Dangerous Bond

Chapter 23 : Myserious Ki

Bulma hung up the phone with a sigh. She'd called everyone she could think of in case one of them knew where Bunny was but had ended up empty handed. That last phone call had been to the police. They were keeping an eye open for the blonde airhead now. Bulma hoped with all her might that they'd find her soon, after all, her father was returning from his business trip this afternoon. Bulma sighed again, her father always seemed to be away on business trips...

She glanced up at the clock and found it to be 10:23 in the morning. Dr. Briefs should be back in an hour or so. She had better freshen up for his return.

Outside in the GR Vegeta was still training. But he was having similar problems to yesterday. His power just wouldn't rise any further! It was like he'd reached a... plateau, or something like that.

"Shimatta!!' He yelled after three hours useless training.

Where was it?! Where was his Super Saiya-jin power?! He knew he had it, it just wouldn't come!

And not only was he having problems, but Vegeta's half-bonded mate was distressed over her mother's disapearance. Bulma's worry was distracting Vegeta and he was sick of it.

'Gosh, today is just not your day, is it?' The Kakarot-like part of his mind commented.

Vegeta growled and left the GR. ANYTHING to calm her down, even if it did mean wasting another day searching for that useless airhead of a woman.

Bulma looked up from the finishing touches of her makeup when Vegeta entered the room. He fixed her with one coal black eye before shaking his head.

"If you want to know where I'm going," He informed her, "I'm going to look for that mother of yours." With that he turned away from her room and walked off down the hall.

Bulma blinked. "Huh?"

Vegeta stood in the middle of the drive, counting down from five. Just as he said "1" Bulma's voice rang out over the CC grounds.

"WAIT FOR ME!!"

The prince stood where he was and waited. The last time Bulma had come with him on one of these 'extra-credit' missions (as he called them) the results had been less than satisfactory. Still, Bunny was her mother. And the onna would manage to suddenly apear and insist on coming anyway. Resisting wasn't worth the effort.

"There you are!' Bulma trotted over to the Saiya-jin. "Well, can you guess what I'm gonna say?"

"Did you write your father a note?" He asked, smirking.

"Of course." She replied and took hold of his arm. After a second of just standing there she looked up at Vegeta. "Well? Are we going to find my mom or not?"

"We are, as soon as you let go of me." He answered, pulling away.

"But aren't we gonna..."

"I'd drown out her pathetic little ki signal if we flew." The prince told her, "Meaning that we walk."

Bulma looked flabbergasted. "You mean, walk walk? As in, on foot?"

Vegeta scowled, "What do you think, woman?"

"I'm not walking."

"Then you're not coming."

"No, we're just not walking." Before he could protest Bulma was throwing her #10 and the XJR was out again. "There." She said, pleased with the result. "Now we can be slightly civilized."

"Bulma, if you think I'm getting in one of those useless human..."

"We'll go faster than if we walked." She interrupted. "Anyway, it's not like any other Saiya-jin are going to see you and start laughing, is it?"

Vegeta rolled his eyes and got in, annoyed that she was right.

"Good. I knew you'd be reasonable for me, Veggie."

Five minutes later they were burning rubber along the dreaded Road of Doom (I would say M6, but non-English readers wouldn't get it AND we're in Japan here anyway), going along the hard shoulder to get past the huge traffic jam. Vegeta gripped the side of his seat as even the Jag's suspension failed to stop them getting bashed about by the rough road.

"Onna! Isn't this against your human laws?!" He demanded, "Can't your little police people come and arrest you for doing this?"

"Oh come on, Vegeta. We all know you don't care about lawbreaking, so quit complaining." She looked up from the road just in time to see the signpost for yet another turnoff. "So where is she?"

Scowling darkly the prince closed his eyes and tried to get a grip on the tiny ki of Bunny. He could feel it, but it was practically space dust compared to the other source he sensed a short way away. He decided to keep this information to himself. That ki source... It felt so familiar...

"That way." He stated, pointing to the right.

"WHAT?!" She cried, "But we have to be in the other lane to go that way!"

"So? Go the other way."

"We'd get hit and killed! That's..." She counted the lanes, "Five lanes to cross, one to get into, and an armco to smash through. Hmm, what an excelent idea, Vegeta."

"Forget it."

Bringing a half scream from Bulma, Vegeta opened his door and leapt out into the air, closing it behind him while he flew to keep up. Latching onto the roof of the metalic blue XJR he lifted it from the ground and flew over to the other side of the road. Placing the car on the hard shoulder (facing the right way around) he got back in.

"Don't do that again." Bulma ordered in a surprisingly calm voice as she started up the engine and pulled away, turning to the right and up along a much narrower road. "And put your seatbelt on."

When Vegeta estimated them to be a quarter of a mile away he told Bulma to stop.

"Stay here." He ordered and leapt into the air, leaving a royal blue streak through the clouded sky.

Bulma raised an eyebrow. 'Vegeta, you should've learned by now...'

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