Dragon Ball/Z/GT Fan Fiction ❯ TOSOV (BOOK 2) ❯ IMMORAL DECISION ( Chapter 15 )

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MORE YAOI WARNIG: Still V/G pairing

CHAPTER XVII

IMMORAL DECISION

Trageta sat on his dad's bed with his hands over his dad's chest to share his energy. The elder was conscious but very injured.

" 'Tousan, who did this to you? Was it Kakarrot? I'll make space trash outta that Saiyan and I'm callin' it quits with his son!" Trageta hissed, tears falling from his blue eyes from which he'd removed the black contact lenses.

Outusan Vegeta moaned and tried to shake his head. He opened his mouth to say something and the young prince had to lean very close to hear him. N-No, m-my son. Don't hurt him. D-don't hurt mi amour," Outusan Vegeta whispered and his son's face fell in complete shock.

'Outusan amour avec Kakarrot? No, Outusan would die first than admit that, although, I've had my suspicions. Why else would he have let Goten and Uncle Kakarrot come to live with us when we moved to the palace? Why else would dad let Kakarrot get away with not cleaning after himself the way 'Tusan won't let Cilvi nor myself get away with it? And why else does Outusan become his most emotional whenever Kakarrot is in the picture,' the younger prince thought then looked back at his dad. "I-I think I understand now, 'Tousan. Thank you," Trunks nodded and lay a hand to the side of Vegeta's face.

"F-Find Kakarrot and bring him here," the elder prince requested and the younger sprang into action.

Vegeta left his dad's room and flew down the corridor. The boy stopped short when he sensed Goku and Goten's energies heading his direction. He landed and waited for them.

"Tr-Ah, your highness," the two bowed.

"Get up from there. Outusan wants to see you, commander. C'mon, Goten let's go find something to eat," the younger prince smirked at his friend and the two of them left Goku to carry out the elder Vegeta's request.

'Man, I can't face him. Not now, but he is my commanding officer and the ruler of my race. Ok, Kakarrot lay your personal hurt and pain aside. You're a Saiyan warrior for goodness sake. You saw the condition he was in. He couldn't hurt a fly,' Goku thought to himself and headed for the prince's chamber.

Trageta had set the door to auto open/voice command because the lock code was too difficult to remember. Goku stood at the door and the alarm sounded then he said, "Door open." The door slid away to admit the commander into the prince's bedchamber then closed after his entrance.

The chambers on the ship were very spacious although they only had twin sized beds, except for the king's chamber and this one, which both had double beds. There were dressers and closets in each room, separate wash stations and futons on which to sit. Goku slowly approached Vegeta's bed and shivered. He gasped when he surveyed the prince. Although the wound had been cleaned and dressed, the prince was still burnt to a severe degree and it was only his Saiyan physiology that kept him alive. Natural healing would be slow.

"Don't look so surprised, you did this to me. Heh, I admire you for it," the prince gave a weak laugh as he winced in pain as he tried to sit up.

"You asked for it. Why do you hate me so much? Because of your jealousy or is it that damned Saiyan pride of yours?" Goku spat in a heated tone.

"I don't have any of that left if I just called you mi amour and I don't hate you. Quite the contrary, I'm afraid, and it's taken this time alone with you and the boys to make me see that. True, I observed things at the palace and was in heaven when it was just the Ceraina, Goten, Trageta, Bura, you and myself, with Gohan Pan, and Videl visiting on occasion. Then the others began to show up to spar with you and you, Goten and Trageta would go off while I stayed back to clean up whatever mess had been made from whatever meal we had indulged in," Vegeta began, strength slowly returning to his voice.

"You could have come if you wanted," Goku countered.

"What, so I could watch you get hurt and then have to hold myself back with control I didn't have? Every time you returned severely injured, I cringed and wanted to smash someone into the ground! When I saw Cell nearly beat you into the ground, I wanted to rip his face off and protect you from him. I didn't get that chance because he was dishing me out the same medicine. The night Bulma had thrown me out and I went to the gravity room via the outdoor entrance, I knew you were there and I was hoping you'd come before anyone else. The kids came and I lost it. I didn't want my kids there at the time. I wanted the only other of my race who actually understood me. When he did come, it hurt when my kids yelled at him and told him it was not a good time to see me. Well, it wasn't but he knew that and came anyway. I knew how much apart of my world he wanted to be and I wanted to make him such but there were too many others to think about and not just myself. The day my sibs arrived and I had asked you to kill me, was the only way I could think of to be rid of all the pain I was feeling at being unable to express how I felt towards you and what you really mean to me." The prince heaved a heavy sigh. "You've always meant the world to me, love, and always will."

Goku slowly sat on the bed beside his monarch. Looking at the prince's swollen eyes made Goku upset that he had had to use such a blast against the one he held close to his heart. Then Goku felt something tighten around his wrist and found the prince's hand had grasped hold. The commander looked at it and the hold eased up as Vegeta's fingers began to caress up the length of Goku's arm.

