DBZ X-Readers

Frieza x Reader Pt. 23 'Mama Bear'

  The days continued to pass, and you had more discussions with more members of the court--and all of them seemed surprised that you were both exactly at not at all what they expected. Some had said that they thought you'd be either vulgar due to your lack of experience at having any kind of rank, and others said they thought you'd be quite snobbish like Yuki because of the sudden rank that had been given you. And then, of course there were the older nobles, most of whom were still clinging to traditional ways of thinking.

You took it all in stride, and continued to meet with Yuki, who seemed...increasingly distant, even when you were in the same room together.

"Are you sure you're alright?" You asked one evening when you were having dinner together, "I know I've been saying that a lot, but you keep losing your place when you talk, and it's making me just a little worried."

"You, worried about me? I can't imagine why that would be."

"Well..decent people tend to...worry about other people, wouldn't you agree?"

"If I worried about everyone I met, I would never stop," she laughed, "Like Cooler...I stopped concerning myself with him long ago."

"Didn't he have a lot of...trouble?" you asked.

"Oh, yes. Never wanted to get attached to anybody. Hated the arts and hated doing anything that wasn't work."

"Huh, that's...odd..."

"It got worse after he met that woman, though. Before, he would at least give me a passing glance--imagine, ignoring his own mother!--and now he won't even write a letter."

"Has he married her yet?"

"Yes, of course he has." Yuki scoffed, "He thinks the sun rises and sets on her...it's utterly ridiculous. He could've done better, but...at least she's from a decent family."

"Right," you replied. She seemed almost...bipolar. Sometimes she was the nicest person, but now and again (like today) she started to show rather a nasty side. Possibly this was why Frieza kept warning you away from her.

"I could tell she didn't want to be with him, but would he believe me? No, no, of course not. Willful, just like...I'm sorry, I just never liked her, she's a little too snobbish for her own good. And...just a little bit...abnormal."

You'd met the girl in question a week ago. While being a bit shy when she was away from Cooler, she was still nonetheless fairly nice; not at all the way Yuki was painting her. Though she did seem a little anxious about being a newlywed...

"It's alright," you replied.

There was silence for a few minutes as the two of you ate, with you continuing to think over everything. It felt odd to have so little a hand in the planning of your own wedding, but given that there were likely a lot of Arcosian cultural touches, it was probably for the best anyway. You knew only a little about the ice chapels, and that was only from a pamphlet Yuki had given you. There seemed to be a thousand little things here and there, and while you were happy he was going to all the trouble, you had to wonder why he was in the first place. The other traditions would have kept you apart, so...?

"Now you're the one spacing out," Yuki said with a laugh.

Suddenly there was a knock at the door, and without even waiting to be introduced, in rushed--

"Oh, (minion's name)!" you said, "Good lord, you look awful. Sit down, sit down...what's going on?"

"Al...Algid..." he said, still breathing a bit hard as a servant brought a chair over for him. "...he's..."