Goku X Vegeta Oneshots

Twilight of The Heart

*An AU that takes place after the battle with Majin Buu. The only difference- although a large one- is that Majin Vegeta did NOT disable Goku and try to fight Buu on his own. Buu, Babidi, and Dabura have been killed, although Majin Vegeta remains despite Babidi's death.*

It was a funny thing, being rejected by one's family. While I couldn't say I'd done much for my wife and son, I really had loved them. But now, I just... My heart no longer beat for them.

After all, Kakarrot is my only objective.

I watched him from an isolated place, just away from the cliffs. It sickened me to see one of the most powerful beings in this universe be so easily dragged into this menial work. He slaved away for his human wife, preparing her fields for their crops; she had no intention of helping him, of course. It was extremely hot for an Earth day in this climate. While I myself felt comfortable- finally- in the sun, Kakarrot, being raised on Earth, suffered somewhat as he toiled in the sunlight. A Saiyan was not a work animal, I thought again to myself as I continued to observe him. A Saiyan's strength had, of course, the potential for outstanding work performance, but it did not entail dragging a Saiyan through the mud for the sake of a harder working creature bringing more of a profit.

Saiyans, often proud and vain, powerful and beautiful, were deserving of all the luxuries the universe had to offer. We were gods- or should be- to so low of a species as these humans. We held so much potential and power that it would be hard to deny a Saiyan what it truly desired without the threat of imminent death hanging over their heads.

He did not deserve this, I believed. We would get no such treatment on this mudball. Therefore, it would better suit us to take some form of action to remedy it.

Kakarrot was taking a break, I supposed, for he approached me with a questioning smile. It seemed that he sought his Prince's company. And I felt willing to give it. "Kakarrot," I rumbled in greeting.

"You've been watching me all day," he commented, wiping sweat off his forehead. Disgusting that he was forced into so low a task as this. I hated that he had to put effort into this. Better that the whole field be blown off the face of the planet and free him. "Everything ok?"

"Of course," I replied. I watched him sit down beside me and looked back over the fields. Gods, I wanted it gone. It was not his right to do this. A Saiyan was not meant to be such a low worker. Even as a third-class, Kakarrot likely would have been in the army at the very least. With his power, he would have been at my right hand, beside his King. I hated that we remained here. I hated that my promised place as King was nothing more now than a child's dream, a lost requiem that clung to the edges of my mind.

I hated almost everything, I supposed. Ever since Babidi's end, I had felt nothing positive. Anger, hate, loneliness, misery. Nothing more. Even those had grown dull with Babidi's death. The spell should have broken, but it did not. I always dimly wondered why, but those thoughts, meaningless and pertaining only to the past, were gradually cast aside as I focused on the things at hand. Such as my new plans.

"We should run away," I said, and Kakarrot looked baffled at the wistful tone of my voice. "You and I. We should leave Earth."

"Ru- Vegeta, I can't run away!" he exclaimed, and his confusion at so simple idea made me sigh internally. "I know that you don't have anything keeping you here anymore, but I still have ties. I can't leave Gohan and Goten. They need me."

I sniffed slightly. "Hm. Please. Gohan has Satan's daughter, and Goten has Gohan and my son. Odd how your wife does not play into your emotional attachment, but I understand that. Your sons can remain without trouble. Without you, Kakarrot."

He stared up at me, his eyes dark, then whispered with what I detected to be pain, "Vegeta, I miss you. I know you can't feel that. I know you couldn't care any less. I know that you don't understand it anymore, but gods, I miss you."