Vegeta smirked. "I wish my eyes were better, mi amour, so I can see you, but I'll just have to let my other senses take over until then. Take off your boots and get in beside me," Vegeta requested.

"The door's unlocked and the others will be rising soon, and what about Ariadne? Don't forget she's on board," Goku reminded.

Vegeta smirked again. "Door lock secured. Alarm off. Computer!" the prince called into the air.

"Yes, my prince?" an automated voice sounded.

"Suspend all communication to the prince's chamber until I order otherwise," Vegeta requested.

"Communication suspended. Computer out," the voice said.

"Turn the scouters off, then we'll have no worries," Vegeta requested and Goku did as requested then climbed in the bed next to the prince but lay atop the covers.

With his natural eyes just barely functioning, Vegeta had to use his 'mental eye' to see the commander. Hoisting himself onto his right arm, the prince took hold of the sash on Goku's gi-the commander had retied it-with his left hand and pulled on it and the sash gave way. The prince traced the edge of the gi-the prince did not have on any gloves-then slid his hand between the garment and Goku's skin, this time prepared for the static shock wave that emitted the second they touched skin to skin. Goku jumped.

"Ow! Vegeta, you shocked me!"

"We shocked each other," Vegeta remarked and opened his eyes. "K-Kakarrot! I-I can see a little better now! My eyes are open," he said and looked down into the commanders dark eyes then traversed down his neck until he saw the small wound from earlier. He smiled and slipped Goku's gi form his shoulder. "Take your gi off but only to the waist. I'll do rest."

Goku got off the bed, stood with his back to Vegeta and began to remove his gi and the weighted shirt beneath it. Vegeta's mouth hung open, as this was the very first time he had allowed himself to drink in the sight of the commander since the prince's accidents. His heart nearly burst through his chest as he watched the muscles in Goku's back expand and contract with each movement in the removal process. The words were out of the prince's mouth before he had time to register what he had said.

"Damn, Kakarrot, you're beautiful!" the prince whispered when Goku had turned to face him.

"W-what did you say, Vegeta? I'm beautiful? I'm not a female!" Goku said a little harshly.

Vegeta's eyes met those of Goku's. "I know you're not, but as far as Saiyan males go, you are. Come, mi amour, let's complete our bond," the prince smiled and reached out to Goku.

"Vegeta..."

"Kakarrot, I'm perfectly ok and functioning on all cylinders, as much as possible. I-I want you, commander and have for a long time and it's taken talking to my son to make me realize that. It is no mere chance that we are the two most powerful of our race, and I'm not mad for what you had to do to protect yourself from me," the prince said as Goku sat on the bed with his back to the prince.

"W-what about Lissa and Kayla? They won't understand. I don't understand but I know that I get a knot in my stomach when I see you and Lissa. The night I caught you and her about to mate, it wasn't by chance. I had observed your entire battle and I saw you unpeel her. When I saw you get her into position, that's when I lost it. I wanted to be in her place. I wanted to be the one giving you such pleasure in that manner. I still have the opening, by the way. Kayla discovered it the first time we mated. We were in the throws then I felt her tail as it entered into me but not in the only other orifice I knew every creature had," Goku explained.

"That explains that scent that hit my nose earlier after we had eaten. When you were a teen...?" Vegeta's right hand began to play with Goku's tail and his left hand was around the commander's waist.

"During my teens, I was training a lot but I had urges and discovered that hole when I was thirteen, the same as you. Curious, I started to play in it and until I met Chichi again, that's how I, well, you know," Goku replied as the fingers of his right hand caressed the prince's arm.

Vegeta shivered and the hair on the arm that Goku was caressing stood on end and electricity shot between them. "That was another thing. The times that I told you to go take care of Bulma's twin sister were the times when just the scent of you drove me crazy. I had to stop going to your room to gather your things because of that reason. My body was on fire and I didn't know how to extinguish it. I nearly dried the lake one-day during that period because I was so heated. The female's only a part of me. You, my friend, are the other part. By our sons doing what they are has reminded me just what our race is as far as that function is concerned. We can function both ways and have no difficulty in making the adjustment between the two. It's the only way we'd ever be completely whole. Yes, that's it! You are that other half of me. Mi amour," the prince's lips touched the flesh on Goku's back.

Goku squirmed and Vegeta stopped pecking on his back. "Vegeta, stop, please," Goku got off the bed, pulled up his gi and put his boots back on.

Vegeta's mouth hung in surprise, then he scowled. "What? It was ok when I let you have control, but with me, it's no? Kakarrot, that's not fair! Do you know how hard it was for me to even decide to accept that's part of the being that I am? What we are as an alien race? Fine, then, if that's how it is then just go. Leave me. I don't want anything further to do with you." The elder prince felt his heart as it broke, fall out of place and land in his abdomen. He wouldn't cry over this. He would not give Goku the satisfaction to see him hurt. Taking a deep breath, the prince closed his eyes and said, "Good-bye, commander. Computer, reactivate communications," he ordered and the computer responded.

