Past To future

Another fine chapter! Hope you enjoy it, I want to update again on sat, or sun, maybe as soon as friday. HOWEVER, I can not swear that this will take place. I\'ve been very sick (Walking pneumonia this time folks...yeah...) and I might be hospitalized if the antibiotics don\'t start working...and they have not been working...

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I just love sleeping in my nice, soft, warm, bed. I liked it even better when Chichi wasn’t there trying to hog all the space and all the covers. Stretching my long limbs across the cool surface of my sheets, I greet the new morning with a smile. Another, bright, glorious day! My waking mind reminds me of the new friends I had made yesterday. Sitting up in my comfy bed, I let my eyes scan the rest of the room, only finding two of them.

It was my brother and Napa, they were sleeping on the same cot—heh, I have to remember to get another one today! Jumping out of my bed, I pull my old shirt on over my mussed locks. I almost felt as if this were Christmas and I was waking up to presents under the tree. Boy howdy was I excited! I got to spar with Vegeta! Then I’d go hunt with my brother!

Thinking about the powerful man brought up a sudden realization. Vegeta is gone, my mind alerts me. It breaks all my excitement at once. Vegeta, that hot tempered, wild man, was not in his cot, not in the house and not in the general area at all. “Vegeta?” I asked, my brow wrinkling, trying to figure out where that guy could have gone. Where ever it was, it sure as heck wasn’t within a square mile of my house. “Well, I hope he is okay…but there goes my early morning spar.”

Scratching the back of my head, I went to my other two friends, maybe they knew where Vegeta went. “Raditzu?” I clear my throat, not sure if that would be enough to wake them. I knew that if it were me, I wouldn’t wake up. Nuh Huh! Grabbing Raditzu’s bare shoulder, I gave it a good shaking.

“What is it Kakkarot, I’m tired,” His sleepy voice growled. He didn’t move and he didn’t open his eyes. He just lay there, back pressed against his friend’s chest, blankets pulled up to his chin.

“Its morning.” I informed him, as if he couldn’t hear the happy little birds out side singing their little songs while they looked for their breakfast.

“What time is it?” He still didn’t move and I began to wonder if he would at all.

“Uh…I think six in the morning…the sun is just coming up!” I say, looking out of the window and into the cloudless sky. It sure was a wonderful day out!

“Six in the morning?”

“Yeah! I’m about to start breakfast, I was thinking eggs!” I said, thinking maybe I could make pancakes if I could find a rock large enough out back to act as a frying pan. What I wouldn’t give for one of those frying pans my wife was always throwing at me right about now.

“Six in the morning?” Raditzu sounded really tired, and cranky as he opened one brown eye to look up at me. “You have any idea how late I stayed up?”

I shake my head and he growls, sitting up. “Might as well get up…you’d probably eat all the food before we got up on our own.” He said, the covers falling to his bare midriff. My eyes grow wide when I realize that he was completely naked. “Hey, wake up, you’re laying on my hair!” Raditzu shook the man next to him, which I saw was also completely naked.

“Raditzu?” He groaned, shifting slightly, his arm coming to loop around Radituz’s waist. “What is it?”

“Breakfast,” Raditzu informed the man who looked just as tired as my brother did.

“I-I’m so sorry…if I had known I would have had more beds.” I blurt out, feeling my cheeks heat up. Bowing deeply to my brother, “I’m sorry Raditzu. You can use my bed tonight until I get supplies from town.”

Raditzu gave a confused look to Napa who looked just as baffled, “Kakkarot?” Raditzu said, “What are you talking about?”

“You two…I never knew you slept naked.” I whisper the word almost as if my wife were nearby. I wasn’t bothered by the fact that they were naked, no sir! I used to sleep naked myself, but I guess it is all that moral nonsense Chi has been drilling into me since we got married. I found myself embarrassed to think of my two new friends pressed chest to back, flesh to flesh, all night long just because I couldn’t come up with another bed.

They began to laugh and I felt confusion wash over me. What the heck’s so funny? “What?” I ask.

