Dragon Ball/Z/GT Fan Fiction ❯ Truthfully Yours ❯ Kakarott's mind ( Chapter 14 )

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. 14

/So, vile traitor, what else do I have to know after knowing who I am, to show from now on my strength, knowledge and my power?/ - Pedro Calderon de la Barca "La Vida es sueño" (Life is a dream).

Pan was sure that her life couldn't get any worse. Her grandfather was out cold in slumber, her father occupied with her newfound family. Her uncle working on his newfound relationship with Trunks and her mother was not around yet. Sigh, she continued to read her book with interest but knowing that to the sharp gaze of those around her, she wasn't fooling anybody.

He was unconscious yet he was very much entwined with everything around him. At first he thought he was reliving the nightmare of being inside of Buu's mind with Kakarott at his side, but when he didn't see anything resembling that; he relaxed somewhat. He looked around and decided that yes he was in someone's brain, but he couldn't understand whose or why. He saw a shadow further away from him, but thinking it wise, he decided to wait for it when it came forth.

"Saa Vegeta, I really wish you would stop intruding into my privacy." - he turned around quickly to find that he was definitely not alone.

He stood on guard for a while before deciding to speak out…

"Show yourself!" - he hissed out only to see spiky hair in the dim lit room. The room was alighted suddenly and he could see a lot, in fact taking in all the features of the man before him and he stood there gaping, his face showing many expressions at once making him look like something surreal.

"I would like to know why are you in my brain, Vegeta. Specially since I told you never to bother me again." - said the figure that Vegeta concluded was Kakarott.

"Your brain?" - Vegeta asked, his tone of voice visibly indicating that he was more than just merely confused.

"Yes, my brain; Vegeta. I do have one, you know. Did you think I had an empty head for real?" - Kakarott drawled out, the words rolling off his mouth like honey. The words heavily coated with sarcasm that despite the emotionless face that looked back at Vegeta, it was obvious that he was very much annoyed.

"Kakarott?" - then Vegeta did something that no one else would really think it could happen if they had been there at the moment. He threw himself to hug Kakarott, but ended up falling face first to the floor.

"Why?! Why can't I hug you?!" - Vegeta asked feeling deeply frustrated at the fact that he couldn't seem to get what he wanted even if this was his dream.

"Because we are not real. Neither of us is real. I am just an image projected by my unconscious to let you know that you are not wanted here. I want you to go and I could use force to kick you out of my brain, but I have decided to let you talk as it is obvious you won't let me be without your so-called need for answers." - Kakarott explained Vegeta, his tone of voice saying that he was not only annoyed but bored as well.

"But I FEEL myself and I know you looked tri-dimensional enough!" - Vegeta ground out.

"Baka. I just told you that we are just projections of our unconscious brain. Kind of like when dreams come forth in your sleep. We go through a lot of things, emotions and places; but they are really just visions, images of ourselves doing things in our dreams whilst our real bodies lie on a bed resting." - Vegeta looked at Kakarott and he was once again reminded that he had lied to him about his intelligence.

"You will not bad-mouth me. I am your prince and even though I had been leaving you of the hook, this will not continue being so." - Vegeta demanded with a voice full of authority.

"You are in my dominion, so I can very well do or say anything I well damn please." - Kakarott responded easily to the verbal demand.

Vegeta stood up shocked beyond his soul to guess that this was the true Kakarott, saiyan and earth upbringing alike.

"Who are you?" - he asked.

"I am Kakarott, third class saiyan sent to Earth to destroy and conquer the rest of the universe under the name of the Saiyan Empire. But I am also Son Goku, the earth raised saiyan brainless idiot that ascended to the true super saiyan form to defeat Freeza and the rest of those who sought to erase the saiyan race." "Take your pick, they are both the same person."

"…" - Vegeta had no response to that. Instead he decided to remain silent thinking of some sort of other question to ask the man before him.

"I have answered your questions, now leave." - that said by Kakarott brought Vegeta out of his stupor to shake his head and recover his wits.

"I want to know why. You owe me the answers as to why you have never respected me enough, why you never respected your saiyan upbringing. Your blood, your prince."

"I owe you nothing. You can shout and scream all you like, but here on Earth… even here in the confines of my mind; we are equals. Not by power, not by class, but by the simple fact that we are who we are and there is no one else who can compare to us. Get over it Vegeta. The saiyan race died a long time ago. It might resurface again, but I will never bow to you. I have my pride after all."

"I… I demand that you explain yourself!" - Vegeta shouted at Kakarott, his patience wearing thin. His mate was not being exactly kind to him and to top it all, Kakarott was not being exactly clear with him.

"Very well. I will answer your questions and then you will leave the confines of my mind to never return again." - his statement clearly stating that he would brook no argument.

Vegeta waited. Kakarott sighed: "I said I would answer you any questions you had."