Goku took one last look at the prince, turned and left. The commander slowly walked down the hall to his chamber. Why had he done that? He had wanted what the prince was offering and had willing gave to the prince when it was needed. That was it, but didn't he need it too? Yeah, he needed it and his prince wanted to give it but... Now he'd blown that opportunity. He could just imagine what life was gonna be like at the palace from now on. Maybe once Vegeta was back with Lissa, he'd have forgotten about this little episode.

The ship landed in the desert where it had taken off two weeks prior. All mates and mothers were gathered to welcome their other halves back into the fold. Vegeta watched the others disembark and had intended to wait before going to join his females. However...

"Momma, I found him! He was playing hide and come find me!" Cilvanti called then embraced the prince and he did the same. "Hi, Outusan. I missed you," the baby smiled up at him and his heart constricted as if a mighty hand was squeezing it.

"Outusan missed you, too, my princess," he kissed Cilvi on the cheek and hugged her tightly.

"OK, chimp, scoot, it's my turn," Lissa purred as she approached her mate and prince.

Cilvanti moved so Lissa could hug and kiss the prince, who wrapped himself around her as if he had been a drowning being and she was the life preserver thrown out for him to catch. Her embrace was just as fierce and when their lips met in a kiss, it was as if neither had eaten for a long period of time. Queen Sunrissa stood away from the couple and observed her eldest offspring.

"Cilvanti, let's leave them awhile," the queen held out her hand to her granddaughter who looked at her in protest. "I have something special to show you," the elder female smiled and the little princess flew to her side and the two left the prince and his mate.

As soon as the other two had gone and the couple felt they were alone, Lissa spoke, "What happened to you, mi amour? You're hurt and you look so drained," she said as she assisted the still weakened prince to sit on the floor of the king's chamber.

"Had the gravity to high on the trainer and got caught in my own energy beam," the prince replied, not wanting to tell his lady that Kakarrot had to put the short-tempered under tall monarch down with a kamehameha.

Lissa looked at her mate with doubtful eyes and said, "Why don't I believe you but I'll take your word for it, anyway. When you left, you only took men with you, but a female just got off with the other warriors. Do you know her?" Lissa asked, her tone non-feeling.

"She's an old friend, mi amour," was Vegeta's response.

"That I believe. Her scent is not on you, but there is another scent that is not your own. I can't place it but you have been with another," Lissa's voice was edged as she inhaled the air.

It was at this moment that Vegeta cursed the Saiyan sense of smell for being so sensitive. Silently he prayed that his need for energy from an alternate source wouldn't cause her to leave. If she rejected him like Kakarrot had just done during the trip, he'd lose whatever it was he had for a mind. Vegeta lifted his eyes to hers in hopes of finding comfort but instead he found a coldness he had not sensed since his death on Namek. He shivered and withdrew from her.

"I-I'm sorry, mi amour. My energy had been drained and I was dying. Now, I wish I had of instead of asking for... Lissa, f-forgive me, amore mi, I didn't mean to!" the dam burst and the prince teleported from his mate to the outside of the ship then flew off to let his sorrow have it's reign.

Vegeta was heedless of the fact that he was still injured from his bout with Kakarrot and that he could possibly be bleeding internally, but he was a Saiyan. A few hours rest would restore him. While the race couldn't re-grow limbs the way Nameks did, they did have the power to regenerate even after near death experiences. The prince flew to the cave in which his race, the other two alien races and six humans had taken refuge during the torrential rain and resulting flood over a month prior. Vegeta found the hole where he had placed the palace at that time and let out an Earth shattering scream that caused his body to erupt into the flame of the Super Saiyan. The resulting explosion caused the mountain to crumble then collapse on top of the prince who welcomed its crushing weight but he was not intending on attempting to take his life again.


Back in the desert on board the ship, Lissa tried to piece together what had just happened when the queen and Cilvi appeared.

"Daddy, look...' the baby stopped and looked around for the prince. "Momma, where's daddy? I wanted to tell him about the playroom," the little one sounded dejected.

"He just flew away. I told him he had another's scent over him but it wasn't the female who had gotten off the ship with the others. I couldn't place it but he had been with another. Do you know how that makes me feel? I'm his lifemate! I'm the only one who's to please him in that area and no one else. How could he do this to me and to us? Oh, God, Vegeta, why?" the princess wailed and buried her head in her hands.

Sunrissa sat down by the younger girl and took her in her arms. "Lissa mi, there's something you need to know about our males and I know neither Fuyung nor Angelair have told you so it's up to me," Sunrissa said. She began to inform her son's mate about the stage between childhood and adulthood and how Saiyan males develop an opening for no apparent reason in a certain part of their bodies.

