Finding Love (Vegeta x Goku)

Tense Wait

An explosion lit up the night sky out in the desert quickly followed by a shout and another. Gohan had powered up as high as he could go and was punching and shooting everything he could see.

Sweat was pouring off his body as he panted and looked around the landscape for another target to take his rage out on. Craters dotted the rock as his power had stripped his immediate surroundings of any sand that might have been there at one point. Small shards of glass littered the ground from the sand he liquefied and shattered with the force of his numerous blasts.

The teen's tail lashed around as he searched for stronger stone that could take more than one hit. Everything he had hit so far had crumbled to dust without much exertion on his part. He let out a scream as he punched the ground in front of him, and a split in the rock formed for almost half a mile. It wasn't enough, he still had too much rage. With another roar of fury the teen slammed both fists into the stone widening the split by another several feet and making another crater under his feet.

"Gohan?" A soft and unsure voice called out behind him.

The young alpha growled as he spun around to see who had disturbed him only for his anger to lessen. Despite not wanting to be bothered by anyone, he was somewhat relief to see who come to him.

Tarble stood a few feet from him with his hands wringing some of the fabric of his tunic. He was looking at the half saiyan with a weary look in his eye. While he knew Gohan wouldn't hurt him, it was instinct to be cautious of an angry alpha.

"I wanted to see how you were doing...but I guess I got my answer." He looked at the destruction around the pair. "Do you want to talk about it? It might be better than making a new canyon for Vegetasei."

Gohan snorted at the poor attempt of humor as he powered down. He could still feel the tension in his body looking for an outlet, but he felt mentally exhausted with the events that had happened today.

"Talk about what? About how my mother raped my father? Or how about how she sold his body and DNA to a mad scientist? No wait, let's start with how my father has been kidnapped by that same scientist along with his rapists and is somewhere off planet having god knows what done to him?" The alpha paced as he ran a hand through his hair.

The beta watched as Gohan finally stopped moving to collapse on a small rock. He cradled his face in his hands and let out a strangled noise.

"It's all my fault...I never saw the signs of anything like this. How could I have missed this? I should have noticed and done something! What kind of son am I?!" Tarble quietly sat next to the teen on a rock just a bit higher than the other's and placed a hand on his back.

"You think you're a bad person because you didn't notice something was wrong?" Tarble asked. "Even though you were a child when it happened?"

"I had all the signs in front of me Tarble, my own little brother used to beg me to stop her from hurting him, and I didn't listen to him. I told him to stop whining about it." Gohan said with tears in his eyes. "I should have been home that night, I should have done something to help him instead of blindly letting that...woman do that to him." Tarble nodded withdrawing his hand.

"You're still a better person than I am if that's true." He said quietly. The alpha turned to look at the smaller beta who was absently fiddling with a simple necklace under his shirt while he looked at the moon. "At least you didn't kill your parent."

"What?!" Gohan was shocked as Tarble nodded.

"My tama died giving birth to me. There were complications with the labor and in the end he died instead of me."

"Tarble that's not your fault, you were-"

"An infant?" The beta said with a raised brow. "I know, but how is that any different that you? You were a child then too weren't you?"