Unexpected Happiness (Vegeta x Goku)

Chapter 36

Peals of laughter pulled the alpha's attention from his stack of paperwork. Vegeta had turned the office in their home into his primary work space. He wanted to be with his mate and children as much as possible. Glancing out his window to the gardens he smiled seeing three of his cubs.

Rahi and Amara were going on ten years old now. His son was taking after him more in appearance as he got older but he was more like Kakarot in personality. Calm and nurturing towards his siblings with a dangerous protective streak considering his son was almost on par with Kome in terms of power and still growing.

Amara was just as smart as her older brother and was more often seen studying various texts and books she would take from the library and occasionally Bardock or Turles when the man visited. Bardock and Yasi both said she seemed to have traits similar to her grandmother and great grandmother on either side with her impressive mane of hair much like her uncle's. Seba and Tasik had remained thick as thieves all these years and he and Kakarot were honestly expecting the older hybrid to ask permission to begin formally courting by the end of the year. At 15, Seba was too young to actually mate but it would serve to keep other interested parties away from the young beta. Not that anyone in the family would allow Seba to be pushed into anything against his will. Vegeta smirked at that. He had done what Bardock and his father had failed to do and cracked down on poaching in the lower classes.

Shortly after Retaso's death Bardock had come to him for help. A third class family had their 15 year old cub taken from their home. He was their only child. Desperate they reached out to Bardock for help and the older alpha in turn brought it to him. He agreed to champion them to get their son back. The elite accepted their challenge only to find to his horror he was facing off against the prince in his super saiyan form. Vegeta made his opinions on poaching exceedingly clear as he savagely beat the alpha into a coma and publicly stated he would champion any family who had a child or loved one taken in such a way.

Needless to say only a handful of fights occurred after that but the need for them practically vanished within a few weeks. Many elites simply released their mates if they wanted to go and had their bonds quietly annulled without his involvement. When members of the council tried to reprimand him for his actions, Kalious blessing Vegeta with his sigil in a flash of light before striking them blind for three days put an end to that. He had the approval of the gods and that was all that mattered.

Happy squeals pulled him from his more serious thoughts as he saw another of his cubs join Amara and Rahi. In total, he and Kakarot had seven beautiful children before he finally convinced Kakarot they had to stop. While Kakarot had mostly recovered from his time in captivity it had done irreparable damage. His body just couldn't withstand the natural stress of pregnancy anymore. The birth of their youngest and last had nearly killed him. It took Chorri almost 10 minutes to restart his heart after it gave out.

Kakarot had suffered a severe bout of depression after the news and during his recovery from the resulting surgery to prevent any more pregnancies. Paragus informed them it was a mix of postpartum depression and Kakarot finally coming to terms with the lost of all his previous cubs. He had mourned them certainly but he had never truly accepted or moved past those losses. They had fenced in a small portion of the gardens for Kakarot alone to help him cope and find closure as a sort of monument for his departed cubs. His mate had carved flowers for all of them. Vegeta had never had the will to count how many.

Not only that, Kakarot had struggled with the idea his only purpose was to have cubs. It hurt to see his mate go through that on and off for the last ten years. Kakarot was conditioned to think that under Frieza, but it took several weeks after Retaso's death for the beta to tell them what was said to him while he was alone with the traitor. The alpha wished he could bring the bastard back to life and kill him again even slower. As it was no one was sure what specifically killed the bastard when Vegeta had transformed in his rage. Kakarot's supposed death was easier to figure out according to Chorri. Retaso had strangled him and partially crushed his windpipe which stopped his heart with the lack of oxygen. As best she and Bardock could tell the shockwave that blew out the walls hit Kakarot with enough force to restart his heart and get him breathing again, albeit weakly. Thankfully there was no lasting damage to his mate.