"It's supposed to close up by the time the males reach the equivalent of Earth ages 20 or 21. If the whole gets tampered with during any time of the in-between stage, it remains open. Ichimi was Frieza's slave during his in-between time and had been forced to perform humiliating acts for that white devil's entertainment. He told me this while you recovered. He told me how Frieza's two henchmen would have the time of their life with him as their play toy. I'm surprised he's interested at all in mating and bonding. Lissa, he chose you when the two of you were still in training straps and Vegeta Ou allowed him to do so. The king didn't have to do that and he didn't have to keep Ichimi on planet and allow his sibs and I to bond with him. Ichimi loves you but not quite in the way Vegeta Ou loved me," the queen smiled a warm smile and her eyes sparkled like twin onyx.

Lissa sat open mouthed in surprise. "Th-the king loved you? B-but I always thought...

Sunrissa shook her head. "Quite the opposite, dear, why do you think he worked hard to save as many of us as he could? He wanted his race to continue and he wanted his family safe. He had agreed to give Frieza Ichimi in exchange for that white demon to leave our people and planet in peace. However, the king sensed that Frieza would renege on his part of the deal, so our king sent as many as he could off planet before that she-male returned with whatever nefarious plan he might have hatched during his time off planet," the queen continued. "But I'm getting off the subject. I felt it when we boarded the ship and yes he had been with another but it wasn't to hurt neither you nor the bond between the two of you. In fact... Let me start by asking you, have you noticed how the commander's brat, Goten, hangs over the younger prince as if they were cut from the same skin? How those two couples have become inseparable? The boys, even though half human, have discovered the secret of themselves and it's something the Earth-jin have problem with it," the queen remarked.

Lissa stared in shock. "Are you saying that mi amour has-"

"Shhh, not in front of the baby," the queen hissed.

Cilvi looked up from playing with the stuffed Pegasus toy she had brought from the playroom. "You're talking about Outusan and Kakarrot, aren't you?" she asked in a disinterested manner.

The two adult females looked at her in surprise. "Who said anything about the commander, chimp? And how do you know?" Sunrissa asked.

Cilvi shrugged. "Always have but 'Tusan doesn't know that I know. Six months after the woman who birthed me threw dad from her house and dad had returned to this planet from Minerva, he had bought a big house across from the school Geta and I attended. We would go there after school with Goten, as Kakarrot would pick him up from there. It was fun as Pan, Kakarrot's granddaughter attended the same school and we would all go to dad's house to study and spar. Dad wasn't crazy about the 'invasion' at first, but the more the Sons hung around, the more comfortable he became. Dad never really expressed his real feelings and we were cool with that, don't know why the hellcat on two legs wasn't, but she's another tale. I don't remember when I picked up on it but one time Kakarrot went out sparring with Geta, Goten and the other Z warriors and had to be carried back to the house. This was just after 'Tusan had taken me away from that human woman and Geta had divorced her to live on his own. I had been thrown out of school, so dad had to stay with me. While the others were off sparring, he would train me, but anyway, it was a day when the commander had to be carried to the house and dad had the hardest time fighting how upset he was at seeing the commander beaten to a bloody pulp.

"Dad left the room and I heard his lunch make an encore appearance on him. I didn't know why but when he returned to the living room where we were gathered, he ordered the other Z warriors to leave and Geta to take Goten to his room and I had to go to my own. I sneaked out to watch him and I saw him bathing Kakarrot's wounds and sharing his energy with him. Dad looked like he had been in the battle when he was home with me. Then one-day daddy had gone off on a destruction mission and was training a new blaster. The bakayaro wasn't watching what he was doing and fired off a blast to a building that dad was standing under. Dad just made it back to Earth. Kakarrot administered to him in the same way dad had done to him except the commander was a little more touchy/feely than dad was with him. It was a good thing dad was unconscious or Kakarrot would not have known what hit him," Cilvi giggled in her girlish manner.

"You've seen the two of them together?" Lissa asked.

"No, but I caught Geta and Goten once. We had just relocated to the desert when Geta invited Goten to go spar. I followed them. When they were spent from their mock battle, I watched the two of them strip then go swimming. Geta still had lavender hair and had a body most women would kill for so he looked like a girl, anyway. That was two years ago. Geta's nineteen now," Cilvi provided.

How could a chimp her age be so knowledgeable regarding such things? However, it wasn't hard to miss that she didn't say whether the prince had ever gone off with the commander. Nonetheless, the queen suggested returning to the palace to further their discussion.



Kayla and Kakarrot had gone off on a stroll to themselves and it was not hard for the princess to note how distant her mate was. Then her sense of smell caught a scent that was not the commander's and she stopped walking.

"Amore mi, let's sit here a minute," she suggested when they reached the lake and he sat down, followed by herself, who sat between his legs. "You are troubled, mi amour, why? What happened on the journey? Did the warriors not make level?" she asked as she gazed out at the lake.

