Dragon Ball/Z/GT Fan Fiction ❯ Truthfully Yours ❯ Bulma is not in love with Vegeta?! ( Chapter 2 )

Disclaimer: I don't own Dragonball Z/GT. Any other characters mentioned below are mine.

A/N: I request that the reader tells me if he/she liked it, why and why not. If not… well I accept flamers too. I will write as I see fit, not because you review or not. To me it is often because I have no time or muse. So bear with me.

By the way, you should check out the following stories called:

"Forgotten tears of a Warrior" by: Star Spangle Mistress,

"The Story of You and Me" by fusionHA

"The story between you and me" by Akemi

"Puppy love series" by Slyhterinette

"Saiyan Troubles" by Kat

"Love's Labor" by Ryukodomo

"Fractured Fairytales" by SaintMe

"Caught between Two Worlds" by alfarrar

"Shattered and Scarred" by alfarrar

"The Kakarotte factor" by Echelon

Maybe by doing this they'll write more and I won't have to wait till next month for an update.

Ch. 2

Vegeta stared at the woman in front of him and sighed. He really didn't want to explain but he knew he had no choice. He could ki blast her into oblivion but then his love wouldn't like that even though it was over between Chichi and him. A sigh escaped his lips as he gave up.

"What did she mean by that?"

"By what woman?"

"By saying her strengths. I know for a fact that everything that means strength to you and the rest is revolved about ki and what kind of power that gives you, so why didn't she say her powers instead of strength?"

"She is no less stronger than Videl."

"Meaning what? What kind of explanation is that?"

"Sakura is only a visitor it does not concern you as to whether or not she has talked to you about something. Let her be."

"What do you mean by that? Is this female is as strong as Videl, yes or no?"

"Just drop it woman, or else I will kill you. It is none of your business whether or not she is as strong as your daughter in law!" - said Vegeta frustrated.

"Alright! You don't have to shout! How about you tell me about why she treats you with familiarity? It's as if she knew you from before."

"She does. She was supposed to be my bride."

"Your bride?!?" - Chichi was surprised.

"My father and her parents decided that she would be a great queen seeing as she was the most strongest female in court."

"Really?" - now she was interested. This was a part of Vegeta she never imagined he had in the first place.

Ok, so she didn't really know him. It wasn't as if she would rather die than get in front of him but it was true that for most of her life since they had met, there wasn't that much good animosity between them as it was for her ex-husband and Bulma. In fact they rarely talked at all besides the usual greetings, `Vegeta' for her and `Harpy' for him.

"She is ten years my senior and probably the oldest saiyan alive."

"You mean you were betrothed to her when you were a kid?"

"I was betrothed to her even before I was even born."

Chichi suddenly felt bad for him. Something she had never been when it came down to him.

"I was taken away by Freeza by the time I was seven years old. I knew Sakura only briefly and even then it was only to spar. She was a great tactician and a much better fighter than Nappa."

"So what happened?"

"Vegeta-sei exploded and none of us ever saw her again. The truth is that Sakura could kill any one of us if it came to it because even though her ki is no higher than her daughter's, she is able to do much more just by using her strengths instead of her power."

"She made a banter out of your true love, I thought you and Bulma were together?"

"We are but not in the sense you talk of."

"Explain." - she demanded softly.

"The woman is in love and has always been in love with someone else."

"Nani!?!!" - she screeched and only calmed down when she saw that Vegeta was upset with her screeching voice.

"Don't screech woman! The only reason I'm answering is because you've been pretty insistent about this, but I won't stand for your screeching!"

"I'm sorry, but I always thought of you being the cheater."

"I never said the woman cheated on me. All I said was that she has always been in love with someone else. Don't twist the meaning of what I said."

"Ok? How is it possible you know who she loves?"

"She told me so."

"She told you? She told the man who is the father of her two children that she was in love with someone else?"

"You did that to Kakarott, what's so different about Bulma doing that to me?"

Silence. He had shocked her again with his words of wisdom.

"Anyway, Bulma agreed to let me stay at Capsule Corporation as long as I behaved myself around this guy. It isn't hard to keep my words to myself just to keep Bulma from screaming at me. So I have kept quiet. Everyone thinks that we are married or something, but we are not. We were never that close. I care for her but I can not say I am in love with her."

"You called her Bulma?"

"Isn't that her name?"

"You know our names and yet you don't want to use them, why?" - Chichi asked exasperated.