“Of course we sleep naked.” Raditzu said still chuckling, tears standing in his eyes. “We are fine, don’t be silly Kakkarot, but we could use some food.” I nod and hurry outside to start the fire. I had plenty of fire wood—after all, I loved chopping it! Using my ki, I lit the wood and rushed back into the house. I wanted to go hunting with my brother! Boy, my excitement was back in full strength…too bad Vegeta hadn’t been around to spar with. I had so been looking forward to that. Maybe the prince would show up when breakfast was ready.

Skidding in through the open front door of my house, “Raditzu!” I felt my cheeks heat up once more, my eyes landing on my brother and his friend. They broke apart, dark eyes shifting to me. They had been kissing.

“Yes, Kakkarot?” My brother asked, standing he pulled on my old orange gi pants.

The only thing I could think of to say was, “Vegeta is gone, I can’t find him any where and…and…” I wanted to ask my brother why he had been kissing another man, but I suddenly felt very dizzy.

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“He…fainted.” Napa said, his jaw dropping in disbelief.

Raditzu pulled on his shirt, going to his brother’s side. “I guess…he really doesn’t understand what a mate is…huh, Napa?” He looked back at his lover, who shrugging his shoulders uncomfortably. Picking his brother’s unconscious form up he carried the young Saiyan back to his large bed. Laying Goku down, he tried to brush the messy bangs out of the man’s eyes. They wouldn’t stay out of the way and Raditzu had to shake his head, smiling. His father had had the same exact hair style. In fact, Goku looked very much like their father.

“Uh…man…what happened?” Goku groaned, his eyes fluttering open.

“That was fast.” Napa commented, getting out of bed. Pulling on his pants he stretched, his tail uncoiling from his waist to stretch too. Picking the quilt up off of the floor, he folded it neatly and put it at the end of the cot.

“You fainted, you okay now?” Raditzu asked and Goku nodded slowly.

“I…I saw you two kissing.” Goku said, sounding accusing.

“Yeah, that is what mates do, Kakkarot.” Napa said, pulling on his shirt as well. “Now were is this breakfast you were promising, I’m starving.”

Goku’s expressive eyes moved to Napa as if seeing him for the first time. “But he’s a guy.” Goku said, shock in his voice.

“Yeah, what’s your point? Don’t tell me that this is one of those prodigious planets that thinks…same sex relationships are disgusting. What did that nasty human Yamucha call it? Homosexuality? We are homosexuals.”

Napa growled, “That nasty human who tried to get into your pants?” He asked going to stand next to his mate. “If I see him, he’d better hide, I’ll skin him alive.”

Goku looked from Napa to Raditzu and back again. “You’ve met Yamucha…he…he’s like that. Chichi doesn’t like him at all, so I can’t see him any more. He used to be my best friend.” Goku looked sad for a brief moment before the sunshine was back. “So you’re…like that? What ever makes you happy! Oh, you can‘t tell Chichi! She‘ll get really made!”

“Uh, yeah.” Raditzu said, smiling himself. It was hard not to be happy when Goku was. The man’s emotions were really contagious. “Most Saiyans are…er…homosexuals. Females are usually for reproduction only…although that has changed since the discovery of male fertilization procedures.”

“Where is the food,” Napa asked again, his stomach actually growling this time.

As if suddenly waking from an odd dream, Goku got out of bed and charged outside. The Fire was blazing steadily away to embers and ashes. Goku added a few more pieces of wood onto the fire and then turned to his brother and Napa, who had followed them out. “We have to hunt for it! You wanna join me! It’s really fun!”

“Shut up, its way too early in the morning for such cheerfulness.” A cold voice echoed through the clearing. Raditzu and Napa visibly jumped but Goku turned almost expectantly towards the east.

“Vegeta!” He exclaimed, and the prince appeared from behind a tree, a large fish over one bare shoulder and an armful of eggs in the other.

“I got hungry…I couldn’t sleep.” He said, throwing down the fish before setting down the eggs. “So I went looking for something to eat.”

Raditzu shot his mate a guilty look, he hadn’t even noticed that their prince had been gone.