Distracted, the commander slowly responded, "W-Oh, no. No, they didn't. We were ambushed the second we opened the doors to get out. We nearly lost half of them, but your brother told Letouse to lift off after the hot head himself had left the ship. I went with him because I felt it would be suicide for him to take on that mechanized army himself. I'm glad I did because the ruler of that planet somehow trapped your brother with bonds that drained a significant amount of chi from his body. Then the prince of the planet began to make a pass at your brother and our prince flipped and called out Frieza's name. The other prince said that the he wasn't Frieza, but his brother Glacier and that he had been told by Frieza about your brother. Glacier boasted that he would succeed where Frieza failed to rid the universe of us. I couldn't let that happened and blasted the other being when he attempted to kiss your brother. I brought the prince back to the ship where he broke down at the revelation that the being was an Icejin. He recovered enough, left the ship and out of the portal, I saw a blinding light so I guess he must have blown the planet away the way he used to. When he returned to the ship, he had called to me and I just got to him before he passed out from the energy drain.

"I thought I had a senzu bean but found I had none. I looked for the one I put in your brother's glove but he must have eaten that one during one of his training sessions. I asked Angelair if he had any cherry berries but he told me he had given his last two to one of the soldiers and the Minervan princess your brother rescued before he blew the planet away. I went to check on the prince and found him shivering and deathly pale then I heard his mental voice ask me to strip him, do the same myself and get in the bed he was lying on. He said he needed my body heat," here Goku withdrew and the princess felt it.

"No, tell me. Kakarrot, I know how you feel towards Ichison," Kayla turned to caress her mate's face and lay him in her lap.

Goku started and looked at her with wide black eyes. "Y-you do? Kayla..." Goku was at a loss for words.

"Mi amour, I saw it the day I arrived how you handled him. When he recovered and began to treat you like dirt, I knew where he stood. When Angelair had joined us and he and his brother snubbed you as if you were an insignificant insect, Ichison stepped in and reprimanded them. You remember what he said? That no one other than Kale, himself and myself could insult you? Of course, he said that after he called you a shit for brainless monkey with a smirk on his face. How long have you known Ichison?" Kayla asked as she dangled her hair in Goku's face.

"Ever since I had to defend Earth from him over twenty years ago," then Goku related every instance that concerned the prince and himself as the only two full-blooded Saiyans left in existence at the time. He ended the narrative with Vegeta's request for energy through an alternate source.

Kayla smirked and nodded her head. "I was wondering how long it would be before the two of you had bonded with one another. Consider it an honor, mate of mine, that he gave himself to you and not to any of the others but you, and he wanted you to do the same, yes?" the princess asked and Goku's breath caught in his throat.

"H-how d-did you guess? Yeah, he tried to but I couldn't. I had no problem when he requested of me. He's the prince and heir apparent ruler of our race, so it was his request I was fulfilling. But he was unconscious when he requested of me and I took advantage of the fact. Your brother's always fascinated me and for a long time I wanted a bond with him on a deeper level than what we had with our kids. After his first mate tossed him to the curb, so to speak, and I caught him in deep sorrow, I guess in order for him to assure my secrecy, he let me live with him. The only time we ever touched one another in any fashion outside of sparring was to share energy through our hands and clean one another's wounds. It was only during the return trip from Ispan-12 that we ever touched on the level that you and I do. That wouldn't have happened if we hadn't of had a talk with our boys, I mean as far as your brother giving me what I had given to him, and he was fully conscious." From here Goku related what Vegeta had shared with him regarding the prince's willingness to complete the bond.


He had seen the mountain collapse in his mind's eye as he meditated but he could not see the direct cause. Coming out of his meditation, Piccolo flew off to the mountain and began to levitate the rubble to uncover whatever, or whoever, might be trapped beneath. He was not surprised when he unearthed the broken Saiyan prince who was just barely clinging to life. Shaking his head, Piccolo levitated the prince to himself, let the rocks fall back to Earth then flew off with the smaller being floating behind him.

"Dende, I got another one for you. I swear this thing has a death wish. Why doesn't he just Final Flash and get it over with?" Piccolo asked more to himself than any one else.

'Because I don't have a death wish, Piccolo,' a voice replied.

"Vegeta? What happened?" Dende, the Namek guardian for Earth, asked as he stretched his hands over the injured Saiyan in an effort to revive him.

After ten minutes of emitting energy into the Saiyan, Dende stopped and Vegeta opened his eyes. "Easy, now, hot head. So, what caused the meltdown in your core, this time? Last time it was when you found Goku was born with a higher power than your own. Then when you drained that flood all by yourself," Piccolo mentioned.

"Hello to you, too, green man. Got anything to eat around this joint?" Vegeta asked, returning to himself and walking around the look out and evading a reply to Piccolo's inquiry.

