The unbreakable bond

Meal.

Raditz sat at the table in the palace, aromas from the freshly cooked food filled his nostrils, the scents were heavenly. He had been escorted up to the palace by a couple of the royal guards, he was on his own with couple of servants finishing setting the table. He tapped his fingers impatiently on the table, he agreed to join them for a meal yet there he was waiting on them. He heard as the door swung open, Letta walked in front she glanced over at Raditz and smiled a little as Junior followed behind with Vegeta. Both wore their royal attire, junior seemed fascinated with his cape as he kept trying to lift it up from behind to watch it glide back down. Raditz looked over at the toddler who tried to pinch piece of food from the table with his tail, Raditz laughed a little it reminded him of his brother. Vegeta picked Junior up and looked over at Raditz.
"Drink?" Vegeta asked as a servant came up behind Raditz offering him a glass, raditz grabbed the glass not breaking eye contact on vegeta or the toddler. There was an awkward silence as Vegeta sat down with his son on his lap. Raditz sighed and looked over at Junior.
"He's grown.." was all that raditz could say to break the awkward silence. Vegeta raised a brow at raditz.
"Well yes Raditz, that's what happens. They grow." He shook his head as if to judge in disbelief
"How come that hasn't happened for you?" Raditz grinned.
Vegeta smirked over at Raditz "getting a bit brave there aren't we?"
Raditz finished his drink and watched as the servant filled his glass again. Junior eyed up the food drooling, he tried to reach out for some, vegeta held him back and sighed as he decided to allow him to have a piece before handing him to Letta to have the young prince seated. Raditz laughed which caused letta and vegeta to look over.
"Mind sharing what's so funny?" Vegeta asked as he folded his arms.
"It's just...Looks like I'll be winning the bet" raditz wipes a tear from his eye from his laughter. Letta shook her head and tutted.
"What bet?!" Vegeta looked inquisitively
Letta glared at Raditz before looking at Vegeta.
"It was a silly bet they done, back when you were fighting Frieza Nappa chose to place bets on who your son will take after the most. I found it most absurd" letta gave Junior some food giving raditz a judgmental glare.
"Why am I not least bit surprised, specially from that bald idiot!" Vegeta chuckled slightly. "Let me guess, you voted for your brother then?" Vegeta raised a brow at Raditz grinning.
Raditz looked over at Junior who was happily stuffing his face before looking back at Vegeta, they both started to laugh before they were interrupted by door opening, kakarot walked in wearing same attire as Vegeta. He caught a glance of his brother and stormed in, raditz drank rest from his glass before looking at his brother.
"Hey little brother" raditz grinned.
Kakarot looked over at vegeta for answers, vegeta had servant pull chair out for Kakarot to sit.
"It's time you two started talking again, I believe it'll help give you both closure"
The two just started over at each other as they had filled their plates. Vegeta watched them both just staring at each other, he looked over to see Junior was watching them both too. No word were spoken for half an hour, Vegeta had Junior back on his lap the pair kept watching Kakarot and Raditz facial reactions at one another. Juniors tail waved side to side curiously.
"Why haven't you bothered?!" Kakarot finally spoke up as he finished what was on his plate.
"Could ask you the same thing!" Raditz spat out as he finished his plate.
"You blame me for our parents death!"
"What?! I never have!" Raditz scoffed at his brother
"Well...I wouldn't blame you because if it wasn't for me they'd still be here!" Kakarot reached for his mother's pendant, he held onto tightly holding back tears.
Vegeta looked over at his mate, and then back at Raditz. He rose from the chair with Junior looking at them both.
"I'm going to give you both some time alone" vegeta looked over at letta and the guards who gave a nod and headed out with him.
"I, I didn't know you felt like that..." raditz admitted feeling sorry for his brother.
"It kills me they aren't here to see my son grow up, to help me with being a parent, and to see how much things have changed for the better!" Kakarot wiped his tears still holding onto his mother's pendant. Raditz sighed, he got up and walked over to his brother.
"You know our mother always believed you'd be able to change the prince. He was an asshole of a teen, which dad and I would joke about how you would cope so innocent and pure. Mother always said that she believed it was all an act and that deep down the prince wasn't as much of an asshole as he perceives to be. We laughed at her when she said that. He was roughly 15 when mom died and he done more arrogant stuff after that. Made me resent him more, servants and warriors would talk about his bed habits and at first I found it funny then I realised he was to be mated to you. We may have had our fights but your still my brother. If mother was here now she would be proud and laugh in mine and fathers faces how she was right"
Kakarot tucked the pendant away and sighed, he smiled a little.
"I still miss them..."
"I do too." Raditz confessed
They spent an hour laughing about things from their childhood, about the times they'd fight and Bardock would smack Raditz back of the head for causing the fights. Afterwards Raditz had headed back home, Kakarot headed into the bedroom where he saw his mate stood over the balcony. He smiled and hugged his mate from behind.
"Thank you!" Kakarot smiles hugging tightly.
Vegeta grinned, he pulled out of hug to look at his mate.
"And don't say I don't spoil you" vegeta smirked as he started to head into bed. Kakarot followed, they lay down, both them facing each other with their legs tucked into each other.
"Vegeta. I have a question..."
"Enlighten me with your question" vegeta smirked his fingers entwined with Kakarots.
"I'm going to be in heat soon..." kakarot gulped as he seen Vegeta's eyes widen.
"I thought you were taking that medication?!" Vegeta looked at Kakarot with serious expression.
"Yeah...I was...and ..."
"You forgot, didn't you?"
"No, I...just thinking it would be nice if we uh..." kakarot blushed.
Vegeta pulled off so their legs and hands were no longer touching, he sat up folding his arms.
"You didn't think to see if it was okay with me first? "
"It's just, I'd like to try properly this time..."
"Excuse me?! What do you mean this time?!"
"You know what I mean, when we uh...made Junior it was something forced on us..." kakarot scratched back of his head.
"Forced?! By no means was it forced! I even asked your permission!"
"Yeah but even then we had no choice it was what we were expected to do."
Vegeta shook his head in annoyance, kakarot pulled himself to sit up.
"So you regret our son?!"
"I'm not saying that!"
"Then what do you mean by properly?! We had done it properly!"
"Vegeta, you only done it as your father promised you could join on Frieza's missions!"
"Doesn't mean I didn't enjoy it!"
"Urgh! You are really hard work sometimes!"
"I'm hard work? Ha!" Vegeta scoffed
"I was just hoping the next time that it would have more feelings..."
Vegeta sighed, he sunk back into bed and faced his back to Kakarot. Kakarot sighed too, he lay down staring at Vegeta who had has back faced towards him. Silence filled the room, neither talked which caused an awkward atmosphere.