“Hey, I’ll show you how to clean this!” Goku was saying but Napa ignored him. “Hey, ‘Geta, aren’t you cold…here, I think I have another shirt that’ll fit you. No, no, it isn’t pink this time!”

“What do you think…more nightmares?” Napa asked his mate, getting a nod. “He has been having so many of late. Do you think it means anything?”

“I’m more concerned about finding out if that damned lizard is tracking us somehow. If so, then I want to jam the signal if at all possible…or removing the device if we can. Nightmares are bad, but the real thing is worse…I don’t want Vegeta to ever have to see that creature again.”

“You see, the knife’s got to be real sharp to get through these scales!”

“Shut up baka, you’re giving me a headache. Just gut the damned thing already.”

“Here, I showed you how to do it, why don’t you try. I’ve got to get these eggs into the fire.”

“IM NOT TOUCHING SOME SLIMY BEAST!”

Raditzu winced at the pitch of Vegeta’s voice. “Maybe we should ask Kakkarot if he has any doctor friends.”

“It’d be worth a shot, someone’s got to look after him. He isn’t missing any limbs, no fingers, no toes…someone’s been giving him medical attention when he’s needed it.” Napa pointed out.

“Come on ‘Geta! It’s not really that slimy, besides, you’re wearing gloves so you wouldn’t even feel it any ways! Just take the knife…”

“AH! YOU BAKA! YOU CUT ME!” The sound of flesh hitting flesh was heard and Raditzu turned his attention at once to the two young men he had been ignoring while he spoke with his mate.

Vegeta had obviously hit Goku again, now he had the large man pinned, an angry snarl splashed over his features. “I TOLD YOU NO! I am not going to touch anything that disgusting! NOW LEAVE ME ALONE!”

Goku looked stunned, his lip was bleeding and his tail’s fur was rumpled. Vegeta let Goku up and the younger picked up the knife that had been stuck in the dirt. Cleaning it on his shirt, Goku used it to cut open the belly of the giant fish. Vegeta had gained his feet, leaving Goku’s side to disappear into the house, his bleeding hand held before him.

“You okay,” Raditzu asked, coming to look at his brother’s busted lip. It didn’t look that bad, but…

“I’m fine!” Goku chirped as he yanked a hand full of slimy entrails out of the cut he had made. Tossing them into the fire they sizzled and popped. “I just wish I could have sparred him earlier! He really is strong!”

“Listen, Kakkarot…where do you go for medical aid?” Napa asked deciding on the indirect approach to asking for Goku’s aid in removing the tracking devices they probably harbored.

“I usually take a senzu, but when I can’t get them, I go to Bulma. Why? Are you hurt?” He asked looking up at Napa, his hands working fast to spear the fish on a long strait stick. Hoisting it up, he put it over the fire to cook. The eggs were already neatly placed on the edge of the fire pit.

“This Bulma, does she know a lot about your…physiology?” Raditzu asked.

“Phsyi wahty?” Goku asked, looking confused. Whipping his hands on the grass the glanced towards his house.

“Does she know about your…insides?” Napa simplified for his mate.

“Yeah, sure, she knows lots of stuff! She builds stuff too! You should see her labs, they sure are neat!” He said, standing, a frown on his face. “If you’ll excuse me.” He said walking towards the house.

“Should we stop him, Vegeta seemed pissed…”

“No, let Kakkarot take care of Vegeta.” Napa said, putting his arm around his mate’s waste.


I removed my bloody glove, looking at the gash the baka had put in my palm. Looking around, I found no sort of plumbing but I saw a red cross, something I recognized as a common sign for first aid. Going for the box I was about to snatch it up when that baka called my name. “Vegeta…I’m sorry. Let me see.” before I could even stop him, he was at my side, grabbing my hand.

His hands were large and warm, engulfing mine so gently. His fingers smoothed over my palm, soothing the sting somehow. “That looks deep.” Goku said, concern wrinkling his stupid brow. Looking down at my hand I realized that he was touching my bare flesh.

“GAH! DIDN’T I TELL YOU NOT TO TOUCH ME!” I shout at him, panic flashing through me. Shoving him away, I quickly leave the confines of the small house, going around the back to the tub. To my great surprise, it was just as hot as last night when we had bathed in it.