A being of ebony coloring stood between Dende and Piccolo. He was dressed like a gypsy with a turban. This was the guardian's companion, Mr. Popo who looked after the domesticity of the Lookout. In short, he was the chief cook and bottle washer, so it was no small thing to provide a sumptuous meal for the Saiyan prince and the other injured warriors who were present at the time. The beings attacked the food like a swarm of locust, except Vegeta, who kept his eyes down and on his own meal.

"Something's wrong with Vegeta. His heart is hurt, much deeper than what it was before the first cave in changed his personality," Piccolo observed the Saiyan prince as he ate at a much slower rate than the other Saiya-jin present. The prince also seemed disinterested and withdrawn.

"Oh, my, Piccolo! D-do you think he'll revert to his old destructive self again?" Mr. Popo asked in a shaky voice.

"No, that's not likely. With Frieza, King Cold and Cell being back in this dimension and hundreds of Saiya-jin to rule over, he's gonna concentrate on becoming stronger after he deals with this little crisis. Let him hang here tonight and I'll talk to him," Piccolo said and went to find a quiet spot in which he could meditate.

Vegeta had eaten his fill and got up with the intention of walking around the Lookout, however, Mr. Popo stopped him and asked if he'd like to get refreshed before he began training. The prince responded in the affirmative and followed Mr. Popo. The prince stripped his tattered boots, gloves and uniform, then entered the wash room where he lost himself in the spray from the showerhead.

'Why has it gone so wrong? I wouldn't have hurt him and he knows that. For a long time I've felt towards him what my own son feels towards his brat but I fought it because I knew for an Earthling, such feelings weren't normal. I fought mi amour as well because I didn't want him or anyone else to see me in that weak a condition, and that was before that tunnel collapse. Why, Kakarrot, why? Didn't you realize what I was asking of you the night you shared your energy with me? I wanted to see how comfortable you had become around me to let your secret fantasy become reality. You ran when I lay my own desires for you on the table and that, for me was the most difficult thing I'd ever done. Fighting Frieza and Cell were child's play compared to declaring how deeply I felt for you. Had the other Saiya-jin, my sibs, and my lifemate not have shown up, you would have been mine. But you turned away from me and I feel the same emptiness I had when I watched you give your life to save the rest of ours from Cell. Kakarrot..." the prince let his emotions go but was thankful the shower masked his sorrow. 'I miss what we had before the Z Sensi and the discovery of our own race took center stage,' the prince sniffled against tears he could not stop.


Back on Earth, the queen and Cilvanti were trying to help Lissa to better understand the being that was her mate and the male Saiyan in general. Kayla, Kakarrot, Kale and Tormatanna all entered the palace and they were all laughing and glowing with flames unlike that of the Super Saiyan.

"What is this, my children?" Sunrissa asked when she saw her children and their mates.

"Oh, we just helped Kakarrot become better acquainted with being a dual Saiyan. Either of you seen Elder one, I think the two of them need to have a talk," Kale replied as he embraced his mate.

"Kale, I told you he wants nothing to do with me? He hates me because I walked away from his offer to do to me what he had asked me to do. He was unconscious and drained of energy when he had asked me that favor and I took advantage of the situation," Goku countered the younger prince.

Cilvi looked at her god-Outusan with surprise at first, then shouted, "Yeah!" and she flew to Goku's arms. "I knew you'd do it someday! Daddy always wanted to form a brother bond with you but his pride wouldn't let him do so. I'm glad he had that tunnel accident," the little princess said as she hugged the commander.

All eyes turned to her and silence reign when those gathered felt an energy that was followed by the appearance of...

"Piccolo, what brings you here?" Goku asked his long time rival/friend.

"Mr. Piccolo, daddy and Kakarrot male bonded like Geta, my brother, and Goten, isn't that great?" the baby exclaimed and Lissa stared wide-eyed at the tyke.

"Is that what happened on that trip? I thought it was to get the weak warriors up to level, not to satisfy some primal male lust!" Lissa screamed.

"Lissa, we did take the weaker warriors to attempt to level them up but we were ambushed before we got out of the ships. Your mate was willing to take the entire mechanized army on himself but I couldn't see him make such a foolish sacrifice so I joined him. The ruler of that planet then ordered the blasting to cease then ordered us off his planet. Your mate asked me to grab that golden haired girl when the prince attacked. Well, that part went ok and I got the blonde princess to the ship but when the prince moved to return, the Ispan-12 ruler trapped his highness with bonds that drained his energy. The other being started to make a pass at our prince but I blasted that being before he could put his plans into motion. Not long after we had cleared the planet, the prince left and I saw a brilliant light like an explosion, so I surmised that he blew that hunk of rock into the next dimension.

"When the prince returned to the ship, he was badly drained of energy and would have died had he not requested me to share my energy with him but not in the usual way. He was unconscious when he requested of me. I did not request of him. After that transpired, I met up with my son and we had a talk. I guess the two princes did the same. When the prince had come back to consciousness, I found him sparring and he tried to get me but I wouldn't let him. Then we shared a meal and he tried again but got a shock from my body. That sent him over the edge and he took me to the gravity trainer to retaliate. I had to put him down with a Kamehameha blast. In short, I rejected his every attempt to give me what I gave him. Happy now, I've said everything!" Goku tried to hold himself together but found the emotion too strong so he left the palace.

