The Saiyan Bond

Restless

Goten pov
It was unusually dark in my room tonight considering how bright the moon was outside. It was also strangely silent, doesn't anyone snore?
There were muffled moans and groans coming from my dads room and I growled, purely annoyed.
Okaru was on the futon next to my bed and I wasn't sure if he was asleep or not considerin he hadn't made a peep since we went to bed.
I could hear his light pattern of breathing match up with mine but it still didn't tell me if he was unconscious.
A loud thump from my dads room and then an exasperated cry out from Vegeta.
"Ugh, you gotta be kidding." I mumble grabbing my pillow and shoving it over my face, trying to muffle the sounds.
""They are quite obnoxious, correct?" Okarus voice stuck to the air like a hot towel on skin.
So he was awake then.
"Yah." I sit up and look out the window next to my bed and the moon finally shines through. But it's not enough to see my whole room. Only dark shadows on the wall and the outline of Okarus figure.
He is laying with his arms folded under his head and his leg propped up over his knee, bouncing it slightly.
"It's been a long time since I have heard such noises."
Are we seriously going to talk about this?
"Um..."
"I miss my home planet Goten. You look fairly young to have been born on it. So I imagine you don't know what it was like to live on such a beautiful place. I used to have a son you know?"
I tense slightly.
So he's finally opening up....
"What was his name?"
He sighs deeply and rolls his body to face me.
"Taredam. (Tah-ray-dom) He was a strong lad. One of the top fighters of his generation. He was only 34 when our home....."
I try to find his features in the dark but I can't see them.
"I'm sorry." I feel pity towards him in this very moment as he seems to reminisce of the memories with his son.
"Were you close?"
He makes a heavy sigh, "unfortunately no. He hated me until the end. He blamed me for his mothers death. That I couldn't save her in a battle on a small planet in the eastern divide. I believed his accusations throughout his years, truthfully but in my heart I know it wasn't my fault. There was nothing I could have done."
I feel my features soften as I lean my head against my window. The glass is cold and slightly foggy from the inside heat. I usually don't have two people in here and the house already has the thermostat turned up.
"The glass is foggy." I breathe without thinking and realize I had completely changed the subject.
He grunts in agreement and I feel like he needs a hug. So being the person I am I stood up off the bed and sit onto his futon next to him. He sits up as if anticipating something but it's too dark to tell what it is.
"What is it?" He asks. I don't say anything, I just reach over and wrap my arm across his broad shoulders and tighten my grasp, pulling his head to my collar and lean against his soft hair.
He breathes deeply and I hear a quiver in the intake.
Is he crying?
"W-"
"S-sorry, I mean--my apologies, I don't know what's gotten into-"
"Sh. It's fine." I grip him tighter and he nods hesitantly against my chest and I feel my shirt dampening from his tears.
"I understand you lost many people you cared about, right?"
He nods again and he chokes slightly through his tears.
I rub his shoulder up and down warmly.
"It's okay. You have us now. We are all here for each other you know?"
His hand clutches my loose shirt tightly.
"How has it come down to such a small group of saiyans? We were once so dominant among various races. I don't understand how we could just lose all that we have in mere seconds, never to regain it."
"But you are getting it back. That's why we are all together! Why would we be in this house together if we weren't?"
"You don't understand how hard it is for me to trust anyone anymore. I have lost everything I lost my courage and my bravery and my dignity even. I have fought in so many-"
"Stop"
And he ldid. He was quiet and sighed and I knew he understood what I meant.
"Look, I'll do it okay? I-I will be your mate as long as you don't cry like this anymore. You're so much cooler and just awesome when you're happy so if it makes you happy, I will be your mate. Just...I don't like seeing you this way ok?"
I almost feel him grin smugly and he sits up and pulls me to his chest and my eyes widen in surprise so I freeze up.
His hands are warm and they splay protectively over my back and his chest heaves against my cheek as he breathes. I don't know what to think in this moment it's all a little strange and he sighs happily, his cheek pressed against he top of my head.
"I'm never losing you." I shiver at his words they seem almost demanding in a way and I tilt my head to look up at him, I start to look back down with a blush slowly creeping in but he catches my chin and pulls me back to his eyes. The moon seems to have finally shown through and I can see everything. I can see his smiling face amongst his tired eyes and his flush cheeks.
"I know it has only been a day, Goten but I think I love you." He whispers. My face scrunches and I jump up smacking him over the head as he laughs.
"Baka! Don't say such things! You don't know me! Besides!!! YOU SAID it's only been ONE DAY!" He laughs harder and I go pout on my bed in frustration.
That idiot....why would he love me? I'm a guy
There's no way he could love a guy. It just doesn't make sense! How would it work???
Besides....no one I have ever loved, loved me back. So he must be lying....
In other words...I think I love him too