Vegeta burst out of the dream, sweat blistering from his forehead. Every inch of his skin felt chilled to arctic proportions. He found himself trembling from head to toe. Each muscle twitched from the memory of the passing time.
Still within his nostrils he smelled Raditz scent. A tingle snapped along the nerve endings into his brain, then traveled down his spine to the small stump of tail that remained. Around his body the GR floor stretched in its tiled pattern. Droplets of sweat had collected into a pool that outlined his fetal curled body. Vividly the pictures flashed again through his mind behind his dark widened eyes.
"Raditz," he whispered, longing for the touch that had taken him through so many years of pain. The constant in his chaotic existence under Freeza had been this long haired brother of Kakkarot. Vegeta hated to think how empty and intolerable his existence would have seemed without his long lost lover. Despite the fact he had given himself to Bulma, he still ached for the feel of another full blooded Saiyan. Still his muscles twitched spasmodically at the thought of large strong hands drawing him into muscled arms.
"Damn it. Why NOW?" Vegeta wondered.
Slowly he rolled over so his bottom was flat on the floor and both hands braced his back halfway up. Into his field of view swung the curved dome of the GR Bulma had built for him years ago. Every day he immersed himself in training, so what made this day different from any others? A quick glance down at his crotch answered his question because something very painful tented his dark spandex shorts there. Somehow he guessed that a quick round with Bulma would not satisfy this ache.
Only a few times in the past had the need been so intensely rooted in the core of his dense Saiyan bones. It was a ravenous need that eclipsed all notions of previous sexual appetites. Originally he had taken Bulma to his bed during one of these times, and she had satisfied him nicely. The satiation transformed into a mating bond lasting decades. Unfortunately Bulma physically had aged at twice the rate a normal Saiyan would. While she did her best to keep up, he feared that this time he could risk crushing her. While Bulma nicely fulfilled the role of mate and mother of his children, his memories of his first lover came rushing back.
Puberty hit most Saiyan males during their thirteenth birthday. At that time they would have their first rut in the company of a more experienced lover, male or female. Usually males on the battlefield would take the warrior to their bed and introduce him with an experienced female to the pleasures of adulthood, and then a male would complete the process. Saiyans learned the pleasures of the flesh with either sex. To breed was the primary need for mating with females, but mating with either sex was for pleasure.
When times were scare and there was not enough food for new offspring mating to breed was forbidden. At this time if a female was in heat she would be unable to stop conception and would resort to mating another female. Likewise the male in the mating bond would find his favorite lover and sate his needs. As females became scarcer through a mysterious disease, more males sought mating bonds with other males. Many of the females were cloistered on planetary assignments or only one would be allowed on a squad consisting of five.
By Bardock's time, the female ratio had dropped to one female for every four males. Seripa had carried Raditz and Kakkarot during conception, but then the developing whelp would be removed into incubation. Waylaying a female for live birth was a luxury they could not afford. Seripa was the breeding female for Bardock's squad, and at one time had carried a whelp for each before returning to the whelping center to have the child removed and placed into its special incubator after the first three months. The alpha male of the squad had first crack, but the other males had one another. Torah and Bardock had shared many a time together during rutting time.
When the population was reduced to only a few Saiyans, only Nappa, Turles, Raditz and Vegeta were left. The young prince was far too young at that time to need a 'lover'. Nappa had turned his attention to Idsarjin pleasure slaves while Turles had shared himself with Raditz. In turn, Raditz knew that one day the prince would need to learn the precious pleasures of Saiyan mating. He himself volunteered for the duty, and Vegeta had gently been initiated.