Piccolo stood open mouthed at the revelation then it became clear to him as to why Vegeta had sat away form the other Saiya-jin at the Lookout. "So that's what's eating him," Piccolo remarked in a quiet tone.

Sunrissa shook her head. "No, Namek, it's more than that. Unlike my daughter who has two brothers and was able to witness the other when he entered his stage, Lissa is an only chimp. Her male parent had no knowledge of the opening because both he and his brother were Vegeta Ou's warriors during their in-between stage and had no other desires than to please the king. She rejected my son when he sought comfort. I'm afraid Ichimi will not be returning to us as the same being that left a few weeks ago," the queen sighed, her heart heavy, and a pointed glance to Lissa but she said nothing.

Piccolo left the palace and returned to the look out and found the Saiyan prince in meditation. Vegeta asking Goku to share his energy through an alternate means was unimaginable but he didn't pretend to understand the Saiya-jin and their idiosyncrasies.

"Oh, Piccolo, Vegeta's requested to train in the room of Time and Spirit for a full weak! He'll kill himself!" Dende fretted. "And I'm not too sure, but, when I was healing him, I picked up another chi inside him. I think he's carrying. If he enters the chamber, he'll kill the baby or have it before it's fully ready!"

"No he won't. Saiya-jin live for a challenge and he's the king of that strange race. Plus he's trying to deal with something more personal. I'll talk to him. Maybe I can get him to train in the Pendulum room and fight old Saiya-jin of old." Piccolo said with assurance.

A week had gone by and no Prince Vegeta. Trageta and Goten oversaw the training and leveling up of the weaker warriors and the continued training of the X-team. From a high vantage point in the sky, the elder Prince Vegeta stood surveying the on goings of his desert home. His time at the Lookout was well spent. He had taken Piccolo's suggestion about entering the Pendulum room, traveling back to Old Vegeta to fight his ancestors. He felt a million times stronger than he had previously and knew he had discovered another level of SSJ than his previous one. He watched as his son and Wolverine sparred, then he materialized on the battlefield and kicked his son into a mountain several miles away. Locating Goten, he administered the same medicine. Those who had been gathered on the field stood in shock; however, Princess
Cilvanti had picked up the prince's energy and flew to him.

"Daddy, you're back!" she exclaimed.

The prince turned to her and she halted in mid-flight. "Back off, chimp! Its time you knew you're place in this army is not to cuddle under my tail. You females from now on will train separate from the men. I will be taking another group off planet. This will include females, but no chimps will leave this planet. Those who do not feel they have the guts to face what we are about to, stay here! Trunks, Goten, I want no more horseplay between the two of you! You have mates and you are males. Celerion!" the prince called to the medic who appeared quicker than an eye blink.

"Here, my prince," the medic bowed.

"Beginning with me, you will sew up every male whose opening did not close when he exited his in between stage of being. We are Saiya-jin, and from this day forward, any one caught expressing emotion, caring or other wise will be dealt with harshly! Be ready to leave planet in five days," the prince said then trod off the sparring ground.

Cilvanti flew to the prince. "Why can't I go? Aren't I your daughter?" she yelled.

"Well, I suppose you are. My seed was contributed the that blue hair hellcat on two legs and that pretty boy then yourself came out, so I guess you are my offspring. Now out of my way!" he thundered and left the field entirely.
The gathered crowd looked at one another in bewilderment. What had happened to their beloved prince who was beginning to share his deeper emotions? He had a very high power reading and could have easily destroyed everything with a puff of his breath. Goku had taken hold of Kayla and was shivering from just the sight of her brother in a rage.

"W-what's eating him?" Kale asked as his mate clung to his training gi in fear of her life.

"I don't like this. Ichimi is too wild and powerful like the Saiya-jin of old. He's nearly as he once was," the queen fretted and went to find her eldest son.

Cilvanti was in her brother's arms-he had freed himself from the mountain as had Goten-and she was in tears. "Daddy yelled at me, Geta, why? He's gone mean again. What happened to my nice daddy?" she wailed and Trunks Vegeta took the baby and Cornelia out of camp. He signaled to Goten and Cilantra to follow.

Sunrissa had found her eldest in his bedchamber and she closed the door behind herself, then threw a blast at her son. She knew it wouldn't hurt him, but she had to try something.

"What is it, woman?" he snarled at her and looked at her with hard cold eyes.

"What have you done with my son? I want him back," the queen looked at the being in her son's body with eyes just as hard and cold.

"What you want that pathetic weakling back? His Outusan was right; allowing you to bond with him during the first three months of his existence was a mistake, which has now been corrected! I am Vegeta no Ouji and I am King of the Saiya-jin! I will have no sponges, tender hearts, open males nor weaklings in my army! I have a mission and that's to stop Frieza and become ruler of the universe!" Vegeta proclaimed, however, at that moment, he went flying off his feet and through the window of his chamber.

