape as her back drop instead of the lifeless backdrop of a sound set filled with heavy lights and long days.
Vegeta on the other hand stayed close to her even if she didn't know he was around. Two days after her clubbing, she received another letter mixed in the sacks of fan mail that ChiChi was opening and responding to.
"Vegeta!" ChiChi's voice screeched from the huge study on the first floor of the mansion. She knew he was lurking around someplace, knowing full well he wouldn't be in the practice room like Goku and the others watching Bulma.
"What do you want? You do not have to scream like you are being murdered."
"And I didn't know you were right by the damn door either. Here you might want this." She thrusted the letter into his hands.
"This is nothing like the others at all." His eyes traveled over the sketch drawings of Bulma being gutted, raped, and burned.
"I didn't see the others. Yamcha or the others always found them before Bulma or me read them."
"Good, it's something an onna should not read anyways. When is this trip she is taking?"
"Four days. She'll be flying in her personal jet."
"How much room is on this jet of hers?"
"Room for at least ten or twelve of us comfortably. Why?" Vegeta gave a nod and left without answering ChiChi's question.
"Great rehearsal everyone. I'm beat so everyone take off and have some fun." Bulma announced to the group of dancer. She grabbed a towel off a table and started to wipe the sweat off of her body when she caught the glimpse of the elusive prince outside against the willow tree watching the dancers file out.
"I thought you were hiding from me." She came out into the yard after locking up the room.
"I've been here. I know where you are at all times."
"Well isn't that something, you know where I am, but I don't have a clue where you've been."
"No need to get hostile onna. You are safe what more could you ask for?"
"Nothing I guess." She looked defeated as she left his company heading to the house for a shower. Her idea of breaking him wasn't going to work if she didn't see him what would be the use in trying.
"What's the matter with you?" ChiChi asked as Bulma walked in without saying a word to anyone heading up the stairs.
"Nothing." Bulma shook her head and climbed the stairs one by one with ChiChi right behind her determined to find out what was eating at her best friend.
"Chi I want to be alone please."
"Not until I find out what's going on with you." Chi said as she closed Bulma's bedroom door behind her and sat on the bed watching Bulma pace around her room.
"I'm just tired is all."
"Bull, someone is on your mind, I can see it in your eyes."
"How can you see that? Do I really look that desperate for someone's comfort?"
"No, I just know you."
"I was sure I would have him eating out of my hand in less then a week. But I screwed that chance up bad."
"I think you were a little too forward. Bulma a little flirting goes along way, but what you did was something I never expected from you."
"I know, me either. It's just, that whenever I see him no matter if he's pissed with me or not I can't get the feeling of being with out him off my mind. I've never felt like that before. I'm going to be an old maid." Bulma sighed and flopped down on the bed backwards.
"I have." Chi smiled.
"You have? When was that?"
"Day I met Goku."
"But Goku is nothing as complex as Vegeta is."
"Maybe not, but he's a saiyan none the less. And the best way to get to a saiyan is through their enormous stomachs." Bulma giggled, she had never seen anyone eat as much as Goku, Gohan, and Vegeta before.
"Yeah, but that isn't going to get mister grouchy to actually notice the real me. For all I know he thinks of me of nothing more then just his pay check."
"Never know I guess."
"Why don't you go out tonight with Goku. I'll watch Gohan for you and have some fun." ChiChi gave her a confused look, she had never suggested that Goku and herself going out and having fun.
"He's on duty tonight remember? You sent Krillin and Piccolo off five hours ago to train or what ever they do."
"So, not like Vegeta is doing anything exciting. He'll be here and this place is like a fortress now. Nothing can happen."
"Are you sure? You shouldn't be left alone right now."
"Argh, I'll be fine Chi, and besides I won't be alone. Gohan and Barney will be here. We'll eat junk food and watch movies."
"Don't let him stay up too late, and not a lot of junk food. Sugar get's him pretty hyper you know."
"Gawd I know Chi, go get Goku and I don't want to see you guys back until way after midnight." Bulma pulled ChiChi up from the bed and pushed her out of her bedroom giving her a wink.
Eight o'clock rolled around and Bulma said her farewell to ChiChi and Goku for the night leaving her with only Gohan, Barney and Vegeta in the house with her.
"So what do you want to do first Gohan?" Bulma asked as she pulled her hair back in a sloppy ponytail.
"Everything!" He cried out running down the hall towards the kitchen first.
"Maybe I should of thought about this first before sending them off for the night." By ten they had consumed a gallon of ice cream together along with popcorn, soda and chips.
"I think it's time for you to go to bed Gohan. It's getting late you know."
"Awwww, but I want to stay up a little while longer with you Auntie Bulma."
"Kid you have to stop that puppy dog eyes routine." She shook her head; he looked so much like Goku it was uncanny.
"Come on please let me stay up."
"Brat, get to bed before I blast you." Vegeta said with his regular scowl on his face from the kitchen doorway.
"Yes sir." Gohan pouted on his way out of the kitchen and climbing the stairs to one of the many spare bedrooms in the mansion.
"I didn't know you were still here."