Dipping my wounded hand into the water, I hissed at the pain that shot up my arm. The idiot hadn’t been lying, it was deep. But I have had worse. Raising my hand from the water, I watched the blood drip off in rivulets. This was not going to stop bleeding for a while. Shit.

“Geta, at least let me clean that and bandage it for you.” Goku said, coming around the side of the house, the first aid kit in his hands. I growl, turning to face him, my back pressed against the tub’s railing.

“Get it through your thick scull, I don’t want you to touch me!” I snarl at him, but he kept coming any ways. He set the box down and opened it, grabbing a small tube of something. He took my hand and splayed my fingers flat and I found myself letting him. With a finger he smeared the stuff from the tube over my cut. It stung like a bitch. ‘OW YOU ASS HOLE!” I slap him hard but he doesn’t stumble, he looks a little miffed but he replaces the tub in the box and grabs a can of something or other and sprays it on the wound. “AH!” I scream, if I had though the cream had been bad, this was ten times worse than that shit had been.

“I know it hurts…grandpa used to use it on me. I’d cry and scream, and try and get away…but he always got me in the end.” Goku said, “You’re just lucky we had this handy, if we were out in the woods, I would have to make my home remedy, and that stings far worse than this.”

I was surprised to fined tears in my eyes. Did it hurt that much? NO, it couldn’t I was much stronger than that!

“There, all done.” Goku said, finishing with the bandages. Bringing my hand to his mouth, he kissed the my palm tenderly. “Don’t tell me that it doesn’t feel better.”

I look from the bandages to the baka. Again, he surprised me with how nice he was being, and after I had punched him, pushed him and slapped him around. I felt bad, why did I keep treating the idiot so badly. Yeah, he was stupid, and annoying as hell, but…he was so damned nice. Retrieving my hand from his I growl, “If you’re looking to charm me into your bed, you’ve got another thing coming. You’d better leave me alone, or that last punch I gave you will look like nothing.” I threaten, brushing past him. I don’t dare to give him a backwards glance, I was afraid that I might see the hurt in his eyes. I heard him sigh and I was already beating myself up for letting such harsh words slip from my tongue. I really was a bastard. If my father saw me today, treating Kakkarot like this, I’d find my tail in a knot faster than I could blink.

It suddenly dawned on me as I was walking away, brushing past Raditzu on the way. Why I was treating Kakkarot like he was a slug or something nasty I had stepped in. It was because I was angry, oh no, I wasn’t angry with Kakkarot. I was angry at Raditzu.

Last night’s images flashed through my head and I felt a growl rising in my throat. They had each other, they were bonded. They were not alone. I was. After all these years of being absolutely alone, I find another Saiyan, and he turns out to be some kind of retard. Okay, so maybe I was a little pissed at Kakkarot as well, but it was mostly Raditzu’s fault. Almost all his fault. If he hadn’t bonded that big, ugly oaf, I could have had him all to myself.

Brooding, I sit before the fire and the food, watching it cook, my stomach growling with hunger. I can hear Raditzu talking to his brother and my eyes stole their way. Napa was standing back, letting Raditzu say his piece. Maybe if Napa hadn’t been so tall or so damned intimidating…I could have killed him. I had heard stories when I was little of men being killed and their enemies at once bonding the surviving mate. Of course, many of those tails also told of the enemies’ eventual decent into madness…but it was worth a try to be with Raditzu.

If Raditzu’s heart and mind didn’t break at once, then there was a very good chance that he could be mine. He may hate me for the rest of his natural life…but…I could change that too. Snorting, I push those thoughts away. It was disgusting, Raditzu was practically my mother, and besides the fact. If I really wanted a roll in the hey with Raditzu, Napa never seemed to mind. Napa never minded much at all, especially if he could join.

I shudder, ~‘Why the hell am I thinking about sex so much any ways? I hate it when people touch me let alone…down there.’ ~ I thought with growing queasiness. Closing my eyes, I tried to push away the thoughts of Furiza but the harder I tried, the worse they got.