Then a being charged at the prince who could not react in time to counter the attack and the prince found himself flying into a mountain. Before he could free himself, the mountain exploded around him.

"I want my daddy back! Give me my daddy who has a heart of gold and loves me! I don't want the mean alien who sired my brother and I!" It had been the little princess who knocked the prince onto another galaxy and she continued to throw chi blasts into the mountain under which her sire was buried.

Just then Piccolo and Dende appeared to survey what had gone on. "Cilvi, stop, you'll kill him!" Piccolo took hold of the baby and held.

"My daddy's gone, Piccolo. He's dead," the little one cried.

"No he's not, princess. He's hiding behind his old self and is very afraid now to show his feelings any more to any one. I saw it during the seven days he spent at the Lookout. He told me that he would return to Earth as his old self and would never open up the deepest part himself ever," Piccolo explained.

"Why?" Cilvi asked as she tried to calm herself down and dry her tears.

"Two persons he loves as much as he does you and your brother have torn his heart out and only they can restore him. They're not ready to do that," Piccolo said and looked at both Kakarrot and Lissa in one glance.

"I want my son back to the way he was before the trip to Ispan-12," the queen looked pointedly at her son's and daughter's mates.

Just then the rubble of the mountain began to move and a groan was heard. Those gathered turned to see Vegeta had freed himself from the rubble.


"A-A little assistance would be welcomed, you know," Vegeta rasped but no one moved. "Oh, c'mon, you didn't believe me earlier did you? I-I apologize for hurting any of you like that," he said as he further pushed himself from the rubble.

At that instance, Chokarti and Gohan were by the prince's side to assist him the rest of the way from the mountain. Vegeta stood and looked at the family and friends who had gathered around him and his heart constricted especially when he laid eyes on his little one and saw fear in her onyx eyes. <A/N: Cilvanti is wearing black contact over her blue eyes>. He knelt down and extended his arms to her. "C'mere, chimp," he said and Piccolo put the girl down to go to her Outusan. When she didn't approach him, he reached, grabbed her and held her tight. "Outusan's sorry he had to put you through that. Forgive me?" he asked as he cried into her hair.

"Yes. Are you my 'Tusan now or that mean Saiyan who just provided his seed to make us?" she asked and the prince smiled.

"I'm your 'Tusan, little warrior," the prince nodded.

Celerion approached the prince. "Highness, shall I proceed with your request to sew the open males closed?" the medic asked in a nervous voice.

The prince looked and shook his head. "When you see my son and his friend, tell them everything's normal. I still want every one trained and together by Monday. C'mon, little one, let's go train," he smiled and hoisted Cilvi into his hair.

It was hard not to miss the cut direct the prince had given to both his own mate and the commander. The queen sighed. Well at least, her tender heart hadn't changed back into the monster he had been some years ago but she prayed that this animosity between those three would be short lived. Life was gonna be interesting at best from here on out until they came to their senses.

The prince had taken his baby, Trageta, Goten, Kakarrot and the weaker Saiya-jin to the Lookout and arranged to have them trained for four years-four days in reality. The little princess looked forward to it just being a family affair and training for four days with her brother and his mate. Kakarrot looked forward to finding out how ancient Saiyans fought and maybe learn more about his temperamental mate.


Back on Earth, Kayla took Lissa for a walk to find out just why she was having such a time with accepting that her mate had given himself to another when he badly needed energy.

"Kayla, I didn't know our males developed such a thing. It's scary to know that if I don't please him, that he has another already. I thought we mated once and that was for life," Lissa cried.

"The male bond is not a life mate bond, although it some males in of our race had made it so but they were of common birth. It's mainly a male bonding game and not meant to overshadow the bond they have with us. I think it's a beautiful thing. Have you ever seen the young prince and the commander's boy? The four of them have no qualms about what they are doing. I guess if you have never been around and open males, you wouldn't understand. Lissa, your rejection of Ichison hurt him deeply. Talk to him when he comes back," Kayla said, then positioned herself for battle and Lissa followed suit.


Four days later, the prince had returned to Earth with his family at varying degrees of power level, along with those Saiya-jin who had been having difficulty in making level. The prince and his mate did not enter the time room due to their physical condition, but he did return to the Pendulum Room to train with his large mate. They had finally made level after the period in the Spirit Room. Vegeta gathered the entire army and divided them into groups and he began to take group after group off planet to liberate planets some of them had conquered for Frieza many years ago. He also intended to liberate those planets that he, the prince, Nappa and Raditz had conquered for the great horned demon themselves. The five different races gathered at Little Vegeta had boarded the ships available and followed Vegeta to the far reaches of the universe to begin negotiations to liberate star systems that still pledged allegiance to Frieza.