Hakkyou
Chapter 18
Scott Douglas Davidson
Warnings: Shounen-ai (male-male situations), swearing, violence, rape, clinical insanity.
Disclaimer: See that deer there? That deer is mine. The place the deer is standing is mine. The people who just scared the deer back into the trees aren�t mine. Understood?
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"Wow! It snowed last night!" Goku grinned and looked out across the white landscape. It was beautiful. A few deer made their way through the white hills of flaked ice, and a young boar walked along the frozen edge of the pool under the waterfall.
Yes, I saw the snow. Kakarotto grumbled, still a little sleepy, Will you stop being so fucking happy at me?
I was talking to Gohan. Goku frowned inwardly.
"Dad, you already- ...Nevermind." Gohan shook his head.
Goku blinked down at his son. "I already what?"
"I was going to say that you already saw the snow this morning, but that was Kakarotto." Gohan rubbed his hands together to keep his fingers warm.
"Oh. I didn�t know Kakarotto was a morning person." Goku commented.
I�m not. Kakarotto grumbled.
"Baka! I�m hungry, go get some food!" Vegeta snapped. Goku grinned, reaching down and scooping up a handful of snow.
"Well? What are you waiting for?! Get your prince some food!" Vegeta commanded. Goku patted the snow into a ball.
Oh no... Kakarotto would have grimaced if he could You�re not going to... You are, aren�t you?
Yup. Goku grinned and turned towards Vegeta "Eat this!" he pegged Vegeta in the face with the snowball he had made, then tore off across the clearing to the shelter of the distant trees.
"Why you-...!" Vegeta grabbed some snow and hurled a hastily made snowball at the retreating Saiyajin�s back.
"Missed me �Gita-san!" Goku called out, still running.
Vegeta shook his fist at Goku. "I�ll get you, baka! You have to come back here sometime!"
"Geez Vegeta, I would have thought you�d just chase after him and start a fight." Gohan commented.
Gohan got a face full of snow.
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Goten opened his eyes to the sounds of what seemed to be a snowball fight. �All right!� he thought as he slipped out of bed, glad he�d slept in his clothes as the cold hit him full-force.
"Trunks!" Goten shook his sleeping best friend "Trunks, we�re missing a snowball fight!"
"Hrn...?" Trunks opened one eye in a lazy glare "I�m trying to sleep here Goten."
"There�s a snowball fight! Do you want to miss a snowball fight?"
"Goten, the only people here are our fathers and your brother, and the only one of them likely to want to have a snowball fight is your father." Trunks pulled the blanket up over his head. "You�re hearing things."
Goten pulled the blanket off of Trunks. "Come on Trunks, we�ll miss it! It�s probably my dad and oniisan!"
"Fine." Trunks rubbed his eyes and sat up "What time is it?"
Goten shrugged. "I dunno, I can�t read the clock." Goten pointed at the single analog clock that was hung over the empty fireplace. It ran counter-clockwise and the numbers were in Saiyago.
"...Neither can I." Trunks admitted and stood up "Let�s go check out this �snowball fight� you say is going on."
"Yeah!" Goten grabbed Trunks� arm and ran to the front of the cave, slamming open the door and looking out to see...
Gohan and Vegeta, with two snow forts at opposite sides of the clearing, tossing snowballs back and forth.
"...Father?!" Trunks gaped.
"Oniisan!" Goten called out happily and ran down to tackle-glomp his brother to the ground.
"Bratling!" Vegeta shouted up at Trunks, "The baka is somewhere in the forest! Hunt him down and bring him to me!"
"Right father!" Trunks nodded and ran towards the trees. A snowball hit him in the back of the head as he ran, and he turned and saw Gohan grinning at him, holding a snowball in his hand, a chuckling Goten perched on his shoulders.
Trunks smirked. They would pay...
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Goku sat in a tree, a short distance away, watching the fight through the branches.
You want to join them. Kakarotto said, though it was more of a question than a statement.
Yeah. They�re having so much fun down there, aren�t they? Goku smiled down as Trunks wrestled Goten into a snowdrift.
...Why is that so much fun? Kakarotto seemed completely mystified Running around in powdered ice, throwing balls of it at each other? It�s not even enough for combat training, it�s merely a waste of good training time. Somehow though it seems to have enraptured even the prince...
Sometimes the best thing to do is to waste time. Goku thought, folding his arms behind his head and leaning back against the trunk of the tree, Don�t you ever just want to take a break and do something silly? Doesn�t being serious get really boring after a while?
...I suppose... Kakarotto�s �voice� was quiet, ...The prince seems to be enjoying himself.
Yeah. Goku�s grin shrunk slightly, into a soft smile It�s the most fun I�ve ever seen him have outside of a spar. He really needed some time in control. It�s good for him.
He should be in control all of the time! He�s the prince! Kakarotto snapped at Goku.
It must be really stressful to need to have complete control all the time. It�s easier when someone else is in control. Then you can just relax and let things happen as they happen. This was good for all of us I think. Gohan needed some time away from his schoolwork, Goten and Trunks needed some time away from their video games, Vegeta needed to be somewhere where he could give orders, and you needed to get used to being in the same body as me without having to deal with meeting all of my friends. Goku stared off at nothing in particular as he talked with Kakarotto.
Kakarotto thought about what Goku had told him for a moment. What did you need?
Now it was Goku�s turn to think. He closed his eyes and took a deep breath, letting it out slowly to drift away as a little cloud on the wind. Everything.
...
Let me have control for a while. Kakarotto said, breaking the quiet moment.
Ok Kakarotto. Goku relaxed, letting Kakarotto take control of the body, Why?
Kakarotto flexed a few muscles briefly as his consciousness settled in. "So you can just relax and let things happen."
Kakarotto smirked and dropped down lightly to the forest floor. He scooped up some snow and patted it into a snowball as he walked through the trees.
"Hey! Ouji-sama!" Kakarotto called out as he entered the clearing. Vegeta turned and blinked in surprise at him, leaving Kakarotto the perfect opening to peg him right on the forehead.
Vegeta gaped at Kakarotto as the snow dripped down his face.
"Oh, you are dead, Kakarotto." Vegeta growled. Kakarotto laughed, and they both got smacked by the dual Son team.
The rest of the day was completely wasted in goofing off.
But we all know that that wasn�t entirely a bad thing.
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