~“Vegeta, I heard you beat the shit out of my second hand man.” Furiza said with a harsh look on his face, almost as if he was lecturing to his child. “Why did you do it?”~

~The prince didn’t answer, he didn’t want to, his hate for the lizard had been hotly renewed over the last few nights. He hadn’t known just how damaged he had been until he had hit his first heat head on and learned from Raditzu himself, that he had had his mind messed with. That everything he knew was wrong, and it was all because of this bastard who rapped him almost daily.~

~“I also heard form a little birdy that you spent the last few nights alone with Raditzu in his quarters. In fact, you spent that last few days alone with Raditzu, you haven’t trained, you hardly ate…you come to me fully healed. I am apt to believe that Raditzu or one of your little ape loving friends on ship put you in a regain tank.” Furiza said, his voice rising in anger with each passing second until he was screaming at the Prince who seemed unphased. “I told you, you were not to get aid for your injuries…and you disobey me. I told you that you would spend the next few days in the training hall trying to get stronger, and you disobey me! What were you and that whore doing alone for so long!” Furiza snatched the silent prince up with his tail, dangling the short teen before his face. Snarling he slapped Vegeta hard.~

~“And now, when I ask you direct questions, you do not answer me!”~

~“I’ve been in heat.” Vegeta choked, looking away from Furiza, his hands clutching at the tail that was strangling the air from his lungs. He hadn’t wanted to tell Furiza, but he didn’t want to pass out either. When he lost consciousness, that was when the beatings were the worst of all.~

~Furiza froze mid swing, his eyes going slightly larger in surprise. He mouthed the word voicelessly as if he were tasting the word for the first time. A smile spread over his face, a slow, calculating one that Vegeta always hated. “You were laid up in Raditzu’s room having non stop sex, and you didn’t invite me. I’m hurt.”~

~Vegeta began to growl, the sounds of his anger growing louder and louder despite the crushing grip the lizard had with his tail.~

~“You want to make bestial noises at me?” Furiza’s anger was back again, and sharper than ever. “I’ll make you pay for not including me in your…activities for the last few days, and I sure as hell will make you pay for being insubordinate. I’ll teach you a good lesson!”~

And again I pay for Raditzu, but I could never hate him. Even if he always brought me such pain.

“Vegeta…are…are you okay?”

I snap out of my waking nightmare, that idiot’s face in mine. His scent is strong, a mixture of cinnamon, vanilla and earth. I can’t help the blush that rises in my cheeks. “Get…away,” I growl, but as always, he does not listen.

“You were crying.” He said, sorrow in his voice as a finger traced a damp trail down my cheek. I slap his hand away but he does not budge. “Does it hurt that bad? I can get you medication for the pain…if you want.”

“Kakkarot…” Raditzu said softly, but Kakkarot truly didn’t seem to hear his older brother.

“BAKA! It’s not that at all, leave me alone! RADITZU! Get your idiot brother away from before I belt him one!” I shout, but I can already see from the corner of my eye that Raditzu was not going to come to my aid.

Without warning, that idiot leaves his spot before me and goes about tending the fire, and the food. In only minutes I have a bounty of nuts, berries, egg and meat before me thanks again to that blundering fool. Somewhere inside of my heart I am starting to suspect that I may like the childish clown. Maybe…

“We are going to be going to my friend’s house!” Kakkarot informs me, sitting down next to me, his food only sparse compared to the amount before me. It was as if he had given me half of his share, feh, idiot.

Delicious. The flavors of the food melted over my tongue, I almost groan at the strong feeling of happiness that washes over me with each taste. That freaky, brain dead fool is looking at me funny and I realize that my friends are too. “What?” I growl at them, realizing suddenly that I was purring rather loudly. I wanted to stop, but it felt so good. If Furiza were here, surely I would be beaten for making such noises, just as I had been beaten the first time I went into heat. The thought only made me purr louder, as if I were trying to spite the bastard. “Hnn…”

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A/n Yes, I know, this is a really bad place to end a chapter...but I\'ve been trying to split up the chapters I have on my computer beucase they are rather long...Just couldn\'t find a good spot this time...*Shrugs.* Hope it doesn\'t put anyone off.