𝓢𝓲𝓷𝓬𝓮𝓻𝓮𝓵𝔂 𝔂𝓸𝓾𝓻𝓼 x

Chapter 33

No matter how often Vegeta had tried to run away, the past always crept up and consumed him again. Those painful memories are so sharp that they cut right through every time he thinks about those times.

There Lewis stood with an egotistical grin. A few more insults slipped past his lips like toxin, Vegeta could hear his pulse that drowned out the cruel remarks.He kept a glare on Lewis as he proceeded to spew out hatred. Homophobic slurs continued, and Vegeta felt his subconscious mind snap as adrenaline fuelled his hatred.

"Get the fuck off me!" Lewis spat, his face red in fury as Vegeta had him pinned to the floor.

Tears ran so freely down Vegeta's cheeks, all he could see was his pure hostility towards this person below him. Or perhaps it was the hatred he feels towards himself. He raised his fist and with his free hand had Lewis top twisted in his fist darkness consumed him as he punched Lewis in the face over and over. The painful cries were drowned out by his inner voice reminding him of all the bad stuff he'd done, the times he should have been there to protect his brother, the times he had been awful to Kakarot despite him forgiving him now he can't forgive himself. All those horrible memories flood in at once as he continues to throw punches, onlookers begin to crowd round them, but he was too deep in his pit of hatred to even notice.

"Vegeta... stop!" Lewis' voice cracked, tears streaming down his cheeks and his crimson blood seeped out from the corner of his mouth and another sharp blow to the face almost knocked him unconscious.

All those times he had hurt others were relaying in the back of his mind, as if his insides were being cut by fragments of glass. The memories never left him, his worst kind of nightmare he tried to lay dormant. No matter how many times he tried to hide from them, they would come back stronger. He continued to throw punches all the pent-up anger was flowing through his veins that he just couldn't stop punching Lewis.

Guilt wrapped itself around him from all the times he had hurt others for his own selfish reasons. It tries to take him down the familiar path that he refuses to walk as he had modelled himself around what others expected from him and that path would lead him down to the person he had kept hidden all along. He didn't want to walk that path again, never again. He could still hear how those kids screamed as they begged for them to stop and they screamed for help but nobody helped them, they suffered at his and that stupid gang's hands.

So many sleepless nights he had as all of the bad things he did to those innocent people and to Goku and then after he left they hurt Tarble. Vegeta was brought out of his thoughts as he heard the ragged breaths of the bastard below him. "You made me hurt so many people!" he punched Lewis in the face again, tears coming out of his eyes and obscuring his vision but he still kept punching him. "So many people I hurt because of you and their screams for help I hear them everyday and it hurts!!"

He kept punching sometimes missing and hitting the concrete below but it didn't matter to him the pain was nothing compared to the whirlwind of emotions he was feeling right now. "And you made me hurt the one I loved most and made his life a living hell!!!" he saw red in his blurry vision and Vegeta didn't know if it was his blood or Lewis's but he didn't care. "Then you and the rest of those idiots had the nerve, the audacity to hurt my little brother, he didn't deserve that!!!!"

The punches continued and blow after blow landed. Everything was obscured in that moment as all his emotions were finally being poured out. All the sadness, anger, guilt, sorrow, and rage all of it combined together and it fueled him to keep going until this bastard was paid in kind for all that he had done to him, Goku and to Tarble.

"Vegeta!" a recognizable voice cried out from the crowd behind him and snapped him from his stupor.

Vegeta glanced down at the small pool of blood next to Lewis' face. A sharp sting along his knuckles caused him to wince slightly and direct his attention on his swollen bloodied knuckles. Voices chanted around him as people crowded them with their phones out. Heart rocketed in his chest as he looked up at the people who clearly found this entertaining. He heard the familiar voice calling out his name again and turned his head to the side to see Goku pushing his way through the crowd. A tight constriction was felt in the back of his throat as he saw Goku pause and gaped at him. 'He's going to leave me,' Vegeta thought to himself and squinted his eyes shut expecting the imaginable insults for attacking someone.