"What does it matter if I do or not? It only matters to people if I call them things that would make them scared, but I don't scare any of you, so what does it matter if I call you by your name or not?" - Vegeta was trying to keep a leash on his frustration but it was getting harder not to just stop the chattering and blast Chichi into oblivion.

"So who does she love that she needs to hide it from the rest of the world? Yamcha?"

"That weakling has nothing on Bulma. He never did and never will."

"Who then?"

"If the woman did not tell you then I won't either. Besides it is none of your business."

Chichi looked exasperated with him, but decided not to push her luck with him.

"This Sakura also spoke of my ex-husband as if she was talking about a nobody. How is it that Goku went to bed with her but he never said anything about it?"

"I don't know that. In spite of being close to that baka, he never spoke of his conquests before you. So you are better off asking the baldy than me." - Vegeta stood up and thought conversation was over when she asked…

"Would Bulma know? I mean about him sleeping with someone else before he even married me?"

"You could ask her. I don't know about that."

After having that brief conversation with Chichi, Goku decided to go outside and plop down into the grass and just stare at the sky. He knew Chichi didn't love him, so why did he feel so miserable. Ah, it was because she didn't trust him. Wasn't that the reason? He honestly thought that she trusted him. After all, she didn't really threaten to lawsuit when Piccolo took Gohan out in the fields before Vegeta even arrived.

He himself didn't love her the way she thought he had. That was primarily why he wasn't upset when she told him that she was in love with someone else. All he could think though was the appearance that he was the least bit sad about it. After all the prince of saiyans was there and he had to keep appearances too. People often said it was Chichi who was the disciplined one, the one that cared about what other people said, but he was worried too. He had to keep up a front just like everyone else, but it was for a different reason altogether.

He knew his sons knew. Even his little Panny knew that he was pretending to be dumb. He did have a pure heart to begin with, but that didn't mean that he was dumb. He just liked to behave like he didn't know certain things. Just like his son Gohan tried to act like he didn't understand emotions. He was sure he did, but then on some occasions it was as naïve as his father was on things. It wasn't that Goku or either of his sons were dumb, they just weren't as evil and perverted minded as other people were.

He looked up to see Bulma staring down at him with a quiet smile in her face and he noticed not for the first time that she had aged. Yet, she didn't look that bad. Her blue hair had silver highlights that made her look younger than what was her real age. You could only guess how old she was by the look of wisdom in her eyes. Her eyes were blue. They had been the bluest eyes he had ever seen the first time they met, but worries and hardships had dulled its color now to a soft blue that you could only see in the sky mid-morning.

"Son-kun? What are you doing out here?" - asked Bulma a little startled at the fact that he was in her backyard after ten years of not seeing him when he went off with the dragon.

"Just resting." - his answer proved to her that she was not going insane. That he was indeed lying there in her backyard staring at the cloudless blue sky.

"Are you hungry? I could try and find something for you to eat if you want to."

"Ok." - he answered. He was after all bit hungry and he really hadn't thought about food since he came back this morning.

"C'mon Son-kun, I'm sure I can whip something good for you to eat."

He followed his best friend in the world back into the big kitchen of Capsule Corporation and sat down while one of the robots fished inside the refrigerator for food to eat. He began to eat and Bulma sat down in front of him smiling a secretive smile and took joy of just watching her best friend eat as he always did.

She took in his presence and decided to enjoy him all she could. After all, it had been many years since they had had some time together all on their own. Oh, how she loved him. She loved him ever since they had been kids. Well, not really kids. She had been 17 when she finally noticed that even though he was short, he was cute. Of course he was cute then, but when he came back a little before the Budokai, he was drop-dead gorgeous and just a teeny bit shorter than he is today.

He had been sixteen years old when he came to see her for a month. He said that they had taken a break in his training with Kami-sama and they had had a small but great courting. Of course no one knew about that little tiny detail except three people, Goku, Vegeta and herself of course.

No one else really needed to know that because it was a secret she intended to keep to herself until the end of her life, which seemed to take a little longer than she had thought in the first place. And Vegeta knew about this only because even though he was in love with Goku too; they had been lovers at one point and now they were good friends… well as good friends could go with Vegeta. She had been confused as to Vegeta's way of showing love towards her friend Goku, but she quickly realized that it was some sort of defense mechanism to stop himself from getting hurt just like she used anger to hide her feelings when it came to Goku. She often wondered how they were going to mate if Vegeta ever had the guts or courage to tell him how he felt.