"And why wouldn't I be? You sent everyone away tonight. You really think you should be left alone here?"
"No but I have Barney here."
"That flea bitten mutt protect you? Onna he couldn't scare a cat let alone chase someone off or keep someone away from you."
"Fine, I don't want to argue with you tonight. You win." She tossed her hands up in the air and walked back to the living room and started to flick stations on the TV. Vegeta watched her for a moment before he joined her on the couch. She looked down to the end and saw him staring at the TV before she turned her attention back. She found an old movie and sat the remote down on the table before kicking her feet on the couch in between herself and Vegeta. He eyed her movement from the corner of his eye noticing she wasn't wearing much under the blue silk robe.
'Not good.' He growled and averted his attention back to the boring movie.
It was a little after midnight when Vegeta heard Bulma's dog growling at the backdoor. He sat up straight, taking Bulma's feet off of his lap that had wound up there sometime during the movie. He grabbed the throw blanket from the back of the couch and put it over her as he left to see what Barney was growling about.
"What the hell are you making all this noise for?" He grumbled to the dog that would not leave the back door.
"Someone out there?" Vegeta searched for ki in the area, only finding what seemed to be small animals and a few humans that lived in the next house up the road some. He strolled back to the living room and gently shook Bulma.
"Onna?"
"Hmmm?" She asked sleepily.
"Your mutt is growling at some animals outside. I suggest you tell him to stop before I make him."
"He never does that Geta, he only growls when Yamcha or someone he don't know is around." She yawned and stretched her arms over her head before she got off the couch to wrangle up the poor dog before Vegeta blasted him to oblivion.
"Come on Barney, you're making Veggie mad." She reached over and tugged on the big dog's collar to get him to move but wouldn't.
"Damn it come on! Go upstairs and check on Gohan or something because I'm not letting you outside to chase squirrels or bunnies."
"Onna just let him out already, he's not going to shut up until you do."
"Shut up would you, I think I know my dog better then you do." She reluctantly opened the glass door as Barney barreled out into the darkness.
"There are you happy now? If anything happens to him I'm going to skin you alive mister." She turned to confront him when she heard him laugh behind her. She squinted at him her lips curled in disgust.
"Why do you hate me and everything around me so much?"
"I didn't say I hated you did I onna?
"You act like it. I haven't seen you around in almost two weeks, which I take that as you are pissed off and hate me. I'm sorry, but it wasn't a game."
"What wasn't a game?"
"All that stuff I did, I didn't mean to embarrass you at all it just my way off telling you that…" Bulma was caught off from her confession when the glass shattered in the door behind her. She screamed and brought her arms around her head to protect it from the flying debris.
"Get up to the brat's room and stay there until I come back for you." Vegeta pushed her hard towards the stairs and he kicked what remained of the door open.
He pulled a gun that was holstered under his suit jacket and stalked outside looking around for anyone that was still in the area. He heard the mutt some distance away barking wildly in the think brush near the stonewall that lined the outside of her property.
He felt around for ki levels again, growling when he found nothing but the damn dog. Who ever it was knew how to suppress it well enough to hide even from a saiyan. A shot rang out in the night air, the bullet clipping a tree near Vegeta.
"Damn it!" He growled out and put the gun back in the holster. If he was going to take this person down he would make sure they were dead and not injured with the damn human contraption. He closed his eyes concentrating with his hearing now that he couldn't use ki or his sight to locate the intruder. The sound of the softest twig being snapped to his right, Vegeta charged a small ki blast sending it in the direction only missing his target. Barney came through the brush in front of Vegeta almost giving him a heart attack as the dog almost knocked him over in excitement.
"You saw who it was didn't you? Wish you stupid beast could talk." Vegeta started his walk back to the house to check on Bulma and Gohan.
"I had so much fun tonight Goku." ChiChi said in a very sexy voice as she kissed him before they entered the house.
"Me too. I hope Gohan wasn't too much trouble tonight." Just as Goku reached for the door, Barney came barreling up to him waiting impatiently to be let in.
"What's wrong with you?" ChiChi asked the poor dog as she ruffled his ears.
"Pack what you need for two weeks, we are leaving soon." Vegeta ordered from behind them startling ChiChi.
"Leaving? Why are we leaving?" ChiChi turned around and put her hands on her hips as she glared at Vegeta.
"Someone was on the property tonight. I could not sense him at all."
"Are you sure? Not like you to not sense trouble."
"Kakarott shut up. I'm very sure; I got shot at out there. Oh shit."
"What?" Goku asked as Vegeta shoved past him in a hurry and bolted up the stairs to where he had told Bulma to go until he came back for her. He reached the door throwing it open to find Bulma kneeling on the floor, her face buried in the sheets of the bed crying loudly and Gohan at the window looking over the lawn. He knelt beside her placing a hand on her back feeling her body trembling in fear.
"Bulma, it's ok now." He said in a half whisper in her ear as he pulled her body against his.
"Just make all the bad people go away Geta, make them go away." She cried as she put her arms around his neck tightly, not wanting to ever let go of her protector.
"I will onna, I will be here until the end."