The
longer he had stared at her, the worse he felt.yes\"> Every second like he was going to drown in the waves of emotion
that were overcoming him. Nuala.style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\"> That’s what Vegeta named her.style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\"> Abused little girl and he felt so sorry for
her that it was making him sick. But he
stared at her, thought of the dragon, thought of how that bastard dragon had
taken all the lives of the children he could have had.style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\"> Wondered if it would be the same if he had
more babies with her.

mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt\'> Knew
that Vegeta had turned his back.

mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt\'> And
knew what he was going to say to this little girl that stared at him with wide,
round black eyes. Moved closer to
her. Touched her hand, kissed her
forehead and purred for her. Like a
mother. Met her gaze and slowly shook
his head. “I can’t,” he whispered to
her, “I couldn’t ever hurt Vegeta.”

mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt\'> Wondered
if she understood what he was trying to say.
Felt her kiss him, felt her panic, and just purred.style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\"> Let her try to kiss him, try to convince him
of whatever. Held her as shewed wed at
him and screamed at him. But the purr
prevailed, put her back to sleep, and he picked her up, IT’ed both of them to
the living room, laid her on the couch and pulled a sheet over her.style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\"> (The littles always dragged sheets and
blankets into the living room to watch movies.
This was quite possibly the first time he was pleased about it.)

mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt\'> Walked
back up to the bedroom. Stood outside
the door and pressed his hand to it, knew that Vegeta was standing right there
on the other side. Felt something
inside of him breaking, because he could feel how…upset…how everything Vegeta
was. Pissed off and hurt and annoyed
and angry. And he didn’t push the door
open, it opened, and he was dragged in.
By hands that tore at him.

mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt\'> Grabbed
Vegeta even as he ripped at his clothes, wrapped him up and crushed them
together, pressed their chests tight together, felt their heartbeats as they
matched a rhythm and he just held him.
Felt him shaking everywhere from the tips of his hair to his toes, and
purred. A mate’s purr.style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">

mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt\'> Kissed
Vegeta, felt the teeth behind his lips as Vegeta opened his mouth and tried to
bite him. Kissed his face everywhere,
whispered: “I don’t want anyone but you.”

mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt\'> “Mine!”
was what Vegeta said to him.
Urgently. Grabbed his shoulders,
ripped away whatever clothe still remained, twisted in his grasp, kissed him
again. Forced his lips open and Vegeta
licked him. Everywhere, sucked on his
lips and his mouth and dug his fingers into Goku’s shoulders.

mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt\'> Broke
through the embrace that held him, tore at his own clothes and Goku finished
removing his ragged gi. Felt the impact
as Vegeta grabbed him again, pressed them all against each other, shoved him
back against the wall. Strong hand
little hands grabbed at him everywhere. yes\"> And Vegeta was growling, shaking and growling and he moved his
mouth from Goku’s lips to his shoulder, dug his teeth straight down to the
muscle, sucked on the wound, and growled louder.yes\"> “Mine!” he screamed into the shoulder.

mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt\'> Yes.style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">

mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt\'> Goku
moved them, back over to the bed, but Vegeta pulled them back off, pushed him
down to the floor, wordlessly explained that the girl had been on their
bed. Pushed Goku’s thigpen,pen, moved
between them, moved inside of Goku.
Stopped, pressed hands to the strong chest under him.

mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt\'> Goku
stared up at him. Watched Vegeta
staring at him. Licking his bloody
lips. Purred for Vegeta.style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\"> Shifted off his tail, let it move up, wrap
around Vegeta’s wrist. Whimpered for
him. Leaned up and kissed him.style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\"> “’Geta,” he whispered.style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">

mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt\'> Felt
another hard kiss against his mouth.
“Mine!” Nodded, laid back down and pulled his legs up, wrapped his hands
in his hair and waited.

mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt\'> Whimpered.

mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt\'> “Yours,”
he agreed. Felt fingernails curl across
his skin as Vegeta fisted his hands against Goku’s chest.style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\"> Moved inside of him, harder and harder as
his power level went higher and higher.
Goku purred deeper, moved back against him.yes\"> Felt the slickness and the slide and the anger.

mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt\'> Couldn’t
match that anger, but felt it. Felt a
void inside of him at just the thought of having to touch someone else the way
he touched Vegeta. At the thought of
what he had given up when he told Nuala no, and what he would have lost if he
had told her yes. Let Vegeta kiss him
and hold him and draw blood and growl.

mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt\'> Closed
his eyes. Felt lips kiss his eyelids,
felt eyes watching him as he arched and purred and whimpered.style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\"> And then, moved his arms up, wrapped around
Vegeta again and held him, just like that, stilled all their movement, and held
onto him. And Vegeta stayed there, with
him, in him, part of him. Trilled for
him.

mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt\'> “Always,”
Goku whispered.

mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt\'> 

mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt\'>~~~***

mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt\'> “Okay,
now that we’re far away from the others,” Bardock said, clearly very annoyed
with the present situation, “What the fuck happened and why the hell are you so
angry?” A pause.style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\"> “And where’s mom?”

mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt\'> Vegeta
gave him a level glare. “Your mother
will be here soon. He wanted to check
on Goten.” Didn’t feel like sharing the
rest of his fucked-up evening. Didn’t
think he really answered to his son. Couldn’t
explain the anger that moved through him and how badly he wanted to beat the
shit out of that little girl with her scars and her tortured eyes that had
almost cost him the only damned thing in his whole life that he felt was worth
all the shit he had gone through. That
puny little girl was not the only one that had scars, dammit, and how dare she
try to take Kakarot.

mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt\'> How
stupid did he have to be to even allow it to be thought that it could happen.

mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt\'> Hated
her.

mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt\'> Loved
Kakarot. But wanted to tear him to
little pieces for even thinking about mating with that little girl.style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\"> Had ripped enough holes into his mate last
night. Woke up to find that he could
smell blood everywhere on Kakarot, woke up to find that he had hurt him.style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\"> Hadn’t meant to.yes\"> But he had blood under his fingernails.yes\">

mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt\'> Not
that Kakarot cared. He just purred,
like he always did, kissed Vegeta.
Already knew that the Prince was going to freak out.style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\"> And Vegeta had.yes\"> Licked clean all the wounds he had inadvertently given.style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\"> Sucked on the mark on his mate’s neck, heard
the purr change from comfort to interest, and found himself sliding back into
the warmth of that body. Being taken in
and claimed himself as Kakarot purred for him, moved under him and kissed
him.

mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt\'> Damn
the girl.

mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt\'> Kakarot
belonged to one fucking Saiyan and that fucking Saiyan was him.

mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt\'> “Oh,
he’s here now,” Bardock said, “We can get with it already.”

mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt\'> “I’ve
got to stretch first,” was Kakarot’s reply.

mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt\'> Vegeta
snorted. Looked at his son.style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\"> “Claim Bulla,” he said.

mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt\'> “WHAT?”

mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt\'> “Before
this fight. Claim her.”

mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt\'> “Why?”

mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt\'> “You
don’t have to have sex with her,” Vegeta said, “Just bite her.style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\"> If you don’t they’ll try to kill her.style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\"> Males always do.”yes\"> He had never seen that look on his son’s face.style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\"> A disbelief that was rapidly becoming rage.style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\"> An annoyance and a stunned silence.style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\"> Didn’t matter.yes\"> Just as long as his daughter was not in danger Bardock could join
the circus and jump through flaming hoops.
But he wasn’t about to risk his child.
There was no way to keep them all completely safe, because they were
outnumbered.

mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt\'> “If
I claim her,” Bardock said, “She won’t have the option to find someone else,
ever.”

mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt\'> “Would
you have let her anyway?” Vegeta asked.

mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt\'> The
word No was written on his face, but Bardock didn’t say it.style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\"> Just looked at his father, and then his
mother. Crossed his arms over his
chest. “What about what she wants?”

mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt\'> Kakarot
sighed, finished his stretch and stood up.
“We have two days to think about it,” he said, “Why don’t we just train
right now?”

mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt\'> 

mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt\'>~~~***

mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt\'> He
rejected her. The warrior had turned
his back on her and had told her no, had not even looked at her with the eyes
of interest. Hadn’t responded when she
kissed him in desperation other than to stop her.yes\"> Put her to sleep with the deep purr of a mother.style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\"> Made her cry as she woke up and realized
that he was the first man to reject her because he loved someone else and not
because she was so used.

mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt\'> Nuala
went outside, sat on the bench, let morning break around her.style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\"> Remained unnoticed by the oldest son, and
turned when she heard the door open, and saw that it was the other one.style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\"> The son that was no so powerful, was not so
loud, and not so little. Watched him
come over and sit down next to her.
Reluctantly.

mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt\'> Wanted
to speak his language. Didn’t want to
mate to him. He was safe.style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\"> Sound.
Unable to hurt anything. Unable
to hurt her, and she had never once been with someone that wouldn’t have hurt
her. No; she thought, that was a
lie. There was once a time.

mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt\'>Talked to him—tried to talk to him—and then the
Prince appeared. Scowled at her, and
she hated him. Because he had taken the
warrior, taken the warrior from her before she was even here.style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\"> Ripped away all the chance she stood of
mating to such a powerful person.

mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt\'> She
knew that the Prince hated her too.
Knew she deserved it for trying to take his mate.style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\"> Stared at this awkward son of his as Takashi
watched his family leave but didn’t follow.
Felt sorry for him. Smiled for
him as his tail kept trying to jerk back and forth and he resolutely kept it
still by wrapping his fist around it.
And laughed again. Because his
tail would not be still, because she had never seen a Saiyan with such a clear
display of who they were.

mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt\'> His
look was not as clear to read, but he sighed eventually and chuckled, shook his
head and let his tail go. It swished
back and forth eagerly and he covered his face with his hand.style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\"> Looked like the warrior.style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\"> But smaller, like the Prince.style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\"> And she patted his shoulder, told him it was
all right. That she was flattered that
his tail was wagging for her.

mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt\'> He
said something, stood up, pointed at the house.yes\"> Waited to see if she understood and she just shrugged had
absolutely no idea what he was saying.
(Realized that without the Prince to translate for her, she was
completely dependent on learning this language without assistance.)style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">

mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt\'> Takashi
patted his own flat waist and said “Babies.”
Pointed at the house again and waited.
Said “Goten.”

mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt\'> And
wasn’t that what they called the pregnant one?
He shook his head as he walked away, toward the house and mumbled
something in his language that was probably not a pleasant thing.style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\"> But he seemed to be patient enough, so she
moved to her feet, followed him, decided that she would stick around him and
learn his language from him.

mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt\'>

mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt\'>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~****

mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt\'> 

mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt\'>Goten: This
is MY damn story and I wasn’t even IN this chapter.

mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt\'>Trunks: Your
presence was felt.

mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt\'>Goten: Don’t
bullshit me asshole, I’m not stupid.

mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt\'>Trunks:
*sigh *

mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt\'> 

mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt\'>Jaygoose:

mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt\'> I’m
shocked that everyone is so very worried about Goten.yes\"> Pleased, because I want you to worry about him, but surprised
nonetheless.

mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt\'> 

mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt\'>Getarian:

mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt\'> Bulma’s
tied to Vegeta forever because’s T’s Trunks’ mother.yes\"> SO while he never really stakes a claim, there is the unspoken ‘don’t
touch her I’m protecting her’ thing.
Poor dear, she needs to go rest for a while.yes\">spanspan>(Like me.)

mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt\'> 

mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt\'>Aarika:

mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt\'> Yes,
I cannot wait for the fight either.
Just two more days.

mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt\'> 

mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt\'>Luna:

mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt\'> It
was. And there will be a better lemon
between our favorite Saiyans soon.
Promise.