"Who are you?"

"Are we back to that? I answered that one already. Oh, I see. You want to know which one of those is the real Me." - another sarcastic remark that came from none other than his beautiful Kakarott.

"If you have known your heritage, then why in the great heavens have you not followed your instincts?!" - Vegeta had finally let go of his frustration and let his wrath be known.

"What instincts? The killing, the need for survival, bonding and respecting my betters? Which one did you want me to obey? If you look at it from my point of view, you would see that I have obeyed all of them. I have killed, I have found a way to survive, and I have not bonded with both females in my life because I was not in love with them. I have respected everyone else even you. The mere fact that I have not called you by your title does not mean that I did not respected you. To me that title you carry does not define who you are. I proved it when I defeated you and all those other times that you could not defeat me. Making me bow to you by force this last time has nothing to do with the simple fact that having me bow to you unwillingly has not made you happy. You want me to do it willingly, and you know it will never happen."

"You lie. I never wanted to defeat you, I just wanted to-"

"To what, Vegeta? To own me? You did. Which is why I will not bow to the bond. This is clearly why you are here, why you were able to come into my mind and still be able to stand before me even though I really want you to go."

"I don't want to own you Kakarott. I want to be your mate, protect you and be with you for the rest of my life."

"You lie. I don't need your protection and if you so much as wanted to honor me, you would have said so before." - Kakarott bared his teeth to him in a snarl.

"Honor you? I've saved you from getting killed a couple of times. Doesn't that say that I honor you that I want you that I care? If I did not, I would have broken you before. I would have found a way and I would have gone thru with it. I love you. I will always love you." - there he had declared his intentions.

"I don't like to admit this, but the façade known as Son Goku does not prevent me from hurting after your comments. Your rude thoughts of me as a brainless bakayarou, or all those other insults. I know you hate me for ascending me before you did, but if you think that I'd be trusting you with my life after claiming you care you have another thing coming. I am saiyan after all."

With that he turned away from Vegeta and before the other could even refute his statement, he felt pain. <<I told you I could kick you out whenever I wanted to>> came into his mind. The thought unbidden sending him back to the darkness that was his own mind. And he slept a dreamless sleep.

Sakura flinched.

She was Kakarott's guardian and even though she really didn't need to make herself be known to both when Vegeta had entered the confines of Kakarott's mind. Who was Kakarott? The real Kakarott was able to control his whole form in anyway he could. He was able to do everything and anything to destroy anything that stood in between what he wanted and what he did not want. He was a genius and yet he was no more than a young pup learning to live and survive for the very first time. Creating a different side of him and still is sane enough to talk after going through every kind of torment his mind could go through. But it had a down side. He had to compromise his wishes for the well-being of those he cared for. Bulma, his sons, his granddaughter, his few friends and that to which he had long given up trying to identify as the core of his being.

He had to deny to himself the desire to be who he was born to be. Yet, Sakura wouldn't wish him to be any other than who he was today. Sure, he had not gone through the living constant pain that Vegeta received at living with the ice-jin for the most part of his life. He had trust and friendship, that to which Vegeta never knew until he came down to Earth and stood side by side with him to defend the world.

They were different and yet so alike. Both meant to be from the minute they were born. Few had known that Vegeta was born to power and that the third class saiyan known as Kakarott had been chosen as the one who would defeat the ice-jin who enslaved the saiyan race and the one who would carry out the torch for the whole saiyan rejuvenated race.

They were mates even before they met. Sakura took care of not intruding in their worlds too much. She knew it. She knew they would meet and that Kakarott would win. At first glance, the first fight between them could be understood as one defending the earth to which had given him so much from an enemy, but; at a much more specific point of view; it was a quest for the dominant one. To see who was the strongest in mind, body and soul and Kakarott had showed the gods of Vegeta-sei that he had not been created for nothing. He had showed them that he was strong in mind, body and soul. He could be a god and he would be the day he finally died for real.

His faults would be pardon only because of what he had accomplished in so little time. He was young. He could be considered a pup that knew nothing of how the universe worked. But he was not a pup. He was the great oozaru. The great descendant of the legendary super saiyan. And he deserved everything that he had accomplished and much more.

Vegeta deserved everything he had acquired from birth for obvious reasons known to anyone who had a brief knowledge of what it was to be a true prince of saiyans. They fit. They fit like a foot to a sock. And it would take time for both of them to realize that they were one. It would take time, but nobody said that life was easy. Especially that of a saiyan demi-god.

She turned away from Kakarott's bed and saluted as she would have to any of the three gods of Vegeta-sei: The light, the gatekeeper and the dark. With that she disappeared into thin air searching for council from the gatekeeper to understand what pandemonium was to come to the lives of the inhabitants of Earth and the few saiyans remaining around it.