Goku's Daughter(Saiyan Saga)

Chapter 14:Trying New Things

      The night was still as V made her way out of the house and to the hospital, man life had gotten easier since she learned to fly but this pet cloud Goku let her use was nice too. V allowed the Nimbus to carry her to the hospital.

"Daddy." V leapt through the window as soundlessly as possible and tiptoed to the bed.

"Daddy, are you awake?" V peered over the edge, just barely able to see him in the strange machine. V sighed and climbed on top of the machine and curled up like a cat on a couch and closed her eyes, just the smell of her father was enough to calm her. V focused on that smell and not the absence in her nagging at her every second of the day or the distrust she felt from Chichi. Honestly, V tried to ignore other people's feelings, her own were already so hard to understand. In V's life, feelings and emotions were very limited and now she was feeling a whole range of things she wasn't aware she could feel. Like how V learned that looks could be more than threats, they could be like Goku's and invite her in with warmth and acceptance. They could also be like Chichi's which were guarded and suspicious and then they could be like Gohan's, Gohan's eyes reflecting a kind of innocence and purity she could never even dream of. That's how she knew Gohan was so good, because she didn't know enough about good to imagine it.

"Hey, V." Goku yawned "what are you doing here so late? Chichi is going to flip." Goku yawned again but tried to keep himself from falling back to sleep before he knew if V was okay.

"What's a pageant?" V asked, this impending pageant thing Chichi and Bulma kept going on about was insufferable. Bulma talked with Chichi more about the pageant than the ship they were taking to Namek, not that V had had much success getting the okay for Gohan. V was pretty sure Chichi would be satisfied after the pageant but Chichi was so hard to read sometimes and V didn't really want to do this pageant anyway.

"A pageant is something that girls do and get all dressed up for and stuff like that." Goku had seen a pageant exactly once and that was because Chichi made him go, it was then that Chichi had said she wanted a daughter. Maybe Chichi wanted a girlier daughter, maybe that was what she didn't like about V.

"I don't want to wear that stupid dress." V pouted to her father "I look stupid and Piccolo and everyone would laugh at me if they saw me in it." V curled into a tighter ball and stared at the wall.

"Awe, it can't be that bad." Goku tried to reassure her but when Chichi put her mind to something there was no changing it.

"It scares me." V said sounding small.

"Me too." Goku said honestly "but hey, at least she's doing something with you." Goku was always the one to look for the light rather than staring into the dark.

"The dress is so big though and I can't fight in it." V's tail swished back and forth with her anxiety "and she wants me to hide my tail in the skirt of the dress, I like my tail." V said in a tiny voice.

"Awe, V, she means well." Goku said trying to free his arm from the machine but they really got him in good this time and with his body so weak he mind as well have been a prisoner here.

V Sighed "She barely lets Gohan play at all, she wants him to stay study all day."

Goku didn't agree with that, but he knew his wife "But she thinks it's what's best for him, she's just doing what she thinks is best for you."

"But the people at the place are weird." V scrunched her nose up at her father.

Goku laughed "people always seem strange at first, V, you gotta give them a chance." Goku smiled at V "promise me you'll give Chichi's ideas a chance this time and next time I'll tell her to try something you like."